We invite you to join us on Thursday July 25th for a community healing drum circle & meditation soundscape. We are planning for an outdoor drum circle and can move indoors if the weather warrants.
Rhonda Bruce is a certified drum circle facilitator, Reiki Master and Qigong Instructor. She has been facilitating drum circles around Alberta and BC for 11 years & is very happy to be coming back to share a drum circle at Aurora Wellness!
No experience is required. Easy to follow along, African djembes, Cuban Tubanos and frame drums will be provided.
The intention for this drum circle is celebrating, releasing , renewing & healing through rhythm, vibrations, laughter, connection, meditation and FUN!
Save your spot by registering early!
Join us at Aurora Wellness Centre, Parksville area for a journey within, guided by Sound Healing Practitioner Aurora Rising & Bio Energy Healing Practitioner Louise.
Sound Healing is an ancient healing modality which employs the use of sacred instruments to induce the theta brainwave state, promoting deep meditation, relaxation and healing of the mind, body and soul.
Sound healing is safe for all ages and is an effective treatment for depression, anxiety, PTSD, sleep disorders and chronic pain. Relax, go inward, shed what no longer serves you, and journey toward all that is in alignment with your highest self.
Bioenergy healing, which involves working with the body’s energy field to promote healing and balance, can complement sound therapy quite effectively. When sound therapy is integrated into bioenergy healing sessions, it can help to amplify the flow of energy throughout the body, enhance relaxation, and facilitate the release of energetic blockages.
Using various sound tools such as crystal sound bowls, gong, and even voice toning can help to entrain the body’s energy field to harmonious frequencies, promoting a deeper state of balance and well-being. The vibrations from sound therapy can also help to stimulate the body’s natural healing mechanisms and promote a sense of inner peace and harmony.
Combining bioenergy healing with sound therapy can offer a holistic approach to wellness, addressing the physical, emotional, and energetic aspects of health and promoting overall balance and vitality.
Relax and allow the vibrations and guided meditation to transform you in this powerful journey of healing.
Recommendations for attendees: Water, yoga mat, small blanket and head rest, and a covering for the eyes such as a blindfold or small cloth.
Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in and get comfortable.
DETAILS
DATES: Thursday, October 3rd!
TIME: 7- 8:30 pm
INVESTMENT: $59 plus GST
Payment Options:
You have 3 ways to pay for this event:
1. DEBIT: If you choose to pay by e-transfer, please send payment to louise@aurorawellnesscentre.com (all lower case is fine) and make the password "sound".
2. CREDIT/DEBIT with Square
3. CASH/CHEQUE: If you sign up at Aurora Wellness, you can pay a $25 CASH deposit to hold your spot to Louise. If choosing this option, please arrange a time with Louise to drop by the wellness centre by calling ahead: 250-927-0876.
We truly cannot wait to serve you and help you enjoy our sound healing
Warmly,
Louise and Aurora Rising
Walking Meditations with Symbolic Intention Settings
"If we're really engaged in mindfulness while walking we will consider the act of each step we take as an infinite wonder, and a joy will open our hearts like a miraculous and mysterious reality."
~ from the Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh
Are you looking to calm your mind, rejuvenate your body and harmonize your soul?
We will immerse ourselves in the serene atmosphere of a nature walk on beautiful Vancouver Island, which can be an enlightening experience. When we deeply settle into our bodies and breath, all busy thoughts to the outside world will subside and you will be able to tune into your senses, to master your intentions with a clearer, more direct quality of perception.
Walking Meditations help us to relax into our sense perceptions, not trying to get our experiences to come out a particular way, it is possible to have a glimpse of things as they truly are. Here we will connect to a deeper understanding of the beauty and magic in the natural world while we master our intentions to bring harmony and balance to our souls.
At the beginning of our walking meditations, there will be a brief discussion on the tools (healing cards, & Crystals ) that may help you to create your intentions and the Law of Attraction and how to be OPEN to RECEIVE your intentions.
As humans we feel a great need to attach meanings to symbols and have always used them to speak to us as a way of showing us where our attentions lay and as an aide in self reflection.
You will be given the opportunity, if you wish, to draw three items (for the mind, body and soul) on your walk. When choosing a card, you may ask for guidance around a specific relationship, pattern, or circumstance. You may also ask for a general card to speak to you in the present moment.
The purpose of this is to meditate on the positive healing attributes of the items and feel
where the symbol/ or meaning fits in your life at the moment. Are these attributes and meanings
something we need to believe in for ourselves? Is there someone in our lives
that is really important right now. How does this fit in our here and now.
We will then walk 20 minutes in quiet meditation reflecting on the positive characteristics of the healing card.
Second draw Abundance card describes a journey. From what is drawn, where is this journey - beginning, middle of or nearing an end. Is it a physical journey, an emotional one, a career or lifestyle journey? How does the first card work with the second?
We will continue to walk 20 minutes in quiet meditation joining the characteristics of the first card with
the journey of the second card.
Last draw is a crystal for you to keep. These come as a gift from Mother Nature
herself. Is she sending you wisdom, strength or healing? Keep this in the palm of your
hand as you walk the last 20 minutes reflecting on your messages
We will close with a thank you to Mother Earth for what she provides for us, what she teaches us and how she heals us!
book a private session for you and your friends!
Your investment into learning walking meditations - $10 per person. Small groups (6 guests) includes intention setting soul card & healing crystal
Rain or shine.
Please email louise@aurorawellnesscentre or call 250-927-0876 for more information or to book your spot!
AYURVEDA TREATMENTS AND METHODS
For Natural Well-being and Beauty
A 50-hour, 8-day certification program
2025 date coming!
Ayurveda Foundations of Health and Beauty
Ayurveda Beauty Methods
Skin care, eye and lip care, haircare, and body care including common symptoms, imbalances, and issues and how to improve them
Ayurveda Treatments
I've been immersed in Ayurveda and yoga - studying, living, teaching, and simply being completely in love with them both! - for nearly 15 years. With a cancer (the sign of nurturing) ruled 10th house and exalted Venus (the planet of beauty) in the 6th house of health and healing in my astrological chart, I am naturally drawn to sharing the sweetness of the daily self-care methods and treatment practices that nurture wellness and beauty from the inside out - not only leaving us feeling radiant and at our best, but full of vitality, vibrancy, clarity, and self-connection.
This 50-hour, 8-day intensive is a certification program designed to educate and prepare you to be empowered and clear on your personal path to self-health and radiance as well as to teach and practice these Ayurveda treatments and methods for natural wellness and beauty within your community or around the world.
An Ayurvedic wellness and beauty practitioner improves clients quality of life through teaching and practicing Ayurveda treatments and methods that promote whole-self-health.
The treatments and methods work on internal and external levels to balance doshas, reduce stress, eliminate toxins, improve tissue nutrition, and enhance tissue quality so that the individual can experience the wellness and resulting radiance that is inherent in each one of us.
The training will provide you with the education and experience to have exquisite self-care that cultivates your personal wellness and beauty, and to offer guidance, education, and treatments in professional settings.
This is a standalone training that can get you started as an Ayurvedic Wellness and Beauty Practitioner, as well as a fantastic addition to current massage therapy, holistic consulting, Ayurveda consulting, Yoga teaching, or esthetician work.
Daily schedule
9 - 10a | Yoga practices
10:15 - 11a | Learning and discussions
11:15 - 12p | Practical
1p | Lunch and break
2 - 3p | Learning and discussions
3 - 5p | Practical
5:30p | Dinner and finished
Includes
Investment: $2,500 + tax
Early bird discount of $200 for paid in full by December 28th,2023
Location
Aurora Wellness Center, between Nanoose and Parksville (Kaye Road) on beautiful Vancouver Island.
The closest airport is in Nanaimo, or you can:
Fly into Victoria and drive 1.5 hours to the center, or
Arrive in Vancouver, take the ferry to Nanaimo, and drive 20 minutes to the center!
Additional treatments included if time permits (snehan/abhyanga, udvartana, etc)
Email Kelsey at info@illumineayurveda.com or phone 780-267-7419 to register
“We can learn to live well, age well, and thrive - naturally”
(Kelsey Brusnyk)
About your Guide - Kelsey Brusnyk
Kelsey Brusnyk is a teacher of Ayurveda and Yoga and Ayurveda health counsellor, bodywork therapist, and chef. She helps clients and students apply the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda and Yoga to their modern lives so they can naturally restore and maintain balance in their body, mind, and entire being and as a result, live well, age well, and thrive.
Learn more about Kelsey on www.illumineayurveda.com or find her on instagram at @kelsey.ayurvedayoga
Let us retreat from our regular schedules and demands and come together for a day of health, healing, and self-care.
Through the wisdom and practices of Yoga and Ayurveda you will enhance your body health, self-connection, and clear calm mindstate, resetting your entire system and setting yourself up for a healthier, happier new season.
Offered at the seasonal change four times each year, this is an opportunity to carve out time for self-exploration, expansion, rejuvenation, and restoration. The retreats are suitable for all levels.
Location
Aurora Wellness Centre in Nanoose
In The Seasonal Rejuvenation Day-Retreats You Will:
Schedule
9 - 11a | Pranayama (breathwork) and yoga poses for strength and balance
12p | Fresh Ayurvedic lunch and break
1:30 - 2:30p | Discussion on yoga philosophy, seasonal Ayurveda, and intention setting
2:30 - 3p | Guided intuitive energy management meditation
3:15 - 4:45p | Preparation, passive, and restorative yoga poses to support healthy posture and breathing, enhance the deeper flexibility of ligaments, and restore the nervous system to a space of ease, clarity and calm
5:30p | fresh Ayurvedic dinner and finished
2024 Schedule TBA - Mark your calendar!
Spring retreat:
Summer retreat:
Autumn retreat:
Winter retreat:
Investment
$275 per session
(or $1000 for all four)
Registration
Contact Kelsey at 780-267-7419 or info@illumineayurveda.com to register
Tea Ceremony is a beautiful ritual that slows us down and connects us to ourselves, others and nature. Through tea ceremony we start seeing Magic in the ordinary or in the mundane, and are able to feel and experience life more fully.
In our Sacred Self Love & Acceptance we use a loving & transcendental blend that will lead you out of the keyed-up state of fight or flight, relax and release any muscle tension, let go of emotional baggage, as you let the warmth & love caress you.
There’s something very loving about taking time to connect with each herb – feeling it in your hands – inhaling the fragrance – just really connecting with it.
When you take the time to become aware and notice what your body needs, you prioritize your time to make your body a better place.
Tea can be a vehicle of focus for returning to our center and invoking peace and calm. In our herbal tea ceremony, we hold space for one another and ourselves to feel the subtle rising of energies that accompany the tea and herbs as we drink.
Buddhist monk and teacher Thich Nhat Hanh speaks often of the peace that comes with drinking tea:
“I drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me. I am informed by the tea, changed. This is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed:
All the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.
There is only the tea and me, converging.”
You will enjoy your evening with our loving tea ceremony, learning how to care for you; your body and mind.
Your meditation will have you wrapped in blankets and covered in healing crystals to help invoke your intentions your lovingly placed in your tea.
Allow your body and mind to to bathe in the healing vibrations of the crystal bowls and drums. Drumming shifts the brain from releasing stress chemicals to releasing endorphins and other healing chemicals. Spiritual Journeys, inner connection, dream states, trance-induction, and healing have been attained through the use of Drumming and sound healing. Normally, the brain cycles back and forth between the analytical left hemisphere and the creative right hemisphere. While drumming, however; the hemispheres become synchronized, working together simultaneously, which results in a transcendent state of consciousness.
Ultimately, A Sound Journey puts us in touch with our higher consciousness where wisdom, healing, and an understanding of our true -self come into being. Drumming awakens the capability to communicate with the inner-self for a deeply profound personal growth.
Calm the mind, Rejuvenate the body, Harmonize your soul
Recommendations for attendees: Water, yoga mat, small blanket and head rest
Please arrive 15 minutes early to check in and get comfortable.
DETAILS
Date: Looking to book a private ceremony for you and your friends or co-workers?
Time: 7 - 9 pm
enrollment $55
Payment Options:
You have 3 ways to pay for this event:
1. DEBIT: If you choose to pay by e-transfer, please send payment to louise@aurorawellnesscentre.com (all lower case is fine) and make the password "sound".
2. CREDIT/DEBIT with Square
3. CASH/CHEQUE: If you sign up at Aurora Wellness, you can pay a $25 CASH deposit to hold your spot to Louise. If choosing this option, please arrange a time with Louise to drop by the wellness centre by calling ahead: 250-927-0876.
We truly cannot wait for you to experience our Sacred Tea Ceremony & Sound healing Meditation.
Warmly,
Louise and Tracey
Please email louise@aurorawellnesscentre or call 250-927-0876 for more information or to book your spot!
We also offer private ceremonies for a group of your friends, family and colleagues!
Healing Wheels
While normally associated with the traditions of Indigenous people and communities, the healing wheel is, in fact, a pan-cultural, pan-temporal symbol found in one form or another on every continent.
In short, the healing wheel is a symbol of the entire creation that sanctions sacred space for the purposes of prayer, meditation, and deepening our understanding of our relationships to ourselves and the timeless aspects of creation (the universe).
Modern medicine has affirmed what we have felt for a while, chronic stress and anxiety are damaging to all systems of the body. Albeit, stress is a major contributor to mental, emotional, and physical health. It also contributes to fatigue, lack of inspiration, and to every part of your body from head to toe. Consequently, it destroys our ability to deal with life’s challenges creatively.
This journey takes you to a beautiful wheel at Aurora Wellness where we will focus on your personal vision & healing. We will guide and support you in enriching your spiritual, physical, and emotional health through energy healing, Bemer Vascular healing (blood flow is so important to recover and restore our bodies), meditation & crystal manifestation and our loving cacao ceremony accompanied with crystal bowl sound therapy.
Healthy Mind-Body Connection
Your body has its own intelligence, it feeds on not just the food you eat, but everything you say, think and do. The key to living a healthier life is treating your body with both kindness and discipline. Learn to set healthy boundaries, manage your stress and change your negative self-beliefs.
The main goal is to assist you in creating a healthy mind-body-soul connection. A healthy functioning Wheel:
We each have the power to change our environment and our reality by changing thought vibration. It makes matter manifest. It all comes down to your personal vibration.
If you are like me, all I wanted was fulfillment and happiness.
Raise your vibration and step into your own healing story. We are programmed and wired in a certain way throughout our life situations. So let’s rewire to love ourselves fully and completely the way it is meant to be.
3 things impact the love for yourself:
Mind
Emotions
Energy
I literally know, when my vibration of love is HIGH, there is nothing I can’t have, create or experience.
Because when I am vibrating high, I vibrate at the exact frequency that the amount of happiness, money, growth, contribution, connection and love that I desire knows exactly how to find me.
We would like to show you how to do the same…
Introducing the Healing Wheel Retreat!
What your Healing Wheel Retreat Will Look Like
You will start your evening with our loving cacao ceremony, learning how to care for you; your body and mind.
Your meditation will have you wrapped in blankets and covered in healing crystals to help invoke your intentions you lovingly placed in your cup. Everything is energy and the belief is that the high vibrations of crystals affect and interact with the body’s own energy field. The high vibrations of a crystal can turn the dial up on your own energy or it can get to work redirecting or channeling energies that can cleanse any blockages in the chakras and bring the body, mind, and soul into alignment.
What is a Cacao Ceremony?
Cacao Ceremony is a beautiful ritual that slows us down and connects us to ourselves, others and nature. Manifesting from and for the HEarth — this sacred ritual will create beauty beyond comprehension. The sacred plant medicine of Cacao has the power to transform the vibrations of your body towards their highest form. This guided ceremony is a therapeutic journey where one is enabled to touch the Divine Light and Darkness and become Oneness from within.
In our Sacred Self Love & Acceptance Cacao Ceremony we use a loving & transcendental blend that will lead you out of the keyed-up state of fight or flight, relax and release any muscle tension, let go of emotional baggage, as you let the warmth & love caress you.
There’s something very loving about taking time to connect with your cup of cacao – feeling it in your hands – inhaling the fragrance – just really connecting with it.
When you take the time to become aware and notice what your body needs, you prioritize your time to make your body a better place.
Cacao can be a vehicle of focus for returning to our center and invoking peace and calm. In our cacao ceremony, we hold space for one another and ourselves to feel the subtle rising of energies that accompany the cacao as we drink.
The healing spokes of our Wheel
Indulge in an unforgettable, 4-hour candlelit journey where you'll experience six distinct holistic healing modalities to relax and restore.
We will be gathered in a circle for our healing cacao ceremony with guided gentle breathwork. Dissolving into silence, and meditation we then reconnect with the sacred ground. (60 mins)
Arising you will then move into the 2.5 hour candlelit, healing wheel with our 3 certified energy practitioners and relaxing Bemer vascular mat therapy to enhance your blood-flow for healing the body and mind.
BEMER CAN ENHANCE:
• Oxygen Delivery
• Local Blood Flow
• Muscle Conditioning
• Recovery
• Performance
• Physical Fitness
• Muscular Strength
• Endurance & Energy
• Vitality & Well-Being
• Stress Reduction & Relaxation
Closing Circle ( aproximatly 30 mins)
In our Healing Wheel Circle you can experience Entrainment.
"If you’ve ever been in the presence of a deeply calm person, or perhaps a spiritual master, you may have noticed something quite intriguing. Your breathing will tend to slow down, and the body settles into a relaxed state. In short, the powerful resonance of the serene energy field of a regular mediator, or spiritual master, has the capacity to influence you, and you will find that you naturally sync to their tranquil and expanded consciousness. This process is called ‘entrainment’ and it can also be used consciously by people working in trauma, yoga teachers, parents, in the workplace or in any relationships.
The gravitational pull towards synchronicity is one of the founding principles of the natural world. It is observable in our everyday lives and immortalized by the theories of Quantum physics. This basic law of physics teaches us that everything in the universe is made up of particles or waves, vibrating like strings at different frequencies. From the cells in our own bodies to the light and sound waves that echo through the universe. Within these vibrational phenomena, resonating particles will communicate with, and influence each other.
The vibrational frequency of two objects in contact will frequently fall into sync. When the frequencies are the same, it is called ‘resonance’. When a vibrational body of a stronger resonance influences another in its field, leading the beat, it is called entrainment.
Our bodies naturally entrain to external rhythms without us really noticing. The leading beat may come from a piece of music; influencing our internal rhythm through waves of sound. It may be the waves of light which set our circadian rhythms. Phases of the moon entrain hormonal cycles, and our own breath influences our heart beat and respiration.
In coming to understand the power of entrainment and the effect it can have on our being, we can use it to harmonize and heal our physical, emotional and spiritual bodies." - The Healing Power of Entrainment - uplift.love
The Healing Wheel Retreat is our signature program that comprises a holistic integrative approach designed to tune in on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels, allowing an organic healing process to naturally unfold. This begins by attuning to your authenticity and honouring your highest potential.
Our Healers
Undeniably, our group of healing practitioners are true masters of their craft. Using a variety of holistic healing techniques, we’ll relax and realign your whole body - mind - soul, bringing you back into balance. Likewise, our Healing Wheel retreat focuses on concepts of self-inquiry. Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual blockages are identified and removed.
Read their bios' in the next section.
We want to welcome you to to this amazing evening of healing;
Calm the mind, Rejuvenate the body, Harmonize your soul
Date: New date to be announced
Time: 6 - 10 pm
enrollment $222
Please email louise@aurorawellnesscentre or call 250-927-0876 for more information or to book your spot!
Dates of Retreat: Fridays, Saturdays or Sundays
Pamper yourself and your significant other, family member, roommate, partner, spouse and friend! Allow yourself 4 - 5 hours to relax, rejuvenate and reset!
Book your 1/2 day pamper & relax day with Liane & Louise.
Leave the day feeling relaxed, re-vitalized and balanced!
Hosts Liane and Louise will provide a supportive, safe and nurturing environment at the beautifully quiet Aurora Wellness Centre with attention to detail and love in every aspect of your day.
To ensure an authentic experience, we limit our Healing 1/2 Day retreat to no more than 4.
Our customized 1/2 day retreat includes:
90 mins Holistic Session of your choice:
Relaxing Holistic Facials - customized facial with a big boost of Reiki to nourish skin and soul. by Liane at BeTouched Wellness
Laser Light Therapy/ with head and neck massage to reduce pain and inflammation
Aromatherapy Reflexology
Crystal Healing Massage - grounding massage, can be customized to focus on one of three areas:
1. boost your energy, focus, and clarity;
2. deepen your love and trust for both yourself and others and improve communication;
3. heighten your intuition, calm and detoxify your system.
Revival Massage - Luxurious, deeply replenishing massage Incorporates a breathing ritual with Aromatherapy blend and warmed up organic oil.
Bio Energy Healing -to harmonize your mind, body and soul.
or Would you like an Ayurveda spa day? Check out our Ayurveda therapy sessions
Everyone in your party will receive:
20 min Photobiomodulation (Light Therapy) & 40 mins Bemer Vascular Therapy valued at $95
OR
20 - 30 mins Infrared Sauna time for two ~ The infrared sauna encourages sweat by warming from the inside out. This technology allows sweating to occur at a lower ambient heat and is a great alternative for those who find the traditional sauna too warm. This sauna also has the option of colour & sound therapy for those seeking to introduce a range of experiences into your session.
Healthy selection of fruits, bites, refreshing and calming drinks available to help hydrate, balance and reset.
Relaxation Meditation
- time to just be.. and enjoy your time with your friends or loved one
**You may add a Tea Leaf Reading to each session for an added extra $35.00 per person.
All retreats customized to your needs
Treat yourself $175 per person + tax
Please email louise@aurorawellnesscentre or call 250-927-0876 for more information or to book your day!
AURORA CANCELLATION POLICY
While we have never cancelled a retreat to date, if AURORA Retreats must cancel a booked retreat date for any reason, you may transfer your full retreat payment to another retreat, or you may request a refund of your payment to us, constituting a full settlement.
AURORA Retreats are not responsible for your expenses incurred in preparation for any cancelled retreat, such as airline tickets, loss of work, and/or other costs associated with preparing for your trip.
If you cancel your trip, AURORA Retreats does not offer refunds for any reason. A portion of your payment may be used as credit for another retreat to be taken within two years of your original retreat date. We will gladly transfer your credit to another guest.
Our retreat programs are created with love, consideration, and attention to your spiritual growth and physical well-being.
Namaste
Louise
Please message us if you wish any more information and to see if this program is suitable for you!
louise@auroawellnesscentre.com
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