Catherine Munro
Catherine Munro began practicing yoga in 1989 while living in New York City.  She spent several years exploring many different yoga traditions leading to years of study in the Iyengar yoga tradition with many of its master teachers such as Faiq Biria, Manuso Manus, Ramanand Patel, Aadil Palkivala, Joan White, Kevin Gardner, Lisa Walford, Paul Cabanis, Marla Apt and Kofi Busia.  She has also studied with renounwed teachers such as Judith Lasater, Donna Farhi, Dona Holleman and Rodney Yee.  Catherine was introduced to the Anusara tradition through workshops with John Friend and Viniyoga with Gary Kraftsow.  In recent years she has been practicing Ashtanga yoga as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, under the guidance of Chuck Miller and Maty Ezraty.  In the Ashtanga tradition Catherine has also studied with Richard Freeman and the guru of Ashtanga, Pattabhi Jois. 

Catherine took the Yoga Works Teacher Training with the program originators Maty Ezraty & Lisa Walford and went on to assist the program several times with Maty, Lisa and Chuck Miller. She taught her first YW Training in 2003 in Orange County with James Brown and has enjoyed each subsequent training more than the last. Catherine was a teacher at Yoga Works In Los Angeles for several years before returning to her native Vancouver, B.C. where she now resides with her husband and son Ian. 

The practice of yoga has helped Catherine transition through some of life’s challenges with strength and introspection.  She is deeply grateful to her teachers for the passion and inspiration they instilled in her for both practice and teaching.

National Director, Lisa Walford:
Lisa Walford teaches exclusively in the Iyengar tradition as taught by the Iyengar family in Pune, India. She is certified at the intermediate senior level in Iyengar yoga and has been teaching in Los Angeles since 1982. She continues her studies annually with the Iyengars. Over the years she has been a central figure in developing the Yoga Works Teacher Training Course, and continues to teach many of the courses in our certification program. She is on the advisory council of the International Association of Yoga Therapists. In her rigorous and technically informative classes, she creates an ambiance of internal focus inspiring to beginning and advanced students. In her words, "Yoga brings us from pain to purpose and passion, and from disease to discriminative awareness”. Our body gives us the most immediate and intimate tool to develop this awareness. Also a writer, Lisa co-authored of The Longevity Diet, Discover Calorie Restriction- The Only Proven Way To Slow The Aging Process And Maintain Peak Vitality; and The Anti-Aging Plan. Lisa is currently the National Director of Content for Yoga Works Teacher Training.