Our Teachers

Linda Wallace
AYTT Facilitator

While Linda remembers following along to 'Kareen’s Yoga' on television as a child, it wasn’t until her thirties that she became a yoga practitioner, attending classes with Iyengar-trained instructor, Elizabeth Kingsland.

After two years of practice, Elizabeth approached her to begin training as a teacher herself. Linda spent a year of one-on-one apprenticeship training with Elizabeth, while also completing a Master’s degree in English at Dalhousie University, and began to lead beginner classes in the fall of 1999 with the blessings of her teacher.

Linda has taught an average of four to six classes a week ever since, at the Findlay Community Centre in Dartmouth and other locations in the Halifax-Dartmouth area, both with HRM Recreation and privately run classes, introducing hundreds of students to the joys of yoga. She is especially grateful to the dedicated students who continue to practice with her year after year.

In 2006, Linda was drawn to the AYTT 200-hour program, led by Jody Myers and Silver Frith, and it was there that she found the community and soulfulness of practice that she had been yearning for. In the same year, Linda began a formal sitting meditation practice after attending a Shambhala training course in Halifax.

She has since completed numerous programs with Shambhala, and is an active member of the Dartmouth Shambhala Meditation Group. She feels that while the practice of yoga prepared the ground for her meditation practice, it has been the practice of meditation that has brought her to the heart of yoga.

Linda looks forward to bringing yoga to her son’s grade one classroom on a regular basis in January 2010 and considers this sharing with children to be especially sacred. She feels blessed to be able to offer it as seva (selfless service).

Linda is currently participating in the AYTT 500-hour program, with expected graduation in the summer of 2010. She is excited to be part of the AYTT teaching team, and looks forward to this next step along her path.

Linda lives in Dartmouth with her long-time partner (a meditator), and young school-aged son.

She takes particular joy in sharing yoga with her child and other children, and has raised much playful yoga energy with families and children’s groups in the Shambhala and her own community.