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Tamara Steinborn (she/her) 

200 hrs RYT Yoga Alliance certified 

Tamara has been teaching yoga for 15 years. She was initially drawn to yoga and meditation when she found out that she needed to have open heart surgery to correct a congenital heart defect. She wanted to develop a practice to see her through the surgery and the recovery. She became certified a year before the surgery and attributes her rapid recovery to her yoga practice. The study of yoga, and in particular breathwork and meditation, not only helped her through this life changing experience, but also guided her through daily life as a busy entrepreneur who often navigates highly stressful situations.

Tamara strives to create an inviting, inclusive and calm class environment in order to provide grounding and support for your yoga experience. She brings a sense of compassion and calmness to her classes and strives to share her knowledge of how yoga and meditation can help promote wellbeing. Currently she is focussed on leading gong meditation and sound baths. This modality offers students who are new to meditation a way to relax, as the nurturing vibrations of sound to ground and sooth the body, allowing the chatter in the mind to slowly fall away. As someone who has always struggled with anxiety, she finds that the calm created by sound baths allows for relief from anxiety, enabling her to more easily enter into a meditative state. Being able to offer this to students brings her great joy.

When she is not teaching, she runs two businesses - as a retailer she owns Kindred Shop + Studio with locations in Ottawa and Picton, and as a jewellery metalsmith.

Areas of interest & training include Every Body Yoga, Yin, Restorative, Kundalini, Hatha, Power Yoga, Yoga for Menopause, Meditation & Mantra and Soundbath. She has also completed Can Fit Pro Personal training.