workshops

Feel Your Best offers workshops on being the best we are capable of being, finding genuine happiness as oneself.

Slow down, relax, and breathe. Let go of mental chatter & focus gently inward on your present experience. This is mindfulness...a way to integrate mind and body, develop focus, and know yourself. Observe the thoughts behind your actions, and become selective about the ones you heed. Feel inspired with yourself, your relationships, and your world.

Through eight years of exploring the roots of stress, Martha has found that her clients feel best when they choose thoughts that feel like their own and let go of thoughts that originated from external expectations and values. We explore our thoughts using mindful self-awareness and Hakomi psychotherapy.

Workshops are conducted in a fun, respectful atmosphere that encourages lively and honest discussion, leaving participants leaving participants feeling true peace of mind.

Feel Your Best: Tools for Stress
… bringing freedom from stress to your workplace

This progressive five-module program is designed specifically for the workplace. Please invite me to your boardroom!!

When we perceive a problem, we initiate a stress response that leads to harmful changes in the body – resulting in reduced focus and ability to concentrate and solve problems, reduced immunity, insomnia, back pain, and eventually depression, cancer, heart disease, and more. Hakomi and meditation are growing in popularity as easy, effective methods to calm stress and turn off the stream of sometimes overwhelming thoughts. We deepen the awareness with which we live, resulting in a sense of ease and that life is under control. We enjoy a boost in energy, work attendance and productivity, the ability to solve problems creatively and perform under pressure.

Hakomi and mindful meditation techniques will be used in all modules.

The five one-hour modules include:
1. Meditative breathing, and an overview of stress and the simple, delightful solutions;
2. living mindfully (or with heightened awareness within);
3. the thought patterns that create our stress;
4. finding solutions from our true selves, that feel right from within; and
5. the role of fear.

Investment: $160 + gst per person

Group size: Optimal group size is 6 to 15

"Your workshop felt as if it had been personalized specifically for me".
- Ellen Mathers, Educational Assistant, Elizabeth Rummel School, Canmore, AB

For information: email Martha

Free Spirit

Introductory Evening: ($7 fee) Tuesday March 24th 2009, 7-8:30 pm

Next Workshop: Five Wednesday evenings, April 22 - May 20 2009, 7-8:30 pm

You will learn mindfulness and become an enthusiastic observer of your thoughts and inner landscape. You'll recognize stress-causing thought patterns and favour those that support your truest nature.

Mindful meditation is a delightful way to connect to our inner world, bringing our mind and our body into synch. In this place, we learn to fully savour our daily experiences. This is a workshop that will bring out the best in everyone.

Location: Canmore COOP, 115-802 Bow Valley Trail, Canmore, AB (403) 678-2517

Investment: $160 + gst

Group size: 6-12

For information: email Martha

Breathe Deep heli-yoga adventure

Next Workshop: August 21-23 2009

Three days of tent camping in a beautiful alpine meadow adjacent to glaciers and waterfalls, and three enjoyable hikes with gentle Hatha yoga at a native vision quest site.

Including scrumptious mountain cuisine and two scenic ten-minute helicopter flights.

Investment: $699 per person

For information: email Martha

Come Alive In Mexico...Through Your Body Wisdom

Next Workshop: November 14 - 21 2009

An empowering one-week Hatha yoga retreat at beautiful Cabanas Copal eco-hotel on the torquoise Caribbean Sea near Tulum, Mexico. Relax into mindfulness, witness your inner world, reconnect with your true self - feel how your life is meant to be.

Enjoy the mellow nature of the Mexican and Mayan culture - a people that live from the heart. Visit the powerful Tulum Mayan ruins, snorkel in beautiful mineral water caves that the Mayans revere as magical healing waters and enjoy an incredible massage from a Mayan shaman.

$1450 includes the retreat, daily yoga, 7 nights accommodation in double ocean-front cabanas, 7 days of sumptuous Mexican cuisine, all the adventures described above and travel to and from the Cancun airport.

$400 deposit to reserve your spot, 100% refundable until 60 days prior to your trip.

For information: email Martha