Join our Chair Yoga series!

Chair Yoga is adaptive for all! It can also be challenging in different ways that may be unexpected!

Chair yoga can be solely practiced within a chair. However, our yoga practice will also use a chair as a prop to help with balance and strength building and stamina or help with transitioning in and out of postures. Using chairs as supportive tools in standing postures can help provide ease and accessibility to postures that may otherwise be intimidating or inaccessible. Some standing sequences may be more accessible than seated ones.

Chair yoga is an accessible and beneficial form of exercise that offers a wide range of advantages for people of various ages and abilities. Here are some key reasons to explore chair yoga:

1. Accessibility
Ideal for All Ages and Abilities: Chair yoga is perfect for seniors, individuals with physical limitations, or those recovering from injury, as it offers a way to enjoy the benefits of yoga without needing to get on the floor.
Accommodates Mobility Issues: People with joint pain, arthritis, or limited flexibility can perform many yoga poses from a seated position, making it easier to participate in yoga without risking injury.

2. Improved Flexibility
Stretching: Even from a chair, you can perform stretches that increase flexibility in your arms, legs, neck, and back.
Gentle Movements: Chair yoga allows you to move your body in a controlled, gradual way, which can help lengthen muscles and improve overall mobility.

3. Reduced Stress and Anxiety
Relaxation Techniques: Breathing exercises and mindfulness practices commonly used in yoga can help reduce stress, lower heart rate, and promote a sense of calm.
Focus and Balance: Chair yoga encourages mindful movement and focus on breath, which helps in reducing anxiety and creating mental clarity.

4. Enhanced Strength and Muscle Tone
Strengthening Muscles: Regular practice of chair yoga helps to tone muscles, especially in the core, arms, and legs, through seated poses that target various muscle groups.
Low Impact: The low-impact nature of chair yoga makes it suitable for people with conditions that make more intense exercises difficult or painful.

5. Improved Posture
Postural Alignment: Many chair yoga poses focus on strengthening the muscles around the spine and promoting good posture, which can alleviate back and neck pain.
Better Body Awareness: It helps increase body awareness, which can be helpful for maintaining better posture throughout daily activities.

6. Increased Circulation
Blood Flow: Chair yoga can encourage better blood circulation, which is particularly beneficial for people who spend long periods sitting or have circulatory issues.
Lymphatic Drainage: Some movements in chair yoga can help stimulate the lymphatic system, promoting detoxification and immune function.

7. Boosted Mental Health
Mind-Body Connection: Like traditional yoga, chair yoga encourages a deeper connection between mind and body, which can lead to improved mental clarity, reduced mental fatigue, and better emotional balance.
Increased Energy: Many chair yoga practices involve deep breathing, which increases oxygen flow to the brain and helps to enhance energy levels.

8. Improved Balance and Coordination
Stability: Chair yoga poses can improve balance and coordination by engaging muscles that help with stability, which is especially helpful for older adults or anyone with balance concerns.
Building Confidence: As strength and stability improve, confidence in daily movements and activities may also increase.

9. Convenient and Easy to Practice
No Special Equipment Needed: You can practice chair yoga anywhere with just a sturdy chair, making it easy to incorporate into daily routines at home, work, or even in a travel setting.

10. Social and Group Benefits
Community Connection: Chair yoga is often practiced in group settings, making it a great way to meet others, connect with a community, and encourage a social aspect to well-being.
Supportive Environment: The environment is typically non-competitive and supportive, which encourages participation regardless of skill level.

11. Recovery and Rehabilitation
Aid in Recovery: For those recovering from surgery, injury, or chronic conditions, chair yoga can be a gentle way to rebuild strength, regain mobility, and prevent further injury.
Pain Management: Many people find relief from chronic pain (e.g., back pain, joint pain) by using chair yoga as part of their rehabilitation.

12. Encourages Mindfulness
Focus on Breath: Like other forms of yoga, chair yoga emphasizes mindful breathing, which can improve focus and help individuals stay present during their practice.
Holistic Well-being: The emphasis on mindfulness and holistic health can encourage a more balanced approach to physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

Chair yoga offers a gentle yet effective way to enhance physical health, mental well-being, and quality of life, regardless of age or fitness level.

The use of a chair deepens our connection with our bodies and hearts. Chair yoga can be explored in a variety of ways, that’s what makes it so fun and accessible. There is endless room for exploration and change.
We will also use other props to go along with the chair, such as blocks, straps, bolsters, blankets. Breathwork and relaxation techniques are also incorporated.

Guided by Nathie who is trained in adaptive yoga, these practices offer none-judgmental, supportive and inclusive space for you to explore on all levels.

Cost: $115 including HST for the 8 week series or $ 15 for class drop in's. Price can be adjusted for those who join the series after the starting date.
Length: 60 minutes per class
When: Mondays 2-3pm
Starting date: January 20th – March 10th , 2025

Meditation is healing on every level, physically, mentally and emotionally.
In this class, we will learn many different meditation techniques along with breathing techniques, and hand mudras.
Meditation gives us a deep sense of happiness, for ourselves and for others.
Meditation is an accumulative practice, meaning the more you practice the easier it is to be in the present moment with a calm and gentle mind. We will discover how we can apply our meditation tools into our everyday life.
Meditation is not only practiced by spiritual beings but has evolved over the years in medical science, and sports psychology.
Let’s come together, to enjoy some very special meditation time together, in the lovely Align Holistic Studio.
Sifu Kim

Why Strength Train?
Strength training offers much more than just stronger muscles!! It boost metabolism, supports body composition goals, improves mood, regulates blood sugars and keeps our bones healthy and strong!!
Join Fitness Instructor and Personal Trainer Shannon for our fun and interactive Total Body Reset class! This class has it all- upper and lower body components, core exercises, low intensity cardio and so much more! You will work every part of the body, all while focusing on building lean muscle and improving mobility and bone density!! This class is a great way to get an all-encompassing workout in 60 minutes and is designed for all fitness levels! Everyone is welcome!

Join us for this slow-paced class which moves through a series of gentle movements connecting your breath to your body, improving relaxation, flexibility and recovery. This class offers comfort to stiff achy muscles, improves joint mobility and most of all restores a sense of harmony and balance between the mind and body 💗

Chi Gong, involves gentle, smooth flowing exercises to optimize energy within the body with the goal of improving and maintaining health and well-being using the breathe as your anchor. Chi Gong has both physical and psychological components involving the regulation of mind, and body movements for better posture, balance and strength.
Along with practicing healing Chi Gong excercises, you will have the pleasure of tapping areas of the body encouraging optimum chi flow within the meridians that connect multiple pathways within the body.
End of class is dedicated to a seated/lying meditation.
With Sifu Kim’s healing teachings you will leave class feeling replenished, and Zen.

Hatha Yoga for your own healthy alignment includes an array of postures, breathing techniques and mindful energy practices to bring balance and connectedness between body and mind, focusing on detailed alignment cues and fostering deeper awareness of abdominal strength within postures, for your own journey to wellbeing.

Hatha yoga can be a starting point to developing a yoga practice and self inquiry by being introduced to yoga philosophy, yoga postures, breathwork and mindfulness.

Hatha Yoga is practiced at a slower pace, consistently revisiting the fundamentals of yoga, applying more static postures that are sequenced to align, balance and strengthen the body, to focus the mind and to promote spaciousness and flexibility of your being. This class is inspired by Iyengar Yoga.
Classes can shift though different sequences including moving the body in all directions; standing, seated and floor poses, side bends, forward and back bends, twists, inversions, core activation, restorative postures. A variety of props may be used during this class, including the wall.

Evening Yoga can incorporate a combination of organic movements & stretches to tap into the body
and release pent up energy of the day, restorative yoga to calm the nervous system and Yoga Nidra to induce a deep restful sleep.

Space is held for you to connect with the present moment, tapping into your deepest heartfelt needs and a felt sense of real rest and wellbeing.
Each class is designed to help you drop in, to leave you feeling deeply relaxed, peaceful and ready for good quality sleep😴.
Come find the magic✨

Join us for this slow-paced class which moves through a series of gentle movements connecting your breath to your body, improving relaxation, flexibility and recovery. This class offers comfort to stiff achy muscles, improves joint mobility and most of all restores a sense of harmony and balance between the mind and body 💗

Join us for a special Valentine’s Day Partner Yoga class focused on connection, mindfulness, and shared presence.
This playful practice will guide you through poses designed to build trust, laughter, and connection—perfect for friends, family, and loved ones. Expect to move, balance, and breathe all while sharing these moments with joy.
Whether you're a seasoned yogi or new to the practice, the emphasis is on fun, connection, and mutual support in a peaceful, welcoming space.
Want to get in on the fun? Register your partner for FREE using the special Valentine’s Day class option in the app.
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Jumpstart your weekend with this fun and interactive class that is designed for all fitness levels! Strength and Stability for Everyone offers a combination of low intensity cardiovascular training with core stability, strength and resistance training and is designed for all levels of fitness including beginners. We will use a wide variety of equipment in many different class formats such as circuit, tempo, AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata, and many more!

Designed for all fitness levels!! All are welcome!!

Yin Yoga is a gentle, meditative yoga practice that involves holding poses anywhere from 2-5 minutes.
This Yin yoga class is suitable for people of all ages and abilities, and is considered safe to practice every day.
It is a slow-paced style of yoga that focuses on relaxing muscles and opening joints to access deeper layers of connective tissue known as the facia.
It has been said that the facia tissues are the invisible pathways within the body known as meridians in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It is the flow of our meridians that are responsible for our over all health and well being.
During this yin yoga practice, Kim will offer the option for a gentle massage with a touch of Divine Reiki. Should you wish to receive this offering, please place a colored clothespin on your mat.
This class will help support and align your inner chakra system for a deeper healing experience.
Shanti ☮️ Peace -Kim

What is Tai Chi?

Tai Chi is a gentle, low impact form of exercise in which practitioners perform a series of deliberate, flowing movements with slow deep breathing.

Join Sifu Kim for this 10 week beginner Tai Chi Series where you will discover healing art of Tai Chi, as well as the physical, psychological, social, philosophical and spiritual benefits. The practice of Tai Chi, has been proven to improve complex chronic illnesses that involve many systems throughout the physical body including the nervous, respiratory, endocrine, immune and cardiovascular systems.

With Sifu Kim's insightful teachings, you will leave the class feeling a sense of peace, and harmony within.

This series is open to all members to register with their current memberships or class passes, and runs from January 18th- March 22nd, 2025. It is highly recommended to take the Tai Chi Beginners Classes as a prerequisite for Sifu Kim's Zen Tai Chi Intermediate Level classes offered on Thursday's from 5-6pm.