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Webinars
Take control of your health & happiness today!
The Self-Care During COVID-19 Free Webinar, hosed Fridays at 12:15 pm, is designed to help you do just that.
Are you, or your employees, in the driver’s seat in responding to the challenges and uncertainties in the midst of COVID-19?
Does the idea of finding clarity and peace in the chaos and balancing all of life’s demands seem like an impossible dream?
What if it was possible to find a way to relieve everyday aches and pains and explore the full potential of your resilience and wholeness?
Regardless of life’s circumstances, we can always choose our response. In these virtual trainings, we will explore easy-to-apply techniques and skills that can be used to mindfully overcome challenges and realize wellbeing. Together, they form a comprehensive personal development program that has the power to transform lives. Customizable packages are created to meet the unique needs of each group we engage with
Self-Compassion & Self-Care
Breathe
Sense and Sound for Deeper Sleep
Nourishment
Creative Ways to Move More
Enhance Your Emotional Intelligence
Shift to a Growth Mindset
Balancing Work and Play
Deepen Listening Skills and Empathy
Building Your Circle of Intimacy
Discovering Your “Why?”
Living in Flow
A “foundational wellness tool”
-The Stanford Research Institute
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTORS
Natalie Geary, M.D.
Dr Natalie Geary is the founder, owner, and medical director of vedaHEALTH: Attainable Health for Sustainable Wellness.(vedaHEALTH.com)
Dr. Geary received her bachelor’s degree in Medical Anthropology at Harvard University. Medical Anthropology examines how culture and society impact healthcare processes, individual healthcare beliefs, and health-seeking behavior. Dr Geary began her formal study of Ayurvedic Medicine, and her thesis analyzed health care beliefs and utilization practices in cancer patients, comparing patients at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan and Tata Cancer Center in Mumbai.
Dr. Geary received her MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and then completed her residency at NYU/Bellevue Hospital Center. After practicing in Manhattan for several years, Dr. Geary moved to New Mexico to work in a hospital-based clinic. She founded a non-profit, Mobile Pediatrics, to provide medical care to school children across the state. Dr. Geary has also worked in Haiti, Indonesia, Thailand, and Malawi focused on nutrition and health maintenance for children and pregnant women.
In 2009, Dr. Geary accepted a position as Director of Executive Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine, and went on to become the hospital’s Director of International Health and the Chief Patient Experience Officer. After more than five years of senior hospital management, she resigned and established vedaHEALTH:
“vedaHEALTH is the integration of my training in Ayurveda and western medicine and more importantly, the framework for offering attainable changes in self care for sustainable wellness to my patients, families, and professional organizations.”
Dr. Geary is also an author and speaker. Her book, “The Food Cure for Kids: A Nutritional Approach to your Child’s Wellness,” is a guide for parents outlining the differences between food allergy and food intolerance. Her book with Dr. Agatston, “The South Beach Diet Gluten Solution,” provides advice on decreasing gluten intake to combat digestive concerns and support weight loss. In Americas Leading Ladies, Dr. Geary write about the future of our children, and in Legends and Leaders (in press) she writes about sustainble wellness.
Dr. Geary continues her work as an collective medicine doctor, consultant for health care and wellness organizations, employee health and corporate health programs, and as a wellness coach. She is uniquely trained in medicine, wellness, corporate employee health programming, and nutrition. She is the mother of three “life-affirming” daughters and lives in Miami, FL and Santa Fe, NM.
Colleen Harshbarger, M.S.
Colleen Harshbarger, MS, has a life-long passion for healthy living and a strong belief in the resilient capacity of all people. Her clients include organizations and dedicated professionals who face the everyday challenges of balancing work and family commitments with self-care. Her combined personal and professional experiences have led Colleen to the knowledge that, regardless of life’s circumstances, resiliency and wellbeing are within everyone’s reach. No one can take that away from you. No system can take it either. And no job is worth giving it away to.
Colleen earned her Master’s degree in Exercise Science/Biomechanics and has over 25 years of experience as a wellness professional and yoga instructor. She was West Virginia’s first National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach. She is also an experienced registered yoga instructor and certified education provider with Yoga Alliance (ERYT-500, YACEP). Her approach unifies her areas of expertise: yoga, mindfulness, exercise science, and whole-person wellbeing.
Colleen currently serves as a faculty member with WellPeople’s Wellness Inventory Training program for international health and wellness coaches. Her work with each client or organization begins with a deep understanding of the unique needs for—and factors influencing—health and wellbeing.
Colleen has led comprehensive, integrated approaches that create cultures of wellbeing in higher education, government, and for-profit organizations. For example:
At Reebok International, she advocated for, established, and directed the award-winning employee wellness program from 1987–1993.
At West Virginia University, she pioneered and led development of the comprehensive student wellbeing program, liveWELL for WELLWVU.
The experiential-based academic curriculum that Colleen co-developed, Enhancing Wellbeing, uses the Wellness Inventory platform. This program won the AETNA Award for Wellness Innovation from the American College Health Association.
Under Colleen's leadership, Greater Morgantown and West Virginia University became the first (and only!) accredited Safe Communities in the United States, with a joint municipality–university designation by the National Safety Council.
While Chair of the City of Morgantown’s Health & Wellness Commission, Colleen served as a consultant to the city on The Blue Zones Project®.