About Nancy Hopps     Nancy Hopps NANCY HOPPS is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and mind-body-Spirit healing consultant. Her award-winning RELAX INTO HEALING  CDs have been mentioned in Reader’s Digest, Redbook, Yoga Journal and others. They've earned praise from leaders in the field, including Dr. Bernie Siegel and Dr. Joan Borysenko, and are in widespread use in personal and clinical healing settings. Her warm, accessible presentational style and well-honed skills have touched the lives of thousands of students, private clients, workshop participants and CD and tape listeners. Nancy brings a wealth of personal, as well as professional, healing experience to her heartfelt presentations and acclaimed recordings.  Nancy has studied, developed, and honed a variety of relaxation and healing methods that are simple, yet powerful, and applicable to people of all ages and all levels of experience. Deep relaxation is the common foundation of Nancy's extensive healing work. It is in this state of deep relaxation, when the body is stilled, the emotions soothed, the mind quieted, that one experiences the center of peace within… and it is in this place of quiet stillness, this essence of the being, that optimal healing occurs. Additional Info: Nancy has taught through the University of Oregon and Lane Community College, and was a founding staff member at Concordia Health Resources, a mind/body healing center providing adjunctive health care for physician-referred patients. She developed and recorded the relaxation segments for Living With Breast Cancer interactive CD-rom, funded by the National Cancer Institute, and Coping With Depression and mPower Wellness Workshop interactive CD-Roms, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Nancy was also instrumental in developing and implementing the stress-management elements of a grant project through the National Institute of Health/Oregon Research Institute, which studied the effects of lifestyle changes on post-menopausal women with Type II diabetes. She has presented for a variety of organizations, including numerous hospitals and health facilities such as Sacred Heart/Peace Health, McKenzie-Willamette, and Westlane Hospitals., the Oregon Bar Association, Oregon Psychological Association, U.S. Forest Service, U.S.Postal Service, Oregon Research Institute, Oregon Medical Technicians Conference, Oregon Elementary Principals Conference, Society of Technical Communications, Parents Without Partners, Whole Life Expo, World Wellness Weekend, Health & Well-Being Group, and countless corporate, civic, and educational organizations. Nancy's work with private clients over more than 25 years has included a wide range of body/mind issues, from stress management and performance anxiety, to anorexia, RSD, chronic pain, cancer, and clinical depression, as well as spiritual mentoring and life transitions coaching. She intuitively draws from an extensive background in various healing modalities, including mindfulness-based meditation, energy medicine and energy psychologies (e.g. - "hands on" healing, "law of attraction", EFT...), deep relaxation techniques, guided imagery, affirmations, hypnotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, sound healing, bioresonance therapy, biofeedback, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), therapeutic massage, acupressure, reflexology, "talk (and listen!) therapy", prayer, and Love.  (Happily, much of the work Nancy does tends to defy labels.)  Nancy also practices and teaches yoga, and another moving meditation sequence called Edgu. Of the many healing modalities she integrates, Nancy believes, and continually demonstrates, that "the greatest of these is Love." (For more information regarding Nancy's work with private clients, please see services page.)