Bryony Ollier
Bryony Ollier is an advocate of kindness, of breathing deeper and fuller, bringing music and yogic arts into everyday living.
Now in BC, Canada, Bryony is sharing Trauma Informed Yoga at Simon Fraser University, and Senior Residences,
Kids and Teen yoga at Schools, Childcare Facilities, Camps, Recreation Centers, and Professional Development workshops for Teachers. Her mission is to bring Yoga into Education as a tool to feel well, be well, and for our future generations.
She works with non-profit The Yoga Buggy to bring accessible yoga and mindfulness across the Lower mainland and Vancouver, BC.
She left London, UK after graduating with BA degree in Theatre Arts.
Bryony and her husband spent twelve blessed years in Japan, teaching, performing, making music and becoming parents of two. In Japan, Family yoga and kids yoga became an invaluable bridge to kinesthetic learning, improving focus and relieving anxiety. Bryony began working with Yoga Ed in 2012 bringing yoga into kindergartens, orphanages, schools, and yoga studios, and training future kids yoga educators.
“Bryony has taught weekly yoga sessions in my grade 2/3 class for the past two years. She has engaged the students with story, games, imaginative play, and cooperative challenges while teaching them the basic yoga forms. The students look forward to our yoga sessions and are so engaged in the sessions that I have not had to do much classroom management at all. This is has freed me up to participate in the yoga sessions and allowed me to learn yoga teaching techniques from Bryony so I can do follow up yoga sessions with the class as well. In addition to the physical activity these sessions have provided, Bryony has brilliantly incorporated our classroom topics into each lesson. She has woven in our Salmon and Owl studies, followed up and enhanced our Social Emotional Learning conversations and the ideas of Growth Mindset. Each yoga class had its own focus and connection to our everyday topics. I look forward to working with Bryony again in future school years, her calm yet fun presence sets a mood in our classroom that is valuable to all.” Leah Dixon. Teacher. UHE, Burnaby.