My experience teaching yoga classes at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind over the winter helped me realize that sight and the visual plane are not the only way to experience or teach a yoga class. Those of us with the privilege of vision often take it for granted and rely heavily on our sense of sight as our primary point of reference for navigating our way through space; because we are able to see the world, we come to depend on our sight as if it were our the on

Students will often ask me what is the “right way” to do a pose. My answer is often, “It depends.” From my perspective, the expression of any asana is fundamentally as unique as the human body itself. Your body has its very own expression of the asana, which can look and feel different on any given day (by the minute) depending on factors related to your physical, emotional and psychological state. Your expression is unique to not only your own body, but it exists singularly

I turned 30 yesterday. Coming up on this milestone birthday has made me pause to reflect on my life, on everything I have experienced during my time here on Earth thus far. I have been thinking back on my 25th birthday, one of my favourite memories, and just how much I’ve grown and accomplished since then. I have loved, lost, learned, travelled, burned bridges, gone on epic adventures, made mistakes, helped others, healed old wounds, mended ties, and so much more… My body is

The first five years of my practice took place exclusively in the Bikram hot room. I spent 90 minutes nearly every day in that very specific environment (40 degrees, 40% humidity), sweating my way through the series with a sense of fierce dedication. At the time, I believed in the hot room and its supposed benefits. I trusted the studio owner and the claims she made about the healing powers of the hot room because I had never known anything else… and because I hadn’t bothered