NATURAL HEALING ARTS

We live in a dynamic world where our mental, social, and physical well-being is constantly being pulled in many directions. The natural healings arts field is designed to provide tools, insights, and strategies to keep us in a balanced state of well-being where the mind-body-spirit is in harmony. The natural healing arts field promotes a holistic approach based on the human system's inherent ability to maintain balance within nature's laws. What are nature's laws? The physical world provides feedback of its limitations on an ongoing basis - natural law is about listening to this feedback when these limitations are abused and finding ways for restoring natural balance through self-healing techniques such as reflexology, yoga, and self-knowledge.

Imbalance happens in our lives. It is the way we grow and learn about ourselves and how we shape ourselves in the physical world. For example, when we spend too much money, we are in debt. When we are in debt, we worry. When we worry, we lose sleep. When we lose sleep, we get tired and when we're tired, we get run down which moves us in the direction of poor health.

When we don't deal with this feedback, we pay a price. That price is called "bad stress" or tension in our minds, bodies, and spirits. This bad stress throws us out of kilter creating more imbalances and we may develop headaches, poor relationships, missed appointments, pains in various parts of our body, or insomnia, for example. We have the choice to attend or ignore this feedback. When ignored, the tension within causes further disturbances. When tended to, we strive to restore, rejuvenate, and heal ourselves getting back to a balanced state - a state we call homeostasis.

We want balance in our life, balance in our mental side, balance in our social side, and balance in our physical side. If we can keep our mental side balanced, we are free from worry, insomnia, and anxiety. When we keep our social side balanced, we are free from frustration, anger, and irritability. When we keep our physical side balanced, we are free from disease. When in a balanced state of well-being, we are mentally calm, socially clear, and physically well. All three sides of us are in balance and our life is in a natural state of well-being. When our life gets thrown off kilter, however, the following natural healing arts modalities can assist in restoring balance.

Reflexology is a natural healing art based on the principle that there are reflexes in the hands, feet, and ears that correspond to every part, gland, and organ in the body. Through application of pressure on these reflexes, circulation is improved, tension is relaxed, and the body can tend to normalize. Reflexology Certification Trainings are available for those wishing to become a professional Reflexologist. Reflexology services in the stimulation of the hands, feet, and ears are available.

Yoga postures and yogic breathing provide a safe approach for integrating mind-body patterns and generating a state of deep relaxation and well-being. Yoga recognizes the body as an organism that is part of the cosmos and not separate from it. Using an energy system called Chakras, yoga stimulates and balances the system within. Regular classes are held weekly and are geared toward the beginner to intermediate level. Please ask about schedules, costs, and times.

Danielle is masterful at helping you make distinctions on the issues that can disturb your life and throw you off balance. Identifying and working with our personality preferences can aid us in maximizing our strengths and minimizing our pitfalls. Using the elements of the Yogic Chaka System composed of air, fire, water, and earth to understand our mental, social, and physical systems, we come to understand our natural tendencies and how to work with them to honour what is natural to our soul.