Here’s our last feature post prior to the release of the special VISIONS Across America issue, which should hit the mail in late March. Once that issue is in the hands of our Alumni Association members, I’ll post the stories featured in that issue so the blog will contain features on EVERY alum we met during this two-year project.
But I digress. We met Krista Eilers in Kansas City last September. Here’s her story:
Krista Eilers, MSW, NHP, QRP practices what she preaches.
A holistic practitioner and founder of Holistic Healing in Kansas City, Krista starts each day with 30 minutes of yoga. When she’s not working as a yoga instructor or holistic health coach, Krista power-walks, bikes, and sails.
“I love the outdoors,” she says. “I think it’s where healing takes place.”
In her professional life, Krista works with individuals in the areas of emotional health, cancer prevention, pain management, occupational health, stress and anger management, and nutrition. She also works with cancer survivors.
“The number one most important thing in working with cancer survivors is emotional health,” she says.
If she had to simplify her advice and “stick it on the fridge,” it would be this: Dietary changes (“eat fresh, wholesome food”), exercise (“especially outdoors!”), and meditation (deep breathing, yoga, tai chi, or whatever you enjoy).
“It’s the whole mind/body/spirit approach to life,” she says. “It’s important to be in the ‘now.’”
A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a 1993 ISU grad with a degree in social work, Krista has lived in the Kansas City area since 1994.
“You won’t get any better climate than Kansas City,” she says. “You can be outside 10 months out of the year.”
On the road 
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