Megan Snider

Megan Snider

MEGAN SNIDER
Riverside Neighbourhood, Toronto
Stargazer and Kid Connector -

Megan (she/her) founded Appleseed in 2016 after quitting her full-time job and marrying her two loves: yoga and kids. She began to offer kids yoga drop-in classes down the street from her home in 2017 with her two young boys in tow. Appleseed has been a culmination of all Megan’s gifting, training and experiences, and continues to form her into her highest self everyday. She is boldly in love with mothering her family and also the Appleseed community at the same time. Pleasure and work are one for Megan. Megan’s family and their experiences in nature and life are her inspiration for Appleseed. Megan holds a BBA, and over 400 hours of yoga teacher training for all ages.

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Megan Snider
  • YOGA STORYTIME - "My Mommy Medicine" by Edwidge Danticat

    All ages. What activities feel "mothering" to you? Have fun with Megan in this sweet class while we move to Edwidge Danticat's brilliant book "My Mommy Medicine"! This book talks all about how Mommy's care for and love their babies and what's "medicine" for their children's soul. This book is d...

  • KIDS - The 5 Love Languages

    Ages 4-8. Megan leads a fun-filled class all about the 5 love languages where you will learn a little more about yourself and your family members and their love languages! This class is based off the book "The 5 Love Languages of Children" by Gary Chapman which explores the idea that not all hum...

  • KIDS - Amazon Adventure

    Ages 4-8. The amazon is home to 40,000 plant species and over 5500 animal species from mammals to birds, to fish! Spend some time with Megan as we build our courage in the humidity and tour through the depths of this incredibly diverse ecosystem. We will move our bodies and take a boat along th...

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "What's My Superpower?" by Aviaq Johnston

    Join Megan for a Yoga Storytime all about finding out your superpower! This brilliant Indigenous book is by Aviaq Johnston and illustrated by Tim Mack and we're reading it today to celebrate National Indigenous History Month (June). Have a discussion after about what makes them unique and speci...

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "The Go Away Bird" by Julia Donaldson

    Join Megan for a Yoga Storytime all about acceptance and friendship! This captivating book is by Julia Donaldson and is illustrated by Catherine Rayner.

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "We Are All Under One Wide Sky" by Deborah Wiles

    Join Megan for a Yoga Storytime all about how we ALL are connected! This sweet book is by Deborah Wiles and Andrea Stegmaier. 🌲 🦌

  • KIDS - Worm Yoga

    Ages 4-8. It's Worm Yoga! What are castings and clitellums? Learn all this and more with squirmy, wormy yoga led by Megan! Plus you'll move, breathe and rest a little too. Get ready to get close to Mama Earth. :)

  • KIDS - Charlotte's Web Yoga

    Charlotte's Web Yoga with Megan! 🐷 🐀 🕸 🕷 👧🏻
    Kids ages 4-8

    *Read notice below!
    In this class we explore the setting and characters and then I tell a condensed version of the story of Charlotte's Web by E.B. White all the while doing yoga.
    *Notice! I (Megan) do not skirt around the issue of death...

  • MEDITATION - Guardian Wolf (Wolf Moon)

    All ages. Encounter your guardian wolf with a meditation with Megan under the Full Wolf Moon!

  • KIDS - Back To School

    Ages 4-8. September brings us a lot of big feelings and behaviour. Encounter what this transitional time may bring and learn how to calm your nerves and the tools that will help you get through whatever feels uncomfortable! This class is super helpful to regulate the entire family. Have fun!

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "Yoga Friends" by Miriam Gates and Rolf Gates

    Join Megan for a partner yoga class following the book "Yoga Friends" by Miriam Gates and Rolf Gates.

  • KIDS - Farmer's Market Yoga

    Age 4-8. Megan takes a trip to the local Farmer's Market! We play a little to start and then read a brilliant book called "To Market, To Market" by Nikki McClure.

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "A Platypus, Probably" by Sneed B. Collard III

    Join Megan on her journey to learn ALLLL the wild facts about platypus'! Their bills sense electrical impulses, have no teeth, and their young gets milk from patches on their skin, not nipples! This book called "A Platypus, Probably" by Sneed B. Collard III and illustrated by Andrew Plant is qu...

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "Thanks for Thanksgiving" by Heather Patterson

    Join Megan in this gratitude filled Yoga Storytime about Thanksgiving. As we admit to what Thanksgiving celebrates - colonialism and the oppression of the Indigenous people of the country we now call Canada - we stand in solidarity with the Indigenous and seek to unlearn our hurtful ways, and gi...

  • MEDITATION - "The Apple Tree" by Carolyn Clarke (adapted)

    Join Megan for a short meditation all about an Apple Tree! Great for a fall or gratitude themed class.

  • KIDS - Body Love Yoga

    This class is for all ages!
    Join Megan for an eye-opening and critically important Yoga Storytime all about BODIES! This book called "Bodies Are Cool" by Tyler Feder will surely get your kids talking and thinking about theirs and all bodies in a positive light. Just another step on this new pa...

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "Hunters of the Great Forest" by Dennis Nolan

    Enjoy a fun class with Megan all about the Hunter Moon! The full Hunter Moon is where our ancestors used to hunt by the light of the moon to prepare and store their plenty for the winter (and more). In this class we imagine being bow and arrow hunters in the forest by the light of the moon and ...

  • MEDITATION - The Pumpkin

    All Ages. Snuggle up with Megan for a meditation about growing a pumpkin! Inspired by Carolyn Clarke, this meditation will get you excited (and relaxed!) for Halloween.

  • KIDS - Halloween Yoga

    Join a leopard...ahem Megan... for a fun-filled Halloween class! We've got Skeleton Shakes, a Halloween Animal Vinyasa and a sweet and spooky story for you all about community and pumpkins! Don't miss this special class.
    Ages 3-9

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "Spiders" by Gail Gibbons

    Megan leads a class ALLLL about SPIDERS! Different versions of Spider Pose, some interesting facts about spiders, and during Spider Yoga Storytime to the book "Spiders" by Gail Gibbons, we pretend to be spiderlings, spin a web, and pounce + spin our dinner for later! The book we read is non-fic...

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "Treaty Tales: The Friendship" by Betty Linxleg

    Join Megan for a Yoga Storytime class to the book "Treaty Tales: The Friendship" by Betty Linxleg, Amber Green and Scott B. Henderson. We talk a little about what Treaties are, do a little yoga to move our bodies and then settle in for this story. Ages 4+

  • MEDITATION - Three Promises

    Come for a quiet meditation where we imagine laying in the grass and making three promises: one to ourself, one to a friend, and one to the world. Megan takes your child on an engaging and relaxing journey from self-care to other-care and world-care. Let's be intentional about our promises in o...

  • KIDS - Grief & Loss

    Ages 3+. Join Megan for a class for your child on grief, death, and loss. We move our bodies in ways that make us feel joyful and lively and also low, sad and slow. We talk about what we can do when we're sad and grieving like take care of ourself, talk to someone or come back to our senses an...

  • YOGA STORYTIME - "One Wave At A Time" by Holly Thompson

    Ages 4+. Enjoy a yoga storytime class with Megan! We move our bodies to let out some emotions with the "pandemic shakes" and then move toward stillness and mindfulness as we read this precious, honest and wise book together.