We hope your start to the year 2024 has been great so far. Recognizing we may experiences difficult times during these winter months, SD8 Aboriginal Education shares these Indigenous Wellness Resources.

Staff in Aboriginal Education in SD8 Kootenay Lake share the following tips for keeping healthy and well during the winter months:

• cold dips in the lake or creek, or cold showers
• having a sauna, a hot steam, a hot bath
• tobogganing with family and friends
• snowshoe or cross country ski adventures
• walking and being out on the Land
• offering tobacco to the Land
• listening to a favourite podcast or book 
• reading a favourite book again
• journalling
• listening to Indigenous music and musicians
• getting to that moccasin, beadwork, ribbon skirt, ribbon shirt, regalia handwork
• listening to Elders in community, or virtually
• working on learning your traditional language
• connecting with medicines that have been gathered during the year
• having a fire

What tips would you share for keeping healthy and well in the winter?