Moksha Yoga is more than a series of postures. It began with the vision of two individuals and has since grown into a worldwide community with classes in Switzerland, Hong Kong, Taipai, England, Trinidad, Singapore, Thailand and across Canada and the US.

This family has evolved and flourished with the ideas, hard work and support of every Moksha Yoga studio owner, Moksha Yoga teacher and most importantly through a community of devoted students working on bettering the world on a subtle level - one sweaty yoga class at a time!

Moksha Yoga founders:

Ted Grand created the Moksha Yoga sequence of postures. In creating the series he drew upon his twelve years of yoga experience and more than one thousand hours of training in yoga therapy, yoga teaching, and traditional yoga. Approaching this task with patience and tireless research, he modified and perfected the sequence based on the opinions of a wide range of experts and peers in the yoga community.

He has studied teacher training programs under Bikram Choudhury in Los Angeles, Acharya Yoganand Karandikar in Pune, India and with Georg Feuerstein at the Yoga Research and Education Centre in San Francisco.

He has also been fortunate to study teacher training with Janice Clarfield (pre-natal yoga), yoga philosophy with Rod Stryker, Anusara Yoga with John Friend, Iyengar Yoga with Patricia Walden, and Restorative Yoga with Judith Hanson Lasater. Ted feels an immense amount of gratitude to his teachers with every class he teaches and participates in.

Ted is co-owner of Moksha Yoga Montreal, and Moksha Yoga Halifax and is co-founder of Yaletown Yoga in Vancouver, Moksha Yoga Uptown and Moksha Yoga Danforth in Toronto. He works to support beginners as well as more experienced students with finding a path to peace through their yoga. His love of yoga is infectious and can be felt in each and every class he teaches.

Ted is also a proud husband and father, an organic farmer, and an environmental/social activist.

Jessica Robertson has been teaching for over 15 years. She has led workshops on Human Rights for people with disabilities across Panama, taught English in Japan and Spain and spent many years teaching youth in Algonquin Park, Canada. She began practicing yoga in her teens with her parents, both yoga teachers. She went on to study annually for 7 years with Baba Hari Das a silent monk from India, and his senior students at the Ashtanga Yoga Fellowship. After years of practicing mostly Pranayama (breathing exercises) Jessica completed the Bikram yoga teacher training with the hopes of addressing chronic joint and back pain. She was astounded with the therapeutic effects of heat and yoga first on her own body, and then in the stories her students shared. After teaching for a couple months in New York City, hot yoga became her primary practice.

Jessica has also completed the Sivananda Yoga Teacher Training at both Beginner and Advanced levels, studies in Bhakti Yoga with Jai Uttal, Daniel Paul and Nubia Texeira, Restorative Yoga with Judith Hansen Lasater, Yoga Therapy with Phoenix Rising, Sanskrit through the Himalayan Institute and Pranayama with TKV Desikachar and family. Jessica’s continued learning also comes from practicing yoga every day…even when she doesn’t feel like it!

Jessica also plays the bass flute, harmonium and guitar and leads kirtan with the music ensemble Lila. Jessica is the co-founder of Moksha Yoga, as well as Moksha Yoga Danforth, Moksha Yoga London and The New Leaf Yoga Foundation.