Brooklyn, NY Based Wellness Program Combines Yoga, Counseling, and Massage to Encourage People to Create the Lives They Want to Live

Honeybee Wellness, LLC offers short-term wellness counseling to individuals and worksite health promotion to small businesses.

Brooklyn, NY (PRWEB) May 11, 2005 -- Hol-Life Industries, LLC announced today the launch of Honeybee Wellness, LLC, a Holistic Health Counseling Practice. Honeybee Wellness offers a six-month wellness program for individuals and worksite health promotion for small businesses. Integrating yogic philosophy with familiar western practices, the company offers clients a refreshing approach to achieving a work/life balance. While the focus will be on making healthier food choices specific to the individuals needs, relationships, goal setting, and other concerns will be addressed. Honeybee Wellness mission is to help people live healthier, happier lives by empowering them to view themselves as important and worthy of all that life has to offer.

Melissa D. Haile, Holistic Health Counselor and Principal, helps clients work through issues with food, relationships, career choices and more by focusing on the big picture instead of isolating a single factor. In this way, clients become aware of the interconnectedness their decisions have on their entire life. Only then," says Melissa, can a person move towards any real change. For example, when we see the affect our food choices have on our energy and moods, we can then look at the way they influence our responses to work, home, love, and even the way we feel about ourselves." Throughout the wellness program, Melissa will offer suggestions on improving those areas. Clients will also be able to take advantage of yoga classes and professional massages by a licensed massage therapist. For more information, visit www.HoneybeeWellness.com.

Holistic Health Counseling involves the individual in the counseling process as much as possible. Holistic Health Counselors, or HHCs, believe in empowering the individual with the information and tools necessary to make their own decisions instead of simply telling them what to do. Because HHCs are not doctors, psychologists, or psychiatrists, they neither diagnose illness nor prescribe medication. For HHCs, those solutions are not solutions at all; they often mask the underlying causes without looking to effectively deal with them in the first place. But HHCs dont deny the importance and necessity of allopathic medicine. Instead, HHCs view their services as complementary, non-invasive alternatives to traditional methods.

Why Yoga and Massage?

Yoga is a holistic technique in and of itself. It combines meditation, chanting, and postures, both stationary and moving, to connect the mind, body, and spirit and bring it into complete awareness. When practiced on a regular basis, this awareness informs other aspects of a persons life tremendously, often bringing to the surface repressed feelings and emotions the individual is not dealing with. When these feelings and emotions are confronted, reaching a goal or overcoming an obstacle is much easier to attain. It is an effective method of release, relaxation, and rejuvenation.

Melissa is an advocate of massage and encourages people to get massages everyday, professionally and from loved ones. She believes that massage is a great way to improve circulation, relieve tension and diminish stress. I think that it is extremely important for people to engage in some form of nonsexual physical contact on a daily basis, such a as a hug and/or massages of the neck, shoulders, back, hands, and feet," she says. We often take these gestures for granted, but youll be amazed at how something so small greatly enhances the quality of a persons life." By including yoga and massage in the program, it allows clients to indulge in the self-care they wouldnt usually allow themselves, helping them to see the importance of putting oneself first.

Melissa is a graduate of Institute for Integrative Nutrition (www.integrativenutrition.com), a New York City-based holistic nutrition school certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She is also a Kundalini Yoga Teacher in-Training. Her holistic health training is a lifelong endeavor as it not only benefits her clients but her personal development as well.

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