Leelapod
leelapod is an evolving digital yoga collective. Students enjoy affordable pay-what-you-can livest
What does the mind do when things don’t go our way? When it thinks something is missing? This class with asks us to ‘mind the gap’ by drawing on our inner reserves of strength, balance and calm.
Vinyasa: On Your Toes with is inspired by her recent snowboarding adventures and plays with ideas of toe side and heel side.
Freestyle Flow: The Sweet Spot with now available in our VOD library.
‘Seek balance by examining what it means to be out of balance, steadiness through the wobbly, and sweetness through good old hard work.’
Movement is Medicine with Nicky
Light a candle or face the sun, press start on the playlist and enjoy the flow.
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Moving Mandala with .charles.yoga.
May this mandala practice remind us of our interconnected relationship to each other 🌍
Freestyle Flow: Fractal Broccoli 🥦
This is a practice inspired by Romanesco Broccoli and the exquisite geometry of chaos.
Prana Vinyasa Flow (lunar) with Nicky Poole every Thursday at 12 Eastern. Pay what you wish - simply add a tip when prompted at checkout, this all goes directly to your teacher.
This class is flowy, chill, stretchy, soulful, accessible, and quiet. This class is 40 minutes of slow flow, with 15 minutes of rest.
Special note from Nicky:
If you’re an Ontario parent, trying to practice with the kids at home, I’ll make sure the practice feels complete after 40 minutes - and you can simply exit whenever you need to. If you’d love to join livestream classes and funds are tight this month due to the lockdowns, please send me a DM. I will send you a coupon to use so it’s entirely free.
Now, more than ever we need the healing benefits of restorative yoga. Join live every Tuesday at 3pm, or Thursday 8pm for a deep 75 minute practice.
Andrea has more than two decades of teaching experience, and has a gentle and caring teaching style. She offers restorative teacher trainings across Canada and we are honored to have her sharing the art of rest here at Leelapod.
We look forward to welcoming you to a new weekly class on zoom with every Tuesday. 12pm eastern standard time. 6pm central european standard time, 9am pacific.
Prana Vinyasa Flow (Solar☀️): A soulful and sweaty yoga practice that will include rhythmic sun salutations, an intelligent climb towards the peak, and ample time to integrate and rest at the end. Taught with care and inspired by the Prana Flow lineage this class is suitable for all levels of student with a sense of adventure.
Bhakti love poetry from a renegade 6th century yogini who said ‘see ya later’ and bailed on society. Oh, and and a vinyasa yoga class too.
Gift a leelapod video subscription this holiday season. 1, 3 or 12 month subscriptions available at a happy holiday discounted rate for a limited time.
Click the link in the comments, add a gift message if you choose, and we’ll send the link to your loved one.
Happy Holy Days. Love, leelapod
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Hi everyone... Yes,you can now gift leelapod subscriptions to your loved ones at a special rate for the holiday season!
🎁1 month video on demand subscription $28 (usually $36)
🎁3 month VOD subscription $80 (usually $88)
🎁Annual VOD subscription $300 (usually $360)
Link in comments below to purchase. It’s super easy, we’ll send a gift certificate with a unique link to your loved one the day and time of your choosing with a personalized message (you can write it yourself) straight to their inbox.
Many thanks to everyone who is choosing to shop local and support small businesses in your community.
Lots and lots of new members this month. Hi! Thanks for joining us for yoga. Leave us a note below if there’s a special class request for the holidays and we’ll see what we can do😉.
This strong practice begins with a real sense of clarity around “the line” in forms like mountain, plank and chaturanga, then it flows into less symmetrical and stable territory …
If it’s been a while, take this class to get ready to face the upside down.
Practice with us all winter for $1/day 😍.
We have class length and styles for everyone and invite you to sign up for a 7 day free trial ( no strings!), and cancel anytime. Link in bio!
Some major upgrades behind the scenes simplify searching for the perfect class in our library. We’ve organized our classes for you therapeutically: headache relief, insomnia, hamstring strength, anxiety, pre-natal, back care and much, much more. You can search for classes with music, by length, intensity, teacher. Handstands and arm balances? We’ve got a section for those too.
7 day free trial, no strings and a great deal this weekend for our new 3 month memberships, 20% off for just $88. Click the link below to sign up for a super discounted 3-month membership.
https://www.leelapod.com/promo
Exceptional yoga. On Demand. All winter. Take advantage of our 3 month seasonal yoga subscription at our best price of the year! Link in bio to start your 7-day no strings trial 💫
A 🌜inspired practice that waxes and wanes as it flows through Crescent Moon, Halfmoon and Revolved Halfmoon.
The Hero Pose family are ones you’d want around your dinner table.
(sale tomorrow 😉)
A swirling upward spiral of a practice based on the premise that when we feel good, we do good, and so on and so forth.
Q: Who are Yakshis?
A: An 2,000 year old cult of tree goddesses that form the very early roots of yoga.
Come for yoga, stay for the art history lessons.
The Golden Rule asks us to treat others as we would like them to treat us.
Abhaya Hridaya Mudra: A flow for the courageous heart courageous taught by
KinTsugu is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with veins of golden lacquer. This poignant practice celebrates the inevitability of change and celebrates the struggles of life, the scars they leave, and your innate capacity to heal.
Mark the changing seasons with a thoughtful practice to welcome the cozy energy of Fall.
Let kindness be your true north as you flow through this stretchy intermediate practice that culminates in a fun compass pose variation.
is offering her freestyle flow class on our livestream every Saturday at 10 am. It’s pay-what-you-can because accessibility is really important to us here at leelapod.
Though the seasonal change of late September pulls us gently back towards indoor practices, it’s important to stay nourished by the abundant prana outdoors, even on rainy days. Some folks stroll in the rain and others just get wet.
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Hi! I’m one of the co- founders of leelapod collective along with David and Yumee.
Alongside leelapod, I’m heading to this October to begin post grad studies on the visual history of yoga.
I’m happiest when I’m in nature, studying both Sanskrit and yoga as a forever student, sharing the practices I love with student friends, and being a mom to two awesome kiddos.
I have over 90 classes available on our video on demand platform for you to enjoy and offer a chance to connect in real time through livestream classes each week. Stay tuned for new offerings later this fall.
Don't hesitate to reach out with questions! There are indeed real people behind our virtual home on the web, and we are here to listen and to serve you!
Yes we are! Yes we are still thriving upside down in the .pod handstand club with . Six months ago we launched this online program and we have a small crew of regulars who are well on their way to handstand. Practice makes …. Progress 😊
Yes! There’s room for you tomorrow. Sign up through the link in our bio. September and October courses are open for registration and classes are at 10am every Monday.
Devon French is an incredible movement teacher, yogi and educator whose philosophy stems from the traditional teachings of the Ucwalmuc peoples of whom he is a descendent. For Devon this means that his work is first in taking care of himself, then his family, and then his environment.
“This philosophy is not a dead philosophy that I ‘know’ now so I can close myself off from new information. It is alive and part of my everyday life. I live it and learn from it each and every day, through myself and all my relations. Living this way is not always easy, yet if I am to teach then I need to be sure to consistently do my own work and walk my own path”.
Meet Devon in our livestream classes three times per week. Register at www.leelapod.com
Have you had the pleasure to meet Ruth Ann Penny yet? Is a fantastic educator and her passion rests in helping older adults and folks with more limited movement feel great in their bodies. She’s bringing her popular class Chair Lift back to .pod each Friday at 10am. Stay tuned also for some pre-registered workshops coming in October with her too.
Why not sign up a friend or older family member who can benefit from some gentle chair yoga and make it a weekly date this Fall?
We asked Andrea to create a three word bio for us and she chose:
Restorative
Restful
Balancing
We feel so grateful to have her live-streaming restorative yoga three times per week here on our live class platform. Her next Deep Restore class (A 2 hour ultra luxe celebration of rest) is on Friday September 24. Why not schedule some self care as we craft new rhythms this fall season? A single drop in for Andrea's classes is $15 and we have convenient 10 class bundles available too.
"I move with the tides of my own life".
Have you tried this relaxing Yoga Nidra by Kelly O yet? It's super soothing and the perfect way to balance that inevitable September busyness. Simply lie down in a comfortable space, put headphones on and listen to this soothing body and soul meditation. Please let us know how you enjoyed it!
Let's get takeout! Video on Demand subscribers can now download select classes to their devices this summer! You'll see the download button when you log in to your video library.
Not a subscriber yet 😉? We offer a seven day free trial and you'll have access to over 150 incredible classes: vinyasa, hatha, yin and restorative yoga, therapeutics, tai chi, pilates, strength and mobility training.
“Practicing and playing outside has always helped me feel more connected. We are all everything...and when you move and breathe with the wind and the trees you can really start to feel that inside the physical self.”
Now that the sunshine is back, I am looking forward to reconnecting with my (almost?) post-pandemic self and a regular early morning patio practice.
A call to Eastern Canada movers and groovers who love a later evening practice. Come join your west coast brothers in an innovative online movement exploration with Devon French. We have two incredible classes on offer with Devon every Wednesday night.
Patterns: Mindfulness and Mobility Wednesday 9pm EST
Unwind Unpack Integrate Wednesday 10:15pm EST
Celebrating the cinematography of Viktor Cajoj, friend of Leelapod in this spectacular feature film, Jump Darling.
A rookie drag queen, reeling from a break-up, escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline yet desperate to avoid the local nursing home.
We highly recommend adding it to your summer Pride celebrations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCAM9k_cfm4&t=9s
Jump, Darling | Official Trailer A rookie drag queen, reeling from a break-up, escapes to the country, where he finds his grandmother in steep decline yet desperate to avoid the local nursin...
SURYA DRSHTI: At sunrise and sunset the diffuse light allows our eyes to take in the full spectrum of light frequency that our pineal gland requires for healthy functioning. Make a practice out of gazing at the rising or setting sun, and feel the warmth and light touching your body from 93 million miles away. Our sun is the source of regeneration and life on earth itself.
SOLAR BHAVANA: Feel the healing emotions that arise through the embodiment of the sun (joy, connectedness, confidence, creativity, and vigour). One simple way to embody solar qualities is to practice surya namaskar, or sun salutations with an attitude of devotion to the source of us all.
Pranams to Shiva Rea for the ideas and interpretations of old yogic practices.