New yoga instructors hope to get others in shape
By Greg Plain
MUNCEY – Terri Fisher and Sam Kennedy from Chippewas of the Thames are moving forward and preparing to create the opportunity for Nation members to enjoy the life changing exercise of yoga.
Both young ladies have taken the 200 hour yoga teacher’s certification with True North Yoga (Paul VanWijk) in September 2014 along with 18 others in the Chippewas Community Centre. These ladies attended the full program to be able to teach their passion to other Chippewa members and any other person who would like to enjoy the art of yoga.
Terri Fisher is an avid Yoga teacher that initially started her training with Olive Tree Yoga Foundation in 2011, Terri and also brings other types of fitness to her newly formed business. Terri has started her own company called Mind Body Pulse. This company brings many aspects of Terri’s skills together as a First Aid, CPR and Yoga instruction and has been actively working with community members of all ages to bring the Yoga instruction to Chippewa Nation.
“It is my dream to open my own fitness centre in the Nation to allow the people to get fit at various fitness sessions in the building including yoga and other forms that will bring us back to a fit community,” said Fisher.
Sam Kennedy is a Child and Youth Worker with Chippewas Antler River School during the day an avid Yoga Teacher in the Nation as well as being invited to other locales such as Tru Hot Yoga (St Thomas, Ontario) to be a teacher of the yoga arts.
“It has become my passion to bring the children and adults into the yoga teachings, selling fitness to children will bring down the obesity rate across the Nation,” said Kennedy.
In addition to teaching at nights and weekends she has brought the art of yoga into the Antler River School as an extra-Curricular activity for those in grades three to eight with great success thus far.
With both of these ladies moving members into fitness they are going to work with the Yoga Certification group they started with to bring yoga across Southwestern Ontario communities. They would like to show the other communities how they too can certify teachers and or get a free yoga session in to see that they might start into a new passion for fitness. These will be available to any of the Nations that ask for a session including Friendship Centres, and any other group that wants to bring them in for a free introductory session.
Terri Fisher can be contacted for these sessions at mindbodypulse@gmail.com for more information.