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What can I say? I’m a nature girl. As a child, my family and I spent a lot of time skiing and hiking in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. In the summers, I trailed off to camp programs as a camper, then counselor. In the ensuing years, my passion for the outdoors grew and led me to study Outdoor Recreation and Camp Management at Indiana University. Although I spent ample time in indoor classrooms, the Hoosier National Forest was perhaps the setting I learned the most from. Some of my most magnificent memories all occur in nature. I recall gazing across the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, seemingly to infinity, and bowing my head to honor the majesty of the ancient Redwood Forest. I remember loving life on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River where I floated and slept outdoors for a week. I truly love the outdoors. It’s my place of worship, my church. It’s where I fill-up, ponder life, and connect with all that is greater than I am. The vibration from rocks and trees, flora and fauna, and every setting sun I witness makes me feel like a complete person. I’m thrilled to be able to share this conversation in our April issue, and would love to hear from you. Where do you find inspiration from nature? I invite you to share a photo or location on Facebook/NaturalAwakeningsCentralOhio, and get outside!
Sean Peterson Last autumn, I read an article that noted a link between clutter and depression. Drawing from a book entitled Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century, it explains that clutter has a dramatic effect on mood, and even self-esteem. There are direct physical and emotional components that complicate this connection. Cortisol is a stress hormone that increases in the body as more objects accumulate in a space to the point of high density. Aside from the hormonal connection, there is also a palpable emotional element to the process of managing clutter. Sentimental attachments to things prove a heady obstacle to surmount when we seek to purge objects that no longer hold immediate value, but still occupy a special place in our minds or hearts. Stuff becomes clutter when we do not have a place for it when it enters our home or work environment. One of the best approaches to minimizing the accumulation of clutter is to have in mind a specific final destination for an object when it is introduced into our personal space. Another of the recommended solutions is the “Rule of Five.” The suggestion is to put away five things when leaving a room or getting up from a work desk. Another variation on this theme is to spend five minutes each hour de-cluttering. In a 12-hour day, this approach adds up to a solid hour of cleaning that goes a long way toward keeping clutter at bay.
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newsbriefs Fitness and Wellness Facility Offers New Program
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lite Physiques now offers assessment and conditioning methods developed and taught by Paul Chek of the C.H.E.K. Institute. The C.H.E.K. (Corrective Holistic Exercise Kinesiology) approach is broad ranging and taught by fitness instructors and medical doctors alike in a variety of environments. It is administered to many different types of clients, including professional athletes. The program can be used to facilitate rehabilitation or provide enhanced strength and conditioning training. Elite Physiques founder Sherry Macdonald is a certified C.H.E.K. practitioner who notes, “The initial assessment might include such components as flexibility and range of motions testing, gait analysis, and measuring of abdominal wall strength.” Chek based the creation of his techniques on a holistic view that the body is an interconnected series of systems that involve and require consideration of physical, hormonal, mental, emotional and spiritual aspects.
ifetime Pet Wellness Center (LPWC), in Columbus, now uses pulsed electromagnetic field therapy (PEMF) to treat patients. PEMF is a method of transmitting waves containing charged magnetic fields, a process thought to aid in cellular repair and help promote healing. The primary application of PEMF is to reduce pain, increase bone density and lean muscle mass. LPWC co-owner Laurie Carlson adds, “Cellular metabolism is boosted, blood cells are regenerated, and circulation is improved with oxygen-carrying capacity increased by up to two-hundred percent.” She has also noted a strengthened immune system function and nerve response. LPWC uses the procedure to treat common conditions like arthritis, back or joint pain and poor circulation, and has found it effective in accelerating post-surgery healing. Carlson notes the therapy is routinely administered to humans, and when applied correctly is also a low-stress and safe treatment option for canine, feline and equine patients.
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m2Ohm Meditation and Wellness Center has enlisted the services of Christine Bowden, a Registered Yoga Therapist and dance choreographer. Participants in the five-week series will explore self-reflection while assuming corresponding yoga postures, plus develop personal growth through meditation and focused breathing. “We will help bring about healing and release from difficult life transitions, grief, and PTSD,” says Bowden, herself a military veteran. The course is open to all women of any skill level, and is held each Friday, beginning April 3 and ending May 1. Location: 324 W. Case St., Powell. For more information, call 614-787-0583 or visit Om2Ohm.com. See ad, page 45.
Natural Awakenings Earns Top Franchise Business Award
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atural Awakenings has been ranked in the best 50 in its size class among 200 companies named in the Franchise Business Review’s 2015 Top Franchises Report. The healthy living magazine was one of five franchise companies cited as best-in-class in the advertising and sales category. To select the top franchises across industries and performance categories, the organization surveyed more than 28,500 franchisees. “We feel privileged that it was our franchisees’ expression of high satisfaction that earned us this award,” says Sharon Bruckman, CEO of Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp. “Gaining this recognition proves that our process of providing franchisees with editorial, promotional and operational support, partnered with their enthusiastic dedication in individual markets, serves communities well. Together, we are nourishing and growing a healthy living consciousness in America.” The network now encompasses nearly 100 franchisees across the continental United States and in Puerto Rico. Franchise Business Review, headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is a national franchise market research firm that performs independent surveys of franchisee satisfaction and franchise buyer experiences. 2015 marked its 10th annual Top Franchises Report.
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Custom Furniture Maker Adds Second Organic Mattress Line
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.Y. Fine Furniture specializes in hand-made, custom pieces ranging from end tables and shelving to chairs and beds. Owner and craftsman Tarik Yousef recently expanded his selection of mattresses to include a product from employee-owned, Virginia-based company Savvy Rest. Mattress features include springs made from recycled steel, and organic cotton and wool fibers.
Central Ohio Yoga Studios Raise Funds for Sex Trafficking Prevention Charities
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oYoga and Yoga on High recently completed fundraisers to raise money and awareness around the issue of sex trafficking, or the selling of individuals who are subsequently forced into sexual slavery. GoYoga held a “Yogathon” the first weekend in March, and raised over $2,200 between three area locations to support the efforts of Saving Our Adolescents from Prostitution (S.O.A.P.), an outreach organization that seeks at events and throughout the community to counteract sex trafficking around the world. Yoga on High took part in a worldwide “Yoga Stops Traffick” event on March 15, raising around $500 for Odanadi Seva Trust, a rescue and rehabilitation operation in Mysore, India. For more information, visit GoYogaUSA.com and TraffickFree. com. Also visit YogaOnHigh.com and YogaStopsTraffick.org.
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Ohio Poll Finds Overwhelming Support for GE Labeling
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n independent poll of registered Ohio voters, jointly conducted in early February by Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) and Public Policy Polling (PPP), shows a majority of voters want to see labeling of genetically engineered (GE) food. “There can be no doubt that Ohio voters want the 87% of Ohio Voters Want GE Foods Labeled. right to know what they eat and feed their families,” said Amalie Lipstreu, OEFFA Policy Program Coordinator. “The results clearly show that voters, regardless of political party, support GE labeling.” OSU Director of Rehabilitation Nursing (and OEFFA member) Lynne Genter adds, “This poll clearly illustrates that Ohioans are knowledgeable about genetically engineered foods and also want to know when foods contain GE ingredients.” Consumers and non-GE farmers note concerns about the drift of GE pollen and cross-contamination of other plants, the concept of patenting seed and placing ownership over nature, and an increased use of synthetic chemicals that has inadvertently led to the development of herbicide-resistant “superweeds”. For more information, visit Policy.OEFFA.org/GEPoll.
Yoga Studio Opens Second Location
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AI Yoga and Fitness has expanded its presence in Central Ohio by adding an additional studio in the Gahanna/New Albany area. The dual original facilities in Dublin, located behind Trader Joe’s, continue to offer classes seven days each week. “Our team includes certified yoga teachers, TRX®qualified trainers, Mad Dogg-trained Spinning® instructors and Barre-OM™ coaches,” says founder Chan Hemintranont. “We offer a non-competitive, supportive environment to help discover any body’s potential,” she adds. To mark the occasion, PAI is offering introductory rates for new members.
Locations: 6367 Sawmill Rd., Dublin, 5576 N. Hamilton Rd., Gahanna. For more information, call 614-397-8230, email Info@PAIYogaFitness.com, or visit PAIYogaFitness.com.
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r. Richard DeLano of Dental Alternatives provides Sinsational Smile treatments from the environmentally sensitive and green-certified company of the same name based in Santa Cruz, California. The treatment lasts about 20 minutes and involves the use of an LED light to activate the whitening agents from a gel contained in a silicone tray. DeLano recommends scheduling a whitening session immediately following a cleaning and exam. “This helps the whitening process, as well as allows us to determine if the patient is a suitable candidate for the treatment,” he explains. Sinsational Smile donates a portion of its proceeds from each treatment to a group of six charities. Location: 150 E. Wilson Bridge Rd., Ste. 150, Worthington. For more information, call 614-888-0377 or visit DentalAlternatives.net. See ad, page 30.
healthtips Affordable Health Care from Mother Nature by Steve Frank
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nlike their Eastern counterparts, North American and some European herbalists seek to directly mitigate health issues or facilitate specific bodily functions using particular plants, roots and barks. Native Americans embraced the belief that Mother Nature provides, contending that the herbs of a local environment provide for all of the needs of the people dwelling there. For example, snake weed is prevalent in the Southwest, where encounters with rattlesnakes are frequent. Herbs such as comfrey, arnica and sage, which are found from coast to coast, are used to heal wounds, relieve pain and get rid of parasites and other maladies common to people everywhere, according to the Encyclopedia of Herbal Medicine. Every culture in the world has developed and maintained a system of healing based on their indigenous plants, relying on these natural pharmaceutical entities for thousands of years. A human that lived 5,000 years ago found preserved in ice in 1991 was carrying herbs and mushrooms to mitigate health conditions that scientists confirmed were present in his body. Despite their effective use for millennia, many modern-day people still question the efficacy and safety of medicinal herbs. Instead of looking to pharmaceutical companies born of an industry with less than 200 years of experience, perhaps real solutions can be found in the plants, roots and barks provided by Mother Nature. Steven Frank is the founder of Nature’s Rite. For more information, call 888465-4404 or visit NaturesRiteRemedies.com. See ad, page 27.
April is Stress Awareness Month by Geri Sue Sandor
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etween 75 and 95 percent of all visits to the doctor are due to stress, according to WebMD. When we learn to manage our stress, we are able to live a calmer, healthier, happier life. The first step is to become aware of what is causing the stress. Each person has different triggers. What is of no concern for one person can be a huge stressor for someone else. Common potential triggers include; thinking negative thoughts, using negative words, being unorganized, or being exposed to chemicals from the air we breathe, the clothes we wear, or the food we eat. A good way to identify triggers is to keep a stress journal. Note what set off a reaction, why it happened, and then what emotional, physical and mental responses occurred afterward. Review on a daily basis, and try to identify patterns. Perhaps the triggers are sleep related. Once triggers are determined, we can then find ways to recognize and manage them so they no longer contribute to chaos.
Geri Sue Sandor is a holistic stress management coach, speaker, and founder of Connect to Calm. For more information, call 513-907-1733, email GS@ConnectToCalm.com, or visit ConnectToCalm.com. See ad, page 44. natural awakenings
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Acupuncture Increases Quality of Life for Allergy Sufferers
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esearch from Berlin’s Charité University Medical Center suggests that acupuncture is an effective treatment for patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis. Published in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, in 2013, the study analyzed data on the costs and quality of life of 364 allergy patients that had been randomly assigned to receive one of three treatments: rescue medication alone (taken when symptoms are greatest); acupuncture treatment plus rescue medication; or sham (non-therapeutic) acupuncture plus rescue medication. Patients receiving acupuncture incurred higher total treatment costs, but also gained significantly more quality of life compared with the rescue medication-only groups.
Strawberries Reduce Blood Pressure
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study published in the World Journal of Diabetes concluded that the regular consumption of a flavonoid-rich strawberry beverage reduces blood pressure in people with Type 2 diabetes. The study divided 36 subjects, all with moderately high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes, into two groups—the first drank the equivalent of one serving of fresh strawberries per day made from freeze-dried berries, and the other group drank the same amount of an imitation strawberry-flavored drink over a six-week period. Blood pressure was tested at the beginning and end of the study for all participants. At the end, the group drinking the real strawberry beverage registered significantly lower diastolic blood pressure than at the outset; it was also lower than the imitation strawberry group. The average diastolic blood pressure of the group drinking real strawberries went down by 6.5 percent and the systolic dropped by 12 percent. The strawberry-flavored group’s systolic blood pressure was also reduced, but only by 3.7 percent.
THE COLOR GREEN MAKES EXERCISE FEEL EASIER
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esearch from the University of Essex, in England, suggests that viewing natural green images while exercising may be better than being exposed to other colors. The researchers tested 14 people doing moderate-intensity cycling while watching video footage of predominantly gray, red or green imagery. Each of the participants underwent three cycling tests—one with each of the videos—along with a battery of physiological and mood testing. The researchers found that when the subjects watched the green-colored video, they had better moods, with a lower relative perception of exertion than when they exercised while watching the red and grey videos. They also found those that exercised while watching the red video experienced greater feelings of anger during their exercise. 10
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esearchers from Norway’s Stavanger University and France’s AixMarseille Université found that readers remember a story better if it’s on paper. The study tested 50 people that read the same 28-page short story. Half of the group read the paper version and the other half read the story on a Kindle e-reader. The researchers discovered that readers of the digital version could not remember details from the story or reconstruct the plot as well as the group that read the paper copy. The researchers found that the feedback of a Kindle doesn’t provide the same support for mental reconstruction of a story as a print pocket book does. “When you read on paper, you can sense with your fingers a pile of pages on the left growing, and shrinking on the right,” explains Stavanger University’s Anne Mangen, Ph.D. These findings confirm a study performed a year earlier, also led by Mangen. Seventy-two 10th-graders were given text to read either on paper or on a computer screen. The students that read the paper text versions scored significantly higher in reading comprehension testing than those reading digital versions.
Local Toxins Increase Risk of Autism
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onfirming previous findings, a large study from the University of Chicago has found that autism is linked to toxic environmental exposure. The research examined data from nearly a third of the U.S. population, which showed that both autism spectrum disorders and intellectual disabilities increased as exposure increased in region-by-region testing. The research measured clusters of autism incidence together with exposure rates in different counties and states across the country. The areas with greater environmental toxin exposures had significantly increased autism rates. The correlation was significant among both boys and girls, but stronger among girls. Proximity to urban areas also increased autism incidence. For every 1 percent increase in urbanization, there was about a 3 percent rise in autism and intellectual disabilities. Influential toxins include pesticides, plasticizers, lead and pharmaceuticals.
Olive Oil Boosts Healthy Cholesterol
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Vanishing Wildlife
50 Percent Gone in Under 50 years The latest World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Living Planet Report shows that the Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, has declined by 52 percent since 1970. The report is widely considered the leading science-based analysis on the health of our planet and the impact of human activity (Tinyurl.com/WWF-Living-Planet-Report). In fewer than two human generations, populations of vertebrate species—the life forms that constitute the fabric of life-sustaining ecosystems and serve as a barometer of how humans are impacting nature—have dropped by half. Nature conservation and sustainable development go hand-in-hand; it’s not only about preserving biodiversity and wild places, but about safeguarding the future of humanity. Living Planet Report partners include the Zoological Society of London, Global Footprint Network and Water Footprint Network. Marco Lambertini, director general of WWF International, states, “We need leadership for change. Sitting on the bench waiting for someone else to make the first move, doesn’t work. Heads of state need to start thinking globally; businesses and consumers need to stop behaving as if we live in a limitless world.”
Thriving Eco-Towns
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Innovations being successfully pioneered in Malaysia offer ideas for improving the world, according to the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), including the construction of high-tech, self-sustaining ecological “smart” villages. These villages are lifting incomes for scores of rural families while promoting environmental sustainability. Each 50-acre community consists of about 100 affordable homes, advanced educational, training and recreational facilities and an integrated, sustainable farm system that provides villagers with food and employment that on average, triples their monthly income. Low-cost, 1,000-square-foot homes are built in 10 days and the communal farming operations include a cascading series of fish tanks, or “aquafarms”. Filtered fish tank wastewater irrigates trees, grain fields and high-value plants grown in “autopots”, a three-piece container with a valve that detects soil moisture levels and releases water as required, reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides. Free-range chickens feed on the fast-reproducing worms that process the plant compost. This system optimizes nutrient absorption, minimizes waste and enables crops to be grown on previously non-arable land. The village’s solar-generated power is complemented by biomass energy and mini-hydro electricity. A community hall, resource center, places of worship, playgrounds and educational facilities equipped with 4G Internet service support e-learning and e-health services. 12
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Corporate Do-Gooders
U.S. Recognizes Companies for Earth-Sound Policies Each year, the U.S. Department of State presents Awards for Corporate Excellence recognizing U.S.-owned businesses that play vital roles worldwide as good corporate citizens. Parameters include supporting sustainable development, respect for human and labor rights, environmental protection, open markets, transparency and other democratic values. The 2014 winners, announced last December, include the EcoPlanet Bamboo Group, in Nicaragua, for fostering sustainable development by regenerating degraded pasturelands. The company dedicates 20 percent of its plantations as natural habitat that protects biodiversity by prohibiting illegal hunting. EcoPlanet also focuses on employing persons with disabilities and empowering women through recruitment to managerial positions. Wagner Asia Equipment, LLC, in Mongolia, a heavy equipment dealership, is recognized for its commitment to public/private partnerships with Mongolia’s local and national governments designed to protect the environment. Initiatives include planting more than 900 trees, conducting workshops for students on environment and ecology, implementing a project to build a community garden and rehabilitating a toxic waste site. Other finalists include the CocaCola Company, in the Philippines; Chevron Corporation, in Burma; ContourGlobal, in Togo; General Electric, in South Africa; General Electric International, in Tunisia; GlassPoint Solar, in Oman; and the Linden Centre, in China. For more information on finalists, visit Tinyurl.com/ACE2014Finalists. For a local list of Central Ohio companies, visit ColumbusGreenSpot.org.
Soil Salvation
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Organic Farming May Counteract Greenhouse Effect The nonprofit Rodale Institute, the United Nations and the Soil Association are reporting that modern, chemical-intensive industrial farming is stripping the soil’s natural ability to take carbon back out of the atmosphere through photosynthesis and store it in the soil. Rodale researchers say that by returning to small-scale organic farming, more than 40 percent of annual greenhouse gas emissions could be captured in the soil, and if the entire world’s pasture and rangelands were managed using regenerative techniques, an additional 71 percent of those emissions could be sequestered. Further, organic practices could counteract the world’s yearly carbon dioxide output while producing the same amount of food as conventional farming. Rodale claims that using regenerative organic agriculture—like low or no-tillage, cover crops and crop rotation—will keep photosynthesized carbon dioxide in the soil, instead of returning it to the atmosphere. The institute cites 75 studies from peer-reviewed journals, including its own 33-year Farming Systems Trial, which directly compare organic farming with conventional farming. Source: OrganicConsumers.org
Buzzing Buddies
‘Flying Doctor’ Bees Prevent Cherry Disease University of Adelaide researchers are introducing a “flying doctor” method of employing bees as preventive medicine. Project leader and bee researcher Katja Hogendoorn, Ph.D., says, “All commercial cherry growers spray during flowering to control the later development of cherry brown rot. Instead of spraying fungicide, we’re using bees to deliver a biological control agent right to the flowers, where it’s needed.” The innovative delivery works via entomovectoring. This is a new technique for Australia, with potential application in many horticultural industries. The biological control agent contains spores of a parasitic fungus that prevents another fungus that causes the brown rot from colonizing the flower. Future applications of the small, winged medics are expected to become available for disease control in almonds, grapes, strawberries, raspberries, apples, pears and stone fruit.
No Food Scraps Need Go to Waste People in the United States waste more than a third of all of the food they produce, but more than 180 cities and towns are beginning to realize that wasted food can be valuable; they are asking residents to separate unwanted food from the rest of their trash and put it in a curbside compost bin. The idea is to stop sending food waste to the landfill, where it generates harmful methane gas pollution, and start turning it into something useful, like compost. In 2011, Portland, Oregon, launched a curbside compost program in which residents are encouraged to put food scraps into the city’s green yard waste bin. Since then, the amount of garbage sent to the landfill has decreased by 37 percent. According to Bruce Walker, the city’s solid waste and recycling program manager, the program also reduces the environmental footprint of the trash heap. Getting people to separate their food waste, however, can be difficult. To motivate its residents to put more food waste in the compost bin, the city of Seattle, Washington, has proposed both making curbside composting mandatory and fining residents a dollar every time they put a disproportionate volume of food waste in their trash. Source: NetNebraska.org
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ization, natural weed suppression and natural pest suppression provide environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional chemical-laden options. “With our fertilizer, the main thing we are trying to do is feed the soil,” says Good Nature Founder Alec McClennan. They accomplish this with a variety of materials, including concentrated organic matter, vegetable protein matter and compost tea. “We try to suppress weeds with a couple different strategies,” McClennan continues. Corn gluten meal is a natural fertilizer that helps suppress
new weeds from germinating. Another micronutrient-rich natural weed suppressor is full of goodies that grass likes, but weeds do not. It feeds the grass so that the weeds become unnoticeable. Finally, natural plant oils help repel insects and pests. “Mostly, it’s focused on making plants healthy,” McClennan says. Good Nature’s tree care programs are designed to help nature along. “Our tree program is primarily compost tea based,” McClennan says. It helps the trees get the nutrients they need, without using a ton of fertilizers.
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As he explains, trees fertilize themselves in the woods, and this supercharges the process, while adding a layer of protection and improving the look. McClennan notes that if someone is interested in having the perfect lawn with zero weeds, this might not be the approach for them. Organic lawn care practices can make a yard look much better than if a homeowner did nothing, but it is never going to be the sterile, totally weed-free lawn that a chemical treatment can achieve. However, a few weeds are worth the overwhelming advantages of an organic lawn. “They don’t have to worry as much about what’s going on the lawn,” McClennan says. Kids and pets can roll, jump and play in the grass all day without fear of ingesting or touching harmful chemicals. From a more technical standpoint, soil in an organic lawn is teeming with abundant life. That healthy soil makes a lawn more able to resist problems that people would typically resort to a pesticide to resolve. “You feel good about it,” McClennan says of cultivating an organic lawn. Homeowners can have peace of mind not only knowing that their kids and pets are safe, but also that they are not using pesticides or chemicals that can leach into the groundwater. For more information, call 614-8855296 or visit WhyGoodNature.com. Susan Post is a freelance writer and editor based in Columbus. She enjoys writing about her city and the people and places that make it special. Contact her at Susan.Post.75@gmail.com.
The buy local movement and popularity of local farmers’ markets continue to grow, but we can do even better when it comes to sustainable shopping. A recent Greendex.com survey on environmental impacts of consumer behaviors in 18 countries reports that more Americans are eating local and organic foods and say they’re going to consume less meat and bottled water. Nevertheless, we continue to eat the most processed and packaged foods and the fewest fruits and vegetables of all the countries surveyed. Evidently, we need to literally put our money where our mouths are. The Greendex survey cites several basic ways to make our diets more sustainable. These include eating more vegetables and less beef and lamb (recognizing the greater environmental impact of raising animals); participating and supporting community supported agriculture and fishery initiatives; economizing meal planning; and storing food properly in the refrigerator to maximize space
and freshness periods. When grocery shopping, peruse the perimeter aisles first, where whole foods are stocked, instead of the interior shelves, which typically comprise processed foods according to MotherEarthLiving.com. More cooperation between the public and private sectors and individual involvement can also increase sustainability in communities around the world. Rachael Durrant, Ph.D., a research fellow with the UKbased Sustainable Lifestyles Research Group, cites in a recent paper the need for improved understanding of the key roles that civil society organizations play within processes of largescale social change and warned that many communities are vulnerable to grave environmental and social risks. Durrant lauds “greener, fairer and healthier practices, such as community gardening or cookery classes,” plus “those that change the rules of the game through campaigns or lobbying to coordinate and facilitate activities of other groups.” Supporting food and farming management that’s independent, cooperative and welcomes volunteers, for example, is highly beneficial.
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100 percent organic and gluten-free, with no added salt or sugar. There is absolutely no compromising when it comes to VidaFit’s guidelines. “It’s forced us to use spices and seasonings and change the cooking techniques,” Ehmann says. Beyond providing the healthiest of foods, True Food Delivery also offers a convenience factor. “It’s built for the busy schedules,” Ehmann says. No matter how dedicated a person is to eating healthy, “When life gets busy, they revert back to their old habits.” VidaFit takes the hard work out of eating clean every day. Additionally, each member of the family can have a customized plan, then start and stop service as needed. Phased plans help introduce
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clients to clean eating. Phase one is a cleanse with a high-fat, high-protein diet. Phase two is recovery with lots of protein, gluten-free grains, and fruits. The third phase is maintenance and introduces more veggies to the diet. There is also a specialized plan targeting clients over 60 who want to live a long, healthy life. Kids do not have to be left out either. VidaFit offers a kid-friendly plan with more palate-pleasing options for youngsters, including natural sweeteners and starchy foods. VidaFit does not stop at providing clients with healthy meals; there is also an educational component. “True Food Delivery comes with free nutritional counseling with a registered dietitian as a part of the service,” Ehmann says. “What makes our nutritional counseling different is most of our clients struggle with taking knowledge into action. We actually teach them how to batch cook and prepare meals in advance.” VidaFit offers recipes for all of their dishes so that clients can easily prepare everything themselves. In fact, that is the ultimate goal. Ehmann says clients will start with frequent delivery and drop down to maybe one meal a day as they learn to take their nutrition into their own hands. With diet having such a huge effect on one’s overall well-being, VidaFit’s True Food Delivery service is also a good option for those recovering from cancer or dealing with diabetes. Over time, things like chronic stress or poor diet can cause these major health issues. VidaFit’s food works to reverse the process. By working with their physicians, the team helps clients get back on the road to health, and sometimes into the best shape of their lives. VidaFit’s Be Well Program encompasses the other side of wellness, and includes personal training and lifestyle coaching, nutritional counseling and kitchen coaching, as well as
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April 16-19, 2015 ~ Columbus, OH massage therapy. Clients can mix and match services to fit their needs. Taking a results-oriented approach sets the program apart from other wellness initiatives. “When someone is ready to make a change in their lives and they go see a health or wellness professional, that person is paid based on time and not results,” Ehmann says. “With VidaFit, you pick your goal and that’s what you pay for.” VidaFit takes exercise, nutrition and lifestyle and integrates them together. If someone needs more or less in one of those areas, then that is what they get. Everything is very customizable and personalized. Ehmann describes a classic example involving the impact of coupling True Food Delivery with the Be Well Program. A couple with three kids, he is a busy professional and she is a busy mom taking care of the little ones and supporting the family. The couple started with the Be Well Program and added True Food Delivery. One year later, he has lost 100 pounds and 25 percent body fat. “He’s a new man,” Ehmann says. “The benefits for him go on and on and on.” His wife now has the body shape she did in her twenties, and eight to 10 hours of her week back. Ehmann says everything they do through VidaFit is because they want to change lives. Whether a client just needs some help with nutrition through True Food, or is looking for a lifestyle overhaul with the Be Well Program, “I want people to graduate and become self-sufficient,” Ehmann says. For more information, call 614-5268432 or visit VidaFit.com. Susan Post is a freelance writer and editor based in Columbus. She enjoys writing about her city and the people and places that make it special. Contact her at Susan.Post.75@gmail.com.
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Back to Nature Seeking Its Wisdom for a High-Tech World by Christine MacDonald
The environment is not separate from ourselves; we are inside it and it is inside us; we make it and it makes us. ~ Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, Amazon shaman
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hile the idea that we humans stand apart from—or even above—nature is a prevailing theme in much of modern civilization, naturalists and other clever souls throughout the ages have observed that the opposite is true: We are part of, depend on and evolve with nature—and we ignore this vital connection at our peril. “If one way is better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way,” admonished the Greek philosopher Aristotle, in the third century B.C.E. “Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms the judgment of nature,” Roman politician and philosopher Cicero ruminated two centuries later. Nobel Prize-winning physicist and philosopher Albert Einstein remarked, “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” Today, more of us are looking to nature for ways to improve physical, mental and emotional health, develop 18
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Healthful Nature
As Henry David Thoreau wrote in his classic 1854 book Walden, “We need the tonic of wildness.” While we know firsthand how walking in the woods can elevate mood, scientists have documented that a regular dose of nature has other far-reaching benefits. It can lower stress hormone levels, blood pressure and undesirable cholesterol; help heal neurological problems; hasten fuller recovery from surgery and heart attacks; increase cancer-fighting white blood cells; and generally aid overall health (Health Promotion International research report; also Nippon Medical School study, Tokyo). Regular playtime outdoors helps children cope with hyperactivity and attention deficit disorders, according to research published in Current
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Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care. Exposure to nature can help adults escape from today’s wired lives; reinvigorate, be fitter and less likely to suffer from obesity, diabetes and heart disease, as reported in studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and a University of Washington research summary. It can also unlock understanding of the spiritual essence of life. Hours regularly spent by youth outdoors stimulate imagination and creativity and enhance cognitive development, helping them learn. Nature also helps youngsters develop social awareness, helping them better navigate human relations (Tinyurl.com/OutdoorHealthBenefits Research). “It’s strange and kind of sad that we are so removed from nature that we actually have to ask why nature is good for us,” says Dr. Eva Selhub, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School, author of the new book Your Health Destiny, and co-author of Your Brain on Nature. “The fact is our brains and bodies are wired in concert with nature.” Recognition of nature’s positive effects has grown so much in recent years that physicians increasingly write their patients “prescriptions” to go hiking in the woods, counting on the healthy exercise and exposure to sunlight, nature and soothing views to address health problems stemming from poor diets and sedentary lifestyles. Healthcare clinics and hospitals in Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Indianapolis, Albuquerque, New Mexico, California’s Bay Area and elsewhere have launched Prescription Trails programs aimed at objectives from preventing obesity in children to healthful activities for retirees (Tinyurl. com/AmericanHealthTrails). Bestselling author Richard Louv calls the positive nature effect “vitamin N” in The Nature Principle. He contends: “Many of us, without having a name for it, are using the nature tonic. We are, in essence, selfmedicating with an inexpensive and unusually convenient drug substitute.”
Such ideas are commonly accepted in many cultures. The Japanese believe in the restorative power of shinrin-yoku, which could be translated as “forest medicine” or “forest bathing”. Indigenous peoples like the Brazilian tribe led by Shaman Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, fighting to preserve their land and way of life in the Amazon, profess to be at one with the innate riches of sustainable rainforests (SurvivalInternational.org/parks).
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Innovative Nature
Scientists, inventors and other innovators are increasingly inspired by nature. Biomimicry, part social movement and part burgeoning industry, looks to how Earth’s natural systems work and solve problems. University of Utah researchers, inspired by the durable homes built by sandcastle worms, are creating a synthetic glue that one day could help repair fractured bones. Architectural components manufacturer Panelite makes energy-efficient insulated glass by mimicking the hexagonal structure that bees use in honeycombs. (Find other precedents at Tinyurl.com/ BiomimicryCaseExamples). The inspiration for biomimicry comes from many places, says Dayna Baumeister, Ph.D. co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8, a Missoula, Montana, company working with other companies and universities to propel biomimicry into the mainstream. “People are recognizing that they’ve been disconnected to the natural world,” she says. “We also realize that [as a species] we are in trouble. We don’t have all the answers, but we can look to other species for inspiration” for clearing pollutants from our bodies and environments. Plants and fungi are now commonly used to clean up old industrial sites that resemble nature’s way of removing pollutants from water and soil. A University of California, Berkeley, meta-study confirms that farmers currently using organic farming methods and solar power achieve roughly the same crop yields as conventional techniques with far less dependence on fossil fuels, reducing greenhouse gases and petrochemical pesticide and fertilizer pollution.
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Cyclical Nature
These breakthrough technologies emulate the way nature uses the building blocks of life in an endless cycle of birth, reproduction, decay and rebirth. It’s part of a broad rethinking of the principles behind sustainability—building, manufacturing and living in greater harmony with natural systems, perhaps eventually eliminating landfills, air and water pollution, and toxic site cleanups. “A toxin is a material in the wrong place,” says architect William McDonough, of Charlottesville, Virginia. The only individual recipient of the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development, he is co-author of Cradle-to-Cradle, a groundbreaking book that calls for re-envisioning even the nastiest waste, and The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance. McDonough imagines a world where waste becomes raw material for new buildings, furniture and other goods—akin to how a forest reuses every deceased tree and animal to nourish the ecosystem and spawn new life. With 80 percent of U.S. residents currently living in urban areas, architects, builders and municipal planners are likewise pivoting toward nature, prompted by the scientific evidence of the many ways that human health and general well-being rely upon it. While this contact is preferably the kind of “stopping by woods” that inspired New England poet Robert Frost, even a walk in a city park will work. “Urban nature, when provided as parks and walkways and incorporated into building design, provides calming and inspiring environments and encourages learning, inquisitiveness and alertness,” reports the University of Washington’s College of the Environment, in Green Cities: Good Health. The American Planning Association stresses the importance of
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integrating green space into urban neighborhoods. Not only does socalled “metro nature” improve air and water quality and reduce urban heat island effects, urban wilds such as Pittsburgh’s Nine Mile Run and Charlotte, North Carolina’s Little Sugar Creek Greenway also restore natural connections in densely populated city centers.
Natural Intelligence
A growing number of scientists say that research about our place in nature has sparked fresh thinking about our role and devastated quaint notions about our species’ superiority. “Single-celled slime molds solve mazes. Brainless plants make correct decisions and bees with brains the size of pinheads handle abstract concepts,” points out Anthropologist Jeremy Narby, author of the groundbreaking book Intelligence in Nature. At a national conference of Bioneers, an organization based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and San Francisco that gathers nature-minded social and scientific innovators, Narby said: “We are nearly identical to many animals. Many behaviors once thought to be exclusively human are shared by other species. The zone of the specifically human, as determined by science, has been shrinking.” We haven’t lost the ability to tap that primal animal inside, even if most of us are more likely to “venture into the forest” by watching a movie or playing video games. We may feel cut off from our instincts, but studies show time in the woods can do wonders to restore the keenness of our senses to connect with the subtle changes in natural habitat, the movements of other species and the changing seasons. The rise of human civilizations may have taken “survival of the fittest” in new directions, often decidedly tamer ones, but experts ranging from scientific researchers to lifestyle analysts say humankind is still hardwired by our more primitive past. Despite the ingenious ways we’ve devised to exploit other life forms, capitalize on Earth’s resources and protect ourselves from nature’s sometimes terrifying power, our fate remains linked to natural laws and limits, from nurturing our body’s
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True-Life ‘Aha!’ Reads 10 Lessons from Nature to Inspire Our Everyday Lives by David Miller, Tinyurl.com/10InspiringLessons FromNature 9 Amazing Lessons from Nature to Inspire Your Everyday Life by Annie Hauser, Tinyurl.com/9InspiringLessons FromNature Intelligence in Nature by Jeremy Narby Life Lessons from Nature by Elvis Newman Cathedrals of the Spirit by T. C. McLuhan Your Brain on Nature by Eva Selhub immune system to resolving planetsized problems like climate change. “‘Nature’ is our natural environment,” according to Selhub. We don’t have to move to the country to reconnect, she says. “Even spending 20 minutes a day outside has an effect.” Houseplants, nature photos and aromatherapy Earth scents can also help indoor environments better reflect our own nature. The wealth of research and common sense wisdom is aptly summed up by celebrated author Wendell Berry in The Long-Legged House. “We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it’ll be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.” Christine MacDonald is a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., whose specialties include health and science. Visit ChristineMacDonald.info.
Nature’s Healing Power
Being Present to the Change It Brings by Jenny Young
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n the place beyond our screen that flickers with instantaneous information and social media updates, beyond soccer practices, appointments, and dinner plans vying for our attention, there is the steady vibration of Nature and its infinite wisdom. We do not often notice this place, as it happens around us and reverberates within us. Winter brings Spring anew, Spring turns gently into Summer, Summer leads us magnificently to Autumn, and the cycle repeats as we Fall upon Winter. Nature is Eternal Change; it and we are eternally changing and growing. Nature reflects our seasons of life and our cycles of the soul. If we take the time, we can find ourselves surrounded by the glory of a vastness which lends great lessons about our earth and our selves. There is a deep calm that emanates from the trees. There is a revelry as we watch
the insects busy about with their life and work. There is a reverence in the wings of the heron passing above us, and a smile that can spread across our faces as the sun’s warm rays touch our skin. My grandma taught me “being present” before I could appreciate what it meant. We went for walks in the woods (mostly in silence) while listening to the birds call and the twigs snapping beneath the feet of fourlegged creatures. We traveled along paths of lush moss, Jack-In-The-Pulpits, Indian Pipes and Touch-Me-Nots. We crossed streams and stopped to watch the little fish maneuver around our feet. We stood quietly and absorbed the energy of what we could see and what was unseen. Many years later when I have doubts or feel lost, I know where to go. I go to sit in the trees. I wait in silence for my thoughts to slow and
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for my body to feel the vibration of Nature’s energy. I become mesmerized by all of life around me and I do not get up until I am filled with The Knowing that I am wholly part of this as it waxes and wanes. We are ALL a part of this and our bodies carry Nature’s Wisdom in our cells. There is a balance in nature, sometimes tranquil and sometimes carried by force. Our bodies strive for balance in much the same way. Emotions are stuck in our tissues and alter us on a cellular level, binding our muscles, fascia, nerves and organs. Just as Nature resets itself, we must reset ourselves. Craniosacral Therapy uses the body’s inner-wisdom to reset the central nervous system. It allows us to gently and quietly be aware of the emotions that cause our tissues to become stuck, to be dense, to not work as efficiently as our bodies require for balance. Craniosacral Therapy lets our cells re-process and re-organize. Restrictions are freed and our bodies, our spirits and our minds let go of old holding patterns. As rivers move, we must move. As plants grow roots in search of nutrients, we must nourish our bodies. As growth requires dormant cycles, we must rest, reflect and re-set.
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Five Life Lessons
from Martial Arts They Teach Calm, Presence, Discipline by Eric Stevens
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ew words are as oddly coupled as martial and arts. The first means “relating to war and soldiers,” while the second means “something that is created with imagination and skill, and is beautiful or expresses important ideas or feelings.” All martial arts represent a paradox of push and pull, yin and yang, external and internal. Their practice represents the blending of our physical lives in harmony with our emotional makeup, allowing our external activity to mirror our internal being. Seldom is the fusion of body, mind and spirit easily achieved with one activity, but martial arts are an exception, because they focus equally on internal and external well-being. Here are five key life lessons that martial arts can teach us. Learn how to breathe. True connection with our breath permeates an artist’s realm. A vocalist must reach deep within the diaphragm to sing proficiently and a dancer must learn
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to time their breath while performing. A martial artist learns to control breath with stillness and speed, like juxtaposing yoga with intense contact sports. Breathing properly makes the practitioner a better martial artist and a healthier one. According to a study published in the American Journal of Chinese Medicine, hypertensive qigong program participants were able to both lower their blood pressure after 10 weeks and increase their oxygen uptake by 20 percent. Avoid conflict by developing character. While it may seem counterintuitive that learning how to fight could avoid conflict, it’s an essential part of martial arts. The philosopher Lao Tzu said the best fighter is never angry. The martial arts are primarily about discipline, heightened awareness and honing an ability to face our own internal conflicts. Several studies corroborate that practicing martial arts produces positive behavioral changes. For instance, according to a study published in the
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Journal of Adolescence, participating students in the martial arts were characterized as being less impulsive and less aggressive. Connect the external (body movement) with the internal (energy movement). The energetic force that catalyzes expressive kicks, punches, blocks and other outward forms is as essential as the movements themselves. In Chinese martial arts, that force is referred to as qi, the life energy that intrinsically unites body, mind and spirit. Be both an artist and athlete. Artistry and athleticism need not be divergent forces. The martial artist combines the grace of a creator and skill of a warrior, and watching a martial arts competition can be as riveting as watching a ballet or sports event. Most of us may not be talented artists or natural athletes, yet all students can learn how to integrate both worlds by blending physicality with stillness and expression through action. Let go of ego, find mental clarity and access the present moment. Jirōkichi Yamada, a master of Japanese kenjutsu, said, “The way of the sword and the way of Zen are identical, for they have the same purpose; that of killing the ego.” The focus of all true martial arts is the process, not the outcome. Whatever the style of execution, preparatory practice and meditative application, they all require the discipline of being purely present. Gaining such clarity requires grappling more with ego than with opponents; the real battle of a martial artist is waged within. Bruce Lee, the film star who revolutionized Western awareness of martial arts and founded jeet kune do, realized that martial arts’ transcendent philosophy gives us many lessons to draw upon. He suggested, “Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” Eric Stevens has been a fitness professional and martial arts coach for 15 years. He writes about related topics from Denver, Colorado. Connect at EricChristopherStevens@gmail.com.
Martial Arts in Central Ohio
Karate (JAPAN)
Kung Fu (CHINA)
• USA Seibukan (Columbus) USASeibukan.com
isted below are some commonly practiced martial arts, the initial country a style was developed in, plus a small sampling of academies, centers, dojos, institutes or venues that provide training. Many facilities offer instruction in more than one discipline.
• Seishin Karate Club (Hilliard) KarateHeart.com
• Dr. Wu’s Chinese Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan Institute (Columbus) DrWuMartialArts.com
Aikido (JAPAN)
• Title Boxing (multiple Central Ohio locations) TitleBoxingClub.com
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• Self-Defense Aikido School of Central Ohio (Columbus) AikidoSchool.org • Aikido of Columbus (Columbus) Being-In-Movement.com
• The Rick Moore Academy (Whitehall) RickMooreKarate.com
• Master Mollica’s Kung-Fu and TaiChi (Columbus) MartialArtsColumbusOH.com
Kickboxing (JAPAN)
• Bob Yoder’s Kung Fu Academy (Grove City) TaiShuDo.com
• CoreTactix (Dublin) CoreTactix.com
• 9Round (multiple Central Ohio locations) 9Round.com
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• Hilliard Martial Arts Center (Hilliard) HilliardMartialArtsCenter.com Jiu-Jitsu (BRAZIL) • Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Academy (Columbus) GracieOhio.com • Upper Arlington Jiu Jitsu (Upper Arlington) GracieUA.com • Team Chitwood (Lewis Center) TeamChitwood.com Muay Thai (THAILAND) • Short North Muay Thai (Columbus) ShortNorthMuayThai.com • Ohio Muay Thai Academy (Columbus) OhioMuayThai.com • Ronin Training Center (Columbus) RoninTrainingCenter.com Taekwondo (KOREA) • Hilliard Taekwondo Academy (Hilliard) HilliardTKD.com • Team Players Taekwondo Center (Hilliard) PlayersTKD.com • Powell Taekwondo Academy (Powell) PowellTKD.com Tai Chi (CHINA) • Taoist Tai Chi Society (multiple Central Ohio venues) Taoist.org • OhioHealth (multiple Central Ohio venues) OhioHealth.com/Cardio_Classes • Shift (Grandview Heights) ShiftGrandview.com/Taiji-2 natural awakenings
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The Food Artisans Next Door New Laws Allows Us to Buy and Sell Homemade by Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko
Neighbors in most states can now legally buy fresh breads, cookies and preserves from local food artisans.
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he locavore movement of eating locally produced foods continues to expand, thanks to 42 states passing cottage food laws that permit community members to make certain foods at home to sell to neighbors. Some enterprises use a contract packer to deliver on a scale not possible domestically, or even operate from a commercially licensed production facility. From sauerkraut and distinctive jams and organic jellies to gluten- or peanut-free cakes and regional artisanal breads, some of the most flavorful products are being produced with no chemical preservatives, artificial colors or other laboratory ingredients. Nearly all are made in small batches, and usually by the owner. Many source local ingredients or serve special dietary needs largely underserved or ignored by larger food businesses. “In a sharing economy, indi-
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viduals look less to big chain stores for their food needs and more to each other, making fresher, tastier and often healthier foods more accessible,” explains Janelle Orsi, co-founder of the Oakland, California, Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), citing its Policies for Shareable Cities report partnered with the nonprofit Shareable. The Specialty Food Association reports that sales of specialty foods— primarily at grocery retailers, but also cottage operators via farmers’ markets and direct orders when allowed by their state—grew 22 percent from 2010 to 2012, topping $85 billion.
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“All of our products are made by hand and in small batches daily,” says Ruth Wardein, co-owner, with Andrew Amick, of Epiphany Gluten Free Bakery, in Naples, Florida, which she launched from her home kitchen. Besides gluten-
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free cookies, cakes and breads, she’s always “perfecting” her Paleo cookies, brownies and pancake mix. Paleo recipes contain no grains, dairy, yeast or refined sugars, explains Wardein. “They require nut and seed flours, coconut oil and natural sugars like honey or maple syrup. So they are naturally higher in protein and fiber and lower in carbs than the average gluten-free recipe.” “We’re experimenting with the community supported agriculture model with local fruit,” says Erin Schneider. She and her husband, Rob McClure, operate Hilltop Community Farm, in LaValle, Wisconsin, which produces value-added products with organically grown crops. “We have salsas, pickles and jams. Our black currant and honey jam is sold before it’s made. Rob’s garlic dills have their own following.” Wisconsin’s cottage food law restricts sales to only high-acid foods.
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In Royal Oaks, California, Garden Variety Cheese owner, cheesemaker and shepherd Rebecca King feeds her 100 milking ewes organically raised, irrigated pasture grass and brewer’s
grain to yield award-winning farmstead easier-to-digest sheep cheeses from her Monkeyflower Ranch. “Many first-time customers like my story as a small producer and want to buy direct from the farm. They keep buying because of the taste,” says King. “My marinara and pizza sauces are made in small batches by hand in a home kitchen, enabling us to hot pack them to retain the ingredients’ natural favors,” says Liz James, owner of The Happy Tomato, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her sauces are also low in sodium and contain no sugar, saturated fat or gluten. James’ production is facilitated by Virginia’s home food processor license, which lets her work from home and sell wholesale. Whole Foods Market is among her major retail accounts. When home-based cottage food businesses are spurred into expansion to keep up with demand, a situation sometimes complicated by state limits on sales volume, many opt for renting space in the growing number of incubator, or community, kitchens nationwide. “We did farmers’ markets for three years and went from seven customers to thousands,” says War-
dein, who now rents a commercial kitchen space. “Returning customers are the momentum that has pushed us forward.” “By growing food in and around our own neighborhoods and cities, we decrease our dependence on an oftentimes unjust and ecologically destructive global food system and build stronger, more connected and resilient communities,” affirms Yassi EskandariQajar, director of SELC’s City Policies program. “We think it’s important to produce what grows well on our soil and then sell it, so that ecology drives economics, rather than vice versa,” says Schneider. “Random things prosper in our area, like paprika peppers, elderberries, hardy kiwi, garlic, pears and currants. It’s our job as ecologicallyminded farmers to show how delicious these foods can be.” Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko are coauthors of the new book Homemade for Sale, a guide for launching a food business from a home kitchen, plus ECOpreneuring, Farmstead Chef and Rural Renaissance. Learn more at HomemadeForSale.com.
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Spring Greening Easy Ways to Detox a House by Lane Vail
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or most individuals, odorous chemicals are simply unpleasant. For those that are sensitive and susceptible, however, even common chemical exposures may evoke a toxicant-induced loss of tolerance (TILT) marked by multiple-system symptoms such as headaches, fatigue, autoimmune disease, asthma, depression and food intolerance. Since the post-World War II expansion of petrochemicals, the incidence of TILT has increased dramatically, says Claudia Miller, a medical doctor, researcher and professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and co-author of Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes. “Fortunately, public awareness has also grown significantly in the last few years,” says Rick Smith, Ph.D., a Canadian environmentalist who coauthored Toxin Toxout. “Now companies and governments worldwide are moving toward making safer products.” We can support progress by leveraging some practical tips in greening our home. Start somewhere. Many volatile
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organic compounds (VOC) that include formaldehyde and benzene are concealed in household items such as couches, chairs, particleboard furniture, mattresses, box springs, carpeting, rugs, synthetic flooring, wallpaper and paint. Green TV host and Fresh Living author Sara Snow implores us not to become overwhelmed, disheartened or fearful. “Creating a healthy home is a gradual process that doesn’t require throwing all the furniture out,” she advises. Start by scrutinizing labels and choosing not to bring new toxins in. For example, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is widely found to be associated with reproductive toxicity and is found in many waterproofed and flexible plastics. Select PVC-free toys, shower curtain liners and mattress covers. In the kitchen, avoid potentially carcinogenic perfluorinated chemicals (PFC) found in nonstick coatings of pots and pans. Toss the Teflon when it scratches, says Snow, and upgrade to stainless steel or cast iron. Weed out bisphenols, the DNA-disrupting chemicals found in plastics and epoxy resin
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can liners. Even “BPA-free” products likely contain alternative and equally harmful substances, according to a recent study published in Chemosphere. Choose clear glass instead of plastic containers. When remodeling, look for zeroVOC items, Miller says, plus materials free of stain-resistant sprays and flame retardants whose efficacy is questionable. Consider natural fiber rugs like jute or wool. Forest Stewardship Council-certified hardwoods or alternative flooring like cork or glass tile are safer investments in long-term well-being. Clean green. Conventional cleaners are among the worst offenders, and even some “eco-cleaners” can be deceptively unsafe, says Smith. He recommends avoiding antibacterial products containing triclosan, which proliferates antibiotic-resistant bacteria that prolong and exacerbate illnesses, as well as phthalates, a chemical oil that carries artificial aromas and has been repeatedly linked to cancer and abnormal fetal development. “Even so-called natural fragrances are often complex petrochemicals that outgas and contaminate the air,” notes Miller. Snow advises formulating products at home using staple pantry ingredients, including distilled white vinegar for disinfecting, baking soda for scouring, liquid castile soap for sudsing, lemon juice for degreasing and olive oil for polishing. Freshen with fresh air. Americans spend about 90 percent of their time amid indoor air pollutants that are significantly more concentrated than outdoor pollutants, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reports. “Most energy-efficient homes are well sealed with ventilation systems that recirculate indoor air, so opening the windows helps dilute accumulated airborne toxins,” says Miller. Snow further recommends bringing airpurifying plants into the home such as Gerbera daisies, bamboo palms and English ivy. Vacuum and dust. Vacuuming with a high-efficiency particulate arrestance (HEPA) filter and dusting with a moist cloth eliminates allergens such as pet dander, mites, pollen and mold, and helps remove phthalates, flame
Even small changes can measurably reduce your family’s daily exposure to healthdamaging chemicals. ~Rick Smith retardants, lead and pesticides that “latch onto house dust and accumulate in dust bunnies,” says Smith. Weed out lawn chemicals. “Organophosphate pesticides are profoundly neurotoxic,” says Miller, especially to the developing brains of children. Instead try integrated pest management, which involves controlling pests’ food sources and applying non-toxic deterrents. Eliminating potentially carcinogenic herbicides might mean managing more weeds, says Snow, but it’s worth it. Eat green. “Buying produce as close to its source as possible, from a farmer or farmers’ market, provides threefold benefits,” says Snow—less wasteful packaging, reduced expo-
sure to chemical plastics and greater concentration of health-promoting nutrients. Buy in bulk and favor glass containers or rectangular cardboard cartons. Take tests. Radon, an invisible, odorless gas that can emanate from the ground and accumulate in homes, annually causes 21,000 U.S. lung cancer deaths, according to the U.S. EPA. Lead, a neurotoxin that may occasionally leach from home water pipes, can also hide in pre-1978 paint. Testing for both and implementing reduction or precautionary measures is simple, advises Smith. Most hardware stores stock test kits. Take action. Join with other concerned citizens by launching a pertinent petition at Change.org; campaigning with organizations like the Environmental Working Group (ewg.org) or Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families (SaferChemicals.org); and supporting cleaner, greener companies with family purchases. Lane Vail is a freelance writer and blogger at DiscoveringHomemaking.com.
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Backyard Organic Gardening 10 Time-Saving Tips by Barbara Pleasant
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details feels impossible. We can lighten looming chores by using these time-saving tips, which will reduce later workloads when storms and the hot summer sun threaten to squelch the magic. Mulch to reduce watering and prevent weeds. “You can cut your watering time in half by mulching
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crops with a three-to-four-inch layer of straw or shredded leaves,” says Niki Jabbour, award-winning author of The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener and Groundbreaking Food Gardens: 73 Plans That Will Change the Way You Grow Your Garden. “Crops like tomatoes, potatoes, kale, broccoli, cucumbers and squash all benefit from a deep mulch, which reduces the need to water and also prevents weeds, saving even more time.” Grow herbs in convenient containers. Family cooks will harvest kitchen herbs every day, in all kinds of weather, so don’t waste footsteps. Grow some parsley, basil and other herbs in large containers near the kitchen door. Try promising perennials. Plant them once, and vegetables like asparagus and rhubarb come back year after year in cold winter climates like the Midwest and Northeast. Where winters are mild, artichokes or chayote (pear squash) are long-lived and productive. Many resilient herbs will return each spring, too, including sage, mints, thyme and oregano. Tarragon and marjoram make trusty perennial herbs in the Sun Belt. Stock up on organic seeds. “As a year-round vegetable gardener, I try to come up with a list of all the seeds I’ll need for every season when I place annual seed orders,” Jabbour says. “That way, I will place fewer orders and have everything on hand at the proper planting time, saving both time and money.” Organic seeds in consumer seed catalogs and retail racks won’t be genetically modified or treated with pesticides. Be generous with organic compost. With each planting, mix in organic compost along with a balanced organic fertilizer. Food crops grown in organically enriched soil are better able to resist challenges from pests and diseases, which simplifies summer tasks. Grow flowers to attract beneficial insects. Reducing or eliminating pesticides and increasing plantings of flowers can radically improve the balance between helpful and harmful insects in a garden. Horticulturist Jessica Walliser, co-host of Pittsburgh’s The Organic Gardeners KDKA radio
show and author of Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden, recommends starting with sweet alyssum, an easy-to-grow annual that can be tucked into the edges of beds or added to mixed containers. “The tiny blossoms of sweet alyssum are adept at supporting several species of the non-stinging parasitic wasps that help keep aphids and other common pests in check,” Walliser says. In warm climates where they are widely grown, crape myrtles have been found to serve as nurseries for lady beetles, lacewings and other beneficial insects. Protect plants with fabric barriers. Pest insects seeking host plants won’t find cabbage or kale if they’re hidden beneath hoops covered with fine-mesh fabric like wedding net (tulle) or garden fabric row cover. “Cover the plants the day they are transplanted into the garden,” advises Walliser. As long as the edges are securely tucked in, row covers will also protect plants from wind, hail, rabbits and deer. Hoe briefly each day. Commit 10 minutes a day to hoeing. While slicing down young weeds, hill up soil over potatoes or clean up beds ready to be replanted. Look out for small problems to correct before they become big ones. No more misplaced tools. Time is often wasted searching for lost weeders, pruning shears and other hand tools, which are easier to keep track of when painted in bright colors or marked with colored tape. Jabbour uses a tool stash basket placed at the garden entrance. Stop to smell the flowers. Use moments saved to sit quietly, relax and soak up the sights, sounds and smells of the garden. Pausing to listen to the birds or watch a honeybee work a flower is part of the earned reward of any healthy garden that can’t be measured by the pound. Barbara Pleasant, the author of numerous green thumb books, including Starter Vegetable Gardens: 24 No-Fail Plans for Small Organic Gardens, grows vegetables, herbs and fruits in Floyd, Virginia. Connect at BarbaraPleasant.com.
Healthy Garden Local specialists lend some advice for keeping a lush, organic garden in Central Ohio.
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• “Feed the soil, rather than the plant” is a favorite saying of gardeners and that is particularly true for organic gardens. Healthy soils that are balanced and full of earthworms and microbes will feed the plants, allow for proper aeration and drainage, and work to keep the plant’s root system healthy. • Broadforks can help aerate the soil, which will provide better oxygen and nutrient uptake, aid in root growth and lessen disease and toxins in the soil. Use of gas-powered tillers disrupts and destroys beneficial life forms found in healthy soils. • Use multiple types of compost. Manure, plant litter and worm castings are great compost components. Producing compost is easy and a great way to make use of vegetable food scraps, eggshells and coffee grounds. • Have soil analyzed to understand what may be lacking. Ohio Earth Foods is an Ohio-based company that can help with testing. After determining what is missing in the soil, find the types of soil supplements that can help bring it back to life.
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• In addition to conserving water, straw mulch has multiple benefits including support of beneficial soil mites and insects, worms, good bacteria and fungi. Increased populations of these good guys can reduce soil-borne diseases and crop pests. • By providing shelter and food, gardeners can recruit beneficial insects
and spiders, which help reduce the numbers of plant pests. • Brush piles, tall perennials left standing over winter, or dense shrubs provide a refuge from ice, snow, extremely low temperatures and strong winds. • Plants with reliable, accessible nectar and pollen feed natural enemies of pests (e.g. lady beetles, parasitoid wasps, damsel bugs), as well as pollinators (e.g. bees, flower flies, butterflies). Some that work well in Ohio are calendula, sweet alyssum, ageratum, cosmos, mountain mint, anise hyssop, purple tansy phacelia, catmint, dill, cilantro, alliums and African blue basil.
Healthy Lawn Gardens are not the only place to go organic. Here are some tips for keeping an organic lawn as well.
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• For a healthy lawn, keep grass no shorter than 4 inches. The roots are as long as the grass is tall, so deep healthy roots, means a tall healthy plant. Tall blades also shade out weeds. • Choose the right type or variety of grass for the climate to help the plant grow better naturally. In Central Ohio, avoid using bluegrass. Our hot, dry summers are not conducive to its growth. Instead, try turf-type tall fescue. • Make sure to have a good covering. At the start of spring, go through the lawn and fill any bare patches with seed. • Never bag grass clippings; rather, mulch grass clippings on the lawn. They are a free source of nitrogen and help preserve moisture in the soil. • An organic lawn does not have to mean not treating the grass. Natural, compost-based fertilizers are readily available; they work well and are longer acting than chemical-based fertilizers.
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Saving Their Tomorrow Children Confront Climate Change by Avery Mack
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his month, Home We only have taking place randomly are Box Office (HBO), about 650 million to 1, in collaboration with one home. If we especially without an El New York City’s Amerimess this one up, Nino influence, accordcan Museum of Natural ing to University of South where do we Carolina statistician John History, will air the new documentary, Saving Grego. go next? My Tomorrow. Scientists “The globe is warmer representing the museum ~Hippocrates, age 8 than it has been in the last discuss how temperature 100 years,” says climate change affects life on scientist Jennifer FranPlanet Earth, but the majority of voices cis, Ph.D., of Rutgers University, in are those of children. Their words cry New Jersey. “Any wisps of doubt that out for universal action to prevent them human activities are at fault are now from inheriting what they believe is gone with the wind.” a dying planet in desperate need of healing. At Sea “We do more damage to the planet In the Atmosphere than we think.” “We need to know the truth, because ~Peri, age 9 adults clearly aren’t doing enough to stop this.” In the same 100 years, sea levels have ~Zoe, age 12 risen seven inches, mostly due to expansion as the water warms. “We The National Oceanic and Atmohave over 2 million preserved fish in spheric Administration and NASA our collection. We study them to see recently announced that last year was the effect of temperature change,” the hottest in 135 years of recordkeep- says Melanie Stiassny, Ph.D., curator of ichthyology at the museum. “The ing, with rising ocean temperatures mummichog fish is less than an inch driving the global heat index. Nine of the 10 hottest years have long. It’s a bottom feeder and that’s occurred since 2000. The odds of this where pollution like mercury lies.
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When the water is warm, fish eat more and mercury is stored in their bodies.” The contaminants move up the food chain, bringing the effects of pollution to our dinner table. A 2006 study by Nicola Beaumont, Ph.D., with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory UK, found that 29 percent of the oceans’ edible fish and seafood species have declined by 90 percent in the past 100 years. The international team of ecologists and economists led by Boris Worm, Ph.D., of Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, predict total saltwater fish extinction by 2048 due to overfishing, pollution, habitat loss and climate change. Rising ocean acidity due to absorption of increasing carbon dioxide and other emissions from burning fossil fuels impacts creatures large and small, like dissolving the shell of the tiny sea butterfly, a vital link in the ocean’s food chain. Americans currently consume 4.5 billion pounds of seafood each year.
On Land
“Each species was put here for a reason. We are the caretakers.” ~a youth at a climate rally Scientists look back to look ahead. Henry David Thoreau fell in love with the wilderness around Concord, Massachusetts, 160 years ago. From his renowned journals, scientists know when flowers like the pink lady slipper (Cypripedium acaule), bird’s-foot violets (Viola pedata) or golden ragworts (Packera aurea) used to bloom. Today, with temperatures six degrees Fahrenheit warmer than in Thoreau’s time, these species now bloom two weeks earlier. The Canada lily (Lilium canadense), plentiful before, is now rare, unable to adapt to the new reality. Paul Sweet, collections manager of the museum’s ornithology department, studies “skins” (stuffed birds). He says, “The skins show us how birds lived years ago.” In just the past 100 years, bird species that have gone extinct range from the ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis) to the once-abundant passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) and Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis). In Colorado, 70 percent of the
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4 When eating meat, make sure the animals were humanely and locally raised, not factory farmed. 4 For fish, factory farmed is preferred when farmers are vetted by watchdog agencies for being devoid of disease, pollution and heavy metals; clean fish are especially rare among international providers. Learn more at Tinyurl.com/ SustainableFishFarming.
4 Reuse more, buy less. Less trash equals less pollution. 4 Bike or walk, instead of driving. Don’t use the car at least one day a week. Less use of fossil fuels equals less drilling, fracking and oil spills. 4 Substitute a planet-healing activity for the usual after school program. Replace lawns with native plants, which need less water and no mowing. Email manufacturers to urge them to use less packaging and plastic, auto makers to produce more fuel-efficient cars, grocery stores to carry more locally sourced foods and ban plastic bags, and government agencies to improve pollution control measures.
4 Support wildlife. Help hatchling sea turtles make their way to the sea. Predators and man are the biggest threats—only one in 1,000 hatchlings reach adulthood. Plant milkweed to feed monarch butterflies. Use natural insect repellants like basil or marigolds instead of killer sprays.
lodgepole pines have been lost, with pines in other states also in trouble. Pine beetles feed on the pines. Historically, winter brings death to both the beetles and weakened trees, which fall to feed a renewed forest. Due to warmer temperatures, the beetles are living longer and migrating to higher altitudes to kill more trees. Forest fires follow the dry timber line.
Children are more informed now than ever before. Schools offer classes on ecology, the environment, global warming and climate change. Disasters are instant news, constantly streaming through digital media. Kids are aware that they need adults to work with them to keep Earth habitable.
4 Speak out and speak up. Search c2es.org/science-impacts/basics/kids for event ideas and resources.
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The Healing Healing Power of Nature Treks Paul Stutzman Finds Universal Truths on His Adventures by Randy Kambic
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aul Stutzman was a successful executive with a family restaurant chain and a happy father and husband married for more than 30 years when his wife, Mary, passed away from breast cancer in 2006. Questioning his faith as to why this happened, Stutzman quit his job to hike the 2,168-mile Appalachian Trail (AT), advising everyone he encountered, “Don’t take spouses and families for granted.” His book, Hiking Through, recounts this extreme adventure and relates his subsequent thoughts about grief, healing and life. Stutzman chronicled his second journey, a 5,000-mile-plus crosscountry trek, in Biking Across America. This time, he perceived a “noble, yet humble America that still exists and inspires.” More recently, the author has turned to fiction with The Wanderers and Wandering Home, both enriched with reflections upon the values of his Amish Mennonite upbringing and marriage.
What kept you going? Early on, I realized how soothing nature was to my grieving soul. Still, there
were times it would have been easy to abandon my journeys and head for the safety of home. The desire to discover if my life held any meaning after such a great loss kept me moving forward. I kept telling myself on both journeys, “If my wife can fight cancer for four years, I can overcome any obstacle I encounter.” I was determined to write about what I was being taught by nature. I also believed books written by and about someone seeking solace via an incomplete pilgrimage would be cheating the reader.
What do such journeys teach about nature and our response to experiencing it? I find comfort in nature. I believe the beautiful streams and waterfalls, the grand views from mountaintops and the wildlife were all created for our enjoyment. When we absorb this beauty and wonderment, the stresses in life slowly melt away. Granted, not everyone will be able to do what I did; however, a stroll through a local park, along a beach or in a flower garden can have similar effects.
Did these extended physical endeavors make mental demands that catalyzed unexpected self-growth? Treks like these into the unknown are physically demanding. With time and effort, one’s body gets into shape for extended hiking and biking. The mental hurdle must be crossed next. You’ll miss home and loved ones. Loneliness will set in. This is where you discover who the real you is. Are you tenacious enough to push through the desire to abandon the pilgrimage or will you succumb to the allure of comfort and safety? On my journeys, I had to make difficult choices. There is a saying that applies to folks planning to hike the AT end-to-end through 14 states: “If hiking the entire Appalachian Trail isn’t the most important thing in your life, you won’t accomplish it.” My daughter gave birth to my grandson while I was hiking. Although she asked that I come home for the event, I declined. I kept on hiking because I knew I wouldn’t return to the trail if I went home. I’d spent my lifetime trying to do the right things for my three children, but now had to do what was right for me.
What did you learn about Americans along the way? I discovered that most Americans are kind, law-abiding citizens. Most are still willing to help a stranger in need. Unfortunately, I feel we focus too much time and energy on the minority of malcontents.
How have these experiences informed your creative process? America is a great country. The beauty I’ve witnessed from a bicycle seat and on two feet hiking the mountains is a continual source of inspiration. Many folks are unable to do what I do. My ongoing desire is to describe the images imprinted in my mind in such a way that others can feel as if they are there walking with me. For more information, visit PaulStutzman.com. Randy Kambic is an Estero, FL, freelance writer and editor who regularly contributes to Natural Awakenings.
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great experiment in the desert called the biodome created a living environment for human, plant and animal life. A huge glass dome was constructed to house an artificial, controlled environment with purified air and water, healthy soil and filtered light. The intent was to afford perfect growing conditions for trees, fruits and vegetables, as well as humans. People lived in the biodome, for many months at a time, and everything seemed to do well with one exception. When the trees grew to a certain height, they would topple over. It baffled scientists until they realized they forgot to include the natural element of wind. Trees need wind to blow against them because it causes their root systems to grow deeper, which supports the tree as it grows taller. Who among us doesn’t long for a perfect growing environment for ourselves, with no disruptions from outside influences? We strive to avoid the times of contrast and tension, when life’s daily challenges push against us. When they do, the normal tendency is to curse them. If trees could talk, would we hear them curse the wind each time they encountered a storm? We can learn a great deal from nature’s wisdom at work if we are open to the lesson. Watch how a tree bends and sways gracefully when the wind blows against it. It does not stand rigid, resisting the flow of energy. It does not push back. The tree accepts the strong wind as a blessing that helps it grow. Such experiences develop our character and deepen our spiritual roots. When we grow deep, we too, stand tall. Dennis Merritt Jones, D.D., is the author of Your ReDefining Moments, The Art of Uncertainty and The Art of Being, the source of this essay. He has contributed to the human potential movement and field of spirituality as a minister, teacher, coach and lecturer for 30 years. Learn more at DennisMerrittJones.com.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 3 Mindful Yoga for Women – 5:30-6:30pm. Join Mindful Yoga Therapist Christine Bowden and explore self-reflection & growth through mindfulness yoga and meditation in a nurturing trauma informed environment. No yoga experience required. $15. Om2Ohm Meditation & Wellness Center, 324 West Case St, Powell. 614-787-0583. Om2Ohm.com. Backyard Food Growing – 6:30-8pm. (Series: 5/22, 6/11). In this 3-part class, attendees will become comfortable with all aspects of backyard food growing and demystify and simplify succession planting for fresh, local produce all year long. Learn how to grow all the food needed for a family of 4 on less than 1/3 of an acre. $25/class, $65/ three-class pass. City Folks Farm Shop, 4760 N High, Columbus. 614-946-5553. CopiaOhio.com.
SATURDAY, APRIL 4 Shamanic Journeying with Donna Alena – 1-5pm. Experience Shamanic Journeying for guidance, enhanced well-being, life balance, enhanced life physically, mentally, and spiritually, for healing yourself and others, to reconnect with nature, and to heal the Earth. $55. Om2Ohm Meditation & Wellness Center, 324 West Case St, Powell. 614-787-0583. Om2Ohm.com.
TUESDAY, APRIL 7 Reiki Level 2 Training and Attunement with Barbara Held – (Series: 4/7-6/9). In this class available to anyone with Level 1 training, receive the Level 2 attunement and learn how to incorporate this new dimension into an expanding Reiki practice. Receive three Reiki symbols, their
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meaning and their applications and gain the ability to send healing across time and distance. Allvera Grandview, 2079 W 5th Ave, Columbus. Yoga on High. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com. Living Sugarless & Satisfied – 7-7:50pm. Join Health Coaches Victoria Donato and Kaitlin Ohl as they speak about sugar cravings, where sugar is found, how to live without it & the health benefits of being sugarless. Free. Northside Library Meeting Room, 1423 N High St, Columbus. 518-3692497. VDHealthCoach@VictoriaDonato.com. VictoriaDonato.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 9 Sex in the City of The Big O – (All Weekend). The Ultimate Mind, Body & Spirit Make Over For Women. Hosted by Lora Lucinda Andersen, The Sexy Wife Coach, LLC. Cambria Suites, Polaris. SexyWifeCoach.com. Walking the Path to Natural Health Series – 9-10am. “Acne: What causes acne, what people can do nutritionally to help prevent and treat it.” Learn how detoxing the body helps and about the herbs that help the body deal with stress and adaptogens. Presenters: Dr. Trudy Pieper, ND and Beth Seemann, CNHP, CT. Free. Sips Coffee House & Deli, 101 S Main St, Mt Vernon. 740392-2233. SipsCoffeeHouse.com. Reincarnation in the Early Church & The Cosmic Priesthood of Melchizedek at The Blended Path Fellowship with Rev. Melody Lynn Jenkins, M.Msc. – 6-8pm. The Blended Path Fellowship explores the new spirituality emerging from people seeking to leave the path of religion and follow the path of the Spirit. After the teaching, Rev. Melody Lynn Jenkins, M.Msc. and other Intuitives will offer Mini Readings for anyone who is interested. Love Offering Appreciated. The Reiki Center, 1540 W 5th Ave, Columbus. 614-486-8323. TheReikiCenter.net. Natural Spring Cleaners for the Home – 6:307:30pm. Leave with an understanding of the 6 key ingredients to making any type of household cleaner, including laundry detergent. Join us as we introduce these chemical free ingredients and teach the techniques used to clean a house naturally. Instructor: Brooke Sackenheim. $20/RDR, $25/ SR. The Ohio Herb Education Center, 110 Mill St, Gahanna. 614-342-4380. OhioHerbCenter.org.
FRIDAY, APRIL 10 Silent Retreat for Experienced Meditators – (All Weekend). A rounded retreat experience in a safe circle of welcoming for people who either have a meditation practice already or who want to attend a retreat that centers on meditation. Pranayama and asana practice will occur, but the focus will mostly be on various forms of meditation, both seated and lying down. Jesuit Retreat Center, Cincinnati. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com.
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Date Night Partner Yoga – 5:30-7pm. Join us for a great evening of Partner Yoga. Partners can include romantic partners, friends or relatives. No yoga experience required. Pre-registration required. $15. A Place To Call Om, 923 River Rd, Granville. 740-404-9190. Leigh@APlaceToCallOm.com. APlaceToCallOm.com. Yoga and Ayurveda for Improved Sleep and Wellness with Jasmine Grace – 6-8:30pm. A workshop developed to share the yogi tools and techniques for improved sleep and wellbeing. Students will leave this workshop with an individualized evening sleep ritual plan that will help establish healthy sleep hygiene habits, reduce insomnia, and allow for optimal energy and wellness in daily life. The Yoga on High Teacher Training Institute, 1020 Dennison Ave, Suite 201, Columbus. YogaOnHigh.com.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11 Wild Edibles: The First Greens of Spring – 1-2pm. An outdoor wild edibles identification lesson. Bring a field guide or notebook and put a name to familiar early-spring “weeds” you likely know from your own yard. Discuss foraging etiquette, safety and resources, and receive a hand-out listing plants that we are likely to see. Off-site. Walking in the woods. Dress appropriately. Instructor: Kate Hodges. $25/RDR, $30/SR. The Ohio Herb Education Center, 110 Mill St, Gahanna. 614-3424380. OhioHerbCenter.org. Release Tension and East into Spring – 1:153:15pm. Join Loretta Zedella to ease tension from the body & mind by learning to use therapy balls/ foam rollers to reach a deep state of relaxation. Participants take home two yoga therapy balls with the skills to use them. $35. A Place To Call Om, 923 River Rd, Granville. (740) 404-9190. Leigh@ APlaceToCallOm.com. APlaceToCallOm.com. Balancing Act with Lara Falberg – 3-5pm. Balance and inversion poses can assist in building confidence, aid in change attitudes and can help access emotions, including controlling reactions. The ever elusive, evasive technique of being patient and more present will offer shifts in perspective that are life changers. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com.
SUNDAY, APRIL 12 YogaRX: Hips & Hammies – 12:30-2:30pm. A fun flowing class, with some brief discussion to start and ending with a deep stretching sequence and myofascial release techniques using tennis balls. GoYoga, 68 North High St, Bld B, New Albany. GoYogaUSA.com. 4-Part MELT Workshop with Crystal Fauber – 3-4:15pm. (4/12-5/3). A 4-part workshop about the MELT Method of hands - of bodywork. This is a self-treatment system to help eliminate pain, heal injury, erase the negative effects of aging, and keep you active. Learn simple techniques from that rehydrate tissues and relieve tension, and change the way you care for your body. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14 Living Sugarless & Satisfied – 7-7:50pm. See April 7 listing. Free. Northside Library Meeting Room, 1423 N High St, Columbus. 518-3692497. VDHealthCoach@VictoriaDonato.com. VictoriaDonato.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 16 Discovering the Soil Foodweb – 6:30-8pm. Delve into the fascinating hidden world of the soil foodweb. Discover the ratios, temperature, and color that make a great compost pile, and learn how healthy soil forms the backbone of healthy plants and nutrient-dense food. $25. City Folks Farm Shop, 4760 N High, Columbus. 614-946-5553. CopiaOhio.com.
FRIDAY, APRIL 17 Vision Quest in the City – 6:30-9:30pm (4/17) & 1-5pm (4/18). Find intended spiritual and life direction through the experience of a Vision Quest. Internally search for where you are now physically, emotionally, spiritually and mentally in this two-part event. Participants will be guided by experienced Shaman Donna Alena. No fasting or being lost in the wilderness for days required. $110. Om2Ohm Meditation & Wellness Center, 324 West Case St, Powell. 614-787-0583. Om2Ohm.com.
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SATURDAY, APRIL 18 Usui Reiki I with Linda Haley, RMT – 9am5pm. (4/18 & 4/19). Learn to relieve a headache or an aching muscle without medication. Learn specific techniques that will prove valuable, such as how to create a positive affirmation to help clarify and realize goals and how to develop intuitive abilities. The ethics and delivery of a successful session will be addressed in detail. Vegetarian lunches served both days. $250 w/$50 deposit. The Reiki Center, 1540 W 5th Ave, Columbus. 614486-8323. TheReikiCenter.net.
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Make Your Own Natural Cleaning Supplies – 11am. Learn how to make your own natural cleaning supplies. Free, $10/make & take. 350 E Orange Rd, Lewis Center. 740-548-3637. ElitePhysiquesInc.com. Salad Herbs – 1-2pm. Become familiar with greens that thrive in the heat of summer and make an acquaintance with salad herbs that are frost hardy, still green and vibrant into early winter when other fresh local produce is past season. Learn when they are at their peak, where to find them and/or grow them. Instructor: Janell Baran. $25/RDR, $30/SR. The Ohio Herb Education Center, 110 Mill St, Gahanna. 614-342-4380. OhioHerbCenter.org.
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Yoga for Life: Discover Your Dharma – 1:153:15pm. Gentle yoga & writing prompts to help with meditation and self-reflection. iRest Yoga Nidra meditation will help connect our minds & bodies. Writing about challenges in life has the potential to shift & promote discoveries. Stacee Hill, RYT, & Jenny Patton, MFA OSU. $35. A Place To Call Om, 923 River Rd, Granville. 740-404-9190. Leigh@APlaceToCallOm.com. APlaceToCallOm.com. Medicinal Mushrooms – 2:30-4:30pm. Learn about some of the most common and intriguing examples of mushrooms that are common to our area, how they grow, how they’re harvested and what uses mushrooms provide medicinally. Discover the most common dangerous mushrooms found while foraging. Lecturer: Nicholas Copley, an avid mushroom forager and wild foods educator. Preregistration required. Space is limited. $45. MockingbirdMeadows.com/Shop/MedicinalMushrooms
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Arm Balance 102 – 12-2pm. The follow up to Arm Balance 101- this is the next step in your journey of flight. We will focus on creating steadiness and lightness as we take off. We will flow, fly and ignite strength through playfully exploring flying pigeon, 8 angle pose and floating out of crow. Move beyond any mental limitations, tap into your full potential and have fun as you lift, float and fly! Price: $26.25 mem. /$35 non-mem. GoYoga, 68 North High St, Bld B, New Albany. GoYogaUSA.com.
Earth Day Medicine Walk – 6:30-7:30pm. Join Dawn Combs on a medicine walk through Inniswoods Metro Park to celebrate Earth Day. Discover new uses for the native plants that grow all around us and learn how they may be grown sustainably in your own garden. Pre-registration is required. $5. Inniswoods Metro Park.
Om2Ohm Open House! 1-5:30pm. Visit the peaceful and luxurious Om2Ohm Meditation & Wellness Center and experience a feast for the spiritual senses. Tour the gorgeous facility, Psychic Readings $40 for 30 minutes, discounted Reiki, free mini Color Therapy sessions. RSVP for Readings in Advance. Om2Ohm Meditation & Wellness Center, 324 West Case St, Powell. 614-787-0583. Om2Ohm.com. Medicinal Poisons – 4-5:30pm. Explore the literary and folkloric legends of plant species such as belladonna, aconite, henbane and poison hemlock with someone who has extensive training in their usage. Guest Lecturer: Erika Galentin, a Medical Herbalist who holds a degree in Herbal Medicine. Preregistration is required. Space is limited. $40. MockingbirdMeadows.com/Shop/Class-IV-Herbs
TUESDAY, APRIL 21 Living Sugarless & Satisfied – 7-7:50pm. See April 7 listing. Free. Northside Library Meeting Room, 1423 N High St, Columbus. 518-3692497. VDHealthCoach@VictoriaDonato.com. VictoriaDonato.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23 Headache/Migraine Relief – 6:30pm. Learn strategies to naturally treat and prevent headaches, migraines, and vertigo. Please call to RSVP, seated limited. Free. Westerville Chiropractic and Nutrition, 528 S Otterbein Ave, Westerville. 614-8989195. WestervilleChiroAndNutrition.com.
FRIDAY, APRIL 24 Using Essential Oils with Your Pets with Ashley Anders – 6-8pm. Explore how Pure Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils can improve the health and wellbeing for you and your pets. Learn about all-natural, non-toxic products and how to use aromatherapy and topical applications to address physical and emotional issues. Donations will be given to Speak for the Unspoken Rescue. The Reiki Center, 1540 W 5th Ave, Columbus. 614486-8323. TheReikiCenter.net. Yoga for Strength: Build Stamina, Balance, and Force - 6-8pm. This workshop is appropriate both for athletes building strength during the base period and for general fitness aficionados. Have fun with standing poses, balance work, and strengthen core muscles. In addition, simple arm balances, before stretching and relaxing. Leave with ways to include yoga in your strength training at home or in the gym. $40 for 2 hr session, $60 for 3 hr session. Go Yoga, 10227 Sawmill Pkwy, Powell. GoYogaUSA.com.
SATURDAY, APRIL 25 Yoga for All Athletes - 9am-12pm. Appropriate for all levels of yoga and athletic experience. Leave with practical ways to incorporate yoga in training to increase flexibility, core strength, stability, and physical and mental endurance, while lowering recovery time and risk of injury. $40 for 2 hr session, $60 for 3 hr session. Go Yoga, 10227 Sawmill Pkwy, Powell. GoYogaUSA.com.
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Secrets of the Fairy Garden – 10-11am. This hands-on class for kids ages 8-12 and their families will explore the construction of a fairy sanctuary. Participants can take home a packet of some of the fairies’ favorite elements to build a fairy home for them. Class size is limited. Pre-Registration Required. Instructor: Jennifer Schneller. Cost is for one adult and one child. $30/RDR, $35/SR. Additional children are RDR/$5, SR/$7. The Ohio Herb Education Center, 110 Mill St, Gahanna. 614-342-4380. OhioHerbCenter.org. Herbs for Weight Loss – 1-2pm. Learn about the virtues of chickweed, red clover, dandelion and violet. Learn about wellness strategies that can support healthy weight loss and the benefits of a spring detox. Instructor: Brooke Sackenheim. RDR/$20, SR/$25. The Ohio Herb Education Center, 110 Mill St, Gahanna. 614-342-4380. OhioHerbCenter.org. Top Ten Secretes of Great Alignment – 1:153:15pm. During this workshop, instructor Christy Plaugher, RYT 500 E-RYT 200 will cover the Top
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Ten Secrets of Great Alignment. Learn how to enrich your practice by refining your alignment in key asanas (poses). $35. A Place To Call Om, 923 River Rd, Granville. 740-404-9190. Leigh@ APlaceToCallOm.com. APlaceToCallOm.com. Renew & Recharge: Mini Yoga Retreat – 2-5:45pm. Get tips on ways to renew and recharge, participate in an all-levels yoga practice, enjoy delicious snacks to renew your body and spirit, and an afternoon in the community. $79-99. All Life Center, 123 Hyatts Rd, Delaware. Mary@ MaryColemanWellness.com. Partner Yoga Date Night – 4-5:30pm. Join Cheryl Lemery for a relaxing yoga experience with your partner. Help each other to relax physical, mental, and emotional tensions. No previous yoga experience or partner is necessary; bring a friend, a loved one, a sibling, or even a neighbor. Wine & chocolates will be served. RSVP Required. $35/couple. Om2Ohm Meditation & Wellness Center, 324 West Case St, Powell. 614-787-0583. Om2Ohm.com.
SUNDAY, APRIL 26 Running & Yoga - 9:30- 11:30am. Join coach Sage Rountree, author of “The Runner’s Guide to Yoga”, to examine how yoga and running mesh. Staring with a dynamic yoga warm-up, see how yoga as helps us with alignment, strength, and flexibility in running. Learning yoga’s approach to breathe and focus and observe yoga’s effect on the runner’s experience. Learn running specific core strength and hip stretches to finish. Come dressed to run a mile or two total. All levels are welcome. $40 for 2 hr session, $60 for 3 hr session. Go Yoga, 10227 Sawmill Pkwy, Powell. GoYogaUSA.com. An Afternoon of “Heeling”: Spa Day for Service Dogs and Their People – 1-5pm. Service dogs and owners can experience a 30-minute professional massage, Reiki or other bodywork at the same time and in the same room. Only for guide dogs and companion dogs and their persons. RSVP required. Free. The Reiki Center, 1540 W 5th Ave, Columbus. 614-432-6632. TheReikiCenter.net. Slow Motion Yoga - 1:30-3:30pm. Moving slowly can be harder than moving fast. Slowing down the standard slow flow yoga moves to access the small stabilizing muscles that keep the body safe and strong. Discover a new appreciation for transitions, and finding challenge for the core and hips. Appropriate for all levels. $40 for 2 hr session, $60 for 3 hr session. Go Yoga, 10227 Sawmill Pkwy, Powell. GoYogaUSA.com.
MONDAY, APRIL 27 Urban Zen Conference Call with Marcia Miller – 1:30-2:30pm. Join us information on our Urban Zen accelerated program which reduces 12-month training to 12 days of trainings plus a clinical rotation. The UZIT training teaches an integrative approach to address the classic symptoms of illness: pain, anxiety, nausea, insomnia, constipation and exhaustion. Call the studio for conference call information. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com.
TUESDAY, APRIL 28 Achoo! An All-Natural Approach to Allergy Prevention – 6pm. Discover a drug-free solution that is painless, safe (for all ages), effective and permanent. Working with your body instead fighting against it, our solution is to identify all
the allergens and re-boot your body’s immune system. Worthington Optimal Wellness, 6180 Linworth Rd, Worthington. WorthingtonOptimalWellness.com. Cleanse & Weight-Loss Class – 6:30pm. Learn more about a 21-day cleanse that will leave you feeling more energized, refreshed, focused, and confident and 10-20 pounds lighter. Please call to RSVP, seated limited. Free. Westerville Chiropractic and Nutrition, 528 S Otterbein Ave, Westerville. 614-898-9195. WestervilleChiroAndNutrition.com. Salad Herbs – 6:30-7:30pm. See April 18 listing. $25/RDR, $30/SR. The Ohio Herb Education Center, 110 Mill St, Gahanna. 614-342-4380. OhioHerbCenter.org.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 Capture the Rejuvenation of Spring: Essential Oil & Yoga Workshop – 7-8:30pm. A slow flow Vinyasa workshop created to cleanse the mind, body and spirit and make room for the new. Lime Oil, Geranium oils will be used, and the benefits of each oil explained in depth. This detoxifying workshop creates a deep, physical spring cleaning, and leave feeling rejuvenated from the inside out. $15 drop in. Room to Breathe Outdoor Yoga, 6260 S Sunbury Rd, Westerville.614-378-4778. TheOutdoorYogi@Gmail.com. AmylyBrook.com.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30 Living with the Moon with Anastasia Shevchenko – 6-8pm. Tune in to the wisdom of your body as the Moon makes its 29.5-day journey. Discover ancient knowledge behind each lunar day, what it traditionally was used for and how it can be used in everyday life. $20. The Reiki Center, 1540 W 5th Ave, Columbus. 614-432-6632. TheReikiCenter.net.
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Scotts Earth Day Columbus Celebration 2015: Honoring Columbus Community Gardens – 10am4pm. Please join the City of Columbus, Franklin County, Scotts Miracle-Gro and other community partners to celebrate Earth Day and the Columbus gardening community. Stroll the edible gardens, meet local community gardeners and get lunch from local food trucks: Blue Olive and Ajumama. The Scotts Miracle-Gro Community Garden Campus. Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens, 1777 East Broad St, Columbus.
Eggs, Paws and Claws Featuring Bunny Bonanza and the Earth Day Activity Pavilion –9am-5pm. Children of all ages can hop to treat stations located throughout the Zoo and have their pictures taken with the Bunny and watch our animals hunt for eggs and see Peter Cottontail swim down the coral trail of Discovery Reef. $10-$15. Earth Day Block Party – 3-7pm. Enjoy Organic Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, 4850 W Powell wine and Ohio craft beer, fresh produce and local Rd, Powell. 800-MONKEYS. ColumbusZoo.org. groceries, herbs, tonics and supplements. Inquire about the weekly organic CSA shares. Bexley SUNDAY, APRIL 19 Natural Market, 508 N Cassady Ave, Bexley. 614Earth Day Festival: Kenyon College: Healthy 252-3951.BexleyNaturalMarket.org. See Ad pg# People, Healthy World – 10-2pm. Celebrate Earth Day by shopping green, enjoying entertainment SATURDAY, APRIL 25 and connecting with groups that support healthy Green Columbus: RIGTH NOW – 1am-10pm. living for ourselves and our world. Featuring over The celebration will feature your favorite local 90 exhibitors and vendors, live music from the bands, food trucks, kids’ activities, environRain Crows. Be sure to visit the Kids’ Activity mental groups and businesses, and much more. Zone, take part in the Free Health Screenings, or Bring your friends and family for a full day of tempt your taste buds by sampling locally grown fun in the heart of downtown Columbus. Coand produced food by AVI concessions. Stop by lumbus Commons, 160 S High St, Columbus. the Farmers’ Market and get up-close and personal GreenCbus.org. See Ad pg# with live farm animals. Presented by Brown Family Environmental Center, Knox County Health Earth Day Celebration – 10am-12pm. Join HillDept, Knox County Park District, OSU Extension iard’s Environmental Sustainability Commission and over 70 vendors. Kenyon Athletic Center, 221 for a fun and educational celebration of Earth Day. Free activities take place in the Roger A. Reynolds Duff St, Gambier. Municipal Park. 614-921-8217. HilliardOhio.gov.
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Earth Day Electronics Recycling Drive – 7:30am. Celebrate Earth Day as a family by collecting old electronics and recycling them at this free electronics recycling drive. Bring computers, printers, cords, keyboards and more. Sorry, no TVs accepted. Integrated Building Systems, 950 Michigan Ave, Columbus. 614-240-5999.
Hocking River Clean Up – 10am-1pm. Celebrate Earth Day on the Hocking River. Will you find a tire, a stove, or maybe a glider? The hunt for the best trash pick up story will be revealed. Paddle your canoe and gather trash along the river. Hocking Hills Canoe Livery, 12789 StRt 664 S Logan. 800-624-6820. HockingRiver.com.
FOR SALE CHEMICAL-FREE 19+ ACRE FARM WITH GEOTHERMAL HEATING AND COOLING – 4BD/3BA, 4-level split. Current owners have farmed chemical-free for the past eight years on the 12 tillable acres of 19+ total acres. Portions of the land include 250 blueberry bushes and 500 red and black raspberry plants. Three hydrants are located immediately in the fields, for easy watering. A 30’ x 50’ barn has a concrete floor and electricheated water. A 16’ x 20’ shed has a concrete floor, water and 100 amp service. A three-quarter acre pond is fed by a one-fifth acre wetland. $349,900. 650 State Route 314, Centerburg. Contact Brody Griffith, RE/MAX Stars, at 614-394-2070, or visit BrodyGriffith.com.
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Kids Yoga Series (5-8 yrs) – 12-12:45pm. Kids will learn yoga poses linked together with games, songs and imagination. The playful poses in this class will build strength, maintain flexibility, and develop body awareness. Simple breathing activities will target improved focus and self-regulation. All children are welcome, regardless of abilities, energy level or yoga experience. $40 for 4 sessions. GoYoga, 68 North High St, Bld B, New Albany. GoYogaUSA.com.
Ease Yoga – 9:30am. Deep, slow meditative stretches that open and free your body. Release the connective tissue and restore health to mind and body! All levels are welcome. Shift, 1520 W 1st Ave, Grandview Heights. 614-407-4668. Lucy@ ShiftGrandview.com. ShiftGrandview.com.
Kids Yoga Series (9-12yrs) – 1-1:45pm. Kids will learn basic yoga breath and poses to begin their yoga practice. Poses will build strength, coordination, and flexibility in a non-competitive environment. Each class will include short breathing exercises to improve focus and self-regulation. All children are welcome, regardless of abilities, energy level or yoga experience. $40 for 4 sessions. GoYoga, 68 North High St, Bld B, New Albany. GoYogaUSA.com. iRest Yoga Nidra with Lee Shackelford – 3:154:15pm. Deep relaxation and meditative inquiry that releases negative emotions and thought patterns, opening the mind and body to their inherent ground of health and wholeness. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com.
monday Tai Chi for Health – 9:30-10:30am. Tai Chi is a mind-body exercise, a moving meditation. It reduces stress while gently strengthening the body. $15. Shift, 1520 W 1st Ave, Grandview Heights. 614-407-4668. Lucy@ShiftGrandview. com. ShiftGrandview.com. WERQ Dance Fitness Class – 5:30pm. Fun dance fitness class. $10/drop-in. Elite Physiques, 350 E Orange Rd, Lewis Center. 740-548-3637. ElitePhysiquesInc.com. Vinyasa Flow – 6pm. Vinyasa yoga unifies movement and breath allowing a yoga practitioner to progressively flow with their breath from posture to posture. For those with experience in yoga. Shift, 1520 W 1st Ave, Grandview Heights. 614407-4668. Lucy@ShiftGrandview.com. ShiftGrandview.com. Yingjie Tai Chi – 6:30-8pm. This Tai Chi style blends various martial arts into a philosophy designed to develop strength, relaxation, and self-defense. Positive energy for stress relief. Grey Budha Community, 400 West Rich St, Columbus. 614-975-7683. GreyBudha.Weebly.com. Fascial Flow – 7-8pm. Incorporate foam rollers, trigger point props, stability equipment, developmental patterning, and yoga to uniquely access and work through tension, pain, and stress. Instructor: Melinda Cooksey, PhD. $20. All Life Center, 123 Hyatts Rd, Delaware. AllLifeCenter.org.
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Hot Fusion with Lara Falberg – 9:30-10:30am. A heated class that blends alignment-based, energetically charged static poses with gliding vinyasa flows. No two classes will ever be exactly the same. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com.
wednesday Free Community Yoga – 6-7am. Bring a mat, start the day, and join for a free yoga class in the Atrium. Instructor: Kim Crigger. Trinity United Methods Church, 1581 Cambridge Blvd, Columbus. 614488-0695. TrinityUMChurch.com. Hatha Level 1 with Jodi Patton – 9:30-11am. A mixed-level class for level 1 and level 2 students. All poses can be modified to work for students with different levels of ability. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com. Yingjie Taichi – 5-6pm. This tai chi style blends various martial arts into a philosophy designed to develop strength, relaxation, and self-defense. Positive energy for stress relief. Grey Budha Community, 400 West Rich St, Columbus. 614975-7683. GreyBudha.Weebly.com. Hatha Level 2 & 3 with Marcia Miller – 5:457:15pm. Unwind and reinvigorate with this is mixed level class for level 2 and 3 students. All poses can be modified for different levels of ability. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com Guang Ping Yang Taijiquan – 6pm. An ancient Chinese martial art consisting of slowly executed postures. Build strength and balance in the physical body while enhancing development of internal vital energy. Shift, 1520 W 1st Ave, Grandview Heights. 614-407-4668. Lucy@ShiftGrandview. com. ShiftGrandview.com. Evolve Hatha Yoga – 7:30pm. Rooted in Hatha Yoga. Build strength, balance and focus. Come 10-15 minutes early to your first class to fill out intake forms and settle into class. Shift, 1520 W 1st Ave, Grandview Heights. 614-407-4668. Lucy@ ShiftGrandview.com. ShiftGrandview.com.
thursday Gentle Flow Yoga – 9:30am. Slow energizing flow and longer holds in the postures for deep stretching. Appropriate for beginning students and those seeking a slower paced class. $12/pass, $15/
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drop-in. Elite Physiques, 350 E Orange Rd, Lewis Center. 740-548-3637. ElitePhysiquesInc.com. Sekoia™ with Alissa Jackson – 9:45-11am. A vibrant multi-sensory yoga experience. Blend smooth vinyasa flows with music, essential oils, meditation, restorative poses and reiki to allow a deeper connection to self and body. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com Ease Yoga – 6pm. Deep, slow meditative stretches that open and free your body. Release the connective tissue and restore health to mind and body! All levels are welcome. Shift, 1520 W 1st Ave, Grandview Heights. 614-407-4668. Lucy@ShiftGrandview.com. ShiftGrandview.com. Tai Chi for Health – 7:30pm. Tai Chi is a mindbody exercise, a moving meditation. It reduces stress while gently strengthening the body. $15. Shift, 1520 W 1st Ave, Grandview Heights. 614407-4668. Lucy@ShiftGrandview.com. ShiftGrandview.com.
friday Core Play – 12:15-1pm. Explore gravity, stability balls, BOSUs, and foam rollers for better adaptability and resiliency of core functioning. Drop-ins welcome. $20. All Life Center, 123 Hyatts Rd, Delaware. 614-314-7253. AllLifeCenter.org.
saturday Hatha Level 1 with Mary Ellen Bibyk – 8:4510:15am. Mixed level class for level 1 and level 2 students. All poses can be modified to work for students with different levels of ability. Yoga on High, 1081 N High St, Columbus. 614-291-4444. YogaOnHigh.com. Fundamentals of Yoga – 9-10:15am. An introduction to all things yoga, from class etiquette to breathing and relaxation techniques. Mats available to borrow. $15. Room to Breathe Yoga, 6260 S Sunbury Rd, Westerville. 614-378-4778. TheOutdoorYogi@Gmail.com. AmylyBrook.com. Guided Meditation – 10-11am. Perfect class for beginners. Relax the mind and be guided and learn to meditate to overcome stress, anxiety, and gain clarity. Drop-ins welcome. $10. Om2Ohm Meditation & Wellness Center, Powell. 614-7870584. Om2Ohm.com. Flow Vinyasa Yoga – 11am-12:15pm. This class features warming flows and strength building holds while emphasizing alignment and offering modifications as well as variations for those who are more advanced. $15. Room to Breathe Yoga, 6260 S Sunbury Rd, Westerville. 614-378-4778. TheOutdoorYogi@Gmail.com. AmylyBrook.com. Evolve Hatha Yoga – 8:30pm. Rooted in Hatha Yoga. Build strength, balance and focus. Come 10-15 minutes early to your first class to fill out intake forms and settle into class. Shift, 1520 W 1st Ave, Grandview Heights. 614-407-4668. Lucy@ ShiftGrandview.com. ShiftGrandview.com.
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ACUPUNCTURE FINE BALANCE ACUPUNCTURE
Melanie Campbell, L.Ac 830 E Johnstown Rd, Ste C, Gahanna 614-584-7989 MKC@FineBalanceAcupuncture.com FineBalanceAcupuncture.com Our practice is based on the most essential belief in Traditional Chinese Medicine: balance. Whether you are experiencing a chronic or acute problem, restoring balance is the key to your well-being. Regardless of what might be ailing you (infertility, high stress, etc.), acupuncture is a natural and effective medical option that not only treats an illness, but assists in preventing it. We help you regain balance and restore harmony in the body, so it can function optimally.
ALLERGY TESTING COLUMBUS LASER ALLERGY Ginny Johnsen, RD, LD, CLT Beecher Wellness Center 428 Beecher Rd, Ste B, Gahanna 614-855-5533 GJRDWellness@aol.com BeecherWellness.com
Beecher Wellness C e n t e r ’s L a s e r Allergy Relief Program uses the LZR7(TM), that targets the problem at its source - the immune system. Medications and shots only treat symptoms, so results are temporary and require continual daily, weekly or monthly doses for several years. Our program differs by painlessly and effectively identifying allergens, then re-educating the immune system to no longer react inappropriately to them.
BIOFEEDBACK BRAINCORE THERAPY
Deb Wellmes, MA, CCC/SLP, ND Beecher Wellness Center 428 Beecher Rd, Ste B, Gahanna 614-855-5533 BrainCoreOhio@gmail.com BrainCoreOhio.com BrainCore Therapy™ provides a unique, drugfree approach to treating Brainwave Dysregulation, a condition brought about by tension on the nervous system from a variety of factors. Brainwave Dysregulation may be associated with several neurological conditions such as ADD/ADHD, insomnia, panic attacks, autism, anxiety, memory loss, TBI, migraines and PTSD.
Erica Cornwell, Owner P.O. Box 957, Sunbury 614-264-0120 Erica@TheOilApothecary.com TheOilApothecary.com The Oil Apothecary Wellness Barn is a small local business in Sunbury that specializes in handmade skin/ body care products, healing salves and essential oils. We also offer essential oil education, including classes and workshops, detox/ cleansing programs, ladies’ night out and holistic remedy make n’ take events! By appointment only, please call or email for more details.
136 Northwoods Blvd, Ste A-2, Columbus 614-905-1223 AnnNaumoff.com I am a Professional Clinical Counselor, licensed by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker, Marriage and Family Therapist Board. I am also a Registered Art Therapist and Certified Trauma Therapist. The one thing that I have found to be true for many people, if not all, is the need for relationship, connection and purpose. I work from a cognitive-behavioral therapy perspective to find balance in your life, by exploring how your thoughts, behaviors, and parts of self affect your relationships and your emotions.
DENTISTRY DENTAL ALTERNATIVES
Dr. Richard DeLano, DDS, MS 150 E Wilson Bridge Rd, Suite 150, Worthington 614-888-0377 DentalAlternatives.net Dental Alternatives is the dental office of Richard M. DeLano III, DDS, MS. Dr. DeLano practices general dentistry with a holistic approach. He takes time with his patients to explain the choices they have concerning their oral health. Dental Alternatives is a mercury-safe and fluoride-free dental practice. Visit our website to learn more. See ad, page 30.
CHIROPRACTIC WESTERVILLE CHIROPRACTIC AND NUTRITION
Dr. Doug Endel 528 S Otterbein Ave, Westerville 614-898-9195 WestervilleChiroAndNutrition.com
We work with people who want to be as healthy as possible, as naturally as possible. We use gentle and specific chiropractic care, specialized nutrition, massage, and many other means to get your health on the right track. Once you know what is really wrong and really right with your health, you can develop a solid game plan to make the changes you want to make. You will then have the satisfaction of knowing you made the right decisions to take action now. See ad, page 21.
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WORTHINGTON OPTIMAL WELLNESS
Dr. Julia Keiser 6180 Linworth Rd, Worthington 614-848-5211 Keiser@WorthingtonOptimalWellness.com WorthingtonOptimalWellness.com Worthington Optimal We l l n e s s h a s b e e n helping people reach their optimal health for over 25 years through; Master Level Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Expert Massage, Natural Weight Loss. Nutritional Cleansing, Allergy Cessation and other holistic treatments. Visit central Ohio’s most experienced and comprehensive wellness center at Worthington OptimalWellness.com. See ad, page 8.
DIGESTIVE HEALTH ALTERNATIVE HEALTH OASIS
Kate Dixon, Loomis Digestive Specialist, CNHP, Certified Colon Hydrotherapist Dr. Michael H. Fritz, Chiropractor, Certified Applied Kinesiologist, Certified Microscopist, Naturopathic Doctor 10223 Sawmill Pkwy, Powell 614-717-9144 Info@AlternativeHealthOasis.com AlternativeHealthOasis.com Each year statistics show that more Americans complain of digestive pain. These discomforts are commonly attributed to symptoms such as: stomachache, allergies, skin problems, depression, anxiety, immune dysfunctions and diarrhea. They may also be related to chronic pain, bloating and cramps. We believe diet and digestion play a major role in the prevention and reversal of chronic degenerative disease. We objectively test and compare against our extensive patient history survey to determine which specific enzymes and nutrients are missing from the client, and then help bring the body back into balance.
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THAT ENZYME LADY
Christina McLaughlin, Loomis Digestive Health Specialist, CNHP, EPT Practitioner Based in Centerburg 614-623-8010 ThatEnzymeLady@gmail.com In our world today, stress a leading cause of disease. Stress comes in three forms: mechanical, emotional and nutritional. Each form includes excesses and deficiencies. I am trained and certified to determine your source of stress, using a combination of objective diagnostic tools: palpation, 24-hour urinalysis, plus postural and lymphatic function exams. Urinalysis is particularly effective, as it pinpoints the biochemistry of the body and paints a clear picture of your individual health. Furthermore, I educate my clients on strategic lifestyle changes and use customized enzyme replacement therapy to relieve dietary stress, support specific organ systems, and restore normal function. Whether I am the most recent stop on your health journey, or your first curious inquiry, my passion is to restore balance in people so they can live a fulfilling life with renewed vitality. Call me for a free initial 25-minute consultation.
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CONNIE SPRUILL, FENG SHUI MASTER
DR. BRYCE ARNDT, D.C. FIAMA
Feng Shui Institute of America, Owner/ Director An International Feng Shui Certification School 614-325-5452 (cell) 614-837-8370 (school) FengShuiConnie@gmail.com Feng-Shui-Institute-Of-America com We enroll new students throughout the year for feng shui certification. Our program teaches a scientific and mindful approach, incorporating brain science and teaching only remedies that are backed up by science. We offer a proven business system training that guarantees new profit centers for your holistic practice. We are a Certified Gold School with the International Feng Shui Guild. Private feng shui consultations are available for residential and businesses. Continuing education courses can be customized for your industry. If you are not inclined to enroll in full certification, we offer a personal feng shui coaching course to apply to your own life. See ad, page 36.
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THE GOING GREEN STORE Michael Bauer, Owner 909 River Rd, Granville 740-963-9644 TheGoingGreenStore.com
ELITE PHYSIQUES
Sherry Macdonald 350 E Orange Rd, Lewis Center 740-548-3637 ElitePhysiquesInc.com
4874 Cemetery Rd, Hilliard 4810 W Broad St, Columbus 614-382-2710 DrArndt@Live.com
We find the source of symptoms by utilizing functional medicine, blood and hair analysis. We are then able to fix the problem, on a natural level, through addressing nutrition and supplementation. See ad, page 28.
FURNITURE T.Y. FINE FURNITURE
Wes Miller, Sales Manager 106 E Moler St, Columbus 614-929-5255 Service@TYFineFurniture.com TYFineFurniture.com We custom design and hand produce all our unique commercial and home décor pieces from naturally fallen timber, applying water or milk-based glues and a proprietary organic wood finish. Our furniture is heirloom quality and guaranteed for life. We also sell a handpicked selection of Ohio-made organic mattresses, to help reduce harmful chemical exposure in your home. See ad, page 27.
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ESSENTIAL OILS DOTERRA ESSENTIAL OILS
Lori & Mark Vaas, Diamond Wellness Advocates 614-582-7680 LoriVaas@gmail.com Healing-Essential-Oils.com
Who is controlling your health care? Empower your-self to treat many health conditions with Nature’s medicine: Essential Oils. Choose doTERRA – the brand that is certified pure and potent. doTERRA is used by many hospitals, including locally at The OSU’s James Cancer Hospital and Wexner Medical Center. Visit our website for more information on how to attend a free workshop or schedule a private wellness consultation. See ad, page 9.
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HOLISTIC STRESS MANAGEMENT CONNECT TO CALM
Geri Sue Sandor, Chaos to Bliss Guide Based in Westerville 513-907-1733 GS@ConnectToCalm.Com ConnectToCalm.com Meetme.so/ConnectToCalm
75 to 95 percent of all visits to the doctor are due to stress, according to WebMD. When we learn to manage our stress, we are able to live a calmer, healthier, happier life. Chaos is all around us, and most of it we create ourselves We are a wellness studio that without even realizing it! Learning to make time makes be inmindfulness your mothement for yourself, be in the present moment, silence the central focus in each of our inner critic, laugh, let go and manage the chaos Grandview c1520 l a s sW. e s1st , fAve rom g e n t l e Heights helps unlock hidden energy and allows your 614-407-4668 yoga to the therapeutic shiftgrandview.com authentic self to emerge, manifesting the life you mindful cardio of our High truly desire. Using a holistic approach, I offer Intensity Interval Training private coaching and workshops. (HIIT), from tai chi to Nia technique. Here, we tune into the messages our bodies send and let go of what we think we ‘should’ be able to do, instead building on what we can do. Each class is geared to individuals by offering clear modifications that work for each body, and ends with a short meditation to practice mindfulness. Let us help you find your own range of motion and discover what is good for your body. See ad, page 15.
Lucy Bartimole, Managing Partner 1520 W to 1streally Ave, Grandview Heights Join us work 614-407-4668 body, mind and spirit. Lucy@ShiftGrandview.com ShiftGrandview.com
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This old-time general store with a modern twist carries a range of health-conscious and planetfriendly goods; non-toxic body care and cleaning products, kitchen and garden tools that support a whole food diet, plus responsibly made gifts and gadgets. Dairy, eggs, and pasture-fed beef are all sourced from within 50 miles of Licking County. The store also stocks a full assortment of green service-ware (compostable plates, napkins, cups, flatware, containers) for restaurant take-out, general food service, and special events. See ad, page 33.
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HYPNOTHERAPY INTEGRATIVE HYPNOTHERAPY
TD Hickerson, Hypnotherapist 77 E Wilson Bridge Rd #200, Worthington 614-304-1061 Info@Integrative-Hypnotherapy.com Integrative-Hypnotherapy.com What is the one “thing” that keeps you from being a better, happier, more relaxed version of yourself? That is what we work on. When people have tried everything else, they try hypnosis, and it works. Skip to the solution and see for yourself. Schedule your free phone consultation today at Integrative-Hypnotherapy. com/schedule. p.s. Is your “thing” on the list? Go to tinyurl.com/155ways and find out. See ad, page 39.
INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRY BRAIN ENERGY MD
Dr. Linda Cole, MD 287 W Johnstown Rd, Gahanna 614-887-7731 BrainEnergyMD.com Optimize your journey to wellness. Specializing in treatment plans for depression, mild cognitive impairment, adult ADHD, OCD, anxiety and other mood disorders. Integrative Psychiatry combines medical and holistic approaches to find and correct the underlying causes of disease, by first looking where problems tend to begin (in your gut, immune and endocrine systems) and then testing for your particular imbalances and deficiencies.
INTUITIVE COUNSELING OASIS OF THE HEART
Tabby Sapene, MSW, LISW-S 3962 N Hampton Dr, Powell 614-273-5698 OasisOfTheHeart.com At Oasis of the Heart, we are dedicated to addressing our clients’ needs based on a holistic approach, integrating all aspects of their experience. We see the events that one experiences in life as opportunities to grow mentally, physically and spiritually. We help create a more balanced life by enabling one to have a more expanded awareness of themselves and of all that is around them. We provide Intuitive Counseling, Reiki, Guided Meditation/Imagery, Crystal Therapy, and offer a selection of Reikiinfused crystal jewelry and organic skin care products.
SAMSARA SPIRITUAL WELLNESS Sonia Yakhmi, MA 9777 Fairway Dr, Ste G, Powell 614-561-2099 Sonia@SamsaraSWC.com SamsaraSWC.com
MASSAGE THERAPY KNOX COUNTY CAREER CENTER SCHOOL OF MASSAGE THERAPY
Diane Fisher, LMT, NMT, Program Coordinator 308 Martinsburg Rd, Mount Vernon 740-393-2933 Massage_Therapy@KnoxCC.org AdultEdKCCC.org
We provide services in spiritual counseling, intuitive readings, and animal communication. We believe in the power of mind, body and spirit working together. This approach to life helps to open new doors and pathways, gives higher meaning and a sense of purpose, peace and spiritual wellness to individuals. We help clients recognize, understand and learn from life experiences. When it is time, they are able to release that which no longer serves a positive role in their life. As an animal communicator, I treat all animals with respect and help relay their messages to their owners, handlers or caregivers as accurately as possible. See ad, page 6.
Whether you are interested in a career in massage therapy, or prefer to receive a massage from one of our qualified students, we are here for you. Founded in 1999, KCCC Massage offers small classes with individualized instruction and hands-on experience. Our 817hour program focuses on three areas: therapeutic massage, anatomy and physiology, and professional development. Call today for more information about our program or student clinic. See ad, page 13.
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Lora Lucinda Andersen, CPC, ELI-MP Based in Delaware, at All Life Center 740-804-6881 SexyWifeCoach@gmail.com SexyWifeCoach.com
Sheri Mollica-Rathburn, Owner, C.MI 324 W Case St, Powell 614-787-0583 Sheri@Om2Ohm.com Om2Ohm.com
Imagine your life free from fear, procrastination, worry, selfdoubt, and self-sabotage, and instead filled with love, passion, c o n f i d e n c e , c l a r i t y, p l u s authentic and full selfexpression. Lora is a Certified Professional Coach and Energy Leadership Master Practitioner, specializing in core energy coaching. She will work with you to release the negative energy blocks and limiting beliefs that are holding you back, and raise your average resonating level of energy so that you can experience success. Lora provides confidential coaching in person, over the phone and via Skype to individuals and couples regarding self-empowerment, life and career transitions, life purpose, communication, relationships, sex and intimacy, divorce, an empty nest and more! Retreats, workshops, meetup groups and group coaching are available. See ad, page 17.
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NATURAL FOODS BEXLEY NATURAL MARKET
508 N Cassady Ave, Bexley 614-252-3951 BexleyNaturalMarket@yahoo.com BexleyNaturalMarket.org The Bexley Natural Market is a not-for-profit cooperative grocery store dedicated to providing food of the highest possible nutritional quality to our members and community. We provide many local and organic products, bulk foods, organic herbs and spices, as well as a vast array of vitamins and supplements to support the health of our customers. We like to support local businesses and farmers by being a space in which their products are available. See ad, page 15.
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IT’S ALL NATURAL!
1360 Cherry Bottom Rd, Gahanna 614-476-6159 ItsAll-Natural.com It’s All Natural! is a prominent source of vegetarian and vegan products, offering organic, ecoconscious and down-to-earth items. Our mission is to promote a benevolent, eco-friendly and vegan lifestyle. We strive to be fertile ground where seeds of love can be planted to grow in health and harmony. See ad, page 6.
RAISIN RACK NATURAL FOOD MARKET 2545 W Schrock Rd, Westerville 614-882-5886 RaisinRack.com
Raisin Rack offers a complete variety of organic groceries, including gluten-free foods, vegan/vegetarian products, and dairy-free items. Bulk grains, herbs, nuts and seeds accompany organically-grown fruits and vegetables, as well as a complete selection of vitamins, minerals, herbals and other nutrients from leading national brands. See ad, page 19.
NATUROPATHY PHOENIX WELLNESS CENTER Dr. Trudy Pieper, ND 10 S Main St, Johnstown 740-616-9949 PhoenixWellness4U.com
Trudy Pieper, ND, is board certified by the American Naturopathic Medical Certification and Accreditation Board, the oldest and largest professional naturopathic medical association in America. Dr. Pieper is a traditional naturopath and believes in personalized care based on your health concerns. The main goal of naturopathy is to do no harm, and we achieve this through providing herbal, natural folk, homeopathic and lifestyle recommendations for better health.
GREEN SCOOP
Jendell Duffner, Owner Based in Columbus 614-699-0011 Info@GreenScoopPet.com GreenScoopPet.com We are a unique pet waste removal company that recycles dog, cat, rabbit, and chicken waste by converting it to either EPA-approved compost or natural gas and electricity. We can accommodate any size household, community or business. We also sell compost, mulch, topsoil, firewood bundles and compostable dog waste bags, and donate a percentage of the proceeds to local charitable and environmental organizations. See ad, page 14.
PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING GEORGE O. SCHULZ, PH.D. 4230 Tuller Rd, Ste 201, Dublin 614-766-0379 EMAPDrSchulz.com
Dr. Schulz is a licensed psychologist who specializes in a gentle, integrative approach that provides: relaxation, release from post-traumatic stress, and relief from depression, anxiety or panic attacks. He provides skills training for both healthy conflict resolution and building healthy interpersonal relationships at home and work. He is grounded by an inclusive, faith-based Christian perspective that involves grace, forgiveness and a loving Creator, instead of fear or judgment.
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DUNIGAN REAL ESTATE GROUP Cindy Dunigan, Realtor 3500 N High St, Columbus 614-361-8400 Cindy.Dunigan@e-Merge.com CindyDunigan.com
There are only a handful of Realtors in the Central Ohio area that carry the National Association of Realtors GREEN designation, and Cindy Dunigan is one of them. She has taken the initiative to encourage the industry to produce more sustainable homes, and helps communities to reduce their consumption by implementing sustainable practices. Cindy is devoted to reducing her own footprint on the environment, and lives by her motto: “We can make a significant impact on the world around us one person at a time.”
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Linda Haley, RMT, Director 1540 W 5th Ave, Columbus 614-486-8323 TheReikiCenter.net The Reiki Center is a comprehensive natural wellness center which understands the relationship between your physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs. Practitioners work closely with you to bring each aspect of your life into greater harmony. See ad, page 19.
TOTAL ENERGY HEALTH Sue Marting, RMT 4238 Broadway, Grove City 614-499-2572 TotalEnergyHealth.com
Total Energy Health is a holistic healing practice that focuses on stress reduction, pain relief, and recovery from illness and injury at the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual level. Each service is customized for the client’s maximum benefit. Benefits include increased energy, pain relief, reduced stress and a better night’s sleep. Sue Marting is a certified Reiki Master Teacher and practices Reiki, Integrated Energy Therapy, Tapping, Access Bars, Reflexology and Raindrop Technique. See ad, page 31.
SALON/SPA THE NATURAL NAIL SPA 8487 Sancus Blvd, Columbus 614-985-3205 TheNaturalNailSpa.com
Incorporating the most natural products and processes for manicure, pedicure and waxing, while maintaining the highest level of cleanliness and sterilization available.
LOVE YOURSELF AND EARTH SALON AND DAY SPA Michelle Wilson Rivers, Owner 1189 River Rd, Granville 740-920-4317 • MW_Rivers@yahoo.com LoveYourselfAndEarthSalon.com
Through continuous research, we find and incorporate products and systems that are safe for all of us personally, as well as our global environment. For hair, we use an organic color system, plus products that are cruelty-free, vegan and contain no ammonia or formaldehyde. For nails, we offer a system that uses LED light instead of UV light for application, and an organic polish remover. For facials and massage, we use skin care products formulated with fruit stem cells. We offer a truly organic and uplifting experience! See ad, page 21.
VETERINARY LIFETIME PET WELLNESS CENTER Dr. James Carlson 454 Lazelle Rd, Columbus 614-888-2100 LPWC@LifetimePetWellness.com LifetimePetWellness.com
Lifetime Pet Wellness Center is a full service veterinary hospital that practices both conventional and alternative medicine. We are not just a veterinary hospital, we are a facility that CARES. Lifetime Pet Wellness is a wonderful place to be, and you can feel it when you walk through our doors. See ad, page 36.
YOGA A PLACE TO CALL OM
Leigh Brennan, Registered Yoga Teacher and Owner 923 River Rd, Granville 740-404-9190 Leigh@APlaceToCallOm.com APlaceToCallOm.com Join us at our new serene location, just behind River Road Coffeehouse. Select from over 20 weekly classes, offered early morning, mid morning, late afternoon, in the evening and over the weekend. In addition, we offer special workshops each month. Visit us on Sundays at 4pm for Beginner Yoga, and be sure to check out our Om Lean program, focusing on living a conscious lifestyle for your best health. Class styles include Vinyasa, Hatha, Gentle, as well as a focus on meditation and breath-centric practices. Please visit our website for a full schedule and to sign up for a class.
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YOGA IN THE SPRINGS RETREATS Melissa Herzog, CYT, Retreat Facilitator Anne Harding, RYT Based in Yellow Springs 614-946-8281 YogaInTheSprings@gmail.com YogaInTheSprings.com Facebook.com/YogaInTheSprings
Come experience yoga and wellness escapes that provide an all-inclusive, restorative experience in a sanctuary of natural bliss. We invite you to “get away” from your inner and outer chaos and discover everlasting ways to create stillness. Practice various styles of yoga, hike, breathe, laugh, meditate, and rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit. Private, custom retreats are available, as well as retreat facilitation for yoga instructors looking to hold their own retreats.
YOGA ON HIGH
Jasmine Astra-elle Grace, 500 E-RYT 1081 N High St, Columbus 614-291-4444 YogaOnHigh.com Our core Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Hatha programs allow new students to safely learn yoga basics and explore their own body-mind connection, while our advanced asana classes and guest teachers offer the experienced student the opportunity to deepen their practice. We offer a number of specialty classes for moms-to-be, children, teens, and physically challenged or disabled students. See ad, page 24.
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