Teachers
Our teachers are skilled and passionate humans who have studied the tradition of yoga for many years. Each one has a unique expression of this art form, and live their yoga in a truly inspiring way. If you have questions of what to expect in any of our teachers’ classes, please reach out to annex@mykula.ca for more information.
Olivia Hill (she/her)
Olivia is the Owner and Director of Kula Yoga, but her journey started years before. Olivia has a background in Hatha Yoga (Yoga Alliance Certified), Pilates (Pilates Alliance Certified), and a BAH in Philosophy and Eastern Religion. Her personal journey with Yoga has taught her how to help heal her scoliosis (curvature of the spine) with holistic movement. More than a physical practice, Yoga is deeply rooted in philosophical wisdom, which is explored during class.
Olivia’s classes are alignment focused and designed to move the body and quiet the mind; there are deep stretches, strength building sequences, and often an optional guided meditation at the end. Her classes can be challenging and rewarding. Her wish is that you carry the benefits of your practice off the mat with you; so if you trust her to take you on a sweaty journey, your body and mind will thank you after.
Olivia believes that yoga can be practiced by everyone, and she wants to provide a welcoming space in her classes where students feel free to try new things without comparison to others.
Olivia Hill is one of the instrctors of Kula’s 200hr YTT faculty.
Tracy dePass (she/her)
Tracy quickly adopted a daily practice and was fortunate to learn various styles of yoga with several wonderful instructors before finding Ashtanga. In 2014 she met her teacher, Emma O’Neill, Mysore Toronto who continues to help Tracy to deepen her practice and understanding of asana, yoga principles, meditation, and mindful movement.
Ever a curious student, Tracy has had a committed Mysore style practice and incorporates hand balancing, strength and flexibility training, meditation, and laughter in her daily routine.
Under her teacher’s guidance, Tracy completed a two-year Ashtanga yoga apprenticeship with Mysore Toronto and became a registered teacher after completing her 200-hr teacher training. She continues to practice, learn, and assist at Mysore Toronto.
Tracy is passionate about community-building and sharing both her practice and learnings from her mat. She strives to make her classes inspiring and accessible to all and enjoys helping students better connect with their bodies and cultivate a steady and focused mind.
Linseed Toner-Calmusky (she/her)
Linseed’s class environment is 2SLGBTQIA+ positive with over 13 years of teaching experience. Her dad taught her yoga growing up and when he died in 2005, she sought out her first formal training through the Yandara Institute. Since then she has completed 750+ hours of training with local and international teachers.
Linseed prioritizes a consent based practice and tries to make her classes as accessible as possible. She often leaves space for free movement to playfully listen to the body before inviting it into more formal structure. She emphasizes the importance of listening to the more subtle parts within us and around us as a practice on and off the mat. She is currently studying to become a Registered Herbalist.
Kiran Sohal (she/her)
Kiran is Kula’s YTT Philosophy & History Teacher. She has been a full-time Yoga teacher since 2001 conducting classes in Hatha, Vinyasa, Core, Restorative, Pilates, and Meditation. Her personal approach to teaching is rooted in a passion for creative movement, mindfulness, and personal transformation. Kiran’s extensive training includes teacher certifications from the Kripalu Yoga Centre (US), Sri Sri Yoga (Germany), 500-hour Advanced Yoga Studies at the Downward Dog Studio (Canada), Relax and Renew Trainer (Judith Hanson Lasater), and Stott Pilates Matwork. As a volunteer teacher, Kiran taught Youth Empowerment courses with the Art of Living Foundation, an internationally recognized humanitarian and educational organization known for its powerful breathing techniques, meditation, and wisdom teachings. Her academic background includes a BA (University of Western Ontario) and MA (University of Toronto) focusing primarily on South Asian Religion. She currently lectures on Yoga Philosophy for various teacher trainings across the GTA, including Kula!
Kiran Sohal is the philosophy and history teacher in Kula’s 200hr YTT program.
Alicia Roberts (she/her)
Alicia Roberts is a passionate Vinyasa teacher who is deeply curious about the ways in which yoga can help individuals reclaim their knowledge of self and authentic power, fostering presence and the ability to thrive. Drawing inspiration from her lifelong love of music and dance, Alicia’s sessions are uniquely influenced by a collection of vibes — Jazz, R&B, Soul, and Reggae, guiding the ambiance and rhythm of the class. Her class focus is on foundational asanas and sun salutations, creating sequences deeply rooted in the
foundations of a yoga practice making it accessible for all levels.
Acharya Prem (he/him)
Acharya Prem, founder of Anaahat Yog, comes from a traditional farming family in India. His journey from a teenage entrepreneur in computer hardware and software to a dedicated yogi is both inspiring and relevant to modern life.
In 2003, his demanding lifestyle and poor health habits led to a diagnosis of ulcerative colitis. Conventional treatments failed, but Ayurvedic remedies and a disciplined Yoga practice, introduced by a friend, helped him heal within six months. This transformative experience prompted him to leave his thriving business and join Patanjali Yog Peeth, where he immersed himself in Yoga, Sanskrit, and Vedic studies under renowned teacher PP Acharya Pradyumna.
After four years in the ashram, Prem began teaching Yoga Teacher Trainings (YTT). He also discovered Aerial Yoga, which improved his scoliosis. Realizing many YTT programs lacked traditional authenticity, he founded his own school to train teachers committed to preserving Yoga’s integrity and principles.
Beyond teaching, Prem leads by example, running Ujjwal Sansthanam, a charity for underprivileged children. His life embodies the meaning of his name—Prem, or unconditional love—through actions that inspire and uplift others.
Acharya Prem is the head teacher of Kula’s 200 hour YTT program.
Anurag Saraswat (he/him)
Anurag is a 500-hour Yoga Alliance certified instructor specializing in Hot Yoga, Vinyasa, and strength-based movement. His teaching blends intelligent sequencing, breath-led flow, and mindful alignment to help students build strength, mobility, and resilience.
His classes are designed for real bodies and real lives — focusing on sustainable practice, recovery, and nervous system balance, not just flexibility or advanced poses. Whether you’re new to yoga or cross-training with the gym, his goal is to help students move better, feel stronger, and practice yoga that supports life on and off the mat.
Geeta Wadehra (she/her)
Geeta grew up in a traditional Indian home where the yoga lifestyle and practice was a natural way of living. After taking a restorative weekend session with her sister in 2014, she took her first yoga teacher training with an online session for restorative yoga. At the time it was just to go deeper into her own practice without knowing that she would one day be teaching full time. But by 2017, Geeta traveled to Costa Rica to complete her 200 hour YTT and then her 50 hour Yin certification. Also trained in shamanic breathwork, and plant medicine facilitation, Geeta is passionate about living her practice both on and off the mat and tries to share the both the mindful and physical aspects of yoga with her students. Paying extra attention to the body/mind/spirit connection Geeta strives to lead inclusive classes that leave her students feeling supported, strong, recharged and peaceful.
Geeta Wadehra is the Pranayama (breathwork) teacher in Kula’s 200hr YTT program.
Patricia McPherson (she/her)
Patricia is the creator and teacher of Kula’s 40hr Yoga Nidra Teacher Training program.
Anne Chan (she/her)
Anne is a yoga teacher and a lifelong student of yoga, meditation and science based movement practices. Her classes emphasize how poses feel in the body while integrating novel movements that challenge the body and mind. At the heart of her teaching is a passion to celebrate and honour all bodies and individual abilities. Anne took her first yoga class in 2003 and her yoga journey led her to complete her 200-hour yoga teacher training through Kula Yoga Studio in 2018. She has since completed a certification in Inclusive, Trauma-Informed & Anti-Oppressive yoga teacher training, over 50-hours of yin yoga teacher training and a 20-hour children’s yoga teacher training. Anne is also a certified pain-science informed yoga teacher and a Functional Range Conditioning Mobility Specialist (FRC®ms). Learn more about Anne here.
Tarik El Assal (he/him)
Tarik is a yoga instructor (RYT®200) from Morocco who began practicing yoga in September 2013 and started teaching classes 6 years later immediately after completing his 200hr intensive teacher training in Mallorca, Spain with Green Yoga International.
Tarik empowers his students a yoga practice that helps them gain awareness the body and its sensations, reinforce the body-mind connection and grow physically and mentally. His classes are rather “spicy” yet safe and inclusive of beginners and intermediate students with pose modifications. In his thematic yoga classes, Tarik incorporates breathwork, meditation, asana, alignment, yoga philosophy and science to make the class a holistic experience where students learn more about themselves. He enjoys leading classes that blend the vigorous style of Vinyasa/Power yoga with Yin yoga, the fountain of youth.
Tarik is fascinated by the human potential and he aims to guide his students unlock theirs one breath at a time with the right mindset. During his previous athletic journey, Tarik discovered his untapped potential after participating in many triathlons
(Sprint, Olympic, Half-Ironman Relay 70.3), ice swimming competition, open-water swimming marathons of 30km, climbing Mount Toubkal at 4,167 m and living like a modern monk at a Vipassana meditation retreat. Although these sporting events came with a collection of injuries and tendonitis that affected his health, it allowed him to gain body awareness and learn more about nutrition, anatomy, recovery, healing and injury prevention. Prior to moving to Toronto, Tarik completed his first 10-day Vipassana Meditation course as taught by S.N. Goenka in Marrakech, Morocco. This silent meditation retreat consisted of living like a modern monk, meditating about 10h per day without any form of visual, verbal or sensory contact with other meditators. After such a deep introspective experience, Tarik’s life was impacted so profoundly that he adopted Vipassana as his main meditation practice and incorporated some aspects of it into his yoga classes.
The lessons learned from all these experiences, books and a continuous yoga education and practice fuel his yoga fire and inspire him to design yoga classes where students stretch their physical and mental comfort zones.
Laura Hache (she/her)
Laura is a yoga and meditation practitioner and guide. She loves to encourage others to get curious about what’s subtle and what’s felt and known yet unseen. She is a certified yoga instructor, with over 500 hours of training under her belt. Her offerings include hatha and vinyasa-style yoga, meditation guidance, and restorative yoga.
Laura is led by a passion to support her student’s journeys of self-discovery and exploration of mind-body connection, to uncover wisdom and insights to bring off the mat and into their everyday lives. Her classes offer an opportunity for deep personal exploration through body and mind, and she prioritizes creating a safe and welcoming space that encourages play and curiosity. Laura believes that the body is a resource of wisdom and care, and that we can learn to listen closer through mindful movement to celebrate pleasure, comfort, ease. Because joy is not made to be a crumb.
In addition to facilitating yoga and meditation, she is also a full-time beekeeper and environmental educator and lives a life fueled by her curiosity of the natural world, which is a common thread and theme throughout her offerings.
Chrys Muszka (he/him)
Chrys is a Yoga Educator, & Queer Earth Mystic with over 20 years practice and over 15 years of teaching Yoga & doing holistic work. He continues to explore the yoga tradition in a full spectrum way, studying and embracing both the physical, philosophical and spiritual aspects. He’s travelled the world to seek out a diverse range of teachers and styles of yoga, energy work, and plant medicines.
He teaches his Flow based classes with a balance of inquiry, stretch, strength, and mobility to help his students engage with their body in a mindful and empowering way. He approaches meditation, restorative yoga, and yoga nidra enriched in philosophical insight, and stillness. He seeks to inspire his students to live authentic, holistic, and mindful lives. Hi cladsses bring a unique perspective that blends ancient wisdom with an approach that is modern, mystical, and respectful. He can often be found at café with an oat milk flat white, and a non-fiction book.
Jay Andrews (he/him)
Jay Andrews is a musician, yoga teacher and embodiment therapist who is involved in Buddhist & yogic philosophy and 12 step recovery. His classes are deeply influenced by non-dual philosophy, self enquiry and subtle embodiment, and are infused with music and rhythm.