What limits our range of movement in Yoga?

Extract Two from The New Yoga: From Cult and Dogma to Science and Sanity Having considered our preoccupation with flexibility and hypermobility in Yoga in part one, it’s vital to discover what actually limits our range of movement. Most restrictions cannot be removed...

The Unimportance of Flexibility in Yoga

Extract One from The New Yoga: From Cult and Dogma to Science and Sanity The focus on flexibility above everything else – too common in yoga – means people are injuring themselves dumping into their joints and ligaments at their end range of movement. Many older yoga...

David McAmmond, 1943-2021

This week Canadian Yoga lost one of its great icons and founding fathers. David McAmmond, who died at his home on Wednesday evening, leaves many hundreds of yoga teachers and students grateful for his mentorship, wisdom, humor and kindness. David co-founded the very...

Complementary Health Group Assessment

I want to introduce you to a new partnership between the Alberta Yoga College and the Proactive Health Group which enables you, as an AYC student, to access a complementary injury examination at a premier clinic offering chiropractic, massage, naturopathic care and...

Relax and Renew With Restorative Yoga

There has never been a more important time to do Restorative Yoga! Stress about our uncertain future creates tension that restorative yoga, with supported poses and conscious breathing, can release. Take a gentle but powerful yoga class, now every Monday at 6 PM, with...