Shanine Dennill

Shanine Dennill is a Tantra yoga and meditation teacher whose specialty is bringing rituals and rest together. Through ritual, she says, we move into presence, devotion and consistency; through rest, we tap into deep stillness. Her work draws on Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra, Ayurveda, energy healing and time in nature, and she describes herself as a teacher, writer and nature lover.

Her spiritual path began young. Losing her grandfather and her father, and hearing a person killed in her home country of South Africa, led her to question life and death and to read widely on spirituality and religion. She was introduced to yoga while studying massage therapy in 1999, moved to Canada in 2001, and enrolled in her first yoga teacher training after a colleague suggested she try yoga again. Her teacher encouraged her to volunteer at Carpenter Hospice, teaching restorative yoga to people with life-limiting illnesses.

Shanine holds the E-RYT 500 designation with Yoga Alliance. Her studies include Iyengar-based Hatha yoga, Tantra Yoga trainings, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra trainings, and a meditation teacher training. She is also a reiki practitioner, has studied Folk Herbalism, and is an Ayurveda Health Advisor. She owned a yoga studio for ten years. When she closed it during the pandemic, she turned more deeply to Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidra and meditation, and to Ayurveda. She says that in learning and accepting death, she learned how to live.

She has led yoga teacher trainings for over 10 years, including 200-hour, Restorative Yoga and Yoga Nidra trainings. She teaches classes in studios, offers private and corporate sessions, and leads retreats and workshops that bring in tea ceremony, herbal medicine making and sound healing. She also works with people who have experienced trauma from car accidents, using yoga for physical rehabilitation and breathwork and meditation to ease PTSD. Her Insight Timer page says she is training to be a Death Doula.