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Health Coach for Women

I provide comprehensive, holistic and compassionate care for women of all ages who want to engage in a positive relationship with their pelvis, reproductive health, endocrine system and menstrual cycles.  This includes:

  • Healing for irregular menstrual cycles
  • Learning how to be aware of and track fertility signs
  • Managing chronic pelvic pain, vaginal pain or hip/low back pain
  • Cesarean and birth recovery including nerve damage, anxiety and abdominal and pelvic floor strengthening
  • Working with symptoms associated with PMS (mood, bloating, headaches, etc.)
  • Alternative support for PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome)
  • Infertility, miscarriage and pregnancy loss support
  • Healthy menopause
  • Adrenal Fatigue
  • Anxiety, depression, anger and frustration in relationship to menstrual cycles, fertility, PMS, pelvic pain and infertility

WOMEN’S HEALTH CONSULTATION SERVICES

2-Hour Consultation and Evaluation
$200

50-Minute Sessions
$90

Package of Six Individual Sessions
$500

Package of Consultation and Six Individual Sessions
$675

HOW DO WE WORK TOGETHER?

If you live in Pittsburgh or surrounding suburbs, then we can meet together in person in a beautiful treatment room at Mookshi Wellness Center (401 Biddle Avenue, 2nd Floor above Biddle’s Escape Cafe in Regent Square).

If you live anywhere else in the world, then we can work together using the power of the internet making geographical location and distance irrelevant.  You will need access to the internet and SKYPE or we can use Google to “hang-out.”

WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU COACH PEOPLE TO DO?

The mind and body are always aligned, but sometimes we start living as if this is not the case.  In mind body therapy, I use a variety of techniques to help you feel more connected in mind and body. I choose the techniques that I think will be most helpful to you in meeting your goals: relaxation, mindful movement, breathing practices, mindful eating and meditation are common skills that I instruct my clients in using to support their own well-being.  In addition, I offer instruction in planning menus, improving quality of sleep, using a basal thermometer to track menstrual cycles and other practical and specific lifestyle skills that support your goals.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SEE RESULTS?

Most women see evidence of benefits to our work together within 6-sessions. In general, the lifestyle changes including diet, exercise and meditation have both immediate benefits and women find that they are able to meet their original goals that were identified during the initial consultation between 6-months to one year.  This is an empowering process where you learn how to improve the quality of your life.  Once you learn the skills, they are yours to keep and use forever.

DISCLAIMER

During our initial consultation,  I will want to make sure that you have sought out appropriate medical care and diagnosis to rule out any medical conditions, illness or disease that can cause pain, irregular cycles, bloating and other symptoms as described above.  I am not a doctor and offer holistic lifestyle consultations and support for women who have chronic reproductive organ and system health concerns that are not treatable through bio-medicine.  While rare, there are serious conditions that can cause similar symptoms to PMS or PCOS, irregular cycles and infertility.  My advice is not meant to replace professional medical care and I will never recommend that you stop taking any prescribed medication or treatment plan that has been prescribed by a doctor or mental health professional.  If you have not already had an exam and evaluation by a medical professional regarding your condition, I will recommend that you do so as soon as possible in our initial consultation.   

ABOUT ME

Sharon Rudyk is a yoga and meditation instructor and birth doula based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  If you are from the general Pittsburgh area, we can meet in a beautiful and private practice space that I use at Mookshi Wellness Center in Regent Square.  If you live anywhere else in the world or it is more convenient for you to work with me using distance tools, I also work with phone sessions, Google Hangout and SKYPE.  All you need for distance sessions is a quiet place, an internet connection and either a phone/computer or electronic notebook/iPad.  Call me at 412.855.5692 for your FREE and absolutely no obligation phone session.

I’ve Got Soba. Yes I Do!

This post answers the call that regularly haunts yoginis all over the world:

I’ve got Soba.  Yes I do!
I’ve got Soba. How about you?

And, lest we get stuck in some circular nutrition chant that leaves us all hungry and with an increasingly dusty box of soba noodles in our pantries, I’m going to cook my soba noodles tonight.  Yes, I am.

I’ve got a box of Soba Pasta that has been giving me the evil eye on my pantry shelf for a more than a few weeks now.  I love soba noodles and I”m pretty sure that at least one of my children will gobble them right up…….but I just haven’t been sure how to make them.  As I have a winter farm share, I’m also trying to take advantage of the local veggies that I have in my fridge that will go bad soon unless I figure out what to do with them—-and SOON!

sobaSo, tonight, I think I am making this recipe from the Eden Foods website.  I’ll let you know how it goes.  The good news is that this box of noodles won’t be calling out to me from the shelf anymore.  It will be, as we say often in our house, “All Gone.”

Ingredients

8 ounces Eden Organic Soba

3 Tbsp Eden Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 pound organic extra firm tofu, cut into 1 inch cubes

3 cups button mushrooms, sliced
or any variety of fresh mushrooms

1 1/2 tsp fresh ginger root, finely minced

2 Tbsp Eden Shoyu Soy Sauce

1 piece Eden Kombu, 4 inches long

1/4 cup scallions, finely chopped

1/4 cup Eden Toasted Nori Krinkles
or 4 individual serving packets of Eden Spicy Nori Strips, cut into 1 inch squares

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Directions

Cook soba as package directs, rinse, drain and set aside. Place the wakame in a small bowl, cover with cold water and soak 5 minutes. Remove, drain and set aside. Pat the tofu dry with paper towels. Heat the oil in a large skillet over a high flame until hot but not smoking. Add the tofu and stir fry until golden. Remove the tofu and drain on paper towels. Reduce the heat and sauté the mushrooms for 5 to 7 minutes until browned. Return the tofu to the skillet, add the ginger and saute 1 minute. Add the vegetable stock and bring to a boil. Add the kombu and cook 4 minutes. Remove kombu and discard. Reduce the flame to low and add the shoyu. Simmer 2 minutes. Place the soba in individual serving bowls and ladle and equal amount of the tofu, mushrooms and broth over each serving. Garnish with scallions and nori.

Nutritional Info

Per serving: 443 Calories, 19g Fat (38% calories from fat), 24g Protein, 43g Carbohydrate, 3g Fiber, 0mg Cholesterol, 640mg Sodium

Recipe re-posted from the Eden Foods website by Sharon Fennimore Rudyk, an independent yoga and meditation instructor and birth doula based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  Find out more about Sharon on her website www.sharonrudykyoga.com.