Just Around the Corner ~ Halloween October 31!

So we are not down here in the Southern Hemisphere on the right time track for Halloween – you know that America Tradition involving carving pumpkins, dressing up in stripped stockings with pointy hats and rocking around to the neighbour’s saying “Trick or Treat!” This sounds deceptively question-like. Be not fooled. It is a command…

Mindfulness Meditation Classes in Tecoma

Meditation Basics Meditation Basics provides students with an introduction to seated practice. Using Khentrul Rinpoche’s book, An Authentic Guide to Meditation, students delve into the Buddhist view of meditation and learn tools and techniques to connect with a deeper level of mind. Each session explores meditation philosophy and the mind and offers guided practice. There…

Sleep Hygiene Anyone?

So it is not that Sleeping or Not-Sleeping is infectious but there are certain practices and habits regarding Sleep and Sleeping that can help us get to sleep. If you have gone through a significantly stress experience or period in your life, Sleep routines can become disrupted. Sleep is also, to some extent a learned…

Singers ~ Sing! Musicians ~ Play!

So friends, who listens to “The Blues”? And does it help move “the blues” on from you? You know blues when you hear it, it starts out as gut wrenching depression, loss, raw grief – then somehow the singer – through their experience, voice and authenticity – transforms this muck of human experience into the…

In the Mood for Food?

Food and nutrition is a greatly under utilized source of medicine and it is essential to look at nutrition and diet when learning to manage or treat any mental health condition. Said simply “food affects mood”. The food we eat impacts the production of neurotransmitters in the brain which in turn influences our moods that…