Teaching yoga involves more than demonstrating postures. It involves working directly with people’s bodies and minds, which carries the risk of harm if done carelessly or without adequate understanding. It also involves influencing internal states—calming the nervous system, opening emotional layers, and sometimes surfacing unresolved experiences. Students often enter yoga spaces in states of vulnerability, whether they recognize it or not.

Many of the meditation techniques widely taught today come from traditions that developed in very different conditions than the ones most of us live in. They were often refined within monastic or renunciate environments; places where life was intentionally simplified. Fewer distractions. Fewer competing demands. Long stretches of silence. No pressure of family life. A daily rhythm structured around practice. A method designed for one set of conditions is applied to another,

Is Nervous System Regulation Ableist? Learn what it really means and the responsibilities of yoga teachers working with trauma and marginalized communities.

In trauma-informed social work, care, and healing, I’ve noticed a tendency to over-medicalize the human experience—to reduce trauma and its responses to clinical frameworks that strip away the complexity of what it means to heal. Tantric teachings, however, offer a vastly different perspective on trauma-informed care. In fact, within the first six sutras of the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam, we are given a profound teaching on the nature of consciousness.

In a world where stress and exhaustion are all too common, Yoga Nidra offers a sanctuary of peace and rejuvenation.

Visually mapping emotions can be a powerful tool for self-awareness, emotional regulation, and personal development.

The Gathering Place Community Centre offers programs and services to the Downtown South community. The center welcomes everyone, and centers the well-being of marginalized populations, including people on a fixed income, people with disabilities, seniors, people of diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds, the LGBTQ community, youth, and people who are under-housed or experiencing homelessness.

Self-care isn't just something we can buy at the drugstore. While taking a long hot bath can be a form of self-care focusing only on outward expressions of self-care neglects the parts of our being that require internal care - such as our mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

Committing to a daily yoga practice can be challenging. Here are 6 tips to help you maintain your yoga practice over the long run.

Safer spaces refers to spaces where folks who experience marginalization to gather, share common experiences, communicate, heal and organize