Naturopathic Intern Program
Our Naturopathic Intern program is a unique initiative allowing Empower Health to offer some of the most cost effective Naturopathic services in Vancouver! The services offered under this program are delivered by 4th year naturopathic interns who have more than 1 year clinic experience treating patients, allowing us to charge half the regular Naturopathic Doctor fees. Each visit, as well as all treatments, are also directly supervised by a licensed naturopathic physician, and can be claimed under Naturopathic Services for extended health benefit purposes. **
Simply follow the steps below to start on your path to full health and well being at an affordable price!
Step 1: Your Story
Complete and submit our comprehensive online HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE.
Step 2: Your Assessment
Check our convenient online booking schedule or call to make your first appointment.
** Collect all your important health records, including labs and extended health plan insurance benefits and MSP Premium Assistance status, to bring to your first visit. This will help us put together a treatment plan for you that maximizes your resources!
Step 3: Your Way Forward!
Together, we’ll come up with a plan that works for you, meeting your needs today and answering your questions – now.
For More Complete Steps to coming Totally Prepared for your first visit, please visit this page for New Clients!
Naturopathic Intern Program
Our Naturopathic Intern program is a unique initiative allowing Empower Health to offer some of the most cost effective Naturopathic services in Vancouver! The services offered under this program are delivered by 4th year naturopathic interns who have more than 1 year clinic experience treating patients, allowing us to charge half the regular Naturopathic Doctor fees. Each visit, as well as all treatments, are also directly supervised by a licensed naturopathic physician, and can be claimed under Naturopathic Services for extended health benefit purposes. **
Simply follow the steps below to start on your path to full health and well being at an affordable price!
Step 1: Your Story
Complete and submit our comprehensive online HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE.
Step 2: Your Assessment
Check our convenient online booking schedule or call to make your first appointment.
** Collect all your important health records, including labs and extended health plan insurance benefits and MSP Premium Assistance status, to bring to your first visit. This will help us put together a treatment plan for you that maximizes your resources!
Step 3: Your Way Forward!
Together, we’ll come up with a plan that works for you, meeting your needs today and answering your questions – now.
For More Complete Steps to coming Totally Prepared for your first visit, please visit this page for New Clients!
We invite you to stir your soul and breathe back life into your family system with Shama and Merissa. This 1 day intensive could allow you new insights into what may be keeping you from living and achieving the life you want.
What makes this workshop unique is that we will guide you into uncovering some hidden dynamics far deeper than conventional therapy can uncover. Depths that often influence the way we take life in or the way we live life. Breath and its depth and fullness is what creates connection and ease. This natural process of safely breathing life in gets entangled and caught up in the fears and stresses we carry in our bodies often unconsciously.
In this intense 1 day workshop, we will use the combination of systemic approach (family constellation) and breathwork to shift the blocks preventing you from fully living with vitality and joy. Our aim is to create a safe space for you to be inspired and encouraged to move beyond the limits of conditioning and step into a new way of being with a lightness that comes from unburdening yourself, bringing more awareness, ease, and laughter to your lives.
Systemic Constellation approach views people as being embedded in and influenced by a larger family system. You inherit more than your eye colour and blood type, you inherit an emotional legacy that stays hidden and often gets missed in conventional therapies. Anxieties, fears, phobias, obsessive thoughts, unexplained symptoms, failed relationships or failed success, could belong to someone 2 or 3 generations back that have ensnared you and keep you stuck in this repetitive cycle. In this workshop, you will be invited to create your own experiential family dynamic. It is done by constructing a three-dimensional ancestral healing experience. This is a viseral experience that allows you to examine hidden dynamics that may allow you new insight into the unconscious and an opening to create a deep internal shift. Family Constellations can help you re-establish a healthy connection with yourself and your ancestors setting you free to forge your own path filled with passion and life energy.
In the second half of the day, we will work on connecting to this new opening through BREATHWORK (REVIVAL). Each time the new image is revisited through Constellation work, an opening is created, giving you the opportunity to breathe life into that space, reconnecting with this new awareness.
Breathwork is an effective tool that allows deep integration to your body, resetting traumas and creating a state of inner peace, harmony, and balance. It allows you to let go of stuck emotions and gain a sense of freedom as well as cultivates a deeper connection with yourself and others.
We will conclude your day with a one hour Osho Kundalini Meditation to shake off and balance the body energy so that you leave the workshop calm and grounded.
This workshop is perfect for beginners and experienced attendees alike. The atmosphere will be comfortable and safe at all times. There will also be time for sharing, which is one of the important parts of the workshop process.
Workshop schedule:
9:00 am – 10:00 am – Greeting and introduction
10:00 am – 10:30 pm – Short guided meditation
10:30 am – 1:30 pm – Individual constellations with interval breaks
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm – Lunch break
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm – Breath session
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Osho Kundalini Meditation
About facilitators
Merissa is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) and experienced trauma therapist. She is the director of anxiety and trauma programs at Empower Health. Her holistic approaches are informed by Depth Psychology, Family Systems Theory, Systemic Inherited Trauma, Somatic Experiencing and Dr. Neufelds Developmental Attachment Theory. Merissa is very dedicated to her cause of helping others towards living with more vitality, joy, and ease. Among her private sessions, she offers workshops and facilitates parent education programs.
Shama is a certified Breath therapist, somatic therapist and bodyworker more than 10 years. She has been trained in many modalities over the years. She is a graduate of 3 years extended Diamond Master Breath training in Italy. Shama has been involved in the journey of spiritual growth and path of meditation more than 14 years. Her purpose is to help individuals who are suffering from emotional, mental or physical symptoms due to difficult or traumatic events. Her work focuses on spiritual therapy and inner transformation. Through her many years of learning, practicing and combining eastern and western therapy methods in her work, she ultimately found her unique way of working with people. In her sessions she combines breath work, Somatic Experiencing® techniques, bioenergetics, bodynamics and meditation techniques.
Shama lives in Vancouver and besides her private practice, she facilitates meditation events, meditative therapy groups, breath workshops, and trainings. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge and experience with others all around the world.
Her training includes:
- Master Breath training – Italy
- Sexual awareness counselling training – Italy
- Tantra training – Thailand
- Relationship counselling training – Italy
- Eft Emotional releasing techniques – Thailand
- Reichen body types training – Italy
- Meditative therapies facilitator training – (Osho no mind, Born Again) Greece
- Reiki 1-2 training – Turkey
- Tantric Massage Training – Greece
- Somatic experiencing ( Trauma resolution) – Vancouver
- Bodynamics( developmental stage disruptions) – Vancouver
Naturopathic Intern Program
Our Naturopathic Intern program is a unique initiative allowing Empower Health to offer some of the most cost effective Naturopathic services in Vancouver! The services offered under this program are delivered by 4th year naturopathic interns who have more than 1 year clinic experience treating patients, allowing us to charge half the regular Naturopathic Doctor fees. Each visit, as well as all treatments, are also directly supervised by a licensed naturopathic physician, and can be claimed under Naturopathic Services for extended health benefit purposes. **
Simply follow the steps below to start on your path to full health and well being at an affordable price!
Step 1: Your Story
Complete and submit our comprehensive online HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE.
Step 2: Your Assessment
Check our convenient online booking schedule or call to make your first appointment.
** Collect all your important health records, including labs and extended health plan insurance benefits and MSP Premium Assistance status, to bring to your first visit. This will help us put together a treatment plan for you that maximizes your resources!
Step 3: Your Way Forward!
Together, we’ll come up with a plan that works for you, meeting your needs today and answering your questions – now.
For More Complete Steps to coming Totally Prepared for your first visit, please visit this page for New Clients!
Discover how to balance digestion, reproductive health, deepen your connection to your core and re-ignite your vitality with Arvigo® Therapy, Holistic Pelvic Care™ and a womb drum journey.
Learn how Arvigo® Therapy and Holistic Pelvic Care™ can support your healing with:
- fertility issues,
- menstrual irregularities,
- scar tissue and trauma,
- P.C.O.S., endometriosis,
- digestive disorders,
- chronic bladder and vaginal infections,
- alleviate pelvic symptoms and chronic low back pain,
- support the transition into menopause and long-term vaginal health,
- increase sexual health, libido and orgasm,
- heal trauma.
Participate in a womb drum journey meditation to:
- restore harmony and connection to your womb,
- dissolve energy blocks,
- recognize patterns that cause energy loss and imbalance,
- hear the wisdom of your inner guidance,
- renew your connection to your life force energy and re-ignite your wild aliveness.
$20 suggested donation (no one will be turned away for lack of funds).
Call to reserve, space is limited.
Explore and uncover the complexities of who you are and the parent you have become. This is a unique multi-faceted approach, widening the lens and looking at the entire family system. It is an invitation to dig deeper into your family history and to explore your values and beliefs systems that guide you as a parent. It is an opportunity to explore parenting styles learned from your family of origin and understand how they are impacting with your relationship with your child(ren) today. It acknowledges the impact of intergenerational trauma, stress and anxiety and their effects on your nervous system at the root level. It is an approach that supports you to become the parent you aspire to be.
This program explores:
- your current parenting style
- making sense of your child(ren)’s behaviour
- the ways you respond to your child, especially when you are upset
- the behaviours that are working well to strengthen the connect you have with your child(ren)
- your communication style as learned in your family system and how that impacts the relationships in your home
- the individuality of each child in terms of development, mental health, temperament and cognitive ability and what is needed to support the growth of that unique child
Benefits of this program include:
- A stronger relationship with your children.
- Strategies that support you to create a calm and healthy environment for you and your children.
- Knowledge of how to adapt your parenting strategies to meet the individual needs of your children.
- Tools to support effective communication with your children, so that your knowledge and influence can support their lives.
- Self-care strategies that support you to be more available to your children while meeting the demands that come with parenting, work and life. Taking care of self will support the taking care of your children.
As a parent, you will leave this workshop with a clear picture of what’s really happening in your home and with the knowledge that you have 100% control in creating an environment that is conducive to fostering thriving relationships with your family.
Merissa Jennings-Turner is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor and trauma therapist at Empower Health, and the director of the anxiety and trauma programs.
Sean Hannon is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, a workshop facilitator, parent coach and mediator, currently working as a family support worker at Hollyburn Family Services.
At the heart of Empower Health’s comprehensive stress management program, there is a workshop just for YOU! A workshop where you can access and learn the most cutting-edge modalities for stress management and relief that are offered in the world today. At the launch weekend of our Ultimate REvival Workshop℠ series you will discover a safe, loving and healing spa-like environment for your nervous system where you will experience. In this workshop YOU will experience the following benefits:
- Release stress and stored trauma in your body
- Shift anxiety to grounded action
- Develop a sense of deeper inner calm and relaxation
- Enhance vitality and self-expression
- Complete in-completed survival energies
- Re-learn to connect and listen to your body and tune into your nervous system
- Unblock the body ’s holding patterns that restrict your energetic potential.
- Deepen your respiration and express breath as a total body respiratory wave.
- Increase vibratory state of your body
- Heighten your self-awareness
- Most importantly a warm, friendly, loving atmosphere where you can feel connected, seen, understood and be truly yourself!
Most importantly you will learn some practical, simple tools to use in your daily lives to further deepen and integrate your healing process!
- Active meditation (To create a gentle charge and discharge in our nervous system)
- Guided meditations (For relaxation and integration)
- Breathwork session (To complete in-completed survival energies )
- Bioenergetics session (Body therapy for Vibrant Health)
- Tension releasing exercises
- Gentle movement (Somatic work to unwind the stored tension and trauma in joints)
- Awareness intensive “WHO IS IN?“
- EFT: Emotional freedom technique.
- Hypnotic trance (To activate the body’s natural healing process)
We all deserve to be taken care of, receive loving support and to take a little time to nourish ourselves in every possible way to regain our power back to achieve our goals in life, feeling healthy, alive, joyous and be creative in our lives again.
IT IS NEVER LATE TO RE-CONNECT WITH YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF!
Practicalities:
- Date : Saturday Apr 14 & Sunday Apr 15, 9am-6pm each day
- Investment:
- $380 plus GST. Pay full amount or $80 non-refundable deposit upon registration.
- Saturday or Sunday only registration price: $190 plus GST. Pay full amount or $40 non-refundable deposit upon registration.
- Pre-registration & prepayment required as space is limited. Register and pay online here or come into the office or call us 604 336 2844
- Wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a water bottle and journal
CANCELLATION POLICY:
Prior to 2 business days before the workshop date – refund minus a 10% administration fee if we can fill your space. Within 2 business days of the workshop (or failing to attend) – no refund
About Workshop Facilitators
Shama Zeynep Anaydin, Workshop Facilitator
Shama is a transformational Body Work Therapist more than a decade. She is also a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and a Trauma Therapist. Her purpose is to help individuals who are suffering from emotional, mental or physical symptoms due to difficult or traumatic events. Her work especially targets depression, anxiety, chronic pain and stress-related conditions.
Some of her Trainings include:
- Hypnotherapy training – India.
- Diamond Breath Master training – Italy
- Sexual awareness counselling training – Italy
- Relationship counselling training – Italy
- Eft Emotional releasing techniques – Thailand
- Reichen body types training – Italy
- Meditative therapies training – Greece and India
- Reiki 1-2 training – Turkey
- Somatic Experiencing training (Trauma Healing)- Canada
- Bodynamics training (Developmental stage disruptions)- Canada
- Family constellation Training – China
Helen Loshny, Workshop Assistant
Helen is a Vancouver-based Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC) and co-founder of Empower Health Clinic, where she heads the Clinic’s Counselling and Personal Growth Programs. She brings a wellspring of professional as well as life experience and love to her clients. Helen has been married over 30 years and is the proud mom of two amazing adopted daughters.
Some of her Trainings include:
- Diploma in Transpersonal Psychology
- Diploma in Individual, Couples and Family Counselling
- Cathartic Breathwork
- Meditating with the Body
- Compassionate Inquiry with Dr. Gabor Mate
- Ministry & Spiritual Counselling in A Course in Miracles
- Awakening Coaching
Come out and join us for two powerful rounds of Bio-Energy Healing on THURSDAY April 19th, 7 pm and stay for the second half of the evening where we will host our first ever “Healing Song Circle”.
People find that participating in a song circle is an easy and effortless experience, where the melodies, words and rhythms actually do the healing work for you. The songs we will sing together will quiet the mind and allow you to connect with your Inner Healer — leaving you calm, relaxed and happy. Each song carries a powerful vibration and has a different purpose or theme, such as gratitude, forgiveness, healing, spiritual connection or love. You can think of the experience as a sing-a-long in different languages, with melodies and chants from many diverse cultures and traditions. In a truly magical way, your voice naturally begins to merge with the group and we become One Voice together.
Event Details
During the first half of the evening, trained practitioners offer group Bio-Energy Healing sessions. For the second half, a local teacher or healer is invited to share their wisdom and healing tools with us. Bio-Energy Healing is the core practice of the Circle of Light. It is our means of producing miracles of healing. Bio-Energy Healing is intentional, powerful, effective and can be easily learned and practised by almost anyone. A unique feature of our gatherings is that we perform Bio-Energy Healing in a circle, as a synchronized group. The intention is to create a powerful vortex of healing energy in the room which causes the healing effects of the treatment to increase exponentially. As we share Bio-Energy treatments with one another, we create a ripple of healing light that extends out into the city, the country, and around the planet. Please join us for a light-filled evening of friendship, healing, laughter, insight and inspiration.
Tea and snacks provided.
Seating capacity is limited. Register early and avoid disappointment.
Attendance is BY DONATION (suggested $10 – $20). Participants are encouraged to contribute what they are able; no one will be refused entry or healing for lack of funds. Your contribution covers venue rental, snacks and other administrative costs. You can make your donation by cash at the event. Or you may send an Interac Transfer in advance to David Raphael at awakeningmindhealing@gmail.com. Thank you for your generosity.
Who Should Attend?
Our Circle is ever-expanding. Feel free to invite your guests to attend along with you by forwarding this invitation to them.
For example, people with physical issues (back pain, arthritis, cancer, etc), emotional issues (anxiety, loneliness, depression) or energetic issues (chronic fatigue, etc) would benefit greatly by attending.
Also consider inviting those who are seeking out their life purpose, are in the midst of career transition or are looking to create a soulmate relationship.
Or you may wish to invite those you know who are looking to find a greater sense of connectedness with other people and the larger community.
What is the Circle of Light Vancouver?
Are you looking to be part of a group of people who are dedicated to healing one another, raising consciousness and transforming the planet?
Then please join us at our next Circle of Light Vancouver, “Bio-Energy Healing Friday Night Gathering”!
All those who a have a genuine desire to give and receive energy healing are welcome to attend.
This event happens monthly and is open to those who are trained or not trained in Bio-Energy Healing.
This class and the instructor have secured CMTBC Cycle 11 approval for 14 PE CECs. If you need additional information about the class contact the instructor Donna Zubrod at 919.810.0003 donnazubrod@nc.rr.com. Local contact for the class is Sheryl Watson 604.220.9265 btrflypower@hotmail.com.
This 2.5-day self-care oriented hands-on class is for everyone interested in improving their reproductive and digestive wellness. It covers anatomy and physiology of the abdominal and reproductive organs of women and men, addresses the causes and symptoms of a displaced uterus, prostate congestion, and demonstrates self-care abdominal massage techniques. The class also addresses herbal, nutritional, emotional, and spiritual support for the massage techniques ensuring thorough understanding of how these techniques facilitate optimal wellness. The aim of the class is for students to know how to perform the abdominal self-care massage and other self-care techniques on her/himself. For licensed healthcare practitioners who wish to offer Arvigo® Therapy professionally, this Level 1 class is a prerequisitive for enrollment in the Level 2 Arvigo® Professional Training.
Class tuition:
$375 CAD plus $98 USD registration fee
After 1 April 2018: $425 CAD plus $98 USD registration fee
Tuition includes all materials, color manual, healthy snacks and refreshments, 1:1 hands-on teaching session with an Arvigo® practitioner
Register online at arvigotherapy.com: https://
The Arvigo Institute LLC is a licensed provider for NCBTMB massage therapists (17.5 CE Hours), NCCAOM licensed acupuncturists (18 PDA Points). This class and the instructor have secured CMTBC Cycle 11 approval for 14 PE CECs.
For more info:
Donna Zubrod 919.810.0003 donnazubrod@nc.rr.com or
Sheryl Watson 604.220.9265 btrflypower@hotmail.com
Use this is an opportunity to dive into 7 days long transformational journey!
This special 7-day residential program is designed to have a little break from your busy lives and to have a chance to relax your nervous system, create, silence and joy. It is life changing opportunity to clear and clean your mind-body-being.
Osho® No Mind Meditative Therapy is designed for the contemporary man. Meditative Therapies are processes for freeing old, stuck energies, to renew vitality and to create space for silence. They work energetically, bypassing the conscious, analytical mind. They are therefore clear, pure processes where individuals are connecting directly with their own energy. It is a moment-to-moment encounter with oneself.
No Mind is a breakthrough to meditation, a speeding up process to connect with our natural state of being.
OSHO No Mind is a meditative therapy process lasting for 2 hours a day for 7 days. For the first hour, we use gibberish to empty the mind of all garbage, allowing -in the second hour- a great silence to arise from within
In addition to No Mind process we will be offering on a daily basis: Osho Dynamic and Kundalini and Nadabrahma Meditations, alone time, walks in nature, hikes, sitting by the ocean on beautiful sandy beach, soothing cleansing foods to calm and energize the body, as well as the use of biotechnologies that help the body rejuvenate and relax.
Daily program:
7 or 8 am Osho Dynamic
Breakfast
2 hours Osho No Mind process
Lunch
Work as meditation 40 minutes (in silence as a commune)
4-5 pm Osho Kundalini Meditation
7 pm Dinner
8:30-9:30 pm Nadabrahma or other Osho meditation
About the Facilitator:
Shama is Osho Therapist 10+ years of experience in her field. She is also a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and a Trauma Therapist. Her purpose is to help individuals who are suffering from emotional, mental or physical symptoms due to difficult or traumatic events. Her work especially targets depression, anxiety, chronic pain and stress-related conditions.
About the hosts:
Osho lovers and Sannyasins, Sumiran and Rubai have been facilitating Osho meditations throughout the lower mainland for over a decade. They began the Osho Vancouver meditation Meetup more than seven years ago. And they are coordinators for Just Dance, an Osho inspired weekly dance event.
Dates: 26 April- 2 May
Place: Wooden Gables Meditative Healing Seaside Orchard, Gibsons, BC
Price*: 500 cad – 600 cad includes food, accommodation, and the process for seven days, 6 nights
Please remember to contact with organizers to learn what you should bring!
Limited to 15 attendees please RSVP and contact the hosts if interested as space will fill up quickly!
Questions about accommodation types and address please contact Rubai or Sumiran 778-836-9441
For more information about the process please contact Shama.
NOTE: Accommodation will be dorm-style simple, clean, comfortable; extra charge for a double room
*This is a promo price only for this time to celebrate the opening of Wooden Gables Meditative Healing Seaside Orchard! Regular price is 900 CAD