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e all need iodine, yet most of us don’t get enough of it through our diet. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that iodine deficiency in the developed world has increased fourfold in the past 40 years and now affects nearly three-quarters of all adults.

Numerous U.S. practicing physicians quoted widely in the media estimate that the incidence of hypothyroidism in our adult population may be between 30 and 70 percent.

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Hypothyroidism can further cause infertility, joint pain, heart disease and stroke. Low iodine levels also have been associated with breast and thyroid cancers. In children, insufficient iodine has been strongly linked with mental retardation,

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deafness, attention deficient and hyperactivity disorder and impaired growth, according to studies by Boston University, China’s Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and France’s National Academy of Medicine.

The answer is simple: Taking the right kind of iodine in the right dosage can rebalance thyroid function and restore health to the thyroid and the whole body.

Reasons Behind Iodine Deficiency Radiation: Almost everyone is routinely exposed to iodine-depleting radiation emitted by cell phones, Wi-Fi, microwave ovens and other electronic devices.

Iodized table salt: The human body cannot utilize the iodine added to this product.

Low-sodium diets: Failure to use healthy salts to fulfill sodium requirements, plus over-

use of zero-nutrient table salt in foods, leads to iodine depletion.

Bromine: This toxic chemical overrides iodine’s abilities to nourish the thyroid, adrenal and other hormone-producing glands.

A known carcinogen, it is used as an anticaking ingredient found in almost all baked goods, unless the ingredients specifically cite unbromated flour.

Iodine-depleted soils: Due to poor farming techniques, iodine and other minerals in soil have declined, so most foods today are devoid of naturally occurring iodine.

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newsbriefs Awaken Your Divine Self Tour Comes To New York City

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piritual teachers Swamiji Shanmuga and Amma Adi Sakthi, founders of the nonprofit Ekatvam Foundation, in Singapore, will tour the United States this fall, with several events in New York City from October Swamiji Shanmuga and Amma Adi Sakthi 30 to November 3. The tour’s mission is to uplift, heal and nourish participants with the energies of the Divine Mother.

Shanmuga and Sakthi, who have dedicated their lives to making ancient spiritual sciences universally accessible, will lead meditations, teachings, healings and deep inner work.

Workshops include the Darshan of Your Divine Self, from 7 to 10 p.m., October 30; True Devi Tantra, starting at 7 p.m., November 1; Sacred Geometry Healing, from 2 to 7 p.m., November 2; and Cosmic Meditation, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., November 3. All events take place at META Center New York.

Also in New York, Shanmuga and Sakthi will speak at 1:15 p.m., November 1, at the Society for Enlightenment and Transformation of the United Nations Staff Recreational Council. There is no charge for attending this special session, held in the third floor staff lounge at One United Nations Plaza; however, preregistration is required to receive a UN grounds pass; requests should be sent to Denise.Scotto@gmail.com on or before October 29.

Suggested donations: Oct. 30, $25; Nov. 1, $54; Nov. 2, $65; Nov. 3, $125. Location: META Center New York, 214 W. 29th St., 16th fl., New York. For sliding scale opportunities, email Info@Ekatvam.org. For preregistration and more information, visit Ekatvam.org or call 845-8913065. See ad, page 15.

Best Loved Body-Mind-Spirit Expo Returns to New York

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he ever-popular Awaken Wellness Fair returns to Westchester on Sunday, November 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Doubletree Hotel in Tarrytown, NY. The area’s oldest and best-loved body-mind-spiritgreen expo outside of New York City attracts thousands of visitors and hundreds of exhibitors each year.

This educational and experiential event offers visitors a chance to sample and learn about products and services for vibrant living. “Many people are only aware of the allopathic route to health, which often suggests that we ‘take a pill’ for physical challenges,” says Awaken Wellness Fair founder and organizer Paula Caracappa. “This event attracts people who are curious about holistic practices, both ancient and cutting-edge, and the variety of healing and wellness methods that exist today.”

The expo features presentation rooms with 45-minute talks throughout the day. One room will focus on the scientific, while the other leans toward the metaphysical.

Another area will hold more than a dozen intuitive readers, while gifted healers practice in yet another room.

Appointments with readers and healers can be made in advance after purchasing a ticket at AwakentoYourBestSelf. com/Tickets.html.

As always, the Awaken Wellness Fair also features vendors offering the latest products and services to support a healthy lifestyle. Vendor and speaker opportunities are still available at ThePractitioners.com.

To view participating exhibitors and purchase a discounted ticket, visit AwakenFair.com and click “Tarrytown.”

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Spiritism Talk and Healing Event in New York City

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earn more about the meaning and purpose of life, the hereafter, and natural laws that shape our moral and intellectual development at a lecture this month based on the research and philosophy of Allan Kardec. The Tristate Spiritist Federation will host the talk titled “The Missing Answers” copresented by Fred Gouveia, Heather Fonseca and Julio Padovan from 2 to 5 p.m. on October 19 in New York City.

Kardec is the pen name of the 19th-century French teacher and author widely regarded as the originator of modern Spiritism.

Attendees will have the opportunity to consider recommended ways to change their behavior and thought processes toward seeking greater peace of mind and personal healing in dealing with life’s challenges. A brief guided meditation session will complement the session.

The TriState Spiritist Federation unifies various spiritist institutions in the tri-state area to promote charitable and humanitarian actions and programs, according to Christian Spiritist principles.

Cost: $15 includes a book or DVD. Location: Four W. 43rd St. For more information or to preregister, call 203-520-5906, email info@tssfederation.org or visit tssfederation.org. See ad, page 27.

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s spiritual beings having a human experience, our souls have a plan for our lives before we’re born. We know there will be challenges, but we expect to win.

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Channeling Divine healing energy is a teachable, learnable skill.

You can learn to BE who your soul came here to be and help others do the same. The Lightworkers Healing Method is an all-volunteer organization on a mission to help all beings live their soul plans and find JOY. They are giving away a free seat in this special week-long intensive at Kripalu, January 26-31, 2014. Is it for you?

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Embodying The Wisdom Of The Heart Discover New poets and truth-seekers throughout Frequencies of Healing Mystics, the ages have recognized the profound

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importance of mastering the energies and embodying the essence of the heart. Join award-winning author, journalist and healing practitioner Dana Micucci at the New York Open Center on Friday, November 8, 6-10 p.m., for a dynamic workshop, where she’ll share powerful heart-based teachings and tools from some of the world’s wisdom traditions (Tibetan, Mayan, shamanic, Egyptian, mystical Christianity, etc.) gleaned from a lifetime of travel.

Learn how to harness the wisdom and power of the heart to improve your health, center your emotions, manifest your goals, raise your vibration, master your energy, and ultimately become a healing force through your very presence. In her popular memoir, Sojourns the Soul:you One Woman’s you getofolder, may Journey around the World and into Her Truth, a gold-medal winner in the 2013 Nautilus Book need less sleep; Awards, Dana takes you to seven of the world’s most exotic, sacred destinations—from the Australian Outback to Angkor in Cambodia, Egypt, Tibet, the Yucatan, New Mexico and Peru—to explore their ancient mysteries and esoteric wisdom.

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iscover why hospitals and universities are investing time and money in researching the Reconnective Healing. On October 22, founder Eric Pearl will present his experiential workshop at the New York Dr. Eric Pearl Open Center to discuss these new frequencies of healing and give live demonstrations with a limited number of attendees. Reconnective Healing is a comprehensive, yet simple and easy-to-learn, healing approach, which completely transcends “energy healing” and its complex rituals and techniques. It accesses vibrational frequencies that are selfcorrecting by nature and are accessible to everyone.

A breakthrough new study by researchers at the University of Arizona has shown definitively that people who have range of motion limitations in their arms and shoulders show a significantly greater level of healing and pain reduction with a 10-minute one-time session of Reconnective Healing than when treated with physical therapy. This study, coupled with a highly acclaimed segment with Eric Pearl and Reconnective Healing on Dr. Oz, has pushed this revolutionary form of alternative healing into the public consciousness and to the forefront of exciting new healthcare options. Dr. Mehmet Oz reported being “flabbergasted” by what he saw.

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Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

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According the U. S. Center for Disease Control, genital human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection. There are 40 or more types of HPV that can infect the genital areas of men and women as well as the throat and mouth!

HPV may cause serious health problems, including genital warts and certain cancers. Most people who become infected with HPV don’t even know they have it!

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Holistic Healing with the Edgar Cayce Remedies

By Jack Rosen, Edgar Cayce Health Care Educator

The Edgar Cayce Diet for Health The key to health in the Edgar Cayce readings on diet is to keep the blood system alkaline because it is the normal pH of the blood.

The Cayce source said that cold and flu germs couldn’t exist in an alkaline environment.

How to Stop a Cold or Flu Alkalinizing is also how I have stopped a cold or flu from developing once I notice the symptoms appear. When my nose starts to run, my eyes tear and I start to feel feverish, I stop eating completely. I then take a half-gallon of orange juice and squeeze a lemon into it. I drink a glass of the juice every half hour. Usually within four hours the symptoms start to fade. If I eat lightly the rest of the day, the cold or flu doesn’t develop. Even though folks believe citrus juices are acidic, when metabolized, the effect within the body is alkaline. In my experience, if you go back to eating normally too quickly the cold will come out in full force.

Another important point in the Edgar Cayce philosophy is that what comes out of our mouth (what we say) is more important than what we put in. When we are angry and upset, it makes our system acidic—a breeding ground for disease.

Three-Day Apple Cleanse To cleanse the body of toxins, the Cayce readings recommended eating raw apples for three days, ending the cleanse with between an eighth to a quarter cup of olive oil at the end of the third day. He said to use the Jonathan variety of apples which we know today as red or golden delicious apples. He advised having at least seven apples a day with an equal number of glasses of water. It was OK to have black coffee during the fast but nothing else. This cleanse works for me. At the end of the three days, I’m amazed at how clear my eyes look. The Cayce readings would often recommend a colonic at the end of the fast—proper eliminations being another key to longevity.

Grape Juice for Weight Loss The Cayce readings recommended using grape juice as an aid to losing weight: Mix four ounces of grape juice with four ounces of water. The juice is to be taken a half hour before each meal and a half hour before going to bed. This would reduce the body’s craving for sugar and help to reduce the appetite. When the craving for sweets arises, the readings say to use honey from the comb.

More Diet Tips from the Cayce Readings: • Have a salad for lunch using three vegetables that grow above the ground to every one that grows below. Sprinkle unflavored gelatin over the salad—it acts as a catalyst, helping the body to absorb the vitamins and minerals in the salad.

• Fish, fowl and lamb are the meats recommended, but never fried.

• Unless you’re doing heavy labor, stay away from red meat.

• Black coffee is a food but when mixed with milk it is very hard for the body to digest.

• Avoid having two starches at the same meal.

• Avoid eating sugar and starch (ice cream and cake) at the same time.

• Swine was to be avoided, though one could have well-done bacon occasionally.

• The tomato, when vine-ripened, has more vitamins and minerals than any other food.

• Don’t cook in aluminum; cook in parchment paper instead.

• Don’t use any foods that contain benzoate of soda.

Cayce Health Care Educator Jack Rosen offers affordable workshops and individual consultations explaining how to use the Cayce remedies and philosophy to bring body, mind and spirit back to a natural state of health.

Cayce Remedies & Philosophy— Upcoming Workshops: Electrical Healing “Appliances,” Diet for Health, Death & the Afterlife, Edgar Cayce & Eckhardt Tolle. For dates, times or consultations, call 212-691-7690.

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The Center also offers: NYC’s largest selection of Cayce remedies and books on holistic health. Holistic health practitioners including chiropractic, massage, energy & intuitive healing.

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Information provided from the ARE Center should not be regarded as a guide to self-diagnosis or self-treatment. The cooperation of a qualified health care professional is essential if one wishes to apply any and all of the principles and techniques from the Edgar Cayce readings.

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EDGAR CAYCE

The Father of Holistic Medicine One of History’s Greatest Psychics (1877-1945) Edgar Cayce’s Association for Research and Enlightenment of New York City Edgar Cayce who was known as the Sleeping Prophet, gave what was known as “Readings” on thousands of different subjects. He is the most recorded Psychic that ever lived.

New York Times feature circa 1910

He is known for: Health Readings on: • Arthritis • Multiple Sclerosis • Epilepsy • TB • Blindness • Smoking • Diet

Spiritual Readings on: • Auras • Crystals • Atlantis • Psychic Ability • Where we came from and why (past life) • All Religions

Practical Readings for: • Engineers at RCA, IBM, Delco, Goodyear Tire and more • Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla on Electricity (Note: The Tesla Coil was patented under Edgar Cayce’s name)

• Perpetual Motor (energy) • Telecommunications • Air & Space Travel

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Meet the World’s Greenest Office Building photo by Nic Lehoux

Even on cloudy days, the photovoltaic-paneled roof of the Bullitt Center, in Seattle, Washington, generates all the electricity the six-story structure requires. Inside, commercial office space is equipped with composting toilets, rainwater showers and a glass-enclosed stairway to encourage climbing exercise over riding the elevator.

The Bullitt Foundation, founded in 1952, has focused since the 1990s on helping cities function more like ecosystems. Seattle’s new building not only provides space for eco-conscious tenants, but also functions as a learning center, demonstrating how people and businesses can coexist more in harmony with nature.

The Bullitt Center was constructed according to a demanding green building certification program called the Living Building Challenge, which lists zero net use of energy and water among its many requirements. The standards far surpass those of the better-known Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.

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This ambitious goal could be achieved by 2050, when all conventional fossil fuel generation would be completely phased out. The plan also generates a large net increase in jobs.

Mark Jacobson, a co-author of the study and professor of civil and environmental engineering at California’s Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, analyzes how energy technologies impact the atmosphere and how society can transition rapidly to clean and renewable energy sources if we integrate production and energy use in a systems perspective.

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RISING FEVER The Right Steps Now Can Avert the Worst of It

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enowned climate scientist Richard skiing. If we were serious about avoiding a worst-case scenario, we would Somerville, Ph.D., uses simple have opted for the “bunny slope” language and sports analogies to approach, a leisurely descent from the help us understand climate change and ubiquitous use of climate-changing the risks ahead.

A distinguished professor emeritus, fossil fuels. Unfortunately, greenhouse researcher at California’s Scripps Institu- gases would have had to peak two years ago and now be in decline in tion of Oceanography and author of order to take the easy way out. Instead, The Forgiving Air, he likens greenhouse the amount of carbon dioxide in the gases to a scandal that’s rocked major atmosphere shot league baseball in recent years.

“We’re not going to stop global past 400 parts per million last May, “Greenhouse gases a level that most are the steroids warming; it’s too late for that. scientists agree of the climate system,” he says.

But we can keep it from getting the planet hasn’t experienced since Although we can’t link them to any as bad as it could possibly get.” long before the arrival of modern single weather ~ Bill McKibben humans. event, we can “Science see them in the tells you, you statistics at the end of the season, Somerville says. With can put this much carbon dioxide into the bases loaded, “Look out, because the atmosphere, but no more,” withMother Nature bats last.” out changing the planet’s climate too

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On the Energy Front

McKibben’s grassroots group, 350. org, opposes the planned Keystone XL pipeline that, if built, is expected to transport Canadian tar sands oil across the United States to refineries along the Gulf of Mexico. Increasing fossil fuel infrastructure, he says, is impractical, and we’d be better off investing in clean and renewable energies such as wind, solar and geothermal.

It’s a theme also sounded by Frances Beinecke, president of the New York City-based Natural Resources Defense Council and author of Clean Energy Common Sense. With the failure of the U.S. Congress to enact Frances Beinecke climate legislation, her group, encompassing 1.4 million online members and activists, is pressing the Obama administration to live up to its pledge to regulate the carbon dioxide emitted by power plants. The leading culprits for climate-changing gases, they contribute 40 percent of the country’s carbon emissions. “It’s time to act, and we have to act now,” Beinecke says.

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or 100 years to solve this. You have to do it in five to 10 years.

There’s been a general failure to connect the dots.” The bit of good news is that time has not yet completely run out. He and other pioneering Bill McKibben thought leaders believe that we can still reverse the dangerous current course.

“These next few years are going to tell the tale about the next 10,000 years,” says well-known global environmental activist Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. “We’re not going to stop global warming; it’s too late for that. But we can keep it from getting as bad as it could possibly get.”

“Tell politicians that you care about this. We’ve got to get countering climate change high on the priority list.” ~ Richard Somerville

On the Water Front

Sandra Postel agrees.

“Water, energy and food production: These things are tightly linked, and all are affected by climate change.”

From Los Lunas, New Mexico, she leads the Global Water Policy Project, Sandra Postel a group also focused on the climate conundrum, as well as National Geographic’s Change the Course national freshwater conservation and restoration campaign.

Competition for water is increasing

in several parts of the country, she says, and will only get worse as dry conditions increase demands on groundwater. Endangered sources detailed in her extensive related writings include the Ogallala Aquifer, vital to agricultural operations across much of the Great Plains, and California’s Central Valley, the nation’s fruit and vegetable bowl. In the Colorado River Basin, which provides drinking water to some 30 million people, water demands already exceed the available supply—and that gap is expected to widen with changes in the region’s climate.

In other regions, the problem is too much water from storms, hurricanes and flooding, a trend that Postel and other experts say will also worsen as the world continues to warm and fuel weather extremes. Beyond the loss of lives and property damage, this “new normal” holds stark implications for communities.

“We’ve built our bridges, dams and other infrastructure based on 100year records of what’s happened in the past,” advises Postel. “In a lot of ways,

how we experience climate change is going to be through changes in the water cycle. If the past isn’t a good guide to the future anymore, we’ll have to change our water management.” (See nrdc.org/water/readiness by city and state.)

On the Ocean Front

The world’s oceans are being transformed by climate change in ways we are only beginning to understand.

Since the Industrial Revolution, oceans have absorbed a significant portion of the carbon dioxide Dawn Wright generated, experiencing a 30 percent rise in acidity; that’s expected to reach 100 to 150 percent above pre-industrial levels by the end of this century, according to the nonprofit National Academy of Science (NAS), in Washington, D.C.

“Thank goodness for the oceans,

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Meet Mitchell Hoffsteader, the quirky, endearing star, and co-author of Betsy Thomson’s new book “Meditation, My Friend.”

Mitch is like many kids we know. He hates doing homework and gets frustrated when Betsy, the adult figure in his life, tells him what to do. Worst of all Mitch is convinced he has an incurable case of “Restless Brain Syndrome” – “You know when you can’t stop thinking and thinking”.

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“Meditation, My Friend” has been praised by leading mental health experts, as well as the director of mindfulness education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.

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but they are paying a tremendous price,” says Oceanographer Dawn Wright, Ph.D. She’s chief scientist of Esri, in Redlands, California, that analyzes geographic system relationships, patterns and trends.

The higher acidity levels are “taking a toll on shellfish such as oysters, clams and sea urchins, as well as coral reefs, where much aquatic life is spawned,” Wright explains. Climate change may have other devastating impacts on the ocean food chain—and eventually us—that scientists are only beginning to discern. As just one of myriad impacts: Ocean acidification threatens the country’s $3.7 billion annual wild fish and shellfish industry and the $9.6 billion slice of the global tourism business that caters to scuba divers and snorkelers, according to a recent NAS study.

The Way Forward

We can be grateful for some hopeful developments in the call to act.

Wright, who has advised President Obama’s National Ocean Council, is overseeing her company’s ocean initiative, which includes building an ocean basemap of unparalleled detail. While less than 10 percent of the world’s oceans’ underwater realms are mapped today, Esri is compiling authoritative bathymetric data to build a comprehensive map of the ocean floor. Public and private sector planners, researchers, businesses and nonprofits are already using this map and analysis tools to, among other things, conduct risk assessments and provide greater understanding of how onshore development impacts oceans’ natural systems.

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action. New York City plans to restore natural buffers to future hurricanes, while Philadelphia and other cities are restoring watersheds, replanting trees in riparian areas, adding rain gardens, laying permeable pavement and revamping roofs and parking lots to reduce stormwater runoff. Investing in such “green infrastructure” is less costly than expanding “grey infrastructure” such as underground sewer systems and water purification plants.

Increasingly, local authorities are relocating communities out of flood zones to allow rivers to reclaim wetlands, an effort which also creates new recreation and tourism spots. Floodplains buffer against extreme flooding and drought, plus filter stormwater runoff, removing farm and lawn fertilizers and other chemicals that otherwise enter waterways, creating deoxygenated “dead zones” where aquatic life can’t survive, as exemplified by parts of Lake Erie, Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.

“These solutions are unfolding here and there,” Postel notes, while also remarking that too many locales are rebuilding levees at their peril and allowing people to return to areas that flood repeatedly. “An amount of climate change is already locked in. We will have to adapt, as well as mitigate, simultaneously.”

Somerville, who helped write the 2007 assessment by the Nobel Prize-winning International Panel on Climate Change, labels it “baloney” when politicians say there’s not enough time or it’s too expensive to address the problem. “It’s very doable,” he maintains. “First, inform yourself. Second, tell politicians that you care about this.

Then raise hell with those who don’t agree. We’ve got to get countering climate change high on the priority list.”

“Thank goodness for the oceans, but they are paying a tremendous price.” ~ Dawn Wright

McKibben recommends that the country gets serious about putting a price on carbon emissions. Meanwhile, he’s encouraged by the people-powered regional successes in blocking fracking, a controversial method of extracting natural gas, and credits grassroots groups for holding the Keystone pipeline project at bay.

“We’re cutting it super-close” and need to change the trajectory of climate change, according to McKibben, who says we can still have good lives powered by wind and solar, but will have to learn to live more simply. “I don’t know where it will all end and won’t see it in my lifetime. But if we can stop the combustion of fossil fuels and endless consumption, then there’s some chance for the next generation to figure out what the landing is going to be.”

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All the Time in the World Transforming Anxiety into Artistry

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sk American adults if they’re anxious about time and they’ll likely say yes. Our society even deems it expected, acceptable and normal to experience such stress, but is it necessary? It’s helpful to explore what is at the root of our problems with time and why we believe we benefit from worrying and complaining about it. Both are good first steps to releasing ourselves from the drama of getting caught up in and blaming time as a convenient catchall. Which of the following rationales apply to us personally?

“If I can complain about being busy, I don’t have to examine other areas in my life.”

“My schedule is wrapped up with my self-esteem; being ‘too busy’ means that I’m successful.”

“Worrying about time gives me something to talk about.”

“I don’t plan things I might enjoy because it can be too demanding or even scary—it just feels easier and safer to be bored.”

“Worrying about time is a convenient excuse for not following my dreams.”

Once we identify the perceived payoffs from worrying about time, we can see them for what they are: illusions that keep us from living our true potential.

Awareness allows us to make a different

choice and to partner with time, instead of working against it.

Einstein proved that time is subjective, illustrated every time we compare an hour in a dentist’s chair to an hour in the company of a loved one. Time behaves and feels differently based on many variables, like emotion, engagement, flow, desire, interest, pain and pleasure. Our perspective counts. With capricious factors dancing around in our every moment, we can see why time isn’t constant.

Happily, we can use the relative nature of time to our advantage and choose what our relationship with it will be. Consider that with each instance we choose how we talk about, measure and experience time, we are actually creating a new paradigm of time for ourselves.

We can relinquish general views and limitations of time that hinder us and emerge into the possibilities of time as anything but a defined line. It can be a vibrant, completely moldable, layered, multifaceted work of art that we may adapt as we wish, to custom design each and every day.

Marney K. Makridakis of Dallas, TX, is the author of Creating Time: Using Creativity to Reinvent the Clock and Reclaim Your Life. She founded Artella magazine, the ARTbundance philosophy and the ArtellaLand.com community.

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Shop with the Planet in Mind Daily Choices Help Counter Climate Change

by Christine MacDonald

Until recently, we’ve been asked to choose between the economy and the environment. Now we’re realizing that the two are closely linked, and that our continued prosperity depends on how well we take care of the natural systems that sustain life—clean air, water, food and an overall healthy environment.

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lthough the worst impacts of climate change are still decades away, experts say it’s already a costly problem. In 2012, U.S. taxpayers spent nearly $100 billion—approximately $1,100 apiece—to cover crop losses, flooding, wildfires and other climaterelated disasters, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council. That’s more than America spent last year on education or transportation.

Given the lack of action on climate change by Congress, more Americans are looking to leverage their purchasing power to make a difference. Yet, as consumers trying to “shop their values” know, it’s often difficult to distinguish the “green” from the “greenwashed”.

Natural Awakenings has rounded up some tips that can help.

Dismiss Meaningless Labels Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., who leads the Consumer Safety and Sustainability Group for Consumer Reports and its Greener Choices and Eco-labels online initiatives, says companies take far too many liberties in product labeling. The dearth 24

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of standards and consistency across the marketplace has rendered terms like “fresh,” and “free range” meaningless.

Also, there’s more wrong than right about the “natural” label put on everything from soymilk to frozen dinners, she says.

While critics of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s USDA Organic label say its regulations are not tough enough, Rangan says at least we know what we’re getting. The same is not true of many claims decorating consumer goods, Rangan advises. Plus, producers get away without identifying myriad other controversial practices, she says, including genetically engineered ingredients.

To help consumers protect themselves, the Consumer Union and other nonprofit public advocates have made their evaluations easily accessible via cell phones and iPads. The Web-based Good Guide’s evaluations of more than 145,000 food, toys, personal care and household products are at shoppers’ fingertips via an app that scans product barcodes on the spot.

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stand the far-flung impacts of a purchase, including on humans and habitats. The Good Guide, for instance, employs chemists, toxicologists, nutritionists, sociologists and environmental lifecycle specialists to evaluate a product’s repercussions on health, environment and society.

Sandra Postel, who leads the Global Water Policy Project, has teamed up with the National Geographic Society to devise a personal water footprint calculator. It helps people understand the wider environmental impacts of their lifestyle and purchasing choices, and provides options for reducing their footprints and supporting water replenishment efforts.

“It takes a per capita average of 2,000 gallons of water each day to keep our U.S. lifestyle afloat,” twice the world average, calculates Postel. The typical hamburger takes 630 gallons of water to produce, for example, while a pair of jeans consumes 2,600 gallons, most of it to grow the necessary cotton.

Water is just one of numerous resources overused in the United States, according to author and journalist Danielle Nierenberg, co-founder of Food Tank.

“We overbuy food. It goes bad and ends up in landfills,” where it lets off methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, as it decomposes.

“We also over-order at restaurants,” observes Nierenberg, whose think tank focuses on the interrelated issues of hunger, obesity and environmental degradation. Overall, the U.S. annually accounts for 34 million tons of food waste. “Part of the problem is we’ve lost home culinary skills,” says Nierenberg, who says we need to rethink how and how much we eat. “We don’t really understand what portions are,” she adds.

Share Instead of Buy

Collaboration characterizes the broader trend in careful consuming that relies on cell phone apps. Sometimes known as the “sharing economy” or “collaborative consumption”, initiatives can range from car and bike shares to neighborly lending of lawn mowers and other tools and sharing homegrown produce. One of the more innovative food-sharing options is Halfsies, in which diners at participating restaurants

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pay full price for a meal, but receive half of a full portion, effectively donating the cost of the other half to fight hunger.

Whatever the product, experts say, the new sharing business model is part of a fundamental shift in how people think about consuming, with the potential to help us reduce our personal

carbon footprint and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Christine MacDonald is a freelance journalist in Washington, D.C., who specializes in health, science and environmental issues. Learn more at ChristineMacDonald.info.

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Ancestral Diets A Lighter Shade of Paleo

by Sayer Ji and Tania Melkonian

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before the cultivation of food in garegetarian Awareness Month provides a timely opportunity to real- dens, crops and livestock.

Loren Cordain, Ph.D., author of ize that a plant-focused diet does The Paleo Diet and Nutritionist Nora not derive exclusively from plants. Just Gedgaudas, author of Primal Body, as a carnivore does not subsist on meat Primal Mind, each contest the premise alone, the same applies to a vegetarian. perpetuated by many in the weight-loss

What can we learn from our Paindustry that fat, especially naturally leolithic, or Stone Age, ancestors? The saturated fat, is unhealthy. Those same recent trend toward recreating a Paleoproponents that maintain low-fat/ era diet emphasizes the importance non-fat food is a panacea for modof vegetable nutrition to prehistoric ern illnesses also purport that communities, correcting the cholesterol is the chief misperception that they cause of heart ailments. were primarily meat Gedgaudas writes eaters.

Paleo Specials that the diets of hunter The original Paleo du Jour gatherers inhabiting diet, before the advaried landscapes, from vent of agriculture, Curried carrot soup with the Inuit of the north to reflected the hunting buckwheat crackers and goat cheese tropical forest hominids, and gathering of lean included large amounts meats, fruits, vegetaKale wraps with julienne of fat and cholesterol, bles, nuts and seeds, of grass-fed strip loin, which is essential to and was absent of bell peppers and avocado maintaining cell memgrains, dairy, starchy Butter-grilled pineapple branes and regulating foods, sugar and rounds served with hormones. She points salt. Today’s updollop of vanilla-scented out that obtaining dated version might heavy cream cholesterol from food is comprise foods necessary to augment naturally available the liver’s function of and/or abundant

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creating cholesterol internally.

Cordain agrees that even saturated fats in meats can be beneficial, providing the animals are grass-fed, lean and live in clean surroundings. He emphasizes, however, that when our prehistoric ancestors ate fat, they did not also eat grain carbohydrates, sugar and salt, and contends that it is these components, not meat, that can be detrimental to the body.

Doctor of Naturopathy Maureen Horne-Paul adds that organic, lean and game meats are exempt from the acidity inherent in corn-based animal feed.

Plus, “When an animal is insensitively confined and killed, stress hormones are released that result in acidity. So, we are changing our pH from a healthy alkaline state to a more acidic condition when we consume meat from conventionally raised animals.”

Scientific studies published in the Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, Medical Hypotheses and by the Mercola group attest to key problems related to human consumption of grains. Anti-nutrients such as phytic acid in grains lead to the poor absorption of minerals and related deficiencies. Improper absorption of dietary protein caused in part by enzyme inhibitors in grains also tends to damage the pancreas. Individual sensitivities to proteins in specific grains can further interfere with functioning of the neuroendocrine system and subsequent emotional difficulties like addiction and depression may arise. All of these difficulties have been exacerbated by irresponsible prenatal diets that have made younger generations extra-sensitive to the challenges posed by grains to the human system.

While Cordain doesn’t recommend dairy, Gedgaudas suggests organic or raw milk products, provided they retain their full fat content and come from grass-fed cows. She reasons that the presence of the anti-carcinogenic fatty acid conjugated linolenic acid (CLA) and the Wulzen factor anti-stiffness agent in the fat benefit joint lubrication.

Experts suggest that the dietary formula established by our prehistoric ancestors can be the foundation for a modern-day, healthy, non-confining, creative eating experience. We can

exchange grains for quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat (not technically grains at all), and include tubers and legumes, due to their folate and protein content. Blue and sweet potatoes also contain high levels of anthocyanins and potassium. Nearly every category of food, in the proper amounts, can be part of such a balanced diet.

When we explore what makes sense and eat clean and natural foods, we have a good chance of finding our body’s own sweet spot.

Sayer Ji is the founder of GreenMed Info.com and an advisory board member of the National Health Federation. Tania Melkonian is a certified nutritionist and healthy culinary arts educator. Learn more at GreenMedInfo.com.

Paleo Parallel Tips n Make plants the center. For any meat, choose organic, grass-fed lean cuts and use small portions as sides or garnish. n Limit dairy to items with full fat content. Choose sheep or goat dairy when possible, followed by organic cow dairy. n Limit grains, but explore pseudo-grains such as buckwheat, quinoa and amaranth to add safe, starch-like body to meals. n For legumes, eat lentils. Blue and sweet potatoes are good choices for tubers.

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MISSING ANSWERS Where do we come from?

What is our destiny?

Why are we here?

LECTURES & HEALING THERAPY Fred Gouveia . Heather Fonseca . Julio Padovan

Saturday, October 19, 2013 2 - 5 pm (Doors open at 1 pm) 4 West 43rd St, New York (Between 5th and 6th Ave.)

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Manhattan Meditation Class and Group Practice – 7-8:30pm. Tuesdays and Fridays, Chelsea Studios, 151 W 26th St, 6th Floor, New York, NY. Ladyni88@gmail.com, 516-442-7408 or bodhimeditationsociety.org/classes-events/.

SuJok Reflexology by Neelam Sethi – 2-6pm. In Korean, Su = hand and Jok = foot. Together they relate to a therapy that employs hands and feet as treatment areas for the whole body. Neelam Sethi, Certified Reflexologist and workshop facilitator, feels that her mission is to serve humanity with alternative therapies of healing and to encourage a healthier way of life. Namaste Healing Center, 80 5th Ave, Suite 1104, New York, NY. 212-645-0141 or namastebookshop.com/calendar/.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 CityParks Seniors Fitness: Yoga – 9-10am. City Parks Foundation welcomes all New Yorkers, 60 and over, to participate in CityParks Seniors Fitness.

In this program, participants are encouraged to maintain regular attendance to maximize health benefits. Even in moderate amounts, exercise can help you feel better, maintain or lose weight, reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes and minimize arthritis symptoms. Equipment and instruction all free. Carl Schurz Park, E 86th St and E End Ave, New York, NY. nycgovparks.org/events

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 Manhattan Meditation Class and Group Practice – 3:30-5pm. Free Meditation Class every Fri. Phelps House in Goddard Riverside Community Center, 595 Columbus Ave, NY, NY. Contact Rui: ruilou1@gmail.com, (646)250-0669 or bodhimeditationsociety.org/classes-events.

Manhattan Meditation Class and Group Practice – 7pm-8:30pm. Free Meditation Class every Tues & Fri. Chelsea Studios 151 W 26th Street, 6th Floor, NY, NY. Contact ladyni88@gmail.com, 516-4427408 or bodhimeditationsociety.org/classes-events.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 Three Life-Changing Presentations – 10 am - 5 pm.

Award-Winning Author Mary Soliel Presents "Living a Synchronistic Lifestyle" 10 am, Become aware of meaningful coincidences that provide miraculous guidance, validation, and blessings; "Letting Go, Miracles & Special Group Healing" 1 pm, includes one-of-a-kind live group healing through Mary's eyes to yours (www.newsungazing.com); "Making Our Way to a Higher Vibrational World," 3 pm, Messages from AAMichael about the glorious Heavenly earth we are creating! META Center, 214 W 29th St, 16th Floor, New York, NY. Pre-register at www. marysoliel.com/events_282.html.

The Phenomenon, Bruno Groening: On the Tracks of the “Miracle Healer” – 11am-4:30pm (3 parts, each 95 minutes). Nothing is incurable!

There is a divine power that helps and heals. Bruno Groening (1906-1959) had a very precise intuitive understanding of this healing force and showed people how to reconnect with it to obtain health and happiness. Many viewers experience healing while watching this film and anyone seeking help should not miss it! Read about medically-documented healing reports on bruno-groening.org/english.

META Center, 214 W 29th St, 16th Floor, New York, NY. 212-714-5379 or bruno-groening-film.org.

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Special Evening Tour of Gracie Mansion and Treats – 5:30-8pm. Tours of this 1799 country house, which has been the official residence to New York City mayors since 1942, are usually not offered in the evenings, which makes this a special treat for people unable to make the regular tour hours. Take the tour, and sample cider and gingersnaps based on a historic recipe. Reservations required. Gracie Mansion, Carl Schurz Park, 88th St and E End Ave, New York, NY. GracieTours@cityhall.nyc. gov or nycgovparks.org/events.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12 Meditation, My Friend: Meditation for Kids and Beginners of All Ages – 2-4pm. Betsy Thomson (author, singer-songwriter, artist, and meditation/ yoga instructor) and Mitchell Hoffsteader, a quirky, snarky, endearing star, have created “Meditation, My Friend,” a work that has been praised by leading mental health experts. Full of playful illustrations, wonderful photography and life-size puppetry, this is every adult’s answer to the question of how to introduce mindfulness to children! Join in the signing and discussion, hear Mitch’s song and receive a free download of guided meditations. Tibet House, 22 W 15th St, New York, NY. 212-807-0563, thomsonbetsy3@gmail.com or meditationmyfriend.com.

markyourcalendar OCTOBER 15 Film Screening Tears of the Buddha: Spirituality and Emotions 7:15-9:30pm What’s the relationship between emotional healing and enlightenment? Are emotions impediments to spiritual growth? Does transcending heal emotional wounds? Join filmmakers Joel Lesko and Angelika Lesko for the NY premiere of their documentary which explores how spiritual teachings about emotions impact the daily lives of spiritual seekers. A panel discussion hosted by Alan Steinfeld is included.

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Discover the Freedom to Be – 9:30am-5:30pm.

Learn how to be yourself and be free of the need to seek approval and love. The Work of Byron Katie will be used—a simple yet powerful way to free yourselves from the stress of believing your own thoughts. Uncover and question the hidden layers of self that keep you bound. You will be gently supported as you dive deeply within yourself to access answers that are always there waiting for you. Take home a powerful tool that can help you live with peace and integrity. All welcome, no experience necessary. Olga Berg, Certified Facilitator. 19 Clinton St, New York, NY. 808-6358140, olgaberg.me/en/

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 The Creativity Workshop – Oct 18-21, 10:30am1:30pm. Become more creative in your personal and professional life! What will you learn in this workshop? Practical techniques to stimulate your imagination and innovative thinking, how to explore the process of creativity (rather than focusing on the product), finding inspiration in the world around you, establishing a 15-minute daily creativity practice to accomplish goals after the workshop ends…these are but a few of the ways you can learn to trigger your imagination. 214 W 29th St, 16th Floor, New York, NY. 212-203-3252 or creativityworkshop.com/newyork.html.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19 The Missing Answers: Where Do We Come From? Why Are We Here? What is Our Destiny?

– 2-5pm. Please join us for a wonderful lecture and some healing therapy. Fred Gouveia, Heathere Fonseca and Julio Padovan will bring the spiritist’s point of view to these intriguing questions. $15 admission that includes a free book or DVD (optional: $5 children’s activities). Tri State Spiritist Federation, 4 W 43rd St, New York, NY. Please register at tssfederation.org.

markyourcalendar TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 Explore the New Frequencies of Healing with Eric Pearl 7:00pm Discover why hospitals and universities are investing time and money in researching Reconnective Healing. During this experiential workshop, Founder, Eric, will discuss this remarkable story and give live demonstrations on a limited number of audience participants.

You Can Heal.

The New York Open Center, 22 E 30th St 212-219-2527

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Yoga vs. The Daily Grind: Part I Posture – 2:304:30pm. Come join Dr. Danielle Catalano, PT, CYT, for this multi-part series that will lead participants on a personal wellness journey. You will learn how to use yoga to counteract the effects of the daily NYC grind on your body as well as basic anatomy. Yoga High, 98 Forsyth St, New York, NY. 646-678-3116 or yogahighnyc.com.

Poland Spring Marathon Kickoff (5 Miles) – 8:30am.

Just one week before the ING New York City Marathon, this race travels the roads of Central Park and ends at the Marathon finish line. As you make your way onto the only flat, straight stretch of the course, be sure to give a nod to Fred Lebow—legendary founder of the New York City Marathon, memorialized in bronze and checking his stopwatch, near Engineers’ Gate. Central Park at 69th St and Central Park W, New York, NY. 855-569-6977, mynyrr@nyrr.org or nycgovparks.org/events.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 The Voyage of the Black Madonna: A Musical Journey to the Ancient Sacred Sites of the Great Mother Earth Goddess – 7-9pm. Featuring healing chants and drumming in honor of the Black Madonna from Southern Italy, Spain, France, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, this unique concert features excerpts from the Folk Opera written by Alessandra Belloni with composer/music director John La Barbera. The work brings people together through the universal connection of the Great Mother Earth Goddess, creating a spiritual and joyous celebration. Namaste Healing Center, 80 5th Ave Suite 1104, New York, NY. 212-645-0141 or namastebookshop.com.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 I Can Do It! – Oct 26-27. Be entertained, get educated, live a better life! Louise Hay, Dr. Wayne Dyer, Doreen Virtue, Caroline Myss, Kris Carr, Cheryl Richardson and Gregg Braden are sure to energize your mind, body and spirit at this exciting event. Javits Center, 655 W 34th St, New York, NY. 212-216-2000, 800-654-5126 or hayhouse.com/events.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 Awaken Your Divine Self – Oct 30-Nov 3. Swami Shanmuga and Amma Adi Sakthi are enlightened souls carrying the energies of the Divine Mother. They facilitate powerful meditations, healings, teachings and energy transmissions. The types of programs, times, locations and prices vary with each program. Find details at ekatvam.org or 845-891-3065.

markyourcalendar FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Embodying the Wisdom of the Heart 6-10 pm Author and healing practitioner Dana Micucci shares transformational teachings and tools from the world’s wisdom traditions and her awardwinning book, Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman’s Journey around the World and into Her Truth.

New York Open Center, 22 E 30th St

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Braco’s gaze touches his visitors with peace, silence and hope. Amazing transformations happen, and many find new power, vitality and a zest for life resulting from their experience. Braco does not teach, talk or diagnose—he simply gazes in silence and offers his gift to visitors. New Yorker Hotel, 481 Eighth Ave. $8 per session/ must be 18 yrs to attend.

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OCTOBER 2 Introduction to Dowsing With a Pendulum, 7-9:15pm. With Jerrey Adler, who has been involved in dowsing for 20+ years. Explore this intuitive way to get guidance in your life with hands-on training ideal for beginners. Advanced workshops also available: Oct. 16—Dowsing For Better Health & Oct. 24— Dowsing For Moving Forward In Your Life.

OCTOBER 5-6 A Natural Medicine Man’s Way of Healing, 2-5pm Hachumak from Peru is an energetic and traditional healer who combines training in Chinese Qi emission therapy and ancient Peruvian shamanism to heal on the physical and the spiritual levels.

Workshops: Oct. 5—A Shaman’s View Of Human Health & Oct. 6—20 Years Of Energetic Healing.

Private healing sessions available Oct. 7-11.

OCTOBER 12-13 Shamanic Healing Through The Dream World, With John Lockley, a traditionally trained Xhosa Sangoma (African Shaman). Work with dreams and explore your relationship to your Ancestors. Weekend ceremony involves prayer, intention, rhythms, dancing, songs and initiation with a face “wash” of sacred Xhosa herbs. Workshop Oct. 12, 11am-5pm & Oct. 13, 11am-2pm. Also with John Lockley: Introductory Talk Oct. 10 & Private Divination/ Healing Sessions Oct. 15-16-17.

OCTOBER 12-13 Learn How To Read Your Akashic Records, 10am6pm. With Maureen St. Germain. Accessing your records gives you valuable insights to enable you to comprehend the motives and actions of others, raise your self-awareness, discover your soul’s purpose and make good business, relationship and personal decisions. Visit edgarcaycenyc.org for $50 savings if registered by Oct. 10.

OCTOBER 14 Edgar Cayce’s Electrical Healing “Appliances,” 7-9pm. With Jack Rosen. Learn about the “Wet Cell” and “Radial Appliance,” recommended for regenerating nerve function in neurological syndromes such as Parkinson’s, MS and ALS. The Wet Cell has also proved helpful with Lyme Disease. Learn about the Violet Ray for nervous disorders, arthritis, hair/ skin disorders, problems with digestion/elimination.

OCTOBER 26 Edgar Cayce Center Psychic & Healing Fair, 12-6pm. Explore psychic and intuitive readings, energy and alternative healing in mini-sessions with the Center’s talented practitioners, teachers and friends, $20 each. Free admission to the fair! Free mini-workshops throughout the fair. After the fair, join a Spirit Message Circle with one of the Center’s expert mediums, 7:30-9 pm, $25.

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Transformational Energy Healing Office mid-town NYC priscilla@priscillabright.com • 845-417-8261 Priscilla Bright, MA is an international energy healer who is the past School Dean of the international Barbara Brennan School of Healing, and a presenter at Omega Institute and NY Open Center. Her profound and deep yet gentle energy work guides you to connect with your own powerful internal source of renewal and wisdom. Energy blocks soften, life-giving energy increases, and your intuition is more easily heard.

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