About Energize Body & Mind

Energize Body & Mind empowers clients to achieve their optimal health using Tai Chi & Qigong, Reiki, Shamanic Healing, and Holistic Lifestyle coaching. The result is a calm mind, elevated spirit, and energized body allowing you to do and create what you want.

The basis of Energize Body & Mind begins with 4 keys to optimal health: Diet, Movement, Quiet Rejuvenation, and Happiness (Based on the 4 Doctors as taught at the CHEK Institute). When these aspects of an individual are in balance, good health and happiness are abundant and many ailments and dis-ease disappear.

In my experience, Tai Chi and Qigong effectively address our need for Rejuvenation, Movement, and Happiness in a fun and easy way, allowing you to truly heal, come into your own, and move beyond your pain and illness. My book, The Optimal Health Cookbook: Your Guide to Real Food Made Easy is a comprehensive guide to a healthy diet and how to determine the best diet for you and completes the 4 key teachings. Balancing your energy and creating flow with regular Tai Chi/Qigong practice and Reiki plus the right diet will open you to a higher level of healthy joyful living and transform the way you move through life.  And I invite you heal even deeper and clear your path through Shamanic work.

I offer workshops, weekly classes, and one-on-one sessions in Tai Chi, Qigong, Reiki, Shamanic healing, and health coaching. Using an individualized approach, clients are assisted in determining the specific needs of their body and mind to overcome ailments such as digestive disorders, stress, anxiety, headaches, fatigue, pain, and feeling stuck. Healing methods include individualized nutrition, martial arts, energy work, and relaxation techniques. Clients are given the knowledge, tools, and support needed to heal themselves, achieving results which last a lifetime.

How is Energize Body & Mind (EBM) unique?

Suzanne’s education in math and science plus 20 years experience in the biotech industry support her grounded, rational approach to holistic healing while her life experiences, intuition, connection with nature, and kind heart allow her to connect with each client in a unique and personalized way.

At EBM, we recognize that biochemistry is the interface between the body and mind. So one of the first things you need to do in your physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual development is get your body healthy or you’ll never have an effective interface with your own mind. At EBM we work with your biology, starting with a healthy diet, as we move into deeper energy work. Your body is wise and knows how to heal but you need to be healthy enough to access that wisdom.

CHEK Institute trained professionals are taught how to solve problems by looking at the whole individual, not just their symptoms. We don’t follow an algorithm; rather we identify what is essential to each individual’s development, then construct a carefully designed program to address their needs. This program can include diet, exercise, lifestyle factors, spiritual development, defining goals and dreams, and anything else that comes up.

At Energize Body & Mind, we teach and support you on your journey to optimal health and well-being. Through this guidance you will reach your goals and maintain them.

Having extensive experience and a vast toolbox that includes Tai Chi, Qigong, Nutrition coaching, Reiki, and Shamanic healing is unique and a truly holistic approach that enables me to see where you need help so you feel better, gain clarity and insight, heal, and reach your goals faster.

Suzanne has a B.A from Boston College, is a licensed CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach 2, certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, Trained Shamanic Practitioner initiated into the Unani tradition, Martial Arts practitioner and instructor, and certified Reiki Okuden (3rd degree)

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About Suzanne

After working in the biotech industry for 20 years, I began to feel a strong pull to pursue my other passions. I asked myself numerous times over a 12 month period “what are my top 5 passions?” and the ones that consistently called to me were food, movement, and nature. Walking away from a wonderful company after 20 years was a huge decision that carried much uncertainty but I knew that if I didn’t leave, my soul would grow more restless and my inner voice would keep chattering in my ear.

A friend introduced me to the CHEK Institute and I geared up to learn all I could about diet and exercise. What I didn’t expect was how the holistic approach to these topics, and more, opened me up to a much deeper understanding of mind-body-spirit and how to heal, or more exactly, how to come into myself. I didn’t just learn about diet and exercise, I learned how my body, energy, and psyche respond to everything in my environment and that awareness of that response is key to knowing how to nourish my body and mind to gain optimal health.

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Becoming aware leads to positive change and though it is a simple concept, it’s not always an easy undertaking. I’ve always been physically active with a strong affinity for outdoor activities and sports. I was a collegiate rower, a marathon and sprint paddler, and avid hiker, logging over 500 miles on the Appalachian Trail. But a severe car accident, a neck injury from a fall, and a hit on the head by an OC2 (outrigger canoe) forced me to rethink the way I go about moving and living. (How many whacks to the head does it take to realize something’s got to change?!)

After the injuries, my body began to change. Or maybe changes already in progress began to worsen. My digestion weakened, my joints ached even more, and I had a nagging, intermittent pain in my lower abdomen. What was happening in my body occurred simultaneously with what was happening with my spirit- that pull to start fresh. Since that time, I’ve studied with numerous teachers of martial arts, functional movement, nutrition, energy medicine, shamanic healing, human physiology, philosophy, and spirituality. I didn’t realize it at first, but I was on my path to wholeness and understanding of myself more than I was on a new career path. I experienced the pain and freedom of realizing that a trauma when I was 18 years old unknowingly effected decisions I was making in my 30s and 40s. I experienced the joy of remembering what I love and bringing more of that in to my life. Opening doors to opportunities around you is fantastic but opening doors to yourself is where the magic happens!

The road to recovery and a healthy body requires motivation and includes a healthy mind. One cannot have a healthy body without a healthy mind and a healthy spirit. On my journey I recognized that my physical pains and disconnect had roots in not only my physical body, but also my mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual body. Working with Reiki, Shamanic practices, and Tai Chi/Qigong were every bit as helpful to my progress as changes to my diet and exercise routines.

Through my teachings at the CHEK Institute and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition®, my study and practice of Reiki, Qigong, Tai Chi, and Shamanic healing, plus much introspection, I make continuous progress in attaining my optimal health. Life gets better everyday. You too, have the power to attain your optimal health and happiness. I can guide you on your journey.

Suzanne has a B.A. in mathematics and was a scientist in the Biotech field for 20 years. She has worked as a health coach since 2012 and is a licensed CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach (HLC 2), Certified Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Practitioner (FDN-P), Tai Chi & Qigong teacher, Reiki Okuden, Shamanic Practitioner initiated into the Unani tradition, and author of The Optimal Health Cookbook: Your Guide to Real Food Made Easy.