On Saturday 20th May Lalor Library offer a warm welcome ‘Wominjeka’, to the ‘Live Well Expo’. This day is full of fun, wellness, natural therapies and exhibitors!
Good health, wellbeing, and meaningful social connection give us the opportunity to live full, strong, flourishing lives. It is up to us as individuals, organisations and community to work together. All Yarra Plenty Regional Library branches offer a safe welcoming space and provide digital resources and access. Best of all your local library is FREE. The expo will be full of fun for everyone, and we cannot wait to see you and your family on Saturday 20 May from 11.00am to 4.00pm.
Living Well in Lalor will showcase exhibitors and partners from U3A, DPV Health, Mental Health @ the Men’s Shed, Crystal Readings, Mortgage Stress & Financial Services Presentations and much more. The Wellness Expo is a great way to read, learn, create, connect and live well in your community.
Events include:
- U3A demonstrations on card making, genealogy, line dancing, exercise, crochet, sale of craft items.
- DPV Health presentation on ‘My Aged Care’ website. Advise on how to access aged care accommodation and services
- Coats for Kindness, need a warm winter coat, pick up one of our donations
- Lalor Men’s Shed discuss mental health and belonging to a group
- Crystal readings
- Mortgage Stress presentation
- Whittlesea Community Connections presenting on Financial Services
- COW EY information table
- First Nations Storytime
Partners:
Some items of interest:
The Wellness Zone: Your Guide for Optimal Wellness
Do you understand your body and what to do when you are exposed to illness? The Wellness Zone is here to empower you to look after the health of you and your family with natural home-based solutions. This book guides you through simple practices that can often prevent, treat and help you recover from common health problems using diet, herbs, nutritional medicines, rest, exercise and some old-fashioned remedies that are right at hand in your kitchen!
Mental Fitness: Maximising Mood, Motivation & Mental Wellness by Optimizing the Brain-Body Biome
Achieve a balanced mood, clear thinking, and abundant energy through transformative methods based on ground-breaking research on the gut-heart-brain-axis. Depression, anxiety, and burnout are the plague of modern times. Mental wellness issues afflict millions of people worldwide and account for billions of dollars spent on pharmaceuticals and 'feel better' products. Unfortunately, most of these solutions make us feel 'different' but not really 'better', and certainly not how we want to feel. Nurturing the Brain-Body-Biome is the superhighway to improve physical energy, mental acuity, and emotional well-being through nutrition, movement, and mindset.
Wellness by Design: A room-by-room guide to optimizing your home for health, fitness and happiness
Design your home to optimize your healthy lifestyle with this room-by-room guide from certified kitchen designer and wellness design consultant Jamie Gold. Like a lot of folks these days, you’re committed to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. You watch your diet, stay active, meditate, and surround yourself with positive people. So why should your home be any different? Residential designer Jamie Gold has spent years defining the exciting new field of wellness design, which explores how simple changes to things like lighting, fixtures, storage, and outdoor space can make a huge difference in how you feel every day.
The Inside Day: A book about Wellbeing
Milly and her friends love being outside - it helps them to be at their best and to feel sunny on the inside - but a rainy day ruins their outdoor play. Will they be able to find ways to be at their best inside their classroom and to feel at their best inside themselves? This gorgeous picture book shows how being present in the moment encourages and strengthens healthy bodies and minds
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