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Reduce Stress, Make Space for Wellbeing This Spring 8 Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program
Sext: Prayer for the Desert Amy Livingstone, MA Sacred Art Studio Inspired by Medieval illuminated manuscripts, this painting is the second in a four-part series called “Where We Stand is Holy.” Sext is the noon prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours. Here, sego lily and cherry (Utah state flower and fruit), globemallow, and phlox are woven throughout with raven, black-chinned hummingbird, sage-grouse, prairie dog, and other desert creatures. This piece shines a light on the landscapes of the American SW and the creatures threatened by gas and oil extraction. Amy Livingstone is an interdisciplinary contemporary sacred artist, beauty maker, and eco-spiritual activist. Drawing inspiration from the perennial wisdom woven throughout all our spiritual traditions and the ancient knowledge of our earth-honoring ancestors, her work reveals through a visual language our innate interconnectedness in the web of creation and reverences the earth as holy. Her vision being that no matter what faith we choose or inherit, including science, we are all born of the earth. Visit www.sacredartstudio.net for more information, sacred art, and online store.
It’s all there underneath the hustle. When you Pause, you’ll find it. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an accredited 8 week course that infuses the energy of mindfulness into your everyday life by systematically training the mind to break free from cycles of stress, anxiety, exhaustion and unhappiness. This course is ideal for anyone who is ready to take a deep dive into practice, and is especially helpful for people seeking relief from high levels of stress, illness or pain. Pause, Portland’s modern meditation studio, is offering the MBSR Spring Course beginning in May: Sundays, May 5-June 23, 6:45-8:45pm or Wednesdays, May 8-June 26, 7-9pm at the Pause Studio (downtown PDX). Both groups will join for an all-day retreat on Sat. June 15. Alongside the MBSR program, Pause offers a variety of drop-in classes and 4-6 week courses that provide structure, accountability and community support for you to build and establish a mindfulness practice in your life. Pause combines insights from three primary sources – neuroscience, positive psychology and wisdom traditions – into a simple, non-religious approach to training the mind. Backed by modern science and research, these programs consistently yield a greater sense of well-being in participants, from joy and inner peace to resilience and stronger work performance. To learn more about Pause or to register for the upcoming MBSR program, visit PauseMeditation.org/mbsr. You can also schedule a free 15 minute phone visit with the instructor, Ryan, to explore which mindfulness options are the best fit for you. Phone: 503-343-4831; email: Connect@PauseMeditation.org.
CBD Hemp Store Opens New Location in Beaverton The CBD Hemp Store is family owned and aims to be the friendliest, honest CBD store that provides the best customer service while being proud to sell CBD products that are safe, lab tested and made in the USA. CBD Hemp store is not a marijuana dispensary; they are a retail CBD boutique, online store and wholesaler. All four Portland area stores carry hempbased CBD products, including CBD oil, tinctures, edibles, lotions, vapes, pet treats, pet tinctures...and much more! Hemp Oil supports a healthy lifestyle by helping to manage pain, reduce inflammation, maintain healthy joints and reduce stress, anxiety and depression. It is important to note that CBD Hemp Oil products are, by FDA guidelines, treated as food supplements. CBD is a naturally occurring compound that is non-toxic, like a vitamin, legal in all 50 states and does not get you high. Check out the CBD for Pets article on page 34
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We all have the ability to empower ourselves. Sometimes we get stuck, and we don’t have to stay stuck. Ask yourself… Are you in control of your thoughts and emotions? Are you able to easily change a habit or incorporate a new one? How do you talk to yourself about your goals, dreams and habits? Often described as a user manual for your conscious and unconscious mind, the scientifically-proven techniques of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP) provide techniques to reprogram your mind for success. Utilize the same tools super successful people such as Tony Robbins, Oprah Winfrey and Pharrell Williams use to bring effective changes in every aspect of life. A more EMPOWERED you! Join the Empowerment Partnership with Dr. Matt James for an Integrative NLP Practitioner Certification Training in the Portland area May 2-5 at the Courtyard by Marriott, Portland City Center. This experiential program provides proven techniques to communicate more effectively, build rapport easily, release limiting thoughts and negative behaviors, overcome unwanted habits such as procrastination, lack of motivation, depression and phobias.
Help Chewy walk again... as a tri-paw Chewy is a 3 year old mastiff/lab mix who loves to spend time with his family and in nature. He is full of energy, love, affection and kindness. He came through the second chance program as he is a big boy and was not getting adopted due to his size and people’s worry he would be an aggressive dog...although, nothing could be further from the truth. He is the kindest, most resilient, most joyful being his family knows. They wrote a song for him about how he is such a sweet big boy who bounces around the house, with his tongue hanging out of his mouth. Chewy recently was hit by a car and his leg could not be saved so the tough decision had to be made to amputate his right front leg. He is a young, strong and healthy boy full of life, though he is also a big boy who will need time, patience and support living life on 3 legs. The costs of his trip to the ER to help manage his pain, the surgery to remove his leg and rehabilitation and recovery supports and supplies are adding up. His mommas are both local social workers and have limited resources to finance his road to recovery, though they love him soooo much and want to be able to help him live a healthy, happy, lively quality of life. They chose not to have children to dedicate their lives to rescuing dogs...the dogs are their children. Any support and assistance you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. Every little bit helps. Thanks for your consideration, thoughts and care!!
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hypertension from 32 percent to 46 percent. American heart disease deaths rose from 836,546 in 2015 to 840,678 in 2016. Studies show that about 80 percent of all cardiovascular disease can be prevented by controlling high blood pressure, diabetes and high cholesterol, along with healthy practices like not smoking, says the AHA.
Women in menopause that are mindful and nonjudgmental of their thoughts are less irritable, anxious and depressed, reports a Mayo Clinic study recently published in Climacteric, the journal of the International Menopause Society. Researchers gave questionnaires to 1,744 menopausal patients 40 to 65 years old and found that those with higher mindfulness scores struggled less with common menopausal symptoms. Mindfulness didn’t lower hot flash and night sweat symptoms, however.
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U.S. Heart Disease on the Rise Forty-eight percent of American adults have some form of cardiovascular disease, reported the American Heart Association (AHA) in its annual update. The increase is partly due to 2017 updated guidelines redefining high blood pressure as greater than 130/80 millimeters of mercury rather than 140/90, which raised the number of Americans with diagnosed
Simply changing a diet to include more fruit and vegetables can boost mental well-being, say British researchers from Leeds and York universities. Examining health data of 40,000 people, they concluded those that eat more produce have a better psychological state, and that eating just one extra portion of fruits and vegetables a day could have a positive effect equivalent to around eight extra days of walking a month for at least 10 minutes at a time. A meta-analysis of 16 studies by the UK’s University of Manchester found the mood-boosting effect was particularly strong for women, and it worked with different types of diets, indicating a particular approach is not necessary. When dietary changes were combined with exercise, even greater improvements resulted.
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Japanese researchers interviewed 1,003 Tokyo women over 70 years old about which of 16 types of exercise they did, including dancing, calisthenics, jogging, golf, ball games, hiking, yoga, bicycling and tai chi. In eight years of follow-up, those that danced were 73 percent less likely to be classified as impaired in any of the “activities of daily living” such as walking, cooking, dressing and bathing—a result not produced by the other physical activities. “Dancing requires not only balance, strength and endurance ability, but also cognitive ability: adaptability and concentration to move according to the music and partner; artistry for graceful and fluid motion; and memory for choreography,” writes lead author Yosuke Osuka, of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology.
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Selenium and CoQ10 Provide Lasting Benefits
Walking, cycling, climbing stairs and other aerobic activities may improve brain function not only in older people, but also in younger folk, according to a Columbia University study published in Neurology. The study recruited 132 people between 20 and 67 years old that didn’t exercise and had below-average fitness levels. Half stretched and toned four times a week for six months and half exercised aerobically on a treadmill, stationary bike or elliptical machine. When they were evaluated for their executive function thinking skills—regulating behavior, paying attention and achieving goals—the aerobics group improved twice as much as the stretching group. “The people who exercised were testing as if they were about 10 years younger at age 40 and about 20 years younger at age 60,” says study author Yaakov Stern, Ph.D.
Swedish seniors that took coenzyme Q10 and selenium during a fouryear study were still benefiting 12 years later with a reduced cardiovascular mortality risk of more than 40 percent. In the original study, Linköping University researchers gave 443 independently living seniors over 70 years old either a placebo or 200 milligrams of CoQ10 and 200 milligrams of selenium per day. Those on the supplements showed a reduced risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, improved heart function, less hospitalization, more vitality and a better quality of life. Twelve years later, the researchers examined autopsies and death certificates, and found the supplement-takers had a lower risk of death compared to the placebo group, even if they had diabetes, high blood pressure or ischemic heart disease.
Prenatal Yoga Reduces Caesareans and Labor Pain First-time mothers that practiced yoga beginning in the 30th week of pregnancy had fewer caesareans, fewer low-weight newborns and milder and briefer labor pains. They were also less likely to require painkillers or labor inducement. The Mangalore, India, hospital study, published in The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, included 150 women 20 to 35 years old that were pregnant for the first time and had no prior yoga experience. Half of the women did not do yoga, while the other half took 30-minute yoga classes once every week or two. Women in the yoga group were also more comfortable after giving birth. LightField Studios/Shutterstock.com
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Avian Senior Citizen Astounds Again Being at least 68 years old didn’t deter Wisdom, a Laysan Albatross, from recently hatching another chick. The world’s oldest known banded wild bird, which roosts at the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge, in Hawaii, has birthed and raised more than 30 chicks in her lifetime. She and her mate-forlife Akeakamai spent about two months incubating the new egg, and now they’ll raise the chick for five to six months before it flies out to sea. It is uncommon for albatross to return, lay and hatch an egg every single year, but the pair has produced a chick each year since 2006, say U.S Fish and Wildlife Service officials. 10
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Nuclear Testing Linked to Radioactive Milk
The hundreds of nuclear bombs detonated on a remote Nevada test site during the Cold War produced radioactive fallout that led indirectly to the deaths of 340,000 to 690,000 Americans, concludes a recent study by economist Keith Meyers, Ph.D., of the University of Southern Denmark. Meyers conducted the research for his doctoral dissertation while attending the University of Arizona. By combining National Cancer Institute data measuring the radioactive element Iodine-131 in local cow milk with countyby-county mortality data, he found heightened death rates in the Midwest and Northeast between 1951 and 1973. The finding suggests that airborne radiation contaminated pastures that, in turn, made milk radioactive and led to the human ingestion of slow-acting, but fatal radioactive isotopes. In comparison, an estimated 200,000 to 350,000 people in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki died directly from the atomic bombs dropped on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively.
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As the Appalachian economy struggles with the loss of three-fifths of its coal mining jobs in the last three decades, a surprising option is emerging for some: beekeeping. The Appalachian Beekeeping Collective offers beekeeping training, including bees and equipment and ongoing mentoring, for displaced coal miners and low-income residents of mining towns; so far, about 35 people are participating. Landowners are donating property for the beehives, which will be maintained without pesticides or antibiotics. Honey from a single hive can bring in about $750 a season, or $15,000 per 20, and additional money can be made selling the beeswax for candles and lip balm. The beekeeping collective is part of Appalachian Headwaters, a nonprofit formed in 2016 with a $7.5 million lawsuit settlement from coal mine operator Alpha Natural Resources for violations of the Clean Water Act. The money has been used to fund environmental restoration projects and to develop sustainable economic opportunities in the coal mining communities of West Virginia.
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Higher federal standards for energy-efficient light bulbs established two years ago are in the process of being rolled back by the U.S. Department of Energy, part of a move toward widespread deregulation by the current administration. Consumers stand to lose about $100 per household per year in electric bill savings if the higher standards are not implemented, say critics. The wasted energy could result in more power plant pollution, which harms the environment and contributes to health problems like asthma. The plan would also stifle innovation, eliminating a powerful regulatory incentive for manufacturers and retailers to invest in high-quality, energy-efficient LED light bulbs.
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About 50 polar bears that usually hunt seals from ice floes have found new cuisine in the garbage dumps in the remote Russian island military town of Belushya Gubam, about 1,200 miles northeast of Moscow. Its 2,000 residents, long accustomed to the occasional bear strolling through, now call it a “mass invasion” as the curious bears peer into windows, stare down barking dogs and dig through trash. Russia’s environmental response agency has sent in a crisis team that is studying how to remove the bears without killing them. The Barents Sea that the bears inhabit is undergoing what a recent study called a “rapid climate shift” from Arctic Ocean temperatures to warmer Atlantic Ocean-like temperatures; the entire western side of the island is now ice-free year round.
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Washington is poised to become the first state to make it legal to compost human remains. A bill allowing for the process, called natural organic reduction, as well as another called water cremation, has passed the state senate and is making its way to the house for a vote. Human composting involves placing a body in a tubular vessel and covering it with natural materials like wood chips and straw. Over several weeks, microbial activity breaks down the body into about a cubic yard of soil. Recompose, a company that wants to offer the practice as an alternative to traditional methods, worked with Washington State University to test its safety for environmental and human health. Six people donated their bodies for the study. The method alleviates much of the carbon footprint associated with both cremation and traditional casket burial. Learn more on the next page. May 2019
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AQUA CREMATION Excerpt from The Green Burial Guidebook By Elizabeth Fournier “Traditional cremation is certainly on the rise in all areas of the United States and Canada, yet it is not an environmentally friendly process, and it’s not considered a form of green burial. Traditional cremation creates fossil-fuel emissions, and the ashes themselves can contain toxins. However, a new green method of cremation is rising in popularity, and there are certainly a number of creative and ecofriendly ways to preserve one’s ‘cremains,’ as they are called.”
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he process called alkaline hydrolysis — also known as water resomation, bio-cremation, and flameless cremation — uses heat, lye, and water to dissolve or break down a human body into liquid and some remaining bone. Dean Fisher, who heads UCLA’s Body Donation Program, says this process works with a light carbon footprint “because it catalyzes the hydrogen in water to more rapidly attack the chemical bonds between molecules in the body.” Alkaline hydrolysis is generally done in a large stainless-steel cylinder, with a person’s former life vehicle amounting to a coffeecolored liquid that can be safely disposed of down a drain. The remaining bone fragments are ground into a powder and given to the family, much like a traditional cremation. While costs vary, alkaline hydrolysis typically costs $150 to $500 (depending on the funeral home you contract services with) more than traditional cremation. Otherwise, this is the clear green choice. Dr. Billy Campbell, steward of Ramsey Creek Preserve, the first noted US green burial ground, has researched the process of resomation and found that it occurs naturally when a body is buried in neutral or slightly alkaline soil. He writes, “To a great extent the bodies are decomposed by alkaline hydrolysis, expedited by soil bacteria and it is a very slow process.” As of early 2018, twelve US states consider alkaline hydrolysis a legal form of body disposition: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Oregon, and Wyoming. Two Canadian provinces are also on board. If you prefer cremation to burial, consider choosing this more gentle and green process instead.” 12
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AQUA CREAMATION • A flameless cremation process that uses fire instead of water • Gentle and respectful • No emissions of harmful greenhouse gasses or mercury • Over 90% energy savings when compared to flame-based cremation • 1/10 the carbon footprint of cremation by fire • The water is completely recycled • The process requires less water than the average single household uses in one day For more information, email Info@CornerstoneFuneral.com or visit www.CornerstoneFuneral.com.
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PFLAG By Robin Will
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ll LGBTQ people have their coming-out stories, about the point where they risked it all to let families, friends and loved ones know who they really are. Sometimes that goes well; sometimes, of course, it goes very badly. Typically, there’s space between the two extremes where people take time to adjust. We usually forget that when young people come out of the closet, they leave the door standing open behind them. Their families eventually need to come out, too. Sometimes it’s difficult. Communities are still hostile; churches may be unforgiving; and at the best of times, queer kids get bullied in school and on the streets. Parents may want to help, but they don’t always know how. That’s what PFLAG is for. The name originally stood for Parents, Friends and Family of Lesbians and Gays. Anymore, lesbians and gays are only part of the LGBTQ rainbow, so the acronym stands alone and is inclusive. PFLAG is a support group for anyone associated with or impacted by the LGBTQ+ community. In Oregon, PFLAG originated in the 1970s, when two young women came out as lesbians to their parents, and the parents didn’t know what to do. Ann and Bill Shepherd and Rita and Charles Knapp belonged to the same downtown Portland church. They didn’t know a thing about gay people, and they loved their kids. They guessed they weren’t the only ones in that situation, so they founded Parents of Gays as a support group. POG started slowly because they couldn’t even run a classified ad in a Portland
newspaper, but in 1977, KATU-TV aired a Town Hall program on “the question of gays in society” and ran Ann Shepherd’s phone number on the screen. Ann’s phone never stopped ringing. POG joined the brand-new national PFLAG organization in 1982. The Shepherds and Knapps discovered that public support of their homosexual children got them hate mail, death threats, and promises of cross-burnings. However, it offered hope to other parents of gay kids; and members of the queer community clung to PFLAG like it was a life preserver, which in many cases, wasn’t far from the truth. PFLAG Portland now comprises three chapters, in Portland, Beaverton and Gresham, and there’s a new Clackamas County chapter that meets in Canby. (Visit www.pflagpdx.org, or see the Clackamas County group’s page on Facebook.). Eight other Oregon chapters are spread from Pendleton to Gold Beach (listed on PFLAG.org, on the “Find A Chapter” page). Forty-two years later, PFLAG chapters have something Ann, Bill, Rita and Charles did not: LGBTQ elders who can share their stories and insights. But PFLAG still gets its power from one notso-secret ingredient: parents who followed their LGBTQ kids out of the closet.
Robin Will saw his first byline at age 15, and it motivated him for life. He’s a native Oregonian with pioneer roots in the Willamette Valley. Robin is active in the old-car hobby, and he’s president of the Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest.
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reality check | finding resilience in troubled times
The Resilience of Connection
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ew research shows that the opposite of substance addiction is not sobriety. Simply changing the behavior of excessive shopping or hoarding does not solve the root problem. The solution to addictive behavior is connection. In a toxic culture that divides us by race, gender, age, class, education, economic privilege, and physical appearance and ability, we are often lost trying to figure out who we are in relationship to others. Partnerships and family relations are strained and failing. Divisions around politics and ethics are turning nasty. Social media isn’t helping. Being glued to our phones, tablets and computers is creating a whole new void, which is being filled by more hungry ghosts of dissatisfaction and isolation. We often confuse authentic connection with the need for attention, or to be right, or to be better than others in our personal sphere or in our national or political identity. This makes us anxious or depressed because craving attention for whatever reason is very lonely. It is extremely stressful to keep up facades that are always in danger of crumbling. We are isolated in a culture that glorifies being too busy for even phone calls, which are in serious danger of becoming extinct. (I know people who never answer their phone.) We work too hard; we try to do too much. It’s another form of addiction and another breeding ground for hungry ghosts. Cultures that are more tribal and 14
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have community support and rituals are healthier. We are, after all, a communal species. During most of millions of years of human history, we lived in hunter-gatherer communities. We lived interdependently with the natural world that supplied us with food, water, shelter, healing herbs, beauty and the awe-filled inspiration of nature. We watched the stars and the blooming of flowers. We made love for the sensual pleasure of it, not with the strangling tentacles of ownership and jealousies. We needed to support each other’s individual strengths because they were important to the survival of the whole community. In a healthy culture, everyone is connected and valued for what they contribute. True connection with others demands that we give of ourselves and our time far beyond a text message. It is not about “earning” approval by offering empty compliments, or giving hugs while secretly denigrating someone with envious, superior or pity-filled thoughts. It is about giving far more than we expect to receive. We are swimming around in the same toxic culture where our fellow humans are struggling. In the muck, trauma and need, others might be incapable of giving back. Don’t let that matter. Keep giving. Unless of course, the relationship is stealing our self-esteem and hungry ghosts are flitting around it trying to fill up the broken places. There are simple ways to find resilience through connection. They take time, though. Spending less time on mindless television, the aggravation of TV news, roaming social media and Google, being stuck under the covers in self-doubt,
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and spinning around in dysfunctional relationships can free up time to build our resilience with authentic connections. Do an inventory. Hopefully there is some available time for a critical life-support system of connection. The more we find connection, the more we will restore our connection with our self. It isn’t about being “good enough” or being able to do or say the right things. It’s about being willing.
Here are a few simple practices for finding resilience through connection to choose from (there are certainly others): • Spend more time with friends telling stories, playing or enjoying music, or reading poetry. • Meet your neighbors and invite them for tea if you are an extrovert. If you are an introvert, offer to assist an elder neighbor who needs help. Spend some time weeding their garden or fixing their gutters. They are likely to make tea for you. • Stay connected with friends who have moved away by making phone dates with them.
• Teach someone, or learn from them, how to can summer fruits and vegetables, or how to knit very warm socks for the homeless this winter. (Of course, you can learn from the internet but it won’t create connection.) • Write encouraging letters or send cards to people in prison or in nursing homes. They need to know people want to connect with them and care about their resilience. • Volunteer to help animals at a shelter, children in a hospital or others in crisis. • Build a connected relationship with a teenager that doesn’t involve school, TV or computers. Try hikes, camping or cooking together. Maybe they can teach you some dance moves. • Connect with nature. When Beauty taps you on the shoulder, stop and take the time to let her nourish you. • Hone your kindness skills. Kindness begets kindness and connection. • Work on developing your capacity to honestly identify your feelings so you can connect with them and express them authentically. • Practice compersion, the feeling of happiness because of the happiness of another person. Practice empathy to better understand the feelings and traumas of others. • Actively work for change in your neighborhood or city. Feeling good about how you connect with your community develops courage. • Find ways to connect with some form of both grief and gratitude for this painful healing crisis and evolutionary movement we are experiencing. It is coming from a new consciousness that the way we live isn’t working for about 99% of us humans and all the Earth’s other inhabitants.
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” –Maya Angelou
INDIGENOUS ELDER’S STORIES OF TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE One aspect of a 2012 study of stories told by Indigenous Elders in Tucson, Arizona shows the importance of identity, family and community resilience. The study confirms that community resilience is rooted in how indigenous groups value relationships among people and the environment. Examples of community resilience in the elder’s stories include: the expression of collective and personal stories that value Indigenous identity; the revitalization of language, culture and spirituality; traditional activities; autonomous governance; and activism. Through storytelling passed generationally, some Elders talked about surviving traumatic events like the massacre at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1890 or the Trail of Tears in 1838. Others spoke about children who were stolen and the trauma they experienced in the boarding schools where they were taken. Many talked about the loss of traditional ways and “soul loneliness.” These stories of historical trauma were accompanied by stories of resilience. Elders described resilience as being connected to the community and “something greater than themselves.” One of the elder’s stories in the study shows the connection between personal, family and community resilience: “I think the values that I picked up when I was growing up was making my baskets. That was one of the things that REALLY was good for me, that I want to pass on to my children. …this is one of the things that I REALLY want to share. …I was taught by my mother and at first I didn’t want to sit down and make baskets. But as I grew up, I learned that it really did help me. She…showed me how to prepare to make a basket: first to go out and get the plants. She also told me that…I have to talk to the plants. You go up to the plants while you get them, so that they will help you, strengthen you, give you the courage to go on with your life and it’s really not just making baskets. It’s something that is sort of like a sacred secret. So, that’s what I
did. I found out that that’s REALLY helped me a lot. Not just making baskets, but keeping up with our tradition, something that our people used to make and use for many things. And also, I sell my baskets a lot so that helped me in many ways.” In the US, more than 35% of Native Americans live below the federal poverty level. Contemporary social, economic, and health disparities are linked to the traumatic events of colonization, national policy aimed at assimilating tribes into mainstream America, and the historical cumulative emotional and psychological wounding across generations resulting from the genocide of Indigenous people. Living in poverty is traumatic. So is the loss of cultural identity. Building strong connections to family, community, and cultural identity strengthen resilience. Resilience is found in telling stories, creating art and music, and being active in building community. From “Shaping A Stories of Resilience Model from Urban American Indian Elders’ Narrative of Historical Trauma and Resilience” by the research team headed by Kerstin M. Reinschmidt PhD.
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reality check | finding resilience in troubled times
Oregon State Penitentiary Healing Garden Design by Hoichi Kurisu
CULTURE AND CONNECTION
A JAPANESE HEALING GARDEN OFFERS RESILIENCE TO MEN IN CUSTODY PART TWO, OF A THREE-PART SERIES By Deb Rodney “The man who stands most firmly is the one who has died of darkness and has been restored by belonging.” —Jennifer Boyden, The Chief of Rally Tree
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iving trees and plants are potent medicine. According to indigenous and ancient wisdom, plants have a dynamic intelligence and play an important role in treating soul illnesses. Certainly, they inspire peace, resilience and health. But do they do more on an unconscious soul level than we can even imagine? Inside the cold, hard walls and high fences of the Oregon State Penitentiary, men have lived and died without the companionship of plants and trees. In the last few weeks, that has changed. Members of the Asian Pacific Family Club serving long sentences dared to dream that they could be more than their identity as criminals and prisoners. After five years of steady, patient work under the remarkable leadership of Club President Toshio Takanobu and Project Manager, Johnny Cofer there are now trees and shrubs waiting inside the maximum-security fences. They are about to take their place in the landscape of a Japanese Healing Garden collaboratively designed by Hoichi Kurisu, a world-renowned gardener and plant whisperer. The Oregon State Penitentiary was built in Salem in 1866. With its ten guard towers and high metal bars and fences, it looks like a steam punk set from an old movie. If you listen carefully, you might hear the whispers of forsaken ghosts who lived their 16
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Johnny, Hoichi Kurisu, Toshio, and Club V.P. Jimmy Kashi
lives secreted away from the outside world where they once traveled on risky, perilous paths. Maybe you can sense the unshed tears of men trained to be too tough to cry. Today, inside the penitentiary is a sensitive and complex community made up of the men in custody (the Kept) and the employees who work there (the Keepers). It has a culture similar to any small city or community. There are certainly very different conditions but like all communities it shares a basic human need for connection and community. Assistant Superintendent, Randy Briones has worked at the prison for 36 years. He says when he started, there were very few programs to help the inmates learn skills that would help them get along on the inside, or help them transition to the outside. He said, “In the ‘80s, we began to realize that there were guys in here who could actually make it, and we needed to support them.
We’ve evolved into normalizing and humanizing them and their potential.” The administration asks the question, “How can we help you to do better?” There are yoga and meditation classes. Prison Media Specialist and garden champion Tonya Gushard says, “We want these men to succeed. Most of them will get out one day and be our neighbors.” She explains one of the ways the culture has changed among the Keepers: “We hire differently now. We look for people who can think and collaborate. We’re not just looking for Corrections Officers who are big and strong and able to fight.” For the Kept, it’s challenging to stretch and grow, locked up day after day where Corrections Officers watch you constantly in the halls and from the gun towers, and five or six times a day you are counted. Almost every aspect of your imprisonment is governed by policies and rules designed to maintain an extremely high level of security. Many of the men in custody work. OSP has the largest laundry in the state and many workers sweat over hot, steamy water in the noisy factory environment. They fold blankets and sheets cooperatively in pairs to the specifications of various hospitals. Some do telemarketing in the Call Center in Plexiglas cubicles talking in a very limited way to those in the outside world. Others do kitchen or custodial work. Communication with loved ones outside is limited, expensive and often emotionally painful. Toshio’s tells this story about phone calls to his family in Saipan: “Before I got involved in the club, and because of the shame and disappointment I could hear in their voices when I spoke to them, I felt the best thing to do was to disconnect quickly so I didn’t have to continue to hear that pain, and for them to hear the pain.” According to a 2012 study, a staggering 58% of prisoners in Oregon have no visitors. None at all. For years and years. For many, the community inside the prison is all they have. Johnny describes how this happens: “When you first come here, your family and friends say they will be there for you. And then a year or two later, the letters trickle to a few and then stop. You try to distract yourself from the loss of those people you loved—who you thought loved you.” Some men live in the Mental Health Infirmary, existing in the shadowy world of control and prescription drugs. Thirty-four men live on Death Row. There are betrayals, frustrations and gossip. Under the pressure of toxic masculinity where strength is seen only as physical, fights break out and bullies exert their pressure and control. Toshio explains: “You walk around and the entire environment is hard and cold. Without a doubt, it makes you feel like you have to be hard and cold to survive in it. It doesn’t feel safe to express yourself other than through anger or strength, so you put up a front. We do that as humans. We put on masks to adapt to the environment we find ourselves in.”
Clearing the heart of a lifetime of debris and pain is difficult for all of us living in a toxic culture. It is especially challenging inside a maximum-security prison. It requires visiting the deepest caverns of the psyche, where fear reigns and love and respect are in short supply. However, it is clearly possible. Some of the Kept have unwound their past, grappled with the pain they caused to others, and have found resilience through community and a greater purpose. Even with all the restrictions, stress and loneliness, there are positive aspects of the culture. There are twelve prison clubs that all do good work and provide an important sense of family and connection. The Asian Pacific Family Club lives up to its motto “Diminishing Boundaries and Overcoming Differences.” Johnny says the club gave him a sense of identity and belonging he never had in his life. He says this about the garden project: “It has involved all races and cultures. And boundaries with the staff have broken down just a little. Now, we see more of what we have in common than what is different about one another. Working together on this project has exposed us to what is universal to all of us.” Even in the visioning stage, the project changed the prison culture in unexpected ways. Prison Staff Recreation Specialist and mentor, Patrice Lans notes: “From the very beginning, all the other clubs supported the project. There weren’t the usual questions, ‘What about me?’ or ‘Why didn’t we get what they have?’ The Asian Pacific Family Club May 2019
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has set a high bar and now some of the other clubs are inspired to step up and hold a bigger vision for themselves.” Some of the men serve as hospice workers for their dying brothers. Some are Peer Companions, who support men with mental health issues to integrate into the main prison population. Very recently the Equality 8 Club formed to support a greater understanding of LGBTQ issues and identity. Not so long ago, the exposure of one’s sexual identity could have had serious consequences. The club’s formation and acceptance by inmates and the administration speaks to a culture shift happening inside the prison. The garden is just outside the cafeteria where its restorative shine can wrap warmly around the men as they head to chow. It can help mitigate the negativity, and bring a moment of peace and beauty to a troubled heart. “There is excitement as the men see the garden taking shape,” Johnny says. “The guys who aren’t part of the construction are walking by and hollering, “Good job!” and are thanking us. It’s a humbling experience.” Of the nearly $300,000 that the club raised, $20,000 came from inmates. Johnny explains why: “Some who have lived inside this prison for 30 or 40 years gave $100, even if they only make $50 a month. They only saw gardens in books and had never seen a project like this. They wanted to be part of it. And some of them are seeing that building a garden is being a man in a way they hadn’t imagined.” Randy Briones hopes the garden will be a place where the community, both those in custody and staff, can find restoration and peace away from the negative elements of prison culture. He, Gushard, and Lans say they love their jobs because they get to make a positive difference in people’s lives. Tonya was even inspired to put in a little Japanese garden in her own backyard. Johnny teases her, “I haven’t seen a photo of it yet.” Tonya replies, “It’s not all that great. I don’t have a world class designer working on it like you guys.” Toshio says the staff supported them to reach higher than they imagined they could go. “And people from the outside are telling us that the project has inspired them,” he says. “Sometimes it takes other people believing in you for you to believe in yourself.” The Healing Garden has brought the prison community together in many ways. Men of different races and cultures have found compelling reasons to support the project and each other. The Keepers and the Kept have found new, collaborative ways to work together. Toshio particularly credited Patrice Lans, their Club Advisor who plays a crucial role as a liaison with both administrators and outside supporters. The Asian Pacific Family Club has found meaning, purpose and a greater belief in their potential by showing what is possible under extremely limited conditions. Others living out their sentences are watching, and perhaps they are realizing that they too can be more than what they imagined they could be. Johnny says he is grateful that the garden project is changing the bleak prison culture he has lived in for twenty years. 18
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Author Deb with Scott Bitter, Johnny, Toshio, and Lukah Chang
“The original plans were simple. We just wanted to add some beauty to this place…and now it has grown into a project that inspires many, many people and has given purpose to many lives.” Toshio and Johnny will undoubtedly be making good use of the years they have left on their sentences because they have other plans for their community. They hope to raise money for another healing garden outside the windows of the restricted units that house the Mental Health Infirmary and Death Row because it bothers them that they can’t share the garden with the brothers who live there. They are also in preliminary talks with one of Oregon’s largest landscaping companies about a gardening certification program so men in custody can more easily get gardening jobs when they get out. The radiantly alive trees and plants in the Japanese Healing Garden have taken their place in the prison community, offering their therapeutic beauty and resilience. No one knows the full effects of their healing power but they are clearly essential in the prison, where the men often feel powerless and abandoned. Lovely lotus flowers grow from mud. Swimming koi are symbols of courage, determination and advancement. Big stones in a garden are solid and strong, reminding us that strength can be found among delicate flowers and tender, new growth. Gardens connect us to the natural world where it is possible to retrieve the lost pieces of our souls. The men in custody will be able to watch their garden change, season by season. They can smell it, touch it, linger in it and cheer it on. It is a reminder of what is possible when a diverse community works together. And it is a constant, living affirmation that somebody cares about their resilience and healing.
Deb Rodney has spent her career writing about change, empowerment and resilience. Sometimes she hosts soirees or leads workshops. Please contact her at debrodney@gmail.com with your thoughts and comments. They would be gratefully appreciated.
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hile flowers are We underestimate by increasing defensive known to lean what plants can chemistry—things that make a plant distasteful or toward light, a do because their toxic to predators,” he says. growing body of research communication is Researchers noticed that is demonstrating plants control plants also seemed also respond to sounds and invisible to us. to respond to their neighscents—and then herald ~Heidi Appel bors being attacked. the news to their neighbors. Since then, Schultz, Far from being passive life Karban and other investigators have disforms, members of the plant kingdom are covered that plants emit complex profiles adept at interacting with their environof odors in the form of volatile compounds ments and with each other. “Plants don’t have specialized sense that can be picked up by other plants, as organs, but like animals, plants are very well as insects. Studying sagebrush in the capable of sensing their environment. They Sierra Nevada mountains, Karban found perceive cues, weigh different alternatives that plants under duress emit chemical and allocate resources in very sophisticated cues that trigger nearby plants to increase ways,” says Richard Karban, professor of their defenses. These odors vary with the type of entomology at the University of California threat and time, working to attract polat Davis and the author of Plant Sensing linators during the day and fending off enand Communication. emies at night, Schultz says. A plant being Better Living Through eaten by an insect may release a chemical that attracts predatory insects looking for Chemistry Early evidence of plant communication was herbivore prey. “There is a clear adaptive discovered by accident, according to Jack advantage in attracting the ‘enemy of your Schultz, senior executive director of research enemy’, who can act as a bodyguard for the development at the University of Toledo, plant being attacked.” in Ohio. “In the 1970s, researchers began Smells are just part of a plant’s multito notice plants under attack respond sensory life, says Heidi Appel, a professor May 2019
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in the Department of Environmental Scinatural balance sheet. Simard discovered these Plants have no special ences at the University of Toledo and one of networks had hubs—typically older “mother sense organs, so their Schultz’s collaborators. Appel’s research with trees”—that can connect to hundreds of sophisticated sense of saplings and send them excess carbon that can collaborator Rex Cocroft, at the University of hearing is very surprising. quadruple their survival rates. Missouri, demonstrates they’re listening for threats, too. Simard also found that trees engage in ~Heidi Appel Her lab exposed plants from the mustard “defense signaling” similar to plants, increasfamily to the sound of a caterpillar feeding, ing their natural defenses in response to with control plants in silence or “listening” to a recording of the damage inflicted on their neighbors, but only if the mycorrhizal wind or other insects, and found that those vibrations didn’t networks of fungi that aid in sending such messages are intact. effect the same defensive-priming response as that of the plantSimard’s research seeks to understand how environmental threats munching caterpillar. “Plants have no special sense organs, so like climate change and logging may further disrupt these comtheir sophisticated sense of hearing is very surprising,” says Appel. munication networks. Recognizing all of the communication that exists between Nature’s Networks plants, we might wonder if human words of encouragement can Karban’s lab isolated plants to determine that their chemical help them grow. Perhaps, but not for the reasons one might hope, signals were transmitted by air rather than soil or root systems. says Appel. “Whenever we feel a sense of connection to another Yet researcher Suzanne Simard, a professor of forest ecology at the life form, we are more likely to take better care of it,” says the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, is digging into the researcher. “We underestimate what plants can do because their underground connections, finding that trees are interacting with communication is invisible to us. Yet we also have to be careful one another below the ground in complex ways. about overestimating their abilities. We need an understanding to Trees have a symbiotic relationship with fungi that’s built on be driven by science, and not wishful thinking.” a mutually beneficial exchange of nutrients, says Simard. This underground network links root systems of trees together, enabling April Thompson is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C. Contact them to exchange carbon, water and other nutrients in a kind of her at AprilWrites.com.
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reality check | community voices
KRISTEN REYNOLDS, MAY COMMUNITY VOICE Kristen started her environmental activism at sixteen years old in 1978. She says, “Everything I’ve done in my adult years, illustration, paintings, Nonviolent Communication, group facilitation was done with the end goal of a sustainable human culture.” We asked Kristen to respond to two questions.
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU REALIZED THE SERIOUSNESS OF CLIMATE CHANGE? Al Gore introduced climate change to me in 2006. I was an active member of the Sierra Club then, but I had never heard of it. Then in March 2015, I read about the dwindling Arctic ice in Harper’s Magazine and decided to investigate further online. I discovered an enormous number of articles talking about climate change with ominous numbers that showed change happening far faster than Gore had detailed in his movie. I believe that we are dying as a species along with a global ecosystem. Like any death sentence, I have felt panic, fear and depression made worse by the knowing loss of all that I love.
HOW ARE YOU FINDING RESILIENCE? I have talked to others who believe that human extinction will happen in our lifetime. So, I know that depression, despair, and inertia are common reactions. My mentor suggested that I let myself be as
miserable as I was without trying to fix myself. I decided that if I was going to be depressed for the rest of my life, at least I would be depressed over something really big, the death of my species along with many, many others…certainly worth mourning over. The thing about loss of hope, there’s nothing for an activist to do. Suddenly, I had a lot of time on my hands. So, I started doing things that gave me pleasure in the moment, exactly like I used to do as a kid. I made crafts, went for walks in the woods, and turned to bird watching. And one day, while watching a Great Blue Heron fishing in a pond, I realized that I was happy. Really happy. I hadn’t realized how much in the future I always lived and that I was never satisfied with the present. I hadn’t realized how much precious life I had been missing before. Now I had permission to just be. Interested in being a community voice? Email debrodney@gmail.com. May 2019
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The daily choice to prioritize caring for oneself can ultimately lead to an experience of self-love and wholeness.
Self-Care As Bedrock
HER SOUL IN BLOOM Self-Care for All Stages of Life T
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o be female is to be Self-care does life coach and author of blessed with an innate not necessarily Expectation Hangover: Overgift for multitasking, coming Disappointment in have to involve Work, Love, and Life. but in our fast-paced, jamtime; it’s a way packed world, daily life for The San Diego-based most women is a juggling act motivational speaker views of being. that can come with a steep self-care to be as vital as edu~Christine Hassler price tag if self-care isn’t on cation. “Women are not taught the to-do list. Depression, anxiety and in high school and college how to take care feeling overwhelmed are all too common. of themselves. Prioritizing self-care is so According to the National Alliance on important. I see so many young women Mental Illness, one in eight women experiwith adrenal or thyroid burnout and eating ence depression during their lifetime— disorders. All of that comes down to stress, twice the rate of men. relationship to self and lack of self-care.” The personal interests of women in Seasons of a Woman’s Life their 30s and 40s trying to balance motherhood and career often get lost in the tangled Each decade poses unique challenges. For underbrush of daily logistics. There can women in their 20s and early 30s, combe a deep longing for identity well into the paring and finding one’s own path can be significant. “The feminist movement of our 50s, especially when children leave the nest. Fears of aging and loneliness often accommothers’ generation opened doors, but so pany women 60 and older. By passionately many 20- and 30-something women have and joyously taking care of body and spirit, interpreted that as, ‘I have to do everything women of any generation can find renewal. and be everything,’” says Christine Hassler, 22
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Women play vital roles in family and community, much like the foundation of a sound building, and if self-care is not the bedrock, all that is supported by it is likely to be compromised. “I believe we’ve taken the bait, the promise that if we arrange our life circumstances just so, we’ll feel ease and happiness. We’re getting to a place as a collective where we see a bankruptcy in that,” says Miami-based holistic women’s psychiatrist Dr. Kelly Brogan, bestselling author of A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives. Body-mind-spirit self-care is the heart of Brogan’s approach, and self-love is the lifeblood. “Self-love is quite elusive for most of us, perhaps because our selfesteem is contingent [upon it], and we only feel good about ourselves under certain circumstances. The daily choice to prioritize caring for oneself can ultimately lead to an experience of self-love and wholeness,” says Brogan, who compares a ritualized system of daily self-care that comes first to putting on the proverbial oxygen mask before attempting to meet the needs of others. “Balancing self-love and caring for others starts with recognizing and accepting that it’s possible for you to effectively do both. Self-love at the soul level is the catalyst for healing on all levels, which in turn drives our level of self-worth,” concurs Teigan Draig, a spiritual life coach and busy home-schooling mom in Spencerville, Ohio. She reminds us that putting our needs above the wants of others is not being selfish, but is an emotional necessity that helps women get out of the loop of self-defeatism and self-sabotage. “The first step to finding your fire is learning to love yourself, all of yourself. Self-care and selflove are a total wellness package.”
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Benefits of Self-Nourishment
Many psychologists agree that self-care can help to improve concentration, promote relaxation, fortify relationships and boost productivity. Most women crave more metime, but don’t know how to implement change. “Without a premise of self-care, we react based on stress patterns. We react with more tension, irritability, guilt and obligation. We say, ‘Yes’ when we want to say, ‘No’. However, when we take stock in our physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, we’re less reactive,” observes Hassler, who underscores self-care as an investment for life. “Most women have inner critics and a negative relationship with self. Self-care is essential so we can turn down the volume of the inner critic, stop peoplepleasing and make self-honoring choices.” Balancing motherhood and career or other obligations can leave many women running on empty and resentful. “We would never tell a loved one who desperately needed some TLC to get over it and just keep going. As busy women, when we don’t take the time to care for ourselves, the consequence is our children getting a mom who is preoccupied, anxious and disconnected,” says women’s life coach Veronica Paris, in San Diego. Catering to everyone’s desires and spreading ourselves too thin can backfire. Paris asks, “How do I want my kids to look back on me as a mother? By taking the time to self-care, we’re taking accountability for how we want to show up in our world rather than shapeshifting from one situation to the next. We can teach our children how to do the same.”
Our Emotions As Wellspring
For too many women, another common byproduct of self-neglect can be emotional numbing and feeling “flatlined”. A toxic or addictive relationship to food, alcohol or shopping can be a symptom of a deep need to nourish the self and give a voice to suppressed feelings. “One of our greatest challenges is that we’ve become disconnected from our deep seat of power, which is our capacity to feel,” says Brogan. “We’ve been enculturated to disregard our experience of feeling emotions, and because of this, it’s been reduced to a very narrow bandwidth.” Brogan believes that it is key for women to reestablish a connection to nature’s
Sometimes my daily me-time was only five minutes here or 10 minutes there, but it saved my sanity. ~Teigan Draig rhythms and their own feminine, fluid energy, as well as giving up the need to control. “I think it’s the work of many women to understand that we’re not here to meet the needs of everyone on the planet—and with our loved ones, it disempowers them as much as we’re feeling disempowered. We’re here to meet our own needs and then offer compassion and caring in a way that comes from a more boundaried space.”
SIMPLE SELF-CARE STRATEGIES 4 Schedule me-time on the calendar. 4 Unplug from gadgets. 4 Spend lunch breaks in the park. 4 Rest before hitting the wall of exhaustion. 4 Take 10 minutes to stretch and breathe in the morning. 4 Meditate in the shower; choose a luxurious, natural, body wash. 4 Wear your favorite jewelry. 4 Designate a beautiful tea cup or coffee mug to use on hectic work days. 4 Buy yourself flowers; take yourself out to lunch or a museum. 4 Sprinkle lavender, rose geranium or ylang ylang essential oil on your sheets. 4 Opt for a gentle workout instead of a high-intensity session when tired. 4 Choose a healthy breakfast. 4 Play, be silly and be a kid again. 4 Designate 15 to 20 minutes after the workday to color, doodle or journal. 4 Listen to your favorite music during commuting or cleaning the house. 4 Abandon perfectionism. 4 Connect to a higher power, however you define it, even if it is inner peace.
Hassler affirms that when women are fully present, every aspect of life can be viewed through a clearer lens. “Self-care helps us tap into our super power, which is our intuition, and by doing that, we know what we need and act on that.”
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Beginning the day with self-care can be as simple as taking the time to meditate and breathe deeply for a minute or two before getting out of bed and opting for a healthier breakfast. Feeding our senses and feasting on what gives us joy can be a way of life. “Self-care does not necessarily have to involve time; it’s a way of being,” says Hassler. “The more time we spend on self-care tells the subconscious mind that we’re worth it.” Draig suggests setting personal boundaries, and part of this means reserving time for ourselves. “When I became a new mother, I was running on fumes. Sometimes my daily me-time was only five minutes here or 10 minutes there, but it saved my sanity. Learn to schedule selfcare time in your calendar as you would anything else,” she says, noting, “My house was not always spotless, but it was a trade I was willing to make so I could take care of myself and be a better mother.” Being innovative can be an ally. “Ten minutes walking the dog or taking the baby out in a stroller can become 10 minutes spent saying positive self-affirmations,” suggests Paris. “That 15-minute drive can be spent deep breathing instead of listening to the news on the radio.” Blooming into our best possible self is returning to our essence. “It’s about taking off the masks, no longer living according to expectations and other people. It’s about radical self-acceptance,” says Hassler. Each decade poses an invitation to grow and commit to self-nourishment. “There will be days where you feel like you can’t get the hang of it, but you’ll arrive, and when you do, no matter what age you are, it can be magical,” Draig says. Marlaina Donato is a composer and author of several books in women’s spirituality and holistic health. Connect at AutumnEmbersMusic.com. May 2019
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he U.S. Surgeon General’s warning on implant illness (BII) associated with both cigarettes hasn’t prevented individuals silicone and saline implants. The FDA first sounded the alarm from smoking, nor has the U.S. Food about the rare lymphoma in 2011, linking and Drug Administration (FDA) list of risks it to implants with textured, Velcro-like and complications associated with breast outer shells. In February, the federal agency implants kept women from undergoing volissued a letter to healthcare providers untary breast augmentation. Since 1997, the seeking to increase awareness “about an number of saline- and silicone-filled breast association between all breast implants, implant surgeries has tripled. According to regardless of filling or texture,” and BIAthe National Center for Health Research ALCL. On the issue of BII and other prob(NCHR), more than 400,000 women and lems reported by women with implants, the teenagers undergo breast implant surgeries FDA has remained largely silent, suggesting every year, with 75 percent for augmentation that “studies would need to be larger and of healthy breasts and 25 percent for reconlonger than these conducted so far.” struction after mastectomies. However, the number of women The marked increase in surgeries with implants reporting health problems implanting these Class III “high risk” has prompted the FDA to demand that medical devices includes many women two manufacturers of the devices conduct that undergo procedures to replace old proper long-term health studies. The implants that have broken or caused agency sent out letters in March warning other problems. An estimated 40,000 U.S. of deficiencies in FDA-required research women a year have the surgery to remove and the possibility that their products the implants entirely. These “explants” could be taken off the market. stem from a variety of issues, from rupThe move is considered to be a victory ture or delayed wound healing to broken for patient activism. Facebook.com/groups/ implants that have caused breast pain, HealingBreastImplantIllness has become capsule contracture, spontaneous deflaa sanctuary for more than 68,000 women tion, breast lesion, infection, wrinkling/ that report a range of symptoms associated scalloping and necrosis. with BII. Nicole Daruda, of Vancouver Another reason for removal is the Island, Canada, says she created the group growing concern about the reported incidence of breast implant-associated ana- to support women that visited her website, natural awakenings August 2016 HealingBreastImplantIllness.com, where7she plastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL), told her personal BII story that began with a treatable T-cell lymphoma, and breast
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implant surgery in 2005. “I never anticipated an avalanche of women’s stories about the symptoms that I endured before having my explant surgery in 2015.” After hearing from other women, Daruda felt affirmed in her suspicions that implants had caused her fatigue, brain fog, memory loss, headaches, joint and muscle pain, hair loss, recurring infections, swollen lymph nodes, rashes, irritable bowel syndrome and problems with thyroid and adrenal glands. “I believe that various doctors pigeonholed my symptoms into the category of autoimmune disorders because few general practitioners are aware of BII.” Diana Hoppe, M.D., a board-certified OB/GYN in Encinitas, California, never heard of BII until earlier this year. “Doctors rely on published, evidence-based study results, and while there are none linking connective tissue disorders and breast implants, I suspect that the outcomes of studies conducted by breast implant manufacturers are equally as suspicious as the outcomes of studies done by the manufacturers of cigarettes.” One longtime BII combatant says, “My body mounted an all-out war, in the form of a foreign body immune response.” She learned about BII from Tinyurl.com/ BreastImplantIllness, but is unable to afford the explant surgery that would remove the apparently toxic invaders. NCHR reports that at the time of explant surgery, approximately three out of five women have had implants and their unhealthy symptoms for 10 years or more. After explant surgery, 89 percent of the women report improvement. However, explant surgery is just the first step. Daruda used chelation and the protocols of Gerson Therapy, a natural treatment that activates the body’s ability to heal itself through an organic, plant-based diet, raw juices, coffee enemas and supplements. “It took me four years to recuperate,” she says. “It didn’t take that long to know the lesson I wanted to share with other women: Self-love and self-worth are more important than society’s false concepts of beauty. The essence of who we are is not tied to any body part.” Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings. Connect at ItsAllAboutWe.com.
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ne of the best ways to protect and preserve our precious eyesight is to focus on food. In general, the same plant-based, antioxidant-rich diets that defend against heart disease and cancer also contribute to eye health by reducing the risk of cataracts and macular degeneration—the two most common agerelated causes of vision loss. However, two specific nutrients— lutein and zeaxanthin—deserve special attention. These compounds uniquely concentrate in the macula, the centrally located part of the retina responsible for visual acuity, and are most vulnerable to oxidative damage from light exposure. Both are members of the carotenoid family, a large group of powerful antioxidant nutrients found mostly in fruits and vegetables, especially those with dark green, deep yellow, red and orange pigments. According to the National Eye Institute and the American Optometric Association, lutein and zeaxanthin help absorb damaging ultraviolet light from the sun, as well as blue light from computer screens, digital devices and LEDs. “Think of lutein as a sort of sunblock,” says Elizabeth Johnson, research associate
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professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition and Science Policy at Tufts University, in Boston. Speaking at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics annual meeting in Washington, D.C., last fall, Johnson described the yellow macular pigments— lutein and zeaxanthin—as “internal sunglasses” that protect the eyes’ photoreceptor cells. “Yellow pigment absorbs blue light,” Johnson explains. The greater our macular pigment density, the more protection we have against light damage, and the better our visual function. As a bonus, macular pigment density also aligns with improved academic performance and cognitive function across our lifespan, reports Naiman Khan, Ph.D., a registered dietitian and director at the Body Composition and Nutritional Neuroscience Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Because lutein is actively transported into breast milk, Johnson suspects the compound is important to infant eye and brain health. Despite solid scientific evidence confirming the benefits of lutein and zeaxanthin, there is no official recommended daily allowance. Johnson explains that Americans typically consume less than two milligrams
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per day, falling short of levels needed to enhance visual and brain function and slow the progression of age-related eye diseases. Her advice: Eat foods that provide between six to 10 milligrams of lutein and two milligrams of zeaxanthin each day. Dark green leafy vegetables, including kale, spinach and collard greens, provide the highest amounts of lutein and zeaxanthin, especially when cooked. For example, one cup of cooked kale or spinach delivers more than 20 milligrams of lutein and zeaxanthin, whereas one cup of raw spinach contains just under four milligrams. Johnson explains that cooking breaks down plant cell walls, making the carotenoids more bio-available. Plus, because lutein and zeaxanthin are fat-soluble, lower amounts found in avocadoes (0.4 milligrams in one medium fruit) are better absorbed. Further, simply adding an avocado or oil-based dressing to raw, dark leafy green salads will increase intestinal absorption. The same is true for egg yolks (0.2 milligrams per large egg). In a study of 33 older adults, published in The Journal of Nutrition, researchers found that consumption of one egg a day for five weeks significantly increased blood levels of lutein and zeaxanthin without raising cholesterol levels. According to the National Eye Institute and their Age-Related Eye Disease Studies (AREDS), additional nutrients that benefit eye health include vitamins C and E, and omega-3 fatty acids.
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Eat the “rainbow”. Choose a variety of colorful, organic fruits and vegetables daily; they are rich in eye-protecting carotenoids, flavonoids and vitamin C. Whole grains, nuts and seeds provide vitamin E, and fatty, cold-water fish such as sardines, salmon, tuna and mackerel are excellent sources of omega-3 fatty acids. Vegan sources of omega-3s include walnuts, ground flax, hemp and chia seeds, or microalgae supplements.
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Stay informed: National Eye Institute, nei.nih.gov; AREDS studies: nei.nih.gov/ areds2/patientfaq. Melinda Hemmelgarn, the “food sleuth”, is an award-winning registered dietitian, writer and nationally syndicated radio host based in Columbia, MO. Reach her at FoodSleuth@ gmail.com. Tune into Food Sleuth Radio through iTunes, Stitcher and KOPN.org.
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assage is often emotional distress, the Like a perfect associated body has one objective: dance partner, a with spa-like get us to safety. Yet, many skilled bodywork pampering, yet it is also an times, the amygdala—the effective therapy for reduc- practitioner follows part of the brain that ing physical and emotional the nervous system plays a key role in this pain. Bodywork can lower and helps the client process—becomes hyper blood pressure and reduce alert and falsely perceives access sources stress hormones, which in danger when there is none. of trauma. turn helps to balance blood Trauma becomes hardsugar and boost immunity. wired into the nervous ~Lissa Wheeler A surge of the feel-good system. Pain syndromes neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine and tension are common symptoms. No matter what the pattern for handling is also a natural perk of rubdowns. On the emotional level, massage thertrauma, it takes a lot of work for the body to apy can offer profound benefits for anyone repress emotions, and it will create tension experiencing acute grief or the effects of a in the form of “armoring” to defend against traumatic past. A Swedish study published unwanted feelings. “Trauma is a physiological in the Journal of Clinical Nursing shows that experience. Body tension that results from bereaved individuals that received 25-minunresolved trauma will not respond to only ute hand and/or foot massages once a week releasing muscle tension,” explains Lissa for eight weeks felt greater comfort and Wheeler, author of Engaging Resilience: Heal were more capable of coping with stress. the Physical Impact of Emotional Trauma: A Guide for Bodywork Practitioners. The Body’s Pain Languagenatural awakenings Wheeler’s Medford, Massachusetts, August 2016 When the “fight-or-flight” stress response practice focuses on releasing emotional7 is activated in the presence of danger or patterns locked in tissue memory. “When
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Swedish massage, Thai massage and shiatsu are all ideal treatments for chronic pain, grief and emotional imprints locked within the body’s cellular consciousness. CranioSacral Therapy (CST) offers a gentler alternative. “CranioSacral Therapy can unravel cellular stories and assist in freeing repressed or preverbal emotions from childhood,” says Seattle-based CST therapist Barbara Coon. “Experiences are held in the body. Stress and muscular tension activate the vagus nerve, and CST focuses on calming [it].” The vagus nerve facilitates communication between the brain and the heart, lungs and gut. Coon attests to the modality’s body-centered support for reducing anxiety, depression, panic attacks, memory loss, sleep disturbances and grief. “Some people respond well to deep tissue work, while others do better with the gentleness of CranioSacral Therapy,” says Wheeler. “Like a perfect dance partner, a skilled bodywork practitioner follows the nervous system and helps the client access sources of trauma.”
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Clinical aromatherapy and therapeutic sound can also play a vital role in emotional healing, especially when combined with bodywork. Kelli Passeri, a massage therapist and owner of Sound and Stone Massage, in Pittsburg, Kansas, utilizes a subwoofer speaker beneath her massage table so clients can feel the vibrations of the music. “I play music recorded in specific frequencies that align with the body and the chakras or energy centers to help rebalance the energy body,” says Passeri, who also uses rose quartz crystals in her hot stone sessions. She relies on aromatherapy blends that promote opening on both physical and emotional levels. Passeri has observed common pain patterns in her clients that often don’t have a physical cause. “The sacrum tends to hold on to lifelong traumatic emotions from childhood, and the shoulders tend to reflect more current emotional blockages and issues,” she says, adding, “I encourage my clients to open up or cry because it’s a healthy thing to do. There’s no need for embarrassment and is totally okay.” Healing on any level might take time, but allowing the body’s stories to be witnessed without judgement is key. “The good news is that when trauma is worked through, the whole body is much more resilient and has a greater capacity to live life fully,” Wheeler says.
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Gardening for Kids The Fun of Growing Their Own
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t’s May, and the temperature is rising, as is the sap and green shoots. It’s the perfect time to involve kids in growing their own garden that will get them outdoors, teach them planning and perseverance, and develop their motor, literacy and scientific skills. A South Korean study found that gardening provides both high- and moderateintensity exercise for kids. It builds good eating habits, too: A British study of 46 9- and 10-year-olds found that they ate 26 percent more vegetables and fruit after growing a school garden, and a University of Florida study of 1,351 college students showed them more likely to eat veggies if they had gardened as children. For the most gratifying results, give kids a sense of ownership. “Let them make the decisions and be in charge of the care of the garden as much as developmentally possible,” advises Sarah Pounders, senior education specialist at KidsGardening.org, in Burlington, Vermont.
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Getting Started
Order some seed catalogues, look online—or better yet, take a child to the local garden nursery. Let them decide what to grow. Their choices are as diverse as their interests. Veggies, flowers and plants that draw butterflies each have their own appeal. Some, like sunflowers, radishes and lettuce, are fast-growing, offering quick gratification. Or, they can choose a theme. “If your child likes Italian food, plant tomatoes and basil. If they enjoy Mexican food, then peppers and cilantro. For flowers—zinnias and cosmos—let them make flower arrangements from early summer into the fall,” suggests Susan Brandt, of Bristow, Virginia, co-founder of the gardening site BloomingSecrets.com. Visiting a plant nursery offers the perfect opportunity to put kids on the path to healthy living. Point out and discuss the differences between organic and nonorganic seeds and between chemical fertilizers containing Roundup—labeled “Keep Out
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A three-foot-by-three-foot plot is an ideal size for a child’s garden, as long as it gets lots of sunshine. If living in an urban area, go with pots of soil in a sunny window.
Get the Right Tools
For young kids with short attention spans, small plastic spades, rakes and hoes might work. But older kids need hardier tools. Get them properly fitted garden gloves, plus sunhats and sunscreen.
Plant the Seeds
Help them read and interpret the seed package directions, if necessary, and use a ruler to measure proper spacing. “I always try to have a mix of plants that start from seed and from transplants, so that kids can have both immediate and delayed gratification,” says Pounders.
Water, Weed and Mulch
Show them how to use the watering can or hose properly, usually watering only when the soil is dry to a depth of one inch. They can mix their own non-toxic pesticide out of vinegar and salt, and spread such organic mulches as straw, newspaper, grass clippings and leaves to discourage weeds.
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“They can look at the soil to see all the living creatures in it, which is especially fun
through a microscope,” says Dixie Sandborn, an extension specialist at Michigan State University. “They can learn about vermiculture by making a worm bin and feeding the worms their table scraps.” With a ruler, they can measure the growth of various plants and create a chart comparing rates. By taking photos or drawing pictures on a daily or weekly basis, they can compile an album, along with their commentary on weather patterns.
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“Let them add personal touches like stepping stones, signs and other decorations that let them express their personality in their garden space,” says Pounders. Help them build a scarecrow, bird feeder, toad house, bird bath, sundial or a tent. Make a teepee or small enclosure and cover it with flowers, vines or climbing beans.
Harvest the Crop
After picking ripe vegetables, kids can find recipes and prepare snacks or a dish; arrange plucked flowers in vases and take photos; do craft activities with seeds, plants and flowers, like making potpourri or framing dried flowers; or throw a garden-themed party with favors that include herbs or seed packets. “You could have a ‘pa-jam-a’ party. Kids could wear their pajamas, pick berries, and make jam to take home,” suggests Sandborn. Ronica A. O’Hara is a Denver-based freelance health writer. Connect at OHaraRonica@gmail.com.
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KidsGardening.org: Designed for schools and families, this site has a wealth of kid-friendly information on everything from seeds to pollinators to creating pirate gardens.
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The Mother Our Souls Need Connecting With the Energy That Made Us by Christiane Northrup
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his Mother’s Day, I want to tell you about a different way to think about your mother and about yourself—a way that is deeply true and liberating, no matter what is going on with your mother. On a soul level, we’re old friends with our mothers. And they signed up for assisting us on our souls’ journeys big time—by being willing to take on the role of our mother. And no matter how well they did or didn’t do that job, we have a job, too: to realize that though we might not have had the mother we wanted, we all got the mother our souls needed. What’s more, every single one of us can connect right now with the mother energy that made all of our bodies in the first place—the Earth herself. It has been said that when you lavish your attention on the Earth—on a flower, or a stream or any aspect of nature—that energy loves you right back. In the book series The Ringing Cedars, Anastasia refers to the land you live on and love as, “Love dissolved in
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space.” You can feel this when you travel to parks and gardens, farms and yards that have been loved by those who live there. This mothering energy is available to each of us from the Earth and from Mother Nature—no matter what has happened with your biological mother. So here is my prescription for a glorious Mother’s Day. Call your mother—in spirit, if she is no longer in a body—or if speaking with her directly is too painful. Here’s a special prayer: “With my Spirit, I send Divine Love to my mother’s Spirit.” That’s it. Just say this prayer. With your whole heart. And let go of the outcome. Happy Mother’s Day. Christiane Northrup, M.D., is a leading authority in the field of women’s health and wellness. The full text of this excerpt, reprinted with permission, appears at DrNorthrup.com. © Christiane Northrup, Inc. All rights reserved.
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handling that tabulation of a sale is a health hazard that contributes to landfills. Certainly, some receipts are required for tax records and product returns, but the vast majority serve no future purpose; there’s also a better and safer option than paper. Treehugger.com reports the annual waste from receipts in the U.S. totals 686 million pounds, and that skipping receipts would save 12 billion pounds of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of 1 million cars on the road. The problem is getting worse as many retail outlets include special offers and other promotional information on receipts, making them longer and the corresponding amount of paper used greater. The Ecology Center, an educational nonprofit located in San Juan Capistrano, California, estimates that 93 percent of paper receipts are coated with Bisphenol-A (BPA) or Bisphenol-S (BPS), endocrine
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ith the explosion of cannabidiol (CBD) products on the human medical scene, many pet owners are looking into this hemp plant derivative as a natural means of medicating their fourlegged family members. A study conducted by the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in Ithaca, New York, found that CBD can be effective in treating some of the same ailments in pets as it does in humans. “I’ve used CBD on dogs and cats suffering from arthritis, anxiety and seizures,” says Angie Krause, DVM, a veterinarian with Boulder Holistic Vet, in Colorado. “I’ve even used CBD to treat cats with chronic respiratory infections.” Unlike CBD from marijuana, which in most cases is a Schedule I narcotic that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration considers highly subject to abuse, CBD from industrial hemp contains less than 0.3 percent of the psychoactive component THC. It is legal under federal law and can be sold nationwide, subject to state regulations. However, choosing the right CBD product is complicated by the number of confusing options. “There are so many products on the shelves with different concentrations and formulations,” says Krause, who considers the extraction method used during production to be one of the most important factors. She favors CO2 (carbon dioxide) extraction over solvent extraction methods: “CO2 leaves no residue behind that could harm the bodies of small animals such as dogs and cats.”
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Within three days, it was like I had a new dog. She no longer destroys things, she is calm, she is more engaged with her environment. ~Cindy Hesse Stephen Cital, a veterinary technician in San Jose, California, co-founded the Facebook group Veterinary Cannabis Academy. He agrees that the purity of the extraction method is significant. He also notes that price is not necessarily an indicator of quality. “A 30-cc bottle of CBD could cost $70 at a concentration of 700 milligrams [7 mg per cc]. However, it’s possible to find the same volume at the same price at a concentration of 1,000 milligrams [10 mg per cc].” Some products don’t contain CBD at all, only hemp extract, Cital explains. “For people who don’t understand the labeling, this can be very misleading.” CBD is one of 104 cannabinoids found in both industrial hemp and marijuana plants. Full-spectrum hemp extracts contain the entire profile of cannabinoids, including trace amounts of THC. Broad-spectrum hemp extracts contain everything but the THC. Cital says
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calendar of events THURSDAY, MAY 2 NLP Practitioner Certification Training – May 2-5. Four-day training. Described as a user manual for your conscious and unconscious mind, neurolinguistic programming is used by many successful people to bring about immediate and effective changes in life. You’ll receive hands-on training, demonstrations, tools and techniques and an action plan to put into practice as a certified practitioner following the sessions. $144 with Promo Code NATURAL. Courtyard by Marriott, Portland City Center. Info & register at EmpowermentPartnership. com, 800-800-6463, Info@NLP.com.
FRIDAY, MAY 3 Rest Deeply - Yoga Nidra and Restorative Yoga – 7:30-9pm. Yoga Nidra, or Yogic Sleep, is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping. It is a state in which the body is completely relaxed, and the practitioner becomes systematically and increasingly aware of the inner wisdom of the body and world that exists deep within us. Based on ancient teachings of meditation, IRest, a type of Yoga Nidra, is an evidence based transformative practice that leads to psychological, physical, and spiritual healing and well-being. Regular practice has been shown to reduce depression, anxiety, fear, insomnia, pain, interpersonal relations, stress, PTSD. Heart and Healing Wellness @ Sellwood Yoga, 7970 SE 13th Avenue, Portland. 503-539-5552. Register at https://www.carrieboothhearthealingyoga.org/ upcoming-events Lightworker Movie Night – 7-10:30pm. This is an opportunity for family and friends to have fun in a community of lightworkers. We watch films that inspire us on our path of healing and personal empowerment. Free. Incite Healing Center, 6940 N Michigan Ave, Portland. Matthew Koren, 503765-6542, Matt@SpiritInTransiton.com. Calendar. SpiritInTransition.com.
SATURDAY, MAY 4 Unleashing Her – noon-2pm. Shakti Sadhana is a transformational yogic experience dedicated to Shakti, the feminine primal force. Incorporating gentle movement and intention setting exercises to invigorate the senses. We will use meditation, mantra, visualization, and breath-work to invoke Shakti and allow Her to express through us. $25. Elk Rock Yoga, 10560 SE Main St, Milwaukie. Elk Rock Team, 503-303-4078, ElkRockTeam@Gmail. com, ElkRockWellness.com.
SUNDAY, MAY 5 MBSR Spring Course – Sun. evenings with Ryan Kenny. Reduce Stress, Make Space for Well-Being. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) infuses the energy of mindfulness into your everyday life by systematically training the mind to break free from cycles of stress, anxiety, exhaustion,
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and unhappiness. This comprehensive training program teaches skills and techniques that tap into your deepest resources to develop an innate sense of wellness, balance and inner freedom. Sundays, May 5 - June 23, 6:45-8:45pm. (also available Wed. May 8 - June 26, 7-9pm). All-Day Retreat: Sat. June 15. Pause Meditation Studio, Register: PauseMeditation.org/mbsr. Sound Bath with Shalom Mayberg – 12-1:30pm. Shalom’s sound baths are an enjoyable and accessible tool to release stress and provide one with an overall feeling of peacefulness, balance, and well being. Lay comfortably on your back and allow these seven, pure crystal quartz bowls to take you on a journey beyond time and space. $25. Elk Rock Yoga, 10560 SE Main St, Milwaukie. Elk Rock Team, 503-303-4078, ElkRockTeam@Gmail.com, ElkRockWellness.com.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 MBSR Spring Course – Wed. evenings with Ryan Kenny. Reduce Stress, Make Space for Well-Being. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) infuses the energy of mindfulness into your everyday life by systematically training the mind to break free from cycles of stress, anxiety, exhaustion, and unhappiness. This comprehensive training program teaches skills and techniques that tap into your deepest resources to develop an innate sense of wellness, balance and inner freedom. Wed, May 8 - June 26, 7-9pm. (also available Sun. May 5 - June 23, 6:45-8:45pm). All-Day Retreat: Sat. June 15. Pause Meditation Studio, Register: PauseMeditation.org/mbsr.
FRIDAY, MAY 10 A Blow to the Head: Joyce Hawkes Shares the Story of Her Transformative Near Death Experience – 6:30-8:30pm. NDE’er Joyce Hawkes, PhD, was an atheist and a busy scientist in 1976 when a very heavy leaded glass window fell on her head. The experience was a classic NDE, but she had never heard of these events, nor would she have believed such an experience could be real or change anybody’s life. Join her as she shares her remarkable story. $20. New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-224-4929, NRBEvents@ Gmail.com, NewRenBooks.com.
SATURDAY, MAY 11 Light Journeys Metaphysical Healing and Psychic Faire – 1-7pm. Come at 1pm to meet the practitioners & vendors and experience the free audience readings portion. Then enjoy our classes & various gifted energy healers, psychic readers & vendors at their individual stations for signup and fees. Plenty of free parking in the lot and the street. Free admission. The Gem, 1110 NE Glisan St, Portland. Sharon Kumara, 503-701-7687. Facebook. com/healingfaire. Meetup.com/Light-JourneysHealing-and-Psychic-Fair. Online Class: Conscious Online Dating with Intuitive Eye Readings – 3-5:30pm. We choose
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partners by their eyes; subconscious patterning can influence or control our choices. What if you chose dates consciously? Recognize your subconscious, problematic attraction patterns, discover how to hack them, attract and be attracted to aligned soul partners and receive many tips for dating online, consciously. Great for newbies and experienced online daters. $30. Also 4/28, 5/31. New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. Laureli Shimayo, 720-352-2434, Laureli@ThriveTypes. com. ThriveTypes.com/conscious-dating.
SUNDAY, MAY 12 Drumming Circle for Heart Connection – 9:4510:30am. Come join us for the powerful effect of the drum circle. Bring your own drum & any other hand instruments you wish, but not required. Join in with the healing power and creative energy of drumming & free flow music. Free. The Center does accept Love donations if you are moved to do so. The Unity Center, 20255 Willamette Drive, West Linn. Sharon McGrath, 503-697-9765, TheUnityCenter@ WorldHealing.org, WorldHealing.org. Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Changing Your Life – Two-Part Series: Sun May 12, 5-7:30 and Sun May 19, 2-4:30pm. Based on the work of Mike Dooley, this is a two-part workshop designed to support you in transforming your life from the inside out. This process will enable you to claim full responsibility for your future so that you can create major life changes. This method recognizes that “thoughts become things” and that imagination is the gift that can bring love, health, abundance and happiness into our lives. $55/both days. New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-224-4929, NRBEvents@Gmail.com, NewRenBooks.com.
TUESDAY, MAY 14 Gong Sound Healing by Mahkah – 7-8:30pm. This Gong Sound Healing is accompanied with applying ancient and modern tools like tapping, shaking and breath to assist with moving desired and undesired energy through the body. All you have to do is relax! Mahkah allows Reiki energy and other energy frequencies of Divine Light and Love to move through him and into the gong. The gong takes these energies and shares them through ultimate healing and growth. $20. New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-224-4929, NRBEvents@Gmail.com, NewRenBooks.com.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 Intuitive Eye Readings – Free Samples & Sessions – 4-8:30pm. Eyes are the window to your soul – and your soulmates. When Laureli reads the energy shining through your eyes, you’ll feel immediately, deeply and fully seen. She describes your soul with ThriveTypes, archetypes for clarifying your life purpose, tuning your career path, hiring/ managing/selling, synergizing relationships, finding soulmates, avoiding roadblocks and growing personally, professionally and spiritually. Sessions $35-$125. New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW
23rd Ave, Portland. Laureli Shimayo, 720-3522434, Laureli@ThriveTypes.com, LaureliShimayo. com. ThriveTypes.com.
THURSDAY, MAY 16 Alchemy for Manifestation: A Night of Messages with 3 Intuitives – 6:30-8:30pm. Everyone’s casting all the time. Harness your power to practice sacred magic: cast what you really want. We’ll offer readings of the audience. Ask us anything. We’ll share a precious answer with you. You’ll also hear and glean from what we share with others. HeatherMist.com: Akashic Records, Inner Magic Coach. LaureliShimayo.com: Intuitive Eye Reader, Body Psychology Coach. KirstinIntuitive. com: Powerful Intuitive. $12. New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. Laureli Shimayo, 720-352-2434, Laureli@ThriveTypes. com. MetaphysicalEmpowermentEvents.com.
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be held for 3-5 minutes, allowing the body time to relax and sink deeper and deeper into the pose. Heart and Healing Wellness @ Elk Rock Yoga, 10560 SE Main Street, Downtown Milwaukie. 503-539-5552. Register at CarrieBoothHeartHealingYoga.org/ upcoming-events.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 Awaken Thyself – 7pm. This class is full of lineage tools and insights to support your evolutionary process and to answer deep questions about who you are and why you’re here. The world is waking up and we are here to support your process. Will you join us in awakening the world by first awakening thyself? $55. Incite Healing Center, 6940 N Michigan Ave, Portland. Matthew Koren, 503-765-6542, Matt@ SpiritInTransition.com, SpiritInTransition.com.
FRIDAY, MAY 31 THRIVE Portland Community Potluck – 6-10pm. At THRIVE Pacific Northwest community
potluck, we believe asking deeper questions triggers creative conversations later which can change our culture and experience living in this world. Join us! Free. Incite Healing Center 6940 N Michigan Ave, Portland. Matthew Koren, 503-765-6542, Matt@ SpiritInTransition.com. SpiritInTtransition.com.
plan ahead Feldenkrais for Health and Well-Being – Jun 8, Sat. 1:30-4pm. Come explore The Feldenkrais Method as vehicle and support for mindful living. You’ll learn tools to bring greater awareness and ease to everyday activities, including yoga and exercise. Any specific challenges you’d like to overcome or beneficial practices you’d like to enhance? Let Alice know and they’ll be addressed! Yoga Pearl, 925 NW Davis. Alice Boyd, CFP, 503-525-9642. Info@YogaPearl.com, YogaPearl.com.
Mantra Meditation for Beginners – 11:30am1pm. Are you ready to bring meditation into your life? Learn a simple yet powerful mantra meditation technique that you can practice every day. This ancient practice originates from the yogic teachings of India and utilizes mantra (sacred sound), breath, and concentration to help you access a deep state of peace, bliss, freedom and expansion. $20. New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-224-4929, NRBEvents@Gmail.com, NewRenBooks.com. Metaphysical Empowerment & Wellness Fair – noon-8pm. 50 Vendors, Free Intuitive Panel noon1pm. 3 simultaneous Free Talks all day. Experience 50+ readers, healers, vendors: crystals/jewelry, mediumship, astrology, tarot, medical intuition, sound/energy/shamanic healing, bodywork, psychic readings, spirituality, reflexology. Free admission, samples, parking & snacks. Also Sept 7, Nov 2. Unity of Portland, 4525 SE Stark St, Portland. Laureli Shimayo, 720-352-2434, Laureli@ThriveTypes. com. MetaphysicalEmpowermentEvents.com.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 22 Awaken Thyself – 7pm. This class is full of lineage tools and insights to support your evolutionary process and to answer deep questions about who you are and why you’re here. The world is waking up and we are here to support your process. Will you join us in awakening the world by first awakening thyself? $55. Incite Healing Center, 6940 N Michigan Ave, Portland. Matthew Koren, 503-765-6542, Matt@ SpiritInTransition.com, SpiritInTransition.com.
SUNDAY, MAY 26 Yin Yoga And The Meridians - For Emotional Balance and Deep Stretching – noon-1:45pm. Go deeper… inspired by gentleness, precision and “letting go”, a yin practice is designed to bypass the muscular system and target the connective tissues - to improve flexibility and increase circulation in the joints. Yin postures are floor postures that may
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Second Sunday Mindfulness Meditations – 9-10am, second Sunday of the month. Mindfulness reduces stress and supports our capacity to respond to life with wisdom and kindness. These monthly drop-ins feature guided meditations and mindfulness talks. All levels welcome. $16 discounts with passes & memberships. Unfold Yoga, 2370 SE 37th Ave Portland. Ashley Dahl, MSW, CMT-P, Info@ OpenSpaceMindfulness.com, OpenSpaceMindfulness.com.
Healing from Depression & Anxiety Support Group – 6:30-9pm. Experience the healing power of community. Learn practical tools and coping strategies that will create wellness and reduce your symptoms of depression and anxiety. Conveniently located. Sliding scale fee. 503-544-9248. DouglasBloch@gmail.com. tinyurl.com/lnjfuvk.
“Loving Kindness” Meditation Group – 10am1pm. Fourth Sunday. With Paul M. Rakoczy, Reiki Master. Experience group meditation with meditators and beginners alike. There will be multiple sits with discussion in between. Bring a sit cushion; chairs available. 3939 NE Hancock, Ste 205, Portland. 503-997-8611. RSVP to PMR1354@hotmail. com. PaulRakoczyTherapist.com/groups. Feel like you need a friend? – 2-3:30pm. The Ascended Masters would like to be your friend. They can help you with your health, relationships, spiritual life, job, etc. (The Ascended Masters are the saints robed in white mentioned in the bible). Topics for study include karma, reincarnation, angels, twin flames, the Ascension and the Violet Flame. Mar 3 &17, Hillsdale Library, 1525 SW Sunset Blvd, Portland. Mar 10, Tualatin Library, 18878 SW Martinazzi Ave, Tualatin. Mar 24, Belmont Library, 1038 SE Ceasar Chavez Blvd, Portland. Info at 503-839-2400. SummitLighthouse.org. Yin Yoga – 7-8:15 pm. This all-levels, relaxed floor practice focuses on moving prana–life-force and breath–through areas of our bodies where we tend to hold chronic tension. Passive postures that target shoulders, back and hips are propped, supported and held for 45 seconds to 3 minutes. These longer held poses encourage fascial release, increased circulation and improved joint mobility. A strong emphasis on breath and pranayama practices aid in reducing anxiety and stress of daily life. DAYA Foundation, 5210 SW Corbett, Portland. 503-552-9642. Info@ DayaFoundation.org. DayaFoundation.org.
The Movement Center Community Meditation Program – 7-8pm. Join us for chanting, satsang and guided meditation in our beautiful meditation hall. Community yoga ($5) before meditation, from 5:45-6:50pm. The Movement Center, 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland. 503-231-0383. Info@TheMovementCenter.com. TheMovementCenter.com.
tuesdays Relax & Restore with Yoga Nidra – 5:45-6:45pm. Through supported and guided relaxation, we’ll gently release accumulated tension, activating our body’s innate capacity to self-heal and restore. All levels, all bodies welcome. $16 drop-in, discount with passes & memberships. Unfold Yoga, 2370 SE 37th Ave, Portland. Ashley Dahl, MSW, CMT-P, Info@OpenSpaceMindfulness.com, OpenSpaceMindfulness.com. Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement Class with Susan Marshall – 5:45-6:45pm. Bring greater ease into your daily movements: breathing, walking, turning, reaching, safer pelvic movement, freeing your back and more. $13 drop-in; other discounts may apply. The Movement Center Yoga Studio, 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland. 503-313-9813. Register at MCYoga.com/calendar. Susan.Marshall@ FeldenkraisPDX.com, FeldenkraisPDX.com. Healing from Depression & Anxiety Support Group – 6:30-9pm. See Monday listing for details.
wednesdays Qigong for Parkinsons – 1-2pm. Eight-week series runs March 6 thru May 1. Learn forms to develop a home practice and keep the energy flowing. Dropins welcome at $15; caregivers free. Parkinson’s Resource Center in Beaverton. 503-961-2242. RoseCityQigong.com.
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Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Class with Alice Boyd – 4-5pm. Explore mindful movement to refine your awareness and reconnect with your body’s natural capacity for efficiency and ease. Experience The Feldenkrais Method and learn to effort less! $15 drop in; 3 classes for $39; 5 classes for $55. Luminance, 3430 NE 41st Ave. Alice Boyd, CFP, 503-753-6437, Alice@AliceBoyd. com, AliceBoyd.com. Evening Reiki Share Group – 7-9:30pm. First Wednesday. With Paul M Rakoczy, Reiki Master. Share or exchange reiki energy with practitioners and beginners alike. No experience necessary to encounter the warm energy. Donations accepted. Please RSVP by email. Individual sessions and attunements by appointment. 3939 NE Hancock, Ste 205, Portland. 503-997-8611. PMR1354@hotmail. com. PaulRakoczyTherapist.com/groups.
thursdays Building Energy – 8:30-10am. After a variety of light warm-ups and stretches, we move into Qigong forms, series and Internal Alchemy in this class. Open to all levels. Enter the studio thru the side deck. $10. Awakenings Wellness Center, 1016 SE 12th. 503-961-2242. RoseCityQigong.com. Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement with Alice Boyd – 3:30-4:30pm. Explore mindful movement to refine your awareness and reconnect with your body’s natural capacity for efficiency and ease. Experience The Feldenkrais Method and learn to effort less! $15 drop in, 3 classes for $36. 5 classes for $55. Friendly House Community Center, 1737 NW 26th Ave (at Thurman St. Alice Boyd, CFP. 503-753-6437, Alice@AliceBoyd.com, AliceBoyd.com.
fridays Feldenkrais Awareness through Movement Class with Susan Marshall – 10:30-11:30am. Bring greater ease into your daily movements: breathing, walking, turning, reaching, safer pelvic movement, freeing your back and more. $13 dropin; other discounts may apply. The Movement Center Yoga Studio, 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland. 503-313-9813. Register at MCYoga.com/calendar. Susan.Marshall@FeldenkraisPDX.com, FeldenkraisPDX.com.
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Moving Meditation with Qigong – 8-9am. We begin our weekend by building strength, resilience and vitality using slow moving forms, breath, and intention. All are welcome. $10. Hawthorne Movement Center, 3942 SE Hawthorne, Portland. 503-961-2242. RoseCityQigong.com. Queer+ Yoga – 11:30am-12:45pm. Safe, accessible and inclusive, Queer+ Yoga is a luminous invitation to radical self acceptance and radiance. The practice of yoga allows us to move past that which limits our true range of expression. Grounded in mindfulness and focused on alignment, this all-levels flow is for all who identify as LGBTQIA+. Join us, in supportive community, as we journey onward to come into the light of our true selves. Donation $10-$15 per class. DAYA Foundation, 5210 SW Corbett, Portland. 503-552-9642. Info@DayaFoundation. org. DayaFoundation.org.
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Monthly Forecast
May 2019 © Liz Howell The sign of Taurus looks to shape and sustain much of what Aries has initiated in April. With the Sun moving through this fixed sign of the bull for the first 3 weeks of this month, we are looking to secure and stabilize our situation. The Taurus New Moon occurs on May 5 carrying the energies of an Aries/Taurus stellium indicating that we are not quite finished stoking the fire in our belly as we reach toward practical realization of our desires. As both commerce-concerned Mercury and then value-oriented Venus join the Sun in Taurus, they immediately encounter the unconventional energies of change-agent Uranus. This suggests that our approach to stabilization and security may need a fresh look and an updated approach. The Full Moon in Scorpio on May 18 challenges us to creatively consider our formulas for manifestation and our alchemical approach to transforming existing form in our lives into higher expressions of form as a necessary and inevitable evolutionary process.
Mantras and musings for the month of May: Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): Be tough in the way a blade of grass is: rooted, willing to lean, and at peace with what is around it. ~Natalie Goldberg Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): When you are willing to stop looking for something in thought, you find everything in silence. ~Gangaji Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 22): Transformation literally means going beyond your form. ~Wayne Dyer
A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future, but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. ~Honore de Balzac
Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): Know your worth. Then add tax. ~Anonymous Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21): The Truth is the only thing you’ll ever run into that has no agenda. ~Adyashanti Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19): With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world. ~Dalai Lama
Leo (Jul 23-Aug 22): You deserve exactly what you settle for. ~Anonymous
Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18): Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it. ~Dorothy M. Neddermeyer
Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): Transformation isn’t a future event. It’s a present day activity. ~Jillian Michaels
Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20): The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. ~Gilbert K. Chesterton
Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. ~Carl Jung
Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19): The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ~Marianne Williamson
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Emotion/Body Code Practitioner Lori Arveson 971-800-1560 LoriArveson@gmail.com ExpertPainHealing.com Lori specializes in relieving chronic pain. Lori uses the Emotion / Body Code system to identify and release trapped emotional energies caused by physical and emotional trauma, entities, toxins, pathogens, inherited emotional energies, and other manifestations that create imbalance in our bodies, causing chronic pain and disease that manifests in daily life.
HANDS OF FREEDOM HEALING/ QUANTUM-TOUCH®
Judie Maron-Friend, Certified QT Level I, II & Self Created Health Instructor/ Practitioner 8725 NE Broadway St, Portland 503-753-1590 JudieMaronFriend@gmail.com VitalityLink.com/p/hofh When one learns QuantumTouch®, during class students typically relieve 50% - 100% of each other’s pain. Not only do bones align with a light touch, inflammation reduces and healing accelerates. Often students experience dramatic and profound emotional release. Contact Judie to learn more or sign up for a class today and discover your power to heal.
GREEN BURIAL, FUNERAL & CREMATION CORNERSTONE FUNERAL SERVICES 18625 SE Bakers Ferry Road Boring, OR 97009 503-637-5020 CornerstoneFuneral.com Elizabeth@CornerstoneFuneral.com
Portland's first green funeral home, we proudly offer some of the most affordable prices in the area. Family owned and operated.
HEALTH INTUITIVE MEDIUM BE-JOY!
Readings By Phone or In-Person 1316 NW 23rd Ave, Portland 503-805-7403 Be-Joy.com
HOLISTIC WELLNESS COHESIVE THERAPY HEALING & REJUVENATION CENTER
2400 Broadway St, Vancouver WA CohesiveThearpy.org
Offering programs for motor vehicle, workman comp, weight loss detox programs, mind body spirit healing and rejuvenation. Accepting Blue Cross Blue Shield for Acupuncture and massage.
FELDENKRAIS FELDENKRAIS® CENTER OF PORTLAND
Susan Marshall, GCFP Laurelhurst Healing Arts Building 3059 NE Glisan St, Portland 503-313-9813 FeldenkraisPDX.com Improve neck, back, hip pain and more. Best selling author Norman Doidge, MD in The Brain’s Way of Healing, calls the Feldenkrais Method “applied neuroplasticity”—using your brain and nervous system for healing. Susan received a “Nattie” Award in the category Favorite Massage Therapist/Body Worker 2016, 2017 and 2018.”
HEALTH MATTERS
Constance Coquillette, MSW 971-404-5174 Lisa Fishman, MA 425-736-4784 HealthMattersNW.com Specializing in pr
Specializing in preventing/reversing disease and controlling weight with food.
ALICE BOYD FELDENKRAIS Alice Boyd, GCFP Feldenkrais Lessons in NW & NE Portland AliceBoyd.com Alice@AliceBoyd.com 503-753-6437
Constance Coquillette, MSW 971.404.5174
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SPIRITPATH TRANSFORMATIONAL SHAMANIC HEALING Liz Randol 505-204-0452 LizDragon2002@gmail.com Spiritpath-Healing.com
OREGON SCHOOL OF MASSAGE Training LMT’s for over 25 years 9500 SW Barbur Blvd, Portland 503-244-3420 OregonSchoolOfMassage.com
We offer massage and bodywork courses for aspiring massage therapists, licensed professionals and the general public.
Release the past, embrace the present and find your role in the Great Changes that are upon us. Tap the wisdom of the Higher Self/Divine Feminine/Great Spirit quickly with unique healing that taps into the Akashic records, past lives and trauma from this lifetime. Break through to the sacred truth in each being. Call for Free Consultation.
MATCHMAKING INTUITIVE EYE READINGS WITH THRIVETYPES®
SUPERIOR SPORTS NUTRITION & WEIGHT LOSS
Laureli Shimayo 720-352-2434 ThriveTypes.com
Ellen Gyberg, Holistic Nutrition Expert 360-601-0137 Superior-Nutriton.net
Conscious online dating, matchmaking. Life, Love, Leadership coaching. Hiring consulting, career path coaching, resume writing. By video and MetaphysicalEmpowermentEvents.com. LearnToReadEyes.com
HYPNOTHERAPY LOVING KINDNESS HYPNOSIS
Laney Coulter, BCH, CPHI, NLP, M.Ed BWRT Level 2 Practitioner 503-289-3614 LovingKindnessHypnosis.com
MINDFULNESS MEDITATION PAUSE MEDITATION STUDIO 213 SW Ash St #209, Portland 503-343-4831 PauseMeditation.org Connect@PauseMeditation.org
Reduce Stress, Make Space for Wellbeing. Train the mind to break free from cycles of stress, anxiety, exhaustion and unhappiness. Especially helpful for people seeking relief from high levels of stress, illness or pain.
LANDSCAPING BLOSSOM
1829 NE Alberta St, Ste 8 Portland, OR 97211 503-837-3557 Info@BlossomPdx.com BlossomPdx.com
Providing personalized, science based, efficient, biomechanically sound workouts designed to meet your immediate goals and focus on long-term health & wellness. Pearl location. No gym membership needed. Also mobile - I’ll come to you!
PETS MEAT & BONES CALIFORNIA, INC.
220 NW 8th Ave Portland, OR 97209 Hello@MeatAndBones.com MeatAndBones.com
Holistic raw food for happy & healthy dogs. We formulated our unique balanced blend that your dog will love eating and you will love feeding.
QIGONG Rose Allen Portland, OR 503-961-2242 RoseCityQigong.com
Qigong practice unlocks our life force energy and enhances our vital essence, while addressing the root causes of illness. Many are discovering the power to activate inner healing through these simple movements. The gentle forms are easily learned and provide proven health benefits. Rose is a Certified Instructor with 15 years of dedicated practice. Now is a great time to discover Qigong. All are welcome.
READERS
At Blossom, it is our goal to meet your landscape and construction needs while providing ecological and sustainable solutions for the environment.
ORGANIC SALONS REV!VE ORGANIC SALON
4460 SW Garden Home Rd, Portland 503-360-1324 ReviveOrganicSalonPDX.com
MASSAGE MIKI MORROW, LMT
Yaimayu Massage 201 SE 124th Ave, Ste 202 Vancouver, WA 98684 360-608-0135 MikiWaMassage.com Facebook.com/Yaimayu Lic. MA00025265
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MICHAEL HAYNES
NASM Certified Personal Trainer, NASM Sr. Fitness, Nutrition & Weight Loss Specialist 312-519-9270 Train_With_Mike@yahoo.com
ROSE CITY QIGONG
Clear emotional pain and create powerful inner resources. Stop smoking, eliminate excess weight, remove phobias, learn strategies to control anger, stress and much more. Empower yourself with hypnosis! Be the person your dog thinks you are!
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Revive is an organic and ammonia-free salon promoting beauty, wellness and green living by being free of chemicals, damaging toxins, and harmful carcinogens.
TAROT READINGS Dynamic, Insightful, Empowering
Crystal Chakra Healings Resolve Major Life Issues Now Gina Crystal 360-984-6837 RadiantCrystal@att.net GinaCrystal.com
REIKI VICKI MCARDLE
Usui/Holy Fire Reiki Master Portland, OR 503-939-4357 VickiMcArdle.com
RETREAT CENTER ANANDA CENTER AT LAURELWOOD Retreat, Conference and Event Center 38950 SW Laurelwood Rd Gaston, OR 97119 503-746-6229 AnandaLaurelwood.org
A beautiful place to host your next meeting, event, retreat or conference and only 45 minutes west of Portland. We have bright spaces for groups of all sizes; lovely guest rooms, most with views of the lush valley; delicious vegetarian meals served daily; yoga and meditation.
SOUND HEALING
THERAPY/COUNSELING HEART WHISPERER RELATIONSHIP-INTIMACY COACH Carola Marashi M.A. 512-925-0625 Beaverton, OR http://CarolaMarashi.me
As a trained Transpersonal Therapist, I help you shed fear and resistance for rapid evolution. As an Ordained Minister, I understand intimacy is a spiritual practice. As a published author, I advocate speaking your truth.” Over 35 years experience with a Master’s Degree in Transpersonal Psychology and Bachelor’s in Clinical Nutrition. Author of Sensual Eating and In2it! Trust Your Intuition Deck and Guide, and founder of Body Choir Community Ecstatic Dance in 1994
SOUND HEALING PRACTITIONER Mikaela Jones 3736 SW 10th Ave Portland, OR 97239 503-705-1609 HealingSoundBaths.com
Trained in sound healing and hypnotherapy, Mikaela utilizes various sound healing instruments and her voice for stress release, Higher Self communication, goal manifestation, restoring harmony to body, mind, and Spirit.
THERAPY/COUNSELING EMOTIONAL PEACEMAKING
Hypnotherapy/Energy Psychology Val Jolley C.Ht, P.NLP, EFTP, QTP ValJolley.com
PAUL M RAKOCZY, LCSW
Humanistic Psychotherapy/ Reiki 3939 NE Hancock, Ste 205 503-997-8611 Pmr1354@hotmail.com PaulRakoczyTherapist.com SJL PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES Stuart J. Levit, Ed.S, M.Ed.
4531 SE Belmont St, Portland 503-983-7949 Info@StuartJLevit.com StuartLevit.com Have a particular life obstacle that you are trying to understand and resolve? Somatic and Mindfulness based counseling in a private comfortable space. Evening & weekend hours available.
TRAUMA TREATMENT ROBIN BODHI, BS, LMT, CHP 2915 NE 54th Ave, Portland 503-477-0931 RobinBodhi@gmail.com RobinBodhi.com
A bodyworker for more than 20 years, with a diverse background in medical based bodywork, energetic healing & somatic touch. In addition I work at the Integrative Trauma Treatment Center at 2130 SW Jefferson. I craft and tailor my holistic work for individual needs. Private studio, 2915 NE 54th Ave.
YOGA THE MOVEMENT CENTER YOGA STUDIO 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland 503-231-0383 TheMovementCenter.com
Hatha yoga for all levels, workshops & specialty classes, private & healing yoga sessions, at a beautiful meditation and retreat center in the heart of the city.
DAYA FOUNDATION
Sarahjoy Marsh, Yoga Teacher + Therapist 5210 SW Corbett Ave, Portland SarahjoyYoga.com DayaFoundation.org Public yoga classes, private lessons, yoga therapy, and Hunger, Hope + Healing Series for women with food and body image issues.
GOOD BEGINNINGS YOGA
GoodBeginningsYoga@yahoo.com GoodBeginningsYoga.com Prenatal + Mom & Baby yoga with Sound healing. Classes in North Portland.
VETERNARIAN TWO RIVERS VETERINARY CLINIC 3808 N Williams Ave Suite 129, Portland Phone: 503-280-2000 Info@TwoRiversVet.com
YOGA SARASVATI INSTITUTE OF AYURVEDIC YOGA THERAPY
Susan Bass, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist, C-IAYT, E-RYT 500 503-208-2716 AyurvedicYogaTherapy.org 200, 300 & 1100-hour Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy Certification Programs Portland’s first Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy Certification Program. SIAYT is recognized by Yoga Alliance, IAYT, NAMA & APPNA.
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