Discover Cherry Valley Retreat

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

Cherry Valley Retreat with Nancy Huber

Join us this Sunday Afternoon for:
*Medical Intuitive Readings and Healings with Archangel Raphael
*Mini Reiki Treatments
*Free Coupons and more!

jsmw_Bambi_3Cherry Valley Retreat Mission Statement To provide a safe peaceful Retreat where busy city dwellers enjoy tranquility and re-connect with nature. To gather a family of compassionate practitioners who will treat their clients and each other with loving respect. http://www.cherryvalleyretreat.com

Come and learn about this amazing retreat not far from Newmarket! As a bonus Yvette the Reiki Master Teacher at Cherry Valley will be discussing “Divine Energy Healing- The Power of Reiki. Nancy and Yvette will answer your questions and enpart their wonderful experiences from their time at Cherry Valley!

Sunday May 26, 2013 from 1pm ~ 3pm

at MonaLisaMom.yoga.health.beauty

515 Mulock Drive Suite #2

Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 1A1

~Admission Cash Donation~

RSVP to monalisa_mom@hotmail.com

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Here is a look at what is happening at Cherry Valley!

OPEN HOUSE

Cherry Valley Retreat will be hosting an Open House June 8th from 1:00pm to 4:00pm at #7168 10th Line Essa L0L 2N0, 705-458-9528

Our practitioners will be there giving healing treatments, readings and more. There will be tours of the Labyrinth and the Sacred Healing Portals as well as speaker every half hour on a variety of interesting topics.

Come and enjoy the magic that is Cherry Valley Farm.

The only one who will charge at this event is our Animal Communications teacher, Sheila, who will donate all proceeds to the Humane Society. Bring a picture of your living pet so she may connect with them and tell you their thoughts. This reading is $25.

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Cherry Valley Retreat Upcoming Workshops

~~The following are in Newmarket at 304 Court St. L3Y 3S5. Call 905-895-2871 to register or e-mail nhuber@rogers.com the website for more details is www.cherryvalleyretreat.com and comments are on our blog www.cherryvalleyretreat.wordpress.com ~~

March 21st 7-9pm Angels 101 with Val and Bob $40

March 23rd 10:00am to 3:30pm Animal Communication Certification Level I with Sheila $175+tx Lunch and tax receipts provided. Please bring a picture of a living pet for communication with him/her.

April 7th 1:00 to 4:00pm Gifting of the Munay-Ki Foundation Rites with Nancy. By donation munay-ki.com

Receive the Healers Rite, Bands of Power, Harmony Rite and Seer’s Rite once you have all 9 you may gift.

April 13rd 1:00pm to 4:30 The Heart of the Lotus with Dawn $90 +tx

April 14th 1:00 to 4:00pm Nora WalksInSpirit is teaching at Nature’s Emporium

April 20th, 21st 9am to 5pm both days Reiki Master /Teacher Certification with Yvette $450 Lunch, manuals and tax receipts provided

April 27th 10:00am to 5:00pm with Susan From Stress to Calm a Quantum Leap $145 lunch provided.

~~The following take place at Cherry Valley Retreat (the farm) # 7168 10th Line Essa L0L 2N0. 705-458-9528 ~~

May 12th 12:45 to 3:00pm with Karen Egoff Messages and Healings from the Angels and Ascended Masters $40

3.:15 to 5:15 Dr. Emoto’s work, learn to change your world $30

May 12th 12:45 to 5:15 book a Bowen treatment for pain relief with Brian R.M. $40

May 5th 9am to 5pm Reiki Level I Certification $150. Lunch and Tax receipts will be given.

May11th 1pm to 4pm Japanese Cooking Class food and cookbook CD provided $75.

May 18th 1pm to 4pm Labyrinth Teachings and walk and Healing Portals Experience with Cate by donation

May 19th 1pm to 4pm Munay-Ki Transformational Rites are being gifted. By donation

May 25th 9:30am to 4:30pm Reiki for Pets with Sheila $150+tx. Reiki Level I pre-requisite, tax receipt lunch

June 2nd 9am to 5pm Reiki Certification Level II lunch and tax receipts provided $150.

June 1st 2 to 4pm Medicine Wheel Teachings with Nora WalksInSpirit $20.

June 8th 1:00pm to 4:30 pm Open House at Cherry Valley Retreat. Receive readings Healings and Angel Therapy. By donation. The only direct cost is $25 for Sheila to connect to your pet and give a reading. The cost will be donated to the Humane Society. Please bring used books for sale by donation to the same great cause.

June 16th 1pm to 4pm Barefoot Healing with Sue $65 + tx This is also called Earthing.

June 22nd 9am to 3:30pm Animal Communications Level II with Sheila $275+tx Please bring a picture of a pet who has passed for communications with him / her. Lunch and tax receipts provided. Animal Communications Level I pre-requisite.

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Party Like A Rock Star….Sort Of! By Katrina Middlebrook

Posted on May 22, 2013 by

With the long weekend that passed I think we all slacked a bit. I totally forgot to write my blog! Texting Jenn apologizing, her being kind enough to tell me not to worry.

Jordan wrote about getting old.

I think his blog was quite fitting. Similar to what I panic about when events come up. I’m old, I have a child. I can’t party like I used too. I have to do things around my son now.

This weekend being one of those weekends. I wanted to be 24 again, but I had to find a babysitter for 2 nights of the long weekend.

I had a fundraiser on the Saturday and to my surprise my mother took my son for the night. He was an angel for her.

Then it was a night away for myself & Page 2 hours east. I did a last minute text to Pages mother to ask if she could watch Our son while we frolicked the cottage country.

She did.

Those texts we get from our friends last minute to hang out, go to the bar or out for dinner are usually followed up with “Sorry man, we have the baby”

So it’s a mega life change having a child. It was for us as our son was unplanned. So the extra cuddling days we get because we chose not to go out are a bonus. Oh, and a money saver!

So I agree with Jordan. Everything he said. We are getting old.

Katrina Middlebrook

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Parents That Get Old by Jordan Middlebrook

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

I’m not sure, but I get the feeling that I’m getting old, and parenting might have a lot to do with it.

This past week, I’ve come a cross a lot of parenting by others that I would like to blog about. Just what I’ve seen and how I would like to put my two cents in. This week, I won’t do that. This week, I’m going to blog about the root, the end game of some of this parenting and where it ends up and makes me and my wife feel at the end of the day.

Intrigued?

Getting old. Things that we liked 5 years ago have become things that are more of a hassle. Not the fact of arranging around a child, but just that the dynamic has altered. Our like, wants and needs are all changed to accommodate the lifestyle we now live. Sure I would love to go drinking with the boys on a Saturday, but I shouldn’t get drunk so that I have a hang over the next day. I want to help with tending to the little one.

But getting old, or growing more in the relationship with your partner (as parents) needs more communication. Getting older and fitting fun things into your life is possible, you just have to communicate. Plan ahead. Utilize your options. Gramma and grandpa. Maybe a brother will take the little one for a few hours while you have a date night? Your relationship with your partner is just as important and the relationship with your child.

… crap, I had a good line about all of this too, then I went back and added more to the past paragraph and forgot the cool thing I wanted to type here. It was something about communication. Growing older as a family can be fun, just your choices of activity have to alter. Set examples for your children in those activities. Going out and drinking every weekend while the partner is home with the kid isn’t really a good dynamic. You’re just going to set yourself up for a fall.

That wasn’t what i was going to right, but felt good.

Family is about togetherness. Communication and love.

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Homemade Shampoo

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Hello Ladies and Gentlemen (I know there are a few of you out there!),

I have been on a 10 day detox that last 8 days, and it has been great!! I feel better, my cravings are gone (mostly, Thursday I am having a nice juicy burger!), this is the best I have physically felt since I was pregnant! During this detox I have been cutting back on chemicals I put on my body as much as I have been buying organic vegetables. So when it came time to shower and wash my hair I stopped and thought for a minute about what I was going to do.

I did what we all do, googled it! I wanted the absolute easiest way to make homemade shampoo without having to go to the grocery store….again! What I found was Baking Soda for shampoo and Apple Cider Vinegar for conditioner. Ok, I thought, why not!

I was VERY skeptical! But I was SO SO impressed!!! I might not ever buy shampoo again! I have not tried the Apple Cider Vinegar yet but I will!

Here is what I did:

1. Boiled Water
2. Added 2 tsp Baking Soda
3. Mixed up – most of it will devolve
4. Rub the “paste” into the top of your dry hair, where the oil builds up
5. Move to the ends of your hair next and wash
6. Then pour the rest of the mixture over your whole head and wash hair
7. Rinse well

There will be no bubbles but I promise you will be pleasantly surprised!!

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Family Pets & New Babies by Katrina Middlebrook

Posted on May 14, 2013 by

I drew a blank for this weeks blog that I sent a text to Dad Blogger Jordan for an idea ASAP. He already took a good one on sex & having a toddler.

He suggested Animals & Babies. Which I should have thought about considering I have a 4 year old dog.

When we found out we were pregnant the big question was “How do you think Pearl will be?”

Now, if you know me, Pearl is my fur baby. I spoil her beyond spoil. Cuddle her like a real baby. So it was a worry that she may be jealous & maybe bite the baby.

We did a lot of research on how to bring a newborn home to a family pet.

So on route to the hospital we dropped our beloved pet off at my in laws. She knew something was going on.

Once our son blessed the world we gave the hat & blanket he was wrapped in to our in laws to take home. I don’t know if that actually worked, but I will pretend it did.

To my surprise Pearl took to him and she still got a ton of attention. When he cries, she panics. When he eats she begs.

I really have no advice for this, but I do suggest not leaving your pets alone with your newborn.

Pearl has play nipped Our son and she has never harmed him to where he cries! Let me tell you though, he has grabbed some huge chunks of hair from her.

Also, at the young age of 8 months, I take the baby to the door an let Pearl out, we give him the treats to give to Pearl, he helps fill her water and he laughs when she chases her tail.

I’m pretty sure as our son ages & Pearl ages, they’ll become the best of friends.

Katrina Middlebrook

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No Sex ’till the Kids Asleep by Jordan Middlebrook

Posted on May 13, 2013 by

20130512-134916.jpgRemember when you were a kid and just the thought of your parents having sex was gross? They had to have bumped uglies at least once to make you. Then what about when your friends and you are having a sleep over, and Mom and Dad decide to doing it?Then your friends hear. Embarrassing. I bet.

I’ve never had that problem. But I know people who have.

Now, here I am. Waiting for our daughter to go to sleep so that my wife and I may practice the art of the Kama Sutra. But over the room-to-room monitor our daughter is talking to herself and giggling about what her Care Bear just said. How am I supposed to put the moves on my wife while that is happening? There is a simple answer: wait.

I’m not sure if parents on blogs are open enough to talk about this sort of stuff, but as parents we all have to deal with it, or come across it at some point. Attempting to be intimate with a toddler trying to sleep in the next room. And alas, just like every other woe of parenthood, there is no cure. No rules to dictate this sort of….thing. A lot of real life gets in the way when it comes to sex and being close with your partner. Work, stress, children, money (which all fall under stress I guess). I’m not sure if the issue of trying to get it on with a toddler in the next room gets better or worse with age. Sometimes its best to just roll with the punches.

So, for the two and a half years my daughter has been around, the love making has been around. Just not scheduled (which it never should be, for a healthy relationship). But I have noticed that as she gets older, its gets easier to get close with my woman. We’ve always watch the flirting around the girl, you’d hate to be caught squeezing a bum seductively while the kiddie takes a quick peek. Then tells her babysitter. That would be a treat (sarcastic).

If our daughter fights to go to sleep for two hours. There will be no sexing until the late hours of the night, like 9PM. Trust me. That’s late.

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Spring 30 Day Yoga and Detox Challenge

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

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SPRING 30 Day YOGA AND DETOX CHALLENGE!

Time to shed those winter pounds and rejouvinate your body for Spring! MonaLisaMom is excited to announce this Yoga and Detox Challange and to invite you to get to know our studio at the same time! With small class sizes you will Naturally Detox your body with our Specialized Vegan Diet and deepen your Yoga Practice at the same time!

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Starts Tonight!! If you want to join in the Detox but don't live in the area no problem! I have created an online discussion so we can all take part! To register email monalisa_mom@hotmail.com ! :)
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