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Hello


We’re Sage Yoga and we’re happy to meet you!

We offer a custom wellness service that helps you care for yourself physically, mentally, and emotionally through ayurveda, yoga, meditation, and nutritional guidance. We’re located in Toronto and travel everywhere in the city to show you how to find peace of mind and peace in your body.

We customize any yoga style to suit your needs. We offer traditional yoga (hatha, yin, restorative, vinyasa) as well our own mix of yoga styles, and meditation in our Empower™ classes. Let us help you use yoga to relax your entire being and allow free movement, breathing, and creativity to flourish.

Come experience our customized yoga and meditation classes today and find out what all the Oms are about!


Private Classes

Suitable for all students, from beginners to advanced. A mixed class that offers the opportunity to go deeper. These classes incorporate asana, breathwork, and meditation.

Community Classes

Suitable for all students, from beginners to advanced. A mixed class that offers the opportunity to go deeper. These classes incorporate asana, breathwork, and meditation.

Corporate Yoga

Suitable for all students, from beginners to advanced. A mixed class that offers the opportunity to go deeper. These classes incorporate asana, breathwork, and meditation.

Meditation

Suitable for all students, from beginners to advanced. A mixed class that offers the opportunity to go deeper. These classes incorporate asana, breathwork, and meditation.

Workshops

Suitable for all students, from beginners to advanced. A mixed class that offers the opportunity to go deeper. These classes incorporate asana, breathwork, and meditation.

Yoga Teacher Training

Sage is YACEP (Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider®) certified and provides Yoga Teacher Trainings that qualify as Continuing Education hours for Registered Yoga Teachers (RYT®s). RYT®s who take courses with Sage can trust that their training counts toward meeting their Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Requirements.
Stay tuned for Kids’ Yoga and Restorative Yoga Teacher Trainings!

COMING SOON


About Sage Yoga


“The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.”
Jason Crandell

We specialize in a practical approach to a healthy body and mind through Ayurveda, yoga, nutrition, exercise, posture, breathing,and mindfulness.

Our founding yogi, Roxana, is a Certified Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with the Yoga Alliance (E-RYT 500), a Bellies Inc. Certified Core Confidence Specialist, a Fitness Instructor, and a martial artist. She also completed a B.Sc. degree in Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Toronto and studied Nutrition, Herbal Medicine and Ayurveda at the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine.

Her passion fosters a holistic approach to strengthening the body, mind, and spirit.

Roxana’s Biography

Roxana Mares started studying martial arts and meditation in childhood. It resonated with her at such an early age that she continued her studies during her University and College life, studying Zen Buddhism and traditional martial arts. While studying Anatomy and Physiology at the University of Toronto, she also became a fitness instructor.  

In 2010 Roxana dove right into the Yoga and Holistic Wellness world. 

She continued with a 300-hour advanced yoga teacher training, that contained Yoga Therapy, Meditation, Yin Yoga, and Restorative Yoga training, among other courses.

She taught teacher trainings in Restorative Yoga, Kids yoga and also worked with people suffering from physical and emotional limitations.  She studied Ayurveda, Nutrition, and Phytomedica at the Dogwood School of Botanical Medicine since 2012. 

Roxana has a wealth of knowledge and experience about healing the body, mind, and nervous system and is very passionate about helping others live healthier, happier lives.  

Roxana is passionate about making yoga, meditation and mindful movement accessible to everyone, regardless of their age, abilities or limitations.  She blends nutritional counseling, yoga, meditation and fitness into her holistic wellness consulting.

Healing Yoga and Meditation

The style of yoga Roxana teaches is so much more than yoga!  She helps people create a connection to their body through breath exploration and scanning the body for tension.  

She encourages people to bring this awareness into their entire lives and use the skills learned in her classes to help people live more relaxed and healthier, as well as more able to handle situations that inevitably come up in our daily lives: stresses, challenges, etc.  

This helps with the effects of stress on the body, not just physically but also emotionally:

    • Decrease stress response: increased cortisol, high blood pressure, tension around organs, improper functioning of the digestive system, decrease of the hippocampus
    • Emotionally not being so reactive to situations; remaining more clear-minded in order to properly handle situations and make correct decisions

Her classes promote a meditation in motion that can also be used in daily life.  


Testimonials


Kane Shieh

“Learning from Roxana is an amazing experience. Her guidance is gentle, yet firm. She takes you to your limits, then gently and safely takes you beyond them for an incredible and expanding experience. Truly a gifted teacher!”

Andy Jang

“Roxana is an awesome yoga teacher. She is thorough in her practice, detailed on form, she is very good at aligning and stretching the body in a very healing way. I love and look forward to every class!”

Kevin Blagrave

“I was wary of yoga, thinking it required extreme flexibility, but the first class I attended with Roxy changed all of that! The class was laid out in a very straightforward, fluid way and was accessible to everyone — from beginners like myself to those experienced individuals who had obviously been to many classes. Thanks Roxy!”

Joanna M.

“Roxy is a skilled and passionate yoga teacher. Her sense of humor and genuine approachability make her classes a treat. She always brings a balance of friendliness, core yoga theory, and modern day application to create classes that always leave me feeling peaceful and strong! ”

Marlan Globerson

“Roxana is a qualified and enthusiastic yoga instructor. She is very good at adapting yoga instruction to accommodate the circumstance and abilities of her students. I really enjoy her teaching style.”

Michael Carey

“The way she catered to all abilities was quite impressive; I didn’t feel left behind, as she always offered an option that even a neophyte like myself was able to perform. The language she used to describe our energy also reverberated with me, allowing me to become more aware of myself — both within and in relation to the environment around me. ”


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