Pour ceux d’entre vous qui sont aussi emballés que moi par l’herboristerie, j’ai déniché des vidéos où l’on peut voir les gens de La Clef des Champs, un producteur local de thés et tisanes à bases de plantes médicinales.
Posted: December 17th, 2009 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Green products, health & wellness | No Comments »
Posted: March 8th, 2009 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Apple & OS X, Pop culture, health & wellness | 1 Comment »

I found this Quality vs Quantity helper on Caterina.net, and judging by the amount of people who faved it on flickr, i am not the only one in serious need of guidance to reinvent the meaning of productivity (can one be productive by working just some hours each day?).
As always, these rules look rather simple to follow, but i would like to team up with you and try to really live by these rules for 7 consecutive days – would you join? I would suggest we do the test from next monday on, and try for some days to have the feeling that we’re on top of things (!).
Posted: February 17th, 2009 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Growth & Innovation, health & wellness | No Comments »
Un super article sur Je suis féministe, qui m’a mené à une trouvaille épatante, le site Skin Deep, qui vous permet de juger du danger associé aux produits cosmétiques que vous achetez.
Prenez le temps de faire le tour, vous remarquerez rapidement que cette industrie n’a guère à faire de votre santé mais bien de vos dollars…
Posted: February 12th, 2009 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Green log, health & wellness | No Comments »
water based nail polish and so on, all organic and non tested on animals –
look for these. Invest in products marked as non tested on animals, and if you really care about your health, spend a little more for health friendly cosmetics (and forget about big brands!)
Posted: September 6th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: health & wellness | 1 Comment »

Trop de gens l’ont oublié. Ralentissez, respirez, jouez!
Posted: April 19th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Daily thoughts, health & wellness | 1 Comment »
“Change doesn’t happen because of how we invest our money. Change happens because of how we invest our human energy, and it always has since we came down from the trees.
Everyone’s got a margin of discretionary energy — ten percent, twenty percent — that isn’t used up making their way in the world. That’s the energy that’s available for social change.”
Daniel Taylor of Future Generation. Via.

How do you use your energy, and how much do you have left to help us move on to a next, more sustaining level?
Managing energy is one of the most important thing in our current times – we must each day, more and more, consciously choose to whom and how we’ll share this precious resource, our energy, which was for years sucked out without us noticing.
Managing energy means to carefully select our activities, manage our time, our health, our creativity. As a freelance or full time worker, it is a question we’re all facing: how much money are worth your hours? How much money is worth your energy? Your health and well being? Are all these hours worked really worth? Is there not a more creative and healthy way to spend your time and energy?
Among the most common time and energy sucking activities are an employer needing you more than 35 hours per week, friends or family meetings leaving you empty, shopping in a quest to find something that will fill the emptiness, over cleaning the house every week inside and outside, and tv watching.
All this precious time could be used in a creative way, to make small and big changes.
As i wrote some days ago, our present culture does not emphasize free and quiet time. Instead, we are pushed to fill the agenda until there is not a minute left to be alone in silence, or to have some time to think and take new actions, on a personal or community level, towards a brighter future. Having a lot of free time might be seen as not usual, wrong, as if someone would be out of a system, not worthy, slacking and even depressed.
You must ask yourself, who is ruling your life?
Become your own authority, be more aware of where and how you want to spend your energy, your health, and your time. We’ll all have to make choices, what will yours be?
Posted: April 8th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Daily thoughts, Sustainability, health & wellness | 3 Comments »
Here is a jazzy music mix by Gilles Peterson, should help you to slow down a little!

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Posted: April 3rd, 2008 | Author: chris car | Filed under: Music, health & wellness | 1 Comment »

To Slow Down is a must, and if i omit, my body does remember me.
I’ll be slow blogging for the next days, as i must rest from yet another sinus cold. I know i could buy cheap-but-strong medicine, this way i could continue to run and run, ignoring my body’s urge to rest, my soul’s need for calm, but i’d rather choose to just stop and rest. I know this is luxury, since resting and relaxing are really expensive medicine these days, one that just a few can afford.
To learn to relax – through meditation, yoga, sports, traveling – will be a much needed activity in the coming years, as stress is becoming the number 1 disease in our culture. On this, i wish you all to be able to Slow Down a little, ’till i get back on my feet.
Posted: April 3rd, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Daily thoughts, health & wellness | 4 Comments »
Plongeons-nous un peu plus dans les petits soins – connaissez-vous l’Herbier?

« Les Soins Corporels l’Herbier offrent des produits de grande qualité, faits à la main au coeur du village de Mont-Saint-Grégoire en Montérégie. Cette entreprise québécoise opte pour des méthodes artisanales en utilisant des matières premières naturelles, biologiques, équitables et biodégradables dans le respect de la nature, de l’environnement et du corps humain.
Les Soins Corporels l’Herbier collaborent avec les producteurs locaux et les travailleurs de petites coopératives qui fournissent des actifs végétaux exempts de produits chimiques nuisibles (pesticides, herbicides, colorants artificiels, etc.). L’ensemble de ces démarches poursuit un but précis : favoriser le bien-être de tous et chacun tout en maintenant un rapport harmonieux avec la nature, dans une logique de développement durable. »
Je vous propose de débuter vos achats avec la Crème pour le corps à l’érable – miam, un délice qui peut très bien servir de crème à main. Leur liste de produits est disponible en ligne.

Pour savoir où acheter, voir leurs
points de vente (à Montréal: Rachel Berri, La maison verte, Tau). L’achat à distance est un peu complexe, mais possible via un bon de commande en pdf sur le site de l’Herbier.
Nous pourrons plus tard cet été vous donner plus de détails lors de notre visite sur place
Posted: March 26th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: Green products, health & wellness | No Comments »



Maintenant déménagé dans les locaux de l’ancien Sergent Recruteur, le nouvel emplacement du Spa Espace Nomad à Montréal est tout simplement magnifique – vous ne voudrez plus laisser cet oasis de paix!
L’entreprise cofondée par Julie et Marie-Ève célèbre ses 4 années d’existence avec un nouvel emplacement au coeur du plateau Mont-Royal. Ont sait que les premières années d’une entreprise ne sont pas les plus faciles, alors chapeau à elles!
Truc écono: la promotion 3 certificats-cadeaux pour le prix de 2.
Et sinon, profitez des récentes trouvailles de voyage de Julie, cofondatrice passionnée des soins holistiques, qui a rapporté de Bali des secrets bien gardés: gâtez-vous avec le soin beauté et détente Bali Boreh – sûrement mon prochain achat!
Posted: March 26th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: health & wellness | 3 Comments »
En cette fin d’hiver dans la grisaille, on est content de retrouver les
certificats cadeaux offrants 3 massages pour le prix de 2 chez Espace Nomade… *soupir*
Posted: March 20th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: health & wellness | No Comments »
heal your next cold with a
natural yogi remedy which should kick the virus out: 1 fist size chunk of ginger, boiled with 16 black pepper corn for 20 minutes – sweeten with honey and a decent amount of milk, drink over the day.
Posted: March 19th, 2008 | Author: m-c | Filed under: health & wellness | 4 Comments »
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