join us for a special pop up class on Friday night with Danielle at 6pm PDT.
Friday Night Yin Vibes. Hope to see you soon.
tickets http://www.lovelightyoga.com/shop/november-drop-yin-classes
Join us in November and December for our series of Drop Yin Classes each week with Danielle and the Zoom Fam. Are regular classes each week are: Sunday 6pm PDT and Tuesday 6pm PDT
http://www.lovelightyoga.com/shop/drop-yin-classes
Grab your tickets here.
http://www.lovelightyoga.com/shop/drop-yin-classes
Bless up Yinnies.
Stoked to share the yin vibes with you from my home to yours!
Saturday Special: 2-3:30pm PST
We launched 3 weeks ago and it has been RAD to connect with the Yin Rebels of the world. We go live via Zoom and we also record the classes for you to keep. We meet in the classroom 15 minutes before and after class to chat and connect. All the details and FAQ on the website.
http://www.lovelightyoga.com/virtual-yin-studio
Saturday Special: 2pm
THE STUDIO IS CLOSED FOR THE TIME BEING. THANKS FOR STAYING TUNED FOR THE NEXT DATES.
Sound Salutations
with Danielle Hoogenboom + Guests
Fri + Sat March 20 + 21
8:00 - 10:00PM
Market 10:00 - 11:00PM
$40 / $70 for both dates
Tickets:
Join Danielle Hoogenboom and a guest musician for a special evening of live acoustic music, yin yoga and pure positive vibrations.
This all levels, ground based class is all mellow moods. Come and join us for this special moment in time, with the extra deep bass line to earth. Ground and replenish your body/mind/soul in sweet community.
Stay after for a pop-up market with more live music.
March 20: with Buckman Coe
http://www.buckmancoe.com
March 21: DJ Tank Gyal
https://www.facebook.com/djtankgirl
Join Danielle Hoogenboom and Special Guests for Love Light Lounge, a musical market and hang out on February 29th from 2:30-9:30pm at Unity Yoga. Arts, crafts and fashion, natural made remedies, essential oils brewed in small batches, all from sweet Jamaica. Mud clothes and super foods from Mali and Burkina Faso, sacred objects from around the world, and of course a selection of Vancouver made goodies. We will have reggae bumping with local DJs and a Skyped in show from Kingston! Drinks and delights for purchase and nothing but irie vibes all day. Come join us at the Love Light Lounge to celebrate community, creativity and the soft launch of our Virtual Yin Studio coming in March!
Join on January 18th for another special Yindition of Reggae Yin with Ital Blue. We will be rocking the reggae greatness, and roots base lines! Class is 8-10pm, followed by a little market and dance party from 10-11pm.
Tickets on the One Yoga site in the coming days! BOOM!
Join Danielle Hoogenboom and Ital Blue for a special evening of live acoustic music, yin yoga and pure positive vibrations. This all levels, ground based class is all mellow moods. Ital Blue brings their special blend of hip hop and R&B, rooted in roots reggae values. Come and join us for this special moment in time, with the extra deep bass line to earth. Ground and replenish your body/mind/soul in sweet community.
Ryan is a registered Acupuncturist, and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner. He has worked in private practice for over 13 years, which includes several trips to teach and support impoverished communities in India, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic.
Recently, Ryan has graduated as a registered Psychiatric Nurse to supplement his work in the Downtown East Side of Vancouver where he has worked in supportive housing projects, homeless shelters, and supervised injection sites.
Unity Yoga. November 30th. 1:30-430pm
Tickets are $55 and includes class, group acupuncture and a vegan snack.
Join Danielle Hoogenboom and Ital Blue for a special evening of live acoustic music, yin yoga and pure positive vibrations. This all levels, ground based class is all mellow moods. Ital Blue brings their special blend of hip hop and R&B, rooted in roots reggae values. Come and join us for this special moment in time, with the extra deep bass line to earth. Ground and replenish your body/mind/soul in sweet community.
Saturday NOV 16th
8-10pm
$35
Music Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bv2ygbChXwS/
Tickets Link: https://www.oneyogaforthepeople.ca/events-upcoming/reggae-yin
Ital Blue Bio:
Ital Blue’s music is a blend of hip hop and R&B, steeped in roots-reggae values. Their message one of unity, acceptance for all human kind and equal opportunity for all regardless of race. Ital Blue’s mission is to spread knowledge, love, hope and self-empowerment across the globe. Peace & Love.
@ital_blue
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/498556990989428/
Join Danielle Hoogenboom for a pop up yin class on the regular schedule on Nov 8th from 7:30pm to 8:45pm. Regular class pass applies or pay what you can at One Yoga Vancouver.
Join us for a special Pop Up Yin class with special sections of Roots Reggae with Danielle Hoogenboom.
This is a regular class on the One Yoga for the People schedule and is included in your class pass.
PLEASE NOTE: due to unforeseen scheduling conflicts, we have had to postpone the 2019 edition of this retreat. Please stay tuned for the 2020 dates. Send a note to danielle@lovelightyoga.com for more information.
Join Danielle and Chastity on this retreat to explore reconciliation through the practices of yin yoga and heart centred leadership.
Our retreat takes place November 1-4 at beautiful Stowel Lake Farm on Salt Spring Island. You will practice yoga looking out at the stunning panoramic views from the Gatehouse, dine on farm-to-table meals prepared just for us, and relax in one of the farm's cozy accommodations in the evenings. We are so looking forward to hosting Yin & Reconciliation at this healing venue! If you've visited before, wait until you see the autumn colours!
Salt Spring is part of the traditional territory of the Saanich, Cowichan, and Chemainus First Nations, and aboriginal use of the island dates back at least 5,000 years.
This retreat includes:
Shared accommodations for 3 nights
3 organic vegan meals per day, all dietary restrictions can be accommodated
Welcome package and all program fees
At least 2 yoga classes per day, morning and evening yin asana
Presentation, discussion, and facilitated group work
Relaxed time to explore the grounds of Stowel Lake Farm
Course materials
This retreat offers space for connection, reflection, and integration. We will tap into our heart centres as we reimagine the nature of reconciliation. We will ask ourselves, "what do I need to reconcile within myself?" as we consider collective reconciliation. Yin yoga serves as a medium for integration and new awareness, enlivening stuck energy and old holding patterns in order to enact transformative change within ourselves and the world around us. Yin yoga invites us to navigate the uncomfortable as we ask, "what does it mean to lead from my heart?"
You can expect a morning yin asana and meditation practice, followed by a light breakfast and free time to connect and relax. . After an organic vegan lunch, the group will meet to engage in dialogue, reflection, and presentations around the topic of reconciliation, leading into a second yin asana practice. In the evenings we will gather for a healing dinner, followed by a cozy evening activity. One evening will also include a sacred ceremony.
This retreat is open to everyone and very accessible for yoga beginners. This offering can be taken as a retreat, 20 hour CEU credits for existing yoga teachers, or as hours towards a full 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training at Love Light Yoga School. Participants can be issued a certificate of completion for any option under Love Light Yoga School. Love Light School is a registered yoga school with Yoga Alliance.
Tuition Link is here. The cost is $888 and includes all course materials.
Rooms and Meals: Private Room. Shared Accommodations. Camping Accommodations. Offsite Accommodations
There are some limited private rooms, a variety of shared accommodations, as well as camping options and an off site option. The options in the shop include the accommodation, studio fees and meals for the day. Tuition includes the course and course materials. Spaces are limited, so please email Danielle@lovelightyoga.com with any questions or you can sign our your room choices in the shop here.
Questions: danielle@lovelightyoga.com
Join the FB Event and Chat your Yinnies.
Yin and Reconciliation
with Chastity Davis & Danielle Hoogenboom
Oct 4-6 & Nov 8-10:
Fridays & Saturdays 7:30 - 9:30pm
Saturdays & Sundays 1:30 - 4:00pm
$444CDN for the complete course over two weekends
Join us for a Yin training meant to disrupt, interrupt and broaden your ways, worlds, thinking and forms. Yin has the ability to cultivate transformative change and asks the major question: "What do you need to reconcile in yourself?"
Healing our own inner wounds is a warrior way that is long overdue and calling you deeply. Let yin yoga guide you in your own time and way as you reveal, reorder and re-narrate the tales in and around you.
*The hours from this course can be used towards a 200 Hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Love Light Yoga School
"the city of Vancouver is on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.“The Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations have millenniums-old protocols for welcome, blessing and acknowledgments on their territories,”
We will co-create your learning experience. This will allow you to have a creative, collaborative approach to your practice. Whether you're in the lower mainland, Jamaica, or anywhere, you will experience your education in many mediums. A combination of one-on-one training and group work. Physical practice, and theory practice. Yes, there will be homework! Yin is a life practice. Apply here
Love Light Yoga School is a Yoga Alliance 200 hour Registered Yoga School. We offer trainings in series that you can take and combine for your 200 hour, or can also get the individual series as part of your Continuing Education Units (CEU) or simply for personal interest. You know, a flexible way to study yoga! We offer sessions and series in various parts of the world with many themes that range from emotions, to elements, to social justice, to meridians to ethics. We love to deep dive into the themes that inspire you to share your passion as a teacher. Many of LLY's trainings include guest and co-teachers who bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to our teacher trainings. So blessed to be offering up collective knowledge. Looking forward to powerful times!
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS:
Continuing Education Units are study credits with an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher (E-YRT). This allows a teacher that is registered under Yoga Alliance as a 200 or 300 hour teacher to obtain the required CEU's to maintain their Yoga Alliance status. If you have taken any previous LLY trainings or public classes, some of these hours also count.
MENTORSHIP:
This individualized program is for teachers, curious students and wellness leaders. A program with Danielle is diverse and adaptable and takes on a person specific model (how yin)! She currently consults in yin education, course preparation, event production and media content. Her interests in community development, social change projects and justice based education. She has been teaching yoga for nearly a decade and has worked with a wide variety of students and clients internationally. She is currently working with a individuals that are seeking great change both within and within the worlds around them.
ONLINE TRAINING & MENTORSHIP:
Complete any combination of hours up to a full 200 Hour Yin Yoga Teacher training online via Skype chat and voice call! This is an accessible way to study and train with Danielle virtually. We have students in many different countries and you will be connected with the Yin Revolutionaries crew in a speed and manner that fits your life. We have full time professionals, stay at home mothers, rural community peeps and long standing students in tropical places to name a few. In this digital age it allows us to create a virtual class room and opportunist for diverse cultural education as well. Virtual Yin, its like the fascia of the yoga education world.
The online program is perfect for students that have already completed hours with Love Light Yoga Yin School and want to continue towards their 200 Hour Certification.
Blessings Yinnies.
I am honoured to be offering Yin Yoga sessions in Vancouver as well as virtually.
This is a great way to adapt and shift with the seasons and the stressful times, to make yin yoga work for your schedule and also to create a chill and personal place for you to commit to your healing.
I am able to come to your house or we can book out on of my Vancouver locations as well, from chill studios to fancy penthouses with a view. I am offering virtual sessions, so that you are able to be on the road together and also to work with your schedule. Yin is about adapting and shifting and ever changing times. I bring the mats and props, and we make a plan that fits your physical, mental and spiritual needs
Send a note if you are you interested in chatting more : danielle@lovelightyoga.com
I am currently booking into the fall.
Looking forward to connecting with you for supporting stress management and mental health, pre and post natal, various injuries and desires to create a yin lifestyle.
Join us for Balance, Leadership, and Liberation, a 200 hour Yin Yoga training in Alameda California, July 29-August 23, 2019, hosted at Leela Yoga Alameda.
This training is a collaboration between Love Light Yoga and The Equity Collective. Founders Danielle and Dia have joined forces to explore the overlaps and intersections between the physical tension, the subtle body, inner transformation and systems of power. Expanding on 5 years of collaboration and curriculum development, they will support participants in a deep dive of interconnection. Led in collaboration with a stellar team of yogis, participants will explore balance in process, leadership in life, and the practice of liberation. This training is an opportunity to embody transformation, physically and socially. It is a space to experience yoga practice and philosophy, both, on and off the mat.
Save the dates in Kingston at True Self. Popping up the Yin Class and Pop Up Shop on April 12th and May 3rd. Save the dates. Shop at 5:30pm and Yin Class at 6:15pm. Hope you can join us for soaps, essential oils we distilled here in St Mary, hydrosols and special delights. I hope you can join us.
11-12 Joint Yin and Yang yoga class led by Jason Worton and Danielle Hoogenboom- a mixed level class accessible to beginners. Jason will start the class off with some basic foundation poses to raise energy, and build strength and balance. Danielle will lead the second half with a cooling yin sequence, ground based with slow, deep tissue release and meditative breath. ($500)
1-2 "Oil infused Medicine Music" smell different essential oils and be bathed in sound, live music and chanting. Enjoy an open practice, flowing through your own yoga moment, meditate, or simply chill and enjoy the sensory experience. Feel welcome to bring your food and enjoy a lunchtime mini-concert! (free/donation based)
3:30-4:30 Joint Yin and Yang yoga class led by Jason Worton and Danielle Hoogenboom- a mixed level class accessible to beginners. Jason will start the class off with some basic foundation poses to raise energy, and build strength and balance. Danielle will lead the second half with a cooling yin sequence, ground based with slow, deep tissue release and meditative breath. ($500)
Really looking forward to this special 2019 offering of the Yin Medicines series in Jamaica. We will again be at the farm in St Mary, with fresh spring water flowing for drinking and our outdoor showers, hand built houses, breads made in the cob oven, organic foods, herbal teas and lots of fruit, essential oil distillations, natural adventures, hikes, swimming and unique cultural moments, with lots of yin yoga. This wholistic healing offerings can be for personal growth and health or as education and training. Come and catch a vibe on this modern Rasta family farm for either a 7 day retreat, a 14 day Yin Training or dive right YIN for 30 day Yin Yoga Teacher Training. LLY is a Yoga Alliance registered school and Danielle is an E-RYT, so hours can as CEU or training hours.
Advanced Yin: Variations and Props.
20 Hour Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Danielle Hoogenboom and Guest Teacher Ashley Eden
Join Danielle Hoogenboom for this immersive experience that will explore the variations and diversity in making yin yoga work for different bodies, abilities and intentions. This course will breakdown the main yin yoga shapes and offer you creative and intelligent ways to modify and adapt these shapes, as well as integrating more props into your teaching and practice. Join us to advance your yin capacities and understandings as you expand your abilities to share this style with others on a deeper level. Guest teacher Ashley Eden, who offers Craniosacral Therapy, will visit us for a day sharing how we store trauma in our body, the impact trauma has on our nervous system, and our own internal wisdom's ability and capacity to release this trauma stored in the tissue. Ashley will facilitate Craniosacral Therapy; offering optional hands on work, during a yin restorative practice, and will close with a group integrative dialogue.
This program is for teachers seeking more experience, for curious students looking to deepen their practices and of course for yin lovers looking for a weekend filled with deep diving experiential learning. Previous experience with yin yoga is highly recommended.
Counts as CEU credits with YA or as hours towards Love Light Yoga's 200 Hour Yin School.
Dec 7th: 2-9:30pm
Dec 8th: 2-9:30pm
Dec 9th: 2-5:30pm AND 6pm public class.
Cost: $555. Location and Registration: Dharma Temple in Vancouver.
Join Love Light Yoga and Friends for this seasonal sale and gathering. Check out the LLY locally made bamboo and organic cotton clothes and yin yoga props, natural tonics, tinctures and bath oils, scented soy candles, crystal malas and custom creations.
Also featuring artisan small batch essential oils we distilled in Jamaica (join us for the distillation series in 2019), and also a delightful variety of products from Jamaican artisans and crafts from natural dyes, hand stitched bags and jewelry from seeds, bamboo and wood. Plenty of calabash and hand woven baskets. We also will be doing live sales via Instagram those nights, so stay tuned and support some badass creatives businesses and the arts.
Come yinjoy an evening of vibes and music with vegan snacks. Live music with Tonye Aganaba each night with her beautiful sounds and her excellent merchandise. Join us for this mellow shopping also includes gift certificates for local healers and designers (bless UP the LLY Team!) and nice vibes. Join us for special teas, great conversations and good community vibes.
Check out Tonye Music here
https://www.tonyemusic.com
Yinvitation by RSVP: danielle@lovelightyoga.com for our Downtown location
We will be going love on the lovelightyoga IG, so join us!
https://www.instagram.com/lovelightyoga/
Looking forward to hosting another special Sunday edition of Yin and Chocolate on November 11th.
The last version, we modified and made it a chocolate buffet, with vegan delights from Eternal Abundance and Gorilla Foods! What a joy to pick your favourites and fill your plate AND Halfmoon Yoga gifted each one of our guests their own yoga strap. I also gifted an artisan chocolate bar to take home from East Van Roasters! Was an epic and delightful afternoon and I am stoked to be creating the next yinidition. Space is limited and this event sells out each time, so please register early!
Looking forward to offering this again on November 11th from 1:30 to 4:30pm at Unity Yoga.
I am very honoured and excited to be presenting and creating with Ryan Thompson again this year. We have co-taught together many times over the last 8 years in a few countries and I am stoked to be offering this 4 part series of Yin and Acupuncture in Vancouver with him. Not only is he a wonderful teacher and practitioner, he is also one of the main parts of my personal healing time. Acupuncture has been wonderfully helpful over the last years and I highly encourage adding it to your self care and wellness practices.
This special Sunday series is a mix of community acupuncture and yin yoga to help transition the seasons and keep our systems strong and supported. We will be having group acupuncture from 1:30-3pm, followed by a yin yoga class of long holds from 3-4:30pm. This combo of wellness is certain to fill your cup and nourish your inner worlds. You can join us for one session, or pick the full package.
Combining empress forces for an epic sound-powered yoga experience, Reggae Yin is sure to bass your bones, send the roots revolution right to your soul and infuse your fascia with irie vibrations. This special studio edition features the radical sounds of Jamaica’s musical heritage that brings sounds of freedom, social change and a call to action. Tank Gyal
and Danielle bring the yoga vibes and the musical meditations to clubs, festivals and new spaces and are stoked for this all ages offering. This will surely light your heart, set you free and inspire your path. Reggae is more than music, it's a lifestyle and philosophy.
One Yoga Vancouver. October 20th. 7:30pm-9:30pm. Information and registration here.
Tank Gyal is the multi-talented queen of Vancouver's reggae dancehall
scene. Creator and resident of the infamous Thursday Ting: the city's
longest-running Jamaican music weekly, she is known across the globe for her impeccable taste and groundbreaking efforts in bussing up-and-coming artists. She is also the First Lady of Vancouver's Lighta! Sound. www.soundcloud.com/tankgyal
Danielle Hoogenboom is a traveling artist who is committed to creative
collaborations that expand yoga as a community gathering tool and brings
inspiration to creation rebels and leaders of change. She teaches classes,
trainings and retreats international and splits her time between Vancouver
and Jamaica. You can find her making natural products and dreaming
revolutions. www.lovelightyoga.com
Combining empress forces for an epic sound-powered yoga experience,
Reggae Yin is sure to bass your bones, send the roots revolution right to
your soul and infuse your fascia with irie vibrations. This special studio
edition features the radical sounds of Jamaica’s musical heritage that
brings sounds of freedom, social change and a call to action. Tank Gyal
and Danielle bring the yoga vibes and the musical meditations to clubs,
festivals and new spaces and are stoked for this all ages offering. This will surely light your heart, set you free and inspire your path. Reggae is more than music, it's a lifestyle and philosophy.
Join Danielle for a special Sunday at Unity Yoga for an offering of Yin Yoga and Fair Trade and organic VEGAN chocolate from East Van Roasters . This workshop will have a few layers of chocolate testing, hot cocoa and a bar for you to take home. EVR is an amazing social venture in Vancouver you should check it out. Space is limited for this offering, so please pre register here. Excited to be sharing two of the most beautiful things in this world: long slow holds mixed with slow made, hand crafted chocolate that support local and international communities and incredible social ventures.
Unity Yoga is on 10th and Commercial Drive in Vancouver. It is a yoga space and tea lounge on the 2nd floor with great light, lots of props and rad people. Come and check it out.
This workshop is all levels and includes chocolate tasting and chocolate information, a long and delicious yin yoga practice and a chocolate bar to take home...and YES, we will pop up a little shop of coffee and chocolate so you can bring EVR home with you.
East Van Roasters (319 Carrall Street in the Rainier Hotel) is a 16-seat specialty cafe and social enterprise of the PHS Community Services Society. Designed to provide pre-employment training and work opportunity for the women residents of the Rainier Hotel, East Van Roasters creates organic ‘bean to bar’ chocolate and coffee roasted and prepared on site. Delicious organic drinking chocolate and coffees, hand rolled truffles, single-origin chocolate bars and select pastries are offered Tuesday-Friday, 9am to 5pm and Saturdays 10am to 5pm.
VERY Excited to be presenting Yin and Social Justice at Hollyhock on Cortes Island, BC in September 2018. Join us September 23-28th, 2018. You can read more.
Dia Penning and Danielle Hoogenboom with our badass guest teacher in the last YY&SJ training with Chastity Davis.
Calling all rebels, leaders, healers, seekers and knowers. How do we confront and contain our energy, while making our bodies conduits for change? What does it take to create change, both internal and external? Let’s gather together to explore the complex, awkward, covert, and paradox as medicine for change. Free the tension in your body and spirit, allowing space to renew, refresh and see with new eyes.
Navigating our changing world and living a life of equity and social justice can be challenging. Like yoga, social justice requires practice in order to overcome long-held habits. Bringing our contemplation and yoga practices into our work, relationships and communities, allows a deeper examination of the privileges, biases, and structures that keep inequity in place.
During this 5-day program we will demonstrate how focusing on energy meridians and our physical bodies and sensations can serve as an example for energy changes in our organizations and communities. We will examine how attention and intention align with impact; how changes in behaviour create changes in interpersonal relationships, community interaction, and larger social structures.
The hours count as CEU with Yoga Alliance, or can applied towards the completion of LLY 200 Yin Yoga School.
Dia Penning is the founder of Equity Collective and the Director of Curriculum at World Trust Educational Services. She dances in the intersections of art, yoga, and social justice. A yoga practitioner for over 20 years, she discovered her love of yoga through a book she checked out from a local library. Dia supports students in slowing down, examining limiting patterns, and exploring creativity. She views yoga as a tool for social change, integrating it into her work as a social justice coach and curriculum developer, by encouraging a deep exploration of structural inequity through personal transformation and paradigm shift.
Dia has held leadership positions with the San Francisco Arts Commission, The Center for Innovation in Technology and Education at Columbia College Chicago, and the Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts. With a Master in Interdisciplinary Arts, Dia is a connector. She draws together, ideas, people, thoughts, and feelings by using breath work, the arts, media literacy, and strategic dialogue. This approach gets at the heart of assumptions and habitual behaviour. She works with teams, over time, to assuage their fear of change by building ideas, like blocks, and giving people time to reflect, respond, and question.
Dia is a mother, yogi, artist, activist, lover, teacher and student. She recognizes that her students share similarly complex identities and strives to meet them where they are at. theequitycollective.com
Danielle Hoogenboom founded Love Light Yoga as an expression of her yoga practice and creative interests both on and off the mat. She is passionate about yin yoga and its ability to heal, change and transform ourselves and the world around us. Believing that all people are invited to the healing of yoga, Danielle teaches a diverse schedule of classes and workshops that range from the practical theory to the mystical and sacred aspects of yoga. She is certified in Hatha Yoga, Yin Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Vinyasa Lotus Flow. She teaches in studios across Vancouver and often travels to teach abroad, share, celebrate and connect. She teaches Yin Yoga workshops worldwide sharing her passion for a gentle, steady practice. lovelightyoga.com
