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We’re excited to announce and welcome our first YogaHive.ca Brand Ambassador, Judy Swens.

“The love of movement, as a figure skater, lead to the love of yoga. A need for more peace, through life challenges, lead to a deeper practice. The healing of yoga instils a burning desire to share yoga.”

Among many other things, Judy Swens is an accomplished yoga teacher based out of Vancouver and the beautiful Sunshine Coast.

Judy believes yoga allows you to live in the moment and let go, creating a free mind, body, and heart. Yoga is for everybody and all levels are welcome. Alignment is emphasized with creating an awareness of breath. Lila, or play is an essential ingredient to allow each person to shine brightly. Whether through a new pose, a sutra, poem, or a joke; Judy wishes that you leave the mat with a different perspective.

A life long student of yoga, Judy took her first 200 hour teacher training with Dan Clement (owner of Open Source Yoga). She further studied a Vinyasa intensive with Tina James (owner of Whistler Jivamukti) and mentored with Janet Corvino (manager of NeoWhistler, and owner of Soul City Yoga). Through attending Wanderlust Whistler, Judy is influenced by teachers Siva Rea, Giselle Mari, Seane Corn, and Rod Stryker.

Judy is a co-creator of Prakriti Yoga Retreat and the Sunshine Coast Yoga Festival. If you wish to practice with her at home, she is also part of theNamaste TV season 3 and 4 series.  As an ambassador for YogaHive.ca, Judy is involved with our spreading yoga and expanding our community and contributes guest blog posts.

For more from Judy, please visit:
judyswens.com 

We welcome Judy aboard with open arms, and are ecstatic to be working with her!

Good day, fellow yogis!

Wow! What an exciting ride it’s been for YogaHive so far! From our initial vision of a place to share our love for authenticity and movement to launching our online store this May! We are extremely grateful for our lovely little community that is growing every day, and we are proud to partner with our amazing vendors to offer some of the best yoga products for your practice and lifestyle. We take special pride in each of the brands we sell – all of our vendors are carefully selected because of what they stand for. All of them have a strong mission to accomplish – ethical business practices, mindful being.

We’re now reaching out to you, our community, because we want to spread our love for yoga across Canada and get more people involved with the practice than ever before! Bold, right!?

We know precisely what yoga offers to a human being’s spirit, and we feel infinitely grateful to be a part of this culture, and to be able to offer inspiration for you to keep moving. With that, we’re proud (and stoked!) to announce our new YogaHive Brand Ambassador Program as our way to accomplish those ambitious goals together.

At this time this program is open to yoga teachers, so if you teach yoga in regularly scheduled classes, we’d love to get to know you and partner with you to grow both your presence as a yoga teacher and the YogaHive brand’s mission of inspiring joyful, and purposeful movement.

(Not only we want to spread the love for yoga, but we also want to support YOU on your journey of becoming the best teacher you can be for your students. As part of this program, we will help you to get the word out about your teaching schedule, and we’ll help you with your personal marketing, spreading the word about your teachings. Yoga teachers make it look so easy – but we know that it’s not, and we know we will be speaking for many yoga students, saying how grateful we are for your dedication to the practice.)

If you’re not a yoga teacher (yet), but are active in the community and feel that our brand’s values resonate with yours, and you could be a storyteller for the YogaHive brand, we encourage you to get in touch — we’re seeking ambassadors of all kinds to help spread the message.

To help you get started, we’re offering all qualifying ambassadors regular promo codes for free apparel and accessories from YogaHive.ca, as well as features on our website and social media (and plenty of other opportunities to get involved in our community). In return we ask for your help in spreading the word about YogaHive.ca with your students and followers through social media and word of mouth. Check out the full details of our ambassador program and apply as soon as possible! We’ll be contacting our first group of ambassadors shortly to kick off the program.  

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Looking forward to hearing from you!

Keep moving. Be the movement. 

We all have seen them. And we all have an opinion about them… Yoga selfies… Yay or nay?

What do you think? Are yoga selfies inspiring or are they just another way to stroke someone’s ego?

I, personally, find them incredibly inspiring. To be completely honest, this is how I start my day.. On Instagram, checking out “yoga selfies.” Some of them are incredibly educational too. Getting some tips on alignment has never been easier.

As they say, every situation we are in – or every yoga selfie we see out there, for that matter 🙂 – is a little spiritual lesson for us. Noticing how we feel about them, can tell us a lot about our spiritual journey. If we feel like someone is just “showing off,” then it’s a good opportunity to ask ourselves – does this make me feel like they are showing off? Why do I feel this way.

The most amazing thing about yoga is that there’s no right or wrong. We are all on our own journey here. And if your journey includes yoga selfies, that’s awesome. Do share your selfies on our Facebook Page. Especially if you get any of our yoga gear – would love to pass the inspiration on. Namaste.

Keep moving. Be… {adventurous}