Yoga Classes
- kanukayoga
- Feb 20, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Nov 13
Studio Classes
Raquel opened Kanuka Yoga Space to create a community yoga space for all types of bodies and selected an amazing group of teachers to help cultivate inner-awareness for a wide range of personalities.
She is also the co-owner of School of Modern Meditation and the Director of Trauma-Informed and Plant medicine programmes, you can find her teaching SOMM Slow Flow or Candlelight Yin on occasion at the studio.
Raquel has been practicing yoga for a decade. She recognises her consistent yoga practice as a tool to stay centered and balanced internally, as well as finding more balance in external relationships (professional and personal). Her movement training also includes a background in figure skating, gymnastics, elite-level cheerleading and acro - she loves flying and has leaned into yoga as a more gentle way to feel this free flow.
She typically teaches Slow Flow, Yogalates and Trauma Sensitive Yoga
Trauma-Informed Facilitator
Her teaching style provides a space for students to explore their own inner landscapes alongside the physical ground and space around. She utilises a trauma-informed approach and invitational language so students can tap into their own wisdom. She has over 1,000+ hours of facilitating and has been teaching for 6 years.
Bachelors in Psychology - George Washington University
200hr Trauma-Informed YTT with Raw Yoga
300hr Trauma-Informed Facilitator Training with SomaPsych
85hr Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Facilitator Training with Atira Tan
60hr Trauma-Informed and Community Yoga YTT with Rise
20hr TCTSY YTT
ACC ISSC Trauma Sensitive Yoga Facilitator
Lululemon Here to Be Grant Recipient - Trauma Sensitive Yoga
ACC-funded Trauma Sensitive Yoga 2026 Term Dates at Kanuka Yoga Space:
Trauma Sensitive Yoga
8 Week course, 2025
February 10 - March 31
April 28 - June 16
August 4 - Sept 22
October 27 - December 15
To learn more and inquire about Trauma Sensitive Yoga - please visit Kanuka Yoga Space.
In The Workplace
Raquel graduated with a degree in Psychology from George Washington University in Washington, DC in 2009. She then moved to the other side of the world to work with The Japan Times (taking her to Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Australia). Her corporate experience is primarily in sales and technology within the employee experience space. Her recent role was with Groov - providing technology-based workplace wellbeing solutions for businesses in Australia and New Zealand.
She understands organisations’ needs to realise the full potential of their employees and is an advocate to bring yoga and mindfulness practices into the workplace, as a tool to stay balanced in a fast-paced and competitive corporate environment.
As a self-described global tumbleweed, she understands the importance of creating spaces that promote cultural diversity and inclusivity - especially within workplaces.
To learn more about Workplace and Office Yoga offerings - please visit Kanuka Yoga Space.
