Yesterday I marked the 15-year anniversary of my first yoga teacher training course, and did the best thing to acknowledge the date, celebrated the completion of my 45th yoga teacher training class.

What I feel the most in this moment is gratitude; gratitude that I am still able to do this ..read more

I got this question from a teacher trainee this week, and it does tend to come up a lot, so I thought I'd share my answer with you (that is, how I'd answer this question this week)

To Practice Ahimsa Do You Have to Be Vegetarian?

To the question about..read more

Life in lockdown has been boring.  It's necessary, I have no qualms about staying at home to help my community (and the world!) overcome this pandemic, but life has gotten small.  So, my sister came up with this great idea of how to stay hopeful, optimistic, and how to prepare to start having adventures again, big and small, once we can all move back ..read more

Download Free Aims Cards

To start this New Year, I thought I’d share with you some Aims Cards that I made for my own practice.

A few months ago in a post I did on ..read more

Spiced Pumpkin Soup

Spiced Pumpkin Soup

Ingredients

  • 1 Sugar Pumpkin (or 2 15oz/425gram cans pumpkin)
  • 1 Tbsp butter
  • 1 yellow onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced  
  • 2 teaspoons fresh ginger peeled and grated *
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons ..read more

Something many of you might not know about me is that I had a car accident when I was a teenager and my face was quite badly damaged. I’ve had a lot of surgery and a lot of various therapies since then, but my face still hurts most days.  So, when I learned this face massage sequence in my Thai Yoga Massage training it became a staple in my self-..read more

What Do Beginning Yoga Students Need?

 

What do New Yoga Teachers Need to Remember About Teaching Beginner's Yoga ?

This has been a common discussion in my yoga teacher training programs for years now – what can the general public comfortably do in a yoga class?  Are they binding their toes in a seated forward fold?  Are they flowing into Upward Fa..read more

Update: Vinyasa Flow Teacher Training Adelaide and Canberra Jan/Feb 2021

Hello Friends, I am writing to let you know that myself and my course hosts have made the decision to shift our January and February 2021 face-to-face intensives to the Adapted Online training model. We’ve been monitoring all the available information from public health sources and travel..read more

Congratulations and Big Thanks to our most recent graduates of the Adapted Online Yoga Teacher Training

Yesterday we completed our most recent Adapted Yoga Teacher Training – which I ran from my new Zooming studio in my home in Canada. While this has been a challenging time on so many levels, and making the switch to teaching YTT programs online has taken a lot o..read more

New Adapted Online YTT Program May/June Now Taking Registrations

 

Our upcoming program has been adapted to an online module including live video, recorded audio, study guides and more.  Dates TBA for May/June 4 weekends.   Get the details here or ..read more

Vinyasa Flow Yoga Teacher Training Canberra

Congratulations Yoga Teacher Trainees

Congratulations to these amazing yogis for completing their 12-day Vinyasa Flow Intensive. They have shown such wisdom, curiosity, compassion, and of course metta. They are all off now to complete their Online Studies, and then bring their unique teaching to their communitie..read more