Dr Susan Pataky has specialized in using yoga for optimal health, healing, and personal transformation for decades. She has also specialized in using imagery, sound & various energy balancing therapies to assist people with health & life challenges restore balance, increase vitality & reduce pain. Adapting this multidimensional approach, which may include asana, pranayama/breathwork, meditation, meridian theory, energywork, sound, aroma and spirituality to address the individual's concerns & complaints & goals. Thus Co-creating a self-healing journey in a safe supportive environment.

Look for Dr. Susan on BLOCK ISLAND in the month of August where all of her services are available including Naturopathic consultations.

Dr Susan Pataky has extensive training and numerous degrees in the medical and holistic health field. She's personally practiced & studied Yoga for 36 yrs and has taught continuously since her certification in 1979. She offers various holistic services for those desiring Radiant Health & finding Authentic Self-the Soul.

Susan received her Doctorate in Naturopathic medicine at the University Of Bridgeport(UBCNM), this education included classes & a research thesis with Yale University. Susan is a Certified Yoga Therapist and IAYT member, Ordained Minister & Nationally Certified Massage therapist. She presently offers corporate, private & group yoga and workshops as well as private Sprirtual & Energy-work sessions. She is a 14yr member of the AOBTA and a 14yr NCTMB member.

Her exceptional and very educational Yoga classes are an infusion of many styles with emphasis on structural alignment to highlight the pathways of healing energy within. You'll find that end result goes well beyond the ususal feeling of refreshed & calm.

Private or therapeutic yoga sessions are the ultimate personalized experience. Using props, students can focus on refinements and many improve their balance enough to move to a group class or a more advanced class.

Dr. Susan is a Fairfield County Connecticut native where her highly successful business, The Body/Mind Connection, operated from 1986 till her move to SW FL in October 2003. Her clients have run the gamut from entire families, major corporations & rock & roll legends. Dr. Susan presently is the founder & owner of Soulstice- "Inspiring the integration of the Body, Mind & SOUL"....Naturally.

Serving SW Florida including FT Myers and Sanibel/Captiva Islands. She has been member of the Sanibel/Captiva Chamber of Commerce since2005.

Within our body flows the support of life. A formless tapestry of energy that beckons growth & expansion. Healing & creative juices of which we know little about---ie.the true power & magnificence of it all. It ultimately is our spiritual connection to the Universal resource, the Cosmic support of ALL life.

Refusal to flow w/ the support of life or rejection of the spiritual connection alters our internal landscape & our capacity to connect with SOUL, LOVE, GOD. Ruminations from Ego & muscular contraction squash pulsations of the life force energy. Our physical structure adjusts accordingly & manifests the only way it knows how to; by hardening & drying up.

Pain triggers our body?s ?alarm system? which in turn sets off muscle reactions to grip, harden & splint the area desperately trying to do the only thing it knows how-'protect the area'. These artificial ?splints' impair & inhibit the formless energyflows within (Prana, Chi, Ki). Thus creating the inability to nourish, neutralize & heal the region. By releasing muscular tension we then re-establish these formless energyflows to move to/thru any area, hence restoring equilibrium; homeostasis, Then the Body/Mind heals.

When we align w/this energy and train it up inside us we no longer remain in a pain state or of ill health. We become free to be all that we can be.

We all are infused w/this vital life force energy. We are all meant to have a dynamic flow of this energy.

Dr. Susan has mastered the art teaching thru guiding & assisting others to harness the power of their own minds to overcome present difficulties and transform. Reconnect to the Soul. Shifting the paradigm from external reference to internal reference--Then we may distinguish 'who' we are from what we've been told we are. Skillful assistance & encouragement allow one to gently claim one's own power, attune to inner guidance and balance, build, transform, evolve & finally connect back to SOURCE-Spirit.

Various appropriate modalities & techniques are utilized so one may blossom gently and develop skills necessary to perfectly attune to the body?s vital healing energy and orchestrate the healing response throughout your organism. Sessions honor the uniqueness & space of the individual-body/mind/spirit to restore the natural pharmacy within WITH beautifully balanced internal rhythms.

Integrating the Body, Mind & Soul.......Naturally.

Natural Alternatives for Radiant Health & Vitality!
Quality of Life can exist again.

PRIVATE STRESS RELIEF SESSION-$150*
Re-define your Life. Implement Healthy choices.Eliminate effects of stress with customized protocols & skills for everyday application.

YOGA-PRIVATE SESSION
1-2 people$125/hr*
3 or more $150/hr*

THERAPEUTIC YOGA SESSION-$150/hr*
Injury or Illness Support

*House-Resort-Hotel call additional fee
Captiva $35 - Sanibel $25

Feeling as if nothing ?works? toward your goal of being healthy, pain free, or complete and whole again?

The answer is simple. Many of us perceive healing, cleansing and de-toxing as exclusively a physical action. The powerful truth is that our physical body is merely reflective of the landscape within. An out-picturing of our emotional, spiritual and mental selves. By addressing what is happening on the inside these changes WILL automatically reflect outwardly.

Reclaim your birthright of Vibrant Health, live life to its fullest again.

Each session is personalized for YOUR particular needs and goals. Clear ?old? patterns, unwind your historical limitations and integrate energies for new healthy states of being. Release your chronically tight areas and 'hot spots' & alter the habitual responses to the stressors in your life. Develop skills necessary to perfectly attune & mobilize the body?s vital force to orchestrate coordinated healing responses throughout your organism.

While focused inward one can connect to Soul's desires, resulting in the return of emmense Joy, Radiance, Health, Vitality & of course, PEACE!

Energy Balancing=$110/hr

TUES CLASS- will resume in the FALL 2008

THURS CLASS- runs thru July 17th then will resume Sept.25,2008

TUESDAY=EXPERIENCED-10-11:15am-A fun yet challanging class exploring finer details of asanas & pranayama exercises. This class is geared for the seasoned yogi/yogini. Revisit classic poses while adding new variations,learn to customize poses specifically for your needs & goals. Break out from the 'simon sez' routines & GROW YOUR PRACTICE.

THURSDAY=ALL LEVEL-10-11:15AM-Detailed exploration w/the focus on "How to" safely & correctly construct the commonly performed yoga asanas(poses). This includes specific instructions for the individual within a group setting---as well as sequencing, asana building, breathing(pranayama) techniques & breath synchronization, plus deep relaxation. Great refresher for experienced students too!

Each class offers something completely different. Hands-on adjustments for all as well as appropriate alternative variations for those with physical issues. A limited number of blocks, blankets, straps & mats are available for use(free) during class.

Classes are held at Sanibel Senior Center.(corner of Library Way/Palm Ridge)

PUBLIC & Non members of any age ALWAYS Welcome

Class fee:$13mem/$15non

Call DR. Susan Pataky for more info @ 239.738.3856

--EXCELLENT Credentials-Certified & Teaching since 1979

Namaste'

This public group yoga class has ended for the 2008 season. See you next year--Namaste'

Private sessions are available year round. Private:Single, Duets or Group. Call Dr Susan @ 239.738.3856

Monday & Weds classes will resume in Fall 2008

Saturday classes will run thru July 19th then resume in OCT 2008

Monday's-10-11am-

ALL LEVEL-Detailed exploration w/the focus on "How to" safely & correctly construct the commonly performed yoga asanas(poses). This includes specific instructions for the individual within a group setting---as well as sequencing, asana building, breathing(pranayama) techniques & breath synchronization, plus deep relaxation. Great refresher for experienced students too!

Saturday's- 9-10 am -

CHI YOGA-"Thrive, don't just survive"-Build strength & stamina from the inside out. Invoke vital energy(chi) to heal, reduce pain and irrigate dry & tightly bound areas (our trouble spots). Improve breathing patterns & posture. Infuse current ailments with healing energy. Re-vitalize. Strengthen. Ease. -This gentle energy-based approach introduces the magnificent and swift healing ability of chi(prana, life force energy), which exists in all living things. Turn typical floor stretches and basic yoga postures (asanas) into powerful healing movements. All levels & conditions Welcome.

Saturday's- 10:15-11:15 am-

POWER VINYASA - A challenging approach, threading mind and body with the breath in continuous movements, one pose to the next, building body heat and life-force energy. The goal is to maintain a steady inward focus (drishti) throughout the sequences and a joyful heart, no matter what posture you're in. You will fold, arch, twist, bend, invert & leap as your rhythmic breathing sets the speed at which you move from pose to pose. Knowledge of Asana alignments, Ujjayi breathing, & Bandhas recommended.



Sanibel Rec Center 3880 Sanibel Captiva Rd. Sanibel. Class fee: Rec mem-$13/class NonMem-$15/class. Contact: Dr Susan Pataky @239.738.3856