Beginners Mind-Hatha Yoga with Diane Haynes

Join Diane Haynes for her morning Hatha Yoga class. If you are returning to yoga after a pause, or if you’ve always wanted to try yoga, this class is for you! Learn the basics of breath, intention, and postures, and experiment with letting it be easy.

Discover the adjustments and adaptations to classic shapes that allow you to make every practice your own. Most importantly, move into your day more at home in your body and more present in your life.

Prerequisite: A beginner’s mind, the ability to get down on the floor and back up again without aids, and the capacity to be moderately active for 90 minutes.

This class is for: First-timers and practitioners returning after a hiatus.

Mondays starting September 16th for 13 weeks.

Location: First United Spiritualist Church
Address: 5584 Kincaid Street, Burnaby, BC

Investment: $130/person for 13 weeks

Discounts are available for those who register in multiple classes per week.

Pre-registration and pre-payment required. NO DROP INS!

Please contact Diane at: [email protected]
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ABOUT DIANE
I have been practising yoga since 2003 and teaching professionally since 2015 (YTT-200, Karma Teachers). I’m also a freelance writer and novelist, a shamanic practitioner, a holistic healer, and a singer, dancer, and actor. I'm an introverted extrovert, an HSP, an empath, and a clairsentient. I have a degree in the study of world religions (UBC, 1989), and certifications in permaculture and ecovillage design (Global Ecovillage Network, 2019) as well as in holistic healing (Wild Rose College, 1995).

I can tap dance and count to 10 in six languages, I've flown a De Havilland Beaver over the Chilcotin Mountains, had the good fortune to visit 13 countries on four continents, sung and danced for years in musical theatre productions, and was blessed to companion six remarkable animals. My path as a karma yogi is intertwined with my own healing and self-discovery, a journey that includes recovery from the impacts of childhood trauma and neglect as well as a deepening understanding of epigenetic and ancestral imprints. As an HSP and a ‘canary,’ I feel the impact of EMFs, foods, household and personal care products, and environmental toxins that are not on many other people’s radar. I havebroken three of my four limbs, and have plates in two of them. I did not learn about boundaries until my late forties, and I’m still learning. I have lived through CPTSD, debilitating anxiety and depression, suicidality, toxic relationships, powerful states of shame, low self-worth, protracted freeze response and dis-embodiment. I know what it feels like to spend extended time in survival mode, to undergo harrowing initiation, and to navigate dark nights of the soul and profound grief. I learn and heal through relationships with those beside and ahead of me on the path, including animals, and through reading, intuitive work, yoga and other embodiment modalities, therapy, self-expressive writing, art, and dance, making mistakes and making amends, prayer, and spending time outdoors.
I share these things in the hope that they say something about the level of safety and acceptance I strive to cultivate in all of my classes. My mantra: Come as you are.

I believe that whatever else we were born to do and be, if we are here on Earth at this time, at least part of our purpose is to learn to love beyond conditions, starting with ourselves ... to grasp—and at present, to defend—the divine nature of existence, including our own ... and to honour and protect the body as the vehicle and mediator of the soul's holy experience of life.