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ABOUT THE SHOW BIZI YOGA:
Hosted by Valerie Okunami
Bizi
Yogi airs Tuesday 10 AM Pacific| 1 PM Eastern, exclusively on the KCOR
Digital Radio Network. The show will explore holistic techniques and
lifestyle choices that create vibrant health and lasting happiness. Each
week we will discuss the latest trends and hot topics today that bring
balance to the body, mind and spirit.
Valerie
Okunami has found that it is possible to use her experience as a
thriving media entrepreneur to emerge successfully in an entirely
different field, in this case operating workplace yoga programs, yoga
teacher training programs and effective healing programs that combine
reiki and yoga.
Ms. Okunami
began her media career in 1988 in Concord, Calif., as a sales executive
for a local radio station. From there she moved to ever larger broadcast
outlets until she joined the staff of NBC affiliate KCRA in Sacramento,
California.
In
1992, she set forth on her own with her Okunami Media advertising
agency. She has been flying under her own power ever since. The agency’s
client list included world renowned museums, national corporations and
local non-profit arts and entertainment organizations. She has served on
the board of The Future Foundation, an educational non-profit
organization providing scholarships to underserved families. She has
also worked with the Red Cross, helping launch major fundraising events.
In
2005, the agency expanded to include publishing two national magazine
titles, a Sacramento edition of Builder/Architect and MD News. In 2007,
she founded CAPG Health magazine, a national healthcare magazine, of
which she remains the publisher. The quarterly magazine’s circulation is
growing as managed care gains more attention with implementation of the
national Affordable Care Act.
All
during her years of building her media operations, Ms. Okunami
maintained a keen interest in health and physical fitness. As an
undergraduate business major at Sacramento State, she worked as a
fitness instructor and personal trainer. In 2000, yoga became a major
part of her fitness regime and it grew in intensity until she found
herself a certified yoga instructor teaching the practice and now
training yoga instructors.
In 2009
she founded Okunami Workplace Yoga, creating and conducting yoga
classes for employees at the workplace while teaching at a popular
Roseville yoga studio and Health & Wellness center. Today, she and
four teachers conduct 14 employer/employee-sponsored classes a week in
the Sacramento area. Her clientele include well known international and
national firms and government employees.
She
also created a Registered Yoga Alliance School called Bizi Yogi. She
trains yoga teachers in two yoga disciplines: 200 RYT Hot 26+2/Power
Fusion program and 200 RYT corporate and chair yoga along with
additional certifications in yin yoga.
Valerie has
no plans of stopping now. She is also a Master Reiki practitioner and
has created an effective healing program for people with chronic health
issues. Valerie
teaches yoga because she sees the incredible transformation people make
in their lives when they begin their yoga practice. They become
healthier, more relaxed and more positive. They discover coping skills
to handle the stress of day to day living and regain hope about the
future. She sees improvement in students who have severe health
challenges.
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