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Mission
At Westcoast Duck Yoga, our mission is to make yoga a welcoming, healing, and accessible practice for every body — regardless of age, ability, or income. As a social enterprise rooted in compassion and community, we offer gentle yoga and yoga therapy that honours the lived experiences of our clients. Through trauma-informed instruction, donation-based pricing, and partnerships with local wellness and end-of-life care networks, we create safe spaces where individuals can reconnect with themselves, each other, and the natural rhythms of life.
Westcoast Duck Yoga would like to acknowledge that it is located on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Tsartlip First Nation. As a white settler, I recognize the privilege bestowed upon me and that I have the responsibility and power to create culturally safe and appropriate environments of practice.
Thank you so much for your support and dedication in my yoga sessions. It is easy to be grateful when there are wonderful people like you in the world.
August 2025. DM
LATEST POSTS
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Creating space for Grief. One page at a time.
A few weeks ago, I helped co-facilitate an Art Journal for Grief workshop with Denise Goudy from Diva Designs –an amazing local artist. What resonated the most for me though, wasn’t something that was said. It was the quiet. Not an uncomfortable silence, but the kind that settles into a room when people feel safe…
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Finding our way back to our feet
There’s a quiet part of the body we don’t often greet. Our feet—tucked into shoes, carrying us faithfully, rarely invited into the conversation—until something aches, tightens, or asks for attention. Lately, I’ve been inviting mine back. I was wearing my toe separators the other day (yes, they feel a little strange at times) and had…
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How to be mindful in Mountain pose on the mountain
I was making my way up Mt. Work this morning –feeling the shoulder season. Winter is still in the air but you can feel spring is just itching to be fully present. You know, cool mornings but afternoon brightness. Standing on the mountain today, I felt the shift. Not quite winter’s stillness and not quite…
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February & the Heart (Chakra)
February often gets a bad rap. It sits between the promise of the new year and the visible signs of spring, My morning walks take in the luminous moss, the rhythmic rain this week and little white buds of hope as the snow drops peak out of the soil. This is the heart chakra season–Anahata–and…
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The quiet between: Where winter solstice, New Year and yoga meet. A yoga practice to start 2026.
There is a subtle moment each winter that often goes unnoticed. It lives somewhere between the longest night and the turning of the calendar. December 21 and January 1st with perhaps a Christmas celebration in the midst. The Winter Solstice has passed, the New Year has not fully found its feet yet, and everything feels…
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Finding mindfulness in the holidays-2 techniques to keep you present
It’s beginning to look a lot like ….already! During the holiday season when things can feel loud, busy, and all over the place, the practice of mindfulness becomes a gentle anchor. What is Mindfulness — and why it matters Mindfulness is simply this: tuning in to the present moment — our body, our breath, our thoughts and…