92023Oct
Trust Your Intuition Class – Enhance Peace, Joy, Creativity, and Spirituality

Trust Your Intuition Class – Enhance Peace, Joy, Creativity, and Spirituality

Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing Class Instructor: Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L Dates: 4 Saturdays: October 28, November 4, 11, and 18, 2023 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Central Time (8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET) Location: Zoom Live Video (good internet connection, audio and video required for interactive class experience) Price: $249 ($199 for…

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22023Jul
Give Feedback for Integrative Health to The AOTA Commission on Education

Give Feedback for Integrative Health to The AOTA Commission on Education

Do you want see integrative health taught in all occupational therapy educational programs in the U.S.? Please give Feedback for Integrative Health to The AOTA Commission on Education by July 18, 2023.  Details below: The AOTA Commission on Education (COE) is seeking your feedback on the revised Position Paper entitled Philosophical Base of Occupational Therapy.   Background:…

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152022Feb
New Integrative Health OT Community with AOTA

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…

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152022Jan
Power of the Mind Class Discount Jan/Feb 2022

Power of the Mind Class Discount Jan/Feb 2022

The Power of the Mind in Healing: Foundations in Integrative Health Class is discounted through January and February 2022 for full members of the Holistic OT Community. This is a class recording that you can complete self-paced. 12 CEUs REGISTER HERE The Power of the Mind in Healing class is taught by Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L….

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22021Dec
Yoga and Occupational Therapy

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…

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122021Nov
Energy Healing Class Discount

Energy Healing Class Discount

Learn how to provide Energy Healing in any health care setting to help your clients with efficacy-based research to lower pain, stress, anxiety, depression, nausea, insomnia, improve wound healing and more. Class discount is through December 31, 2021. Class is Available as a Recording Energy Healing is becoming more popular as many people are experiencing…

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82021Oct
Welcome to the OT Well-Being Sneak Peek

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…

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192021Sep
Acupressure for Stress and Tension

Acupressure for Stress and Tension

Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L interviews Deanna Waggy, OTR about “Acupressure for Stress and Tension” on the Healing Connections Podcast episode 40 on 9/17/21. Deanna shares three simple acupressure techniques to help lower stress and tension that can be done day or night, anywhere. Each technique helps to lower the stress response to the relaxation response to…

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152021Sep
Mind-Body Practices for Pain

Mind-Body Practices for Pain

Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L describes how the mind and body are one – our thoughts and emotions can affect the body, and the body can affect the mind. The stress response, known as the “fight, flight, or freeze” response can create or exacerbate tension and pain in the body. The relaxation response, known as the “rest…

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12021Sep
Self-Regulation for Children with Meditation

Self-Regulation for Children with Meditation

We wish all the students and teachers a wonderful school year!  Meditation, mindfulness, breath work, and guided imagery are all techniques that can help lower stress, fear, worry, and improve ability to feel more calm, focused––with a host of many wonderful health benefits. An example of how an occupational therapist can assist with self-regulation, i.e….

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