To: Cheryl Joseph d.b.a. Yoga with Cheryl, and its principals, teachers, contractors, subcontractors, servants, agents, employees, teachers-in-training, apprentices, training teachers, mentoring teachers, visiting teachers, substitute teachers, and/or sessional teachers (hereinafter collectively referred to as “Cheryl Joseph”).
Assumption of Risks: Yoga Practice and COVID-19
Yoga Practice: I am aware that yoga practice, yoga classes, yoga workshops, yoga series, or other yoga activity, including, but not limited to, a free or donation-based yoga practice, class, workshop, series, or event (all of which may occur indoors, online/virtually, or outdoors), and yoga facilities including, but not limited to, yoga props, rope walls, and yoga furniture (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Yoga Activities”), may involve inherent risks including but not limited to, personal injury, and expense and related loss, including loss of income. I am aware that one of the risks, dangers, or hazards of Yoga Activities is negligence on the part of Cheryl Jospeh or her students. I am also aware that one of the risks of my participation in Yoga Activities includes trip and fall situations.
COVID-19: COVID-19 is extremely contagious and is believed to spread mainly through the air and from person-to-person contact. I acknowledge that Cheryl Joseph will abide by all B.C. provincial health officer orders in place at any given time and agree to abide by these restrictions and any other safeguards Cheryl Joseph has put in place to reduce the risk of infection, including as those restrictions or safeguards change. I am aware that if I attend indoor or outdoor Yoga Activities in-person with Cheryl Joseph, I may become infected with COVID-19; and attending such Yoga Activities in-person could increase my risk of contracting COVID-19. By signing this agreement, I acknowledge the contagious nature of COVID-19 and voluntarily assume the risk that I may be exposed to or infected with COVID-19 by attending any indoor or outdoor Yoga Activities with Cheryl Joseph, and that such exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, disability, permanent disability, and death of myself or my close contacts. I understand that the risk of becoming exposed to or infected with COVID-19 at Cheryl Joseph's Yoga Acitvities may result from the actions, omissions, or negligence of myself and others, including, but not limited to, Cheryl Joseph, her students, and their respective close contacts.