Classes & Events
Baby Massage Class for Parents
    This class is designed for newborns up to 8 weeks of age. You will learn to offer loving touch to your baby in very specific ways to enhance communication and bonding while learning to interpret baby's cues. Benefits include how to comfort, helping baby with digestion, elimination, weight gain, and more restful sleep.
Baby’s First Massage Instructor Class
    This one day class teaches you how to assist prenatal and newly delivered families in massaging their newborn babies. After completing the course, you would be able to teach in small groups with babies and caregivers, or in large groups of parents using role-playing and hands-on practice with dolls.
Cancer Wellness Support Series
    Come learn strategies to clear your mind and improve your mood in Introduction to Stress Management, Guided Imagery, and Gentle Yoga. A free series of classes open to all Hartford Hospital Cancer Program Patients and their care-givers
Chair Yoga for People with Multiple Sclerosis
    This chair yoga series is designed specifically for people with Multiple Sclerosis. The series will teach participants postures that can help increase flexibility, range of motion, balance and strength as well as breathing and relaxation techniques.
Change Your Eating, Change Your Life-After Cancer
    It is often difficult to make the transition from a diet lacking in whole foods to a healthy, cancer fighting strategic health plan. This class offers support during the transition, and will help you develop skill power as we explore diet strategies and their influence on enhancing and strengthening the body's innate healing system.
Divorced Women's Empowerment Group
    Come join us and be with other women who are single again. Learn tips for self esteem, coping mechanisms, and discovering individuality.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Level 1
    This two part series will cover the use of EFT for physical pain, emotional discomfort, weight loss/addictions, anxiety, and much more.
Grief Support Group
    Grief can be a very confusing and difficult road. Come join others who are traveling the journey of grief.
HypnoBirthing® Class
    A 5 week hands-on natural childbirth class for expectant mothers and their chosen birth companion.
Improving Your Love Life with the Emotional Freedom Technique
    Use EFT to identify and move past the blocks to love and improve relationships - usually issues like frustrations and old hurts. We'll also talk about the spiritual significance of relationships, and how anger is really your friend. Come on your own, or bring a partner.
Introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)
    Come to this introductory class to learn the basic principles and benefits of EFT for personal use
Learning the Subconscious Language of Healing
    Words can harm and words can heal. The placebo effect, defined as a positive outcome based on positive expectation, is tangible proof of the power of words. The placebo's evil twin is called the nocebo, a negative outcome based on negative expectation. This class will help you understand the importance of words and will help you clear any nocebos you've been exposed to with a group hypnosis session.
Life Balance Coaching
    Life balance coaching is a process of accessing intuitive guidance, deep listening, insight dialogue and a compassionate, non-judgmental presence, to support people in ways that returns them and their life to a place of balance and peacefulness.
Prenatal Yoga
    This four-week program strengthens and tones muscles, making you more comfortable during pregnancy and better prepared for the delivery of your baby.
Reiki Healing Touch - Level 1
    Learn a gentle hands-on relaxation technique that can reduce stress, muscle tension/pain and accelerate the healing process.
Retreat for Caregivers
    An Expressive ART Creativity for those who love and care on a daily basis for others who are confronted with an illness.
Soul Collage for Everyone: Shadow and Light
    The Summer Solstice gives us an opportunity to explore the equity of shadow and light in our lives by creating a card that acknowledges these aspects.
Soul Collage for Everyone: The Witness
    Create a collage card to help gain perspective as you seek to understand the events in your life.
Tai Chi for Health
    Tai Chi is the most famous Chinese martial art style, consisting of fluid, gentle and graceful circular movements. Improve overall fitness, balance, coordination, and agility and reduce the chance for a fall related injury.
Use Hypnosis to Slay the Anxious Dragon
    Use Hypnosis to begin to release the fears that are holding you back, even if you are not sure what you are afraid of. So come learn where fears come from as well as some powerful hypnotic techniques to conquer them.
Using Hypnosis for Pain Relief
    In Europe hypnosis is regularly used as an integral part of the pre-surgery anesthetizing process.If hypnosis is strong enough to be used for surgery, imagine what it can do for managing pain. Come learn how hypnosis works within the brain, as well as 3 powerful techniques to help put you in charge of your body's comfort.
Programs
Acupuncture, Reiki and Massage Therapy
    Need to increase your energy, reduce stress, control pain and many other health conditions?
Art for Healing Program Volunteer
    Act as a creative coach to assist patients with collage writing, drawing and painting, as an outlet to relieve stress and anxiety.
Infant Massage
    Learn hands-on massage techniques to calm and soothe your baby.
Peggy Huddleston's Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster™
    Learn relaxation techniques to help you prepare emotionally and physically for surgery.
Reiki Program Volunteer
    Provide Reiki healing touch, a soothing hands-on relaxation technique for stress reduction and pain relief to hospital patients at their bedside.