Nature-based integrative health blends nature with mind body medicine, ancient healing traditions, and contemplative wisdom practices to CREATE optimal health!
Nature-based integrative health may include:
- Forest therapy walks
- Nature journaling
- Mindfulness exercises
- Meditation
- Yoga / Somatic movement
- Energy therapies (Healing Touch)
- Guided imagery
Practices occur with a foundation in nature. Whether outdoors in a forest, gazing through window, or viewing images, nature is present.
My office is the great outdoors! I work with clients in person or through telehealth, as well as offering classes and workshops,
Authentic, Passionate, Healing – Denise radiates bubbling joy and infectious optimism. She listens deeply, reflects with wisdom, and breaks down fears and barriers to connect with true authentic BEING. Every session I carry home new inspirations and tools to pull me back on track when I get de-railed. Denise taught me to believe in myself.
Forest Therapy
What is Forest Therapy?
Forest therapy is rooted in the Japanese practice of ShinRin Yoku, also know as “Forest Bathing”. It began in the 1980s due to a rise in stress related conditions from high stress work environments. This meditative practice unfolds by immersing yourself in the forest, using all your senses to connect deeply with nature. Evidence based research validates the health benefits to promote healing and wellness.
Benefits of Forest Therapy:
- Decreases stress hormones
- Decreases heart rate and blood pressure
- Strengthens the immune system by increasing NK (natural killer) white blood cells
- Improves mental health, depression, & anxiety
- Enhances sleep
- Creates a sense of well being
What is guided Forest Therapy?
Forest therapy includes slow mindful walks in nature, covering a short distance over 2-3 hours. Through a series of invitations, participants connect deeply with their senses. tapping into what nature offers through sights, sounds, smells, and touch. Embracing stillness and sensory awareness allows us to be fully present to the healing powers of nature.
Curious to experience Forest Therapy?
Yoga Therapies
Yoga therapies are holistic mind-body lifestyle practices that focus on body awareness, breathwork, mindfulness, meditation, and energy therapies. With the goal to create peace, reflective insights, and relaxation, each modality offers holistic self care tools to create wellness.
The healing power of yoga feeds my passion to share specific forms of yoga to meet the needs of my clients. Whether Integral, Aerial, Chair, Aqua, or Restorative Yoga, step into this ancient practice of asana, breath, and flow to experience calm, peace, and balance!
Through a series of invitations, participants connect deeply with their senses. tapping into what nature offers through sights, sounds, smells, and touch. Embracing stillness and sensory awareness allows us to be fully present to the healing powers of nature.
Each teaching includes:
- Yoga postures (asanas)to increase body awareness, increase strength and flexibility, and balance the neuro-endocrine system.
- Breathwork (pranayama) to improve lung capacity, increase oxygenation, improve mental focus, and stimulate energy
- Mantras and/or music to support flow and relaxation.
- Deep relaxation to access inner peace and calmness.
- Meditation to expand the practice of focused thought and peaceful mind.
- Gentle movement to balance energy and increase body awareness
Yoga Practices
I am deeply committed to Yoga as a lifestyle practice and maintain updated trainings & certifications.
Yoga trainings I have completed:
- Integral Yoga- 200hrs
- Aerial Yoga
- Aqua Yoga
- Yoga for Mood Management: Depression & Anxiety (LifeForce Yoga Practitioner– Level 1)
- The Living, Healing Tradition of Yoga Therapy
- Chair Yoga
- Restorative Yoga
Energy Therapies
What is Healing Touch?
Healing touch is a heart-centered biofield therapy that focuses compassionate healing intention and gentle hand techniques to clear, balance, and re-pattern a person’s energy field and accelerate healing of the body, mind, and spirit. Realigning energy flow that has been disrupted by stress, pain, or illness, creates an optimal state for healing.
Benefits of Energy Therapies:
- Reduces stress
- Calms anxiety, depression
- Decreases pain
- Strengthens the immune system
- Enhances recovery from surgery
- Deepens spiritual connection
- Supports cancer care
- Creates a sense of well-being
- Supports end of life transitions
- Eases acute and chronic conditions
Denise’s effusive passion in energy medicine blends with her gentle healing presence as she shares Healing Touch. With her knowledge, compassion, and enthusiasm, she inspires people to experience, learn, and share the healing power of energy therapies.
Mindfulness and Meditation
What is Meditation?
Meditation teaches the body and mind to let go of thoughts and tune inward to harness inner strength, intuition, and energy.
Research studies show that when we are in a relaxed state of mind, we are capable of intense healing and growth. Brainwave activity and biochemistry shift to re- wire our neural pathways to be focused, attentive, and intuitive.
What is Mindfulness?
Mindfulness is being fully present, using all your senses, in a state a non-judgment. It is the beauty of letting go of the past and not worrying about the future… just focus on NOW. With our tendency to be caught up in inner dialogue, mindfulness invites a dynamic, vivid world view in the present moment which decreases stress.
Interested in mindfulness and meditation workshops in nature setting?
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Denise has a gift for creating a safe nurturing space to connect deeply with ourselves, gently guiding us to let go of fears, listen to inner wisdom, re-connect with creativity and joy, and find stillness to re-charge. Denise is passionate, radiant, and inspiring in every segment of her teachings, from self-care to neuroscience research to skill sets to musings. I have awakened to a new way of being.