5 Elements Yoga & Pilates Inc

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Michelle Cormack, E-RYT500, CCE Michelle is the Owner and Director of 5 Elements Yoga & Pilates. Michelle was raised with an awareness of natural health and awakened her curiousity of yoga concepts at the age of 12, and then took her first yoga classes in 1985 while attending the University of Waterloo. She has the designation of Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher at the highest level (E-RYT500, Yoga Alliance) and has trained extensively (hundreds of hours) with Prana Vinyasa Flow Yoga teacher Shiva Rea and has several Yoga Certifications, including East to West Yoga and the Seattle Holistic Center, and is Certified in TheMethod Pilates (Physical Mind Institute, New York, NY) and is Stott Pilates trained in Mat, Reformer and Injuries & Special Populations. She has studied with many of the world's best teachers and is grateful to her teachers over the years, especially Shiva Rea, Hart Lazer, Mark Whitwell, Kam Thye Chow, Colette Crawford, Ganga White and Tracey Rich, and continues her studies in the Krishnamacharya lineage of yoga, tantra and ayurveda, as well as Iyengar-inspired yoga with Ramanand Patel and Hart Lazer. Michelle is a guest teacher for Shiva Rea's Pre & Post Natal Yoga Teacher Training at Exhale Center for Sacred Movement in Venice, California. She's been travelling to California to study for several years, as well as India. Michelle's initiation into teaching was in 1984 when she began teaching fitness classes and received several fitness Certifications including: YMCA, Can-Fit-Pro (FIS, PTS, PFS, NWS & MBS), BodyFlow, BodyPump, Group Cycling & CALA (Canadian Aquafitness Leaders' Alliance). She has provided assistance and education to childbearing women & their families since 1992, receiving certifications as a Childbirth Educator (CCE, ALACE- Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators), Doula (CD, DONA - Doulas of North America) and Labour Assistant (CLA, ALACE). Michelle is a Certified Thai Yoga Massage Practitioner (Lotus Palm method), having additionally studied Ayurveda & Thai Yoga Therapy with Kam Thye Chow (Lotus Palm) and Advanced Thai Massage with teachers from Asokonanda's school. She is a Lotus Palm Teacher, co-teaching & co-authored (with Kam Thye Chow) the Prenatal Thai Yoga Massage course and manual. She is also a Certified Reflexologist (RAC - Reflexology Association of Canada) and a Reiki Master. Michelle was one of the original PRO Trainers for the Can-Fit-Pro Pre & Post Natal Fitness Specialist Certification Course (PFS) for many years and was a trainer for all of the East to West Yoga & Pilates Teacher Training programs. She has written/developed her own Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training course and the 5 Elements 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training course, focusing on Vinyasa Flow Yoga, including the accompanying Manuals. She is also a sought after Conference Presenter, presenting on Prenatal Yoga & Pilates and evolved Vinyasa Flow Yoga (i.e. Can-Fit-Pro, Yoga in Toronto, The Yoga Conference www.theyogaconference.com) and has taught at the Kripalu Center in Massachusetts.

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