Risa Maldonado

SATURDAY MORNING CLASSES ARE FINALLY HERE! ☀️

You’ve been asking for it, and I am so glad to finally be able to add this perfect weekend morning class to our communities weekly schedule. Welcoming..

✨SATURDAY SALUTATIONS✨

The gooiest way to welcome yourself into a weekend! A yoga (asana) inspired class with light additions of mobility and strength work. Participants can expect a full body class with LOTS of options for accessibility and a variety of strength level options.

This class is beginner friendly and welcoming! You don’t need to be ‘flexible’ or have any experience with yoga to join. ⭐️

Corktown Park 🌳
Saturdays, 10:30 - 11:30 AM
Sliding Scale $5-$20

Link in bio goes live tomorrow! 🔗 🤩

CHURCH TURNS ONE TODAY! 🥳🥳🥳

What a YEAR! WOW🤯. This was not the first year we had in mind😅. But it has been a wild ride that I would never give up on.

I need to take a long moment to give praise and thanks to an unbelievable leader, Monika Benkovich, the soul owner and lead creator over at CHURCH. She has been the electricity that has kept our amazing creator team going, motivated, engaged, and encouraged. Her ability to be flexible and pivot on a moments notice is comparable to no one I know. She’s dedicated her life to this space this past year and it has been incredible to watch her grow, morph, and evolve♥️. Her capacity for kindness and love know no bounds. As she continues to grow this evolving community she seems to find MORE TIME (🤷🏻‍♀️) to connect with the Creator team and grow the dream space that is CHURCH.

Above I’ve included the max amount of photos Insta would allow, and this is only SOME of the amazing team that help make CHURCH the community based space that it is.

To many more years, many more convo’s, many more pivots, and much more love.

Let’s keep building up this CHURCH ya’ll!

THIS IS IMPORTANT📢📢📢

Please share amongst your community and loved ones.

Although many municipal police stations have spoken out against the new by-laws out in place to stop and question anyone on the street, but police are corrupt and lie and I have no doubt some as***le police officer is going to abuse there new rights eventually.

Marginalized folx have been disproportionately effected by this pandemic. Giving the police this type of power instead of supporting our community with paid sick days shows you exactly where this provincial governments head is at; on money and budgets and not with the safety of the people.

It is our responsibility an privilege to show up for those who need support.

Stay safe💕.

Waking-up w depression. 😓

Hola friends✌🏼. It’s been a minute! I’ve come on here this AM to talk about something that is near and dear to my heart, and that has plagued me pretty badly for all of covid;

WAKING UP IN THE MORNINGS👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼

For some people, mornings are a lovely peaceful time when the body slowly warms itself up and gets on w it’s day but for someone like myself who suffers from depression the mornings can be a mountainous challenge before your day even begins. Every. Single. Morning.

Learning how to reeeeeally LISTEN to what my body says to me has been a journey this past year😅. But a necessary one that meant learning how to respect my bodies boundaries and also pursue my goals and life.

My mornings used to be 15 minutes max before I ran out the door to work but now they’re a much more conscious (longer) process that makes sure my body, soul, and mind are grounded before my day continues.

Littles that make a BIG difference:
🌾 Self-asses in bed. Wake up and before you do anything ask your bod how’s it’s doing. Head, heart, tummy. How do they feel? What are they saying to you?

🌾 Consume water. Try different temps until you find the right one for you. My body likes luke warm plain water in the am.

🌾 Eat. Don’t worry about anything except making your morning meal delicious. F**k calories, portion size, breakfast/dinner foods, WHATEVER. Just eat something you like and if you don’t like anything that morning start w a piece of fruit and go from there.

🌾 Accept the feelings. You have no say in your depression, not right now at least. Know that this feeling is here now, but it’s not forever. Take stock in what your body can do in that moment. All wins are big wins.

🌾 Move slow. Don’t rush yourself. Let your nervous system take its time to relax.

🌾 Look for something later in the day that will bring you joy. A trip to grab your fav bevy, a zoom call, a walk outdoors, time w a loved one. ANYTHING.

Self care, love, and acceptance is how we start to combat this REDIC capitalist world that we live in. FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT! But do it for the love of ya self. ❤️

Chat soon peeps! 🥰