Stephanie’s path to yoga began with Lower Sackville Yoga, Nova Scotia. It was a practice that introduced calm and peace in the midst of stress and chaos: young kids, family demands and a husband who often travelled for work.

After years in the customer service/administrative field, Stephanie found her calling after she took her yoga teacher training, and opened her own studio.

She’s excited to create a place where people of all walks of life can come together in community. Her hope is to build a playful, accepting yoga space just like she found in Lower Sackville back in 2014.

Stephanie is a vinyasa teacher, also trained to instruct Yoga for All, Yoga for Seniors, Prenatal Yoga, and Movement for Trauma Level 1.

Some might say that my passion for yoga is as big as my smile. Yoga has been my passion and practice consistently for the past five years. My classes focus on integrating breath, movement, meditation & philosophy to engage my students in creating and nurturing the space between their thoughts, feelings and actions to find what yoga means in their daily lives. I believe that yoga encourages body awareness, love and acceptance. I encourage my students to love the body that they are in as it is the only one they have for this journey that we call life.

UpLIFT Nola is located in the beautiful, historic Algiers Point neighborhood on the Westbank of New Orleans. The studio is more than 100 years old and has served the community in numerous capacities, but today it offers a quaint and quiet place to rejuvenate. Our teachers use dynamic mindfulness, meditation, yoga, art and other wellness practices to help students shake off the stress of life and restore balance.

In Ayurvedic Medicine, kapha is one of three doshas, and everyone has some grouping of each of them. I am no exception, but in many ways I identify with my kapha component, particularly when it comes to my yoga practice. Kapha folks are larger, a bit slower, have incredible powers of endurance, and really can use the stoking of their fire through a steady and vigorous yoga practice.

As a large-bodied yogi, I have learned a lot about building a practice that I love, and I want to work with you (no matter which dosha you identify with!) to build something that will strengthen and restore you through the practice of asana. I personally follow and promote the Health At Every Size model, which focuses on moving the body you are in, regularly and joyfully. With warmth and good humor, I teach people of all sizes to love and accept themselves and others through the empowering practice of progressive yoga, and to create a safe haven for people to explore their limits.