Hollow Tree Yoga

“This down-to-earth, flesh-and-bones practice
is simply one of the most expedient ways
to meet yourself.”
~Donna Farhi

Hollow Tree Yoga offers a welcoming space for learning, growth, and exploration, for creating community connections, for cultivating practices that support health and well-being.

We invite people of all starting points to breathe deeply and discover the mental, physical, and emotional benefits of a mindful yoga practice: increased focus and clarity of thought, greater strength, stamina, and flexibility, improved posture, enhanced capacity to balance and flow through the ups and downs of life.

We support our local community through sponsorship of Renfrew County Children’s Poverty Action Network (CPAN), a grassroots organization advocating the elimination of child poverty and working to minimize its effects on children living in Renfrew County.  www.renfrewcountycpan.ca

We seek to make yoga practice accessible to everyone in our community by offering a “pay-what-you-can” class each week (Thursdays at 5:30pm).  Students are welcome to borrow yoga mats for use during the class.  All proceeds of the first class of each month benefit Renfrew County CPAN.

We deepen our relaxation at the end of each yoga class with the healing vibrations of the Crystal Singing Bowl, a sound instrument made from pure quartz crystal silica sand in a high temperature fusion process.  Listeners describe a sense of being surrounded by the sound and of feeling its vibrations within.  A flowing practice of breath and postures followed by relaxation with the Crystal Singing Bowl will leave you feeling both refreshed and restored.

Susan McEwen
Founder and Teacher
My work as a yoga teacher and founder of Hollow Tree Yoga is a true labour of love.  I am blessed to be treading a path that allows me to share with and learn from others, nurturing the well-being of individuals and community.  This yoga space belongs to everyone who enters it, as together we create a safe and loving place for our practice, both in ourselves and in the physical space we share.

Teaching is a thread that weaves its way through my life:  working with children as an elementary school teacher, offering art classes for all ages, living and learning with my daughter as a home educating parent, serving as Director of Religious Education at the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, and now bringing creativity, caring, and connection into my work as a yoga teacher. 

Completion of Yoga Teacher Training with Core-Elation Yoga (www.core-elation.com) was a transformative experience of mind, body, and spirit, as it lifted up the value and meaning of living yoga both on and off the mat, of illuminating our everyday moments with the teachings and discoveries of yoga.  Gratitude is a vital ingredient in this process, a real thankfulness for all the teachers we encounter in our lives – and that is pretty much everyone we meet every day.  There is so much to learn!

 I believe yoga is for everyone – it’s not about whether you can touch your toes or move deeply into complicated postures.  It’s more about a willingness to touch your heart and to deepen your awareness.  A yoga practice can connect us to the power of the present moment, so that we are not living in the stories of what happened yesterday or what might happen tomorrow.  This practice invites us to live fully right now!  Each of us finds our fit in the practice as our lives unfold.  I look forward to sharing the journey with you…Namaste.

 

Our Space ~ above the Gallery Gift Shop in downtown Arnprior.  We are blessed to share the building “Where Friends Meet” with the Gallery Gift Shop, the Arnprior Book Shop, and Bonnie Jane’s Scones.  You can find Hollow Tree by walking through the Gallery - Margaret, Tara, and Anthony will happy to point you in the right direction – or by entering behind the building, under the black awning.  There is free parking in the lot behind the building as well as on the street.