Bryony Ollier
Bryony Ollier is a passionate advocate for kindness, deeper breathing, and weaving music and yoga into everyday life. She resides on the unceded and traditional Coast Salish lands in Burnaby, BC, Canada, where she dedicates her work to fostering connection, wellness, and joy.
As a song sharer with Singing Mamas, Bryony understands the transformative power of communal singing. She also brings Trauma-Informed Yoga to diverse settings, teaching at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby Recreation, and through The Yoga Buggy, a non-profit committed to making yoga and mindfulness accessible across the Lower Mainland and Vancouver, BC.
Bryony’s work extends to children and teens, offering yoga in schools, childcare facilities, camps, and recreation centers. She also provides professional development workshops for educators, aiming to integrate yoga into education as a tool for wellness, focus, and emotional resilience for future generations.
After earning a BA in Theatre Arts in London, UK, Bryony spent twelve years in Japan with her husband, where they taught, performed, and made music while raising their two children. It was during this time that she discovered the power of family and kids yoga as tools for kinesthetic learning, anxiety relief, and improved focus. In 2012, she began working with Yoga Ed, bringing yoga to kindergartens, orphanages, schools, and studios, while training future kids yoga educators.
Bryony’s mission is rooted in guiding people back to their inner wisdom and a deep sense of connection with nature. Through her heart-centered approach to yoga and music, she inspires healing, self-awareness, and a renewed sense of interconnectedness in the world.
“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.