Journal
Here you'll find writing on mindfulness, neuroscience, mental health, physical wellbeing, and yoga.
These topics often overlap: attention, behaviour and embodiment are all part of the same ecosystem of experience, and the aim here is to explore those connections in a thoughtful and practical way. Some posts draw from research, others from lived experience and teaching. The intention is to share ideas that are useful, considered, and occasionally a bit different from what is typically said.
December 9, 2023
Join Karen for a focused and relaxing yoga class aimed at enhancing hip flexibility and heart opening. This practice begins with a series of mindful exercises […]
January 14, 2023
Release tension and stagnancy in your body and mind with a smooth-moving practice to stir up your vitality, and leave you refreshed.
December 28, 2021
One of the most powerful variables in our practice is how long we hold a pose. There is a time during a “hold” when a balance […]
November 2, 2021
If you need a gentle nudge to get moving, this class is for you. Through rhythmic breathing and movement, feel-good-stretches and warming postures, we will enliven […]
September 29, 2021
Your hips are a fulcrum of forces in your body. One of the unique aspects of being human is our ability to stand upright persistently, and […]
July 7, 2021
This class combines the freedom of movement with the calm and clarity of breathwork. We will practice a set of breathing exercises called the Four Purifications, interspersed through an alignment based posture practice.
May 28, 2021
In this whole body experience, we work to release constraints, to expand through mindful stretches and steady movements, and to open space for possibility. Through mindful […]
May 19, 2021
This practice will help stretch you out from head to toe with a little emphasis on folding forward safely. Folding forward, when done correctly should feel […]
February 20, 2021
In this all levels Whole Body Practice we will focus on the core, fine tuning the area that gives our body stability, and stoking our inner […]
February 8, 2021
In this all levels Whole Body Practice there is more of a focus on twisting safely. We start with a gentle warm up of the spine […]
November 22, 2020
Explore the axial movements of the spine from a stable foundation, and warming hip openers. Twists help unlock tension between our ribs and around the heart […]
October 11, 2020
In this class you will build a stable back body, to help you meet life in your full capacity, with a clear mind and open heart. […]
September 30, 2020
Folding forward brings heightened attunement to inner sensation, feeling the body, the breath, our state of mind and heart. It also expands and releases tension in […]
July 31, 2020
This practice meets your whole body, with a special focus on opening the tightness in your hips. When our hips are stable and open, we can […]
June 30, 2020
Nurture each cell of your body in this head to toe, inside to out practice. In awakening our body to movement, and steadiness the metronome of […]
June 10, 2020
A steady-paced unifying practice for your whole body. We start by setting a foundation with breath-guided movements; then work towards focused, alignment-based postures to leave you […]
May 17, 2020
Bring your attention to the breath and body with vivid expressions of foundational yoga poses, fine tuned alignment and feel-good stretches.