Yorkshire School of Natural Healing

In March 2010, the Time Out programme won the Service Innovation Award at the Calderdale NHS Celebrating Success Ceremony in Halifax, West Yorkshire. This provides further positive evidence that the NHS, through the Primary Care Trust (PCT), is valuing Complementary Therapies to increase physical, mental and emotional health and well-being, and actively bringing these into the local community.

The Time Out team is a trio of dedicated practitioners passionate about their work, Josephine Finegold, Linzi O’Boy, and Emmalene Katayama, who together create the bespoke programme and deliver the teaching sessions.

Emmalene, Parveen Akhter & Josephine

“We are delighted with the Award. We feel that the community programmes has enabled us to reach the people in the local community who need it and will continue to do so into the future,” says Yorkshire School Principal Emmalene Katayama.

“Time Out encourages the self-empowerment of the individual. By ‘recalling’ and using their innate healing skills, people are equipped with useful tools to help themselves and those around them. Like the ripples in the pond reverberating outward when a pebble is thrown in, an empowered individual who takes more responsibility for their own health and wellbeing has the potential to impact positively on their whole community.” Continue reading →