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RVA Physical Therapy Opens Second Location

RVA Physical Therapy, specializing in orthopedic, pelvic health, sports and aquatic physical therapy, is opening a new office located at 101 Heaths Way, in Midlothian (behind Burger Bach) in early 2022. The staff includes Ramky Kavaserry, DPT, CDN; Neepa Patel, PT, CDN; Vidhi Amin, PT, CDN; Krishna Patel, PT, CDN, Pelvic Floor and Orthopedic; Bestin John Jacob, PT, CDN and Norell Jensen, DPT. Their mission is “Excellent Care, Exceptional Results.”

Patients receive world-class care and a holistic approach to treating pain. Both offices will offer orthopedic, pelvic, sports, and aquatic therapy; visceral manipulation; dry needling; manual therapy and more. Flexible scheduling is available and most major insurances are accepted.

Other location: 2620 A Gaskins Rd., Henrico. For more information and appointments, call 804-396-6753 or visit RVAPhysicalTherapy.com. See ads, pages 3 and 32.

Local Yoga Teacher on Insight Timer

Lydia Nitya Griffith, E-RYT200, is now listed as a teacher on the free Insight Timer app. More than 18 million people around the world meditated for more than 5.6 billion minutes using this app and over 60 percent of people searching for a meditation are looking for help with insomnia. Griffith found help there for her own menopausal insomnia and now seeks to help others with a variety of meditations that can be used for meditation or for falling asleep. Lydia Nitya Griffith

Her meditations include chakra visualizations, tensing and releasing aspects, a focus on breath or words of inspiration, including some of Griffith’s original poetry. New content is added weekly. Nitya Living offers yoga programs for children, teens and adults, feng shui consultations and Chinese astrology readings.

For more information, call 804-678-8568 or visit NityaLiving.com. See ads, pages 31 and 35. A coalition of nonprofits, including Project Yoga Richmond, RVA SK8 Club, Richmond Young Writers, Open Space Education, Neighborhood Resource Center and Studio Two Three, will offer a Fearless Fest from 1 to 4:30 p.m. on November 7 at the Neighborhood Resource Center in Fulton Hill for youth ages 12 to 18 to express themselves and build skills through writing, art and movement.

Participants can choose four workshops in creative nonfiction, yoga, ceramics, skateboarding basics (through advanced levels), mindfulness, poetry and painting that most interest them for a deep-dive afternoon of movement, introspection and expression. They’ll also have the opportunity to make lanterns for 1708 Gallery’s 14th annual InLight Festival. The Studio Two Three print truck will be onsite so students can screen print a shirt or tote bag.

The cost is $75/student and full scholarships are available. Register at RichmondYoungWriters.com/Fearless-Fest.

New Book Sheds Light on Past Lives

With thirty years of reincarnation research and past-life memories, Carole Louie has written a new book, Unstuck in Time: Memoir of a Time Traveler. This true story about how love transcends time is a spiritual quest through many lives to discover the reasons why we reincarnate and how awareness of other lives can affect the present life.

As a soul medium, past-life regression therapist/reincarnation researcher and the subject of the story, Louie imparts her unique perspective on the process, sharing eight past lives from concubine to an archbishop, the Second Opium War to the Holocaust, suicide to the continuity of life. The back stories connect the individual stories to each other and to this life. Louie takes the reader into an in-depth, candid look at the wounds and gifts we carry from lifetime to lifetime, the Earth experience and one’s life purpose as she searches for answers to spiritual questions.

E-book and paperback versions are available on Amazon. For more information, visit CaroleLouie.com and TheCenter-RVA.com.

Midlo Myo Orofacial Myofunctional Specialties, the practice of orofacial myologist Amanda Jeffrey, BS, has opened at 1909 Huguenot Road in Midlothian. Jeffrey helps clients with hyperactivity, difficulty focusing, learning difficulties, emotional outbursts, anxiety and depression that may be heightened by poor sleep. “Sleepdisordered breathing may also be accom-

Amanda Jeffrey panied by snoring, open mouth breathing, bedwetting, night terrors, waking during the night, restless sleep, teeth grinding and crooked teeth,” says Jeffrey.

“Sleeping like a rock does not necessarily equate to highquality sleep. Interrupted sleep cycles or a decreased amount of oxygen delivered to the brain at night is detrimental to the developmental process. Children that have sleep-disordered breathing or breathe through their mouths have a 40 percent higher risk of having learning difficulties in school.”

Midlo Myo is taking new clients ages 5 years old and up and can schedule a comprehensive assessment to find out if inadequate sleep or improper breathing is causing daytime struggles.

For more information and appointments, call 804-464-4776 or email Amanda@MidloMyo.com. Debbie Barbuto, aka Mommy Moo Moo, has written two e-books that have been published as children’s board books called Loblolly, Loblolly, You’re So Tall and Vegetable Chatter. Both books are filled with gorgeous illustrations, a quirky sense of humor and vital life lessons that exhibit the best of what the genre has to offer. Barbuto says, “My three beautiful daughters and Mother Nature compelled me to write these stories. As I walk in nature every day, I observe, I listen, I reflect, and then I communicate the information that feels important in my heart with my audience.”

Barbuto is an unschooling mama, artist, author and activist. She creates Board Books with a Mission: Connecting people with people, people with nature, and people with the Earth. Mommy Moo Moo lives by her mantra, “We live what we create. We create what we live.”

For more information or to order the books, visit MommyMooMoo.com.

Reader Feedback Helps Us Grow

The Natural Awakenings online national readership survey allows us to better serve readers. “Your participation takes just five minutes, and will give us a better understanding of what you need and how well we’re delivering on your expectations,” says founder and CEO Sharon Bruckman. “We’ll also use your responses to help guide the direction of future development.” One participant, selected at random, will receive a $100 Visa gift card.

With the interests and welfare of readers in mind, Natural Awakenings provides information and resources for living a healthier, happier life. Publishing in more than 50 communities nationwide, Natural Awakenings is one of the country’s most widely read healthy living magazines, with a loyal monthly readership of over 1.3 million. Debbie Troxell, RN, MSNH Thermographer RVAThermography.com • 804-683-7774

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