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Alison Réaume is a yoga teacher, teacher trainer, and lifelong student of the practice who is far more interested in what yoga can teach us than how impressive our poses look.
She has spent more than 17 years teaching yoga, working with students, and training teachers. Over that time, her own approach has continued to evolve, moving away from performance and prescribed ideas of what a practice should look like and toward curiosity, adaptability, somatic awareness, philosophy, and self-study.
That evolution is personal, too.
At 28, what was supposed to be a routine surgery to remove a tumour became a life-threatening emergency. Recovery changed Alison's relationship with her body and challenged many of the ways she had learned to push through, override, and measure progress.
It also changed the questions she brought to her yoga practice.
Rather than asking how to make a body conform to a pose, she became increasingly interested in how we can use the practice to pay attention. What do we notice? What choices are available to us? What happens when we stop searching for the “right” way and become curious about our own experience?
Those questions continue to shape how Alison teaches today.
Through weekly classes, workshops, retreats, 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, and continuing education for yoga teachers, she creates space to explore yoga as a much broader practice than asana alone.
Her teaching brings together movement, somatic awareness, breath, philosophy, self-study, and the lived experience of practicing yoga in a changing human body.
For students, that means less emphasis on achieving the perfect pose and more room to discover a practice that works for the person on the mat.
For teachers, it means learning to look beyond scripts and sequences and becoming more thoughtful about how we meet the actual people in front of us.
Because after all these years of teaching, Alison is still interested in the same thing: not how well we can perform yoga, but what we can learn by practicing it.
Impact by the numbers
250
yoga teachers trained over 17+ years
7500+
hours of teaching
10
years as certified yoga therapist
18+
years of teaching
Alison serves three distinct audiences:
Yoga Students
Looking to find a grounded, trauma-aware practice that meets them where they are without pressure to be perfect.
Yoga Teachers & Trainees
People who want to deepen their understanding of yoga and learn to teach from embodiment, through inclusive, human-centred training
Wellness Entrepreneurs
Streamline their businesses through systems designed around their actual capacity, energy, and work style.
Yoga & Somatic
- Nervous System-Aware Yoga: Teaching and Practicing for Regulation
- Trauma-Aware Yoga: Creating Safe Spaces
- Beyond the Poses: Integrating Philosophy, Breath, and Meditation into Modern Practice
- Yoga for Sustainable Living: On and Off the Mat
- Somatic Yoga for Entrepreneurs: Building Body Awareness for Business Success
Business & Operations
- The Nervous System of Your Business: Building Capacity-Led Systems
- Setting Boundaries as a CEO: Protecting Your Time and Energy
- From Burnout to Balance: Creating Work-Life Integration in Entrepreneurship
- Systems That Support the Human: Designing Operations Around Real Capacity
- Fractional COO Support for Wellness Entrepreneurs: Strategic Systems Without the Overwhelm
A feature where I explore how boundaries, somatics, and nervous-system awareness form the foundation of a sustainable teaching and business life.
The Five Things You Need to Create a Highly Successful Career in Wellness (Authority Magazine)
In this piece, I share my top 3 yoga for sleep practices to create a restful bedtime routine, so you can allow your body to restore.
The Three Things You Should Do Before Bed
(Fit & Well Guest Feature)
In this piece, I highlight some of my favourite chair yoga poses to improve posture and mobility, even if you can't sit on the floor.
Too stiff for floor-based yoga?
(Fit & Well Guest Feature)
A podcast conversation on Yoga "Beyond the Mat", We explore how the true practice of yoga begins long after class ends.
Yoga Beyond the Mat: A Conversation on
The Lotus Lounge Podcast
Curious what it's like to work with me? Take a peek (or listen)
Structure and strategy must be grounded in reality, what's actually possible for you right now, not what you think you "should" be capable of.
Attentiveness
Meeting each person exactly where they are, holding space for both vision and capacity, whether on the mat or in the business.
Compassion
Honouring your time, energy, individuality, and the human behind the work because sustainable growth happens at a pace that's not rushed.
Respect
What people say about Alison’s methods
Alison was integral in developing, executing and monitoring marketing and customer facing initiatives. Her dedication, emotional intelligence and drive were an inspiration.
—WENDY
She truly understood my vision. What I love most is that she doesn't just offer advice—she helps me execute it in a way that amazes me every time.
—LAURA
On and off the mat—
"Alison respected my way of doing things, while bringing in her own fantastic ideas, feedback and skills to the table."
"Alison was integral."
Alison is innovative, efficient, reliable, and a pleasure to work with! More importantly, if she saw something that looked off, or suggestions, she brought them forward (always nice to be working with someone who has your back).
—ZAHRA
"Someone who has your back."
Remembering when I followed my dream [of becoming a yoga teacher]. You changed my life, love you always.
—MEL
"You changed my life."
She taught me instead to “explore my edge” & really feel the benefits of slowing down which brought a totally new dimension to my practice. To “take what works & leave what doesn’t” is something that guides me everyday & every practice.
—REBECCA
"Before Alison, I was all about 'push, push, push'."
Media-ready bio
Alison Réaume is a Certified Yoga Therapist, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT), Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT), and fractional COO for wellness entrepreneurs specializing in capacity-led business systems.
With 17+ years teaching yoga and training teachers, plus two decades supporting executives and entrepreneurs in operations, Alison brings a unique lens to sustainable growth: one that honours the whole person, not just the bottom line.
As a systems strategist for wellness entrepreneurs, she has trained over 250 yoga teachers and supported entrepreneurs from bootstrapped side hustles to multi-million dollar companies. Her work bridges strategic systems design with somatic awareness through offerings like somatic yoga for entrepreneurs and hands-on operational support, helping clients build businesses and practices that support their actual capacity, not the version they think they should be able to sustain.
Alison is available for media interviews, podcast appearances, and speaking engagements on topics including trauma-informed yoga, nervous system-aware entrepreneurship, sustainable business operations, and embodied leadership.
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