Toronto Yoga Co., 1768 Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ON (2026)

04/16/2026

Most people hear “core” and think abs.
Six-pack muscles. Crunches. Burn.

But in Pilates, the core is so much more than that.

We think of the core as an entire stabilizing system -> a deep muscular canister that supports your spine, pelvis, posture, breath, and movement.

That system includes:

- The diaphragm at the top
- The pelvic floor at the bottom
- The transversus abdominis wrapping around like a corset
- The multifidus running deep along the spine

These are not your superficial “show muscles.”
You don’t train them by crunching and pulsing (don’t get me wrong, I LOVE pulsing).

You train them through breath, control, alignment, and intentional movement.

And that’s exactly why we love Pilates at TYC.

Because when Pilates is taught well, it doesn’t just make you feel your abs.
It teaches you how to move from your centre (aka centring).

How to support your spine.
How to stabilize your pelvis.
How to create strength that actually transfers into your everyday life.

Done properly, Pilates builds the kind of deep strength that improves posture, enhances athletic performance, supports injury prevention, and helps your body move better for years to come.

Your core is your centre -literally.

And at TYC, we believe it deserves more than crunches.

🔥🔥🔥

04/15/2026

The mind is both the obstacle and the path.

Krishna gets refreshingly honest about how difficult this whole practice of steading the mind really is.

Arjuna basically says:
Okay… you’re telling me to steady the mind - but have you met the mind?

“The mind is restless, turbulent, obstinate and very strong.”

And Krishna doesn’t disagree.

He says:
“Undoubtedly, the mind is restless and difficult to control; but by abhyāsa (practice) and vairāgya (non-attachment, it can be restrained.”

Not controlled.
Not in a single breakthrough moment.
Not because you finally “figure it out.”
Through practice.
Through non-attachment.
Again and again… AND AGAIN.

I find this genuinely comforting, and not because it makes the work easier, but because it makes the teaching really human.

Because anyone who has ever sat quietly with themselves knows:

The mind wanders.
It worries.
It plans.
It replays.
It spirals.

The Gita isn’t asking you to eliminate that completely.
It’s asking you to stop living entirely at its mercy.

There is a difference between having a restless mind
and being dragged around by one.

The mat is where I practice that distinction.

Some days I can witness the mind.
Some days I get completely swept up in it.

That’s the practice. 🙏🏼

04/14/2026

The version of you that shows up on a hard day is the real practitioner.

I’ve been teaching and practicing long enough to know this:

the most important class you’ll ever take is not the one where everything clicks.
It’s not the day you feel strong and open and graceful.
It’s not the day you finally nail the pose you’ve been working toward.

It’s the Tuesday when you’re tired, a little low, and very close to talking yourself out of coming.
That’s the class that matters.

Because honestly, it’s easy to do hard things when they feel good.

It’s easy to commit when we’re motivated.
It’s easy to stay disciplined when life feels manageable.
The real practice is showing up when it doesn’t.

And maybe even more than that …

it’s not just the hard Tuesday.
It’s the hard Tuesday, that was maybe even worse than you expected it to be, and it didn’t stop you from coming back on Wednesday.

That version of you?
The one who came anyway.
The one who keeps going.
That’s the practitioner.

Not the best-day version of you.
The crappy Tuesday version.

I think about this outside the studio all the time too...
as a parent, as a business owner, as a person trying to do life well.

The days I show up for my family when I’m running on empty.
The days I show up for this studio when I feel like I have nothing left to give.
Those are the days that build something.
Not the easy ones.

The practice was never about being at your best.
It’s about learning to work with whatever version of yourself walks through the door that day.

And showing up anyway. 🙏🏼

04/13/2026

I walked through the back of the studio this weekend and honestly stopped in my tracks.

The light. The air. That smell that’s somehow both fresh and filled with possibility. I just stood there for a second taking it in and thought - oh. It’s almost time!

Our outdoor practice deck is one of my absolute favourite things we’ve built here at TYC. I’m so proud of it. There’s something about moving your body outside, in the middle of a city, surrounded by all that noise and pace and urgency, and just not participating in it, that feels like a small, quiet act of rebellion. Like a secret you’re keeping with yourself.

Bare feet. Open sky.

If you’ve never practiced on the deck before, I genuinely cannot wait for you to experience it. And if you have … you already know. You’ve been waiting for this too.
Here’s what I can tell you: deck season is almost here. We promised more weekend classes were coming, and they are. But I’m also going to let you in on something extra special… soon we’re going to have outdoor weekend classes with me. I’ve been looking forward to this more than I can say.

Now I just need to know what you actually want. Because I want to get this right. Drop your vote below 👇

What are you showing up for?
🔥 Vinyasa: breath, flow, build some heat
💃 Barre: burn it out, feel strong
🌀 Repeater flows: find your groove, go deeper each round
🐢 Slow flow: and before anyone says anything, yes it will be slow…slow-ish…slow-er than super-fast. I’m working on it. Kind of.

Tell me everything. We’re building this for you. 🌞

04/13/2026

Svadhyaya and the practice of knowing yourself.

In the Yoga Sutras, there is a line that I keep close: “Svadhyayad ishta devata samprayogah” roughly translated to: “Through self-study, communion with one’s higher self is achieved.”

Svadhyaya is one of the Niyamas (the personal observances), and on the surface it sounds pretty simple:

Study yourself. Know yourself.

But the deeper you get into it, the more you realize how genuinely hard that is. Most of us are much better at knowing what we think about everything outside of us than what’s actually happening within us. We have opinions about EVERYTHING, about other people, about what we should be doing with our lives, and very little practice actually sitting with ourselves long enough to hear what’s true.

Svadhyaya shows up on the mat when you notice a pattern … the way you brace in certain poses, the way you check out when something gets hard, the way your preference for postures/music/temperature affect you, the way your breath changes (or stops) when you’re frustrated. The mat is a mirror. It shows you things about yourself if you’re willing to look.

And this is why I always tell my students: your time on the mat is dress rehearsal…

The real practice is what you take with you when you leave ✨

Because if all that awareness stays in the studio, it hasn’t really become practice yet.
The work is noticing those same patterns in real life -in your relationships, your reactions, your habits, your choices.

Off the mat, svadhyaya sounds like:
Why do I react that way?
Where does that belief actually come from?
Is this still true for me?

I don’t think svadhyaya ever gets finished, honestly. It’s not a box you check. It’s just a direction you keep facing.

🌿 What have you learned about yourself on (or off) the mat?

04/12/2026

“You have a right to your actions, but not to the fruits of those actions.”

This one changes everything if you let it.

It’s one of the most quoted lines from the Gita.

And it sounds simple… until you actually try to live it.
Do the work.
Don’t attach to the outcome.

Not: don’t care.
Not: be passive or indifferent.

But: give your full effort and then release your grip on what happens next.

This is one of the hardest things I’ve practiced as a business owner.

You pour yourself into something whether it’s a class, a program, a decision 🤷🏻‍♀️
and you want to control how it lands.

You want it to be received the way you intended.

You want the results to match the effort.

The Gita says: that’s not your department.

Your role is the quality and integrity of the action.

The rest belongs to something larger.

Some days, I find this deeply liberating.
Other days, completely infuriating.

Which probably means… it’s exactly the work I need to work on. 🔥

04/11/2026

Santosha - contentment in the mess.

Not contentment when everything is going well. Not contentment once you’ve figured it out or caught up or finally gotten a full night of sleep. Contentment now. In this. As it is. That’s the practice.

Santosha is one of the niyamas, a set of personal observances that are kind of like yoga’s inner rulebook. Not rules for your body, but for how you move through your life. There are five of them, and santosha is the one I come back to most. Probably because it’s the one I need most.

It doesn’t mean pretending everything is fine. It’s not a spiritual bypass or a reason to stop working toward something better. It’s subtler than that. It’s more like … can you find a small pocket of peace inside the chaos, without waiting for the chaos to stop first? Because if you’re waiting for the chaos to stop, I have some news for you 😂

As a mum running a business (who has a full-time job as well 🫣), I bump up against this almost daily.

The calendar that’s too full.
The thing that didn’t go as planned.
The version of today that looks nothing like what I had in mind.

Santosha isn’t about loving all of that. It’s about not being completely at war with it either.

There’s something almost radical about that. About saying … okay….This is what’s here. I’m not going to pretend it’s perfect. But I’m also not going to let it take everything.

That small space between the two? That’s where I try to live.

04/10/2026

The Gita opens with a crisis - which is exactly why it still matters today and it will always matter…

Arjuna’s breakdown at the beginning isn’t weakness.

It’s deeply human. And it’s placed there deliberately because the teachings that follow only make sense in the context of real struggle.

Krishna doesn’t arrive when everything is fine.

He arrives when Arjuna is on his knees.

At the heart of it, Arjuna is wrestling with dharma: his path, his role, his responsibility.

He’s a warrior. But how can he move forward when the cost feels unbearable?

Krishna doesn’t tell him to toughen up 💪🏼
He reframes everything.

“The soul is never born, nor does it die…
it is unborn, eternal, ever-existing.”

In other words: what you think you’re losing, you can’t really lose. What is real can’t be destroyed.

I come back to this in my own life… (obviously at less of a life or death type situation)..

when the studio has a hard month,
when I’m exhausted and
when I start questioning everything - what am I doing?

I try to remember that the real work is showing up, building something meaningful and
that doesn’t disappear because that is real.

Keep going. 🙏🏼

04/10/2026

Your weekend deserves more than errands.
I mean it. The to-do list will still be there. It always is.

Saturday morning classes are some of my favourite to be around in the studio … and I’ve thought about why that is. I think it’s because most of us don’t have to be there.

For most of the community, it’s not before work, it’s not squeezed into a lunch break.
For most students, it’s a choice. A deliberate one that people make for themselves, and you can feel that in the room.

There’s a different kind of energy when people show up with no agenda, no rush, nowhere to be after that’s more important than right now. The breath is slower. The room is quieter in the best way. People actually land.

It’s one of those things that’s hard to explain until you’ve felt it … that specific Saturday morning feeling of doing something just for you, before the weekend gets away from you.

So if you’ve been meaning to come in, or you haven’t been in a while, or you’ve just been curious then maybe this weekend is a good one. Come move. Come breathe.

See you this weekend?

04/09/2026

April energy is real.

Something about the longer days makes me want to shake off winter and just… move.

Like my whole nervous system remembers what it feels like to not be braced against the cold.

I’ve been opening the windows when I can. Even just a crack. The light comes in differently this time of year and it hits at this angle that feels almost generous, like it’s actually trying to reach you. I love it so much. I forget every single year how much I’ve missed it.

And I think that’s the thing about spring.. it doesn’t show up when you’re ready, it doesn’t show up on time. It just shows up. No one else gets to dictate when it’s time for the seasons to change.

We’re not so different, honestly.

Change is built into us too. We were never meant to stay in one season forever - not emotionally, not physically, not in our businesses or our relationships or our sense of who we are. Winter has its purpose. The rest, the quiet, the going inward. But so does this. The opening. The reaching toward the light.

So if you’ve been waiting for a sign that it’s okay to start something, shift something, try something…maybe this is it. Maybe it’s the longer days and the windows cracked open and the light that comes in like it means it.

Spring’s here. You can move now (if you decide).

04/08/2026

On beginning again.

There’s a concept in yoga - atha. It means “now.” Not yesterday, not next week.

I think about it a lot. We’re so conditioned to measure time in streaks - how many days in a row, how far we’ve come, how far we still have to go. But atha doesn’t care about your streak. It only cares about this moment.

Every morning (every moment) is a chance to begin again. Not from zero but from here.

Whatever here looks like. Maybe here is energized and clear. Maybe here is tired and behind and doing your best anyway. Both are valid starting points. Both are enough.

I’ve been sitting with this lately because I think we get it backwards. We wait until we feel ready, until the timing is right, until we’ve finished grieving or healing or figuring it out, and then we’ll really begin.

But atha says: no. Now. You begin now, from exactly where you are.

Not a new chapter. Not a reset. Just a breath, and then the next thing.

What would it feel like to stop waiting for the right moment and let this one be it?

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