Studio & Joyful Teachers

The first space to open in town devoted entirely to yoga -Joyful Yoga Studio has a beautiful location in downtown Truro on Inglis Street. The spacious second story location above Inglis Jewelers boasts high ceilings, natural lighting and an amazing selection of yoga classes to choose from. Joy Nicholson, owner and yoga instructor, is joined by several knowledgeable and friendly teachers to offer classes for everyone. 

If you can breathe, you can do yoga.

As well as being an amazing physical exercise, yoga offers so much more. You will leave the studio feeling refreshed, relaxed and inspired.

Linda Campbell

Linda graduated from her Certified Yoga Instructor 200-hour training program with Joyful Yoga Studio in Spring of 2009. From the receipt of her certification she has explored instructing in Beginner, Flow, Hot, Power, Chair and Ball Yoga. Linda is committed to her time on the mat in the classroom and in her home practice. She brings to her offerings a
long history of instruction in fitness and a sense of adventure, curiosity and a light-hearted attitude. Linda highly recommends an open and playful frame of mind to finding that essential stillness - while in motion on the mat.

Come and get to know yourself...from the inside-out during the noon hour instruction she provides on Mondays during Noon Flow. You may find yourself cruising your "edge" and experiencing an unrealized potential in power and peace!

Diane Mahoney

Diane Mahoney comes from a diverse background. In university she studied psychology and education. She also has an extensive fitness background and has always led an active life. She studied dance for thirteen years and taught it throughout her youth. In university she became a Registered Fitness Appraiser and a fitness and weight room instructor which she continued for ten plus years. These days she continues to exercise and keeps herself busy with her family of five children, church activity and teaching math, science and yoga at Truro's only French school. Diane took her first yoga class at the age of seven and has never looked back - giving her more than forty years of yoga experience. Her journey of becoming a teacher, through Joyful Yoga, has been an amazing experience and has lead her to make yoga a daily part of her life - a practice she knows will last a lifetime. She is convinced that the many faces of yoga have something to offer for all of her moods, lifestyle and fitness needs.

Laura Blois

Laura Blois has been teaching Hatha yoga for four years and has been practicing for 15 years and believes that yoga is the best way to de-stress, calm the mind and maintain a healthy balance in life mentally and physically.   In addition to completing her 200 Teacher Training at Joyful Yoga, Laura received training as a LifeForce Yoga Practitioner with Amy Weintraub, a renowned leader in Yoga for Mental Health. This training offers an application of yoga specifically designed to treat and manage mood symptoms such as anxiety and depression, in a gentle, compassionate manner. 

She is inspired by the teachings of Rod Stryker, Elena Brower and Sally Kempton.

Laura has always been passionate about education and has taught French, Socials and Dance at the secondary school level.  She is keen to one day bring her enthusiasm of yoga in the public school system.  Laura is currently working to complete a Masters of Education Counselling from Acadia University.  She feels this degree complements her yoga teaching and in the future she plans to offer a unique combination of yoga and talk therapy as an alternative way to heal and regulate mood symptoms.

Lynn Marie Mattie

Lynn Marie completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2002 at the Omega Institute of Holistic Studies in upstate New York. She returned to Omega in 2003 to complete a 5 month Building Peace from the Ground Up program, where she studied with shamans, healers and many other teachers. Lynn Marie is the proud mama of her beautiful son, Dane. She is on the board of directors for the Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia. She loves to dance, garden, and study all things mystical… especially astrology!

She grew up on a farm and has been able to intertwine her accounting career with her love of agriculture. She currently works as the Director of Finance for Blueline New Holland Limited.

Lynn Marie has most recently been studying yoga with Supriya Dasi of The Peace Project to deepen the spiritual side of her practice. She is very happy to be back teaching at Joyful Yoga, re-connecting with many of her yogini friends. Lynn Marie offers a welcoming safe space for a gentle yoga practice. Listen to your breath, feel your body, allow your light to shine.

Mel Cotterill

I remember my first experience with yoga, following along with one of those videos they use to have on TV at 6am when I was a teenager. My yoga path was on and off after that, until I discovered that yoga was accessible to me, in my own living room, in my pajamas, while I was at home with two small children. That is the beauty of yoga, it is always accessible. As a pre-natal teacher, and breastfeeding educator I thought I was taking my Yoga teacher training in 2015/2016 to further my career by offering pre and post natal yoga, but yoga has become so much more than a career option for me; it is a way of life.

Yoga has helped me learn to love myself, just as I am, and it is my hope as a yoga instructor to help others start to catch a glimpse of the freedom that letting go of your ego, and being present in the moment, can provide. I teach yoga to bring more peace to the world, one class at a time.

When I am not on my yoga mat you can find me chasing my kids in various directions, reading, crafting, camping, cooking and helping to build a community that values families, mothers, women, body positivist, and self nurturing.