Mind and Body Fitness Connections

A couple weeks ago I attended my second level course of lifestyle coaching through the CHEK Institute with Dr. Oliver and Emma Lane teaching the course.  It was phenomenal!  Five days has never flown by so fast.  It was a pretty intensive course, with lots of sitting and listening.  However, I have to say the CHEK Institute is my favorite place to do continuing education because they provide a place to get up and stretch at the back of the room, with foam rollers and balls provided, which is so nice to have.  This course really reinterated the importance of the 6 foundational principles that we learned in the first class, which I have already been teaching clients.  It also took a much deeper look at how stress effects systems of the body, in particular, digestion.  Life truly does begin and end in the digestive tract, and if we are constantly in a state of stress (hence, fight or flight), our digestive process suffers, leading to a multitude of possible negative effects.  After having read Paul’s book “How to Eat Move and Be Healthy”, attending his first lifestyle coaching course, and going through the personal health challenges I have had over the past couple of years, this class really tied everything together in understanding how the disease process comes to be.  While it is sometimes a long and tedious road back to health, the process for regaining vitality becomes crystal clear after taking this class.  I am very excited to start working with my clients in this new realm of healing!  I look forward to sharing my personal journey for health with others and watching as they achieve health and fulfillment within their lives.  Thanks to Paul, Emma, Dr. Oliver and the others that made this course happen.  We truly can save lives with this knowledge!

WHERE:  Downtown Vista

WHO’S INVITED:  All friends, family, patients, clients and anyone in the community that is interested in joining in on the fun

WHEN:  Sunday, May 28, 2008 from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M.

WHAT’S HAPPENING:  Mind and Body Fitness Connections and The Wellness Center will have a tent set up in front of our builing.  We will have raffles with free give-a-ways, free consultations, body fat testing, spinal decompression demos, healthy refreshments, tours of our lovely facility and loads of fellowship and fun!

During the month of April I have the privilege of presenting information about healthy eating to 5 groups of city employees.  This week so far we have done 2 of the lectures and they have both gone great.  The Chiropractic Rehabilitation Wellness Center has sponsored and set up the event.  Along with myself, addressing primarily nutrition, Dr. Rick Barrack who is a Doctor of Chiropractic specializing in orthopedics, has been discussing the importance of exercise and proper rehabilitation.  Dr. Craig Heller who is also a Doctor of Chiropractic, but with a speciality in sports medicine, has been speaking on proper warm up prior to exercise or work that involves labor. 

I know for me personally, it has been a great opportunity to hear the Doctor’s lecture on their individual topics.  While most of the information is not new to me, its always neat to hear another professional speak about a subject I am already familiar with because it seems there is always some new way of wording or some new example the person might use that makes me think of possibly a better way of expressing that topic to one of my clients.  It just goes to show you can always learn something new. 

It’s also been a good opportunity for me to work closely with members from our team here at the Wellness Center.  Over the course of the last several months since we moved to our new facility, it’s been great to see how our team can rally together around a patient to bring them expertise on a subject, from different educational angles.  I think it has allowed us to provide superior treatment to patients and clients. 

 I believe great things are happening here at this clinic and I’m looking forward to what the future holds!

WHO’S INVITED:  Golfers who have signed up for either the silver, gold or platinum sponsor package.

WHEN:  Monday April 21st

11:00 AM     Registration and practice   

12:30 PM     Shotgun Start                

 5:00 PM      Coctails and Silent Auction  

 6:00 PM      Dinner and Awards

WHERE:  29354 Vista Valley Dr at the Vista Valley Country club

TOPIC:  Mind and Body Fitness Connections along with Mind and Body For Hypnosis will be sponsoring a tee at this event.  We will hold a raffle to include free session give-a-ways and we will be handing out literature about our services and Chiropractic Rehabilitation Wellness Center.

WHERE:  115 Main Street, Vista, CA 92084

WHO’S INVITED:  All friends, family, patients, clients and anyone in the community that is interested in the art viewing.

WHEN:  Saturday April 12, 2008 from 6:00 to 9:00 P.M.

TOPICS:  Celebration of Spring, enjoy the florals of the artist:  Pamela Outlaw Sarkesian.  Refreshments will be served.

WHERE:  City of Operations Center   4925 Oceanside Blvd

WHO:  This event is for city workers that have been asked to attend one of our safety presentations by the City of Oceanside.

WHEN: 

• Tuesday                4/08/08                        7:00 AM

• Thursday              4/10/08                         7:00 AM

• Tuesday                4/22/08                         7:00 AM

• Wednesday           4/23/08                          7:00 AM 

TOPICS: Dr. Rick Barrack will be presenting information on workplace safety and work related injuries.  Dr. Craig Heller will be discussing the importance of flexibility, especially the importance of dynamic stretching prior to activity.  Jennifer Tolbert will be explaining the importance of quality nutrition and metabolic typing.

Every couple of years I have to attend continuing education courses to maintain my national massage certification.  Since massage school, I’ve had an interest in neuromuscular therapy (NMT) and when I became involved in the CHEK Institute, I heard numerous things from practitioners about St. John Seminars course in NMT.  So, I attended the 120 hour course the last two weeks in February this year and wow, what great information.  There were 5 courses during the two weeks: Cervical Injuries, Postural Analysis and Pelvic Stabilization; Pain Mechanisms of the Low Back; Shoulder, Upper Torso, Spinal column and Extremities; TMJ Dysfunction, Hands, Feet and Eyes; as well as Neuromuscular Components of Cranial Decompression and Scoliosis.  The instructor was Mark Brinson who has a practice in Tampa, FL.  He was very knowledgeable and has started working in a clinic with a couple of CHEK practitioners.  In addition to teaching the St. John courses he has also started teaching some of his own seminars, which I’m looking forward to attending in the future

 I have to say, in the last couple of weeks I’ve had several opportunities to work on clients using the NMT techniques and they are without a doubt very effective.  I had one client who came to see me in a great deal of pain, nearly unable to open her mouth.  A couple weeks prior she had spent a couple hours in the dentist office and had been in pain every since.  I got an email from her after just one session saying she left the center feeling 50% better and by two days later 90% of the pain was gone.   Helping people get out of pain and dysfunction is certainly a passion of mine and I’m looking forward to using these new techniques to do just that!

Date: Saturday January 26th, 2008, 12 - 4 PM

Learn How To Accomplish Your Weight Loss Goals.

• 12-1 PM Live Demonstrations & Free Refreshments
• 1 PM “Demystifying Nutrition and Popular Diets” and “How to Eat According to Your Unique Metabolic Type” presented by Jennifer Tolbert and Georgette Young
• 2 PM “Reprogram Your Mind for Permanent Weight Loss”- presented by Sherr Russell
• 3-4 PM Live Demonstrations and Free Refreshments Personal Consultations with Practitioners Available at NO CHARGE

This is a new and exciting way to unleash the thoughts of Jennifer onto the world!  Now I can share all of my concerns, hopes, dreams, and opinions with those that choose to be brave enough to read through this