Active breathwork is a dynamic, intentional breathing practice that uses specific patterns of breath to activate the body, move stuck energy, and shift mental, emotional, or physical states. Unlike gentle breath awareness or meditation, active breathwork is energizing, expressive, and often transformative.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head.

Join Maria Hillier, Certified Yoga Therapist, for a therapeutic yoga series designed to support individuals living with chronic and persistent pain.

Grounded in modern pain science, this series focuses on developing practical tools for coping with and managing pain, increasing ease and confidence in movement, and cultivating a more compassionate relationship with your body.

Each session weaves together gentle, mindful movement, guided meditation and relaxation and intentional breathing practices. You’ll explore practical guidelines for moving safely with pain, while themes of self-kindness and empowerment are thoughtfully integrated throughout.

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What You’ll Learn

Modern Pain Science – Understanding chronic and persistent pain, and how the body, mind and nervous system respond to both stress and relaxation

Safety & Confidence in Movement – Practical guidelines to support steadiness and ease when moving with pain

Therapeutic Yoga Tools – Gentle techniques to calm the nervous system, ease tension and support mobility for day-to-day life

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What You’ll Receive

Weekly recorded video practices (10–15 minutes) and audio resources to support you at home

A small-group setting to foster connection as we move, breathe and learn together

At The Calm Place, our Sound Bath sessions offer a deeply restorative experience designed to support relaxation, emotional balance, and energetic harmony. Sound healing goes beyond instrument play, using intentional vibration and frequency to influence brainwave states, calm the nervous system, and encourage healing.

Each session is a meditative journey where you are gently “bathed” in sound. Crystal singing bowls, flute, chimes, and other sacred instruments create layered frequencies that help quiet the mind, release tension, and invite deep rest. As the body settles, sound can enhance mindfulness, emotional release, and connection to your inner self.

Whether you’re seeking stress relief, clarity, or a peaceful pause, this offering provides a weekly chance for your nervous system to slow down, release, receive, and rest.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head.

Mat Pilates is a low-impact class that focuses on core strength, stability, and mobility. Using just your body and the mat, you’ll move through intentional exercises that support better posture, balance, and overall mind-body awareness.

All levels welcome.

Allow yourself to be gently held in a deeply restorative space where Reiki and sound come together to bring balance, clarity, and calm. This guided meditation combines the subtle healing energy of Reiki with the immersive frequencies of crystal bowls, chimes, and other therapeutic instruments.

As you rest comfortably, Reiki is offered intuitively to the group, helping to support emotional, physical, and spiritual alignment. The soundscape carries you inward, inviting stillness, deep rest, and nervous system regulation.

No experience with Reiki or meditation necessary - just come as you are and let yourself receive.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head.

Join Maria Hillier, C-IAYT, for this therapeutic yoga series designed to support your nervous system, to restore inner calm and to help build resilience through kind and gentle practices. Grounded in a trauma-informed approach, each weekly session offers accessible therapeutic yoga tools and techniques that encourage compassion, self-awareness and nourishing movement and rest. Whether you are navigating stress, anxiety, burnout or simply seeking more steadiness in your life, this series offers a supportive space to slow down, breathe and reconnect. Through mindful movement, breathing practices and guided meditation/relaxation you’ll learn everyday tools to calm your body, quiet your mind and nurture your capacity to meet challenges with greater ease. This workshop is trauma-informed and accessible - no previous yoga experience is required and beginners are welcomed.

What You’ll Learn:

● Grounding the Body and Mind - Practices to cultivate presence and connection

● Breath as an Anchor - Exploring the breath as a tool for calm and peace

● The Power of Rest - Gentle, restorative practices that support slowing down and deep relaxation

● Nervous System Support and Regulation - Learn accessible techniques to soothe and regulate your nervous system

● Self-Compassion and Self-Kindness - Nurture a compassionate relationship with yourself

What You’ll Receive:

● Weekly educational resources on the topics covered

● Time for reflection, questions and integration

● A supportive small-group environment to foster connection while we learn, breathe and move together

● Access to prerecorded video and audio resources to support your practice at home

Price is $150+HST for all six sessions.

Purchases are non-refundable.

Kundalini Yoga, often called the yoga of awareness, is a holistic practice that blends movement, breathwork, meditation, and mantra to support both physical and energetic alignment. Through intentional, repetitive movements paired with conscious breathing, the practice helps cultivate awareness, vitality, and balance.

This class is intro-friendly and open to all levels, especially those who are curious about Kundalini Yoga or new to the practice. Each class features a different kriya—a structured sequence designed to support a specific area of the body, energy system, or inner focus. No two classes are exactly the same, offering a fresh and purposeful experience each time.

With an emphasis on synchronized breath and movement, Kundalini Yoga helps release stagnant energy, balance the chakras, and awaken a deeper sense of clarity and inner wisdom. Classes are thoughtfully guided, accessible, and empowering—meeting you exactly where you are while inviting greater connection within.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head.

Restorative Breathwork is a deeply nourishing practice designed to support the parasympathetic nervous system - the body’s natural rest-and-restore state. This class focuses on pranayama and gentle, accessible breathwork techniques that help calm the mind, reduce stress, and support nervous system regulation through conscious, intentional breathing.

Throughout the class, you’ll be guided through slow, rhythmic, and restorative breathing practices that encourage relaxation, emotional balance, and improved focus. The pace is unhurried and supportive, with space to listen inward and respond to what your body needs in each moment.

Each one-hour class concludes with a dedicated period of rest and integration. This may include a short yoga nidra, a sound bath, gentle movement, or another restorative practice designed to help the body and mind fully absorb the benefits of the breathwork. Restorative Breathwork will help regulate, soften, and restore.

This class is open to all levels and is especially supportive for those seeking stress relief, nervous system regulation, and deeper rest.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head. 

Nurtured Beginnings: A Prenatal Yoga and Birth Prep Series

This six-week series offers a supportive space to connect with other pregnant people while preparing your body, mind, and nervous system for birth and early parenthood.

Each class begins with a 20–30 minute educational conversation focused on a specific birth-related topic, followed by a 60-minute prenatal yoga practice. After class, you’re invited to stay for tea, ask questions, and share reflections in a relaxed, community-oriented setting.

The series is facilitated by Erica, a trained doula with experience supporting clients through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Her approach blends practical education, embodied awareness, and compassionate support.

This class is suitable for all bodies and all stages of pregnancy, including those with no prior yoga experience. The movement practice focuses on functional, pregnancy-safe strengthening of the core and pelvic floor to help reduce the risk of diastasis recti, bladder leaks, and prolapse. You’ll also learn how to safely modify other yoga classes or movement practices you may participate in outside this series.

Throughout the program, we’ll work with breath to regulate the nervous system and calm the mind, explore yoga postures that ease common pregnancy discomforts, and use meditation to support the emotional transition into parenthood. Each class concludes with a guided relaxation and visualization designed to reduce fear, build confidence, and deepen connection with your baby.

Weekly topics include:

• Week 1: Pelvic anatomy and baby positioning

• Week 2: The stages of labour

• Week 3: The fear–tension–pain cycle and pain relief options

• Week 4: Breathing techniques for labour

• Week 5: Labour and birth positions

• Week 6: Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) and planning for the postpartum period

$150+HST

Purchases are non-refundable

This class begins with a slow, mindful body stretch using gentle yoga postures to softly release tension in the muscles and joints. This portion of the class initiates slowing the mind, soothing the nervous system, and preparing your body to lie in stillness. Yoga Nidra will follow.

Yoga Nidra, often called “yogic sleep,” is a deeply restorative form of meditation that gently guides your brainwaves into a theta state—the place of healing, integration, and profound rest. You will be guided into a state of deep relaxation, allowing the body to restore and the mind to settle, leaving you feeling calm, rejuvenated, and renewed.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask, and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head.

Back to Body: Postnatal Yoga with Baby

Get to know your postpartum body and connect with your breath in a baby-friendly class with other new parents. Parents will move, breathe and practice self-care, while keeping your baby close. Taught by a doula and experienced mother of 3, this class will help you find some calm in the beautiful chaos of the fourth trimester and beyond.

This class is beginner friendly and variations will be given for all body types and fitness levels. We will focus on breathing and functional movement for the core and pelvic floor for those with diastasis recti, bladder leaks, prolapse, and other common postpartum issues - and we will prepare your body to safely return to other yoga classes and movement practices. The practice is designed for the birthing person’s postpartum body (6 weeks postpartum or in consultation with your care provider), but all parents are welcome and will benefit. All babies are welcome, but parents often find class is easier when they are pre-crawling.

Please bring a blanket or play mat for your baby to lie on during class, as well as any other baby items you may need (diaper bag, toys, nursing pillow, baby carrier, etc). You can feed, change, or attend to your baby during class as needed. Erica is also a postpartum doula and is happy to help. This class may not be the quietest, but it will definitely be the cutest!

$150+HST

Purchases are non-refundable

This group session is designed for current clients or those interested in who have experience with Spinal Energetics and are ready to explore the work in a shared space. Spinal Energetics is a body-led, nervous-system-focused modality that supports the release of stored tension, emotional patterns, and energetic holding through light touch, sound, breath, and awareness.

Each session begins with guided breathwork to help settle the nervous system and connect you into your body. The Spinal Energetics work then unfolds within the shared presence of the group, where co-regulation and being witnessed can support deeper softening and release. Group sessions are typically less hands-on and more spacious than individual sessions, allowing each person’s system to move, rest, or integrate in its own way, supported by the steady energy of the room.

We close with a meditation and sound bath, followed by time for community connection and integration. This is an invitation to explore Spinal Energetics not just as an individual practice, but as a shared experience - where healing, awareness, and regulation can unfold together.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head.

$55+HST

Purchases are non-refundable

Slow Flow and Yin combines mindful, gentle movement with calming stillness, starting with a muscle warming flow before finishing in longer-held deep connective tissue stretches. This class is designed for anyone seeking balance, relaxation and deep restoration. Beginners are welcome. Props will be used throughout the class to support your in the poses and shapes.

8-Week Kundalini Yoga Chakra Series

A journey of energy, awareness, and alignment

This 8-week Kundalini Yoga series is an invitation to explore the chakra system as a living energetic pathway - a way of moving prana, clearing stagnation, and recalibrating the relationship between body, mind, and consciousness.

Each week focuses on one chakra, with a final week devoted to integration and alignment. Classes include an overview of the chakra, a Kundalini Kriya to activate and circulate energy, and a closing meditation to support grounding and integration.

Rather than forcing or striving, this practice invites awareness, presence, and rhythm, allowing energy to organize and flow naturally. Each class meets you at a different point of contact — because the energy body is always changing, responding, and refining itself.

Classes weave together pranayama (Breathwork), mantra and sound, Mudra, rhythmic movement, stillness, and meditation- traditional components of Kundalini Yoga that support energetic flow and awareness.

This series is for those curious about Kundalini Yoga, returning to their practice, or seeking a deeper connection to their inner energy and awareness.

No prior Kundalini experience required.

Come as you are. Let the energy meet you there.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head.

$200+HST

Purchases are non-refundable.

Rest and Resilience: Therapeutic Yoga for Perimenopause and Menopause Support

With Maria Hillier, Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT)

Perimenopause and Menopause can bring unexpected changes to sleep, mood, energy and the way your body feels day to day. This 4-week therapeutic yoga series offers a calm, supportive space to slow down, rest deeply and reconnect with your body during this time of transition, offering gentle practices for sleep, stress, and balance.

Rest and Resilience is designed to support your nervous system and overall wellbeing through gentle movement, breathwork and restorative practices. Each class invites you to move at your own pace, listen to your body and build tools you can carry with you into daily life. No prior yoga experience is needed.

In this series, you will learn how to:

• Support better sleep and rest through calming breathwork and deep relaxation

• Reduce stress, anxiety, and overwhelm by gently regulating the nervous system

• Ease physical tension, joint stiffness and fatigue with slow, supported movement

• Navigate emotional changes with greater steadiness and self-compassion

What you will receive:

• Gentle, accessible practices including mindful movement, breathwork, restorative yoga and guided relaxation

• A calm, non-judgmental environment and a small group atmosphere

• Simple at-home practices to support sleep, stress relief and balance between classes

This series is ideal for those experiencing perimenopause and menopause who are seeking a softer, supportive approach to movement and wellbeing. All bodies and identities are welcome and care is offered in a respectful, inclusive space. This workshop is trauma-informed and accessible - no previous yoga experience is required and beginners are welcomed.

$120+HST

Purchases are non-refundable

Reiki Training Level 1: Shoden 

This initial level is for Reiki Training Level 1: Shoden . It is about connecting to your inner light, inner wisdom and inner knowing. It teaches us practices to cultivate self awareness. 

In this course you will learn/recieve:

• Komyo ReikiDo Manual

• The history of Reiki

• The Gokai - the foundational precepts of Reiki

• Gassho meditation

• 21-day daily self-healing practice

• 4 Reiju, blessings/attunements

You will be provided with the knowledge and skills to practice self-healing along with practical guidance on integrating these daily practices into your life. 

​​​It is suitable for anyone who is looking for tools to support your nervous system, energy healing, a pathway to spiritual expansion and clarity or to begin your own journey to becoming a Reiki practitioner (Level 2).

Komyo ReikiDo is a Japenese-style Reiki that is a keep-it-simple system. The practice motto is: Place your hands, Surrender and Smile. In Japanese "do" means 'a way or a path.'

Class Times:

Friday, 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Saturday 9:00am - 4:30pm

Students are required to bring their own meals and beverages

About Amy

Amy Rezek (she/her) is a Holistic Practitioner offering Meditation, Breathwork, Sound Baths, Kundalini Yoga, Reiki and Spinal Energetics. She is a certified Meditation Teacher (100, 200 and 300-hour), Kundalini Yoga Teacher (200 and 300-hour) and Reiki Master Teacher in the Usui and Komyo ReikiDo lineages, with additional training in Spinal Energetics (Level 1) and the AromaTouch Technique.

As a certified Naturotherapist (n.d.) Amy supports people in slowing down and reconnecting with their body and breath. Her work is grounded in meeting people where they are rather than trying to fix or push change. Amy creates spaces where you can arrive exactly as you are. The intention in her work is to help you build trust within yourself so you can move through life with a little more ease. 

This private Full Moon Circle on March 1 takes place in the days leading up to the Lunar Eclipse on March 3 – a time often associated with reflection and transition. The class offers space to slow down, reconnect with the body, and gently let go of what no longer feels supportive, while creating space for steadiness, clarity, and inner resourcefulness to emerge. 

Over 90 minutes, we’ll move through guided reflection, embodied awareness, subtle energy work, a gentle release ritual and creative integration, all in line with current themes and collective energy. Astrological insights quietly shape the flow of the evening, though no prior knowledge is needed. You’re welcome to arrive as you are and leave feeling more grounded, clear, and supported.

Therapeutic Yoga for Rest & Regulation

with Maria Hillier, Studio Manager & Yoga Therapist

You’re warmly invited to join us for a gentle therapeutic yoga class in our studio space. This offering is both an opportunity to experience the kind of work we’re cultivating here - and a dedicated time for you to slow down, settle, and receive.

This class is designed to complement the clinical care you already provide by offering a felt sense of how therapeutic yoga can support nervous system regulation, stress reduction, and deep rest. Through breathwork, mindful movement, guided meditation, and restorative yoga, we’ll explore simple, accessible practices in a trauma-aware and supportive environment.

No prior yoga experience is needed.

This experiential session offers a gentle guided relaxation journey combined with subtle energy work. It’s designed to help you feel grounded, supported, and refreshed, giving you a moment to reconnect with yourself.

Dress in layers and comfortable clothes you can move easily in. For added comfort, you may wish to bring a blanket, an eye mask and a small pillow or folded blanket for under your head.