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Making Meaning of Menopause

6-Week Workshop Series begins May 19, 2026
Thursdays 7:00-9:00pm

A community collaboration to explore facts and cultural perspectives, dispel myths, share stories, and cultivate care for our physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing during this sacred transition.

Facilitated by Andrea Ting-Luz, Counsellor-in-Training (MACP, in progress) and Yoga Instructor (ERYT-500), this 6-session group series features weekly deep dives, reflections, open conversation, and movement practices to support sleep, mood swings, sexual wellness, nutrition, physiological changes, identity shifts, cognitive functioning, and of course, The Heat. Guest lecturers contribute their wisdom, while we build community and connection to tell our truths and support one another through and beyond our menopause journeys.

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Illuminate with me.

I am Andrea Ting-Luz,
Yoga Teacher, Mentor
& Counsellor-In-Training.

In my every permutation, one thread has remained constant: my inclination to ignite the light in others. So much so that when the time came to reclaim my identity and change my surname, I chose “Luz” (pronounced “Looz”), the Spanish word for light.

As a team leader, I shone the light on my team, guiding them to next steps.
As a branding and marketing consultant, I shone the light on small businesses.
As a boutique owner, I shone the light on small scale makers doing good in the world.
As a mentor and educator, I shine the light on newer yoga teachers.
As a yoga teacher, I shine the light on my students.

And now, as a fledgling therapist, I shine the light on my clients. I endeavour to ignite their light so they can navigate courageously through moments of significant transition: career change, retirement, menopause, heartbreak, empty-nesting, illness, injury, caring for aging parents, profound loss.

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Why yoga?

 

In our increasingly busy lives, we spend a disproportionate amount of time as “human doings” rather than as “human beings.” I believe yoga is a powerful antidote to this modern dilemma. In yoga we focus on our inner landscape, and heighten awareness of our physical, emotional, and spiritual selves. Yoga teaches us to move mindfully -with humility, with strength, with compassion, with intention, with grace – not only on our mats, but through our lives.

I teach yoga because I aspire to inspire. I believe that we are capable of igniting a revolution from within. On our mats, we practice not just the physical asanas. We practice loving ourselves; we practice honouring our limitations, and exploring our unlimited potential; we practice creating peace within ourselves. When we emerge from our yoga practice as renewed human beings, we radiate peace, ready to create an upward spiral that unites us all.

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Musings from the Blog

Musings
Inside/Out. Reflections on my Asian-ness.
Inside/Out. Reflections on my Asian-ness.

I resisted learning my father’s native tongue because I wanted to avoid being seen as even more “Other” than I already was. As was revealed to Brené Brown by a wise 12-year old: “If I get to be me, I belong. If I have to be like you, it's fitting in."

And so I spent the first decade of my life trying to fit into spaces I didn’t always belong. I clung hungrily to the privilege I could access.

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The Unlearning
The Unlearning

Do you remember?

Do you remember who you were

before the world got its filthy, calloused hands on you?

Before those corrupted fingertips began to mold you

into a confined artifice of its own flawed self?

Before the impaired stewards of your formation imposed

their unmet longings

their shame-ridden regrets

their misplaced intentions

as warped compass to your path?

Before the muddled messages

transmuted into the unshakeable earworms

that have consumed every crossroads

you have since encountered?

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10 Things in 10 Years | The Intro
10 Things in 10 Years | The Intro

Ten years later, I am still in love with teaching yoga. The initial endorphins of falling in love have subsided, as they do. But as Glennon Doyle, her sister Amanda, and her wife Abby discussed in their most recent episode of We Can Do Hard Things, I “landed in love”, and I have no doubts that Yoga is still “The One”.

Like any long-term relationship, Yoga and I have had our ups and downs. In the beginning there are always seemingly quirky things that get overlooked, and if left unchecked, can become problematic later (like…ummm…cultural appropriation).

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September, The New January?
September, The New January?

As a global community, we have been reckoning with the undeniable effects of numerous, enormous, and intersecting FFTs in the past while - racial injustice, climate change, the devastating legacy of residential schools, redefining gender, income inequality, the omnipresent impact of generational trauma, not to mention the global pandemic that has served as the illuminating backdrop to all the things that are in desperate need of our attention and our action.

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The Heartbreaking Demise of Our Sacred Spaces
The Heartbreaking Demise of Our Sacred Spaces

A few weeks ago, I learned that yet another yoga studio - the third to which I have direct ties as either a teacher or a student - is closing permanently. I have been at a loss for words, unable to summon the courage to express my grief, my despair, my frustration, my uneasiness, even my gratitude. But these sentiments have undeniably been the source of sleepless nights. In my restlessness I have wrestled with what to do, why this is happening, what is to blame, what to say and to whom, where to take my teaching practice next. I have no definitive answers yet, but I will start with addressing my connection to these places and what they have meant to me.

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I stopped keeping a gratitude journal.
I stopped keeping a gratitude journal.

Nearly every morning for ten years I had committed myself to a ritual of journaling what I was most grateful for. I would pour myself a cup of hot lemon water, stream some ambient calming music over my bluetooth speaker, pull out my Virtues Project Cards and my favourite pen (whose singular job was to be the conduit of my musings), and get down to the serious business of identifying the specifics of my gratitude from the day before.

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Becoming the Light
Becoming the Light

And then she said it. “Namaste means ‘may I live my life in such a way that the light inside of me ignites the light inside of others.”

And my entire existence fell neatly into place.

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No Props? No Problem!
No Props? No Problem!

For you, my students, I recognized that not only are you struggling to learn the technology, but you may not have all the props you need to support your practice as you did when you were practicing in studio. This is especially tricky for you Yin and Restorative yogis, for whom practice is simply not the same without your props. And for students who are venturing back into studios but find that the studio is not allowing the use of props yet, you are finding that you need to bring your own.

Here are my suggestions for common household items that you can substitute for “official” yoga props.

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We matter. And we need to hear it.
We matter. And we need to hear it.

My deepest hope is that we may be blessed to know how much each one of us matters during our lifetime.

The following is my eulogy to Cosmas, and a small collection of my favourite photos of him throughout the years of his magnificent life.

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