Sonya Thomlinson (Uchita) HHC, ERYT-500, C-IAYT was co-director and co-founder of Tandava Yoga and Trinity Yoga Centers in Kelowna and Vernon, British Columbia from 2003-2016.  An avid student of yoga and meditation since 1994, and teaching since 1998, Sonya leads trainings, retreats, workshops and classes throughout Western Canada and the US and works individually with those interested in dynamic health and healing.

Jeff Thomlinson is formally the co-owner and director of Trinity Yoga Center, then Tandava Yoga in Kelowna, since 2003. Jeff began teaching yoga in 1991. For 10 years, he lived, studied and worked at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA, USA, the largest yoga teaching center in North America. This enabled him to study with international leaders in yoga and to assimilate leading teaching and practice techniques.

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• The story of starting Take a Breath
• Stress reduction for kids with yoga
• Get out of a stress response
• How breath practice calms our flight and fight response
• 100% of kids are stressed
• Don’t be a jerk … people can’t think or perform around you
• Rest before a test led to 20% increase in test scores
• The inherent stress beast
• Consequences of ignoring the stress epidemic
• BRAVE acronym
• Bring attention to stress so staff and students don’t feel alone in this