For May, we bring you the Mother’s Day wrap up, NEW yoga sessions, Holistic Nutrition, Pay it Forward continues and CranioSacral Still Point.

Hello sandal weather, enjoy our May Edition Newsletter!

Recognize your stress cycles – Yoga teaches us that everything in nature – including us – moves in cycles. When your body is in an stressed phase, don’t strive for peak condition – this leads to even more stress. Avoid strenuous asanas (yoga postures) and do more meditation. Try this pose (http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/690)
after the two exercises below for optimal results.

Tension-release exercise – If you feel uptight, lie on your back in a quiet place for five minutes. Inhaling, flex your feet, tighten your thighs, and tense your buttocks. Let go as you exhale. Then inhale and tense your arms and hands, lifting your shoulders towards your ears. let go as you exhale. Next, inhale and tighten your abdomen and chest. Let go as you exhale. Finally, tense your entire body, including your face, and hold your breath. Exhale as if deflating a balloon before rolling over, getting up and drinking a glass of water.

Store within – As you sit or lie in relaxation after the tension-release exercise, close your eyes and guide your mind back to a special time – perhaps a cherished summer holiday. Bathe in the comforting feelings that the memories evoke and store this energy to draw upon when you need sustenance.

Carly Lauder, RYT 300

Gentle pressure is applied with the intention of encouraging action of the parasympathetic portion of your nervous system. This takes care of functions such as rest and digestion.
If you have been feeling stressed, your body would have been
using the sympathetic portion of the nervous system ( fight, flight, fright responses ).

During the serenity of the still point, which usually lasts a few minutes, your body goes into a wonderful  ‘ pause ‘ mode. This allows it to recharge. Using a Still Point Inducer sold me on CranioSacral Therapy. It was immediately effective and I love  the feeling of empowerment I experience when regulating my own healing process. I have been doing self- induced Still Points almst daily for 10 years, usually for 15 – 20 minutes.

I hope you also enjoy this and many other benefits from CranioSacral Therapy. Please feel free to contact me with your questions and/or feedback, my treatment rates are $ 1.00/ minute. I also highly recommend www.upledger.com for more information. You can easily learn to give yourself a CranioSacral Still point, either manually or with a Still Point Inducer. These are available from the Upledger Institute and The Relax the Back Store.  Best of health to you!

Ellen Yauk, B.Sc.PT, RPT

May at Heart & Hands will begin with a BANG:

• NEW hours + the return of the $10 acupuncture session w/ $5 donation
• Mom & babe acupuncture launches Wednesday May 9th
• Our Mother’s Day Celebration – FREE acupuncture, yoga, CranioSacral & documentary

Excited? So are we. See you in May – enjoy our “Special May Edition Newsletter”

And in solidarity on International Worker’s Day, a powerful Tuesday May 1st to you all. Stay tuned for our regular edition May 15th!

May 14-30^th:
$10 sessions + minimum $5 donation continues on the following days:

Mondays 9am – 12pm
Wednesdays 10am – 2pm
Thursdays 10am – 2pm
Fridays 9am – 1pm

BOOK ONLINE or make an appointment by phone, 250-590-3185

The proceeds from your donations go toward subsidizing the cost of acupuncture and physiotherapy treatments as well as yoga workshops for someone in need. This project keeps funding and services sustainable for less fortunate members of our community as well as for the dedicated practitioners who provide them. As a for-profit business, we are unable to provide tax receipts for your donations.

The donation jar is always open for donations outside of promotion days too!
May your generosity come back to you a hundred-fold.

For more information about the “Pay it Forward Pilot Project”,
please contact Christina Chan, heartandhands.acu@gmail.com

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Order tickets via Eventbrite:
http://belongingvictoria-efbevent.eventbrite.ca/

Greetings!

Join us April 21st for an afternoon of community building, connection and workshop in preparation for Belonging: A Victoria Youth Homelessness Summit in October, 2012. We will be sharing information on our initiative and then creatively making use of our time by collectively participating in a World Café session lead by local youth empowerment leader Mike Sheehan, owner of Beatboard Education and Training. What’s a World Café you ask. Great question.

The World Café is a powerful method for bringing people together for lively conversations around questions that matter. In the World Café, “there is an idea that when people gather and are engaged in an issue or question that they care about, in an authentic, open-hearted and open-minded way, that collective wisdom emerges.” (Samantha Tan)

“…the simple idea on which the World Café was founded: powerful questions that really matter; cross-pollinating ideas in an informal environment, a natural environment…When you get more lenses, or more perspectives on the whole, a greater intelligence can reveal itself, so as the conversation unfolds it goes deeper and deeper and deeper towards the essence of what’s really important for the group.”
-Juanaita Brown, World Café co-founder

We will be focusing on what makes a healthy community, specific planning and visioning for the upcoming community summit in October and questions about how to address youth homelessness from the ground, as a community of empowered citizens.

“Using seven design principles and a simple method, the World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today’s world.

Based on the understanding that conversation is the core process that drives personal, business, and organizational life, the World Café is more than a method, a process, or technique – it’s a way of thinking and being together sourced in a philosophy of conversational leadership.” (http://www.theworldcafe.com/about.html)

Event Schedule:

1-2:15pm – Welcome, Ice Breaker and Introduction
2:30-5pm – World Cafe
5-6pm – Social and Music with Grandpa Phunk (The Soul Selector)

For more information on Belonging Victoria visit www.BelongingVictoria.com
To connect with us on Facebook visit www.facebook.com/BelongingVictoria

We bring you ‘punk #3 Stephanie Fournier, NEW acupuncture hours, NEW n’ FRESH yoga sessions, Ellen reminisces CranioSacral, Mom & babe acupuncture….and so much more!

Enjoy our packed full of goodness, April Edition Newsletter!

Sunny days ahead…grow, grow, growing roots in the community!

First, let’s clarify the terms. Yang energy is active and hot. It’s what we use to get things done. We decide what we’re going to do and we do it. Compare this to the act of falling asleep. It doesn’t work to try and use yang energy to sleep. We need to let go, surrender, soften and then sleep overtakes us. This is yin….

Which is why, even for women with no intention of having children, reproductive health is important. It’s a marker for overall health.

Fantastic article about the elegantly orchestrated female reproductive system, by Debbie Hardin L.Ac (Without Child)….read more….