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!

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. 🙌





“Molto meno del km zero” 🧡At I-Moresani Organic Farm.Hands in dough.Artichokes in season.Everything close.Simple food, m...
04/29/2026

“Molto meno del km zero” 🧡
At I-Moresani Organic Farm.

Hands in dough.
Artichokes in season.
Everything close.

Simple food, made slowly with ingredients harvested right here.
You can taste the sweet aliveness.

Slower pace.
Longer meals.
Fresh air.
A cup of warmed fresh goat milk with honey.
Savouring their wine, cheese, olive oil and more.

Lots of laughter and delight, mmmmms and ahhhs … enjoying simple pleasures together.

dolce far niente 💕

Spring artichokes … one of my fave liver-supportive foods for this time of year and so yummy ways to prepare them. (And … I may have reached my yearly quota … 😅)

Italy. is. a. dream.🌷

Happy spending these days here with these loved ones !👑

To the deep nourishment of the pace of pleasure. 🥂

xo, Dr. Monika 🌷

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There’s a point where mindset and behaviour change stop working.Not because you’re doing it wrong —but because the body ...
04/15/2026

There’s a point where mindset and behaviour change stop working.
Not because you’re doing it wrong —
but because the body hasn’t been included.

You’ve read the books, tried the protocols, made the changes …
and something still isn’t shifting the way you hoped.

Because it lives here:
-the nervous system
-hormones
-energy
-the somatic landscape you’re living inside of

We carry unmetabolized stress from past experiences.

It shapes what we feel is possible.
It can look like:
-anxiety that won’t fully settle
-energy that feels wired or depleted
-hormonal shifts not balancing
-digestive issues
-tension that keeps returning
-low libido
- a quiet sense that something isn’t flowing

You can have all the information in the world —
but without including the body truly,
real change doesn’t land.
✨
Where healing deepens —
is when the mind softens
and the body is allowed to lead.

I’ve watched women:
– go from fear of singing → to singing freely
– from fear of deep water → to swimming
– from midlife weight struggle → to feeling at home in her body
– from public speaking anxiety → to connection and enjoyment
– from fear of flying → to not even a flutter

Not by forcing change —
but by meeting the body from the inside out
and allowing what’s held there to be felt and released.
🌷
Spring is a powerful time to shift something that’s been waiting.

Not by pushing harder —
but by including more of you.

I really love that I get to include this knowing and way in how I work with women. 🙌💃

xo, Dr. Monika 🦋

PS – I worked virtually with a client this morning —- a simple option if you’re out of town or wanting more ease with your time 🧡




Fairy Camp 2026 supply reconnaissance afternoon … what a delight. 🧚The Canmore thrift store and Healing Mountain Creatio...
04/10/2026

Fairy Camp 2026 supply reconnaissance afternoon … what a delight. 🧚

The Canmore thrift store and Healing Mountain Creations Store did not disappoint — treasures everywhere. 👏

Magical teacups for fairy camp …
and somehow a plate (or a few and a couple other gems) followed me home.

And just like that, the IKEA plates are being gently replaced with these beauties. 💕

There’s something about bringing a bit more beauty into the everyday. (I swear my dinner was another level of delicious on this gorgeous piece of China!)

To everyday magic and simple pleasures, ✨
xo, Dr. Monika 🧡





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