Join Sarah, Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Teacher for Pregnant + Empowered; her 8 week signature series designed to support your pregnancy. Each week there is a set theme to help prepare your mind and body for one of its greatest journeys, motherhood.

What you'll learn:

• An accessible yoga sequence that will celebrate your beautiful pregnant body
• A guided meditation to release tension and invite compassion into your heart
• Selected restorative postures to encourage deep relaxation
• Build strength, find your flow + power!
• Embody peace and confidence in preparation for childbirth and labour
• The shared experience of pregnancy with other expectant mamas.

Includes:

• 3 Live Virtual Prenatal support sessions with Q & A (Example: Pelvic Health, Lactation Consultant, Doula, Birth Art) scheduled as Events in Pregnant + Empowered private Facebook community
• 48 hr Replay

No yoga experience necessary to join.

Dates: Monday's 7pm - 8:30pm
May 10 - June 28
Cost: $185

Location: Zoom (links will be sent out a few days in advance. Registration closes 6pm May 10th)

What you'll need: Yoga mat, a couple pillows, a blanket and anything else you might need to feel comfortable.

This series is all about the Heart. Did you know that the heart has its own nervous system and it is constantly communicating with our brain? The heart produces an electromagnetic field that extends outwards from the body and influences our connection and communication with others and the living world. How we breathe, move, think and act can influence this heart-brain and impact every system in our body.

This series is an opportunity to learn practices to strengthen, soften, open and support the heart. We will build a foundation to listen deeply, release experiences of contraction and widen the energetic field of the heart space.

No mud, no lotus. Perhaps, many moments this year were a little muddier, a little less sweet. This series is a dedication to the “muddy moments” that enable our inner lotus to blossom with greater conviction and purpose than ever before.

June marks the beginning of Summer. In Chinese Medicine, this season is all about the element Fire, which according to this ancient healing tradition, resides in the heart space. These practices will fuel the heart fire and awaken our own inner medicine of compassion, loving-kindness, and joy.

This series will include:

- Invigorating experiences to awaken fire, life force and activate the heart

- Purposeful pranayama (breathing techniques) and mudras (hand gestures) to engage heart energy

- Gentle movements and stretches to open chest, shoulders & upper back

- Education on how to work with Fire energy according the Chinese Medicine philosophy

- Meditation techniques to calm the mind so the heart voice can be heard

- education on the biological, emotional and spiritual aspects of the heart

Dates: Wednesdays 7:15pm - 8:30pm
June 9th - 30th
Cost: $65 / $55 member
Location: Zoom (links will be send out an hour before each session)
Can't make it? All participants registered for this class will be sent a link to view a replay valid for 72 hours.

The Summer Solstice marks a time of celebration, a time to honour the light as well as our connection to the Sun and this Earth. It's a sacred moment to pause and welcome an inner shift as we embrace the bounty of this season through the embodiment of joy, warmth, connection, love and community.

Let's breathe together, move together and manifest the magic of this powerful time. Bring your intentions, bring what you wish to transform and most of all, bring your love for the sunshine and the endless gifts that it offers each being on this Earth.

This practice will include movement as well as some teaching around the spiritual significance of this time.

Date: Monday June 21st
Time: 7:30-8:30am
Cost: $20 / $15 active members
Location: Zoom (link will be sent out 1 hour prior)
Can't make it? All participants registered for this class will be sent a link to view a replay valid for 72 hours.

Join Petra for this 4 week series to build up foundational strength for a safe and effective yoga practice that is adaptable for every level.

You will:
- be given exercises that will improve your arm, core and leg strength
- learn proper alignment and proficiency to avoid injury and promote a safe practice.
- be given a chance to practice what you’ve learned with guidance and demonstration and enough time for discussion

Weeks 1-3 will start with a warm up, introduce specific strength exercises, move through a practice, and have time at the end of the session for questions.

Week 1 - Upper body strength
Week 2 - Lower body
Week 3 - Core/Stability
Week 4 - 75 min strength practice to tie everything together

Dates: Tuesdays 7pm - 8:30pm
July 6th - 27th
Cost: $65 / $55 member
Location: Zoom (links will be send out an hour before each session)
Can't make it? All participants registered for this class will be sent a link to view a replay valid for 72 hours.

This Trauma Informed Yoga Training will provide students with an understanding of the embodied impacts of trauma and how to offer safe and suitable yoga, somatic and mindfulness practices.

This training assumes that all individuals have been impacted by some form of trauma or significant life stress and thus this approach will foster safe, inclusive, and appropriate practices for everyone.

Expect a combination of lectures, interactive exploration, experience-based learning, and practical skills to provide a well-rounded education experience. Students will develop their understanding how yoga can build an individual’s capacity for regulation and resilience.

This program is appropriate for individuals interested in self-healing, yoga teachers and mental health professionals alike, who are looking to increase their skill base when working with trauma.

Course material will be provided.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understanding Trauma and Stress Physiology
• The Latest Trauma Theories and Neurophysiology
• Principles and Practices of Trauma Informed Yoga
• Nurturing a Safe Practice Space
• Energy, Emotions, and the Sensing Body
• Regulation, Resiliency, and the Optimal Healing State
• Mindfulness, Meditation and Self-Care Practices, and more…

Course Dates:
Saturday Mornings – September 18, 25, October 2, 9; Time: 9am – 12pm (via Zoom)
Wednesday Evenings – September 22, 29, October 6, 13; Time: 7pm – 9pm (via Zoom)
The sessions will be available after as recordings.

Pricing:
$275 + HST
Early Bird: $250 + HST if paid before to September 1st;

Diversity Scholarships:
Yogatown and training lead Dana Wemyss have established a full scholarship covering the cost of tuition for Black, Indigenous, and other People’s of Colour.

If you are a Black, Indigenous, Person of Colour who is interested in applying for this scholarship, please email info@myyogatown.com for an application.

Meet Dana:
Dana is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and yoga teacher who has been working in the rehabilitation and healing field for 10+ years.

She has used a blend of these approaches while working with clients experiencing symptoms such as PTSD, anxiety, depression, grief, loss, chronic pain and health challenges.

Dana has always believed in an integrative and holistic approach to health and healing. Her approach to working with trauma draws on the wisdom of the natural world, the nervous system, and the innate healing capacity of the body.

Dana works 1:1 with individuals as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner as well as offers trauma-informed yoga practices for individuals and groups.