Amazing Grace
Oxygen|Sept/Oct 2017

Learn how this plant-powered, detox nutritionist and tropical yoga teacher relies on nature to stay fit.

Jill Schildhouse
Amazing Grace

In 2010, while working as a registered holistic nutritionist and personal trainer in Toronto, Grace Van Berkum decided it was time to break up with winter. So she enrolled in a yoga instructor training program at an ashram in the Bahamas, and upon completion, she headed to Nicaragua for a two-month teaching opportunity. It’s six years later and she’s never left.

“I sold everything I owned and left everyone I knew and cared for, to follow my dreams of living off the grid in the tropics on a beach while teaching my passion and strong beliefs that conscious eating and conscious living will help you live your best life possible, physically, mentally and spiritually,” Van Berkum says. “This journey would not be possible if I didn’t have the courage to face my fears, follow my heart, embrace change and explore new ways of living.”

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