Yoga at Transformations offers an electric mix of flowing Hatha yoga style with influences from various teaching philosophies. Intuitively instructed to suit your needs and awaken your conscious mind to the present moment. Experience the integration of breathing & mindfulness. Awaken your conscious mind to the present moment & reconnect to your spiritual well being.
Our teaching emphasizes the integration of breath & movement, alignment & internal awareness, facilitated through individual attention, precise verbal cuing & hands-on adjustments. Most of all we encourage all to honour where the body is in that moment.
New to Yoga or beginning again? You can start practicing yoga at any stage of life of level of physical health and fitness. Transformations invites anyone seeking a healthy, integrated approach to struggles with self-acceptance, body image, over/underweight, chronic dieting, anxiety or depression.
Make peace from the inside out.
Current Yoga Classes
Body Sculpt - Muscle & Movement Integration
This program is designed for those who are interested in increasing muscles mass without bulk & improving range of motion as well as ensuring proper technique.
Chakra Yoga
Become more aware of your subtle energy body relating to the seven power centres in your body, chakras. Each Chakra governs a different portion of the body, & the psyche, & so creates the physical body itself. The state of each chakra reflects the health of a particular area of your body. It also reflects your psychological, emotional & spiritual well-being. ( Lecture & Practice)
Through Yoga Asanas (postures) & guided meditation we will explore your power centres and see how they reflect what's happening in your body, in your life. Unplug from negative thoughts & perceptions & live as a healthier, more empowered person.
Transformations will be offering 2 pre-registered Chakra Yoga programs beginning in April:
Tuesdays April 10, 17, 24 & May 1, 8, 15 & 22 ( 7 week program)
Sundays April 15, 22, 29, May 6, 20 & 27 excludes May 13 (6 week program)
Please contact the studio for more information or to register.
Gentle Restorative Yoga
Relax and renew through the practice of gentle yoga postures & breathing techniques to quiet the mind & energize the body. Develop understanding & solidify the foundations of posture. Working at a slower pace to aid in building awareness of breath & body. Our gentle postures & guided relaxation will leave you feeling balanced
Yoga for Girls
A 6 week pre-registered program for girls in Grade 6 - Grade 8 (ages 10-14).
Wednesdays — 5pm - 6pm - April 11 - May 23
Saturdays — 12 noon- 1pm -April 14 - May 26 excluding April 14
Further details to be posted shortly, or contact the studio for more information or to register.
Hatha / Vinyasa Yoga
Hatha is the foundation of all yoga asana (Postures). Our Hatha/ Vinyasa yoga is eclectic & free allowing you to focus on classical
yoga postures, rhythmic breathing and deep relaxation with the opportunity for you to extend and challenge yourself more fully.
Increase your energy flow, relieve stress, tension and enhance flexibility and overall health.
Emphasis on Yoga Foundations
This is an essential class for any beginner, as well as students who want to develop an intelligent foundation for a safe, therapeutic and fluid yoga practice.
Prenatal Yoga
The word yoga is a Sanskrit word meaning yoke or connection. Yoga connects your body, mind & spirit. Yoga can connect you to your baby, too! The practice of yoga gives you the opportunity to create a world (your body) for your baby that is healthy & at peace.
"What a child learns in the womb cannot be learned on earth." Yogi Bhajan
Great changes take place in the human body during pregnancy. Practicing yoga is a great way to slow down & appreciate these changes.
Yoga encourages you to be in the moment & to be fully present. It encourages you to listen to your body, to accept it as it is, & to surrender to its sometimes uncomfortable changes.
Through gentle stretches & simple strength-building postures, you can improve your physical health.
Through Breathing & meditation, you can reduce anxiety & self-critical thinking, thereby improving your mental health!
Pre-registration is required for Pre-Natal Yoga.
Pre-natal Yoga Program Registration instructions:
Email Lee Anne at transformations@sympatico.ca
Info required:
How many weeks/ estimated due date?
How many pregnancies have you had?
How many children?
Special concerns or questions.
February/March/April
Thursdays, 6:30 to 8pm
February 23, March 1, 15,22,29 & April 5
Excludes- March 8
Registration — $88 for 6 weeks
Option Fees: 5 sessions $74, 4 sessions $59, 3 sessions $46, 2 session $32, 1 session $20
Pre-Registration is a must!
Therapeutic Yoga
Therapeutic Yoga is a combination of Traditional Hatha Yoga postures, breathing & meditation techniques with more contemporary understandings of kinesiology, anatomy & physiology.
Therapeutic Yoga is a balanced mindful approach to health & healing that enables you to develop awareness & a sense of ease.
Yin Yoga
Yin Yoga focuses on your legs, low back and hips! Through various supported posture we explore our breath and emotions. More students of yoga are adding this challenging form of practice to their regular sadhana (practice).
The difference between restorative & any other style of yoga is both intensity of effort and duration in poses. Rather than working with muscular opposition, hugging in, radiating out, spirals, loops, you create a space for your body to melt into the pose. Open up these deep, dense, rarely touched areas. Many are finding Yin Yoga to be the perfect compliment and balance to their active yoga practices & daily activities.
Yin Yang Yoga Flow
Together at Transformations, our Yoga practice allows for us to draw inward, to develop an attitude of attentiveness and gives us an opportunity to fully inhabit ourselves. With practice our posture help to rejuvenate our depleted vitality, accelerate healing and expand self-realization.
The practice of Yin/ Yang Yoga combines the slow, receptive, steady softness of Yin postures with the mobilizing, active aspect of Yang postures.
On a physical level the most relevant difference between yin and yang yoga is the elasticity of muscles and connective tissue. Muscles are considered yang because they are soft and elastic. The connective tissue (primarily fascia, tendons & ligaments) is yin because it is stiff and inelastic.
Much of yoga practiced today are yang and emphasize muscular movement and contraction and focus on improving the flexibility and strength of muscle (yang) tissue. Yin yoga uses long passive holds (muscles released) to safely mobilize, rehabilitate and energize the deep connective tissue and joints which may be damaged by the rhythmic contraction and release that best stretches muscle.
This Yin/Yang Yoga practice will blend the dynamic sequence of traditional poses linked by breath with the slow quiet sequences of Yin yoga, to integrate awareness, alignment, strength, flexibility and grace.
Join in on the practice of the Yin Yang Yoga to build strength, stamina and warmth, to rejuvenate and heal, and to release tension ultimately de-stress.
