Body Image Healing

Dandelion Festival
Saturday, May 27th, 9:30am - 10:30am
For-rest Retreat, Salmo, BC

This workshop is designed to encourage you towards a more peaceful and joy-filled relationship with your body. Discussion will include common challenges associated with negative body image, society’s role, common signs and associated emotions, and how a positive body image may influence other areas of your life. We will evaluate several modalities of healing; discuss specifics around mindset shifts, emotional healing, negative self-talk, and reworking ingrained habits & behaviours. This workshop will include open discussion, in-class exercises, and provide a safe environment for expression and reflection. Participants will receive take home handouts, journal entry suggestions, and worksheets.

Women's Embody Retreat

“I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.”
Emma Watson

🦋 Embrace Your Beauty
🦋 Calm Your Mind
🦋 Honour & Deepen Your Relationship with Your Body

Experience Rejuvenating Yoga Practices, Expressive Dance, Nutritional & Intuitive Eating Guidance, & Empowering Boudoir Photography.

Eat Outrageously Delicious Plant-Based Meals, Practice Mindful Eating, Body Positivity, and Guided Sharing Circles.

Leave refreshed, nourished, and take with you new ways to be in relationship with your body.

Your INVESTMENT Includes:

🦋 A 2 nights stay @ The Sentinel Retreat Centre in Kaslo
🦋 Amazing & Nourishing Plant-Based Meals made by a Nutritionist: 2 Breakfasts, 2 Lunches + 2 Dinners + Snacks
🦋 A Private Forest Boudoir Photography Session with Get Lost Images Photography
🦋 3 Rejuvenating Yoga Sessions
🦋 2 Body Positivity & Mind-Body Nutrition Group Workshops
🦋 Exploration of Intuitive Eating Practices
🦋 Wood Fired, Outdoor Hot Tub & Sauna
🦋 Opening & Closing, Sharing Circles
🦋 New Moon Intention Setting

You are STRONG, You are BEAUTIFUL, You are ENOUGH.

About Your Facilitators:

Drea Phoenix, Yoga Teacher & Owner Radiant Wild Yoga Retreats

Drea has been practicing yoga for over 20 years. She completed her Teacher Training at the Byron Bay Yoga Centre in Australia in 2006 and has been teaching ever since. Drea’s classes can be described as dynamic & challenging yet nurturing. She teaches Vinyasa Flow, prenatal and Yin yoga. She is passionate about Yoga and sharing her knowledge to empower others in body, mind and soul. Drea is a certified 500 hr Yoga Teacher and Registered with Yoga Alliance. Read more about Drea here.

Cindy Spratt, Holistic Nutritionist specializing in Culinary Nutriton, Eating Psychology & Eating Disorder Recovery

It’s simple: I want to help you reunite with food in a way that makes you feel great, inspires better health, and nurtures your soul.
I am a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, an Eating Psychology Counsellor and a graduate of the Culinary Nutrition Expert program. I am a wife and mother, an avid cook, a cancer survivor, a dancer & distance runner, and a bit of a country bumkin.
As a RHN, my approach to health intertwines what I know and love about nutrition with eating psychology, body image healing, and culinary passion.
Read more about Cindy here.

About the Photographers:

Rosie Wallace & Willow Makortoff are based in Calgary, AB & Nelson, BC although they will shoot anywhere in between or anywhere around the world!
Get Lost Images was born in a hotel room in February 2016, as two photographer’s ideas became one vision. Getting lost meant either finding Adventure, Yourself or Perspective. Today they run their Boudoir sessions as Get Lost Between the Sheets, their Outdoor Adventure sessions as Get Lost Find Adventure & their Portraiture sessions as Get Lost in Your Individuality!

Website: www.getlostimages.ca/betweenthesheets
Instagram: @betweenthesheets
Facebook: @betweenthesheets

CURRENTLY POSTPONED

Due to Covid Restrictions, we have put this beautiful offering on hold until easier times. Stay tuned & feel free to connect if you are interested in joining us in the future!
Dates to be Announced @ The Sentinel Retreat Centre, Kaslo, BC
View the Retreat Centre Here

Positive Body Talk - 2nd Session

We had so much to talk about and much more material to cover in our first session, that we decided to continue the discussion! (I don't have a date set yet for a 3rd, but it is my intention to run another class early June :) )

Don't worry if you missed the first class, join in at any time, on this powerful, transformative conversation & connect with other women, parents, educators, and come together on a subject that deserves our attention!

If you are a parent/woman/teacher/educator that has concerns about how to raise children with a positive body image and relationship with food,
THIS IS A WORKSHOP FOR YOU!

Body image distortion & dysfunctional eating, both continue to greatly affect our growing children, their self-esteem & decision making, their overall health, and respect for the body. In this 3 hour workshop, we will explore this intricate relationship between developing kids and food & body, how to talk to them about this relationship, and how to recognize signs of struggle. We will discuss dietary habits, the affect of social media and mainstream marketing, self-esteem, and intuitive eating practices. We will explore the role of Mind-Body Nutrition, as well as cover topics such as dieting, toxic dietary beliefs, fear foods, guilt & shame, and language. The goal is to provide parents with practical tools to apply and support positive positive body image & food relationships in our young ones. Workshop will include informational handouts, discussion, in-class exercise, dietary focus, and suggestive homework. Snacks & tea provided.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

✔️Increasing awareness of the role body image plays with self-esteem and mental and physical health
✔️Understanding our role as parents
✔️Increased understanding of internal and external influences that help shape one’s body image
✔️Exploration of the correlation between media trends and body concerns
✔️Recognizing signs of low self-esteem, negative body image, and food dysfunction
✔️Providing practical tools to help our kids understand risks, media messaging, social pressures, and seeking support
✔️Supporting one another as parents

Sunday, May 5th, 9am - 12pm
Central School (Wildflower), 811 Stanley St, Nelson BC
$25/person