As summer winds down, September should be all about self-care!
This season can often be a busy one for many people, so paying attention to our body’s cues and being aware of what our bodies need during this time is so important—which is exactly where June Wing Therapeutic Yoga comes in!
June Wing Therapeutic Yoga works with clients to gain more awareness and comfort in their bodies, through group sessions and private classes.
June Wing is a certified yoga therapist who looks to help her clients not only improve mobility in their bodies, but also to ease the aches and pains of daily life.
In celebration of all things self-care, June Wing has teamed up with Tricia Schiedel at Koi Treatment to give away a free one-hour massage to one lucky winner—you’ll find those contest details below!
What June Wing Therapeutic Yoga offers
June Wing offers themed body awareness classes and workshops, whose aim is to help students start a conversation with their bodies and move more in tune with their body’s natural rhythm.
This includes increasing awareness of how students are creating excess tension in their bodies, and how they can release the tension and create more comfort in the body.
The current offerings are Healthy Backs, Shoulder Tension Release, Core Awareness, Healthy Hips, Healthy Knees, Healthy Feet, Bones and Finding Balance—June Wing can also offer private sessions for those who prefer this option.
She currently teaches out of the Ajna Yoga Studio in Oak Bay and the West Coast Academy of Performing Arts studios near Quadra and McKenzie.
You can book your one-on-one or group session here.
Sessions
Each session has an educational component, in which anatomy models, youtube videos and slides are used to assist students in learning more about their bodies function.
This is followed by practical explorations of the themed area of the class.
Students
These sessions are not designed to diagnose or treat medical conditions—the exercises are very gentle and are treated as explorations or experiments as they are not done to achieve a specific result, but rather to learn how we can get out of our body’s way so that it can maintain its own health.
The exercises are designed to change the way participants view their bodies and health and as such are not meant to be “practiced”, but more assimilated into their daily lives including sports activities.
The classes are suitable for most people, and past students have included people new to yoga as well as yoga teachers, athletes and body work professionals. Some students have come before and after knee or hip replacements.
June’s background
June Wing has been teaching for 4 years, and is certified as an RYT500 (Advanced Teacher of Yoga) and C-IAYT (Certified Yoga Therapist). She chose the yoga therapy route to certification as she has practiced yoga for most of her life and resonates with its holistic view of health and aim of starting a conversation with our bodies.
This holistic view is that the body is a living organism, not a machine, a naturally self-regulating entity and that it is blockages of the energy flow in the body that are primarily responsible for creating problems.
However, she also borrows from many other areas such as physiotherapy, embryology and natural posture principles.
CONTEST
Head to our sister website, Victoria Buzz, for a chance to WIN a free one hour massage from Tricia Schiedel at Koi Treatment care of June Wing Therapeutic Yoga—enter here!
