If you’re like me, sometimes it feels like ‘balance’ is known only as that coveted secret something, gracefully bestowed by a wise old Mr Miyagi, onto the Karate Kid. Where the health of my body and mind are concerned, I know that balance is optimal. I also know that when I’ve been stressed and tired at work all day I don’t always prioritise my health. The thing is, I know I’m being a giant jerk to my sense of wellbeing by throwing my balance right out of the park, but I don’t always feel equipped or inspired to make the fix I need. So when I came across an event with big health aspirations taking place in Canberra this Saturday, I got in touch with its organisers to see if The Wellness to Wholeness Summit might motivate me to keep finding the balance I seek.
A Canberra first, Wellness to Wholeness is a series of back-to-back workshops dedicated to sharing holistic approaches to health. Over the course of the jam-packed six-hour day, speakers and health professionals will explore nutrition, clean living, mindfulness meditation and lifestyle choices. Workshops will be presented by industry leaders and educators, among them naturopath and celebrity chef Janella Purcell, and the ‘Bondi Boys’, Luke Hines and Scott Gooding of My Kitchen Rules fame (and authors of The Clean Living Cookbook to boot). Perhaps the workshop I am most looking forward to is with the captivating Amanda Morely. The local Canberra girl and founder of Radiant Energy Yoga is offering the summit audience a journey into meditation in the modern world.
The duo behind the event – Myffanwy Galloway, an ex-professional cyclist driven by personal experiences to share holistic approaches of health and happiness with others, and Harriet Walker, a health writer and dietitian in her own right – are passionate about empowering people from all walks of life to make positive lifestyle changes, and take control of their health and wellbeing – and that is just what the summit aims to do.
When Myffanwy and Harriet noticed a gap in Canberra’s health and wellness community they took up the challenge to fill it. ‘We recognised the need to provide our community with factual information regarding health and wellness. There is an abundance of information out there and our goal is to provide our guests with information they can trust in a simple manner so that they can feel confident in making positive decisions regarding their own health.’ Myffanwy explained.
Her dedication to sharing this knowledge is inspired by personal experience. “On my journey I have been overwhelmed at how much information is being circulated out there regarding which foods you should be eating, how much exercise you should be doing etc… I found that I was getting increasingly frustrated at big food companies neglecting the health of our community in favour of making profits by providing them with misleading information.”
Harriet, who is also presenting at the event, sums it up perfectly, ‘
“The Wellness to Wholeness Summit is a taste tester of the many ways in which more balance, happiness and health can be bought into our lives. We are caught in a busyness bubble which is sure to burst, a plan for a holistic approach to health and wellbeing is therefore needed to catch us before the fall.”
So. If you want to be inspired to reap the benefits of turning your 7am snooze loop into a meditation sesh, and your 8am black coffee into a breakfast green juice, or even if you just want to make some sense of the health-info-overload, then The Wellness to Wholeness Summit is going to be just the place to make that happen.
Wellness to Wholeness kicks off at the Belconnen Arts Centre this Saturday, 16th of August, from 10am and finishes at 4pm.
A regular pass for the day costs $137. Or, head over and like the Wellness to Wholeness Facebook Page to access a special $99 ticket to the summit.
To book your ticket, visit: www.wellnesstowholeness.com
