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.

Accessible yoga focuses on making yoga practices inclusive and adaptable for individuals of all abilities.

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.

Sliding scale tuitions and tiered ticket pricing are fees for classes, workshops, and retreats that are adjusted depending on an individual's income. They prioritize fairness, equity and accessibility by allowing participants facing income inequality to participate equally.

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.

A practice in compassion with Kendra Coupland. Watch this compassion meditation for free.

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.

Timelines placed on grief are illusionary. Grief does not abide by them. Grief is a guest that visits with it’s own timeline.

Self-care is a radical act. Self-care is about prioritizing the things we need to not just survive, but thrive, and those things don’t need to cost a ton of money. Here are six free self care practices you can do today.

Forgiveness means you choose to understand your own, or another’s actions, because carrying around the weight of ongoing anger is too heavy a burden on your heart, and at some point you need to put the load down for your own health.

Kendra Coupland's homemade hearty autumn tomato soup recipe, made with fresh tomatoes from the vegetable garden.

In order to choose love fully, we must turn from fear, hatred, and from the discomfort of breaking free from a culture based in non-love. In order to choose love we must be willing to sit with everything which makes us turn from love and close down.

Are you your thoughts? Learn how yoga and mindfulness help you understand thoughts, beliefs, and values to reduce reactivity and reconnect with yourself.

Kale chips are quickly becoming a favourite snack around this house. Here is the recipe for the seasoning I put on my kale chips.

My emotions are like the mud at the bottom of a pond. An upsetting occurrence is like a rock thrown in -all the mud gets stirred up.

Imagine yourself as a flower. How do you feel? Fresh and new? Does it feel withered? How can you nourish this flower-self?

Padma mudrā works specifically with the anāhata (heart) cakra. When we practice padma mudrā we make a conscious choice to cultivate a more loving attitude towards others, within the matrix of our own consciousness.