Recently I have begun sharing how my spring and summer is spent planting, gathering of flowers, leave & roots to make wonderful remedies. The purpose comes from hearing my clients express their concern, guilt, resentment and dependency upon pharma care products a
s my hope is to model a different pattern and experience. I believe that pharma care lacks love of any living thing and is teaching us not to value ourselves. Therefore my hope of intention is to bring back love and care that is the bases for a healing outcome. When I work with nature in such a personal way I love it and would like to say feel the love back. This is the foundation I would like for healing and support. To take something that I feel appreciation for empowered by being a partner in the process of making it equals loving oneself!
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Do you live in your own culture of love & respect?
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Discovering Gumweed along West Coast of Victoria
growing along the rocky banks of Victoria’s beaches during a walk. The first thing you notice is the sticky resin on your hands when picking just one flower head. You know it must have some interesting qualities!
Researching this flower for more information and to confirm its name, Grindelia squarrosa, I had to smile when finding a well-respected international herbalist’s description of gumweed that included he found them along the rocky outcrops of Victoria’s beaches here on Vancouver Island!
I imagine that you have seen them on your walks!
Cough Syrup
Discovering that they are great with honey in a cough syrup mixture and organic, I decided to infuse a batch. Buying a bottle of cough syrup costs $12.00 and up. I decided to buy a large jug of honey on sale for $12.00 and make my own! The mason jar I am using would equal four purchased bottles of cough syrup or more.
Imagine reaching for your cough syrup and knowing exactly where the healing ingredients was picked and processed. That the few fingerprints on them are mostly your own!
Within a short time of adding the flowers to the honey, it became a rich, dark colour and thickened.
Tincture
I also decided to create a tincture using vodka that is great for colds, sore throats, and coughs!
In Plants of the Rocky Mountains by Ryan Drum, gum from the pounded flower heads was applied to poison ivy inflammations and taken internally to relieve coughing and congestion. “Extracts from the dried flower heads and leaves have sedative, antispasmodic and expectorant qualities…[and] are used in modern medications for treating asthma and bronchitis,” the book explains.
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Renee Lindstrom, GCFP,
Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication & Empathy Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015
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11 Fun & Easy (& sometimes free) Dating & Meet up Idea’s
by Renee Lindstrom, GCFP @ Inside Awareness
1. University & College Lectures – living in a university town you can attend a variety of lectures and information series events usually for free! Hook up to your university’s calendar today!
University of Victoria – Free Lecture Series
Camosun Calendar of Events
2. City, Local Library and Bookstore Public Events – go to a book reading and signing together or attend a special presentation presented in your community!
Greater Victoria Public Library
City Event Listings
3. Community Gardens – source out local gardens that are open to the public. In Victoria, we are lucky enough to have many stunning gardens within the City and free to explore. For example – Finnerty Gardens at the University of Victoria, Beacon Hill Park in James Bay.
Finnerty Gardens – University of Victoria
4. Local Markets, Food kiosks and trucks – meet up to enjoy different foods at markets or around your town. Enjoy the scenic downtown areas and be a tourist in your own town!
5. Local Wineries – take an afternoon to check out your local wineries and sample their free tastings!
6. Natural History Society – find yours and check out their schedule for bird-watching, nature and historical lectures.
7. Explore your local Tours and Walking Maps – Locate interesting walking maps in your town and meet up to investigate. In Victoria, we enjoy tours of historical architecture, Chinatown, Artist Stroll events, Fisherman’s Wharf, Ross Bay or Chinese Cemeteries (Historical Sites) with Emily Carr and Billy Barker (Barkerville, B.C.) and more!
Chinese Cemetery
8. Volunteer in the local park, forest trails and beach clean up – Get outdoors and meet up to do an activity together that is invigorating and giving back. Forest trails and parks are looking for volunteers to clean out invasive plant species and our local Surf-riders are looking for beach clean-up help at their events.
9. Tour your local museums, old churches and interesting historical buildings in your city. Take time to walk through some of these local gems and stop for a treat along the way.
10. Inner City Walks or walk outside your doorstep – In Victoria, we are lucky enough to have scenic walks along our waterfront with downtown parks that have walking trails! Many of these can be reached during lunch breaks!
11. Volunteer at local festivals & events! – Victoria hosts many festivals and events that are in need of volunteers from concerts, walks, and runs to Ted Talks!
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Feldenkrais® Practitioner since 2007, Value-Based Communication Relationship & Life Coach since 2004, Art of Placement since 2000, Founder of Greater Victoria Peace & Intercultural Celebrations since 2010 & Greater Victoria Labyrinths since 2012, #yyj Peace Week Calendar Founder – 2014 & 2015
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The pathway to ‘self’
Labyrinth enthusiast from Victoria came across this while driving through the back roads of Italy! A glass labyrinth. In the center you sit down and look into a mirror with the word self-written across it!
These pictures are a visual definition of InTouch Life programs that are designed to come into the center to consciously explore self first. It too is the intention for sharing labyrinth walks as walking maps of consciousness and the purpose of InTouch Life’s sister facebook site – Labyrinths of Victoria – and events. I hope you enjoy them!
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#yyj Peace Week Project
Celebrating Peace Week?
We urge you to share a Peace focused event in your community group during the week leading up to September 21st, ‘World Peace Day’
Why?
TO PLANT SEEDS OF PEACE ,
IT BEGINS WITHIN US IN COMMUNITY
If you are planning an event in Greater Victoria during the week of September 14 – 21st, connect to have it added to our Peace Week Project Calendar!
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Truly the Beauty Path!
Walking of Blossoms, World Labyrinth Day ~ Victoria
May 3, ’14 was World Labyrinth Day and the focus was, “We walk as One.” The meet up in Victoria was at the Park Labyrinth in James Bay. Beautiful at this time year with the added and unexpected bonus of Japanese Blossoms. These trees had been a gift to Victoria from Japan. This year they are creating a canape over the the pathway leading to the labyrinth and over part of the labyrinth itself.
Walking up to the labyrinth entrance under this canopy the sensation was uplifting with joy and light-heartedness. Entering the labyrinth and walking to the center there was pleasure at noticing the flowers in the grass. The pathway was filled with tiny springtime flowers. Coming around a corner, fresh blossoms from the Japanese Cherry’s laid in wait and suddenly a canopy of blossoms overhead.
Truly one of the most beautiful labyrinth walks this author has encountered. Natural and unexpected. This labyrinth is surrounded by old growth trees that help to circle it and the feelings of love and playfulness prevailed. Walking for World Peace on this day carried a different emotion and spirit than anticipated and really isn’t it light-heartedness and playfulness that is going to bring it on?
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New Bringing ‘Love’ Back Event: WALKABLE ART – Heart Shaped Labyrinth
Where: James Bay Community School Centre, 140 Oswego Street
When: Saturday and Sunday, Oct 19 & 20
Main event hosted by: Intuitive Arts Festival
Drop by the centre and find out how you can enjoy labyrinths in your personal journey of self discovering or healing and for how you can share this with children for learning and calming behavior! Labyrinth will be out in the sun on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. and on Sunday at noon!
For those who work with children: Come by and put your name in for a chance to take away a finger labyrinth developed here in B.C. I will be giving away one each day at the festival. Created by William Godden of Vancouver, B.C.
On Saturday drop by and hear about a local initiative to build a children’s labyrinth for the forgotten children Peru – Catherine Harvey who is founding this amazing project has agreed to be in attendance Saturday.
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