Workshops & Pre-Register Classes

One Day Workshops

Yoga therapy with Thai Massage & Restorative Release
With Cindy Acab and Sarah Horowitz
Sunday, August 21st 2:30-4:00pm
$40

Join us for this unique therapeutic yoga experience where you will be guided through a series of gentle, restorative poses while receiving hands on, massaged based, adjustments to help you fully let go. Poses will be held for a longer period of time and supported by various props in order to facilitate a deeper state of relaxation and release. A variety of hands on techniques will also be used performed by a certified Thai Yoga Massage practitioner and an instructor trained in the art of restorative releases. Leave feeling refreshed and rejuvenated.

Please note that space is limited in this class

Yoga at Home – How to start, sustain, and love your home practice
With Joanna Dela Cruz
Saturday, July 23rd  2:45-4:45pm
$40

Would you love to have a home yoga practice, but don’t know where to start? Perhaps you’re not sure what to do, or how to make your practice at home sustainable. Join us for this workshop, as we explore the following:

-Learn how to build your practice intelligently and safely.
-How to use everyday items as props to help you in your practice
-How to keep motivated to maintain your practice
-When, where and what to practice
-Where to find useful resources
-Handouts provided to help you get started

A special 4-part series (no pre-registration required)

Qi Gong & Yoga for Health and Vitality
with Lillian Gagic & Joanna Dela Cruz
Saturdays: May 28th – June 18th
11:15-12:15pm
Cost: Use your class card or $17 drop in

Join us, for this unique experience blending the ancient practices of qi gong and yoga.  Harness the power of breath, meditation, visualization, and asana (poses), and tap into a wellspring of vitality, health and renewed sense of energy.

All levels of qi gong and yoga practitioners welcome, including absolute beginners.
Note: Space is limited to 11 people per session, please arrive early to avoid disappointment as this is first come, first serve

Week 1 – Centering and opening
using Qi Gong breathing techniques  as a meditation tool to center
how yoga can help you feel spacious, taller and more open

Week 2 – Strength and energy
cultivate Qi (life force energy) to help your body be strong, stay healthy and heal itself
how yoga can help you get strong, inside and out

Week 3 – Reducing stress and tension
how yoga can help with tension headaches, postural stress and aid to defuse mental stress by calming the mind
learn how to use Qi to break up energy blockages which cause physical discomfort
Week 4 – Healing and thriving
-  how yoga can help with immunity and learn yogic techniques to boost immunity and detoxify the body
- learn how to help your body heal itself through Qi Gong’s techniques of breathing, visualization and movement

Pre-Registered Series

*Pre-registration is required at least 24 hours before the first class is to start as a minimum number of students is needed in order to run any of the series below*

Qi Gong with Lillian Gagic
Mondays: July 4th – Aug 16th (no class Aug 1st for Civic Holiday long weekend)
6:00-7:00pm
$100 6 week session

Chinese Qi Gong (also referred to as Qigong, Chi Kung, or Ki Gong) is an ancient art of self-healing through balancing and strengthening one’s life force. Its practiced by millions in China for thousands of years, and is an important part of Traditional Chinese Medicine. “Qi” means life force energy and “Gong” means work. Through Qi Gong movements, visualization, breathing and mind control, the person practicing performs an interchange of universal energy with his/her internal energy to make a new kind of energy or Qi. Qi Gong can be practiced by children, men/women, and elderly people with illnesses, physical weaknesses, disabilities. All levels welcome, from absolute beginners to seasoned Qi Gong practitioners.

Through increasing our Qi we heal the body, mind and spirit.

Kid’s Yoga with Cindy Acab
Saturdays: April 16th-May 21st
Next Session: June 11th – July 16th
2:30-3:30pm
$110 6 Week Session or $20.00 drop-in

A yoga class designed just for kids! In this class children will explore yoga through breathing exercises, traditional asana poses, partner yoga, games, music, relaxation and creative arts projects.
Let your children explore yoga poses which helps to develop body awareness and improved posture, flexibility, strength and balance. Give them tools to help relax and concentrate.
Each week will explore a new theme and build an understanding of the practise of yoga.
All materials for creative arts projects provided. Suitable for children ages 4-10 years.

Pre-natal Yoga with Cindy Acab
Tuesdays: April 5th – May 10th
May 17th – June 21st
Next Session: June 28th-Aug 2nd
6:30-7:45pm
$110 6 Week session or $22.00 drop-in

For expectant mothers, the pre-natal classes are an opportunity to prepare your mind and body for the changes and challenges of pregnancy and labour. Connect with other expecting mothers as you are taken through safe and gentle yoga postures and breathing techniques that will not only keep you in shape while pregnant but will help you release tension and reduce anxiety.
Classes are designed to not only open, but strengthen your body, letting you meet the ever, changing challenges and transformations of your body during pregnancy. Appropriate modifications provided for each trimester.

Benefits of Pre-natal Yoga during your pregnancy:
Promotes and improves strength, flexibility and endurance – which will prove to be helpful during the physical demands of labour and childbirth
Helps to reduce joint inflammation and swelling. As an expectant mother, you may experience water retention and poor circulation. The pre-natal class will provide yoga poses which are effective at preventing or reducing the swelling which occurs in hands, ankles and feet.
Helps to alleviate back pain. Yoga helps to maintain proper posture by bringing awareness to proper body alignment and placement.

You will leave the class feeling relaxed, rejuvenated and completely rested during this very important time in your life.

Mom and Baby/Post-Natal Yoga with Cindy Acab
Tuesdays: May 17th – June 21st
Next Session: July 12th – August 16th
1:15-2:15pm
$110 6 Week Session or $22.00 drop-in

Post Natal Yoga is a fun, energetic class that helps you de-stress and enjoy some time with your new bundle of joy!  The class focuses primarily on rebuilding deep abdominal muscles and the muscles of the pelvic floor. Tight shoulders and backs will be stretched out, and the legs will also be stretched and strengthened in the class.
Come with your baby, or without. Newborns to pre-crawlers are welcome. No yoga experience necessary.

Mobile Baby and Parent Yoga (NEW!!!) with Cindy Acab
Tuesdays: 11:00am – 12:00 noon
July 12th – August 16th
11:00-12:00pm
$110 6 Week Session or $22.00 drop-in

Come practice yoga with other parents or caregivers and their little ones in this vinyasa class that will help improve strength, flexibility and agility. Share the experience of yoga with your child as they play and explore poses with their peers. Suitable for little yogi & yoginis from crawling to 4 years old.

Morning Flow with Cindy Acab
Thursdays: May 19th – June 23rd
Next Session: June 30th – August 4th
6:30 – 7:30 am
$80 6 Week Session

Start your day by energizing your body and settling your mind. A series of uplifting yoga postures linked with breath (vinyasa style) will get you ready to face the day with ease and calm.
Regular pass holders are welcome to use their pass for this class with a $4.00 supplement.

Introduction to Yoga – Beginners Series with Joanna Dela Cruz
July 10th – August 7th (no class on July 31st due to Civic Holiday weekend)
11:00am – 12:15pm
$80 4 week session or $22.00 drop-in

If you are starting your yoga journey and want to create a solid foundation of understanding for your practice, join us for a 4 week Beginner’s Series.
This progressive series provides new practitioners with the skills and knowledge to confidently, and safely embark on their yoga practice. Learn and share with other new yogis and yoginis as you build knowledge experience week to week!
In this series, we will cover proper placement and alignment of various beginner’s asana (postures) – and how to “feel” these poses. You will also experience the wonderful world of accessing and using your breath, and how it can help you, not only during your yoga practice, but in everyday life!
You will learn, common “flows” or “vinyasa” with precision and safety, with modifications offered to suit different body types or injury.
We will also discuss the origins of yoga, aspects of yogic philosophy and yoga etiquette.

Come experience and see for yourself, the true benefits of yoga.

*Pre-registered class policy – any missed pre-registered class may be made up with a drop-in class in the same time frame that the pre-registered series that you have signed up for is scheduled to run.  Credits cannot be applied towards future pre-registered sessions.