Rachel Babor
Founder | Yoga Teacher | Mom | Performer
Rachel started Inner Compass Yoga in 2017 after completing a 250 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Shanti Yoga Studio in Nelson BC in 2016. Curious to dive into the world of meditation and mindfulness further, Rachel trained with Carolyn Anne Budgell and continues to be a forever student of yoga.​
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Rachels classes are often described by students as an experience.
She leads from an authentic place and loves weaving in elements of live music to help us dive deeper inside ourselves, accessing stored emotions needing to be brought to the surface. ​​
For over a decade Rachel was a professional performer on board cruise ships and on stage across Canada in musicals.
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Rachel was inspired to start a second small business called "Mini Mushroom Music" in 2022 after becoming a mom to her two children. She leads a nature-based music class in the forest for families with the hope to inspire a love for the natural world from a young age.
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Rachel is an outdoor enthusiast and is a part time stay at home mom. She feels her children are her greatest teachers.
San
Yoga Teacher | Entrepreneur | Reiki Practitioner
San’s yoga approach is fun, nurturing, and inspiring, emphasizing the importance of balance in life, body, and breath, and promoting self-love as a healing force. She describes herself as friendly, open-minded, and approachable. Her yoga journey is a constant pursuit of growth, something she practices daily and shares with others, believing that every experience is a lesson and that everyone is a teacher.
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She earned her 200-Hour Registered Yoga Teacher training in Baja California, Mexico. Furthering her expertise, she studied under Bernie Clark to attain her Yin Yoga certification, a practice she loves deeply. In 2018, Sandra deepened her meditation practice through a 100-hour Shaktipat meditation experience, awakening the Divine energy within.
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San is passionate about providing accessible yoga and movement and has recently started a nonprofit yoga business KO Yoga, partnering with corporate sponsors to bring free yoga classes to the community.
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Outside of her professional pursuits, San enjoys spending time with her life partner and two fur babies, watching sunsets, and being near water. She's a food enthusiast, passionate about healthy living, discovering new recipes, hiking, and traveling.
Julie Fasen
Yoga Teacher | Massage Therapist | Farmer
Julie has been an RMT for 26 years, and graduated from her 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training program in 2018. She combines her knowledge of the body through massage therapy with her yoga teachings to develop unique therapeutic classes that build strength, stability and mobility.
Since graduating she's expanded her knowledge in Yoga Tune Up, (teaching students how to perform self massage using massage therapy balls). She's become Certified in Functional Range Conditioning and has taken the Love Your Brain program. Since then she has brought movement and meditation into the lives of those who have suffered TBI.
Julie is passionate about using yoga and movement to release emotions stored in our body’s muscles, in order to reduce anxiety, stress, and bring a deeper relaxation to the body and mind.
She became a yoga teacher to bring therapeutic movement into people's lives to empower them with the tools to move, meditate and live better within their bodies.
When not massaging clients or teaching yoga, Julie can be found outside enjoying nature in her gardens, the forest, caring for her animals, hiking, riding her ATV, and enjoying all forms of movement.
Ariane Wieck
Sound Bath Guide | Restorative Yoga Teacher | Maker
Ariane is a multi-passionate individual, and has spent her life learning, teaching, experimenting, and honing skills in various disciplines including visual art, craft, and education.
More recently, her focus has evolved to include yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, somatic breathwork, vagus nerve stimulation for stress management, herbalism and sound healing.
Ariane has completed level 1 & 2 sound healing courses and has slowly started sharing this powerful tool with others. She loves the freedom to create unique, intuitive sound experiences that can provide a restful and healing immersive space for others.
The experience is a healing exchange between the bowls, the teacher and those who participate. Sound healing and singing bowls have been very helpful in her own healing and she is honoured to share this with you and be part of your journey.
