Dr. Lisa Belisle

Maine YogaFest, #91

Fitness, like many things in life, is all about balance. Though I prefer running above all else—especially at this time of year, when the sun is rising earlier, the air is finally warmer—I like to balance my running with other activities. I've found that the best way to counter-balance the stress of running on the bones and muscles is yoga. It keeps me flexible, and it keeps me calm. 

This week on the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour, tune in to hear guests Justine Carlisle, Dana Gunnerson Woodbury, and Regan Johnson, founders of Maine YogaFest, talk about this inspiring physical event. I will also be speaking with Carissa Ciucca, owner of Breathing Room Yoga, and Melanie Burns of Wicked Good Yoga. 

Listen in on Sunday, June 9, or click the link below.

 

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Justine Carlise, Dana Gunnerson Woodbury, and Regan Johnson are the founders of Maine YogaFest. All three women feel passionately about yoga, particularly the local yoga movement of Portland. Dana was drawn to yoga during a challenging time of her life and was amazed by the many benefits of regular practice. Justine began practicing yoga five years ago to help heal a running injury. As a Registered Yoga Alliance Vinyasa instructor, she hopes through teaching yoga she can help others see the beautiful connection between our physical and mental bodies. Finally, there's Regan. Regan has been managing high profile events since 2001. Planning a yoga festival is a dream-come-true for her. Combining her love of fitness and events is a perfect match. 

Carissa Ciuca is the owner and director of Breathing Room Yoga in South Portland. Breathing Room offers vinyasa yoga, restorative, yin and prenatal yoga. In addition, the studio hosts a variety of respected regional and national guest teachers who enhance the vibrant weekly class schedule. At the studio, Carissa leads a comprehensive yoga teacher training program, the day-to-day studio operations, and several group classes each week. Carissa has been practicing yoga for over ten years and was certified to teach at Flow Yoga Center in Washington, DC. Since then, she’s continued her studies with many knowledgable teachers throughout the country. Carissa moved to Maine from DC in 2010 and lives in Portland with her husband and two small children.

Melanie Burns, along with her husband Paul, owns Snow Squall Bed and Breakfast and Wicked Good Yoga. She is a Licensed Massage Therapist and an E-RYT 200 Hour Baptiste Yoga teacher with a BA in Psychology from Clark University. Through bodywork, yoga, and meditation, she invites you to connect to your breath, your body, to quiet your mind and drop into your source of power, freedom and grace, igniting your deepest healing potential.

 

 

 

Our financial wellness tip of the week is brought to you by Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial. While Dr. Lisa Radio Hour business advisor, Marci Booth of BOOTH Maine, offers better business tips. Also, Ted Carter of Ted Carter Inspired Landscapes  and Jim Greatorex of Premier SportsHealth (a division of Black Bear Medical) share important talking points. 

 Join us next week for our "Father's Day / Sports Medicine" show, featuring Dr. John Herzog, Orthopedic Surgeon at Orthopedic Specialists, LLC., Jared Buzzell & Stan Skolfield of the Orthopedic Associaties Performance Center in Saco, and Mike Chapman & Jim Greatorex of Premier Sports Health & Black Bear Medical.

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Home in Maine, #89

We who live in Maine have accepting and indomitable spirits. We know what we have gotten ourselves into, and we accept equally the challenges and the rewards. Join our Dr. Lisa Radio Hour "Home in Maine" discussion this Sundaywith Chris Lynch, President of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty & Mike LePage, Agent, RE/Max Heritage; Lisa Medina, Event Manager, Tour de Cure Kennebunks, and Kennebunkport homeowner Rick Taranto.

Listen in on Sunday, May 26, or click the link below.

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Chris Lynch, a Massachusetts native and Bates College graduate, spent the first 17 years of his career working on Wall Street. In 2006, Chris founded Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty. He is the President and Owner of this market leading luxury property company with offices in Portland, Camden, Kennebunk and Brunswick. The company has grown to more than 50 agents and now ranks among the top 10 real estate companies in Maine. Chris holds real estate leadership positions serving on the Board of Directors for the Maine Real Estate Listing System and the Maine Association of Realtors. He also serves on the Board of Corporators for Maine Health and the Board of the Greater Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. He resides in Cape Elizabeth with his wife and four children.

If you’re looking for a home, Mike LePage's, agent at RE/Max Heritage, role is to understand what you’re looking for and show you all properties in the marketplace that might meet that need. 

Lisa Medina received her bachelor’s degree from University of Delaware and her master’s degree from Emerson College in Communication Management. Lisa ha s spent the last year and half employed at the American Diabetes Association as the Special Events Manager for the Kennebunks Tour de Cure. The Tour de Cure is a fundraising cycling event held in Wells, ME to benefit the American Diabetes Association. The Tour is a ride, not a race, with routes designed for everyone from the occasional rider to the experienced cyclist. The Tour recognizes participants living with type 1, type 2, or gestational diabetes as “Red Riders” and we encourage those individuals to use their bikes to get healthy and stay active.

A Boston resident for many years, Rick Taranto purchased a second home in Kennebunk in 2010 and began his love affair with Maine. Following a succes sful 15-year career in operations, sales and marketing in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, Rick recently launched Details Event Staging, a provider of unique and stylish furniture, tabletop and accessories for weddings and events. Rick holds a bachelor’s degree in zoology from University of Rhode Island and an MBA from Boston College.

 Our financial wellness tip of the week is brought to you by Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial. While Dr. Lisa Radio Hour business advisor, Marci Booth of BOOTH Maine, offers better business tips. Also. Ted Carter of Ted Carter Inspired Landscapes shares important talking points. 

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Maine on Film, #88

From the rocky coast to the western mountains, Maine is home to vistas wild and wonderful. It is also home to the Maine Media Workshop + College in Rockport, where photographers hone their skills in order to fully capture Maine’s great beauty. This week we celebrate the school’s fortieth anniversary with internationally known photographer, Barbara Goodbody, and Meg Weston, President of Maine Media Workshops + College.

Listen in on Sunday, May 19, click the link below

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Meg Weston was appointed President of Maine Media Workshops + College in February, 2012. Prior to this, Meg served in various roles in business, media and education, including: President/CEO of the University of Southern Maine Foundation, and President of the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. In the community, Meg served two terms as a gubernatorial appointment to the University System Board of Trustees and was Chair of the Board for two years. She is currently on the board of Maine Center for Creativity. Meg has an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University and combines her writing with a personal passion for photographing volcanoes around the world.

Barbara Goodbody moved to Maine in 1973 after having worked on Senator Edmund S, Muskie’s Presidential campaign where she met many wonderful people from Maine. Goodbody was immediately embraced by the community in Portland and
while raising three children she became active in the Portland Junior League and helped found Big Brothers Big Sisters. In 1986 in mid-life she found her personal passion in photography inspired by attending the then Maine Photographic Workshop (Now the Maine Media Workshop) in Rockport, Maine.

Our financial wellness tip of the week is brought to you by Tom Shepard of Shepard Financial. While Dr. Lisa Radio Hour business advisor, Marci Booth of BOOTH Maine, offers better business tips. Also. Ted Carter Inspired Landscapes shares important talking points. 

Enjoy this coming week, and thank you for being a part of our little community. Together we are building a healthier world. Starting right here in Maine. 

Mother's Day, #87

Each May we honor the moms who have made our lives possible. Many women find motherhood to be among the most challenging—and rewarding—roles they will ever undertake. This week’s mom-honoring show includes guests Kim Kalicky, author of “Mothers Fulfilled;” Heidi Kirn, cancer survivor and art director of Maine Home+Design; Maine Women’s Fund CEO Sarah Ruef-Lindquist and Board Member Michaela Cavallaro. Join us!

Listen on Sunday, May 12, download the Podcast or click to listen below.

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Sarah joined the Maine Women’s Fund in April 2012. As CEO, she works with the Board and staff to develop long-term strategies to increase the Fund’s philanthropic assets and grow the Fund’s impact and influence throughout Maine. Sarah has extensive experience in fundraising, grantmaking and building organizations’ fiscal efficiency. Most recently, she served as the senior gift planning consultant at Planning for Good, a Midcoast-based consulting practice she founded in 2008, and ran a solo law practice focused on estate and trust planning.

Heidi Kirn, Art Director for Maine Home+Design magazine, returned to Maine 4 years ago from NYC to raise her family by the ocean in Kennebunk, Maine. Artist, musician, and mother of two, Heidi enjoys cycling, the beach, locally grown food, and instagramming. Previously Heidi has been an art teacher and designer for Nickelodeon.

Kim Kalicky is a “Guide” (writer/contributor) on MariaShriver.com. She is also the author of "Mothers Fulfilled" (self-help) and "Away at a Camp in Maine", a travel memoir and first place winner for nonfiction in the 2011 Beach Book Festival national writing contest. She writes a blog at www.yourlongtermfriend.blogspot.com. Her books are available on Amazon. 

Read some of the important talking points by Ted Carter of Ted Carter Inspired Landscapes. And, each week, listen for better business tips from the Dr. Lisa Radio Hour business advisor, Marci Booth of BOOTH Maine.   

Our financial wellness tip of the week is brought to you by Tom  Shepard of Shepard Financial: “I have a reoccurring dream in which I, a high school student, am sent off to an island to live out the evolution of our monetary system in a weeks time. Unlike the hunger games or other post apocoplyptic stories, this experience starts with a solo and ends by building an increasingly complex and integrated system of relationships. Day one gives me the experience of loneliness and the lack of support that must have existed at one time. I learn that I am completely devoid of the instincts needed to survive. Unlike a wild animal, I have no idea what to eat or where to sleep that is safe. I crave the end of day one and the opportunity to partner and share the experience of survival with at least one other person. As the week moves on my dream becomes first pleasant and then tragically chaotic. Like the dream of trying to punch someone or run away I find it difficult to do what I want or to even choose. By day I live out the end of the dream and hope that at least one person at a time we are able to help dreamers punch hard and run fast. Money in all its forms is supposed to be the leverage we need to make life easier."

Enjoy this coming week, and thank you for being a part of our little community. Together we are building a healthier world. Starting right here in Maine.