Yoga with Jas

21/07/2025

Elevate your yin practice with this 15-Hour Yin Yoga Certification!

Open to all, join me Nov 8-9 for a transformative journey into the art of stillness.

Immerse yourself in yin philosophy, anatomy, and hands-on teaching. Limited spots available!

Benefits of yin practice include:

✨️Increasing overall flexibility.

✨️Improving circulation.

✨️Enhancing the range of motion of our joints and ligaments.

✨️Increased connection with our body + breath.

✨️Improving emotional balance.

✨️Potentially helping reducing symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances.

Check out the link in bio to register. Max 6 people per session. Sessions are offered in person only.

13/07/2025

There’s a quiet wisdom that comes from walking through life with open eyes and a softened heart.

It’s not the kind we earn through perfection or performance, but the kind we remember in stillness, after the storm has passed. The kind that speaks in whispers when we're ready to hear them.

Here are some musings as I reflect on my own life:

• We don’t outgrow the past—we carry it more wisely.
• Peace often arrives as boredom before it becomes beauty.
• Not everyone who hurt us will ever apologize. We heal anyway.
• Boundaries aren’t walls; they’re filters.
• Life whispers truth in the quiet; are we still enough to hear it?
• We’re not broken. We’re layered.
• Repair holds more power than perfection.
• Sometimes growth looks like softening.
• We already belong: to ourselves, to each other.
• Wisdom moves like water—slow, persistent, life-giving.

Can you relate? Which ones hit home for you? Let me know ❤️

20/06/2025

Not all yoga teacher trainings are created equal.

If you're thinking about doing one—whether to deepen your practice or to teach—here are 5 things to look for that go beyond Instagram vibes and a shiny website:

1. Do they teach yoga philosophy with context—not just quotes?
If they name-drop Patanjali or “The Gita” without explaining colonization, caste, or how yoga evolved in India, that's a red flag. You deserve more than ancient wisdom turned into aesthetic inspo.

2. Who’s leading the training—and who’s missing?
Is the faculty mostly white, Western, and flexible? Ask who teaches philosophy, history, anatomy, and what their lived relationship to yoga is. Representation matters. So does accountability.

3. Is it rooted in practice—not performance?
If they’re obsessed with advanced asana, inversions, and “yoga bodies,” that’s gym culture—not yoga. A solid training will prioritize breath, ethics, accessibility, and inner inquiry.

4. Do they acknowledge harm in the wellness world?
Do they talk about cultural appropriation, trauma-informed teaching, power dynamics, ableism, and how to do better? Or is it all love & light & lemongrass oils?

5. Will they teach you how to teach—or just how to flow?
Teaching yoga is a skill. It’s not just leading a sequence. Look for trainings that prepare you to hold space, work with different bodies, and keep learning long after graduation.

If it’s just a bootcamp for performing yoga...it’s not it.

Yoga has roots. It’s living culture. Don’t let anyone sell it to you without honouring that.

🧡

28/05/2025

Yoga propaganda? Babe, I’m not buying it. Let’s unpack the scroll-worthy scam:

✨️Just because we can put our foot behind our head doesn’t mean we’ve met our soul.

✨️If our practice disappears without the camera on… was it ever yoga to begin with?

✨️“High-vibe only” is cute until we realize yoga was made to sit in discomfort, not dodge it.

Sage isn’t an accessory. And no, our $200 mat doesn’t make us enlightened.

Yoga isn’t a performance — it’s a practice. There’s no applause for showing up, just growth.

Real yoga unravels us. The stretchy pants are optional. The shadow work? Not so much.

Spoiler: chanting “spiritual mantras” without context doesn’t make our class spiritual — it makes it performative.

Yoga isn’t silent. It speaks truth to power — colonization, capitalism, all of it.

22/05/2025

Escape. Exhale. Explore.
From lush jungles to ancient ruins and sun-kissed rivers—this Belize Retreat is more than a getaway; it's a reset with some adventure!

With me, its never just your average retreat. ✨️

Join us November 12–20, 2026 for 9 unforgettable days of breathtaking views, yoga, local adventures, and community.
We’ll move, breathe, laugh, explore, and reconnect to what matters most.

Spaces are limited.
Book early, save $200.
Link in bio to reserve your spot.

22/05/2025

14/05/2025

Elevate your yin practice with this 15-Hour Yin Yoga Certification!

Open to all, join me July 5-6 for a transformative journey into the art of stillness.

Immerse yourself in yin philosophy, anatomy, and hands-on teaching. Limited spots available!

Benefits of yin practice include:

✨️Increasing overall flexibility.
✨️Improving circulation.
✨️Enhancing the range of motion of our joints and ligaments.
✨️Increased connection with our breath.
✨️Improving emotional balance.
✨️Potentially reducing symptoms of stress, depression, anxiety, and sleep disturbances.

Check out the link in bio to register. Max 6 people per session. Sessions are offered in person only.

Payment plans available ❤️

04/05/2025

Yin Yogassage + Soundbath

May 24 | 5:30 PM | Home Studio |

$80

Take some time to slow down with a 75-minute class combining yin yoga, gentle hands-on assists, and live music. I'll guide the movement and yogassage, and Lucila will be joining as our musical guest, offering live sound to support relaxation.

This class is great if you're feeling tense, low on energy, or just need a break.

Chai and snacks will be served after the session. Stick around to chat and connect after the session!

Limited spots available-DM to save yours or book through the link in bio!

18/04/2025

From chaos to calm…

You don’t have to keep running on empty. This May, gift yourself a weekend to reset, recharge, and reconnect. Think yin yoga, cozy meals, unstructured time, and the softest version of you waiting on the other side.

Located 40 minutes outside Ottawa, this is the little reset we could use to welcome the new season!

Spaces are limited—and they will fill. Option for a 3 or a 4-day stay.

Link in bio to book your spot!

03/04/2025

Yin Yogassage + Soundbath
May 4 | 4:30 PM | Home Studio

Take some time to slow down with a 75-minute class combining yin yoga, gentle hands-on assists, and live music. I’ll guide the movement and yogassage, and Lucila will be joining as our musical guest, offering live sound to support relaxation.

This class is great if you’re feeling tense, low on energy, or just need a break.

Chai and snacks will be served after the session. Stick around to chat and connect after the session!

Limited spots available—DM to save yours or book through the link in bio.

28/03/2025

If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a butterfly, you're a villain. The difference? Aesthetics.

This speaks to something deeper—how we assign value based on what is pleasing, palatable, and marketable. The same lens is applied to yoga in the West. The fluid sequences, the minimalist studios, the perfectly lit handstands—these have become the face of yoga. Meanwhile, the less “beautiful” parts—the discipline, the philosophy, the cultural and historical depth—are often overlooked, diluted, or left behind entirely.

Yoga was never meant to be just an aesthetic practice. It is a lifelong path of self-inquiry, a discipline that calls us to look within, to sit in discomfort, to move beyond illusion. Yet, in the West, what is seen as “valuable” is often what is visually appealing—poses over philosophy, flexibility over introspection, personal gain over collective healing.

But true yoga isn't just what looks good; it’s what transforms. It asks us to engage deeply, to move beyond surface-level representations, to question rather than consume. It invites us to honor its roots, to practice with integrity, and to remember that yoga was never just about what we can see—but about what we can feel, learn, and embody.

What do you think?