Emma Dines

Emma’s classes are active, playful and encouraging of students to practice in a way that makes deep sense for them. She draws on her background as a performer and a writer to bring a focus of creativity and individual expressiveness to her classes. Emma teaches regular workshops and special event classes at Queen Street Yoga and loves the opportunity to dive into the details of alignment and anatomy with students. Emma has completed over 700 hours of yoga training with local and international teachers and has recently begun expanding her movement paradigm by studying the Axis Syllabus, Contact Improvisation, and Functional Movement. Her teaching aims to empower students with her best understanding of biomechanics and healthy movement while honouring each student's unique experience of embodiment. Emma is a certified Yoga for Round BodiesTM teacher and is passionate about creating body-positive contexts that celebrate a diversity of abilities and sizes. Emma co-directs Queen Street Yoga's Teacher Training Program with Leena Miller Cressman. In her own words "Yoga is the way that I create myself new, every day. It is the way that I shape my experience of the world, by remembering myself back into my body and expressing myself out into the world. Yoga is play and prayer, art and science, a deep well of presence. Yoga has been integral for me as an artist, to keep me fed and connected so that I can continually give myself to the creative process. My desire as a teacher is to support students to fuel their inherent creativity through yoga. I believe living is the most creative act, and that yoga can be play and prayer for people to live their most creative lives."