I believe wellness is a return to yourself, your rhythm, your truth.

As the founder of b, halfmoon, a Canadian wellness brand creating thoughtful tools for movement, meditation, and recovery, I’ve learned that the tools we create for others are often the very ones we need ourselves.

Building the brand has been my greatest teacher (aside from motherhood). What started as a combined passion for yoga and entrepreneurship has evolved into something deeper: a commitment to wellness, community, and leading a brand whose values I genuinely live by. That alignment, for me, is everything.

The Art of Noticing was born from the same place I keep returning to in my own life and leadership: the need to pause, listen, and come back to myself. It is a space for founders to come back to that, too.

Always learning. Always evolving. Always grateful for the ride.

I’ve always believed that the smallest rituals can hold the deepest medicine.

As a holistic nutritionist, movement guide, and founder of All Is Well, I create spaces rooted in nourishment, ritual, and intentional living. My work is about helping women come back to themselves through simple, grounding practices that support the nervous system, invite presence, and make everyday life feel a little more connected.

Tea, movement, food, conversation, stillness, these are the places I return to again and again.

Co-creating The Art of Noticing feels like a natural extension of that work. A space to soften, connect, be nourished, and remember that transformation does not always need to be big or loud. Sometimes, it begins when we slow down enough to pay attention.

After more than 20 years in movement and wellness, I keep coming back to the same thing: wellness should feel supportive rather than intimidating, transformative rather than performative.

As the founder of EAST Studio and WEST Studio, I’ve built spaces rooted in intentional movement, meaningful connection, and whole-person wellbeing. My work weaves together yoga, Pilates, functional movement, restoration, and embodied practice, with a little humour, a lot of heart, and a deep respect for the body’s ability to adapt and heal.

For me, teaching is about helping people feel safe enough to explore, strong enough to grow, and connected enough to soften.

The Art of Noticing is a chance to bring together science, spirituality, laughter, music, movement, and those very human moments of connection that remind us we’re all just figuring it out as we go.

Dana Shalit is the Co-Founder and General Manager of ORA Costa Rica, a boutique retreat center rooted in her over two decades of experience in hosting, retreat facilitation, and transformational work. As a certified clinical hypnotherapist, she has worked with hundreds of clients on personal growth, self-realization, and purposeful living — a thread that runs through everything she creates.

Beyond ORA, Dana is an entrepreneur, impact consultant, and philanthropist. She is the Founder and Chief Impact Officer of House of Impact, a strategy and consulting firm supporting the next generation of wealth stewards through values-aligned giving and impact strategy.

Her upcoming book, Pathways to Self: The Path to Purpose through the Nine Steps of Self-Realization (August Release), reflects on how a deeper relationship with Self can align us with our authentic purpose and activate our unique contributions to the world.