Meet the Bliss Powered Team
The people who help make this feel like home
Our teachers come to yoga through different experiences, traditions and paths. Each brings their own personality, perspective and way of guiding practice.
What connects us is a shared commitment to creating a warm, inclusive space where people can breathe, explore and reconnect with themselves, without pressure to perform or become someone different.
A thoughtful and inclusive approach
Our team brings together formal education, lived experience and a grounded understanding of yoga, meditation and traditional teachings. These practices are shared in ways that feel meaningful and relevant to contemporary life.
Rather than asking everyone to practise in the same way, our teachers offer options and encouragement that respect different bodies, abilities, experiences and starting points.
When you practise with us, you can expect to be welcomed without judgment, guided without being pushed and encouraged to listen to your own body. You are always welcome to ask questions, choose another option, rest or move at your own pace.
We hope you leave feeling a little more grounded, connected and reminded that you have a place here.
“After 3 months at this yoga studio, I can honestly say it feels like home. After having two kids, this is where I reconnected with myself - physically and mentally. Warm, supportive, and deeply grounding. So grateful for this space and this community.”
-Ricca D
Leanna Lutsch
Yoga Teacher & Founder
"You NEED yoga," he firmly told me!
My first experience with yoga came at the insistence of a personal coach I was working with at the time. I hated every minute of it…all 10 classes! I walked away and swore I'd never do that "yoga thing" again.
Years later, I was working for a company where that "yoga thing" reared its ugly head again. Team building meant showing up at a studio and doing classes together. My feelings about yoga hadn't changed.
Don't ask me why, but eventually I ventured into a studio on my own accord one more time. There on the wall was an invitation to participate in a 30 Day Yoga Challenge! That's all my competitive nature needed. I signed up and decided I was going to win this thing at all costs! I'm a bit of a slow study, because it took several subsequent Yoga Challenges for me to realize beating everyone to the finish line was never the intention. But because I was on my mat every day, many times more than once, someone suggested I enroll in teacher training to deepen my practice. I had no aspirations of teaching…not ever…but I did the training…and caught the teaching bug!
But the biggest transformation didn't come until years later. I had just guided a full class of yogis into savasana. As I sat at the front of the studio in the stillness, for no apparent reason, tears started to fall.
In a heartbeat I was transported back to an incident more than a decade prior. I was attending a personal growth and development seminar that included participants from every corner of the globe. Though I held my cards close to my chest, the truth was that my life was a train wreck and I was holding on by a thread, seeking answers that would save me from certain destruction. At the end of the week-long program, one of the Australian attendees found me in the lobby at the conference centre to say good-bye and "I love you". I was stunned. He barely knew me. I was fuming because of his blatant disregard for both of our spouses. How dare he be so disrespectful? I wrote him a scathing letter explaining my outrage and forbidding him from ever contacting me again. For years afterward I would relive the discomfort of his professed love and get angry all over again.
And there I was, in front of my students having this flashback. The whole story began to spill from my lips. I had no idea why or where this was all going. You could have heard a pin drop. Slowly my students brought themselves out of their resting pose and leaned in to see how this story was going to end. I had no idea myself. And then it hit me! The declaration of love from many years prior, came from a human being that understood that underneath our judgments, assessments, considerations and human frailties to name a few, that there is only love when all those other things are stripped away. He saw through my pain and simply wanted me to know that I was lovable. In that moment, I regained the love I'd lost for myself.
In the days that followed, I tracked down my wise Australian friend, explained what happened and asked his forgiveness. "Welcome to the other side" was his response.
"Go out and spread your love in every direction and don't forget to start with yourself. Now you are part of the solution on the planet, rejoice; for what you give out comes back to you in unknown and beautifully mysterious ways so many fold. I still love you just like I said to you so many years ago. Treasure that love and be an example of it. You are in a beautiful place as a Yoga teacher to do so. What a great achievement. Namaste beautiful girl, I honour you."
And it was from that day forward, that I chose to end each class with "I love you". I mean it with every cell of my being…I LOVE YOU!
And yes, Bob, I did NEED yoga! Thank you for planting the seed.
With heartfelt gratitude that we get to share this journey together.
Eunmi Choi
Vinyasa & Alignment
What does yoga mean to you? Be caring, daring, and sharing.
I walked into a yoga studio for the first time, a year after I moved to Canada. I was searching, with great hopes, for something to help me to get away from constant negative, depressing conversations I had with myself. As an active person, I was soon fascinated by the fast and challenging movements of vinyasa yoga. It was physically demanding yet simultaneously liberating. The magical breathing referred to as pranayama yogic breathing helped me get through challenging moments during my practice and has been an essential tool for me to cope with difficulties in my life.
My passion for energetic movements led me into being happily obsessed with alignment and the importance of yoga foundations.
These last few years have been a learning process; accepting myself as I am and acknowledging my gift to share with others. My sincere desire as a teacher is to create a safe, challenging, yet playful atmosphere for students to explore.
I will close by expressing my gratitude to my teachers for their unconditional love and trust and to many beautiful souls I've met along my yoga journey.
Focuses on: Vinyasa, alignment, foundations
Kirstin Olsen:
After years of flirting with the practice and idea thereof, my most honest commitment to yoga began in 2019 out of more than anything - a need to do something.
The oft present and unwelcome visitors of this guesthouse: depression, anxiety, shame, guilt – having more than just visited and now long moved in, wreaking havoc in their various manifestations – eating disorders and alcoholism to name few – eventually delivered me via their initiation to a place although at the time still foreign, I would eventually call home: my own body.
Homecoming, as the name suggests, is not a place but a journey. These visitors, as I continue to discover and meet them and know their faces and names, are not as I once thought them to be. Keyword: thought.
Understanding through the soma – looking and listening and hearing with the whole body; the blood vessels and the marrow and the organs and the skin – is different than understanding, than looking and listening and hearing with and through the mind. It is not one or the other, the mind or the body, but both, and in right relationship to each and all that a cradle, an opening, a portal for something more, something greater – the last in the trifecta of body mind and spirit: blooms. A space inside of us is made and we begin to fill that space – not with our ideas and thoughts about who and what we are, but with the truth of it.
As this practice continues to unfold its teachings into me, I am surprised and delighted (and sometimes devastated… but never forever!) to meet, feel, be with, breathe with – and have tea with – even the most unruly and ugly of visitors. May this practice be an invitation to open to, meet, and come home to yourself – again, and again, and again – through the sacred vessel your body. You are welcome here, and you belong here.
Meagan Ciprick:
Yoga has been my anchor and grounding force for many years. I was first introduced to it as a teen, but it wasn’t until later that I realized how much it could support me off the mat. Yoga has helped me manage stress, find balance, and reconnect with myself when life felt overwhelming. Over time, my practice evolved into more than just movement, it became a way of living with greater presence and ease.
Teaching yoga is my way of sharing that gift forward. In my classes, you’ll find a welcoming, down-to-earth space where there’s no pressure to be perfect, just an invitation to breathe, move, and notice how you feel. I offer plenty of options, so everyone feels supported, whether you’re brand new or have been practicing for years. While I love strong, thoughtful sequencing, I also enjoy weaving in simple reminders, like how a single conscious breath can shift everything in a challenging moment.
Continuous learning is very important to me. Since completing my 200-hour training, I’ve pursued additional certifications because I’m always wanting to deepen my knowledge. More than the hours of training, though, it’s the connections with students and the sense of community we create together that keep me inspired.
Outside the studio, you’ll often find me in nature, spending time with loved ones, or collecting crystals simply because they make me smile.
Jami Lorentzon:
What I love about yoga is that it has looked different at every phase of my life, and my practice is always changing and growing. I took my first class in 2008 in Varanasi, India. They gave us chai at the end, and, naturally, I was hooked. If you get to know me, you’ll know that good food and drinks are my love language! At the end of the class, we did laughter yoga. I was faking it until I saw my husband and our new local friend peeking their heads through the doorway. I burst into laughter and got the whole class cracking up! When we came back home, I signed up for an entire year of yoga (even though I was broke and jobless). I just knew I wanted to do more.
Back then, my yoga practice was mostly about asana. I wanted to stretch and feel like I’d gotten some exercise. After going back over and over, I started to realize that I also really enjoyed the opportunity to slow down and connect with my breath and, ultimately, myself. I practiced regularly until 2013, when I went back to India and took my first teacher training. I loved the training, but never quite knew if teaching was right for me. I always felt like I needed a combined degree in kinesiology and philosophy to teach. I felt like an imposter. I thought the only way I could effectively teach was if I knew absolutely everything about how the body moves and said something profound in every class. However, my training of the body was limited, and I didn’t have anything profound to say! My lack of confidence kept me from teaching regularly, but I always kept up my practice.
After my second child was born in 2017, yoga became a lifeline for me. As a parent of two small kids, I needed to practice yoga to maintain my sanity! My yoga practice became a way for me to care for myself, which led to me being a better parent to my kids. Yoga transitioned from a mostly physical practice to a mental and emotional practice. It allowed me the time and space to just be and breathe, without any expectations or obligations of parenting for 75-90 minutes.
In 2025, I was fortunate enough to further my yoga education. I completed more teacher training and offered yoga classes as part of my Bachelor of Social Work practicum. Being able to incorporate yoga into social work has offered me the chance to develop my yoga practice off the mat, incorporating yoga into daily activities and finding creative ways to use yoga throughout the day, not just on my mat. This has transformed my personal practice into something that is with me always. Whatever I’m doing, and wherever I am, I can tap into yogic practices and take a moment to breathe, to withdraw from my senses by turning off my phone, or by closing my eyes for a few moments and noticing how I feel. I can pause before reacting to a tough situation. I can allow myself the freedom to slow down and rest.
The more I practice all these things, the more I want to share yoga with others. While I still want to know it all, I know that I never will. My yoga studentship is lifelong, and I always want to learn more and deepen my relationship with yoga. I still feel like an imposter sometimes, but I try to look at it as a good thing. If I knew everything and wasn’t nervous sometimes, I think it would get pretty boring!
I don’t know everything about the body, and I may not always have something profound to say (I’d like to, but I’m practicing letting go of that one!) My goal as a yoga teacher is for people to feel safe in my classes and to be themselves. If you’ve ever seen Bridget Jones’ Diary, you might remember the scene where Colin Firth’s character tells Bridget that he likes her. She says, “Yeah, minus the drinking, and the smoking, and the…” He says, “No. I like you…Just as you are.”
That’s how I want people to feel in my classes. Safe to be themselves, and to show all sides of themselves. I want people to feel like they can come to my class and not have to wear a mask or pretend to be or feel something they are not. If you feel great, that’s welcome. If you feel horrible, that’s also welcome. I want to offer others what yoga has offered me: a place where we can learn about ourselves that’s free from judgment, expectations, and is full of love and compassion. A place where you’re loved and liked…just as you are.
Madison Downing:
I came to yoga at 19 for all the wrong reasons, and I mean that in the best possible way.
I was a soccer player, competitive, hard on myself, and I showed up to my first hot yoga class because I wanted to burn calories. The heat, the sweat, the physical intensity, that was the whole point. Mindfulness wasn't on my radar. Neither was compassion, or philosophy, or anything that didn't have a measurable output.
But something kept pulling me back.
I started leaving class feeling something I couldn't quantify. Calmer. More open. Less at war with myself. For someone stuck in an all-or-nothing mindset, it slowly started to open parts of me I didn’t know existed. Yoga didn't just challenge my body in ways nothing else had, it started quietly dismantling the walls I'd built around it.
In 2017 I took my teacher training, not because I saw myself as a teacher, but because I wanted to go deeper into the practice and understand the spiritual side of what I'd been experiencing. I still didn't believe teaching was for me.
8 years later, something shifted. I had healed from a lot of self-limiting beliefs, shed the layers that were holding me back, and finally felt ready to step into what I now know is my true passion. The first time I stood at the front of a room and felt the energy of the people in it, I knew. It felt like coming home.
I love all forms of yoga, but Vinyasa holds a special place for me. There is something about the creativity it demands, the way you can craft a sequence that both challenges the body and moves something deeper, and building something around a central theme that people can take off their mats. Yoga opened something within me, expanded my consciousness and ability to love – both myself, and others. And I want the same for you.
Britney Baxter:
My name is Brit, and I teach yoga from a place of deep care, curiosity, and connection.
My path to yoga has been closely tied to my work in women’s health. As an ultrasound technologist, I spend a lot of time supporting people through meaningful, vulnerable, and sometimes emotional moments in their lives. More recently, I also trained as a birth and postpartum doula, which has deepened my passion for creating spaces where people feel supported, grounded, and less alone.
For me, yoga is one of those spaces.
Yoga has helped me come back to myself, slow down, and feel more connected to my body, my breath, and the people around me. It has reminded me that we do not have to move through life alone, and that community can be a powerful part of healing, growth, and self-discovery.
In my classes, my hope is that you feel welcomed exactly as you are. You do not need to be flexible, experienced, or know what you are doing. You just need to show up. I love creating classes that feel grounding, intentional, and accessible, with space to breathe, move, soften, and reconnect.
My intention as a teacher is to cultivate community and connection, both within ourselves and with one another.
Interested in being considered as a valued member of the Bliss Powered Team?
Please email applications@blisspoweredyoga.com for further details and information.