Caroline MacGillivray Wellness

When I'm not teaching, you might find me reading. I read 10 to 15 books most weeks. I frequent the free libraries in my neighbourhood. K pries books from my hands when we head to bed. I fall asleep reading most nights.

I read on my way to studios. I read in the gaps between classes. This week, I aim to drop the amount of books I read and increase the time I spend writing.

For classes, I am at:

Sunday
8:40am & 9:50sm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

1pm splitsability
Ta**ra Fitness / Be 1 Fitness Gastown

5:30pm Hot pilates
7pm yin
Modo Yoga Olympic Village

Monday
9:50am, 11am & 12:10pm Barre
7pm Hot pilates
8:30pm yin
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

Tuesday
9am Hot pilates
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

Wednesday
10:45am pilates fusion


5:30pm Pole choreo
6:30pm Pole 202
7:45pm Aerial Yoga
Obsidian Athletic Club

Thursday
5:30pm Mat pilates
Elani | Vancouver Wellness Clinic

Friday
9am yin
12pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:30pm Hot pilates
Modo Yoga Olympic Village

Saturday
8:15am qi gong
9am Sit to fit
9:45pm mobility and strength
10:30am chair yoga
Seniors living

7pm yin
yyoga.lonsdale

Please make time to things that are important to you.

If we look at different spheres of wellness:

Physical
Emotional
Mental
Spiritual
Financial
Educational
Social
Family
Home

Which areas are you focusing on this week?

In addition to teaching, I am staying close to home as I start to prep things for fall, spending time with family, and friends.

If you need support for physical, emotional or spiritual goals, I am available for private trainings and corporate. Please reach out if you are interested in booking a session to set up goals for upcoming season.

For classes I am teaching in Vancouver and Notth Vancouver.

This week's schedule:

Sunday
8:40am & 9:50am Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

1pm splitsability & 2pm Intro to Pole
Ta**ra Fitness / Be 1 Fitness

4pm hot pilates & 5:45pm Flow & yin
Modo Yoga East Vancouver

Monday

9:50am & 11am & 12:10pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:45pm Mat Pilates
Elani | Vancouver Wellness Clinic

Tuesday
9am Hot pilates
2:30pm personal training private
4:45pm private corporate yoga

Wednesday
10:45am pilates fusion
yyoga.lonsdale

5:30pm Pole choreo
6:30pm Pole 202
7:45pm Aerial Yoga
Obsidian Athletic Club

Thursday
5:45pm Mat pilates
Elani | Vancouver Wellness Clinic

Friday
9am yin
12:10pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:45pm Deep Stretch Elani | Vancouver Wellness Clinic

Saturday
8:15am Qi Gong
9:00am Fit & Sit
9:45pm Fit and Flow
10:30am chair yoga
Private Seniors Facility

7pm Yin
yyoga.lonsdale

Sunday
8:40am & 9:50am
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:30pm Hot pilates
7pm yin
Modo Yoga Olympic Village

What is the best workout? According to my friend Alison Raeya | Pilates Teacher Trainer - the one you do consistently.I agree with her! It is important to find ways to incorporate movement, breathwork, and strength training into our lives. Movement is medicine.

I also encourage you to explore workouts you may not enjoy as much as your regular ones. Some workouts challenge us in different ways.

Perhaps going to a place we don't know. Or listening to your health care practitioner when they recommend different exercises.

If you want to try pilates, yoga, pole, aerial yoga, barre, or splitsability, here is my schedule this week:

This week's schedule:

Monday
9:50am & 11am Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

Tuesday
9am Hot pilates
10:30am Yin Yoga


2:30pm Private training session

Wednesday
8:40am Barre
9:50am Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:30pm Pole Choreo
6:30pm Pole 202
7:45pm Aerial Yoga
Obsidian Athletic Club

Thursday
5:45pm Mat Pilates
Elani | Vancouver Wellness Clinic

Friday
8:40am Barre
9:50am Barre
12pm Community Flow
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:45pm hot pilates
Modo Yoga Olympic Village

Saturday
8:15am Qi Gong
9am Sit and Fit
9:45am Fitness and Mobility
10:30am Chair Yoga
Private Seniors Facility

11:30am Private personal training

Sunday
8:40am Barre
9:50am Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

1pm splitsability
2pm Intro to Pole
Ta**ra Fitness / Be 1 Fitness
Gastown

4pm Hot Pilates
5:30pm Yin and Flow
ModoYogaEastVan

It's important to spend time with people we love. There are some friends and family that each time we see them, it feels like no time has passed. We fall back into our patterns of love and laughter.

There are times when we take that love for granted and know that they are there for us. It's vital to make them a priority.

Recently, I watched someone close to me cry. They kept waiting for the "right" time to call someone. Time when there was time to make time spent together quality. The reason that someone was crying was they waited too long and the person they waited to have the right time for had passed.

If you think of someone you love, please pick up the phone and reach out. It's important to let yhe people we know how grateful we are to have them in our lives.

I'm glad I got to spend time today with Auntie R. I love her so much. I'm lucky she's my friend and my aunt.

Who do you need to reach out to today? Text or call them!

For the past 22 years, I've taught at many studios and gyms. In addition to studios, I've offered workshops, lunch & Learns. Teacher trainings, corporate class series, and personal training. I'm grateful that I get to help people find their breath, increase their strength, mobility, and balance.

To get the most out of your classes or personal training sessions, decide what you want to get out of your experience. Each person's goals are unique to their life.

Some goals I've heard recently:

To Commit to working out 3 days each week.

To lose 5 pounds.

To have social time by working out with my best friend.

To be able to walk without my walker.

To be able to do a handstand.

To be able to lift my kids.

To be able to do pull-ups.

Decide what the benefits of achieving your goal would be. And write down goal posts to your goal. Who do you need to recruit to make your goal happen?

I am here to help you set goals, create goal posts, and help celebrate wins!

I live in yoga clothes. I teach a lot of classes, so I tend to dress the part. I don't wear make up most days as I sweat it off teaching in hot rooms.

Once in a while, I flip through my closet, decide to dress up, and go about my day. This picture is evidence of this.

I love clothing and I tend to thrift it. The act of thrifting appeals to me. Reuse, repurpose, and revive speak my language. It appears to the gatherer in me that loves to hunt through garage sales and thrift stores for pieces new to me.

In the next few weeks, I will be sharing tips on thrifting and making the most of what we already own.

When I'm not dressed up, I love to empower people to be their best selves. In the studio and in their regular life.

This week I am teaching:

Monday
9:50am
12am
12:10pm Barre

7pm Hot pilates
8:30pm yin
Modo Yoga

Tuesday
11am
12:10pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

2pm private training session

5:45pm Mat pilates
Elani | Vancouver Wellness Clinic

Wednesday
8:40am
9:50am Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:30pm Pole choreo
6:30pm Pole 202
7:45pm Aerial Yoga
Obsidian Athletic Club

Thursday
9:15am pilates fusion
yyoga.lonsdale

12:10pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:45pm Mat pilates
Elani | Vancouver Wellness Clinic

Friday
9am yin
10:30am Hot pilates
12:10am Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

5:30pm Hot pilates
Modo Yoga Olympic Village

Saturday
8:15am qi gong
9am fit and sit
10:00am range of motion
10:30am chair yoga

11:30am Private training session

Sunday
8:40am
9:50am Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

Huge thank you to R for booking a private class for her upcoming birthday with her friends and herself.

To N for booking me for a few speaking gigs in the fall.

To those of you asking about private training and lunch and learns.

And to Vernard Lg Goud for reminding me to dress up once in a while. ;)

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One of the biggest compliments for wellness teachers is to show up for classes. This week, one of my students made me smile as she told me that she is bringing a few friends to my class on Friday. I am honoured to get to teach her and her friends.

This world is a word of mouth business. People tell friends about classes they love. Instructors recommend other instructors to studios and clients. I've raved about classes and instructors to studio owners.

In the past few months, I've been the recipient of recommendations. Thanks to my friend Sarah Jane Groberman I've been covering some of her classes and clients. Thank you to RPK
For trusting me with your mom's training sessions.

Thanks to my yoga cheerleader for recommending my yoga classes to a studio I was teaching other classes at AND bringing people to my classes. Thank you to Derick for recommending me to Havyn Hot Studios (where I teach my first classes on Thursday).

Thank you so much!

This week I am teaching:

Wednesday
Obsidian Athletic Club
5:30pm Pole choreo
6:30pm Pole 202
7:45pm Aerial Yoga

Thursday
12pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

7pm Hatha
8:30pm yin


Friday
9am yin
10:30am Hot Pilates
12:10pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

Saturday
Private Seniors Care
8:15am Qi Gong
9am Sit & Fit
9:45pm Sit to Stand Mobility
10:30am chair yoga
11:30am Private training

Sunday
8am Hot pilates
11am Barre
12:10pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver

Monday
9:50am barre
11am Barre
12:10pm Barre

7pm Hot pilates
8:30am Yin yoga

Tuesday

7:30am Private Client training
11am Barre
12:10pm Barre
Modo Yoga North Vancouver
2:30pm Private Client training
5:45pm Mat pilates Elani | Vancouver Wellness Clinic