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I love the words of poet, Mary Oliver, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” In the oft-quoted piece, The Summer Day, Oliver talks of the grasshopper and the black bear. She ponders what one can do on a perfect summer day but to “be idle and be blessed.”

Recently, my summer days are not so blissful but full of meetings, phone calls and editing sessions. All for the good and all deeply satisfying, but different from those days when I had nothing but time on my hands to jump from rock to rock, climb trees and drop a fishing line off the dock.

What draws me back to Oliver’s poem this year is the central question around which the work is based—“what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” That question comes to me as I read this month’s feature articles on transformative education.

As the child of public school teachers, I came to appreciate the craft of teaching and the art of learning. When I was 6, my best friend, Linda, and I played school in her backyard with lined-up stuffed animals as our pupils. In high school, I reveled in the engagement with my teachers and am still in touch with some of my favorites. My parents exemplified the idea that a good teacher can make a tremendous difference in the life of a student. Education has been a significant part of my life, including the 16 years it took me to complete my doctoral studies.

While this issue might be considered our “back to school” issue, I believe the focus is greater than the fact that the new school year is almost upon us. The possibility of transformational education, which comes by way of innovative learning methods and practical concepts such as Open Space Technology, has the potential to change how we, as a human race, can be transformed through new thoughts and ideas. For every new reality show that dwells in the mire of conflict and drama, there seems to be a new path to fresh ideas found in collaboration with others, through the Internet and in local community groups. With those choices, to answer Oliver’s question, I choose to continue to see new opportunities for transformation. Learning is a lifelong endeavor. Our feature article this month will help you discern that path, if that be your choice as well.

I also wanted to share a very exciting development with our readers. Natural Awakenings DC is partnering with Dawson’s Market in Rockville for the first (of many) Healthy Living Expos this coming October 12. The date is set and we are starting to fill out the program and lists of vendors, so stay tuned. Mark your calendar for this free event and we will supply more information as the details are confirmed.

In these waning days of summer, I hope you take the time to consider Mary Oliver’s brilliant question of what to do with your wild and precious life—and then to take a moment to “be idle and be blessed.”

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20 LEARNING THAT

TRANSFORMS HEARTS AND MINDS

Rethinking How We See Our World Changes Everything

by Linda Sechrist

23 FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS Healing Ancestral Wounds Within Us

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by Dr. Suchinta Abhayaratna

24 RUNNER’S HI

Women and Social Media Revolutionize the Sport

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Awakening the Mind-Body Connection with Dr. Joan Borysenko

by Dr. Gilah Rosner

28 SAFE & SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD

Navigate Today’s Best Choices Using Updated Guides

by Judith Fertig

34 THE CURIOUS CASE FOR RITALIN

Why it is Still Prescribed For AD/HD When Other Treatments Exist

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by Dr. Chas Gant, M.D.

40 IS YOUR BRAIN STUCK? Neurofeedback Can Provide Relief

by Dr. Craig D. Sanford

42 CURES IN THE KITCHEN Dr. Mark Hyman is Fed Up with Our National Health Crisis

by Judith Fertig

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newsbriefs Challenge the World to a Workout: Social Media for the Fitness World

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orkout enthusiasts or those that are just thinking about getting in shape don’t have to do it alone. There’s a new app, the Fitness Games App, available on iPhone, iPad and Android the last quarter of 2014, which will connect the world through fitness.

With this new app, users can challenge another user in France to a bike race, compete with someone in Brazil in a strength training session or invite someone in Russia to a kettle bell competition. Users can also challenge friends, family and co-workers to get in shape with them.

Regardless of fitness level or exercise preference— cardio, strength, full-body, cross-body training—users will be able to track their progress, discuss fitness trends and nutrition, post photos and videos and share favorite workout music. Personal trainers can use the app to motivate and challenge their clients and neighbors can inspire each other to stay in shape.

The Fitness Games App has more than 250 videos demonstrating proper form.

It was created by Joseph Phillips and Arya Farzin, two nationally certified personal trainers who want to get the world in shape by making exercise fun. Farzin challenged himself into shape and lost 200 pounds while Phillips used his love of technology and years of experience to conceive of the app. The men combined their expertise and years of working in local sports clubs and with private clients to create this application. The app can be used by schools, nonprofit organizations and corporations to get their students, supporters and employees in shape by creating a global community of fitness.

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eautification Day, supported by the D.C. Public Schools (DCPS), is a citywide “spruce up” of all D.C. public school buildings in preparation for the first day of school.

Beautification efforts included landscaping, trash pickup, light painting, planting flowers and other external beautification efforts. Volunteers can lend a hand to this effort on Saturday, August 23 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

D.C. Public School Beautification Day first started in 2005, on August 23. Last year, more than 4,100 people worked at 105 different schools to prepare for the students’ big, first day.

It is important to register for the event and in the spirit of meeting the schools’ needs and the DCPS encourages volunteers to register as “flexible.” However, volunteers can also indicate preference for a particular school on the registration form.

Once registered, volunteers will receive an email confirming this assignment within a few business days.

On the day of service, volunteers should wear comfortable clothing and closed-toed shoes. Be aware that your clothes might get dirty due to the nature of the tasks involved.

Each school will have a site manager that will welcome volunteers and provide an overview of the day.

Please make sure to register when you arrive and complete a participation form. Most schools have parking spaces that volunteers can utilize or find street parking near their assigned school. Breakfast will not be provided, but the DCPS will provide snacks and water for all volunteers.

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ore people are discovering the benefits of going gluten-free— either because of a medical condition such as celiac disease, food sensitivities, allergies or simply because they feel better when they give up wheat.

Neck, Back and Beyond, a local wellness practice in Fairfax, is offering a daylong seminar on Gluten-Free Living on August 2.

This interactive workshop, presented by Babette Lamarre, a nutritional therapy practitioner, contains practical information for those new to the lifestyle and those that consider themselves to be veterans of the gluten-free lifestyle. The seminar will cover topics such as the history of wheat and how it affects the body, the importance of blood sugar regulation when choosing gluten-free foods, a simple rating system to determine the nutritional value of gluten-free foods, a tasting of 15 gluten-free foods (so you can select your favorites) and daily meal planning for eating gluten-free.

In addition to the daylong workshop, Neck, Back and Beyond helps those living gluten-free with a monthly support group, which meets the first Thursday of each month.

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atural Awakenings DC and Dawson’s Market, in Rockville, are teaming up to bring a new Healthy Living Expo to the region.

The free event to be held on October 12 will host local and regional vendors as well as talks throughout the day on a variety of topics related to healthy living, conscious eating, finding balance and creating more joy in your life.

Dawson’s Market is quickly becoming the spot in Montgomery County for providing wonderful events, such as their weekly Jazz Brunch and wine tasting, and providing a source of local and regional foods. The teams from Dawson’s and Natural Awakenings saw this collaboration as a wonderful fit for both organizations. The expo will bring the great products to health-seekers in the area and will give everyone, including children, a place to become informed and inspired.

The expo will take place inside Dawson’s Market and in the covered areas just outside the store in the Rockville Town Center. The talks will be given in the nearby VisArts building. In the evening, there will be the opportunity for open-air painting and barbecue, prepared by Dawson’s genius chefs, on the roof of the VisArts Building.

There will be more to share in the coming weeks but mark your calendar now for the Healthy Living Exp on Sunday, October 12.

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Free Paddle Nights on the Anacostia

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iscover the beautiful Anacostia by joining the Anacostia Watershed Society (AWS) for a free Paddle Night on the Anacostia this summer. AWS is hosting 25 free Paddle Nights this summer to celebrate its 25th anniversary as an organization. The Anacostia Watershed Society is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization with the mission to protect and restore the Anacostia River and its watershed communities by cleaning the water, recovering the shores and honoring the heritage. Their ultimate goal is to make the Anacostia River swimmable and fishable in keeping with the Clean Water Act.

For the free Paddle Nights, AWS provides the canoes, life jackets, paddles and safety lesson. The events are first-come first-served, so come early for the best chance of getting out on the water and register prior to the event. Registration does not guarantee that there will be a boat available, but it does allow AWS to inform you of any changes or cancellations due to weather. Even if you have never paddled before, their instructors will help you learn the basics to paddle and maneuver as well as basic boating safety.

For a listing of the dates and five locations for these paddling events, visit AnacostiaWS.org and click on Our Events, then Paddle Nights. The events run from 5 to 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 301-699-6204 ext. 112 or email pryberg@AnacostiaWS.org.

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Dangerous Influx

Tough Family Life Linked to Chromosome Aging

Gas Pipeline Pumps Radioactive Radon into Homes In New York City, the Spectra gas pipeline that went online in 2013 is delivering more than just energyefficient, cleanburning natural gas from Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale.

It’s also piping radioactive radon gas that’s contaminating commercial and residential boilers, ovens, stoves, dryers and water heaters at 30 to 80 times baseline levels—well above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency safe level for radiation exposure.

According to Dr. Sheila Bushkin-Bedient, with the University of Albany, New York, “While it may be possible to remove other components of raw natural gas such as ethane, propane, butane and pentanes at natural gas processing centers, it’s not possible to remove radioactive substances such as radon. Radon is the leading cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers and the second-leading cause among smokers and indirect (secondhand) smokers.”

The Spectra conduit is one of hundreds of pipelines and fossil fuel infrastructure projects across the country being quickly approved by the Federal Energy and Regulatory Commission. Citizens should demand that elected officials connect the dots and halt the uncontrolled rush to drill new sites regardless of safety concerns and let them know people are alarmed by the possibility of radioactive gas entering their communities.

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hen Princeton University researchers analyzed data from a representative sample of 40 African-American boys enrolled in the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study that followed children born in major U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000, they determined that those that lived through 9 years of age with less-stable families, such as parents with multiple partners and harsh or hostile parenting styles, had a higher probability of having shorter telomeres compared with other children. Telomeres were, on average, 40 percent longer among children from stable families.

Telomeres are the segments of DNA at either end of a chromosome that protect the ends from deterioration or fusion with neighboring chromosomes. Shorter telomeres can decrease life expectancy by reducing the number of times our cells can divide, and scientists are discovering that a person’s living environment may lead to the condition.

Using large cohort (age group) study data from the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety, another group of researchers from Amsterdam’s Vrije University found significantly shorter telomere length among those with higher stress markers; the shorter length was also associated with aging approximately 10 years faster. In addition, the scientists observed significantly shorter telomere length among people with depressive symptoms lasting longer than four years; the shorter length correlated with both longer and more severe depression.

Parents’ Smoking Linked to Artery Damage in Children

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esearchers from Australia’s University of Tasmania have found that children exposed to the secondhand smoke of their parents will likely face abnormally thickened carotid arteries later in life.

The finding, published in the European Heart Journal, followed 3,776 children that participated in the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study and the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study.

The children were divided into groups according to whether neither parent smoked, one parent smoked or both parents smoked. Questionnaire results were combined with ultrasound testing to correlate exposure during childhood with the health of carotid arteries, and researchers concluded that the effects are pervasive even 25 years later.

Those exposed to two parental smokers as children had significantly greater thickness of inner carotid artery walls than did children with non-smoking parents.

Their arteries also showed signs of premature aging of more than three years compared to children of nonsmokers. The researchers wrote, “There must be continued efforts to reduce smoking among adults to protect young people and to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease across the population.”

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Pine Bark Extract Reduces Perimenopausal Symptoms

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esearch published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine confirms that pine bark extract can significantly reduce symptoms of menopause and perimenopause, including restless legs syndrome and hot flashes. For three months, 170 perimenopausal women were given 30 milligrams of Pycnogenol patented pine bark extract or a placebo twice a day.

Although a placebo effect was noted, the supplement significantly improved all but two symptoms and was especially effective in improving vasomotor and insomnia/ sleep patterns. The severity of symptoms among the Pycnogenol group, as measured by the Kupperman Index, decreased 56 percent more than for the placebo group.

In another study, scientists from Italy’s Pescara University gave 70 perimenopausal women a placebo or 100 milligrams of Pycnogenol daily for two months.

The supplement group experienced fewer menopausal symptoms and showed improvements with symptoms that include fatigue, insomnia, reduced concentration, memory problems, dizziness, depression and irritability.

Flaxseed Lowers Blood Pressure

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ating flaxseed reduces blood pressure, according to researchers from Canada’s St. Boniface Hospital Research Center. They attribute the effect to its omega-3 fatty acids, lignans and fiber.

The researchers examined the effects of flaxseed on systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with peripheral artery disease, a condition typically marked by hypertension. Patients consumed a variety of foods that collectively contained 30 grams of milled flaxseed or a placebo each day for six months.

The flaxseed group experienced significantly increased plasma levels of certain omega-3 fatty acids and lower average systolic blood pressure (by 10 mmHg) and diastolic blood pressure (by 7 mm Hg). Those in the flaxseed group with initial systolic blood pressure levels over 140 mmHg saw reductions averaging 15 mmHg.

Medicinal Mushrooms Boost Athletic Performance

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esearch from Italy’s Pavia University found two medicinal mushroom species—cordyceps (Cordyceps sinensis) and reishi (Ganoderma lucidum)—significantly improve race performances and recovery times among competitive cyclists.

The researchers studied seven male cyclists that had competitively raced for more than 10 years. For one month, they were given placebo supplements, after which the researchers tested their performance and recovery during races and workouts. Then, for the next three months, the cyclists daily used medicinal mushroom supplementation. The researchers found the mushrooms significantly increased performance and recovery in both workouts and races compared with the placebo period.

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Satisfying Energy Drinks Without the Sugar

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he long days of summer give us more hours of sunlight to fit in the things we love most. For many people, this means spending more time outside enjoying the weather.

It can also mean more opportunities to become dehydrated as we lose more water and electrolytes (minerals) through sweat when the humidity rises.

According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms of mild dehydration include headache, dizziness, loss of energy and dark-colored urine.

It is easy to reach for a sports drink to quench thirst and replace electrolytes; however, most sports drinks are laden with excessive sugar, artificial flavors and artificial colorings, all of which can lead to other problems.

Making your own electrolyte replacement drink is quick, easy and cheap.

Below is a basic recipe (courtesy of EverydayRoots.com) that you can make easily to insure that you are getting the most out of your summer fun.

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ithout vitamin D, specifically vitamin D3, your immune system will not be healthy. In addition to maintaining healthy calcium levels, vitamin D regulates hormone secretion and keeps the immune system robust.

Vitamin D regulates the function of a variety of tissues and almost all tissues in your body have specific vitamin D receptors. Vitamin D lowers blood pressure in individuals with hypertension, helps to reduce flu symptoms, heals diseases and prevents certain cancers. Vitamin D deficiency is associated with heart disease, insulin resistance, depression, Seasonal Affective Disorder, acne and migraines.

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center discovered a connection between high vitamin D intake and reduced risk of breast cancer. These findings, presented at the American Association for Cancer Research, revealed that increased doses of vitamin D were linked to a 75 percent reduction in overall cancer growth and 50 percent reduction in tumor cases among those already having the disease. Of special interest was the capacity of vitamin supplementation to help control the development and growth of breast cancer, especially estrogen-sensitive breast cancer.

Vitamin D is also extremely beneficial to children. In a study published in the Cambridge Journals, it was discovered that vitamin D deficiency predisposes children to respiratory diseases. Research conducted in Japan revealed that asthma attacks in school children were significantly lowered in those subjects taking a daily vitamin D supplement.

Check your vitamin D levels periodically and supplement accordingly. The best form of vitamin D is natural sunlight exposure for 30 minutes every other day without sunscreen. Using sunscreen with a minimum of SPF 8 reduces the production of vitamin D by 95 percent. Avoid the sun when UVA radiation levels are at their highest. Other convenient ways to supplement is either orally or with weekly vitamin D injections. Make sure your vitamin D3 is from a reputable source and that you are taking a high enough dosage for best results.

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HEELLESS SHOES MAY HELP PREVENT RUNNERS’ INJURIES

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British study published in Footwear Science analyzed the effects of running in experimental heelless footwear compared with conventional running shoes with reinforced heels. The objective was to see if the heelless footwear would reduce the risk of chronic injury related to the habitual rear-foot strike pattern associated with conventional heeled shoes.

Using eight cameras with optoelectric running motion capture technology,12 male runners were tracked at four meters per second. The heelless running shoe resulted in less impact, greater plantar flexion and greater ankle eversion (rolling outward). The researchers concluded that the heelless shoes decreased the risk of chronic running foot injuries linked to excessive impact forces, but concede they may increase injury potential associated with excessive ankle eversion.

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Remember To Put Custom Mouth Guards On Your ‘To-Do’ List

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t is the time of year when many people are enjoying the summer and engaging in more physical activities. Children are spending time in sports camps and adults are participating in outdoor fun. During these times of increased activity it is important to take extra measures to be safe, including the protection of your oral cavity.

Protecting your mouth may not be something most people think about while packing the sunscreen, the shin guards or even lunch, but it is something that can help avoid injury and costly medical procedures.

Studies have shown that wearing a mouth guard can significantly decrease the amount of trauma experienced to the mouth and can also decrease loss of teeth as a result of a sporting accident. Using a custom mouth guard is recommended during contact sports such as football and hockey, even soccer and basketball, as well as well as during any organized activity or play time.

While there are many mouth guard options available on the market, using a custom-fitted mouth guard is more beneficial than one purchased from a store.

Customized guards provide a better fit, are more comfortable and easier to wear and are more likely to stay in place. Custom mouth guards are specific to the individual’s bite and mouth, so the wearer can expect better protection. Lastly, mouth guards come in various team colors.

Customized mouth guards are well worth the investment for children and adults that are active in sports or other physical activities and for those who need an additional layer of support for mouth protection.

Terry Victor, DDS, is a dentist in Washington, D.C., providing general restorative and cosmetic dentistry. Victor is an accredited member of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) and is also certified by the Eco-Dentistry Association. For more information, visit TheDCDentist.com. See ad, page 4.

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Researchers divided 138 students into two groups, with one group consuming more fruits and vegetables than the other. After three months, the group on the healthier diet tested higher in social cognitive learning skills. They also scored better in selfefficacy (belief they could succeed) in difficult situations, social support and observational learning.

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Washinton, D.C. Tops Fitness Update Healthiest U.S. Metro Areas in 2014

The American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) seventh annual American Fitness Index (AFI) ranks Washington, D.C., at the top with a score of 77.3 (out of 100), followed

by Minneapolis-St. Paul (73.5), Portland, Oregon (72.1) Denver (71.7) and San Francisco (71).

Overall, metro areas in 25 states scored 50 or above; the two lowestranking hovered near 25 points.

“The AFI data report is a snapshot of the state of health in the community and an evaluation of the infrastructure, community assets and policies that encourage healthy and fit lifestyles. These measures directly affect quality of life in our country’s urban areas,” says Walter Thompson, Ph.D., chair of the AFI advisory board.

True Grit

Why Persistence Counts

Margo Pellegrino, a homemaker, mother of two and healthy oceans advocate from Medford Lakes, New Jersey, will begin a 1,600-mile journey from nearby Trenton to Chicago, Illinois, by outrigger canoe on August 13 as part of Blue Frontier Campaign’s ocean explorers project. During her two-month trip, she’ll meet with local environmental groups and the media to raise awareness of the urgent need to clean America’s waterways.

“All water and everything in it ends up in the ocean,” Pellegrino says. “Plastics and chemicals are particular problems, but soil runoff during floods and heavy rains also impact the ocean and marine life.” During previous paddles, Pellegrino saw firsthand the effects of dumped industrial waste in the waterways she traversed. She notes that nationally, oil rig operators have federal permits to dump 9 billion gallons of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, waste into the ocean each year.

On Pellegrino’s first trip in 2007, she paddled nearly 2,000 miles up the Atlantic Coast, from Miami, Florida, to Maine. In 2009, she partnered with the Natural Resources Defense Council to go from Miami to New Orleans, Louisiana, to build support for a Healthy Oceans Act (OnEarth.org/author/healthyoceanspaddle). In 2010, she canoed along the Pacific coastline from Seattle, Washington, to San Diego, California. Next summer, Pellegrino plans to paddle down the Mississippi River.

Some educators believe that improvements in instruction, curriculum and school environments are not enough to raise the achievement levels of all students, especially disadvantaged children.

Also necessary is a quality called “grit”, loosely defined as persistence over time to overcome challenges and accomplish big goals. Grit comprises a suite of traits and behaviors that include goal-directedness (knowing where to go and how to get there); motivation (having a strong will to achieve identified goals); self-control (avoiding distractions and focusing on the task at hand); and a positive mindset (embracing challenges and viewing failure as a learning opportunity).

A meta-study of 25 years of research by John Hattie and Helen Timperley, professors at the University of Aukland, New Zealand, has shown that giving students challenging goals encourages greater effort and persistence than providing vague or no direction. Students aren’t hardwired for these qualities, but grit can be developed through an emerging battery of evidence-based techniques that give educators a powerful new set of tools to support student success.

A famous example of the power of self-regulation was observed when preschoolers that were able to withstand the temptation of eating a marshmallow for 15 minutes to receive a second one were more successful in high school and scored about 210 points higher on their SATs later in life than those with less willpower (Tinyurl.com/Stanford MarshallowStudy).

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Cycling Rx

Doctors Order Up a Bike for Patients The Prescribe-a-Bike program (Tinyurl.com/Prescription Bikes) allows doctors at Boston Medical Center, in Massachusetts, to write low-income patients prescriptions for a one-year membership to Hubway, the city’s bikesharing system, for $5, which is $80 less than the regular charge. A free helmet is part of the deal.

According to The Boston Globe, one in four Boston residents is obese, and Kate Walsh, chief executive of Boston Medical Center, believes the program can help. “Regular exercise is key to combating this [obesity] trend, and Prescribe-a-Bike,” she says, “is one important way our caregivers can help patients get the exercise

they need to be healthy.”

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Airports Establish Bee-Friendly Acres The Common Acre is a nonprofit partnering with the airport serving Seattle, Washington, and the Urban Bee Company (UrbanBee.com) to reclaim 50 acres of vacant land to plant native wildflowers as pollinator habitat for hummingbirds, butterflies and disease-resistant bee colonies. A GMO-free (no genetic modification) wildflower seed farm is also in the works. Bees present no threat to air traffic and the hives discourage birds that do pose a danger to planes.

Beekeeper Jim Robins, of Robins Apiaries, in St. Louis, Missouri, rents an area with a plentiful supply of white Dutch clover, and Lambert Airport views his enterprise as part of its sustainability program. O’Hare Airport, in Chicago, the first in the U.S. to install hives, is rebuilding to its full complement of 50 hives after losing about half of them to 2014’s extreme winter. It’s a project that could be a model for airports everywhere—using inaccessible scrubland to do something revolutionary, like supporting a local food system. One hundred foods make up 90 percent of a human diet, and bees pollinate 71 of them.

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Simple Device Provides Safe Water in Africa The WarkaWater tower is providing an innovative new way to harvest safe drinking water, normally an onerous task in Ethiopia and many other parts of Africa. Obtaining water via repeated trips to the nearest source is extremely time-consuming and what’s collected is often highly contaminated and harmful to drink. Also, this task is commonly carried out by females, putting them in danger of sexual harassment or worse enroute.

The towers, inspired by the native warka tree, are a vertical bamboo system that harvests potable, clean water from the air through condensation, using a fog-harvesting fabric that can collect up to 25 gallons of safe drinking water per day. Each tower costs about $550, and can be built in a few days by village residents using locally available materials.

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Learning that Transforms Hearts and Minds Rethinking How We See Our World Changes Everything

by Linda Sechrist

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n the 30 years since Harrison Owen introduced Open Space Technology (OST), it has been used hundreds of thousands of times by three-quarters of the world’s countries. Whether a few people gather in a circle to share ideas and brainstorm personal issues or thousands discuss a bulletin board of topics around tables, OST is a safe, informal venue for transformative learning.

Guided by purpose-based, shared leadership, it allows individuals focused on a specific task to freely speak their thoughts and be heard. It also encourages breakout groups to mine for more information—learning individually, as well as collectively, and self-organizing in order to concentrate on more complex topics. “Boeing engineers used OST to learn how to redesign airplane doors and young Egyptians used it to strategize for their Arab Spring,” as examples, comments Owen.

Circle Principle

For Owen, like Jack Mezirow, author of the paper, “Core Principles of Transformative Learning Theory,” 20th-century Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and 20

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Juanita Brown, cofounder of The World Café, learning is transformation, the keystone of life, and the essence of meaningful education. “The circle principle contains the predictability of fresh, emerging thoughts and learning that never occurred previously,” explains Owen.

He points to an experiment regarding children’s capacity for self-learning initiated by Sugata Mitra, Ph.D., the former science director of an educational technology firm in India. On the outside wall of the building where he worked, Mitra installed a computer facing a New Delhi slum where most children were unschooled and illiterate and had never seen a computer. He turned it on and told children they could play with it.

Via a noninvasive video camera, he watched 7-to-13-year-olds discover how to use the computer and teach each other how to play music and games and draw using Microsoft’s Paint program.

Repetition of the experiment in other impoverished sections of India yielded similar results. Wherever he established an Internet connection, children that could not read English, the Internet’s default language, taught themselves

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how to use the Web to obtain information through their interactions with each other and the computer.

“I agree with what Mitra surmised from his experiment—learning is emergent, which is another word for self-organizing,” remarks Owen. Like Freire, Owen likens traditional education to the “banking” method of learning, whereby the teacher passes information to students that become dependent on someone else rather than learning how to think on their own.

Suzanne Daigle, a Sarasota, Florida-based consultant with a Canadian multidisciplinary consulting firm, explains how the OST learning environment changed her life: “My personal transformation began in 2009, when I volunteered to assist another OST facilitator. I was a perfectionist who judged myself harshly and struggled with the question, ‘Who am I to think I can help hold space for leaders to transform themselves through their learning when I have so little experience?’”

She notes, “Before such experiences, even though I was a leader in my corporate career, I doubted myself and often believed that what others had to say was more significant and interesting than what I could express.” Now she says she has shed her people-pleasing tendencies and former attempts to control other people’s agendas and discovered the freedom and courage of her own voice. “As an OST facilitator, my life work now occurs in the moments I am collaboratively learning and listening for opportunities to enter into meaningful conversations that can lead to actions,” says Daigle. “I invite others to do the same.”

Co-Learning

In a compulsory two-year Theory of Learning class for an International Baccalaureate degree at California’s Granadas Hill Charter High School, math and science educator Anais Arteaga helps students apply two major elements of transformative learning: self-reflection to critique one’s own assumptions and discourse through which they question or validate their judgments. She focuses on the roles that perception, language, reason and emotion play in a student’s learning and decision-making abilities.

“Questions and lively discussions are the basis of the class,” Arteaga says.

“We begin with a question and explore what we know, how we know it and any conclusions drawn from the process.”

Using a democratic model in which the teacher welcomes critical discussion, Arteaga and her students have mutually discovered that knowledge is not static, but has a history and changes over time. “When we first started the class, it was challenging to accept that in many situations there is no right or wrong, just relativity and a matter of perception. We don’t really know anything for certain,” she remarks.

Worldview Explorations

Katia Petersen, Ph.D., is the executive director of education at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), headquartered in Petaluma, California. She co-developed the tools, practices and 22 lessons in the pioneering organization’s Worldview Explorations (WE) project. Founded on 40 years of IONS research, WE engages everyone in age-appropriate ways in reflecting upon long-held assumptions and how beliefs create the lens they see through, ultimately improving how they understand and respond to the world.

“When individuals understand the power of offering their story and are open to the worldview stories of others, they no longer focus attention on differences and limitations,” says Petersen.

“They realize that everyone has their own truth.”

Through small groups and conversations, participants unpack how the program has influenced them by answering questions that explore what inspired, surprised and changed the way they perceive the world. “WE’s transformative learning experiences draw from the heart and soul of individuals, rather than stuffing heads with ideas and perspectives, which serves them well as they embody and apply these tools and practices in their daily lives,” notes Petersen.

She cites a particularly powerful moment for a group of young people she worked with. “A student was killed in a drive-by shooting two weeks before their certification. The transformative moment came when they said that

“There is no such thing as a neutral education process. Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate the integration of generations into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity to it, or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.” ~ Richard Shaull, ThD

their new awareness and capacity for compassion and understanding would not allow them to seek revenge. Instead, they chose to save lives in their communities using their new skills.”

Mycelium School

Ashley Cooper and Matt Abrams, cofounders of the Mycelium School, in Asheville, North Carolina, re-imagined a learning environment for aspiring entrepreneurs and social change agents committed to activating their potential and realizing solutions to today’s challenges. A 12-week learning journey allows individuals to become increasingly adept at learning from and helping each other learn.

The curriculum offers minimum structure, significant support and collaboration with others. “In the learning community, individuals are dedicated to a project or life question of their choice,” explains Cooper. Participants’ goals include changing careers, determining the next steps after retirement or how to pursue true passions to make a difference in the world.

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Cheri Torres, Ph.D., founder of the Asheville-based Innovation Partners International SE, was one of the earliest participants in the Mycelium Learning experience. She says that she obtained an expanded understanding of the approach that she uses in her work.

“The whole systems approach I use with organizational and community leaders enables them to shift from a top-down management model to one that engages everyone and uses the collective intelligence and collaborative efforts of all for the collective good. My own learning journey transformed the level of awareness I bring to my work and the understanding of who I am,” advises Torres.

“My original guiding question was, ‘How can I get so clear about my work that I can explain it in plain language?’

Ultimately, my question shifted to what would it be like for me to live and work from a place of wholeness. Through conversations with Ashley and self-reflection, I realized I was not walking my talk within my own mind-body-spirit system. My journey helped me understand that my most effective role in my

own life, as well as with clients, is to create the conditions for collective intelligence and collaboration to emerge in service to the whole,” says Torres.

World Café

Like OST, the World Café, co-created

by Brown and David Isaacs, of Burnsville, North Carolina, creates a transformative learning environment for individuals of all ages. Its primary principles are: set the context, create hospitable space, explore questions that matter, encourage everyone’s contributions, connect diverse perspectives, listen together for patterns and insights and share collective discoveries. Webs of conversation created around actual or occasionally virtual tables resemble those found in coffeehouses.

“Conversation is a core meaningmaking process, and people get to experience how the collective intelligence of a small or large group can become apparent,” says Brown. After several rounds of conversation on one or more topics, participants offer their harvest of key insights, learning and opportunities for action with the full group gathered to reflect together on their discoveries.

“World Café provides an environment in which you are comfortably drawn forward by the questions you are asking together. When enough diversity is present, varied perspectives are offered and people feel listened to and free to make their contribution,” observes Brown.

What participants learn in this setting creates the climate of conditions that support the kinds of transformations that can changes lives. Brown remarks, “When it happens to me, I feel like my brain cells have been rearranged. I know something in the collective, as well as the individual, has been evoked, so that something never before imagined becomes present and available.”

Transformative learning has been compared to a sea journey without landmarks. Adventurous individuals that are open to traversing its highly engaging processes can emerge as autonomous thinkers, capable of contributing fresh, new ideas that just might transform the world we live in.

Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Visit ItsAllAbout We.com for the recorded interviews.

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Family Constellations Healing Ancestral Wounds Within Us

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here is growing evidence that we carry within us not only physical traits, but also the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects of our ancestors.

Research shows that unresolved traumas from our family systems may be at the root of some of the most persistent challenges we currently face. Every individual is responsible not only to heal oneself, but in doing so, to contribute to healing the whole family system. As members of the family system, we are not separate from the whole any more than one cell is separate from the rest of the body.

Family Constellations (FC) reveals hidden dynamics from our family’s past and helps us to heal and move forward in our lives. In a Family Constellations Circle, a group of individuals meet with the intention of exploring challenges they currently face in their lives. When they come together, they become a system united by common intention—to heal oneself and to support the healing of others in the group.

The FC process is based on the concept that each individual is an energy field that records and holds information of his/her own past and that of all the collective systems s/he is part

of—family, tribe, community, country, humanity, planet and universe. The family system is the closest to us and has the most direct influence on us. Information needed for healing can be accessed from the energy field through energy processes such as FC. A trained facilitator guides the process.

The person whose issue is being processed, the seeker, briefly shares information about the family’s known trauma history with the facilitator. The seeker then chooses others from the group to represent family members including ancestors and positions them in the circle relative to each other as she or he perceives them. The seeker then observes what happens. The representatives move and interact according to their impulses, emotions and feelings. In this process, traumas and entanglements from past generations are revealed. Thus, the seeker gains insight into the systemic source of his or her current challenge. The healing begins when the truth is revealed, acknowledged, and when balance and order is restored. The representatives, guided by the facilitator, symbolically restructure the system with unconditional love, ensuring that everyone who belongs to the system is recognized, honored and given a place, and relationships that are out of order are reordered.

Family Constellations was developed by Bert Hellinger, a German psychologist, philosopher and author.

Previously a Catholic priest in postWorld War II Germany, Hellinger was in South Africa as a missionary to the Zulu people in the 1950s and 60s. In the 16 years with them, he observed their indigenous healing traditions, noting the significance they gave to ancestral patterns and transgenerational effects on the lives of individuals.

Returning to Germany, Hellinger studied with pioneers in applying systemic theory to psychology. He developed Family Constellations in 1990 from what he had learned, observed and experienced. Working with several thousands of families, Hellinger identified “Orders of Love” that operate in the depths of family systems and in the human soul. Violation and disrespect of these natural laws due to tragic circumstances and unconscious behavior in past generations affect the lives of later generations.

The FC process is an eloquent expression of the connection that we have as individuals to the collective systems that we are part of at every level. It demonstrates that we are all part of the same field of information and that we can intentionally access this information as needed for our healing and survival.

To learn more information about Family Constellations, visit Dr. Abhayaratna’s website at chisuchinta.com, the Hellinger Institute DC at HellingerDC. com or the Systemic Constellation Group at TheConstellationsGroup.com.

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hether donning colorful tutus or making a marathon a girls’ day out, the current running scene is attracting a broader group of fitnessseekers mindful of the enhanced benefits of a more well-rounded approach. Rather than pursuing fierce competition and personal bests, these runners are focusing on social bonding and overall well-being, likely boosting their fitness success.

Two main factors are fueling what’s shaping up as a new running boom: women and social media. “The first running-boom era was male-centric and competitive,” observes Ryan Lamppa, of Running USA. He’s referring to the 1970s, when, largely thanks to 1972 Summer Olympic marathon gold medal winner Frank Shorter and The Complete Book of Running, by James Fixx, many were inspired to hook up Walkmans, lace up sneakers and train for distance races. “Today’s running boom is femalecentric, much bigger and more focused on health and fitness and completion, rather than competition.”

Forget elapsed running time; just cross the finish line and have fun doing it, seems to be a growing mantra.

Women’s participation hit an all-time high in recent years, comprising 56 percent of the more than 15.5 million runners finishing U.S. races sanctioned

by Running USA in 2012 and 61 percent of U.S. half-marathoners in 2013.

“Women tend to be more social

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and more in tune with their health overall, and that’s definitely a driving force,” Lamppa says.

Couple the female factor with social media-driven, nontraditional race events and the result is explosive.

“Events are fun, community-centered and sometimes charity-driven,” Lamppa says of the many innovations, from paint-splashing 5Ks to mud-slinging obstacle course action, which attracted 4 million entrants last year.

Boosts Bonding

These trends could indicate America’s collective progress toward fitness as studies show the social factor plays a huge motivational role in participation.

“I think running adherence strengthens when there is accountability and social support,” remarks Englewood, New Jersey, sports psychologist Greg Chertok, citing a meta-analysis of data in Sport & Exercise Psychology Review that backs his notion.

For example, such social exercise events inspire happiness. “If you are physically close to someone that is happy, eager and optimistic, you are naturally going to share those feelings,” explains Chertok, who is also a spokesman for the American College of Sports Medicine. “Just through social connectedness alone, you’ll gain boosted performance and mood.”

As a finisher of two Tough Mudders

(an intense obstacle course challenge), Chertok can personally testify to the benefits of camaraderie. “It’s just like if a married couple got stuck in a storm and had to brave the elements; the act of doing something challenging together is very bonding.”

Simply joining a recreational running group—also increasingly popular and often social media-driven—can bolster success. “When a bunch of individuals work together to pursue a common goal, they are incentivized by the group,” Chertok remarks. “You’ll run at a faster clip or go a longer distance if you are with a group, because each runner values the group and doesn’t want to let members down.”

Brings Balance

Mixing things up can also improve running performance and decrease risks of injury, enhancing long-term staying power. One study found that eight weeks of simple strength-training exercises by conditioned runners boosted their running performances over their conditioned, but non-strength-training peers, as noted in the Health & Fitness Journal of the American

College of Sports Medicine.

As for injury prevention, everybody, regardless of sport, needs to cross-train, advises Mindy Caplan, a wellness coach in Albuquerque, New Mexico. “In any sport that you engage in, you end up working certain muscles the same way all the time. Then those tighter muscles start to pull on the joints and without stretching, you end up with problems.” Moving the body in different ways helps, and working on stretching and flexibility can elongate muscles and protect tendons and joints.

“The new runner of this second running boom has much more information about training, health and fitness, and injury prevention,” says Lamppa, who occasionally cross-trains by biking and includes some yoga-related stretching as part of his regular routine. “You have to have balance in your running as in your life. If you can get to that point, you will get a very positive response from your body and mind.”

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Tart cherries are loaded with flavonoids, antioxidants with powerful anti-inflammatory effects. One study of runners in the Hood to Coast 197-mile relay race from Mount Hood to Seaside, Oregon, found that cherry juice notably decreased muscle damage and soreness in runners compared with a group imbibing a placebo drink. The runners drank 10.5 ounces

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Beet roots contain nitrates, vasodilators that relax the blood vessels, allowing them to pump more efficiently and increase exercise efficiency. Researchers found that runners eating beets rather than a placebo ran an average of 3 percent faster. According to the study, published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 200 grams of baked beetroots or an equivalent nitrate dose from other vegetables should be consumed one hour before exercise.

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Science & Spirituality Awakening the Mind-Body Connection with Dr. Joan Borysenko

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ome join renowned scientist, Hay House author and spiritual teacher, Dr. Joan Borysenko for a program titled, Embodied Spirituality: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science September 14 in Bethesda. A pioneer in holistic medicine, Borysenko is beloved for her warmth and wisdom that heals and inspires. She will share how the human mind is created through our bodies and our relationships and how to develop strategies to deepen consciousness, health and bliss. The program will honor Dr. Candace Beebe Pert, a giant in the world of mind-body science. It will include light refreshments, a holistic expo and the beautiful crystal bowls and angelic harp music of Eli Ammerman

Less than 30 years ago, the concept of an integrated mind-body-spirit was nonexistent in Western medicine.

The mind was believed to be a product of the brain—the master control center over the body. But in the 1970s and 80s, the brilliant and bold scientific research of visionary Pert forever shattered the notion that the brain reigns supreme as the seat of intelligence, thought, memory and emotion.

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Her groundbreaking work, along with partner, Dr. Michael Ruff, charted the ubiquitous distribution of informational molecules—the neuropeptides and their receptors—throughout the brain and body. These studies paved the way for a radical new paradigm of viewing the neurological, endocrine and immunological systems as a unified communications network that connects every facet of body and mind via continual and elegant conversation. Pert coined the term “bodymind” to describe this sense of a singular human entity encompassing body and psyche. Thus, the field of psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) or mind-body medicine was born.

When these neuropeptide and receptors bind together, a cascade of intracellular signaling begins directing systemic bodily processes. Today, receptors for more than 200 neuropeptides, e.g., endorphin, oxytocin, insulin, vasopressin, have been mapped to every organ system, to blood, muscles, glands, neurons, bones and immune cells, as well within emotion-mediating areas of the brain. In other words, the very same biochemicals that run our

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bodies and brains are also mediating our emotions. Whether or not there is conscious awareness of such processes, states of mind actually exist throughout the body.

This prompted Pert to propose that our body is literally our subconscious mind, a notion long understood in Ayruveda and other traditional forms of medicine.

Pert’s work deeply influenced millions of scientists, doctors, psychotherapists, holistic practitioners, authors and spiritual seekers worldwide. At her memorial service last October, Dr. Deepak Chopra proclaimed that much of his work was shaped by Pert’s scientific theory in which the emotions integrate the workings of mind, body and spirit.

A spiritually evolved person herself, Pert welcomed all forms of spiritual practice into her life.

Pert shared her scientific research with nonscientists in a readily understandable and engaging way via lectures worldwide, documentaries like Healing the Mind with Bill Moyers, films like What the Bleep Do We Know!?, CDs and her books, Molecules of Emotion: The Scientific Basis Behind Mind-Body Medicine (Scribner) and Everything You Need to Feel Go(o)d (Hay House). Throughout, she explains how the informational molecules profoundly influence our health, our happiness and how we experience and create our reality, and encourages the utilization of scientific knowledge to enhance our lives with tools for spiritual, physical and emotional well-being.

Advance tickets are $49. Proceeds support the 501(c)(3) Sanctuary Retreat Center in Upper Montgomery County —a charmingly rural venue for retreats and celebrations on 28 beautiful acres.

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Dawson’s Market Celebrates Community in Rockville and Beyond

Providing Local and Organic Food and Events

by Samantha Hudgins

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pening in September 2012, Dawson’s Market joined Rockville Town Square as its anchor natural grocery store but has quickly established itself as an anchor for the community; a feat that begins with living up to its slogan, “Celebrating community through local and organic food.”

Independently owned by Rick Hood, this small business is able to connect customers with local vendors, many who are too little or too new to sell in larger chain stores. When Dawson’s says local, they mean it—labeling food within a 100-mile radius as local and anything between a 100- and 300mile radius as regional.

Along with touting local foods,

Dawson’s offers a wide variety of specialty foods. From organic to gluten-free, vegetarian to vegan, their staff can deliver or even teach customers about what foods will fit their dietary restrictions.

These foods aren’t just sold in the aisles; they can also be found in the coffee and juice bar or enjoyed in their café area.

The “celebrating” part of Dawson’s slogan comes in a diverse range of monthly events. Assistant Manager Mike Houston’s favorite is their Jazz Brunch where he can listen to music, eat food, and mingle with customers who return each month for the event. Meanwhile, Marketing Coordinator Jamie Grubby enjoys the children’s cooking class, where kids are not only taught about healthy food, but also shown where it

can be found in the store.

Dawson’s Market has even maintained two beloved community events, taking them on as their own. When the Rockville Farmers’ Market was going to be closed to make way for construction, Dawson’s saved it by relocating it to their store. Now the farmers’ market can still be shopped Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. with old and new vendors alike. Similarly, when the wine tasting and live music event, Wine Down, was possibly not returning to the square, Dawson’s successfully began to hold the event every Thursday in the summer months at their store.

For those with their own ideas on how to come together and celebrate community, the store’s café is available for use by local groups. Some of these groups currently include the Rockville Running Club, a knitting club and a real estate group.

Possibly the best way Dawson’s Market celebrates and shows its love for the community it serves is by investing money back into it. This is accomplished by using local businesses and services, like a local bank and pest control company. One of Dawson’s produce suppliers, Quarter Branch Farm, removes the compost produced in the store and the market is even a county pickup station for free compost bins.

With the success of Dawson’s Market—where even the mayor shops —plans could soon be underway for another store in the D.C. metro area.

“There are several communities that are in the need for a grocery store like us.

They want a natural food store that’s more of a community-based company,” believes General Manager Bart Yablonsky. He continues, “There are a lot of communities but it’s about finding the location in those communities.”

For more information on Dawson’s Market, visit its highly informative website DawsonsMarket.com or visit them in person at 225 N. Washington St. in Rockville.

Samantha Hudgins is a writing enthusiast and outreach director for Natural Awakenings DC. See ad, page 17.

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SEAFOOD Navigate Today’s Best Choices Using Updated Guides

by Judith Fertig

We love our seafood, a delicious source of lean protein. The latest data reports U.S. annual consumption to be more than 4.8 billion pounds of it, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, with the average American eating 3.5 ounces of seafood a week. About half of the catch is wild-caught and half farmed. How do we know which fish and shellfish are safe to eat and good for ocean ecology?

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he best approach is to choose seafood carefully. Oil spills, waste runoff and other environmental disasters can compromise the quality of seafood with toxic contaminants like mercury and other heavy metals and industrial, agricultural and lawn chemicals. These pollutants can wash out from land to sea (and vice versa). As smaller fish that have eaten pollutants are eaten by larger ones, contaminants accumulate and concentrate. Large predatory fish like swordfish and sharks end up with the most toxins.

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natives to overfished species such as sea bass and Atlantic cod. These newto-us, wild-caught fish can be delicious, sustainable and healthy.

Choices Good for Oceans

An outstanding resource for choosing well-managed caught or farmed seafood in environmentally responsible ways is Seafood Watch, provided through California’s Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Information on the most sustainable varieties of seafood is available in a printed guide, updated twice a year. The pocket guide or smartphone app provides instant information at the seafood counter and restaurant table. Online information at SeafoodWatch.org and via the app is regularly updated.

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The Blue Ocean Institute, led by MacArthur Fellow and ecologist Carl Safina, Ph.D., supports ocean conservation, community economics and global peace by steering consumers and businesses toward sustainably fished seafood. It maintains a data base on 140 wild-caught fish and shellfish choices at BlueOcean.org.

Hoki, for instance, might have a green fish icon for “relatively abundant” and a blue icon for “sustainable and well-managed fisheries,” but also be red-flagged for containing levels of mercury or PCBs that can pose a health risk for children. As species become overfished, rebound or experience fluctuating levels of contaminants, their annual ratings can change.

Choices Good for Us

To help make choosing easier, Seafood Watch has now joined with the Harvard School of Public Health to also advise what’s currently safe to eat. Entries on their list of “green” fish, which can shift annually, are low in mercury, good sources of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids and caught or farmed responsibly.

If the top-listed fish and shellfish aren’t locally available, look for the Seafood Safe label, started by EcoFish company founder and President Henry Lovejoy, which furnishes at-a-glance consumption recommendations based upon tests for contaminants. Labels display a number that indicates how many four-ounce servings of the species a woman of childbearing age can safely eat per month. (Find consumption recommendations for other demographics at SeafoodSafe.com.) Expert-reviewed independent testing of random samples of the fish currently monitors mercury and PCB levels. Lovejoy advises that other toxins will be added to the testing platform in the future.

“My dream is to have all seafood sold in the U.S. qualify to bear the Seafood Safe label, because consumers deserve to know what they’re eating,” says Lovejoy. “We need to be a lot more careful in how we use toxic chemicals and where we put them.”

Retail Ratings

Some retailers also provide details on

their seafood sourcing. Whole Foods, for example, offers complete traceability of the fish and shellfish they carry, from fishery or farm to stores.

Their fish, wild-caught or farmed, frozen or fresh, meet strict quality guidelines in regard to exposure to antibiotics, preservatives and hormones. They also display Seafood Watch and Blue Ocean Institute ratings at the seafood counter.

Wise seafood choices feed and sustain our families, foster a healthier seafood industry, support responsible local fisheries and keep Earth’s water resources viable.

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SUPERB SEAFOOD According to Seafood Watch and the Harvard School of Public Health, the Super “Green” list includes seafood with low levels of mercury (below 216 parts per billion [ppb]) and at least 250 milligrams per day (mg/d) of the recommended daily consumption of omega-3 essential fatty acids. It also must be classified as a Best Choice for being caught or farmed in environmentally responsible ways at SeafoodWatch.org.

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n Atlantic mackerel (purse seine, U.S. and Canada) n Freshwater Coho salmon (tank system farms, U.S.) n Pacific sardines (wild-caught) n Salmon (wild-caught, Alaska) n Salmon, canned (wild-caught, Alaska) The “honorable mention” list includes seafood that contains moderate amounts of mercury and between 100 and 250 milligrams per day (mg/d) of the recommended daily consumption of omega-3s. It also must be classified as a Best Choice for being caught or farmed in environmentally responsible ways at Womens Health

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id you know there is another procedure of breast screening?

More women are choosing a thermography scan, which provides earlier detection of breast disease than possible by self-examination, doctor examination or mammography alone.

Digital Infrared Thermal Imaging (DITI) is a 15-minute painless test of physiology. Thermography is an essential procedure to alerting women and their doctors to changes that can indicate early stage breast disease. DITI detects the subtle physiologic changes that accompany breast pathology, such as cancer, fibrocystic disease, an infection or a vascular disease. The doctor can then discuss a treatment plan accordingly and lay out a careful program to

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further diagnose and/or monitor the patient during and after any treatment.

The patient’s medical history is taken the day of the exam. The scan is radiation-free and painless. It does not come into contact with the body.

It is even comfortable for women with breast implants. A subsequent session is required in three months to ensure that the thermal patterns remain unchanged.

This new and exciting technology is one of the only medical procedures that can detect inflammatory breast disease.

All women can benefit from a thermography scan. However, it is especially appropriate for younger women (30 to 50) whose denser breast tissue makes it more difficult for mammography to be effective. This test can provide a clinical marker to the doctor or mammographer that a specific area of the breast needs particularly close examination. It takes years for a tumor to grow, thus the earliest possible indication of abnormality is needed to allow for the earliest possible treatment and intervention. DITI’s role in monitoring breast health is to help in early detection and monitoring of abnormal physiology. Thermologist (certified doctors) interpret the images and create a report that the patient can take to her local health care professional.

The scan can be taken of the patient’s breast or whole body. Thermography can be used for much more than just breast disease. It is used in stroke screening and can indicate heart disease, thyroid dysfunction, digestive disorders, spinal injuries and many more disorders for both men and women.

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Here are some steps for early detection of breast disease: n Have an annual thermography scan (for women of all ages). n Have a mammogram (when considered appropriate for women age 50 or older). n Have a regular breast examination by a health professional. n Perform monthly breast self-examinations. n Become personally aware for changes in the breast. n Promptly discuss any changes with a doctor.

These guidelines should be considered along with the patient’s background and medical history.

Thermography’s role in breast cancer and other breast disorders is to help in early detection and monitoring of abnormal development or existence of cancer. When thermography is used with other procedures, the best possible evaluation of breast health is achieved.

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Jivamukti Yoga Founder Presenting Master Class in September

by Terri Carr

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ivamukti Yoga co-Founder Sharon Gannon will be presenting a master yoga class and a catered lunch/book party at the Washington Convention Center on September 27. The event is part of a 17-city book tour to promote her new book, Simple Recipes for Joy, a collection of more than 200 vegan recipes which comes out mid-September.

The book release coincides with the 30th anniversary of Jivamukti Yoga, a unique brand of activist yoga that Gannon co-founded in 1984 with partner David Life. In 2006, the pair opened Jivamuktea Cafe, in New York City, as an extension of their yoga studio and an expression of a compassionate, vegan lifestyle. Gannon created this book from the recipes that were the most popular with her friends and family as well as diners at the cafe.

In Gannon’s view, the connection between yoga, a vegan diet and the health of the planet is really basic.

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“It’s about happiness. Everybody wants to be happy. Everything we do should contribute to our happiness, or why do it?”

“In the yoga teachings, it says that our nature is joy, the nature of the universe is joy that everyone, everything, every aspect of life, the essence of us all is joy, and if we are experiencing anything less than that, then we are disconnected from our source.”

She wrote Simple Recipes for Joy as an invitation to “dare to care about the happiness and wellbeing of others. And ‘others’ includes animals and the whole planet. If we want joy for ourselves, then we’ve got to create it in the lives of everyone around us.”

When Gannon sat next to Al Gore at a brunch, she brought up the meat and dairy issue by asking him, “What about meat and dairy?

How about that and the Inconvenient Truth?” Gore was speechless for several minutes. Finally he shared that he

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had seen a video which explains that cows release more methane gas than any other environmental hazard. The movie ends with the message that if we could go vegan even for one day, this would be a big help.

While it is pretty uncomfortable to see the reality of modern day factory farming, Gannon reminds us, “Education can empower us.” After Martin Luther King saw LOOK magazine photos of civilian casualties in the Vietnam War, he shifted his focus toward stopping the war. Gannon says, “That was because of the power of those photos.”

Americans have deeply ingrained but inaccurate beliefs about the benefits of meat and dairy. One myth is that we don’t get enough iron from a vegetarian or vegan diet. But in fact, vegetarians and vegans get more iron than meat eaters. Even more ironically, dairy reduces iron absorption.

Likewise, people are convinced that they have to eat dairy to get enough calcium but Gannon says that dairy products can rob the body of calcium and contribute to osteoporosis while calcium from veggies is more easily absorbed. Gannon says, “In the countries that have the highest dairy consumption, that is where we have the highest osteoporosis and all the things related to that.”

Many people assume that eating meat and dairy products is a natural human behavior simply because we have been doing it for so long. However, Gannon says that human beings only started relying on animals for food and profit about 10,000 years ago when we shifted from a nomadic existence to settling in villages.

“The good news is—it is not hard-wired in the human brain. It is a learned behavior. And like any learned behavior, it can be unlearned.”

The Master Jivamukti Yoga Class and the Simple Recipes for Joy book party are hosted by Buddha B Yoga Studio, the only Jivamukti Yoga affiliated studio in Washington, D.C. Register for these events at BuddhaBYoga.com. See ad, page 50.

Terri Carr is a D.C.-based freelance writer who blogs at yogaSOULutions.com.

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The Curious Case for Ritalin Why it is Still Prescribed For AD/HD When Other (Equally Effective) Treatments Exist

by Dr. Chas Gant, M.D.

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or millions of parents, ‘back to school’ means giving children stimulant drugs such as Ritalin for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Faced with the choice of poor academic performance without drug treatment versus the risks of side effects, brain injury and addiction from drugs that work identically to cocaine and speed, parents can find themselves between a “rock and a hard place.” Physicians are well aware of these problems and many struggle with the clinical choice of putting their young patients at risk.

Psychotherapy has been found to be ineffective in modifying AD/HD symptoms. Drug treatment like Ritalin can eliminate such symptoms as inattentiveness, impulsivity and motor restlessness, which shows there is strong evidence that a biophysical imbalance is present in the brains of those with AD/HD.

In the 1990s, while treating thousands of children with AD/HD, I compiled much of the research available on nutritional deficiencies, toxicities and hormonal dysregulation as it related to AD/HD, I discovered that approximately 100 peer-reviewed studies could be clustered into eight causative ‘risk

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factor’ categories: food allergies, thyroid disorders, amino acid deficiencies, essential fatty acid deficiencies, mineral deficiencies, heavy metal toxicities, B vitamin deficiencies and a high carbohydrate/low protein diet.

With functional medicine testing, we often find that children diagnosed with AD/HD, and probably adults too, have underlying issues and may suffer from various metabolic abnormalities (such as thyroid disorders), chronic infections (like Lyme), and genetic vulnerabilities (such as methylation defects), that conspire in different patterns from individual to individual to cause AD/HD symptoms.

Ten years ago, research was conducted and published in Alternative Medicine Reviews (a Medline-affiliated medical journal) that suggested nutritional supplements work as effectively as Ritalin in the treatment of AD/HD. Nutritional supplements do not cause risky side effects, nor do they cause brain injury or addiction. They are also less expensive than drug therapies.

So, why has the world not embraced

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With functional medicine testing, we often find that children diagnosed with ADHD, and probably adults too, have underlying issues and may suffer from various metabolic abnormalities. these safe, efficacious and inexpensive technologies in the treatment of AD/HD?

The primary reason, I believe, is the fourth factor which justifies the value of any treatment: the difficulty of application. Taking a few relatively small pills is much easier than guzzling down a few handfuls of supplements twice a day, particularly for children.

Convenience is the mantra of our busy world and nutritional supplements can be difficult to administer in our fastpaced lives.

My hope in presenting this article is to inform parents that an effective, safe and inexpensive option exists to stimulants such as Ritalin. Armed with this knowledge, parents should be encouraged to seek alternative treatment to the easiest course of action. Taking the time to get your child diagnostically tested to find his or her unique risk factors and being steadfast in administering nutritional supplements (coaxing may be needed), will make a tremendous difference in the ability of the child to remain attentive, interested and find success at both home and school.

Chas Gant, M.D., Ph.D., is an author, physician and practitioner, specializing in molecular health and healing. For more information, call 202-237-7000 ext 104 or visit DrChasMD.com. See ad, page 8.

To learn more from Dr. Chas on AD/ HD, attend his free seminar. For details, see ad, page 25.

(Source: Harding, Judah, Gant (2003) Outcome-Based Comparison of Ritalin versus Food-Supplement Treated Children with AD/HD, Alternative Medicine Review; 8(3):319-330)

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First National Kids Yoga Conference To Be Held at GWU

by Athena Allread

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his September, Alexandria-based nonprofit YoKid will be hosting the first National Kids Yoga Conference in partnership with the George Washington University School of Public Health in Washington, D.C.

Planning for this inaugural event began in the summer of 2013 at YoKid’s annual retreat. The staff and board members were separated into focus groups to brainstorm creative ideas for growing their mission of empowering kids and teens, cultivating peace, mindfulness, and selfawareness, fostering overall health and well-being, and educating and training adults on best practices of bringing yoga to kids and teens. The

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word “conference” was written on the board in front of the room when YoKid’s founders, Michelle Kelsey Mitchell and Ellie Burke, shared the exciting news that a conference site had been booked—YoKid would be hosting the first National Kids Yoga Conference.

Over the course of the year, YoKid has partnered with Lil Omm Yoga Studio in D.C. and assembled an amazing team of planners and volunteers.

YoKid maintains an active teacher pool of approximately 30 teachers, has trained more than 240 teachers and has facilitated over 4,620 kid’s yoga classes in the D.C. area. Since their initiation in 2006, YoKid has more than doubled their numbers of

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programs annually. Now sprawling outside of the D.C. area, they aim to unite with their peers in the national kids yoga community—yoga teachers, educators, researchers, therapists, and parents—for the first time under one roof for a weekend of learning, collaboration, and support for each other in the important work of bringing yoga and mindfulness to kids all across the country.

The National Kids Yoga Conference team has divided the conference schedule by tracks: schools, business, research, tools and teens. The Teen Track, a highlight of the National Kids Yoga Conference, is designed to engage youth ages 13 to 17 with an inspiring day full of yoga and opportunities to advance their personal practice, as well as connect with the premier community of youth yoga practitioners. Attendees will discuss relevant topics like yoga, body image and self-esteem, hands-on applications for yoga in daily life and the progression from teen yogi to yoga teacher. Engaging activities, including a circus yoga workshop and plenty of movement, are incorporated into this fun and educational Teen Track day.

Whether a yoga teacher or a school teacher, a therapist, a wellness practitioner, a researcher, a parent or a teen—all will find useful information from more than 40 presenters from organizations and institutions that have been at the forefront of children’s yoga. Participants will learn about innovative approaches to yoga and mindfulness in schools and about new research on kid’s yoga. There will be an opportunity to explore a wealth of new tools to fuel one’s own teaching and business while networking with other professionals in the field.

The Kids Yoga Conference will be held on Saturday, September 27 at George Washington University School of Public Health in Washington, D.C. For more information, a full schedule of events and speakers or to register, visit KidsYogaConference.org. See ad, page 29.

Althena Allread is a YoKid blogger and kids yoga teacher.

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D.C.’s First Annual Hair and Healthy Beauty Show Where Relaxed Meets Natural Hair

by Robin Fillmore

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he Ubiquitous Hair and Health Trade Show: Where Relaxed Meets Natural Hair will be held the weekend of August 23 and 24. The event, open to all, will consist of two days of information, entertainment, giveaways, fitness demonstrations and commerce (including items that will be available for purchase) to help women embrace all facets of who they are. In addition to the trade show, featuring more than 70 booths of the leading hair, skin, body, cosmetic and beauty products and services from local and national vendors, the event will feature nationally known entertainers, including featured celebrity ambassador Chante Moore, Grammy Award Winner Chrisette Michele, the “Let’s Talk About It” forum discussion series on various health and wellness topics and the “Food For Your Soul” Celebration.

The “Food for the Soul” gospel celebration will be an opportunity for each woman’s spirit to celebrate and rejoice. Team Ubiquitous believes a healthy spiritual center is the key to the overall health of an individual’s mind, body and soul. On Sunday,

guests will be invited in for a time of reflection, renewal and spiritual food.

Attendees will experience the soulful singing of stellar award-winning gospel artist Maurette Brown-Clark, Grammy award-winning R&B/Inspirational singer Chante Moore, the anointed music ministry of Valencia Lacey and others as they lift their voices in worship and praise.

Although primarily a consumerfocused show, Ubiquitous is pleased to partner with Kimble Beauty and have celebrity stylist and beauty expert Kim Kimble, star of WE TV’s L.A. Hair, to present “Style Session with Kim Kimble” for hair stylists, makeup artists and cosmetology students. This promises to be a highly beneficial session for those professionals in the industry and well worth the tuition.

GBL Sales, Inc. is pleased to present the inaugural, Ubiquitous Hair and Health Trade Show as an annual event, along with its sponsors ORS (formerly Organic Root Stimulator), Ambi Skincare, 4 Naturals presented

by Bronner Brothers and Wells Fargo.

They also have engaged great media

partners in WHUR 96.3 FM, as well as Juicy, Hype Hair and Today’s Black Woman magazines.

The team has partnered with Metro DC (wmata.org), which is offering discounted admission tickets for SmarTrip card holders. The organizers encourage attendees, many of whom will be coming from within the D.C. metropolitan area in addition to other cities along the East Coast, to take Metro to the event and keep D.C. green.

The Ubiquitous Hair and Health Show is more than an event, but a movement to promote a complete way of being for women of all shapes, sizes and colors. It’s for every woman, everywhere in every way they want to be. They are giving back through this event, particularly to the Ina Mae Green Foundation, which champions education against domestic violence and the Love and Care Multiplied Global Mission, which provides resources and support to the people of Haiti.

The Ubiquitous team wants every woman to not only feel she is healthy, but to be affirmed, educated, tested and know that she is. This will be a great girlfriend getaway weekend.

The Ubiquitous Hair and Health Show will be held August 23 and 24 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Omni Shoreham Hotel, 2500 Calvert St. in Washington, D.C. For those taking metro, use the Woodley Park-Zoo/Adams Morgan Metrorail stop or Metrobus routes L4, L6 or 96. The cost is $12. For more info, visit UbiquitousHairAndHealthShow.com.

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Be Happy Now Simple Ways to Quickly Lift Your Spirits

by April Thompson

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inger-songwriter Pharrell Williams, whose infectious hit song, “Happy,” has spread joy worldwide, seems to know the secret to happiness. More than 1,500 people from 140-plus countries have posted their own happy video spinoffs at WeAreHappyFrom.com, inspired by his daylong music video featuring Los Angeles residents from all walks of life dancing and lip-syncing to the tune.

Can happiness really be just a finger snap away? It depends on our unit of measurement—a moment versus a lifetime. Research by such au-

thorities as Psychologist Martin Seligman, Ph.D., director of the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, suggests that several basic ingredients are keys to long-term happiness, including a sense of purpose, engaging activities, quality relationships and achievable goals. Ultimately, happiness is a subjective state, gauged only by personal perception.

Still, there are quick, simple things we can do to shift our mood into a higher gear, according to Jonathan Robinson, author of Find Happiness Now: 50 Shortcuts for Bringing More

Love, Balance, and Joy Into Your Life.

“Broadly, happiness shortcuts fall into two categories—those that help in letting go of negative emotions and those that help in tuning into or expanding positive feelings,” says Robinson. “The end result is the same.”

Practice gratitude. When the day’s affronts seem excessive, we can reframe them by counting our blessings mentally or in a journal. Review the day with an eye to everything that went right. “Soon, you’ll start to see everything as a gift,” observes Robinson.

Pencil it in. Take a few moments at the start of each week to block out a little time every day for happy activities.

Pay it forward. It doesn’t take much to make someone’s day, advises Robinson. Give someone a compliment or a piece of chocolate and watch their attitude instantly change, which in turn lifts you into their happy cloud.

Sing and dance. Williams applies this secret: Moving our bodies and vibrating our vocal chords helps shake us out of our mental cages. “It’s hard to feel bad when you sing. It’s a choice: You can stay angry for four hours or

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sing for 15 seconds,” Robinson notes.

Don’t underestimate the power of a simple jumpstart to happiness.

Research from the University of Arizona shows that as little as a forced smile not only releases stress-fighting neuropeptides and mood-lifting serotonin in the brain, it activates a chain reaction of happiness around us.

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This fall, the University of California-Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center will host the first public online course on the Science of Happiness. According to Dacher Keltner, Ph.D., professor of psychology and founding director of the center, the university’s meta-analysis of research indicates that 50 percent of our happiness level is tied to genetics, while only 10 percent stems from our environment.

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Is Your Brain Stuck?

Neurofeedback Can Provide Relief

by Dr. Craig D. Sanford

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stuck brain is not an official diagnosis. However, it is a description many professionals have used to describe patients who have struggled with a wide range of brain dysfunctions. These persons can, in part, be suffering from symptoms such as ADD/ADHD, anxiety, autism,

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Asperger’s syndrome, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and post-traumatic brain injury (TBI), as will be further discussed.

To better understand what is meant by your brain to be “stuck,” it is helpful to know the basic workings of how the human brain works. To begin

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with, the brain is an electrical powerhouse and moves through varying electrical intensities know as frequencies. These frequencies are categorized by the range of their intensity. Each range of frequency coincides with a different mental state which is key to this discussion (see table at bottom).

Humans need to be able to shift brain activity to match what they are doing. At work, it’s important to stay focused and attentive and produce mild to moderate beta waves. At home while relaxing, they want to produce less beta and more alpha activity. To get sleep, the brain needs to be able to slow down even more and easily move from alpha to theta and then into delta. It is easy to understand the importance of making the frequency shift to match the task at hand.

A problem occurs when the brain gets stuck in a limited brain frequency pattern. For example, after a functional brain injury (which could be physical or emotional), the brain will try to stabilize itself and will purposely slow down to protect and heal. Unfortunately, the brain can get caught up in this slow zone (theta). If it gets “stuck” in the slower frequencies, it will be difficult to concentrate, focus and think clearly. This is commonly seen in post-traumatic brain injury. ADD and autism would both fall under theta dominance as well.

The opposite is true when under a large amount of stress, whether real or perceived, for an extended period of time. An individual could then become “stuck” in high beta with symptoms of anxiety, hyperactivity, anorexia or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Neurofeedback, a therapy that has been developed over the past 60 years, has been clinically shown to help improve brain wave frequency “dis-regulation.”

Neurofeedback is a type of biofeedback that measures brain waves to produce a signal that can be used as feedback on brain activity to teach self-regulation.

There are two types of neurofeedback; active and passive. Active neurofeedback uses video or sound, with positive feedback for desired brain activity and negative feedback for brain activity that is undesirable. This approach is guided by a qEEG (electroencephelograph) and a brain map,

in order to determine a treatment plan and can be helpful to monitor progress. Each treatment takes between 30 to 45 minutes and can take between 30 and 60 visits to achieve maximum results and requires the patient to be actively involved in the sessions.

The second type of neurofeedback is passive because it requires no active involvement by the patient. This treatment works particularly well with children and the disabled. Ultra Low Electrical Neurofeedback (ULEN) is passive. The patient is simply asked to relax while seated as the neurofeedback is performed over a period of 15 to 25 minutes. For just a few seconds at a time, a tiny and imperceptible electromagnetic signal (1/300th of that emitted by a cellphone) is delivered globally throughout the scalp. This signal is dictated by the individuals own qEEG and causes a slight fluctuation in dysfunctional brainwaves patterns.

ULEN is not diagnostic-based. It works by responding to a dysfunctional brain—one that is stuck in a maladaptive brainwave pattern. ULEN allows the brain to reorganize and better regulate itself. Neuroscientists believe the brain’s own defenses against stressors and traumas can create neural gridlock. ULEN works around these blockages by allowing the brain to “reboot,” restoring optimal functioning.

No drugs are required. Many people feel broad improvements after the first two to four sessions. A course of treatment for maximum benefit is usually 20 to 30 visits. Many times, a family member will report a change in the patient well before the patient.

Neurofeedback is a promising therapy for many patients, even those currently utilizing standard drug therapies and counseling. In many cases, a change can be felt in just a few sessions. The future is here now and ready to help those whose brain is “stuck.”

Dr. Craig Sanford, DC, has been in practice for 26 years and currently practices in McLean and Woodbridge.

He utilizes chiropractic, nutrition and Neurofeedback to help restore his patients back to health. His office can be contacted by calling 703-8211013. See ad, page 13.

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Cures in the Kitchen Dr. Mark Hyman is Fed Up with Our National Health Crisis

by Judith Fertig

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n the groundbreaking new documentary film, Fed Up, Dr. Mark Hyman prescribes a major overhaul of the diets of all family members in communities across America to prevent far-reaching unwanted consequences. Hyman practices functional medicine, which takes a wholesystem approach to treating chronic illnesses by identifying and addressing their root causes, starting with poor diet. He is also the bestselling author of a series of books based on The Blood Sugar Solution.

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In Fed Up, I met with a family of five to talk with them about their health and understand the roots of their family crisis of morbid obesity, pre-diabetes, renal failure, disability, financial stress and hopelessness. Rural South Carolina, where they live, is a food desert with nearly10 times as many fast-food and convenience stores as supermarkets.

The family’s kitchen was also a food desert, with barely a morsel of real food. There were no ingredients to make real food—only pre-made factory science projects sold in cans and boxes with unpronounceable, unrecognizable ingredient lists.

This family desperately wanted to find a way out, but didn’t have the

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knowledge or skills.

They lived on food stamps and fast food and didn’t know how to navigate a grocery aisle, shop for real food, read a label, equip a kitchen or cook nutritious meals. Their grandmother has a garden, but never taught her children how to grow food, even though they live in a temperate rural area.

What results did the family see when they changed their eating habits?

I got the whole family cooking, washing, peeling, chopping, cutting and touching real food—onions, garlic, carrots, sweet potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, salad greens, even asparagus.

After 12 months, the mother had lost 100 pounds and was off of blood pressure medication, and because the father had lost 45 pounds, he finally qualified for a kidney transplant. The son originally lost 40 pounds, but because he was stuck in a toxic food environment at school and only able to get a job at a fast-food eatery, he gained much of it back. I’m happy to report that he is now working to get back on track.

How is sugar a primary factor in creating obesity?

Of some 600,000 processed food items on the market, 80 percent contain added sugar. Sugar calories act differently from fat or protein calories in the body.

Sugar calories drive food addiction, storage of belly fat, inflammation and fatty liver (now the number one reason for liver transplants). They also disrupt appetite control, increasing hunger and promoting overeating, and are biologically addictive. Sugar calories are the major contributor to heart attacks, strokes, cancer, dementia and Type 2 diabetes. Sugar is a root cause behind the tripling of obesity rates in children since the 1970s.

As just one example illustrating government policy culprits, although poor people are disproportionately affected by obesity, the food industry vigorously opposes any efforts to limit the use of food stamps for soda. Every year, the U.S. government pays for $4 billion in soda purchases by the poor (10 billion servings annually) on the front end, and then pays billions more on the back end through Medicaid and Medicare to treat related health consequences that include obesity and diabetes.

What are the consequences if we don’t attack the problem of poor diet now?

The costs of a poor diet are staggering: At the present rate, by 2040, 100 percent of the nation’s federal budget will go for Medicare and Medicaid. The federal debt soars as our unhealthy kids fall heir to an achievement gap that limits America’s capacity to compete in the global marketplace. At the same time, having 70 percent of young people unfit for military service weakens national security.

In a detailed scientific analysis published in The New England Journal of Medicine, a group of respected scientists reviewing all the data affecting projected life spans concluded that today’s children are the first generation of Americans ever that will live sicker and die younger than their parents.

Health issues due to poor diet comprise a national crisis. They threaten our future, not just for those fat and sick among us, but all of us.

For more information on Fed Up, visit FedUpMovie.com.

Judith Fertig blogs at AlfrescoFood AndLifestyle.blogspot.com from Overland Park, KS.

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Leadership Program Fans the Flames of Medical Students’ Fires

by Kami Nicole Veltri

Why is it that medical students, who embark on their educational journey with statistically significant higher levels of empathy than their peers, suffer from a loss of empathy, ironically, as they train to care for others? What smothers the flame?

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ire transforms. A spark of interest, inflamed with enough energy to ignite, quickly kindles into a burning desire. Yet without fuel, even a robust blaze burns out.

Burnout is real and it is rampant.

Major institutional studies show that at least half of medical students across the country may be affected by burnout during their medical education. Further

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empirical research indicates burnout to be predictive for suicidal ideation and inversely correlated with empathy. To reiterate, it is likely that half of all medical students are experiencing burnout.

They are not only more likely to have suicidal thoughts; they are also more likely to experience a decline in empathy. More concerning, these effects are implicated to continue into residency

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and beyond, negatively impacting the physician-patient relationship and patient outcomes.

Why is it that medical students, who embark on their educational journey with statistically significant higher levels of empathy than their peers, suffer from a loss of empathy, ironically, as they train to care for others? What smothers the flame?

Consider the origin of the word “empathy,” derived from the Greek “em” and “pathos,” literally “into feeling.” Current medical education keeps students out of feeling, instead favoring detached, technologic and objective clinical neutrality.

Studies point to curricula—“formal,” “informal” and “hidden”—as well as a lack of role models and the development of a sense of elitism, as main reasons for empathy decline.

So what fuel can we add to the fire to keep it aflame? Not surprisingly, research reveals a positive correlation between well-being and medical student empathy and urges the development of student wellness programs.

(Read: physician, heal thyself.)

In her famous TED Talk on the power of vulnerability, a subject she has studied for over a decade, researcher-storyteller Dr. Brené Brown tells us, “As it turns out, we can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.” Moreover, she highlights courage and authenticity, in addition to vulnerability, as the keys to connection.

To empower medical students with these qualities—courage, authenticity and vulnerability—in order to reclaim wellness and empathy and to reignite their passion to heal, is the “hidden curriculum” of the Leadership and Education Program for Students in Integrative Medicine (LEAPS). Each summer, 30 medical student-leaders from across North America are selected to attend LEAPS, a weeklong immersion into IM led by the Consortium of Academic Health Centers in Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM) in collaboration with the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) and the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, with the generous support

“As it turns out, we can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.” ~Dr. Brené Brown of the Weil Foundation.

The “informal curriculum” builds upon the beauty of vulnerability to promote generous listening to the self. As a previous student director of LEAPS once said, “We didn’t teach them about self-care; we put them in an environment where they could learn to take care of themselves.”

Nestled in the Berkshire Mountains, Kripalu offers a sacred space complete with ample natural beauty, yoga and dance, healing arts and nourishing, mindfully prepared and consumed meals. Through a collaborative model rather than a dominator model, students learn from mentors and one another. They build a lasting sense of community and nurturing relationships with role models. Elitism is replaced with modesty, respect and cooperation.

Finally, the “formal curriculum” teaches a student to be the teacher, to break down the barriers to vulnerability and to beat burnout. Students are armed with an artillery of experience and evidence supporting healing practices ranging from yoga and acupuncture to meditation and functional medicine. They have honed their leadership skills and developed strategic plans to implement projects promoting integrative medicine. They return to their respective medical schools ready to blaze trails, with courage and authenticity.

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NOTE: All calendar events must be received via email by the 10th of the month and adhere to our guidelines. Email Robin@NaturalAwakeningsDC.com for guidelines and to submit entries.

Yoga Basics – 9:30-10:30am. 4-week series offers the fundamentals of posture and breathwork. If you’re new to yoga or want to work your way back into practice, here is an opportunity to get started. $60. Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW. Register: LilOmm.com.

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Yoga for ADHD, Autism and Differently Abled – 1:30-6pm. Thru Aug 3. Learn how to reach the hearts and minds of these children with creativity, intuition, and excellent therapeutic tools. No previous experience necessary. Designed for parents, teachers, family members, and anyone working with children. $510. Radiant Child Yoga, Reston Association, 12001 Sunrise Valley Dr, Reston, VA. Register: 1-888-561-2126 or Info@ChildrensYoga. com or ChildrensYoga.com.

National Farmers’ Market Week – Thru Aug 10.

Join Dawson’s Market as we celebrate National Farmers Market week with a special Farmer’s Market on Wednesday, August 6th, tastings of local produce, demonstrations and a Farm to Table Dinner. Free. Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: 240-428-1386.

Create Your Own Natural Spa Products – 6:308pm. Enjoy crafting your own spa products, such as soaks and sugar scrubs. Head home with your own soothing, aromatic creations. $50. Herban Lifestyle, 2931C Eskridge Rd, 1st Fl, Merrifield, VA. Register: HerbanLifeStyle.com/Catalog/ Workshops.

Self-Care for Caregivers Series: Managing Stress and Self-Energizing – Online on GoToMeeting: 10am–1pm. In-person: 3–6 pm. If you are too busy caring for others to take care of yourself, this workshop is for you. Learn quick easy and effective ways to care for yourself. What you learn you can teach others. Details when you register. Fairfax, VA. Register: 571-422-6734 or chisuchinta@yahoo.com or chisuchinta.com/schedules.html.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 Farm to Mat: A Farm Tour and Yoga Experience – 9am-5pm. Join Greenease for a Farm to Mat: Farm Tour and Outdoor Yoga Experience at Even’Star Organic Farm in Lexington, MD. Greenease at Even’Star Organic Farm in Lexington, MD. Bus departs from Dupont Circle, DC. Register: EventBrite.com/e/Farm-to-Mat-aFarm-Tour-Yoga-Experience-at-Evenstar-OrganicFarm-Tickets-11411675629.

Quantum-Touch Level 2 – 9am-5pm. Thru Aug 3.

Beyond the boundaries of what you think you are.

Learn heart-centered techniques that lead to amazing discovery, power, love and ease of transformation.

CEU’s available. Miriam Hunter, 8996 Burke Lake Rd, Ste L101, Burke, VA. RSVP: 202-361-7321 or MiriamHunter@verizon.net.

Mandala: Circles of Wholeness: Art as Spiritual Practice – 10am–1pm Online on GoTo Meeting. No previous artistic training or talent required. This workshop is about the process, not the product. GoToMeeting link sent when you register. $200/online or $225/in person. Info and register: 571-422-6734 or chisuchinta@yahoo.com or chisuchinta.com/schedules.html.

Gluten Free (GF) Living Workshop – 1-5 pm.

For newbies and veterans, covering: The history of wheat and how it affects the body, the importance of blood sugar regulation, a simple rating system to determine how nutritious a GF food is, taste testing 15 GF foods, a daily meal plan for eating GF and baking with almond flour. $85/total with a $25/ deposit. Neck, Back, and Beyond, Conf Room, Ste 204, Fairfax, VA. Register: 703-865-5690 or NeckBackAndBeyond@gmail.com.

Yoga Lab: Yoga as a Philosophy – 2:30-3:30pm.

David Ingalls explains how yoga became yoga and what it has meant though out the ages. $20.

Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown. Info: LilOmm.com.

Summer Expansion Workshop: Yoga, Qi Gong Meditation – 4-7pm. We will balance the Yin nature of the gentle cleansing stretches and breathe work with a variety of dynamic sequences and expansive and opening movements with a vigorous and stimulating approach embodying the expansive nature of the season. $40. Budda B Yoga Center, 1115U St, Ste 202, NW. Register: Bit.ly/1qnlhQ9.

Info: 202-588-5885.

Jivamukti Workshop-Hip Hop Asana – 2-3:30pm. This workshop will be a fusion of yoga and hip-hop culture, as these styles inform each other well. $20. Budda B Yoga Center, 1115 U St, Ste 202, NW. Register: Bit.ly/1ppa4hl.

Nutrition Expo – 3-5:30pm. A free, interactive family event hosted by our nutrition graduate students. Experience hands-on activities and tastings­ –all focused on whole, healthy foods and sound nutrition. Maryland University of Integrative Health, 7750 Montpelier Rd, Laurel, MD. Register: Events@MUIH.edu or MUIH.edu.

Beer Club, August Meeting – 4-5pm. Members enjoy a monthly beer tasting and food pairing, and first access to newly tapped kegs of limited edition, special and seasonal beers at each meeting.

Member privileges include, discounts on growler refills and discounts to all Dawson’s Beer Tours. $10/person. Discount rates available. Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: 240-428-1386.

Yin Yoga: Energize, Balance, and Restore – 6:15-8:15pm. Enter into a deep meditative space using yin postures, pranayama, meditation and restorative poses. $35. Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown. Info: LilOmm. com.

MONDAY, AUGUST 4 Mommy Meet Up: Gentle Sleep Support for Babies 0-12months – 12:30-1:30pm. Sleep coach Jessica Dodson helps you develop a sleep strategy that works for your family. $30. Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown. Info: LilOmm.com.

Intro to Meditation: Lost in Thought – 6:307:15pm. Come learn meditation basics with Timothy Eden, MSW in this calming introductory class. Studies show even minutes a day can make a big difference in your health. Come as you are, beginners and advanced meditators welcome. Free.

Restorative Health, 4801 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown. Register: RestorativeHealth.org.

YogaLab: Getting to Handstand- 2:30-3:30pm.

Learn the mechanics of handstand in a semi-private class. $20. Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown. Info: LilOmm.com.

OM Night (a.k.a. Mad Hatter Open Mic) – 6:308:30pm. Informal space for tea lovers and artists.

Be you pro or novice, all are welcomed. Bring your music, poetry, and all that pent-up creativity. House of Steep, 3800 Lee Hwy, Ste D, Arlington, VA. Info: HouseOfSteep.com/Upcoming-Event-Open-MicNight.

Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) – 7pm. GIG is a national organization in the forefront of providing information to people who suffer from gluten intolerance and Celiac Disease. Led by Babette LaMarre, NTP, Branch Manager for GIG of NOVA. Neck, Back and Beyond, 10560 Main St, Fairfax VA. Info and RSVP: 703-865-5690 or NeckBackandBeyond@gmail.com.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 Singles Sangha – 7-10pm. A welcoming community of people who gather to experience a shared connection with others who are, by choice or by circumstance, single at this time in their lives. All varieties and ages of single people are encouraged to join. Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown.

Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 Energetic Well BeingTMEssentials Webinar – 9:30am-4pm EDT. This four-day webinar teaches an accelerated version of working with symptoms compared to the EWBTM basic level, and clearing more challenging symptoms, whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Register: 508375-6452 or Info@EWBP.com. Info: EWBP.com/ Workshops.

Access Consciousness Bars Workshop – 10am6pm. Learn Access Bars with an Access certified Facilitator, receive 2 Bars sessions, run 2 Bars Sessions, receive a comprehensive manual and charts to become a practitioner. Gina Maybury, 8996 Burke Lake Rd, Ste L101, Burke, VA. Register: 703-629-0925 or 703Change@gmail. com.

Freeing the Heart – 1-5pm.Tara Brach, clinical psychologist, leading meditation teacher explores living with a fearless, open heart. Her workshop investigates ways we habitually cut ourselves off

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from feeling connected, compassionate and at home with ourselves and others. Donation, no set fee.

Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave, NW. Info: Metropolitan12@ verizon.net.

Monthly MAAD Sangha (Mood, Attachment & Anxiety Disorders) Dharma Sanga – 2-4pm.

With Trudy Ann Mitchell-Gilkey. Take refuge in the power of awareness, understanding and compassion. Not designed to replace psychotherapy, and participants must email facilitator in advance. Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown.

Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

Sauerkraut-Making Class – 2-3pm. Join Dawson’s Market and local vendor Sweet Farm Sauerkraut for sauerkraut making demonstration and tasting. Learn different techniques, and take home recipe cards. $5/ person. Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: 240-428-1386.

Handstands 101 – 2:15-4:15pm. With Krista Block. Find your center of strength and soar to new heights in this workshop all about handstands. $35.

Budda B Yoga Center, 1115 U St, Ste 202, NW. Register: Bit.ly/1oq3tqA. Let it Go: A Night of Frozen Inspired Yoga for Families – 5:30-6:30pm. Come celebrate what makes you shine as we experience the music and themes of Frozen, Lil Omm style. For families with ages 3-8yrs. $30. Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown. Info: LilOmm.com.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 Energetic Well BeingTMEssentials Webinar – 9am-1pm EDT. This four-day webinar teaches an accelerated version of working with symptoms compared to the EWBTM basic level, and clearing more challenging symptoms, whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Register: 508375-6452 or Info@EWBP.com. Info: EWBP. com/Workshops.

Postnatal Yoga: Shoulders, Abs, Back, Oh My! – 1:30-3:30pm. Learn how to unwind tight shoulders and strengthen your back and core. $30. Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown. Info: LilOmm.com.

AnumThubten KM Group – 4-6pm. This “open” KM groups is the Washington, DC chapter of the Dharmata Foundation which is dedicated to the teachings of AnamThubten. Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

Mindfulness in Recovery – 6:30-8pm. Open to those with an interest in the intersection of Buddhist teachings and 12 step recovery.

Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Register: Living-Mindfully.org.

MONDAY, AUGUST 11 Extreme Self-Care: Are You “Sensitive”? - and How to Protect You – 7-8pm. Join our monthly support group as together we work our way through Cheryl Richardson’s inspiring 12-month program, The Art of Extreme Self-Care, with Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach Melissa Windsor, DC, CHC. $10/class. Come walk the walk with us. Restorative Health, 4801 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown. Register: RestorativeHealth.org.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 DC Contemplative Lawyers Group – 7:30-9pm.

20 minutes of guided meditation followed by guided discussion. Open to all active and retired lawyers, legal professionals, law students and judges. Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14

specialevent Energy and Wellness: A No Frills Extravaganza

Come meet Bioenergy experts Jim Oschman Ph.D., and Charles Krebs Ph.D., two luminaries in the science behind energy medicine and best of bodywork and movement therapists.

Opportunities for holistic health practitioners and healthcare professionals to cosponsor and market products, services, and for networking.

Selling healthy food and drinks.

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$20 for individuals (Big discounts for groups.)

National City Christian Church 5 Thomas Cir, NW. Register: EnergyResearch.us or Judy.Kosovich@gmail.com.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15

specialevent Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training

Immerse yourself in laughter. Join us for the 9th YogaLaughs Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training, just one hour from DC. You’ll leave glowing with relaxation, joy and confidence, ready to lead Laughter Yoga with skill and ease.

August 15 6–9pm.

August 16 8:30am-5pm August 17 8:30am-4pm $295 Register: YogaLaughs.com/Training.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 Buddhist Psychology – 9am-5pm. Jack Cornfield, renowned clinical psychologist, meditation teacher and author, presents a daylong training on mindfulness based on the fundamental principles of Buddhist psychology, with meditations on love, consciousness, healing and the nature of mind. Sliding scale $108-200. Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW), 3401 Nebraska Ave, NW. Register: BrownPaperTickets.com/ event/631163.

Quantum-Touch Level 1 Workshop – 9am-5pm.

Thru Aug 17. Learn to: Accelerate healing, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, reduce stress and more. Address the root cause of disease and create

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space for true healing. CEU’s available. Miriam Hunter, 8996 Burke Lake Rd, Ste L101, Burke, VA. Register: 202-361-7321 or MiriamHunter@ verizon.net.

Energetic Well BeingTMEssentials Webinar – 9:30am-4pm EDT. This four-day webinar teaches an accelerated version of working with symptoms compared to the EWBTM basic level, and clearing more challenging symptoms, whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Register: 508375-6452 or Info@EWBP.com. Info: EWBP.com/ Workshops.

Contagious- The Energetic Viruses We Share – 2-4pm. We will explore the role of negative energies and how they impede our ability to live fully. $25. Budda B Yoga Center, 1115 U St, Ste 202, NW. Register: Bit.ly/1w572Rn.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 200-Hour Intensive Teacher Training – 7am9pm. Thru Aug 27. A 200-hour intensive teacher training at the Outer Banks, North Carolina. $3,708. Yoga District at Outer Banks, NC. Register: YogaDistrict.com.

Herbs for Chronic Disease – 9am-3pm.

Alternative ways of viewing chronic disease as an expression of mind-body health, ways to prevent the onset and/or progression of illnesses and remedies to address both the root causes and symptoms of illness. $50. Centro Ashé Herbs and Education, 1620 Chester Ave, Bryans Road, MD. Register: CentroAshe.org/Herbs-for-ChronicDisease.html.

Energetic Well BeingTMEssentials Webinar – 9:30am-4pm EDT. This four-day webinar teaches an accelerated version of working with symptoms compared to the EWBTM basic level, and clearing more challenging symptoms, whether physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. Register: 508375-6452 or Info@EWBP.com. Info: EWBP.com/ Workshops.

Circus Inspired Family Yoga – 2:30-3:30pm. A vinyasa flow class where we explore acro-yoga, circus yoga, and meditation. $20/family. Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Tenleytown.

Info: LilOmm.com.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 Cooking with Local Foods Dinner and Demo – 6-8:30pm. Spanish Paella meets Southern Maryland. Join superstar localfoods chef Terrance Murphy as we explore the traditional Spanish Paella recipe, with a Southern Maryland flair. $25. Centro Ashé Herbs and Education, 1620 Chester Ave, Bryans Road, MD. Register: CentroAshe.org/Cooking-with-Local-FoodsDemo-and-Dinner.html.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 Graduate Programs Open House – 9-11am.

Explore Maryland University of Integrative Health’s academic offerings in health and wellness and learn how our programs can advance and inspire your career. Maryland University of Integrative Health, 7750 Montpelier Rd, Laurel, MD. Register: Admissions@MUIH.edu or MUIH.edu.

Quantum-Touch Level 2 – 9am-5pm. Thru Aug 24. Beyond the boundaries of what you

think you are. Learn heart-centered techniques that lead to amazing discovery, power, love and ease of transformation. CEU’s available. Miriam Hunter, 8996 Burke Lake Rd, Ste L101, Burke, VA. Register: 202-361-7321 or MiriamHunter@ verizon.net.

Self Created Health Workshop – 9am-5pm. Thru Aug 24. Learn this simple, yet complete system that helps you to discover, release and transform emotional causation of dis-ease into forgiveness, love and gratitude. Miriam Hunter, 8996 Burke Lake Rd, Ste L101, Burke, VA. RSVP: 202-3617321 or MiriamHunter@verizon.net.

Mandala: Circles of Wholeness: Art as Spiritual Practice – 9:30am–5:30pm. No previous artistic training or talent required. This workshop is about the process, not the product. Vienna Arts Society, 115 Pleasant St, NW Vienna, VA. Register: 571-422-6734 or chisuchinta@yahoo.com or chisuchinta.com/schedules.html.

Family Constellations Circle – 2-6pm.

The group, led by a trained facilitator, helps individuals to explore a life issue to reveal and resolve hidden family/generational dynamics that it may be rooted in. Facilitated by Suchinta Abhayaratna, Th.D. $50. First timers free.

Fairfax, VA. Info and register: 571-422-6734 or chisuchinta@yahoo.com or chisuchinta.com/ constellations.html.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 Herbal Soap Making – 2-6pm. This practical hands-on class will include learning some of the healing qualities of herbs before we get down and dirty and make several batches of soap. Each participant will bring soap home with them from the class. $45. Centro Ashé Herbs and Education, 1620 Chester Ave, Bryans Road, MD. Register: Info@CentroAshe.org or CentroAshe.org. iPath Postural Alignment – 2-4pm. The iPath workshop is an evidence-based, therapeutic program adaptable to all levels of care and all age groups. Phase 1 focuses on the spine and integrates Yin Yoga principles. Anahata Chakra focuses on MFR techniques and trigger point therapy. $25. Budda B Yoga, 115 U St, Ste 202, NW. Register: Bit.ly/1mjkVKt. AnumThubten KM Group – 4-6pm. See Aug 10 for details. Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

Mindfulness in Recovery – 6:30-8pm. See Aug. 10 for details. Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown.

Register: Living-Mindfully.org.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 Movie Night – 7pm. We’re watching GMO OMG! This film discusses how GMOs affect our children, the health of our planet, and our freedom of choice. Perhaps the ultimate question: is it even possible to reject the food system currently in place, or have we lost something we can’t gain back? $5 includes non-GMO snacks and donated to a local charity. Neck, Back, and Beyond Conf Room, Ste 204, Fairfax, VA.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30 Grow Sprouts and Micorgreen in Your Home Year Round – 9am-12pm. Learn the importance of soaking/sprouting and receive supplies to create your own starter kit. $75. Raw Living D’Light, 11109 Byrd Dr, Fairfax, VA. Register: 571-4712891 or Luzy@RawLivingDLight.com.

Real Lyme Solutions – 9am-4pm. Learn 6 affordable solutions to help with brain fog, gut health, joint pain, and balancing emotions. $47. Family Health Thermal Imaging & Detox, 427A Carlisle Dr, Herndon, VA. Register: 703-635-6324.

Kids Cooking Adventure – 10-11am. Join Miss Rose as she hunts through the store in search of fresh and tasty ingredients to create exciting and educational meals. Gain knowledge about healthy food choices as you cook up a storm. For ages 7– 12. The class is FREE but you must register in advance. Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: 240-428-1386.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 31

Science and Spirituality: Awakening the Mind Body Connection – 2-5pm. An afternoon with renowned scientist, author and spiritual teacher, Joan Borysenko, who will share “Embodied Spirituality: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science.” Program includes holistic mini-expo, meditation and light refreshments. $49/advance or $59/door.

Sanctuary Retreat Center at Adat Shalom 7727 Persimmon Tree Ln, Bethesda, MD. Register: SanctuaryRetreatCenter.com. Info: Dr. Gilah Rosner at Gilah@Am-Kolel.org.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19

specialevent Dance/Movement Practice: Write in the Beat

Jazz Brunch – 11am-2pm. Join us for our monthly Jazz Brunch featuring live music by The Howie Jung Trio. All you can eat brunch buffet that includes an extended breakfast bar of locally-made bagels, smoked salmon, salad bar, made to order omelet and waffle stations, dessert, and mimosa tasting. Kids 3 and under are free so bring your whole family. $14.99/adult and $5.99/kid ages 4-10 years. Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: 240-428-1386.

Family Constellations Circle – 2-6pm. With support from group members and a trained facilitator, reveal and heal hidden dynamics in your family system that may be at the root of issues negatively affecting your life. Fairfax, VA. Register: 571-422-6734 or chisuchinta@ yahoo.com or chisuchinta.com/schedules.html.

With Margaret H. Wagner, 5Rhythms certified teacher. Using the energy fields of the 5Rhythms, participants weave dancing with stream-of-consciousness writing to open creative pathways and trust the poetry of each own voice. Perfect for published authors and part-time punsters, as well as those just wanting to stretch the imagination in their little toes.

September 19, 8-10:30pm September 20, 11am-5pm Friday: $20 cash at the door (or $10 for newcomers, $15 for students, ages 65 and up)

Saturday: $115 (early bird discounts available Carderock Springs Swim & Tennis Club 8200 Hamilton Spring Ct, Bethesda, MD Info: DanceInTheUSA.com or 5Rhythms.com, or SueGreen301@yahoo.com or call 301-448-6243

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 Lama Norbu Returns: The Five Vajras of Tibetan Yoga – 6:30-9:30pm. Tibetan yoga is an ancient and powerful purification practice which takes one beyond limitations and beliefs, helping to break through perceived barriers with deep love and compassion. Employing yantra, mudra, and mantra, you will be guided to balance the five elements of your body - fire, earth, water, wind, and space. No prior yoga experience is necessary. East Meets West Yoga Center, 8227 Old Courthouse Rd, Ste 310, Vienna, VA. Register: 703-356-YOGA (9642) or EastMeetsWestCenter.com.

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Aura Readings – 11am-2pm. Join Aspen Hill Brain & Body Yoga, for free aura readings. A photo and consultation helps you understand yourself and gives you insight on to how to manage stress and to balance your energy for improved health, happiness and peace. Free.

Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: 240-428-1386.

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Tibetan Yoga – 2-5pm. See Sept 5 for details. East Meets West Yoga Center, 8227 Old Courthouse Rd, Ste 310, Vienna, VA. Register: 703-356-YOGA (9642) or EastMeetsWestCenter.com.

National Kids Yoga Conference – 7am-7pm.

The National Kids Yoga Conference will bring leaders in kids yoga together with educators, yoga teachers, mental health workers, and people who care about kids. $195. YoKid.org and Lil Omm at George Washington University School of Public Health, 950 New Hampshire Ave, DC. Register: NKYC2014.EventBrite.com.

Chesapeake Herb Gathering – 12pm-12pm.

Thru Sept 28. An annual gathering of our herbal and plant community. Enjoy a day of workshops, local vendors, and networking with local medicine makers, teachers, clinicial herbalists, healers, botanists, farmers, birthkeepers, plant people, artists and homesteaders. $65. Centro Ashé Herbs and Education, Nanjemoy, MD. Register: CentroAshe.org/Chesapeake-HerbGathering.html.

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NOTE: All calendar events must be received via email by the 10th of the month and adhere to our guidelines. Email Robin@NaturalAwakeningsDC.com for guidelines and to submit entries.

sunday Dupont Circle FreshFarm Market – 8:30am1pm. A producer-only farmers’ market. Only regional growers from the Chesapeake Bay watershed region (DE, MD, PA, VA and WV) may sell at market. 20th St, NW, between Massachusetts Ave and Hillyer Pl, NW and the adjacent bank parking lot. Info: 202-362-8889.

Open Level GYROTONIC® Group – 10-11am.

Gyrotonic pulley tower group class, aims to improve flexibility while also increasing strength and muscle tone. $25-35/session. Elements Fitness & Wellness Center, 2233 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 217, NW. Register: FrontDesk@ ElementsCenter.com or ElementsCenter.com.

Sunday Morning Meditation Class – 10:30am12:30pm. With Hugh Byrne. An oasis in a busy week, including 30-minute guided meditations, a 10-minute walking meditation, and 30-minute discussion. A mini-retreat. Drop-ins welcome. The Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

West African Dance – 11:30am-12:30pm.

Throughout the African continent, dance and music have long been a part of the collective culture, bringing people together for praise, celebration, motivation, and healing. Immerse yourself in this beautiful experience as you learn dances from Guinea and Mali, West Africa.

Accompanied by live drumming. $18. MamaSita Studio, 6906 4th St, NW. Info: GoMamaSita.org.

Yoga for Women Cancer Survivors – 12-1pm.

A gentle yoga class that encourages and nurtures warrior women from brand new beginners to experienced yoginis undergoing treatment for and in remission from cancer. Suggested donation is $10. Proceeds benefit Living Beyond Breast Cancer. Circle Yoga, 3838 Northampton St, NW. Info: 202-686-1104 or CircleYoga.com.

Sunday iRest® Yoga Nidra Meditation – 6-7pm. Dubbed “Sleep of the Yogi”, this meditation is easy, relaxing, and has been clinically proven to decrease symptoms of insomnia, anxiety, PTSD, chronic pain, and depression. $20. OurSpace, 809 Easley St, Silver Spring, MD. Register: AwakenMyHeartNow. com/Sunday-Yoga-Nidra-Sessions.html.

Yoga – 6:30-8pm. A fluid contemplation in motion and balance of breath, this yoga class nurtures harmony of mind and body as we work with alignment and awareness, deep stretching and relaxation for a revitalizing experience. $10.

Joe’s Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Rd, Mount Rainier, MD. Register: JoesMovement.org.

Yoga for Women Cancer Survivors – 7-8:15pm.

Weekly meditative, gentle and restorative yoga using mindful movement, balance and breathing techniques taught by Amy Dara Hochberg to help women with a history of cancer to reduce anxiety, improve quality of life, and regain sense of self. On-going class; participants may join the group at any time. $7. Sibley Memorial Hospital, 5255 Loughboro Rd, NW. Register: Sibley.org/Community/Events/default.aspx.

Tai Chi – 8-9pm. Learn and enjoy peaceful slow movements, balance, and meditation, this class is for youth and adults who will study the movements of Tai Chi Chun long form. Tai Chi is an internal Chinese martial art practiced for health benefits, self control, and relaxation. $10. Joe’s Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Rd, Mount Rainier, MD. Register: JoesMovement.org.

tuesday Early Morning Meditation – 7:30-8:15 am. See Monday for details. The Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

Open-Level GYROTONIC® Group – 1-2pm. $25-35/session. See Sunday for details.

Elements Fitness & Wellness Center, 2233 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 217, NW. Info: FrontDesk@ ElementsCenter.com or ElementsCenter.com.

Meet the Locals – 4-7pm. 2nd Tues. Come sample products from our favorite local vendors while you enjoy a glass of beer or wine, on the second Tuesday of every month. Free. Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: 240-428-1386.

monday

Hoop Jam – 6:45-8:15pm. With Noelle Powers.

Lift your spirits and get a full-body workout accompanied by a super hoop-friendly soundtrack.

All ages and skill levels are welcome at this drop in jam. A lesson for those interested is presented in the first half hour of jam, and the remaining hour is self-directed. $10. Joe’s Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Rd, Mount Rainier, MD. Register: JoesMovement.org.

Early Morning Meditation – 7:30-8:15am. A beautiful way to start your day, with a 30-minute meditation and optional 15-minute discussion following. Drop-ins welcome. A project of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington (IMCW). The Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

Conscious Manifesting – 7-9pm. 2nd and 4th Tues. Come manifest and create abundance, joy and success in the “Theta” state together with the powerful energy of the group. Includes a brief introduction to thetahealing and how we work with it here. $40/online or $45/at the door.

Joyous Vibrations LLC at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment, 222 N Washington St, Falls

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I Meditate DC: Introduction to the Art of Living – 7-8pm. Refresh and rejuvenate with a free community service initiative to introduce people to breathing and meditation techniques that have a calming effect on the mind and reduce stress.

In this 60-minute interactive session, participants develop insight on how to reduce negative emotions that eat up our energy and time. The Art of Living Foundation, 2401 15th St, NW. Register: Secure.ArtofLiving.org/Events.aspx.

wednesday Early Morning Meditation – 7:30-8:15am. See Monday for details. The Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

Pilates – 8:30-9:30am. This Pilates mat class is suitable for students who are new to pilates or who have already been introduced to the method.

The first two classes will focus on fundamental concepts in pilates and each week will build on the last. $10. Joe’s Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Rd, Mount Rainier, MD. Register: JoesMovement.org.

Advanced GYROTONIC® Group – 1011am. For clients with a significant amount of experience in the GYROTONIC method. $25-35/session. Elements Fitness & Wellness Center, 2233 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 217, NW. Info: FrontDesk@ElementsCenter.com or ElementsCenter.com.

Farmers’ Market – 11am-2pm. Every week the Farmers Market transforms itself as different fruits and vegetables become available throughout the season. Your pick of farmfresh fruits and vegetables, bedding plants, cut flowers, preserves, honey, herbs, baked goods, and more. Free. Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: DawsonsMarket.com/Farmers-Market.

Tai Chi/KiGong – 12:10-1pm. Experience DahnMuDo, derived from the ancient tradition of Korean healing and martial arts forms. It can be literally translated as “the art of being limitless.” While many DahnMuDo forms can be physically challenging, it is gentle enough to be practiced by anyone of any age. $20. Dahn Yoga DC, 700 14th St, NW. Register: 202-393-2440.

Yoga – 6:30-7:30pm. See Mon for details. $10.

Joe’s Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Rd, Mount Rainier, MD. Register: JoesMovement.org.

West African Dance – 7-8pm. See Monday for details. $18. MamaSita Studio, 6906 4th St, NW, DC. Info: GoMamaSita.org.

Free Health Lecture – 7-8:30pm. (Q and A until 9pm.) 1st and 3rd Wed. Free Education Health Lectures at the Roselle Center for Healing (Various Topics). The Roselle Center for Healing & Caring For Others, Ltd, 8550 Arlington Blvd, Ste 325, Fairfax, VA. Register: RoselleCare.com.

Wednesdays with Tara Brach – 7:309pm. Class includes 30 mins of Vipassana meditation instruction and guided meditation followed by an hour-long Dharma talk. A

large gathering of approximately 250-300 people. Beginners through advanced students welcome. There is no registration, but dana (donation) of about $10-15 is suggested to help cover expenses and is gratefully received.

River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6301 River Rd (corner of Whittier Blvd and River Rd), Bethesda, MD. Info: IMCW.org.

Blessing Circle – 9:15-9:45pm. 2nd Wed. The Insight Meditation Community of Washington offers the Blessing Circle to comfort and support those experiencing loss, grief, illness or any of the “10,000 sorrows” of this life.

We gather after the Wed class with Tara Brach for a 30-min service of sharing, mindful and supportive listening and metta practice. River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 6301 River Rd (enter from Whittier Blvd), Bethesda, MD. Info: IMCW.org.

thursday Early Morning Meditation – 7:30-8:15am. See Mon for details. The Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown.

Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

FreshFarm Market at Penn Quarter – 3-7pm.

Delicious locally grown fruits, veggies, cut flowers, plants, handmade soaps, meats, cheeses, eggs and more are available every week. Market is open rain, snow or shine. All EBT customers and WIC/Senior coupons customers will receive Double Dollar coupons to match their EBT dollars or WIC/Senior coupons redeemed up to $10. North end of 8th St, NW (between D and E sts, NW). Info: 202-362-8889.

Energy Yoga – 5:45-6:45pm. Classes use meridian stretching and tapping to open the energy flow, breathing postures to circulate and accumulate energy, and energy meditation to deepen your inner connections. $20. Dahn Yoga DC, 700 14th St, NW. Register: 202-393-2440.

Wine Down – 6:30-8:30pm. Relax and unwind after work at Dawson’s Market on Thursday Nights.

Listen to live acoustic music and sample wine and food. $5 for 4 tastings, other items vary but are always a great value. (*Must be 21+ and show valid ID for wine tasting.) Dawson’s Market, 225 N Washington St, Rockville, MD. Info: 240-428-1386.

Sister Circle – 6:45-8:15pm. 3rd Thurs.

Women are invited to come together to share and receive emotional support. The

group is led by Dr. Theresa Ford, a skilled and sensitive psychotherapist. $20. Creative Counseling and Coaching Services, Seekers Church, 276 Carroll St, NW. Register: TFord@ CreativeCounselingandCoaching.com.

I Meditate DC: Introduction to the Art of Living – 7-8pm. See Tuesday for details. The Art of Living Foundation, 2401 15th St, NW. Register: Secure. ArtofLiving.org/Events.aspx.

Meditation and Mindfulness: Tools for Alleviating Stress after a Cancer Diagnosis – 7-8pm. Join other cancer survivors to learn about and practice a relaxation technique that focuses on breathing. Facilitated by Ashley Nunn, MA. This practice has been shown to be effective in reducing stress, anxiety and loneliness and in improving sleep and boosting the immune system. Family members and caregivers welcome. Sibley Memorial Hospital, 5255 Loughboro Rd, NW. Info: Sibley.org/ Community/Events/default.aspx.

friday Early Morning Meditation – 7:30-8:15 am.

See Monday for details. The Center for Mindful Living, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 200, NW, Tenleytown. Info: Living-Mindfully.org.

Yoga for People Living With Cancer and Their Caregivers – 2-3pm. A relaxing hour of yoga taught by yoga therapist Yael Flusberg. The class combines breathwork, gentle movement and guided visualization. GW University Hospital, 900 23rd St, NW. RSVP: Jennifer Bires, 202-741-2218 or JBires@Mfa.Gwu.edu.

Community Yoga Class – 6-7pm. Community classes are mixed level, one-hour asana classes taught by a rotating selection of Unity Woods teachers. They are offered by different teachers every Friday of the session. $8/class. Unity Woods Yoga Center. 4853 Cordell Ave, Ste PH9, Bethesda, MD. Info: UnityWoods.com.

Yoga for Women Cancer Survivors – 6:307:30pm. Join Amy Dara for a gentle class designed for women undergoing treatment or who are in remission from cancer. We will include breathing, stretching, balancing, and healing yoga sequences appropriate during and after cancer treatment. Our safe and nurturing space welcomes new beginners to experienced yogis alike. $10. Lil Omm Yoga, 4708 Wisconsin Ave, NW. Info: LilOmm.com.

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saturday Mount Pleasant Farmers’ Market – 9am-1pm. A producer-only farmers’ market that supplies the Mount Pleasant neighborhood with local fruit, vegetables, meat, dairy, bread, cakes, flowers, plants and prepared foods. Some producers are certified organic or use chemical-free methods, and the meat and dairy is free range. Producers are all located within 125 miles of Washington DC. Lamont Park, corner of 17th and Lamont, NW. Info: Mtpfm.org.

Open Level GYROTONIC® Group – 9am.

See Sunday for details. $25-35/session.

Elements Fitness & Wellness Center, 2233 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 217, NW. Info: FrontDesk@ ElementsCenter.com or ElementsCenter.com.

Open Level GYROTONIC® Group – 10am.

See Sunday for details. $25-35/session.

Elements Fitness & Wellness Center, 2233 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 217, NW. Info: FrontDesk@ ElementsCenter.com or ElementsCenter.com.

Gyrokinesis Group Class – 11am-12pm.

Group class starting on stools, moving to the floor and finishing with a standing series. $1518. Elements Center, 2233 Wisconsin Ave, NW. Info: FrontDesk@ElementsCenter.com.

Open Level GYROTONIC® Group – 11am12pm. See Sunday for details. $25-35/session.

Elements Fitness & Wellness Center, 2233 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 217, NW. Info: FrontDesk@ ElementsCenter.com or ElementsCenter.com.

Adoption Event – 12-3pm. Rural Dog Rescue holds its weekly adoption event every Saturday at Howl to the Chief. Fosters and Volunteers Needed. Howl to the Chief, 733 8th St, SE. Info: RuralDogRescue.com.

Mid Summer Wine Festivals – 2-7pm. 3rd Sat. Hosted by Milk Lady Markets, the Mid Summer Wine Festival is a series of monthly wine tastings held the 3rd Saturdays of JuneOctober in Silver Spring, MD. Featuring local and national wineries and vineyards. $39. Milk Lady Markets at Silver Spring B & O Station, 8100 Georgia Ave, Silver Spring, MD. Register: 301-471-1976 or MilkLadyMarkets@gmail. com or MilkLadyEvents.org/2014/06/27/CraftBeer-and-Poetry-Slam-at-Wine-Fest.

I Meditate DC: Introduction to the Art of Living – 4-5pm. See Tuesday for details. The Art of Living Foundation, 2401 15th St, NW. Register: Secure.ArtofLiving.org/Events.aspx.

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ACUPUNCTURE CITY ACUPUNCTURE CIRCLE

1221 Connecticut Ave, Ste 5B, NW, DC 202-300-8428 • CityAcupunctureCircle.com Safe, affordable acupuncture care. Pay what you can, $20-$50 per treatment. Join the Community Acupuncture movement. See ad, page 33.

HEALEN ARTS ACUPUNCTURE WELLNESS STUDIO Akmal Muwwakkil, PhD, LA.c, LMT 12911 Woodmore Rd., Mitchellville, MD 301-249-2445 • HealenArts.net

We provide acupuncture, Tui Na, healthy lifestyle changes, weight loss, holistic diabetes care, pain reduction, detoxification to increase life and longevity.

See ad, page 10.

IX CHEL WELLNESS

202-630-2435 • Adam@IxChelWellness.com IxChelWellness.com We provide acupuncture and Intuitive Reiki services. Our mission is to heal our patients, ourselves, each other and our communities.

ACUPRESSURE AWAKEN MY HEART NOW Silver Spring, MD 240-839-1661 AwakenMyHeartNow.com

Compassionate, supportive and skilled, Shira combines acupressure and yogic meditation in individual/group sessions to cultivate a whole-being path to healing and growth.

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE NOVA CENTER FOR ALTNATIVE MEDICINE

4635 Chain Bridge Rd, Ste 100, McLean, VA 703-229-3106 NOVAAlternativeMed.com

Our holistic approach gets to the nexus of your pain and treats your pain’s cause, not just your symptoms. Dr Sanford’s approach and treatment will greatly improve your quality of life. Specializing i n P e r i p h e r a l N e u r o p a t h y, Chiropractic Care, Acupuncture, Nutrition, Physical Therapy and Functional Medicine. See ad, page 13.

BEEKEEPING AZURE B LLC

4730 Bicknell Rd, Marbury, MD 301-743-2331 • AzureBLLC.com Azure B LLC is a small, familyrun permaculture farm in Southern Maryland. We offer beekeeping education, locally made equipment and support.

OURSPACE ACUPUNCTURE

809 Easley St, Silver Spring, MD 301-388-8085 • OurSpaceAcupuncture.org Natural, affordable, safe, holistic health care in a comfortable community setting. We ask for $15-$40 per session.

Schedule your appointment online today.

REVIVE COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE 3808 34th St, Mt. Rainier, MD 301-864-1975 • Revive-Acupuncture.com

$15-$35 acupuncture. Open Tuesday/Thursday, 2-7pm, Wednesday/Friday/Saturday, 10am-2pm.

Convenient to Brookland, Chillum, H St, the Hill, Hyattsville, Cheverly. Free parking. Walk-ins welcome.

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BEDROOM FURNITURE SAVVY REST NATURAL BEDROOM

258 Maple Ave East, Vienna, VA and 12242 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 703-255-7040 (VA) or 301-770-7040 (MD) Maddie@SavvyRest.com • SRNB.com

Savvy Rest Natural Bedroom is the premier retailer of Savvy Rest organic mattresses and bedding, a Virginia manufacturer, and retailer of fine bedroom furniture.See ad, page 31.

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BOTANICAL GARDENS MEADOWLARK BOTANICAL GARDENS 9750 Meadowlark Gardens Ct, Vienna, VA 703-255-3631 KTomlinson@Nvrpa.org • Nvrpa.org

Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, a public garden for all the senses, a place of peace and reflection.

Near Wolf Trap in Vienna.

CATERING SUNNYSIDE GOURMET TonyaVirgan@gmail.com 301-585-6484

Catering and packaged foods using sustainable, organic, locally sourced ingredients. No processed ingredients. Specializing in international fusion dishes, paellas and tagines.

Accommodate all dietary needs..

CHIROPRACTOR MELISSA WINDSOR, DC, CHC

Chiropractor and Certified Holistic Health Coach Restorative Health 202-244-6661 RestorativeHealth.org Dr. Windsor is a Chiropractor and Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach. She is an expert in using both chiropractic and nutrition in healing the body and balancing the immune system both for general wellness and in the face of specific disease states. See ad, page 3.

CLEANING MAID BRIGADE CAPITAL REGION

4813-A Eisenhower Ave, Alexandria, VA 800-515-6243 Marketing@Maid-Brigade.com MaidBrigade.com

We are Green Clean Certified so you can have peace of mind that your home will be healthier for you, your pets, and the environment. See ad, page 9.

CONCIERGE MUSE CONCIERGE, LLC

PO Box 212, Washington Grove, MD 301-337-0988 Michele.Muise@gmail.com Muse-Concierge.com

Services that give people time for more important things in their lives. The services offered are property care including “green” cleaning, errands, in home/office food services, elder care and training. All services have sustainability in mind and use only natural, no chemical and organic options. See ad, page 31.

CONSULTING GRACE PRODUCTIONS

Grace Ogden, Principal 301-445-6771 • GraceProductions.co Grace Ogden leads this consulting and event production firm that supports progressive social change with an awareness of why spiritual principles and practices matter.

See ad, page 30.

COUNSELING CREATIVE COUNSELING AND COACHING SERVICES, LLC

Theresa Ford, Ph.D., LPC, BCC Individual and Group Therapy & Life Coaching 240-354-3854 CreativeCounselingAndCoaching.com

Offers high quality, culturally competent and gender-sensitive therapy and life coaching for adults that promotes physical, psychological and spiritual well-being.

ENERGY HEALING

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ELEMENTS FITNESS AND WELLNESS CENTER

306 Elden St, Herdon, VA 703-689-0114 Info@Crystalis.com • Crystalis.com

2233 Wisconsin, Ste 217, DC 20007 202-333-5252 • ElementsCenter.com

Enjoy the healing environment of our store which offers a variety of high energy stones, incense, books, meditation supplies and much more.

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ENERGETIC WELL BEING

LeRoy Malouf, Owner 625 Willow Street, West Barnstable, MA info@EWBP.com 508-375-6452 • EWBP.com

THE BIG BAD WOOF

Removing root causes of symptoms and creating strong internal support for desired state of being– what you want in life–with full confidence and self-reliance.

HEALING GATEWAY MARY KENDELL, MS, NP

Couples Therapy GW Center for Integrative Medicine 202-833-5055, 202-300-4981 Gwcim.com • SexMatters2Me@gmail.com Evaluation, treatment, counseling, and education for all sexual health concerns. See ad, page 2.

877-534-5534 HealingGateway.com

Sherry Lynn Dmytrewycz invites you to enter into a healthier, unlimited life with an energy clearing for you, your space or your animals. Handson or distance sessions. See ad, page 33.

INTEGRITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Thomas Valone, President 301-220-0440 IRI@starpower.net BioEnergyDevice.org • IntegrityResearch.org

NATALIE X. KORYTNYK, PHD

Individual & Couples Therapy GW Center for Integrative Medicine 202-833-5055 • Gwcim.com With over 20 years of experience, D r. N a t a l i e K o r y t n y k i s a psychologist with an expertise in relationship difficulties, anxiety, depression, work stress, eating disorders and self-esteem. See ad, page 2.

DENTIST LYNN D. LOCKLEAR, DDS, LVIF 437 Cedar Street, NW, DC 202-829-7600

Dr. Lynn Locklear has helped many patients to get their “bite back” non-surgically after a diagnosis of TMJ Dysfunction. An International Associate of Dentists, Top in Washinton, D.C. in 2012. See ad, page 5.

Integrity Research Institute is dedicated to scientific integrity in energy, propulsion, and bioenergetics. We pride ourselves in being an all-volunteer organization.

MIRIAM HUNTER & GINA MAYBURY 8996 Burke Lake Rd, Ste L101, Burke, VA Miriam Hunter 202-361-7321 MiriamHunter@verizon.net Gina Maybury 703-629-0925 GinaMaybury@gmail.com MiriamHunter.com

Offering Pilates, GYROTONIC® Exercise, physical therapy, massage and more for clients of all ages. Experience the joy of moving and breathing freely at Elements Center.

5501 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, MD 117 Carroll St NW, Old Takoma, DC 301-403-8957 • TheBigBadWoof.com The Big Bad Woof is a community resource for companion animals and their guardians. We are committed to providing nutritious foods for companion animals whether they are dogs, cats, small mammals, birds or fish. We provide access to organic, holistic and premium raw diets and a wide range of alternatives including holistic supplements for companion animals.

See ad, page 17.

HOWL TO THE CHIEF

733 8th St SE, DC 202-544-8710 • HowlToTheChief.com We carry a large assortment of natural, holistic, raw and organic diets for dogs, cats and small animals. Grooming and selfserve dog wash service too! See ad, page 16.

PAWS OF ENCHANTMENT 3415 Perry St, Mount Rainier 301-209-0411 PawsOfEnchantment.com

The original holistic pet spa in the Metro DC area.

Rated ‘Best’ by Washingtonian Magazine. Let your pet be enchanted!

HOLISTIC DENTISTRY TERRY VICTOR, DDS

Sessions and workshops in Quantum-Touch, Access Consciousness, Angel Card reading, Crystal Healing, Sound Healing, Metamorphosis and more.

See ad, page 10.

The DC Dentist 509 11th St, SE, DC 202-544-3626 • TheDCDentist.com Staff@TheDCDentist.com Dr.Victor provides exceptional holistic and biological dentistry.

The DC Dentist is the first ecofriendly and completely sustainable dental office in the DC area. See ad, page 4.

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HOLISTIC HEALING HAMBROCK HOLISTIC HEALING CENTER

297 Herndon Pkwy, Ste 105, Herndon, VA 571-331-9208 HambrockHolistic@gmail.com HambrockHolisticCenter.com

Complementary and Alternative therapists in collaboration providing, Hypnotherapy of all k i n d s , M a s s a g e T h e r a p y, CranioSacral therapy, Energy Work, Crystal Therapy, Life Coaching, MindBody Business Coaching and classes. See ad, page 33.

HOME ENVIRONMENT MIKHAIL SOGONOV, PH.D.

InSitu EcoTesting LLC GW Center for Integrative Medicine 202-833-5055 • Sogonov@InSitu-ET.com Consulting company inspecting indoor environment for biological agents negatively affecting human health. Mainly focused on mold, also includes sewage contamination and pet and pest allergens.

See ad, page 2.

HYDROTHERAPY VITALITY CLEANSING

RECONNECTIVE HEALING

Joan Fowler 301-452-3305 Joan@Dove333.com • Dove333.com Reconnective Healing, a new level of healing that scientists and researchers know we now have access to. It goes beyond energy healing spectrum into a new bandwidth of light and information. See ad, page 35.

571-331-1497 Inquiry@VitalityCleansing.com We offer an elegant and contemporary space using the natural element of water to gently wash debris from the colon. Our gravity-open system provides the connection between water and cleanliness that forms the basis for rejuvenation and vitality. See ad, page 42.

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

RECONNECTIVE HEALING Debbie Spinelli 305-992-5733 Debbie333Spinelli@gmail.com

ALI SAFAYAN, MD

Reconnective Healing is a form of holistic healing; leading clients to a deeply transformational path that allows for healing on all levels; physical, spiritual, mental and emotional. As a practitioner and healer since 2011, Spinelli has trained with Dr. Eric Pearl, the founder of Reconnective Healing.

See ad, page 35.

HOLISTIC PARENTING HOLISTIC MOMS NETWORK ARLINGTON/ALEXANDRIA CHAPTER 571-451-8273 HolisticMomsArlAlex@gmail.com HolisticMomsArlAlex.blogspot.com A nonprofit resource for parents seeking support in their natural lifestyle choices. All chapters hold monthly meetings and most offer supplemental activities.

Integrative Physician and Medical Acupuncturist Restorative Health 202-244-6661 • RestorativeHealth.org Dr. Safayan views himself as a partner and educator, offering medical assessment and treatment plans that combine the best of conventional medicine with complementary and alternative therapies. He offers medical acupuncture, p r o l o t h e r a p y, a n d a l l e r g y elimination techniques See ad, page 3.

ANGELA GABRIEL, MSOM, LAC, CH GW Center for Integrative Medicine 202-833-5055, 202-300-4981 Gwcim.com

Classical Chinese medicine, Japanese-style acupuncture, pain and stress management, chronic issues, family care, women’s health, pregnancy, children, Kiiko Matsumoto-style acupuncture, moxibustion, integrative medicine.

See ad, page 2.

Don’t limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time. ~Rabindranath Tagore

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CHAS GANT, MD, PHD

National Integrative Health Associates 5225 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 402, NW, DC 202-237-7000 ext 104 CEGant2@gmail.com • DrChasMD.com Dr. Gant, an internationally known author and integrative/functional medicine physician, addresses the root causes of chronic medical and psychiatric disorders, unique to each patient in all age ranges. See ad, page 8.

GW CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE 908 New Hampshire Ave, NW, DC 202-833-5055 • Gwcim.com

A clinic that effectively combines use of traditional and conventional evidencebased medical practices through a variety of complementary and alternative therapies and has many years of close collaboration with George Washington University Medical Center and a variety of physicians in most subspecialties. See ad, page 2.

INDIGO INTEGRATIVE HEALTH CLINIC 1010 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 660, DC 202-298-9131 IndigoHealthClinic.com

The body has an innate ability to heal itself and achieve balance from everyday stressors through non-toxic, non-aggressive and highly effective modalities. See ad, page 5.

MIKHAIL KOGAN, MD

GW Center for Integrative Medicine 202-833-5055 • Gwcim.com

Dr. Kogan is Medical Director of GW Center for Integrative Medicine where he provides integrative consultations and primary care. In addition, he does geriatric consultations at GW University Hospital and makes home visits to frail patients. See ad, page 2.

NATIONAL INTEGRATED HEALTH ASSOCIATES

5225 Wisconsin Ave, Ste 402, NW 202-237-7000 ext 118 NIHADC.com

Leaders in Integrative Medicine and Biological Dentistry At National Integrated Health Associates, NIHA, our team of Integrative doctors blends the best of western medicine and safe, proven complementary and alternative therapies to help the body heal. See ad, page 8.

RESTORATIVE HEALTH

4801 Wisconsin Ave, NW 202-255-6661 • RestorativeHealth.org

Restorative Health is a patient-focused integrative medical practice dedicated to helping people achieve optimal health. Using a variety of healing therapies, the doctors at Restorative Health work with you in identifying the causes of illness and in shaping personalized, unique therapies to eliminate them.

See ad, page 3.

VIP IMED

3022 Javier Rd, Ste 217, Fairfax 703-207-4646 • VIPiMED.com

VIP iMed features individualized Integrative Medical and Wellness Programs: transforming your life and addressing your individual needs, with a proven record of treating most medical conditions and getting results. See ad, page 38.

KOMBUCHA MTO KOMBUCHA 540-364-2639 MTOKombucha.com

Kombucha is a delicious, naturally brewed, healthy drink, rich in probiotics and B vitamins, with a history dating back 2,000 years.

Delivered at locations throughout the greater DC area or order online. See ad, page 45.

MASSAGE AT EASE: TRAGER AND MASSAGE

Deep bodywork that uses rhythmic, wavelike movement to ease pain, joint and muscle tension, and release long-held uncomfortable movement and postural patterns. See ad, page 2.

POTOMAC MASSAGE THERAPY INSTITUTE 5028 Wisconsin Ave, NW PMTI.org

Whether you are looking for a new career, interested in continuing your education to expand your knowledge as a massage therapist, or drawn to take an introductory class on massage and bodywork for yourself, family and friends–come join the circle at PMTI. Classes and workshops available, as well as massages. See ad, page 39.

MEDITATION BETHESDA TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION CENTER 11300 Rockville Pike, Ste. 408, North Bethesda 301-770-5670 • tm.org/Bethesda

410-736-9311 LifeDanceMe@gmail.com • LifeDance.me

HUGH BYRNE, PHD Hugh-Byrne.com

Mindfulness-based counseling and meditation instruction. Dr. Byrne teaches classes, retreats, and workshops on Buddhism and meditation in the Washington, D.C. area and nationwide and provides individual counseling.

DANCING IN SILENCE, INC. 301-466-5894 Info@DancingInSilence.com

Evening classes in Taiji, Qigong, Hip Tinh Mon. All Classes at UPCOB, 4413 Tuckerman St, University Park, MD, 20784. Free Saturday Taji. See ad, page 10.

Naturopathic Medicine Restorative Health 202-244-6661 • RestorativeHealth.org Dr. Threlkel provides her patients with a full range of naturopathic medical services, including naturopathic medical assessment, specialty laboratory testing, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, detoxification, nutritional supplementation and herbal medicine. See ad, page 3.

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Join us for personal development through a fusion of authentic movement, awesome music, and heartfelt emotions. A safe space for you to feel and dance organically all of the untapped potential within you.

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We’re Dawson Market, a locally focused, independent, natural foods market located in the heart of Rockville, Maryland in Rockville Town Square. At Dawson’s, we’re a tight knit community of food lovers that all work for the same mission: To be the heart and soul of our community through a strong commitment to local and organic foods. See ad, page 17.

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Digital infrared thermal imaging, thermography is a totally non-invasive clinical imaging procedure for detecting and monitoring a number of diseases and physical injuries, by showing the thermal abnormalities present in the body. It is used as an aid for diagnosis and prognosis, as well as monitoring therapy progress, for conditions and injuries. Non Invasive. No Radiation. Painless. Affordable. F.D.A. approved. See ad, page 33.

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Rebecca Norris is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, offering ThetaHealing, an extraordinary new technique that allows for immediate physical and emotional transformations and healings. See ad, page 58.

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We welcome you to East Meets West Yoga Center. Our studio provides a safe, tranquil, and supportive environment to practice, allowing individuals to open to the possibilities of what could be. We are a community of knowledgeable, dedicated yoga teachers where a variety of yoga styles flourish. See ad, page 35.

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