Posts Tagged ‘My Story’
Women's Urban Retreat Day
Yesterday I had the honour of being part of Jill Hewlett’s Women’s Urban Retreat Day. It was sincerely dee-LIGHT-FULL for me to share my passion for Nia with you all! Here’s the playlist we grooved to. I hope this music gives you as much pleasure as it gives me: Thank you for this day >…
Read MoreSeasonal Affective Disorder: How to Cope
I love sharing my story and offering ideas about taking control of one’s own mental health. So, on December 26 when I receive an email and a voice mail inviting me to be a guest on a radio show, I was overjoyed! My first time ever on the radio! I was being asked to discuss…
Read MoreI am creative
I am creative. But I haven’t always been aware of that. Up until about 5 years ago, I would never have considered myself to be someone with even an ounce of creativity. I sucked at art As a kid, I can remember being “bad” at art, or at least that’s what I was led to…
Read MorePlantar Fasciitis: How Nia Healed My Foot Problems
I used to run 5 days a week, averaging 50-60 kms each week. Those were the days when I did a lot of high impact exercise: at that time I was also playing soccer, ball/ice hockey and doing step class. Eventually, along with shin splints, I got plantar fasciitis, which caused me a great deal…
Read MoreThe Get Inspired! Project – Interview with Jennifer Hicks
*~* The Get Inspired! Project *~* by Toni Reece of the PEOPLE Academy, Inc 365 interviews over 365 days with inspiring folks around the world I was ThRiLLEd today to learn that my interview was #80 on the list… check it out here Nia is the biggest part of what inspires me and I sure…
Read MoreSunday Scribblings #100 – Poetry
CELEBRATION ALERT!!! CELEBRATION ALERT!!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* This is the 100th post I’ve made to Sunday Scribblings. I have Jamie Ridler to thank for introducing me to this wonderful blogging community! I‘m honouring her by inviting her to a *FREE* Nia class with me (Learn more about Jamie ~ a professional creative self-development coach and…
Read MoreSubway Dance Party.
Last weekend, I took part in Improv Toronto’s 2nd annual subway dance party. Along with about 450 people (some of whom came from as far as Buffalo), I danced on the subway, ipod in place, tunes pumping. We filled 2 whole subway trains. I happened to meet up with Kristen Gale, whom I had met…
Read MoreSunday Scribblings #56 – Chance Encounter
Is there really such a thing as a chance encounter? When I think seriously about it, I’m not sure that chance encounters truly exist. There are a ga-jillion concepts related to the idea of chance encounters: unexpected events, luck, accidents, coincidence, etc. But really, I don’t think that anything that happens is truly “out of…
Read MoreWhat it’s like when I dance
A few weeks back, after my Sunday morning Nia class at Renaissance Yoga and Ayurveda, Andrea and I decided we would write about the experience of dancing. So there we were, in Jet Fuel (where else?) writing away. She got a little stressed when I finished after 10 minutes or so, but we both came…
Read MoreSunday Scribblings #30 – Dance (Nia)
There could be no better post topic for Sunday Scribblings today than this – dance has given me new life. Specifically, Nia has given me life. Nia, meaning “with purpose” in Swahili, has awakened my body’s way. Nia, a spirited blend of dance, martial arts, and healing arts, is not a “work out”. No, it’s…
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