Self-Care Saturdays are back at Realign & Flow Massage and Wellness!JOIN US:
*Saturday, November 14 2026, 10am-12pm
MINDFULNESS & LOVING KINDNESS MEDITATION
Location: indoors near agriculture farm. (shared upon registration)
What to expect November 14, 2026:
We will:
🤎Begin with sharing Cacao as a warm heart-opening beverage together.
🤎Enjoy a brief group check-in together.
🤎Practice some supportive journal prompts as we welcome Spring season.
🤎Learn and Practice BODY SCAN MEDITATION, guided by your host and facilitator, Alex Schettler. (30-45mins-ish)
🤎Close circle with grounding practice.
🤎receive small gift to take home as keepsake, together with learned skills to offer yourself your own Body Scan Meditation & Loving Kindness Meditation for lifelong resourcing.
👣open to all genders-identifying, all ages.
What to bring November 14:
🌷Yoga mat & blanket
🌷Fave journal
🌷Water bottle
💛Yourself! ..with option to invite Friends/Family member you care about.
Donation: $20 suggested, payable by cash/etransfer
Register/inquire, by emailing:
[email protected]
(in case cost is deterrent, please email Alex to notify and bring donation/exchange as you are able.)
🌟please click ‘Going’ button as a RSVP to say you’re coming, so we can look forward to your arrival with plenty of cacao brewed. 🙏🏼
Join us in calm, safe community space where like-minded people: warriors in their own arena of self-care, gather to learn & practice healing practices of Journalling, Community Connection & guided Mindfulness Meditations.
We will learn basics of Mindfulness as a useful resource & practice Loving Kindness Meditation as a group. Which means we on-purpose: slow down, press pause, and check-in with our bodies and breath…to arrive and learn new perspective/relationship to each present moment.
These Self-Care events at Realign & Flow began 2018 as community spaces open to the public which focus on various tools towards supportive self-care and wellness. We gather with intention to put down the to-do lists of: more errands, more work, more plans, more screentime, more external distractions..to take a moment to SLOW DOWN and simply BE. Exactly as we are in the present moment, no matter what. While mindfulness and meditation are wonderful self-care-tools to practice independent from groups, we gather these Saturdays to practice this modality as a group, to remember we are not alone in this process of self-discovery/self-development through life.
The time of the 'lone-wolf' is over. And while we navigate our own 'stuff' within our own arenas, it is important to remember that we are never meant to take on this living experience alone. During our quiet times and also during our celebrations, we need each other.
Remembering the magic of who we really are at our core, happens best when we take the time to slow down and listen to our body, our energy, our emotions..and *breathe.
You are already whole and complete exactly as you are. You are Perfectly Imperfectly Perfect with zero effort required. At every moment, no matter what.
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🌀What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness has developed from origins based in Buddhist inspiration in combination with research-based psychology. Events at Realign & Flow draw teachings from founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MSBR) programs founded by American Psychologist, Jon Kabat-Zinn. Jon Kabat-Zinn, an American psychologist has taken his own learnings from his Buddhist teachers, together with the science he learned while becoming a psychologist to then create a program known as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to help people cope with stress, anxiety, pain, and illness. Body Scan Meditation, sensory & moving meditations are just *some components of MBSR. For our gatherings we learn about and practice simple and insightful exercises where we can practice slowing down to pay attention to our breath, and body awareness as it exists in any moment.
We look forward to you joining us.
✨Your Facilitator, Alexandra Schettler:
Alex is a Registered Massage Therapist and Owner/Operator of Realign and Flow Massage and Wellness based in Ottawa, Canada.
As a Registered Massage Therapist and Energy facilitator of over 16 years, (-and previous to becoming a RMT was a professional Contemporary Dancer and dance teacher in Winnipeg, MB), Alex has spent many years learning about and practicing self-care and healing modalities/energy practices to help facilitate healthy balance for the physical and energetic realms of this relatively short human experience.
Her experience as an RMT working full-time for 16+ years in Ontario, she undeniably notices on a regular basis, the direct connection of; how people feel in their physical and energy bodies, to how they feel in their minds and emotions. She witnesses how all parts of ourselves (body/mind/spirit) directly and inversely are connected and without any doubt, affects each parts of us. We are all so inter-connected within ourselves. Then, with a birds-eye-lens, it’s amazing to witness how deeply connected we are to each other, without necessarily knowing it. These observations, make her work at Realign & Flow so enjoyable, fulfilling and inspiring. After some years as an RMT, together with her Yoga teacher training 2018, it made sense to open up safe community space for yoga classes, meditation gatherings, and self-care retreats as of 2018. Self-Care Saturday’s as community-connecting monthly meetups became an organic development at Realign & Flow studio as of 2023. Community-building has been about gathering together to learn and share healthy wellness resourcing, and self-care tools together as a means of connection. Self-development practice is inherently something we do on our own, though in a culture which seems to be becoming more and more isolating with technology advancement, Self-Care Saturdays are about gathering together to practice mindfulness and meditation to remember the importance of connection among like-minded people.
Upcoming Self-Care Saturdays 2026:
*Saturday, Oct 17, 10:00am-12:00pm
Waterfall Hike & Forest Meditation
@Gatineau Park
*Saturday, Oct 24 10:00am-11:00am
‘Wellness in Westboro’ Mindfulness with Realign & Flow
@ Sole Freedom
*Saturday, November 14, 10:00am-12:00pm
Mindfulness & Loving Kindness Meditation
(indoors near agriculture farm)
*Saturday, December 12, 10:00am-12:00pm
Mindfulness & Loving Kindness Meditation
(indoors near agriculture farm)
Interested in MORE mindfulness practice for 7-day &/or 30-day Online program?
Email Alex to express interest:
[email protected]
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