Women's Wellness Programme:

Mind-body Wellbeing

for Lifelong Health & Vitality

Caroline Horwath PhD

Group programmes held at the Heart Foundation,
97 Frederick St,
Dunedin
Ph 021 02356764

Mind-body Wellbeing

for Lifelong Health & Vitality

A Group Programme for Women.

Aims:

To empower you to enhance all aspects of your health and wellbeing.

To enable you to develop skills that can be used to improve your health & vitality far beyond completion of the 10-week programme.

Programme Benefits:

• enhanced physical health
• reduced medical symptoms & thus a valuable complementary treatment for any chronic symptom or illness
• enhanced psychological wellbeing (eg reduced depression, increased happiness)
• enables you to make healthy lifestyle changes which promote lifelong health and vitality
• enhanced self-esteem
• skills to produce deep relaxation
• a greater sense of control over your health & your life
• improved sleep, reduced headaches
• new skills to enable you to optimize your health
• cover optimal nutrition & physical activity for lifelong health
• debunks myths about ageing
• enhanced ability to cope with stress
• reduced stress-related symptoms
• group support
• long-term sustained improvements
• sessions are fun & enjoyable

Mind-body Wellbeing Programmes enable you to develop a variety of skills to produce the 'Relaxation Response' (ie reduce your heart rate, rate of breathing & blood pressure; change your brainwaves to slower patterns associated with deep rest; improve immune function). This is the physiological opposite of the body's 'stress response', & enhances physical and psychological wellbeing.

Programmes are based on the Harvard 'Medical Symptom Reduction Programme'. Conditions treated by the Harvard programme include: asthma, headaches, insomnia, tinnitus, pain, anxiety, allergies, skin conditions, depression, irritable bowel syndrome & other gastrointestinal disorders, heart disease, arthritis & hypertension.

Elements of the 10-week Programme:

• The mind-body model of health
• 'Relaxation response' skills
• Meditation and Mindfulness
• Developing more positive patterns of thinking
• Coping techniques
• Self-nurturance
• Nutrition and physical activity for lifelong vitality & health
• Yoga and exercise activities with Jane Gillespie
• Communication
• Humour

Programmes involve small groups, and include programme guidebook & 3CDs. Programmes are held at the Heart Foundation, 97 Frederick St, Dunedin.

Dr Caroline Horwath PhD

Caroline combines a holistic mind-body approach with a rigorous scientific background in facilitating healthy lifestyle change. She integrates the science and art of enhancing wellbeing.

• 25 years research experience in nutrition, ageing and healthy lifestyle change.
• Training in Mind-body Medicine, Harvard Medical School, USA
• PhD in Nutrition, Dept of Community Medicine, Adelaide University, Australia
• author of 10 book chapters and over 50 articles in peer-reviewed international journals on nutrition, ageing and health behaviour change
• 10 years experience with a range of mind-body approaches to health promotion
• Senior Lecturer in Human Nutrition at Otago University.

Copyright © 2010 Dr Caroline Horwath