Yoga For The Way You Actually Live
Feel at Home in Your Body Again
Holistic, intuitive, grounded yoga classes and mentorship in Kelowna, BC. So you can slow down and reconnect, show up exactly as you are, and build a practice that carries you through real life.
Are you a yoga teacher looking for mentorship? I got you. Find out if you’re a fit
You Don’t Have to Figure This Out Alone
You didn’t land here by accident. You don’t have to keep waiting until you feel ready, or more flexible, or more certain about what you need. Whatever brought you here, there’s a place for you.
Weekly classes, a private practice built around your body and your life, a retreat that actually recharges you, or mentorship that helps you become the teacher you set out to be. The version of yoga that feels like yours is out there. Let’s find it together.
And Underneath All of It
You’re moving through your days feeling disconnected from yourself. You can’t remember the last time you slowed down long enough to actually feel something or get clear. There is a way to move from confusion to clarity; from effort to ease.
Maybe your practice used to look a certain way and it doesn’t fit anymore. Maybe you’re carrying an old injury, or a new one, or a body that’s changed in ways you’re still getting used to. Maybe you’ve never stepped onto a mat at all and the thought of a studio full of strangers is enough to keep you home. Whatever the reason, it doesn’t need explaining. It just needs a practice built around it instead of one you’re expected to fit into.
This isn’t about becoming more flexible or getting it right. It’s about learning to listen to what your body is telling you, in the moment it’s telling you, and trusting that a little more grounded, a little more steady, a little more at ease is enough of a reason to begin.
You’re Craving Something Real
A practice that feels like yours. A teacher who actually sees you, who knows your body and your history and the things you don’t say out loud. Classes that leave you feeling steady and at ease rather than like you failed at relaxing.
If you’re a teacher, you want to walk into the studio and feel confident. You want your students to come back. You want to build the kind of trust that only comes from teaching classes that feel coherent, intentional, and alive.
That’s not too much to want. And it’s closer than it feels right now.
But between the pressure to look a certain way in yoga, the overwhelming number of styles and certifications and opinions online, and a wellness industry that’s more interested in aesthetics than in how you actually feel, it’s no wonder you haven’t found your way there yet.
If Any of That Resonates, I Want You to Know
You Are Not the Problem
If you’re a yoga teacher, nobody handed you a roadmap for finding your voice in the front of the room. A certificate doesn’t teach you how to feel confident, how to read a room, or how to teach real bodies in a real studio. The wellness world is full of perfect poses and curated feeds and the quiet message that you’re not quite doing it right.
And if you’re here as a student, yoga was never meant to be about looking a certain way or getting it perfect. It’s a language for listening to yourself. You are whole. A practice that meets you where you are will remind you of that, again and again, through every season.
That ends here. Whether you’re coming to your first class, returning after a long break, or looking for a senior teacher who will watch your classes and tell you the truth, I’m here and I’m ready.
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Hi There!
I’m Tessa Murray
I’ve been teaching full-time since 2010 and hold an E-RYT 500 through Yoga Alliance. My foundation began with my 200hr YTT at a Kripalu-affiliated studio here in Kelowna, and deepened through my 300hr advanced training with Clara Roberts-Oss in Hawaii, weekend intensives with Rod Stryker and Meghan Currie, and years of continuing education with teachers I deeply admire. I’m a lululemon Ambassador, a relationship I hold with so much gratitude and pride, and I have placed in the top three for Best Yoga Teacher in Kelowna three times, including two silver and one bronze.
But none of that is really why I teach.
I teach because yoga saved me. During one of the hardest seasons of my life, isolated, unwell, far from anyone who knew me, it was the thing that kept me stable. Before yoga, horses did that. That relationship with another living being, the way it filled my heart, the way it put me back in my body. When I lost horses, yoga became my everything.
I want that for you. The feeling of being whole. Of having something completely yours that you can come back to no matter what life is doing. I’d be honoured to be part of your practice.
Learn More About MeYou Know Things Could Feel Better
“I feel too stiff, too old, too insecure to begin yoga.” Maybe that thought has crossed your mind more than once. There’s nothing wrong with you. There’s just a missing ingredient.
After 15 years of watching people walk through the studio door for the first time, here’s what I know. The body that shows up is always the right body. You don’t use your body to get into the poses. You use the poses to get into your body. Whatever shape that takes today.
Whatever brought you here, you don’t have to have it figured out. You don’t have to be flexible, experienced, or certain. Show up exactly as you are. I’ll hold the rest.
Yoga isn’t about slowing down or speeding up. It’s about moving differently. Listening differently. And it has a way of meeting you wherever you are, whether that’s your first class, your fiftieth, or landing in an unexpected season of life where the practice you had doesn’t quite fit anymore. May all roads lead back to yoga. Even the ones that took a detour.
You don’t have to be ready. You just have to begin, or begin again.
Work With Me
Tessa is gifted at creating an environment that feels safe to soften into.
I have been attending Tessa’s yoga classes since my earliest days of practice, nearly 10 years. She is definitely part of why I was inspired to become a yoga teacher myself, and her classes continue to be a place of calm reconnection to myself today. Her cues have consistently helped me explore postures in fresh ways without feeling like performance or striving. Her sequences are creative and fresh, while always feeling grounded in thoughtful alignment and safe, intentional movement. I highly recommend checking out Tessa’s classes and offerings!
Angela Nicole, Yoga Teacher
Her classes challenge the body, and calm the mind. You can be assured that you will leave her classes better off than you came.
Tessa Murray’s yoga classes are wonderful. Her gentle demeanor guides students of all levels through classes that vary from beginner, to extremely advanced. Her attention to technique is especially unique to her classes. You can be assured that your body will not be forced into unsafe positions or poses, and that modifications will be given for different abilities, or injuries. Her classes challenge the body, and calm the mind. You can be assured that you will leave her classes better off than you came. 10/10 recommendation for this instructor. Simply fantastic.
Dr. Delilah Lisa Topic