Ally Boothroyd

Ally Boothroyd is a Canadian yoga and Yoga Nidra teacher from the Kawartha Lakes area of Ontario, where she founded Sarovara Yoga. She started practising in 2003 and took her first 200-hour training with Randal Williams of Kripalu, later assisting him on his Yoga Nidra programmes; that apprenticeship set the course of her work. Since 2013 she and Tiina Kivinen have trained new teachers in the Amrita Yoga lineage, and the two now co-direct the 200- and 300-hour programmes of the School of Living Yoga.

Much of her teaching now happens online. She runs a self-paced 100-hour Yoga Nidra teacher training with live Zoom calls, a nine-month 200-hour yoga teacher training, a restorative yoga training paced by the lunar cycle, and the Living Yoga Online Studio with live classes every day. In person she leads small retreats in Ontario, British Columbia and Costa Rica. Her YouTube channel, Sarovara Yoga, holds a large free library of guided Yoga Nidra for deep rest, chakra-themed practices and gentle hatha classes, and she shares similar recordings on Insight Timer. Her style is unhurried and voice-led, often set against ocean or rainforest sound.