Health and Wellness Toolkit

Saturday, July 25, 2026,  (2:00-3:30. 3:30-5:00)

Welcome - Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems - Know your story! Reading is a spiritual practice.

Introductions - Blanket Pictures, questions to share: favorite meal,  a place your feel safe and comfortable, a game you enjoy, a perfect day would include, a go to person

Would you rather? chill out all day with a koala or hang out with a fox? visit a local zoo or travel to Africa and go on a safari? work on a farm or volunteer at a preschool? slurp warm soup or eat a crunchy salad? go for a forest walk or lie on your back, watching  the clouds float by?

Connecting with others is a spiritual practice!

Sing - Alive, Awake, Alert, Enthusiastic

Singing is a spiritual practice!

Building Your Toolkit for Health and Wellness

Circle of Control - knowing and holding your boundaries is spiritual practice

Breathe - Breath as Prayer (Sister Sara) 0, Neuroscience of the Breath - Breathing  Ball, Butterfly, Shape Breathing with large buttons  - https://sites.google.com/site/mrsbroam/home/breathing-toolbox

Yoga - movement on the beach Friday morning - breathing, moving like the sun, being a tree, triangle, twisting the body, resting/magic carpert ride - 7 healthy ways to move the spine: https://youtu.be/9Ba0bwbrE4Y

Spiritual Practices with your 5 senses:

Touch - build with legos,  create with coloring, labrynth, origami

See - "Where look it what you'll see!" - Vision Board, Where's Waldo?  

Smell - Essential Oils

Hear - Listening Walk,  Sound Bath

Taste - One thing you're looking forward to eating?? Mindful Eating practices (Hershey Kisses, Peanuts, Cereal, Chips)

As you practice . . . 

All Your Feelings are VALID ~ messengers, visitors, "if the waters of your baptism build up in your eyes and leak down you cheeks" let it happen and stay with the feeling

Be the Hummingbird - do the best you can where you are with what you have https://youtu.be/IGMW6YWjMxw?si=D5VJDG9XQ0ovOP1m

Web of Support - We need community! Be curious - ask questions!

Snail - Slow is good, sleep when you need to, play in the rain, leave a trail that worth leaving!

Plant seeds, don't weed (no judging), keep tending the garden (Show UP) because God is working through you, adding sunshine and rain to create the bountiful harvest!

What will you do next?  Which of these sounds like a fit for your story?  Be healthy and strong to create the KERFUFFLE you were born to create!

"I want my life to make a difference!"

Sunday,  July 26, 2026, (2:00-3:30. 3:30-5:00)

Review yesterday ~ Pete the Cat and the Magic Sunglasses by Kimberly and James Dean

Engagement Cards: I you could choose to be an animal for a day, would you choose a land, water, or winged animal?  Why?; If you had to choose to be fire, water, air, or a rock, which would you choose?  Why?; Which movie character would you like to meet one day? Why?; What is something you can cook or make by yourself?; If you had to choose one season for the entire year, which one would you select: fall, winter, spring, or summer?

Movement with Breath - Chalice Prayer: https://youtu.be/2Xax6SJrcX4, "Breathe Deep the Breath of God" Song by The Lost Dogs

Bible sword drills 

Joshua 1:9 (Sister D'Etta's Consecration Verse), Micah 6:8 (Sister Sara's Ordination Verse), Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:13, Proverbs 3:5-6

What's YOUR verse?

Hei Hei - legos time

Prayer strips for the labyrinth 

Set up labyrinth?

Vision Boards

Scent Canisters

Bible Verse Coloring

handful of good ideas:  https://sites.google.com/view/sisterdb/home/programs/mindfulness-in-moshi

hummingbird story - https://youtu.be/IGMW6YWjMxw?si=D5VJDG9XQ0ovOP1m

One thing you will hold on tightly too from the weekend~Be YOU by Peter Reynolds

"I want my life to make a difference!"