A practice shaped
entirely to you.
Session One
Listening to the body
Where you are, what you carry, what your nervous system needs. Introduction to core foundations. Preparation of tools and props. Journaling of take aways until next session.
Session Two
Building the toolbox
Breathwork, movement, and nervous system regulation practices shaped to you..
Session Three
Deepening the practice
Yoga Nidra, meditation, and expressive arts methods. For exploring, discovery and integration.
Session Four
Taking it home
Your personal practice plan, tools and rhythms to carry forward independently.
The 4 Session Movement Series
For women navigating chronic illness, fatigue, or pain, this series offers a way back into the body without performance or pressure. We draw on traditional asana, breathwork, and gentle somatic movement, paced entirely to what your nervous system can hold that day.
Yoga and Interoceptive Movement
Not just surviving but thriving. This four-session series is a sustained, unhurried commitment to your nervous system, your wellbeing, and the tools that will live in your body and be available to you when you need them.
One session per week, virtual, from the comfort of your own home. Each week builds on the last. A practice designed to meet your intentions.
$65 per 90-minute session
4 sessions · one per week
A prepared space for private session: mats, props, and stillness before we begin.
Specialized Yoga Movement for Women
Virtual & In-Person, West Kootenays, BC
Prenatal YOGA AND Birth Preparation
Breathe your way
through pain
preparation for birthing.
Your body already knows how to birth. This series helps you come into a deeper relationship with that knowing through breathwork, movement, and a guided birth plan that is entirely yours. We integrate deep relaxation and hypnobirthing tools tailored to your nervous system.
Prenatal Yoga and Birth Preparation Package
A focused turn toward labour itself. This package brings your birthing companion, a partner, a friend, whoever will stand beside you into the preparation, so the person coaching you through birth has practiced alongside you, not just read about it. Available virtually across Canada or as private, in-person somatic birth prep sessions in Nelson and the West Kootenay region.
Three sessions build breathing ratios and techniques for each stage of labour. Utilizing hypnobirthing and pain management practices, and a guided birth plan entirely your own with your companion learning to coach every step alongside you.
- Guided personal birth plan your preferences, your voice
- Your birth companion learns to coach alongside you
- Breathing ratios and techniques for each stage of labour
- Hypnobirthing and pain management practices for labour.
Prenatal Yoga & Birth Preparation — $300 · full package
Deep relaxation, hypnobirthing breathwork, and pelvic floor awareness to prepare both body and mind for birth. Available virtually across Canada and as private, in-person somatic support for families in Nelson and the West Kootenay region
3 sessions · 90 minutes each · includes your birth companion
90 minutes per session · Virtual & in-person· Sliding scale available
Weekly Prenatal Yoga
Prenatal Yoga · One-to-One weekly
Ongoing support that grows with you, week by week, as your body changes through each trimester. Movement, breath, and rest shaped entirely to where you are that day. A steady companion through the whole season of pregnancy and beyond into birthing and parenting.
$65 · per 90-minute session
Live Virtual across Canada · Private in-person somatic support available in Nelson and the West Kootenay region. If cost is a barrier, reach out we'll find a way.
Prenatal Birth Preparation weekly throughout your pregnancy
Prepared, informed, and steady, the best gift you can give yourself before birth.
When you need a place to begin.
Private Somatic Trauma Coaching & Yoga Mentoring
The most personal form this work takes. Ninety minutes, just moving at exactly the pace your body and story call for that day. Whether you come once or return regularly, each session is complete in itself. If you experience chronic pain, trauma, grief, fatigue, or simply the quiet need to come home to yourself.
$65 · per 90-minute session
Virtual & In-person If cost is a barrier, reach out we'll find a way.
For women who want to explore the work before committing to a series, or who return as life asks something new of them. Each session is complete in itself shaped entirely to where you are that day.These sessions seamlessly integrate gentle interoceptive movement, certified grief mentoring, and somatic trauma coaching to safely regulate your nervous system. Available online across Canada and in-person by appointment in Nelson, BC.
Shauna has worked as a yoga therapist within Interior Health's pain management programme, alongside medical doctors, physiotherapists, and nutritionists across the Kootenays and Canada.
Single Sessions · Personal Yoga Pathway
In-Person · Pass Creek Hall CAstlegar, BC
Her Sunday Reset-
A somatic community space
A gentle, unhurried space to let the week leave your body and prepare your nervous system for Monday. This regular community practice blends slow interoceptive movement, soothing breathwork, and deep restoration to process collective stress and grief.
Sunday's Time 3:30 – 4:45 pm (summer hours)
Location Pass Creek Hall, near Castlegar BC
What to bring Comfortable clothing, a blanket, water, yoga mat
Format In-person · Small group.
$25 · per 60-90-minute session
Step away from the weekend's rush and land closer to the ground.
Virtual · Free
Monday Morning
Meditation
A weekly monday morning 30-minute virtual meditation to begin your week from a place of stillness rather than urgency. Open to all women no experience, no commitment required.
A quiet way to find out if this practice is for you.
Monday's 9:30 am PST
Start Where You Are Yoga
Offering trauma coaching, somatic movement, and grief mentoring. Virtually and in-person in the West Kootenays, BC
© 2003-2026 Start Where You Are Yoga The Maitri Collective
Disclaimer: Shauna is a Certified Trauma Coach, Somatic Specialist, and Certified Death Doula. Her services are non-clinical and do not replace treatment by a licensed mental health professional.