Amy has been teaching pre and postnatal yoga in Calgary for three years. It was an opportunity that presented itself when she was looking for a way to combine the fruits of her own yoga practice with what she had been teaching in natural childbirth classes for couples for the last nine years. Amy attended a prenatal training with Janice Clarfield three years ago, and started teaching right away.

As the mother of two active kids, Amy can often be found in a park, at a swimming pool, or on some bike trail. Her husband Jan is an Olympic swim coach, and Amy says their dog Samson is the world's smartest pug.

"...When I had kids I found the first two limbs of yoga without realizing it. The yamas and niyamas were what I felt brewing within me as a pregnant woman and a mother. Non-harming, truthfulness, purity, non-grasping, contentment, learning through self-experience, devotion to the divine in all being, the great love - it is all there, available always. We don't have to have children to feel 'motherly' or 'fatherly' (because of course, we all need a little bit of both), but it sure makes it easier. Children can be the greatest teachers of these qualities.

Now that I have found a more physical expression of yoga, I'm grateful for the 'push' that motherhood gave me into discovering myself. It allowed me to enter into a physical practice that put emotional and spiritual things into perspective. I am grateful also for the opportunity to share that possibility with others."