Body By Design Personal Fitness Training

09/18/2020

The Truth About C-Sections❗

Whether you have a vaginal birth or a caesarean birth, there is always a time period where recovery, healing and self care is needed. Watch here to learn about the myth about C-Sections and what you can do to best assist your healing!

04/02/2020

I am so proud today to say that we gave our healing elixirs away to two full medical offices of doctors, nurses and essential service providers as a thank you to saving lives everyday! We are so blessed for all the essential services that we have and so lucky to be part of Vancouver!

03/30/2020

In times of scarcity, Antidote Healing has created a movement to share abundance with the community through local giveaway that they will be hosting each week for the next four weeks. If you'd like to win this $300 gift package of food and goodies, enter to win this amazing LOCAL MOVEMENT!

03/29/2020

Body By Design Personal Fitness Training's Ashley Leong-Lewer is hosting a Local Supporting Local Movement / Giveaway starting tomorrow. Over the next four weeks, Antidote Healing will be hosting a giveaway every Monday of local merchandise of about $300 of food, beverages, dry goods and self care items to support our local community. There will be two identical giveaways one on FB and one on IG, for a total of $2400 of local products that will be donated over this month. Please show your support by sharing, liking, commenting, adding this to your stories and of course, entering this movement!

Chris and I are stoked to be hosting our Local Supporting Local Movement which starts tomorrow! Every week we will be giving away $120 worth of our elixirs, alongside other amazing local businesses! Now you'll get the chance to enjoy all four flavors of our beverages with about $300 worth of local goodies each week! Our first contest starts tomorrow!!! So keep your eyes peeled for this!

Our amazing friends (local companies) who are taking part in this movement are:





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03/25/2020

Hi friends! This is Ashley Leong-Lewer and Christopher James Lewer together we make up Antidote Healing. A little bit about us, we were two world travellers who met on a solo trip on a flight in Thailand. We travelled the world together and became one. Singularly, Ashley has been a holistic personal trainer based out of the Vancouver area, specializing in the integrated system of the pelvic floor using a holistic method of rehabilitation, nutrition and lifestyle for almost 17 years. Chris, has been plant based and a holistically minded chef based outside the New York City area for over 20 years.

Our company, Antidote Healing, was born after we were in a near fatal car accident that left us with a wide array of injuries that changed the course of our lives. In efforts to get off harsh pharmaceutical pain killers, we started brewing these traditional herbal elixirs that we had learned while studying around the world. Our efforts to heal, holistically and naturally, led us to more travels and more studies of ancient medicines, which lead us to create our four healing elixirs that we have today.

On that fateful day, we were given a second chance. A second chance to live our lives differently, to live our lives to serve in community for others. In the hospital that fateful day, we made a promise to one another that we would become better and do better, to share abundance and love to all of those we came into contact with. Antidote Healing is an extension of this vow, from the organic ingredients that we use, the glass containers bottles and recyclable lids, to the local companies and small farmers that we contribute to for our ingredients, to the fund that we have started (called the Be A Hero Foundation), we do our best to plant our values into our company. It is this reason why we have decided to create our movement called Local Supporting Local, to support the amazing companies that we love and are so deeply connected to, and to support our local community. It is a great honour that we will be the host of this movement that we hope that it will continue beyond just us and will spread to other local communities around us. ❤

03/24/2020

In life, I have learned that as an individual, I can only accomplish so much, however as a team, WE, as a collective, can accomplish a LOT. This is the reason why, Chris and I have decided to bring small local businesses together to help support the local community.

along with other amazing local companies and food providers are teaming together to share abundance in this time when people are feeling so much scarcity and uncertainty. Our wish is to spread abundance and love to all around us.

For this reason, we have started a movement called Local Supporting Local. Each week for the next four weeks, will be hosting a Local Supporting Local Giveaway with a handful of amazing local companies to deliver abundance to two lucky winners. This movement will be hosted on both Instagram and on Facebook with a new winner from each platform each week.

The amazing, local businesses who are so generously involved in this movement are:





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And more to come! Please show your love for these amazing companies who are working so hard to share their love during this hectic time by sharing this post 👏❤👏

02/29/2020

Here is the story of the new company that Christopher James Lewer and I just started:

Antidote Healing exists is because of our history. Christopher and I met while we were both traveling solo, exploring culture and studying healing modalities in Thailand.

Chris, was a plant based, health minded, chef working outside New York City, I was rehabilitative, holistic personal trainer from a small city outside Vancouver. We found that we both had a passions for holistic healing, travel and philanthropic work. We dated long distance while we set goals to collaborate together on our philanthropic goals.

Our first big goal was to organize a fundraising convention outside New York, to raise funds to build a school dormitory for underprivileged girls in India. In that one day, we raised almost enough money to fund the entirity of the school! Nine months later we flew to India to help with the build of the school and learn Ayurvedic nutrition. Shortly after, we married and continued our journey together exploring the world, studying healing modalities and growing as a couple.

We traveled more areas than I can list here, and ended up stumbling upon our next philanthropic endeavor in Indonesia, when we rescued an abused, orphaned puppy, who we named Kerala. During the time we were in Indonesia we learned the beauty of their culture and learned from local herbalists how to make Jamu and Bandrek, traditional healing elixirs (two of our elixirs that we have brought to market here in Vancouver). After a very stressful and difficult time trying to bring Kerala home to Canada, we (and the dogs) were involved in a very serious car accident only two days after returning home.

Everything changed after that day, as we had adjust our lives to trauma our bodies and minds experienced. We found refuge in the elixirs that we learned and combined these elixirs with the various modalities of treatment that we were receiving. These elixirs has been (and still is) a pivotal part of our healing. This is our antidote, let is be yours.

08/07/2019

Let's Talk S*x: To be honest s*x is the least talked about subject when dealing with the pelvic floor. Most women are not comfortable talking about the difficulties that they experience with s*x such as pain during in*******se, vaginal dryness, frequent UTI's (urinary tract infections), yeast infections, BV (bacterial vaginosis) are all very uns*xy challenges that can come up when partaking in in*******se while experiencing pelvic floor issues. Left untreated, the worse these issues get.

First and foremost, if you are experiencing pain during in*******se, if it feels like "he's hitting the top" or you experience sharp pains doing the deed, it is super important that you book an appointment with a pelvic floor physiotherapist/physical therapist who can do internal examinations and treatment. This is something that indeed CAN be treated and helped with!

If your uterus is out of alignment whether it is shifted or flexed forward or back (anteverted, anteflexed or retroverted, retroflexed), this change in alignment can significantly change your experience while partaking in s*x (think painful). Changing the angle and position of your pelvis, such as elevating the hips to encourage the uterus to slide back upwards can help with the sensations that you feel.

Maya abdominal massage is another avenue that I encourage and teach my clients, this way you will not only get treatment of abdominal massage therapy from a trained therapist, but also be an active role in your own recovery by doing self-care abdominal massages daily to encourage the best alignment of your uterus.

I also encourage frequent oral s*x, as this can help increase vaginal lubrication without ever being painful. This allows for you and your partner to experience passion and intimacy, while improving cervical fluid quality (think: use it or lose it), and also avoid the painful aspect of s*x (while seeking treatment from a pelvic floor physical therapist).

I highly recommend that you speak to your doctor about these infections while also seeking the aid of a pelvic floor physiotherapist and maya abdominal therapist to rule out any other health issues.

07/02/2019

I recently had someone say to me that they want to work with me but refused to see a pelvic floor physiotherapist. I advised against working with me at all if she was not willing to work in conjunction with a pelvic physio, as I felt that she could be wasting both of our time and her money.

If there are internal adhesions (scarring) that is pulling the structures of the pelvis, it will affect your ability to "connect" to your pelvic floor when I am cueing during a training session. When there are adhesions affecting the pelvic floor, no matter how much cueing or exercise you do, you won't be able to connect until that pathway is clear. I like to think of this analogy to turning a light switch on and off but the electrical wire is not connected. If there are adhesions pulling on the pelvic floor, no matter how many times you tell your pelvic floor "on" the connection may not be there.

Seeing a pelvic floor physio to break apart the scar tissue (through internally release) in conjunction with doing proper exercise, breathing, stretching and massage are absolutely key to a full recovery. Self care such as abdominal massage and exercise are invaluable, and combined with internal release work by a physiotherapist is a winning combination.