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Hygieas is honored to introduce the following women as the first who have offered their expertise as Industry Leaders for their professions and specialties.


kathie nitzCaregiving: Kathie Nitz 

"Kathie's words and guidance spill from her organically and she offers a listening ear as if she was speaking to a lifelong friend. She is not only an expert in what she does but she isn't afraid to offer her human side, which cares deeply for others and their emotional survival and growth."

As a caregiver to her Mom with dementia, Kathie understands firsthand the challenges caregivers face while navigating this new territory. Most caregivers feel stretched to the limit from dealing with the day-to-day responsibilities, emotions and pressures of being a caregiver while simultaneously trying to live their own life.

As a Caregiver Coach, Kathie applies the principles she learned in coaches training and folds in her personal experience to bring a fresh perspective to caregiving. She is passionate about helping caregivers develop a new outlook and create their own unique caregiver model. This enables them to care from a stronger, healthier and more capable place. Caregivers also uncover the often overlooked gifts accessible to them as caregiver to their loved one. Once they discover and embrace them, care giving can become an opportunity to experience tremendous personal growth and develop a more authentic relationship with loved ones in the process.

Kathie received her training through The Coaches Training Institiute. Her own caregiver journey inspired Kathie to create Caring Cards to facilitate meaningful inter-generational conversation especially with those who have dementia. In addition to one-on-one and group coaching, Kathie is a sought out public speaker by businesses whose clientele are impacted by care giving including assisted living communities, home health care agencies, elderly attorneys, financial institutions and non-profit organizations.

cynthia staddv2Empowered Eating: Cynthia Stadd

"After a lot of patience and peserverance, Cynthia has allowed me to reach a target weight, explore new ways to deal with stress, and given me the desire to love my body and self." 

Cynthia is a pioneering Integrative Nutrition Coach, Wellness Speaker, and Certified Eating Psychology Counselor. As a recovered binge eater herself, Cynthia is committed to sleuthing right down to the core of people's concerns to boldly address weight control, disordered eating, digestive health, reproductive imbalance and more. With a "tenderness meets take-acation-now" style, she works with people privately, leads groups and talks to just about anyone who thinks nutrition and paychology are cool. 

She has been a professional in the nutrition industry for over 8 years, and Eat Empowered, LLC, a Boulder, Colorado-based company offering private practice (local and national), wellness presentations and group trainings, is her second business adventure. As a former New Yorker, Cynthia spent 3 years as Director of Nutrition Services for a holistic center treating infertility and reproductive disorders, and honed in on her passion for teaching by speaking to groups large and small. She has appeared in magazines, local TV programs, and had her own nutritional/wellness column on http://elasticwaist.com

For the past few years, Cynthia has worked very closely with Marc David, master Nutrionist and expert in the field of Eating Psychology. He is both mentor and friend, and she had the great pleasure to assist him in launching The Institute for the Psychology of Eating. She is currently Senior Educator for the Institute, and primary Business Coach for new practitioners. 

tahnee_hygieas_wellness_womenFeldenkrais: Tahnee Woolf

"Her capacity to touch and heal and understand human movement, combined with her power as a person and her capacity as a speaker, can inspire your whole being. On top of the great passion she brings to her teaching, Tahnee's experiences with chronic pain have also given her the gift of compassion and empathy."

Tahnee brings great insight to her Feldenkrais practice, her work as a Women's Speaking Mentor, her own public speaking, and her leadership in the field of personal transformation. This comes from her unique background, which includes: working as a corporate lawyer in Melbourne Australia, studying international law at Oxford University, and training in many different fields of personal growth, spirituality and energetics.

Tahnee is passionate about Feldenkrais because she used it herself to rewire all her deepest patterns of posture and body movement, to make a complete recovery from years of chronic back pain and to become fully empowered in all areas of her life. She also has a core belief is that the key to any transformation is "awareness", and the Feldenkrais Method teaches a profound level of body awareness that she has not found anywhere else. Tahnee believes that body awareness is the "missing piece" in the personal growth movement.

She is honoured to be the Hygieas Industry Leader for this cutting edge modality!

rosalie_prinzivalli_hygieas_wellness_womenFeng Shui: Rosalie Prinzivalli

“In Feng Shui there is no separation between consciousness, intention and form. All form is an expression of intention, and there is a constant cybernetic and emergent communication between them. Creation arises out of consciousness, the artist, the intender.”

Throughout a majority of her life, Rosalie, was always interested in various esoteric studies that include: Taoism, energy healing, meditation and astrology. Rosalie discovered Feng Shui in 1996, after a successful career on Wall Street.

Practicing BTB Feng Shui allows Rosalie to help her clients with her unique combination of spiritual disciplines, esoteric studies, and corporate skills. Currently, Rosalie is trained and certified as a Feng Shui practitioner by the BTB Feng Shui Masters Training Program.

With an MBA from NYU, and over 30 years of Wall Street, Rosalie brings strong business credentials and a passion for organizational and leadership effectiveness to program students, her Feng Shui clients and corporate business consulting clients.

sheryl_goldstein_hygieas_wellness_womenGluten-Free: Sheryl Goldstein

"Sheryl takes a personal passion, a health challenge and an uncanny knack for spotting 'the next big thing,' and turns them into an exciting entrepreneurial venture."

Sheryl Goldstein was born in Brooklyn, New York, where she delighted in the old world cooking and traditions offered by the borough's diverse cultures. After being diagnosed with celiac disease in 2005, Sheryl became determined to explore and showcase the marvelous flavors and textures available in gluten-free products, and to share her own special style of cooking and entertaining solutions.

Recently, she just published a new book called, The No Gluten Solution: Feeding Family and Friends. Her approach to living a gluten-free life includes gaining knowledge of all the foods that are available for enjoyment and incorporating seasonal fruits and vegetables into her recipes.

In her earlier career, Sheryl worked as a Relationship Manager to Fortune 100 companies' retirement plans, and an Executive Search Consultant for various firms including her own, where she placed senior level professionals, designed manpower and succession planning programs, and created market and personnel studies for domestic and international clients.

Healthy Cooking: Donna Mintz

"I have always been interested in nutrition, fitness and cooking and the way they work together to either improve or hinder our health. I have a passion for all things healthy!"

Donna Mintz is a natural foods personal chef (certified with the United States Personal Chef Association), certified personal trainer (with the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America), certified holistic health counselor (with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and the American Association of Drugless Practitioners), certified fitness nutritionist (with the National Exercise & Sports Trainers Association), as well as the founder of Basil & Barbells, Inc., a personal chef and personal training services corporation based in New York City.

She has been combining these services to help her clients lose weight, control diabetes and gestational diabetes as well as a multitude of other health issues. She has been teaching people to prepare nutritious and delicious meals in their homes, designing workout programs geared specifically for clients needs.

Donna has appeared on Business Week Magazine's Money Talk Sunday morning television show, is mentioned in the book "The Incredible Shrinking Critic" by Jami Bernard, has been featured in Health Magazine, Prevention Magazine, The Daily News, American Fitness Magazine and Moxxie.com.

karla_lightfoot_hygieas_wellness_womenHypnotherapy: Karla Lightfoot

"I work with highly intelligent and creative individuals who seek to live a fully expressed life. Using the transformational power of hypnosis, we work together to eliminate fears and phobias, erase pain, heal illness, expedite goals and dreams and reverse the limiting beliefs that often prevent us from living the life of our dreams."

As a hypnotherapist and the market director of Ladies Who Launch NY/NJ, Karla has worked with nearly a thousand women to explore, clarify and achieve their entrepreneurial and personal dreams. It is with this entrepreneurial spirit that she founded Compassion Couture.

Through her own experiences and growth, Karla discovered that while positive messages and support are inspiring, they aren't always enough. This coupled with her life-long fascination with the mind, led her to pursue and study the field of hypnotherapy. She discovered that hypnosis could create profound and rapid change and healing at the subconscious level. She now teaches her clients how to harness the power of the subconscious mind and how to use self-hypnosis in every aspect of their lives.

Karla's past professional background includes working in executive management, sales, and marketing at companies such as Bloomingdale's, Starbucks Coffee Company, and Tribune Interactive. She also co-authored the best-selling cult classic, The BAP Handbook: The Official Guide to the Black American Princess (Random House).

sandy berenbaum2Lyme Disease Specialist: Sandy Berenbaum

"My goal, as a Lyme-literate psychotherapist is to guide my clients as they move from victim, to survivior, to thriver. With complex cases of Lyme disease, it may take a team to help accomplish this, and among other things, I see my role as that of a team builder."

Sandy Berenbaum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in NYS and CT. Having begun her career working with adolescents in a residential treatment center, she went into private practice in 1987, with a focus on adolescents and their families. 

Her own struggle with chronic Lyme disease informed her commitment to learning about this serious illness by attending medical conferences, beginning in 1990. Astonished at the complexity of Lyme and associated tick-borne diseases, she began to recognize it as a possible underlying cause of the presenting problems in some of her clients - children, adolescents and adults. 

Her personal journey led her to develop a professional specialty, working with Lyme disease patients and their families. Sandy has become a nationally known leader in Lyme disease professional education, giving presentations at conferences and seminars, particularly in areas involved with mental health issues associated with the illness. Her approach to therapy includes empowering parents to advocate for the needs of their children, when Lyme is effecting their education.

deborah roth2Radical Self-Care: Deborah Roth

"The sad truth is that women are socialized to take care of everyone else first. The reality, though, is that if we don't place ourselves at the center of our lives, we become increasingly scattered, ungrounded, and miserable. And ultimately, if we don't create space for our self care, we won't be whole enough to take care of all those we love or who depend on us."

A Life & Career Transition Coach and Relationship Coach, certified through the International Coach Federation and the Relationship Coaching Institute, Deborah has spent the last 30+ years coaching, training and speaking in the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, for large corporations and small businesses. After completing her Master's degree in Psychology and becoming ordained as an Interfaith Minister, she founded her business, Spirited LivingTM in 1998. 

Deborah works with overwhelmed, under-nurtured women (and a few good men!), guiding them through life and career transitions, helping them to attract and sustain fabuloius relationships, while maintaining a strong foundation of Radical Self-Care. She offers powerful, structured programs for groups and individuals, and speaks, writes and teaches on the subjects of sacred SELF-centeredness, everyday spirituality, conscious relationships, and managing life's big changes.

For the past 15 years, she's facilitated monthly New Moon Sister Circles, Full Moon TeleMeditations, a year-long Women's Spirituality program and most recently, a 3-month Women's Empowerment coaching program. She's authored 2 books - The Authentic Woman PlayBook, and Circle of One: the Art of Becoming a SELF-centered Woman. Deborah is also a Founding Coach for Empower Parties and for Purpose Journey, and loves creating and officiating magical wedding ceremonies and other life passage rituals.

karen morseScience of Wellness: Karen Morse

"Our genetic make-up is one component of the state of our wellness, and the environmental impact and our lifestyle choices are another. As individuals, our personal formula for wellness and balance is as unique as our DNA."

As CEO & Founder of Wellness Science, Karen Morse fulfills her mission of empowering women to live the healthy, balanced lives that they deserve. Karen believes that the best relationships between patients and their health care providers occur when they have open, honest communication and collaboration on a plan to live and age well.

By exploring each client as a unique individual, Karen customizes one-of-a-kind programs grounded in preventetive, personalized, and pariticipatory health and wellness principles that break old unhealthy patterns and inspire a new and fun approach to self-care. She also writes a weekly blog. The Wellness Scientist, imparting cutting-edge solutions for healthy living. 

Karen earned her Bachelor of Science in Cell & Molecular Biology and her Master of Public Health degrees from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She currently lives in Mountain View, California surrounded by some of the world's leading technology companies, medical centers, and universities.  

 

Stephanie_Downey_Toledo_hygieas_wellness_womenSpeech Therapy: Stephanie Downey Toledo

"I am passionate about speaking up for those who cannot yet consistently speak for themselves."

Stephanie Downey Toledo loves helping people of all ages through her work as a Speech and Language Pathologist. Whether helping a child with autism learn to communicate, advocating for a child whose gift of bilingualism is being misunderstood, teaching future speech pathologists, or assisting her fellow professionals with their own vocal quality, Stephanie is passionate about speaking up for those who cannot yet consistently speak for themselves.

Stephanie is a bilingual (English and Spanish) therapist who works with the Department of Education, the Department of Health, in private practice, and as a professor at Teachers College, and Columbia University. Additionally, Stephanie is nationally certified by the American Speech and Hearing Association with reciprocity in Australia, England, and Canada.

She currently practices primarily in New York City, where she earned her Master of Science in Speech and Language Pathology from Columbia University. She also has a Master of Arts in Special Education and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology.

mary_liz_murphy_hygieas_wellness_womenWomen's Empowerment: Mary Liz Murphy

"These are unprecedented stressful times. Many people struggle to maintain balance in various dimensions of their lives. They lack the clarity, tools and life skills and/or support to effectively deal with the pressured demands of their personal and/or professional lives."

Mary Liz Murphy is an Integrative Wellness Expert and founder of LifeForce Solutions, Inc. Her passion and business is dedicated to bringing clarity, tools and support to harness one's energy for success in their health and wellbeing. Her work targets individuals who are looking for practical solutions to overcome barriers to progressing and achieving their heart's desire in terms of health, relationships, work and life.

As a former executive with 22 years in corporate marketing, Mary Liz combines her experiences with business world with the issues of wellness on the level of individuals. She attributes her own success to her ability to maintain proper perspective and to prioritize a healthy lifestyle with personal balance. Mary Liz is accomplished as a personal coach, trainer, speaker and business consultant. She serves as Wellness Consultant to The Conference Board, where she facilitates research for corporations to resolve issues regarding employee wellness.

She is Board Certified as a Holistic Health Practitioner, her qualifications include: Holistic Health Counselor, Integrative Nutritionist, Energy Practitioner in Reiki, Theta Energy, and Serenity Vibration, Menopause Type® Management Specialist and Certified Facilitation Trainer. She is among the first Westerners affiliated with the Oneness University in India in mind body integration and is an initiate of Siddha Yoga.

michael_connor_hygieas_wellness_womenMen in Wellness: Michael Connor

"Rather than seeing ourselves in the world, we experience the world as within us. This extraordinary shift immediately empowers us to pursue our dreams and goals and tackle our challenges with far greater leverage and effectiveness."

Michael Connor has been designing and presenting personal and professional development trainings worldwide since 1993. He is a highly talented trainer and facilitator, and has presented programs on four continents, including North and South America, Western and Eastern Europe, European and Asiatic Russia, and the Middle East

Mike, along with a handful of other pioneers of the heart, brought some of the first modern transformational programs into Eastern Europe and Russia in the early 1990's, including into the heart of Siberia, to towns like Omsk and Barnaul. Mike founded the 1% Miracle to support people and organizations in producing miraculous results by shifting perspective and leveraging universal resources.

He is a business professional with a wealth of practical expertise, Mike is the former President and CEO of the Insight Educational Institute and a former health care executive. He has co-authored books on Leadership, Change Management and Customer Service and holds Masters Degrees in Health Care Management and Practical Theology.