Upcoming Events

** WAITLIST ONLY ** Online access available
Sunday, July 26th 3:00-5:00pm
Somatics & Yin by Donation (with Nadia Boucher, CHSE, E-CYT)

Your two hours with Nadia and the community will focus on tending to our precious nervous system, unwinding held tension from the body, mind, and heart, and cultivating a deeper sense of ease, resilience, and connection. This practice is an invitation to meet yourself with curiosity and compassion, while awakening to the beauty of being fully present in your own lived experience. By Donation $20 or Pay what you can. Spaces are limited. ** You can sign up for the online version and get the recording!

Events

Events

Monthly Kirtan (by donation) – Saturday, April 4th

Saturday, April 4th at 4pm-5:45pm – By Donation. Join us each month for Kirtan together! No experience or instruments are needed. Our Kirtan is chanting mantras with music in a call and response style – It’s uplifting, joyful, meditative, and grounding. Bring your open heart and join in the community!

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2026 India Intensive Yoga Retreat Experience

Is a trip to India on your bucket list? Consider Planning for An Intensive Yoga Retreat Experience next October (2026) with your Host Deborah Carruthers Deborah Carruthers of Vancouver Island Yoga School is offering another fabulous retreat in Kerala, India. This will be the last retreat Deb will be leading

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Yin & Sound with Shelby

Saturday, November 29th 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Ground in Stillness, Soften into Sound. This session is designed to calm the nervous system, quiet the mind, and create space for deep rest and inner connection.All levels welcome. Come to slow down and tune in.

Investment: $20 Drop-in or use your pass

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Sun Salutation - VI Yoga School
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New Year Yoga Starter Series

Yoga Starter Series

New to yoga or ready to revisit the basics? Join us for three engaging sessions designed to help you move with confidence, connect with your breath, and discover the joy of yoga.

3 Consecutive Saturdays Dec 6, 13 & 20th | Noon – 1:15 PM

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Intro to Ashtanga Series – Starts April 3rd

This series will give you the foundations of sun salutations and standing postures in classical yoga. You will learn proper technique and build a solid working knowledge of Ashtanga Yoga. Sachiko makes it fun and accessible for everyone.

Sign up for 8 sessions starting April 3rd on Wednesdays and Fridays @ 6:45 am – 7:45 am from April 3rd-26th.

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March 30th: Cultivating Self-Compassion Series

a 4-week series with Shweta Pal, BSc. MA, RCC, and Deborah Carruthers BA, BSW, MA, RCC. Each week provides tangible guidance and embodied exercises to navigate and understand ways to cultivate self-compassion. Suitable for all levels with sliding scale pricing.

Saturdays, starting March 30th, 12:30-3 pm at VI Yoga School – Sign Up Online

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Mindfulness Meditation - A Method to Relieve Anxiety and Depression
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March 23: Heart-Centered Yoga and Sound Bath

By Donation. (Proceeds donated to the Duncan Food Bank) 1:00pm – 3:30pm Offered by VI Yoga’s latest YTT grads.

Blending meditation, yang and yin movement, and settling into a sound bath. A rich and heart-centered practice. Leave feeling refreshed and renewed. Sign up online.

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Teacher Training - VI Yoga School
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Intro to Ashtanga Series with Sachiko

Oct 14, 28, Nov 11, 18th, 2-4pm Learn the foundations of the Ashtanga yoga practice in this 4 week series.  Explore the history and tradition of Ashtanga yoga with focus on tristana (breath, dristi, bandhas) and asanas. You will learn how to build a practice to do on your own that will benefit your physical and emotional well being. This

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Align For Life An 11-Week Journey into Hellerwork Structural Integration

Get ready to experience a deep journey into your own body, mind and spirit. Explore and learn about your fascia and how your body as a tensegrity structure creates your unique structural and functional patterns. You will also learn why your posture, habits and patterns directly influence your emotions and your mental state. We will look deeply into the principles

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Teaching Pathway: 100hr training starts in June 2023

Our Last Module runs June 30-July 2nd, Join us for this unique workshop opportunity!  My deepest gratitude to my co-facilitators Steph and Judy for their rich collaboration and teachings about the intelligence of the body as a doorway to a liberated life! Each of us brings many years of study in our particular practice- Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga, Yin, and Hatha

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Toe Grip - VI Yoga School
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Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Weekend Workshop Series

Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Weekend Workshop Series: Going Deeper…   A Spring series course for consistent, experienced practitioners wishing to strengthen their relationship to posture, meditation and breath work. Students will deepen their practice (Sadhana) for their own sakes and benefit. …development on the spiritual path of Yoga requires patience, humility and a desire to learn. It also requires a willingness to

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