Open to Wellness Canmore

Open to Wellness Canmore Naturopathic Health + Life Coaching Services for Soulful, Ambitious Women. This work is liberating, loving and fun. xo, Dr. Monika

Home of Holistic Coaching Program: Clear* Calm* Creative* which transforms the root causes of why women get stuck in creating the health, relationships and impact they desire. Naturopathic Practice that runs both virtually AND has a physical healing space in the Rocky Mountains of Canmore, Alberta. Restorative Healing & Empowerment Retreats for Women are run during the year as well as a Fairy Natu

re Connection Camp for children. Dr. Monika's holistic approach is based on optimizing three pillars of wellness through her signature holistic wellness coaching program, Clear * Calm * Creative. The first 2 pillars/phases of the program work with healing primarily at the physical level through diet, gut health, herbs, nutrition, acupuncture, detox, lifestyle, adrenal and hormone rebalancing as well as emotionally and mentally as needed. For those interested in truly living their best life and diving deeper she offers emotional & energetic clearing and mindset coaching support through the Feminine Power Transformational Coaching Principles which although are woven into the first 2 phases a little are steeped in phase 3 Creative. This deeper work supports you in shifting the patterns that are keeping you feeling stuck/overwhelmed in a certain area/s of your life and provides the tools and space to step into new possibilities for your health and your life. It takes the concept of self-care and self-connection to another level. Mentoring families interested in parenting consciously is a branch of Dr. Monika' s work. Here's to you feeling happy, healthy and fulfilled and truly feeling empowered to create and live your best life!

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





Does your usual rhythm around food shift in the summer?There are BBQs, camping trips, visits with family and friends, ro...
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? ☀️🍓

The Portguese have a word saudade. There isn’t a perfect English translation.But something about it catches my attention...
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?

❤️

After announcing my women’s Camino Soulventure in Portugal, one woman wrote to say she felt a full-body yes zing when sh...
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? 🤸‍♀️

❤️

Good morning😊Breakthrough retreat coming up in Canmore 💕If you’ve never experienced the Feminine Power Breakthrough Proc...
05/27/2026

Good morning😊

Breakthrough retreat coming up in Canmore 💕

If you’ve never experienced the Feminine Power Breakthrough Process and you’re a heart-centered woman feeling a yearning to create, lead, or move forward in areas of life that don’t come with a straight path or a clear set of steps, this may deeply support you.

Through experiential practices, nature, movement, connection, and breakthrough work, we explore a deeper kind of power — one rooted in trust, joy, and authentic confidence rather than needing certainty or having all the answers.

Because some of the most meaningful things we create in life — relationships, purpose, expression, impact, love — aren’t built from knowing exactly how.

They unfold as we learn to trust ourselves and move with life differently. 🔥😊

Hope to see you there! Canmore is stunning right now and we’ll be outside as much as we can. 🫶

Dr. Monika 🦋

www.opentowellness.ca/retreats

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Have had lots of response for another Adult Fairy Camp, so for those of you who felt a little spark of delight at the th...
05/24/2026

Have had lots of response for another Adult Fairy Camp, so for those of you who felt a little spark of delight at the thought of it but couldn’t make the Spring date… here you go 🌷💃🫶

A Summer date for you to set, put on your calendar and get to look forward to.

P.S. I picked one of my absolute favourite times to connect with the fairy magic here… the wild roses are usually in full glory in early July and there is something extra magical about that time 🥳

18 years and up welcome - this is going to be extra special women … can feel the beauty of this one already. 💕

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1990248252098?aff=oddtdtcreator

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“You can walk through life as if everything is magic or nothing is.” Dr. Monika 🧡Come join us tomorrow in cultivating ou...
05/23/2026

“You can walk through life as if everything is magic or nothing is.” Dr. Monika 🧡

Come join us tomorrow in cultivating our ability to be rooted even a little more in the first, truer knowing. #

My time and energy feel too precious to put into things that aren’t deeply nourishing and full of magic.

What if the strategy for success wasn’t thinking harder or trying harder to make something happen?

What if it was stepping into the field where you remember you were never creating alone?

What if play could come first?

What if having an impact with your gifts could be fun and delicious and enjoyable and a little ridiculous... deeply joyful?

Truth is, this is the fairy way.

The fairy way is remembering that magic often arrives through play, presence, delight, dreaming, and loving deeply.

When my son and daughter were younger and didn’t want to go for the walk or hike, I learned that if I could simply stay with the discomfort of the first five minutes or so, nature would do what my words couldn’t.

Something would shift.

They’d begin noticing berries, tiny flowers, a funny shaped stick, the way the light suddenly made an ordinary thing beautiful.

They’d drop into the moment.

Come to Adult Fairy Camp tomorrow and let nature and the fairies take you into their loving arms.

To be held.

To dance.

To receive what you need.

To let delight be your strategy, just for the day.

To discover what magic has always been right here. ✨💃

For you and with you, xo, Fairy Blossom 🧚

www.opentowellness.ca/retreats

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Heading back home … Spent a rich 4 days in Toronto attending my first Brazilian Zouk Dance congress.🥳5-6 classes a day,...
05/19/2026

Heading back home …

Spent a rich 4 days in Toronto attending my first Brazilian Zouk Dance congress.🥳

5-6 classes a day, socials that went far past my bedtime (thank goodness 😂) and teachers from all over the world sharing so much beauty, skill, play, connection and presence.

Normally midnight is a stretch for me, but many of the dancers were heading home when the DJs stopped … around 6 or 7 am lol.
I joined the newcomer track and fell. in. love. with so many of the people I was learning and practicing with.

There was something so human and alive about it all — touch, listening, laughter, nervousness, joy, learning together.

What struck me most was the amount of delight.

People who looked serious or guarded would transform in dance — suddenly radiant, sparkling, soft, magnetic. Something essential and natural in them coming alive.

Partner dancing feels like learning another language of intimacy with life itself. Listening. Responding. Feeling subtle invitations and unspoken communication through movement.
And also … being willing to learn publicly. To be a beginner. To accidentally step on people’s toes … 😂

One of the Brazilian words that was used this weekend was gostoso — pleasurable, delicious, satisfying, deeply enjoyable.

You’re doing it right when it feels gostoso.
Not performative. Not forced. Not pushing.
Receiving the experience. Orienting toward enjoyment.

It made me think so much about the work I do with women inside Reignite Your Feminine Fire — how often our vitality, joy, sensuality, playfulness and natural expression get buried under performance, stress, professionalism, overthinking or simply years of taking care of everyone else first.

We already bring embodied movement into the work, but I’m excited to bring some of these super yummy movements and explorations into future retreats and immersions too. 🔥

The physiology of pleasure is fascinating to me.

How different life feels when we slow down enough to meet the pace of pleasure already present in our own being.

Si o no? 😊

xo, Dr. Monika 💃





UPDATE: I’ve moved this retreat to the last weekend of May — it feels more spacious and aligned with what we’ll be comin...
05/06/2026

UPDATE: I’ve moved this retreat to the last weekend of May — it feels more spacious and aligned with what we’ll be coming together for. 💕

If you’ve been feeling the pull for more…more aliveness, more joy, more of you — this might be for you.

For NDs and health practitioners considering the Reignite Practitioner Immersion, this 2-day in-person is a beautiful way to step in or deepen into the work.

Details here: www.opentowellness.ca/retreats

xo, Dr. Monika 🧡

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“ How can I truly be a stand for my daughter’s freedom …her expression, her joy, her aliveness when, … if I’m honest, I’...
05/01/2026

“ How can I truly be a stand for my daughter’s freedom …
her expression, her joy, her aliveness when, … if I’m honest, I’m not always fully connected to my own?

There are moments I feel held back.
Not quite myself.

And I can feel how much I crave the lightness …
the realness … the joy and freedom and ease
of being fully and freely here … in my aliveness and juush ...

It touches everything.
My work.
My relationships.
My health.”

I hear a version of this often with the women I work with —
especially those of us who hold a lot for others.

This isn’t a one-time fix.
It’s a remembering.
A reigniting.
A coming back into relationship with your feminine fire …
your creativity, your sensuality, your life force.

Not something you perfect.
Not something you have to be in all the time.

But something you learn to be in relationship with.

You know when you’ve drifted … and trust the way home.

There’s so much more here for us.🔥

Tanto amore, xo, Dr. Monika 💕

PS - about those Italian tomatoes ... just. wow. 🙌





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