yoga and meditation in brockville

 


Workshops & Events 2005


Our beautiful spacious facility offers a relaxing & welcoming environment to nurture your mind & body. Hardwood floors, soft lighting, room controlled temperatures, expert instruction & soothing music all contribute to the quality of your experience.

Registration & Inquiries
Donna Wilson 345-7560
Studio 345-7757
Email thehealingartscentre@sympatico.ca

 
Tuesday Wellness Series
Instructor: Lurena Hay-Miller, Doctor of Natural Medicine
Dates: Every Tuesday from 7pm-8pm
Cost: Free
Description: All classes are experiential. Ancient traditions used this type of learning because they understood that in order to truly facilitate healing and growth, learning must be known at all levels – mind, body and spirit.

Sept. 20 Brain Gym for Kids: Improve reading, writing, math, attitudes, more! Natural health techniques for ADD/ADHD, autism and learning disabilities.
Sept 27 Stress & Trauma: How it Affects our Health and Well-Being
Oct 4 What is Energy Medicine and How Can it Benefit Me?
Oct 11 Natural Therapies for Pain Relief
Oct 18 Chiropractic Approaches to Well-Being with Dr. Martin Harwood, D.C.
Drumming Circle
Instructor: Doug Helmer
Dates: 3rd Friday of the Month from 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: Minimum Donation of $5.00
Description: Join us at the Healing Arts Centre as we gather as a community for an evening of dance and drumming.

Sept 16, Oct 21, Nov 18, Dec 16
Introduction to Painting with Acrylics
Instructor: Barbara Simpson
Dates: 9am-11am Sept 24, Oct 15, Oct 22
Cost: Painting solo: $65 each
SAVE and bring a painting pal: $45 each
(includes $25 materials fee)
Description: Children as young as 4 and up to 100 and older are welcome to “Be Inspired!” in Barbara’s workshops.

Take a simple line drawing, learn to blend colours and create your own masterpiece using this versatile medium. Helpful hints are also shared while students are encouraged to use their imagination. Students will complete one painting by the end of the workshop.

Acrylics, a medium of choice by many of today’s artists, have a high viscosity for oil-like performance and impasto techniques right out of the tube. Or, you can mix them with water or acrylic mediums for a broad range of effects. They are non-toxic and very easy to clean up with soap and water. Be inspired! Painting with acrylics is fun! Follow your heart and try painting with acrylics!

***Class is limited to 6 students, so register fast! A minimum of 3 students is required. Registration is required by noon previous day.
Passion & Painting with Acrylics
Instructor: Barbara Simpson
Dates: Dates: Tuesdays, Sep 20, 27, Oct 4, 18, 25
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost: Painting solo: $65 each
SAVE and bring a painting pal: $45 each
(includes $25 materials fee)
Description: Further your passion to painting with this fast-drying medium. Students will learn techniques such as “impasto” and “washing” and will leave the workshop with a magnificent landscape created from their imagination!

Children as young as 4 and up to 100 and older are welcome to “Be Inspired!” in Barbara’s workshops.

***Class is limited to 6 students, so register fast! A minimum of 3 students is required. Registration is required by noon previous day.
Aromatherapy for Relaxation, Concentration & Vitality
Instructor: Lurena Hay-Miller, DNM
Dates: Sept 17 10-2pm
Cost: $75 (incl $15 materials fee)
Description: Learn what aromatherapy is, how to choose oils for different conditions, and how to use them. Make your own special blend bath/body oil, bath salts, or lotions.
Feng Shui - Let Your Home Support Your Health
Instructor: Consultant Ingrid Hauck
Dates: Sept 24 9:30-12:30pm
Cost: $54
Description: “Bring her back!” Feedback from participant at IKEA’s Dinner with a Designer evening.

Feng Shui consultant Ingrid Hauck overcame chronic fatigue and left a six figure executive salary to coach people throughout Ontario and Quebec on how to change their lives by making changes in their space. Her monthly talks at the Ottawa IKEA Dinner with a Designer series are very popular, and she has been featured on CBC and CKCU-FM Radio, Breakfast at the New RO and Daytime on Rogers Cable TV; Ottawa City Magazine and the Ottawa Citizen. You may also have seen her articles in Tone Magazine. Now you have the opportunity to catch her energy right here at the Brockville Healing Arts Centre.

Want to feel better and have more energy? Come and find out how the energy of your home can contribute to health or illness, and how to nurture well-being. Feng Shui coach Ingrid Hauck will show you which parts of your home correspond to your body systems and chakras, and what adjustments you can make to break any energy matrices which are supporting an illness. Includes a healing meditation.
Healing Through Art Series
Instructor: Carol-Ann Cheff, Art Therapist
Dates: 10am-1pm
Cost: $45 for each session (includes $10 material fee)
Description: Explore your creativity and enhance your self-expression in this series of workshops. A variety of materials will be used to express your individuality. The goal of these workshops is to take time to enjoy the creative process while exploring your creative potential.
Oct 1 The Art of Collage: A variety of materials will be used to develop a collage.
Nov 5 Expressions in Clay:Self-hardening clay and additional materials will be used to create models of self-expression.
Dec 3 Spirit Sticks:Using a variety of materials, spirit sticks will be designed as an expression of each individual participant.
Introduction to the Labyrinth
Instructor: Ted Yells
Dates: Oct 1st 10am - 12pm
Cost: $15
Description: An ppportunity to Learn about this ancient spiritual symbol that offers us a way to get in touch with our inner self and our intuition. Participants will explore the Labyrinth as a symbolic inner journey, and also as an energetic phenomena that can help in healing body, mind and spirit. We will discuss each of these two perspectives separately, followed by a walk, and then share our experiences. We will be walking the 7 circuit, or Cretan Labyrinth.
Discover Your Medicine Helpers - Spirit Guides, Animals, Plants, Minerals
Instructor: Lurena Hay-Miller, DNM
Dates: Oct 15 10-2pm
Cost: $45
Description: All are helpers and desire to assist in our journey to complete health. Learn how to access and work with yours in positive, productive ways.
How To Purify Your Body, Speech & Mind
Instructor: Kelsang Rigden, Kadampa Buddhist Nun
Dates: Oct 29 10am-4pm
Cost: $30 with Pot Luck Lunch
Description: A wonderful opportunity to look at Buddhist approaches to purify our past actions of body, speech and mind. By gaining a stronger understanding of karma, we begin to develop a wish to purify. Kelsang Rigden, a Kadampa Buddhist Nun, will guide you through purification practices such as the four opponent powers and mantra recitation. Everyone welcome.
Yoga for Kids & Caregivers
Instructor: TBA
Dates: 9:00am to 10:00am Dates TBA.
Cost: $10/per workshop
Description: Using a light-hearted playful approach, yoga can help children feel calm, happy and focused.

3 to 10 year olds



68 King Street East, Brockville, Ontario, CANADA (Rear Entrance)
Email: thehealingartscentre@sympatico.ca; Tel: (613) 345-7560

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