HOLISITIC WELLNESS SERVICES
~ Yoga, Meditation, Nutrition, Massage & Reiki~
Favored Wellness offers a range of holistic wellness services, including yoga, meditation, reiki, nutrition and massage. These services are the perfect complement to psychotherapy, and are also effective as standalone supports. While therapy is often focused on what is happening in your brain, these services will incorporate your entire body, which ultimately leads to deeper, fuller healing.
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YOGA & MEDITATION
Yoga Basics
Designed to practice foundational poses and, if needed, learn modifications to poses and how to use props. This session offers personalized guidance to ensure you practice safely and effectively, with accommodations and modifications tailored to your individual needs. Perfect for all levels, our supportive environment helps you build confidence, improve flexibility, and enhance overall well-being.
Option to integrate breathwork, meditation, and relaxation techniques into sessions.
30 minutes
1 on 1 session $45
60 minutes
1 on 1 session $85
Discover Meditation
Explore a variety of meditation techniques, such as mindfulness, loving-kindness, and breath awareness, each offering unique approaches to stillness and focus. Suitable for all experience levels, our session provides personalized guidance in a peaceful, supportive setting, allowing you to engage with meditation at your own pace and comfort level.
30 minutes
1 on 1 session $45
60 minutes
1 on 1 session $85
Experience Yoga Nidra
A guided meditation practice designed to help you achieve deep rest and mental clarity. By lying comfortably and following a series of instructions, you'll journey through a state of conscious relaxation, reducing stress and promoting overall well-being. Perfect for all levels, a Yoga Nidra session provides a tranquil space to rejuvenate your mind and body.
30 minutes
1 on 1 session $45
60 minutes
1 on 1 session $85
WORKSHOPS
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Yoga for Trauma Workshop
In-Person at Yoga H'om
A trauma-informed yoga workshop providing a supportive environment focused on gentle movements, breath awareness, and mindfulness, encouraging participants to reconnect with their bodies at their own pace. Modifications and options are offered to respect each individual's comfort and boundaries.The session will conclude with Yoga Nidra, a deeply relaxing guided meditation designed to promote a state of profound rest and inner peace, helping to release stress and cultivate a sense of safety and well-being.
Registration required.
90 minutes
Full rate session $35
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MASSAGE & REIKI
Swedish Massage
A Swedish massage is designed to relax the entire body by rubbing the muscles in long, gliding strokes in the direction of blood returning to the heart. But the benefits of Swedish massage go beyond relaxation. It can help increase the level of oxygen in the blood and improve circulation and flexibility.
Pregnancy
Massage
Prenatal massages are performed with specialized techniques that are tailored to benefit you and your growing baby. These techniques include a slow pace, specific positioning, and gentle pressure that can help relieve muscle tension and pain during pregnancy.
Deep Tissue Massage
Deep tissue massage involves applying sustained pressure using slow, deep strokes to target the inner layers of your muscles and connective tissues. Deep tissue massage will work out the knots from stressed, overworked muscles and connective tissue (fascia) to alleviate immediate pain, as well as chronic joint and muscle pain.
Fertility Massage
Fertility massage is a non-surgical and non-invasive alternative therapy that helps enhance your well-being and create optimal conditions for conception. This technique focuses on promoting relaxation and decreasing abdominal scarring, pelvic adhesions, or tubal obstruction and increasing the function of the reproductive organs.
Reiki
This ancient practice includes hands-off and gentle hands-on healing. It is based on the principle that the energy surrounding us and within us (chakras) can be used for healing. Reiki connects our energy fields to the universal life force.
Pricing
30 minute: $50
45 minute: $70
60 minute: $90
75 minute: $110
90 minute: $130
120 minute: $150
* HSA/FSA accepted for Massage Services
*Fertility Massage is offered at $250 for initial consult and session, $170 for subsequent visits.
Please call for more information.
NUTRITION
RITA'S VIDEO LIBRARY
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HOLISTIC WELLNESS GIFT CERTIFICATES
Meet the Holistic Wellness Team
Rita de Freitas, RD, LDN, CLT
Registered Dietitian and Certified LEAP Therapist
Certificate of Training in Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy (IFMNT)
Rita de Freitas promotes the ways in which physical activity and proper nutrition can create an optimal state of well-being. She teaches nutrition and educates people on how to lead healthy lifestyles by teaching nutrition-not dieting-for long-term weight management and disease prevention. As registered dietitian and certified LEAP therapist, she emphasizes the importance of how eating well, exercising and managing stress can influence the state of their physical, mental and emotional health.
Rita has a B.S in dietetics from Virginia Tech. She strongly believes in the promotion and integration of health, fitness and a balanced lifestyle. She considers herself extremely fortunate to have chosen a field of study about which she is passionate, and a career in which she can translate her passion into improving the lives of others.
Her primary focuses are:
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Gut Health
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Autoimmune
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Disease
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Thyroid Health
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General Nutrition and Wellness
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Diabetes
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Heart Health (High Cholesterol, Lipids, Blood pressure)
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Weight Management
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Specific diet needs (Celiac Disease-Gluten Free diet, Vegetarian/Vegan, PCOS, IBS, etc)
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Food Sensitivities
Nicole Yakovich, MS, LAPC, RYT® 200
Partially Trained EMDR Therapist
Trauma-focused Yoga & Meditation Teacher
Licensed Associate Professional Counselor
As not only a Registered Yoga Teacher but also a Professional Counselor, Nicole has a unique skillset as a dedicated, trauma-focused Holistic Healer. Having completed a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and the foundational 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training, she has also completed additional training in trauma-informed yoga practices. These trainings allow her to offer asana practices, breathwork, Yoga Nidra, and meditation, which also are threaded into all of her therapeutic work at Favored Wellness.
With close to a decade of experience teaching veterans, Nicole emphasizes the mind-body connection and somatic experiences in striving to create a space where clients to feel safe enough to do deep, meaningful work. As a lifelong student, she continually deepens her knowledge to provide quality holistic practices that foster relaxation, resilience, and inner peace. She offers both individual sessions and group workshops, which can be stand-alone or integrated as adjunctive modalities to support one's psychotherapy goals.
With all of this, she is able to provide a platform unlike those singularly trained as counselors and yoga teachers. Her scope of practice far surpasses those yoga teachers without graduate degrees, where her education and experience organically complement how she approaches affecting change and whole-person healing with her clients.
Denise Lueck, LMT
Licensed Massage Therapist
Reiki Practitioner
Denise has been a Licensed Massage Therapist for over 20 years. After earning a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology at Point Park College, she attended the Pittsburgh School of Massage Therapy.
Denise is a trauma-informed, trauma-focused holistic practitioner who's specialties include Swedish and Deep Tissue Massage, Fertility Massage, Pregnancy and Postnatal Massage, and Reiki.
Some of her experience includes working at a chiropractic office and also on her own providing in-home massages in both corporate and social settings, spa parties, networking retreats, and (some of her favorite work) providing massage at an adult daycare facility.
Denise’s approach is health-minded, spiritual and holistic, that is not just physically supportive, but can also be an excellent compliment to psychotherapy, if the client is partaking in therapy. Each massage is customized to each client's needs to help them leave feeling relaxed, revived and rejuvenated.