There’s still time to register for the latest edition of the Northumberland PACE Speakers Series, which returns on Wednesday (July 23) with a virtual conversation about harnessing the power of breathing techniques to improve several aspects of overall health.
Community members can learn more by joining the webinar, “Breathe Better, Live Better – Discover the Power of Your Breath to Enhance Focus, Sleep, and Mood – Naturally,” at 5:30 p.m. While the webinar is free to attend, advance registration is required at nhh.ca/pace.
Hosted by Northumberland Hills Hospital (NHH) in Cobourg, the webinar features speakers Dr. Anuja Sharma and Randi Stone. NHH president and CEO Susan Walsh will serve as the guest moderator.
Dr. Anuja Sharma is an internal medicine specialist with IMCare in Cobourg who has been practising medicine since 1996. Her interests include diseases of the skin, thyroid disorders, osteoporosis, arthritis, and health and wellness.
Randi Stone is a certified breathwork facilitator and registered massage therapist with more than a decade of experience supporting musculoskeletal and nervous system health. She specializes in helping the population regulate stress, restore energy, and reconnect with their bodies.
According to a media release from NHH, Dr. Sharma and Stone will be leading an “evidence-based discussion on how simple breathing techniques can improve mental clarity and calm, support restful sleep, and lift one’s mood without medication or gadgets.” Participants will learn strategies to become more aware of their breathing and how to use it as a daily tool for better health and well-being.
As is standard within the PACE Talk format, questions from the audience are welcomed. Questions can be emailed to mbhargava@imcare.ca prior to the webinar or asked during the webinar if time permits.
PACE (Personalized Assessment and Change Education) is a speakers series inspired by TED Talks that is typically hosted on a rotating basis at NHH in Cobourg and the Community Health Centres of Northumberland in Port Hope.
Since 2018, the Northumberland PACE partners have been hosting free public education sessions on a broad range of health and wellness topics and have consistently drawn large groups of community members with a variety of questions and perspectives.
NHH, the Northumberland Family Health Team, the Community Health Centres of Northumberland, internal medicine specialists IMCare, the NHH Foundation, Community Care Northumberland, the Ontario Health Northumberland, and local patients and caregivers are all represented on the PACE planning table.
Dr. Mukesh Bhargava of NHH previously told kawarthaNOW that PACE webinar topics are developed in a variety of ways, with all of the subjects tied to areas of health and wellness.
“PACE talks have covered a huge variety of subjects — everything from marijuana to the microbiome,” Dr. Bhargava said.
Lasting an hour in length, each PACE talk consists of a 30-minute talk from a guest speaker with a 20-minute question-and-answer period and a short moderator summary. Space is limited to the first 300 registered attendees. The webinars takes place on Zoom, and participants are asked to log in five minutes prior to the start of the webinar.
