Naturopathic Wellness Wednesday: Mastering the Perfect Pitch

On this Wellness Wednesday episode, you will be informed on how to effectively blend your unique story, authenticity, financial challenges, successes and opportunities into a “killer” pitch and/or presentation. Your pitch is the single thing that could either get your business, brand, and/or career off and running or plunge it into the eternal depths of extinction. In other words, your pitch matters. By definition, a “pitch” in the business world has nothing at all to do with an amazing fastball; rather, it describes the way that presenters “throw” or deliver information at prospects.

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Shiatsu

In this Wellness Wednesday’s episode, I am chatting with Phoebe Bodkin, and she is here to discuss Shiatsu. Many problems on our wellness can be treated with shiatsu like this challenges of the nature: Digestive, sleep, quality sexual, reproductive, self-esteem, grief, loneliness, and so much more. A shiatsu massage is an acupuncture without needles and Its effects are cumulative and lasting.

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Self-Care for Superwomen

Shannon Leggett Physical Therapy is a concierge practice, offering physical therapy, yoga, and wellness programs to help you reach your goals. Whether you are recovering from an injury and looking to get back to the activities you enjoy, or you are looking to enhance your fitness/wellness routine through yoga, Shannon brings expert care to meet you where you are!

Ivy BraninAugust 18, 2021holistic wellness, naturopath, wellness, health and wellness, yoga face, Annelise Hagen

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Yoga Face

For this Wellness Wednesday, I am chatting with Annelise Hagen, the founder, and creator of the Yoga Face. After several years of teaching and practicing Yoga, Annelise noticed her face was not rejuvenating as quickly as her body. So she turned her attention to improving and rejuvenating the face through the healing power of Yoga.

Ivy BraninAugust 11, 2021holistic wellness, naturopath, wellness, health and wellness, yoga face, Annelise Hagen

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Gut Toxicity

On this Wellness Wednesday episode, I sit down with Cheryl Paswater, Chief Fermentationist, and CEO of Contraband Ferments as well as an educator, artist, and writer. Cheryl has guest co-hosted on the radio show “Fuhmentaboudit!”, she co-organizes the NYC Fermentation Festival, and is an organizer of the NYC Ferments Meetup. She is a contributing writer for Edible Magazine as well as a contributor to the new book “Miso, Tempeh, Natto,” and is currently working on her first book on fermentation due out sometime in the near-not so near future.

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Colon Hydrotherapy

In this Wellness Wednesday’s episode, I am chatting with Jill Wais, a colon hydrotherapist at DTX NYC. As a colon therapy client herself, Jill was amazed at all the benefits she received from getting colonics. This is part of what led her to her profession today!

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Cranial Sacral Therapy

As an intuitive healer, bodyworker, and guide, Erin is able to tap into the natural rhythms of the body and assist them in deep harmony with one another. She has a passion for helping her clients align body, mind, and spirit and release tension and trauma through gentle touch, connection to breath, imagery, and dialogue.

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Better Vegan Living

Lauren is a private plant-based chef, kitchen confidence coach, speaker, and author, helping veg-curious and plant-passionate people transition to, and fall in love with, a plant-based diet and lifestyle so they can cook confidently.
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Following a plant-based diet can be soothing and rejuvenating for the skin. And with Lauren's help, you can find confidence in cooking with this plant-based approach.

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Mayan Abdominal Massage

This Wellness Wednesday features Anne Heckheimer, LMT, CPT, founder of the @prenatalmassagecenter of Manhattan.
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Through the years, Anne has developed a passion for working with pregnant and postpartum women. After receiving her massage license, Anne studied with Elaine Stillerman and received her Mothermassage® certification. She also studied prenatal massage with Susan Rachel Condon, director of the Niara Healing Arts Center.

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesday: Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy

On this episode of Wellness Wednesday, I interviewed Kristin Sapienza, licensed physical therapist and founder of @femfirsthealth_pt, a women’s health practice designed to bring physical therapy and wellness services to the women of New York City.

Ivy BraninMay 19, 2021holistic wellness, pelvic floor, physical therapy, Kristin Sapienza

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Doulas

In this episode of Wellness Wednesday, I talked to Beth Hardy, Birth Doula & Postpartum Doula who currently operates out of Salt Lake City, Utah. Beth is also a childbirth educator, trained hypnodoula, music therapist, and a parent of 2. She is co-owner of @hearttonesbirth in Utah.

Ivy BraninMay 12, 2021holistic wellness, doulas, doula

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesday: Chakralesque

Chakralesque, created by coach and burlesque artist Kacey Cardin, PCC, is a one-of-a-kind blend of dance, movement therapy, coaching, and energy healing set to the music of Aretha, Beyonce, Britney, and of course, the goddess Lizzo.

Ivy BraninApril 28, 2021wellness, holistic wellness, chakralesque, chakra, dance therapy

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Acupuncture

In this episode of Wellness Wednesdays, I interviewed Ryan Smith on immune health and prevention.

Ryan is a licensed acupuncturist with experience interning or working at some of the world’s leading health centers including the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.

Ivy BraninApril 15, 2021acupuncture, holistic wellness

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesdays: Love it yoga

In this episode of Wellness Wednesdays, we chatted about learning the right tools that resonate to help us “tap into” that “Bliss Body” no matter what our physical bodies are able to do, or what thoughts are in our minds. To learn more on the positive effects of listening to our intuition, and going within, watch this video where I had the chance to talk with Global Self-Love Yoga teacher, Beth Parasmo.

Ivy BraninMarch 24, 2021holistic wellness, yoga, breath work, mindfulness practice

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesday: Fitness for Every “Body”

In this episode of Wellness Wednesdays, we will be discussing how fitness should be viewed as a journey, not an exact destination; how people achieve greater success by enjoying working out through focusing more on strength or life-based goals and looking at the bigger picture. If you want to start taking control of your health, join me in this episode together with a personal trainer and a fitness coach, Brittany Ruscitto.

Ivy BraninMarch 17, 2021wellness, holistic wellness, fitness

Naturopathic Wellness Wednesday: Alexander Technique

In this episode of Wellness Wednesdays, I interviewed Witold Fitz-Simon on Alexander Technique.

Witold Fitz-Simon has been teaching yoga since 2000. He is a certified yoga instructor at the 500-hour level as a graduate of the Yoga Room Berkeley’s Advanced Studies Program under Donald Moyer and Mary Lou Weprin. A nationally certified Alexander Technique teacher, he served as a faculty member at the American Center for the Alexander Technique’s teacher training program from 2016 until its closure in 2018, and has taught actors, athletes, writers, musicians, lawyers, yoga teachers, and knitters in his private practice in New York City since 2014. Witold combines his practice of yoga, Alexander Technique, embodied anatomy and developmental movement into a lively somatic approach to self-expression and the body.

Ivy BraninFebruary 24, 2021wellness, holistic wellness, alexander technique, chronic pain

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