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My Dental Story

by Elizabeth Botta Brandes, Patient

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n the latter part of 2013 I had two fillings replaced in my mouth. Within weeks I started experiencing bleeding gums. When brushing my teeth or using the water pick I had to be very careful or ulcers would form. Soon I began experiencing rashes on my body. I was unaware that the fillings replaced in 2013 were amalgam, which included a large percentage of mercury. Using amalgam fillings is a standard practice in conventional dentistry.

kinesiology, pointed to the exact area of my mouth where the old fillings were.

All he said with certainly was get out whatever is there! With Dr. Cintron’s guidance, I took a Clifford blood test and found that I was experiencing heavy metal toxicity to many metals—mercury was just one of them.

In July 2015, Dr. Cintron removed from my mouth an old metal crown that had a huge piece of amalgam under it and replaced it with gold, which was compatible with my body. After the surgery we knew that we did a very good thing.

My immune system started to cascade, and after a biopsy, I was diagnosed with lichen planus, an autoimmune disease that attacks the skin and mucus membranes of the body. I was told that lichen planus was with me for life, and that I had to learn to live with it and be diligent because it is a precancerous condition.

The gums had been irritated around that area and this got resolved after we removed the old, poor quality crown that had contact with the mercury underneath. Dr. Cintron treated the gums with her Yag Waterlase laser and stimulated new, healthy gums to be regenerated and healed after the decontamination process.

My gut instincts told me that I was having an allergic reaction. I went for testing and the standard allergy patch tests were negative. I met someone in the testing office who, after hearing my story, told me about Yolanda Cintron, DMD, at The International Center for Dental Excellence in Fort Lauderdale.

I then began working with Linda Huxtable, ND who put me on the Quicksilver Scientific non-pharmaceutical heavy metal detoxification protocol for three months.

Becoming Dr. Cintron’s patient was the start of a wonderful healing journey for which I am forever grateful. Dr. Cintron is a biological, holistic dentist.

She sent me to her colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Middleton, who after testing me with

I incorporated other healing modalities into my daily practice with Dr. Cintron’s care and guidance. Thermography performed by Shanna Schulze (Btiscan.com) provided me with an awareness of inflammation in my body, including the teeth involved as well as other parts of the body that are connected to the teeth. Everything

is connected. I developed a personal practice of good oral care, including oil pulling. With the guidance of Linda Huxtable, I restored the microbiome in my gut. I became aware of how food is medicine. I now focus my diet on good fats, mostly vegetables, some fruits, egg whites and small amounts of grass-fed meats. I am also a BEMER partner and use the BEMER for myself as well as in my private practice. My personal practice of wellness is a wonderful recipe for healing and good health.

Today, my mouth and skin are totally healed. I am forever grateful for this! To connect with the author/patient, email Brandes11@aol.com. e

Comment by Dr. Cintron: Helping a patient like Elizabeth, who was seeking truth and did not take a traditional opinion as the last opinion to resolve her health concerns or problems, was a gift to us. The beautiful part is that Elizabeth was never bitter or negative, always trusting, loving and grateful in her journey to an alternative approach to health. We know God’s guidance and anointing bring blessings into our lives. I started this year with this scripture from the Bible that resonated in my soul: “The joy of the Lord is my strength.”

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his full-length meditation CD is beautifully created by Margaret Ann Lembo to help those wishing to cut cords with the past, past situations or particular people. The CD has an in-depth explanation of the intention and goes into a guided meditation and visualization that can be used each time the user wishes to let go of their ties to another person or situation.

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newsbriefs Positive Activism: Making a Difference without Losing Your Cool

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o you have a vision for a better world, a desire to make a difference in the one you’re living in now? If you’re like most people, the answer is “yes” to both questions, yet that vision and desire got filed away under the heading of “Fairytales”.

That’s because the contrast between your vision and today’s world seems too great, and what it will take to make a difference appears to be more than you can do. The good news is that what you can do is far greater than you may have realized. The art of Positive Activism is about learning how to use the power within you to affect change, by letting the best happen through you and becoming, as Gandhi said, “…the change you wish to see in the world”. Another way to think of it is “Making a Difference without Losing Your Cool”.

Recall a time when you tried to change something that was going on around you and you “lost your cool”. Do you remember how it turned out? Not well, right? The fact

is that we can’t make other people do anything. The best that can come from “losing our cool” is that we express our feelings, yet the consequence is that we push our desired result further out than ever before. Rather than giving up on our desire to make a difference, we can learn how things “become” in the first place, and we’ll be well on our way to realizing our vision for a better world.

Things come into our lives - circumstances and people, too – because something within us is equal to them. In the heat of the moment, that can be hard to imagine, yet a closer look always reveals a correlation. If we’re willing to look for this relationship between our experience and our feelings, we’ll find a connection and a point of power. It is in this “spot” that we can make adjustments to let the best happen through us and thus have the experience we prefer to have. The result is that we are that “change” we were looking for, and our circumstances and the people in our lives

“change”, too.

Next time you meditate, ask your Soul who you must become, to be in harmony with the world you envision. And next time you step out the door, I invite you to consider becoming that other you – the one who already lives in the better world. Listen, trust and take action on the guidance you receive. You’ll be amazed how the world around you will change for the better.

Rev. Marcia MacLean is the Spiritual Director at Center for Spiritual Living Palm Beaches. Offering a talk and workshop on “Positive Activism: How to Make a Difference without Losing Your Cool”, Sunday, March 13, in Palm Beach Gardens, Marcia teaches, speaks, writes, sings and facilitates the awakening of humanity to its spiritual magnificence.

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eleste did look great, either from her modelesque figure, breast implants, Botox, or the combination of all three. Looking at her new patient questionnaire, however, I had to agree, she wasn’t as healthy as she looked.

Celeste continued, “My friend Jena raves about you and handed me one of your brochures. She said you made her feel twenty years younger. I want to get what she’s getting!”

“Patient-to-patient referral has always been my best source of new patients, but rather than ‘selling the same program’ of tests, supplements, and hormones to everybody, whether they need it or not, I do what a board-certified physician is trained to do, I evaluate each patient individually. Tell me, if there was a miracle tonight, what would be different tomorrow?”

“How about tonight? I’d sleep. It seems that I’m up at 3:15 like clockwork every morning to pee, and then I can’t get back to sleep until hours later. And when I wake up for real, I’m destroyed.”

“God created night then day; night came first because it’s so important. I want you to wake up fully refreshed, anticipating your day.”

“How can I look forward to things when my clothes don’t fit, I need to use hair extensions and acrylics, everything I eat bloats me to where I’m 5-months pregnant, and my girlfriends have more libido towards my husband than I do?”

Luckily, not only do I have 80+ minutes

to spend with new patients, I also had a box of tissues to hand to Celeste. “All of this is fixable. Instead of using ‘pharmacy’ (or ‘green pharmacy’ of vitamins and hormones) to cover up your symptoms, I prefer a Functional Medicine approach to make your body work properly, the way it did in your 20’s.”

“Just up to a few years ago, I was able to eat great tasting food without running to the bathroom, drink champagne at charity events, and still be able to play tennis the next day. Now I’m just spent.”

“I’ve seen all this before, and I’m confident we can get you back to optimum health.

Let’s finish off our assessment. Besides my history and physical exam, there are some tests I need. Even though you have a concierge physician who did a screening panel, I need to look in depth at your adrenals, thyroid, and other hormones. Food allergies and dysbiosis (bad bacteria in your gut) can cause that bloating, and vitamin insufficiencies are common enough that we have to test for those as well.”

“Anything we can start off now?”

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“But what about that IV therapy that Jena told me about?”

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Celeste’s testing did show causes for all her symptoms and on her second visit, a plan specific to her was put in place. Three months later, she was glowing and her visits were now spaced out to where she only had to be seen once every six months.

“Next week you get to see both my husband and daughter. I just booked a family trip to tour the volcanoes in Hawaii. I need them to keep up with me.”

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newsbriefs The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy®

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holistic modern approach to healthcare & SELF-CARE drawn from the ancient Maya shamanic healing traditions which includes massage, anatomy and physiology, herbalism, nutrition, emotional & spiritual healing.

Dates: March 11-13, 2016 Times: Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 10am-6pm, Sunday 10am-2pm Location: Agape Healing Arts Health & Wellness Center 385 Tequesta Drive Suite 4 Tequesta FL 33469 Details: www.AgapeHealingArts.com Being taught SELF CARE is truly empowering. By learning & doing your own SELF CARE massage regularly you can create a life of health & harmony and a state of homeostasis within your own body. The word homeostasis is the medical term for ”balance.” When you are empowered with SELF CARE techniques, you can carry this with you every day and long after you have left your professional treatment. The key word here is “homeostasis.” As you return your body back to a state of equilibrium it will simply do the rest, heal naturally! This is what your body was designed to do! You will feel a new sense of well-being within as you become physically and emotionally connected to your own unique healing process.

The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® incorporates a holistic approach to health and wellbeing.

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By stimulating circulation and blood flow within the abdominal area, Arvigo Therapy® supports the body for optimal function of digestive, endocrine, fertility for both men and women as well as over all health and wellness.

Arvigo Therapy® can be applied throughout every stage of a woman, man or child's life. This work not only addresses physical issues but also addresses emotional and energetic imbalance as well.

Only by treating the whole person on a physical, emotional and energetic level can true healing take place. SELF CARE the Maya Way is powerful tool when it comes to reconnecting women with their Womb centre and men with their Hara center, as they rediscover a sense of wholeness and safety within their own body and re-ignite the passion and creativity that has always been there but may have been blocked by physical and energetic stagnations.

Dr. Bella with Agape Healing Arts is proud to introduce The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy® SELF CARELEVEL 1 Trainings at her Center. After more than five years of study with her teacher Dr. Rosita Arvigo, Dr. Lauren is now a highly skilled Maya Medical & Spiritual Healing Practitioner which she adds to her previous trainings as an Acupuncture Physician, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Midwife and Massage/Body work practi-

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tioner, Arvigo certified professional teacher and practitioner of the Maya healing ways specializing in women's health, fertility for men & women, pregnancy, postpartum, menopause and beyond.

Dr. Rosita Arvigo learned these techniques from her mentor, Don Elijio Panti, the great Maya Shaman of Belize, Central America with whom she apprenticed for ten years. Don Elijio believed that a woman's center is her uterus. "If a woman's uterus is out of balance, so is she," he would say. Don Elijio passed away in 1996 at the age of 103. Rosita also studied with Hortence Robinson, a 73 year old herbal midwife of Belize who has been delivering babies since she was 13.

Dr. Bella will work with you to address your specific needs and will take time in your initial consult to suggest a course of treatments that are tailored specifically to your own particular needs. Typically, a minimum of 2 or 3 professional sessions are required to address most conditions.

Some conditions will require further attention over a longer period of time.

SELF CARE at home is a vital aspect of the overall treatment plan as you assume more responsibility for your own healing process. It is very comforting and empowering to know that the true physician is within yourself! YOU ARE THE TRUE HEALER!!! And what sets this work apart from other types of therapy is the unique aspect of learning SELF CARE, you will learn how to massage your own abdomen, helping to sustain health & harmony through good circulation and blood flow initiated by your own two hands!

CALL TODAY TO JOIN US FOR OUR NEXT SELF CARE WORKSHOP OR TO EXPERIENCE AN ARVIGO MAYA TREATMENT! For more information you may contact Dr. Bella at 561-76-AGAPE or 561-762-4273.

At any time please visit www.AgapeHealingArts.com and www.ArvigoTherapy. com for a list of classes being offered and practitioners in your area.

A holistic, nutritional and integrative approach to anti-aging medicine and disorders of the skin, hair and nails in both children and adults. Among the conditions we treat are: • Acne • Psoriasis BARRY KUTTNER, M.D., P.H.D., F.A.A.D. • Eczema • Autoimmune Disorders • Board Certified Integrative Medicine • Alopecia/Hairloss • Board Certified Dermatology and • Viral & Bacterial Infections Dermatopathology • Skin Cancer • Metabolic Medical Institute Fellow in Metabolic • Warts & Nutritional Medicine Nutritional medicine consultations are also available • Gluten Certified Practitioner for patients with non-skin related conditions.

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newsbriefs How The Alexander Technique Can Be Your Path to Permanent Relief From Chronic Neck and Back Pain

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id you know that back pain has emerged as the second most common reason for doctor visits? You aren't alone, but now you don't have to suffer anymore.

The Alexander Technique is an age-old treatment gaining new notice for its simplicity and scientifically proven effectiveness with chronic pain.

Alexander Technique’s (A.T.) message is described as a groundbreaking discovery: "Moving your skeletal frame with balance and ease can save your body unnecessary effort and muscle tension, relieving as much as 86 percent of chronic back pain."

-British Medical Journal extensive study.

Here is a perfect example on how the Alexander Technique helped Christine with her chronic back problems: “After suffering a herniated disc with excruciating pain, I was introduced to Sherry, an instructor of the Alexander Technique, for pain management. Much to my surprise, I had been compressing my spine, neck, and back over the years and now have the abil-

ity to recognize how to balance and move myself much to my comfort and pleasure.

There is a newfound poise with regard to my movements that reflect youth rather than aging. As a bonus, I have captured mental poise, opening my eyes and mind to longevity with youth and beauty.”

—Christine Steele, Property Asset Management The medical world has recognized how the A.T. can not only help you with chronic back problems but with neck pain as well.

A new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows a significant reduction in chronic neck pain after lessons in the Alexander Technique. The most important result from this study is that the benefits of Alexander lessons persisted after lessons had ended. A year after the beginning of the study, the patients were still experiencing a reduction in pain.

“The Alexander Technique helped patients change past behavioral and postural habits and guided them towards improved coping strategies and self-care. No other single treatment is known to provide long-term benefits,” Hugh McPherson told Reuters.

Such studies are confirming what Alexander Technique teachers have been teaching for 150 years: learning to improve your posture and movement habits can have a significant impact on your health.

The Alexander Technique can provide you with relief from a wide range of spinal and structural problems. Sherry Berjeron has helped people overcome pain and impaired movement in their necks, backs, hips, knees, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hands, and feet for over 39 years. And, if you suffer from chronic headaches, you can stop reaching for painkillers and start enjoying life fully by eliminating the root cause—neck tension—with Sherry’s expert guidance.

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A Doctor’s Personal Experience “The degenerative process in my cervical spine had become so serious that my neurosurgeon colleagues recommended an anterior cervical fusion as a solution. I was wearing and tearing my neck from normal life activities. I found Sherry, and the Alexander Technique whose philosophy had instant appeal. Alexander Technique has given me the technology to keep my body functioning optimally without needing any outside professional help or procedures.”

—Robert Moynihan M.D. Call Sherry Berjeron to answer any of your questions at: Moving Younger Institute, LLC 916-812-8915 www.movingyounger.com sherry@movingyounger.com Contact Sherry for lessons in Boca Raton, Pompano and Miami

newsbriefs How to Help Yourself and Others Live a Happier, Healthier Life

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magine a time in your life when you felt totally at ease, centered and capable of accomplishing your dreams. In the next couple of minutes you will begin to understand how you can feel that way again (or for the first time), and how you can guide others to feel that way, too.

Holistic Reflexology is designed to support you–body, mind and spirit. It combines a unique blend of tools, including positive thinking and speaking, visualization, aromatherapy, law of attraction, life coaching and the power of reflexology to help you remember your true essence and potential. When you are profoundly relaxed, at peace and in a positive state of mind you are ready energetically to manifest better health, stronger relationships, a rewarding career and more.

Reflexology is a science and art using specific thumb and finger techniques on reflex areas of the feet, hands, face and ears to facilitate healing of organs, glands and all parts of the body. Simultaneously reflexology soothes thousands of nerves, which induces profound relaxation, where you are open to allow new possibilities.

could provide to my massage clients–a new path to deeper healing. Plus, Holistic Reflexology feels effortless to do, more like a meditation. So now I can see more clients in a day.”

Holistic Reflexologists love what they do.

They experience positive transformation in their own lives as well as in the lives they touch. And, when you love what you do, it’s not work–it’s a joy. As one Holistic Reflexologist told me, “When people leave you after a session feeling empowered and free of the stress and pain they came in with, newly refreshed, clear and energized, you feel so uplifted and fulfilled.”

Are you ready to allow your innate healing abilities to come forth? Holistic Reflexol-

ogy is an easy-to-learn powerful vehicle for facilitating wellness. Experience the deep satisfaction that comes from having a renewed sense of purpose where you support people as they discover how to live happier, healthier lives.

Laura Norman, M.S., LMT, world-renowned Holistic Reflexologist and author of the best-selling book, Feet First: A Guide to Foot Reflexology, offers private Reflexology and Life Wellness Coaching sessions in Delray Beach and Holistic Reflexology Training Programs in Boynton Beach starting March 12th. Instant gift certificates available online for all occasions.Educational DVDs in Foot, Hand and Face Reflexology and natural aromatherapy products available. Visit www.lauranormanreflexology.com Call 561-272-1220

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Linda is a mother who studied Holistic Reflexology because she was looking for a new way to support and nurture her family, especially her child who was asthmatic. Using the skills she learned, Linda has been able to strengthen family bonds and is convinced she has contributed greatly to alleviating her child’s asthma symptoms. “The amazing results my family and I experienced gave me the confidence and inspiration to begin a new career in Holistic Reflexology. Now I feel like I’m making a huge contribution to my community.”

Peter is a massage therapist who was looking to advance his skills as a healer. He was interested in learning more about the nonintrusive, healing focus of Holistic Reflexology. “After just one class, I felt so motivated.

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newsbriefs Unveiling Your Subconscious

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veryone has conscious hopes, wishes and desires, yet many people complain about not being able to get what they want in life. Desires remain unfulfilled.

To understand why this is so common, we first must understand that each of us has a conscious mind and a subconscious mind.

Between the ages of 0-6, one is said to be “learning” what it means to be human and during that developmental time frame there is no conscious memory. Learning occurs with no discrimination and what is learned is stored below our conscious level of awareness in the subconscious. A useful analogy is a computer downloading software programs with no virus detector.

Early life experiences lead to emotional responses and, through repetition, there develop fairly fixed beliefs and ways of experiencing ourselves, others and the world around us. This becomes our

default setting as 95% of our actions and reactions are driven by our subconscious.

Our “programming” can also be altered by significant experiences (e.g. traumas) in inexplicable ways for better or worse.

What is critical to understand is that the framework through which we experience life begins to form at the point of conception (information passed down from mother and father), then continues in the womb (mother’s experiences while pregnant), and further continues to form in response to early life experiences (mainly environmental influences). This leaves us with a subconscious “perceptual lens” through which we experience the world that is deeply ingrained.

Modern science views the universe as a mirror that reflects back to us what we hold both subconsciously and consciously, with the subconscious being mainly responsible for creating our life experiences.

Failure to understand this can lead people to think that they are victims of circum-

stance. The key to avoiding unwanted outcomes is to observe the subconscious directly to discover what “programs” (beliefs) are running subliminally i.e. we have to make the unconscious conscious.

From this new level of awareness, we can clearly see which of our beliefs have led to negative life experiences: we can then weed them out and consciously create a better life.

Evolutionary Healing Techniques, hypnosis and energy psychology techniques, such as Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Matrix Reimprinting and Advanced Clearing Energetics have demonstrated an ability to make the subconscious conscious and help people release what is unwanted, leading to preferred outcomes.

To learn more about how you can rewrite your subconscious programming, call Suzanne (561-398-1139) or Aïten (914-4736274) for a free 15 min phone consultation.

Join our group ‘Unique Healing Circle’ on meetup.com for a schedule of upcoming healing circles, talks and workshops.By Founders of Evolutionary Healing Techniques, Suzanne Biddiscombe, M.A. and Aïten Snaith

Lightworkers United United Lightworkers A Studio Studio for for Higher Higher Learning Learning A Kristen’s Klasses~NoNaMé~Lightworker Hello Lightworkers ! I am Kristen and I communicate with “Source”. As with most Lightworkers, I had my dark time and emerged into the brightest, clearest, Source energy. I am aligned with Source and am now able to hold the pathway open. The energy vibration flowing through me is “Source” energy at its clearest. I feel the energies within each and every creation on this Earth. This energy has no name, no label, no words can describe this energy. It is no thing. That which has no words. It is transcendent of words. It is the space that has no future and no past. Since this emergence, I have dedicated my life to teaching “The Shift” and sharing the “Source” energy with all those I encounter.

Presently, I am opening Lightworkers United: a studio for higher learning.The human species is transcending the mind and it is time for lightworkers to unite as one. ~ L i g h t w o rk e r Experience A Permanent SHIFT: • Every Thursday: 6-8pm-All Ages / Love Offering • Friday’s 6-9pm $59 • Saturday’s 10am-1pm $59 • Friday + Saturday $89 (3/18-3/19) (3/25-3/26) Reservations required.

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newsbriefs Advance a Career at Keiser University West Palm Beach Open House

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eiser University will host a Spring into a New Career open house event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., March 19, at the West Palm Beach campus.

Current students, faculty and alumni will share information about the application process, programs and degrees offered at Keiser that can put attendees on the path to successful employment and career opportunities.

Prospective students will be able to interact with deans and program directors prepared to answer questions about how Keiser University resources give individuals a competitive advantage in furthering their education and entering the workforce. Attendees at the academically focused open house can also participate in hands-on activities such as classroom and lab demonstrations.

With more than 100 different associate, bachelor, master and doctoral degree programs offered in fields such as business, health care, culinary arts and legal studies, Keiser University continually monitors workplace trends to help students best apply their educational experience. The school’s student-centered approach is focused on providing the necessary critical training skills and quality academics needed to directly enter the workforce upon graduation.

Location: 2085 Vista Parkway West Palm Beach, FL 33411 For more information, call 888-844-8404 or visit KUOpenHouse.com.

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Palm Beaches Sunday Service 528 S. Haverhill Road - West Palm Beach New Service Time Effective April 20, 2014 10:30 am - Healing 11:00 am - Worship Service Ongoing Programs Mediumship, Intuitive & Spiritual Counseling, Spiritual Development - Healing Monthly Message Gallery Guest Psychics and/or Mediums Psychic Fair Saturday 3rd Saturday of the Month - 11am - 4pm Readings - $20 each or 3 for $50 Reiki Circle 1st & 3rd Friday of the Month - 7 pm Love Offering Meditation and More Thursday’s 7pm - Love Offering All classes & events held at 528 S. Haverhill Rd West Palm Beach, FL 33415

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newsbriefs Amazonian Healing Retreat with Katie Haley May 15-22, 2016

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re you interested in adventure, exploration and spiritual energy? Join us for a once in a lifetime experience! Embrace this opportunity for a healing journey to focus on yourself and reboot your life. During this retreat you will see the Amazon Jungle with expert guides and a phenomenal education program in a safe and affordable way. If you love organic food, beautiful scenery, and personal growth this retreat is for you?

Highlights: • Daily yoga and meditation (all levels) • Delicious vegetarian or vegan meals • 3 Workshops on Amazonian plant medicine • Amazonian spiritual ceremony with Shaman • Organic chocolate making with local farmers • Hiking to waterfalls and sacred spots • Free time to relax, unplug, and connect with nature Program is all inclusive except airfare. No visa is required for Peru. Natural Awakenings readers will receive $150 off your program. Florida Licensed Massage Therapists and Nurses will receive continuing education credits. This program is suitable for anyone in good physical and mental health. Group will be small with lots of personal attention. $300 deposit is due by March 15th to reserve your spot.

Please visit www.kacaoamazonia.org for details and registration. You may call Katie Haley at 407 760-8214 or email at katie.haley@yahoo.com

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Mark Becker Brings Newlife Expo to Palm Beach

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n April 16-17, Mark Becker, Renaissance man entrepreneur, named Yogiman by Robin Williams in the 1970s, is bringing America’s longest running expo for enlightenment and rejuvenation to the Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach for the first time.

The Newlife Expo continues as the vanguard, raising awareness for more than one-million Americans for over 25 years with its lineup of lecturers and exhibitors on yoga and meditation, anti-aging, clairvoyance and promoting a healthy lifestyle in mind, body and spirit.

Join in the fun as you open your mind to new horizons, learning how to look and feel your maximum potential and meet others looking for the same experience as you.

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For as little as $20 for the weekend, enjoy yoga classes, music, free samples and experience cutting-edge exhibitors. Listen to over 75 speakers, including Dr. Robert Young, Mas Sajady, Gail Thackray, Judy Satori, Kat James, Stacie Breeze, Sean Morton, Chris Macklin, Jill Dahne and Mark Becker. Take a weekend of your life to enhance your life forever.

To pre-register for discounts and avoid lines, for a free brochure, or if you are interested in lecturing, exhibiting, advertising or volunteering, call 516-897-0900 or email Mark@NewLifeMag.com.

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newsbriefs Author Comes To Boca Raton To Present The Zen Teachings Of Cats & Dogs

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ary Bayer, a New York- and Florida-based life coach who's worked with Oscar-winners Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine) and Pietro Scalia (JFK, Black Hawk Down), Emmywinners comedian David Steinberg (Academy Awards presentations) and Judy Henderson (Homeland), and Quality Inns, will come to Boca Raton to teach a class to help people learn how to enliven qualities of Enlightenment embodied by cats and dogs.

“The Zen Teachings of Cats and Dogs” will be held on Sunday April 24 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton (561-482-2001, www.uufbr.org.), from 12:30--3 PM, at 2601 St. Andrews Blvd., from 12:30—3 PM. The cost for the class is $25.

Bayer will draw from his books Zen Teachings of Cats and Dogs and Zen Teachings of Animals to help people more deeply awaken five key qualities of Enlightenment embodied by cats and dogs. The workshop leader, who’s lived with different cats since 1981, said, there are more than 171 million cats and dogs that Americans have taken into their homes to raise. These little buddhas, he said, who demonstrate many of the qualities that the world’s great teachers have taught about the nature of Enlightenment, have, in turn, taken us under their wings…um, make that paws.

In this class, he provides tools that students can practice daily—he calls it Pet Yoga-to master those five important qualities of Enlightenment. Pet Yoga helps transform our consciousness from low levels of fear where our tail is between our legs to the place where it’s wagging all the time, the state of consciousness called Feline Groovy.

Join us for “The Zen Teachings of Cats and Dogs” will be held on Sunday April 24 at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Boca Raton (561-482-2001, www.uufbr.org.)

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i Revolution’s National Event is the biggest Qigong event in the USA and draws thousands of healers and beautiful people into a focused practice. Breathing techniques are the best natural high and creativity activators. Correct food, breath and blood-circulating exercises are shared to maximize your energy and joy of life. Food-Healing’s latest science is fascinating and presented with specific protocols used successfully for reversing Asthma, Cancer, Diabetes etc. In addition to learning wisdom, Author of the book “Conquering Any Disease”, Jeff Primack promises to let attendees eat “Primack Pepper Paste” homemade from sweet red peppers, which Jeff believes are the most powerful food to reverse heart disease.

Reverend Michael Bernard Beckwith and his wife Rickie are joining the event to inspire us with their Qi of Love and passionately talk on “Love’s Role in Creativity”.

Conference is non-denominational and open to public. Massage Therapists earn 16 CE hours. Curriculum includes Foot Reflexology and Tui Na Qigong Massage. Event is Fun, Experiential & Educational!

Seating is limited. Call: (800) 298-8970 or www.QiRevolution.com

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elcome to Gyrotonic SatNam® —Palm Beach County’s premiere Fitness Studio and Wellness Boutique, featuring the Gyrotonic Expansion System®, the world-renowned Mukha Essentials “make-up as skin-care” line, and the area’s most extensive collection of resort-style clothing and active wear.

We are happy that you are here!

Just minutes from downtown Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, our warm, elegant and natural environment is a place where you can come home to yourself and experience your body in a whole new way.

Through Gyrotonic andGyrokinesis exercise, yoga, meditation, soothing teas, and our wellness workshops and other events, we are dedicated to bringing more health and happiness to you and our community.

Whether you just want a break from your busy day, to enjoy more relaxation in life,

or to increase your strength and flexibility and improve how you feel, we are here to serve you. Our certified trainers are knowledgeable, caring people, and they tend to each student's needs and requests in a way that inspires trust and confidence.

At Gyrotonic SatNam, the most important thing to us is your health and well-being.

We know that you want to look and feel your best. So our focus (and passion) is on awakening the strength, beauty and balance already in you that will help you live your best life. Our wellness boutique offers everything from spiritual books and music, to clothing, accessories and jewelry for men and women, and an assortment of natural bath and body products. We now also feature a Hyperbaric Oxygen Tank and the Dr. Fuji Cyber Body Slimmer machine to assist you in your health and fitness goals. Private training sessions, as well as fashion and make-up consultations are also available.

Olbio Wish and her staff invite you to come in for a cup of tea and to breathe in the tranquility of one of Palm Beach County’s most unique and exquisite destinations.

We look forward to seeing you!

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newsbriefs The Archangels & Gemstone Guardians Cards “The cards make a unique divination tool in addition to providing guidance for rebalancing one’s life and facing challenges. A joy to look at and easy to work with on every level this deck is a special spiritual tool which is also very appealing to the inner child.” ~ Anna Jedrziewski, ~ Inannaworks.

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argaret Ann Lembo has produced 44 beautifully illustrated cards with archangel messages providing positive thought affirmations in her brand new deck, The Archangel and Gemstone Guardians Cards (Findhorn Press, March 2016). Designed to be an ideal companion to the existing Angels and Gemstone Guardians Cards this pack includes information on the gemstones.

Margaret Ann, who is a gem expert, believes that, “gemstones are powerful tools, which guide you toward personal understanding. The colors and messages help to motivate and heal you in many ways.”

Margaret Ann has combined the vibrational matrixes of the gemstones with the wisdom of the Archangels. There are 44 different gemstones and 11 archangels each one associated with four different gemstones.

Users will find that the card deck can help to increase awareness. On the front of the card is a gemstone reading related to the aspects of the life that the stone is associated with such as grounding, abundance, health and relationships, and on the other side a positive affirmation to help you transform your reality provided by the archangel. Used regularly the deck brings insights, guidance, inspiration, protection and healing.

About The Cards. Format Cards, 44 pages, 6" x 4" Illustrations 44 Illustrations, Color ISBN 9781844096909. Publication March 2016 RRP US$15.95, CA$19.99

About the Author: For more than twenty years, Margaret Ann Lembo has led workshops and classes around the USA and Canada. She is a spiritual entrepreneur and practitioner, aromatherapist, spoken audio recording artist and the owner of The Crystal Garden, a book store, gift store and spiritual center. www.margaretannlembo.com

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LIVING MIRACULOUSLY - Bunnies and Easter and Matzos.....Oh My! "As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age." Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

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emember the game Telephone? You would whisper a short sentence into someone's ear, and they would then turn and whisper it to the person seated on their other side. By the time the message had passed through a dozen people it was so different from the original sentence it had everyone laughing hysterically.

That game came to mind when I was wondering (and I bet you were too!) how did we go from a pagan holiday, the resurrection of Christ, Pentecost, Passover to The Easter Bunny, a male egg-laying rabbit (remember, the Easter Bunny's name is Peter and he wears a bow tie) who sneaks into homes the night before Easter to deliver baskets full of colored eggs, toys and chocolate?

Let's follow the bouncing matzo ball through the timeline of these seasonal holidays and then we'll tie it all together with how this shared symbolism can apply to your life now.

A SPRING GODDESS - The name "Easter" was likely derived from Eostre (or Oestara) the name of the Anglo-Saxon lunar goddess, as was the name for the female hormone estrogen. Eostre's feast day was held on the first full moon following the vernal equinox (First day of spring). On this date the goddess Eostre is believed by her followers to mate with the solar god, conceiving a child who would be born 9 months later on Yule, the winter solstice which falls on December 21st. (Now, isn't that interesting?)

EASTER - Easter is the sacred celebration of Jesus Christ's resurrection from the dead. Prior to Easter is Lent, which is a period of spiritual renewal. Easter Sunday or Resurrection Day is typically the most well-attended Sunday service of the year for Christian churches.

to lay a nest of colored eggs as gifts for good children even though he is believed to be a male. And those Jelly beans‌

Although they are now a traditional Easter candy it wasn't always so. The Jelly bean did not become associated with the holiday until the 1930s. The association derives from their egg-like shape, which renders it a symbol of fertility and birth.

Amazing, is it not?

The common thread that runs through every religion is the recognition of spring as a time of resurrection and transformation. Take full advantage of the energy of the season and release outworn beliefs and transform outmoded ideas. Plant seeds of forgiveness, love, happiness and those of your passion, desires and dreams!

Live Miraculously! Michele Michele Landers CHt is a Board Certified Life Purpose Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist and Numerologist. Her passion is helping others uncover their own unique talents. She can help, inspire and direct you in discovering your purpose in life. See her ad in the Community section of this magazine. To find out more about her Living Miraculously program, Numerology charts and more contact Michele @ the following sites: michelelanders.com babydestinycharts.com www.facebook. com/livingmiraculously

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PENTECOST - Pentecost is the festival that marks the birth of the Christian church by the power of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost means "fiftieth day" and is celebrated fifty days after Easter SHAVUOT - Originally an agricultural festival celebrating the end of the winter grain harvest (which began at Passover) Shavuot later commemorated the giving of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mt. Sinai. Shavuot occurs... guess when? 50 days after Passover!

PASSOVER - Passover is also directly linked to springtime, with the Torah repeatedly describing Passover as "the holiday of spring."

Spring follows the darkness of winter and Passover celebrates the Jews going from slavery (a metaphorical darkness) to freedom (a new life).

TIE IT ALL TOGETHER... Two of Eostre's most important symbols were the hare (aka Peter Cottontail) both because of its fertility and because ancient people saw a hare in the full moon and the egg, which symbolized the growing possibility of new life.

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healthbriefs Magnolia Bark Knocks Out Head and Neck Cancer Cells

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ead and neck cancers include cancers of the mouth, throat (pharynx and larynx), sinuses and salivary glands. According to the American Academy of Otolaryngology, more than 55,000 Americans are diagnosed with head and neck cancer, and almost 13,000 die from these diseases annually.

A study from the University of Alabama and the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center found that a magnolia herb extract called honokiol may treat these cancers. It tested human cancer cell lines in the laboratory from different parts of the body, including the mouth, larynx, tongue and pharynx. The researchers found that the honokiol extract halted the growth of each of these cancer cells and induced cell death.

Lead researcher Dr. Santosh K. Katiyar and his colleagues wrote, “Conclusively, honokiol appears to be an attractive, bioactive, small-molecule phytochemical for the management of head and neck cancer, which can be used either alone or in combination with other available therapeutic drugs.”

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ecent research from the Netherlands’ Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition has discovered that negative and aggressive thinking can be changed by supplementing with probiotic bacteria. The triple-blind study followed and tested 40 healthy people over a period of four weeks that were split into two groups; one was given a daily probiotic supplement containing seven species of probiotics and the other, a placebo.

The subjects filled out a questionnaire that measured cognitive reactivity and depressed moods using the Leiden Index of Depression Sensitivity, which measures negative and depressed thinking. After four weeks, the probiotic group showed significantly lower scores in aggression, control issues, hopelessness, risk aversion and rumination, compared to the placebo group.

“The study demonstrated for the first time that a four-week, multispecies, probiotic intervention has a positive effect on cognitive reactivity to naturally occurring changes in sad mood in healthy individuals not currently diagnosed with a depressive disorder,” the researchers concluded.

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ating an apple before buying groceries may help consumers make healthier shopping decisions. This was the finding of three studies on healthy food purchasing conducted by Aner Tal, Ph.D., and Brian Wansink, Ph.D. In the research, published in the scientific journal Psychology and Marketing, 120 shoppers were given an apple sample, a cookie sample or nothing before they began shopping. The researchers found those that ate the apple purchased 28 percent more fruits and vegetables than those given the cookie, and 25 percent more fruits and vegetables than those given nothing.

A related study by Tal and Wansink investigated virtual shopping decisions. After being given a cookie or an apple, 56 subjects were asked to imagine they were grocery shopping. They were shown 20 pairs of products—one healthy and the other unhealthy—and asked to select the one they would buy. Consistent with the results of the first study, those that ate the apple most often chose the healthy option.

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Blood tests of both groups found that those with frequent migraines had four times the cadmium, more than twice of both the iron and the lead and nearly three times the levels of manganese in their bloodstreams compared to the healthy subjects. In addition, the migraine group had about a third of the magnesium, about 20 times less zinc and almost half the copper levels compared to the healthy group. “In light of our results, it can be said that trace element level disturbances might predispose people to migraine attacks,” the researchers stated.

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esearchers from the University of California at San Francisco, working with the Veterans Affairs Medical Center and other research agencies, have found that watching television may affect cognition, specifically as it relates to executive function and processing speeds.

The study followed 3,247 people over a 25-year period, beginning in their early adult years. Those that frequently watched television during their early adult years had a 64 percent higher incidence of poor cognitive performance compared to less frequent television watchers. This was after adjusting results for the effects of many other known lifestyle factors that affect cognition such as smoking, alcohol use and body mass index.

The effects of television watching worsened when combined with reduced physical activity during young adult years. Those with low physical activity and a high frequency of watching television were twice as likely to have poor cognition compared to those that had low television viewing combined with high physical activity during that period.

study from Newcastle University, in England, has found that losing fat content in the pancreas can alleviate Type 2 diabetes. The researchers tested 18 obese people between the ages of 25 and 65 that were diagnosed with diabetes alongside a control group that were not. Subjects received gastric band surgery before eating an appropriately healthful diet for eight weeks.

During this time, subjects in both groups lost an average of nearly 13 percent of their body weight and around 1.2 percent of their body fat. More importantly, the diabetes group lost about 6.6 percent of triglyceride pancreatic fat, or about 0.6 grams.

The weight loss and loss of triglyceride fat from the pancreas allowed the patients to produce normal amounts of insulin. Professor Roy Taylor, the head researcher of the study, says, “For people with Type 2 diabetes, losing weight allows them to lose excess triglyceride fat out of the pancreas and allows function to return to normal.”

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The government of Guatemala has repealed legislation dubbed the “Monsanto law”, which was approved last year to grant the biotech giant special expansion rights into ecologically sensitive territory, after widespread public protest. The demonstrations included groups of indigenous Mayan people, joined by social movements, trade unions and farmers’ and women’s organizations.

Following political party battles, the Guatemalan Congress decided not to just review the legislation, but instead cancel it outright.

The Monsanto law would have given exclusivity on patented seeds to a handful of transnational companies. Mayan people and social organizations claim that the new law would have violated their constitution and the Mayan people’s right to traditional cultivation of the land in their ancestral territories.

Lolita Chávez, of the Mayan People’s Council, states, “Corn taught us Mayan people about community life and its diversity, because when one cultivates corn, one realizes that a variety of crops such as herbs and medicinal plants depend on the corn plant, as well.”

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Food Fight

College Cafeterias Lead the Way in Sustainable Eating Colleges and universities are changing how they purchase and prepare food in their dining halls to provide students healthy, sustainable meal options, with many of them working to source food locally.

American University, in Washington, D.C., purchases more than a third of the food served in its cafeterias within 250 miles of its campus. McGill University, in Montreal, spends 47 percent of its food budget on produce from its own campus farm and growers within 300 miles. Middlebury College, in Vermont, partners with seasonal local vendors, including those operating its own organic farm.

Taking it a step further, Boston University cafeterias serve meal options that include organic, fair trade, free-range, vegetarian-fed, hormone- and antibiotic-free, sustainably harvested food items to students. Cornell University composts about 850 tons of food waste from its dining halls each year. At Duke University, surplus food is donated to food banks, and both pre- and post-consumer scraps are composted.

Other steps include the University of California, Berkeley’s new Global Food Initiative to address food security in a way that’s both nutritious and sustainable, and efforts at the University of Illinois to recycle cooking oil for biodiesel production.

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Indoor Gardening is Looking Up The world’s largest indoor farm, in Japan, covers 25,000 square feet, with 15 tiers of stacked growing trays that produce 10,000 heads of lettuce per day, or about 100 times more per square foot than traditional methods. It uses 99 percent less water and 40 percent less power than outdoor fields, while producing 80 percent less food waste.

Customized LED lighting helps plants grow up to two-and-a-half times faster than normal, one of the many innovations co-developed

by Shigeharu Shimamura. He says the overall process is only half automated so far.

“Machines do some work, but the picking is done manually. In the future, though, I expect an emergence of harvesting robots.” These may help transplant seedlings, harvest produce or transport product to packaging areas.

Meanwhile, Singapore’s Sky Farms, the world’s first low-carbon, hydraulically driven, urban vertical farm, runs on a Sky Urban Vertical Farming System, making the most of rainwater and gravity. Using a water pulley system, 38 growing troughs rotate around a 30-foot-tall aluminum tower.

A much bigger project, a 69,000-square-foot vertical indoor garden under construction at AeroFarms headquarters, in Newark, New Jersey, will be capable of producing up to 2 million pounds of vegetables and herbs annually.

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Corporate Conscience

Unilever Reduces its Carbon Footprint Consumer goods giant Unilever has pledged to eliminate coal from its energy usage within five years and derive all of its energy worldwide solely from renewable sources by 2030. The company will become carbon-positive through the use of renewable resources and by investing in generating more renewable energy than it needs, selling the surplus and making it available to local communities in areas where it operates. About 40 percent of the company’s energy use currently comes from green sources.

Paul Polman, company chairman, says the goal is “really doable.” He cites a new factory in China powered by wind and solar energy and a Paris office building that already contributes green electricity to the power grid.

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Critter Cuisine

Edible Insects Can Help Feed the Planet Insect expert and bug farmer Sarah Beynon, Ph.D., a research associate for England’s University of Oxford, reports, “Two billion people eat insects every day, and not just in the West. In fact, insects are extremely good for you and eating them is good for the planet, too.” Western governments are enthusiastic about the potential of entomophagy—the human practice of eating insects—for feeding growing numbers of people sustainably.

By 2050, humans will require 70 percent more food, 120 percent more water and 42 percent more cropland.

Meat production is predicted to double, and conventional production consumes extraordinary volumes of land and water resources. A recent British Food and Agriculture Organisation report suggests that there are more than 1,000 known species of edible insects.

Insects are extremely nutritious, containing lots of calcium, zinc and omega-3 fatty acids, and are low in cholesterol.

They’re also packed with protein; by weight, crickets can contain more protein than beef.

Source: TheConversation.com

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Court Overrules Law Gagging Animal Abuse Probes U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill has written that in a pivotal case of animal cruelty undercover reporting, the Idaho Dairymen’s Association responded to the negative publicity by drafting and sponsoring a bill in a class known as Ag-Gag legislation that criminalizes the types of surreptitious investigations that expose such violent activities. Seven other states currently have similar Ag-Gag laws on the books.

Winmill declared the law unconstitutional in his decision, stating that its only purpose is to “limit and punish those who speak out on topics relating to the agricultural industry, striking at the heart of important First Amendment values.” The law was deemed to violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, “as well as preemption claims under three different federal statutes,” cites Winmill.

“This ruling is so clear, so definitive, so sweeping,” says Leslie Brueckner, senior attorney for Public Justice and co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the case. “We couldn’t ask for a better building block in terms of striking these laws down in other states.”

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Whole Foods Market, founded in 1978, grew to be the number one seller in the nationwide movement toward organic and natural eating, with more than 400 stores. But mainstream grocers such as Wal-Mart and Kroger have since jumped on the bandwagon, and smaller players like Trader Joe’s and The Fresh Market have proliferated. Now Costco has moved into the current number one position, illustrating the market potential of budget-conscious consumers that desire to eat better.

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The food truck industry is good for a quick, cheap meal or even a gourmet meal, but emissions from these portable feasts are a growing concern, given the estimated 3 million trucks that were on the road in 2012. New York state has launched an initiative to put 500 energy-efficient, solar-powered carts on city streets this summer.

A pilot program gives food truck vendors the opportunity to lease the eco-carts for five years at little to no extra cost. They are expected to cut fossil fuel emissions by 60 percent and smog-creating nitrous oxide by 95 percent. If the technology was implemented nationwide, it could spare the atmosphere an enormous carbon footprint.

Conventional mobile vendors may spend more than $500 a month on fossil fuels; in addition to the gasoline consumed in driving, truck lighting and refrigeration systems are powered by diesel generators and propane fuels the grills, sometimes all running up to 10 hours a day. The annual nationwide load can add up to hundreds of billions of pounds of carbon dioxide per year.

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Kitchen Recipes for Daily Energy Savings The kitchen is a hotbed of energy consumption when family meals are being prepared and even when dormant. Appliances make a big difference, and the tools and methods we cook with can reduce utility bills. According to Mother Earth News, cooking in a convection oven is 25 percent more efficient than a conventional oven.

Switching to an Energy Star-approved refrigerator that consumes 40 percent less energy than conventional models can save up to $70 in energy bills annually, according to ChasingGreen. org. They suggest performing defrosts routinely and keeping the door tightly sealed, especially on an older model. Position the fridge so that it isn’t next to heat sources such as sunlight, the oven or dishwasher.

While cooking, refrain from opening and closing a hot oven door too frequently, put lids on pots while heating and select the right size pans. Cooking with a six-inch-diameter pan on an eightinch burner wastes more than 40 percent of the heat produced.

For cleanup, a full load of dishes in a water-efficient dishwasher uses four gallons of water versus 24 gallons for hand washing, according to flow meter manufacturer Seametrics.

A slow cooker uses less energy and needs less water to wash afterward (VitaClayChef.com), plus it doesn’t strain household air conditioning as a stove does. It’s good for cooking hearty stews and soups made from local seasonal vegetables, steaming rice, making yogurt and baking whole-grain breads.

Consider taking a break from the kitchen by ordering a week’s worth of organic, natural meals and ingredients delivered to the door by an eco-friendly meal distribution service, which cuts down on individual trips to the grocery. Search online for local service options.

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Meaty Truths Choosing Meat that’s Sustainable and Safe

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n his essay The Pleasures of Eating, Wendell Berry, a Kentucky farmer and poet, writes: “If I am going to eat meat, I want it to be from an animal that has lived a pleasant, uncrowded life outdoors, on bountiful pasture, with good water nearby and trees for shade.” He, like a growing number of conscious eaters, wants no part of the industrial meat system in which animals are raised in concentrated animal feeding operations.

Media coverage has helped educate consumers previously unaware of how their food is produced and why it matters. The documentary film Food Inc., as well as books like Fast Food Nation,

by Eric Schlosser and The Chain, by Ted Genoways, describe common livestock industry practices that mistreat animals, pollute water and air, endanger workers and threaten public health. With increased understanding of the connections between diet and health, climate, environment and social justice, even many Americans that still like the taste of hamburger and steak have sided with Berry; they want sustainably raised, humane and healthful red meat.

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Every five years, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines are revised to reflect the latest nutritional science. In 2015, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee attempted to include the concept of sustainability. The committee, which included top nutrition scientists, defined sustainable diets as “a pattern of eating that promotes health and well-being and provides food security for the present population while sustaining human and natural resources for future generations.” It made the case that a diet higher in plant-based foods and lower in animal-based foods both promotes health and protects the environment—resulting in lower greenhouse gas emissions, and less energy, land and water use.

But political pressure from the livestock industry prevailed, and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Burwell jointly announced, “We do not believe that the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans are the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability.” Instead, they advised the committee to focus solely on nutritional and dietary information.

In her book Food Politics, nutritionist and author Marion Nestle explains that recommendations to decrease

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consumption have never been popular with the food industry. Nonetheless, Roni Neff, Ph.D., who directs the Center for a Livable Future’s Food System Sustainability and Public Health Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, recommends consuming less red meat in particular, because of its large environmental footprint. Neff points out, “Thirty percent of greenhouse gas emissions are connected to red meat.”

However, not all red meat is created equal. In her book Defending Beef, environmental lawyer and cattle rancher Nicolette Hahn Niman makes a case for sustainable meat production, noting, “Well-managed grazing could be part of an effective strategy to combat climate change.”

In their book The New Livestock Farmer, authors Rebecca Thistlethwaite and Jim Dunlop praise the increase in farmers producing pasture-raised, ethical meats and the growing number of farmers selling directly to people that reject the industrial system. Neff likewise supports such sustainable livestock agriculture, which integrates pastureraised animals on farms, rather than isolating them on feedlots, where they typically eat a grain-based diet (such as genetically engineered corn) and receive growth stimulants, including hormones and antibiotics.

Risky Hormones and Antibiotics Mike Callicrate, a St. Francis, Kansas, rancher educated in the industrial model of meat production, is considered an expert on its negative consequences.

He served as an advisor for Food Inc., and Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. Callicrate observes, “The same chemical compounds that athletes are banned from using in baseball are used to produce our food animals, which our children eat in the hot dogs at the ballgame.”

According to the USDA, about 90 percent of feedlot cattle receive hormone implants to promote growth. Yet the European Union Scientific Committee on Veterinary Measures Relating to Public Health reports that the use of

Because climate change is accelerating and is already causing a multitude of adverse effects, and the footprint of our current food system is massive, we urgently need to create a national food supply that is both healthy and sustainable. ~Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard School of Public Health natural and artificial growth hormones in beef production poses a potential risk to human health, especially among children.

Concerns about growth-promoting drugs led the American Academy of Pediatrics to call for studies that directly measure their impact on children through milk and meat. The President’s Cancer Panel Report on Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk also states, “Growth hormones may contribute to endocrine disruption in humans.” Their dietary recommendations include choosing meat raised without hormones and antibiotics.

Rising Resistance Antibiotic resistance is now one of the world’s most critical public health problems, and it’s related to misuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Antibiotic resistance—when bacteria don’t respond to the drugs designed to kill them—threatens to return us to the time when simple infections were often fatal.”

Veterinarian and food safety consultant Gail Hansen, of Washington, D.C., explains that bacteria naturally develop resistance anytime we use antibiotics.

“The problem is overuse and misuse; that’s the recipe for disaster.” She explains that more than 70 percent of the antibiotics sold in the U.S. are not used to treat sick animals, but to promote growth and reduce the risk of infection related to raising animals in unsanitary, overcrowded spaces.

A recent report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states: Add-

ing antibiotics to the feed of healthy livestock “often leave the drugs ineffective when they are needed to treat infections in people.”

The AAP supports buying meat from organic farms, because organic farming rules prohibit the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics. Stacia Clinton, a registered dietitian in Boston who works with the international nonprofit Health Care Without Harm, assists hospitals in both reducing meat on their menus and increasing purchases of meat from animals raised without antibiotics. The goal is to reduce the growing number of antibiotic-resistant infections that cost hospitals and patients billions of dollars each year.

A Friends of the Earth report, Chain Reaction: How Top Restaurants Rate on Reducing Use of Antibiotics in Their Meat Supply, revealed that most meat served

by American’s top chain restaurants come from animals raised in industrial facilities where they are fed antibiotics. Only two out of 25 chains, Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread, report that the majority of their meat is raised without routine antibiotics. A recent study by Consumers Union also found antibiotic-resistant bacteria on retail meat samples nationwide.

In California, Governor Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 27, making his the first state to ban the use of routine low doses of antimicrobial drugs that are medically important to humans to promote livestock weight gain or feed efficiency. The bill doesn’t go into effect until January 2018, but will contribute to making meat safer and antibiotic drugs more effective.

Red and Processed Meats Targeted Dietary advice to reduce the consumption of red and processed meats, regardless of how the animals are raised, is not new.

Kelay Trentham, a registered dietitian in Tacoma, Washington, who specializes in cancer prevention and treatment, points out that joint reports from the World Cancer Research Fund International and American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) since 2007 have recommended restricting consumption of red meat to less than 18 ounces a week and avoiding processed meats.

Smarter Meat Choices

by Melinda Hemmelgarn Choose certified organic meat.

Organic certification prohibits antibiotics, added hormones and genetically modified (GMO) feed.

Select grass-fed and grass-finished meats.

Look for the nonprofit American Grassfed Association (AGA) certification, which ensures animals eat only grass and forage from the time of their weaning until harvest, and are raised without antibiotics or hormones (AmericanGrassfed.org). AGA standards apply to ruminant animals only: beef, bison, goat, lamb and sheep.

Support Country of Origin Labeling.

This mandates that retail cuts of meat must contain a label informing consumers of its source. The U.S. meat industry has worked to stop such labeling.

Beware of misleading labels.

“Natural” provides no legal assurance about how an animal was raised. “Vegetarian feed” may mean GMO corn and/or soy.

(See GreenerChoices.org.)

Buy directly from family livestock farmers. Check out sites like Local Harvest.org and Tinyurl.com/Farmers MarketsDirectory.

Pay attention to portions.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture serving size weighs three ounces, about the same size as a deck of cards. Think of meat as a side dish and balance the rest of the plate with vegetables, leafy greens, beans and other legumes.

Once a week, cut out meat.

Participate in Meatless Mondays (MeatlessMonday.org).

Assume all retail meat carries bacteria that can cause food-borne illness.

Practice safe food handling as directed on package labels.

(Also see FoodSafety.gov and KeepAntibioticsWorking.com.)

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In 2015, the World from cattle raised on To be interested Health Organization Internapasture (grass) containing in food, but not in higher levels of beneficial tional Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified food production, omega-3 fatty acids comprocessed meat (like hot pared to meat from animals dogs, ham, sausages, corned is clearly absurd. fed grain. beef and beef jerky) as “carAccording to medical ~Wendell Berry cinogenic to humans” and doctor and National Instired meat (beef, veal, pork, tutes of Health researcher lamb, mutton, horse and goat) as “probably Captain Joseph Hibbeln, consuming fewer carcinogenic to humans.” Risk increases omega-6 fatty acids and more omega-3s with amount consumed, and the evidence is may be one of the most important dietary strongest for the relation of processed meats changes for cutting the risk of chronic to colorectal cancer. diseases, reducing inflammation, improv Trentham explains some factors that ing mental health, enhancing children’s make red and processed meats risky. “Heatbrain and eye development and reducing ing or smoking meat creates cancer-causing worldwide incidence of cardiovascular compounds. Processed meats contain salts, disease by 40 percent. nitrates and nitrites; a chemical mélange

When it comes to eating meat, the of preservatives that can increase risk,” she agricultural practices, quantity consays. Trentham and Karen Collins, a regsumed, and methods of processing and istered dietitian and advisor to the AICR, cooking make a difference. It turns out concur that the form of iron found in meat that what’s good for the environment is also contributes to cancer risk. good for animals and people, too.

Still, the IARC report recognizes, “Eating meat has known health benefits.” Meat Melinda Hemmelgarn is an awardis a rich source of protein and B vitamins, winning registered dietitian, writer iron and zinc. Livestock feed further influand Food Sleuth Radio host with ences nutritional composition, with meat KOPN.org, in Columbia, MO. Connect at FoodSleuth@gmail.com.

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hannon Hayes, farmer, nutritionist and author of The Farmer and the Grill: A Guide to Grilling, Barbecuing and Spit-Roasting Grassfed Meat… and for Saving the Planet, One Bite at a Time, says cooking grass-fed steaks at too-high temperatures, especially when grilling, is a common mistake. The West Fulton, New York, food expert describes how to achieve “a gorgeous sear on the outside, and a pink and juicy inside.”

When working on a grill, light only one side. When hot, sear an inch-anda-quarter-thick steak for no more than two minutes per side, with the grill lid off. Make sure fat drippings don’t flare up flames, which will blacken and toughen the meat.

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After the sear, move the steaks to the unlit side of the grill and put the grill lid on. Let them finish cooking indirectly for five to seven minutes per pound. The lower temperature cooks the internal muscle fibers, but prevents them from contracting too rapidly and becoming chewy.

As an alternative to grilling, use an oven and cast-iron skillet. Preheat the oven to 300° F. Next, heat the skillet over a high flame until smoke begins to rise off its surface. Coat the skillet with butter or tallow, then sear the meat for two minutes per side. Turn off the stove; leave steaks in the pan and move them to the oven, where they can finish cooking for five to seven minutes per pound.

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hen concurrent dangers arising from overpopulation, desertification (fertile land turning to desert) and climate change were just beginning to attract technological solutions, pioneers like Allan Savory, a young wildlife biologist in Zimbabwe, Africa, were researching how healthy soil captures carbon dioxide and stores it as carbon. It’s the way nature renders the most pervasive greenhouse gas more helpful than harmful and a major reason why this is not happening globally is because of desertification.

This innovative game-changer has since received Australia’s 2003 Banksia International Award for “doing the most for the environment on a global scale” and the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, recognizing solutions that address humanity’s most pressing problems. The Savory Institute, founded in 2009, and its Africa Center for Holistic Management, demonstrate how using livestock to improve soil and decrease dependence on water— plus increase its ability to hold moisture and carbon— grows more grass and improves profits for ranchers, landowners and investors.

What prompted your examination of soil biology?

In the 1960s, I first became alarmed at the rate of land degradation in Africa’s vast grasslands, which were turning to desert. Looking for a solution, I hit upon a profound relationship—that the grasslands, their soils, soil life, plants and animals had evolved symbiotically with large, grazing herbivores of many species and pack-hunting predators. As my inquiry led beyond Africa, I noticed that the same was true of similar ecosystems worldwide, including those of the U.S. Great Plains.

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Long ago, the Great Plains supported herbivores that traveled in immense herds for safety from predators.

Where there are now approximately 11 large mammal species, there were once more than 50. The trampling of dung and urine, as well as grazing of such vast numbers constantly on the move, developed deep carbon-storing and rain-holding soils that also break down methane. Only in the presence of large roaming herds of herbivores periodically working the surface soil does this happen; it works much like a gardener does, breaking bare surfaces and covering them with litter and dung. Only in this way do grasslands thrive.

put it back into the ground where it belongs and keep it there for thousands of years. Livestock aided by holistic, planned grazing that mimics nature can return Earth’s atmosphere to preindustrial carbon levels while feeding people with cleaner meat.

I can think of almost nothing that offers more hope for our planet for generations to come. In fact, it has so many benefits—including an eventual net cost of zero or less—that even if climate change wasn’t an issue, we should be doing it anyway.

How did this revolutionize your thinking about land and livestock management?

Ultimately, the only sustainable economy for any nation is derived from growing plants on regenerating soil. Today’s conventional agriculture is producing more than 75 billion tons of dead, eroding soil every year—more than 10 tons for every human alive. The largest areas of the world’s land are either grasslands or former grasslands.

Holistic, planned grazing to reverse desertification has gained support from thousands of individual ranchers, scientists, researchers, pastoralists and farmers. Currently, it is practiced on more than 30 million acres over six continents with encouraging success. The Savory Institute encourages and links locally led and managed holistic management hubs around the world, now numbering 30 in Africa, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, Sweden, Turkey, the UK and U.S., with more forming every year.

Being trained at a university to believe that grazing livestock causes land degradation blinded me to the deeper understanding that humans’ management of the animals, not the animals themselves, has been the problem. Historically, the healthiest soils in the world’s vast grain-growing regions were those that had supported the largest populations of natural wildlife and intact pack-hunting predators.

We now have in hand a natural solution able to reverse U.S. and global desertification, which is contributing to increasing severity and frequency of floods and droughts, poverty, social breakdown, violence, pastoral genocide and mass movement into cities and across national borders. Restoring brilliant natural functions through holistic management of even half of the world’s grasslands has the potential to pull all of the legacy carbon out of the atmosphere,

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cise. Key complementary treatments can be effective in improving sight and reversing some conditions.

Grossman, also a licensed acupuncturist, explains in his book Greater Vision: A Comprehensive Program for Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Clarity how he incorporates the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of vision into his philosophy of eye care. At Somers Eye Center, in Somers, New York, he uses a full range of mind-body therapies, combined with conventional methods to address dry eye syndrome, nearsightedness, farsightedness, macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma.

Kondrot, a leading board-certified homeopathic ophthalmologist, uses a slitlamp binocular microscope to examine the complex living tissue of the eyes. The author of 10 Essentials to Save Your Sight, he’s experienced in regeneration nutrition and maintains that our overall health impacts our vision. His toolbox includes multimodal protocols like homeopathy, detoxification, oxygen therapy, low-level microcurrent to stimulate cellular activity, palming (using the hands over closed eyes) and other alternative methods to reverse visual loss.

He regularly uses the Myers’ cocktail, an intravenous therapy with a high concentration of B-complex and C vitamins, taurine (an amino

sulfonic acid), trace minerals and zinc.

“Regardless of your eye condition, regular eye exercises can increase eye muscle flexibility and support circulation for better delivery of oxygen, essential nutrients and the flow of energy to the eyes,” says Grossman. He notes that “Aerobic Exercise Protects Retinal Function and Structure from Light-Induced Retinal Degeneration,” a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience in 2014, was the first of its kind to link physical exercise with improved retinal health and prevention of common eye diseases.

While Kondrot emphasizes that vitamins A, C, D and E are essential to eye health, particularly in preventing macular degeneration, he cautions that taking a supplement is no substitute for expanding the diet to include foods such as kale, spinach, parsley, collard greens, cooked broccoli, green peas, pumpkin and Brussels sprouts. All include lutein and zeaxanthin, two types of important carotenoids contained within the retina and found in the leaves of most green plants. Digestive enzymes, probiotics and the amino acid betaine are also necessary to facilitate better absorption of nutrients.

Dr. Connie Casebolt, board certified in family medicine and founder of GFM Wellness, in Greenville, South Carolina, practices with a whole body-mind perspective and incorporates supplements in patient disease prevention and wellness plans. “As the eye is bathed in the same chemicals and nutrients as the rest of the body, eye conditions can be affected by problems affecting the rest of the body,” she says. “Low adrenals can contribute to macular degeneration.

Additionally, disruption of the energy flowing through acupuncture meridians related to teeth affected by root canals can also affect the eyes. “

She likes the book Whole Body Dentistry,

by Mark Breiner, a doctor of dental surgery, because it includes numerous case histories of systemic illnesses, including eye disorders, that improve with better oral health. “Trying to sustain good health and avoiding toxins such as tobacco and excess sugar can definitely help in maintaining good vision,” explains Casebolt.

Sensitive, complex and composed of more than 2 million working parts, the eyes are their own phenomenon. Annual eye exams are important at every age to help us do what’s needed to maintain our precious gift of sight.

Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Connect at ItsAllAboutWe.com.

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mericans’ vegetable habits are in a rut. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, nearly 50 percent of the vegetables and legumes available in this country in 2013 were either tomatoes or potatoes.

Lettuce came in third, according to new data released in 2015, advises Tracie McMillan, author of The American Way of Eating.

Further, 87 percent of U.S. adults did not meet basic vegetable serving recommendations from 2007 through 2010, a fact cited in the most recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey.

Yet, urban supermarkets overflow with a wealth of common and exotic vegetables, often displayed side-by-side: broccoli and broccolini, green bell and Japanese shishito peppers, and iceberg lettuce and leafy mâche, or lamb’s lettuce.

Trying one new vegetable dish a week is a great way to increase our vegetable literacy, says functional medicine expert Terri Evans, a doctor of Oriental medicine in Naples, Florida. “Our diet should be 60 percent produce—40 percent

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vegetables and 20 percent fruit,” she says. “To keep this sustainable for the long term, we should eat what tastes good, not what we think is good for us.

Some days, we crave the sweetness of carrots; other days, the bitterness of artichokes or the heat of hot peppers. Our bodies can tell us what we need.”

Keep Expanding Choices

Going Green. Dark green and slightly peppery arugula is good with a little olive oil and lemon juice. Finely shredded Brussels sprouts bulk up a mixed salad, while adding the benefits of a cancerfighting cruciferous vegetable. Instead of mineral-rich baby spinach, try baby Swiss chard, suggests Matthew Kadey, a registered dietician in Waterloo, Ontario.

He also suggests microgreens, the tiny shoots of radishes, cabbage, broccoli and kale, all rich in vitamins C and E. Squash It. Varieties of summer and winter squash add color, body and flavor to one-dish meals, with the added benefits of B vitamins, magnesium and fiber.

LeAnne Campbell, Ph.D., author of The China Study Cookbook, simmers a mix of fresh chopped vegetables including yellow summer squash or zucchini, and flavors with coconut and

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curry powder. Vegan Chef Douglas McNish, of Toronto, makes an okra and squash gumbo in the slow cooker.

Sneak in a Smoothie. Change up a smoothie routine by swapping out the usual baby spinach for a blend of cucumber, apple and fresh mint, or else sweet potato and carrot, suggests Sidney Fry, a registered dietitian and Cooking Light editor, in Birmingham, Alabama.

Snack Attack. An array of colorful vegetables served with dips and spreads can be an easy way to experiment with veggies. Carrots in deep red, vibrant yellow, purple and orange are delicious raw and supply beta-carotene, promoting eye health. Leaves from pale green Belgian endive spears are tender and crunchy.

Orange or “cheddar” cauliflower has a more creamy and sweet flavor than its pale cousin.

“Colors equal health, and the more colors we eat, the better our overall health,” says Susan Bowerman, a registered dietitian, lecturer in food science and nutrition at California State Polytechnic Institute, San Luis Obispo, and co-author of What Color Is Your Diet?

“We also have to be willing to try new foods or new varieties of foods, or maybe to prepare unfamiliar foods in a way that will make them taste good, so that we will be willing to add more plant foods to our diet.”

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by Judith Fertig he colors found in fresh vegetables can indicate an abundance of necessary phytochemicals and nutrients. “Many people I see in my practice consume excess food, but have nutrient deficiency,” says Terri Evans, a functional medicine expert and doctor of Oriental medicine.

Eating a variety of colorful vegetables can be part of the remedy.

“Each color in a vegetable represents 10,000 micronutrients,” explains Evans.

“The more colorful you make your diet, the happier your body will be.” She notes that supplements supply a lot of one nutrient, while vegetables gift us with tiny amounts of many requisite nutrients.

According to the nonprofit Produce for Better Health Foundation, plant phytochemicals may act as antioxidants, protect and regenerate essential nutrients and work to deactivate cancer-causing substances. So, the more color on our plates, the better.

Yellow and orange—in squash and some tomatoes—point to higher levels of vitamins C and A. The beta-carotene behind these colors is renowned for supporting healthy eyesight.

Dark green—in leafy greens and cabbages—evidences higher levels of vitamins K, B and E. Chlorophyll creates the color and indicates its well-documented detoxifying properties.

Red—in red bell peppers and tomatoes—indicates vitamin C. Lycopene, which provides the color, is widely associated with lowering the risk of prostate and breast cancers.

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According to the American Psychological Association, up to 70 percent of children experience sleep disturbances that affect their emotional and physical well-being.

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arents frequently awakened by a child’s interrupted slumber typically are torn between the need to care for their own health and that of their child. The goal is to meet everyone’s needs, so that adequate adult sleep doesn’t feel like child neglect. Solutions are feasible if the parent is emotionally equipped to feel continuing empathy for their little one and secure in their choices for resolution, regardless of setbacks or delays.

Uncovering the real reasons that a child stays alert at bedtime or wakes during the night—such as inconsistent timing of sleep cycles, excessive fatigue, insufficient physical activity, hunger, pain, anxieties, inadequate downtime or a desire for continued interaction with a parent—is the first step. With so many variables, frustration can impede the workings of parental intuition, which is key to the process, as is testing individual possible solutions long enough to assess the result and then confidently move forward.

Internal Calm Expecting a child to feel so empowered that they can fall asleep on their own is a good beginning. Lindsay Melda, of Atlanta, relates, “Our daughter used to wake us up by coming into our bed each night. Once I realized I was anxious about her sleeping alone in her room and was able to instead trust she was okay, she easily slept through the night, waking more rested. My own anxiety was causing her sleep disturbances.”

Christine Gipple, of Oaklyn, New Jersey, a practitioner of nonviolent communication, shares, “When my daughter is chatty at

bedtime and I’m past ready for her to be in bed, I have to consciously pause, or I can snap at her, thus delaying bedtime.

Granting myself just five minutes to reset myself and be present in the moment before I gently re-engage is critical to the outcome.”

Such checking in with ourselves helps keep a parent thinking positively.

Law of Attraction specialist Cassie Parks, of Denver, Colorado, advises, “When you focus on the feeling you desire once a child is peacefully asleep, rather than the feeling you want to move away from, your chances for success greatly increase.” Noting how we envision nighttime unfolding or creating a nighttime vision board can help focus and maintain these feelings.

Releasing Stress One method parents have successfully used is the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). It involves light tapping on specific points along the body’s energy meridians, like the collarbone or between the eyebrows, often accompanied by attention to current thoughts and feelings, in order to restore a balanced feeling.

Karin Davidson, of Media, Pennsyl vania, co-founder of the Meridian Tapping

Techniques Association, says, “Including tapping with a supportive nighttime routine can be a godsend. It can relieve distress, whatever its source, increase feelings of security and promote a peaceful transition to sleep.” In clinical studies from the National Institute for Integrative Healthcare, EFT has been shown to counter the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, contributing to decreased sleep disturbances.

Marissa Wolf, of The Woodlands, Texas, relates, “We moved here from San Diego when my son was 34 months old.

He was acting out in ways I’d never seen before, mourning the loss of his routine.

Within weeks after we started tapping before school and at night, he was back to his happy self. Last night, he simply went to bed and fell asleep. Now when I see his built-up emotions, I know we need to tap.” (To learn more about EFT methods, visit emofree.com.)

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practitioner, “Children may be devoid of minerals because of the filtered water we drink. Supplementing with minerals like magnesium or enriching the diet with trace minerals, sea salt and mineralrich bone broth will promote a healthy immune system, along with a nervous system programmed for sleep.”

Outlaw also advises, “A whole foods diet is paramount to children’s health and sleep ability. Parents should limit or eliminate artificial flavors, sweeteners and sugar; preferably at all times, but at least an hour before bedtime.”

When a parent takes the time to plan each step toward their goal of optimum sleep and feels secure in following through, they can create a personalized and consistent bedtime routine that fosters a sense of safety for children that feel heard and tended to and know what to expect. Children that gain the ability to naturally develop sleep skills reap lifelong health benefits.

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For the first time, flexibility and mobility rolling ranks in the top 20 of the American College of Sports Medicine’s annual Worldwide Survey of Fitness Trends. Made predominantly of foam and hard rubber, the rollers can “massage, relieve muscle tightness and muscle spasms, increase circulation, ease muscular discomfort and assist in the return to normal activity,” according to the organization’s Health & Fitness Journal, which notes a growing market for the devices.

Dr. Walter Thompson, professor of kinesiology and health with Georgia State University, in Atlanta, was the lead author of the survey. He says, “Personal trainers have found that it works for their clients. We’ve also seen an increase in popularity in gyms and fitness clubs.” The

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trend is partly spawned by their use in Pilates. Thompson adds, “Tech devices, now central to our daily lives, have changed the way we plan and manage our workouts.” Yet, as with other such equipment, users must be educated on how to employ the rollers on their own.

Most rollers are available in smooth or ribbed textures in different sizes and densities. Sets include one for deep tissue rolling, self-myofascial release and trigger point relief, designed to aid muscles related to the back, hips, arms, glutes and hamstrings.

Dr. Spencer H. Baron, president of NeuroSport Elite, in Davie, Florida, was the 2010 National Sports Chiropractor of the Year and served as a chiropractic physician for the Miami Dolphins football team for 19 years. He starts patients out with rollers during office appointments, especially those with sports injuries.

“It empowers them to take charge of their fitness,” he says. “Those standing or sitting all day at work may need it even

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While rollers can be administered to hamstrings and quadriceps by hand, he attests that the back is the most commonly targeted region, and suggests two corresponding maneuvers: Lie down with a foam roller under the neck at home. Gently roll it across to each shoulder blade, and then center it and roll it down to the buttocks; even to the hamstrings. Next, assume a squatting position against a wall and place a roller between the center of the back and the wall, gently rise up, and then sink down. It’s also possible do this at work in private.

Baron and his colleagues believe that rollers are beneficial to use on the shoulders and arms of tennis players and baseball pitchers. “I like the metaphor of a chef rolling dough in the kitchen. With a similar motion, you’re kneading muscles and tendons, improving blood flow and circulation to sore areas,” he says.

Jason Karp, Ph.D., the 2011 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Personal Trainer of the Year and creator of his company’s Run-Fit certification program, has seen the popularity of the devices on the rise with runners. “People like gadgets” that can help them, he notes. “Runners get tight from running, and rollers can help alleviate that tightness. I know a lot of runners that swear by them.”

Karp, a California author of six books, including Running for Women and his upcoming The Inner Runner, feels that rollers are especially well-suited for post-workout use. “The rollers are basically a form of selfmyofascial release, which helps relax muscles by putting pressure on tight areas to cause the muscle to relax via its reflex to tension,” he explains.

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“The trend is the convergence of several things, including a growing interest in local business, local food, healthy lifestyles and the foodie culture,” says McMahon.

He adds, “Today’s developers have to differentiate their properties to survive, and farms have become the new golf course of real estate development.” Agriculture is a far lower-cost amenity that can even return a modest profit by selling its harvest to the community.

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Farm, family and community life are interwoven. The Wheatfills lease a plot in an on-site community garden. Other residents buy shares in the community supported agriculture project or purchase produce or eggs from the community farm on the honor system.

“We especially love the narrow, tree-lined streets and wide porches, and that we can walk or bike to fun, locally sourced restaurants,” says Michael, a

technology consultant. Private backyards are small in favor of community space, nudging residents to meet each other, Abby says.

The Cannery, in Davis, California, is one of the newest agrihoods and also one of the few that redeveloped an industrial tract. This 100-acre development, still under construction, will feature 547 new homes on the former site of a tomato processing facility, in addition to affordable rentals for low-income families.

Its heart and soul is a working farm that will feed the community’s households and supply its restaurants. The Cannery is a pioneer in clean green energy, with solar-powered homes, connections for electric cars, and many other energyconserving features. Thirsty homeowner lawns are prohibited in most of The Cannery’s mini-neighborhoods, but no home is more than 300 feet from public green space.

Samrina and Mylon Marshall, both physicians in their mid-50s, will be among the first residents to move in this spring. “We like that it’s a green energy community featuring multigenerational living. We’re also big on eating locally and seasonally, so the urban farm was a key draw,” says Mylon.

North Atlanta family Gil and Jeny Mathis and their two daughters, 12 and 14 years old, discovered Serenbe, a planned community in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, two years ago. Now it’s

literally their second home. “It provides a different life for our children on weekends they couldn’t otherwise have.

The community aspect has penetrated our lives in a way that we couldn’t have predicted,” says Gil.

Both girls love it, and the younger sibling is lobbying to relocate there full time. The family likes the people Serenbe draws and the opportunities to engage with them, the consistent access to natural and organic food and its artist-inresidence program.

Serenbe was the inspiration for the Olivette Riverside Community and Farm, a 346-acre, back-to-the-land project near Asheville, North Carolina. Its owners are transforming a failed high-end gated community and adjacent historic farm along the French Broad River into an agri-centered development featuring a blueberry orchard, community gardens, vegetable farm and greenhouse.

“It’s vital that we re-localize our food supply,” says Olivette co-owner Tama Dickerson. “One of the first things we did was to incorporate this farm and see what areas we could preserve, because what you keep is just as important as what you develop.” Future plans include hiking trails, artist live-work spaces, tiny houses, little free libraries and a K-8 school.

Agrihoods aren’t solely for agriburbs. Creative public housing developers are bringing agriculture to high-

density neighborhoods. The smoke-free Healthy High-Rise Arbor House, a 124-unit, low-income apartment in the Bronx, in New York City, features a 10,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse and a living lobby wall that grows organic vegetables for the community year-round. Residents can obtain a discounted share from the farm using SNAP benefits (food stamps) and take free classes in cooking fresh. Arbor House also allocates 40 percent of its rooftop crop harvests for the larger community.

Agrihoods can take many forms, including those involving gardens cropping up in schools, parks and hospitals nationwide, as well as informal, guerilla gardens in vacant lots. Many cities, including Falls Church, Virginia, and Takoma Park, Maryland, have even changed local zoning laws so residents can keep chickens and bees in their backyards for eggs and honey, according to McMahon.

“The era of the 2,000-mile Caesar salad has come to an end,” says McMahon, citing high transportation costs that make locally sourced food good for businesses and consumers alike. “The trend of growing food closer to home— in some cases at home—is here to stay.”

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COLOR ME CALM Grownups De-Stress with Adult Coloring Books

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by Gail Zavala In grade school, Gail Zavala entered every art contest she could find; by the time she started high school, she knew that her dream was to become an artist. Scholarships to the California College of Arts and Crafts, in Oakland, and The Academy of Art University, in San Francisco, affirmed her choice and her talent.

Zavala put her art on hold for many years after marrying and having children, but eventually returned to painting and exhibiting in California.

She joined the California Watercolor Association so that she could meet and network with other artists and also taught watercolor techniques to children through its outreach program.

Zavala currently works in oils, acrylics and watercolors. Although she thinks of herself mainly as a portrait artist… “endlessly fascinated by the face and figure,” she paints a variety of subjects, from people and animals to still lifes.

Veggies speaks to Zavala’s deft eye for detail, composition and mouthwatering hues. “I love to use vibrant color in all my work.”

oloring books are no longer solely the domain of children. Immersion in this fun, creative pastime by adults even for just 30 minutes can constitute a focused meditation that relieves stress. Doctor of Psychology Nikki Martinez, in Chicago, says that famed psychotherapist Carl Jung believed coloring helps patients release anxiety.

“It uses both sides of the brain and improves organizational and fine motor skills,” says Martinez. “After I underwent a major surgery, I was on bed rest for eight weeks, and adult coloring books were a lifesaver. They passed the time, were pretty and kept me in a constant state of calm. I devoured them.”

Publishers Weekly reported combined 2015 sales of 1.75 million copies for the 10 bestselling adult coloring books through November. This trend was years in the making, originating when parents colored with their kids and sometimes on their own. Adults around the world now join coloring book clubs, hold related parties and take coloring breaks at work.

Last fall, Barnes & Noble hosted the one-day All-American Art Unwind, where customers colored and uploaded their results to Instagram and Twitter. Hallmark sent a crew of artists and calligraphers to select locations to help customers color their greeting cards.

“We scheduled a coloring session for a 55-plus community workshop,” relates Ninah Kessler, a licensed clinical social worker with the Sparks of Genius Brain

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“Animals, jungle or floral themes, and Zen-inspired mandalas are popular.

Customers like realistic, intricate drawings,” explains Idalia Farrajota, a Dallas executive with Michaels craft stores, which offers free, in-store coloring sessions and provides supplies. (Download a free sample book at Tinyurl.com/ BotanicalColoringPages.) Johanna Basford, a renowned illustrator from Aberdeenshire, Scotland, is a hit with colorists, catering to their penchant for nature with Secret Garden, Enchanted Forest and her latest, Lost Ocean.

“My daughter wanted to color her life, not do generic drawings,” says Dieter Marlovics, prompting him to establish ReallyColor.com, in Chicago. “Really-Color converts photos into coloring book pages to make individually tailored pages.”

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Simple Ways to Get Kitty to Behave

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hree million cats end up in shelters every year, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Owners cite landlord restrictions or allergies in the family as leading reasons. Often, the animal is blamed for an easily fixed behavior problem; the Wake County Animal Center, in Raleigh, North Carolina, interprets rationales such as, “Kitty has a sensitive stomach [throws up] or pees under the bed [likely a urinary tract infection].”

“I prefer to call such things issues, not problems. They’re often evidence of natural instincts that need to be redirected,” says Anne Moss, owner of TheCatSite.com, from Tel Aviv, Israel.

“A vet visit will rule out physical concerns so you can move on to behavioral issues.” Once a cat’s adapted to living with humans, life becomes more pleasant for everyone.

Cats can be trained. Dallas cat owner Bettina Bennett of WhichBoxMedia.com advises, “Start early, attach rewards and be consistent. Our four cats don’t scratch the furniture, come when called and know when it’s bedtime.”

Clicker training works well, adds Becky Morrow, a doctor of veterinarian medicine who teaches at Duquesne University, in Pittsburgh. “I have 13 cats living in my home and a sanctuary housing 65 more. They’ve learned to walk on a leash and obey commands.”

Dr. Jeff Werber, a Los Angeles veterinarian, has found that scratching furniture, biting people, nocturnal activity, throwing up and ignoring the litter box are the five most common complaints.

Scratching lets Kitty leave her scent, stretch and shed old claws.

He suggests, “Get a scratching post, but don’t put it in an-out-ofthe-way location. Cats like to be where we are. Start with it in the center of the room and gradually move it to the corner.”

Measure how tall a cat is when standing on her hind legs with front legs fully extended. Get a post that is half again as tall so she can really stretch. Gently rub her paws on the post first,

and then dab on a bit of catnip as added enticement. Cats don’t like unfamiliar textures, so avoidance training tools can include laying aluminum foil or backingside-up carpet runners over furniture arms and cushions plus double-sided sticky tape at the corners to preserve upholstery.

When humans become a target for a cat’s pounces, use toys as decoys. A short play session will satisfy their desire to hunt.

Leave curtains open so she can see outside, clear shelves for climbing and have a cat tree or window shelf for optimum viewing.

A nearby bird feeder will hold a feline’s attention for hours.

Werber advises, “For undisturbed household sleep, get the cat toys out about an hour before your bedtime. Fifteen minutes of play will tire a pet. Let him calm down and then feed him. A full cat is a sleepy cat.”

Some cats nibble, while others gulp food and then throw up. The recommended antidote is to feed smaller amounts several times a day. Cats should eat both dry and wet food to get carbohydrates and meat, Werber advises. Throwing up can be a sign of hairballs, even if unseen. Put the

cat on a natural hairball remedy once a day for four days, then two times a week, until the vomiting stops. A touch of nonpetroleum jelly on the cat’s nose or a bit of fish oil or pumpkin in her food will work.

When cats ignore the litter box, note what’s changed—the type of litter, location of the box, a lurking stray cat or the pet’s health. Arthritic cats find it hard to climb into a tall-sided box. Felines feel vulnerable when using the box, and like to know what’s around them—a lidless box makes them feel safer says Werber.

The rule is to have one more litter box than there are cats. If the house is more than one story tall, food, water, beds and litter should be available on every level.

“All cats should be kept indoors, microchipped and wearing a colorful collar and tags,” says Werber. Colors give birds fair warning if a cat ever goes outside.

With time and attention, any cat can become an active, well-behaved family member.

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THE TEENAGE BRAIN Maturation Mismatch Presents Prime Time for Learning Lifelong Skills

By John Burke

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eenagers. They can be moody, impulsive, rebellious risk-taking eye rollers that make us wonder why they do what they do. But behind these sometimes exasperating traits, there’s a wealth of scientific information about the way the teen brain matures and its amazing ability to change in response to its environment.

These insights can help parents, teachers, counselors and even teens themselves understand behaviors and better manage risks and opportunities presented during adolescence and set the stage for a healthy, productive and well-adjusted life.

Prior to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), it was difficult and dangerous to study the anatomy and physiology of the brain because technologies such as computerized tomography and positron tomography emit harmful ionizing radiation.

MRIs, however, presented a safe and accurate way to study the brain. A consistent theme of these ongoing studies is that the adolescent brain does not mature by getting larger; it matures by having its different components become more interconnected and more specialized.

CONNECTIONS AT THE SPEED OF MIND

Using MRI scans, scientists saw increased interconnectivity between brain regions that were indicated by greater volumes of white matter, which come from a fatty substance called myelin. During the myelination process, which takes place from childhood through adulthood, myelin wraps and insulates the axon, a projection of the neuron’s body. This significantly speeds up the conduction of nerve impulses among neurons. In fact, studies show that myelinated axons transmit signals up to 100 times faster than unmyelinated axons, according to research presented in the June 2015 issue of Scientific American.

Myelination also accelerates the brains information processing by helping axons recover more quickly after the fire so they are ready to send another message. This quicker recovery time allows up to a 30-fold increase in the frequency with which a given neu52

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ron can transmit information. The combination of faster transmission and shorter recovery time boosts the brain’s bandwidth between infancy and adulthood, permitting extensive networking among brain regions.

More recent investigations have shown this process causes molecular changes that strengthen the synapses or connection between neurons.

The bottom line is the strengthening of connections forms the basis for learning, which mean that as children become teenagers, the rapid expansion of myelin increasingly joins and coordinates activities in different parts of the brain.

THE MATURATION MISMATCH

When teenagers engage in risky behavior, it occurs in part because there’s a mismatch in the timing of the development of the limbic system and the prefrontal cortex. The limbic system, which regulates emotions, and feelings of reward, undergoes dramatic changes as the hormones of puberty kick into overdrive, typically between the ages of 10 and 12.

Meanwhile, the prefrontal cortex, which controls sound judgment and impulses doesn’t get up to speed until around age 25. That means young teens are emotionally propelled by the limbic system, which can expose teens to substantial dangers, especially when mixed with temptations such as drugs, alcohol, firearms, cars etc.

It’s also a time when mental illness can emerge, so parents should be on the lookout for these signs and take action accordingly.

It also presents positive opportunities as the dramatic increase in connectivity among brain regions involved in judgment, getting along with others and long-range planning and learning can have a profound influence on the remainder of a person’s life.

PRIME TIME FOR LEARNING LIFE-LONG SKILLS

The teenage brain is not broken, and is doesn’t have rocks in it. It is an amazingly fertile time in a human’s life to fill it with skills that will last a lifetime as it hardwires into adulthood — music lessons, foreign languages, mathematics, and complex physical activities

like dancing, art, sports and countless other positive and enriching pursuits.

Families with teens that are seemingly aberrant may have a teen without enough stimulation during this time of extensive brain change. A little investment in sports or music lessons, for example, will not only help the teen to focus on an art or skill he or she likes at the moment but will build the cerebral wiring for future life skills and mental assets.

Understanding that the adolescent brain is unique and rapidly changing can help parents, society and teens themselves to better manage the risks and take advantage of the opportunities of the teenage years. Risk-taking, sensation seeking and turning away from parents are not signs of cognitive or emotional problems. They are the natural result of brain development and a normal part of a teenager’s learning how to navigate a complex world.

John Burke is an Editor of Natural Awakenings of the Palm Beaches with more than 20 years of editorial experience. He is a U.S. Marine Corps Veteran, a graduate of the University of Southern Maine (B.A. in English), and an ordained Ngakpa in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Gout

By William H. Stager, DO, MS, MPH, FAAFP, FAAMA, FAAO, FACOFP

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out is a group of diseases resulting from too much uric acid in body fluids or monosodium urate crystals in body tissues. Uric acid, fluid or crystals, comes from the normal metabolism of purines, the building blocks of nucleic acids and proteins. In gout, the uric acid crystals are abnormally deposited in joints, tendons, kidneys, and other body organs where they cause inflammation, pain, and damage.

Gout occurs about twice as frequently in men than women, and in blacks more than whites. Hippocrates accurately described it over two thousand years ago. The interplay between genetic and environmental (diet) influences initiates the biochemical processes of the eventual malfunctioning of the formation, transport, and disposal of uric acid from purine in the body.

Diet is a major factor in gout. The American diet is usually high in protein, and getting way too high with the advent of some popular diets. Meats supply the purines and alcohol inhibits uric acid secretion in the kidneys. Thus, meats and alcohol are the main culprits in causing and worsening gout and its symptoms; and, obviously, eliminating meats and alcohol will clear the symptoms to some degree. There are some rare genetic conditions which will also cause gout, and a few drugs, especially thiazide diuretics, will also make it worse. The reason women get gout less often than men is due to the protective effects of estrogen. After menopause, when estrogen is decreased significantly, the incidence and symptoms increase.

As we said before, gout mainly affects the joints and tendons, as well as the kidneys. In the kidneys, it causes kidney stones, inflammation, and scarring, which then initiates a vicious circle of less urates being excreted, and more retained. Kidney damage can be extensive and serious. The urate crystals cause a complex inflammatory response wherever they are deposited, and it causes a form of arthritis when the crystals are in joints or tendons.

Signs and symptoms range from warmth, fever, chills, malaise, swelling of joints, redness, and pains. In 90% of people, the first symptoms appear around the big toe. Symptoms progress to feet, ankles, knees, and then less commonly to wrists, fingers, and elbows. With severity, walking becomes painful and difficult. After about ten years, tophi, or lumps in the joints form, which are very painful and disfiguring.

High blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity, and injuries are all exacerbating risk factors.

People with gout are treated primarily with dietary restrictions and then medicines.

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Dietary treatments include: • no alcohol • low purine diet • weight reduction • complex carbohydrate consumption • low fat intake • low protein intake • plenty of fluids

Foods with high purine levels should be entirely omitted: • organ meats • shellfish • herring, sardines, mackerel, anchovies • yeast

Foods with moderate purine levels may be used or avoided depending on symptoms: • fish • poultry • dried legumes • spinach • asparagus • mushrooms

Protein intake should not exceed .8g/kg body weight for patients with gout. We Americans go way over that daily. Saturated fats should be avoided. Healthy lifestyle, proper exercise and weight loss are all part of the picture for all of us.

Some of the medicines used for treating people with gout include nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), colchicine, corticosteroids, allopurinol, probenecid, and sulfinpyrazone.

Some of the natural treatments for gout include: cherries, cranberries, blueberries, vitamin E 400-800 IU/day, folic acid 10-40 mg/ day, bromelain 125-250 mg 3 times/day, and quercetin 125-250 mg 3 times/day. About 70 different herbs are listed in the PDR for Herbal Medicines for treatment of gout, including: bilberry, black currant, colchicum, horseradish, and oats.

William H. Stager, DO, MS, MPH, FA MA, FAAO, FACOFPAOBNMM Board Certified:Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine/Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. AOBFP Board Certified: Family Medicine. Medical Acupuncture. Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, NSUCOM. Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, LECOM Medical Director, Flagler Institute for Rehabilitation, Inc. 311 Golf Road, Suite 1100, West Palm Beach, FL 33407-5501 Tel. 561-832-1894, Fax 561-832-1590.

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Understanding Metaphor in Native American Story with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm; $25. Often thought of as simple allegories, Native American stories are more profound than most people realize. Given the differences in common culture and indigenous understanding, exposing yourself to these stories can help you expand your spiritual maturity and tear down the many boxes imposed by common culture. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please RSVP: call 561-3333372 or pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com

PAST LIFE REGRESSION with Margaret Ann Lembo. Who were you? Where did you live? Have the people in your life been with you before? Understanding the role of reincarnation, karma and dharma can assist us in our present incarnation. Remembering a past life can bring a greater understanding of ourselves and what we have come back to learn. Past life regression helps us remember our purpose and learn the meaning of our lives today. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a blanket. Private sessions are available. Call 561-369-2836 to schedule a private appointment. 6:30 - 9:00 PM. $37 prepaid per event, $47 at the door. Maximum 30 people. at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com. Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 2 Energy Healing for Animals Ambassador Club with Paula Wheeler. Join Paula Wheeler for an 8-week in-depth energy healing for animal exploration, using Joan Ranquet's book, Energy Healing for Animals (Sounds True). This 8 week ambassador (book) club is more than a book club, it's a hands on experience exploring energy healing for animals which includes body work, healing techniques and energetic technologies/ modalities. Each week there will be fun energy exercises, interviews with experts in the field and at home exercises. 5:30 – 6:30 PM, FREE, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com.

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Pain Management lecture at Hippocrates Health Institute, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm • FREE. Pain can affect every part of our lives and can lead to many other emotional challenges in addition to the physical discomfort. Join our featured lecturers including Brian Clement PhD, LN, Anna Maria Clement PhD, LN, and Gregory Gumberich DC for an evening emphasizing on resolving the source of the pain, not merely masking or covering it. RSVP (561) 271- 8876 Freedom From Stress 7-8:30 p.m. Every Wednesday, Experience the ancient Raja Yoga Meditation. This wisdom from the ages enables the soul to maintain happiness and peace no matter what the challenge. FREE. Delray Beach.

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FRIDAY MARCH 4 Private Psychic Readings w/Countess Nadia Starella Fri 2-6PM. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280.

Past-Life Regression w/Maya Malay Fri 7-9PM Cost $25 or $20 by 3/3. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Hello Lightworkers! I am Kristen and I communicate with Source. As with most Lightworkers, I had my dark time and emerged into the brightest, clearest, Source energy. I am aligned with Source and am now able to hold the pathway open. The energy vibration flowing through me is Source energy at its clearest. Presently, I am opening Lightworkers United: a studio for higher learning. The human species is transcending the mind and The AGE OF EVOLUTION is NOW. ~Lightworker. Experience a permanent SHIFT: Every Thursday: 6-8pm FREE All Ages. Friday’s 6-9pm $ 59. Saturday’s 10am-1pm $59. Reservations required. Private Readings available by request: $60/hr LUNCH & LEARN lead by Leslie Glickman at 12:30. Everything but asana. This is the one class on the Yoga Journey schedule that doesn't include movement. Come and have a lite bite as we discuss all aspects of yoga theory, philosophy and so much more. Topics change weekly. Guest teachers will be brought in for special topics as well. This is a by donation class - your dollars will go to support the Yoga Journey Teacher Training Scholarship Fund. Held at Trend Tea located at the Wyndham Hotel 2thfloor 1950 Glades Road Boca Raton yogajourney.com 561-479-7819 Yoga Gangster Training with Jodi Weiner. This Yoga Gangsters certification workshop is for anyone who would like to provide outreach yoga

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We are calling in emerging leaders in existing and new markets who share our desire to serve youth in crisis through yoga. Certified yoga teachers are welcome as well as yoga lovers who want to serve (yoga teachers certification is NOT required to join our team for volunteer programming).Friday 6 pm to 9 pm, Saturday 10 am to 6:30 pm & Sunday 10 am to 3 pm. Investment - $249 before 2/6 and $299 after 2/6. Held at Yoga Journey located in the Wyndham Hotel 5thth floor 1950 Glades Road Boca Raton yogajourney.com 561-479-7819 Meng's Acupuncture Medical Center - 4060 PGA Blvd Suite 202, PBG FL 33410. (561) 6560717. from 10 am to 12 pm. Title: Lose weight and feel great with Meng's Acupuncture Weight Loss Program. Acupuncture is also known to normalize physiological functions, stimulate the immune system, relieve drug and alcohol withdrawal symptoms, and aid weight loss.Today receive 20% off a Weight Loss Treatment!

SATURDAY MARCH 5 ROCK YOUR MARCH STARS! with Trish Vidal. Every month brings us a unique planetary pattern that we can take advantage of to fulfill our intentions. We will pay special attention to the most important aspects occurring this month, discuss how the monthly new moon can help create new beginnings for us, and explore the issues highlighted by the monthly full moon. We will then see how this month’s planets can be maximized by seeing how they interact with your chart and to further brainstorm potentialities. Please arrive early to provide your birth information: Date of birth, location, and time.2:00 - 4:00 PM, $20 prepaid, $25 at the door, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden. com. Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

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Inn Oceanside. Liz Olivas, Registered Instructor of Ortho-Bionomy. Ortho-Bionomy is a standalone method that can be incorporated into other modalities such as Massage, Acupuncture, Personal Training and Yoga. Anyone can study and learn this gentle technique. These techniques are simple to incorporate into your practice, they are also gentle on you, the practitioner. CE Hours: 16 FL & NCBTMB Massage Therapist. Acupuncturists. For more information, additional upcoming classes, free lecture demos or to register, please visit: BodyworkCEUS.com Hello Lightworkers! I am Kristen and I communicate with Source. As with most Lightworkers, I had my dark time and emerged into the brightest, clearest, Source energy. I am aligned with Source and am now able to hold the pathway open. The energy vibration flowing through me is Source energy at its clearest. Presently, I am opening Lightworkers United: a studio for higher learning. The human species is transcending the mind and The AGE OF EVOLUTION is NOW. ~Lightworker. Experience a permanent SHIFT: Every Thursday: 6-8pm FREE All Ages. Friday’s 6-9pm $ 59. Saturday’s 10am1pm $59. Reservations required. Private Readings available by request: $60/hr

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9:30am to 5:00pm • Learn to channel healing energy for self and others • Receive four Reiki attunements • Learn the standard hand positions • Supervised practical work • Experienced, well qualified teacher • Level I Certification • Maximum of 8 people Fee: $150 includes 2 detailed manuals

Full details at:

www.rauberts.com To register:

561-333-3372

pearlrauberts@hotmail.com

Omar Speaks through World Class Channeling/Medium Elizabeth Margolis TM

Receive Guidance and Connection from another realm. All questions answered in a direct and concise manner.

Private and Group readings by appointment only at

954-683-3687 or

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2nd AnnuAl Hummingbird Wellness retreAt Participate in: • labyrinth walk with fire bowl ceremony • group process activities • energy healing sessions • so much more!!

Our Hummingbird Retreat: focuses on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels to help you: • understand the root of your issues • remove obstacles • find clarity and peace with your past • resolve difficulties to embrace life Activities are designed to help you release feelings of being off balance, overworked or blocked from experiencing joy.

Make major shifts to move you forward in the new year!

April 8th, 9th, 10th early bird rate $350 until Feb. 1st, 2016

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YOGA JOURNEY IN THE PARK with Leslie Glickman at 9:00am. COMPLIMENTARY all levels vinyasa flow yoga practice. Spread the word and help Leslie on her quest to unite our yoga community. Complimentary community class Sanborn Square (1 block north of Palmetto Park Rd on Federal Hwy) in Boca Raton yogajourney. com 561-479-7819 Labyrinth Walk for Peace Unity of the Palm Beaches is a participating congregation in the 2016 Season for Nonviolence January 30 – April 4. Unity of the Palm Beaches will be joined by Temple Israel as we continue our celebration of the eighteenth annual Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence with a Labyrinth Walk for Peace on Saturday, March 5, 2016 at 1:00 p.m. We will meet in the courtyard of Temple Israel to walk a portable labyrinth with Veriditas Certified Labyrinth Facilitator, Sara Dochterman, LCSW. 1901 North Flagler Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33407 (561) 833-6483 www.unitypalmbeach.com Speaker Series Robert Meyers, 10:00 a.m.

Wonders of Water. Please join us for our monthly speaker’s series. This month, learn what lurks below our waters when Robert Meyers, marine scientist and author of several identification guides, discusses the dangerous marine animals with a local focus. $5 per person for non-members. For more information call 561-624-6950.

TAI CHI & CHI GONG with Dr. Keith. Every Saturday 9am. HARBOR-SIDE Amphitheater in Jupiter at Indiantown and the intracoastal way. As you practice you will enjoy improved strength, flexibility, reduced pain & stiffness, better balance, enhanced sleep, greater awareness, calmness, & overall sense of well being.

SUNDAY MARCH 6 Booksigning at 1 pm. Stephanie Murphy-Lupo will speak and sign All Aboard: A History of Florida's Railroads 19.95.Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. Phone: 561-279-7790. www.murderonthebeach.com Live Channel w/Laura Mirante Sun 3-5PM Cost $25 or $20 by 3/5. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Center for Spiritual Living Palm Beaches Are you looking for a community where you can be yourself? Enjoy community, be authentic and make a difference at CSL. “The Power of SelfLove”, with Rev. Marcia MacLean. Meditation

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10:00 am, Celebration 10:30 am. www.cslpalmbeaches.org, 561-676-7997. GreenWise Community Room, Upstairs,11231 Legacy Ave, PBG Native American Talking Circle with Pipe Ceremony with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee; 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm, donations honored. Sitting in a Circle and passing a Talking Stick gives us an opportunity to be heard. And if we want feedback, we can ask for it from the Circle. After everyone has had a chance to speak, we will share the Canunpah, or Pipe. You will be instructed on the proper handling of the Pipe; when we smoke it, we know the smoke carries our prayers up to Creator. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please RSVP: call 561-3333372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com Native American Healing Drumming Circle with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, donations honored.

Traditional Native American style drumming with hand drums, rattles, and singing of Lakota Prayer songs: no drumming experience required. Drums and rattles are available to borrow. A spiritual experience suitable for everyone and drum healing is offered to those wanting healing. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. RSVP required: call 561-333-3372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com Sunday Worship Service – Rev. Justin Terry, Pastor of UMCPB, is considered one of the youngest and considered by many, the most outstanding young clairvoyants in the US today. Come and experience his uplifting message. Healing 10:30 AM Worship Service 11:00 AM -UMC 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. 561-686-0217. www.unitedmetaphysical.org Private Reading with Rev. Justin Terry, one of the youngest and considered by many, the most outstanding young clairvoyant mediums in the US today. His readings are very informative.

He works with your guides, teachers and loved ones who have crossed over. 30 Minutes for $125. Readings are scheduled from 2P-5PM. To schedule, email info@unitedmetaphysical.org call 561-686-0217 WED/THU/FRI 10am-2pm United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. SUNDAY SERVICE at Unity of the Palm Beaches. Senior Minister Rev. Taylor E. Stevens’ uplifting sermons present practical spiritual teachings for a joyful, abundant and meaningful life.

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Affiliated with Unity Worldwide Ministries, Silent Unity and Unity Institute & Seminary.

Learn to Kayak! 12:00 p.m. (about 1 hour) This is a land-based course to provide beginners the skills necessary for kayaking. Reservations are recommended. The program is free with Park admission. For information and reservations call the Nature Center at (561) 624-6952

MONDAY MARCH 7 GUIDED MEDITATION: STRESS RELIEF AND DIVINE CONNECTION with Margaret Ann Lembo. Come experience a peaceful guided meditation to release stress and find inner peace.

A unique focus will be used for each meditation.

6:00 - 6:30 PM, $5.00 suggested “love offering” per event, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com.

Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

Spiritual Cinema Night. Please join us for Spiritual Cinema Night. We will watch a few short spiritual themed movies and have a discussion

about the lesson/message afterwards.Popcorn and light refreshments will we provided. Look forward to seeing you at Unity In The Pines @ 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach in Room 528hz. Chairs are provided or you can bring your own yoga mat, pillow and blanket if you prefer. It is a very informal evening. The cost is only $5.00 so bring a friend.

imagination, using crystal singing bowls, and the power of the group energy, you will create a new reality. Rely on your imagination and have confidence in the creation of the resulting reality. 6:30 – 8:30 PM, $22 prepaid, $27 at the door, maximum 35 people, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com.

Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

AGAPE COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE, “Acupuncture for everyone”, Every Monday at 12:00-2:30pm. Agape Healing Arts, 385 Tequesta Drive, Suite 4, Tequesta. The mission of AGAPE Community Acupuncture is to make acupuncture accessible to as many members of our Community as possible. We use a sliding scale of $20 - $50 per treatment. You decide what you can afford. *By appointment only call 561-76-AGAPE to reserve your spot today! visit wwwagapehealingarts.com

“Awaken The Healer” Series w/Jamar (4 wks) Tues 7-9PM Cost $135 or $119 by 3/7. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280

TUESDAY MARCH 8 NEW MOON Crystal Singing Bowl Event with Margaret Ann Lembo. The sound produced by crystal singing bowls, which are made of quartz, brings positive effects and changes in the body, specifically the autonomic, immune and endocrine systems. Come with a written list of what you are manifesting. Through the use of intention and the

Energy Healing Circle led by Rev. Pearl Rauberts; starts at 6:30 pm, donations accepted.

Experience Rauberts' Energy Healing Technique (REHT), a new and unique method of working with the healing energy created by Pearl Rauberts.

Arrive promptly as we start with a short group meditation; each person then receives an individual session of energy healing from Pearl. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please RSVP ahead of time (limited number of places): call 561-333-3372, email pearlrauberts@hotmail. com, details at www.rauberts.com

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Meditation Class. 6:30-7:30 pm. Dr. Dave, certified psychologist and hypnotherapist will discuss different types of meditation, and conduct a guided meditation with the class. Learn how meditation can change your life! $10.00 pp. North Palm Beach Recreation Center, 603 Anchorage Dr. N.P.B. 561-841-3386 to reserve.

All Message Service – with Rev. Vicki White, Certified Medium – Billet service with personal questions answered from spirit and messages from loved ones who have passed will be brought to you. Public is welcome. $10 donation. 7PM United Metaphysical, 528 S. Haverhill Rd. WPB. 561-686-0217. www.unitedmetaphysical.org.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 9 Energy Healing for Animals Ambassador Club with Paula Wheeler. Join Paula Wheeler for an 8-week in-depth energy healing for animal exploration, using Joan Ranquet's book, Energy Healing for Animals (Sounds True). This 8 week ambassador (book) club is more than a book club, it's a hands on experience exploring energy healing for animals which includes body work, healing techniques and energetic technologies/ modalities. It is an opportunity to become an asset to your community as an ambassador to the animal kingdom. 5:30 – 6:30 PM, FREE, at The

Experience Miracles Experience miracles as best selling author Brian Sheen shares his unique insights of how to use A Course in Miracles and Clear Mind Open Heart Meditation to make valuable shifts in your life for greater peace, happiness and wellness.

Tuesdays Meditation 6:30pm A Course in Miracles 8:00pm Center for Healing 777 East Atlantic Ave Delray Beach For more info see www.BrianSheen.com or email DrBrianSheen@yahoo.com or call 561-212-7029

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Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com. Call 561-3692836 to attend.

Free healing session with Cristovao Brilho –– 7:00pm - NEW ADDRESS - HOLIDAY INN AIRPORT - West Palm Beach 1301 Belvedere Road - 33409 - call 786-295-8665 must arrive by 7:00pm.

Inner Harmony 7:30 pm, $20. The unique inner harmony method uses the power of improvised singing, toning (vocal sounding), meditation, and visualization combined with cognitive training, life coaching and energy work to guide you to actually transform the neural network in your brain, become the person you want to be, and live the life you dream of. Come experience this life changing method for yourself! Pre-registration required. In Boca Raton, exact location will be given to registrants. To register or find out more please contact Chaya at inner harmony: holistic life coaching and transformational singing, innerharmonyholistic@gmail.com, 561-923-0844, www.innerharmonyholistic.com.

Wicca 101: Learning the Healing Properties of Crystals w/Lady Autumn Ivy Wed 7-9PM Cost $25 or $20 by 3/8. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 FREE Laura Norman Reflexology Webinar 8:00pm-9:00pm. Talk with Laura Norman about: How to Add to Your Services • Start a New Career • Earn $75-$150 an Hour • FREE Registration online at www.lauranorman.com. Learn about Laura Norman’s unique, holistic Method of Reflexology, including powerful nurturing relaxation and Foot, Hand, Ear and Face Reflexology techniques you can learn through individualized, guided, handson instruction! Take your first step toward a new career in complementary healthcare, or expand your current practice! See our ad in this issue for your complete class schedule.

Manifest the Life of Your Dreams; 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm. Free lecture at Hippocrates Health Institute with Garland Landrith PhD, Quantum Psychologist. RSVP 561-471-8876 Channeling with Roger Harden as he channels Ascended Masters. You may have an opportunity to ask questions. Roger is a long-time metaphysician, healer and channel. 7PM Love Offering United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB 561-686-0217. www.unitedmetaphysical.org

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THURSDAY MARCH 10 Booksigning at 7 pm. James Grippando will speak and sign Gone Again 25.99.Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. Phone: 561-279-7790. www.murderonthebeach.com Into to Reflexology w/Treesha DiGuido Thurs 6-9PM Cost $65 or $55 by 3/9. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 “The Spiritual Wisdom on Conquering Fear” Free Spiritual Café at 6:30 pm at the Publix Greenwise, 11231 Legacy Avenue, Palm Beach Gardens.

Share informal conversation about dreams and other spiritual tools. Unlock keys to understanding and meeting challenges we face in life. Presented by the Palm Beach County ECKANKAR Center.

For directions & more info call our local ECKANKAR Center (561) 434-2003 or find us on www. meetup.com/ecankarinpalmbeach and on Facebook at ECKANKAR Palm Beach County. For info about ECKANKAR visit www.eckankar.org.

The Power of the Pipe: a lecture with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, $25. The Pipe is the cornerstone of Native American Ceremony. Learn what "carrying" a Pipe is, what Pipe ceremony is, when is the Pipe used; hear stories about the origins of the Pipe. A clear understanding of the Pipe is essential for those interested in Native American Ceremony. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please RSVP: call 561-333-3372 or pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com PSYCHIC GALLERY READINGS WITH DEIRDRE ABRAMI. Feeling Stressed? Needing Some Guidance? Missing Deceased Loved Ones?

Join Deirdre Abrami, 6th Generation Psychic Intuitive & Spiritual Guide for this intimate spiritual gathering where you will receive loving and healing messages from your spirit guides, angels & deceased loved ones. Everyone is assigned spirit guides and angels, and they assist us with all areas of our lives, so why not access their knowledge to make our lives easier? All you have to do is ask for their help. Come with questions or just be open to what spirit wants you to know. ALL participants receive a message. 7-9PM. $45 in advance or $50.

TICKETS: New Age Books & things , Fort Lauderdale. Registration: $30 in advance / $35 at the door RSVP 954-771-0026 . MORE INFORMATION: www.DeirdreAbrami.com.

Meditation and More – Rev. James Kohlbecker Become aware of your higher-self, seek answers

from within and learn to trust your intuition through meditation. 7PM / Weekly ongoing. United Metaphysical, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. Love Offering 561-686-0217 Singing Crystal Bowl Meditation. Please join us at 6:30-7:30 pm at The Unity In The Pines located at 6073 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach. We offer a different meditation each week. We play our set of 7 Crystal Singing Bowls, Which are made of 99.9% Quartz Crystal. Each one is tuned to a specific musical note, which corresponds to one of the energy centers or chakras of the body. We will meet in room 528. Chairs are provided but if you would like to lay down feel free to bring a yoga mat, and a pillow for your comfort. The fee is $10.00 per person. You can follow us on Facebook for additional events @ Facebook.comcrystalbowlvibrationalhealing or Loxahatchee Sound Healing.

FRIDAY MARCH 11 Introduction to Transformational Breath® w/ Jamar Fri 7-9:30PM Cost $45 or $40 by 3/10. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter. com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 LUNCH & LEARN lead by Leslie Glickman at 12:30. Everything but asana. This is the one class on the Yoga Journey schedule that doesn't include movement. Come and have a lite bite as we discuss all aspects of yoga theory, philosophy and so much more. Topics change weekly. Guest teachers will be brought in for special topics as well. This is a by donation class - your dollars will go to support the Yoga Journey Teacher Training Scholarship Fund. Held at Trend Tea located at the Wyndham Hotel 2thfloor 1950 Glades Road Boca Raton yogajourney.com 561-479-7819 Meng's Acupuncture Medical Center - 4060 PGA Blvd Suite 202, PBG FL 33410. (561) 656-0717.

Title: Today receive 20% off a Lymphatic Drainage Treatment! 10 am to 5 pm. The body contains three times more lymph fluid than blood. The less we move the more stagnant the lymph system becomes. Getting the lymphatic system running smoothly is key to eliminate toxins, easy weightloss and feeling great.

SATURDAY MARCH 12 Community HU Song, HU, a love song to God, is a gift to the world. Tune into its many blessings and experience divine love. Join us on Saturday, March 12th at 11:00 am, at the West Palm Beach ECKANKAR Center, 1695 Florida Mango Road, Suite 4, West Palm Beach. For directions and more information call (561) 434-2003 or find us on www. meetup.com/ecankarinpalmbeach. You can learn

more about HU at www.miraclesinyourlife.org.

Book, CD and Deck Launch Party 11:00 Am – 4:00 PM. Celebrate and experience free talks, group readings, a SALE, snacks, and CAKE! Join us for insight and awareness to launch Margaret Ann Lembo’s three – yes, three ! – new publications. The Essential Guide to Aromatherapy and Vibrational Healing - This A-Z guide to 60 essential oils brings together vibrational elements that can be incorporated for enhanced healing practice. Cord Cutting: Releasing the Energetic Ties of Your Past CD Disconnect the energetic ties and watch yourself transform your life for the better. Using this CD will help you recognize the patterns established at a young age and from your upbringing. Identify the belief systems and habits that were installed at a young age and set yourself free to be all you can be!

Fusion Restorative Yoga and Guided Meditation.

3-5pm. $35. Limit 15 participants. Incorporates Thai massage, reiki, mudras, aromatherapy, crystals & Tibetan bowls let by Kim Houch. Yoga Center of Deerfield Beach. Call Dotty 561.859.5512.

Psychic Fair: Join us for a Very Special Psychic Fair! The Most Amazing Lineup of South Florida’s Premier Psychics Sat 12-5PM All Merchandise 10% off! The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.

JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Understanding Animals as Medicine Helpers with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee; 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm, $35. Native American teachings & traditions help us understand the relationship between humans and animals. Today you will discover the many ways Animal Medicine Helpers can help you and also learn how to establish a conscious relationship with a particular Medicine Helper nation. You will also learn how a good understanding of Medicine Helpers adds greater dimension to your everyday life. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please RSVP: call 561-333-3372, or pearlrauberts@hotmail.com, details at www.rauberts.com The Many Ways of the Medicine Wheel with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee; 2:30 pm to 4: , $35. There are many ways that a Medicine Wheel can help us in our daily lives. As ceremony or as a tool for learning the truth of our emotional and psychological patterns, and how to improve them, the Wheel is stunningly adept and powerful. It is important to be aware of the context in which the Wheel was first given to the ancestors.

Nevertheless, the Wheel is alive and vibrant and as relevant today as it was a thousand years ago. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please

RSVP: call 561-333-3372, or pearlrauberts@ hotmail.com, details at www.rauberts.com Laura Norman Reflexology – 3-Day Face and Ear Reflexology Certification, March 12, 13, 14 (Sat-Mon - 9am-6pm). Part of our Professional Certification Program, Face and Ear Reflexology Certification is also appropriate if you are new to Reflexology or are a Health or Beauty Professional who would like to add powerful, unique, relaxing and healing techniques to

Manifest the Life of Your Dreams with

Sarah Spiritual, Sheila & Marcus Gillette and THEO

Awaken your power to live the life of your dreams!

Join us for this full day event featuring Sarah Spiritual, interactive audience messages from THEO and more!

Sarah Spiritual

invites YOU Sat. April 23, 10 AM TO 5 PM Marriott Hotel, 1001 Okeechobee Blvd 33401 Info Call: 561 682 0955 Register @ SarahSpiritual.com The Expedito Enlightenment Center 4047 Okeechobee Blvd Tree of Life Plaza WPB

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RIPPER’S KNITTING & CRAFTING CLUB BOYNTON BEACH, FL The City of Boynton Beach Recreation and Parks Department’s Civic Center, 128 E. Ocean Avenue, offers a crafting club for seniors on Thursdays from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Join the Rippers Knitting & Crafting Club and meet other crafters of all skill levels.

Fees are $10 per season and a registration form must be completed on your first visit.

For additional information, please contact the Boynton Beach Civic Center at 561-742-6240, visit the City’s website at www.boynton-beach.org/ recreation or follow us on Facebook (boyntonbeachrecandparks) and Twitter (@boyntonbeachrec).

your wellness services. Receive a Certificate of Completion in Laura Norman Face and Ear Reflexology, and be skilled to begin practicing these unique techniques. (Florida LMT, NCBTMB, AMTA, AOTA CE Contact Hours Awarded). Location: Boynton Beach. Register online at www. lauranorman.com – Call us at 561-272-1220, email us at classes@lauranorman.com.

Hour: Daylight Savings Time Starts “Positive Activism”, with Rev. Marcia MacLean Meditation 10:00 am, Celebration 10:30 am – Love Offering “Positive Activism: How to Make a Difference without Losing Your Cool” Workshop 12:00 – 2:00 pm - $20 www.cslpalmbeaches.org, 561-6767997. GreenWise Community Room, Upstairs, 11231 Legacy Ave, PBG

Demystifying the Lymphatic System & SelfCare through Body Brushing, 2-4:30pm. FREE!!

PuraVida Yoga- 6299 N. Federal Hwy. Boca Raton. Liz Olivas, Certified Lymphatic Therapist of The Therapeutic Alternative. This FREE 2 1/2 hour class is brought to you by popular demand!

Learn how to improve your health & well being by gaining an understanding of your lymphatic system, and how to care for it through dry body brushing. We will be practicing body brushing, so if you have a body brush, please bring it with you, or you may purchase one of our quality German Body Brushes for $15. Please wear shorts and a short sleeve top. Please RSVP: 561-392-3340 or register on-line @ BODYWORKCEUS.COM

Awakening with Angels with Rev. Pearl Rauberts, Angel Messenger Practitioner; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm , $45. Could you use some help from the Angels? This class will teach you about Angels, about developing a relationship with them, how to communicate better with them and receive help from them, especially with regard to your spiritual awakening. You will work with Angel cards to help you get closer to the Angels and increase your confidence in using Angel cards effectively at home. Pearl will lead a powerful guided group meditation to help you be more aware of the presence of Angels. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please RSVP: call 561-333-3372, or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com

YOGA JOURNEY IN THE PARK with Leslie Glickman at 9:00am. COMPLIMENTARY all levels vinyasa flow yoga practice. Spread the word and help Leslie on her quest to unite our yoga community. Complimentary community class Sanborn Square (1 block north of Palmetto Park Rd on Federal Hwy) in Boca Raton yogajourney. com 561-479-7819 20th Annual NatureScaping: An Outdoor Festival Get ready for fun, food and entertainment at our annual free community event. Visit www. macarthurbeach.org/special-events/ for more information and for entry forms for the Annual Photography Contest. For more information call 561-624-6950.

SUNDAY MARCH 13 Book Clubs at 3 pm. The Sunday Sleuths Book Club will discuss The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton 16.00. Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. Phone: 561-279-7790. www.murderonthebeach.com The Seven Chakras: Evolutionary Centers of Consciousness w/Jamar Sun 12-3 Cost $55 or $45 by 3/12. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Center for Spiritual Living Palm Beaches, Are you looking for a community where you can be yourself? Enjoy community, be authentic and make a difference at CSL. Spring Forward One

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Sunday Worship Service – Guest speaker Rev. Cass Stryker, ADL Minister, Healer and Metaphysician.. Come and experience her uplifting message. Day Light Saving Time Healing 10:30 AM Worship Service 11:00 AM -UMC 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. 561-686-0217. www. unitedmetaphysical.org SUNDAY SERVICE at Unity of the Palm Beaches. Senior Minister Rev. Taylor E. Stevens’ uplifting sermons present practical spiritual teachings for a joyful, abundant and meaningful life.

Our Broadway quality soloists along with our music team will bless us with their talent. We offer a Youth Program for children and teens. Food and fellowship follow the service in our beautiful social hall. Come join us and feel the love! Gather with like-minded people. Services are held at the beautiful Temple Israel, 1901 N Flagler Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33407 (561) 833-6483 www. unitypalmbeach.com Service begins at 11:00 a.m.

Affiliated with Unity Worldwide Ministries, Silent Unity and Unity Institute & Seminary.

Bluegrass Music with the Conch Stomp Band, 1-3:00 p.m. Come on down to the Park and listen to the Conch Stomp Band play some bluegrass.

Free with Park admission. Call the Nature Center for more information, (561) 624-6952.

Bluegrass Jam, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. Bring your banjo, washboard, or other acoustic instruments and jam along with the band. The second Sunday of each month join the band after their set for a jam session.

For more information call 561-624-6950.

MONDAY MARCH 14 GUIDED MEDITATION: STRESS RELIEF AND DIVINE CONNECTION with Margaret Ann Lembo.

Come experience a peaceful guided meditation to release stress and find inner peace. A unique focus will be used for each meditation. 6:00 - 6:30 PM, $5.00 suggested “love offering” per event, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch .www.thecrystalgarden.com.

Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

Reiki healing private sessions with Rev Pearl Rauberts, Reiki Master, Teacher, and Practitioner are available today at 4:15 pm, 5:30 pm, and 6:45 pm; each session is one hour and the fee is $60 per session. Pearl will channel Reiki healing to help each person: using her many years of experience, she will customize the session to meet each person's individual needs. Reiki helps heal the body, the mind and the emotions. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Must RSVP ahead of time (sessions available at other times/days also): call 561-333-3372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com

TUESDAY MARCH 15 WEBCAST: Archangel Connections: Essential Oils to Open Intuition with Margaret Ann Lembo Learn how to use essential oils to connect with the angelic realm. Prepare to open your mind to release fears, worthiness issues, and financial challenges using the extract of flowers, seeds, barks, and roots with the vibration of the heavenly realm guiding you on your path. 12:00 – 1:00 PM EST: $20, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com. Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

Book Clubs at 6:30 pm. The Tuesday Murder Club will discuss Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 16.00. Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. Phone: 561-279-7790. www.murderonthebeach.com Maximizing the Benefits of a Holistic Lifestyle, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Free Lecture at Hippocrates Health Institute with Co Founder Viktoras Kulvinskas. RSVP 561-471-8876

Meditation Class. 11-12:00 pm. Dr. Dave, certified psychologist and hypnotherapist will discuss different types of meditation, and conduct a guided meditation with the class. Learn how meditation can change your life! $10.00 pp. North Palm Beach Recreation Center, 603 Anchorage Dr. N.P.B. 561-841-3386 to reserve.

Spiritual Cinema - The Power of Film to Inspire. Unity of the Palm Beaches is a participating congregation in the 2016 Season for Nonviolence January 30 – April 4. We will be viewing the short film “Admissions”, a film from the Awakened World Film Festival, recommended by the Association for Global New Thought for those participating in the Season for Nonviolence. “Admissions” stars Academy Award nominee James Cromwell and tells a transformational tale about what it takes to find lasting peace. Featuring an Israeli couple and a Palestinian, this modern parable is set in the admissions room for the afterlife. Its purpose is to start a conversation that heals. Discussion will follow. Donation is $5 in advance, $7 at door; popcorn & snacks will be available for purchase. 6:30 p.m. in the Media Center upstairs, Temple Israel building, 1901 North Flagler Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33407 (561) 833-6483 www.unitypalmbeach.com

THURSDAY MARCH 17 PRIVATE AURA PHOTO AND GEMSTONE ORACLE SESSION with Margaret Ann Lembo. Schedule your time with Margaret Ann for an aura photo, personal interpretation and intuitive reading the Gemstone Oracle. Come with a list of specific questions to help you gain clarity on your life today. Receive an 8 page report, your high quality digital photo and a photo. Sessions run 30 minutes and are by appointment on every half hour so there is minimal wait time. 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, $60 prepayment and appointment required. Normal half hour session without a photo is $85. The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www. thecrystalgarden.com. Call 561-369-2836 to schedule your appointment.

Transform Your Life Through Conscious Awakening! Proof of Psychic Phenomena! w/ Mary & Dr. Dave DiSano Thurs 7-9PM Cost $25 or $20 by 3/16. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Native American Prayer Circle with Prayer Ties and Pipe Ceremony with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, donations honored. Prayer is more powerful when people pray together in Ceremony. In this Native American style Circle you will be taught how to make and use prayer ties. We will then share the Pipe. You will be instructed on the proper handling of the Pipe; when we smoke it, we know the smoke carries our prayers up to Creator. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please RSVP: call 561-333-3372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com

WEDNESDAY MARCH 16 Energy Healing for Animals Ambassador Club with Paula Wheeler. Join Paula Wheeler for an 8-week in-depth energy healing for animal exploration, using Joan Ranquet's book, Energy Healing for Animals (Sounds True). This 8 week ambassador (book) club is more than a book club, it's a hands on experience exploring energy healing for animals which includes body work, healing techniques and energetic technologies/modalities. 5:30 – 6:30 PM, FREE, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com. Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

Increase Your Intuition Through Angel and Oracle Card Readings w/Arliss Wed 7-8:30PM Cost $25 or $20 by 3/15. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter. com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280

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Thyroid 303- Part 3 Thyroid Mystery – UNCOVERED Lecture with Dr. Nadia R. Malek, Do you still have thyroid symptoms even though your lab tests are all normal? Maybe you experience fatigue, morning headaches, constipation, hair loss and so much more. You are not alone, join us for the third of a three part series on Thyroid and learn the facts and the myths about your health with our interactive lectures. Dr Malek will take you on a journey through your body and explain what you need to get and stay healthy. 6:00 – 7:00PM At Malek Clinic for Natural Healing, LLC 3900 Woodlake Blvd, Suite 205 Greenacres, Call 561357-8495 today for reservations Meditation and More – Rev. James Kohlbecker - Become aware of your higher-self, seek answers from within and learn to trust your intuition through meditation. 7PM / Weekly ongoing. United Metaphysical, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. Love Offering 561-686-0217 Singing Crystal Bowl Meditation. Please join us at 6:30-7:30 pm at The Unity In The Pines located at 6073 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach. We offer a different meditation each week. We play our set of 7 Crystal Singing Bowls, Which are made of 99.9% Quartz Crystal. Each one is tuned to a specific musical note, which corresponds to one of the energy centers or chakras of the body. We will meet in room 528. Chairs are provided but if you would like to lay down feel free to bring a yoga mat, and a pillow for your comfort. The fee is $10.00 per person. You can follow us on Facebook for additional events @ Facebook.comcrystalbowlvibrationalhealing or Loxahatchee Sound Healing.

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FRIDAY MARCH 18 PRIVATE AURA PHOTO AND GEMSTONE ORACLE SESSION with Margaret Ann Lembo.

Schedule your time with Margaret Ann for an aura photo, personal interpretation and intuitive reading the Gemstone Oracle. Come with a list of specific questions to help you gain clarity on your life today. Receive an 8 page report, your high quality digital photo and a photo. Sessions run 30 minutes and are by appointment on every half hour so there is minimal wait time. 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM, $60 prepayment and appointment required. Normal half hour session without a photo is $85. The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch, www.thecrystalgarden.com. Call 561-369-2836 to schedule your appointment.

Private Psychic Readings w/Lori Chadwick Fri 11-4PM. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280

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Forgiveness Unplugged – Transform Your Abundance Vibration with Forgiveness w/Marsha Valutis, PhD and Pamela Carmo Sat 7:30-9:30PM Cost $30 or $25 by 3/17. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Love Being Alive: Experience Energy Healing.

Clear old emotional blocks. Let go of chronic pain.

Align with your deepest intentions. Reenergize yourself physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. 40-minute Introductory healing sessions with certified Brennan Healing Science and Reiki Practitioner. Noon- 5PM; reservations required. $50 for an introductory private session in a serene healing arts studio. Holistic Living Delray, 140 SE 2nd Avenue, #27, Delray Beach.To reserve a session, please contact info@holisticlivingdelray,com.

LUNCH & LEARN lead by Leslie Glickman at 12:30. Everything but asana. This is the one class on the Yoga Journey schedule that doesn't include movement. Come and have a lite bite as we discuss all aspects of yoga theory, philosophy and so much more. Topics change weekly. Guest teachers will be brought in for special topics as well. This is a by donation class - your dollars will go to support the Yoga Journey Teacher Training Scholarship Fund. Held at Trend Tea located at the Wyndham Hotel 2thfloor 1950 Glades Road Boca Raton yogajourney.com 561-479-7819 Happy Hour at Raw Juice East with Jen Cruz.

The Perfect way to end a busy week with a FREE all levels Vinyasa Yoga class on the rooftop at Raw Juice East led by Jen Cruz. Followed by complimentary juice for all those who attend. 6:00pm8:00pm. Held at Raw Juice East Private Reading with Rev. Justin Terry, one of the youngest and considered by many, the most outstanding young clairvoyant mediums in the US today. His readings are very informative. He works with your guides, teachers and loved ones who have crossed over. 30 Minutes for $125. Readings are scheduled from 12N-3PM. To schedule, email info@unitedmetaphysical.org call 561-686-0217 WED/THU/FRI 10am-2pm United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. Reiki Circle - Join in as Reiki Healers channel universal healing energy. Reiki is a Japanese system of relaxation and stress relief that promotes well-being using the body’s natural healing abilities. 7PM. Love Offering. United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. 561-686-0217. www.unitedmetaphysical.org.

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Meng's Acupuncture Medical Center - 4060 PGA Blvd Suite 202, PBG FL 33410. (561) 656-0717. from 10 am to 12 pm. Title: Improve your sleep with a Mud Treatment at Meng's Acupuncture Medical Center. 20 minutes of heat therapy is equivalent to 30 minutes of exercise. After heat therapy, one can enter into a deep sleep, and after waking up, will feel twice as relaxed. Today receive 20% off a Mud Treatment!

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Clear old emotional blocks. Let go of chronic pain.

Align with your deepest intentions. Reenergize yourself physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Introductory 30-minute healing sessions with certified Brennan Healing Science and Reiki Practitioner. Noon- 5PM; reservations required. $50 for an introductory private session in a serene healing arts studio. Holistic Living Delray, 140 SE 2nd Avenue, #27, Delray Beach. To reserve a session, please contact info@holisticlivingdelray,com.

SATURDAY MARCH 19 “The Spiritual Wisdom on Conquering Fear” Free Spiritual Café at 11:00 am on Tuesday, March 19th at the Wellington Whole Foods Market Café, 2635 State Road 7, Wellington. Share informal conversation about dreams and other spiritual tools. Unlock keys to understanding and meeting challenges we face in life. Presented by the Palm Beach County ECKANKAR Center. For directions and more information call our local ECKANKAR Center (561) 434-2003 or find us on www.meetup. com/ecankarinpalmbeach and on Facebook at ECKANKAR Palm Beach County. For information about ECKANKAR visit www.eckankar.org.

Booksignings at 6 pm. Cheryl Hollon will speak and sign Shards of Murder 7.99 and Robin Harlick will speak and sign a Cold White Fear 17.99.

Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. Phone: 561-279-7790. www.murderonthebeach.com Gemstone Readings: Learn to Read the Gemstone Oracle Decks and the Pile of Gems with Margaret Ann Lembo. Learn how to read gemstones for insight and personal development. Margaret Ann will give everyone attending a reading based on the seven stones chosen from the Gemstone Oracle - a pile of gorgeous gemstones. Then you will all practice giving and receiving gemstone readings.

1:00 – 5:00 PM: $37 prepaid, $47 at the door, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com. Call 561-3692836 to attend.

Gratitude Art Music Movement Awareness (G.A.M.M.A.) Family Festival, 1-7pm, free.

Explore all the Fort Lauderdale area has offer in

Healing Arts, Creative Arts and Flow Arts. Enjoy free classes for all ages, kids meditation, family activities, live music, vendors, and more, something for every age! Playful Roots Yoga, Esplanade Park, 400 SW 2nd St, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33312, Tiya, 954-599-1560.

"Create Harmony in Your Life & Family" 11am-5pm. Workshop Systemic Family Constellations. Epigenetics- Energy-Psychology. Clarity about Love/Choices/Career, Happy & Harmonious Relationships; Discover/Disconnect from Transgenerational traumas; Instantly more Inner Peace; Insight in Chronic Pain/Persistent Symptoms.

Raving testimonials: http://carlavanwalsum.com/ testimonials1/ Info: carlavanwalsum.com . Participants Cost $37. Call: 561 860-4883 Boca Raton Messages from Heaven Gallery w/Joseph LoBrutto Sat 6-8PM Cost $55 or $45 by 3/18. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter. com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Reiki Level 1 with Rev. Pearl Rauberts, Reiki Master & Teacher: 9:30 am to 5:00 pm; $150 includes 2 detailed manuals. Reiki helps heal body, mind & emotions. Learn about Reiki healing, and how to channel the Reiki healing energy for yourself & for others. You will learn the hand positions, receive all four of the Reiki Level I Attunements & get your Level I Certification. You will give & receive Reiki in a small group with individual attention from a very highly experienced, well qualified teacher.

6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. Please RSVP: call 561-333-3372, or email pearlrauberts@ hotmail.com, details at www.rauberts.com YOGA JOURNEY IN THE PARK with Leslie Glickman at 9:00am. COMPLIMENTARY all levels vinyasa flow yoga practice. Spread the word and help Leslie on her quest to unite our yoga community. Complimentary community class Sanborn Square (1 block north of Palmetto Park Rd on Federal Hwy) in Boca Raton yogajourney.com 561-479-7819 Psychic Saturday –11AM-4PM- Experience lowcost mini readings and the opportunity to sample variety of techniques with both experienced and developing readers. Attendees can choose among readers using methods such as clairvoyance, mediumship, tarot, handwriting analysis, healers and more. One fifteen-minute reading is $20 or 3 for $50. United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Rd. WPB 561-686-0217. www.unitedmetaphysical.org.

SUMMER CAMP SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE!

BOYNTON BEACH, FL The City of Boynton Beach Recreation and Parks Department is offering summer camp scholarships for city residents.

During these difficult financial times, the City of Boynton Beach Recreation and Parks Department is intent on assisting families by providing affordable and safe summer camp programs for children. Starting Monday, January 4, summer camp scholarship applications will be available at all recreation centers.

Details are provided with the application.

This is a first come, first served process. Applications will be processed until funds are depleted.

Applicants must mail their completed applications to: Boynton Beach Recreation and Parks Department: Civic Center, PO Box 310 Boynton Beach, FL 33425-0310 Camp registration begins February 6 for residents. For additional information about the scholarship process or about summer camp programs, please call 561-742-6243 or 561-742-6240

Contact the Boynton Beach Recreation & Parks Department at 561-742-6243 If hearing impaired, Telephone the Florida Relay Service numbers 800-955-8771 [TTY] or 800-955-8770 [Voice] for Assistance. (@boyntonbeachrec).

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Used Book Sale – Many metaphysical, spiritual, health and cook books. Reasonably priced. natural awakenings

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11AM-3:30PM. United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. 561-686-0217.

MacArthur Under Moonlight Concert: Roadside Revue, 7-9:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6 p.m.) Roadside Revue -Florida based acoustic band whose original and unique cover material collectively showcases the background of its members.

Join us under the full moon for a magical night of music. This concert series will be held November thru April featuring a different band every month. Come on out and bring the whole family! No reservations required and children under age 10 are free. Admission is $5.00 per person. For more information, please call the Nature Center at (561) 624-6952.

BELLABIRTHING WORKSHOP, "Where Beautiful Births Begin" 12-5pm, Agape Healing Arts, 385 Tequesta Drive, Suite 4, Tequesta.BELLABIRTHING incorporates SELF GUIDED HYPNOSIS, IMAGERY, VISUALIZATION, MEDITATION, YOGA AND QI GONG and is more than a technique, it is a philosophy; based on the belief that fear and tension are counterproductive to a calm and beautiful birth. Visit www.AgapeHealingArts.com to register on line. Price: $222 Early bird special if paid two weeks before class date or $298 after. Price includes healthy snacks, pregnancy herbal tea, lunch, workshop, and all class handouts and material. Sliding Scale available for financial Hardship. visit wwwagapehealingarts.com

SUNDAY MARCH 20 “The River of God” The ECK Worship Service is a time for people of all religious backgrounds to come and share the love for God. It is held every third Sunday of each month at 11:00 am in the Palm Beach County ECKANKAR Center, 1695 Florida Mango Road, Suite 4, West Palm Beach. The service includes singing the HU, guest speakers, small discussion groups, creative arts and fellowship. Find us on www.meetup.com/ecankarinpalmbeach for directions and more information, or call (561) 434-2003. For information about ECKANKAR visit www.eckankar.org or find us on Facebook.

Center for Spiritual Living Palm Beaches, Are you looking for a community where you can be yourself? Enjoy community, be authentic and make a difference at CSL. “Mindfulness Matters”, with Rev. Marcia MacLean. Meditation 10:00 am, Celebration 10:30 am. www.cslpalmbeaches.org, 561-676-7997, GreenWise Community Room, Upstairs 11231 Legacy Ave, PBG Reiki Circle led by Reiki Master & Teacher Rev. Pearl Rauberts; starts at 12:30 pm, donations accepted. Experience the healing power of Reiki to help body, mind & emotions! Open to those wishing to receive Reiki, we start with a short guided meditation then each person has a short individual Reiki healing session with Pearl on a Reiki table. Please arrive promptly and you must pre-register (limited number of places). 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. To RSVP: call 561-333-3372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com Healing Your Life book study class led by Pearl Rauberts; 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, $25. Louise Hay's self-help book: "You Can Heal Your Life" has been a best seller for many years. Today we will examine some of the ideas in this book, including "Life Is Really Very Simple: What We Give Out, We Get Back", "What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us", "Every thought we think is creating our future" and look at how to apply them in a very practical way to improve our own life. This class is suitable for those unfamiliar with the book and those who have read it. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. RSVP required: call 561-333-3372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail. com; details at www.rauberts.com

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Happy Hour at Raw Juice East with Jen Cruz. The Perfect way to end a busy week with a FREE all levels Vinyasa Yoga class on the rooftop at Raw Juice East led by Jen Cruz. Followed by complimentary juice for all those who attend. 6:00pm- 8:00pm. Held at Raw Juice East Sunday Worship Service – Rev. Justin Terry, Pastor of UMCPB, is considered one of the youngest and considered by many, the most outstanding young clairvoyants in the US today. Come and experience his uplifting message.

Healing 10:30 AM Worship Service 11:00 AM -UMC 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. 561-686-0217. www.unitedmetaphysical.org SUNDAY SERVICE at Unity of the Palm Beaches. Senior Minister Rev. Taylor E. Stevens’ uplifting sermons present practical spiritual teachings for a joyful, abundant and meaningful life. Our Broadway quality soloists along with our music team will bless us with their talent. We offer a Youth Program for children and teens. Food and fellowship follow the service in our beautiful social hall. Come join us and feel the love! Gather with like-minded people.

Services are held at the beautiful Temple Israel, 1901 N Flagler Dr, West Palm Beach, FL 33407 (561) 833-6483 www.unitypalmbeach.com Service begins at 11:00 a.m. Affiliated with Unity Worldwide Ministries, Silent Unity and Unity Institute & Seminary.

Bluegrass Music, 1-3:00 p.m. Just sit back and enjoy some foot-stompin’ and hand-clappin’ bluegrass music in Palm Beach County’s most beautiful setting.

The concert is free with Park admission, for more information call the Nature Center at (561) 624-6952.

Birding at MacArthur Park 2:00 p.m. Bird lovers can join a Ranger-led educational walk identifying many species of birds that make their home in John D. MacArthur Beach State Park. Reservations recommended. Visitors should bring binoculars or rent them in the Gift Shop. Program is free with Park admission. For more information and reservations, call the Nature Center at (561) 624-6952.

Are your “buttons” easily pushed by friends, family members or even strangers? It is time to cut the cords that are binding you to the past.

Prepare to enter this experience with your intention of who or what you are going to release. Disconnect the energetic ties and watch yourself transform your life for the better. Come and explore your consciousness!

This workshop includes a lecture and a regression experience. Wear comfortable clothing. Private sessions are available by appointment.

6:30 – 9:00 PM, $37 prepaid per event, $47 at the door, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden. com. Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

Booksigning at 7 pm. Randy Wayne White will speak and sign Deep Blue 27.00.Murder on the Beach Mystery Bookstore, 273 NE 2nd Avenue, Delray Beach. Phone: 561-279-7790. www.murderonthebeach.com Tools for Recovering from Grief and Loss with Debra Blizzard, Licensed Mental Health Counselor; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, $30. Have you had a recent loss of a loved one, or have you been grieving for a long time? Does it seem like you will never get over your grief? In this workshop, you will find that people can grieve in many different ways. This workshop will help the participant to understand the grieving process more fully. Participants will go home with new tools for helping themselves or a loved one to process their grief. 6073 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach 33415. To RSVP call 561-333-3372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com Meditation Class. 6:30-7:30 pm. Dr. Dave, certified psychologist and hypnotherapist will discuss different types of meditation, and conduct a guided meditation with the class. Learn how meditation can change your life! $10.00 pp. North Palm Beach Recreation Center, 603 Anchorage Dr. N.P.B. 561-841-3386 to reserve.

MONDAY MARCH 21 GUIDED MEDITATION: STRESS RELIEF AND DIVINE CONNECTION with Margaret Ann Lembo. Come experience a peaceful guided meditation to release stress and find inner peace. A unique focus will be used for each meditation. 6:00 - 6:30 PM, $5.00 suggested “love offering” per event, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden. com. Call 561-369-2836 to attend.

Yoga for Beginner’s Series w/Jamar (6Wks) Mon 7-8:45PM Cost $115 or $99 by 3/20 or drop-in fee $20 per class. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.

JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Keys of the Master Teacher - With Rev. Justin Terry. This two week course is an exploration of teachings given by the Master Teachers of ancient orders.

These teachers help us to open the higher consciousness within to help connect with the Universe. In this course, the teaching and opening of the chakras in relation to Self-Mastery and Spiritual Unfoldment are also covered. 7PM $30 for both weeks – Must pre-register and pre-paid. United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. Register at info@unitedmetaphysial.org or call 561-686-0217. Office is open We/Th/Fr 10A-2PM.

WEEKLY PRACTICE

SPECIAL PRACTICES

Tuesdays, 7:30 pm Heart Sutra & Meditation

Wednesday, March 23rd @7:30 pm All Good Buddha and Burnt Offering Practice

Wednesdays, 7:30 pm Calm Abiding Meditation

4th Wednesdays – Medicine Buddha

1st & 3rd Saturdays, 10 am Recitation of Ngondro 2nd & 4th Saturdays, 10 am Recitation of Buddha Sadhana

Sundays, 10 am Calm Abiding Meditation

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Wednesday, March 2nd @6:30 pm Intro to Meditation Saturday, March 12th @11:15 am Heart Advice for Practicing Dharma Saturday, March 19th @11:15 am Opening the Door to Tibetan Buddhism

TUESDAY MARCH 22 CORD CUTTING: RELEASING THE ENERGETIC TIES OF YOUR PAST with Margaret Ann Lembo. Are you ready to release old patterns? Do you notice you keep having the same type of relationship issues over and over again? natural awakenings

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Raising HealtHy CHildRen February 3 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm Raising Health Children lecture at Hippocrates Health institute Raising healthy children sounds pretty simple! How difficult can it be to get kids to eat well and participate in 60-minutes of physical activity each day? We know these tasks protect kids from obesity, diabetes, and a host of chronic diseases later in life. Yet today we compete against a world filled with convenient and unhealthy temptations. Parents play a key role in their children’s choices and behaviors.

What lifestyle options are available to you as a parent?

Join us for an evening filled with support and information to assist us in our goal raising an informed and healthy generation of children.

Free lecture call 561-471-8876 to RSVP (@boyntonbeachrec)

FULL MOON DRUMMING CIRCLE with Margaret Ann Lembo. On this auspicious day of brilliant light energy, establish your intentions for the next 28.5 days of your life! Margaret Ann will call in the 7 directions. The first round of drumming is dedicated to clearing away what you don’t want. The second round of drumming creates your new reality as you focus on and imagine your life as you want it to be. To complete the ceremony, Margaret Ann will drum as she guides you in a meditative drumming journey into yourself to help you find the answers and guidance. You also will have an opportunity to drum on the big Pow Wow drum during this experiential workshop. 6:45 PM - 9:00 PM, $22 prepaid, $27 at the door, maximum 25 people. The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch. www.thecrystalgarden.com.

Call 561-369-2836 to attend Reiki Circle led by Reiki Master & Teacher Rev. Pearl Rauberts; starts at 6:30 pm, donations accepted. Experience the healing power of Reiki to help body, mind & emotions! Open to those wishing to receive Reiki, we start with a short guided meditation then each person has a short individual Reiki healing session with Pearl on a Reiki table. Please arrive promptly and you must pre-register (limited number of places). 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. To RSVP: call 561-333-3372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail. com; details at www.rauberts.com

THURSDAY MARCH 24 Transformational Breath® w/Jamar Thurs 6:30-8:30PM Cost $40 or $35 by 3/23. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. ~John Dewey

com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Singing Crystal Bowl Meditation. Please join us at 6:30-7:30 pm at The Unity In The Pines located at 6073 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach. We offer a different meditation each week. We play our set of 7 Crystal Singing Bowls, Which are made of 99.9% Quartz Crystal. Each one is tuned to a specific musical note, which corresponds to one of the energy centers or chakras of the body. We will meet in room 528. Chairs are provided but if you would like to lay down feel free to bring a yoga mat, and a pillow for your comfort. The fee is $10.00 per person. You can follow us on Facebook for additional events @ Facebook. comcrystalbowlvibrationalhealing or Loxahatchee Sound Healing.

FRIDAY MARCH 25 Communicate with the Fairies w/Deirdre Abrami Fri 7-9PM Cost $35 or $30 by 3/24. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter. com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 LUNCH & LEARN lead by Leslie Glickman at 12:30. Everything but asana. This is the one class on the Yoga Journey schedule that doesn't include movement. Come and have a lite bite as we discuss all aspects of yoga theory, philosophy and so much more. Topics change weekly. Guest teachers will be brought in for special topics as well. This is a by donation class - your dollars will go to support the Yoga Journey Teacher Training Scholarship Fund. Held at Trend Tea located at the Wyndham Hotel 2thfloor 1950 Glades Road Boca Raton yogajourney.com 561-479-7819 Meng's Acupuncture Medical Center - 4060 PGA Blvd Suite 202, PBG FL 33410. Title: Lose weight and feel great with Meng's Acupuncture Weight Loss Program. from 10 am to 12 pm. Acupuncture is also known to normalize physiological functions, stimulate the immune system, relieve drug and alcohol withdrawal symptoms, and aid weight loss.Today receive 20% off a Weight Loss Treatment!

SATURDAY MARCH 26 Teachings of the Medicine Wheel with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee.

This is a two day workshop: Sat 3/26 (day 1) & Sun 3/27 (day 2); 9:30 am to 5:00 pm each day; $325 includes 45 page manual. Benefit from the centuries-old Native American Medicine Wheel as it was originally given to the people of Turtle Island. The Wheel is a tool for solving the hard

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morning drowsiness questions of Life. This workshop is for people who are serious about creating the life they want, and doing so independently. There is a reason these ways have survived: they work! No previous knowledge of Native American teachings is required. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. For further information and to RSVP call 561-333-3372, or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com YOGA JOURNEY IN THE PARK with Leslie Glickman at 9:00am. COMPLIMENTARY all levels vinyasa flow yoga practice. Spread the word and help Leslie on her quest to unite our yoga community. Complimentary community class Sanborn Square (1 block north of Palmetto Park Rd on Federal Hwy) in Boca Raton yogajourney.com 561-479-7819 Trance Circle – Guides and Teachers with Rev. Justin Terry. Rev. Terry will bring through your Guides and Teachers. Seating is limited to 25 people at $25.

7PM. RSVP in advance to info@unitedmetaphysial.org or call 561-686-0217 $25. United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. Butterfly Walk, 11:00 a.m. Join us on a walking tour through one of South Florida’s last remaining hardwood hammocks. There will be several species of butterflies to observe and identify as you learn which plants attract these winged wonders to your backyard. Reservations required, visitors should bring binoculars or rent them in the Gift Shop. Free with Park admission, for more information and reservations call (561) 624-6952.

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SUNDAY MARCH 27 Center for Spiritual Living Palm Beaches, Are you looking for a community where you can be yourself? Enjoy community, be authentic and make a difference at CSL. “New Beginnings”, with Rev. Marcia MacLean. Special Outdoor Easter Celebration at 11:00 am. Dress comfortably, bring a beach chair and a friend, www.cslpalmbeaches.org, 561-676-7997. Palm Court Plaza, 11911 US HWY 1, North Palm Beach Sunday Worship Service – Rev. Justin Terry, Pastor of UMCPB, is considered one of the youngest and considered by many, the most outstanding young clairvoyants in the US today. Come and experience his uplifting message. Healing 10:30 AM Worship Service 11:00 AM -UMC 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. 561-686-0217. www.unitedmetaphysical.org Private Reading with Rev. Justin Terry, one of the youngest and considered by many, the most outstanding young clairvoyant mediums in the US today. His readings are very informative. He works with your guides, teachers and loved ones who have crossed over. 30 Minutes for $125. Readings are scheduled from 2PM-5PM. To schedule, email info@unitedmetaphysical.org call 561-686-0217 WED/THU/FRI 10am-2pm United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB.

MONDAY MARCH 28 GUIDED MEDITATION: STRESS RELIEF AND DIVINE CONNECTION with Margaret Ann Lembo. Come experience a peaceful guided meditation to release stress and find inner peace. A unique focus will be used for each meditation. 6:00 - 6:30 PM, $5.00 suggested “love offering” per event, at The Crystal natural awakenings

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Keys of the Master Teacher - With Rev. Justin Terry. This two week course is an exploration of teachings given by the Master Teachers of ancient orders. These teachers help us to open the higher consciousness within to help connect with the Universe. In this course, the teaching and opening of the chakras in relation to Self-Mastery and Spiritual Unfoldment are also covered. 7PM $30 for both weeks – Must pre-register and pre-paid.

United Metaphysical Church, 528 S. Haverhill Road, WPB. Register at info@unitedmetaphysial. org or call 561-686-0217. Office is open We/Th/ Fr 10A-2PM.

REINVENTING HEALTHCARE LECTURES at AGAPE; “MEDICINE CABINET MAKEOVER” at 7:30pm. Agape Healing Arts, 385 Tequesta Drive, Ste 4, Tequesta. If you are concerned about using synthetic drugs and their cascading side effects or simply would like to try a natural solution before going to your health care practitioner, then essential oils are a great option for you! $15 preregistered or $20 at the door.

Your investment automatically enters you into our door prize and raffle for dōTERRA intro kit ($40.00 VALUE). RSVP REQUIRED. visitwwwagapehealingarts.com

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“The Spiritual Wisdom on Conquering Fear” Free Spiritual Café at 11:00 am on Saturday, March 29th at the Wellington Whole Foods Market Café, 2635 State Road 7, Wellington, FL 33414.

Share informal conversation about dreams and other spiritual tools. Unlock keys to understanding and meeting challenges we face in life. Presented by the Palm Beach County ECKANKAR Center.

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Ascension w/Layla Jean Wed 7-9PM Cost $25 or $20 by 3/29. The Jamar Enlightenment Center. www.JamarCenter.com 4595 Northlake Blvd., Villa Palma Plaza, Suite 107, 150 yards west of Military Trail, PBG. To register or for Information call 561-630-2280 Native American Healing Drumming Circle with Grandfather Rick McBride, mixed blood Cherokee; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, donations honored.

Traditional Native American style drumming with

hand drums, rattles, and singing of Lakota Prayer songs: no drumming experience required. Drums and rattles are available to borrow. A spiritual experience suitable for everyone and drum healing is offered to those wanting healing. 6073 Summit Blvd, West Palm Beach 33415. RSVP required: call 561-333-3372 or email pearlrauberts@hotmail.com; details at www.rauberts.com Meditation Class. 11-12:00 pm. Dr. Dave, certified psychologist and hypnotherapist will discuss different types of meditation, and conduct a guided meditation with the class. Learn how meditation can change your life! $10.00 pp. North Palm Beach Recreation Center, 603 Anchorage Dr. N.P.B. 561-841-3386 to reserve.

Meng's Acupuncture Medical Center - 4060 PGA Blvd Suite 202, PBG FL 33410. (561) 656-0717. from 10 am to 12 pm. Title: 20% off a cupping treatment at Meng's Acupuncture Medical Center. Cupping is an effective treatment for any condition that relates to blood or Qi stagnation.

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Margaret Ann Lembo. We receive messages from the Divine all the time. Everyone is highly intuitive. Sometimes we pay attention to the inner voice, vibes, or hunch. And sometimes we don't believe ourselves and the guidance received through dreams, symbols, and a variety of ways the communication arrives. Join this event to know yourself better and learn how to interpret your own dreams and symbols as they are messages from the Divine. Please bring a notepad and your own pen or pencil that will be dedicated to your dreams and this class.6:30 - 8:00 PM, $23, at The Crystal Garden, 2610 N. Federal Hwy, Boynton Bch, www.thecrystalgarden.com. Call 561-3692836 to attend.

“What Moves You to Seek Your Inner Truth?”

This lively Round Table discussion about spiritual principles and personal experiences is a great opportunity to introduce a newcomer to the ECK Teachings. This event will be held at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm with light refreshments to follow at the Palm Beach County ECKANKAR Center, 1695 Florida Mango Road, Suite 4, West Palm Beach. For directions and more info call our local ECKANKAR Center (561) 434-2003 or find us on www.meetup.com/ecankarinpalmbeach and on Facebook at ECKANKAR Palm Beach County.

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Singing Crystal Bowl Meditation. Please join us at 6:30-7:30 pm at The Unity In The Pines located at 6073 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach. We offer a different meditation each week. We play our set of 7 Crystal Singing Bowls, Which are made of 99.9% Quartz Crystal. Each one is tuned to a specific musical note, which corresponds to one of the energy centers or chakras of the body. We will meet in room 528. Chairs are provided but if you would like to lay down feel free to bring a yoga mat, and a pillow for your comfort. The fee is $10.00 per person. You can follow us on Facebook for additional events @ Facebook.comcrystalbowlvibrationalhealing or Loxahatchee Sound Healing.

Saturday April 2nd: Laura Norman 2-Day Intro to Foot and Hand Reflexology, (Sat-Sun - 9am6pm, April 2-3 – 16 Florida LMT, NCBTMB, AMTA, AOTA CE Contact Hours Available). Experience a unique, guided, hands-on introduction to Foot and Hand Reflexology. Learn powerful nurturing techniques that reduce stress, increase your energy and enhance your health and well being with the Laura Norman Method. Led by Master Instructor Sande Rosen. Location: Boynton Beach.

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LEARNING IMPROVEMENT CENTER, LLC

Wes Beach, LMT, CBIT 301 Camino Gardens Blvd, #204 Boca Raton, FL 33432 561-809-4985 LearningImprovementCenter.com I work with adults and children to alleviate symptoms of learning difficulties, ADD/ADHD, and dyslexia without drugs or supplements. With my help you will increase your ability to learn, remember, focus and make better decisions. Expect improvement in four major areas: Academics, Focus, Balance, and Emotions. Drug-free therapy, using a natural method, a blend of Acupressure and Kinesiology. Finally put an end to the struggles at home, school or work. Call for a free assessment 561-809-4985. MA45714 - MM34750

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Alexander Technique has been helping students for over 150 years with *Chronic Pain *Peak Performance *Postural Coordination *Presence and *Prevention. Move and Feel Younger As You Age with this very simple but profound process. I will teach you skills and principles that you will become very proficient at, to be able to use anytime, any moment and any where in your daily life and special skills. You will learn to get to the Cause of your Chronic back and neck pain and learn how to Stop It versus Managing any Vulnerability “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.”-F.M. Alexander

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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE THE HEALING CENTER FOR ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE 16244 S. Military Trail Suite 120 Delray Beach FL 33484 phone:561-498-1414 www.drelishaomd.com doctoresther@att.net

Dr. Esther Elisha, AP, MD(Israel) NCCAOM Specialties are acupuncture, nutrition, herbal and holistic medicine. Graduate of Hadassah Medical School, Sri Lanka University and Acupuncture-Acupressure Institute Miami. Cosmetic chemist and creator of Elishea Natural Skincare www.Elishea.com

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Founder, NF Specialist Center for Brain Jupiter www.CenterforBrain.com 561-744-7616 info@CenterforBrain.com Get Your Head on Straight. 18 years as a specialist in technologies that improve the brain. WITHOUT MEDICATIONS, helps overcome chronic problems with ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, MEMORY and SLEEP. We deal with cases that often have multiple treatment failures - and see consistent improvement. AT CBT we have created comprehensive programs to help the brain work better.

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Taking part in our expressive arts events, you can learn to: *Create as an Inner Journey that leads to self discoveries. *Create as Meditation that quiets the “monkey mind” and leads to self acceptance and peace. *Create while transforming blocks to creativity including “the inner critic”. * Create within a Community to experience your authenticity in company with others.

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LISA UPLEDGER, DC, FIAMA

Upledger Center for Integrative Therapy 900 E Indiantown Road, suite 310 Jupiter Fl 33477 561 746 5232 drlisaupledger@yahoo.com Combining Chiropractic, CranioSacral Therapy, Medicupping and using Acupuncture to enhance these treatments in a unique approach for addressing pain and dis-ease in the body, in practice for over 30 years, trained by my late husband founder and creator of CST Dr. John Upledger. Doing workshops with 4 therapists at my office to deepen and enhance CST skills and knowledge Call for appointments and information about the classes.

FITNESS TRAINING WILLY GREEN

561-670-3763 Forever Fitness Palm Beach Gardens, FL Reach your fitness goals and maintain those goals with a program designed for you, no matter what those goals are: cardiovascular health, muscle tone, post injury mobility or increasing flexibility at any age.

Certified by the National Institute of Sports Medicine and Academy of Sports Medicine. 30 years of experience.

INTEGRATED DERMATOLOGY BARRY J. KUTTNER, M.D., PH.D., F.A.A.D.

Integrated Dermatology of West Palm Beach 1840 Forest Hill Blvd., Suite 102 West Palm Beach, FL 33406 Phone: 561-964-6664 www.functionalderm.com (additional location downtown)

CONTACT US TODAY FOR INFO

• Board Certified Dermatology, Dermatopathology, & Integrative Medicine • IFM Certified Practitioner • Metabolic Medical Institute Certified Combining a holistic approach with the latest functional medicine testing, supplements, and nutritional guidance. Adults and children. Micro-needling for facial rejuvenation and scarring.

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FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE KENNETH N. WOLINER, MD, ABFM Difficult-to-treat conditions 9325 Glades Road, Suite 104 Boca Raton, FL 33434 561-314-0950 www.holisticfamilymed.com

Board-certified family medicine MD, admits to West Boca Medical Center, specializing in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, bioidentical hormones, fatigue, pain, anxiety, depression, and insomnia. Effective, permanent weight loss through fixing your metabolism. No insurance accepted.

MERNA MATILSKY, M.D.

Board Certified Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine and Family Medicine 2900 N. Military Trail, Suite 245 Boca Raton, FL 33431 561/994-2007 www.bocamed.com www.facebook.com/bocaimaginewellness * Functional and Integrative Medicine * Age Management Medicine * Healthy Lifestyle Management * Weight Loss Programs *Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy Call 561/994-2007 to attend a free seminar on Stress, Hormones & Health: The True Cause of Belly Fat.

HOLISTIC HAIR SALON GLISTEN ORGANIC SALON 530 NE 2nd Street Delray Beach, FL 33483 561-767-0371 info@glistensalon.com

HOLISTIC PHYSICIAN HEALING HEARTS HOLISTIC CENTER 2351 Vista Parkway Ste 500 West Palm Beach, FL 33411 561-870-0133 www.HealingHeartsFL.com Healing Hearts Holistic Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a new concept of health and wellness that stresses self-directed care via a mind-body-spirit approach. Through our Integrative Medical Model we blend the best of Eastern Philosophies with Western Medicine to achieve perfect health, happiness and longevity. Our treatment plan includes a consultation with a Medical Doctor, counseling, yoga therapy, massage, meditation and spirituality. All of our Instructors work on a reduce fee schedule to make these programs affordable to everyone.We have a Spiritual Discussion Group that meets on Wednsday evenings and is open to the public. Private Meditation Instructions available on donation basis.

YIHONG JOY HAO, MD, OMD, L.AC. A Holistic Specialist in Both Western & Eastern Medicine 2900 N. Military Trail, Suite 101 Boca Raton, FL 33487 561-998-0309

Board Certified Family Physician.

Master of Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine. Professor of Oriental Medicine. Natural Pain Management Specialist Acupuncture, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Nutrition, Homeopathy, Pain Management, Immune Regulation, Detoxification, Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement, Women’s Health, Infertility, Geriatrics, Medical Weight Loss, Addictions, Balance and Harmony, etc.

HOLISTIC VETERINARIAN

“ Where nature and beauty meet” A hidden jewel in the heart of Pineapple Grove. Come and relax in the serene, private environment while receiving the finest in organic and conventional services and products. Let years of experience and professionalism guide you to Delray’s hottest neighborhood.

CLASSICAL VETERINARY HOMEOPATHY Michael Dym, VMD 650 Christina Drive #106 Royal Palm Beach, FL 33414 561-860- 8578 www.doctordym.com Integral holistic veterinary medicine also affiliated with full service veterinary medical, surgical and diagnostic facility. Classical homeopathy, herbal and nutritional therapy.

Vaccine and pesticide alternatives.

Trained by Richard Pitcairn, DVM, phd. Office and phone consultations nationwide.

HOLISTIC HEALING INCEPTION POINT INSTITUTE Cheryl Sullivan, C.Ht. 301 Camino Gardens Blvd, #204 Boca Raton, FL 33432 561-395-2727 www.InceptionPointInstitute.com

Have you ever wished you could go back in time... and change the past?

Inception Point Therapy® gives you the tools to make the corrections and add solutions. Then bring them forward to today giving you the life you deserve. Classes are only two-and-a-half days, a small commitment to change the rest of your life. My passion is teaching people how to heal themselves… emotionally and physically, working with the energy of Source. Classes or appointment call 561-395-2727 or InceptionPointInstitute.com.

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Nancy A. Keller, DVM, CVH, CVA, CVC 208 N.E. 3rd St. Boynton Bch, Fl 561-740-1313 Fax 561-740-0819 Integration of Ancient Wisdom and Modern Medicine.

Holistic Veterinary Care for our animal friends. By appointment only.

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HOMEOPATHY POSITIVE NUTRITION OF SO. FLORIDA Wendy Cottiers, Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner 4640 N. Federal Highway, Suite F Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308 954-306-3887 www.PositivenNutritionInc.net Offering Individual, Family & Group Nutritional Counseling, Food Sensitivity & Hair Analysis Testing. Register for complimentary newsletter.

Offices in Ft. Lauderdale & Palm Beach.

HYPNOTHERAPY DAVE DISANO, PH.D. C.H.

At: Digits Wellness Spa 2247 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 209 West Palm Beach, FL 33409 401-323-6934 Email: divinely@divinelytouched.com Website: www.divinelytouched.com Dr. Dave is a Holistic Hypnotherapist. He has degrees in science education, counseling, school psychology and a Ph.D. in Holistic Mental Health. He is author of Holistic Mental Health and co-author (with his wife Mary) of Divinely Touched: Transform Your Life where he connects science with metaphysics and spirituality proving the existence of the spirit dimension and it’s influence on our lives. He conducts individual and group Hypnotherapy sessions for weight loss, smoking cessation, anxiety, depression and phobias. Sessions include a CD. Experience amazing results in ONE session.

INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC HEALING JENNIFER A. HOUSE DOM

The Therapeutic Alternative 301 Camino Gardens Boulevard, Suite 102 Boca Raton, Fl 33432 561.702.5144 www.jh-energyhealer.com Discover your most vibrant self!

Jennifer is double nationally certified in acupuncture and herbal medicine, a Quantum Energetic Practitioner, and a Neuroscience, Inc. healthcare provider. In her practice she offers acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutrition, energy healing, and laboratory testing (neurotransmitter, adrenal, hormone) to achieve alignment for the body, mind and spirit. She specializes in pain relief, fertility, women's health issues, addictions, anxiety, depression, post surgical healing, and wellness.

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Delia Weiss MD Internal Medicine And Holistic Prevention 200 Lindell Blvd., Suite 914 Delray Beach, FL 33483 561.243.8783 WeissWellnessMD.com Primary Care + Preventive Medicine. Full spectrum of care, acute and complex issues, to preventive wellness. Traditional and natural complementary approaches. Compassion practice, Professional, Experienced. Personalized health and wellness services and classes to meet your specific needs. Extended eve/wknd hrs.

Insured/Uninsured. Home and onsite visits available by appointment. Located: 200 Lindell Blvd., Suite 914, Delray Beach, FL 33483. SW corner Fed. Hwy and Lindell Blvd., West of Walgreen’s. Meditation classes, guided stress release and energy healing, for health benefit, on Tuesday evenings 7-8pm by reservation, $10 investment, 561.243.8783.

LIFE COACH MICHELE LANDERS & ASSOCIATES Board Certified Life Coach Certified Hypnotherapist Certified Numerologist Author of The Tao of Numbers and The Year of Living Miraculously Email: michelelanders@bellsouth.net 954-444-6955

What Do YOU Really Want in Your Life? Confused about what you want? Unemployed - in transition- facing layoff? Do you want to experience a more meaningful life?

Whether you're stuck in a rut, fearful of the economic situation, going through a transition or just trying to figure out what you want Michele Landers will help you to discover your talents and what you truly want and assist you in getting past the illusion of fear and confusion. Coaching is a valuable process that can produce dramatic results in a short period of time.

LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE & THERAPY BEVERLY DOWDLE, LMT, LLCC

FL Lic#MA6733 Advanced Lymphatic Therapy™ The Therapeutic Alternative 301 Camino Gardens Blvd.,Ste.102 Boca Raton ~ 561-392-3340 www.TheTherapeuticAlternative.com Beverly is a Certified Lymphatic Specialist with over 27 years experience. See and feel the results; glowing skin, reduced swelling/ puffiness, improved immune function and better digestion. Decreases post-workout and post-surgical recovery time.

LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST LAWRENCE J. LEVY, PSY.D., PA 398 Camino Gardens Blvd, Suite 7 Boca Raton, FL 33432 561-206-4286 Fax:561-210-8802

Licensed Psychologist offering psychotherapy from depth psychology perspective for adults and couples dealing with Anxiety, Stress, Depression, Relationship and Break up issues. Also Cognitive-Behavioral Psychology, NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy and Addiction Therapy. Telephone consultation available.

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LIFE COACH LAURA NORMAN LIFE WELLNESS COACHING AND REFLEXOLOGY Delray Beach • New York City • The Berkshires 561-272-1220 • 212-532-4404 • 413-854-2615 www.lauranorman.com Laura created Life Wellness CoachingSM to empower you to: • Release old programs that no longer serve you • Be balanced and stronger • Get clear about your goals • Think and speak affirmatively • Focus your inspirations about relationships career, prosperity, health and nutrition • Embrace and manifest your dreams • Love your life!

Experience a unique blend of tools for your mind, body and spirit, including: • Guided imagery and visualization • The power of conscious language • Breath work with Aromatherapy • Law of Attraction • Love, Forgiveness and Gratitude • Laura Norman Holistic ReflexologySM Let us help you live an inspired life!

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MEDITATION

ORTHO-BIONOMY®

SCIENCE OF SPIRITUALITY

www.lovetomeditate.org English (561) 715-3996 ~ Dave Espanol (954) 646-1715 ~ Nestor If you want more than just stress relief and relaxation, meditation on the Inner Light could be what you have been searching for. Join us for weekly meetings focused on spirituality and meditation. No charge, no donations.

MIND AND BODY HEALING DR. YAFI AND DR. ROBIN

Counseling, Hypnosis, Acupuncture, Energy/Chakra Balancing and Healing, Stress/Anxiety reduction.

Call now for a free consultation!

Serving South Palm Beach County and North Broward.

Dr. Yafi (on right) 954-471-3073 HealthyMindsPractice.com Holistic doctor of clinical psychology and Energy Practitioner, specializes in Hypnosis and counseling for adults/ children/teens, Past-Life Regression, Spiritual Regression, stress & anxiety reduction, meditation, and Joyful Living. Also specializes in Brain and Chakra Balancing/reading and Energy Healing.

Dr. Robin (on left) 954-242-9874 Acubalance.net Board Certified Acupuncturist and Reiki Master. Naturally heal pain, poor digestion, anxiety & stress, improve energy and sleep through acupuncture. B-12, Chinese herbs, and nutrition in Boca Raton.

ORGANIZING SERVICE

FL Lic# MA24690 Ortho-Bionomy The Therapeutic Alternative 301 Camino Gardens Blvd., Ste.102 Boca Raton ~ 561-392-3340 www.TheTherapeuticAlternative.com Ortho-Bionomy is a gentle form of bodywork that reduces tension and discomfort. It works without being uncomfortable in the process.

It is excellent for anyone seeking relief from pain, improved range of motion, increased flexibility, and improved postural alignment. Yini is a Licensed Massage Therapist and is certified as a Practitioner of Ortho-Bionomy by the Society of Ortho-Bionomy, International®.

Ortho-Bionomy® is a registered trademark of the Society of Ortho-Bionomy International, Inc. ® and is used with permission.

PILATES PILATES SPACE FLORIDA Authentic Pilates & Holistic Lifestyle Solutions 4826 NW 2nd Ave. Boca Raton, FL, 33431 561.317.2835

Experience the difference Authentic Pilates can make in your Life at our state- of- the- art studio featuring GRATZ® Pilates equipment We proudly feature: Authentic Pilates lessons; Reformer, Tower and Mat classes; CoreAlign® lessons: Private Yoga instruction: Functional Fitness training; Holistic Wellness Counseling: Usui Reiki: Massage: Wellness Workshops; Clara's Boutique & Cafe featuring exclusive Fitness apparel, Jewelry, Books, Vegan supplements and more.

Call about new client special. 561.317.2835 visit: www.pilatesspaceflorida.com

PSYCHIC DEIRDRE ABRAMI

6th Generation Psychic Intuitive, Spiritual Advisor & Teacher 561-READING (732-3464) www.DeirdreAbrami.com

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Professional Organizer.

Can help declutter paper piles, overflowing closets, disorganized kitchens, garages etc.

“Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Class” Instructor “Get Organized Accountability Group” Facilitator

Deirdre offers private psychic readings, psychic development classes & spiritual coaching. She has the ability to connect with your spirit guides, angels & deceased loved ones to help you on your path. Receive clarity about…career, relationships, health, finances, spirituality & more.

For more details & appointments: www.DeirdreAbrami. com or 561-READING

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PSYCHIC/INTUITIVE HEALER DR. DEBORAH ARMENTI

Dr. Deborah Armenti www.amysticalage.com Empower Yourself Holistic, Healer/ Health Coach Life/ Relationship Guide Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308 954-802-3477 email: amysticalage@yahoo.com *Psychic Readings *Medical Intuitive* Medium *Clairvoyant* Consultant* Medium* Astrologer* Numerologist* Reiki* Guidance that helps you with when, what and why of past experiences. Guidance in present situation; answers to why reoccurrence's may continue; guidance on how to pave the way,for a more fulfilling future; help that will guide you on your path, which will empower you to a higher level of mind, body and spirit. Expertise include: Relationships, finance, family, health, past life influences, life purpose, path fulfillment, energy healing, spiritual health. Call 954-802-3477

RECONNECTIVE HEALING MARY ‘DIVINE’ DISANO

At: Digits Wellness Spa 2247 Palm Beach Lakes Blvd., Suite 209 West Palm Beach, FL 33409 401-263-8828 Email: divinely@divinelytouched.com Website: www.divinelytouched.com Experience the difference! After being certified in Reflexology and Reiki, Mary was led to Reconnective Healing that uses higher energy frequencies promoting healing of body, mind and spirit. Her patients report miraculous healings in ONE session (see website: www.divinelytouched.com/ testimonies). She is also author of Divinely Touched: Transform Your Life that chronicles her healing journey through the Metaphysical Worlds!

REFLEXOLOGY LAURA NORMAN HOLISTIC REFLEXOLOGY Delray Beach • New York City • The Berkshires 561-272-1220 • 212-532-4404 • 413-854-2615 www.lauranorman.com Visit world-renowned expert Laura Norman and her experienced associates and enjoy private sessions in Holistic Reflexology, Life Wellness CoachingSM and Therapeutic Massage to reduce your stress, increase your energy, improve your health and love your life! Read Laura’s best-selling book, FEET FIRST: A Guide to Foot Reflexology and practice with one of our Instructional Foot, Hand and Face Reflexology DVDs and a colorful, foot-shaped pillow with Laura’s Reflexology foot map, her new Laura Norman Foot • Hand • Face Aromatherapy line and Laura’s other unique wellness products. Call or visit us online to register for one of our: • Holistic Reflexology, Life Wellness & Massage Sessions • Free Introduction to Laura Norman Reflexology Training Webinar • Holistic Reflexology Certification Training Programs • Foot • Hand • Face Therapy Products Let us help you live an inspired life!

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REIKI DEENA ELMORE

LMT, Reiki Master/Teacher Integrated Therapies 561-271-2651 www.deenaelmore.com Lic #MA45730 Personalized intuitive sessions integrating massage, Reiki, cranio sacral work, Chakra Rebooting, Angel Therapy & channeling, Lifeline technique, and Bach Flower remedies.

These therapies assist to awaken each individuals’ own inner wisdom and healing abilities! Deeply relaxing and transforming!

Over 25 years of teaching experience, Reiki Master since 1999. Ongoing Reiki classes, now offering Reiki Level 1 for 7 hours of CEU's for Massage therapists. (NCBTMB certified) Reiki Healing/Sharing circles monthly. Visit website for details.

SHAMANISM AND ENERGY HEALING

SPIRIT AND ENERGY HEALING Paula Klempay 561-809-4932 www.SpiritandEnergyHealing.net

Paula has worked with individuals, families, organizations and communities to effect healing and wholeness since 1994. Paula offers healing sessions, teaches, leads healing circles, and guides ceremonies for all life stages and transitions. Her classes are experiential, facilitated with love and respect. Contact Paula or visit website to learn more about Shamanic Journeying for Guidance and Empowerment, Energy Clearing and Balancing, Soul Retrieval, Medicine for the Earth, and other specialties.

SOUND AND LIGHT HEALING HENRY LEPLER

Healing Sound Guide/ Workshop Leader/Speaker Boca Raton, Florida - 561-251-3670 www.HenryLepler.com www.HenryLepler.com/cd/ On a longtime journey exploring his passion for healing sound, with special focus on voice, Henry offers sound journeys, healing circles, workshops and inspirational talks.

For more info about Henry or to hear sample clips of his newly released CD, Creating Space: Journeys of Healing Sound, go to www.henrylepler.com/cd

JENNIFER PACOCHA

Subtle Energy Practitioner Jupiter, FL 561-935-7518 www.JenPacocha.com Jennifer Pacocha is certified in color and sound therapies and Reiki. Jennifer practices multiple disciplines but specializes in crystal bowl therapy in conjunction with highenergy colored light. Jennifer also incorporates tuning forks, voice and other instruments. Chakra balancing, stress relief, pain management, and more - bring balance and harmony to your life!

SPIRITUAL BOOKSTORE THE CRYSTAL GARDEN

2610 North Federal Highway Boynton Beach, FL 561-369-2836 www.thecrystalgarden.com A unique gift store, book store and spiritual center with more than 50 events a month. Check the calendar and website for listings.

SPIRITUAL CENTER AND ORGANIC TEA LOUNGE

WELNESS CENTER NANCY REMO GALLAWAY, LMT 4956 Le Chalet Blvd., # 13 Boynton Beach, FL 33436 561-350-6866 www.NancyRemoGallaway.com

Intuitive Mind Body Therapist, Nancy specializes in professional therapeutic massage, cupping, reflexology, energy healing, chakra healing/clearing, guided meditation-hypnosis, and spiritual counseling. # MA 61887

MY FLORA AURA

Daily Classes,Unique Gift shop & Free Organic tea Tasting My Flora Aura.com Jolie DeMarco 26 SE 4th street, East Boca Raton, FL 561-901-5808 JolieMyFloraAura@aol.com www.MyFloraAura.com

YOGA YOGA CENTER OF DEERFIELD BCH

827 SE 9th St, Deerfield Beach, FL 33441 954-427-2353 561-859-5512, cell www.YogaCenterDB.com www.TeachingYogaDeeper.com Become a Yoga Teacher RYT200 N e w : A d v a n c e d Tr a i n i n g RYT500. Most experienced staff in South Florida. RYT500 starts May 13th; RYT200 starts September 25th. Regular classes everyday!

Please take a look at our web-site to see what events we offer this month. We have so many fun classes to attend. Floral designing, Channeling sessions,MasterMinds,Reiki, Meditation circles, Tea Parties and More!

Stop in to say Hi, browse the store...or have a relaxing cup of Organic tea

SPROUTS GOT SPROUTS?

1880 West 10th St Riviera Beach, FL 33480 www.GotSprouts.com E-mail Info@GotSprouts.com 561-689-9464 Purveyors of Quality Wheatgrass, Sprouts, Juicers, Seed and Supplies. We supply Juice bars, Restaurants, Green Markets, Grocery Stores and The General Public with Healthy Sprouts! We Ship and Deliver

WELNESS CENTER

YOGA THERAPY & MASSAGE KATIE HALEY, BS, LMT, RYT 916 SE 5th Ave Suite 6 Delray Beach, FL 33483 407 760-8214 www.cosmicflower.com

Yoga & Massage Fusion Studio is a private sanctuary designed for complete relaxation and rejuvenation. MA # 32374. Open Mon-Fri 10am-8pm by appointment only.

Visit cosmicflower.com for all the details. Try our 90 min introductory special for only $99

COMMUNICATING ENERGY WELLNESS CENTER

370 W. Camino Gardens Blvd, Suite 112 Boca Raton, FL 33432 561-212-6862 www.communicatingenergyinstitute.com Colleen A. Haney, M. Ed., Integrative Energy Therapist Individual sessions, classes, meditations, drumming circle, women’s groups and more. Eden Energy Medicine, Healing Touch, EFT, Nutripuncture, Peace through Surgery Program, Spiritual Counseling, Intuitive readings. Full spectrum integrative support and nurturing. Know your personal energy body’s needs and have the tools to thrive!

YOUR HEALING PLACE JEANNE ELLIS

Your Healing Place, LLC 561-706-2834 Yourhealingplace.jeanne@gmail.com License #MA29251 Discover your Infinite potential for healing & moving through life’s challenges with confidence and ease. Jeanne Ellis, Owner, has over 20 years experience helping people heal. Her qualifications are: * Licensed Massage Therapist * Certified NeuroMuscular Therapist * Certified LifeLine Practitioner/ Instructor *Certified BodyTalk Practitioner/Instructor * Reiki Master * Healer * Approved educational provider. For more info call Jeanne 561-706-2834. www.YourHealingPlaceFL.com

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Gentle Acupuncture Less Pain, Improved Sleep, More Energy, Lower Stress, Fertility and Wellness.

Dr. Cameron Bishop DAOM, L.Ac.

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Accredited Masters and Doctorate in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine 18 years of experience with ten in Western and Chiropractic Offices Trained in the USA, Europe, Japan and China State Licensed (AP 762), Nationally Board Certified (NCCAOM) Over four years training in the Far East in Healing and Martial Arts

Palm Beach Acupuncture

1505 N. Federal Hwy, Lake Worth, FL 33460

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