Community News
Spotlight on Seniors

The Saskatoon Council on Aging and TCU Place are pleased to host Saskatoon’s 20th annual Spotlight on Seniors promoting health, lifestyle and active living on October 1, 2019.

This community event will be filled with informative and supportive information, interactive displays, innovative products and musical entertainment! The show will include a comprehensive collection of resources aimed specifically to older adults [55+] and care givers. You can expect to find over 70 exhibitors providing knowledge on healthcare, seniors’ housing, recreation, fitness, travel, finances, and accessibility.

For more information, visit the Saskatoon Council on Aging (SCOA) website.

Multi-Sport at the Lake

The Bad Ass Sports Club of Sylvan Lake is excited to announce the return of their second annual Multi-Sport at the Lake. This coming August 11th, in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, we are hosting seven different events that include: Sprint and Standard Triathlon, Duathlon and AquaBike, and an event for the whole family – the Timbits Family Fun Relay!

Again this year our event will be sanctioned by Triathlon Alberta to qualify athletes in the Sprint and Standard Duathlon, and the Standard AquaBike for the ITU Netherlands 2020 World Championships.

We have partnered with JumpStart and KidsSport to give back to our local sports communities. Fun for the whole family is provided on race day. Join us for a day of cheering, celebrating and action packed fun. Don’t miss our Mini Multi-Sport Market and family fun lake side activities. Come for the Race, stay for the Fun!

Interested in registering, volunteering or sponsoring for our event? Check out all things Multi-Sport at the Lake by visiting multisport.atthelake.com.

Walk for Arthritis – Winnipeg

The Walk for Arthritis is a one day community-based event that raises much needed funds for the more than 6 million Canadians affected by arthritis. The Walk for Arthritis was started in 2009 by small community groups who decided that people living with arthritis needed more support. They realized that if more funds could be raised, they might make a difference to their future.

This year we are excited to be celebrating the 10th anniversary of our annual Walk for Arthritis in over 30 communities across Canada. Since its inception, the Walk for Arthritis has raised over $11 million. Let’s make our 10th anniversary a record breaking year.

On a single day (either Saturday June 1 or Sunday June 2 depending on where you live), people can come out to share the experience of walking 1km or 5km, among family and friends in a festive environment. Hear meaningful stories from people who face this disease every day, and meet the researchers that are really making headway in finding solutions that our investment in research can deliver. Experience the joy of being with inspiring people who actually find walking to be a big challenge because of the pain and limitations of arthritis. But they can move – so can you!

Since then, every June, in more than 30 communities across Canada, thousands of people have started their Saturday or Sunday by choosing to walk with and among people confronted with the pain and limitations of arthritis. And they leave truly inspired.

Join us this year as we celebrate our 10th Walk for Arthritis on June 2nd at Assiniboine Park. The day promises to be joyful, spirited and a day to be remembered.

Route Options: 1Km & 5Km 

Sign up to walk and pledge to raise funds to truly make a difference.

The Arthritis Society is proud to have the confidence of donors across the country that allows us to be the largest charitable funder of arthritis research. This means that the funds raised by the Walk for Arthritis make a world of difference to people affected by the disease. And since 1 in 5 people have the disease today, there is a good chance someone you know will benefit from the steps you take.

In under twenty years the prevalence of arthritis will grow by 50%. We have time to stop that trend, but only through investment in research.

This year we are celebrating our 10th Walk for Arthritis – help us make this the best year ever by joining the Walk for Arthritis community!

2019 Create Your Life Expo – Brandon, MB

Connect

What do you desire to create for your life?  Join us at the 5th annual Create Your Life Expo (Westman Wellness Show) to connect you with the many opportunities we have in Westman to make conscious life choices for you and your family to live your best life.

Create Your Life Expo provides you with an excellent opportunity to connect, learn, and experience over 60 exhibitors with products, resources and services, all under one roof at the WMCA in Brandon. With the extensive variety of businesses in attendance, you’ll have many opportunities to experience first hand what Westman has to offer for health, healing and living.  There is also a chance for you to relax and listen to speaker’s on a variety of topics.  We even have Aida’s Catering on site with lunch options so you can stay for the entire day to see it all!

Experience

We have just over 60 interactive exhibitors and sponsors showcasing their products, their skills, and services that are all here to help you create your life! Many different modalities and products are showcased – what will you discover right in our own community that can help create your future? We are working on some exciting speakers to share knowledge with you, to help you create a life of purpose, health, of being.

Create Your Life Expo uses the entire upper and lower levels of the Western Manitoba Centennial Auditorium including the stage to host speakers. We have hundreds of visitors from the Westman and it’s surrounding communities, attend this interactive one-day event.

We host a wide range of exhibitors-including community resource programs, businesses big and small offering products and services in energy healing, health and nutrition products, gym services, classes, one-on-one healing services, to group therapy services with animals. Anything you can imagine to create your best life is under one roof for you to experience.  We have over 60 exhibitors take part in the show each year, and more than half are new each year we host this event.

Interact and Win Big

We have a fun way for you to experience each exhibitor booth, by participating in mini challenges, and have the opportunity to be entered to win our Grand Prize Draw!!

Building on the success and energy of the last 4 years as the Westman Wellness Show, we aspire to be interactive using the “Ahhhmazing Race” idea again. As an attendee, be a part of the “Ahhhmazing” Race by completing small interactive activities at certain booths and work to get your “Ahhhmazing Race” sheet stamped upon completion of the activity. Once you have a full card, you enter to win some amazing prizes!!

 

We have hosted this event since its inception as the Westman Wellness Show in 2015, and although the name has changed the fun and interactive experiences just keep getting better and better. Robin Chant invites all of you, visitors and exhibitors to experience what Westman has to offer each year in health, wellness and creating your best life.  We look forward to seeing you April 27, 2019 as we celebrate our 5th annual Create Your Life Expo.

We look forward to seeing you there!

HypnoBirthing® “The Mongan Method” – 5 Sessions – 2.5 hrs

The HypnoBirthing childbirth method is as much a philosophy of birth as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free method of birthing. Runs each Wednesday from Feb 6 – March 6, 2019.

Course Includes Five Sessions (2.5 hour evening classes) for you and your birthing partner, one copy of HypnoBirthing® Book – “The Mongan Method” & CD.

HypnoBirthing teaches you, along with your birthing companion, the art and joy of experiencing birth in a more comfortable manner. You will learn how to call upon your body’s own natural epidural and thus lessen or even eliminate discomfort and the need for medication. When a woman is properly prepared for childbirth and when mind and body are in harmony, nature is free to function in the same well-designed manner that it does naturally.

You will be fascinated as you view HypnoBirthing films showing labouring mothers, awake, alert and in good humour as they experience the kind of gentle birth that you, too, can know when you are free of the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome. HypnoBirthing teaches you to release all prior programming about birth, how to trust your body and work with it, as well as how to free yourself of harmful emotions that lead to pain-causing fear and unyielding muscles.

HypnoBirthing will teach you the art of using your own natural birthing instincts. You will be aware and fully in control, but profoundly relaxed.

Enrolment in this course is an investment in yourself and your baby and is a life-changing event.

You will learn:

How to use self-hypnosis
To stop negative programming and fears
Relaxation and self-hypnosis techniques to eliminate the fear and tension that causes long labour and pain, replacing it with confidence, calm and comfort
Techniques to produce a shorter, more comfortable labour
To release negative experiences from the past and present that could interfere with your calm, and comfortable birth
To control your body’s own natural relaxant
Why women in other cultures have birthing almost entirely free of discomfort
Special breathing techniques for the different stages of labour that work with the body to promote relaxation
To create your own effective birth plan
Ways your birth companion can participate throughout the birth
Natural techniques for induction of labour, once beyond your “Estimated due date”
Natural techniques to re-stimulate a “stalled labour”
The importance of prenatal and perinatal bonding
HypnoBirthing Advantages:

Eliminates the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome before, during and after birthing
Reduces the need for chemical anesthesia
Eliminates fatigue during labour, leaving the mother fresh, awake and with the energy needed to bring her baby into the world
Shortens the first stage of labour by several hours and often eliminates the need to push to bring the baby to the crowning stage
The birthing companion is an integral part of the birthing, not an onlooker
Postnatal recovery is rapid and easier
Babies are better adjusted and happier
Mothers do not run the risk of hyperventilating from shallow breathing
Promotes special bonding of mother, baby and birthing companion
Fewer interventions and complications during labour
Returns birthing to the beautiful, peaceful experience nature intended
Feel Free to CALL JEANNIE 250-702-4769
*InvisionYourLife.com assumes no responsibility or liability for the outcome of any pregnancy, labour, or birth. The content of the HypnoBirthing Course is in no way represented as medical advice, nor as a prescription for a medical procedure. As always, you should seek the advice of your health care provider to answer any health-related or pregnancy-related issues surrounding your pregnancy, labour and delivery, before starting any new pregnancy-related program.

Family Gathering Tips

Family Gathering Tips. Enjoying the company of relatives you don’t see very often is one of the best parts of family gatherings.

Enjoy your day to the fullest by taking every opportunity you can to connect and speak an encouraging word to every person in attendance. In doing so, you will start a ton of great conversations and learn fun facts about your relatives. Here are a few more family gathering tips to help you make the most out of your time spent with loved ones.
Enjoy your Tribe to the Fullest with These Family Gathering Tips
1. Talk about past memories. If it’s an annual gathering that’s been going on since you were a kid, start a conversation to bring up some of the funny and heartwarming memories of years gone by. Include aunts, uncles, and cousins as you relive the “good ole days”.
2. Get into a conversation with your favorite relatives. If you just them a hug or a handshake and move on, you may be missing out on special stories and memories.
3. Changing up your surroundings where you normally host your gatherings are both great ways to encourage fresh conversation and connections. Make an effort to create a Family Gathering Committee. Rotate members in and out every gathering so everyone has a chance of honing their leadership and planning skills.
4. Crack a joke at an unexpected time, or grab a smaller group to go hunt down some hot chocolate.
5. Exchange phone numbers and emails with cousins and others you’ve grown distant from. You might have lost your childhood closeness, but why not bring that closeness back as adults? That way, when the next family gathering rolls around, you’ll already feel connected, both as family members and as friends.
6. Whip up some of your favorite recipes as a special treat. Or make it a recipe swap, either with or without the actual dishes. Start a fun new family tradition by creating a family “Secret Recipe” collection that can be added to over the years.
7. Create some completely new Family Traditions. Whether serious or funny, family traditions are the catalyst for bonding opportunities that can be continued for hundreds of years. Just make sure they’re memorable and a somehow representative of your family.

So, dust off your electronic family address book and plan a get-together. Gather for an annual winter marshmallow roast, a monthly poker game, or a quarterly brunch where you all wear your finest clothes and drink orange tea. After all, anything goes. It’s tradition!

Check out more great tips on our Edge Blog www.wildernessedge.com/blog 

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