Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Session I: Herscher Hall, Room 303-304

Wellness, Nutrition and Mindfullness: A Transformative Lifestyle: From the Palate to a State of Wellbeing

Dr. Coco Cabrel, MD, Reiki Master, Founder, L!festorm Calms

Sophia Cavalli, President, Intuitive Mind Strategies

Iyan M. Bruce, Owner / Sound Therapist, Inner Harmonic – Neuroacoustic Medicine

Anne Stockwell, MFA. Author, Coach, Cancer Veteran and Founder, Well Again

Ceslie Armstrong, CEO & executive producer, NYTEX Productions LLC, Moderator

Sophia Cavalli, President, Intuitive Mind Strategies is an intuitive mind strategist and stress reduction coach, speaker, and trainer who has spent the last 20 years studying mindfulness, meditation, and wellness modalities for emotional, mental, and physical health. With previously held senior leadership roles in multibillion-dollar companies, Sophia blends her business knowledge with proven wellness strategies. She believes in unleashing the power of human potential, and through her coaching, workshops, and seminars designed to engage, enliven, and empower, she assists individuals and organizations to

thrive. Sophia enjoys sharing her years of exploration in a way that helps others reduce stress, increase productivity, improve overall wellness, tap into their intuition, and unleash creativity to achieve their goals. She is certified in educational kinesiology and the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and is completing her mindfulness brain-based and evidence-driven coaching certification with Mark Waldman, author and global leading expert on the brain.

Dr. Coco Cabrel, MD, Reiki Master, Founder, L!festorm Calms: Dr. Coco, as her thousands of students affectionately call her, graduated from the Honors Program in Medical Education at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and went straight into teaching and building higher education curricula that blended her lifelong professional experiences in the arts and health sciences. She mastered Reiki while using other complementary and alternative modalities to fully recover from a serious back injury, allowing her to return to flamenco dance performance and choreography stronger than ever. Coco has drawn from her interactive presentations on Workplace Burnout and self-care, as well as her department chair work in building happier, more productive teams, to create L!festorm Calms© -- her unique and original blend of 90-second focused body positions, directed breath, and internal vision cues derived from her experience in the performing and visual arts, energy work, yoga, meditation, and her inspirational style of teaching and team management. Coco also knows the entertainment industry well, with a husband who is IATSE and SAG-AFTRA, two sons who are SAG-AFTRA, a stage manager daughter, a sound designer son-in-law, and a computer scientist-microbrewer son. While living in Santa Fe, she was one of the inaugural 12 screenwriters in the New Mexico Filmmakers Intensive, an initiative to develop above-the-line talent in New Mexico. Coco served as “only AD” on an ultra-low-budget film before moving to LA to return to flamenco dance, health sciences professorships, higher ed administration – and ultimately wellness and burnout recovery through her Reiki work and L!festorm Calms© program, helping professionals achieve instant stress relief… and keep these skills for L!fe.

Iyan M. Bruce, Owner / Sound Therapist, Inner Harmonic – Neuroacoustic Medicine: Iyan Bruce is a sound therapist focusing in the area of Neuroacoustic Medicine, targeting stress and stress-related conditions. Utilizing the precise application of scientific sound, he is able to enhance brainwave function, achieve advanced brainwave entrainment and directly affect healing in the autonomic nervous system. Iyan discovered the healing power of scientific sound after developing a stress induced autoimmune condition. Seeking a drug-free alternative treatment, he met Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, a pioneer in the field of Neuroacoustics with over 30 years of clinical success. After healing his own nervous system, Iyan decided to train directly with Dr. Thompson to expand the reach of this revolutionary modality. Sound has been used for centuries in cultures around the world. Now, through science and modern technology, Iyan is able to apply a 21st century solution to a 21st century problem, delivering drug-free relief from stress, migraines and anxiety, as well as promoting deeper states of meditation and consciousness.

Anne Stockwell is an author, speaker, artist, and creative guide in the growing area of longterm cancer survivorship. A former Editor in Chief of The Advocate, Anne founded her nonprofit organization, Well Again, in 2014. Her mission is to help individuals chart their authentic path forward after the experience of cancer diagnosis and treatment, recognizing that “remission is not Well Again.” Anne’s mission reflects her own decade of active struggle with ovarian cancer and a second decade, in remission, navigating the joys, sorrow, victories, and defeats that reshape the inner world of every long-term survivor. Anne’s Well Again workshops combine the powers of story and art to help survivors and friends create a personal rite of passage, redeclaring our own identities as greater than our medical charts, and staking our claims to a future of wholeness and joy.

Ceslie Armstrong is the CEO and Executive Producer of NYTEX Productions. Armstrong is a media and entertainment premium content creator, innovator, and strategist specializing in positioning brands and organizations for increased consumer recognition, value, revenue and growth. As executive producer, creative director, interviewer and writer with a strong digital marketing and distribution backbone to drive revenue for publishers, organizations, networks using processes that adapt to changing and emerging technologies to connect to audiences and build strong brand relationships. Armstrong’s strategy of “content drives engagement, decisions and revenue,” along with her deep experience in subscriber-based recurring revenue business models, make her an in-demand consultant and advisor for brands and platforms. Armstrong’s company NYTEX Productions, produces original premium content and experiential events including concerts; fine and performing arts; Grammy award-winning artists; talk and music radio/podcasts; interview format; travel and lifestyle. Company brands include “Grapes, Grains & Grub,” “ACES Apex (Art, Culture, Environment, Sporting),” and more. Armstrong has a long career in hospitality and culinary arts including as an owner, operator, chef and brand strategist and has created culinary content for major platforms. She is a co-director of the inaugural Food Tech + Wellness Forum at Digital Hollywood. As the co-founder of Momentum Women Media & Entertainment for 10 years, Armstrong was the company’s Chief Content Officer producing programming for major platforms and events showcasing and recognizing global women innovators, leaders, celebrities, and authors. She is a recognized influencer in the women’s market and has been engaged as spokesperson for many globally known brands. She is a sought-after speaker at universities, organizations and conferences. Armstrong has been in the music industry producing and packaging artists including Los Lonely Boys, Matisyahu, John Cale, Alejandro Escovedo and more. She has created content with renown photographers including Lynn Goldsmith, Henry Diltz, Francesco Scavullo, Billy Name, Patrick McMullan, Christopher Makos, Mick Rock and many more. She has held the post of editor-in-chief, senior editorial positions and contributed to titles including Grace Woman, Marie Claire, Glamour, Mode, InStyle, Cosmopolitan, and more. She has been featured and quoted in hundreds of publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times, WWD, Forbes, Fortune, and Entrepreneur. She has appeared as guest, host and correspondent on Good Morning America, CBS Early Show, The View, E!, Access Hollywood, Food Network, Entertainment Tonight, MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, and many more. She lives in the Hill Country on the Texas Wine Trail near San Antonio and commutes to her second home towns of New York City and Los Angeles where she lived for 20+ years. Upon relocating to Texas she was the keynote speaker at the George Bush Presidential Library; received a Texas Press Association award; a proclamation by the State of Texas for excellence in journalism.