Deepen your mindfulness practice with the “Interactive Mindfulness Meditation: Emotion & Healing Class.” Local & Distant Class Information Location: St. Paul, MN and Distant Learning Combined Dates & Time: February 2, 9, and 16, 2019 (9 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Central Time) Instructor: Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Price: $399 REGISTER HERE Mindfulness Meditation & Guided Imagery are forms of healing…
Holistic OT, COTA or PT Job
Are you ready to shift your practice to encompass holistic treatments? Holistic Orthopedics is growing, and are looking for a stellar OT, PT, and/or COTA with a heart for getting their patients back to full function in Seattle, WA. Please send your resume to [email protected] with “Position Available” in the subject line.
Top 10 Holistic OT Blog Posts of 2018
We had a wonderful time connecting with and serving our valued community of occupational therapists that utilize complementary and integrative healthcare into their OT practice. We have rounded up the top 10 most viewed blog posts on our website. We hope you appreciate the buzz around the Holistic OT Community as much as we do!…
Whole Person in Healthcare
By Kelly Clancy, OTR/L, CHT Whole Person Healthcare I’ve been hearing and reading a lot about this concept lately. It is a familiar one, one that brings me back to my early college days as a young twenty-something trying to decide what I wanted to do with my life. Looking back, it was the thought…
The Clinical Success Formula
By Dan Eisner, OTR/L, Certified Coach I can’t believe it, but I’ve now been working as an OT for TWENTY YEARS. Yikes! In complete honesty, even though I did a better than average job in my first several years as a therapist, I was an emotional wreck on the inside. I was never satisfied, no…
Holistic Hand Therapy: Improve Your Silver Ring Fitting Skills
New Class! Holistic Hand Therapy: Improve Your Silver Ring Fitting Skills Date: Saturday October 28th, 9:00am – 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time Where: Holistic Orthopedics 911 N 145th St Seattle, WA 98133 CEUs: 8Cost: $225Instructor: Molly Allison, M.S., OTR/L, CHT, SMS Open to: OT’s, CHT’s, PT’s, LMP’s Course to include: Essential Oil treatment Mindfulness meditation for structural alignment of the…
Holistic Summer Camp: An Intensive Mentorship Model for Sensory Integration
by Jaymie Merry, MS, OTR/L Camp Avanti is an intensive program for children ages 6 to 15 who have learning disabilities and/or sensory processing dysfunction provided in a camp setting. Developed by Patricia Wilbarger (M.Ed., OTR/L, FAOTA) in 1983, the Avanti model holistically blends occupational performance in a natural environment with sensory integrative (SI) intervention,…
Dear Occupational Therapists, How My Experiences as an OT are Helping My Loved Ones
This letter was originally posted in the Holistic Occupational Therapy practitioner group on Facebook. It is reposted here and shareable based on several requests to make it public. May it inspire you with the care you provide and seek. *********** Dear Occupational Therapists, I know many of us feel the frustration with mainstream healthcare –…
OT Student Shares Her Experience Volunteering with the Holistic OT Community
By Rachel Heidling, OT Student I am an OT student – “that” girl if you will. That girl who wears yoga pants, eats kale and quinoa, has a Pinterest board dedicated to inspirational quotes, will never smoke a cigarette, and craves instant feedback. She has been raised in a society that screams, “Fake it till…
7 Holistic & Healthy Ways OTs Can Bring Change in the School Setting
Planting seeds, it’s all that you can do at times, but eventually those seeds will grow into beautiful, long lasting plants, trees or flowers. By Michelle Bonang, OTR/L Having my own business in Vermont means seeing my own private clients and also contracting out to the school systems. In the schools, I am up against…