Program leaders
Stretch & Breath with Anne Klausner
Anne Klausner is a CPTN-CPT who specializes in Fitness Education Instruction, Personal Training (In-Home), Nordic Pole Walking Instructor, hydrotherapy.
Group seminars to improve posture; relieve stress, aches and pains for seniors. Living correctly with flexibility, balance and strength is the key to a healthy and pain free life. Anne Klausner is a personal trainer who lives in Vaughan, Ontario with over fourteen years of experience working in physiotherapy facilities in Israel and Canada. Experience has taught her to assess, innovate and adapt exercises to the specific needs of each person. With compassion and expertise, she will design an in home exercise program tailored to your needs and using minimal equipment which she will supply.
Group seminars to improve posture; relieve stress, aches and pains for seniors Anne Klausner studied hydrotherapy at the Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv, Israel.
She supplemented these studies at Wingate Institute of Physical Education and the Mind-Body Center also in Israel which gave insight into holistic therapy methods. She went on to gain invaluable experience working at the Sheba Rehabilitation Hospital with patients of all ages who had suffered traumatic injuries or had chronic syndromes. After coming to Canada, Anne decided that in addition to working as a hydrotherapist in physiotherapy facilities she could use her knowledge and experience to help seniors to live healthier lives .She noticed that many of the hydrotherapy patients could have avoided the need for therapy had they been exercising correctly and frequently. Anne help you retake control of your life through simple exercises which you can do throughout the day.
Yoga for Seniors by Olga Danilevich
Olga is an experienced Certified Yoga Alliance Teacher, RYT-500, and a professional educator who has been practicing yoga and meditation for about 20 years.
Olga is the founder of Open Heart Yoga, an innovative program that helps participants become stronger, healthier, more flexible, and restores their natural state of harmony, inner peace, and joy.
Olga’s programs integrate various gentle yoga practices designed to enhance general wellbeing and restore balance. Using the time-proven benefits of yoga, the program promotes reconnection to our inner wisdom using exercise, breath, relaxation, and meditation.
Olga’s interest in the use of yoga as a holistic tool led her to study Phoenix Rising Yoga (a style of yoga that uses classical hatha yoga postures for self-exploration in order to reverse unhealthy physical and psychological habits), Yoga for Emotional Health with Garry Kraftsow, Reconnective Healing with Eric Pearl, Yoga for Seniors, and Restorative Yoga.
Her love of dance inspired Olga to study Yoga Dance for Special Populations with Megha Nancy Buttenheim, the founder of Let Your Yoga Dance. Gradually, Olga began to develop her own vision for teaching Yoga for Seniors, and created an innovative Chair Yoga Dance program, which has all the elements of a structured yoga class. Music and dance can immediately connect us with our inner joy, which is our true nature.
Chair Yoga Dance helps to improve balance and cardiovascular fitness, develop greater flexibility and increased strength, mobility and visual skills while dancing and having fun! It is perfect for seniors, people with physical limitations, and anyone who wants to infuse joy into exercising. Olga was a presenter of Chair Yoga Dance at the 2014 Toronto Yoga Conference, and she has just released her first Chair Yoga Dance DVD.
Seminars:
- “Best ways to adapt to winter. Keys to Health, Balance and Happiness”
- “Best ways to adapt to changing seasons. Recommendations for a Joyful and Renewing Spring”
- “Why Do We Behave a Certain Way? Keys to Health, Energy and Balance”
Healing with art by Marina Feldman
Admire creation by creating your own... Marina is the daughter of an internationally known artist Arkady Remennik, who is a member of the Russian League of Artists, and author of the only patent in the art field in the USSR, called “the paper engraving technique”. He learned from famous masters such as Goncharov and Farovsky, Arkady has also designed and illustrated more than 1000 books for the largest printing houses in Moscow.
Marina worked alongside her father in his studio since childhood where she developed her own unique expression. Marina graduated from the Moscow Polygraph University– Faculty of Graphic Design in 1990. She also learned from well known masters such as Dmitri Bisty and Vladimir Brinin.
In 2007, Marina received an award for her contribution to the art on the international Juried Show Competition, organized by Christie’s Auction House, London, England. She also participates in the largest and most prestige ”Waddington’s” auction house of Canada. Marina exhibited her paintings with her father’s works at a show held at the Canadian – Russian Business gala in January 2008. Marina is a founder of “Key to Art” art school.