Chief Badass
Leader of the Wellness Posse

Alli Waddell’s expertise in the wellness industry comes from 16 years exploring what empowers people to create and maintain healthy and happy lifestyles.

Through her own process of self healing, self testing and self love, she has discovered that there’s not a singular path to living a healthy life. Each path is unique to each person and personal transformation is a lifelong, vulnerable pursuit.

Alli supports her clients in creating their unique “Lifestyle Ecosystem”. This signature process takes the confusion out of optimizing mental, nutritional and physical health, while loving life and having fun.

As a coach, mentor, speaker and the Business Director at Illumma, Austin’s Premier Ketamine Infusion Clinic, her mission is to be a lifeline of empowerment. She stands for radical honesty and self love, and believes that “only when we heal ourselves can we heal the world”

Lifestyle & Nutrition Doctor, former AWC Steering Committee Member

Dr. Lauryn Lax, OTD, NTP is a lifestyle & nutrition doctor on a mission to help people worldwide reinvent the way they look, move, feel and think.

As a Doctor of Occupational Therapy, Nutritionist, and Functional Medicine Practitioner, Lauryn’s work is inspired by her 20+ years of personal and clinical experience, spent recovering from several chronic and complex illnesses, including autoimmune disease, diabetes, IBS, hypothyroidism and eating disorders. After seeing over 20 doctors nationwide and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in efforts to diagnose and treat her conditions, with little help and few answers, Lauryn decided to take her health back into her own hands.

Through extensive study and research, continual self-experimentation, formal training, and her unrelenting faith and determination, she recovered from her debilitating chronic conditions. Since then, she’s made it her life mission to share what she learned with others and help them do the same, no matter their health challenge or struggle. Lauryn earned her Bachelor’s degree at the University of Texas, Doctorate at Belmont University in Nashville and continued her training in functional medicine under leader Chris Kresser and his Kresser Institute, as well as the Institute of Functional Medicine.

She lives in Austin, where she operates her private functional medicine and nutrition practice Thrive Wellness & Recovery and keeps her health journalism skills alive as well: blogging, podcasting, writing books and health articles for publications nationwide.

Nutritional Health Coach

Healthy lifestyle design. Women’s & family nutrition. Autoimmunity. Meal planning.

Megan is passionate about helping people take charge of their health. She works with her clients 1:1 and in groups, and through the self-paced online programs she’s created: Dinner in 10 – which teaches a meal prep system to make dinner in 10 minutes 5 nights a week. And The 7-Day RESET – a guided whole-foods-based cleanse.

Megan is dedicated to helping her clients feel more empowered to make choices that keep them feeling their absolute best and allows them to get the most out of life. Because, as she says,

it’s not just about eating more kale because it’s “healthy”… it’s about what being healthy allows you to do!

Since completing her certification through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York in 2010, Megan has worked with women and men to help them transform their health. Whether it’s to manage a health condition, lose weight, cut cravings, boost energy, or be more productive. She works with her clients to create customized plans and design routines and lifestyle habits that fit into their lives, exactly how they live them right now.

Before becoming a health coach, Megan graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor’s of Science in Journalism. She puts her background in writing and communications to good use through her blog where she publishes new recipes and tips weekly.

Megan is a native Texan, born and raised in Dallas, though considers Austin home now. She and her husband Ross have twin daughters, Maddie and Charlotte. And many of their favorite things to do involve cooking and eating.

Summer Greenlees became a certified yoga instructor in 1997 and became a licensed massage therapist in 1998. Her specialized focus has always been in prenatal and postnatal yoga and massage therapy, having discovered the amazing benefits of prenatal Yoga during her first pregnancy, when her career began. She has also always worked with clients of all ages and fitness levels, both male and female.

Having worked as a full-time professional massage therapist and yoga instructor for over 20 years, her certifications also include:

• Neuromuscular Therapy and Myofasial release
• Ashiatsu Oriental Bar Therapy (“Deep Feet”, Barefoot Massage technique)
• Acupressure and Shiatsu
• Reiki III
• Bodywork for the Childbearing Year
• Advanced Yoga Studies with Donna Farhi
• Massage Doula
• Infant Massage Instructor
• Massage Therapy Instructor
• Functional Yoga Therapy
• Watsu 1 and 2
• Healing Dance 1

Summer is currently enrolled in the Holistic Health Mastery program for completion of certification to become a holistic nutritionist and health coach. She is also currently enrolled in Sadie Nardini’s “Yoga Shred” program for an anatomy informed, intelligent approach to fitness and yoga fusion.

Summer spent 12 years attending births as a doula, in addition to her yoga and bodywork practice. During that time, and having attended hundreds of births, Summer has learned how to effectively train and prepare expecting couples for an optimal, positive birth experience using the tools of yoga and massage therapy. She very much enjoys the opportunity to share her skills with expecting couples, including labor massage techniques to expecting birth partners, and breathing and movement techniques for moms to lower stress, reduce pain, and create greater ease during birth. Look for Summer’s Labor massage Class under Maternity Services to schedule this class.

Summer received the “Best Massage Therapist” award from the Austin Birth Awards in 2013.

Summer’s private yoga therapy practice specializes in movement repatterning for reducing strain and tension in the body during the everyday movements of life as well as movements of the client’s exercise and fitness or yoga practice.

Summer’s Yoga Classes and Yoga Therapy sessions are based on a somatic approach, strongly inspired by her Yoga teacher, Donna Farhi, and her own 20 years experience with yoga, bodywork, and maternity support.

Her yoga series classes taught privately or in a small group session provide a foundation for the beginner or seasoned yoga practitioner to discover or re discover his or her own way of moving, breathing, and being in yoga practice that is truly integrative and supportive of the individuals highest well being and personal wellness goals.

Summer has been a Watsu student and practitioner for 6 years and of all the modalities offered, Watsu and and Yoga therapy are her favorite modalities to share.

Please check out Summer’s awesome reviews on Yelp!
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