Mindful Eating Workshop – The Path to Your Healthy Weight

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5 Classes on Mindful Eating topics

Learn simple tools to empower ANY weight management approach you are using at the series of 5 meetings. Class sizes are limited due to the personalized nature of the program.

Weekly Session Topics:

1. Program Overview
2. Nutritional Challenges – Kathleen Williams
3. Mind Body Connection – Cheryl Van Demark, PT
4. Integrating Mindful Eating – Dr. Laura Kennedy
5. The Power of Mind – Aaron Kravetz

Presenters:

• Kathleen Williams of Balanced Nutrition Inc. is a Registered Dietitian, with an advanced practice certificate in adult nutrition.
• Laura Kennedy, NMD, Dipl. Ac. (NCCAOM) Health Walk Medical Clinic, received her doctorate in naturopathic medicine from Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and a masters in science from Phoenix Institute of Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture.
• Aaron Kravetz of Prescott Tai Chi is certified in Clinical Hypnosis and is a Trainer of NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming). For over 29 years, he has taught Mindfulness through meditative techniques, self hypnosis and Tai-Chi.
• Cheryl Van Demark PT, RYT of Health in Motion LLC and the Body Language Studio, is a Physical Therapist, Yoga teacher and Yoga Therapist with a master’s degree in  physical education.

Cheryl is a registered Yoga teacher, Yoga therapist and physical therapist with a Master’s degree in physical education and exercise science. She has enjoyed over 25 years of helping individuals optimize alignment, restore movement, build strength and cultivate a balance in body mind and spirit to pursue joyful living.

Cheryl received her undergraduate and graduate education through Northern Arizona University.  She has focused her physical therapy practice on a combination of skillful manual physical therapy and therapeutic exercise as reflected through the dynamic lense of scientific literature and evidence-based best practice.

As a Professional Yoga Therapist, Cheryl draws upon the life science of Yoga to guide clients toward empowered self care to complement their health care.  Her perspective as a physical therapist and experience as a health educator enable her to adapt asana practices and explain Yoga philosophy to bring the many health benefits of Yoga into the mainstream.

Cheryl received her Yoga teacher training through Yoga Shala in Prescott.  She has had the pleasure of ongoing study withCain Carol and Mary Kay West. Her Yoga Therapy credential is through  Integrative Yoga Therapy with Joseph and Lillian Le Page. She is a member of the Yoga Alliance and the International Association of Yoga Therapists.  Like her teacher training, her personal yoga practice is ecclectic, but is steeped in Anusara Yoga. Cheryl enjoys progressing her asana training with Anusara teachers Rachel Peters and Christina Sell.

Through Health in Motion, LLC Cheryl offers public yoga classes, small group yoga therapy classes for chronic conditions and private yoga therapy. Cheryl also supports The Arthritis Foundation by providing periodic Life Improvement Series classes as one of their certified instructors. She is the owner of Body Language Studio in Chino Valley, Arizona.  Cheryl also provides  physical therapy services through the group private practice of Backway’s PT in Prescott.  Her Yoga Therapy services and public Yoga classes are available in both Prescott and Chino Valley.

For a current schedule, please visit BodyLanguageStudio.net.  You can also join our mailing list at that site.

Hope to see you soon in Chino Valley!

• Yoga Shala of Prescott, Arizona.  Yoga anatomy workshop, Feb. 4 -5, 2012.
• Pure Heart Yoga of Beullton, CA. The program includes in-depth  study of yoga posture, breathing, mediation, yoga philosophy, yoga related anatomy as well as basic Sanskrit.  Graduates will receive certification as a Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200) with Yoga Alliance.
• Integrative Yoga Therapy – Cheryl will present The Body Systems as a faculty member at the  Professional Yoga Therapist program in Tucson March 25- April 7 2012.

“Yoga is a holistic approach to life, which helps with mind, body and spirit. Yoga asana (physical postures) require your undivided attention to your breathing, which is the cornerstone of all yoga practices,” Cheryl said.

For more information, visit our Yoga page.

Health in Motion programs promote “the science of physical therapy as expressed through the art of mindful movement practices”. The keystone of our Joint Investors Arthritis Program is the Mindful Movement Class. The value of mindfulness training has slowly been working its way into our American culture and health care system as research continues on mind-body medicine.

Simply stated, mindfulness is present moment self awareness without judgment in this very moment … and now again in this moment, and the one after that into an endless string of ever changing present moments. Sounds like a simple enough request! Consider however that mindfulness asks for us to cultivate present moment awareness not only of our physical actions, but also of the activity of our minds.

Mindful movement practices are widely varied, but share a common and very powerful element. They all teach us practices by which we may use our physical bodies, our motion matched with breath, as a vehicle to access the power of our mind. Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Pilates and other movement arts all ask us to learn a way of paying great attention to our movement in a way that invites unification of the body, mind and spirit. This unification is the true foundation of an optimal state of health.

The exciting and wonderful news is that each of us already has all that we need to be successful! Why? Because mindful movement practices take us on a journey through the breath back to a quiet, natural state of being. These soothing forms of movement offer us valuable tools to remove any perceived obstacles that burden or obscure our path back to this natural state of unity (body, mind and spirit). What a relief that we need not seek outside of ourselves, but instead, need to learn to look inward to begin this powerful journey toward well being.

In the creation of Health in Motion, physical therapist Cheryl Van Demark has attracted a very talented and fun group of inspired teachers who are commonly motivated to help each participant gain a direct, comfortable experience with their respective movement practices. I hope you will join us for our second session of The Joint Investors Arthritis program, which features the mindful movement arts class. Open the door to a great opportunity for self discovery and well being. Each and every one of us may begin this journey wherever we are … here and NOW!.

A new exercise program aimed at people with knee problems kicks off on April 6 at Prescott’s Center for Physical Excellence. Its organizer, Cheryl Van Demark, says it fills a need in the quad-city area.

“It’s taking all the pieces out there in the scientific literature about non-pharmaceutical ways to treat osteoarthritis and packaging it in a user-friendly eight-week program,” Van Demark said.

As a yoga teacher, she said, she sees how many people with osteoarthritis struggle in regular classes for the general public.

“They try to do right and they hurt themselves,” Van Demark said. “They don’t know how to do right by themselves in the gym and they end up thinking exercise is bad for them.”

She gave it some thought and came up with her Health in Motion program combining water exercises, Chinese martial arts, yoga and health education.

Seventy-three-year-old Sandy Swan, a Prescott resident with what she calls a “blown-out” knee, has signed up for the Wednesday arthritis health education and group movement class, which is part of the Health in Motion program.

She’s taken classes before with two of the instructors participating in the program.

“I’m just delighted to be able to hook up with the two of them again,” Swan said. In the past year she’s taken two bad falls and now wears a knee brace, which she hopes to eliminate after taking the classes.

Lack of mobility and loss of strength and balance are hallmarks of an arthritic joint, Van Demark explained.

Her program uses lots of props like blankets, straps and blocks coupled with “joint-safe” tips that emphasize proper body alignment.

“Pain can be devastating to how you move in the world and can alter your perception of how you feel,” she continued. “In these classes, you learn to feel certain body signals. People have the power to sense these things.”

Aaron Kravetz, a local Chinese Martial Arts instructor, will be teaching chi-gong and tai-chi movements as part of the program. If done correctly, the movements can be very effective at strengthening the muscles around the knees, he said.

“It’s just shy of miraculous,” he added.

The Arthritis Foundation, while not directly endorsing Demark’s Health in Motion program, says on its website at www.arthritis.org that health and exercise professionals have been identifying and developing alternative activities that people with osteoarthritis can do to improve their pain and function.

The foundation says water’s buoyancy allows easier joint movement and is virtually impact-free, making it an excellent choice for people with painful joints.

It also says tai-chi is an ancient movement practice that consists of slow, continuous movements that incorporates strengthening, balance, posture, relaxation and concentration – all of which are important elements for people with knee or hip osteoarthritis.

For more information or to register for any of the Health in Motion classes, contact Demark at 925-4388 or visit her website at www.HealthInMotionAZ.com.