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he Wanderlust 108 will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., October 4, at Piedmont Park Promenade. This unique, “mindful” triathlon brings three events together—a 5k run, an outdoor yoga experience and a guided meditation—with a twist. Unlike most triathlons, community is placed above competition, inner peace above power and self-awareness above strength, and winning is measured in laughs shared and new friends made. The event includes live bands and DJs on the main stage, lawn activities like hooping, slacklining and acroyoga on the “uncommons”, and local food and craft vendors. The 60-minute yoga class at Wanderlust 108 is led by a pair of experienced teachers, and features live music and other surprises. BYO mat. The meditation segment lasts about 30 minutes, including instruction. In many Eastern traditions, the number 108 signifies the interconnection between body, mind, and the universe. Its resemblance to the infinity symbol also represents infinite possibility. Cost is $50. Location: 1342 Worchester Dr. NE, Atlanta. Register at Wanderlust.com/events.
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he next opportunity is approaching to learn from many of the world’s leading experts in getting and staying healthy during a one-week Caribbean cruise vacation. A Holistic Holiday at Sea, cited by National Geographic Traveler as “one of the 100 best worldwide vacations to enrich your life,” will depart on its 13th “Voyage to Well-Being” on February 27 next year with 35 teachers, 130 classes, a vegan menu and myriad social events. Guests may choose from a wide spectrum of classes and workshops ranging from several types of yoga, fitness and meditation to presentations on integrative medicine, plantbased nutrition, 10 cooking classes and lectures from a host of luminaries that include Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Dr. Michael Greger, Dr. Neal Barnard and Dr. Michael Klaper. The cruise begins and ends in Miami, with ports of call at St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Nassau, Bahamas. The unique concept is the brainchild of Sandy Pukel, who previously conducted health educational programs in Miami for four decades. His first cruise attracted 400 people; more than a decade later, it counts among one of the largest national holistic events, hosting 1,850 likeminded cruisers on each voyage. “This relaxing vacation and educational experience has profoundly changed thousands of lives,” he says. For more information or to register, call 800-496-0989 or 877-844-7977 or visit HolisticHolidayAtSea.com. See ad, backcover.
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alvage, a curated vintage show, features vendors selling clothing, decor, home goods, furniture, books and more from all decades will take place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., September 20, at Atlanta’s Yaarab Temple. Highlights include a great sampling of vendors selling handcrafted items with a vintage aesthetic, local food vendors, music from DJ Zano, swag bags for the first 100 attendees and a vintage style competition. Salvage is hosted by the Indie Craft Experience (ICE), the brainchild of Shannon Mulkey and Christy Petterson that began in 2005 to provide new opportunities for craft and vintage sellers. Mulkey sates, “Educating shoppers on why they should buy handcrafted is a important because you are using your money to directly support someone using their talents to make a living instead of a big box store and a chain of middlemen. What you buy will be unique, instead of contributing to the sameness threatening to dominate society today.” Other initiatives include ICE Summer Camp for Kids, Craft Escape and bringing Make-N-Takes to events such as Art on the BeltLine, Maiedae Mixer, Maker Faire Atlanta and the Decatur Book Fest. Location: 400 Ponce de Leon Ave. NE, Atlanta. For more information, visit ICE-Atlanta.com/about-salvage. 8
he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its global partners will host the first International Youth Environmental Symposium on October 2 at the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center in Atlanta, with the theme of “One World, One Environment,” and environmental speakers from the around the globe, academia, industry and the EPA. The goal of the conference is to provide opportunities for students, faculty members, administrators and other environmental and sustainability stakeholders to develop partnerships, network and collaborate on sustainable environmental practices. The event will connect students and scholars from across disciplines and cultures to form lasting networks of research and governance. Together with current stakeholders from universities, government and the industry, participants will discuss the problems of today to find the solutions of tomorrow. Location: 61 Forsyth St. SW. For more information, call Dawn Harris-Young at 404562-8421 or email Harris-Young.Dawn@epa.gov or visit Facebook.com/eparegion4.
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he East Atlanta Kids Club will hold the 11th annual Brownwood Bike Rally on September 12 at Brownwood Park, in East Atlanta, for a great day of bike racing and other fun festival activities. Celebrating cycling, fitness and health for kids and adults, this year’s festival includes street bike races and a bike safety rodeo for kids, cyclocross races for adults, a health fair, a food court and a festival area featuring family-friendly activities. Prizes are awarded for all races and proceeds benefit the nonprofit Kids Club, an after-school tutoring and mentoring program for promising youth. Kids can also participate in a Bike Safety Rodeo comprised of 10 stations that teach and test bike agility skills and safe cycling knowledge on the tennis court from 10 a.m. to noon. Parental permission for bike races and the bike rodeo is required. Parents may preregister children online via Active.com until 5 pm on September 11 or via paper registration forms at Brownwood Recreation Center right up to the event day. Admission is free for all. Races are free for children, $10 to $20 for adults. To register (required for races), call 404-627-8050, or visit EastAtlantaKids.org.
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raditional crafts, southern foodways and environmental sustainability are at the center of Atlanta History Center’s Fall Folklife Festival, held from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., September 26. Guests will enjoy the sounds of local musicians performing bluegrass and folk music and sample local fare from Atlanta-based food trucks. This year’s festival highlights the contributions of African-American chefs and home cooks. Highlights include cooking demonstrations by Michael Twitty and a culinary conversation featuring Erika Council, the author behind the popular blog Southern Soufflé. The program is free to members and included in the cost of general admission for nonmembers: $16.50 for adults/$13 for seniors and students/$11 for youth. Location: 130 West Paces Ferry Rd. NW, Atlanta. For more information, call 404-814-4000 or visit AtlantaHistoryCenter.com. Subscribe to our e-newsletter.
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ecatur Yoga & Pilates presents an Introduction to the Bowspring System 10-hour weekend workshop for all levels, with Desi Springer and John Friend from October 2 through 4. Students will learn the fundamentals of the Bowspring dynamic posture and optimal body template. It is open to all, from teens to elders, as well as yoga teachers, chiropractors, bodyworkers and those that want to accept accountability for their own state of health and happiness. Sridaiva is a holistic mind-body approach that utilizes a dynamically balanced posture called the Bowspring. The Bowspring is an ideal postural shape for all of life’s daily activities, such as walking, sitting and housework. Friend says, “The Bowspring postures are dynamic, and in our exercises, we move in all sorts of directions: backwards and forwards, side bends, twists and upside-down. We also incorporate dynamic exercises like hopping, jumping and skipping into our Bowspring practice. Also, there is a focus on balancing poses which reveal universal imbalances we all have.” Cost is $250. Location: 431 W. Ponce de Leon Ave., Decatur. For more information, call 404-377-4899 or visit DecaturHotYoga.com.
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Trading Clutter for New Beginnings by Martin Miron
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ll those slick shelter sional Organizers (NAPO), magazines depict such which provides education impeccably clean and for people that want to uncluttered environments become professional orgathat surely no humans actunizers. They hold a national ally live there. A real home conference every year, looks lived in, and may be which she attended, and more soothing because of it. a local chapter in Atlanta, But there is a point at which where she says she found Shannon Loe clutter exceeds a threshold her peeps. “It really got me and has the reverse effect—it inhibits thinking that I could make a go of this. our daily routine and causes us unnecI took six months to make the leap and essary stress. That’s the time to call Shan- I’ve never looked back. I love what I do, non Loe, owner of Live With Less. I can’t wait to get up in the morning and She has officially been in operation in help my clients. Its almost like a dream Atlanta since January 2014, but says, “I’ve that I get to do something that I love so been organizing for family and friends for much,” she says. as long as I can remember. Prior to startThe NAPO online courses taught her ing my business, I didn’t realize I could ways to work with a client that suffers do this for a living; that I could realize my from chronic disorganization and how passion and make a business out of it.” to start her residential business. Some Loe did some searching online and members also work with small businessfound the National Association of Profeses or even go into corporate organizing. Loe states, “I work on the whole house. Some people have so much clutter that Wholistic Medicine they never use the kitchen and they Reclaim Your Health, Naturally! start to gain weight, so they don’t feel so Comprehensive testing. healthy anymore. I tell them, ‘Lets take Non-invasive protocols. a look at your kitchen; at what you do Uncover & heal root causes not use and organize what you do use of unwanted symptoms. better, so you can incorporate healthy Two decades of experience eating back into your life.’” and specializing in: • autism • developmental delays • ADD Loe is used to finding surprises. She • blood sugar issues • adrenal fatigue explains, “Sometimes I find foods that • thyroid imbalance • hormonal issues have been expired for eight years. As we • chronic and acute infections • toxicities work together, the client and I figure out • auto-immune conditions • allergies • hypertension • and much more ... exactly what they need. How can the kitchen function better for them? What JANINE ROMANER, ND Naturopathic Doctor appliances are they using. What can ‘Defeat Autism Now’ Doctor they let go of? Many people have a small kitchen appliance graveyard of stuff 770-640-6690 they thought they needed, like a Panini naturallyhealthy.ws Blending Ancient Tradition press. They never use it, but it’s taking up with Modern Technology space in their kitchen. I say, ‘If you want
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to make smoothies every day, let’s make sure that your blender is very available front and center so that in the morning, you’re drinking juice smoothies.’” She also works a lot with clients on their closets and clothing. Although Loe holds a degree in sociology and psychology, she says, “I’m not a trained therapist, but there is a certain level of psychology that I do use with clients, because its not necessarily about the stuff. There’s more to it than that. I talk with the clients about their needs, and if they have stuff that makes them feel guilty, maybe they’ll let it go by donating it or recycling it or throwing it away.” Although the job might seem simple on the face of it, that’s often not the case. “The client has come to me because they’re stressed about their environment. The clutter is just overwhelming and they don’t know where to start. I serve as a coach and a cheerleader and a project manager, all in one. It’s my job to come up with a plan of attack. For example, how are we going to reclaim that master closet?” She works with people from their 20s to their 70s that live alone, but also with families and couples. There are occasions when Loe is contacted by somebody that lives with a spouse and that spouse is not on board with getting organized. “When it comes to that situation, I’m more than happy to work with the spouse who want to get organized, but I cannot make anybody do anything. I’ll work on her side of the closet in some cases and they will say, ‘This is wonderful, now I can find all my outfits.’ Sometimes it’s intimidating for people—change is hard—so I have to be really sensitive to my clients needs.” Loe feels that her calling is important, sharing, “Our great asset is not our wealth, it’s our time, and it’s giving them their time back to do the things they want to do, whether that is playing with their kids or learning Spanish or painting.” Her mission is simple: “Our consumer society is out of control, and I’m trying to change that, one client at a time,” she says. For a free consultation, call Shannon Loe at 404-808-4086, email Shannon@LiveWithLessLLC.com or visit LiveWithLessLLC.com. Martin Miron is the editor of Natural Awakenings Atlanta. Subscribe to our e-newsletter.
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huel Hong Park, DC, is a boardcertified atlas orthogonal chiropractor. Visit his office and you won’t see people being manipulated by twisting, bending, popping or cracking. Dr. Park thinks that those methods are outdated. His outlook is unique because he sees the mechanical skeletal elements of the body through the eyes of a trained engineer. Park, born in South Korea, earned a degree in management information systems at the University of Oklahoma and took an engineering position in the industry. But his mother got cancer and required surgery. Returning to Asia to take care of her, Park noticed that alternative care seemed to work much better that many of the drugs that he perceived as poisonous due to their deleterious side effects. That was the beginning of his interest in medicine. After working for five years at the online stock trading system consulting company, CNA, Park had a discussion with his long-time mentor, Dr. Donald Yu, technical director at global information company Unisys, asking for advice about his future, Yu recommended that Park either enroll in a special engineering MBA program at the University of Texas or follow in the footsteps of his own daughter and attend the Palmer School of Chiropractic, because she had indicated that it led to a very fulfilling job for her. Park applied for both and was accepted by Palmer in just two weeks, with a scholarship, as well. At school, he discovered that students typically learn about spine manipulation, and that insurance companies also pay more toward physical therapy. Because Park had such a strong background in engineering and of analyzing things, “That’s why I found such an interest in this field,” he says. Then he met his next mentor, Dr. Roy Sweat, founder of Like naAtlanta on Facebook.com
the Sweat Institute, in Atlanta. “Until I met Dr. Sweat, I had some uncertainty about this course,” says Park. The new graduate needed a sponsor to stay in the U.S., and Sweat was willing to offer Park an internship program. “That’s how I moved to Georgia,” he explains. “While I was working at Dr. Roy’s clinic as an intern doctor, I found very interesting cases over and over again that changed my perspective on chiropractic.” Sweat also approached the human body with the eye of an engineer. “That’s how he discovered the Atlas System,” reports Park. The atlas, the top bone of the spinal column, affects all the others. The Atlas System focuses on and treats just that one bone, with a single, precise adjustment. Park details the logic behind the procedure: “The atlas is holding up the heaviest structure in the nervous system, which is your head. The human head will weigh from nine to 15 pounds. When you think about a bowling ball, you can realize how heavy that is. This bowling ball is located at the very top of your spine, like a tower, which is a mechanical structure.” Conditions that benefit most from this technique include chronic severe headache, severe dizziness, chronic neck and upper shoulder pain, cervical disc herniation and related arm and hand pain or numbness, chronic lower back and upper hip pain, lumbar disc herniation and related leg and foot pain or numbness, whiplash injury and related syndrome suffering, Horner’s syndrome, trigeminal neuralgia, TMJrelated discomfort and pain, multiple sclerosis and fibromyalgia. Park likes to help patients that have been disappointed with conventional treatment, saying, “I want them to go to those other places first, because the more they go through, the more that patient can appreciate what I can do.” He cites upper cervical patients that
went to the hospital and the doctors said, “If you don’t have surgery right away, there’s nothing that can be done.” He relates the story of one patient, a fellow computer engineer with neck disc herniation, that was accompanied by his wife, a medical doctor. “After I made the explanation, his wife insisted on him having the treatment,” he notes. Park is also a big believer in kaizen, or change for the better. “This requires the detailed analysis of procedures, the patient and many other variables that make an impact on that day’s adjustment. It includes the position of the muscles, the tension, the way the patients lie down, everything,” says Park. “If you try to enhance your adjustments every day, you can do it. It’s a way of being in the present moment with the patient. Many doctors, once they reach an evaluation, keep using the same adjustment over and over again. If you don’t want to stop there, you can enhance it. When I see a patient, I always doublecheck the X-ray over and over again, because I always find something new.” C1 Spine Lab Atlas Orthoganol Chiropractic Care is located at 2810 Peachtree Industrial Blvd., Ste. E, in Duluth, GA. For appointments, call 770-545-8150. For more information, visit C1SpineLab.com. Martin Miron is the editor of Natural Awakenings Atlanta.
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Fall Foods For Good Colon Health by Brenda Cobb
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ummer will end this month, and many of the gardenfresh fruits and vegetables will soon be gone. Now is the time to include some fall favorites like apples, figs, sweet potatoes and spinach. Raw spinach is one of nature’s best agents for detoxifying the digestive tract and restoring the pH balance. It will soothe intestinal inflammation and provide organic mineral salts to repair and maintain good colon health. The oxalic acid found in spinach is in a natural and beneficial form when its raw, but cooking converts this acid into an inorganic form that binds with calcium to form a compound the body cannot absorb. This is then deposited in the kidneys and helps create a calcium deficiency in the body. Sweet potatoes are nutritious, easy to digest and good for the elimination system or an inflamed colon. They are also beneficial to blood circulation and very alkaline when they are raw. Cooking makes them much more acidic. Sweet potatoes contain phytochelatins that can bind heavy metals like cadmium, copper, mercury and lead to detoxify them from body tissues. Figs have been used since ancient times to treat nearly every known disease because they contain more minerals and are more alkaline than most fruits. They also produce energy and vitality for the system. Either fresh or sun-dried figs work as an excellent natural laxative for sluggish bowels. They have a high mucin content and tiny seeds that help gather toxic wastes and mucus in the colon and drag them out. Figs help kill pernicious bacteria while promoting the
buildup of friendly acidophilus bacteria in the bowel. Apples have many therapeutic qualities and can modify the intestinal environment by reactivating beneficial bacteria that normally flourish there. They are very digestible and alkaline and have a high water content, which quenches cellular thirst. Apples contain both malic and tartaric acids, which help remove impurities in the liver and inhibit the growth of ferments and disease-producing bacteria in the digestive tract. They also contain pectin, a gel-forming fiber that supplies galacturonic acid to prevent the putrefaction of protein. Pectin also helps make apples an excellent intestinal broom, working as a bulking agent to gently push through the digestive tract and cleanse it along the way. Ginger helps promote overall circulation of energy and acts as a stimulant for anyone convalescing from an illness. It neutralizes toxins and aids in the digestion and assimilation of food. Ginger is known to help prevent motion sickness and vertigo. Chewing a little raw ginger will even soothe a sore throat. Fresh lemon juice works as a strong solvent in the body, stimulating the liver and the gallbladder, stirring up inactive acids and toxic settlements that cannot be eliminated any other way. Lemons also contain a substance known as limonene that helps dissolve gallstones. Eating spinach, sweet potatoes, figs and apples are all good for the colon, and when the colon is healthy, the body is healthy. A good diet, along with regular colon cleansing, provides excellent maintenance to create and keep a healthy body.
Sweet Potato Fig Salad 1 cup raw sweet potato 1 cup raw apple 1 cup fresh or dried figs ½ cup dates 2 cups spinach 1 tsp fresh ginger 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp Himalayan salt Pinch cayenne pepper 2 Tbsp fresh lemon juice 1/3 cup alkaline water Pit the dates and combine with the ginger, cinnamon, salt, lemon juice and water and blend in the VitaMix into a creamy dressing. Chop the sweet potato and the apple, figs and spinach. Combine all the ingredients along with the creamy date dressing mixture and toss until well coated. Brenda Cobb is author of The Living Foods Lifestyle and founder of the Living Foods Institute, in Atlanta, offering Healthy Lifestyle courses on nutrition, cleansing, healing and anti-aging, including a therapy spa offering treatments to help detoxify, nourish and relax the body. For more information, call 404-524-4488 or 1-800-844-9876 and visit LivingFoodsInstitute.com. See ad, inside front cover.
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The Hidden Deficiency Having the proper amount of iodine in our system at all times is critical to overall health, yet the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that iodine deficiency is increasing drastically in light of an increasingly anemic national diet of unpronounceable additives and secret, unlabeled ingredients. This deficit now affects nearly three-quarters of the population.
Causes of Iodine Deficiency
Radiation
Almost everyone is routinely exposed to iodine-depleting radiation
Low-Sodium Diets
Overuse of zero-nutrient salt substitutes in foods leads to iodine depletion
Iodized Table Salt
Iodized salt may slowly lose its iodine content by exposure to air
Bromine
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Inside Out Local yogis discuss their own personal journeys by Sarah Buehrle
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atural Awakenings asked five area yoga instructors about their personal yoga experiences. This diverse group of people attributed their practice to everything from physical healing to helping them find their place in the universe.
Cheryl Crawford is a RYT-500 yoga teacher who practices YogaKids, Laughter Yoga, Anusara, Kundalini, Correlation Vinyasa and Hot Core Power at Decatur Yoga & Pilates and in private sessions. She was on bed rest before giving birth to triplets 17 years ago. “I was in pain from having been on my left side for four months,” she says. Her spine had been in a diagonal position and it hurt. Then she started yoga classes. “I noticed right away that I felt better,” says Crawford. Her yoga classes began to pay off in a deeper way as her three girls grew. “I found myself saying things I didn’t think I would say, like when they were fighting over a book or something,” says Crawford, who again turned to yoga. “You go inside yourself. I taught myself how to be a better parent. Yoga gave me that 14
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space to learn.” Also former elementary school teacher, Crawford founded Atlanta Yoga Movement and co-founded Grounded Kids Yoga, which takes yoga into Atlanta Public Schools in workshops, staff trainings and after school clubs, and offers teacher certification. “Yoga helps us connect to our center and each other,” she notes. “It’s even more potent with children. It helps release negative, stuck patterns and teaches children how to create newer, kinder patterns.” For Crawford, yoga is still personally powerful. She says, “It helps me eradicate what is not me and what’s getting in my way.”
Jason Anderson is a six-foot-five-inch former NCAA Final Four basketball player who played forward for Portugal’s professional basketball team, Atletico, in 2005 and 2006. He is now a ERYT-500 instructor at several studios, including Atlanta Hot Yoga Buckhead and Korsi Yoga. He started doing yoga after suffering a knee injury, and says he finds clarity on the yoga mat. “At first, it was just part of my training, but the more I practiced the more I got into it. It was something I desperately needed at the time—concentration to free myself from distraction.” Anderson also created Calmtivity Yoga, which he teaches to professional athletes and others that want to gain focus fluid power, a vinyasa flow practice with
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an emphasis on slow, fluid movements to promote fluid decision and action upon a foundation of security. He says that yoga enhances athletic performance by teaching athletes to breathe consciously and slow down their game. “If you slow down, you simulate being in the zone,” says Anderson. “There’s more awareness and responsibility and there’s more composure and effortlessness while you’re doing your thing. You’re not trying to be, you’re just being.” For Anderson, finding yoga meant finding himself. “I am more aware of how I feel, just taking ownership of my own feelings and thoughts and having greater self responsibility,” he says. A yoga teacher in an elective college class inspired Nicole Jurovics. “She was really old, like 40,” jokes the now 41-year-old Nicole. “She was incredibly strong and gorgeous. She really sparked my interest in it by how badass she was.” The mother of two sampled different styles and teachers and backed off from yoga occasionally, then finished the Atlanta Yoga Fellowship Teacher Training Program in 2004. She teaches vinyasa at Decatur Yoga & Pilates, Yoga Samadhi and privately. Jurovics is co-organizer of the Southeast Yoga Conference, held this year from September 25 to 27 in Midtown, which is expected to draw up to 500 people. Jurovics wants people to realize that they can benefit from getting back to the basic poses in yoga, which still build heat and require strength. “The best thing about yoga is that you can do it forever, because it’s just moving and breathing mindfully,” she says. “It’s kinda infinite what you can learn about it and all it can give you.”
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servings of sweat.” A 200-hour certified teacher in both Classical Hatha Yoga and Kali Natha Yoga, Honarvar was in Tucson recently, working on her 500-hour yoga teaching certification. Tough Love Yoga also offers teacher certification. Honarvar recalls, “I was trying to get a couple of my guy friends to join me, and they said, ‘If you play metal, we’ll come,’” so she created Metal Yoga. “It’s still my biggest class of the week,’ she says. “It’s really cool to see the people it brings out, people who are normally intimidated or not really drawn to the practice. It takes a little bit of the edge off and makes it more accessible.” Honarvar says that yoga helps her cope. “Naturally I’m a pretty anxious person,” she says. “My day-to-day goal for practice is just to function. When I did my first teacher training, everything that was keeping me small and in pain and unhappy just deconstructed. The ability to transform continues to unfold for me.”
William Hufschmidt grew up in California, where yoga was not uncommon. He started meditating in high school, and began yoga when he was in college at Humboldt State University. “When I got to college, I said, ‘This sounds like the right thing to do.’ I was in a fairly significant car accident when I was in high school,” Hufschmidt said. “I shattered my leg. It was something I could do with my body where I felt really comfortable.”
Twenty-five years later, Hufschmidt teaches tantric hatha yoga in the lineage of kripalu and pranakriya. He is a licensed message therapist practicing Thai Yoga Therapy and founder of Yoga with William. He has earned 200- and 500-hour certifications in kripalu and pranakriya. In addition to holding classes at Candler Park Yoga, Evolation Yoga, and in private, he is a senior director at Pranakriya School of Healing Arts Yoga, and travels around the country teaching teacher level certification. Hufschmidt said he could not imagine life without yoga. “To me it’s really about evolving, who I am as a person and giving me a perspective on myself and seeing how I fit into the larger society, a larger creation,” Hufschmidt said. “If all we do is keep our yoga practice in the class and we don’t extend that to our daily life, that’s a disconnect.”
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AGELESS BEING Staying Vibrant in Mind, Body and Spirit by Kathleen Barnes
Agelessness: Engaging in and experiencing life without fear of falling, failing or falling apart. Northrup quips. The point is well taken. Think vibrant, healthy, gorgeous and yes, sexy Sandra Bullock, Johnny Depp, Chris Rock and Brooke Shields—all 50 or older—as the targets of ads for Depend. We’re living and working longer, and many of us are feeling, looking and staying young longer. So is 60 the new 40? Yes, say State University of New York at Stony Brook researchers, and further note that we’re generally leading longer and healthier lives. Centenarians are the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population. In the 2010 census, 53,364 people had surpassed their 100th year, an increase of 40 percent over the 1980 census, and more than 80 percent of them are women. The National Institute on Aging projects that this number could increase tenfold or more by 2050. What we think of as “old” has changed. Many baby boomers refuse to buy into the mythology of aging, bristle at being called senior citizens and
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Our Western society fosters a belief system that we will become decrepit, frail and mentally feeble at a certain age. “When my mother turned 50, her mailbox suddenly filled with ads for adult diapers, walkers and long-term care insurance,” Atlanta Edition
Take Control of the Body
“Manage the four horsemen of the aging apocalypse,” encourages nutrition and longevity expert Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., a Los Angeles board-certified nutritionist and author of The Most Effective Ways to Live Longer. He says the aging process, including disease, loss of physical or mental function and the general breakdown of systems, is caused by one or more of four factors: oxidative damage (literally rusty cells); inflammation; glycation (excess sugar, metabolic syndrome); and stress. “Collectively, they damage cells and DNA, wear down organs and systems, deeply damage the vascular pathways that deliver blood and oxygen to the entire body, and even shrink brain size,” explains Bowden. While it may seem like a tall order to make lifestyle changes that vanquish these four horsemen, Bowden says they can be broken into manageable elements by employing an arsenal of healthful weapons: whole foods, nutrients, stress-reduction techniques, exercise, detoxification and relationship improvement. “All of these actually do
n a nutshell, that’s the philosophy of visionary women’s health expert Dr. Christiane Northrup, of Yarmouth, Maine, as explored in her latest book, Goddesses Never Age. “We’re long overdue for a paradigm shift about how we feel about growing older,” says Northrup. “You can change your future by adopting a new, ageless attitude that will help you flourish physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. We don’t have to buy into modern medicine’s promotion of the idea of the pathology of aging.” One of Northrup’s primary admonitions: “Don’t tell anyone how old you are. Another birthday means nothing.”
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especially dislike being called elderly. Their position is backed by science. Stem cell biologist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., author of Biology of Belief and currently a visiting professor at the New Zealand College of Chiropractic, in Auckland, is best known for promoting the concept that DNA can be changed by belief, for good or ill. Lipton explains that we all have billions of stem cells designed to repair or replace damaged—and aging—tissues and organs. “[These cells] are profoundly influenced by our thoughts and perceptions about the environment,” Lipton explains. “Hence our beliefs about aging can either interfere with or enhance stem cell function, causing our physiological regeneration or decline.” “Yes, we are destined to grow older, but decrepitude and what we call aging is an optional state,” Northrup adds. “Our genes, nutrition and environment are under our control far more than we may have thought.” More, she says, “Words are powerful. Don’t talk yourself into believing your brain is turning to mush just because you are over 40.”
can make you 13 years younger or older than your actual age.” Roizen adds uncontrolled portion sizes, tobacco use and physical inactivity to the list of life-shortening lifestyle options.
double duty, battling more than one of the four processes that can effectively shorten your life,” he reports, based on his 25 years of study.
Oxidative Damage
Consider what rust does to metal. That’s what free radical oxygen molecules do to cells. Over time, they damage them and cause aging from within. “Oxidative damage plays a major role in virtually every degenerative disease of aging, from Alzheimer’s to cancer to heart disease and diabetes, even immune dysfunction,” says Bowden. His recommended key to destroying free radicals is a diet rich in antioxidants, including lots of fresh fruits and vegetables and healthy fats, nuts, grassfed meats and organic dairy products. Avoid environmental free radicals that show up in toxic chemicals by eating as much organic food as possible and avidly avoiding residues of the poisonous pesticides and herbicides sprayed on crops eaten by people and livestock.
Inflammation
Long-term inflammation is a silent killer because it operates beneath the radar, often unnoticed, damaging blood vessel walls. Like oxidative damage, inflammation is a factor in all the degenerative diseases associated with aging, says Bowden. His suggestion: First, get a Creactive protein (CRP) test to determine the levels of inflammation in our body. A CRP level over 3 milligrams/liter indicates a high risk of a heart attack. Antiinflammatory foods like onions, garlic, leafy greens, tomatoes, beans, nuts and seeds have all been widely scientifically proven to reduce chronic inflammation.
Glycation
This is the result of excessive sugar that glues itself to protein or fat molecules, leaving a sticky mess that creates advanced glycation end (AGE) products that damage all body systems and are acknowledged culprits in the dreaded diseases associated with aging. Bowden’s basic answer is to minimize intake of sugar and simple carbs; anything made with white flour or white rice. Also avoid fried dishes and any foods cooked at high temperatures that actually Like naAtlanta on Facebook.com
Align with Spirit skip the glycation production in the body and deliver harmful AGEs directly from the food. He advises taking 1,000 mg of carnosine (available in health food stores) daily to prevent glycation.
Stress
The long-term effects of physical, mental or emotional stress are tremendously damaging to the human physiology. Sustained exposure to the stress hormone cortisol can shrink parts of the brain, damage blood vessels, increase blood sugar levels, heart rate and blood pressure and contribute to chronic inflammation, according to wellestablished science recorded in the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Bowden warns, “Stress management is not a luxury.” In its many forms, including prayer, meditation and breathing exercises, it should be part of any agelessness program. Deep, restful sleep is as vital a component as ending toxic relationships, having a nurturing circle of friends and doing familiar, gentle exercise such as yoga or tai chi. Overall, Bowden adds, “Rather than thinking of such endeavors as antiaging, I strive to embody the concept of age independence. I admire former Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who resigned from the court when he reached age 90 because he wanted to play more tennis.” Bowden recommends embracing the concept of “squaring the curve”, meaning that instead of anticipating and experiencing a long downhill slope of poor health leading to death, “I look at a long plateau of health, with a steep drop-off at the end.” Wellness guru Dr. Michael Roizen, chair of the Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute, contends that although our chronological age can’t be changed, “Your ‘real age’ [calculated from data he collected from 60 million people] is the result of a wide variety of factors that are within your control. Dietary choices alone
“If you don’t have some kind of spiritual foundation, literally, God help you,” says Northrup. “God isn’t confined to a book or a church, mosque or synagogue. Divinity is the creative loving, vital flow of life force that we’re all part of and connected to. Our bodies are exquisite expressions meant to embody, not deny our spirits.” Touch, pleasure and sex can be part of it, too. Individuals that have the most fulfilling sex lives live the longest, according to researchers conducting the University of California, Riverside’s Longevity Project. “Pleasure comes in infinite forms,” says Northrup. “It can mean the exquisite taste of a pear or the sound of an angelic symphony, the kiss of sun on skin, the laughter of a child, spending time with friends or creating a pastel landscape. When you experience pleasure, God comes through and you become aware of your divine nature. You’ll find that joy comes in ways that are unique to you.” Connection with the natural world is an essential element of agelessness, says Northrup. “The human body evolved to walk on the Earth, drinking its water, breathing its air and basking in its sunlight.” The bottom line is, “Agelessness is all about vitality. Taking all the right supplements and pills, or getting the right procedure isn’t the prescription for antiaging,” says this renowned physician. “It’s ageless living that brings back a sense of vibrancy and youthfulness.” We could live to be well over 100 years old and, as Northrup likes to paraphrase Abraham Hicks, of The Law of Attraction fame, “Wouldn’t you rather have your life end something like this: ‘Happy-healthy, happy-healthy, happy-healthy, dead.’ Isn’t that a lot better than suffering sickness, decrepitude and frailty for years?” Kathleen Barnes is the author of numerous books on natural health, her latest being Food Is Medicine: 101 Prescriptions from the Garden. Connect at KathleenBarnes.com.
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Choose Happiness Four Tips to Flip the Joy Switch by Linda Joy
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recent Harris Interactive poll indicates that only one in three Americans are happy. Success, education and increases in annual household income create only marginally more happiness. So what will it take to go the distance? Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness endeavors to discover just that. Its collection of intimate stories from more than two dozen women reveals telling insights— most profoundly, that happiness is a choice that anyone can make, regardless of their history or circumstances. Four tips from contributors to the book show how we all can rise up out of our troubles to the other side, shining.
Let Go of ‘Supposed To’
Family, friends and society exert pressure on us to achieve certain goals or impose their definition of success. When our soul doesn’t fit the mold, exciting things can happen.
Happiness strategist Kristi Ling seemed to have it all: a high-powered job in Hollywood, significant income and the envy of all her friends—but her success felt empty. She writes from her home in Los Angeles, “Each morning I’d get up thinking about who I needed to please, and then prepare myself to exist for another day. I looked and felt exhausted just about all the time. The worst part was that I thought I was doing everything right!” After a middle-of-thenight epiphany, Ling left her job and set out to discover what her heart wanted. She began following a com-
pletely different life path as a coach and healer, in which success means manifesting joy.
Be Grateful Now
While we’re striving to change our life or wishing things could have been different, we often forget to pay attention to what we have right now. Boni Lonnsburry, a conscious creation expert and founder/CEO of Inner Art, Inc., in Boulder, Colorado, writes about the morning she decided to choose happiness, despite the enormous challenges she was facing, including divorce, foreclosure, bankruptcy and possible homelessness. “I thought to myself, ‘Yes, my life could be better, but it also could be a hell of a lot worse. I’m healthy and smart—why, I even have some wisdom. Why am I focusing on how terrible everything is?’” Using the power of her choice to be happy right now, Lonnsburry not only found joy amidst the adversity, but created love and success beyond her wildest dreams.
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barriers to protect ourselves, even against the love we want. Certified Relationship Coach Stacey Martino, of Yardley, Pennsylvania, writes, “From the first day we met, I’d been waiting for [my boyfriend] Paul to end our relationship. I begged him for another chance—not for our relationship, but to be my authentic self—to figure out who I am and show up in our relationship as the real me.” Fourteen years later, Martino and her boyfriend, now husband, are still exploring the depths of their love for one another. For them, the choice to be vulnerable was the gateway to happiness.
Look Inward Instead of to Others
If we can’t own our pain, how can we create our joy? Choosing happiness means taking full responsibility for our state of mind, with no excuses. Lisa Marie Rosati, of Kings Park, New York, who today helps other women catalyze their own transformation, writes: “I didn’t want to accept what was going on inside [me], so I looked outside for a way to make things better. I depended on intimate relationships to complete me, and on friends and acquaintances for entertainment. My self-esteem floated on incoming compliments and I absolutely never wanted to spend a minute alone with my own thoughts, lest they erode whatever happiness I possessed at the moment. I was exhausted, frustrated and quite frankly, pissed off.” It took a flash of insight to set Rosati free of her patterns of blame—and then realizing she could create her own fulfillment was all it took to catapult her into a place of empowerment. Look out, world! As Los Angeles happiness expert and Positive Psychology Coach Lisa Cypers Kamen says, “Happiness is an inside job.” Joy, love and inspired living are ours for the taking—all we must do is choose. Linda Joy is the heart of Inspired Living Publishing and Aspire magazine. Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Choosing Happiness is her third in a series of bestselling anthologies. Next up is Inspiration for a Woman’s Soul: Cultivating Joy. Learn more at InspiredLivingPublishing.com. Like naAtlanta on Facebook.com
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cians don’t practice yoga, it’s likely that many of their patients do. “You now see it everywhere from major medical centers to mainstream advertising,” says McCall, who notes an increase in doctors, nurses and therapists attending the Yoga as Medicine seminars he and his wife Eliana teach internationally and from their Simply Yoga Institute studio, in Summit, New Jersey.
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fter practicing internal medicine for 10 years in Boston, Dr. Timothy McCall became a full-time writer, exploring the health benefits of yoga. As the medical editor of Yoga Journal and the author of Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing, he says, “In the late 90s, the conveyor belt of patient care continued to speed up and I got frustrated. There was less time to form relationships with patients, which is essential to providing quality care without excessive tests and drugs.” Initially, McCall found that most of the documented research on yoga was from India, and notes it was low in quality from a Western perspective (though it is now excellent). In the West, the first notable scientific yoga article was published in 1973 in The Lancet on combining yoga and biofeedback to manage hypertension. According to the International Journal of Yoga, the surge in yoga’s popularity here finally gained academic interest in 2007, and there are now more than 2,000 20
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yoga titles in the National Institutes of Health PubMed.gov database, with 200 added annually. Initially, yoga teacher and economist Rajan Narayanan, Ph.D., founded the nonprofit Life in Yoga Foundation and Institute to offer free teacher training. Within a couple of years, the foundation’s focus shifted to integrating yoga into the mainstream healthcare system. “We realized that to make a real difference, we needed to teach doctors about yoga and its scientifically proven effects,” he says. Medical providers can earn credits to keep their licenses current by attending courses by Life in Yoga, the only yoga institution independently certified by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Currently, even if physi-
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“Yoga may help prevent diseases across the board because the root cause of 70 to 90 percent of all disorders is stress,” says Narayanan. Yoga increases the body’s ability to successfully respond to stress by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, which slows the heart and lowers blood pressure. That in turn suppresses sympathetic activity, reducing the amount of stress hormones in the body. Studies collected on PubMed.gov demonstrate that yoga has been found to help manage hypertension, osteoporosis, body weight, physical fitness, anxiety, depression, diabetes, reproductive functions and pregnancy, among other issues. Studies at California’s Preventive Medicine Research Institute have tracked amelioration of heart disease. A growing body of research is validating yoga’s benefits for cancer patients, including at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. A small study at Norway’s University of Oslo suggests that yoga even alters gene expression, indicating it may induce health benefits on a molecular level.
Cultural Challenges
“For yoga to be effective, a regular practice must be implemented, which is challenging in a culture where people can’t sit for long without an electronic device. It’s more than just popping pills,” says Narayanan. McCall says, “Even if people can commit to just a few minutes of yoga practice a day, if they keep it up the benefits can be enormous.” “There are no sales reps telling doctors to use yoga therapy like there are for pharmaceuticals,” remarks Narayanan, and until yoga Subscribe to our e-newsletter.
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is funded by health insurance, it will be challenging to gain full acceptance in mainstream medicine. Another barrier is certification standards. The International Association of Yoga Therapists (iayt.org) and the Council for Yoga Accreditation International (cyai.org) are both beginning to offer certifications for therapy training programs and therapists. Narayanan is hopeful that certification could lead to yoga being covered by insurance. Medical school curricula have started shifting to embrace complementary approaches to wellness, with many textbooks now including information on mind/body therapies. The Principles and Practices of Yoga in Healthcare, coedited by Sat Bir Khalsa, Lorenzo Cohen, McCall and Shirley Telles and due out in 2016, is the first professional-level, medical textbook on yoga therapy. “Yoga has been proven to treat many conditions, yet yoga teachers don’t treat conditions, we treat individuals,” says McCall. “Yoga therapy is not a one-size-fits-all prescription because different bodies and minds, with different abilities and weaknesses, require individualized approaches.” While medical research is working to grant yoga more legitimacy among doctors, policymakers and the public, McCall says, “I believe these studies are systematically underestimating how powerful yoga can be. Science may tell us that it decreases systolic blood pressure and cortisol secretion and increases lung capacity and serotonin levels, but that doesn’t begin to capture the totality of what yoga is.”
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any parents concerned that their children are getting engulfed by social media often turn to sports to spark physical activity. They scramble to sign their toddlers up for swimming and tennis lessons, T-ball and soccer practice, hoping these activities will teach their kids about motivation and leadership, while getting them off the couch and out the door. They hope that sports will be a conduit for their kids to learn what it takes to strive, drive toward a goal and succeed in later life. As a result, more than 40 million kids across America are engaged in organized play. But youth sports are not a panacea; while parental intentions are good, they sometimes don’t realize the potential for negative consequences. Those that have studied the phenomenon believe that youth sports—which on the surface, appear to provide a perfect environment for children to learn life lessons and develop critical social and physical skills—might hamper our children’s healthy physical, social, psychic and creative development.
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It seems that many young kids playing on teams today are over-coached by controlling, command-oriented adults. As Jenny Levy, head coach of the University of North Carolina’s 2013 NCAA champion women’s lacrosse team at Chapel Hill
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puts it, “Kids are kind of like overbred dogs, mimicking the drills we run in practice. They aren’t wired to think creatively. They do what they know. What’s safe.” This kind of behavior can start at an early age, when kids should be engaging in free play with minimal adult supervision in unstructured settings. Parenting expert Kim John Payne, author of Simplicity Parenting and The Soul of Discipline, says, “Parents are giving in to enormous societal pressure to push kids into high-performance sports settings several times a week. It’s an ‘arms race’ of sorts, with the clear victims being the kids themselves that are robbed of their childhoods.” There’s a much more holistic way kids can experience play, including sports. An American Academy of Pediatrics study attests that free and unstructured play is healthy and essential for helping children reach important social, emotional and cognitive developmental milestones, plus managing stress and becoming resilient. Payne observes, “In free play, children have to actively problem solve and take one another’s feelings into account if the play is to be successful. In sports, the social problem solving is largely extrinsic, facilitated by coaches, referees or parents. During a child’s formative stages, between the ages of 5 and 12, having the freedom to develop, create and innovate is critical.” Subscribe to our e-newsletter.
Creativity isn’t limited to only younger children. How sports are taught in this country at all levels, right up through college, often inhibits athletic creativity and problem solving—as Levy has noticed year after year in the freshmen players she trains—rather than fostering these attributes.
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It’s crucial to consider the whole child, not just the budding athlete. To revive a child’s imagination and create better conditions for developing creativity, resiliency and flexibility, contemplate the option of taking a child out of organized youth sports for a while to provide the time, space and opportunity to rediscover childhood play and games. Then support them in re-entering organized athletics when they’re a bit older and more physically and emotionally ready. Also, some kids that get heavily involved in highly structured youth sports too early may be prone to behavioral problems and serious physical injuries. The best thing a parent can do for a young child that is active and interested in sports is roll up their sleeves and join in unscripted backyard or playground family play. Kids thrive in the attention offered from mom or dad, regardless of parental athletic skill levels. Also, organize play dates with other neighborhood kids of varying ages, because they love to learn from each other, including how to work out disagreements. Once kids are socially, emotionally and physically ready, organized sports can be an amazing platform for funfilled learning. Having already experienced healthy free play, a child will be ready for and thrive in a more focused, competitive, organized and structured play environment. Fortified by a creative foundation in earlier years, a youngster is better able to identify and express their own mind, body and spirit. Luis Fernando Llosa is the co-author of Beyond Winning: Smart Parenting in a Toxic Sports Environment and co-founder of WholeChildSports.com. A writer, speaker and former Sports Illustrated reporter, he lives in New York City, where he coaches his five kids. For more information, visit LuisFernandoLlosa.com. Like naAtlanta on Facebook.com
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Wild-caught fish from pure waters is the gold standard of seafood, but sustainable populations from healthy waters are shrinking. That’s one reason why fish farms are appearing in unusual places—barramundi flourish on a Nebraska cattle ranch, shrimp in chilly Massachusetts and inland tilapia in Southern California.
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ith the demand for seafood outpacing what can safely be harvested in the wild, half the seafood we eat comes from aquaculture, says Kathryn Sullivan, Ph.D., administrator for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Yet, farmed seafood has a reputation for uneven quality and questionable farming practices. A primary reason is that much of what Americans buy comes from Asia, where aquaculture is less stringently managed. Meanwhile, domestic aquaculture provides only about 5 percent of the seafood consumed here, according to NOAA.
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If we want to eat safer, sustainable, farmed seafood, there are two solutions. One is to purchase farmed fish raised in the U.S., says Sullivan. The agency’s FishWatch consumer information service assures: “If it’s harvested in the United States, it’s inherently sustainable as a result of the rigorous U.S. management process that ensures fisheries are continuously monitored, improved and sustainable.” Whole Foods Markets have found that farming seafood (aquaculture) can provide a consistent, high-quality, year-round supply of healthy and delicious protein. Accordingly, “When it’s done right, aquaculture can be environmentally friendly and offer a crucial way to supplement wild-caught fish supplies. On the other hand, poor farming practices such as the overuse of chemicals and antibiotics and those that cause water pollution and other negative impacts on the environment are bad news.” A second solution is to consult with a trusted fishmonger that has high standards for flavor, health, safety, sustainability and environmental concerns.
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Chefs like Rick Moonen, who owns RM Seafood, in Las Vegas, are getting behind U.S. aquaculture farms that do it right, raising healthy, sustainable and delicious fish. Moonen recently became a brand ambassador for True North Salmon, a farm system that integrates the way nature keeps fish healthy and fresh. “They have a salmon farm near a mussel farm near a kelp farm, mimicking the way these three species interact in the wild,” says Moonen. The best seafood farms take what geography and climate offer—ocean inlets, a natural spring and a natural depression in the land or indoor controlled freshwater tanks—and use clean feed. With no antibiotics, non-GMO food (free of genetic modification) in the right ratio, good water quality and creative ways to use the effluent, they employ green farming practices to raise fish and shellfish that, in turn, are healthy to eat. The Atlantic coasts of Maine and Canada are where families have been making their living from the sea for centuries, says Alan Craig, of Canada’s True North Salmon Company. “The fish are fed pellets made from all-natural, non-GMO sources with no dyes, chemicals or growth hormones added. Underwater cameras monitor the health of the fish to prevent overfeeding.” True North Salmon follows a three-bay system, similar to crop rotation on land. Each bay is designated for a particular age of fish: young salmon, market-ready fish and a fallow, or empty, bay, breaking the cycle of any naturally occurring diseases and parasites. Robin Hills Farm, near Ann Arbor, Michigan, offers vegetable, meat, egg and fruit community supported agriculture, U-pick fruit and a pair of stocked farm ponds. Farm Manager Mitzi Koors explains that the ponds are a way to leverage natural resources, add another income stream and attract visitors. “We first discovered a low-lying area that would become a beautiful pond with a little work,” Koors relates. “We then expanded to two close ponds that don’t connect, to keep the older fish raised on at least six months of non-GMO organic feed separate from the newer fish. The ponds are spring fed, providing a great environment for trout.” Like naAtlanta on Facebook.com
In northeastern Nebraska, five generations of the Garwood family have traditionally raised cattle and produced corn and tomatoes. To keep the farm thriving and sustainable, they have had to think outside the row crop. Today, they’re growing something new—barramundi, or Australian yellow perch. They built a warehouse that now holds 18, 10,000-gallon fish tanks full of growing fish. A Maryland company provides oldfashioned cow manure and leftover grain sorghum from area ethanol plants to create algae, naturally non-GMO, to use as biofuel and fish food. “People prefer to eat locally raised food, even if it’s fish in Nebraska,” says Scott Garwood. The sophistication of closed containment systems like the Garwoods use means that chefs, too, can raise their own fish, besides growing their own herbs and vegetables. California Chef Adam Navidi, owner of the Oceans & Earth restaurant, in Yorba Linda, also runs nearby Future Foods Farms, encompassing 25 acres of herbs, lettuces, assorted vegetables and tank-raised tilapia. Baby greens, not GMO products, help feed the fish, while nitrates from the ammonia-rich fish waste fertilize the crops. The fish wastewater filters through the crops and returns to the fish tanks in an efficient, conservation-driven system that produces healthy, organic food. “Someday, chefs will be known both by their recipes and the methods used to produce their food,” Navidi predicts. Judith Fertig blogs at AlfrescoFoodAnd Lifestyle.blogspot.com from Overland Park, KS.
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Reflexology Certification: Evening Class – 7-10pm. A 14-wk Certification Course with Roz Zollinger, Certified Reflexologist and Instructor. Based on Roz Zollinger’s BodySystems Method of Reflexology. A comprehensive training program designed to provide all the necessary skills and knowledge to practice this established and popular natural healing art. Heal Center, 270 Carpenter Dr, Ste 500, Sandy Springs. 404-303-0007. HealCenterAtlenta.com.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 Green Wednesday – Meeting in the atrium of Phipps Plaza for a Breakfast Green Wednesday. Join us for networking and to learn about a company’s sustainability efforts. Phipps Plaza, 3500 Peachtree Rd, Atlanta. More info & register: GreenCS.org. Mastermind Call Series for Health & Wellness Practitioners using EFT Tapping – Sept 2 & 16. 4-5:15pm. Usually 1st & 3rd Wed. Join other Practitioners as Dr. Anne Merkel leads powerful Mastermind sessions using EFT and Energy Therapy tools to enhance your life and practice. Monthly series of t2 live calls, Mastermind, notes, recordings, e-mail support. Info: 844-283-2778. Register at AnneMerkel.com/Practitioner-Mastermind.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 Fall Birdseed Fundraiser at CNC – Pre-orders will be accepted Sept 4-13. CNC Members receive a 15% discount on birdseed purchases. Order in our Nature Store, by mail or online. Pick-up Sept 1820. CNC, 9135 Willeo Rd, Roswell. 770-992-2055. ChattNatureCenter.org.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Sierra Club Meeting – 7pm, refreshments; 7:30pm, program. Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, 2089 Ponce de Leon Ave, Atlanta. More info: Georgia.SierraClub.org/Atlanta.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 Autoimmune Coaching & Energy Therapy Support: Live Call – 4-5:15pm. 2nd Wed. Dr. Anne Merkel shares information and solutions for people experiencing autoimmune disorders, to naturally address their condition and support healing. Free. Info: 844-283-2778. Notes & past month recordings provided when register: is.gd/autoimmunegroup. Meditation on Twin Hearts – 7pm. Join us for a short guided meditation blessing the Earth with loving kindness, peace and good will. In return, we reap the amazing benefit of inner harmony. Tedeschi Wellness, 1770 Century Blvd NE, Ste A, Atlanta. 404-320-0204. TedeschiWellness.com.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Touch for Health Kinesiology Class – Sept 12-13. 9am-5pm. Learn muscle testing for the 14 primary meridians. Use touch and reflex techniques to balance the body’s energies for optimal health. 15 CEs. $295 prepay. Heal Center Atlanta, 180 Allen Rd, Ste 101N, Sandy Springs. 770-992-3914. eTouchForHealth.com. Meditation Workshop – 1-4pm. Enjoy an afternoon with Becky Huff, learning about and sampling different styles and approaches to meditation. Each one will be soothing and healing, and will help you to begin or to revitalize and deepen your meditation practice. $35 by Sept 4; $45 thereafter. Marietta Center for Yoga and Well Being, 317 Alexander St, Marietta. 770-425-4488. Yogawan@Mindspring.com. MariettaYoga.com. Awake: The Life of Yogananda – 6:30-9:30pm. Showing of the award-winning documentary. Includes guided meditation and light refreshments. $10 Atlanta Meditation Center of Self-Realization Fellowship, 4000 King Springs Rd SE, Smyrna. 770-434-7200. SRFAtlanta.org.
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Onnetsu FIR Heat Therapy Basic Training Course. Sundays, Sept 13-Oct 11. 4 hrs/wk for 5 wks, $510 includes uniform. US Onnetsu Therapy Center. 5390 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, Norcross. Register: 770 710 1527 usonnetsu.org Raw & Living Foods Banquet Feast & Graduation Party – 3:30pm. Delicious organic raw and living foods buffet and testimonies from students who have completed the Healthy Lifestyle Course. Open to the public. $5-$10 donation appreciated. Living Foods Institute, 1700 Commerce Dr, Atlanta. For reservations: 404-524-4488. LivingFoodsInstitute.com.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Raw & Living Foods Educational Seminar & Recipe Demonstration – 7pm. Learn how to reverse and slow aging, heal disease, increase energy, reach ideal weight and more. Enjoy recipe demo and taste delicious recipes. Open to the public. $5-$10 donation appreciated. Living Foods Institute, 1700 Commerce Dr, Atlanta. Call & leave name & number for reservations: 404-524-4488. LivingFoodsInstitute.com.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Tea ‘N’ T – Join us for an afternoon of conversation with Dr. T. Get your health questions answered and enjoy discounts on supplements and therapies. Call ahead to schedule therapies. Tedeschi Wellness, 1770 Century Blvd NE, Ste A, Atlanta. 404-320-0204. TedeschiWellness.com. Mastermind Call Series for Health & Wellness Practitioners using EFT Tapping – 4-5:15pm. See Sept 2 listing. Info: 844-283-2778. Register at AnneMerkel.com/Practitioner-Mastermind. Integrative Medicine Meeting: Headaches – 6-7:30pm. Learn about how to use and combine the best of conventional and evidence-based alternative medicine including supplements and diet changes. Speaker: Dr. Dana Neacsu, graduate of Arizona
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Awaken & Ignite Your Brains Highest Potential – 7-8:30pm. See a mind-blowing demonstration. And/or discover a new career transforming lives. Or simply add this revolutionary Higher Brain Living technique to your existing practice. Live life with more joy, more passion, more purpose while removing blocks of fear. Free; pre-register. Awaken Higher Brain Living Center, 4367 Dunwoody Park, Bldg 7, Ste 122, Atlanta. hbl-9-24.eventbrite.com. The Nature Club Dine and Discover – 7-9pm. Speaker: Bryan Chris Showllater with the Fernbank Science Center. Topic: current state of birds locally, nationally and internationally. $10/general, $5/CNC Members. CNC, 9135 Willeo Rd, Roswell. 770-9922055. ChattNatureCenter.org. PlantPure Nation Screening – 7:30-9:30pm. The documentary film PlantPure Nation tells the story of 3 people on a quest to spread the message of one of the most important health breakthroughs of all time—that a whole foods plant-based diet can prevent and even reverse some of the most deadly health conditions. Landmark Midtown Art Cinema, 931 Monroe Dr NE, Atlanta. PlantPureNation.com.
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savethedate Transmission Meditation & Public Talk – 7:30pm Do you have a desire to serve humanity and to build a stronger connection with your own spiritual nature? If so, Transmission Meditation is the simplest way to do both. Transmission Meditation is a group service that steps down the great spiritual energies that continually stream into our planet. Introductory talk followed by Transmission Meditation. Sponsored by Share International USA Southeast Region. Free. Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore Annex, Clifford Steele Building, 5505 Roswell Rd, Atlanta. More info: Share-International.us/se/upcoming_events.html. Fall Native Plant Sale – Sept 25-26. Fall is the perfect time for planting. All proceeds support gardens, education and conservation by the Horticulture depart. Horticulturists and Master Gardeners on site to answer all your plant questions. CNC, 9135 Willeo Rd, Roswell. 770-992-2055. ChattNatureCenter.org.
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Holistic Healing Circle – 8-9:30pm. Join Mindy Strich, Certified Energetic Healing Practitioner, and coauthor of F.A.I.T.H.: Finding Answers in the Heart, to learn more about Energy Healing and why it is rapidly becoming a recognized complement to standard medical treatment. $10. Marietta Center for Yoga and Well Being, 317 Alexander St, Marietta. 770-425-4488. Space limited; RSVP: Info@HealingHeartEnergy.com. MariettaYoga.com.
Improve your Child’s Eyesight: Free Workshop & Dinner – 7pm. Improve your child’s eyesight. Learn how new, proven kid-friendly vision therapy programs can control, treat and reverse nearsightedness. With Dr. Kyle Jones of Georgia Eye Center. Limited seating. First time guests only. Bambinelli’s. Register: 770-939-8840. GeorgiaEyeCenter.net.
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200-Hour Yoga Alliance Registered Teacher Training course – Gain a greater understanding of the practice of yoga including yoga philosophy, anatomy, yoga asana and the business of yoga. The Center for Yoga. Program details and application: TheCenterForYoga.com.
Special Bonus EFT & Energy Therapy Support Call – 4-5:15pm. For beginners and advanced users of EFT or other Energy Therapy tools. Join likeminded others to clear issues that may be stifling your autumn opportunities. Free. Info: 844-283-2778. Register: is.gd/TAPBonus.
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1st International Environmental Youth Symposium 2015 – Theme: One World, One Environment. Students and scholars connect from across disciplines and cultures to form lasting networks of research and governance. Discuss the problems of today to find the solutions of tomorrow. Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, 61 Forsyth St SW, Atlanta. Dawn Harris-Young: 404-562-8421, Harris-Young.Dawn@ epa.gov. Facebook.com/eparegion4.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Muscle Testing for Massage Therapists – Nov 7-8. 9am, Sat; 1pm, Sun. Deepen your knowledge of the muscular system. Learn: how to test the major muscles of the body; how to use muscle testing to locate hidden musculoskeletal problems; reflex points for pain relief and muscle balancing; how to integrate muscle testing into your practice. $200. 12 CE approved by the NCBTMB # 451383-10. Heal Center, 270 Carpenter Dr, Ste 500, Sandy Springs. 404-307-0004. HealCenterAtlanta.com.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 Awakening to Spirit: Medicine Wheel Journey – Nov 20-22. With Gay Wolff, PhD. This Spiral Journey guides you in exploring your inner reaches and developing your intuitive senses. Explore the shamanic cosmos and the healing power of ritual. Dahlonega Spa Resort, 400 Blueberry Hill, Dahloneg. More info: SageFoundations.com.
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Rd SE, Smyrna. 770-434-7200. SRFAtlanta.org. Shamanic Journey Meditation – 11am-12:30pm. First Sunday of every month. Experience Shamanic Journey as pathway to inner peace, healing and wisdom. Drums and rattles welcomed. Hosted by Gailie Spirit Weaver. Love donation. The Heron House, 102 Russell Rd, Mountain Park. For more info, RSVP & check schedule: Meetup.com/ShamanicJourney. Free Public Reiki Share – 1-3pm. 2nd Sun. Open to everyone. Learn about the healing energy called Reiki, and to experience giving and receiving this wonderful energy. Love offering. Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore, 5531 Roswell Rd NE, Atlanta. Meetup.com/Heartfelt-Reiki-Healing-Meetup.
MONDAY Law of Attraction Meetup – 10:30-11:30am. Phoenix and Dragon Bookstore, 5531 Roswell Rd NE, Atlanta. 404-255-5207. ItsAboutBelief.com. Art, Music, Meditation and Yoga Group – 12pm, Mon & Wed. Come join Sway Yoga. Be good to yourself. Connect and feel the energizing warmth of the oldest mind body fitness systems in the world to relax and refresh Hammond Park Gymnasium, 705 Hammond Dr, Atlanta. 731-415-2588. To register: SandySpringsGA.gov/Registration. SwayLiving.wix.com/sway. Sacramental Healing Circle – 6pm. Offered by the Healing Ministry of the St. Thomas Christian Church for those seeking physical and/or emotional healing. Free. Karin Kabalah Center, 2531 Briarcliff Rd, Ste 217, Atlanta. 404-320-1038. Spiritual Support Group – 7pm. 2nd & 4th Mon. Work on your issues with your Angels! Develop intuition and learn tools for life. $10. Atlanta Unity Church, 3597 Parkway Ln, Norcross. Intuitive Counselor Natalie: 510-830-8061. Meetup.com/ Angelic-Reiki-Healing-Night. Free Healing Treatment – 9:30am - 2:00pm, by appointment. Onnetsu FIR Heat Therapy US Onnetsu Therapy Center,5390 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, Norcross. Call to schedule: .770-710-1527, 770-710 -8817.
TUESDAY Yoga for Stiff Guys – 6:30pm. Also Sat, 12pm. Fundamentals of yoga with an emphasis on proper alignment and breath awareness. Vista Yoga, 2836 Lavista Rd, Ste D, Decatur. 404-929-9642. VistaYoga.com. Introductory Presentation on Meditation and Positive Living – 7-9pm. Come and enjoy this most inspiring of topics to reach your highest potential as soul. Free. Life Enrichment Center, 1340 McConnell Dr, Decatur. To register, Dhana: 404-273-5704. Santmat.net.
freepresentation Meditation & Public Talk Tuesdays 7:30pm. Free.
Join us for weekly meditation and public talks. Medicine Buddha meditation practice prior to talks. Free. Drepung Loseling Monastery, Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Practice and Culture. 1781 Dresden Drive, Atlanta. 404-982-0051. For topics, calendar & info, visit Drepung.org.
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WEDNESDAY Meditation and Gentle Yoga Stretch – 10am. For anyone new to yoga and meditation, or for those who wish to refine their skills. Vista Yoga, 2836 Lavista Rd, Ste D, Decatur. 404-929-9642. VistaYoga.com. Meditation Session – 2:30pm. Come relax your mind in a hectic world and manifest your goals. Please reserve space ahead of time. Free. Karin Kabalah Center, 2531 Briarcliff Rd, Ste 217, Atlanta. 404-320-1038. Law of Attraction Meetup (Dunwoody) – 7:00-8:00pm. Higher Brain Living Awaken Center, 7 Dunwoody Park, Ste 122, Atlanta. ItsAboutBelief.com.
FRIDAY Environmental Sustainability Board Meeting – 8-10am. Decatur City Hall, Conference Rm, 509 N McDonough St, Decatur. Lena Stevens: 404-3704102 or Lena.Stevens@DecaturGA.com. Women’s Yoga Therapy Group – 10-11:45am. Every other Fri thru Dec 18. Facilitated by Wanda DeVaughn. Yoga Therapy for emotional well-being combines the ancient wisdom of yoga, pranayama, meditation, and the synergy of group process to enhance emotional wellbeing. Marietta Center for Yoga and Well Being, 317 Alexander St, Marietta. 770-425-4488. Yogawan@Mindspring.com. MariettaYoga.com. Monthly Gathering for Inspiration and Networking – 11am-12:30pm. 2nd Fri. World Peace Café, 220 Hammond Dr NE, Atlanta. Meetup.com/ SpiritualEntrepreneursAtlanta. Meet Me at the Well: A Spiritual Book Study Group – Sept 11. 7-8:30pm. 2nd Fri. The Power of Intention, Learning to Co-Create You World Your Way by Dr. Wayne Dyer. Led by Joan Chabib. $15/ session. Marietta Center for Yoga and Well Being, 317 Alexander St, Marietta. 770-425-4488. RSVP: J_Chabib@bellsouth.net. MariettaYoga.com.
SATURDAY Yoga for Stiff Guys – 12pm. Also Tues, 6:30pm. Fundamentals of yoga with an emphasis on proper alignment and breath awareness. Vista Yoga, 2836 Lavista Rd, Ste D, Decatur. 404-929-9642. VistaYoga.com.
classifiedads EDUCATION ARE YOU INTERESTED IN LEARNING ONNETSU FIR HEAT THERAPY TREATMENT? New Basic Training Course starts Sundays, Sep 13Oct 11. 4 hrs/wk for 5 wks. $510 Includes uniform. US Onnetsu Therapy Center, 5390 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, Norcross. 770 710 1527. usonnetsu.org.
HELP WANTED ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE – Lucrative compensation. Flexible work hours. Work from home. Passionate about healthy living. Want to represent your favorite magazine? Email your resume to publisher@naAtlanta.com.
DENTAL ASSISTANT – Part-time position offering healthy work-home career balance. Cann Dentistry, PC, serves patients whose health care preferences include holistic, chiropractic, naturopathic and environmental medicine. Requirements: Min 10 yrs work experience in a customer service-related field; ideally, dental assistant certification. However, if you have experience in chiropractic, environmental medicine or naturopathy, your interest in alternative health care will be our motivation to invest in your training; Stable job history and excellent references. Send resume & cover letter to Carol: GeorgiaTeam1@gmail.com. Learn more about our practice: CannDentistry.com. POSITION AS RECEPTIONIST/FRONT OFFICE PERSON IN SMALL WELLNESS CENTER – Approx 30 hrs/wk which includes Saturdays (a must). Must be able and willing to schedule appointments (using computer), greet clients, fold laundry, clean bathrooms, perform a variety of tasks necessary to daily function of our wellness center. Would be helpful to be able to assist with newsletters and other technical tasks. Must be dependable and reliable with own transportation. 404-497-9268.
SEASONAL SPECIALS FREE TRIAL 30MIN USE ON SEPTESTONE HEALING MAT WITH PILLOW. If you have interest in purchasing the Septestone Healing Mat, Call today. Appointment is needed.US Onnetsu Therapy Center, 5390 Peachtree Industrial Blvd Norcross. 770-710-1527. usonnetsu.org.
SERVICES COMPASSIONATE WRITING COACH – You can start and finish your book! Author Dr. Kendall Smith-Sullivan helps you overcome writer’s block, unleash creativity, and learn how to become a published author. Schedule your free consultation at Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore: 404-255-5207. Visit DoctorKendall.com. GROW INNER PEACE WITH SHAMANIC HEALING – Special new client offer: Free 15-min phone consult. Gailie Spirit Weaver, Shamanic Practitioner for 10+ years. 770-609-5852. ZevaStudio.com. H O L I S T I C T R A N S F O R M AT I O N & ENERGETIC DETOX – Are you ready for a new you in 2015? Totally transform yourself, your relationships and your life! Sleep better, relieve stress, relax, find deep inner peace and cleanse toxic energy from your body with crystal energy, sound therapy, reiki and other holistic modalities. Intuitive readings free of charge as an added bonus. Deniz Sandikkiran LMT, Whole Care Wellness Group, 5390 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, Norcross. 404 992 9031. body.mind. spirit.deniz@gmail.com. SOULMATE EXPERT– Are you ready for your soulmate? Regardless of age, looks, or history, Dr. Kendall Smith-Sullivan (author of Soulmate Logic) can help you find love! Schedule your free consultation at Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore: 404-255-5207. More details at DoctorKendall.com. WRITING SUCCESS COACH – Is there a book inside you? Find out how to share your story with the world! Details at 678-431-1108 or DoctorKendall.com.
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communityresourceguide Connecting you to the leaders in natural healthcare and green living in our community. To find out how you can be included in the Community Resource Guide email NAadvertising@naturalawakeningsmag.com to request our media kit.
ACUPUNCTURE LARISSA STEWART, L.AC. Decatur • 404-673-5445 PainFreeAndHappy.com
Helping you find relief from pain, insomnia, depression, high blood pressure, headaches, stress, anxiety, digestive issues and other life-limiting conditions. Offering Traditional Five-Element Acupuncture, Dr. Tan’s Balance Method for pain relief, along with a variety of non-needle techniques and hands-on energy healing. See ad, page 22.
AROMATIC REFLEXOLOGY ROZ ZOLLINGER
Heal Center Atlanta • Sandy Springs 404-303-0007 • HealCenterAtlanta.com
Aromatherapy, reflexology and therapeutic products and gift packages. Certification courses and classes. Private sessions. See ad, page 18
COLON HYDROTHERAPY CLEAR PATH WELLNESS CENTER 275 Carpenter Dr, Ste 202, Sandy Springs 404-497-9268 • ClearPathWellness.com
Providing colon hydrotherapy, nutritional consulting, ion cleanse foot bath, far infrared sauna, reflexology, massage and raindrop therapy, bio-energetic evaluation and life-enhancement processing services for the greater Atlanta metro area. See ad, page 23.
ENERGY MEDICINE AMY ALLEN
Certified Energy-Body Healer 3108 Piedmont Rd NE, Ste 215, Atlanta 404-326-9565 • LitFromWithin.net
Are you ready for a breakthrough? You can transform your limitations at the root causes. Get unstuck. Be powerful and free. Love your life!
ANNE MERKEL PH.D.
CHIROPRACTIC GUY T. GUNTER, BS, MS, DC
Healworks, 5150 Roswell Rd, Atlanta Healworks.net • 404-255-3110 See ad, page 9.
CHUEL HONG PARK, DC, BCAO C1 Spine Lab 2810 Peachtree Industrial Blvd #E Duluth • 770-545-8150 C1SpineLab.com
Dr. Park is a Board Certified Atlas Orthogonist who has been helping patients with a vast array of health concerns including headaches, vertigo, neck pain, shoulder pain, sciatica and fibromyalgia. In his practice Dr Park only adjusts a single bone, The Atlas bone, which is the first and most important bone in the spinal structure. As this bone is properly adjusted, the rest of the spinal structure follows suit. The Atlas Orthogonal procedure is a painless and safe spinal correction which restores body balance and improves body function. The C1 Spine Lab uses state of the art equipment and fully computerized analysis in order to ensure the best Atlas adjustment.
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The Ariela Group of Wholistic Services Energy Psychology & Medicine • Naturopathy 706-374-6460 • 1-877-262-2276 ArielaGroup.com • MyEFTCoach.com AlchemistAnne.com
Specializing in natural relief for Autoimmune Disorders. Certifiy, health and wellness practitioners to incorporate Energy Therapy modalities into on-going practices. Dr. Anne Merkel assists you by phone, in-person, and via numerous on-line self-study packages, leading you to Conscious Transformation, Wellness, and Release of Trauma. Free e-books, videos, and content-rich articles on her website. See ad, page 24.
GREEN CLEANING KIMATHI LEWIS Nature Kleen 678-790-8238 NatureKleen.info
With the growing evidence that traditional cleaning methods do not promote a healthy home or a healthy environment, we have developed a green cleaning system that is safe and effective. At Nature Kleen, we clean homes and offices using solutions made of only natural and organic ingredients. We also use materials that are recyclable, re-useable and reliable. Call today for a Free Green Cleaning Estimate.
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HEAT THERAPY US ONNETSU THERAPY CENTER
5390 Peachtree Industrial Blvd, Norcross 770-710-1527 • USOnnetsu.org
Offering private session and workshops in Onnetsu Far Infrared (FIR) heat therapy. Onnetsu restores body health and bolsters the immune system by raising core body temperature to a normal healthy state. See ad, page 19.
HOLISTIC DENTISTRY DENTISTRY AT SUGARLOAF
Al Norton, D.D.S. 6600 Sugarloaf Pkwy, Ste 600-700, Duluth 770-513-1312 • DentistryAtSugarloaf.com See ad, page 4.
CANN DENTISTRY
Roberta D. Cann, D.M.D. Piedmont Center, 3525 Piedmont Road Building Five, Ste 408, Atlanta 404-233-1102 • CannDentistry.com See ad, page 3.
HOLISTIC HEALTHCARE DR. TINA TROTTER
Health Concept I 560 E. Lanier Ave, Fayetteville 770-719-8785 • HealthConceptsGA.com
Providing the highest quality holistic healthcare services specialized to meet each patient’s unique needs. State of the art natural healthcare clinic, spalike setting, individualized treatments. For a full list of services, visit our website. See ad, page 15.
DENIZ SANDIKKIRAN LMT
Whole Care Medical Group 5390 Peachtree Industrial Blvd Norcross • 404-992-9031 body.mind.spirit.deniz@gmail.com
Specializing in Energy Work and Massage Therapy. A session will include elements from diverse training, including Therapeutic Reiki Massage, Reflexology, A r o m a t h e r a p y, S p i r i t u a l Counseling, Shamanic Healing and Medical Intuitive. Totally transform yourself, your relationships, your life. BA Psychology. PSI CHI National Honor Society in Psychology – lifetime member. See classified ad for specials.
TEDESCHI WELLNESS
1770 Century Blvd NE, Ste A, Atlanta 404-320-0204 • TedeschiWellness.com
Multidimensional natural healthcare in a great setting. Chiropractic, AromaTouch, Nutrition, Weight Loss, Detoxification, Emotional Balancing, Bioenergetic Evaluation, Laser and Light Therapy.
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INTENTIONS UNITED INTENTIONS FOUNDATION, INC.
Discover the Power of Your Intentions! 11205 Alpharetta Hwy, Suite F5 Roswell • 678-495-4345 UnitedIntentions.org
A non-profit organization dedicated to sharing cutting edge scientific research, tools and techniques that promote positive life changes. Offering education seminars, curriculum in the form of interactive videos and games, online resources, tools and applications. Join our online community to learn about the power of positive intentions, create your own, and share them with other members around the world! Membership is free.
MASSAGE THERAPY MICHAEL ZOLLINGER
The Heal Center Wellness Collective 270 Carpenter Rd, Sandy Springs 404-303-0007 • HealCenterAtlanta.com See ad, page 18.
MEDITATION SANT MAT MEDITATION
Sant Baljit Singh, Spiritual Master info@KnowThyselfAsSoul.org 877-MEDITATE • SantMat.net
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Meditation on the Inner Light and Sound: Learn how to live in alignment with the soul’s purpose and to experience greater harmony within, with others, and with the environment. Always free, never a charge. See calendar for local m e d i t a t i o n g ro u p s , c l a s s e s
ATLANTA MEDITATION CENTER OF SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP 4000 King Springs Rd SE, Atlanta 770-434-7200 • SrfAtlanta.org
Realize your true Self by direct perception of the divine through Kriya Yoga. Self-Realization Fellowship is a world wide organization founded in 1920 by P a r a m a h a n s a Yo g a n a n d a (Autobiography of a Yogi). Sundays: Meditation Service @ 10:00AM; Reading Service @ 11:00AM. See website for a complete list of services and events.
NUTRITION THERAPY
VISION CARE DR. KYLE JONES
B. YOUNG NUTRITION & WELLNESS
Dr. Elizabeth M. Young, PhD, RD, LD, CLT East Cobb • drbeth@byoungnutrition.com 770-364-2652 • BYoungNutrition.com
Is Food Making You Sick? We use blood and DNA tests to find foods that will help you feel your best. Most clients feel better in one week, and great in seven.
Georgia Eye Center 4135 LaVista Rd, #100, Tucker 770-939-8840 • GeorgiaEyeCenter.net
Offering kid-friendly vision therapy programs that can control, treat and reverse nearsightedness naturally. Recent studies suggest nearsightedness may be controlled by slowing its progression during childhood. See ad, page 25.
WOMEN’S HEALTH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZING LIVE WITH LESS LLC
Shannon Loe, Small Space Strategist & Professional Organizer Atlanta • 404.808.4086 LiveWithLessLLC.com Facebook.com/LiveWithLessLLC
Bringing clients order, breathing space and peace by clearing the clutter and organizing the rest. Let Live With Less take you from overwhelmed to overjoyed! Clear the clutter & create space for what really matters. See ad, page 6.
SHAMANIC HEALING
FELECIA L. DAWSON, MD
Board Certified Obstetrics & Gynecology One Baltimore Place, Ste. 350, Atlanta 404-733-6334 • wmn4wmn.com See ad, below.
YOGA / PILATES MARIETTA CENTER FOR YOGA & WELL BEING
317 Alexander St., Marietta MariettaYoga.com • 770-425-4488
VISTA YOGA
2836 Lavista Rd., Ste D, Decatur (next to Fellini’s, in back) VistaYoga.com • 404-929-YOGA (9642)
SAGE FOUNDATIONS
Gay Wolff, Phd. Shamanic Energy Therapy ~ Coaching ~ Classes SageFoundations.com
Specializing in Shamanic Energy Therapy, Coaching and Classes. Degree in Mythology with in-depth studies in psychology, shamanism, hypnotherapy, and various energy therapies. SageBlog: mythicsage.blogspot. com. For upcoming events, visit Soul-Tending: Sage Events @ Meetup.com. See local events in calendar.
THERMOGRAPHY MOBILE THERMOGRAPHIC IMAGING Over 30 locations • 678-852-8548 Atlanta-Breast-Thermography.com
Thermography is a completely non-invasive imaging procedure for detecting and monitoring diseases and injuries by showing thermal abnormalities present in the body. Some studies show thermography may detect subtle changes indicating breast disease 3-5 years earlier than other forms of breast testing. No pain, radiation, or compression. See ad, page 24.
MEDICAL DETOX & WEIGHT LOSS
Felecia L. Dawson, MD, FACOG Board Certified One Baltimore Place, Suite 350 Atlanta, GA 30308 Phone (404) 733-6334 wmn4wmn.com
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