StudioYogaTalks: Biohacking for Health and Wellness

Diana Perez & Bhaskar Goswami

Diana Perez:
Diana Perez, B.Sc. PT, M.Sc. Rehab. Science, PYT-C, YT(RYA)
Physiotherapist, Sports Physiotherapist
Professional Yoga Therapist, Certified Yoga Teacher
Functional Medicine and Health Consultant
Diana is a sports and rehabilitation physiotherapist and has been a practicing clinician since 1985.
She is the founder and previous owner (1997-2009) of the Medi-Club Physiotherapy and Medical Wellness Centre (Kirkland, Quebec), where she continues to practice as a clinical physiotherapist.
She also has formal training in the areas of Functional and Integrative Medicine, Naturopathy, Ayurvedic Medicine, Functional Nutrition and Functional Medicine, Acupuncture, and Mindfulness-Based Pain Relief Certification.
Diana has been practicing yoga since 2000 and teaching yoga since 2002. She has 2 teacher training certifications (Hatha & Ashtanga-RYA) and is also certified as a Professional Yoga Therapist (PYTI-2017) and Accessible Yoga (2019) and Pain Care Aware Yoga Teacher (2022). Her yoga influences have been mainly from the schools of Hatha, Ashtanga, Moksha and Anusara, but she has also completed thousands of hours of training in yoga immersions, workshops and courses leading to specialties in Yoga Therapy, Yin Yoga, Yoga Alignment and Sequencing, Pranayama, Meditation and Mindfulness.
She has developed and teaches numerous types of courses to health care professionals (Medical Yoga Therapy, Yoga for Musculoskeletal and Neurological PT Practices, Yoga for Pelvic Floor PT Practice, Integrating Yoga into Health Care). She is a faculty member of various Yoga Teacher Training and Yoga Therapy Training Programs and teaches numerous yoga and yoga therapy related workshops to yoga teachers throughout NA (Teaching and Sequencing Yoga Safely, Anatomy of Yoga, Injury Prevention in Yoga, Yin Yoga Fundamentals, etc.) She also runs international and local yoga retreats, teaches yoga classes and workshops for the general public and provides various yoga therapy and PT services at her clinic and several other locations in the West Island of Montreal.

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Bhaskar Goswami:
BODHI + daana founder, embodiment specialist
As a senior yoga and meditation teacher, Bhaskar Goswami has led numerous international retreats and is an acclaimed speaker, having presented in prestigious organizations and events like COP22 (UN Global Climate Change Summit, Morocco). From Assam, India, Bhaskar was born into the yogic tradition. He comes from the lineage of Vasishtha, who is considered to be one of the founding fathers of this ancient practice. He has been trained at the Transcendental Meditation School in India, by Yogacharya (Master of Yoga) Nandakumar in Kuwait and by Yogacharya Sriram, the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta and Vipassana Meditation Center in Canada.
In 2007 he founded BODHI, a multiple award-winning company dedicated to offering genuine wellbeing to people in homes, businesses, schools and special care places such as in prison, addiction centers, rehabilitation facilities and elderly homes. He is a specialist in establishing in-house organizational wellness programs.
In 2015 he founded daana, a CBC Award Winning non-profit organization offering contribution-based wellness activities around the world.
Bhaskar has also published two international albums, Open Yoga and Wisdom Stories, and is the author of Wisdom Stories - Book 1.
Bhaskar Goswami has a Masters Honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham (England) and a 10-year international engineering career.