Faithe Sousa is a newly Registered Yoga Teacher(RYT-200HR) with Yoga Alliance, which acknowledges the completion of a yoga teacher training with a Registered Yoga School (RYS).
She completed her training through Paramanand Institute of Yoga Science and Research online from October to December 2022. In November 2023, she will travel to the Ashram in India to complete her 805 Hour Yoga Therapy Diploma to be further certified through the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Once that is completed, she will continue to work on her tutoring and yoga business while Teaching on Call through the School District of Langley in B.C. Canada.
Faithe's end goal in becoming a Yoga Teacher is to complete a Masters of Education in Clinical Counselling and eventually open up her own Private Counselling and Yoga Therapy business, combining the modalities of both to meet the growing demands of societies Mental & Physical Health needs.
She is very passionate about mental wellbeing after going on her own Mental Health journey starting in 2016. After seeking support for the overwhelming demands of working in BC classrooms, she started working with a Psychologist doing Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT). While that helped somewhat, she soon sought out a Yoga studio that could me the needs of her body and all the chronic pain and stress she was dealing with. She found Centered Within Yoga in Maple Ridge, BC, and her amazing Yoga Teacher, Erin Jacobs, and immediately started to feel the benefits of a therapeutic yoga that starts where you are at not where you want to be.
Learning that yoga is for everybody in any state of being, her eyes were opened to the magic of living a holistic yoga lifestyle, integrating it not just on the mat, but into her everyday life. After working with a clinical counsellor herself, doing Dialectic Behavior Therapy (DBT), the idea of combining the many therapeutic benefits of yoga with the many benefits of talk therapy modalities became her new dream. She left her full time continuing position with the School District of Maple Ridge, went back to the Teaching on Call Lifestyle and has been dedicating her time to living a more sustainable, slower lifestyle while completing all her re-training.