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…
The coworking collective in the Breathe room has two desks open. Quiet, central, your own desk in Chinatown with a yoga studio attached. Work, move, repeat. $400 a month for a desk and a full studio pass.
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…
Sound Bath Meditation with Mariah Mennie, Saturday, October 24th, 6:30 to 8pm. Lie still. Rest. Receive. Mariah returns with her harp, handpan, chimes and more for a 90 minute sound bath. There is nothing to do and nothing to get right. Bring a blanket and a pillow, lie down, and let the sound hold you.…
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…
Patience Manjula Selvarajah was on CBC’s Early Edition this morning talking about patience and AI chatbots. Two topics I’m highly interested in. Philosopher Christian Miller argues that leaning heavily on generative AI trains us to expect instant answers and constant gratification, and that it’s steadily eroding the virtue of patience. I sometimes refer to patience…
Self practice this weekend. There will be no classes at the studio this weekend until 6pm yin on Sunday. Instead, we are opening up our On Demand library, hours of recorded classes from STRETCH teachers which you can do at home, in the park, at the game, on your own schedule. Available for free to…
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…
Tea Dance is back at STRETCH on Sunday, May 17, 3 to 5pm. DJ Daylight Rob Ery on the decks, funky house, no bar, kids free, all ages welcome. $20. If you’ve been before, you know the format. If you haven’t: tea dances are an old idea. Afternoon dance parties predate the nightclub by a…
Women in BC earn 87 cents for every dollar a man makes.We can’t fix the wage gap from a yoga studio. But we can make it visible.Use code 87CENTS for 13% off any class or class pack at STRETCH today. That’s the gap. That’s what inequality looks like on a price tag. The discount is open…
STRETCH is considering opening up the Breathe room as a co-working space.
OpenPass is the studio-owned class pass network — an emergent co-op democratizing pass sharing between independent fitness studios. What is OpenPass? A co-op owned by member studios — not a VC-backed middleman Studios set their own prices Funds are spendable at all member studios Low overhead, low cost to implement Studios market it themselves because…
More value than you paid for. Sale ends December 2nd, 11:59 PM PST 10+2 CLASS PASS $196 Buy 10, Get 12 Error margin: +20% in your favor UNLIMITED MONTHLY $144 Last 2 Months FREE Compound interest for flexibility 14-MONTH ANNUAL $1,438 14 Months for Price of 12 Lifecycle cost optimization 50-CLASS BATCH $798 High-volume protocol…
STRETCH is happy to announce our first collaboration with The Pacific Nutrition Collective! With backgrounds in holistic nutrition, personal training, yoga teaching and cooking, The Pacific Nutrition Collective focuses on evidence-based research and its applications in nutrition, food preparation and physical training.
We have now expanded internally and converted our former office into a beautiful third studio space. STRETCH is now a three-studio centre, offering more opportunities for rentals and classes. Thinking about an upcoming event? Why not host it at STRETCH? Be it parties, weddings, baby/bridal showers, photoshoots, concerts, company off-site meetings or events – we’re…