Temmi has been teaching yoga since 1986. YogaBuds™ Iyengar Yoga Studio, established in 1994, was the first Family Yoga studio in Toronto to provide yoga to students of all ages.

Temmi specializes in Adults, Kids and Family yoga classes, yoga workshops, private psychotherapy and private yoga sessions including Yoga Therapy sessions.

She regularly studies in Pune, India with the Iyengar family at the Ramamini Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute (RIMYI) in Pune, India and assists in the Medical Classes held there. She has also studied with Faeq Biria in Blacons, France, and with many senior Iyengar teachers in Canada and the United States for the past 30 years. She is grateful for the opportunity to have studied with such esteemed teachers.

Pioneer of Kids and Family Yoga

Temmi is proud to have been the Pioneer of Kids and Family Yoga in Canada since 1997. Since that time, Temmi has received extensive media coverage for her innovative work with children and families. Temmi’s training and ongoing consultations in teaching yoga to children has been exclusively in India with Geeta Iyengar, (the daughter of Sri BKS Iyengar) who has had over thirty years of experience in teaching yoga to children at schools in India. Together, Geeta and Temmi have created a chapter on teaching Yoga to Children in Dharana, a commemorative book celebrating Mr. Iyengar’s 80th birthday.

Temmi also offers “Through the YogaBuds™ Lens”, an Intensive Training program on how to teach Yoga to children. She also design-builds unique yoga and YogaArt workshops for public and private schools as well as offering ongoing workshops in her studio for students of all ages. Temmi is a wellness workshop facilitator and has presented dozens of workshops to many corporations in the Toronto area since 1990.

Temmi's Path...

At the age of fourteen, Temmi was drawn to the study of meditation. Her mother's fear of Temmi attending a Transcendental Meditation course alone led to Temmi’s independent study of meditation in a winged-back chair in her family’s recreation room. After returning from studying at university abroad, Temmi noticed a sign advertising a new yoga class at York University. She registered, and after attending that first class, something was awakened in her, and Temmi has never stopped studying, or attending yoga classes and workshops around the world.

Temmi holds three university degrees including a Masters of Arts degree in Expressive Therapies, a Bachelor of Education degree in Special Education with a Level II Specialist award, and an Honours Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. She is a registered Art Therapist with the American Art Therapy Association; a clinical member of the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists, and Psychotherapists; and, a member of the Canandian Iyengar Yoga Teachers Association.

From 1989 – 1994 Temmi taught graduate courses at the Toronto Art Therapy Institute. She was also one of the only Iyengar yoga teachers to teach adult classes at the Toronto Yoga Show and Conference from 2003 – 2006. In 2004, Temmi and her YogaBuds™ kids performed a sixteen minute yoga demonstration at the Toronto Convention Centre.

Temmi is also a trained family therapist and has spent several years providing individual, couple and family therapy in both clinical settings and in private practice. As an artist, Temmi was selected as one of the Toronto area artist commissioned to paint a moose (“Santa Moose”) in the “Moose in the City” exhibit held in the summer of 2000.

Teaching Yoga: Her Life's Passion

Temmi brings to her teaching her varied areas of education, experience and expertise. Her personal style embodies compassion, acceptance and strength.

What differentiates Temmi from the scores of other yoga teachers is her very empathic, sensitive and supportive nature and her uncanny ability to deeply connect with and relate openly and professionally with students of all ages and stages. This rare ability to connect with others combined with her varied life experiences, education, skills and talents result in a multidisciplinary type of practitioner and teacher/healer who instills trust and ease in each student as she guides them along their own yogic path. By truly embodying the yogic lifestyle, Temmi models this to all of her students in a very authentic and genuine way, and she has the ability to empower people to create change in their lives while harnessing the transformative power of yoga.

Temmi is a thorough and knowledgeable instructor whose love for yoga is both inspiring and infectious. Her teaching conveys her compassion for people, her passion for yoga, and her commitment to accessing both the Divine and creative spirit within. Her fine teaching skills create a rich atmosphere for learning, fostering an integration of mind, body and spirit. She has successfully woven yoga into the fabric of her live and her students learn how to take their yoga off the mat and into their lives.

A mother of three young children, Temmi attributes her healthy pregnancies to her yoga practice. Her passion for combining yoga and children grew when her own babies began their practice of yoga alongside her. In 1997, she founded the Toronto-based YogaBuds™ for Kids non-competitive yoga program designed for children ages 5 – 15 years. Temmi and her husband are devoted to raising spiritually-conscious children, and practice a yogic lifestyle in their home.

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