Interior Wellness Festival 2018: Full Schedule

11:30am PDT

Alchemy Sound Journey into the Heart

Limited Capacity seats available

This Journey with the Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls will bring you into Divine Balance. Focusing on heart opening and chakra balancing, the Bowls will take you on a Journey unlike anything you’ve likely experienced before.

The Bowls offer a cellular detoxification, a boost in your creativity, as well as enhancing a good night’s sleep, among other beautiful benefits. This meditation can be done lying down or sitting, whatever is most comfortable and your comfort is important, as this meditation will last close to an hour. So bring for yourself what you will need for that comfort and allow yourself to sink into a beautiful state of BE-ing.

Speakers

Alisa Farr and Cameron Hayward

Kihew Therapy & Wellness Inc.

Alisa Farr and Cameron Hayward are well equipped in several modalities to assist their clients in embodying their best self.They are Sound Journey Practitioners, using Alchemy Crystal Singing Bowls, both Certified Hypnotherapists and Artisans.Alisa is a Reiki Master and holds her... Read More →

Friday October 19, 2018 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

3:00pm PDT

Break the Hold

Limited Capacity seats available

Holding patterns develop over time in all of us, stifling our expression, holding in our emotions and traumas and also making us sick, sad, depressed, weak and dysfunctional. These holding patterns manifest in the neuromuscular system but are created usually through the past or social, and cultural norms.

Learning about these patterns and developing a awareness of the ones we hold allows us to deepen the relationship with self. Experience a enlivening of your integrated self using Bioenergetic Breathing and specific types of body movement to release your holding patterns.

Speakers

Jake Birkeland

Through a journey that started by taking the call to action to own his own Strength Camp franchise, Jake began down a path of self development guided by Elliott Hulse; a world renowned strength coach. During this journey Jake has picked up many tools for growing the self; including... Read More →

Friday October 19, 2018 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

4:30pm PDT

Candlelit Yin

Limited Capacity seats available

Yin yoga is a slow-paced style of yoga with postures, or asanas, that are held for longer periods of time—for beginners, it may range from 45 seconds to two minutes; more advanced practitioners may stay in one asana for five minutes or more. Yin yoga stretches and targets both the deep connective tissues between the muscles, and the fascia throughout the body. The aim is to increase circulation in the joints and improve flexibility as the poses stretch and exercise the bone and joint areas. It also helps us to regulate the body's flow of energy.

Speakers

Warren Lewis

Warren fell in love with yoga in 2009 while travelling in Asia. There he found a quiet meditative style of yoga with long held poses which inspired his exploration. Realizing physical and mental health benefits that far surpassed any other exercise regimens that he had previously... Read More →

Friday October 19, 2018 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

8:30am PDT

Align & Flow

Limited Capacity seats available

This foundational class is accessible to beginners and advanced yogis. Bring your mat and step into a space dedicated to you connecting with your body. In this hatha-focused practice you will use breath work, mindfulness and meditation to connect deep into your body and release all that no longer serves you.

Speakers

Deanna Deacon

Deanna Deacon Coaching

Deanna Deacon coaches women to awaken their feminine intuition and re-emerge as their deeply powerful & highly influential Goddess Selves. Through intuitive coaching, business mentorship, goddess retreats, body mapping & healing in-person workshops, you will re-learn how to show up... Read More →

Saturday October 20, 2018 8:30am - 9:30am PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

10:00am PDT

Body Intelligence Yoga

Limited Capacity seats available

Join Kinesiologist Kaitlin Armstrong for this exploration of the basics in neuromyofascial networks and how their interconnection is the foundation of a healthy yoga practice. Lets investigate how FUNCtional movement of the fascial lines and the elements of biomechanical development can better empower our bodies fullest potential meanwhile heal injuries and correct imbalances. Through experiential exercises and tools, you will learn the power of your postural habits as a reflection of your thoughts and belief systems and in turn encourage more freedom in self expression.

Speakers

Kaitlin Armstrong

In Balance

Kaitlin Armstrong is a Kinesiologist that loves to share her passion for FUNctional movement and as an anatomy geek, she is fascinated by the teachings of her body. She encourages her students to cultivate an intimate relationship with their unique physical landscape to better understand... Read More →

Saturday October 20, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

11:30am PDT

Creative Vibe Tribe

Limited Capacity seats available

Through your Sacral Chakra comes your creativity, connecting to this centre we will rise through the fog and into the engergy of Creation. Let go of your fears and unleash your wildling. This workshop will have you dancing, moving and creating!

Speakers

Mollie Sommer Wellness

Mollie Sommer is the proud mother of two beautiful children and owner of Mollie Sommer Wellness in Kamloops, BC. Mollie is an Intuitive Soul Coach, Yoga Teacher, Retreat Leader and Inspirational Speaker. Mollie chooses... Read More →

Saturday October 20, 2018 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

4:00pm PDT

Divine Union

Limited Capacity seats available

In this workshop we put ourselves into a conscious process of releasing the blocks of our subconscious mindfield, aligning our mind with meditation and mantra and allow to open ourselves for the space of meditative communication with our soul. In this state of continuous listening we are able to apply our intuition and just know what is there to know and feel what is there to feel. It is the state of a self sensory human being and the state of the Human of the Aquarian Age.

Speakers

Nicole O'Donnell

Kundalini Yoga and Meditation

Nicole's classes and workshops are dynamic, fun, and inspirational. She is a charismatic and gentle spirited teacher. With her upbeat personality and sense of humor, she is able to impart the technical aspects of the practice necessary to have both longstanding and far-reaching results... Read More →

Saturday October 20, 2018 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

5:30pm PDT

Harvest Yoga - Cultivating Abundance in the transition to fall

Limited Capacity seats available

Harvest Yoga - Cultivating abundance in the transition to fall. It is time to get back to our roots, Ayurvedic practices, warm foods and self-care. In this practice, we will root down and rise up, through ritualistic practices to revitalize and reconnect.

Speakers

Natalie Saari

Natalie Saari — Kinesiologist, yoga therapist, teacher and mentor, has been in practice, serving the Kamloops community for 15 years. Whether she is working with patients or students, she uses a kinesiological approach combined with yoga therapeutics. Her creative eye and compassionate... Read More →

Saturday October 20, 2018 5:30pm - 6:30pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

7:30pm PDT

Healing Sound Journey

Limited Capacity filling up

Theda will lead us in a journey of sound healing with Crystal Singing Bowls and intuitive songs of the heart to access the deeper truth, connection and peace within. She creates a mystical soundscape to journey inwardly, relaxing the nervous system, deepening the connection with the heart and breath and thus coming home to the self.

This will be a chance to deeply relax and integrate the many workshops of the weekend. Chairs are provided and you are invited to bring a yoga mat, blanket and/or pillow if you'd like to lay down on the floor to comfortably receive the healing sounds. Surrender and allow the sound to connect you with higher states of awareness, peace, love and connection with self, the divine and life.

Attendees will be escorted out of the mall after this session by a IWF staff/volunteer as the mall will be closed

Speakers

Theda Phoenix

Theda (Theeda) has been passionate about holistic healing and spirituality for over 20 years, she strives to inspire more beauty, health, wellness and consciousness on the planet, helping to create a more sustainable world for all beings.She helps raise this vibration through her... Read More →

Saturday October 20, 2018 7:30pm - 9:00pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

10:00am PDT

Womb Intelligence Yoga

Limited Capacity seats available

Living in a patriarchal built culture and male created yoga practice, often our unique feminine needs are overlooked and disregarded. In this womb nourishing workshop, we will dive into the waters of our pelvic bowl to hydrate our tight hips with movements that flow from our creative centre. You will gain tools and strategies to build a vibrant pelvic floor and relieve low back pain by becoming more in tune the sacral pool of the female body. Learn ways to better honour the goddess within you and move in Balance with your monthly cycle.

Speakers

Kaitlin Armstrong

In Balance

Sunday October 21, 2018 10:00am - 11:00am PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

11:30am PDT

Inner Child Playshop

Limited Capacity seats available

Connect with your inner child through play, mindfulness, and art! Let your little one speak to you and ask her/him what they need. In this workshop you will meet your little one and let them guide you mindfully and organically through a series of PLAY!

Speakers

Brittany Gill

Brittany Gill is a young spiritual entrepreneur. She believes every person is born with the ability to heal themselves. She works with women of all ages to help them tap into that healing potential through monthly moon gatherings, online support and inspiration, and event planning... Read More →

Sunday October 21, 2018 11:30am - 12:30pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA

1:30pm PDT

Divine Balance Yoga

Limited Capacity seats available

A fusion yoga class including meditation, pranayama, kundalini, vinyasa and chakra work with an emphasis on balancing Shiva (masculine) and Shakti (feminine) energies within. Suitable for all levels.

Speakers

Krystal Aranyani

Krystal Aranyani is an international yoga and tantra teacher, passionate story teller and best-selling author of her new book Awakening the Goddess- with a vision to help others reclaim their personal power, rediscover and embody their Divine essence, heal from the past, awaken self-love... Read More →

Sunday October 21, 2018 1:30pm - 2:30pm PDT
Yoga Workshop Room

YOGA