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A holistic education portal to nourish all ages with functional, creative and adaptive insights for thriving in your modern, urban lifestyle.

Movement, philosophy, food, herbs and meditation to support your resilience against degenerative disease.

09/02/2022

Preparing myself to work in the modular space of my home is made sooo much easier when I allow my mind to pour into presence with my body.

Embodied Meditation is often an easier path into conscious awareness of my deeper motivations and needs then a mind only or mind-heart only practice.

You are invited to join along if you are needing a moment to help you transition with intention into your next chosen activity.

Many blessings! Thank you for allowing a moment of Kind mind-heart Connection and Body Presence.

Music :
Finding Theta.

For a longer experience (with movement) DM so I can send you over to my dedicated FB Conscious Body page

17/01/2022

Snow Day!🌬❄🤍
Oh what fun! What magic!
When you wake up in the morning, and the world has been covered in white...Wonderful🙌

The only thing that could ruin this day would be if I had to shovel and....
- my body didn't feel strong enough
- I started and my back seized up, or "went out"
- I was afraid of slipping and falling. 😖

I spent 90 minutes shovelling this morning and I feel invigorated - and it is not simply because I am still young and "should" have lots of energy.

Remember - what you are looking at is ...
- Moderate Degenerative Arthritis is L1/L2 shovelling
- 12 years of recovery shovelling
- 2 auto-immune conditions shovelling! 🙏

My Celebratory Smile at the End - is for more than my little clean walkway - it is because I Know How to :
warm up according to the activity
engage my muscles for effective safe strength
align my posture for greatest coordination
breathe to support endurance
cool down and stretch to ensure joint wellness and minimal muscle ache
..these are the Gifts life has offered me - and these are the Gifts that I want to offer you. 🤗
..looking for more ways I can support you and your strength, agility, coordination, confidence and Joy in Movement?
Drop me a comment - or send me a PM.
With snow dusted smiles
Danielle

15/01/2022

...et voilà🎉

So, I would definitely call myself an amateur herbalist - I adore making concoctions, potions, tea blends, elixirs and other such plant medicine goodies.

May I present : My very own Jointment🤸

For your aching joints, grumpy muscles, sore hips, necks, ankles, wrists, backs, fingers and toes....this blend is sure to soothe, ease, calm, relax and support that deep recovery we are looking for.

Made with 100% organic, high quality ingredients, blessed with love, gratitude and the vision of your radiant health.

Interested in learning more?
Drop me a DM 🙏

Oh yes...and for anti-inflammatory, holistic joint care love - check out the link in the BIO

With love, gratitude and embodied hope,
Danielle xo

08/01/2022

Cedar Blessing on the Door to my Office.

In our Tradition, Cedar is given as a gesture of gratitude, an offering in recognition for the gifts given.

The opportunity to work in pursuit of meaningful contribution is a gift
It is a privilege to have the support of home, food, water, safety and space to develop myself such that I feel inspired

This Cedar Blessing on my Door reminds me that when I enter into this Room
I am striving to make Wholy Effort.

I am striving to remind myself that Giving is a Practice of Presence, Integrity of Heart, Honesty of Spirit, Clarity and Humility of Mind.

I offer this blessing as a reminder to ask myself if I am working in ways that cultivate the most Salutogenic (health producing) expressions of myself?

This isn't about striving for Perfection.
It is about Beginning with Gratitude and returning to Gratitude

Because I know that my life is a Gift
I have been blessed with so much
May I use my privilege in the service of others

May my work by an expression of the Wholiness of my Being.

Love, gratitude and respect,

Danielle

06/01/2022

I understand that following along with a high energy dance, spin, running class....or grunting and sweating your way through a cross fit or HIT series can provide many benefits:
- mood boosting hormones
- sense of release
- feeling of success and accomplishment
- empowerment
.........
However, most of the time, these practices involve focusing on Performing certain movements, at a dictated speed and following a certain number of reps in a certain amount of time.

Where is your Awareness with what your Body is Learning in terms of:
- Postural Alignment
- Joint Protection
- Balanced Training based on Your Unique Postural Needs ?

When we go to train in generic classes - we bring our Imbalances to the Class - and we generally leave with them.

We also generally aren't given awareness of our imbalances unless we work privately with a coach who specializes in postural alignment and muscular synergy.

I know these things because Ive been there myself!

What if you could learn the Language of Your Optimal Movement Culture, so that everything you did - every step, every jump, every stretch, every class was Guaranteed to be helping to Balance your Posture, Increase the Resilience of your Joints, entrain your Muscular Intelligence?

This would mean that you would be supporting your long-term mobility and deep muscular tone every day - while you are training and even when you aren't.

Curious about what I am sharing?

Reach out with a DM or drop me a comment.

I would love to speak with you how to switch from Training to a Regenerative Movement Culture.

With respect, embodied hope and gratitude,

Danielle

19/12/2021

As I trained dancer and yoga instructor, I am used to striving to perfect the aesthetics of a posture or movement.

I am familiar with the practice of imitating ideals of postures.

This is what you see in the TOP IMAGE.
I have achieved what some might consider a beautiful downward dog:
Straight spine, straight legs, straight arms.

However after my recovery from a spinal dislocation and learning to live with hyper-lax ligaments and sensitive joints I have learned that working with the BIO-MECHANICS of my body is a different movement paradigm.

This is what you see in the BOTTOM IMAGE
In this pose, I am balancing the engagement of my back and abdominals
I am supported my wrists and elbows through muscular synergy
I am maintaining a healthy Spinal Curvature which supports fuller BREATH and healthy CIRCULATION of energy.

In the TOP image, I am sinking and PUSHING myself into the ground and into the depth of my mobility.

In the BOTTOM image, I am holding myself in BALANCE, with Strength + Whole Body Coordination.

Which one do you prefer and why?

I would love to hear your thoughts and reactions.

With Kindness and Respect

Danielle

05/12/2021

Sun-DREAM-Day Greetings

Today I wanted to share some Movement Dreams that have become a reality for me and the over one hundred individuals I have had the honour of working with using The Regenerative Joint Care Method.

This picture was taken of me 3 1/2 years Ago. This is After I had been told that I would never dance again, never be able to lift more than 20lbs, would be lucky if I would be able to walk without pain, EVER.

This is me having proved that my prognosis was actually just a Story and NOT a prediction of MY FUTURE.

What is your movement dream - that you are holding near and dear to your heart? That whispers to you when you have those windows of more/less Pain...do you wish that your dreams could become a reality?

Let me know what you long for...and what you feel is blocking your path.

I would love to support you in Growing your Dreams into Reality.

Thank you to capturing this candid moment of a joyful training - what a gift of Serendipity to have had the privilege and honour of meeting you!

With embodied, dancing hope,
Danielle

28/11/2021

Joyful Greetings Movers & Dreamers🤸

Having walked my own path from feeling invincible in my body, to feeling broken, feeling beautiful to scarred, feeling capable to incompetent, feeling free to bound....

I understand that it can sometimes feel that our dreams of MOVEMENT, ADVENTURE, FROLIC, JOY and RESILIENCE....are worlds and lifetimes away.

What an honour to be sharing with you now that I am Living my Movement Freedom once again. I still carry my scars, my insecurities and sometimes I have tough days....BUT, I no longer feel disempowered, uncertain, hopeless or afraid.🙌

Not because of some magical extract, nor some technological wonder device...but because of learning a different way of working with my body, of accompanying myself each step of each day - learning the practice of dancing my body towards greater strength, agility, mobility, resilience and coordination.

Next Saturday December 4th at 5pm/17h EST, I will be sharing with you the 4 Step Approach that has emerged from thriving through 10 years of chronic pain and spinal injury towards a daily lifestyle that helps me:

- Break Free from the Cycle of Injury, Pain and Inflammation
- Cultivate my Strength, Resilience and Mobility Every Day without weights, going to the gym or using special equipment
- Nourish my Mind, Body and Heart for Lasting Recovery
- Reclaim my Trust and Feeling of Being at Home in my Body.

I Welcome you to Come as You Are, with your questions, hopes, skepticism, fears and dreams to reclaim your Active Lifestyle and awaken the Vitality that is Alive in You.

Registration link is in BIO.
**Even if you can't attend live - be sure to Register so that you can access the Replay afterwards.

With kindness and respect,
Danielle

15/11/2021

Every year Fall delights with a poignant and magnificent symphony of decay.

What deep wisdom each leafs proffers - expressing an exquisite beauty as it surrenders to its journey of decay and rebirth into compost into soil into nutrient into next year's buds.

Cycles of birth, death and rebirth.

The release of the light and welcoming of darkness.

The embrace of more space, where once there was leaf.

The sweet smell of fallen leaf.

The bluster of wind as it heralds monumental change.

Can I allow these winds to dance me into my own surrender to shift?

Towards a new season - a welcoming of possibility - a nestling into deep appreciation for what I have lived - and a gentle turning towards the unknown ahead.

Grieving is an absolutely necessary experience of being human.

We get attached in beautiful, terrible, tragic, impossible, and breathtaking ways to so much in our lives (lived and fantasized)

Losing what we love, what we need, what we long for requires grieving.

Requires space to honour the places in our body where attachment was sewn and tended through our dreams, words, wishes, tears, bodies, hearts.

Grieving allows the rivers of our feelings to flow over our tender wounds and soothe their suffering - grieving allows us to experience the poignant memories of our past alive again in our present.

The way we remember, the way we cherish, the way we hold on to dear connection...this offers so much insight into the wisdom and poetry that is unique to each of us.

Honour your grief, your connections, your losses, your memories - they hold us in a tangible dance with cycles of time, cycles of love, loss, birth, rebirth...

07/11/2021

The leaves are falling in their spiral dance with the wind while the sun shines with exquisite beauty....it looks like laughter and feels like a symphony of harmonious artistic expression.

This autumnal experience reminded me of a photo shoot I did with the wise and remarkable a few years ago in La Belle Ville.

This image expresses my joy in moving with deep sensitivity and attunement to the many many voices of my body instrument. Taking time to infuse each moment with generous curiosity, serious play, wonderment and presence brings a rich sensual satisfaction to every delicious moment of expression - even the falls!

I hope you choose to invest in a moment of frolic and sensual delight with your body today - whether it involves an exuberant run in a field, a peaceful walk in a park, a secret path through the forest, a moment with the sun kissing your face, the rain pattering your feet, a nap with a tree, a day dream with the clouds...and and and....oh how I love the body and its miraculous senses.

Whose says "training" can't be a love affair I curate with my body, breath, mind and heart ?

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