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Fireflow Yoga Fireflow Yoga organizes retreats in Costa Rica with master yoga teachers and offers privates yoga and Pilates sessions in downtown Toronto.

I met Leonard many years ago, and last night I had the pleasure of another beautiful meeting with him, thistime through ...
08/14/2026

I met Leonard many years ago, and last night I had the pleasure of another beautiful meeting with him, thistime through The Secret Chord: A Leonard Cohen Experience, playing in Toronto until Sunday. I highly recommend seeing it if you can.

I almost didn’t go because I thought it would basically be people singing Leonard Cohen songs. I was completely wrong.

I know almost every song and most of the words, and somehow this made me hear Leonard Cohen all over again. The music, the movement, the humour, his Jewish identity — but especially the extraordinary power of his words.

At one point they read his final letter to Marianne, written just before she died, and then went into So Long, Marianne. I had tears in my eyes. I don’t remember the last time a piece of theatre did that to me.

I felt Leonard’s familiar words come to life in the most moving ways.

06/05/2026

Come to a yoga or Pilates reformer session at Fireflow ̇lates

04/28/2026

When I started meditation I didn’t think about letting go. I wanted to find something. When I started meditation I didn’t think about letting go. I wanted to find something. I didn’t understand what letting go had to do with it.

Years ago I went to a mentalist show. People got up and let themselves be hypnotized. I knew I could never do that. I hold on to things to give me a false sense of control.
After four days on retreat something started to shift. Not because I figured anything out. My body just started letting go of things I didn’t even realize I was carrying. They’d been there so long they felt like part of me. And when they loosened, I felt more alive and present than I knew was possible.

This Wednesday. Film + program. 7:15pm. Toronto (Bloor/St George)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sit-walk-listen-repeat-film-premiere-experience-tickets-1984922868733?aff=oddtdtcreator

I didn’t understand what letting go had to do with it.
Years ago I went to a mentalist show. People got up and let themselves be hypnotized. I knew I could never do that. I hold on to things to give me a false sense of control.After four days on retreat something started to shift. Not because I figured anything out. My body just started letting go of things I didn’t even realize I was carrying. They’d been there so long they felt like part of me. And when they loosened, I felt more alive and present than I knew was possible.
This Wednesday. Film + program. 7:15pm. Toronto (Bloor/St George)
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sit-walk-listen-repeat-film-premiere-experience-tickets-1984922868733?aff=oddtdtcreator

04/27/2026

I’ve tried meditation. It left me restless and unmoved.
On retreat the restlessness got louder, not quieter. It didn’t get any easier.

On retreat we don’t speak with any other participants but do speaks with the teachers every other day. In a private meeting, the teacher guided me to actually feel it — not think about it. The restlessness doesn’t live in my head. It lives in my body. Once I identified and labelled it, then something shifted.

I’d always thought of meditation as a mental practice. I didn’t realize it works with the body just as much as the mind. And for someone restles like me i hadn’t realized i wasn’t doing meditation wrong but that i need a week long retreat for my body to settle in.

It took meetings like this, and days of meditation, to find a sense of ease I had never imagined possible.

This is that moment.

Wednesday, April 29th 7.15pm Toronto (Bloor/St. George) Screening + Experience
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sit-walk-listen-repeat-film-premiere-experience-tickets-1984922868733

04/20/2026

For years, meditation made me feel more anxious than calm.

Then I attended a seven-day silent retreat led by a rabbi and something shifted. I finally understood what people meant when they talked about meditation.

I made a film about that experience.

On Wednesday, April 29 at 7:15pm, I’m premiering Sit. Walk. Listen. Repeat. at Innis College, followed by an interactive session with Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell, where you’ll get a direct taste how to feel this in your body

On this retreat I attended people describe a sense of connection and love that’s hard to put into word and a relationship to Jewish language that feels lived in the body, not just read on the page.

If you’re curious but unsure where to start, this is a way in.

Early bird tickets are available for a few more days:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sit-walk-listen-repeat-film-premiere-experience-tickets-1984922868733?aff=oddtdtcreator

04/19/2026

He has everything. And he doesn't feel at home.

A rabbi friend who he went to school with told him about a silent retreat and a teacher. He'd tried many things. He had few expectations.

There is no talking with other participants but the teachers provide instructions and talks. Every second day participants meet with the teacher for individual guidance. In one of these meetings, Joe describes a feeling he can't explain. He has this recurring dream of always having to move bedrooms and never feeling grounded.

The teacher doesn't try to fix it. He doesn't offer advice. He just says: "That makes sense. You don't feel at home." He guides Joe to sit with the fear instead of running from it.

Three days later, Joe describes what happened:
"I was lying under a tree looking up for six hours, wanting nothing except to be right there."

No answer was found. No problem was solved. But somewhere between facing the fear and letting it be, something opened. He felt at peace. Under a tree. For six hours. Wanting nothing.

This is what a silent meditation retreat can do. Not fix. Not explain. Just create enough space for something to shift.

I made a documentary about this process. On Wednesday, April 29th at 7:15pm at Innis Town Hall, I'm screening it followed by an evening of chanting, study, deep listening, and a short meditation led by Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sit-walk-listen-repeat-film-premiere-experience-tickets-1984922868733

04/10/2026

You sit down to meditate…
and everything gets louder.
It doesn’t feel like it’s working,
just more restless, not less.

Four days into a meditation retreat, Danit said: "I'm incredibly restless. I just want to get off the cushion."

A few days later: "It felt like the sun was coming out of my heart."

Nothing was fixed. But it wasn't taking up all the space.

Same practice. Different conditions. Silence. Time. Guidance. Words and melodies I thought I knew, heard differently. That's when it changed.

This film captures that process — what becomes possible when you don't leave and something begins to open.

Special premiere screening — Wednesday, April 29, 7:15pm at Innis Town Hall. Followed by a live experience of deep listening, study, chanting, and a short meditation with Rabbi Jordan Bendat-Appell.

This is more than a film screening. See the film and then taste how this works.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sit-walk-listen-repeat-film-premiere-experience-tickets-1984922868733

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