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Breath Work Class Recording
Breath Work Class Webinar RecordingInstructor: Emmy Vadnais, OTR/LCEU: 2 HoursPrice: $25 for Full Members of the Holistic OT Community, $49 for non-membersREGISTER HERE Health Care PractitionersWould you like to learn simple and effective methods to help your clients and your own self-care with breath work? Breath work techniques have research supporting efficacy to: create the relaxation response – opposite of the stress response transform stress, anxiety, pain, and depression to positive states and well-being positively affect overall mind, body & spirt health You will Learn: Conscious, controlled, and meditation breathing techniques that can induce the relaxation response and transform stress, anxiety, pain & depression to positive states and well-being. How…
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Heaven and Earth with Eben Alexander, MD and Karen Newell
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviewed Eben Alexander, MD and Karen Newell about “Heaven and Earth” on the Healing Connections Podcast. Emmy interviews thought leaders and health care practitioners about integrative health, wellness, prevention, spirituality, and consciousness. Eben Alexander, MD recounts his near death experience and how we can all have similar experiences, heal, and be love by going within and binaural beats created by Karen Newell from Sacred Acoustics. Eben Alexander, MD, was an academic neurosurgeon for over 25 years, including 15 years at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School in Boston, with a passionate interest in physics and cosmology. He is the author of the…
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Mindfulness Meditation “Loving Yourself” Recording
New Recording – Mindfulness Meditation “Loving Yourself” By Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Listen Here Here’s a new 10-minute guided mindfulness meditation I recorded that is easily accessible on YouTube that you can listen to for your own self-care. If you are a health care practitioner you can play for clients, or they can have as a tool they can use in between sessions, or after discharge. Read the researched benefits of meditation here. * Do not listen to this recording while driving a car. Once practiced enough you can bring these concepts into your activities of daily living – ADLs.
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Intuition: The Heart of the Matter
I have been writing my intuitive development book this summer. I am half way through creating it and am loving it. Finally, I am able to focus on these warm summer days to listen to my intuition and allow what wants to come forward to be written. This book has been being created for a while now, but I have a determined goal to complete it soon. Our world needs it. “The longest journey you will ever take is the 8 inches from your head to your heart.” – Andrew Bennett Culturally we are in the process of transforming from being primarily materialistically oriented to being more loving, kind, and…
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De-Stress, Emotional Healing, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Integrative Medicine, Intention, Love, Meditation, Prevention, The Science of Happiness
How an Attitude of Gratitude Can Improve Your Life
By Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L What are Your Grateful For? Taking a few moments each day or weekly to have an attitude of gratitude may improve your life. Research supports findings that there is an association with gratitude and an overall sense of well being. “Gratitude is the appreciation of what is valuable and meaningful to oneself and represents a general state of thankfulness and/or appreciation.” ~ Sansone & Sansone, 2010 Focus on What’s Right It may seem more easy to focus on what you feel may be going “wrong” in your life or what you want to improve, instead of focusing on what is going well. It can be helpful to…
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Yoga & Meditation Retreat September 29 & 30
Join us! I will be hosting this retreat this September: “Holistic OT Yoga & Meditation Retreat: Restoring Mind, Body & Soul for You and Your Clients” Instructors: Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, BCTMB, ARCB and Mandy Lubas, OTR/L, RYT, AWC September 29 & 30, 2017 Description of Retreat: Join Mandy Lubas, OTR/L, RYT, AWC and Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, BCTMB, ARCB for two days of immersing yourself in yoga and meditation to develop and deepen your own self-care practices and skills that you can use with clients for mind, body, and soul health, wellness & prevention. This educational retreat is available to all health care practitioners. Immerse yourself in yoga and meditation. Develop holistic…
