In 2005, I was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 37. After undergoing surgery, chemo and radiotherapy treatments, I attended a yoga class at the Laval Serenity Programm, provided by the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation. This is when I met Susan Frederick, yoga teacher, who…
Thank you to Adina V., teacher training graduate of the Dr. Bali Method, for contributing this piece. Mind, body and soul are the constituent elements of human life. These three components of life collectively create our human experience. Through our body, we…
Thank you to Edie K., teacher training graduate of the Dr. Bali Method, for contributing this piece. All that was learned, experienced, felt throughout Dr. Bali’s training course, along with the drop-in classes, enabled me to develop a complete personal practice. The bits and…
Thank you to Allison H., teacher training graduate of the Dr. Bali Method, for contributing this piece. There are over 30 million people practicing yoga today in the United States alone and the participation rate is increasing by 20% each year. Everywhere you…
I have known Dr. Bali for over 10 years now. I still remember the first time I took one of his classes. I worked so hard my muscles were sore the next day! The class lasted over two hours and was full of thought provoking…
How to live our lives…I think that most of us are trying to ‘figure it out’. We want answers to life’s big questions and ways to deal with the mundane, every day questions. We keep trying to figure out how to live in a human…
My journey with Doctor Madan Bali started the summer of 2002. I was undergoing chemotherapy at the Montreal Jewish Hospital for my breast cancer. I was then forty years old, mother of teenage twins (a boy and a girl), working professional and married to a…
I met Dr. Bali in 1993. I had just failed my first attempt to make the Canadian Rowing team. The intense pressure of competition prevented me from sleeping, and distracted me from winning races that I was strong enough to win. I needed to learn…
I’m 41 years old and living with grade IV breast cancer. At the age of 34, right after I learned I had cancer and just before my first cycle of chemotherapy, was when yoga entered my life through the Serenity program provided by the Quebec…
They say when the student is ready, the teacher will appear, it is true. I had spent a number of years in the American Peace Corps, hoping to change the world. I realized after working with many different types of people that the only thing…
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