At Healing Ways, as Stress Management Specialist for Lehigh Valley Hospital's Dean Omish Program, as Program Provider for Highmark Insurance and through The Hunterdon Health and Wellness Center, Patti has shared stress management education and stress reduction sessions with individuals, small businesses, non-profit groups and corporations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. A Yoga instructor for over twenty years, she began her work in the healing arts as a Yoga Teacher trained in the Shivananda and Integral Yoga traditions. She received her Certification in Yoga Instruction and Philosophy at The Freehold Yoga Center. She was certified in Cardiac Yoga by M. Mala Cunningham at the University of Virginia and as a meditation teacher from the Integral Yoga Institute by the Reverend Jaganath Carerra. She offers Therapeutic and Medical Massage with over 650 hours of training and is a Certified Massage Therapist in Integrated Bodywork, a European-based technique into which she incorporates Shiatsu, the Trager Approach, Polarity Balancing, Thai Massage and Cranio-Sacral.
Since then she has studied Trager, Zero Balancing and Neuromuscular Therapy. After completing a M.S. in Molecular Biology at Lehigh University in 2007, Laura decided to change direction and study acupuncture. She is currently working toward a Master's in Acupuncture at Tai Sophia Institute.
Elaine draws from her extensive training, integrating many techniques with a gentle, compassionate, intuitive touch, to create a therapeutic massage for each client. Her goal is to relieve fatigue, eliminate pain and create a very positive experience, leaving the client calm, relaxed and peaceful.
In her journey to heal herself, she again found an outlet for her desire to help and support others and enrolled in the Holistic Health Counseling Program at the School of Integrative Nutrition in New York City. The largest nutrition school in the world, the curriculum integrates all the different dietary theories, combining knowledge of traditional philosophies with modern concepts such as the USDA food pyramid, the Glycemic index, the Zone and raw foods. Practitioners are trained to help others understand that the balance in their diet is only the beginning and that, without finding joy and balance in other aspects of their lives, they may not achieve the results they are seeking. Even now as she works with her clients in both Massage Therapy and Holistic Health Counseling, Claire is continuing her journey of self-discovery and healing as she begins the necessary training to become a Naturopathic Doctor. Her attunement at Reiki Level II allows her to bring more energy work into her bodywork practice; her Holistic Health training helps her understand the multi-level aspects of any healing practice; and, as she learns from her clients and her continuing journey, she continues to seek even more and better ways of helping others in their healing.
A spiritual counselor, Jacqui is a certified specialist in Stress Management, Pain Management and Biofeedback. Jacqui works with her clients to find the underlying causes of chronic physical and emotional stress, which medical experts agree is the major cause of all disease -- manage your stress and your body heals itself. Visit Jacqui's website at www.resonancebf.com.
Diane has also completed a two-year program in Herbal Therapeutics with internationally-known clinical herbalist David Winston, herbalist, American Herbalist Guild. She continues to further her education in the areas of nutrition, mind-body health, herbs and other aspects of integrative healing. She says, I believe that health is a process, an evolution, and that there are always new things to incorporate into my practice that will be of benefit to myself and to my clients. You can visit Dianne's web site at www.womensnutritionmatters.com.