Brookside Wellness Centre

Beginner Gentle Yoga

Gentle yoga is a wonderful way to increase flexibility and strength, reduce stress, and become more balanced in all aspects of your life. As a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT) Betsy can provide beginners with a great deal of insight and guidance as you practice yoga. Betsy will answer your questions during your class, as well as help you achieve the proper posture for each pose in a knowledgeable yet kind, friendly, and compassionate environment.

Through various key postures, each class will focus on:

• Basics and Foundations of Yoga

• Injury Prevention

• Grounding Techniques

• Self-awareness Development

• Immune System Strengthening

• Breath, Mindfulness & Meditation Techniques

• Breakdown Proper Alignment of Postures (Asanas)

• Explore Mental, Emotional & Energetic Effects

With Betsy- betsy@yogabybetsy.com

Chair Yoga

Chair Yoga with Margo combines both fully seated and chair or wall supported standing poses and provides a wonderful stretching and strengthening experience for challenged bodies. Gentle movement, deep breathing, and an awareness of posture are key elements. A few strengthening exercises and meditative relaxation complete each class. NEW!

We are pleased to announce our Chair Yoga Program with Margo Bent will be expanded to three classes per week:

Mondays at 11 am

Wednesdays at 1pm

Fridays at 10:30 am

The Wednesday class will be a more gentle class, suitable for beginners, or for those who would like to add a more meditative class to their week. All classes will focus on breathing, stretching, strengthening and relaxing, and are suitable for all ages and stages.

Cost is 12$/class

Pre-registration is required.

With Margo: margo.chairyoga@gmail.com

Chair Yoga and More (Facebook)

text - 902 955 1467

Flow and Restore *** returning at a later date ***

 Join Sherry Younker RMT, RYT for this 75 minute class. This class is designed to slowly build from the ground up. We'll start wtih preparing the body and breath, and stack and flow the basic poses to a peak that is both accessible and nourishing. We'll then wind the mindbody down and complete the class with slow stretches and deep rest practices to restore and balance the system. Classes will have an area of focus each week, but will move and breathe the entire body. Some yoga experience required. Flows may be modified or omitted to suit your needs, but we will spend time on the wrists and knees. The final rest pose will be an extended restorative practice to best prepare for sleep. I can't wait to practice with you!

Pre-registration is required to secure your space. Space for drop-in attendance may vary week to week. Please email Sherry.younker@gmail.com a minimum of 6 hours prior to class to confirm availability.

Investment: $80 +HST for 5 weeks, or $20 to drop in.

Registration Link here.

With Sherry Sherry.younker@gmail.com 

Flow and Stretch 75

 Come along Sunday evenings to round out the weekend with a 75 minute flow to refresh, rejuvenate and relax you into the week ahead! This series is designed to meet all levels of yogis, offering modifications and opportunity to challenge the body and breath in unity. We will move through a heat building sequence to stoke fire into the body, adventure in balancing poses, guide our bodies through deep stretching and tap into sensations along the way We will invite playfulness, curiosity and stillness into our practice. Building relationship between body, breath and mind we come together in community. Each practice will offer a longer savasana to guide you to stillness to integrate all that we’ve moved through and let go of what is no longer serving you. Some practices may include a guided meditation.

Dates: Sundays September 8th-October 27th. No class on October 13th due to Thanksgiving weekend

Investment: $140 for 7 practices, $22 drop in, cash or e transfer

With Erin- erin.gibbs@outlook.com 

Gentle Yoga- Rest and Renew

We start with a centering to bring us to our practice and then move into a gentle yoga practice that facilitates tension release, replenishes and helps to stabilize joints, and increases overall mobility. Adjustments are made to accommodate all bodies so this class is accessible to anybody and is as good for people new to yoga as it is for people who have been practicing for years. Focus is on building awareness in your practice and developing an understanding of what works best for you. A variety of yoga styles may be practiced, and we finish each class with an extended savasana (relaxation)

With Nancy- nancyanderson1002@gmail.com

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

This is an 8 week program taught twice per year by Shiona, a certified Mindfulness instructor. You can read about the program by clicking on the Mindfulness tab at the top of this page.

Next cycle begins mid March, 2025. There is a waiting list, so pre-register soon for the greatest chance to join the next group.

With Shiona- mindfulnessandyourhealth@gmail.com

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Mindfulness R&R

This is a monthly gathering for past graduates of the 8 week MBSR program or anybody with a regular meditation practice. In this class, we will have familiar guided practices, as well as some in-class inquiry and discussion about our learnings from the teachings

Investment: 15$

With Shiona- mindfulnessandyourhealth@gmail.com

Relaxation and Visualization (Cancer Support Group) ** New Class**

Relaxation and visualization (also known as guided imagery) techniques can be powerful and effective ways to help you exercise control over your physical and emotional well-being. Learn to manage cancer-related symptoms such as pain, fear, anxiety, sleeplessness, feelings of overwhelm, and feelings of isolation.

This program is open to individuals with lived-cancer experience and their caregivers. It blends coping techniques with general discussion about challenges you may be experiencing with respect to cancer.

To learn more AND register, you must follow this link to Wellspring (with whom this program is licensed), and you can sign up through their website.

This program is FREE for all participants (limited to ONE caregiver per individual with cancer)

This program will be guided by Shiona and will be a weekly offering.

Register HERE: https://www.chalmersfoundation.com/relaxation-visualization

Restorative and Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra is deep rest for the body, mind and spirit. Similar to guided meditation, this practice is a restorative style of yoga that takes the student beyond relaxation accessing all levels of being. Sandy uses Restorative Yoga postures to prepare the body rest and surrender. Sandy has been guiding students to calmness and wellbeing since 2008 helping them access deep peace, intuition and joy. In addition, as a Reiki Master/Teacher, Sandy holds space for her students using ancient symbols to help transmit Universal healing energy. Nothing to do but lie down, listen and receive.

No experience is necessary

Regular classes during the week are 60 minutes. Longer 90 minute classes on occasion

With Sandy- sandyjlund@yahoo.com

Rise and Shine Flow

Start your day midweek with a gentle morning practice sequenced to open up the body, connect with the breath and soften the mind. These practices will invite opportunity to build heat in the body, stretch and strengthen and build stability and increase flexibility. We will find our way into balance on the mat to support us off the mat.

Investment: $128 for 8 practices, $18 drop in

Register: erin.gibbs@outlook.com 

Sound Healing Journey, Group Reiki and Guided Meditation ( monthly offering)

Let your cares go and sink into the relaxing and healing sounds of resonant instruments, infused with a little chanting, reiki and drumming.

Together we will raise our vibrations and let our inner moonbeams shine brightly!

About Sound Journeys:Sound journeys massage our bodies, minds and spirits with healing sounds. This can help our noisy "monkey minds" get quiet as we shift to a Theta brainwave state from our usual Beta and Alpha states.This is where we relax deeply and experience peace and healing on a cellular level.

What to expect:Plan on relaxing in a way that ordinary life can make it hard to do. Come without expectations of yourself or others and bring an open mind and heart.We will set our personal intentions, and direct our collective energy to release our inner light and highest frequency for the world.This will be a sensory fusion of nature sounds and deep vibrations. A 32" wind gong, crystal and Tibetan singing bowls, chimes, Ocean Drum, hand drum, bells and more will be used during this sound meditation experience to bathe you in beautiful resonance!

We will also start you on this journey with a guided meditation and infuse the morning with healing holy fire reiki healing.

Your guides: Tracey Underhill and Krista Sartoris

Investment: 33$

To register: transform.holistichealth@gmail.com

Sound Healing with Lee (monthly offering )

Let the magic unfold..

The Alchemy Sound Bowls have the purest vibrational tones. An Alchemy sound therapy session stimulates the body’s natural healing mechanisms. It can relieve stress, and emotional imbalances and address physical complaints by accessing and activating your own inner healing power. Being supported by the safe space, while the pure tones of the alchemy crystal tones surround you charging your cells and soothing the mind deeply relaxing and energizing you. An alchemy Sound meditation can balance the chakras & naturally allow the body to regenerate at a cellular level, enhancing our ability to enter a meditative state. The harmonic frequencies of the bowls promote healing, introspection & deep relaxation.

The Alchemy Crystal singing bowls sound therapy is a truly restorative experience for mind, body & spirit. These sessions allow the body to completely surrender to the vibration of the Sound and to this journey of healing and restoration. The session will include Somatic Therapy Exercises, mindfulness meditation leading into the Purest tones of the Alchemy Signing Bowls, you'll meet the ocean bowl, the goddess bowl, the anxiety balancing bowl, the moon bowl and the grandmother bowl and many other sound instruments. Come wearing loose comfortable clothing, a bottle of water, a notebook and an open heart.

Cost: $40

Space is limited please book your space www.leemillersparkofawareness.com/bookaoneononegroupclass

Your host: Lee Miller

Vinyasa Yoga

Join Lauren on Sundays at 4:00pm for a gentle 75 minute vinyasa flow.

Connect your breath with movement, and explore postures that allow you to create space and balance in your day. Modifications will be incorporated to meet your bodie's needs.

All levels welcome.

$12 per class

$36 for 4 classes

DM to register, Lauren York

Yin Yoga

A 90-min Yin Yoga practice suitable for all bodies and experience levels. This practice is limited to 8 participants and is designed to create awareness of the deeper tissues. Our focus is on the network of fascia that surrounds our bones, ligaments, tendons and muscles and supports our organs. We move into and out of postures slowly and hold them for 3-5 minutes. Resting in each posture enables us to take stock of what and where we feel sensations, adjust as appropriate and then relax into stillness in the posture. Breath Coaching is also provided to help us focus on specific areas of tension and recover mobility where it has been limited. No two bodies are alike and in fact each body is different - left to right and day to day. This practice ensures a deeper experience for each student - no two will look alike in any posture and we use props to suit each individual experience.

With Pamela- hamilton.pj9@gmail.com

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