When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff

Gosh I love this place. Have you been to the Roundhouse lately? Yoga with me is starting up again. Tonight!

I am so stoked about my Roundhouse classes starting up again this evening! This year will mark 7 glorious years teaching at what I call, the coolest place in Yaletown for sooo many reasons. Yoga, dance, theatre, the staff...and the list goes on! All my classes are super casual, non threatening and affordable so come on down! You can find me there on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The cost of registration is pro-rated too, so if the session has already begun you can still register (or drop in too of course).

You save big by registering before or on the day of, and if you double up to attend twice per week there is a huge savings. (And of course all classes need the minimum number of registrants for the program to run, but luckily I don't seem to often have that problem). Namaste & I hope to see you tonight!

Prenatal Yoga Tues and Thurs 545pm-715pm.

Baby & me yoga Thurs from 1230pm-200pm

Mixed Levels Hatha Tues and Thurs 730pm-900pm.

To register click here

looks like I am re-obsessed with the garden

I just love the way things grow. All year long with no help from anyone. There is just so much beauty all around us. Doesn't matter the season. And even in January.

It's Yin out there. And it's beautiful.

Everybody likes a garden right?

Made a trip down to my community garden plot this morning to do a little clean up after being a slacker for so long. It felt good. I have been debating giving it up this year (due to guilt), knowing there are so many people on the waiting list, and we could have utilized it so much more this past year. My partner and I have officially decided that we will keep it and reprioritize things. It brings us lots of peace and joy and happiness (and food)!

These two pictures are of our plot before and after my little clean up. It still needs a lot more work. I'll add some larger shots from the garden as a whole in another post. Its really a beautiful morning out there. Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

If your days of dressing up like an elf are over for the year and you are ready to lose the tree.....

Recycle it. Don't throw it out!

This weekend (today and tomorrow, Sat Jan 8 & Sun Jan 9 from 10-4 at various locations) the City of Vancouver, along with the Lions Club and volunteers, will be chipping and mulching trees for a donation of cash and non-perishable food items (to be donated to local charities).

So if, like me, you still have your tree and need to get rid of it you can do it in an eco friendly manner, AND do a good deed at the same time!

If you are unable to do that, there are other options as well.

Heres the link for all the locations here

We'll be saying goodbye to ours tomorrow :)

Ever feel like a failure?

I haven't read a single Harry Potter book or watched any of the movies.

(I know. Call me weird haha).

But this speech. THIS speech! (Part 2 is here and Part 3 is here)

Such profound words.

This woman. W-O-W. So wise. So humble. Just brilliant. I may not have read or watched her fiction, but I watched this twice, and read the transcript a few times over. Ever feel like a failure? Ever hit rock bottom? I love her honesty so much.

Failure, hardship, heartbreak, loss and poverty are very real. I know I've been there. Listen to her so honestly speak of the fringe benefits of failure, and get ready to be inspired.

I just find the whole thing so inspiring. And when she speaks of her experience working for Amnesty International ...

"Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places".

"If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

Great food for thought as you roll into your weekend.

Thought I'd share. Namaste!