Yoga at Maki Park

Winter 2026 YOGA with Joan Smith

When:

Mondays: 9:30am – 10:30am, January 12 – March 30
Wednesdays: 11:30am – 12:30pm, January 14 – April 1

Cost: $125 for each 12 week session (includes a $5 community activity fee). $15 per class as a drop-in, space permitting.

Registration: For more information or to register please contact Joan Smith by email at smithjc@sympatico.ca. Payment via e-transfer is appreciated. Cheques or cash are also accepted.

Where: Maki House,19 Leeming Drive in Crystal Beach/Lakeview Park.

Class Style:

A gently paced hatha flow practice that focuses on breathing, postures and movement. Students will be led through a series of standing, seated and lying down poses that are designed to promote body awareness, and build stability, flexibility and strength. All levels are welcome. Please bring your own yoga mat.

Instructor:

Joan Smith holds a 200-hour hatha yoga teacher training certificate and has been practicing yoga since 2007. Joan understands that her role is to create a physically, emotionally and spiritually welcoming environment, supporting and guiding each student’s journey through their practice, allowing them to explore their place within each pose.

Limited Availability – Reserve your spot!

Winter Solstice Yin and Yoga Nidra Session

The Winter Solstice is a mystical time that marks the year’s shortest day and longest night. It is a potent portal for transformation, release and renewal. The shifting of the seasons offers the perfect opportunity to immerse yourself in a deeply nourishing experience designed to rejuvenate your body, mind and spirit.

Yoga Nidra means “yogic sleep,” it is a deep meditative state where the body sleeps and restores, but the mind is still conscious. It’s one of the most powerful tools for nervous system healing, stress relief, and emotional integration.

During the session, we will focus on surrendering and slowing down into the present moment. We start with a series of restorative yin postures featuring long holds that will nourish and support the body, followed by a guided yoga nidra deep sleep meditation where the body sleeps and restores, but the mind is still conscious.

In the busyness of life, rest is often the first thing we sacrifice—and yet, it’s the very foundation of our healing. The combined practices of yin yoga and yoga nidra are scientifically proven to reduce stress and anxiety, relieve muscle tension, calm the mind and body and improve sleep. It is the ultimate self-care practice to rebalance and soothe your energy, moving into the holiday season.

A 60-minute session of Yoga Nidra can be as restorative as 4 hours of sleep. It’s real-life magic.

No prior experience in yoga or meditation required.

Date: Sunday, December 21, 2025

Time: 2pm-4pm

Location: Maki House Community Centre, 19 Leeming Drive

Investment: $30:00, payable by e-transfer

Registration: Please email mccormick.tamara@gmail.com to register

*pre-registration required. This session is non-refundable, no exceptions. If you are unable to attend due to unforeseen circumstances, you can either transfer your booking to someone else to attend in your place, or your reservation will be lost.

Winter Yoga Series Giveaway!

Register for the Yin Yoga Series or the Winter Wellness Wednesdays Series before December 21st for your chance to join the 12-week series for FREE!

Sign up now and step into the new year with mindfulness and intention.

Winter Yin Yoga Series

Yin is a passive style of yoga practice that is quiet, meditative, and slow with extra long holds of restorative postures to stimulate deep muscle release and improve your body’s flexibility and lengthening the deep connective tissue – bone, tendons and ligaments while tapping into your inner strength with calmness and ease in body and mind. While this practice is not the most physically demanding, its challenge lies in the mental endurance to hold passive stretches for 3-5 minutes.

The Yin practice helps restore balance to our body and mind from our more ‘yang’ lifestyles. This series will be about embracing the opportunity to turn inwards and bring your attention to your breath, allowing you to enjoy moments of calm and tranquility. It’s a deeply introspective experience.

This practice is accessible to all bodies and all levels, from those seeking ease and mobility due to tightness or chronic pain, as well as yogis looking to improve mobility and provide a compliment to all sports and active styles of yoga practice. Come relax and experience the value of building strength in a slow and nourishing way.

Winter is the perfect time to get cozy and practice Yin yoga.

When: Sunday Afternoons, January 4^th – March 29^th from 2:00pm-3:30pm

***No Class on January 25^th, due to the CBLCA Winter Carnival)

Where: Maki House Community Centre, 19 Leeming Drive

Investment: $245.00, payable by e-transfer ($20.00 per 90-min class + $5 paid to CBLCA)

Registration: email mccormick.tamara@gmail.com

*pre-registration required. This series is non-refundable, however, if you need to miss a week or two, you will be able to gift your spot to a friend.

Winter Wellness Wednesdays – Slow Flow and Yin Yoga Series

At this time of year, in the darker, quieter, colder winter months, we seek warmth, nourishment and rejuvenation. Yoga can offer all this!

This series combines the fluid practice of flow with the stillness of YIN. Spend the first half of the class relaxing through a slow-paced feel-good practice of gentle movements designed to relieve stress and tension in an easeful way, followed by a restorative quiet, meditative, slow practice with extra-long holds of stretches to stimulate deep muscle release and improve your body’s flexibility while tapping into your inner strength with calmness and ease in body and mind.

Every class in this serene series will be a little different, allowing you to let go of your daily stresses and chaos, zeroing in on your inner peace, health, and well-being with breathwork and powerful guided relaxation and meditations.

This all-levels class is excellent for those who prefer to explore both the dynamic and warmth strength building active yoga practice you love with the restorative longer held sketch-based yin sequences you crave.

When: Wednesday Evenings, January 7th – March 25th from 7:30pm-9:00pm

Where: Maki House Community Centre, 19 Leeming Drive

Investment: $245.00, payable by e-transfer ($20.00 per 90-min class + $5 paid to CBLCA)

Registration: mccormick.tamara@gmail.com

*pre-registration required. This series is non-refundable, however, if you need to miss a week or two, you will be able to gift your spot to a friend.

****New Class*****

Monday night Hatha Yoga 1hr 6-7pm Jan 12 – April 30 12 Weeks

Each class has breathing exercises for the mind and nervous system, warm ups and postures to make the body strongand limber and remove stress, and a deep guided relaxation to energize you for your week.

Beginners are welcome. Classes are all levels with options for different abilities. Join in and take a step towards ahealthier body and mind.

Fall session:

Cost: 203.40 plus $5 Maki room fee ($15/class plus HST, receipts available) = 208.40Drop in $20

Bring a mat, and a block or cushion if you need one to sit on.

If you have any questions you can reach Mike:

613-315-9642

michaelhutkins@gmail.com

Michael is a yoga teacher and yoga therapist, who has been sharing yoga for over 20 years.

michaelhutkinsyoga.com

Please RSVP your intention to attend

Monday night Hatha Yoga – 90 minutes 7:30-9pm

Jan 12 – April 30 12 Weeks -12 weeks of health!

Classes are all levels with options for different abilities. Join in and take a step towards a healthier body and mind.