PranaShanti Education Centre

🌬️ NEXT WEEKEND — Max Strom Returns to Ottawa 🌬️

In a world that feels increasingly fast, noisy, and overwhelming… this weekend offers something rare:

A chance to breathe again.

From June 5–7, internationally renowned teacher and author Max Strom returns to PranaShanti for a powerful weekend of breathwork, movement, emotional healing, and deep inner restoration.

These workshops are not about performance or perfect poses.
They are about untangling stress from the body, calming the nervous system, sleeping better, healing emotional tension, and reconnecting to what matters most.

✨ Choose individual sessions or immerse yourself in the full weekend experience:

🌙 Better Sleep & Stress Relief
💪 Strength, Grace & Healing
🌊 Transform Anxiety into Calm
💛 The Healing Power of Forgiveness
🌬️ Deep Breathwork & Emotional Release

Max’s teachings have impacted people around the world because they are practical, heartfelt, and deeply human.

“The aim is to untie the knots in our heart and mind.” — Max Strom

📅 June 5–7, 2026
📍 PranaShanti Education Centre, 950 Gladstone Ave., 2nd Floor — Ottawa
🎟️ In-person only

This is Max’s only Canada and Ottawa stop.

Learn more & reserve your spot:
https://pranashanti.com/max_strom_ottawa/

🎓 Since 2008, we've empowered over 130 individuals to embark on their yoga teaching journey, fostering a vibrant community of passionate practitioners turned instructors. 🌿 Join us in our commitment to inclusivity and accessibility by exploring these incredible opportunities:

🔹 Scholarship: Dive deep into your practice and support our program, trainers, and fellow students. With full attendance on all weekends, you'll receive 50% off the tuition fee, paving your path to becoming a certified yoga teacher.

🔹 BIPOC Scholarship: We're dedicated to building a more diverse and inclusive yoga community in Ottawa. Our scholarship initiative aims to break down barriers for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) aspiring yoga teachers. Enjoy 50% off the total tuition fee and let your unique voice shine in the world of yoga.

Ready to seize the moment? Discover more about our scholarship opportunities and upcoming teacher training programs:

🔗 Learn more: http://ow.ly/NaR050M1EXs

🟪 200-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Summer – Begins July 2026
Applications due May 31, 2026
☀️ 1 scholarship and 1 BIPOC scholarship available.

🟪 200-hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training Fall – Begins September 2026
Applications due August 15, 2026
🍂 1 scholarship and 1 BIPOC scholarship available.

🟪 200-hour Kundaini Yoga Teacher Training – Begins October 2026
Applications due August 31, 2026
🍂 1 scholarship and 1 BIPOC scholarship available.

Let's build a community where everyone's voice is heard and valued. 🌈 Embrace your journey, embrace diversity! 🙏🏽✨

Yoga Therapy is the next evolution in yoga teaching. ✨

Yoga has always been therapeutic.

Historically, yoga was practiced to support the whole person — physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically, and spiritually.

What we now call “Yoga Therapy” is the intentional application of yogic tools and practices to support individual health, healing, and wellbeing in a more personalized and integrated way.

As the world experiences increasing stress, burnout, chronic pain, anxiety, nervous system dysregulation, and emotional overwhelm, the role of yoga professionals is evolving.

People are looking for more than movement classes.
They are seeking practices that truly support healing, resilience, and transformation.

Yoga Therapy bridges ancient wisdom with modern understanding.

Breathwork.
Movement.
Meditation.
Lifestyle practices.
Nervous system support.
Self-awareness.
Compassionate care.

This is the future of wellness education and conscious teaching.

At PranaShanti Education Centre, we believe Yoga Therapy is helping redefine the role of the yoga teacher — from instructor to skilled wellness professional and space holder for healing and transformation.

The future of yoga is therapeutic.

Our population is changing — and the need for skilled, compassionate yoga teachers who can support healthy aging has never been greater.

🌿 Yoga for Seniors & Healthy Aging Training
with Michael
📅 May 29–31, 2026
📍 In-Person in Ottawa and/or Online
🚗 Free parking available

In 2021, Canada’s seniors officially outnumbered children. As our communities age, yoga teachers, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and wellness leaders have an incredible opportunity to make a meaningful difference.

This comprehensive training is designed to help you confidently and safely teach yoga to older adults — whether they are lifelong practitioners or stepping onto the mat for the very first time.

You’ll learn how to create practices that support:
✨ Strength, mobility & balance
✨ Healthy aging & longevity
✨ Confidence & independence
✨ Nervous system regulation & relaxation
✨ Accessibility & inclusivity in yoga

We’ll explore practical adaptations and modifications for common conditions such as:
✔️ Osteoporosis
✔️ Arthritis
✔️ COPD
✔️ CAD
✔️ Limited mobility & injuries

This training combines modern understanding with the wisdom of Classical Yoga to help you create classes that are supportive, empowering, meditative, and deeply meaningful.

Topics include:
🧘 Simple & profound postures
🧘 Skillful sequencing
🧘 Teaching mixed-level classes
🧘 Modifications for students who cannot reach the floor
🧘 Contraindications & injury awareness
🧘 Strength vs. flexibility
🧘 Yoga philosophy & mindful teaching methods

Perfect for:
✔️ Yoga teachers
✔️ Caregivers & healthcare professionals
✔️ Wellness practitioners
✔️ Experienced students wanting to serve their communities

✨ Available Online and In-Person
✨ Yoga Alliance CEUs
✨ Includes manual & certificate
✨ Part of our 300-Hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training

Learn more & sign up: https://pranashanti.com/yoga-for-seniors-ottawa/

📍 PranaShanti Education Centre
950 Gladstone Ave., 2nd floor, Ottawa, Canada

As the wellness industry evolves, specialized training matters more than ever. Learning how to safely and compassionately support healthy aging is not only valuable — it’s essential.

🌸 At PranaShanti, something truly transformative is unfolding this summer.

🌿 200-Hour Hatha Yoga Teacher Training – Summer 2026
With PranaShanti Yoga Centre

For 18 years, we’ve guided thousands of students and led 50+ transformational Yoga Teacher Trainings designed to support deep personal growth, meaningful connection, and confident teaching.

Whether you dream of teaching yoga or simply want to deepen your understanding of the practice, this immersive training is designed for real life — balancing structure, flexibility, community, and personal transformation.

📍 Join us In-Person in Ottawa
💻 Or attend 100% Online from anywhere
🚗 Free parking all summer long

This comprehensive program includes:
✨ Asana, sequencing & posture clinics
✨ Meditation & mindfulness practices
✨ Breathwork & energetic anatomy
✨ Western anatomy & biomechanics
✨ Yoga philosophy & Yoga Sutras
✨ Ayurveda & conscious living
✨ Practice teaching & mentorship
✨ Accessibility, inclusivity & compassionate teaching

✔️ Graduate as a Yoga Alliance RYT
✔️ Unlimited yoga classes during the program
✔️ Manuals, textbooks & digital resources included
✔️ Tax receipts available

The Early Bird pricing has now ended — but there is still time to join us this summer.

✨ FREE ONLINE INFO SESSION ✨
📅 Monday, May 25, 2026
🕕 6:00 PM ET
🌍 Everyone welcome

Come meet the team, ask questions, explore the curriculum, and discover if this journey is right for you.

Summer Immersion begins July 9, 2026.

This isn’t just teacher training.
It’s an opportunity to reconnect to yourself, deepen your practice, build confidence, and step into a more purposeful way of living.

Sign up for the FREE info session: https://ow.ly/StMr50Z3BuV

Teaching Tip: How to Integrate Breathwork Into Your Yoga Classes

One of the most powerful ways to deepen a yoga practice isn’t through more complex postures — it’s through the breath.

For teachers, breathwork can transform a class from simple movement into a nervous system experience that supports regulation, presence, and emotional balance. But one of the biggest mistakes teachers make is offering advanced breath techniques too quickly or without enough context.

✨ For Beginners:
Keep it simple and accessible.
Start with:
• Awareness of natural breath
• Lengthening the exhale
• Gentle diaphragmatic breathing
• Breath synchronized with movement
• Simple pauses to notice sensation

Avoid overwhelming students with too much terminology or complicated ratios early on. The goal is safety, ease, and awareness — not performance.

✨ For More Experienced Students:
You can begin layering:
• Breath retention practices
• Structured pranayama ratios
• Energizing vs calming techniques
• Subtle bandha awareness
• Emotional observation through breath

Advanced students often benefit from understanding why a technique is being used — nervous system regulation, grounding, focus, vitality, emotional release, etc.

✨ Teaching Reminder:
The breath sets the emotional tone of the room.

Fast, forceful breathing can stimulate and energize. Slow, steady exhalations can calm anxiety and support regulation. Your sequencing, pacing, and cueing should support the intended energetic effect of the practice.

Breathwork doesn’t need to be complicated to be transformative.

Sometimes one conscious breath is enough to change the entire experience of a class.

✨ Celebrating the Graduation of Our 2025–2026 Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training ✨

This month, we celebrated the completion of an extraordinary 8-month journey of growth, transformation, connection, and deep study.

Students gathered at PranaShanti from across Canada and the United States — including as far away as British Columbia, Illinois, and New York — united by a shared commitment to self-discovery, practice, and the teachings of Kundalini Yoga.

Over these months together, there were countless moments of insight, healing, laughter, vulnerability, and awakening. So many “aha” moments. So much personal growth. And friendships that will continue far beyond the training itself.

Throughout the training, Devinder guided us each weekend with wisdom, compassion, authenticity, and heart. Her ability to create a space that was both deeply grounding and transformational made this experience truly unforgettable. Through her teachings, storytelling, and lived experience, students were encouraged not only to learn Kundalini Yoga, but to embody it in daily life.

We are also deeply grateful for the incredible support of our teaching assistants — Chantal, Lynn, Marie, and Shane — whose presence, encouragement, and dedication helped hold such a strong container for learning and transformation throughout the program.

A special blessing to also have Dev Suroop and Mahan Rishi join us in person to share their wisdom, experience, and teachings with the group. Their presence added such depth and richness to this journey.

Teacher training is about so much more than learning to teach yoga. It is a process of remembering who you are, deepening your relationship with yourself, and learning how to live with greater awareness, compassion, and authenticity.

Congratulations to this beautiful graduating class. We are so proud of each of you and cannot wait to see how you continue to share your light in the world. 💛

🌬️ JUST 3 WEEKS AWAY — Max Strom Returns to Ottawa 🌬️

In a world that feels increasingly fast, noisy, and overwhelming… this weekend offers something rare:

A chance to breathe again.

From June 5–7, internationally renowned teacher and author Max Strom returns to PranaShanti for a powerful weekend of breathwork, movement, emotional healing, and deep inner restoration.

These workshops are not about performance or perfect poses.
They are about untangling stress from the body, calming the nervous system, sleeping better, healing emotional tension, and reconnecting to what matters most.

✨ Choose individual sessions or immerse yourself in the full weekend experience:

🌙 Better Sleep & Stress Relief
💪 Strength, Grace & Healing
🌊 Transform Anxiety into Calm
💛 The Healing Power of Forgiveness
🌬️ Deep Breathwork & Emotional Release

Max’s teachings have impacted people around the world because they are practical, heartfelt, and deeply human.

“The aim is to untie the knots in our heart and mind.” — Max Strom

📅 June 5–7, 2026
📍 PranaShanti Education Centre, 950 Gladstone Ave., 2nd Floor — Ottawa
🎟️ In-person only

This is Max’s only Canada and Ottawa stop.

Learn more & reserve your spot:
https://pranashanti.com/max_strom_ottawa/

Breathwork has the power to help release stored stress, regulate the nervous system, and unlock emotions that may have been sitting in the body for years.

Max has spent decades helping people reconnect with themselves through the power of breath, and this June, he’s returning to North America for a series of transformational weekends. These workshops are an opportunity to slow down, breathe deeply, and begin healing from the inside out.

Sign up at: https://pranashanti.com/max_strom_ottawa/

Your emotional health shapes everything.

How you respond to stress.
How safe you feel in your own body.
How deeply you connect with others.
How much joy, peace, and presence you allow yourself to experience.

And yet so many people are moving through life carrying anxiety, grief, burnout, overwhelm, and emotional pain with no real tools to process it.

We’re often taught to suppress what we feel, to stay busy, to “push through. But healing begins when we create space to breathe.

Breathwork has the power to help release stored stress, regulate the nervous system, and unlock emotions that may have been sitting in the body for years.

Max has spent decades helping people reconnect with themselves through the power of breath, and this June, he’s returning to North America for a series of transformational weekends. These workshops are an opportunity to slow down, breathe deeply, and begin healing from the inside out.

The Breathe to Heal Facilitator Training in Boulder is now fully booked, and we are deeply grateful for the incredible response.

We look forward to gathering with many of you throughout the June workshops and events across North America.