Nikole Fraser Yoga

Hello Everyone - I know I haven't been posting or teaching lessons for awhile. Thank you for your patient understanding. I will make a post when I am ready with updates. Your continued support means the world to me 💗

In the meantime, Christine Leeann Fehr is a lovely lady local to GP who has been making a BIG impact on our community. She has been promoting, supporting, and hosting events/resources for better mental health. We are so dang lucky to have someone advocating for such an important topic such as mental health, and I look forward to the future when I can join her in her endeavors. Until then, I want to show my support by sharing her events with you all. Take a look and see if it calls to you and your healing journey! Feel free to reach out to her if you have any questions too.

Here is her write-up with event's info:

"Looking for an initiative to support? 🙌
Want to make a difference?❤️
Want to make an impact And Enjoy some yoga ??🙏
Join this March 25th - next step yoga!❤️
You have NEVER BEEN TO An event like this before ‼️🙃🙃
Keeping the yoga alive! Support your community with Next Step 🧘‍♀️ registration link below
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https://mwms.ca/product/yoga-bundle/

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Next Step Yoga | Event Bundle | Online Experience | Mental Wellness Matters Join us for an interactive online yoga workshop to support wellness in our communities. *Mindful Yoga Session *Educational wellness speakers *Fundraise for support in your community   Registration open worldwide. Ticket sales and event proceeds go towards supporting mental wellness initiatives in l...

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If it calls to you to share.. feel free to write it out loud in the comments section and let it out to the universe! ✨️

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🔥 Upcoming Abundance Workshop 🔥

We will stretch, gently move our bodies, and connect the breathe with deep intention. Using the powerful connection of our intentions with yoga techniques, we will learn to release unnecessary stangnace and let ABUNDANCE FLOW.

We will work on letting go of:

• ​Negative thoughts

• Pain from the past

• Limiting beliefs/Not feeling worthy enough

🔥... To let powerful energy in for 🔥

• More vibrant health

• Wealth and/or business to flow more freely

• ​Relationships to feel more harmonious

• Achieving goals with graceful success

Often we face overwhelm in our environment that can create massive blockage to the flow of possibility.

We can unknowingly create these barriers out of subconscious fear during this overwhelm, which can affect the flow of abundance.

Becoming conscious of this then applying simple techniques to solve it is easy to integrate into daily life!

All ages + skill levels are welcome.

You will also receive a physical or PDF copy of the techniques to take home, so you won't skip a beat!

✨Workshop Information✨

When: Sunday, July 10th from 4:00 - 5:00pm

Cost: Tickets are $24 each
*In-person space is limited, please register soon

How to register or to reach out with questions: DM, or email [email protected]

Location: Bliss Be Fit Studio // 10045 101 Ave, Grande Prairie, AB

If you can't make it in person, I will be offering a livestream option as well. You will be emailed a PDF copy of the take-home booklet.

Please bring:

• a yoga mat (let me know if you need to borrow one!)
• water bottle
• anything you like for maximum coziness (fuzzy socks, a blanket)

Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. See you on the mat soon ✨🔥

Happy Summer Solstice + Indigenous Day my friends 💛🌞

I just want to take a moment to share how much I have missed spending time teaching yoga this year. I am grateful for the few rare moments I've been able to, but gosh I miss being able to do it more often. My focus had to shift to many big life events that have been flowing through my life. Although this is so, I miss teaching dearly.

Anyhoo, I am so happy to finally be able to share that I am putting together a workshop that is happening soon! I will announce the details asap. I have a space booked for Sunday afternoon on July 10th. I am just developing the remaining details to make it something special. If you have any suggestions for what you'd like to learn or see, don't hesitate to reach out and share them. Currently I am working on content ideas along the lines of physical/emotional release to make space for abundance and fresh, powerful energy. I look so forward to seeing you, and this moment to teach again.

✨Save the date! July 10th @ 4:00pm✨

DM if you would like to pre-order a spot (as there is limited in-person availability)

*If you can not attend the class in person, I will make the lesson available live online also!

📸 Shannon Sturm Photography

Check this out 🙌 I highly recommend both Catalyst Yoga (Shawna) and Dysfunction Junction

𝓡𝓮𝓪𝓭𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓾𝓷𝔀𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓶 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴 𝓽𝓸 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓷𝓮𝔁𝓽 𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓴?

Join us for relaxing easy movements and meditation with our chair yoga/yoga Nidra class on June 5th @ 630 pm!

Please pre register @ dysfunctionjunction.janeapp.com under Shawna for the class,
or text us at 780-296-1955! Limited spots available, drop-in fee $20.

All levels of yoga experience welcome!

Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)

A gentle reminder for us all ✨

An interesting note on trauma memory loss, and the importance of (gently) exploring meditation • breathwork • and movement to help facilitate space for memory creation

https://www.facebook.com/656473371142935/posts/3583597778430465/

I have almost no childhood memories.

Most of my adult life (before my own healing journey began) is hazy memories at best.

It wasn’t until I had partners who pointed this out to me that I realized it fully.

I would run through my life + wonder, ‘Why don’t I remember anything?’

In pure transparency, there was a time when I wondered if I had been sexually assaulted or had some other “severe” trauma that gave me this lack of memory. This is part of my own conditioning as a psychologist— I believed something “big” must have happened to cause memory lapses.

What I would come to understand on my journey was that I began dissociating (physically being present, but mentally I was gone) since I was a child. Because my mom could not connect with me emotionally, it was a protection mechanism. There was also anxiety, chaos, + health crises without adults to model how to process them. Memories are formed through safe, secure attachment + nurturing. Something many of us don’t have access to.

So dissociation became a coping mechanism. I was always on autopilot, unconscious, never present, always distracted, always running scenarios in my head— this is the brains way of protecting us against future pain.

I’ve used meditation, breathwork, + movement daily for years to break the pattern of dissociating. Being present has allowed me to have the safety to create memories. Even having them is a personal victory for me.

If you do not have memories, understand this is a normal, protective human response. Healing does not require us to re-gain memories, + we don’t need to pinpoint the exact reason they don’t exist.

What we can do is relearn nervous system safety in the present moment + have an understanding that we we don’t remember is for our own protection

Love this advice.. and definitely something that I need to continue to learn, honor, and practice more of myself 🙃

Warren Buffett's advice to young people: Ignoring your mind and body is like 'leaving a car out in hailstorms'

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Mantras can be a powerful way to fulfill this. A mantra is simply repeating a few words to yourself (silently or out loud) that affirm something that you would like improve on or solidify in your life. Slow, deep breath and focusing on your mantra will help deepen the intent.

Examples of mantras;

• "I am enough"
• "I am strong"
• "I accept peace"

It can be anything that you like, but keep the words positive (do not say a negative affirmation such as "I will not create negativity". If you want to set that parricular intention, change the wording to "I will create positivity").

Mantras can have a truly wonderful affect on your thoughts - uplifting your spirits and setting your goals and intentions in the right direction ❤

Why not take a deep breath, and try one out for yourself now? ✨

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FUN FACT FRIDAY!
-Stretching regularly can improve your balance!-
The increased range of motion in your joints allows you to stay centered in a wider range of positions. This centering can improve your performance in sports, at the gym, and during your day to day tasks!
Book in now with one of our wonderful yoga instructors for a personalized lesson, geared to your needs, skill, range of motion, and comfort level to get stretching and find balance in your life!!

| Dysfunctionjunction.janeapp.com or (780)296-1955 |

Thank you so much The Sand Zone for hosting another lovely beach yoga. Looking forward to the next one (date TBA soon!) 😎

Great big thank you’s going out to everyone that helped make our Yoga lesson so much fun!!
The sand was warm, the yoga was relaxing , the kids were entertained, the Pina Colada’s were awesome !!! 😎

Do this 😀

Message The Sand Zone to register for our blissful beach escape Saturday 😊

I keep forgetting to add all the things!! We are offering free childcare in the play building during the lesson, for our yoga participants , provided by Care in a Pinch Inc. Please let us know if you are interested in taking advantage of the babysitting option by Thursday March 10th. 🙂

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Self-care checkpoint!