Mind Your Body - Alison Jardine, PT

Lokamotion: 💜 Our September schedule is here! As Fall rolls in, let us help you reconnect with yourself and your practice. As always, reach out to the teachers for more info and to join! 💜

☀️ I’m over here working reduced summer hours, visiting my family home from Alberta and spending as much time on the water as possible 🌅 Oh, and add moving and building a new home into the mix 🏡 So grateful to have a job that allows for flexibility and still finding time for myself. Thanks for riding the waves with me 🌊

🫶🏼 THANK YOU! 🫶🏼 These past two months have been the most full my schedule has been since I’ve been doing this solo thing! 🤗 It’s all been through word of mouth. Whether it’s a friend, co-worker, neighbour or family member that you passed my name along to- I deeply appreciate it! 🤍 I feel so grateful to get to do what I do and it’s been rewarding to be able to help in big and small ways. And thanks to Lauren Seper for billing and booking them all behind the scenes! 👏🏻

💚 July 💚 Things are slowing down in the studio for the summer but thanks to Kaitlyn and Kelly, there are still options to bring your yoga practice to Lokamotion!
- Kaitlyn finishes up a yin series July 6th and starts her next series in August so reach out if you’re interested.
- Kelly continues her monthly restorative offerings on Wednesday, July 22nd (and again in August) so check it out!

💝 This week wraps up my Wednesday evening yoga classes for the summer! I feel so grateful to share this space with people who want to practice moving their bodies outside their day-to-day routines while also inviting rest, stillness and breath awareness into their lives.

We use a lot of props in our classes. In some postures they invite more ease, in others they add more stability or strength. Here, we practiced stretching the neck, allowing shoulders to soften down, while adding some pressure to the base of the skull- a common area that holds tension. (Please try under the guidance of a trained movement/body practitioner ☺️)

💁🏻‍♀️The fun part of teaching yoga is being open to learning new ways of accessing these traditional postures while also putting your own spin on them. It all comes back to intention.

Thanks for joining along and I look forward to meeting you back on the mat in September 🤍

🩵June at Lokamotion🩵 Bringing some cooling yin and restorative yoga with some intentional movement to balance out the warmth that this month brings!

Please reach out if you’re interested!

👋 Hey! Wanted to pop on and let you all know about a 4-week series I’ll be offering that starts next Monday, 12:30-1PM, called “Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation.”
✏️ Fun fact! Over 14 years ago when I was in Physio school at DAL, I defended my research proposal “The Effects of an 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program on Chronic Low Back Pain.” The concept of a mind-based tool helping a seemingly physical experience wasn’t clearly understood or accepted at that time. From my own experience with meditation and yoga, I knew personally of the mind-body benefits these practices could have. Fast forward to present day where Mindfulness is widely incorporated into many avenues. Thanks to progress in its research, we can now understand the physiological changes that happen in the brain and body, objectively, as well as the qualitative improvements people report experiencing in their life with consistent practice.
🤔Curious to learn more? This 4-week program will be offered in person, or live, through Zoom with recordings provided. Recordings only is also an option. Email: [email protected] to register or ask more questions!
🌲 P.S. As much as I’d love to be offering this near the water as shown, it will be held at my Studio on Main St. 🙂

Ready for May flowers 🌺 and for Lokamotion’s new schedule! There is a strong theme of Yin + Restorative in these offerings- a great way to balance the yang energy that exists in our lives. Thanks for being here and hope to see you on the mat!

Happy Administration Assistant Day to Lauren! Lauren Seper I’ll never know how she juggles it all, but she does and I’m grateful for it 💕

👋 Hi! Lots of movin’ & groovin’ happening over here. I thought I’d share my current schedule to give you an idea of offerings and my working schedule!

🏡 Sundays: hosting a couple of evening drop-in yoga classes in my home studio before we move 7-8PM
🪑 Mondays: Chair yoga + physi-yoga classes as well as 1-1 physio clients 9:30AM-10:15AM / 12:45-1:30PM / 2-4:30PM
💪 Tuesdays: 1-1 Physio and yoga clients 9AM-4:30PM
🧘‍♀️ Wednesdays: 1-1 Physio and yoga clients + evening yin/restorative class 9AM-4:30PM / 5:30-6:45PM
🦵 Thursdays: 1-1 Physio and yoga clients 9AM-4:30PM
😌 Friday-Sunday: Off