Janine is a graduate of Ryerson Polytechnical Insitute/University in Computer Science. She has been practicing Hatha yoga since 1990 and discovered Ashtanga vinyasa yoga in 1996. In 2004, Janine experienced her first Anusara Yoga Class. It altered her practiced significantly.

Janine has travelled abroad to study and has also found gifted teachers at home. Too many to name, Janine would like to acknowledge them all but list her most influential teachers:

• Allison Ulan at Ashtanga Yoga of Montreal for teacher training and friendship.
• Eddie Modestini and Nicki Doane's Maya Studio on Maui, Hawaii for teaching love and Iygengar alignment.
• David Williams on Maui, Hawaii for teaching love of the practice and pranayama.
• Ashtanga's Guru Sri Pattabhi Jois' in Australia (Yoga Moves) & Montreal (Ashtanga Yoga of Montreal) for sharing his knowledge to my teachers and to me.
• David Swenson for teaching fun and great adjustments in Costa Rica & in Toronto.
• Jonathon Austman from the Yoga Sanctuary, Toronto for things I have yet to comprehend.
• Ron Reid of Downward Yoga Centre, Toronto, for too many things to list.
• John Friend of Anusara Yoga for creating Anusara Yoga.
• Christine Reeves for Pre-Natal Teacher Training 2006.

Janine's formal yoga education began with Allison Ulan of Ashtanga Yoga Montreal, where she received an advanced teacher training. The last 2-3 years Janine has been emphasizing anatomy studies. Her teachers have been Riki Richter, Mind the Body Pilates & Laura Allard of Boulder, Co. (Anatomy in Clay™). Anusara yoga education has been mostly situated in Montreal. She finished her 2nd Immersion program for Anusara Yoga in summer 2006. Janine is also a Yoga Alliance registered teacher for 500 hours.