Limb to Life
Yoga Collective
Yoga is for everybody.
Limb to Life Yoga is a registered non-profit dedicated to making yoga accessible for amputees and others with mobility challenges.
Our mission is to recognize individual strengths, support the many dimensions of well-being, and to cultivate supportive community alongside people with limb loss and mobility challenges.
Accessibility is at the heart of the Limb to Life Yoga Collective.
We recognize that conventional yoga settings often present physical and other access challenges for many who can benefit. We offer free and low-cost yoga classes, workshops, and yoga therapy sessions, both in-person and online, specifically designed to address the unique physical and emotional needs of amputees. Programming includes weekly group classes, specialized workshops at hospitals and community settings, and online sessions to reach those in remote or underserved areas. Each class is trauma-informed and designed to support participants in managing phantom pain, improving mobility, building strength, and finding inner and outer balance.
Beyond movement, our sessions foster emotional resilience and community connection, offering a supportive space for amputees to share experiences and build relationships. By centring equity, community, and accessibility, Limb to Life Yoga Collective strives to transform the landscape of wellness and rehabilitation for amputees, making yoga a resource for all bodies and all journeys.
Limb to Life Programs
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Accessible Local Yoga Classes
Join our community yoga classes, held locally in Vancouver! We come together to explore yoga in a way that's designed especially for amputees. Others with mobility challenges are warmly welcomed.
Our low-cost (no one turned away for lack of funds) classes are designed to help you build strength, flexibility, range of motion, and confidence, while nurturing your overall well-being through a blend of yoga postures, breathing exercises, and mindfulness practices. This is a diverse group of all ages that invites both beginners and those with experience in yoga to attend! Variations will be offered for all abilities.
Fall Season, Until December 10th:
Mondays, 9:30 - 10:30 am, Hillcrest Rec. Centre
Wednesdays, 6:15 - 7:15 pm, Douglas Rec. Centre
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Accessible Online Yoga Classes
In a supportive online community space, join us from your own home to explore chair- and mat-based yoga classes. Sessions are designed especially with amputees in mind, and are also warmly welcoming to others who experience mobility challenges. Each class weaves together gentle movement and guided breathing to build strength and mobility while nurturing joy, ease, and deep relaxation.
Open to both beginners and those with previous yoga experience, with options to support you at your own pace. Classes are offered at an accessible rate on a free or donation-based model, so you are welcome to participate regardless of financial circumstances.
Starting December 5th:
Fridays, 9:30 - 10:30 amVia Zoom
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Yoga Therapy Workshops
We offer specialized yoga therapy workshops that focus on topics relevant to amputees and others living with mobility challenges. These sessions are facilitated in community spaces, rehabilitation and hospital settings, and online, so participants can join in ways that feel accessible and comfortable.
Workshops explore yoga-based strategies for managing phantom limb pain and residual limb discomfort, breathing practices to help balance energy levels and support the nervous system, and restorative yoga for deep rest.
Additional offerings include partner yoga for connection and support, and other adaptable tools that participants can integrate into daily life.
Are you interested in learning more about our workshops? Email us to inquire, or join our mailing list to find out about upcoming events!
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Individual Yoga Therapy
We offer a limited number of sliding scale individual yoga therapy sessions to help increase the financial accessibility of wellness services to people navigating physical and/or mental health challenges related to limb loss. Facilitated by a yoga therapist, these sessions draw on yoga, breathing, and mindfulness tools that are customized to your goals, preferences, and current abilities. Together, we can work with concerns such as phantom pain, grief and adjustment, sleep difficulties, and mobility challenges. We also offer partner-integrated sessions, where you are welcome to attend with a close friend, family member, or significant other. These sessions focus on shared emotional regulation and stress management strategies that you can continue to practice together in daily life.
Sliding scale sessions are available to new clients and subject to current availability. Email to inquire or be added to the waitlist.
Make a donation.
Support our services as a registered non-profit in providing accessible yoga to people with limb loss by contributing.
About Limb to Life
Jaden Gornall, Founder & C-IAYT Yoga Therapist
A C-IAYT yoga therapist since 2020, and a yoga instructor since 2013, Jaden’s life was altered when an accident led to his left leg being amputated above the knee in 2023. His lived experiences, and knowledge of the immense benefits of yoga as a healing practice led to a growing recognition of the need to make yoga more inclusive and accessible for amputees, and those with other mobility challenges. This inspired him to found “Limb to Life Yoga Collective” in 2024. Jaden has undertaken specialized training with Y4A Yoga for Amputees to build his skills in working with this population.
A health promotion researcher with a background in health sciences and non-profit work focused on upstream solutions to systemic challenges, Jaden’s vision for Limb to Life Yoga Collective is rooted in his commitment to advancing equity and inclusivity. He is especially passionate about the intersection of the body and mind, as explored through movement, anatomical awareness, and breath. Having witnessed the tremendous capacity of human beings to heal when provided with the right conditions, Jaden feels privileged to guide and walk alongside others throughout their pathways in healing.
Having grown up at the cusp of the North Vancouver mountains and ocean, Jaden lives an active life. When not guiding yoga, he can often be found navigating the reefs as a scuba diver.
Are you a yoga therapist or yoga instructor interested in joining Limb to Life Yoga Collective?
We invite prospective Limb to Life Yoga Collective members to be trained with Y4A Yoga for Amputees. This training counts as 15 CEUs with Yoga Alliance, and is offered as a hybrid training on a regular basis, as well as asynchronously online.
Y4A Trainers, Lucy Lomax (C-IAYT & E-RYT 500, YACEP) and Heather Thamer (M.ED, E-RYT 500)
About our training partner, Y4A Yoga for Amputees:
The mission of Y4A Yoga for Amputees is to provide health, wellness, freedom of movement, psychological healing, spiritual renewal and a deep sense of wholeness to people who have experienced limb loss. Y4A Yoga for Amputees is committed to being a leader in yoga for limb loss, positive life strategies for amputees, research on yoga as medicine for limb loss and pain management, and education in the fields of medicine, yoga, physical therapy, prosthetics and trauma recovery.
For over a decade our caring and professional global network of yoga educators has offered classes, workshops, trainings for yoga teachers and healthcare professionals, clinical professional development, and research support, both live and online. Through offering yoga education and training, and by creating a global network of yoga teachers, yoga therapists, yoga enthusiasts and professionals working with amputees, Y4A Yoga for Amputees helps those with limb loss, limb difference, or limb limitation thrive throughout all the stages of their healing journey. We believe in empowering amputees to celebrate their unique contributions to the world, and in actively demonstrating the possibility and human potential to thrive in life, no matter the challenges.
