UPCOMING EVENTS
Total Gut Reset: Harnessing Breath & Nutrition for Optimal Digestion is a 2.5-hour workshop designed to guide participants through an interactive exploration of how breath and nutrition work together to optimize digestion, reduce bloating, and promote a healthy gut-brain connection. Led by Mindful Movement Practitioner and Expand + Breath Owner Michaela Goorahoo and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Amy Isabella Chalker, this workshop is all about giving you hands-on tools to improve your digestion and gut health now!
Interested individuals will have 4 unique opportunities to experience this workshop, including 3 in-person sessions at local yoga studios on the Central Coast, and 1 Zoom workshop for those living outside of San Luis Obispo County. Members of these yoga studios or of Expand + Breath will receive membership pricing on this workshop. Non-membership rates apply.
Please click here to reserve your spot today!
For additional information and inquiries, please contact Amy at amy@aicnutrition.com or Michaela at info@expandandbreath.com
Talking With Our Mouths Full is a 10-week virtual nutrition process group intended to help members examine and improve their relationship to food, self, and others. Group members include those suffering from disordered eating/eating disorders and/or co-occurring chronic illnesses. The group is led by Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Eating Disorder Specialist Amy Isabella Chalker and will meet weekly on Zoom, Fridays from 3-4:30pm. Each 90-minute group session is $75; group members who sign up are expected to be present for all sessions, unless otherwise discussed.
During this group, members commit to focusing on what is happening for them in the present moment; members are encouraged to participate by verbalizing experiences, thoughts, feelings, and emotions that arise within the group setting, as well as outside the group.
Please contact Amy to set up a call to discuss if this group is right for you: amy@aicnutrition.com; (805) 585-5257.
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, or MCAS, is an immune condition that disproportionately impacts the eating disorder population, with an estimated 20-25% of clients suffering from this complex condition. Furthermore, an estimated 15-20% of the general population suffer from this condition - most undiagnosed.
Relying on the latest evidence-based, peer-reviewed studies, supervision from clinical leaders in the field, and hands-on work with clients, Amy is excited to offer the opportunity to delve into the best ways to support and manage MCAS through nutrition therapy, including recognizing the condition in the first place, managing common co-occurring chronic conditions, all while continuing to support best feeding practices, whether individuals have an eating disorder or not.
This 4-part virtual consultation & training currently will re-start in April 2025. Space is limited to 6 participants.
Please contact Amy at amy@aicnutrition.com to schedule a time to discuss your interest. I look forward to seeing you soon for this important, in-depth, and intimate group!
PAST EVENTS
Gut health is in the news and all over social media these days, and rightly so - new studies are helping us understand just how impactful our gut microbiomes are to our everyday health and wellbeing across all organ systems. But making sense of the information and sifting through marketing for gut powders and pills can be overwhelming at best and potentially dangerous at worst!
Receive access to the live recording of What in the Gut is Happening to Me?, a virtual introduction to all things gastrointestinal from an evidence-based perspective. Learn just how many unique etiologies exists for various gut disturbances, understand what your body might be communicating through its symptoms, and discern next steps to help you find lasting relief from the bottom up.
As always, Amy presents information through a psychodynamic lens, inviting discussion along the way and weaving in the conscious and unconscious mind to consider the whole person.