Vitality Magazine

08/05/2025

To fast or not to fast?

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From our Comparative Diets Course

On June 14th, we hosted a virtual open house featuring IHN faculty member Sidney Shindle BA, CNP, with her lecture To Fast or Not to Fast: The Benefits & Limitations of Intermittent Fasting. Intermittent fasting has gained widespread popularity for its therapeutic potential, but how do we apply it safely and effectively? In this engaging lecture, Sidney explores the science behind fasting as a metabolic tool, from improved blood sugar regulation and enhanced mental clarity to fat metabolism, energy balance, and the role of autophagy in long-term health. You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of when and how intermittent fasting can be helpful and when it may not be the right fit.

07/12/2025

Living Earth School presents Tree Spirit Medicine workshop July 19th....

Join us next Saturday for our Oak Tree Spirit Medicine workshop! 🌳💛

The Tree Spirit Medicine of Oak is “Resilience and Adaptation.” Healthy resilience and adaptation are essential to withstand and navigate adversity and hardship. They support our innate capacity to extract from these experiences the potential blessings they contain so that they may be enfolded into our spirit as wisdom. Just as the Mighty Oak is shaped by years and weather, we too are shaped by our interactions with the world and the unique circumstances of our lives. Knowing we will not be toppled by storms, but will emerge instead hardier, wiser and more capable at their passing, engenders deep self-trust and nourishes that indomitable seed of potential within each of us to grow into our truest expression of self.

07/09/2025

Mushrooms have long held a special place in herbal traditions around the world. These forest dwellers—mysterious, intricate, and deeply rooted in nature’s cycles—remind us that healing often begins beneath the surface. 🌿🍄

From ancient apothecaries to modern-day foragers, mushrooms have been admired not just for their forms and textures, but for the wisdom they seem to carry from the forest floor.

Pictured here is Ganoderma applanatum, sometimes called the artist’s conk—named for the way its surface holds carvings like a canvas. A perfect symbol of how nature blends beauty, resilience, and quiet mystery.

🌲Learn more about the medicine that surrounds us at our upcoming Herbal Field Studies workshops: July 12th, 26th, August 23rd & September 27th.

07/01/2025

Interesting video on How to Build a Wellness Business...

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On June 17, Samantha Lotus CNP joined us for a powerful webinar on how to build a purpose-driven wellness business. With over 13 years of experience as a Holistic Life & Business Coach, Samantha has built a thriving nomadic practice, working from the jungles of Costa Rica to the beaches of Australia, backpacking through Southeast Asia, and creating from cafés across Europe and beyond.

In this conversation, Samantha shares what it truly takes to grow a soul-aligned, sovereign wellness business. Whether your vision includes leading retreats, hosting workshops, serving high-level clients, or collaborating with conscious brands and media, this replay will inspire you to align your work with your deeper mission—and claim your power as a wellness leader.

We Covered:

• What it truly means to be a sovereign wellness leader in today’s world
• The essential pillars of an aligned and diversified wellness business model
• How to expand your revenue streams through workshops, retreats, high-ticket 1:1s, group programs, digital offerings, and partnerships
• How to stand out in the wellness space with clarity, confidence, and conviction
• How to energetically and strategically align your brand, offers, and visibility with your greater mission

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06/11/2025

Looking for healthy vacation ideas? Whether for a weekend or week, the destinations in our updated Getaway Guide are full of fun and adventure....

Healthy vacation destinations in Ontario include yoga retreats, wilderness camps, health spas, meditation retreats, country getaways

06/03/2025

Vitality's June newsletter just released... Essential oils as bug repellents; Solutions for Summer Hazards; Natural Health Services Directory; Summer Getaway Guide; and lots more...

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05/01/2025

May issue of Vitality's newsletter just released....

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04/24/2025

04/12/2025

Free online Summit about Tesla Medicine coming up in May....

Bob Connolly has spent 10 years filming Nikola Tesla's “lost” healing technologies and has released a documentary “Tesla’s Medicine: The Universal Fluid"

04/12/2025

It’s April in Ontario, and while the fields are just beginning to stir, we’re already dreaming of goldenrod season — that golden glow that lights up the land come late summer. 🌱🌞

This month we have our first Herbal Field Studies workshop on Saturday April 26th. Herbal Field Studies consists of an online Introductory Class and a series of seven full-day field workshops running monthly from April to October. You will learn how to identify, harvest and use many wild herbs that grow in Ontario, many of which are native to or naturalized in other regions of the world as well. At each field workshop you will also have the opportunity to make some kind of herbal preparation using herbs that they will harvest during the workshop. 🌼

This photo of Michael harvesting Solidago canadensis last year brings back the scent of sun-warmed stems and the hum of bees in the air. Canada goldenrod is a native perennial that thrives in open meadows and woodland edges, and we harvest the top third of the plant just as it begins to bloom, usually from mid-August to early September. It’s one of our favorite urinary and lymphatic tonics — astringent, anti-inflammatory, gently diuretic, and deeply supportive for the respiratory system during cold and allergy season. There are many goldenrod species in Ontario, but this one is our go-to, trusted for centuries and still offering its golden medicine to those who know where to look.

Please note that students must complete the online HFS Introductory Class that establishes the theoretical foundation before registering for the field workshops. The field workshops take place in various wilderness locations outside of the Toronto area. Whenever possible, carpooling will be arranged for participants who do not have vehicles. 🌿🤎