Limb to Life:
Amputee Yoga Collective
Yoga is for everybody.
Welcome to the Limb to Life Amputee Yoga Collective, where we're dedicated to breaking barriers for amputees through making yoga accessible.
Our mission is to recognize your strengths, build community, and uplift your well-being, providing you with a supportive space as a person with limb loss to explore your full potential and thrive.
Offerings
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Community Yoga Classes
Join our "Community Yoga for Amputees" class, starting April 22 at Hillcrest Recreation Centre in Vancouver! Every Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 7:30 pm, we'll come together to explore yoga in a way that's adapted especially for amputees.
Classes are designed to help you build strength, mobility, and confidence, while nurturing your overall well-being. Through a blend of yoga postures, breathing exercises, and mindfulness practices, join us in a supportive community environment where you can practice with others with similar experiences.
Open to both beginners and those with experience!
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Free or Low-Cost Individual Yoga Therapy
Limb to Life Amputee Yoga Collective offers a limited number of free or by-donation individual yoga therapy sessions to recent amputees, and those struggling with physical and mental health challenges related to their limb loss.
Work with a certified yoga therapist to learn yoga, breathing, and mindfulness tools customized to your individual needs, to address concerns such as phantom pain, grief, musculoskeletal imbalance.
Available to new clients located in the Lower Mainland, subject to availability. Send us an email to inquire.
Meet the Limb to Life Team
Jaden Gornall, Founder & C-IAYT Yoga Therapist
A C-IAYT yoga therapist since 2020, and a yoga instructor since 2013, Jaden’s life was altered when an accident led to his left leg being amputated above the knee in 2023. His lived experiences, and knowledge of the immense benefits of yoga as a healing practice led to a growing recognition of the need to make yoga more inclusive and accessible for amputees than it currently is. This inspired him to found the “Limb to Life Amputee Yoga Collective” in 2025. Jaden lives an active life, and when not guiding yoga can often be found exploring the reefs as a scuba diver.
Nahal Haghbin, C-IAYT Yoga Therapist
A C-IAYT Integrative Yoga Therapist since 2024, a yoga instructor since 2016, and a dedicated practitioner since 2009, Nahal’s approach to yoga deepened after navigating PTSD and rebuilding her nervous system through her own 12-week Pure Breath Program. The experience gave her a renewed understanding of healing—one breath at a time.
During her practicum, she worked with a client who had recently experienced limb loss. Those sessions became a turning point in her path, and the moment she truly felt like a yoga therapist. They also sparked a deep calling to support others living with amputation, alongside her long-standing focus on mothers with children aged 0–5 through prenatal and postnatal yoga therapy.
As part of the Limb to Life Amputee Yoga Collective, Nahal is committed to making yoga therapy adaptive, inclusive, and trauma-informed. When not guiding in-person or online sessions, she’s often crafting healing jewelry, swimming, or writing. Nahal is also a former epidemiologist who contributed to global health efforts during the Ebola, H7N9, and MERS-CoV outbreaks at the World Health Organization. She likes to live in between worlds—where yoga therapy meets global population-level health.
