Feb
5
Mon
Womb Sense for Doulas @ Empower Health
Feb 5 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Discover how to balance digestion, reproductive health, deepen your connection to your core and re-ignite your vitality with Arvigo® Therapy, Holistic Pelvic Care™ and a womb drum journey.

Learn how Arvigo® Therapy and Holistic Pelvic Care™ can support your healing with:

  • fertility issues,
  • menstrual irregularities,
  • scar tissue and trauma,
  • P.C.O.S., endometriosis,
  • digestive disorders,
  • chronic bladder and vaginal infections,
  • alleviate pelvic symptoms and chronic low back pain,
  • support the transition into menopause and long-term vaginal health,
  • increase sexual health, libido and orgasm,
  • heal trauma.

Participate in a womb drum journey meditation to:

  • restore harmony and connection to your womb,
  • dissolve energy blocks,
  • recognize patterns that cause energy loss and imbalance,
  • hear the wisdom of your inner guidance,
  • renew your connection to your life force energy and re-ignite your wild aliveness.

$20 suggested donation (no one will be turned away for lack of funds).

Call to reserve, space is limited.

Apr
7
Sat
Crossing the Bridge – Vancouver with THRIVE Parenting @ Empower Health
Apr 7 – Apr 8 all-day

Explore and uncover the complexities of who you are and the parent you have become. This is a unique multi-faceted approach, widening the lens and looking at the entire family system.  It is an invitation to dig deeper into your family history and to explore your values and beliefs systems that guide you as a parent. It is an opportunity to explore parenting styles learned from your family of origin and understand how they are impacting with your relationship with your child(ren) today. It acknowledges the impact of intergenerational trauma, stress and anxiety and their effects on your nervous system at the root level. It is an approach that supports you to become the parent you aspire to be.

This program explores:

  • your current parenting style
  • making sense of your child(ren)’s behaviour
  • the ways you respond to your child, especially when you are upset
  • the behaviours that are working well to strengthen the connect you have with your child(ren)
  • your communication style as learned in your family system and how that impacts the relationships in your home
  • the individuality of each child in terms of development, mental health, temperament and cognitive ability and what is needed to support the growth of that unique child

Benefits of this program include:

  1. A stronger relationship with your children.
  2. Strategies that support you to create a calm and healthy environment for you and your children.
  3. Knowledge of how to adapt your parenting strategies to meet the individual needs of your children.
  4. Tools to support effective communication with your children, so that your knowledge and influence can support their lives.
  5. Self-care strategies that support you to be more available to your children while meeting the demands that come with parenting, work and life. Taking care of self will support the taking care of your children.

As a parent, you will leave this workshop with a clear picture of what’s really happening in your home and with the knowledge that you have 100% control in creating an environment that is conducive to fostering thriving relationships with your family.

Merissa Jennings-Turner is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor and trauma therapist at Empower Health, and the director of the anxiety and trauma programs.

Sean Hannon is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, a workshop facilitator, parent coach and mediator, currently working as a family support worker at Hollyburn Family Services.

Apr
14
Sat
Release, Relief, Peace ~ Ultimate REvival Workshop℠ @ Empower Health
Apr 14 – Apr 15 all-day

 

The poster of Ultimate REvival Workshop event

At the heart of Empower Health’s comprehensive stress management program, there is a workshop just for YOU! A workshop where you can access and learn the most cutting-edge modalities for stress management and relief that are offered in the world today. At the launch weekend of our Ultimate REvival Workshop℠ series you will discover a safe, loving and healing spa-like environment for your nervous system where you will experience. In this workshop YOU will experience the following benefits:

  • Release stress and stored trauma in your body
  • Shift anxiety to grounded action
  • Develop a sense of deeper inner calm and relaxation
  • Enhance vitality and self-expression
  • Complete in-completed survival energies
  • Re-learn to connect and listen to your body and tune into your nervous system
  • Unblock the body ’s holding patterns that restrict your energetic potential.
  • Deepen your respiration and express breath as a total body respiratory wave.
  • Increase vibratory state of your body
  • Heighten your self-awareness
  • Most importantly a warm, friendly, loving atmosphere where you can feel connected, seen, understood and be truly yourself!

Most importantly you will learn some practical, simple tools to use in your daily lives to further deepen and integrate your healing process!

  • Active meditation (To create a gentle charge and discharge in our nervous system)
  • Guided meditations (For relaxation and integration)
  • Breathwork session (To complete in-completed survival energies )
  • Bioenergetics session (Body therapy for Vibrant Health)
  • Tension releasing exercises
  • Gentle movement (Somatic work to unwind the stored tension and trauma in joints)
  • Awareness intensive “WHO IS IN?“
  • EFT: Emotional freedom technique.
  • Hypnotic trance (To activate the body’s natural healing process)

We all deserve to be taken care of, receive loving support and to take a little time to nourish ourselves in every possible way to regain our power back to achieve our goals in life, feeling healthy, alive, joyous and be creative in our lives again.

IT IS NEVER LATE TO RE-CONNECT WITH YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF! 

Practicalities: 

  • Date : Saturday Apr 14 & Sunday Apr 15, 9am-6pm each day
  • Investment: 
    • $380 plus GST. Pay full amount or $80 non-refundable deposit upon registration.
    • Saturday or Sunday only registration price: $190 plus GST. Pay full amount or $40 non-refundable deposit upon registration.
  • Pre-registration & prepayment required as space is limited. Register and pay online here or come into  the office or call us 604 336 2844
  • Wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a water bottle and journal

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Prior to 2 business days before the workshop date – refund minus a 10% administration fee if we can fill your space.  Within 2 business days of the workshop (or failing to attend) – no refund

 

About Workshop Facilitators

Shama Zeynep Anaydin, Workshop Facilitator

Shama is a transformational Body Work Therapist more than a decade. She is also a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and a Trauma Therapist. Her purpose is to help individuals who are suffering from emotional, mental or physical symptoms due to difficult or traumatic events. Her work especially targets depression, anxiety, chronic pain and stress-related conditions.

Some of her Trainings include:

  • Hypnotherapy training – India.
  • Diamond Breath Master training – Italy
  • Sexual awareness counselling training – Italy
  • Relationship counselling training – Italy
  • Eft Emotional releasing techniques – Thailand
  • Reichen body types training – Italy
  • Meditative therapies training – Greece and India
  • Reiki 1-2 training – Turkey
  • Somatic Experiencing training (Trauma Healing)- Canada
  • Bodynamics training (Developmental stage disruptions)- Canada
  • Family constellation Training – China

Helen Loshny, Workshop Assistant

Helen is a Vancouver-based Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) and co-founder of Empower Health Clinic, where she heads the Clinic’s Counselling and Personal Growth Programs. She brings a wellspring of professional as well as life experience and love to her clients. Helen has been married over 30 years and is the proud mom of two amazing adopted daughters.

Some of her Trainings include:

  • Diploma in Transpersonal Psychology
  • Diploma in Individual, Couples and Family Counselling
  • Cathartic Breathwork
  • Meditating with the Body
  • Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Mate
  • Ministry & Spiritual Counselling in A Course in Miracles
  • Awakening Coaching
Apr
19
Thu
Bio-Energy Healing Gathering & Healing Song Circle @ Empower Health
Apr 19 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

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Come out and join us for two powerful rounds of Bio-Energy Healing on THURSDAY April 19th, 7 pm and stay for the second half of the evening where we will host our first ever “Healing Song Circle”.

People find that participating in a song circle is an easy and effortless experience, where the melodies, words and rhythms actually do the healing work for you. The songs we will sing together will quiet the mind and allow you to connect with your Inner Healer — leaving you calm, relaxed and happy. Each song carries a powerful vibration and has a different purpose or theme, such as gratitude, forgiveness, healing, spiritual connection or love. You can think of the experience as a sing-a-long in different languages, with melodies and chants from many diverse cultures and traditions. In a truly magical way, your voice naturally begins to merge with the group and we become One Voice together.

Event Details

During the first half of the evening, trained practitioners offer group Bio-Energy Healing sessions. For the second half, a local teacher or healer is invited to share their wisdom and healing tools with us. Bio-Energy Healing is the core practice of the Circle of Light. It is our means of producing miracles of healing. Bio-Energy Healing is intentional, powerful, effective and can be easily learned and practised by almost anyone. A unique feature of our gatherings is that we perform Bio-Energy Healing in a circle, as a synchronized group. The intention is to create a powerful vortex of healing energy in the room which causes the healing effects of the treatment to increase exponentially. As we share Bio-Energy treatments with one another, we create a ripple of healing light that extends out into the city, the country, and around the planet. Please join us for a light-filled evening of friendship, healing, laughter, insight and inspiration.

Tea and snacks provided.

Seating capacity is limited. Register early and avoid disappointment.

Attendance is BY DONATION (suggested $10 – $20). Participants are encouraged to contribute what they are able; no one will be refused entry or healing for lack of funds. Your contribution covers venue rental, snacks and other administrative costs. You can make your donation by cash at the event. Or you may send an Interac Transfer in advance to David Raphael at awakeningmindhealing@gmail.com. Thank you for your generosity.

 

Who Should Attend?

Our Circle is ever-expanding. Feel free to invite your guests to attend along with you by forwarding this invitation to them.

For example, people with physical issues (back pain, arthritis, cancer, etc), emotional issues (anxiety, loneliness, depression) or energetic issues (chronic fatigue, etc) would benefit greatly by attending.

Also consider inviting those who are seeking out their life purpose, are in the midst of career transition or are looking to create a soulmate relationship.

Or you may wish to invite those you know who are looking to find a greater sense of connectedness with other people and the larger community.

 

What is the Circle of Light Vancouver?

Are you looking to be part of a group of people who are dedicated to healing one another, raising consciousness and transforming the planet?

Then please join us at our next Circle of Light Vancouver, “Bio-Energy Healing Friday Night Gathering”!

All those who a have a genuine desire to give and receive energy healing are welcome to attend.

This event happens monthly and is open to those who are trained or not trained in Bio-Energy Healing.

Apr
20
Fri
Self Care Level 1: Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® @ Empower Health
Apr 20 – Apr 22 all-day

A poster for the Self Care Level 1: Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® event

This class and the instructor have secured CMTBC Cycle 11 approval for 14 PE CECs. If you need additional information about the class contact the instructor Donna Zubrod at 919.810.0003 donnazubrod@nc.rr.com. Local contact for the class is Sheryl Watson 604.220.9265 btrflypower@hotmail.com.

This 2.5-day self-care oriented hands-on class is for everyone interested in improving their reproductive and digestive wellness. It covers anatomy and physiology of the abdominal and reproductive organs of women and men, addresses the causes and symptoms of a displaced uterus, prostate congestion, and demonstrates self-care abdominal massage techniques. The class also addresses herbal, nutritional, emotional, and spiritual support for the massage techniques ensuring thorough understanding of how these techniques facilitate optimal wellness. The aim of the class is for students to know how to perform the abdominal self-care massage and other self-care techniques on her/himself. For licensed healthcare practitioners who wish to offer Arvigo® Therapy professionally, this Level 1 class is a prerequisitive for enrollment in the Level 2 Arvigo® Professional Training.

Class tuition:
$375 CAD plus $98 USD registration fee
After 1 April 2018: $425 CAD plus $98 USD registration fee
Tuition includes all materials, color manual, healthy snacks and refreshments, 1:1 hands-on teaching session with an Arvigo® practitioner

Register online at arvigotherapy.com: https://www.arvigotherapy.com/content/self-care-training-april-2018-zubrod

The Arvigo Institute LLC is a licensed provider for NCBTMB massage therapists (17.5 CE Hours), NCCAOM licensed acupuncturists (18 PDA Points). This class and the instructor have secured CMTBC Cycle 11 approval for 14 PE CECs.

For more info: 
Donna Zubrod 919.810.0003 donnazubrod@nc.rr.com or
Sheryl Watson 604.220.9265 btrflypower@hotmail.com

Apr
26
Thu
Osho NO MIND Meditative therapy — Detox your BODY & MIND @ Wooden Gables Meditative Healing Orchard by the Sea
Apr 26 – May 2 all-day

Use this is an opportunity to dive into 7 days long transformational journey!

This special 7-day residential program is designed to have a little break from your busy lives and to have a chance to relax your nervous system, create, silence and joy. It is life changing opportunity to clear and clean your mind-body-being.

Osho® No Mind Meditative Therapy is designed for the contemporary man. Meditative Therapies are processes for freeing old, stuck energies, to renew vitality and to create space for silence. They work energetically, bypassing the conscious, analytical mind. They are therefore clear, pure processes where individuals are connecting directly with their own energy. It is a moment-to-moment encounter with oneself.

No Mind is a breakthrough to meditation, a speeding up process to connect with our natural state of being. 

OSHO No Mind is a meditative therapy process lasting for 2 hours a day for 7 days. For the first hour, we use gibberish to empty the mind of all garbage, allowing -in the second hour- a great silence to arise from within

In addition to No Mind process we will be offering on a daily basis: Osho Dynamic and Kundalini and Nadabrahma Meditations, alone time, walks in nature, hikes, sitting by the ocean on beautiful sandy beach, soothing cleansing foods to calm and energize the body, as well as the use of biotechnologies that help the body rejuvenate and relax.

Daily program: 
7 or 8 am Osho Dynamic
Breakfast
2 hours Osho No Mind process
Lunch
Work as meditation 40 minutes (in silence as a commune)
4-5 pm Osho Kundalini Meditation
7 pm Dinner
8:30-9:30 pm Nadabrahma or other Osho meditation

About the Facilitator:
Shama is Osho Therapist 10+ years of experience in her field. She is also a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and a Trauma Therapist. Her purpose is to help individuals who are suffering from emotional, mental or physical symptoms due to difficult or traumatic events. Her work especially targets depression, anxiety, chronic pain and stress-related conditions.

About the hosts: 

Osho lovers and Sannyasins, Sumiran and Rubai have been facilitating Osho meditations throughout the lower mainland for over a decade. They began the Osho Vancouver meditation Meetup more than seven years ago. And they are coordinators for Just Dance, an Osho inspired weekly dance event.

Dates: 26 April- 2 May
Place: Wooden Gables Meditative Healing Seaside Orchard, Gibsons, BC
Price*: 500 cad – 600 cad includes food, accommodation, and the process for seven days, 6 nights

Please remember to contact with organizers to learn what you should bring!
Limited to 15 attendees please RSVP and contact the hosts if interested as space will fill up quickly!
Questions about accommodation types and address please contact Rubai or Sumiran 778-836-9441 
For more information about the process please contact Shama.

NOTE: Accommodation will be dorm-style simple, clean, comfortable; extra charge for a double room

*This is a promo price only for this time to celebrate the opening of Wooden Gables Meditative Healing Seaside Orchard! Regular price is 900 CAD

May
12
Sat
Bio-Energy Healing: Training Course L1 @ Empower Health
May 12 @ 9:00 am – May 13 @ 6:30 pm

Bio-Energy-HealingAwaken the Healer Within!

You are invited to attend the “Bio-Energy Healing Training Course – Level 1” coming up this month!

Sat, May 12th – Sun, May 13th, 2018
9:00 am to 6:30 pm

$297 plus GST / $50 Deposit Secures Your Seat

During the training course you will learn the techniques to heal yourself, friends, family and pets.

At the end of the weekend you’ll be qualified as a Bio-Energy Healer, Level One.

You’ll also experience the profound physical, emotional and energetic healing effects of this powerful holistic treatment for yourself.

*REGISTER YOURSELF for the Bio-Energy Training Course By Clicking the Green “Tickets” Button at the top right of your screen.

A key component of the weekend is learning the nitty-gritty of how to master the Law of Attraction to manifest what you truly desire in life.

Whether your working on the area of health, career, fitness or creating a soulmate relationship, your participation in this training weekend will allow you to take a quantum leap forward towards your goal.

Most importantly, this course will give you the confidence, knowledge and skills you need in order to make a real difference in the lives of others.

Each participant will receive the “Bio-Inspired Manual” with detailed technique instructions and valuable tips and tools.

I’m keeping this class small and intimate (max 12 participants) so that myself and the assisting team can offer you more one-on-one instruction in the healing techniques.

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How to Register and Pay Your Deposit:

  • The tuition for the training weekend is $297 (plus gst).
  • Space is limited. Please reserve your seat by Friday, May 4th, 2018, by making a deposit of $50 (plus gst).
  • The balance of tuition ($247 plus gst) is due by Friday, May 11th, 2018.
  • Register yourself and pay the deposit by clicking on the red “Tickets” button at the top right of your screen.

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What to Expect on the Course:

  • Master the 12 Fundamental Bio-Energy Healing Techniques.
  • Find out how to scan the chakras to detect & release blocked energy & restore the body’s natural ability to heal itself.
  • Discover the KEY to changing the body’s HEALTH BLUEPRINT.
  • Learn how to effectively treat pain, injuries, arthritis, stress, depression, low energy, trauma emotional imbalances + more.
  • Release negative emotions and uplift your consciousness to the next level.
  • Bio-Energy is recognized as one of the most effective certified holistic treatment & training programs available.
  • Bio-Energy Healing has been featured on TV: “Remedy Me”; Oprah’s OWN Network; “W” Network; “First Talk”, Joy TV; BCIT Magazine; Shaw TV, etc.

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We look forward to being with you on the Training Weekend!
To Your Happiness and Health ~


David Raphael, B.Ed
Bio-Energy Healer / Teacher
(604) 689 – 8034
www.awakeningmind.ca

A Level 1 Workshop, offered in cooperation with Michael D’Alton’s School of Bio-Energy Healing. This course prepares
you for the Bio-Energy Professional Practitioner Training Program.
May
27
Sun
Fierce Loving: Whole-Hearted Conversations @ Empower Health
May 27 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Join Trevor & Jenna every 4th Sunday for a titillating exploration of an essential principle of deep intimacy. Together with your partner, you’ll delve into the heart of both great communication and great sex, as well as the finer nuances that elevate these skills into mastery.

Our Sunday Flings are fun, informative and experiential 5-hour workshops (1 pm – 6 pm) that help partners develop the essential skills of deep intimacy. Through teachings, demonstrations, discussions, and practices with your partner, you’ll leave each Sunday Flings with a new “Intimacy Essential” that you can put into practice immediately.

Sunday Flings are open to all genders and relationship models. You don’t need to be “a couple” to participate but you do need to attend with a partner that you feel comfortable doing intimate, clothes-on experiential exercises with.

DISCOVER THE #1 REASON WHY COMMUNICATION BREAKS DOWN BETWEEN LOVERS AND PRACTICE THE ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS OF WHOLE-HEARTED CONVERSATIONS.

Feeling heard and understood is one of our deepest human needs and foundational in any robust intimate partnership. Cultivating the capacity for deep listening and honest, compassionate expression creates emotional safety, trust and deepens the bond of intimacy.

At this Sunday Fling you and your partner will:

  • Discover the one single pattern that hi-jacks most lovers conversations leaving them feeling unheard, frustrated and disconnected.
  • Learn the key principles essential to break free of this toxic pattern.
  • Learn strategies to regulate your emotions and de-escalate tense moments.
  • Practice simple, yet powerful communication techniques that will immediately leave you feeling “gotten” and as a result, more deeply connected.

 

 

Jun
23
Sat
Liberate Your Lineage Workshop @ Empower Health
Jun 23 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Liberate Your Lineage Workshop

Our family systems have a powerful influence on how we experience the present, past and future. We know that inherent family patterns are passed down from generation to generation and these patterns teach us how to defend, how to bind anxiety, how to grieve loss, or not grieve loss, and for many how, and who, to be in the world. And sometimes what we inherit from the system of our family isn’t congruent with our own authenticity.

Shamanism works on a level that bypasses the conscious mind allowing one to connect with one’s inner knowing, the ancestors, the elements, the animal spirits, and spirit guides to uncover what is out of balance and needs illumination. This workshop will blend transpersonal teachings and experiential shamanic practices allowing participants to transform the effects of what has been passed down and achieve liberation.

This workshop is co-created and facilitated by Val Adamson and Sonya Weir. Val is a practising Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) and Sonya is a Shamanic Practitioner. Both have private practices in Vancouver.

For registration information, please email: liberateyourlineage@gmail.com

Jul
22
Sun
Fierce Loving: Sexplicit Talk @ Empower Health
Jul 22 @ 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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Learn how to more easily and openly talk about your sexual truths, preferences, and desires with your partner.

Join Trevor & Jenna every 4th Sunday for a titillating exploration of an essential principle of deep intimacy. Together with your partner, you’ll delve into the heart of both great communication and great sex, as well as the finer nuances that elevate these skills into mastery.

Our Sunday Flings are fun, informative and experiential 5-hour workshops (1 pm – 6 pm) that help partners develop the essential skills of deep intimacy. Through teachings, demonstrations, discussions, and practices with your partner, you’ll leave each Sunday Flings with a new “Intimacy Essential” that you can put into practice immediately.

Sunday Flings are open to all genders and relationship models. You don’t need to be “a couple” to participate but you do need to attend with a partner that you feel comfortable doing intimate, clothes-on experiential exercises with.