Ted Grand
Ted Grand created the Moksha Yoga sequence of postures. In creating the series he drew upon his twelve years of yoga experience and more than one thousand hours of training in yoga therapy, yoga teaching, and traditional yoga. Approaching this task with patience and tireless research, he modified and perfected the sequence based on the opinions of a wide range of experts and peers in the yoga community.

He has studied teacher training programs under Bikram Choudhury in Los Angeles, Acharya Yoganand Karandikar in Pune, India and with Georg Feuerstein at the Yoga Research and Education Centre in San Francisco. He has also been fortunate to study teacher training with Janice Clarfield (pre-natal yoga), yoga philosophy with Rod Stryker, Anusara Yoga with John Friend, Iyengar Yoga with Patricia Walden, and Restorative Yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater. Ted feels an immense amount of gratitude to his teachers with every class he teaches and participates in.

Ted is co-owner of Moksha Yoga Montreal, and Moksha Yoga Halifax and is co-founder of Yaletown Yoga in Vancouver, Moksha Yoga Uptown and Moksha Yoga Danforth in Toronto. He works to support beginners as well as more experienced students with finding a path to peace through their yoga. His love of yoga is infectious and can be felt in each and every class he teaches.

Ted is also a proud husband and father, an organic farmer, and an environmental/social activist.

Jessica Robertson
Jessica Robertson is a teacher at heart. She began at the age of 15 and has been teaching ever since. Before leading yoga classes she studied Social Studies of Medicine at McGill and worked in the not-for-profit sector with Amnesty International for 12 years. She led workshops on Human Rights for people with disabilities in Panama, taught English at Tokyo Seitoku University in Japan and in Salamanca, Spain and also spent many years teaching canoeing to youth in Algonquin Park.

Jessica's first yoga seed was planted by her incredible forward thinking parents. She went on to study annually for 7 years with Baba Hari Das and The Ashtanga Yoga Fellowship. After years of practicing mostly Pranayama (breathing exercises) Jessica completed the Bikram yoga teacher training. Since then hot yoga has been home.

She has furthered her studies by completing the Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training, studies in Bhakti Yoga with Jai Uttal and Nubia Texeira, restorative yoga with Judith Hansen Lasater, Pranayama with the Desikachar family and a deep commitment to daily practice. She is the co-founder of Moksha Yoga Danforth and Moksha Yoga London. This year she will once again travel with Wade Imre Morrissette playing flute and singing in Kirtan concerts across North America.

To the Moksha community Jessica brings a love of living in the present and a deep desire to make yoga accessible to marginalized and under-privileged communities. Jessica's classes involve humour, focused strength through breath, and spontaneity.


The Team

Deena Robertson
Deena Robertson is the co-founder of Moksha Yoga Danforth in Toronto, Moksha Yoga London in Ontario Moksha Yoga Los Angeles. Her background in competitive Basketball, Volleyball and European Handball was the seed for a strong passion to find ways to challenge the body while being mindful and attentive to long term health. Deena has coached countless teachers from shyness, insecurity and many other barriers toward teaching with amazing authenticity, focus and strength. Deena is also a musician and forms part of the kirtan collective Lila with her sister Jess and cellist Rebecca Foon. Deena grew up with yoga and is ever grateful to all of her teachers, especially her mom JJ, Baba Hari Das, Swami Sadasivananda, and Gurmukh


Sam Mitschka
Sam supports the teacher trainers along their journey to becoming a certified Moksha Yoga teacher from the application process, all the way through the 30 day intensive, distance learning projects, graduation and beyond! Sam draws from her own Moksha Yoga teacher training in India to help guide and inform each trainee as they set out on the adventure of a lifetime! With a background in supporting families with children who have autism, Sam has a knack for knowing when to help, and when to sit back and watch someone learn and grow. She loves her job so much because it allows her to constantly be doing both.


Guillaume Brun
Guillaume is a Moksha Yoga certified teacher (Level 1 & 2), a Yin certified teacher, and completed a teacher training in the Iyengar tradition with Hart Lazer in Montreal.  Guillaume's journey into yoga started in the spring of 2007, at a time of a significant career and lifestyle change.  Moving from a very high-paced and high-stress corporate job that saw him traveling constantly from San Francisco to Europe, he settled back in Montreal into a quieter role at McGill University.  This allowed him much more time to dedicate to his yoga practice, which soon became a daily routine, at Moksha Yoga Montreal.  At first, his practice focused solely on its physical benefits.  But it quickly allowed him to take a deeper look at his life and what he wanted to do with it.  This resulted in his decision to complete a full-time MBA within a year, while continuing to work part-time, being supported by a daily yoga practice.  From there, he went on to complete his Moksha Yoga Level 1 training, followed a year later by Level 2, and to start his Iygenar training.  Through his practice and teaching, and from the learnings of his main teacher, Dina Tsouluhas, Guillaume has found a deeper meaning to his role in life, and to his relationships to his family, friends and society overall.