Allison Ulan

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Since 1996, Allison Ulan has been teaching Mindful Yoga and Vipassana Meditation. Her approach blends the traditional contemplative practices and alignment based yoga with current research based protocols from neurology and physiology. From her over 25 years of practice, she is a teacher of teachers. She spearheaded and founded Ashtanga Yoga Montreal in 2000. Now, she directs and is the lead instructor of A Balanced Approach Yoga Teachers’ Training Programs and Mindful Montreal which offers programs to nurture awareness, compassion and community sharing. Allison's A Balanced Approach Yoga Programs have certified over 200 yoga teachers since 2003. She continually developing and offering programs to support teachers to be informed, present and engaged. Her methodology is a systematic approach to yoga as both a physical health practice and a mindfulness meditation system. Her classes are practices of embodiment through precise alignment and breath exercises so each student can access ease, freedom and joy. She specializes in Yoga for Back Care, Yoga to support recovery from injury, Mindfulness-based practices for optimal performance for Artists, Irest Yoga Nidra and Vipassana Meditation. Time spent on the practice mat with Allison, as a guide, is time for individual growth and discovery. Her classes offer pathways to know the language of the body and work with the complexities of the mind & heart. Her main Yoga studies have been in Iyengar Yoga and Ashtanga Yoga with her yoga teachers Mary Dunn, Richard Freeman, Sri. K. Pattabhi Jois and Richard Rosen. In meditation, she has studied Vipassana and Tibetan Schools since 1996, partaking in over 30 short and long meditation retreats in North America and India. Her key meditation teachers have been Swami Brahmadeo, Daryl Lynn Ross, Pema Chodron and Joseph Goldstein. From her 20 years as a professional contemporary dancer, she studied the techniques of Body Mind Centring and Release Technique. She utilizes these techniques to help students access freedom in movement.

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Emotional Resilience and Self Compassion Courses