Rob Walker

Rob has directed yoga studios and yoga teacher training for 20 years as former director of The Yoga Studio South and former director of the Yoga Studio College of Canada. In 2012 he created The Alberta Yoga College, which he directs, overseeing 23 graduating classes of competent and confident yoga teachers.

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A Yoga Alliance 500-hour Experienced Yoga Teacher, he is excited to offer radically different teacher training programs with emphasis on high quality instruction from experts in each field, and flexibility for everyone’s timetable and budget.

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In 2020 he published a critical overview of modern yoga: The New Yoga: From Cult and Dogma to Science and Sanity. It invites yoga students and teachers to a radical new vision of a more inclusive, evidence-based yoga. The New Yoga maintains the essence of traditional yoga but questions traditional instructions through the lens of modern movement sciences.

He trained on three five-week trips to Pune, India, in 2003, 2005 and 2007 with Yoga Master BKS Iyengar (One of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2004). He now enjoys the freedom to draw from a wider range of influences, especially evidence-based movement sciences.

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He began his career in journalism, working as Deputy Night News Editor on the award-winning Daily Mail in London (circulation 2 million) and Health Writer for the Calgary Herald for 17 years. His work appeared extensively in The Medical Post and the Yoga Journal. He wrote First Clue, an encyclopedia of finding out, published by Pan Books.

"I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you have taught me. It has made me an excellent teacher in any environment and with any level of students. I seem to know just what to do and how to teach them - forever grateful." - R.B.

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"Your teaching has changed my perspective on yoga in so many “human” ways!" - Margo Dodginghorse.