About Raymonde
My name is Raymonde Worsfold, I'm the owner of Le Yoga,
based in the town of Gibsons on B.C.'s beautiful Sunshine
Coast. I am a 500 registered yoga teacher (RYT), Yoga for the
Special Needs Child Practioner, YogaKids teacher and Phoenix
Rising Yoga Therapist. My passion is to share yoga with
children and adults of all ages and abilities.
My Story: I made the decision to become a yoga teacher
because of an amazing woman I met in December 1995.
Raymonde Worsfold,
It happened at a yoga ashram in the Bahamas. My
husband had been a yoga student for approximately one
year and he kept telling me how wonderful he felt from
his practice. He showed me an ad for a one-week
Christmas holiday at a yoga ashram in the Bahamas I
decided to go for it mainly because of the sun. I also
knew that one of my clients, the president of a major
financial institution, had gone there a several times and
had enjoyed the experience. I was curious.
Frankly, I was miserable for the first couple of days. The
sun that I had looked forward to was not happening. The
yoga classes and meals were outside and although I was
enjoying the vegetarian food and the friendly people, I
was preoccupied with the cold.
Then on day three my beginner group got a new yoga
teacher. Although it was obvious that she was an older
woman, she demonstrated the yoga postures with such
grace and ease that I became very intrigued. She was
also the calmest and most serene person I had met in a
long time. Later I learned that she was seventy-five years
old and had started yoga when she was fifty. I said to
myself "I want to be like this when I am seventy-five." At
that time I was the ripe old age of 46. She inspired that
one could grow old without feeling old or looking old in
the conventional sense.
Although she was 75 she was physically more able than
people in the class who where half her age including
myself. One of the things that I realized after discovering
yoga was that I could see myself doing it for the rest of
my life and that it would be the best health insurance I
could get.
One of my personal goals on that holiday had been to
decide on my future career direction. Currently I was a
management consultant. I had been travelling all over
North America and internationally for most of the last five
years. I was enjoying good success in my work and
earning a very good income but was getting tired of
having no home life and I was neglecting myself
physically, emotionally and spiritually. They used to call
me the "Energizer Bunny" I just kept going and going and
going. But inside I was wondering how long I could keep
it up and at a deeper level why I was doing this to myself.
Up to that point I had not given myself the luxury of really
thinking about a change. The timing never seemed right.
But that yoga week gave me the opportunity for many
hours of reflection. I became aware that my inner voice
was saying - "become a yoga teacher." Talk about a
change in direction! Talk about a quantum leap! On a
practical level my mind was saying this is crazy. But my
heart was saying go with what feels right. It felt scary and
it felt exciting. Most of all it felt right! Although I knew
nothing about what was involved in becoming a yoga
teacher I had made up my mind by the last day of the
program that I was going to make the change and
nothing was going to stop me.
The day before our departure I told my husband about
my idea and not surprisingly he was completely
supportive.
In the fall of 1996 I enrolled in the two-year yoga teacher
- training program at Sheridan College.
The training gave me a solid platform from which to begin
what is a life long learning process. Since then I have
deepened my knowledge of yoga by training in various
styles including classical Hatha yoga, YogaKids, and
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy.
There is a quote that I have focused on from time to time
in my life and it goes as follows. "Whatever you vividly
imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and
enthusiastically act upon...must inevitably come to pass."
by Paul J. Meyer. In May 2008 my husband and I visited
the Sunshine Coast in B.C. to explore the area and see if
we could imagine ourselves living there. We did and in
September 2008 made the big move from Ontario to our
new house in Gibsons, B.C.
Transform Your Self
Gibsons, Sunshine Coast, BC.
Raymonde Worsfold
Registered Yoga Teacher (500 RYT)
Enneagram Coach
Yoga For The Special Child Practitioner
YogaKids Teacher
Phoenix Rising Yoga
Therapist.
Yoga
For Kids
Guided Relaxation
Yoga For
The Special Child
Gentle Yoga
Enneagram Coaching