Emma Dines
I teach yoga to build community. I have been teaching since 2010, and I am passionate about body positivity, poetry, and linking our practice of yoga to activism, social justice and caring for the wider world. I teach with playfulness, sound effects and humour, and draw on my background as an actor and writer to create memorable and unique classes.
I am a certified Yoga for Round Bodies™ teacher, and I draw on my studies in yoga, strength training, functional movement, Ayurveda, anatomy, contact improvisation and the Axis Syllabus to create my classes. Some teachers/authors that I draw influence and inspiration from include: Madeleine Shen, Claire Turner-Reid, Kerwin Barrington, Kathryn Bruni-Young, Cecily Milne and Katy Bowman.
One of the highlights of my work is co-directing The Branches' 200-hour Teacher Training Program through which I have overseen the training and mentoring of close to 90 new teachers.