Kathryn Sussman Atkinson, Yoga Teacher
Kathryn Sussman Atkinson is a RYT® 500+ Vinyasa and Hatha trained Yoga teacher, with over 800 hours of training. She has specialty training in Yin, Restorative, and Nidra forms of yoga. With a focus on somatic mindfulness, embodiment, and self-compassion, Kathryn’s sessions calm and regulate the nervous system to help promote mind-body healing. Her wish is to guide her students into a place of personal transformation and empowerment by helping them to cultivate a sense of coming home to their mat.
Advocating yoga as a life-long practice, Kathryn will help you to discover yoga as a dynamic and varied art that can adapt and change with you throughout your life. Whether or not you are able-bodied, fit, injured, feeling good in your mind and body or suffering from pain, trauma or grief, Kathryn’s classes and retreats are for you. Kathryn’s teachings explore your beingness underneath all of the markers of identity that isolate and divide us as people and as community.
Kathryn will help you to foster an appreciation of the present moment, gratitude for the blessings that surround you, and those that abide within you, as you experience the beauty of slowing down and just being still.
Yoga Alliance ID: 370452
Designation(s): RYT® 500+, (Vinyasa, Yin, Nidra and Restorative yoga certifications)
Mark Cortez, Chef
Mark Cortez is a Toronto-based Filipino chef specializing in contemporary cuisine. Rooted in the flavors of the Philippines and shaped by Toronto’s diverse food scene, his cooking highlights bold, clean dishes with a contemporary touch.
Mark trained at George Brown College of Culinary Arts and developed his skills working in Oliver and Bonacini restaurant, Momofuku and Toronto Cricket Club. He is now the proud owner of his own company KitchenMark Catering and Chef Services. As an Executive Private Chef he has served elite personalities from the business and sports worlds across the GTA.
With every dish, Chef Mark blends creativity, health-conscious ingredients, and a genuine love for the craft.
Mariya Protsiv, RMT
Mariya’s love of science, how the human body works, and her inherent caring nature led her to pursue Massage Therapy. She has always wanted people to feel their best and to empower them with the tools to take care of their body. She has a strong belief that manual therapy and a patient-centric treatment are essential for maintaining optimal health and well-being. She has worked with a diverse range of people with injuries, chronic pain, and patients with TMJ dysfunction, headaches and migraines.
Mariya herself has suffered from headaches and migraines her whole life and understands how debilitating they can be. She focuses her treatments on rehabilitation, stress management, chronic pain, patient education, and empowering people to be their own health advocates.
When not at the clinic, Mariya enjoy staying active, taking classes and being outdoors, whether hiking, kayaking, or learning a new skill. She studied massage therapy at Centennial College, and is a member of the Registered Massage Therapist Association. She has been a registered massage therapist for 13 years.
Ru Henry, Sound and Nature Therapy Guide
Ru brings a wide range of experience to her guided sense and somatic offerings, including sound journeys with gongs, percussion, chimes and crystal bowls as well as nature connection walks. Ru has been intuitively guiding and continuously learning about sound and sense therapy since 2018 and is certified with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy. Ru is also a 500 hour+ Restorative Yoga teacher and Yoga Nidra guide, and is currently training as an Expressive Arts Therapist at the CREATE Institute.
Joyce Fu, Chiropractor
Dr. Joyce Fu provides natural, safe and effective chiropractic therapy to help her patients recover from injury. Her therapy approach involves a beautiful blend of patient education, functional chiropractic treatments and yoga therapy to provide a complete patient experience. She strives to restore structure and function in her patients so that they can excel in their physical health and overall well-being.
Dr. Joyce Fu graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College after earning an Honours Bachelor of Sciences from the University of Toronto. Her experience as a professional hip hop dancer has influenced her interest in rehabilitation through a strong yoga practice. Wanting to learn about the deeper benefits of yoga, she completed her Yoga Teacher Training (RYS 200) in 2016 at Downward Dog Yoga Centre in Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Fu continues to teach in the Beaches and at her clinic, as part of her patients’ rehabilitation plans.
