by Guest Blogger! on May 3, 2012
By Colin Nanka
I have had the opportunity to work with my Yoga instructor Nicky Poole at 889 Yoga over the last couple years and more lately while I train for the Gobi Desert March. She teaches with such passion and focus to help her students for individual reasons they have chosen to work on the mat. For some, its stress release, some flexibility, inner peace, fitness, strength, community or challenge. I think for me it’s a little bit of everything. I definitely leave each session feeling rejuvenated with a feeling of progress, even if sometimes the ego bruised on a new balance posture, that tend to my nemesis.
by Guest Blogger! on April 26, 2012
By Natasha Currah, 889 Yoga Teacher
Practice Makes permanent. Think about it. You can practice until you are able do something with out thinking. But if you practice something without a complete sense of what you’re working towards, you could perform that task with false comprehension.
by Guest Blogger! on April 10, 2012
By Sunny Smith, 889 Yoga Teacher
This simple step by step guide explains how to create goals and a personal manifesto for 2012. We usually decide to do this at the start of the year, but re-evaluating, and refining this in the Spring Time can be very powerful too!
by Guest Blogger! on April 10, 2012
By Sunny Smith, 889 Yoga Teacher
When I received this manifesto I started handing it out immediately. I was so excited to share it with all my students, friend, family, and even my concierge. With all this excitement I realized that I had failed to complete mine.
by Guest Blogger! on March 27, 2012
By Julie McClure, 889 Guest Blogger and founder of benourished
Hi, I’m Julie McClure, the founder of benourished , Canada’s freshest nutritional cleanse. I’m also an avid yoga enthusiast and passionate about anything related to health & wellness. This recent run of warm weather has us all thinking about spring, fresh starts and healthy habits. Which is why it’s fitting that, beginning in April, benourished is teaming up with 889 Yonge to launch a juice cleansing program designed to complement the studios’ inspired yoga classes.
by Guest Blogger! on February 15, 2012
By: Elizabeth (Liz) Connolly, 889 Concierge Hello 889ers! As many of you have noticed, much of my time is spent at the studio- working the concierge desk and practicing yoga! Last week, though, I walked through the doors of 889 for something different: an Essential Therapeutic Facial. Anyone who has had a facial here at 889 [...]
by Guest Blogger! on February 14, 2012
By Colin Nanka, 889 Yoga member and global adventure ultra-runner!
Last year, Colin Nanka, one of our 889 yoga members competed last year in a gruelling 250 km race across the Sahara in Egypt! In this first of five blogs for 889 Colin Nanka shares some of the valuable lessons that he learned from his ultra-challenging, ultra marathon time in the desert!
by Guest Blogger! on January 26, 2012
By: Nora Benian, Thai Yoga Massage Therapist Thai Yoga Massage is an Ancient eastern body work that dates back to India 2,500 years ago. This healing art has travelled through Asia and has developed roots in Thailand where it is still very commonly practiced today. Workers go for a lunch hour massage in the temples [...]
by Guest Blogger! on January 17, 2012
By Jodi Fichstein, 889 Yoga Teacher
Creating a quiet or sacred space for one’s self, or specifically, for one’s yoga practice, is a challenge for many of us. Add a busy career, relationships and /or children and it becomes this beautiful chaos. One way I chose to simplify this juggling act was letting go bit by bit of solitary time, be it in a yoga studio or at home. That was a recipe for irritability. So finding a cozy studio that feels like “home” is rare, yet 889 has easily achieved this.
by Guest Blogger! on January 12, 2012
By Corrie Teahen, 889 Yoga Teacher
In Tibetan Buddhism there is a concept that is known as “Shenpa”, meaning attachment or a place where we get either hooked or stuck. I was first introduced to this concept when I discovered an author named Pema Chodron, a Buddhist nun, who teaches on this notion. She describes Shenpa as “an urge comes up we succumb to it, and it becomes stronger. We reinforce our craving, habits and addictions by giving in to them repeatedly.” Shenpas can be ruminating thoughts that poke away at the mind and if fed enough become very powerful and dangerous. We have all had those moments of obsessive-compulsive thinking, where you are re-playing an event and every moment you have a chance to mull it over, you cannot resist. The mind will not quiet. The ego begins to take control, you get lost in your own world, you feel the body tighten around the throat, into the chest, your breathing becomes short and shallow, anxiety and depression begins to set in … and you think to yourself, if I could only make it stop.
by Guest Blogger! on December 11, 2011
By: Shalini Rampersad, RMT + 889 Wellness Spa Leader The health benefits of coconut oil include hair nourishment, skin nourishment, stress relief, cholesterol level maintenance, weight loss, increased immunity, increased bone strength, strong digestion and metabolism and relief from kidney problems, heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV and cancer. The benefits of coconut oil can be [...]
by Guest Blogger! on December 9, 2011
By Lana Sugarman, 889 Teacher
It’s a snowy Friday afternoon, and as dinner approaches I start to think about soup-making. I admit to being a big foodie and often explore Joy’s blog to find new recipes and ideas. Often during the holidays I make a big pot (or two) of soup and put it in glass jars for friends and family. I thought I’d share with you one of my favorite soup recipes from a book that I keep coming back to: If the Buddha Came to Dinner: How to Nourish Your Body and Awaken Your Spirit.
We bring so many Yoga and Wellness experts to our 889 community throughout the year. Our ‘Guest Blogger!’ is intended to share much of the abundant information and inspiration they bring to our community; to send it out, through our blog, even further into the universe!
