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If you are reading this, you already know that yoga can change your life. It probably already has: it starts with a few warriors and a hip opener or two, and suddenly things start to feel…different. And not only physically: …

A good Yoga mat can make all the difference to your practice. I’ve just recently learned this after slipping, gripping and struggling whilst trying to dip into a decent flow. I finally dug in and purchased a decent mat and …

It’s quite common in the Yoga world to hear the instruction to ‘become present’.  This is a very misleading instruction, as it implies that there has been a time in your life that you haven’t been present.  If you think …

Part of the purpose of yoga is to increase joy in our lives and we can elevate this joy further with essential oils.  I have heard more than one yoga instructor proclaim the “strange phenomena affecting yoga in Vancouver,” that …

Have you ever had a lump in your throat? Have you ever carried one around with you until it got so heavy that you almost cried when the barista at the coffee shop got your order wrong? I have. The …

For those of us who do yoga regularly, we (ideally) get the benefits of mindfulness from our practice; increased openness, wisdom, acceptance, focus and concentration, and a sense of calm, to name a few. However, mindfulness practice doesn’t have to …

“On the approximation of 150,000 generations of human species, the probability of you being you accounts to 1 in 10^45,000. That’s ten to the power of forty-five thousand – an odd which exceeds the total of all known particles in …

Whenever I approach my fiancé with this line, I watch him squirm a little. He’ll look left and right as if he’s ready to take the next bus outta this conversation. Granted, he tends to observe the world in black …

When I look back at my life, I see that all of the best things came from embracing change.  Well, to be honest, not always embracing, but always allowing the change to happen in the end.  Now, as I sit …

It seems that it was just yesterday I felt a need for a change because joy, vitality and happiness weren’t present in my life. Change what? I remember vividly what it felt like to not know. Not know what to …

“Yoga philosophy IS yoga psychology,” James Bailey told us at his recent workshop at Semperviva. “Yoga is, after all, a study of the mind.” It is a huge, multifaceted study of the mind, so Bailey used a simple example to help …

About ten years ago, I was in a car accident. I was on a divided highway, going close to 100 km an hour, when I was cut off by someone who had missed their exit. I slammed on the breaks, …

“Wear Gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life” -Rumi These simple and beautiful words not only ring true in my heart, but inspire me to live a more joyful life.  Okay, I must admit …

Have you ever considered what you inhale and exhale while practicing yoga? The air we breathe here in the temperate rainforest that is Vancouver, in such close proximity to the healing energy of the ocean is much cleaner than other …

Slicing Potatoes   It helps, putting my hands on a pot, on a broom, in a wash pail.   I tried painting, but it was easier to fly slicing potatoes.   ~Rabia   I remember one of my favourite yoga …

Valentine’s Day has never really lived up to expectations for me. From my earliest primary school memories, not getting a Valentine from my Jonathan Taylor Thomas look-a- like crush (his bowl-cut made him so dreamy!); to high school, where I …