Nick and I had moved to Williamswood 3 years ago and after driving past Halifax Yoga everyday, he suggested we check out a class. Nick had been doing yoga off and on for a number of years and I had tried it a couple of times, but I didn’t really enjoy it and figured it wasn’t my thing. I had never been one for going …
Continue reading the articleI have been practicing yoga over the last 15 years here and there but it wasn’t until two years ago that my love for yoga would come full circle.
My son decided to leave home after graduating high school to pursue his dream of traveling. This left me feeling a bit of disconnection from my own identity. Just a few months after that I was …
Yoga has been a part of my life for 40 years. I was very lucky to be introduced to yoga by an Indian woman when I was a student at Simon Fraser University. I don’t believe we even had yoga mats back then. We certainly didn’t have special yoga clothes! Transcendental Meditation was also very popular at this time, thanks to the Beatles and …
Continue reading the articleAfter the birth of my son over 4 years ago, something shifted for me. This was something I’d desperately wanted for so long…it was supposed to be the most amazing time of my life, yet I knew and felt that something was very wrong and I was ashamed to admit or acknowledge it. Despite the internal struggle and daily turmoil, I continued to …
Continue reading the articleThe delivery of my first child did not go as planned. I will spare the details, but the end result was a C-section. The Doctor stated I was not to attempt a natural delivery if I were to have a second. Verbatim “No natural birthing for you.” Great bedside manner, I know. At that particular moment the announcement didn’t bother …
Continue reading the articleI started teaching as an intern at the studio in February of 2013 and then joined Halifax Yoga as a new instructor upon graduation from the Halifax Yoga 200 Hr YTT program in May of 2013. Before my teaching position at the studio, I worked as a front desk Energy Exchanger for 18 months. It was through this work that I began to feel the …
Continue reading the articleWhen you hear the term Restorative Yoga, what comes to mind? Restorative Yoga is often described as a gently practice of long held supported postures, that is good for beginners, good for those with injury or those that need stress relief. The words gentle, nourishing, relaxing are often used to describe this practice and it all very true. A litany of recent studies and
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Lisa is a graduate of Halifax Yoga’s inaugural 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training program, and assisted the last two years in the HY YTT program by mentoring, facilitating and holding space for new yoga teachers. She has studied Yoga for Emotional Balance with Bo Forbes at Kripalu and will be attending a 10 day silent meditation Vipassana in Montebello, Quebec in early June.
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Run a 10k; get the inner thigh gap, and fit into a size 2. That is happiness, right? That will make life perfect will it not? Eat clean, green and lean… that is the way, isn’t it?
While I would never go so far as to say that these are wrong I would not technically go so far as to say that are right, either.
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I was out for a catch-up dinner with a girlfriend a few nights ago, and the conversation shifted to a recent purchase I just made. The words I spoke would have been completely foreign to me a few years earlier: “I bought a great pair of loafers the other day that work for my arthritis, fallen arch and bunion”. This is not a conversation I …
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