Loka Yoga

Loka Yoga Loka Yoga: Tina pashumati:
Teaching on Zoom and in person, we have Ashtanga, Rehab, Life class's & Meditations, Pranayama. Trainings, Retreats, mentorship.

omni yoga suspension equipment: yoga inversion, back and neck, swing yoga, suspension rehab. This studio is operating online for groups and in person for privates.

10/12/2025

Ashtanga Therapeutics & Kirtan with Tina Pashumati James

Saturday, October 25, 2025 1:00 PM
Sunday, October 26, 2025 8:00 PM
Village Yoga Pemberton
7433 Frontier Street Pemberton, BC, V0N 2L0 Canada (map)
Saturday October 25th 1:00pm - 5:00pm (Includes entry to evening workshop 6-8pm)

Ashtanga Therapeutics (4 hours, all levels)

“The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion, leads to freedom in one’s heart” -

Sri K. Pattabi Jois, Yoga journal 1995

4-hour workshop includes therapeutic techniques, asana, mudra, bandha , and pranayama. Starting from wherever your practice is currently, we will assist you in taking the next steps to deepen, understand and evolve your yoga practice. Then we will lead a traditional ashtanga practice in the lineage of our teacher, Shri K Pattabhi Jois. Join Tina for led primary and pranayama with meditation, vedic chanting, and standing assists.

Investment : $65 (includes 4-hour workshop & 2-hour Kirtan)

10/07/2025

“The problem with having a hard and fast rule against looking a bear in the eye is that you miss seeing the intelligence there, and love - and perhaps their kind hearted pity for your human limitations.” ~Charlie Russell

09/18/2025

“The Garden of the Bear”

In the ancient times, when the earth still spoke in whispers and the wind carried the memory of beginnings, there lived a bear unlike any other. His body was not covered by fur alone, but by petals, leaves, and blossoms. Each flower told a story, each stem a reminder of the balance between strength and gentleness.

The elders said this bear was born from the tears of the Earth Mother herself. When she wept for the violence of storms and the silence of fallen trees, her tears fell onto the soil and sprouted into a garden. From that sacred ground rose a bear—mighty as the mountain, yet tender as the bloom of spring.

He walked with the dignity of stone and the fragrance of wildflowers. Where his paws touched the earth, seeds awakened. Where his breath passed, rivers grew calm. He was not feared by the people but revered, for he embodied the truth that power does not always roar—it can also blossom.

The children of the village would sit quietly in the meadow, watching him pass by, listening to the gentle hum of the flowers that grew along his back. They learned from him that resilience was not hardness but harmony. A flower can bend with the wind and still return to the sun. A bear can carry entire forests within him, and still stop to notice a single blossom opening at dawn.

As generations passed, the legend of the Flower Bear became a teaching: that within each of us lies both the claw and the petal, the roar and the silence, the storm and the garden. To live well is not to deny either side, but to let them coexist—strength rooted in compassion, courage softened by beauty.

And so, whenever wildflowers bloom in unlikely places—between cracks of stone, at the edges of rivers, or along forgotten trails—the people remember. They whisper to their children: “Do you see? The Bear still walks with us. Not only in the forests, but in the gardens of our hearts.”

09/10/2025

How I love Charlie my beautiful son, so incredibly kind and thoughtful. this picture sums him up a friend to all.

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2131 Lake Placid Road
Whistler, BC
V0N1B2

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Monday 6am - 6pm
Wednesday 6am - 6pm
Friday 6am - 6pm

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