Mela Stevens, CNC

Mela is a nutrition and wellness counselor and writer. She works with individuals and groups around the country using Integrative Wellness Education and a great sense of humor to help them create better life balance.

Her specialties include assisting others in finding ways to manage stress and maintain overall strong health by looking at areas that may be off-balance including the environments of home, office, body, mind and spirit.

She has turned her own natural love of organizing into a De-Junking™ system that can help clients cut through the clutter of their living spaces and their lives.

Mela works virtually or on-site with a highly energized and individualized program that keeps people focused, on track, and accountable with amazing results.

In her own experience in this work, releasing clutter has consistently opened up space for so much more to enter and helps clients get unstuck from many other areas of their lives.

In addition to private practice, Mela teaches workshops in Manhattan and in upstate New York, as well as leading teleclass and email groups around the country on topics including but not limited to Organizing for What You Want to Accomplish, Restorative Yoga and Stretch and Meditation, and seasonal body detoxification and cleansing.

She has been a wellness coach and educator at IBM and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield among other corporations, at various regional spas and fitness centers, and universities including Vassar and Bard colleges. Mela has also been a Whole Foods and Wellness Contributing Editor to Boomer-Living.com. She holds a BA from Long Island University and is also a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.

Mela is currently completing her first book, Your Whole Body Works, addressing how eating whole foods and balancing other key areas of life support optimal functioning and health. She lives in Rhinebeck, New York where you find her out walking most mornings with her Rhodesian Ridgeback mix, Troy.

Kathryn Sorrentino, CHHC

Kathryn takes the best of what she learned from working for almost 20 years in the worlds of finance and corporate America and combines it with her compelling style as a Health Counselor and graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

Through her Life Economics Program™ Kathryn works with clients to heal their relationships with money, the self and the divine all of which she finds critically support one another.

Kathryn’s own life experience left her a single parent for 15 years with few financial resources to depend on at the outset. This crisis situation caused her to quickly develop her inner resilience and resourcefulness. Her natural intuition and instincts around money began to take hold and she turned things around to create a secure financial foundation and a sense of direction for her whole life.

She has learned the keys to managing money, budgeting, investing and letting her money work for her in the spirit of true prosperity. She has learned how to cultivate a sense of abundance, peace and joy in her life that she is happy to share with those she coaches.

All this has given Kathryn a true sense of financial freedom allowing her to create a life and practice that suits her needs and schedule.

She currently lives in upstate New York in a beautiful sanctuary she custom designed and built with her husband of 10 years, and her organically fed cat, Patches and Brittney dog, Princess.

Suzanne Boothby, CHHC

Suzanne has been researching, writing and editing about holistic health and wellness, food politics and gardening for more than a decade. She has worked as an editor and freelance writer for many different magazines and newspapers across the country and in New Zealand.

She is the co-author with her oncologist, father of the After- Cancer Diet,  published 2011. She also co-wrote and edited Integrative Nutrition: Feed Your Hunger for Health and Happiness, and worked in the marketing and publishing departments for Integrative Nutrition, the largest holistic nutrition school in the country. While there, she launched the IIN blog and worked as the editor for several Integrative Nutrition catalogs. She also edited and contributed to the Go Green East Harlem Cookbook (Jones Books) and Simple Food for Busy Families: The Whole Life Nutrition Approach (Ten Speed Press).

She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a minor in Integrated Arts. She also has a certificate in Health Coaching from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and received training as a California-certified Master Gardener.

Lisa Feiner, MBA, M.Ed

Lisa has been a holistic coach for almost ten years, helping clients create balance in their busy lives. Her varied interests have led her to study Shiatsu, and become a lay homeopath and Reiki Master.  In 2009 she began a year-long spiritual sabbatical, which included a 5-day silent retreat, taking classes on soul and intuitive healing, and meeting regularly with a spiritual teacher.   Writing a blog during this time allowed Lisa to share her experiences, process her mother’s unexpected illness and subsequent passing, and integrate what she has learned into everyday life and into the creation of a new branch of her coaching practice now called: Soul Gardening™

 
Earlier in her career, Lisa was a human resource manager and consultant.  Living in London for three years with her family provided an opportunity to learn about alternative therapies and to study with a Cordon-Bleu trained chef.   Upon returning to NY, Lisa’s desire to combine Eastern and Western philosophies in a healing modality led her to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN).  For many years, Lisa has worked with a wide range of clients, some of whom suffer with major illnesses such as Lupus and MS.  Her use of stress-reduction techniques, meditation and energy healing has helped her clients to manage their health issues and  come to know their spiritual selves.  Lisa currently lives in Westchester, NY,  travels extensively,  and continues to cultivate her own soul garden in order to share her passion with her family, her students and her clients.