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Classes
So where & what do I teach?
See below for my current classes & some descriptions to help find the right class for you.
I am now teaching to Cochrane (where I now live). So see below to see what new classes I have running.
All the classes below, are in Calgary and surrounding area.
YOUR OPTION OF IN STUDIO OR VIRTUAL CLASSES AVAILABLE
Gentle Yoga for 60+ (registered)
MONDAY 9:45-11:00 am
April 4 - June 23, 2025 (NO class April 21 & May 19)
10 weeks $210 + gst
Get on the Ball (drop-in Bowness Location)
MONDAY 12:00-1:00 pm
Mindful Yoga for Strength (drop-in)
WEDNESDAY 9:30-11:00 am
Free Drop In Meditation (drop-in)
WEDNESDAY 11:15 -11:45 pm
Myofascial Release & Restore (drop-in)
WEDNESDAY 7:15 - 8:30 pm
Healthy Backs (drop-in)
THURSDAY 5:30 pm - 6 pm
Mindful Yoga for Strength
Modifications are made for limited mobility and special attention is paid to ensure a comfortable and safe practice.
Yoga poses focus on balance, strength & mobility. Benefits include management of arthritis pain & inflammation, improved sleep, lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, decreasing anxiety & most importantly keeping connected to a like minded community.
Get on the Ball
In this 1 hour class we will be using different balls as props including massage balls, bender ball & stability ball. With these props we will work on core strength, myfascial massage & opening the body in different ways each class combined with more traditional yoga poses. Make Mondays a day you look forward to so you start your week feeling grounded & rejuvenated.
Free Drop In Meditation
Come take some time mid week to come and sit together during this meditation period. Some guidance will be given each session to help support your practice & the development of mindfulness. Options will be given to use sound/mantra or silence during our time together. All levels welcome.
This offering is by donation, everything you need to be comfortable like bolsters and mats are provided, arrive on time as doors will close once session has begun.
Myofascial Release & Restore
The body is made up of layers of fascia (connective tissue) that run through every part of the body from top to bottom. Using massage balls to self massage can help to release tension in the body, decrease pain, increase the breath & help improve your posture.
Combined with yoga movements from stretching to restorative postures, you will help restore yourself back to a place of ease & stability. Once the work on the body is done it’s time to rest into a led meditation & allow mindfulness to emerge.
To finish class, enjoy receiving Anne's voice as she shares a song or some sound with you.
Improve core stability and strength as you explore the supportive role of the core in posture and movement. Deepen understanding, awareness, flexibility and ultimately strength of your 'centre' using techniques and traditions in the context of a well balanced yoga practice.
Yoga for Healthy Backs
Yoga has been demonstrably helpful in alleviating the back problems that so many people suffer from. There has been sophisticated research in this area and yoga is now considered by many medical practitioners to be amongst the most beneficial modalities in the treatment of a acute and chronic back conditions.
Over time, yoga can increase your strength and flexibility, effectively counteracting the tightness and weak muscles that cause many types of back pain.
YOGA & MEDITATION CENTRE OF CALGARY Marda Loop 2028b 33 Ave SW Calgary
See YogaMcc.com or contact
403-251-YOGA (9642) for more information or to register.
Lunchtime Yoga for Back Health (registered)
TUESDAY 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Winter/Spring 2025
February 11 - March 11
March 18 - April 15
April 22 - May 20
May 27 - June 24
all sessions 5 weeks $70 inc GST
NOTE: Classes are online using zoom. As an added bonus you receive the recording to view for 1 week, to do anytime you like. So if you miss the live class, you can still attend.
Want to try out a class? 1x first class is FREE
This is an all levels class, focused on how to help prevent back pain and how to encourage the body to heal from injury. Imbalances happen in our culture of sitting in chairs, that can cause pain & even injury to the back. With these imbalance, something as simple as picking up a suitcase can cause your back to be injured. Focus will be on stretching tight muscles & releasing tension while strengthening key areas, including the core, to help find balance. No yoga experience is necessary, just a willingness to learn safe & gentle ways to move the body that can be taken into your daily life to find long term benefits for your back. The class will include ways to destress with breath & simple meditation, as well as movement.
Using the ideas of mobility + strength = stability will help you bring a newfound balance in the body that your back will thank you for.
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VIRTUAL ONLINE YOGA
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Workshops & Trainings:
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Flow into Spring- Yoga Renewal and Alignment
Sunday March 23 3-5 pm
With Anne Cox & Megan McKenzie
at SLS Centre $30 + gst
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Step into the new season with intention and vitality. Join us for this 2-hour workshop, designed to help you refresh your body, mind, and energy as we transition into spring.
This session will guide you through foundational yoga postures, breathwork, and Ayurvedic insights to enhance your practice and overall well-being. No experience necessary—this workshop is open to all levels.
What to Expect - Ujjayi Breath & Energy Flow
Begin with Ujjayi breath, a steady and calming breathing technique that fosters focus, warmth, and stability in your practice.
Sun Salutation Breakdown (Surya Namaskar A) We’ll explore the mechanics of Surya Namaskar A, breaking down each pose for better alignment and flow, ensuring a safe and effective practice. Detoxifying Twists & Seasonal Reset Instead of deep relaxation, we’ll focus on the power of twisting postures to stimulate digestion, cleanse the body, and promote renewal—perfect for a spring reset.
Discover Your Dosha Dive deeper into your yoga practice and learn about Ayurveda’s doshas (Vata, Pitta, and Kapha) and take a self-assessment to identify your unique constitution. Understanding your dosha can help bring balance to your lifestyle, movement, and wellness choices.
Take-Home Materials Leave with a personalized dosha guide and a Sun Salutation reference to support your ongoing practice. Open to all levels and we welcome both men and women. Whether you're looking to refine your alignment, explore Ayurvedic wisdom, or embrace the season’s fresh energy, this session will leave you feeling revitalized and inspired.
YOGA CLASSES IN COCHRANE
Spray Lakes Sawmills Family Sports Centre
https://www.slsfamilysportscentre.com/
403-932-1635
DROP IN CLASSES
Yoga for Non-Bendies
TUESDAYS 5:30-6:30 pm
Alignment & Flow
Sundays 9 - 10 am
REGISTERED YOGA THERAPY CLASSES
Gentle Yoga for Strength - (registered class)
TUESDAYS 7:15-8:30 pm
This class is registered, which helps you to make a commitment to your health & wellbeing.
Full props are supplied. You are welcome to bring your own if you prefer.
IN PERSON SESSIONS WINTER/SPRING 2025
March 4 - April 8
April 15 - May 13
This yoga class is a safe environment to learn how to move our bodies in a way that will help strengthen our bones, tone our muscles and increase overall body awareness. Modifications are made for limited mobility and special attention is paid to ensure a comfortable and safe practice. In this 6-week series, learn tools to connect to yourself using breath, meditation & mindful movement. Yoga poses focus on balance, strength, mobility & release. Benefits may include management of arthritis pain & inflammation, improved sleep, lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease, decreasing anxiety & more importantly finding a connection to a like-minded community. The beauty of yoga is anyone of any ability can feel its benefits. To finish class, enjoy receiving a led meditation & Anne's voice as she shares a song or some sound leaving you feeling grounded & refreshed.
Instructor: Anne Cox
Location: Earth Studio
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Private Yoga Therapy:
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Would you prefer a more one on one approach to yoga?
Do you find it difficult to get to a yoga class?
Are you looking to deepen your practice with some personal attention that is harder to find in a class setting?
Then private yoga sessions may be for you.
Private session can be in the comfort of your own home, via zoom, at Frank Wills Hall in Cochrane 405 1 St E or The Yoga & Meditation Centre (in Marda Loop or Bowness) (limited availability).
Private session are for 1-3 people & are 1.25 - 1.5 hrs in length.
The initial assessment is 1.5 hr.
Cost is $125 including GST/session (multiple class discount rates are available, please inquire). Price includes a written program to help guide you to continue what you learned, on your own. Also, the ability to contact me by phone, email or Skype for question or concerns at anytime after the session.
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Conscious Breathwork
Why do it & how it works.
What does breathing well do for you?
- Detoxifies body
- Activates the lymphatic systems
- Stimulates & refreshes the internal organs with massage & cardiovascular circulation
- Helps to promote a more balanced & positive mental & emotional state.
- Connects you to your Spiritual side, inner wisdom.
- Increases health, energy, immune function
- Therapeutic use to help with:
Physical: pain control, fatigue, respiratory issues, digestive conditions, headaches, asthma, apnea, infertility, birthing, PMS etc.
Emotional: guilt, shame, rage, anger, depression, phobia, panic attacks, low self-esteem, addictions, etc.
All can be positively impacted by allowing the innate intelligence of our bodies to do the healing.
NOTE: **it is not a diagnosis of an issue, but allows the client & facilitator to work together to help with any challenges in a holistic way***
Why do people stop breathing well?
- Stresses put on our system physically, mentally & emotionally due to disease, injury, trauma or lifestyle. These breath imbalances then can cause physical imbalances, disease & even traumatic injuries.
- When our fight or flight response is triggered, through an outside source like an accident, physical & emotional abuse, or absence of something being withheld from us. The breath then becomes, constricted, forced or held which can then become our unconscious breath pattern.
How does conscious, connected breathwork work?
- If you can release the trauma you will go back to a relaxed state, if not, then this fight or flight response is held in your nervous system & the breath is changed as well.
- Changed breath helps dampen the feelings & emotional responses at the expense of life force & embodied presence.
- Conscious breathing helps us to tap into these past held experiences & to begin process & then release them.
- Conscious connected breathing practice helps to bring us back to a natural, unhindered breathing pattern.
- The practice takes you through layers of stored stress & disruption in development or trauma. Spending time in a session with invitation to stay with the connected breath, deep relaxation & awareness of felt-sense in the body can help one to move past these things. The stories can be re-written by experiencing these past things from a conscious, aware place & change the response that happened.
Why work with a facilitator?
- The facilitator encourages you to move slowly & consciously into these unconscious beliefs & emotional charges so not to re-enforce the trauma, but to resolve it. Like finding stillness in the middle of a storm, to discharge it.
- They become a witness to help bring another perspective to help a person process their experience.
- The client is encouraged to put voice, movement, shaking, tears, sound, (what ever feels right) to help to release pent up energy for the body to naturally self heal.
- To help the person reduce or avoid thoughts, feeling or sensations one might divert their attention to & help them come back to the felt experience.
- To maintain a safe, space for anything to arise to help the breather to relax & let go more completely.
- Client has the right to stop at anytime & can request if they are ok to be touched or not during the session.
- Everything that happens in a conscious breathwork session is held in confidence so all is safe to be felt & shared as one wishes.
During a session there is a change of vibrational energy. Negative or energetic constrictions become drawn towards the higher positive energy that comes with the breath work. This change in vibration improves the flow of energy, calms the mind, raises the emotional state & helps to release trauma. All without the need to analyze or fix anything. In this way, conscious breath work tends to help a person move more clearly with an inner wisdom that becomes more & more conscious over time.
Anne Cox E-RYT 500 - Conscious Connected Breathwork
Sessions are $125 including gst for
1.25-2 hour sessions
Sessions offered in Cochrane & Calgary
Choose in your own home, my home studio or
YogaMcc 2028b 33 Ave SW
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Heal from the Inside Out: Unlock Your Body's Wisdom & Empower Your Life
Friday April 11 6:30 - 9 pm
with Anne Cox
& Jodi Hope-Johnstone
at YogaMcc
PAY WHAT YOU CAN ($55 value suggested)
To register go to:
https://www.yogamcc.com/workshops
HYBRID: Please choose IN STUDIO or VIRTUAL at time of registration] [BOWNESS LOCATION]
Join Anne Cox & Jodi Hope-Johnstone to discover the secret to healing—by learning to listen to your body.
Do you ever feel like your body is trying to tell you something, but you don’t know how to listen? Are you overwhelmed by stress, stuck in emotional patterns, or struggling with tension that won’t go away?
Your body holds deep wisdom—it’s constantly speaking to you through sensations, emotions, and energy. But in today’s fast-paced world, we often disconnect from these messages, leading to chronic stress, emotional numbness, or even physical pain.
In this 2 ½ hour immersive workshop, you’ll learn a Body Dialogue Method—a simple yet powerful 3-step process to decode your body’s signals, trust your inner wisdom instantly, and unlock healing in minutes. Through a blend of somatic awareness, breathwork, gentle movement, and intuitive journaling, you will:** Discover how your body stores emotions—and how to release them naturally**
Learn the Body Dialogue Method to connect with your body’s wisdom anytime, anywhere** Experience an instant shift in self-trust and intuition—within just one session** Walk away with a proven 3-step process to trust your body instantly and unlock deep healing** Tap into your body’s ability to reduce stress, release tension, and create emotional freedom
No prior experience is needed. Whether you're navigating stress, emotional blocks, or simply want to reconnect with your inner wisdom, this workshop will empower your life from the inside out.
What to Bring: Bring a yoga mat, a water bottle and a journal and pen. All props are available to use in studio including chairs, blocks, bolsters and blankets. Dress comfortably in layers.Investment:
PAY WHAT YOU CAN ($55 value suggested) You can choose your price at time of payment Friday April 11, 2025 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m
As a courtesy, we record our live classes and aim to provide the recording within 7 days, with access available for 1 week.
Jodi Hope-Johnstone is a senior yoga and meditation teacher specializing in somatic practices, Compassionate Inquiry, and Hakomi. She helps individuals uncover and shift unconscious patterns, guiding them toward greater self-awareness and resilience. Jodi creates a supportive space for exploration, inviting curiosity and self-compassion as tools for growth.
Anne Cox E-RYT 500 is a certified Yoga teacher through Yoga Alliance and has been teaching therapeutic focused classes since 2004. She teaches from experience on how she helped her own body & the lessons learned working with students who have tension, pain or stress that occurs from structural imbalance due to our sedentary lifestyles.
https://www.yogamcc.com/restorative
n this 50-hour Restorative Teacher Training Program, you will learn:
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How to set up restorative postures for yourself and others
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What poses work best for certain situations and challenges
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How to use props to fully support a person’s practice at all levels and how to modify them appropriately
If your intention is to deepen your restorative practice or to teach others with more confidence, this training with give you the tools and knowledge you are looking for.
This course is made up of 2 weekends, self-practice and practicums, including:
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Experiencing a restorative practice
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Concepts of restorative yoga
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Restorative asanas - variations, benefits, adjustments
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Props - how to use them and adaptations
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Breath work and meditation
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Tools for deep relaxation
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Stages of savasana
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Sequencing
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Obstacles of teaching and how to overcome them (including 8 Limbs of Yoga)
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Teaching etiquette and how to cultivate trust
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Therapeutic applications
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Self-practice hours (attend 4 complementary restorative classes offered at YogaMcc).
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Practicum: Final assignment (3 people, 3 issues, 3 poses, how and why you do them)
This course is for:
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Those familiar with yoga practice.
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Therapists and teachers looking for professional development.
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All students wishing to deepen their understanding of rest – even those who don’t wish to teach but to explore the body and minds innate healing abilities.
2026 DATES TBD