Andre Talbot

Movement, Mindfulness & Athlete Care

Andre offers a creative, collaborative, and multi-disciplinary approach to movement training and physical practice that recognizes the potential for resilience, positive change and transformation.

Andre is the Co-Founder and Director of movement and mindfulness programming at the Spirit Loft Movement Centre, Toronto’s east-end movement and mindfulness studio and community, established in 2011.

As a personal trainer and movement teacher for over 25 years, Andre has studied with a diverse set of coaches, teachers and disciplines. He uses his rich athletic experience and continuing education trainings as foundational tools to skillfully assess, support and guide  human beings in the fields of sport-specific performance, movement rehabilitation, strength training and optimization for life.

Andre enjoyed-endured a 10-year career as a professional football player in the Canadian Football League achieving numerous accolades including Grey Cup Champion and Team Captain. He graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University after a 4-year career as a student-athlete where he garnered 2-time All-Canadian and team MVP honours. Andre recently completed his Master’s in Theology with a focus on Spiritual Care & Psychotherapy from WLU. Concurrent with this academic training, he completed his clinical placement within the interdisciplinary care team at the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science serving as part of the counselling staff for the brain injury and vision loss rehabilitation clinics.

As an athlete care and peak performance coach, Andre has worked hand-in-hand with elite athletes and sports organizations to develop unique mind-body training programs to assist in the development and well-being of athletes in the high-stakes and high-pressure arenas of sports performance. His list of past clients includes CFL, NHL, AHL and Olympic athletes.

Andre is a mindfulness facilitator and Zen student. He facilitates group meditation practice and study of the mindfulness tradition from a contemporary and scientifically informed worldview. From this perspective he is interested in respectful engagement of the world’s wisdom traditions towards the cultivation of greater compassion, understanding, wellbeing and peace.