Advanced Intensives for
Your Continuing Education

"After a few years of teaching professionally full-time and learning to hone my craft, I got very hungry for more and the Advanced Teacher Training program provided me with exactly what I was looking for: the space, support, guidance and mentorship needed in order to address the many issues and challenges faced by new teachers. It taught me to deepen my personal practice and take it to deeper levels as well as enhanced my teaching skills, languaging, and adjustments necessary to effectively teach advanced practices to multi-level students.

The sense of community, the friendships, the good satsang, the wise and generous sharing of knowledge, experience, and the wisdom of all the teachers and students who cross the threshold of The Yoga Sanctuary are, and continue to be, an invaluable part of my life and I highly recommend and encourage anyone considering a teacher training to participate in this most excellent program."

~ Deborah Whipple, Graduate of Advance to the Next Level, 300 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

Yin Yoga & Live Music
Wood Element
Sunday, January 16 at Danforth
4:40-6:30pm - $20+hst

Enjoy a deeply nourishing yin yoga practice accompanied by the powerful healing tones of quartz crystal singing bowls. Cathy Keenan will guide you through the yin yoga postures focusing on one of the 5 elements according to Chinese Medicine while Darren Hall transforms your journey into pure bliss with ethereal sounds and vibrations.

The Wood element is related to the liver and gall bladder and associated with spring. Growth, vision and imagination help bring creativity and emotional balance to our lives. Common symptoms of an imbalance may include repressed emotion, lack of clear vision, outbursts of anger, depression and menstrual disorders. For more information read the Article on Wood Element by Cathy Keenan.

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Upcoming Element Workshops
Sunday, February 6, 5:00-7:00pm – Fire element (2 hr - $20 pre register)
Sunday, February 27, 4:30-6:30pm– Earth element (2 hr - $20 pre register)

Jim Gelcer's Kirtan Groove
Yoga Dance Party
Saturday, January 22 ~ 8pm at College
$20 adv / $25 door
Featuring the soulful sounds of the Bhakti Groove Machine!

Sing, dance, and move your body to the vibrations of ancient kirtan mantras set to funky grooves by Jim and his Bhakti Babes and Djembe Divas.

Jim artfully combines traditional kirtan with modern influences like jazz and world music into a unique blend unlike anything else you've heard.

Warning: If bliss lasts less than four hours, please consult your physician. Register >>

Eoin Finn
Blissology Project Live Sessions
Wednesday, January 26 ~ 5:30-7:00pm at College ~ $20

Make the ultimate New Years resolution.

Open your heart and connect to the splendor of life, with an authentic, fun and powerful Yoga Lifestyle program led by Master Yogi and Blissologist, Eoin Finn. Commit to the 6 Daily Big Easy Bliss Commitments: Yoga, Meditation, Nature Appreciation, Food Awareness, Gratitude and a Wild Card. Allow your Yoga Practice to move way beyond your mat. These commitments become habits that attune your attitude to a deep-seated, joy and wisdom, that nurture our relationship with body, mind, family, community and nature.

It's simple. Attitudes create habits. Habits create actions. Actions create our world. This course is about starting with you and moving outwards to create an ‘Upward Spiral.’

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Karma Classes
PAY WHAT YOU CAN!
Wednesdays in January @ College ~ 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Fridays in January @ Danforth ~ 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Suggested donation of $5.00

Join us for a pay what you can Karma Class! Whether it be overcoming emotional or physical barriers, self-imposed or other, Yoga can offer new possibilities of connecting to ourselves and the world around us. Anyone can practice Yoga and infuse our lives with lessons learnt on the mat!

All proceeds from the class at College go to the Nature Conservancy of Canada. NCC works with private landowners to secure ecologically significant land that have been identified as priorities for conservation.

All proceeds from the class at Danforth go to the New Leaf Yoga Foundation whose mission is bringing yoga to at-risk and incarcerated youth. New Leaf Yoga teaches life skills through the practice of yoga to help youth realize their full potential, build self-esteem, and cultivate a commitment to non-violent engagement with themselves and others.

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