‘Zen den’ vibe balances holiday triggers
I don’t know about you, but the past few weeks have brought a lot of messy situations and “crunchy” feelings to the surface for me. The negative voice in my head has been quite loud and I’ve been feeling the fragility and precariousness of the world. Heading into a holiday weekend, I’m reminded of loss […]
Wellness: Forest bathing
I love trees. I find them calming confidants and amazing conduits for prayer. As the challenging energy of the world rises, trees hold solid and grounding energy. With the Sept. 22 autumnal equinox drawing nearer, more and more deciduous trees are transforming from orbs of green to colourful beacons of red, orange, and yellow. It […]
Wellness: It starts with listening
Twenty-nine-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin is as one of the greatest alpine skiers of all time. She has the most World Cup wins of any alpine skier in history and is the youngest slalom gold medalist in Olympic history. In 2023, Time magazine named her one of the most influential people in the world. Shiffrin’s head coach […]
Wellness: Acceptance key to healing
When I was a teen I spent a lot of time in my room listening to 45’s and dreaming about escaping the small rural town I grew up in. As part of my escape plan I covered my bedroom walls in album covers, posters and magazine ads depicting successful people living a so-called happy and […]
Wellness: Just breathe
I recently attended a breath work class at The Sanctuary Yoga and Wellness Studio that blew my mind and resulted in emotional freedom. The human nervous system is made up of many types of cells but the predominant ones are called neurons. Neurons use chemical and electrical signals to carry information throughout the human body. Most human neurons are […]
Welcoming the rejuvenating power of the sun
Spring is a heart expanding wellness season! There’s the glorious cacophony of green from sprouting trees, bushes, and grasses. The return of colour in the patch of spring flowers pushing up from the sun-kissed earth. The melody of chirps from fair weather birds and the tinkle of wind chimes that have been hung back up after a long winter hiatus. Not to […]
Wellbeing is an ecosystem
The dictionary defines wellness as “the quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal”. This is a very succinct and action-oriented definition, but what does good health actually mean? Many wellness practitioners (myself included) would say good health encapsulates the physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, and environmental aspects of being human. For […]
Rediscovering the joys of play can help switch mindset
My husband and I recently had the time of our lives hiking the Simcoe County Forest Louden Tract adjacent to Airport Road. What made our hike so memorable was the discovery of multiple frozen puddles. This may not seem like a memory making moment to most, so let me explain. When I was a young girl I grew up in a house that had […]
Wellness: Energy medicine
Do you remember in Grade 9 science when we learned about the particle theory of matter? We were taught that matter is anything that has mass and takes up space, and that matter is made up of tiny particles called atoms. These atoms are in constant motion and there is space between atoms. Atoms attract […]
Wellness: Meditation has many benefits
Imagine yourself in a ballroom with more than 2,000 people but they aren’t eating, dancing or talking. They are sitting still with their eyes closed… That was the scene at a meditation retreat I attended recently in Mexico where 2,100 people from 68 countries spent a week getting to know themselves from the inside out. […]