Have you planked lately?
No longer content to just put a garden gnome in their photos and call it original, snap happy people around the world have started a new fad called planking, and it really is taking the world by storm. […]
Do It Yourself Yoga Props
Props can be an invaluable part of any yoga practice – from the beginner to the advanced practitioner. They can help make challenging poses more accessible, modify certain poses to support injuries, improve balance, flexibility, and range of motion. Using props can help your practice progress, as they allow you to stay longer in some […]
Hooray for Labour Day!
Our last (gasp!) long weekend of the summer is fast approaching and many people are getting ready to send summer out in style. For our corporate clients, Labour Day is especially pertinent as it was initiated as an opportunity for workers to campaign for better working conditions and pay. Employee rights have come a long […]
A Little Shut Eye…
….Can be pretty hard to come by. Especially in this expansive season, when the sun calls us out to play and keeps us both moving and awake. Getting to bed on time, and then getting to sleep in bed, are not as easy when the days […]
Easy on the eyes
Its easy to see and feel the benefits of yoga on the body, strengthening and lengthening muscles, and making everything generally work better. We have some often overlooked and regularly overused muscles that tend to get left out of our yoga practice: the eyes. This becomes particularly important […]
A whole new take on corporate yoga
To keep things light as it *finally* heats up this summer, we suggest taking a peek at this website’s version of workplace yoga. You may not have experienced any of these poses in your regular corporate yoga classes, but we have always aknowledged that yoga has evolved over the […]
Innergize your workday
If you find it hard to make it through your work day with enough energy, there might be a few simple adjustments you can make to bring more wellness to the workplace. To ensure a good balance between work and life, try these small tips:
Get Physical – Exercise not only helps you build muscle, lose […]
Pre-Bed Yoga
As soon as summer hits the city everyone and everything gets frenetic. Its all about do do do, and being social and outside as much as possible. After all, we have so much to cram into the fleeting sunlight that we have. Being around so much energy, though, […]
Yoga tunes – Rasa
This duo from Northern California has been making music to get blissed to for over a decade. Primarily based in traditional Indian devotional songs, they layer their own unique blend of beats to give a contemporary flair. The resulting sound is both ethereal and grounded, expansive and meditative, presented in a manner easily accessible by […]
The beauty of the backbend
The spine is often referred to in yoga as “the tree of life”, so naturally it is important to keep it supple and happy. It provides the main structural support for our entire body, houses a main component of our nervous system (the spinal cord), and energetically, contains the major centers of non-sensory input from […]
Stanley Cup Yoga
Vancouver is mayhem – apparently there is some sporting event going on?!?!? Hockey fan or not, you are sure to be on the edge of your seat tonight as history is made. The sense of community and the amazing team spirit the Canucks have generated […]
Salute the Sun
So far our spring has been a little grayer than we would like, leaving most of us wondering when that glorious glowing orb in the sky plans on showing us its warm face. The upside is that on days like today, when the sun does grace us […]
Yoga for Gardeners
Consider yourself lucky if you have access to both a patch of earth and the slightest tinge of a green thumb. Now is prime time for hours spent in the garden, digging and planting, weeding and seeding. As fun and gratifying as getting your hands in the […]
The newer faces of Yoga
Sure, yoga is an ancient tradition rich with spiritual teachings that transcend time and space, and can be universally applied in anyone’s life. But realistically, how many people in today’s society are able to easily dedicate themselves to a study developed in a context so very different from our own? Most of us have yoga […]
Yoga Tunes: Bliss
If you’re also working on the poses we do in class at home on your own, having some good tunes to listen to will surely help to set the mood. My constant go-to, both when I teach and for my home practice, is the album “They Made History” by Bliss (available on iTunes or Amazon […]