Modo Yoga Brant, 53 Dalhousie Street, Brantford, ON (2026)

06/19/2026

✨Neutral Pelvis

Maybe you’ve heard the term thrown around. Maybe you’re not sure what that means 🤔

What do suspenders have to do with it anyway? What a weird cue right? Or maybe not..

Oh and…this video is a little sneak peek into one of the topics we’ll be exploring together at our…

✨Member Forum✨

🗓️Saturday, June 20
🕰️6:00 PM.

😊Members and students are welcome to join.
🤔Bring your questions, and be part of the conversation or just come and listen!

✅ One of the ways I like to explain a neutral pelvis (those that take my classes say yep 😂), is with the image of belly suspenders and back suspenders.
When they’re roughly the same length, you’ve found a ‘neutral’ relationship between your pelvis and spine - a neutral pelvis.
It’s NOT about finding one perfect position and staying there forever though. It’s about understanding how neutral feels like a foundation, and how muscles work together to support and stabilize our body.

In some classes - Pilates for example, we intentionally move into a slight posterior tilt where the “belly suspenders” shorten a little to help us connect with the lower abdominals, particularly the transverse abdominis.

In the video, I demonstrate this in a low lunge.

✅ Instead of simply sinking deeper into the stretch, shift back a little, we can pull the front points of the pelvis slightly up, lengthen the tailbone down, and begin to recruit the glutes, hips, and lower abdomen together✅

Why? Because our bodies aren’t built on an either/or system.

✨It’s not flexibility vs strength.
✨It’s not “do this” and never “do that.”

✅ Our bodies work best when different systems learn to communicate and cooperate - team spirit.

✅ Movement is less about finding the “right” shape and more about understanding the relationship between the parts that create the shape. It’s a team effort.

✨If you have questions about neutral pelvis, core engagement, hip mobility, posture, or movement in general, come join us Saturday. I’d love to explore it together. We will cover lots of topics we may not dwell on in a regular class.

Thanks for watching.
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06/18/2026

⛅️Our very first Modo At The Farm☀️

🗓️Saturday June 27th
🕰️6pm-7pm.

🤩Open to all members and available using drop in or class packages.

💦bring water
🧘‍♂️yoga mat
🦟bug spray

✅preregistration is mandatory
📍address will be provided to those registered only.

🤍Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.
🤍Let’s touch grass together.

06/17/2026

🗻TADASANA
🗻Mountain Pose

Our lovely teacher Melanie Melanie Murray talks about one of her favourite poses and why.
What’s YOUR favourite pose?

06/15/2026

SUMMER STRONG
Week Three: Awareness & Self-Study

This week we explore dhyana (awareness) and svadhyaya (self-study).

One of the gifts of practice is that it gives us an opportunity to see ourselves more clearly, not just our movement patterns, but our thought patterns too. This can feel uncomfortable at times.

Yoga philosophy teaches satya, often translated as truthfulness. While we may think of truthfulness as being honest with others, it also asks us to be honest with ourselves.

What stories arise when things become challenging? What narratives show up when we feel uncomfortable?

What happens when we wobble, struggle, lose balance, or feel like we’re not progressing quickly enough?

Many of us have a well-practiced inner critic. A voice that is quick to point out what isn’t working, what needs fixing, or where we fall short. Over time, that narrative can become so familiar that we mistake it for truth.

But self-study isn’t self-judgment.

Awareness invites us to notice the narrative without automatically believing it.

To observe.

To become curious.

To ask whether we’re seeing clearly.

Because often, while we’re busy focusing on what isn’t perfect, we’re missing evidence of growth. We’re overlooking resilience, consistency, courage, effort, and all the small ways we continue to show up.

This week, notice what your mind pays attention to. Notice the first instinct when you like or dislike something?

Without judgment.

Can you celebrate your progress as easily as you identify your shortcomings?

Can you practice truthfulness not only by acknowledging where you’d like to grow, but also by recognizing everything that is already worthy of gratitude?

Awareness is not about becoming someone different.

It’s about seeing clearly what is already here.

The truth is often much kinder, fuller, and more balanced than the inner critic would say.

This is a powerful entry point into more freedom and more breath. Sigh.

You’re human. You’re doing GREAT.

06/11/2026

🤍Better Together🤍

Summer strong so far has been just that.

✅Challengers, here’s a chance to scoop up some extra points.

🤍One of the most valuable things about practicing in community is that we learn from each other.

🤩Join us for our very first Member Q&A Interactive Forum, a relaxed, teacher-led conversation where you can bring your questions, curiosities, and experiences to the table.

👨‍🎓We’ll explore topics like:

• postural alignment
• nervous system regulation
• breath and movement
• core engagement
• and whatever you want to discuss

🗓️Let’s save the date (pre register please) to connect, learn, and grow together.

✨LIVE TO LEARN✨

📅 June 20
🕕 6:00–7:30 PM
📍 Modo Yoga Brant

Free for members. Class credits accepted. Space is limited.

What question have you always wanted to ask in class but never had the chance to?

06/11/2026

Thank you Selena Kennedy for talking about your favourite lunge variations.

💪🏼Meet high crescent lunge and some of the family members.

What’s your favourite pose?

Let us know and we’ll make a posture tip video!

06/07/2026

✨Summer Strong
✨Week 2

Last week we explored breath and containment. The vessel that holds our energy. We explored where we feel the breath in our bodies and often used our exhales to prompt deeper core support. We also used our exhales to sigh, to release.

🔥This week, we explore building heat.

When building a fire, we don’t start by throwing on the biggest logs (I may have tried this before) hoping for the best 🫣.

We begin gently. We blow softly on the embers. We tend to what is ALREADY there.

The yogic concept of tapas is often translated as “inner fire,” but it is also discipline, dedication, and the willingness to keep showing up.

Not because we FEEL inspired every day.

Not because we’re trying our hardest every moment.

✨But because small, consistent actions have the power to transform us.✨

This week, we’ll also explore the relationship between heat and form

When we hold a posture like a plank, a chair pose, a warrior, we begin to feel warmth building in the body. 😅

Muscles awaken.
Circulation increases.
The joints are nourished by movement and stability.
The body learns how to support itself.

That heat is not something to fear or fight against.
It is information.
It’s uncomfortable.
It’s 🔥.

The sensation of effort.
The sensation of adaptation.
The sensation of strength being developed in real time.

As we stay with the shape, we discover that strength isn’t only about moving more.
Sometimes it is about holding steady. Staying present.
Breathing through discomfort without immediately trying to escape it.

Just as breath gently awakens a fire, attention and dedication awaken the body’s capacity for strength.

Heat is built breath by breath.
Practice by practice.
Moment by moment.

In a world that often falls into the all-or-nothing approach, tapas invites us into something different: steady effort, patient dedication, and trust in the process.

🔥This week, notice how you tend your own fire.🔥

What helps you show up on the days when motivation is low?

What are the small rituals, reminders, or practices that keep your embers glowing?

Share below! we’d love to learn from one another. 🔥

Obviously I like the 🔥 emoji.

06/05/2026

The Roll Up in Pilates, or even a classic sit up or crunch calls on our deep core muscles to do the work. If the core isn’t doing its job, something else will likely be over working to try to accomplish the task.

Are you asking your neck muscles to lift your whole body off the floor?! Or are you harnessing all the deep core activation you can to lighten the load?

Sometimes we have the strength, but aren’t tapping into what’s already there! The body slips into familiar behaviour patterns that aren’t necessarily the most efficient or optimal for the task at hand.

Be mindful when aligning and engaging the body and you’ll be able to find deeper stability to support your strength journey!

What is your favourite “lifting the body up” exercise? The Roll Up, the Sit Up, or the Crunch?

06/01/2026

WEEK 1 SUMMER STRONG
Breath and Containment

🔥Here is our beloved Meg with some alignment advice for table which ‘aligns’ perfectly with our June 1st kick off!

Not just your regular table
over here. This is Meg’s table.

“You can do anything for one more breath.”

- Meg Forbes

🔥💪🏼🔥

06/01/2026

WEEK ONE: Breath & Containment

FOCUS: prana & bhandas. air, direction, stability.

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