About Robin
Robin has been relishing in the movement of life, for all of her life.
Born and raised in southern Saskatchewan, Robin balanced on railways in the dry heat of summer and figure skated her way through the unforgiving winters.
Once she moved away for university, she was able to take formal yoga and dance lessons and soon found herself teaching and performing. She completed a degree in Religious Studies and Fine Arts, but where she really spent her university days was in the yoga and dance studios, her curiosity and inspiration ignited by the practice of body mind awareness and active participation in the creative process.
Diving headfirst into Saskatchewan’s contemporary dance scene, and then travelling across North America hungry for more, Robin studied with world renowned choreographers and somatic instructors. She continued to practice and teach yoga, but the dance world was proving to be much more compelling and innovative in its approach to, and exploration of, human movement.
By the age of 25, Robin was disenchanted with the increasingly consumer driven world of yoga and its competing systems and methods. An existential crisis ensued and while voicing her concerns to a mature woman at a workshop in Vancouver, she was given the name Diane Long…"you might find her way of working interesting…”
Within months she boarded a plane to London and in the first moments of class, Robin saw the living expression of what she didn’t know she was looking for, in Diane’s physicality and practice.
Robin has been Diane’s devoted student ever since and has organised her life around this work…not an easy task given the peripatetic nature of her teacher!
Robin completed a Master of Physical Therapy in 2011 and continues to work as a physiotherapist in order to preserve her yoga practice and support the way of life which allows her to travel alongside Diane whenever, and wherever, possible. Robin teaches this yoga both locally and internationally, at times co-teaching with Diane.
After living on the east coast of Canada, Robin has moved back west. Basecamp is now Vancouver, BC.
Robin teaches daily, both private lessons and/or
small group classes
. She also offers online private lessons.
Her workshop and retreat schedule is updated regularly.
Students of all levels are welcome.
Please reach out if interested.