Wiep de Vries, R.N. MsT. is the founder and director of the Los Angeles Alliance for Childhood, a referral and resource service that has a unique speaker's bureau that offers over two-hundred workshops focused on disseminating holistic approaches to enhance the health and well-being of children. She is a registered nurse trained in the Netherlands. Her specialization is in a system of complimentary healthcare called Anthroposophical Medicine.
Wiep is a pioneer in public education on home care remedies and external applications. Wiep has presented home healthcare workshops for parents and health professionals throughout Southern California since 1993. Her work illustrates how thoughts and belief systems influence our bodies and lives by revealing healing principles and clarifying current scientific studies. Wiep's passion is to empower people to become active participants in their own and their children's healing process by integrating simple healing interventions at home.
She currently has a massage practice in the San Gabriel
Valley, called Muscle Health. www.musclehealth.us
Wiep's specialized massage techniques have helped many people
with chronic pain conditions, including carpal-tunnel syndrome, bursitis and sciatica. She specializes in a muscle release technique in combination with the use of a percussor tool, called the Biopulser.
Wiep works in cooperation with the holistic doctors at the Paracelsus Natural Family Health Center in Pasadena. Additionally, she does outreach and organizes events for
Tierra Miguel, a Community Supported Organic Farm in Pauma Valley.
Sandra Shapiro, R.N. trained at UCLA, worked in various hospital positions before her long career as a school nurse. Sandra yearnings for something more and her information from her patients, developed her awareness of alternative healthcare practices and brought new ways of looking at health and wellness. Deeper explorations began and yoga, acupressure, Chinese medicine,nutrition, Reiki, art therapy, movement therapy, to name some of the modalities, became a way of life for her. Currently Sandra works at the Therapy and Prevention Center in Pasadena as a neurofeedback therapist.
Shirley Kidd, a former Greyhound bus driver, became a registered nurse in her forties and has worked extensively with the homeless and/or mentally ill in the Los Angeles Skid Row area as a health educator and community outreach nurse. She recently graduated from a two-year course in homeopathy. Currently she works with the elderly at an adult day healthcare center, where she encourages participants to make healthy lifestyle choices.
Linde Farmer, R.N. trained in Germany, specializing in therapies for the vocal cords and respiratory system, which involve movement, sound and breath work. In the U.S. she trained as a psychiatric nurse and worked in hospitals. Confronted with burn-out syndrome, she found how nutrition played a leading role in her own recovery. Linde continues to work with nutrition, exploring fermentation of vegetables and cooking methods to preserve the medicinal value of foods. Her new project is to teach children how to garden and cook for good health.
Telephone Consultations
The nurses gladly offer guidance and support by phone to assist parents in the care of their sick child and to share practical instructions on remedies and applications. Extended services are offered in support of parents who have health concerns, such as; nutritional counseling, herbal and homeopathic consultations and massage. Parents are also encouraged to make use of the extensive referral service of the Los Angeles Alliance for Childhood. www.lachildhood.org