Lifewise Yoga

I had the pleasure of attending a retreat with LoveYourBrain last week. Such a warm and hopeful experience!

LYB offers retreats and all programs at no cost to folks with TBI AND their partners. Check it out, and support if you can

Last week we had a wonderful Retreat in Maine with these amazing people! It was a joy to be together sharing stories, challenges, many laughs, and support!

One participant shared, “It has been nearly 14 years since my life stopped. I was stuck and not moving forward. This retreat has changed all that. I met others who had TBI’s and are moving forward. It has given me so much hope for the future.”

This is the power of community! Thank you to all who showed up as your authentic self to make this week so special 💜

If you interested in joining out Retreats, join our newsletter so you’re the first to hear when they open! www.loveyourbrain.com/newsletter



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Delighted to share that I will be leading morning yoga at River & Sky Music/ Camping Festival with Invite Velma !

Just the most beautiful part of our summer 🌞

River & Sky Music/ Camping Festival River & Sky Arts in the Woods Inc. is a community of arts and nature lovers putting on a multi-day music & camping festival.

SAVE THE DATE: March 28, 6:30 pm

Making Friends with your Mind

I'm delighted to offer a by-donation /free yoga and mindset class based on my work with LoveYourBrain !

In this class we will explore some of the ways we have power over our experience of the world in our minds and in our bodies.

If you can donate to support Love Your Brain, thank you very much... but if you cannot, please join us anyway! Feel free to share with anyone who could use a little pick me up!

To register, please message me or comment below and I'll make sure that you receive all events and donation details!

Hello friends, as you may recall, last year spiffy and I were invited to a brain injury retreat with lyb and unfortunately we were not able to stay due to COVID in our household. We have been invited back and I am excited to attend!

If you have the bandwidth, if perhaps you considered donating last year and weren't able to buy can now, or if you can share, I would very much appreciate it.

I donate my time to lyb through 6 week yoga and mindset programming that I facilitate. So far I have done three groups of 12 people and am registered to do more starting in April! I've seen beautiful connection and transformation happen in these programs and feel grateful that I'm able to engage in this way . All this is only possible through the donations of kind people.

Rachel Horsley's fundraising page for LoveYourBrain Foundation I love your brain fundraiser part 2!

I am leading a FREE online 6-week LoveYourBrain Mindset program for those with traumatic brain injury (including concussion) and their caregivers to explore the benefits of yoga, meditation, and community.

Sessions will start on Tuesday, April 9th. You can register here (look for my name when you select your program!): https://www.loveyourbrain.com/mindset.

Mindset Online — LoveYourBrain     Online yoga, mindfulness & education to build resilience for the brain injury community  Imagine being able to tap into your superpower: your mindset. Our free six-week online programs offer peer support and tools for anyone looking to cultivate mental flexibility, physical strength, positive...

Join LoveYourBrain for an online 10 day practice to rest our minds in celebration of brain injury awareness week.

Register soon!

LoveYourBrain Brain Health Challenge: A 10-day meditation and breathwork challenge for brain injury awareness month — LoveYourBrain 2024 Brain Health Challenge March 22nd - 31st A healthy mind leads to a healthy brain.Join our 10-Day Brain Health Challenge to cultivate balance within, and even rewire your brain — all in celebration of Brain Injury Awareness month!Enrollment closes on March 20th! Sign up today! A pathway to bra...

Life is full of unexpected things and if we are on a healing journey, sometimes those things can feel it. Huge barriers. The idea is that we look at life as an unlimited series of possibilities. Some of those are brought forward by the obstacles of our lives. There is no pass or fail in life, there are just an array of possibilities, workarounds, setbacks, steps in the path toward ourselves.

Today I'm teaching for LoveYourBrain and our topic is realistic optimism. I'm ready for what might unfold, I'm just going to flex with it knowing that it takes me to further unforeseen possibilities.

For my birthday, I invite a beginner's mind... To enter into today and every day going forward without expectation and filled with curiosity, inviting all the life, connection, good that can follow.

Hello 54, I am here for ya!

Today I'm preparing to lead a discussion on setting intentions with LoveYourBrain for folks living with the TBI and their caregivers.

Intentions are so powerful because it's within us to set ourselves on the path of how we want to be in the world.

Curiosity is a vacation from judgement, an expansiveness, a choice.... A gift.

Have you tried practicing mindfulness?

https://www.loveyourbrain.com/lyb-mindset-week-2

Start the new year with six weeks of FREE gentle yoga, mindfulness, and community connection for your well-being.

"I am my best self during the 24 weeks of the year that LoveYourBrain Mindset is offered" - Morgan S.

https://formstack.io/B450F

Start the new year with a group of compassionate people who've been affected by brain injury (including concussion) to…

✅ Create inner steadiness and self-compassion with new mindfulness tools

✅ Find new perspectives through peer support and hearing other inspiring stories

✅ Increase strength and mobility with accessible and gentle yoga

✅ Restore with yoga nidra guided relaxation practices



Available times

Sunday, January 14th, 1-2:15 pm ET

Wednesday, January 17th, 7-8:15 pm ET

Thursday, January 18th, 2-3:15 pm ET

All sessions meet on Zoom

yoga can help

I'm delighted to announce that registration is open for January for the free 6-week mindset program I teach with LoveYourBrain !

Mindset Online — LoveYourBrain     Online yoga, mindfulness & education to build resilience for the brain injury community  Imagine being able to tap into your superpower: your mindset. Our free six-week online programs offer peer support and tools for anyone looking to cultivate mental flexibility, physical strength, positive...

I just finished co-facilitating my first 6 week series of the Mindset program online with LoveYourBrain and what a distinct pleasure it has been! I watched people transform, engage, trust, find community... and I felt it too.

If you or anyone you know is living with a traumatic brain injury or is a caregiver of a person with a traumatic brain injury, please let them know about this free and powerful program.

Enrollment begins again soon for our next 6 week sessions in January.

Mindset Online — LoveYourBrain     Online yoga, mindfulness & education to build resilience for the brain injury community  Imagine being able to tap into your superpower: your mindset. Our free six-week online programs offer peer support and tools for anyone looking to cultivate mental flexibility, physical strength, positive...

Day 2 with Max Strom at PranaShanti Education Centre pondering the notion that we can relax more deeply when we are among others.

Also blown away by the corporal experience of the words "relax your life" when in guided relaxation.

Delighted to be at the beautiful for a weekend of deep learning with lucky lucky me!

Coming to practice in this warm and beautiful space, with these skilled and gentle folk, always feels like coming home.

As I prepare to co-facilitate week two of the LoveYourBrain mindset program, I'm struck by how important this work is. How tremendous community is and how empowering being in touch with our bodies and our spirits can be. If you know anybody who could benefit from yoga and discussions designed to support the needs of people living with TBI, please point them in the direction of this free and accessible online program.

Morning yoga in paradise

I'm delighted to announce that I will be providing 4 days of morning yoga at my favorite camping and music festival in the world, River and Sky.

Each day will be a different yogic experience
Thursday - Accessible and TBI friendly yoga
Wednesday - Yin to sooth our nervous system
Thursday - Kriya yoga for our more authentic selves
Friday - meditation grounding gathering ourselves and our energies to return to the world outside of the festival.

If you've never been, I recommend the trip! Great music, a beautiful community, an extraordinary piece of land with water and a lovely beach, nothing beats this tiny festival.

https://riverandsky.ca/ River & Sky - Music/ Camping Festival

Home | River & Sky https://riverandsky.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/RS-Video.mp4 A music & camping festival in what we know as Paradise. ✷ July 20 – 23, 2023 ✷ Fisher’s Paradise ✷ Buy Tickets What is R&S? River & Sky Arts in the Woods Inc. is a community of arts and nature lovers putting on a multi-day musi...

Today's Classroom, so cool to be with these teens!

Delighted to support LoveYourBrain as they support me in accessing Level 2 certification with another scholarship!

I will be offering an online pwyc class in the near future in support of lyb, too!

Fundraising for LoveYourBrain Foundation Help me create more access to Yoga for folks living with Brain Injury! 

Greetings folks!

This page has been inactive for sometime for a variety of reasons.... But i have been busy with yoga in real life :)

And I have good news!

Soon, I will be realigning my yoga offering to better resonate both with my journey and, i hope that you will feel it too. I sense that I can see my yoga purpose more clearly and look forward to sharing it with you!

Stay tuned for a new name, a YouTube channel and a reintroduction

We are having a quick sale for this weekend's forest bathing and yoga retreat in nearby kaladar! Juniper Rock
Pm me for more info

And this truth is felt within me

I have learned a lot doing yoga with you all recently.

I learned that I do love yoga, I learned that I can actually help people with that love and knowledge, and I learned that I am still prone to overdoing it (causing myself big post concussion problems) .

With the face of covid changing, many of you will have access to in-person classes soon, so the timing for this shift is good, I hope.

I always imagined that my yoga program is for people who may not feel ready, or comfortable, or that their needs can not be addressed in a regular class. People whose health, previous experience, or self confidence present barriers to attending. People who need a more personal approach.

So here we are! Going forward, I will continue to offer one yoga class per week live and save it online for future use. My focus will be on personal yoga support.

Let's collaborate and create a practice that is built just for you as you are right now, and as you make gains in balance, flexibility, strength or other forms of well-being, we can adapt the practice to keep you challenged just the right amount.

All services are still FREE!

Get in touch so we can create a practice that cares for your lower back, or your knee, your high blood pressure, your need to slow down, your need to get stronger, your desire to learn some basics before joining a yoga centre... or what ever your goals are, it's your yoga practice.

All that I ask is that if I design a program for you, and it helps, you post a review and tell others.

Many thanks for the clients who have let me help to address their needs so far. I think things will only get better this way!

https://www.facebook.com/abundandtbabes/services/

Big thanks to my partner in all things for creating this beautiful banner for Abundant Babes. He designed the mandala for me many many years ago for my Doula Practice, and with a re-colour and updating, this lovely image representing birth, motherhood and rebirth comes with me to this evolution of my life!

This is one of a few updates you will see coming soon to Abundant Babes! Already you can see that my service offerings and appointments are up. Stay tuned!