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Yoga
yoga for body, mind, and consciousness
Yoga is an incredible body of wisdom and practice that offers a comprehensive system for working with the body, breath, mind, energy, and consciousness — providing practical tools for health, resilience, inner balance, and a deeper connection with our innermost essence and the divinity the exists in and around us.
Through its various branches, yoga offers a pathway for working with the patterns and states that can limit us — whether these are physical pain or stagnation, mental turbulence, stress, or disconnection from ourselves. Through consistent practice and greater awareness, we can develop a more conscious relationship with our bodies, minds, and lives.
Whether you are looking to establish or deepen a personal practice, address specific physical concerns, or explore yoga as a path of inner development, the practices can be adapted to meet you where you are.
My approach to yoga brings together asana, pranayama, meditation, and yogic philosophy, with Ayurveda woven throughout. The physical practices develop balanced strength, mobility, flexibility, focus and energy flow, while breathwork and meditation cultivate greater clarity, steadiness, and peace in the mind so we can experience a depth of being that comes from these qualities. My teaching is not simply about achieving a particular posture. They are an opportunity to develop a body that is strong and functional, a breath that is steady, a mind that is clearer and more resilient, and a greater capacity to meet life with awareness and intentional response. Join me in a yoga offering to explore the space of bliss and peace that we have already within.
Yoga Classes
Join group yoga classes offered in-person in Nanoose/Parksville at Aurora Wellness Centre, in Nanaimo at Oliver Woods Recreation Centre, and online through Zoom, with practices that build balanced strength, flexibility, mobility, and energy flow while cultivating clarity, peace, and resilience in the mind. Classes in Lantzville at SeaPoint Medical are coming soon.
Classes are open to all levels and abilities.
View the yoga class schedule here
Private Therapeutic Yoga
Individualized yoga for your body, mind, and current needs, private yoga sessions use asana, breathing, meditation, and yogic living concepts to address physical pain and limitations, calm mental and nervous system turbulence, and support greater vitality and balance. Each session is adapted to your unique needs and circumstances.
Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga Teacher Training at Illumine Ayurveda & Yoga is a 250-hour training to begin a deeper path of yoga where you will enhance your practice and cultivate teaching expertise. The training is for those who want to deepen their understanding of yoga, cultivate their own practice, and learn to share these teachings with others. The training brings together asana, pranayama, meditation, mantra, philosophy, subtle energy, restorative yoga, and Yoga Nidra, with Ayurveda woven throughout.
Learn more about the yoga teacher training
Elevated Living Community
The Elevated Living Community is a membership-based space for continuing to explore yoga, Ayurveda, and conscious living ongoing. The growing library will include yoga education, recorded practices, asana classes, and other resources designed to support an ongoing relationship with the teachings and with your own practice.
Membership provides an opportunity to continue learning, practicing, and integrating these teachings into everyday life, at your own pace, will full and easy access to resources and in a way that supports your individual path while connecting with other like-minded seekers.
Details about the Elevated Living Community are coming soon
Courses and Workshops
Courses and workshops offer opportunities to go deeper into specific aspects of Ayurveda, Yoga, and conscious living through focused study, practical application, discussion, and experience.
Learn more about courses and workshops
Retreats and Immersions
Yoga retreats and immersions offer dedicated time for deeper practice, reflection, learning, nourishment, and connection. They allow space to step away from everyday life to centre and ground. Each experience brings together yoga and Ayurveda in different ways, creating an opportunity to step outside your usual rhythms and reconnect with yourself.
Learn more about retreats and immersions
A Note on Practice
Yoga is ultimately a practice of awareness. The physical benefits are significant — strength, mobility, flexibility, balance, energy, and resilience — but the deeper purpose is to cultivate a steadier relationship with ourselves and with life.
The practice gives us an opportunity to become more conscious of what is happening within us, to recognize habitual patterns, and to develop the discernment and capacity to choose how we respond.
In the words of Pattabhi Jois, “Do your practices and everything will come.”