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 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
Rise up! Rise up!
Monday, April 14 – Friday, April 18, with Julia Juhas, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $23/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
Balancing movement and stillness
Monday, April 21 – Friday, April 25, with Tama Soble, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $23/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 between activity and quiet, exuberance and rest, reaching outward and inward throughout the week.
Image: Shooting Star, Matthew Wong, 2019
QiGong for Health
Mondays, April 21, with Donna Oliver, 5:00pm-6:00pm ET, $144/8 classes, $21/class
at the Studio
Focus will be on gentle exercises that may relieve stress, back pain, depression, and insomnia, as well as other common health disorders. Boost your immune system and remain healthy this winter with Qigong!
Image: Waves, Georgia O’Keeffe
Friday Intensives
April 25, *May 23, June 20, July 11 with Tama Soble, 1:00pm-3:00pm ET, $30/class, included in unlimited passes
on Zoom
*May 23, with Tama Soble, 1:00pm-3:00pm, $30/class, included in unlimited passes, *May 23 will be held in person in the Studio
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
Come to your senses
Monday, April 28- Friday May 2, with Monica Voss, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $23/class
on Zoom
Let’s spend one session on each sense in order to enhance our awareness of our environment, learn to use the mind productively and appreciate our ability to attend deeply to anything and thereby relax.
Postures, movement and breathing practice will be included every day.
Image: The False Mirror, Rene Magritte, 1928
A Spring in your Step
Monday, May 5 – Friday, May 9, with Della Croteau, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/wk, $23/class
on Zoom
As spring comes, many of us notice a difference in the length and comfort of our stride. Where and how does that spring in your walk arise? From the feet? the legs and pelvis? the spine? the breath? relaxation? overall well-being? This week, we will explore the origin and anatomy of the spring in our step and together, practise standing and walking with enjoyment and ease.
Image: ’61-’62, Michael Snow, 1962
QiGong for Health – Spring
Mondays, May 5, 12, 26, June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 with Donna Oliver, 5:00pm-6:00pm ET, $144/8 classes, $21/class *no class Monday May 19
at the Studio
Focus will be on gentle exercises that may relieve stress, back pain, depression, and insomnia, as well as other common health disorders. Boost your immune system and remain healthy this spring with Qigong!
Helping hands – and feet – help each other
Monday, May 12 – Friday, May 16, with Maria Meindl, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $23/class
on Zoom
Our hands and feet work incredibly hard but factors ranging from weather, to breathing habits, to clothing, to old injuries can leave them functioning in isolation. The Feldenkrais method is all about sensing connections: from your hands and feet to your trunk, and even to each other. This series of five lessons will ask: what can the left hand and foot learn from the right? How can the feet help the hands, and vice-versa?
Drop in for a single lesson or take them as a series. No prior experience needed.
Image: Georgia O’Keeffe-Hands, Alfred Stieglitz, 1919
Maria Meindl became fascinated by the simplicity and power of The Feldenkrais Method in the early 1980s.
Lymph Circulation
Monday, May 19 – Friday, May 23, with Mar Jean Olson, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $80/week, $23/class, *no class Tuesday May 20
on Zoom
Join us in learning about our vital lymph system. We’ll focus on easy exercises for the flushing, drainage, and circulation of this open network which continually changes and is essential to our immune system. Everyone welcome.
Friday Intensive at the Studio
May 23, with Tama Soble, 1:00pm-3:00pm, $30/class, included in unlimited passes,
at the Studio
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
Practising yoga to regulate the nervous system
Monday, May 26–Friday, May 30, with Shirley Roll, 8:00am-9:15am ET, $100/week, $23/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.