Upcoming Workshops/Events
Yoga Therapy Training: Be a Better Restorative Teacher
with Val Petrich
August 2 - August 10, 2025
1:30 - 5:00 pm
One Yoga Studio, 156 E. 7th Ave, Vancouver BC
Come to the coast! Join me for this specific, condensed training in Restorative Yoga.
You will learn:
- The refinement of poses and techniques that help your students/clients manage symptoms from a variety of ailments.
- How to guide your student/client into the relaxation response to set the inner environment for healing.
- How to train an anxious, busy mind while in a pose of stillness
- How to conduct private sessions for your student/client including a personalized practice
This training is for teachers, trainees, counsellors, therapists, psychologists, and healthcare workers looking to integrate yogic principles into their professional practice.
This valuable training draws from Val’s many years experience in:
- Iyengar Restorative Yoga: Deeply healing poses for physical and mental restoration.
- Himalayan Yoga & Nidra: Techniques for profound relaxation and inner calm.
- Mantra Meditation: Ancient practices for focus and serenity.
- Integrated Wisdom: Insights from the 12 Steps of Recovery and the 8 Limbs of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras for holistic well-being.
What to Expect:
- Opportunities for peer teaching to solidify your understanding.
- Approximately one hour of homework daily to deepen your learning.
- A written final exam to earn your 40-hour certificate from the Yoga Studio College of Canada.
- All essential manuals provided.
Prerequisites: A 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training certificate is required. Exceptions may be considered upon request to the Director.
Investment: $600
Sign up at: www.yogastudiovan.com
Val Petrich is the founder and Director of the Yoga Studio College of Canada 1996 . With a teaching career since 1980, Val brings decades of experience to the art of yoga and classroom interaction. Certified by BKS Iyengar, Psychosynthesis and the Mysore School of Yoga. Val has trained over 1200 teachers who are now across Canada contributing richly to their communities in a variety of settings. Val is also the author of OM CANADA, a book celebrating the pioneers of yoga in the country and in most libraries.
Her daughter Ivana is a yoga teacher and Val resides with her partner Tom in Steveston Village, B.C.
Learn How to Give Adjustments in Asana
with Val Petrich
Saturday September 13th, 2025
2:00 pm - 6:00 PM
$65 + gst
Help your students substantially advance their practice by learning fundamental hands on adjustments. Adjustments done with skill bring the student to a level they can seldom do on their own.
Held at The Yoga Studio of Calgary
200 - 1829 Ranchlands Blvd. NW
Calgary, AB
Register online
here or call the studio 403-239-3344.
Learn How to Meditate
with Val Petrich
Sunday, September 14th, 2025
2:00 pm - 5:00 PM
$65 + gst
Want to do less with better results? Feel like you’re juggling too much? Have a sense something is tapping you on the shoulder for change?
That tap is probably intuition, asking you to listen. And stillness and silence point the way. Meditation simplifies and enhances our life in so many areas. It strengthens our immune system, declutters our thoughts and gives clarity of purpose. It is both a spiritual practice and a scientific practice that yields amazing results if we are patient. Meditation is a practice of tapping into our wellspring of consciousness. When we sit quietly (easier said than done) the inner chambers of intuition, wisdom and guidance blossom and become a clear guiding light. It’s just like the gurus tell us but like everything else, it is practice.
Join me in learning the practical aspects to set up a meditation practice – how to start, sustain
and meet the challenges that present themselves.
Recommended for beginners or those with a regular practice who want guidance.
Held at The Yoga Studio of Calgary
200 - 1829 Ranchlands Blvd. NW
Calgary, AB
Call the studio 403-239-3344 to register.
OM CANADA
BOOK SIGNING
Check back for upcoming book signings.
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.