Our pelvic floor musculatures are some of the least talked about tissues in the body, but in reality, they control so much of what it means to be strong, mobile, and in support of healthy organ activity. When our pelvic floor muscles are healthy, strong, and well connected, we experience a sense of vitality and ease of movement that allows us to explore life to it's fullest. When our pelvic floor muscles are weak, chronically engaged, or disconnected from our conscious control, we can experience a very large number of associated health conditions from incontinence and prolapse, to reproductive organ issues, low libido and self-esteem, a decline in sexual stamina, as well as kidney stones, bladder infections and holding issues, infertility, lower back and hip pain, pelvic misalignment, and digestive issues, to name a few. In fact, our pelvic floor musculature is some of the most important muscle action in the body! But what is the pelvic floor? Where is the pelvic diaphragm and how does it work? How is it different from the perineum and other tissue that are often confused with the pelvic diaphragm? What is the best way to exercise this area? Come explore these answers, explore the unknown zones of your body, and learn the ancient yogic technique of Mula Bandha - yoga's great secret to keeping our pelvic floor active, adaptable, and ready to support our vitality at all ages and stages of life! **Please note that this class is not only safe for pregnancy, but highly recommended for it**

Did you know that heart disease (a broad term covering many kinds of heart related conditions) is the second largest killer of Canadians every year? Although previously trending down for over a decade, heart disease and deaths pertaining to it have shifted and have been on a dramatic rise over the past 3 years, clearly representing one of the largest opportunities for health improvements facing our population today. In this class, we will be exploring the human heart center and the roughly 100,000 kms of blood vessels that make up it's arms and legs. We will learn about it's spiraling nature, how it generates our electromagnetic field, the important role it plays for our nervous system, and most importantly, how to keep it strong, healthy, and in a harmonious rhythm. If you have a heart related condition, this class is not only safe, but will also give you the tools to better support your heart and get it back on a healing path. If you do not have a heart condition, this class will show you a healthy maintenance routine that will ensure you keep it that way for years to come!

After one of our Knee Health classes Erin discusses how to properly apply 'K-Tape' (or Kinesiology Tape) to an injured knee, and shows her favorite method. If you would like to purchase K-Tape and follow along, we invite you to enjoy this bonus learning content! I recommend purchasing your K-Tape in advance. You can get 'pre-cut' K-Tape for the knee at most pharmacies, however, it is expensive to purchase these kits and they only include enough tape for one application. I would recommend to source out a 'roll' of uncut K-Tape instead. It's much cheaper and you will get dozens of applications out of a roll for the same price as a single application of 'pre-cut' tape. You can find rolls of K-Tape at many medical supplies stores, or you can buy it in advance on Amazon: www.amazon.ca/TapeGeeks-Premium-Kinesiology-Athletic-Shoulder/dp/B07C1H5KFP/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?

In this special 'Pop-Up' class we will be exploring the structures of our knee joints, their tendons and ligaments, and all of the fascial structures which support their healthy movement. Pain or stiffness, ligament or tendon damage, meniscus tears or other forms of cartilage damage, baker cysts, patellar tendonitis, fractures, pins, plates, and pain will all be discussed and addressed through this yoga journey. Whether you are looking to prevent injury through a healthy maintenance program, are working on an old injury, or are just starting to address a fresh injury, this class will be safe, informative, and packed with great techniques that will allow you to take charge of your healing process and get things back on track!

Join me as we take a deep exploration of the complex realities which shape the possibilities available to our neck, jaw, and eyes. Learn how to realign, mobilize, and reduce neck pain and headaches, experience the profound sense of peace and relief provide by a relaxed jaw, and explore the seldom talked about role of our eye muscles and movements and their ability to improve spinal communication, heal trauma, improve vision, and reduce symptoms of headaches and concussion. If you struggle from neck or jaw pain or conditions, poor vision, concussion or headaches, stress or anxiety, or if you spend more than 2 hours of your day looking at a screen, this class is for you!

Join me as we will celebrate Valentines Day, each other, and ourselves! In this class we will discuss the healing benefits of a self-love and self-compassion practice. The ability to treat ourself with kindness is an absolutely critical element in creating the nervous system states that allow us to heal, grow, and build resiliency. In this class we will learn to become more mindful of our habituated thoughts towards ourself, explore the quality of our own self-talk, learn how self-compassion can help us to accept our flaws and mistakes and turn them into opportunities for growth and self-improvement, and reestablish a sense of trust in ourself and our capacity to meet our own needs and achieve our dreams. Our body will be our guide as we explore heart health stretches that will bring balance to body, mind, and spirit!

In this class we take a deep dive into the care and maintenance of our feet. Learn how to release the fascia of your feet, calves, and upper thighs to reduce pain and inflammation, help prevent and improve painful conditions such as plantar fasciitis, heel spurs, arthritis, swelling in the feet and legs, achillies tendonitis, and more! This class will repair, strengthen, realign, and cleanse in a way that will ensure you leave class with some very happy feet! Pregnant? Don't worry, this class is pre-natal safe and I'll be sure to show you how to adapt as needed based on where you're at in your pregnancy!

Hip Mobility is one of the primary considerations in keeping our body young and our joints healthy. How well we move is important and our hips affect movement opportunities in all of our body's joints! Our hips provide us with a stable base for our spine while still allowing our lower limbs to move in an incredible range of motion. With poor hip mobility comes poor movement, poor posture, and inhibited muscles which lead to pain not only our hips, but also in our legs and spine. This class is designed to help us move our hips in ways which lubricate and decompress the joints, train healthier and more complex movement habits, improve balance, and ensure that our hips will be there to support us and carry us through all stages of life. This class is highly therapeutic for hip, back, and leg pain, arthritis, compression, bursitis, piriformis syndrome, instability, and minor soft tissue damage and will also help to prevent future hip replacement if done regularly! We invite you to give your hips some love and check out this class.

‘SI Joints & Hips’ is our most popular and often requested class topic. Since so many of us or working on this area as a top priority in our wellness routines, I like to dedicate numerous videos to the topic so we can keep learning new perspectives, insights, and inspirations as we continue to give our SI Joints and Hips the care they need and deserve! This class will teach you to understand where your SI Joints are and how they function, and will allow you to explore and consider an important question: Can your SI Joints move through their full range of motion? We will explore techniques to stabilize, decompress, mobilize, and repair the key areas that affect SI Joint and hip function in a routine that can be repeated regularly for maximum benefit!

Happy New Year Everyone! In this class we discuss the practice of Intention Setting and how it helps us focus on what’s important and teaches us how to direct our energy towards cultivating the changes needed to manifest a future which is happier, healthier, and more authentic. In this class we will use the wisdom and intuition of our body to help us ponder where our own personal opportunities lie, and to allow us to consider what it is we’d like to create in our lives this year. Although the New Year is a great time to get started on an Intention Setting Practice, please remember that ANYTIME is a good time to get started and you can revisit this class and revise your intentions as often as needed! If you have not already done it, I recommend considering the ‘Gratitude Yoga – New Year’s Special Part 1’ as a precursor to this class. Gratitude is a great starting place when we consider what it is we need as it helps to bring into perspective that which is most important in our individual lives and belief systems. This sets the stage for more authentic intentions and will add depth to the practice!

Join me for this special Year End class based around the powerful practice of Gratitude. Our body will be our guide as we enjoy a series of gentle stretches and celebrate a year well lived! Ending the year with a spirit of gratitude and compassion towards ourselves and others helps us set the stage for great things to come in the New Year! Gratitude Practice has been clinically proven to help people feel more positive emotions, relish good experiences, improve their health, deal with adversity, and build stronger relationships with others and self. I invite you for a little break, whether it be the New Year or anytime of year, to take care of yourself and make some space for mindful reflection and grateful appreciation for ourselves, our bodies, and all that makes our life the beautiful gift that it is! Once you’ve completed this class, you might also like to check out ‘Fresh Intentions – New Year’s Special Part 2’ so you can take the wisdom of gratitude and learn to use it to cultivate mindful intentions that fuel a positive future!

The Obturators (Internus & Externus) play an important role in both pelvic and hip stability and mobility, and are classified as both rotators of the hip joint as well as pelvic floor musculature. They often become tight and rigid without us knowing it. Dysfunction here will often manifest as pain in the groin or front of hip, deep pelvic pain that can even cause numbness or tingling in the genitals or pelvic floor, weakness in the adductors of the inner thigh, or numbness in the inner thigh. Sometimes they may just be moderately tight and causing no symptoms at all. Who knows, maybe yours are perfectly healthy and stable! The question is - do you know? This class will help you answer that question and will connect you to your hips and pelvic floor on a deeper level as we learn to massage, stretch, and strengthen these important muscles through a combination of fascial rolling, yogic stretching, and classic physio based exercises for strengthening. This class is sure to teach you a thing or two about your body that you had probably never considered before!

Tight or painful hips! Here is your solution! This class is dedicated all to the repair, release, and mobilization of our hip joints. This is great routine for anyone with a mild-moderate hip injury to help with the healing journey, but is also a great class for anytime you've been using your hips in a strengthening or compressive way. If you've just come home from a run, been working in the garden, worked on your hips and thighs at the gym this week, or if you been stuck sitting at a desk all week, driving a lot, or other shapes that compress the hips, this class is the perfect 'after-care' for such instances. Honestly, there is no wrong time to enjoy this class, it's incredibly good for you even as a maintenance routine. One thing is for sure, this class is sure to leave you with some happy and healthy hips!

Using fascial rolling, decompression techniques, and deep stretches, we will explore ways to release the tension and pressure that restricts our ribs and shoulders from enjoying their full range of motion. This routine will help to decompress your upper spine, mobilize your ribs, improve breathing, and release pain and restriction from your shoulders. Enjoy!

In this class we discuss the Immune System as an intelligent, highly adaptive, learning system. We discover a breathing exercise which has been clinically proven to ‘reset’ the immune system while dramatically reducing inflammation and auto-immune indicators. We explore shapes and stretches which help us to cleanse our digestive system, lung tissues, and blood, while improving lymphatic drainage and restoring our nervous system the state needed for optimal immune function. If you are struggling from any auto-immune or immune-deficiency conditions, this class is highly relevant and beneficial! If you are fighting off a cold or flu, or even better, simply looking to prevent one, this class is what you need. In fact, in today’s modern world, couldn’t we all benefit from some extra immune protection and detoxification? So, really, this class is for everyone!

In this class we take a deep exploration of the relationships which exist between the hip, leg and knee, as we discover ways to repair and rebalance. Learn how fascial rolling and fascial manipulation can help remove adhesions and reduce swelling in the feet and knees, and then explore long holds of gentle stretches that will help to repair, repattern, and improve the mobility and function of key tissues that support knee and hip health!

In this class we journey through a process designed to relieve lower back pain, repair our SI Joints, lubricate our spine, and release the tissues in both our hips and back which commonly contribute to back pain in the first place. This class is designed for anyone with back pain, and is also ‘pre-natal’ safe, showing how to adapt these shapes at any stage of pregnancy to keep things safe and effective.

In this class we discuss the anatomy of the pelvic floor as we learn to engage ‘Mula Bandha’, one of the most important foundational principles of yoga. We will learn to engage the pelvic floor during breathing, and will learn how to use Mula Bandha to take us deeper into posture which require balance, stability, twisting, and squatting. This class is beneficial for men and women alike, and if you would like to improve or prevent any of the following, this class is for you! • Tone and strengthen your pelvic floor and abdomen • Improve pelvic stability and posture • Improve digestion, respiratory function, urinary function, sexual function, and cardiovascular function • Prevent and improve incontinence and bladder infections • Prevent and improve vaginal or rectal prolapse • Increases prostate health in men, preventative for premature ejaculation, and increase sexual health and stamina • Increase libido and sexual vigor • Improve kidney health and kidney stones • Promote a healthy sense of stability, security, and grounding This class is not only 'pre-natal safe', but highly recommended at any stage of pre or post natal care!

In this class we take a deep dive into the health of our feet, learning to care for their unique fascial setup, mobilizing their many bones and joints, and learning how to align, stretch, and strengthen in a way that is restorative and transformative. From there we begin to work our way up the leg to release and lengthen the tissues in our calves and legs that tend to add unnecessary strain to our feet and can often be the hidden culprits in foot pain and tightness. If you suffer from foot or ankle pain or swelling, plantar fasciitis, arthritis, bunions, or hammertoes, or baker cysts, this class is for you! If you spend long hours standing during your day, if you are a runner, or if you simply want to make sure that your feet stay strong and don’t fail you as you age, this class will offer incredible restorative and preventative maintenance. Since most of us rely on our feet for our mobility needs, this class is really for everyone! Enjoy!

In this class we take a deep dive into the health of our feet, learning to care for their unique fascial setup, mobilizing their many bones and joints, and learning how to align, stretch, and strengthen in a way that is restorative and transformative. From there we begin to work our way up the leg to release and lengthen the tissues in our calves and legs that tend to add unnecessary strain to our feet and can often be the hidden culprits in foot pain and tightness. If you suffer from foot or ankle pain or swelling, plantar fasciitis, arthritis, bunions, or hammertoes, or baker cysts, this class is for you! If you spend long hours standing during your day, if you are a runner, or if you simply want to make sure that your feet stay strong and don’t fail you as you age, this class will offer incredible restorative and preventative maintenance. Since most of us rely on our feet for our mobility needs, this class is really for everyone! Enjoy!

Sore Back? We’ve got you covered! In this class we will take a gentle and relaxing decompression of both our lower and upper spine, will loosen the tissues on the front of the hips and pelvis which are the common ‘hidden culprits’ in back pain, and will stretch the muscles of the lower and upper back to reduce tension and increase mobility! If your back is sore, this class is a great ‘quick-fix’, however, if you suffer from regular or chronic back pain, put this class on your favorite list and repeat regularly!

Feeling stressed, anxious, or like you need to unwind after a big day? This class will help you downregulate the fight or flight in your nervous system, restore a sense of personal relaxation, and bring your healing functions back on line! Learn how Alternate Nostril Breathing can stimulate the right hemisphere of your brain and induce a parasympathetic response, physically decompress and unwind the stress out of your tissues, and finish up with a ‘Progressive Muscle Relaxation’ technique which has been proven to help improve vagal tone, reduce stress, and release tension from body and mind. Stress is a part of life, and if received in healthy doses can actually make us more productive, give us a sense of purpose, and help us build strength and resiliency. However, when we are unable to ‘turn off’ our feelings of stress or anxiety, when they become chronic and are present with us most of the time, our nervous system becomes dysregulated, digestion and heart health suffer, immune function is lowered, our hormones are thrown off balance, repair and rejuvenation functions are impeded, our mental and emotional health suffer, and we’re left feeling that life is unsafe and out of our control. Through practicing this routine, you can empower yourself to take back control of your nervous system and help your nervous system and your life come back into a place of peaceful balance!

In this class we take a deep look at hip and knee health and the role our IT Bands and TFL muscles play in keeping them balanced and safe. If you have pain in your SI Joints, hips, or knees, this class will help you unpack some of the underlying causes and empower you to help your body make the changes necessary to heal and become pain free again!

Join us as we discuss the anatomy of the Trapezius muscles and learn how to release them. These muscles are one of the common culprits in causing spasms in the rib space between our shoulder blades and spine, as well as pain in and around our neck and the top of our shoulders. First we will learn what and where the trapezius are, then to feel the activation and function of each region of this rather large muscle, we will learn how to use therapy balls and other rolling tools to massage and release, stretches to lengthen and repair. The result? Freedom of movement, feelings of increased vitality, and a happier, healthier upper back, neck, and shoulders! Please also remember that our traps can often be a source of tension headaches or triggers for pain in other areas. If you experience headaches or pain, please stop and be sure to leave me a comment in the Yoga on Demand Community Hub. We can adjust this routine to make it safe for individual needs, and let's face it, we all have different habits associated to our traps. I'd love to hear more about yours!

There is no better way to enjoy the spring and summer than getting outside, connecting with mother earth, planting seeds and tending to their growth and development, and then enjoying the fruits of our labor from the incredible nutrition of non-commercialized veggies! However, gardening season always comes with it's associated aches and pains in both the upper and lower back, and these are the most common complaints I hear during this time of year! In this episode, we take a look at why back pain happens as a result of gardening, learn techniques that will help us with our alignment during our time in the garden, and very importantly, learn to give our upper and lower back the correct care to repair any strain or tension caused by this beloved past time. This class is highly suitable for anyone who is experiencing pain in their lower back or upper back as our flow will take us through a deep exploration of both!

Any therapist will agree that the most common injury we see with clients arriving for treatment in acute pain is usually described by the term 'I Put My Back Out,' and is usually caused by a movement involving forward flexion with a slight rotation such as picking up an item off the floor or tying one's shoes. The pain is usually experienced immediately during the movement, and often manifests as a sharp, shooting, or locking type pain in the lower back, and is usually predominant on one side of the spine. The pain persists for days on end, we may end up bed ridden or have a hard time standing up straight, and often we can retrigger the pain any time we begin to bend forward in space. Does this sound like something you have experienced in the past or are currently working through? If so, than you are not alone! Our human biomechanics make it incredibly easy to experience this kind of pain at some point in life. Don't worry, there are many things you can do to not only help get rid of the pain and inflammation, but also to improve and repair your mobility in such a way to make sure that the issue doesn't reappear again in the future! This class is dedicated to all of us who have 'put our backs out' and will empower you to take control of your healing and get things back on track from the comfort of home!

In this video we discuss the diaphragm, our body's main respiratory muscle. We debunk certain myths about how to strengthen the diaphragm, and learn the most effective ways to stretch, strengthen, and make space for your diaphragm to move better. Better breathing starts with this class!

In this episode we explore the range of movement available in our spine as we discover ways to decompress our intervertebral discs, hydrate and balance the deep fascia that controls spinal movement, and stretch and rejuvenate the many tissues that our spine relies on for support and nourishment. There is an old saying that I agree strongly with: "You're only as young as your spine." In this class we seek to repair our spine and effectively 'de-age' our bodies!

In this episode we learn about the differences between the terms 'fatigue,' 'chronic fatigue syndrome,' and 'adrenal fatigue' and learn how we can use yoga and breathing techniques to help rebuild our hormonal reserves, boost our metabolism and energy supply, and correct the imbalances that have led us to fatigue in the first place. Since over 50% of the world's adult population will experience chronic fatigue at some point in their lives, this is a video for us all. As always, prevention is the best medicine, but if you missed the chance for preventative measures, don't worry, this class will get you back on track and feeling great again!