Amber Kyliuk

Amber began teaching fitness classes, mainly aquafit, during university over 30 years ago. She found ashtanga yoga in 1998 and taught numerous classes throughout Calgary until she bought a yoga studio in 2005. Just before that she had been introduced to Critical Alignment Yoga Therapy (CAT) through her Iyengar teacher due to injuries she had incurred from her 6 years of racing in the sport of Skeleton (which is not as scary as it looks when you are in the moment, on the ice, racing head first down the bobsled track at 120+km/hr). After completing her certification in Critical Alignment Yoga Therapy and having her first child, she started experiencing back pain that became persistent and exhausting. Fast forward another year, and another child, her back pain was too much and she started reaching out to her teachers to learn more. After trying to read Your Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (which is not an easy read when you are living with daily pain) she luckily found Explain Pain with Lorimer Moseley & David Butler. This helped her put some of the puzzle pieces together and after a Pain Mentorship with a physio in the UK she read The Way Out by Alan Gordon & Alon Ziv. This somatic tracking approach brought together everything that she'd learned and had been practising with CAT so she completed the Pain Reprocessing Therapy certification in 2023. Amber has been working with clients, helping them build their path back to wellness, ever since!

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