Nichelle Slavens has more than 25 years of experience in health promotions developing and managing corporate wellness programs to include consulting with key and municipal employer groups, custom program design, implementation reporting and evaluation, biometric health screenings, health coaching and wellness and fitness classes.
Nichelle has more than 15 years of experience teaching yoga classes and private lessons. Using methods that emphasize sports science, alignment and teaching yoga in a safe and adaptable way, she has been able to teach yoga in a way that is accessible for students with varying levels of fitness.
Nichelle’s combination of experience and education enables her to provide a holistic approach that focuses on all areas of wellness related to lifestyle to prevent and compliment the healthcare management of health conditions and improve the quality of life. She focuses on the relationship of lifestyle related behaviors, such as nutrition, physical activity and emotional health. Utilizing evidenced-based, best in practice healthy lifestyle guidelines and behavior support strategies, she is able to help clients and students successfully integrate healthy behaviors into their lives.
“Simply educating about healthy behaviors is not enough to create long-lasting behavior changes. Behavior change strategies are needed to translate those lessons into action.”
A positive and encouraging message about how to live well will be conveyed to clients by teaching them how to incorporate the activities and foods that they enjoy into a healthy lifestyle.
Wellness should be a positive and encouraging experience where the employee is empowered to create their own goals and assisted with how to overcome their barriers.
A well-rounded yoga practice focuses on improving all areas of fitness. In addition, yoga can improve emotional health, cognitive function and can be an effective tool in pain management as well as many other health benefits.
Health is a holistic approach focusing on all areas of wellness related to lifestyle and health issues in a variety of settings, including worksites, healthcare facilities, community agencies, schools/universities and government agencies. Nutrition focuses on the relationship of nutrition to overall health, understanding of the disease process, physiology and the basis for treatment.
Certified Exercise Physiologist (EP) is certified to conduct and interpret physical fitness assessments and developing exercise prescriptions for people who are healthy or have medically controlled health conditions.
Work effectively as a member of the extended healthcare team, provide exercise guidance to individuals with the most common chronic diseases and utilize behavioral support strategies to help a patient successfully integrate regular physical activity into their lives.
200-Hour YogaFit emphasizes sports science and alignment principles, bringing yoga to everybody in a safe, accessible and adaptable way. YogaFit allows for a full range of fitness levels, age groups and health conditions. 100-Hour Trauma Sensitive emphasizes understanding PTSD and trauma at a deeper level and to guide your students toward greater healing.
A systematic method for screening a client’s behavior, personality influences, and readiness to change allowing the (BCS) to select guided self-help interventions that match the individual, rather than forcing the client/individual to adapt to the desired motivation and behavior change.
Performin office and non-office ergonomics assessments, with the focus on identifying risk factors and determining solutions and opportunities for improvement.
Strategies to reduce chronic disease and injury risk to employees and an eye to improving overall worker productivity.
Members are poised to address a higher level of challenges faced in today’s organizations: containing health care costs, improving productivity within healthy employees, reducing the costs of injury on the job and engaging employees in long-term well-being.
