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Change Will Have It’s Way With Us The sky clouded in smoke so dense I can’t see across the lake. I thought I was out in the wild and woods where those woes were untouchable. The fires so far…
Its like coming home – safe, sweatpants and undisclosed. Home has become something comfortable in its denial and disinterest in the truth of what we are hiding from. Lying on the couch numbing out with TV and packaged food again,…
Vanlife was a wild ride. In this Episode we (Kaitlin and Ben) dive into the lessons we learned, the hardships we experienced and how they helped us on our path to a Life In Balance. It wasn’t always clear that…
The “Series” continues…
Sitting on a log. The view in front of me a glass calm lake. My Baby and partner are napping in the motorhome as I take a few moments to commune with nature. It’s so still and quiet here. The…
The “Series” continues…
I am moving in my body, to be with my body. I am wearing very little clothes, uncomfortably exposed to nothing but the objects of my living room and my nagging ego. I witness the self deprecating thoughts and unkind…
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Enjoy our North Vancouver Island COVID Adventures!
I feel like I don’t have much to say these days and therefore my writing feels a bit parched for unique experience. My life is like the most uneventful ground hog day. Truly when I say this I feel blessed…
Free Compassion Meditation
Sometimes we all need to take a little time to Smell the Rosies in life, whatever they may be and wherever they may be hidden.
When I sit quietly, on my porch listening to the birds announce spring here on Vancouver Island, the peace and tranquility is a necessary balm for all the noise and fear being woven into our new collective narrative. I feel…
Rosie is really sick. It started a few days ago with a bad fever and no sleep, to a cough and congestion, still very little sleep and now projectile vomiting and of course minimal sleep. 8 and a half…
A Climate for Inner Change Todays piece is big and bold, confronting and triggering. And can also feel empowering and uplifting too. When I write, its like I receive a download. It makes me really re-evaluate the places in my life…
I wonder if we were all born sensitive. To people. To animals. To the trees and the wild flowers. To the truth inside versus the marketed ideas of how we should exist on the outside. I wonder if the confusion…
I sit here watching the brilliant fire red leaves from the Japanese maple, light up my living room like a prairie sunset paralyzed with the realization of how much I am seeing through the lens of an anxiety. …
I wonder what wander would bring? Yoga has led me to this very empowered place of understanding where life no longer is happening to me but through me, of me and for me. The signs all point me to…
You don’t need a church to pray. or a house for a place to call home Or a job to do the work Or a yoga teacher to cue your core Its the embodiment of intentions and the actions they…
You know that feeling when your clinging to the outcome having to look a certain way. And you know how your body hardens and calcifies to those set expectations. And then you know how your rigid opinions and concrete fixation…
Allow me introduce you to my baby, Body Intelligence Yoga. As time means change and the days and years passing mean both experience gained and skin elasticity lost, this is born from the only experiences I have to date. …
I had yoga up on this pedestal for many years because it felt so important to who I was becoming and so essential to why I was even exploring myself beyond what I had been modelled growing up. It was…
I have been thinking a lot about how my yoga practice has changed so much over the years as I reclaim more of an intuitive and intimate relationship to my body, mind and soul. I realize that this is in no…
I am a man. I grew up with sisters and a mother, yet the word period was something to be avoided, or more accurately, something I knew existed but never talked about. Sadly in our culture, and worse in many…
I have been asked privately and in the quiet corners “How do you think you got pregnant?”. The few bold and curious that are struggling within their own infertility prison asked so I thought I would share with everyone. I…
That moment when I realized my partnership is my greatest achievement so far… I have been joyfully overwhelmed by all the support and excitement of Ben and I’s pregnancy and it has revealed that miracles do happen. After 3 failed adoptions,…
“The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are…
Let me just say that this time in my female identified life is hugely underrated. I feel like this is the second great transition a women goes through, and these transitions are like gateways into a new realm of…
I’ve never held a personal view of anything before this. I never thought of myself as anything, really, more of just a kid. I can’t remember exactly but I doubt I had ever had a thought about how to…
As you may know I(Ben) haven’t always been into yoga. I haven’t been studying the asanas or the spiritual teachings of yoga. I didn’t enter into an agreement with yoga to learn or be a certain way. To change the…
New year, new opportunities, new you! Join expert anatomy junkie and Kinesiologist Kaitlin Armstrong and teacher of teachers Darci Nyal for a 2 hour workshop that balances the strength we are all working towards in our classes, and the subtlety…
I used to be think space meant I was going to get bored, which led to restless anxiousness, which led to filling the void with drinking or working too much or shopping or exercising to beat myself up or…
I cannot express the feelings of raw ache to hear my husband cry in the kitchen as he makes his coffee. To watch him wonder aimlessly from room to room with scrambled coordinates the loss has left us with.…
It goes without saying that I have learned a few things being Kaitlin’s husband. Not only does she blow me away daily with her knowledge and love for teaching and educating, but as a person she has empowered me…
You know that feeling when your clinging to the outcome having to look a certain way. And you know how your body hardens and calcifies to those set expectations. And then you know how your rigid opinions and concrete fixation…
Join Kaitlin as she works through the Body Intelligence FEEL-osophies! This is Part 2 of the very first episode of our new podcast!
Join Kaitlin as she sits down with those she is inspired by! Episode 1 is with long time friend Kyle Booton, they go through the Body Intelligence FEEL-osophies one by one. These are the foundations of Body Intelligence and…
I have never written about this before. To be so exposed in my pain and my rawness. To be so confused and confronted in my womanhood. I dont know where to start. Except to say that 7 years of infertility…
The Build Your Own Practice (B.Y.O.P) is a monthly videos series all about helping you find your own practice. The video below is intended to encourage you to think about your own body within your own practice, to listen to…
Please enjoy a snippet of our journey to Burning Man and Back. We are forever changed and grateful for the experience. We wouldn’t change it for the world! Want to come next year!? Let us know!
Kaitlin’s Tedx was an epic launching point for her public speaking career.
Something amazing happens when we get on the road, we see things from a new perspective and experience life in a different way. This past June we ventured to the Mountain Spirit Festival in Sun Peaks BC, where Kaitlin taught…
Do you like to dance? If you are a man who grew up in the world I did, chances are your answer is a no. Not even really a no so much as a indifference or something you just…
The truth of the matter is that Yoga has some good ass teachings. It has some teachings which are as powerful as the bible or any other religious text you can think of. The way I like to look at…
I had yoga up on this pedestal for many years because it felt so important to who I was becoming and so essential to why I was even exploring myself beyond what I had been modelled growing up. It was…
If I could only say I’ve learned one thing having a hardcore yogi as a partner it would be this: You can’t fake being happy. It’s a big sentence and it’s an even bigger issue in my world, and in…
There is a trick to this. There is a way to navigate the yogic world undetected. Almost like I fit in, or that I care. I’ve got it. The trick is to just do all the stuff with your partner,…
Mediation is my game changer… I might not always win but it definitely teaches me to be great sportsman! Life is a fun and challenging game that we get to go play everyday and as such requires an opponent. Mindful…
Ever wonder how personal hygiene and VanLife mix? This is a prime example of a day at the “spa”. Kaitlin takes her self care out to the dock and tries to pamper herself in beautiful Lake Cowichan. Sometimes you’ve got…
Have you ever heard of the Chakras? Energy centres we have inside of our bodies, little spots that seem to hold some power over how we think and feel. If you haven’t, don’t worry, it’s a hippy thing, or dare…
WTF happened yesterday? It was a flail and a busy run around day, I am learning that maybe it didn’t have to be. When I think back to pre yoga husband days I see free time, laughter, beer and lazy…
Procrastination. Over the last couple of years I have learned some pretty weird tools. Not like a drill or hammer, but a tool I can use to soothe my brain when it’s caught up in the gong show I feel…
This day was a good day. Started early on Dallas road in Victoria, involved some work, a few beaches, a surf and one of the most beautiful views I can think of. We left the city behind, just a…
Kaitlin would never be able to write this herself, so I will. This video is Kaitlin trying her damnedest to put into words why she has worked to bring Body Intelligence Yoga to the world. Starting a long time ago…
Sometimes the only way out of a “bad” mood is by force. When all the self dialogue and self love in the world just can’t seem to shake the “arg!” feeling, Kaitlin takes Tony Robbins’ words to heart: “No more…
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Narration from the video: Christmas on the cliff, on the edge of sanity, love and adventure. Right here, right now is a hell of a place to be, wherever that is for you. The magic of just being able to…
Years ago, I had this idea, an idea I think I’m still trying to figure out. What if we aren’t going anywhere? What if where we are is exactly where we are meant to be? The two of us grew up in a smallish industry town on Vancouver Island BC, Canada.
Sometimes our students agree with us: a sample of testimonials from the last training in Campbell River, BC. This was one to remember, so thank you all so much.
Sometimes when it snows and you get the itch; roadside handstands and nothing more. This episode was brought to you by, In Balance.
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