Owner and Senior Instructor Kellie Dearman is a Still Point certified Yoga Instructor (200+hour), practicing for over 25 years. She began teaching in 2005 and currently teach 9+ sessions a week. Kellie’s practice is always deepening as she endeavours to always incorporate new ways to adapt this comprehensive spiritual practice into her teaching and her life. Yoga has allowed her to find a deep sense of spiritual connection and inner peace that she knows she can draw on at any time.

Kellie loves teaching gentle hatha yoga, yin and chair yoga and meditation at her home studio in Stirling. She also take private clients for mindfulness/trauma sensitive yoga practices for individuals dealing with PTSD and other stress-related conditions, specializing in anxiety, trauma and mobility issues.

In the fall of 2023, Aware Yoga welcomed teacher Colleen Thompson to the studio. Colleen is a graduate of the Akasha Yoga Academy‘s Hatha Yoga Teacher Training (500-hr) which included 100 hrs of  Yin Yoga training.  She has also completed Trauma Sensitivity training. Colleen teaches a similar style to Kellie and is running classes Tuesday evening and drop-in by schedule alternate Saturday mornings.

In March of 2025, we welcomed Ember Dawn to our teaching team. Ember was trained in 2018 by Caroline Owen, formerly of Wavelengths Yoga Studio in Norwood. Her 200-hr training was also trauma-informed. Ember’s joy and curiousity has led her to evolve into a Lifestyle Coach, Reiki Practitioner and Death Doula. Her business, Re-Embering, ties togethers all the pieces of your life, and a method of Bringing You Home. To Yourself.  

All three teachers follow the lineage of Krishnamachyra, the main principle being that yoga must be adaptive to each individual.