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an we slow down? Can we slow down enough to say we have time for ourselves? Can we slow down enough to say we have time to read this magazine? Can we slow down enough to nurture our health and our lives before it's too late? This seems to be a consistent theme I see throughout everyone's life in society. Time is slipping away. With the advent of technology and social media, I see so many patterns where people cannot keep up with life. In this issue, we hope to inspire you to slow down with a cover story from That ‘70s Show and Orange is the New Black actress, Laura Prepon. Find out why she took the time to redirect her life following a recent discovery that she’d been falling short in nourishing her body, even though she was considered the image of health. Our intention this issue is to help you slow down for a bit each day to acknowledge your SELF! Feel Good, Live Simply, Laugh More,

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Natural Awakenings is your guide to a healthier, more balanced life. In each issue readers find cutting-edge information on natural health, nutrition, fitness, personal growth, green living, creative expression and the products and services that support a healthy lifestyle.

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WHAT WE GO THROUGH

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20 EATING SKINNY

Why Vegans and Vegetarians are Naturally Trim

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24 LAURA PREPON’S

JOURNEY TO HEALTH

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newsbriefs Mother Nature Provides Quality Control at Mountain Valley

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f there’s one lesson Mountain Valley Spring has learned after 144 years in business, it’s that Mother Nature provides excellent quality control. “Mountain Valley is naturally sodium-free, with a pH of 7.8 and an abundance of minerals,” says Stuart Scott, president of Health Waters Inc., Mountain Valley’s distributor in New York and New Jersey.

“This award winning spring water has been continuously bottled at the same high-quality, natural spring source in Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, since 1871.”

Scott says not much has changed at Mountain Valley over the years—not even its bottles. “Every drop of Mountain Valley Spring Water still emanates from the original freeflowing spring source, protected by the company’s 2,000 acres of pristine forestland that surround it,” Scott says. “And we’ve continued the tradition of offering the water in glass bottles. Mountain Valley Spring Water is available in natural Spring, Sparkling and new Sparkling Essences, and we can deliver it right to our customer’s doorstep in green glass bottles and the only five-gallon returnable glass bottle in America.”

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hile the USDA recommends that we eat three to five servings of fruit and two to four servings of vegetables daily, studies consistently show that Americans don’t come close to that goal. That’s why Massage for Health and Fitness, a local provider of nutrition-dense foods and supplements as well as on-site massage services, now carries Fruits & Veggies Plus, a 100 percent raw, whole-food fruit and vegetable powder formulated to contain the highest nutrient value possible.

“According to the Harvard School of Public Health, the average American consumes only three servings of fruit and vegetables a day,” says Nigel Hunt, a national certified massage therapist with Massage for Health and Fitness. “Even more alarming, the USDA reported that over half of all elementary students eat no fruits on any given day, and three out of ten students eat less than one serving of vegetables a day.”

The ingredients in Fruits & Veggies Plus are picked at peak ripeness and immediately freeze-dried to retain all their enzymes, vitamins and minerals, Hunt says.

“Whole-food fruits and vegetables contain essentials nutrients, especially antioxidants; that improve our resistance to disease, protect our cells from free radicals and boost our immune system,” he says. “Good nutrition is vital to optimal health and especially important for children and adolescents for healthy growth and development.”

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Healing Arthritis: A Success Story

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hen Olga Mares learned that she had arthritis, it was a particularly shattering diagnosis: she was only 27 years old, and a pianist. Mares was devastated, and the medication that her doctors prescribed made her feel even worse. Just as she’d begun to lose hope of ever feeling young, strong and vibrant again, she found Qigong, an energy practice from China. She says it turned her life around.

“Qigong may look like tai chi, but each exercise is a conscious combination of movement, breath and visualization,” she says. “It might seem too gentle to conquer any disease, but I found that the more I relaxed, the more I healed.” She practiced Qigong every day, four to five hours a day. After three months of this intense practice, her doctor told her that her arthritis was in remission. Meanwhile her fingers, which had been deformed by the disease, returned to normal.

Mares says this was the beginning of her healing on many levels. She now teaches Qigong and does healing herself, always mindful of what she learned from her own experience. “The biggest lesson I learned in my healing is that no matter what kind of health challenge you have, you should never give up,” she says. “You need to look for healing modality that works for you.”

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The program reflects the mission of ballroom dance teacher Alexey Gavrilov, who has taught children with disabilities on the West Coast and hopes to provide a similar opportunity for children in New Jersey and New York.

“Every child is special and an artist,” he says. “Dance focuses on the ability of the individual rather than on the disability.

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his month’s New Life Health & Wellness Expo will host presentations by leading experts from around the country, including Dr. Robert Young and Dr. Howard Robins, www.NewLifeExpo.com plus panels and exhibits on the latest trends. Helpful information covers the whole spectrum of health on-site at New York’s Hotel Pennsylvania (33rd & 7th), starting at 6 p.m. on May 29, noon on May 30 and 11 a.m. on May 31.

Event highlights include a Nutrition, Sexuality & Sensuality panel and a Strange Universe panel, hosted by Sean David Morton. Yoga classes, raw food panels and a raw food dining area are also major attractions.

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Stem Cell Therapy Helps Body Heal Itself

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reat progress is happening in the field of stem cell therapy, which has the potential to stimulate the healing and repair of injured tissues, regenerate certain organs and return hormone and immune systems to their proper function.

According to Neil Raff, MD, Neil Raff, MD medical director at American Stem Cell Center in Queens, that office has been using stem cell therapy for several years to treat injured joints and ligaments, allowing patients to avoid major surgery. “With recent scientific advances, stem cells can now benefit many other conditions, David Zirkiev, PA-C such as COPD, ALS, spinal cord and neurological damage and certain failing organs,” Raff says.

At American Stem Cell Center, the therapy is a oneday outpatient procedure during which a patient’s own stem cells are used to help his or her body heal itself.

“Stem cells are produced in the bone marrow—they travel through the blood to the entire body to stimulate the regeneration and repair of all our tissues,” Raff says.

“For the therapy, these stem cells are collected from your own body, and then they’re activated, concentrated and injected back into the site of injury. This procedure is changing medical care, allowing us to help patients with conditions that were never before treatable.”

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EPA Blooper

Bee-Toxic Pesticide Approved The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved cyantraniliprole, a new systemic pesticide that is toxic to bees, for agricultural use and has set allowable residue limits on almonds, berries, leafy vegetables and milk. The EPA also approved it as a seed treatment, so it may show up in GMO (genetically modified) seeds in the future.

Cyantraniliprole has been proven to cause liver toxicity, and the EPA notes that it also alters the stability of the thyroid as tested on laboratory rats. Although the agency maintains that the pesticide is not a direct thyroid toxicant, any indirect effects on this glandular function are likely to disrupt the endocrine system. As its current endocrine disruptor screening program is still in the process of validating tests, EPA registration of the new active ingredient is questionable.

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Corporate Climate

Companies Slowly Embrace Sustainability The 2015 State of Green Business report (Tinyurl. com/2015GreenBusinessReport), which assesses the environmental performances of companies worldwide, along with the trends to watch, is produced by GreenBiz, in partnership with Trucost.

Collectively, companies have been nibbling at the edges of challenges such as climate change, food security, ecosystems preservation and resource efficiency. One measure of corporate engagement going forward will be proactive involvement on political issues that could accelerate the transition to a low-carbon and more sustainable economy. It remains to be seen whether companies can afford to sit on the sidelines, letting the political process unfold, or worse, play defense against changes that might roil their status quo.

2015 will be an interesting year on multiple fronts, especially with the launch of the new sustainable development goals at the United Nations (UN) in New York this fall, along with UN climate talks in Paris in December. Both will be tests of corporate engagement and resolve in driving the kinds of change many of their CEOs publicly call for. The reports’ findings of companies’ progress in greenhouse gas and emissions, air pollutants, water use and solid waste production are all leveling off or even declining.

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Home Flame Retardants Found in River Scientists with the Washington Toxics Coalition tested household dust and laundry wastewater from 20 homes in the state’s cities of Longview and Vancouver and took samples of incoming and outgoing flow from two wastewater treatment plants that discharge into the Columbia River, the Northwest’s biggest waterway. They detected flame retardants in all the tests.

The conclusion of the study, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, is that flame retardants are sloughing off household products such as couches and TVs and collecting on people’s clothing, washing out in the laundry and passing through wastewater treatment plants into local waterways.

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HealthyStuff, a project of the Michigan-based Ecology Center, in collaboration with the Campaign for Healthier Solutions (CHS), has released a report, A Day Late and a Dollar Short: Discount Retailers are Falling Behind on Safer Chemicals, about toxic chemicals found in dollar store products. It includes test results for 164 dollar store products such as toys, jewelry, school supplies and household items and found that 81 percent contained at least one hazardous chemical above a level that generates concern.

The campaign sent a letter to the CEOs of the four largest dollar store chains, including Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, Dollar General, and 99 Cents Only, urging them to stop the sale of these unsafe products, especially to communities of lowincome and ethnic families that already live in more polluted areas and food deserts, and adopt policies that will instead protect both customers and their own businesses. Combined, these discount chains have annual sales totaling more than $36 billion and operate more stores nationally than Walmart.

The CHS is asking for a comprehensive set of reforms; communities need to let dollar store chains know that they want safer products and join local and national efforts advocating for nontoxic products.

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Danish researchers studying almost 2 million marathon results from 131 marathon races over a period of five years have concluded that women are 18.6 percent better than men at maintaining a consistent pace overall, compared to the first and the last parts of the distance. Among the population studied, 68.5 percent were men and 31.5 percent were women. The research further suggests that both men and women “burn out” en route and could improve their marathon results significantly simply by starting slower.

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arvard Medical School researchers working at the Massachusetts General Hospital have determined that meditation can improve brain health. The researchers studied 16 volunteers that took part in an eight-week mindfulness meditation study at the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness.

The participants conducted mindfulness meditation exercises for an average of 27 minutes a day. Before and after the trial, the subjects were given tests and magnetic resonance imaging of their brains.

The researchers found that the practice of mindfulness meditation resulted in increased gray matter density in the hippocampus of the brain, an area associated with increased memory and learning capacity, plus a greater sense of compassion and introspection.

HEART DISEASE DETECTED EARLY WITH BREATH TESTING

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esearch published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology has found that breath testing can reveal potential heart disease and artery problems quickly and efficiently. Testing 31 patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) together with 34 healthy control subjects, the study found that concentrations of volatile gases such as propanol, ethanol and ammonia were significantly different among the heart disease patients.

It also found that the breath can reveal specific details about the heart’s condition.

The breath test can be analyzed in fewer than 30 minutes.

Rehabilitating the Digestive System Naturally

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anufacturers add preservatives to food products in order to reduce spoilage by killing bacteria and fungus in the container. But that can do the same in the gut, killing good bacteria that help the body absorb nutrients and digest food. Diets high in sugar and carbohydrates also harm the gut, feeding intestinal fungus such as Candida and allowing it to take over.

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It’s best taken on an empty stomach, dosing two ounces every two hours for two to three days; this prepares the system for enhanced effectiveness of the following treatment.

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When working to heal the body, basic building blocks are required, so it’s critical that those using this approach take 2,000 milligrams of vitamin C, 10,000 international units of vitamin D and a good B-complex daily.

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ast September, a Milan Court held in favor of plaintiffs that claimed that three doses of the hexavalent GlaxoSmithKline vaccine Infanrix Hexa that were administered to an infant beginning in 2006 caused autism later when he was a young boy. The vaccine is used for polio, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, whooping cough and haemophilus influenzae type B. After hearing from several medical experts, the court ruled that the child likely suffered autism and brain damage as a result of the vaccine’s content of mercury and aluminum, combined with a genetic mutation in the child rendering greater susceptibility. The ruling ordered damages to be paid by the Italian government’s national vaccine injury compensation program. The court’s decision was also based upon GlaxoSmithKline’s list of possible adverse events resulting from the vaccine, which included five cases of autism during clinical trials.

Today in the U.S., most vaccines routinely given to children under 6 years of age are free of thimerosal, a mercuryderived preservative.

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Why We Go Through What We Go Through

By Tara Greenway

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ave you ever gone through a challenging experience or relationship and thought, Really, God? Again?

Come ON! It’s frustrating to repeat negative patterns we desperately want to escape. Why does this happen?

I got an answer to that question not long ago when I took a workshop with a real master. Vianna Stibal is the founder of ThetaHealing, a mind-body technique that has grown exponentially throughout the world, with practitioners in over one hundred countries. She’s healed countless people and has written several books.

So I was surprised when she shared with the class that recently she was so disillusioned with some events in her life that she asked, Really, God? Again? Come ON! Certainly, I thought, she was too evolved and successful to experience the same kind of frustration I had.

I was mistaken. Vianna went on to explain that she kept getting verbally and legally attacked by others until she recognized the pattern and was ready to hear the answer to her question (Really, God? Again?). She finally understood the reason: sometimes we repeat lessons in order to fully master a virtue.

In this case, she said, the virtue she gained was tolerance. When people verbally attacked her while she was teaching healing, she stopped rushing to defend herself. She learned to stop feeling disgruntled and resentful toward her attackers; instead she unconditionally accepted them, letting the Universe teach them—and her.

She became truly tolerant, she said, and now she no longer needs people to attack her in order to learn about that quality.

Do you know what is standing between you and your dreams? Perhaps

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Then you will get to say, Really, God? Thank you! Let’s go!

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The Surprising Benefit of Colonics GREAT SKIN

ately we’ve been hearing from more and more women that their glowing skin isn’t just about the radiance-boosting skin-care serums they’re slathering on—it’s the result of paying attention to a rather different organ.

We’re talking about colonics—and the intestines. Practitioners and devotees of colonics believe that regular sessions with the hose can clear up acne, psoriasis and eczema, and even a single session can give an immediate glow to the skin.

Dr. Mariana Boneva, founder of Beauty Plus Aesthetics and a pioneer in advanced laser skin treatments, says colonics are a perfect complement to the broad menu of aesthetic and cosmetic procedures her Manhattan practice offers. Beauty Plus uses the Colenz colon cleansing system, and Boneva likens the effects of a Colenz session to that of a great cardio workout—glowing skin and a feeling of lightness or even euphoria.

Boneva took a few minutes with us to explain the unexpected benefits of colon cleansing.

What’s the connection between the intestines and the skin?

Any fecal matter in the body is toxic. It’s like a bag of trash in the summer that’s starting to ferment. That happens in the intestines, and then the toxins sink through the intestinal wall and into the bloodstream.

And from there, the skin is the largest organ of elimination. So if you are at all toxic, it’s going to show up there.

I always say to my clients that there is no clear and beautiful skin without a clean colon. What happens in the colon is directly seen in the skin. So when I see a person with chronic acne, to me they are pooping through their skin. That may sound harsh, but when I put it that way to my clients, it gives them a wake-up call. I tell them that what’s going on inside will show on the outside— that the skin is the organ that we can see that tells us if we are internally fit. So I tell them to pay attention, as it can save them from longstanding issues later on.

How many sessions does it take to see results?

Generally healthy clients with decent skin and good natural elimination can see a glow after one session, but clearing up a chronic condition like acne, eczema, dermatitis or psoriasis takes more of an investment.

And just as the skin is the first place trouble can appear, it’s also one of the first places for improvement. When you detox, the first place you’ll see the results is on the skin. Your skin tone improves, and it emits a glow, a vibrant quality. It motivates you to take better care of yourself. And maybe hit the hose in addition to the beauty counter.

Is your practice devoted entirely to colon hydrotherapy?

No, but Colenz sessions are a major part of my anti-aging, anti-acne and other treatment programs. That’s why I opened another room for colon hydrotherapy in my practice four years ago.

What’s the recommended schedule for Colenz sessions?

It depends on your lifestyle, diet, health condition, age, and other factors. If it’s your first time, I recommend at least four

sessions close together, once a week, along with—not coincidentally—an elimination diet without dairy, processed food, meat, sugar and gluten.

Some people worry colonics can wash the good bacteria from their intestinal system, or that they’ll get addicted to it. What has your experience been with your clients?

It definitely doesn’t cause addiction. A probiotic has to be taken to balance the bacterial flora in the colon. The famous gastrointestinal surgeon Hiromi Shinya, who has operated on more then 300,000 patients, claims that those who do regular colonics show up for their colonoscopies with healthier and much better-looking intestines than people who rely on natural elimination only. He’s convinced after his long years of practice that those people have prevented colon cancer and many other chronic conditions.

I recommend colonics not just to my clients with skin problems, but to everyone who cares how they look and feel, and for how long. And springtime is the best season to refresh and clean the internal body.

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Lyme Disease “The Great Mimicker” From the Desk of Dr. Howard Robins at The Healing Center in New York City

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interfere with sleep, as well as abnormal skin sensations.

The late stage is where the infection has fully spread throughout the body. A polyneuropathy that involves shooting pains, numbness, and tingling in the hands or feet may develop.

A neurologic syndrome called Lyme encephalopathy is associated with subtle cognitive problems, such as difficulties with concentraDr. Howard Robins The Cause tion and short-term memory often accompaLyme disease is the most common ticknied by profound fatigue. borne disease in the Northern Hemisphere. Borrelia burg In some cases Lyme disease kills. dorferi is the main cause of Lyme disease in North America, though up to five co-infections are often present.

The infection is transmitted to humans by the bite of The Answer infected ticks. The ticks are extremely small and often fall In many but not all cases, antibiotics may eliminate the inoff the body after feeding, thus masking the fact that you’ve fection and its symptoms, especially if the illness is treated been bitten. early. Unfortunately, even when caught early, antibiotics don’t always work.

Over the past 22 years intravenous medical ozone The Symptoms and the Difficulty in Diagnosis has been safely and effectively used to destroy and elimiEarly symptoms may include fever, headache, fatigue, nate Lyme disease, even in late stage infections. Often depression, and a characteristic circular skin rash, which when all hope is gone, even after years of suffering medihas a “bulls-eye” (target-like), appearance. Patients often cal ozone has proven successful. experience flu-like symptoms, such as headache, muscle

Usually in just a few weeks symptoms begin to disoreness, fever, and malaise, which can also confuse early minish offering hope and finally giving relief. Intravenous diagnosis. medical ozone when it enters the body attacks and kills

Unfortunately, left untreated, symptoms may involve all Lyme disease causing bacteria. It does it safely, virtually the joints, heart, and central nervous system. The disease with no adverse reactions. In addition it destroys all uncan affect multiple body systems at the same time and prowanted viruses, fungus, yeast, mold, harmful free radicles duce a wide range of symptoms. Not all patients with Lyme and toxins, thus cleansing your body and boosting your disease will have all symptoms, and many of the symptoms own natural immune system. A are not specific to Lyme disease, but can occur with other

You can learn more about intravenous medical ozone diseases as well, also making it difficult to diagnose. Also, at www.ozoneuniversity.com as well as buying a copy of blood testing frequently shows false negative testing or inthe award winning DVD “Ozone Therapy: The Miracle determinate results, causing doctors to delay diagnosis and Medicine” by Dr. Gary Null at www.garynull.com which treatment until it’s too late to easily kill the infections. contains testimonials from Lyme patients as too medical

Every part of the body can be affected. Various acute ozone’s effectiveness. neurological problems including facial palsy, which is the loss of muscle tone on one or both sides of the face, as well as meningitis, which involves severe headaches, neck stiffness, and sensitivity to light are common in untreated Source: Dr. Howard Robins. For additional information, call cases. Nerve inflammation causes shooting pains that may 212-581-0101 or visit OzoneUniversity.com. See ad, page 3. re you suffering with symptoms of an illness that doesn’t seem to respond to any normal treatment? Maybe, just maybe, you are suffering from the “great mimicker”, Lyme disease. Even if you know you have it but believe you can’t get rid of it, don’t give up hope! Read on.

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Doctor Without Borders New York-based Prolotherapy Specialist Inspired

by Medical Missions around the World

By Tania Fuentez

Dr. Larisa Likver upholds a straightforward philosophy in her practice, recognizing the body’s natural ability to heal itself while uniting the “wisdom of century-old techniques with cutting-edge medical advances.”

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oard-certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation, the respected physiatrist has more than 20 years of medical experience in New York and abroad.

She shares expertise in pain management and alternative medicine to provide high-quality medical treatment to people around the world otherwise unable to afford such care, specifically comprehensive prolotherapy treatment.

When done properly, prolotherapy has a more than 80 percent success rate and it can eliminate the need for orthopedic surgeries in many cases, Dr. Likver explains. Often considered a new method, documentation shows that a very similar therapy was performed as early as 400 B.C., she says. The name for the non- surgical ligaments and tendons reconstruction technique is derived from the Latin word “proli” which means to regenerate or rebuild. “Prolo” is short for proliferation because treatment causes the proliferation (growth, formation) of new ligament and tendon tissue in weakened areas.

A sugar-based solution is injected into the ligament or tendon where it attaches to bone, causing localized inflammation (a first stage of healing) in weak areas, which then increases blood supply and flow of nutrients. It also stimulates tissue repair, strengthening

and tightening and thereby stabilizing the identified area.

Recently, Dr. Likver traveled to Honduras as part of an international team of physicians, nurses and assistants offering less-invasive, non-surgical care. Since 1969, the Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation has hosted a medical missionary trip to the Central American country. Churches, hospitals and other sites are converted into medical clinics in La Ceiba, Tela and Olanchito, attracting patients from the cities and rural villages.

“Everything is shipped in from the U.S.,” Dr. Likver says, reflecting on her visit to Tela in March. “We set up and open hospitals in the field and people come from all over the country, some walking for miles. One patient told me she sold her last chicken to get here.”

Long lines form around 6 a.m.

“Patients are very appreciative just because you came there … even without touching them, even without treatment,” she says.

“Doctors are human beings, too. When someone says ‘thank you,’ you notice.”

Camaraderie comes naturally.

“Because this method is so effective doctors throughout the world get together to help less fortunate, who do not have a ‘second chance’ to get help,” Dr. Likver adds. “Prolotherapy is a trusted and effective method, but at the same time requires excellent skills and technique.

That’s why doctors, who go to Honduras, not only treat locals but also treat each other (we call it “doctors treat doctors”).”

Clearly inspired, she continues: “ … we not only trust the method, but we also know and trust the level of expertise of those involved in the program.”

Dr. Likver has dedicated her life to medicine, and plans to accept an invitation to provide prolotherapy on a medical missionary trip to Mexico in 2016. With extensive credentials, she provides outstanding care for musculoskeletal problems and helps her patients avoid surgery, using vast knowledge in conventional and alternative medicine (comprehensive prolotherapy, PRP treatment, neuroprolotherapy and prolozone treatment).

But, it goes beyond diagnosing a patient’s injury or illness and treatment. “… I must know my patient. I can’t just treat the knee. I am treating the whole person.”

Larisa N. Likver, MD has offices located at 315 Madison Ave, Ste 806, NYC, 212-922-9030 and 8419 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, NY, 718-259-0199. Learn more at DrLikver.com, GetProlo.com, or HackettHemwall.org.

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How to Look Younger, Sexier and Make More Money

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ccording to different university studies, having whiter teeth make you look younger (since teeth tend to yellow as you age), sexier (people are attracted to a white smile) and wealthier (one study found women earning more when they had whiter teeth).

Whitening teeth involves a form of peroxide that can come in different strengths, usually lower levels in over the counter products and higher strengths at the dental office. It can be applied as a strip, a gel or liquid. The outer layer of your teeth, enamel, can stain easily and the underlying layer is very porous and make of tiny tubules of dentin that can suck up stain like a straw. Any food or beverage that would stain a white sheet will stain your teeth. The peroxide foams into the dentin and washes out the stain.

If you are considering whitening, it really makes sense to consult with your dentist first. People with sensitive teeth or gums are not candidates for this procedure until the sensitivity is brought under control. Attempting to whiten sensitive teeth even with over the counter methods can cause severe pain and damage the nerves of the teeth and the gums. Also, teeth that already have crowns, bonding or veneers are not going to get any whiter.

Finally, if you have teeth that are stained due to tetracycline, you need to see a dentist especially trained in dealing with this situation, such as my office.

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When you go to your dentist, there are usually two options for treatment. We can make a set of take home custom trays that you wear with gel for one hour a day for 3-4 days. The other option is the in office whitening, where you come in and read or nap for about 90 minutes while we apply a much stronger gel to your teeth and use Ozone gas to activate the gel. The Ozone gas increases the ability of gel to whiten your teeth, unlike bleaching lights which have been shown to have no effect on whitening.

How long does whitening last? It all depends on what you eat and drink.

People who enjoy red wine and other colorful food may find that in 4-6 months, their teeth have darkened a bit. In my office, you can have a set of take home custom trays made to do 1-2 hour touch up whitening once to twice a year, or as needed.

What can you try at home? There are some people with slightly yellow teeth that respond well to over the counter products. Our favorites are Crest White Strips and The Rembrandt 2 hour whitening system. Other products such as whitening toothpastes and rinses may help as well. Another option is to dip a wet toothbrush in baking soda, but not more than once a week, since it is abrasive.

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1 Tbsp dried finely ground sage ½ Tbsp sea salt 15-20 drops peppermint essential oil A sprinkle of Xylitol for sweetness (optional) Place in a small resealable container. After brushing with your regular toothpaste, brush with this for 1 minute, then rinse.

Finally, you should be aware that certain foods help clean your teeth.

Celery, carrots and apples have a lot of cellulose which scrubs stain right off the teeth. Greens, such as broccoli, spinach and lettuce help form a film over the teeth so that food pigments can’t stain them.

Your teeth can have a base shade of white, yellow, grey or brown. How to whiten each shade to a lovely shade of white requires experience and knowledge of all the different whitening techniques available. While there are many pop up whitening salons that just offer whitening and cleanings, I do not suggest you seek treatment there. They are not whitening specialists and could damage your teeth. Instead, see your trusted dentist for recommendations and advice.

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In many cases, no drilling or injections are needed, because Dr. Silver uses an air/powder spray to remove the decay that doesn’t cause any discomfort. For more extensive restorations, pain free injections are given and you are profoundly numb so that nothing will bother you. For those with any dental anxiety, we have nitrous oxide (laughing gas) which helps you relax in our extra soft chairs. We also offer Relaxation Dentistry (Sleep Dentistry) for those patients who want a completely alternative visit.

After wiping out the bacteria, a remineralization solution is placed on the tooth, so it can start healing itself immediately. Then a tooth colored restoration is placed and your tooth is ready for chewing!

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EATING SKINNY Why Vegans and Vegetarians are Naturally Trim

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e read the labels touting low sugar, carbs, fats and calories. We try this and that diet, hoping the pounds will melt away.

Yet more than a third of U.S. adults, nearly 80 million of us, remain overweight or obese, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta.

The problem might be that we’re getting the wrong advice. While most weight-loss plans focus on reducing calories, recent research shows that vegan and vegetarian dietary patterns can result in more weight loss than those that include meat, without even

Eat food. Not too much.

Mostly plants. ~Michael Pollan emphasizing caloric restriction. Scientists at the University of South Carolina, in Columbia, point to their study, How Plant-Based Do We Need to Be to Achieve Weight Loss?

Study participants were divided

into five groups, according to eating style, from vegan to flexitarian to carnivore, and monitored for an eight-week period. At the end of the evaluation, those that followed an entirely plantbased diet achieved the greatest weight loss. Study leader Gabrielle Turner-McGrievy, Ph.D., notes, “Many researchers agree that vegan eating styles are tied to lower BMI [body mass index], lower prevalence of Type 2 diabetes and less weight gain with age.”

Can it really be that simple… eat more plants and lose weight? “Yes,” says clean food coach Jeannette Bessinger, of Newport, Rhode Island. “Most people could benefit from eating more vegetables.” Co-author of Natural Solutions for Digestive Health with Naturopath Jillian Sarno Teta, Bessinger advises her clients to start by eating more green, leafy vegetables.

Vegetables contribute to weight control in several ways, says Bessinger.

They fill us up and help calm cravings.

Plus, when plants become the bulk of what we eat, we naturally consume fewer high-fat, high-calorie foods.

For an easy appetite-control strategy, Bessinger suggests having a cup of vegetable soup about 10 minutes before a meal. “It shuts off your appetite valve and you’ll eat noticeably less,” she says, while still feeling full. She also recom-

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mends slowing down and being mindful when we eat. Vegetables help us do that. “It takes two-and-a-half minutes to eat a piece of cheesecake, but much more time to eat a big salad,” she says.

For New York City-based Victoria Moran, author of Main Street Vegan and The Good Karma Diet, losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle became easier once she adopted a vegan diet. “I’ve been through life and loss and ages 40 and 50, and my weight stays steady, some 60 pounds less than it once was,” she says. “Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit.”

Her eating strategy is easy, too.

“Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,” says Moran, “mostly green with splashes of other bright colors from vegetables and fruits.” She eats green veggies in several ways. She makes her own green juices—one favorite combines celery, kale, apple and lemon juice. She also adds tender greens like romaine or spinach to smoothies that might also contain fruit and citrus juice.

She steams greens with plenty of garlic and makes big salads.

“I bought my salad bowl at a restaurant supply house,” Moran exclaims. Salads get an oomph factor with a selection of avocado, pumpkin or hemp seeds, mushrooms, chickpeas

Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath. For something to be delicious, you have to be present to savor it; and presence is in attention and in the flow of breath. It begins in the mouth, and then it connects our heads to our bodies through our throats and into our lungs and tummies, a beautiful, connective cord of air. ~Anne Lamott or red beans, artichoke hearts, chunks of steamed yam and sautéed tofu or tempeh. Moran cites benefits of more energy to do more physical activity and “feeling really good” as additional outcomes of her dietary shift.

Sophie Uliano, a Los Angelesbased natural beauty expert and author of the new Gorgeous for Good,

agrees, believing that eating a vegan diet 80 percent of the time can pay dividends in weight loss, well-being, energy and beauty. “Most of the time, eat clean and healthy,” she recommends. “It’s not a diet. It’s a ‘live-it’, a way of life.”

Uliano recently asked two colleagues on the Hallmark Channel’s Home & Family show to try eating vegan, while also eliminating gluten, alcohol, caffeine and refined grains.

The pair lost weight, gained energy and improved their skin tone.

“Transformation comes in a series of small, consistent decisions over time,” concludes Bessinger, eating salad instead of cheeseburgers and vegetables instead of fries. For natural weight management, “Make strategic, long-term changes in stages that you can actually sustain over time.”

Judith Fertig blogs at AlfrescoFood AndLifestyle.blogspot.com from Overland Park, KS.

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Leave the Past, Move Forward with Mindfulness

By Steven Giron, PhD

Are you stuck in some part of your life— trying to move forward, but bound by the past?

Famed neurologist Oliver Sacks observed that “narrative truth,” rather than “historical truth,” shapes our personal identity. In other words, it’s not the events in our past that shape us, but how we see those events and our role in them.

Do you see yourself as the victim or the hero in a certain event? Do you blame yourself for something bad that happened? Do you feel you were you unworthy of love? Do you think of yourself as a failure?

Consciously reframing “stuck” narratives into future possibilities clears a space to move forward into a new story. You’re not changing the facts of the narrative (like the pain of injury). But a new perspective releases your suffering— and more important, it shifts your gaze from where you’ve been to where you want to go.

The practice of mindfulness is an excellent tool for reframing those stuck narratives. In fact, the newest breakthrough “discovery” in neuroscience is that mindfulness is a key to joyful living.

Belief Becomes Reality Whatever the reality of our past, we’re always interpreting the meaning of it and we always have a choice. It’s our belief about what happened that becomes the narrative that we tell ourselves about who we are. That narrative shapes our perspective, our choices and our progress.

Reframing Through Mindfulness Mindfulness changes the physiological structure of our brains, which changes every single thing about our lives and the way we live. It reduces stress levels.

It helps us connect with ourselves and others. It makes rich the simple things we take for granted.

It’s the ultimate momentum-builder.

Mindfulness boosts the energy and function of our prefrontal cortex, also known as the “higher brain”—the seat of clarity, creativity and calm decision making. The more we flex the “muscles” of the prefrontal cortex, the better we are able to navigate life, and the more capacity we have for intentional living.

When we’re free from the past, our future is full of possibility.

Higher Brain Living is a new and proven revolutionary technique that energizes the prefrontal cortex, which shifts your perspectives and gets you unstuck so you can start living forward again.

Simply put, it helps you get beyond the past and moves you powerfully into the future.

To find out how to unleash your full potential by utilizing your mostly untapped higher brain, get free instant access to an online workshop at HBLStevenGiron.com.

Steven Giron, PhD, is a facilitator for Advanced Higher Brain Living at Healing Arts Center, 420 E. 81st St., Ste. 1 (Upper East Side), Manhattan. For more information, contact him at 612.483.2994 or visit HigherBrainLiving.com, Facebook.com/ higherbrainliving or Higher-Brain-Living.

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Laura Prepon’s Journey to Health Home Cooking, Organics and Massage Are Key

by Gerry Strauss

How do you manage to consistently eat local organic food instead of fast food?

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My mother was a gourmet chef and an advocate of organic food, so we always

had amazing meals growing up. Eating organic produce that’s in season locally seems to help me assimilate nutrition more readily. Whenever I can, I also try to tap into biodynamic agriculture, which takes an even broader holistic approach to food production and nutrition. I view GMOs [genetically modified foods] as toxic to the system.

As a self-taught chef, I like to cook at least 80 percent of my food at home and bring meals to work so I don’t stress about food during the day. It feels good to get people together in the kitchen and I’ve taught friends how to cook healthy foods in simple ways, so they now bring their own meals with them to work. It’s all about preparation, so that you’re not just photo by Michael Simon

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rom That ‘70s Show to Orange is the New Black, actress Laura Prepon has long been considered by TV audiences to be a welcome image of health. Yet Prepon’s recent discovery that she’d been falling short in nourishing her body as effectively as possible has set in motion a complete redirection of lifestyle, from her diet to fitness routine. Now working on a book about clean living and eating due out next year, Prepon has rededicated herself to educating us just as much as she’s entertained us through the years.

grabbing something on the run. Knowing what’s going into the food we’re eating is important.

Why do you include a lot of soup in your diet?

With all of the GMO food sprayed with chemicals in the typical American diet and the other environmental toxins everyone has to deal with, our gut flora, intestines and bodies in general are becoming compromised. Ten years ago, few had even heard of gluten allergies unless you had celiac disease, which was rare even then. Now, everywhere you go, there’s a gluten-free option.

I love eating soup because the healthful ingredients I use are broken down completely, so the body can immediately assimilate needed micronutrients, which help heal us from the inside out.

I’m talking about homemade broth from grass-fed beef bones, so you get the marrow; I’m partial to knuckle bones. I always have soup broth in my refrigerator.

What’s key to your ability to naturally stay healthy and fit in the midst of an intense schedule of work and travel?

I love modalities like acupuncture, massage … all of that. I fully believe in keeping energy flowing to benefit the functioning of all our organs.

As school kids, we learn about the circulatory system and central nervous system, but who knows much about the lymphatic system? It’s extremely important, and people are starting to get the idea. Activities like yoga, swimming and bouncing on the trampoline can help.

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PET VACCINE ALTERNATIVES

Natural Steps to Nurture Immunity

by Shawn Messonnier

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ith pets, as with kids, vaccine safety and necessity are likely concerns. While holistic veterinarians tend to minimize the use of vaccines, their strongest stance is against unnecessary vaccinations. The point is to immunize only when it’s needed by individual patients while maximizing natural immunity.

In the late 1970s, amid the discovery of the canine parvo virus, vets saw many puppies under 4 months of age suffer from this mysterious disease and die or be euthanized. Once a vaccine was made, we rarely saw pets dying from the parvo virus or parvoviral infection. So, in certain cases, vaccines can be life-saving.

However, unnecessary and multiple simultaneous vaccines can also be lifetaking, which doctors rarely mention. The truth is that only minimal vaccines are needed for dogs and cats over

the course of a pet’s life. No pet needs all of the vaccines that are currently manufactured, and none needs vaccines every six to 12 months.

Pets do need veterinary checkups once or twice a year to screen for diseases affecting the liver, heart, kidneys, lungs and gastrointestinal and urinary systems, as well as cancer. Blood and urine testing, including blood testing for undiagnosed cancer, is vital, easy and inexpensive (every six months for pets 5 years and older and annually for those that are younger).

A good protocol is akin to that developed by Dr. Jean Dodds, founder of Hemopet, of Garden Grove, California, a holistic veterinarian and an expert in animal vaccination and immunology.

Her system involves administering limited vaccines to puppies and kittens based on their individual needs, and not more often than every three weeks for those younger than 8 weeks. Following this course, by 4 months of age the pet has been injected with four to six vaccines, compared to double to triple the amount supported by vaccine manufacturers and administered by breeders and most conventional doctors.

Such a judicious, limited vaccine protocol offers

protection against the diseases that are the most lethal to the puppy or kitten while doing no harm to its natural immune system. As needed, individual pets may also receive a natural detoxification protocol to minimize vaccine reactions. Antioxidant supplements can boost the immune response, as well.

Adult pet patients can also be given blood titer testing instead of vaccines. This measures the animal’s individual antibody responses to prior immunizations or common disease exposure and assures us the pet has adequate immunity against a specific disease.

All of this assures the pet owner that the pet is protected against infectious diseases without the risks of annual multiple vaccinations. In most cases a protective titer is maintained for many years, which preempts disease and further reduces the number of vaccines the animal receives over its lifetime.

Titer testing costs less than $100 for three common infectious diseases, is safer than routine immunization, protects the immune system, prevents vaccine reactions and assures owners, vets, boarding facilities, groomers and day care facilities that it’s safe to introduce the pet into such environments.

This approach of minimal vaccinations is a prime reason holistic veterinarian patients tend to be healthier and live longer than the average pet, with even larger dogs regularly living in good health up to 15 to 20 years of age.

Holistic veterinarians perform limited vaccines supplemented by titer testing to ensure levels of care that meet accepted standards. They base their approach on supportive science from institutions including the American Animal Hospital Association and American Association of Feline Practitioners to provide safe, proven, ongoing immunity for patients.

Shawn Messonnier, a doctor of veterinary medicine practicing in Plano, TX, is the award-winning author of The Natural Health Bible for Dogs & Cats and Unexpected Miracles: Hope and Holistic Healing for Pets. For more information, visit PetCareNaturally.com.

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SATURDAY, MAY 2 9th US Spiritist Symposium – Laboratory of the Invisible World – 10am-7pm. Here you will have speakers, workshops and youth activities about Spirit Communications and Manifestations, Art through Mediumship and so much more. Marriot Hotel and Spa, 243 Tresser Blvd, Stamford, CT. spiritistsymposiumorg.

SAT MAY 2 AND SUN MAY 3 Certified Laughter Yoga Leader Training – 10am5pm. Begin a U-Turn from stress to humorous bliss!

Empower yourself and others to generate JOY at will.

“Joy’n” us for this transformational and humorous weekend and learn how to choose happiness regardless of circumstance. Laughter yoga is a revolutionary mind/ body medicine incorporating laughter exercises with yogic breathing for physical, mental and emotional healing. Laughter is an alchemical key that oxygenates our cells, transforms our perception and instantly changes our chemistry to happy. If you practice it regularly, it keeps you supremely healthy! $245. New York Open Center, 22 E30th St, New York, NY. 917723-2306 or healthyhappyprosperous.com.

SATURDAY, MAY 9 New York Junior League Volunteer Day – 8:30am4pm. Calling all park lovers! This spring, the Playground Improvement Project (PIP) invites you to join them in

rolling up your sleeves to help revitalize Columbus Park and Foley Square. Spend a day in the park gardening, landscaping, painting, and completing other tasks to help spruce up these highly-used spaces. You will be provided with breakfast, lunch and a t-shirt. As a volunteer, you help create safe, beautiful, well-organized and educational play spaces for children and members of the NYC community.

Columbus Park, New York, NY. playground@nyjl.org or nycgovparks.org/events/2015/05/09/playgroundimprovement-project-volunteer-day.

MONDAY, MAY 11 The Wide World of Vegetables and Fruits (and What to Do with Them) – 8pm. Bringing fresh produce to the center of your plate is what both your doctor and your grocery bill have been telling you to do, but when you go to the farmer’s market or open up your CSA box, do you wonder “what the heck can I do with kohlrabi?”

Join cookbook author Hugh Acheson (a James Beard award-winning chef) as he de-mystifies produce—from kohlrabi and carrots to beets and Brussels sprouts— and gives you the knowledge and inspiration to wrap yourself around produce in a whole new way each season. Warburg Lounge at 92Y Tribeca, Lexington Ave at 92nd St, New York, NY. 212-415-5500 or 92y.org.

Advanced ThetaHealing® Workshop. 10am-5pm. The Advanced ThetaHealing® workshop is designed to give you a deeper understanding of ThetaHealing® including the planes of existence, more clarity in your intuition and connection with Creator, and highly developed skills at doing deep belief work and healings. Learn to clear resentments, rejections and regrets, get hundreds of downloads and much more. Prerequisite: Basic ThetaHealing® Register by going to ThetaHealingNYC. com, emailing info@thetahealingnyc.com, or calling 212.260.5727. ThetaHealingNYC, 1133 Broadway at 26th Street, NYC.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 13 Green Thumb Workshop: Soil Health – 5:307:30pm. Want to learn how to keep your plants growing strong this season? Plant health is usually directly linked to the health of the soil in which it is growing. Included will be soil health basics and different ways of checking to see how your soil is doing, based upon special indicators. You will also learn ways you can amend or prepare your soil differently in order to improve the health of your soil, thereby getting your plants wellnourished and viable. La Perla Garden, W 105th St (E of Columbus Ave), New York, NY. 212-788-8070, greenthumbinfo@parks.nyc.gov or nycgovparks.org.

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Helps ensure deep, steady breathing throughout the night, improving the efficiency of the lungs and relaxing muscles to address sleep apnea.

Injury Repair Ankle sprains, bruises, painful elbows and shoulders all need help during repair. Bruise, Strain & Tear Repair clears the bruising and keeps the healing process going for as long as you apply it. Get a complete repair naturally.

Sinus Infection Sinus Relief offers a nasal spray that is both anti-fungal and anti-bacterial in a convenient spray bottle. Super Neti Juice offers the same antimicrobial power with soothing, subtle peppermint. Powerful tools to combat germs.

Rash Relief This powerful herbal lotion is designed to relieve the pain and itch of eczema. while correcting the cause and repairing the skin. A healthy and natural approach to correcting skin rash without dangerous drugs.

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Natural Dyes and Herb Sachets – 10am-12pm.

Learn how to turn kitchen scraps into dyes using natural ingredients such as onion skins and turmeric.

Dye your own herb sachet, and once it dries, fill it with a custom blend of herbs. All materials will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Castle Clinton in Battery Park, New York, NY. 917-4093720, info@thebattery.org or nycgovparks.org.

Secrets to Job Search Stress Management – 6:30pm. Want to learn how to more effectively face the pressure of interviews, rejection and seemingly endless online resume submission? This highlyeffective interactive workshop teaches you tips and techniques (some new and some time-tested) to address the emotional and practical challenges of the job hunt. Bring situations you’ve found stressful and solutions you’ve found useful to share. AmyLouise Goldberg, Certified Executive Coach and Career Coach at NYU. 92Y Tribeca Classroom, Lexington Ave at 92nd St, New York, NY. 212-4155500 or 92y.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 17 Creating a Compassionate World – 10am2pm. As a leader in the vanguard of sociallyengaged Buddhism, Ven Dr Pannavati is uniquely qualified to guide contemporary students with an interest in living a skillful life for the benefit of all beings. The weekend will include periods of meditation, discourse and discussion, and song.

Please bring earplugs and eye mask or bandana. The Interdependence Project, 302 Bowery, New York, NY. yogacitynyc.com.

TUESDAY, MAY 19 Summer on the Hudson: Make Some Noise: A Celebration of Women and Music – 5-8:30pm.

Barnard College and Summer on the Hudson present a celebration of women in music with some of the finest musicians from NYC colleges and universities at an evening performance in an astounding setting.

Crabapple Grove North in Riverside Park, New York, NY. Dial 311, email zhen.heinemann@parks. nyc.gov

markyourcalendar THURSDAY, MAY 21 Free Healing Circle. 6:30-8 pm. Please join us at ThetaHealingNYC for a free healing circle. You will receive an individual mini-session that releases any belief systems holding you back from manifesting the wellness, prosperity, and healthy relationships you desire, then you will experience the energy of All That Is in a powerful healing circle. We are Master ThetaHealers who are honored to watch lives completely transform with this amazing mind/body healing technique. Please email info@ thetahealingnyc.com or call 212.260.5727 to register so we know to expect you. ThetaHealingNYC, 1133 Broadway at 26th St., NYC, NY 10010.

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SUNDAY, MAY 24 Women’s Health Qi Gong – 11am-2pm. This workshop is devoted to nurturing women’s minds, bodies and spirits. We’ll practice some techniques that heal deep-seated emotional wounds and address energetic patterns that create disease and hormonal imbalance. Learn to help yourself heal cysts, tumors, menstrual issues, PMS, hormones, etc. Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 4th Ave, New York, NY. 914-850-1202 or bluelotusqigong.com

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markyourcalendar FRI MAY 29 - SUN MAY 31 New Life Expo 2015 – Health and Wellness – See website for various times. Join Dr Robert Young, Dr Howard Robins, Sean Morton, Kat James and one hundred other exhibitors and speakers for New York’s largest health and wellness expo. Panels include Vibrational Healing, Raw Food, Nutrition, Sexual Healing, and Strange Universe as well as many yoga classes. Hotel Pennsylvania, 401 7th Ave (33rd and 7th), New York, NY. For information, pre-registration or volunteering, visit newlifeexpo. com or call 516-897-0900.

SUNDAY, MAY 31 Organ Cleansing Qi Gong – 1-4pm. Learn this qi gong form to heal internal organs such as liver, spleen, heart, lungs, kidneys, digestive system, etc.

Learn to release stagnant energy from the organs and replenish them with fresh and healing energy.

Heal your emotions that keep repeating themselves seemingly without reason. This form is perfect for releasing old emotions! Center for Remembering and Sharing, 123 4th Ave, New York, NY. 914-850-1202 or bluelotusqigong.com.

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5Rhythms Dance/Movement Class – 10am-12pm.

This class, facilitated by 5Rhythms® certified teacher Margaret H. Wagner, is a dynamic movement practice. It’s a practice of being in the body that ignites creativity, connection and community. Using musical beats from around the world, it is a body and soul workout for young and old, survivors of bum knees, bad backs and broken hearts! Students move through the energies of Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical and Stillness. $20; $15 for full-time students with valid IDs. New York Live Arts, 219 W 19th St (between 7th and 8th Aves), New York, NY. 203-209-0047, margaret@MargaretWagner.com or 5Rhythms.com.

Reiki Treatment Sessions at FlowLife NYC – 3-9pm. Jyogan Hakata-Kohler offers 15-minute sample sessions for $25 for those who are new to Reiki. 30-minute sessions are full front of the body for $50 and 60-minute sessions are front and back of the body for $100. Appointments can be made by calling FlowLife NYC (58 Orchard St, New York, NY) at 917-507-0715. KomyoReiki.net.

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YAMITKAYA COACHING

225 Central Park West New York NY, 10024 347-423-0098 • yamit@yamitkaya.com Yamit is a certified life coach and yoga teacher who empowers women to connect with their authentic selves and guides them to live their lives from a place of deep love and trust. She uses mindfulness-based skills such as yoga, guided meditation, breath-work and visualization to aid clients in developing deeper body awareness and to attune to their intuition. Yamit is deeply committed to helping women embody their greatest passions and live with intention and joy! She currently works with women 1-1 and also in groups. Workshops soon to come.

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EDGAR CAYCE CENTER

241 West 30th St., 2nd Floor, NYC 10001 212-691-7690 • EdgarCayceNYC.org Holistic health and personal growth resource in midtown Manhattan since 1997. This non-profit Center offers: NYC’s largest selection of Cayce remedies & books, with affordable instruction on using them to bring body, mind and spirit back to a natural state of health.

HEALING, FOCUS & WELLNESS DAVID BARTKY

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FLOWLIFE NYC HOLISTIC LOUNGE

58 Orchard Street (between Grand and Hester) New York, NY 10002 917-517-0715 • www.facebook.com/flowlifenyc FlowLifeNYC.com Flowlife nyc Holistic Lounge is a sanctuary for the Mind, Body and Soul, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. We offer Kabbalistic Jewelry, King Solomon Seals (exclusively) from Israel, a variety of incense, smudges and candles, and many gifts for the soul. Services include Intuitive/Card Readings, Reiki sessions, Law of Attraction, Healing and Meditation Seminars. Consciousness is everything.

The Law of Attraction is always operating in your life. Are you using it to attract what you want?

I will teach you processes and techniques so you’ll not only start to attract what you want (a relationship, more money, less stress, etc.), you’ll also become more excited about your life! The first session is free.

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Blue Lotus Qi Gong is dedicated to providing information, practice and Can’t Breathe? experience to people who need NAMASTE BOOKSHOP physical, emotional, mental/spiri& HEALING CENTER Skin Conditions? tual healing. Workshops and classes 2 W 14th St., New York, NY 10011 are offered to heal different aspects Snoring?

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227 E 24th Street, NYC 10010 212-974-2288 • ReflectionsYoga.com Reflections Center for Conscious Living and Yoga is an East Side urban oasis in Murray Hill/Gramercy, near Gramercy Park’s well-walked paths. We invite you to transcend the tensions of city life and join us for a “just right” yoga class with some of the best and most skilled teachers in NYC, an illuminating talk, or a super cool dance party.

Come to Reflections and celebrate all of who you are! We are located steps from the 6 or N/R trains to 23rd St., at 227 E. 24th St. between 2nd & 3rd aves.

Through the audible frequencies of Light Language and hands-on energy healing, multiple levels of your being are realigned to their natural rhythms. This facilitates your body’s innate ability to heal itself. The energies stay with you long after your session is over with benefits that include: unblocked energies; pain relief; restful sleep, opened heart center; alignment with higher self; emergence of spiritual gifts, and much more. My commitment is to be a loving conduit for your healing to occur! Call for a free 15 min. consultation.

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HEALING, FOCUS & WELLNESS DR. STEVEN GIRON, PH.D.

Healing Arts Center Upper East Side, Manhattan 420 East 81st Street, Suite 1 New York, NY 10028 HBLStevenGiron.com SteveG@iAmHigherBrainLiving.com 612-483 2994 Unleash the full potential of your brain! Your higher brain gives you consciousness and clarity, yet it’s vastly under-utilized! The Higher Brain Living protocol of gentle touch sends energy from the body to the higher brain. You awaken to a new reality, free from stress and anxiety, that’s even more real than your current reality.

DR. LARISA LIKVER, MD

315 Madison Avenue, Ste 806, New York, NY 10017 212-922-9030 8419 Bay Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11214 718-259-0199 • DrLikver.com Suffering from musculoskeletal pain? Want to avoid risky and painful surgery? Natural, non-surgical treatments do exist! Get back to living a pain free life by treating the root cause of your musculoskeletal problems instead of just masking the pain. Board Certified Physiatrist Dr. Larisa Likver specializes in alternative, non-surgical treatments for musculoskeletal pain and is an expert in various innovative therapies that can help you get back to living your life the way you remember.

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Dr. LARISA LIKVER is a Board Certified Physiatrist with over 20 years of medical experience in pain management and rehabilitation. She specializes in non-surgical alternatives for the treatment of different types of muscular-skeletal problems such as pain in the back, knees, shoulders, elbows, hip, wrists, hands, fingers, ankles, feet and toes; carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS); post-herpetic neuralgia; neuropathic pain; and peripheral neuropathy.

Always striving for the best possible result, Dr. Likver takes a holistic approach and successfully combines the most effective treatments both conventional and alternative medicine has to offer. Specifically, Dr. Likver unlocks natural healing processes with Platelet-Rich Plasma Therapy (PRP); Prolotherapy (Reconstructive Injection Therapy); Prolozone; Neural Prolotherapy (NPT); as well as other methods.

Dr. Likver is one of the few experts in providing therapies under real-time ultrasound visualization. Ultrasound guidance allows for safe, efficient and precise delivery of a variety of therapies. This precision ensures minimal procedural discomfort and maximum effectiveness. Additionally, musculoskeletal ultrasound enables the doctor to establish a diagnosis and provide treatment the same day in a safe, 100% radiation-free way.

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224 5th Ave, 3rd floor, NYC 10001 212-213-8520 • QFlatiron.com/infinityfloat/ “The answers to many of our medical problems can be found within our own body and our natural environment.

Our body has the unique and remarkable ability to heal itself when nurtured with proper medical care. A doctor’s job is to assist the natural healing process by combining the wisdom of century-old techniques with cutting-edge medical advances.”

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CNHP & Geotran Practitioner 201-388-4661 • 4flamingo@netscape.com Marija Santo is a natural health and Geotran Practitioner who also utilizes applied kinesiology in her healing work. Geotran, the language of all possibilities, speaks to the information field, clearing past negative experiences, learned behaviors, re-educating the brain, and integrating future goals that clients set themselves. A simple, easy, and fun way to address learning difficulties (dyslexia, ADD, All Midline Movement, ADHD, Autism) teenage conflicts (who am I, what am I, where am I, cutting, depression, suicide attempts), marital problems (abuse, being taken for granted, infidelity, divorce, growing apart, empty nest) addictions (alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex) and children’s problems (bullying, nail biting, bed wetting, nightmares).

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1145 Second Ave, #1 (near 59th St.) New York NY 212-317-0467 Rachel Mann, Certified Colon Therapist flickr.com/photos/rachel_colon_therapist_nyc/ Clean your System with a high Colonic and feel great! Why should you be concerned about your Colon? Colonic helps you with bloating, constipation, candida, headaches, parasites, and back-pain. A healthy colon produces vitamins B and K and a healthy digestive tract helps support a healthy immune system. A session is a comfortable experience. Schedule yours today 212-317-0467.

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Saba Hocek, Hypo-Energy Healer Union Square, NYC 917-658-1660 • SelfEmpoweredMinds.com Saba Hocek, developer of SEM System, creating positive changes to last a lifetime through mind, body spirit approach. With 20+ years experience in intuitive readings, certified hypnotist, Saba, connects with the client’s energy seeing blockages and natural capabilities. Using various hypnosis modalities, she reprograms the mind for new behaviors supporting these changes through acupressure. The result: Live Life Empowered!

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TRIBECA CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC DENTISTS 17 Park Place, NYC 10007 212 732 2200 • Holistic-dentists.com

Dr. Lewis Gross has over 31 years’ experience providing holistic dentistry to adults and children with his staff of dental specialists and integrative practitioners. We offer less invasive and more natural solutions for patients who have difficult dental issues as well as those patients who seek just a good family dentist. Our recently renovated, state-of-the-art facility, offers among other things, Laser Dentistry, metal free implants, non-invasive oral cancer screening, ozone, and alternatives to surgery and root canal.

The office is convenient to most public transportation and open Monday-Saturday from 8:30-7:30.

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Our signature massage for rejuvenating maturing skin. This treatment lifts, tones, and firms facial muscles through a series of specialized massage strokes leaving a glowing look for days.

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ThetaHealing® is a mind/body technique that creates instantaneous emotional and physical change at the cellular level. We invite you to change your life by experiencing a session or workshop at ThetaHealingNYC, a Manhattan healing center and ThetaHealing school. ThetaHealing pinpoints and changes beliefs holding us back from achieving health, abundance, and relationships. Re-discover your balance and connection to the Universe!

Mauricio is a hair artist who provides a holistic approach to the beauty industry—one that focuses not only on the physical but also on the overall well-being of his clients, through unique services, truly organic products, a tailored experience and Zen-like environment that all work together to support the mind, body and soul. Mauricio’s private hair studio mission is to be the first of its kind: an innovative ecofriendly hair studio and ‘inner beauty salon’ that seeks to unlock every guest’s beauty. Natural color services are available for both pregnant and everyday clients.

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While we sleep, our immune system recovers and prepares for the day ahead. If your mattress is filled with airborne allergens and chemical toxins, your immune system will battle these rather than repair itself. Regular bedding & mattresses are laden with polyurethane foam, toxic flame retardants, and water or stain resistant chemicals.

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When it comes to latex there’s “natural” and then there’s “all natural”. We sell only “all natural” latex mattresses so you sleep chemical-free. Beware mattress stores online and in your neighborhood selling “natural” or “green” or “sustainable” foam mattresses.

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The Healing Center 200 W. 57th St., Suite 807, New York, NY 10019 212-581-0101 • DrHowardRobins@gmail.com

800-672-7322 • Herbasway.com

If you have a disease or condition that you haven’t been able to get rid of, Ozone Therapy will most likely be the answer, even for people that have suffered for years and have lost all hope. If you are questioning if your condition can be treated, call or email Dr Robins contact information above.

Founded in 1996, HerbaSway Laboratories is located in Wallingford, CT. Our formulas are based on traditional herbal combinations that have been used for thousands of years. Using only the purest ingredients and wild-crafted herbs, in combination with the latest Western scientific research, HerbaSway’s formulas are synergistically blended to produce optimal balance in your body.

OPTIMAL FRUIT & VEGGIE PLUS www.M4HF.COM • 646 320-8999

REIKI PRACTITIONER MARKO KARVALHO

310 West 49th St. New York NY 10019 917-721-2725 • marko.karvalho@live.com Reiki Energy is essential to maintain the order of our life, to lead a healthy and happy life, to totally involve in all situations we are in, to obtain knowledge, and finally for expansion of our consciousness. With Reiki treatments you will be able not only to heal yourself, but to be more connected with cosmic energy.

Some benefits include: stress reduction and relaxation, inner peace and harmony, clearing of emotional imbalances, balancing the chakras and alleviation of physical pain. Discover your inner truth and create a balanced life. Call or email for consultation.

SKIN HEALTH DR. MARIANA BONEVA

Beauty Plus Aesthetics 353 Lexington Ave, Suite 1603, NYC 10016 212-371-6097 • BeautyPlusAesthetics.com Beauty Plus Aesthetics emphasizes the uniqueness of each person. 3 main principles govern their approach: Holistic – a person’s body, mind & emotions. Personalized – treatment plans molded to each client’s lifestyle & body type. Coherent–interrelated advice & treatments. Dr. Mariana Boneva pioneered the most advanced laser treatments 2D and 3D Skin Rejuvenation in Manhattan. Her goal is not only to correct skin’s imperfections, but to create actual improvement in patients’ self image.

NELUM BOTANICS

1685 Lexington Ave., NYC 10029 646.271.1702 • klara@nelumbotanics.com NelumBotanics.com Founded on the belief that Mother Earth provides everything we need for our well-being, Nelum Botanics handcrafts body products from ingredients that are sourced from nature, ecologically grown and minimally processed, thereby ensuring the integrity of their botanical healing properties and the quality of Nelum Botanics’ products.

Optimal Fruit & Veggie Plus is a highly potent antioxidant powder with 24 raw freezed dried fruits and vegetables that are combined with organic juices, herbs and natural flavorings.

Does not contain fillers, synthetic vitamins, inorganic minerals, or processed ingredients, and has an added blend of phytonutrients. One scoop has 6-8 servings of fruits & vegetables and has an ORAC value of 20,000 units. Gluten free, Dairy Free, Soy Free, NON GMO.

STEM CELL THERAPY AMERICAN STEM CELL CENTER

Neil Raff, MD 160-40 78th Rd Fresh Meadows (Queens), NY 11366 718-544-1444 • AmericanStemCellCenter.com Your own stem cells may be used as the cutting edge treatment for neurological and autoimmune diseases, cardiovascular, stroke, spinal cord injuries, orthopedic ailments & more. In a few hour in-office procedure, your own stem cells are collected, concentrated and injected into the areas of damage, stimulating the body’s natural repair. There is no danger of tissue rejection or allergic reaction. Call for a 15 minute free consult.

WOMEN’S WELLNESS BREAST THERMOGRAPHY INTERNATIONAL

Patricia Bowden-Luccardi LMT. CNNT. CTT 250 Park Ave. 7th. Flr. 877-315-7226 Ext 411 btiscan.com • medicalthermology.org Thermal imaging is a non-invasive, radiation-free and painless screening test that detects physiological changes in the breast/body that are produced by developing pathology or disease years before a mammogram. A critical difference between thermography and mammography is the ability to detect problems early enough to use preventive measures, rather than detecting disease at a stage where treatment is imminently required.

natural awakenings

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Heal your body. Create your life. Change your world.

presents

VIANNA STIBAL the founder of ThetaHealing ®

in New York City!

JUNE 19-22

Basic ThetaHealing® Instructors Seminar

JUNE 23-24

Advanced ThetaHealing® Instructors Seminar Pre-requisites for studying with Vianna: Basic ThetaHealing, Advanced ThetaHealing.

Come experience this great master’s teaching in person.

To register for pre-requisites and Vianna’s seminars, go to ThetaHealingNYC.com.

ThetaHealing® is an amazing mind/body technique that has swept the world, with practitioners in over 120 countries and books available in 21 languages. Vianna Stibal is a highly sought-after speaker and teacher, and the author of five Hay House books.

1133 Broadway at 26th St in Manhattan, NY 212.260.5727 • info@thetahealingnyc.com ThetaHealingNYC.com