Birgit's Work

-Private and Corporate Clients in NYC, including mobile service (home/office).

- Wellness Consultant 

- Educating about holistic health in community settings. For more info here.

- Teaching DIY Reflexology and sustainable Chair Yoga; non-assist yoga, trauma-sensitive. 

- Designed 4ER (4 Essential Reflexes) for 2 Manuals and teaches 4ER.

• LV Chair Yoga Teacher Training Manual
• Chair IPT (Integrated Positional Therapy)

- Assisted Lakshmi Voelker at her Chair Yoga Teacher Training at the Open Center, NYC and was Faculty Assistant at Kripalu from 2011- 2016 

- Blogging about her personal organic-creative approach to health/wellness and her healing work as well as respective topics important to her. 

- Brought the Ancient Egyptian Tomb Painting believed to depict Reflexology with fellow reflexologists to life in 2014.

- Birgit is member of NYSRA, RAA, ICR, and ARCB.

Grant/Awards:

• NYSRA Member of the Year 2012
• ICR Humanitarian Award 2017
• Grant for Refugee Project Vienna/Austria 2017

Photo Courtesy: Lowa Abreu

What does Ban-Chi mean? 

 - BAN represents Birgit's initials (Birgit Anna Nagele)

- CHI symbolizes a reminder of one the of the ancient origins of Reflexology, namely, China.

- CHI means prana in Sanskrit and this is what Yoga is a ll about

- Chi/Prana means Energy;Energy means Vitality.