Toronto Yoga Co.

☀️ Deck Season is Back! ☀️

There’s nothing quite like moving outdoors in the fresh air, and we’re excited to announce that several of your favourite classes will be heading to the deck this summer.

From July through September 30, the following classes will take place outdoors whenever weather permits:

🌿 Wednesday 6:45–7:35 PM — beginning July 8
🌿 Thursday 5:45–6:45 PM — beginning July 9
🌿 Sunday 12:00–12:45 PM — beginning July 12
🌿 Monday 5:30–6:30 PM — beginning July 13
🌿 Tuesday 5:45–6:45 PM — beginning July 14
🌿 Saturday 9:30–10:30 AM — beginning July 18
🌿 Wednesday 8:00–9:00 PM — beginning July 22

Enjoy your practice surrounded by sunshine, fresh air, and the energy of summer. If the weather doesn’t cooperate, we’ll simply move indoors and class will continue as scheduled.

We can’t wait to spend another season flowing with you on the deck. ☀️🌿✨

After much consideration, our time with ClassPass has come to an end.

We’re incredibly grateful to everyone who discovered Toronto Yoga Co. through ClassPass and chose to spend part of their practice with us. Whether you joined us for one class or became a familiar face in the studio, thank you for being part of our community.

If you’ve been attending through ClassPass and would like to continue practicing with us, we’d love to help make the transition easy. Reach out to us directly and we’ll set you up with a special offer created specifically for former ClassPass students.

We look forward to continuing to move, grow, and practice together.

📧 Send us a message or reply to any of our emails and we’ll help you find the best option for your schedule and goals.

✨ Our 7.5 Birthday Sale starts TOMORROW ✨
May 22–24, 2026 💚

The sale will be available online only so you can shop from anywhere, anytime over the weekend!

BUT… if you come celebrate with us in studio, we’ll have:
🎁 Raffles
🍪 Treats
💌 Little gifts for everyone

Here’s to 7.5 more years of movement, connection, and community on the Danforth.

We truly couldn’t have done it without you. 💚

DHARMA

Your path isn’t someone else’s path. That’s the whole point.

There’s a verse in Chapter 3:

“Better is one’s own dharma, though imperfect,
than another’s dharma well performed.”
(Chapter 3, Verse 35)

Which is a very wise way of saying:

Stop trying to live someone else’s life really well.

Dharma is layered.

It can mean duty, purpose, responsibility, right action.

But here, part of what Krishna is pointing to is this:

The path that is yours
is not supposed to look like everyone else’s.

And yet, we abandon that all the time.

We watch what’s working for someone else…
their business,
their practice,
their choices,
their way of moving through the world…

and we start wondering
if maybe we should do it that way too. 🤔

I do this too.
Constantly.

But the Gita is pretty clear:

Your dharma, imperfectly lived,
is worth more
than a flawless performance
of someone else’s.

Not because effort doesn’t matter.

But because alignment matters too.

The world does not need another copy
of what is already being done well elsewhere.

It needs the thing
only you can do..
your way.

So the question becomes:

What does your dharma actually look like right now?

Not the idealized version.
Not the someday version.

But the real one.

we heard you. 👂🎂

every year we do our birthday sale in november and every year you tell us… it’s a lot. holidays, gifts, travel and your wallet is already working overtime.

so this year, we listened. introducing our very first half birthday sale…and honestly? we think you might love it even more.

🎂 TYC is turning 7.5 and we’re celebrating with three days of deals that are genuinely too good.

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✨ 75% off your first month with a 4-month pre-purchase

✨ $75 off your first month on auto-renew unlimited

two options. one for the all-in types, one for the let-me-ease-into-it types. we see you both.

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a few things to know:

📅 you’ve got a 30-day booking window, so you can grab the deal now and start when the time is right

⏸️ got a current membership? you can pause it to take advantage of this deal

⏰ available may 22–24 only! three days, that’s it

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set your alarms to snag yours.

DM us and we’ll help you figure out which option makes the most sense for you. 🥳

here’s to 7.5 years of moving together 🌿

“The teacher appears when the student is ready.”
(Annoyingly true...)

The Gita puts it like this:
“Learn this by humble inquiry, by sincere questioning, and by service.
The wise who have realized the truth will instruct you in knowledge.”
(Chapter 4, Verse 34)

In other words:
wisdom doesn’t arrive just because you’ve waited long enough.
It arrives when you’ve cultivated the capacity to receive it.

I used to think “the teacher appears when the student is ready” sounded a little woo-woo.
A little passive.
Like the right lesson would just fall into your lap when the universe decided it was time.

But readiness is not passive.
It’s built.

Through practice.
Through humility.
Through repetition.
Through staying with the discomfort long enough for something to finally click.

And then one day, a conversation lands differently.
A cue in class suddenly makes sense.
A line you’ve read ten times means something entirely new. 💡

Not because the teaching changed.
Because you did.

I think about this often as a teacher.

The same cue I’ve given a hundred times will land for one student on one very particular day, because they’re finally ready to hear it.

We rarely get to know when that moment will come.
We just keep showing up.
Keep offering the teaching.
Keep trusting the seed may land later.

That’s the job. 🙏🏼

In the final days of Aries season, I can’t help but think of Panama.

We arrived there before the astrological new year began.
And whether we knew it or not at the time… we were preparing.

Getting quiet before the wheel turned.
Creating space to get honest about what we actually wanted before the season of beginning arrived.

We set intentions.
We named what we were calling in.
We burned what no longer served us.

There’s something about fire (and a circle of people you deeply trust) that cuts through the noise.

Words you’ve carried too long.
Patterns you’re finally ready to release.
Old stories about who you are and what you’re allowed to want.

Into the smoke.

And then Aries season arrived, and she was bold, initiating, and exactly as it always is.

That fire-forward energy asking:
Okay. Now what are you going to do with it?

Whether you were in Panama with us or simply moving through your own version of becoming this season…
Aries asks all of us the same thing:

What are you ready to begin?
What version of yourself are you done postponing?

Now Aries season closes on April 19, and Ta**us arrives with its slow, grounded, earthy energy.

The fire lands in the earth. 🌱

The intentions we set in Aries, the things we burned, the growth we chose, now Ta**us asks us to let it take root now.

To stop chasing.
To stop forcing.
To start trusting what is already growing.

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is stop asking if it’s working…
and simply keep tending to what you planted.

What is Aries season closing out for you? 👇🏼

I used to think I had a bit of a head start with yoga.

I’ve always been flexible. Touching my toes was never the challenge. So I assumed it would be… manageable.

But the kind of flexibility yoga asks for has very little to do with your body.

It shows up in the moments you notice you’re gripping.
In the breath you didn’t realize you were holding.
In the awareness that your mind has already wandered… and something gently brings you back.

Not forcefully. Just steadily.
Come back.

That’s the real work.

Over time, that practice starts to follow you off the mat and into hard conversations, unexpected changes, and the moments you’d rather avoid.

You soften. You pause. You stay.

And sometimes, the pose that teaches you the most
is the one you can’t quite do yet or don’t want to be in.

For me, that was handstands.
It took years. And in the end, the handstand wasn’t the point.

The real gift was learning how to stay.

So maybe the question isn’t:
what are you working toward?

But what are you learning by staying with what challenges you?

💛

Most people hear “core” and think abs.
Six-pack muscles. Crunches. Burn.

But in Pilates, the core is so much more than that.

We think of the core as an entire stabilizing system -> a deep muscular canister that supports your spine, pelvis, posture, breath, and movement.

That system includes:

- The diaphragm at the top
- The pelvic floor at the bottom
- The transversus abdominis wrapping around like a corset
- The multifidus running deep along the spine

These are not your superficial “show muscles.”
You don’t train them by crunching and pulsing (don’t get me wrong, I LOVE pulsing).

You train them through breath, control, alignment, and intentional movement.

And that’s exactly why we love Pilates at TYC.

Because when Pilates is taught well, it doesn’t just make you feel your abs.
It teaches you how to move from your centre (aka centring).

How to support your spine.
How to stabilize your pelvis.
How to create strength that actually transfers into your everyday life.

Done properly, Pilates builds the kind of deep strength that improves posture, enhances athletic performance, supports injury prevention, and helps your body move better for years to come.

Your core is your centre -literally.

And at TYC, we believe it deserves more than crunches.

🔥🔥🔥

The mind is both the obstacle and the path.

Krishna gets refreshingly honest about how difficult this whole practice of steading the mind really is.

Arjuna basically says:
Okay… you’re telling me to steady the mind -  but have you met the mind?

“The mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong.”

And Krishna doesn’t disagree.

He says:
“Undoubtedly, the mind is restless and difficult to control; but by abhyāsa (practice) and vairāgya (non-attachment, it can be restrained.”

Not controlled.
Not in a single breakthrough moment.
Not because you finally “figure it out.”
Through practice.
Through non-attachment.
Again and again… AND AGAIN.

I find this genuinely comforting, and not because it makes the work easier, but because it makes the teaching really human.

Because anyone who has ever sat quietly with themselves knows:

The mind wanders.
It worries.
It plans.
It replays.
It spirals.

The Gita isn’t asking you to eliminate that completely.
It’s asking you to stop living entirely at its mercy.

There is a difference between having a restless mind
and being dragged around by one.

The mat is where I practice that distinction.

Some days I can witness the mind.
Some days I get completely swept up in it.

That’s the practice. 🙏🏼