Faculty

Natalie Rousseau Horscroft E-RYT 500: Director of Teacher Training

Natalie Rousseau-Horscroft E-RYT 500 is an Anusara-Inspired^TM Yoga Teacher and has been teaching yoga full time since 2002. She is the founder of Pacific Elements Yoga School.

“I have been a devoted student of yoga since 1999 and I began my teaching career in 2002. I teach yoga because I have experienced its power to heal and to transform firsthand and I am dedicated to serving my students by sharing with them the practices and the teachings that have so positively benefited me in my own life. It is my mission to inspire and to support others in stepping wholeheartedly onto the path of self-empowerment that is yoga. This mission is guided by my overall vision of how communities of self-empowered people around the globe can change the world for the better. Teaching yoga is the offering I make in support of this vision.”

Certifications and Study to Date:

* 200 hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training with Prana Yoga College
* 500 hour Advanced Teacher Training & Philosophy Studies with SOYA (South Okanagon Yoga Assoc.)
* 50 hour Advanced Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training with Tim Miller
* 50 hour Prana Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training with Shiva Rea
* 25 hour Pre Natal Yoga Training with Janice Clairfield
* 108 hour Anusara Yoga Immersion – Christina Sell + Robin Golt
* 170 hours Anusara Teacher Training – Chris Chavez + Robin Golt                                                                               Over 150 hours of Anusara workshops with Certified Anusara Yoga Teachers Desiree Rumbaugh, Martin Kirk, Robin Golt, Christina Sell, Chris Chavez, Noah Maze, Darren Rhodes, and Paul Muller Ortega.

Dan Clement RYT 500 Yoga Philosophy/Therapeutics

Dan came to yoga for its healing benefits and fell in love with the practice. His approach to teaching the art and science of Yoga is light-hearted – inclusive of everyone’s limitations and strengths, and dynamic – offering encouragement to move beyond perceived boundaries. The founder of Open Source Yoga, Dan is a yoga therapist and teacher trainer who is keen to dive into the body and the mind!

Savita Leah Young- Ayurvedic Lifestyle

Savita Young has been practicing Vipassana meditation since 1987 and has been a serious student of classical Ashtanga Yoga, studying under master yogi, Sri Baba Hari Dass since 1994. She graduated in 2008 with honors from the Mount Madonna Institute College of Ayurveda as an Ayurveda Educator and Practitioner. These ancient systems, time tested and true, create a strong foundation for living and teaching ayurveda and yoga. After volunteering in the kitchen at the Salt Spring Centre of Yoga and working in the offices of the Yoga Centre and its affiliate, the Centre School for many years, Savita founded Amrit Dhara Ayurveda Clinic in November, 2008.    

“My aim as a Yoga Teacher, Wellness Educator and Ayurveda Practitioner is to offer stepping stones to wellness that enable you to deepen your connection to self, and to set and meet personal goals within a yoga lifestyle.”