BEYOND THE MAT
The mat brings you in.
The people keep you coming back.
SPY is more than a studio. It's a community built over years of showing up — for the practice and for each other.
WHAT COMMUNITY MEANS HERE
Not a customer base.
A family.
The word community gets used everywhere. We've been deliberate about what it actually means at SPY.
It means first-timers are greeted by name and helped to find a spot. It means experienced students look out for newer ones. It means teachers know their students — not just their faces. It means the connection that starts on the mat continues long after you roll it up.
"A real community was created. I was empowered, supported, and loved — and I still feel this way years after graduating."
SPY Graduate
We've watched friendships form, life partnerships begin, careers change, and families support each other through hard seasons — all rooted in a shared commitment to showing up.
WHAT MAKES SPY DIFFERENT
You are seen
Teachers know who you are. Long-time members will introduce themselves. No one fades into the background at SPY.
You are challenged
This community holds a standard. Not of perfection — of showing up, of honesty, of continuing to grow.
You are supported
In the hard classes. In the hard seasons. This is not a transactional relationship — it's a community that shows up.
You belong
Whether you've been practicing for twenty years or twenty days. This mat is yours. This community is yours.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
What our community says
"From the time you step into the studio you will be acknowledged, encouraged, assisted and inspired. The goal here is to ignite and empower you beyond your perceived limitations."
SPY MEMBER
"Pam and her team go above and beyond. I felt completely supported throughout. The ongoing mentoring is second to none — invaluable to my continued growth and confidence."
SPY GRADUATE · KELOWNA, BC
"I have never met teachers who stood for the greatness of every single human being — on and off the mat. They truly gave me a gift."
SPY GRADUATE
"Come for the great learning environment and leave feeling empowered and with a greater sense of self and purpose. I can't see there being a comparable community anywhere."
SPY MEMBER · WEST KELOWNA
"The SPY community became my people. The connection that started in that training room has lasted years — through big changes in all of our lives."
SPY GRADUATE
"I came for yoga. I stayed for the community. That's the simplest way I can put it — and it's the truest."
SPY MEMBER · WEST KELOWNA
GIVING BACK
The Lit From Within Project
We believe the tools of yoga belong in every community — especially the ones that are hardest to reach.
The Lit From Within Project was co-founded by Pam Rader as a grassroots fundraising initiative with a clear purpose: to fund the integration of yoga and meditation into trauma recovery, mental health, and addiction treatment facilities throughout the Okanagan.
Because breathwork, nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and embodied presence are not luxuries. They are tools that help people heal — and every person deserves access to them.
This work is part of who SPY is. We practice, we grow, we give back.
COMMUNITY INITIATIVE
Lit From Within
Funding yoga and meditation integration in trauma, mental health, and addiction recovery facilities throughout the Okanagan Valley.
FREE ONLINE COMMUNITY
The Shift Collective
A free Skool community for heart-led, impact-driven humans who are ready to unlock expansion, energy, and freedom — through alignment, self-leadership, and service to others.
If you've found your way to SPY, you already know something is possible that most people around you aren't talking about. The Shift Collective is where that conversation continues — between classes, between training weekends, between the moments when life asks more of you than you expected.
Inside the community you'll find coaching conversations, resources, live events, and a Wednesday Wisdom Circle — an ongoing weekly gathering hosted by Pam. It's free to join, and it's the kind of online space that actually feels like something.
WEEKLY WISDOM CIRCLE
COACHING Q&A
LIVE EVENTS & WORKSHOPS
FREE TO JOIN
153+ MEMBERS
THE SHIFT COLLECTIVE
"We help heart-led, impact-driven humans unlock expansion, energy, and freedom through alignment, self-leadership, and service to others."
Wednesday Wisdom Circle
A weekly live gathering hosted by Pam — part coaching, part conversation, part community. Drop in, bring a question, and leave with more than you arrived with.
Classroom resources
Workshops, frameworks, and tools from Pam's coaching practice — including replays of live events and the Grit to Gold workshop series.
Real community
Not a feed of content. An actual community of people doing the work — asking real questions, sharing real wins, supporting each other through the hard stuff.
Grit & Grace
Co-hosted by Pam Rader, Erin Payne, and Brian Thiessen — Grit & Grace explores what it really takes to live and lead a full life.
Raw conversations about courage, authenticity, transformation, and the messy middle between who you are and who you're becoming. The tools and frameworks that actually work when life gets hard. The honest stories that remind you you're not alone in yours.
If SPY resonates with you — the depth, the honesty, the refusal to stay on the surface — Grit & Grace is where that continues between classes.
BEYOND THE STUDIO
Pam's coaching & leadership work
SPY is where Pam's work is rooted. pamrader.com is where it expands.
Through Shift Labs Inc., Pam offers world-class life and leadership coaching programs — including Become the Catalyst, a six-month coaching certification, and Leadership Unleashed, serving both individuals and corporate clients. Her work blends yogic philosophy, spiritual wisdom, and cutting-edge personal development methodology.
If the transformation you've found on the SPY mat has made you wonder what's possible when you go even deeper — this is the next step.
Coaching & Programs
Life and leadership coaching, certifications, and the inner Evolution Circle community
Grit & Grace retreats
Ranch-based retreat experiences combining yoga, horseback riding, breathwork, and deep community
The Shift Collective
Free online community for growth-minded humans — join the weekly Wednesday Wisdom Circle
Follow Pam on Instagram
Daily insights, behind-the-scenes, and the kind of content that makes you think
READY TO BELONG?
There are many ways
to become part of SPY.
Start wherever you are. The community will meet you there.
Take a class
The simplest way in. Show up, unroll your mat, and let the community do the rest.
Join teacher training
Twenty cohorts have built some of the deepest relationships through our YTT program. It's community at its most intensive.
Get in touch
Have a question? Want to know if SPY is the right fit? We'd love to hear from you — Pam answers her own messages.