LISA WALKER CNP
Lisa Walker is an October 2017 Ottawa campus graduate practicing in the Ottawa area, ON. Lisa is the founder of Lisa Walker Nourished Life, and has recently launched her new website! She believes in educating and empowering her clients on using nourishing foods, supplements where necessary and mindfulness in order to achieve optimal health. She has a special interest in a holistic approach to balancing men and women’s hormones, the gut/immune connection, and skin conditions. She is a wife and a mom to two busy children so she understands the hectic pace of life and all that comes with taking care of a family, stressors and finding balance. With her own experience battling and overcoming hormonal issues, Lisa is passionate about empowering women to gain control of their hormonal ups and downs and live a more fulfilled life. She believes that the foods we eat have a powerful effect on our physical and emotional health and each client is unique. She enjoys helping her clients identify which foods are helping and which foods are hindering their health. Through education, whole foods and supplements, Lisa’s mission is to empower those around her to live a Nourished Life – mind, body and spirit.
www.lisawalkernourishedlife.com | Facebook | Instagram
ASHLEY MILLER BCOM (Hons), CNP
Ashley Miller is an October 2015 Toronto campus graduate practising downtown Toronto, ON. Ashley founded the skin health company, HUID, where she provides clients with natural solutions for healing and rejuvenation. Specific skin therapy depends on the nature of the underlying cause and the course of the condition. With the client, Ashley works on uncovering what is causing or exacerbating the skin condition rather than suppressing symptoms. Her internal/external approach is designed to realize the innate ability to heal through the power of surroundings, food, and movement. Ashley is also a practitioner at Lemon Water Wellness Clinic, where she works as part of a team of experts to provide clients optimal holistic health care. When working one-on-one with clients, a thorough health assessment is performed and a personalized protocol is recommended to enhance the effectiveness and longevity of goals. Most recently, Ashley has joined Firefly Foundation; a non-profit organization that works to support scientific research and programs to promote awareness and prevent brain degeneration. As creative-lead, she develops collaborative science summer camp programs to educate children on brain health.
www.huid.ca | Instagram | ashley@huid.ca
ANJA TODOROVIC CNP
Anja Todorovic is an April 2016 Toronto campus graduate practicing in Toronto, ON. Anja started Anamaya & Co Wellness where she sees clients for one-on-one consultations and personal protocols, as well energetic and spiritual work through the art of yoga, breath-work, meditation and movement. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher and has used the practice of yoga, breath-work and meditation to heal the afflictions of her mind, to alleviate symptoms of her anxiety and depression, to cultivate and harness her fiercest creative potential, to awaken and calm her senses and to find stillness and silence in the midst of adversity and stress. The discipline rooted in the practice of yoga, has taught Anja how to master the art of her breath and therefore the art of her emotions. Her intention is to guide clients to live purposeful and fulfilling lives by incorporating practices of self-Love such as yoga, meditation and eating nutrient-dense whole foods into their day-to-day lives. Anja hopes to show every one of her clients and students that they have been given and are blessed with all of the raw materials to HEAL themselves through sacred acts of self-Love, self-exploration and self-awareness.
www.anamayawellness.ca | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram | Yoga Alliance
CHLOE ELGAR BA (Hons), Professional Intuitive, CNP
Chloe Elgar is an April 2013 Vancouver campus graduate practicing in Vancouver, BC. Chloe is the owner of Chloe’s Countertop. She is a retreat host, podcaster, psychic intuitive & author, working with men & women to connect them to their intuition & guide them into a life of joy. Chloe specialises in eating disorders, body image, anxiety/depression- & she works one to one with clients with an integrative approach (holistic nutrition, psychology, intuition). She is the host of podcast show, Conscious Conversations, where she interviews guests including: Kathryn Budig, Lauren Toyota, Meghan Telpner & Matthew Kenney. Chloe co-founded a popular event series, The Witchery Dinner, holding space for people to connect to their intuition & experience the magic of a deeper spiritual connection. Her sold-out retreats take her to Costa Rica & the Sunshine Coast- the next retreat (April 2018) is Horse Intuition in Kamloops, BC. Coming up, the launch of her Vibrate Light Mentorship, a 3-month intensive for wellness professionals, guiding them in connecting intuition to business. Chloe’s passion is in guiding others to connect to intuition & to support them in discovering their passion, removing limiting beliefs & live in abundance.
www.chloescountertop.com | Facebook | Instagram | Podcast
CHERILEE GAROFANO CNP
Cherilee Garofano is an October 2007 Toronto campus graduate practicing in Toronto, ON. Cherilee is the founder of Envision Wellness, a personal training and nutritional consulting company. She offers personal fitness training and holistic nutritional consultation for individuals and corporations. Her passion for endurance events like Ironman triathlons and marathons led her to holistic nutrition to understand a more healthful way to fuel the body for such long distances and how to optimally recover without using high fructose energy bars and gels! She has worked with endurance athletes as well as everyday ones. Cherilee works with clients to create active and healthy habits emphasizing a clean, whole food based diet to achieve vibrant health and lifelong results. She is certified with the Canadian Association of Fitness Professional as an Advanced Personal Trainer, Group Fitness and Pre and Post Natal Specialist as well as a Pro Trainer teaching certification workshops and many other fitness designations from Pilates to spinning to aqua. Corporate wellness clients include Hudson’s Bay, Bayer, Frito Lay, Toronto East General Hospital and the Ontario Lottery Corporation. She regularly gives educational seminars for corporate, school boards or sport specific clients. In addition, Cherilee currently works at Wellspring Cancer Centre facilitating an Exercise and Rehab Program and at Verity, an upscale private women’s club providing personal training, teaching and nutritional counselling.
www.envisionwellness.ca | cherilee@envisionwellness.ca
MEGHAN TELPNER CNP
Meghan Telpner is a December 2007 Toronto campus graduate practicing in Toronto, ON. Meghan is an author, speaker, nutritionist and founder of the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. Her humorous, engaging and real approach to living an awesome, healthy life has garnered her a world-wide following and extensive media attention. Meghan’s Academy of Culinary Nutrition, is growing a global tribe of vibrant living advocates and her bestselling books UnDiet: Eat Your Way to Vibrant Health and The UnDiet Cookbook are creating a revolution in how people think about their health. Featured in Forbes and ranked as one of the top 100 female entrepreneurs in Canada, Meghan works with health-focused independent practitioners and small businesses to find their unique voice in a crowded marketplace, stay ahead of the curve, cultivate community and convert passion into profitable conscious business. On January 3rd, 2018 she will be hosting a free webinar designed to get those sparks ignited, and help you take the first steps towards getting your business rocking and rolling.
www.meghantelpner.com | Facebook | Instagram
MARC CAPISTRANO BA, CNP
Marc Capistrano is an October 2016 Toronto campus graduate practicing in Vaughn and Toronto, ON. Marc is a Holistic Nutritionist at Vaughn’s Pain and Wellness Centre, Canada’s first ever Community Based Interdisciplinary Pain Centre funded by the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Marc also operates as Sports Nutritionist and Community Manager at Toronto’s Bang Fitness. He is a former competitive athlete and a Certified Personal Trainer. Specializing in sports nutrition using a holistic approach, he helps clients achieve optimal athletic performance, fat loss, recovery and wellness through nutritional intervention. Marc runs the Live It Holistic blog and is a regular contributor and content creator for CBC Life and Stack Magazine.
www.liveitholistic.com | YouTube | Instagram
ALITZIA TYMINSKI CNP
Alitzia Tyminski is a November 2017 Toronto campus graduate working in Toronto, ON. Alitzia is employed by Findhelp Information Services while looking to develop a practice working one-on-one with clients. At seventeen, after living on the streets as a teenage runaway, Alitzia found her self-determination and began to work with Project Going Home, helping those in similar situations. Since then, she has continuously worked with the homeless community. Alitzia is well respected by her academic peers as someone who has earned her expertise to ensure compassionate and conscious support through personal and professional experience. With Findhelp, Alitzia works with 211; a helpline for essential community, government and social services, Central Access; a support helpline offering withdrawal services from drugs or alcohol and Victim Support Line; a referral helpline for victims of crime. Alitzia was inspired to attend IHN after being diagnosed with hyperthyroidism. With the guidance of her naturopath, and the knowledge acquired at IHN, she was able to overcome her health concerns and avoid the aid of lifelong medication. She aims to combine her unique proficiency in the human services field with her holistic approach to empower those in need to find themselves healthy, happy and whole.
WILLIAM (BILL) HOWE CNP
Bill Howe is a November 2017 Toronto campus graduate practicing in Toronto, ON. Bill is the founder of Holistic Junky, where he sees clients for clinical nutrition and counselling therapies. In 2009, his twenty year alcohol addiction resulted in a near fatal accident leaving him paralyzed from the neck down and in a state of severe depression. After a year of hard-earned sobriety, his addictive predisposition reemerged but this time with food leading to gaining 140lbs. He began to study holistic nutrition and was able to lose his excess weight. With the principles he learned in natural health he also regained 90% of his movement, fully recovered from depression and stopped all but one of the thirty-five pill pharmaceutical cocktail he was on for six years. For the last seven years, he has been a motivational speaker for a variety of programs through Sunny Brook Hospital, The Lion’s Foundation of Guide Dogs of Canada and recently at The Canadian Health Recovery Centre. He conducts educational talks about the benefits of nutrition, from a Paleo perspective, and is a peer support counsellor for newly injured people at Toronto Rehab. Biochemical, environmental and emotional conditions are the focus of his “whole” approach. Bill’s goal is to increase his influence among a diverse group of people who know they must make significant changes for another chance to find optimal health, peace and freedom.
www.holisticjunky.com (launching January 20, 2018) | Facebook | Instagram
EVA WORONIECKA CNP
Eva Woroniecka, also known as Eva Wellness, is an April 2015 Mississauga campus graduate practicing in Ko Phangan, Thailand. Eva is the owner of the Wellness House. Upon graduation, with big dreams of starting her own Wellness and Nutrition school in the tropics, she packed her bags and left for Thailand, where she operates the Wellness House. Clients come to stay and take part in Wellness Retreats which include Detox and Nutrition programs as well as Yoga, Fitness and Dance classes. Her company evaWELLNESS is registered in Thailand but she has international clients that she consults via Skype. She has collaborated with other holistic practitioners to offer a wide variety of wellness services at the Wellness House including massage, NLP, EFT and other modalities. She offers a 1-3 month internship programs where IHN students can visit Thailand and stay at the Wellness House for free in exchange for helping with Nutrition services. If you’re interested you can reach her via email info@evawellnes.com
www.evawellness.com | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube
STEPHANIE DODIER CNP
Stephanie Dodier is an October 2013 Mississauga campus graduate practicing in Oakville, ON. Stephanie has a global online presence as an Emotional Eating Expert, author of The Crave Cure Program and host of The Beyond The Food Show; a top 25 iTunes podcast. She is passionate about sharing her personal health journey that began six years ago while working as a senior executive in a Fortune 500 corporation. She went from suffering severe panic attacks to transforming her life completely, allowing her to regain her health. Stephanie is passionate about educating and empowering women so that they can achieve the same results she has experienced. In order to further this quest, she has founded the Going Beyond The Food Project, an online conference that reached over 4000 women to help them end food obsession, and now the Going Beyond The Food Academy. Her “Going Beyond The Food” is a revolutionary movement that aims to change the way women relate to food. It’s about ditching the diet mindset and transforming the relationship to food in order to feel good for good. Recently, Stephanie has expanded her services to assist a functional medicine practitioner in order to expand their business online and capture the maximum potential of internet marketing. Stephanie’s integrative and comprehensive approach to nutrition focuses on finding the root causes of cravings, binging and overeating and aligning the body and mind
www.stephaniedodier.com | Crave Cure Program | The Beyond The Food Show | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube
JENNIFER POLANSKY CYT, REIKI MASTER, CNP
Jennifer Polansky is a November 2017 Toronto campus graduate practicing in Toronto, ON. Jennifer founded VHR Holistic Health as a platform to hold space for women to step into their power and recognize how magical they truly are. Women are potent manifestors and when they cultivate balance within, tuning into their inner voice and feeling supported to follow its guidance, they can create anything their heart desires. Jennifer runs a workshop called Tapping Into the Heart, and a women’s retreat in Costa Rica, Open Heart Council, which is currently open for registration for the February 10 – 16, 2018 retreat. “The Open Heart Council is a 6-Day retreat, a platform for the feminine intelligence to express herself. We meet as a conscious council of women who feel the calling to be the change and embodiment of the new paradigm. As we open our hearts to share wisdom, creativity of thought, empowerment and a vision of a new dawn, we expand individually and collectively towards her. We look transparently within ourselves to allow truth to move inside us like ocean waves of letting go, shedding patterns and illusions, and honoring the intimate vulnerable space of release. The open heart council is a sacred space, a portal for the miracles that are ready to take place.” Mention you are an IHN alumni for a discount for this retreat.
www.jenniferpolansky.ca | Facebook | Instagram
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