Yoga with Kethy

Mothering the Self: A Retreat for Healing, Nourishment and Gentle Self-Care

Join Kethy for a nurturing in-person retreat evening designed to hold space for the complex, beautiful, and sometimes challenging realities of motherhood.

This evening is for all mothers — especially for those navigating difficult terrain: those experiencing infertility, child loss or grief; those without mothers or who have lost their mothers, and those with complicated maternal relationships.

In this brave and compassionate space, we honour all experiences of motherhood.

The evening includes:

✨ A gentle 75-minute yoga practice to restore and center the body
💫 Nourishing vegan and gluten-free food prepared by culinary chef Caroline Ishii ; Includes vegan and gluten-free food.
🌟 Story-sharing and reflection to foster connection, healing, and self-compassion

Come as you are, and let yourself be held by community.

Date/time: Thursday, May 7, 6—9PM
Location: PranaShanti Education Centre,
950 Gladstone Ave., 2nd floor, Ottawa
Cost: $100.00 per person before May 1, 2026, $125.00 thereafter.
Registration link: https://tinyurl.com/yck87725

Yoga, Thai Massage & Connection: This is for YOU!

As the season turns inward, join Jas and Kethy for a Sunday afternoon of deep rest and embodied release on November 23 at PranaShanti Education Centre

We’ll begin with a 45-minute yang yoga movement practice, followed by 45 minutes of slow, meditative Yin Yoga enhanced with the intuitive touch of Thai massage.

Through gentle assisted stretches, supported postures, and mindful breath, you’ll soften areas of tension and invite balance back into the body. This practice is designed to restore, ground, and help you reconnect to a sense of ease from within.

The session concludes with guided journaling, plus delicious chai, snacks, and surprise gifts.

📍Location: PranaShanti Education Centre, 950 Gladstone Ave., 2nd Floor, Ottawa (psssstt! Free parking)
✨Cost: $95.00 per person before November 15, 2025. $115.00 per person thereafter.

REGISTER HERE : https://tinyurl.com/s73ub7nr

About your two guides:

Jas Bhandal

Jas is a yoga teacher, Thai massage practitioner, and movement facilitator with deep respect for the body’s innate wisdom. Trained in traditional Thai massage and multiple styles of yoga, she integrates mindful touch, breath awareness, and functional movement into her work. Her approach is rooted in curiosity, cultural reverence, and a decolonized understanding of yoga. Jas creates space for restoration, reconnection, and embodied self-awareness.

Kethy Sosso-Kolle

Kethy (she/her) is a Cameroonian/Canadian 200-hr Certified Yoga Teacher trained in Ashtanga and Vinyasa Hatha Yoga. She teaches a variety of styles including Yin, Yang Yin, Power, Flow, and Gentle Flow yoga. With an emphasis on mindfulness, her classes nurture kindness and compassion toward self and others. Expect sequences to warm up the body, followed by slower movements focusing on breath, balance, alignment, flexibility, and strength.

Parenthood Loss & Grieving Hearts: Yoga & Wellness Retreat at PranaShanti Yoga Centre on Saturday, October 18, 2025.

This half-day retreat is part of a passion project.

Miscarriages. False positives.
Endometriosis and fibroids. Infertility.
Multiple unsuccessful IUI and IVF treatments.
The financial burden. The emotional toll.
The pain. The shame. The silence. The loneliness.
Hope. Love. Resilience. Joy.

Most times, I want to scream my story on the rooftops, stifled by the oppressive silence that society has wrapped around unfortunate circumstances that affect millions of people.

On Saturday, October 18, we hold space for you and your story. We see you, we hear you, we support you.

The Parenthood Loss & Grieving Hearts day retreat is now live and open for registration:

📅 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2025
🕑 Time: 2:00 pm to 6:30 pm
📍 Location: 45 Eccles Street, Ottawa
💲Cost: early bird price $100 per person before September 15; $125 per person thereafter.
🫂 Maximum # of participants = 15
🔗 Register Here: https://tinyurl.com/zjve9z4y

Join and/or share.

Hugs,

Kethy

A big THANK YOU to our generous sponsors (so far!) :
Uppliva Nordic Spa .sauna
TeaSe Wellness
David's Tea Rideau

See you in the little garden at the Gladstone PranaShanti Yoga Centre location on Saturday, July 5 @ 10AM!

94 41 70
I got it from my (grand) mama

Happy birthday, love
C'est toi et moi, chéri 😘

Lemonade 🍋🍋🍋

Making the best of my time in Douala 🇨🇲; hoping to look back some day thinking the time passed in the blink of an eye, that I gave it my all and it was all worth it.

Gambare!
Fighting!

A project dear to our hearts ❤️
Come to our booth to say hi 👋🏾

We're at City of OM in Ottawa this Saturday, June 1st!
Come to our little booth in the Aberdeen Pavillion to meet the team, ask questions, share your story and buy one of our photobooks!


See you soon!

⚡🗞️ NEWS FLASH ! 🔊

Dear PranaShanti Yoga Centre Yoga community,
As of June, I'll be taking an extended leave from leading classes at the studio to refocus energy on my personal well-being & growth, and to be with my extended family in Douala, Cameroon 🇨🇲.

Teaching schedule:
Yang Yin — Wednesday May 22 @ 7:30PM
Candlelit Yin — Friday May 24 @ 6PM
Gentle Flow — Sunday May 26@ 11AM
Power Yoga — Sunday May 26 @ 12:30PM
Yang Yin — Wednesday May 29@ 7:30PM
Gentle Flow — Sunday June 2 @ 11AM

It's not a Goodbye, it's a "See you later, Alligator!"

Wish me well!

Voilà, voilà, voilà... La fin est là: j'enseigne mon dernier cours de yoga à .fitness le samedi 11 mai 2024.

As one of the 1st teachers to join the studio in the chaos of 2020, from the bottom of my heart, it's been an honour and a pleasure to grow & bloom together.

À tous — les enseignant(e)s, les client(e)à et le merveilleux personnel — je vous souhaite ce que la vie a de meilleur à offrir. Ce n'est qu'un au revoir, pas un adieu.

Teaching Schedule for the month of May:
Saturday, May 4
11AM Hatha Vinyasa
12:30PM Yin

Saturday, May 11
11AM Hatha Vinyasa
12:30PM Yin

On se retrouve dans la salle chaude.
See you on the mat!