Holistic Nutritionist
Founder & Host of The IC Retreat
Session: Nutrition and IC

Instagram: @healthwithjoana

President & Founder of the ICNetwork
Session: IC Basics

Jill Heidi Osborne is the president and founder of the Interstitial Cystitis Network, a health education company dedicated to interstitial cystitis, bladder pain syndrome and other pelvic pain disorders. As the editor and lead author of the ICN and the IC Optimist magazine, Jill is proud of the academic recognition that her website has achieved. The University of London rated the ICN as the top IC website for accuracy, credibility, readability and quality. (Int Urogynecol J - April 2013). Harvard Medical School rated both Medscape and the ICN as the top two websites dedicated to IC. (Urology - Sept 11).

For many years, Jill served on the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Panel (US Army) where she collaborated with researchers to evaluate new IC research studies for possible funding. Jill has conducted and/or collaborates on a variety of IC research studies on new therapeutics, pain care, sexuality, the use of medical marijuana, menopause and the cost of treatments, shining a light on issues that influence patient quality of life. An IC support group leader and national spokesperson for the past 20 years, she has represented the IC community on radio, TV shows, at medical conferences. She has written hundreds of articles on IC and its related conditions. She spends the majority of her time providing wellness coaching for patients in need and developing new, internet-based educational and support tools for IC patients.

Instagram: @icnetwork

Urogynecologist
Session: Interstitial Cystitis: Basic Training Boot Camp

Dr. Barenberg is fellowship trained in female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery. He prides himself on being skilled in all minimally invasive surgical techniques including vaginal surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and robotic surgery.

As a high-volume surgeon, Dr. Barenberg has extensive experience in treating the full spectrum of gynecologic issues including but not limited to endometriosis, fibroids, abnormal uterine bleeding, and precancerous lesions of the cervix and uterus. Dr. Barenberg completed a 3-year fellowship program concentrating on the surgical management of conditions of the female pelvic floor including pelvic organ prolapse, urinary incontinence, bladder, and rectal fistula repair, pelvic pain, vaginal mesh complications, and pelvic floor reconstruction.

Instagram: @doctorb_okc

Co-Founder & Practitioner at Chronic Fatigue School
Founder of Stress School, and Boundless: Integrative Wellness Center
Session: Brain Pain: How the brain and nervous system are at the root of IC

Karden Rabin is the Co-Founder of CFS School, Founder of Stress School, and Boundless: Integrative Wellness Center.

He is a health and wellness expert specializing in mindbody related disease and disorders. Karden is dedicated to helping people live productive and fully expressed lives without ruining their health and burning out in the process.

Unwilling to accept the “label it but don’t explain it” tendency of modern medicine, Karden is obsessed with discovering the underlying and universal causes of human pain and disease. He believes that if you observe keenly and ask the right kind of questions, the root of any problem can be discovered.

As a clinical practitioner and educator, Karden takes pleasure in pointing out the foolishness behind boilerplate methods of medicine and wellness and delights in helping people truly understand their body and resolving pain.

Over the past decade, he has developed and led programming for The Wounded Warrior Project, Volunteers in Medicine and Starbucks and has taught at Summit LA and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.

Karden lives in The Berkshires of Western Massachusetts with his lovely wife Gillian and adorable daughters Leia and Zelda.

Instagram: @kardenrabin

Mind-Body Coach
Founder of the Pain-Free Freedom Method™
Session: Is Your Nervous System Keeping IC Symptoms Around?

Founder of the Pain-Free Freedom Method™, Rose helps women to cure their chronic pain, anxiety, and other nervous system-related symptoms by rewiring their brains, healing their nervous systems, and reprocessing suppressed emotions. Find more info at https://linktr.ee/painfreefreedom

She has a Masters in Public Health from George Washington University. Rose has over 10 years of experience implementing public health projects in West Africa. She is an expert in coaching, public health, program design, behavior change, and leadership.

Instagram: @painfreefreedom

Founder & CEO of The Integrative Women’s Health Institute
Author of Outsmart Endometriosis
Session: The Gut Microbiome, Digestive Health and IC
Session: Hormone Health and Interstitial Cystitis

Dr. Jessica Drummond, DCN, CNS, PT, NBC-HWC is the founder and CEO of The Integrative Women’s Health Institute and the author of Outsmart Endometriosis. She is passionate about caring for and empowering people who struggle with women’s and pelvic health concerns. She is equally passionate about educating and supporting clinicians and wellness professionals in confidently and safely using integrative tools to transform women’s and pelvic healthcare.

Dr. Drummond has two decades of clinical experience as a licensed physical therapist, licensed clinical nutritionist, and board certified health coach working with women with pelvic pain, including endometriosis, vulvodynia, and bladder pain syndrome. She brings a unique, conservative and integrative approach to supporting women to overcome hormonal imbalances, and chronic pain conditions. She is a sought after international speaker on topics such as integrative pelvic pain management, natural fertility options, optimal hormone health, and female athlete nutrition.

Instagram: @jessrdrummond

The Endo Belly Coach
Certified health coach specialised in endometriosis and small intestine bacterial overgrowth
Session: The IC-Endometriosis-SIBO Connection

Jessica is a certified health coach specialised in endometriosis and small intestine bacterial overgrowth (a.k.a. SIBO; one of the key causes of endo belly!). She is also an endo, interstitial cystitis and SIBO warrior herself. She's here to empower, guide and support you to find your own unique path to managing and healing your endo and endo belly symptoms (and those accompanying co-conditions!), through a holistic, full-body approach.

She has worked in endometriosis for over eight years, having both volunteered and worked at Endometriosis UK, before going on to study with women’s health specialist Dr Jessica Drummond at The Integrative Women's Health Institute. She has intentionally specialised in both endometriosis and the gut complications that can contribute to endo belly, most notably, SIBO.

Instagram: @theendobellycoach

Founder of Native Nude
Sex, Love and Relationship Coach through the VITA™ Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality

Session: Sex and Intimacy
Session: Emotional Release Session

Shani is the founder of Native Nude and a Sex, Love and Relationship Coach through the VITA™ Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality. An integrated study of neuroscience, sexuality and tantra where she is currently specializing in Female Sexuality and Tantric Sex. Trauma informed & passionately devoted.

Shani has also previously studied alongside other experts in the field in Womb Sciences, Sacred Sexuality, Embodiment and Energy.

Native Nude is passionate about the reclamation of pleasure and power through authentic and handcrafted pleasure wands, coaching and Rewildings.

Shani is passionate about empowering a life of pleasure, which she believes all starts with our own pleasure.

Beyond that, which she considers her most valuable gift to this space, is the depth and vastness of her life experiences that lead her to this journey to begin. Shani has walked many paths in witnessing her own & others transformation - her gift is to streamline the process for others.

Instagram: @shani_emily

Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist
Session: Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy; How it can help your IC Recovery

Laura is a pelvic health physiotherapist in Kitchener-Waterloo.

She began her career in pelvic health physiotherapy because she’s passionate about helping people learn about this unknown part of the body.

Too often in health care pelvic floor concerns are not openly discussed or written off as “normal” especially for women during pregnancy, menopause or menstruation. It is just as common for men with prostate removal, pelvic pain, or recurrent prostatitis. I’m here to change those narratives and help people get the treatment and information that they need.

Instagram: @pelvicphysiobylaura

Pelvic Floor Yoga Teacher
Founder of Well-being by Penny
Session: Pelvic health yoga session

Penny is a pelvic floor yoga teacher helping other people living with hypertonic pelvic floor dysfunction manage and ease their pelvic pain.

She lives with pelvic pain in the form of Lichen Sclerosus, Vulvodynia, and hypertonic pelvic floor dysfunction, and teaches from a perspective of knowing all the challenges that comes with living with pelvic pain.

She guides her students through breath work, movement and meditation to relax, stretch, and create space in their pelvis, so that they can feel the best that they can possibly feel.

Instagram: @wellbeing.by.penny

PSYCHEDELIC BREATH® teacher
Session: PSYCHEDELIC BREATH®

Tamsin is an avid believer in healing through breathwork, and embodiment and that self-discipline are non-negotiable.

After chronic illness from an early age and many surgeries later, she began to take responsibility for herself, finding alternative modalities to heal, away from standard hospitals and drugs. One of them being breathwork.

Tamsin is a PSYCHEDELIC BREATH® teacher, a breathwork practice to naturally reach a state of non-ordinary consciousness and tap into true desire.

It combines ancient breathwork, and neuroscience and is accompanied by specially curated electronic music to enhance an out-of-this-world experience. This powerful breathwork experience supports the immune system, detoxifies the body, and reduces inflammation, along with many other health benefits.

Instagram: @iamtamsina

Founder of Qigong Yoga Flow
Gentle Yoga & Qigong teacher
Session: Qigong for IC

Alison began her yoga journey in 2004, when she was searching for natural therapies to assist in coping with the challenges of living with chronic pain from interstitial cystitis.

She has enjoyed teaching since 2008 in various settings, including Health Clubs, the NHS, Mental Health Charities and Colleges in Scotland.

She enjoys teaching weekly classes and weekend workshops in the village hall, as well as online. It is her passion to help others improve their quality of life physically, mentally, and emotionally, as this is what yoga and Qigong practice have done for her.

Her classes are suitable for all ages and levels of flexibility.

Instagram: @qigongyogaflow

Founder of the School of Integrative Healing
Bsc Psychology, SNHS Dip. Advanced Nutrition
Session: The Resilient Mind

Jana is an Integrative Healing Expert. In 2020, after nearly 10 years of study and experience, she founded the school of Integrative Healing. Here she uses an integrative approach and works with multiple modalities to work through subconscious patterns, behaviours & blockages and reconnect with pleasure and learn to listen to body signals.

Her greatest passion is teaching to truly understand trauma and emotions, how this impacts the physical body and how we can help from it. Jana truly believes that when we are willing to face what is blocking us, and shed what is untrue, anything is possible.

Founder & CEO of Pelvic Health Support
Sponsor of the IC Retreat
Session: IC/BPS Management: A BPS Approach

I’ve been living with IC for more than 20 years and have seen a lack of awareness, resources, support, and research since the beginning.

After struggling with a lengthy postpartum flare-up, I took it upon myself to increase awareness, support, and advocacy for Canadians with this complex condition. I executed the first IC/BPS fundraiser in Toronto, created a social media support group, provided one-on-one support calls, and facilitated local and virtual support groups and events for those living with IC/BPS.  Upon discovering how many out there are affected by pelvic pain and dysfunction, I chose to expand my reach and include all pelvic health conditions.

My passion lies in increasing pelvic health awareness, research, support, and education, and creating a future that ensures access to compassionate care, understanding and treatment for this under-supported group.