Janis has been aware of prana, or life energy since early in life when she was
gifted with a childhood in a rural environment surrounded by Canadian Shield
forest on the shore of the Ottawa River, where she first experienced the
expansiveness and attunement to universal energies that occur when people
live close to nature. She practiced Tai Chi for many years before being introduced
to yoga at a meditation retreat in a Thai monastery, where a retired nurse and
Zen master from Arizona led a yoga class after the first period of sitting every
morning to help balance the long periods of seated meditation with the meditation
in movement which is yoga. The practice changed her life. She continued to
practice for the next twenty years or so while following a varied career as a
teacher, student, traveler, parent, and seeker of understanding. She trained as a
yoga teacher at the Prana Yoga and Zen Centre in Vancouver, and at the Sivananda
Ashram in Val Morin, Quebec.
Purpose Statement:
To heal and help others connect with their deepest
levels of being, fostering compassion, wisdom and
peace in the world.