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Notice: Valerie retired from her massage practice December 15th., 2025 to focus on self publishing the HEALTH COACH PROJECT 

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{ HEALTH COACHING }

Health is the goal

My method of health coaching involves identifying and maximizing your strengths, and reducing and eliminating the obstacles on your path to health. My guidance is customized to work for you.

The strategy that I use starts with the 13 Basic Health Habits. HEALTH COACH Basic Health Habits™ is a comprehensive, sustainable system; fundamental and essential for the physiological health  of all humans. This gives you a sound foundation for increasing knowledge and understanding of your body and what it needs to be healthy and disease-free.

A Health Coach can help you to navigate past old habits and blind spots and to fast-track your efforts and results for a lifelong, rewarding relationship with your health.

Health Coaches will shape the future of healthcare. 

- Mark Hyman, MD

HEALTH COACH provides the information, instruction, and the tools to facilitate behavioural change that leads to the creation and maintenance of health, rather than the suppression of natural physiological function, and the symptoms of an unhealthy body.

{ HEALTH COACHING } 

HEALTH COACH TALKS

Education - Research -Writing

SUPERFOOD CONFECTIONERY

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HEALTH COACH 

Appointments - Inquiries: 

204-951-5890

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{ PROFESSIONAL PROFILE }

Valerie Tonner RMT, RMTSMB, is a graduate of the Northern Institute of Massage Therapy and Wellington College of Remedial Massage Therapies, Advanced Studies in Osteopathic Manual Medicine, with Honours.

Thesis: The Study, Pathology, & Treatment of Fascia
Neuromuscular Integration and Structural Alignment (NISA) Certification, with Case Studies.

Diplomas: Cervical Mobilization (Osteopathic) / Active Isolated Stretching / Visceral Manipulation / Spinal Assessment and Treatment (Osteopathic) / Knee Assessment and Treatment with Glen Bergeron PhD CAT(C) / NISA: A softened version of Rolfing

• HEALTH COACH research project 1993 - present 
• Yoga studies 1987- 2015 
• Thai Massage 2008 - 2014 
• Deep Heat stone therapy 1995-2014, 2016 - present, using heated, naturally formed, Manitoba basalt  

Leading the vanguard of a new generation of well-educated, progressive health professionals with the identification of a comprehensive health creation and maintenance system of basic health habits necessary, universally, for human physiological health. This is the fundamental foundation of health missing, and needed to build a coherent and definitive infrastructure of education systems, government policy, and healthcare that actually includes health.

Curriculum Vitae

{ The HEALTH COACH Research Project }

The Physiology of Health
Informative - Inspiring - Empowering

HEALTH COACH is a research project that began in 1993 with the recording of data about the basic health habits and health complications of my clients. Thirty years, and more than 30,000 people later, this project has given me profound insight into the health issues, and the ideas, language, and beliefs about health here in Canada, and I question all of it. 

HEALTH COACH is also a comprehensive guide for a healthy lifestyle, with the identification of 13 basic health habits, necessary, universally, for human physiological health. This is the fundamental foundation of health missing, and needed to build a coherent infrastructure of education systems, government policy, and healthcare that actually includes health.

HEALTH COACH is focused on providing information about the necessity of the 13 BASIC HEALTH HABITS for physiological function; the maintenance of health; physical structural integrity, and for healthy habit formation. 

The 13 basic health habits are also a dependable system for evaluating health. Conventional medical tests give us our risk of particular conditions - high cholesterol warns of impending heart disease, for example, while high blood sugar predicts diabetes. Basic Health Habits, by contrast, help us to evaluate the basic needs to support healthy physiological function, give us an overall reading of how healthy we are, and supply the practical application to address any issues.

Physiology-Based Health 

I focus on facts and solutions. I endeavour to give accurate and comprehensive information about the structure and function of your body and what it needs to be healthy, to function properly, and to provide recommendations for practical application. My work is grounded in the science of anatomy and physiology.

Health is my passion :: Physiology, my poetry. 

I am a health professional, with long term clinical experience, and a researcher-writer. I have a formal science-based education and thesis work combined with a health perspective. I am on the frontline of healthcare, and I see firsthand what is happening with health in Canada. I have a passion for understanding the human body. 

My research involves meta-analysis of current studies by leading experts, using systematic review methods. I conduct case studies and compile data about health, basic health habits, and disease across a broad spectrum of the population. My research includes the study of disease formation, and the history of health, disease, and medicine in Western and Non-Western cultures. My knowledge and understanding of health is further enhanced by a continuous and expansive study of human physiology.

Building a bridge between the worlds of health, science, and medicine is also a goal here at HEALTH COACH. I look forward to the day when health is not considered the alternative.

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