Our Yoga Teachers

Tanya Di Valentino has been a Whistler local since 2001 and it was here in Whistler where she found her first yoga class. Tanya has now been practicing and teaching various styles of yoga for several years. She began her teacher training in Mexico with a 200 hour certification program at Yandara Yoga Institute; an Iyengar alignment-inspired hatha yoga program founded and taught by Craig and Shane Perkins. She has since returned to Yandara to participate as a teacher training assistant.

She continued with advanced studies, completing the 500 hour certification program at Anand Prakash Yogashram in Rishikesh, India with The World Conscious Yoga Family, founded and taught by Yogi Vishvketu and Chetana Panwar. She became certified to teach Akhanda Yoga, a holistic-style of practice created by Yogi Vishvketu. She had also been trained and certified to teach Hatha-Raja, Classical Kundalini as well as advanced pranayama (breath-control) techniques. It was in India that she entered the healing art of Reiki with known Rishikesh Reiki Master Shanti ji.

Her love and interest in Ashtanga Yoga began to flourish and she traveled to San Francisco and completed David Swenson's Ashtanga Primary Series Teacher Training.

Finding inspiration in diversity, Tanya was lead to the Sivananda Yoga Ashram on Paradise Island, Bahamas where she lived in the ashram to learn the traditional hatha yoga practice as taught by Swami Sivananda and Swami Vishnu-Devananda. During her stay she participated in the Yoga for Sports Intensive Program, the first of its kind in a traditional yoga ashram. The program was taught by Dr. Don Oyao, who has been an official member of the Olympic medical team in five Olympic games, most
recently the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing.

During her time at the ashram, Tanya had also trained in Thai Yoga Massage by the founder of the Lotus Palm technique, Kam Thye Chow.

Tanya continues her education in yoga by participating in retreats, workshops and trainings in various styles such as Anusara, Kundalini, and pranayama. Her style of teaching is friendly, energetic and encourages having fun and showing loving-kindness to your body, mind and spirit for the benefit of the self and for all.