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Business, Organization, Conference Speaker
Stress Management, Wellness and Mind-Body Mastery Speaker
Are you looking for a conference speaker, business speaker or lunch and learn presenter for your organization or meeting? You just solved it!
Benefit now from our motivational training and resource materials provided in-person or remotely on Zoom.
- Stress management training skills for stress relief and increased productivity
- Wellness promotion techniques to improve total health
- Increase employee satisfaction with fitness techniques for the mind and body
- Desktop Yoga chair exercises & techniques to improve productivity and morale
- Yoga, Meditation and Teacher Training Workshops
- Julie has written five books and produced numerous audio recordings on these subjects. Review the testimonials page and look at the client list (PDF)
Book Julie Lusk – Call 513-248-9642 or click here to email.
Desktop Yoga ®
Keep employees alert and productive while reducing risks associated with repetitive motion injuries with Desktop Yoga ®. Effective chair exercises are taught to relieve aching backs, tired eyes and tight shoulders. Energy is replenished by learning ‘How to take a two-hour nap in two-minutes’ Julie is the author of Desktop Yoga ®.
DARE to Relax © Stress Management Workshop
Transform daily stress into the energy needed to enjoy life. DARE’s self-care principles include Diet; Attitude and Awareness; Rest, Relaxation, and Relationships; and Exercise.
Mike Sterling, Director of Human Resources, The Art Institute of Ohio writes:
Dear Julie: Thanks for sharing the Dare to Relax session with our staff. I have received several positive comments about it, especially the “2- Hour Nap in 10-minutes” segment.
Our staff received several valuable tips on reducing stress and the consequences of stress at work and in our personal lives. It was definitely time well spent.” Mike
Book Julie Lusk – Call 513-248-9642 or click here to email
Spices for Life ™ Wellness Workshop
Discover how to create, balance and enrich professional and personal power through a comprehensive approach to living. SPICES represents the six components of wellness: Social, Physical, Intellectual, Career, Emotional, and Spiritual health.
Mind-Body Mastery for Wellness
Gainan understanding of the principles and practices of the mind-body connection. You’ll learn a variety of techniques that effectively increase physical, mental and emotional health while decreasing stress.
- Mental Benefits: Improve concentration, memory and problem solving, increase energy, spark creativity, reduce frustrations and increase emotional stability.
- Physical Benefits: Increase immunity, reduce muscular tension and pain (headaches, backaches, etc.), regulate blood pressure, sleep better, cell rejuvenation and repair
Book Julie Lusk – Call 513-248-9642 or click here to email
Julie T. Lusk, M.Ed.
Wholesome Resources
Milford, OH 45150
Greater Cincinnati Area
513-248-9642
Chakra Chart
Chakras: Subtle Energy Centers
→ Page Includes Complete Chakra Chart with helpful instructions
Each of us has has seven primary subtle energy centers called chakras. Chakras are considered as one of the most important 
indicators of a person’s health and well-being.
Traditionally, the seven primary chakras are described as spinning wheels of subtle energy that span from the base of the spine to the crown of the head.
Chakras guide the developmental stages of our body, mind, and emotions, and awaken our potential as spiritual beings. The chakras are referenced in the yogic wisdom books dating back five thousand years. Many medical, mental health, spiritual and mind-body professionals now seek to understand and apply the ancient knowledge of the chakras within their field of expertise.
Each of the seven chakras is associated with and has an influence on physical locations in the body as well as on adjacent muscles, organs, glands, and nerves. Yogis believe they house the guiding intelligence of prana, the universal energy of life.
Furthermore, each is related to stages of psychological growth and human development and has lessons to guide us through life that are integral to our soul’s journey.
Because they are energetic rather than physical structures, they are not considered to part of our physical anatomy. They can be described as psycho-energetic or psycho-spiritual centers located in the subtle body. Like magnetism existing within an iron magnet, they exist within the body without having a physical presence.
Each chakra is associated with color, crystals, sounds, goddess archetypes, yoga postures, healing and balancing colors, an element, and sounds.
Establishing and maintaining balance throughout all the chakras is optimal since one chakra is not particularly better than the others. Chakra energy currents move both vertically and horizontally. When the chakras are unbalanced with either excessive or deficient energy, the result is physical, mental, emotional or spiritual difficulties. Fortunately, a wide range of techniques exists to open, align, and activate the chakras.
The chakra chart provides information to further your understanding and growth. It was originally published in Yoga Meditations: Timeless Mind-Body Practices in 2005 and is continually updated to include more information.
Chakra Chart
This Chakra Chart (C) is for personal use only and not duplication. It is reprinted with permission from Julie’s Yoga Meditation book. Order your own beautiful 8.5 x 14″ full-color laminated chart below. Volume orders are welcome. Contact us.
How to use the Chakra Chart for healing and balancing yourself
Begin by familiarizing yourself with the names, locations, and characteristics of each chakra. Here are some ideas for getting started.
- Balanced Chakra Energy: Maintain balance with continued healthy attitudes, behaviors, emotions and appropriate yoga postures, breathing practices and activities.
- Unbalanced Chakra Energy: Examine the chakras’ lessons, rights, responsibilities and challenges to determine what areas need improvement and make suitable changes. Practice the breathing practices, yoga postures and other healing activities and healthy behaviors. Set an intention and enhance it with the musical notes, instruments and crystals. Practice self-care and get competent help from others as needed. In addition:
- Excessive Chakra Energy: Use the chakras’ balancing color. Chant or sing the vowel sounds to send and release excess energy. “Too much of a good thing” is harmful so decrease behaviors that are excessive.
- Deficient Chakra Energy: Use the chakras’ emanating color. Chant or sing the Bija mantra sounds to increase and attract energy.
Don’t be mistaken by seeing this information boxed into columns and rows. The lines are there to help clarify the information. Think of it as an intermingling or as a gradual blending. It’s somewhat like how the colors in a rainbow gradually transform from one shade to another and at the same time a color can stand on its own.
Ultimately, there is no separation. We are in a unified field of oneness that is as directionless and timeless as it is spacious. http://JulieLusk.com
Yoga Meditations features the full chakra chart, guided meditations for each chakra, a full description and picture of a yoga posture for each chakra as well as all the other information described below.
Awaken joy, peace and inspiration with this yoga meditations book.
Yoga Meditations contains a wide variety of mind-body practices, such as:
* Guided relaxation exercises
* Breathing practices
* Yoga Nidra
* Meditations and guided imagery
* Affirmations
* Yoga postures and meditations for each chakra
* Yoga wisdom for contemplation
Get a FREE Wholesome Energizers CD in every book!
CLICK the blue title link above to find out more...
Finally! A complete Chakra Chart with all the chakra names, locations, colors, sounds, yoga postures, breathing techniques, psychological & energetic influences and more. There's handy tips for using the chart on the reverse side. It's 8 1/2 by 14" and laminated. CLICK on the blue title link above to find out more...
Chakra-Based Guided Meditations
Real Relaxation Yoga Nidra takes you into a deeply relaxing and powerful restful state of being fully aware while being in the state of deep yogic sleep. It helps with balancing chakra energy, and can improve immunity, heart health, relieve stress and give you inner peace and balance.
Get it from Amazon, iTunes, Spotify & other online
stores.
Handy Links
- Learn about chakras and their influences | Get your Complete Chakra Chart
- Chakra Balancing with Sound Healing. Use the Elemental Chakra Tone Chart to balance your chakra energy by either increasing or decreasing their energy with sound, color, and special mantras. The Vedic (Yoga) and Tibetan notes and tones are given. It’s fun.
- How to balance chakra energy with toning and hand & finger movements called mudras.
- Get info related to chakra elements, directions, sounds, senses, and other attributes
- Chakra Energy Flow Meditation
- Understanding OM | AUM
- Book a Musical Sound Bath session
Chakra Energy Flow Meditation
Chakra Energy Flow Meditation ©
By Julie Lusk
Time: 12-15 minutes
Summary: Energy flows like a river in this guided imagery exercise. Sitting in a meditation posture is more effective than lying down for working with the chakras because the physical alignment encourages and amplifies the flow of energy.
Chakra Energy Flow © 2005 is for personal use only and not for duplication or recording. Reprinted with permission from Yoga Meditations: Timeless Mind-Body Practices for Awakening by Julie Lusk.
Guided Imagery Meditation
Each of us has internal currents of energy within that flow like rivers. This energy is what gives us life and activates us physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. It influences everything from the concrete to the abstract. For instance, our flesh and bones are activated into life by this energy source. It gives us inspiration to accomplish our meaningful ambitions. Primarily, these rivers of energy span from the base of the spine up through the top of the head and move up and down, in and out, as well as forward and back. Furthermore, there are many other tributaries that extend throughout the rest of our being.
When this energy is open, flowing and balanced, we’re able to express our full potential and interact with the outside world. It enables us to easily receive information, love, and resources from outside of us. We’re also able to manifest our dreams and life purpose, liberate our awareness and actions, and free up energy to take action. It’s important for this energy to flow in a balanced, continuous way. Too often however, areas of energy become overly stimulated and excessive, or it bogs down to a trickle. It can get blocked, leaky, or hyperactive.
The purpose of this guided imagery is to balance these rivers and currents of energy in a wholesome way. So, in your own manner, set an intention to balance and align your energy flow so it serves the greater good for yourself…others…and in the world.
So, in your own way, become aware of a constant source of energy and power that is plentiful…and it’s readily available to you as well as to all others… There are many ways of experiencing the energy as it flow and you can use your senses to experience it…perhaps you can see it, feel it, or hear it… it may have a color, a shape or a sound … It may possibly sparkle…it may glow… How does the presence of energy occur to you?
Imagine tapping into this energy supply right now. Feel it moving and flowing now.
Let’s refine and focus on this energy more attentively by experiencing it as a fountain that flows from below your feet… and into your legs… and into the base of the spine… and it moves upward to the top of the head and beyond…a constant fountain of energy that flows, and moves and is alive…actively flowing through the core of your body from the base to the top…imagine this energy lighting up your awareness…increasing your freedom…and liberating you.
And now, imagine this energy as it showers down like a waterfall. It originates above you and pours down through the crown of the head, down throughout the core of the body, and back to the earth…Experiencing streams of energy running downward through you as it boosts and enlivens your thoughts, dreams, and aspirations into reality…and clearly imagine your dreams taking shape in the world.
So now, this energy flows evenly and fluidly…gracefully moving up and down…up and down the central core that spans from the top of the head to the base of the spine and back to the crown of the head…It can even extend from the earth, through you, and into the sky and back down again.
Imagine and allow this energy to continually flow…automatically…fluidly…and elegantly… whether or not you are paying direct attention to it.
Now it’s time to experience this flow of energy in a new way… This river of energy influences your incoming and outgoing interactions …so hold your attention on the whole length of your spine, from its base to the top. …Allow a wellspring of energy to radiate constantly through the length of your spine, …and feel it start to move in and out…forward and back… and sideways…. … Imagine a constant, abundant supply of energy radiating out from your core…Energy shining out through the front…out the back…to the sides…and all around…making it possible for you to express your self in your life… including your work …touching your relationships…and the world you live in …as this energy moves along the length of your spine, radiating outward in all directions.
And now, this energy returns to you, moving from the outside to the inside…replenishing your energy…receiving it in its many forms…in the form of information…thoughts…and love…being returned to you…naturally flowing into you until it begins flowing in and out like a dance…evenly…smoothly…and effortlessly…continuing to flow, whether or not you are paying attention to it.
And somehow, energy currents are flowing in all directions…up and down…in and out…in unison, balancing and blending and harmonizing…cooling and calming down where the energy is excessive and too strong…and activating and energizing where the energy is too weak or blocked.
And part of you steps out of the way so this can happen naturally…and this part of you notices how all this happens.
This energy source is inside you and all around you… It is constant and supportive…and it guides you…balances you…and makes you feel whole and complete.
It’s time to reawaken to your surroundings…Listen to the sounds (name some as they occur)… become aware of your breath…feel the air on your skin… feel your body, your physical presence…and when ready, stretch and open your eyes.
Author’s Note: Anodea Judith inspired this guided visualization. May her energy be abundant and a blessing to her and to all others.
Awaken joy, peace and inspiration with this yoga meditations book.
Yoga Meditations contains a wide variety of mind-body practices, such as:
* Guided relaxation exercises
* Breathing practices
* Yoga Nidra
* Meditations and guided imagery
* Affirmations
* Yoga postures and meditations for each chakra
* Yoga wisdom for contemplation
Get a FREE Wholesome Energizers CD in every book!
CLICK the blue title link above to find out more...
Finally! A complete Chakra Chart with all the chakra names, locations, colors, sounds, yoga postures, breathing techniques, psychological & energetic influences and more. There's handy tips for using the chart on the reverse side. It's 8 1/2 by 14" and laminated. CLICK on the blue title link above to find out more...
Guided Meditation for the Chakras
Real Relaxation Yoga Nidra takes you into a deeply relaxing and powerful restful state of being fully aware while being in the state of deep yogic sleep. It helps with balancing chakra energy, and can improve immunity, heart health, relieve stress and give you inner peace and balance.
Get it from Amazon, iTunes, Spotify & other online stores.
Handy Links
- Learn about chakras and their influences | Get your Complete Chakra Chart
- Chakra Balancing with Sound Healing. Use the Elemental Chakra Tone Chart to balance your chakra energy by either increasing or decreasing their energy with sound, color, and special mantras. The Vedic (Yoga) and Tibetan notes and tones are given. It’s fun.
- How to balance chakra energy with toning and hand & finger movements called mudras.
- Get info related to chakra elements, directions, sounds, senses, and other attributes
- Chakra Energy Flow Meditation
- Understanding OM | AUM
- Book a Musical Sound Bath session
Desktop Yoga Workshop
Chair Yoga for the Workplace keeps employees alert and productive during the business day.
Contact Julie Lusk by email for details and scheduling to book her for your Employee Training, Conference, Workshop, and Lunch and Learn sessions.
Simple chair exercises can help prevent chronic problems such as lower back and neck pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other repetitive stress injuries.
A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) showed that yoga-based chair exercise and stretches are more effective in reducing carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms than using wrist splints or no treatment (Nov. 11, 1998). Desktop Yoga ™ can also improve morale, productivity, attitudes and attendance.
As the creator and author of Desktop Yoga ™ (Penguin Group, 1998), Julie Lusk has designed ‘do it now ‘ exercises that can be done right at the workstation that are effective, portable and easy.
During a typical session, participants will:
- Learn to do self-care chair yoga stretches that can be done at their own desk. Specific stretches are done for the neck, shoulders, wrists, face, back and legs. Sequences are also available to increase energy, improve creativity or to reduce frustration.
- Take a “2- hour nap in 2-minutes”.
- Receive a brief review on the importance of proper ergonomics.
The Business Courier featured the value of Desktop Yoga in the article “Training the Body to Coast can help with Relaxation.” (pdf)
One of the most effective ways of letting go of work stress before you get home is by taking care of it as it arises, said Julie Lusk, author of “Desktop Yoga ®.” Lusk, president of Wholesome Resources, a stress-management company in Milford, teaches people how to do stretches, breathing and relaxation techniques right at their desks to relieve tension and get on with the day. See this article.
Don Kemper
President, Healthwise, Inc
“Julie Lusk has a unique style of presentation that seems to peer inside each member of her audience. Her wellness workshops in yoga, relaxation, and stress management include an extra dimension that leaves an imprint of peace and mindfulness on each participant.
Medco Employee
Desktop Yoga showed me how to release stress quickly. Easy to remember tips. I feel great!
Desktop Yoga showed me how to release stress quickly. Easy to remember tips. I feel great!
MedcoHealth
- I get neck and back and shoulder pain when I work. It’s already gone after this short Desktop Yoga session. My muscles felt really loose and relaxed after the exercises. It’s great!
- Will help with concentration and stress relief.
- You can relax at your desk so you will be better able to handle the stress of the day and be nicer to the people you talk to on the phone. Thank you. This should help at work and home.
- It will help to ease some of the stiffness and fatigue that I feel when I sit for too long.
- I learned how to prevent injury in the future and have more energy.
- I now have something positive to do when I need a break from my work instead of bothering my co-workers by talking to them.
Fidelity Investments
95% rated the content as excellent or above average
97% rated the speaker as excellent or above average
97% rated the program as excellent or above average.
- I was amazed at how relaxed and comfortable I felt by the end. I enjoyed learning by doing.
- Easy to remember tips. I’ll be able to focus more during the day.
- I believe this will help me when I’m at work and I get stressed.
- I liked learning the relaxed breathing techniques. I felt much more relaxed, at ease and calm after taking the “2 hour nap in 2 minutes.”
- I learned how to stop and take a break if I’m stressed and overwhelmed to regroup
- How to be more aware of how my body is reacting when stressed and what to do
Ethicon Endo Surgery (Johnson and Johnson)
100% rated the content as excellent or above average
100% rated the speaker as excellent or above average
100% rated the program as excellent or above average.
- I learned to release stress quickly. The instructor had excellent content. Very beneficial.
- It’s important to take time to relax and reduce stress.
- The stress fighting techniques allow me to be more focused and a better team player
- The info on the mind/body connection was excellent
- Stop being a perfectionist – I am one and it is stressful
- You have reinforced the idea that I can do anything I put my mind to!!
- Everything was interesting. I learned relaxation tips to gain more energy.
Lenscrafters
98% rated the content as excellent or above average
100% rated the speaker as excellent or above average
98% rated the program as excellent or above average
- I learned how to feel rejuvenated at work. It was excellent. I’m glad I attended.
- Learned a lot in a short period of time.
- I need to learn how to relax. My stress level is out of control. The techniques were easy. I felt so renewed and relaxed afterwards
- Great ideas that can be implemented at one’s desk
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Julie travels from Cincinnati, OH
Julie T. Lusk, M.Ed.
Wholesome Resources
Milford, OH 45150
Greater Cincinnati Area
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