DANIELLE HOOGENBOOM - Lead Teacher & Trainer

Danielle is a yoga instructor, activist, and artist based in Vancouver, B.C. Danielle founded Love Light Yoga as an expression of her yoga practice and creative interests both on and off the mat. She is passionate about yin yoga and its ability to heal, change and transform ourselves and the world around us. Believing that all people are invited to the healing of yoga, Danielle teaches a diverse schedule of classes and workshops that range from the practical theory to the mystical and sacred parts of yoga. She is certified in Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Vinyasa Lotus Flow. She teaches in studios across Vancouver and often travels to teach aboard, share, celebrate and connect. She teaches Yin Yoga workshops worldwide sharing her passion for a gentle, steady practice.

Danielle strives to share the beauty of Yin Yoga that guides us towards restoring the balance in your own lives through personal awareness and devotion to inner freedom from our habits and repetitive nature of our holding patterns. Learning to approach our bodies and minds creatively, passionately and mindfully is our greatest challenge but offers the deepest truths that reconnect to our spirits. Its the space between breathes in which we are for a brief moment our truest selves. Danielle firmly believes yoga is a practice to be celebrated and modified to meet you, always. Let it be the source of our insight, connection and strength and move the work we do on the mat, be the roots of change we create in the world around us.

You can view Danielle’s CV here.

DIA JOYCE PENNING - Teacher & Trainer

As a US born, mixed race, x-large sized human, Dia has honed an ability to hold paradox with gentleness and to move between many realities simultaneously.

Dia supports clients and students in the examination of limiting patterns. In both yoga and anti-racism workshops, she focuses on breath and body awareness, bringing a deeper understanding to the to physical and psychological tensions that arise in reaction to unexamined habits of white supremacy.

Whether with twelve students in a yoga workshop, fifty board members trying to develop strategic anti-racism processes or a thousand conference attendees intent on burning the patriarchy the ground, Dia focuses on the individual needs of her clients and the collective needs of their communities. She centers transformation in the container of the body, invites an exploration of structural inequity, and demonstrate sensation as a parallel to our shared discomfort with evolution.

DEVON LOHRASBE - Teacher & Trainer

Devon is sometimes a teacher - but always a learner.

As a yin teacher, Devon is passionate about connecting people with their bodies, their communities, and the earth. She is curious about the relationship between movement and stillness, what it means to live one’s values, and what transformational learning looks like. 

Over the past 10 years, Devon has worked with a range of yoga studios and yoga professionals. Most of the time, though, you can find her in the library. As an interdisciplinary scholar, she draws on her academic background in humanities and education as well as her personal experiences. Her current research explores how individuals, especially experts, learn outside of traditional classrooms - in museums, while travelling, and even on their yoga mats!

CHASTITY DAVIS-ALPHONSE - Teacher & Trainer

Chastity is a mixed-heritage woman of First Nations and European descent. She is a proud member of the Tla’amin Nation and married into the Tsilhqot’in Nation. Chastity is the sole proprietor of her own multi-award-winning consulting business. She has worked with 125+ First Nation communities in BC and several well-known corporations, companies, not-for-profits, and Indigenous organizations. Chastity’s work is completed in the spirit of reconciliation and focuses on building knowledge and capacities for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals, organizations, communities, and governments.

Chastity has a Master of Arts in Intercultural and International Communications, a Bachelor of Arts in Professional Communication and a Diploma in Marketing Management & Professional Sales from BCIT. Chastity is also a certified yoga teacher in two modalities: Yin and Kundalini. She weaves the ancient practice and philosophy of yoga into her personal and professional life.

NURSE JENN SKILLEN

Jenn Skillen is a nurse, an artist, and a seemingly perpetual student of Yin Yoga.  Jenn is interested in the connection between these three passions, exploring the parallels between the scientific and the spiritual, finding the science behind TCM and Yin, and creating artwork that attempts to balance these seemingly conflicting concepts.

Affectionately known at LLY as “Nurse Jenn”, recently Jenn has been sharing her knowledge of internal anatomy to enrich the education of the Yin School students, helping to create a world where Science and Yoga can live in harmony and balance.

Jenn has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts, and is currently enrolled in post-graduate specialty nursing education.  She teaches art workshops in between nursing shifts, and is trying to find the courage to teach yoga classes on her own.

χʷəy̓χʷiq̓tən, Audrey Siegl

is an independent activist from the unceded lands of the Musqueam.
She works with teachings & medicines going back to the Old Timers she spent time with until they passed when she was a teen.
She is rooted in West Coast/Musqueam medicines.

Audrey has worked all across Turtle Island with many nations & medicines.


She is proud & honoured to carry on the work her grandparents & countless generations before her, did.