Kushala Yoga

Specialties

Kushala Yoga warmly invites you to take charge of your health and well-​being by connecting and cooperating with your body and mind, through yoga. We are a place where you can strengthen or heal; explore or let go.

Kushala Yoga (formerly Newport Yoga) opened its doors in the winter of 2006 in Newport Village, Port Moody. We are now located in Suter Brook Village, in a beautiful 2-​studio space overlooking the North Shore mountains.

Whether you seek to improve fitness, manage stress, increase flexibility, promote balance, or increase personal fulfillment; we have classes and holistic services to support your needs and aspirations.

History

Established in 2006.

Formerly Newport Yoga, in 2011 we moved to a larger space in Suter Brook Village and became Kushala Yoga.

Meet the Business Owner

Karen A.

Business Owner

After ten years of working in software development, Karen found her personal yoga practice taking an increasingly important role in her life.

Karen believes that we are all seeking long lasting true happiness; not the kind that comes from external aquisitions, but an equilibrium between our perception of ourselves and our true nature. One day Karen realized that the things that she wanted to share with others were the very conduits to her happiness, and yoga was the primary channel. She decided to pursue her 200-​hour teacher training in Classical Ashtanga and Hatha Yoga to develop a formal basis from which to share yoga with others.

In the spring of 2009, she made a major life transition and left the technology company she co-​founded. Soon the opportunity to combine her passion for yoga with her business background arose, and Karen became co-​owner of Kushala Yoga.

Karen draws her physical yoga practice from her dance background, finding correlations between body awareness, flexibili