28-Day Detox Program with Nina Elliot

Join Nina Elliot at Health and Wholeness for a detoxification program! This detox is a comprehensive 28-day program that combines physical and dietary components to nourish your body, boost your natural energy and help break addictions to stimulants such as sugar and caffeine. Cost: $450 (sign up with a friend and pay only $400 each!) The [...]

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News From Around the Block – March 2012

Wellness Bundles New Cleanse Workshop Looking to do some internal “Spring Cleaning”?  Later this month (March 24—the first weekend of Spring), Nina will be hosting a workshop on the topic of cleansing.  In addition to the two-hour educational event, the cost of the workshop will include a month’s worth of supplements, a week of infrared [...]

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Your Body: Spring Cleaning!

Aaah, Spring!  The perfect time to do a cleanse!  But before you start envisioning drinking mass quantities of lemon and cayenne, or lying sideways on the bathroom floor rinsing out your insides, or even starving yourself on a 7-day fast of chicken broth and cabbage, keep reading.  There are many approaches to cleansing, and it [...]

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Holiday Foods Done Right

We got back from our cruise on Monday November the 21st, the week of Thanksgiving. It was strange to one moment be bounding around in a two-piece eating watermelon in the 85-degree sunshine, and then what seemed a moment later to be wrapped in a scarf, strolling down the grocery isle shopping for the flavors [...]

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Plants Bite Back – A Look at Grains

Stop for a second and ask yourself how many servings of grains you get in a day. How much bread do you eat? A few pieces in the form of toast, or a sandwich perhaps, a little pita around your lunch wrap, a cliff bar after a work out, perhaps a bowl of rice for [...]

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Client Corner – Robert Boursiquot

What brought you to Health and Wholeness? Rob:  Originally, I was seeking an edge to my workout routine since I tend to reach a plateau with my body rather quickly.  As a result, I consulted with Christian Elliott who was my Personal Trainer between 2007 and 2010.  After a conversation with Christian during a Health and [...]

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Real Body Composition Change

What to know a little Personal Training Industry secret?  Probably more than half of the people who hire a trainer to help him/her lose weight don’t have see significant body composition changes.  Why is that?  Well, answering that question is not easy, but the short answer is that real body composition change usually requires more [...]

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Money Back Guarantee?

I’ve been asked before if we have a money back guarantee if someone does not “see results.”  While I understand the reason for the question—you want to know if you fork over the money you will see a return on that investment—I’d like to point out why I don’t think any personal trainer can guarantee [...]

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More Than Just a Gym – Our Holistic Approach

Several people have asked how our business got started and became what it is.  Well, here’s a peek at the conceptual journey of what people see today. Being self-starters and wanting to be able to work for ourselves, we started by reflecting on the things we were passionate about.  We figured if we don’t love [...]

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Food Sensitivity Testing – Nina’s Experience

Recently I was inspired to take an ALCAT test to check for food sensitivities that may be hindering my immune system. It has been two years since I broke out in dry psoriasis on my right hand and no amount of acupuncture, Chinese herbs, super supplements, Epson salt soaks, natural creams have touched it.  Google [...]

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