Small. Inspired. Community.
An intimate setting for Yoga, Movement, Workshops and Meditation in East Vancouver.
Green Room Yoga has been welcoming people in the Hastings Sunrise area to our warm, inclusive space since 2008. With a wide variety of classes taught by some of Vancouver’s most experienced and dedicated teachers, we bring together the strength of movement and meditation traditions with the expansive experience that comes when we breathe, move, and grow – together.
Green Room and its teachers gratefully acknowledge that we teach on the unceded, ancestral land of the Coast Salish People, including the, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.
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Meet Green Room's Founder & Owners
Green Room Yoga started back in 2004 in the ‘green living room’ of Alix Rodrigues’ then home. In 2008, when Alix was just two months away from giving birth to her daughter, she opened a studio in the 2500 block on Hastings St. A few years later we moved to our current location.
For Alix, yoga was always something deeply personal. It helped her become a kinder, more grounded, generous and trusting person. Over the 12 years she operated the studio, those qualities of trust, generosity and unpretentious commitment became infused into the core of Green Room's dedicated community of teachers and students.
In 2020 Alix stepped down from teaching and passed the studio into the competent hands of long time GRY teacher and a prominent member of the community, Jennifer Clarke. Through every challenging twist and turn of the Covid 19 pandemic and beyond Jennifer managed to successfully build upon Alix’s legacy. Under her direction, Green Room was transformed into a vital hub, with new flooring, new lights and an updated registration system (no small feat for an independent business!). Soon, new students, teachers and even Yoga Teacher Training Programs began to call Green Room Yoga their studio of choice.
In the summer of 2024, Jennifer moved on to new frontiers in Calgary and entrusted Green Room Yoga to its most longstanding teacher, Delia Brett.
“My whole thing is that Green Room is a community-building endeavor; we all want to support the community. There is an amazing collection of people who come here, and they all live in the neighborhood. People come here and they stay here. At the end of the day we’re just here to become better people.” ~ Alix
Alix Rodrigues
Alix Rodrigues has been teaching yoga since 2000. She started Green Room Yoga (GRY) in 2004 by teaching out of her home. In 2008 when pregnant with her child, and with a wonderful and loyal group of students in tow and commitments from what she felt were truly some of the best teachers in the city, she opened GRY on Hastings, it's been a part of the neighbourhood ever since. The growth of Green Room Yoga and her daughter have paralleled each other nicely, creating equal measures of joy, laughter, harmony and a healthy dose of chaos. In the summer of 2020 Alix shifted over to just teaching classes and handed the reigns of the studio over to long-time teacher at GRY, Jennifer Clarke.
Alix also has an online organic nut business which helps her to fuel her passion for nourishing food, www.nuthut.ca
Jennifer Clarke
Jennifer Clarke ERYT500- I was the studio owner and operator of Green Room Yoga from 2020-2024. I started practicing yoga in the 90s and since then it has been a daily part of my life. Yoga practice has helped me stay embodied during the challenges of life. It is a self care tool that supports me to be responsive to life, uphold my boundaries, respect the boundaries of others, show up, and flow through my life. I can absolutely say that my yoga practice has helped me become a better parent. I have been teaching weekly classes since 2006 and I am grateful to my students for studying with me all these years, some of whom I've had the honour of teaching since the beginning of my career. I am an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.