Wild Roots Yoga

My name is Karla MacIver, and I am the founder of Wild Roots Yoga.  A little bit about who I am and why I started up Wild Roots:

I was born and raised in Saskatoon, SK and ever since I can remember I loved the outdoors and caring for the earth.  I spent my childhood camping and developing a relationship with beautiful mother nature.  I moved to the Canadian Rockies in my young adulthood where I met my loving husband Mitch, we shared a love of the outdoors and did lots of camping, hiking, snowboarding and just being with nature.  It was during my time in Alberta where I started going to a Yoga studio ran by my now close friend Jaime.  She instantly made me fall in love with the art of Yoga, stretching and strengthening the body in beautiful movement.  I have been practicing yoga for aprox 8 years. Fast forward a few years and we had our beautiful daughter Ayla in 2020, right at the beginning of Covid!  Then surprise we got posted to meaford base in 2021 (my husband is in the services), Ontario here we come! I had the priviledge of staying home with Ayla for 2.5 years and it was during this time where I truly deepened my love for being outside, Ayla and I were always out playing in the forest.  In 2022 we had an undiagnosed ectopic pregnancy, leading me to go into emergency surgury.  It was the scariest thing we had ever gone through...I was very close to losing my life. You come out of those moments changed.  I knew that I didn't want to go back to accounting in an office, I needed to follow my calling.  My passion is showing people the beauty of the natural world, how to connect with it and ourselves in the process.  In the warmer months I hope to show you this by nature inspired yoga, and I am very excited to share Forest Bathing / Therapy with you year round, as I have now completed my Nature and Forest Therapy Certificate!   I feel absolutely honoured that I will get to spend time out in nature showing people connection, movement, love.