Tamara Royal

Tamara Royal is the founder and teacher behind Omies Yoga in Okotoks, Alberta. She describes herself as a yogi, coffee lover and mom to now adults. Her work includes weekly studio and online classes, workshops, teacher trainings and retreats, with a focus on breathwork, movement and growth. She holds the credentials E-500RYT, RCYT and YACEP.

She says she went into yoga teacher training expecting to deepen her own practice, and found instead a desire to teach and share what had shifted her life. Today she teaches yoga in many forms, including nidra, yin, flow, myofascial, lymphatic and restorative work, from a body-empowerment lens that taps into awareness and sensation. She also offers reiki and meditation.

Yoga nidra holds a particular place for her. It became medicinal during a time of physical exhaustion, burnout and adrenal fatigue, and through regular practice she found that deeply held beliefs, or samskaras, could shift by using a sankalpa, the "I am" statement, to replace limiting ones.

Tamara has hosted retreats in places including Bali, Indonesia, along with a riverfront digital detox retreat, a Hygge log cabin sauna retreat and a waterfront Inner Joy retreat at Shuswap. In 2023 she formed Bliss State Retreats, co-hosted with Melanie. She has hosted yoga teacher trainings in restorative, assists and yin, and has been a guest teacher at other trainings, retreats and venues.

She writes that teaching fuels her, and that she gets more than she gives. Her welcome to students is the same whether it is their first class or their thousandth: let's be Omies.