Parent + Baby Yoga with Deanna Oliphant

Gently restore strength and balance and reconnect with your body while bonding with your baby. This class focuses on rebuilding core stability, supporting the skeletal structure and realigning the body after birth. Through mindful movement we help tone pelvic floor muscles, improve circulation, and support postpartum recovery.

 Using props, we create a nurturing space for both you and your baby. Regular practice can enhance continence, regulate menstruation, and promote overall well-being—while also reducing stress, anxiety, and fatigue. Open to all postpartum parents, with or without baby in tow.

 *Postnatal: Join once your healthcare provider approves regular activities. Dads are welcome! Open to babies 6 weeks and over and not yet crawling.

Prenatal Yoga with Deanna Oliphant

During pregnancy, movement is essential for both physical and mental well-being. Experience a safe and supportive practice to keep your body and mind at ease. Each movement is carefully guided to nurture resilience and balance, helping you connect with your body and baby throughout pregnancy.

This class focuses on strengthening the uterus, improving circulation, and supporting mobility to help prepare for a smoother labor and delivery. As your body undergoes major transformations, you may experience back pain, indigestion, water retention, constipation, fatigue, dizziness, and other discomforts. Thoughtfully designed sequences and the support of props help alleviate these challenges and promote relaxation.

Get to Know Your Hips + Lower Back with Inga Norkute

Learn how to open tight hips, release lower back tension and understand the connection between the feet, the hips and the lower back. Awaken forgotten areas. Begin by softening and aligning the body, followed by mobilizing and stabilizing the hips and lower back. Open to students of all levels with modifications given for everyone.
 
Saturday, March 22
2-4pm Calgary Time
In-Person + Live Online with a Recording
$40+gst 
CIYogi Autopay Members and 12 Month Members receive 25% off and 3 weeks access to the recordings.

Yoga Travel Workshop: A Members’ Only Workshop with Inga Norkute

Whether you're a road warrior, a weekend adventurer or embarking on a long-haul trip, explore sequences for jet lag, small spaces, rest stops and more, that you can easily incorporate into your travel days and at your destination.

You’ll receive sequences tailored to combat the physical strains of travel, such as stiffness, fatigue and poor posture. You'll learn practical advice on finding time for practice and creatively use built-in props wherever you are.

Saturday, March 29
2-4pm Calgary Time
In-Person + Live Online with a Recording
*Complimentary for CIYogi Members and Y60 Members

Silver Yoga with Shelly Smith

Age gracefully! Learn how accessible yoga practice can support a healthy body and mind as we age, boosting overall vitality, strength, mobility, and balance. Build emotional and cognitive well-being. Promote healthy joints and a healthy immune system, reduce inflammation and improve your respiratory system and circulation.

Tuesdays | 1-2:15pm
Begins April 1

Open Practice (Self-Led)

Go further with a self-led practice, in community. You will have full access to yoga wall ropes and all other props. A CIY teacher will be present.

Fridays | 1:30-3:30pm
Begins April 4

Yoga for Healthy Aging with Shelly Smith

For mature, active adults who want to work on foundation and alignment for balance, flexibility and strength. Build stamina and support your joints through slow movement. An energizing practice to help you age gracefully and deal with common health issues and stress. Open to all levels.

Fridays | Noon-1:15pm
Begins April 4

Level 1 with Jody Crowther

Foundational practice for beginners and for those who would like to work on the basics in an approachable, accessible way.

Sundays | 11:45am-1pm
Begins April 6

Peer Teaching + Assessment Style Practice Days with Sharoni Fixler

These sessions are for apprentices and teachers going for their next level of certification to practice assessment-style teaching and do assessment-style practices. CIYogi and Y60 Members are welcome to join and participate in the practices and be a volunteer student for the teaching component.

Sundays | 1:30-3:30pm Calgary Time | In Person + Live Online
March 16, 23
April 13, 20

Professional Development Days with Sharoni Fixler

PD Days are an opportunity for teachers, apprentices, students and the wider Iyengar yoga community to come together in learning to explore practice, poses, skills and strategies. Free for all IY Community.

Sunday, April 6 | Sequences Towards Challenging Asanas
Sunday, May 18 | Pranayama

1:30-3:30pm Calgary Time
In Person + Live Online

Practice Weekend with Ty Chandler + Sharoni Fixler

Experience the Transformation🦋

• Restorative practice on Friday evening: Counter stress and increase calm by focusing on ease and relaxation.

• Rejuvenating morning openings: Rhythmic sequences that systematically and progressively unlock the joints, create traction and remove strain and stiffness. 

• Immersive Pranayama: Techniques designed to gain awareness of the respiratory process while recognizing the connection between the breath, the mind and the emotions.

• Energizing afternoon practice: A traditional asana class that bridges and develops upon the morning’s work and includes backbends and sustained inversions. 
  
  Friday, May 9 - Sunday, May 11
  In-Person + Live Online with a Recording
  $225+gst 
  CIYogi Autopay Members and 12 Month Members receive 25% off and 3 weeks access to the recordings.

Teachers + Apprentices Day with Ty + Sharoni

Join Ty Chandler and Sharoni Fixler for a day of practice and learning focused on practice and teaching skills for those preparing for assessments and/or for professional development. Together we will access strategies, address questions and offer support and feedback.

Monday, May 12
In-Person + Live Online with a Recording for those attending.
$120+gst 

Dr. Hermann Traitteur | May 2025

Details coming soon.

West Coast Retreat Intensives with Ty Chandler + Sharoni Fixler

Unplug from the Hustle on Vancouver’s West Coast in Beautiful Sooke.

Sustained practice, sequenced to progressively open the body through concentrated effort and awareness.

Morning openings move the practitioner towards deep relaxation through postures that open the body, followed by pranayama, giving awareness to the respiratory process while recognizing the connection between the breath, the mind and the emotions. Traditional asana are progressively introduced in the afternoon for energizing the body and mind.

Week 1: Restoration, Recuperation & Foundations
Monday, June 30 - Saturday, July 5

Week 2: Level 2-3-4 Practice Intensive
Monday, July 7 - Saturday, July 12

Jawahar Bangera | Live in Calgary this Summer

July 18-20 | Weekend Workshop
July 21-22 | Teacher Training
In Person + Live Online with Recordings

Ambassador of Iyengar yoga, world-renowned senior teacher and close disciple of BKS Iyengar, Jawahar Bangera returns to Calgary this summer.

A rare opportunity to study with an expert teacher who has masterful insights into practice techniques and its principles. Jawahar will explore how the practice touches the various layers of a human being from the physical to the spiritual realms. His teaching embodies spirit, kindness and humour.

Jawahar has been a student of Iyengar yoga since 1969 and accompanied B.K.S. Iyengar on many of his workshops around the world. He travels the world teaching and is a trustee of the Light On Yoga Research Trust that runs two centres for in-person sessions and one online.

A Late Harvest Getaway in Puerto Vallarta

Bring your other, bring your pals, bring your book. We’ll take care of the rest (+relaxation).

8 days, 7 nights in the vibrant heart of Puerto Vallarta with easy mornings, nourishing lunch and afternoons / evenings at your leisure.

Saturday, November 8 - Saturday, November 15