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Virtual Online Yoga

Online Yoga in the Morning. Keep the momentum going.   You don’t have to leave the house to join (but you can come in to the studio if you want – limited numbers. Message if you want to participate in person).   Coming to you online, Virtual Yoga Mornings will be as challenging and rewarding as ever.   One […]

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January 2020 Morning Yoga

January 2020. After the holidays, plan a morning challenge for yourself! Twice a week, get up before everyone else and fit your yoga practice in. 6:45 -7:45am Tuesdays and Thursdays January 14 – 30, 2020 $84 + tax register at http://www.taigayoga.com  

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I’m teaching a Yoga Teacher Training. Here’s why:

You already believe in the power of the practice for yourself. Teacher training will immerse you in the practice and you’ll emerge with an understanding of how to describe yoga.

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Yoga, weight loss and the search for compassion.

Weight issues are epidemic in our culture. Obesity as a medical problem is widespread, and overweight patients are often prescribed “weight loss” as a solution to any medical problem.  People with the particular physical characteristic of excessive body fat are given only one prescription for health. They feel constant pressure to conform, change and shrink.  […]

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Workshop: Yoga for Beginners

Have you been thinking about trying yoga? This spring, sign up for a six-class series that will demystify the language of yoga and give you the confidence to join any yoga class. The practice of yoga can be incorporated into your lifestyle at any age and regardless of your fitness level. Experienced athletes and fitness […]

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June 2017 – Morning Yoga at Taiga Yoga

I’ll be teaching another morning yoga series at Taiga Yoga in Yellowknife next month. Meet me on the mat at 7am every Mon, Tue, Wed and Thur starting June 5, 2017. I will be teaching sequences that are inspired by the Ashtanga primary series and you can expect strict attention to alignment (to keep you […]

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Power Yoga is for Beginners

The physical challenge of Power Yoga makes the yoga aspect of the practice easier than in less-physically challenging sequences. I teach Power Yoga. I have taught other versions of yoga but Power Yoga is most congruent with my personal practice and is what I want to share with my students. Almost every day, someone says to […]

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Cue the Silence

Our world is a noisy place. We exist among conversations, loud engines, music, sirens, air filter machines, humming computers, ringtones, radios, barking dogs and constant chatter inside our heads. Silence is an elusive concept. So when the power went off in my office building last week, besides the darkness, the aftermath was a silence that […]

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Silence the chatter with a strong physical yoga practice

Yoga is the simple equation of breath + movement. But it seems there is an interest in “getting there,” “doing the poses right.”  The physical part of yoga, the movement, is simply a gateway to quieting the mind.  Yoga poses are a venue for your body and mind to concentrate on breath and movement with the […]

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Constructive Feedback: KEEP STOP START

Keep Stop Start In my yoga classes, I want to emphasize student expectations by accepting feedback in the keep, stop, start format. Your presence, your emotions and your contribution to the world are a projection of your acquired experiences and memories. This is fact. Your interactions with the people around you are affected by reciprocal […]