About ARC

Leadership Team Angie Keefe

Angie Keefe

Yoga has inspired me to get to know myself…on every level. The awareness I have gained through practicing yoga has completely changed the way I am with myself, with others and all life’s challenges in general. It has transformed my body easing pain, tension, calming my mind and fuelling my spirit.  I am really excited to share this passion with others.  I love teaching and practicing yoga at ARC. The ARC community is accepting and inspiring. I am a forever student.

I have been teaching yoga since 2013, and have over 1000hrs of yoga teaching experience and over 500hrs of in person teacher trainings. These include training in Power Yoga, Kids Yoga, Assisting, Alignment Flow, Aerial Yoga and Yoga Therapy. I am a Functional Synergy (TM) Level 2 Practitioner of Yoga Therapy and I am currently working on my  C-IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) certification with Susi Hately.

Leadership Team Katie Bisset

Katie Bisset

I started practicing yoga for the physical benefits but found that I kept coming back for its ability to reduce stress. I love all styles of yoga but I really fell in love with Yin and Kundalini by the end of my teacher training, two styles that I initially had a lot of resistance towards. I’ve found that you typically shy away from what you really need. By embracing this philosophy I strive to bring more balance into my life and I teach to help others bring more balance into theirs.

I have been practicing yoga for nearly 20 years. In 2011 I completed my 200-hour teacher training at Semperviva Yoga in Vancouver. I went on to complete my 50-hour Yin Yoga certification with Semperviva.

Leadership Team Sarah Carpenter

Sarah Carpenter

I first started climbing when I was about 12. My local YMCA had a rock climbing room, and I fell in love with the sport! I love how inclusive the climbing community is, no matter what grade you can climb everyone else in the gym will cheer for you and want you to succeed. I’m a personal trainer and I love being active, and I find climbing to be one of the most fun ways to get moving!

When I’m not at ARC, you’ll find me hiking, canoeing, or working out in my garage. I like to be outside as much as possible, and I love trying new activities that will get me outdoors!

Leadership Team Beau Williams-Orser

Beau Williams-Orser

Whether it be climbing, scrambling, running, backpacking, cycling, skiing, or paddling… I’m hooked on outdoor pursuits. Something about self-propelled travel and sailing across landscapes, with a nose to the wind and an eye on the sky, is incredibly fulfilling for me. Perhaps it’s the simple nature of these activities, or perhaps it’s the required preparation and attention to detail. Either way, assigning meaning to outdoor pursuits has enriched my life, and given me goals to work towards… that’s where ARC comes into the picture!

Having a facility where I can climb and train indoors has enabled me to put my goals to action. Better yet, participating in a community of climbers has had a powerful impact on my physical and social health! After grad school, joining the ARC team was a no-brainer. Working alongside like-minded people and giving back to the climbing community brings joy to my work. If you see me at the gym, be sure to say hi!

Yoga Team Angie Keefe

Angie Keefe

Yoga has inspired me to get to know myself…on every level. The awareness I have gained through practicing yoga has completely changed the way I am with myself, with others and all life’s challenges in general. It has transformed my body easing pain, tension, calming my mind and fuelling my spirit.  I am really excited to share this passion with others.  I love teaching and practicing yoga at ARC. The ARC community is accepting and inspiring. I am a forever student.

I have been teaching yoga since 2013, and have over 1000hrs of yoga teaching experience and over 500hrs of in person teacher trainings. These include training in Power Yoga, Kids Yoga, Assisting, Alignment Flow, Aerial Yoga and Yoga Therapy. I am a Functional Synergy (TM) Level 2 Practitioner of Yoga Therapy and I am currently working on my  C-IAYT (International Association of Yoga Therapists) certification with Susi Hately.

Yoga Team Katie Bisset

Katie Bisset

I started practicing yoga for the physical benefits but found that I kept coming back for its ability to reduce stress. I love all styles of yoga but I really fell in love with Yin and Kundalini by the end of my teacher training, two styles that I initially had a lot of resistance towards. I’ve found that you typically shy away from what you really need. By embracing this philosophy I strive to bring more balance into my life and I teach to help others bring more balance into theirs.

I have been practicing yoga for nearly 20 years. In 2011 I completed my 200-hour teacher training at Semperviva Yoga in Vancouver. I went on to complete my 50-hour Yin Yoga certification with Semperviva.

Yoga Team Sue Seguin

Sue Seguin

I practice and teach yoga because I believe in the transformative, healing and restorative powers of the practice.  My role as a teacher is to support and encourage yogis and help them find release and strength both physically and mentally. I seek to help them discover themselves while creating balance in their day to day life. I enjoy teaching at the ARC yoga studio because of the support, inspiration, empowerment, personal connections and the spirit of freedom.

I obtained my first certification in well-being as a Fitness Instructor Specialist. As yoga started to play an integral role in today’s society, I became a student of this practice and realized its many contributions to healthiness. Being passionate about learning and traveling, I obtained my 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training certificate in India certifying in Vinyasa and Hatha Yoga. I’m also certified in Pilates Level 1, Yoga for Runners, Yin Yoga, and Restorative Yoga. As a recent retiree, I have also attained my Level 1 training for Gravity Aerial Yoga.

Yoga Team Kristen Morin

Kristen Morin

I initially started practicing yoga for the physical health benefits, but now yoga has translated into an exercise to help me stay connected and expand my potential physically, mentally and emotionally. My intention is to stay grounded and find balance so I can help others do the same. The primary goal of my teaching is to inspire ease of movement within a yoga class so that ease can be translated to other aspects of life.

I currently hold my 200hr yoga teacher training certificate (RYT), recognized by International Yoga Alliance. I completed an 8-week course on Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. I also have a background in physical education and health promotion.

Yoga Team Lynn Morin

Lynn Morin

Yoga has helped me clarify what is important and bring balance to my life. I believe yoga is for everyone, I feel physically, mentally and emotionally different after every practice. Your own experience is the most important part of your practice.

I completed my 200hr Yoga Teacher Training in Hatha and Kundalini Yoga with Sempreviva in Greece (2014). I went on to complete 4 more Kundalini modules. I am very grateful to be part of such a great community at ARC.

Yoga Team Brittany Loney

Brittany Loney

Yoga has been an important tool in my life especially when coping with stress and anxiety as a student. I love the physical and mental benefits that I receive from practicing yoga and my goal in teaching is to share these wonderful benefits with others.

I am RYT-200 certified in Canada Yoga Alliance, and completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training with Integrated Transformations. I have taught several different styles of yoga including Hatha, Vinyasa, Power, and Chair yoga. When I am not teaching or practicing yoga you can find me at Laurentian University working to complete my Masters of Science.

Yoga Team Maggie Thomas

Maggie Thomas

I am a lifelong learner, always growing, sharing and expanding. I am always filling my cup with new training and tools to improve myself and ultimately help others. I have always been fascinated with anatomy, biomechanics, and human movement with a mindful intrigue and gravitation to spiritual connection.  

Yoga has inspired me to deepen my inner connection and self-inquiry. Yoga has helped me ascertain tools to integrate and navigate life in a responsive manner on and off the mat.  My passion is to share my knowledge while inspiring and empowering the minds and bodies of my students along a journey of transformation.   

With a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and as a Certified Orthotist my educational background grants me a solid foundation of anatomy, biomechanics, and human movement.  Over several years I have been pursuing various certifications, including The Yoga Professional (Katie Brauer), 200 RYT in Vinyasa Based Yoga (The Yoga Loft), Zero Gravity Aerial Yoga (Suzanne Hennig), Fletcher Pilates (Jacqueline Ethier), and MELT Method (Sue Hitzman) self-treatment techniques that complement my scholastic training while furthering my passion of body and mind connection.

Yoga Team Teresa Marsh

Teresa Marsh

I have been practicing yoga for over 20 years.  I teach yoga because yoga can change lives.  Yoga allows me to connect fully with my body in ways that deepen my internal and external relationships. Meditation and yoga are a way of life and it confirms daily this concept of loving-kindness. As a teacher, I am given a unique opportunity to connect with others and myself physically, emotionally and spiritually. I want to impart these same gifts to my students and all who I come in contact with. Yoga is healing and revealing and helps us to make better life choices.

I received my Transcendental Meditation initiation in 2000 and have been practicing meditation since. I studied Ashtanga Yoga with Kathryn Beet at the Yoga Space Studio in Toronto and completed a 200hr teacher training with the school in 2003. I also completed my Moksha Yoga (Hot Yoga) teacher training with Ted Grant in 2005.

Yoga Team Stacey Carter

Stacey Carter

I started practicing yoga in my late teens as a means to relieve stress, help heal injuries and be part of an amazing yoga community. Yoga is my self-care, it helps me to find grounding and balance on and off the mat. I continue to practice yoga as a method to help prevent injury and strengthen my body, mind, and spirit.

Teaching yoga has become a passion that pushes my limits of creativity, vulnerability, and confidence. For me, teaching yoga is an empowering and humbling experience.

In 2013, I completed my 200hr RYT at Power Yoga Canada. I have since completed the Yoga for Mindful Eating and Living Workshop and find inspiration by practicing yoga as I wander around the world. If you want an energetic, light-hearted and powerful (maybe inverted) class, come visit me at ARC!

Yoga Team Johnathon Loftus

Johnathon Loftus

I have always been curious about the mind-body connection. I connected with yoga because it provided me an opportunity to experience and explore emotions held in my body.  Through continued practice, I realized that I had been missing something in my busy life – a light and playful heart. It was the flutter of excitement that yoga awakened in me as I began to gain a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness between body, emotion and breath that I decided to become a teacher.

Working as a helping professional, I see every day the impact built-up emotions have on our body. Through yoga, I seek to increase understanding, bring out the resources within and the potential for growth that we all share. It is through a light and playful heart that we can all begin to connect with our authentic self. 

I am RYT-200 certified with Yoga Alliance and I am a certified Aerial Yoga teacher. I completed my 200-hour yoga teacher training with Integrated Transformations at the beginning of 2020 and recently completed my Zero-Gravity Aerial Yoga training. When not on my mat or flying in an aerial hammock, I’m working as a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist. 

Yoga Team Taylor Clark

Taylor Clark

I was introduced to hot yoga during university but I didn’t start a regular practice until I moved to Sudbury. My preferred styles to practice include restorative, yin, vinyasa and hot power.  Generally speaking, yoga has taken me back to my “roots”. I grew up as a competitive dancer (favourite styles were ballet and acro); and being able to express myself through movement was always an important part of my identity. The physical practice of yoga has helped me navigate difficult times in my life and it has improved my relationship with my body and mind. I originally attended training to deepen my own personal practice; but I left with the interest to start teaching. What I enjoy about teaching is that I get to embrace a softer and more serious side of myself.  But mainly, yoga has made such a positive impact on my life, that I want to share it with others.

I am a certified Baptiste Journey into Power instructor and have been practicing yoga for over 5 years. My classes are designed to be strong and challenging, but adaptable to all skill levels. We’ll focus on moving with intention and finding ways to engage and play with our edge. My hope is that when you leave my class you are standing a little bit taller, embracing your power… and that your mat is covered in sweat!

Yoga Team Amrita O’Hara

Amrita O’Hara

I discovered yoga over a decade ago, in university, as a way to cope with stress, and fell instantly in love. Always knowing I wanted to be a teacher, it felt natural to teach what I loved best, yoga.  I have a deep love and respect for the tradition of yoga and I’ve studied under many incredible teachers with over 1000hrs of training and 10 years of teaching. My teaching is very inspired by the elements of the earth, thus grounded and flowy with a focus on breath to deepen awareness and connection to Self.

I completed my first 200hr training in 2011, Vinyasa and Hatha with Catherine Munro, and then continued my studies in restorative with Andrea Peloso, then onto Thai massage through Lotus Palm. In 2016 I studied Tantra in the jungles of Ecuador with Iris Desse and in 2018 dove deeper into Tantra through an intensive and transformational 600hr coaching course on love, sex and relationships with Layla Martin.

My classes are guided by intuition and a whole lotta heart and I’m looking forward to sharing yoga with you!

Yoga Team Nadia Carriere

Nadia Carriere

Yoga Team Natalie Tissot

Natalie Tissot

Yoga Team Laura Schmidt

Laura Schmidt

A personal mantra is that happiness, like love, increases when it is shared; I teach to share happiness, light, and good health with those who practice with me, to model positive lifestyle values for my daughter, and to help grow the encouraging, inspiring and supportive fitness and yoga community that exists in our beautiful city. I strive to provide empowering, mindful and trauma-informed instruction, whether in an energetic Power Flow or meditative Hatha class.

The foundations of my yoga teaching and personal training practices span my entire life, beginning from my early experiences as a competitive gymnast and power tumbler, and through my undergraduate and graduate studies in kinesiology, biochemistry and education from the University of Ottawa, and certification as a personal trainer with the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.

Yoga Team Skylar Wielgosch

Skylar Wielgosch

My name is Skylar and I am originally from Northwestern Ontario, a little community called Manitouwadge. I received my Bachelors of Nursing at Lakehead University in 2014, and settled in Sudbury in 2016. My specialty-nursing field is within the realm of psychiatry and mental health. Yoga has been consistently apart of my life for the past 5 years. I began practicing while I was in nursing school as a stress reliever, and from then on I was “hooked”. Yoga allowed me to move my body, gain mental clarity, and provided me with a sense of spirituality and well-being that no other form of sport or exercise had. With my work in psychiatry and my newfound love of yoga, I decided that I wanted to meld these two worlds together by completing my 200-hour YTT here in Sudbury in 2017, with Lana Boyuk. Since then, I have completed my SUP YTT and have plans to gain more knowledge in restorative and yin yoga. My hope is that I am able to provide my students with what yoga has given to me – resilience.

Yoga Team Emily Zanini

Emily Zanini

I began practicing yoga in my teens and instantly connected with the mind-body aspect of my practice. My passion for yoga grew greater each time I rolled out my mat, and it didn’t take long until I realized I needed to share this passion with others. I have lived experience with depression, anxiety and body image issues and have used my yoga practice to help balance my mental health.

In 2016, I created the Sudbury Yogathon for Mental Health, a fundraiser designed to bring together all ages, experience, and styles of yogis to raise awareness and funds for mental health. My vision of a mentally healthy and accepting community flows into the classes I teach in that they are multi-leveled, focused on breath and self-awareness.

I completed my 200hr RYT with the Olive Tree Yoga Foundation in partnership with Tru Hot Yoga in A Baptiste Power Yoga inspired practice. I have also taken Zero-Gravity Aerial Yoga with Suzanne Hennig.  My day job has me spreading mental health awareness throughout the community with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA).

Yoga Team Sandra Comeau

Sandra Comeau

Yoga Team Sandra Watson

Sandra Watson

After about a decade of practicing yoga, I decided to become a yoga teacher. My timing worked out and
I completed my 200-hour Vinyasa Flow training with Frog Lotus Yoga International in Spain in January
2020 just before the global pandemic hit. Since then I have completed two other yoga trainings –
Restorative and Yin.

Flow is my passion and I am always striving to find creative sequences that will resonate and challenge
yogis. I also try to incorporate elements of Yin or Restorative to fully round out a practice.

Off the mat, I love finding new hiking routes, trying new recipes and am a sucker for coming of age teen
angst movies.

Yoga Team Danielle Greene

Danielle Greene