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Promote Your Healthy Living Business in Our 2023 Directory

Natural Awakenings’ Natural Healthy Living Directory for the Greater Boston and Rhode Island area is coming January 2023. This special directory of Natural Awakenings magazine will serve as a handy reference guide for consumers to keep at their fingertips all year long when searching for the products and services that can aid in living a healthier and more sustainable lifestyle.

This edition will feature business profiles, directory listings and educational articles to teach our health-conscious readers about the benefits of various natural health modalities, sustainable practices and more. Consumers trust Natural Awakenings information and its featured advertisers because it offers leading-edge content on natural health and green living. This directory is a must for businesses offering healthy and/or sustainable products and services.

For details, examples and to reserve your space in the Natural Scan to learn more Healthy Living Directory, visit NA-GBRI.com/pages/natural-healthy-living-directory. Deadline for Profiles and Directory Listings is December 2. For more information, call 617-906-0232.

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Pilates Workshop to Heal Hearts and Hips

Join Amy Aleksiewicz from 6 to 7:30 p.m., October 14, at Body Dynamics Pilates Studio, in Cumberland, Rhode Island, for Healing Hearts & Hips, an evening of nurturing and release using breath work along with a combination of dynamic and supported postures.

This is a wonderful workshop, especially for those that sit all day at work or commute a long distance each day. Participants will create space in the heart and hips, let go of tension and stagnant energy and leave the workshop feeling relaxed, healthy and renewed.

Body Dynamics Pilates Studio has been teaching contemporary Pilates classes and other Pilates-based classes in small groups of men and women of all ages for 18 years. Private and semi-private lessons on the Pilates equipment are also offered as well as TRX workouts.

Cost: $25 for studio members/$30 for non-members. Location: 1099 Mendon Rd., Cumberland, RI. For more information, call 401-333-8550 or visit BodyDynamicsRI.com. See ad below.

15th Annual Natural Living Expo Returns to Marlborough

The much-awaited Natural Living Expo alternative health event, which attracts a wide variety of exhibitors and speakers, will take place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., November 12, and 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., November 13, at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Trade Center, in Marlborough. In 2021, the event drew more than 4,000 attendees looking for the best holistic healthcare information, practitioners and products. Presented by Spirit of Change, a New England free holistic magazine, the Natural Living Expo provides a unique opportunity to connect in person with alternative health and nutrition experts, healing schools and organizations, wellness products, premium natural beauty care lines and transformational and spiritual offerings.

“This is the only venue in New England with access to so many unique and high-quality natural healing exhibitors from around the country,” says event founder and producer, Michella Brudner. “If you are interested in alternative medicine, especially to keep your immune system strong in the face of COVID-19 and flus, the Natural Living Expo is the place to start your learning or expand on it.”

Cost: $25 at the door; $21 in advance. Kids under 12 are free. Free re-admission on Sunday with a wristband. Onsite parking is free. Location: 181 Boston Post Rd.W, Marlborough, MA. For more information, visit NaturalExpo.org.

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Freedom from Chronic Tension or Pain

Cecile Raynor, founder of Cecile’s Wise Ways, is holding a free online event, called Freedom from Chronic Tension or Pain, at noon, October 8. This event will reveal three unique pathways to reduce, eliminate or prevent common chronic tension or pain that often comes from misconceptions around movement and posture. It also will serve as an introduction to her upcoming seven-week, live course beginning October 13 entitled Activate Your Body Intelligence.

Many people suffer unnecessarily from chronic tension or pain and have lost touch with the integrated functioning of their body. These events are informative and kinesthetic in nature. They include basic movements that are part of everyday life and that everyone can do. Learning how body parts can work together harmoniously can reduce, eliminate or prevent the unnecessary aches and pain that many people suffer. This work helps people more deeply connect their mind, body, heart and soul to promote increased well-being and peace of mind.

Cost: Webinar is free. For course cost options, attend the online event or visit CecileRaynor.com after the webinar. For more information, call 857-245-9488, or visit Courses.CecileRaynor. com/online-event. See Resource Guide on page 36.

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Cumberland Yoga Studio Offers Free Yoga for Stress Relief Class

Time for You Yoga is hosting a free Yoga for Stress Relief Class from 2 to 3:30 p.m., October 9, at its studio in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Discover how easy it is to reduce stress with Svaroopa yoga, a user-friendly, slower-paced yoga practice. Every pose is customized to individual needs, making this both accessible and beneficial. Swami Shrutananda The class will be taught by Swami Shrutananda, a yoga monk serving as a teacher trainer for Svaroopa yoga teachers as well as teaching yoga meditation and classes herself. She has studied and taught Svaroopa yoga for more than 27 years with its founding teacher Swami Nirmalananda. She says, “I love to share the mystical teachings of yoga with others who wish to delve deeper.”

Learn about the differences between treating the symptoms of stress and reducing one’s stress level through yoga. A few easy yoga poses will be tried; no previous yoga experience is required, and mats are not needed. Dress comfortably and plan to arrive 15 minutes prior to the start time.

Cost: Free. Location: 2155 Diamond Hill Rd., Cumberland, RI. Reserve a spot by calling the studio at 401-305-5319. For more information, visit TimeForYouYoga.com. See Resource Guide on page 38.

Healing in Paradise

Terry Sutton, founder of Ocean Dreams Cancer Healing Center, will conduct a Healing and Wellness Retreat in Paradise from December 5 through 9, in Islamorada, Florida. The retreat gives patients with cancer and other diseases, along with their caregivers, the chance to experience hope, healing, education and relief from day-to-day stress and learn to improve the quality of their lives together.

The beautiful Florida Keys offer clean air, blue skies and water, warm temperatures and all the health-healing ingredients of paradise. During this five-day, all-inclusive retreat, guests can explore healing modalities that complement their current medical protocol and discover how to treat the entire mind, body and spirit through breathing techniques, nutrition, drinking filtered water, stretching, joint manipulation, massage, acupuncture, music therapy, reiki, grounding, reflexology, meditation, herbal medicine and more. They can also play in the water, go fishing or relax in the sun.

Cost: $850 to $2,850. Location: Ragged Edge Resort & Marina, 243 Treasure Harbor Dr., Islamorada, FL. For more information, call 305-3939921, email odchc2019@gmail.com or visit OceanDreamsHealing.org.

Women Share Stories of Grief

In her new book Shining a Light on Grief: Real Women Sharing Real Stories of Loss and Love, grief coach Susan Lataille has collected stories from 11 women that each have a unique perspective and story to tell. Through these moving and inspiring stories of loss, the reader will come to better understand these disorienting, heartbreaking, yet natural moments in these women’s lives. Through her own grief following the loss of her son Nathan in 2017, Lataille discovered that when someone is available to listen, the consequences for both can be genuinely useful, healing and profound. The stories will provide hope and inspiration to those living alongside grief, and they are a reminder that we are never alone when we face the tragic loss of a loved one.

Contributing writers include Diane M. Caine, Wendy Juergens, Lisa Medley, Elizabeth Phinney, Joanne Sapers, Carleen DeSisto, Catherine DeOrsey, Patrice McKinley, Carrie Beers and Barbara Barry.

Cost: Paperback $20/e-Book $7.99. Available through select bookstores and gift shops, major online retailers and through the publisher at StillwaterPress.com. Hand-signed copies are available from the authors when purchased at ShiningALightOnGrief.com.