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Yoga and Wellness: Elevate Your Mind, Body, and Soul

Experience the profound benefits of yoga through customized yoga classes, enhanced by meditation techniques and wellness workshops.

Yoga and Wellness: Elevate Your Mind, Body, and Soul

Experience the profound benefits of yoga through customized yoga classes, enhanced by meditation techniques and wellness workshops.

Welcome!

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Philosophy

Interior Consciousness elevates the landscape of the mind, body, and spirit. Yoga is a powerful tool for self-discovery, personal growth, and healing. We also offer wellness workshops and meditation techniques to enhance your journey. No experience necessary. All are welcome!

Your Teacher

Brenda Murphy is a Master Yogini whose expertise extends beyond the typical definition of someone with over ten thousand hours of skilled practice. For Brenda, being a Yoga Master means living life through the lens of yoga, navigating trauma, adversity, illness, and loss. With over 50 years of experience, she is a skilled and compassionate teacher. Initiated into breath practices (pranayama) by her pediatric nurse as a toddler managing severe chronic asthma, Brenda was also introduced to meditation techniques and asanas by her coach as a Canadian track team member to enhance her training and pranayama practices. Known for her technical knowledge and her gentle weaving of yogic philosophy into each class, Brenda creates a space where students of all levels can experience transcendental shifts in consciousness. She has taught people worldwide and has trained at ashrams in India and North America. Committed to ongoing professional and personal development, she dedicates herself to creating a safe and nurturing environment for all students. In the past two years Brenda spent a month in silent retreat at the Sivananda ashram in New York, attended wellness workshops with Krishna Das in North Carolina, and deepened her sadhana through sound during a four-day chanting retreat at the Quebec Sivananda ashram. With her good vibes, Brenda ensures that every student leaves her yoga classes feeling lighter, stronger, and more heart-centered.

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Meditation

Meditation is the practice of utilizing both ancient and modern techniques that help still the mind and calm the central nervous system. It does not require any special equipment or clothing; all you need is a point of focus, your time and effort, along with gentle non-judgmental attention. Meditation techniques literally rewire the brain's landscape, enabling us to reduce anxiety, negative mental chatter, fear, and daily stressors.

Additional benefits include deeper feelings of joy, compassion, intuition, peace, vitality, improved quality of sleep, decreased physical, mental, and emotional pain, as well as enhanced focus and memory, just to name a few!

Brenda's wellness workshops and yoga classes are tailored for individuals or groups, where she draws from her personal experiences and ancient Himalayan wisdom to create a dynamic and relevant learning environment.

Practicing with Brenda is both an event and an experience, with benefits that resonate deeply with each participant.

The Story

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Roots

Offerings

Founded in 2010, Interior

Consciousness emerged from a lifelong passion and practice for yoga in its truest sense, exploring the Eight Limbs. Brenda understands the transformative power of yoga to strengthen and heal our minds, bodies, and spirit, and she is dedicated to sharing this with others. Through her own experiences, she has utilized meditation techniques and yoga classes to navigate a harmonious inner world, overcoming childhood abuse and trauma, excelling through university, and healing from the devastating effects of a propane explosion that left her with a traumatic brain injury, lung blast, PTSD, and significant cognitive impairments. Despite a poor prognosis predicting early onset dementia, Brenda's tenacity and faith in her practice have led to dramatic healing. She details her journey in the highly regarded book 'Interior Consciousness: Healing From the Inside Out.' As a popular teacher and public speaker, Brenda shares her hard-won wisdom through wellness workshops, infused with humor, love, and a healthy dose of science.

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Offerings

Over the years, Interior Consciousness has evolved into a go-to for yoga classes, wellness workshops, and community engagement. Brenda has expanded her offerings to include not only workshops and retreats but also various meditation techniques and public speaking alongside her private clients. Brenda is happy to customize her services to suit you, your space, and your specific goals.

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Vision

Offerings

Vision

Developing Interior Consciousness allows us to create a space where kindness, love, joy, peace, and transformation are readily accessible and that comes with a dedicated yoga practice. Brenda is committed to providing high-quality yoga classes, fostering a supportive community, and promoting holistic wellness. Whether you would like to strengthen your memory through deep presence and ancient meditation techniques, find greater range of motion through a personalized asana practice, tame the monkey mind with mantra and mudras, or enjoy unique wellness workshops to share with your friends, Brenda's creativity and experience are limitless.

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Contact Us

Reach Out and Say Hello!

Whether you are interested in private sessions, wellness workshops focused on meditation techniques, customized retreats, book readings, or even yoga classes with a corporate guest speaker; I'd love to connect!

Conscious Living

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

519-525-2604 brendam@dmlaw.ca

Yoga and Wellness: Elevate Your Mind, Body, and Soul

Yoga and Wellness: Elevate Your Mind, Body, and Soul