Stretching

Stretching can increase your flexibility, and improve range of motion. It can help prevent injury, improve posture, and decrease muscle soreness and tightness.

Stretching

Stretching can have many health benefits and keeps those muscles healthy. Muscle tightness in quadriceps, hamstrings and hip flexors can cause low back pain. By stretching, blood flow to the muscles increases and relieves the tightness that can cause lower back pain. In addition, it can be a great stress reliever. Enjoy a few of our stretching classes below and help prevent injury while improving flexibility.

On-Demand Classes

Gentle Stretches

These are gentle stretches you can do any place, at any level, to help improve your mobility.

(10 Minutes)

Full Body Stretching

Whether indoors or out, this class is designed to help wake you up and refresh the body.

(23 Minutes)

Stretching Instructors

  • Amy has been a student of yoga for over 10 years. She has practiced a variety of different styles of yoga and believes there is yoga for everybody, and that anyone can do yoga.

    Amy completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training in 2020, and she is currently working towards her 500-hour certification with a designation as a Therapeutic Yoga Specialist through YogaMedicine® with Tiffany Cruikshank. She believes that yoga is more than just a movement practise; it's a way to connect to your body on a deeper level, using slow, mindful practices to nourish and heal the body. She is a big advocate for healthy eating and nutrition, and she loves cooking.

    When she is not on her mat, you can find her at the farmer's market, in her garden, reading on her patio, or travelling the globe. Yoga retreats are her favourite way to travel!

    Amy is also a big advocate of supporting kidney patients and caregivers and has a family member with kidney-related issues. We are so pleased Amy has joined our Kidney Wellness Hub of instructors and we will know you will love her warm and engaging style she brings to her classes.

  • With over 10 years of experience in the Personal Training industry, Ryan Miske has found the perfect balance of nutrition and fitness for the everyday busy professional. As a certified sports and exercise nutritionist, Ryan combines resistance training to strengthen the body and a balanced diet to have his clients looking and feeling their best. With over 100 transformations, Ryan has mastered the art of weight loss for the everyday person by helping habits that will last a lifetime.

    Some of his certifications include:

    Precision Nutrition Certified 2019 and 2022
    Douglas College - 2012 BCRPA Certified Personal Trainer Douglas College - Techniques in Fitness Assessments & Body Composition Douglas College - Nutrition Basics Course
    In shape Training - Risk assessment for the knees
    In shape Training - Safely implementing plyometrics
    In shape Training - Taking your Gluteus to the Maximus
    In shape Training - Mobility and Stability Workshop
    First Aid & CPR Training Certification
    Men’s Physique Champion - 2016 Leigh Brandt Fall Classic

    Ryan is no stranger to the Kidney Foundation. He appeared on our Kidney TV PLUGGED IN, leading several fitness and strength training sessions. We are pleased he is back with us at the Kidney Wellness Hub. Ryan always brings high energy to his classes which is very motivational.