Freedom With Pain

This is a FREE resource for all Veterans, and can be helpful for veterans who have pain of any kind, as well as those who are experiencing post trauma or suspect they may have trauma related symptoms.

Embark on a 6-8 week self paced course, available to all, to create a healthier relationship with pain and trauma in our lives.

Course Overview:

Each session has a workbook, videos, and audio tools to practice on your own as well as some bonus materials and special interviews, to help you in your journey to freedom with pain.

Topics include:

What do we make pain mean?
Don’t Be Mean to Yourself With What You Make Pain Mean
Accessing Biofeedback Technology from HeartMath through Prosthetics to Self Regulate
How Does Pain Work? What is it’s Purpose?
Does Our Pain System “Break”? Can We “Fix” It?
Tricks To Treat Pain
Self Healing Qi GongSound Healing
Self Hypnosis
Load Vs. Capacity
What Does My Breakfast Have to Do With My Pain?
Pain can Be A Part of Meaning and Purpose in Our Lives
Communicating Effectively With Others When We Are in Pain: Being A Good Self Advocate
Contact with Your Optimal Future, Who is Free With Pain

*Note: there is also a special section for practitioners on ordering the HeartMath technology for their patients through the VA system, and chart noting these interventions as part of your patient’s care.

This program is led by Sheva Carr

MA L.Ac, APP, RPP, BCCP, BCPE (Co-Director of HeartMath Healthcare and Executive Director of The Fyera Foundation and HeartAmbassadors) 

-as well as-

Dr. Stephen Graham

PT, DPT, Veteran, ABPTS Board Certified Clinical Specialist in Orthopedics, Fellow of Pain Sciences National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach Physical Therapy Supervisor (Whole Health), U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

-and-

Co-delivered with other veterans, their practitioners, VA Whole Health clinicians and special guests. It brings together the best of Whole Health practices with HeartMath Interventions to assist us in creating a new and better relationship to pain and trauma in our lives. Peer support groups of veteran cohorts and their families going through the program together as a team can be arranged through our community portal.

Testimonial

A VA Practitioner and her patient share their success working with the Freedom With Pain program.

What Is Whole Health?

Whole Health is the VA’s approach to care that supports your health and well-being. Whole Health centers around what matters to you, not what is the matter with you. This means your health is about you as a person, and includes not just your body but your values, needs, and goals. Whole Health incorporates a multidisciplinary approach to healing and pain management, adding modalities like chiropractic, acupuncture, yoga, Qi Gong, meditation, aromatherapy, sound healing, hypnosis, nutrition, indigenous healing mehtods, and more, to the traditional allopathic medical approach which is also available to Veterans through the VA. This series highlights certain Whole Health resources that you can implement at home and/or in connection to the services available to you at the VA, to live healthier and happier.

What Is HeartMath®?

For over 25 years, HeartMath’s training, tools and home based gaming and heart rhythm monitoring technology have supported health care providers, nurses, physicians and patients to transform the effects of stress, build resilience and reduce burnout and PTSD. These tools are scientifically validated and evidence based, first published in the American Journal of Cardiology in 1995, for their effectiveness to balance Heart Rhythm patterns into a more energy efficient and effective state. HeartMath has been integrated in over 42 VA Medical centers helping veterans recover from and be more resilient with conditions such as: PTSD, TBI , anxiety and depression, hypertension, addiction, insomnia, pain and more. HeartMath has been integrated into all four branches of the military helping soldiers in pre deployment and post recovery.

HeartMath’s biofeedback technology, the emWave, emWave Pro, and Inner Balance Devices, are available free of charge to any Veteran within the VA system through prosthetics. Please share this video with your physician to request your free tech.

What is HeartAmbassadors and The Fyera Foundation?

HeartAmbassadors Members donated their time and expertise to The Freedom With Pain Program, and The Fyera Foundation provided grants to bring the program to completion and provides scholarship access for free to veterans, active duty military, and their families. The Fyera Foundation has an MOU with The American Red Cross and collaborates with their Chief Nurse and Service to the Armed Forces to bring resilience resources and mental health support to those Red Cross staff and volunteers as well as veterans and active duty military members in need.

Purchase the Bio-feedback technology that accompanies the course.

If you are a veteran the technology is available at no charge for you through the VA. You can request it through your VA practitioner and send them this video on how to place the appointment through prosthetics.

A collaboration of:

SANDRA

Chief Medical Officer, Treasurer

Sandra Solano

M.D., M.S.

Sandra is a healthcare professional with more than 20 years of experience as a Healthcare Executive and consultant and now has her own Holistic Wellness practice in New Albany, Ohio. Dr. Solano successfully implemented large scale transformational projects in the private and public sector and was recognized as a successful disruptor and change agent. Through her career, Dr. Solano experienced personally and professionally the detrimental impact that stress and lack of emotional regulation has in productivity, communication and efficacy in the work place and family life. Through her practice, she works with individuals, teams, groups and organizations to bring evidence-based tools and skills that empower the individual to develop emotional fitness and stress management.

While she enjoyed a successful and fulfilling career in public health, Dr. Solano felt disconnected and unfulfilled. She continued studying alternative health modalities and how they could improve wellness. After extensive research and training, Sandra chose a combination of methods that facilitate the regulation of emotions and management of stress as the foundation of her holistic wellness practice. Dr. Solano is a certified trainer of HeartMath’s Resilience Advantage™ program; certified practitioner Shuniya Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing©; a Reiki Master; and a practitioner of Holographic Memory Resolution©.

After personally experiencing and practicing these tools, Dr. Solano feels connected with her authentic self and feels a sense of hope and peace that she wants to share with others. Learning about and experiencing these techniques brought her a new understanding of health as a state of balance and wholeness. Her concept of health sees every person as a fundamentally perfect being. Her passion is to help others to find that connection, authenticity, peace, and hope that she is now able to experience

The Fyera Foundation is committed to the development of our leaders.

To increase our effectiveness at the local level, we sponsored our Chief Medical Officer, Sandra Solano, M.D., M.S., to attend the New Albany Leadership program. Sandra summarized her experience and the lessons learned for our community.

MATTHEW

Board Member

Matthew Mitchell

Matthew Mitchell has over 30 years experience in sales, business development, and relationship management. He is an international speaker and consultant specializing in high performance and human potential. He gives people the tools and guidance necessary to eliminate the limiting beliefs and behaviors that hold them back so that they can achieve excellence in their personal and professional lives.

Matthew received his Masters of International Management from The American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona and his MBA at ESADE, (Escuela Superior de Administraccion y Direccion de Empresas) in Barcelona, Spain.

Matthew’s diverse career has spanned a number of industries. He spent ten years doing finance deals for large corporate clients with US Leasing and GE Capital. He made a career change in the early ‘90’s by going to work for Lucasfilm Ltd. in the Entertainment industry. He headed their electronic editing systems division and represented their proprietary technology to the major studios and production companies.

Matthew later served as VP of Television sales for two top post-production facilities in Los Angeles, once again cultivating relationships with studio heads, and independent film companies. He spent several years in the Communications industry with Qwest Digital Media being one of the first to sell the ability to deliver content over the Internet.

In 2004, he began his own consulting practice specializing in teaching high level skills to the fortune 100.

At present, Matthew is a keynote speaker, an expert in “Negotiation Skills”, “Organizational Savvy”, “Power Messaging”, and “Executive Presence” skills. He travels nationally conducting public seminars in negotiation skills. He has consulted and trained some of the biggest companies in the world. Current and former clients include: UPS, VMware, EMC, GE (multiple divisions), Honeywell, Tektronix, Ciena, Fujitsu Networks, Pratt & Whitney, Exxon Mobil Chemical, Microsoft, ATT, Sprint, Yahoo, Earthlink, Oracle, Cisco, HP, Intel, AMD, Aetna, Prudential, Siemens, Owens Corning, Cardinal Health, Care Fusion / Becton Dickenson, Autodesk, Caremark, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Abbott Labs, Wellpoint, United Healthcare, Optum Health, Ingenix, Hersheys, Applied Materials, Kronos, Ceridian, Unisys, Intelsat, Colgate Palmolive, and Medela.

Cheryl Geoffrion

Cheryl Geoffrion is certified as a trainer, facilitator and coach by The Institute of HeartMath and The International Center for Attitudinal Healing. She has facilitated one-on-one coaching, support groups, and workshops for more then 24 years utilizing these principles and practices as well as many other transformational life techniques. She has also worked with Fortune 100 companies, Non-Profits, and individuals as an expert negotiator, facilitator, and coach in sales and negotiation skills, leadership development, interpersonal communication and conflict resolution. She is a published co-author of The Three Value Conversations, How to Create, Elevate, & Capture Customer Value at Every Stage of the Long-Lead Sales with a feature article of the same theme in Top Sales World Magazine. An international motivational speaker, teacher, and former TV talk show host, Cheryl brings experience, compassion and vision to her work.

For more than two decades, Cheryl has been highly sought as a keynote speaker and consultant to a wide variety of public, private and educational institutions. Her experience, passion, sense of humor, and ability to drive high-impact performance execution enable her to be both entertaining and remarkably effective at producing transformational results.

Additionally she has the unique privilege to specialize in comprehensive international and domestic sport sponsorship and corporate hospitality programs working with the Olympics and FIFA World Cup implementing programs for Top Sponsors in Asia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States. She also served as the Managing Director of the Avon Breast Cancer 3-days and the National AIDSRides during which time she was responsible for many multi-million dollar charitable events nationwide. Cheryl’s global experience ensures a strong cultural awareness.

Cheryl started her professional career as an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) where she honed a skillset that enabled her to achieve great success as one of the youngest certified in ATC nationwide. She went on to pioneer unique performance enhancing coaching programs for Air Traffic Managers and Supervisors.

Affiliations:
-Fyera Foundation
-Institute of HeartMath
-The International Center for Attitudinal Healing
-CMCM T.V./Talk Show Host
-Summer Olympics: Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro
-FIFA World Cup, South Africa
-Winter Olympics, Vancouver

CHERYL

Chief of Staff & Communications Officer

SHEVA

Founder, CEO, President, Executive Director

Sheva Carr

Sheva Carr is a visionary, humanitarian, creator, lover of life, author, speaker, doctor of Oriental Medicine, Board Certified Polarity Therapist and Registered Polarity Educator, and expert HeartMath trainer and coach. She loves to help people find fulfillment and peace within the power of their hearts! She is the founding CEO of Fyera! Inc and Heart Ambassadors, a global network of endeavors sharing a common purpose of creating measurable social ROI to transform the world’s story with heart. Under the umbrella of that mission she is the architect of HeartMath’s www.heartmastery.com program, the founding Executive Director of the Fyera Foundation and Sunflower SunPower Kids, and Co-Vice President and Head of UN Delegations for the United Nations Peace Messenger Organization Pathways To Peace www.pathwaystopeace.org . The author of “Being the Source of Love” and “Where the Sky Meets the Earth,” she is featured as a “love luminary” in Marci Schimoff’s New York Times bestselling book “Love for No Reason.” She cofounded (with Global Womens Empowerent Network and The Representation Project) the annual Women Illuminated Film Festival. She is also the founding visionary behind www.operationbigsister.org designed to enroll a Civilian Army to contribute to efforts to end sex trafficking and modern day slavery. She mentors teens from Israel and Palestine in peace dialogues with www.creativityforpeace.org under the motto “An enemy is a friend whose story you have yet to hear.”

She has created her own trauma relief interventions with her knowledge of the autonomic nervous system, and has been published in respected medical journals as “Perspectives in Biology and Medicine,” and other publications including “The UN Special.” She has trained and mentored medical staff from C-level executives to bedside nurses at distinguished medical centers, including Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Stanford, Cedars Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, and more. She also founded the first HeartMath hospital patient education program at Earl Bakken’s Heart-Brain Institute. She co-authored HeartMath’s Stopping Emotional Eating Program with Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman and was the coach and manager of the participants involved in the study done on that program. Previously on the Faculty of Alternative Medicine at University of Minnesota, and a professor of Oriental Medicine at Emperor’s College, she has worked as a coach and consultant to leading cardiologists, heart-brain researchers, and physicists. She has also trained United Nations staff and numerous international government agencies, and soldiers preparing for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

She did her undergraduate work in fine arts, cross cultural international studies, Spanish, and premed at Carnegie Mellon Universty, Yale, Friends World College, and Dalhousie University. She received experiential credits for her work in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Holland, England, and Canada. Her Masters Degree is in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Yo San University.

Sheva speaks to people all over the world on how to access heart intelligence and peace of mind, in order to receive the benefits of the heart’s impact on their relationships, health, performance, creativity, contribution, legacy, social change, and the building of a global culture of peace.

Please see Sheva Carr’s full bio HERE

And CV HERE

Freedom With Pain

This is a FREE resource for all Veterans, and can be helpful for veterans who have pain of any kind, as well as those who are experiencing post trauma or suspect they may have trauma related symptoms.

Embark on a 6-8 week self paced course, available to all, to create a healthier relationship with pain and trauma in our lives.

Testimonial

A VA Practitioner and her patient share their success working with the Freedom With Pain program.

Purchase the Bio-feedback technology that accompanies the course.

A collaboration of:

SARAH

Youth Board Member

PHOENIX

Youth Board Member

GARY

Board Member

KANSAS

Director of c20 operations

LISA

Chief Nursing Officer

FrEEDOM WITH PAIN

A 6-8 week self paced course, free for veterans and available to all, to create a healthier relationship with pain and trauma in our lives.

in partnership with:

C20/G20 policy consultancy 2023:

Technology, security and transparency

working group

Final Policies The Fyera Foundation contributed to in the G20 Leaders' Declaration pertaining to this working group:

Violent Gaming; Technology Violence Addiction; Gender Bias In A.I.

The Fyera Foundation was invited to submit this poster presentation to the Integrative Health Working Group

C20/G20 policy consultancy 2023:

Integrated holistic health

working group

Example of Fyera's contribution to the g20 Leaders' Declaration pertaining to this working group:

Strengthening Global Health and Implementing One Health Approach

c20/g20 policy consultancy 2023

Sustainable and Resilient Communities

working group

c20/g20 policy consultancy 2023

Gender Equality

working group

C20/G20 policy consultancy 2023:

Education and digital transformation

working group

C20/G20 policy consultancy 2023:

Disability, equity, and justice

working group

Watch Fyera's webinar on Stress Relieving Techniques for Parents with Differently-abled Children.

Service to the u.N.

Science, Technology and Innovation Conference

•Breaking down barriers•Closing the gender gap in science and technology•Policy recommendations surrounding gaming, violence and addiction, and gender bias in AI technologies

Fyera Youth Delegate Sarah Syed spoke during interactive discussion with interventions from the floor.

RESCUING ANIMALS FROM DISASTERS AND WAR

Butterfly Kids and Farm IN Zimbabwe

Reduce inequity by befriending and sending a child in Zimbabwe to school with your monthly sponsorship.

Help to restore the earth and empower local communities to pay for their own children’s education through their organic farming efforts.

RAGS TO RICHES FOR THE WORLD

PRECIOUS

Regional DirectorZimbabwe

UN ECOSOCConsultative Status

The Fyera Foundation has Special ECOSOC Consultative Status to the United Nations

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The Business Plan for Peace PARTNERSHip

From Peace Day 2018 to Peace Day 2019, 3 time Nobel prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy collaborated with The Fyera Foundation and Heart Ambassadors to deliver a year long course based on the marriage of her Business Plan for Peace and our expertise in creating a heart based world.

"We Need Individuals like Dr. Elworthy to start the work of preventing war... This has been my personal dream for many years."~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

We invite you to sign up for the 12 part course - the proceeds of which go to benefit peacebuilding projects and organizations Scilla and the Fyera Foundation work on.

Hurricane Relief

Free Coaching Support for those impacted by hurricanes, fires and other disasters, as well as First Responders who are there helping.

Nicaragua

ARTICLES FOR THE WHO/Un SPECIAL

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FIRST NATIONS SCHOLARSHIPS

Zimbabwe

Pictures and movies from beneficiaries in Zimbabwe bringing access to fresh water in local communities

Four girls living alone without a roof

Today, after years of sponsorship, one of the girls, Yaritza (pictured grown up in the photos below), is graduating in Bio-Med and works full time at the local hospital. One of her sisters is in law school and another is in nursing school- still sponsored by us! A true success story!

Newsletter from 2005:

WE PROVIDE PPE

Words and images of gratitude to & from fontline workers and organizations coming from those who benefited from WeProvidePPE.orginitiatives during the COVID-19PPE shortage

Nicaragua

Gratitude from our Sunflower SunPower Kids program in Nicaragua

The Pollinators, Germinators and Progenitors

•Breaking down barriers

•Closing the gender gap in science and technology

•Policy recommendations surrounding gaming, violence and addiction, and gender bias in AI technologies

Regional Director
Zimbabwe

UN ECOSOC
Consultative Status

"We Need Individuals like Dr. Elworthy to start the work of preventing war... This has been my personal dream for many years."

~His Holiness the Dalai Lama

download the special to see
article on pages 30-31

download the special to see
article on pages 14-16

Words and images of gratitude to & from fontline workers and organizations coming from those who benefited from WeProvidePPE.org
initiatives during the COVID-19
PPE shortage

FOREST
DONOR CIRCLE

In collaboration with
FISCA &
Pathways To Peace

Pathways To Peace
Partnership

What if human slavery could end in our lifetime?

What if all it would take is for people like you and me to get involved?

Resilience Training for
Red Cross Staff + Volunteers

U.N. Commission On The
Status of Women