Holistic Healing Retreat for Health Care Professionals – June 4 & 5

Holistic Healing Retreat for Health Care Professionals:
Freedom and Conscious Living with Yoga, Meditation, and Intuition

Instructors: Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, BCTMB, Kristen Harte, NP, RNC, RYT, and Mandy Lubas, OTR/L, C-IAYT, 1000-ERYT, AWC

Dates: June 4 & 5, 2022, 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. CT/10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET
Meet and Greet (optional): June 3, 6:00-7:00 p.m. CST/7:00-8:00 p.m. ET
Location: Live Interactive via Zoom Online
Early Bird and Holistic OT Full Member: $449
Regular price after May 21, 2022: $499

REGISTER HERE
Register for Option 1: LIVE RETREAT
Register for Option 2: RECORDING

Continuing Education: 12 Hours
This course meets the NBCOT requirement as a Professional Development Activity.
This educational retreat is available to all health care practitioners.

Join the retreat from the comfort of your home or anywhere in the world!
Deepen your self-care practice for mind, body, and soul health, wellness and prevention.
Please bring to class: Journal, 10-foot D-ring yoga strap, yoga mat, small sacred or meaningful object, scissors, 11 x 14 inch card stock paper, glue, a couple of magazines, and a chakra pendulum
It is recommended that you have 6 months to a year of your own yoga practice
Required: Working web camera, microphone, speakers, and reliable internet

Join Emmy, Mandy, and Kristen for two days via online video 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.

Retreat Description:

Life is ever changing. Our world and each of us need healing. Relieve feelings of burn out or moral injury. Learn how to feel soothed and grounded when your mind and energy may be stressed and spinning fast. Be seen, heard, held and supported by three experienced integrative health medical practitioners during this respite and rejuvenating retreat for energetic balancing. Come and reset as you are taken through a healing journey using yoga therapy, Ayurvedic routines, rituals, meditation, intuitive development, and energy healing practices. Immerse yourself in a holistic healing retreat for your mind, body, and spirit. Awaken yourself with a magical healing elixir that may set you and others around you free with joy, love, and conscious living.

Learning Objectives:

You will:

Understand and practice key concepts of the 8 limbs of yoga for healthy habits and routines in daily life.
Experience five benefits and efficacy-based research about the art and science of meditation and samadhi to enhance self-care, health, and wellness and prevent or recover from burnout.
Gain knowledge and experience three yoga asana, pranayama and meditation strategies to support healthy conditions for self, family, and clients.
Use five concepts of Ayurveda to make positive changes in your life to re-balance the mind, body, and spirit for a healthy lifestyle.
Expand and deepen your conscious connection to yourself and inner knowing for improved clarity, guidance, and decision-making with three intuitive development techniques.
Demonstrate three approaches to align healing vibration and the human energy system for stress reduction, and lowering physical and emotional pain.

Emmy Vadnais, Mandy Lubas, and Kristen Harte

Emmy Vadnais

Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, BCTMB is a Holistic Occupational Therapist, Intuitive Healer, and Health Coach who is Board Certified in Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork and specializes in integrative health, wellness, and prevention. She is author of “Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance with Relationships, Health, and Spirituality.” She graduated with her B.S. in occupational therapy and psychology from St. Catherine University in 1996. She is the founder and director of the Holistic OT Community that supports OTs interested in or practicing integrative health, wellness and prevention. She has a deep understanding of the mind-body-spirit connection having provided care as an OT and integrative health practitioner in the hospital setting, nursing homes, clinics, and private practice. She is trained in medical qigong energy healing, meditation, mindfulness, relaxation techniques, intuitive development and healing, guided imagery, massage therapy, acupressure, reflexology, aromatherapy, myofascial release, craniosacral therapy, emotional freedom technique (EFT), and yoga. She has been studying and practicing holistic and integrative health for over 20 years. She teaches continuing education and provides consultation and coaching to health care professionals about how to incorporate holistic and integrative health approaches into their practice and for self-care. She is in private practice serving children and adults in St. Paul, MN. Visit EmmyVadnais.com and HolisticOT.org.

Mandy Lubas

Mandy Lubas, OTR/L, C-IAYT, AWC is a Holistic Occupational Therapist who is a graduate of Quinnipiac University in 2001. She has been in the field of medicine since 2001 working with people of all ages. She is certified in Sensory Integration, trained in Craniosacral Therapy, a Registered Yoga Therapist and graduate of Kerala Academy as an Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor. Her certification as a Panchakarma Technician allows her to provide 5 therapeutic Ayurvedic manual therapies for specific pathologies, for the reduction of pain, for overall stress reduction, and to manage orthopedic injuries for any given athlete. Currently she works as a Holistic Occupational Therapist, is a mentor and educator for occupational therapy students and professors in holistic therapies. She also teaches yoga, co-teaches workshops, and assists in building community of conscious living. She has presented at conferences for MAOT and at local colleges throughout the Boston area to educate practitioners, students, teachers, and colleagues on her passion of merging Yoga and Ayurveda into the medical community. She has been published in OTAdvance Magazine where she writes about her personal experiences in her own healing journey and the work she provides with her clients using these holistic approaches. Visit HolisticTherapies4Life.com.

Kristen Harte

Kristen Harte, MSN, NP, RYT

Kristen is a Nurse Practitioner specializing in Women’s Health. She graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Nursing in 1987 from West Chester University and a Master’s degree from The University of Pennsylvania in 1990. She has been in the field of medicine since 1987. She embarked on her holistic path over 10 years ago for her own health and well-being. She is a Reiki master, a certified Acutonics practitioner and is certified in Body-Feedback with essential oils. She also practices astrology and other forms of energy medicine such as Shamanism and Intuitive Plant Medicine. Kristen has taught workshops in meditation, energy medicine, essential oils, and Munay-Ki Rites within the community. She is a 200-hour certified yoga teacher which further enhances her ability to integrate the mind-body-spirit for herself and her clients. Her medical background combined with her holistic modalities offer her patients a unique approach to healing. Her goal is to empower her patients to tap into their own abilities to heal and find balance in their lives. Kristen treats women, men, and children of all ages in her holistic practice. Visit HolisticTherapies4Life.com.