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FREE VIDEO SERIES

Kathy offers a free introductory yoga video series. Simply enter your email address and you will be sent the link to three 1/2 hour yoga classes you can practice in the comfort of your own home. More info...

Autumn Schedule

Here is the class schedule for classes at the Crofton Studio until Christmas 2018 More info...

Vancouver Island Yoga Retreat

3 day Yoga Retreat with Kathy White on the beautiful Vancouver Island More info...

Welcome

A warm welcome to the Kathy White Yoga website. This is a loving space for you to connect with Kathy and her teaching of Yoga.

Here you can get class information, download a free class,purchase a class pass, sign up to become a member to practice at home, and read Kathy's Blog about her understanding of Yoga.

If you do decide to join as a member these are some of the benefits you will receive.

Member Area

In the member area there is:

Access to over 15 classes (these are unedited live class recordings)
Access to Kathy's Blog and the Q&A opportunity to have your questions answered directly
Access to photographs of some of the key postures - with different students showing how the posture looks in different bodies - different levels of stiffness - injuries - men/women
Video classes

And Kathy teaches using her own unique and magic style and uses the Kaiut Method Lesson Plans. She was originally trained in Hatha Yoga with the Sivananda Yoga Organization in 2000. Since 2004, her main influence and inspiration came from Scaravelli teachers. Scaravelli had studied directly with Mr Iyengar. In 2017 Kathy discovered the work of Brazillian Francisco Kaiut and she became a certified Kaiut teacher in 2018. Read more about Kathy's Yoga journey here

What is Yoga?

There is a paradox within Yoga.

Yoga is something we do with our body, but it's not a physical activity. Yoga is about how we can establish ourselves in the present moment with awareness and without stress. The practice was never about stretching muscles or building strength, when we stretch like that we make the joints unstable and therefore the mind is unstable. Yoga is about cultivating awareness that helps us understand that everything we do with the body can help us lead a longer, better life. One of my teachers - Francisco Kaiut - whose practice of Yoga I am currently most closely following and teaching says

Yoga is a chronic state of presence with emotional coherence. Francisco Kaiut

Imagine a "chronic" state of awareness or presence. We so often think of chronic conditions as bad. We have many negative conotations about being in a chronic state. So it's lovely to turn that around and see chronic in a positive light. That presence, consciousness, this feeling of being alive NOW could be a chronic condition for you. Imagine not spending your days caught up in busy mind, thinking of the past, or planning for the future. And that is what your time on your yoga mat can cultivate and build for you. So that you continue to do Yoga throughout your day. Meeting each moment by softening into a receptive state, welcoming life to move through you, and staying coherent in your emotional body. Cultivating joy, calm and love within the vastness of your total being.
In our western culture, with so much emphasis on competion, ambition, success, and growth it is understandable how the eastern practice of yoga has been translated away from its roots.
Many people today see yoga as a fitness exercise. Many people have tried yoga and hated it, they expect too much of their body, they don’t get the results they want and it feels uncomfortable. In fact Yoga has nothing to do with fitness or flexibility. It is everything to do with awareness and from that body health emerges. This is what yoga is – an invitation to deepen into awareness, to see the body as a playground of consciousness and by moving well finding more freedom from constrictions in all areas of your life.