Health, Beauty and Lifestyle with Denise McNamara

A group of female alternative therapists are to offer their services in a one-day marathon session allowing the public to get tasters of each practice while raising money for charity. The Road to Renewal Holistic collaboration involves 11 practitioners coming together for the second time after they each undertook a six-week course to get their businesses off the ground.

Members of the public will get to experience at first-hand an array of energy healing therapies in 20-minute slots. These include Rahanni Celestial Healing, Dawson Program Corrective Sounds Therapy, Bio Energy, AromaTouch Massage, Theta Healing, Reflexology and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique/Tapping). There will also be Tarot reading, nutrition and weight loss advice as well as some tips from life and business coach Elaine Cahill.

With a background in human resources, she ran the Holistic Business Coaching Program that the therapists took part which spearheaded Road to Renewal. This is their second event after the inaugural one last November raised over €1,500 for the Marie Keating Foundation.

This one at the Connacht Hotel next weekend is donating the €30 attendance fee to the Galway Hospice.

“I set up the six-week Holistic Business Coaching Program to help individuals to get their small holistic businesses off the ground. From this eight of them decided to collaborate and organise wellness events and Road to Renewal was born,” she explains.

“The results have been astounding – businesses thriving, networks expanding and confidence soaring.”

The native of Ballinasloe who now lives in Kiltullagh runs workshops to teach vision boarding, building better boundaries, preparing for interviews as well as one-to-one business coaching. Her approach to coaching is a holistic one, says Elaine.

Pictured: Yvonne Keary is a Rahanni and Reiki practitioner who also reads Tarot and angel cards.