About Helene Silver

In 1978 I received a grant from the California Department of Education to develop nutrition education training programs for students, food service personnel and parents. I also went on my own international search to find different methods to combat my personal problems including an overall complaint of "not feeling well" that was never validated by my doctors. I began extensively researching and studying fasting and cleansing.  I have studied rejuvenation and anti-aging principles from many cultures including Russia, Japan, China, Hungary, India, and the South Seas.

In 1980, I founded The Inner Beauty Institute of Sausalito. The Institute specializes in the development of wellness programs tailored to suit personal health concerns. This individualized approach focuses on detoxifying, rejuvenating, and revitalizing the body. The Institute uses colon hydrotherapy and herbal steam baths, accompanied by hands on healing, breath awareness techniques, nutritional and stress reduction counseling and intuitive coaching.

I have authored several well known books: THE BODY SMART SYSTEM published by Bantam in 1990;  THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO CLEANSING AND REJUVENATION published by Healthy Healing in 1995, and REJUVENATE: A 21 DAY DETOX PLAN FOR OPTIMAL HEALTH published by Crossing in 1998.  These books utilize the latest in longevity research and anti-aging holistic techniques and offer day by day programs of diet, exercise and internal cleansing techniques that can fit into even the busiest of lifestyles.

I have had a 30 year practice of Hatha Yoga as taught by my mentors, Walt and Magana Baptiste of San Francisco.  I have been certified as a yoga instructor by the Baptistes and offer private lessons, classes at the Mill Valley Community Center and workshops both in Northern California and Mexico.

I have also been trained and certified as a health intuitive by Meredith Young-Sowers of the Stillpoint Institute in Walpole, New Hampshire.  This was a very personally healing and transformative process for me which served to reconnect me with my joy and soul's purpose.  The program has also given me new tools to help others in healing their wounded places.

I have combined all of my training and experience to become a health and spiritual coach/mentor to many hundreds of readers and clients from around the world, including Japan, Denmark, France, England and Italy.  My writings are designed to instill new health and beauty habits, yet I have found both through my own personal journey and in my private practice that it often takes many months, sometimes years, to go through the up and down process of solidifying and integrating these new self-care rituals.   Although we have every intention of making physical, mental and behavioral changes, old emotional issues and spiritual challenges often surface and become road blocks to making the changes we really want.  Through the coaching/mentoring process, I support my clients to succeed in healing at the deepest level.

I had a radio show, BODY SMART NEWS, in the San Francisco Bay Area from 1995 through 1998, and provided my listeners with the latest in longevity research, nutritional aadvances, anti-aging holistic techniques and rejuvenation practices from around the world.  I continue to do this today through my health Enewsletter, BODY SMART NEWS.

I have taught many seminars about holistic, anti-aging techniques and rejuvenation practices at the Rio Caliente Spa in Mexico and the La Reserve Spa in Italy.  I have lectured at the the Vancouver Health Expo, the Learning Annex, the American Association of University Women, the Continuing Education Program for Nurses, the Health Task Force for the Democratic National Committee, Women Entrepreneurs, B'nai Birth Women, and have been listed in Who's Who of American Women since 1980.