Ann Mead

Experience

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  Happy Home Yoga

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2024

  Yoga Teacher

  Founded home-based yoga business marketed to multiple ages, genders, and abilities, offering diverse yoga styles, including Hatha and Vinyasa.• Effectively communicate and lead numerous multi-level yoga classes throughout the Wausau area with special emphasis on how yoga improves strength, balance, and flexibility.• Prepare and plan structured yoga classes to target the diverse skills and abilities of the class participants.• Motivate and encourage participants to provide a positive yoga experience using hands-on adjustments to help the student better understand the posture or deepen the stretch.• Collaborated and assisted in yoga teacher training class with owner of Community Soul. • Educate clients on effective stress management and breathing techniques as well as the multiple benefits of yoga, such as helping with back pain relief, easing arthritis symptoms, and increasing energy levels or improving moods. Show less

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  WAUSAU SCHOOL DISTRICT

  Sept 2004 - Dec 2006

  Programming Specialist

  Hired to develop and facilitate engaging after-school programs for elementary school students.• Instructed classes and held events for faculty and students, which included yoga and stress management.• Created and taught wellness programs for faculty, support staff, and elementary students.• Recruited to instruct women’s yoga class at the American Legion by staff members at the school.

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  Aspirus Health

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2024

  Health And Wellness Coach

  Develop individualized health plans for patients enrolled in disease management program to achieve goals such as substantial weight loss, elimination of lifelong medications, and reversal of classification as Type 2 Diabetics.• Participated in the Chicago Obesity Summit, which offered a diverse range of presentations on the different aspects of obesity as a disease and new information on obesity medicines.• Selected as the sole provider of health and wellness coaching staff for an outreach clinic location, managed an average patient load of 20 patients daily. • Complete patient charting in the Epic system to provide health information for other healthcare providers. Show less

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  Westphal Staffing, Inc.

  Oct 2023 - now

  Director of Business Development