Your Pathway to Holistic Wellness and Empowerment
Helping individuals
access their inner resources for holistic healing with mindfulness and yoga therapy
Discover healing on all levels of being: physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
Your Pathway to Holistic Wellness and Empowerment
Yoga therapy and mindfulness help individuals
access their inner resources for healing
Yoga therapy and mindfulness help individuals access their inner resources for healing
CALM
Reduce stress
ENERGY
Improve mental health
RELIEF
Decrease burnout
STRONG
Improve physical Health
PEACE
Decrease anxiety
Yoga Therapy
Work with a certified yoga therapist to learn how you can heal on all levels of being: physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
Private Yoga Therapy
Together we will create custom practices that meet your personal goals for health and wellbeing.
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- In person and virtual options available.
- Discount Available for 3 session package.
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Thursday Morning Yoga
Join me for the weekly Thursday morning gentle yoga class LIVE on zoom. 9:00-10:00 AM CT
Additional Classes at these locations:
Adaptive/therapeutic yoga classes offered at the
Levy Senior Center and Cancer Survivorship Center
Monthly Meditation Gathering
Third Friday of the Month.
9-10 AM CST. Live on ZOOM.
Join me as we gather together to explore mindfulness meditation practice in the community.
- All are welcome; no experience is necessary.
- Donations are requested but not required.
- Registration required.
MINDFULNESS & MBSR
Your Pathway to Balance and Resilience
Mindfulness is a simple yet profound practice that sharpens focus, fosters insight, and cultivates compassion. It's non-religious, non-sectarian, and accessible to everyone to improve their life.
Science supports what many have experienced firsthand: Mindfulness is a powerful tool that can improve your health and well-being. It is an evidence-based method that has proven benefits:
- Reduce anxiety and depression
- Improve ability to manage pain and difficult emotions
- Improve sleep
- Increase self-awareness
- Increase empathy and compassion.
- Enhance communication and listening skills
- Improve professional and personal relationships
We offer individual mindfulness training through personalized one-on-one sessions or with the highly regarded Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) classes. Monthly Meditation gatherings are offered FREE every 3rd Friday of the month.
MINDFULNESS-BASED STRESS REDUCTION (MBSR)
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an evidence-based, contemplative program that improves a host of physical and mental health conditions. The course teaches the principles, scientific foundation, and mixed modality practice of mindfulness. This program is an intensive, experiential exploration of mindfulness as a way of life.
Research shows that eight weeks of MBSR training can rewire our neural networks-inviting greater control over the brain regions connected to conditional response (stress), emotional reactivity, and fear.
MBSR reduces stress, increases cognition and memory, improves immune system and heart health, and is used to treat both anxiety and depression.
MBSR Individual Training Sessions
Offered as a one-on-one program, if group class schedules or your needs are more specific. Through a series of 5 sessions over 8 weeks the curriculum is customized to your personal needs.
MBSR Group Program: Tuesday, April 15th - June 3rd, 2025.
6PM - 8PM CT
MBSR is an 8-week, 9-session course designed to develop and integrate mindfulness practices into everyday life, using meditation, body awareness, and gentle movement.
Single Session Mindfulness Training
A fitness class for your mind! Are you wondering how mindfulness can help alleviate stress and pain?
Book a private session to explore and experience mindfulness practices.
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Gandhi
Speaker/ Professional Education
Enjoy a lunch and learn event, presentation, or daylong retreat for renewal!
As an experienced educator for health professionals, corporations, and community organizations, Integrative pathways is ready to support your professional organization or community group. Providing webinars, continuing education presentations for organizations at conferences or corporate meetings. Attendees will experience and learn about how mind-body medicine can improve their quality of life.
Testimonials
"I have experienced Betsy's work as a yoga instructor and as a facilitator for the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction workshop. She is outstanding. Her knowledge is very deep, and she is able to give the extra added personal attention that is always appreciated. I have referred many of my Healing Touch clients to Betsy to help support their path to health and well-being. "
- Katie Oberlin,
Holistic Connections
"Betsy has an amazing presence and quality of serenity that she imparts to her clients and colleagues. Betsy has the strength of medical training as a nurse as well as her vast experience in other healing arts, giving her a keen sense of balance between Western and Eastern approaches to wellness. I highly recommend her work."
- Kamyar Hedayat, MD
Betsy has been doing this integrative practice long before it was in Vogue… follow a leader!"
~Matthew Taylor, PhD
Integrative Pathways to Healing is owned and operated by holistic nurse and mind-body specialist, Betsy Murphy.
About
Betsy has studied and practiced yoga and meditation for many decades and has been in private practice for 20 years.
Board certified in holistic nursing since 2006, Betsy left hospice nursing to pursue training in complementary and alternative modalities of healing.
She earned a master's degree in Mind-Body Medicine from Saybrook University, and was educated in nursing at Loyola University, Chicago. She is a certified yoga therapist, trained by Integrative Yoga Therapy and Parayoga, with over 1,000 hours of training.
As an accredited teacher of MBSR from UMass Center for Mindfulness in Healthcare and Society she has participated in NIH funded MBSR research studies on the effects of mindfulness for cancer patients and leading MBSR courses since 2005 for hospitals, schools, counseling centers, cancer centers, and community organizations.
Additional certifications and trainings include Mindful Self Compassion Skills training, Still Quiet Place Teacher Training (mindfulness for children and young adults) Usui Reiki (Master), The Center for Mind Body Medicine Advanced Professional Training, and Restorative Yoga Teacher Training with Judith Lasater.
What are all those initials?
Betsy Murphy MS, RN, HNB-BC, C-IAYT
RN : Registered Nurse, State of Illinois
MS : Master of Science, Mind-Body Medicine. Saybrook University. Oakland, CA
HNB-BC : Holistic Nurse Baccalaureate, Board Certified
C-IAYT : Certified Yoga Therapist. International Association of Yoga Therapists
"It's cheaper to promote health than to
maintain people in sickness."
~ Florence Nightingale
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FAQ
Although all yoga is potentially therapeutic and healing, yoga therapy is the specific application of yogic tools-postures/exercises, breathwork, meditation techniques, and more-to address an individual's physical, mental, and emotional needs.
Yoga therapists have completed an in-depth training to help them assess and keep their clients safe. Certified yoga therapists (C-IAYT) require a minimum of 800 hours of education.
A yoga therapist will work with you to address your specific goals while considering any limitations you might be experiencing. With a holistic approach to healing, adapting yoga to an individual or groups specific needs leads to improved physical, mental and emotional health.
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