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We’re Celebrating 17 Years In Kitsilano With 17 Weeks of Giveaways
See Semperviva Yoga on Facebook to win! In exactly 17 weeks we’ll be celebrating 17 years in Kitsilano. We opened our doors when our eldest daughter was just 6 months old! What we’ve learned along the way is that balance …
More DetailsHappy Mother’s Day
By Elana Epstein To me, Yoga is inextricably tied to being a mother. My initial sacred yoga moments were the ones I shared with my first baby growing in my belly 16 years ago. Through prenatal yoga I found an …
More DetailsCelebrate MOM with Satya Jewelry
I’ve definitely kept Mother’s Day in mind while browsing around stores lately. I always love to see the joy on my mom’s face when she opens up a gift that she genuinely adores. So, no pressure on myself, but I’ve …
More DetailsFind Your Balance: Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose (Utthita Hasta Padangusthasana)
Every week this spring we’ll be featuring a balancing posture to remind ourselves how important balance is in our day to day lives. Benefits of Extended Hand-to-Big-Toe Pose: Improves balance Focuses the mind Strengthens and stretches the legs Tip: Practice …
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We can’t have a discussion about cleansing without talking about algae – yes, that’s right – algae. Most of us may know algae as the slimy stuff that grows in our pools over the off season, but the wild algae …
More DetailsAn Introduction to Cleansing
By Ali Washington Hello everyone and happy Spring time to you! Today I want to talk to you a little about a topic I feel is on most people’s minds this time of year: and that is cleansing. Our bodies …
More DetailsFind Your Balance: Tree Pose (Vrksasana)
Every week this spring we’ll be featuring a balancing posture to remind ourselves how important balance is in our day to day lives. Benefits of Tree Pose: Improves balance and focus Tones the legs Strengthens the ankles Find this pose …
More DetailsFind Your Balance: Eagle Pose (Garudasana)
Every week this spring we’ll be featuring a balancing posture to remind ourselves how important balance is in our day to day lives. Benefits of Eagle Pose: Improves balance, coordination, and focus Stretches the shoulders and upper back Releases the …
More DetailsFind Your Balance: Warrior III (Virabhandrasana III)
Every week this spring we’ll be featuring a balancing posture to remind ourselves how important balance is in our day to day lives. Benefits of Warrior III: Improves balance Improves focus Tones abdominal muscles Tones back muscles Strengthens leg muscles …
More DetailsProduct Review: Genestra Super EFA
Omega 3 fatty acids are essential to health, as they perform so many important roles in the body. It can be difficult to get adequate amounts in your food, and that is why I wanted to talk to you today …
More DetailsChocolate Coconut Bliss
We often hear about how saturated a fat is: polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated, fats can also be divided based on how long their molecule chains are. There are short, medium and long chain fatty acids. Medium chain fatty acids have …
More DetailsStories Off the Mat: Andree’s Journey to Burkina Faso
I am an experienced nursing educator volunteering my nursing skills in West Africa for the last five years. The months working in Africa account for professional development and holiday time. When in Africa I am available to provide healthcare day …
More DetailsEssential Facts on Essential Fats
Lipids are a macronutrient, which we need to take in through our food every day. Most lipids can be synthesized, or built by the body from all of the foods that we take in. The two fats that our bodies …
More DetailsWhat’s In A Style?
By Cameron Gilley Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system. – Bruce Lee It seems that we are always destined to make the mistake of identifying with a particular way …
More DetailsThe Unruly Wrist: Creating Health And Strength Through Warm Up And Alignment
By Carolyn Anne Budgell Many yogis come to the mat in order to create strength in the wrists or to heal injury in the wrists. Just as many yogis experience some type of wrist pain due to the practice yoga …
More DetailsBeat The Winter Blues
by Jana Roy, RHN Though February is considered “Heart Health” month across Canada – which is suitable for the month in which we celebrate Valentine’s Day – the team at Semperviva Yoga have instead deemed February 2012 to be “Mental …
More DetailsReusing Made Beautiful By BKR
A new year offers a new opportunity for change. This year we are challenging ourselves to take our recycling habits to the next level: In 2012 we are focusing on reusing. At the top of our list is to forever say …
More DetailsAyurveda for Daily Life: Help for the Holidays
By Angie Inglis Regardless of the traditions you celebrate, this holiday season you undoubtedly found yourself exercising less, eating more and… shopping. Sure, you’ve been mobile, but in a rather frenetic way – and most of that activity probably occurred inside …
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