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Hart lazer biography

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I began to practice yoga in 2004 to ease pain and stiffness I was experiencing post-surgery from scoliosis. My first Savasana came as a surprise, showing me the possibility to transform pain and physical limitations into something else. For the first time in years, I felt some relief, accompanied with an ease inside the body. Yoga helped me work through the difficulties and pain which accompany scoliosis (still a work in progress), and I was very inspired to share the healing benefits of yoga with other people through teaching. Most importantly, I was empowered psychologically as a result of my practice and my feelings of limitation, fear and weakness were gone.

I like yoga because it’s immediate: the connection to my students is immediate, the experience of yoga is immediate. What is revealed to me time and time again is that as much as the sensations in the body after practicing are physical, healing is very much a holistic process.

I teach from a compassionate place of acknowledging the fundamentals in yoga (breathing and cultivating healthy spinal movement), and the challe

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Biography

With her husband, Philip Guest, she developed and operated Freewheeling Adventures, an adventure touring company which has orchestrated enthusiastic people, fascinating destinations, quality equipment, nutritious cuisine, and luxurious rest to create extraordinary active holidays for small groups and individuals since 1987. She still stays involved in all aspects of Freewheeling, now with their son, Taran Guest, the commander-in-chief.

She teaches yoga in her beautiful Sail Loft Studio in The Lodge, near Hubbards, which is perched on the edge of St. Margaret's Bay, as well as in the community, at the Fox Point Lion’s Club and the Blandford Community Centre.

Catherine's special interests include writing, music, and dance, as well as enjoying the great outdoors, especially by bicycle.




Her first book, My Freewheeling Life: Personal Reflections of Running an Adventure Tour Company in Rural Nova Scotia, was just published and is available May 2nd , 2019.
The book may be purchased here.




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  "For some reason, I went and looked at it, and the space was just huge, with hardwood floors and high ceilings, and there two rooms like that with change rooms. And I just thought, "Oh crap, we have to start a yoga studio"!

 

(Meaghan Johnson, Founder and Director, Queen Street Yoga, Kitchener, Ontario)




Q ueen Street Yogarecently celebrated its fifth birthday in its birthplace, Kitchener, Ontario. That's no small accomplishment for a small studio that opened during a yoga boom. But, with an expanding array of classes and workshops in yoga and meditation, and a focus on the therapeutic function of yoga as pertains to stress, trauma and illness, Queen Street Yoga has managed not only to survive, but to grow its reach and impact in local communities.  Part of this buoyant, "can-do" atmosphere owes itself to the high-spirited approach of Queen Street Yoga's founder and director, Meaghan Johnson, whose exuberance and engagement with her own practice is palpable in our interview.

Meaghan Johnson was first introduced to Yoga in 1992, and has had a

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