Ocean and Crow Yoga/Space

Specialties

Ocean and Crow lives in the beating heart of the Commercial Drive neighborhood. Our cozy space offers small classes in various styles, including Flow (Power), Slow (Hatha), Restorative, Yin, and Yin/​Flow classes, as well as workshops like Full Bodied Yoga, Yoga for Anxiety and Depression, Yoga for Feminists, Creative Flow: Yoga and Writing, and more.

We love small classes, personal instruction, playfulness, rest, sweating, curiosity, skepticism, mysticism, and anything new we can learn. We want to love our bodies as they are, and empower ourselves with the tools to understand rather than looking to some specific authority figure for guidance. To each his/​her/​their own way. We want all of our students to come to class and think, «Yes, this is my yoga!»

History

Established in 2008.

The studio is run and owned by Julie and Jane Peters, a mother daughter team. Jane brought Julie to her first yoga class back when she was only twelve, and when she first moved to Vancouver, priority number one was to find a good yoga class. She came to East Side (the old name) and discovered the teachers here cracking jokes and talking about yoga as a tool for dealing with reality. She felt as if they were giving her permission to truly be herself, which she hadn’t experienced before in a yoga context. Now that Julie and Jane own the studio together, they try hard to maintain this quality of already feeling good enough, already belonging, and simply showing up and being able to experience your yoga in whatever way you need to that day.

We got Silver in the WestEnder’s Best in the City for Yoga Studios in East Van for 2015!

Meet the Business Owner

Julie P.

Business Owner

Julie Peters has an MA in Canadian poetry, is a spoken word poet, freelance writer, and E-​RYT 200 yoga teacher. She loves experimenting with the ways yoga and creativity intersect, and will incorporate poetry into her classes and onto the chalkboard walls of the studio itself. She also teaches Creative Flow workshops designed to explore yoga and writing from the body in innovative ways. Her first book, Secrets of the Eternal Moon Phase Goddesses, will be published by Skylight Paths in Spring 2016.

She owns the studio with her mom, Jane, a yoga student and financial wizard who is both strong of heart and triceps, thanks to all those chaturangas she does now.

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