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Helping you get well and stay well so that you can live the life you want to live at home, work and play. Who is this Functional Synergy Yogi? Susi is the owner and principle instructor of Functional Synergy inc. She started yoga twelve years ago after becoming frustrated with her recurring injuries as a teenage athlete. She credits yoga with getting her back running - with training her breathing, her awareness, her patience, and her body so that within 4 months of starting yoga she was able to run a 10 km race pain free. During this time, Susi was working as a registered kinesiologist in a multi-disciplinary rehabilitation clinic, treating people with a wide range of acute and chronic injuries. Having experienced the benefits of yoga, she began showing her patients the postures (yoga exercises) and breathing techniques that had helped her. She noticed they were getting better faster. Curious as to how yoga worked in a therapeutic way, she became certified as a yoga instructor and has been teaching since January 1999. In May, 2000 she traveled to India to study with Dr. Karandikar at Kabir Baug, an institute dedicated to teaching Yoga therapy.
Susi teaches "live" in workshop and retreat format. In the workplace her program is called Yoga for the Desk Jockey™, and her retreats enable you to Take Time for Yourself. Her clients come from a variety of backgrounds and levels of fitness but what they share in common is what initially brings them to this site or to one of Susi's workshops or retreats. They initially come because the stress, injury, pain or fatigue they are suffering from is keeping them from attaining their goals and living out the rest of their lives pain free. Who We Refer To: We have a number of connections with Physiotherapists, Massage Therapists, Chiropratctors, Physicians, Herbalists, Registered Kinesiologists, and Registered Nutritionists. You can click on the "Practitioners On-line" to see the list who we work with. Most referrals are based in Calgary, AB. We have contacts in other cities, so if you are looking for a referral, please contact us. Students comments: "Not long ago pain was a way of life. Getting out of bed, stepping into a car, or just turning my head were major challenges. Then one day someone suggested Functional Synergy's yoga therapy and my life changed. Pain is now a vague memory of the past that I am quite happy to leave behind" Cathy "Better than Tylenol" Janine Corporate Clientele: Telus Communication In the News Susi's expertise has been utilized by the Calgary Herald for their yoga series: Yoga at Work (March 2001) and Yoga for Gardening(May-June 2002); in Impact magazine. Research Susi spearheaded the Yoga for Cancer Survivor Research Study, teaming up with up with Nicole Culos-Reid at the University of Calgary and the Tom Baker Cancer Center. The program has run since 2001 and has now expanded to 4 sites in Calgary. The results are suggesting there may be a significant link for improving wellbeing with yoga therapy. If you are interested in learning more about this program, please contact us. |
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Susi
believes that many of the problems that we face in our busy lives can
be overcome by developing a sense of awareness, and by cultivating a source
of relaxation. Yoga enables you to be balanced, connected, and inspired
- to feel the flow of body, mind and soul. She uses her training and experience in kinesiology, yoga, iRest (yoga nidra), rehabilitation, ergonomics, and modern mind-body science to develop yoga books, dvds, cds, streaming video and audio clips for people who are stressed, injured or sick.
