Bridge to Wellness Health Center

Victoria Porfilio R.N., M.S., Ph.D
Nurse Consultant and Educator
549 4th Street, Niagara Falls, NY 14301
(716) 285-5752 / (716) 297-8091
info@holisticnursephd.com

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Classes and Weekend Retreats
(January - May 2009)

(Programs that have before them are FREE programs for members who have Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Western New York)

Insurance Paid Programs

• Community Blue
• Traditional Blue
• Blue Cross
• Blue Shield

Programs -- Classes Weekend Retreats

• Radical Makeover - 12 Week Program and Contest
• Creating Health - Optimal Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Wellbeing
• Battle of the Bulge - A Mind-Body Approach to Permanent Weight Loss
• Mastering Your Emotions
• Medical Meditations - Awakening the Inner Healer
• Join the Wellness Revolution
• Creating Optimal Well-Being Weekend Retreat
• Supermarket Adventure
• Stress Buster - Stress Management
• Healing the Heart - Reversing Coronary Artery Disease
• Dare to be Pain Free
• Return to Wholeness - Surviving the Diagnosis of Cancer
• Smoking Cessation
• Detoxification and Rejuvenation
• Radical Awakening - Optimal Spiritual Well-Being
• Herbs and Natural Supplements
• Forever Young - Secrets to Staying Young at Heart

*The member must have the "Alive and Lively Rider," and be a member through Blue Cross - Blue Shield of Western New York.

*There is an additional program fee for the Radical Makeover Program and Contest, which is for the part of the program not paid by BC/BS, (this is a minimal fee)

*Also there is an additional fee for the weekend retreat that covers the food plan and the overnight accommodations.

Classes and programs will be held at various locations throughout Western New York and Canada.

If you carry other insurance plans you can call me to discuss the program fee for classes. At this time other insurance plans are not covering the programs. I will take payments for the Radical Makeover Program and Contest. If you have Flex Pay for part of your healthcare, you can apply these to the classes I teach.

Call for information: Vicky 285-5752

RADICAL MAKEOVER PROGRAM AND CONTEST - This 12 week program is an opportunity
for you to finally take a look at your life and decide once and for all if you want to make some radical changes in order to have optimal physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being. This program is a giant step forward in extending the quality of your life.

Optimal well-being is a state of being where you will enjoy a perfect state of health. The RADICAL MAKEOVER PROGRAM is a breakthrough program created to give people a new understanding of health and illness, and the healing power of the mind.

My goal as your facilitator is to provide you with the knowledge and ability to adapt to a proactive approach to your total well-being. Classes and an individual wellness consultation will help you understandmore clearly what is required in your life to establish harmony, health and optimal well-being on an ongoing basis.

Twice a year individuals can sign up for this 38 hour program and contest that can literally change a person's life. The contest will offer people the chance to WIN a variety of PRIZES. In the past we have had jewelry, massages, facials, books, gym memberships andmany other prizes. The GRAND PRIZE coming up will be a DIAMOND CLUSTER RING.

As your facilitator, with over 30 years in the medical field, I will help you through the maze of confusing information that is out there. We will look at the best that both traditional medicine and complementary medicine has to offer when it comes to your total well-being.

• Lose Up to 40 Pounds in 12 Weeks
• Taking Control of Your Life
• Healthier Body, Mind, and Spirit
• Increased Energy and Vitality
• Mental Focus Increased
• Negative Emotions Released
• Improved Quality of Life
• Outlook and Attitude Change
• Getting in Touch with Your Body's Signals
• Creativity is Increased
• Enhanced Immune System
• Conquer Addictions
• Anxiety and Stress is Reduced
• Prevent or Reduce Chronic Diseases
• Better Coping Mechanisms
• Mental Relaxation
• Less Stressful Life
• A Better Health Profile
• Behavior and Lifestyle Changes
• Reverse the Effects of Aging
• Decrease Medical Cost by Imporving Your Overall Health

January 11th - 12:30 pm
United Baptist Church, 4800 Creek Rd., Lewiston

January 12th - 6:00 pm
St. John's Outreach Center, 160 Chestnut, Lockport

January 13th - 6:00 pm
Crown Plaza Hotel, 300 - 3rd Street, Niagara Falls

January 14th - 6:00 pm
Center of Renewal, 4421 Lower River Rd., Lewiston

January 15th - 6:00 pm
Amherst - Call for location

January 17th - 9:00 am
Bridge to Wellness - 549 - 4th St. Niagara Falls

Program starts the week of January 19-24 and will end on April 20. Locations, dates and times will be determined by the number of people who sign up. At least three sessions will be available (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, 6PM-9PM and Saturday morning 9AM-12PM). It depends on number of people who sign up if more classes will be added.

The cost of this 38 hour program is $615.00. For those people who are members of Blue Cross - Blue Shielf of Western New York and carry the Alive and Lively rider, your only cost would be

$145.00

CREATING HEALTH WEEKEND RETREATS - This program gives you the chance
to do what you have been promising yourself for years - to finally take a break and
dedicate time to your health, relaxation, and rejuvenation. This 18 hour program will
provide you with the knowledge of what you can do in order to have optimal
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. No prescription is more
valuable than correct information and knowledge. Optimal pamper treatments will be
available.
Objectives of the Creating Health Program:
Health and Disease result from complex interactions of physical, mental, emotional,
spiritual, genetic, social, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Imbalance in any of
these areas will affect the entire person. There are tools available for living a
healthier life.

• A Proactive Approach to Your Total Well-being

• Lifestyles Choices to Optimal Health

• Preventative Medicine is the Best Medicine

• Causes and Stages of Disease

• Nutrition and Food Choices

• The Science of Life

• Movement Exercises

• Medical Meditations

• Emotional Clearing

• Conquer Addictions

• Detoxification and Rejuvenation

• Stress Management

• Right Thinking and Self Control

• Wellness Assessment Profile
  

The retreat will be held at the Stella Niagara Retreat Center, 4421 Lower River Rd., Youngstown, NY.
 

Optional massages are available during the retreat
1/2 Hour - $22.00
1 Hour - $42.00
Book at least 10 days before retreat.

*FREE FACIAL for the first ten people who sign up and pay for retreat.

CREATING HEALTH - 5 WEEKS TO OPTIMAL PHYSICAL, MENTAL,
EMOTIONAL, AND SPIRITUAL WELL-BEING - Health and Disease result from
complex interactions of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, genetic, social,
environmental, and lifestyle factors. Imbalance in any of these areas will affect the
entire person. There are tools available for living a healthier life. This program is the
same as the weekend retreat program and part of the Radical Makeover Program and Contest and offered to whose who would rather take
the program over a five week period. Optimal well-being is a state of being where you
can enjoy a perfect state of being through lifestyle options. Prevention and
knowledge is the BEST DEFENSE against developing chronic diseases. We will start
with an individual Wellness Assessment Profile, and discuss lifestyle changes
necessary for optimal health.

CREATING HEALTH - 5 weeks to Optimal Physical, Mental, Emotional, and
Spiritual Well-Being. ($225.00) Call for dates.

MANAGING YOUR EMOTIONS - OPTIMAL MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING - Why do we feel the way we feel? HOw do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our minds and bodies distinct fromeach other, or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? These are some questions we will ponder during the important program that has helped many people change the way they handle their emotional and mental well-being.

Managing Your Emotions is a landmark program, full of insight and wisdom, and to posessiong that rare power to change the way we see the world and ourselves. Emotions tied to thoughts have a kind of activating charge, for each feeling is a physical sensation associated with an idea. As a result, emotions are experienced in both our minds and bodies, and every idea includes a taste of delight or disappointment, relief or anguish, hope or despair, suffering or pleasure, love or fear.

Each of our thoughts is an impulse of consciousness that expresses both meaning and sound. Someone estimated that human being have sixty thousand thoughts each day. The sad news is about fifty nine thousand are the same ones as the day before. If you want to change your present reality you need to change your thoughts andhow you process the world around you. During this program you will learn how to release negative emotions and thoughts. By doing so, you will change your reality and enjoy the gift of the present moment.

Managing Your Emotions - $85.00 - 7 1/2 hour class
Saturday, March 14th -- Call for location

SUPERMARKET ADVENTURE - This is a great supermarket adventure like no other. Are you confused with food product labels - 'NO FAT', 'LOW FAT', 'LOW CARBS VERSUS HIGH CARBS', 'ADDITIVIES', 'FOOD COLORINGS', 'HEALTHY FOODS VERSUS JUNK FOODS', 'STEROIDS AND ANTIBIOTICS USED IN OUR FOODS', and 'HIGH YIELD VERSUS LOW YIELD FOODS'? Most people in Western society don't know what to think, with all the controversy that's out there regarding our food choices.

Well now you have the opportunity to walk down the aisles with a trained health educator, and be able really investigate what all the controversy is all about. We will go down the aisles of a local supermarket, and find out all about what food choices are out there.

There is so much confusing information from television advertising and the food industry. Remember the food industry is a MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY and they will do and say anything to get your food dollar.

In the U.S. overweight and obesity is at an all time high. With over 65% of Americans affected, people really need to be educated about the dangers that lurk in the supermarket aisles. Confusion will be conquered once and for all as we go on our SUPERMARKET ADVENTURE.

Supermarket Adventure - $44.00 - 3 hour program
January 31st (Saturday) 12:30pm-3:30pm
2 other times will be added -- call for location and times

RETURN TO WHOLENESS - SURVIVING THE DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER - Despite over thirty years of research, with billions of dollars spent each year, the conventional medical establishment's "WAR ON CANCER" has been a dismal failure. Today, we are no closer to understanding the underlying causes for the rapid rise of cancer rates, or to finding safe and effective treatments. Most people continue to equate cancer with death, or at the very least, an excruciating journey back to health filled with physical debilitation and pain.

This program is an empowering class covering the best of traditional medicine and the best of complementary healthcare to best survive the DIAGNOSIS OF CANCER. This safe and effective program promotes ways of opening and energizing the healing pathways to unite the body, mind and spirit. Once a person forms this partnership, they will be able to enhance all the various treatments available to them. A variety of complementary therapies exist which have proven safer, gentler, and often more effective than conventional choices at reversing, and preventing cancer.

With cancer claiming so many lives, over a million Americans a year , the search for a cure has become a global industry. This program will examine the most promising treatments for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Living a life free from emotional or mental distress is very important. We should also avoid toxid foods as well as carcinogens in our environment.

Return to Wholeness - $75.00 - 7 1/2 hour class

MEDICAL MEDITATIONS - AWAKENING THE INNER HEALER - This is a 7 1/2
hour program that focuses on ways you can find inner peace and a relaxed way of
being. Imagine being able to rid yourself of a host of medical or psychological
maladies without medicine or psychotherapy. Each meditation will have a specific
physiological effect. This program is the cutting edge advance in health care and will
help you live a healthier more balanced life. Medical science has a long list of the
many benefits that meditations can provide, and has produced a wealth of findings of
the impact of a daily meditation practice. A few benefits would include: decreasing
stress, fatigue, and pain while improving quality of life and energy levels.

Medical Meditatons - $85.00 - 7 1/2 hour class
Some Saturday in March. Call for time and location.

BATTLE OF THE BULGE - A MIND BODY APPROACH TO PERMANENT
WEIGHT LOSS - This revolutionary new Mind-Body program, for permanent weight loss, will change your ideas about dieting. The first thing you have to bring into your belief system is, "DIET'S DON'T WORK!"

This program creates a lifelong plan of action for permanent weight loss and maintenance that is fun and easy, and will give you "Optimal Well-Being." This will be for life, not just while you are trying to lose. weight.

Throw away your "Diet Book", "Diet Pills", and "Fad Diets". This revolutionary new mind-body program for weight loss will forever change your ideas about dieting. In this 7 1/2 hour program you will discover the Ten Keys needed to finally overcome your weight challenges and struggles once and for all. This program is successful because it addresses the many issues of being over-weight.

Ten Ways to Permanent Weight Loss

1. Right Thinking and Self Control
2. Healing Feelings and Emotional Control
3. No Frills Environment and External Control
4. Detoxification and Purification
5. Mastery Over Food, Impulse Eating, and Habit Control
6. High Yield Nutrition and Food Control
7. Intentional Movement and Body Control
8. Meditation-Awakening the Inner Healer
9. Your Circle of Support and Social Control
10. Techniques to Stop Food Cravings

Battle of the Bulge - $85.00 - 7 1/2 hour class

JOIN THE WELLNESS REVOLUTION - The desire for wellness pervades our decisions that we make daily. We must arm ourselves with the information necessary to become an educated health consumer. In 2001 over $200 Billion was spent on products or services from the Wellness Industry. Economists predict by the year 2010 an additional $1 trillion of the U.S. economy will be devoted to the Wellness Industry. People are demanding additional options for their Healthcare.

Health and diseases result from complex
interactions of physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and lifestyle factors. Imbalance
in any of these areas will affect the whole person. During this 3 hour program you
will learn about the tools available for living a healthier life. Learn about the many
options available in today's healthcare arena. Switch your way of thinking from
illness and disease to wellness and prevention. You must be willing to use a
proactive approach for your total well-being, and learn about the lifestyle choices that are necessary in order to have optimal health.

Cleansing also helps release hormone secretions that stimulate immune response, and encourages a disease preventing environment. You start feeling like a "different person" - and of course you are. "You really are what you eat and assimilate!"

Objectives of Detoxification and Rejuvenation

• Support your body's effort to eliminate toxicity
• Sources of toxins in our food and water
• Diet and proper nutrition
• Relaxation therapies to reduce mental toxicity
• Identifying food allergies
• Anti-oxidants and free radicals
• Different types of cleansing and wellness diets
• Massage, sauna, and water therapy
• Enhance your immune system

Join the Wellness Revolution - $44.00

DETOXIFICATION AND REJUVENATION - A RETURN TO OPTIMAL HEALTH
- Are you sick and tired of being SICK AND TIRED? Do you live with fatigue and no
vitality on an everyday basis? Then it is imperative that you sign up for this 3 hour
program that can change your life. Learn about ways you can detoxify your body and
facilitate a restoration of optimal health. The need to tackle toxic burdens in your
body, before they manifest themselves as DISEASE, has never been greater. You will
learn that you really are what you eat and assimilate.

Detoxification and Rejuvenation - $44.00 - 3 hour class

DARE TO BE PAIN FREE - A PAIN MANAGEMENT PROGRAM - Are you one of
the millions of people who suffer from chronic pain? Whether your problem is arthritis or back pain, TMJ or PMS, migraine of fibromyalgia, there's a solution that has worked for thousands. Pain can either be reduced or alleviated once and for all. This powerful approach
embraces proven techniques that helps reduce or alleviate pain. This 3 hour program
will show you how to attack pain with: nutrition, pain medications, medical
meditations, mental and spiritual control. Learn how you can start enjoying life once
again. The many benefits of reducing or alleviating pain will be revealed.

Dare to be Pain Free - $44.00 - 3 hour class

STRESS MANAGEMENT - A MIND BODY APPROACH TO REDUCE STRESS -
Welcome to the world of stress reduction. This 7 1/2 hour program will help you
deal with your own stress, pain, and illness more effectively. Techniques will be
discussed and demonstrated to help you mobilize your own inner resources for coping
and moving to a greater level of health, well-being, and a joyful way of living. The
many benefits of reducing stress and coping more effectively will be revealed.

Topics in Program

• Finding Restful Alertness and Mental Focus
• Healthier Body, Mind, and Spirit
• Improved Quality of Life
• Getting in Touch with Your Body's Signals
• Reducing Anxiety and Stress
• Better Coping Mechanisms
• Behavior and Lifestyle Changes
• Releasing Negative Emotions
• Conquering Addictions
• Self-Massage, Journaling, and Movement Exercise
• Mindfulness and Visualization
• Foods and Supplements to Reduce Stress
• Body Scan and Breathing Exercises

Stress Management - $85.00 - 7 1/2 hour class

FOREVER YOUNG - PROVEN WAYS TO SLOW DOWN OR REVERSE THE AGING PROCESS - Aging is not inevitable. In face in this new revolutionary program you will learn how to enjoy excellent health and youthful vitality for decades beyond what you may have thought possible, no matter what date is on your birth certificate. This program targets those individuals over 50.

Using scientific research you will open the doors to a life free from the negative effects of aging. Cast away outdated assumptions and start making the most of every moment.

You are so much more than your limited body, ego and personality. Learn to enjoy a place where youthful vigor, renewal, creativity, joy, fulfillment and timelessness are the common experience of everyday life. Where old age, senility, and death do not exist and not even entertained as a possibility. This is because you are a spiritual being having human experiences.

Forever Young Program - $44.00 - 3 hour class

RADICAL AWAKENING - OPTIMAL SPIRITUAL WELL BEING - This 3 hour
program is about having a spiritual adventure. The purpose of this program is to
rediscover your soul and your divine connection to God. This search will get you out
of the entrapments of the EGO and into your higher energy of the SOUL. You will
be introduced to 40 spiritual qualities. When you learn how to plug into these
qualities you will discover the infinite source where all possibilities reside.

Radical Awakening - $44.00 - 3 hour class

HEALTHY HEART - PREVENTING AND REVERSING CORONARY HEART
DISEASE - This program could end up saving your life. This 7 1/2 hour program will
show you how to reduce risk factors for coronary heart disease by following an
individual tailored program. You will discover the mind-body prescription for a
healthy heart and the importance of a healthy lifestyle to prevent or reverse heart
disease. Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality and disability in the U.S. accounting for 42 percent of all deaths. Heart disease, strokes, and vascular disease claims over 800,000 lives each year, and an extimated 18 billion dollars is spent each year for the care of affected patients. Despite advances in conventional treatment, CHD remains the leading cause of death in American adults.

Western New York has the highest cases of heart disease and strokes in the U.S. The situation is even worse for women. More women will die from heart disease and stroke than the next eight diseases combined, including breast cancer. More women than men will die from heart disease.

Fast paced lifestyles, high stress levels, poor diets, and addictions to unhealthy activities such as smoking and excessive drinking contribute to the high prevalence of this disease. Integrative health care offers optional approaches, in combination with conventional medicine to prevent or reverse coronary heart disease. You will learn the benefits of maintaining a healthy heart.

Healthy Heart - $85.00 - 7 1/2 hour class

SMOKING CESSATION - FREEDOM FROM RISK - Give yourself and those
around you the gift of life. Smoking is a major health hazard as well as the chief preventable cause of death in the United States today. It is responsible for an estimated 430,000 deaths annually, approximately one of every five deaths. Tobacco kills more people than car accidents, alcohol, homicide, illegal drugs, AIDS, suicides and fires combined.

Cigarette smoking contributes to four of the five leading causes of death per year in the United States, including cardiovascular disease (98,000 deaths), lung cancer (123,000 deaths), stroke (24,000 deaths), and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (72,000 deaths). The U.S. spends more than $50 billion each year for smoking-related health care costs.

This 3 hour program will teach you about the many
benefits of being a non-smoker. You will learn about the many strategies for smoking
cessation and how to once and for all break the smoking habit. Smoking cessation is
the best protection from life threatening diseases. Learn about the many benefits of
being a non-smoker.

Smoking Cessation - $44.00 - 3 hour class

If you would like further information or brochures for classes call Vicky at 285-5752 or 297-8091.

"A conscious lifetime is a treasure beyond value." -- Gary Zukuv