Vitae Pondera Health and Educational Center | Alternative Medicine

           Healing through Nature

      Heidi Hoke is founding owner of Vitae Pondera Health and Education Center. Presently a doctoral candidate in Naturopathy, she has earned a Master of Science degree in Holistic Health, specializing in Homeopathy and a Bachelor of Science degree in Holistic Health as a Nutritional Consultant, Master Herbalist, and Holistic Health Practitioner from Global College of Natural Medicine, an accredited college in Santa Cruz, California. Speciific services include consultation for diverse health support, orthomolecular nutrition, individualized weight management programs, Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and energy healing therapies, as she is a Master /Teacher in both the Reiki and Chios healing philosophies.(Reiki and Chios are bio-energetic healing techniques which are increasingly being used in hospitals and medical settings both in the United States and throughout the world. These techniques are used to promote natural healing, to relax the patient, manage stress, improve sleep, and highten to quality of life, being widely used in many progressive cancer-recovery health programs.) In addition, Heidi has earned designation as a Qualified Dementia Care Specialist from the Alzheimer's Foundation of America (AFA).

     Recently, Heidi has received certification as a hypnotist by the Hypnotherapists Union Local 472-2011, from the nationally accredited college, Hypnosis Motivation Institute in Tarzana, California. She continues advanced education for certification as a qualified hypnotherapist.

     Concurrently, she is a founding member and VP of Operations for Innovapaedics, Inc., an advanced medical implant/device company. Formerly, she has worked as a specialist for FDA compliance in quality and regulatory assurance for medical devices and a technical writer in telecommunications. She is a published writer in the areas of both natural medicine and technical proceedure.

     “My mission is to provide compassionate excellence in integrative health care while teaching and supporting in an environment that is creative, respectful, ethical, adaptive, and accountable. Clients are encouraged to be active, inquiring, and self-empowered participants in their care, along with their attending medical physicians and other medical support, optimizing all community and spiritual resources available, for the purpose of natural, non-invasive health support and preventative health care.