Sun Peaks Yoga reopens at Sun Peaks Health Centre

Sun Peaks Yoga reopened in October after closing in June by making use of the community room at Sun Peaks Health Centre (SPHC).

The community room at SPHC is designated as an emergency space for the municipality, Christine Matuschewski, chief executive officer of Supporting Team Excellence with Patients Society (STEPS) told SPIN. As such, it hasn’t seen much use, but when community members connected Matuschewski with Kayla Alfred, who was in need of a space for her practice, the community room fit the bill.  

“I am mainly focusing on teaching therapeutic gentle yoga there and I am really excited at the prospect of ski in and ski out yoga classes,” Alfred said in a statement. 

As part of the collaboration between STEPS and Sun Peaks Yoga, STEPS patients have access to free yoga classes every Wednesday, either online or in person.

These classes offer different specific areas of work, and the 12,000 attached patients have the option to attend whichever ones they choose, Matuschewski said.

“Our purpose is to provide multi-disciplinary, integrated team-based care.” 

In addition to the yoga practice, Matuschewski said anyone interested in collaborative health and wellness can request to make use of the community room.

“We’re just really pleased to be able to do things outside of the box of the traditional family practice clinic,” she said. “The not-for-profit community health centre business model enables all these innovative ways of connecting other wellness programs with what we’re doing.”