Yoga Therapy, PTSD and the Life of a “Fire Wife”
You might ask yourself how Yoga and “Fire Wife” are related but let me tell you - yoga training has helped me a lot in this very important supporting role I have landed in. One of the first lessons I learned was that what works for...
Yoga Therapy for Mental Wellness
About 1 in 10 people experience severe anxiety in the form of an anxiety disorder. I am repeatedly blown away by the prevalence of mental illness Western society today. It raises many questions for me. What has changed to create these health conditions? Are the...
Yoga Therapy: Personalized approach to managing stress
In modern life, there are a lot of ways you might experience stress which can lead to imbalances throughout your body from your outer body to your most inner/spiritual centre. Here is a list of 10 possible sources of stress that you may have some...
2019 March Blog – My Journey: Living with Multiple Sclerosis
One day when I was 23 years old, the right side of my body went numb from my feet all the way up to my collar bone. Completely numb - I could feel some pressure, but I couldn’t tell if I was being poked with...
Say yes to a yoga practice
I recently had an article published in The Wellington Advertiser. You can read it HERE. ...
Weekly notes Feb 19
The long winter has apparently caught up to me and I have been fighting off a cold for a week now. The battle continues, but I seem to be winning thanks to lots of rest, lots of green tea and a magic potion of lemons,...
Restorative Yoga: a practice for when you are weak, fatigued or stressed out … any time!
This week we focused on Restorative Yoga. Restorative Yoga is based on the Iyengar method of supporting your body with props to benefit from the poses without straining thereby reducing the risk of injury. This weeks lesson was inspired by Judith Hanson Lasater's book, Relax...
Finalist!
I've been named as a finalist in the 2015 Launch It! business plan competition. Check out the link below: http://www.wellingtonadvertiser.com/comments/index.cfm?articleID=26881 And a big thanks to the town of Minto for hosting the competition....
Spring is here!
We have focused on grounding and stabilizing for building strength to grow into more difficult poses. Are you spending too much time sitting at your desk? Open up your hips with leg stretches with a tie or belt before moving into more challenging (but OH SO...
Expanding the breath…
Tonight our theme was Expanding the Breath and we explored how the breath moves our side body through breath awareness and movement. Exploration of Breath: We contrasted holding our abs in versus releasing habitual tension in the belly. How low did you go? Could you feel the...