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    For most of my life I was taught to suppress my anger and rage. I wasn’t shown healthy ways to process this emotion I felt, and was often told it was unwelcome and harmful. I can understand why, in our household when rage was present, it was explosive. The volatility of the anger in our home left all of us on edge at times, and suspect of this emotion we would all feel. The domino of suppressed emotions after the harmful outbursts separated us from one another. As I got older, I realized that my rage was actually a guide towards what I most cared about, and a barometer for what I was willing to tolerate. When I...

Hello beautiful humans, I took a hiatus for ten days to rest and process after losing our uncle to his battle with lung cancer.  Grief during this time is complicated. Whether it is unpacking our grief around the loss of our friends, loved ones, or others, or the loss of parts of ourselves and our lives, our grief deserves our care and attention. That’s what I gave myself space for these last ten days. Just as I give our team bereavement days and time, I realized I needed to extend that same compassion to myself. What was impactful for me during this time was having tools to fall back on at my most vulnerable. My community, creativity, relationship to my...

      How has a domino changed your life? A domino is the first to take the leap, the first to break the norm, the first to say yes or to say no. How has a domino impacted your life or how have you impacted others by being a domino? There have been many moments in my life and career where I’ve had the privilege of being a domino. From being the first in my extended family to move out of province for university, to co-creating a documentary film showcasing women entrepreneurs during a time when our stories weren’t as widely shared, and now in cultivating my own space in well-being and personal development as a Resilience Educator. I...

  I didn’t actually know what a boundary was until I was 27.  It took hitting rock bottom with my health, and leaving a business partnership where I was gaslit to really understand what boundaries were, and that I was allowed to create them. Me... the youngest child in my household, who grew up in a home living with 10+ family members at any given time, someone who was so used to being always available to others, was actually allowed to create boundaries and ask for what I needed. What. A. Concept. That year in 2017, I began to test out what it looked like to set boundaries with those I love. If voices were raised with me, I would...

Bringing the lens of social justice to the wellness space and creating a more resilient and inclusive space in the yoga world.  Tejal shared with us that she tries to  teach yoga in a way that is not of the mainstream. There are so many people that are craving spaces that do more than just teach movement, and there’s people trying to understand yoga more in terms of getting to know it’s philosophy and learning about the eight limbs of yoga.  When it comes to social justice, Tejal bridges the gap between social justice and yoga by talking about the four relationships that we cultivate within yoga both on the mat, and out of the mat:  What are the four...