Nice to meet you!
I’m so happy you’re here. This is the place to get the support you deserve to be on a path of thriving in your health and life.
I’m Dr. Monika Herwig. As a Naturopathic Doctor, Feminine Energy Practitioner, Somatic Coach & Mentor and the Founder of Reignite Your Feminine Fire. I am here to help you reignite your vibrancy and level up your well-being beyond cupboards of vitamins, strict diets and mindset shifts.
Through my own wellness journey, I’ve discovered that reigniting our feminine fire is perhaps the most potent shift a woman can make for her health, hormones (especially in motherhood and midlife!), nervous system, happiness and longevity and this is a core foundation of my naturopathic practice, programs and retreats.
Below you’ll find my 7 minute TEDx style monologue where I share my transformational journey.
Dr. Monika Herwig BSc ND, is a mother, Yoga Therapist, a Somatic-Coaching Acupuncturist, and the Creator of Reignite Your Feminine Fire - a 12 week Transformation Program for NDs and healing professionals. She has been practicing Naturopathic Medicine and running Wellness programs (from cooking and nutrition, to mindfulness for moms and yoga, to wellness programs in schools, to women’s empowerment) in the Bow Valley since 2000.
Dr. Monika includes Somatic (Body-Centered) Coaching in her work. She has completed the Life Coaching Foundations Training and a Women-Centered Transformational Facilitation Training through the Institute of Women Centered Coaching + Leadership. This breakthrough model of women’s life and wellness coaching addresses the challenges and barriers that women currently are bumping up against in a fresh, very effective, embodied and efficient way.
Dr. Monika attracts clients who are keen to take charge of their own health and wish to use natural remedies and a wholehearted, whole person approach. These are women who do not want to go through the motions and settle in life. They want to live their best life, discover and share their gifts and love without burning out in the process. They want to reignite.
They know that their vibrancy and aliveness affects what is possible in all the areas that make for a meaningful life: relationships, work, passion and purpose, creativity, play and fun, creating abundance, living with confidence, life enjoyment! AND so they prioritize getting support in this area.
Dr. Herwig mentors her clients individually as well as with her 3 month kickstarter signature programs Burnout to Bliss for women 35 - 56 years old..
INFLUENTIAL ADVENTURES: EDUCATION AND LIFE
1996 - 1999 - completed 4 year post-graduate naturopathic medicine training at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine
1996 - completed her undergrad at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. focusing on plant and animal ecology. This undergrad degree took her on some self-directed semester projects on herbal medicine in the Mayan villages and glorious Rainforests of Central and South America. She also spent a summer in Bamfield, B.C. focusing on Rainforest Ecology and First Nations Medicine.
2000 - This love of nature drew her and her family to create home in the stunning Bow Valley. Dr. Herwig enjoys travelling and working abroad - in Mexico (at an orphanage), Germany (at a Nature based Spa Hospital) and in Spain (as a teacher).
2003 - 2007 - became a mama of one and then two 💕and loved going deeper in the area of child wellness, development and consciousness (took Waldorf trainings on Early Childhood at Calgary Waldorf, Toronto Waldorf School and in the States and loved my studies with Simplicity Parenting Guru Kim John Payne). This was a time as well of figuring out what most nourished and replenished me in my mothering and I became really interested in the things I would do that would nourish my children and myself at the same time! 🙌 At the end of the day I realized the power of presence, play, rhythm, meal planning, community and nature connection. You are Your Child’s First Teacher, Heaven on Earth and Simplicity Parenting were favourite books and supports!
2008 - Completed 500 hour, 2 year Yoga Teacher Training and incorporates this in her practice and retreats seeing the powerful affect proper breathing and a flexible body brings to all aspects of one's life.
2011 - completed year long Foundations Consciousness Studies Program and Intensive Waldorf Education Teacher Training focused on the well-being of the whole child - body, mind and soul.
2013 - spent 3 weeks walking the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain - this has influenced the services she brings to her naturopathic practice and her understanding of the health benefits on the physical body of cultivating mindfulness or "presence" with ourselves and with our world and the power of 'heart treks/soulventures.'
2016 - completed Basic Yoga Nidra Facilitator training as well as Yoga Nidra Advanced and Kids Training through the Amrit Yoga Institute in Florida and on the Sunshine Coast to help teach people how to get into a state of healing and decrease (and transform) the impact of stress on the body. 30 minutes of this type of guided meditation is said to be equivalent to 4 hours of uninterrupted sleep! Very restorative.❤️
2017 - Completed Basic DNA and the Advanced DNA Theta Healing Workshops in Calgary to support clients in identifying and shifting limiting beliefs that are getting in the way of a relaxed, joyful, and satisfying life and relationships with your children, partner, friends and family. Figuring out underlying beliefs that contribute to disease and changing (rewiring) the program/beliefs that keep you stuck, overwhelmed, down, irritated or tired is a game changer.
2018 - Went back to the Camino de Santiago in Northern Spain to walk the last section as well as the stretch from Santiago to the ocean. My dream of taking women on a Heart trek/Soulventure experience to this spiritually potent area of the world was re-awakened. Stay tuned in the future for a Walking Om Women’s Hiking + Yoga Soulventure Experience!
2019 - Successfully hosted first International Retreat at Eco Yoga Resort Xinalani in Mexico supported by Adrienne, Zhiish and Tara
2020 - Covid 19 Adventures and Studies: Completed second level I-rest Yoga Nidra Teacher Training, became a certified Restorative Yoga Instructor, led some local awakening women to join her on a 7 Sacred Site Rocky Mountain Chakra Grid Soulventure Experience, began her advanced training in the area of Women’s Empowerment and Transformation with the Feminine Power Team at the world renown Institute of Women Centered Coaching + Leadership
2021 - 2022 - led 7 women through a 9 month journey (Spring Equinox to Winter Solstice) focused on empowerment, joy + well-being. The group intention was for each woman to support one another in creating a more beautiful, truer, fulfilling life .
Each woman had her own intention within that that became her North Star for the course. The program focused on the power of sisterhood and group wisdom/support, introduced power practices and mindset shifts to inspire creating in a new way (feminine power) that honors well-being and joy and deep connection to/care of oneself .
It was a powerful, loving, structured container for women to learn, practice and embody a new empowered way of being with the three relationships that make up each of our lives: relationship with Self, with Life (God/Creator/Spirit) and others. The women stretched, grew and leaped outside of past comfort zones and had access to the support and tools to be unstoppable in the face of setbacks/self doubt/limiting beliefs that would have in the past had them give up on their dream/desire/vision. Each women had transformed the way they engaged in the world. More growth mindset, less fixed mindset. More openness, less contraction. More wonder, less worry. More in creation, less in reaction. More compassion, more connection. More presence, more joy.
2023 - 2025 - Masters type Program with Bold and Visible - crafted and shared her story on a TEDx style stage, launched SolTerran Productions and professionally recorded 2 original songs on all the music platforms and launched Reignite Your Feminine Fire - 12 Week Transformation Program for NDs and healing professionals.
