Friday the 13th is often considered unlucky; this past one was most fortunate for me. I participated in a full day Mindfulness Core Concepts workshop. It's part of the health professionals program at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies. What an enlightening day! My introduction to meditation was as a kid. My unconventional father took our entire family to ...
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Create a Gentle Happy Birth Experience
Pregnancy can be stressful; there is so much unknown. Mindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular approach to managing this stress and preparing for childbirth and beyond. Potential benefits of mindfulness include: reducing anxiety, stress, and the risk of perinatal depression managing pain during pregnancy and labour enhancing 'connection' ...
How Stress Affects Your Body
It seems that what we are really built to do is to treat ourselves and others well — not flee from tigers all day long. ~ Jon Spayde. Stress can be at the root of why many people come to me for treatment. Low back pain, neck and shoulder tension, headaches, digestive disorders, weight gain; the list goes on. Often clients don't make the link until we start ...