It's free, just bring your body and Smile!!! No registration required. Just come!    Saturdays 11:15am - 12:15pm     Sundays 1:15pm - 2:15pm Laughter - Best Cardio Workout Modern day stressors, worries and lifestyle changes have increased the rate of heart diseases which are a major cause of death and despair. Even as doctors and patients try to minimize the risk factors, scientific studies have proved that laughter is the simplest answer to a healthy heart. An extended hearty laughter as in …

In this group you will meet with individuals who have been suffering from depression, seasonal affective disorder, or anxiety disorders such as panic attacks, social anxiety, generalized anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. The objective of this meet-up group is to provide a safe, friendly, caring, entertaining, and informative  environment to discuss relevant issues, learn new skills, socialize, make new friends, and get support through your journey to healing. We w …

Meditation has been proven to extend your life, create more happiness, increase inner peace, lower stress levels, increase mental clarity, reverse aging and resolve long-standing emotional problems, including fear, anxiety, depression, anger, and substance abuse! Meditation is being used as a cure for specific health related problems including ADD, chronic fatigue, anxiety, depression. With nothing but bad news everywhere you turn (the economy, financial crisis, health scares), people are smoth …

Vancouver Counselling Psychology Reading Club is an enlightening, safe, professional, and fun place for experienced and novice counsellors and psychotherapists in Vancouver. At the Counselling Psychology Book Club, we are researching new titles from authors writing about counselling and psychotherapy theories as well as practices. We hope that the books we read will offer a fresh perspective on the way we think, live, and practice. Being a competent counselling and psychotherapy practitioner tak …

We are a non-profit foundation dedicated to the education and widespread awareness of Orthomolecular Medicine. We run lecture series across Canada presented by Naturopathic Doctors who are experts in their fields. This group is devoted to Orthomolecular Health events in Vancouver, Canada.

VANCOUVER NORTH & WEST SHORE TAI CHI & CHINESE HEALTH Qi GONG 2013 MEET-UPS ** WELCOME** The North Shore Tai Chi Spirit is a group of people who are interested in learning and practicing tai chi and qigong. We practice at three locations: Highlands United Church in Edgemont Village, and our sister locations are at North Shore Neighbourhood House and John Braithwaite Community Centre. We host a number of special events throughout the year and attract a wide range of practitioners. We hope you'l …

Get together with other members to discuss and share experiences related to social anxiety, or just to talk and make new friends. Join us for coffee or any of our other events for support through friendship and understanding.

If you have a dream, cause, passion or purpose and are committed to growing to achieve it, you've come to the right place. We live the saying 'Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, teach him how to fish, feed him for a lifetime.' But why stop there when you can teach the man how to build a fishing fleet? Welcome to the movement. It's all about growing ourselves to be the men and women of character, honor, integrity, valor... like we are meant to be!  With that we can go and transform society w …

Learn how to release your pain and sufferings. Have you ever wanted to be able to let go of traumas or sad experiences but have been unable to? Is there something that you are holding on to that you wish you could let go of? My name is Kristina and I work as a Healer after experiencing a full Kundalini Awakening when opening my third eye, I would like to get together with people every Sunday and work with letting go and releasing non-loving feelings. The meetings will be miniature workshops of t …

Click here! We are happy you found us! Simply by finding this group you are developing self awareness (well at least a little bit!). This Group is created so all people interested in personal growth can come together and be able to take their life and relationship to self and others  to next level. Every time you read something constructive or take some sort of positive action in your life you will increase your overall consciousness and become a wised, happier, and more appealing human being. …

"Master your mind, rather than being mastered by it." Zen Proverb Reach and network with like minded individuals, couples, organizations and businesses to harvest the infinite possibilities and resources of your individual, the collective and Universal Mind. Learn and share mindfulness based communication, living and business skills to decrease stress, anxiety, depression, emotional or phisical distress, dis-ease, inner and interpersonal conflict. Incorporate mindfulness and conscious awarene …

A Choose Again Circle is a safe place to bring up any challenges you are having in your life and to get help in seeing and healing the root of the issue. Participants find that by addressing the root they experience positive changes in many areas of their lives (the branches). When our perception shifts, the whole world appears to change. Each week participants learn a new exercise, meditation, or teaching that will help them to stay on purpose in their daily lives. The majority of the circle is …

People who have been affected by traumatic events in the family! This group was started to support and help ALL OF THOSE WHO ARE CARING for an elderly parent, or a disabled family member, friend, partner, spouse or other relative. Of course along with the caregiving is the stress.  The physical and emotional health of the caregiver sometimes becomes comprised.  Among many of the problems that caregivers experience are depression, sleeplessness, a sense of isolation, family tensions, grief, and l …

Laughter Yoga: - is fun, invigorating, and easy to do. - combines breathing, movement, and silly clowning exercises to limber up the laughter muscles. - allows “fake it ‘til you make it” laughter, until the deep belly laughter naturally takes over. - offers more rejuvenating life energy and loving connection with others. - has no props needed – the laughter is within us! “Laughter Yoga combines laughter with yoga breathing exercises. It is a perfect way to laugh and get exercise at the same …

Description: We all face challenging cases in our practice, whether we are working in a community setting or in private practice. The goal of this group is to create a space where counsellors and psychotherapists can come together to discuss their cases, get some feedback, and enjoy the sense of professional community. A peer supervision group brings together professionals with different backgrounds and training together. Whether you apply psychoanalysis, solution-focused or electric approach in …

Have you done some serious damage to your body as a result of your active lifestyle? Are you now unable to partake in many of the fantastic activities this city has to offer that you love so much?  So shitty, we know.  But you're in the right place. Brought to you initially by a herniated disc, this group was formed for anyone who has sustained a substantial injury, is awaiting surgery, recovering from surgery, or is presently still in rehabilitation for anything.  We know how awful it is to not …