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Brave Healer Productions – Laura Di Franco, MPT
Brave Healer Productions – Laura Di Franco, MPTWORDS THAT CHANGE THE WORLD
Laura Di Franco is the owner of Brave Healer Productions where she’ll help you share your story, build your business and change the world. With three decades of expertise in holistic physical therapy, a third-degree black belt and eight books, she has a clear preference for being badass but she’s also the champion of entrepreneurs who want to grow their health-based practices.
Her writing workshops, business strategy sessions, and online writing club are just some of the ways she helps talented professionals maximize their professional impact.
Your story can help you heal, yourself and the world. If you’re brave enough to share your words out loud. It’s my mission to assist you on this journey. Maybe you’re ready to using writing or journaling as a path to healing. Or maybe you’re ready to share your words out loud in the form of blogs, or your book. I’m here to guide you in a way that helps you feel great about the message you’re sharing and even use your powerful words to help you build your business.
If you’re a BRAVE healer and you’re starting to feel tired, unenthusiastic or uninspired…wondering what’s happening to you or why you’re starting to resent what you’re doing – I’m here to help you change all that and re-discover your energy, passion and enthusiasm for your healing business. You have to come first – and your clients will feel the shift. – Laura Di Franco
Services Offered:
- Brave Healer Book & Blog Writing Program
- Brave Healer Business Strategy Sessions
- Your High Vibe Business Mastermind (Online Facebook Community for Business Development Training)
- Intuitive Writing and Speaking for Healer Entrepreneurs (Live Online Course)
- Blogging Badassery Training Course (Online)
- The Write Habit (Free Online Writing Club on Facebook)
Learn more about Laura Di Franco here.
Feileacan Ministry – Izzy Swanson, CMRM
Feileacan Ministry – Izzy Swanson, CMRMIzzy Swanson, CMRM is the founder of Feileacan Ministry and also developed the highly effective, Feileacan Trauma Release Technique™. Izzy not only utilizes this specialized technique while working with clients but also offers training for other wellness practitioners.
Here’s more info about this incredible healing modality…
The Feileacan Trauma Release Technique™ utilizes multiple modalities to release the energy of trauma from the body. The technique combines Reiki, trauma informed practices, mindfulness, guided meditation, the principles of somatic therapy, and additional techniques to empower each individual’s healing process and ensure the safety of the client. The practitioner guides a person to release trauma in the body by connecting with physical imbalance and discomfort, acknowledging intense emotions and limiting beliefs, and retrieving and integrating lost or broken pieces of the soul.
Check out this short video for more information about the Feileacan Trauma Release Technique™.
SERVICES OFFERED:
REIKI SESSION
My goal is to create a safe space of comfort and healing so that it is easy to trust, relax, and rest. When the physical body is comfortable the energy body will be open to receiving the nurturing support of Reiki. For your session you will lie on a warm table, fully clothed, and covered by a blanket. I will place my hands on your shoulders, head, and feet to channel Reiki through your body. You may feel a sense of pushing or pulling from my hands and you may also feel like you are floating. There will be time for discussion before and after your time on the table.
Your session will vary depending on your needs. While you are receiving Reiki you may also experience soul retrieval, the removal of harmful attachments and the release of traumatic energy.
60 Minute Session: $90 | 90 Minute Session: $140
DISTANCE REIKI HEALING (Receive the benefits of Reiki anywhere!)
When a Reiki practitioner is attuned to the second degree of Reiki they are taught how to send Reiki across time and space. Using Reiki energy, the practitioner can create a connection between themselves and the person that desires healing. This type of healing is ideal for someone who may not be able to come in person for a hands-on session. Distance healing can be given no matter how far apart the practitioner and the recipient are from each other.
During a distance healing session your experience will be similar to what you would experience in person. You will be able to rest comfortably within your own space as you receive Reiki. You may feel the movement of energy around you or you may transition into a state of meditation. There will be time for discussion at the beginning and end of your session.
60 Minute Session: $90
ENERGETIC GUIDANCE SESSION
Every individual is unique and so is your personal practice. You may have questions about energy or your spiritual path that are personal. You may need guidance to understand the subtle details of a specific situations or you may just be at the beginning of your spiritual path. I have 7+years of experience as a professional Reiki Master, a lifetime of knowledge about the movement of energy, and a unique understanding of the energy of trauma. I am available to provide energetic and spiritual guidance for all levels of practitioners from beginners to professionals.
During am energetic guidance session, we will work together to guide you to an understanding of the energetic and spiritual principals surrounding your current needs. This session can be conducted over the phone or via the internet.
30 Minute Session: $50
DRUM JOURNEY SESSION
In many spiritual traditions sustained rhythmic drumming is used to induce a trance-like state of awareness. In this meditative state, the soul guide or practitioner journeys into the world of spirit to receive wisdom and guidance from their guides. The drum journey can be used to work through emotional trauma, to visit loved ones that have passed on, and to gain insight into difficult situations in your life.
In a journey session, we will work together in safe and sacred space. Together we will craft a focused intention and I will create a rhythmic pattern with my drum to escort you into the spirit world to communicate with your guides and mine. Our goal will be to receive insight about the course of action that is necessary to facilitate the healing that you desire. I will be with you to guide you, to guard you, and to monitor your progress through your experience.
In this session we will be sitting together face to face and your session will vary depending on your needs. It may include more than one journey and it may include various healing work such as soul retrieval, the removal of harmful attachments, the release of traumatic energy, and Reiki. There will be time for discussion before and after the journey.
90 Minute Session: $140
INDIVIDUAL REIKI INSTRUCTION
Individual Reiki instruction is personalized and self-paced. It is ideal for students that may not be able to participate in structured classes. Individual instruction focuses on helping you to understand your unique healing gifts and how to work with your own intuitive guidance. It also focuses on teaching you how to use Reiki to connect with the natural world around you to craft safe energetic practices. Please contact me at 512-573-0618 or Izzy@transformationreiki.com to set up a free consultation.
I also offer a six month course taught in a group setting once a year. Please visit the events page for more information about the Guardian Method of Reiki Healing Course.
ONLINE CLASSES AT THE GUARDIAN SCHOOL
Learn about energetic safety and awareness. The Guardian School is an easy to use, self-paced online classroom providing you with tools to maintain a safe, stable, and strong lifestyle. Video, audio, and presentation files are available for you to access and work through on your own time.
Course offerings include: Energetic Safety Techniques, Energetic Anatomy, Gentle Practices for Chaotic Times, The Business of Reiki, Fundamentals of Journey Work and much more!
To access the Guardian School click here.
GUARDIAN METHOD
This is a master training that starts with the basics of energy healing and guides you all the way through to advanced healing techniques.
Courses Included in the Guardian Method:
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- ENERGETIC SAFETY TECHNIQUES
- REIKI INTENSIVE TRAINING COURSE
- MASTER TEACHER APPRENTICESHIP
- FEILEACAN TRAUMA RELEASE TECHNIQUE TRAINING™
- REIKI TEACHER TRAINING
For more info about The Guardian Method click here.
MEET IZZY SWANSON:
Izzy Swanson specializes in healing soul wounds caused by trauma, PTSD, and addiction. She frequently works with clients who have autoimmune disorders, adrenal fatigue, and other stress-related health issues. Using Reiki energy and the Feileacan Trauma Release Technique, Izzy guides and mentors her clients as they begin to rediscover lost or broken pieces of their souls. By creating calm, comfortable, and restful spaces, Izzy helps people feel safe as they engage in the deeper work of healing past wounds. She considers it her sacred task to guard and protect individuals while helping them work toward becoming whole again.
Izzy has been practicing Earth-based spirituality for more than 20 years. She is a Certified Medical Reiki Master and an ordained minister attuned to the master level in Traditional Usui Reiki and Usui Holy Fire Reiki. Izzy created the Guardian Method and The Feileacan Trauma Release Technique™. She is also the founder of The Order of the Crows, a priesthood tradition honoring the Morrigan.
As a Reiki practitioner and teacher, Izzy believes it essential to empower others to heal themselves; she provides clients and students with the necessary tools and techniques to build a daily practice of spiritual self-care.
Driven by her desire to be of service to others, Izzy offers courses in Energetic Safety, the Guardian Method, Reiki, and the Feileacan Trauma Release Technique™. She also facilitates drum journey circles and meditation groups. Her Sacred Keys line of natural sprays, oils, and incenses supports the energetic of this soul work. Izzy believes that with time, love, and support, our capacity for healing and transformation is truly limitless.
For more info or to book an appointment with Izzy click here.
Also, click here to check out Izzy’s shop, Sacred Keys, on our Product Directory.
ImprovPD – Amardev
ImprovPD – AmardevLearn to Utilize the Power of Inspiration
ImprovPD supports professional and personal development through improvised storytelling and meditation.
Their services revolve around one word: inspiration.
If an individual or team is inspired…then there are no limits to that creative system. This is a natural state that belongs to everyone.
ImprovPD aims to guide individuals and teams to discover their unique threads of inspiration…so that creativity and collaboration becomes familiar in all of your endeavors.
Meditation is critical in this arena…as it gives you the opportunity to slow down and sharpen your awareness. Since every moment is saturated with inspiration, it then becomes your responsibility to be present to it’s pervasive insights. This is incredibly empowering…as it allows all solutions and possibilities to become available for your creative pursuits. Team dynamics and culture then become vibrant and synergistic…for every member is operating from a place of calm confidence.
This is where creativity and collaboration can really accelerate and become impactful. The art of improvised theater provides value here by allowing everyone from your team to genuinely connect with each other…without the filters of fear, shame, or passivity. There is no greater joy than being a part of an emergent group…for it is in our nature to go beyond what was thought to be possible.
ImprovPD co-founder and CEO, Amardev, specializes in customized packages for all professional arenas…including education, design, and engineering. He also trains troupes in the art of improvised theater…and offers private counseling sessions to individuals and pairs.
ImprovPD strives to:
- Nurture inspiration, focus, and peace in the workplace…and in all environments.
- Balance internal and external skill sets.
- Enhance positive collaboration, listening, and awareness.
- Help individuals and groups cultivate confidence and overcome inhibitions.
- Promote diversity of thought and experience.
- Synthesize technical knowledge with artistic processes.
Services Offered:
- Mindful Corporate Training ($350 an hour): Discover how improvised theater and meditation can enhance professional skill-sets and work culture.
- Personal Development Training ($80 – $140 per 90 minute session): Discover how improv, meditation, tea ceremony, and sonic acupuncture can catalyze your personal life. These sessions are designed for individuals or pairs.
- Improv Training ($80 per hour): Learn the tricks of the improv trade…so that you can perform on stage with effortless confidence and commitment.
Meet Amardev:
I’m a philosopher at heart. Specifically, I am fascinated by the philosophy of the creative process…which is what I explored for my BA and Masters. A big part of that exploration involved meditative techniques…for it became apparent that cultures throughout history utilized these practices to optimize creative endeavors. This has become my life’s passion…and how I wish to be of service to humanity. I wish to facilitate uninhibited creativity…so that individuals and communities can discover joy and self-acceptance in every phase of life.
While my first artistic medium involved the arena of sound and music…I have recently fallen in love with the process of improvised theater. When I took my first improv class, I was completely taken by its universality. It didn’t matter what task I was engaged in…the precepts and principles of improv could…without fail…be applied to the process at hand. It’s no wonder that this meme, appropriately named applied improv, is beginning to spread through professional circles…for its sincerity promotes a creative innocence often lacking in the workplace. Ultimately, humans were designed to play…to have fun in their endeavors so that it becomes second nature to go beyond what was thought to be possible. This is how we embody efficiency and effectiveness…for when we are inspired…our inherent creativity will kick in to handle any task imaginable…or unimaginable. I am delighted to have found this avenue for expression…and to synthesize it with meditation to enhance the lives of others.
For more info about Amardev and the services he offers click here.
Jonna T. Williams, LMT, RMI
Jonna T. Williams, LMT, RMIPEACE. LOVE. REIKI
Jonna T. Williams is an intuitive healer, deep tissue massage therapist, energy worker, Reiki Healer and Instructor. She is licensed as a Massage Therapist and professionally certified as a Usui Reiki III Master/Instructor. Jonna offers her services out of the Holistic House of Healing in Austin, TX.
Sixteen years of service in the healing community, have created strong hands and a kind & giving heart.
Her specialties include Reiki infused massage as well as deep tissue massage, sports massage (pre and post), therapeutic massage (also known as Swedish massage), geriatric massage (discounted for seniors), chakra balancing, Reiki Energy Sessions, and of course Reiki Level I, II & Master classes.
SERVICES OFFERED BY JONNA:
- Custom Massage
- Prenatal Massage
- Vibration Therapy
- Reiki Session
- Reiki Training
- Chakra Balancing
- Meditation Instruction
- Group Meditations for Healers
- Group Meditations for the Community
Meet Jonna:
Jonna T. Williams is an intuitive healer, deep tissue massage therapist, energy worker, Reiki Healer and Instructor. She is licensed by the State of Texas and professionally certified as a Usui Reiki III Master/Instructor.
She has been instrumental in the assistive restorative healing of spirit, mind and body to several post cancer clients, in an effort to extend emotional and physical healing and personal growth.
Jonna is a not only a gifted healer and mentor to her students but is also the owner of the Holistic House of Healing in Austin, TX.
For more info or to book an appointment with Jonna click here.
Monsoon Dance – Shruti Anand
Monsoon Dance – Shruti AnandBOLLYWOOD & YOGA
Shruti Anand is the founder and owner of Monsoon Dance in Austin, Texas. Established in 2012, Monsoon Dance is committed to high quality instruction of Yoga, Bollywood and Indian Dance forms in a fun & friendly environment for adults and children. Their programs suit all levels of skill, fitness, interest and dance backgrounds.
The Monsoon Dance studio is proud to be the first ever studio in Austin which focuses on Yoga & Bollywood dance together. They also teach in satellite locations in the greater Austin area.
They offer a variety of programs and services to provide their clients and students many flexible and hassle-free options to learn and enjoy their classes. From single class passes to weekly sessions to unlimited class monthly options along with economical packages for family enrollment, you can find the program just right for you!
Monsoon Dance supports local non-profits and charitable organizations through the initiative Dance for a Cause. Their Mayur Dance team members donate their skill and time for causes that make our world a better place; giving a purpose to their passion for dance.
They believe in bringing people, cultures, communities together with dance and yoga and they hope to continue this journey of spreading happiness and fitness forever!
Services Offered:
MonsoonFit BollyYoga Program:
They believe in Fitness of Mind, Body & Soul. MonsoonFit BollyYoga Program offers you Bollywood Fitness classes and Yoga classes for a perfect work-out schedule for yourself every week!
Their Bollywood Fitness methods aim at burning calories and strengthening muscles.
Their Yoga classes focus on inner peace, calm, flexibility and regenerative techniques to get energized and rejuvenated.
Their Bollywood Choreography aims at making you a content, self-confident dancing soul.
This unique blend is MonsoonFit BollyYoga!
Every MonsoonFit Class strikes a great balance between Fitness and Fun at a whole new level!! MonsoonFit BollyYoga is their proprietary brand of adult dance classes, with the goal being to create a happy soul and a happy body through dance. Trials for adult classes are always FREE. Try a class out and you are sure to love it!
Bollywood Choreography Sessions for Kids:
Monsoon Dance’s weekly dance classes for kids strictly follow a Monsoon Dance proprietary curriculum that is designed to truly improve the student’s dance style, cultural know-how, flexibility, balance, poise, energy, and performance.
Kid’s Bollywood dance classes are organized by class levels which are a combination of the students age & skill.
Every session focuses on a new aspect of Indian or Bollywood dance and has a choreography theme to keep the classes challenging and fun for kids. The session is followed by a recital to present the learning (2-3 Bollywood Medleys/Songs) and advancement in that session.
Bollywood Choreography Sessions for Adults:
Weekly Bollywood Class for Adults learn creative Bollywood choreography on unique mix of music from India and around the world. Students will be encouraged to show their confidence and learning from class on stage at the student recital once during this session.
Weekly Choreography Sessions for Adults are designed to offer fun and fitness in learning new dance moves on classic and latest upbeat Bollywood songs. Dance moves range from slow and graceful to fast and energetic mixing a variety of Indian dance forms at times fused with Hip Hop and Latin dances.
They have two levels of Bollywood Choreography Sessions: Beginners & Advanced. Join a choreography session and rock any party or any stage in town like a Bollywood star!
Wedding Choreography:
Ready to make your first dance or reception entry a memorable experience for you and for everybody watching?
Have your very own Bollywood dream sequence song picked out?
Monsoon Dance can work with you on a one-on-one basis and provide instruction and choreography (Bollywood or other dance forms) suited to you and your partners skill level and needs (costume, dance floor, flavor of a certain part of South Asia.)
Attending an Indian / Bollywood wedding and want to dedicate a special performance for the bride and groom? Monsoon Dance has Bollywood wedding songs and choreography (kids OR adult appropriate) just right for the”Baraat” or “Sangeet” or for the actual wedding, that they can teach you or a special couple (for example, the parents of the bride), or the entire bridal couple. Want to surprise everybody with a Bollywood Flash Mob…. They can help you put on the best show!
Birthday Party Packages for Kids or Adults:
Add a zest of culture and fun to your next birthday party by making Monsoon Dance a part of your plans.
They guarantee that they will make this day special and memorable for you, your family, friends and guests.
Check out Monsoon Dance’s website to see everything that is included in their awesome party packages!
For Monsoon’s class schedule and prices click here.
At your next event get your guests grooving and learning with some Bollywood dancers or instructors! Contact Monsoon Dance today!
Radiant Expansion – Carolina Perez, RYT
Radiant Expansion – Carolina Perez, RYTLIVE IN RADIANT EXPANSION!
Imagine living a life full of radiant expansion…
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free of your old self-definitions
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free of trauma
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free of self-imposed limits
Now imagine a world full of people acting, thinking and feeling radiant expansion!
Carolina can guide you to a life of radiant expansion.
Carolina specializes in mentoring others to become healers in their personal and professional life. Her work can transform your life and bring a new set of tools for your own practice.
Services Offered (Available in English or Spanish):
Fire Heart Yoga – An 80 minute transformational yoga class.
Bring fire and happiness to your life with this yoga class designed for everyone from beginners to advanced students. Get to know your power to create and destroy Breathing and healing energy meditation.
Energy Budget – A monthly life & energy coaching program.
- Change your perspective in life
- Reclaim a new self-image
- Increase your capacity to receive abundance and prosperity
Energy Budgets for accessing abundance in health, love, passion, and prosperity. Auditing your energy investments in life will allow you to create a return on investment from your actions, thoughts and words. You will learn how to identify the risks, strengths, and opportunities for improvement in your life. This is a monthly program including 3 sessions that allow you to update your conversation with life. You and Carolina will create an appraisal of your energy investments in life to understand the adequacy and effectiveness of your internal controls.
Reiki Radiant Expansion – Healing training class for individuals or groups.
Radiant Expansion Healing allows your energy to flow and speeds up the natural healing process of human beings. When you receive it, you reconnect with the source of energy in Life. With repetition, you begin to heal at all levels of your being: emotional, physical, mental and energetic. Healing is finding peace in the middle of any chaos to allow more and resist less.
Class Includes:
- 3 hours Mini Retreat in-person or online
- Class Manual
- 21 Day Practical Guide (digital versions)
- Certificate of Level 1 or 2
- 1 follow-up call (within a period of no more than two months)
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Master of Sabotage – 3 hour mini retreat in-person or online.
Experience the freedom of using your true voice in life; allowing yourself to release trauma and outdated self-definitions. Experience your unique combination of healing energy, yoga & NLP.
Call Your Spirit Back – 3 hour mini retreat in-person or online.
This is the most powerful 3-hour retreat to get clear on your state of mind, gain confidence based on who you are now (not before or who you will have to become to achieve your goals,) and feel really certain about what are the next steps you must take to bring abundance into your life.
You will finally release energy anchors; disempower anxiety and heal depression. Be free to create a bright shining present, here and now!
Life is a fiesta and you are invited!
Arrive to a feast of abundance and prosperity!
Meet Carolina:
Carolina Perez is an artist and writer, in love with her “now”, is the laughing mom of a 9yr old renaissance boy, is the sexy queen bee of her home with her son Franek and life partner Geo [who thinks she is the bomb and she is not correcting him anytime soon].
Born in Puerto Rico to Cuban exile parents, she is also an International Certified NLP Life Coach, Trauma Release Coach, Time-line Coach, Hypnosis Practitioner, Master Reiki, Pranic Healer and ULC Ordained Minister. Carolina has a BA in Spanish, Master’s in Translation and loves writing and speaking in public about healing and coaching.
In wellness, her first job was in a Pain Management Clinic in Puerto Rico, for the anesthesiologist who other doctors seek to deal with their own pain. This was a beautiful full circle since this doctor was her own acute pain doctor many years ago, who inspired her to look for other answers. Her work as the in-house NLP Life Coach, Reiki Master and Pranic Healer allowed her to work with the emotional root of pain and the intensifying effect of fear over pain. She worked with long time pain patients and stem-cell treatments.
She has worked with psychologists, doctors, stem cell labs, athletes and other life coaches and healers. Still, working with mothers and children (9-19) is the real reason she started her coaching practice. Carolina teaches Neuro-Linguistic Programming NLP techniques and Reiki classes. Carolina has walked a very long road, experiencing struggle, and today “she is still standing” and feeling passionate about teaching you a thing or two about how to walk and not freeze in life.
For more info or to book an appointment with Carolina click here.
SMILES in Life Foundation – Vishal Sharma
SMILES in Life Foundation – Vishal SharmaSMILES IN LIFE, WORK, & EDUCATION
SMILES in Life Foundation is a global social initiative to bring SMILES in everyone’s life by promoting physical, mental, emotional, and social well-being.
SMILES in Life Foundation uses Positive Psychology, Yoga, Meditation, and Mindfulness techniques in their “SMILES Model of Well-Being” to help others enjoy a stress free, healthy, and compassionate way of learning, working, and living.
SMILES in Life Foundation is a Non-Government, Not for Profit, global social initiative to promote physical, mental and emotional well-being for everyone; be it students, educators, home-makers, or other professionals.
SMILES stands for Stressfree Motivating Inquisitive Learning Eco System.
“SMILES in Life” program integrates short & easy well-being techniques with daily routine to relax our body, get peace of mind, and happiness of heart. It generates an intrinsic motivation to enjoy a stress free, healthy, and compassionate way of learning, and working.
PROGRAMS OFFERED:
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“SMILES IN LIFE” FOR INDIVIDUALS
(For everyone – young or old)
Just give 3 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes in the night for 21 days to program your mind for improved well-being & quality of life. Contact them for a Free Beginner’s Webinar! -
“SMILES IN WORK” FOR PROFESSIONALS & WORKERS
Group workshops/webinars for professionals both online and in-person to integrate mindfulness and well-being techniques with their work and personal life. This improves individual well-being and develops a healthy and compassionate work culture resulting in improved productivity, and talent retention.
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“SMILES IN EDUCATION” FOR TEACHERS, STUDENTS, PARENTS, & SCHOOL LEADERS
This program is designed to address the core problem areas in our education system like the lack of teacher motivation & creativity, reduced student involvement & concentration, as well as, social and emotional issues like peer pressure, exam stress, bullying, depression etc. Using positive psychology and mindfulness, SMILES program transforms our classrooms into recharging stations for joy, harmony, creativity, and camaraderie using 21st century skills as well as life-skills most needed in real life. They not only make students enjoy their learning but also change teachers’ mind-sets to start enjoying their teaching by rekindling their creativity and intrinsic motivation to teach.
- Having expanded to 7 countries in the last two years, they are now opening their program to more schools to create a positive learning ecosystem where the students, parents, teachers and the schools will become pillars of support of learning and practicing the positive pedagogical skills and wellbeing techniques for more joyful, creative and stress-free self-motivated learning.
- To reach out to more schools in less time, they have developed an accelerated and gift economy (pay if you wish) version of “SMILES in Education” program where they will conduct three “SMILES workshops” for all of your grade 1-8 teachers, followed by teacher “Wellbeing Counseling” sessions to identify and groom up to Five “SMILES ambassadors within your teachers who can role-model and support the rest of the teachers. They also help foster/encourage innovations & creative ideas within your school and give them global exposure through the Finland based NGO organization “HundrED”.
- Based on time availability & interest, they also conduct SMILES workshops/webinars for positive parenting as well as for students of higher classes on improving memory and recalling power, writing Stress Free exams, Bullying Prevention, Career Counseling, and Global Citizenship.
SMILES in Life Foundation is very pleased to announce that our Flagship program for schools called “SMILES in Education” has been selected for the second year among the “Top Global 100 Innovations in Education” at the Innovation Summit held on Nov 6-8, 2019 in Helsinki, Finland.
Meet Vishal Sharma:
Vishal Sharma is a passionate educationist, well-being consultant, and a positive lifestyle coach with a demonstrated history of making a visible impact in people’s lives across the globe. He is a certified Yoga and Mindfulness Trainer. Having finished his Masters in Engineering from BITS Pilani, he spent several years as Computer Engineer working for Intel Corp. in the USA but then he listened to his inner calling and returned to India to do some good for the society. He realized the need for including well-being and real life-skills as an essential part of our education, so he started working as a freelance educational consultant and then a fellow-teacher with “Teach For India,” for researching and practicing how to integrate holistic well-being into every aspect of teaching, learning and working.
As a Master Teacher Trainer, he has trained several teachers, school leaders and principals for mindfulness & well-being integrated pedagogical skills. He conducts workshops, webinars and seminars on stress free learning and joyful teaching for students, teachers, parents, and professionals across the globe. One of his innovations, called “SMILES in Education” has been recognized as one of the “Global Top 100 Innovations in Education” for 2019 & 2020 by a Finland based organization HundrED. This innovation integrates mindfulness & positive psychology based short and easy techniques in classrooms for inculcating life-skills like resilience, empathy, discernment, & will-power for both teachers and students.
Vishal is the founder of a non-profit organization in education and well-being called SMILES in Life Foundation. It’s a global social initiative to bring SMILES in everyone’s life by promoting physical, mental, emotional and social well-being. It has developed a “SMILES Model of Well-being” to enjoy stress free, healthy and compassionate way of learning, working and living. Vishal loves to travel, meet new people and bring smiles to their faces.
For more information about the SMILES in Life Foundation programs, click here.
Sol Healing and Wellness Center – Steve Milan
Sol Healing and Wellness Center – Steve MilanSol’s mission is to offer a safe, intentional, learning and healing environment where professionals collaborate to provide accessible, holistic wellness services.
Wellness practitioners of all types rent space at Sol on a monthly, daily or hourly basis to provide treatments, classes, retreats, trainings, etc. Sol promotes collaboration and an ongoing discovery about multidisciplinary healing as each practitioner offers their unique offerings to clients.
Sol’s physical space includes 14 individual offices, two yoga studios, a classroom/co-working space, three waiting rooms, and kitchen space spread out across three buildings on our two acre campus.
Practitioners provide acupuncture, chiropractic, counseling, digestive health coaching, massage, Reiki, spiritual direction, Watsu, wellness coaching and yoga. Additionally, classes and workshops touch on varied topics including meditation, Shamanism, Hakomi, professional training, yoga and much more. Finally, because of its nurturing and holistic nature, Sol has hosted celebrations, memorials, house concerts and conscious gatherings of many kinds.
Sol Healing and Wellness Center is intended as a service to its practitioners, their clients, and the community as a whole providing a holistic place for healing, learning and inspiration.






Serving North Austin, Pflugerville, Round Rock, Cedar Park and Georgetown, Texas
with individual and group services that focus on healing the mind, body, and spirit.
Meet the founder of Sol Healing and Wellness Center, LLC.:
Steve Milan, LCSW is a practicing psychotherapist as well as the founder of Sol Healing and Wellness Center. Steve has been pursuing the dream of developing a multidisciplinary healing center for 12 years, and that dream is coming together with Sol. His “starter marriage” of healing centers is now a building holding psychotherapists and a yoga studio in Central Austin. However, Steve was struck by the limitations of his own growth and his professional work due to a specific focus on mind health and development.
As a professional in the 1990s, he embraced Hakomi (a mindfulness-based,body-centered therapy) and Systems-centered therapy as his primary therapeutic modalities. But he also recognized the importance of diluting the artificial boundaries between the studies of body, mind and spirit. So he began a conversation with professionals across multiple disciplines, both conventional and more alternative, to promote a more holistic understanding of how we humans grow and develop. Sol Healing and Wellness Center is both a physical manifestation of that discussion, and a structure which seeks to continue and deepen that discussion by its presence.
Steve also identifies as a father, a partner, a recovering accountant (1st career), a recovering Catholic (1st religion), an inconsistent meditator, a Sufi/Buddhist/Contemplative Christian, a 30-year Ultimate Frisbee player, and a season ticket holding fan of the Austin Sol (no relation) the local professional Ultimate team.
For more info about Sol Healing and Wellness Center and the services they offer click here.
SpoonieHeart with Dr. Jo Eckler
SpoonieHeart with Dr. Jo EcklerCHRONIC ILLNESS SUCKS
YOUR LIFE DOESN’T HAVE TO
Dr. Jo Eckler helps people who are living with invisible chronic illness learn how to befriend themselves, do the things, and love their lives. If chronic illness has you feeling invisible, isolated, overwhelmed, and unequipped, Dr. Jo can help!
Services Offered:
- Individual and Group Coaching Programs and Resources – If you are an early to mid-career professional living with chronic invisible illness, Dr. Jo can help you keep doing the work that you are here to do.
- Personalized Consultation and Training – Great for anyone seeking to better understand how to cope with chronic illness, as well as support people who are living with it.
Click here to take Dr. Jo’s Spoonie Super Power Quiz to discover your chronic illness coping style–plus get tips to make the most of your strengths.
Meet Dr. Jo Eckler:
I’ve spent a lot of my life feeling invisible….being non-binary, bisexual, pagan, queer, and chronically ill can definitely do that. At age 15, my knee swelled up like a balloon. That was the start of my life with chronic illness.
For the past 27 years, I’ve collected diagnoses like some people collect Pokemon: fibromyalgia, spondylolisthesis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, bile acid malabsorption, antibiotic-induced autonomic neuropathy, Reynaud’s syndrome, non-diabetic peripheral neuropathy, migraine, trigeminal neuralgia, and hidradenitis suppurativa.
I also collected degrees, the last one being a doctorate in clinical psychology. I’ve worked as a psychologist in hospitals and nursing homes. I’m trained as a death & mourning doula as well as a hospice volunteer. I’m a registered yoga teacher. I’ve been a therapist to dozens of people living with injuries and diseases.
And I did all that while secretly and miserably dealing with pain, fatigue, and other symptoms.
I know the desire to be recognized as sick and struggling. I know that in the next second we can want no one to know and to be treated like we’re healthy.And I also know that even the best physician sends us out the door with little more than prescriptions, a follow-up appointment, and maybe some home remedy advice or orders for more tests. They simply don’t have the time or the training to give us the tools we need to live as well as we can while being as sick as we are.
That’s why I started offering coaching and online programs. And that’s why I wrote the book I Can’t Fix You—Because You’re Not Broken: The Eight Keys to Freeing Yourself From Painful Thoughts and Feelings. I’ve been lucky that my training as a psychologist also helped me find the tools I needed to live more, live better. And I want you to have these tools too. – Dr. Jo
For more info about Dr. Jo and the services she offers click here.
The Intuitive Interior – Beverly Biehl
The Intuitive Interior – Beverly BiehlCREATING POSITIVE ENERGY
Beverly Biehl, The Intuitive Interior owner, is a Feng Shui consultant, Energy Alchemist, Creation Catalyst, and Coincidence Creator. Formerly located in Frisco, TX, she now lives in Austin, Texas. She evaluates the flow of your home or office environment and determines how it can become the supportive place you desire. She looks for patterns in your choices that tell your stories. Your external environment mirrors your internal state of mind. She invites you to make suggested adjustments to achieve balance and harmony, both inside and out.
Our thoughts act as a magnet for situations we recognize as “good” or “bad”. The Intuitive Coaching services that Beverly provides instantly clear out the energetic causes behind negative work situations, attracting energy vampires, and even poor service in restaurants! You will learn techniques to protect yourself energetically from hostile environments, and she will guide you as you shift your unconscious patterns and neutralize emotional triggers quickly and easily.
Beverly also has a knack for reading the energy of buildings and the land that they stand on. Your mom always warned you about picking things up off the ground, because “You don’t know where that’s been”. Energy leaves deposits, too. If you aren’t aware of the emotional debris from those who have been in a space before, you inadvertently open yourself up to cross-contamination on the energetic level.
Old buildings, antiques, and family heirlooms tell many stories without ever saying a word, and sometimes they aren’t so nice. Even new construction isn’t immune to this, depending on the health of the group building it. And that doesn’t even address what happened on the land BEFORE the modern building appeared!
Contact Beverly for more information on Space Clearing and how it can positively impact your happiness, health, and wealth.
Common Reasons for Feng Shui Services:
- Increase Wealth & Prosperity
- Attract or Enhance a Loving Relationship
- Improve Health & Sleep
- Remove Feelings of Overwhelm
Services Offered:
(Serving corporate, residential, individuals, and couples.)
- Feng Shui Consultation (BTB & Compass Trained)
- Energy Healing w/ Guided Imagery
- Energy Clearing
- Intuitive Coaching
- Spiritual Counseling
- Speaking / Teaching
Beverly is passionate about helping people make positive changes in their lives!
Meet Beverly Biehl:
I’m a mom of two brilliant young adults: a high achieving daughter about to graduate from college with a 4.0 and son who has been dancing with heroin addiction since he was 16.
I grew up on a pig farm in isolated Kansas, and found Feng Shui after successfully completing breast cancer treatments in 2003.
I began to enhance my energy protection and learned about my healing abilities in 2008. My husband of nearly 27 years and I moved to Austin in 2016 from the Dallas area. I’m thrilled to be a part of this amazing community!
Is it time to Change Your Chi? Click here and let Beverly help you manifest your dreams!
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Two Birds Yoga Training – Libby Cox, E-RYT 500, RPYT
Two Birds Yoga Training – Libby Cox, E-RYT 500, RPYTJoin Two Birds Yoga Training for your yoga teacher training experience.
Two Birds Yoga Training offers programs in various locations throughout the United States and abroad. 200-hour and 500-hour yoga teacher training based in Eugene, Oregon, with arms extending nationally.
Two Birds Yoga Training’s mission is to provide you with a well-rounded base line of understanding that you’ll be able to apply to your own comprehensive yoga practice and teaching. This is why, as you review the biographies of the faculty, you will discover that they do not all teach the same style of yoga, nor do they practice in the same meditative lineage. Yet, they all come together as a means to deepen the conversation about safe and effective yoga practice and teaching.
Each faculty member has spent years coming to her own hard-won research, thoughts, practices and points-of-view by pursuing myriad styles and ideas. They will introduce you to common yogic principles founded upon documented historical accounts of yoga practice, in a scholarly and unbiased setting, for your consideration.
Textual reference will include The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali, The Bhagavad Gita, The Hatha Yoga Pradipika, The Vedas, Puranas and Upanisads. And, Two Birds will introduce you to a body of knowledge based on modern scientific exploration of the benefits of longterm yoga practice.
Two Birds Yoga Training believes that ultimately, it is through your own reflection and through your personal vision and practice of these teachings that you will teach — and not through one set of rules laid down as dogma, as the “right” way.
TWO BIRDS YOGA TRAINING FACULTY:
LIBBY COX – Program Director. After years of continued service and contributions to teacher trainings such as Yoga Yoga, EveryOne Yoga School and Global Yoga Shala, Libby Cox is now the director of Two Birds Yoga Training, a 200-hour and 500-hour Registered Yoga School with the Yoga Alliance.
The curriculum for Two Birds Yoga Training draws from many different yogic disciplines and philosophies, as the faculty roster is populated with a diverse and erudite group of educators and yoginis. Of particular note are Libby’s studies with Patty Townsend, Judith Lasater, and Douglas Brooks, which will shape much of the philosophy behind the curriculum. Townsend developed ‘Embodyoga’, an approach to movement steeped in anatomy-driven, developmental movement principles of Body Mind Centering (BMC). Libby uses these principles to help students discover and release underlying causes of dysfunctional movement patterns.
Libby’s studies with Judith Lasater, certified Iyengar teacher and physical therapist, have given her the skills to work individually with students on shoulder, hip and lower back health. Dr. Douglas Brooks, PhD, introduced her to Rajanaka Tantra, a body of ideas that emphasize the invaluable education of everyday human experience. Libby works with students, using the vision of yoga philosophy, to help them gain perspective, presence and resilience through life’s joys and challenges.
RACHEL HECTOR has been in pursuit of her PhD in Applied Kinesiology at the University of Texas at Austin, and is driven to teach anatomy for Yoga, with a passion for injury prevention and personalized practice.
ANA PILAR CRUZ will bring her years of study with Gary Kraftsow and the American Viniyoga Institute to bear upon posture and breath practice, in conjunction with her interests in Tantric meditation and Indian mythology.
DELORA FREDERICKSON will give you in-depth perspectives and practices that will fortify your understanding of anatomy, yoga for women’s health and Kundalini yoga.
For further reference, here is a list of teachers with whom Two Birds Yoga Training faculty members have studied extensively:
David Swenson
Gary Kraftsow
Mark Uridel
Judith Lasater
Douglas Brooks
Leslie Howard
Nischala Joy Devi
Gianna Purcell
You may find it helpful in your consideration of this program, to familiarize yourself with these teachers, as well as their lineage- and research-based approaches to yoga as a way of life.
MEET LIBBY COX:
Libby Cox is an ERYT 500, a mother of twin boys, an educator and a dedicated student of the body. With degrees in art, dance and education, a 17-year yoga practice, and a penchant for storytelling, Libby’s teaching approach is passionate, compassionate, and witty.
Teaching yoga since 2004, Libby has served on faculty in yoga teacher training programs in the US and abroad since 2010, drawing upon her studies from numerous styles of yoga and teaching approaches in order to meet the needs of yoga students and aspiring teachers alike. Most notable are Libby’s studies with Patty Townsend, Judith Lasater, and Douglas Brooks.
Townsend developed ‘Embodyoga’, an approach to movement steeped in anatomy-driven, developmental movement principles of Body Mind Centering (BMC). Libby uses these principles to help students discover and release underlying causes of dysfunctional movement patterns.
Libby’s studies with Judith Lasater have given her the skills to work individually with students on shoulder, hip and lower back health. Dr. Douglas Brooks introduced her to Rajanaka Tantra, a body of ideas that emphasize the invaluable education of everyday human experience. Libby works with students, using the vision of yoga philosophy, to help them gain perspective, presence and resilience through life’s joys and challenges. Libby recognizes that to be a knowledgeable instructor one has to understand the world of yoga as a whole and not be closed off to any yoga experience, knowledge or practice. It is through this knowledge, Libby discovered, she stays grounded in her personal practice.
This combination of studies has sustained Libby’s long time love of connecting the exploration of body-mind and breath to invigorating, well-informed creative movement. She also loves the support and inspiration that grows out of being part of a yoga community, and seeks to share her love of yoga as a philosophy that nourishes the capacity for creativity and resilience on life’s paths.
A recent transplant in Eugene, OR, Libby teaches for Balanced Hot Yoga. She lived in Austin, TX, for the better part of 15 years, and is a teacher trainer and national presenter for Yoga Yoga. Libby also leads retreats and travels with One Yoga Global.
For information on upcoming trainings, click here.
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