Practitioners
- Mary Ida Adams
- Karl Boyken
- Katy Castronovo
- Steffany Kroeger
- Tracy K. Pierce
- Heather Weber
- Joshua Weber
Mary Ida AdamsThe Conscious Living Center
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Mary Ida Adams has been practicing Jingui Golden Shield since 1999. She has over 35 years experience in eastern health art and in teaching meditation, fitness, and Qi Gong. Mary Ida Adams teaches the following Programs at the Conscious Living Center in Iowa City: Please see Calendar page for the class schedule. The Ideal Metabolism-Ideal Weight Fitness Program is designed for those who want to balance their metabolism and achieve their ideal weight. It also aims to: reduce cholesterol and high blood pressure, balance hormones, and improve cardiovascular health. This program, designed by Qi Gong Master Dr. Donxun Zhang, uses meditations, forms and exercises to empower you to take back control over your mind and body. The main difference between this program and other weight loss programs is that we teach you how to use your mind (the strongest tool available) to implement permanent change. This 6-week program is held in two-75 minute weekly classes. Jingui Golden Shield, a traditional style of Qi Gong, is an internal energy system that teaches how to convert the enormous potential energy we have to Qi. Through specific incremental vibration techniques, the physical practice allows the organs to purify and strengthen. Golden Shield’s goal is to reach a high level of health, remove stagnations in the body and to mature the meridian system, our internal energy highways. As the practice develops each of the five physical levels, we gain in the ability to maintain overall higher levels of energy, to use our energy more effectively, and to integrate the mind, body and spirit. The overall effect of this practice balances and enhances the nervous system, the body’s chemistry, the internal communication system, our emotional well being as well as the physical body. By accessing our potential energy, we can extend our self development to its furthest potential. |
Karl Boyken TMI |
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Karl coordinates the Iowa City chapter of the Monroe Institute's Local Chapter Network. Utilizing Hemi-Sync ® --an audio technology backed by decades of research, development and experience--the Monroe Institute process provides a gentle, self-guided means of exploring altered states of awareness. The audio exercises allow listeners to open to expanded states of awareness, to develop intuitive abilities, and to come into a new relationship with self and the world. Karl is a Certified TMI Local Chapter Coordinator, a dreamwork facilitator, a student of tai chi, and a long-time meditator. Karl also is a computer systems administrator. |
Katy Castronovo CR, LMTReflexology and Therapeutic Massage |
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Katy Castronovo attended the Florida School of Massage in 2009, where she studied Swedish Massage, Neuromuscular Therapy, Polarity Therapy, Connective Tissue Therapy, Reflexology and Hydrotherapy. In 2010 she completed a Reflexology Certification at the Academy of Ancient Reflexology. Katy is also a professional artist and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from Ohio State University. She is passionate about creating a safe therapeutic experience in her bodywork sessions, artistically shaping the treatment to meet the needs of her clients. Katy believes in a holistic approach to health and feels honored to be a part of her client's healing Journeys. |
Steffany Kroeger, RYTSteffany Kroeger Yoga Studio
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Steffany’s instructional background comes from a combination of Yogafit, Freestyle, and her own experience. Steffany has taken 80hrs of training from Yogafit, 200hrs from Freestyle Yoga Academy, and continues to learn more about how yoga can improve lives. Steffany also offers private yoga sessions in the form of Yoga Therapy for those seeking a more individualized practice. Please visit her website www.steffanykroeger.com to contact her or for more information. |
Tracy K. PierceSynergy Wellness
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Tracy is a professional organizer, coach and owner at Synergy Organizing as well as a B.E.S.T. (bio energetic synchronization technique) practitioner certified through the Morter Health System. By working with and researching extreme cases of chronic disorganization in addition to working through her own personal health challenges, Tracy came to realize that many of the therapies being prescribed in today’s society don’t address the root cause of our miseries – the subconscious patterns that replay themselves over and over in our everyday lives whether we want them to or not. During her own quest for healing, Tracy discovered B.E.S.T. and was amazed at how old mental patterns easily passed away and physical healing soon followed. After observing her own as well as her husband’s and others’ healing, she was moved to become certified in this technique bring it to her organizing clients as well as the public. Tracy believes that Innate Intelligence, through the functioning of the nervous system is the true agent of healing, empowerment, coordination, inspiration, movement and joy. Healing is an inside job, coordinated by the same power, which develops and renews our body. Tracy chooses to help each individual client to a greater level of wellness, elasticity, personal growth, empowerment and healing by locating and removing interference through B.E.S.T. technique. |
 Heather Weber, BA, LMT, RM, YTThe Conscious Living Center
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Heather Weber discovered her desire to work with others in developing and recognizing their strengths, abilities, and quality for life after pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 1997. This led Heather to work within the healing and integrative arts field over the past decade, since graduating from Eastwind Healing and Massage Therapy School of Iowa City, Iowa in 2000. Heather has a passion for working with the mind, body, spirit to assist others on their personal path to wellness and wellbeing. A Mother of three children, Heather has a deep respect for the birthing process, and giving birth to life in many forms. Heather experiences great joy in creating sacred spaces, connecting community, loving family, helping others heal and awaken the heart, and creating the song of life with her spouse. In conjunction with the healing and integrative arts field, Heather has found a love for yoga and conscious body movement. Heather completed a 200 hr Registered Yoga Alliance Teacher’s Certification Training at Tapas Yoga Shala in Davenport, IA. in January 2011. Heather continues to study and explore transformational modalities for healing and cultivating awareness, to support the process of personal growth and self-development, conscious living, and awakening the heart to an authentic and joyful life. Heather believes in the spirit of human potential, and finds purpose in working with others to create an environment for positive transformation, personal development, and healing. Heather views her relationship with her clients as a participant in a co-creative process engaging in the higher purpose of each individual. Related Services and Areas of Development: Licensed Massage Therapist, Intuitive, Visionary, Reiki Master/Teacher, Chakra Balancing and Aura Cleansing, Akashic Records Practitioner, Meditation and Affirmations, Tarot Sessions for Personal Growth and Development, Yoga Teacher/Practitioner, Light Language Practitioner, and Co-Founder of Builders of Hope and The Conscious Living Center, Iowa City, IA. |
Joshua Weber, BA, RYT, RMThe Conscious Living Center
In 1999, after obtaining a degree in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Iowa , Joshua travelled abroad to study in Guatemala and discovered a passion for helping individuals who were in a state of poverty and circumstantial challenge. Following this experience in 2002, Joshua visited Haiti, once again witnessing a great magnitude of poverty and suffering. It was in Haiti that Joshua recognized the universal nature of the human condition. These experiences led Joshua to the calling of service and Karma yoga. Since 2002, Joshua embarked upon his journey working in the social service field providing services to adults and teenagers with chronic mental health and behavioral disorders in Iowa City, Iowa. It was in August 2007, when Joshua and his wife envisioned a service organization that embraced the qualities and philosophy of holistic wellness. It was at this time, Joshua founded Builders of Hope with his wife, and began a chapter in his life that would lead him to this present moment in time. Today, Joshua is a husband, father of three beautiful daughters, a cultural anthropologist, mindfulness meditation practitioner, yoga practitioner/instructor, Reiki III practitioner, counselor, and healer. Joshua is currently pursuing massage therapy school to diversify his abilities in working and assisting others on their path to wellness and well being. Joshua is also the visionary and designer of four unique companies; Builders of Hope, the Conscious Living Center, Global Village, and E-Sync. “We are all on this earth as soul beings having a human experience, and every moment of every day is a new moment waiting for us to make the conscious choice for an awaking to occur inside of us! This awakening blesses us with an internal compass to navigate this great map we call life, and reveal to us the road to internal happiness. My desire is to help each individual I encounter awaken to this gift and blessing.” |