Dear all,

I’m involved in group that is piloting a free wellness and skill sharing program during the month of May to help connect Canberrans for improved mental health and wellbeing. There will be a range of sessions available for free, including Qigong, meditation, dance, yoga and many more. The current program with can be found here: https://canberrawellnessexchange.com/wellness-session-schedule

I will be running a nature-based breathing meditation on Thursdays at 12:30pm-1:15pm. If you’d like to join the session you can join via this zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83334874933

(More information can be found via the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/221496669304297/)

To give some background - we are part of a Mutual Community Aid network in Canberra; locals self-organising to support one another. A special mental health and wellness offshoot has formed out of this network ("Mutual Aid Mental Health and Safety" group). Those of us in the group are particularly passionate about wellness and have particular concerns about peoples’ mental health as a result of physical isolation during the pandemic. We have just launched a website ("The Canberra Wellness Exchange") with wellness information for local people in Canberra. We are hoping this program can help provide an avenue for people to learn, share and connect with other Canberrans, and also access and experience a range of different wellness modalities and techniques that are very complimentary to mainstream care.

We will also be posting events on the facebook page, which you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/events/170126820953519/

Let us know if there are other offerings you’d like to see on the program.

Hope to see you there!

Best wishes,

Lisa