When Your Body Can't Switch Off: Understanding and Healing Chronic Stress with Chinese Medicine If you're reading this, chances are your body feels like it's stuck in overdrive. Maybe you're lying awake at 3am with your mind racing through tomorrow's to-do list or yesterday’s interactions. Maybe you're having those anxiety dreams where you can't find [...]
Understanding the Sacral Chakra: Flow, Emotion, and the Element of Water by Billie Atherstone SvādhiṣṭhānaThe Chakra of Flow & Emotion The chakra system serves as a roadmap for understanding and balancing our physical, emotional, and spiritual selves. The second chakra, known as Svādhiṣṭhāna in Sanskrit, governs our emotions, creativity, pleasure, and intimacy. This is our [...]
Journeying Home: Reawakening the Ancient Art of Soul Healing by Rachel Hanrahan Since time immemorial, humans have journeyed shamanically. Long before temples rose or text messages were sent, we gathered around the fire, attuned to the heartbeat of the earth. We have always known how to cross the veils between worlds—how to hear guidance in [...]
The Particular Agony of the Premature Baby by Anna Papadakis, Body-Centred Therapist I have been a body-centered therapist for fifteen years and was a birth worker for twelve. In that time, I have attended births, taught about birth, trained doulas, and spent decades listening deeply to people’s bodies and stories. Again and again, I have [...]
Why Do You Practice Yoga? By Avril Bastiansz I often ask my students this question: Why do you show up on your mat? What is your intention - your saṅkalpa? For some, the answer is physical: to stretch, strengthen, or feel healthier. For others, it may be emotional: to calm the mind or find relief [...]
The Five Animal Frolics: Wu Qin Xi Qigong By Simon Murray Our current focus in the Monday 7:45am Qigong class is the Wu Qin Xi (pronounced woo chin shee) form. The name translates roughly as Five Animal Frolics (or Exercises). This well-known set of Qigong was formulated by the legendary physician Hua Tuo during the [...]
My Name is Not Anxious: Psychology and Yoga in Dialogue Anxiety has become one of the most common struggles of our time. For many, it is not just an occasional experience but a constant companion that seems to shape identity itself: “I am anxious.” When we adopt this identification, we can begin to lose sight [...]
A Transformative Time: Eclipses in Pisces (Lunar) and Virgo (Solar) and Spring Equinox It is a transformative time this September, it begins with Saturn moving back into Pisces, where it will remain until the 15th of February 2026, bringing renewed spiritual understanding and a grounded approach to completing things, prior to reentering Aries where it [...]
Our psychotherapist Lee Beaton delves into Emotional Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFiT), and explores how this innovative modality supports the processing of trauma by cultivating secure attachment in a therapeutic relationship. Now that Christmas and the New Year are behind us, it’s time to focus on what another year holds. The holidays can sometimes [...]
What are you cultivating with this new energy? Often we are so focused on what we don't want in life that it causes stress and does not allow the clarity to focus on what we would like to welcome into our life. To experience clarity take the time to acknowledge what could change. Set aside time [...]