Elisa Peterson Health and Wellness

With small steps I am grounded with more possibilities available, and believable … I can breath and look around and get my bearings. Yes, “The smallest circles first ⭕️” Richard Wagamese, Embers

SE ADV students and training team … thank you for an amazing week filled with curiosity and space for transformation ✨ Raven medicine offers us just that - the opportunity to ask questions, look around with a sense of ease, and rediscover possibilities for change🦋

Thank you to each VCMT massage therapy student who shared their wonder, questions and ideas about “Self-Care” this past Tuesday. Ojibway author, Richard Wagamese, reminds us: “Wonder is the glue that keeps everything together.” As a class circle, we explored together what self-care meant to us and invited ourselves to be with the “uncertainty” of wondering what new ideas might emerge with a building a self-care practice ✨ Thank you to Laurie and all the class members for inviting me to be part of your Professional Development class “self-care inquiry” 🦉

Winter wonder at the Royal Ontario Museum✨This fish used to swim our oceans … saaaaay whaaaat 🐠 !!!!
I am grateful to have spent cherished time with my family 💛

     

Sunset magic…

Winter Solstice Wisdom✨ Today I am celebrating the common light centre we all share as people, animals, trees, the waters and the earth as a whole. This is where I find a place to rest, where I sit in peace. This is where I heal- in connection. Thank you - Miigwetch 🌝

     

🟠 Somatic Experiencing (SE) offers you a compassionate space to connect to your body, listen to its guidance, and rediscover yourself in manageable, bite-size pieces.
 
Somatic Experiencing supports healing the impacts of stress, adversity, and trauma in your body. 


🍃 fatigue
🍃 body pain
🍃 emotional dysregulation
🍃 digestion issues
🍃 poor sleep, headaches
🍃 difficulty focusing
🍃 anxiety
 
🟠 Begin a conversation. Ask questions. Build a relationship that listens and honours your body’s guidance.


✨ Appointments & Information @ elisapeterson.ca 


     

🟠REFLECT I Fall Somatics Circle I Week 2
💎 This week’s class we will reflected on what we have learned about ourselves this past year.
💎 What are the gems we would like to keep?

Our 5-week fall series offers a warm, welcoming circle to celebrate your body as a sanctuary for wisdom and healing… to explore being bodyful. 
 
We explore connecting with “somatic” or body-centred practices such as:
🍂mindfulness,
☀️meditation,
🌝body-scanning,
🍁breathing & movement … with wonder, curiosity, and patience.
 
CLASS DETAILS
Registration contact: [email protected]

5 weeks on Saturdays Nov 4th- Dec. 9th 
9:00am- 10:15am.. with no class on Sat, Nov. 25th
 
WHAT TO BRING
 
A CHAIR & SPACE to Stand with arms Stretched Out:
To start, we are seated so a chair is needed. We may move to movements that can be done standing or seated. It is really up to you, individually. Both positions work well
 
A JOURNAL/ Paper &  PENCIL/ Pen
 
WATER: I recommend having a glass of water nearby- it's just good for us:)
 
YOU: Always listen to your body- respect its boundaries. If you need to rest, stop, pause- take the time for yourself. You can simply relax and join back in, if and when, you're ready
 
       

Today, National Indigenous Veterans Day is an important day of remembrance that honours the contributions of First Nations, Métis and Inuit people who participated in Canada's military efforts. Thousands of Indigenous Peoples served in the First World War, Second World War, the Korean War, and other conflicts
 

✨ Somatic Experiencing (SE) offers you a compassionate space to connect to your body, listen to its guidance, and consider change in manageable, bite-size pieces.
 
Somatic Experiencing supports healing the impacts of stress, adversity, and trauma in your body.

🍃 fatigue
🍃 body pain
🍃 emotional dysregulation
🍃 digestion issues
🍃 poor sleep, headaches
🍃 difficulty focusing
🍃 anxiety
 
💬 Begin a conversation. Ask questions. Build a relationship that listens and honours your body’s guidance.

✨ Appointments & Information @ elisapeterson.ca

     

🍂 Fall Somatics Circle: Wk 1: “Pause” I Nov4/23
Registration@ elisapeterson.ca
 
Our 5-week fall series offers a warm, welcoming circle to celebrate your body as a sanctuary for wisdom and healing… to explore being bodyful. 
 
We will explore connecting with “somatic” or body-centred practices such as:
🍂mindfulness,
☀️meditation,
🌝body-scanning,
🍁breathing & movement … with wonder, curiosity and patience.
 
CLASS DETAILS
 
5 weeks on Saturdays Nov 4th- Dec. 9th 
9:00am- 10:15am.. with no class on Saturday , November 25th.
 
WHAT TO BRING
 
A CHAIR & SPACE to Stand with arms Stretched Out:
To start, we are seated so a chair is needed. We may move to movements that can be done standing or seated. It is really up to you, individually. Both positions work well
 
A JOURNAL/ Paper &  PENCIL/ Pen
 
WATER: I recommend having a glass of water nearby- it's just good for us:)
 
YOU: Always listen to your body- respect its boundaries. If you need to rest, stop, pause- take the time for yourself. You can simply relax and join back in, if and when, you're ready.

🍂 Fall Somatics Circle: begins Nov. 4th, 2023
Registration@ elisapeterson.ca

 
Our 5-week fall series offers a warm, welcoming circle  to celebrate their body as a sanctuary for wisdom and healing… to explore being bodyful. 
 
We will explore connecting “somatic” or body-centred practices such as:
mindfulness,
meditation,
body-scanning,
breathing & movement to our body… with wonder, curiosity and patience.
 
CLASS DETAILS
 
Classes: 5 weeks: Saturday, Nov 4th- Dec. 9th 
Time: 9:00am- 10:15am.. with no class on Saturday , November 25th.
 
WHAT TO BRING
 
A CHAIR & SPACE to Stand with arms Stretched Out:
To start, we are seated so a chair is needed. We may move to movements that can be done standing or seated. It is really up to you, individually. Both positions work well
 
A JOURNAL/ Paper &  PENCIL/ Pen
 
WATER: I recommend having a glass of water nearby- it's just good for us:)
 
YOU: Always listen to your body- respect its boundaries. If you need to rest, stop, pause- take the time for yourself. You can simply relax and join back in, if and when, you're ready.

A great reminder for myself this morning 🍂 Fall Somatics Circle begins: November 4th

SFU MEd Convocation 2023🎉 Sooo grateful to have journeyed with a cohort family that grew together 💛

The Whey-ah-Wichen Canoe Festival is being held this weekend canoe 🛶 Tsleil-Waututh Nation holds the annual canoe race based at their traditional village site, Whey-ah-Wichen (Cates Park) in North Vancouver, B.C For more information: https://twnation.ca/for-our-community/whey-ah-wichen-canoe-festival/.

Thank you Still Moon Arts! I shared a wonder-full evening learning how to dye silk with flowers. For the scarf I made, we used marigolds🌼
I appreciated building community, meeting new people and taking time for reflection.
A heartfelt thank you to Varsha and Shahir for leading and teaching 🙏

Anishinaabe author, Richard Wagamese, in his book Embers, wrote: “HOME IS the truth you carry inside you. I wrote that a few years back, and I still believe it. Out on the porch, with coffee, a breeze and the calming scent of sacred medicines in my hair, I sit in my truth – this building, this relationship, this day, this certain and assured contact with Creator. I am home. Not just on the street but in this body, on this planet, in this universe.”

Happy Summer Solstice 🐝🦋☀️

Heron Medicine

May 5 is National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous women, girls, two-spirited, and gender-diverse peoples.

May 5 is also known as Red Dress Day; a day where we wear red to remember our stolen sisters, to raise awareness of colonial and gender-based violence, and to honour the families and communities that live with the grief and anger of losing loved ones.

🔗 Learn more through SFU: http://secure.campaigner.com/csb/Public/show/ci05-2o75uo--135pga-hm6l7nu2

📚️ Jeanette Winterson on The Waves 🌊 by Virginia Woolf

Everyone deserves to live free from the fear of sexual assault and to live in communities that support their safety.

If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence, please see ways you can find help.

🔗 NEED Help: https://endingviolence.org/need-help/

Everyone deserves to live free from the fear of sexual assault and to live in communities that support their safety.
If you or someone you know has experienced sexual violence, please see ways you can find help.

🔗 NEED help: https://endingviolence.org/need-help/

“The Medicine to heal and change is within us” my SFU professor, Dr. Vicky Kelly, reminded me this past winter session. “... the wisdom inside us to heal in connection with all living beings and evoke change in ourselves, and our community.”

I took this photo walking this past Sunday at Whey-ah-wichen park during a few minutes of pause in the rain. The rays of sunshine drew my attention with a flutter of excitement in my heart and a twinkle in my feet 🌞

I felt inspired ✨

When I look at the photo now and connect to my inner body, I feel a shift inside me, beginning with an exhale that brings a felt sense of peace and calmness. I am grateful to witness this lived experience of change when I allow myself to pause and listen to my body; this awareness becomes the medicine within that allows me to change in relationship with myself, the trees, the birds and the people in my community 🌲

🔗 Build a relationship with your body and explore healing and change with Somatic Experiencing: https://elisapeterson.ca/somatic-experiencing/

The Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi ✨

🔗 Explore Somatic Experiencing: https://elisapeterson.ca/somatic-experiencing/