Bronwen Kettleson is a technique-first movement educator extensively trained across dance and yoga traditions. Her work centres on composition, line, and repeatable skill, supporting movement practices that underlie artistic disciplines such as dance, yoga, pole, and the aerial arts.
Her study has never been limited to a single discipline. She began ballet at four, started competing at six, and trained in gymnastics alongside. At ten she dropped gymnastics and added jazz, musical theatre, modern, and tap, focusing on competition for the next several years. She then went on to work professionally with contracts in ballet, cabaret, and commercial dance.
She completed her 500 RYT with Carla Wainwright in British Columbia, then deepened her yoga study through Ashtanga, living first in Buenos Aires and then in Oslo. During this time she trained with Lino Miele, Alexander Medin, and Basia Lipska, and undertook multiple trainings with Manju Jois in Crete, Bologna, and later Maui. Her first international teaching engagement was assisting Basia Lipska at the Purple Valley Retreat Centre in Goa. She went on to host her own workshops in Dublin, Rome, San Flaviano, Tulum, and a return tour of studios in and around Oslo. After returning to Canada, she opened a boutique yoga and dance space with a Mysore program and a performance group contracted for events. Her teaching repertoire expanded further at Tantra in Vancouver, where she added pole and lyra certifications alongside her studio work.
She travels frequently, and classes are a consistent part of how she experiences a city. While she has moved past the years of performance and competition, she continues to show up as a student, with an emphasis on growth and an eye toward longevity. Whether she is on a dance floor, a yoga shala, pole studio, or somewhere in between, movement remains her common language, one that holds across difference in culture, age, training background, and context. She finds that her range across disciplines is less about versatility for its own sake than about genuine curiosity and a refusal to let deep familiarity in one area become a reason to stop learning in another. Some of the most valuable hours she has spent in a studio have been as a beginner in someone else's tradition, and she carries that orientation into her own teaching. There is always another room worth entering.
Her teaching draws on formal dance training, Ashtanga and other yoga traditions, contortion, and hand balancing, with an emphasis on line, sequencing, skill progression, and the long arc of practice. She teaches virtually and in-studio, and offers workshops, guest instruction, and private work internationally.
She is in the process of developing a syllabus on her virtual platform that will form the foundation for a practice that can be useful for multi-faceted movers.
She offers training tips, articles, and a Training Today series on her Substack platform. Subscribers to her virtual platform will have access as well to Substack.
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