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Vessel of Light
 
Embodying the Grail  
Spring to Summer Yoga Series

March 21 – June 20, 2026

Saturdays: 8–9:15 AM PST - 75min

&

Wednesdays: 7–7:45 AM PST- 45min

Live online Flexible Attendance:

You are welcome to attend live classes as your schedule allows. All sessions are recorded and available for you to practice at your convenience. 

Sliding-Scale Tuition

Complete Series - 24 classes (no class April 8) -
$108 CAD — Supported rate (for those who would benefit from financial consideration)
$180 CAD — Standard rate (for those able to pay in full & help sustain the offering for the wider community)
Drop-In - 
$8 per class


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“Spiritual life is the bouquet, the perfume, the flowering and fulfillment of a human life, not a supernatural virtue imposed upon it... Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person...The question is an expression, not of the rules of the society, but of compassion, the natural opening of the human heart to another human being. That's the Grail.”

 ~ Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth ~

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This series approaches yoga as a living myth carried in the body. The Grail is understood not as something to be attained, but as the awakened heart—the quiet vessel within that learns to receive, to perceive, and to hold experience with compassion. Through movement, breath, and contemplative stillness, we cultivate a grounded presence that allows insight to arise naturally, like water gathering in a well or light returning to the landscape after winter.

 

Drawing on symbolic traditions where the cup, the garden, and the hidden spring all point to the same mystery, these practices invite a return to immediacy: the intelligence of the body, the language of image and gesture, the subtle dialogue between conscious awareness and the deeper strata of the psyche. The work is gentle but exacting, the storytelling brings wonder and the wealth of the imagination into refinement.

 

Seasonally, we follow the arc from seed to flowering. Spring becomes a time of preparation and listening; late spring steadies and strengthens; early summer opens into clarity and quiet radiance. The atmosphere is reflective, imaginal, and grounded—honoring the ancient intuition that what we seek is already present, waiting to be recognized, as fragrance waits inside the rose.

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