Maybe you start with the closest place. A studio around the block. You find it inspiring, beautiful, challenging, and rewarding. Just like that.
The practice deepens and enriches the rest of your vigorous life, and you pass gently into the next plane of existence, raising the corners of your mouth to complete
the posture.
May all beings have happiness and
the causes of happiness.
May all beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May all beings never be parted from freedom's true joy.
May all beings dwell in equanimity,
free from attachment and aversion
Welcome To
Here you will find...
- A directory of many different styles and traditions of Yoga being taught in our region.
- A look at how Yoga - a comprehensive set of physical and spiritual exercises - intersects with many other disciplines and activities.
- This site is dedicated with the greatest respect to Montreal's Yoga teachers.
Yogamontreal's community forum
Yoga for Parents
From pregnancy to the late teenage years, the path of yoga has specialized practices for parents and children -- that set the conditions for children to grow with healthy bodies, minds and spirits.
“Think of it as a fusion between physiotherapy and psychotherapy,” says Carina
Raisman. “People come to regular yoga classes for all kinds of issues: sciatica,
lower back pain, depression, to get off medications like antidepressants and
sleeping pills, etc.
Montreal Yoga Teachers Cultivate Inner Consciousness for Outer Action
These is posts celebrates three Montreal yoga teachers who feel that the job description goes far beyond the yoga mat and the inner world, to action in the
outer world on environmental and social causes.
In 2008, Lindsay Schonfelder organized the "Spring Day of Yoga" to help her with a Habitat for Humanity project in Tajikistan. Here is a note from Lindsay about the
project, and some photos
The Montreal yoga community marked September 21, the United Nations International Day of Peace, with salutations to the sun, drumming, dance, and dignitary speeches.
After many years teaching and helping to develop other yoga teachers in Montreal,
Daryl Vansier retires this June. He is closing Heaven and Earth Institute and
moving to the Laurentians, to take care of his own yoga and meditation practice.
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