My love affair with yoga started out slowly. I sampled, went away and thought about it, then came back for more. Eventually, a knee injury demanded that I sit up, take stock and use the time on my mat to heal. I never looked back!
Halifax Yoga is my community. I feel at home every time I walk through the door. It …
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 …
I have always strived to be what I thought I should be in life. Whether that was having a job as a lawyer, or being the best mom ever, or looking a certain way, or working out a certain way. It was always about conforming to other people’s expectations. Whether that was my parents, my friends, magazines, society in general. And being a classic Type …
Continue reading the articleI knew in my heart over the last 3 years I wanted to teach yoga. Working in the healthcare field I’ve always loved the feeling of making a difference in the well being of others. My love for sports and fitness and my developing yoga practice, this seemed like the perfect fit, but didn’t seem achievable, possible or realistic.
How could I take …
I have been doing yoga for just over a year now and couldn’t be happier.
I am from Sackville, Nova Scotia. I love sailing, cooking, nature and life in general. After 2 years at SMU, after still not knowing what I wanted to do, I decided to move to Ottawa for something different. Shortly thereafter, I moved out to Edmonton and …
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 article“Faith is believing in something that you can not see, but you know to be true.”
Taking a leap of faith can be scary, and trusting that it is right, even if it doesn’t make any sense, can be even more difficult.
This all has shown up in multiple areas of my life over the past year and a half. Personal relationships, as …
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