Bronwen Kettleson is a technique-first movement educator with extensive training across dance and yoga traditions. Her work centres on composition, line and repeatable skill, building technical foundations that support dance, contemporary yoga, pole and aerial practice.
She began ballet at four, entered competitions at six and trained in gymnastics alongside dance. Her studies later expanded to jazz, musical theatre, modern and tap, followed by professional work in ballet, cabaret and commercial dance.
Bronwen completed her 500-hour yoga teacher training with Carla Wainwright in British Columbia and is registered as an E-RYT 500 and YACEP. She deepened her study of Ashtanga while living in Buenos Aires and Oslo, training with Lino Miele, Alexander Medin and Basia Lipska, as well as undertaking multiple trainings with Manju Jois in Crete, Bologna and Maui.
Her first international teaching engagement was assisting Basia Lipska at the Purple Valley Retreat Centre in Goa. She later led workshops in Dublin, Rome, San Flaviano and Tulum, followed by a return tour of studios in and around Oslo. After returning to Canada, she opened a boutique yoga and dance studio with a Mysore programme and a performance group contracted for events. Her teaching repertoire expanded further at Tantra in Vancouver, where she added pole and lyra certifications.
Travel remains part of her education, and taking class is central to how she experiences a city. Although she has moved beyond the years of performance and competition, she continues to approach movement as a student, with an emphasis on growth and an eye toward longevity.
Whether on a dance floor, in a yoga shala, at a pole studio or somewhere in between, movement remains her common language. Her breadth across disciplines comes from genuine curiosity rather than versatility for its own sake. Some of her most valuable hours in a studio have been spent as a beginner in someone else’s tradition, and she carries that orientation into her 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 studios and offers workshops, guest instruction and private coaching internationally. View full list of certifications.
Her virtual platform is being developed around a progressive syllabus for multifaceted movers. Its classes and reference videos support personal practice, work between classes and exploration across related disciplines.
On Substack, she publishes training guidance, essays, travel and studio notes, and releases from her Training Today series. Membership to the virtual platform also includes access to her Substack.
