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ucia Heffernan believes laughter is the best medicine.

Inspired by her love of animals, she creates whimsical, humorous and distinctive works of art in oil. Her imaginative works feature everything from monocled high-society ostriches to rabbits driving carrot cars and trench coatwearing hound dog private eyes. By placing animals in uniquely human situations, Lucia paints a playful world where animals do everything we do.

Like many artists, Lucia began as a representational artist focused on capturing her subjects true to life, down to the finest whisker. Having developed a strong technical foundation, Lucia has evolved her style to incorporate a narrative. She wants the viewer to recognize and relate to the subjects and situations of her work as snapshots of daily life, portrayed by animals. Her work stands

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out because the animals in her work remain representational, instead of illustrative, creating the illusion that animals can, in fact, do human things.

Born in Taiwan, Lucia learned to paint and draw from her mother, a watercolor artist and teacher. After graduating with honors from Binghamton University in Fine Arts and Design, she established LDD, a multi-million dollar award-winning design agency, at the start of the Internet boom. In 2000, Lucia moved to Utah, where her creative focus shifted from digital design to oil painting. She has won numerous local and national competitions and her work is widely collected throughout the western US. She is a member of Oil Painters of America and the Society of Animal Artists.

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ENVIRONEWS Water audit reveals big problems The Utah Rivers Council has been telling us for years that the Utah Division of Water Resources is inflating projections for future water needs in order push for unnecessary spending on massive, environmentally damaging water projects such as the Lake Powell Pipeline and Bear River Project. It turns out that they were absolutely right.

A legislative audit released in May found that the Division is not using reliable data and that they have avoided conservation and policy choices that would be effective to reduce Utah’s water demand.

Right now, Utah water rates are heavily tax-subsidized; residents pay some of the lowest water prices in the nation (and as a consequence Utah’s per capita water use is 248 gallons per person per day, compared to the nation’s average of 155).

The audit was conducted after a coalition of citizen groups called for more water accountability: Utah Rivers Council, Utah Chapter of the Sierra Club, Citizens for Dixie’s Future, Glen Canyon Institute, Taxpayer Association of Kane County, Living Rivers-Colorado Riverkeeper, HEAL Utah and Utah Environmental Congress.

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Rain barrel distribution In May, a project to distribute rain barrels in Salt Lake County and Murray City sold out of over 1,000 discounted barrels within the first 14 hours.

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DEQ encourages homeowners and businesses to switch to electric lawn mowers. Gas-powered mowers are a significant source of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that contribute to the formation of summer ozone. Emissions from one four-stoke gas lawn mower operating for one hour are equivalent to those of an average vehicle traveling 500 miles.

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and Rob Bishop (R-UT-1) launched the Federal Land Action Group, a congressional team that will “develop a legislative framework for transferring public lands to local ownership and control.” The congressional group exists to promote the land-privatization agenda of the American Lands Council, an organization run by Ken Ivory (R-UT, District 47).

High Country News followed the money and found that ALC is largely funded by taxpayer money (generally handed over by county governments without any kind of voter approval) and right wing think-tanks financed by the zillionaire Koch Brothers.

Public polling has found that the more citizens learn about transfer of public lands, the more they oppose the idea.

Carbon County wants to export coal There is so much wrong with this picture it’s hard to know where to start: Carbon County has approval to spend $53 million on building a shipping port in Oakland, California in order to export Utah coal to Asia where environmental regulations are lax compared to the US. Ironically, this money comes from a fund that’s supposed to compensate communities for negative impacts of mineral extraction.

Rocky Mountain Power just closed the Carbon Power Plant on US Highway 6 near Helper in order to avoid upgrading mercury pollution controls to meet new federal standards. In the past, Utah has been able to sell coal-produced electricity to California, but the whole State of California is trying to clean up its carbon footprint and is gradually eliminating coal-fired power from its portfolio.

Meanwhile in Oakland protestors in hazmat suits dumped coal in front of the office of the port developer Phil Tagami to protest Utah’s coal export plan, which they say would pollute neighborhoods with coal dust and undo Oakland’s greenhouse gas reduction plan. An online petition asking Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf to oppose Utah’s dirty coal states, “California is a coal-free state for good reason, and shouldn't be enabling other countries with less stringent environmental protections to burn it.”

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Your work revolves around the "soil food web.” Tell us what that means.

The soil food web is comprised of all the organisms that do the jobs in the soil, from building structure to protecting plants against diseases, pathogens and pests. These organisms will take nutrients out of the sands, the silts, the rocks and the clays, and make them available to plants.

One thing people don’t realize is that all of the soils on this planet contain all of the nutrients to grow plants. There is absolutely no need to put down inorganic [synthesized, chemical] fertilizers if you have all of the bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes and microarthropods that your plant requires. Doing so will actually harm the organisms in the soil.

Every inorganic fertilizer is actually a salt, and kills the beneficial organisms. You’re destroying the system that nature put together long before humans came to the planet, the system to cycle nutrients and make them avail-

A conversation with Dr. Elaine Ingham, renowned soil microbiologist

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able to your plant.

The proper balance of all of these together—the beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, microarthropods, earthworms and all of the other life that lives in the soil: That is what I mean by the soil food web.

One thought that stood out to me from the book Teaming with Microbes [Lownfels & Lewis, 2010: Timber Press] which was based on your research, was, “Nobody has ever fertilized the redwoods.”

Yes! In fact, many of those trees have been there since the time that Jesus walked the planet. How is it those plants continue to be able to take up nutrients? Where do those nutrients come from? If you understand nutrient cycling, you understand that those nutrients are coming from the bedrock, from the sand, silt, clay, rocks and pebbles. The breakdown of that bedrock, every second of every day, means new soil particles are constantly being released from that parent material. If you have the right microbiology present, then your plants will never suffer a nutrient deficiency.

There seems to be a growing awareness of the role these beneficial microorganisms play in the soil. I see them marketed more and more frequently—potting

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e’ve all heard that classic organic gardening mantra, “Feed the soil, not the plants.” But what does that mean exactly, and who is it I’m feeding? Can’t I just dump on some Miracle Gro, like the infomercial tells me?

No, you can’t—not if you want to grow like a Boss.

Aside from the rock and mineral particles, water, air and organic matter in healthy garden soil, we find an astounding amount of life. A level of intelligent interaction exists among these subterranean soil citizens that makes Wall

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Street look like Sesame Street. And perhaps nobody on the planet understands these players and their game better than Dr. Elaine Ingham.

The author of the US Department of Agriculture’s Soil Biology Primer, former chief scientist at the nonprofit Rodale Institute and founder of Soil Foodweb, Inc., Ingham is a seasoned professor, researcher and soil benefactor. Her work has propelled to a new level our scientific understanding of the dynamic roles played by microbes in the soil.

I recently had the pleasure of having my mind blown via telephone while speaking with her in anticipation of her end-June workshop in Boulder, Utah.

If you have the right microbiology present, then your plants will never suffer a nutrient deficiency.

o give your soil a boost of good microbiology, nothing beats a good batch of aerated compost tea. The liquid needs to be actively aerated, to assure a highly oxygenated environment. As a loose rule of thumb, beneficial microorganisms thrive in an aerobic environment (in the presence of oxygen), while harmful organisms tend to thrive in anaerobic environments (in the absence of oxygen). Anaerobic processes give off toxic gases and smell foul. Aerobic processes smell earthy and good. The process is simple.

Equipment: a five-gallon bucket, a large aquarium air pump (as large, and tubing and airstones for the pump. The airstones are placed in the bottom of the bucket (sometimes you need to weight them), and the pump will push a large amount of air into the liquid, keeping our brew well aerated.

Instructions: 1. In a 5-gallon bucket, add 4 gallons of water. If using chlorinated tap water, run the airstones for 24 hrs to dechlorinate the water. Chlorine is volatile, and blows off easily. This is crucial, as chlorine will kill the microbes in the compost!

2. Add 1 pound of high-quality fresh

compost.* 3. Actively aerate the brew for 24 hours, and use within 48. As a soil drench, use full strength. For foliar feeding (spray) applications, strain the mixture well and dilute up to 50% with dechlorinated water, or use full strength. It's that easy!

Clean equipment immediately, even before using the tea; otherwise quickly forming slime will damage your next batch. Use the tea within four hours. (It will last longer if you continue to bubble air through it.)

Step it up! Feed the microbes by adding 1/2 tablespoon of humic acid and 1/8 cup of kelp (available in garden stores) to the dechlorinated water before adding compost. * From Teaming With Microbes: If you plan ahead a few days, you can give the compost’s fungal component a head start by adding uncooked oats (fine-ground is best; do not use instant) to your slightly damp compost at a rate of 1 to 4. Place the mixture in a warm dark place, about 80 degrees (use a seed mat if available).

After three days, the surface should be covered with long white fungal threads.

soil preloaded with mycorrhizal fungi spores, organic fertilizer with beneficial bacteria. As a big advocate of compost I’m a little skeptical. Do we have the technology to extract these microorganisms and keep them viable? If so, what do I look for? How do I know if I’m getting the real deal?

Keeping those organisms viable is a problem, especially when you’re dealing with a sealed container. If there were organisms growing in those containers, they would be releasing gases from consuming food and the container would explode. So, we need to put the organisms to sleep. But they don’t have remarkably long-lived dormant stages. About half of the organisms that you would find in compost cannot be put to sleep and

they die. You’ve now lost a massive amount of the diversity.

However, 50% is still a lot better than nothing. That’s a good start.

But then begin making your own compost, and you’ll get a lot more diversity.

Unfortunately, most of the products in the store that tout things like “microbial inoculant” will contain only bacteria.

Compost extract and compost tea extracts, even if they have been put to sleep, still have a massive diversity of bacteria, fungi and nematodes. If a product says it contains microorganisms, they need to list them, at least the top ones. A good compost extract will have a diversity of bacteria and fungi. If a product lists perhaps only five bacteria, then it’s most likely a waste of money.

One of the best ways to get more “good guys” into your soil is by making and using compost tea. It used to

The proper balance of all of these together— the beneficial bacteria, fungi, protozoa, nematodes, microarthropods, earthworms and all of the other life that lives in the soil: That is what I mean by the soil food web. be common practice to add molasses as part of the recipe. I know you aren’t an advocate of that. Could you explain why?

Well, because we already have enough bacteria. Molasses is pretty much strictly a bacteria food, a least in the quantities we use it, and you really don’t need more bacteria.

As we’ve been looking at soils over the last 25-30 years, what we see in

our modern agricultural method is that we have selected for bacteria and bacteria alone. Stop adding molasses. Your tea doesn’t need that additional food source to grow massive amounts of bacteria. If you add too much, your compost is going to go anaerobic. [This is bad.] I don’t care how fast you are aerating your compost tea, you won’t be able to keep up with the rate of bacterial growth and the oxygen demand that comes with it.

You begin to lose your beneficial fungi, protozoa and good guy nematodes, and you might end up

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actually just growing a bunch of bad guys, pathogens. Sugars in your compost tea are not necessary, and aren’t going to give you the benefits you want.

I live in a desert, as do most of our readers, and we rely on irrigation to keep our plants lush and healthy.

My garden beds often dry out if I have nothing planted in them yet. If I have a robust soil biology, can it handle this, or should I try to maintain even moisture in my garden as much as possible, even if that means watering unplanted garden beds?

Most of those organisms are going to be able to find places where they’ll be protected from the drying, and a lot of them will go into their dormant stages. If they don’t have dormant stages they’ll put up a hydrophobic material, to seal themselves in and keep their moisture around themselves.

That’s why it can be be really difficult to wet up soil that has been really dry, because loads of microorganisms are hunkered down inside their hydrophobic shells, and water beads off instead of going into the soil.

If you have the proper biology in your soil, they will build the structure so that water will move into the soil and be held there. We have reduced water usage in desert soils this way by as much as 70%, as compared to the conventional agricultural system. If you want to reduce the amount of water you use, then you’ve got to have the organic matter going into your soil to feed the microbes, so that they can build the structure into the soil and hold on to that water. And you don’t want bare soil exposed in these systems, as that is where the water will evaporate from.

series of online courses featuring Elaine Ingham are available at WWW.SOILFOODWEB.COM. You’ll find a Life of the Soil course, Composting, and Compost Teas & Extracts, as well as a Microscope Class where you can learn to identify these organisms and analyze your soil and compost.

To dig deeper, join Dr. Ingham for a five-day Soil Food Web intensive at Boulder Mountain Guest Ranch in Boulder, Utah June 29-July 3.

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Calling all bug detectives Join the search for the elusive Utah firefly

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hristy Bills has a crazy cool job.

As entomologist and collections manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah (NHMU), she spends much of her time playing detective.

Her inbox is eternally full of “OMG! What is it?!” emails containing the bug version of mug shots. Sometimes she gets a squashed spider or cicada or Mormon cricket in the mail. Other specimens (some alive, some not) are delivered to her office. She receives all with great interest and good cheer.

Occasionally, though, all she gets is a verbal report. Which makes the six- or eight-legged creature in question considerably more difficult to pin down—literally and metaphorically. Like a few years ago, when she first started getting reports of a type of beetle not commonly identified with the arid West.

“People would tell me, ‘Hey, we saw fireflies out by Tooele,’ or ‘Wow, there were fireflies near Soldier Summit.’ And I was like ‘Really? Uh, OK.’” says Bills.

Walking that fine and necessary line between skepticism and inquisitiveness,

Court and spark Facts about fireflies

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hough drab and roachy by day, come the short, sweet, feral nights of early summer, when all of nature becomes a pheromone-mad rave, the firefly switches on its glow stick and becomes the life of the party.

Members of the lyrically named Lampyridae family, fireflies are found in riparian zones on all but the most frigid continents. Perhaps the only truly beloved insect on the planet (despite being cousin to the cockroach), fireflies are invariably spoken of with wonder and nostalgia by people who grew up where they are prevalent. It’s as though those tiny flickering lights contain the distilled essence of childhood summer evenings.

While many species of fireflies don’t light up as adults, they all glow as larvae—even those that live underground or underwater. Some eggs even glow. In

BY DIANE OLSON she began keeping a log of sightings. “After a while, it was ‘We saw fireflies by Spanish Fork…Bear Lake…outside of Moab,’” Bills says. “And I started thinking, ‘Something’s going on here.’”

There are fireflies in Utah?

When someone brought Bills an actual firefly caught near Park City, she decided to take her mapping project to the next level. She sought out Seth Bybee, a professor of biology at BYU who studies the evolutionary history and geographic distribution of fireflies and dragonflies.

Together, they came up with the idea of a citizen science project. “There are so many Utahns out hiking and biking and camping all over the state,” says Bills, “We thought it would be really fun to ask for their help; to say ‘Hey, as scientists, we’re really interested in what you’re seeing.’ It’s an opportunity for people to make a real

contribution to science.”

All you have to do, should you see fireflies, is log on to NHMU.UTAH.EDU/FIREFLIES and add a pin to the Utah Firefly Sightings map. “If people will map where the fireflies are, we’ll go collect samples,” Bills says. If you catch one yourself, it should be bagged, labeled with the date and location (ideally GPS coordinates) and put into a freezer right away.

So where did they come from?

Apparently, we’ve always had fireflies in Utah. Though it’s only recently that local scientists have acquired specimens, the NHMU/BYU project map continues to sprout new pins, making it clear that fireflies are widely distributed across the state. And as fireflies can’t migrate (they hatch, live, and die in a very circumscribed area), they didn’t fly in from wetter climes. Nor could any non-natives brought to the area survive, much less spread.

So yes, we have native fireflies; there just aren’t very many of them in any one

both cases, it’s probably to warn predators that they’re toxic to eat.

For adult fireflies, it’s all court and spark.

Firefly light can be green, yellow or orange, and each species has a unique flash pattern. The result of a complex chemical reaction, it is the most efficient light in the world, with nearly 100% of the energy emitted as light and virtually none as heat. Scientists call it cold light.

Light pollution, as well as habitat destruction, is decimating firefly populations around the world. If the ladies can’t see the male’s love lights, no little glow worms get made. And, unfortunately, they can’t just pack up their lamps and move to a darker place.

It’s likely that we’re seeing them now only because we’re encroaching on their territory. By paving over and invading Utah’s few wetlands, we are, briefly, creating more opportunities to see them.

If you’re fortunate enough to live near fireflies, please keep outside lights off May through early July. Also, leave some grassy areas unmown, and never, ever use pesticides or herbicides.

If you’re fortunate enough to live near fireflies, please keep outside lights off May through early July. Also, leave some grassy areas unmown, and never, ever use pesticides or herbicides.

The males usually fly and flash, while the stationary females respond with an alluring glow. They may also flash to defend territory and, again, announce that they’re not a good meal option.

Where to look for fireflies

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ireflies live where it’s moist, by marshes or wet wooded areas. The highest concentration reported so far is in the wetlands in Goshen, south of Utah Lake. They are also regularly spotted in Nibley, and around Moon Lake in the Uintas. Most unexpectedly, there have been sightings in Canyonlands, in a small spring-fed canyon. So far, no sightings have been reported in the Salt Lake valley.

Don’t expect to see swarms; rather, look for a few mobile flickers that are (hopefully) answered by stationary ones.

They start flashing around 9:30 p.m.

The lights go out when mating season ends in the early July. So grab your GPS unit, slather on some mosquito repellent, and go make scientific history now.

To report a sighting: HTTPS://NHMU.UTAH.EDU/FIREFLIES. Christy Bills: CBILLS@NHMU.UTAH.EDU Seth Bybee: SETH.BYBEE@GMAILCOM

place. And so sightings—until recently— have been few and far between. Plus, they’re only visible in May and June, after 9:30 at night, in dark, swampy, mosquito-y places.

Utah is also home to at least a few species of non-luminescent fireflies. In fact, Bills found one just outside the NHMU last summer. “There are probably five or six distinct native species, one or two of which are luminescent,” she says, ‘But no one’s really sure.” Thus, the citizen science project.

This is year two of the firefly project and Bills is hoping to identify more localities, get more specimens and determine which species live where. That way, she says, Bybee can fulfill his objective, which is to sequence their genes for his firefly tree of life. And she can fulfill hers, which is to get people outside and interacting with the natural world— especially insects and bugs.

And, of course, turn them into fellow detectives.

“We could discover a whole new species of fireflies,” Bills says. “I mean seriously, how cool is that?”

Diane Olson is a longtime and beloved CATALYST contributor, a former staff writer, and the author of A Nature Lover's Almanac: Kinky Bugs, Stealthy Critters, Prosperous Plants & Celestial Wonders (Gibbs Smith)

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Dronie of your ownie

BY DENNIS HINKAMP

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ave you always wanted to fly, and to be an innovator, a criminal and strict constitutionalist all at the same time? It’s easy; just fly a drone. Packages are available at prices ranging from $35 to $12 million.

Hobbyists always tend to overestimate the importance of their myopic interests, but you can’t open a newsfeed now without seeing something about drones. Nobody really cared until Amazon and Pizza Hut hinted they might start using them for deliveries. Well, that and when a drunken government employee easily breached the White House’s force field of death with a $500 off-the-shelf quadracopter (aka drone).

Sure, it was great when drones were used to kill alleged Pakistani bad guys from a safe distance or catch the random illegal immigrant taking a hike across the impenetrable fence that separates the United State and Mexico, but once they started clogging the friendly skies with pizza and Amazon

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personal hygiene products, the situation went code red. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) woke up from its nap dating back to when the Red Baron and the Hindenburg ruled the skies, and started calling for regulations.

The current regulations for commercial use of drones issued by the FAA require that I tell them how many seats are on my tiny drone and what the medical condition is of my copilot. I am allowed to fly anywhere I want below 400 feet so long as I don’t make any money in the process. I can take pictures of anything and anyone so long as I don’t sell the photos.

Much like when Kentucky Fried Chicken changed its name to simply KFC to deemphasize the unpopular “fried” part, small drone fliers like to refer to their evil machines as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) or UAS (Unmanned Aerial Systems.) I hate the gender awkwardness of “unmanned” and have just reverted to calling it a drone since that is easier for people to understand.

My drone is a quadracopter (four propellers) that carries a camera. It weighs five pounds and can fly on battery power for about 15 minutes. It’s like having a tripod in the sky.

When I review the footage, I really do feel like Peter Pan.

Could they be used for evil? Yes, but bad people will always do bad things; they could climb trees, get binoculars, long lenses, strap a GoPro camera to a trained Norwegian Blue parrot or whatever it takes. But really? In the selfie age, who even cares if or what photos of themselves appear on the Internet?

The strict constitutionalists contend that it is my drone, and its use is part of my pursuit of happiness. The stricter constitutionalists say if it flies over my property, I have the right to shoot it down just as if someone where breaking into my house.

I suspect that the privacy advocates are more worried about a drone spotting a couple of cannabis plants in between the tomato rows than they are of being caught wearing Speedos or less in the back yard.

You can basically see anything you want all the time nearly for free in the privacy of your dark computer room. Why spend $1,000 on a drone to do it? God bless America, this is why the Internet has flourished.

Dennis Hinkamp does not advocate breaking any laws unless they are really silly laws.

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Biochemistry 1 1 Know your (sex) hormones

BY RAIN KENNEDY

PREGNANT. I sat on the bathroom floor stunned by what I read on my at-home pregnancy test. I had gone through the what-

if-I’m-pregnant scenario in my head every month of my life since my first period, even if I hadn’t had sex that month, but this time wasn’t a creation of my over-active imagination. I was 23 and pregnant and nowhere near ready to start having kids. How could I have been so stupid?

Sick of suffering the side effects of hormonal birth control—mood changes, weight gain (some women also have nausea and abdominal pain)—I had refused, that month, to use my NuvaRing —a self-inserted vaginal birth control ring effective for three weeks. What I’d opted for instead, the dreaded pull-out method (or lack there of), had failed— big surprise.

Coitus interruptus (the pull-out method)—more like coitus stupid-us “There’s something called user failure rate,” says Karrie Galloway, CEO of Planned Parenthood Association of Utah (PPAU). “All methods of contraception have a theoretical failure rate and a user failure rate because when you add in human beings, it changes things.” PPAU’s website reports that, each year, 27% of couples who rely on the pull-out method but “don’t always do it correctly,” and 4% of couples who rely on the method and “always do it correctly,” have an unwanted pregnancy. Come again? Who is the judge of “always does it correctly”?

I was livid to see coitus interruptus represented so promisingly in spite of such bad statistics on PPAU’s website.

However, Galloway agreed with me on the serious riskiness of the pull out (also called withdrawal) method. “If you are unwilling to risk pregnancy, it’s not a very good method.”

The Guttmacher Institute—an organization that uses research, policy analysis and

public education to advance sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide—tells us that, of American women at risk for unintended pregnancy, 65% use a method consistently and correctly but still account for 5% of unintended pregnancies—dare I point out that, in an intimate affair such as sex, the definition of “consistently and correctly” leaves much room for interpretation. Those using a method inconsistently, about one out of five women, account for 43% of unintended pregnancies. The 16% who report not using a method at all account for more than half of all unintended pregnancies. Couples who do not use any method of contraception have an 85% chance of experiencing a pregnancy over the course of a year.

The synthetic hormone blues I got an abortion and vowed I would never suffer like that again. I got back on the NuvaRing, but I still wasn’t happy with its hormonal effects—extra moodiness with a side of weight gain. I found myself irritable and judgmental at inappropriate times.

Once again, I was having to choose between feeling moody and protecting against pregnancy, or feeling normal but at risk. I knew other options were available, but I kept telling myself that I would try them next month.

A little more than a year after the abortion, laziness and opti-

mism overrode my trauma and I stopped using the NuvaRing, chancing it again with coitus stupid-us.

When it comes to sex and birth control, explains Planned Parenthood’s Galloway, “We’re often not ready to accept things right away and one lesson on safe, healthy sex practices while you’re a teen isn’t going to last you till you die.”

For most people, even into our early twenties, our brain isn’t ready to accept that kind of information. That’s why, says Galloway, “we work on sex education classes to reinforce those ideas.”

Soon after my second lapse with the NuvaRing, my period was two weeks

late. I took four pregnancy tests, all negative, but my symptoms felt almost exactly like the first pregnancy, and my period wouldn’t come. Coupled with my trusty over-reactive imagination, and a few scary reads on WebMD (I highly advise against this—just talk with a real doctor), I was convinced of many horrible scenarios. When the blood finally flowed, I decided enough was enough. After so much suffering and resentment towards the synthetic hormones in my birth control that were making me bitchy and fat, I was finally ready to explore other options. What took me so long?

“If synthetic hormones can alter your periods that dramatically, it’s not just acting locally. The ovaries, for women, also make the hormone testosterone.

Shut down that and, of course, libido goes down, along with energy, mood, muscle mass and bone density,” says Mangum.

Theoretical vs. User Failure Rate for Birth Control Methods reported by the Center of Disease Control Theoretical efficacy rate is predicted during “perfect use,” and user failure rate is how effective the method is during actual use or during “typical use” (includes inconsistent and incorrect use).

METHOD

Male Sterilization (Vascectomy) Female Sterilization (Abdominal, Laparoscopic, Hysteroscopic) Mirena & Skyla (Levonorgestrel IUD) Paragard (Copper T IUD) Nexplanon (Implant in upper arm beneath skin) Depo-Provera (Injections) Pill Patch NuvaRing (Vaginal ring) Diaphragm or Cervical Cap Male condom (Latex or lambskin) Female condom Withdrawal (Coitus Interruptus) Spermicides No Method

Rate resulting in unintended pregnancy within first year of use Typical Use

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0.15% 0.50% 0.20% 0.80% 0.05% 6% 9% 9% 9% 12% 18% 21% 22% 28% 85%

0.10% 0.50% 0.20% 0.60% 0.05% 0.30% 0.30% 0.30% 0.30% 6% 2% 5% 18% 18% 85%

IUD choices—hormones or no hormones?

With help from my nurse-midwife, I came up with four long-term options: the ParaGard (which lasts 10 years), the non-hormonal IUD, the Mirena/Skyla (five/three years) and the Nexplanon (three years). I was most interested in the Mirena, an estrogen-free intrauterine device (IUD) that would release only small amounts of progestin locally into my uterus. With such a small amount of synthetic progesterone in the Mirena, my nurse-midwife assured me that it would only act locally, not systemically like the pill, the ring or the patch.

I was not familiar with progesterone.

She explained it is a hormone produced in the ovaries which helps stop heavy bleeding, cramping, and, in many cases, PMS. Progesterone is also a precursor to cortisol, which is an adrenal hormone. I was sold on the Mirena when she told me that the “progesterone” in the Mirena would make my periods lighter and quicker, or even stop my period for months at a time.

What I didn’t know at the time was that my new buddy “progesterone” wasn’t actually the same progesterone that my body produces but a synthetic version, Levonorgestrel, which is not a precursor to cortisol.

Another viewpoint After meeting with the nurse-midwife, I met with Todd Adams Mangum, MD, a strong opponent of synthetic hormones, who sees many of his female patients experiencing symptoms such as weight gain, mood disorders, fatigue,

Online Resources Forget WebMD, for sensitivity and information regarding feminine health and contraception. Visit instead: www.ppau.org—Planned Parenthood Association of Utah's online tools for teens, parents & educators: “My Method” interactive questionnaire that recommends birth control options based on your lifestyle and preferences “Am I Pregnant?” questionnaire that will help determine if it is time to take a pregnancy test or not.

Health Center Locator www.bedsider.org—an independent online birth control support network presented in attractive, honest style Method Explorer (bedsider.org/methods) Frisky Friday’s blog—topics such as “Staying healthy in your 20’s, what to do, who to see, and when”

On a side note, some good news: As of May 11, 2015, under the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka ObamaCare) insurance companies have to cover birth control without out-of-pocket costs.

(Thanks, Obama!) painful menstruation, acne and depression associated with birth control’s synthetic hormones.

“The synthetic hormones work to balance out the imbalance that existed between progesterone and estrogen,” Mangum explained, “by turning off the body’s natural production of hormones, and replacing them with synthetic ones.

The thing that is very much overlooked,” says Mangum, “is that the synthetics can’t do all of the jobs that the real hormones do.” Dr. Mangum sometimes uses real progesterone treatments with his patients.

“If a woman has strong adrenals, she’s not likely to experience problems [with synthetic hormones] maybe for one, five, 10 years, but I find that nearly universally, over some period of time, suppressing the natural progesterone production takes its toll on the adrenals,” says Mangum.

“When you give [the body synthetic hormones], it will signal the brain to shut down the ovaries’ natural production of hormones,” he explains. “Right then and there goes your theory that any synthetic hormone is not affecting the body systemically. If synthetic hormones can alter your periods that dramatically, they’re not just acting locally. The ovaries, for women, also make the hormone testosterone. Shut down that and, of course, libido goes down, along with energy, mood, muscle mass and bone density.”

Mangum strongly recommends the hormone-free ParaGard, a copper IUD, over the pill or the Mirena.

Now what?

My process gives me much optimism, and yet brings me closer to understanding that we have to work with our contraception diligently and delicately throughout our entire childbearing years. Our needs and priorities change with age and circumstance. The Guttmacher Institute reports that the typical U.S. woman wants two children.

To achieve this goal, she must use contraceptives for roughly three decades.

I learned that what is right for other women is not necessarily right for me. I also learned not to beat myself up over making mistakes. “You’ve got to be willing to try things,” says Karrie Galloway.

“Things change over time, and you’ve got to be willing to find something that works with your body and your mind to make it work.”

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Contraception: A short history From ancient times to the 1838 invention of vulcanized rubber

these methods probably worked, because a body poisoned with heavy metals is most likely not healthy enough to sustain pregnancy.

Animal-related remedies such as a abies are a joy, but the results of necklace made of weasel testicles, variunwanted pregnancies range from ous animal bones either ground up and the problematic to the downright ingested or strapped to the body, and dangerous. Humans have always been shots of whiskey in which dried beaver concerned with controlling when we testes had been marinated were also have babies, and how many babies we used. Natural sponges and wads of wool have; in fact, contraception was so soaked in various juices and substances important to ancient Egyptian women probably had variable effectiveness. that they buried contraceptive recipes in Of the physical barrier methods, there their tombs, so that they would not have is some evidence that condoms have to have babies in the afterlife unless they been used for perhaps as long as 15,000 really wanted them! years. Certainly we have writThese ancient contracepten indications that King tives are enough to make Minos of Crete used goat bladyou profoundly thankful ders for this purpose some you live in contemporary 3,000 years ago. Some of the times. They ranged from a oldest actual condoms ever douche made of honey, found were sausage casings dates, and acacia juice (can discovered in the foundations you say “yeast infection”?) of Dudley Castle in England, to pessaries made of crocodating from the mid 17th cendile or elephant dung and tury, but we had to wait on the honey, inserted vaginally.

Antique silver cervical cap invention of vulcanized rubber Science alleges that dung in 1838 for condoms and diaphragms to pessaries might work because the pH of become what we know today. The prethe pessary would act as a spermicide. cursors of the diaphragm included cerviMy personal theory is that they preventcal caps made of gold and silver. ed pregnancy mostly by ensuring men In comparison, the Pill, the IUD and would never come near you! modern chemical and barrier methods In China, women would drink mercury seem pretty tame. Every method has its to prevent pregnancy, and European failure rate, but it’s nice to be out of the women drank the water a blacksmith dung age. had quenched his metalwork in. Both of

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BY ALICE TOLER

Vasectomy: The story of the snip

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n 1847 a French doctor by the name of Gosselin, inspired by information he’d obtained by dissecting human corpses, decided to investigate the effects of “ligation and resection of the vas deferens” in dogs. After performing this surgery on unwitting canines, he noted that this prevented them from siring further litters of puppies. Enter the vasectomy.

Perhaps it’s poetic that "the snip" was invented the same year the first Mormon pioneers reached the Salt Lake valley intent on filling it with progeny, but it did take medical science several decades to perfect the surgery and— weirdly enough—even to figure out what it was actually best used for.

In 1890 it was suggested as a cure for enlarged prostate, and in 1902 records show it was being practiced as a cure for tuberculosis. In 1918, Dr. Eugen Steinach of Austria was promoting vasectomy as a “rejuvenation” procedure. Both Sigmund Freud and W. B. Yeats had vasectomies, hoping that the surgery would provide them with better health and more vitality as they aged.

Unfortunately, during the age of eugenics between the World Wars, many men were sterilized against their will in various jurisdictions around the world.

The uncomfortable relationship between government and fertility was documented in a 1967 report which noted that Utah (as well as Kansas and Connecticut) outlawed vasectomy for the purposes of sterilization…but that it was still legal for therapeutic purposes. Other jurisdictions were not so coy; in a cash-for-vasectomy drive at a “family planning festival” in Kerala, India, in 1971, some 62,913 surgeries were performed.

Utah laws regarding vasectomy have been relaxed for decades now, and the procedure is popular here. Dr. Ralph Wade of Bountiful has been performing them since 1987, and now has over 900 of the surgeries under his belt. “When I first performed them, we made a small incision, but now we use a no-scalpel technique that punctures the skin. No sutures are required,” he says.

The success rate of the surgery is very high.

“There is a very small risk of failure because some men have three vas deferens instead of two!” says Dr. Wade. This is why giving a sample to confirm you’re shooting blanks afterwards is necessary.

Men who have had vasectomies are generally satisfied with the results, but across the board they recommend saying “no” if your doctor asks you if you’d like to watch the procedure as he does it.

Herbs in contraceptive history

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BY MERRY LYCETT HARRISON

hroughout the ages, some plants have been counted on as the best hope for prevention of pregnancy and have been used as either a spermicide or as an abortifacient. In researching the topic, I learn that the phytochemicals provided by the herbs work along different pathways in the body to interrupt the natural cycle of conception. All the methods require well timed applications.

Ancient history reveals that silphium, a member of the fennel family, was used to prevent pregnancy. It was so important to the ancient world that it was represented on coins and became extinct from overharvesting, no doubt.

A slice of lemon was used like a diaphragm allowing its juice and essential oil to disable and inhibit sperm.

Cottonroot bark, Gossypium, was chewed by slaves in the south. It works to disrupt the secretion of progesterone after ovulation. Ingestion of the tincture of the seeds of Queen Anne’s Lace, Daucus carota, seem widely regarded, even by Hippocrates 2,000 years ago, as a fairly reliable “morning after” treatment. This plant looks like a lot of other poisonous plants so use caution if you decide to harvest your own. Rue, Ruta graveolens, is a pretty garden plant that many Latin American women know how to comfortably use. A friend asked for a nibble of my fresh plant to get rid of a headache. Apparently, when added to salads and eaten regularly, it decreases blood flow to the endometrium thus making the uterus not very hospitable for implantation.

Herbs like blue cohosh, Caulophylum, and pennyroyal, Hedeoma, are used as abortifacients. They work by stimulating the uterus to the point that it expels what is in it.

When European settlers came to America, blue cohosh got the name “squaw vine” (squaw being a very derogatory term for Native American women). It was used frequently to induce early labor in these petite women so they could survive after being impregnated by the much larger Anglo men.

Caution must be used with both of these herbs, especially pennyroyal, as they can be extremely toxic if too much is taken. Herbs like these offer options, but the process can be very abrupt and painful and if not handled properly, a good outcome is not always assured.

As for men, papya seeds eaten daily can decrease sperm count and everything goes back to normal when he stops eating them.

Margaret Sanger, M latter-day heroine

argaret Sanger's mother went through 18 pregnancies, giving birth to 11 live children. She died exhausted, turbeculitic, and suffering with cervical cancer, at the age of 49.

Margaret grew up to become a nurse working in the

Woman Rebel, a monthly newsletter promoting contraception using the slogan “No Gods, No Masters.” When she was prosecuted under the Comstock laws, Sanger jumped bail and spent the next couple of years in Canada, England and the Netherlands. In 1915 she visited a Dutch birth control clinic and learned about diaphragms, which she vowed to introduce to the US after she returned there in 1916.

“United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries” (i.e., diaphragms) has to be one of the most ridiculous titles of a lawsuit ever

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slums of the East Side of Manhattan, where she witnessed woman after woman forced into the same frequent childbirth that had wrecked her mother's health. Often these women turned to dangerous self-induced or back-alley abortions to try and prevent the arrival of another mouth to feed that would drive them deeper into penury.

After one of her patients died from a self-induced abortion, Sanger threw her nursing bag in the corner and declared, “I will never take another case until I have made it possible for working women in America to control birth.”

The knowledge of contraceptive methods had been on lockdown in the US since 1873, six years before Sanger's birth. A puritanical postal inspector by the name of Anthony Comstock had drafted a law, passed by Congress, that made it illegal to send information about abortion, birth control, or the prevention of venereal disease, as well as pornography and sex aids, through the U.S. mail or indeed any other mode of transportation. Sanger launched her offensive against the Comstock Act in 1914 with the publication of The

Margaret Sanger established the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control to try cases that would lift the Comstock Law against distributing birth control devices through the U.S.mail.

During the rest of her life she continued to advocate for contraception and women's rights, founding the organization that would go on to become Planned Parenthood, and sponsoring and funding the development of the birth control pill.

In 1965, a year before her death, the Supreme Court ruled in “Griswold v. Connecticut” that private use of contraceptives was a constitutional right, and Sanger knew that she had won her lifelong battle.

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Fertility awareness Conception and contraception start with understanding the cycle

BY GIULIANA SERENA

Beyond the rhythm method

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ertility awareness (often referred to as the Fertility Awareness Method or FAM) is a practice of making real-time observations of a variety of fertility signs made by the female body, to determine one’s likelihood of fertility on any given day of the cycle. Is it effective?

Rates are often cited as low as 75%* for typical use, in fact, the US Department of Health & Human Services cautions that “if preventing pregnancy is a high priority, more effective methods of birth control should be chosen.”

On the other hand, those who are taught the Sympto-Thermal Method by trained educators and follow the rules can see success rates up to and above 99%**, rivaling condoms, and hormonal and surgical techniques.

It’s not for everyone, obviously. But neither is the patch, pill, IUD, ring, shot, implant or surgery, right? The practice takes commitment, self-restraint, an upfront investment in education, and it most definitely requires cooperation and conversations in relationships with intimate partners.

Technology has advanced so far with regards to birth control, and fortunately,

many of those who choose hormonal and surgical methods are happy with their outcomes. Others suffer significant side effects, from the mildly irritating to the fatal. These are important personal decisions, and not inconsequential. Every choice we make (or don’t) hav-

ing to do with achieving and avoiding pregnancy is a significant one, with benefits and caveats. So don’t just take my word (or anyone else’s) for it; do your research and find what’s best for you.It may take multiple methods before you land on the right fit.

If you’re wanting to avoid synthetic hormones or surgery, and any side effects whatsoever, if you’re ready to commit to learn how your body works, if you have strong will power and the ability to exercise restraint, and you have the support of your partner/s, fertility awareness is well worth considering.

On the flip side, if you’re looking to conceive naturally, you can determine when you’re most likely to be fertile and/or if your body is experiencing infertility. Excellent results always require the investment of learning the method, and diligently following its rules. * U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services (2015) “Natural Family Planning Fact Sheet” ** P. Frank-Herrmann et al (2007) “The effectiveness of a fertility awareness-based method to avoid pregnancy in relation to a couple's sexual behaviour during the fertile time.” Oxford University Press

Fertility awareness methods—an overview Sympto-Thermal Method: This combination of observing cervical fluid (mucus), basal body temperature, and cervical position offers the most comprehensive and effective method of fertility awareness, and is a great way for anyone to learn the intricacies of the menstrual cycle.

Ovulation / Billings Method: The fertile window is calculated based on the daily observation of cervical fluid (mucus).

This includes identifying the “peak day” of fertility. Women are considered likely to be fertile for three full days after the peak day.

Two-Day Method: Simplified version of Billings: Instead of observing the quality of cervical fluid, a woman asks herself two questions: “Did I notice any secretions today?” and “Did I notice any secretions yesterday?" If she noticed any secretions yesterday and today, she is potentially fertile. If she did not notice any secretions either yesterday or today (two consecutive days with no secretions), her probability of becoming pregnant is very low and it is safe to have intercourse that day. This method is not as effective as more comprehensive methods, but is widely taught to those with limited education and literacy skills due to its simplicity.

The Standard Days Method: Involves counting fertile days based on calculations from past cycles instead of observation of fertility signs. For those with “regular cycles” that are always 26-32 days long. If your cycles are ever longer or shorter, it won’t work.

So what about the Rhythm (Calendar) Method? It’s a predictive model that uses past cycles to estimate future cycles, and no signs of fertility are observed. This assumes the cycles are like clockwork, and that ovulation will occur on the same day each time, which we know just isn’t the case for the vast majority of women. Many factors influence precisely when ovulation takes

place: stress, illness and perimenopause, among others. Counting days alone just doesn’t suffice for most people.

Giuliana Serena is a local ceremonialist, rites-ofpassage facilitator and menstrual cycle educator.

This month she is presenting a workshop at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research in Boston. For a free moon phase calendar, quick guide to charting your cycle and more, visit her at MOONTIMERISING.COM.

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—Toni Weschler, Taking Charge of Your Fertility (2006) “No woman would menstruate if she did not have to.”

—Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch (1970)

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hese sentiments express a broad spectrum of thought about menstruation in our culture, spanning the gap between awe and indifference. It’s a fact that most people who menstruate—an experience which can span half or more of a lifetime —don’t enjoy the process, or aren’t truly happy with the products they use, for bleeding or for birth control.

Most people don’t really understand the menstrual cycle at all, other than perhaps that during puberty, girls periodically start bleeding and it has something to do with getting pregnant, or proof that you’re not, and it’s a real hassle and it hurts and it’s embarrassing, and lots of pads and tampons and chocolate and space are required, and eventually, after 30-50 years you get all hot and bothered and struggle though menopause and it’s all over.

However, there’s so much depth to the phases of the cycle, ovulation, menstruation, hormones, reproductive organs and the elegant endocrine system. A growing minority of researchers, clinicians and health care practitioners are coming to see the value of observing and supporting the entire menstrual cycle, not only the “period” itself. In 2004, with a scientific forum titled “The Menstrual Cycle is a Vital Sign,” the Society for Menstrual Research affirmed that the cycle is a powerful indicator of overall health.

PMS, painful menstruation, heavy bleeding, scant or total lack of bleeding, nausea and significant loss of energy are symptoms of various reproductive health issues. While all too common, they frequently express some kind of imbalance, a dis-ease in the body (such as endometriosis polycystic ovary syndrome). By bringing our attention to where things hurt, we can learn more about the root causes, and find ways to support our bodies to heal in ways that popping pain (and/or birth control) pills can never address.

If you’re suffering from any of the above-mentoned conditions or symptoms, please know that it doesn’t have to be that way! Getting better begins with you and your relationship with your body and your cycle. The more you understand what’s going on, the more informed decisions you can make. This leads to more effective conversations with your partners and health care providers around your reproductive health, your cycles, your sexuality, your fertility, your potential of pregnancy and how to avoid and achieve it.

There are many practical ways to support menstrual health: diet and nutrition, movement and exercise, a healthy (active) sex life, ritual and ceremony and rites of passage, attention and mindfulness, alternative products, beliefs and thought patterns, and acceptance and appreciation of the seasons of womanhood. I’ve seen first hand through my work how drastically women’s lives can change with a little education and inspiration—and how much more enjoyable life can be when we’re not suffering through our cycles.

One of the most effective ways of having a better experience menstruating, conceiving and avoiding conception is to practice some form of fertility awareness. Not sure what I’m talking about?

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Finding continuity Utthita Parsvakonasana

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ame a very basic pose you’ve never seen described in this column. Extra points if you don’t look at the photo. I don’t actually expect anyone to remember, even though this month’s pose has been tugging at me for quite a long time. After five years of writing this column, I’m finally going to give a long-neglected staple of asana practice, Utthita Parsvakonasana (Intense Side Angle Pose), its due.

Utthita Parsvakonasana is a pillar among standing poses. It combines strong grounding with expansion and spinal rotation. It looks like a lateral stretch, and may even feel somewhat like one, but it’s not. In a true lateral stretch, your pelvis is not moving in the same direction as your spine (think Parighasana or Gate Latch Pose). In Side Angle Pose, your legs, pelvis, spine and head are all on a continuum. Finding that continuum is the art of the asana.

Utthita Parsvakonasana is one of the poses that felt good for me right up until my recent hip replacement surgery, and feels good to me post-surgery. This is, in no small part, due to the fact that I discarded a popular, but anatomically non-

BY CHARLOTTE BELL hip of the back leg back not only renders your back leg barely functional in standing poses, but it also puts your sacroiliac joint at risk of dislocation and presses the head of your back leg femur bone into the anterior wall of its socket. There’s a lot of potential for long-term damage on many fronts from heeding the instruction to square your hips.

Here’s the alternative: Standing on a nonskid mat, separate your feet about a leg-length apart. Turn your entire right leg 90 degrees so that your foot points to the end of your mat.

Turn your left foot, knee and leg in— facing the right leg—about 45 degrees.

Allow your pelvis to turn with the leg until your left foot feels solidly grounded.

This alignment is what will create the most stable structure for your asana: Let the entire back leg—foot, shin, knee, femur and pelvis—all rotate in agreement with each other. This will look different for different people because we’re not all built the same. Your leg is in agreement with itself when your back leg feels very stable and grounded.

Extend your arms out at shoulder level. Slide your shoulder blades down so that you are not

There’s a lot of potential for long-term damage on many fronts from heeding the instruction to square your hips. sensical, alignment cue about 15 years ago. If you’ve ever been told to square your hips in this or any other standing poses, please stop now.

Pulling the

hunching your shoulders. Bend your right knee into a 90-degree angle so

that your knee is over your heel.

If your knee extends out in front of your heel, widen your stance. Your shin should be vertical here. You may want to adjust the angle of your pelvis here to solidify your left leg.

Now extend your torso out over your right leg. Place your right forearm on your right thigh. Draw your left arm close to your head so that your arm can extend from your waist rather than just from the shoulder joint. Gently rotate your ribcage to the left so that your chest opens forward.

Even though you may have seen lots of photos of people rotating their head and neck to look upward, instead, let your head and neck follow the natural trajectory of your spine. Is your brain relaxed? That’s the signal of optimal alignment for your head.

Do you feel continuous elongation along from your left foot to your left fingertips? Can you breathe long and deep? If you answer “no” to either of these questions, you may need to lower or raise your pelvis to align with your legs and torso. You may even want to lift your entire torso a bit further from your thigh.

If you can lower your right hand to a yoga block behind your right foot or to the floor without sacrificing the depth or ease of your breathing, feel free to experiment with this. Even though it’s easy for me to place my hand on the floor and still look as if my pose is aligned properly, I feel that I sacrifice strength, continuity and ease when I lower my hand.

These days, how an asana feels is much more important to me than how “advanced” it looks.

Stay in Parsvakonasana for five to 10 deep breaths. Ground your left foot to lift up out of the pose. Turn both feet and legs forward. Settle and rest for a few breaths before moving to your second side.

Parsvakonasana truly is a favorite pose of mine and of my students. Before I figured out that squaring my hips was not optimal, I didn’t like the pose nearly as much as I do now. Because my back leg always felt disconnected when I tried to square my hips, I had to lean on my front hand for support. This made the pose feel heavy. Now that I allow my pelvis to align with my leg and I’m no longer married to the idea that I have to place my front hand on the floor, the pose feels strong and expanded. My entire body participates equally. Then my breath flows freely and my mind stills. And that is the whole point.

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.

CONTRACEPTION

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A conversation about condoms

Adolescent and family therapist Monica Dixon tells teens: Be prepared

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hen sexologist Alfred Kinsey published the first Kinsey Reports in 1947 and 1953, 6% of the women questioned had had sex by age 16, compared to 21% of 16-year-old males. It was before the Pill; before the Summer of Love (1967, for all you youngsters); and on TV, couples (married, of course) slept in separate beds. Sixty years later, evaluations show that 37% of 16-year-old males have already had sex—and 40% of 16-yearold females.

You can rest assured that, sooner or later, everybody plunges or sidles into the pool. Whatever the age, “be prepared” is wise advice. Naiveté may look sweet, until it gets in the way of health and safety.

Monica Dixon, an adolescent and family therapist at Phoenix Rising Counseling in Salt Lake City, is an enthusiastic believer in being prepared.

“Sex is a grownup activity. If you’re going to jump into that as a 15 year old, you’d better know the rules,” she says, “although it is usually the parents, too,

If you learn to use condoms, and do this from when you start having sex, if it’s your number one rule, it doesn’t occur to you to skip it. who suffer the consequences of an adolescent’s ignorance.”

To this end, all of her sexually active teen clients get a lecture: on condoms.

In March, the Utah Department of Health reported a sharp increase in sexually transmitted disease in Utah. Half of the new STDs in the US occur in young people ages 15-24.

While pregnancy-preventing hormone delivery devices abound, it is as true today as it was 50 years ago: A properly applied condom is the only thing short of abstinence that protects against both pregnancy and disease.

“This is how I counsel adolescents —

BY GRETA BELANGER DEJONG and everyone, actually: If your personal rule is that you always, 100% of the time, use a condom, no matter where you’re at in your cycle if you’re a woman, then for you it becomes part of the sexual experience.”

Thoughts of pregnancy or disease may

Monica Dixon

not be topmost in mind when things get hot, but then the thought crops up. Five or 10 minutes into it you may start thinking, “Where am I in my ovulation cycle?” You wish you had used a condom. “The first reason to use a condom is to prevent the anxiety of not using the condom,” says Dixon.

Condoms protect you well, if you take good care of them. Heat, friction and age deteriorate them quickly. She reminds her young clients to skip the glove box and the wallet in the back pocket.

Always check the expiration date. Never use it with body lotions, massage oil or Vaseline (you can safely use oils with lambskin).

You can tell by now Monica Dixon is not talking just to teens.

“If you’re having sex regularly, you have a routine.[ If you’re not in an exclusive relationship], make condoms part of your routine. It becomes easy, not an issue. It doesn’t interrupt the flow because it’s what you always do. If you learn to use condoms, and do this from when you start having sex, if it’s your number one rule, it doesn’t occur to you to skip it, it’s just what you do.” It sounds a lot like flossing.

Get out a few condoms. Separate them. Check the expiration date. If you’re a beginner, figure out the right

way to put it on. If you make the rookie mistake of putting it on backwards, grab a new condom. Otherwise, any pre-cum will end up against the woman’s cervix.

“Whether there’s semen in the precum depends on when he’s last had an orgasm,” says Dixon. “If the guy has ejaculated in the last 24 hours, there will be sperm in the pre-cum. You can’t know that unless this is your regular partner. Rule of thumb: Never flip a condom over. If you put it on wrong, toss it and get a new one.”

When should the condom go on?

“Put it on during foreplay, before you’re actually going to have sex, so it has time to raise to body temperature before penetration. It feels a lot better for both of you,” Dixon advises. For guys who have a hard time maintaining their erection when the condom’s first put on, this gives them time to get used to the new feeling.

Who carries the condoms?

“It depends on the circumstance,” says Dixon. “If you’re someone who is interested in having casual sex, or who’s even open to that, then you should carry

It is as true today as it was 50 years ago: A properly applied condom is the only thing short of abstinence that protects against both pregnancy and disease. whatever you personally need.” Also, some people find they are allergic to latex and will want to carry their alternative of choice.

What about the conversation when you’re having sex with someone for the first time?

“You’re sitting up with all your clothes on, ideally. You’re saying, ‘we’re gonna have sex, yay for us, so let’s talk about this for a second.’ Say it’s with someone you know briefly. Do you want this to be a one-time event? Or maybe you want this to be one night and see what hap-

pens. Do you want to be dating? Are you looking for a longterm relationship? The person, if he or she is paying attention, will say, ‘Thank you for asking.’

“Usually there’s a moment where it’s clear you’re going to have sex. When you stop and say ‘let’s have a conversation about this,’ at that point, you have their full attention. Women have so much more power than they think they have.

Men will do whatever it takes to get to the sex. ‘I will have sex with you but this is what I need.’ ‘Ay ay, m’am!’”

You might ask when is the last time they were tested. How often do they use protection? “You have to determine for yourself: What level of germ exchange are you comfortable with?

“Know where your line is, and clear it before you take your clothes off. Others may have a different line. For example, I don’t want penis germs in me. This is not something I’m available for. Say it all up front.

The more detail you can get into in the beginning, the better the sex, Dixon says, because all cards are on the table.

“You can really enter this new experience with a roadmap,” and you know the boundaries. “If you have sex under false pretenses because you did not manage expectations in the beginning, someone’s more likely to get hurt. What we’re talking about here is grownup sex.

Adult sex.

“Being a good lover is a life skill,” says Dixon. “Sex is part of life.” If skill and knowledge go hand in hand, young Utahns are missing out. Trojan’s 2014 Sexual Health Report Card scored four of Utah’s universities in the bottom third for sexual health information and resources, with BYU dead last. Is Utah’s #1 position in internet porn subscriptions an attempt at DIY sex education?

“If you’re never exposed to any information outside of pornography, because nobody talks about sex, because they don't want you to be doing it for whatever reason, that’s a huge oversight,” says Dixon. “Porn sex” is not “real sex.”

“Know the difference,” she says.

One important difference, of course, is that porn sex, wildly unrealistic in so many ways, does not involve condoms. Real sex, the smart and healthy kind, does.

Greta Belanger deJong is the editor and publisher of CATALYST magazine.

HEALTHYSEXY

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Bone broth Tastes good, feels good, easy and inexpensive to make

BY NICOLE DEVANEY

“Rich in minerals and amino acids, bone broths can provide a mch-needed source of these nutrients and are rich in gelatin, which helps to support both digestive and skin health, especially when used in combination with natural fats and leafy green vegetables,” writes Jennifer McGruther in The Nourished Kitchen: Farm-to-Table Recipes for the Traditional Foods Lifestyle (2014: Ten Speed Press).

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he latest health craze has been around for thousands of years. In most countries today, people continue to use bones, hooves and feet to create bone broth.

Back when most people were raising or hunting and butchering their own meat, using the castoff and inedible parts of animals to make food provided much needed nutrients. In reviving the tradition of using the whole animal, we are also accessing the wisdom of our ancestors— wisdom which is now being affirmed by modern science.

The biggest difference between bone broth and other meat or vegetable broths/stocks is the time spent simmering the meat and bones. While a typical broth simmers for less than two hours, and stock for three to four hours, bone

broth should simmer for a very long time, typically in excess of 24 hours, until the bones are soft enough to crush between two fingers. This process allows the bones and joints to release the gelatin and nutrients that make bone broth such an important health food.

In her cookbook The Nourished Kitchen, Jennifer McGruther points to some of the many health benefits of this ancient food. “Bone broths,” she writes, “are extraordinarily rich in protein, and can be a source of minerals as well.”

Glycine, a common amino acid found in high-protein foods such as meats, fish, and bone broths, “supports the body’s detoxification process and supports digestion through the secretion of gastric acids.”

McGruther happily presents a study published by the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, published in 2000, confirming chicken broth as a remedy for upper respiratory infections.

Bone broth is a game changer when it comes to sustaining good health. It tastes good, feels good and is cheaper then most vitamins and minerals that are sold in health food stores.

If you are interested in using bone broth and don’t have the time to create it, there are stores that sell it and websites that will deliver it. Make sure if you purchase your bone broth that it comes from a freezer and not a shelf, real bone broth will not stay good on a shelf.

Bone broth recipes range from simple to elaborate and there are many differing opinions on the correct ratio for bones to water. Just a few important guidelines and gadgets will make your bone broth journey a little easier. Once you have done it a couple times, you will begin to have an eye for how much your recipe needs and your taste buds will guide the way.

Items you will need:

• A large stock pot or a crock pot • Bones (quality of the bones is most important; whatever type of animal you are using, choose organic and pasture raised) • Filtered or spring water (no sense in drinking fluoride if you are trying to heal your bones)

• Veggies of your choice (I love onion and garlic for its flavoring and health benefits but using a variety of veggies will add all the enzymes that you would want from a good veggie stock) • Apple cider vinegar (makes bones porous) • A good quality sea salt

Optional Items:

• Chicken feet or cow hooves (makes your bone broth more gelatinous) • Broiler pan • parsley, cilantro or fresh garden herbs • Lard or extra fat (sold cheap at health food stores)

Directions:

• 1-2 pounds of bones per gallon of water. You will need to add water over time as it simmers. This would be the time to use the hooves, feet and extra fat if you opted for these ingredients.

• 1-2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar per gallon of water. Vinegar opens up the bones, allowing more minerals into your broth.

• Optional: Broil bones for 20 minutes until they are golden brown. This will add a nice golden hue to your broth.

• Simmer your bones low and slow. A stockpot with a partition keeps the bones from sitting on the bottom of the pan and burning. Crockpots are perfect if you are concerned about leaving the oven range on while you are away from home. Here are some suggested times to simmer different bones: • Beef broth/stock: 48 hours • Chicken or poultry broth/stock: 24 hours • Fish broth: 8 hours • Add your veggies the last hour your broth is simmering and salt to taste. I enjoy adding onions and garlic in the beginning but if you add all your veggies in the beginning you will boil out the enzymes. I throw in heads of cabbage sliced in half, whole carrots, stocks of celery and unpeeled onions.

Herbs go in after you have removed the pan from the heat but the water is still hot.

• Some people spoon off the fat and particles that float to the surface. I don’t.

• Allow the soup to cool naturally or place the pan in a cold bath. Once your recipe is cool enough to touch, filter out the bones and veggie with a strainer and bottle up your broth.

Keep a week’s worth in your refrigerator. Freeze the rest.

Ways to enjoy your bone broth:

• Drink your broth as a replacement for one of your cups of coffee or tea. Paired with meals, it will aid in digestion.

• Use the broth to cook a roast in and use

the juice to make a gravy for the roast.

• Boil artichokes in bone broth for an added dose of nutrients. They say you should save your artichoke water because that is the healthiest part. By using the bone broth in my fridge this is easy to do.

• Make a bowl of pho (Vietnamese soup). Dice fresh veggies, sprouts, cilantro and meat of your choice into a bowl. Pour bone broth over the top.

Add a little sriracha.

• Use it as a base for your favorite soups.

• Cook pasta or rice with bone broth.

• Use it in place of water to puree baby veggies.

• Use it in place of milk for mashed potatoes • In cases of stomach bugs or vomiting, bone broth often calms the stomach very quickly and helps shorten the duration of the illness.

Nicole DeVaney is a holistic health coach, CHEK practitioner and mom. She co-owns Iron & Salt, a fusion health facility which includes a kitchen, state-of-the-art private gym space and assessment center. WWW.NICOLEDEVANEY.COM

Bones!

Where to buy them

Real Foods Market: 385-351-2664 (Sugar House). Grass-fed organic beef bones, $5/lb. They also make beef ($6.29/qt.) and chicken ($3.99/qt.) bone broths on Thursdays.

Snider Brothers Meats: 801.272.6469 (Highland Dr). Offers all-natural beef femur bones (no hormones or antibiotics). 3 lbs. for $4.39.

Harmon’s: 801.428.0366 (downtown).

Has organic beef marrow femurs and pork bones.

Whole Foods Market: 801.824.9060 (Trolley Square). Has femur bones that are not organic but are from "Step 4" beef.

Dan's: 801.583.3271 (Foothill). They have plenty of bones but none are organic. Ask the butcher.

Smith's: 801.328.6000 (4th S). Rarely carries bones.

You may want to call before so the butcher can prepare the bones for you.

Real Foods has bones bagged and ready for broth-making in their freezer section.

— Jane Lyon

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EATING THROUGH THE SEASONS

pring is finally warming up, promising luxuriously long summer days and bountiful gardens. This is my favorite time of year—farmers market season is beginning, it’s not too, too hot, and the variety and diversity of fresh produce increases greatly.

What’s local now: asparagus • arugula • many varieties of lettuce • spinach • early peas • kale • herbs • strawberries • beets • carrots • chard • rhubarb • collards • wild foraged mushrooms • garlic scapes • radishes Strawberries & rhubarb: Nothing says summer like fresh strawberries, and they’ll be readily available soon due to our warm winter and spring. I rarely let this season pass without a strawberry rhubarb pie! For a unique take on this ubiquitous Utah vegetable, one local chef grills rhubarb, then slices it on top of goat cheese on a baguette. Drizzled with balsamic vinegar, it makes a lovely appetizer.

Peas, radishes, scapes: Many spring vegetables and fruits are prime for easy food preservation techniques, such as “quick pickling” or freezing. Have a glut of green peas? Shell them, put them on a sheet tray, and pop them into the freezer for a few hours or overnight. Then

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June in the garden & kitchen transfer them to a zip-top or vacuumsealed bag, and they’ll keep for months.

Radishes are perfect for quick fridge pickles, and will keep (and get tastier!) for many weeks. Simply slice up your radishes, place them in a glass jar with some vinegar (dilute with water if you like less of a punch), add in salt, pepper, a pinch of sugar, and shake. They’ll keep for weeks in the fridge, and make an excellent addition to tacos, salads and sandwiches. Garlic scapes, the flower stalks of hardnecked varieties of garlic, also make excellent quick pickles, and can be used in place of green onions or chives in many recipes.

Prepare to can! Now is a great time to organize and inventory your canners, jars, lids, rings, and spice stockpiles. With a bit of planning, you’ll be able to eat locally all year round, and enjoy what’s in season now for months to come.

Polish off last year’s produce! Also take note of what you put up or froze last

year, and get to the bottom of it! The USDA recommends storing home-canned goods for a year, so take a moment to plan out some meals that will help you move through last year’s preserves.

Farmers markets:

Downtown Farmers Market at Pioneer Park, Salt Lake City Bountiful Farmers Market Cache Valley Gardeners Market Provo Farmers Market Park City Farmers Market Park Silly Sunday Market Cedar City Farmers Market Long Valley Farmers Market, Orderville Downtown Farmers Market at Ancestor Square, St. George Farm Fest Market, Sevier County Zion Canyon Farmers Market

For more information on any of these markets, visit UTAHSOWN.ORG.

BY ALISON EINERSON

Green Pea Hummus

1 cup fresh shelled peas 1/4 cup fresh cilantro or parsley 2 tablespoons tahini Juice from half a lemon 2 cloves minced garlic 1/8 tsp. ground cumin (or more to taste) Salt and pepper to taste Bring a small pot of salted water to a boil.

Toss in the peas and cook until just tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Drain the peas, reserving a quarter cup of boiling liquid in case you want to thin your hummus. Run the peas under cold water and transfer to a food processor. Add cilantro or parsley, tahini, lemon juice, garlic and cumin. Pulse until smooth, adding reserved liquid if needed to reach desired consistency. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with pita bread, chips, crostini or vegetables.

Alison Einerson manages local farmers markets, teaches canning and food preservation, and spends the rest of her time in the garden, the kitchen or the wilderness.

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Gianni was a faceless name in Tom’s story, and Genéa’s project was well underway, when she learned of the 8mm footage

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om Clark’s simultaneously singular and universal story of love found and lost is given new life in Utah filmmaker Genéa Gaudet’s vibrant short documentary Elder.

Born in Alaska and raised in Rome, Tom knew he was gay from an early age. He also wanted to serve God as a Mormon missionary. A therapist prescribed the antipsychotic Thorazine and six months later he was proselytizing along the Adriatic Coast, one of the first Mormons ever to set foot in Pescara, Italy.

Tom first met Gianni, the Italian Communist with whom he quickly fell in love, at a missionary-hosted community meeting. Their attraction was immediate and they were soon inseparable. Although modern-day missionaries must be in the presence of one’s companion 24/7, there was slightly more flexibility in the mid-1970s, allowing Tom and Gianni to steal shared moments —a conversation here, a kiss there— but, as Tom states in the film, “There was just no possibility to have sex and we just didn’t care. I was happy for the first time in years. I was completely off the drugs. I threw away what was left of the Thorazine.”

Elder is a remarkable film about love blossoming under remarkable circumstances. Within it we hear echoes of thousands of stories of faceless young Mormon men and

women seeking a cure for their homosexuality through missionary service. The most remarkable thing about the film, however, does not lie in the details of the story being told but rather in how they were

sation with me that, as she began viewing the footage, “it was immediately apparent who he was, despite the fact that there were tons of individuals in the footage. The gaze of the camera on Gianni and

Elder documents a love story between a Mormon missionary and an Italian Communist in 1974. preserved on 8mm film. Elder is ultimately about the power of putting a face with a name, an homage to the power of film itself.

Tom, currently based in Utah, has spent the last 33 years as a professional photographer. He began taking pictures when he was eight.

His father regularly shot home movies, so it was almost inevitable that an 8mm camera would accompany Tom on his mission.

Filming was well underway before Genéa Gaudet learned about the nearly three hours of 8mm footage of Tom and Gianni. She’d already filmed several interviews with Tom, including his recollection of the train ride that offered the lovers their only opportunity for full intimacy while ensuring their romance would end. She had gone to Italy to shoot background footage. But she had yet to see a photo of Gianni.

She recalled in an email conver-

how he looked at the camera gave it all away.”

As we age, memories inevitably get fuzzy around the edges. In today’s world of smart phone cameras being just a pocket away, it’s nearly impossible to resist the urge to document rather than inhabit each moment. But it is possible to do both. Elder is a testament to the power of documenting the life you actually live.

Elder is a co-production of KUER’s VideoWest and The New York Times Op-Docs. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will screen June 17 in Salt Lake City on a double bill with Topher Horman’s Transmormon (details at ELDERMOVIE.COM) before playing Outfest L.A. in July. ◆ Jerry Rapier is Producing Director of Plan-B Theatre Company, receiving Salt Lake City’s Mayor’s Artist Award for Service to the Arts by an Organization at the Utah Arts Festival this month – PLANBTHEATRE.ORG

SHALL WE DANCE?

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Global Water Dances Dancing for clean water everywhere

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n her book Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide, Andrea Olsen says when you meet a river you should ask it questions: Where do you start and where do you end?

Who puts things in you? Who joins your journey? Whom do you join? What is your relationship to humans?

Another way to communicate with water is via the physicality of dance.

Amanda Sowerby, a professor of dance at Weber State University, has been thinking a lot about water and dancing lately because she is helping to organize a Salt Lake City performance of Global Water Dances.

People at nearly 60 sites around the world are helping to bring awareness to water as a precious resource and to give thanks for its transformative qualities.

“It’s so interesting that we’ve been dealing with the drought and now we have too much water,” says Sowerby.

“It’s woven into our daily lives, the lack of it, the abundance of it.”

At each site, a choreographer starts with a set of instructions based on Laban movement motifs (Laban is a method for documenting human movement, used primarily as a device for recording choreography) that tell the story of water — become the wave, eddy, splash the water outward. Dancers adapt these instructions to create their own unique performance which is live-streamed online so that the global performances become a single shared performance or, as Sowerby puts it, “a big neighborhood.”

BY AMY BRUNVAND She sees this as a way to bring art, environmental awareness and community awareness in a site-specific performance, “and also, the idea of people doing simultaneous work in movement that gets interpreted in different bodies and different locations.”

Sowerby is collaborating on Global Water Dances with Andrea Malouf, Director of the SLCC Community Writing Center and dancer Meghan Durham-Wall.

They have recruited dance students and community members to perform, and are gathering water words as well as water movement. “We’ve set up displays with water cards. We encourage people to write six words about water. We’ll pick them up and they will be at the site for the performance so passersby can see community thoughts about water,” says Sowerby.

If you come to Memory Grove on June 20 you can watch the dance by the water (though not actually in the water, which would violate park regulations), and if you feel inspired you can even participate by dancing the part of falling rain.

“It will be happening rain or shine, small-or-large amount of people,” says Sowerby. “People can just come by and see it, or if they can’t get to the site they can log on and watch us and the other performances. But the star of the show is the water. It’s us bringing awareness through art to this subject matter. We really do want to bring attention to water.”

Global Water Dances Memory Grove Park, Salt Lake City June 20, 2015, 12:15 PM GLOBALWATERDANCES.ORG/PERFORMANCES/2015/SALT-LAKE-CITY-UT-USA/ FACEBOOK.COM/UTAHWATERDANCE Amy Brunvand is a dance enthusiast and a U of Utah librarion.

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Weather permitting. Wheeler Farm 6351 S 900 E. Free. SLAS.US June 5: Dubwise, featuring Von D = 2be =illoom. 9p. Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 E.$10 ($5 before 10:30pm). SoundCloud: SOUNDCLOUD.COM/VOND June 6: Writing for Change. 1-3p. Does change in democracy require civic dialogue?

If so, where is it and who gets to talk? OR write? Join the CWC during the Utah Pride Festival to learn techniques of writing for change, such as letters to editors and public officials. Come with a concern and stay to write a letter with the help of CWC writing coaches. SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E 400 S Suite 8. Free, but registration is required. SLCC.EDU/CWC/ June 6: 5th Annual Groove Garden (After Dark). 9p-2a. Outside, under the stars.

Garage On Beck 1199 N Beck St Join the SLC family of house music enthusiasts for this season opening event for Groove Garden.

Celebrate diversity in Utah. DJ’s: Riche Boom, Jesse Walker, Nick James, Hot Noise. $10

June 8: Monday Family Night: Traditional Indian dance with Divya. 6-8p.

Behind the Visitor Center in the Courtyard.

Divya Narayanan introduces Utah to Indian classical forms of dancing including Bharatnatyam, Mohiniattam, Kathakali, and Bollywood dance style. $6-$10. Members free.

REDBUTTEGARDEN.ORG June 9: A Waltz Among the Wildflowers. 68p. Wildflower experts Jaydee Gunnell, Richard Anderson, and Jerry Goodspeed of the USU Botanical Center (who authored Wildflowers of the Mountain West) will talk about the range of high-altitude plants in the Swaner EcoCenter demonstration garden and lead a short hike. Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter, 1258 Center Drive, Park City. $5 (free to members). SWANERECOCENTER.ORG June 9: Daily Depictions: Creative Journaling. 6-8p. Learn how to use journals as an expression of the creative self and how to turn daily writing into creative works.

Prompts, photographs, sketches. $30.

Registration is required. SLCC Community Writing Center, 210 E. 400 S Ste. 8 SLCC.EDU/CWC June 9, 10, 11, 12: SaltDanceFest 2015.

6:30p. SaltDanceFest is a two-week modern dance workshop. Here are some events open to the public (free). See website for schedule and details. Marriott Center for Dance, 330 S. 1500 E. SALTDANCEFEST.COM June 12: Jung Society Finale: lecture by Machiel Klerk; festivities. 6p. Music, tarot and astrology readings and more. 7pm: Dream dialogue with Machiel Klerk: A relational and experiential approach to dreaming. Salt Lake City Public Library, 210 E 400 S. WWW.MACHIELKLERK.COM

June 3: Terrariums. 6:30p. Learn how to make and care for your own up-cycled glass terrarium using local mosses, succulents, and other natural elements from Utah. Instructor Lexi Dowdall is a Utah native with a biology degree and has a love for all things nature. Natural History Museum of Utah, 301 Wakara Way. $16-$18. *Museum admission and materials included. NHMU.UTAH.EDU June 3: Wildflower & Twelve Moons. 78:30p. Join The Nature Conservancy in Utah's lead scientist Joel Tuhy for a visual tour of Utah's magnificent wildflowers. Joel gave himself a challenge: Show a picture of at least one canyon-country wildflower taken during each month of the year—all 12. How hard could it be? Did he succeed? Find out by joining us at the presentation. SLC REI, 3285 E. 3300 S. Free. NATURE.ORG June 4: The Illusion of Freedom: Literature and the Invention of the Psychological Police State. 7-8:30p. Is the most repressive police force in modern mass society the one in our own heads?

Gorelick shows that the widespread tendency to surveil, discipline, and punish ourselves is a relatively recent phenomenon. This lecture will explore how 18th-century poetry, novels, and drama imagined the concept of “bad conscience.” Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), 20 So. West Temple.

June 4: Downtown Farmers Market Kickoff Party. 5:30-8:30p. Local food, live music, art and craft libations. Proceeds support the new Education Station, a portable

market kitchen that brings local chefs, master preservers and food educators to the Market to offer tips on selecting, preparing and preserving the seasonal harvest. Squatters Pub Brewery, 147 W Broadway. $50 ($40 adv).

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June 4-7: 2015 Pride Festival.Visit utahpridefestival.org for regularly updated information. Parade: Sun., 10am. Starting on the corner of 400 E and 200 S, the parade route will head west on 200 S. It will disband just past the Salt Palace. UTAHPRIDECENTER.ORG June 5: Star Party. 8:30pm. Salt Lake Astronomical Society members will be onhand with several telescopes. Observe breathtaking views of the planets and other stellar objects. Learn what a "planetary nebula" is, how telescopes work, how to easily find

June 13: Heart & Soul Music Stroll. 3-9p.

Imperial Park neighborhood: corner of Atkin and Filmore Streets (1500 East 2700 South).

June 6: 5th Annual Honeybee Festival.

11am-3p. The annual Honey-Bee Festival, presented by Slow Food Utah, brings together local beekeepers, artisans and enthusiasts alike to celebrate the honeybee. Children’s activities and crafts along with live beehive demonstrations and local artisan honey tastings. Sorenson Unity Center 1383 S 900 W. SLOWFOODUTAH.ORG

June 13: Sound Bath Experience. 5p.

Dancing Cranes Imports, 673 Simpson Ave. $20. DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM June 13: Opening Day: Downtown Farmers Market & Art & Craft Market. 8a2p. Every Sat. through October. Pioneer Park, 350 S. 300 W. SLCFARMERSMARKET.ORG/

June 7: Ayurvedic Cooking with Balarama Chandra.

1-3pm. Bala will be making ghee, kitchari, and spice blends to assist with digestion and balancing the Doshas. He will continue to discuss theory and simple but practical applications of Ayurvedic cooking, holistic care, health, and wellness through cooking. We Are Yoga SLC, 2645 parleys Way, Ste. 100. $45. Pre-register. mindbodyonline.com

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June 16 & 17: 48-Hour Film Project premieres. 6p & 8p.

Local filmmakers compete to see who can make the best short film in only 48 hours. The winning film will go up against films from around the world. Come see the contenders. $12. 48HOURFILM.COM

June 7: Film: Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine. 3:30pm.

Matthew Shepard was a young gay man who was tortured and murdered in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Directed by Michele Josue, a close friend of Shepard's, this film revisits the shocking case with neverbefore-seen photos, rare video footage and new revelations about Shepard’s all-too-brief life. Presented by Utah Film Center. Free. City Library, 210 E. 400 S. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG June 13. 38th Utah Asian Festival. Performance, exhibits, marketplace, arts, crafts and food from Asian communities: Cambodian, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Taiwanese, Thai, Tibetan and Vietnamese. South Towne Expo Center, 9575 S. State St., Sandy.

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June 13: Utah Blues Festival. 1-10p. Ten local blues bands, two national headliner acts.Two music stages for non-stop music. Food trucks, beer garden. Utah Cultural Celebration Center Outdoor Park and Amphitheater, 1355 W. 3100 S., West Valley City. $20 ($15 adv). UTAHBLUESFEST.ORG June 13: Fairy Fest 2015. 12p. Psychic reading/gypsy fortune tellers (we now have tarot, pendulum, rune, crystal ball and other oracles), unique merchandise and much more.

Vendors in the outdoor market. Live music. Crone's Hollow, 2470 S Main St. Free. CRONESHOLLOW.COM June 16: Open Mic Night at Alchemy Coffee. 7p. Tuesdays are Open Mic night for our community poets and musicians.

Sign up is 6:15 p.m. the day of (in person) and entertainment starts at 7 p.m. No cover songs ever. 390 E. 1700 S. Free.

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June 18: Film Screening: Brazil. 7-9p. Visit Terry Gilliam’s 1985 consumer-driven dystopian world in which there is an over-reliance on poorly maintained machines. Brazil‘s bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the government depicted in George Orwell’s 1984, except that it has a buffoonish, slapstick quality and lacks a Big Brother figure. This is part of WHO WILL GUARD THE GUARDIANS?, a four-part series hosted by UMOCA in conjunction with its Main Gallery exhibition, Panopticon: Visibility, Data, and the Monitoring Gaze. UMOCA, 20 South West Temple. $5.

June 18: An Evening of History and Art. 6-9p. The evening features Lily Yuriko Nakai Havey reading from her creative memoir Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth behind a World War II Fence. Pilar Pobil will read from My Kitchen Table.

Silent auction, dinner. All proceeds to benefit the Literacy Action Center. Pilar's Garden, 403 8th Ave. $60/50 adv.

LITERACYACTIONCENTER.BLOGSPOT.COM June 18: The Bee: True Stories from the Hive. 6-9:30p. Join us for an evening of lovingly competitive storytelling! The theme of the night is “The Wild.” Doors & bar open at 6pm.

Stories at 7pm. 18+ event. Libations for 21+. Bring ID. Co-hosted by Giuliana Serena & Francesca Rosa. Presented in partnership with The Leonardo and with the support of CATALYST, KRCL 90.9 FM and Utah Humanities. The Leonardo 209 E. 500 S., 3rd fl. $7. THEBEESLC.ORG. June 19: John Louviere. 8p (7p doors). The release of his 2014 EP, Longest Year, marked a transition in the life of this honest and witty singer/songwriter. “What I wanted was to have a batch of songs that expressed true transformation— some sort of positive change or awakening. And in reality—it's exactly what I got: the courage to tell the real story of how my life has been these past number of years.” The State Room, 638 South State St. $13. THESTATEROOM.COM June 19-20: Chalk Art Festival. 2-9p. Celebrate the age-old tradition of street painting at Utah Foster Care’s Chalk Art Festival at the Gateway. For 13 years, Utah Foster Care has been presenting this community art event to focus attention on how you can help change the lives of children in foster care in Utah. CHALKARTFESTIVAL.ORG June 19-21:Gem Faire. Fri. 10am-6pm, Sat. 10am-6pm, Sun. 10am-5pm. Fine jewelry, precious & semi-precious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, gold & silver, minerals & much more at manufacturer’s prices. Nearly 150 exhibitors Jewelry repair & cleaning while you shop. Classes & demonstrations. ***Check your copy of Catalyst, admission discounts in Gem Faire ad*** Tell them Catalyst sent you! $7 weekend pass. Free parking.

GEMFAIR.COM June 20: Utah Global Water Dances Project/performance.

12:15pm-1:15p. It’s a global dance collaboration around water issues. All are invited to dance. Attend as many rehearsals as possible. (See Facebook for rehearsal schedule.) See article, this issue. Memory Grove Park, 300 N Canyon Rd.

June 16: Film: Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll. 7p. Presented in English, Khmer, and French with English subtitles. A vibrant musical culture that was nearly lost forever under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime is revived and celebrated. Presented by the Utah Film Center. City Library, 210 E. 400 S. Free. UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

June 20: Third Saturdays for Families: Painting Clay Plates. 1-4p. The UMFA has a beautiful collection of Mesoamerican art. Explore the Museum’s Mayan pottery and find inspiration in the interesting patterns and writing to paint your own clay plate. Utah Museum of Fine Arts 410 Campus Center Dr. Free. UMFA.UTAH.EDU June 20: Re-Skilling Fair. 1-4p. Learn practical skills for resilient and sustainable living. Workshops, ongoing demonstrations, entertainment. Take home what you make. Consider making a small $ donation for materials. Some skills that you can learn: candle, shampoo, skin cream, dishwasher powder

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WWW.THESTATEROOM.COM Golden Braid Books Staff Recommends for June The Bible Illustrated by Chagall Chagall began illustrating the Bible in 1931, and it became his lifelong passion. This extraordinary volume includes more than 130 pages of his finest works, paired with three books from the Old Testament. The extensively illustrated, chunky, hand-sized book is a delightful combination of the popular artist's evocative style alongside the most familiar stories from the Bible.

No Mud No Lotus By Thich Nhat Hanh Thich Nhat Hanh offers practices and inspiration for transforming suffering and finding true joy. Thich Nhat Hanh acknowledges that because suffering can feel so bad, we try to run away from it or cover it up by consuming. We find something to eat or turn on the television.

But unless we're able to face our suffering, we can't be present and available to life, and happiness will continue to elude us. With his signature clarity and sense of joy, Thich Nhat Hanh helps us recognize the wonders inside us and around us that we tend to take for granted and teaches us the art of happiness.

Underwater Museum Art by Jason deCaires Taylor A photo journey through an awe-inspiring dive into the dazzling under-ocean sculpture parks of artist Jason deCaires Taylor. The life-size statues formed from a cement that facilitates reef growth are sunk to the ocean floor. There, over time, the artworks attract corals, algae, and fish, and evolve into beautiful and surreal installations that are also living reefs. Ocean enthusiasts, divers, art lovers, and anyone entranced by the natural world will be instantly engrossed by this pearl of a book.

Mobile Art By Clare Youngs Follow Clare Youngs instructions to make your home a magical place, with these fluttering, softly spinning works of art. Whether you hang them in your window or from the ceiling, these mobiles add a charming, colorful touch to your interiors. There are bronzed paper leaves to hang in the fall, a delicate floral filigree mobile to welcome spring, and a cute elephant mobile for a child’s bedroom.

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June 20: Willie Nelson & Alison Krauss & Union Station w/ Jerry Douglas. USANA Amphitheatre 5125 S 6400 W. $29-$70. Tickets: charge by phone 801-467-TIXX or online at smithstix.com and at the USANA Box Office day of show starting at noon. USANA-AMP.COM making (bring small containers to take some home), Basic Clothes Mending (Bring a thimble), Tool Sharpening (Bring a shovel/hoe), Screen Printing (Bring a shirt), Gardening Skills presented by Artists for Local Agriculture. Sponsored by: Transition Salt Lake & Revolution United.

40 W Richard St (1120 S).

June 20: Third Saturday Contra Dance. 710:30p. Music by Bellows Fellows. All dances are taught and called. Come alone or with a partner. First-time dancers welcome.

Montessori Community School, 2416 E 1700 S. $8. More info, with photos and video, at WASATCHCONTRAS.ORG

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June 23: Teton Gravity Research presents unReal. 7pm gates open; film at sundown11pm. Mountain bike film. Bring your own cooler, blankets and low-back chairs. It cools down at night so be prepared. Red Butte Amphitheatre 300 Wakara Way, University of Utah.$15/$12 adv. Member discounts.

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Square Plaza, 200 E 400 S (Big Mouth Stage near The Leonardo). THEBEESLC.ORG, UAF.ORG June 27: Psychic Fair. 11a-5:30 p. Held monthly on the last Saturday. Dancing Cranes Imports, 673 Simpson Ave. DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM June 27: Process: The Struggle to Make Art Work. 7-9p. Have you ever wondered about the messy lives behind the finished works you love? Meet six local artists from diverse disciplines sharing their true stories of sweat, tears, boredom, and brilliance in the daily grind of art. Presented by The Bee. Library Square Plaza 200 E. 400 S. THEBEESLC.ORG, UAF.ORG. June 27 & 28: “Fare Thee Well” Grateful Dead Simulcast. 8p (doors 7:30p). Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Grateful Dead with the four remaining original members— Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh and

June 25: June Volunteer Weed Pull. 6-8p.

Help combat the spread of non-native, invasive plant species in and around the Town of Alta. Cottonwood Canyons Foundation: INFO@COTTONWOODCANYONS.ORG June 25-28:2015 Utah Arts Festival. noon11p. Six performing stages, program slates in literary arts, visual arts, children, dance, musical commissions, street theater, do-it-yourself (makers) arts, urban arts, film, top national and world musicians, local music and culinary arts. The Utah Arts Festival is the state's largest outdoor festival celebrating the fine arts as well as multiple arts disciplines. The Festival features more than 163 visual artists and 100-plus performing arts groups, drawing 89,000 patrons each June to revel in the heart of Salt Lake City. Library Square, 200 E 400 S. Visit UAF.ORG for all the latest details, news and artists.

June 26: Orgone @ The State Room. 9p (doors 8p). Soul, funk, afro-disco. 638 S State. $23. THESTATEROOM.COM June 26 & 27: The Bee @ UAF. 7-9p.

Lovingly competitive storytelling. “Outside the Lines: Stories of Transgression and Transcendence.” Have you ever hopped a fence, broken a rule, or colored outside the lines?

Come hear stories of exceptions, defiance, and the joys of clumsy crayons. Library

Bob Weir —as they reunite for their final five concerts ever. This is a live, five-night, digital event starting June 27 and 28 from Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, and culminating with 3 shows on July 3, 4, and 5 from Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. Each concert will be different, the July 5 event being the last time the band will play together. Free with a donation to the Utah Food Bank. The State Room, 638 South State St. THESTATEROOM.COM July 2-5: Prayers for Compassion @ Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa. 6:30 p-July 5, 2p. Generating continuous compassionate prayers (day and night) for the people of Nepal and collecting earthquake rebuilding funds for our teacher in Kathmandu. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa: Tibetan Buddhist Temple 740 S. 300 W. URGYENSAMTENLING.ORG

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CATALYST community 801.661.3896, Turiya’s, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. IGNITE YOUR DIVINE SPARK! Traditional Usui Reiki Master Teacher practicing in SLC since 1996. Offering a dynamic array of healing services and classes designed to create a balanced, expansive and vivacious life. WWW.TURIYAS.COM ReconnectU, LLC 10/15 385.743.1696, Denise Garcia. Reconnective Healing is an energy healing. By accessing and transmitting the frequencies, light and vibrations that surround each of us and by working with the flow and moving of these frequencies around the body, it brings the mind and body back into balance. DENISE.RECONNECTU@GMAIL.COM, WWW.RECONNECTU.NET THETA HEALING INTUITIVE ANATOMY Energy Healing 11/30/15 801.915.3899, Gloria Craker, Certified Theta Healing Practitioner & Usui Reiki Master for 15 years. Theta Healing is an amazing healing technique; an attainable MIRACLE will change your life. Experience activation of your YOUTH & VITALITY GENE. DNA & Core Belief Re-programing. Higher vibration, Chakra balancing & aligning working with Angels & Creator. I also work with animals.

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Erin Geesaman Rabke FOG 801.898.0478. Somatic Educator. www.BODYHAPPY.COM MASSAGE Healing Mountain Massage School DA 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210 (enter off of 500 East), SLC. www.HEALINGMOUNTAINSPA.COM The Massage Center 11/30/15 801.200.3311, 850 E. 300 S., Ste. 6, SLC. Our therapists use a variety of bodywork techniques to relax, rejuvenate, release tension and restore balance. Sessions include 60, 90 or 120 minutes of hands-on time. Open weekends and evenings 10a–10p daily. Schedule online, by text or phone. WWW.MASSAGECENTER.US, APPOINTMENTS@MASSAGECENTER.US M.D. PHYSICIANS Todd Mangum, MD, Web of Life Wellness Center 801.531.8340, 508 E. South Temple, #102, SLC. Dr. Mangum is an Integrative Medicine Family Practitioner who utilizes functional medicine. He specializes in the treatment of chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, digestive disorders, adrenal fatigue, menopause, hormone imbalances for men & women, weight loss, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, immune dysfunctions, thyroid disorders, insomnia, depression, anxiety and other health problems. Dr. Mangum designs personalized treatment plans using diet, vitamins, minerals, nutritional supplements,

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bioidentical hormones, Western and Chinese herbal therapies, acupuncture and conventional Western medicines when necessary. THEPEOPLE @WEBOFLIFEWC.COM, WWW.WEBOFLIFEWC.COM 2/28/16 Better Balance Healing 10/31/15 385.232.2213. Jill McBride, MD. 3350 S. Highland Dr., #212, SLC. Trained in Family Practice, NAET Acupressure and complementary/alternative medicine, Dr. McBride guides patients to tune in to their inner healer.

Quarterly group sessions allow a broader forum to hear and share journeys of individuals on parallel paths.

WWW.BETTERBALANCEHEALING.COM NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS Cameron Wellness Center 10/15 801.486.4226. 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.

WWW.CAMERONWELLNESSCENTER.NET Clear Health Centers 12/15 801.875.9292, 3350 Highland Drive, SLC. Physical and mental symptoms are primarily caused by nutrient deficiencies, toxic environmenal chemicals, molds, heavy metals & pathogens. Our natural approach focuses on detoxification, purification & restoring optimal nutrient levels. Ozone saunas, intravenous therapies, hydrotherapy, colonics, restructure water, earthing, darkfield, EVA & educational forums. WWW.CLEARHEALTHDETOXIFICATION.COM, WWW.ALTERNATIVEMEDICINEUTAH.COM Eastside Natural Health Clinic 3/16 801.474.3684. Uli Knorr, ND, 3350 S. Highland Dr., SLC. 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 & food allergies. WWW.EASTSIDENATURALHEALTH.COM PHYSICAL THERAPY Precision Physical Therapy 3/16 801.557.6733. Jane Glaser-Gormally, MS, PT, 3098 S. Highland Dr., Ste. 350F, SLC. (Also in Park City and Heber.) Specializing in holistic integrated manual therapy (IMT). Gentle, effective techniques for pain and tissue dysfunction, identifing sources of pain and assist the body with self-corrective mechanisms to alleviate pain and restore mobility and function. UofU provider.

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provides affordable and confidential healthcare for men, women and teens. Services include birth control, emergency contraception (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. WWW.PPAU.ORG Destiny S. Olsen, DONA trained Birth & Postpartum Doula 801.361.9785. Offering prenatal, birth & postpartum education, support and companionship for all styles of families, including adoption, through prenatal comfort and guidance to prepare for birth, birth labor assistance including physical and emotional support and postpartum care to aid and unite the entire family.

DESTINYSOLSEN@HOTMAIL.COM ROLFING/STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Carl Rabke LMT, GCFP FOG 801.671.4533. Somatic education and bodywork.

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MISCELLANEOUS CEREMONIALISTS Universal Heart Ministry 4/16 801.577.0542. We are a full service non-denominational ministry providing customized services honoring your uniquely spiritual, religious/non-religious beliefs: weddings, funerals, baby & pet blessings, pet funerals, end of life celebrations, funeral planning, home/business blessings, Super Hero Series, Wonderful Woman Workshops, whole life coaching & more. Welcoming all, with-out exception. WWW.UNIVERSALHEARTMINISTRY.COM, UNIVERSALHEARTMINISTRY@GMAIL.COM EDUCATION Salt Lake Arts Academy 10/15 801.531.1173, 844 S. 200 E., SLC. NEW Summer @ SLArts Program, for ages 9-16, is open to the community: Urban Adventuring, Musical Theatre, Photography and more! Weekly morning and/or afternoon classes are taught by our faculty and community professionals. To see classes and download registration forms visit HTTP://SLARTS.ORG/OUR-PROGRAMS/SUMMER-ATSLARTS or email KATHLEEN@SLARTS.ORG ENTERTAINMENT The State Room DA 801.878.0530, 638 S. State Street, SLC. WWW.THESTATEROOM.COM Utah Film Center/Salt Lake Film Center DA 801.746.7000, 122 Main Street, SLC. WWW.UTAHFILMCENTER.ORG

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SPACE FOR RENT Space available at Center for Transpersonal Therapy1/16 801.596.0147 x41, 5801 S. Fashion Blvd., Ste. 250, Murray.

Two large plush spaces available for rent by the hour, day or for weekend use. Pillows, yoga chairs, regular chairs and kichenette area included. Size: 395 sq. ft./530 sq. ft. WWW.CTTSLC.COM, THECENTER@CTTSLC.COM

MEDIA Catalyst Magazine 801.363.1505, 140 McClelland St., SLC. WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET

TRAVEL Machu Picchu, Peru 6/15 801.721.2779. Group spiritual journeys or private/Shaman JdD KUCHO/accomodations/Nick Stark

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WEALTH MANAGEMENT Harrington Wealth Services DA 05/30/15 801.871.0840 (O), 801.673.1294, 8899 S. 700 E., Ste. 225, Sandy, UT 84070. Robert Harrington, Wealth Advisor.

Client-centered retirement planning, wealth management, IRA rollovers, ROTH IRA’s, 401(k) plans, investing & life insurance. Securities offered through LPL Financial, Member FINRA/SIPC. ROBERT.HARRINGTON@LPL.COM; WWW.HARRINGTONWEALTHSERVICES.COM

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MUSICIANS FOR HIRE Idlewild 10/15 801.268.4789. David and Carol Sharp. Duo up to sixpiece ensemble. Celtic, European, World and Old Time American music. A variety of instruments. Storytelling and dance caller. CDs and downloads, traditional and original. WWW.IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM, IDLEWILD@IDLEWILDRECORDINGS.COM NON-PROFIT Local First DA 801.456.1456. WWW.LOCALFIRST.ORG PERSONAL SERVICES Abyss Body Piercing 11/30/15 801.810.9247, 245 E. 300 S., SLC. Abyss is more than just a piercing studio. Abyss is about keeping piercings sacred. Being more of a holistic healing spa, Abyss also offers massage, Reiki and card reading, on top of the obvious: piercing, high quality body jewelry & locally made accessories. WWW.ABYSSPIERCING.COM, COURTNEY.PIERCING@GMAIL.COM PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Healing Mountain Massage School DA SLC campus: 801.355.6300, 363 S. 500 E., Ste. 210, SLC. Cedar City campus: 435.586.8222, 297 N. Cove Dr., Cedar City. Morning & evening programs. Four start dates per year, 8-14 students to a class. Mentor with seasoned professionals. Practice with licensed therapists in a live day spa setting. Graduate in as little as 8 months. ABHES accredited. Financial aid available for those who qualify. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.EDU RETREAT CENTER Montana Ranch Retreats 11/30/15 406.682.4853. Our beautiful and stunning corner in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem hosts individual and group retreats with nourishing food, picturesque log cabins, healing horses, labryinth, swimming (salt water pool), jacuzzi, FIR sauna, fishing and hiking. Book your

MOVEMENT, MEDITATION DANCE RDT Dance Center Community School DA 801.534.1000, Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. Broadway, SLC. RDT’s Dance Center on Broadway offers a wide range of classes for adults (ages 16+) on evenings and weekends. Classes are “drop-in,” so no long-term commitment is required. Hip Hop, Modern, Ballet & Prime Movement (specifically designed for ages 40+).

WWW.RDTUTAH.ORG RemedyWave: Dance your own dance, Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/16 385.202.6447, 616 E. Wilmington, SLC. Tu 7-9p. Unlock your expression, empty stress, awaken passion & joy.

Remember your heartful, responsive, embodied Self…Come Dance! Workshops & special classes.

WWW.REMEDY WAVE.ORG MARTIAL ARTS Red Lotus School of Movement 8/15 801.355.6375, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Established in 1994 by Sifu Jerry Gardner and Jean LaSarre Gardner. Traditionalstyle training in the classical martial arts of T’ai Chi, Wing Chun Kung-Fu, and Qigong exercises). Located downstairs from Urgyen Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Temple. WWW.REDLOTUSSCHOOL.COM, REDLOTUS@REDLOTUS.CNC.NET

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801.674.2547. Connecting people with themselves in individual and small group classes in SLC. Pam Murray is offering Authentic Movement classes as developed by Janet Adler. AM is the mystical practice of moving with the eyes closed in the presence of an attentive and nonjudgemental witness. More info: WWW.AUTHENTIC M OVEMENTCOMMUNITY. ORG , PAMDOINGAT@YAHOO.COM Rumi Teachings 6/15 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., SLC. WWW.RUMIPOETRYCLUB.COM TAI CHI TAI CHI/QIGONG/YOGA 6/31/15 801.556.5964. The Art of Nurturing, Restoring, Balancing & Regenerating. The Science of Power, Inner Strength, Energy & Mobility. Private lessons and Classes. Also available: Health Coaching, Weight Loss Programs, Stress Management, Fitness Training, Therapeutic Stretching, Correct-ive Exercise, Nutrition Consulting and Chi Hikes.

WWW.TAICHIUTAH.COM YOGA INSTRUCTORS Mindful Yoga: Charlotte Bell DA 12/15 801.355.2617. 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, non-competitive environment since 1986. WWW.CHARLOTTEBELLYOGA.COM YOGA STUDIOS Centered City Yoga 9/15 801.521.YOGA (9642), 926 E. 900 S., SLC and 955 W. Promontory Road at Station Park, Farmington,

801.451.5443. City Centered Yoga offers more than 100 classes a week, 1,000 hour-teacher trainings, monthly retreats and workshops to keep Salt Lake City CENTERED & SANE. WWW.CENTEREDCITYYOGA.COM Mountain Yoga—Sandy 3/16 801.501.YOGA [9642], 9343 S. 1300 E., SLC. Offering hot yoga classes to the Salt Lake Valley for the past 10 years. We now also offer Vinyasa, Restorative, Pre/PostNatal, 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 Mudita Yoga—Be Joy Yoga 3/16 801.699.3627, 1550 E. 3300 S., SLC. Our studio is warm and spacious – a place for you to come home and experience yourself! Varied classes will have you move and sweat, open and lengthen, or chill and relax. Come just as you are, ease into your body and reconnect to your true essence. WWW.BEJOYYOGA.COM

PSYCHIC ARTS & INTUITIVE SCIENCES ASTROLOGY Transformational Astrology FOG 212.222.3232. Ralfee Finn. Catalyst’s astrology columnist for 10 years! Visit her website at WWW.AQUARIUMAGE.COM or e-mail her at RALFEE@AQUARIUMAGE.COM PSYCHIC/TAROT READINGS Crone’s Hollow 11/15 801.906.0470, 2470 S. Main St., SLC. Have life questions? We offer intuitive and personal psychic consultations: Tarot, Pendulum, Palmistry, Shamanic Balancing and other oracles. $25/20 minutes. Afternoon and evening appointments. Walk-ins welcome. We also make custom conjure/spell candles!

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Margaret Ruth FOG 801.575.7103. My psychic and tarot readings are a conversation with your guides. Enjoy my blog at WWW.CATALYSTMAGAZINE.NET & send me your ideas and suggestions.

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HYPNOSIS Holly Stokes, The Brain Trainer 6/15 801.810.9406, 1111 E. Brickyard Rd., Ste. 109, SLC. Hypnosis changes habits. Lose weight, stop smoking; overcome mental blocks, cravings, insomnia, fears, anxiety and unhappiness. Find your motivation, confidence and focus for living your life purpose with passion. First time clients $75 session. Call now to schedule.

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Jeannette Smith, Psychic & Evidential Medium 435.513.7862. Bringing Heaven to Earth. Reconnect with your loved ones in Spirit. Psychic Readings. 30-minute, 60-minute, in-person, phone & small group readings available. Psychic & Evidential Mediumship classes. Located in Park City. For more info. please visit WWW.PARKCITYPSYCHICMEDIUM.COM 2/16

Randy Shaw, CHt., Advanced Hypnotherapy of Utah 6/15 801.671.5270. Much more valuable than just being hypnotized, Advanced Hypnotherapy is designed to attain holistic healing improvements. Release the baggage of the past, resolve problems at the roots so they don't grow back. Professional, caring, productive sessions. For info. and testimonials visit: WWW.HYPNOTHERAPY-UTAH.COM

Nick Stark 6/15 801.721.2779. Ogden Canyon. Shamanic energy healings/clearings/readings/offerings/transformative work.

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Conversational meeting style with focus on personal growth and continued learning. Info.: WWW.LIFERING.ORG. Local meetings, please visit: WWW.LIFERINGUTAH.ORG

COACHING Annette Shaw, Say YES Breakthrough 11/15 801.473.2976. Intuitive coaching supports you in getting unstuck, finding clarity and embracing the courage to act from that clarity. I integrate coaching, intuitive development practices and energy healing modalities, working with the body, mind & spirit, helping you step into the flow of life. WWW.SAYYESBREAKTHROUGH.COM, ANNETTERSHAW@GMAIL.COM

THERAPY/COUNSELING Cynthia Kimberlin-Flanders, LPC 10/15 801.231.5916, 1399 S. 700 E., Ste. 15, SLC. Feeling out of sorts? Tell your story in a safe, non-judgmental environment. Seventeen years specializing in depression, anxiety, life-transitions, anger management, relationships and "middle-aged crazy." Most insurances, sliding scale and medication management referrals. If you've been waiting to talk to someone, wait no more.

Linda Radford, Clarity Catalyst 11/15 801.369.5406. Do you know and trust your inner guidance? Can you feel your purpose and personal power?

Linda’s unique approach is the catalyst that guides you back to center, where clarity, truth and peace of mind are found. WWW.LINDARADFORD.COM, LINDA@LINDARADFORD.COM

Healing Pathways Therapy Center 3/16 435.248.2089. Clinical Director: Kristan Warnick, CMHC. 1174 E. Graystone Way (2760 S.), Ste. 8, Sugarhouse.

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WWW.HEALINGPATHWAYSTHERAPY.COM Integrative Psychology Shannon Simonelli, Ph.D., ATR 5/31/16 385.202.6447, Holladay. New Client Specials. Address your anxiety, trauma, life transitions, parenting/teen issues, ADD/ADHD. Experiential therapy using imagination, art, embodied awareness/movement, whole-brain shifting and dialogue for well-being, skill building, healing. WWW.ONLINEINTEGRATIVEPSYCHOLOGY.COM, WWW.N EURO I MAGINAL I NSTITUTE . COM Jan Magdalen, LCSW 3/16 801.582.2705, 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.

Marianne Felt, CMHC, MT-BC 12/16 801.524.0560, ext. 2, 150 S. 600 E., Ste. 7C, SLC. Certified Mental Health Counselor, Board certified music therapist, certified Gestalt therapist, Mountain Lotus Counseling. Transpersonal psychotherapy, Gestalt therapy, EMDR. Open gateways to change through experience of authentic contact. Integrate body, mind and spirit through creative exploration of losses, conflicts and relationships that challenge and inspire our lives.

WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM Mountain Lotus Counseling 4/16 801.524.0560. Theresa Holleran, LCSW, Marianne Felt, CMHC, Mike Sheffield, Ph.D., & Sean Patrick McPeak, CSW. Learn yourself. Transform. Depth psychotherapy and transformational services for individuals, relationships, groups and communities.

WWW.MOUNTAINLOTUSCOUNSELING.COM Stephen Proskauer, MD, Integrative Psychiatry 10/15 801.631.8426. Sanctuary for Healing and Integration, 860 E. 4500 S., Ste. 302, SLC. Steve is a seasoned psychiatrist, Zen priest and shamanic healer. He sees kids, teens, adults, couples and families, integrating psychotherapy and meditation with judicious use of medication to relieve emotional pain and problem behavior. Steve specializes in creative treatment of

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Sunny Strasburg, MA, LMFT 2/16 Web of Life Medical Offices, 508 E. So. Temple, Suite 102, SLC. Sunny Strasburg, MA, LMFT is a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in Jungian psychotherapy. Sunny has completed training in Gottman Method Coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Therapy. Sunny meets clients in person at her office in Salt Lake City. She also has a national and international clientele via video Skype.

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Salt Lake Wellness Center, Michelle Murphy, LCSW 801.680.7842, 4190 S. Highland Dr., #226, SLC. 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.

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Golden Braid Books DA 801.322.1162, 151 S. 500 E., SLC. A true sanctuary for conscious living in the city. Offerings include gifts and books to feed mind, body, spirit, soul and heart; luscious health care products to refresh and revive; and a Lifestyles department to lift the spirit. www.GOLDENBRAIDBOOKS.COM

SHAMANIC PRACTICE Shari Philpott-Marsh 9/15 Energy Medicine/Shamanic Healer 801.599.8222. Overwhelmed? Stuck in a rut? Reclaim your clarity. Energy medicine/shamanic healing liberates you from old mental/emotional patterns. Learn to master your own energy and stand in your strength.

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FREE phone consultation. WWW.RADIANCEYOGA.ORG Sarah Sifers, Ph.D., LCSW, Shamanic Practitioner 801.531.8051. Shamanic Counseling. Shamanic Healing, Minister of the Circle of the Sacred Earth. Mentoring for people called to the Shamanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Path. Explore health or mental health issues using the ways of the shaman.

Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. 3/16 Naomi Silverstone, DSW, LCSW FOG 801.209.1095, 508 E. So. Temple, #102, SLC. Psychotherapy and Shamanic practice. Holistic practice integrates traditional and nontraditional approaches to health, healing and balance or â&#x20AC;&#x153;ayni.â&#x20AC;? Access new perceptual lenses as you reanimate your relationship with nature. Shamanic practice in the Inka tradition.

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Dancing Cranes DA 801.486.1129, 673 E. Simpson Ave., SLC. WWW.DANCINGCRANESIMPORTS.COM

Healing Mountain Crystal Co. DA 800.811.0468, 363 S. 500 E., #210, SLC. WWW.HEALINGMOUNTAIN.ORG iconoCLADâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;We Sell Your 2/16 Previously Rocked Stuff & You Keep 50% 801.833.2272. 414 E. 300 S., SLC. New and previously rocked (aka, consigned) menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fashion, summer festival gear and locally made jewelry, clothing, crafts and decor. M-Sat 11a-9p, Sun 1p-6p. Follow us on Instagram/Facebook/Twitter @iconoCLAD to see new inventory before someone beats you to it!

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For rocks and crystals. Everything from Angels to Zen. WWW.ILOVELOTUS.COM Turiyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gifts 2/16 DA 801.531.7823, 1569 S. 1100 E., SLC. M-F 11a-7p, Sat 11a6p, Sun 12-5p. Turiyaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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GROCERIES, SPECIALTY FOODS, KITCHEN SUPPLIES Caliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Natural Foods DA 801.483.2254, 389 W. 1700 S., SLC. www.CALISNATURALFOODS.COM Liberty Heights Fresh 11/30/15 801.583.7374, 1290 S. 1100 E., SLC. We are good food grocers offering food that makes you smile. Certified organically grown and local fruits & vegetables, humanely raised meats, farmstead cheeses, hand-crafted charcuterie, traditional & innovative groceries, prepared specialties, soups, sandwiches, baked goodies & fresh flowers. M-Sat 8:30a-8p, Sun 10a-7p. www.LIBERTYHEIGHTSFRESH.COM HEALTH & WELLNESS Daveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health & Nutrition DA SLC: 801.268.3000, 880 E. 3900 S. West Jordan: 801.824.7624, 1817 W. 9000 S. WWW.DAVESHEALTH.COM

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Inner Light Center Spiritual Community 10/15

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: 10a; WWW.INNERLIGHTCENTER.NET

Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa Tibetan Buddhist Temple 8/15 DA

801.328.4629, 740 S. 300 W., SLC. Urgyen Samten Ling Gonpa offers an open environment for the study, contemplation, and practice of Tibetan Buddhist teachings.

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10 June 2015

METAPHORS FOR THE MONTH

Think (and listen) first Planning an astro- and tarot-based strategy for June

BY SUZANNE WAGNER

Osho Zen Tarot: Abundance, Patience, Playfulness Medicine Cards: Lynx, Hummingbird Mayan Oracle: Cib, Chicchan Ancient Egyptian Tarot: Prince of Cups, Wheel of Fortune Aleister Crowley Deck: Knight of Disks, Truce, Prince of Cups Healing Earth Tarot: Three of Feathers, Two of Crystals, Grandfather of Wands Words of Truth: Support, Aspect, Gratitude

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une is a wild ride of retrogrades.

Mercury is retrograde until June 11, but it is in the home sign of Gemini; so, while I would expect the computers to become problematic and things to not go in the expected ways, Mercury in Gemini is joyous. If you play the cards right you might just feel as if the cosmic redo of this retrograde gets you going back to what you really love and what you want to do, rather than what you thought you needed to do.

Where are you distorting the truth to maintain a false sense of self? Where is your ambition overruling your life and body?

But Saturn is also backing up into Scorpio, officially arriving June 16-17. It will deliver some of that emotionally intense introspection you felt last fall into early winter. Become aware of what’s really going on within and be willing to let the past go. Once Saturn leaves Scorpio on September 18, you will not feel this place again for 28 years. Yay! On June 12, Neptune also goes retrograde in Pisces and remains retrograde until November 18. Logic may go by the wayside for a bit, though your creative and intuitive sides might be expanding in wonderful ways. Just remember that illusion is close to the surface. Stay grounded as you explore the esoteric realms. You could get a lot of creative things done quickly if you stay on track and don’t get lost in the dreamy quality of Neptune.

With Mars in Gemini most of this month, you may see more tension, argu-

ments and the potential to get sidetracked.

Stay calm, organize those thoughts and find the appropriate direction after clear consideration of all options. Look before you leap.

Now let’s look at the cards and plan a strategy for June.

Balance is the key and it is going to take some doing to pull that off.

It’s summer, after all, so a great solution is to escape, preferably into nature. Find where you are feeling supported and where you can bask in the energy of gratitude and love.

Lynx reminds us that what we are seeking is inward, hidden. You will need to uncover your own patterns of selfdeception. But the Hummingbird reminds us that even that journey can be filled with love and joy. There are lost treasures within; it’s up to you to discover them.

This is not the month to be a “know-itall”—quite the contrary. Instead, listen intensely and you will discover that you can trust your deepest self along this journey of life. Think before you talk.

Chicchan reminds you that your body is desperately trying to talk to you. Do not automatically follow the habits of your past. Assume that you don’t know what you’re looking for. Surrender into the body by listening. Seek out help. There is a doorway to awareness. Listen.

Cib indicates that huge amounts of information are coming to you but you need to listen again to the guidance from Spirit. You are seeking to find the truest desire of your heart. From the root of that truth, something magical can open.

The Prince of Cups wants you to look at where you’re distorting the truth to maintain a false sense of self. Ask the question, “Where is my ambition overruling my life and body?” When you discover that answer, a whole new reality will open up.

The Osho Zen cards are a clear indication that this is a time to wait. The time is not yet. Sit in a quiet place and discover your own inner wisdom and knowing. It is Summer. Play, be outside, and rediscover the simple pleasures.

June is about finding a new balance, one that is not based on past patterns; a place that will give you what you need over the long haul. Temporary is no longer good enough. You want to find a solution that allows for a whole new you to emerge.

Enjoy June. ◆ Suzanne Wagner is the author of numerous books and CDs on the tarot and creator of the Wild Women app. She now lives in California, but visits Utah for classes and readings frequently.

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