Dr. Monika Herwig ND

10/10/2026

Rockies Women's Retreat in Canmore in 10 days 🧡 come reset and reignite with us!

10/10/2026

What Women Have Said About Their Feminine Power Breakthrough Weekend Experience - this retreat is the same general flow but with a few more nourishing, embodied experiences woven in. 🦋

Here are a few reflections from women who have participated in Dr. Monika Herwig's retreats, workshops, and transformational programs.

"Monika is an amazing woman who really knew how to help me reconnect with myself and bring forward my true self.

I had been experiencing depression for several years and felt stuck. I had tried counselling and self-help books, but still struggled to move forward.

My experience at the Empowering Women Retreat gave me a deeper understanding of myself and became an important turning point in my life.

It was exactly what I needed to move forward with greater happiness, fulfillment, and possibility.

I am truly grateful for this experience."

— Venus Khan

"Wow. Monika has a gift for creating an incredibly safe container for her workshops. This set the tone and enabled a powerful, transformative, and healing experience. Thank you, Dr. Herwig, for sharing your gift and guiding women in discovering and sharing theirs."

— Stephanie
Occupational Therapist, Mother, Changemaker & Visionary

"I cannot say enough great things about Dr. Monika. I attended her wellness retreat this weekend and walked away a new person. The connection I experienced and the insights I gained will stay with me forever. Thank you so much!"

— Shannon C.
Nurse Practitioner and Creator of a Soul-Aligned Life
www.opentowellness.ca/retreats

❤️ Space is limited to 8 women.

10/08/2026

A peak at the transformational coaching/program part of my work! If one of these intrigue you let's connect - I usually do this 1-on-1 but doing this with a girlfriend or two is powerful and even funner ... 😍 expect to move your body and enjoy yourself! Text is best to see if these are a fit for what you are wanting support with. www.opentowellness.ca

10/06/2026

Reach out if you’d like to join us for our October 17 women’s wellness weekend retreat --- nourishing surprises await us! 🌺

Room for 8 fun-loving, heart-centered, nature loving women in leadership at work or home who want to realign with their true, free, nourished, at-home-in-their-own-skin nature and reset through connection and what’s true now.

Especially lovely for women in transition such as life shift, empty nesters, or women beginning their perimenopause/menopause journey.

Come gather, connect, be nourished and see what opens up when you create some space for yourself in community.🫶

https://www.opentowellness.ca/retreats/unlock-your-power-and-manifest-your-vision-the-breakthrough-workshop-for-awakening-women-p5tfb-xkl9b-szhnl-5j48x-9k3s5?fbclid=IwY2xjawUw1YZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6DMjSRtuxzS-Hx7WI-PowS2BiLr-T7S_uOI0vbdmQqkLZU1yTIuogqWwVJyA_aem_rgFIf5xbPo1rgfmOCTP1Fg

Created for heart-centered women who sense there is more possible. More vitality. More joy. More freedom. More authentic confidence. More aliveness. More of yourself. If you are ready to reconnect with your Feminine Fire and create your life from a deeper place of self-trust, creativity, intuition

09/04/2026

Mystic beach time on the island.🧡
Something about moss and dripping water and rolling shimmering waves
and the flowers here …
and there …
everywhere! 👏

“Light drips off the moss
1000 ways to say I love you
Right here at my feet.”

(Nature inspired haiku 💕)


soulventure

07/24/2026

One of my very favourite Fairy Camp traditions happens before we head off on our adventures.

It’s something I also share on many of my retreats and at Adult Fairy Camp because it reminds us that before adventure comes care and connection.

We pair up. One child becomes the Fairy Mama and one becomes the Baby Fairy preparing for a big flight.

First, the Fairy Mama gently brushes down the Baby Fairy’s wings and back three times, clearing away anything from previous flights that might make flying feel a little harder.

Then mama hands rest on the back of the ribs as the Baby Fairy takes slow, deep breaths, filling their wings with spaciousness and strength.

Finally, the Fairy Mama wraps her arms around the Baby Fairy taking her time, giving a gentle squeeze and whispering a fairy blessing for safety, joy, courage, and wonder on the adventure ahead.

Every year there are little moments that become my favourites ... not because of the activity itself, but because of what happens between the children. The tenderness. The care. The way they naturally look after one another. It gets me every time. 💚

Yesterday, during Fairy Camp Teacher Training, we experienced something I’ve been dreaming about for a long time: a Fairy Rest Yoga Nidra through three fairy gates, each leading into a magical realm before resting together beneath the forest canopy.

As I looked around at everyone nestled into the moss and trees, I had a feeling this might become one of those favourite traditions too. ✨

Reigniteyourspark

06/11/2026

We Shine 2026 Women’s Event in Canmore - early bird on for 2 more days - www.opentowellness.ca/retreats for details 🧡

Come remember your vitality, feminine aliveness, joy, authentic confidence, and reconnect with your true power (that thankfully doesn’t lie in knowing all the answers, waiting for conditions to be just right, or doing things perfectly). 💃🔥

06/09/2026

Does your usual rhythm around food shift in the summer?

There are BBQs, camping trips, visits with family and friends, road trips, ice cream stops, and a different rhythm to our days.

And there are fresh juicy berries, garden vegetables, farmers’ markets, outdoor meals, and more opportunities to slow down and enjoy our food.

This morning, a Midlife Essentials client and I were exploring how to stay connected to what helps her feel her best while visiting family this summer.

We got much more interested in curiosity and creativity than perfection.

Together, we came up with a few simple things she could do while away - small things that support her energy, hormones, nourishment, and well-being.

But what struck me most wasn’t the nutrition.

It was the story underneath.

She went from a version of:
“Well, I’m visiting my parents, so I have to eat whatever my mom cooks or she’ll feel hurt,”

to a deeper truth that honoured both her connection with her mom and her own wisdom about what helps her thrive.

In my experience, this is often where lasting change happens.

Not through willpower.
But by getting curious … including about the stories underneath our choices.

For me, midlife wellness is often less about doing everything “right” and more about getting curious and creative about what helps us thrive while fully living our lives.

I’m curious … what are some of the little things, nutrition-wise, that help you feel your best in the summer while still enjoying the camping trips, patio dinners, family visits, and ice cream stops? ☀️🍓

06/05/2026

The Portguese have a word saudade.

There isn’t a perfect English translation.

But something about it catches my attention.

A sense of being drawn toward something you can’t quite name.

Do you know this feeling?

I feel it often in my work these last few years ...

In conversations with women.

On retreats.

In my office.

A sense that something true and essential within them is asking for a little more room.

To awaken.

✨

To be free.

✨

To be included.

✨

To be lived.

✨

Two women have already said yes to the Portugal Soulventure.

And I find myself curious about what they’re saying yes to.

Not the itinerary.

Not the kilometres.

Something deeper than that.

A feeling.

✨

A pull.

✨

A knowing.

✨

I wonder if saudade points toward that.

The quiet sense that there is something calling us forward before we can fully explain it.

Maybe that’s part of what calls women to pilgrimage.

Maybe that’s part of what calls me too.

Do you know this feeling?

❤️

06/02/2026

After announcing my women’s Camino Soulventure in Portugal, one woman wrote to say she felt a full-body yes zing when she opened the email.

Another shared that years ago, while travelling in Spain, she would drive past signs for the Camino and wonder about it. Reading about the Soulventure brought those memories back, along with the question of whether she might now be too old.

I found myself smiling at both responses.🧡

The full-body yes zing.

The longing.

The dream that’s been quietly waiting in the background.

I’ve learned that the Camino seems to call people long before they ever set foot on the trail.

I’m curious ...

Have you ever felt drawn to walk the Camino?

What is it about it that speaks to you? 🤸‍♀️

❤️