The Wallaceburg Wellness Centre has a full slate of different workshops available, including: infant massage, meditation, prenatal yoga, art workshops, food sensitivity, and energy healing.
Cathy Cogghe, owner of the business, tells us all about them:
Infant massage
“It’s a five-week series for moms and babes that come in and learn how to do massage techniques for your infant,” Cathy said. “It helps them to sleep better, digest food better, help with colic, to help with restlessness, to help sooth them, to help stimulate their immune system and to help stimulate their responses. There are all sorts of wonderful things that come out of infant massage classes.”
Cathy added: “Those are held with our Labour Douala, Maralee Noltie. A Douala is a childbirth assistant… the non-medical portion of your team. Your Douala is by your side, she makes sure you have everything you need, outside of your medical needs, she takes care of you to make sure you are very supported and have all the information you need. She is there to help you and your partner make decisions if you need to. She is there to help you understand procedures. It is her job to make sure you’re well informed and well taken care of during the birthing event. Maralee loves to work with the babies and the families. She teaches infant massage and she will also be teaching prenatal yoga classes at some point.”
Meditation
“Some of our other workshops have included meditation workshops, sleep workshops, those are offered by our well-being coach, Sandra Maltby-Mills,” Cathy said. “Meditation is one of her specialties, she likes to teach people to learn how to rest. She loves to help people get over any issues to help stop them from feeling relaxed. If you are in a stressful kind of job or you have a lot going on and don’t get a chance to rest very easily, this is where she likes to help people. She is putting together more workshops in the summer, we’ll have some more from her.”
Prenatal yoga
“Jackie Vanderlinden runs these workshops, which is a six week series,” Cathy said. “Expectant moms need to preregister. She has to check the health history, how the pregnancy has been going along, how best to provide yoga services for them to help them increase their strength, increase their stamina, increase their flexibility, learn how to relax, learn how to settle into a posture.
Cathy added: “They can use some of that later during delivery.”
Art workshops
Cathy said the Wellness Centre is honoured to have local artist, Raven Kroon join them.
“We’re fortunate to have a local artist come in and run art workshops here. It’s usually a one-night event… we have it upstairs in our art workshop. She has been in our area for about a year. She is a very prolific artist, she loves to teach and she loves to help people discover their inner artist without being a professional.”
Cathy added: “Don’t even worry about being able to hang it on a wall, just do art for love of doing art. Her love to teach is all about helping people tap into that inner artist that just wants to express without having to follow the lines, without having all the formal training, you don’t need to be trained to be creative. She loves to be able to help people tap into that. She has held two already here with us, with great success, lots of people throughout enjoyed it.”
Food sensitivity
“We have lots of new workshops and events planned for the fall,” Cathy said. “Currently we have a food sensitivity workshop coming, our homeopath Bridget Davis is re-joining us on the third Thursday of the month. She’ll be organizing a food sensitivity workshop.”
Cathy added: “It will help people understand how to recognize in their body what the signals are to the sensitivities to the different kinds food. How people recognize, why their body is behaving the way it is and what could be considered a sensitivity that a lot of us would overlook. That’s a very key issue when it comes to food sensitivities, you’re not quite allergic to it, but your body is telling you ‘I don’t like that.’”
Energy healing
“There are several practitioners in our facility that include energetic work in their services,” Cathy said. “We are going to be coming together to offer as a workshop. Things that might be included would be Reiki, therapeutic touch and all sorts of things. It’s an introductory workshop for a lot of people, there will be an ongoing series after that.”
Sign up for the workshops online at the website or on the Facebook page.
Contact Cathy at the Wellness Centre, located at 222 Wellington Street in Wallaceburg, with any questions, comments or concerns you may have:
– Phone: 519-627-WELL (9355)
– Email: wallaceburgwellnesscentre@gmail.com
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