Andrew Misle Yoga

LA DOLCE VITA | Italy | October 2024

We are thrilled to announce our return to Italy with an inspiring and rejuvenating Yoga Retreat in the heart of Tuscany! Join us from October 26 - November 2, 2024, and experience the magic of Italy with Andrew Misle.

After our memorable trip in 2017, we have been yearning to come back and share this beautiful journey with you. Rejuvenate, explore, get inspired, and connect in the picturesque landscapes of Tuscany, with an optional add-on of five days in the enchanting Cinque Terre!

Retreat Highlights:
• Daily Yoga and Meditation with Andrew Misle

•Cultural Exploration:Art, history, and cuisine of Tuscany, Siena, San Gimignano, Cinque Terre, and more

• Luxury Accommodation: Charming and elegant stays

• Gourmet Meals: Delicious, locally-sourced cuisine

• Community Connection: Build lasting friendships

📅 Dates: October 26 - November 2, 2024

📍 Location: Tuscany (1 week)
(optional 6 day add-on to Cinque Terre)

Spaces are limited, so secure your spot now! 🌟

For more details and to register, visit our retreat page (linktree in bio): Italy - La Dolce Vita

If you have any questions, DM us or contact us at [email protected].

Let’s embark on this beautiful adventure together! We are excited to return to Italy, where the serene landscapes, rich culture, and warm community create the perfect setting for a rejuvenating retreat. Don’t miss this chance to immerse yourself in practice and the enchanting atmosphere of Tuscany and Cinque Terre. 🌟

Andrew

🌅 21-Day Challenge Starting This Saturday! 🌅

Who is the 21-Day Challenge for?

• Those curious about prioritizing their practice to see its impact on daily life.
• Individuals seeking to break through stagnation and built-up patterning.
• People interested in harnessing the health benefits of morning light for vitality.
• Those who value community support to encourage personal growth and connection.
• Individuals looking to deepen their personal practice.
• People want to establish a consistent, disciplined and powerful morning routine this summer.
• Those aiming to cultivate physical strength, flexibility and presence in their daily lives.

Who might this challenge not be for?

• Anyone who has to be at work before 7:30 am.
• Those who prefer comfort;)

Don’t miss out on this transformative experience! Starting this Saturday, commit to a powerful 21-day journey designed to elevate your mornings and revitalize your life. Embrace the challenge, connect with a supportive community, and unlock more of your potential. There are so many reasons to take on this challenge—ultimately it’s up to you to find out yours.

Sign up now and take the first step towards an energized, revitalized, and fulfilling start to your day. Let’s rise together!

To Sign Up:

1. Email [email protected] with “Count Me In!” and your name.
2. Send an e-transfer to secure your spot and save on fees.

For more info, follow the link in my Linktree.

Join us for in-person & online practices. Let’s rise together, greet the dawn, and embrace the light. ✨🌿

REMEMBER. I’m offering. 100% refund if you finish the whole challenge without missing a group and online practice.

Laura woke me in the middle of the night. ‘It’s happening,’ she said. I filled the birthing pool, Momma got in, River woke up, and what seemed to be in no time, all three of us welcomed baby Sol home at 3:47 am on March 10.

It was beyond special to see River curiously witnessing Momma’s fierce love and the birth of her brother. I’m proud of her sweet bravery and support. Laura never ceases to amaze and inspire me; she’s now gifted me two beautiful children, and as our family grows, our love deepens and feels more complete.

I had told my mother before her passing that the baby would be a boy. I told Laura in Peru that he would arrive on March 10. I don’t know why I said those things, but it made me trust the whole process Laura and I chose, and it made me truly recognize how few perfect moments there are in life. This was one of them.
Welcome earthside, my boy, Sol Vidya Tala Misle.

The first initiation point to living on purpose is the conscious choice to make the unknown known.

Living out the authentic visions you cast for yourself requires a level of honesty and deep acceptance of what it is you truly value and actually care about. This is something I've been on a quest to refine for many years now. The more I align myself to what feels real and honest within myself, the more ease I can feel on my path toward the vision I see for my life.

Our 2023 Vision Quest retreat is all about this — creating the conditions to come into a real and right relationship with yourself.

It’s difficult to put into words what transpires in a place like Peru — so we decided it would be better for us to just go back and show you just how powerful this land truly is, and it's capacity to reveal yourself to yourself.

This 14-day pilgrimage will include an immersion in yoga, culture, and deep spiritual exploration.

This is for those who are truly intrigued by Peru, who are looking to get more than a tour, and who are seeking to have their vision truly meet their purpose.

Early bird ends on May 11th! DM me for more information or tap the link in my bio to register today.

Life with you has been my greatest adventure.

Happy birthday my love

I keep seeking out experiences that inspire objective thinking and personal reflection. Bandwagons on colourful parades have rarely led me to desired destinations.

This past fall .yoga and I hosted a retreat in Radium BC, which turned out to be one of then most amazing retreat experiences I’ve had the pleasure of presenting in Canada.

We had an incredible group, a fantastic chef, and a helpful support team that made the experience awe inspiring and synergistic. Kelly and I capitalized on that vibe and offered an impromptu class collaboration that began with tribal dancing followed by a deep yoga practice. It was fun, it was deep, it was perfect.

And we’ll be recreating that experience this Friday at Bliss Yoga Lounge.

“From Skin To Soul”
at 6:30PM this Friday

I”m excited to connect with old friends and practice with new ones.

( 7:30 tonight at )
In practice, momentum is gained by achieving stillness and maintaining synergy amidst the chaos.   The method I provide is a merging point rooted in the ancient practices of HATHA and RAJA yoga, infused with Tibetan Kriyas that have served me well over the years.

These classes are crafted to appeal to seasoned and new practitioners alike as we explore the essence of momentum through practice,
discussion and hopefully direct experience. This session will carve clear pathways of sensation by attuning to the subtle energies of the body, breath and mind. You can expect a dynamic and invigorating
posture practice to flush, cleanse and heal the body/mind to leave you feeling blissful and grounded.   I hope you can join us in creating a fun and inspiring class at Our Yoga Space

M O M E N T U M ~
Radium Equinox Retreat

Join .yoga , myself and special guests for a 3 night, 4 day ceremonious retreat nestled in the heart of Radium BC.

From September 8th - 11th, just in time for the equinox - we’ll come together to experience a weekend of self-propelled momentum, rest and introspection, all while being held by the grounding force of the mountains.

For many of us, it’s been 2 years of embracing uncertainty and settling into the importance and value of forging our own unique path.

We’ve grieved, unravelled and in that process a kind of momentum loss has been felt. A feeling of “where do I go from here” and a longing to reignite that purpose and intention.

If you relate to this, this weekend will be the perfect container for you to reset and gain momentum towards your visions! The combination of daily practice, sound healing, self reflection and time in nature will provide the perfect conditions to gain clarity and recharge as we transition into a new season with purpose.

I’m beyond thrilled to be a part of what will be a magical weekend. Would love to have you there! Link is live in my bio for all the details and to register.

PS - we are offering $100 off for the first 5 sign ups, DM me to claim your discount!

M O M E N T U M ~ Info & registration Im linktree on my bio.

Join , myself and special guests for a 3 night, 4 day ceremonious retreat nestled in the heart of Radium BC.

From September 8th-11th, just in time for the equinox - we’ll come together to experience a weekend of self-propelled momentum, rest and introspection, all while being held by the grounding force of the mountains.

The past 2 years have brought great change. For some, it’s been a pause. For others, a powerful pivot. For many of us it’s been 2 years of embracing uncertainty and settling into the importance and value of forging our own unique path.

Inside this time of reorganizing, there has been plenty to grieve, lots to unravel and inside that process a certain kind of loss of momentum. A feeling of “where do I go from here” and a longing to reignite that purpose and intentional forward movement.

If you relate to this, this weekend will be the perfect container for you to reset and gain momentum towards your visions! The combination of daily practice, sound healing, self reflection and time in nature will provide the perfect conditions to gain clarity and recharge as we transition into a new season with purpose.

I’m beyond thrilled to be a part of what will be a magical weekend. Would love to have you there! Link is live in my bio for all the details and to register.

PS - we are offering $100 off for the first 5 sign ups, DM me to claim your discount!

M O M E N T U M ~ registration in bio linktree

Join .yoga, myself and special guests for a 3 night, 4 day ceremonious retreat nestled in the heart of Radium BC.

From September 8th-11th, just in time for the equinox - we’ll come together to experience a weekend of self-propelled momentum, rest and introspection, all while being held by the grounding force of the mountains.

The past 2 years have brought great change. For some, it’s been a pause. For others, a powerful pivot. For many of us, it’s been 2 years of embracing uncertainty and settling into the importance and value of forging our own unique path.

Inside this time of reorganizing, there has been plenty to grieve, lots to unravel and inside that process a certain loss of momentum. A feeling of “where do I go from here” and a longing to reignite that purpose and intentional forward movement.

If you relate to this, this weekend will be the perfect container for you to reset and gain momentum towards your visions! The combination of daily practice, sound healing, self reflection and time in nature will provide the perfect conditions to gain clarity and recharge as we transition into a new season with purpose.

I’m beyond thrilled to be a part of what will be a magical weekend. Would love to have you there! Link is live in my bio for all the details and to register.

PS - we are offering $100 off for the first 5 sign ups, DM me to claim your discount!

It begins today.

Tuesday Series with special guest . (Registration and video in) bio linktree

Introduced to her meditation practice at the age of five, Sonia is dedicated and connected to the path of self-inquiry, self-discovery, and self-healing through yogic and ayurvedic studies. As a teacher of meditation and as an ayurvedic therapist, Sonia is devoted to bringing the knowledge and intelligence of the eastern arts to her students and clients, bringing happiness, vitality, and a deep sense of connectedness to their lives.

Join Sonia for a 30 minute workshop on self healing Ayurvedic techniques that you can easily bring into your routine. Followed by an epic practice with myself.

It’s a blessing to look forward to teaching each week and spending time with students in person again. Big thank you to everyone who’s been participating in these Tuesday Sessions, so much love has gone into putting this on and I’m truly grateful to everyone who’s been supporting this offering.

My intention has been to cultivate something unique whilst maintaining the essence of what brought us into those deeply moving experiences over the years. I’m so happy to meet new students and my invitation is to those I’ve spent years working with who I've shared so many great memories with, those moments and these, are truly sacred to me.

This Tuesday it’s just me. No guests and by request we’ll explore last week’s sequence with an upbeat tempo, old school styles.

Lastly, a big shout out to our production crew Seana and Ethan for offering their time to filming and getting these workshops online for you to enjoy.

I look forward to practicing with you.

Registration in the linktree in my bio.

📸

Tuesday Series Tonight with Christina Cheung - https://mailchi.mp/andrewmisleyoga/tuesday-series-tonight-with-christina-cheung

(This week’s Tuesday series will be held at the FOUNDRY Whyte Avenue Location at 10428 - 82ave . Details and registration in bio linktree)

This week our guest presenter is who will offer a 30-minute workshop called “Stable & Fluid Hips”. Simple and direct techniques to release the hips at any time of the day.

Christina began her practice 14 years ago, and since then, her practice has been the backbone of how she navigates life on and off the mat. She is loving how the practice encourages an inquiry and exploration of the physical body while nurturing and challenging the mind at the same time. Christina accredits the love of her practice and the knowledge shared from teachers that inspired her to take her first 500hr hatha yoga training in 2010. Since then, she has continued to study various styles of yoga and is working towards a 500hr yoga therapeutics certification with Yoga Medicine.

I’ve known Christina for over a decade, we’ve been active participants in the same yoga communities, we’ve practiced together and attended each others’ classes countless times. Christina teaches a strong vinyasa practice with a light-hearted approach to encourage attention to turn inwards, to tune into your own experience, and therefore create a deeper awareness and understanding of self.

I’ve seen both her practice and her teaching evolve over the years and what I love most about what she offers is her creative sequencing that balances a strong dynamic pace with deep therapeutic engaging of the body. She has mastered the ability to present challenging classes that are accessible to all and I look forward to what she has to offer us this Tuesday, March 22nd.

(Registration link on bio)

My first guest of the Tuesday series is .bolessa .

I met Sebastien in 2014. He began playing hand drums at the weekly Sunday Sessions, motivating and inspiring the rhythm of the room. Soon the drum evolved to including a viola, a didgeridoo, voice, effects & loop.

He is a therapy-minded musician, Yoga instructor, avid explorer of body movement and former martial artist.

Sebastien and I have offered countless classes and events all over western Canada. festivals, retreats, ceremonies, and in studio workshops. I have had the great pleasure to witness Sebastien expand as a musician, as a yogi, and most dearly, a friend.

Sebastien is a true talent, he is one of the kindest and most thoughtful individuals you'll ever meet. These days he dedicates his music to accompanying dancers, workshop participants, Yoga practitioners, hospital patients, and more, he seeks to narrate our journeys with living soundtracks that motivate and inspire the heart.

Join Seb for a 30-minute presentation on healing and releasing through rhythm, in “Rhythm and Creation”

(Registration link on bio)

My first guest of the Tuesday series is .bolessa

I met Sebastien in 2014. He began playing hand drums at the weekly Sunday Sessions, motivating and inspiring the rhythm of the room. Soon the drum evolved to including a viola, a didgeridoo, voice, effects & loop.

He is a therapy-minded musician, Yoga instructor, avid explorer of body movement and former martial artist.

Seb and I have offered countless classes and events all over western Canada. festivals, retreats, ceremonies, and in studio workshops. I have had the great pleasure to witness him expand as a musician, as a yogi, and most dearly, a friend.

Sebastien is a true talent, he is one of the kindest and most thoughtful individuals you'll ever meet. These days he dedicates his music to accompanying dancers, workshop participants, Yoga practitioners, hospital patients, and more, he seeks to narrate our journeys with living soundtracks that motivate and inspire the heart.

Join Seb for a 30-minute presentation on healing and releasing through rhythm in “Rhythm and Creation”

EMERGENCE
Sunday, January 9, 2022
6:00 PM-8:00 PM
Kelowna, BC at

Kevin Gaudet & I have collaborated to create an offering aimed at evolving our personal aptitude as practitioners and our collective strength as community members. Emergence is born of a recognition of the outer and inner upheaval recent months may have created. Rather than attempt to categorize these upheavals as positive/negative or right/wrong, the ceremony will center around our prerogative and responsibility to adapt, grow and ultimately emerge as stronger, wiser, and stronger yoga practitioners and citizens. 

In this practice, you can expect a balance of fiery and uplifting, cooling and grounding, communal and individual. This will be accomplished through an artful selection and sequencing of postures, kriya, and breathing techniques that Andrew is well known for. The meaningful connection will be fostered through discussion and intelligently directed lines of verbal inquiry, all in the service of sowing seeds of shared purpose and intention, a lynchpin of the ceremony. Additionally, this psychological, energetic, and ceremonial space will be carved out, enlivened, and maintained by Kevin Gaudet and his assortment of gongs, drums, and primal vocalizations. Further grounding, rest, and integration will be gained by sound bath, guided relaxation, and meditative reflection.

This is a practice designed for experienced practitioners but is open to any experience level willing to show up with the dedication to see a ceremony through, knowing that the success of a ceremony hinges on the true investment of all participants.

Space is limited to 19 people so if you're interested in joining, make sure you hop on and reserve your spot!

This Sunday, December 19th at 6:00 PM is the 10th annual Power Of Love. This event holds a decade of beautiful moments. It’s brought us together in easy times and challenging times, and every time we’ve uplifted each other, we’ve felt held and at peace, even if for just a moment. Moments like these can be profound, for me personally they’ve fortified purpose in my life and the desire to contribute. I’ve always loved bringing the community together and very early on I found it to be a healing component of my practice.

I can look back at the person I was when I began this work and see so much that has come and gone. I see my evolution as a person and practitioner. The first year we offered Power of Love was inspired by my brother who had fallen deep into drug abuse and began healing while living at Hope Mission. He found solace in serving there and being in the community. I spoke to a dear friend, Teresa Byer, and she encouraged the idea do a fundraiser to buy meals for the homeless at Hope Mission with that year’s event. We agreed to offer several classes all over Edmonton, at lululemon, Noorish, Moksha, and SATTVA. We donated just over 1500 meals and that experience broadened my personal practice, and it was the initiation of many transformative gatherings coming together in community.

So much has happened in 10 years. I’ve become a husband and a father, I’ve experienced much of our world and its cultures, been deeply devoted to yogic practices, and shared the teachings. I’ve experienced loss, births, triumph, and defeat. We’ve all been to depths and highs settling into who we are and what we must share.

Power of Love is one of my favorite nights of the year and this year’s iteration and contributors are incredible. I feel blessed to host this gathering alongside some of the most inspiring people in my life, masterful in what they share. Last year we came together virtually, this year in person at The Creative Hive.

Love is a unifying force experienced within, yet powerfully felt in purposeful gatherings. Join us for Power Of Love Sunday, December 19th at 6 PM.

Registration in my bio’s linktree.

(SUNDAY, December 19)
What a journey the last two years have been. With in-person events often out of the question, offerings like Power of Love became but one of the endless numbers of experiences that brought resiliency and creativity to the forefront. Last year, we wove a hybrid, digital offering of both live and pre-recorded Yoga facilitation, music, and poetry, all on short notice as we met the unpredictability of the pandemic restrictions. With that departure from our original vision, we are now ecstatic at the possibility of offering the event as envisioned for last year: Live and in-person.

In 2012 Andrew committed to this yearly gathering and now a decade later, there is a dedicated team of diverse facilitators gathering under a full moon bringing focus to our inner guidance. With deep, loving gratitude for the foundational lessons and relationships that make up our evolving presence, we will celebrate in-person.

On December 19th, from 6 to 8:30 pm, please join Andrew Misle, Geha Gontier, Kevin Gaudet, Angela McFaul, Duan Friesen, and Sebastien Bolessa for this celebration of POL’s 10th anniversary. Enjoy a dynamic practice inspired by music and interwoven with ecstatic poetry. The practice will conclude with a transcendental sound bath and Yoga Nidra. Pure magic.

Register at
http://poweroflove2021.eventbrite.com

Creative Hive - 16819 111 Ave NW, Edmonton

December 19th

6:00 pm - 8:30 pm

$40

(Part 3 of 3)

Growing up in Chile our household was complicated, my dad was always on tour, and my mother and he stopped getting along. Going out in public was always a spectacle with people walking up to meet him, it was exciting at times and uncomfortable at others, eventually it led to a separation. In truth, as an orphan himself, my dad never really had the mentorship or tools on how to be a husband or a father, by no means an excuse, but as I have stepped into both these roles myself, I can now see him for who he was. In the years when we didn’t speak, I never doubted his love, I knew his own struggles were part of a heartbreak he eventually learned to heal.

Over years we reconciled and built a relationship on friendship. He’d often apologize for not being a “normal” father growing up. I reminded him that I’d let go of wanting a normal father years ago and that I had admiration for him. It was always clear to me that his life never lent for normalcy. I became proud of the man he was, what he overcame, and the lessons he learned. He was passionate about life and a true believer in dreams. He always encouraged my artistic pursuits and when I visited Chile to spend time with him and when we had the opportunity to chat, I was able to really contemplate who he was; I found a charitable man that gave himself fully to what he loved most, performing.

In the last few years of his life he’d stopped apologizing, he became genuine, and I truly felt a deep sense of peace in his heart. I feel blessed to have known him and that I was able to say goodbye. I was watching an interview he gave a few years ago, when the interviewer asked him what he’d want to be re­­­­­­­­­membered for, my father responded that on his epitaph he would like inscribed, “Here lays an artist”.

(December 11, 1942 - November 17, 2021)

(Part 2 of 3) His name was Luis Misle Troncozo, Luis Dimas was his stage name for the past 60 years, he’d been an entertainer in the public eye in Chile since his early teens, gaining fame by initiating a new wave of music in the ’60s that awoke new popularity and national pride for Chilean singers & musicians. He brought Rock’n’roll & Twist to Chile and South America, he was deeply influenced by Elvis, The Beatles, Chubby Checker, Tom Jones, Sammy Davis Jr, and many more. He was a short man with a giant voice that could fill arenas, known for holding audiences partying for hours at a time. As a young boy, I was a huge fan of his shows, life with my dad was always exciting and chaotic.

My father was raised by the stage and his adoring fans, entertaining and receiving applause is how he first felt loved. My grandfather died when dad was very young, and his mother took his twin sister to America leaving him to fend for himself as a young boy. I’m yet to fully understand how, but he began performing and singing on the streets and in brothels, making his way to the biggest stages in South America and breaking all kinds of records in album sales at the time, one of Chile’s most-awarded artists. They always referred to him as “El Rey”, the King. Years later my family would move to North America for several years and my dad would experience moderate success in Western Canada, but not quite like he had experienced in his home country. A few years after I was born, we moved back to Chile. Truly though, I believe he was plagued by the fear of abandonment for most of his life, he chased that love from the stage until the very end, it’s how he was best able to feel at home. My cousin Enzo & and his wife Lorena took care of him for the last 3 years and would send me videos of him performing at the old-age home where he lived in his final year. Even as his health and memory were deteriorating, he still brought his infectious energy and love for performing to whoever would listen.