MY INNER HEALTH CLUB - Key Persons
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- Fermentation Expert and Herbalist
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- Creator of Mindful Moments
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- Architect
- Curator of Stillness
Cédric Etienne is an interior architect, scenographer, and curator of stillness. He is also the founder of Studio Corkinho, a multi-disciplinary design practice based in Antwerp, where he lives. After a previous career in the fast-paced creative industry working with luxury brands and high-end clients, Cédric felt overwhelmed and left for a silent retreat in Japan. It was there that he discovered stillness, and the role architecture plays in promoting wellbeing. He also fell in love with cork, and integrates this natural, sustainable material in much of his work, such as in still rooms, which he creates for private and corporate clients.
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- Japanologist and Zen Teacher
Dr. Fleur Sakura Wöss is a Japanologist and Zen teacher, and shares her expertise in our course ‘Lacking Focus? How To Find Inner Peace And Clarity'. She taught Far Eastern philosophy for 14 years at the Universities of Vienna, Zürich and Freie Universität Berlin. In her Zen-Zentrum Mishoan (‘Temple of Smiles') in Vienna, she passes on her experience of 40 years of daily meditation to people seeking inner peace, clarity and serenity. She is also a speaker and author of several books. Her book ‘Innehalten. Zen üben, Atem holen, Kraft schöpfen' (Pause. Zen Practice, Catch Your Breath, Draw Strength) made her well known in the German-speaking world.
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- Dentist
- Dentist & Oral Surgeon
Dr. Miguel Stanley is a cosmetic dentist and oral surgeon, as well as the founder and clinical director of the White Clinic in Lisbon. He trained in minimal invasive cosmetic dentistry, implant surgery, prosthodontics and occlusion, and continues to expand his knowledge to best help people rebuild their smiles and overall oral health. What led him to dentistry? His mother suffers from a dental phobia, having had all her teeth extracted, aged 16, in her native England; this was quite common practice from money-grabbing dentists at the time. So Miguel was inspired to find proper care for her, and now focuses on trying to connect oral disease and failed dentistry - which, he says, nobody is talking about.
Dr. Raphael Kwaku Finn is a physician and currently in residency training to become a cardiologist in Berlin. He has been a passionate Jiu Jitsu athlete for more than 20 years. Starting in the New European Modern Jiu Jitsu Ensemble, he has been leading his own training group Ramyun Dojo in Berlin since 2010.
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- Personal Trainer and Martial Artist
Juri Maier is a Berlin-based personal trainer and martial artist, who specializes in joint mobility and muscle flexibility. Through his practice, he combines posture and movement training with complex stretching, as well as stabilizing strength and mobilization exercises to improve neuromuscular co-ordination and the musculoskeletal system. Juri approaches mobility training as a holistic practice, considering the body as a whole.
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- Mindfulness and Meditation Practitioner
Kate Robinson holds a postgraduate diploma in psychology and works as a yoga, mindfulness and meditation teacher, and breathwork facilitator. She specializes in teaching others how to recognize their own patterns in order to develop attainable results in stress management, physical health and development. Kate has extensive experience working in Australia, the US and Europe, where she has helped both private and corporate clients to live each day a little better.
Born in Germany and based in Italy, Laura Holon is a passionate yoga teacher. In her practice she focuses on Hatha yoga, a movement-based system promoting health and longevity. Laura translates complex yoga insights - from pregnancy (pre- or postnatal), to injury recovery, and improving strength and flexibility - into comprehensible, effective and doable practices, transporting you to a realm of wellbeing and serenity.
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- Ayurvedic Practitioner and Holistic Nutritionist
Born in Japan, Berlin-based Markus Shimizu is a master of fermentation. His lab and store can be found in Wedding, where he uses traditional methods with wooden barrels to create his tasty, health-giving ferments, which he sells in small jars and bottles both in person and online. Having suffered from various allergies, Markus was initially inspired to try making his own ferments through exploring healthy foods and their effects.
Priscilla Sanchez is a nutrition specialist based in Switzerland, with a long list of qualifications that includes two Masters' degrees in Nutritional Public Health and Life Sciences: Food, Health and Nutrition. She took an all-encompassing approach throughout her years of study, research and clinical practice that examined not only food, but also emotions, gut flora, sleep, stress, and hormones, and how they all play a part in overall health. Priscilla is also the founder of Green Revolution, a holistic nutritional movement about conscious eating in harmony with nature and our body.
Teresa Rebelo Pinto is a Lisbon-based psychologist who specializes in sleep. She has a Masters in educational psychology, and is a certified somnologist from the European Sleep Research Society. Since 2007 she has been working with mental health, wellbeing and sleep, and continues her research and teaching in order to develop further connections between sleep and mental health, with the ultimate goal of having sleep recognized as a field of psychology in Portugal.