Innovative Wellness

 

It’s easy to book your private class, just Contact Us

You choose the day, time, location, and package that will help you achieve your personal goals. We customize every private class to meet your needs.

New this year, we created four therapeutic packages that will save you 20-42% off our regular fees. See below for details.

For More information click on  Yoga Walk 2021

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New this Winter….

…free community Chair Yoga Classes beginning Thursday September 3 – November 5, 2020

1:30pm  Thursday afternoon in partnership with Supportive Housing of Waterloo

 

December Yoga Walks

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Fees

 

 

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Inspiring positive results through strategic initiatives … since 2006

At Innovative Wellness we offer a full set of services designed to assist individuals, families and organizations in achieving their wellness goals from Trauma Informed Therapeutic Yoga, dementia friendly, Back Care Basics and dance programs, and workshops.

How can we help you?

We incorporate our years of experience, training and education from various fields such as Biology, Psychology, and Human Resources to create programs that ensure the greatest level of benefits for you and your organization. Whether in the workplace, home or even in school, our services are guaranteed to improve day to day living for everyone

 

COVID-19 Reliable Updates 

The Region of Waterloo Public Health has a COVID-19 website https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/health-and-wellness/2019-novel-coronavirus.aspx#

    that is regularly updated with helpful resources and new developments.

The Region of Waterloo Public Health is asking residents to connect with them directly if they have any questions and up to date information using their email publichealth@regionofwaterloo.ca<mailto:publichealth@regionofwaterloo.ca> and/or calling 519-575-4400.

Plus you can subscribe to get updates in our region https://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/en/health-and-wellness/confirmed-positive-cases-in-waterloo-region.aspx

Ontario https://www.ontario.ca/page/2019-novel-coronavirus

Public Health Canada https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus-disease-covid-19.html

Please keep checking this website for updates.

Any questions  Contact Us

 

Dementia Friendly Yoga Program

We now offer dance programs too. We are happy to have Kia on our team teaching a range of dance programs for children aged 3-9 years old as well as an adult ballet beginner class. Dance programs offered are: Moving to Music, Dance it Out, Ballet basics, jazz, hip hop. Plus Jayne leads the Beginner Ballroom basics classes.

 

 

 

Check out our Yoga Schedule https://innovativewellness.ca/calendar-of-events/

To book a class https://innovativewellness.ca/contact/

If our schedule does not fit, book a private class

We make house calls; bring yoga to you

Cut your risk of heart disease in half with yoga and aerobic exercise

https://innovativewellness.ca/yoga-is-effective-at-warding-off-heart-disease-according-to-new-research-from-hg-sms-hospital/

Lunch and Learns & Workshops

 

 

Work Life Balance 

Outline:

Finding a work life balance that is right for you.

Outcomes participants may experience from our Mindfulness workshop are:

– Develop a  plan to achieve the right work life balance for you

-Learn tools to decreased work-related stress

-Restructure your work and life by identifying your  activity and people wasters

-Unplug

-Self Care -body and mind

– Identify how you  can empower others to allow them to grow and you to slow?

 

 

 

Mindfulness

Outline:

Experiment with various techniques to experience being in the moment. This experiential workshop will allow participants to experience how mindfulness positively affects their  body and brain.

Research shows mindfulness has a number of positive results such as:

–  “less stress, reduced psychological distress, and improved social functioning and quality of life” (Bartlett, Lovell, Otahal, Sanderson, & Tasmania, 2016), 

– “improves job performance ”  (Dane & Brummel, 2014), 

– “lower levels of work-related stress, greater job satisfaction, and, ultimately, enhanced job performance as rated by their employers” (Shonin, Van Gordon, Dunn, Singh, & Griffiths, 2014), 

– “enhances resiliency and vigor ” (Aikens, Astin, Pelletier, Levanovich, Baase, Park, & Bodnar, 2014) 

Outcomes participants may experience from our Mindfulness workshop are:

– Develop a self care tool

-Decreased Stress

-Reduced pain; both physical and mental

-Enhanced resiliency and vigor

-Improved our coping ability

-Increased the rate of recovery

-Enhanced mood and decreases depressive symptoms

-Better problem solving

-Decreased negative self talk

-More focused

–-Improved job performance

Workshops 

Treat your team to a fun unique hands on Team Building workshop with our three experienced facilitators.

We utilize both the classroom for the foundational review of the benefits of teamwork and we then transition to a hands on task. This task is lead by a Guinness World Record holder.

The lessons found in this workshop highlight the need for good communication and cooperation. The entire workshop is presented in an atmosphere of fun and humour. 

Learn how your group or organization can help ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all.

Innovative Wellness  was a presenter at  the United Nations SDG event Sat., Nov 18, 2017.

Did you know….

yoga can change our biology?

Yoga can relax us and ‘reverse’ the molecular reactions in our DNA which cause ill-health and depression

(according to the following recent studies 2017  study by Buric,  Farias,  Jong,  Mee, & 2013 Janice Kiecolt-Glase).

Yoga leads to a reversal of the pro-inflammatory gene expression pattern and a reduction in the risk of inflammation-related diseases and conditions.

Read more on our post https://innovativewellness.ca/inflammation-and-aging-and-how-yoga-fits-in/

“Yoga is a tool to help the body; not to force it into poses. Its about learning to create self awareness, practice self regulation and develop self care tools”

We offer Body & Mind Based Programs for all ages and abilities…

including programs for Families

Visit  https://innovativewellness.ca/calendar-of-events/  for more details or email jayne@innovativewellness.ca

Programs for all ages and abilities

Workshops for all ages and abilities