Episode Details

On today’s episode, Amy chats with Katherine Quayhagen. Katherine is a Registered Yoga Teacher and movement enthusiast. After spending two years in the Peace Corps in a rural village of Madagascar, Katherine realized the necessity of a multi-layered approach to mental, physical, and spiritual well-being. She incorporates mindfulness and meditation into all wellness activities at Longbranch Healthcare, from yoga and fitness classes to gardening. Amy and Katherine discuss the Addiction treatment industry, Working with Longbranch Health care as the Recovery Center Director of Wellness, Types of Addiction and dealing with it and much more. They recently created a research study to look at Veterans who are in a residential treatment center and using yoga therapy to help them heal from the inside-out.

Katherine is a 500-hour Yoga Instructor and is just about to become a C-IAYT through the Optimal State Yoga Therapy for Mental Health Training Program. She has been teaching in the New Orleans since 2013. She specializes in yoga for addiction and recovery, and also received her Bachelor’s in Marketing and Asian Studies from Tulane University.

They discuss the following topics:

l Longbranch Healthcare philosophy for whole person healing and services offered

l Katherine’s role as the Director of Wellness and how she shaped the program

l Process Addiction and how it is different from Primary Substance Addiction services

l The Longbranch lifestyle of connecting with nature, eating well, moving, community

l Katherine’s Peace Corps experience that laid the foundation for her wellness program

l Katherine’s research project and outcomes, future research plans with the VA

l Types of practice’s Katherine offers her clients for addiction recovery

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