Inside The Polished Apple

Goddess Offering "May you be blessed Goddess For you bear in your womb Our Mother Earth Looking over it everyday Full of Love Preserving its Peace" We were privileged to have Jennifae Coburn of Supporting Sisterhood hold space for us for a women's circle (with two husbands too!) this past week.  What a beautiful evening!  Crystals, candles and feminine energy.  We had a chance to do a hand fasting, plant seeds for our healing using an Anastasia planting ceremony, share our stories, and send our wounds and worries back to the earth with a dry Epson salts "bath" infused with lavender and healing herbs.   With the Anastasia ceremony, I personally planted a butternut squash that will be programmed for my own personal "medicine"/ healing.  Next up (and when the weather cooperates), I will get to walk barefoot in the garden space in which I will plant it.  Sounds right up my alley!   The evening was a lovely way to connect to...

Here's my mini "piece of art a day" project.   I have this unknown-where-its-coming-from desire to MAKE ART .  Something grand and all encompassing and beautiful.  That I can hang on my wall, that I can keep all to myself, or share if I choose.  Be inspired by every day.  Speak volumes.  All of that.   Then I get stuck.  I feel I need big stretches of lazy time to dream up the project.  To gather my supplies.  To choose a medium.  To create.   So it doesn't really happen on any big scale.   I've seen a few friends on the social media world breaking down projects into something a bit more manageable.  A photo a day of something completely ordinary.  A sentence a day.  A paragraph a day.  A doodle a day.  An inch a day.   So that's what I have done for the past 55 days-I have only one blank square on my first page.  (my page divided into 56 squares and I'm not s...

Spring has finally arrived!  Not just a date on the calendar, but sun, warm weather, melting snow and tiny green shoots.  Here's a small article that was posted earlier this month in our newsletter :   You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer . *    *    * When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born . Thich Nhat Hanh We've been longing for Mother Earth to cooperate this spring! After one of our longest winters full of snow and cold, we're ready to celebrate the new season. April always reminds me of new babies (usually of the human, chick and bunny varieties), sprouting grass and bulbs, spring, and our earth. It's also that time of year when we crawl out of ou...

It's time for Spring Celebration and Patient Appreciation Week!  We put the call out that we hope to use our Patient Appreciation Day & Open House to also raise money for the local charity Made by Momma , and our community support has been amazing!   Door Prizes from Evans Dental and Wellness Our local Starbucks contributed a gift basket. A supplement basket from Morning Sun Healthy Snacks from The Light Cellar Young Living Essential Oils and a Scan and Consult from Akasha Essence Manicure, Pedicure, and Facial from Ashley Sage Spa We're fortunate to have so much support in this fun event.  I must mention we have prizes still arriving from Babes in Arms ,  Anthony Burbidge music ,  Adventures of Little , Sandra Catania Reflexology , Treehouse Flowers , The Natural Art of Skin Care , and donations from Westbrook Mall .   You are welcome to join us to help Celebrate!  Saturday, March 29th from 9:30 am...

Elan had the opportunity to host our March CRAVEfuel event, with the topic of Identity.   We had two wonderful presenters- Gemma Stone and Jennifer Powter  and had the chance to chat about our own business identity and how to be congruent in how others see us.   The key to the evening was how do we bring Authenticity to our business?  Whether it is our passion for our work, an incredibly specific customer group, being comfortable in how we present ourselves in our work place, allowing our feminine energy to show up in the workplace, or sharing our background through writing and social media, we all have many opportunities to show our authentic selves.   Our presenters have such an amazing background:  Gemma is a psychologist, coach, speaker, guide and retreat leader.  Her popular programs are Birthing From Love and the Great Life Redesign.  What a great way to literally birth a new being, or birth a new you!  Gemma shared how she...

Dr. Adrienne Perkins- Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncturist & Massage Therapist!   This past weekend we were at the Festival of Health and Wellness.  Between muscle testing for allergies, DTCM Tongue and Pulse Diagnosis, sharing information on Network Spinal Analysis, and meeting some new faces, we were busy!   Here's a peak at our table.   It's always fascinating to see the different health and healing modalities being offered in Calgary-there's no much to do and experience!  From movement therapies, health practitioners, organic coffees, angel readings, crystals, massage, to self help books, and much, much more... How does one decide?   We often see people who are confused by what choices to make.   I can share my own experience of how I make decisions about my health.  I choose NSA chiropractic first because it is the one way that I know I can learn new things about how I do my life, and ...

Kapow! It's March. For the last 3 days I have been trying to clear my head enough to get some of the most powerful things I can share into this Newsletter/Blog. How do you put the feeling of agitation into words? Not... anger.... but an incredible longing, buzz, or high pitched squeal. Something so incredible that you cannot put it into words without softening it. How can you? It's like trying to describe the colour red to a blind person – words are inadequate for the job. I've been asked to talk about appreciation but something bigger and much more important to me is on my mind right now. As a health practitioner, I have long thought that restoring someone to their pre-symptomatic state was the goal. To move them from pain back to normal. To return them to their daily lives. A person would come in with XYZ, I'd treat them and then have them go away, returned to normal. Some time later, they would return with ABC, and we would work on that. Again I'd get them ...