Dawn Mauricio

“What I really try to do is bring my students tools and techniques that apply to the yoga mat, but can easily be taken off it and applied to everyday life. Yoga teaches things that can make us better people. I try to make it sound not so grandiose, but really accessible,” says Dawn Mauricio of what she wants to deliver to her students when teaching yoga and meditation.

An experienced teacher, Dawn focuses on spreading yoga and meditation’s message and benefits without the constraints that come with operating one’s own studio. She teaches at Naada Yoga, a Mile End studio, and leads many retreats and hosts workshops in various settings. “I wanted a lot of freedom in choosing what I want to do and how I want to do it, and also be free to travel,” she explains.

Dawn is specialized in alignment-based Hatha yoga, which is a great way, according to her, for people to get out of their own minds and into their bodies. She also leads two yoga retreats a year, taking her groups to destinations like India, Italy and Thailand for one-week trips. “We do four to five hours of yoga and meditation a day on a retreat. It’s all about creating a place where people can look inwards, transform and change, and hopefully apply what they get out of it to their everyday lives.”