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Centre for Movement & Stillness Spirit Loft is a Movement, Mindfulness & Yoga Based Community in the heart of Toronto’s east end neighbourhood of Leslieville.

We offer highly skilled instruction in complimentary disciplines for varying levels of experience and abilities. Through this intelligent diversity, we encourage our practitioners to develop a practice that is diligent, sustainable, curious and compassionate. Join us!

11/28/2025

Only a few more Saturday Movement Lab classes with Andre before the holiday break. Join us 💕

11/27/2025

Often the most “efficient” way is not particularly interesting, insightful or even effective. There are so many ways to explore anything and everything. Stay faithful to play. 💕

11/01/2025

Classic Zero Forms with sticks. A wonderful way to awaken, check-in with and challenge your feet and legs. Keep it soft or make it spicy.

09/24/2025

Interested in cultivating a meditation and mindfulness practice with guidance and a supportive community?

Join our online meditation group at link in bio.

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The Three Attitudes of Zen

Great Trust is the confidence in your own capacity for mindfulness, understanding and compassion. Sometimes it arrives suddenly, but more often it ripens through practice, as reactivity softens and equanimity grows.

Great Courage is the strength and effort to walk against the stream of conditioning, to return again and again to the present moment, even when it feels painful or when distractions pull us away.

Great Questioning is the curiosity that keeps the heart-mind open. Trust anchors us, questioning liberates us; without both we falter. “Don’t know mind” is not confusion, but the humble wonder of seeing life through fresh eyes.

Great Questioning, Great Awakening,
Little Questioning, Little Awakening,
No Questioning, No Awakening.

07/18/2025

Next Friday Andre joins the True Athlete Project .true.athlete.project for a special online event.

Adaptive Resilience & Meaning-making
in Times of Change, Loss & Injury.

Friday, July 25th
9 am - 10:15 am ET (Toronto time)
Attend livestream or via recording.

This webinar invites participants into a reflective and experiential process, exploring how identity, meaning, and resilience intersect during times of injury, transition, and personal challenge.

Who Can Attend?

Athletes, coaches, trainers, clinicians/athlete care practitioners, parents, mentors and anyone interested in fostering wellbeing through a better culture in the sports and athletics ecosystem.

Webinar Details

In the high-performance world of sport—shaped by the relentless pursuit of “bigger, faster, stronger” and reinforced by a business-driven model—athletes are especially vulnerable to over-identifying with their athletic role. While this narrow self-concept may fuel short-term achievement, it often comes at the cost of long-term well-being, reduces adaptability, and can lead to profound psychological distress when disruption or transition inevitably occurs.

Through a systems-based and wholistic lens, participants will be introduced to a broader, more flexible sense of the self—one that sustains mental health, supports performance under pressure, and enhances fulfilment in sport and beyond. We will explore how cultivating an integrated self—that is embodied, embedded, and extended—can support resilience and post-traumatic growth.

About the True Athlete Project (TAP)

The True Athlete Project is international non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the culture of sport into a powerful tool for personal growth, well‑being, and positive social change.

03/09/2025

Seasonal change has begun and the spring equinox is just around the corner! Soon, light and colour will abound, but not before the strong winds of March and all sorts of fluctuating shifts take us for a ride for few more weeks. You may already be noticing changing sleep cycles, moods, immunity, interests and perspectives. Join us Saturday, March 22 for afternoon of gentle movement, reflective practices and restorative rest in support of seasonal change. Led by Catalina. Soundbath with Ru Henry. Reserve your spot as space is limited. Link in bio.

12/29/2024

Be Moved. Be Still. New Year’s Day (Free!) Class
Wednesday, January 1st @ 1-3pm

Join us for our special signature Be Moved. Be Still. practice in celebration of the New Year with Spirit Loft Co-Founders, Andre & Catalina.

This all-levels class of movement and stillness practices is designed to promote reflection, insight, renewal and vitality for the year to come!

As a gesture of our appreciation to the Leslieville and greater community which has sustained our little studio for 14 years we offer this practice as a gift of dana (generosity).

This special class is FREE and requires pre-registration to reserve your spot. Register for classes a link in bio.

11/11/2024

Big News! From Finland to Toronto!! We are so excited to welcome and .rinnevuori back to Spirit Loft this December for a two day workshop inspired by Fighting Monkey practice.

Open to all levels. Attend 1 or 2 days.

Register now open at link in bio.

About this event:

Both days begin with FM Zero Forms to explore how we gather information about ourselves through movement.

Day 1 (Saturday) - Negotiating time and space with FM Body/body, Belts and Coordinations

How do we negotiate the space between us? How do we work with external pressures? How do we manage another person? How do we gain and share information from touch? What is appropriate force? How can we be mobile and explosive? How can we rhythmically align ourselves? How do we determine necessary information for ourselves? How do we move through space?

Day 2 (Sunday) - FM Tools/Abstract Materials with practice ball, rice bags, paper, small sticks and Movement Improvisation

How do the tools and materials we work with shape our practice? What are their inherent qualities? How do the tools/materials ask us to work with them? How do we shape tools/materials to our creative desires? How does interaction with various tools/materials inform us about ourselves? How do we partner with the world around us?

About Elke and Mikko:

Elke Schroeder is Canadian-born professional dance artist, choreographer and teacher. Mikko Rinnevuori (M. Ed.) is an education professional, Finland Gymnastics National Team coach, artist and author. Currently living in Finland, they teach for movement, dance and circus institutions locally, abroad and through the vast interweb. They have been designated Fighting Monkey Instructors (under the title Inspire by FM) by the practice’s creators Jozef Frucek and Linda Kapetanea.

10/03/2024

Guest teacher alert!!!

Join for a special edition of Movement Lab this Saturday, Oct 5 at 11 am.

Explore task based movement practice blending stability & improvisation. This class will investigate movement possibilities in the lower body, unlocking your hips and reconnecting you with your feet.

Join us!!!! Register for class at link in bio. 💕

Alice (she/her) is an Australian actor, movement artist and movement coordinator now based in Toronto.
Trained as an actor with a BFA from the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, she fell in love with the power of movement.

Alice believes movement is an effective tool not only for storytelling, but for unpacking our own unconscious personal narrative. In her work, Alice explores
movement as a way in to understanding the human condition. As we change our posture, physical habits or physical capability, we can positively change our
self perception and internal narrative.

After working as an actor in the Australian Film & TV industry, Alice left Australia to continue her training in physical storytelling. She worked in London, UK on productions such as Wind in The Willows - Rose Theatre, before moving to Canada.

Since moving to Toronto Alice has worked as an actor, stunt performer and movement coach in theatre, film and motion capture. Alice now works closely with Dance Theatre company Frog In Hand as a performer and rehearsal director. She loves to use functional and improvised movement tasks to build work and connect artists to their unique quality of movement.

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290 Carlaw Avenue Unit 201
Toronto, ON
M4M3L1

Website

http://www.spiritloft.com/

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