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Taking Action Creates Wonderful Opportunites

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 17, 2014 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Holistic Health, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change

Believe In Yourself Last Friday I received a phone call telling me I’d been nominated for The Chronicle Trilby Misso Community Hero Award… and I was AWARDED it!!! I was so surprised, much humbled, and deeply grateful to have my work recognised within my own community. This surprise news was quite timely, as recently I have overcome some long-held limiting beliefs and significantly invested in myself and my business by enrolling in Entrepreneurial Business School. I had wanted to do it for the last three years but always found excuses and reasons as to why I couldn’t or shouldn’t. (Not good enough syndrome).

How I let go of holiday stress & returned to energy, balance & breath

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 29, 2014 / Benefits of Meditation, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Nutrition, Personal Growth, Self-Care

Breathe, Relax, Let Go! Happy Wellness Wednesday Friends! 🙂 After the chaos and energy-focused Christmas and school holidays, I realised how much I had compromised my daily self-care practices for other “stuff” that really weren’t a priority. Did you do that too? As soon as I realised my energy, enthusiasm and moods were diminishing I took the warning signs to heart and immediately returned to my heart centre and breath. I knew I was missing and needed my daily self-care of meditation, full breath and mindfulness to keep on top of my self-talk, exercise and food choices. So I shifted priorities to nourish myself first, and very soon balance

How to Combat Stress in Daily Life + New Toowoomba Meditation Classes

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 24, 2014 / Benefits of Meditation, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Self-Care, Stress Management

To Fight or Flight ? Understand your stress responses PLUS 10 Tips to combat stress in daily life! Stress: A pesky little word that gets tossed around a great deal in modern day life. We stress about things, we feel stressed by stuff, and situations are stressful… But do you really understand stress, and more importantly, how it affects your body? To combat stress, our bodies have a built-in protection mechanism called the Fight or Flight response. Normal day to day interactions aren’t likely to cause us physical harm, so most of the time our body is (or it should be!)

Stress Kills! Find Your Triggers and Take Action!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 18, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mindset, Personal Growth, Self-Care, Stress Management

Identify Stress Triggers & Take Action Throughout my work with individuals and groups as a Meditation and Stress Therapist, I see first hand how little the general public are aware of the physical symptoms of their stress. This is such a terrible shame seeing as stress is the number ONE underlying cause of ALL modern illness and disease! SHOCKING! Stress has become the go-to word to describe a myriad of emotions, feelings and situations in our lives. How many times have you heard someone say: “I’m too stressed to deal with this” “I’m so stressed out” “Life is really stressful at the moment” How many

NEW Meditation Term & Stress Management Classes in Toowoomba

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 15, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Meditation, Mindset, Personal Growth, Self-Care

Weekly Meditation Term 3 Monday 15th July to Monday 16th Sept (10wks) One Whole Hour of Quiet, Calm, Peace & Happiness! Breathe, relax, feel safe, let go. Learn more about your Self, your stress and your strengths… BOOKINGS REQUIRED! Regular weekly classes incorporate various styles and traditions of meditation for relaxation, breathing, stress management, pain management, healing, confidence, visualisation, self-esteem and affirmations to deepen your practice and connection to self, and reinforce your learning with regularity, greater insight and promotion of the relaxation response. Meditation is a wonderful practice in mind-body awareness, self-connection and emotional healing. Classes are 1 Hour duration and

July Toowoomba Meditation Course, Classes & Chocolate Workshop

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 11, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Self-Care, Stress Management

Time to LET GO of your STRESS, FRUSTRATION, OVER-REACTIVE tendencies, and sleep better, feel calmer, think clearly and love more freely! My next 6 Week Basic Meditation for Stress Management Course begins on Tuesday 23rd July until Tuesday 27th August. 6pm to 7.30pm. Each course includes a personalised folder with weekly handouts and the use of essential oils to enhance your meditation practice and relaxation benefits. Muscle relaxation, breathing and stretching techniques are also taught in a safe, comfortable and supportive environment. For more information and to book your place CLICK HERE! or contact me directly via viki@mindbodyfood.net or 0410 60

Watch my MindBodyFood TV interview on Managing Stress

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 26, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Personal Training, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Stress-related Conditions CAN Happen To Anyone No matter who you are or what you do for a living, we all experience a degree of stress. Are you feeling down, anxious, tired, overwhelmed.. everyday, ordinary people can easily be overcome by prolonged stress when we ignore the signs and symptoms from our own body and mood. What can you do about it to help yourself and manage your stress before it leads to stress-related conditions, illness and disease? Take a 15 minute break to watch this interesting and humble interview with Steve Lynes, Owner of Fitness Works Gym in Toowoomba, to learn ways to identify your own levels of stress, and

Raw Chocolate Making Workshop with Super Foods in Toowoomba

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 24, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition

Easy Chocolate Delights Workshop! Come join me in learning how to make 5 easy and yummy chocolate treat recipes, made with REAL and RAW Cacao – the number ONE antioxidant food in the world! I will demonstrate with your help and everyone will sample! The recipes will be compiled into a small booklet for you to take home and create for yourself, complete with nutritional information on all ingredients used, AND along with your own personal goodies bag of Easy Chocolate Delights! YUM! Learn how easily you can make and incorporate delicious, healthy and nutritious chocolate delights into your eating plan with the help of one of the

Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 21, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

“Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today.” ~ Dr Bruce Lipton (Developmental Biologist) This quote and medical fact is the reason I spend so much time educating my students and clients about the Stress Response and how it affects their mind, body and spirit on a daily basis. Meditation promotes the Relaxation Response and is one of the best antidotes to stress there is. Meditation is an achievable and beautiful pathway to self-awareness, inner peace and stressing less for healing and health. The Term 2 Monday Evening Weekly class began last week and has grown 3 times the size since

GF Orange Almond Cake

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 11, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Food, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Personal Growth

Orange Almond Cake REAL FOOD FRIDAY I came up with this very simple, easy and delicious one-bowl cake a few weeks ago (April 2013) and have since created variations of “Orange Chocolate Cake” and “Carrot Cake with Nuts and Seeds”. It’s a winner! The whole family loves this little beauty. It’s moist, satisfying and best when served warm. Best bit is it’s gluten and dairy free, and sweetened with nutritious coconut sugar! Enjoy Viki xo Gluten & Diary Free Orange Almond Cake! Ingredients: 2 cups of Almond Meal 1 tblsp ground Linseed OR LSA (linseed, sunflower and almond

Ho’oponopono Meditation: A Way to Healing and Forgiveness

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 1, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management

Ho’oponopono.. Pronounced “hoh OH pohno pohno,” it is the ancient Hawaiian system of healing, problem solving and transformation. If you’ve been carrying around guilt, blame, regret, anger or shame… perhaps practising Ho’oponopono for forgiveness, is just what your mind, body and spirit need. In Hawaiian the word means “to make right or to rectify an error.” This may not necessarily be something literal that you have done. An “error” can also be a memory (or memories) of emotions, words, situations and behaviours that replay in your subconscious mind and feed your limiting beliefs. By practising Ho’oponopono, we are able to open our subconscious minds to

Deep Breathing for Stress Management

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 1, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management

Breathe Your Way to Relaxation Your breath is vital for your health, healing and well-being. We so often don’t even notice our own breath even though it is the reason we sustain life. want credit Below is a quote from Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, pioneer of MBSR – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. He has a wonderful way of explaining your breath and why it’s so important: “Take the breath, for instance. We take it so much for granted. Unless, that is, you have a bad cold or can’t breathe. Then all of a sudden, the breath may become the only thing

Toowoomba Meditation Classes

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 12, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Meditation

The Meditation & Movement Schedule kicks off this Week! Regular Weekly Meditation Term Classes resume TONIGHT – TUESDAY 12th FEB !! A great social and supportive atmosphere to share one full hour of relaxation, breathing and pure meditation! Take this time just for YOU! It’s only one hour out of your WHOLE week where you can focus only on yourself and regain some inner peace and quiet from the stress and struggle of life. Please confirm your place prior to class commencement. see website for details Just a few places left for the 6 Week Beginners Relaxation & Stress Management Course! This course

Visualisation for a happy mind, body and soul

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 31, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Body Image, Gratitude, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Visualise Your Best Self Did you know that your mind is a powerful tool in helping you create positive changes in your life? Using creative visualisation can help the subconscious mind to create real and meaningful associations with the feelings and desires of what you truly want to instil in your daily life. This paves the way for a happy mind, body and soul. wealthy Begin by imagining what you would like more of: how you will feel to have it, feel it, be it… and then spend a few minutes playing it out in your mind as if you

Get Your Body in Motion to Still Your Mind – Elemental Movement Meditation

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 5, 2012 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Fat Loss, Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Sparkle & Shine, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

I’m excited!! separate monthly Recently I spent a long weekend up in Maleny (near gorgeous Montville and Mapleton on the Sunshine Coast) at a practitioners retreat: learning, sharing, brainstorming and dancing….. yes that’s right, DANCING!! It wasn’t your normal kind of dancing – it was so much more than that. Initially I thought, hmm, I’m not so sure I want to do this in front of a bunch of people I don’t know! BUT… once we began I found myself quickly forgetting about the other people struggling to find their own personal rhythm; some swaying timidly, others clearly uncomfortable and

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