ABOUT
Bronwen crafts tailor-made content for a diverse community of movement enthusiasts, including yogis, dancers, pole and other aerial artists, and anyone seeking to refine the technical means of artist expression. She offers classes virtually and in studio for recreational to pre and semi-professional movers.
With a lifelong dedication to movement, Bronwen has been immersed in various streams of the physical arts for decades. She was a competitive dancer from the age of six and became part of a youth company at 10. She was a delegate at British Columbia’'s provincial competition, BC Festival of the Performing Arts, three times and was both awarded runner-up and first place in Jazz, Stage/Musical Theatre division. She went on to professional ballet, cabaret, and commercial dance engagements—Ballet Ouest, Orchestre de symphonique de Montreal, MAC Cosmetics, Nautica, NY Jazz Co, Neverland Theatre, and many other event engagements—as a young adult in Vancouver and Montreal, and then took to teaching full time from 2008 onward. (Dance CV available upon request).
In 2008, she relocated to Buenos Aires to immerse herself into Argentine culture. Having recently completed a 500 RYT two-year program in Canada, however, she leaned more towards yoga than tango. She began to study Ashtanga Primary Series with Andrea Martinez and, a month later, Intermediate Series with Lino Miele. A year later, Bronwen moved to Oslo, where she was fortunate to attend daily Mysore classes with Alexander Medin and Basia Lipska. She also had the benefit of workshops and intensives during her time in Oslo with Dominique Corigliano (Ashtanga), Vijyaya Kumar (Sanskrit and Ashtanga), Edward Clarke of Tripsichore Yoga, and Dr. Ganesh Mohan of Svastha (Yoga and Ayurveda). Bronwen also attended Primary and Intermediate Series teacher trainings with Manju Jois, which spanned several weeks in Crete, Greece and Bologna, Italy. She began teaching yoga in Oslo in 2010 and assisted Basia Lipska later that year at Purple Valley Yoga in Goa, India.
In 2011, she arrived back in Canada and returned to her roots of dance. In 2013, she created Studio 253, a space in Kamloops that housed Mysore yoga and dance programs for youth and adults. She also began to explore other movement methods, including Franklin Method, Ido Portal, Gymnastic Bodies, Pilates, hand balancing with Yuri Marmerstein, and private contortion study with Catie Brier, San Francisco. She continued to perform through a variety of community based performances with Western Canada Theatre, BC Living Arts, Whitehorse Redezvous CanCan (choreographer), Monique Romeiko (dancer)“Re:”, Kamloops Arts Council, Monte Creek Winery, Kamloops Heritage Railway, Nikai Theatre Homegrown Festival and many others both as a solo performer/choreographer as well as with her group of Studio 253 dancers.
Bronwen continued to travel on her return to Canada and offered workshops and courses throughout British Columbia, Yukon and worldwide. Since 2016, she has a guest yoga instructor in Oslo, Dublin, San Flaviano, Rome and Tulum.
In September 2018, Bronwen returned to Vancouver. She continues to teach conditioning and flexibility classes virtually through Tantra/Be1 Fitness. Her work at Tantra has allowed her opportunities to broaden her range into certifications in Pole and Lyra.
She made her first pre-recorded material during Covid, which is still available through Skillwell. Bronwen is thrilled with the release of her Members Only platform on February the 22nd, 2024, which contains videos on demand, livestream classes and progressive programs.
Bronwen currently divides her time between Vancouver and Kelowna, B.C., Canada. She is open for private bookings in both areas.
CERTIFICATIONS
2023 Allegro (Erika Mayall Physiotherapist) Teacher Training:
Active Mobility for Dancers
2019 Lyra Level 1, Pole and Aerial Fitness Instruction Commission of Canada (PFIC)
2019 Pole 202, Tantra Fitness, Vancouver, B.C.
2019 Lyrical Pole, Tantra Fitness, Vancouver, B.C.
2019 Exotic Pole Dance, Tantra Fitness, Vancouver, B.C.
2013 Acrobatic Arts, Module 1, North Vancouver, B.C.
2011 Nov 25hr Second Series Teacher Training, Manju Jois at Nancy Gilgof, Maui, Hawaii, USA
2010 July 25 hr Second Series Teacher Training, Manju Jois at Bologna, Italy
2010 September 25 hr Primary Series Teacher Training, Manju Jois at Rethymnon, Crete
2010 September 26hr Second Series Teacher Training, Manju Jois at Rethymnon, Crete
2010 January 26 hr Primary Series Teacher Training, Manju Jois at Rethymnon, Crete
2010 300 hr Yoga and Ayurveda Health Educator, American Institute of Vedic Studies
2009 500 Yoga Teacher Training, South Okanagan Yoga Academy. Research project: “Yoga and the Financial Markets – a Guide for Traders”.
COURSES/IMMERSIONS/PRIVATE INSTRUCTION
FLEXIBILITY/MOVEMENT
2024 Sept to Oct, Pillars of Performance, Level Up Neuroperformance w/Yuka Sugiura
2024 Sept to Oct, Flexibility Foundations, Allegro (Erika Mayall Physiotherapist)
2023 Flexibility & Contortion Workshop
Acrobatic Arts
2023 Physio Flex Flexibility Series: Backbends, Splits, and Twists. Dr. Jen Crane
2019 Art of Stretching, Pole and Aerial Fitness Instruction Commission of Canada (PFIC)
2016 Contortion W/CATIE BRIER, Private Instruction, VIrtual
2015 Hand Balancing W/Yuri Marmerstein, Private Coach, Virtual.
2014 Ido Portal: Movement X Seminar, Port Coquitlam.
YOGA
2016 Shadow Yoga, Private w/Penny Cuthbert, Sydney, Australia.
2011 Sri Dharma Mittra, South Okanagan Yoga Association. Naramata,. B.C.
2008 Lino Miele: ASHTANGA One Week Immersion, Escuela Ashtanga Yoga Bs As, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2008 Edward Clarke, Tripsichore Yoga, Weekend Intensive, Oslo, Norway.
2009 DR. GANESH MOHAN, SVASTHA, Ashtanga & Ayurveda, Workshop, Puro Yoga, Oslo, Norway
2010 PURO YOGA, Oslo, Norway,
Ashtanga Mysore: Dominique and Matt Corigliano, Alexander Medin
2010 (Audited) 200 RYT PURO YOGA, Ashtanga and Sanskrit: Study & Recitation of Yoga Sutras w/Alexander Medin and Vijyaya Kumar. Oslo, Norway.
2010 Sadie Nardini Teacher Training, YYoga, Weekend Course/Online Training, Vancouver,
PILATES
2011 STOTT Reformer Training, Victoria, B.C.
FRANKLIN METHOD
2013 The Psoas
2013 Jumpstart your Fascia
2013 Franklin Method w/Noam Gagnon, Weekend Intensive, The Dance Centre, Vancouver.