Our TeachersSri Venu, ERYT, RST
One of North America's most experienced Yoga Acharyas, Sri Venu started to teach at the Sivananda Headquarters in 1972 and continued his advanced training in our California Ashram and in British Columbia until 1975. Also a graduate of the International Meditation Institute of India his studies take him to the Sivananda Ashram in Kerala, Auroville in Pondicherry, the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh and Kullu-Manali in the Himalayas.
Sri Venu (front right) with other Swami Vishnu disciples
Sri Venu
is registered
(E.R.Y.T.
500) with the Yoga Alliance and Senior Teacher with the Yoga Association of BC. Jithamaya, ERYT, RST
Jithamaya is a founding member of the Vancouver Centre and a full time teacher. She is registered (E-RYT 500) with the Yoga Alliance and Senior Teacher with the Yoga Association of BC. ________________________________________ Narayani Narayani started teaching Yoga at the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in California in 1977 after doing her Teacher Training Course with Swami Vishnu-devananda. She then moved to India for two years where she was the personal secretary of Swami Mahadevananda at our Ashram of Neyyar Dam in Kerala. Narayani is a founding member of the Vancouver Centre. ____________________________________________ Janaki, M.Y.
___________________________________________ YeShey Palmo, M.Y.
YeShey has completed both the Sivananda TTC and ATTC Certifications. She also hosts annual yoga tours of holy sites in India.
Kalyani
Jyoti
__________________________________________ Amber
Kanti Devi
Kanti Devi has
been practicing Yoga since 2003.
Since she started practicing yoga, Kanti Devi feels her life has experienced may good changes. This positive change is still in progress.
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Founder of the Vancouver Sivananda Centre, Sri Venu teaches traditional East Indian Yoga, Meditation, Philosophy and Chanting. He also produced a documentary film on Yoga and the role of Swami Vishnu in bringing it to the West. 
Janaki’s yoga studies have gratefully been with the Sivananda
Yoga Organization since 1998. She completed the ATTC at Sivananda Ashram Neyyar Dam, Kerala, South India when she was a staff member. Janaki's
service is editing the monthly publication, Sivananda Gurugram, found in the publications section
of the website www.sivananda.org Besides teaching yoga & facilitating workshops, she also
enjoys studying Vedantic philosophy and regular visits to Sivananda Ashrams in Québec
& India.
YeShey Palmo has been practicing Hatha Yoga since 1991 and began to study Tibetan Buddhism and Vedanta in India in 1996. Since this time, she has made annual pilgrimages to India to learn from great Yogic and Buddhist masters. Her approach to yoga is based on the practice of mindfulness, finding quiet and bringing the body and mind into harmony. 
In 2000, Kalyani started practicing yoga as a way to create greater body-mind alignment and deepen her understanding of breathing and meditation. It was then that she began to explore the balance between the physical, emotional and energetic body, and her passion for yoga evolved. She completed her teacher training at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch in Woodbourne, New York in 2006. As an instructor, she is dedicated to teaching with compassion and encouragement, emphasizing the role of breath in steadying the mind and opening the body, In helping others to heal through an increased awareness of body-mind-spirit connection, Kalyani fosters a safe and positive environment for students of all levels to investigate their minds and bodies.
Jyoti's first experience with yoga happened in 2002. What began as curiosity continues to grow into an all encompassing way of being. She is excited to continue her journey as a student, while hoping to inspire others as a teacher by sharing what she learns, quietly encouraging others to take charge of their own happiness and extend it to the people and the environment around them. She strives to honour the traditional practices she learned in India in order to teach from the Heart of yoga. Jyoti has been truly humbled by the transformative power of the practice and feels very blessed to be on this path.
Amber
first tried yoga as a teenager while on an exchange in India. “I was
not an immediate fan” she laughs, “...the 5:00am mornings came very
early and I felt stiff and awkward!” It was more than 10 years later
that Amber stumbled upon the Sivananda Ashram in Val Morin, Quebec
and quickly became hooked. The Ashram was the perfect place to pitch
the tent in nature while enjoying asanas and participating in
satsang. Henceforth, Amber spent several months as a work-study
student at the Sivananda Yoga Farm in California where she completed
the Teacher’s Training Course in 2007. “Yoga is so much more than
the physical pose…it’s a way of life... a flow of energy. I love
it.” 
She
decided to become a yoga teacher because she really wanted to share
the gift of yoga with other people. Kanti Devi started teaching Yoga
at the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center at Tel Aviv, in 2006, after she
did her Teaching Training Course with Swami Brahmananda and Swami
Swaroopananda. In 2009 Kanti Devi took the Sadhana Intensive Retreat
at the Val Morin Ashram in Quebec.