ABOUT

ABOUT TRISH:

Trish Hart offers a unique combination of leading wellness workshops on stress management, burn out, self care, mindfulness, meditation, breath work, and sleep hygiene to corporations, municipalities, and universities, and instructs private therapeutic yoga, meditation, mindfulness and offers powerful sound therapy sessions.

Her main interest encompasses the scientific based effects of yoga, meditation, and sound therapy and other mind/body techniques on the brain, central nervous and immune systems, and she embraces the mind/body connection. Trish enjoys working with many modalities and populations ranging from 12 on up (working with anxiety, depression, grief, addiction and trauma), athletes (helping them achieve peak performance) to those with physical issues needing therapeutic guidance for movement and healing. Underlying all her work is teaching her students to find the power of the "Relaxation Response" within themselves.

Trish’s early work surrounded the financial side of clinical programs at Deloitte and Touché, Beth Israel Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. She holds both a BS and a MBA in Healthcare Administration from Boston University. Trish is a previous marathon runner, and loves a very active lifestyle and personally, she has practiced yoga and meditation for over 20 years. She is incredibly passionate about teaching stress management and mind body practices to others, because of the power they have to create resiliency through life's storms, including those she has experienced on her own life's journey.

Trish is educated in through some of the most prestigious Mind/Body programs in the country, including being trained as a facilitator of the Massachusetts General Hospital's, Benson Henry Institute’s (SMART) Stress Management and Resiliency Program, trained in Mindfulness for Professionals through Duke Integrative Medicine, and is an Ananda Meditation and a Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra ® teacher. She has completed two MBSR (Mindful Based Stress Reduction) trainings through UCLA and Mindful Leader, the RISE resiliency program at Kripalu, and a Mindful Self Compassion Meditation Program with Dr. Kristen Neff and Dr. Chris Germer.

Trish is a YACEP and E-RYT 500-hour Yoga Alliance Certified instructor specializing in therapeutic essentials and teaches Vinyasa, Restorative and Yin Yoga, and has completed a myriad of additional specialty trainings. She is certified by the National Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, a member of the International Association of Yoga Therapists, trauma-sensitive trained and a certified leader in Y12SR (Yoga for 12-step recovery) for addiction recovery. Trish has served for two terms as a lululemon ambassador, and has developed a podcast series of guided meditations for the company. She is also a recent graduate of an intensive two year Sound Therapist training that is rooted directly in science and lineage of Eastern traditions, directly from her teacher in Nepal. In addition, she is currently in a somatics therapy certification training program for yoga therapists.

She practices in the Sangha community at the Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (CIMC), has attended silent retreats at CIMC and the Insight Meditation Society (IMS), and is an assistant faculty of Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.  Finally, she has volunteered at several annual BHI's Mind Body Conferences at Harvard Medical School, South Shore Hospital's breast cancer awareness events, empowerHER Mother's Day Retreat at the Seaport Hotel, Massachusetts General Hospital, the Magical Moon Farm, South Shore Health, the Youth Health Alliance, Well Strong etc.etc. etc.

Trish's splits her work among servicing mental health clients and corporate wellness work at employee assistance programs at MIIA Health Benefits Trust (for Blue Cross/Blue Shield), KGA Associates, Work Life Institute, and the Harvard Kennedy School. In addition, she has a large private corporate lecturing practice, and teaches private therapeutic yoga and meditation classes to individuals and groups. For fun and to share the transformative gifts of nature with her students, she founded a year round beach yoga and meditation program, Cohasset Beach Yoga. Trish also enjoys Sedona, AZ where she teaches and leads retreats and recharges on the Red Rocks, and shares all the amazing healing energy with her clients.

Trish has been working in integrative mental health for almost a decade, and works privately and conducts semi-private therapeutic yoga/meditation groups and workshops with variety of audiences. Her specialties within the practice include working with the autoimmune population, cancer recovery, pain management and those with mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, addiction, and PTSD. Trish has run several mind/body grant programs for chronic pain for the South Shore Spine Center and addiction recovery meditation and yoga groups. In addition, she has developed and instructs a variety of workshops to help participants develop a toolbox of stress management tools.

At the MIIA Health Trust, Trish teaches a variety of mind/body workshops, including Foundations of Meditation, Mindfulness, Self Care, Sleep Hygiene and Breathwork in municipality wellness programs. She also offers this work for KGA and privately under her company Hart Mind Body Solutions, and teaches at a wide variety of corporations, Emerson College, Tufts University, The Harvard Kennedy School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, South Shore Health, numerous corporations and many municipalities.

Trish shares her knowledge with groups of all size groups, and enjoys leading large meditation and lecture events, including at Boston’s HUB week, and Lakewood Ranch’s “Mindful Triathlon”.  She is a member of the team of The Brain Health Initiative, a collaborative effort of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University and the Academy of Brain Health, and developed an extensive video series of meditations and lectures for managing stress during COVID-19. Trish is also an active educator in the FINER virtual pain program through Boston's Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital that provides support chronic pain patients with a variety of mind body modalities. Most recently she has been training clinicians, social workers, chaplains and bereavement counselors on burnout, boundaries and teaching them valuable mind body tools to mitigate stress for caregivers and their patients.

Trish is a compassionate and dynamic instructor, and helps individuals to heal and thrive in managing stress and illness their own lives. She is authentic in her teachings of mind body principles because of her extensive education, personal practices, life journey and rich experiences of working in teaching hospitals and the corporate world. Teaching others the value and how to access the connection of the mind and the body across many different industries and patient care settings is the essence of all her work.