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Core Values

  1. Integrity - This includes treating all beings with respect, kindness, honesty, and compassion; honouring consent at all times; providing an environment, interactions, and practices that are safe, anti-oppressive, and free from abuse; transmitting intact yoga teachings and honouring their origins; and always acting in accordance with the stated values. 
     

  2. Accessibility - This includes (to the extent of my own capacity) accommodating for disability (whether physical, cognitive, sensory, mental health, etc.) and financial circumstance; the removal of barriers; and prioritizing serving those who most need service and least have access to existing or mainstream services. 
     

  3. Freedom - This includes authenticity, self-determination, and honouring each individual's innate right to be oneself, to express oneself, and to make one's own choices. 
     

  4. Nurturing Wellness - The objective is to support people in their journeys of healing and personal growth/transformation, while striving to always think, speak, and act with love and compassion. 

Vrksasana, Beacon Hill Park, 15 July 201

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Creativity - This includes inviting space for inspiration, intuition, exploration, and expression. This also includes a creative and collaborative approach to finding what works for each unique person and their needs and circumstances. 

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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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