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Trauma-Informed Yoga & Yoga Therapy 

For Every Body & Soul, Prioritizing People Who Face Barriers Elsewhere


Welcoming You As You Are.

Meeting You Where You Are At.

Supporting You to Heal and Transform As You Want To.

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Public group classes are now held at The Gathering Place (Denman Island United Church).

 

Private yoga therapy is available 1:1 or in a small group of similar needs/interests. 

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Private group therapeutic yoga classes are available for settings such as: 

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meditating in nature

"Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the Self."

- Bhagavad Gita

Philosophy & Inspiration

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Those who perhaps most need the healing benefits that yoga can offer often have the least access, whether for reasons of injury, illness, disability, fear of discrimination, feeling out of place, economic circumstance, or other barriers.

 

My inspiration for teaching yoga is to bridge this gap and to offer an accessible practice that meets each individual where they are at, customizing yogic tools to support each person in their self-defined journey of wellness, healing, and transformation.

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I strive to make yoga accessible to all who are interested as a modality for healing and self-actualization, welcoming all and prioritizing serving those who face barriers elsewhere.

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I humbly and respectfully acknowledge that the land I live and practice on is the unceded territory of the Pentlatch, K'ómoks, and Tla'amin peoples, and that I formerly lived and practiced on the unceded territories of the W̱SÁNEĆ and lÉ™k̓ʷəŋən peoples as well. I humbly and respectfully acknowledge the deep traditional and ongoing relationships of these and neighbouring Indigenous peoples to these lands, and the complicated reality of my presence as an uninvited settler. I further humbly and respectfully acknowledge that yoga is an ancient spiritual and wisdom tradition gifted from India and South Asia, and that it is often misappropriated and misrepresented in Western culture. I am committed to ongoing listening, learning, and action in healing the countless harms of colonization, to preserving the intactness and authenticity of yoga to the best of my knowledge, and to participating in healthier relationship with my Indigenous neighbours, with the source cultures from which yoga emerged, with the land, and with all my relations.

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Butterfly Tree Yoga is rooted in the principles of loving kindness, respect, compassion, accessibility, and anti-oppression. I have a strong commitment to welcoming and serving all people with respect and acceptance, regardless of gender identity, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, (dis)ability, neurotype, ethnicity, colour, nationality, cultural or religious background, citizenship status, age, health status, economic circumstance, family or marital status, or body size or shape. If there are ways I can remove barriers and better serve you, I welcome you sharing these with me. 

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Butterfly Tree Yoga is an LGBTQ2SIA+ Positive Space. 

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