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Val will train teachers again in Gdansk, Poland Nov. 7 – 11, 2025
Profits will go to Fierce-calm.com
A charity supporting Unbroken, a hospital in Lviv, Ukraine
Dates: November 7–11, 2025 (30 hours total)
Daily schedule:
10:00 – 13:30 therapeutic aspects of yoga
16:00 – 17:00 pranayama
17:30 – 19:00 asana practice
Teacher: Valeria Petrich
Senior yoga teacher from Vancouver. She studied directly with B.K.S. Iyengar in India in the early 1980s and has dedicated her life to yoga ever since. A student of Dr. Norman Sjoman. For the past 20 years she has run a studio in Calgary, Canada. Founder of The Yoga Studio College of Canada, where she has trained hundreds of teachers in various areas – from fitness and yoga for seniors to mental health and addiction education.
Workshops will be conducted in English with translation into Polish.
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OM Canada: An Intimate Glimpse at Yoga’s Firsts is a celebration of yoga's history in Canada. Here are profiles of sixty of the country's yoga innovators-the firsts to set up a practice in their area, start a provincial association, launch a TV show, write a book, build an ashram, open a studio, etc. These are the passionate souls who ushered in the practice of yoga in a post-war era, when contemporaries still perceived them as loners and loons.
Scattered across Canada, these yoga pioneers forged their practices for personal healing and spiritual fulfilment based on conviction and despite lasting skepticism. Their efforts ushered in an age of spiritual curiosity that set the stage for yoga and meditation's acceptance as the bona fide spiritual practices and healing modalities we know today.