Holistic Strategies for Mental Health and Well-Being Class Instructor: Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Class Recording Price: $39 Non-Members, $25 Full Members of the Holistic OT Community Class Hours: 1.5 CEUs Participants will receive a certificate of completion that may be submitted to their professional board for professional development credits. A completed course evaluation is required to…
Foundations of Whole-Person Care
Arlene Schmid, PhD, OTR/L was interviewed about “Foundations of Whole-Person Care” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 56. Arlene shares the researched health benefits of whole-person care, including yoga, breath work, meditation, mindfulness, and many integrative health approaches. She describes how people are able to heal from physical and emotional pain and make better mind-body-spirit…
Reiki Immersion Online – March 5
Reiki, used by millions of people is an effective way to self-heal, reduce stress, and increase a sense of well-being. Reiki reduces both physical and emotional pain. Most of us have a difficult time relaxing our minds. There is so much “noise” occurring in our lives that we find it hard to give ourselves permission…
New Integrative Health OT Community with AOTA
The American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) has recently created the Integrative Health OT Community of Practice (IHOT CoP). IHOT CoP is a learning community that creates a space for members to expand their toolboxes and become agents of change in IHOT. We come together to explore the vast number of IHOT topics and the endless…
Happy New Year 2022
We wish you a very Happy New Year 2022! What are your intentions for 2022? Name them aloud! Focus on them. Watch them manifest. One thing we’ve learned at Holistic OT is that our minds are very powerful. We have also learned that we can create a lot of goodness in the world with pure…
Happy Winter Solstice from Emmy Vadnais
Emmy wishes you a Happy Winter Solstice and Happy Holidays 2021! She encourages you to reflect upon what is working well in your life and to consider what you want to create or manifest going forward into the New Year 2022. She shares what she’s grateful for and what she intends to manifest in the…
Yoga and Occupational Therapy
Yoga can be used with occupational therapy to enhance health, wellness, prevention of disease, and rehab and recovery. This is something OTs have been doing for several years now. We keep getting questions and inquiries from OTs about how to use this in their practice. This is good new! More OTs are learning about the…
Energy Healing Benefits
We love energy healing! It could be Reiki, QiGong, Healing Touch, Acupressure, or Tai Chi. Energy healing has many benefits. Do you practice it? Have you received it? How has it helped you and your clients most? Tell us in the comments below. It may help: lower pain increase relaxation lower stress and anxiety decrease…
Welcome to the OT Well-Being Sneak Peek
Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L and Rhiannon Crispe, OT created the OT Well-Being Summit with 11 guest speakers. Topics are related to integrative health, wellness, and prevention in occupational therapy. This video is an excerpt of the Welcome to the OT Well-Being Summit and gives you a taste of what to expect you can learn from occupational…
The 3 Secrets to Communicating With Your Deceased Loved Ones
Our friend and colleague, Rebecca Austill-Clausen, Occupational Therapist and Reiki Master Teacher, discovered she could communicate with her brother who passed away in 1995, even though she had no psychic or spiritual awareness. Becky kept this discovery quiet for 20 years while gaining the courage to share her journey with the afterlife. She is launching…