2024 Workshops
Here you’ll find a list of all current and upcoming workshops. Check here and follow us on social media for new workshop announcements.
You don’t have to be a patient: All are welcome to any workshop, and virtual workshops are open to anyone, anywhere - just note that we’re in the Eastern Time Zone.
November 4, 11, 18, and 25
Holiday Stress Hacks
Simple Skills to Help You Set Boundaries, Choose Your Mood, and Navigate Family Dynamics During the Holiday Season
It has been an intense year, and we’re about to enter the last few months, which aren’t going to be any less intense. Between shopping, cooking, hosting, traveling, and an election that I think we all wish was over already, “the most wonderful time of the year” is also often the most stressful.
Good thing there’s something we can do about that.
I’m so excited to offer a new workshop series this November to teach you what I’ve learned about managing a roller coaster of emotions and stress with simple skills of mindfulness, supported with essential oils and acupressure. These are tools I’ve been using for several years, and I have been amazed at how resilient I’ve become.
That’s not to say that I never experience stress or anxiety anymore (ha!). It’s not to say that my life is smooth-sailing and I’m not anticipating some situations in the coming months I’d rather avoid (ha ha!).
It’s to say that with these skills, I know that I will be able to respond to these emotions and situations with conscientiousness and integrity toward myself and the people around me. I know that it’s okay to feel the stress and anxiety when I need to, and that I’ll be able to bounce back and move on within hours (maybe days, for something big) - not weeks.
These 4 hour-long workshops will teach you:
- How and when to use these simple but powerful skills of mindfulness for common holiday scenarios (but you can use them year-round in any area of life)
- Specially-designed essential oil recipes to support each of these skills (and discounts on essential oils if you don’t already have access)
- Acupressure point knowledge for dealing with common holiday ailments like headaches, anxiety, and ubiquitous Thanksgiving digestive issues like “food stagnation”
- Where
- On Zoom, so you can join us from anywhere! And yes, they will be recorded, so you can sign up and watch the videos later if Monday evenings don’t work for you
- When
- Every Monday evening in November ( November 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2024) at 7pm
- Cost
- $150
- Leader
- Laura Ellis
- Signup
- Call 724.453.4335 and tell our front office staff that you’d like to sign up for the workshop. Or, if you’re a current patient, you can sign up and pay directly through your patient portal! You can do that here:
Leader
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Laura Ellis, in case you haven't met
Laura Ellis has been a Licensed Practitioner of Oriental Medicine in the state of PA since 2015. She graduated from Southwest Acupuncture College in 2015 with a M.S. in Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine, and from Earlham College in 2010 with a B.A. Human Development & Social Relations. She is also Trauma-Informed Care certified by Acupuncturists Without Borders.
She has been practicing various skills of mindfulness, self-awareness, and personal growth development her whole life, but more consciously and intentionally since undergraduate college, when she started exploring the world of Reiki and Akashic Record consulting. In graduate school she started working with wild mustangs and learning the language of natural horsemanship. She has led and co-led equine-based workshops to teach the skills of mindfulness that her teachers (both human and horse) have taught her. She has been working with a variety of coaches and a counselor since 2017, when her acupuncture practice started to grow, and she has been working with her current coach since mid-2022. It’s the specific skills that her coach taught Laura and has been coaching her to practice rigorously, that Laura will be teaching you.
