Queen Street Yoga January Newsletter

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Queen Street Yoga Newsletter

Join us Monday January 4th For Free Yoga Day!

All classes will be free, but we encourage you to bring a donation to the food bank.

Schedule of the day:

9:15am Open Level with Leena

5:45pm Level 1-2 with Meaghan

5:45pm Beginner with Lindsay (special just for that day, please tell your friends who want to try yoga!)

7:45pm Level 1 with Meaghan

Extending Pass Expiration Dates

Passes will now have 4 month expiration dates.  We hope this will make things easier for those of you with busy schedules!

We also really appreciate you passing this email on to any friends and family you think may be interested in studying and practicing yoga with us in the new year.

The News:

1) Schedule Changes

2) Unlimited Pass Schedule Extended to January 15th

3) Meditation Courses

4) Movement Workshop

5) Restorative Workshops

6) Family Yoga Workshops

7) Intro to Yoga Courses

8) A note from Meaghan

1) Schedule Changes

Please check out the changes to the  New Year Schedule. Some we hope will be helpful for you:

All classes previously at 5:30 now start at 5:45.

The Restorative Yoga class with Meaghan is now a full 75min on Wednesdays at 6:00pm

Flow is moved to Fridays at 5:45pm.  Yes! There is a class on Fridays again!!

There is a new Level 1 class with Lindsay Thursdays at 7:45pm. 

Tuesdays at 5:45 is now a Gentle class.  This class is open to beginners as well as more seasoned practitioners wishing to move at a slower pace.  This class is also ideal if you are suffering from an injury.  If you have been injured and are looking to return to your yoga practice please join us for this one.

2) Unlimited Pass Special Extended!

The Unlimited Yoga Pass will stay on sale for $290 until January 15th.  Hurry in and take advantage of this great deal!

3) Meditation Courses

These are limited to 10 people and tend to fill. Please email or call to register. Cost: $90

Buddhist Meditation with Kunga

Both courses are open to beginner and continuing students of meditation

* Tuesdays 7:30-8:45pm Jan 12 - Mar 2

* Thursdays 5:45-6:45pm Jan 14 - Mar 4

Secular MindBody Meditation with Nancy

Both courses are open to beginner and continuing students of meditation

* Wednesdays 7:30-8:30pm Jan 13 - Mar 10

* Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm Feb 3 - Mar 24

To read more about the teachers and the class descriptions please see the website

4) Rise Up Dancing Movement Workshop with Lauren Clarke

Saturday January 30th 1-4pm (subsidies available upon request)

Join this afternoon workshop to explore rising up in movement to meet each moment again and again. We will celebrate together our unique dances while being attentive and aware of thoughts, feelings, and impulses that rise up to inspire and overwhelm us. You are invited to come ready to move with and without music, through body and words, through verbal and non-verbal practice.

Lauren Clarke, MSW, lives and works in Toronto and provides psychotherapy for groups and individuals seeking healing and growth. Lauren is a 5Rhythms Movement Therapy facilitator, who has been practicing Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms Movement practice for over eight years across North America. Lauren is currently in the Gestalt Institute Training Program. Lauren draws upon her love of movement, self-reflection, and joy to create a vibrant, dynamic, grounded space for healing and play.

5) Restorative Yoga Workshops with Brad

Once a month on Sundays 5:30-7:30pm. Cost: $25 for individual classes or $85 for all 4.

January 31st : Finding Joy!

Finding joy in the activities of everyday. Join Brad for 2 hours of back bends and inversions as we cultivate our inner Joy in the new year.

* February 28th: Alleviating Anxiety

* March 28th: Bolstering the Immune System

* April 25th: Relieving Physical Fatigue

And of course, there is now the Rest and Restore Class every Wednesday at 6pm with Meaghan. This class is great for stress reduction, settling the nervous system, working with menstrual cramps, recovering from illness, as well as for those who just want to move at a slower pace.  The longer holds also allow for a deeper release of the connective tissue and will add greatly to your flexibility.  I highly recommend it as a balance to your more vigorous practice!

6) Family Yoga Workshops with Kymberley Feltham

Yoga for the whole family! Come and enjoy a class with you and your child, ages 4-10. $25 for individual classes or $35 for both. This price covers one adult and up to two children. For an additional adult, add $5 per class. We recommend a maximum of two children per adult for this class.

Once a month on Sundays 2-3:15pm

* January 17th

* February 21st

7) New Intro to Yoga Courses

8 weeks, $100

* Wednesday 7:45-9:00pm Intro to Yoga Meaghan Starts January 13th

* Wednesday 9:15-10:30am Intro to Yoga Leena Starts Jan 13th

* Thursday 6:00-7:15pm Intro to Yoga Lindsay Starts Jan 14th

* Sunday 11:30am-12:45pm Intro to Yoga Anna-Marie Starts Jan 17th

* Tuesday 12:05-12:55 Intro to Yoga Lindsay starts Jan 19th

* Monday 7:45-9:00pm Intro to Yoga with Lindsay Jan 25th

* Wednesday 5:45-7:00pm Intro to Yoga Catherine February 10th

8) A Note from Meaghan

Hello Queen Street Yogi,

As I reflect on the past year, I realize this was a great one for Queen Street Yoga!  We are well into our 4th year of community and stretching together, and it feels like we are growing up a little.  We had our first full weekend retreat at the Soul Garden Retreat Centre, which was a blast and we hope to repeat it this August.  We also began our Yoga Teacher Training program and are a third of the way through it already!  For me this has been amazing, to get to go deeper with a dedicated group of Yogis.  All of the participants are excelling and, I hope, having fun along the way.  I am excited to welcome this new group of teachers in the spring! I have also had the opportunity to teach with Bridges to Health this year, a day program for women in recovery from addictions.

Nancy, Catherine and Leena joined out teaching staff this year, enriching QSY with their skills, experience and warmth.

Brad and Anna-Marie have headed back to school to expand their skills with training in massage therapy and counseling respectively.

Tyandra also became a school teacher this year!

Lindsay is now working at the studio full time, and keeping the place running smoothly, and giving me some much needed time and space to practice and dream and teach the YTT.

Julie continues to support mothers to be with prenatal yoga.

Kunga took his 4 month sabbatical and joined us again this fall, fresh and full from his experience.

Lauren Clarke has started to join us bi-monthly with creative movement workshops, bringing music and dance and often laughter to our journeys of self discovery, knowledge and health.

And there is likely a story within each of you of what has happened, changed, grown, or fallen away for you this year.  And the studio is shaped by all of your experiences as well.  I feel so lucky that we get to have this space to grow together in.

I wish you all of the best in 2010, see you soon!

Nameste,

Meaghan

http://queenstreetyoga.com