Voices from the 889 Yoga Community
by Natasha Currah, 889 Yoga teacher. The other weekend I was outside of the city when I came across this window display with inspirational saying on a polished little stone. It said “Make Do”. I paused and stared at those 2 small words that I haven’t heard in such a long time. To me, those [...]
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By: Shirlee Williams, long-time 889 friend, and one of the first teachers to ever teach at 889! When we first opened over 5 years ago, Shirlee used to come to 889 Yonge at 6:30am every Thursday to meet Christine at the desk with her hazelnut coffee and uggs to teach a beautiful, playful yoga class [...]
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Author: Jodi Fischtein On the spectrum of fundraising there are the polarities: huge corporate functions such as SickKids Mistletoe Ball to the grassroots initiatives such as Indiegogo. Both wonderful. We all strive to help one another because it is the “right” thing to do, with a sense of obligation to our friends and family. We [...]
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In mindfulness, the meditator learns to observe and move with the transient phenomena that form the quality of our experience, both external and internal. We learn how to dissolve our barriers and allow unpleasant experiences such as grief to be present and how to release our attachment to pleasant experiences such as joy.
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by Marla Meenakshi Joy Living Yoga Program Faculty www.swaha.ca Summertime travels can be fun! All of our time this summer both teaching and exploring left us still wanting more, the MORE was time to connect and commune with Nature. So off we went, while in San Francisco, to the Muir Woods…home of some of [...]
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By Colin Nanka
I have had the opportunity to work with my Yoga instructor Nicky Poole at 889 Yoga over the last couple years and more lately while I train for the Gobi Desert March. She teaches with such passion and focus to help her students for individual reasons they have chosen to work on the mat. For some, its stress release, some flexibility, inner peace, fitness, strength, community or challenge. I think for me it’s a little bit of everything. I definitely leave each session feeling rejuvenated with a feeling of progress, even if sometimes the ego bruised on a new balance posture, that tend to my nemesis.
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By Natasha Currah, 889 Yoga Teacher
Practice Makes permanent. Think about it. You can practice until you are able do something with out thinking. But if you practice something without a complete sense of what you’re working towards, you could perform that task with false comprehension.
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By Sunny Smith, 889 Yoga Teacher
This simple step by step guide explains how to create goals and a personal manifesto for 2012. We usually decide to do this at the start of the year, but re-evaluating, and refining this in the Spring Time can be very powerful too!
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By Sunny Smith, 889 Yoga Teacher
When I received this manifesto I started handing it out immediately. I was so excited to share it with all my students, friend, family, and even my concierge. With all this excitement I realized that I had failed to complete mine.
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By Julie McClure, 889 Guest Blogger and founder of benourished
Hi, I’m Julie McClure, the founder of benourished , Canada’s freshest nutritional cleanse. I’m also an avid yoga enthusiast and passionate about anything related to health & wellness. This recent run of warm weather has us all thinking about spring, fresh starts and healthy habits. Which is why it’s fitting that, beginning in April, benourished is teaming up with 889 Yonge to launch a juice cleansing program designed to complement the studios’ inspired yoga classes.
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By: Elizabeth (Liz) Connolly, 889 Concierge Hello 889ers! As many of you have noticed, much of my time is spent at the studio- working the concierge desk and practicing yoga! Last week, though, I walked through the doors of 889 for something different: an Essential Therapeutic Facial. Anyone who has had a facial here at 889 [...]
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By Colin Nanka, 889 Yoga member and global adventure ultra-runner!
Last year, Colin Nanka, one of our 889 yoga members competed last year in a gruelling 250 km race across the Sahara in Egypt! In this first of five blogs for 889 Colin Nanka shares some of the valuable lessons that he learned from his ultra-challenging, ultra marathon time in the desert!
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