TODAY'S SPEAKERS
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Respecting and Living The Essence of Yoga
Featured Speaker: Dr. Shailla Vaidya |
Dr. Shailla Vaidya practices Mind-Body Medicine for Stress Resilience in Toronto, Canada. She has provided Primary and Emergency Medical care in isolated First Nations communities, suburban immigrant communities, and with homeless, street involved youth. Gaining insights into what plagues our health and wanting to affect change, she decided to study Health Management at Harvard. Since then, Dr. Vaidya has worked to innovate Primary Health Care delivery, access, and safety. She has also served as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine at McMaster University, and the University of Toronto.
Dr. Vaidya is also trained as a Yoga teacher and therapist. Combining her knowledge of Western Medicine with Eastern Practices, she applies an integrative, culturally sensitive, and compassionate approach to help her patients recover from stress, restore health and build resilience. She has a particularly interest in working with her fellow helping professionals, recognizing the importance of caring for the caregiver.
Living life with much gratitude, she envisions a world where we each take responsibility for our own well-being, that of our communities, and the environment which sustains us.
Featured Speaker: Navi Gill |
Navdeep (Navi) Gill is an Ayurvedic practitioner, yoga teacher and holistic wellness educator specializing in lifestyle consulting, Marma Chikitsa therapy and foundational Panchakarma bodywork. She has been learning and practicing Ayurveda and yoga since 2012, her work focuses on reviving and connecting womxn to ancestral wisdom and ritual as a form of self care.
Her practice Navi Gill Wellness is located in Surrey BC and she travels globally to educate and work with clients to help them understand the principles of Ayurveda, how it applies to their daily life and how to create a lifestyle that encompasses the authentic teachings of ancient Ayurveda in order to achieve mind, body, spirit health & harmony. A primary focus of her practice is to decolonize wellness by creating community and accessibility to ancestral wisdom specifically for womxn and people of colour.