by Catherine Reid | Jan 22, 2013 | Blog, News & Events, Yoga
Catherine Reid will have a display and do a presentation on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at the Ist Annual Healthier You Expo – Florence Filberg Centre in Courtenay. Make sure to drop in with any questions or comments you may have.
by Catherine Reid | Dec 21, 2012 | Blog, News & Events
This is a great world-wide event, happening at 1:30 pm Comox Valley-time. There’s not one started yet in the Comox Valley, bit I would gladly lead the singing, anywhere. Anyone interested, please contact me.
by Catherine Reid | Dec 17, 2012 | Blog, Yoga
At the end of a 45-minute class yesterday, someone told me that her headache was gone. She repeated the good news, obviously pleased, and very surprised. Yoga can act that quickly. I think of it as magic. After all, we were only breathing, and moving slowly, and...
by Catherine Reid | Dec 17, 2012 | Blog, Yoga
Have you ever had a dream that you accomplished, with daily attention and persistence, even when you didn’t feel like it? You were embodying the 3rd niyama, tapas. When you hold a yoga pose for one more breath, because you know the benefits will be worth the...
by Catherine Reid | May 8, 2012 | Blog, Book Review, News & Events, Yoga
One of the gifts of a long-term yoga practice is an ever-growing sense of ease and inner contentment that underlies anything which takes place in the outer world. This is an embodiment of the second niyama, known as samtosha, or contentment. Here’s an evocative...
by Catherine Reid | May 1, 2012 | Blog, Yoga
Have you noticed the order in most yoga studios? The mats are rolled neatly, the blankets are folded and stacked, the floor is clean. Perhaps when you enter the room, you perceive a subtle, quiet energy, distinct from the outside world. You are noticing sauca, which...
