OUR VISION

Fresh Yoga Studio aspires to teach the traditional teachings of yoga as they apply to modern day life. Ancient yoga was designed as a Science to heal the body and a Psychology to heal the mind. The yoga poses all correspond to detoxifying and strengthening specific internal organs while simultaneously strengthening the heart and lungs, stimulating the endocrine glands, and strengthening muscle and bone. When practiced regularly and with awareness the practice of yoga is miraculous in its curative powers.

Further, yoga is meant to calm the mind and to bring about inner peace. Through using meditation, yoga breathing techniques, combined with the yoga poses, the nervous system is balanced and the mind becomes clear and relaxed. You will experience a peace unlike anything you have experienced before. In these stressful times, it is wise to integrate these powerful healing techniques into our lives.

Come and experience the wonders of yoga in our safe and welcoming space.

OUR CLASSES

Our classes are a combination of vinyasa flow style yoga and Iyengar style. Our focus is on physical well being and creating an experience of peace and calm for our students.  Our class size is small so that each student gets individual attention and can work at their own pace.  

We offer a variety of class levels that focus on the concerns of many of our medical patients and every day people. Please speak to one of our yoga instructors to find class level that is right for you. If you are new to yoga, we suggest taking our Yoga Basics class. Click here for more information.

Our classes are small to provide an optimal learning environment.

OUR DIRECTOR

Sarah Shapiro-Barnard, LCSW, is a yoga teacher, popular workshop leader and an author. She is a teacher of perennial philosophy: connecting the river of Truth that flows beneath all spiritual paths. Her book "Divine Intervention: Spiritual Teachings for the New Millennium" published in 2001, connects modern psychology and metaphysical principles. She is the creator of the Chakra Healing Audio Series and the director of Fresh Yoga Studio, Ontario, and Canada. Her publications are all available on Amazon.com.

Sarah’s teaching style integrates Astanga yoga flow and Iyengar yoga precision. Her classes are also a forum for learning the practical applications of yoga philosophy and modern psychology in daily life. Sarah hopes to inspire her students to live with more inner peace and joy.

Sarah received her yoga teachers training at the Integral Yoga Institute, New York, in 1993. In 2000, she completed an Astanga yoga teacher training program with master teacher Beryl Birch Bender. Sarah is a devoted yogi and she has studied yoga for over 20 years with master teachers such as: Patabi Jois, Dharma Mittra, David Life, Sharon Gannon, Cyndi Lee and Rodney Yee.

Sarah's professional training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy includes a 2 year Masters Program,  MSW,  2 years of clinical Post Graduate Training and the Fifth Avenue Center for Counselling and Psychotherapy, NY,  and 6 years of weekly clinical supervision for her private practice.  Sarah specializes in psycho-somatic release work and Jungian archetypal psychology.  She also studied with renowned healer,  Julie Winter,  to integrate her skills as a medical intuitive.  

Sarah's Publications

To order Sarah's book or CD please click on the links below:

Divine Intervention: Spiritual Teachings for the New Millennium

 

 

Listen to a clip from Sarah Shapiro's
Chakra Healing CD