Joy Osterhout

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Joy has a passion for promoting healthy lifestyles and her career has focused on it for the past years  In she joined a women-owned small business consulting firm Health & Education Communication Consultants focused on public health and education consulting located in Berkeley California and since she has been its owner  In Joy moved from Hawaii to Maine to develop the Healthy Living Resource Center for MaineGeneral Health; a program designed to support and promote healthy living by providing educational opportunities to enhance well-being through healthy cooking and eating physical movement and healthy mind and body classes  More recently Joy worked with two other hospitals in Maine to develop similar programs  In Joy completed training to become a health and wellness coach and in received her -hour Yoga Teacher certification from Downtown Yoga School  Joy continues on her yoga journey with training in Yin Yoga Ayurvedic Yoga and Yoga Nidra Joy is also a Reiki practitioner In addition to yoga Joy continues on her own journey to health studying mindfulness and well-being at work happiness practices as well as organic gardening  Joy holds a BS from Drexel University in Marketing and Communications and Masters Degrees in Health Administration and Health Education from Saint Josephs University in Philadelphia  She is also a Master Certified Health Education Specialist Joys personal goal is to provide yoga classes that are accessible for all and focus not only on the asanas body postures but pranayama breath control and pratyahara control of the senses through meditation  She looks forward to joining others as they embark on their journey to health with yoga!.