November 01, 2019

The Village Clinic is excited to announce that we are having our annual November Challenge! Thank you to everyone who joined us on our November Challenge last year, it was such as success! This year's theme is “Creating Connections and Spreading Kindness”. This includes focusing on the physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and health of yourself and others.

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Our goal is to help you to connect and be kinder to yourself, which will in turn help you do the same for others such as your family, friends and community. How you choose to do that can be up to you; please feel free to send us any of your ideas!

Click here for some suggestions and examples to help you get you started. Remember; it takes a village!

We hope to see you join us in our November Challenge this year! We often forget how crucial connection, with our family, friends, and community and even ourselves, is to our wellbeing. Our goal is to make those connections, and use those to spread as much joy and kindness as we can. Remember, there are endless ways for this to be done, so do whatever feels right to you, or take some inspiration from our ideas. We are excited to take on this challenge with you, together as a community! Here’s to a month of positive change, self improvement and connection!

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To sign up; email us at info@thevillageclinic.com, subject line 'Join November Challenge'

We will then send you the information on the challenge. We look forward to hearing from you! Any questions, call us at 778-434-3072

October 03, 2019

Mat Pilates with Julie Mitobe, BASI certified

Every Thursday evening

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6:15pm-7:15pm 

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$25 per class

Packages also available

Pre-registration required - click here to register. 

Drop ins welcome, space permitting

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Join Julie Mitobe for her amazing Mat Pilates classes at The Village Clinic every Thursday evening at 6:15pm. Mat Pilates is performed equipment-free, with the moves adapted to work with just your body and a mat for cushioning and support.

Through Mat Pilates you’ll learn how to stretch and strengthen your body, primarily the muscles of the core. Toning, flexibility, better posture, more efficient movement and a healthier body/mind connection can all be achieved through mat work.

Let BASI certified Mat Pilates instructor Julie Mitobe show you first-hand how pilates can improve your life.

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For a full class schedule visit T7Pilates.com

24hr cancellation required

January 27, 2020

Next one is January 27th - 'Murder On The Orient Express' by Agatha Christie

6:30pm-8:30pm

$10.00 pre-registration required

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Register here for January book club.

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Join Nikita Bhatty Avdic, certified school psychologist, for the Village Clinic Book Club, an evening of shared love of literature, connection and reflection.

Register for any book of interest, several choices or all of them!  Books can be purchased at Albany Books for a 15% discount upon proof of registration. Although Nikita strongly recommends that the books be read in time for book club discussion, it is not necessary to read the book beforehand. Just come and enjoy!

Book Club Selections:

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January 27th 2020 - 'Murder On The Orient Express' by Agatha Christie

After you're done with the Christmas festivities, Nikita hopes you will settle in with this extraordinary work by the world's most widely read authors...Murder on the Orient Express is undoubtedly one of Agatha Christie's greatest mystery novels. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment.  Isolated and with a killer in their midst, detective Hercule Poirot must identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

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Register here for January book club.

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March 30th - 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coelho

Just in time for spring, Nikita would like to share a personal favorite, The Alchemist...written by Paulo Coelho which continues to change the lives of its readers forever. With more than two million copies sold around the world, The Alchemist has established itself as a modern classic, universally admired. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found. The story teaches us, as only a few stories can, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams.

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Register here for March book club

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May 25th - 'Woo, The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr' by Emily Carr

In keeping with her fondness for literature that honors the human-animal bond, Nikita has chosen a contemporary read in this beautiful account of Emily Carr and her monkey Woo. Although Emily Carr is now considered a Canadian legend, the most enduring image is that of her pushing a beat-up old pram into downtown Victoria, loaded with dogs, cats, birds—and a monkey. Woo, a Javanese macaque whom Carr adopted in 1923, has become inextricably linked with Carr in the popular imagination. Welcoming the mischievous Woo into her life, Carr also welcomed a freedom that allowed a full blooming of artistic expression and gave Canada and the world great art unlike any other before or since.