HEALTH COACH: Club Beliveau

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if you keep a green bough in your heart

the singing bird will come.

Chinese Proverb

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Valerie Tonner

Remedial Massage Therapist

Remedial Massage Therapists Society of Manitoba

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{ Massage Therapy }

{ NEW }

my practice has moved:

Henderson Massage

Health & Wellness Centre

366 St. Anne's Road

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Sunday

10:45 - 3:30

Friday

3:15 - 8:00

Saturday

10:30 - 3:15

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please call

(204) 254-4744

for an appointment

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{ HEALTH COACHING }

HEALTH COACH TALKS

Education - Research -Writing

SUPERFOOD CONFECTIONERY

superfood for heroes

HEALTH COACH

Appointments - Inquiries:

204-951-5890

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{ NOW OPEN }

HEALTH COACH
SUPERFOOD CONFECTIONERY

superfood for heroes

{ TREATMENT }

The best things happen when you're relaxed

CHOCOLATE MASSAGE

You will be massaged with a deliciously scented blend of salts, nutrient rich oils, and warm cacao butter

MYOFASCIAL MASSAGE THERAPY
with DEEP HEAT STONE THERAPY

A tissue-intensive treatment beneficial for chronic soft tissue dysfunction and pain. You will also be massaged with naturally-formed, Manitoba volcanic basalt stones to aid the release of muscle tension and congestion, and to enhance circulation and recovery.

VISCERAL MANIPULATION

For the treatment of the digestive system and abdominal organs.

FACE MASSAGE / FACE YOGA

with hot towels

Beneficial for the treatment of TMJ, sinusitis,

improved skin health and a natural face lift.

Stress-Free Posture Education

Assessment of your posture and customized guidance is available for inclusion with any of the other treatments.

The Secret to Deep Breathing

Learn a valuable technique to help you to become a deep breather with ease and enjoyment, and to give you the benefits of increased health. This tutorial is available for inclusion with any of the other treatments.

{ HOW TO HAVE A GREAT MASSAGE }

Massage initiates change.

Maximum benefit is experienced 24-48 hours after a massage. Health-promoting circulation is increased, congestion eased, and pounds of stress, erased.

Optimal results depend on rest, hydration, and movement.

Massage supplies a valuable opportunity for becoming cognizant of the process of holding unnecessary tension and the relationship with breathing; developing breathing and relaxation skills to create change; and for experiencing physiological relaxation. A chance to catch your breath. An authentic new beginning.

The benefits of massage are accumulative; consistency is recommended.

I am often asked if my treatments use deep pressure

I would like to give you a new idea. More important than depth of pressure is knowledgeable precision and sensitive accuracy. An accomplished therapist will use these effective methods.

It is better to have tension and congestion eased, instead of wrestled; coaxed, not forced; allowing deep, restorative breathing, a productive treatment with long-lasting results, and the possibility of a healthier relationship with your body.

When you have a tissue intensive treatment it is beneficial to breathe freely and at times deeply, during the treatment of your problem areas, and to communicate with your therapist if the physical sensations are unbearable. An experienced therapist will be able to sense and to identify when your body is nearing a tolerance limit based on how you are breathing.

{ 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.

{ 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.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION: Remedial Massage Therapists Society of Manitoba (RMTSMB)

{ 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.

For the last eleven years, my research has focused on providing the evidence to show that the basic health habits are necessary 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.