Lunchtime Slow Flow Yoga

Join us for Slow Flow Yoga each week at lunchtime.

This gentle all-level flowing yoga class, with Carrie Taylor, will help ease you into your week. Working with the breath, the aim is to develop awareness, strength and flexibility not only in your body but also your mind.

This is a great way to use your lunch hour to reset your mind and body for the busy afternoon ahead!

Lunchtime Guided Meditation

Drop in to this guided meditation session, with Stef Bourke, to release the stress that you carry with you throughout your week.

You will benefit from this opportunity to quiet your mind, still your body and focus on your breath and your connection to your authentic self.

Regular meditation sessions have been proven to lower stress and anxiety levels, lengthen your attention span and help you sleep better at night.

Lunchtime Yinstorative Yoga

End your work week and begin your weekend with a soothing Friday lunchtime Yinstorative Yoga class. 

Take a half hour break at the end of your busy week to slow down, feel your breath, and let go of unnecessary eff ort with a gentle class that blends restorative, and yin poses.

Yinstorative applies the restorative philosophy to Yin poses by propping them more to allow longer held very restful poses thereby applying passive healing that enables the calming of the “fight, flight, freeze “stress response of the sympathetic nervous system and activates the parasympathetic “rest, digest, healing” part of the nervous system.

Energetically, this is a time for softness and reflection. A time to quiet things down so you can listen to your own inner voice, wisdom, and set our intentions with mindfulness and integrity.

Beginner Yoga | Drop-In

Join AnnMarie Wolf for this Beginner Yoga drop-in class, suitable for everyone.

This class introduces the fundamental principles of yoga, pose alignment and breath work. Students will be introduced to yoga asanas (postures) through a step-by-step progression into the version of the pose that best suits each student’s personal skill level. Emphasis is placed on student understanding, safety, and stability within each pose.

If you have never tried yoga, this class is perfect for you. It is designed to meet the needs of those new to yoga as well as those seeking deeper understanding of basic yoga poses.

Breathwork for Stress Relief

Join us for this Breathwork session focused on stress relief with Breanne Queen.

Breathwork is a powerful stress relief tool that releases stress from your mind and body while helping you escape the constant fight-or-flight mode. Breathwork is a nervous system regulating tool that trains your nervous system to easily shift out of stress and into rest, helping you feel calm and relaxed more often!

The effects of Breathwork are felt immediately and will positively impact every area of your life. If you’re experiencing any of the following:

• Anxiety & Overwhelm

• Physical Pain and Muscle Tightness

• Mental Distress

• Health Issues

Your breath can help you release the stress that might be contributing to these issues. A stress-free state awaits! Join us to experience how your breath can help you de-stress.

HypnoBirthing® | 5-Weeks

Join Certified Consulting Hypnotist, Carrie Taylor, for this 5-week HypnoBirthing® series for birthing parents and their birthing companions.

HypnoBirthing® teaches birthing parents to release all prior programming about birth, how to trust their body and work with it, as well as how to free themselves of harmful emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and unyielding muscles with the use of self-hypnosis techniques and breathing.

The classes are for both partners and include education, relaxation techniques and breath work that will come in handy throughout your life.

Past participants have said they continue to use the techniques taught in class well after the baby is born.

The classes will take place once a week on Saturday mornings over five weeks. Classes are 2.5 hours long.

Flow Into Your Week Yoga | 5-Weeks

Join Carrie Taylor for this 5-week gentle flow yoga series.

This class will set you up for a smooth week. This gentle flow yoga series is suitable for all experience levels, beginners through yogis. The practice will stretch your body and soothe your mind, helping you sail through the rest of your week with ease and grace.

Modifications will be suggested, to allow for EVERY body to participate in this series.

Gentle Hatha | 5-Weeks

Join AnnMarie Wolf for this gentle morning practice.

All Yoga is based on Hatha Yoga. Hatha yoga will allow you to develop ease, comfort, strength, and flexibility over time in both mind and body.

This Gentle Hatha series is a slow class to be enjoyed by yogis with a range of yoga abilities from new yogis who want to learn the fundamental poses in yoga to seasoned yogis who are craving a gentle practice.

In these classes, we move in and out of poses (asanas) mindfully, with detailed focus on safe alignment and breath (pranayama), while honouring your own individual needs, level of experience and personal limitations.

Yin Yoga Exploration of the Chakras

Join AnnMarie Wolf for this morning Yin yoga sequence to awaken the innate connection between your body, breath and mind.

A morning Yin yoga practice gives us the chance to exercise deep listening. When we make the space to listen in the morning, we can hear all the places in our physical body gently wake as we move into long releasing Yin shape after long releasing Yin shape.

Taking time for Yin early in the day, when our muscles are cold, allows us to access the deeper fascia. That depth, that stillness, is what our bodies seek. It prepares us to listen a little more deeply and be a little kinder to ourselves. That kindness gives us the grace to move slowly, to not be tethered to devices, and to create silence and stillness.

This Yin Yoga Exploration of the Chakras gentle stretch series is designed to help you experience your subtle, energetic body. Each week we will explore one of the 7 essential chakras. Practicing yoga for your chakras means becoming aware of the themes related to each chakra, or energy centre, starting at the base of the spine and working your way upward through all seven chakras. It can help you understand what they represent for you and what it feels like when you’re experiencing either a lack or an excess around a particular are in life.

Even if you’re not certain what the chakras are or you’re not certain what you think about these concepts, you will still use the teachings of this series to connect with general themes in life. It is an opportunity to learn about more about yourself.

Yoga Strong | 5-Weeks

Join AnnMarie Wolf for this strengthening yoga practice.

The Yoga Strong practice is a coordinated series of challenging, slow-moving, controlled muscle-building workouts. It’s everything we need in a yoga class to help improve mobility while toning and shaping muscle.

Yoga, by itself, doesn’t make us strong enough for essential life vitality. As we age, we naturally lose muscle mass and with it the ability to do the things we want to be able to do for the rest of our life. But you don’t have to lose that muscle mass!

When you build muscle, your body naturally burns more glucose, even at rest; increases bone density; and demonstrates more muscle definition. As you get stronger you will also notice that your balance improves. Strength training doesn’t just enhance the benefits of yoga, it also increases a yogi’s ability to achieve challenging poses and perform daily activities with less fatigue.

Back to Balance Yin Yoga | 6-Weeks

Join Carrie Taylor for this 6-week yin yoga series – a midweek opportunity to bring you back to balance.

This yin yoga practice will help to balance body, mind and spirit. During each class we will explore long-held poses that focus on your meridian system based on Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Your life energy/qi flows through these meridian highways related to various organs in the body and we will explore the subtleties of these energies.

A yin yoga class is meditative in-nature. Each yin posture is held for several minutes, helping you to observe what arises for you, while you quietly hold the pose.

Join us for this gentle class that is suitable for all experience levels.

Beginner Yoga | 8-Weeks

Join AnnMarie Wolf for this Beginner Yoga series, suitable for everyone.

This class introduces the fundamental principles of yoga, pose alignment and breath work. Students will be introduced to yoga asanas (postures) through a step-by-step progression into the version of the pose that best suits each student’s personal skill level. Emphasis is placed on student understanding, safety, and stability within each pose.

If you have never tried yoga, this class is perfect for you. It is designed to meet the needs of those new to yoga as well as those seeking deeper understanding of basic yoga poses.

Hatha Yoga Basics | 5-Weeks

Join AnnMarie Wolf for this 5-week Gentle Hatha Yoga Basics series.

This Gentle Hatha Yoga Basics class is designed to help you explore the basic postures used in the more active styled yoga classes. All classes encourage prop use, including chairs and the wall. We will take our time to focus on the pose progressions as you develop your own individual version while learning how to mindfully deepen your breathing, and relaxation techniques.

This class may be a perfect fit for you whether you are a senior, a beginner, recovering from an injury, working to improve your yoga practice or simply prefer to practice yoga at a slower more relaxed pace.

The Millimeter Club: Chair Yoga 

Join AnnMarie Wolf for this 6-week chair yoga series for older adults who want to remain active and vital.

Everyone (all ages and abilities) can aim to move, and move more often, while also adhering to the important health recommendation to engage in strength and balance exercise. If you want to incorporate more movement into your daily routine and alleviate discomfort, this chair yoga class is the one for you. You will build functional strength and flexibility regardless of your fitness level. The class is designed to help you maintain your independence for as long as possible, whether it’s doing household chores such as gardening, carrying groceries, or climbing stairs.

Yoga for Pelvic Health | 8-Weeks

Join us for this 8-week Yoga for Pelvic Health series with Physiotherapist and Yoga Teacher, Leslie Richards.

When the pelvic floor muscles are not working quite right, we can experience many different physical symptoms that are very common and can be very debilitating. From low back and hip pain to urinary leakage, painful intercourse and pelvic organ prolapse, these can all be improved by finding more connection with your pelvic floor, core and breath.

The Yoga for Pelvic Health practice is focused on finding optimal posture and movement of the pelvis, hip joints and low back as well as the involvement of the pelvic floor and diaphragm as core stabilizer muscles. This allows us to find a balance of strength, stability and mobility of the pelvis, hips and low back for a life time of improved comfort and function in our every day lives.

Everyone is welcome. Modifications are given and attention is taken to ensure EVERY body can enjoy and participate in this series.

Full Moon Restorative & Sound

Join Carrie Taylor and Stef Bourke for this full moon restorative yoga and sound experience.

This is your opportunity take a break from doing for others to allow yourself the opportunity to rest and be nurtured in We Thrive’s cozy studio.

Full moons are great gateways to create change in our lives, they are powerful tools for letting go of unwanted energy and cleansing and releasing what doesn’t serve us anymore.

During this Full Moon Restorative Circle you will be guided to create openings in both your body and mind to allow for your dreams to take root and be charged by the light of the full moon.

In this session, we’ll come together in circle for a full moon release practice with crystals. We will follow Carrie through an incredibly nurturing restorative yoga practice that was designed to facilitate release during the full moon, and we will go deep with the soft sounds of crystal singing bowls, voice and a guided meditation with Stef.

Restorative yoga is a restful practice that is all about slowing down and opening your body through passive stretching. During our practice you may hardly move at all, doing just a few postures over the course of an hour. No yoga experience necessary.

A Sound Bath is a deeply-immersive, full-body listening experience that intentionally uses sound to invite gentle yet powerful therapeutic and restorative processes to nurture your mind and body.

Somatic Breathwork Experience

Take your healing into your body for real results, and join us for this Somatic Breathwork Experience with Breanne Queen.

Soma = body. When we work within the body, we achieve deeper healing. The body holds all our trauma, emotions, and old energies that can negatively affect our mental and physical health. By engaging the body, we create a space for release, leading to improved health and well-being.  Using somatics, we achieve faster and deeper healing than we otherwise could by focusing solely in the mind.

In this Somatic Breathwork Experience, you will be guided to drop into your body and use somatics – Breath, Movement, and Sounding – to create a space for your body to release and heal on a deeper level. The effects of somatic work are felt immediately and can produce profound shifts in your mental and emotional well-being.

Date Night: Love Flow

strengthen your bond with your significant other and have some fun along the way!

Carrie Taylor will assist couples in discovering how to fill each other’s ‘love tanks’ with the exploration of their love languages. We will then venture into some acts of service as we participate in some partner yoga. Don’t fret if you’ve never tried yoga before; this aspect of the experience is meant to be fun!

This offering will wrap up with some breathwork techniques that will reinforce the bonds of trust and connection between you. You will leave calm, relaxed and undoubtedly your relationship will be enhanced, regardless of how long the two of you have been together.

This is a private class for one couple. Please register both partners in the class.

Photo Credit: Rebecca Reeves Photography

Elemental Meditation | 4-Weeks

Join Stef Bourke, Certified Meditation and Alignment Coach, on this meditation-based journey through the elements.

Earth, water, fire and air each represent different aspects of life. Often we work with the energy of the earth to find stability and sure footedness, but have you ever worked with the air?

Connecting to each element is the basic principle behind the practice of elemental meditation. We work with the energy of each element to harness its transformative power in your life.

Each week, we’ll work with one element and explore its teachings, how it relates to our way of being and how to use it intentionally in your approach to life.

New to meditation? No worries, don’t be shy. All are welcome. No experience is necessary.

Spirit + Sound

Join us for this unique meditative experience and opportunity to practice spiritual self care with Energy Therapist Sarah Hutchison.

Spirit + Sound sessions combine a meditative Gong Bath experience with a conversation circle on intuitive development topics.

This group session begins with a conversation circle on intuitive development. Some of the topics explored will be: holistic self care, grounding techniques, meditation practice, intuitive/psychic senses, clearing your own energy field, prayer and intention, signs and synchronicities, chakras, and divination tools. The topic will change with each session.

Following the circle, a gong bath will help participants release the stress of the day and relax. Participants are “bathed” in therapeutic gong sound frequencies, that help to slow their breathing, heartrate and thinking patterns. Participants who generally find guided or other forms of meditation difficult because of wandering thoughts, often report that gong baths help them release distraction and go deeper into the meditative experience. Participants enjoy the gong bath while lying down under a blanket. Mats, blankets and pillows are provided, or participants can bring their own.

New Moon Yinstorative & Sound

Join Certified Yoga Practitioner AnnMarie Wolf and Certified Meditation Coach Stef Bourke for this gentle yoga practice that blends restorative and yin poses, enhanced by the soothing sounds of singing bowls and voice.

This Yinstorative workshop is a deeply restful experience during which we use our yoga practice to help us turn inward.

Energetically, this is a time for softness and reflection. A time to turn our attention inwards and reflect on what’s truly happening with our emotional and mental landscape. A time to quiet things down so we can listen to our own inner voice, wisdom, and set our intentions with mindfulness and integrity.

One of the most powerful energies of Yinstorative Yoga is the energy of stillness. An experience that invites us to create space for simply being. Yinstorative guides us into the rest and reflection essential for our growth and wellbeing.

Why Add Sound?

The vibrational frequencies of sound healing instruments like crystal bowls have the ability to move through skin, fluid, and bones of the body, creating a full body relaxation and recalibration down to the level of the cellular structure. The experience creates an environment of “resonance” within the body.