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Herbal Studies with a Master

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his weekend retreat for yoga instructors, hosted by professional yoga instructors Delia Quigley and Denise Kay, will be held on October 10 through October 12 at Genesis Farm, a 250-acre learning center and community supported garden. Participants are allowed time to let go and explore the hills, hike the forests and canoe the lakes to destress and reconnect with their core intelligence. Professional licensed massage therapists will be available on Saturday afternoon for an extra fee.

No matter the style of yoga, instructors need practices that balance and support a rigorous teaching schedule, including a self-practice for internalizing awareness and working postures to strengthen and support her/his body-mind; a practice to relax and renew the body-mind and spirit; and a practice to plan and outline classes being taught daily.

Retreat activities include a social introduction, light meal and wine; meditation and a class for self; massage; a rest and renew class; meditation and lesson planning for yoga classes; Sunday brunch and closing circle.

avid Winston’s Center for Herbal Studies two-year Clinical Herbalist Training Program begins in September 2014. Class will be held in Washington, New Jersey and online via live webcast and is scheduled to be the last program with the renowned herbalist as the primary instructor David Winston

David Winston, RH (AHG), an internationally respected herbalist, is the dean and teaches throughout the U.S., Canada, and the UK. He has been teaching the two-year program for 34 years. His philosophy is, “Good herbalists treat people, not diseases, and in our program we strive to teach the skills necessary so that each student can accomplish that goal, states Winston. “We focus on differential diagnosis skills, materia medica and therapeutics which are essential to individualize treatment and help patients to not only resolve symptoms, but create constitutional change needed for physical, emotional and spiritual wellness.”

The comprehensive program includes case histories, phytochemistry of medicinal plants, therapeutic protocols, herbal pharmacy, therapeutic use of nutritional supplements, field botany and nutrition/diet. Unique to this course is the breadth of traditions studied, including Traditional Chinese medicine, Eclectic/Western herbal medicine and others.

Location: 155 SR 94, Blairstown, NJ. For more information, call 908-902-4082. See add on page 29

For more information call 908-835-0822, email office@ dwherbal.com or visit HerbalStudies.net. See add on page 26.

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Wellness Begins with Food

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ccording to the American Academy of Dermatology, fungal infections cause about half of all nail disorders. They are more common in toenails because the toes often are confined to a warm, moist, weight-bearing environment.

Twin Rivers Podiatry uses lasers to kill fungus while leaving the surrounding tissue unharmed. The laser used in toenail fungus treatment doesn't affect surrounding tissue, so there is no pain, side effects, adverse reactions or complications. The FDA-approved treatment is an alternative to prescription medications and the in-office procedure is safe, effective and virtually painless with no downtime from your regular activities.

Dr. Robert Kaplan provides all types of foot and ankle solutions including Micro Vas, an innovative non-invasive laser treatment for stimulating blood flow to relieve neuropathy symptoms such as burning, tingling and numbness.

elia Quigley will present Session I: Your Body-Food Connection, of the Wellness Begins with Food series, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., August 17, at StillPoint Yoga Studio in Blairstown NJ. Quigley will guide participants on a step-by-step progression toward improving the quality of the food they eat with healthy shopping tips and how to prepare food for optimal Delia Quigley wellness. The session explores how food is grown and processed, and our body-food relationship based on how the food we eat can energize, deplete or overstimulate our body/mind.

Quigley is a yoga instructor and nutritional counselor who has studied how food affects the human mind, body and spirit for 30 years. She is the author of seven books on health, cooking, yoga and meditation, and teaches classes both in New Jersey and internationally. Quigley’s commitment is to help people connect to their body’s natural intelligence and transform their health for the better by making simple changes in their diet.

Location: 1901 Hay Terrace in Easton. For more information or appointments, call 610-253-2251 or visit TwinRivers Podiatry-Easton.com.

Location: 155 SR 94, Blairstown, NJ. For more information, call 908-902-4082, email Delia@DeliaQuigley.com or visit DeliaQuigley.com. See ad page 9.

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Primal Therapy Conference

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he International Primal Association is holding its annual convention and summer retreat at the rural Linwood MacDonald YMCA Camp and Conference Center, 1 Flatbrook Road, Sandyston, NJ from Aug. 2531. The event will feature educational experiences suited to those in support groups such as AA, and suited to individuals pursuing emotional growth through various techniques ranging from meditation to movement therapy.

Friday features a day long workshop called Internal and External Support featuring NY Hakomi therapists Stuart Friedman and Laurie Schwartz, which gently releases stored tensions and even deeper post-traumatic stress. Laurie will also lead a community dance event which includes tribal drumming from her experiences in Africa.

Jim Crosby, J.D., biographer for Metallica, on the influence of primal in the arts. Others will lead Primal Theater, poetry, and improv, and there is a cabaret open mic on Friday night and dance Saturday night. Artist and editor Julie Eliason will present graphic arts and how people can facilitate their healing using paint and perhaps a group collage. Introduction to Primal training for therapists (and CEUs for social workers) will be offered by Primal Integration Center of Michigan founder, Barbara Bryan and social worker Dianne Arman on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.

All registered participants are entitled to receive a free half hour massage and meals are included for those who pre-register. Dormitory space available and special needs arrangements are available.

Contact: 240-707-7668 or to register online visit Primals.org. See ad page 15.

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Global Metabolic Revolution Summit

Yoga 4 Classrooms Development Workshops

he online Metabolic Revolution Summit, hosted by Natural Awakenings senior staff writer Linda Sechrist from August 25 to 27, focuses on how to naturally reverse and prevent metabolic diseases—largely known worldwide in 188 countries as an epidemic of diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, heart disease, kidney disease, Alzheimer’s and even infertility.

Summit presenters include Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. David Perlmutter, Brian Mowll, DC, Sayer Ji, Dr. Wolf Funkfack and the Metabolic Balance Team, Dr. Stephen Sinatra, JJ Virgin, Dr. Rashid Buttar, Jim Forelo, DC, Dr. Steven Masley, and Dr. Caroline Cederquist.

Participants in the Summit will learn how there could be a perfect metabolic storm of invisible health risks brewing inside our body; why our body and brain did not evolve to exist on low-fat high-carbohydrate meals; and how to begin reversing metabolic diseases in as little as two weeks with a doable lifestyle plan.

The website offers free portions of audio presentations so that individuals may determine if they wish to download and purchase the summit package of sound files, transcripts and video PowerPoint presentations for $49.

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atricia Aristide will offer a Yoga 4 Classrooms professional development workshop for educators in Easton during August. A six-hour integrative workshop will be held at Liantrisant Retreat and Wellness Center, in Tatamy, on August 7 and additional September and October classes are forming now.

The workshops enable educators to integrate simple, classroom-friendly yoga and mindfulness tools supporting self-regulation with social and emotional learning skills.

The proven techniques cultivate well-being, resilience, a positive classroom climate and facilitate learning readiness, which can improve student achievement in core learning, as espoused by the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Research demonstrates that yoga and mindfulness in the classroom improves academic performance, increases focus and attention, provides a stress management tool and builds confidence and social interaction skills among students.

The workshop is appropriate for all K-12 classroom teachers, health educators, therapists, paraprofessionals and other school professionals. No yoga experience is required. A program manual and activity card deck is included.

To register for this free event, visit MetabolicRevolution Summit.com.

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Care Alternatives Seeks Volunteers

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are Alternatives Hospice has volunteer openings for compassionate, empathetic individuals that want to enhance their lives by giving time to those in the community that are in need. Hospice volunteers play a crucial role in providing compassion and empathy by making friendly visits to a patient to read a book, play a board game or just hold their hand.

Care Alternatives also utilizes the gifts and talents of alternative practitioners, such as massage therapists, Reiki therapists, pet therapists and music therapists. Making crafts for patients and their families or supporting the office staff are other ways to get involved and support the hospice team.

Volunteers receive extensive training, focused on learning the philosophy of hospice care and understanding the responsibilities and duties of caring for patients and their families, covering the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of death and dying.

For more information about volunteering, contact Marina McGough at 215-542-2100. See ad page 36.

Yoga on the Lawn

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annersville Physical Therapy & Wellness, in Reeders, Pennsylvania, will offer beginner and intermediate level flow yoga outside on the back lawn at 6 p.m. every Thursday, through August 28. The class is by charitable donation and BYO mat.

“Yoga practice has so many wonderful benefits,” notes owner Georgine Todd. “Our practice was developed with the intention of mixing both traditional, exercise-based physical therapy and manual physical therapy techniques for more effective results in treatment. These techniques include myofascial release, joint mobilization, craniosacral therapy and massage therapy. We wanted to offer an opportunity for the community to come out and try yoga while raising funds for local charities.”

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Tough Family Life Linked to Chromosome Aging

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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 Adcontained Proof 30 #1grams - April 2011 Issue 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.

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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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News and resources to inspire concerned citizens to work together in building a healthier, stronger society that benefits all.

Doctors Order Up a Bike for Patients

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). Philadelphia ranked 20th had an overall score of 52.9 and New York City ranked 24th with a 51.5 overall score. Overall, metro areas in 25 states scored 50 or above; the two lowest-ranking 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.

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 bike-sharing 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.”

Find the complete report at AmericanFitnessIndex.org.

Source: The Atlantic Monthly

Fitness Update

Healthiest U.S. Metro Areas in 2014

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True Grit

Airports Establish Bee-Friendly Acres

Why Persistence Counts

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 GMOfree (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.

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/StanfordMarshallowStudy).

Source: ascd.org.

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.

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ecotip New School Rules

Eco Strategies for Back-to-School Prep Families preparing for the coming school year will welcome easy ways to stretch the budget while protecting the environment our kids are growing up in. n Buying new clothes can be expensive, and most of today’s synthetic fibers are petroleumbased, while toxic pesticides are commonly used to grow cotton. For healthier alternatives, check labels for clothes made from organic, low-impact or recycled materials such as organic cotton, hemp, bamboo or recycled fibers. Inexpensive options are found in Salvation Army and other thrift store locations, as well as repurposing hand-me-downs among siblings. n Avoid buying all new school supplies. Gently used binders and book bags can last years. Sturdy, simple backpacks skip the cost of faddish brand-name and celebrity products. For supplies that must be replenished, like paper, seek out postconsumer-recycled options.

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n For lunch boxes, food containers and utensils, look for retro metal, a cloth bag and other alternatives to plastic (which can contain harmful chemicals) and glass (which can break). Beth Terry, in her book, Plastic-Free: How I Kicked the Plastic Habit and How You Can Too (MyPlasticFreeLife.com), suggests searching MightyNest.com and LifeWithoutPlastic.com, makers of stainless steel, naturally lacquered wood and other nonplastic, durable children’s bowls, cups, plates and utensils. n Healthy afterschool extracurricular activities today typically require driving commutes. Look into carpooling with nearby families to save time and gas, cut vehicle emissions and expand friendships. n Check the school’s eco-practices. Encourage local administrators to conduct recycling programs and to email documents to parents instead of using regular mail.

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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 authorities 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

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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

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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 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.

Connect with freelance writer April Thompson at AprilWrites.com.

This fall, the University of CaliforniaBerkeley’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.

“Therefore, about 40 percent of your happiness is up to you,” remarks Keltner. Students will learn practical, scientifically tested strategies for nurturing their own happiness and tracking progress. Sign up to audit the free course, which has already attracted 40,000 registrants, at Tinyurl.com/UCLA-Happiness.

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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 whole-system 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.

What has your experience with Fed Up shown you about the root cause of many diseases?

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

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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Super-Immunity for KIDS Simple Ways to Boost a Child’s Long-Term Health

by Lisa Turner

We’d love it if our kids had fewer sick days away from school, but what if by bolstering their immune systems now, we could also protect them from serious diseases going forward?

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uring childhood, when the immune system is still developing, there’s a great opportunity to set the stage for improved health and resilience,” says Dr. Joel Fuhrman, a family physician and nutritional researcher in Flemington, New Jersey, and author of Disease-Proof Your Child. “A healthy diet and lifestyle can help kids avoid common childhood illnesses like colds, ear infections and allergies, as well as ensure greater resilience against disease later in life.”

Focus on High-Quality Foods Fruits and veggies have a wealth of protective phytochemicals that enhance im-

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mune cell function and protect against disease. In a study published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, kids that ate the most fruit had a 38 percent lower risk of cancer later in life. Berries, cherries, plums and pomegranates are among the most powerful immune-boosting fruits. For veggies, eat more dark leafy greens, tomatoes, carrots and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower.

Also emphasize whole grains and healthy fats such as those found in nuts, seeds and avocado, advises Fuhrman.

Sugar-laden calories depress the infection-fighting activity of white blood cells, says Dr. Alan R. Gaby, of Concord, New Hampshire, author of the textbook, Nutritional Medicine. Even

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natural sweeteners such as honey and juice have similar effects when consumed in excess, he says. Try healthy options like pomegranate and kiwi fruit salad; trail mix with raw almonds; dried cranberries and air-popped popcorn; and hummus with red pepper strips and baby carrots for dipping.

Pinpoint Allergies

Food allergies and sensitivities can suppress the immune system by increasing inflammation in the body and call for consultation with a health specialist.

“Whenever there is extra inflammation, the body has less available energy to keep the immune system functioning as well as it should,” says Dr. Fred Pescatore, a New York author of The Allergy & Asthma Cure. “It’s like putting the wrong type of gasoline in the car; it hinders your performance.”

Shore Up with Supplements

Probiotics can enhance immune function in children by stimulating white blood cells and reducing inflammation, says Gary B. Huffnagle, Ph.D., a University of Michigan Medical School immunology research professor and author of The Probiotics Revolution.

They are especially protective against allergies, diarrhea and respiratory tract infection.

Start with yogurt: Serve with cereal; mix with mashed bananas and freeze in ice cube trays for a cool treat; or make smoothies with unsweetened, non-dairy yogurt and frozen berries. Or consider a Lactobacillus acidophilus supplement; aim for 5 billion CFUs per day of Lactobacillus or bifidobacterium.

Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), an ayurvedic herb, boosts immunity by supporting and balancing adrenal function, says Dr. John Douillard, Ph.D., a Boulder, Colorado, chiropractor, ayurvedic physician and author of Perfect Health for Kids. The adrenal glands produce cortisol, and overproduction of this “fight-or-flight” hormone can dampen immunity. Ashwagandha is particularly helpful for preventing colds and can also be used when kids are stressed or tired. For children ages 6 to 12, give 500 milligrams per day with

breakfast; children over 12 can take 1,000 mg a day.

Stabilize Hormonal Changes

“Puberty and adolescence are marked by dramatic shifts in and surges of hormones,” says Dr. Richard Shames, of Sebastopol, California, co-author of Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled? “This is monumental, as far as the developing immune system is concerned. As the immune system is directly linked to hormonal influences, any hormonal imbalance will affect overall immunity.”

Shames recommends selenium—a potent antioxidant and general immune booster—to help balance hormones.

For children ages 8 to 18, aim for 100 mg per day.

Let ’em Get Dirty

“Once a child has been exposed to dirt and germs, the immune system responds by trying to expel those bacteria from the body, which strengthens immunity,” counsels Jane Sheppard, owner of HealthyChild.com and founding executive director of the Holistic Pediatric Association.

Avoid antibacterial soaps, cleansers and gels; most contain the chemical triclosan, which some researchers suspect of contributing to development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Instead, use a natural antibacterial gel or make one, by combining witch hazel or alcohol, tea tree oil and lavender essential oil.

Stay in the Sun

“The sun is our primary source of vitamin D, which has broad effects on the immune system,” Fuhrman says.

“Depending on your skin tone and the local climate, about 15 minutes of full sun exposure a day will lead to natural production of sufficient amounts of vitamin D.” If kids have dark skin or live in a cloudy region, they may need vitamin D supplements—at least 200 IU per day.

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Laugh Out Loud

“You can give your kids the best food and nutrition, but if they have underlying sadness, their immune system will suffer,” remarks Sheppard. “When you’re happy and when you laugh, your brain releases chemicals that increase immunity.”

Lisa Turner is a Colorado-based health writer.

A Girl’s Best Friend Richard Laycock Many of cover artist Richard Laycock’s paintings depict the beautiful coastline, farmland and forest around his adopted home of Hillsboro, Oregon, a landscape “strikingly similar to the Yorkshire countryside of my English youth,” he says. “There are endless vignettes to capture in the ever-changing conditions of western Oregon.”

Since art school, the pencil has been Laycock’s tool of choice. “I love the way a pencil reduces the subject to shape and light, which color often masks,” he notes. After selling his national company that provided representation for storyboard artists, Laycock decided to explore the challenge of pastels, and now “revels in a whole new world of color.”

For A Girl’s Best Friend, the artist used pastels to depict his granddaughter, Bella, joyfully skipping along the beach with her dog, Harley. The painting is a happy family memory of the beloved, recently departed pet.

Laycock studied design at the Huddersfield College of Art, in England, and has served as creative director for companies in London and Los Angeles.

His work hangs in galleries and private collections across Oregon and elsewhere. He has also designed covers for the Territorial Seed Company’s catalog for more than 12 years.

View the artist’s portfolio at RichardLaycockStudio.com.

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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

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

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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.

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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 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, co-founders 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.

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.

of conversation created around actual or occasionally virtual tables resemble those found in coffeehouses.

“Conversation is a core meaning-making 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 change 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.

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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 natural awakenings

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Children at Wisconsin’s Montessori School of Waukesha learn to baste; spoon beans or rice from bowls; cut paper, draw, paint or paste cutouts; and sew or embroider using a three-finger grip.

It strengthens the muscles they will need later to practice writing skills.

Schools that Rock Innovators Blaze Creative Paths

by Sandra Murphy

Creative educational initiatives offer more flexible programs of study than traditional institutions. First introduced into the United States in the latter part of the 20th century, today there are thousands of such facilities operating according to their own lights. Yet many share certain distinguishing characteristics including emphasis on close studentteacher relationships, diverse experiential learning and development of student decision-making skills aided by peer and parental support.

All aim to prepare and equip students for future success both inside and outside the classroom.

Montessori

At age 3, kids at the Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School, in Maryland, are gaining early math and motor skills, plus an appreciation for healthy foods, in unique and innovative ways. “The children roll out a long mat containing 1,000 beads that they use to learn to count by twos, fours and 10s,” says Jenny Smolen, development coordinator and grant writer for the school. “When it’s time for multiplication and division, they’re prepared.”

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desert—fresh, unprocessed food isn’t readily available—so the kids plant seeds to grow in pots until it’s time to transplant them to the garden. “Before the seed-to-table program, the kids didn’t know what fresh tasted like. Now they go home and ask for vegetables for dinner,” says Smolen.

The school also has six chickens that supply fresh eggs, and two beehives produced 100 pounds of honey last year that was sold to raise funds. The school is free of charge to Baltimore city

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students chosen by lottery. Currently, 330 students from diverse backgrounds ages 3 through 13 attend, with 1,000 names on the waiting list.

Waldorf

Waldorf School alumna Jocelyn Miller, an account manager at Matter Communications, drives 45 minutes from Newburyport, Massachusetts, to take her three children to The Waldorf School at Moraine Farms, in Beverly.

“On bad weather days, I wonder why I make the drive, but the smiles when we arrive are worth it,” she says. There, her children spend time outdoors regardless of the weather. Indoors, they draw illustrations to bolster lessons on history and geography.

Second-graders work in three-hour blocks of time, rather than the traditional 45 minutes. Fifth-grade students recently spent three weeks studying Greek mythology. Older students play in an orchestra and learn German and Spanish.

They also knit; the craft builds manual dexterity and helps children learn to plan, correct mistakes, be creative, visualize the finished product and mindfully create something useful or decorative.

Middle school and high school students at the Waldorf School of Garden City, in New York, universally participate in seasonal sports—baseball, softball, basketball and soccer. The emphasis on the values of teamwork and sportsmanship complement development of skills. The school’s policy is, “You don’t have to be a superstar to get playing time,” noting that the quality of

athletic teams is consistently strong.

The school also brings some green into the city with a horticultural program that fully cultivates a quarteracre field. Its steady harvest of fruits, vegetables, herbs and grains includes lettuce, beans, spinach, broccoli, kale, corn, oregano, thyme, rosemary, strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. A new greenhouse keeps produce growing through winter months.

Students at Conservatory Prep High School, in Davie, Florida, were tasked with finding a way to walk on water in order to explore principles of flotation and buoyancy. After researching and experimenting with each of a series of materials, they analyzed what went wrong, worked to fix it and then tried again. “We did the testing at our onsite pool,” says Wendy Weiner, Ed.D., the school’s founder and principal and a Waldorf alumna. “We saw some pretty funny results, but they eventually invented a pair of shoes that worked. Of course, they were pretty big shoes.”

Homeschooling

Homeschooling provides another option. Parents don’t need to know all about a subject with organizations like Bridgeway Academy’s homeschool curricula at hand. This Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, institution provides easy access to tools and support for families nationwide. “We’re a kindergartento-12th-grade provider,” says Jessica Parnell, academy president. “Teachers in a school setting have to teach

Teachers, students and parents at Weinacker’s Montessori School, in Mobile, Alabama, apply daily, weekly, monthly and yearly logs of goals and work plans to track progress. All of this can be adjusted as kids discover new topics they want to learn more about.

standardized subjects, in certain ways, to the whole class. We use customized learning to inspire and excite children individually. We help parents discover their child’s learning style, personality and ideal learning environment.”

Materials provided include instructor guides, user-friendly websites and interactive games and other activities. “It gives kids the freedom to explore, learn and discover,” Parnell adds. “This is how you grow a lifelong learner.”

Un-Schooling

Un-schooling, another pioneering approach, is a method of homeschooling in which children pursue areas that interest them, eat foods they enjoy, rest when needed, choose friends of all ages or none at all and engage their world in unique, powerful and self-directed ways. Suzanne Strisower, a life and career coach in Oroville, California, has written a common-core, standards-based curriculum for unschoolers. “It’s a yearlong program for ages 15 and up designed to

enable a student to realize his career path and life’s purpose,” she says.

Online Tutorials

“There’s an explosion in online learning, too,” observes Bob Bowdon, executive director of nonprofit Choice Media, an education news service at ChoiceMedia. tv, produced in New York City. School kids in some states are able to opt out of a class at school if they feel the teaching style is holding them back, instead tapping online teachers available in a virtual school setting.

Louisiana’s Department of Education’s Jump Start program partners high schools and local companies to offer students one-day-a-week internships apprenticing in trades. “It’s real-world, on-the-job training,” says Bowdon.

Thanks to such innovative approaches to school curricula and technology, parents and children have more options than ever before for learning. Instead of memorizing information until the next test and then forgetting it, more learning is customized and hands-on, because children that learn by doing, remember.

Connect with Sandra Murphy at StLouis FreelanceWriter@mindspring.com.

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CAMPING TURNS KIDS INTO NATURE LOVERS

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hether urban or rural, children in our state average 4.5 minutes outdoors and four hours in front of a screen every day,” says Barbara Erickson, president of The Trustees of Reservations conservation nonprofit, in Sharon, Massachusetts.

One way to disconnect kids from electronics is to go camping. Such educational, fresh air exercise is inclusive and inexpensive. David Finch, superintendent of the Dunes Edge Campground, in Provincetown, Massachusetts, suggests borrowed gear for the first outing. A backyard campout can be a rewarding trial run; each child can ask a friend to stay over and a parent and the family dog can participate.

Once kids have the hang of sleeping somewhere outside their own bedroom, consider an overnight program at a local or regional zoo. Kids get a kick out of watching the animals and learning about their behaviors, diets and habitats.

The Toledo Zoo, in Ohio, offers Snooze at the Zoo, including a pizza dinner, breakfast and admission the next day.

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Children sleep near one of the exhibits or in a safari tent. The program teaches animal adaptations, food chains and ecosystems and meets requirements for scout badges in a fun setting.

The Irvine Nature Center, in Owings Mills, Maryland, near Baltimore, offers a rich outdoor experience. Organizers provide food, activities and camping equipment. Children first attend a fire safety class, and then help cook a meal and make s’mores. At night, participants learn how to mimic owl hoots and practice their new skills, often receiving hoots in return. Night walks sometimes include sightings of deer, bats or flying squirrels, while morning walks showcase groundhogs and birds.

Jean Gazis, with the women’s and girls’ rights nonprofit Legal Momentum, in Brooklyn, New York, observes, “It’s easier to camp with small, even tiny, children, than with older kids.

Babies are portable.” She recalls taking her 7-week-old infant along and nostalgically comments, “Now that the kids are 11 and 14, they don’t

have as much free time.”

Drive-up camping in a state park that offers facilities and planned activities sets up a good time. Gazis feels that a destination four hours away is the limit for car trips with small children.

She advises giving everyone duties.

“My young son once had a great time digging a ditch around the tent when it began to rain,” she recalls. “He kept the sleeping bags dry and got to play in the mud.”

Jeff Alt, of Cincinnati, Ohio, author of Get Your Kids Hiking, suggests, “Start them young and keep it fun. Get the kids involved in the planning. My kids have gone along since they were born.

We stayed at a lodge when they were small because little trekkers have a lot of gear. During the day we were out in the park exploring, always keeping in mind that kids tire out fast.” His mandatory equipment includes good walking shoes, sunscreen and bug spray. Adhering to such rules as never leave the trail or wander off and don’t pick flowers or touch animals is non-negotiable.

Leave No Trace 4 Know the rules beforehand and be ready for inclement weather.

4 Travel and camp on durable surfaces. Use existing trails.

Stephanie Wear, a biologist for The Nature Conservancy, working in Beaufort, South Carolina, has found that it’s easy to make the experience lively.

“We like to do observational scavenger hunts—find the flower, the mushroom or the tree that looks like a picture and make a list of what you see. Getting out in nature sharpens observation skills, boosts creativity and improves physical and mental health,” she says. Wear notes that her kids have listed 70 forms of life in the family’s backyard alone.

Visit a local park or NatureRocks.org to take part in more activities and explore different locations. “Nature presents a great parenting tool,” she remarks.

Summertime camping helps every member of the family unplug, unwind and wander along new paths.

Avery Mack is a freelance writer in St. Louis, MO. Connect via AveryMack@ mindspring.com.

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4 Dispose of waste properly.

4 Leave plants undisturbed.

4 Minimize campfire impacts.

4 Use a lightweight stove instead of a fire.

4 Respect wildlife. Do not follow, feed or approach animals.

4 Keep dogs tethered so they can’t chase or harm wildlife.

4 Be courteous to other visitors (no loud music). Happily share the trail and experiences.

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Maulfair Medical Center Putting Patients First

by Beth Davis

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r. Conrad Maulfair has spent 50 years of his life as an osteopathic physician.

About 39 years ago, he began to reevaluate how he practiced medicine.

He listened to his patients who wanted fewer drugs, less surgery and comprehensive diagnostics to find the root cause of symptoms. He listened and he changed.

Already certified in family practice and radiology, Dr. Maulfair trained in alternative disciplines in order to bring the best of both worlds to his patients– conventional medical practice combined with alternative, complementary therapies. Now, he and the staff at Maulfair Medical Center listen to

patients and make them a partner in healing. He offers traditional medical treatments when called for, but cares for patients with non-drug approaches to healing first.

“Every medication is toxic, it’s a chemical,” says Maulfair. “The dose determines toxicity and all have side effects. It’s not food, and your body knows that.”

He goes on to explain that the source of toxicity in the body is not just limited to medical drugs, but to the 70-80,000 chemicals invented by man.

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care products, perfumes and chemicals we ingest from the foods we eat and air we breathe. The body is unable to cope.

He says it is the accumulative effect of these chemicals that is a major cause of chronic degenerative diseases and the aging process.

Metals, such as lead and cadmium, mercury and arsenic, can be very toxic.

Although the body is smart and does its best to eliminate these substances, what it cannot eliminate immediately, it stores in fat tissue and bone. Therefore, as people get older and develop osteoporosis, as an example, some lead that has been stored in the bone is released into the body, contributing to vascular diseases and high blood pressure.

Dr. Maulfair recommends chelation therapy or sauna detoxification as a way of deburdening the body of toxic chemicals and metals and claims they both can have a significant impact on creating a “zip and zest for life.”

He has been utilizing chelation in his practice for over 30 years as a means to remove toxic metals from the body and is confident in its results. “The science abounds with studies supporting the benefits of chelation for reducing heavy metal toxicity, improving vascular circulation and improving the delivery ofl oxygen and vital nutrients to the entire body,” states Maulfair.

“Good health requires that we address the cause of chronic problems which

can be treated or prevented with a comprehensive chelation therapy program..”

L. Ron Hubbard describes the sauna detoxification method that is used at the center in Clear Body Clear Mind.

It has been extensively researched and utilized for over 40 years as a proven way to eliminate toxins and drug residues.

It takes advantage of the body’s natural detoxification pathways and in a few weeks significantly reduces the levels of stored toxins. It is a precisely monitored and supervised program to ensure optimum results.

“When patients become ill, they often have impaired digestion blocking the ability of the body to gain nutrients from the food they eat or even benefit from their supplements,” states Maulfair. “Nutrient support is essential to healing.” The center offers intravenous treatments to help boost health as well as individual oral nutrient programs.

For Dr. Maulfair, his patients are the most important aspect of his medical practice. He treats the whole person using diagnostic testing that actually shows how the body is functioning. Most importantly, he listens to his patients and takes the time to find the underlying reasons why their body is not in tip top health. “To me, it is a shame that some physicians do not take the time to listen to their patients,” observes Maulfair.

“If you listen long enough, they will tell you what’s wrong.”

Maulfair Medical Center is located at 2970 Corporate Ct, Orefield, PA 18069. For information, call 610-682-2104 or visit DrMaulfair.com.

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Runner’s Hi Women and Social Media Revolutionize the Sport

by Debra Melani

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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 fitness-seekers 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.

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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

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

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by Debra Melani Well-conditioned runners focus on ounces of Montmorency cherry juice diet, particularly when health foods can twice a day for seven days prior to the put some punch in their pace. Regisrace and every eight hours on race day tered Dietician Kelly Pritchett, Ph.D., a (Journal of the International Society of University of Georgia assistant profesSports Nutrition). Make sure juices are sor of sports nutrition and spokesperson 100 percent cherry juice. for the Academy of Nutrition and

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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.”

Freelance journalist Debra Melani writes about health care and fitness from Lyons, CO. Connect at Debra Melani.com or DMelani@msn.com.

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A Stroke Begins in Childhood

by Dian Freeman, M.A.

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ccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and quadrupled in adolescents since 1984. While researchers point out that many parents do not realize that their children are overweight, many more are unaware that childhood eating habits can dictate or foretell a child’s health status as an adult.

An overwhelming cause of obesity and many childhood illnesses is processed sugar or fructose. More and more studies are tracing the American obsession with sugar as an underlying reason that there has been no medical progress in the rates of heart disease, cancer, stroke and diabetes. Whether it comes to us in the guise of processed honey, agave, fructose or high fructose corn syrup, sugar consumption, which is also linked to most adult diseases, and the addiction to sugar begins in childhood.

The public has been and is being misled about the safety of processed sugars. In 2001, The U.S. Department of Agriculture was quoted in Lancet magazine—“each daily soda increases allergies, ADHD, and diabetes risk by 60%”—the equivalent of one soda per day. In an article, Childhood Nutrition Affects Cancer Risk, The British Medical Journal, blames childhood overeating for an increase risk of adult cancer.

Sugar is the sole food of a cancer cell.

Donna Speed, from the Mississippi Department of Health on NewsMax. com, says, “When we started using high-fructose corn syrup, obesity rates doubled. Soda consumption increased 200 percent.” The article also explains that when glucose from cane sugar is metabolized the brain receives an “I’m satisfied: signal. However, “High-fructose corn syrup doesn’t produce a satiety signal so it may cause overeating.”

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dorsements by registered dieticians in favor of high-fructose corn syrup, independent studies have long shown that it is the most damaging of all sugars. In March 2010, Princeton University researchers reported that, “when rats are fed high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they’re becoming obese.”

In spite of this and other studies, the American Dietetic Association (ADA) backs one of their most ardent sponsors, the corn industry, by regularly touting the safe use of high-fructose corn syrup. In answer to the recent Princeton study, ADA spokesperson Joan Salge Blake, R.D., is quoted in the June 2010 edition of Redbook Magazine as saying, “It’s impossible to extrapolate what happened in rats to human” and then she explains that there is no difference between sugars— they all have the same caloric count.

Despite multiple studies and the common experience of multitudes of people demonstrating the addictive nature of sugar, the ADA has been and remains staunchly behind eating sugars of all kinds “in moderation.”

In 1998, a Boston Globe article, Measuring Blood Fat Vital to Heart Examination, reported that it is the blood fat measurement (triglycerides) that is a better indicator of heart disease than cholesterol and that “key to this medically published study, the direct causal connection of high levels of triglycerides [is] from refined fructose intake.”

Also in 1998, Reuters reported that the obesity linkage to asthma in 100,000 American nurses resulted in “high triglycerides caused primarily from refined fructose consumption.” Today, most processed sugars are made from U.S. corn, which is genetically altered.

Fructose is in most of the popular natural alternatives. Rami Nagel, author

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of Healing our Children, writes that agave nectar, found in “healthy” items such as ketchup, ice cream, chocolate, processed honey and health food bars touted as 100% natural, organic or raw are made from refined fructose. He also explains that fructose is not made from fruit nor is it natural, “Falsely labeled agave fructose and high fructose corn syrup are both made of advanced chemistry and extensive food processing technology.”

In 2006, the American Diabetes Association reported that hyperinsulemia, a sugar condition known as Syndrome X, insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, pre-diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome, is a highly inflammatory condition that “raises the risk of stroke as much as 15 fold” and that “curing it would reduce heart attacks by 42 percent.” The report also notes that “21 million Americans have diabetes but one-third of these people do not know it.”

While there are many solutions to childhood obesity and the health of a child, the two wisest ones may be the total elimination of processed sugars in all forms and time spent reading labels.

Unfortunately, even popular bread and cereal products, include sugar, which is also the top ingredient in many baby formulas, feeding tube formulas, and medically recommended ‘health’ or protein drinks and foods that are prescribed for diabetes and heart disease.

Since the addiction to sugar begins in childhood and can increase the risk of life threatening diseases, the consideration of what a child is eating will be the real determinant of the future of that child.

Dian Freeman is Certified in Clinical Nutrition and has a private practice in Morristown, NJ, teaches a nutritional certification course beginning in October, is certified in and practices frequency biofeedback, holds health based seminars, food and cooking classes and lectures widely. Dian may be reached at 973 267-4816, Dian2@ wellnesssimplified.com or visit www.

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Dr. John Harrington 149 Route 94 Blairstown, NJ 07825 908-362-6868 SunriseNutritionCenterNJ.com Nutritional Healing at its Best! We treat your body as a “whole,” instead of its parts. Our Natural, Drug-Free Programs using Nutrition, Botanicals, Homeopathy and Alternative Medicine focus on removing the true barriers to health and healing. Your health problems are quickly identified and weakened organs are given the right nutrients to further enhance their function.

Call for a free consultation with Dr. Harrington. See ad page 21.

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MAULFAIR MEDICAL CENTER

Conrad Maulfair, D.O. 2970 Corporate Court, Suite 1 Orefield, PA 18069 610-682-2104 DrMaulfair.com, PurelyYouDetox.com

Dr Kathleen Ledet 1668 Route 715 South. Reeders, PA 18352-0500 570-629-9220 LedetChiropractic.com

MINERVA EDUCATIONAL AND WELLNESS TREATMENT CENTER

Carol McCabe, DDS 2600 Newburg Rd., Easton, PA 18045 610-252-1454 • CNDentistry.com

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Specializing in preventative healthcare, digestion and nutrient absorption, and thyroid and adrenal health. Modalities such as iridology, sclerology and biochemical balancing enable the development of your unique program for optimum health. These programs are easy to follow and incorporate into your daily life.

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NUTRTIONAL COUNSELING ALL BETTER CENTRAL

Masha Levina, CCN 224 Broad Street, Suite 205, Milford, PA 18337 570-832-2123 • Info@AllBetterCentral.com AllBetterCentral.com Through examining your medical, social and dietary history, as well as using Nutrition Response Muscle Testing®, Masha determines nutritional needs and develops dietary and supplemental program to fit individual requirements and lifestyles, resulting in balance and better health. See ad page 29.

STILLPOINT SCHOOLHOUSE

Delia Quigley 155 State Road 94. Blairstown, NJ 07825 908-902-4082 • DeliaQuigley.com

We help you make a positive change in your physical and emotional well-being through food. Whether this involves weight-loss, feeling younger, added vitality, stress release, mental clarity or your life’s purpose we support and empower each individual in their evolution through life. Workshops, Women’s retreats, nutrition and yoga immersion programs to support your personal transformation process. Classes, both onsite and online. See ad page 9.

PAIN RELIEF - NATURAL HYPNOSIS & LONGEVITY CENTER

ST. ANTHONY’S PAIN CLINIC Anthony F. Mullen, BPS, MS, ND Village Park Center Rte 940, Pocono Lake 570-504-1681 HypnosisLongevityCenter.com Decrease pain and maximize wellness.

Anthony F. Mullen, Priest Healer, specializes in pain relief and offers affordable services to improve quality of life. Offering low level laser therapy; painless, non-invasive, drug-free treatment used to treat injuries and neurological conditions, such as, fibromyalgia, muscle and join pain, nerve pain/sciatica, carpal tunnel, TMJ, migraines, and more.

PHYSICAL THERAPY TANNERSVILLE & MARSHALL’S CREEK PHYSICAL THERAPY

Georgine Todd 2313 Route 715, Stroudsburg • 570-629-6073 239 Fox Run Ln, E. Stroudsburg • 570-223-8477 TannersvillePT.com

Overcome physical limitations and injury. Two locations offer a mixture of both traditional exercise-based physical therapy and manual physical therapy techniques for more effective results. These techniques include myofascial release, joint mobilization, craniosacral therapy and massage therapy. Our highly trained staff works one-on-one to educate our clients toward healthy lifestyle changes.

PILATES MAUKA NALU PILATES AND SUP, INC Francine Huber 11390 N. Delaware Dr. Bangor, PA 18013 570-420-1905 fran@maukanalu.com Maukanalu.com

Build a better body, gain confidence and strength for everyday living. We teach a true Pilates style of exercise. Group tower classes and private sessions available in our 100% green studio space. Certified Instructor in Pilates & Paddlefit. Call today to feel better tomorrow.

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Vickie, an 18 year accomplished Rolfer, works by realigning the pervasive fascial tissue network in the body that can relieve pain in areas such as, Migraines, Sciatica, Bugling Discs, Arthritis, Neck Pain, Carpel Tunnel, Back pain and much more. Vickie is a Certified Rolfer, Rolf Movement Teacher , Visceral Manipulation and Cranio-Sacral Therapist. Free 20 minute free consultations available. See ad page 15.

ROLFING® STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION OF NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA Richard Paterson, Certified Rolfer™ Practicing in Milford and Scranton/W-B 571-265-9950 Richard@RolfingNEPA.com RolfingNEPA.com

Rolfing improves posture, makes movement easier, and reduces structural pain. It can release long-held patterns or restore movement after injury or surgery. Rolfing has helped dancers, performers, and athletes use their bodies more efficiently.

Take care of you! Through the gifts of energy healing, dance, yoga, and spiritual guidance, learn about the art of self-care and self-love. Recognize your own unique beauty, inside and out with divinely-guided, peaceinducing, life-enhancing, private or small group sessions. If you are ready to change and grow, your inner joy is calling.

WELLNESS CENTER ASIAN INSTITUTE OF HEALING ARTS Dr. Christopher C. Meister, D.C., L.Ac. Dr. Debora T. Cantel, D.C., L.Ac. 1355 Pocono Blvd, Mt. Pocono, PA 18344 570-839-1898 AsianInstituteOfHealingArts.com

Wellness is a journey. Let us help you reach your destination. Our services include: acupuncture, chiropractic, nutritional counseling, massage, shiatsu, watsu, reflexology, family and individual counseling, Reiki, smoking cessation, kung fu, tai chi, qigong, and an organic whole foods buyer’s club.

REIKI LIFE HOLISTIC CENTER, LLC

Mountain Top, PA Anthony V. Wojnar D.D., RMT, OBT 570-706-6680 ReikiCenterOnline@yahoo.com LifeHolisticReiki.com

Our main focus is Reiki, a Spiritual practice which promotes physical, emotional and spiritual healing. We offer Certification in Reiki 1 thru Reiki Master/Teacher Usui and Tibetan Style. Reiki and Reiki/Shiatsu sessions and, also a monthly Reiki Share. Dr. Anthony received a Master/Teacher attunement on Kurama Mtn. Japan, the birthplace of Reiki. CEU’s for Massage Therapists. Member IARP., ICRT.

THE VICTORIAN CONNECTION 231 Wilkes-Barre St. White Haven, PA 18661

Available for retreats, workshops, meetings and private parties. Offers a unique and elegant experience for your guests.

Located in the midst of the Pocono Mountains near the Lehigh River Gorge, this historic home is easy to find just off I-80 and the PA Turnpike. A variety of amenities to suit your needs, whether it’s one room or the whole house, from halfand recurring days, to catering or overnight stays, our rental rates are customized just for your event.

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ARSHA VIDYA

ALEXANDRA T. MILSPAW, M.ED., M.ED., LPC

Lance Daniels 651 Rte 115, Saylorsburg 570-992-2339 • Avp@epix.net ArshaVidya.org

Bethlehem, PA www.alexandramilspaw.com 484-894-1246

Sexual health counselor and educator utilizing NLP and Mindfulness-based approaches. Learn easy, quick techniques to move towards healing your life and relationships by reprograming your nervous system’s response to stress and pain. “Breathe.

Believe. Be.” Anything is possible!

Develop strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination among other benefits, including calmness and resolution. Arsha Vidya Yoga Studio teaches traditional Hatha and Iyengar yoga with several weekly classes in a peaceful environment.

Arsha Vidya Gurukulam is an institute for the traditional study of Advaita Vedanta, Sanskrit, yoga, Ayurveda, astrology, and other classical Indian disciplines. See ad page 21.

SPIRITUAL COUNSELING KATHY AGATE BROWN

STILLPOINT YOGA STUDIO

Kathy Agate Brown has training and certification in both Aromatherapy and Herbology. Her training in Spiritual Counseling allows her to incorporate Intuitive readings in her sessions as well as Clinical Hypnotherapy. Her intent is to bring all beliefs together through education and communication. See ad page 15.

Come to know your physical body through the power of stretch, balance and internalizing your awareness.

Increase flexibility, manage stress and improve conditioning. Over 20 classes weekly including Broken Bodies therapeutic, beginner and advanced classes. New student special of 30 days unlimited yoga for just $30.

We also offer Teacher Training certification programs.

See ad page 29.

Shooting For The Moon 3200 Hamilton East Road, Stroudsburg 570-992-0943 ShootingForTheMoon.com Agate@ShootingForTheMoon.com

155 State Road 94. Blairstown, NJ 07825 908-902-4082 DeliaQuigley.com

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 9

NEPA HCC Holistic Expo –An impressive lineup of holistic and eco-friendly professionals and interactive booths, including health information, lectures and live demonstrations. Designed for those seeking to learn more about natural options for living a healthier, happier life, both mentally and physically.

10am-5pm. Mt. Airy Casino Resort, 312 Woodland Rd., Mt. Pocono, 570-591-1422

MONDAY, AUGUST 11

Full Moon Gathering – This is a non-denominational group that calls down the energies of the moon in her healing capacity. We create a Nectar that charges in the moonlight that imbues the recipient with healing and recharging energy. 6:30pm.

Shooting For the Moon. 6247 Rte 209, Stroudsburg, 570-992-0943.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 12

Optimal Health Seminar – Achieve health and vitality in your fast paced, stressful lifestyle by proactively supporting health and wellbeing. Learn about the benefits of chiropractic, massage, and good nutritional foundations for an effective long

run health strategy. 7pm Sunrise Nutrition Center, 149 Rote 94, Blairstown NJ. 908-362-6868 to RSVP.

Open Practice – In this self-guided class you will be encouraged to develop an independent practice while being supported by the teacher’s one-on-one instruction. Develop your own sequences, and will offer you helpful tips to prepare the body for poses you want to achieve, or ways to develop an effective modified practice. $20. 4-6pm. Yoga Loft 521 E. 4th St. (3rd Fl.) Bethlehem. 610.867.9642

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13

Non-Invasive Laser Pain Clinic – Reduce pain with FDA approved Laser therapy. Clients with limited health insurance and low income only; clients with health insurance please schedule another time.

8 clients per week. Must pre-schedule. No walk-ins.

1-5pm. $10. Hypnosis & Longevity Center, 124 Village Park Dr (Rte 940), Ste 2, Pocono Lake.

570-504-1681

Wellness Begins with Food – Presented by Delia Quiqley. In this 90 minute session we will explore your Body-Food relationship based on how the food you eat can energize, deplete or over stimulate your body-mind. We will also discuss how food is grown and processed, and the impact eating a Standard American Diet has on your health and the health of the planet. 6pm. StillPoint Yoga Studio, 155 State Route 94, Blairstown. 908-902-4082

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14

MONDAY, AUGUST 18

Perusing Spirituality in Times of Change – With Skip Weatherford. Changes which are taking place all around us. People’s interactions with wild animals, synchronistic experiences which are clearly messages from the world of spirit are happening every day. Our class will concentrate on recognizing and interpreting the messages we are all receiving.

6:30pm. $150/6 wks or $30 per class. Shooting For the Moon. 6247 Rte 209, Stroudsburg, 570992-0943.

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Table Tipping – With Mary Isis. 6:30PM. Communicate with past loved ones Bring family or friends to get messages for clarity and closure. Total cost is $150 whether you have one person or five persons participating. 6:30pm. Shooting For the Moon. 6247 Rte 209, Stroudsburg, 570-992-0943.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19

Holistic Chamber of Commerce Meeting – 3rd Tuesday of each month. Dutch treat for dinner/ drinks, community building and networking. Members: Free. Non-members two meetings free then

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20

30 CEs 4-day Workshop: Intro to the Kestenberg Movement Profile, Meaning of Movement – Suzanne Hastie. Approved for creative art therapists, social workers, counselors, psychologists, educators, physical & occupational therapists, & childcare providers. $775, Twin Ponds Center, West LV, Register 610-417-0831.

Heart Attack Prevention – Tom Wachtmann, D.C. Learn, from a non-invasive, FDA approved cardiovascular assessment, the condition of your heart, vascular system, stress level, and autonomic nervous system. Dr. Wachtmann will interpret and review the results with you. 15-min. appts. start at 6:30 pm, $50, $75 / couple. Twin Ponds Center, West LV, 610-395-3355 Non-Invasive Laser Pain Clinic – Reduce pain with FDA approved Laser therapy. Clients with limited health insurance and low income only; clients with health insurance please schedule another time.

8 clients per week. Must pre-schedule. No walk-ins.

1-5pm. $10. Hypnosis & Longevity Center, 124 Village Park Dr (Rte 940), Ste 2, Pocono Lake.

570-504-1681

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22

Chair Massage – Relax before the weekend with reduced $20 per session therapeutic massage. Offered every 4th Friday of the month from 3-7pm.

Sign up or walk-in. Shooting For the Moon. 6247 Rte 209, Stroudsburg, 570-992-0943.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23

Rising to Your Potential – With Amy Kirk. Lotus flowers grow from the deepest, darkest places and become beautiful and inspiring. Come for an exploration into your own life and how you can use the principles of yoga to overcome obstacles and live the best version of yourself. 1-3pm. Easton Yoga, 524 Northampton Street, Easton. 610-923-7522

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24

Ha-tha Yoga Method Open House – Yoga instructors Delia Quigley and Denise Kay will be available to meet students interested in the 200 & 300-hour Ha-tha Yoga Method teacher training programs.

Stop by to inquire into the Yoga Alliance certified training and how it will work for your future goals.

5-7pm. StillPoint Yoga Studio, 155 State Route 94, Blairstown. 908-902-4082

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savethedate A NATURAL HEALTH FORUM KNEE PROBLEMS TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 6PM Join us for a free, informal Question and Answer Forum with Dr. Michael Jude Loquasto ND, PHD, DC. Bring your health related questions and benefit from Dr. Mike’s 50 years of experience in Natural Health. Understand how chiropractic internal medicine, custom herbal formulations and non-invasive oral chelation can benefit you. All are welcome with RSVP. Held at A Natural Medicine Clinic, 2571 Baglyos Circle, Suite B-27, Bethlehem. Call 484-821-1460 for a reservation.

savethedate HERBAL OUTREACH CLINIC. 1ST MONDAY OF THE MONTH. BY APPOINTMENT This sliding scale teaching clinic is held once per month to offer expert herbal and nutritional advice to economically challenged people seeking relief from chronic disease. The fee for clients is from $0 to $$$ based on what they can afford. The $0 client can even get herbs for free. Do not let lack of money keep you from your best possible health.

Appointment required. 908-689 6140. Changewater Wellness Center, Changewater NJ. ChangewaterWellnessCenter.com

savethedate HOLISTIC PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION CLASSES THRIVE WELLNESS CENTER HOLISTIC HEALTH PRACTITIONER TONGUE AND PULSE ANALYSIS Wednesday, August 6 - 6-9:30pm HOLISTIC NUTRITION 2 NUTRITION AND SUPPLEMENTS PART 1 Wednesday, September 3 - 6-9:30pm RNs, LPNs, LMTs – Earn CEUs. Prices Vary. Complete programs with rolling admissions ongoing. Call 570-283-0111 or visit ThriveWellnessKingston.com for more details. 647 Wyoming Ave, Kingston, PA.

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classifieds APEALS Big Brothers Big Sisters – Needs volunteers for children living in Phillipsburg. Please call today to learn how you can help a child grow up. 908-6890436 or INFO@BBBSHSW.ORG Healers Wanted – Help us to aid in the healing environment at Pocono Medical Center. Seeking volunteers for the Complementary & Alternative Medicine Program. Interested practitioners in Reiki and massage, artists and musicians please contact Jill Howell at 570-476-3443 or email JHowell@ pmcHealthSystem.org .

Hunterdon Helpline – Looking for caring volunteers! Spend an hour a week with a senior, tutor an ESL/ GED learner, or become a translator (looking for all languages). 908-782-4357 literacy@ helplinehc.org

FOR RENT Beautiful Office Space – Tannersville location offers a quiet and relaxing environment in a holistic healthcare center. Relatively quiet professions such as business or life coaching, architecture, counseling, therapeutic, are desirable. Handicap accessible.

Please call 570-332-4365 for more information.

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Distribution Help – Help us distribute this publication in Pike and/or Wayne County PA. Email lvpublisher@naturalawakeningsmag.com

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REIKI 2, CERTIFICATION PROGRAM AUG 30 ,2014, 9:30AM-5PM MOUNTAIN TOP, PA Highlights: Three Reiki Symbols, Japanese Reiki Techniques, Reiki 2 Attunement/Initiation, hands-on practice time, includes 179 page Manual if didn’t receive in Reiki 1. Register by Aug 23. CEUs granted for Massage Therapists. Member: IARP, ICRT.

Tai Chi and Qigong DVDs – Aleve many health ailments by practicing Tai Chi and Qigoing any where and any time with quality DVD instruction. Simple to learn and can be practiced by anyone, young or old. Advanced through Expert levels available at EasternHealth123.com

REIKI FOR ANIMALS LEVEL 1 & 2 MOUNTAIN TOP & LAKE ARIEL, PA SEPTEMBER 27-28, 2014 Highlights Japanese Reiki Techniques, Reiki Initiation & Reiju, practice time with Lions, Tigers, Bears, etc includes 110 page Manual Register by 9/17-$250.00. 1/2 down to receive Manual to study before class. CEUs granted for LMT’s. Member: IARP, ICRT.

Crystal healing bowl sessions - Crystal Singing Bowls offer powerful vibrational healing and a very unique meditation experience. Balance body and life, clear the mind, improve confidence, increase hope and joy. Balance By Lisa 484-9036435.

Contact Anthony V. Wojnar D.D., OBT, RMT, Life Holistic Center LLC,: 570-709-6680. ReikiCenterOnline@yahoo.com. LifeHolisticReiki.com.

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Do you hear voices? – You are not alone. Support groups forming in Stroudsburg. Contact Paul Boggia at 570-421-3670.

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6:30pm. StillPoint Yoga Studio, 155 RT94, Blairstown. 908-902-4082.

“twist” on tradition! Free trial class/mats available.

6-7pm. Pocono Peddlers Village/Tannersville. Call Gale at 570-977-9935

Care Alternatives Volunteers – Care Alternatives is actively recruiting Reiki Practitioners, Certified Massage Therapists and Comfort Volunteers to impact the lives of Hospice patients. 866-821-1212.

Simply Yoga – Suitable for those looking to improve the physical as well as emotional well being.

Incorporates breathing exercises to calm the nervous system, asanas and sun salutations that support the overall well-being of body and mind. 5:15. StillPoint Yoga Studio, 115 RT94, Blairstown. 908-902-4082.

Meditation and Fellowship – The sessions consist of relaxation techniques and guided mediation from an Anada Certified instructor. 7pm. Suggested donation $5. Trinity Episcopal Church, 137 Trinity Hill Rd., Mt. Pocono. 570-839-8752.

Boys’ and Girls’ Peer Support Groups – Topics include: friendship and bullying, self-esteem, media messages, organization, time management, hygiene, internet safety, communication and body language and emotion management. 45 min. for 10 wks. Call for group start dates. $25 per session, free for Medicaid/NJ Family Care. The Center for Assessment and Treatment. 254B Mountain Ave, Suite 300, Hackettstown. 908-852-5858.

sunday Hatha Yoga – 8-9:15am. 1st & 3rd weekends only.

In the tradition of the Mysore school of yoga. Develop strength, flexibility, balance, calmness, and resolution. $12. Activity Center, Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Saylorsburg. 570-992-2339. MarkHert@ gmail.com. ArshaVidya.org.

monday Vinyasa-style Yoga – Beginner/level 1 flow sequence. Breath your way towards relaxation-connect your breath with gentle movements to stretch and tone the body. Classes set to classic soft-rock for a “twist” on tradition! Free trial class/mats available.

6-7pm. Pocono Peddlers Village/Tannersville. Call Gale at 570-977-9935 GriefShare – A free weekly grief support group and seminar features video from prominent Christian experts on grieving, and caring conversation with people who understand your thoughts and feelings, whether your loss is recent or long ago.

6:30pm. St. John’s Lutheran Church of Mahoning.

570-386-9960.

Hatha Yoga – In the tradition of the Mysore school of yoga. Develop strength, flexibility, balance, calmness, and resolution. $12. 5-6:15pm. Activity Center, Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Old Rte 115, Saylorsburg.

570-992-2339.

Prenatal Yoga – The body has an innate wisdom about the stages of pregnancy, labor and birth. Class is designed to reconnect with this natural process.

Yoga can alleviate many of the common discomforts of pregnancy. 6:15pm. With Mary Cardinal. $10 or $35 for 4 classes. Minerva Wellness, 52 Deer Ln, Honesdale. 570-253-8060 Yoga Flow – An introduction into the basic vinyasa style of yoga. It includes connecting the movement to the breath for all levels of experience, but is a

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tuesday Iyengar Yoga – Mixed Levels w/ Diana Erney.

Each pose individually taught with emphasis on alignment, strength, balance, and flexibility. Props such as blocks and blankets enhance understanding.

7pm. Arsha Vidya Gurukulum, Saylorsburg. 610509-3677, AVGyoga@gmail.com Holistic Chamber of Commerce Meeting – 3rd Tuesday of each month. Dutch treat for dinner/ drinks, community building and networking. Members: Free. Non-members two meetings free then $5/ meeting. 6:30-8:30pm. Perkins Restaurant (Back Meeting Rm), 600 PA Rte 940, Mount Pocono.

RSVP to Melissa Luddeni, LMT: 570-350-6129.

Edgar Cayce Group – Discusses the various aspects of Edgar Cayce, dreams, book study, meditation, and more. All welcome. 7-8:30pm. Donation.

Shooting For the Moon. 6247 Rte 209, Stroudsburg, 570-992-0943.

wednesday Natural Health Talk – Learn about drug-free ways to be your best. Covers overall health, nervous system, nutrition and the spine. Always time to ask questions. 6:30pm. Free. Please call ahead to RSVP. Life is Good Chiropractic, 1807 Route 209, Brodheadsville. 570-992-2929 Non-Invasive Laser Pain Clinic – Reduce pain with FDA approved Laser therapy. Clients with limited health insurance and low income only; clients with health insurance please schedule another time.

8 clients per week. Must pre-schedule. No walk-ins.

1-5pm. $10. Hypnosis & Longevity Center, 124 Village Park Dr (Rte 940), Ste 2, Pocono Lake.

570-504-1681 Tai Chi – Experience the benefits of this moving, meditative practice. All levels. 5:15pm. Asian Institute, 315 Pocono Blvd, Mt Pocono. 570-839-1898.

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Hatha Yoga – In the tradition of the Mysore school of yoga. Develop strength, flexibility, balance and resolution. $12. 6:30-7:45pm. Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, Old Rte 115, Saylorsburg. 570-992-2339.

Silent Sitting – With Bodhi. Bring inner balance and stillness to your life through guided silent or active meditation designed to relax the body and mind. A unique opportunity to go deeply inward. 6:30-8pm. $8. Effort location. 570-977-0814

friday TGIF Yoga – All levels. A light-hearted, wellbalanced yoga class with a focus on good alignment.

6-7:15pm. 1st class free. $10. Dingmans Medical, Center for Infinite Health, 1592 Rte 739, Dingmans Ferry. 845-790-3408.

Reiki Share – First and third Friday of every month.

Open to any person who has received their reiki attunement and wants to hone their reiki skills. This is a time when the healers heal themselves and get much needed restoration. 7pm. Donation. Shooting For the Moon. 6247 Rte 209, Stroudsburg, 570-992-0943.

saturday Natural Health Talk – Learn about drug-free ways to be your best. Covers overall health, nervous system, nutrition and the spine. Always time to ask questions. 9am. Free. Please call ahead to RSVP. Life is Good Chiropractic, 1807 Route 209, Brodheadsville. 570-992-2929 Meditation Workshop – Quiet your mind and enjoy true peacefulness. 1st & 3rd weekends only.

10am-12:30pm. Vegetarian lunch 12:30pm. Tunga Classroom, Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, RR 5 Box 5050 (Old Rte 115), Saylorsburg. 570-992-2339.

Hatha Yoga – Develop strength, flexibility, balance, calmness and resolution. 1st & 3rd weekends.

Beginners series. 4:30-5:45pm. $12. Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, RD 5 Box 5050, Saylorsburg. 570992-2339.

Shadow Exploration Classes – Angelically Guided Shadow Exploration Classes. By uncovering and accepting our shadow, we reveal the light of creativity, of courage, of power, of joy, and of triumph.

10am-noon. $25 Hackettstown NJ. Call to Register 201-841-0358

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