Yoga with Angie

Move Better. Feel Better
3-Part Mobility Workshop Series

This 3-part workshop series is desianed to help vou move better, whether your goal is to feel stronger, reduce stiffness, improve performance, or move more comfortably in everyday life.

Using principles from Kinstretch and Functional Range Conditioning, each session focuses on building strength, control, and fluidity. You'll learn how to actively expand vour range of motion, improve joint health, and build a body that feels capable and resilient.

Each workshop stands on its own, but together they create a complete and progressive svstem for full-body mobility. For the best experience, participants are encouraged to attend all 3 sessions as each workshop builds on the previous one.

Workshops take place on 3 consecutive Saturdays beginning June 6 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Pricing:
• Full 3-Part Series: $150 + HST • Single Workshop: $65 + HST
Register by going to: resilienceyoga.ca/special-events

The solitude of the early hour, the sounds of nature awakening, water lapping against the shore, fresh air filling the lungs... all bathed in the shifting light of the sunrise over the vast, expansive lake... And us, present witnesses to this quiet miracle, breathing, moving, filled with the gratitude and awe of a fresh new day, the longest day of the year!
This is your invitation. Are you coming?
Register at: https://share.google/wM1viA9m2ilwtwHrt
or link in bio.

“To walk out of our old bodies into the morning is to become new again.”
- Mary Oliver

Sunday is Mother's Day, and maybe you’re still searching for something that feels right for her.
Something tender, a small offering of care,
that says: you deserve to pause and come back to yourself.

✨Offering Private Yoga & Mobility Gift Vouchers

Gentle, personalized sessions designed around her body, her pace, her season of life.

For the mothers who hold so much, and are rarely held in return. For tired shoulders, softening breath,
for the quiet wish to feel at home in the body again.

Available as instant digital vouchers this weekend, so it's simple to gift, meaningful to receive.

DM if you’d like to place one in her hands before Mother’s Day ♡

We're celebrating Earth Day today, with its theme "Our Power, Our Planet".

This is an opportunity to pause and contemplate what does being a human on this planet, at this point in time mean to us, an opportunity to examine our daily habits and how they might accumulate into something much larger, as well as the tension between convenience and consequence.

Ahimsa (non-harming) must extend beyond ourselves and our personal relationships, into the interactions with the Earth. Step outside to feel the ground, the air, to hear the birds, delight in the beauty of the spring colours, to establish a concrete connection with your surroundings, and to realize your dependence on it. We are nature, not outside of it.
Awareness leads to small, consistent changes, like choosing reusable where possible and supporting systems that reduce waste, slowing down unnecessary consumption. This is our power.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎❤️

"When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

- Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things

Between classes, a pause. Some members left, a couple stayed for the next class. The hum of rolling up mats and preparing for the world comes to an end and the studio quiets down.
A warm cup of tea and the conversation continues. The practice doesn't end when we step off the mat. We carry with us the reflection, connection, presence, the many lessons imprinted in the body and mind about balance, discomfort and relaxation, acceptance and letting go, life as a journey...

Join the conversation, come as you are. Breathe, move, notice. Because the most meaningful part of the practice is what unfolds after the movement stops.
DM me for schedule.

“The success of yoga does not lie in the ability to perform postures, but in how it positively changes the way we live our life and our relationships.”
- T.K.V. Desikachar

This past weekend I immersed myself again in mobility training, as part of the Kinstretch certification seminar, deepening concepts from Functional Range Conditioning and learning more about structuring mobility classes in a group setting.
Mobility training is about maintaining and improving the ability to move in a wide range with strength and control, so your body can move better for years to come.

I’m excited to start sharing these tools in my upcoming 2-hour mobility workshop "Move Well, Age Well" at on March 28th at 2:00 PM

If you have a body and want to maintain or improve your freedom of movement, then this workshop is for you!
Registration is now open, link in bio or https://momence.com/Resilience-Yoga/Move-Well%2C-Age-Well%3A-Full-Body-Mobility-Workshop/130068538
Spaces are limited, register soon!

Hope to move with you there!

“You don’t stop playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing.”
- George Bernard Shaw

Anitya (Impermanence) is the recognition that everything that arises in the world of form is in continuous motion, ever changing, evolving, dissolving, and reappearing in new ways.

In Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras suffering arises when we mistake what is changing for what is permanent. The mind naturally wants continuity, it holds and resists letting go. But life moves in cycles: inhale and exhale, waking and sleeping, coming and going. Nothing remains in its original form. Because everything changes, warmth can still be felt even in cold days. Because everything changes, what feels heavy today will not remain in the same way forever.
The path continues forward, carrying footprints, long after the one who made them has moved beyond view.

"Knowing the emptiness of the world, flowers fall to the ground. "
- The Noh play "Tomoe "

Love is the essence of this existence, prana(life force) is the subtle current of this unconditional love. Prana flows through the breath, through the heart, through the inner spaces where feeling and awareness meet. Life unfolds within the continuous pulsation of the breath, a constant giving and receiving that sustains connection with all that is.
When the heart moves through profound sorrow, prana becomes especially vivid. The chest feels tender, receptive, alive with sensation. Breath moves like a gentle wave, touching places of ache with warmth and presence. Through this movement, love reveals itself as the very force that allows feeling, remembering, and caring.
Love exists as this field in which sensations arise and transform, as presence, as continuity, as the gentle pulse of life itself. This love lives within us, moves through us, and expresses itself as our very being. Through joy or sorrow, solitude or connection, you are never not love! ❤️

“Love is the bridge between you and everything.”
-Rumi 🌹

I was recently reminded of the concept of adhikāra by a student who felt humbled as her practice opened into a new and deeper layer, through the practice itself. In the context of yoga, adhikāra is translated as competence, eligibility, or rightful readiness. In asana practice, it points to the question: What is appropriate for this body-mind at this moment? Which practices are beneficial and which ones may be premature or harmful? It redirects attention away from ambition, and toward readiness.

When a student asks to be taught a more advanced asana, like a headstand, the invitation to the student is to listen deeply to discover whether this is the right time in their lives. Readiness in the strength of the shoulders and neck, in the fullness of the breath, in the steadiness of the nervous system, in the ability to move patiently, in the whole context of their life.

For a teacher, responding through the lens of adhikāra means honoring this timing. Sometimes proper guidance simply means providing preparation practices, and encouraging consistency and patience.

Headstand is never mandatory. The yoga practice doesn't grow through accumulating postures, but through learning what truly serves us in the moment. Readiness unfolds through time and consistency, not force.

“Practice becomes firmly grounded when it is cultivated for a long time, without interruption, and with devotion.”
- Patanjali, Yoga Sutra

Join our "Flow and Grow" classes at on Thursdays at 6:30 PM. See you on the mat!

What were the lessons life provided to you this year?

A year doesn’t teach us facts about ourselves, but time reveals our patterns, if we're willing to ask the questions, and are open to listening. Yoga gently redirects this inquiry inward, away from judging of others, and toward self-study. And self-awareness is the only place from which changes are possible.

Here are a few ways to approach this year end reflection:

- By examining the fluctuations of the mind. This year might have shown more clearly how the mind moves under pressure, uncertainty, love, or loss. Not who or what caused the reactions, but how quickly we grasp, resist, narrate, or soften. We can’t stop the waves of the mind, but we can see them as waves, rather than the ocean itself. The further down we dive, away from the waves, the calmer the ocean becomes.

- By examining the need to control timing, outcomes, relationships, even versions of ourselves. Rather than blaming circumstances, others or ourselves, yoga invites us to loosen the grip on the outcome, allowing life to happen through us. No situation or emotion is final.

- By examining the difference between effort and forcing. On the mat, as well as in life, yoga invites us to pay attention to this fine line, with our body, breath, nervous system, to consider if the effort we're applying is still nourishing, or if discipline has become self-harm disguised as virtue.

- By examining the capacity to stay present with discomfort, instead of fleeing, always needing to fix, or hardening at the edges. This is resilience, the quiet strength, the ability to remain grounded without collapsing, and without armoring or raising walls around the heart.

This year's experiences happened, emotions rose and fell, roles shifted. How did you show up for all these, what were your patterns? Stop to ask the questions, pay attention and discover your reality. Start here, now.

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
- Ram Dass