About Me - Shanine Dennill

teacher, writer, nature lover

For as long as I can remember, I’ve questioned the meaning of life and death. This has led me to study with masterful spiritual teachers, while life has humbled me to find inner stillness and presence.

My extensive studies in yoga (specifically Tantra yoga), Folk Herbalism, Energy Healing, and Ayurveda offers enriching wisdom in my classes, events, retreats, and trainings.

I bring Rituals & Rest back into our lives to remember and connect to the sacred and to slow down to provide immense healing.

meet shanine

It’s Nice to Meet You! Here is my story:

My spiritual journey began when I was very young. The passing of my grandfather, my father, and hearing a person killed (in my home country, South Africa) led me to contemplate life and death. I began to read books on spirituality and religion to understand what happens after we die.

I was introduced to yoga while studying massage therapy in 1999. I moved to Canada in 2001, and a work colleague suggested I try yoga again. It became a place where my mind became more still, and a whole inner world of healing opened up for me. So I enrolled in my first yoga teacher training. My teacher encouraged me to volunteer at Carpenter Hospice, teaching restorative yoga to those with life-limiting illnesses, and this deepened my love of teaching, and being of service.

As a life-long student, I completed three yoga teacher trainings and a meditation teacher training, receiving my E-RYT 500 with the Yoga Alliance. I’m a reiki practitioner, studied Folk Herbalism, and am currently studying Ayurveda. I also owned a successful yoga studio for ten years.

When I closed my yoga studio during the pandemic, I noticed years of stress stored in my body and I felt anxious for the future.

It felt as though a part of my identity died and I was forced to slow down and surrender into the unknown.

I dove deeper into Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, and Meditation.

Connecting with stillness revealed the sacred, ever-present, peaceful, abundant, and spacious energy within and around. The more I became friends with resting, the more I embraced and looked forward to the unknown. In the unknown, I began to embrace the mystery of life more fully.

In learning and accepting death, I learnt how to live.

This led me to dive deeper into Ayurveda and how this ancient practice can help us bring harmony in the mind and body to live a more joyous life.

I love facilitating yoga teacher trainings and have been doing so for over 10 years (teaching 200-hr trainings, Restorative Yoga Trainings, Yoga Nidra trainings, and more).

Yoga, meditation, pranayama (breath), and nature are my safe havens.

practicing yoga for

teaching yoga for

leading yoga trainings for

Get to Know Me

1. The one thing i love more in this world:

My fur baby

2. my favourite tea

Stinging nettle

3. The musical instrument i am learning:

Didgeridoo

4. Places i wish to travel to:

India and Nepal

5. my favourite places in the world:

Sedona and Peru

6. My Most Rewarding Experience to Date:

Serving others

7. in my next life, i want to be:

A Buddhist monk/nun

8. A woman saint I admire:

Anandamayi Ma

Let's work together

Events and

Online Community

Yoga Teacher

my education:

Thank you to my teachers (and their teachers, and the sacred lineage of teachings that I share).
I aim to not dilute the ancient teachings and honour the sacred wisdom that has been shared with me and from where they came.

E-RYT 500 with Yoga Alliance
(highest credentials)

Yoga & Meditation Related

Yoga Teacher Training:
- 300-hour with Yogarupa Rod Stryker
- 200-hour with Todd Norian & Ann Greene
- 250-hour with Nesta Falladown
Restorative Yoga Training:
- 65-hour with Jillian Pransky
- 20-hour with Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
- 40-hour with Andrea Peloso
Yoga Nidra Training:
- 60-hour with Tracee Stanley & Chanti Tacoronte-Perez
- 63-hour with Yogarupa Rod Stryker
Meditation:
- 200-hour with Tony Murdock
Prenatal:
- 20-hour with Janice Clarfield

Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider – YACEP
(providing continuing education)

Nature, Health & Wellness

Ayurveda Health Advisor – Hale Pule (currently in training)
Sound Healing Intensive – Darren Austin Hall
Cacao Ceremony Facilitator Training
Reiki: Usui Reiki First and Second Degree Level – Edward Huang
Folk Herbalism & Gaian Mentorship – Julie Gaia
Health Coach – Institute of Integrative Nutrition
Ayurveda: Mind/Body Healing – The Institue of Holistic Nutrition
Massage Therapy – Institute of Natural Health

Volunteer Experience

Carpenter Hospice – Yoga Teacher
International AIDS Conference (Toronto) – Research
An AIDS Orphanage in South Africa – Care
All Africa Games (1999) – Massage Therapy

What people are saying

Client Love

I met Shanine through my yoga teacher training in which she served both as a facilitator and my teacher. Through this experience, she has left an indelible mark on my life as a student, a teacher, and as a person. Her professionalism is impeccable and her ability to direct and lead as well as read her student's energy is impressive. She is a remarkable teacher in terms of her knowledge and awareness of her students. I admire how she always pays homage to her teachers and their teachers.

I have been so fortunate to have completed my first yoga teacher training program with Shanine. She is authentic, knowledgeable, yet continues to learn, and is able to give each student exactly what they need. Anybody who takes a yoga class with Shanine is incredibly lucky.

Shanine holds space and encourages you to explore your practice further. She is an exceptional yoga teacher that leverages the power of breath work, poses, and personal exploration. She has a beautiful way of challenging you during practice while making you feel supported and cared for. There is something to take away from every class that Shanine leads and I always feel that I learn more about myself, what I’m capable of, and how my mind and body is showing up.

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