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
September 14 - December 21
14 weeks $294 + gst
Get on the Ball (drop-in Bowness Location)
MONDAY 12:00-1:00 pm
Grounded Yoga (drop-in)
WEDNESDAY 9:30-10:45 am
Gentle Yoga for Strength & Stability 55+ (registered)
WEDNESDAY 11:15 am -12:30 pm
July 8 - August 6
5 weeks $105 + gst
September
Gentle Yoga for 60+
This is a class designed specifically for those that want to stay active, strong & mindful as they age.
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.
Grounded Yoga
Pause the midweek momentum and come home to steadiness. This gentle, grounding practice is designed to soothe frayed nerves, settle scattered thoughts, and refill you for the rest of the week.
We’ll move slowly and intentionally through breath-led transitions, standing poses that anchor, and forward folds that invite quiet release. With each exhale, tension melts; with each inhale, you gather calm and space. Nourish your nervous system while gently building balance, strength, and mobility.
To support your body and deepen awareness, we’ll weave in thoughtful tools like massage balls for myofascial release, bender balls for core and pelvic floor connection, and the black spinal strip to restore alignment and soften holding patterns. Props shift with the theme of the week, helping you explore your body with curiosity and care.
No striving. Just softening.
All levels welcome. Come as you are—and leave rooted, refreshed, and reconnected.
Gentle Yoga for Strength & Stability 55+
Strength isn’t always about effort. Sometimes it’s about presence—meeting your body with care, moving with intention, and allowing confidence to grow one breath at a time. This progressive series is thoughtfully designed for those who want to build strength and stability in a way that feels supportive, safe, and sustainable.
Each week, you’ll be guided through mindful movement practices that help restore balance, improve posture, and build the kind of quiet strength that supports your daily life—from lifting groceries to walking with ease, or simply feeling more at home in your own body.
Together, we’ll explore effective, accessible tools that add variety and impact to our gentle practice:
Therapy bands offer resistance to build functional strength and support joint health—without strain or overwhelm.
Bender balls improve balance and awaken deep core stability, helping you feel more steady and centered.
Myofascial self-massage invites release through gentle pressure and rolling, softening long-held tension in muscles and fascia.
The black spinal strip supports healthy posture, eases upper back tightness, and brings more freedom and strength to the spine.
This small-group series provides the gift of consistency and connection. You’ll have time for personalized guidance, gradual progression, and the encouragement of a like-minded community. Classes move at a gentle, accessible pace, with clear instruction and options to suit your individual needs.
Expect to feel stronger—but also calmer. More aligned—but also more at ease. Because resilience isn’t just physical—it’s a way of being that we can cultivate at any age.
Let this be your time.
To move with more freedom.
To feel grounded and supported.
To grow strength—from the inside out.
YOGA CLASSES IN COCHRANE
Spray Lakes Sawmills Family Sports Centre
https://www.slsfamilysportscentre.com/
403-932-1635
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.
DROP IN CLASSES
Yoga for Non-Bendies
TUESDAYS 5:30-6:30 pm
Alignment & Flow (paused for the Summer)
Sundays 9 - 10 am
REGISTERED YOGA THERAPY CLASSES
Gentle Yoga for Strength - (registered class)
TUESDAYS 7:00 - 8:15 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 FALL/WINTER 2026
2 - 4 week sessions: click on link to register
October 6-27
http://ca.apm.activecommunities.com/slsc/Activity_Search/49928
November 3-24
http://ca.apm.activecommunities.com/slsc/Activity_Search/49929
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
Lunchtime Yoga for Back Health (registered)
TUESDAY 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Summer 2026 Recordings (prices inc GST)
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3 classes – $36
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5 classes – $50
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10 classes – $80
Recordings are available to use until September 8, 2026.
Simply email me to get a list of classes to choose from then e-transfer to hello@acyoga.net, and you will be sent the links to the recordings to use as many times as you like.
FALL/WINTER 2026
5 weeks $70 inc GST
September 8 - October 6
October 13 - November 10
November 17 - December 15
WINTER/SPRING 2027
6 weeks $84 inc GST
January 19 - February 23
March 2 - April 6
April 13 - May 18
May 25 - June 29
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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Presenting at:
Sunday October 4, 2026
Move Well, Age Well with Anne Cox
Building Strength, Stability & Confidence from a Chair
Aging well isn't about trying to hold on to the body we once had. It's about learning how to support the body we have today and giving it what it needs to keep moving with strength, confidence, and ease.
In this engaging one-hour presentation and chair yoga class, Anne will explore how simple, mindful movement can support healthy aging. Together, we'll look at the importance of mobility, strength, balance, posture, breath, and body awareness and how small movements can make a meaningful difference in how we feel and function in everyday life.
Participants will then be guided through an accessible chair yoga practice designed to gently awaken the body, build strength and stability, improve mobility, and support balance. No previous yoga experience is required, and movements can be adapted to meet individual needs.
Come as you are, take a seat, and discover how a chair can become a wonderful place to reconnect with your body.
You don't have to move like you did at 30 to move well. You simply need to keep moving and keep listening.
LOCATION
Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza
Calgary, Alberta
(Lots of FREE Parking!)
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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