Slow Wellness was created as a a response to the increasing levels of anxiety, burnout, and overwhelm felt by so many.

SLOW THE world DOWN

Our approach is designed for modern lives, curated with intention to help you slow-down and self-regulate.

Slow Wellness combines evidence-backed neuroscience and physiology with ancient wisdom from self-care and mindfulness techniques that date back thousands of years. This is a form of effort less mindfulness and meditation that prioritizes physical and mental well-being with things like rest, sustainable practices, and nervous system regulation in a way that is sustainable, inclusive, and accessible.

The philosophy is an integrative approach to well-being that embraces the qualities of mindfulness and the value of rituals to help us slow down and become more intentional about our inner, outer, and higher well-being.

The Pathways

Central to the Slow Wellness approach is the exploration of three core pathways - the inner, outer, and higher aspects of Self. The pathways are how we reduce overwhelm and give ourselves permission to care for ourselves the best we can based on our current capacity and desires.


Our approach is intentional in it’s design. Each pathway invites you to place your focus or attention on one aspect of your Self, with an understanding that each pathway influences the other. Actions you take towards caring for one pathway, positively impacts the others.

  • Inner self practices balance caring for the mind with caring for the body. The intention is to nurture the central nervous system and develop the skills to self-regulate.

  • Outer self care help us cultivate the art of rituals in our daily lives. The power of rituals is not found in the specific activity, but in the power these activities can have on transforming the mind and body.

    At first glance, Outer self-care may seem superficial, but it may also serve as a gateway to deeper and more transformative self-healing.

  • The Higher Self is the aspect of ourselves we cannot see. Higher self-practices draw inspiration from ancient wisdom and modern science to help us understand the why behind how we see ourselves and how we move through the world while connecting us to our sense of purpose and intuition.

THE PATHWAYS

The pathways aim to help simplify and reduce the overwhelm of health and wellness by narrowing your focus. All of the pathways are interconnected. If you can only focus on one pathway, your efforts will positively influence the others. As your capacity expands, you can add more practices to each pathway for more shifts and impact.

I believe it’s possible to master our well-being in a sustainable and inclusive way. My laid-back approach celebrates quality and consistency over quantity, humanity over hustle culture, and mindfulness over autopilot.

I created this philosophy because this way of caring for myself completely changed how I moved - in my body and through my life. It was a personal approach I developed to help deal with the imbalances and disregulation — anxiety, overwhelm, bouts of depression, and low self-esteem. When I couldn’t find the solution among the options available to me I decided to create one that worked for me, and shared my insights with my community.

— MELISSA