Kendra Coupland

23/10/2024

Friends: I have a new workshop with Daniela GR on Embodying Community Care. Folks talk a lot about the importance of community care but a lot of us are unclear on how to practice it in a tangible way.

Join us for a nurturing workshop series designed to deepen our connection to ourselves, each other, and the land through the practice of embodied community care. Through subtle, gentle, and intuitive movement, we will explore self-consent and boundary-discovery, creating space to listen to our bodies and understand our personal limits. This embodied practice will extend to boundary communication, learning to express and respect limits in ways that honor both ourselves and our community.

Together, we will engage in visioning exercises to dream into the community we desire, building curiosity and intention towards collective care. As part of this practice, we will include the land as an active participant, grounding our vision in our relationship with the earth. We will honor the healing properties of plants by creating a nourishing body oil to carry us through the winter months, using plant medicine to care for our skin and cultivate resilience.

This workshop is an invitation to co-create a space where we practice and embody the values of care, boundaries, and connection—both with each other and the natural world. This is an inclusive, trauma-informed space designed for participants to explore at their own pace, with no prior experience needed.

Sliding scale tix available. If you are not able to attend please consider donating towards a ticket for someone else who is surviving in the margins can!

Join Daniela & Kendra for a nurturing workshop designed to deepen our connection to ourselves, each other, and the land through the practice of embodied community care.

23/09/2024

A reminder that today is my last free class at before I go into retreat mode. Classes will recommence at regular time on Monday Oct 7th, in the meantime students can access a free class on my website at kendracoupland.com/move-with-me

Looking forward to seeing everyone next month after I’ve had some time to fill my own cup so I can better pour into others!

16/08/2024

Not an ad! Just really excited to offer some new scents from for aromatherapy after yoga nidra on Thursday nights at

Join me at 6:30pm every Thursday to decompress & meditate with yoga nidra, followed by a community hangout with other meditators, grounding tea & snacks and some aromatherapy.

Best of all? It’s open to everyone, it’s low barrier / accessible, and it’s free.

11/05/2024

A few years back I posted a version of this and it’s time for an update because it’s been three years and we’re not any closer to these rights than we were three years ago. In fact the Conservative Party of Canada is aiming to repeal abortion laws in Canada - which would force so many people to become unwilling mothers if those repeals passed.

MP Arnold Viersen (Conservative Caucus) of Peace River—Westlock Alberta filed a petition on May 7th claiming that The Morgentaler Decision to have zero abortion law goes directly against the charter since it DOES NOT protect life; and that over 98% of abortions are for reasons of social or personal convenience - both of which are factually incorrect.

This Mother’s Day instead of flowers or gift cards or brunch out consider fighting for the rights of mothers and those who choose not to be mothers. Here’s what you can do:

Write you MP to let them know you want to protect abortions and ensure access to universal contraception coverage.

Demand better s*x education & consent education at yours or your child’s school.

Call out disinformation where you see it.Disinformation is one of the most sinister weapons the anti-abortion movement uses in their attempts to weaken our rights.

Make informed decisions at the polls. Many politicians have publicly signaled their support of the anti-abortion movement.

Join (Canada’s Planned Parenthood) in their efforts to protect abortion rights. They do advocacy work and help make emergency abortions affordable to marginalized communities (such a refugees or immigrants without healthcare).

https://www.actioncanadashr.org/take-action/how-you-can-take-action-abortion-rights-canada

Or support the world of these organizations who work with our most marginalized populations to ensure they can address reproductive health.

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04/05/2024

Join me Mondays at 11am and/or Fridays at 10:45am for some gentle hatha yoga. With a focus on mindfulness & self observation over physical dexterity, this class can be practiced from the floor or chair. Modifications will be suggested/can be made for this all levels class. Weekly. Drop in. Open to all, and best of all - it’s at a great price - FREE.
If you’ve ever thought about working with me this is a great opportunity to try a class out!

27/02/2024

Urgent request for support

Trans, neurodivergent refugee from Ukraine requires immediate housing support, after escaping a violent housing situation

Please help by donating towards moving costs and a storage locker for Serafi… Gail McCain needs your support for Ukrainian refugee in violent living situation

27/02/2024

Well I’m exhausted. I’ve gone from reaching 12,000+ people to reaching 29.
Yesterday I posted some important videos in my stories regarding self regulation & anxiety but no one is seeing them 😩🥴

Punishment for being vocal about colonialism & other systems of oppression 😞

What sucks is the it’s actually the larger community that suffers when I get shadow banned - I do a lot of organizing using what little platform I have here. It’s through this platform that my followers have helped support at-risk youth, immigrant workers being abused by employees, house unhoused refugees & help them find work, and provide support and care for single moms and families that are struggling to get by. Not to mention i have used my platform to organize healing spaces from support for survivors of s*xual violence to communal retreats for Black community to fundraising to ensure people could access and afford medication, food and housing during peak covid.

Please engage with my stories, with my posts by saving, sharing and commenting. When my reach is increased I can help more people. When I am purposely silenced it doesn’t affect me personally - my income is not dependant on IG at all - but it does limit how I can be of service to others.

31/12/2023

2023 was a heck of a year for me. So difficult in so many ways, beautiful in others. In the past few years my output has been high, but it hasn’t been balanced and in 2022 I hit a brutal burnout. I spent most of 2023 moving through depression and anxiety and finding myself again - re-centering myself in my own life (which has meant I have had to work through a lot of feelings of shame around being selfish.)
But some of the things I have learned to do (and am learning to practise) this year are to prioritize collaborative & generative intentional relationships over relationships of convenience or (S)kinship. This year I have practised going more slowly and it has been really hard, because I have had to acknowledge the way my internal capitalist exploits, depletes, and abuses me. And I have had to face the ways that I busy myself - in order to avoid my own suffering. I have created more space in my life for stillness and boredom. And I am learning that boredom is space my creativity pours from. My therapist has told me more than once to practice being bored, or being in boring relationships (read: not chaotic or codependent). 🥴 it’s uncomfortable because it’s unfamiliar.

This year I also took multiple courses on nonviolent communication - both as a refresher (I’ve been studying NVC since 2016) & to expand on my practice. it has has been a reminder to get more in touch with my own feelings and needs and to be intentional about where I focus my attention in my attempts to get my own needs met - to find people who want to help me meet them and who I want to help meet theirs in reciprocal & mutually satisfying ways. It’s teaching me to centre connection over who is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.

In 2024 I wanna shift away from this dynamic of suffering in silence or not voicing my needs and making clear enough requests to the point that I become so frustrated I have to yell to feel heard and I know part of that is choosing to be in relationships with people who want to hear me in the first place.

I’m also over overriding and ignoring my body - which, needs more slowness, tenderness, rest & creature comforts lately.

I’m curious to discover what lessons 2024 brings.

22/11/2023

People have long asked me why I do not do brand partnerships with Lululemon - why I reject working for projects largely funded by them, and why I turned down opportunities to receiving funding from them for past retreats.

This is why.

Lululemon has a very long history of using, abusing and degrading people of colour. In the past three years despite their DEI commitments the company continues to be violent towards employees of colour. This article by .butler.young for is a well researched article which documents such abuses. The street also posted another article on the same topic two days ago.

Most yoga teachers know lululemon long history of being problematic with BIPOC folks. I have had conversations with many yoga teachers in this city about it and I’m always told “they’ve changed as a company since Chip Wildon left.”

No the f**k they haven’t. AND they still continue to exploit POC in factories overseas! According to the 2021 Fashion Transparency Index, None of its supply chain is certified by labour standards which ensure worker health and safety, living wages or other labour rights. There is no evidence it implements practices to support diversity and inclusion in its supply chain. There is no evidence it ensures payment of a living wage in its supply chain and It has been linked with sourcing cotton from the Xinjiang region in China at risk of using Uyghur forced labour and has taken insufficient steps to remediate.

Call me shady & bitter for continuing to call them out but if yoga has taught me one thing it’s how to live with integrity and with an ethic of love, and Lululemon ain’t it.

21/11/2023

From Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover

18/11/2023

Call me salty but I said what I said.

16/11/2023

Money talks. Our power is largely in consumption.