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The ReconnectionÂŽpresents

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These seminars and events will teach you about healing beyond anything you’ve read about, thought about, dreamed about!

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Internationally recognized healer Eric Pearl has appeared on countless television programs in the US and around the world, spoken by invitation at the United Nations, presented to a full house at Madison Square Garden in New York, been interviewed in various publications including The New York Times and most recently featured in the film, The Living Matrix.

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taught by Sabrina Fritts Eli Ashby Healing Arts Center

As a doctor, Eric ran a highly successful chiropractic practice for 12 years until one day when patients began reporting that they felt his hands on them – even though he hadn't physically touched them. Patients soon reported miraculous healings from cancers, AIDS-related diseases, epilepsy, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, birth disfigurements, cerebral palsy and other serious afflictions.

All this occurred when Eric simply held his hands near them – and to this day, it continues.

His patients’ healings have been documented in six books to date, including Eric’s own international bestseller, The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself, soon to be in 36 languages. Reconnective Healing elicits interest from top doctors and medical researchers at hospitals and universities worldwide with new research programs presently underway.

This new level of healing has been taught to over 60,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Christine Upchurch, M.S., Reconnective Healing Instructor, is a former research statistician with a passion for empowering others to do this work. She feels privileged to have helped educate thousands of new practitioners worldwide, has had numerous articles published and has appeared on radio shows such as “Science Meets Spirituality� and “The Dr. Pat Show.� Christine is the Founder and Director of the Northwest Reconnective Healing Center in the Seattle area, visit www.CUHealing.com.

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Natural Awakenings is your guide to a healthier, more balanced life. In each issue readers find cutting-edge information on natural health, nutrition, fitness, personal growth, green living, creative expression and the products and services that support a healthy lifestyle.

14 LOCAVORE NATION Savor the Reign of Regional Foods

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by Judith Fertig

18 healthykids

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21 greenliving

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MOUTHS OF BABES A Dozen Ways Children Teach Us to Eat Mindfully

by Dr. Michelle May

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19 Reconnecting

Our Kids to Themselves—and the World

by M. Darren Gregor

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VACATIONS THAT GIVE BACK

by Heather Boerner

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24 Gentle Remedies for Weekend Warriors Homeopathic Medicines for Sports Injuries

by Dana Ullman

26 Men’s

Spiritual Journey Experience the

Wisdom of Sun Tzu

by Ivan Jungé

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Since discovering I have a soy intolerance, I’ve been baffled by just how many foods contain soy. I’m not talking about Asian foods, tofu, tempeh, or the other obvious offenders; I’m not even talking about the chemicals disguised as food. Many healthy, natural, or organic foods contain dizzying amounts and arrays of soy: most baked goods, even from natural food stores; many salad dressings and marinades; the near-entire freezer section; whole-grain crackers, cereals and cookies; most soups; protein bars; all cooking sprays; many glutenfree items; and, to my surprise, some brands of tea. I guess my days of grabbing a quick can of soup, prepared sandwich, or frozen something-or-other from the grocery store are over.

Lucky for me and others managing food intolerances or super-healthy diet preferences, the local natural foods movement is alive and thriving. With access to several amazing farmers’ markets and natural food stores, and with Boulder at the forefront of the organic and natural foods industry, we on the Front Range can eat natural food year-round—which is not only tasty but good for our health, environment and local economy. On page 14, we discuss the reign of regional foods in “Locavore Nation.”

contact us Publisher Sara Garden Editor Marj Hahne Assistant Editors S. Alison Chabonais Sharon Bruckman Magazine Layout Char Campbell Design & Production Courtney Ayers Stephen Blancett Robin King Advertising Sales Sara Garden Sherrie Glogosh To contact Natural Awakenings Boulder/Broomfield Counties Edition:

The number of local farmers’ markets is on the rise, with virtually every community in the area hosting at least one per week. Local restaurants have also embraced the natural foods movement, offering gluten-free, soy-free, and vegan options, and educating their floor staff about where and how the vegetables, meat and fish they serve were grown, raised or caught.

Phone: 303-665-5202 Fax: 303-665-5212 Email: publisher@NaturalAwakeningsBoulder.com www.NaturalAwakeningsBoulder.com

It’s too easy to over-indulge in all this great food and drink! On page 18, “Out of the Mouths of Babes” explores a dozen ways our children teach us to eat mindfully. Whether we observe the wisdom of our children’s eating habits or only eat foods that Grandma would’ve recognized, we’re making healthier, more sustainable choices for ourselves and our planet.

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newsbriefs Chakra Goddess Yoga Summer Series

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park, embrace, and celebrate your feminine attributes in this juicy hatha-yoga class, to be held on five consecutive Wednesdays, July 7–August 4, from 6:00–8:00 PM, at the Andrus Retreat Center, in Boulder.

Each class’ theme will correspond with the particular goddess energy, symbol, and yoga flow of one of the chakras. We’ll begin with a goddess mantra chant or invocation, then practice yoga poses and movement to awaken those attributes. We’ll add music and sound, aromatherapy, and a guided meditation to develop and strengthen subtle power centers, then conclude with deep relaxation, via warm river-stone aromatherapy, for a total healing goddess experience. The cost is $100 (drop-ins are okay if you took the series before or want to sample a class). The Andrus Retreat Center is located at 6119 Andrus Rd., Boulder. To learn more or to register, visit YogaThatHeals.com or call 303-495-2576.

Commercial Property Owners: Apply for Efficiency Improvement Funding

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wners of any Boulder County commercial or institutional property—a nonprofit, an apartment building, a small manufacturing facility, a multi-family, low-income and/or elderly housing complex—are eligible for the Climate Smart Loan Program. (There may be residential opportunities later this year.)

Applicants choose a set of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures from the eligible measures list, and apply for a minimum of $3,000 up to a maximum of $210,000 to fund the improvement. Recipients will be responsible for repaying the loan via a special assessment on the improved property.

Also, through our ARRA funds, REBATE incentives are now available to all loan-funded projects. Rebates will be available for up to 70% of the project cost, with a cap of $10,000. Please note: The rebates on Solar PV are solely for those properties outside Xcel’s service territory.

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Progressive Gardening Tips That Are Water Wise & Earth Friendly

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1. Hydroponic gardening uses about 1/10 of the water vs. conventional gardening methods. In a place like Colorado this is a very important factor. Hydroponic gardens allow you to recirculate the water for up to 2 weeks!

2. Vertical gardening is the best way to save space. This method can be practiced whether you are growing in soil, hydroponically, or in containers. Grow up â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not out.

3. When you are growing in soil grow organically. There are many products available that keep soil alive and that is important for our planet. And you know, your food will taste great and be the best for you and your family.

4. One of the best things about gardening hydroponically â&#x20AC;&#x201C; things just grow faster.

5. Maximize your space and produce more food. Hydroponic methods can grow up to 10 times the food in the same amount of space as their conventional counterparts.

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newsbriefs Join the Climb to Fight Breast Cancer

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n Saturday, August 7, join Boulder-based Women in Natural to climb Mt. Quandary, one of Colorado’s highest 14’ers, and help raise money to support the Breast Cancer Fund. Men, dogs, and teens are welcome to join the climb, too, which includes a goody bag and lunch—along with great company! Together, let’s dedicate the day to breast cancer survivors, supporters, and all others impacted by the disease.

The crowning glory of this year’s climb will be the Toast at the Top—an opportunity to honor anyone with a toast. Sponsors contribute $14 per toast and receive a photo of the toast via e-mail. 100% of the funds raised will benefit the Breast Cancer Fund, the leading national nonprofit focused solely on improving women’s health by identifying and eliminating the environmental links identified by scientists and environmental experts as potential and preventable causes of breast cancer.

Space is limited to the first 50 people who register, and each participant is required to raise funds to support the Breast Cancer Fund. Registration fee is $50. For more information, e-mail womeninnatural_co@comcast.net or visit BreastCancerFund. org/2010climbco.

Now Kids Can Learn Reconnective Healing!

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oming to the Front Range on Saturday, July 24, Reconnective Kids! is a powerful and interactive playshop designed to introduce Reconnective Healing frequencies to children. Two separate classes will be held, at the Eli Ashby Healing Arts Center, in Arvada—one for 8- to 14-year-olds, and one for 4- to -7-year-olds, which includes one parent to allow for at-home encouragement and reinforcement of their child’s learning.

This new program from The Reconnection teaches children, through games and activities, how to access and utilize a comprehensive new spectrum of healing frequencies comprising energy, light, and information, so that they may heal themselves, their family, their friends, their pets—and even others around the world via distance healing.

Denver facilitator Sabrina Fritts, says, “I love teaching the kids’ classes. Basically, children learn in two hours what takes adults two days to learn. Children are simply in the moment, love to play, and do not have any fear that they are doing it wrong.”

The Eli Ashby Healing Arts Center is located at7401 Grandview Ave., Arvada. To learn more or to register, visit TheReconnection.com or call 720-935-6316. See related article on page 19.

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Experience the Hero’s Journey in a Men’s Weekend Training

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re you ready to embark on a journey with other men, into another world?

A place to face trials, confront what holds you back, triumph, and return home with wisdom, enlightenment, and power?

The Spiritual Warfare Effectiveness Training (SWET)—to be held from Friday through Sunday, July 30–Aug. 1, in the mountains above Nederland, CO—promises to do just that. Organizer Ivan Jungé says, ‘’While the name of the weekend mentions spiritual warfare, it’s not about war in the traditional sense. It’s more about fighting against negativity and family and social pressures, that small voice inside that whispers that you can’t do something or aren’t good enough, or anything else that holds you back.”

The training, based on the teachings of great leaders throughout the ages, is designed to help men reignite their authentic selves. The term “warrior” is used in its best sense, to mean a man who is grounded, strong, loving, brave and kind.

The warrior experiences real kinship with the earth, learning to reintegrate with nature and consciously walk, observe, and play with it—and graciously live within it. Through many processes, including guided imagery, ritual, and play, workshop participants will experience the courage, honor, and heroism that is their true nature.

The cost is $350. For more information, visit SWETColorado.org or call Ivan at 720-470-9382. SWET was created

by Grant Schnarr, author of The Art of Spiritual Warfare: A Guide to Inner Peace, based on Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. See related article on page 26.

Wellness Guide Premieres in September

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atural Awakenings offers the first annual guide dedicated to wellness. This full-color, expanded issue will be distributed throughout Boulder and Broomfield Counties beginning in September. Options include practitioner profiles, company listings, and full-color display advertisements. Promote your natural living or wellness business with a listing in our annual guide!

If you have a business that promotes wellness, contact us today at 303-665-5202 to list your business in the directory. Take advantage of our early-bird special before July 20. The final deadline to be listed in the directory is August 15. Payment plans are available.

Boulder Authors Win Nautilus Gold Book Award

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d and Deb Shapiro’s bestselling book, BE THE CHANGE: How Meditation Can Transform You and the World, won the 2010 Nautilus Gold Book Award. The Dalai Lama and Robert Thurman wrote forewords, and among the contributors are Marianne Williamson, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Jane Fonda, Ed Begley, Ellen Burstyn, John Gray, and Byron Katie.

The Nautilus Awards recognize print and audio books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living, and positive social change while stimulating the imagination and offering the reader new possibilities for a better life and a better world.

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Low-Cost Community Holistic Clinic

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tress Management Services is now offering massage and other complementary holistic services to the community on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of every month at a substantial discount, from $25–45 per session, based on genuine need.

Founder Velina Lujan says, “We started the clinic in order to meet the needs of the community. Massage and complementary healing should be available to all income levels. And, with the struggling economy, stress has never been so high, yet people couldn’t afford the care. The financial stress made it counterproductive to go deeper into debt for stress relief.”

The clinic offers massage, energy healing, craniosacral therapy, stress-management consultation and coaching, cosmetology, nutritional consultation, guided imagery, and hypnotherapy, all provided by highly skilled professionals.

Stress Management Services is located at 5600 Arapahoe Ave., Suites 203 & 207, Boulder. Call 303-717-7709 to schedule your appointment, available on the 1st and 3rd Fridays of every month.

Learn more at YourStressManager.com.

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Summer Silliness and New Science!

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

ummer is heating up the Boulder Center for Spiritual Living with two evenings of transformation.

On Friday, July 23, at 7:00 Pm, Vanda Mikoloski, an original and irreverent, “spiritually incorrect” comic, will share her unique journey through “The Ridiculous Reality of Being.” As Deepak Chopra once said to Robin Williams, “Laughter is the enema of the soul.”

On Saturday, July 31, at 7:00 PM, Dr. Bruce Lipton, a leading pioneer in bridging science and spirit, will entertain and inspire as he shares the profound effects of mind over matter, and our collective evolution. Dr. Lipton is the author of The Biology of Belief and Spontaneous Evolution.

The Boulder Center for Spiritual Living is located at 805 Yale Rd., Boulder. To learn more or to register for either event, visit BoulderCSL.org or call 303-942-1267.

Cost is $20 advance/$25 door for Vanda, and $45 advance/$50 door for Dr. Lipton. These events will sell out, so please register early.

Men, There’s a Battle!

In every man there is an ancient calling to join other men around the fire and discuss the battle at hand. We invite you to join this conversation and connect with your warrior energy. There is a battle. It is your battle. It is our battle as men.

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Economic Security

Buying at Home Keeps America Strong Poll after poll points to Americans’ preference for locally produced goods, according to msn.com; the real question is if we are willing to look for them and pay more. A 21st-century grassroots website, StillMadeInUSA.com, provides a helping hand with an online shopping directory of American brands.

Categories range from personal apparel, handcrafts and household goods to tools, sports and entertainment, and include special occasions and shop-by-geography menus.

“I try to buy American products whenever possible, but as a working mother of three boys, I don’t have time to drive from store to store or search for hours online,” says founder Stephanie Sanzone, explaining her website’s genesis. The Made in USA label represents a heightened concern for guarding American manufacturing jobs, worker and environmental health, product quality, consumer safety, national competitiveness and security while defending against an increasing trade deficit.

Donate a Day

Crop Mobs Sustain Small Farms and Build Communities Across the country, crop mobs comprising dozens of mostly 20-something volunteers periodically gather at local sustainable small farms to donate their time to make immediate improvements. These landless farmers, apprentices, interns and the “agricurious” comprise a remarkably effective traveling work party, often assisted by experienced farmers and gardeners eager to share their know-how with the next generation. Assigned tasks might be mulching, building a greenhouse, prepping garden Weeding blackberry beds at Spence’s beds or bringing in a harvest.

Farm in Chapel Hill, NC. “The more tedious the work we have, the better,” says Rob Jones, co-founder of the spreading movement, which originated in North Carolina’s Triangle in response to a regional surge in sustainable farming. “Because part of crop mob is about community and camaraderie, you find there’s nothing like picking rocks out of fields to bring people together.”

It’s all about building the community necessary to practice this kind of laborintensive agriculture and to put the power to muster help into the hands of future local food producers. Any crop mobber can call a crop mob to do the kind of work it takes a community to do. Participants work together, share meals, play, talk and make music. No money is exchanged; it’s the stuff that communities are made of.

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Lunch Box

Funding Debate Slows Upgrade of School Nutrition For the past year, Slow Food USA has led a consumer campaign now exceeding 100,000 emails asking Congress to improve school nutrition. “We cannot, in good conscience, continue to make our kids sick be feeding them cheap byproducts of an industrial food system,” states Josh Viertel, president of Slow Food USA. “It is time to give kids real food, food that tastes good, is good for them, is good for the people who grow and prepare it and is good for the planet.”

President Obama has proposed investing an additional $1 billion a year to help schools serve healthier food, but Congress is hesitating to approve the full amount. This change to the five-year Child Nutrition Act, now up for renewal, would add 20 cents to the $1 allocated for ingredients in each school lunch.

School nutrition directors say an additional $1 is needed to serve sufficient vegetables, fruits and whole grains, making the ultimate goal $4 billion a year.

Meanwhile, the viable farm-to-school movement is seeking just $50 million of the total to link local farms with schools.

Vending machines also must be subject to stronger nutrition standards.

“Kids have the most at stake here,” remarks Emily Ventura, of Slow Food Los Angeles. “This is their future, their health, their quality of life. But it’s also America’s future.”

Support the Time for Lunch campaign at SlowFoodUSA.org.

Parents’ Day on July 25 honors responsible parenting and uplifts ideal parental role models for our nation’s children. ~ ParentsDay.com

New Paradigm

Research Shows We Can Feed the World Sustainably A benchmark study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research says that it’s possible to sustainably feed the world’s estimated 2050 population of 9 billion, while still preserving the planet.

Findings suggest that a diet equivalent to eating meat three times a week would employ green farming methods, leave forests untouched and raise animals only under freerange conditions.

“We can actually do without factory farming,” concludes Lasse Brauun, of Compassion in World Farming. “With 60 billion animals being reared for livestock production every year and the figure set to double by 2050, we really need to reconsider our approach. Animals are being reared like factory units to provide us with cheap meat. The true cost of eating too much meat is animal suffering, deforestation and obesity.”

The Indian state of Sikkim in the Himalayas is among those showing the way.

The government plans to have all of its arable land of 173,000 acres certified organic by 2015.

Eating Sewage

Avoid Sludge Used and Sold as Fertilizer Eight million tons of sewage sludge from wastewater treatment plants, euphemistically renamed biosolids, is annually marketed as fertilizer and applied to the American farms and gardens that grow our food, as well as the parks where we play. No food crop, aside from those labeled U.S. Department of Agriculture certified organic, is regulated to guard against it being grown on land treated with this sludge.

Because of the nitrogen and phosphorous found in human solid waste residue, the sludge industry and certain government bodies overlook the toxic blend of all that goes down the drain. That’s why a few conscientious companies like Del Monte and Heinz have long had a policy not to purchase food grown in sludge.

Sewage sludge contains antimicrobial compounds, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals and pathogens that may be absorbed by food crops, water supplies and our bodies. Currently, the Environmental Protection Agency requires testing for only nine chemical elements and two bacteria for land application of sewage sludge and no testing for residue buildup in soil. Meanwhile, studies from universities including Yale, Cornell and Johns Hopkins express concerns about the health and safety of this practice.

To protect health: Buy USDA-certified organic; ask at farm stands if they use sludge or biosolids; inquire about food and bagged fertilizer companies’ policies; and tell elected officials that citizens don’t want sewage sludge in America’s food and water supplies. For more information visit United Sludge-Free Alliance at USludgeFree.org. natural awakenings

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coverartist globalbriefs Natural Spin Shoppers Vote for Healthier Choices

Pineapple Piece

by Renee K. Coates The isolated tropical oasis of HanaMaui, in Hawaii, is the source of inspiration for Renee K. Coates, whose art captures its essence with rich, saturated colors; lush foliage, flowers and fruit; and Gauguinesque scenes of island life.

Coates has received national acclaim for her artistic achievements, including the National Alliance for Excellence award and Hawaii’s Sterling Scholar award in visual arts.

Coates discovered her flair for creativity as a youngster, “coloring on the walls and getting into trouble,” she recalls. Her parents soon supported the fledgling artist’s efforts, though; Coates fashioned a line of jewelry at 12 and created notecards and prints during high school. She attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan and received a bachelor’s degree in fine arts.

Coates currently divides her time between studios in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, and Hana-Maui. “The unparalleled light and vibrant color found in the islands contributes greatly to my artistic vision,” she advises. “I love to travel, gathering new inspirations, but no matter where I am, I carry Hana’s beauty with me.”

View the artist’s portfolio at ReneeCoates.com and her blog at 52Pieces.com.

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Attendees at this year’s mega Natural Products Expo West, in Anaheim, California, saw everything from organic burritos and glass baby bottles to bags that extend the life of produce. “The 30th anniversary of the event mirrors major business and consumer shifts to values of health and sustainability,” observed Fred Linder, president of New Hope Natural Media. Organic products and green packaging are in—genetically modified foods are out.

Accordingly, The Fresh Ideas Group, which monitors new-product trends, has forecasted lower prices for private label organic food in 2010 and an increase in foods with fewer processed ingredients and more whole grains. While organic still accounts for less than 5 percent of national food sales, overall sales of organic foods and other products was up 5 percent in 2009, more than double the growth of conventional wares.

Shop for information on the origins of imported foods and key health issues to watch for at FoodAndWaterWatch. org/food/global-grocer.

FoodieView.com, a recipe search engine, makes it easy for readers to tap into a million recipes organized by category from many of the Internet’s most popular cooking sites.

Hike to Fight

Breast Cancer Climb Quandary Peak August 7th and raise money for the Breast Cancer Fund.

Details or register at breastcancerfund.org/2010climbco

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Why Mangos are Good for Us

Exotic Superfruit

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ncluding mangos in summer fruit salads adds both delicious sweetness and health benefits. A new study by Texas AgriLife Research food scientists examined five mango varieties most common in the United States: Ataulfo, Francine, Haden, Kent and Tommy Atkins, and found that the tropical fruit has anticancer properties.

When exposed to a variety of cancer cells in the laboratory, mango turned out to be especially effective against certain breast and colon cancers. The researchers attribute the cancer-fighting properties to the fruitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s polyphenolics, a class of bioactive compounds responsible for preventing or stopping cancer cells.

As one might expect with an all natural anti-cancer agent, normal cells were not affected by the mango, which targeted only cells that had gone bad, by interrupting their mutated division cycles.

Mangosteen juice has anti-inflammatory properties that could prove to be valuable in preventing the development of heart disease and diabetes in obese patients. A study published in BioMed Centralâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open access Nutrition Journal states that the juice of the exotic superfruit lowers levels of C-reactive protein, a key factor associated with inflammation.

Source: Texas A&M AgriLive Communications, 2010

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onstick cookware, popular because it’s convenient to use and clean, also emits toxic fumes when overheated. Tests commissioned by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) have shown that in just two to five minutes on a conventional stovetop, cookware coated with Teflon and other nonstick surfaces can exceed temperatures at which the coating breaks apart and emits toxic particles and gases. They posit that the same holds true for ovenware. At the same time, the researchers report that ingesting inert particles that have come off scratched cookware isn’t a hazard.

EWG’s recommended alternatives are stainless steel and cast iron cookware.

However, for families stuck with nonstick pots and pans, the group offers the following tips: Never preheat nonstick cookware empty or at high heat and make sure to cook food at the lowest possible temperature possible for safe cooking.

Don’t put nonstick cookware in an oven hotter than 500 degrees and use an exhaust fan. Keep pet birds out of the kitchen, because they are particularly susceptible to the fumes.

Skip Nonstick Pans

For a free downloadable Guide to PFCs (perfluorochemicals) and how to avoid them in a wide range of products, including cookware, visit ewg.org/EWGGuide-to-PFCs.

Slow Down at Mealtime The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism reports that eating a meal too quickly reduces release of the hormones in the gut that induce feelings of being full, which can lead to overeating and weight gain.

Flaxseed Oil Strengthens Bones According to a report in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health, numerous studies suggest that flaxseed oil benefits bone mineral density and reduces the risk of osteoporosis in post-menopausal women, as well as in women with diabetes.

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itamin D is one of the few vitamins our body can produce itself when bare skin is exposed to ultraviolet B light. But this sunshine vitamin that is known to influence the immune system seems to be in short supply, and mounting studies point to serious health risks that can result from a vitamin D deficiency.

According to researchers at National Jewish Health, a leading respiratory hospital, low levels of vitamin D have been associated with decreased lung function and greater use of medications in children with asthma, as well as increased occurrence of a common vaginal infection in women of childbearing age.

Now, a new study led by Boston University School of Public Health suggests that women living in northern states are more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis, suggesting a link between the autoimmune disease and vitamin D deficiency. Meanwhile, research at the University of Warwick Medical School has shown that middleaged and elderly people with high levels of vitamin D could reduce their chances of developing heart disease or diabetes by 43 percent.

To ensure that our body produces enough vitamin D to keep us healthy, experts suggest that we expose ourselves to 15 to 18 minutes of sunshine daily.

Eating foods that contain small amounts of vitamin D, such as fish, mushrooms, eggs and dairy products, also helps to keep our vitamin D levels up.

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A Perspective on Soy

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ith many new soy foods on the market today, from nuts and beans to energy bars and powdered drinks, choosing those that are most healthful can be confusing. Soy has received mixed reviews, even though it has been eaten in Asia for hundreds of generations without reported adverse effects and is a staple in vegetarian kitchens worldwide. In its natural state, the soybean has proved to be high in nutritional value as a non-animal source of essential amino acids, qualifying it as the only complete plant protein.

The controversy centers on 20th-century isolation of the soybean’s beneficial compounds, isoflavones, that in their natural state have been found to protect against breast, prostate and colon cancers, menopausal symptoms, heart disease and osteoporosis. Rather than use the whole food, the manufactured food industry instead has added these compounds in isolated form to various products.

Concerns arise because the isolated plant compounds act differently in the body when they lack the supporting vitamins, minerals and plant substances present in natural whole soy.

Also, their amount and concentration in manufactured foods tend to exceed what is present in whole soy foods.

To avoid the risk of overexposure to isolated soy compounds and still reap soy’s many health benefits, look for organic, non-GMO (genetically modified organism) whole soy products. Examples include tofu, tempeh, edamame and whole canned or frozen soy beans, as well as products produced from whole soy, such as soy flour, soy milk, miso and soy sauces like tamari or shoyu.

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Another Strike Against Saturated Fats

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aturated fat commonly found in ice cream, butter, cheese, milk and beef does not behave like fats in other foods, suggests a study from the UT Southwestern Medical Center, in Texas. The researchers found that when brain chemistry gets hit with such fatty acids, it fails to signal the body to stop eating, even when it’s had enough.

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LOCAVORE NATION SAVOR THE REIGN OF REGIONAL FOODS

by Judith Fertig

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onsider Boston cod, Georgia peach pie, Florida’s Indian River grapefruit, wheat from Kansas, heirloom tomatoes from Colorado, Michigan sour cherries, Texas pinto beans and California wines.

While the definition of American cuisine is difficult to pinpoint, it definitely exists in regional form, say the Americans polled by the James Beard Foundation. It’s the particular tastes of the places we call home.

There’s a delicious reason why regional foods remain popular; as The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture found, the average “fresh” food item on American dinner tables now travels 1,500 miles to get there—and often tastes like it.

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or regional heritage of their producers,” advises Rachelle H. Saltzman, folklife coordinator and director of the Iowa Place-Based Foods project. She notes that regional food might be considered a result of the happy pairing of nature and nurture.

Regional foods start with terroir, a French term that refers to a peculiar combination of microclimate and geography. If we draw a circle with its center in our own backyard, the area within the circumference of the circle that encloses the same climate and geography is the general terroir.

Although terroir is in wide use in reference to wines, it also applies to any food. Terroir accounts for the differences in flavor between mild orange blossom honey from Arizona, aromatic and pear-like tupelo honey from Florida, amber-colored and mediumflavored clover honey from Iowa and dark and slightly sulfurous sunflower www.NaturalAwakeningsBoulder.com

honey originating in South Dakota.

“When you eat honey that local bees make, you’re eating an easily digestible, raw food full of enzymes, pollen, vitamins, proteins and minerals from the region,” says Tony Schwager of Anthony’s Beehive, in Lawrence, Kansas. Bees forage for nectar in nearby blossoms and then do all the processing in the hive. The result is a regional food yielding more than 300 varieties across the United States.

Even Vermont maple syrup can register the flavor changes from terroir, according to Amy Trubek, assistant professor of nutrition and food sciences at The University of Vermont and author of The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey Into Terroir. Trubek is participating in an ongoing study of the character of smallbatch maple syrups.

“Like Burgundy wines or Savoie cheeses, the terroir of maple syrups matters,” she says. For example, maple

syrup—a whole food made only from the sap that rises in the tree only after a long, cold winter—can taste different depending on whether the maple tree grows in areas rich in limestone (giving flavor notes of caramel, vanilla and bitter almond) or schist (where minerals yield a slightly moldy note), giving it a unique taste of place.

Wild Bounty

Pippin apple. What grew in these innovative gardens naturally began to grace American tables.

“Native corn became a truly American food,” observes Lenore Greenstein, a food and nutrition journalist who has taught at several U.S. universities. “The corn of the settlers, however, was not the sweet corn we know today, but the field corn used to feed livestock and make corn meal, syrup and starches.

Sweet corn was unknown until 1779, yet by 1850 it had replaced field corn on American tables.”

Before European settlement here, Native American tribes were often identified—and strengthened physically and spiritually—by the regional foods they ate, whether gathered by hunting or fishing in the wild or raised themselves. Early visiting explorers and naturalists noted such delicacies as wild strawberries growing along the New Hampshire shoreline, native persimmons in Virginia and beach plums on Cape Cod.

In Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine, gardener and author Ann Leighton chronicles which plants were native to New England and which ones the 17th-century colonists brought or had sent from England.

“In this wine, you can taste The resulting cuisine evolved into a fusion the magical place where of English recipes with New World ingredients. our children, Hailey and Loren, grew up. Aromas

Through many generations, regional of blackberries and bay cuisines developed leaves, like those that grow along the Eastern seaalong the spring-fed creek board, often featuring maple syrup, cranberwith subtle notes of tobacco, ries, wild blackbersmoke and earth, dance in ries, corn, pumpkins, Carolina gold rice, cod, the background, derived clams, blue crab, shad from the soil itself.” and shrimp. Grafting new and old world ~ Janet Trefethen, of Trefethen plants produced the Family Vineyards, in Napa, happy accidents of the California, about its HaLo Bartlett pear, Concord grape and Newtown cabernet sauvignon.

Ethnic Traditions Beyond the land itself, regional foods continue to be influenced by the transportation routes followed in early trading ventures; the ways of the English homeland were soon joined by those of African slaves.

Greenstein relates that New Orleans’ famous gumbo comes from the African ngombo, for okra, its principal ingredient.

The thick stew gets some of its distinctive flavor and smooth texture from gumbo file powder made of dried, wild sassafras leaves.

In other parts of the South, a cuisine that became known as soul food grew up around dishes made from produce that slaves could grow in their own kitchen gardens: boiled peanuts, sweet potato pie, boiled greens and black-eyed peas.

Immigrants from Ireland who arrived in the New World during the potato famine of the 1840s and those Europeans promised free land under the Homestead Acts of the 1860s brought garden

What’s Growing in Your Region?

Slow Food, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to “good, clean and fair food,” has created an American Ark of Taste, its list of regional foods. Backyard entries include the granite beauty apple from New Hampshire, green striped cushaw [squash] from Tennessee, hand-harvested wild rice from Minnesota, Four Corners gold bean from Colorado, Padre plum from California and Alaskan birch syrup.

(See SlowFoodUSA. org/downloads/ Ark_Foods_ By_Region_ 9.29_.09_.pdf)

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seeds, favorite plants and ethnic food traditions with them, further enlarging our country’s collective eating repertoire to include sauerkraut, coleslaw, cheesecake, cinnamon rolls and potato salad.

Mennonite farmers who had emigrated from the Netherlands to Germany and then on to Russia, as their pacifist views clashed with the prevailing governments, finally left the steppes of the Ukraine for the similar terroir of the Kansas prairie in 1875. (This was around the same time that cowboys were herding longhorn cattle from Texas along the Chisholm Trail to railyards in Abilene, Kansas.) The Mennonites

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brought bags of turkey red winter wheat seeds that helped transform the wild prairie into the cultivated “breadbasket” it is today.

In a similar fashion, Italian families coming to California brought their love of wine to a hilly region that benefited from moisture granted by the fog rolling in from the Pacific. They knew how to make the most of a climate with a spring rainy season followed by a dry summer— great conditions for growing wine grapes.

for Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. “We couldn’t believe the difference in flavor in milk from grass-fed versus grainfed cows,” she says. “It’s because grass-fed cows produce milk with more conjugated linoleic acid, a cancer-fighting compound, as well as healthful omega-3 fatty acids.” Local examples such as hers illustrate the larger truth.

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~ Justin Rashid, of American Spoon Foods, a grower of sour cherries, apricots and peaches in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula

Good for Our Community

Growing and eating regional foods is equally beneficial for our communities. According to Good for Larry West, a writer for Us Food “Indian beliefs are the E/The Environmental Foods naturally suited same and different [from Magazine, most farmto their environment ers on average receive one another]. For us, the only 20 cents of each grow better, taste better and are packed with sacred food is salmon; for food dollar spent on more nutrients, reports the Plains Indians it was what they produce. The Sustainable Table, an remaining profit gets buffalo; in the Southwest consumed by transeducational nonprofit working to build healthy it was corn. We all see portation, processing, communities through packaging, refrigeration food as part of our religion, and marketing costs sustainable eating habits (SustainableTable. but different foods give when their crops travel org). When grown and far and wide. Farmers consumed locally, foods us our strengths… if we who choose to sell their escape the degradation move about from place to foods to local customers of being irradiated for place, we become separate see a better return on longer shelf life. When their investment. When they come from organic from our sacred foods; we neighbors choose to eat farms, they’re also grown become weak.” locally, it supports local without pesticides and agriculture and encourherbicides. ~ Louie H. Dick, Jr. of ages continued use of

Consider also that area land for farms, Oregon’s Umatilla tribe in keeping development in milk from dairy cattle raised in areas where “Water is a Medicine that check while preserving they can eat grass for Can Touch Your Heart” from open space. most of the year has a There are even more Native Heritage: Personal benefits. Research by better flavor and contains more beneficial Accounts by American Indians Duncan Hilchey, a nutrients than milk from 1790 to the Present, edited by senior extension associgrain-fed cows. Jeni Britate at Cornell University, ton Bauer uses regional Arlene Hirschfelder and his colleagues in Midwestern ingrediupstate New York found ents—including organic milk from that regional agriculture contributes to grass-fed cows, local goat cheese, forthe local economy, provides fresh food aged wild foods and organic berries— and a secure food supply, and plays a 16

“Were it not for Lake Michigan, you couldn’t grow fruit this far north on a commercial scale. The weather fronts come in from the west over the deep lake. The lake becomes a climate modifier, giving the fruit its character.”

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role in preserving our rural heritage. In Goût de Terroir: Exploring the Boundaries of Specialty Agricultural Landscapes, he concludes that “Agricultural landscapes, and the regional cuisine and foodways [culinary practices] to which they contribute, offer powerful expressions of place.”

As Greenstein sums it up, “Regional food is better, however you look at it.”

Judith Fertig is a freelance food writer in Overland Park, KS; for more information visit AlfrescoFoodAndLife style.blogspot.com.

Primary sources: Tony Schwager at AnthonysBeehive.com; Lenore Greenstein at LenoreSue@Comcast.net; Rachelle H. Saltzman at Riki.Saltzman@Iowa. gov; Duncan Hilchey at Duncan@ NewLeafNet.com; Justin Rashid at SpoonFoods.com; Amy Trubek at Amy. Trubek@uvm.edu; and Jeni Britton Bauer at JenisIceCreams.com Also, Culinaria: The United States, A Culinary Discovery, edited by Randi Danforth, Peter Feierabend and Gary Chassman; and Early American Gardens: For Meate or Medicine by Ann Leighton

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Out of the Mouths of Babes A Dozen Ways Children Teach Us to Eat Mindfully

by Dr. Michelle May

Children are born with the ability to eat instinctively, fully tuned in to internal cues of hunger and fullness.

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arents are usually the main facilitators of life lessons for their children, but in some arenas it’s best to let the kids do the teaching. Their natural eating behaviors, for example, exemplify smart choices for us all. Here are some surprising rules of thumb:

Eat when you are hungry. From birth, babies know when and how much they need to eat and cry to let us know. As youngsters grow this vital instinct can be unlearned, so that by the time they are adults, most have learned to eat for other reasons besides hunger. By recognizing the difference between needing to eat and wanting to eat, adults can also relearn when and how much to eat.

Stop eating when you are full. Infants turn their head away when they have had enough to eat and toddlers throw food on the floor when they’re done. But as adults, we clean our plates because we were admonished as youngsters about starving children, feel a social obligation or something just tastes good.

Being hungry makes you grouchy.

Being hungry, tired or frustrated makes a child crabby and affects adults in the same way. Take care of your mealtime needs instead of taking out your crankiness on those around you.

Snacks are good. Kids naturally prefer to eat smaller meals with snacks in-between whenever they get hungry. That pattern of eating keeps their metabolism stoked all day; adults’ too.

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All foods fit. Children are born with a natural preference for sweet foods and quickly learn to enjoy fatty foods.

Such fun comfort foods can be part of a healthy diet. In fact, studies show that overly restrictive food rules can cause children to feel guilty or ashamed and lead to rebellious eating. Everyone eats healthier when they learn to enjoy less nutritious foods in moderation without deprivation.

Be a picky eater. Kids won’t easily eat something they don’t like. Consider how much less you’d eat if you didn’t settle for food that only tastes so-so.

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You can learn to like new foods.

Healthy eating is an acquired taste, so provide a variety of appealing, healthful foods at the family table. If children observe us eating a variety of healthful foods, then they will learn to as well. It can take up to 10 different occasions of twobite exposures to a new food, but kids often surprise themselves by liking something they never thought they would.

Make the most of your food.

Eating is a total sensory experience for children as they examine, smell and touch each morsel. You’ll appreciate food aromas, appearance and flavors more if you aren’t driving, watching television, working on a computer, reading or standing over the sink.

Eating with your family is fun.

Babies and toddlers naturally love eating with other people. Family mealtime is a golden opportunity to model good habits and conversational skills and connect with each other. With older children, play high-low around the dinner table, where each family member takes a turn sharing the best and worst parts of their day.

Reconnecting Our

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to Themselves— and the

World

By M. Darren Gregor

Eating until you are content is more important than finishing everything on your plate.

There is more to a party than cake and ice cream. Invite children to a party

and they’ll want to know what they are going to get to do; invite adults and they’ll wonder what food will be served. Instead of avoiding food-based get togethers, focus on the social aspects of the event.

Sleep is good. Children need a good night’s sleep to prepare for the adventures that tomorrow will bring. Everyone benefits from a consistent bedtime and good rest.

Live in the moment. Kids are

masters at living in the present; they don’t waste a lot of energy worrying about what has already happened or what might happen tomorrow. They are fully engaged in small, enjoyable pursuits. Adults will do well to reconsider the true joys of life and we can learn a lot from children.

Michelle May is a medical doctor, founder of the Am I Hungry? mindful eating program (AmIHungry.com) and the award-winning author of Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat. Her mission is to help individuals break free from mindless and emotional eating to live a more vibrant, healthy life.

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ost of us have heard about the new evolution of gifted kids arriving on the planet—the Indigo, Crystal, and Rainbow Children. This phenomenon raises the question: What if our children could raise their consciousness and expand their natural abilities to connect more fully with themselves, others, and the universe?

Enter Reconnective Kids!, a new program from The Reconnection. Pioneered by Dr. Eric Pearl more than fifteen years ago, The Reconnection has historically offered Children learn about the energetic seminars worldwide for adults (60,000+ to date) world around them, and gain who want to learn Reconnective Healing, a hands- new abilities and sensibilities off healing modality that that help them access a more works with a new, broader bandwith of scientifically comprehensive form and meaning researched healing freof health—one that demonstrates quencies that allow us to reconnect to a universal how healing occurs when the “circulatory” system comprising energy, light, and heart, mind, body, and spirit information. return to balance.

In this revolutionary playshop, children from ages four to fourteen learn about the energetic world around them, and gain new abilities and sensibilities that help them access a more comprehensive form and meaning of health—one that demonstrates how healing occurs when the heart, mind, body, and spirit return to balance. Through hands-on (and hands-off) games, they practice finding, feeling, and playing with Reconnective Healing frequencies, and learn how to use them to

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catalyze the possibility of healing for their family, friends, pets, plants, and, most important, themselves.

The children take turns working on “clients” (other children in the class), and, says Holly Hawkins, co-developer and worldwide coordinator of Reconnective Kids!, “the expressions of surprise and excitement on the faces of the kids when they first experience the Reconnective frequencies are matched only by their enthusiastic exclamations: ‘Wow!’ ‘I can feel it!’ ‘It feels like sparkles in my hand!’ or ‘I feel heat in my hand, and it feels big!’” Their excitement grows as they begin to see physical manifestations, or “registers,” such as mild twitching or fluttering of the eyes, which indicates that the frequencies are having some type of healing effect. While lying on the massage table or working on themselves, some children report having physical or emotional healing, while others describe seeing multicolored lights or feeling an overwhelming sense of peace and joy.

After discovering how to consciously interact with the Reconnective frequencies, the children are guided to spend alone time with the frequencies, as self-healing is the program’s

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cornerstone. Parents participate in the classes designed for the youngest kids so that they can reinforce and extend their child’s learning experience at home. Each child receives a workbook presenting the playshop’s main points, accompanied by color photos, so that they can continue practicing and using their new skills.

“Most children walk into the class with an open mind and a lack of fear that allows them to immediately jump right into the experience,” says Hawkins. Though the program doesn’t currently aim to train the children to become Reconnective Healing practitioners, this quantum leap in expanding their consciousness, creativity, and confidence profoundly enriches them, others, and the world.

M. Darren Gregor is the former director of marketing for The Reconnection. To learn more about Reconnective Kids!, email Holly Hawkins at Holly@TheReconnection.com. To learn more about Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection, visit TheReconnection.com or call 323-960-0012.

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Five Affordable Vacations that

Give Back

by Heather Boerner “You get such a richer experience traveling with homestay,” observes Horowitz from his farmhouse in Hadley, Massachusetts. He advises prospective homestayers to verify the number of nights agreed upon and then pay a host for their hospitality beyond that, and also expect to spend time with your hosts in the evenings. Finally, be prepared for any kind of accommodations. “You have to be somewhat adventurous,” he says.

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his year, you can cut the cost of taking a much-needed vacation while doing something good for the local community and the whole planet. Here are some ways to travel, get involved and avoid tourist traps while walking lightly on the Earth.

Home Swap

Homestay Shel Horowitz has been sleeping on strangers’ floors, couches and private guest suites for decades now. In the process, he’s met peace activists, ecologists and friends with whom his family still interacts. But he’s not just couch surfing; he’s homestaying, a travel option that runs the gamut from traditional foreign-exchange visits for students to the nonprofit peace outreach program Horowitz has been involved in since 1983, called Servas (Joomla.Servas.org).

The way he sees it, he’s doing his part to spread cross-cultural understanding and making travel more affordable.

There’s the time he visited Colorado on a homestay and met a couple who gave him a private tour of their collection of Native American art.

Last year he stayed with the director of Guatemala’s National Park Service and another man active in sustainable development work in the country’s highlands.

As a renter, San Francisco resident Melanie Jones figured home swapping wasn’t in the cards for her. But when she gave it a try, she found herself in a cozy studio in Paris’ ninth arrondissement near a train station with easy access to the city’s major attractions. “It’s a unique way to connect with people who are different from us and to put ourselves in situations to see the world through someone else’s eyes,” she says.

“It’s a lot easier to do that when you’re literally eating off someone else’s dishes and sleeping in someone else’s bed.”

Although scores of home-swapping websites offer to help streamline and vet potential swaps, she chose to post her ad on Craigslist. A 20-something Frenchman responded; he wanted to visit his girlfriend who was staying in San Francisco. Jones notes that it’s important to both trust the person with whom you’re swapping and to set ground rules.

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have four extra hands,” says Weiss.

“You really get to see the inner workings of the [agricultural] community.”

No gardening experience is required, but come prepared to work up to six hours a day, for several days.

You may need to bring your own tent or sleeping bag.

WWOOFing The World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (wwoof.org) movement matches eco-conscious urbanites with organic farms around the world. You stay for free and receive some meals from the farmer host, repaying him by weeding, preparing soil, planting and even building fences.

It’s a way to integrate into a community, says Lucas Weiss of Brooklyn, who has taken weekend trips to the Meadowstone Farm of Tim Wennrich, in Bethlehem, New Hampshire. Staying in a farmer’s house and eating with the family gave him a taste of life he wouldn’t have experienced if he had stayed in a motel or bed and breakfast.“We got to see first-hand how much work can get done when you

Voluntourism Brooke Bailey was new to both yoga and volunteer work in 2006, but after seeing the devastation Hurricane Katrina wrought in New Orleans in 2005, she decided to do something. Bailey scheduled her yoga training sessions around days spent participating in the demolition, cleaning, painting and renewal work the city so desperately needed. It was her first volunteer sojourn, but it hasn’t been her last.

Bailey reports that the effort was life-changing for everyone involved: “I really learned about giving just to give and not expecting anything in return. I realized that even if they aren’t literally my community, even if they’re halfway

around the world, they’re still humanity.”

Find intriguing opportunities at CharityGuide.org, CrossCulturalSolutions. org, Earthwatch.org, GlobalVolunteers. org, TransitionsAbroad.com, Travelocity. com/TravelForGood, VolunteerAdven tures.com and Voluntourism.org.

Philanthrotourism Jill Gordon had been volunteering in inner-city Chicago schools teaching literacy for years when a friend invited her to a talk about a girls’ school in Afghanistan. That’s when she knew she wanted to take her volunteer work global.

First, Gordon joined the Chicago Women’s Initiative of CARE (care.org), a nonprofit organization fighting global poverty, to help organize talks and fundraisers for education programs; she saw some of that money at work later, when she visited remote areas of Peru.

A few years ago, she visited rural India, where CARE funds schools and nutrition programs, and she was allowed to feed infants their first bites of solid food in a Hindu Annaprashan (first rice-eating) ceremony.

“I don’t know if I would have gone to India, otherwise,” remarks Gordon.

“I just loved meeting the real people in India, the kids and the mothers groups.

We got to see what India’s really like.”

Many nonprofits offer these kinds of travel, from Christian groups to United Way, which has an Alternative Spring Break service program for teens (LiveUnited.org/asb). To find a program that suits your interests, ask groups that you support if they offer such trips and how they’re funded, so more of your time, treasure and talent goes to the people who need it.

Heather Boerner, a freelancer based in San Francisco, CA, is a contributing writer for Gaiam.com. Contact her at HeatherBoerner.com.

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VIBRANT CHILDREN

Homeopathic Medicines for Sports Injuries

by Dana Ullman

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Natural Awakenings’ August issue is all about

ALTERNATIVES in education nutrition fitness and sustainable living.

growing number of professional athletes and weekend warriors are spelling relief h-o-m-e-op-a-t-h-y. Founded on a reputation for helping people suffering from chronic diseases, natural homeopathic medicines also are becoming recognized for their effectiveness in treating common sports injuries.

Using them is considered easier than conventional drugs in addressing acute injuries, because applying homeopathic solutions doesn’t require a high degree of individualized remedies. When two people have sprained ankles, for instance, they can each be helped along in their healing by a similar homeopathic remedy, but two people suffering from arthritis will generally require different remedies that are individualized according to each person’s pattern of symptoms.

Note that homeopaths recommend that homeopathic medicine be taken in conjunction with, not as a replacement for, conventional first-aid measures.

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Homeopathic medicines are available as single remedies or as formulas of two or more remedies mixed together. Single remedies are recommended for injuries when all symptoms point to one homeopathic medicine and it is better to use a stronger dose or higher potency not available in mixed formulas. www.NaturalAwakeningsBoulder.com

The use of several remedies in a formula provides a broad-spectrum effect not available in a single remedy. Because injuries sometimes involve muscle, nerve and bone tissues, it sometimes makes sense to use formulas to help heal the various tissues involved.

Frequency of Use When taking homeopathic medicines, experts generally recommend taking as few doses as possible, but as many as required to reduce symptoms. At first, in the face of a great amount of pain and discomfort, this may necessitate taking the appropriate remedy every hour. Usually, after four doses the frequency can be cut to every other hour; as the intensity of pain diminishes, dosing every four hours is common. If no improvement is noticeable after one or two days, it is generally recommended that the patient stop taking any further doses.

Although most homeopathic remedies come in pill form for internal consumption, some are available in external applications; such ointments, gels and sprays provide similar effectiveness.

Dana Ullman has a master’s degree in public health and is the founder of Homeopathic Educational Services. His books include The Homeopathic Revolution, Homeopathy A-Z, Homeopathic Medicines for Children and Infants and Discovering Homeopathy. For more information, visit Homeopathic.com.

Indicated Homeopathic Treatments Three key medicines for sports injuries are Arnica for shock and trauma to soft tissue and muscle; Hypericum for shooting pains and trauma to nerves or parts of the body rich with nerves, such as the fingers, toes and back; and Calendula for cuts or open wounds to promote healthy new skin formation. The information here indicates external use for common injuries.

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n Arnica immediately after injury, especially if there is swelling and soreness. n Rhus tox for sprains with annoying stiffness. n Bryonia for sprains with excruciating pain whenever the joint is moved. n Ledum for easily sprained ankles that feel better when ice is applied. n Calcarea carbonica for chronic ankle sprains and repetitive stress injury. n Ruta for tendon injury (especially helpful for tennis elbow or carpal tunnel

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n Calendula to help prevent infection in scrapes and open wounds; for any open

wound and for blisters; do not use arnica, but instead apply calendula topically. n Hypericum to speed healing and lessen shooting pain in wounds to the

tongue, fingertips and toes. n Ledum to repair injury from puncture wounds.

Note: Most health food stores carry homeopathic medicines in the 30C potency, considered a mid-range strength that is safe to use when self-prescribing for the sports injuries described here. For severe injuries and emergency care, contact a certified professional homeopath who can prescribe remedies in higher, more appropriate potencies. For a state-by-state directory, visit HomeopathicDirectory.com.

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Men’s

By Ivan Jungé

Journey

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he definition of what it means to be a man has been changing. As men seek and explore what the world wants and needs from them, they’re often left with more questions than answers. At the core level, men want to connect with who they are and discover what gifts they can bring to the world, as men, in a healthy way. And women, at the core level, want to support men in their journey of discovery and growth.

Men who know what they’re about in the world can make wonderful romantic partners. Stephanie Small, MSW, NE, founder of Three Sisters Nutrition, a therapeutic practice helping women improve their relationship with food, reports: “Women come to me very focused on and preoccupied with what they’re eating, but when they’re feeling joyful in other aspects of their life, food often fades into the background. A loving relationship with a man who’s connected to his masculinity and able to support her amazing femininity can be an incredibly healing experience.”

The hero’s journey is a basic pattern found in stories from all over the world, and was described by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Campbell’s seventeen stages of this mythological quest, as old as written history, are formulated into three sections: departure, initiation, and return.

departure Departure, also called separation, takes place before the quest.

There’s a calling—something from beyond that draws the hero towards it. The hero knows he must step away from everyday

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life to see what’s on the other side, but he typically resists the call, out of fear or insecurity.

When he commits to the journey, the hero is presented with a supernatural guide that assists him on the way. The hero enters a new realm, unknown and dangerous, where the old rules no longer apply. In stepping into this field, he chooses to undergo a metamorphosis.

Men face trials, confront what holds their power, tr iumph, and retur n home with wisdom, enlightenment, and power. initiation The hero must overcome a series of trials, tests, and ordeals. He encounters an all-powerful, all-loving being, as well as temptations that may lead him to abandon or stray from his quest.

Finally, the hero comes face-to-face with what’s stopping him. He must confront and conquer whatever holds the ultimate

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power in his life. The hero dies, either physically or by letting go of a part of himself, allowing his spirit to soar. In this state of peace, he finds divine knowledge, love, and bliss—what he came for.

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Return The hero has found enlightenment in the other world, and may not want to return.

Just as beings guided him on the journey, they will lead him back to everyday life.

The hero retains all the wisdom he gained on the way. Now free from the constraints of death or fear, he is left with the freedom to live—and to live in the moment.

He must discover how to bring this gift to the world.

All men want to be that hero on the quest. But where is our battle? Whom do we fight? The battle at hand is a spiritual one: each man’s journey is his own, seeking something unique to bring home and share. Each man’s journey, then, is different—and it’s the same journey.

There are places to journey with other men, into another world. There are ways for men to do battle, face trials, confront what holds their power, triumph, and return home with wisdom, enlightenment, and power. There is a calling. It is up to each man to choose whether to accept the call.

Thursday, July 1

Thursday, July 8

Naturopathy Diploma/Certifications – All day.

Autumn Enrollment Interviews. School of Natural Medicine Boulder. 720-746-9961

Solar Community Night – 6:30-8pm. Learn how Xcel’s tiered electric pricing will impact you and how you can eliminate your electric bill for life with solar. Free. RSVP at solarips.com/up. 1501 Lee Hill Rd #24 Boulder. 303-443-0115.

Friday, July 2 Low-Cost Community Massage Clinic – All day.

Sliding Scale $25-$45. By appt only. Call 303717-7709.

Artist Reception for Sydney Hope – 6-8pm.

Boulder Arts & Crafts Gallery. 1421 Pearl Street.

Colorado Shakespeare Festival – July 2-August 8. CU, Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre. Coloradoshakes.org

Saturday, July 3 Reading of the Declaration of Independence – 6:30pm. Free. CU Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre.

Saturday, July 10 Awakening to The Secret Code of Your Mind, 1 2 3 Plan Training – 1-7pm. Create the life of your dreams by learning the first three steps of the LifeLine Technique. $125. Lafayette. 303-9562382.

Sunday, July 11

Sunday, July 4 Firecracker Flow: All-level Yoga Class – 10amnoon. Come and embody a celebration of FREEDOM in this creative and dynamic Prana Flow 4th of July class. Om Time.

Ivan Jungé has been participating in men’s work and leading transformational groups since 1998. He will lead a Spiritual Warfare Effectiveness Training (SWET) from Friday through Sunday, July 30–Aug. 1, in the mountains above Nederland, CO, where men, through many processes, including guided imagery, ritual, and play, will experience the courage, honor, and heroic nature of the spiritual warrior. The cost is $350. For more information, visit swetcolorado.org or call Ivan at 720470-9382. SWET was created by Grant Schnarr, author of The Art of Spiritual Warfare: A Guide to Inner Peace, based on Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

Healing Meditation: Reclaiming Your Playspace – 7-8:30pm. Explore playfulness, creativity, effortlessness, magic and all the great qualities that make it up. $10 donation. 1800 30th St. Suite 307, Boulder. 303-545-5562.

Boulder Peak Triathalon – 7am. Boulder Reservoir.

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Love: A Bridge to God – 10:30-11:30am. Explore how Divine Spirit works in our lives. Free.

ECKANKAR Center, Crossroads Gardens, 1800 30th St. Suite 208, Boulder. 303-443-1610.

Ralphie’s Independence Day Blast – 7:30pm.

Folsom Field.

Monday, July 5 Back to Basics Teleclass – 4-5pm. Learn tips on healthy eating and lifestyle by revisiting basic principles of wellness, and learn about upcoming Back to Basics workshop. Free. Info/register 720334-8774.

Wednesday, July 7 Chakra Goddess Yoga Summer Series – 6-8pm.

Wednesdays, July 7-August 4. Juicy hatha yoga class with music, sound, guided meditation and warm stone aromatherapy. Andrus Retreat Center $100 for 5 weeks. Register 303-495-2576.

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Monday, July 19

Deadline for Climate Smart Loan Applications – 8am-5pm. Deadline for application for Boulder County commercial property efficiency upgrades. climatesmartloanprogram.com

Reconnective Healing Level III Seminar – July 19-20. Westin Westminster. Information sabrina@sabrinafritts.com, 720-935-6316 or TheReconnection.com

Energetic Selfcare Intro Evening – 7-9pm. Free.

1800 30th St suite 307, Boulder. 303-545-5562.

Eating with the Seasons Teleclass – 11am-noon.

Explore incorporating summer’s food bounty into your daily meals. Free. Info/ register 720-334-8774

Wednesday, July 14

Special Energetic Selfcare Class Starts – 7-9pm.

(5 weeks). Learn powerful energetic tools in a magical temple space. $200 ($180 by 7/12).The StarHouse, Boulder. 303-545-5562

Morning Music Meditation – 10am. A morning of Music Meditation in the Canyon Theater. Boulder Public Library.

Lifeline Technique FREE Presentation and Healing Circle – 7-9pm. Awaken to the crucial role the subconscious mind plays in the body’s inherent design to heal, regenerate and be whole.

Free. Lafayette. 303-956-2382

Thursday, July 15 Recycled Furniture Sale at Joyful Furniture – 10am-6pm. Daily. Back-to-school savings July 15-Aug 15 on desks, dressers, nightstands and bookcases. 2000 21st St, Boulder. 303-565-6678 Solar Community Night at The American Mountaineering Center – 6:30-8pm. Learn how Xcel’s tiered electric pricing will impact you and how you can eliminate your electric bill for life with solar. Free. RSVP at solarips.com/up. 710 10th St, Golden. 303-443-0115.

Friday, July 16 Low-Cost Community Massage Clinic – All day.

1st & 3rd Friday of every month. Sliding Scale $25$45. By appt only. Call 303-717-7709.

Guide to the Wild Ride Weekend Retreat – July1618. Learn how to sail through stormy seas and find smooth waters so you want to stay on the relationShip. $300/person. info@ConsciousBoulder.com, 303-449-5417 Free Community Style Acupuncture – 6-9:30pm.

Free acupuncture treatments at Left Hand Community Acupuncture. Also enjoy chair massage or Reiki for a small fee. 409 S. Public Rd, Lafayette. 720-248-8626 PujaGroove – 7--9:30pm. Tantra meets Dance.

Integrate conscious open hearted intimacy with free form rhythmic movement. $15. Solstice Institute, 302 Pearl St. 303-530-0920

Saturday, July 17 Reconnective Healing Level 1 and II Weekend Seminar – July 17-18. Taught by Christine Upchurch. Westin Westminster. Info 720-935-6316 or TheReconnection.com Downtown Boulder’s Art Fair – 10am-8pm. Pearl Streel Mall.

Sunday, July 18 Downtown Boulder’s Art Fair – 10am-5pm. Pearl Streel Mall.

Community HU Song – 10:30am. Learn how to sing HU, a love song to God. Free. ECKANKAR Center, Crossroads Gardens, 1800 30th St. Suite 208, Boulder, CO. 303-443-1610

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Wednesday, July 21 Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium – 5-8pm. Exploring an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on Earth. Lafayette. Info 303444-4839.

A Gift of Love – 7pm. Uplifting video by Harold Klemp, the Spiritual Leader of ECKANKAR. Free. Crossroads Gardens, 1800 30th St. Suite 208, Boulder, CO. 303-443-1610

Thursday, July 22 Solar Community Night at The Windsor Community Center – 6:30-8pm. Learn how Xcel’s tiered electric pricing will impact you and how you can eliminate your electric bill for life with solar.

Free. RSVP at solarips.com/up. 250 N. 11th St, Windsor. 303-443-0115.

Healing Meditation: Spiritual Space: Owning and Giving It – 7-8:30pm. As spiritual beings our fundamental need is for having space to be. $10 donation. 1800 30th St. Suite 307, Boulder. 303545-5562.

Awakening to The Secret Code of Your Mind, 1 2 3 Plan Training – 1-7pm. Create the life of your dreams by learning the first three steps of the LifeLine Technique. $125. Lafayette. 303-956-2382 Reconnective Healing Kids Workshop Ages 8-14 – 2-4pm. Putting healing into the hands of our children.

Ages 8-14. Eli Ashby Healing Center, Denver. Info 720-935-6316 or TheReconnection.com

Sunday, July 25 Boulder Festival of the Arts on 29th Street – 10am-6pm. Juried Art Fair and Sale. 29th St Mall.

Kundalini Kid’s Yoga – 1:45-2:30pm. Ages 7-11.$8.720-375-0880 Bepresenkidsyoga.com Women’s Kundalini Yoga – 2:45-4pm. $12.720375-0880 Bepresenkidsyoga.com Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium –3-6:30pm. Exploring an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on Earth.

Broomfield. 303-444-4839.

Tuesday, July 27 Green Drinks Boulder – 5:30pm. Enjoy sustainable libations with green thinking professionals. For details join our Facebook group.

Shape Shift: Hot Topics to Thrive in a Changing World Monthly Tele-series – 8-9pm.

Global phone event; recorded. $27 Info/register ExquisiteWellness.com

Wednesday, July 28 Morning Music Meditation – 10am. A morning of Music Meditation in the Canyon Theater. Boulder Public Library.

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Thursday, July 29

Spiritually Incorrect Comedy – 7pm. Vanda Mikoloski presents an original and irreverent look at “The Ridiculous Reality of Being.” $20 advance/$25 door. Boulder Center for Spiritual Living, 805 Yale Rd, Boulder 303-942-1267.

Girls Kundalini Yoga – 2-2:45pm. Ages 5-8.$8.720375-0880 Bepresenkidsyoga.com

SpiritTalk: The Soul, the Ego, and Mid-Life Crisis – 7-9pm. Exploring how the ego takes over from the soul and how this may be reversed again. $15 tickets, admit 2. The Bead Lounge 320 Main St., Longmont. 303-545-5562.

Saturday, July 24 Rocky Mountain Tea Festival – July 24-25.

Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse. 1770 13th St. Call 303-442-4993 to register for classes.

Boulder Festival of the Arts on 29th Street – 10am-6pm. Juried Art Fair and Sale. 29th St Mall.

Back to Basics Workshop – 10-11:30am. 8-session workshop to make your wellness goals reality!

July 24-Nov 13. $495. Louisville. Info/register 720-334-8774.

Reconnective Healing Kids Workshop Ages 4-7 – 10am-noon. Putting healing into the hands of our children. Ages 4-7 and one parent. Eli Ashby Healing Center, Denver. Info 720-935-6316 or TheReconnection.com

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Women’s Kundalini Yoga – 3-4:15pm. $12.720375-0880 Bepresenkidsyoga.com Healing Diets Counselor Certification – July 29-August 2 School of Natural Medicine Boulder. $1000. 720-746-9961 Essential Oils Therapist 1 – July 29-August 2.

School of Natural Medicine Boulder. $1000. 720746-9961

Friday, July 30 Men’s Spiritual Warfare Effectiveness Training – All weekend. July 30-August 1st Based on The Art of War by Sun Tzu. SWETcolorado.org

Saturday, July 31 An Evening with Dr. Bruce Lipton – 7pm. Take a wild ride with Bruce as he shares the exciting breakthroughs bridging science and spirit and our current path of spontaneous evolution. $45 advance/$50 door. Boulder Center for Spiritual Living, 805 Yale Rd, Boulder 303-942-1267.

Sunday, August 1 Aerial Dance Festival – Aug1-14. Information, schedule and tickets frequentflyers.org.

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September 3 – 5, 2010 Quantum Breath Meditation & Yoga with Yogi Amrit Desai Experience an integrated state of being as taught by yoga master Yogi Amrit Desai. Experience profound teachings that decrease stress-related health problems such as anxiety, addiction, fatigue and insomnia. Shambhala Mountain Center, Red Feather Lake, CO. Starting at $385. 888-788-7221 www.AmritYoga.org or www.shambhalamountain.org/programs/1423

ongoing events

Lights Out Lunch – 11:30am-2pm. Every Tuesday, Jill’s Restaurant turns the lights out for lunch to support energy reduction. St. Julien Hotel, Boulder.

Lunch-time Laughter Club – 12-12:45pm.

Laughter Yoga. All levels. Dispels stress and worry. Rejuvenates. Free. Unitarian University Fellowship,1241 Ceres Dr, Lafayette.

Tribal Belly Dance – 6pm. American Tribal Style with Jennifer Goran. Boulder Quest Center, 1501 Lee Hill Rd #18. 303-440-3647 Folk Dancing on the Plaza – 7-10pm. Tuesdays June 8-Sept 14. Teaching 7-8, dancing after.

Fun dances from around the world! No partner or experience needed. 13th St btwn Canyon & Arapahoe. Info 303-499-6363

Healing Space – 12-2pm. 15 minute energy clearings or healings. Free/donation. 1800 30th St. Ste 307 Boulder. 303-545-5562.

Self Defense for Grown-Ups – 1-2pm. 1st time free. Boulder Quest. 1501 Lee Hill Rd #18. 303440-3647

Planetary Healing, World Harmony Meditations Teleclass – 8-9am. Guided Meditations and Self Mastery tools. Info 720-301-3993

Business Women’s Network Meeting – 1-2:15pm.

Enhancing the growth of members’ businesses. $10/month. Remax, 4770 Baseline Ave., Suite 200 Boulder. 303-480-5838. BWNboulder.com

Sunday Meditation – 9am. Service to follow at 10:30am. Unity Center, 505 Main St, Longmont.

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Boulder Farmer’s Market – 4pm-8pm. Locally grown vegetables, meats, fruits, flowers, plants, gourmet cheeses and wines, 13th Street between Canyon and Arapahoe. BoulderFarmers.org.

Sunday Service – 10am. Boulder Center for Spiritual Living is a Religious Science church, teaching the Science of Mind with heart. Youth program available.

805 Yale Road, Boulder. 303-942-1267

What Is Coaching and How Can It Benefit You – 5pm. Free teleseminar. 218-862-6420, access code 1124051. Live weekly call answers questions, free coaching demo.

Market Fresh Farmers’ Market – 10am-2pm.

Sundays, Jun 6-Oct 31.Treat yourself to fresh vegetables, breads, pastries, fruits, a variety of treats and much more from local vendors and our restaurants.

Bands on the Bricks – 7-9pm. June 16-Aug18.

Dance, picnic and listen to the best local bands along the Front Range.

Jazz or Blues Jam – 7:30-10pm. Players welcome. Boulder Outlook Hotel. 800 28th Street.

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Weekly Healing Meditation Service – 7pm. A free healing and meditation service. Unity of Boulder.

303-442-1411 Heart Mastery Class – 7-8:30pm. Experience how to release the love of power and become powerfully loving. $20. Info 720-301-3993 Qi Gong for Beginners – 7-8pm. 1800 30th St, Boulder. Crossroads Gardens, Ste 201. First visit free. David Moore, 303 917-3318. JinGui.com

Embracing Loss – 10am-4pm. Heal your heart from devastating loss and move forward in your life with optimism. Caritas Spiritist Ctr, 3775 Iris Ave.,$99.

By appt. Info 720-301-3993

Live Interactive Audio Event – 7:30pm. A modern mystic’s profound journey into Infinity. You will be stunned with insights and experience a transmission of cosmic energy. cosmicfieldacademy.com

Cardio Kickboxing – 6:15-7pm. Get in shape and reduce stress. 1st class free. Boulder Quest Center, 1501 Lee Hill Rd #18. 303-440-3647

Yoga For Conditioning and Restoring – 9-10:15am. Vinyasa flow, all levels. $15 ($12 3 or more classes). The Nook, 985 Westview Dr. Boulder.

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Conscious Core Conditioning: Pilates Fitball & Weights – 9-10am. Core integration, spine stabilization, conditioning and balance. All levels. $18/$15. Boulder. Pre-reg required EnergizeShanti@ aol.com.

Free Aura & Chakra Healings – 6-7pm, drop in. Clear foreign energy from your space and feel great! Free. 303-530-0920.

Ninja Fit – 6-6:45pm. 45 minutes of ab busting, glute toning strength and flexibility training. 1st class free. Boulder Quest Center, 1501 Lee Hill Rd #18. 303-440-3647.

Free Psychic Readings – 7-8:30pm. Discover your past lives and the colors of your aura. Free. Boulder.

Schedule 303-530-0920.

School of the Blues – 7:30-10pm. Live music.

Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th Street, Boulder.

BoulderOutlook.com/musiccalendar.html.

Open Mic Night – 8pm. Poetry, spoken word, musicians (acoustic set) all are welcome. Folsom Street Coffee, Boulder. 303-440-8808

Kids Club: Whole Foods Friday – 8:30am-noon.

Every Friday June 11th - August 6th. Join us planting a garden outside Whole Foods Market Superior.

Register at Wildbear.com Noon Tunes – Noon-1:30pm. June 18-August 20.

Enjoy great local music of all genres during the Friday lunch break. 1300 Block of Pearl.

Live Music at Folsom Street – 8pm. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St, Boulder. 303-440-8808.

Live Music at Boulder Outlook Hotel – 8-10:30pm.

800 28th Street, Boulder. BoulderOutlook.com

Boulder Farmer’s Market – 8am-2pm. Locally grown vegetables, meats, fruits, flowers, plants, gourmet cheeses and more. 13th Street btwn Canyon & Arapahoe. BoulderFarmers.org.

Longmont Farmer’s Market – 8am-2pm. Locally grown vegetables, meats, fruits, flowers, plants, gourmet cheeses and more. Boulder County Fairgrounds. BoulderFarmers.org.

Cosmetic Acupuncture Special – 9am-2pm.

Reduce fine lines, scars, and wrinkles. Sliding scale $25-45. Appointments only. 3405 Penrose Place, Suite 202, Boulder. 303-875-2896, RoseOM.com.

Cardio Sword – 11:45am. Like cardio kickboxing only you use a sword on the bags. 1st class free.

Boulder Quest Center, 1501 Lee Hill Rd #18. 303440-3647 29th Street Live Concert Series – 6-9pm.

Saturdays June 12 – Aug 7. Live outdoor music.

Free. Boulder.

Boulder Outdoor Cinema – 7pm. Saturdays, June 5 – August 28. $5 Donation. Behind Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Info 888-881FILM Live music – 8pm. At Boulder’s zero waste, ecofriendly coffee shop. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St, Boulder. 303-440-8808.

Live Music at Boulder Outlook Hotel – 8-10:30pm.

800 28th Street, Boulder. BoulderOutlook.com

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