The Spiritual Essence of the Spine
By Marian Egan and Dr Michelle Greenwell, CIH BioEW

Artfilled Wellness: Frequency in Motion invites you to experience the spine not simply as structure, but as a dynamic pathway for movement, awareness, creativity, and whole-person wellbeing.

Volume 1, The Spiritual Essence of the Spine, brings together beautiful original artwork, BioEnergetic Wellness concepts, movement exploration, music, reflection, and intention. Designed to inspire personal discovery, the book offers a unique way to explore how movement, sound, colour, imagery, and focused awareness can become part of everyday wellness.

Created by artist Marian Egan and Dr Michelle Greenwell, CIH BioEW, this volume is also the companion book for the complete Movement and Music for Well-Being 2 program. The program expands the pages into 12 weeks of guided movement and music video explorations, allowing you to experience the concepts in your own time and discover a deeper relationship with movement and the body’s capacity for organization, adaptation, and wellbeing.

The complete program also features the Spiritual Essence of the Spine research bringing connection to muscle, organ, element, emotion, and movement. Also, underlying the integrating movement, music, art, intention, reflection, and BioEnergetic Wellness principles into an experiential journey, there is an exploration of natures connection through photography shared by Tanya Levy, MSW, and herbs in the tea highlighted each week from the Teas with Intention at the Cape Breton Tea Company. At the end of 12 weeks is the opportunity to celebrate the transformational journey with skills and tools to carry into your daily self-care plan.

Choose the experience that is right for you: purchase the book on its own, or purchase the complete Movement and Music 2 program. Program participants can choose to receive the companion book as either an e-book or hardcopy, making it easy to read, reflect, create, and move alongside the 12-week video series.

Whether you begin with the book or immerse yourself in the complete program, Artfilled Wellness offers an invitation to explore movement differently—not simply as exercise, but as a creative resource for awareness, resilience, and a living ecology of wellbeing.

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The Spiritual Essence of the Spine
By Marian Egan and Dr Michelle Greenwell, CIH BioEW

Artfilled Wellness: Frequency in Motion invites you to experience the spine not simply as structure, but as a dynamic pathway for movement, awareness, creativity, and whole-person wellbeing.

Volume 1, The Spiritual Essence of the Spine, brings together beautiful original artwork, BioEnergetic Wellness concepts, movement exploration, music, reflection, and intention. Designed to inspire personal discovery, the book offers a unique way to explore how movement, sound, colour, imagery, and focused awareness can become part of everyday wellness.

Created by artist Marian Egan and Dr Michelle Greenwell, CIH BioEW, this volume is also the companion book for the complete Movement and Music for Well-Being 2 program. The program expands the pages into 12 weeks of guided movement and music video explorations, allowing you to experience the concepts in your own time and discover a deeper relationship with movement and the body’s capacity for organization, adaptation, and wellbeing.

The complete program also features the Spiritual Essence of the Spine research bringing connection to muscle, organ, element, emotion, and movement. Also, underlying the integrating movement, music, art, intention, reflection, and BioEnergetic Wellness principles into an experiential journey, there is an exploration of natures connection through photography shared by Tanya Levy, MSW, and herbs in the tea highlighted each week from the Teas with Intention at the Cape Breton Tea Company. At the end of 12 weeks is the opportunity to celebrate the transformational journey with skills and tools to carry into your daily self-care plan.

Choose the experience that is right for you: purchase the book on its own, or purchase the complete Movement and Music 2 program. Program participants can choose to receive the companion book as either an e-book or hardcopy, making it easy to read, reflect, create, and move alongside the 12-week video series.

Whether you begin with the book or immerse yourself in the complete program, Artfilled Wellness offers an invitation to explore movement differently—not simply as exercise, but as a creative resource for awareness, resilience, and a living ecology of wellbeing.

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Qi YINtegration: BioEnergetic Habits

A 12-Week Exploration of the Energy We Create Through Daily Living

What if well-being is not only something we practice, but something we create through the way we live?

Every day, we are creating the conditions for our well-being. How we breathe, move, eat, rest, think, interact, focus and respond to our surroundings can support vitality and flow—or gradually contribute to patterns of depletion and stagnation. Qi YIN Integration: BioEnergetic Habits is a 12-week experiential series designed to help you become curious about the energetic patterns hidden within everyday life. Rather than focusing on “good” or “bad” habits, we will explore a different set of questions:

What gives me energy? What uses energy? What helps my energy move? What helps me renew?

Each week, we will explore a different dimension of daily living through movement, breath, posture, Five Element theory, biofield awareness, Figure 8 patterns, intention, sound, colour, nature, creativity and other approaches developed through the Qi YINtegration series.Together, we will investigate areas such as structural organization and posture; breath and rhythm; nourishment and hydration; movement; emotional patterns; attention and mental load; relationships and environments; Five Element habits; creativity and joy; rest, recovery and renewal.The emphasis is on awareness through experience. You will have opportunities to notice what changes in your own posture, breathing, movement, attention, emotional state and sense of vitality as we experiment with simple ways of influencing energetic flow.

Each week will also introduce a small BioEnergetic Habit Experiment that can be incorporated into daily life. These are not about adding another task to your wellness routine. Instead, they invite you to discover how small shifts within activities you are already doing may change the energetic ecology of your day.

Over the 12 weeks, you will begin creating your own BioEnergetic Habit Map, recognizing the experiences that tend to:

ENERGIZE • CREATE FLOW • CONTRIBUTE TO STAGNATION • DEPLETE

The goal is not to create a perfect wellness routine. It is to develop greater awareness of your own patterns and discover practical ways to encourage flow, adaptability, renewal and well-being throughout everyday life.

By the end of the series, you will have explored how your daily choices and experiences interact and layer upon one another—and how you can intentionally create a Living Ecology of Being that supports the way you want to feel, participate and flourish.

12 weeks • 1 hour each week • Experiential learning and exploration  Thursdays 5:30 – 6:30 pm Atlantic. Sept 10, 17, 24, Oct 1, 8, 29, Nov 12, 19, 26, Dec 3, 10, 17 (no class Oct 15, 22, Nov 5)  A zoom link and google drive file will be sent upon registration for the online portal. 

Come curious. Come as you are. And discover what your everyday habits may be telling you about your energy.

What You’ll Explore

Across 12 weeks, we will explore the everyday experiences that contribute to your personal energetic ecology:

Your Energetic Day — Discover where energy expands, flows, becomes stagnant or feels depleted.

Structure Creates Flow — Explore posture, alignment, the spine and the energetic influence of how you organize your body.

Breath, Rhythm & Space — Notice how breathing, pacing, pauses and transitions influence your experience.

Nourishing the Field — Explore hydration, food, tea and sensory nourishment through a bioenergetic lens.

Movement as Energetic Nutrition — Experience how simple movement, spirals, Figure 8s and Tai Chi can support flow throughout the day.

Emotional Energy Habits — Become curious about emotional patterns, holding, expression and recovery.

Attention Is Energy — Explore focus, screens, distraction, thought patterns and mental load.

People, Places & the Biofield — Notice how environments, relationships, boundaries and connection influence your energy.

Five Element Habits — Explore Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water as qualities expressed through everyday living.

Creativity, Joy & Spiritual Vitality — Rediscover the energetic influence of music, art, nature, curiosity, meaning and joy.

Rest, Recovery & Renewal — Explore the difference between stopping and truly creating opportunities for renewal.

Creating Your Living Ecology — Bring your discoveries together to intentionally create daily patterns that support how you want to live and flourish.

You won’t be asked to create a perfect routine or follow someone else’s prescription for wellbeing. Instead, you will develop your ability to notice, experience, experiment and choose.

Your daily life becomes the laboratory—and your own experience becomes an important source of information.

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Discover what can happen when movement, music, intention, tea, art, and awareness come together to create new possibilities for wellbeing.

This unique 12-week recorded program brings together the Award-Winning Unwinding Trauma, Building Resiliency (UTBR) program, Tai Chi, intuitive music, and BioEnergetic Wellness tools to support a gentle exploration of movement, self-awareness, vitality, and resiliency.

Created by Dr Michelle Greenwell, CIH BioEW, Tanya Levy, MSW, and intuitive musician Colin MacLeod, UTBR offers an experiential approach to discovering the resources already available within and around us. Throughout the program, Michelle guides you through seated and standing movement experiences, including an exploration of the first 21 movements of the 108-movement Tai Chi set taught through the tradition of Master Moy Lin Shin.

Alongside the movement, Scottish musician Colin MacLeod plays intuitively, responding to the experience unfolding within each session. Rather than asking you to think your way through every movement, the music provides another way to listen, respond, and explore. Rhythm, melody, vibration, and movement invite you to move beyond overthinking and discover greater ease, flow, and grace.

Each week adds another layer to the experience.

A specially selected tea creates an opportunity to pause, notice, and engage the senses. The Harmony Coasters introduce beautiful original art, affirmations, herbs, and frequencies as additional pathways for exploration. Movement patterns and Tai Chi principles invite discoveries about posture, grounding, the heart center, whole-body organization, and the internal mechanics of moving with less effort.

The BioEnergetic Wellness Formula provides a framework for bringing these discoveries into everyday life, helping you explore how small experiences can become meaningful habits that support your personal wellness journey.

No previous Tai Chi or movement experience is necessary.

Every session includes seated and standing possibilities so that you can choose what works for you. Movements can be made smaller, lighter, slower, or adapted to your available energy. If you are experiencing movement challenges, discomfort, injury, stiffness, or lower energy, you are encouraged to begin gently and explore without striving for performance.

This is not about perfecting a Tai Chi form. It is about discovering how you move. How you listen. How music changes your experience. How your body responds when effort is reduced. And how movement can become an invitation to greater ease, awareness, vitality, and resiliency.

Originally offered live in the spring of 2025, this special program generated wonderful discoveries for both participants and facilitators. We have kept the complete 12-week recording series available so that you can now experience it in your own time, revisit sessions as often as you wish, and allow your discoveries to unfold at your own pace.

Whether you are completely new to Tai Chi, curious about seated Tai Chi, looking for new ways to explore movement, or interested in the award-winning Unwinding Trauma, Building Resiliency program, Movement & Music for Well-Being offers a welcoming place to begin.

Put on the music. Pour your tea. Allow yourself to move.

You may be surprised by what becomes possible when you get out of your head and let movement, music, and awareness lead the way.

Please note: Applicable tax is additional when paying the course fee by e-transfer.

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For more information about Touch for Health, please follow the link to get a full description.

Level 1 will begin Saturday October 12th.  In person muscle monitoring will begin the class, and online classes will resume following that based on the needs of the class.  16 hours of study will be completed, as well as 5 case studies to move on to Level 2.

For those wanting to gain all 4 levels, plus advance with the movement skills added to the studies, please consider the full Touch for Health Synthesis program plus Dr Greenwell enhancements.

The photo shared is with Dr Michelle’s mentor, Dr Gregory Webb, and the Touch for Health posters behind.

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