Wellness Wednesday: Introduction

Update February 26, 2009:  I will be picking back up with my Wellness Wednesday posts!  Yay!  Look for the first post on March 4, 2009.  After a long break, I am ready to come back and share my wellness journey as well as read all of yours.  Please check in with me and let me know if you are wanting to participate as well.  I will be creating another blogroll for the participants in my sidebar.  Be Well...

 Update as of March 21, 2008: I am no longer writing Wellness Wednesday Post.  Many changes are transpiring here on this little blog of mine and in my life in the coming months and I am channeling my focus elsewhere.  I want to thank all who participated and all who continue to write Wellness Wednesday post!  I encourage all of you to continue and begin.  The badge below will still be active, and who knows?  I may start again in the future!  Be Well everyone!

Motivated by my New Moon work that I wrote about here, and The Sacred Life Project Carla started many of us on, I am launching Wellness Wednesday.

My intention is to create a day where we can collectively observe our commitment to wellness by sharing the things that we do for ourselves that support our health.  This may be a post on diet, yoga, small personal rituals done daily to maintain body health, tips, recipes, resources, encouragement and antidotes.  It can be anything that is part of your intentional practice of nurturing your wellness. 

I believe this type of practice is important in bringing us back into conscious observance of our health, as well as creating community support in a world where we tend to neglect our health, and are also accustomed to placing our health in the hands of professionals that don't really know us and our bodies, and often times, due to overwork, insurance company restrictions and what not, forget to see us as a whole Being and not just physical symptoms that need to be suppressed. 

Wellness Wednesday is about empowerment, acknowledgment and sharing.  Its about celebrating the millions of unique ways we can enhance our health and be responsible for the bodies we have. 

I will be creating a link list in the side bar of all those who want to participate.  My vision is that after several weeks of doing this, we can find a way to pull together all of these posts into an archive we can all dip into for ideas, inspiration and support.

I will also be working on a badge for us to have and link back to as well, and hope to have it done by next Wednesday.  So please feel free to post and let me know if you would like to join in and be part of the list.  I will be putting up links as names get added.

Update!  Woohoo!  The fabulous Leah, came up with the following badge for us. 

Others of you are creating some as well, and I'm thinking of including them all as they come through, just because they are all looking so yummy!  Thank you all!

Ok... so you should be able to cut and paste the following code to get the badge on your blog! 

<a href="http://lunarmusings.typepad.com/lunarmusings/2007/09/wellness-wednes.html"><img src="http://www.lunarmusings.typepad.com/wellnesswednesdaylogo.gif" /></a>

Until next Wednesday, Be Well.

Comments

[Olivia]

Hi, Elena, What a great idea! I'd love to be included...I'm excited!

[Literary bohemian]

You got it sista!!!

www.literarybohemian.wordpress.com

[Doreen]

oh yes, count me in. Saturn is at work already :-)
Doreen

[boho girl]

i would love to be included. wonderful idea, love.

xoxo

[bella]

yeah.
We begin.
My first wellness wednesday this very next week.
Thank-you for getting this started.

[LeS]

I am totally with you on this, friend.
Add me to the list and I will begin on the 19th.
Funny, that is an auspicious day for me so it will be the perfect one for beginnings.

Love love love :)

[Bohemian mom]

This is a fabulous idea and I am so psyched!
See ya Wednesday.

[martie]

Count me in! Wellness Wednesday may be just what I am looking for to focus my mindfullness.

[maddie]

Oh Elena - I would love to be included!
It would be so inspiring and elevate our
energies to share these thoughts and
our experiences and ideas:)

[susan greene]

what a wonderful idea. I would love to be a part of this group.

[Gillian @ Indigo Blue]

This is my first visit to you...via Maddie. I would like to participate. I am very much into wellness. I run a day spa in Southern Ontario, and could maybe post skin health and wellness ideas. This will be so much fun!
xo
Indigo Blue (Gillian)

[Ladybug]

I found you through the wonderful 'daisies, and am so glad! Bookmarking now... :-)

[deirdre]

This is a wonderful idea. It's so easy to get caught up in the rush of everday life and forget the little things that keep me grounded and healthy. Count me in.

[Christine]

Hi - first time visitor here. I would really enjoy participating. sign me up.

thanks
Christine

[waspgoddess]

I read about Wellness Wednesday on Darlene's blog (daisies) and I would love to take part. It fits so well into the way I try to live my life and to share this and get inspiration from others sounds wonderful. Please let me know what I need to do.

[Annie]

Sounds like a good idea. Please include me!
Annie
xxx

[AscenderRisesAbove]

found you via Creative Every Day. I would like to take part - if you still have room?

[Jessamyn]

I would love to join in on this...it sounds like such a wonderful way to bring about my health into greater consiousness...and to learn from so many amazing people! thank you!

[Tanaya]

Please count me in and add me to the list! I will write my first wellness wednesday post tonight.

[Deborah Perpetua]

I'd love to be added to your list! Just so happens that Wednesdays have recently become the day I've focused on "treating myself" to/through an acupuncture treatment or a chair massage or a yoga class.... This seems like another excellent avenue for reminding ourselves to set aside some time in our busy lives to seek out some self-nurturing and healing, so that we can also be better at healing and nurturing those around us. Looking forward to exploring these ideas and inspirations! ~Many thanks, Deborah

[mich]

Count me in!

mich
x.

[kristen]

i'm going to start participating in wellness wednesday. i'm definitely on a path right now to heal myself and this will be a perfect venue for me to check in with myself. thank you.

[Karen Beth]

I'm doing Wellness Wednesday too, at least every so often. Thanks for a great idea!

http://zazazu.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/stealing-from-leah/

[Hundred and one]

I love this idea. please add me to your list

[phoenix]

A beautiful idea! I'd like to participate!