The Team
Alanna
Certified Black Belt Nia Instructor
Certified JourneyDance Facilitator
Certified Feminine Embodiment Coach
I am the founder of Embody Movement Studio and also a creative, a manifester, mover, entrepreneur, mother, wife, student, teacher & friend. I started dancing at the age of 7 and decided to pursue modern dance as my career through a 3 year technical dance college. Partway through I discovered dance for the purpose of healing and expression. I discovered Nia, 5 Rhythms, Ecstatic Dance, Authentic Movement, Continuum and more and after graduating I began my holistic movement journey. I have been joyfully teaching Nia since 2014. I am a Black Belt level Nia instructor, a certified FreeDance & FloorPlay & Moving to Heal instructor as well as a JourneyDance guide. My commitment to continued movement education includes Authentic Movement, 5Rhythms, Gaga, Yoga, Feldenkais, and metaphysical studies. I am also a certified feminine embodiment coach through the School of Embodied Arts.
I LOVE sharing my passion for Nia. This lifestyle practice touches my every day and has helped me learn how to choose more joy and mindfulness as well as feel fantastic in my body every day, no matter if I am a size 14 or a size 10. I am inspired to share the joy of movement with everyBODY-all shapes, and sizes, ages and abilities and a particular passion of mine is inspiring people in larger bodies to feel beautiful, powerful, capable and healthy through movement.
Teaching this practice is my life’s work. Through it, I have found a way to integrate body, mind, emotions and spirit as well I have found connection, friendship and belonging. Hope to see you on the dance floor.
Gillian
Certified RYT500 Yoga Instructor
Registered Nurse
I began practicing yoga in 2012 in Fredericton, NB attending hot yoga at a Moksha (now Modo) yoga studio and fell completely in love with how good it made me feel, as a student nurse at the time. I wanted to share this newfound sense of feeling strong and at home in my own body, and so I took my 200hr teacher training in the fall of 2018 with Rachel Brathen and Lara Heimann at Island Yoga in Aruba. This training sparked an ongoing enthusiasm for learning about functional mobility, creating community, and helping people find space in their own bodies for more self-compassion and strength. I have completed an additional 300hr online teacher training with Brea Johnson and Kat Boehm (Heart and Bones Yoga), as well as courses or workshops, both online and in-person, with several esteemed movement/yoga instructors including Lauren Ohayon (Restore Your Core), Jules Mitchell (Yoga Biomechanics), Trina Altman (Yoga Deconstructed), Dianne Bondy and Amber Karnes (Yoga for Everyone), and Cecily Milne (Yoga Detour).
I started teaching at Embody in June of 2022 after finally settling back down in Creston and I have enjoyed refining my style and growing a wonderful community of students over the past 3 years.
I love making yoga fun and accessible, so that each person leaves class feeling better than when they arrived. My classes are always set to music and I most enjoy teaching classes that challenge the body and the mind with movement and offer many options for every size, shape, and skill of every participant in the room.
I offer drop-in classes ($18), 5 class passes ($80), and 10 class passes ($140).
Email: gillianpatricia86@gmail.com
Hailey
ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Functional Movement Specialist, Certified Group Fitness Instructor.
I became a trainer in the spring of 2014 after dedicating my time to complete a large scale open water swim, the more I trained the happier I became. I wanted to pursue it full time and it's been the best job I could hope for.
I've trained for large gyms and then for myself, and currently take on clients at the local community center. However small scale group classes have been a huge passion of mine. I am now offering semester based classes, to share my joy for slow steady foundational movements, drawing on Yoga, Pilates, Barre and weight training to create mat classes that challenge and uplift. I try to make my classes customized to the participants, welcoming all ages, and fitness levels.
Stephanie
Certified YTT200 Yoga Teacher
After a two-year pause to welcome and care for my growing family, I’m returning to teaching yoga with a deeper appreciation for rest, resilience, and listening to the body.
I completed my yoga teacher training at Moksana Yoga in Victoria, BC, and my teaching is rooted in mindfulness, nervous system awareness, and the belief that yoga is a practice of remembering, not achieving.
As a mother of three, my relationship with movement has softened and matured. I’m drawn to practices that support both strength and surrender, effort and ease. My classes offer space to slow down, reconnect inward, and move in ways that feel intuitive, nourishing, and sustainable.
I’m so grateful to be back on the mat, sharing this practice again.
