We just had the pleasure of reading two fantastic books during the spring book club and we are eagerly looking forward to the summer reading list.
We have counted the votes and the spring selections have been chosen. We are excited to announce the spring selections for the upcoming CSY Book Club!
The votes were counted and the books and charity (The Covenant House Toronto) were chosen. We read and then we gathered. I was very excited to meet for the first time with the new group that was emerging at Creating Space Yoga studio.
The winter book club gathering was a success and we look forward to moving into the spring with an evolving group and another list of books from which to choose.
We were excited to put together a book list, choose charities to match each book selection and then to finally present the idea of a new CSY Book Club to our studio community.
For Oakville’s Robyn Bowman, owner of the Creating Space Yoga Studio, the holidays are about helping others.
“I know the holidays are approaching when my inner elf kicks in and I start preparing for the annual Holiday Pyjama Drive for the Halton Children’s Aid Foundation,” she noted.
Every Spring the CSY Community pulls together and enjoys a book donation/exchange for a couple of weeks at the studio. All of the used books collected are donated to the Oakville Literacy Council for their annual Used Book sale. Each year we are overwhelmed with donations and the enthusiasm for books in our yoga community. Obviously, there are a lot of keen readers among our yoga students!
A strong focus at Creating Space Yoga Studio is the encouragement of community and "doing our part and giving back". Although our students do come to CSY to practice their yoga and to discover new things about their own body and self; another consistent theme in the intentions of our practices also rests in the desire to reach out into our community to connect and help in small and big ways.
As we move through the years and the holidays approach, we usually gravitate towards long-lasting traditions and try to hold on to the same yearly events and gatherings. But as we all know, things always change and never stay the same. There is both sadness and freedom in this truth. The shapes of our families change. Kids grow up, people move away or we lose someone that we love. It is hard to envision replicating the same loved traditions with the changing shapes around us.
It's that time of year again when we hunt for cozy pyjamas to give to the children in the care of the Children's Aid Foundation of Halton. This will be our third year of organizing and developing our Holiday Pajama Drive.
Our studio is making headlines in the local Oakville Beaver Newspaper. Word is spreading about how the Creating Space Yoga Community cares!
This was a week where we celebrated the heart by collecting donations for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (thank you to everyone who donated!!!) and voiced why we LOVE yoga. The results filled the wall of our studio and allowed us to look into the many, many reasons why we practice yoga. The words were inspiring, funny, and comforting. Have a look.