Just like each yoga pose and each craft beer, our Resident Beer Yogi’s offer a different experience based on their own approach to balanced living + mindful drinking. Together we lead sessions driven to challenge and inspire the brewers, the dreamers, the creators, the gatherers, the teachers & the imbibers, and everyone else in between! Feel free to reach out to any member of our team regarding their practice or sessions because we love to hear from you! Cheers!
Ashley Kokelj {OWNER + TEACHER} RYT 200
Ashley grew up playing the guitar, painting, and acting, booking it in the opposite direction at any mention of physical activity, only to have found yoga when searching for a treatment for a case of general depression in her mid-teens triggered by mental illness and alcohol addiction in her family. After a personal study of yoga for nearly 10 years, Ashley quit her day job in commercial insurance for a life of teaching yoga after realizing that the job security and material goals she had been working toward for so long no longer gave her purpose. From there, Ashley completed her Ashtanga Yoga {primary series} training in the yoga capital of the world, Rishikesh, India, where alcohol was banned, causing her to mediate long + hard about how alcohol had negatively touched her life and why we choose to drink period.
With her personal experience in mind and the concept of drinking mindfully to promote responsibility over how we interact with alcohol, Ashley created Yoga on Tap, a mobile yoga + beer tasting workshop in partnership with various craft breweries across Ontario. With the growth of Yoga on Tap over the past year, Ashley is excited to become more involved with alcohol addiction programs to support their initiatives through funding + treatment through yoga as well as the addition of new programs like Bend + Brunch and Bike to Beer.
If you’ve met Ashley you know she loves to chat so make sure to reach out + connect {[email protected]} IG {@yoga.ontap}
Katie Laferriere {TEACHER} RYT 200
Katie loves to practice and teach yoga that is fun, fluid, and intelligently sequenced, yet safe and accessible for all levels of students. She is passionate about living a healthy, balanced life – embracing kale but also chocolate, lemon water but also craft beer – and finding joy in the everyday. Through her teachings, she loves inspiring others to move, breathe, and create wellness, acceptance, and balance in their own lives. Katie is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher.
STEFANIE CAMPBELL {TEACHER} RYT 200 – BIO COMING SOON
TRINA WATTERS {TEACHER} RYT 200
Trina was introduced to yoga through a scoliosis diagnosis at the age of 11 and in an attempt to correct the curvature in the spine, her yoga practice was born. Despite experiencing setbacks in an inevitable spinal fusion surgery, she realized the roots of her yoga practice went deeper than a scoliosis cure. Within the past two years, daily practice become a priority and the thirst to deepen her knowledge grew unbearable. It was then that she decided to step outside of her comfort zone and into the yoga teaching course. From 9-5 as a designated CPA, CA accountant, Trina craves to find balance in all areas of her life which easily translates into her yoga practice and love of craft beer. She believes a steady sense of humour can endure all and sets a single smile as the end goal for every class under her leadership. Luckily this will always be a guarantee as one will forever be smeared across her face given the opportunity to teach what she loves.