Yoga therapy can be a powerful tool in creating safe and inclusive spaces by addressing both physical and mental health needs while fostering a sense of community and acceptance. Here’s how it achieves this: Personalization: Yoga therapy is highly individualized. Sessions are tailored to accommodate specific needs, abilities, and goals, ensuring that yoga is accessible and supportive. Adaptability: Techniques and poses can be modified to suit various physical abilities, making yoga accessible to people with different levels of mobility and… Read More
THE POWER OF INTUITION
Only a calm and quiet mind will allow us to connect to the power of intuition. Through yoga, we learn to slow the thoughts and calm the mind, and to find this intuitive wisdom in the ‘minds eye’. Sometimes you will hear this referred to as the ‘6th sense’. When intuition unites with the goodness in our hearts, we can find amazing clarity! Is it time to make some stillness and inner peace a priority? For a moment now, consider numerology… Read More
LOVE, LIGHT & JOY YOGA OFFERING
Inherently, we are all love, light and joy. When we forget this (because we will) life affirming yoga can help us remember. Yes, yoga has all the tools to remind us who we really are, and to keep us thriving towards this state of being! For ‘Love Week’, let’s rekindle that spirit with any of the following offers: Receive 25% OFF a 90 Minute Private Yoga Session: Instill more LOVE in your life with a regular yoga practice. What do you need… Read More
MINDFULNESS
Imagine a day where the only thing on your calendar is to mindfully care for your body, mind, and spirit. The most important thing to-do, is take care of you. Register now for the Loon Lake ECO Yoga Retreat Oct. 23-25th. Spots are filling up but there are still single rooms available. Why attend a BC Yoga Retreat? 1. Feel the power of meditating with others 2. Gain new perspective 3. You’ll have time to reflect 4. Connect or reconnect… Read More
KARMA SPECIAL
Karma is all about action. Most of us are quite familiar with this Sanskrit word that is derived from kri ‘to do’ and refers to actions of any kind. Within matter, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The karma yoga system believes that everything you do, say or think has an immediate effect on the universe and in you! This reaction generated by the atma’s (spirit’s) use of free will, puts in motion… Read More
GROWING COMPASSION
“You don’t need to drag Auschwitz around with you everywhere you go”, was the direct but caring comment made by trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk, to his respected colleague Gabor Mate, MD. In his best selling book The Myth of Normal, Gabor says that in that moment, across the table many years ago, he was “seen”. The compassion and support of his colleagues, friends and loving wife contributed greatly to his healing journey, but along the way he needed to… Read More
THE GIFT OF PRESENCE
We’ll be hOMe for the holidays and I will be doing my best to keep things simple! Simply slowing down for self care and renewal in the outdoors… This is the only gift I want and need for myself. The gift of love and presence. It is in the heart that is ready to open, expand, and connect with (anytime I choose, as I have heard someone wise mention). Even with supportive family and friends, I can clam up. But… Read More