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Yoga Chikitsa offers yoga classes in the Greater Toronto Area. ‘Yoga Chikitsa’ means ‘yoga therapy’ and is the name of the primary series of postures in the traditional ashtanga yoga system. Traditionally yoga is used as a preventative measure against mental and physical illness and to prepare the body for long periods of meditation in a seated position.
Yoga is for everyone; healthy or weak. It allows energy (kinetic, potential, thermal, gravitational, sound, light, elastic and electromagnetic) to balance and flow freely through our bodies making us feel good and healthy. Physical benefits are a positive side effect of the practice and with it can come a longer more vibrant life.
vince smit I found yoga in 2005 when I took my first class to loosen up a stiff body. That experience ended up being much more than that. I felt lighter, happier, more calm and began to practice regularly. Through its consistent practice I felt a calling to get a deeper understanding of it. This calling led me to India to study hatha yoga at the Sivananda Yoga Institute. As I’ve continued to connect with yoga my curiosity brought me to the ashtanga practice, of which I’ve had the opportunity to study with some of its most renowned yet humble teachers- including Paul Dallaghan, certified by Ashtanga Yoga Guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sri O.P. Tiwari, one of the few remaining gurus of pranayama today. I’m truly thankful for the teachings that have been passed down, and I continue to learn every day from my teachers in Toronto as well as from the people that surround me. I currently study and practice under Authorized level 2 Ashtanga Yoga Teacher David Robson at the Ashtanga Yoga Centre of Toronto.
It’s my sincere passion to pay forward what I’ve learned, to those who are ready to grow with the practice of yoga. Classes offered take place in safe supportive environments conducive for individual learning. Yoga is whole and inclusive. Classes offered are accessible to all regardless of financial concern or personal limitation.
about
Yoga Chikitsa offers yoga classes in the Greater Toronto Area. ‘Yoga Chikitsa’ means ‘yoga therapy’ and is the name of the primary series of postures in the traditional ashtanga yoga system. Traditionally yoga is used as a preventative measure against mental and physical illness and to prepare the body for long periods of meditation in a seated position.
Yoga is for everyone; healthy or weak. It allows energy (kinetic, potential, thermal, gravitational, sound, light, elastic and electromagnetic) to balance and flow freely through our bodies making us feel good and healthy. Physical benefits are a positive side effect of the practice and with it can come a longer more vibrant life.
vince smit
I found yoga in 2005 when I took my first class to loosen up a stiff body. That experience ended up being much more than that. I felt lighter, happier, more calm and began to practice regularly. Through its consistent practice I felt a calling to get a deeper understanding of it. This calling led me to India to study hatha yoga at the Sivananda Yoga Institute. As I’ve continued to connect with yoga my curiosity brought me to the ashtanga practice, of which I’ve had the opportunity to study with some of its most renowned yet humble teachers- including Paul Dallaghan, certified by Ashtanga Yoga Guru Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and Sri O.P. Tiwari, one of the few remaining gurus of pranayama today. I’m truly thankful for the teachings that have been passed down, and I continue to learn every day from my teachers in Toronto as well as from the people that surround me. I currently study and practice under Authorized level 2 Ashtanga Yoga Teacher David Robson at the Ashtanga Yoga Centre of Toronto.
It’s my sincere passion to pay forward what I’ve learned, to those who are ready to grow with the practice of yoga. Classes offered take place in safe supportive environments conducive for individual learning. Yoga is whole and inclusive. Classes offered are accessible to all regardless of financial concern or personal limitation.