Our Classes

We offer a variety of yoga therapy classes on most days of the week.

To inquire about booking a class please email blackhouseyoga @rogers.com

Classes We Offer

Here are some additional details on the yoga therapy classes offered at Black House

Yoga for Arthritis

Arthritis is a whole person disease. It is a musculoskeletal condition that affects the joints, but also the whole person and aspects of life that go beyond the physical body. When approached in a safe and supportive way this evidence based yoga series can be an accessible and a natural tool for easing the discomfort that arthritis causes.

What you will learn:

How to alleviate pain during arthritis flares
How to improve your physical and psychological health and quality of life
Gentle assessable yoga practices
Breath work and how it can provide relaxation
Using props to support the joints and create ease during your yoga practice
Tune into your body and being able to implement self-care
Yoga Nidra for healing

Yoga Therapy for Back Pain

Yoga therapy is an excellent practice for healing sore and injured back muscles, reducing recovery time,
preventing re-injury, and reducing the risk of disability from back pain. Yoga helps alleviate lower back pain by strengthening and stretching the muscles of the lower back, reducing inflammation and increasing circulation of blood and prana, into the muscles and tissues. A Regular therapeutic yoga practice also improves posture and body mechanics, relieving pain and preventing injury by keeping the spine in proper alignment.

Many conditions can cause back pain, and most of these can be helped and treated with a conscious gentle therapeutic yoga practice. All cases of moderate to severe back pain need to be evaluated by a medical professional for a correct diagnosis and proper treatment plan.

Somatic Yoga

Somatic Yoga, developed by Eleanor Criswell, is a unique approach to yoga that blends somatics (mind-body integration), Hatha yoga, and Raja yoga (Patanjali's yoga). It is based on the principles of somatics, yoga, neuroscience (especially the somatic nervous system), applied psychophysiology, and psychology. Somatic yoga engages not only your muscles, but your brain as well.

As you slowly and mind fully begin to contractyour muscles, this brings awareness and then draws the mind directly into the space that helps to reprogram thebrain. The autonomic nervous system releases and you engage the prefrontal cortex to understand that themuscles are capable of learning new patterns.

Yoga Nidra

Yoga Nidra literally means Yogic sleep. It is an ancient technique where the practitioner enters the deep states of conscious relaxation. It is a systematic practice of moving awareness from our external world to the inner world.

It brings us to a state of deep sleep where our senses, intellect, and mind relax. We become free from the concepts of time, space and reason. When this happens, brain activity reduces and the body goes in the healing state. Therefore, it is also said that one hour of yoga nidra can give the same benefit of a four-hour sleep.

As the body enters a healing state, you can clear up the toxins at a cellular level, refresh the mind and remove baggage from the subconscious.

Yoga Nidra can be practiced by anyone. It holds immense benefits for all those who struggle to let go,
those who suffer from lack of sleep, trauma, burn-out, and anxiety. It is also highly beneficial and holds great healing power for anyone who wants to experience a deeper sense of peace and re-connect more profoundly with themselves. The practice of yoga nidra leads us into a state of harmonious, restful being. From here, we can heal, restore and awaken to our true, blissful and eternal Self. This sublime practice is gaining popularity all over the world as more and more people experience its healing powers while ongoing research continues to prove its effectiveness.

Yoga for Stress Resilience

This ten week series combines yoga with education and focuses on tools and techniques to better cope with stress, anxiety and depression. Each class incorporates gentle breath-focused mindful yoga movement (asana) and breathing techniques (pranayama), to prepare the body for compassion-based meditation and yoga nidra. Each class also includes discussions related to recovery and resilience from stress.

What you will learn:

Key concepts of yoga, mindfulness, compassion, acceptance and how these can help with personal transformation, or evaluation of the self through expanding of consciousness.
How stress is carried in the body (embodiment of stress) and how stress manifests as anxiety, depression, pain or other symptoms.
What happens when stress accumulates in the body, and its effect your health.
The role of self-compassion in the response to stress.
How to cope with difficult emotions that may contribute to stress.
How to deal with difficult people and trying relationships.
The importance of connecting with, and caring for ourselves to reduce accumulated stress.
How to build new patterns to build resilience to stress

Yoga for Women's Health

As women we often find we need to be able to keep many balls up in the air at the same time ensuring that not a single one of them falls. This is why yoga can be a true blessing for women. Yoga is a means to achieving sanity and serenity in stressful times. Yoga does more for women than just make their bodies supple. It lends balance to the mind and nourishment to the soul at
any phase of your life journey.

What you will learn:

Yoga practices to rest and digest
Calm and stimulate the vagus nerve
Befriending your true self
Menopause and finding ease
Calm and cool hot flashes
Healthy hips
Pelvic floor health
Healthy bones and stability
Emotional release
Ayurveda practices for all stages of your life’s journey

Gentle & Restorative Yoga

Both modern science and yoga share the idea that pain and suffering have their roots in past pain, trauma, stress, loss, and illness. Science uses words like neuroplasticity to describe the process of learning from past experiences. Memories of the body and mind influence how we experience the present moment. These memories keep you stuck, feeling the same emotions, thinking the same thoughts, and even experiencing the same pain.

The best way to unlearn chronic stress and pain responses is to give the mind and body healthier responses to practice. Research has shown that relaxation specifically, has been effective in healing for chronic pain. It turns off the stress response and directs the body’s energy to growth, repair, immune function, digestion, and other self-nurturing processes. Gentle restorative yoga practices transform chronic pain-and-stress responses into “chronic healing” responses of mind and body and helps reduce suffering and chronic pain.

SPRING 2025 Schedule

These classes run for 10 weeks until a new schedule is released. The cost is $170 for 10 sessions.

Returning Students $130 for 10 sessions.

To register for classes please email: blackhouseyoga@rogers.com or call 613-618-3995

Morning Gentle Yoga for Chronic Pain

Tuesday February 4

8:30 AM

10 weeks

Morning Somatic Yoga

Wednesday February 5

8:30 AM

10 Weeks

Morning Yin Yoga

Thursday February 6

8:30 AM

10 Weeks

Somatic Yoga

Saturday March 8

9:00am

10 Weeks

Somatic Yoga forArthritis

Saturday March 8

10:30 am

10 Weeks

Somatic Yoga

Wednesday April 9
6:00pm

10 Weeks

Thursday April 10

10 Weeks

Yoga can help people with arthritis, fibromyalgia, migraine, low back pain, and many other types of chronic pain conditions. A session generally begins with breathing exercises to relax the body and help free the mind of worries and distractions. The session then proceeds through a series of seated, standing, and prone yoga postures. The sessions typically end with breathing, sound healing or Yoga Nidra meditation.

Somatic yoga is a type of yoga that focuses on being aware of your body's sensations and movements. It's a gentle, mindful practice that encourages you to explore what it feels like to be in your own body.

Somatic yoga can help you relax, lower stress, and promote mind-body awareness.

Somatic yoga is different from other types of yoga because it focuses on how movements feel to you, not how they look.
It's about being present and sensing your body in every moment, without pushing or trying to achieve anything.

Yin yoga works deeply into our body with passive, longer-held poses.

It targets the deepest tissues of the body, our connective tissues – ligaments, joints, bones, the deep fascia networks of the body and the meridians. This is contrast to a Yang yoga practice such as Vinyasa yoga which targets the muscles.

Energetically, Yin yoga improves the energy flow, enhancing the flow of chi in the organs. To be healthy, we need healthy organs as well as healthy muscles. Yin yoga also offers wonderful emotional and mental health benefits.

Somatic yoga can help you relax, lower stress, and promote mind-body awareness.

Somatic yoga is different from other types of yoga because it focuses on how movements feel to you, not how they look.
It's about being present and sensing your body in every moment, without pushing or trying to achieve anything.

Somatic yoga can help you relax, lower stress, and promote mind-body awareness.

Somatic yoga is different from other types of yoga because it focuses on how movements feel to you, not how they look.
It's about being present and sensing your body in every moment, without pushing or trying to achieve anything

Yin yoga works deeply into our body with passive, longer-held poses.

Peaceful Evening Yin Yoga

Monday April 21

6:00pm

10 weeks

Somatic Yoga for Arthritis

Tuesday April 15

6:00pm

10 Weeks

Blackhouse Yoga Therapy Centre strives is to make all of our classes and workshops inclusive and welcoming. If you are facing financial barriers we offer subsidies for our sessions. To inquire about a subsidy please email:
blackhouseyoga@rogers.com

Private Yoga Therapy Sessions

Private Yoga Therapy Sessions can be booked by emailing blackhouseyoga @rogers.com

Initial Assessment 2 hours 160.00
Regular Session 1.5 hours $130.00

1 hour session $90.00

Current available private sessions:

Saturdays 1:00pm and 3:00pm

We require 24 hours’ notice for cancelling appointment