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S H O P H O P Yoga Recess 4050 Walker Road www.yogarecess.ca 519-562-5825 What is Yoga Recess and why should our readers be excited? Yoga Recess is a beautiful, centrally located yoga studio and a mobile yoga organization offering convenient opportunities for you to have a yoga recess anytime, anywhere....if you can dream it, we can bring it! How is Yoga Recess different from the competition? We are unique because Yoga Recess allows Yoga to go mobile. With this fast paced world we live in, we need to now, more than ever, press the reset button and take a yoga recess. We travel on-site bringing a yoga recess to anyone, anytime, anywhere. We bring yoga into the schools for staff and students, libraries, outdoor settings, offices and workplaces and are building to offer more locations to suit client needs. We work one on one with you to design a program that can work for you and your group. We also offer Breathing Techniques and Guided Meditation workshops for the workplace and develop site-specific workplace wellness solutions individualized for your sector of work to promote optimal health and wellness. In addition, Yoga Recess has a quiet, peaceful home base where clients can feel at home and enjoy an hour long Traditional Hatha yoga class complete with Pranayama (breathing techniques), guided meditation and an asana practice (postures), followed by a cup of health-promoting all natural tea. Yoga Recess offers special family building classes and workshops such as Family Yoga, Kids Yoga and Date Night Partner Yoga. All of these workshops promote self- love, confidence, bonding, connection and development of awareness. Quarterly, we bring in local health experts and offer alternative wellness workshops to promote a holistic scope of health and wellness. Why did you choose Walker Rd. as the location? The Walker Road location has great energy! Even when I saw it in its renovation stages, I could feel it. It was exactly what I was seeking and immediately I could see a blueprint in my mind of how it would look upon completion and it just felt right. (It also helps that my landlord is the most friendly and accommodating person I have ever worked with, and my neighbors from Scented and Dr. Reena Pathak came right over to meet and welcome me to the space – just a wonderful vibe). Does the name have a story behind it? I worked an Admin job for seventeen years and honestly, yoga is what got me through the high stress, sedentary nature of a desk job. Sitting is really hard on the body! When I began to transform my thinking and move toward the authentic lifestyle that resonated with me, I realized that I could help others in the workplace to optimize their health and wellness by coming on-site and making yoga fit into their day. Often times, we work long hours and at the end of the day need to get home to family, dinner, extra-curriculars, etc. and so my ideology is to help clients incorporate a fun and restorative break into their day so they can return to work operating with energy and clarity, and thus a yoga recess was born. Think back to your days as a student in school and you will realize that is exactly what recess did for you – release energy, feel good, promote health and wellness, social connections, increase movement, uplift your mood and so much more..Namaste