Our
Team
“We’re here to make your yoga experience modern, athletic and therapeutic. We are an award-winning yoga studio focused on mindfulness and therapeutic movement. Strong focus on anatomy, mindfulness and awareness”.
Meet Cathy Gamba
Cathy is a mother of two young girls and a student in Psychology. She worked in marketing and communications for about 15 years in NZ, Japan, Switzerland and France before opening Pause Yoga in Days Bay in 2014. She describes herself as a fidgety and slightly hyperactive individual with a huge appetite for life and adventure. Trail-running was her hobby for about 10 years and in 2009, she had surgery on her back to fix several prolapsed discs. She started yoga in 2004 and trained to become a yoga teacher in 2013. There are two main areas of focus in her teaching: these are anatomy and mindfulness. Her teaching style is athletic, therapeutic, secular and modern.
Meet Claudio
“I found through the practice of attention, conscious movement and breath, sound and vibrations the path to inner silence and peace.”
Claudio Escutia has been a yoga teacher and active musician for over 10 years. He began his spiritual journey in Mexico with the practice of Tai Chi. After finishing his classical guitar studies at the School of Fine Arts he decided to move to Montreal Canada to study jazz music, where he experienced for the first time the power of the sacred Yogic practices, becoming aware of his breathing, body, mind and soul. When he settled in Canada, he expanded his knowledge by practicing Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, with great masters, he learned to play Kirtan (sacred chants circles) with local musicians and started playing live music for yoga classes.
Meet Claudio
“I found through the practice of attention, conscious movement and breath, sound and vibrations the path to inner silence and peace.”
Claudio Escutia has been a yoga teacher and active musician for over 10 years. He began his spiritual journey in Mexico with the practice of Tai Chi. After finishing his classical guitar studies at the School of Fine Arts he decided to move to Montreal Canada to study jazz music, where he experienced for the first time the power of the sacred Yogic practices, becoming aware of his breathing, body, mind and soul. When he settled in Canada, he expanded his knowledge by practicing Hatha and Kundalini Yoga, with great masters, he learned to play Kirtan (sacred chants circles) with local musicians and started playing live music for yoga classes.
Meet Beena
“Yoga asks the questions”- my teacher once told me. The deep internal inquiry yoga offers is a limitless gift.
I have practiced yoga for 20 years, discovering its benefits when I was pregnant with my eldest child. I am a Medical doctor, a forensic examiner, a yoga teacher and mother of 2 young adult children- I am also inhabiting a body that is getting older and changing. Each of my roles is distinct but also informs and enriches the other parts of who I am.
Meet Nicole
I started my yoga journey in 2000. I completed my Hot Yoga training in 2003 at the Yoga College of India in Los Angeles CA. Since then have been I have been teaching, travelling, completing workshops.
I am always amazed at the health benefits yoga has to offer, watching students grow in their practice and evolve in healthy lifestyle changes is my passion. Having finished Maori Ironman in 2019, I stayed injury free and focused during my training. So excited to be a part of Pause Yoga, I can’t wait to share my love for yoga with this amazing Pause Yoga community Cathy has created.
Meet Nicole
I started my yoga journey in 2000. I completed my Hot Yoga training in 2003 at the Yoga College of India in Los Angeles CA. Since then have been I have been teaching, travelling, completing workshops.
I am always amazed at the health benefits yoga has to offer, watching students grow in their practice and evolve in healthy lifestyle changes is my passion. Having finished Maori Ironman in 2019, I stayed injury free and focused during my training. So excited to be a part of Pause Yoga, I can’t wait to share my love for yoga with this amazing Pause Yoga community Cathy has created.