TALKS

EDUCATIONAL TALKS & WEBINARS

Community is at the heart of what we do at Balanced Living. Join our regular talks where we share our knowledge with you.

Our internationally trained practitioners will share their expertise in depth on a wide range of subjects to help you understand key areas of your health better and make informed decisions about where you may need help.


We host all of our educational talks via Zoom so you can join from anywhere in the world with plenty of opportunities to interact and ask questions.


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PAST TALK HIGHLIGHTS

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DEMYSTIFYING DETOX: What makes us toxic?

With Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA)

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Attendees joined leading Functional Medicine practitioner, Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA), for a talk on exploring “DETOX”. The talk outlined strategies and tools to investigate and optimize our bodies detox pathways. Learning about how to determine our toxic load, what can go wrong with our bodies detox systems, and ways to optimize our detox pathways through nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle modifications.


About Jennifer Lewin

Jennifer brings together a unique mix of Functional Medicine, East-Asian Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Manual Therapy, and Nutritional Wellness. With over 20 years of clinical experience, Jennifer has helped many adults and children use a whole food, nutrient dense, anti-inflammatory dietary program, along with a Functional Medicine approach to regain their health and wellness naturally.


Learn more about Jennifer Lewin, or book anappointment -here

PAST WEBINARS

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Anxiety Management Beyond Meds

With Dr Poorna Menon

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Do you find you're often stressed out and struggling with anxiousness?


Feeling stressed and anxious are 'regular' parts of being human. They're things we cannot typically avoid, no matter how serious or trivial such episodes are. To go through life's ups and downs emphasizes the very fact that we are human, having a very human experience! In spite of this, such experiences are still encounters that we can develop mastery over - and being able to have such mastery can be the one thing that can change your life forever.


Join Dr Poorna Menon, Mind-Body Medicine Practitioner & Naturopath, for a captivating free webinar on how to understand your unique stress responses better whilst stepping into a more calm and balanced life. Knowing how to work with your stressors gives you mastery over your emotions and anxiety patterns. Begin to discover how to experience the truth of what you are feeling, whilst remaining in control of your life and emotions.


About Dr Poorna Menon

Dr. Poorna Menon, ND (USA) is a board-certified licensed Naturopathic physician, who is a member of The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) and has a Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine from the prestigious Bastyr University, USA, one of the pioneering institutions in science-based natural medicine.


Learn more about Dr Poorna Menon, or book an appointment -here

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Optimising hormones from puberty to adulthood

With Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA)

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Many people experience hormonal issues beginning in their teenage years, and often suffer from these imbalances into and often throughout adulthood. 


Join leading Functional Medicine practitioner, Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA), for a webinar exploring a root cause approach to optimizing hormones for both men and women. This webinar will explore common imbalances in sex hormones, thyroid hormones, and stress hormones, including throughout the peri-menopausal years for women. Jennifer will also share how best to assess one’s hormonal status and will go through actionable tools and strategies to optimize hormones through nutrition, supplementation and/or lifestyle modifications. 


This webinar will be a great starting point to empower people to make lifestyle changes which will promote optimal hormonal health.


Jennifer brings together a unique mix of Functional Medicine, East-Asian Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Manual Therapy, and Nutritional Wellness. With over 20 years of clinical experience, Jennifer has helped many teenagers and adults use a Functional Medicine approach to regain their hormonal health and balance naturally.


About Jennifer Lewin

Jennifer brings together a unique mix of Functional Medicine, East-Asian Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Manual Therapy, and Nutritional Wellness. With over 20 years of clinical experience, Jennifer has helped many adults and children use a whole food, nutrient dense, anti-inflammatory dietary program, along with a Functional Medicine approach to regain their health and wellness naturally.


Learn more about Jennifer Lewin, or book an appointment -here

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Demystifying Detox

With Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA)

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Are you having issues with your energy, weight, gut, hormones, skin, mood, sleep and/or are you just not feeling great?


In this webinar, learn about how various types of toxic loads and/or issues with your body’s own ability to ‘detox’, are likely a piece of your health puzzle.


Join leading Functional Medicine practitioner, Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA), for a webinar exploring “DETOX”. This webinar will outline strategies and tools to investigate and optimize your bodies detox pathways.


Learn about how to determine your toxic load, what can go wrong with our bodies detox systems, and ways to optimize our detox pathways through nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle modifications.


About Jennifer Lewin

Jennifer brings together a unique mix of Functional Medicine, East-Asian Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Manual Therapy, and Nutritional Wellness. With over 20 years of clinical experience, Jennifer has helped many adults and children use a whole food, nutrient dense, anti-inflammatory dietary program, along with a Functional Medicine approach to regain their health and wellness naturally.


Learn more about Jennifer Lewin, or book an appointment -here

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Optimizing Hormones for Mother & Daughter

With Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA)

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Many women experience hormonal and/or menstrual issues beginning in our teenage years, and often suffer from these imbalances into adulthood.


Join leading Functional Medicine practitioner, Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA) for a webinar exploring a root cause approach to optimize hormones for both Mother’s and Daughter’s. 


This webinar will outline:

• strategies and tools to optimize hormones for women from puberty to perimenopause.

• Learn about our natural female hormonal cycles throughout our menstruating years

• what can go wrong, and ways to optimize these cycles through nutrition, supplementation and/or lifestyle modifications.


This webinar will be a great starting point for meaningful conversations between you and your daughter, to empower you both to make lifestyle changes which will promote optimal female hormonal health.


About Jennifer Lewin

Jennifer brings together a unique mix of Functional Medicine, East-Asian Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Manual Therapy, and Nutritional Wellness. With over 20 years of clinical experience, Jennifer has helped many adults and children use a whole food, nutrient dense, anti-inflammatory dietary program, along with a Functional Medicine approach to regain their health and wellness naturally.


Learn more about Jennifer Lewin, or book an appointment -here

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5 Most Common Causes of Weight Gain

With Naturopath, Toni Baker

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How many times have you been told that weight loss is a simple equation of maths -  eat less, exercise more - only to be left frustrated by this common misconception?


What happens when you are doing your absolute best? 


Eating healthily, exercising regularly yet still struggling to lose weight. It can be a frustrating battle with no end in sight.


In this session you will learn about:

• The five main causes of weight gain

• How to investigate what is out of balance in the body

• How we use functional testing to get to the root cause of the issue

• Why most diets will never work if you fail to address the root cause

• The best food plans to support you at the different stages of life

• The best food supplements and lifestyle changes you can adoptThis webinar will be a great starting point for meaningful conversations between you and your daughter, to empower you both to make lifestyle changes which will promote optimal female hormonal health.


Toni will also be sharing more about her new guided "Body Transformation Programme" where you will learn how to eat to lose weight and keep it off forever. There will be the opportunity to ask questions and see if this plan is right for you.


About Toni Baker

Toni Baker, BHSc (Naturopathy) Adv Dip Western Herbal Medicine, Adv Dip Nutrition, Dip Homeopathy, Dip Remedial Massage, Dip Reflexology, Emotion Code Practitioner.


Originally from the UK Toni is an Australian trained Functional Medicine Practitioner, Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutritionist and Homeopath and has been practising for over 20 years in some of Sydney's top naturopathic clinics and also within her own business in Australia, Path Naturopathy. Toni has now been practising at Balanced Living for over a year and is seeing clients both in-clinic and virtually.


Toni's ethos is to provide her clients with leading health solutions that best suit their lifestyle, allowing them to choose their path to health, and making it a comfortable and achievable journey. She uses a combination of diagnostic testing, medical and lifestyle history, dietary and lifestyle changes supported by supplements and natural herbal remedies.


Learn more about Toni Baker, or book an appointment — here

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Anti-Inflammatory Dietary Reset Talk

With Practitioner, Jennifer Lewin

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Are you in a ‘lockdown’ rut? Do you want to re-invigorate your health, and ‘reset’ prior to the holidays?


Are you curious about how much food plays into your signs and symptoms?


Spend the month before the holiday’s doing an Anti-Inflammatory Dietary Reset.


Leading Functional Medicine practitioner Jennifer Lewin, LAc (USA), will present a webinar which introduces one of her foundational nutritional programs: an Anti-Inflammatory Dietary Reset.


The webinar will go through the benefits of, and how to implement this Reset program.


This program will kick start both your detox and immune system and make them stronger, so you will be able to move through the holiday season starting from a place of more optimal health.


The program is ideally done for 30 days to achieve optimal benefits, but it can be modified into a shorter time frame.


This ‘Reset’ program helps to:

• Reset the way that you eat

• Change the relationship that you have with food

• Lose weight

• Improve your detoxification and immune systems

• Control inflammatory conditions

• Balance your hormones

• Improve your digestion

• Improve your energy, sleep, and mood

• Maximise the nutrients that you get from food


About Jennifer Lewin

Jennifer brings together a unique mix ofFunctional Medicine, East-Asian Medicine, Herbal Medicine, Manual Therapy, andNutritional Wellness. With over 20 yearsof clinical experience, Jennifer has helped many adults and children use awhole food, nutrient dense, anti-inflammatory dietary program, along with aFunctional Medicine approach to regain their health and wellness naturally.

Learn more about Jennifer Lewin, or book an appointment — here

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Perimenopause to Menopause – A Time of Transition 

With Naturopath, Toni Baker

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Perimenopause - the period that links a women’s reproductive years to menopause. An emotionally challenging time because, as well experiencing many physical symptoms, women often experience feelings of grief, loss and a sense of death and rebirth.


In this webinar:

We will learn about all the different symptoms, ranging from moodiness and irritability, sleep issues, bloating, breast tenderness, weight gain, chronic headaches, frequent urination, cycle changes and night sweats.


Till today, society has wrongly misinterpreted this period as an ending. Although menopause does signify an end to what we know in terms of the reproductive stage of life, it’s important to acknowledge that this can be a time of expansive freedom and new beginnings. And there is so much we can do to help with the physical transition.


We will look at the following areas, how they affect your hormones and what you can do to support your body naturally:

• HPA Dysfunction (stress) 

• Endocrine Glands i.e. thyroid or pancreas 

• The Microbiome 

• Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDC’s) 

• Diet and Lifestyle 

• Treatment and supplements 

• Functional testing


With the right knowledge and support this can be a positive transition to be embraced not feared! 


About Toni Baker

Toni Baker, BHSc (Naturopathy) Adv Dip Western Herbal Medicine, Adv Dip Nutrition, Dip Homeopathy, Dip Remedial Massage, Dip Reflexology, Emotion Code Practitioner.


Originally from the UK Toni is an Australian trained Functional Medicine Practitioner, Naturopath, Herbalist, Nutritionist and Homeopath and has been practising for over 20 years in some of Sydney's top naturopathic clinics and also within her own business in Australia, Path Naturopathy. Toni has now been practising at Balanced Living for over a year and is seeing clients both in-clinic and virtually.


Toni's ethos is to provide her clients with leading health solutions that best suit their lifestyle, allowing them to choose their path to health, and making it a comfortable and achievable journey. She uses a combination of diagnostic testing, medical and lifestyle history, dietary and lifestyle changes supported by supplements and natural herbal remedies.


Learn more about Toni Baker, or book an appointment — here

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