Discover why traditional Chinese medicine offers timeless tools to restore your energy, balance your body, and navigate life's seasonal changes. If you’re tired of just managing symptoms with pills and want to reconnect with your innate vitality, this episode is your gateway to understanding how acupuncture, the five elements, and mindful practices can transform your health from the inside out.

Join me as I chat with Typhaine Benoist, a passionate acupuncturist and wellness guide, who shares her extraordinary journey from secretary to holistic healer. Typhaine reveals the fascinating principles behind Chinese medicine—how yin and yang, meridians, and the five elements influence everything from digestion to emotions. She explains how seasonal cycles affect your body’s energy and why honoring these rhythms can prevent burnout, enhance mental clarity, and boost overall well-being.

You’ll discover practical insights on how to tune into your body’s signals, why stress and emotional stagnation cause pain, and how small daily habits—like proper breathing, eating seasonally, or applying simple acupressure—can profoundly impact your health. Typhaine demystifies complex concepts such as meridians, the role of chi, and the importance of cycle awareness in a way that’s relatable and empowering.

This episode isn’t just about learning—it's about transformation. If you're seeking a holistic approach to wellness that honors your body's natural intelligence, this is your essential listen. Whether you're curious about acupuncture, exploring ways to balance your energy, or tired of the one-size-fits-all health advice, you'll find inspiration and practical tools to start nourishing your body and mind today.

Imagine a life where you listen to your body's whispers rather than ignoring them—a life of vitality, resilience, and harmony with the seasons. Tune in now to discover how embracing traditional wisdom can help you reconnect with your true self and create lasting balance.

And let us know your discoveries and insights in the comments below.

In this deeply grounding episode of SaraSessions, I sit down with Sylvie Lahaie — a neuroscientist turned yoga and breathwork guide — to explore how the brain and body work together to shape our emotional world. Sylvie opens up about her own burnout and the science that helped her understand it: how stress rewires the nervous system, how breath can shift brain states in real time, and why emotional regulation is less about “fixing yourself” and more about creating safety within.
Together, we dive into neurofeedback meditation, the language patterns that amplify or soothe stress, and the simple, science‑backed practices that help us return to balance. This conversation is both a hug and a masterclass — a reminder that resilience is built through challenge, healing is a biological process, and your nervous system is always trying to bring you home.

Would love to hear your takeaways from this episode in the comments below. Also please like, follow and share so others can get a little support through these episodes.

Check out her podcast on Spotify @Building your best brain

Instagram: @synaptic.sylvie

You tube: (33) Building Your Best Brain - YouTube

Website: Yoga-with-synapticsylvie.square.site

Linked-in: Sylvie Lahaie (34) Sylvie Lahaie | LinkedIn

Change and shift of health often send us down unwanted spirals, but Ariane Kamba held strong and reconnected to cyclical living, tapping into inner wisdom and allowing intuition to guide towards better health, a new book and mission driven work for her country. Finding strength through trials is the best place to move up from. In this episode you will be taking a small ride into accidents, health tribulations and the building and regulating we hear so much about. Ariane Kamba is a holistic therapist and is presently in Montreal. You can find her on instagram @gypsysoul81 and get her self published book Heels Wheels and bad deals (helping women buy a better car and so much more) on Amazon.

You can also tune into her podcast Letters to Francesca.

enjoy the conversation and looking forward to hearing what you picked up in the comments below.

Podcast: Letters to Francesca

Book: Heels wheels and bad deals

https://a.co/d/i2sdIOM

Instagram: @gypsysoul81

Linked in: Ariane Kamba

Facebook: Ariane Kamba

In this episode Oana Stoian and Sara explore the transformative power of holistic healing. From personal journeys of self-discovery to the impact of nutrition, writing, and somatic practices, this episode delves into the art of balancing mind, body, and soul. Discover how embracing diverse therapies can lead to profound personal growth and healing. Get curious and inspired by how writing is an essential in your daily toolbox for recentering.

For more info on 3 part workshop mid october, contact us or keep reading.

Oana Stoian : Insta: @the.oanasto

or through email: ostoiann@gmail.com

You can get details for workshop here:

Coming in slow...or contact any one of us for more details.

Please feel free to leave us a comment or review below about 1 piece of this conversation that inspired you, or how writing has impacted your healing journey. It is always a pleasure to read you and see how we can improve for the next episode.

Saranaz Mohammadi

Insta: @saranazm

website: www.sarasessions.com

Cultivating embodiment, the perfect quadfecta: hard work, soft grace, authentic presence and lots of heart.

This is what transpired through this wonderful conversation with Eliza Moore. She is a singer, song writer, artist, yoga and meditation teacher, personal trainer, workshop and retreat facilitator, host and leader as well as a mother of 2. Her particular path is combining her love of worlds that are now colliding in unison.

This conversation reminds us of how to allow music, movement, mindfulness, and connection to inspire us to keep keeping on for more genuine heartfelt and authentic experiences through every day life. We talk work outs, gut feelings, spirituality, connection, self care and what fulfills the heart . We touch on how to navigate the ebb and flows of the full life of a busy woman extra ordinaire that lifts, builds and graces community and connection every where she goes.

Great reminders throughout this engaging episode and tons of gold nuggets for your mind and body to inspire action in your life. Keep listening for the upcoming events Eliza is collaborating on with her multi talented roster of skills, perhaps you'll catch her angelic voice at one of these events.

16 september at The mile end Yoga Studio Montreal: sound bath and Yoga nidra with Pat Letendre FESTIVAL 2023 | STUDIO MILE END 21 september and 27th oct at Morpho Bleu yoga Studio Honey Harvest Moon Cerremony Honey Harvest with Kimiko Tao Fujimoto + Eliza Moore – Morpho Bleu (morpho-bleu.com)

Keep an eye out for more events and practices with Eliza Moore and Corrine Levert at Morpho-Bleu.com

Meanwhile for more details on Eliza you can follow her at any of these

Instagram @mofomoore

Website: www.elizamoore.com

work: insta @lafitnesserie

www.lafitnesserie.com

This episode was recorded early September 2023 hence the posting and event dates are so close to each other.

If ever you are in the Montreal area La fitnesserie is in Verdun and offers a first trial class to all new patrons.

Creativity is in everything, but how do you make your passion your everyday reality?

I invite you to listen with attention to detail as so much is covered. In this episode I chat with Lorena Garcia Giron, Creative director and designer, facilitator, host and workshop extraordinaire to talk to us about her journey into design. Delve into a world of self made opportunities, connecting passion and creativity to bring positive change to the world. We explore passion, creation, skills (not the type you think), momentum, mountains and valleys, inertia and what it takes to make your unexpressed unknown dreams come true to their full potential.

Lorena's why and hunger for diversity has allowed her to follow her incling's and experience the results. Cultivating a world of her own surrounded by great exchanges, teachings and much life wisdom that comes from hard work, resilience and focus. Her work and play are always cultivating a different part of her creative thirst and passion. Quite powerful and inspiring i would say. Have a listen, this might just be the inspiration you need to get that project of yours going or continue to work forward on existing ones. Creative or not a great episode for the books.

Books refered are

The Beauty of Discomfort by Amanda Lang

The Gifts of imperfection by Brene Brown

You can find Lorena at

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenagarciagiron instagram: @lorena_cocrea

@happenings_mxmtl

We all have the possibility to lean in with curiosity to conversations that help us understand our surrounding world a little better. Conservation, more specifically marine conservation has become an increasingly hot topic and big business for a multitude of reasons.

In this episode I talk to Kaelyn Maehara, Marine biologist, wildlife filmmaker, nature enthusiast and world traveler that has worked on short films and series for Netflix, Animal Planet, National Geographic, SeaShepperd conservation society and has been an active contributor to only one: A platform for stories, solutions, and community action to protect the ocean, tackle the climate crisis, and help build a more just equitable planet. She is the mind behind the acclaimed short film "By the water" winner of several prizes including best film in human development in 2019, which we talk about in the episode. She is a woman with great ideas, insights and a big heart wanting to help increase awareness of marine conservation and keeps on trying to bring light to a privileged culture by addressing the intersectionality of conservation and social issues such as the prevalence of racism, sexism, diversity and inclusion as a vocation.

Her passion seeps through as we have another wonderful authentically flowing conversation bringing to light issues that inadvertently touch every single one of us, our understanding of the documentaries, the big business around it, their unseen biases, as well as how we can educate and help heal ourselves as well as contribute to the survival of the one thing that connects us all, our precious oceans. Sit back and enjoy the session.

You can find her on social media at @kaelynmaehara

Till next time stay curious and stay blessed.

I have had the privilege to know many entrepreneurs that have started wonderful initiatives. Anne-Marie Denault is the founder of Tripura, the 1st artificial intelligence breathwork coach. An application that introduces the listener to breathwork practices through an avatar that have the capacity of changing the nervous system's response to increase, calm or help you gain the desired energy you are seeking to create within for a better morning, day or night.

Breathwork is the number one self help practice that I know can help contribute to our personal and collective healing. And it's free and at accessible to all ages and levels. It has also been proven with scientifically backed research to affect many ailments including anxiety, depression, circulation, digestive issues and so much more. With the amount of mental health and physical issues that we have encountered, specially during this pandemic, I wish this gives you a glimpse of what power and impact your breath can have for you and in turn everyone around you. I hope this session can help elevate your human experience to live a more fulfilling, energetic, productive, heart centered healing life and becomes an introduction to a practice that can become part of your daily routines.

Make sure you download the application for guidance in your journey or go to Tripurabreath.com for more information. Please note that on november 3rd 2021 Anne Marie will be giving a webinar about the correlation between the science behind breathing and your nervous system giving you hands on tools you will be able to use in your everyday. Tripura also has a corporate challenge you can get in on to increase productivity and well being in your company. There is also a short live interactive digital art installation that will take place in Montreal soon to keep an eye out for, so listen up and get ready to be inspired. I hope this guides you on an adventure in search of your inner peace and well being with introduction to the power of breath in all its forms.

You can find Anne-Marie on social media at

@denaultannemarie

@tripura.breath