Marie Laferrière - Coordinator
Introduced to yoga at a young age, Marie developed a growing curiosity by observing her mother, Madeleine, who had her own yoga center in the 1970s. It was a wonderful time — an avant-garde way of life.
In 2010, Marie chose Kripalu Yoga as her first formal training, an approach that fosters self-respect and mindful self-connection. The RRSOP method (breathe, relax, observe, allow). She continued her learning to become better equipped with posture ergonomics in 2013, explored vital energy (pranayama) in 2014, and restorative and Yin yoga in 2018.
Yoga is a discipline that allows us to live better, with a free and peaceful mind.
Fernande Surprising
Passionate about yoga, Fernande has been practicing for over thirty-five years and teaching for 15 years. She is also a naturopathy and wellness practitioner. Fernande is trained in Kripalu Yoga and Vini-inspired yoga, with more than 500 hours of teacher training, including posture ergonomics.
Coracoeur, Therapeutic Support, and Yoga.
Suzanne Moorhead
Suzanne completed her 200-hour Hatha yoga teacher training in 2006. Since then, Since then, she has taken trainings in Yin yoga, restorative yoga, and yoga Nidra. She has been teaching at Relais Yoga since it opened in the fall of 2007.
Each teacher has her own “colour,” affinities, and sources of inspiration. Suzanne’s are nature, gentleness, and calm — including the soothing silence that does so much good. Yoga Nidra, also known as the yoga of meditative sleep, which brings deep relaxation to both body and mind, is always included in Suzanne’s classes.
She also occasionally leads contemplative walks around the Relais Plein Air. The yoga that Suzanne shares is oneof discovery of a greater well-being and of compassion towards oneself.
Carole Ann Bilodeau
Carole Ann discovered yoga in 2008. Her practice helped her cope with the stress she was experiencing both in her personal life and at work. She kept returning to her mat for the physical and mental well-being that Hatha Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Restorative Yoga brought her. Over time, she learned how to adapt postures to her body using blocks, straps, and bolsters.
Her passion for yoga and her desire to share it with others led her to begin her teacher training. She completed Restorative Yoga training in May 2014 and her 200-hour Kripalu Yoga teacher training in June 2014. She also completed a Curvy Yoga training in 2016 and Yoga for All in 2017.
Carole Ann looks forward to sharing her passion for yoga that adapts to everyone—with you!
Benoit Hudon
I have always been an active person with a deep love for nature. Hiking, cycling, and travel have been an integral part of my life for as long as I can remember. About twenty years ago, I discovered Hatha Yoga as a way to deepen my journey of self-awareness. As I experienced its many benefits, I developed a genuine passion for the practice and a growing curiosity about the many different traditions of yoga.
That curiosity eventually led me to Kundalini Yoga, and it was love at first sight. After several years of personal practice, I completed my teacher training at the PranaShanti Education Centre in Ottawa, where I earned my KRI (Kundalini Research Institute) certification. I truly believe that Kundalini Yoga has transformed my life in every way. It is a powerful practice that deserves to be better known for the sense of calm, harmony, and emotional healing it brings.
I continue to grow through both ongoing education and the experience of teaching my students. Today, I am pursuing Level 2 Kundalini Teacher Training to deepen my practice and continue sharing it in support of others' well-being. My intention is to plant seeds of transformation by sharing this beautiful discipline with joy, passion, and an open heart.
Marcela Cazas
My Journey and Motivation
Yoga has been one of the most meaningful discoveries of my life. After living for many years with chronic pain and relying on daily medication, I found that the practice of yoga transformed my life by significantly relieving my pain when everything else had failed. This experience—my most effective natural anti-inflammatory—inspired me to become a teacher so I could share these benefits with others.
Over 14 Years of Teaching Experience
For the past 14 years, I have taught in a variety of settings, including fitness centres, corporate environments, and community and family programs. I have also regularly participated in charitable events, sharing the benefits of yoga with diverse communities.
My Teaching Approach
The physical practice of yoga postures (asanas) emphasizes stability, grounding, proper alignment, and safe movement, allowing the body to release tension. When the postures are combined with conscious breathing (prana), meditation, and mantra chanting, they foster a deep sense of well-being, inner calm, and emotional balance that extends into every aspect of daily life.
I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Nursing in 1996, and my knowledge of human anatomy enables me to guide each participant safely while adapting the practice to their individual needs and abilities.
My teaching is rooted primarily in my Kripalu Yoga training, which I completed in 2012, and continues to evolve through additional studies in Restorative Yoga, Chair Yoga, and a rejuvenating retreat in India.
A Complementary Practice
Since April 2025, I have also been teaching Essentrics®, a discipline that complements yoga through full-body strengthening, mobility, and dynamic stretching.
To me, Yoga and Essentrics® together offer a truly holistic approach to health and well-being, nurturing both body and mind.
Marie-Andrée Lafleur
Trained in the Ashtanga approach in 1999 with David Swenson, I later oriented my practice toward making yoga accessible to everyone. It was with Hart Lazer—whom I consider a true master—that I deepened an alignment-based approach using props to adapt each posture to each individual, whatever their condition. The goal: to offer the benefits of yoga by emphasizing how to do the posture rather than simply doing it. A Yin Yoga training also enriched my teaching.
Drawing from a wide range of experiences—study, teaching, and even my own injuries—I now offer a gentle and mindful yoga, attentive to limits and areas of resistance. I cultivate receptivity and respect, true sources of growth that guide us on the path to greater well-being. Alignment and the mindful attention given to resistance lie at the heart of my teaching philosophy, which values the quality of the posture over its final shape.
I continue my own search for balance through the practice of yoga and mindfulness, with the desire to share an approach rooted in acceptance—of oneself, of others, and of what is. I invite students to an opening of the heart, supported by the harmonization of breath and movement.
Caroll Baker
Yoga came to her through the back door, after the dance that she practiced for a long time. It coexisted with her training for several years. The movements that yoga offered, the fluidity of the sequences, the amplitude, the flexibility, the grace, the elegance, the calm, the serenity, the
well-being, the meditative and contemplative side… everything about yoga spoke to her and challenged her.
As her interest in the discipline grew, she dove into it and became a certified yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance.
And, as she wanted to combine her love for dance with her love for yoga, she brings us a breath of fresh air with her ZenFUSION class:
To the rhythm of your breathing, through the sequence of fluid movements, gradually incorporated, interconnected and repeated to the sound of captivating music, you will enter
in an enveloping and thrilling crossing.
ZenFUSION: An efFUSION and an inFUSION of zen in you!