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Chriss' Education, Training & Credentials
“For the last 20 years, as a speech-language
therapist in the St. Louis area, I have been
providing therapeutic interventions and
educational programs to enhance the natural
gifts and abilities of children, and adults.
Listening Fitness Training - LiFT - is the
program I have seen benefit my clients most.
The unique vocal component of the LiFT
program is why I chose it above every other
listening or music program I researched. The
active listening provided by the LiFT
equipment, and the vocal exercises of the
expressive phase of Listening Fitness
Training offers clients something which
passive listening programs cannot. I am
grateful to Paul Madaule for teaching us how
to enhance the ear-voice connection with
LiFT.” Chriss
 The
Roots Of A Farm Girl
I come from a
long line of very creative, very
resourceful, pioneer women and men. I came
into the world in a family with a rural
Ozark Missouri heritage. Organic farming and
gardening (for there was no other way),
pasture raising chickens and the other farm
stock, and in every sense, making full use
of, and living off the land and nearby
river, was the way of life for my
grandparents, great-grandparents, and the
generations before them.
My
great-grandmother, who was half Dutch, half
French and Cherokee Indian, was the original
holistic medicine practitioner. She knew how
to use the medicinal properties of any of
the herbs, plants and trees on her homestead
and she passed on these remedies to her
daughters, granddaughters and great
granddaughters.
I consider
myself fortunate to come from these farmgirl
roots, for handed down to me were the
ancient skills of stitching and sewing. I
was about 5 years old when I was given my
first sewing machine, a miniature version of
a real sewing machine.
 I
quickly learned my way around my
grandmother’s treadle machine and my mom’s
electric machine. By the age of 12, I was
making most of my own clothes. Creativity
with fabric arts and threads and an eye for
fashion design turned out to be a life-long
hobby.
Well, today,
it seems everything old is new again.
Stitching and sewing and all sorts of
handwork arts are back in vogue.
Research from ivy league medical schools are
reminding us about the relaxation benefits
available in the repetitive movements of
ancient handwork arts like embroidery and
knitting. Why, even men are seen knitting on
subways these days.
This should come as no surprise. During
WWII, soldiers were often taught to knit as
a means of relieving what was then termed,
battle fatigue.
It gives me
the greatest joy to be able to reconnect
people with the benefits and pleasures
associated with these ancient handwork
skills.
 Visit
A Stitch In
Time
and learn more about where you can
participate in this stitching group, hosted
by Chriss.
"When our eyes see our hands doing the work
of our hearts, the circle of creation is
completed inside us, the doors of our souls
fly open, and love steps forth to heal
everything in sight."
Michael
Bridge
Chriss Ann Bowman’s
Education, Training and Credentials:
1979 B.S.,
Animal Science & Agriculture, Southwest
Missouri State University
1988 M.S.,
Speech Pathology, Southern Illinois
University at Edwardsville
1989 American
Speech-Language-Hearing Assn. Certificate of
Clinical Competence
1989 Missouri
State License and Missouri State Teacher's
Certification, K-12
1994 Giant
Steps, St. Louis; Pediatric Myofascial
Release seminar; Educational Kinesiology
"Brain Gym" Workshop
1997 The
Hanen Program Certification - "Involving
Parents as Language Facilitators"
1996, 1998,
1999, 2000 Autism Symposiums
1999 Sensory
Integration for Speech-Language
Pathologists; Introduction to Listening
Therapy
2000 Full
Inclusion: Integrating the Auditory,
Vestibular and Visual Systems
2000 ASHA
ACE Award for
Continuing
Education
2002 LiFT® -
Listening Fitness Program Certification,
Listening Centre-Toronto Canada
2004 DAN -
Defeat Autism Now! Conference For Healthcare
Practitioners, Tulane University Medical
School
2005/2006 The
Avatar® Courses
In January
2007 I retired my speech pathologist’s
license. I continue to offer LiFT/Listening
Fitness programs and listening coaching.
The LiFT programs for children include
parent participation, offering modern
parents and their child the chance to spend
quality time
together, enjoying the time of their life -
at a slower pace.
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