Programs
The YogBhava Journey
YogBhava works with the subtle or prāṇic body, where energetic centres (cakras) and communication channels (nāḍīs) influence both emotional and physical receptivity to optimal asana alignment. Through guided engagement of the five sheaths (kośas), the practice supports regulation of the nervous system, improved circulation of energy, physical balance, emotional processing, and the restoration of inner grounding.
As awareness deepens, practitioners cultivate a healthier relationship with themselves and the world around them, one grounded in clarity, responsiveness, and embodied presence. Here, alignment is not rigid form but a living relationship between body, breath, mind, and feeling, guiding each practitioner toward wholeness, agency, and inner resonance.
Guiding Principles of YogBhava Practice
Practice Through Listening
Awareness guides movement, breath, and stillness.
The body communicates; understanding follows.
Elemental Progression
Each element is explored through sustained engagement.
Depth develops through repetition and relationship.
Āsana as Inquiry
Every posture invites observation and response.
Practice unfolds through presence.
Sound as Support
Mantra strengthens resonance and focus.
Silence cultivates clarity and integration.
Integration Beyond the Mat
Elemental awareness expresses itself through daily rhythms—
nourishment, communication, work, rest, and relationship.
Cyclical Development
Growth unfolds through return and refinement.
Each revisit reveals new understanding.
The Art of Yogic Expression - Series 1
Thursdays 9:45 to 11:15am -RVN Wellness Port Moody BC
This five-week progressive elemental series serves as an initiation into embodied awareness of the Pañca Mahābhūta—the five elemental principles that shape body, breath, perception, and lived experience. Series 1 establishes the foundational language and sensory literacy required to engage with elemental intelligence through direct, felt practice.
Each week introduces one elemental field through carefully structured āsana, prāṇa, mantra, sound, stillness, and guided awareness. Emphasis is placed on nervous system regulation, somatic listening, and continuity of breath and movement, allowing practitioners to develop familiarity with elemental qualities as lived sensations rather than conceptual ideas.
Series 1 supports grounding, orientation, and trust in embodied perception. Practices are accessible, progressive, and contemplative, creating a stable container for participants to observe how elemental dynamics express themselves within the body and inner landscape. Reflective practice notes are provided after each session, with a comprehensive workbook offered upon completion of the series to support integration and continued personal inquiry.
The Art of Yogic Expression - Series 2
Thursdays 9:45 to 11:15 -RVN Wellness Port Moody BC
Series 2 deepens the elemental inquiry initiated in Series 1, guiding practitioners from introduction toward lived integration. Completion of Series 1 is beneficial, offering helpful familiarity with elemental language and approach, but is not mandatory for participation. New practitioners are welcomed and supported within the progressive structure of this series.
This phase emphasizes continuity of practice, refinement of perception, and sustained embodiment of elemental intelligence in daily life. Participants are invited to remain longer within each elemental field, allowing movement, breath patterns, sound, and stillness to mature into quiet knowing. Practice becomes less instructional and more experiential—where awareness leads form, and sensation precedes interpretation.
Series 2 supports the development of discernment, steadiness, and relational presence with the Pañca Mahābhūta, encouraging a felt continuity between mat, breath, and lived experience. Reflective practice notes are shared weekly, with guided integration prompts supporting ongoing personal inquiry and continuity beyond the sessions.
Rāga Sādhana: nāda yoga, where classical rāga becomes a pathway to vibrational sense healing
The Healing Arts Initiative - Jointly with CINS
Schedule: 7:00 PM - 8:45 PM | 7:00 PM - 7:15 PM — Arrive and settle with chai
7:15 PM — Seated guided meditation with chakra alignment | Followed by — Rāga immersion (lying down)
Live Rāga is offered on sarod, sitar, flute, or voice - Guru Guided Lineage artist(s) from
The Bandish Network
Completion meditation before close of practice
8:45 PM — Departure | This evening is curated as a listening-based yogic healing, where sound functions as medicine and inquiry into the deeper layers of the energy and emotional body. The intention is contemplative reception—allowing rāga, resonance, and silence to work together as a healing and reflective practice.
About Rāga | In Indian classical music, a rāga is a systematic arrangement of notes intended to evoke particular feelings and states of being. Far more than melody, a rāga's emotional essence is designed to "colour" the listener's mind and spirit—the word itself derives from the Sanskrit rang, meaning "to colour or delight." Each rāga is connected to a specific season, mood, energy field, or time of day, making this a profoundly spiritual, transformative, and heightened experience. Practitioners may perceive colours in the mind's eye and experience pure vibrational healing through the sukshma (subtle) body layer and spine.
What to Bring | Please bring your own meditation cushion, mat, warm water, a cup for chai, a handkerchief, an eye mask, and a warm shawl or wrap for comfort.
Kriya | It is advised to take a warm shower or bath before this immersion and again after, before bed—entering the cleansing experience with access to your ātma nature.
Deep gratitude to all who came and received this experience previously so beautifully.
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The Art of Yoga: A Contemplative Practice of Awareness
Tuesdays 10am - 12pm- Michael Wright Gallery, Port Coquitlam , BC
The Art of Yoga
A philosophy-rooted yoga series designed as a meditative and contemplative practice to nourish mind, body, and spirit. Perfect preparation for a deep stretch receptivity.
This offering moves beyond fitness, inviting you into a slower, more perceptual experience of yoga as lived knowledge and creative inquiry.
What to Expect
Each session weaves together gentle accessible movement, breath mapping, guided meditation, and chakra visualization. Live sound meditation using chime instruments supports deep listening and nervous system regulation, allowing attention to soften and perception to refine.
Breath becomes your guiding intelligence. Awareness itself is the primary medium of practice. Movement unfolds as natural expression, readying body and mind for meditative walking or stillness.
The Practice
Sessions focus on breathwork and meditation inspired by nature, the elements, cycles of life, and subtle awareness. Practices are progressive yet accessible, welcoming all bodies and backgrounds. No prior yoga experience is required, only a willingness to slow down, sense, and receive.
Each session concludes with shared chai time and gentle dialogue. This closing circle allows insights from practice to settle through conversation, listening, and communal presence, supporting continuity beyond the mat.
What to Bring
A yoga mat, a shawl or light blanket, water, a journal, and an eye mask if desired.
Breathing Bhava - Evening Meditation
Online 50mins Mondays,Tuesdays & Thursdays 8pm (single events)
Evening Chakra Meditation
A powerful cleansing practice designed to promote deeper, more restorative sleep by clearing the thoughts, emotions, and energies collected through the day's interactions and perceptual experiences.
What This Practice Offers
Throughout the day, we absorb energies from conversations, environments, and sensory experiences. This guided chakra meditation helps you release accumulated mental and energetic residue, creating space for genuine rest and renewal.
Using YogBhava's meditation approach, you will move through each energy center with awareness and intention, dissolving tension and restoring inner balance. This clearing process allows your nervous system to settle, your mind to quiet, and your body to prepare for deep, rejuvenating sleep.
Regular practice supports not only restful evenings but also refreshed, clear mornings. You wake with greater presence and capacity to engage with the new day.
How to Prepare
Please prepare your space for quiet meditation. Find a comfortable seated position or lie down. You may wish to have a blanket, cushion, and dim lighting. Ensure you have a stable internet connection and access to Google Meet for the live guided session. All you need to bring is your willingness to pause, breathe, and receive.
Agni Bhava · Saturday Morning Practice
Saturdays 8:30am 50 mins online
A vitalising morning practice designed to awaken agni—the inner fire that fuels clarity, circulation, and purposeful action. This energising flow weaves sun salutations with breath-led movement to activate both solar and lunar energetic fields, cultivating balance between strength and receptivity.
The practice is rhythmic yet attentive, building heat without force, and inviting steadiness through fluid transitions. Solar energy supports motivation, warmth, and vitality, while lunar awareness softens the nervous system, allowing breath, sensation, and intuition to guide the body from within.
Expect a morning reset that leaves you clear, grounded, and quietly energised, with awareness carried gently into the day ahead.
Traditional India Series Retreats
In Partnership with The Bandish Network - One and Two-Day Immersive Experiences
The Traditional India Series Retreats are carefully curated one- and two-day immersive experiences that offer a deeply rooted encounter with Indian yogic, artistic, and healing traditions. Designed as intimate, nourishing gatherings, these retreats invite participants into a lived experience of embodied wisdom, cultural refinement, and holistic wellbeing.
Each retreat weaves together lineage-informed yogic practice, Kathak dance, live music, contemplative dialogue, and vegetarian Indian cuisine prepared with care and intention. The atmosphere is one of quiet richness, where tradition is not performed, but lived, felt, and shared.
Mornings begin in stillness and subtle awareness through Pañca Kośa Yoga, guided dhyāna, breath awareness, and gentle awakening practices that align the physical, energetic, mental, and intuitive layers of the being. This foundational practice sets the tone for a day of depth, receptivity, and creative exploration.
Participants are then invited to choose from a range of thoughtfully curated workshops, allowing each individual to shape their own journey through the retreat, of course with a hearty offering of my cooking!
Offerings may include:
AyurKala: Healing art practices that explore colour, form, and gesture as tools for emotional balance, self-reflection, and subtle energetic restoration.
Antaar Nāad: A contemplative exploration of inner sound through prose, spoken word, song, classical dance, and live music, cultivating deep listening, movement and expressive clarity.
AyurRūpa : Sacred beauty practices rooted in Ayurvedic wisdom, including natural skincare rituals, self-care applications, and embodied understanding of inner and outer radiance.
Elemental Yoga Sequences: Breath-led, elemental yoga practices that attune the body to earth, water, fire, air, and ether, supporting seasonal balance and nervous system regulation.
Throughout the retreat, home-style healing talks, reflective pauses, and shared meals create space for meaningful connection, integration, and rest. The experience is designed to feel both expansive and grounded, offering participants a sense of return to simplicity, cultural intelligence, and embodied presence.
The Traditional India Series Retreats are ideal for those seeking an authentic, refined introduction to Indian heritage practices, (sanahtan dharma) as well as for practitioners wishing to deepen their relationship with yogic living through a culturally rooted, non-extractive lens.
1-1 Online Coaching for Mothers
YogBhava Māā is an online yoga, meditation, and mentorship offering created to support mothers at different stages of parenting and personal growth. It is a space where women can slow down, reconnect with themselves, and feel supported as they navigate the emotional, physical, and inner changes that come with caring for others while continuing to grow as individuals.
This practice is rooted in the understanding that a mother forms the emotional ground of a family. When a mother feels steady, resourced, and supported, this sense of balance naturally extends to those around her. YogBhava Māā helps mothers reconnect with this inner steadiness and rebuild trust in their own capacity to hold, guide, and nurture with clarity and care.
Sessions combine gentle movement, breath awareness, guided meditation, and reflective conversation to support nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and self belief. The practices are accessible and adaptable, meeting each mother where she is, without expectation or comparison. Mothers are invited to listen inwardly, restore energy, and strengthen their relationship with themselves.
YogBhava Māā is not about fixing or improving motherhood. It is about remembering personal worth, beyond social and cultural constructs, rebuilding confidence, and creating space for rest, honesty, and growth. Through consistent practice and supportive guidance, mothers are encouraged to arrive more fully in their lives with greater ease, resilience, and self trust.
