Lahari Yoga

North Delta Yoga

Top 10 Reasons to Participate in the Lahari Teacher Training Program

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  1. We operate as part of a Yoga studio, which provides unique learning and teaching opportunities. You will observe regular yoga classes led by experienced teachers and even have the opportunity to take part in mentoring opportunities post-training.
  2. There is full access to the studio’s drop in classes at NO COST during the duration of the teacher training program, a value of $280 – we encourage our program trainees to focus on developing and maintaining a personal practice. Teachers are great students first!
  3. Our teaching faculty is experienced, skilled and passionate about teaching. Depending on scheduling availability, our faculty includes Kim Sheridan (Lead Trainer), Daniel Clement, Carol Wray, Lauren Roegele, Michael Rudd, Kerri McLeod, Karm Kaila (RMT, Anatomy), Sue MacHenry, Laura Chenier-McFadden, Tanya Armstrong (Prenatal), and Karen Wardrop (Kid’s Yoga) to name just a few.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. We meet your all of your practical needs with our training. Centrally located in N. Delta, for many of you, there are no bridges to cross. Our training costs are kept down and we offer a payment plan. The training is part-time, so you can also work, study or fulfill family responsibilities5. The class sizes are kept small (8-16 participants).Small group sizes ensure that there are plenty of opportunities to practice your new teaching skills, including planning and presenting a full length class practicum at the end of the training.6. Several studio workshops and events are integrated into the training. Trainees this fall attend a Sound Healing class with Cindy Babyn, Improving Your Balance workshop, Designing a Home Practice workshop, 2 Advanced Practice teacher classes and the Fall Equinox Celebration! A value of $140.7. The training program syllabus is comprehensive. You will leave the training confident in your ability to offer Yoga classes that are SAFE, EFFECTIVE and FUN.8. The Lahari Teacher Training is multi-faceted. It is suitable for those that wish to teach Yoga or for those participating with a desire to further their love of Yoga. Not everyone who takes the training plans to teach Yoga to others.9. The physical components of training (asanas, or poses) are designed to meet you where you are upon entry into the program and challenging enough so that each trainee sees advances in their personal practice. There is no need to come into the program with an advanced practice, but a sincere desire to learn and practice is a must!10. Whether you are drawn to the physical practices of Yoga, meditation, pranayama (breath work), or philosophy, there is something for everyone in this program. No drop in Yoga classes can provide the depth of learning or experience as a Teacher Training Program. Most program participants leave the training describing it as transformational.

To read some of the reviews from our past trainees, visit our teacher training information page at http://lahariyoga.com/north-delta-bc-yoga-teacher-training/

Retreat to Get Inspired!

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“May each one of us build a temple of the body. May each one of us learn to worship at the shrine of our heart. May each one of us have great company along the way.”

– Christina Sell, from My Body Is a Temple, Yoga as a Path to Wholeness

For me personally, fall is the perfect time of year to offer or attend a Yoga retreat. It has a ‘new year’ feeling about it, perhaps due to the movement towards greater darkness and the plant world drying and changing colours. Our activities are shifting, slowing down, and we often find ourselves seeking greater insight from inner work and reflection.

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As such, here is what you can expect on retreat with Lahari Yoga:

  1. Balanced times for sleep, eating, yoga, learning, exploring, meditation, and play.
  2. Reaffirming a commitment to yourself in all of these areas so that you can maintain these healthy daily rhythms upon your return home.
  3. Healthy, seasonally appropriate foods, lovingly catered by Milagro Retreats (sample Winter-Autumn menus http://milagroliving.com/winter-autumn-menus/)milagro
  4. Beautiful accommodations to suit your needs (both shared and private still available at this time) in the Ecolodge at the Tofino Botanical Gardens (details http://www.tbgf.org/ecolodge/), full access to the gardens includes for the weekend. Our retreat group has reserved the entire Ecolodge and the spacious Yoga room is located on the second floor.ecolodge3
  5. Yoga practices designed to balance, ground, and stabilize your energy – allowing for plenty of opportunity to rest after each practice. Appropriate to the fall season, the meditation and Yoga practices are focused on letting go, moving inward, cultivating seasonal wisdom, and welcoming change. There will be options for stronger, more energetic and restorative physical (asana) practices. Yoga is offered twice daily (a.m. and p.m.).Salt Spring 2013 140

Retreat is literally defined as “an act of moving back or withdrawing”. The balance of activity and rest offered at the Flow into Fall – Equinox Yoga Retreat in Tofino is an ideal complement the fall season. I would love to have you join us. To find out more, visit our events page http://lahariyoga.com/events-retreats/

Namaste,

Kim

“For the purposes for building a temple of the body, practice implies a way of life that aligns us with the Highest. It includes, but is not limited to: the things we eat and the things we do not eat; the way we talk to ourselves and the way we talk to others; the way we manage our minds as well as our behavior; the way we breathe; the way we conduct ourselves in relationships of all kinds; and the remembering of the reason behind our various choices.”

– Christina Sell

 

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Anniversary Reflections and Remembrance

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029Our third studio anniversary came and went quietly this year. Perhaps fitting to the time of year, this milestone felt more suited to reflection and contemplation, than it did to wild celebration (although the passing of three happy years of sharing Yoga with our community is certainly something to celebrate!).

I was away on a Yoga retreat for the days surrounding our anniversary, a retreat that was themed around Remembrance and Reclaiming Your Sacred Nature with the beautiful and eloquent Natalie Rousseau. How fitting!

So many happy memories and events have taken place within those studio walls over the past few years! Lots of laughter, learning and even a few tears have been shed.  In every sense, the studio has become a sacred space; a place where this joyful and diverse spiritual community can come together to practice. You can feel it seep into you as you enter, see if reflected in the faces of those who practice here.

To those of you who came in these doors almost as soon as the ‘welcome’ sign was hung, thank you for establishing yourselves as our foundation, with your dedication and commitment to practice, your continued efforts to learn and grow, and the joy you infuse into these wall with each and every breath. For those of you that have more recently found us, welcome! You have found a place that will embrace and nurture you and will continue to grow right alongside you. All of you have become the community of my heart!

In deepest gratitude, I must highlight our Lahari teaching team. There really are no words to describe the commitment and passion these ladies have for Yoga (and Pilates), for their craft. They are fierce in their devotion to all of you and the studio itself!  I wish there was a way I could share with you how much effort and time they each put into continuing their own Yoga education and training, developing their class plans, and behind-the-scenes studio goings on. These studio Goddesses are the heart and spirit of Lahari.

Somehow it all comes together in this sacred alchemy of energy that has sustained itself for three years and I look forward to seeing what the next year has in store!

Over the past few months I have been listening to all of you, to our teachers and to the whispering in my own heart for guidance as to the direction the studio might take as we move into 2016. With that thought in mind, I would like to ask each of you – as we continue to grow and evolve, in what ways can we better serve our Yoga community? What programs would you like to see and perhaps take part in? Also, how can we give back to our greater Delta-Surrey community overall?  Please email kim@lahariyoga.com or call the studio – I would love to hear your thoughts and ideas!

Happy Anniversary and Namaste,

Kim

Riding the Waves of Life

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“In the waves of change we find our true direction.” – blog.freepeople.com

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I consider myself an expert on this topic, at least insofar as it comes to riding the wave of my own (often) crazy life. As a busy and sometimes overwhelmed mom, wife and yoga studio owner, it sometimes feels like an incredible challenge just to keep my head above the water line. I know with certainty that many of you can relate.

Those of you that know me personally know that I have a great affinity for anything outdoors, particularly anything near the ocean. In fact, the studio name ‘Lahari’, means ‘wave’ or ‘beautiful wave’ in Sanskrit. The entire concept of ‘Riding the Wave (of life)’ resonates very strongly with me.

It takes no small amount of courage to face the uncertainty offered by life. It takes strong faith and a connection with something bigger than oneself.  We are made up of the same elements that surround us – earth, fire, air, water and ether – and as such, we need to experience and connect with what is surrounds us in order to remain happily afloat. Yes…we are speaking of Yoga, surfing and life! These strong rhythms of life cannot be resisted or forced, so to learn how to remain fully awake, focused and actively part of these processes is how we learn to ‘stay on the board’ and ride the waves of life.

No one moves through life without experiencing its joyous highs and heart-wrenching lows; the birth of children, powerful love connections, gut-wrenching losses, soaring personal accomplishments and stinging failures, health scares, and deep contentment. It is a well-lived life that allows for all of these experiences and the accompanying deep emotions. Renowned Yoga teacher Stephen Cope advises us to “open to the energy of our emotions.” This is not a passive process in the least. We can learn to remain awake. An active part of life’s process. Focused. Inspired. Empowered.

May the waves of life take you on the journey of your dreams.

Kim

Join me for the upcoming ‘Ride the Wave’ Registered Yoga Series at Lahari Yoga.

Simple asanas (poses), five strongly themed classes, stories from ancient mythology, pranayama, meditation and music. This series is suitable for all levels and experience.

Week 1: Invite Awaking
Week 2: Let Go
Week 3: Find Stillness
Week 4: Explore Possibility
Week 5: Graceful Offering

When: June 2-30th (Tuesdays, 7:30-8:45 p.m.), Cost: $79 plus GST

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