Holistic Wellness
The Holistic Wellness approach means accessing you and treating you as a whole. Giving awareness to the physical body, the subtle emotions, and the etheric spirit we each have inside.
With suggestions, recommendations, and attention to your individualized needs and goals. Whether this is weight loss, sleep, digestion, elimination, anxiety, depression, sluggishness, or overall better feeling in your body, a holistic approach will help you achieve your goal.
What is Holistic Wellness and Why is it for me?
Holistic wellness is the approach to pain or imbalance in the body that are treated not just at the physical level but also the emotional and spiritual level. This is different for each individual and is cultivated in an individualized treatment plan. You are looked at as the whole person, not just your symptoms. Symptoms can be physical, such as sleep issues, digestive imbalances, for example or emotional symptoms, such as anxiety, depression and stress.
The drive to find an alternative health care approach came from my work with clients. After 15 years of creating relationships with clients, through massage, I would hear their health care journey. It was clear to me that what was currently being provided through Western medicine was not always the successful approach.
Western Medicine treats the symptoms you come in with, for example, Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), medication is given to help subside the effects of diarrhea ,cramping, change in bowel movements. But IBS is not treated.
The Ayurvedic approach (Eastern Medicine) will take the same symptoms, and use the holistic approach. How are you eating your food? Slow? What foods are you eating? How long has this been occurring long term or short term?
A possible item on the treatment plan would be starting your day with warm water with some lemon, every morning before tea/coffee. A separate item my be to eat your meals at the same time every day. No medication is given, the approach is a change in some lifestyle routines. Herbs and spices maybe introduced as well but this approach allows you to make slow adjustments that can shift the symptom in your body to then find the imbalance, or root of the cause.
Ayurveda medicine believes the root of all imbalances start in the digestive system. Thus most of the approach is handled through diet, lifestyle and herbs. These treatment approaches work on supporting the different systems of the body. Medication tends to mask the symptoms and not treat the cause.
At the Ayurvedic Health Counselor level, I can support your journey through suggestions to change, an interested person to hold you accountable and track your progress. Also, I have the knowledge to support when an adjustment needs to be made to the initial treatment plan. We work together on this alternative approach to your healing.
Conditions Treated:
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Anxiety
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Fatigue
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Depression
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Sleep Issues
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Mobility
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Sluggish Digestion
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Digestive problems/IBS
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Eczema
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High blood pressure
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High cholesterol levels
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Rheumatoid Arthritis/Arthritis
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Stress
About the appointment.
The whole human is addressed.
Diet
Sleep
Movement
Energy
Wellbeing
The Visit ~
The first visit with me usually takes about 2 hours.
Follow Up Visits can be done via Zoom if needed.
Treatment Plan consist of diet, lifestyle, herbs, daily routines and mindful practices. Aromatherapy, color therapy, yoga are examples of some of the modalities that maybe used.
Example of treatment plan suggestions:
Every day for # weeks.?
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Warm water with lemon every morning.
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Eating one meal a day without distractions. Focus using your senses.
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Setting a timer to eat that meal.
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Take three deep breaths before you begin to eat.
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Only drinking a certain amount of liquid during a meal.
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When making your food, have the proper intention.
* These are all just some of the suggestions that could help shift some lifestyle habits that have interrupted your digestion. Herb supplements play a big factor in supporting the colon and stomach which also help bring your body back into balance.
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What Our Clients Say
Jan Senna, Retired
" I have been a massage client of Sheri’s for a number of years. I have always been so pleased with her skills, kindness and caring, that when she decided to go onto Ayurvedic Health, I wanted to learn from her.
Sheri is so skilled in her guidance and care to the principles of Ayurveda. I learned so much about myself, and how to live a better life, happier!
I chose to do the massages in combination with my sessions with Sheri, and for me, it was the best. I was able to reflect and take in all we had discussed at the sessions.
I highly recommend the combination of the two practices. "