Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L was recently interviewed about The Power of Intuition in Healing as a guest on the Lifability Podcast. You can listen below on Spotify or ApplePodcasts. Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts In this episode Emmy discusses the importance of maintaining health and well-being through integrative and complementary health approaches. Emmy dives…
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….
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…
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…
Reiki Works! Free Live Webinar – February 13
Reiki Works! Discover Your Natural Healing Ability and Explore Afterlife Communication Would you like to reduce stress and restore a sense of calmness to your life, and imagine living without anxiety about the future? Our lives have been turned upside down during this past year of cataclysmic change. Do you wonder if you can ever…
Chronic Pain Research
Do you and someone you care for both have pain? If so, we may be able to help! Drs. Arlene Schmid and Christine Fruhauf are testing a unique online intervention of gentle movement and education for pairs who experience chronic pain. The intervention includes 8 weeks of gentle movement and education (two sessions per week,…
OT and Integrative Health May Lower Pain
Most of us have or will experience physical pain in our lives. For many, pain is an everyday or chronic experience, but does it need to be? If you are looking for help that is natural and non-pharmacological that can be used instead of or in conjunction with drugs or surgery, here are options. Health…
Integrative Health Can Lower Pain, Non-Pharmacologically
September is Pain Awareness Month There are many integrative health approaches that can help with lowering, managing, coping, and preventing pain – non-pharmacologically. Look for ways as we share how throughout the month. Let us know how you use OT with integrative health to manage pain on social media with the hashtag #HolisticOTLowersPain and we may share…
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 easily accessible on YouTube that you can listen to for your own self-care, play for clients, or a tool they can use in between sessions or after discharge. Read the researched benefits of meditation here. * Do not…