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Contents 26 THE EMERGING

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POWER OF ‘WE’

Awakening to the Evolution of Community

28 WASTE-FREE FEASTING How to Reduce Holiday Food Waste

30 SURGEON MARY NEAL On Lessons From Heaven

32 BEYOND CALCIUM Full-Spectrum Bone Health

34 THE MERRY VEGAN

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38 INHALING THE

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Conscious Breathwork

42 REFRESH HOLIDAY

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44 THE GENEROUS HEART

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How Giving Transforms Us

48 PERFECT PET PRESENTS Safe and Eco-Smart Toys

DEPARTMENTS 12 news briefs 16 health briefs 18 global briefs 28 green living 30 wise words 32 healing ways 8

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34 conscious eating 38 fit body 44 healthykids 48 natural pet 50 calendar 56 resource guide

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his heart of winter month in our community is a time to share and empower one another with love, appreciation and hope. Whether pursuing cherished holiday traditions or creating new ones, this can be a very fruitful season.

In that spirit, this December 2019 issue of Natural Awakenings Tampa Bay brings a rich variety of news and views from the front lines of the natural health movement. As always, our magazine is filled with inspiration, healthy insight and events worthy of consideration, this season and year-round.

This time of year, many turn more to the spiritual realm, to the essential connections we have with one another, and to all life. In “The Emerging Power of ‘We’: Awakening to the Evolution of Community”, writer Linda Sechrist offers some compelling arguments for essential change fueled by collective wisdom and collaborative efforts. Clearly, the need to evolve from a culture of “me” to a culture of “we” could be a key to addressing major challenges confronting humankind.

Tampa Bay’s uniquely west coast traditions play out this month in a colorful variety of ways. Many decorate to the max, at residences, neighborhoods, parks, businesses and more. Local celebrations feature gaily lit, creatively decorated boats parading through Gulf, Bay and Intracoastal waterways. It’s a good time to celebrate our uniqueness and our bonds as community. The possibilities are limitless.

Warmest wishes to one and all for a most enjoyable holiday season.

As always, open your mind and heart and read on.

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Charlotte’s Web CBD Specials at Gulf Coast Nutrition

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ome by Gulf Coast Nutrition during the month of December to take advantage of the sale on Charlotte’s Web brand CBD products. All Charlotte’s Web brand CBD oil and capsules will be on sale at 20 percent off the regular retail price. Charlotte’s Web is a full-spectrum cannabinoid extract with CBD and other cannabinoids and beneficial plant compounds like terpenes and flavonoids.

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Happy Feet Plus Brings Health from the Ground Up

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appy Feet Plus has been supplying the Tampa Bay area with healthy comfort footwear since 1985. Starting with a kiosk at Tyrone Square Mall, founders Jacob Wurtz and Jane Strong continue to build upon their message of health and now feature 12 stores across the west coast of Florida as well as a national e-commerce business.

Their hand-picked selection of sandals, shoes, clogs and sneakers from brands like Birkenstock, Finn Comfort, Brooks, Dansko, Aetrex and Vionic is specifically designed to offer foot, knee, hip and back pain relief with an eye toward quality and craftsmanship.

The company’s pinnacle brand, Kenkoh, the original massage sandal, combines elements of traditional Japanese reflexology with orthotic arch support to offer foot pain relief and relaxation. Scientific studies have shown increased circulation as a result of wearing Kenkohs, a point that has, in part, caused recent use by current and former pro athletes as an after-sport recovery sandal.

Locations in Tampa, Carrollwood, Wesley Chapel, Brandon, Countryside, Largo, St. Pete, Sundial, Ellenton, Sarasota, Fort Myers, Naples and online at HappyFeet.com or KenkohRelief.com. For more information, call 1-800-336-6657. See ad page 5.

Healing Naturally and Wholly

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he body is designed to heal itself when given the right nutrients.

Nutrition Therapy is a process of using nutrition and whole food nutritional supplements to target specific health conditions for natural healing.

The healing protocol at Wize Nutrition Therapy starts by identifying the root cause of the problem using applied muscle testing techniques followed with the particular nutritional supplementation needed for the body’s healing to begin.

Dr. Nwando Nwanna, a practicing pharmacist for more than 20 years, realizes that most drugs used in Western medicine to treat chronic diseases do not address the root cause and are not designed to cure the disease—they suppress symptoms and may prevent complications but do not produce complete resolution. The fact you have to take these drugs every day shows that the pathology is still there and may get worse, affecting other organs over time.

By removing the toxins or stressors producing the disease and providing the needed nutrients to repair damaged cells, you provide the optimal environment for the body’s innate ability to kick in and self-heal.

Location: 34876 US 19 N, Palm Harbor (at East West Healing Solutions Wellness Center). For more information and appointment, call 727-216-3972 or visit WizeNutritionTherapy.com.

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Yoga Village Offers Annual Holiday Gift Memberships

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his holiday season Yoga Village has two very exciting gifts you can give or share with that special yogi in your life—including you!

The Gift of Yoga, their special membership available only this time of year, includes unlimited yoga classes, the ability to make class reservations in advance, discounts on special events, guest passes and more. Allow the science of yoga to ease the stress in your life, bringing in a new, healthier and happier you.

Their Hatha Yoga 200-Hour Teacher Training gives the dedicated student an opportunity to step deeply into a powerful, alignment-based, personal yoga practice. The curriculum encompasses an immersion into the traditional elements of yogic philosophy, mantra and meditation while guiding you to teach authentically and share your personal wisdom. Whether you yearn to become a teacher or apply these teachings to your everyday life, the training is a gift of self-discovery and transformation.

A Yoga Villiage Wishes you a Happy Holiday season filled with peace and prosperity in the New Year!

Cost: Save $300 on the Hatha 200-Hour program with early registration; savings for The Gift of Yoga vary depending on membership type. Location: 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. Call 727-7121475 or visit AYogaVillage.com. See ads pages 9 and 17.

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Holistic Vet & Natural Pet Wellness Center Relocates

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r. Cathy Alinovi, DVM, retired veterinarian, author, speaker, holistic pet health advocate, nutrition expert and pet lover, opened Healthy PAWsibilities, in Clearwater, in an effort to provide 100 percent holistic pet care. Formerly licensed in both rural Indiana and Illinois to practice traditional veterinary medicine, Dr. Cathy can now be found at 628 Cleveland Street, Suite 17, Clearwater, just next door to the post office.

With more convenient parking (in an attached parking garage), her new location will give residents even easier access to holistic pet health options. The Healthy PAWsibilities online membership will also be run out of this new location, giving pet parents access to a holistic veterinarian no matter where they live in the world.

Alinovi decided to become a pet doctor when she was just nine years old, but didn’t stop there. She also became certified in nutrition therapy, acupuncture, spinal manipulation (chiropractic for pets), physical therapy, herbal therapies and more.

Now, she runs Healthy PAWsibilities, a first-of-its-kind natural pet wellness center and membership committed to making our pets healthier and happier, four paws at a time.

For more information and appointments, call 727-510-3665 and/or visit Info@HealthyPawsibilities.com. See ad page 48.

The Patch, HEP & Dunedin Cares Team Up to Feed those in Need this Holiday Season

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rom now through December 31, Nature’s Food Patch Market & Café in both Clearwater and Downtown Dunedin will be collecting healthy foods to donate to families in need. Customers simply grab and purchase a prepackaged $10 bag of natural and healthy food. All donations from their Clearwater store will go to the Homeless Empowerment Program (HEP) and all donations from their Dunedin location will go to Dunedin Cares Food Pantry.

Items donated are foods that the charities are in the most need of during the holiday season, including canned goods, pastas and holiday foods. Last year, The Patch and its customers collected over $12,000 worth of food for the two charities. The Patch will also be giving all donations collected from their Ban the Bag program during November and December to these two charities.

The Homeless Empowerment Program (HEP) is a nonprofit organization recognized as one of the largest and most comprehensive homeless shelters in Tampa Bay. Dunedin Cares, Inc. formed its nonprofit Food Pantry in 2015 to address the “food insecure” pockets in Dunedin.

Locations: 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater; 966 Douglas Ave. #106, Dunedin. For more information, email Angela Carren at Creating@NaturesFoodPatch.com.

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Maintain a Healthy Diet and Weight to Lower Cataract Risk A recent study published in The Journal of Nutrition used adherence to dietary guidelines and total diet scores to assess the effects of diet on cataract risk.

The researchers followed 2,173 older Australians for five and 10 years in two phases. They found that maintaining a healthy body mass index (BMI) of less than 25, combined with a healthy diet, reduced the risk of developing cataracts.

Eat a Better Diet to Improve Gut Bacteria Researchers at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center tested stool samples of 858 men and 877 women in Los Angeles and Hawaii with a mean age of 69—regarded as an ethnically diverse study population with varied food intakes. The study found that those with higher quality diets also had significantly better gut bacteria diversity, a factor linked to reduced risk for a variety of diseases. Diet quality and a reduced risk of developing chronic disease is strongly associated with fecal microbial diversity.

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New research offers potential paths for treatment for the nearly 20 percent of patients with high blood pressure that don’t respond well to medications. University of Florida College of Medicine researchers, testing 105 volunteers, found that the populations of gut bacteria differed between hypertensive individuals with depression and those without depression. A second study by Italian researchers found that patients with heart attacks had different bacteria in their guts than patients with stable angina.

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Researchers followed more than 36,000 Japanese men older than 40 for an average of 13.2 years.

They found that those that consumed culinary mushrooms three times a week had a 17 percent lower chance of developing prostate cancer compared to those that ate mushrooms less than once a week. Participants that ate mushrooms once or twice a week had an 8 percent lower risk. The trend was even greater for those men over the age of 50 and was unrelated to other dietary habits.

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Train Students in Mindfulness to Reduce Stress and Improve Grades Sixth-graders that received mindfulness training each day for eight weeks experienced lower stress levels, less depression and improved academic performance compared to their peers in a control group that studied computer coding, report Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers. In addition to that 100-student study, researchers surveyed 2,000 students in grades five through eight and found those that showed more mindfulness tended to have better grades and test scores. They also had fewer absences and suspensions.

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Marry to Halve the Risk of Dementia Wedlock tends to stave off dementia, according to a new Michigan State University study. Analyzing 14 years of data on 15,000 people older than 52, researchers found those in all unmarried groups—cohabiting, divorced, separated, widowed and never married—had significantly higher odds of developing dementia than their married counterparts. The differences were most acute for those divorced, separated or widowed—about twice as prone as married people to develop dementia, with the men faring worse cognitively than the women.

Extreme Weather Events Affect Mental Well-Being People that experience storm and flood damage to their homes are about 50 percent more likely to experience depression and anxiety, British researchers report. Surveying more than 7,500 people after the 2013-2014 season of severe weather, they found that those with homes damaged by wind, rain, snow or floods had mental health risks similar to living in a disadvantaged area. This occurred even when the effects of the extreme weather were relatively minor and did not force people to leave their homes.

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Eat Nuts to Reduce Odds of Death From Heart Disease Adults that ate nuts two or more times per week had a 17 percent lower risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke, reports an Iranian study that followed 5,432 adults for 12 years. The research was presented in August at the European Society of Cardiology.

“Nuts are a good source of unsaturated fat and contain little saturated fat,” says study author Dr. Noushin Mohammadifard, of the Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Institute. “They also have protein, minerals, vitamins, fiber, phytosterols and polyphenols which benefit heart health.”

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Making Meat Without Animals

Five major food technology companies have converged to form the Alliance for Meat, Poultry and Seafood (AMPS) Innovation, which seeks to create real meat from animal cells without the need to slaughter animals. The founding members of the coalition are both cell-based seafood companies BlueNalu and Finless Foods and meat makers Fork & Goode, San Francisco-based JUST Inc., and Memphis Meats.

AMPS Innovation (ampsinnovation.org) intends to tackle obstacles presented in the cellular agriculture industry and bring products to the consumer faster with transparency and proper regulatory frameworks for cell-based products. Each member company has made significant strides in the development of these products with the hope they will soon be options in the everyday diets of individuals, as well as a nutrition source for a human population projected to grow to 10 billion by 2050.

A new study based on the National Land Cover Database of 3,086 of the 3,103 counties in the continental U.S. published in the journal Urban Forestry and Urban Greening found that increases in forest and shrub cover corresponded to decreases in Medicare health care spending, even when accounting for economic, geographic or other factors that might independently influence healthcare costs.

Urban and rural counties with the lowest socioeconomic status appeared to benefit the most from increases in forests and shrubs. University of Illinois graduate student Douglas A. Becker, who led the new research with Matt Browning, a professor of recreation, sports and tourism, says, “It occurred to me that low-income communities are getting the biggest bang for their buck because they probably have the most to gain.”

Other studies have shown that people in intensive care units recover more quickly and have fewer complications after surgery if their hospital rooms look out over trees rather than parking lots and that forest walks can influence potentially health-promoting hormone levels or anti-cancer immune cells in the blood.

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Charge It

The RS Automotive gas station, in Takoma Park, Maryland, has been around since 1958, and Depeswar Doley has been running it for 22 years. Now, frustrated by the complicated rules, requirements

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and contracts of oil and gas companies, he has completely transitioned away from offering petroleum and become the country’s first exclusively electric vehicle (EV) charging station.

Because there has been a shortage of EV charging stations in the state, the station’s changeover was partially funded by the Baltimore-based

Electric Vehicle Institute and the Maryland Energy Administration. Its new 200-kilowatt electrical system will now be able to recharge up to four vehicles at a time while drivers wait inside. Doley says, “It’s not something that I expect to become rich overnight or something like that, but it’s a good cause [and] good for the environment.”

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Government Order Reduces Animal Testing

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler has signed a directive reducing the animal testing that the agency has long required on such animals as dogs, birds, rats and fish to gauge the toxicity of chemicals before they can be bought, sold or used in the environment. The agency also authorized $4.25 million in funding for five universities to research the development and use of alternative test methods and strategies that reduce, refine or replace vertebrate animal testing. He says, “Today’s memo directs the agency to aggressively reduce animal testing, including reducing mammal study requests and funding 30 percent by 2025 and completely eliminating them by 2035.”

Any mammal studies requested or funded by the EPA after 2035 will require administrator approval on a case-by-case basis. It directs leadership and staff in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention and the Office of Research and Development to prioritize and direct existing resources toward measurable impacts in the reduction of animal testing while ensuring protection of human health and the environment.

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Cruise Line Abandons Plastic Bottles

As a result of its partnership with Just Goods, Inc., the Norwegian Cruise Line will replace single-use plastic bottles across its fleet by January 1, 2020, beginning with the Norwegian Encore. The company’s ships will feature JUST, which is 100 percent spring water in a plant-based carton made of 82 percent renewable materials from trees grown in responsibly managed forests. The cap and shoulder are made from a sugarcane-based plastic. It’s refillable and recyclable.

Just Goods, located in Glen Falls, New York, has a global presence with bottling facilities in New York, Northern Ireland and Australia, allowing the company to meet demand around the world without shipping water from a single production source. It plans to replace more than 6 million single-use plastic bottles every year. CEO Ira Laufer says, “The company is pushing the boundaries of what’s always been done because it knows we all need to do better.”

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Lung Relief

A 2016 study at the University of British Columbia revealed that air pollution is the fourthleading cause of death worldwide, with at least 5.5 million air pollution-related fatalities every year. A new cultivation system developed by researchers from Imperial College London collaborating with the startup Arborea have created the world’s first Biosolar Leaf technology to purify and improve the air in London. They hope it’ll boost environmental outcomes not only in the UK, but all over the world. The process works by purifying the air through photosynthesis of microscopic plants, which removes the greenhouse gases from the environment and generates breathable oxygen at the same time.

The startup’s innovative cultivation system can facilitate the growth of microalgae, phytoplankton and diatoms on large, solar panel-like structures that can be installed on buildings and other infrastructure to improve the quality of the atmosphere. Arborea’s cultivation system also creates a sustainable source of organic biomass from which nutritious food additives can be extracted for plant-based food.

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Biosolar Leaf Purifies Air in London

Repurposing Weeds

Fast-growing lemna, or duckweed, a flowering green plant that blooms on the surface of still and slow-moving bodies of water that is often mistaken for algae, is finding new utility as a protein source. Californiabased Plantible Foods claims that duckweed, traditionally the enemy of pond owners, is superior to other alternative proteins like pea, wheat and soy. The unusual crop naturally contains higher amounts of the complete protein RuBisCo and is easier to digest than some other popular plant proteins. It can be used as a substitute for egg white, is free of the top eight allergens and has a neutral color and taste. Due to its rapid growth, duckweed is less vulnerable to climate change. Plantible Foods co-founder Tony Martens says that duckweed grows reliably and can typically be harvested daily, no matter what the weather may be.

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Safe and Sustainable Fireplace Practices One of the charms of winter is enjoying the warmth and glow of indoor fireplaces and wood stoves. It also emphasizes the need for sustainable, safe and healthy practices—especially when it comes to maintaining air quality.

Try to buy wood from providers that use good forest management practices such as harvesting during sustainable months, reports WoodHeat.org. Environmentally sound woodlot operations include thinning out dying, less desirable and damaged trees, and including a blend of species.

“Have a high-efficiency, properly installed stove that meets local building codes that’s sized for the area to be heated,” says Brad Harr, senior environmental scientist and president of Summit Environmental Inc., in Boise, Idaho. “Use dry, 10 to 12 percent wood moisture. Water sucks up heat to get to combustion temperature. Run at high heat, generally over 1,000° F in the firebox, to effect complete combustion of the wood and gases.”

Denser woods such as ironwood, rock elm, hickory, oak and sugar maple burn longer and conserve resources. Use a higher British thermal unit (BTU) per cord of wood to maximize heat production. (WorldForestIndustries.com has tips per region.)

Harr adds, “Don’t starve the fire to extend burning time, as smoldering

can cause incomplete combustion.” This leads to more carbon monoxide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) being released that can cause flu-like symptoms, and at high levels, unconsciousness and even death. To help maintain proper airflow and prevent soot buildup, shovel excess ash into a covered metal container, store it outside and dispose of it in a few days.

Smelling smoke can indicate the fireplace may be backdrafting and needs to be inspected. Harr also suggests checking periodically for potential cracks or rusting in the joints of a stovepipe. Make sure children and the elderly don’t accidentally touch the stove while in use and keep furniture a suitable distance away. Periodic inspections by a professional can address potentially dangerous creosote (tar deposit) accumulations, assure the catalytic converter is operating correctly and detect trapped debris in escape shafts that can force toxic gases back into the home and clog spark-arresting screens on tops of stovepipes or chimneys.

If buying a new unit, make sure it’s U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-certified, which requires two-thirds less wood to generate heat and emits fewer harmful particles—two to seven grams per hour—compared with 15 to 30 grams for models manufactured before 1992, according to MotherEarthLiving.com.

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Exosomes

The Shining Stars of Regenerative Medicine

by Les Cole, MD & Kathie Gonzales, ARPN-BC

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xosomes—what are they? All cells produce and secrete exosomes.

Exosomes carry signaling and other molecules to influence cells around them. In regenerative medicine, exosomes refer to stem cell exosomes. So, when a stem cell gets something done, it is through the release of its exosomes.

There is no regeneration without them.

So, why is this important to regenerative medicine and you? It is profoundly important because you can

get everything done that a stem cell will do, but without the problems associated with injecting stem cells of which there are many. In addition, exosomes work better and much faster than stem cells no matter the site of injection.

At St. Petersburg Health and Wellness, exosomes are used for the greater benefit they provide our patients.

Below are listed some of the major differences between exosomes and stem cells:

Exosomes

• Aren’t alive so don’t die • Don’t cause inflammation • Go directly to the damage • Turn on your own stem cells • Make them: • More youthful • Divide to make more • Decrease inflammation • Repair damage • Replace damaged cells • From young placental stem cells: • Are more concentrated • Work faster • Are safer

• Are alive • Majority die in several days • Or before injected when thawed • All dead by 7 days • Dead cells cause inflammation • Do not replace damaged tissue • Don’t have as many exosomes • Don’t all reach damaged areas • Must use your own stem cells • Which are as old as you are • FDA mandated • Produce older, fewer exosomes • Only work through exosomes

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The FDA currently regulates both exosomes and stem cells but is very restrictive with the latter; they are placed in two completely different categories with stem cells having significantly more regulation. The age of exosomes is critical to their effect and your outcome. The younger the exosomes, the better. The older they are (i.e. from your own stem cells, which are the only kind the FDA allows), the less effective.

Exosomes are used for esthetics, including facelifts and hair growth; joint damage/disease; metabolic disease, including obesity and diabetes; autoimmunity; cardiovascular disease, including heart attack, heart failure and stroke; neurologic disease; gastrointestinal disease; eye disease; trauma, including burns; and many more. Additionally, they are being used for anti-aging and preventive medicines from the inside out.

As you can see, exosomes are how stem cells work, so with the above information, which will you choose when it is time?

Should your New Year’s resolution include health, fitness, exercise and/or weight loss, exosomes are a great way to kick-start the process and improve your overall health at the same time.

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Peppermint (Mentha x piperita) Peppermint is a stimulant that boosts performance. Its antispasmodic properties help reduce muscle spasms and cramping during and after a workout.

Wild Oat Tops (Avena sativa) Oats are energy! They are rich in magnesium, a mineral for muscle and nerve function. Oats’ anti-inflammatory action reduces fatigue and helps post-exercise recovery. Research also indicates oat tops may be a preventative measure against osteoporosis.

Herbs for Exercise

by Rose Kalajian-Clinical Herbalist

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any of us, including me, are approaching 65 and now a candidate for Silver Sneakers, a free gym membership.

For me, it’s very exciting to have this opportunity and I hope to use it two to three times a week.

Since I am not a regular exercise enthusiast, serious thought needs to go into beginning an exercise program. The last thing I want to do is hurt myself. A successful workout needs a plan.

The plan is to reduce the risk of injury and make for an enjoyable experience. As part of my program, I will look to herbs. They will be used to postpone the onset of fatigue, increase energy and aid in recovery.

Ingredients for Sport Chai Powder ½ Tbsp Moringa (primary) 1 Tbsp Ashwagandha (primary) 1/8 to 1/4 tsp Cayenne (stimulant) ½ Tbsp Peppermint (stimulant) 1 Tbsp Wild Oat Tops (demulcent) Powder the herbs using mortar and pestle or blender. Store in a small glass jar. Make ahead and use for this recipe.

1 Tbsp Sport Chai Powder from above recipe 3 cups cashew milk 2 tsps maple syrup 2 tsps coconut oil Nutmeg for grating

Bring to almost boil and then remove from heat.

Pour mixture into a blender and blend until frothy and smooth.

Cayenne (Capsicum annuum) Taken internally, the pepper informs the brain to circulate endorphins throughout the body. Endorphins make the athlete feel good and increase energy.

Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) The root has benefits for increasing muscle strength and mass and shortening recovery in resistance training. Exercise-induced muscle damage and body fat percentages were both reduced. Men saw a greater increase in testosterone levels. Wow! Tampa Bay Edition

Serve before and after the workout, or as needed.

Yield: 2 Servings

In a 4-cup saucepan, over medium heat, combine all ingredients, whisking until well combined.

Moringa (Moringa oleifera) Used internally, helps support brain health and cognitive function due to its antioxidant and neuro-enhancer activities. A vitamin and mineral powerhouse, high in protein. Antiinflammatory for joint pain.

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Strain and divide evenly between two mugs. Grate the nutmeg on top.

Bon appetit!

Rose Kalajian-clinical herbalist, tends a 7-acre herb and bee farm, in Wesley Chapel. Her Natural Health Hut—herb shop, educational center and clinical practice—has been lovingly tending to the community’s needs for 21 years. For more information, call 813-991-5188, email Rose@imHerbalist.com or visit imHerbalist.com. See ad pages 10 and 38.

Awakening to the Evolution of Community

by Linda Sechrist

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en master Thich Nhat Hanh’s suggestion that the next Buddha would likely not take form as an individual but rather as a sangha, a community practicing mindful living, led many people to ask, “Why a community?” The author of more than 100 books that explore the Buddha’s core teachings on mindfulness, kindness and compassion, Hanh clarified the meaning of sangha as a good community necessary for helping individuals learn how to encounter life in the present moment, resist the unwholesome ways of our time, go in the direction of peace and nourish seeds of enlightenment. Even the best intentions, he noted, can falter without such a group of trusted family, friends and co-practitioners experiencing mindfulness together.

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Although many groups form for marketing, political, civic or social purposes—allowing participants to share values and common interests—thousands more gather as online intentional communities associated with personal growth and spiritual awakening.

Myriad individuals have been able to experience some aspect of community through international organizations such as MindValley, Hay House, the Shift Network and Dr. Deepak Chopra’s Jiyo, a wellness-focused mobile app intended to extend the reach of his ideas on health and social transformation from millions of people to more than 1 billion.

In MeetUp, spiritual awakening groups recently comprised 1,113,972 members in 3,631 groups worldwide. Additionally, co-housing communities, spiritual residential communities and eco-villages continue to form around the intention of designing and implementing pathways to a regenerative future.

The Old Story Versus the New Story

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human desire for community might be nature’s evolutionary nudge toward a collective leap that helps us to survive a changing climate and Earth’s potential sixth mass extinction. If so, this possibility needs a new supportive story that includes humans as part of nature, with its evolutionary impulse as a guide for body, mind and soul.

With our modern scientific worldview, when people talk about nature, they typically mean animals, plants, geological features and natural processes, all happening independently of humans. A more suitable new story is cultural historian Thomas Berry’s moving and meaningful narrative in The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future, in which humans aren’t above nature by virtue of superior intellect, but instead are equal partners with all that exists in a materially and spiritually evolving universe.

From Berry’s perspective, humans are the eyes, minds and hearts through which the cosmos is evolving so that it can come to know itself ever more perfectly through us.

Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell shared Berry’s perspective. Traveling back to Earth after walking upon the lunar surface, Mitchell gazed out of the spacecraft

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window, whereupon he was flooded with an ecstatic awareness. “I was a part of the universe I was observing, and I became aware that everything that exists is part of one intricately interconnected whole,” recounts Mitchell, who founded the groundbreaking Institute of Noetic Sciences to explore the nature of human consciousness.

A Guiding Light

Seijaku Roshi, the abbot and founder of the Pine Wind Zen Community, aptly named for its location in a pine forest in Shamong, New Jersey, advises, “People are searching and hungering for community, which is number one on my agenda. If we aren’t talking about community, we’re squandering the moment.

Whether it’s an evolutionary nudge or not, it appears that our tragic world situation is pushing us towards an alternative vision for living a meaningful life that meets the needs of people, society and the environment. We are awakening to the fact we’re interconnected, interdependent and need community, which is the spirit and guiding light whereby people come together to fulfill a purpose, to help others fulfill their purpose and to take care of one another.”

Conscious Evolution

Craig Hamilton, the guiding force behind the movement known as Integral Enlightenment, is the founder of the telecourse training program Academy for Evolutionaries. His spiritual guidance and teachings reach a growing international online community spanning 50 countries. “Transforming ourselves in the deepest possible way is, in fact, an evolutionary imperative, and we need to be able to identify the indicators of emergent shifts and participate creatively with change as an evolutionary force. Evolution up to this point has been playing out unconsciously. We’re now waking up and realizing that we can collaborate and participate in an emerging future.”

Hamilton’s experience is that where humans awake to the one that is expressed through the many, they also begin to engage together. “Practicing community isn’t as simple as it seems. In online communities, a lot less can go wrong. The stakes aren’t as high. People come and go, share and engage as they like.”

A Community of Sisterhood

Laurie McCammon, author of Enough!

How to Liberate Yourself and Remake the World with Just One Word, feels certain that humans are evolving. “We were last to the party with our big brains, and now we’re trying to intellectualize our way to an uncertain future without important feminine values such as feeling, intuiting, nurturing, interdependency and vulnerability,” says McCammon, who is deeply involved in the circle movement, in which women gather in small groups to empower each other.

A regular participant in Gather the Women Global Matrix, a worldwide sisterhood that connects thousands of women sharing meaningful conversations and celebrating the divine feminine with the intention of bringing about personal and planetary transformation through cooperation and collaboration, McCammon says, “No one of us can bring about large-scale transformation alone. It’s time to tell the new story wherein our lives and actions demonstrate that together we are enough.

Non-hierarchical circles that encourage authentic communication are part of this new story.”

Citing other important circle communities such as Tree Sisters and The Millionth Circle, McCammon suggests that women tap into The Divine Feminine app, which allows them to find circle communities and events anywhere in the world.

Co-Creating With the Intelligence of Nature

Teacher and futurist Peter Russell writes books that are focused on consciousness and contemporary spirituality. His lectures help humans free themselves of limited beliefs and attitudes that belie many of humanity’s personal, social and global problems. The author of The Global Brain: The Awakening Earth in a New Century, Russell posits that the evolutionary process naturally draws humans together. “Humans are social creatures that need community, which I find very energizing,” says Russell, who cites the Findhorn Foundation eco-village, in Scotland, as a dynamic experiment in community.

“Although residents went through hard times, they recognized the need for

honest communication so they could attune to one another in loving ways that would allow everyone to work through their difficulties. Today, life at Findhorn is guided by the inner voice of spirit, and residents work in co-creation with the intelligence of nature,” he says.

The Collective Wisdom of Community

An uncertain future is emerging, making it necessary for new and more intuitive methods and spiritual practices for developing collective wisdom, human potential and the skills for practicing community. “I’m in the process of finalizing 118 chapters from 90 different authors for a Collaborative Change Library: Transforming Organizations, Revitalizing Communities, Developing Human Potential,” says associate editor Carole Gorelick, who clarifies that spiritual practices are now playing a part in bringing about collaborative change. She notes that several chapters are updated versions of The Change Handbook: The Definitive Resource on Today’s Best Methods for Engaging Whole Systems (2007 second edition), which included modalities such as World Café, Open Space Technology, Art of Hosting, Appreciative Inquiry and many others.

A living handbook for developing human potential and the skills to practice community, Fred Eppsteiner has been teaching Buddhism for 23 years. A student of Hanh’s since the 1960s, he is the founder of the Florida Community of Mindfulness, in Tampa. Eppsteiner sums up why the next Buddha could be a community: “A better future will be created by people who are living the values they want for the world, not just abstractly using only the intellect. In community, we ask ourselves, ‘Can I be what I want to see in the world?

Can I practice these things mindfully in community with love, acceptance, deep listening, compassion and kindness?’ These are values that every Buddha has lived for centuries, and certainly ones we need to evolve from a culture of, ‘It’s all about me’ to a culture of, ‘It’s all about we’.”

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

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Waste-Free Feasting How to Reduce Holiday Food Waste

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he heaping platters that cheerfully mark the holidays have an unfortunate downside: Americans increase their waste by 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The discarded food and packaging burden landfills with an additional 1 million tons of waste each week.

That’s in addition to the 40 percent of food Americans typically waste each year—nearly half of all the food prepared at home or in restaurants. Monica McBride, senior manager of food loss and waste for the World Wildlife Fund, notes that squandered bounty is grown in areas that were converted from natural habitat into farm fields, so it’s also a waste of natural resources.

“Once you start cooking, you realize the impact on the planet,” says chef and caterer Steven Laurence, owner of Vegan Commissary, in Philadelphia. “My grandmother was the kind of person who, if there was one pea left over, she put it in a container and someone ate it the next day.

That kind of informs my cooking. The way I was trained, you didn’t waste anything.

You used everything.”

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In individual households, small changes can have a big impact, especially during the holidays; all it takes is awareness and a plan. Frugal cooks can make room for a holiday waste reduction strategy by taking inventory of the pantry and boxing up a load for the local soup kitchen or food bank.

Then, design a menu with the environment in mind, using portion control to avoid food waste and whipping up dishes that can easily be upcycled into new creations that can be used as appetizers in the coming days or tucked in the freezer for future enjoyment.

Start with the Guest-imator at SaveTheFood.com, a great way to determine portions for a holiday party, says Cheryl Coleman, director of the EPA Resource Conservation and Sustainability Division in the Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery.

The Guest-imator and Save the Food, a program of the Natural Resources Defense Council in conjunction with the Ad Council, tells cooks how much to make to keep guests happy and includes recipes for leftovers, such as Crispy Sheet Pan Hash, made with leftover roasted vegetables, and

Ugly Vegetable Pasta, made with zucchini, tomatoes and eggplant.

Spoilage is another way food finds its way into the garbage can, and that too, can be avoided, Laurence says, pointing out that most food goes bad because it’s not cooked properly or is mishandled in storage. “Mix animal protein with starches and grains in a container and it goes bad because of two different sorts of enzymes.

It is a fuel for bacteria.” He also recommends using as many organic ingredients as possible for longer-lasting leftovers. “We guarantee all of our dishes for two weeks,” he says.

Encouraging visitors to take home leftovers is another effective food-saving

strategy, says McBride. “Have Tupperware or to-go boxes you could provide to your guests.”

Reilly Brock, content manager at Imperfect Produce, in New York City, agrees. “Just like repurposing excess product requires creative thinking, food waste around the holidays requires outof-the-box ideas to keep impact low,” says Brock, whose company delivers imperfect produce to customers’ doors for a cost savings. “Why end the fun when the meal ends? The best part about leftovers—and the holidays—is keeping the celebration going.”

“Also, make sure you keep food safe,” McBride says. “The CDC [Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention] has a really great overview of how to do that for parties. Standard guidance is not to leave food out for more than two hours. So, as a party planner, make sure you mentally note when you put food out.”

Coleman recommends taking it a step beyond the holidays by joining a movement to cut food waste year-round.

She suggests visiting FurtherWithFood.org to learn more. “Through that and additional outreach, we might be able to start to change,” says McBride.

Yvette C. Hammett is an environmental writer based in Valrico, Florida. Connect at YvetteHammett28@hotmail.com.

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Surgeon Mary Neal on Lessons From Heaven

by Kajsa Nickels

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n 1999, while kayaking on the Fuy River in Chile, orthopedic surgeon Mary Neal became trapped beneath a waterfall and drowned.

She was underwater for 30 minutes before the current pulled her out. During that time, Neal experienced what she believes to be a miraculous event in which she penetrated the veil dividing the physical and spiritual worlds. There, she was told that it was not yet her time, and of the future death of her eldest son, a prediction that was fulfilled 10 years later. The experience gave her a new perspective on the purpose of our Earthly existence and life after death.

She has since written two books on the subject: To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels and Life Again; and 7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life. Her life-altering experience prompted her to pay more attention to those things that are truly important: faith, family and relationships with other human beings. She lives with her family in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where she continues to mend broken bones.

How do you think your medical background makes you uniquely qualified to speak on near-death experiences (NDE)?

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cess to many resources that the common person would not. I spent many months researching scientific and medical literature to try to come up with a logical explanation of what had happened to me. I was forced to conclude that my experience fell outside of the parameters of both science and medicine. I could not find any examples to disprove what happened, especially when the predicted death of my oldest son came to pass.

What was the most profound moment of your experience?

It’s hard to pinpoint the most profound moment of the entire experience, but what impacted me most was the realization that God is real, and He is present to each and every one of us every moment of our daily lives. I realized to the depths of my soul that all God’s promises are true, not just wishful thinking or a vague hope.

How has your NDE made you a better wife, mother and medical professional?

You can’t have an NDE without having your entire life changed. When you realize that there is more to life than what you can see with your physical eyes, it changes your entire perspective on every moment of every day. The things we say and the things we do create a ripple effect that spreads beyond the boundaries of our human sight. Love

is ultimately the only thing that matters, to reflect love to the world and other people.

I was a “good person” before my NDE, but I now see differently. I see that each human being is incredibly loved, and that we are all one: We are them, and they are us.

Everything else in the world is secondary to God’s love and presence in our lives.

How is your approach to everyday life different than it was prior to your NDE?

I am able to be entirely present in every moment of my life. I can experience deep and abiding joy regardless of my circumstances. I am able to trust that grace covers my past, that there is life after death and a plan for my life. No matter what is happening, even if it is terrible, beauty will come out of it. Most people are trapped in regrets of the past and worry about the future.

With complete trust in God, I am able to fully have joy in each and every moment.

Is there a difference between joy and happiness?

Absolutely. Happiness is an emotion based on circumstances. Happiness can accompany joy, but not always. Joy is a state of being, of trusting in God, of believing that his promises are true. Joy comes from freedom—freedom from disruptive emotions like guilt, remorse, unforgiveness. Even in the devastation of my oldest son’s death, I can honestly say that I experienced a deep joy from trusting in God’s love and promises.

Why do you believe heaven is written in our hearts?

As a scientist, I firmly believe that we are created beings with physical bodies and spiritual souls. I believe that our spiritual self remembers heaven and remembers joy. Part of our journey here on Earth is to rediscover our connection with God. As adults, we often feel that we have to choose between science and spiritualism. The truth is that they coexist, answering questions in different ways.

Kajsa Nickels is a freelance author who lives in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Connect at fideleterna45@gmail.com.

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What’s good for muscles is good for bones.

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~Susie Hathaway

BEYOND CALCIUM Full-Spectrum Bone Health

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ur bones are the foundation that supports our bodies and the quality of our lives. Unlike the brick and mortar and bedrock of a building, the human skeletal system is living tissue that breaks down and rebuilds; this constant remodeling demands much more than just taking an obligatory calcium supplement.

Compromised bone health is most often associated with postmenopausal women, but it can also impact men and younger adults. Genetics, hormonal changes and nutritional deficiencies can all foster bone loss. The National Osteoporosis Foundation reports that 44 million Americans have low bone density and 10 million suffer from osteoporosis, facing a high risk of fracture from this debilitating condition.

Fortunately, it’s never too early or too late to do right by our bones. “Osteoporosis can be prevented, and I’ve seen many patients reverse osteoporosis,” says Leat Kuzniar, a Nutley, New Jersey, naturopath.

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and if the bone density is very low, but we can always make some improvements in bone health. We need to assess diet, exercise, gastrointestinal health, hormones, medications, pH and even stress levels.”

Synergy of Vitamins and Minerals Walter Willett, M.D., chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, argues that the daily recommended 1,000-to1,200 milligrams of calcium is based on inadequate studies, and advises half that amount.

Other minerals may play an equally critical role. The body robs calcium from the bones when blood levels of this vital mineral fall too low; but taking a calcium supplement—especially without co-nutrients—can increase fracture risk. “Calcium supplementation is complex; more isn’t better. Vitamin D is essential for calcium absorption, and vitamin K2 is essential for getting that calcium to your bones and keeping it out NATampa.com

of your arteries,” Kuzniar says. Magnesium, phosphorus, zinc and potassium are also allies in calcium metabolism.

Vitamin C, too, is a key player in bone health, promoting collagen synthesis.

Nutrient absorption relies on integrity of gut health, so opting for probiotics is a wise choice across the board.

Bone Up on Superfoods Optimally, the quest for stronger bones begins with a nutrient-dense diet. “Plenty of fruits and vegetables, whole grains, protein and some fats create a physiology in the body to support optimal bone health.

Avoiding too much sodium and animal protein also helps,” says Mary Jane Detroyer, a New York City-based nutritionist and certified dietitian. She underscores the importance of mineral-packed kale, collards, mustard greens, bok choy and broccoli, but warns against oxalate-laden spinach and chard, which inhibit calcium absorption. “Other calcium-rich foods like tofu, edamame, yogurt, kefir and cheese

are also good, as well as milk substitutes fortified with calcium.” Omega-3-rich chia seeds, walnuts and other tree nuts are heavy hitters that boost both calcium absorption and collagen production essential for bone strength.

A 2016 Brazilian study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that a diet with excessive sweets and caffeinated beverages negatively impacts bone mineral density in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. Soda consumption also amps up the risk of fractures. An analysis of female subjects spanning 30 years published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2014 reveals a 14 percent increased risk for fractures with each daily serving of soda, including diet beverages.

Get Moving High-impact activities like jumping rope and jogging build strong bones in our youth, but as we age, low-impact exercise is easier on the joints. Mayo Clinic recommendations include walking, gardening, dancing, stairclimbing and elliptical training.

Resistance also yields significant results. A 2018 Korean study published in the journal EnM reveals that exercise employing free weights, weight machines and elastic bands increases muscle and bone mass in both women and men.

American College of Sports Medicinecertified personal trainer Susie Hathaway, in Fairfield, Iowa, explains why. “What’s good for muscles is good for bones. When a muscle contracts, it gives a beneficial pull on the adjacent bones, stimulating the bone-building cells to be more active.”

Hathaway highlights safety and the importance of bearing weight on the feet.

“Gravity is important for bone health.

Weight-bearing aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking, provides a mild stimulus for your bones and helps slow down bone loss.”

Kuzniar reminds us that with the right care, our bones can carry us through life. “Once we know what factors are at play in the patient, we can address the underlying causes.”

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Stick with your favorite recipes that you know are going to be a success and are going to leave everyone’s taste buds happy. ~Pamela Reed

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People-Pleasing Holiday Sweets

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he holidays may send too many sugar plums and frosted gingerbread figures dancing in the heads of people with dietary restrictions. Anyone that chooses to avoid highly processed flours or sugars, artificial ingredients and loads of butter will typically be presented with all of this and more at social gatherings this time of year. They arrive on visually appealing cookie platters that tempt with their cute shapes, vibrant colors and sparkle.

Some, like the gingerbread and reindeer cutouts, will beckon with glazed eyes: “Just one,” they whisper. But one can turn into nine and make someone that may normally avoid sugar or gluten feel bodily regrets. Someone that is vegan or allergic may feel they can’t have treats.

Making healthier choices about food is difficult for reasons many don’t understand. “People have relationships with food—involving family, comfort and traditions—and they don’t want to give that up,” says James Brandon, of Tampa, founder of Facebook’s Vegan and PlantBased Beginner’s Community. Brandon says that holiday treats are tough to resist, but staying true to health goals is most important in the long run.

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share that meets your dietary needs, says Megan Gilmore, the author of No Excuses Detox: 100 Recipes to Help You Eat Healthy Every Day and a blogger at Detoxinista. com. “That way, you can introduce something delicious to your friends, family or co-workers and be sure you’ll have something to eat!”

A batch of simple, delectable, visually appealing and healthful cookies can be that plate to share, a gift to give or something to keep on hand for guests. Keep the focus on simple, advises Pamela Reed, who blogs at BrooklynFarmGirl.com. There are plenty of recipes that will satisfy the sweet tooth and decorate the holiday buffet (until they’re all eaten, that is). Don’t increase holiday stress by trying a new recipe at the last minute.

“Stick with your favorite recipes that you know are going to be a success and are going to leave everyone’s taste buds happy,” she says.

Transitioning to a more conscious way of eating isn’t about deprivation or leaving tradition behind. Bring on the new and healthful cookie recipes and name one after your grandma.

Julie Peterson writes from her home in rural Wisconsin. Contact her at JuliePeterson2222@gmail.com.

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Oh-So-Healthy Holiday Treats Peanut Butter Cookies (Vegan, Gluten Free)

photo by Pamela Reed

Yields: About 18 cookies 1 cup creamy peanut butter ½ cup coconut sugar ½ cup brown sugar 2 tsp vanilla ⅔ cup oat flour 1 tsp baking soda ¼ tsp salt ¼ cup almond milk Additional sugar to roll cookies in Preheat oven to 350° F. In a large bowl, cream together peanut butter and sugars with a hand mixer. Once combined, add vanilla and continue mixing.

Add flour, baking soda, salt and almond milk into the bowl and mix for a few seconds, until combined. The cookie dough will be a little crumbly.

Prepare 2 cookie sheets with silicone baking sheets or spray with nonstick spray. Roll the dough into large balls, and then gently roll in sugar to cover them. Use a fork to gently press down on each cookie a little bit—not too much, or they will crumble.

Bake cookies for 12 minutes. Once out of the oven, allow to cool for 15 minutes. This is important, as the cookies will be very soft when they come out of the oven, but they will harden up as they cool.

Store in an airtight container or freeze.

Recipe courtesy of BrooklynFarmGirl.com.

Natural Awakenings recommends using organic, non-GMO (genetically modified) and non-bromated ingredients whenever possible.

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Yields: 12 balls

Note: If you’d prefer to roll the balls in coconut sugar or shredded coconut, roll them in one of those options before freezing, so the coating will stick better.

Chocolate Topping: ¼ cup cocoa powder ¼ cup melted coconut oil 3 Tbsp pure maple syrup

Store in the fridge in a sealed container for up to two weeks for best texture.

Line a standard loaf pan with parchment paper and set it aside. In a medium bowl, stir together the chocolate crust ingredients until a moist dough is formed. Press the dough evenly into the bottom of the lined loaf pan and place it in the freezer to set.

Source: Detoxinista.com/no-bake-pecansnowballs-paleo-vegan

1 cup pecan halves ½ cup shredded unsweetened coconut 1 cup soft Medjool dates, pitted (about 10 dates) 1 Tbsp coconut oil ½ tsp sea salt ½ tsp vanilla extract ½ cup arrowroot or tapioca starch Extra arrowroot for dusting, or coconut sugar Place the pecans and shredded coconut in a large food processor fitted with an “S” blade, and process until the pecans are broken down and crumbly. Add in the rest of the ingredients and process again, until a sticky dough is formed. (It should stick together when pressed between two fingers.)

Scoop the dough by rounded tablespoons and roll the dough between your hands, forming balls. Arrange the balls on a plate or baking sheet lined with parchment paper, then place them in the freezer to

To prepare the filling, you can use the same bowl to stir the peanut butter, maple syrup, coconut oil and salt. Depending on whether you’re using salted or unsalted peanut butter, consider adding more salt to taste. Store-bought peanut butter cups are quite salty, so I like to add a generous pinch of salt to mimic that flavor. Remove the crust from the freezer and pour the peanut butter filling over the top, using a spatula to spread it out evenly. Return the pan to the freezer to set.

No-Bake Peanut Butter Cup Bars (Vegan, Gluten Free) Chocolate Crust: ¾ cup ground almond meal 2 Tbsp cocoa powder 2 Tbsp pure maple syrup 1 Tbsp melted coconut oil Pinch of sea salt

Rinse the mixing bowl and use it again to make the final layer. Combine the cocoa powder, melted coconut oil and maple syrup, whisking well to break up any clumps. Once the mixture has become a smooth chocolate sauce, pour it over the peanut butter layer, and return the pan to the freezer to set until firm, about an hour or two.

Once the bars are firm, grab the edges of parchment paper to easily lift the solid bar from the pan, and use a sharp knife to slice the bars into your desired size. Store them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to two weeks, or in the freezer for up to a month. (The bars become very firm if frozen for too long, so I prefer serving them from the fridge after the initial firming-up time.)

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Peanut Butter Filling: ½ cup creamy natural peanut butter 3 Tbsp pure maple syrup 1 Tbsp melted coconut oil Pinch of sea salt

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No-Bake Pecan Snowballs (Grain-Free, Vegan)

set, about 1 to 2 hours. For a “snowball” look, roll the balls in additional arrowroot or tapioca starch—just a light coating will do—since the starch will not enhance the flavor. It’s just for looks!

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ur first breath is instinctual and belly-deep, but as we grow into life, everyday stress and trauma can bring us into the shallows. Mindful breathing can help guide our breath back to its original, healthy rhythm. Both the brain and organs benefit from increased oxygen, and the vagus nerve that connects the two—prompted by changes in the body’s pH levels—releases acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter responsible for lowering heart rate.

Breathwork can improve vagal tone, a major component in a wide range of conditions like depression, pain syndromes, sleep disturbances, anxiety disorders and chronic inflammation. A 2016 study by the Medical University of South Carolina published in the journal BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine shows a lower number of proteins associated with inflammation in the saliva of participants that employed breathing exercises. A study that appeared in the journal Psychophysiology in 2015 found that 20 minutes of mindful breathing at bedtime fostered a good night’s rest for people with insomnia.

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Breathing Breaks

From traditional rebirthing techniques using circular breathing to Middendorf Breath Work for somatic awareness, there are many styles of conscious breathing.

The gentler approaches best suit everyday needs and taking a breathing break can actually provide more refreshment than one featuring coffee.

“Many people have found that a regular breathing practice has helped them increase energy and decrease anxiety. It is a powerful tool to reset the nervous system when we’re overwhelmed and stressed,” says Somatic Breath Therapy (SBT) practitioner Rachael Walter, owner of Breathe-HereNow, in Keene, New Hampshire. Like many forms of breathwork, SBT bridges the chasm between mind and body. “Conscious breathing can also help people access and understand their emotions,” notes Walter.

Pranayama, an ancient technique of yoga that focuses on breath control and employs alternate nostril breathing, can be performed while lying down, seated or on the yoga mat. Kundalini yoga teacher Melissa Crowder, owner of 4 States Yoga, in

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Joplin, Missouri, advises students to start out slowly, three to six minutes a day, and then work up to a longer practice. “Alternate nostril breathing is a great practice for everyone.

As little as six minutes of yogic breathing, as needed, can make a profound difference in decreasing pain and stress,” she says.

and in turn, presses upon the stomach and helps to churn the gastric juices. For this reason, it can aid earlier stages of digestion.”

When used in conjunction with other modalities such as cognitive behavioral therapy, diaphragmatic breathing might be beneficial for irritable bowel syndrome.

Belly Benefits

Breathing Into Feelings

The American Lung Association recommends a variety of exercises, including diaphragmatic (belly) breathing, for conditions like asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Engaging the diaphragm is key in breathing to fullest capacity.

Walter explains, “An open, healthy breath is one in which we use the diaphragm to initiate the breath, followed by the belly expanding and the breath moving into the chest.”

Most of us unconsciously fall into shallow and sometimes self-conscious breathing patterns at an early age. “During my training, I read that by age 6, we pick up on cues telling us to tuck in our tummies.

This simple, bad habit begins a cascade of physiological responses. Upper chest breathing can create anxiety symptoms and poor digestion,” explains Colleen Breeckner, owner of Colleen Lila Yoga, in New York City. “Diaphragmatic breathing causes the diaphragm to become flat and wide,

The depth and quality of the breath can help us to become aware of emotional states that include “holding patterns”. “Conscious breathing is a doorway into deep meditation, which can help alleviate anger and insecurities. It can also be helpful in dropping addictions,” says Crowder. “Linking pranayama with physical movement [asanas] helps to release tension and emotions that can be held in the body’s soft tissues.”

Breeckner agrees, “Developing this awareness can help us to move unpleasant and stuck emotions through the body.”

Well-being can be just a breath away, says Walter. “When we open up our breath, we open ourselves to a fuller experience of being human. It has the capacity to bring us into the present moment to access our joy and our life’s purpose.”

Marlaina Donato is an author and a composer. Connect at AutumnEmbersMusic.com.

Noteworthy Breathwork Styles Clarity Breathwork: Developed from the groundwork of Leonard Orr, with a focus on accessing the subconscious mind for self-awareness Holotropic Breathwork: Developed by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, M.D., and his wife Christina and employs deep, rapid breathing to initiate an altered state of consciousness; training in the Grof method is required Integral Breath Therapy: Gentle technique for an altered state of consciousness that works with the body’s natural healing capacity Middendorf Breath Work: Named after German-born Ilse Middendorf, a gentle technique that does not include forcing the breath to promote healing Rebirthing Breathwork: Pioneering and well-known form of breathwork that was also developed by Orr with a focus on releasing unconscious energy blocks imprinted during the birth process Shamanic Breathwork: Uses specific breathing methods, chakras or energy centers, music and movement to overcome emotional blocks for deep-level healing Transformational Breath: Developed by Dr. Judith Kravitz using uninterrupted breathing, Kundalini yoga and other elements of physical and energetic healing; recommended by Dr. Christine Northrup and Dr. Deepak Chopra

Go-to Breathing Exercises From Rachael Walter: The Three-Breath Sigh Place one hand on your lower belly and the other on your chest. Breathing in through your nose, let your breath start in the belly and move up to the chest. Then exhale through your mouth while making an audible sighing sound.

Repeat two more times.

The Four-Eight Relaxing Breath Place one hand on your lower belly and the other on your chest. Using a belly breath, inhale to the count of four and exhale to the count of eight, making your exhale twice as long as your inhale to facilitate relaxation. Feel free to play with how fast or slow you count to find a comfortable breathing pace. Repeat for six to 10 times as needed.

Breath Walk This is an excellent exercise to do while at work, school or a public place to give your nervous system a break, even when the world is crazy-busy around you.

Walk at a slightly slower pace than normal and breathe in for one step; breathe out for the next step, counting three or four for each breath/step. Continue as you walk, being mindful of your breath, counting and surroundings.

For further inquiry, Melissa Crowder recommends these Kundalini yoga breaths: Shabad Kriya for promoting deep restful sleep Sitali Pranayama for lowering a fever or cooling off a hot temper Breath of Fire for improved brain circulation, stimulating digestion and weight control Right nostril breathing for afternoon slumps Left nostril breathing to quiet mind chatter at bedtime December 2019

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Your spleen qi and your lung qi combine to form your “wei qi” or your defensive qi. This protects us from pathogens like the flu. By building up your spleen qi, you also build up your wei qi.

Beat Colds and Flu with Chinese Medicine – at Home!

by Tom Elman, AP, LMT, CH

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hen was the last time you were advised to do something for your health that actually felt good? Well, here’s your chance!

When I was growing up, my mom worked in doctors’ offices and research labs. We were very devoted to conventional Western medicine. I got my whole series of childhood vaccines, and every year I got a flu shot. Over the years, I learned a little about biology and the history of polio and smallpox, and I came to understand the science behind immunizations. It made good sense to me, and I never came down with the mumps or measles, and I certainly never saw an active case of polio or smallpox. Although I’ve never needed to take medicines over a long term, pretty much everything that was ever prescribed for me worked exactly as it was intended—except for flu shots.

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wouldn’t be a response to the shot—I never even felt run down after the shot, and the illness wouldn’t hit until a month or more later. Occasionally, I’d even get the flu twice a year. Sure, sometimes this was because the vaccine was for the wrong strain of flu, but every year? That doesn’t make sense.

For some reason, despite the science that made sense to me about how our immune systems operate, flu shots didn’t work for me.

Eventually, I ended up going to school to learn acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine. During our first year as students, we asked the Chinese doctors if they got flu shots, and none of them did.

Naturally, we wanted to know what they did instead. Was there some mysterious combination of acupuncture points? It turned out to be something much simpler, and it’s something that everyone can do at home.

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Place a heating pad across your shins, just below your knees, on a low to medium setting, for at least 15 minutes a day. It can be longer, but don’t make it hotter! Rice bags that you heat in the microwave will work, too. Just be careful that they aren’t hot enough to burn you.

In a moment, I’ll tell you my experience with the effectiveness of this home treatment, but first, here’s the explanation for why this works. Just to the outside of your shinbone, about three inches below the knee, lies a point on the stomach meridian known as Stomach 36 (the 36th point on the stomach channel) or “Zusanli.” In Chinese Medicine, the stomach is linked to the spleen, and warming this point strongly tonifies or builds up your spleen “qi.” Generally speaking, qi is the energy that flows through our bodies, but specific types of qi do specific things. Your spleen qi and your lung qi combine to form your “wei qi” or your defensive qi. This protects us from pathogens like the flu. By building up your spleen qi, you also build up your wei qi.

For 37 years of my life, I got a flu shot every year, and I still got the flu…

EVERY YEAR! For the past 20 years, I’ve been using a heating pad across my shins every night, faithfully, even when I go out of town, and I haven’t had the flu…for 20 years! I still catch colds, but they’re less frequent, less severe, and they’re shorter in duration. That’s some of the best medicine I’ve ever used, and sitting with a heating pad across your shins forces you to slow down and take at least 15 minutes just to relax and take care of yourself in a way that actually feels good. You can do this regardless of whether or not you choose to get a flu shot. It will help you either way.

But what if you feel like you’re coming down with a cold anyway, despite all your precautions? The most important thing is to catch it early. By the time you know for sure that you’ve got a cold, it’s too late. You’re just going to have to get through it. If you stop it early enough, though, when you just feel that first sniffle and tickle in your throat, and you’re wondering whether you might have the first symptoms of a cold, then you have a chance to knock it out. Traditional Chinese Medicine would typically recommend a formula like “Gui Zhi Tang” which means “Cinnamon Twig Decoction.” This is made with cinnamon, ginger, Chinese dates, licorice root, and the root of a white peony. Most of us don’t have all these ingredients lying around, but ground cinnamon and ginger are easily available at the grocery store. Try taking a quarter teaspoon of powdered cinnamon, a quarter teaspoon of powdered ginger, just a dash of hot pepper, and mixing them together in hot water. Wrap up extra warm in sweats

and blankets and drink it down hot (but again, make sure it’s not hot enough to burn you). You want to try to break a sweat. The hot liquid and the blankets basically help you to induce an artificial fever, which is exactly what kills many viruses and bacteria. Plus, cinnamon and ginger are natural antibiotics and antivirals and they’ll be washing directly over your throat. For many people, as long as you’ve done this early enough, this can stop a cold in its tracks, and it actually tastes good. You can do this up to three times when you first feel that tickle.

There you have it. Two ways to fight colds and flu this season that feel good and are good for you. Happy, healthy holidays to all!

Tom Elman, AP, LMT owns Jade Tree Wellness Center, located at 3039 49th St. North, in St. Petersburg, where he has been practicing acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine for 18 years. You can reach him at 727-344-8690 or visit JadeTreeWellness.com. See ad page 56.

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by Ronica A. O’Hara

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elebrating classic holiday traditions the same way we always have—and maybe the way our parents and grandparents did—is part of the rich family heritage we pass on to our children. These family rituals are binding, grounding, memorable and much more, says Saul Levine, M.D., professor emeritus in psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.

A survey of 50 years of family research published in the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Family Psychology found that family holiday rituals, as well as everyday routines like family dinners and bedtime stories, build stronger family relationships, enhance children’s health and academic achievement, help teenagers’ sense of personal identity and even boost marital satisfaction.

It’s also natural and perhaps inevitable that these traditions undergo changes over the years. “If people from only five or six generations ago could see our modern Christmas, they’d barely recognize it,” says Brian Earl, host of the popular Christmas Past podcast that chronicles holiday traditions. “New trends and customs become traditions in time; every generation has its opportunity to add new chapters to the narrative and continue the story.”

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For Elizabeth Newcamp, Christmas festivities took an eco-turn for her military family of five when they were living for a few years in the Netherlands, where “Sinterklaas” traditionally delivers gifts in reusable burlap bags. “In an effort to reduce wrapping paper, we now use the sacks on Christmas,” says Newcamp, who blogs about family travel at DutchDutchGoose.com.

She and her husband Jeff also ask for and give experiences as gifts whenever possible; their 7-year-old son asked if he could organize a little library for their Navarre, Florida, neighborhood. Anyone that wants to send gifts to their sons is asked to find them used. “I don’t think we’ve lessened any of the fun of the holidays, but hopefully we are eliminating some of the waste,” she says.

For many years, Ginny Underwood’s family in Bluffton, South Carolina, would dress up and go to a restaurant on Christmas Eve, exchange gifts and then return home to watch a movie or play board games. Last year, they tried something new: staying home, putting on pajamas, eating cottage pie and playing handmade “Minute to Win It” games that Underwood, a professional organizer who blogs at VirginiasEasyLivingSolutions.com, created.

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“We had a blast; we didn’t stop laughing all night,” she says. “We saved hundreds of dollars and we had a lovely time.”

Lighting red, green and black candles while focusing on principles like unity, self-determination or purpose are key in the seven-day Kwanzaa celebrations; but, “Instead of just lighting the candle amongst friends and family and discussing, I want my family to spend that day exemplifying the principle,” says Vanessa Davis, executive director of the nonprofit African Village International, in Jacksonville, Florida. Now her children meditate, journal and practice mindfulness to learn about self-determination; volunteer or pick up trash outdoors to learn about collective work and responsibilities; and buy something at a locallyowned store and discuss future finances for cooperative economics. “I was inspired to change because Kwanzaa isn’t really a religious holiday, but it is a darn good way to reflect on the past year and goal-set for the future,” she says.

“Giving children more hands-on experiences for Hanukkah and taking the emphasis off of ‘What am I going to get?’ makes the holiday more meaningful for the kids,” concurs Pamela Morris, early childhood education director at the East Valley Jewish Community Center, in Chandler, Arizona. Each Hanukkah evening, her family of five lights a menorah and says traditional prayers while also volunteering to wrap food packages at a local Feed My Starving Children event, crafting personal menorahs at a pottery studio, going to see Phoenix ZooLights and gathering to make the traditional potato latkes or jelly donuts. “Each night is a focus on family time and welcoming friends to join us,” she says.

By observing and evolving traditions, family bonds can strengthen through time, relates Earl: “By participating in holiday rituals, children are learning about who they are. And by passing them down, parents reaffirm what’s important to them and keep the connection to the past intact.”

Ronica A. O’Hara is a Denver-based natural-health writer. Connect at OHaraRonica@ gmail.com.

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Updating Favorite Traditions n Instead of buying a Christmas tree or Hanukkah bush in a store lot, get one in a pot that can be replanted later. n Take a family holiday photo, either serious or wacky, and recreate it every year with members in the same poses and expressions. n Invite someone to a holiday dinner that’s not part of the family, such as an international student or newcomer in town. n Cook up a batch of healthy, vegan cookies with the kids and organize a neighborhood cookie swap. n Have a $10 or $20 gift exchange challenge in which everyone competes to come up with the most useful, creative or ecoclever use of the money. n String together popcorn and cranberries to make a tree garland or door decoration, and later drape it on outdoor trees to feed birds and wildlife. n Give kids $10 to donate to a carefully selected charity of their choice. n Take a favorite holiday story, parable or song and have the kids (and adults) act it out with costumes and all.

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ne of the ways we come into balance and connection with each other and with life is by giving from the heart. When we give to others, whether it’s an act of kindness, generosity or compassion, it helps us live from the heart instead of the ego.

Living from the ego is painful and exhausting. It’s like feeding a hungry monster that’s never satisfied. Ego craves, pursues and clings to status, approval, material wealth and control. It views the world through the eyes of fear—constantly evaluating, judging and acting in ways that are self-centered, defensive and protective.

Like with Scrooge, ego closes our heart and makes us small, fearful and contracted.

By contrast, generosity requires that we open our hearts to the world and each other. We allow ourselves to be vulnerable.

In doing this, we open ourselves fully to life, love and relationships. We let go of striving and pursuing things. When we stop striving, we begin to see, value and respond to what’s happening in the present moment in ways that are healthy and healing. Our priority shifts from acquiring things to appreciating what we have and being open to sharing with others.

Generosity is a quality of kindness, of living from a place of abundance. We see the world through a clear lens that isn’t clouded by fear, wanting or clinging. When we interact with others, our connection is

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genuine. We see people instead of judgments or labels.

Being generous arises from the heart, not the wallet. We don’t need to have material wealth in order to be generous.

The only requirement is a willingness to open our hearts, to see life as it is and to interact with others from a place of compassion and love. Some examples of generous acts are: n Doing a household chore without being asked. n Setting aside what we’re doing and listening to someone in need of emotional support. n Telling loved ones what we appreciate about them. n Listening to children and trying to see the world through their eyes before offering advice. n Smiling at a stranger. n When asking, “How are you?” looking into the person’s eyes and taking time to truly listen with an attitude of curiosity and compassion.

Generosity awakens goodness in the heart, and this helps us open to life, love and relationships.

Cindy Ricardo is a Coral Springs, Floridabased psychotherapist who blogs at ACaringCounselor.com.

capacity to burn more calories and improve exercise/athletic performance. (2)

L-carnitine is naturally found in dark meat, so vegetarians and vegans may become deficient. A carnitine deficiency resulting in impaired lipid metabolism can lead to symptoms of muscle weakness and fatigue. This is most often the result of fat accumulating in both skeletal and heart muscles and the liver.

Here is a summary of the health benefits of LemonAid: • Supports the body’s production of much needed energy • Helps keep the body from storing fat • Increases aerobic capacity to burn more calories

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re you trying to get lean, gain muscle and/or increase your energy? LemonAid Drink has the perfect combination of nutrients to support those goals, with a combination of the amino acid L-carnitine tartrate and D-ribose powder.

Studies suggest that L-carnitine increases the burning of fat as a fuel source by transporting the fat that we eat into our cells to produce energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate (ATP).

ATP is the primary source of energy our cells produce and our bodies use. D-ribose is essential for ATP production.

Although it is a natural sugar, it should not increase blood sugar levels. It is stored in our cellular mitochondria and muscles and

used to support a biochemical pathway to produce ATP.

LemonAid can be a first line of support for building more muscle, burning fat and reducing exercise-induced muscle soreness. Carnitine helps to maintain muscle mass while losing weight so we can avoid slowing our metabolic rate. This, in turn, can enhance our ability to lose weight and keep it off. (1) Other beneficial side effects from consuming carnitine include lowering elevated triglycerides and Lp(a), a lipid which puts us at higher cardiac and stroke risk. Carnitine can also work as an appetite suppressant.

Ribose gives the energy boost the body needs to keep muscles, heart and brain energized. This ability to keep the brain energized may help reduce brain fog.

It can increase aerobic

• Reduces fatigue • Serves as an appetite suppressant • Increases strength • Gluten free • No artificial stimulants L-carnitine has a natural tart flavor while Dribose is naturally sweet. The combination of the two creates a delicious “lemonade” powder with incredible health benefits.

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Copper Kills Common Cold Virus

Can copper prevent colds and other respiratory illnesses?

Copper kills a wide spectrum of viruses, bacteria and fungus microbes, including superbugs, just by touch, according to many university and government studies. “Copper is great at killing superbugs,” says Dr. Bill Keevil, one of the early pioneers in the research. Dr. Keevil says copper kills respiratory viruses, like coronavirus 229E “which produces a range of respiratory symptoms from the common cold to more lethal outcomes such as pneumonia.” His research at the University of Southampton found that the coronavirus is rapidly destroyed on contact with copper. Many American researchers have found the same thing about other microbes, like MRSA and various flu viruses. Results like these finally explain why ancient peoples reportedly found many health uses for copper.

Long before anyone knew about bacteria and viruses, Egyptians and Greeks are said to have used it to purify water and disinfect skin ulcers, and Aztecs used it against sore throats.

From the Babylonian wars to the Civil War, reports say armies used copper on battlefield wounds because it allowed faster healing. It was credited with keeping copper workers from getting cholera in past epidemics. Since the recent discovery that copper quickly kills infectious disease germs, only a few hospitals have followed the advice of the EPA and switched over to copper for frequently touched surfaces. A clinical study shows this reduced the spread of illness by 58 percent.

“Copper is the new gold standard for saving lives,” says writer Robert Szczerba, but he points out that many hospitals have not yet made the switch. The reasons include costs and tarnishing. The EPA tests show, however, that copper works just as well when tarnished. In 2012, when U.S. inventor Doug Cornell learned about the microbe-killing power of copper, he decided not to wait. He developed a personal device with a copper tip to use in the nose to combat cold and flu viruses and a copper handle to kill disease germs picked up on the fingers. “Over 99% of people who used it and reported results say it worked to stop a cold they felt about to start,” he says.

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Perfect Pet Presents Safe and Eco-Smart Toys

he pet aisles are so full of squeaking, plush and colorful toys it can make a dog or cat parent’s head spin like a Frisbee. Add blinking lights, flavors, promises of higher intelligence or cleaner teeth; then toss in concerns about sustainably sourced materials, potentially toxic ingredients and varying degrees of quality. The choices are complex.

It would be nice to look for that gold seal of approval from the Pet Toy Regulatory Agency. But don’t bother: There is no such thing. It’s all up to the consumer to figure it out.

The Problem Is Real

Concern regarding toxicants in children’s toys and the realization that they posed a risk of chemical exposure led to regulatory protections. “Similar safeguards do not exist for pets, even though they exhibit similar chewing and mouthing behaviors,” says Philip N. Smith, Ph.D., associate professor of terrestrial ecotoxicology at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

“Owner education is key to limiting unintentional chemical exposure.”

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Chemosphere, common endocrine-disrupting chemical toxins in plastics can enter a dog’s body through saliva. Concentrations of leachable chemicals can increase in older, degraded toys, according to the National Institutes of Health.

For anyone that has ever had a pet destroy a toy faster than it takes to calculate the cost per second, durable construction may be the highest concern. After all, if the toy is vigorously ripped to shreds, pieces may be swallowed. The most immediate issue becomes intestinal blockage.

This is a common problem for cats and dogs with a propensity to eat garbage, plants and holiday decorations. But when we spend good money on actual toys, we would like to think that it won’t lead to surgery. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee. Poorly constructed toys have required many pet owners to watch for the parts to pass through the animal or, worse yet, make a trip to the vet.

Even if a toy seems sturdy, it’s best to observe the animal with the toy. Charlotte Easterling, a graphic designer in Madison, Wisconsin, learned this from her

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cat, Hazel, who choked on a common cat toy. “She was playing with a glitter ball and then started meowing kind of frantically, scrambling around and pawing at her face.

I jumped up and pulled the ball out of her mouth,” recalls Easterling. Hazel only gets big glitter balls these days.

A New Generation Spurs Change

The American Pet Products Association (APPA) National Pet Owners Survey provides insight into the demographics, buying habits and other traits of dog, cat, bird, small animal, reptile, fish and horse owners.

The 2019-2020 survey shows that about 85 million U.S. homes, or 67 percent, include a pet. This leads to a lot of money flowing into the pet toy and care community.

Annually, dog owners spend about $124 and cat owners spend about $89 on treats and toys. The survey also indicates that Millennials are the largest pet-owning demographic.

“The pet care community is doing a great job of meeting the demands of a new generation by offering a range of products made from sustainable, recycled and upcycled materials,” says Steve King, CEO of APPA, in Stamford, Connecticut. King notes it’s expected that as Gen Z pet owners begin to assert themselves in the marketplace, we will see more products based on sustainability and transparency.

Shopping for Safety

Experts offer some guidelines for ways consumers can choose harmless toys: 4 Be suspicious of toys manufactured overseas or cheap ones made in the U.S. 4 Contact the manufacturer and ask if toys contain phthalates, BPA, arsenic, bromine, chemical dyes, chromium or formaldehyde.

4 Look for toys made with ingredients from nature (hemp, leather or wool).

4 Find a pet supply store that has natural, safe and sustainably sourced products.

4 Inspect toys periodically for loose parts and watch the pet with new toys.

4 If a pet plays with a toy and then acts oddly, contact the vet.

Julie Peterson writes from rural Wisconsin.

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4 Stress Relief and Better Sleep Seminar – 6-7pm.

Come join Kevin Granger, DC and Hayley Imbriani, LMT, Nutritional Wellness, to learn how to ease your stress during this busy time of year. It can be hard to keep calm with so much on your plate, but we will show you how to make it possible! We will have Special Guests “Chocolate on Tap” there providing free samples of healthy chocolate. 205 S. Myrtle Ave., Clearwater. RSVP 727-248-0930.

Info, GrangerHealth.com or Dr. Kevin Granger DC- Nutritional Wellness on FB. Vegan Appetizers – 6:30pm. Need ideas for your holiday party? Venus DeMarco, A Healthy Life Made Simple, will show you how to make vegan appetizers that will wow your guests! Free. Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater, 727443-6703, NaturesFoodPatch.com.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11

Energy Mastery Foundation Class – 8:30am4:30pm, Dec. 7 & 8. Energy Mastery is a no-touch modality that helps remove blocks and hurdles from your chakras, a new concept that is helping people take control of themselves and their body. We are all energetic beings; this foundation class will teach you how to be an Energy Mastery Practitioner. Fee. Integrative Therapeutics, 8320 Stone Run Ct., Tampa. Registration fee. Info and Registration, 813-322-6171, IntTherapeutics.com.

Holiday Hypnosis & NLP Prep – 6:30-8:30pm.

On-line Live “Zoom” seminar with Patricia V. Scott, PhD, Certified Master Trainer of Hypnosis & NLP. Prepare to stay calm & in control to enjoy holiday festivities without guilt or anxiety. Scripts & materials provided. $25 or $20/UPHI Mbrs. Register by midnight, 12/10, 727-943-5003, UPHypnosis.com.

Vegan Cheese Ball – 11am. Enjoy this whole-food plant-based cheese ball as the perfect start to your holiday dinner. Whole-Food Plant-Based Chef Michelle Odiorne will demonstrate just how easy it can be to whip up this festive classic without dairy. Free.

Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater, 727-443-6703, NaturesFoodPatch.com.

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9 Massaged Kale with Goji Berries & Hemp Seeds – 6:30pm. Brad Myers, The Vegabond Chef, shows how to prepare better tasting & easier to digest kale; adding goji berries & hemp seeds makes this a perfect holiday side salad that’s unique & will impress your guests! Free. Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater, 727-443-6703, NaturesFoodPatch.com.

Beginning Beekeeping 101 – 10am-Noon. Stephanie Ramthun, full time beekeeper, teaches about bees (check her out on Instagram at Tampa Bees).

See live bees in a classroom setting. Learn about their lifecycle, honey production, pollen collecting, and hive components. Come away with an overview glance into the world of bees. All ages welcome! Raw, unfiltered honey available from Tampa Bees for sale in both Wildflower and Orange Blossom varieties! Free. Natural Health Hut, 26403 Chianina Dr., Wesley Chapel. Class size is limited so RSVP early to 813-991-5177.

Quality of life actually begins at home—it’s in your street, around your community. ~Charles Kennedy

holidays around the corner, we are going to explore a couple alternatives to the standard holiday turkey, ham, etc. Join Chef Parker Stafford, Peninsula Food, as he prepares some festive twists for the holiday table. He will be preparing herb marinated lamb chops and a cranberry maple pork tenderloin, paired with some great holiday classics “with a twist”.

Free. Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater, 727-443-6703, NaturesFoodPatch.com.

Holiday Sip N Shop Event – Noon-3pm. Happy Feet Plus Countryside. Join our Countryside store staff for complimentary refreshments, relaxing foot massages, a raffle for a free pair of Kenkohs, and discounts on select Kenkoh styles. 28384 US Hwy. 19 North, Clearwater. 727-539-7006.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8 Festive Twists for Your Holiday Main Course – 1pm. With Thanksgiving behind us and more

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 Rosary Offering – 10:30am. Rosary to the Virgin of Guadalupe on the site of the future chapel, 12705 Orange Grove Dr., Tampa. At 12:15pm, we go to mass at St. Paul Catholic Church and stay for lunch.

Bring your folding chair. RSVP 813-334-7424 Maria or ReikiShrine@gmail.com.

Baby Potatoes with Caper Aioli – 6:30pm. John van Vlaardingen, JvVHealth, prepares a great side dish for the holidays and a very versatile sauce that can be used for multiple other dishes. Learn how to make these dishes & how to combine them into some amazing new creations. Plant-based & glutenfree. Free. Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater, 727-443-6703, NaturesFoodPatch.com.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 Rebirthing Meditation – 7-9pm. Join in community with Sunder Luber as we set new intentions and release old patterns using rebirthing and meditation practices as taught by Yogi Bhajan. The kriyas are simple but the unusual powerful impact will surprise you. A lot will be cleared and it will bring ease and joy. $22/in advance; $27/day of event. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@ AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14 Medical Hypnotherapy Specialty Training – 10am6pm. Dec. 14-15. Patricia V. Scott, PhD & Dr. Eric Rosen offer advanced techniques in medical hypnotherapy, theory and practice for Certified Hypnotists.

Includes additional on-line & outside assignments.

Prerequisite: 200hr hypnosis training. $545, $495/ UPHI members. No-interest financing available. UP Hypnosis Institute, Dunedin location. Details & Registration, 727-943-5003, UPHypnosis.com.

Easy Vegetarian Holiday Side Dishes – 11am.

Demos to “Di” For, NFP Demo Specialist Di will show you how to make easy, delicious vegetarian side dishes for your winter holiday dinner party.

Free. Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater, 727-443-6703, NaturesFoodPatch.com.

Yoga for Arthritis, Fibromyalgia and Other SelfAttacking Dispositions – 1-3:30pm. Learn specific practices for the body and mind to not only address the symptoms of these challenges, but transform the underlying foundations that cause them. Authentic Yoga starts with a broad and encompassing examination of the many parts of us (mind, body, life) in a true holistic approach, to make movement on these dispositions Workshop cost included with unlimited pass or $25 without. Sign up: 727-894-9642, Info@ StPeteYoga.com, StPeteYoga.com.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19

Yoga for Cancer: Brain, Life and Body – 1-3:30pm. This course is designed for those currently going through, in remission, or caring for someone with cancer. Mind, body and life practices not only treat the individual issues, but when done as a whole system, synergize yoga’s ability to help you. Going through cancer is often overwhelming.

We will surprise you with the many tools in this extensive practice available to you during these challenging times. Workshop cost included with unlimited pass or $25 without. Sign up: 727-8949642, Info@StPeteYoga.com, StPeteYoga.com.

Christmas Chili – 6:30pm. Chili is the ultimate winter comfort food with its warm & hearty fixin’s.

Brad Myers, The Vegabond Chef will teach you how to make a festive vegan Christmas chili for the whole family to melt over! Free. Nature’s Food Patch, 1225 Cleveland St., Clearwater, 727-4436703, NaturesFoodPatch.com.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17 Christmas Party, Pot Luck Lunch & Exchange of Gifts – 2pm. Party follows Reiki Share (see Ongoing Calendar in this issue, under TUESDAY, 10am-2pm, Reiki Share). $5. Carrollwood Revello Medical Center, 10213 Lake Carrol Way, Ste. D, Tampa. Call or text your RSVP, 813-334-7424 Maria, or email ReikiShrine@gmail.com.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18 Open House-200 Hour Hatha Teacher Training – 1:30-3:30pm. Come practice and learn about the upcoming 200-Hour Hatha Yoga Teacher. Join in a one-hour practice with Jackie Edgington, 500 RYT, E-RYT 200, YACEP. Come explore the exciting opportunity to become a yoga teacher. Teachers in training receive unlimited classes at Yoga Village for the duration of the course. Free informational event. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater.

727-712-1475, Info@AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

Free Mini Webinar: Hypnosis-NLP for Happy, Healthy Holidays – 7:30-8:15pm. Live event discussing Hypnosis & NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) fundamentals with Certified Master Trainer, Patricia V. Scott. With 27 years’ experience as a Medical Hypnotherapist & NLP Master Practitioner, Patricia will discuss & answer questions on this live Zoom webinar. Call or e-mail by Noon 12/18 for log-in details: 727-943-5003, UPHypnosis@outlook.com. UPHypnosis.com.

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20 Extreme Communications – 7-9pm. Join Lisa Miliaresis, medium & author, as she channels in a gallery setting. Embrace the opportunity to connect to loved ones on the other side. $45/before December 13; $50/after. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@AYogaVillage. com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21 Holiday Sip N Shop Event – Noon-3pm. Happy Feet Plus Brandon. Join our Brandon store staff for complimentary refreshments, relaxing foot massages, a raffle for a free pair of Kenkohs, and discounts on select Kenkoh styles. 1914 W Brandon Blvd., Brandon. 813-662-5354.

Light & Sound Ceremony – 7pm. Celebrating the Winter Solstice, we will bathe in a variety of sounds and light for relaxation that move us into a higher realm of consciousness. Bring a vegetarian dish to share. Carrollwood Revello Medical Center, 10213 Lake Carroll Way, Ste. D, Tampa. Limited space, RSVP 813-3347424 Maria or ReikiShrine@gmail.com.

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Holiday Sip N Shop Event – Noon-3pm. Happy Feet Plus St. Pete Tyrone. Join our St. Pete Tyrone store staff for complimentary refreshments, relaxing foot massages, a raffle for a free pair of Kenkohs, and discounts on select Kenkoh styles. 2755 Tyrone Blvd. North, St. Petersburg. 727-345-7587.

Live Sadhana – 4:45-6:30am. Dev Suroop Kaur has immersed herself in Kundalini Yoga and the sound current since 1983, recording transformational music and becoming a KRI Certified Kundalini Yoga Lead Teacher Trainer. Join her for live music meditation practice; morning practice; reciting the Japji (Meditation of the Soul) by Guru Nanak; and Kundalini Yoga Practice. Free. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

Rebirthing Meditation – 7-9pm. Join in community with Sunder Luber as we set new intentions and release old patterns using rebirthing and meditation practices as taught by Yogi Bhajan. The kriyas are simple but the unusual powerful impact will surprise you. A lot will be cleared and it will bring ease and joy. $22/in advance; $27/day of event. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@ AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10

merry Christmas!

Extreme Communication: Connecting to the Other Side – 6-8pm. Join Lisa Miliaresis, medium & author, as she channels in a gallery setting.

Embrace the opportunity to connect to loved ones on the other side. Limited seating; pre-registration suggested. $50. The Violet Butterfly Metaphysical Healing Center, 35154 US Hwy 19 North, Palm Harbor. Register 727-386-4535. For more information, visit 2communicate.net.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26 Kwanzaa Begins FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27 Guided Meditation and Yoga – 7-8pm. Join Dr. K at Integrative Therapeutics for guided meditation and yoga! He will help you embark on your journey of positivity and relaxation through the means of guided meditation and various therapeutic yoga poses. We look forward to seeing you! $20. 8320 Stone Run Ct., Tampa. Info, 813-322-6171, IntTherapeutics.com.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31 New Year’s Eve Gong Immersion & Meditation – 6:30-8:30pm. Celebrate the ringing in of the New Year with consciousness. Join in our New Year’s Eve Gong Meditation with Gail (Updesh Kaur) Dutton to clear away negative feelings and thought patterns of the past year, set your intentions for 2020 and meditate to create, commit and bring new energy to your vision for yourself and the world around you. $30/in advance; $35/day of event. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@AYogaVillage. com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

New Year’s Eve Gong Immersion & Meditation – 9:30-11:30pm. See description above.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 2020

Happy New Year!

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 Kundalini Yoga for Beautiful Breakthroughs – 2-4:30pm. Celebrated teacher Ravi Singh has 45 years teaching experience and (with Ana Brett) is author of 25 bestselling DVDs and an incredible new book. Kundalini Yoga prompts Spirit Rising for super abundant creativity, beautiful breakthroughs and expansion forever. Let’s entrain ourselves with the rhythms and flow of the Universe and generate optimal outcomes. $40 by January 23; $45 after. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11 Open House-200 Hour Hatha Teacher Training – 1:30-3:30pm. Come practice and learn about the upcoming 200-Hour Hatha Yoga Teacher. Join in a one-hour practice with Jackie Edgington, 500 RYT, E-RYT 200, YACEP. Come explore the exciting opportunity to become a yoga teacher. Teachers in training receive unlimited classes at Yoga Village for the duration of the course. Free informational event. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 16 Safety in Natural Products for Pets, Including Essential Oils – 7-8pm. Join Dr. Cathy Alinovi and Marie Jackson to learn what products are safe and what to look for that is dangerous to pets. Bring your natural health care questions! Free. Healthy PAWsibilities Natural Pet Wellness Center, 628 Cleveland St. #17, downtown Clearwater. Info & registration, 727-5103665, info@HealthyPawsibilities.com.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21 Exosomes: The Shining Stars of Regenerative Medicine – 6-7:30pm. Seminar presented by Dr. Les Cole and Kathie Gonzales, ARPN-BC, explaining the myriad benefits of stem cell exosomes. Free. St. Petersburg Health & Wellness, 2100 Dr. MLK Jr. St. N, St. Petersburg. Seating is limited; RSVP 727-202-6807.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 Intuition, Awareness and Practice – 1:30-3:30pm.

This class will introduce you to tools you will use to tap into your intuition. Join us to practice interactive exercises to awaken your awareness and the light within.

Learn how to connect with and trust the voice within.

Lisa Miliaresis, psychic medium and author, born with ability, instinctively followed internal guidance and finetuned her abilities until she became an accomplished medium. $35/in advance; $40/day of event. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29 Cleanse and Detox Program – 9am-1pm. Detox diets are generally short-term dietary interventions designed to eliminate toxins from your body. This program may address various health problems, including obesity, digestive issues, autoimmune diseases, inflammation, allergies, bloating and chronic fatigue. $100. Natural Health Hut, 26403 Chianina Dr., Wesley Chapel. Info & reservations, 813-991-5177. ImHerbalist.com.

A promise must never be broken. ~Alexander Hamilton

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on going events

sunday Mindfulness Meditation & Practice – 10am-noon.

In the spirit of Thich Nhat Hanh. Mindfulness practice helps to cultivate compassion, develop inner peace and experience joy in daily life. FCM Practice Center, 6501 N Nebraska, Tampa. Info FloridaMindfulness.org.

25 Years of Teaching Meditation – 10:30-11:30am Sun; 6:00-7:15pm Weds; 6-7pm Fri. Learn three unique pre-Buddhist approaches to practicing meditation; techniques used by the earliest Yogis designed to awaken into the freedom and fullness of yourSelf. Practice the fundamentals, avoid common pitfalls, and get guidance creating a practical, sustainable, life-changing practice.

St. Petersburg Yoga, 2842 Dr. MLK St. N., 727-8949642, info@stpeteyoga.com, StPeteYoga.com.

monday Core Bungee – 3:30pm Mon, Weds, Fri. 2pm Sat. Engage your core in a gravity defying workout. Practice static movement combinations that strengthen and balance your core. Inversions on the bungee assist in spinal decompression and allow expanded range of movement. $20. Kinesis, The Movement Studio, 4760 East Bay Dr., Ste. D, Clearwater. Info & Class Booking, 727-331-0751, KinesisMovementStudio.com Ki Hara – 5:30pm. Stretch and strengthen your muscles in this eccentric resistance stretching technique focused on improving strength and length of full ranges of motion while correcting muscular imbalances. $15. Kinesis Movement Studio, 4760 E. Bay Dr., Clearwater. Info & Class booking, 727331-0751, KinesisMovementStudio.com.

Life Balance Yoga – 6-7:15pm. Alignment-based class emphasizing poses that help students balance out the effects of daily life. Props and individualized attention are used and options are offered to help each student practice at their desired level of challenge. Created by Stacy Renz OTR, C-IAYT. $18/class. Living Room Yoga, 8424 4th St. North, Ste. G, St. Petersburg. Register, 727-826-4754, LivingRoomYoga.biz.

Sound Bath Healing Meditation – 6:30-8pm. Relaxing meditation and sound healing with the Tibetan and crystal bowls with Lindy Romez. Open your chakras to deeper levels of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual balance. $10. Awakening Wellness Center, (South) 2126 1st Avenue S, St.Petersburg.

727-295-5147. AwakeningWellnessCenter.org.

Beginning Tribal Belly Dance – 6-7pm. Balance your life with belly dance workouts that burn fat fast, raise metabolism and build tone immediately.

This class includes basic movements and exercises for building muscle. $20. Essential Balance Holistic Wellness Center, 5606 N Nebraska Ave., Tampa. Drop-ins welcome. To reserve your spot, text 856-379-8510.

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tuesday Reiki Share – 10am-2pm. Experience the most profound, powerful & gentle relaxation technique which helps re-establish healthy frequencies of cells over your whole vibrational field, bringing back health to tissues and organs. Complements any form of therapy. Carrollwood Revello Medical Center, 10213 Lake Carrol Way, Ste. D, Tampa.

Call or text 813-334-7424 Maria or 352-942-0396 Rolly or email ReikiShrine@gmail.com. NO REIKI SHARE DUE TO HOLIDAYS: 11/26 & 12/24/19.

Last session 12/17; resumes 1/7/2020.

Somatics & Yoga – 10-11am. Somatics, the intentional movement to practice subtle awareness of the body, is gentle with slow, non-habitual movements.

Paired with yoga and the practice of breath and meditation, it brings a body-mind coherence that is relaxing and beneficial. Tampa Yoga Therapy, 6104 River Ter., Tampa. Info & registration, Tish 678-772-7912, TampaYogaTherapy.com.

Reiki Share – 10am-2pm. Experience the most profound, powerful, gentle relaxation technique and feel renewed and lighter. It helps re-establish healthy frequencies of cells and your whole vibrational field, bringing back health to cells, tissues and organs.

Complements any form of therapy. Carrollwood Revello Medical Center, 10213 Lake Carroll Way, Ste. D, Tampa. By appointment only. Call or text 813334-7424 Maria or email ReikiShrine@gmail.com.

Functional Movement through Dance – 12:30pm Tues, Thurs, Sat. This specialized class is designed for people with mild movement / coordination disorders such as Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy or stroke. Must be able to stand for extended periods and explore movements in dance. $10. Kinesis, The Movement Studio, 4760 East Bay Dr., Ste. D, Clearwater. Info & Class Booking, 727-331-0751, KinesisMovementStudio.com.

Beginner Bungee – 3:30pm & 6:30pm, Tues & Thurs.

9:30am Sat. Enter the world of weightlessness. Experience a feel for every aspect of the bungee and engage your core while being suspended. Beginner class is for everyone from the unfamiliar to professional dancers. $20. Kinesis, The Movement Studio, 4760 East Bay Dr., Ste. D, Clearwater. Info & Class Booking, 727331-0751, KinesisMovementStudio.com.

Kids Mindful Yoga – 4-5pm. Also Thurs. Kids ages 5 to 9 can learn the fundamentals of Mindfulness in body, breath, mind & life through yoga. Taught by our Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Yoga Instructor, and Mom of two. Parents can relax at the same time in their own separate Restorative class. 4-5pm, St. Petersburg Yoga, 2842 Dr. MLK St. N., 727-894-9642, info@stpeteyoga.com, StPeteYoga.com.

Acupuncture & Cupping with Amparo – 4:307:30pm. 60-minute sessions with our certified Florida licensed acupuncturist, Amparo Parades. $45. Awakening Wellness Center, 6161 MLK Jr. St. N, Ste. 100, St. Petersburg. 727-289-4747. AwakeningWellness.org. Text Amparo 727-287-8350.

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Flight Club – 5:30pm, Tues & Thurs. Aerial Bungee fitness movements targeting coordination and balance through dynamic core movements.

Learn to leap and fly into the air safely in a low impact workout. Support joint health through training proper mechanics in your legs and core. $20. Kinesis Movement Studio, 4760 E. Bay Dr., Clearwater. Info & Class booking, 727-331-0751, KinesisMovementStudio.com.

Health and Weight Loss Club Cooking Class – 6-7pm. Join us for a fun evening with Dr. Kevin Granger and Chef Trevor Granger while eating a delicious dish, and attain the skills to prepare healthy, tasteful meals that will help you lose weight. $5/per person. Granger Health, 205 S. Myrtle Ave., Clearwater. Info & registration, 727-248-0930, GrangerHealth.com.

Acupuncture Intern Clinic $25 + Cost of Herbs – 6-8pm. Students spend about an hour or two using the Chinese medicine system of evaluation to see what herbs and herbal formulas to recommend for you. They are supervised by one of our experienced acupuncture & herbal practitioners. Appointments only. Acupuncture & Herbal Therapies, 2520 Central Ave.,St. Pete, 727-551-0857, AcuHerbals.com.

Roll & Renew – 6:30pm. Yoga for Stress with Stacy Renz, E-RYT, PYT, OTR. Spend the hour on the floor luxuriating in breath, long stretches and self-massage. Learn to use the foam roller and yoga tune-up balls to alleviate trigger points and stimulate meridian lines. $16. Living Room Yoga, 8424 4th St. N, Ste. F, St. Pete. 727-826-4754, Schedulicity. com/scheduling/LRYQK9/classes.

Open Hatha Yoga Class – 6:30-7:45pm. Barney Chapman, certified in Hot and Sivananda Yoga, presents a nurturing practice of breath and form with a variety of postures to enhance overall range of motion and flexibility. Infused with yoga philosophy, become more aware of the possibilities of your practice and more responsible for inner experience. First come, first served. $15. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@AYogaVillage. com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

Minding Your Weight: Create Your Ideal Healthy Body – 6:30-8:30pm, 2nd Tues. monthly. Patricia V. Scott, Ph.D., teaches hypnosis & NLP techniques for achieving and maintaining a fit, healthy body & lifestyle. Guided hypnosis included. $25/One class or Buy five/get one class free. UP Hypnosis Institute, Terrace Plaza, 1810 S. Pinellas Ave., Suite G, Tarpon Springs. 727-943-5003. UPHypnosis.com.

Beginner Ballroom Group Classes for Adults – 7pm. Learn all the popular ballroom dances, including Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Swing, ChaCha, Rumba, Foxtrot, Tango and more. You don’t need a partner to attend the class and reservation in advance is not required; simply show up! $10/ per group class. Fred Astaire Dance Studio St. Pete Central, 7019 Central Ave., St. Pete. Hours of operation Noon-9pm, Mon.-Fri. Info 727-347-7700.

Mindfulness Meditation & Practice – 7-8:45pm.

In the spirit of Thich Nhat Hanh. Mindfulness practice helps to cultivate compassion, develop

inner peace and experience joy in daily life. First Unity Campus, 460 46th Ave. N, St. Petersburg.

Info FloridaMindfulness.org.

wednesday Chair Yoga – 10-11am. Gentle and appropriate for beginners and those with balance and mobility challenges. Seated in a chair with some standing optional poses, Tish Ganey leads this class in the Kripalu tradition of yoga, focusing on body awareness and mind-body connection. Tampa Yoga Therapy, 6104 River Ter., Tampa. Info & registration, Tish 678772-7912, TampaYogaTherapy.com.

Buti Yoga – Noon-1pm. Balance your life with Buti yoga workouts that burn fat fast, raise metabolism and build tone immediately. Buti yoga combines intensive cardio workouts with slow, flowing postures to help build strength in a fun way. $20. Essential Balance Holistic Wellness Center, 5606 N Nebraska Ave., Tampa. Drop-ins welcome. To reserve your spot, text 856-379-8510.

Breakdance Fitness – 5:30pm Wed & Fri. Learn breakdancing moves in positions targeted from the fitness standpoint. Gain mobility and strength by conditioning different techniques done by B-Boys / B-Girls. All ages and fitness levels welcome. Must be comfortable putting weight on hands for periods of time. $15. Kinesis Movement Studio, 4760 E. Bay Dr., Clearwater. Info & Class booking, 727331-0751, KinesisMovementStudio.com.

Core Bungee – 6pm. Engage your core in a gravity defying workout. Practice static movement combinations that strengthen and balance your core. Inversions on the bungee assist in spinal decompression and allow expanded mobility. $20. Kinesis Movement Studio, 4760 E. Bay Dr., Clearwater. Info & Class booking, 727-331-0751, KinesisMovementStudio.com.

Herb Student Clinic $10 + Cost of Herbs – 6-8pm.

Students spend about an hour or two using the Chinese medicine system of evaluation to see what herbs and herbal formulas to recommend for you.

They are supervised by one of our experienced acupuncture & herbal practitioners. Appointments only. Acupuncture & Herbal Therapies, 2520 Central Ave.,St. Pete, 727-551-0857, AcuHerbals.com.

Open Restorative Yoga with Sandbags Class – 7:30-8:30pm. Andrea Seiler, 200 RYT hatha yoga teacher, 200 KRI certified kundalini yoga teacher, certified in restorative yoga. First come- first serve; no advance reservations available. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater. 727-712-1475, Info@ AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

thursday Living Your Truth Guided Meditation - 6:30-8pm.

Join Phillip Walker for a gentle but powerful journey to connection. His guided imagery meditation technique allows you to focus imagination, align with intuition and deepen the insights into your True Self. The sounds of crystal bowls and drumming

will bring you deeper into the experience, which creates powerful healing and balances mind, body and spirit. $10. Awakening Wellness Center (South), 2126 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg, 727-295-5147.

AwakeningWellness.org.

Beginner Ballroom Group Classes for Adults – 7pm. Learn all the popular ballroom dances, including Salsa, Merengue, Bachata, Swing, ChaCha, Rumba, Foxtrot, Tango and more. You don’t need a partner to attend the class and reservation in advance is not required; simply show up! $10/ per group class. Fred Astaire Dance Studio St. Pete Central, 7019 Central Ave., St. Pete. Hours of operation Noon-9pm, Mon.-Fri. Info 727-347-7700.

Yin Yoga – 7-8:15pm. Presented by Barbara Allen, LMT, RYT. Emphasizing how a pose feels versus how it looks. Yin is a delicious, slow, long hold practice that addresses connective tissue, bones, tendons, ligaments and collagen, applying gentle pressure to an area to facilitate deepening in the pose. $18/class. Living Room Yoga, 8424 4th St. North, Ste. G, St. Petersburg. Register, 727-8264754, LivingRoomYoga.biz.

friday Achieving Wellness through Healthy Habits Part I – 6-8pm. 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th Fridays. Modules 3–6.

Karampreet, Kundalini Yoga Teacher. Join the Yoga Village Community in any class in this 16-week program on how to apply yoga to your life. Begin or deepen your practice of yoga, meditation, pranayama and the process to heal limiting habits so you can recover your soul. $18/class; $108/reserve for 8. Yoga Village, 2760 Daniel St., Clearwater, 727-712-1475.

Info@AYogaVillage.com, AYogaVillage.com/events.

Beginner Bungee – 6:30pm Mon/Wed/Fri; 9:30am Sat. Enter the world of weightlessness. Explore movements on the bungee and build core strength while engaging the bungee. Aerial bungee is for all levels of fitness, featuring progressive and modular movements. From the unfamiliar to professional dancers, all are welcome. $20. Kinesis Movement Studio, 4760 E. Bay Dr., Clearwater. Info & Class booking, 727-331-0751, KinesisMovementStudio.com.

saturday Awakening Wellness Center Affordable Saturday Clinic – 9am-4pm. Treat yourself to any of our services at a reduced price! Includes Tibetan Bowl Relaxation Therapy, Nutritional Counseling, Acupuncture, Cupping, Sound Therapy, Individual Yoga Instruction. 50 minute sessions with our certified professionals are $25. Awakening Wellness Center, 6161 MLK Dr., Ste. 102, St. Petersburg. Call for appointment, 727-289-4747. AwakeningWellness.org.

Andréa Denninger, of Palm Harbor, shares this pix of Emmie (a stray from before Hurricane Irma). “I fostered her for CRUSA (Cairn Rescue USA), then adopted her out. She was returned several months later and, as you can see by the picture, she knew she was back home, to stay.”

Seasonal Qi Gong & Walking Meditation Classes – 10am. Blue Dragon Healing Center is offering seasonal classes at Seminole Park, taught by Dr. Stephen Belmore. Learn powerful meditation techniques and life enhancing qi gong exercises that will make a profound impact on your mind, body and spirit. $5/Suggested donation. Seminole Park, 10015 Park Blvd N, Seminole. Blue Dragon, 4431 Park Blvd. N, Pinellas Park. Info and registration, 727-685-1390, BlueDragonHealingCenter.com.

Yoga for Scoliosis – 10:30am-12:30pm. 2nd Sat. monthly. Stacy Renz, occupational and yoga therapist, shows the proper application of yoga to stretch the muscles that are over-tight and strengthen the muscles that are weak, offering relief from back pain. Living Room Yoga, 8424 4th St. N, Ste. G, St. Petersburg. Info & registration, 727-826-4754, LivingRoomYoga.biz.

Now Playing Saturdays: The Dr. Tracie Show – 3-4pm. Listen Live on iHeart Radio to “Your expert in Integrative Medicine.” NewsRadio WFLA 970.

Email your favorite pet picture to Debbey at dwilson@natampa.com for inclusion in the magazine.

FarmFresh2U: Organic Farmers Market – 10am-4pm. Join FarmFresh2U every Saturday for organic fruits/veggies, organic/wild game meats, wild caught seafood, raw milk cheeses and honeys.

Pre-order grocery pick-up. 2126 1st Ave. South, St. Pete. For more information, call John 407-745-8527.

Shop at FarmFresh2U.us.

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community resource guide

Connecting you to the leaders in natural healthcare and green living in our community. To find out how you can be included in the Community Resource Guide call 727.865.9339 or go to NATampa.com and request a media kit.

alternative medicine

ACUPUNCTURE Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine Chris Dziubinski, DOM, AP, L. Ac 12952 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa 813-935-CARE (2273) MindBodySpiritCare.com

Florida Board Certified Acupuncture Physician offering acupuncture therapies for the whole family. Established, comfortable, caring and professional integrative medicine clinics in South & North Tampa. In-network with most medical insurances; accept payments from HRA, HSA and FSA.

Jade Tree Wellness Center Tom Elman, AP, LMT 3039 - 49th St. N, St. Petersburg 727-344-8690 JadeTreeWellness.com

Happy, Healthy, Whole! Acupuncture, Herbs and Massage to help you feel better. We treat everything from asthma to emotional issues, from Acid Reflux to Fibromyalgia. Free Consultations!

LIFEWORKS WELLNESS CENTER

Dr. David Minkoff Dr. Rodney Soto Sue Morgan, ARNP and Karima Redouan, ARNP 301 Turner Street, Clearwater 727-466-6789 LifeWorksWellnessCenter.com Specializing in natural hormone replacement therapy: the natural, bioidentical way and other safe, natural nutritional solutions for menopause symptoms, including weight loss, acupuncture, chelation and allergy elimination. See ad inside front cover and page 12.

Professional Herbalists Training Program Acupuncture & Herbal Therapies 2520 Central Ave., St. Petersburg 727-551-0857 AcuHerbals.com

Awakening Wellness Center II

Ampy Paredes, AP 2126 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg, Fl 33712 727-295-5147 AwakeningWellness.org

Board-certified acupuncture physician, combining holistic healing modalities (moxibustion, cupping, electrical muscle stimulation, etc.) for optimal healing results. 20+ years’ experience AP; 30+ years in hospitals/labs. See ad page 13.

The 2-year program meets one weekend each month for class and Wednesday nights for our hands-on student clinic. This program is designed to create clinical herbalists in a combination of Chinese and western herbalism.

Many open classes. Designed to meet American Herbalists Guild standards.

See ad page 34.

Orthomolecular Nutrition & Wellness 9225 Ulmerton Rd., Ste. 312, Largo 727-518-9808 OrthoLiving.com.

Machelle Perkins, D.O.M. 7600 Bryan Dairy Rd # C, Largo 727-541-2211 NaturalMedTherapies.com

National & state board certified with 15+ years experience in Acupuncture, Homeopathy, Naturopathy, Cold Laser & more.

Bio-Puncture and Mesotherapy to treat pain, ADHD, anxiety, depression. Lab testing, most insurances. Free Nutritional Consultation.

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Astrology for Your Soul

Aluna Michaels, M.A., Esoteric Astrologer Dunedin 727-239-7179 AlunaMichaels.com Second-generation astrologer and Soul Evolutionist practitioner.

Over 25 years of experience.

Insightful, unique perspective on goals and issues. “Together we will unveil your soul’s purpose.”

chiropractic GENTLE TOUCH CHIROPRACTIC AND WELLNESS CENTER Dr. Colette Cseszko 10575 68th Ave. Seminole, FL 33772 727-235-3265 Gentle-Chiro.com

Spa-like wellness center offering chiropractic, acupuncture and physical therapy modalities. 18+ years’ experience in treatment of spine-related conditions, including tailbone misalignments, chronic sacroiliac dysfunction, piriformis issues and upper cervical disorders. On site X-ray. See ad page 31.

Natural Living Chiropractic & wellness center Dr. Paula Giusto 310 South Brevard Ave. Tampa 813-253-2565 NaturalLivingChiropractic.org

Family chiropractic care, wellness care, nutritional counseling, neuromuscular massage therapy.

Jin Shin Jyutsu & craniosacral therapy.

We address the underlying root cause of disease by using a variety of modalities such as Nutrient IV’s, Chelation, Weight loss, HRT, PEMF and more. To see if you qualify for Medical Marijuana go to OrthoMMJ.com.

apothecary Natural Med Therapies

astrology

Six Oaks Wellness Apothecary Carolyn Zinober, LMT, Esthetician, Clinical Herbalist, Aromatherapist 607 1st. Ave. SW, Largo 727-501-1700

SixOaksWellness.com Clinical herbalist and massage therapist offering consultations, extensive line of Eastern/Western Herbs, Teas, Essential oils, CBD, Supplements, and learning workshops. Visit your neighborhood apothecary today!

See ad page 21.

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colon Hydrotherapy RENEW LIFE

Bonnie Barrett 28469 US Hwy 19 N. #402, Clearwater 727-461-7227 RenewLifeFla.com, Lic# MA14802 MM35406 25 years experience. Expert in colon hydrotherapy using pressure points, abdominal massage, essential oils, and lymphatic drainage.

All disposable tubing used. Very comfortable and relaxing room with private bathroom. See ad page 36. .

dentists Beata carlson, DDS

2701 Park Dr. Suite 4, Clearwater 727-712-3837 NaturalAndCosmeticDentistry.com Natural, Holistic, Aesthetic Dentistry. Careful Silver filling removal. Non-metal crowns and bridges.

Be pampered in our Spa-like atmosphere. See ad back cover.

feldenkrais method Bonnie Kissam, M.A., Feldenkrais Practitioner, LMT, CE Provider 941-360-2248 Bonnie@FeldenkraisInSarasota.com FeldenkraisInSarasota.com Lessons for Children (ABM), Adults, Classes, Professional Seminars

Revolutionary somatic approach that expands abilities through quieting old patterns, developing new. Offering: Touch to Inform Professional Seminars; Feldenkrais Awareness Classes with Fon Nguyen, PT.

David F. Doering, DDS

Doering Family Dental 1201 W. Linebaugh Ave., Tampa 813-933-5365 TampaDentalCare.com Cosmetic and restorative dentistry. Conservative approach to periodontal (gum) treatment. See ad page 6.

herbalist Rose Kalajian—Herbalist

Natural Health Hut Clinic and Herb Farm 813-991-5177 ImHerbalist.com

paul t. rodeghero, dds

Clearwater Family Dental 215 S Myrtle Ave., Clearwater 727-442-3363 MyClearWaterFamilyDental.com We are a full service family dental practice that stresses metal free restorations, safe mercury removal, ozone and laser dentistry. We welcome patients of all ages and can handle any concern that you may have.

See ad page 25.

Robert J. Yu, DMD

The only board certified periodontist and implant surgeon in Tampa Bay offering ceramic/ zirconia non-metal implants.

State-of-the-art treatments include CBT imaging, LANAP and digital intraoral scanner, eliminating messy impressions.

See ad page 8.

To Advertise in the Resource Guide email Debbey at dwilson@natampa.com or call 727.865.9339

Integrative & holistic medicine for women & men: Natural Hormone Therapy, Anti-Aging, IV Chelation, Nutritional Vitamin Therapy, Fatigue & Stress Management, Weight Loss, Yoga, Nutritional Counseling. Affiliated with St. Joseph Hospital. Most insurance accepted.

Peaks of Health Metabolic Medical Center Tracie Leonhardt, DO 1120 Belcher Rd. S., Ste. 2, Largo 727-826-0838 PeaksOfHealth.com

Specializing in growing the herbs used in my clinic practice and in the Herbal Remedies I formulate.

Consultations are available for humans, dog, cats, and horses.

Promoting health through the use of Herbs. See ads pages 10 and 38.

hypnosis

Success by design

Patricia V. Scott, President 727-943-5003 UPHypnosis@yahoo.com, UPHypnosis.com Professional Hypnosis & NLP Certification Training, Weekly classes & Private sessions (Smoking, Weight, Stress, Sports, Habits), Clinical/Medical Hypnotherapy available w/referral. Speaking Services & Corporate Programs.

See ad page 49.

integrative medicine Integrative Therapeutics Dr. Prudhvi Karumanchi 8320 Stone Run Ct., Tampa 33615 813-322-6171 IntTherapeutics.com

Ron N. Shemesh, M.D. 12952 N Dale Mabry Highway, Tampa 813-935-CARE (2273) MindBodySpiritCare.com

Dr. Leonhardt is Board Certified & Fellow of the American Academy of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. Offers a personalized program for each individual patient.

Hormone replacement therapy, weight loss, thyroid, GI issues, Diabetes, infrared sauna, IV nutrition, Anti-aging, Chronic fatigue, adrenal fatigue, and toxicities. See ad pages 11 and 37.

UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES HYPNOSIS, INC.

Tampa Bay Dental Implants & Periodontics 6700 Crosswinds Dr., Ste. 200-B, St. Petersburg 727-384-9122 TBPerio.com

Mind Body spirit Care

Committed to finding the root cause, Holistic MD offers: IV Nutrition, Regenerative Treatments, Functional Medicine, Heavy Metal Detox, Energy Healing, Weight Loss, Anti-aging and more. Out-of-Network Provider. See ad page 35.

9095 Belcher Road, Pinellas Park 727-548-0001 PoundsAwayTampaBay.com A Wellness Center for Age-Management, Functional Medicine and Medical Weight Loss.

Specializing in BioIdentical Hormone Replacement including Pellet Therapy, Gut Health/Food Allergies, Detoxification, Nutritional Evaluations, Acupuncture, Massage therapy and more. See ad page 4.

Young Foundational Health Center John D. Young, M.D. 7241 Bryan Dairy Road, Largo 727-545-4600 YoungFoundationalHealth.com

Author of Beyond Treatment.

Creator of Young Health Products. Offering specialized treatments for chronic diseases. Therapies include Bio-identical Hormone, Stem Cell, Vitamin IV, Chelation, Ozone. Special Testing and Nutritional Education.

See ad page 15.

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psychologist Awakening Wellness Center II

Phillip Walker, LCSW 2126 1st Ave. S, St. Petersburg, Fl 33712 727-295-5147 AwakeningWellness.org

A holistic psychotherapist, Walker offers EMDR, hypnosis, energy healing and meditation guidance. He assists clients into deeper layers of self and aligning to one’s truth.

See ad page 13.

thermography

veterinarian Healthy PAWsibilities Natural Pet Wellness Center

GREENPOINT THERMOGRAPHY

John D. Bartone MD Thomas Hudson MD 7901 4th Street North, Suite 316 St. Petersburg, FL 33702 727-576-0100 GreenPointThermography.com

Dr. Cathy Alinovi DVM 628 Cleveland St, #17, Clearwater 727-510-3665 HealthyPawsibilities.com.

The only physician owned and operated thermography practice in Tampa Bay - serving Pinellas, Hillsborough, and Pasco counties. Accredited by the American College of Clinical Thermology.

See ad page 10.

Elizabeth Rice, LCSW

6251 Park Blvd., Ste. 9C, Pinellas Park 33781 727-300-9382 esLifeCoach.com, License SW15178 Heal the whole being including body, mind, spirit and emotions.

Increase your quality of life; facilitate emotional healing.

Specializing in Anxiety, Mood, Behavior, Trauma, Family.

See ad page 51.

Offering only holistic health options. Nutrition, herbal support, body balancing, canine fitness, reiki and more. See ad page 48.

Medicine River Animal Hospital Tampa Bay Thermography

June Drennon, CCT 2008 JuneDrennon@TampaBayThermography.com 727-729-2711 TampaBayThermography.com Certified Clinical Thermographer 2008. Mindful Wellness with Thermography!

Knowledge is power: Know your risk factors to make corrections and avoid developing pathology. Call for location convenient for you.

See ad page 31.

spiritual intuitive

Shawna L. Green, DVM 13495 Gulf Boulevard Madeira Beach 727-299-9029 MedicineRiverAnimalHospital.com

Compassionate health care catered toward the needs of your pet offering preventative medicine, surgery, dentistry, senior wellness, and more. See ad page 48.

weight loss MEDICALLY SUPERVISED DIET LifeWorks Wellness Center Sue Morgan, ARNP 301 Turner Street, Clearwater 727-466-6789 LifeWorksWellnessCenter.com

Lisa Miliaresis

Extreme Communication 727-239-0656 Lisa@2Communicate.net 2Communicate.net Lisa offers private individual and group channeling sessions, as well as private counseling sessions for those looking for direction in developing their own personal practice.

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See ad inside front cover.

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