INNER Stress Management
Services &
About Us
The People & The Purpose
The people involved in creating this web site and it's purpose.

THE PEOPLE
About Ross Clark, Ross has been interested in meditation for over 32 years. Ross has studied Eastern meditation and Western
science to reduce personal stress.

Ross and his wife live in the Kitchener-Waterloo area, Ontario, Canada. They have two adult children. Ross who now works at
the University of Guelph, in 1995 on the advice of his doctor resigned from a career which he had enjoyed for the over 25 years.
This came as a result of struggling with many lengthy family illnesses, increased work loads and a physical injury. Sensing that
there were better ways to manage these stressors, he began doing yoga and practicing meditation. After attending a weekend
insight meditation retreat and experiencing his energy being restored for the next six weeks, he knew that insightful meditation
was helpful in managing stress.

Later,he traveled to a Buddhist retreat centre in Sri Lanka. After practicing Buddhist meditation there for sometime, he was
trained by a nun to teach meditation to others. He then returned to Canada and has freely offered support those who are
interested in developing meditation skills. He has found stress information, yoga, meditation and community have been most
helpful for him and would like to offer this to others who may be interested. He continues to do three to five retreats a year,
ranging in length from a weekend to one month at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass. U.S.A. (view retreat history)

He has also examined the scientific approach to understanding stress on the body, heart and mind. Finding that western
science and eastern meditations compliment each other. Tara Brach, Ph.D., who is a clinical psychologist, meditation teacher and
author of Radical Acceptance, has offered to sponsor Ross for the 3 year Community Dharma Leaders (CDL) Training at Spirit
Rock in California. Ross has also completed the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction training program at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School.


About Heidi Clark, Currently, I am living in Toronto and working at the Ministry of Transportation. I am completing an intensive
yoga teacher training program at the Esther Myer’s Yoga Studio in Toronto and I teach two yoga classes a week www.
highparkyoga.com. For enjoyment, I play ultimate frisbee, run, do yoga, garden and my partner, Mark and I are renovating a
100 year old home in High Park.

I grew up in Kitchener-Waterloo area and went to the University of Guelph, where I completed an Honours B.Comm in Marketing
Management in 1999. During my undergraduate degree I had the opportunity to study abroad and live in London, England for a
semester where I studied at the London School of Economics. I worked in a small consulting firm upon graduation and then
went back to the University of Guelph to complete an MBA in 2001.

Practicing yoga helps me manage and release stress. Playing a lot of sports growing up physical activity has always been an
important part of my life. As I get older this has not changed as one of the major ways that I still release stress is through
moving my body. As I become increasingly aware of my body and sensations in the body I have become familiar with how to
release/relax the places that I store my stress in. This has helped me increase my performance, happiness and better manage
the stress in my life.

In helping develop this site I hope a resource and community of information around the topic of stress and performance in the
workplace will be created to share and support others in their own lives.


THE PURPOSE
INNER Stress Management's purpose is to offer simple and effect ways to reduce personal stress.

INNER- research estimates that greater then 90% of human stress is self induced. Often we do not have as much influence
over outer stress as we can have on inner stress.

Stress- stress is different for each of us. By being more aware of body sensations, emotional feelings and mental thoughts we
are able to understand many of our reactive patterns.

Management- we will never be entirely free of stress. But we can manage it effectively through the practices of interest,
attention and intention.


Thank You for your interest.
Ross
INNER Stress Management

Mission Statement- To offer safe and simple ways of releasing inner stress.

Philosophy- We believe that each interested person can develop their own inner resources to better manage stress.

Group Programs:
  • Stress Meditation
  • INNER Stress Management
  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Group Formates:
  • ½ day seminars
  • Evenings Classes
  • Morning Classes (corporate)
  • 2 session, Stress Management
  • 2,4,6 session, INNER Stress Management
  • 8,10 week, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
  • Staff Retreats i.e. Rotman School of Management

Program Locations:
  • Conestoga College, Kitchener
  • Community Roots Centre, Guelph
  • Dr Anello Medical Centre, Cambridge
  • York University, Student Association, Toronto
  • University of Toronto, Rotman School of Management
  • Yoga Studios in Kingston, Cambridge, Guelph, Kitchener, Waterloo


Individual Services:
  • Stress Coaching
  • Social Intelligence Training
  • Emotional Intelligence Training
  • Bio-Feedback, Electro Cardio Gram type (Heartmath)
  • Bio-Feedback, Skin Resistance (Thought Technology Ltd.)
  • Bio-Feedback, Combined ECG and Skin Resistance (Wild Divine)

Client Base:
  • Colleges
  • Corporate
  • Universities
  • Medical Referrals
  • Insurance (MBSR)
  • Private Individuals
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MANAGEMENT TOPICS
Decision Making:
  • 3 Types
  • Process
  • Felt Sense

Intention and Recognizing:
  • What drew us to this career?
  • What do find most difficult?
  • What do you enjoy the most?

Doing Well:
  • What are the indicators that you are doing well?

Mental Clarity:
  • Stopping & Dropping Practice

Emotional Calm:
  • Opening & Softening Practice

Achievement:
  • What are my past achievements?
  • What am I presently achieving?
  • What may my future achievements look like?

Emotional Intelligence:
  • Awareness of our emotions
  • Caring for our emotions

Social Intelligence:
  • Ability to understand others
  • Act wisely in human relations

Don’t Know:
  • The ability to relaxed w/o knowing yet

Intuition:
  • The inner feeling of what need to be done

Creativity:
  • Relaxed and Attentive
  • Open Minded Inquiry
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