Amanda has a long history with sports and movement. As a young girl, she practiced gymnastics and figure skating before moving on to a career as an elite junior tennis player where she first developed a foundation in conditioned training. Amanda compliments that dynamic training with over 15 years of practice and 10 years experience as a yoga teacher. A mother herself, she is also a certified Pre/Postnatal Performance Training Specialist and is passionate about helping mothers build strength and confidence throughout their pre and postnatal movement journeys. Amanda will empower you to create a personalized movement practice even if you only have ten minutes a day. She believes that when we move our bodies, we move our lives forward, opening ourselves up to new opportunities for self-expression, connection, and lifelong health. Her classes balance effort with ease, making space for both challenge and rest.
Amanda June Giannakos, Managing and Creative Director at NM reflects on her life’s mission of encouraging people to move. She explores how her early years, experiences as a teenage athlete, and her pregnancy have influenced and shaped her own perspective on movement, and how she truly believes ...
Start your morning off with this simple and powerful class to activate your core. It can be done from a chair or seated on the ground. Amanda will guide you through 360 degrees breathing and pelvic floor exercises, working through strength-building retentions and dynamic speed-holds. You will fi...
Amanda designed this class for those days when you just need a short stretch break to reset and feel good in your body. She guides you through some of her favourite stretches to release tension. You will move through spinal rolls, modified sun salutation, ankle rolls, hamstring stretches, glute b...
