About Angela

Angela (she/they) is a Montreal-based naturotherapist, yoga teacher, and community builder specializing in trauma-informed, body-based practices for healing and connection. Sobriety and recovery have been central to Angela’s own healing journey, and their work reflects a deep understanding of how trauma, addiction, and disconnection can live in the body, and how movement, breath, and stillness can open pathways back to wholeness.

Angela began practicing yoga in 1998, initially drawn to the physical aspect of the practice for the way it offered relief, focus, and a sense of calm without yet having language for why it felt so right. Even through years marked by addiction, pain, and survival, yoga remained a steady anchor, helping their return to their body when everything else felt lost. When Angela entered sobriety over a decade ago, that practice deepened into a catalyst for profound change. Yoga became not only a tool for physical and emotional healing, but a spiritual and communal practice rooted in reclaiming safety, truth, and agency.

Teaching since 2017, Angela holds over 1000 hours of certification in yoga, meditation, acupressure, and somatic therapy practices. Their approach honors the roots of yoga while centering trauma-informed accessibility, authenticity, and inclusivity. Each class invites participants to meet themselves with compassion and presence, nurturing resilience through gentleness and honest self-inquiry.

In 2020, Angela founded Shakti, a yoga space born in response to the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need for a safe, accessible place to practice, especially as an immunocompromised person seeking connection in uncertain times. What began as personal necessity has evolved into a vibrant community rooted in clarity, transparency, and inclusivity.

Now, Shakti is being reborn, not as a return to what was, but as a reclamation of what yoga can truly be: a practice of authenticity, inclusivity, and accessibility. Centering BIPOC, queer, and neurodivergent folks, Angela strives to offer space for healing that is grounded in safety, authenticity, and collective growth.

Angela believes that yoga is, at its core, an act of remembering, of coming home to the self, to one another, and to the inherent wisdom of the body.