Integrated Health 4 You ~ Karen Claffey

Guest B Grace Bullock PhD, E RYT-500, Intervention Scientist, Author, Educator, Certified Viniyoga Therapist www.mind-bodytherapy.com Do you often find yourself in emotionally charged situations that leave you physically and emotionally exhausted? High intensity emotion often triggers the same brain systems responsible for coping with trauma. These systems require a tremendous amount of energy. In the case of chronic, high intensity emotion, these systems become depleted, as do we. Emotional intelligence is at the heart of happy, successful personal and professional relationships. Mindfulness-based emotional intelligence skills allow us to examine and understand our emotional sensations, experiences, and reactions so that we can better handle high intensity events. Many of these skills are derived from ancient yogic philosophies and practices including pranayama, meditation, mantra and others. We will explore the basic tenets of emotional intelligence from both a Western and a yogic perspective to see how the

Guest: Neil Pearson Founder-Director Life is Now Pain Managment, MSc, BScPT, BA-BPHE, CYT, RYT500 Neil has taught his acclaimed pain management workshops throughout Canada and the United States. Participants learn how the pain system works, how it adapts when pain persists, and pain management strategies aimed at returning the nervous system to a less hypersensitive state. Neil approach, created specifically for people with chronic pain and depression, allow clients to gently heal their bodies, while learning effective tools for pain self-management. As a certified yoga therapist Neil provides one-on-one yoga therapy sessions, which provide more individualized modifications and attention. Find out more about Neil at www.lifeisnow.ca For more information on Karen and her programs, go to:?www.ih4y.com Tel: 905-664-9099? Email: karen@ih4y.com

Show Guest: Marlene Watson-Tara Macrobiotic counselor, author, health educator: marlenewatsontara.com In the early 80’s Marlene worked for many years in Sales and Marketing; in FMCG with Trebor U.K, The Glasgow Herald Newspaper, Scottish Agent for Reebok where she had much success. Marlene is a life-long advocate of health and wellness, a visionary pioneer and food educator whose mission is to make a breakthrough and bring vegetarian/vegan cooking mainstream via the T.V. Networks. The founder of Academy of Wellness, she has taught and developed many programmes and workshops in her free time and has created hundreds of organic vegetarian/vegan recipes which are in her current book ‘Macrobiotics for all Seasons’. Marlene is at present teaching natural foods cooking classes and lecturing on how to achieve great health and longevity by eating a wholefoods plant based diet. She writes articles for Yoga & Health Magazine and Yoga Magazine.Marlene is a lover of animals, nature and life and passionate about human eco

Guest: Antonio Sausys, BA Psychology, MA Somatic Psychotherapy Yoga Therapist, TV Host specializes in one-on-one yoga therapy for people with chronic and acute medical conditions as well as emotional imbalance. Founder-director Yoga for Health (International Yoga Therapy Conference: www.yogatherapyconference.com, Author: http://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Grief-Relief-Practices-Transforming/dp/1608828182 www.yogaforgriefrelief.com With her guest Antonio, Karen will unravel grief and how it can be a path towards self-knowledge and transformation. Grief is not always about death. We all have experience with grief, from faded youth to failed love to the loss of a job or valued material possession. And far from being strictly emotional, grief can express itself in a variety of physical forms such as poor posture, insomnia, lack of energy, shortness of breath, even actual physical pain. Antonio learned from his teacher and mentor Lyn Prashant, that we don’t get over our losses, we transform our relationship to them. He be