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What's Your Story? Yoga in everyday life
What's Your Story? features the different characters that roam the streets of Toronto. Every Monday and Thursday, a new person shares their story, likes and dislikes about the city, a little secret and more.
Name: Cynthia
Age: 43
What neighbourhood are you from? East York
What do you 'do'? Founder/Director of two yoga schools. I also teach yoga and train others to become yoga instructors.
How long have you been in Toronto? 11 years
What's your story?
I first learned yoga when I was working as a tree planter at 19. I learned to maintain strength and flexibility to help me plant trees. I took my teacher training in Los Angeles, came back to Toronto and nine years ago, my sister and I started the Yoga Sanctuary on College Street. Then, we opened a second location five years ago on the Danforth.
You start to live yoga in everyday life and begin making different decisions. Yoga is about relationships - first to ourselves and then, to everything around us.
Favorite thing(s) about Toronto:
The seasons, the multicultural diversity, the proximity to Lake Ontario and the myriad of events and venues we can take in.
Least favorite thing(s) about Toronto:
This doesn't pertain to this summer but the extreme humidity in late July. And heavy snowfall.
You have 24 hours to spend with someone who's never been to Toronto before - what do you do?
The day starts with a small yoga practice and meditation, followed by a walk through Taylor Creek Park. We would then go to the top of the CN Tower and I would point out all the landmarks of Toronto. We'd follow this by afternoon tea at the ROM and a walk up the stairs to Casa Loma.
One thing that your friends/family don't know about you:
How much I value my alone time.
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Yoga is a great way to start the day. I'm not new to TO but I'd spend that 24h day with you.
Speaking of Yoga, I'm newish to TO,but just moved, and living in the High Park area. Anybody know of a good Yoga Studio around here?
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@ Sean: I recommend Moksha Yoga Bloor West:
http://www.mokshayogabloorwest.com/
The owner - Don - is a really great guy. (And I'm not just sayin' that just because I work at an affiliated studio! :)
for what it's worth -- we live close to highpark (lakeshore and parklawn) ... and my wife goes to Moksha ... she is very happy with it
Yoga people are like pot heads...when they're into it, it's all they want to talk about. And it gets irritating quick.
Well, I practice yoga and also like pot - I guess that makes me a doubly-irritating person?
If you are interested in learning more about Cynthia you can check out this recent interview on the Toronto Yoga Guide.