The campfire in the STRETCH lobby just got rewritten. Watch it flicker, then come sit by it this Thanksgiving weekend.
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The campfire in the STRETCH lobby just got rewritten. Watch it flicker, then come sit by it this Thanksgiving weekend.
See who’s coming and book a class with them Vancouver votes on October 17. Between now and then the city is full of talk, debates, doorknocking, and… YOGA. Yoga brings out the best in us, as human beings. On the mat we practise strength, balance, patience and flexibility. Through regular practice, these traits show up…
Thanksgiving is the right weekend to say it: thank you for showing up, week after week, in a small studio in Chinatown. A studio is only a room until people fill it. You fill it. So, three ways to say it back, on now until Thanksgiving Monday, October 12th, at midnight: All passes plus GST.…
When I was on a teacher training back in 2013, I put together my ultimate yoga class. It was a practice for the leaders of the G8. Twenty five years of practising has only strengthened my belief in mindful movement before important decisions, difficult meetings, and anything else that asks a lot of a human…
Open Acro Jam, Wednesdays, 5:30 to 8pm, in the FLEX Room. No teacher, no set plan: mats, open space, and a room full of people who love to fly. Work on something new, drill a flow, find a base or a flyer, or just come and spot. All levels, bring a friend. By donation. Pay…
A lot of you have asked when Samaneh Asgharzadeh would be back on the schedule. The answer is the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Flow Yoga with Samaneh, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12 to 1pm, starting Tuesday, October 13th. Strong, clear, steady Flow. Samaneh teaches the kind of lunch hour that makes the rest of the afternoon easier:…
Canada Day isn’t the same Red & White celebration it was when I was a kid. It’s a time to reflect on where we are as a nation — where we’ve been, and where we want to be going. Whenever I have important thinking to do, I prefix it with a yoga practice. STRETCH has…
Sometimes the best moments sneak up when you least expect them. I was out for my Thursday morning run when just after passing Hunnybee (my favourite Cafe in Vancouver) and my watched buzzed with a text from my cousin Jason, who lives in Calgary. He’d just seen me run past! A minute later I’m sitting…
STRETCH — Yoga for Agentic AI STRETCH 180 East Pender · Vancouver · Est. 2014 Announcement · Open Source · Agentic AI Yoga Practicesfor Agentic AI STRETCH is releasing a structured framework of yoga-derived practices for AI agents — grounding, pacing, and embodied reasoning tools designed to reduce hallucination, prevent overconfidence, and help agents serve…
Boyd Thomson, co-founder of STRETCH, spoke to The National on January 2nd, about what might be another economically challenging year. As a small business, we’ve learned an enormous amount over the course of the pandemic, and will continue to use our flexibility and creativity to provide you with a calm place to unwind on your…
Words from STRETCH co-founder Emmanuelle Rousseau The more I spend time thinking about what yoga is to me, and where it might have come from, the more I see myself come back to the same hypothesis: yoga is a form of proto medicine that somehow survived modern science.
In the summer of 2013, I sustained a brain injury that forced me to drop out of school and take a significant amount of time off work. Many people are aware that a concussion can lead to headaches, nausea, dizziness, pressure in the head, difficulty focusing, and sensitivity to light and noise, but not everyone…
For as long as I can remember, movement has always been a major part of my life. From many years of training in dance, to pole & circus arts to 8 years of competitive downhill skiing; it’s a lifestyle that I have continuously chosen to embrace through time. In the last 5 years of my…
In my experience, reggae music can empower a yoga practice by enlivening the space in which asanas arise and imbuing the yogi with uplifting notes and powerful truths. I’ve always believed that one of the major gifts of yoga is its capacity to unlock and refine our innate human essence, and I have found that…
We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Stretch will be hosting a research project “Mindful Brain Yoga: a pilot study on yoga for concussion”.
The response generated from the VOKRA fundraising events has been just phenomenal. We are very happy to see it and hope that many orphan kittens will get good homes from all this publicity!
We are overflowing with gratitude after our fantastic charity event! Thank you so much again to all the volunteers, the Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association (VOKRA) foster families involved, the 9 kitties who played with us on Sunday and the amazing students who came out!
Only a few doors down from us on Pender Street, fire is burning in the Daisy Garden. At noon I joined hundreds of onlookers and took this photo. I thought it was a hilarious testament to New Town Bakery‘s baking that people were still lining up for treats as firemen broke down the doorway nextdoor.
I spent much of today with BIL, the excellent adventure following TED. Described as an un-conference, BIL 2015 is a grassroots speaker series. The schedule, set only days ago, for the main stage was an eclectic mix, the side-stages even more so. That list being on a whiteboard at the entrance where anyone can write…