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Alissa Firth-Eagland

I’m an artist and yoga facilitator of white settler descent living with disabilities. I come from families of caregivers, orchardists, gardeners, florists, and teachers. The Branches YTT and RYTT (2020 and 2023) have planted me in fertile ground and ever since, I’ve been training in yoga, movement, and brain health.My yoga facilitation style is accessible, trauma informed, and post-concussion symptom friendly. Lived experience with traumatic brain injury, post-concussion syndrome, and mental illness inform how I share yoga’s teachings.My purpose as a student and facilitator of yoga is to nurture embodied learning, genuine curiosity, and personal choice in people who want to move with ease. Folks practicing yoga with me can expect to co-create safety for themselves and to question what we know about movement. My yoga facilitation is greatly influenced by Myriam Khouzam, Nadi Fantastic, Cecily Milne, and fellow teachers at the Branches. I gratefully live and work in Guelph, Dish With One Spoon Treaty, traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

My pronouns are she/her.