Yoga with Chantalle

New Zoom Sessions of my Pre and Post Natal yoga classes begin the first week of March! Come join us for some sweet movement! I would love to see you! Stretch and strengthen your incredible body! Connect with other mamas! Pregnancy Yoga is Tuesday evenings at 5:30pm. Mama Baby yoga is Wednesday mornings at 11:15am. I know that this is a wild time, and sometimes a really hard time. I am hopeful that yoga will bring more brightness to your weeks. Please share with your friends! https://yogawithchantalle.com/pre-and-post-natal-2/

I think I’ll leave the snow blanket on the car a little longer. Happy snow day Guelph peeps. #snowday

Sending you all some extra love today, along with some extra fragrant blossoms. You are uniquely beautiful inside and out. You really are! I hope someday we can all know it. Like really deeper than our bones experience it. Cause from there we will surely act like it, and the world will be a kinder place. ... Let’s learn to completely love ourselves and from there let’s put our love into action. #love #valentines #bethechange

Sunny cold mornings are made even sweeter with distance chats with neighbours! I have known Susan for a long long time. She is a wonderful human. Chatting with her makes the morning even brighter. Connections can help us through ,am I right? @hug.glove #neighbours #neighbourhood #guelph #hugglove #love #connections #winter #canada #yogateacher #sunshine

Hahaha. How Midnight does my yoga class #yoga #yogateacher #zoom #catsofinstagram #catyoga

I drive over this river every time I take Ezra to or from school. I turn my head left and right as I cross to see the beauty on both sides. Most days I wish I could stop and watch the water, but I usually I think I’m too busy. Some days I wish to take a photo to share with you, or to print and put in the girls photo album as a reminder of the beauty in this town. Most days, however, I simply drive by. Just now though I pulled over and stood on the sidewalk in this cold cold ...morning watching the ducks and the geese and the river. The cars rushed by behind me. I thought about Mary Oliver and Hafez and poetry and English degrees. I love the way on a cold morning like today the frost clings to branches. I couldn’t quite capture that frosty branch feeling, but I enjoyed the view. I stood, my own breath billowing around me, watching the river flow. I hope that you too can pause today and stand in a place that often calls to you, but you usually feel too busy to linger. I hope you stop today, even briefly. #morning #cold #winterbeauty #river #guelph #yoga #yogateacher See more

Tête, épaules, genoux, orteils Come on now! Humour me and join in. I believe this could be an ingredient for joy. #morningyoga #joy #silly #movementismedicine #french #yogateacher #guelph #zoom

When your yoga student tells you that you look like a Scandinavian Troll with your @truedark glasses on you make a dance video! I mean when this happens to me Video is in my story cause I don’t know how to add music to my post . Happy Monday sweet folks. #trolls #scandanaviandesign #truedarkglasses #yogateacher

Shiny face and ready to begin. If you come to my yoga classes this is the wall that you don’t see while we are doing yoga. It’s the wall I see. I like it! I am super excited (and a wee bit nervous...yep I still get nervous after 25 years of teaching) about January’s Yoga Adventure. The yoga road trip begins now. #yoga #yogateacher #guelph #yogawveryday #newyear #yogajourney #dailypractice #gratitude #beginagain

There is still time to join my 31 Day January Yoga Journey. You have until December 31 to register! This month will help us build strength of character as well as strength in our physical bodies. This month will help us increase our flexibility and range of motion, but not just in our bodies; we will grow more flexible in our hearts and minds too. It is really amazing what a month of dedicated practice and commitment can do. ... This month is all about connection. We are going to carve this time out of our day to draw our attention inwards, to play and explore ourselves through movement. And we do this in community. Although we can’t gather in person to practice right now, we can gather over zoom. I am so excited for this time. I’m so excited to get up and see you in the mornings. And I’d love to have you join us. What might be holding you back? #yoga #yogaeveryday #dailypractice #guelph #yogateacher #monthlong #january #freshstart #2021 #yogawithchantalle

New yoga classes starting this week. Let’s take some deep breaths. Check out my website and my stories for details. I’d love to join you over the zoom ! #yoga #yogapractice #yogateacher #zoomyoga #exhale #guelph #supportsmallbusiness

Good Morning Gorgeous People! Who else wants to join us on a Monthlong Yoga Journey this January? I think THIS January is the perfect time to gather (albeit virtually) to connect with ourselves and each other through the practice of YOGA! It really is a fabulous way to help us at this time of year and at this wild Covid lockdown number two. 31 Days of Exploring!... Ask me more!!! www.yogawithchantalle.com

2020! Full of family . Happy New Year’s Eve Day Gorgeous People. May this year be full of gratitude and possibilities. May we learn how to work together as people. ... #topnine2020 #topnine #family #newyear #possibilities #gratitude

I have a few classes beginning this week! Want to join me over zoom? Prenatal on Tuesday evening at 5:30pm Mama Baby on Wednesday morning at 11:15am (but you can join with no babes if you like the time)... Thursday evening All Levels at 8pm I would love to move with you! Because motion is the lotion! Right? https://yogawithchantalle.com/winter-zoom-classes/

Happy New Year's Eve Day Sweet People May this year be full of delicious sun rises. May be experience the deep beauty that is us. Then may we move into the world from that place.

Join me for some yoga classes this January! I would love to see you over zoom! Or maybe even in a park for some snowsuit yoga! ;) Check out the link below to see all the fun things I am offering! And come move with me!

Yoga tonight on Winter Solstice before a lockdown. Looking into the light, while feeling all the feels. #yoga #guelph #yogateacher #solstice #wintersolstice #light #glorious

Happy chilly Monday beautiful people. How are you finding these dark chilly mornings? Do you enjoy waking in the dark? This week I’m teaching yoga daily at 6:15am, and I love seeing everyone’s sweet sleepy faces. I prefer to wake to sunshine, so smiling faces is the perfect antidote! If you find it hard to get up and moving in the morning (especially in December) it might not feel intuitive to join an early morning yoga class, but I would highly recommend you give an early class a try. You might surprise yourself and delight in morning connection! . Especially from the warmth of your own house! Never tried one of my classes before? Want to try a class on me? #yoga #morningyoga #guelph #yogateacher #light #december #chilly

Happy Winter Solstice sweet people. I for one am happier than usual for the upcoming gentle lengthening of the days. I am definitely looking forward to more light. Today I will light more candles and enjoy their warm glow and after I kicked some cats off my lap I will do some sun salutations Do you do any special to mark this day? #wintersolstice #light #yoga

I fell asleep this morning after my meditation, like deep asleep, so I figured I could use the cold to my advantage and help wake me up. Check out my facial expressions around putting my hands in the snow! It hurt a bit I’m not gonna lie. But I feel way more awake and joyful now. I highly recommend taking a break from your Instagram scroll and head outside for one snow salute. Even if you don’t like the snow. And even if there’s no snow by you. Do you like the snow? #yoga #snow #playful

Today we Celebrate Winter Solstice on McGee street. (I’ll celebrate tomorrow too ) It looks a lot like many people’s Christmas these days with tree and stockings and gifts under the tree. When the girls were little their dad and I chose to celebrate the light returning; it made the most sense to us. I managed, when they were little, to keep the present giving minimal. These days not so much. I just love getting them presents. Although I do try to be simple about it. I ...am excited to share some gifts with my family today. We have lit many candles to represent the light that is returning. To me the light is both external and internal. I will continue to fill myself with gratitude for the light in us all and attempt to cultivate the light in me as best as I can. I want more light so I can my light with you all. So I can show up in the world with more joy, more kindness, more love. Happy Solstice to you all. May you find light inside and out. #holiday #giving #solstice #family

Rainy. Forest. Joy. Thank you to EZra for joining me to feed a few chickadees in the rain. I was the only one who wanted in the portrait Happy day to you regardless of the weather. ... #joy #forestwalks

Midnight and I do a sun salutation as an invitation. An invitation for you to join us over zoom. The sun salutations, to me, are invitations to gratitude. And they are an opportunity to play. A moment to fold into myself, release some stiffness as well as time to cultivate my strength. I would love to share some movement with you.

Every Christmas I make my parents a calendar. They keep it on their fridge, so they get to enjoy it multiple times a day. And although this has been a year like none I’ve ever experienced, my calendar tradition endures. I will not unfortunately be seeing my parents this Christmas so I’m extra excited to send this off in the mail. Don’t worry my parents are not on social media, so I’m not ruining any surprises here! I have been get prints and calendars and magnets from @gue...lphfotosource for YEARS now. They are sweet. It’s not too late if you wanna make a calendar or book or mug for someone this year. Big Thursday love to you all. Tell me some of your favourite small businesses. Who have you been supporting for years? Or who is your new favourite? #guelph #localbusiness #smallbusiness #supportsmallbusiness #photography #photos #family See more

Folks!! This was going to be a post about how I’d like you to join my 31 Days of Yoga in January. But then I went to the bathroom and the sunlight was illuminating my sparkles. I have never dyed my hair. I’m not saying this is some kind of self congratulatory sort of way, it’s just that I’m kinda lazy when it comes to my hair. I get it cut once every couple of years. Can you see the crazy contrast between my ends and my beginnings? Yikes. I have lots of feelings about this... aging business. So many layered feelings. What a process to allow all those feelings without getting swallowed up, right? So here is a close up picture of my hair and face at 46. I’m still learning to love me. It is such a worthwhile practice. This is what yoga is to me. Yoga is learning to love. Or letting love arrive. Or making space for love. And so back to my original plan... want to get up with imperfect perfectly beautiful and messy me in the mornings and do some yoga in January? Movement is a wonderful way to keep loving ourselves. It doesn’t matter to me a hoot if you like dyed hair or if you go natural. I’d love to meet you as you are in your human journey and lead you through some playful movements. And with my silly jokes try and make you smile. Cause a smile a day... #yoga #yogapractice #selflove #gettingolder #yogateacher #yogaeveryday #greyhair #guelph #smallbusiness See more

Join me and my sometimes sleepy self in our imperfect spaces with our more than enough selves for some yoga thus January!!

Happy Day sweet people I hope you are all cozy. #snowday #saturday #cozy

Merry Christmas sweet people

That blue wall. The wonderful big map of Georgian Bay (Port Severn to Christian Island). The old wooden door. My yoga mat and I and my computer! This has been my yoga studio for the past ten months. It’s been amazing!! Even stuck like that against the wall (cause you know the room isn’t quite big enough!) What a trip! I have had so much fun playing with you. I have laughed so much. Seeing just your torsos or parts of your legs or not seeing you at all. That’s been weird. ...But its been oh so good. These Covid yoga classes have helped me increase my flexibility (inside and out), they have helped me stay strong (inside and out); and these classes have helped me stay connected. To you. I hope they have done so for you as well. Today was my last zoom yoga of 2020. And that feels big. 2020 was a year that many of us did new things out of necessity. I wanted to take this time to tell you that I am so glad that you have joined me virtually, this real perfectly imperfect woman, in my perfectly imperfect yoga space with my imperfectly perfect live yoga and recordings Thank you. Merci. Vous sommes scintillantes. You are sparkly. And I love you. I am taking a little time to rest up and chill with my family for the holidays. I will be back with list of Yoga in January. If you haven’t joined my zoom classes yet I think that 2021 would be a fantastic time to do it! Like lots if you want it. January 1st begins my monthlong adventure. I highly recommend you come explore. It is an incredible way to build capacity, to feel connected and alive. #yoga #zoom #yogateacher #onlineyogaclasses #imperfectlyperfect #celebration #2020 #covidyoga #holidays

Deep gratitude to @iamalexcuba for his amazing uplifting music. I had a migraine last night and today. I decided to dance with and through it (definitely Advil and coffee also helped me up on my feet ) Ivy went through my photos after school and found my dancing on my yoga mat videos. OH MY GOD!!I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants. She thought this clip was the funniest (ie most awkward !!!) So here we are, hours later, after googling and tinkering I’ve found a way to s...hare my mom dance and Alex Cuba’s awesome song. I need you to know that I felt awesome while dancing today. I felt so alive! And this is what I hope I bring to yoga because if you sing with happiness, life is so much better . If we move together with joy life IS better. You don’t need to be a fancy dancer or be flexible to enjoy the music or the flow. You just need to be you. That is perfect. You! So come play yoga with me sometime soon! #yoga #dancing #movement #yogateacher #alexcuba #joy #happiness #alegría See more

I 100% think you should join me . He’s my cute and awkward plug.

Hand painted yoga gift certificates now available. #yoga #gift #giftideas #holidayseason #smallbusiness #motivation #movement #yogateacher

Tamsen Taylor is an incredible woman. She loves connecting moms and sharing resources! Here is a podcast she did with me about being a mama, living in Guelph, teaching yoga and why movement is so important! Have a listen! Thank you Tamsen!

The part of me moving the most seems to be my mouth Am I right? This was my early morning yoga class today! So much fun Next week will be my last online yoga classes of 2020. Woah! 2020 has been full of unusual things. Zoom yoga has been a surprising delight. Would you like you like come try out a class? Send me a message! If you have never tried my class I’d love to gift you one next week. #yoga #morning #morningmotivation #morningyoga #yogateacher #zoom #zoomyoga #movement #joy #mettameditation #timelapse #smallbusiness