One Day Conference Women s Health: Natural Solutions Saturday 1st July 2017

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1 One Day Conference Women s Health: Natural Solutions Saturday 1st July 2017

2 Registration: 9.00am Meditation: 9.30am Session : Nutrigenomics: Worth getting out of bed for. Speaker: Tara Canning Dip. Nut, Dip. NLP. Masterchef am: Break 12.00: Herbs for preconception and fertility. Can herbs be safely used alongside allopathic medicine and what do the lab test results indicate. Speaker: Lara Jonasdottir. BSc Herbal Medicine pm: Lunch Session 2-3pm: Treating the Breastfeeding mother and baby with herbs Speaker: Dr Dilis Clare MBBCh, DRCOG, BSc Hherbal Medicine pm: Break pm: Tracing the Landscape of the Female Body from Within. This experiential workshop will explore mother, place and creativity through a series of gentle facilitated exercises using the deep wisdom of the body. Using experiential anatomy, meditation and contemplative movement, expect curiosity, creativity and care. Speaker: Bernadette Divilly MA pm: Winding down. 5pm Parting of the ways. Cost: IIMH members: included in membership. Herbalists/Nutritionists: Cost: 55 Public: 55 Low Income: 35 Herbal Medicine Students: 20 (Bring evidence of course you are currently attending.

3 Venue: This is a very special venue dedicated to healing energies. Ard na Rí, Clanmacnoise. Co Offaly. Ard Na Ri was founded in 1999 overlooking and adjacent to the seven churches and two round towers of Clonmacnoise. It means King of Kings or spirituality of spirituality. Many world renowned authors have given workshops here including Niall Donald Walsche and Caroline Myss. The essence of this Sacred Site is based on Creative Geometry exploring Consciousness through it s many levels with Pyramid and Crystal power as incorporated into it s Pyramid and Energy Vortices.. Like the Butterfly your presence here is a Becoming - Metamorphic Experience, A Darkness into Light awakening in you the presence of Spirit and an awareness of the Illusory Egoic Mind and it s Pain Body. Three pyramids have been built at this site with the knowledge of sacred geometry, by Dr. Eric Dilworth, a 3rd dimensional pyramid, a 5th dimensional pyramid and a 7th dimensional pyramid. Eric hs recently graduated from University of East London as a Medical Herbalist. In you own time during the day you can walk the labyrinth, meditate, and journey through the dimensions, in silence, in your own unique way.

4 Organised by: Irish Institute of Medical Herbalists Your Team of Speakers Tara Canning There is a growing interest in the application of nutrigenetics/nutrigenomics as a clinical tool. Nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics are defined as the science of the effect of genetic variation on dietary response and the role of nutrients and bioactive food compounds in gene expression, respectively. Tara will share her experience in this field from a functional medicine viewpoint and present a case study. Tara is a Registered Nutritionist, NLP and Functional Medicine Practitioner. She is an award winning advanced chef with many years of experience in the food industry right through to Michelin Star level. Every year Tara is invited to lecture in various colleges, businesses and health bodies on nutrition. The combination of her food knowledge and expertise in nutrition compliment her passion to educate through practical advice and science. She has also designed many classes with this in mind. Tara created the Thyroid Program in response to the exponential growth of Thyroid disorders in Ireland. She also leads the team based Digestion Clinic and based her own dissertation on the use of various strains of probiotics for IBS and other digestive disorders.

5 Dr Dilis Clare Dr Clare is passionate about promoting breast feeding without stressing or pressuring mothers about the rights and wrongs of what is a natural but sometimes difficult choice. She is a leading authority on Herbal Medicine in Europe. As a qualified GP and medical herbalist she offers the best of both orthodox and herbal medicine. She is the clinical director at her collaborative health clinic Dr Clare s Apothecary in Galway. Dr Clare has graduated from University College Dublin Medical School (MBBCh, DRCOG) and from Middlesex University BSc(Hons) Herbal Medicine. She has been in full time Collaborative Medical Care since She is also an Hon. Clinical Fellow at National University Galway, College of Medicine. Lara Jonasdottir This presentation considers an interpretation of available knowledge to help us make useful clinical judgments when choosing herbs for this field of medicine. pharmacology. With almost 10 years of clinical experience and a Post Grad. Diploma in Herbal Medicine for Women s Health (Aviva Romm MD) Lara is eminently qualified to deliver this lecture based on practical experience and academic study. She is building a database of clinical herb drug actions from first principle knowledge of plant and drug Qualifications: Lara first became interested in herbs for their medicinal effects during her floristry training in the Agricultural College in Iceland. This led her to move to London to study Clinical Herbal Medicine. Since graduating from University of Westminster, Lara has undertaken further herbal medicine studies including a 2 year Herbal Medicine training programme provided by David Winston, a leading Herbalist based in the US as well as an Herbal Medicine for Women course provided by Dr. Aviva Romm. She is currently studying for a Masters in Teaching Clinical Medicine in National University of Ireland Galway. Lara is a qualified massage and reflexology therapist. She is a mother of two young girls, she enjoys cooking, singing, music, handcraft, art, floristry and so much more. Lara Jonasdottir is a member of the Irish Institute of Medical Herbalists (IIMH) and the National Institute of Medical Herbalists (NIMH) lara@drclare.net

6 Bernadette Divilly Inspiration and aspiration for the session. We share a primordial wisdom, a knowledge of how to make home. Our first home is inside the sacred tissue of our mothers bodies. This is the first relationship with place that we remember deep in the cellular oceans of our being. I have been working over 30 years with womens health and well-being in health education, humanistic psychotherapy and dance movement psychotherapy. My most recent research interest is the convergence of place-making with implantation themes of the early stages of our developmental histories. Bernadette Divilly is a Dance Artist, Choreographer, Professional Member of Dance Ireland, Galway Dance Project. Affiliated artist and member of Ómós Áite: Space/Place Research Network, based at the Centre for Irish Studies, NUI Galway, Member of the Third Space -Artist Research Reading Group. Recipient of Arts Council Project Award for Arts Participation , supported by City Arts Office MA Somatic Psych/Dance Movement Therapy, MIACAT, MIAHIP, Senior DMT Psychotherapist. Her professional practice involves working with authentic movement, depth psychology, body mind movement and developmental work from conception to death. She works from a humanistic integrative perspective supported by a contemplative approach. Tel: Website: lara@drclare.net Phone: