Giveaway Swellness: Win a gardening tool kit from the Ontario Chiropractic Association

I don’t have a green thumb. The only plant I’ve managed to not massacre is a cactus (but I only received that a few weeks ago, so it’s still early days…). The gardening gene seems to have gone to my sister (this is her work in the photos here).

But I know many of you do garden — I’ve seen plenty of pretty gardening photos on Instagram and Twitter. For you gardening fans, the Ontario Chiropractic Association (OCA) has a few tips to help you enjoy your favourite hobby without the backache:

Warm up. Stretch your thighs, shoulders, arms, back and hamstrings before you start gardnening.

Alternate your tasks. Switch from heavy tasks to light ones, and change your hands and positions frequently.

Kneel to plant. Use knee pads or a kneeling mat and kneel down to plant to ease straing on your back as you plant and weed your garden. Keep your back straight and take breaks every so often.

Get more tips over at www.yourback-health.com — your non-achey back will appreciate it. (Oh, and you can also follow the OCA on Facebook here!)

But that’s not all! To help you with your lush garden this summer, the OCA and Health & Swellness has a helpful Plant and Rake Without the Ache Tool Kit to give away! The kit includes a gardening tool bag filled with garden tools, a knee pad, a water bottle and a variety of seeds (retail value of $100). The contest is open to Canadian residents, and you can enter in three different ways (enter all three ways to increase your chances!):

1. Email healthandswellness@gmail.com with your name, mailing address, phone number and email. Please put “I love gardening” in the subject line.
2. Comment on this blog post about what you love about gardening.
3. “Like” the Health and Swellness page on Facebook, and comment on the wall post about this giveaway on about your favourite flower or plant.

The contest is open to Canadian residents only and closes at 11:59PM on Thursday, August 8, 2013. The winner will be selected at random and announced on Health & Swellness. If the winner cannot be reached within a week of the contest closing, then another winner will be selected.

Enter and get gardening!

(Photos courtesy of Garden Exuberance)

10 Comments August 1, 2013

Giveaway: 5 Passports to Prana!

Yoga enthusiasts, enter to win one of five Passport to Pranas that Health & Swellness has to give away!

If you live in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria or Winnipeg,enter to win a Passport, which is one of the best yoga deals around.

Not familiar with Passport to Prana? Passport to Prana allows you to try one class in each of the participating studios in your city–and if you don’t win one through Health & Swellness, I highly recommend buying one for $20 to $30 (price varies per city).

Passport to Prana in Toronto is new and improved, too. The Passport is now good for twelve months starting from the time you activate it online. (If you live in the other Canadian cities, your program still expires by a certain date for your particular city, BUT if you win a Passport, you can hold onto it until the new annual session begins in your city and activate it then as the 12-month rolling expiry date will be coming into effect in these other cities, too!).

There are three ways you can enter (enter all three ways to increase your chances of winning!):

(1) Enter by emailing your name, address and phone number to healthandswellness@gmail.com (please put Passport to Prana in the subject line).

(2) Leave a comment on this post about why you should win one of these Passport to Pranas.

(3) Tweet a link to this giveaway (you must include the @healthswellness handle to ensure I see your tweet!). (you can always simply just retweet one of my tweets mentioning the giveaway, that counts as your Twitter entry, too!)

This giveaway closes at 12PM on Tuesday, May 17 , 2011, and is open to Canadian residents only. The five winners will be randomly chosen, notified by email, and announced on Health & Swellness.

12 Comments May 10, 2011

Winner of the Crest and Oral-B 3D White Collection is…

Geraldine of Toronto! Congrats! (if you missed the giveaway, this is what she’s won if you’re curious).

Thank you to everyone who entered!

1 Comment March 7, 2011