The Instructor Team at Dance Fitness with Lizy share her passion to move people with joy, laughter, and fun. We create a community environment in our classes to warmly welcome students when they enter the studio, wherever they are on their fitness journey or experience in a dance fitness class.  There are ZERO mistakes in our class and ZERO judgement, including of yourself.  The mirror is a reflection of the incredible person you are, not any perceived imperfections you have of yourself.

Owning Dance Fitness with Lizy has allowed students to become instructors, be mentored, and teach classes in the community. As a leader in the Greater Victoria Zumba® Community, she promotes Peace Love Zumba® and believes that there is an instructor style for every student. Keep exploring classes until you find the ones you love!

Learn about Spiritual Anatomy as Petra explains her 21 year practice with Heartfulness Mediation which imparts heart-based meditation and relaxation to over 1 million practitioners worldwide. Petra Kixmoller is a Heartfulness trainer since 2016 and has practiced Heartfulness meditation since 2003. She lives in Victoria and has travelled to Heartfulness Centres in India,Denmark, Germany, US and Canada.Her background is in the theatre. She is presently working as an educational assistant in the Victoria school district.

Madhu Bannur, a Heartfulness Meditation practitioner, shares hIs journey with meditation first began in 1997, after practicing for two years before taking a long break and returning to the Heartfulness path in 2021. Now a certified Heartfulness Meditation Trainer and an International Yoga Trainer, having completed the YTT-200  (Yoga Teacher Training) program through the Heartfulness Yoga Academy. 

Join Skillz Fitness for an energizing on-stage experience featuring a 10-minute fitness kickboxing class designed to get the heart pumping and the body moving. This interactive demo highlights functional movement, cardio conditioning, and empowering techniques suitable for all fitness levels. The presentation concludes with an inspiring 10-minute kids Taekwondo demonstration, showcasing discipline, confidence, and skill development. A fun and motivating showcase of fitness, martial arts, and community in action.

​Sylvie Gewehr is a folk herbalist, biologist, and earth keeper. She holds a master’s degree in biology and is a certified herbalist through the Pacific Rim College Online and the Gaia School of Healing and Earth Education. While human schools taught her biology, forest ecology, traditional herbalism, holistic healing, shamanism, and sacred plant medicine, Sylvie never stopped learning with and from the plants themselves. She lives in the Yukon, where she co-founded The North Within with Alida Thomas to help people reconnect with plants and to share the healing, wisdom, and teachings of these beautiful beings. Alida grew up in the Yukon wilderness and has spent a big portion of her life working as a remote wilderness guide all over northern Canada. This greatly inspires her work as a pyrography artist as she strives to create art that enables others to bring a little piece of that wild magic and dynamic peace home with them.

With over a decade of experience in hepatology care, Hayley and Carmen are passionate advocates for liver health. As a dynamic nursing duo, they specialize in supporting patients through every stage of liver disease management - from Hepatitis C testing and treatment, to fatty liver disease, primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) and cirrhosis.
Their role goes beyond clinical care. Hayley and Carmen collaborate closely with physicians to gather essential patient biometrics, perform Fibroscan exams, and deliver personalized education that empowers patients to take charge of their own health. They also navigate medication coverage options and provide tailored guidance and resources to help patients make lifestyle changes that strengthen their liver function.
Love your liver - it's the only organ that parties AND cleans up after you. 

As a Pure Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacist and Manager, Mahshid Poursartip is particularly passionate about helping women through their perimenopause and menopause journeys. She has worked with many women for over 20 years, assisting them with understanding the benefits of bio-identical hormonal therapies, and the art of compounding. She is the facilitator/coordinator of "Her Health Program", a training program designed for pharmacists to assess, counsel, and support women’s hormonal health and treatment options, developed by Dr. Bal Pawa from West Coast Womens Clinic and Pure Pharmacy/Pattison Food Group. She is in the process of achieving her MSCP credentials from the Menopause Society and speaks from the heart of own journey as a working menopausal professional.