Heart Yoga

Paulina Monahan has been practicing yoga for 25 years. She knows at a personal level, the healing benefits of this remarkable practice for body, mind and spirit.
After retiring as a music teacher (for 25 years),  Paulina knew that she needed to find something that gave her meaning and purpose in life as a retired person.
She believes passionately that yoga heals on many different levels. Yoga is seen by many renowned health experts as a healing modality for people suffering from depression, addiction, PTSD, anxiety, and other types of trauma.
Paulina’s first course taken was in trauma informed yoga. This led to a 200 hr yoga teacher training course in Kelowna and another 200 hr teacher training course called Heart Yoga.
Heart yoga is about learning to trust our hearts to lead the way, to navigate this interesting and challenging world with a fully integrated mind/heart connection.
One of her favourite quotes is by Mother Theresa who said “Most of us will not do great things in this world, but we can do small things with a great deal of love”.
Paulina’s classes are a blend of Bikram style yoga (which she practiced for 12yrs) some traditional hatha yoga,  and a splash of Chi Gong.  Followed by a 20 min. guided meditation while lying down.
She says “We take what we learn on the mat….to engage with “mighty hearts” off the mat….and into the world”.b