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Keep Calm During the Holiday Season

Energy, an online platform carrying innovative nutraceuticals, therapeutic and care cosmetics, and veterinary products, is offering 25 percent off membership, just in time to support our bodies during the busy holiday season. At Energy, they believe that the body has the ability to deal with imbalances of all kinds all by itself. Just as the immune system constantly heals and protects us, our autonomic nervous system works for our psychological balance and mental well-being. The sympathetic and parasympathetic are two major antagonistic nervous systems that work like yin and yang. The sympathetic stimulates, incites, speeds up, and the parasympathetic calms, slows down and relaxes. The coming holiday season makes our sympathetic nervous system very active, so we should seek to support our parasympathetic system to stay in balance. To do this, eat a good diet, exercise, limit exposure to overloading information and cultivate friendly relationships. Capture a moment every day for mindfulness activities. It is also vital to make sleep a priority as the brain and body need this valued time for the restoration process. A simple yoga trick that can help people regenerate from holiday stress is to breathe out consciously longer. Herbs are also well known as stress fighters such as magnolia, lavender or kudzu root. Look for products and supplements that include them to keep calm during the holidays.

For more information on membership and products at Energy, visit Product.Energy. See ad, page 23.

Breathe Deeply at Free Group Meditation

Join Natural Awakenings NYC and Long Island Co-Publisher Michael Lehrman from 6 to 6:30 p.m., December 14, for this month’s free Mind, Body & Breathe virtual group meditation. Lehrman has practiced meditation for 15 years using mantras and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and created the Mind, Body & Breathe collective to share what he has learned with Natural Awakenings readers. “I’ve always appreciated the chance to breathe and sit in meditation practice with others benefiting from the shared group dynamic.” Lehrman will facilitate the session which will consist of specific breathing techniques, including box breathing, 4-7-8 counts and rhythm breathing, in combination with this month’s meditation that uses the body as an anchor point utilizing breath, a body scan and sounds. “These sessions will help you take a moment out of your busy day to reconnect with yourself, calm your body and mind, and take a deep breath with fellow Natural Awakenings readers,” he says. No experience and no expectations necessary; participants can choose on or off-camera, and the sessions will not be recorded. Afterwards, participants can stay on for an open discussion to learn more about meditation and to connect with other Natural Awakenings readers.

Cost: Free. Location: Google Meets. For more information and to register, call 212-726-1420 or email Publisher@NaturalAwakeningsNY. com. See ad, page 45.

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Marconics In-Person Certified Practitioner Training

Marconics Master Teacher Robin Landau is holding several upcoming Marconics workshops for like-minded seekers to explore the deeper truths of humanity’s origins and their role in the shifting galactic paradigm. The first is a two-day, Level I Marconics No-Touch workshop from January 7 to 8, in Long Beach, New York. The No-Touch healing protocol is the evolution of energy healing, raising one’s vibrational frequency to trigger profound spontaneous healing. The goal of a No-Touch session is to raise one’s frequency so high that an opportunity to connect to higher dimensional aspects of Robin Landau Self is made available. “We are now at a choice point and our claim for soul sovereignty is at stake, but how can we make a choice in a free will society if we don’t even know what the options are?” asks Landau. Marconics is an option that places ascension over evolution. “To achieve ascension in this lifetime and resonate energetically to higher realms of experience, enough DNA strands need to activate according to our individual vibrational frequency. We also need to shed the density of all karmic imprints and we must meet a certain level of spiritual maturity,” she explains. Marconics is here to assist individuals in their ascension. Other classes include Level I, II and III Intensives which can be taken as a series or separately. These will be held January 21 to 25, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; February 18 to 22, in Sugarloaf, New York; and March 29 to April 2, in Lake Worth, Florida.

For more information, call Robin Landau at 516-369-3653, email RobinJoyLandau@gmail.com or visit Marconics.com. See ads, pages 22 and 45.

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