Dear friends!
Come on and join in some in-person classes or classes through the virtual studio. Here’s the current calendar and below are descriptions of classes. If you aren’t sure what options would be right for you, give me a call or send me an email. Please also let me know if you have any health or injury concerns.
Please call or text me @ 250-709-4633. I am looking forward to practising with you soon.
Our weekly Therapeutic Yoga Classes
Strength & Balance
This creative class is designed with consideration of strength, mobility, and balance. To accomplish strength, stability and balance, we will use yoga practice informed with brain based play and functional movement. There will be strengthening floor work, functional movement, and some flowing sequence of postures.
Class always ends with meditative rest in Shavasana.
This class is suitable for people who are curious, have a sense of play, and are looking to develop their stability.
Gentle Yoga
Gentle yoga is a class intended to move our bodies in and out of stillness and rest. This class is taught through trauma informed techniques so that we are practicing with reminders for self advocacy and comfort in the moment. Each day, we are new, so our yoga practice should leave space for how we are feeling. In gentle yoga classes, we will practice mediation and breath work as well as accessible postures and movements. We are always encouraged to adjust or recreate movements that work best for us at the time.
This class is suitable for everybody as a place to begin and build from, as well as to work on ease and stress management.
We will often use bolster and blocks, a wall, backmitra and massage balls.
Monday evening Gentle Yoga
This class is all about recovery and preparing for a good night’s sleep.
If you are living with stress, injury, illness, or pain that is disruptive for your sleep or simply wish to invest in your long term well-being then this is the class for you.
In this therapeutic class, we will nurture a curious attitude about how our movements feels, we will dive into nurturing rest, and engage with yoga practices of breath and mindful awareness to set the tone for stress reduction and sleep.
Informed by neuroscience and functional movement, we will work with meditation and breath, movement and stillness. Students will learn skills to reduce stress and increase readiness for sleep.
I’ve Got Your Back
This class is all about gaining the tools to work in a positive manner with back pain and injury. In I’ve Got Your Back we will work with traditional yoga practices like breath, meditation, and postures. Along with those practices we’ll include a little neuroscience informed techniques and functional movement to engage with pain management/reduction and mobility. You can expect to be given lots of options as we work out the kinks, with gentle movements and strengthen.
This class begins and ends with centering meditation.
In this class students will learn skills for pain reduction, movement finesse, and self regulation.
Frequently used props are:
•bolsters
•yoga blocks
•the wall 🤗
•lacrosse balls (etc)
•backmitra
•resistance bands
Vinyasa Yoga
This is a great whole body – whole being class!
Vinyasa Flow is a feel good mix of functional movement and flowing postures (that’s what vinyasa means).
Our sessions will usually begin with meditation and breathwork, though, sometimes I mix up the order for fun. Postures of varying challenge levels are strung together with the intention of co-ordinating movement and breath, inspiring body/mind awareness, stretching and strengthening the whole body. In this class, options and variations will be offered. After a little wind down, our session will end with Shavasana (a restful meditation).
This class is inspired by functional movement, mindfulness, Vijnana Yoga, as well as the ancient spiritual traditions of yoga. Students can expect to learn a variety of yoga postures, modern meditation techniques and the basics of pranayama for well-being.
This is a suitable practice for people with some yoga/movement experience.
Restorative Yoga
..a little lecture about “how to use your core”. I hope that this helps!
Erin Anderson Yoga 