Hiya, I’m

SABRINA

After a whirlwind of accolades, accomplishments and inauthenticity left me burnt out and diagnosed with an autoimmune disorder at 25, I pulled the plug on my fast-paced life, became a certified Breathwork and Yoga teacher and turned my health and happiness around, naturally. Now I’m on a mission to help others become their favourite selves through my podcast, community and offerings.

I meet you where you’re at to help you build physical and mental strength through fun fitness classes that infuse breath-work and mobility, 1:1 coaching, and live sessions (catered to you or a group of up to 10 people). I can create classes for kids and kids-at-heart alike, and have experience leading group classes of all kinds, from kid’s camps to college-level courses to fitness studio sessions for 40 participants.
Transforming into a better, stronger you should be a fun process, not an intimidating or shameful one. After growing up without a roadmap to loving myself and struggling with a poor self-concept and bad habits, I’m on a mission to help make the experience of caring for your body enjoyable and empowering.
My approach to self-care and fitness is fun and unfussy. I pride myself on great cueing and seamless transitions so you can stay in your body and in integrity. My classes fuse my love for strength training and mobility exercises with my 8-year karate experience and formal training in Yoga and Breath-work for a mixed-bag workout.

My JOURNEY in a nutshell.

I grew up a curious kid fascinated with nature, art, and the body. I loved drawing portraits and writing stories. It wasn’t uncommon to find me up a tree reading about dreaming or Traditional Chinese Medicine. But as a young girl in the 90s, the media I was saturated in didn’t quite offer a healthy guide to caring for my body. So when it started changing at 13 and I developed acne, so too did I develop an eating disorder that would last 18 years.

Functioning with anorexia, I turned my obsession with the body into a passion for art, portraiture and life drawing, as well as Yoga. This practice became a solace — one of the only times I felt comfortable with the passage of time. And from 2008 until 2012, I studied Illustration at Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning.

After graduating with my BAA and Honours, I spent 2012-2016 years working myriad creative roles in advertising, tech and publishing, illustrating for the likes of The New York Times, creating social content for Maynards as an Art Director, and designing for Mozilla and MoneySense Magazine. During this time, I was also invited to teach illustration and visual design at Sheridan as well as speak at various creative/entrepreneurial events across North America including BlogPodium, InfluenceTHIS and MakingItMiami.

In 2015 I began blogging for myself and as a Design*Sponge Editor where I interviewed Genevieve Gorder, Adam JK, Julia Marcum, Colin & Justin, and more. And on my blog, I chronicled my DIY adventures renovating my first home. This led to an opportunity to guest star on W’s Game of Homes, an opportunity that culminated in co-hosting my own HGTV show, Save My Reno. In 2015, I also began appearing as a guest on Cityline.

I was living the dream, thriving in my career and accumulating accolades left and right. But I was burnt out, unfulfilled and unhappy in my relationship — despite being engaged to wed. I thought, “Perhaps this dream I’m living isn’t my own...” Despite “having it all,” I felt I had lost myself, which ultimately led to adrenal fatigue and being diagnosed with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in 2016.

That wake-up call led me on a spiral of self-transformation that started with ending my relationship to explore one I hadn’t yet: with myself. Without a clue where to begin getting to know myself, I booked a solo wellness trip to Bali, Indonesia where I rediscovered Yoga and was immersed in an Ayurvedic lifestyle with a group of 11 perfect strangers.

This 14-day retreat transformed my mind into a safe, calm place, and my body into a haven I could trust and tap into to understand how I felt to see what I needed. It was the connection I had been missing being so distracted with people pleasing, codependency and overworking to validate my worth.

Returning to filming my HGTV show, I felt energized in a way I couldn’t describe, so I booked a two-month solo trip to Thailand to study Yoga and Breathwork… I knew my days of filming the show were done. No longer did the lifestyle of my dreams align with how I was living, so after my Yoga Teacher Training, I made the tough decision to leave my role behind — along with my home. After falling in love over summer 2018, I sold my home and drove across the country with my pup and my partner to Squamish, BC, where I started my new life as a yoga teacher.

In the years to follow, I would transform my health through deep study, training, and embracing a holistic approach to health. Amidst the pines and along the rivers, I’d find peace, and also plants. This fascination with the natural world returned tenfold and in between teaching and working odd creative jobs including guesting on Cityline, I studied Astronomy (with Outlier), dove into Herbalism, and learned more about vibrational healing.

With all this new knowledge about how compatible and healing plants and essential oils are with the human body, and conversely how toxic the current personal care products I was using were, I decided to formulate my own line of natural healing products. And in 2020, Heelr was born.

From 2021 to now, I have been continuing my education, not just about the body, but about myself and the transformation that can take place within us all. In addition to teaching yoga and writing for The National Post, I am now inspired to share more of my personal tales and interests on Instagram and through my podcast Every Seven Years in the hopes it helps us all heal and grow more into the truest, most healthy versions of ourselves.