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ŚRADDHA YOGA THERAPY
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Kassandra Prus is a Toronto-based Yoga Therapist (IAYT 2021), yoga educator, and tarot reader. Kassandra’s lineage of study is through teachers Ante and Felicia Pavlovic (Yoga Therapy Toronto) and Dr N Chandrasekaran (Yoga Vaidya Śālā) through direct teachings of TKV Desikachar, son of T. Krishnamacharya and founder of Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (KYM) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Kassandra works to uphold and respect the powerful classical teachings of Krishnamacharya and his lineage through rigorous ongoing personal practice and study. These classical teachings come directed through Kassandra’s lived experience of navigating the world as a queer and trans Ukrainian living in Toronto. For Kassandra, working with yoga as an embodied mano śastra (science of the mind) mirrors newly proven western understandings in neuroscience, somatic psychotherapies, psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology, our growing understandings of trauma, and more. It is of great interest to Kassandra to see how the deep indigenous knowledge system that is yoga, built to heal all the layers of ourselves from the inside out (body, physiology, mind, emotions, spirit) will co-mingle with modern allopathic medical research into the future. 
As a Yoga Therapist, Kassandra works with people to facilitate healing from conditions like adrenal fatigue, arthritis, autoimmune conditions like lupus and RA, breathing issues like COPD and asthma, migraine, high blood pressure, recovery after stroke or surgery, insomnia, and a wide range on mental health concerns. While facilitating the health of heart, mind, breath, and body through Yoga Therapy, Kassandra also turns to Tarot reading in a practical way to illuminate the way forward for students when the path seems obscured. Kassandra also specializes in teaching chair yoga group classes, especially for seniors, as well as group classes for practitioners where the focus is on integrating the subtler practices of yoga (prāṇāyāma, stages of meditation, bhāvanam/visualization, and mantra) within an āsana practice to create a therapeutic effect for all the layers of the self. 

As an educator, Kassandra and facilitates trainings to support others doing the same: a 40hr Therapeutic and Chair Yoga Teacher Training twice yearly, a Subtle Anatomy module in Union Yoga + Wellness's 225hr Teacher Training Program, and the Accessible Yoga Training for the US-based organization founded by Jivana Heyman once we are able to meet in person again. The hope is that one day people of all abilities, ages, races, genders, religions, financial statuses, and health statuses will have places to engage with the deeply healing practices that yoga has to offer the world, through many different teachers and practitioners with lived understanding of the practices. 
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Curriculum Vitae

Yoga Therapy, Yoga + Exercise Education
- Pratiāhara w/ Dr N Chandrasekaran @ Yoga Vaidya Śālā (8hr Webinar) 2021

- Prāṇāyāma, Bandha, and Mantra as applicable to Yoga Therapy w/ Dr N Chandrasekaran @ Yoga Vaidya Śālā (8hr Webinar) 2020

– Prāṇa Saṁyama (Fundamentals of Prāṇāyāma followed by Practice) w/ Śrī V Srinivasan @ Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (8hr Webinar) 2020

- Yoga Sūtra Sangha w/ Dr N Chandrasekaran @ Yoga Vaidya Śālā (36hr Study) 2020-21

- Tattva-s according to Saṁkhya, Yoga and Śaiva Siddhantham w/ Dr N Chandrasekaran @ Yoga Vaidya Śālā (8hr Webinar) 2020

- Śabda Bramhan (Exploring How and Why Chants Work and the Integration of Chants in Practices of Yoga) w/ Nrithya Jagannathan @ Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram (15hr Webinar) 2020

- Yoga Therapy for Malignancy w/ Dr N Chandrasekaran @ Yoga Vaidya Śālā (8hr Webinar) 2020
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- Yoga Therapist Training @ Yoga Therapy Toronto (1000+ hour Therapist Training) 2019-2021

- Accessible Yoga w/ Accessible Yoga Training (22hr Teacher Training) Oct 2019

- Anatomy in Motion w/ Margot McKinnon @ Body Harmonics (16hr Teacher Training) Sept 2018

- BoneFit™ Basics w/ Osteoperosis Canada (9.5hr Teacher Training) May 2018

- Yoga for Traumatic Brain Injury w/ Kyla Pearce + Love Your Brain Foundation (16hr Teacher Training) Oct 2017

- Roll Model Method w/ Jill Miller (12hr Teacher Training) 2017

​- Seniors on the Move w/ Margot McKinnon @ Body Harmonics (6hr Teacher Training) 2017

- Move SMART w/ Alison Crouch @ Boomerang Pilates (16hr Teacher Training) 2016-18

- Biomechanics of Yoga w/ Jules Mitchell (12hr Teacher Training) 2016

- "Reaching Out, Reaching In" Yoga for Youth w/ New Leaf Yoga Foundation (15hr Teacher Training) 2016

- Trauma Sensitive Yoga w/ Sarah Kinsley (8hr Teacher Training) 2015 

- Yin Yoga w/ Tracey Soghrati (50+ hour Teacher Training) 2015

- Yoga Teacher Training @ Yoga Therapy Toronto (300+ hour Teacher Training) 2014-2015

- Chair Yoga Certificate w/ Michael Hutkins (8hr Teacher Training) 2015
Dance, Tarot + Arts Education

- Intermediate Tarot ​w/ Jayne Marie (24hr course) 2020

- Beginners Tarot w/ Jayne Marie (36hr course) 2020

- Smart Start™ Teacher Training at Royal Conservatory of Music (30hr Early Childhood Education cognitive skills through multi-arts) 2015

- Certificate Royal Conservatory of Music (30hr Learning Through the Arts Artist Educator Course–Level 2 "Lead Artist") 2015

- ​Yes! World Jam (weekend changemakers retreat) 2015

- ArtReach and NIA Centre for the Arts (35hr Art of Facilitation series) 2014

- Certificate Royal Conservatory of Music (30hr Learning Through the Arts Artist Educator Course–Level 1 "Artist Educator") 2013

- Ukrainian, Slavic, and Balkan traditional folk singing training, various teachers 20012-2015

- Certificate Royal Conservatory of Music (30hr Learning Through the Arts Artist Educator Foundations Course) 2012

- B.F.A. Hons. Ryerson University (Photography) 2005-2010

- Diploma Hons. Etobicoke School of the Arts (Dance) 2001-2005

- Contemporary and Modern dance training 2001-2008, 2019

- Ukrainian folk dance training 1991-2012 // Serbian folk dance training 2006-2009 
Teaching and Facilitation Experience

- Trainer and Content Development Subtle Anatomy Module in "Theory and Applied Foundations" 225hr Program (9hr Teacher Training Module) @ Union Yoga 2020
- Trainer and Content Development "Therapeutic and Chair Yoga" (40hr Teacher Training) @ Union Yoga 2020
          "Chair and Accessible Yoga" (20hr Teacher Training) @ Union Yoga – 2018, 2019
- Mentor teacher for yoga teacher trainee @ Union Yoga – 2017, 2019, 2021
- Mindfulness and Chair Yoga > Ministry of Government and Consumer Resources Wellness day–2016
- For Those Too Shy to Speak: Arts Informed Group Facilitation​ > Toronto Regional Groupworkers’ Network Mini Group Camp @ 
          Faculty of Social Work U of T—2016
- 8 full days sessions of creative dance education, K-8 > TCDSB Artists in the Schools—2015-16
- Tree of Your Life, Self Affirming Yoga, and Metta/Maitri:Loving Kindness > Platform A grant project @ Essence 
          @ Supporting Our Youth—2015
- Mentor artist at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate and William Lyon MacKenzie PS (12 hrs) > tdsbCreates—2015
- 7 full days sessions of creative dance education, K-8 > TCDSB Artists in the Schools—2014-15
- 3 sessions (5 hrs each) of history, media literacy, and science exploration through dance and photography, K-8 
          > Learning Through the Arts—2014-15
- Creative Movement facilitator (1 hr) > Alzheimer's Society—2015
- Dance instructor at March Break camp (1.5 hrs a day x 5) > Victoria Village Arena—2015
- BREATHE–Building Resilient Emerging Artists Through Health Education (Creative movement and visual art 
          explorations) > Arts for Children and Youth @ Fraser Mustard Academy and Thorncliffe Regional Office—2015
- Movement-Based Empathy Building > Toronto Regional Groupworkers’ Network Mini Group Camp @ 
          Faculty of Social Work U of T—2014
- Dance instructor, co-script writer, and co-play director at camp > Pokrova Arts Network, Ottawa ON—2014
- Ukrainian Village Voice and Art of the Vinok masterclass facilitator > Pokrova Arts Network, Ottawa ON--2014
- Movement-Based Empathy Building and Honouring Your Body’s Wisdom > Essence @ Supporting Our Youth—2014
- How Organic Agriculture Supports your Mind-Body Education > Guelph Organic Conference, Guelph ON--2014
- 4 sessions (5 hrs each) of math and science exploration through dance, K-8 > Learning Through the Arts—2013-14
- 4 full days sessions of creative dance education, K-8 > TCDSB Artists in the Schools—2013-14
- 5 sessions (2-6 hrs each) of creative dance education, K-8 > bodymind ConfiDance—2012-13
- 10 sessions (2-6 hrs each) of creative dance education, K-8 > bodymind ConfiDance—2012-13
- 6 sessions (2-6 hrs each) of creative dance education, K-8 > bodymind ConfiDance —2011-12
- 6 sessions (2-6 hrs each) of creative dance education, K-8 > independent—2010-11
- Tour director > Ukrainian Academy of Dance, St. Petersburg, FL—2007
- Dance teacher (Ukrainian folk dance, jazz, ballet, creative movement) > Stefura Dance Studios and Ukrainian Academy of Dance, Toronto ON—2002-2010
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