CATALYST Magazine May 2014

MAY 2014 VOLUME 33 NUMBER 5

CATALYST RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE LIVING

2014 Planting Guide It’s not too late for a garden!

Rocky Mountain Power Is Blue Sky really green?

The State Room Founders Piccoli and Mautz

Porcini Patriarch

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Ardean Watts

Mamachari Kombucha

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ON THE COVER Apache Plumb with Ledge

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F Cardamone’s ethnobotanical mixed-media works on paper inventively record the histories of plants. Her specimens are collected and combined with images, symbols, and words that utilize and update the methodical traditions of specimen mounting and botanical illustration known as herbarium sheets.

The results are complex visual narratives that reveal the science, history, and uniqueness of their subjects; her work is a place where tradition and contemporary culture meet and art and botany blend.

Original pieces are produced in small editions and printed on 100% cotton rag watercolor paper using archival inks and are individually embellished by hand.

Shortly after completing the Horticulture Program at the Barnes Foundation Arboretum School, MF started designing a

native Pennsylvania wildlife habitat garden at her home. While researching and collecting native plants, she became fascinated by their cultural significance and medicinal uses, noting that she “...wanted to document the information and create work that would be both entertaining and educational.” Her inspiration and influences combine various interests, including: medieval herbs and manuscripts, botany, calligraphy, ecology, folklore, ethnic and vintage designs, traditional Chinese medicine, Pop Art, and Surrealism. Combined in one piece, these aspects of her research often create humorous or quixotic results and motivate us to try to ‘read’ the work, to build connections.

MF explains, “Compositionally, I juxtapose elements, so the work becomes like a visual puzzle that evokes a sense of wonder and mystery in the viewer. Because that is the way I feel about the natural world. I’m in awe of its beauty and its power to sustain and heal.” N You can find more of MaryFran’s art at Meyer Gallery in Park City. WWW.MEYERGALLERY.COM

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ON THE COVER MARYFRAN CARDAMONE

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PUBLISHER'S NOTEBOOK JOHN DEJONG Travels in Spain.

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ENVIRONEWS AMY BRUNVAND NV rancher provokes public lands brawl; San Juan ATVs to stage illegal ride; Dirty fuels, clean futures; Oil spills & water pollution; Sprawl in Utah.f

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SLIGHTLY OFF CENTER DENNIS HINKAMP A farewell to Randy Wirth, Caffe Ibis cofounder.

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BONNEVILLE BONFIRE ALICE TOLER The spring Christmas tree burn at Seabase.

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MAMACHARI JODI MARDESICH Commercial kombucha brewer Christy Jensen talks about how she found her passion.

2014 CATALYST ANNUAL PLANTING GUIDE It’s not too late to plant a garden.

Plus Seed life expectancy; SLCarea first and last frost dates; edible perennials.

ARDEAN WATTS, PORCINI PATRIARCH KATHERINE PIOLI The Utah Symphony’s one-time associate conductor, in a search for alternative ways to relate to nature, became entranced by fungi and founded the Mushroom Society of Utah.

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THE PERFECT ROOM MOLLY YOUNG The State Room is the place for live music in Salt Lake. A conversation with founders Chris Mautz and Darin Piccoli.

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THERE'S ALEC IN THE AIR KATHERINE PIOLI It's not all Blue Sky for Rocky Mountain Power.

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GREEN BITS PAX RASMUSSEN Fix your lawn, without the nasty; Bike or drive: Which is safer?; Ogden is down with the bees; From the annal of No Shit Sherlock: Geohacking is a bad idea.

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CATALYST CALENDAR LACEY ELLEN KNIEP

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RE:SOURCE— MEDITATION DIRECTORY COMPILED BY SOPHIE SILVERSTONE

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YOGA POSE OF THE MONTH CHARLOTTE BELL Get out of your chair and practice Setu Bandha SarvangasanaV

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CATALYST COMMUNITY RESOURCE DIRECTORY A network of businesses and organizations that are making a positive difference.

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METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH SUZANNE WAGNER Moving through the desolate desert of May.

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he linden tree (Tilia cordata, with its heart-shaped leaves, is the species you mostly see in Salt Lake) has tiny flowers but a huge and wonderful scent, and many of the streets around the CATALYST offices are lined with them. Graceful trees with glossy leaves that provide a dense, cool shade, their flowers have been used medicinally as tea in ancient cultures around the world. Bees love them.

Pick linden flowers when they are new, before they have set seed and formed the little green berries that will become their later fruit. Two teaspoons of the crushed dried flowers can be steeped in hot water for 20 minutes, and used to treat colds

and coughs, gallbladder and digestive problems, or used as a mild sedative. The tea is aromatic and anti-inflammatory, acts against mucus, and is often successful in relieving gas pressure and dyspeptic pain. It has even, in some traditions, been used for “calming hysteria.”

Bees love linden flowers too, and linden honey is highly prized for its low acidity and complex flavor. The honey is also used as a medicine for treating respiratory infections, as a fortifying agent, and for supporting the heart.

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Dispatches from Spain John shares a trip celebrating the memory of his mother with Greta, Sophie and Rachel When John deJong was very young, his family lived in Spain. RoseMary deJong, his mother, died last October. In memory of her, and his father Dick deJong, he took his two daughters, Rachel and Sophie Silverstone, and me to visit the land of his earlier youth. He remains there a while longer, traveling alone. Thank goodness for emails. Here is a brief note among many, one that carries his distinctive “don’t get me started” flavor.

— Greta Belanger deJong

Short drive from San Sebastardo to Bilbao, or Bilbo as they say it in Basque. Surprising how much of Tolkien I see here.

I spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to pay a parking ticket I got yesterday while I was checking into the Pension. F’ing bureaucrats! No signs, one pay station every two blocks and no clue where to pay. Well maybe if you can read very fine-print Basque, which could be Chinese for all I know. Actually it’s a fairly simple translation: “x” for “ch” and “k” for “c,” but it looks very different. Speaking it, they drop their “c”s and “s”s, so gracias is graia.

Anyway, Bilbo is beautiful. Went to a Chinese, or rather Xine, restaurant and had squid in its own ink, with a little soy sauce, really good when it’s not cooked too much. I’ll stay here two nights, then on to Santander, which is on the coast. Bilbo is about seven miles up a river, but you can still see the tidal action. There’s something about the pounding of “oceanic” waves that I love. I must have picked that up in Cadiz when I was young.

You’d love it up here in “green Spain.” It looks like a severely rumpled Wisconsin with rocks and great forests. N

John deJong is the associate publisher of CATALYST.

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In April a public lands dispute erupted dangerously close to armed violence in Nevada. The situation developed after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rounded up cattle owned by Cliven Bundy, a Nevada rancher who has refused to pay grazing fees over a 20-year period (and who incidentally has too many cattle grazing in federally protected desert tortoise habitat). Bundy insisted that he doesn’t have to obey federal laws and Fox News promoted him as an anti-government hero. Pretty soon Bundy had attracted a self-styled armed militia waving guns and flags in defense of his supposed right to take public resources without paying fees.

A letter written by Congressman Raul Grijalva (D-AZ-3) traced Bundy’s false ideas about states’ rights to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and called on the U.S. Dept. of the Interior to investigate the role of ALEC in promoting state laws that directly contradict federal land management policies and directives.

The Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act introduced by state representative and ALEC member Ken Ivory (R-West Jordan) and signed by Utah Governor Gary Herbert in 2012 is clearly based on ALEC model legislation. ALEC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that has claims not to engage in lobbying activity but Grujalva’s letter says, “ALEC’s pattern of activity raises serious questions about how changes to land management laws and regulations, especially in the Western United States, are being pushed

by ALEC without public disclosure of its role or that of the corporations that fund its legislative agenda.”

Even as the situation in Nevada unfolded, Ivory, Herbert, Utah Speaker of the House Becky Lockhart and other Utah politicians gathered closed-door for a “Legislative Summit on the Transfer for Public Lands” with other western lawmakers to strategize for the ALEC anti-public lands agenda.

Governer Herbert insisted, “The Cliven Bundy issue is completely separate from any discussion we have on public lands here in Utah.” However, Herbert is among those responsible for spreading vitriolic anti-government rhetoric and Utah Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT-1) has stated that federal control of public lands is “unconstitutional.”

Utah politicians need take responsibility for their own inflammatory speech if they hope to tame the angry anti-government monster they helped create.

San Juan ATVs to stage illegal ride Insisting that he is absolutely not

BY AMY BRUNVAND

inspired by Cliven Bundy, San Juan County Commissioner Phil Lyman is organizing an illegal off-road vehicle ride through Recapture Wash near Blanding, Utah.

Recapture Wash was closed to vehicle traffic in 2007 by the BLM Monticello Field Office in order to protect archeological sites after an illegally constructed vehicle route was discovered in the canyon.

Unfortunately, the BLM Monticello Field Office wants to legitimize other “existing, although undesignated, routes” in Blanding to Bulldog, Jacob’s Chair, Nokai Dome, River House and Woodenshoe.

The Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance calls the proposal “reckless management that encourages more illegal user-created trails on public lands” and notes that BLM has inadequate staff to monitor the 3,000 miles of already-designated motorized routes in the area.

ENVIRONEWS

Oil spills and water pollution Oil companies insist that environmental regulations are overbearing and unneeded, but in March hikers discovered an oil spill in the backcountry of Escalante Grand Staircase National Monument from oil wells that were grandfathered in when the Monument was established. It is not clear whether some of the oil is from a decadesold leak but some is clearly from recent leaks that went unreported by Citation Oil Company which operates five active production wells and two injection wells on the Monument.

The Utah Rivers Council says that Utah’s lax environmental oversight and energyfriendly politics over the past 30 years have resulted in a massive increase in Utah public lands energy development, creating a sprawling industrialized landscape in the Uinta Basin that is seriously threatening wildlife habitat and water supplies for 35 million people who live downstream.

Dirty fuels, clean futures

Utah Rivers Council: UTAHRIVERS.ORG

While Utah Governor Gary Herbert dreams of Utah becoming the next North Dakota (he’s envious of their oil boom, at least until it goes bust the way booms always do, leaving social and economic ills behind) a new Sierra Club report says that developing just 10% of oil shale contained in the Green River Formation of the Uinta Basin would create eight times as much CO2 pollution than what new CAFE standards would prevent.

Sprawl in Utah The University of Utah Metropolitan Research Center developed a way to measure urban sprawl that has been used

by Smart Growth America to rank U.S. counties. The report says that urban sprawl has been linked to physical inactivity, obesity, traffic fatalities, poor air quality, increased residential energy use, slow emergency response times, teenage driv-

Urban sprawl is linked to physical inactivity, obesity, traffic fatalities, poor air quality, increased residential energy use, poor emergency response times, teenage driving, lack of social capital and longer private-vehicle commute distances.

“Utah could have the dubious distinction of becoming the dirty energy and climatedisrupting capitol of the U.S.,” says Tim Wagner of the Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club. Expanding Uinta-based shale oil extraction could suck up as much water per year as is used altogether by the cities of Denver, Salt Lake City and Albuquerque.

The Sierra Club is calling for a national action plan to keep dirty fuels in the ground. The Club recommends: 1) the Obama Administration should withdraw all federal lands from consideration for oil shale and tar sands development and 2) the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) should not collaborate with the state of Utah to trade federal lands away that facilitate oil shale and tar sands development without any federal safeguards.

ing, lack of social capital and longer private-vehicle commute distances and times.

A bigger number generally indicates better livability: the average index is 100, meaning areas with scores higher than 100 tend to be more compact and connected and areas with scores lower than 100 are more sprawling.

County Cache 110.14 Davis 104.52 Juab 82.20 Salt Lake 120.12 Summit 83.61 Tooele 85.94 Utah 109.98 Washington 90.67 Weber 111.17

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Mountain grown, mountain roasted This is not a eulogy, just a slice of life; or, in Caffe Ibis cofounder Randy Wirth’s case, a cup of coffee

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

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can’t claim to have been a longtime friend of Randy Wirth but I was a longtime acquaintance.

We were both steadfast members of the old-guys-inSpeedos-eeewww (OGISE) club. We were fit, fast and still doing flip turns. If you don’t like the way it looks, that is your problem. We just refused to swim in knee-length cloth bags.

We first met at the Utah State University pool in the early ’80s and talked as recently as a month ago at the local gym pool. The majority of our most meaningful conversations took place either before or after swimming.

The last conversation we had was something along the lines of “wow, all the stuff we thought would never happen in Cache Valley has happened”—coffee shops all over campus, a thriving gardener’s market, free bus service, beer sales on Sundays and even passable ethnic food. While staying in one place for 30-plus years can sometimes compost your brain, it compensates with perspective.

Few people plan to stay anywhere that long; time just slowly leaks out of a tire of indeterminate size. I gathered from some of those early swim talks that he had a plan to sell his business, say aloha to Logan and move to Kauai because the surfing here has always sucked. I probably had plans for something bigger, better and more exotic myself, but neither the Pulitzers nor the US Olympic Committee ever called. That said, I don’t think either of us were living lives of regret.

I’m not sure why his plans changed but it was probably coffee-induced. That’s what most people associate with Randy Wirth and Caffe Ibis now, but 23 years ago it was just a locker room dream. Mountain Grown, Mountain Roasted, triple certified; you’ve probably heard of it because it is now sold at all your hipper coffee spots around the west. In Logan, Randy and Sally (Sears), spouses, might as well have been Sting and Madonna because nobody used their last names. Or, they were just referred to as “the Caffe Ibis founders.”

All those years ago we had the most boring locker room guy talk ever. We discussed Peet’s Coffee and the Santa Cruz Roasting Company like they were favorite centerfolds.

There were even whispers about some sexy upstart coffee shop called Starbucks.

When not talking about his passion for roasting coffee he could regale you with stories about crashing helicopters in Vietnam, but it didn’t seem like he identified himself with that era. Randy didn’t want to just sell coffee; he wanted to trace each bean back to its literal roots. Why not do that in Logan, Utah, even though for 70% of the population, coffee was against their religion? It had all the makings of a failed pipe dream but somehow, his vision materialized.

There are many shades of leafy green granola crunchy personalities in the Cache Valley ranging from those with look-at-me solar panels to the more subtle composters and activists. I feel pretty good about myself if I remember to bring my own bag to the grocery store one out of 10 trips. Randy really was a more behind-the-scenes sort of greenie. His triple certification of organic, fair trade and bird-friendly coffee really was revolutionary in a nowStarbucks-buzzed world. It’s hard to sell a really responsible product because mostly people just look at the price and the label, but he made it work.

While the Caffe Ibis itself never got much bigger, the scope of the coffee business he started expanded across the West. It seemed like the coolest coffee shops wherever I traveled were serving Ibis coffee. It was one thing that made me proud of Logan. I would send Ibis coffee as gifts and take it to Burning Man with me to give away. The last time I checked the Ibis coffee locator, I saw that it was sold in every western state and is even forging its way eastward into places such as Lubbock, Texas and Columbia, Missouri.

If you have been to any charity event in the valley you probably have seen his coffee or benefited from Ibis contributions. So in memory of Randy, have a cup of coffee even if you don’t like or condone coffee and toast one of the best people ever to grace the coffee world.

Randy Wirth, co-founder of the Caffe Ibis Roasting Company died in a traffic accident April 12. N

Randy didn’t want to just sell coffee; he wanted to trace each bean back to its literal roots.

Dennis Hinkamp wishes peace to all the surviving family and friends and he is always looking for new guys to join OGISE.

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Bonneville bonfire

The spring Christmas tree burn at Seabase

BY ALICE TOLER photos by Rudy Van Bree

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hy light a bonfire? This question goes to the very root of what it means to be human. Fire made us who we are, and our relationship with it continues to define us.

We’ve been using fire to cook food for some 1.9 million years (since long before we became Homo sapiens). Well-dated traces of the controlled use of fire by humans date back to around 790,000 years ago in Israel. There is widespread evidence of human use of fire worldwide starting 100,000 years ago, and, not coincidentally, the development of

human physical traits that help our bodies resist the ravages of air pollution date to around this same period. The cultural and spiritual power of flames has never lessened.

We build bonfires and burn them because the flames speak to us of our deep history. We also do it because it’s fun, it’s relaxing, and it provides a cheery meeting point for a community to gather around and bond together over.

The Spring Christmas Tree Burn out at Bonneville Seabase in Grantsville is a continuation of bonfire traditions that have existed

REVELRY worldwide since time out of mind.

Bonfires have always been associated with Easter or the Spring Equinox—in Germany, bonfires are burned on the Sunday following Ash Wednesday, and Osterfeuer (Easter fires) are widespread in Austria. In Celtic countries, bonfires are lit to celebrate Walpurgis Night on April 30 or Beltane on May 1.

Historically, April 20 was celebrated as the anniversary of the founding of Rome, and young Romans would celebrate by building bonfires of hay and jumping through them. Today this tradition persists in parts of Italy, and is known as Sabatina.

In northern Italy, La Vecchia (an effigy of an old lady) is burned in a

bonfire on Mid-Lent Thursday, and Luxembourg holds a three-day celebration called Fuesent Karneval, with a bonfire that marks the end of winter. In Turkey, bonfires are lit on Hidirellez Day, May 5, which is celebrated as the awakening day of nature at the beginning of spring.

The Tree Burn isn’t affiliated with any religion, but is sponsored by Element 11, Utah’s regional Burning Man organization, and is also approved by Burning Man itself. It is loosely scheduled around the Spring Equinox. It started around a decade ago closer to the new year, but problems with the Salt Lake Valley’s infamous inversions made the burning of wood during the winter inadvisable, insensitive and occasionally illegal, so the date was pushed to a time when spring winds will be sure to disperse the smoke.

Bobby Gittins, Burning Man’s Regional Contact (RC) for Utah, has

been taking part in the Burn for seven years, and he has always loved the event. “It’s great to bring your aunts and uncles out, and all the kids too.” Bobby is charged with making sure the event hews to Burning Man’s rigorous social standards. “We make sure that the event fosters art, creativity, interactivity and inspiration, and that it leaves no trace. If it makes any money, then that money has to be put back into the community.” The entry fee to the Tree Burn this year cost $5 per head, and included the option to camp overnight. Kids were admitted free. This year the event saw about 450 attendees, up from last year’s estimated 250.

Eben and Shaya Lundberg, local business owners, attended the Burn with their two elementary schoolaged children. “The bonfire is a side of fire we rarely get to enjoy,” Eben says. “Fire is the ultimate letting go of elements and energy. The Tree Burn allows me to introduce my children to this element of fire, and a bonfire is a good way to both calm and ignite the soul!”

Linda Smith Nelson, co-owner of Bonneville Seabase, says she really enjoys hosting the event. “It’s so nice to see the community come together and celebrate, and the whole of Grantsville really enjoys the opportunity to attend as well.”

The Grantsville Volunteer Fire Department is invited to all Burn events at Seabase, and the firefighters enjoy the extra opportunity to monitor and work with large controlled fires in a relaxed and convivial atmosphere.

Micky Baker, member of the Element 11 board of directors, has been attending the Tree Burn for four years: “It’s been remarkable to see it change and grow. Just a few years ago the event had 50 or fewer people! It’s a unique opportunity to introduce people not familiar with the Burning Man community to our culture. This was the first time that my parents and my little sister experienced the Burn, and they loved it!” N To sign up for Element 11 regional event notifications: ELEMENT11.ORG.

NERD FACTOR Rudy Van Bree

The Combustion Conundrum

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verybody loves a cheery campfire, and a big bonfire is even more fun, but exactly how much carbon are you releasing into the atmosphere every time you light up a pile of logs?

Usefully, the average 10-year-old Christmas tree (when dry) weighs about the same as the average bundle of presplit, kiln-dried firewood: about 18 pounds.

One pound of carbon in wood, when burned, releases 1.6 pounds of CO2 (carbon dioxide). This is because combustion is an oxidative process and pulls oxygen (O2) out of the atmosphere to combine with the carbon.

So, your average Christmas tree, or a campfire that burns one bundle of wood, has the capability of putting about 30 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere. The combustion of wood in a campfire or bonfire is inefficient, though, and perhaps only

50% to 80% of that carbon is actually turned into gas.

For a pile of 250 Christmas trees, this means that of a possible 7,500 lbs of CO2, a “back of the envelope� guess is that probably more like 4,000 to 5,000 pounds of CO2 from that pile is released. The rest stays in solid form as ash and charcoal.

This sounds pretty bad. But if you want to get some perspective about our cultural problems with CO2, let’s do a comparison with a different carbon-based fuel that we burn all day every day: gasoline.

A gallon of gasoline weighs eight pounds, and releases almost 18 pounds of CO2 when burned—and gas burns much, much more efficiently than wood.

An 80-mile round trip to Grandma’s house (say, from Salt Lake City to Ogden) in a vehicle averaging 25 miles per gallon will release 57 pounds of CO2, about the

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And this is only gasoline we’re talking about here. When you factor in coal-fired power plants and natural gas for heating homes and businesses, our carbon footprint becomes even more extravagant.

We can see the flames of a campfire, but these other sources of combustion are “invisible: — we don’t often think about how much fossil carbon is released just in the name of keeping our electrical grid running, or our houses warm in the winter. Your smartphone runs on fossil carbon.

Contemplating all of this causes crippling anxiety and a feeling of powerlessness, but this is the way I see things: Excoriating yourself about burning a campfire or a bonfire because of our overall carbon footprint is like deciding not to drink water from your tap because there’s a big leak in the main out on the street, and thousands of gallons of water are running away down the gutter every hour. Just as, if you are thirsty and need water to nourish your body, drink it, but don’t waste it—if you need a campfire to soothe your soul, or a bonfire to bring cheer to your community, burn the wood, but do it with mindfulness. We change the world an inch at a time, and you are only one small human. Do what you can: Take public transport, ride your bike, invest in renewable energy sources, and vote for people who share these values.

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same as two to four bundles of firewood.

One hundred people driving to Ogden for Thanksgiving liberates about as much carbon as a pile of 250 Christmas trees burning.

Now, if you want to drive to Moab for a weekend vacation, the 470-mile round trip in an average pickup truck (15 mpg) will release 600 lbs of CO2, just for that one trip. A fuel-efficient car (40+ mpg) will release more like 200 lbs.

Zion National Park is over a 600-mile round trip from Salt Lake City. Your Ford pickup is liberating 730 lbs of CO2 for that trip, and your Honda Fit is releasing about 275 lbs.

Now consider that Salt Lake County contains just over a million people. The average U.S. per capita consumption of gasoline is 423 gallons (that’s for every man, woman, and child in the nation).

Divide that by 365 and you can ballpark the amount of gas burned in the valley every day. 1.6 gallons per person times a million people, so that’s 1.6 million gallons of gasoline burned, every single day.

Multiply that by 18 pounds of CO2 per gallon of gas, and just our normal commuting and driving around doing errands in the valley liberates more than 28 million pounds of carbon dioxide PER DAY. That’s over a million bundles of firewood (or Christmas trees). Also remember that gasoline is fossil carbon, not carbon that was in the air 10 to 50 years ago that got made into a tree and then re-released into the atmosphere. Burning wood is, at least in theory, carbon-neutral.

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LOCAL BREW

Mamachari Meet your local kombucha brewer, Christy Jensen

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o get a sense of how popular kombucha is, you need to go no further than your local Whole Foods and see the many rows of various branded and flavored bottles of the probiotic tea, referred to by many as a healthy elixir. All of those bottles were shipped hundreds of miles to reach refrigerated shelves in Salt Lake City.

While some cities have multiple microbreweries making craft, small-batch kombucha—Austin, Texas has four—until recently, Salt Lake’s most “locally” produced kombucha, High Country, came from Colorado.

“There’s no reason Mamachari Taproom why kombucha 26 E. 600 South, SLC should travel 800 Thursday-Saturday, miles in order for us noon-7pm to drink it,” says Flavors: Lemon Ginger, Christy Jensen, the Rooibos, Concord Grape, 28-year-old founder Lavender Honey, Jasmine of Salt Lake CityRose. “We will have the same flavor lineup available based Mamachari at our taproom and perhaps Kombucha. “The a few rotating specialty fla- tea and the sugar already travel far vors,” says Christy.

Available at: Blue Star Coffee*, enough.”

Caffe Ibis, Cafe Solstice, Chocolate Kombucha is a fizzy, tart and Conspiracy, Community Co-op, sometimes controversial ferFrisch*, Jade Market, Joffee’s Coffee, PC Meat & Provisions, Pulp mented tea loaded with probiotics (live micro-organisms that SLC, Real Foods Market, Sugar House Coffee, Urban Farm & Feed, aid in digestion) as well as Urban Pioneer Foods, Zest. organic acids. It has been *Growlers filled around for centuries, perhaps FACEBOOK.COM/MAMACHA millenia. You can trace stories RIKOMBUCHA of the healing tea back to the Chinese Twin dynasty (212 BC), and from there, presumably via trade routes, people carried the means to make it—the starter, which is a symbiotic community of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY; see sidebar)—to Russia, Japan, Germany and beyond.

Kombucha SCOBYs are like sourdough

BY JODI MARDESICH starters; you feed them, they grow and multiply; you share the “offspring” and the cycle begins again.

Growing up in Japan, Jensen had always been fascinated by tea and fermented foods. After college, she apprenticed with an artisan baker. “I was really into fermenting sourdough,” she said. Her self-proclaimed nerdy fascination with fermentation quickly evolved to include other foods.

“I like the idea of thousands of living organisms in one small jar, eating sugars and producing tasty food,” says Jensen. “They live together symbiotically.

If the smallest of living organisms can do that, I think larger organisms like Homo sapiens can learn to as well.”

Tired of paying $4 a pop for a bottle of kombucha at the grocery store, Jensen got a SCOBY from a friend and started making her own. After a couple of months, Jensen offered her friend a taste and received high praise in return. Encouraged, Jensen started selling her brew to friends and coworkers.

At first Jensen had some reservations about starting the business, worrying that kombucha drinkers like herself were mostly DIY people who would rather make their own than buy it. But, she figured, if the home-brewing boom doesn’t keep people from ordering a cold one at a bar, and people with coffee pots at home still get coffee at drivethroughs and coffee shops, then maybe a kombucha business had a chance.

Like a bottle of shaken kombucha,

business started exploding. By the time she had six one-gallon containers of kombucha in various stages of fermentation and was still selling out, she sought a commercial kitchen to produce legal “’booch.”

Jensen marketed her first brew at the Chocolate Conspiracy and later Laziz before expanding to Frisch, Blue Star Coffee, Real Foods, Urban Pioneer Foods and the farmer’s market—where her kegs and cases of kombucha bottles often sold out before noon.

What began as a side project has since turned into a full-blown business.

Jensen now produces about 400 gallons a month with the cheerful Mamachari Kombucha logo—the name over a bicycle sprocket, designed by her friend Nate King. She still does all of the production by herself— “brewing, bottling, labeling, the whole shebang.” But she is grateful for good friends who are always willing to stop by and do a few dishes, or roll labels on bottles when she has a big production day.

Recently, she moved into her own commercial space on 600 South where I met her to learn more about kombucha.

Wearing all black clothing and a hat adorned with a Siamese cat face (she also loves cats), she washed a crate as we talked. For one thing, Jensen explained, it’s easy to make your own kombucha. All you need is tea, water, a SCOBY, about a cup of kombucha as a starter, and a cloth-topped vessel in which to culture it. As those DIYers who have made it can tell you, though, it is more challenging to get consistent results. Variations in temperature and types of tea are big factors.

A living organism, the SCOBY looks a bit like a slimy pancake and touching it can be a bit daunting to the squeamish. The SCOBY, culturing at the top of the tea, grows to fit the size of its vessel. Over time it produces “daughters”—layers that can be separated and used to start new batches or passed on to friends.

Sliding open a door, Jensen led me into the noticeably warmer fermenta-

“I like the idea of thousands of living organisms in one small jar, eating sugars and producing tasty food,” says Jensen. tion room. Racks of white five-gallon food-grade plastic buckets labeled by type and date sat on stainless steel racks.

When you brew kombucha at home, Jensen told me, you can make the brew more carbonated by doing a “secondary fermentation,” adding juice, fruit or other sweetener, either to an cloth-covered container or to bottled brew. As the yeast eats the sugar, it produces carbonation. It also produces alcohol. Occasionally, the brew can become “too” alcoholic.

(Remember the kombucha crisis of 2010, when the popular brand G.T. Dave’s pulled its product because it was exceeding the 0.5% legal limit?)

Instead of a secondary fermentation, the kombucha in Jensen’s buckets is force-carbonated when she kegs it, and independently tested to make sure it’s below 0.5% alcohol.

Flavors for her brews are on the sweeter side, says Jensen, influenced by the Utah palate. One flavor, lavender honey, is sweetened with Aseda wild honey.

Others take their flavor from added fruit juice like Concord grape. This summer, Jensen hopes to produce a new huckleberry kombucha.

Mamachari continues to expand. This month Jensen is opening a taproom where customers can buy bottles or fill up growlers with Mamachari kombucha Thursday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. If all goes well (Mamachari in Whole Foods, perhaps?) she could brew kombucha fulltime. For now, she’s keeping her part time job at Saturday Cycles, a commuter-based bike shop where she sells and repairs bikes.

“I’m all about local,” says Jensen, who hopes that others take inspiration from her story and start their own businesses.

“Go for it,” she says. “Whether it’s food, a clothing line, bike tech—you never know what’s going to happen. What you give to the universe, you get back.” N Jodi Mardesich is a home kombucha brewer, terrarium builder and bonne vivant. This is her first article for CATALYST.

What is a SCOBY? Just as you use a starter to make sourdough bread, you need this slimy pancake to get your kombucha going.

Sometimes it’s called a mother (think vinegar) or a mushroom, though it’s not a mushroom. SCOBY stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. The SCOBY feeds off the sugar and tannins in sweetened tea to produce kombucha.

While every SCOBY is unique, here are some of the beneficial bacteria and yeasts in it: Acetobacter: An aerobic bacteria strain that produces acetic acid and gluconic acid and builds the SCOBY. Saccharomyces: A yeast that produces alcohol.

Brettanomyces: Another type of yeast strain that produces alcohol or acetic acid.

Lactobacillus: A beneficial bacteria that produces lactic acid and slime.

Pediococcus: An anaerobic bacteria that produces lactic acid and slime.

Gluconacetobacter kombuchae: An anaerobic bacteria unique to

kombucha that feeds on nitrogen in tea and produces acetic acid and gluconic acid.

Zygosaccharomyces kombuchaensis: A yeast strain unique to kombucha that produces alcohol and carbonation.

According to kombucha lovers, these bacteria and yeast and the acids they produce have all kinds of positive benefits, such as aiding digestion, detoxifying the body, boosting immunity, reducing inflammation, improving skin, and balancing your body. You won’t hear the same thing from the FDA, as most of kombucha’s benefits are anecdotal.

Our best advice? Try it for yourself and see how it makes you feel.

The SCOBY’s acidity usually prevents the formation of harmful bacteria. If your SCOBY grows mold, throw it away and start with a fresh one.

You’ll find many books and articles about making kombucha. Our favorites (for all your fermenting needs) are by Sandor Katz: Wild Fermentation (2004) and The Art of Fermentation (2012), both from Chelsea Green Press.

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Vegetable

Beans (bush)

Beans (pole)

Beets Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage

Carrot

Cauliflower Chard Corn Cucumber Eggplant Endive Ground cherries Kale Kohlrabi Lettuce (head) Lettuce (leaf ) Melon Okra Pea

Pepper Potato

Pumpkin Radish Rutabaga Spinach Squash (summer) Squash (winter) Tomato

Turnip

20 - 30 seeds

2 - 4 seeds in a hill 10-12 seeds 10-15 10-15 seeds 2 - 4 seeds in a hill 2 - 4 seeds in a hill 1 plant

1 plant 1 piece

1 plant 5-10 seeds 3 - 4 seeds in a hill 2-3 seeds 1 plant 1 - 2 seeds 1 plant 2 - 4 seeds 10 - 15 seeds 1 plant 20-25 seeds 3 seeds in a hill 4 - 6 seeds 6-12 seeds

15-20 seeds

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.5 - .75

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strawberry nasturtium, corn, bean, peas, radish, borage see summer squash onion, parsley, asparagus, marigold, nasturtium, carrot peas

carrot, turnip, radish, cucumber, corn, spinach, bean, lettuce, Chinese cabbage basil, okra bean, corn, cabbage, horseradish, marigold, eggplant corn, beans, peas, borage, radish peas, nasturtium, lettuce, cucumber, carrot

see cabbage see cabbage carrot, radish, strawberry, cucumber carrot, radish, strawberry, cucumber

beans beans, corn, radish, sunflower, nasturtiums beans, catnip

potato, corn, cucumber, strawberry, celery, summer savory, petunia corn, summer savory broccoli, cabbage onion, kohlrabi, broccoli, cabbage see cabbage see cabbage potato, celery, dill, thyme, mint, tomatoes, sage, rosemary, beet, onion, nicotiana peas, leaf lettuce, chives, onion, leek, dill, rosemary, sage, tomato, radish see cabbage

Compatible plants

cabbage, potato, broccoli

potato

pumpkin, tomato, sunflower, cucumber, squash potato

onion, garlic, gladiolus, potato

potato, aromatic herbs

strawberry, pole bean, tomato

pole bean tomato

onion onion, beet, kohlrabi, sunflower

Incompatible Plants

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•Based on the assumption that the gardener is using raised beds.

• The space between rows is less (less unnecessary space to weed, more space for gardening).

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• Offers interplanting suggestions.

Fred Montague says interplanting makes fuller use of garden resources (e.g. shallow-rooted plants with deep; short shade-loving plants with tall sun-loving ones). It also offers some protection and encourages plant yield.

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• berries (strawberries; cane types such as raspberries, blackberries, gooseberries, currants; elderberries) • rhubarb • grapes • fruit trees/shrubs • asparagus • sunroot/sunchoke (Helianthus tuberosus; formerly called Jerusalem artichoke)

Make room for permanent plantings of perennial fruits & vegetables in your garden:

Edible perennials

• More plants remaining after thinning (more intensive planting, possibly to accommodate vertical strategies).

• Fewer seeds to plant per foot (resulting in less thinning).

Early

Area

Salt Lake City area first & last frost dates

charts of yesteryear are less useful. In this chart you’ll find these improvements:

Muskmelon 5 Mustard 4 Okra 2 Onion 1 Parsnip 1 Pea 3 Pepper 2 Pumpkin 4 Radish 5 Rutabaga 4 Salsify 1 Spinach 3 Squash 4 Swiss chard 4 Tomato 4 Turnip 4 Watermelon 4

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Planting seeds for 33 years

Louise Riotte, Carrots Love Tomatoes (Storey)

Toby Hemenway, Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Homescale Permaculture (Chelsea Green)

Mel Bartholomew, Square Foot Gardening (Rodale)

References and influences: Fred Montague, Gardening: An Ecological Approach (Mountain Bear Ink)

Bean 3 Beet 4 Broccoli 3 Brussels sprouts 4 Cabbage 4 Carrot 3 Cauliflower 4 Chinese cabbage 3 Collard 5 Corn 2 Corn salad 5 Cucumber 5 Eggplant 4 Endive 5 Kale 4 Kohlrabi 3 Leek 2 Lettuce 6

Store in a cool, dark, dry place. Plant more densely than you would new seed.

(University of Colorado) Exppectancy notated in years.

rise of raised beds, intensive planting, vertical gardening and no-till methods, planting

• Planting dates are geared toward the Salt Lake Valley, not all of Utah (see “Salt Lake City area—first and last frost dates” for even more useful detail).

T Seed life expectancy

his planting guide reflects some of the changes occurring in the city garden. With the

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relaxing retirement is well earned by Ardean Watts. But he doesn’t seem keen on spending it reclined in an overstuffed chair. Watts, after all, has always been a man of activity and engagement. One of Salt Lake’s living institutions, Watts spent the greater part of his long life in this city nurturing and growing the arts.

For 11 years, Watts served as associate conductor for the Utah Symphony, a position he grew into after being hired by conductor Maurice Abravanel in the 1950s as the symphony pianist. For 22 years, Watts played as the official pianist of the Utah Symphony Orchestra (though now he declines to play for an audience, explaining, “my play-

ing never matched my own standards”).

Outside his work with the Utah Symphony, Watts’ list of achievements and enterprises only grows longer. He served as musical director and principle conductor for Ballet West, taught music at the University of Utah and founded the school’s opera company. Even in retirement Watts’ service has not ceased, serving as chair of the Utah Arts Council and a member of the board of HawkWatch International.

Despite his numerous achievements it’s Watts’ peculiar admiration for mushrooms that has earned him, more recently, an extraordinary amount of attention. Queried by journalists from Sunstone Maga zine, followed by reporters from the

“Our table always had wild pheasant and trout and venison, foraged asparagus and watercress, and so I always had a great respect for what the earth could provide.”

Salt Lake Tribune, talked about by the San Diego Mycological Society, it seems that many people are curious about this white-bearded patriarch and his fondness for fungi.

When I called him up this spring, eager to explore like so many before me Watts’ passion for and unparalleled knowledge of our state’s wild mushrooms, Watts was casually welcoming. “Don’t bother calling,” he told me. “I’ll be home after two.

Just stop by when you’re free.”

It was warm and breezy, trees not yet leafing out, the afternoon that I knocked at Ardean Watts’ door. A delicate looking woman answered.

Above our heads came a booming voice from the second floor. “Elna, who is it?”

Elna kindly helped me with my jacket and bicycle and guided me upstairs where I shook hands with Watts, a tall man as strong and commanding in appearance as his voice seemed to suggest.

“I never considered myself an

athletic man when it came to the outdoors,” Watts said as the three of us settled into chairs in a dim living room packed with books. “My father believed that God set Sundays aside for fishing and hunting. Our table always had wild pheasant and trout and venison, foraged asparagus and watercress, and so I always had a great respect for what the earth could provide.”

Born Ardean Walton Watts in the little town of Kanosh, Utah, in 1928 and raised in Idaho Falls, Watts’ early experiences hunting and foraging were common among the pioneer families that had settled the Mormon territory. But as Watts grew older, his attention turned increasingly towards music instead of the land. He returned to Utah to attend Brigham Young University where, after a brief hiatus to serve his church mission in New England, he graduated in 1952 with a degree in music theory.

He married Elna who, like her

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In an arid state averaging little more than 15 inches of rainfall a year, Watts learned from McKnight of the surprising hidden diversity and potential for mushrooms— well over 2,000 fungi species, McKnight estimated, in the Wasatch and Uinta ranges. equation by which to experience nature and, eventually, found mushrooms.

It was the famous forager Euell (pronounced yule) Gibbons who first pointed the way for Watts.

Though today’s foodist elite often act as though wild food foraging is a new en vogue trend in haute cuisine, the movement is actually a revival of the ’70s back-to-the-land movement of which forager-naturalist Euell Gibbons was at the forefront, authoring a series of foraging books including Stalking the Blueeyed Scallop and Stalking the Wild Asparagus.

Gibbons, Watts admits, was not an expert on mushrooms. Very little of his writing was devoted to mushroom foraging, but it was just enough to catch Watts’ attention. A thorough man, Watts bought all the books he could find on mushrooms.

He poured over texts on the science of fungi. He learned mushroom identification. He ventured out into the forest.

He became a serious student, some in Utah’s mushrooming scene have even called him a protégé, of Kent H McKnight, author of A Field Guide to Mushrooms: North America. In an arid state averaging little more than 15 inches of rainfall a year, Watts learned from McKnight of the surprising hidden diversity and potential for mushrooms—well over 2,000 fungi species, McKnight estimated, in the Wasatch and Uinta ranges.

Watts began to explore. He discovered oyster mushrooms growing on cottonwood trees in Salt Lake’s canyons. He found morels and puffballs. He remembers once seeing a pickup truck loaded high with 500 pounds of wild porcini. “A glorious mushroom,” he tells me. “Buttery and tender and succulent.

Heavenly. Arguably the best mushroom of North America.”

As his independent study continued, Watts quickly became not simply a mushroom hunter, but a notable amateur mycologist more interested in the science of mushrooms than in eating them. “Why

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husband, had grown up in the rural West. Raised in the town of Bear Lake on her family’s dairy farm, Elna spent summers foraging raspberries and huckleberries, and as she and Ardean began their own family they agreed that they should raise their children close to nature.

The couple chose to settle in Salt Lake. It was a unique place, they felt, with ample opportunities both for work and school and with easy access to the outdoors.

As the years passed and their family grew—eight children in all— demands on the couple’s time never ceased. Watts, a man of unparalleled energy and talent, remained heavily involved in both work and community service. While employed with the Utah Symphony, he earned a master’s degree in performance at the University as well as maintained an active presence in civic clubs and church committees.

He also found time for nature.

Watts’ friend Warren Woods, writing in his blog, once recounted stumbling across his old friend Ardean in the Salt Lake Canyons.

Woods had just finished a vigorous hike and was fully satisfied with his excursion—refreshed by the perfumes of the woods, warmed by the sun, punctually returned to his car as planned—when he was surprised by the sight of his friend Ardean sitting quietly by a stream. Woods approached to see what his friend was doing.

“Get down really close. See,” Woods recalled Watts saying. “I’m watching a spider spinning its web.” Humbled and a little bit envious, Woods said he couldn’t remember a time outside of childhood that he had let go of the cares of the world long enough to watch a spider spin its web.

“I have always looked for alternative ways to relate to nature,” said Watts, whose sensitivity for animals and plants led him for 15 years to avoid eating meat, paying off what he considered a heavy debt to the animals he had killed. Even before becoming temporarily vegetarian, Watts, unlike his father, could not enjoy hunting or fishing. Neither was he partial to skiing or biking. So he searched for another part of the

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During summer months when, as he says, “things really started exploding and begging to be harvested and eaten,” Watts hosted wild-food dinners at the house. By 1994, he had garnered enough interest in fungi to found the Mushroom Society of Utah. do they grow? Where to they grow?” he asked, excited to finally delve into the real meat of mushrooms. “The science is so complicated. All life on earth depends on fungus. If they disappeared, the forests would be gone in a few years as would everything that depends on the forests, even humans.”

The relationship between fungi and forests has been important enough to earn the attention of the U.S. Department of Energy whose Joint Genome Institute released findings from a 2008 study exploring the potential for carbon sequestration in forests. Interested in finding the necessary components for supporting and sustaining healthy forests for this cause, the report focused on trees’ symbiotic relationship with fungi.

“Plants gained their ancestral toehold on dry land with considerable help from their fungal friends,” the report states. Beginning with soil microbes called mycorrhizal fungi, these small organisms gather scarce but essential nutrients like phosphate and nitrogen and transfer them to growing trees. Given that competitive advantage, the tree flourishes and as it does, the fungi establishes itself as part of the tree root, gaining “protection from competition with other soil microbes and gaining preferential access to carbohydrates.”

“To me,” Watts says, “ that relationship is a metaphor for everything good in world. Cooperation is what survival is all about and fungi are the perfect partner.”

During summer months when, as he says, “things really started exploding and begging to be harvested and eaten,” Watts encouraged others to share in his fascination of mushrooms by hosting wild-food dinners at the house. By 1994, a year after his retirement from teaching at the

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University of Utah, he had garnered enough interest in fungi to found the Mushroom Society of Utah.

Many of the group’s early members came from the Native Plant Society, who already shared Watts’ interest in wild foods and, especially when it came to mushrooms, a desire to know which were safe and which were not.

Loosely organized, the group, which is still active under the leadership of Stephanie Cannon, has always welcomed newcomers. Seasonal events feature group forays into the mountains, where society members wander off to gather mushrooms and then re-converge with their findings to help one another identify and learn about the species they have harvested. Often, observes Watts, members only remain active for a few years, long enough to learn the ropes. But according to Watts, sometimes that’s all it takes to bridge the gap between humans and the natural world.

“People who are curious about mushrooms are often purely motivated by the prospect of eating them,” Watts says. “But for some, if they stay with it over time, there is an evolution. They realize that mushrooms should not be seen as merely through the lens of edible versus poisonous but as beautiful and aesthetic attractions, the same as flowers in bloom. Not trivial, but spectacular.”

At one time, Watts recalls wistfully, mushroom hunting in Utah was as simple as a slow attentive amble under streamside cottonwoods. Empty fields in the center of the valley yielded bags full of porcini, gathered by local families still mindful of old world knowledge.

“You have to go to Wyoming now,” says Watts, “to find areas that produce enough. In Salt Lake a good season for morels these days is no more than a plateful.”

It was 20 years ago when Watts first began noticing the change. About the time, he says, that the reservoirs started declining. Utah, after all, has only a marginally good climate for mushrooms, nothing like the Pacific northwest where commercial harvesting of edible wild mushrooms has become a multimillion dollar industry. In Utah, it only takes a slight change in rainfall or snow pack to make a huge difference.

“It’s very much like the coral reefs,” says Watts, “where even a slight change in water temperature can mean death to the ecosystem.”

Encroaching development up the canyons and across the valley has also done its part in destroying mushroom habitat in the area, as has general over harvesting. Sometimes, when Watts checks one of the few mushrooming areas left, places he still shares with people, all he finds are stumps.

It’s a prospect that would make any amateur mycologist sorrowful, maybe even bitter.

But Watts is a man who has learned to appreciate earthly miracles wherever he finds them. He reminds us what is good, funny, surprising and beautiful about life. Sometimes, that includes mushrooms. After all, Watts reminds me before we part, “without fungi there would be no yeast, no bread, no wine, no cheese, no penicillin.” All things to be grateful for, and protect. N Katherine Pioli is a CATALYST staff writer.

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The perfect room

The State Room is the place for live music in Salt Lake City

BY MOLLY YOUNG

toe in the business side of music in 1992 at the Telluride Jazz Festival. He dabbled in artist management, working with Drums and Tuba, an alternative rock band from Austin, Texas, among others. He promoted his first concert in Durango, Colorado in 1995 after making the acquaintance of long-time Maceo Parker manager Natasha Maddison who was a generous mentor and helped educate Piccoli to the core elements of the business. He went on to book several more shows in Colorado, some of which were successful, some of which lost money, but each provided a unique opportunity to learn.

Arriving in Utah in 1999, Piccoli worked for a large country music promoter and in corporate bookings honing his understanding of the many complex elements of the music and entertainment business and absorbing a sort of real world master’s-level education.

By the time Piccoli and Mautz sat down to talk, they already knew they had compatible and complementary musical tastes and that they

The State Room marks a benchmark five-year anniversary this spring. How has this 299-person-capacity former children’s theater become a beloved institution of live music in just five years?

Jane Laird Darin Piccoli and Chris Mautz celebrate the 5th anniversary of their music lovers’ venue, The State Room.

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here’s the music. And then there are the people who bring the music to town, and who provide a venue that suits the sound.

The State Room, appropriately located at 638 So. State St., turned five this spring. My dearest passion is experiencing music performed live. I’ve attended many shows at The State Room, so it was with great pleasure that I sat down for a conversation with the guys who have fashioned this rock solid venue for music lovers in Salt Lake.

In 2008, Chris Mautz and Darin Piccoli, already acquainted through a love of live music and backgrounds working in the music business, brainstormed possibilities for collaboration.

Both had varied backgrounds in the business of music: booking, promotion and (in Piccoli’s case) artist management.

Chris Mautz, a New Hampshire native, moved to Utah in 1997 after college, where he’d majored in journalism and psychology. On a gut instinct he pursued a job described in a cryptic but intriguing ad that landed him a position with the

University of Utah developing the Red Butte Garden concert series. It was to be a 10-concert series and its focus was to promote awareness of the garden. In his first tenure with Red Butte Garden, he began building relationships with artists and agents and scored what he recalls as his first big booking with Mary Chapin Carpenter.

He was recruited away in 2001 to develop a similar series in Denver, though he remained a resident of Salt Lake City. In the years to come, he developed a half dozen or so other garden concert series around the country and has continued to run, since 2005, the series for the Grand Rapids, Michigan garden and again, since 2006, Salt Lake’s Red Butte Gardens concert series.

Mautz’s ongoing booking and promotion work on these series is separate from his involvement in The State Room. However, there can be no question that the latter is the beneficiary of this extensive experience as well as Mautz’s deeply embedded connection to the Salt Lake music scene.

Darin Piccoli grew up in Rhode Island, headed west to Colorado for college and first dipped his

both felt a strong connection to artists and audience alike. Both were intrepid fans of live music.

“Because of our professional backgrounds, Darin and I shared a deeper vocabulary about music and how it could and should be presented,” Mautz recalls. They envisioned a venue that could fill a musical void that the two had identified early in their conversations.

“We noticed great acts like James McMurtry, Maceo Parker and Hot Tuna were skipping our market,” said Piccoli. They both felt that with the right venue, well-established and respected acts could be drawn in.

The duo shared their first independent booking in June of 2008, presenting legendary jazz-fusion group Return to Forever at the University of Utah’s Kingsbury Hall.

At the same time, they had begun negotiation on the lease of the building that would later became home to The State Room.

According to Piccoli, while the negotiation of the lease was complex and lengthy (approximately a year), the process was educational for them.

They were required to craft and present a clear vision for the building, an effort that required several iterations before they finally secured the lease in January 2009.

The rigorous process helped them refine their goals for and design of the venue.

Both men are passionate about artist cultivation. They envisioned a venue that could evolve into a showplace in which national and regional acts alike could grow their audience and develop a

rich and lasting relationship with local music fans.

They agreed that such a venue would need to have a sharp focus on exceptional service, customized to satisfy all flavors of music enthusiasts. Piccoli says they felt strongly that Salt Lake City was in need of a music venue with a bar, not a bar that does music. “The design and natural layout of the building allow us to offer artists, patrons and staff a ‘blank music sheet’ that adjusts to each show and audience,” says Piccoli.

To make that possible they needed more than the idea, they needed genuinely dedicated staff who were included in their larger goal. Both Mautz and Piccoli say their staff is like family and all are deeply invested in making every State Room experience special.

Negotiations on the building concluded the signature of a two-year lease in January of 2009.

The partners began work on the space immediately.

The building’s previous life as a theater made it well suited for transition to a venue for live music.

Raked floors and theater seats were already in place, though Mautz and Piccoli added the pews that occupy the front rows of the venue’s seated area.

The box office and downstairs bar were in existence, but the rounded wall in the front entry was added to add polish to the space. The stage was larger than it is today, leaving little to no standing/dancing floor space, so it was re-worked.

On April 1, 2009, The State Room opened with a debut performance from bass virtuoso Stanley Clarke. The appearance of the Return to Forever bassist serves as just one early example of the pair’s dedication to constructing lasting artist relationships and a genuine synergy between artist and venue.

Today the venue has hosted over 500 musical performances from a remarkably broad variety of performers.

The Zephyr Club at the corner of Third South and West Temple once ruled Salt Lake City’s live music scene in a variety of genres, from 1983 till its surprise closure 20 years later. Catalyst asked the former Zephyr’s owner Otto Mileti to weigh in on The State Room.

“Piccoli and Mautz have done a great job,” Mileti says. “The State Room has a good vibe and is not too pretentious like some other clubs I know. They have picked up where we left off, bringing in cutting-edge bands that most other clubs and venues aren’t even aware of. It’s my favorite venue in Salt Lake City.”

A cross-section of generations is evident at many shows. The State Room serves some of the same music lovers who frequented the Zephyr Club 20 to 30 years ago— and now, also, their grown children.

The State Room has been able to secure return engagements from accomplished artists like John Hiatt, Robert Earl Keen, Josh Ritter and Brandi Carlile who often play for much larger audiences. Getting these big name artists into a smaller space like The State Room reflects well on the venue, indicating that many artists value the opportunity for intimacy that the room provides.

Evidently charmed by the venue, Chris Robinson Brotherhood scheduled a June concert at The State Room after watching Black Crowes bandmate and collaborator Jackie Green play at The State Room with Mother Hips.

The State Room has cultivated audiences for groups previously lesser known in this area.

“Seeing artists like March

Fourth Marching Band, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Jenny Lewis, The Devil Makes Three and The Infamous Stringdusters grow at our venue makes us feel like proud parents,” says Piccoli. “It’s fun to take a chance on bands that don’t have huge followings.”

The room has also been a good fit for larger draw artists who are perhaps operating on a smaller scale while touring on side or solo projects.

While the partners do still work on bookings at outside venues such as Kingsbury and Abravanel Halls, Deer Valley and the Depot, they shy away from doing so unless it’s a move that is required to satisfy the artist.

The State Room is their passion project and the one that receives the greatest share of tending and focus.

In 2011 the partners purchased the building at 638 S. State following the fulfillment of their initial two-year lease.

Mautz is pleased with the amount of recognition The State Room has received. Much of the positive feedback from patrons is earned by the venue’s willingness to act on patron suggestions, such as instituting fee-free online ticketing and adding requested beers and whiskeys to their bar.

It also reflects The State Room’s wider commitment to the community. Though original intended only as a good place for music, it has evolved into a gathering place for the community – hosting events for KUER’s RadioWest, HEALUtah and Pecha-Kucha. It’s the kind of close-knit, quality relationship that Mautz and Piccoli look forward to continuing into the future. N Molly Young is crazy about music.

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There’s ALEC in the air It’s not all Blue Sky for Rocky Mountain Power

BY KATHERINE PIOLI

ocky Mountain Power knows that its customers want to feel good about the energy they buy and use. Mining natural gas by fracking, coal by mountain top removal, high carbon footprints and excessive greenhouse gases, though natural consequences of our current energy industry, aren’t things that Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) wants customers to think of when they think of their own energy supply. Wisely, RMP avoids reminding its customers of these realities, instead touting the greenness of its other efforts such as the Blue Sky program –sending mailers with each monthly utility bill espousing the company’s “commitment to protect and enhance the environment.”

Last month, a Rocky Mountain Power mailer informed customers that they saved the energy equivalent of powering 28,000 homes thanks to efficiency programs. And, as icing on the cake, Rocky Mountain Power announced plans to build Utah’s first solar farm. All signs that Rocky Mountain Power is the progressive, green-conscious energy utility that customers want. Right?

“This may sound cynical,” says Matt Pacenza, Policy Director for HEAL Utah,” but Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky program is a layer of green frosting on a very brown cake.”

According to HEAL Utah, a Salt Lake-based environmental non-

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profit that promotes renewable energy and advocates for a nuclearfree and toxic energy-free environment, all of Rocky Mountain Power’s efforts toward creating an effective renewable energy profile, including the latest 9,000-panel, twomegawatt solar farm funded largely with customer investment in the Blue Sky program (powering the equivalent of 500 Utah homes) amount to a drop in the bucket.

“In terms of energy delivered to Utah customers,” says Dave Eskelsen, spokesperson for Rocky Mountain Power, “renewable sources—wind, hydro, solar and biomass—make up about 15% of our company’s energy capacity as of 2012. Coal makes up another 60%.”

The national average for coal-produced energy, according to numbers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is 44.8%.

HEAL Utah has long been dissatisfied with what they see as Rocky Mountain Power’s lip service to renewable energy, pacifying concerned customers with relatively small environmental gains through the Blue Sky program. But recent announcements have shifted HEAL’s attention.

In January, Rocky Mountain Power requested a monthly fee increase for net metering customers, those who generate power for the grid through solar panels and wind turbines. The fee, they

said, would cover the cost of upkeep on the grid infrastructure used by solar energy-generating customers.

It is an argument taken almost word for word from prefabricated legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

Arizona has already passed the ALEC-produced bill. Now Arizona homeowners who install rooftop solar, ALEC calls them “freeriders,” pay 70 cents per kilowatt capacity, around $3-6 a month. Rocky Mountain Power hopes to charge customers a flat $4.25 monthly fee.

Since enacting the fee in Arizona, requests for solar installations in the state have gone down 60%, exactly the result ALEC wants.

“We as customers pay the utility about 8 cents per kilowatt of energy. Rocky Mountain buys excess energy from rooftop solar producers at about 3 cents per kilowatt. So those people generating power are actually making money for Rocky Mountain,” says Pacenza. “And if

Rocky Mountain Power’s recent request to charge to increase fees for net metering customers (those who generate power for the grid through solar and wind) takes its argument almost word for word from prefabricated legislation from the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). the utility is so worried about making up costs lost by customers who are not paying as much, they should also be charging extra fees for people with energy-efficient homes who pay less on their monthly bill. Where will it stop?”

There is a lot of work to be done in this state to get Utah on track with clean energy and for every step forward (Blue Sky-funded solar farm) Rocky Mountain Power seems to take a step back (rooftop solar fee hike).

The path for Rocky Mountain Power could be a simple one, according to Pacenza. “Give people what they want,” he says. “Buy more renewables and transition away from coal faster.” If not, utility customers may take matters into their own hands.

In 2012 the Utah legislature passed the “eBay bill,” Senate Bill 12, allowing the Utah-based eBay office to purchase 100% of their energy directly from a renewable power source in accordance with the company’s LEED Gold standards policy.

In Utah, the new legislation only allows large businesses to create these independent contracts. But around the country, similar alternative utility purchases are being made through Community Choice Aggregations (CCAs). Like the “eBay bill,” CCAs start with legislation allowing cities, counties and independent cooperatives of people to aggregate their buying power and secure contracts with alternative energy sources. Currently nearly one million Americans in Massachusetts, Ohio, California, Illinois, New Jersey and Rhode Island are receiving their power through a CCA. “With Utah CCA customers demanding power from a specific source, it would change the overall mix of Rocky Mountain’s power portfolio,” says Pacenza, who hopes that some day soon Utah, too, will have a CCA option for power customers.

That day may not be too far away.

During the last Utah legislative session Rep. Kraig Powell, R-Heber City, proposed House Bill 110. Powell’s constituents, many of whom rely on the ski tourism industry and worry about climate change, have shown interest in purchasing their energy from renewable, clean sources.

Powell’s bill proposes an expansion of the “eBay bill” to allow cities and counties to bulk purchase energy for their residents.

Though HB110 did not make it to a vote, it did gain important attention. Now referred to the House Rules Committee for interim study, the bill will have time to receive deeper investigation and discussion, a step that Pacenza and HEAL Utah considers extremely favorable.

Katherine Pioli is a CATALYST staff writer.

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Stories of courage Last month saw the release of Framing Dementia, a new book compiling the stories of Utahns living with neurodegenerative diseases. The book was the final product of an inter-disciplinary class at the University of Utah taught by Norman Foster, director of the U’s Center for Alzheimer’s Care, Imaging and Research; Vicky Newman, assistant professor in communications, and associate professor and musician Phillip Bimstein.

Over the course of two semesters, students worked closely with individuals and their families gathering stories, such as one of a young man who overcame his drug addiction to help tend to his ailing grandfather.

To obtain a copy contact the University’s Center for Alzheimer’s Care, Imaging and Research at 801-587-7236.

Iconoclad: Quit your boring job— Tom did After working at a “boring” insurance job for five years that he admits he didn’t really like, Tom Sobieski decided to turn his hobby of collecting radical clothes into a career. Iconoclad opened late April in downtown Salt Lake, on the corner by Greek Souvlaki.

You can buy new and previously rocked fashions as well as sell your own clothes for 50% of the in-store selling price.

Tom is careful to say that this is not a thrift store, nor your average consignment store, but rather a resource for the local Burner community, as well as a central location for local artists to display and sell their work.

Mid-May there will be a Grand Opening, complete with DJ’s and an appearance of the beloved art-car, the Jellyfish From the Year 12,000, exact date TBA. They are also now hiring people with a fun fashion sense who want to buy & sell cool things in addition to playing with their customers. It’s important to Tom that Iconoclad is the “everyone show,” where everyone gets excited and involved.

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Avenues Yoga turns 5

SLC Public Library – Goodreads The website Goodreads connects readers online, giving them an easy way to share book recommendations, track books on a reader wish list and find a community of book lovers. To facilitate creating reading community in our city, aka book groups, the Salt Lake Public Library has created a group site on Goodreads. Join for free to find librarian-recommended books, participate in online book discussions and form groups for live meet-ups.

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Avenues Yoga studio is turning five. The locally owned, woman-owned green business looks forward to continuing their commitment to providing great classes for the community. Join the celebration of the big day on Saturday May 10 at 1pm, starting with a fun class and ending with an open house and refreshments.

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Oasis wins brunch award Wasatch Cooperative Market updates First, what everyone wants to know: Studies are finally underway, with the help of consultants and a team of University of Utah MBA students, to find a location for the cooperatively owned grocery store.

Stay posted. In the meantime, efforts are still full blast to bring on new members.

Last December the Coop tallied 300 member-owners. Within the next year the Coop hopes to make that number 1,200.

Get your neighbors and friends to sign up.

For those who are already members, start taking advantage of your membership now.

The Business Partnership Program offers discounts all over town. Some participating businesses are: Traces Garden Store, Rimini Coffee Roasters, Brewvies, Caffe Molise, Sage’s Café. For a full list, go to the Wasatch Cooperative Market website and look at the cooperative business partner program. While you’re there, if you haven’t already joined, fill out a member-owner application.

Brunch, the meal that mixes cocktails and eggs. How could it get better? Well, now there’s a list of who does it right. The online restaurant reservations site Open Table recently announced their 2014 top 100 picks for brunch in America. Oasis Café in Salt Lake made the list out of over 19,000 submitted restaurants.

Oasis Cafe, 151 S. 500 East. 801.322.1162.

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Nominations for enlightened beings Who in our community is an innovative pioneer? A sustainable hero? The embodiment of community engagement? A collaborator and creator? If you can think of someone (or up to five people) who demonstrates these qualities, submit their name for recognition. The Community Foundation of Utah is taking nominations now until May 13 for their annual list of The Enlightened Fifty.

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Meditation Groups hen the world gets too noisy.

When the everyday drama no longer intrigues. When you’re looking for some inner ease. “Meditation is a companion to have throughout life, like a best friend we turn to when things get hard to deal with and we are in need of inspiration, clarity, and even inner happiness,” write meditation teachers Deb and Ed Shapiro.

Sometimes quieting the mind requires company. See what this list has to offer you.

We’ll print updates periodically.

At some point, a version of this list will live on our website. Let us know who else belongs here. Email us: EDITOR@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET.

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SINGLE PRACTICE TEMPLES & CENTERS ZEN BUDDHIST Two Arrows Zen. Diane Musho Hamilton and Michael Mugaku Zimmerman are both Dharma successors of Genpo Merzel Roshi, originating from the Soto and Rinzai schools of Zen. They offer Zen study and practice, morning meditation sittings (M-F), and weekly Zazen (seated meditation) and Dharma transmission (face-toface teaching). 230 So. 500 West, Ste. 155.

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TIBETAN BUDDHIST Katog Jana Ling. Under the guidance of Khentrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche, under the Katog Chiling lineage, in the Nyingma tradition. Offers weekly meditation on Mondays evenings in calm-abiding, heart sutra, and tonglen (generating compassion for different groups of people and beings). 3540 So. Keller Lane (2208 East).

WWW.KATOGJANALING.ORG Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa. Under the guidance of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche and Tsoknyi Rinpoche, in the Nyingma tradition. Offers Saturday sitting meditation, as well as eightweek Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and Buddhist Practice courses. 740 So. 300 West.

801-328-4629. WWW.URGENSAMTENLING.ORG Dzogchen Shri Singha Salt Lake City. Buddha Path Meditation, a practice manual compiled by Dzogchen Khenpo Choga Rinpoche. Offers meditations weekly at various Salt Lake locations.

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Xuanfa Dharma Center of Utah. A meeting place for the learning and practice of Vajrayana (Tibetan) Buddhism. Gesang Sualoang Rinpoche is their teacher. Offers weekly Dharma classes and chanting. 755 E 600 South. 801-532-4833.

WWW.XUANFAUTAH.ORG.

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itation classes on Wednesday evenings at Avenues Yoga, 68 K St. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM Dancing Cranes. Weekly Zen meditation and Deeksha blessings. 673 E. Simpson Ave. 801486-1129. WWW.DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM Lotus. Crystal meditations twice monthly, and weekly Deeksha blessings and meditations.

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Salt Lake Buddhist Temple. A sect called Jodo Shinshu Honganji Ha, or Nishi Honganji. Under the guidance of Reverend Jerry Hirano. Weekly services and meditation classes offered. 211 W. 100 South. 801-363-4742. WWW.SLBUDDHIST.ORG

Spiral Connections. Daily silent & guided meditation, and weekly Deeksha blessings, Crystal Bowl, and Zen Buddhist meditation. 2290 E. 4500 South, Ste. 120, Holladay. 801-272-0771.

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Soka Gakkai International (SGI)-USA Utah Buddhist Association for Peace, Culture & Education. Practices Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism.

Offers monthly discussion meetings, the heart of their global movement. See online calendar for complete schedule and services. 231 E 400 South, Ste. 200. 801-538-0822. WWW.SGI-UTAH.ORG.

Vitalize Community & Healing Arts Studio.

Various meditation practices including weekly Shambhala meditation, see website calendar for details. 2154 So. Highland Dr. WWW.VITALIZESUGARHOUSE.COM

HINDU Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple of Utah. The main sanctum in the temple is dedicated to Sri Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity known as the remover of obstacles. Offers morning and evening pujas (Hindu worship) daily and is open for visitors every day of the year. 1142 W South Jordan Parkway, South Jordan. 801254-9177. WWW.SGHTU.ORG. Sri Sri Radha Krishna Temple. Salt Lake and Spanish Fork Locations. Known as the Hare Krishna Movement, or ISKON. Daily Aratik, Kirtan, and Japa meditation. Salt Lake: 965 E. 3370 South. 801-487-4005. Spanish Fork: 311 W 8500 South, Spanish Fork. 801-798-3559.

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SIKH Sikh Temple of Utah—First of the Temple Ksingh. Sikhism was founded by Guru Nanek Dev, and stems from Hindu beliefs. Weekly services offered. 4897 S. Redwood Rd. 801268-3811. WWW.UTAHVALLEYINTERFAITH.ORG

MIXED MEDITATION CENTERS & OTHER PRACTICES Center for Embodied Living and Body Happy.

Carl Rabke and Erin Geesaman Rabke offer med-

TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION (TM) – Founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. TM is a meditation technique learned in a seven-step process with a TM teacher. 2222 E 1700 So. 801-897-6800. WWW.TM.ORG. DEEKSHA (ONENESS MOVEMENT) – Founded

by Bhagavan Kalki, and is derived from traditional Hindu beliefs. See website for many locations in Salt Lake. WWW.AWAKENINGONENESS.COM SHAMBHALA MEDITATION – A secular approach to meditation founded by Tibetan Buddhist, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Shambhala Meditation Group holds twice-weekly Shamatha Vipashyana (mindfulness meditation) practice on Wednesday evenings in Salt Lake at Vitalize Studio 2154 So. Highland Dr., and on Monday evenings at Park City Karate, 1612 Ute Blvd., Ste. 210, Park City. WWW.SHAMBHALA.ORG VIPASSANA – Salt Lake City Insight Meditation Community. A mindfulness meditation in the Buddhist tradition held weekly at the Zion Lutheran Church, 1070 Foothill Dr. Contact: Mark McKensie. 801-913-8439. WWW.SLCINSIGHT.ORG PRIMORDIAL SOUND MEDITATION – A meditation in the Vedic tradition of India where you receive your own personal mantra. Taught by Georgia Clark of Vedic Harmony. Georgia is a certified Deepak Chopra educator. 801-9425876. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET. SALKA MEDITATION – “Salka,” a word in Quechua (the language of the Andes), for “undomesticated energy.” Salka meditation is an Andean meditative approach best done outdoors, in nature. Groups will begin meeting again soon (weather permitting) Contact: Oakley Gordon, SALKAWIND@COMCAST.NET WWW.SALKAWIND.COM/SALTLAKESALKA

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Get out of your chair Setu Bandha Sarvangasana

BY CHARLOTTE BELL

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ast month I wrote about Garudhasana (Eagle Pose), a pose that honors Garuda, the eagle god whose 40-mile wingspan caused hurricanes and dried up the oceans whenever he took flight. Garudhasana spreads our wings (shoulderblades) and our deep hip rotators, preparing us for flight. In a sense, it is a jumping-off point for the expansion that Aprilâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;derived from the Latin word aperire, meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;to openâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D; symbolizes. This monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pose, Utthita Hasta Panghustasana (Extended Hand to Big Toe Pose) expresses the unfurling of our bodies to take flight.

Utthita Hasta Padanghustasana (utthita=extended, hasta=hand, padanghustasana=big toe pose) does not have Garudhasanaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colorful mythology. The name simply describes the shape of the pose. It is one of a category of poses my students have named â&#x20AC;&#x153;flying poses.â&#x20AC;? Flying poses are poses that express expansion. In flying poses, the root of the pose

YOGA POSE OF THE MONTH (whateverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the ground) extends deep into the ground, while the rest of the body expands outward and upward, away from the earth. The opening comes from stability and the flying part comes from a developmental breathing pattern called navel radiation.

Before we are born, all the nutrients we consume are taken in through our navels via the umbilical cord, and distributed to the periphery of our bodies in a pattern that resembles a starfish.

In our first six months, our natural breathing pattern looks like a starfish, with the breath movement originating in the abdomen and radiating out into our limbs. Remembering and practicing this breathing pattern can revitalize our asana practice. While all yoga asanas can express this pattern, Utthita Hasta Padanghustasana does it especially well.

To practice Utthita Hasta Padanghustasana, begin standing on a thin yoga mat or directly on the floor. Place your feet hips-width apart. Close your eyes and become aware of your feet. Feel how the feet constantly make micro-adjustments in order to keep you upright. This is the nature of balanceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;constant and dynamic. Balance is not about reaching some â&#x20AC;&#x153;perfectâ&#x20AC;? position and holding onto it; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about trusting your bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own proprioceptive awareness to make the adjustments needed to

Bridge Pose counteracts the deleterious effects of marathon sitting better than any other pose I know. keep you dynamically upright. Balance, then, is about being mindfulâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and openâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to the constant changes inherent in our bodies and in our lives, and responding to these changes with ease.

Now shift your body to the right, letting the weight settle into your right foot. Bend your left knee lifting your foot off the floor. Find equilibrium here. When you feel balanced, bend your left knee further until you can hold your left foot with your left hand. You may either take the outside of the foot or curl your index and middle fingers around the inside of your big toe. Place your right

hand on your hip and find stability, feeling how your right foot is constantly shifting to keep your body in balance. (If balance eludes you, you may do this pose standing with your back to a wall and let your buttocks rest against the wall.)

Simultaneously begin to unfurl the left leg forward and the right arm out from the shoulder so that they open gradually like a blossoming flower, until both reach full extension. Extend the arm and leg with equal intention, so that they balance each other. Continue to feed your bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weight into your standing leg.

If your hamstrings are tight and you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t straighten your leg without hunching your body forward, place a strap or belt around your left foot and hold the belt with your left hand. As you unfurl your right arm and left leg, let your hand slide on the strap so that you can fully straighten your leg.

In balance poses, our minds tend to be more interested in the parts of the body that are moving and changing. The stable, standing leg, while not as exciting to the mind, is more important, so as you extend your limbs, keep awareness in the standing leg.

When you feel stable, explore expansion through all the limbs, including both arms and legs, and the head and tailbone. Let the breath originate at your navel and expand outward so that your asana pulsesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;expanding on the inhalation and settling on the exhalation. Take five to 10 slow, deep breaths. Then release your hold on the left leg, letting your left foot return to the floor.

Return to standing equally on both feet and let your arms rest at your sides. Close your eyes and feel what happened in the pose. How has your body/mind changed? Then repeat the pose on the other side.

Expansion comes from stability. Every blossoming tree and flower expands from its roots.

So do our bodies. Utthita Hasta Padanghustasana teaches us about the dynamic relationship between openness and stability. We expand on the inhalation and settle on the exhalation. Garudhasana helped you spread your wings to prepare for flight.

Padanghustasana takes you airborne. N Charlotte Bell is a yoga teacher at Mindful Yoga Collective, an author of two books, and plays oboe with the Salt Lake Symphony and Red Rock Rondo. She lives in Salt Lake City.

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Specializing in the integration of outdoor + indoor space. Remodels, additions + new. 801355-2536. WWW.JODYJOHNSONARCHITECT.COM

Residential Design DA 801-322-5122. Ann Larson.

GREEN PRODUCTS Underfoot Floors DA 801-467-6636. 1900 S. 300 W., SLC We offer innovative & earth friendly floors including bamboo, cork, marmoleum, hardwoods, natural fiber carpets as well as sand and finishing hardwood. Free in home estimates. Please visit our showroom. WWW.UNDERFOOTFLOORS.NET, KE@UNDERFOOTFLOORS.COM.

HOUSING Wasatch Commons Cohousing 3/14 Vicky 801-908-0388. 1411 S. Utah St. (1605 W.) An environmentally sensitive community promoting neighborliness, consensus & diversity. Balancing privacy needs with community living. Homes for sale. Tours available upon request. FACEBOOK.COM/WASATCHCOMMONSCOHOUSING PETCARE/VETERINARIANS Animal Communicator. 651-492-1079 7/14 Effectively relating to your animal through muscle testing. Identifying current problems.

Relaying messages to/from animals. Stress releasing. Walter at HIGHMOUNTAINHEALER.COM

Dancing Cats Feline Center. 801-467-0799.

1760 S 1100 E, DANCINGCATSVET.COM. DA Pet Insights by Jennafer 4/14 801-810-4392. Gain insight into your pet’s moods, motives and needs from a reading with pet psychic Jennafer Martin. In-person and remote readings are available to help you better bond with your pet. PETINSIGHTSBYJENNAFER.COM

DINING Café Solstice DA Cafe Solstice inside Dancing Cranes Imports offers a variety of loose teas, speciality coffee drinks and herbal smoothies in a relaxing atmosphere. Lunch features veggie wraps, sandwiches, salads, soups and more. Our dressings, spreads, salsa, hummus and baked goods are all made in house with love! Enjoy a refreshing Violet Mocha or Mango & Basil smoothie with your delicious homemade lunch.

SOLCAFE999@GMAIL.COM. Coffee Garden DA 254 S. Main, inside the former Sam Weller’s Books and 900 E. 900 S. 355-4425. High-end espresso, delectable pastries & desserts. Great

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places to people watch. M-Thur 6a-11p; Fri 6a12p, Sat 7a-12p, Sun 7a-11p. Wifi.

Finca DA 1291 So. 900 East. 801.487.0699. Tapas, asador, cocktails. From the creators of Pago.

FINCASLC.COM Himalayan Kitchen DA 360 S. State St. 801-328-2077. Nepali, Indian and Tibetan cuisine. Spicy curries, savory grilled meats, vegetarian specialities and our famous award-winning naan bread, accompanied by a thoughtul beer and wine list. Service with namaste and a smile await you! Banquet room available for private events. M-Sat 11:30 am10p; Sun 5p-10p. HIMALAYANKITCHEN.COM Omar’s Rawtopia DA 2148 S.Highland Dr. 801-486-0332. Raw, organic, vegan & scrumptious. From Chocolate Goji Berry smoothies to Vegan Hummus Pizza, every dish is made with highest quality ingredients and prepared with love. Nutrient dense and delectable are Rawtopia’s theme words. We are an oasis of gourmet health, creating peace through food. M-Th 12-8p, F-Sat. 12-9p.

medicine, traumatic injury and post-operative recovery. Board-certified for hep-c treatment.

National Acupuncture Detox Association (NADA)-certified for treatment of addiction.

Women’s health, menopausal syndromes.

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SLC Qi Community Acupuncture 12/14 177 E. 900 S. Ste 101, 801-521-3337.

Affordable Acupuncture! Sliding scale rates ($15-40). Open weekends. Grab a recliner and relax in a safe, comfortable, and healing space.

We help with pain, fertility, digestion, allergies, arthritis, sleep and stress disorders, cardiac/respiratory conditions, metabolism, and more.

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Vedic Harmony 3/14 801-942-5876. Learn how Ayurveda can help you harmonize your lifestyle and well being.

Primordial Sound meditation,Perfect Health & Wellness counseling. Georgia Clark, Certified Deepak Chopra Center Vedic Master, has trained in the US with Dr. Chopra, Dr. V.D. Lad, Jai Dev Singh, David Crow & in India with Dr. A.P. Deshpande. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET

Pago DA 878 S. 900 E. 801-532-0777. Featuring seasonal cuisine from local producers & 20 artisan wines by the glass, complemented by an intimate eco-chic setting. Best Lunch—SL Mag, Best Brunch—City Weekly, Best Wine List— City Weekly & SL Mag, Best New American— Best of State. Tue-Sun 11a-3p, 5p-close.

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CHIROPRACTIC Salt Lake Chiropractic 4/14 801.907.1894. Dr. Suzanne Cronin. 1088 S 11th E, SLC. Have you heard that Salt Lake Chiropractic is the least invasive way to increase your quality of life? Our gentle, efficient, and affordable care can reduce pain and improve your body’s functionality. Call to schedule an appointment. WWW.CHIROSALTLAKE.COM.

Sage’s DA 234 W. 900 S. 801-322-3790.

CRANIOSACRAL Sheryl Seliger, LCSW 6/14 801-556-8760. 1446 S. 900 E. Powerful healing through dialogue & gentle-touch energy work. Adults: Deep relaxation, stress reduction & spiritual renewal, chronic pain & illness, head & spinal injuries, anxiety, PTSD, relationship skills, life strategies. Infants and children: colic, feeding & sleep issues, bonding, birth trauma. Birth preparation & prenatal CST. SELIGERS@GMAIL.COM

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HEALTH & BODYWORK ACUPUNCTURE Keith Stevens Acupuncture 1/15 Dr. Keith Stevens, OMD, 8728 S 120 E in old Sandy. 801 255-7016. 209.617-7379 (cell).

Specializing in chronic pain treatment, stressrelated insomnia, fatigue, headaches, sports

To list your business or service email: CRD@CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET Prices: 6 months ( $210), 12 months ( $360).

Listings must be prepaid in full and are non-refundable. Word Limit: 45. Deadline for changes/reservations: 15th of preceeding month.

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FELDENKRAIS Open Hand Bodywork. Dan Schmidt, GCFP, LMT. 244 W. 700 S. 801.694.4086 WWW.OPENHANDSLC.COM. DA

Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork.

Erin Geesaman Rabke Somatic Educator.

FOG 801-898-0478. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM MASSAGE Aspen Bodywork 6/14 801-913-9579. Learn to give your partner the gift of therapeutic touch. Offering Partner Massage classes and Thai Yoga massage.

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URGYEN SAMTEN LING GONPA Tibetan Buddhist Temple

801.328.4629 UrgyenSamtenLing.org info@urgyensamtenling.org

Intro to Tibetan Buddhism Course — Beginning Practice Course — Meditation Class — Sunday & Morning Pujas

You don’t have to live in pain “Working with Dan has transformed my life.”

Daniel J. Schmidt, GCFP, LMT 244 West 700 South, Salt Lake City www.OpenHandSLC.com

801 694 4086 Call me, I can help 19 years in practice

Healing Mountain Massage School DA 801-355-6300. 363 S. 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 East). HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM MD PHYSICIANS Web of Life Wellness Center FOG Todd Mangum, MD. 801-531-8340. 508 E. So. Temple, #102. Dr. Mangum is a family practice physician who uses acupuncture, massage, herbs & nutrition to treat a wide range of conditions including chronic fatigue, HIV infection, allergies, digestive disturbances and fibromyalgia. He also designs programs to maintain health & wellness. WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 3/14 801-486-4226. Dr Todd Cameron, Naturopathic Physician. 1945 S. 1100 E. #100. When you visit the Cameron Wellness Center, you’ll have new allies in your health care efforts. You’ll know you’ve been heard. You’ll have a clear, individual plan for gaining health and wellness.

Our practitioners will be with you through your journey to feeling good again—and staying well. CAMERONWELLNESSCENTER.NET

Eastside Natural Health Clinic 9/14 Uli Knorr, ND 801.474.3684; 2188 S. Highland Dr. #207. Dr. Knorr will create a Natural Medicine plan for you to optimize your health and live more vibrantly. He likes to educate his patients and offers comprehensive medical testing options. He focuses on hormonal balancing, including thyroid, adrenal, women’s hormones, blood sugar regulation, gastrointestinal disorders and food allergies. EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM 2/14 Full Circle Care; Leslie Peterson, ND 801.746.3555. 150 S. 600 E. #6B. Integrative and naturopathic medical clinic offering a unique approach to your health care needs.

Specializing in thyroid, adrenal and hormonal imbalances; food allergies and gluten testing; digestive health; nutritional IV therapy. Men, women and children welcome!

WWW.FULLCIRCLECARE.COM 2/14 PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 9/14 801-557-6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT. 3098 S Highland Dr. Ste. 371. (Also Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Safe, gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction.

This unique form of therapy identifies sources of pain and assists the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider.

WWW.PRECISIONPHYSICALTHERAPYUT.COM REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH Planned Parenthood of Utah 6/14 1-800-230-PLAN, 801-532-1586. Planned Parenthood provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception

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(EC/PlanB/ morning after pill), testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infection including HIV, vaccines including the HPV vaccine, pregnancy testing and referrals, condoms, education programs and more. PPAU.ORG

ROLFING/STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801-671-4533. Somatic education and bodywork. WWW.BODYHAPPY.COM WEIGHT LOSS Master Lu’s Health Center 4/14 801.463.1101. 3220 S. State. Do you struggle with weight loss? We can help you lose weight with Master Lu’s Chinese herbal weight loss formula and acupuncture. Chinese medicine is effective for weight loss and managing your weight. Come and see us today at Master Lu’s Health Center. WWW.LUHEALTHCENTER.COM

MISCELLANEOUS ACCOUNTING Chart Bookkeeping 8/14 801.718-1235. M’Lisa Patterson. Qualified and dependable small- to medium-sized business bookkeeping services. QuickBooks expert. My office or yours.

MPATTERSON@CHARTBOOKKEEPING.COM ARTS & CRAFTS Learn to hand spin wool and fibres in Sugar House 6/14 801.550.4232. Beginners workshops. $30.

Simple to learn, fun, gentle and relaxing. Life long, sustainable and self-sufficient art.

Participants receive a complete spindle kit to keep. Make yarns for crochet, knitting, weaving and other crafts. WWW.FAIRYSPINDLES.COM LEGAL ASSISTANCE Schumann Law. 801.631.7811, ESTATEPLANNINGFORUTAH.COM. DA FB MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/14 801-268-4789, WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to six-piece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments.

Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM PHOTOGRAPHY Ceej Photography 5/14 801-455-3722. Salt Lake. My artist’s background makes Ceej Photography unique.

Portraits, pets, graduation, engagement, special events/occasions, artwork. Extensive post-processing skills. Digital SLR camera lessons available. CJLESTERART.COM POETRY Rumi Poetry 5/14 Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation. Free meetings first Tuesday (7 pm) of month at AndersonFoothill Library 1135 S 2100 E. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School DA 801-355-6300. 363 S. South 500 East, Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 E.). Morning, evening, & weekend programs. Graduate in as little as 7 months.

8 students in a class. Mentor with seasoned

Salt Lakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most experienced and creative Mindful Yoga Join teachers. All levels welcome!

Collective professionals. Practice in a live day spa. ABHES accredited. Financial aid: loans/grants available to those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG

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WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services 4/14 801.673.1294; 801.871.0840 office. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor. Client-centered wealth management, retirement planning, IRA rollovers, ROTH IRAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 401(k) plans & investing, life insurance. Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC8899 S. 700 E. Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@ LPL.COM; WWW.HARRINGTONWEALTHSERVICES.COM

MOVEMENT, MEDITATION DANCE RDT Community School.

801-534-1000. 138 W. Broadway. FB MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/14 740 S 300 W, SLC, UT, 84101. 801-355-6375.

Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditional-style training in the classical martial arts of Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Tâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ai Chi Chih (qi gong exercises). Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classes in Wing Chun KungFu. Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET MEDITATION INSTRUCTION Center for Mind Body Relaxation 3/14 CFMBR offers classes in science-based meditation and relaxation methods for well-being and stress relief. Individuals interested in classes can register online at: WWW.HEALINGWITHSPACES.COM/CLASSES.HTML PILATES YOLO Pilatesâ&#x20AC;ŚBuilding Beautiful, Balanced Bodies 10/14 1615 Foothill Drive. 385.321.0190 Dedicated to educate, inspire and transform bodies by integrating strength and flexibility, freedom of movement, resilience to injury and core stamina for improved overall health. Offering private sessions, reformer and mat classes by certified instructors. We love working with beginners & seasoned athletes alike. WWW.YOLOPILATES.COM YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell FOG 801-355-2617. E-RYT-500 & Iyengar certified.

Cultivate strength, vitality, serenity, wisdom and grace. Combining clear, well-informed instruction with ample quiet time, these classes encourage each student to discover his/her own yoga. Classes include meditation, pranayama (breath awareness) and yoga nidra (yogic sleep) as well as physical practice of asana. Public & private classes, workshops in a supportive, noncompetitive environment since 1986.

WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM Private Yoga Instruction with Kate Overholt 801-450-7246; Kate Overholt, BA; Dance and Theater Arts~ Loyola Marymount University.

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Mythic Mountain Retreats Dying to Live 5/31-6/1 Awaken the Divinities Within 6/21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;22 The Art of Journeying 6/27-29 Connecting Inner & Outer Worlds

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Avenues Yoga is a friendly, down-to-earth place where all are welcome. Our knowledgeable, experienced teachers offer classes for all body types and ability levels from Restorative to Power, Yoga Basics to Hot Vinyasa to Yin and Para. First class is free for Utah residents.

Introductory Special $39 one month unlimited.

WWW.AVENUESYOGA.COM Mountain Yoga—Sandy 801.501.YOGA [9642]. 9343 S 1300 E. Offering hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 10 years. We now also offer Vinyasa, Restorative, Pre/Post-Natal, Kids Yoga and Mat/Barre Pilates Classes in our NEW studio room. Whether you like it hot and intense, calm and restorative, or somewhere in-between, Mountain Yoga Sandy has a class for you. WWW.MOUNTAINYOGASANDY.COM 3/14

Centered City Yoga 9/14 801-521-YOGA (9642). 926 E. 900 S. Centered City Yoga is often likened to that famous TV “hangout” where everybody knows your name, sans Norm (and the beer, of course). We offer more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hourteacher trainings, monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED and SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ANGEL READINGS Lisa Rasmussen, ATP®, CHT 11/14 951-234-4422. Angel Therapy Practitioner® certified by Doreen Virtue, Ph D. Offering intuitive counseling and clinical hypnotherapy to assist you in clearing fears and life challenges with guidance from your angels, guides and loved ones. Over 20 years experience.

LISARAS4422@GMAIL.COM ASTROLOGY Hands On Astrology 7/14 Jerre Wroble. 801-232-4988. Tired of guessing what you’re here to do? Start 2014 out with renewed enthusiasm while zeroing in on your soul purpose. Astrology and hand analysis, when combined, offer a deeper awareness. Gift certificates available.

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Transformational Astrology FB Ralfee Finn. 800-915-5584. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 10 years! Visit her website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or e-mail her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM

Vedic Harmony—Jyotish Astrology 942-5876. TARAJAGA@EARTHLINK.NET ENERGY HEALING EmilySpirit, Transformational and Holistic Therapist 11/14 801-512-5319. Intuitive sessions illuminate and empower your individual soul language. Chakra Drawings interpret your unique blueprint. Vocal toning and energy work brings internal harmony, allowing healing and soul awareness. Learn your soul-body language, soul purpose or how to incorporate the enlightened 5th dimension into your everyday life. Readings, guidance, metaphysical teachings, workshops, classes.

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Kristen Dalzen, LMT 8/14 801.467.3306. 1569 So. 1100 East. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in Salt Lake since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life. WWW.TURIYAS.COM Shari Philpott-Marsh 9/14 Energy Medicine / Shamanic Healer 801-599-8222. Overwhelmed? Stuck? Pushed and pulled by forces that interfere with your peace of mind? Shamanic healing cuts to the root of the problem. I intuitively unwind the core issues, recalibrate your energy body, and bring you to a place of strength and clarity. Core emotional clearing; mental reprogramming; soul retrieval; past life reconciliation; spirit guide activation; elimination of dark forces / interdimensional interference. I also love mentoring healers. WWW.RADIANCEYOGA.ORG PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Margaret Ruth FOG 801-575-7103. My psychic and tarot readings are a conversation with your guides. Enjoy MR’s blog at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET & send me your ideas and suggestions.

WWW.MARGARETRUTH.COM Nicholas Stark 7/14 801-394-6287; 801-721-2779 cell. Shamanic Intuitive Readings and Energy Work . Ogden Canyon.

Suzanne Wagner. 707-354-1019.

WWW.SUZWAGNER.COM. FOG

PSYCHOTHERAPY & PERSONAL GROWTH THERAPY/COUNSELING ABC-Advanced Behavioral Counseling 5/14 801-268-1199. 997 E. 3900 South/rear, We are a treatment agency for mental health, relationships, anxiety, depression, addictions, substance abuse, grief/loss, divorce, domestic violence, for adults and children. Individual and men’s, women’s and mixed groups, some insurances accepted, Several counselors available.

Sliding fee scale available. WWW.ABCSLC.COM Healing Pathways Therapy Center 8/14 435-248-2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 1174 E. Graystone Way (2760 S.), Ste. 8, Sugarhouse. Integrated counseling and medical services for anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship, life adjustment issues. Focusing on clients’ innate capacity to heal and resolve past and current obstacles, rather than just cope.

Modalities include EMDR, EFT, Mindfulness, Feminist/Multicultural. Individuals, Couples, Families. WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM Jill B. Jones, PhD, LCSW 6/14+?

775 848-3561.Areas of practice include eating disorders; identity, relationship, grief-related adjustment issues; and sexual abuse and trauma. Also provides support for life-course development and aging issues. Works with adults and adolescents in a private home office near Sugar House.

Marianne Felt, MT-BC, CMHC 9/14 801-524-0560, EXT. 3. 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C. Licensed professional counselor, board certified

music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Red Rock Counseling & Education. Transpersonal psychotherapy, music therapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind, & spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts, & relationships that challenge & inspire our lives.

Cali’s Natural Foods. 389 W 1700 S, 801.483.2254, CALISNATURALFOODS.COM. DA

Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/15 801-582-2705, 2071 Ashton Circle, SLC. Offering a transpersonal approach to the experiences and challenges of our life cycles, including: individuation-identity, sexuality and sexual orientation, partnership, work, parenting, divorce, aging, illness, death and other loss, meaning and spiritual awareness.

Individuals, couples and groups. Clinical consultation and supervision.

Golden Braid Books. 801-322-1162. 151 S 500 E, GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM DA

Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/14 801-631-8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy, meditation and soul work with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of bipolar disorders.

STEVE@KARMASHRINK.COM. Blog: WWW.KARMASHRINK .COM Salt Lake Wellness Center, Michelle Murphy, LCSW exp?

4190 So. Highland Dr., #226. 801-680-7842.

Salt Lake Wellness Center provides therapeutic services to individuals. We maintain a holistic approach. We are an Amen Method Provider.

We provide traditional therapeutic interventions and education in vitamin and nutrition therapy to create a state of wellness.

SHAMANIC PRACTICE Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner 3/15 801-531-8051. Shamanic Counseling.

Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shaman’s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman. Sarah’s extensive training includes shamanic extraction healing, soul retrieval healing, psychopomp work for death and dying, shamanic counseling and shamanic divination. Sarah has studied with Celtic, Brazilian, Tuvan, Mongolian, Tibetan and Nepali Shamans.

Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG 801-209-1095. 508 E. So. Temple, #102.

Psychotherapy and shamanic practice. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing, and balance or “ayni.” Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature.

Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition.

RETAIL line goes here GROCERIES, SPECIALTY FOODS, KITCHEN SUPPLIES Beer Nut. 1200 S State St, 801.531.8182, BEERNUT.COM. DA

GIFTS & TREASURES Blue Boutique. WWW.BLUEBOUTIQUE.COM DA Dancing Cranes. 673 E Simpson Ave, 801.486.1129, DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM DA

Healing Mountain Crystal Co.DA363 S. 500 E. #210, SLC. 800-811-0468, HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG. Lotus. 801.333.3777. Everything from Angels to Zen. 12896 Pony Express Rd. #200, Draper, WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM DA Turiya's Gifts 8/14 DA 1569 So. 1100 E. 801.531.7823. M-F 11-7, Sat 11-6, Sun 12-5. Turiya's is a metaphysical gift and crystal store. We have an exquisite array of crystals and minerals, jewelry, drums, sage and sweet grass, angels, fairies, greeting cards and meditation tools. Come in and let us help you create your sanctuary. WWW.TURIYAS.COM RESALE/OUTDOOR GEAR & CLOTHING fun & frolic consignment shop 8/14 DA??

801-487-6393 2066 S. 2100 E. Consigns everything for travel /outdoor recreational experiences.

Fun seekers can buy and consign high-quality, gently used outdoor gear and clothing, making fun time less expensive. Call to consign your items. FACEBOOK @ FUN & FROLIC CONSIGNMENT SHOP; in the 21st & 21st business district.

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Inner Light Center Spiritual Community 10/14 801.462.1800. 4408 S. 500 E., SLC. An interspiritual sanctuary that goes beyond religion into mystical realms. Access inner wisdom, deepen divine connection, enjoy an accepting, friendly community. Events & classes. Sunday Celebration: 10 a.m.; WWW.INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 8/14 DA??

801-328-4629. 740 S. 300 W. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings. The community is welcome to our Sunday service (puja), group practices, meditation classes and introductory courses.

WWW.URGYENSAMTENLING.ORG INSTRUCTION

Two Arrows Zen Center (formerly Boulder Mountain Zendo). 230 S. 500 W., #155, SLC. 801.532.4975. WWW.BOULDERMOUNTAINZENDO.ORG DA POETRY Rumi Poetry free duplicate Good poetry enriches our culture and nourishes our soul. Rumi Poetry Club (founded in 2007) celebrates spiritual poetry of Rumi and other masters as a form of meditation.

Free meetings first Tuesday (7 pm) of month at Anderson-Foothill Library 1135 S 2100 E. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM

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here are moments when you feel as if you are in a barren desolate wasteland in search of water and safety.

You want to collapse and stop but you know that to do so would be a terrible idea. The month of May will feel like this.

You are shifting and everything is in disarray from the wild ride of the end of April and the Grand Cardinal Cross with the eclipses.

You want to find a safe haven but it feels far away. April put you through a type of metaphorical death. To keep going when you want to stop seems pointless, but you are not dead yet and some part of you keeps saying, “Keep going!”

So that is what you are going to do. All you can seem to manage is to navigate this moment; then the next and then the next.

There is a deep desire to try to make sense out of the changes, the incompletions in your life, and the deep feelings that are surfacing. You feel as if there is a wolf at the door and if you make one wrong move… your journey will prove pointless.

I wish that we could transform without being challenged. I wish life would stay nice and consistent. And yet we know that life does not work that way. May is a month of constant adjustments and continued blockages. There is nothing to do but

deal with what is right in front of you.

Projections from others abound because you are not the only one feeling the pinch.

Each of us will feel as if we are facing an insurmountable challenge and upon reflection we may just think that we have “missed the boat.”

Do not worry. Sometimes we make choices and the outcome is not what we intended. In life the only game is to take risks and change. Sometimes those changes were to get you out of restrictive circumstances. The universe will tempt you to get you to move; but often, in the end, you do not get the “goodie” that you thought you were going for.

Remember the song, “Me and Bobbie McGee,” by Janis Joplin? “Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” In May we want freedom. We want to find a place of balance where we can just be who we are. But family, work, children, drama, upsets, world issues, global crises and money just keep getting in the way.

Right now you might feel like saying to heck with it all. But you know that doesn’t work, either. In the end, you would resent yourself and that would be worse.

It is time to stop chasing some utopian feeling and stand your ground, take responsibility, deal with the situation, and learn some new ways to cope emotionally.

This is easier said than done but you can feel how this “thing” is bugging you. Turn around, face the fear, find another answer, grow up and discover something about yourself. There is no reason to not try. It feels strained enough right now. A new option might be very refreshing. After the intensity of the last two weeks of April, there’s nothing left to lose. N

There is nothing to do but deal with what is right in front of you.

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