MY VALUES & CURIOSITIES
CARE: Yoga offers a system of care for our body, mind and spirit. While a lot of modern day yoga emphasises the physical poses, it’s the integration of breath awareness and mindfulness that distinguishes it from exercise or stretching. The “work out” becomes a gateway to the “work in”. Through this holistic lens, yoga helps cultivate our relationship to ourselves and others, offering both self care and community care.
> AUTONOMY: While I act as a guide when teaching, it’s important to me that students always feel autonomy and choice over their own practice. My goal is to empower you to tune into and discern your own needs in each moment, making your yoga practice your own.
I facilitate this by modeling options and modifications, and offering prompts to tune into your own sensations and subjective experience. Remember, everything I say is a suggestion, and optional!
PLAY: Can yoga be a form of play that allows us to try things without judgment or expectations? When we let go of having to be “good” at something and approach things with curiosity and humour, we can find joy and progress in each of our personal journeys without fixating on a specific outcome.
REST: Yoga is not only about action, but also stillness (in body, and mind). Rest is essential to recovery, healing, and integration of learnings. My classes incorporate elements of yoga nidra (yogic sleep/deep rest) to explore letting go of performance and productivity, and remember our inherent worth in simply Being.