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.
Esther Myers Yoga Studio offers yoga workshops in Toronto. Each workshop is unique and allows you to focus on a specific theme. Please register in advance.
Toronto Workshops at Esther Myers Yoga Studio
Open House for Yoga in Antigua, Guatemala, March 2 – 9, 2027
Sunday, October 18, 11:30am ET, with Monica Voss, RSVP
on Zoom
Join me in a new yoga (ad)venture in Guatemala. Casa San Juan Hotel is located in the village of San Juan del Obispo, home to the 17th century monastery and palace of the first bishop to the Americas, Francisco Marroquin. It is a short 15 minute ride away from Antigua, Guatemala, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a city of ‘eternal spring’.
Day trips can be arranged to local villages, markets, downtown Antigua, and to Mayan ruins. A tempting possibility is to arrive early or stay on and spend a few days in Antigua, exploring Lake Atitlan, or venturing further north-east to Flores and the archeological site of Tikal.
Our host is Ginger Hooven, an Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist who teaches regularly at Mount Madonna Centre in California. Ginger is enthusiastic about her adopted home of Guatemala and is a font of knowledge about its history and cultural traditions. We will be visiting during Lent, when decorations and processions associated with Holy Week are plentiful and fascinating to experience.
Visit www.casasanjuan.com for more information and photos.
ALL WELCOME! RSVP. For more information check our website: https://www.estheryoga.com/events/yoga-in-antigua-guatemala/ or contact Monica Voss: monica@estheryoga.com.
Living in a Coherent Field, with Edward Brown
Friday, October 23, with Edward Brown, 1:00pm-3:00pm ET, $45, sliding scale available
on Zoom
A monk asked Joshu, ‘How do I get to the summit of the Mystic Peak?’
Joshu responded, ‘I won’t say.’
The monk questioned him, ‘Why won’t you say?’
‘If I answered, you would still think that you were on level ground.’
A whispered teaching in Tibetan Buddhism is, ‘You are here.’ (And before you try to get
somewhere else, you should know where you are starting from.)
Is this a dog-eat-dog world? Are we either Vikings or Victims? A perpetrator, or a Saviour? Is there room to move around? Any safe place to position yourself to not be attacked, judged, blamed, or shamed? Have you done enough ‘virtue-signaling?’ Or are you in the predicament of, ‘Life is impossible!’
With sitting meditation, chi gong, talk, poems, and stories, let’s spend time together in Sacred Space, where you stand your ground and speak your truth, no longer trying to control the reactions and responses of all the others.
Edward Brown began Zen practice in 1965, disciple of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. Author of The Tassajara Bread Book and Tomato Blessings and Radish Teachings, along with several other cookbooks. Editor of Not Always So, lectures of Suzuki Roshi’s. 2007 in a movie by Doris Dörrie, How to Cook Your Life. Recently No Recipe and The Most Important Point. Still studying after all these years: “Energy Classes,” from the Deer Tribe tradition, with Lynda Caesara plus weight training and Pilates.
Open House for Yoga Adventure in India, October 24 – November 8, 2027
Sunday, October 25, with Monica Voss, 11:30am ET, RSVP
on Zoom
Discover three distinct areas of India in this exciting retreat adventure! The group will gather in Amritsar and spend the first 3 nights (October 24-27) acclimatizing to India and visiting the Golden Temple, spiritual centre of the Sikh religion. On October 27, we’ll transfer to the remote and beautiful Basunti Lodge (www.basunti.com) for 9 nights (October 27 – November 5) for the yoga retreat portion of this trip. We conclude our adventure with 3 nights (November 5-8) in the Himalayan mountain towns of Dharamsala/McLeod Ganj, home to HH the Dalai Lama, after which you may stay on, travel elsewhere, return to Amritsar, Delhi or home.
ALL WELCOME! RSVP
For more information check our website: estheryoga.com/events/yoga-in-india.
Yoga for Insomnia
Sunday, November 15, with Lauren Anastasi, 1:00pm-3:00pm ET, $40
on Zoom
Using breath practice, body awareness and yoga we will explore ways to find rest when we are not able to sleep. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) will be referenced in its approach to insomnia. We will explore restorative yoga and yoga nidra as practices that can be done in bed or in preparation for sleep.
Lauren Anastasi is a registered psychotherapist, yoga teacher, and meditation facilitator who has been teaching yoga and meditation since 2004. With a master’s degree in counselling psychology, she brings an integrated understanding of the relationship between mind and body to her work. Lauren leads mindfulness walks and supports clients experiencing insomnia through cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) and mindfulness-based practices.
Image: The Sleeping Woman, Malta, 3000 BCE
Yoga and Anatomy
Friday, November 20, with Tama Soble, 1:00pm-3:00pm ET, $60
on Zoom
Spend an afternoon refreshing your knowledge of how to adapt yoga poses to the needs of your body and those of your students. Enhance your ability to integrate and apply basic anatomical principles. Reconnect with body and breath using gentle practices that acknowledge the relationship between functional anatomy and the unique nature of each body. This workshop is open to students and teachers at all levels of experience.
Image: L. M. Kartenvertrieb
Fall Day of Yoga
Sunday, November 29, with Monica Voss, 10:30am-3:00pm ET
on Zoom
$60/full day, $30/half day, sliding scale available, included in your unlimited at the Studio
morning only: 10:30am-12:30pm ET, afternoon only: 1:30pm-3:00pm ET
All the leaves are brown (or down) and the sky is grey. Let’s spend a day together soothing and cheering ourselves, practising in the most light-minded, warmhearted way, dreaming of a deep restful winter and an early spring. Everyone welcome.
Image: Early Houses, Lawren Harris, 1913
Moving, feeling, thinking
Friday, December 4, with Peter Blackaby, 1:00pm-3:00pm ET, $45
on Zoom
These three aspects of being human arise from the same biology so it would be odd to think there is no relationship among them. This class will explore the connections to see if it’s possible to integrate them more, in a world that tends to lead to their fragmentation.
I look forward to seeing you there.
Pete Blackaby is a yoga teacher and osteopath based in Brighton, UK, and the author of the book, Intelligent Yoga. His outlook and approach encompass the complex relationship among things and the way perception influences everything.