<![CDATA[Ocean Tides Health Collective - News/Promotions/Blog]]>Wed, 01 May 2024 14:05:39 -0700Weebly<![CDATA[Ramblings of a seeker]]>Fri, 26 May 2023 17:19:15 GMThttp://tidescollective.ca/newspromotionsblog/ramblings-of-a-seekerby David Laurin
Did you know that willow bark contains the active ingredient in aspirin? How do you think people knew how to make aspirin from willow bark?

We used to know stuff about nature. Lots of stuff. Somehow, either through shear intuition — intuitive knowledge coming from who knows where — or through perspicacious trial and error across eons; we knew that a willow bark concoction could cure certain ails. And we probably used the root for something else. Who knows.

And so it is that through knowing the thing even better through the scientific process, we were able to isolate and reproduce —massively so— the helpful compound. But isn’t strange that through this intense knowing process we have lost much knowledge from nature? The people who know how to chemically create aspirin are so far removed from us when compared to the old medicine man or woman who would boil tree bark into a brew for your illness, or chew leaves and slap them on your wound, or crack your bones back in place when you fell.

And so, we have lost connection with nature, and yet we are still very much dependent on it for survival. The difference is: the knowledge is far removed instead being close by. There is a certain sense of insecurity that comes from feeling removed from the knowledge. If something were to wrong with society, how would we know how to grow food? Make medicine from nature? Find safety from the elements? The truth is many would suffer and die, and they will if things go to shit. We have conquered nature in the sense that nobody needs to know much about it these days, but the colonization of nature has made us vulnerable to social instability. If our society crumbles, we’re basically fucked.

Does that sound like some unconscious stress people are carrying around? You  betcha. Sorry I’ll try to watch my language. But people know subconsciously that their comfort and survival is standing on shaky ground.


What’s crazy too is that if society crumbles and we lose the ability to use our specialized knowledge, we don’t have the basic knowledge to survive effectively. We would be starting again much farther below the people whose land we colonized. Our knowledge would go to almost zero, where they had thousands of years of knowledge accumulated  through thousands of years. And I believe Europeans actually maybe still have some ancient knowledge about their land more than we have in North America, where we arrived and took over the people who had the ancient knowledge about this land. The land is important. We rely on it for survival if organized, specialized, modern society crumbles. We are maybe learning this now and I hope we encourage the First Nations people’s to be empowered to promote their generational knowledge. Though I fear much knowledge has already been lost.


This whole diatribe was inspired by the book Amercian Gods by Neil Gaiman.
]]><![CDATA[Honoring our Elders in Care through presence and Craniosacral Therapy]]>Mon, 20 Jan 2020 21:36:53 GMThttp://tidescollective.ca/newspromotionsblog/honoring-our-elders-in-care-through-presence-and-craniosacral-therapy
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By Shawn Matyczuk

For the last decade in life I’ve worked closely with some of the most unique and amazing elders living and dying within long term care. I’ve held space as a chef, a nurse, a manager leading and mentoring staff, massage specialist and Registered Craniosacral therapist.
The opportunity to manage a fully remodeled boutique style care home in the heart of James Bay, not only gave me the chance to build an amazing resident focused care home, but the ability be in service catering to our residents. We created the comforts of home, meals, personalized fruit plates, breakfast to order and daily walks along the ocean. The staff were highly involved with our residents and engaged in daily activities and reminiscing. Our residents shared meal times with staff creating a family style atmosphere, residents kept their weight (some gaining a few pounds), our residents were heard and with added love thrived.
It felt as though I was surrounded by my grandparents, the energy was buzzing daily with music from Doris Day to Classical concerts. In time each resident began to continue their path on the journey towards the unknown realm. My therapeutic background gave me the ability to incorporate daily craniosacral therapy or "Cranial Osteopathy" and for some light massage therapy with a osteopathy approach.
Osteopathy definition is using a drug-free, non-invasive form of manual medicine that focuses on the health of the whole body, not just the injured or affected part. The focus being on the joints, muscles, fascia, cranial and sacral bones along with the spine. The treatment aims to positively affect the body’s nervous system, circulatory and lymphatic systems.
This was a true gift, to be able to be present with each resident as they made their passage towards the light. Over the many years within the home the numbers of resident passing would increase but so did the numbers of passages without pain, without the use of narcotics or medications. Residents were able to be an active participant in their death process and share their final moments clear with families at bed side.
This work has been such an amazing journey into the present. Deciding to step away as a manager and assist in the opening of Ocean Tides Health Collective, gives me the ability to work with all ages of people meeting them on their path towards better health, vitality and wellness. Everyday, now feels like a day at the beach, surfing through life, and it’s tides.
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By Shawn Matyczuk
]]><![CDATA[Summer PROMO Jeff Conway-Jones]]>Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:34:39 GMThttp://tidescollective.ca/newspromotionsblog/summer-promo-jeff-conway-jonesJUNE: New clients will receive $10 off initial treatment (limited availabile) who book in with Jeff.
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