We’ll offer a range of classes, workshops, and Teacher Training and special events on Zoom in 2025 as well as teaching live in the Studio (16 participants). Practising online and in person is meaningful in different ways and we hope you’ll enjoy either or both. Thank you for your continuing support in these uncertain times. And we hope you use and enjoy our pre-recorded Home Practice audios and videos.
The Studio at 390 Dupont St will be closing permanently on December 20. Our fall schedule of classes and workshops are being posted on our website now. Our winter schedule and farewell party will be announced soon. Beginning January 2026, in-person classes will take place at The First Narayever Congregation, 187 Brunswick Ave, Toronto, walkable and equidistant from the Spadina and Bathurst subway stations. There is some street parking and a Green P parking off Bloor and Borden St. Zoom classes will remain as they are. Please make sure you are signed up with your current email address in order to receive the Esther Myers Yoga Studio newsletter and stay up to date! Read the closure announcement here.
The Studio is open for in-person classes with online advanced bookings and payment in advance only. The preferred payment method is by e-transfer to info@estheryoga.com. Sorry, we cannot accept drop-ins. Credit is available with 24 hours cancellation ONLY.
Themed Classes explore unique topics through yoga, meditation, qi gong, and other creative offerings over a single class, a week or a few weeks on Zoom or at our Studio in downtown Toronto.
Themed Yoga Classes Online and In Person
QiGong Revisited
Mondays, October 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, 24 with Donna Oliver, 5:00pm-6:00pm ET, $180/10 classes, $21/class *no class Monday October 13
at the Studio
We will review several different forms from previous sessions. New participants always welcome.
Brain and Balancing
Monday, November 3 – Friday, November 7, with Mar Jean Olson, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $80/week, $25/class *no class on Tuesday November 4
on Zoom
Join us for fun and effective ways to improve our balance. We’ll develop the basics of balance through breathing, eyes, focus, hands and feet and stepping patterns. Plenty of ‘brain aerobics’ exercises are included that we can easily practise on our own.
Balancing movement and stillness
Monday, November 10 – Friday, November 14, with Tama Soble, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
As human beings we need both movement and stillness to balance body, mind and soul. We will use movement sequences, familiar and new, to energize, ease and nurture. After each movement exploration we will rest in stillness and awareness. The temporal balance between these two states is different for each individual. There will be the opportunity to explore our personal relationship to activity and quiet, exuberance and rest, reaching outward and inward throughout the week.
Image: Shooting Star, Matthew Wong, 2019
Rise up! Rise up!
Monday, November 17 – Friday, November 21, with Julia Juhas, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
It’s that time of year to Rise Up, awaken and renew the energy core within us, the spine. Let’s invigorate this glorious structure as we gently explore and weave together the breath with the movements within Sun Salutation. We’ll take our time basking in the different asanas that create this vitalizing sequence. This series is not about how many rounds we do – rather how we move mindfully from one asana to the next.
Julia’s class was brilliant. Her creativity to do Sun Salutation even lying down, her thoughtfulness and care and energy are inspiring. I always know I will feel safe and have fun experimenting with all the movements from simple to the most complicated. Delightful!
Sandie Collins
Friday Intensives
November 21, with Tama Soble, 1:00pm-3:00pm, $30/class, included in unlimited passes
at the Studio
December 12, with Tama Soble, 1:00pm-3:00pm ET, $30/class, included in unlimited passes,
on Zoom
Enjoy the pleasure of deepening your practice by taking time at the end of the week to unwind and revitalize. For students and teachers at every level.
“I really enjoyed your Friday Intensive yesterday. I look forward to your monthly classes and love the way you lead up to the theme, gradually encouraging us to open our rib cage as yesterday. I always leave inspired and encouraged in my ability to move into poses with more ease and comfort.” SM
Undoing the Tech Effect
Monday, November 24 – Friday, November 28, with Della Croteau, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
Many of us now spend hours on our phones or tablets or laptops and find ourselves working in less than ideal settings. In this series, we will explore freeing up not only the neck, but all parts of the spine and other areas that are affected by our body positions when using technology, such as hips, shoulders, arms, and even our hands and our eyes.
3 Actions we can take that help relieve stress: breathe in, breathe out, repeat
Monday, December 1 – Friday, December 5, with Monica Voss, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
An old friend used to say, ‘There are 3 things we can do to help manage stress, discomfort and sadness – breathe in, breathe out, and repeat…’.
This series will encourage movement, awareness and sensation, promote understanding of the biomechanical actions of breathing, and accentuate the pleasure derived from consciously repeating and repeating this life-giving cycle. We’ll use sound and mudra and pranayama and imagery and there’ll be an intermingling of stretching, yoga postures, relaxation and conversation.
Practising yoga to regulate the nervous system
Monday, December 8–Friday, December 12, with Shirley Roll, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
Everything about practising yoga touches our nervous system, from grounding, breathing and even elongating the spine, to interoception, proprioception and our awareness of the world around us. In this series, we will learn how our yoga practice alters the activation of the various pathways of our nervous system – the sympathetic or spinal chain and the dorsal and ventral branches of the vagus nerve. The resulting balance of that activation affects our sense of wellbeing and that of those around us. Let’s practise together, exploring how these elements influence our energy, our resilience, our mood, our thinking and our feelings about ourselves and others.