Guided Meditation & Soul Talk (Drop-In)

Join Meditation and Alignment Coach Stef Bourke for these meditation and soul talk circles.

We will come together to meditate, to explore a theme related to our practice and to share in honest and open conversation with one another around our practice. Please accept the invitation to join in meditative space together. No experience necessary.

Use an Om Pass to save money on Evening Drop-In Meditation classes with Stef Bourke. Purchase a 6-class Om Pass for $120 + HST (that’s $20/class). Om Passes must be purchased in person or over the phone, and must be used within three months from the date of purchase.

Managing Stress With Meditation

Join Stef Bourke, Meditation and Alignment Coach for this 90-minute workshop based on managing the stress in your life.

We don’t get to control the things that happen in our lives, but we can control the way we respond to them. What if you had tools in your toolkit that would help you feel more empowered, balanced and clear in times of stress?

During the workshop we will:
– Identify what causes us stress
– Differentiate the kinds of stress that impacts our lives
– Learn how to recognize stress in the body
– Experiment with meditation and mindfulness tools to influence our body and mind’s stress response
– Explore tools that you can incorporate into your daily life to keep stress levels lower
– Close with a calming, stress reducing meditation session.

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

FREE Guided Meditation

Join Meditation Coach, Stef Bourke, for this FREE Guided Meditation and Soul Talk session.

Please join us on Monday, October 7th for a guided meditation and soul talk session. This is your chance to ask your questions about meditation, bring up areas where you might be struggling for open discussion, talk about the ways that meditation can/has been impacting your life and explore what could be possible for you and your journey.

I will aim to share tips and tricks on building a meditation practice (if there are participants who are just starting), ways to keep yourself accountable, and how to know if you’re on track.

FREE Kindness Rock Painting Party!

Let’s spread kindness together! Join us at this FREE event for everyone – all ages welcome.

Join our efforts to spread kindness throughout the Quinte region by painting rocks with loving words, quotes, intentions and beautiful designs.

Each of us will send our rocks out into the city to find their way into the lives of those who need them. Perhaps they are placed randomly to be found unexpectedly. Or maybe they are gifted intentionally to lift the spirits of someone we know who needs it. However they are shared, they will have the same desired effect, to bring about a smile, to lift a weary heart, and to be a reminder of all that is good.

You don’t need special skills to paint a rock and infuse it with love. You just need the intent to be kind and in service to others.

So join us! The music will be playing, the paint will be flowing, and the joy will be infectious.

This event is FREE of charge. Everyone is welcome. All materials will be provided.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yin & Meditation

If you’ve tried to meditate and wound up feeling frustrated, disappointed or stuck, taking a Yin approach can help. Join Certified Yoga Teacher AnnMarie Wolf and Certified Meditation Coach Stef Bourke for this 7-week deep dive into meditation and yin yoga.

Why combine Yin Yoga and Meditation?
Yin yoga facilitates the harmonious flow of chi in the body, which can make meditation more accessible. As we relax in Yin yoga, we make space for any unresolved issues stored in our bodies to surface. When we couple this practice with meditation, we learn to navigate these emotions with skillful compassion, which creates space for healing and a deeper peace in the body. When you combine Yin Yoga and meditation, you open up powerful opportunities for change and healing on all levels of your being, including your body, mind, and heart and spirit.

This course is for you if:

• You are looking to build a meditation practice
• You are looking to deepen your connection to your spiritual self through yoga and meditation
• You are a yoga teacher, and you are looking to enhance your offerings with more of the spiritual aspects of yoga and meditation.

Here’s what we plan to do

• Week 1: Workshop: A Focus on Stillness (120 mins)
• Week 2: Yin yoga class (60 mins)
• Week 3: Yin yoga class (60 mins)
• Week 4: Workshop: A Focus on Contemplation (90 mins)
• Week 5: Yin yoga class (60 mins)
• Week 6: Yin yoga class (60 mins)
• Week 7: Workshop: A Focus on Transcendence and Surrender (90 mins)

*Each week, participants will be supported with a recorded meditation to practice with during the week, a short reading assignment and reflection questions to support their journey.

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.

Rise and Shine Yoga | 4-Weeks

Join Carrie Taylor for this 4-week gentle flow yoga series.

Welcome to our Monday morning yoga practice, a 4-week yoga flow! This yoga flow will take you through a simple morning routine to help stretch and wake up your entire body. A delicious way to ease into the week. This series is suitable for all levels.

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.

Back to Balance Yin Yoga | 5-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.

Meditation for Sleep

Join Meditation and Alignment Coach Stef Bourke for this 90-minute workshop focused on sleep.

If you struggle to get enough deep, restful sleep each night, you’re not alone. Is this you? Sometimes we just can’t seem to get comfortable, tossing and turning in bed. Sometimes our minds are racing and we just can’t seem to slow down the thoughts to find quiet.

If you’re someone who struggles to sleep or who reaches for a sleep aid, consider this: what if you could establish meditation and mindfulness tools that would help you fall asleep more quickly and stay asleep for longer?

During the workshop, we will:

• Explore sleep hygiene strategies
• Practice physical relaxation tools
• Practice tools to calm mental activity and your body’s energy
• Explore our beliefs when it comes to sleep
• Set goals and intentions to move forward for improved sleep quality.

Introduction to Breathwork

Discover the power of your breath at this Introduction to Breathwork event with Breanne Queen.

This class is perfect for beginner breathers looking for a gentle, yet impactful exploration into the transformative world of Breathwork.

WHAT TO EXPECT

• Learn how your breath impacts your health and well-being
• Learn to utilize your breath to relax, unwind, and de-stress
• Experience the transformative power of your breath
• Guided by Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator Breanne Queen

WHO IS THIS FOR? 
This class is for anyone new to Breathwork or those looking to reconnect to their breath. No previous experience is required – just an open heart and a willingness to explore!

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.

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.