For everyone working online from home, remember this: happy body, happy mind. Take good care of your body with this rejuvenating stretch and breathing break to survive those endless Zoom meetings.
Brain Health
Anxiety Reducing Practice
This is a common sensory awareness grounding exercise that many people find to be a helpful tool to reduce anxiety, increase presence and invoke a sense of calmness & self-control. You should feel more present, relaxed & empowered at the end of the exercise. Here you go! Pay attention to […]
Come on, get Happy – March 2020
In these uncertain and anxiety provoking times of CODIV-19 when you may feel that your life is being controlled by factors outside of you, it can help to remember what happiness feels like. You may be sad or anxious now, and you have also known happiness. Our emotions always come […]
April 2018 – Touching Freedom with iRest: more than mindfulness
iRest® (integrative restoration) is a research-based secular application of an ancient mindfulness practice that combines deep relaxation and resiliency training with meditative inquiry to address such issues as depression, anxiety, PTSD, chronic pain, sleep disturbances, and well-being. The iRest protocol has been developed over the past forty years by Dr. […]
May 2017 – Supporting Mental Health Week
May 1 represents the start of Canadian Mental Health Week. You’re welcome to be my guest at my trauma-sensitive yoga class for anxiety, depression and PTSD on Wednesday, May 3 at 10:00am at the Ottawa Anxiety Trauma Clinic at Billings Bridge Shopping Centre. Mental health problems come in many […]
Young Researchers in Mental Health Conference
I’m proud to be presenting iRest Guided meditation and mindfulness at this conference. Click on the link below for details Young-Researchers-May-19-2017
April 2017 – 1 Minute Meditation
Any time you want to access that still point of equanimity within you – that place of simply being, of pure awareness that is free from the distractions of the monkey mind, try this: – place the index and middle fingers of your right hand on your left wrist where […]
August 2016 – More Benefits of Yoga
This month I have a couple of recent studies into the benefits of yoga: one on brain health and the other on PTSD. A recent study published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease in May 2016 found that a combination of yoga and meditation was as effective as brain training […]
April 2016 – Meditation Starter
The simple act of sitting down and turning your attention inward can do wonders for your body and mind. This is meditation! There are countless scientific studies that have documented the positive affects of meditation: from calming the nervous system and lowering blood pressure and heart rate; to calming the […]
March 2016 – How Yoga relieves stress
Yoga has been shown to decrease cortisol and adrenaline. These are two of the hormones that your body releases when in the “fight or flight” mode. This is useful when you need to prepare for defensive action, but not so much in daily living, since these are also the hormones […]
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