Experience a steady and grounding practice with Calm and Strong, a yoga class that cultivates calm and sturdy strength. This session blends mindful movements with strength-building poses to create a balanced practice supporting body and mind. You'll flow through sequences that promote stability, resilience, and a deeper connection to your breath, leaving you feeling centred and empowered. Perfect for anyone seeking a grounded approach to building strength, Calm and Strong offers a practice that nourishes inner peace and physical vitality.

Investment: $20 drop-in or $60 per month

Student pricing is available with a valid student ID (contact Kris for details)

Contact Kris Murphy: kris@sliceworks.ca

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!

There are currently three class times per week:

Mondays at 11 am

Wednesdays at 11:15 am

Fridays at 10 am

The Wednesday morning 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.

Contact Margo Bent: margo.chairyoga@gmail.com

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Text Margo at 902-955-1467

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 at least 6 hours prior to class to confirm availability.

Investment: $80 +HST for 5 weeks, or $22 to drop in.

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Contact Sherry Younker: Sherry.younker@gmail.com

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.

Investment: $80 for the series, $22 to drop in.

Contact Erin Gibbs: erin.gibbs@outlook.com

This Hatha flow is a class for all levels, focusing on alignment to build a deeper mind-body connection, while also incorporating dynamic transitions between poses. Suitable for beginners!

Investment: $10/person for whole 6 weeks, or $15 drop in

Contact Emma Betts: emmbetts6@gmail.com

Yoga nidra in general is a form of meditation originally from the yoga tradition of looking inward simply to be. iRest yoga nidra, or integrative restoration yoga nidra, is a more modern meditation practice, founded in Eastern yoga tradition but blended with contemporary Western understandings of meditation and psychology. It is a full somatic awareness practice incorporating all the senses, is deeply relaxing, and brings you to a place of source, peace, and ease. Here, the nervous system is able to re-regulate, and you are then able to discover the felt sense of simply being, a place where stress and anxiety cannot exist. With practice, this felt sense of well-being continues into your daily life. You begin to discover how to be with these sensations without being as affected by them. Reaction turns into action based on more clarity, and the nervous system is less likely to become de-regulated, in other words, the bodily, emotional, and thought sensations associated to stress and/or anxiety become less and less or disappear altogether. This practice recognizes that stress and anxiety are part of life and gives you the opportunity to explore, first, finding ease and peace in body and mind, and, second, finding ease and peace in living no matter your life circumstances.

Investment: $20/class

Contact Nancy Anderson- nancyanderson1002@gmail.com

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

Next cycle begins in March, 2026. There is a group currently underway. There is a waiting list, so pre-register to join the queue.

Contact Shiona McIntosh: mindfulnessandyourhealth@gmail.com

This is a monthly gathering for past graduates of the 8-week MBSR program or anybody with a regular mindfulness 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: $18

Contact Shiona McIntosh: mindfulnessandyourhealth@gmail.com

Prenatal yoga with Courtney (Bhaktidayaka) is a gentle, mother-centered class designed to bring women together during their pregnancy journey, build community connections with other mommas, foster and grow innate wisdom by learning about choices and techniques used during the birthing journey and moving the body intuitively to build strength and maintain mobility through all stages of pregnancy. No previous yoga experience necessary.

Register: via email and etransfer to cfmollinsbidlake@gmail.com

Join Erin for a 60-minute practice that starts with a restorative pose followed by a guided meditation leading you to a deep relaxation of the body while staying awake. This yogic sleep practice invites you to land in a wakeful rest in a savasana of your choosing (traditional, supported or side lying) supported by props to fully surrender into the practice.

Investment: $16/class

Contact Erin Gibbs: erin.gibbs@outlook.com

Come along Saturday afternoons once a month for a deep rest.

Each practice will begin with gentle breath work and soft movement followed by two restorative poses held for 15-25 minutes, followed by savasana. In each pose you will be fully supported by props to enable the body to surrender into deep rest and relaxation leading to restoration at a cellular level. We will invite in a softening of the mind, a rest of the body and a glow from the heart. This practice is for all levels and will be fully guided from the floor, there is no standing series in the practice.

Saturdays 3:00-4:15pm

September 20th, October 25th, November 22nd, and December 13th

Investment: $80 for the series, $22 to drop in

Contact Erin Gibbs: erin.gibbs@outlook.com

This is a Slow yoga practice that emphasizes slow, mindful movements, extended holds in poses, and breath-synchronized body awareness to release tension and calm the nervous system.

This practice can help to lower stress and anxiety, improve flexibility, and promote a deeper state of relaxation by connecting the body and mind.

The yoga practice concludes with a guided Yoga Nidra.

Janet has been teaching yoga for over 15 years, and been a yoga student for over 30 years. She has certified in Yin Yoga, Trauma Yoga, Restorative Yoga, Kripaulu Yoga and more recently Ayurvedic Yoga.

Her classes are "blended" and designed to support release of tension in the mind-body and create space to renew and restore.

As a front-line worker herself (she has worked in Social Work for over 30 years), she understands the impacts as well as ways to offer support.

Please contact Janet at (506) 461 9520 if you would like a space in this class or would like more information.

Investment: $15/class or $48/ 4 classes

Contact Janet McGeachy: janetmcyoga@hotmail.com | Text or call 506-461-9520

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 relieves stress and emotional imbalances, and it addresses 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, will deeply relax and energize you. An alchemy Sound meditation can balance the chakras and 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, and deep relaxation.

The Alchemy Crystal singing bowls sound therapy is a truly restorative experience for mind, body, and 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 and 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, the grandmother bowl, and many other sound instruments. Come wearing loose comfortable clothing and bring a bottle of water, a notebook, and an open heart.

Space is limited.

Please pre-register to book your space at https://www.leemillersparkofawareness.com

Contact: Lee Miller leemillersoa@gmail.com

Coming Home for the Holidays

An 8-Week Yin Yoga Series

As the season grows busy, this series offers a space to slow down and reconnect. Each week invites you to rest in stillness through gentle Yin postures, mindful breath, and quiet reflection. Together, we’ll soften the edges of stress, nurture the heart, and rediscover the peace that lives within. The journey concludes with a special candlelit class to release and renew before the new year.

Tuesdays, Nov. 4 – Dec. 30, 2025 · 9 AM | Brookside Wellness Centre

$15 per class · $18 for the 90-minute finale · $100 for the full series (paid at beginning)*

Contact Nancy Swartz: nancyswartz0711@gmail.com

The Paramis in Buddhism are 10 qualities of the heart and mind that can be cultivated in practice and in daily life: generosity, wisdom, loving kindness, truthfulness, renunciation, morality, determination, effort, patience, and equanimity. We’ll explore these qualities together in monthly half-day sessions over eight months. There will be guided meditations, talks, discussion, walking meditations, and some time to meditate on your own. The Buddha taught that the opportunity to practice in this way can help us to see more deeply into the qualities of the heart and mind that can lead us to greater wisdom and compassion in our lives.

Monthly Meeting Dates:

Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025: 1–4 pm

Saturday, Nov. 8, 2025: 1–4 pm

Saturday, Dec.13, 2025: 1–4 pm

Saturday, Jan. 17, 2026: 1–4 pm

Saturday, Feb. 14, 2026: 1–4 pm

Saturday, Mar. 14, 2026: 1–4 pm

Saturday, Apr. 18, 2026: 1–4 pm

Saturday, May 9, 2026: 1–4 pm

This program is suitable for all meditators, whatever your level of experience. Beginners are welcome!

The cost is $150 for all 8 modules or $30 for each one if attending all 8 does not work for you.

Please contact Cynthia at samking@nb.sympatico.ca to register or if you have any questions.