Clear Path

29/06/2025

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is the practice of coming home to the present moment, again and again with openness, curiosity, and care. It invites us to slow down, to notice, and to gently witness our thoughts, sensations, and emotions without judgment.

Rooted in both ancient contemplative traditions and modern neuroscience, mindfulness helps to calm the nervous system, increase emotional resilience, and deepen our connection to self and surroundings. It isn’t about stopping the mind, it’s about learning to relate to it differently, with compassion rather than control.

Practicing mindfulness can be as simple as noticing your breath, listening closely to a sound, or feeling the weight of your body resting on the earth. It’s a pathway to presence, clarity, and peace, not through escape, but through awareness.

What does it feel like to practice?

Mindfulness can feel like exhaling after holding your breath. It can be quiet, subtle, even confronting at times and also deeply nourishing. As you soften into the now, you may notice things you once rushed past: the warmth in your chest, the space between thoughts, the steadiness beneath the swirl. With practice and as new perspectives rise, mindfulness becomes less of a technique and more of a way of being, one that brings a sense of steadiness even in the midst of change.

27/06/2025

What is Reflexology?

Reflexology is a therapeutic practice based on the principle that specific points on the feet, hands, and ears reflect corresponding organs, glands, and systems within the body. By applying intentional pressure to these reflex points, practitioners help to support the body's natural ability to restore balance, release tension, and promote healing from within.

Far more than a foot massage, Reflexology is a subtle and deeply intelligent system of communication. The feet, in particular, are seen as a mirror of the whole body, holding stories in their texture, temperature, and tone. With skilled hands, a practitioner can feel where energy is flowing freely, and where it’s calling for attention.

Reflexology is often used to relieve stress, support digestion, balance hormones, ease pain, improve circulation, and guide the nervous system into a state of rest and repair. It offers a non-invasive way to work with the entire body, through the sacred and sensitive map beneath our feet.

What does a session feel like?

As a patient, Reflexology can be both relaxing and surprisingly revealing. You’ll be lying down, as your feet are gently held and methodically worked. Some areas may feel tender, others soothing, each sensation a conversation between your body and your practitioner’s hands. As tension releases, many people report feeling warmth, emotional shifts, inner images, or waves of deep rest. It’s not uncommon to fall asleep or to feel like time has slowed and as your body moves into the state of rest and repair, often your belly will grumble. When this happens, let it grumble! It's like music to the practitioner's ears. A session often leaves you with a sense of clarity, groundedness, and connection to your body, and to yourself.

26/06/2025

What is Somatic Energy Work?

Somatic Energy Work is a healing approach that blends the wisdom of the body with the subtle flow of energy. It recognizes that our physical sensations, emotions, and energetic fields are deeply interconnected and that healing happens when we listen and respond to this whole embodied experience.

This work involves gentle touch, movement, breath, and presence to help you become aware of held tensions, energetic blockages, and patterns stored in the body. By tuning into these sensations and the energy beneath them, practitioners guide you toward release, balance, and a more fluid, vibrant sense of being.

Somatic Energy Work supports the nervous system’s natural capacity to regulate, heal emotional wounds, and restore energetic harmony. It invites you to slow down, feel deeply, and reclaim your body as a source of wisdom and resilience.

What does a session feel like?

During a session, you will lie comfortably as the practitioner uses gentle, intentional touch or movement prompts to invite awareness into different parts of your body. The experience is often deeply calming yet alive, sometimes sensations arise like warmth, tingling, or subtle shifts of energy. You might notice emotions surface or a release of held tension. Many people describe feeling more grounded, spacious, and connected to themselves after treatment. It’s a slow, unfolding conversation with your body, where healing emerges through presence and allowing.

25/06/2025

What is Auricular Medicine?

Auricular Medicine is a therapeutic approach that uses the outer ear as a map to access and support the entire body. Rooted in both ancient wisdom and modern neurophysiology, this method recognizes that the ear is a microsystem: a tiny replica of the whole body, rich with nerve endings connected to the brain.

By stimulating specific points on the ear with tools such as fine needles, ear seeds, or microcurrent, practitioners can detect and address imbalances throughout the body and mind. These points can correspond to organs, glands, emotions, and energetic blockages.

Auricular Medicine is often used to support chronic pain relief, emotional well-being, stress reduction, addiction recovery, and deep regulation of the nervous system. It is non-invasive, deeply intuitive, and offers a powerful way to listen to the body’s internal signals, using the ear as the gateway.

What does a session feel like?

As a patient, the experience is focused, precise, and deeply personal. You will be lying comfortably as Dave assesses the points on the ear to find areas that are active or sensitive. When a needle is placed in the right point, especially one carrying emotional or energetic weight, it can feel sharp, like a sudden awakening.
Often, it stirs a release: a breath held too long, a wave of emotion rising to the surface, a sense that something unseen has shifted. While some points are subtle, others are undeniably potent.
Many leave feeling clearer, lighter, or more grounded, like the body has just released a truth it was holding onto, for far too long.

24/06/2025

At Clear Path Holistic, your healing journey is uniquely yours and supported by second generation healers that blend ancient wisdom with compassionate presence.

🌿 Ear Acupuncture
🌿 Reflexology
🌿 Therapeutic Massage (RMT)
🌿 Energetic Alignment
🌿 Reiki & Somatic Energy Work
🌿 Mindfulness Guidance

Follow the path toward healing and balance.
And when you arrive,
you’ll land in capable hands,
ready to support your return to wellness.

23/06/2025

Reclaim Your Calm ~ Sessions Now Booking

Our Calander is open, and sessions are filling steadily. If you've been thinking about booking, this is your invitation to reach out.

With Care,
Dave and Alice

18/06/2025

Clear Path Giveaway – Win a Deeply Nourishing Healing Experience

We’re reopening our home clinic in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia—and to celebrate, we’ve created something special to share with our community. Find out more about who we are and what we do at www.clearpathholistic.com

Enter to win a “Path to Healing” Bundle, including:

🌿 One personalized healing session
—Choose between Auricular Medicine with Dave or Reflexology with Alice

🍄 A handcrafted immune-boosting tincture
—Made with shiitake and reishi mushrooms

🍵 A freshly blended locally foraged woodland tea
—Wild, seasonal botanicals to nourish and restore

This is our way of saying thank you for supporting local, heart-centered healing.

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02/05/2025

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As the warmth is returning to Nova Scotia, so are Dave and Alice!

26/04/2025

I've had such a beautiful time here in Mexico and now it is time to return to the homeland of Nova Scotia. I will soon be taking appointments, so please let me know if you're interested in booking a treatment with me starting mid June. See you at home!

16/01/2025

Dave is writing the book on The VAS!