Iala is a Reverend and a certified fitness instructor and yoga teacher and Hypnotherapist. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Drama.
She was one of the pioneers of aerobic fitness in Toronto, Canada in the early 80's.
She owned a company there called Lighten Up which specialized in Fitness Getaways.
In the mid 80's she visited the P.R. of China and found herself performing aerobics and singing in a stadium with 5,500 people a night. When she was asked to remain in China and teach the athletes this new wonder - aerobics - she caught the first flight out to capitalism - er - Hong Kong..
From 1994- 2001 Iala lived in Costa Rica where she founded El Santuario de la Luz a spiritual retreat center specializing in facilitating people who wish to "Drop In" to life, say yes to the possibilities and live fully a Life of Destiny.
While in Costa Rica she initiated several local cooperative businesses. She was also the local masseuse, was the owner/operator of an internet café/ real estate agency and she taught aquaerobics in an exclusive beachside resort and ran a Horse Back Riding Tour company.
Iala has her own record label, Roadrunner Releases that specializes in music that transforms and elevates the spirit, guided meditations and spiritual teachings as well as children's cosmic journey tapes. www.roadrunnerreleases.com
For the past 12 years, Iala has been the artistic director of Mother Earth Productions which has a mandate to entertain, educate and empower children about environmental issues. She has presented these performances over 1,500 times across Canada and the U.S.
Iala is currently living in beautiful, mystical Sedona. She is runs SEDONA RED ROCK TOURS & SEDONA DESTINATION WEDDINGS. Specializing in vortex tours and yoga on the Red Rocks and uplifting, inspiring dream Sedona Weddings. She teaches a daily JOYOGA class at SEDONA ROUGE HOTEL & SPA.
Iala is a certified hypnotherapist specializing in boosting confidence, weight loss and smoking cessation. She also does past life regression sessions, aura clearing, soul retrieval, spirtual coaching and teaches journaling and meditation and is a Spiritual Coach.
Iala tours America regularly with her soulsplittingly funny one woman, jungle journey play PARadISe 4 $Ale. For more information please go to our PArAdise 4 $ale page and check our calendar of upcoming performances.
Iala leads a yearly yoga retreat to Costa Rica. Each retreat focuses on adventure, yoga, beautiful surroundings, delicious food, with the added bonus of empowering the individual, giving back to the community visited and expanding the hearts and minds of all involved. The tour participants will spend a portion of their vacation involved with a local project. We will leave our mark. We will make a difference. In Costa Rica a portion of all proceeds will go to buy land for Nature Preserves. Good Karma comes from good intention and great dharma (service). This is a foreign policy worth looking into.It's time to take a vacation for your Body, Mind and Spirit.
We make a difference wherever we go!
Iala has a very popular yoga DVD called SEDONA VORTEX YOGA. See an excerpt at: www.sedonaredrocktours.com
SEDONA VORTEX YOGA - the DVD
Yoga inspired by the Spirit of Sedona.
7 Yoga Flows Filmed at 7 Vortex Sites.
Where the EAST meets the SOUTHWEST and will never be the same again.