Tricia Miller will be teaching a Beginners class Wednesdays starting April 2nd, 5:30 pm -7:00 pm. 

Tricia Miller's Bio and Contact Info 

FREE YOGA COMMUNITY CLASS

Saturday, March 8

11:15 am - 12.45 pm 

Colleen in Upavistha Konasana

Colleen has been practicing yoga at the Kelowna Yoga House for 9 years. She started yoga because she was tired of blowing her back out in curling and having to visit Chiropractors or Physiotherapists for repair. After her first yoga class she thought, "I love this and I'm going to keep doing this forever".  

The health benefits of yoga for Colleen include reducing high blood pressure, keeping her agile and increasing length in the spine despite advanced osteoarthritis in her back and hands. One of Colleen's favourite poses is Supta Virasana as in this restorative pose she learned to breathe into any pain until it relaxed. Yoga taught her to accept that pain is a part of her life and to listen to her body for what kind of a practice to do that day.

For the past two years, she has been taking two classes per week at Kelowna Yoga House and maintaining two home practices per week, including Sirsasana (Headstand) in the chairs. She and her Cardiologist agree that the high blood pressure yoga practices she does are very helpful for her heart.
Colleen happily reports that for the past six months she has increased her home practice to a 40 to 50 minute practice every day 'after four sips of coffee'. She likes doing her home practice first thing in the morning to get her joints moving. For those wanting to start a home practice Colleen says, "Just do it. It's addictive and so beneficial". Yoga is a natural complement to Colleen's balanced lifestyle of snowshoeing with her husband Arnie, walks on the beach in Kelowna and Maui, table games, knitting and healthy cooking.

Colleen's blue eyes sparkle as she tells about the doctor at the Pain Clinic she attends for arthritis. He called her a "very deceptive lady" since after reading her file and watching her back on ultrasound he expected her to enter the clinic all hunched over. Instead he exclaimed, "You must do yoga. There is no way you should have this flexibility in your back. Keep doing it always". And Colleen hopes to do that.