We offer a range of classes, workshops, and Teacher Training and special events on Zoom as well as teaching live in our new location, The First Narayever Congregation, 187 Brunswick Ave (16 participants). 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.
In-person classes at the Narayever are accessible! There is a new elevator, fresh, new washrooms for changing and plenty of space for coats, boots and shoes. There are chairs available, some mats, blankets, cushions and belts. Bring your own yoga equipment, if possible. Please join by registering with online advanced bookings and payment. 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.
Zoom classes continue to be a viable and enjoyable option. 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! Practising online and in person is meaningful in different ways and we hope you’ll enjoy either or both.
Please use our pre-recorded Home Practice audios and videos. Thank you for your continuing support in these uncertain times. Read the announcement detailing the closure of the 390 Dupont St practice space here.
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
Brain and Balancing
Monday, July 13 – Friday, July 17, with Mar Jean Olson, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $80/week, $25/class *no class on Wed July 15
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.
In the heat of the summer
Monday, July 20 – Friday, July 24, with Della Croteau, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/wk, $25/class
on Zoom
The summer is a time of light and warmth. To balance the heat and energy of the summer season, we will explore postures and breathing to cultivate the opposite environment on the inside of the body – cool and calm.
Image: Insectarium, Montreal
Top to Tail
Monday, July 27 – Friday July 31, with Julia Juhas, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
Ignite length, mobility, and resilience from crown to tailbone. In this series, we cultivate a wakeful spine by honouring it’s two bookends, the skull at the top and the tailbone at the bottom, while weaving together breath, the four foundational spinal movements and guided visualization. Through mindful exploration, we release tension, invite elongation, and cultivate a sense of suppleness throughout the spine, from peak to base and everywhere in between.
About Face
Monday, August 3 – Friday August 7, with Monica Voss, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
Spending time releasing the face will expand the breathing, lengthen the spine and create a shift in our outlook that may last the whole day. We’ll squeeze and stretch and palpate, soften and stimulate tissue, joints and sutures including our sticky jaw, furrowed brow, tender skull, delicate throat, and tenacious neck muscles. What a beautiful wake up for our yoga postures and our lives.
Qi Gong to Celebrate our Abundance
Monday, August 10 – Friday, August 14, with Paola di Paolo, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
Qi Gong practices encourage and support us while exploring the rhythms of nature in our lives. Even though the sun wanes during August, summer reaches its fullness with bountiful harvests of food, ideas, aspirations, and dreams. Our Qi Gong practice will help align our unique selves with Earth’s rhythms so we can flourish and
experience a sense of abundance.
Rolling and Circling: the learning curves of the body
Monday, August 17 – Friday, August 21, with Tama Soble, 8:00am – 9:15am ET, $100/week, $25/class
on Zoom
Every surface in the body is curved, and we benefit tremendously by following and honouring those curves as we move, visualize and breathe. Following the natural shape of the bones, soft tissue, and organs leads to efficient and pleasurable movement, a deep understanding of our structures through physical experience and the capacity to move more fully and freely than we may imagine. Let’s expand our potential by exploring our physical reality.
Image: Giggling Girls, Southam St, Roger Mayne, 1956
Practising yoga to regulate the nervous system
Monday, August 24–Friday, August 28, 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.
Summer Evening Practice
Monday, August 24 – Thursday, August 27, with Monica Voss, 6:00pm-7:30pm ET, $80/week, $25/class
on Zoom
Enjoy an early evening practice of yoga postures, breath awareness, pranayama, relaxation and meditation as the light softens, the crickets chirp and we hold summer close for a few more weeks.
Image: Halley’s Comet as Seen by Giotto, Paterson Ewen, 1979