Kassandra Prus (E-CYT) is an LGBTQ2SA+, body positive, trauma informed, and intersectional Toronto-based therapeutic yoga and exercise teacher who specializes in two streams:
1). developing functional mobility in those working with injuries, illness, chronic pain, or age, and
2). encouraging mental and emotional health with the subtler yogic practices of breathwork, meditation, yin, and restorative.
Kassandra hopes that the range of offerings presented make space for people to practice radical self-acceptance and to self-activate their own healing. Many classes are ended with Kassandra offering their singing voice, and sometimes magical musical accompaniment on shruti box or bells and chimes.
Kassandra has over 450 hours of Yoga Teacher Training in yoga therapy, yin, chair, and trauma-informed yoga, a well as additional exercise based modalities like BoneFit™, contemporary pilates, and restorative exercise (please see CV for details). Kassandra has been teaching full time since 2016 and biomechanics, therapeutic and restorative movement, and healthy aging and rehabilitation are of particular interest. Mental health, trauma informed practice, accessibility, and intersectional inclusivity are other passions Kassandra actively works to support.
Kassandra's public yoga classes (permanent and yoga series) include: Union Yoga+Wellness (Yin+Meditation, Yin/Yang, LoveYourBrain, Chair Yoga), Yoga Village (Chair, Body Positive Yoga), Dixon Hall (Chair Yoga+Meditation), at St Demetrius Care Home in their Seniors Stay Connected Program (drop in day program for anyone 55+), and privately run chair yoga classes at St. Demetrius Church.
Kassandra works with private clients doing therapeutic yoga and exercise, and is also the owner of My Personal Yoga, the Greater Toronto Area's Agency for personalized, body positive, diversity celebrating yoga, meditation, and pilates teachers.
Kassandra also teaches Chair Yoga at Ivan Franko Long Term Care Home (residents) and mindful movement (staff).
Kassandra comes from a past as a community facilitator, folk artist, and arts educator, founding bodymind ConfiDance in 2010 (bringing curriculum-based dance education to public schools); was on the artist rosters for the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning Through the Arts (schools) and ARTS–REHAB (hospitals), TCDSB’s Artists in the Schools, tdsbCreates, and VIBE Arts for Children and Youth, and also ran workshops for Supporting Our Youth, the Toronto Alzheimer Society, Guelph Organic Conference, UofT Faculty of Social Work, and various arts camps.
When not teaching, you can find Kassandra thoroughly enjoying life walking in the forest, at folk dance and music jams, cooking, gardening, fermenting, or foraging. Nature is the greatest teacher!
1). developing functional mobility in those working with injuries, illness, chronic pain, or age, and
2). encouraging mental and emotional health with the subtler yogic practices of breathwork, meditation, yin, and restorative.
Kassandra hopes that the range of offerings presented make space for people to practice radical self-acceptance and to self-activate their own healing. Many classes are ended with Kassandra offering their singing voice, and sometimes magical musical accompaniment on shruti box or bells and chimes.
Kassandra has over 450 hours of Yoga Teacher Training in yoga therapy, yin, chair, and trauma-informed yoga, a well as additional exercise based modalities like BoneFit™, contemporary pilates, and restorative exercise (please see CV for details). Kassandra has been teaching full time since 2016 and biomechanics, therapeutic and restorative movement, and healthy aging and rehabilitation are of particular interest. Mental health, trauma informed practice, accessibility, and intersectional inclusivity are other passions Kassandra actively works to support.
Kassandra's public yoga classes (permanent and yoga series) include: Union Yoga+Wellness (Yin+Meditation, Yin/Yang, LoveYourBrain, Chair Yoga), Yoga Village (Chair, Body Positive Yoga), Dixon Hall (Chair Yoga+Meditation), at St Demetrius Care Home in their Seniors Stay Connected Program (drop in day program for anyone 55+), and privately run chair yoga classes at St. Demetrius Church.
Kassandra works with private clients doing therapeutic yoga and exercise, and is also the owner of My Personal Yoga, the Greater Toronto Area's Agency for personalized, body positive, diversity celebrating yoga, meditation, and pilates teachers.
Kassandra also teaches Chair Yoga at Ivan Franko Long Term Care Home (residents) and mindful movement (staff).
Kassandra comes from a past as a community facilitator, folk artist, and arts educator, founding bodymind ConfiDance in 2010 (bringing curriculum-based dance education to public schools); was on the artist rosters for the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Learning Through the Arts (schools) and ARTS–REHAB (hospitals), TCDSB’s Artists in the Schools, tdsbCreates, and VIBE Arts for Children and Youth, and also ran workshops for Supporting Our Youth, the Toronto Alzheimer Society, Guelph Organic Conference, UofT Faculty of Social Work, and various arts camps.
When not teaching, you can find Kassandra thoroughly enjoying life walking in the forest, at folk dance and music jams, cooking, gardening, fermenting, or foraging. Nature is the greatest teacher!
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I learn a new variation or something completely new every class. You always create a safe and encouraging space for me to try new things and challenge myself. The amazing part is that it never really seems hard! |
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I recognize that the sacred land on which I work has been a site of human activity for upwards of 15,000 years. This land has been tended and cared for over time by the Anishinaabe First Nations, the Huron-Wendat, the Petun, the Seneca, the Mississaugas of the Credit River, as well as many others unrecognized and unrecorded. This territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes.
Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many indigenous people from across Turtle Island and I commit to caring for the land the best I can in my daily life, in parallel with Yoga's philosophical "yama-s", or self-regulating behaviours involving our interactions with other people and the world at large.
Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many indigenous people from across Turtle Island and I commit to caring for the land the best I can in my daily life, in parallel with Yoga's philosophical "yama-s", or self-regulating behaviours involving our interactions with other people and the world at large.
