Holistic Personal Training Services
Body~Mind~Spirit Fitness and Wellness

Experience a gentle, progressive, and holistic approach to establish and enhance a healthy lifestyle in the comfort of your own space or mine.

      Personalized consulting services include:

• Identifying and dissolving source of stressors through The Work of Byron Katie
• Personalized Yoga
• Breathing Exercises
• Nutritional Education Through the Schwarzbein Principle
• Healthy and Simple Meal Planning
• Nutritional Strategies That Lessen Sugar Cravings
• Muscular Toning
• Posture Evaluation & Strengthening
• Guided Meditation
• Cross-Training recreational activities: Kayak ~ Canoe~  Hike~ Tennis ~ Ski ~ Snowshoe

Jen Deraspe has passion and commitment towards holistic, balanced and healthy living. She offers an interdisciplinary approach to holistic wellness in the areas of whole food, organic nutrition, fitness, sports medicine, relaxation techniques, meditation, The Work of Byron Katie and Hatha yoga. Artfully combining these skills and knowledge, Jen offers a holistic approach to personal training and development, guiding clients down their path to vitality and to their inner source of power and health.

Jen has a MS in Athletic Training/Sports Medicine from Indiana State University and served as the University of Southern Maine's (USM's) Head Athletic Trainer for 10 years, managing the health care needs of the college athletes. She also instructed health, wellness, injury prevention and sports medicine coursework at USM for 18 years, serving 9 years on adjunct faculty in the College of Nursing and Health Professions. Jen is a Certified Hatha Yoga instructor and trained Facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie.

Each session begins with a breathing meditation followed by a check-in on your progress, Q and A's, and a facilitation of The Work  of Byron Katie, relating to any stress you are experiencing in your life, about your body, your weight,  or your health, for example. Expect practical, hands-on information that has direct meaning and application in your life. Plan for two balanced and focused hours of internal (mind and spirit) and external (body) work geared exactly towards what you say that you want. Those open to this life-changing program will find new and sustained transformation previously  thought impossible... if you are open and ready to doing The Work necessary for you to find health and happiness in your daily life.

There is no magic pill and no quick fix formula. Restoration takes commitment and focus. We begin now.

The following is a sample program. Each individualized program is specialized and paced to meet your specific needs and intentions:
 

SESSION ONE-Getting Started
Introduction to the Schwarzbein Principle (www.schwarzbeinprinciple.com)
Introduction to The Work of Byron Katie (www.thework.com)
Is your metabolism optimal?
Reducing Toxins/ Clean your cleaners
Power of meditation

SESSION TWO
Establish Contract
insulin: introduction to major hormones
Review Strengthening/physioball
Strengthening/toning benefits and methods
Hydration
Mindful Eating
Omega 3 Fatty Acids
Good fats/unhealthy fats
Relaxation Breath Home
Food Labels
Food Log
 

SESSION THREE
Review Yoga
How to balance our major hormones
Review physioball/strengthening
Adrenaline and Cortisol-major hormones
The thoughts holding up the addiction
Carbohydrates: good choices, when and how
Whole grains vs flour and pasta
Balanced snacks to curb sugar cravings
"Balanced" Diet

Food Log

SESSION FOUR-

Cravings/Addictions/Serotonin
Healthy proteins; how much is enough?
Target Intensity-aerobic training methods of reducing stress
Ocean Breath yoga additions
Effects of Stress on biochemistry

SESSION FIVE-
Conflict Resolution with significant other or colleague
Coming out of Denial-finding balance in your self-perception
Assessing your metabolism
Following your food plan based on Schwarzbein

SESSION SIX-
Finding the Gift of Criticism
Enhancing your earth connection
Stillness~Awareness exercises
Integration of mind~body~spirit in daily living

SESSION SEVEN-

healthy lifestyle diet
Meal planning-whole foods cooking shopping recipes review goals and set new review logs
Kitchen Gardening
Review of strength, flexibility and aerobic training

SESSION EIGHT-

Foundation firming
Facilitation of judgment on your body and health
Final food log
Realistic Lifestyle Plan

Free email Consultations for remainder of year
Referrals to complimentary practitioners if appropriate
 

Recommended Reading

• Loving What Is, Byron Katie

• The Schwarzbein Principle II and/or The Program losing weight the healthy way Diana Schwarzbein

• Sugar Blues, William Dufty

I personally guarantee you that if you follow the individualized recommendations that we both put in place for your wellness lifestyle plan during our 8 sessions together, you will experience a new sense of energy, clarity, power, and fitness that you may not have considered possible. Upon completion of the program, I will be available to consult with you by email for the remainder of that year, free of charge, to make adjustments to your plan as needed and to help keep you invested in your own holistic health. With your commitment to a healthy lifestyle plan, I will stand beside you fully as a testimony to my belief in both you and the power of this whole-person program.

Rates:

In person:
$150 each 2 hour session at your place within a 20 mile radius of Denmark
$120 each 2 hour session in my space

Phone consultations:
$120 each 2 hour phone session
$90 each 1.5 hour phone session