Yoga Workshops for Everyone

Please drop by! First come, first served.

Many items will be available for purchase including:

• Yoga equipment, mats, bolsters, straps, blocks
• Custom built-in furniture/office furniture
• Tatami mats
• Yoga and meditation books
• Anatomical models
• Benches, tables, chairs and heaters
• Office and cleaning equipment
• Track lighting and wall sconces
• And more!

Choose what you like and make an offer. The Studio accepts e-transfers to info@estheryoga.com and cash.

Then, please arrange to pick up your items between December 22 and 31.

Thank you!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2-4:30pm
390 DUPONT ST, STE 203
TORONTO
On the north side of Dupont between Bathurst and Spadina,
5 min from Dupont subway station.
Some parking onsite, street parking available.

And everyone is invited. Please drop over and say goodbye to the wonderful space you have created for the practice of yoga, meditation, chanting, dancing, singing, musical events, seasonal celebration, and Qi Gong.

Please bring a memory, an impression, a story to share. There’ll be treats and drinks and perhaps a surprise or two.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2-5pm
390 DUPONT ST, STE 203
TORONTO
On the north side of Dupont between Bathurst and Spadina,
5 min from Dupont subway station.
Some parking onsite, street parking available.

Saturday, December 27 – Monday, December 29, with Monica Voss
10:30am-12:30pm and 1:30pm-3:00pm ET, $150/3 days, $60/day, $30/half day, included in unlimited packages, bursaries available
on Zoom

Ring out 2025 with an at-home yoga “retreat”. Lighten body and heart with three full or partial days of stretching, breathing, postures, meditation and relaxation, with some end-of-year visiting. Everyone is welcome!

Friday, January 2, 2026 with Julia Juhas, 11:00am-1:00pm ET, $30
on Zoom

As dusk falls earlier and nights linger, we invite you to embrace this shift in a harmonious dance of balance! In this 2-hour yoga class we’ll infuse the integration of mindful movement, breathwork and meditation to usher in the new year. Bring along your pen and notebook to capture those profound insights. This isn’t just a celebration, it’s an opportunity for deep reflection and a chance to set positive intentions for the year ahead.

Image: Winter woodcut, Thoreau MacDonald

Sunday, January 11, 2026, with Ana Bodnar, 11:30am-1:00pm ET, $30
on Zoom

Let us celebrate the winter days as we gather to reflect on the quiet beauty of nature withdrawn, and step into the darkest part of the year. It is a time of turning within to nurture our light and our strength. And a time for the deep noticing of the places of light all around us every day, no matter what the challenges. We will include meditation, visualization, chanting and poetry in our time together. All of this to nourish our souls.

Ana Bodnar is a clinical psychologist and has been a teacher of yoga philosophy and meditation for many years, both in the community and at the University of Toronto. She leads kirtan chanting events and released a meditation and chanting CD: Embracing Peace. For more information, see www.anabodnar.com.

Image: Winter Woods, Lawren Harris, 1915

Saturday, January 24 – Sunday, January 25, with Della Croteau, Kathy Felkai, Helen Kohl, Tama Soble, Shari Stein and Monica Voss, whole weekend $210, each workshop $40
on Zoom

As the population ages, teachers must inform themselves about natural changes in the body as well as common conditions such as osteoarthritis and osteoporosis. Changes in outlook also occur in older students as they contemplate their lives and goals. Through practice, discussion and analysis, we will explore these and other issues of ageing and create intelligent and supportive options in order to instruct older students holistically with energy, knowledge and empathy.

Empowering the Ageing Body is intended for certified and non-certified yoga and meditation teachers, teachers-in-training, health professionals, therapists, social workers and interested students of yoga.

• Saturday, January 24, 10-11:45am, Shari Stein, Osteoporosis
• Saturday, January 24, 12-1:45pm, Kathy Felkai, Managing Chronic Pain
• Saturday, January 24, 2:15-4pm, Helen Kohl, Chair Yoga
• Sunday, January 25, 10-11:45am, Tama Soble, Osteoporosis: Asana and Pranayama
• Sunday, January 25, 12-1:45pm, Della Croteau, Osteoarthritis
• Sunday, January 25, 2:15-4pm, Monica Voss, Osteoarthritis: Asana and Pranayama

Friday, January 30 with Edward Brown, 1:00pm-3:00pm ET, $45, sliding scale available
on Zoom

At times a student will confess: “My mind is still not at ease.” Often Zen teachers take a radical approach to “settling your mind.”  Student after student, when asked to do so, cannot bring forth the mind to be settled!  Then how can it be settled?

What to do?

Or again, “What is the way?” Everyday Mind is the Way! “How am I to attain it?”  As soon as you try to attain it, you lose it. Then, “what am I to do?”

Are you on track? Are you in accord? Are you floundering?

Let’s take the backward step together, and turn the Light inward.

With sitting meditation, chi gung, talk, poems, stories, let’s spend time together in Sacred Space, where you are, “Buddha on the spot without changing anything about your body or your mind.”

Sunday, February 15, with Monica Voss, 10:30am-1:00pm ET, $60
on Zoom

Practising yoga at home can be a refuge and a way of reconnecting to ourselves. In this workshop we will design themes for home practice, explore sequences of yoga postures, the rationale behind them and our personal responses to them. We will discuss the challenges and the joys of our time alone with yoga. Teachers and interested students of yoga are welcome to attend.

Sunday, March 29, with Monica Voss, 11:00am-1:30pm ET, $50
on Zoom

In this workshop, we will practise breath awareness and several traditional pranayama exercises in personal, non-traditional ways, accessing them with curiosity, enjoyment and kindness. Then we’ll assess, deconstruct and discuss how and when to introduce pranayama to beginners (and ourselves) easily and effectively.

Sunday, April 12, with Ana Bodnar, 11:00am-1:00pm ET, $45
on Zoom

In this workshop, we will review the Yamas and Niyamas as they are outlined in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and then reflect on them using various translations, including a commentary from a women’s, heart-centred perspective. We will discuss how the Yamas and Niyamas continue to be vibrant and relevant in our current times, and how importantly they apply as guidelines for our teaching and our lives.

Please bring your translation to class along with a pen and notebook.

Sunday, May 3, with Tama Soble
10:00am-12:30pm and 1:30pm-4:00pm ET, Full day $105, Half day $60.
on Zoom

Spend a full day exploring how asana, pranayama and meditation practices support the physical body, the nervous and respiratory systems, and the mind in returning to homeostasis. We will practise, write, and engage in discussion in order to reflect on how as teachers we might support those living with the challenges of anxiety and depression.

For yoga and meditation teachers, teachers in training and anyone studying and/or working in the mental health arena or interested in the topic material.