OUR TEACHERS AND FACILITATORS

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Gina Pringle, owner and founder of Ohm Zome, has dedicated her life to fostering wellness and community. She studied yoga under the esteemed Kavita Maharaj at Red Door Yoga, where she honed her passion for holistic practices. Originally from Victoria, Gina moved to the valley in the early 1990s, drawn by the natural beauty and peaceful surroundings.

Together with her husband Orrin, Gina has built a quiet, fulfilling life with their three grown children and three beloved dogs. Creating the Ohm Zome was a lifelong dream—a serene space designed to nurture connection, mindfulness, and community. Nestled in a tranquil forest setting, it embodies Gina’s vision of harmony and shared growth.

Certified in India in 2010, Rachel is a passionate yoga teacher specializing in Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga. Rachel has a deep commitment to guiding the community towards a deeper awareness and connection. She lived and taught in New Zealand and Australia for two years.

Having completed a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation course, Rachel embraces a holistic yoga lifestyle, focusing on balance, a slow-pace, and mindful living. Recently relocating to the Cowichan Valley from Vancouver, she is embracing reconnecting with the area where she grew up.

In addition to being a dedicated yoga instructor, Rachel is a sign language interpreter and a former baker who loves making sourdough bread. She shares her home with her beloved Australian Heeler, Rusty, and two affectionate cats, Louey and Sammy.

Ella’s Journey into Voice began 35 years ago with a transformational experience where her voice was miraculously awakened with her first mentor, the inimitable Harriet Buchan in Edinburgh, Scotland.

She had found her voice. However she then lost her voice through not understanding the gift, not heeding the call, and has spent the next 3 decades on a journey of inquiry into the healing voice, releasing the voice and vocal expression including improvisation.

All this led to her founding and leading groups, from 2001-2018 in vocal improvisation, community choirs, Threshold style choirs and also offering workshops in freeing the voice/ the healing voice.

A brain injury 7 years ago put a halt to all of that. Once again she lost her vocal capacity. And had to find it again. It has been a long haul in recovery but her calling wouldn’t leave her alone and now she is resurfacing at last with new, unique, vocal healing offerings.

Here are some of her mentors over the course of 3 and a 1/2 decades:

Harriet Buchan, actress and singer, famous for her role in Taggart, a UK series.

Frankie Armstrong, UK folk singer and natural voice practitioner. Natural Voice Practitioner certification training with Frankie.

Chloe Goodchild, UK and internationally renowned vocal coach.

Jill Purce, world renowned Tibetan overtoning teacher.

Black Coffee Sound Production, UK.

Sibylle Rovier, psychotherapist and find your voice teacher, Findhorn, UK.

Peter Giles, Voice teacher, UK.

Community Choir Leadership Training, Siobhan Robinsong and Dennis Donnelly, Victoria, BC, Canada.

7 years participation in a leaderless group of vocal improvisers, gathering one full weekend per month, Victoria, BC, Canada.

Roy Hart Theatre of the Voice, France.

Rhiannon, BC, Canada.

Edwin Coppard, BC, Canada.

Applied Improvisation Conference Presenter, US.

And more recently, post brain injury:

Hanna Elise Seinen, voice teacher, BC, Canada

Currently: Lachune Boyd, Vocal Coach, Texas, US. Semifinalist for America’s Got Talent, 2023.

Amy Reedman has dedicated the last two decades to studying and practicing natural wellness. She is a Certified Aromatherapist, Wayfinder Life Coach, Hatha, Yin and Restorative Yoga Teacher and founder of The Blending Bar Aromatherapy + Wellness. Amy incorporates yoga philosophy, mindfulness, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), and The Work of Byron Katie in her private practice, online and in-person yoga classes and speaking engagements. Amy lives on Vancouver Island and her delight is spending her time in nature with her whoodle Bandit.

Ocian of Ocian Sound Medicine is an expanded states guide and established sound practitioner, offering to audiences all across Canada, the United States and beyond. Ocian has dedicated her life to being of service and walking a path of remembering how to be in right relationship with the earth and all beings in this realm. She started this path 13 years ago with sound and energy work, then realized she wanted to make an impact with people and began learning Numa Somatic breathwork and animism rituals from Celtic, Andean and Hawaiian lineages. Ocian has been sitting with plant medicines for 10 years in the Shipibo lineage. She is dedicated to creating trauma aware, safe circles, ceremonies and experiences for people to explore and heal themselves.

Since 2010, she has been weaving together deeply transformative and profound healing spaces. She hosts and co-creates circles, ceremony and journeys, with the intention of creating resilient, self aware individuals and empowered communities through experiencing the ‘Art of the Muses’: Music & Sound. These sessions can include instruments such as: Crystal Bowls, Crystal Lyre, Chimes, Rattles & Feathers, Steel & Medicine Drum, her latest the Sansula and Triple Drone Flute and most specially her etheric and powerful vocal harmonics. These sessions are deeply relaxing and rejuvenating, bringing people into deep states of cathartic release. Many participants have reports of incredible physical, mental, emotional and spiritual shifts after their sessions.