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Women’s Wellness & Meditation Retreat Sneak Peek + Q & A with Viki

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 9, 2014 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Meditation, Personal Growth, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

Women’s Wellness I am very excited to announce that my first Women’s Wellness & Meditation Retreat is now confirmed and set for October 10th – 13th! This has been many years of dreams and hard work and now finally I can bring my life, work and personal experience all together in these 4 special days to share with you 🙂 To make it very easy to get a sense of the purpose, aim and intention of my Women’s Retreat, we recorded a short Q & A video, plus an even shorter personal tour video of the beautiful venue, Woodlands of Marburg.

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!)

Are Your Adrenals Fatigued? The Dangers of Stress

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on August 2, 2013 / Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Personal Growth, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Are your Adrenals Fatigued? Recently I’ve had a many new clients coming to me for “MANAGING STRESS”. Even the local newspaper reporter sought me out for information on a feature about stress IN LAST WEEKENDS PAPER! (OMG the top photo is terrible!!!!) Recently I wrote, Stress Kills! Find Your triggers and take action! Often we miss the signals that our bodies are attempting to provide us. We’re too consumed by the daily grind and keeping up with the mounting tasks, that we miss our physical responses and don’t do anything about them. Adrenal Glands Two, triangular shaped glands that sit on top of your

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

Love and Acceptance: reconnecting to self

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on June 17, 2013 / Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Self-Care

Reconnect With The Simple Things Last week I was on a working holiday at the Sunshine Coast recording my “Healing Your Digestive Issues” video interview for MindBodyFood TV. Although it rained for the majority of the time, we still found a small window of sunshine to walk in whilst wetting our feet down at the beach. It was fortunate that the last night we were there, we could take the opportunity to walk along the beach, breathe in the salt air, cleans our nostrils and lungs with the freshness of nature and scrunch our toes in the sand as we

HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on June 2, 2013 / Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Positive change, Positive Psychology

HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN! Many of you have heard me talk about food designers before. They have the task of creating the perfect ratio of fat, sugar and salt in a food product that will create opiates in the brain to have you craving more! People already restricting themselves find these cravings overwhelming and will often berate themselves and feel like failures, believing they have no willpower or motivation. This often leads to comfort or emotional eating, which of course is only feeding the cravings. People try so hard to eat healthy,

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

Love Your Body, Live Your Life

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 17, 2012 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Personal Training, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Wellness Coaching

Lover Your Body So You Can Finally Starting Living Your Life Q – How do you love your body when all you can think of every spare minute of the day is what’s wrong with it? A – Start thinking what’s RIGHT with it! Think of your favourite pet: cat, dog, horse, bird…etc. If all you showed your loyal, loving pet was neglect, disappointment and resentment at looking after it, how do you think your pet would grow towards you? What do you think your pet would feel every time you showed it anger or frustration? Your body is similar to

Emotional Eating

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 30, 2011 / Body Image, Confidence, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Personal Growth, Positive change, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Are you thinking, breathing and fearing food 24/7…? What we think and how we feel often dictates what we eat, if we should eat and when we should eat. This may lead us to console our emotions with food we don’t really want or need but that temporarily might make us feel better. Without a healthy self-image or balanced lifestyle, this may be enough to permanently chip away at your self-confidence and further influence your emotions. In the long term, it may be enough to spark a greater issue with food and body-image, leading to disordered eating. Do you reach

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