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.

Fall 2024 Schedule

These classes run for 10 weeks until a new schedule is released. The cost is $150 for 10 sessions.

Returning Students $130 for 10 sessions.

Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga combines postures, breathing practices, mantra and hand mudras, and hand position. You can feel like you’re patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time. It puts you under a pressure cooker, teaching you to tap into your inner resources to keep. Breath is one of those resources. So are trust and self-compassion, which you learn to cultivate through this practice. It’s meditation heavy, often putting you in moving meditation. There is a lot of breathwork to reconnect the body, and a lot of mantras to rewire the mind. Kundalini yoga helps to remind us of who we are as we navigate through the noise of our busy life and material surroundings and become a more illuminating light in a world filled with darkness and confusion.

Monday @ 6pm

8 weeks

starting Sept 9 ,2024
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Yoga for Chronic Pain

Yoga is a practice that comes in many different forms, and includes poses, breathing techniques and meditation. It started in ancient India and has been touted as a way to boost physical and mental health for 5,000 years. In fact, yoga is proven to help people with arthritis improve many physical symptoms like pain and stiffness, and psychological issues like stress and anxiety. People with various types of arthritis who practice yoga regularly can reduce joint pain, improve joint flexibility and function, and lower stress and tension to promote better sleep.

Returns January 2025
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Somatic Yoga

Your investment: $150 or $130 for returning clients

Tuesday Oct 29 2024

6pm

10 weeks

Thursday October 31 2024
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Somatic Yoga

Your investment: $150 or $130 for returning clients

Saturday @ 9am

10 weeks

starting October 19 2024
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Yoga for Resilience

Building Resilience in Stressful times - This ten week series combines yoga with education and focusses on tools and techniques to better cope with stress, anxiety and depression. Each class incorporates gentle breath-focussed 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.

Your investment: $150 or $130 for returning clients

Saturday @ 9am

10 weeks

starting October 19 2024
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Pelvic Liberation

This Yoga Therapy series explores self awareness yoga postures and breathing practices designed to awaken and heal the pelvis. Focusing on, pelvic pain, dysfunctional movement, incontinence, organ prolapse, back pain, dysfunctional movement. This practice will take you through eye-opening reflections to help you overcome cultural and historical influences that have impaired pelvic health.

Your investment: $150 or $130 for returning clients

Returns January 2025
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Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga is meditative style of yoga, incorporating principles of traditional Chinese medicine, with asanas (postures) that are held for longer periods of time than in other yoga styles. Postures are held for 3 minutes or longer to gently stimulate the meridian lines flowing through tight connective tissue.

Monday Nov 18, 2024

6pm (5 weeks)
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Menopausal Magnificence

This 10 week series focuses on transitioning in to menopause with grace and magnificence. You learn evidence based yogic and aryuvedic practices to add to your tool box for peri menopause and menopause. Discussions: Osteoporosis, Osteopenia, hot flashes, pelvic health, nutrition, arthritis, heart health and more….

Returns January 2025
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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