Why Choose Etana Wellness?

Nestled in the heart of Canmore, Etana Wellness is more than just a massage clinic. We specialize in therapeutic treatments that blend advanced techniques with a holistic approach, helping you recover, relax, and thrive. From sports massage and injury recovery to deep relaxation, our team of experienced therapists is here to support your well-being.

What’s the Weekday Locals Discount?

Here’s how it works:

10% off all massage and treatments – Monday to Thursday only
Valid for residents of Canmore, Harvie Heights, Banff, Dead Man’s Flats, and Exshaw.
Simply show proof of residency when you arrive for your appointment
Cannot be combined with other promotions or discounts

It’s our way of saying thank you for being part of the Bow Valley community!

The Benefits of Regular Massage for Locals

Living in the Bow Valley means balancing work, outdoor adventures, and family life. Massage therapy is a powerful way to:

• Reduce stress and improve mental clarity
• Relieve muscle tension from hiking, skiing, biking, or everyday life
• Enhance recovery from injuries or chronic pain
• Support overall wellness and energy levels

Book Your Locals Discount Massage Today!

Ready to treat yourself to a rejuvenating massage? Our team is ready to help you feel your best—whether you’re dealing with sore muscles from the slopes or just need a little extra care.

How to book:
Simply visit our online booking page or give us a call. Don’t forget to mention you’re a local to claim your discount!

We look forward to welcoming you to Etana Wellness and helping you find balance, relaxation, and healing right here in our beautiful mountain home.

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Sleep.

Are you getting enough? 
What happens to the body when you’re not getting enough sleep?

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Disruption of circadian rhythm
• Impaired cognition
• Higher risk of hypertension
• Higher risk of stroke
• Higher risk of heart disease
• Increased risk of breast cancer
• Higher risk of diabetes
• Unhealthy cravings
• Higher risk of injury

Now, what can you do to change this? LOTS! Some may work…and some may not. You kinda have to try them out and see what works for you. Here are a few things you can try:

• Massage
• Meditation
• Incorporating physical activity into your day
• Lymphatic Drainage
• Yoga/Yoga Nidra
• Sex (ha! Yep, I said it!)
• Walks in nature
• Time spent with loved ones
• Sleep with your phone in another room
• No Electronics past a certain time (an hours or so before bedtime)
• Have a bed time routine. (washing face, brushing teeth, mediation)
• Cut back on caffeine

Do you have any tricks you like to use when you can’t sleep? I’d love to hear them on our facebook page! 

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I’ve been asked a lot lately about what I do to meditate. So I thought I’d share with you all in one quick blog post

These days I’m finding it difficult to practice my Vipassana mediation of completely clearing my mind and focusing on my breath. So I have created this for myself instead. It gives my mind something to focus on and at the end I feel incredible! It really sets the tone for the whole day.

Here we go

One – The Breath

I start by clearing my mind and solely observing my breath. Some days I am able to do this quite well. These days, I cannot.  When I have a busy day ahead, its sometimes very hard to let my mind rest and all I’m able to do is 3-5 breaths without my mind wondering, to be honest.

I aim for 1 minute. But I let myself off the hook if Its too much of a struggle and just try to focus on 3-5 belly breaths just to steady my breathing.

Two – Positive Thoughts

I have created a mantra for myself.  Or a series of really positive things I say.

For example:

I am present. I am grounded. I am healthy. I am happy. I am strong inside and out. I am financially abundant. I am kind. I am humble. I am successful.

I will even add specific stuff like:

I do 17 massages/week. I do 4 spray tans/week. I sell 2 personal training packages/month.

I say this at least 3 times in a row. Sometimes more if I am in a funky mood or tired. And If I’m even having trouble focusing on this I say them out loud to help.

Three – Gratitude

I sit and think of all the things I’m grateful for. And I don’t just think of them…. I feel them! I smile. Sometimes I cry because it makes me so happy and I’m so freakin grateful

Four – Grounding

I ground myself.  If I’m seated I feel the floor under my feet or the chair under my bum. If I’m laying on the ground I feel the floor under my body.

That’s it! This usually takes between 5-10 minutes to start my day.

Try it and tell me what you think

Happy Friday everyone!

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Its been a long time coming, I know. The anticipation has been killing you lol

Sorry for the delay.

I spent quite some time trying recipes for kale chips to find my favorite one…. And here it is!

Ingredients 

There ya have it! Enjoy! <3

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It is a deeply relaxing treatment using the application of therapeutic essential oils to the feet, back and neck.

My clients call this treatment “Relax to the MAX treatment” lol

It begins with applying the oils to the Vita Flex points along the arches of the feet.

The Vita Flex technique was developed by the Tibetans thousands of years ago, even before acupuncture. Its literal meaning is “vitality through the reflexes”.

Next, the oils are dispenses like little “raindrops” along the spine and worked into the skin with feather like strokes.

All while laying atop a jade stone infrared heating pad!! So cozy! OHHHH YAAAA

Benefits to a Raindrop Therapy treatment:

1. Reduces Back Pain – The analgesic ingredients in the essential oils help reduce pain and discomfort.

2. Helps Relief Stress – Therapeutic essential oils have a normalizing effect on the nervous system making them ideal for reducing stress, anxiety and tension.
The oils can immediately penetrate cell membranes and diffuse through the blood and tissues instantly in a matter of seconds! The oils also cross the brain-blood barrier and effect the limbic system (the Amygdale) parts of the brain that control our mood, behavior and emotions. So if you’ve lost your “Joie de Vivre” Raindrop therapy will have you smiling and back to your normal self in no time!

3. Relaxes Muscles – These oils and techniques relax muscles that are sore, spastic or stressed. Basil, wintergreen, marjoram, cypress and peppermint essential oils help with all the common muscle conditions.

4. Helps Reduce Inflammation – World wide studies have identified several essential oils as powerful anti-inflammatory agents. These include wintergreen, peppermint and thyme.

5. Helps to Improve Circulation – Essential oils can be most beneficial in boosting circulation due to oxygenating properties. The essential oils of cypress, thyme, marjoram and peppermint all have properties that increase circulation and act as a circulatory stimulant.

6. Helps to Detox the Body Systems – These therapeutic oils used in Raindrop therapy are high in phenols hence, cleanse cellular receptor sites and can enhance the lymphatic system.

7. Helps improve Immune function – Thyme and oregano essential oils are known to support the immune system. These oils create an unfavorable environment for harmful viruses and bacteria that can hibernate and lay dormant in the body.

Come try it out!

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A great way to help manage stress in the body is to receive a massage.

Benefits of Massage Therapy for Stress

• Decrease heart rate
• Decrease blood pressure
• Decrease cortisol levels (stress hormone)
• Improve sleep
• Relax muscles to reduce muscle tension and tension headaches
• Reduce anxiety and depression
• Increased endorphins (your body’s natural “feel-good” chemical)
• Serotonin and dopamine are released (helping you to feel calm and relaxed)

What happens to the body in times of stress?

Short-term:

• Adrenaline boosts your heart rate
• Cortisol levels increase blood sugar
• Energy is diverted away from digestive system and immune responses

Long-term:

• The body goes into fight-or-flight response
• Headaches
• Upset stomach
• Elevated blood pressure
• Chest pain
• Problems sleeping
• Behavior changes (such as angry outbursts, drug and alcohol abuse, social withdrawal)
• Mood changes (Anxiety, irritability or anger, lack of motivation or focus, sadness or depression)
• Body Changes (Chest pain, fatigue, headache, decreased sex drive, interrupted sleep)

What is fight or flight?

When our fight or flight system is activated, we tend to perceive everything in our environment as a possible threat to our survival. By its very nature, the fight or flight system bypasses our rational mind—where our more well thought out beliefs exist—and moves us into “attack” mode. This state of alert causes us to perceive almost everything in our world as a possible threat to our survival. As such, we tend to see everyone and everything as a possible enemy. We may overreact to the slightest comment. Our fear is exaggerated. Our thinking is distorted. We see everything through the filter of possible danger. We narrow our focus to those things that can harm us. Fear becomes the lens through which we see the world.

Sustained fight-or-flight response can cause problems. In fact, constant stress actually becomes “distress” — a negative stress reaction.  We can begin to see how it is almost impossible to cultivate positive attitudes and beliefs when we are stuck in survival mode. Our heart is not open. Our rational mind is disengaged. Our consciousness is focused on fear, not love. Making clear choices and recognizing the consequences of those choices is unfeasible. We are focused on short-term survival, not the long-term consequences of our beliefs and choices. When we are overwhelmed with excessive stress, our life becomes a series of short-term emergencies. We lose the ability to relax and enjoy the moment. We live from crisis to crisis, with no relief in sight. Burnout is inevitable.

See what I mean?

SO BOOK IN FOR A MASSAGE!!

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I’ve always known that eating healthy can prevent diseases and health problems.  But, I had no idea the impact my eating healthy would have in REVERSING my health problems.

In 2012, I was told that I had to start taking thyroid medication for Hypothyroidism.  This is when your thyroid is under active.  I was sleeping all the time and couldn’t control my weight.  This is a common thing for the women on my moms side of the family.   This, sadly, didn’t spark my quest for proper nutrition and living a healthier lifestyle.  It wasn’t until I was told I had skin cancer (Melanoma), that I began looking into what I was putting in my mouth.

Exercise had always been a huge part of my life.  But my nutrition was so terrible! I ate to not feel hungry….and that was pretty much the extent to my thought process when making a meal for myself.  It was usually something very quick and easy as I didn’t like to cook.  Or spend a lot of money on food.  I had a terrible relationship with food.  With directly linking self worth to body size, and using restricted dieting as my way of achieving this, I hated food! I hated my body!

Oh man. So sad to see this is writing.  But it is the blunt truth.

Ultimately, I decided to start focusing on my nutrition.  First, I began looking into what foods could help prevent cancer, as this is what really scared me the most.  Then, it just snow balled.  I began to notice that it wasn’t JUST nutrition it was my way of thinking that was ultimately making me sick. I started questioning why I even hated my body to begin with? Where did that come from? I started to recognize eating patters, or should I say, non-eating patterns, during times of turmoil or stress in my life.  This lead to taking all 3 levels of Reiki to heal myself from the inside out.  And then… BOOM! This beautiful, healthy, white light of love surrounded me.  I felt love.  Self love.  All my dimples…all my roles. None of that really matters anymore.  My body is incredible.  The things it can do when I put it to the test, the way it heals itself, all of the mind blowing organ systems working systematically to keep me trucking day in and day out. I mean WOW!

After that, nothing was more important than fueling my body with goodness! Healthy whole foods and lots of it! The more the better!  I didn’t want to focus on calories or how much weight I would gain by doing so.  I just wanted to eat.  With no intention of  restriction or caring of the consequences.  MY GAWD HOW FREEING.

And the most awesome things have started to happen.  My body weight hasn’t really changed as much as I thought it would.  I have more energy, sleep like the dead, my hair grows like a weed, my skin…well its still dry.  Who am I kidding, its Alberta! lol And to top it all off, my thyroid is kicking back in on its own!!! I mean, how freakin cool is that?!

I am literally reversing all the damage I did to my metabolism and thyroid from my terrible eating habits over the last 20 years. That’s right…reversing it. Whoot Whoot!

Please Please Please reach out if you are going through the same/similar thing! I would love to hear of your struggles with health and nutrition….AND the wins!

End rant.

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