Hormone Health is Holistic Health
Restore balance within yourself
OCTOBER 6th-8th
AN IMPORTANT UPDATE!
Thank you all for your deep interest and excitement about the Hormone Health weekend at MAST. Due to overwhelming requests, we have opened up the offerings as an a la carte menu, so pick and choose the parts of this program that work for you. MAST is a new business and it is so important you know that we are listening, and hearing what will work best for you all. Should you need any further clarification please do not hesitate to reach out to us.
Please review the parts of the program below, and then to book your specific selections please email connect@mastnantucket.com with your confirmation and preferred days and times for services.
For women, hormone health is integrated health. As a woman, to have an understanding of your hormone health is critical, and yet not something of which we are readily informed. Hormone imbalances can be the root of many underlying health hardships, from adrenal fatigue and high blood sugar to fertility concerns or thyroid discrepancies, and beyond. When we come to connect with something so integral to our health we can experience a whole new level of connecting with ourselves. Through this program, begin your journey or go deeper to learn to restore balance by making holistic shifts within yourself, your nutrients, and your lifestyle. To care for your hormones leads to overall health best practices and feeling your best too. From this place your internal systems flow in natural alignment.
Dr. Gabrielle Francis
NATUROPATH, CHIROPRACTOR, ACUPUNCTURIST
Dr. Gabrielle Francis has been practicing natural medicine for more than thirty-five years. She is a Naturopathic Doctor, Chiropractor, Acupuncturist, and Licensed Massage therapist. Gabrielle practices in New York City as The Herban Alchemist. She also operates Backstage Alternative, which is her natural medicine road show that provides chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, nutrition and herbal remedies to performing artists on tour.
Led by Dr. Gabrielle Franicis, you will:
Learn foundational information about hormone health and how to make meaningful shifts.
Meet with Dr. Gabrielle Francis for a personal consultation on treating your questions and concerns.
Receive care and treatment through Mayan Abdominal massage with Nicole Statis and Acupuncture with Tammy Belanger.
Nourish yourself in community with foods that are intentionally curated for hormone health and learn how to carry this practice forward. The meal will be provided in collaboration with Tenzo Kitchen.
A La Carte Program Potentials:
Friday 10/6 at 6pm: An opening conversation with Dr. Gabrielle on foundational teachings and practices for optimal female hormone health. This talk is $60 to attend, space is very limited. Please email connect@mastnantucket.com to secure your spot.
This conversation is between Dr. Gabrielle Francis and Susie Tapley, the Founder of MAST, about the benefits of understanding hormone health and the notable impacts on your health and lifestyle. Learn foundational information to make meaningful decisions, and how this can be a pathway of feeling your best and in flow.
Saturday 10/7 & Sunday 10/8 (all day): You can book any of the following offerings from the program, pending limited availability. Please email connect@mastnantucket.com asap to secure your preferred appointment selections, and days/times.
A personal 1 hour consultation with Dr. Gabrielle Francis treating your individual questions and concerns, $450.
A private Mayan abdominal massage with Nicole Statis, $250.
A private acupuncture session with Tammy Belanger, $250.
A private hormonal health nourishment session to ensure you are nurturing your hormones with Sarah Todd of Tenzo Kitchen, $250 (with a two week personalized meal plan).
The Full Program Inclusions:
Friday 10/6 at 6pm: An opening conversation with Dr. Gabrielle on foundational teachings and practices for optimal female hormone health.
Saturday 10/7: Book your private Mayan Abdominal and/or Acupuncture session
Saturday 10/7 mid-day: Nourish your hormones with Tenzo kitchens catering
In collaboration with Tenzo Kitchen, enjoy a meal curated for your hormone health and learn how to carry this practice forward into the nutrients you choose and your lifestyle around food.
Sunday 10/8: Book your private Mayan Abdominal and/or Acupuncture session
*Note: Book whichever session you did not experience on Saturday
Sunday 10/8 at 4pm: Carrying these integrative health practices forward
In closing, we explore and share the discoveries over the weekend, and receive direct insights from Dr. Gabrielle Francis on how you can continue to care for your hormones and experience vitality and fluidity. This will also be an opportunity to plan and schedule your continued practice and treatments with all of your program practitioners.
Program Practitioners:
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Dr. Gabrielle Francis has been practicing natural medicine for more than thirty-five years. She is a Naturopathic Doctor, Chiropractor, Acupuncturist, and Licensed Massage therapist. Gabrielle practices in New York City as The Herban Alchemist. She also operates Backstage Alternative, which is her natural medicine road show that provides chiropractic, massage, acupuncture, nutrition and herbal remedies to performing artists on tour.
As a holistic physician, Dr. Francis believes in the healing powers of nature. She follows the principles of Naturopathic Medicine, Functional Medicine, Chiropractic, and Traditional Chinese Medicine, all of which place emphasis on treating the individual and finding the cause of disease, not merely treating symptoms.
By restricting the size of her practice, she is able to devote more time to customized treatment, long-term education, and health maintenance to each individual patient. She believes “It is better to know the patient that has the disease than the disease a patient has.”
In her practice, Dr. Francis adheres to the Philosophy and Principles of Naturopathic Medicine:
The Healing Power of Nature
Identify and Treat the Cause
First Do No Harm
Doctor as Teacher
Treat the Whole Person
Prevention
Gabrielle is the author of “The Rockstar Remedy: A rock ‘n’ roll doctor’s prescription for living a long, healthy life”. As a holistic doctor to many of the music world’s elite, she has helped some of the biggest names in rock look and feel great, despite an exhausting lifestyle that both demands discipline and welcomes indulgence. In her best-selling book, she uses the platform of Rock ‘n’ Roll to carry the torch, showing music fans and party lovers around the world that it is possible to maintain a high-octane enjoyable lifestyle—and be healthy too.
Gabrielle and her husband are Founders of Moroccan Elixir, a Beauty Brand that works with Women’s Co-Operatives in Morocco to produce high quality organic cosmetic products. Truly Beauty Beyond Borders!
Dr. Gabrielle Francis earned her doctorate in Chiropractic medicine at National College of Chiropractic in Chicago, IL. She received her degrees in Naturopathic Medicine and Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine from Bastyr University in Seattle, WA.
She completed a clinical residency for Acupuncture, Chinese Massage and Chinese Herbal Medicine at Chengdu Hospital for Traditional Chinese Medicine in China.
She did a residency through Bastyr University at Biomedical Center Cancer Facility in Mexico where she learned the utilization of alternative medicines for Cancer Treatment Support.
She received a certification in Drug and Alcohol Detoxification using Acupuncture at Lincoln Hospital in Bronx, NY.
Dr. Francis has postgraduate studies and degrees in Environmental Medicine and Toxicology, Functional Medicine, Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy, Fertility Enhancement, Mind- Body Medicine, and Neurotransmitter and Endocrine Support.
Dr. Francis is a Certified Prenatal Doula and supports patients throughout their Prenatal and Postnatal Journey.
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Nicole Stratis is a bodyworker, folk herbalist, yoga teacher, and earth steward. She specializes in abdominal massage and womb care, biodynamic craniosacral therapy, and restorative herbal anointing massage. From years of tending the soil through organic vegetable farming and medicinal herb gardening, she acknowledges, and works with, the intimate weaving of our human bodies and the earth's health. Nicole's intention is to provide a safe listening space to hear from the body's innate intelligence and optimize the potency available to us while nurturing the nervous system. Currently, she is advancing her studies at The Arvigo® Institute, in a Womb Awakening apprenticeship, finishing a 2 year Biodynamic Craniosacral program, a kundalini yoga teacher training, and a sacred Cacao apprenticeship. It is her pleasure and joy to share these practices and services in gratitude and reverence!
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Tammy believes that a thorough background in Western medicine and Western diagnostics plays an important part in her understanding of her clients' conditions and actually helps her to determine the best course of action to be taken within her practice of Eastern medicine. Whether you are new to acupuncture or come to the island with acupuncture experience, Tammy will easily be able to comprehend your diagnoses and fit a treatment plan to meet your individualized needs.
She graduated cum laude with a Master's degree in 2000 from the New England School of Acupuncture (NESA), the oldest school of Acupuncture and East Asian medicine in the United States (which is now affiliated with the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences!). While there, she studied Traditional Chinese Medicine, Herbal medicine, Magnet therapy, and Moxibustion. After school, she studied Japanese Acupuncture under the direction of world-renowned Kiiko Matsumoto and her partner David Euller. Other studies have included further education in shonishin (non-needle treatment for children), Master Tung Acupuncture, Dr. Tan Acupuncture, and Facial or Cosmetic Acupuncture.
Tammy Belanger performing acupuncture on client in Island Acupuncture treatment room
Prior to her training in Acupuncture, Tammy also studied and received cum laude her Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy (OT) from the University of New Hampshire in 1994. She has worked with all age groups (pediatrics to geriatrics) in multiple hospitals and rehabilitative settings and received her Certified Ergonomics Assessment Specialist training from the Back School of Atlanta. Locally, she has worked per diem at Nantucket Cottage Hospital and also at Our Island Home on Nantucket.
Sarah Todd of Tenzo Kitchen
Program Price: $1,350
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