Happy New Year! In today’s class we will be starting the year off right with a focus on supporting and improving our digestive processes while helping our organs and tissues to detox and cleanse. After a wonderful holiday season of feasting, connecting, and celebrating, January often leads many of us to feel bloated, bogged down, tired, and in need of reconnection to our health goals. Let’s start 2025 off right by helping our body to process all of the abundances of the season, to get things moving and digesting, and to detox out the substances and energies which no longer serve our purpose or path for 2025!

Join me on the final day of 2024 (or, since this is the video library, any time you'd like!) for a time of reflection, gratitude, and directed evolution as we learn ponder life through the lens of the yogic 'Yamas' and use their ancient philosophical wisdom to help direct us in setting fresh intentions for the will help manifest positive changes in future. Each new year offers us a great moment to pause and reflect on ourselves - physically, mentally, and spiritually, and to determine if there are any changes that need to be made. The only constant in the universe is change, and yoga teaches us to flow harmoniously with the changes we experience in life. Change is also constant on on the level of body and mind, not only over the course of a life time, but also on a year to year, and even second to second basis. Did you know that by this same time next year 90% of all of the cells alive in your body today will have died and been completely replaced by a 90% new body? Over the course of a year, our physical and mental habits add up and exponentially affect the outcomes of our health and wellness, for better or worse. Learning to direct and influence our flow of change by practicing reflection and gratitude help us to bring into focus that which is most important and worth cultivating in life. It enables us to set clear intentions which help us to stay on track in achieving our dreams and living our best lives! Join me this New Year's Eve as we explore gentle stretches, breathing, and meditation exercises that will help us hone our intentions and set a healthy direction for the year ahead!

Welcome to a new category I will be growing in 2025 for our Yoga on Demand Video Library: Contraindications in Yoga! This video is a specific educational support video for anyone who has had, or is going to have, a hip replacement surgery. Hip Replacement Surgeries are complex with many different styles of surgery and different types of synthetic hips available. The treatment of a replaced hip in yoga is not standard across the board, but actually depends entirely on the type of surgery and type of hip installed. This video will offer you the 5 most important questions or considerations you need to understand in caring for your specific new hip, and will break down what to do and what not to do for each type of surgery and synthetic hip beginning from directly after the surgery, all the way through the recovery process so that you are able to have the information you need to attend any yoga class, whether it be through our video library, a in-person class, or just a new workout routine in general. For my yoga teacher friends out there, this is everything you need to know to safely accept a student with a replaced hip into your class. It will allow you to not only keep them safe, but also to be able to help them find the most efficient path to rehabilitation and healing! Have questions or comments? Please be sure to leave them in the Yoga on Demand Community Hub, our private Group that comes free with your subscription!

This class will be dedicated to an exploration of the relationships which exist between our hips and lower back, learning to understand how certain fascial continuities travel from the base of our ribcage, down our lumbar spine, across our pelvis, and end up encompassing all sides of our hips. When we think about healing our hips and lower back, this class will show you why you can't really heal one without considering both! This class is sure to leave you feeling spacious, mobile, and ready to enjoy the holiday season!

With cold and flu season mid swing, and with the sharp rise in immune related conditions springing up around the globe, it's time we all start paying a little closer attention to the system which keeps our inner environment clean and free from illness and disease - our Immune System. The immune system is a vast network involving many different types of cells, membranes, and processes all working together to keep us healthy and in a place of internal harmony. In this class we will learn about the differences between immuno-deficiency and auto-immunity, as well as what the role of inflammation is in immune related conditions. We will learn to see our immune system as an intelligent system which learns, remembers, and adapts based on its interpretations and understanding of our body and the external environment in which it lives. Most importantly, we will learn techniques to help modulate and balance our immune processes, detox our internal spaces, reduce our inflammation, repair our membranes, and give our immune system both the information and environment it needs to thrive and promote health and wellness in all areas of our lives!

Whiplash is an injury that happens when sudden impact or movement causes your neck to be forcibly bent forward and then backward, or vice versa, like we would see in the action of a whip. The associated forces involved in such an accident can damage the muscles, ligaments, and fascial membranes of the neck and upper back, and can often create injury to the nerves and bones in this region. If left untreated, the incorrect development of scar tissue and compensatory patterns often create long-term pain and misalignment patterns that leave us with frustration and limitation. Luckily, treatment of whiplash related injuries can be done relatively quickly after the onset of the injury (depending on the circumstances anywhere from immediately to a few weeks after injury), AND the damage can be reversed after decades of neglect and pain, or anywhere in between! This gentle class will teach you what you need to know to care for whiplash injuries at all stages, and even if you don't have a whiplash injury, will help to improve your upper back and neck mobility, postural alignment, and fascial health!

Join me for a relaxing class designed to improve the mobility of our shoulders, realign our neck, and reduce pain in the entire upper body. In this class we will learn how our upper back and shoulder alignment affect the health and alignment of our neck. We will explore techniques that help to improve our posture, reduce tightness and adhesions in our shoulders, and reduce any pain or misalignment in our neck. Explore the 'hidden culprits' that often fly under the radar of our awareness and quietly cause referral pain in other areas and learn how to release them through a safe process that will make both your neck and shoulders happier and healthier!

Hip pain is something which, once it sets in, can be a major limiting factor to our health, happiness, and mobility. Most often when client's tell me the history of their hip pain, it begins small and intermittent and slowly over time became worse until they could no longer ignore as it progresses to a chronic pain that was with them every step of the day, and even over night, preventing comfort and sleep. The reality is that our hips are incredibly tough and resilient structures. They are masters of compensation and the work horses of the body. However, long-term misalignment, compensation, or soft-tissue imbalances can have devasting effects that compound over time and can lead to catastrophic pain and disability if not cared for properly. This class is designed as the first, and most critical, step towards repairing hip pain and dysfunction. Jumping straight into long walks, squats, and gym routines to strengthen a painful hip can often lead to more pain than less. Yes, strengthening is an important part of the process, but first it is important to rebalance the fascial tension and joint alignment of the many associated hip structures in order to achieve success in the strengthening department. This class will take your hips through a basic care routine that will serve to improve existing pain, injury and misalignment, generate better tissue balance and joint mobility, and give your hips the maintenance routine that will keep them operating in a healthy way. Prevention is always the best medicine, so if your hips only hurt intermittently, now is the time to start! If you've missed that window of opportunity, don't worry! I'll help you start slow and show you how small improvements can compound over time to profound results!

When we think of yoga, it is often the joints and musculature that the mind associates first. However, did you know that yoga therapy is equally as effective at supporting your internal organs? In a world where digestive and metabolic processes are under incredible strain from stress, exhaustion, toxicity food and pharmaceutical chemicals, postural misalignment, surgical interventions, and more, its no wonder most of us struggle in the poop-department from time to time. The human gut is a vast and insanely complex system and there are many things that can wrong if you are not giving your gut the basic things it needs: nutritious food, proper alignment and internal pressure, an alkalyzed environment, a system free from inflammation, a prevailing neural current of ‘safe and calm’, and regular movement that supports the regulated mobilization of its contents. In this class we will touch on each of these topics and will learn some safe exercises and ‘simple-but-effective’ habits that can be easily integrated into your daily life, and, when repeated regularly, have been shown to create incredible benefits to gut health, immune health, and quality of life!

Do you get knee pain? Pain in the outer side of your hips or thighs? Do your legs and hips feel stiff when you get out of bed in the morning? If so, this class is the perfect solution! Here we will take a deep exploration of our knees and our IT Bands (illiotibial tracts), learning how they function, how they affect each other, and most importantly, how to heal and rebalance them together to create a healthier more comfortable movement pattern that your entire body will appreciate! Through myofascial release, gentle stretching, and mobility exercises we will remove the adhesions that prevent balanced movement, retrain and restrengthen our stabilizing tissues, and create the space and freedom of movement that our joints deserve and need!

'If you seek health, look first to the spine.' - Socrates The human spine is an incredible structure that allows both stability and protection for our all-important central nervous system, but also allows the mobility needed to coordinate and support the movement of all parts of our body. The spine is one of nature's most highly evolved structures, and when properly cared for, is a highly resilient structure that can keep us healthy and mobile for our entire life. However, when spinal tensions get out of balance, things can quickly become painful as degenerative conditions set in, causing life enjoyment to decline. In this class, we look at the natural functions and ranges of movement which indicate a healthy spine, we learn to detect and understand where our spinal tension is out of balance, explore ways to rebalance and repair it's tissues, discs, and nerves, will find relief in the knowledge that even severe spinal damage can be improved or healed, and will learn a simple process of spinal restoration that will help get your spine back on track so you can live your best and healthiest life!

All alignment and posture begins in the feet. Our mobility and ability to move and navigate space also begins in our feet. Our ability to connect with and understand our environment, to coordinate and support our all of the body's joints, to detox and reduce inflammation, to feel grounded and safe, all involve the incredible structures we call our feet. In this class, we will work through a full foot care routine that is suitable and effective for improving most foot ailments and pain issues. We will learn to understand how our feet help us navigate, coordinate, and generate health and stability for our body as a whole. Through strengthening and mobility techniques we will teach our feet to be strong and adaptable. Most important of all, in this class we will learn how to walk! Yes, most of us learned the basics years ago, but understanding the biomechanics and weightbearing options of our feet will dramatically enhance your posture, gait, and effective use of your entire body! When we become more mindful of our feet and how we use them, we become centered, grounded, and in driver's seat as we explore all of life's many destinations!

Do you get pain in your lower back or hips? Pain after a long walk or first thing in the morning when you get out of bed? Do you struggle with pelvic alignment or mobility? Are you looking to improve and protect your posture as you age? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this class is for you! If you get pain anywhere in your lower back, pelvic, or hip regions, this class will show you tested and effective ways to improve the situation and with it, your health! Learn to balance and mobilize your joints in a way that will improve your alignment and posture, and create the environment for healing and productive progress in some of the body's most crucial joints. When the pelvis is balanced and aligned, the rest of the body has an easy time following suit. When the pelvis is out of balance, not only do we experience pain, but also enhanced wear and tear that increases the aging process in the joints we use to keep us mobile and out enjoying life! Join me in this class as we take both a restorative and preventative approach to caring for our SI Joints, Hips, and Health!

Do you get pain and tension between your shoulder blades? Tight shoulders that feel pinchy when you lift your arms up? Do you experience tightness or restriction in your breathing or chest muscles? This class will help with all these things and more! Join me as we decompress and mobilize our thoracic spine by loosening key fascial structures surrounding the ribcage and shoulders, safely introduce new ranges of aligned motion, and nourish our spine to help reduce pain and speed recovery towards movement liberation!

The thyroid gland, a small, butterfly-shaped endocrine gland located just below the adam's apple at the base of your neck, produces hormones that regulate your body's metabolic rate, growth, and development. It plays a role in controlling heart, muscle and digestive function, brain development and bone maintenance, and also plays a large role in our energy, vitality, and libido. When our thyroid gland is struggling we may experience issues in controlling our weight or regulating our internal organs, difficulties sleeping, fatigue, digestive irregularities, cold intolerance, 'brain fog', dry skin, thinning hair, menstrual irregularities for women, low libido, and even depression. Lucky for us, our body is designed in such a way that we are able to access our thyroid glad in a number of ways that affect it's health and ability to repair. In today's class we will learn how to use modern research, yoga, pranayama, and the intelligent design of the body to massage, cleanse, nourish, and move our thyroid and it's associated tissues in a way that helps to improve it's function, as well as it's ability to self-repair and regulate. I invite you to join me on this therapeutic journey and experience the effect of some much needed thyroid love!

Join me online for a deep exploration of our neck and shoulders. Enjoy a therapy ball massage along your shoulder blade and rotator cuff muscles, decompress and realign the cervical vertebrae of your neck, learn chest opening stretches to improve posture and reduce strain and injury to your neck and shoulders, and learn how to gently release your neck in a way that will help to stretch your muscles and ‘floss’ the important nerves that travel from your neck into your shoulders and arms. Experience the neck and shoulder relief and repair that Therapeutic Yoga offers! I look forward to seeing you in class!

In this class we will explore the ribcage, it's attachments, and the fascial network which connects the tissues of our arms, shoulders, and neck into this intricate structure of stability and mobility. With so many different layers of muscle crossing and affecting the balance of our ribcage, it's common to see adhesions running between multiple layers of muscle that can distort our healthy range of motion and lead to compensatory patterns that cause a wide array of misalignments and injuries which can affect our shoulders and arms, our neck and jaw, spine, lower back and pelvis, respiration, and even the alignment of our feet! When fascial forces start restricting movement and creating imbalances in the ribcage, not only will we see the classic signs of impingement, soreness, and cramping in the area between and around our shoulder blades, but also large scale postural shifts which often manifest and pain and injury in seemingly unrelated areas of the body. Join us for this class and explore how to identify, treat, and repattern the sticky areas in your ribcage which may be leading to your pain and misalignment!

Join me as we explore everything to do with pelvic mobility! From our hips and SI Joints, all the way through our pelvic floor and deep core musculature, this class will take us on a journey of pelvic understanding and liberation! Our pelvis is a truly amazing place. It balances and coordinates forces from our spine and ribs above, our legs and feet below, hosts our center of gravity and balance potential, supports our lower abdominal organs and their functions, is a powerful coordinator of a healthy respiratory cycle, and believe it or not, can even have a positive effect on our brain and endocrine regulation! In this class we will explore all of the incredible functions, interrelationships, and mobility that our life has to offer through our pelvis!

Take a moment to image what life might be like if you didn't have the use of your hands and arms? We use these areas of our body all day, every day, and yet they are the areas of the body that often get neglected in our self care routines. That is, until they become painful with tendonitis, arthritis, carpal tunnel, or other degenerative changes and we realize how limiting these conditions can be. In this class we will take a look at the entire arm and all of it's joints to explore the intricate fascial structures that often become adhered and restricted in today's modern use of the body as we repair, regenerate, and ensure that these wonderful hands continue to serve us through our entire life!

How well we breath is how well we live. With a healthy and flexible respiratory process we enjoy higher levels of energy, more efficient healing processes, stronger tissues, improved digestion, immune, circulatory, and endocrine functions, as well as better nervous system regulation and emotional resiliency. But how does one breathe better? What is the 'right' way to breathe? Let this class show you the way! Better breathing is a complex topic requiring coordination, strength, and flexibility in many different areas of the body. In this class we both prepare the body for better breathing by addressing each of these areas, and also explore more efficient processes of breathing through traditional yogic pranayama and bandha exercises. With 25,000 opportunities a day to practice, this class will change the way you connect with your daily breaths and will help you choose the best options to meet the moment to moment needs of your day!

Do you get pain in or around your hips? Are your hips tired or fatigued by the end of the day? Do your hips feel stiff or painful when you get up in the morning? If so, we've got the class for you! In this yoga therapy session we will take a deep exploration of each of the 6 actions our hips make which allow all of the complex movement possibilities that we enjoy everyday. We will learn how to decompress, stretch, realign, and release adhesions or restrictions in the myofascial networks that support and move these powerful joints. This class will offer a complete but safe hip treatment that will address injuries and pain of all kind and will be sure to get your hips feeling great again!

Do you get pain in your lower back, butt, or hips? Do your hips or back feel stiff and achy when you get up after sitting for a while? Do you have tight hip flexors or have 'pinchy' spots in the front of your hips? Would you like to take care of your hips so you can continue to use them comfortably well into your old age? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then this class is for you! Today we will explore a deep decompression of our hips, Sacro-Iliac Joints, and lumbar spine. From fascial release, to mobilization, to deep long holds of stretches, we will work our way thoroughly through these areas and give them the love and repair they deserve!

Our pelvic floor musculatures are some of the least talked about tissues in the body, but in reality, they control so much of what it means to be strong, mobile, and in support of healthy organ activity. When our pelvic floor muscles are healthy, strong, and well connected, we experience a sense of vitality and ease of movement that allows us to explore life to it's fullest. When our pelvic floor muscles are weak, chronically engaged, or disconnected from our conscious control, we can experience a very large number of associated health conditions from incontinence and prolapse, to reproductive organ issues, low libido and self-esteem, a decline in sexual stamina, as well as kidney stones, bladder infections and holding issues, infertility, lower back and hip pain, pelvic misalignment, and digestive issues, to name a few. In fact, our pelvic floor musculature is some of the most important muscle action in the body! But what is the pelvic floor? Where is the pelvic diaphragm and how does it work? How is it different from the perineum and other tissue that are often confused with the pelvic diaphragm? What is the best way to exercise this area? Come explore these answers, explore the unknown zones of your body, and learn the ancient yogic technique of Mula Bandha - yoga's great secret to keeping our pelvic floor active, adaptable, and ready to support our vitality at all ages and stages of life! **Please note that this class is not only safe for pregnancy, but highly recommended for it**

Did you know that heart disease (a broad term covering many kinds of heart related conditions) is the second largest killer of Canadians every year? Although previously trending down for over a decade, heart disease and deaths pertaining to it have shifted and have been on a dramatic rise over the past 3 years, clearly representing one of the largest opportunities for health improvements facing our population today. In this class, we will be exploring the human heart center and the roughly 100,000 kms of blood vessels that make up it's arms and legs. We will learn about it's spiraling nature, how it generates our electromagnetic field, the important role it plays for our nervous system, and most importantly, how to keep it strong, healthy, and in a harmonious rhythm. If you have a heart related condition, this class is not only safe, but will also give you the tools to better support your heart and get it back on a healing path. If you do not have a heart condition, this class will show you a healthy maintenance routine that will ensure you keep it that way for years to come!

After one of our Knee Health classes Erin discusses how to properly apply 'K-Tape' (or Kinesiology Tape) to an injured knee, and shows her favorite method. If you would like to purchase K-Tape and follow along, we invite you to enjoy this bonus learning content! I recommend purchasing your K-Tape in advance. You can get 'pre-cut' K-Tape for the knee at most pharmacies, however, it is expensive to purchase these kits and they only include enough tape for one application. I would recommend to source out a 'roll' of uncut K-Tape instead. It's much cheaper and you will get dozens of applications out of a roll for the same price as a single application of 'pre-cut' tape. You can find rolls of K-Tape at many medical supplies stores, or you can buy it in advance on Amazon: www.amazon.ca/TapeGeeks-Premium-Kinesiology-Athletic-Shoulder/dp/B07C1H5KFP/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?

In this special 'Pop-Up' class we will be exploring the structures of our knee joints, their tendons and ligaments, and all of the fascial structures which support their healthy movement. Pain or stiffness, ligament or tendon damage, meniscus tears or other forms of cartilage damage, baker cysts, patellar tendonitis, fractures, pins, plates, and pain will all be discussed and addressed through this yoga journey. Whether you are looking to prevent injury through a healthy maintenance program, are working on an old injury, or are just starting to address a fresh injury, this class will be safe, informative, and packed with great techniques that will allow you to take charge of your healing process and get things back on track!

Join me as we take a deep exploration of the complex realities which shape the possibilities available to our neck, jaw, and eyes. Learn how to realign, mobilize, and reduce neck pain and headaches, experience the profound sense of peace and relief provide by a relaxed jaw, and explore the seldom talked about role of our eye muscles and movements and their ability to improve spinal communication, heal trauma, improve vision, and reduce symptoms of headaches and concussion. If you struggle from neck or jaw pain or conditions, poor vision, concussion or headaches, stress or anxiety, or if you spend more than 2 hours of your day looking at a screen, this class is for you!

Join me as we will celebrate Valentines Day, each other, and ourselves! In this class we will discuss the healing benefits of a self-love and self-compassion practice. The ability to treat ourself with kindness is an absolutely critical element in creating the nervous system states that allow us to heal, grow, and build resiliency. In this class we will learn to become more mindful of our habituated thoughts towards ourself, explore the quality of our own self-talk, learn how self-compassion can help us to accept our flaws and mistakes and turn them into opportunities for growth and self-improvement, and reestablish a sense of trust in ourself and our capacity to meet our own needs and achieve our dreams. Our body will be our guide as we explore heart health stretches that will bring balance to body, mind, and spirit!

In this class we take a deep dive into the care and maintenance of our feet. Learn how to release the fascia of your feet, calves, and upper thighs to reduce pain and inflammation, help prevent and improve painful conditions such as plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, arthritis, swelling in the feet and legs, achillies tendonitis, and more! This class will repair, strengthen, realign, and cleanse in a way that will ensure you leave class with some very happy feet! Pregnant? Don't worry, this class is pre-natal safe and I'll be sure to show you how to adapt as needed based on where you're at in your pregnancy!