Roxanne Stolk was born on a small farm in Canada where she grew up outdoors, swinging from the trees, long-distance running, rowing, and doing gymnastics. At University, she studied Film, Comparative Religions, and Philosophy. She spent two years in Japan where she learned Vipassana Meditation and Zen. When she later practised Yoga in India, she experienced the perfect culmination of all her searching, a depth of work both intensely physical, and deeply spiritual, with room for curiousity and learning. Influences have ranged from Shakti Mhi to Snatam Kaur, from Basho, to Sri Dharma Mittra to Thich Naht Hahn. The process of learning, changing, and teaching simply fascinates her! She has taught Film Studies, English, Fire Dancing (Poi), Bible Studies, Rowing, Guitar, and Cooking. Her first Yoga Studio opened in 2000 in the form of the Summer Yoga Center in Port Colborne, Canada, and later in Israel in 2002. She now divides teaching time between Canada, and Israel, with workshops in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Thailand, Egypt, and the United States.

The practice of sitting meditation begins with taking a steady and relaxed posture conducive to tranquility and presence of mind. While experiencing the unceasing flux of mind-body phenomena, we gradually learn to let go of habitual identification that leads to grasping and aversion to our own experience and begin to access a state within which we can know, more clearly and intimately than before, the true nature of this body and mind.
In class, we base our practice on the simple and wonderful technique of mindfulness of breathing. Concentrating on the breath, the mind becomes calm and clear. With that clear mind we can than turn to the close observation of the building bricks of our experience, and eventually implement the understanding and seeing we gain in meditation in the challenging course of our day-to-day lives.
Shai has been studying and practicing Buddhist meditation and theory in Thai, Korean, Japanese and Burmese Buddhist monasteries.

Vijnana – knowledge, wisdom, understanding, perception. Jivan graduated a senior Yoga Teacher's Course at the Wingate Institute, delivered by Orit San-Gopata. Children's Yoga Teacher (Readman College) Tao Shiatzu Therapist (The Israeli Institute of Tao Shiatsu) Active Meditation Teacher according to Osho's teaching.
Vijnana Yoga strives to integrate body, mind and awareness in a balanced way, through the practice of Meditation, Pranayama (breathing), Asana and the learning of scriptures. Practice is through observing and listening to our inner and personal needs while paying attention to principals of relaxation, empty consciousness, rooting, connection and breathing.
Throughout the practice we achieve a fine balance between precision and flow, from an approach which sees body and consciousness as one. When the intelligence of the body takes over, there is a space in which we learn to let go and through which external action occurs as if on its own and embodies the tenderness of the heart.

Asana is a means to an end, thus I do not attach myself to one title or another of any structured technique. Practice in class is conducted through ongoing flow of movement and breath, and investigating the body and its motion.
Each lesson focuses on a different topic/area (such as the pelvic area, hips, back, shoulders, lengthening of the limbs etc.). The practice is designed in a way that begins delicately and becomes more dynamic. We know that the mind-body unit consists of endless abilities and possibilities and all that is left is to remove boundaries in order to reach an intimate place of contact with one's eternal self.
The physical and philosophical aspects are inextricably intertwined and both are referred to in the practice. When you have found yoga, the search ends and the journey begins. The road is not easy but there are many rewards.

My journey begins as a small child growing up in a spiritual and different way. At the age of 17 I travelled to India with my mother, there I experienced YOGA for the first time. Ever since I remember myself I always searched for an answer in finding freedom within myself (In high school I finished my major in dancing, different kinds of marshal arts and meditation). In one of my trips to Wales, I found my greatest teacher of all, who taught me the magic of the Ashtanga Yoga practise. There and then I fell in love and I know that I found what my body was born to do and what my soul was searching for (all is left to do is to train it, and so I did… and do). When I came back to Israel I studied for 3 years in Mishan Hayoga in Tel-Aviv, successfully training to be a yoga teacher and a senior teacher (yoga therapy, yoga for kids, first and second series). The passion for yoga connected me with lots of great and successful teachers from all over the world and from them I practise and always get more. “I believe that when a soul is free it could always get more, it doesn’t matter what sort of form, age or shape it wears, nothing is really how it seems to be there is always MORE to it.”

Yoga for kids:
For the last past 8 years I have been working, taking care of and teaching children of all ages. The love and connection with them is unique, open and free. Yoga for children is a great gift to give your child more. It is a place to inspire their world and give them an opportunity through creativity and freedom to express what they feel. Through the practice we lengthen and strengthen our bodies. We find flexibility and balance and we learn about seasons, holidays and the environment threw the yoga postures, yoga games, new songs with lots of joy, laughter and fun. I invite you all to join in our magical world of yoga for kids and experience something new. Today I teach in different organizations, schools, kindergartens and after school programs. I also teach yoga for parents and children together.

I have been Practicing Yoga for over 10 years. I'm teaching both at the studio in Beit-Yanai every Wednesday at 19:30, and at Kibutz Givat Haim Ihud where I also teach Yoga for Children. The class is Hatha Yoga combined with the Shivananda method, which is part of the Hatha system. The purpose of the Hatha Yoga is to exercise the Asanas (positions) and Pranayama (regulation of the breath).