EarthMonkey Yoga with Tamara

01/12/2026

Gentle Permission for the Shoulders & Neck, a 10 minute guided meditation, now available on the Small Practices page.

A gentle, chronic pain–aware meditation for the shoulders and neck, focused on emotional and mental softening rather than fixing or stretching. Designed to be practiced anytime, anywhere, it offers permission to rest in awareness without effort or expectation.

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01/12/2026

If you’re continuing your yoga education, you’ll likely see options everywhere: 15 hours. 20 hours. A weekend here, a quick certificate there.

And while shorter trainings can offer a helpful introduction, Yin yoga asks for something deeper ... especially if you’re holding space for real, complex humans.

A 50-hour Yin training offers something shorter formats simply can’t: time.

Time to understand that Yin is not just “long holds and stillness,” but a practice that intersects with nervous systems, chronic pain, emotional release, and lived experience.

Time to sit with the discomfort that can arise—not just in bodies, but in minds and hearts.

Time to learn when less is actually more.

Over a longer training, you’re not just learning shapes. You’re learning how to pace a room. How to offer options without overwhelming your students. How to recognize when stillness feels regulating ... and when it doesn’t. How to hold silence without abandoning your students.

Shorter Yin trainings can give you a framework. A 50-hour training builds discernment.

And discernment matters when students arrive carrying pain, trauma histories, illness, or a complicated relationship with rest.

This isn’t about saying one path is “better” or more valid.
It’s about choosing depth when the practice itself asks for depth.

Because Yin isn’t something you rush.
And learning to teach it well shouldn’t be rushed either.

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50 Hour Yin Training
Two full weekends in February
Jade Therapies and Yarmouth Yoga
YACEP elegible

Reach out or visit the website for details

01/11/2026

Our schedule for the coming week! Starting to ramp back up after a brief excursion to Ontario. Please visit the website or message me for details or to register.

01/11/2026

I skipped savasana today.
I went straight to the forest.

No mat.
No playlist.
No “inhale for four.”

Just me,
some very judgment-free trees,
and a scream that scared a squirrel
(and honestly… me too).

Hands in the air,
jaw wide,
ego absolutely not aligned.

Ten out of ten for breathwork.
Questionable form.
Excellent release.

If yoga means union,
then me + the woods + a feral yell
counts.

01/08/2026

Please note that there is no Chair Yoga in Lockeport tomorrow, Friday the 9th. We should be back at it next week!

01/05/2026

New practice unlocked: **Arctic Pranayama**. When your sunroof is stuck open at -20°C and suddenly yoga isn’t about stretching but about staying present inside late-stage capitalism, regulating a nervous system that did not consent to vehicular refrigeration, and softening around the fact that productivity culture has no protocol for “car is now a freezer.” I breathe, I laugh, I question my life choices, and I eat cheesies as a mid-morning snack—because this, too, is yoga: meeting reality as it is, even when it’s wildly inconvenient, aggressively cold, and faintly cheese-dusted.

01/05/2026

Hey folks! Just a couple tickets left for this event on Jan 10th, at the Yarmouth Library (10:30 start) - partnered with Sunny Slopes Farm and Herbals. Tickets are $40

01/04/2026

Where would you like to go for a fall 2026 / winter 2027 yoga retreat? Drop your thoughts here!

01/02/2026

Please note that due to family health out of province there are no in-person classes for the next 10 days or so. Some online practices will continue so please check the website.

breath . movement . meditation

01/01/2026

Welcome to 2026!

As the calendar turns, I invite us to loosen our grip on the stories we tell about the year that’s passed—what *should* have happened, what didn’t get done, what we judge as success or failure. Last year does not need to be measured, redeemed, or justified to make space for this one.

A new year doesn’t ask us to arrive polished or resolved. It simply offers another moment to meet ourselves as we are—tired, hopeful, tender, curious, uncertain. All of it belongs.

May we enter this year gently. With practices that include rest, softness, and listening. With movement, breath, and stillness that support us rather than demand from us. With compassion for bodies and lives that don’t move in straight lines.

Here’s to beginning again—not by fixing ourselves, but by making room.

12/30/2025

Your shoulders are doing a lot.

�They carry backpacks, grocery bags, stress, responsibility, old stories, and that one email you’re still thinking about. Unsung heroes, really — quietly bearing the weight of our personal luggage, both literal and emotional.

That tension you feel up there? It’s not your body failing you — it’s your body protecting you. When things don’t feel safe (physically, emotionally, or just life-ly), the shoulders often step in, bracing and guarding movement. Over time, that protection can turn into stiffness, fatigue, or pain.

Therapeutic yoga for the shoulders isn’t about forcing them to “open” or fixing them in one dramatic stretch. It’s about honouring that protective response while gently rebuilding joint mobility and muscle strength — slowly, steadily, and over time. The kind of work that’s easy to discount because it’s subtle… and powerful precisely because of that.

Think curious movement, steady breath, and a little kindness for the places that hold it all together.

If your shoulders feel tight, tired, achy, or just… over it — I invite you to reach out about private therapeutic yoga sessions. We can unpack what they’ve been carrying and find ways to lighten the load.

Your shoulders deserve a thank-you note. Or at least a really good practice.

12/29/2025

Messy Yoga, Beautiful Yoga

Yoga isn’t always quiet or tidy. Sometimes it’s wobbly. Sometimes it’s distracted. Sometimes it’s showing up half-awake, with stiff hips, loud thoughts, or a to-do list that won’t sit down.

And that can still be beautiful yoga. Grace isn’t about doing it “right.” Grace shows up when we meet what’s here with softness, when we stop cleaning ourselves up for practice, and let life come with us onto the mat.

You’re invited to embrace the messiness of your own practice — to explore, to wobble, to pause, to take breaks. Messy doesn’t mean careless: we stay safe, we stay kind, we stay gentle — but we let go of the idea that yoga has to look a certain way to count.

Messy Mornings is an online practice space where imperfection is welcome and grace grows quietly from the inside out. Practice up to three times a week, by donation, from wherever you are.

You can register for classes through Zoom through the website. Registration just lets me know who has the link. There is no obligation to attend every practice.