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Alkaline Water Benefits

Cerra Alkaline Anti-oxidant Hydrogen Water offers transformative benefits. It balances body pH levels, providing 1000x more alkalinity than tap water. Loaded with antioxidants, it combats free radicals, enhancing cellular function. Its smaller water molecule clusters improve hydration and detoxify the body from accumulated toxins. Enriched with essential nutrients, it bolsters the immune system naturally. By neutralizing acidic waste, it aids in weight loss. Cerra Water’s process mimics nature, using ceramic balls for alkaline mineral infusion. Its quality materials ensure safety, with certified food-safe plastics. Cerra Water offers a holistic solution for optimal health and hydration.

Natural Health Spotlight

Soma Osteopathy and Wellness focuses on enhancing your health and well-being journey by providing you a multidisciplinary professional team of osteopathic practitioners, athletic therapists, craniosacral therapists, and registered massage therapists. They address diverse conditions like back pain, arthritis, headaches, and sports injuries. Their treatments aim to optimize your well-being, combining manual therapy, exercise prescriptions, and lifestyle advice. Whether you’re recovering from an injury, managing chronic pain, or seeking preventive care, their personalized approach ensures comprehensive support tailored to your needs. Experience rejuvenation and renewed vitality, empowering you to return to your favorite activities. Soma-osteopathy.com

Funding Shouldn’t Feel Hard

Securing funding for essential equipment shouldn’t be daunting. Our focus is on reviewing equipment options tailored to your clinical needs, ensuring they align with high standards of quality and reliability. If required, we help you explore potential funding avenues such as the BC Rebate for Accessible Home Adaptations (BC RAHA) and the BC Home Renovation Tax Credit for Seniors. Stop in and visit our expert team that will guide you through the process, alleviating any sense of overwhelm. We provide invaluable advice to expedite the funding process, empowering you and your therapist to navigate it with clarity and confidence.

Life is About Living Fully

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. When fear runs our hearts and our lives, it shuts us down and it creeps into every crevice of our being. It builds up walls that trap us inside ourselves. When we allow fear and indifference to run our relationships and our life choices instead of love, it strangles us slowly and boldly until one day there is nothing left but a shell of disconnect and dis-ease. Life is about living. Living fully, boldly, courageously, openly, lovingly, embracing and drinking in new experiences and exploring the laboratory we call “life” to its fullest. Learning firsthand what you love and works for YOU and what doesn’t work. When we allow ourselves to embrace life fully, we fill our hearts with meaning and connection and allow our life force to flow by both giving and receiving interchangeably.

Ask The Expert

Q: Is it really possible to detect a brain tumour during an eye exam?
A: Yes, but only indirectly. For example, some types of brain tumours can cause changes to the optic nerve and can affect vision a certain way, and these things can be picked up during a routine eye exam. Further testing and imaging would be necessary to make a proper diagnosis in such a case, and it should be stated that many types of brain tumours do not affect the eyes at all. Come see us at Mosaic for your next eye examination!

Dental Experiment at Home

Engage your child in a fun home dental activity to promote oral health awareness and establish family routines. Craft “plaque” slime to demonstrate how it adheres to egg carton “teeth”, simulating the buildup of real plaque. Emphasize the importance of brushing and flossing twice daily to prevent plaque accumulation, which hardens into tartar if not removed. Explain that only a dentist can remove tartar, underscoring the significance of regular oral hygiene. Create the slime by mixing white glue and cornstarch, then apply it to the egg carton “teeth”. Encourage your child to remove the simulated plaque, fostering hands-on learning about dental care.

Signature Tea of the Month

Experience a refreshing and rejuvenating cup of Ayurvedic Ginger Fresh tea. This harmonious blend of lemon, ginger, and licorice root offers a symphony of flavours that invigorate the senses. This tea tastes delightful, has immune-boosting properties, and aids digestion thanks to the calming effects of licorice root on the stomach. The zesty essence of lemon and the warming spice of ginger create a revitalizing brew that nourishes the body from within. Sip on Ayurvedic Ginger Fresh tea to embrace the zest of life and achieve holistic vitality.

Music and Dementia

The effects of dementia are devastating to individuals and their families. Researchers are keen to find ways to ease its symptoms and restore abilities and memory. Studies on music and dementia have shown promising findings. Did you know that the area of the brain associated with musical memory tends to be least affected by dementia? Music therapy may help reduce cognitive decline while improving the memory of people with dementia. In one study, test subjects performed better on memory tests when they listened to music. It has also been found that the emotional content of music can bring back emotional memories.

Chocolate Coconut Overnight Oats

Overnight oats are a no-cook oatmeal that you make by letting them rest overnight. Enjoy this decadent (but healthy) recipe! Ingredients: 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt, 1/2 cup (heaping) rolled oats, 2/3 cup full-fat coconut milk, 1 tablespoon chia seeds or ground flax meal, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, Pinch of salt, 1-2 tablespoons honey or maple syrup, 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, 1/4 cup unsweetened flaked coconut. Instructions: Whisk together all ingredients in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Spoon into a jar with a tight-fitting lid. Close and refrigerate overnight.

Travel Power Wheelchairs

Motion – Make life accessible with life-changing equipment – 20% OFF Pride Mobility® Jazzy Carbon® Travel Power Wheelchairs
At Motion (formerly Motion Specialties), our knowledgeable experts enjoy making life accessible for everyone by identifying the unique needs of our clients and selecting solutions that fit their lifestyles. Let us help you make a difference in your life every day with the right mobility and home accessibility solutions, including wheelchairs, stairlifts, walkers, power lift recliners, bathroom safety items, and more. Special offer: 20% OFF Pride Mobility® Jazzy Carbon® Travel Power Wheelchairs – valid until April 30, 2024. Ask a Motion representative for more details.