MY STORY
JoEtta Burton Heck, RDN
JoEtta is a registered dietitian nutritionist and graduate of Indiana State University. She is a Chopra Certified Perfect Health: Ayurvedic Lifestyle Educator (2020), now known as Gaja Ayurvedic Health Instructor (2026), and an Accredited T'ai Chi Chih Instructor. JoEtta is the owner of JBHeckdesigns, LLC DBA DIETforbalancedhealth, a business that supports designing the life of your dreams and small backyard landscapes.
Why DIET for Balanced Health?
What is Balanced Health?
When you think about balanced health, what comes to mind? Balanced health is more than the numbers on a scale. Balanced health is beyond the nutrients in your plate of food. Balanced health evolves through awareness. Balanced health includes all aspects of yourself: mind, body and spirit. Balanced health is personal. Balanced health is life-long. Balanced health is more than being free from illness: it is a process of change and growth towards a mentally, physically, and spiritually healthy lifestyle. If you have a longing for this kind of balanced health, you are invited to subscribe to this website and participate in the events offered that support balanced health as described above. DIETforbalancedhealth™ is a consciousness-based lifestyle business that supports your journey towards balanced health through education, action, and connection. Each day we make lifestyle choices that impact our well-being, either knowingly or unknowingly. Starting today you can consciously choose to live a healthy, balanced and fulfilling life and in the near future you will see the rewards of your choices.
Come along with us to
Discover who you are,
Integrate lifelong practices that
Empower your transformation and growth, so
Together, we can live the lives we imagine full of joy, purpose and wholeness.
DIETforbalancedhealth™
What is DIET?
DIETforBalancedHealth.com is the domain name its founder JoEtta Heck, RDN, Chopra Certified Perfect Health Ayurvedic Lifestyle Educator (2020), now known as Gaja Ayurvedic Health Instructor (2026), and Accredited Tai Chi Chih® Instructor, had acquired over five years ago. Creating a website was part of her RDN professional development plan for more than ten years. Acquiring a business domain name was one of the first steps towards reaching that goal. After receiving her certification through the Chopra Center as a Perfect Health Ayurvedic Lifestyle Educator in 2020, she knew this domain name was perfect for her newly acquired certification and business plan. DIET is an acronym for Discover - Integrate - Empower - Together. Even though the DIETforbalancedhealth™ Ayurvedic-based Lifestyle Program has an optimal nutrition component, JoEtta learned many years ago in her dietetic practice that optimal food consumption is only one aspect of lifelong well-being. So as misleading as it may appear initially, this DIETforbalancedhealth™ website and business focuses on getting to know yourself through consciously engaging in and creating your life. It is not a diet, meal plan, or other primarily food-based website, even though we may discuss nutrition and host cooking demonstrations as part of the community’s support for a healthy lifestyle. You are invited to join our DIETforbalancedhealth™ community so you, too can enjoy our intention:
Discover how you relate to the world, learn to
Integrate daily holistic practices into your lifestyle to
Empower a reawakening of your true self.
Together, this is revealed as a joyful life grounded in wholeness.
How to Create a joyful life grounded in wholeness
Through wondering and wandering, we learn about life. When we add a focused intention to our curiosity and give wandering with this intention our attention, we learn to create the life of our dreams. If you have an intention to create a joyful life grounded in wholeness, DIETforbalancedhealth™ is here to guide you along your creative path. Each of us feel joy through many different and personal experiences. On this site, joy is expressed as a life-enhancing and life-long feeling. It comes from that place within you where nothing outside of you shakes it. Many of the practices taught in the DIETforbalancedhealth™ Ayurvedic-based Lifestyle Program teach you how to experience this joy through daily rituals that connect you to your true self. This is the self of your essence, your spirit. This is the self that is not caught up in the games the ego likes to play. This is the self that has grown in awareness and can tell the ego (that part of us that likes to divide and separate) to “go sit in the corner: you no longer control me.”
Living a life grounded in wholeness includes an everyday self-care ritualistic practice based on how you are feeling as you connect to your environment of ever-changing stimuli, then from discovery knowing what you need to remain grounded and whole. Creating this kind of life is an ongoing process of getting to know yourself and how you relate to your internal and external world. This is a life-long journey. If you wish to embark on this type of journey with us, join DIETforbalancedhealth™ Grounded in Wholeness community by subscribing to this site, engaging with us through our events, and learning about yourself through the DIETforbalancedhealth™ Ayurvedic-based Lifestyle program. Explore our programs and events page to see what's being offered now.
About Me
Self-Awareness Empowers
JoEtta chose to expand her training as a registered dietitian to include mindfulness practices for self-healing through movement, stillness, awareness via sensory aspects, and awareness within her living environment.
Throughout her life journey, she has embraced the benefits of self-awareness to enhance her resilience to the challenges,
JoEtta chose to expand her training as a registered dietitian to include mindfulness practices for self-healing through movement, stillness, awareness via sensory aspects, and awareness within her living environment.
Throughout her life journey, she has embraced the benefits of self-awareness to enhance her resilience to the challenges, as well as, the pleasures encountered on her life's path. Her journey is dynamic. Through the practice of many self-care rituals, she grows a life of joy, peace, and equanimity.
Life is our best teacher
Hi, I am JoEtta Heck. I have come to teach the DIETforbalancedhealth™ Ayurvedic-based Lifestyle program through a process of letting go of identifying with roles that no longer serve me. Leaving behind what was allows me to try new things. I am excited to be on this journey with you today. It is my intention to learn, care, grow, and sha
Hi, I am JoEtta Heck. I have come to teach the DIETforbalancedhealth™ Ayurvedic-based Lifestyle program through a process of letting go of identifying with roles that no longer serve me. Leaving behind what was allows me to try new things. I am excited to be on this journey with you today. It is my intention to learn, care, grow, and share the practices of Ayurveda, so all can have healthy longevity to manifest their desires for a fulfilling life and a return to wholeness.
FOR FUN
FOR FUN
One of my favorite past times is landscaping. I enjoy both the design and maintenance. BLISS happens when the design meets function to produce delicious food to nourish my family and me. Landscape photography, inspirational graphics, stained glass art, quilting an hiking are a few of my other interests. My husband and I enjoy a small backyard in Northern Colorado.