1. I'm here because for a long time I've been searching for a team/community to belong to, I've never been big with sports or involved with my school so when I found out that Jill and Steve were opening a studio which offered a trade program I thought it was an excellent way to blend my love for yoga, and longing for community and belonging!
2. 6 things I can't live without: 1. WATER! 2. My family (all the people around me) 3. Fresh air 4. Education 5. Nature 6. Creativity/Expression
3. Top 3 goals:
1. To finish my university degree
2. To hike the East Coast Trail from start to finish
3. Become more organized in life
4. You can ask me about geomorphic processes and deep sea communities! Two areas of studies I've stumbled across in my Geography degree that I find absolutely fascinating!
5. I am really good at making people laugh, and being silly.
6. Favourite book: way to hard to choose, movie: Fifth Element, food: ANYTHING home made, preferably with fresh ingredients
7. I think my most positive character trait is my strength, it's something that I've seen grow as I'm becoming my own self and it surprises me every day
8. My best experience in a yoga class was probably during an inversion workshop I did with Melanie Caines of Nova Yoga, that was a day I really discovered my physical and emotional strength.
9. Favourite animal? All things cute, ugly, slimy, dry, mammal or other wise.
10. The most important thing I've learned in a yoga class is that it's okay to fall out of a pose. It's a good belief to have for practice and life.
1) I am here because: I needed to be. I needed something in my life that would help me discover myself and also a place where I felt accepted, loved and not judged, and this place with all of you wonderful people has helped me with all of these things. 2) 6 things that I can't live without. 1- water 2-trees/plants 3-pet snuggles 4-hemp oil hand lotion 5-books 6- canned beans of any form. They are great and you can make so many things out of them. 3) My top 3 goals in life are 1-to be happy in anything I do 2-travel 3-to have my own bit of land where I can grow things and have a really big swing set. (I love swings more than the average person) 4) Ask me about: anything you like. I will do my best to answer anything and everything 5) I am really good at: pretty much anything domestic. Wanna know how to make yogurt, vegan scalloped potatoes, plant a garden, do home canning and preserving, I can probably tell you. 6) Favorite book, movie and food: White Oleander, Marry Poppins, and the food one is tricky, but I guess I'd have to say raspberries. They are pretty awesome. 7) What is your most positive character trait? My ability to listen to and understand people. Describe your best experience in a yoga class. Probably my first yin class. When I finished the class, I felt like my body was amazing and that it could do anything given time and love. 9) Favorite animal and why. I love all animals, but I really like goats. I think they are incredibly cute and I love how stubborn and determined they are. 10) What is the most important thing you have learned in a yoga class? To breathe. and my favourite song at the moment:
1.) I am here because: I feel serene, joyful, ecstatic, loved, connected, happy, grateful. And when I don't feel those things, moksha reminds me that I will again in just a few breaths.
2) 6 Things I can’t live without: sun, sea, soil (and all of the things that grow from it...but that would make this list a million miles long), momma, little bebe nephew, nan's quilts, St. John's community (I made it 7..oops!)
3) My top 3 goals in life are: grow and prepare nourishing food with love and share it, provide public education on (and access to) nutritious whole foods (especially geared toward people with young children and the elderly community and their care takers), annnnd build a barn for some serious barn parties! Seriously. Get ready to barn dance..all the time! Expect Christmas lights and lots of banjo and boot stomping.
4) Ask me about.. plants. They are magic. I LOVE them. We are blessed with lots of delicious wild ones. Like Sea Rocket! Imagine Arugula in love with Horseradish.
5) I’m really good at..hugging. Or so I hear! Big, giant bear hugs for everyone. For some reason I find myself holding back from hugging people lately. Even though all I want to do is hug everyone all of the time. Hahaha. What am I doing! If you see me, hug me. I'll love it!
6) Favourite book, movie, and food is..I just started reading “the lure of the Labrador wild, the story of Leonidas Hubbard” by Dillon Wallace. While I'm not far enough to judge if it is a favourite, so far it is fantastic. Annd I'm going to dork out here – my other favourite is a compilation of essays from a Canadian craft and contemporary studies class at NSCAD. Food..that is the hardest question of all! So much colour, texture, flavor to explore always. But I think I'd have to pick good old partridge berries. So sour and juicy. I don't have a favourite movie.
7) What is your most positive character trait? Definitely my optimistic view on life. A lot of people rag on me for being so optimistic and tell me to get my head back to reality, or question how I can remain so optimistic after some very tough stuff. But that's just it. My head is very much in reality. I am a very observant person and my optimism comes directly from that. If you observe, you get to see that things will always blossom and bounce back. Maybe not in direct ways all the time, but always in some way or another. Just observe
8) Describe your best experience in a yoga class: Kapalabhati breath one night in Steve's class. It just clicked SO good. It was the most incredible feeling I've ever had. Like being cleared out from toe to skull and starting as a completely new person. I've felt kinnd of like that only once before. On a beach in New Zealand. Sunny vibes both times I am so excited to feel that again.
9) What is your favourite animal, and why? Moose. Seriously. They are so awkwardly beautiful and graceful at the same time. I honour and respect this animal so, so, so much. I am incredibly thankful that I have family who share such a nourishing wild food with me when they can. Oh and bears. They play in rivers, rest in winter, climb things and love berries. Amazing.
10) *New* (for relevance) What's the sign on your wrist? Cancer! :)
11) What is the most important thing you ever learned in a yoga class? Rest the mind. Rest the mind. Just give it a rest!
i am here because: every second in this space with y'all is like a full body hug from someone who means it!
6 things i can't live without:
- a space that feels like home
- words
- means of finding new and beautiful words (books, films, music, yadda yadda)
- spontaneity
- means of capturing moments (pen and paper, camera, voice recorder and so ooon)
- rhythm
top 3 goals:
- build a home for my bones with these hands
- find balance
- never stagnate
ask me about: the time i ran away and eloped
i'm really good at: people
most positive character trait: my ability to understand and empathize
best yoga class experience: when, upon return, i took my first class while trading. it felt so wonderful to let out, in breath and in sweat, all that had accumulated in my time away, and to clean up all i had left on that floor. what a beautiful notion!
favourite animal: sloth! s l o w l y / d e l i b e r a t e l y
most important thing learned in class: breeeeathe!!!
