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eptember reminds us that summer isn’t yet over but it’s not endless, either. The bright sunlight invites us to fresh experiences, coming at us from slightly a different angle. Our field of reference changes as chlorophyll departs leaves, exposing colors always there but unrevealed until now. I find myself going about my day a bit differently, dressing in layers because the extra covering I feel I need when I leave the house in the morning will be unnecessary by lunchtime. Orchards are beginning to gift us with their bounty and I carry away as much as I can from farmers’ market apple-tastings. Once you’ve tasted such examples of life’s sweetness, you naturally want more.

Natural Awakenings’ contributors encourage us to taste the inner delights of Healing Music and Yoga this month. Our editors routinely attempt to cover broad topics within the covers of a slim magazine, prompting us to further exploration of study. Every glance makes me grateful that I can share such helpful and inspiring information with you.

Many of the natural modalities highlighted in this month’s articles originated in ancient times. Yoga has been practiced for millennia. Pythagoras, a renowned Ionian Greek philosopher and mathematician, wrote about healing with sound as if it were an established discipline in his era. We don’t question that music can alter the moods of individuals or motivate people in groups: Preachers and politicians know it, any musician experiences it firsthand and even I sometimes catch myself whistling a happy tune (however badly) without quite knowing why. We can learn a lot from others.

Natural modalities also tend to be gentle. While passé modern culture took “No pain, no gain” as a slogan, I’m grateful that my yogi mentor constantly counters this with “Honor your limitations; don’t hurt yourself.” Each week I leave our sessions together feeling a little bit better. I’ll take that over remedial drugs and surgery whenever possible.

There’s also joy in a natural approach to healing and well-being. I leave yoga sessions with a smile on my face, often making a stab at improving my whistling skills. In this issue we learn that music, including drumming, helps move people out of depression; that seems reasonable to me because a good drummer makes me want to get up and dance. How wonderful that a rising number of mainstream mental health professionals are seeing the value of such complementary therapies.

Everything we read about in Natural Awakenings is accessible when we shoulder responsibility for our own state of well-being. Our advertisers and other members of our natural health community can get us started from wherever we are, whenever we’re ready to ask them to help us make gentle and joyful progress.

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

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Music Soothes, Energizes and Heals Us

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22 THE MODERN SHAMAN Ancient Practices Heal Body and Soul

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24 RELAX AND UNWIND Restorative Yoga Poses Foster Healing

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26 VEGAN LUNCHBOX Plant-Based Choices Provide Midday Boost

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30 INSIDE THE CHANT

WITH KRISHNA DAS Kirtan Music Transports Listeners to a Deeper Place

by Robin Fillmore

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Savoring Perfect Present Moments

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34 RAISING A MUSIC LOVER Kids Thrive to Rhythms of Head and Heart

by Randy Kambic

36 HAPPY FURRY HOME

Tips for Keeping a Pet-Friendly Home Clean

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newsbriefs Rolf Institute Expands Training Program

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Singing the Blues Stephen Blancett Cover artist Stephen Blancett has been making art since childhood, but his style and subjects are ever-evolving. Animals are a new favorite subject of the artist, who typically paints abstracts, as well as figures portrayed realistically in form, but in bold, unreal colors. “I’ve always had a love for animals,” says Blancett, a resident of Alva, Florida. “I see a lot more wildlife now that I live near a river, especially birds, manatees and alligators, which inspires me to paint them.”

Singing the Blues was created for a fundraiser for Abuse Counseling and Treatment (ACT), an organization assisting victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. “It’s a great reward to know that my art benefits another person in some way,” says Blancett, a long-time supporter of ACT.

A former creative director in the advertising and publishing fields with a degree from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Blancett serves as national art director for Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp. Blancett’s work has been featured in numerous publications and galleries around the world, including an upcoming exhibition in London.

He is also passionate about the culinary arts, having recently published a cookbook titled Artist In The Kitchen.

Visit the artist’s portfolio at Blancett.Gallery.

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he Rolf Institute of Structural Integration is now offering the opportunity to train as a Certified Rolfer in other parts of the country beyond its main campus in Boulder, Colorado. Beginning early next year, the complete Basic Rolfing Structural Integration training program will also be offered in Atlanta, Georgia; Bellingham, Washington; Brookfield, Wisconsin; Charles Town, West Virginia; and Holderness, New Hampshire.

The training, which typically lasts one-anda-half to two years, is designed for career professionals that are licensed or have extensive training in complementary therapies and wish to become Rolf Institute members upon graduation. Courses are taught in a modular format, meeting at least once a month over extended weekends to accommodate busy schedules and professional commitments. The program allows established practitioners to expand their skills while learning about leading-edge research on the fascial system and how it affects body structure and movement.

For more information, including costs and a full schedule, call 303-449-5903, ext.

106, email Admissions@Rolf.org or visit Rolf.org. Register online at CanvasCatalog.

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The Real Potential of Yoga

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ost people today understand yoga to be about moving our body and the many benefits that emerge from that—improving range of motion and flexibility, better circulation, more energy and less stress.

However, the true benefits of yoga go much deeper.

Asana practice is an important tool in developing a capacity to be aware of one’s breath, dissolve the mind into our breath, and ultimately, to recognize the fundamental vitality that is present in the breath. Swami Chetanananda calls this the breath of life, and this breath of life has the capacity to heal anything.

This happens by starting with cultivating our awareness. When we practice with attention focused on our breath, we begin to experience the flow of subtle energy in our physical mechanism which releases the accumulated toxicity and strain in our muscles. Focused movement helps to circulate this energy so that we can actually feel it flowing. As the energy starts to move, we experience a change of state that feels really good. If we consciously cultivate this good feeling by practicing regularly, we feel happier, lighter and bring a brighter outlook to our life, releasing tensions and creating a positive flow.

The yoga teacher training at the Movement Center is designed to put participants in touch with this deeper aspect of oneself and provide the skills to be able to guide others to find it for themselves. Their next training begins January 2017.

Swami Chetanananda is the founder and spiritual director of The Movement Center, a community based in Northeast Portland dedicated to the practice of meditation, yoga and related studies. To learn more, visit TheMovementCenter.com/ teacher-training.

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Shift Out of the Old and Into Greatness

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eople sometimes become dissatisfied with their old ways of being. They feel stagnated within limiting beliefs and lower energies, needing that nudge and direction to achieve their desired goals. They might feel there is more to life and that they are capable of tapping into their greater potential, but aren’t sure exactly how to accomplish that.

At an early age, Nicole Alcyon, founder of Hypno-Chakra Therapy, was fueled by those feelings and it drove her down a path of seeking. She then began her spirit guided business in her early 20s to assist others in this area. Now in her late 30s, she is excited to take her self-actualization program—where her students delve deep within the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual aspects of each chakra—deeper than ever. It’s aptly called the Transformational 7 Week Chakra Immersion Course.

This profound course is for those who are ready to go deep and uncover the blocks and lower energies that have held them back from moving forward more courageously toward their heart’s desires and inner bliss. It is also for those who desire greater self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-love and inner peace.

For seven weeks, beginning October 4, participants will gather as a group with Alcyon to receive weekly Hypno-Chakra Sound Healing Meditations, explore the chakras through a variety of experiential “chakra-cises”, learn from an in-depth book that Alcyon wrote and updated over the last 12 years, and much more.

For more information, visit TrinitiHealing.com/events/chakra-immersion-course.

Rising Fire Shamanism: Healing the Past, Cultivating Aliveness

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ising Fire Wellness Center and School integrates ancient Peruvian energy medicine with modern psychological process, coaching and skills training.

With their unique approach to healing, they address the connections between body, mind and thoughts and emotions, as well as the trauma history and soul of their clients.

Going beyond relieving pain and repairing trauma, Rising Fire practitioners guide clients to recover their deep, innate resources. With joy and curiosity, true will and passion, stillness and kindness toward the self, their clients and students flourish in everyday life. This freedom fuels them to rediscover their precious dreams—their authentic selves—they often abandoned, and they move beyond survival mode to thriving.

Rising Fire offers healing sessions for individuals, couples, children and families, as well coaching and mentoring. Their classes, workshops and regular community gatherings run year round and are easily accessed at Meetup.com/ Rising-Fire.

Rising Fire’s Vision Quest offers a great opportunity to discover shamanic work. Held from October 8-15, in Myrtle Point, Oregon, the Quest offers a doorway to the soul, where participants are re-introduced to themselves through purification, solitude and communion with the wild earth. With beautiful facilitation and support, this is a soul-informed experience that will deepen the participant’s healing and restart their life.

To schedule a healing, attend an introductory class or for more information, call 503-288-5175 or visit Rising-Fire.com or through Meetup.com/Rising-Fire.

Two-Day Gluten-Free Event Comes to Portland

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he Gluten-Free Food Allergy Fest (GFFAF) is back in Portland for their third year. The GFFAF offers consumers a fun way to interact one-on-one with manufacturers and vendors to sample products and learn more about allergy-friendly and gluten-free goods and services.

The largest expo of its kind in the Portland area, with close to 90 exhibitors, the GFFAF runs October 1 and 2, at the Portland Expo Center, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day. Admission includes seminars and cooking demonstrations.

Location: 2060 N. Marine Dr., Portland.

For more information or to pre-purchase tickets, visit gffafest.com.

2016 NATTIE AWARDS – VOTE!

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lease vote for your Portland/ Vancouver area favorites for the 2016 Natural Choice Awards.

Categories on page 29. Simply fill out the form and mail, fax or vote online at NAPortland.com

by October 1.

Only one ballot per email address and fax number will be counted. Name and address or valid email address is required for entry. Ballots must have a minimum of five (5) categories voted on to be accepted.

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newsbriefs Care for Our Whole Self This Fall

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all is a wonderful time to slow down, self-reflect and take the time to care for our whole self: mind, body and spirit. The Wellspring School for Healing Arts has a solution for helping with whatever changes are calling to us this season. For those interested in adding some mindful movement to their life, The Wellspring School offers many different public classes, such as qigong, tai chi and the Feldenkrais Method to help cultivate and move one’s life-force energy (qi).

To satisfy the craving for some specialized bodywork, for a $35 treatment fee, The Wellspring School’s Amma Therapy Student Clinic is open every Tuesday.

Amma therapy incorporates deep, therapeutic circular pressure and acupressure point stimulation with Chinese medical principles to treat energetic imbalances.

If nutrition is a concern, attend their donation based Wholistic Nutrition student clinic on September 10 and 11. There, one has the opportunity to meet with a soon-to-graduate Wholistic Nutrition student for an in-depth, customized nutritional assessment.

The Wellspring School also has many community classes, designed to educate and empower people in all aspects of their life. See the classes page on their website for more details.

The Wellspring School is now enrolling for their Wholistic Nutrition Program and Amma Therapy Program for those who feel the calling to become a holistic practitioner.

The Wellspring School is located at 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd., Ste. 202, Portland. For more information, call 503-688-1482 or visit TheWellspring.org.

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Keeping Pets Safe When Cleaning the Home

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f it’s not safe to use around kids, then why should we use it around our pets?

None of us want our pets exposed to toxic fumes or nasty chemical residue. As any cat owner will attest, there is only so much we can do to keep our cats off our freshly mopped kitchen floor. ECOMAIDS would rather pets get only a little water and non-toxic soap on their paws instead of something with a poison control warning on it. And most dogs not only track in those outdoor toxins, but are just fine with licking them back up off the floor.

Animals have faster metabolisms and smaller lungs than humans, which means that their bodies have to work harder to eliminate toxins commonly found in traditional home-cleaning products. Not only are our pets breathing them in more rapidly, but they are in direct contact with them more frequently by being close to the ground.

Beware of bleach! Bleach based products are not only corrosive to the surfaces they touch, but to our respiratory systems.

However, there is a green cleaning alternative—a mild peroxide dilution. Peroxide is an all-natural compound that kills germs just as effectively as bleach but without the harmful side effects.

ECOMAIDS uses only Green Seal Certified products made with all natural, nontoxic ingredients, making it safer for homeowners and pets. Call 503-908-0950 to schedule a home cleaning. For more information, visit Portland.Ecomaids.com.

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Crystal Bowl Sound Healing Made Affordable and Accessible

Tummo: Awaken Your Inner Fire

ound healing has become more and more popular in places like Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Hawaii, Bali and Portland because of its non-invasive, therapeutic and relaxing qualities.

Crystal bowls have been in use since the early 1980s, helping people from dealing with cancer to releasing stress and anxiety and promoting mental and emotional clarity. By releasing emotional and energetic blockages, crystal bowls help bring the body and mind back to its natural state of balance. One is then able to achieve deeper levels of self-awareness, mental clarity, self-healing, rest and relaxation.

Since moving to Portland two years ago, Shalom Mayberg, an Orthodox Rabbi turned police officer turned yoga teacher and sound healer, has been offering affordable monthly group sound baths at local yoga studios around the greater Portland area. In addition, Mayberg’s first album, recorded at The Hallowed Halls in southeast Portland, which includes a collection of guided meditations, mantra chanting and crystal bowl sound baths, will be available later this month on iTunes and at limited brick and mortar retail shops.

Mayberg lived and trained in Parmarth Niketan Ashram, in northern India. His classes are infused with the love and devotion for the practice and channel the gentle sounds and spirit of India.

ulku Lobsang Rinpoche, Tantrayana Buddhist teacher, doctor of Tibetan medicine and founder of Nangten Menlang Buddhist Medical Organization, will be teaching Tummo near Seattle on October 13 through 16.

Rarely offered, Tummo is a famous method for releasing blockages in the body channels and for learning to access higher states of awareness. Tummo is our inner fire. We naturally have this warmth, but usually we don’t use it.

Through developing proper concentration and cultivating our inner fire, we can reap many benefits for the body and mind.

Physically, this fire is responsible for metabolism, powering chemical reactions and building hormones. Energetically, the Tummo fire melts blockages in the channels, enabling energy to surge throughout the body. Mentally, Tummo is the source of love and bliss.

Participants will receive a complete practice, including preliminary preparations, physical movement, visualization and breathing techniques. Additionally, participants will learn the deep meaning of the practice and the aim of the Tantrayana Buddhist path.

Although Tummo is one of the highest practices of Tibetan Buddhism, there are no prerequisites to attend this retreat. Tulku Lobsang shares this secret practice openly because he believes it can bring great benefit in these difficult times. And if it is not taught and practiced, then it will no longer be a living teaching. Learning Tummo is a rare opportunity. Tulku Lobsang has a very special connection to Tummo.

This is his specialty and he has received almost all of its lineages.

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Sign up online or call any of these studios for one of Mayberg’s monthly sound baths: Yoga Union, Yoga Pearl, Mandala Yoga, Yoga OMazing, Sun Gate Studio or New Renaissance Bookshop. For more information, contact Shalom Mayberg at 503-985-8286 or visit Shalom360.com.

Deepak Chopra to Give Talk in Portland on September 29

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he irony of listening to a guided Deepak Chopra mediation was not lost on Joshua Dawson, founder of I Am Genie: Making wishes come true. His calming voice was doing its intended job. Breathing slowed, thoughts drifted to whence they came and eventually stress disappeared into being. With only 24 hours left before the big day, Dawson says he could feel the energy in the city changing.

Waiting in the airport eight hours later, now absent of the soothing meditative voice, his thoughts again wandered. What would the man Time Magazine deemed one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the 20th century and “poet prophet of alternative medicine” really be like? Were his guru-like expectations too high?

Would Dawson be disappointed? When Chopra finally appeared in comfortable clothes and signature red shoes, Dawson’s first impression dashed expectations.

Instead of seeing one of the most spiritually influential people on the planet, master of his guided mediations and man who has written 80 plus books, he locked eyes with a still, sweet, intelligent man.

Watching Chopra eloquently predict the future of well being raised the awareness and consciousness of Dawson along with the 1,500 people in the audience, creating an unforgettable evening for everyone involved. Portlanders will have the chance to experience the same on September 29 from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Location: Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Portland.

Tickets are available at: IAmGenie.org/events/deepak-chopra-in-portland.

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Vegan Diet Benefits Kids’ Heart Health

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esearch from King’s College, in London, shows that dietary vitamin C reduces the development of cataracts that interfere with vision by obscuring the lens of the eye, keeping light from striking the retina.

The researchers followed 324 pairs of female twins for 10 years.

Food questionnaires were administered to each pair to determine their intake of dietary nutrients. The researchers also examined each of the twins’ eyes for the development of cataracts. The scientists found those that consumed the most foods with vitamin C had fewer cataracts than those that ate foods with less of the vitamin.

These findings did not apply to supplemental vitamin C, helping researchers better understand the superior nature of natural vitamin C. Natural vitamin C contains multiple bioflavonoids, rutin and several co-factors, such as factors J, K and P, tyrosinase and ascorbinogen.

Senior study author and eye surgeon Dr. Chris Hammond says, “The findings could have significant impact, particularly for the aging population, by suggesting that simple dietary changes such as increased intake of fruits and vegetables as part of a healthier diet could help protect them from cataracts.”

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esearch from the Cleveland Clinic has found that a plant-based diet could be more effective than even the American Heart Association’s recommended five-food-groups diet for reducing childhood heart disease.

The research, led by Cleveland Clinic pediatrician Michael Macknin, tested 28 obese children between the ages of 9 and 18 that had high cholesterol levels.

For four weeks, 14 of the children ate the American Heart Association diet, while the other half ate a vegan, plant-based diet.

Children on the plant-based diet were found to have significantly lower weight, systolic blood pressure and total cholesterol numbers, and improved mid-arm circumference, body mass index and level of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol.

They also had lower levels of insulin and two heart disease markers, myeloperoxidase and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein—all indicating improvements in their cardiovascular health.

By comparison, children on the American Heart Association diet saw significantly lower weight, waist circumference, mid-arm circumference and myeloperoxidase levels, indicating enhanced immunity, but did not exhibit the other improvements.

“As the number of obese children with [unhealthy] high cholesterol continues to grow, we need to have effective lifestyle modifications to help them reverse their risk factors for heart disease,” says Macknin. “Cardiovascular disease begins in childhood.

If we can see such significant improvements in a four-week study, imagine the potential for improving long-term health into adulthood if a whole population of children began to eat these diets regularly.”

Black Raspberries Bolster Heart Health

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esearch from Korea University Anam Hospital, in Seoul, South Korea, has found that black raspberries significantly decrease artery stiffness and increase heart-healthy endothelial progenitor cells (EPC), which assist in repairing damaged blood vessels.

The study tested 51 patients that met at least three criteria for metabolic syndrome, including waist circumference measurements, high triglycerides, low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and/or symptoms of glucose intolerance. The subjects were split into two groups; one received 750 milligrams per day of black raspberry extract for 12 weeks, while the other group received a placebo.

The researchers assessed the radial artery augmentation index, a measure for blood vessel wall stiffness, and values for this measurement decreased by 5 percent in the black raspberry group. The placebo group’s levels increased by 3 percent.

In addition, EPC counts increased in the black raspberry group by 19 microliters, versus a drop of 28 microliters in the placebo group. Black raspberries contain a number of heart-healthy compounds, including phenolic acids, resveratrol, flavonoids and tannins.

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Breast Milk Supports Preemies’ Developing Brains

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study from the Washington University School of Medicine, in St. Louis, Missouri, has found that premature babies that receive at least 50 percent of their diet from breast milk in their first month have significantly better brain development than babies that consume less breast milk.

The researchers tested 77 infants born an average of 14 weeks before their full nine-month term—referred to as preterm or preemie. The brain scans of the infants were compared with how much breast milk they received while in the natal intensive care unit. Mother’s breast milk was not distinguished from breast milk provided by others.

Senior researcher, physician and child psychiatry professor Cynthia Rogers explains, “With MRI scans, we found that babies fed more breast milk had larger brain volumes. This is important because several other studies have shown a correlation between brain volume and cognitive development.”

Preterm birth has been linked with neurological and psychiatric problems later in life, and the researchers plan to continue to study the children. “We want to see whether this difference in brain size has an effect on any of these developmental milestones,” says Rogers.

MS Patients Improve with High-Tone Electrotherapy

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esearch from Poland’s Department of Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine, in Lodz, has determined that a pulsed-frequency electrotherapy treatment can significantly improve the functional abilities of multiple sclerosis patients.

The researchers tested 20 multiple sclerosis patients randomly divided into two groups. For 60 minutes, one group was given the frequency therapy and the other underwent exercise therapy. The frequency therapy group showed improvement in nine of 10 different evaluation tests of each patient.

The patented High Tone Frequency technique was developed by Dr. Hans-Ulrich May, a professor of medical engineering from Germany’s University of Karlsruhe.

Astaxanthin Aids Muscle Recovery

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study of Serbian soccer players has found that astaxanthin can significantly decrease inflammation and improve the rate of muscle recovery. Astaxanthin supplements are derived from golden microalgae such as Haematococcus pluvialis.

Conducted by researchers from the University of Belgrade School of Medicine, the double-blind study tested 40 young athletes for 90 days.

The players were recruited from a Serbian soccer club and split into two groups. Half were given four milligrams of astaxanthin per day, while the control group received a placebo.

After three months of astaxanthin supplementation, the researchers found that muscle enzymes had decreased, indicating the rate of players’ muscle recovery had improved. They also found decreased neutrophils and C-reactive protein (CRP), both markers for inflammation, signifying a corresponding reduction.

In addition, the group taking astaxanthin showed significantly higher levels of secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA), an immunity defense system in the mucosal membranes of the mouth, digestive system, lungs and other regions. Increases indicated a rise in first-defense immunity among these athletes. This same group also showed significantly lower oxidative stress levels, contributing to an improvement in exercise recovery.

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globalbriefs News and resources to inspire concerned citizens to work together in building a healthier, stronger society that benefits all.

Lying Labels

New Term Disguises High-Fructose Corn Syrup The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) has resorted to creating a new label for high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) by calling it “fructose syrup” or just “fructose” because numerous scientific studies have linked it to obesity, Type 2 diabetes and autism.

HFCS is a highly processed chemical sweetener used in many processed foods, including breads, cookies, candy, condiments and soft drinks. It extends the shelf life of products and is often cheaper than sugar, the primary reasons manufacturers use it.

Standard HFCS contains from 42 to 55 percent fructose. The new term is being used when foods contain HFCS-90, which has “just” 90 percent fructose.

Identifying HFCS-90 as an ingredient bizarrely gives food makers a green light to use statements such as “Contains no high-fructose corn syrup” or “No HFCS” on the product label, thus misleading buyers.

Bart Hoebel, a psychology professor at Princeton University, reports, “When rats are drinking high-fructose corn syrup at levels well below those in soda pop, they’re becoming obese; every single one, across the board. Even when rats are fed a high-fat diet, you don’t see this; they don’t all gain extra weight.”

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Kinesthetic Kids New Desks Aid Learning via Movement

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Educators at Charleston County schools, in South Carolina, know that more movement and exercise makes kids better learners, even as the amount of time devoted to physical education (PE) and recess has been declining sharply in the U.S.

“If you ask anyone in education if they prefer PE or class instruction, they say instruction every time,” says David Spurlock, coordinator of health, wellness and physical education for the Charleston County school district.

“Yet, what we’re trying to show is that more movement equals better grades, behavior and bodies.”

Charles Pinckney Elementary School, in Charleston, employs Active Brains, a program that uses 15 stations through which students rotate during the class. Each station has a unique exercise component such as a mini-basketball hoop or an exercise bike, and is focused on a different academic task such as spelling or math flashcards. This is the first classroom in the U.S. equipped with only kinesthetic desks. The program has been in operation for three years and has a waiting list of students excited to try the new approach.

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Healing Recipe Cooking May Be the Future of Medicine

In 2010, chronic disease accounted for 86 percent of all healthcare spending; four years later, the cost of treating heart disease alone totaled $315.4 billion, including medication and hospital care. At the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicine at Tulane University, medical students are learning cooking skills to better advise patients on regaining and maintaining their health through nutrition.

By getting them to approach healthful food preparation with ease and awareness, this next generation of doctors is striving to provide building blocks for long-term health management. “When we see healthier eating, we see more disease prevention and fewer hospital stays, which means less money spent on health care,” says Chef Leah Sarrris, program director.

Since 2012, 20 medical schools have adopted Tulane’s program, including the University of California-Los Angeles Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of IllinoisChicago and University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, in a partnership with the Kendall College School of Culinary Arts.

Students complete eight classes of three hours each, and fourth-year students can choose from seminars that focus on different clinical interests, including nutritional support for those coping with celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, food allergies, diabetes or pregnancy. Students also teach free public cooking classes. This integrative understanding of health care may change the way the medical system operates.

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Denzil Matthys, the duck caretaker at Vergenoegd, confirms that the ducks help make the farm sustainable. “We try to keep a pesticide-free farm by using the ducks,” he says.

Marlize Jacobs, the farm manager and winemaker, says snails are a big problem at Vergenoegd because of the vineyard’s proximity to the ocean. “After winter, the vineyards bud,” she says. “Those buds are succulent bits of food and snails love to eat them. If we don’t control them, they will absolutely destroy the vineyard.”

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Action Needed to Protect U.S. Drinking Water Supplies The dangerous practice of fracking (hydraulic fracturing), which combines volumes of toxic chemicals and fresh water to bore for natural gas, has spread to 21 states in the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and Midwest, as well as Colorado, Texas and California. A particularly intensive drilling area is the Marcellus Shale region, a 600-mile-long bedrock layer up to a mile below the Earth’s surface that includes parts of New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio. Citizens in these and surrounding states are sounding alarms.

The PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center is on the battle’s front lines and their efforts can serve as a blueprint and inspiration in trying to curtail fracking and protect the health and safety of people and the planet. The nonprofit has taken issue with a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draft study dated late last year that concluded fracking has no widespread impact on drinking water, demanding that the agency conduct further research. While Pennsylvania’s Department of the Environment tallied 271 cases of water contamination from fracking in 40 counties, the nonprofit Public Herald reports 2,309 overall fracking complaints for 17 of the counties, and concludes that water-related cases are repeatedly understated.

Recent research by Stanford University’s School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences found, “Companies are fracking directly into shallow freshwater aquifers,” according to Professor of Earth System Science Robert Jackson. “In no [other] industry would you be allowed to inject chemicals into a source of drinking-quality water.”

PennEnvironment recently galvanized more than 1,000 state health experts’ demands to Governor Tom Wolf’s administration that include establishing a registry to report impacts from fracking and other natural gas activities; instituting special training for health professionals; removing exemptions for the fracking industry from environmental laws; and requiring that all fracking operations be at least one mile from schools and healthcare facilities.

“With every day of inaction, our elected leaders continue to subject their constituents to severe and widespread health impacts,” advises PennEnvironment fracking campaign organizer Allie DiTucci.

Maryland poses another looming battleground—it currently prohibits the practice and is drafting new fracking regulations as the gas industry knocks on its door. Meanwhile, communities around the country are voting to ban fracking from their districts.

Join local environmental and conservation organizations in protesting against fracking and lobbying local and state officials to regulate and ban it.

Primary sources: PennEnvironmentCenter.org, InsideClimate News

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aggie Sayles played her Celtic harp for a dying woman. The woman said she was ready to go. She wanted to go outside and feel the sun on her face one last time. She asked for a glass of wine and for her oxygen mask to be removed.

Sayles says the experience was beautiful and enriching. Musical vigils support a journey inward, meant to allow people at the end of life to contemplate the mortal transition and for the patient and loved ones to do whatever work might be necessary to grieve and let go in an atmosphere of reverence and beauty.

Studies find music listening may have beneficial effects on the state of anxiety in mechanically ventilated, coronary heart disease, cancer and surgical patients.

Sayles founded The Path of Peace, music as medicine practice specializing in end of life care. Her discipline is called music-thanatology.

According to Sayles, “Music-thanatologists unite music and medicine in end-of-life care to lovingly serve and support patients, and their loved-ones, at the end of life. Within the Western medical tradition, music-thanatology is considered a sub-specialty of palliative care, which seeks to improve the quality of life for those facing lifethreatening illness through prevention and relief of pain—physical, emotional and spiritual.”

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ports the emotional, spiritual and energetic aspects of the being, as well as the physical body. Music vigils are delivered live at the patient’s bedside using Celtic harp and/or voice. The musicthanatologist customizes the musical offering based on physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patients and their families.

Often when she plays, Sayles says she sees all kinds of physical pain or existential pain relieved. She says some people display relaxation by sinking more deeply into bed or a softening in the muscular layer. Some people verbally express that pain has subsided.

Sayles describes her decision to become a music-thanatologist as a spiritual calling. “I had the desire to want to use my gifting in music as a service to the community and humanity, as well. I was a seeker,” she states.

“I can help to support patients as they connect with the depth and beauty in their own lives. Music is an extremely transformational force.”

Families of those she serves are gracious and open, according to Sayles.

“They are inviting a complete stranger in to offer music to a loved one at the most difficult time and I am honored to share in the experience,” she says.

“I witness people becoming essential beings and I recognize I have the opportunity to support people during the most profound transition of their lives.”

It is often the most beautiful time in life to observe, says Sayles.

“In the course of a lifetime, people accumulate all these layers of shellac. I see them shedding the shellac; I see a glow. At times, estranged families come together and forgive. In the company of immense grief, they often share stories and memories of

In the course of a lifetime, people accumulate all these layers of shellac.

I see them shedding the shellac; I see a glow. ~Maggie Sayles their loved one and laugh through the tears. I am seeing the best that life has to offer,” she added.

Sayles performed her internship in music-thanatology with Providence Health in Portland, the first healthcare system in the world to employ two— the team is now up to 10 full-time music-thanatologists. Sayles travels to facilities and homes in the Portland metropolitan area to provide her soothing service. Though she charges a minimal fee, she says she never turns anyone away and performs vigils to any who desire it. “This is just amazing work—to be able to use a tool like music to relieve pain. It’s something everyone has access to, a tool that everyone can use,” she asserts.

While music therapy is covered by most insurance, music-thanatology is not. Sayles would like to see that change in the future.

Music selections are tailored to the patient, but steer clear of nostalgic or familiar music to keep the person in the present, rather than dwelling in

Intervention Insights • Given the inexpensive nature of this intervention, and the lack of adverse events, it is recommended as an adjunct to normal care practices.

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• The use of music vigils in palliative care suggests that intervention has benefits, almost no risk, minimal cost and may improve patient-family experience of the dying process.

• From June 30, 2011, to June 30, 2012, Ecumen staff reported 800 medication decreases or discontinuations. Atypical antipsychotics, which have mood stabilizing properties, have an average monthly prescription cost of $250 to $475 per month, but with 800 reductions in these meds, Ecumen saved between $200,000 and $380,000 a month for the residents and Medicaid/Medicare. This translates to between $2.4 million and $4.6 million per year.

the past. It is a time when the physical and spiritual are juxtaposed.

“I am there to support people in the process of releasing and letting go while following the energy in the room,” states Sayles. “I’m not there to fix anyone. I don’t consider them broken. This is a natural event. I’m there to support their transition in whatever way will be of value to the patient and family. It is a privilege to be there.”

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Music as Medicine Music Soothes, Energizes and Heals Us

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s primeval drumbeats echo across an African savannah, the rhythms circle the globe, picked up by the chants and rattles of shamans gracing Amazonian jungles and Siberian tundra. They’re repeated in Gregorian chants filling medieval cathedrals and “om” meditations sounding in Himalayan caves and yoga classes everywhere.

They gently echo in the repeated tones of mothers’ lullabies, happy hummings as we go about our day and the melodies of Mozart.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, whether we’re aware of it or not.

It exists within, uniting and guiding us, and has helped heal body and spirit since the dawn of humanity. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists recently discovered that the universe itself has a song.

Pioneering Practitioners

From the soothing tones of a harp to the jarring screeches of a construction site, the stress-reducing or stress-producing properties of sound are familiar to us all.

“Stress is an underlying cause of the vast majority of all illnesses, and sound and music are effective in relieving stress and bringing stillness,” says Jonathan Goldman, an internationally recognized pioneer in harmonics and sound healing and director of the Sound Healers Association in Boulder, Colorado.

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Healing, Goldman is convinced of the profound effect sound has on the human organism. “The simple chanting of the sound ‘om,’ or ‘aum,’ in addition to instilling calmness and relaxation, causes the release of melatonin and nitric oxide. It relaxes blood vessels, releases soothing endorphins, reduces the heart rate and slows breathing,” he explains.

“Sound can change our immune function,” wrote the late Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, former director of medical oncology at New York’s Weill-Cornell Medical College for Complementary and Integrative Medicine in his book The Healing Power of Sound. “After either chanting or listening to certain forms of music, your Interleukin-1 level, an index of your immune system, goes up between 12-anda-half and 15 percent. Further, about 20 minutes after listening to meditative-type music, the immunoglobulin levels in the blood are significantly increased. Even the heart rate and blood pressure are lowered. There’s no part of your body not affected. Its effects even show up on a cellular and sub-cellular level.”

Practical Applications

Consider some of music’s scientifically validated health benefits:

Stress: Singing, whether carrying a tune or not, is a powerful way to combat stress, according to many studies. A recent joint study by German and British researchers published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience confirms that

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simply listening to soothing music results in significantly lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol. The more intense the experience is in singing or playing an instrument, the greater the stress reduction. A collaborative study by several Swedish universities showed that group singing caused participants’ heart rates to synchronize, producing relaxation effects similar to that achieved through group meditation.

Cancer: Gaynor used music to treat even advanced cancer patients for decades, considering it a “disease of disharmony.” He advocated re-harmonizing the body with sound vibrations that affect virtually every cell, especially enhancing immune function and potentially preventing cancer from spreading. Gaynor primarily used crystal bowls to produce deep relaxation and harmonize dysrhythmic cells in patients, but also confirmed the healing effects of certain vibratory tones of drumming and Tibetan metal gongs.

Several studies confirm that listening to any kind of soothing music relieves anxiety in cancer patients; a large study from Philadelphia’s Drexel University confirms that it also relieves pain, lowers blood pressure, improves breathing and minimizes nausea associated with chemotherapy.

Depression: Drumming can better counter depression than the prescription drug Prozac, according to a recent study by England’s Royal College of Music. Those that participated in a weekly drumming group experienced significantly reduced symptoms compared to a control group.

Substance Abuse: University of California, Los Angeles, scientists found that drumming was especially helpful for a group of Native Americans struggling with such issues.

Smartphone Addiction: Korean research found that music therapy is helpful in overcoming this condition.

Immune Dysfunction: The same British study of drumming’s antidepressant effects saw similar improvement in immune function, plus an anti-inflammatory response that continued for at least three months after the study period.

Neuroendocrine Disorders: Researchers at Pennsylvania’s Meadville Medical Center Mind-Body Wellness Group found that drumming effectively

helped drummers (skilled and unskilled) suffering from neuroendocrine disorders such as pituitary tumors and intestinal issues caused by disconnections between the endocrine gland and nervous systems. They further confirmed that group drumming reduced stress chemicals such as cortisol in the drummers.

Muscle Tension Dysphonia: Even tuneless humming sounds like “umhum” can have a measurable therapeutic effect on individuals that have lost their voices due to overuse.

Pain: When a group of British citizens suffering from chronic pain joined a choir, a Lancaster University study found they were better able to manage their condition for improved quality of life.

Just listening to harp music for 20 minutes decreased anxiety, lowered blood pressure and relieved pain in a group of U.S. heart surgery patients with short-term pain participating in a University of Central Florida study in Orlando.

Alzheimer’s Disease: In addition to reducing the agitation and anxiety frequently accompanying Alzheimer’s disease, researchers at Florida’s University of Miami School of Medicine found that a group of patients that participated in music therapy for four weeks experienced increased levels of the calming brain chemical melatonin.

How It Works

“Humming or singing causes longer exhalations than normal, helping to naturally eliminate toxins and acidity,” says Dr. Madan Kataria, of Mumbai, India, who has spawned 5,000 laughter clubs worldwide.

“We started experimenting with the vowel sounds and humming sound.

An early unpublished humming study I did in Denmark showed that people that hummed anything for just 10 minutes were able to reduce their systolic blood pressure by 10 to 15 points, their

In Nigeria, we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm; when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble. ~Babatunde Olatunji, drummer and social activist diastolic by four to five points and their pulse rate by 10 beats per minute.” Kataria found that people with breathing problems like asthma and emphysema experienced especially positive effects because it strengthened belly muscles used in breathing.

Kataria is also a fan of kirtan—Hindu devotional call-and-response chants often accompanied by ecstatic dancing.

“Kirtan takes away self-consciousness or nervousness and anxiety,” he says.

Dr. Eben Alexander, who recorded his near-death experience in Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, says the “indescribable” cosmic music he experienced has helped him come to understand the effects of specific sound frequencies on the brain. He now provides audio tools to help bring the brain to a higher state and help it match that higher and more conscious state. In his medical practice in Charlottesville, Virginia, he often employs music from a patient’s past to help them emerge from a brain injury or coma and even “reconnect pathways in a damaged brain.”

Alexander explains that binaural beats and other sound effects combine to create “brain entrainment” and also in theory, “monotonize” it to free awareness and access realms other than the physical. “It’s magical what the right type of music can do to the brain stem to free up our consciousness,” he observes.

No Talent Needed

Experts agree that people without musical talent are able to experience the same

Nature’s Healing Sounds The calming sounds of rushing water and gentle breezes are well known; science is now confirming the therapeutic effects of singing birds. Belgian researchers confirmed that bird song helps drown out the stressful effects of traffic noise, and Korean scientists found it makes people feel less crowded. A study published in the American Journal of Physiology showed that it can even help regulate participants’ circadian rhythms, contributing to restful sleep and overall wellness.

benefits as virtuosos, based on their degree of engagement with music. Anyone can hum, and most research confirms that benefits are enhanced in creating music rather than merely listening to it.

Group singing has become increasingly popular, especially following the hit TV show Glee. Time magazine reported in 2013 that 32.5 million American adults sang in choirs, up about 30 percent from a decade earlier.

The choice of musical genre matters. Recent data from Montreal’s McGill University shows that types of music tend to have specific effects; for example, blues slows heart rate and calms an anxious person, rock and punk can boost energy, and reggae can help control anger.

Spirit Moves

The spiritual aspects of virtually all types of music cannot be underestimated, says Michael Hove, Ph.D., a cognitive neuroscientist affiliated with Harvard Medical School and Fitchburg State University, in Massachusetts.

His research has primarily focused on drumming to induce altered states of consciousness that shamans from diverse cultures use to bring about physical and emotional healing. What Hove calls a “boring and super-predictable” drumbeat of 240 beats a minute induced a deep trance state within minutes in most subjects, and brain scans confirmed that it enabled them to focus intensely and block out distracting sounds within eight minutes.

This aligns with Alexander’s view that, “The sound of music is absolutely crucial in launching us into transcendental awareness. For the true, deep seeker, sound and vibration and the memory of music can serve as a powerful engine to help direct us in the spiritual realms.”

Kathleen Barnes has authored numerous natural health books, including her latest, Our Toxic World: A Survivor’s Guide. Connect at KathleenBarnes.com.

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o longer shrouded in mystery, the ancient spiritual practice of shamanism is attracting the interest of psychologists, registered nurses and medical doctors that study its guiding principles to use personally and benefit others. They train one-on-one and in small groups with indigenous shamans in the U.S. and around the world and enroll in programs offered by established schools such as the Foundation for Shamanic Studies and The Four Winds Society. Both offer workshops and expeditions for participants to meet the specific shaman that teaches congruent philosophy, practices and principles.

Since 1986, The Four Winds Society, with international headquarters in Miami, Florida, has graduated more than 10,000 practitioners. It teaches a genuine respect for the sacredness of metaphysical forces existing in all natural beings and objects and the connection between the material world and spiritual plane.

Dr. Daniel Rieders, a physician specializing in cardiac electrophysiology and interventional cardiology, completed the society’s basic curriculum in 2014. Having matriculated to advanced master classes, he uses shamanic understanding, tools and skills for personal use and in his complementary medical practices, Life Rhythm Therapies and

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Jain Ayurveda for Optimum Health, in Palm Coast, Florida. He notes that medical procedures and prescriptions aren’t always the answer to problems.

“I’ve studied various areas of medicine and found them devoid of tools and methods that empower patients to make changes that lead to better health.

Studying shamanism means being on my own healing path of cleansing body, mind and spirit. It’s necessary for any empowered healer that aspires to inspire and generate confidence and assertiveness in others, enabling them to do what is needed to live out their life purpose,” he says.

Rieders found shamanism to be an effective complementary therapy for strengthening the body and building resilience. One of his patients was unhappy with his job, feeling it only served to support a costly family lifestyle.

Upon discerning his true desire was to own a gym and teach people how to get healthy, he took action. “A heart procedure was no longer necessary.

Stored anger can create heart disease, as well as cancer,” he remarks.

Seti Gershberg’s life changed dramatically while studying shamanism in the remote Peruvian Andes, where he lived with the indigenous Q’ero people for two years. Taking a break from a career in international investment

banking, he set out to Spirituality is an thanks to and ask for learn about a shahelp and guidance man’s relationship to extension of the inner from the Creator. Cerenergy, consciousbeing’s connection to emony is our church ness and the superand smudging is how what the conscious natural, with an eye we purify it,” says the to creating a system of mind longs for, to seek shaman, artist and universal reciprocity, actor known as “The balance and harmony. a higher awareness Rattlemaker”.

He was also interAngaangaq Anand realize one’s ested in indigenous gakkorsuaq, a shaman, people’s views of the full potential. healer, storyteller and relationship of the carrier of the Qilaut ~Richard L. Alaniz physical world with (wind drum), is an elder self, consciousness from the Kalaaleq and multi-dimensional space-time as a tribe, in Greenland. His family belongs single interwoven idea; a continuum. to the traditional healers from Kalallit

“Today, I’m an executive producer Nunaat. Endearingly known as Uncle, and creative director in Phoenix, Arizona, he has traveled to 67 countries to working on a video series, TV commerconduct ceremonies including healing cials and films, including two documencircles, sacred sweat lodge purification taries on shamanic rituals and ceremoand Melting the Ice in the Heart of Man nies, as well as the Q’ero culture,” says intensives, where he teaches the spiriGershberg. He practices the Q’ero shatual significance of climate change. man’s gift of Ayni, giving of our self first

He advises, “A shaman’s responsiwithout asking for anything in return. His bility is to guide you on your inner path website, ThePathOfTheSun.com, offers a and support you in recognizing your “pay what you can afford” option. beauty so that you can love yourself

Sean Wei Mah, a Native American and know who you truly are. A shaman Cree, grew up on a reservation in guides you to a new level of consciousAlberta, Canada, around tribal medicine ness through teachings, storytelling and men that practiced smudging, ceremony ceremonies, which my grandmother and ritual. “Smudging, by burning fine taught me were the key. All of this helps powders, considered sacred medicine, you rely on your own inner guidance.” is significant to any shaman as holy medicine to cleanse the body. It’s part Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer of Native American life and the founfor Natural Awakenings. Connect at dation of how we communicate, give ItsAllAboutWe.com.

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It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ~Plato

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n classical yoga, teachers often sequence instruction toward reaching a pinnacle pose such as an inversion or arm balance. In restorative yoga, the peak pose is savasana—in which the practitioner fully relaxes while resting flat on their back. Leeann Carey, author of Restorative Yoga Therapy: The Yapana Way to Self-Care and Well-Being, explains, “This passive asana practice turns down the branch of the nervous system that keeps us in fight-or-flight mode and turns up the system allowing us to rest and digest. It feels like a massage for the nervous system and encourages self-inquiry, reflection and change, rather than perfection.”

The physical, mental and spiritual benefits are similar to those of active yoga, but because poses are held longer and supported by props such as bolsters, blankets, belts and blocks, “There’s no stress on the tissue and joints. Each pose gifts us with longerlasting benefits, including more time for the mind to unwind,” advises Carey.

“Restorative yoga allows both muscles and the brain to recover from fatigue, so we are stronger, sharper and better able to act in the world afterward,” explains Roger Cole, Ph.D., a certified Iyengar yoga teacher in Del Mar, California, and a research scientist studying

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the physiology of relaxation, sleep and biological rhythms. He attests that it also serves as preparation for pranayama (mindful yoga breathing) and meditation, which require a clear, well-rested, focused mind.

Perfect for beginners and used by longtime practitioners to complement other yoga styles, restorative poses are designed to accurately realign and reshape the body. They also can be therapeutically tailored to support natural healing for issues related to tension, premenstrual syndrome, weak immune functioning, back pain, pregnancy and recovery for athletes. “Poses for healing may require targeted gentle stretching, but prop use will coax the body into desired positions without requiring muscular effort,” says Cole.

An early student of B.K.S. Iyengar and familiar with props, San Francisco resident and co-founder of Yoga Journal magazine Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D., found herself leading her first class comprised entirely of supported poses during a power blackout at a 1980 workshop. “I didn’t want people walking around in the dark, so I improvised a restorative class and everyone loved it,” she recalls. She revisited the idea several years later when she personally

felt the need for physical, emotional and spiritual restoration.

For a year, 90 percent of her practice was supported poses, and the switch helped her so much that it inspired her first book, Relax and Renew: Restful Yoga for Stressful Times. She’s since written more books and trained teachers in restorative yoga around the world.

As in classical yoga, a restorative sequence should be balanced with asanas (positions) from all pose classifications—backbends, twists, inversions and forward bends. It takes time for the body to comfortably settle deeply into a pose—as long as 15 minutes— therefore, a 90-minute restorative class may include only a handful of asanas.

Lasater says, “Most people don’t need more of anything from the culture in which we live. They need much more to learn to be still and at ease.”

In today’s yoga world, which seems to emphasize power and action, “Restorative yoga has become imperative to balance activity and ambition with stillness and being,” she continues. Lasater notes that while many classes are reducing savasana to as little as three minutes, students need 20 minutes.

Carey clarifies that because this approach focuses on opening and letting go, rather than striving for the biggest stretch, “Sensation-seeking yogis may need to shift their perspective. The biggest challenge is often quieting the mind while the body is still. When a student is uncomfortable because the mind is screaming, it helps to compare it to having tight hamstrings in an active class. We’re not chasing relaxation; just breathe, feel and watch,” she says.

“Eventually, everything will let go.”

“The more our mind rebels against relaxing, the more we need it,” observes Lasater. Students often turn to yoga as a strategy for feeling whole, and she suggests that one of the best ways to find clarity within is to listen in stillness, one savasana at a time. “It’s a gift to ourself, our family and the world,” she adds. “When we feel rested, we’re more compassionate and ready to serve the greater good.”

Meredith Montgomery, a registered yoga teacher, publishes Natural Awakenings of Gulf Coast Alabama/Mississippi (HealthyLivingHealthyPlanet.com).

Yoga Props 101 Yoga props can help new students maintain alignment and reduce strain while allowing veterans to more deeply explore the intricacies of their practice. Always adjust the dimensions and placement of props to ensure comfort via soft curves in the body instead of sharp angles, especially in the spine. Body weight must be distributed equally throughout the pose; key places to check for tension are the lower back, abdomen, neck and jaw muscles. Here are some basic tools.

Yoga mats should have a non-skid surface and not exceed three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness. They cushion the body, serve as a blanket or a base for props or can roll up into a bolster.

Blankets and towels pad hard areas and warm the body. Different ways of folding and rolling transform them into many firm and comfortable shapes with wide-ranging applications.

Blocks in various sizes and materials can be laid flat, placed on edge or stood on end. They can add height or length to the body, access core stability and provide leverage. A stack of hardback books or phone books tied together can work in a pinch.

Belts stabilize joints, support inflexible body parts and create traction and space. Typically two inches wide, soft belts with a D-ring locking system are easily adjusted; two soft, wide neckties or scarves tied together are suitable.

Avoid material that cuts into the skin.

Bolsters, typically cylindrical or rectangular cushions, provide good supports that are long-lasting, if sometimes costly. Combining folded blankets and rolled mats may be suitable alternatives.

Walls provide leverage, vertical support and a structure to rest upon.

A closed door or large piece of furniture such as a bookcase or refrigerator works; a room corner simultaneously supports both sides of the body.

Chairs are versatile props for any practice and make yoga accessible to those unable to get down onto the floor.

Backless folding chairs are typically used in studios, but any sturdy chair that doesn’t roll is suitable.

Sandbags, strategically positioned, encourage overworked areas to release.

Their weight also provides resistance and stability. Homemade versions can be made by loosely filling a smooth cloth bag with coarse sand, pea gravel or rice. Retail bags of beans, rice or sugar are other options.

Eye pillows block out light during resting poses, can gently weight the forehead or hands or support the back of the neck. Typically made of silk or soft cotton, they’re filled with a mixture of flax seeds or rice and soothing herbs such as lavender, peppermint or chamomile.

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e all have good intentions to eat more fruits and vegetables, and it’s easier if we start with just one plant-based meal a day— lunch. Natural Awakenings has enlisted the help of vegan lunchbox experts to help us all enjoy easy-to-make and colorful feasts good for home, office, school and on the road.

“Vegan food offers so much variety, especially at lunch,” says Johanna Sophia, of Pine Plains, New York, who recently hosted the online series The Raw Lunchbox Summit. “A vegan lunch gives an extra boost in the middle of the day for more brain power, clarity and energy.” She and her two children operate Johanna’s Raw Foods, which makes vegan fast food such as veggie burger bites and carrot crackers, available at health food stores.

Laura Theodore, the vegan chef and recording artist who presents The Jazzy Vegetarian PBS television program, lives and works in the New York City area. After a childhood dominated by bologna sandwiches for lunch, she

gradually changed to vegan dishes. “I began to notice a difference when I ate mostly plants,” she says. “I could do more and think better.”

Theodore favors colorful and delicious vegan foods that travel well in a lunchbox with a cold pack, so she can take them to rehearsals or wherever else she goes. She creates her zucchini fettuccine with a vegetable slicer and loves to end a meal with something naturally sweet, like her maple-raisindate truffles. Such experimenting in the kitchen led to her newest cookbook, Vegan-Ease: An Easy Guide to Enjoying a Plant-Based Diet.

Brandi Rollins, Ph.D., a researcher at Penn State, in State College, Pennsylvania, found that switching her lunch habits to plant-based dishes made her feel better. The author of Raw Foods on a Budget determined that one of her favorites is a quick raw vegan pizza. She first marinates ingredients for 20 minutes: three medium mushrooms, thinly sliced, with oneand-a-half tablespoons of balsamic

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

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vinegar, one tablespoon of olive oil, one minced clove of garlic and a big pinch of Italian herb seasoning. Then she spreads half of a mashed avocado on a four-by-four-inch flax cracker and tops it with the marinated mushrooms, plus chopped tomato, peppers or other favorite options. Rollins advises, “You can pack all of the components individually, and then assemble the pizza at work.”

Health Foods Chef Catherine Blake, in Maui, Hawaii, studied with renowned plant-based nutritional scientist T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. She urges her culinary students to ask, “What can I do to sparkle a little bit more tomorrow?” The author of Healthy Recipes for Friends, answers the question in her online presentation, Cooking for Brain Power, at Tinyurl.com/ChefBlakeBrainPower.

Blake’s favorite brain-power luncheon booster is a wrap with antioxidant-rich fillings, accompanied by homemade almond milk, sunflower seeds or walnuts for vitamin E and some favorite blue berries or purple grapes. She makes fresh almond milk by grinding raw almonds in a nut grinder, and then adding them plus an equal amount of filtered water to a high-speed blender. After processing and straining out the solids, the resulting nut milk is perfect for smoothies.

Changing our diets one meal at a time gives us an opportunity to see if we can feel the difference, as our vegan lunchbox experts have, while we ramp up our taste for healthier eating.

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Kirtan Music Transports Listeners to a Deeper Place

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You will never win if you never begin. ~Helen Rowland

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How would you introduce your music?

Across the country and around the world, yoga practitioners are chanting the names of God in tongues including Sanskrit, Hindi, Punjabi and English. They’re taking kirtan music out of the temples and the yoga studios and into dance halls, universities, cathedrals and other unexpected places.

In the last decade, India’s traditional call-and-response form of chanting has been reinvented by modern devotional artists blending traditional kirtan with modern genres such as rock, rhythm and blues, hip-hop and electronica—breathing new life and devotion into yoga’s sacred chants.

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nfluential spiritual leader Ram Dass has described Krishna Das (Jeffrey Kagel) as an example of someone whose “heartsongs” open channels to God. The Grammy-nominated kirtan artist, long considered yoga’s rock star, consistently plays to sold-out crowds worldwide. The Long Island native’s journey has gone from being a member of a popular rock band to going to India, where as a student of spiritual leader Neem Karoli Baba, the trajectory of his life and music shifted and expanded.

His 1996 debut album, One Track Heart, focused on updated chants from the ancient tradition of bhakti yoga, followed in 1998 by Pilgrim Heart, with a guest appearance

by Sting. Since then, a steady stream of 14 albums and DVDs produced on his own label have provided the soundtrack for yoga classes everywhere; the soothing rhythmic chants performed in a deep, rich timbre complements instruction in the spiritual element of the exercise.

Das’ specialty, kirtan, updates an ancient tradition of devotional chanting as meditation accompanied by instruments. A kirtan concert invites audience members to join in the experience through chanting, clapping and dancing and is characterized as a journey into the self that also connects us with each other.

What does kirtan mean to you?

For me, kirtan is all about the music.

The more ways I practice sustainable health, balance, love and music and immerse myself in a spiritual life, the more I realize that all issues distill down to simple facts. Everyone wants to be loved and happy, and to avoid suffering and being judged.

Looking at our lives, we start to see how we hurt ourselves and others and how what happens to us in daily life can be difficult to deal with. We recognize that we must find deep inner strength so we don’t get destroyed by the waves that come and try to toss us around.

Little by little, all of our awakening practices work to transform our life. They move us from being externally oriented and reactive to being established within and quietly responsive. We come to have a wider view that life can effectively contain and envelop the different facets of ourselves and the world.

Why do many consider a kirtan event a transcendent experience far beyond the music?

There are two things: the music and where the music is carrying us. In this case, it’s the names of God, of divinity, that are real and inside us. We can call this higher sense anything we like and aim in that direction according to how we identify with it.

If we want peace in the world, then every individual needs to find peace within. We can’t create peace or happiness with anger and selfishness in our heart and mind. We can release ourselves from a limiting storyline, whatever it is, and touch a deeper place for a while. Then, when we return to our day, we are standing on slightly different ground because we have trained ourselves to let go a little bit. It’s a gradual process that takes time and effort, but it’s a joyful practice.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. ~Auguste Rodin

Do you see a shift in thinking echoing that of the 1960s that positions us to do better this time?

In the 1960s, everyone thought they were going to change the external world, but they forgot they have to change themselves, too, and little work was done inside. Today, while most people keep trying to first rearrange the outside world, more are now doing the necessary inside work, as well.

The key is to understand what’s truly possible. If we don’t understand how we can be happy and at peace in the middle of a burning fire, we won’t recognize the tools available to create that kind of light for ourselves and others.

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Everyday distractions can cause us to forget to slow down to enjoy moments.

The secret to sublime living is to pay close attention to the sweet pleasures of life, no matter how small, and savor them before they pass. There is no way to know which weather-perfect day will be the last before the season shifts. Enjoying such a fleeting, sublime moment may mean discarding the day’s plans, but the delights of life do not always come around again.

How easy it is to let the mind wander and forget to focus on the pleasure of an experience and the joys that life offers. We’re in danger of missing out on sublime living when we constantly prioritize what “has to be done” instead of that which is most

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We forget our power to be our own storyteller and to mindfully engage in how we spend every hour. Dissatisfying tales can be replaced when we live according to a new story we write each day, called, “My life is an extraordinary adventure,” or “I relish being with my children,” or “I express love through sharing my music,” or “I am being true to myself, and that enables me to help others heal.”

The more we focus on what brings us happiness, revitalization, purpose or meaning, the easier it will be to upgrade priorities and discard any plot lines and events that seem scripted by someone else. We can then make a new commitment to writing and living a more satisfying story for ourselves.

We can pause to contemplate our power to be the storyteller and to always remain fully present and conscious of the sublime moments.

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A 2015 study by the National Association for Music Education (nafme.org) shows that youngsters harboring an early appreciation for music tend to have larger vocabularies and more advanced reading skills than their peers. The research also revealed that schools with music programs have an estimated 90.2 percent graduation rate and 93.9 percent attendance rate compared to others averaging 72.9 and 84.9 percent, respectively.

A recent study by the Children’s Music Workshop (ChildrensMusic Workshop.com), which provides instructional programming for more than 25 Los Angeles-area public and private schools, cites a host of additional benefits. These highlight music education’s role in developing the part of the brain that processes language; improving

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spatial intelligence; thinking creatively; gaining empathy for people of other cultures; encouraging self-expression and teamwork through playing as a group; and achieving higher grades both in high school and on standardized tests.

Higher institutes of learning are equally involved. Boston’s Berklee College of Music (Berklee.edu) offers majors in making it as a music professional, performance music and music therapy, plus postgraduate degrees. Its annual five-week summer performance program in “Beantown” furthers the skills of 1,000 U.S. and international children 12 years old and up. In addition to musical skills, “We see improvement in young people’s confidence and persona,” says Oisin McAuley, director of summer programs. “It’s a truly formative experience.”

In addition, The Berklee City Music online program serves high schools nationwide, assisted by alumni in some cities. It also awards scholarships for participation in the summer performance activities in Boston.

The nonprofit Young Americans (YoungAmericans.org) organization, launched in 1992, operates its own college of performing arts in Corona, California, that fosters artistic, intellectual

Be open-minded enough not to label innovations in genres as junk; whatever kids are drawn to should be fine. ~Dayna Martin and personal growth for those working toward becoming performers or arts educators. Its International Music Outreach Tours have brought workshops to K through 12th grade students in nearly all 50 American states and 15 countries in Europe and Asia.

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“Don’t force children to play music.

It’s better when they want to do it on their own. Having instruments around the house can make it easier,” suggests Dayna Martin, a life coach and author of Radical Unschooling: A Revolution Has Begun, near North Conway, New Hampshire. Learning music can also decrease math phobia, similar to the way in which children that love to cook and follow recipes learn math, she points out, because math and music are undeniably interconnected.

As part of a self-taught passion for medieval history, her 17-year-old son Devin is building a replica of a Vikingera log house on the family’s property and has made several stringed instruments steeped in the historical period using mathematical principles. “When children apply math to further their interest in music, it makes more sense to them than when it’s some problems in a workbook, and they pick it up

more readily, which instills a lifelong appreciation of mathematics as an essential tool,” she observes.

Jamie Blumenthal, a boardcertified music therapist and owner of Family Music Therapy Connection: North Bay Music Therapy Services (NorthBayMusicTherapy.com), in Santa Rosa, California, works predominantly with special needs children. “Autistic children love music, and playing wind instruments like flutes and whistles helps work the muscles around the mouth, assisting with speech development,” she says.

Singing, keyboards and percussion instruments are other tools she uses. “Many parents want their child to become accustomed to social settings.

Because their child loves music, they’ll often seek a group music forum,” notes Blumenthal.

Family Music Time (FamilyMusic Time.com), in Fort Myers, Florida, is one of 2,500 affiliated centers nationwide and in 40 countries that follows music CDs provided by Princeton, New Jersey-based Music Together (MusicTogether.com). Drumming and singing sessions with parents and children up to 5 years old help them gain a music appetite and early group music-making experience, according to Director LouAnne Dunfee. At her studio, local professional musicians also conduct private lessons in piano, guitar and trumpet for children ages 6 and up.

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ouseholds with multiple pets abound as families often opt for a mix of companion animals.

Currently, more than 70 million dogs, 75 million cats and 6 million birds are kept as pets in the U.S., according to a recent American Pet Products Association survey. While we cherish their affection, downsides include pet hair dust bunnies, scattered litter, spilled seeds and potty accidents. Cleaning up can be easier with training and planning.

“Living on the beach, it’s easy for the dog to bring sand indoors, so I taught him to shake it off,” says dog expert and trainer Amy Robinson, in Vero Beach, Florida. “I put water in a bottle and misted it lightly on his head, then gave the cue, ‘Shake,’ and shook my shoulders. He mimicked me and got rid of most of the sand. Brushing him with a towel got the rest.” Once the dog understands the cue, retire the water bottle.

“I have a Newfoundland/poodle, a great Pyrenees/poodle and a Labradoodle, so I keep old towels outside the door to wipe dirty feet,” says Kathleen Thometz, owner of Doodle Art & Design, in Western Springs, Illinois. “The Newfoundland can open the door, so I have to catch him before he tracks in muddy paw prints.”

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Thometz keeps their hairbrush with the towels. “I have them groomed regularly, but a quick brush after a walk means I don’t have to vacuum between weekly house cleanings,” she says.

“Short hair can be even harder to pick up,” reminds Ryan Riley, cofounder of BizBagz.com, in Los Angeles.

“We brush our 50- and 70-pound pit bull mixes outside after play time and they love it.”

“Carpets and pets are a challenging combination, especially when pets get older and accidents happen,” observes Amy Bell, an interior decorator at Red Chair Home Interiors, in Cary, North Carolina. “I recommend hard surface flooring, washable slipcovers for furniture and keeping lint brushes by the door.” All-natural, sustainably sourced area rugs or hall runners make it easier for dogs to get around on slick surfaces; be sure the backing can withstand wet accidents.

“I use a hair-attracting dry mop to pick up fur on hard floors. It takes me 10 minutes a day to do 2,400 square feet; otherwise, I’d have tumbleweeds of hair blowing around. I use a Quick Vac every two days on area rugs,” says Joan Fradella, a Florida Supreme

Court-certified family mediator in Lantana, Florida. A basset mix, vizla/ Rhodesian ridgeback and boxer/Labrador all shed hair in her house. Fradella also uses a water-soaked microfiber cleaning cloth to remove what she calls sniggle art (dog nose prints) on sliding glass doors.

If a hairy cat balks at brushing, try a cat hair removal glove. Some are designed to massage and remove loose hair; others clean up furniture and fabrics.

Stick with washable cat or dog bedding and use a removable cover for more frequent laundering. Warming temperatures due to climate change are fostering a rise in flea populations worldwide. Food-grade (not pool-grade) diatomaceous earth sprinkled on a pet’s bedding or the pet itself is safe; the silky powder adversely affects only creatures with hard outer skeletons.

Some dogs grab a mouthful of food and join the family, trailing crumbs along the way. Instead, feed them in their crates where they feel at home, allowing 15 minutes to finish. For a dog that eats too fast and then sometimes vomits, use a puzzle-designed feeder so it has to work to get to the food.

Fradella uses food and water bowls with wide bottoms because they’re harder to overturn. Stainless steel, washed daily, is best. A waterproof mat with a raised lip helps contain mealtime spills. A static mat removes litter from a cat’s feet upon exiting the litter box.

“Dogs can be trained to put away their toys,” advises Robinson. Cats, not so much. Birds are messy, producing floating bits of feathers and scattered seed. A mesh seed catcher will capture most of it; a dry mop gathers up the rest.

Bell suggests randomly sprinkling about 15 drops of lavender essential oil on a new air filter before installing it for a fresh scent throughout the house, and regularly changing filters. Multiple pets may necessitate more frequent filter replacements, which also reduces dander and related allergy symptoms.

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e’re ready to makes some changes, shifts and adjustments beginning with September—or at least the Astro-Gods are ready to show us where we need to prepare to do so. The month kicks off with a highly charged New Moon Solar Eclipse in the self-improvement sign of Virgo. While doing so, it also forms a challenging square to the celestial taskmaster Saturn joined with the planet Mars, our inner warrior whose energies are opposing dreamy, idealistic Neptune.

In what areas of my life am I in need of reform, restructure, cathartic purification and the aspiration toward higher standards? Where are my belief structures and thought/word/action principles due for re-alignment? These are all good questions to ponder this month.

The New Moon in Libra at month’s end conjoins expansive, optimistic Jupiter as it begins its year-long trek in the sign of balance and harmony. This brings benevolent blessings to those who attempt to begin new cycles of equanimity founded on higher middle ground.

Mantras and musings for the month of September: Virgo (Aug 23-Sep 22): Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ~ Faith Baldwin

Pisces (Feb 19-Mar 20): As you start to walk out on the way, the way appears. ~ Rumi

Libra (Sep 23-Oct 22): Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Aries (Mar 21-Apr 19): Change always comes bearing gifts. ~ Price Pritchett Taurus (Apr 20-May 20): The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ~ William Blake

Scorpio (Oct 23-Nov 21): The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still. ~ Laurence J. Peter

Gemini (May 21-Jun 20): The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. ~ Japanese Proverb

Sagittarius (Nov 22-Dec 21): Change before you have to. ~ Jack Welch

Cancer (Jun 21-Jul 22): ): Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 19): Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~ Leo Tolstoy Aquarius (Jan 20-Feb 18): They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. ~ Confucius

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Shamanic Healers Training Program – 7-9:30pm. Workshops begin September 14, then the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month, SeptMay 2017 (altering dates around holidays). The Rising Fire Shamanic Healing program will teach advanced skills for a successful and meaningful healing practice. Learn to work elegantly and effectively with any client issue or disease. The nine-month intensive training will guide, nurture and inspire. Rising Fire Shamanism School & Healing Center, 1829 NE Alberta St, Ste 5, Portland. 503-288-5175. RisingFire.One@gmail.com.

Rising-Fire.com.

The Gluten-Free Food Allergy Fest – 10am-4pm, Oct 1 & 2. The GFFAFest offers consumers a fun way to interact one-on-one with manufacturers and vendors to sample products and learn more about allergy-friendly and gluten-free goods and services. The Portland Expo Center. Information or pre-purchase tickets at GFFAFest.com.

Quantum-Touch Level II Workshop – 10am5pm. Oct 8 & 9. Join Certified Quantum-Touch Instructor Judie Maron-Friend for this advanced workshop and discover effortless breakthroughs and the realization of extraordinary freedom. Call to schedule groups of 6 or more at a discount.

13 CE credits. The Quantum-Touch Level I is a prerequisite. $450 21 days prior, $500 thereafter.

Call to pay and register. 503-288-8369. JudieMaronFriend@gmail.com.

Tummo Inner Fire Retreat with Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche – Oct 13-16. Traditionally secret, Tummo is one of the highest teachings of Tantrayana.

Tulku Lobsang is a true master of Tummo and shares it with great skill, humor and compassion.

With a special combination of movement, breath and visualization, we awaken our inner fire, which opens us on the deepest levels. Participants receive a complete practice and deep philosophy of this path. Learn the map of your subtle body and discover how it is the vehicle for transforming your mind and your life. From $585. IslandWood Retreat, Bainbridge Island, WA. TulkuLobsang. org/TourPlan.

Nourishing Woman Qigong – 1:30-6pm, Dec 10; 9am-3:30pm, Dec 11. Yang Tai Gong was developed to tone the woman’s body and procreative organs, and to support the mother and her baby during pregnancy. For any age or reproductive history, also supporting smooth transitions with menopause. At The Little Church. Call Ling Gui International Healing Qigong School, 503-3805814. Info@LingGui.org. LingGui.org.

Leo (Jul 23-Aug 22): If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. ~ Anon

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calendarofevents THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Thermal Thursday – 4-6pm. Experience FDAregistered thermal imaging, a 100 percent safe screening, with no radiation, compression or pain.

Got pain or just curious? Drop in. We’ll take a free thermal picture. Learn about thermal imaging and how it can give real-time information about your state of health, including clues to unsolved health issues. Radiant Body Thermography, 1314 NW Irving St, #705, Portland. 503-775-1812. Info@ RadiantBodyThermography.com. RadiantBody Thermography.com.

The Kaula Yoga of the Mālinīvijayottara – 5:306:45pm. The first in a series of lectures by Sanskrit scholar Somadeva Vasudeva.on ancient yogic practices from an important text of Kashmir Shaivism.

Also held Sept 2, 4, 6 and 8. The Movement Center, 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland. 503-231-0383. The MovementCenter.com.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 SIBO: A Functional Medicine Approach Lunch & Learn – noon-1:30pm. With Dr. Diane Mueller NC. LAc & Miles Nichols, Lac. Learn the latest on SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth) from visiting practitioners of Living Love mindful Medicine. Bring your Lunch. This talk is open to all practitioners, or anyone interested in learning more about this interesting topic. Free. The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland.

503-688-1482. Info@TheWellspring.org. The Wellspring.org/classes.

Heal Your Body, Heal Your Eyes – 6:30-8:30pm.

Meir Schneider was born blind. After five unsuccessful surgeries on the lenses of his eyes, he was certified permanently, legally blind. After diligently practicing a regimen of self-massage and movement, within six months Schneider could recognize visual objects for the first time in his life. Within 18 months, he could read print without glasses, and today, he holds a current, unrestricted driver’s license. Learn how easy-to-perform movement and vision exercises can work together to heal your body and your eyes, and discover how the body and eyes are interrelated in the process of healing.

New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-224-4929. NRBEvents@gmail.com.

NewRenBooks.com.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 The Thinking Body, The Feeling Mind – 6-8:30pm. With Linda Lack. An introduction to a unique approach to movement training and therapeutic healing technique. The Movement Center, 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland. 503-231-0383. The MovementCenter.com.

Healing for the Highly Sensitive Person – 6:308:30pm. Empathy is a gift when used well. It can also be the root cause of your symptoms, especially if those symptoms keep recurring no matter what you’ve done. Learn a channeled 5-step process specific for Highly Sensitive Persons to clear your lethargy, lack of focus, heavy heartedness, tight muscles or other forms of pain and illness.

Volunteers will receive an on-the-spot reading and for some, a release of the underlying cause. Dave Markowitz is a medical intuitive and conduit of Source energy and information. New Renaissance

Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-2244929. NRBEvents@gmail.com. NewRenBooks. com. DaveMarkowitz.com.

Vibrational Healing In Oneness – 7-9pm. A community sound and energy healing circle with drumming, toning, reiki and other modalities. Allow your spiritual connection to come through in service to yourself and others. Be guided by your hosts Kim “Alder” McDonald and Jamie “Cedar” Rogers into a mysterious metaphysical experience led by spirit and guided by intuition. Come offer, receive. Leave rejuvenated, refreshed. $20 Heart Exchange. 3535 SW Coronado, Portland. 503-621-6178. Cedar@ CedarPathways.com. CedarPathways.com. DrummingInOneness.com.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Quantum-Touch Level I Workshop – 10am5pm. Sept 10 & 11. Certified Quantum-Touch instructor Judie Maron-Friend offers a two-day intensive energy healing workshop which may forever change your life at the quantum level. Call to schedule a group of six or more at a discount. 13 CE credits. Open to novice or professional. $400.

503-288-8369. JudieMaronFriend@gmail.com.

QuantumTouch.com.

Natural Vision Improvement – 10am-5:30pm.

Sept 10 & 11. Meir Schneider, Ph.D., LMT, healed himself of congenital blindness and developed an original holistic approach to health. His method is a unique combination of therapeutic massage, movement and natural vision improvement exercises for prevention and rehabilitation of degenerative conditions. Learn to use your muscles more efficiently to enhance relaxation, increase mobility, reduce pain, prevent degenerative conditions and improve your vision. OSM, 9500 SW Barbur Blvd, #100, Portland.

503-244-3420. LB@OregonSchoolOfMassage. com. OregonSchoolOfMassage.com.

Wholistic Nutrition Student Clinic – 1:30pm, Sept 10; 9:30 & 11:15am, Sept 11. With Ryan Feeney & Bari Mandelbaum. Receive an in-depth nutritional assessment & lifestyle recommendations from a soon-to-be graduate Wholistic Nutrition Program student practitioner. All student clinics are instructor supervised. Donation based. The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-6881482. Info@TheWellspring.org. TheWellspring. org/classes.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Shamanic Drumming n’ Dreaming Guided Visualization Journey – 7:30-9pm. Feel and experience being supported, loved and connected with the earth, with your spiritual guides and helpers, with the trees, plants, animals, elements and the universe. Allow the vibrations of the drum to send you deeper inside yourself, opening you to greater life wisdom. Fully guided by your hosts Kim “Alder” McDonald and Jamie “Cedar” Rogers. $20 Heart Exchange. 3535 SW Coronado, Portland. 503-621-6178. Cedar@ CedarPathways.com CedarPathways.com. DrummingInOneness.com.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Drum Jam Music Improvisation: Drumming, Chanting, Moving & Healing – 7-9pm. Set your intention, have fun and be playful with opened

awareness. Bring instruments or use what’s available. This is an improvisational music jam of free flowing vibrations, of listening and creating—a wonderful way to explore and express thoughts, feelings and creativity in a safe community. Hosted

by Kim “Alder” McDonald and Jamie “Cedar” Rogers. $5-10 donation. 3535 SW Coronado, Portland. 503-621-6178. Cedar@CedarPathways.com.

CedarPathways.com. DrummingInOneness.com.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Shamanic Healers Training Program – 7-9:30pm.

Workshops begin September 14, then the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month, Sept-May 2017 (altering dates around holidays). The Rising Fire Shamanic Healing program will teach advanced skills for a successful and meaningful healing practice. Learn to work elegantly and effectively with any client issue or disease. The nine-month intensive training will guide, nurture and inspire. 1829 NE Alberta St, Ste 5, Portland. Rising Fire Shamanism School & Healing Center. 503-288-5175. RisingFire.One@gmail.com. Rising-Fire.com.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Full Moon Fire Ceremony – 7-9pm. Fire ceremonies have been used by our ancestors through the ages as ritual, celebration or connection to Spirit. This Peruvian-style fire ceremony is built to pray, give thanks and release dense energy to be transmuted to light. Come join a community of like-minded souls. This is an extremely potent form of ceremony. Register on Meetup or call. Rising Fire Shamanism School & Healing Center. 6505 SE Monroe, Milwaukie. 503-288-5175. Info@RisingFire.com. Rising-Fire.com.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Meditation Solutions for Healing – 11am-1pm. At 25, Avital was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s and told she would be on medication for the rest of her life. When she began to meditate with a higher power in mind, she was able to heal and become free of medication. Avital has put together Meditation Solutions that, when applied, will give you choice in how your body feels and strength to do the things you love. Avital, author of the upcoming book Healing Happens, has been leading healing, yoga and spiritual dance programs for over 13 years, is certified through Ananda Yoga, and has been trained in Pranic Healing and Ananda’s advanced healing course. New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-224-4929.

NRBEvents@gmail.com NewRenBooks.com.

AvitalMiller.com.

Wholistic Nutrition Everyday – 1-3:30pm. Six consecutive Saturdays, starting September 17. With Rylen Feeney. Explore the fundamentals of wholefoods-based nutrition, energetics, food politics and more. Tasty snacks are an essential part of each class as we explore different foods to support a healthy holistic lifestyle. $250 (see website for specials).

Eligible for 14 CEU hours. The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-6881482. Info@TheWellspring.org. TheWellspring. org/classes.

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Crystal Bowl Sound Bath – 5-6:30pm. An evening of high vibrational crystal bowl sound healing with Shalom Mayberg. These bowls, made from pure crystal quartz, will leave you feeling nourished, balanced, radiant and bright. Crystal bowl sound baths help promote deep relaxation, relieve stress and allow the mind and body to let go, making room for healing and rest. Please bring a mat; a few will be provided. Shalom is a sound and energy healer who teaches yoga and meditation to assist others in removing blockages for a more fulfilling life.

New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-224-4929. NRBEvents@gmail.com NewRenBooks.com.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 Lifting Your Spirit with Nutrition – 9am-5:30pm.

With Heather Schrock. Explore the world of nutrition and mental health, and the many connections that exist between the two. Understand the connection between what we eat, what we don’t eat and how our emotions are affected. Eligible for 7 CEU hours. $150. The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-688-1482. Info@ TheWellspring.org. TheWellspring.org/classes.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Gallery of Metaphysical Arts – 6-8pm. For practitioners and others interested in expanding their knowledge, developing their skills and serving their community in a powerful way. Come listen and learn. 3rd Monday of every month. New Renaissance Bookshop Event Center, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. Matthew Koren, 503-765-6542.

Matt@SpiritInTransition.com. SpiritInTransition. com/goma.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Meditation for First Responders – 6pm. Free hourlong meditation for first responders and healthcare professionals. Welcome all ER workers, firefighters, EMTs, Medics, nurses, docs and techs. Come relax and detox from the stress of your day. Temple Medicine Healing. 503-421-2075. Amy@TempleMedicine.com. TempleMedicineHealing.com.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Singing Crystal Bowls Meditations – 7:309:30pm. Each Solstice, Equinox and a special celebration on Diwali, we meditate with the singing crystal bowls, with folks locally and non-locally, for peace, harmony and love for the planet. Free Lending Library, veggie refreshments/herbal tea, Chakra balancing and healing. Thu 9/22; Sun 10/30 (Diwali); Wed 12/21. Yuletide Party begins at 6:30pm. Energy exchange $10. Confirm attendance: 503-288-8369. JudieMaronFriend@gmail.com.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 Walking Off Parkinsonian Symptoms – 2-3:30pm.

Learn “Conscious Walking” from John Pepper, a South African man made famous by The New York Times best-selling author Norman Doidge, MD, in his 2015 book The Brain’s Way of Healing. At age 81, diagnosed with PD over 30 years ago, John Pepper demonstrates how he tackled his symptoms.

Open to all, but of special interest to PD patients, caretakers, yoga therapists and others interested in symptom management of degenerative disorders, MS, dementia and neurological illnesses. $15 online at FeldenkraisPDX.com or $20 at the door.

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Ave, Portland. Contact the Feldenkrais Center of Portland, 503-313-9813. Susan.Marshall@ FeldenkraisPDX.com.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 The Second Annual Portland Celtic Faire – 10am-5pm. There will be music, singing, dancing, sword demonstrations, food and a Kilts and Corsets competition. Fun for the whole family and much more. Shute Park in Hillsboro. More information CelticFairePDX.com.

Fall Qigong Series – 2-4pm. Sept 24; Oct 1, 15, 22; Nov 5, 12. Qigong of the Great White Crane is a graceful walking form that works primarily on the lungs. The lungs, through breathing, are the first of the body’s organs to have contact with the universe.

By strengthening the lung energy, this form greatly harmonizes one’s immune system and emotions.

Harmony Yoga, 2108 NE 41st Ave, Portland. Call Ling Gui International Healing Qigong School, 503-380-5814. Info@LingGui.org. LingGui.org.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 Thermal Thursday – 4-6pm. Experience FDAregistered thermal imaging, a 100 percent safe screening, with no radiation, compression or pain.

Got pain or just curious? Drop in. We’ll take a free

thermal picture. Learn about thermal imaging and how it can give real-time information about your state of health, including clues to unsolved health issues. Radiant Body Thermography, 1314 NW Irving St, #705, Portland. 503-775-1812. Info@ RadiantBodyThermography.com. RadiantBody Thermography.com.

Last Thursdays Drink & Draw – 7pm. Come sip on an herbal-infused elixir and enjoy drawing. This is a body-positive experience with a model. If you’d like to bring a special object for the altar to spark imagination and create sacredness, please do so.

Art supplies provided. Temple Medicine Healing, 1716 NE 49th Ave, Portland. 503-421-2075. Amy@ Temple-Medicine.com. TempleMedicineHealing. com.

Deepak Chopra Discusses the Future of WellBeing – 7:30-9:30pm. Portlanders will have a chance to experience Deepak predicting the future of well-being and raising the awareness and consciousness of the audience, creating an unforgettable evening for everyone involved. Oregon Convention Center, 777 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Portland. Tickets available at IAmGenie.org/events/deepak-choprain-portland.

ongoingevents sunday Morning “Loving Kindness” Meditation Group – 9am-noon. Fourth Sunday. Experience group meditation with meditators and beginners alike.

There will be multiple sits with discussion in between. Bring a sit cushion; chairs available. Call or email to register. Group is offered at “no charge”.

With Paul M. Rakoczy, Reiki Master. 3939 NE Hancock, Ste 205, Portland. 503-997-8611. PMR1354@ hotmail.com.

Local Angelic Shamanic Healer Tawnya Love Live – 5pm Pacific on TheTawnyaLoveShow.com.

Have an important message? Contact Tawnya Love at TawnyaAngel@gmail.com for an opportunity to be interviewed on the live show. Join the conversation via live chat or call in to the show for a complimentary reading. Weekly blog at TawnyaAngel555. com. Schedule a one-on-one reading or Angelic Auric Clearing: 360-567-7576.

Introduction to the Ascended Masters – The saints, east and west, have mastered the energies of this earthly plane and ascended into spirit realms.

They are our teachers for such topics as the violet flame, angels, twin flames, soul mates, karma, reincarnation, the higher self, nature spirits and the Ascension. Study group at Hillsdale Library, 1525 SW Sunset Blvd, Portland. The Summit Lighthouse of Portland. 360-910-8004. PaulL@Hei.net. Tsl.org.

monday T’ai Chi Chuan Yang Style – 5:30-6:30pm. With Michael Guida. T’ai Chi Chuan is a Taoist form of exercise and active meditation. Practicing the form promotes greater energy awareness and selfdevelopment. All levels welcome. $12 drop-in (see

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website for specials). The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-6881482. Info@TheWellspring.org. TheWellspring. org/classes.

Gallery of Metaphysical Arts – 6-8pm. 3rd Monday. The Gallery of Metaphysical Arts is for practitioners and others interested in expanding their knowledge, developing their skills and serving their community in a powerful way—come listen and learn. At New Renaissance Bookshop Event Center, 1338 NW 23rd Ave, Portland. 503-765-6542.

Matt@SpiritInTransition.com. SpiritInTransition. com/goma.

Art, Meditation and Healing Women’s Group – 6:30-9pm. 1st & 3rd Mondays of the Month.

Ongoing group working with our unique imagery to inform, teach and heal. Meditation to center, art materials to express, group to witness. No experience needed. 7110 SW Fir Loop, #250, Portland.

503-926-2490. MGreene442@gmail.com. My JourneyWay.com.

Art, Meditation and the Dream Group – 6:309pm. 2nd Monday; starts Sept 12. Ongoing women’s group working with dream imagery using art materials, group process and meditation to increase self-awareness. No experience needed. 7110 SW Fir Loop #250, Portland. Margaret Greene, 503-9262490. MGreene442@gmail.com. MyJourneyWay. com.

The Movement Center Community Meditation Program – 7-8pm. Join us for chanting, satsang and guided meditation in our beautiful meditation hall.

Children’s program downstairs during meditation.

Community yoga ($5) before meditation, from 5:45-6:45pm. No program on Labor Day, Sept 5.

The Movement Center, 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland.

503-231-0383. TheMovementCenter.com.

Acupuncture Meditation Group – 7:30-10pm.

Second Monday. Journey toward self-discovery

and wholeness. Connect, share, embody, transform.

Meditate with the archetypes associated with the selected acupuncture points, and explore relationships between these energies. $25 in advance; $30 at the door. The Everett House Healing Center, 2917 NE Everett St, Portland. 704-995-9926. MelanieM. LAc@gmail.com. BlossomingEarth.com.

Me Time 4 Teachers – This weekly online class provides teachers with simple ways to self-nurture through life coaching and light coursework. It covers the topics of self-reflection, relieving stress, emotional well-being and clearing negativity from one’s environment. Coaching calls are 30 minutes weekly. $199/four weeks. Questions: text 720-3013993. Register at Heart2HeartCoaching.org.

tuesday Art and Meditation Day Group – 9:30am-noon.

3rd Tuesday; starts Sept 20. Ongoing women’s group using art and meditation to increase self-awareness. No experience needed. 7110 SW Fir Loop #250, Portland. Margaret Greene, 503-926-2490.

MGreene442@gmail.com. MyJourneyWay.com.

Amma Therapy Student Clinic– 9:30am, 10:45am, 12pm, 4pm, 5:15pm, 6:30pm. Apr 19-Nov 15. With Rylen Feeney & Michael Guida. The Wellspring School’s Amma Therapy Student Clinic is a perfect way to experience Amma Therapy at an affordable price. Appointments are available for all ages. $35 for one-hour treatment (see website for specials).

The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-688-1482. Info@TheWellspring. org. TheWellspring.org/classes.

Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Class – 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: MCYoga. com/calendar.

Tuesday Night Weekly Meditation – 7-8pm. Cultivate presence in your life through meditation, sacred play and centering techniques. Learn to transform and release dense energy from the body, mind and energy field. We focus on different methods each week to build and enhance the foundation of our practice. Rising Fire Shamanism: School & Healing Center, 1829 NE Alberta St, Ste 5, Portland. 503288-5175. Info@Rising-Fire.com. Rising-Fire.com.

Max Meditation: Five Ways to Connect with Your Spirit – 7-8pm. Max Meditation for the busy, modern seeker. Our thoughts affect the collective energy field of the universe. This energy field inspires our thoughts, and thoughts inspire our actions. Max Meditation increases the effectiveness of the time we invest in meditation, so we get more benefits with less effort. Practice five modalities in one hour. 503415-9533. SpiritInTransition.com/max-meditation.

wednesday Senior Discount – Every first Wednesday of the month is Senior Morning at the Hollywood Grocery Outlet. During this time, anyone 55 or better will receive 10 percent off their total purchase (excludes alcohol). Hollywood Grocery Outlet, 4420 NE

Hancock St, Portland. 503-282-5248.

1,000 Hands Buddha Qigong – 12:15-1:15pm.

Aug 17-Oct 5. With Jen Stone. Qigong is an ancient internal martial art connecting breath, visualization and movement. 1,000 Hands Buddha is an elegant form consisting of a series of hand mudras, which help release our suffering and reawaken our hearts. $12 drop-in (see website for specials). The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-688-1482. Info@TheWellspring.org.

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Mindful Living: Learning Skills for Authentic Presence, Intention & Comunication – 6-7pm.

With Michelle Vosika-Cooper. Sept 21-Nov 16. This eight-week series of skill building and experiential exercise is designed to help you uncover a more mindful you. $12 drop-in (see website for specials).

The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-688-1482. Info@TheWellspring. org. TheWellspring.org/classes.

Somatic Essentials - Essential Oils 101+Meditation – 6-8pm. Join Jamie Smith for a weekly essential oil education series. We will cover the fundamentals of what an essential oil is, how they work, why dōTERRA and methods of application and safety. Learn how essential oils can support the immune system, mood, hormonal system and more, while empowering us to take control of our health.

We will also incorporate some gentle movement and meditation, as well as an in-depth study of one oil every week. 3329 SE Madison St, Portland.

MyDoTerra.com/jamiepsmith. ReclaimingPdx.com.

Gentle Yoga/Meditation – 6:30-8pm. Ready for greater alignment of the body, mind and soul? Ready to consciously create the life you were born to live?

Step in weekly with consistency and observe the great inner shifts with your Source that will ignite great outer shifts in your life situation. 10-class punch cards or drop-ins are available. Buy two 10-class punch cards and get second card half price.

Divinely Inspired Healing and Art from the Heart, 208 NE 117th St, Vancouver. RSVP: 360-567-7576.

The Movement Center Community Meditation Program – 7-8pm. Join us for chanting and guided meditation. Community yoga ($5) before meditation, from 5:45-6:45pm. The Movement Center, 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland. 503-231-0383.

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Evening Reiki Share Group with Paul M Rakoczy, Reiki Master – 7pm. 1st Wednesday. Share or exchange reiki energy with practitioners and beginners alike. No experience necessary to encounter the warm energy. Donations accepted. Call or email to register. Individual sessions and attunements by appointment. 3939 NE Hancock, Ste 205, Portland.

503-997-8611. PMR1354@hotmail.com.

Shamanic Healers Training Program – 7-9:30pm.

Workshops begin September 14, then the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month, Sept-May 2017 (altering dates around holidays). The Rising Fire Shamanic Healing program will teach advanced skills for a successful and meaningful healing practice. Learn to work elegantly and effectively with any client issue or disease. The nine-month intensive training will guide, nurture and inspire.

Rising Fire Shamanism School & Healing Center.

1829 NE Alberta St, Ste 5, Portland. 503-288-5175.

RisingFire.One@gmail.com. Rising-Fire.com.

thursday T’ai Chi Chuan Yang Style – 9-10am. With Michael Guida. T’ai Chi Chuan is a Taoist form of exercise and active meditation. Practicing the form promotes greater energy awareness and selfdevelopment. All levels welcome. $12 drop-in (see website for specials). The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-6881482. Info@TheWellspring.org. TheWellspring. org/classes.

Intro to Feldenkrais: Integrating Shoulder, Hip & Knee Movement with the Spine – 5:45-6:45pm.

Sept 8-Oct 13. (6 consecutive classes). With Susan Marshall. Influenced by yoga and martial arts, Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais developed a series of lessons designed to improve life through movement, to encourage conscious attention to small movements.

By engaging the brain and nervous system, people learn in a simple, pleasurable way. $12 drop-in (see website for specials). The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-6881482. Info@TheWellspring.org. TheWellspring. org/classes.

Introduction to the Ascended Masters – Study group in Vancouver, Orchards area. See full description under Sunday listing. The Summit Lighthouse of Portland. 360-910-8004. PaulL@Hei.net. Tsl.org.

friday 100 Handprint Healing Ritual – 5:30-7:30pm.

1st three Fridays each month. A powerful way to address challenges to physical, mental or emotional health. Call to reserve a place. The Movement Center, 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland. 503-231-0383.

TheMovementCenter.com.

saturday Return to Kidney Qigong – 8-9:15am. Aug 13-Nov 19. With Rylen Feeney. Qigong is an ancient internal martial art connecting breath, visualization and movement. Return to Kidney exercises emphasize developing balanced and harmonious circulation of qi throughout the entire body. $12 drop-in (see website for specials) The Wellspring School, 2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202, Portland. 503-6881482. Info@TheWellspring.org. TheWellspring. org/classes.

Level 1 Yoga – 9:30-11am. Join us for a yoga class and start off Saturday relaxed and de-stressed.

Detailed instruction and individualized attention.

Intro package: two classes for $15. Harmony Yoga, 2108 NE 41st Ave, Portland. 503-335-8851.

HarmonyYogaPdx.com.

Empowering the Empath Level 1 Mentorship – 4-7pm. Every 3rd Saturday. Calling all empaths and sensitive souls. Ready to clear the fear and step in and embody your full power and potential?

Ready to cultivate and strengthen your empathic and psychic gifts? This is the workshop/mentorship for you. 208 NE 117th St, Vancouver. 360-567-7576.

TawnyaAngel@gmail.com. TawnyaAngel555.com.

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communityresourceguide Connecting you to the leaders in natural healthcare and green living in our community. To find out how you can be included in the Community Resource Guide email Publisher@NAPortland.com to request our media kit.

ACUPUNCTURE

chiropractic JUDITH BOOTHBY, MS DC PC

All Ways Well, LLC

Rebecca Hurwood, LAc 1525 SW Park Ave, Ste 103, Portland 503-267-5570 AllWaysWell.com 2014 Nattie Award Winner - Voted Favorite Acupuncture/TCM Practitioner and Favorite Natural Women’s Health Specialist. Facial Acupuncture, Foot Reflexology, Gentle and Effective Acupuncture; Insurance Accepted! Book online; free consult available!

BODY SCREENING RADIANT BODY THERMOGRAPHY 1314 NW Irving St, #705 Portland, OR 97209 503-775-1812 Info@RadiantBodyThermography.com

A medical thermography clinic providing 100% safe, non-invasive, painless breast and full body screening utilizing digital infrared thermal imaging.

Reports written by thermologists, board-certified physicians.

1620 SE Ankeny St, Portland, OR 97214 503-233-0943 ThirdWayChiropractic.com Dr Boothby utilizes a soft tissue technique to relieve structural tension on the nervous system and restore ground support to the body.

North Portland Wellness Center

Chiropractic, Acupuncture and Massage 4922 N Vancouver Ave, at Alberta St 503-493-9398 NorthPortlandWellness.com We specialize in Injury Treatment, Auto Accident Recovery, Acute & Chronic Pain Relief and Family Health & Wellness. At the North Portland Wellness Center our dedicated team provides effective medicine in a warm, comfortable environment.

chiro/B.E.S.T/KST Marina Zare, DC

925 NW Overton, Portland, OR 97209 503-477-6322 BodyElementsPdx.com

books, gifts & Events New Renaissance

Books, Gifts and Events for Conscious Living 1338 NW 23rd Ave at Pettygrove, Portland 503-224-4929 NewRenBooks.com Oregon’s largest metaphysical book and gift store specializing in spiritual books from all traditions. Events to enlighten, educate and entertain. Full event listings at NewRenBooks.com.

Using numerous innovative technologies in the filed of chiropractic, I help people reach a higher sense of physical, biochemical, emotional and overall state of well being. Improvement in chronic pain, allergies, asthma, digestion, sleep, mobility, energy, vitality, ADHD/ADD... Experience a different flavor of chiropractic!

cleaning EcoMaids

503-908-0950 EcoMaids.com/portland EcoMaids is Oregon’s premier green cleaning company serving homes and businesses. We are committed to creating safe and healthful spaces for your family, pets, and coworkers; while reducing harmful toxins in our ecosystem.

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Coaching & Consulting David Bartky

Certified Law of Attraction Life Coach 973-444-7301 Info@LifeCoachDavid.com LifeCoachDavid.com Are you ready to start attracting what you want, instead of what you don’t want? I can coach you on how to do that! First session is free. “Phone coaching at its best!”

SALSBURY & CO. April Salsbury 503-850-8411 SalsburyAndCo.com

Building strong foundations and growing your business. Business & healthcare private practice consulting.

Spirit IN TRANSITION Matthew Koren 503-765-6542 SpiritInTransition.com

We coach you to break through challenges and live an extraordinary life, on purpose and powerfully.

Ancient traditions meet modern science to deliver tools essential to living your dreams while expressing your unique, spiritual gifts.

CONSTRUCTION GLACIER VALLEY BUILDERS LLC

A Full Service Construction Company 503-893-9318 GlacierValleyBuilders.com Small Local Family Run Business specializing in additions, remodels, and ADUs. We also take on smaller projects and provide property maintenance for rental properties.

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY RUBATO CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY 10403 SE 10th St, Vancouver 360-624-5151 JimIvories.net

Help with whiplash, migraines, PTSD, concentration, dizziness, TMJ, neck/shoulder/back pain, and more--in a peaceful setting. Jim Templeton, LMP #MA00013314

dentist AAdvanced Dental

Dr Inna Shimanovsky, DMD 1508 Washington St, Oregon City 503-659-3003 AAdvancedDental.com The Smile for your Healthy life.

State-of-the-art dental care with your comfort in mind, while also caring about the world we live in.

Aesthetic Dentistry of Lake Dr. InnaOswego Shimanovsky, DMD Larry Bowden, DMD 17720 Jean Way, Ste 200, Lake Oswego 888-588-3745 LakeOswegoCosmeticDentist.com

We are dedicated to providing our guests with comprehensive dental excellence in a friendly, relaxing atmosphere so that optimal health, beauty and comfort can be realized for individual needs. The finest quality will always be provided.

Dental Designs

Lance J. Heppler DMD, FAGD 900 SE Chkalov Dr, Vancouver 360-896-1449 DentalDesignsVancouver.com Dr. Lance Heppler’s mission is to put patients at ease. His friendly demeanor is easy to talk to and his attention to detail means you’ll always be getting the very best in dental care. His approach to dentistry is to meet patient needs by blending art, science and intuition. Dr. Heppler follows an amalgam removal protocol to safely remove mercury fillings.

energy healing Hands of Freedom Healing/ Quantum-Touch®

Judie Maron-Friend, Certified QT Level I, II & Self Created Health Instructor/Practitioner 8725 NE Broadway St, Portland 503-288-8369 JudieMaronFriend@gmail.com VitalityLink.com/p/hofh When one learns Quantum-Touch®, 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.

Healing LOTUS

503-609-07987 Rachel@Healing-Lotus.com Healing-Lotus.com Certified Quantum Touch and Energy Healer, Rachel takes a holistic approach, incorporating healing modalities to support and enhance your body and minds ability to self-heal.

classifieds Fee for classifieds is $20 for up to 50 words. $1 per word for additional words. To place listing, email content to Calendar@NAPortland.com. Deadline is the 12th of the month. #1 Premium CBD (Cannabidiol) Hemp Oil – Pain,Anxiety, Sleep, Focus. 954 415 0942. Pure ScienceLab.com.

Buy Super Greens – Adjust your PH and get alkaline. 504 669 0048. BuySuperGreens.net.

Natural Specialty Food, Snacks, Soda and Gifts from JW Merc – Monthly feature: “get-to-know-us” intro boxes (3 to choose from) includes real maple syrup, Oregon hazelnuts, Mineral Refresher and more. Free office delivery in PDX/’Couv. Cash/check OK - C-Cards via PayPal on website. Call/text 208 424 0042 or write JWMerc@gmail.com.

feed supply Concentrates, Inc.

Wholesale & Retail since 1938 5505 SE International Way, Milwaukie 503-234-7501 ConcentratesNW.com

TEMPLE MEDICINE HEALING

Amy Kimmick, BSN RN 1716 NE 42nd Ave, Portland TempleMedicineHealing.com My work brings you back to you, by way of energy healing, mediumship, and knowledge of the body to release ancestral patterns and emotions.

Jay Harris Levy, DDS

Holistic Dental Care 511 SW 10th Ave, Ste 1102, Portland 503-222-2157 JayHarrisLevy@gmail.com JayHarrisLevy.com

TRINITI Healing

Hypno-Chakra Therapy Nicole Alcyon, Certified Hypnotherapist 323-842-3589 TrinitiHealing@yahoo.com

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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 and hip pain, recover from workplace, auto and bike accidents, sleep better and more.

Find out why Norman Doige, MD in his 2015 NY Times Bestseller, The Brain’s Way of Healing, highlights the Feldenkrais Method® as applied neuroplasticity—using your brain and nervous system for effective recovery.

HEALTHy FOODS GROCERY OUTLET

4420 NE Hancock, Portland, 97213 503-282-5248 GroceryOutlet.com Your neighborhood market! Foods, health & beauty products, general merchandise, beer, wine & produce. Check out our huge selection of NOSH (Natural, Organic, Specialty & Healthy)!

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Light Therapy TRIOASIS PDX

The Wellspring School for Healing Arts

5520 SW Macadam, Ste 150, Portland, OR 971-205-5593 TriOasisPDX1@gmail.com

2440 NE MLK Jr Blvd, Ste 202 Portland 503-688-1482 TheWellspring.org

Offering comprehensive training and education in Wholistic Nutrition, Chinese Medicine, Amma Bodywork Therapy, Herbs and Movement Arts since 1995.

HOLISTIC LIFE GUIDE

TriOasis can help you increase circulation, reduce pain, and speed healing using Low Level LED Lights, Mild Hyperbaric Oxygen, Whole Body Vibration, and much more!!

massage Sacred StonE Massage

JAMIE “CEDAR” ROGERS, MA 503-621-6178 Cedar@CedarPathways.com CedarPathways.com

Interpret messages from the body, heart, and spirit, transform blockages, and explore heart-centered life direction. Holistic approach, utilizing artistic, energetic, reflective, and metaphoric pathways.

holistic Wellness

360-949-3172 SacredStoneMassage.com Cupping, Reiki,Reflexology, Essential Oils. Online booking available. By appointment only.

massage training OREGON SCHOOL OF MASSAGE

Training LMT’s for over 25 years 9500 SW Barbur Blvd, Portland 503-244-3420 OregonSchoolOfMassage.com

By Design Bodywork

Ray J. Drlik, CMTA, FDN, LMT 7460 SW Hunziker St, Ste H, Tigard 503-901-6013 Ray@ByDesignBodywork.com ByDesignBodywork.com

DOT CHAKRA

Chakra Opening Classes & Products 408-910-9345 DotChakra.com

Nutrition Nourish Northwest

hypnoTHERAPY

Nutrition & Fitness Studio 4418 SE Hawthorne Blvd, Portland 503-234-7280 NourishNorthwest.com

LOVING KINDNESS HypnoSIS

Laney Coulter, BCH, NLP 7135 N Vincent Ave, Portland 503-289-3614 Laney@LovingKindnessHypnosis.com LovingKindnessHypnosis.com

3939 NE Hancock, Ste 213, Portland 503-380-5814; 206-817-4117 Info@LingGui.org LingGui.org

Celebrating 26 years of qigong teachers’ training with over 15,000 qigong teachers worldwide. Approved Continuing Education Providers with NCCAOM & California Acupuncture Board. We are happy to offer a number of deeply fulfilling certification programs for dedicated practitioners of Qigong, as well as public workshops for people who wish to learn for self-healing.

reflexology NANCIE HINES

NBCR Certifed Reflexologist Portland Reflexology 503-867-2778 PortlandReflexology.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.

shamanic healing

Laney is a Board Certified Hypnotist who is available to help you with the following and more: Fertility, Business Success, Motivation, General Sadness, Weight Mastery, Smoking Cessation, Relationship Issues, Phobias, Anxiety, Anger Issues and Breaking Habits.

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My goal is to work with YOU to help YOUR body work the way it was designed to work.

Together we’ll build on natural solutions to nourish your body. Tap into your “Inner Physician” and regain your zest for life. For more information, check out my website or call for a free consultation.

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ORGANIC SALONs HAIRAPY PDX

4640 SW Garden Home Rd, Portland 503-360-1324 HairapyPDX.com

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Hairapy PDX is an organic and ammonia-free salon promoting beauty, wellness and green living by being free of chemicals, damaging toxins, and harmful carcinogens.

African Shamanic Healer Diviner Downtown Portland 503-922-4585 MyShamanHealer@gmail.com

We combine Primordial and modern spiritual tools to Heal emotional, physical and spiritual dis-ease.

We help you remove or circumvent karmic and other obstacles inhibiting your progress in life, love, relationship, career, spiritual pursuits, and female-centric spiritual solutions regarding childbirth and miscarriage.

shamanic healing TAWNYA LOVE

Intuitive Angelic Shamanic Healer 360-567-7576 TawnyaAngel@gmail.com TawnyaAngel555.com TheTawnyaLoveShow.com

RISING FIRE SHAMANISM School & Healing Center 1829 NE Alberta St, Ste 5, Portland, OR 97211 503-288-5175 Rising-Fire.com info@Rising-Fire.com

Rising Fire integrates energy healing with psychological process and awareness training. This exceptional approach develops emotional intelligence and freedom in daily life.

Healing services, nutrition counseling, coaching, classes, and community events.

TANTRIC healing THE TANTRA STUDIO, LLC Maria D Sigel C.P 1235 SE Division St, Portland 503-884-7032 TheTantraStudio.com

therapy/counseling JULIE GLASER,

MA, LPC, CADCIII Counseling & Hypnotherapy 2304 E Burnside, #2, Portland 503-752-1893 JulieGlaser.com

Paul M Rakoczy, LCSW Humanistic Psychotherapy/ Reiki 3939 NE Hancock, Ste 205 503-997-8611 Pmr1354@hotmail.com PaulRakoczyTherapist.com BARTON S SLOAN, LISW, BCD, EMDR Certified Therapist and Consultant 222 NE Park Plaza Vancouver, WA 98671 360-254-3642 BSloanLCSW@icloud.com BartonSloanLISW.com Providing services for couples, adults, and children.

Call or email for an appointment.

Veterinary care TWO RIVERS VETERINARY CLINIC

3808 N Williams Ave, Ste 129 Portland, OR 97227 503-280-2000 TwoRiversVet.com

yoga GOod beginnings YOGA

GoodBeginningsYoga@yahoo.com GoodBeginningsYoga.com Prenatal + Mom & Baby yoga with Sound healing. Classes in North Portland.

INSTITUTE OF AYURVedic yoga THERAPY

Susan Bass, E-RYT 500, Registered Ayurvedic Practitioner & Nutritional Consultant, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapist 3430 SE Belmont St, Portland 503-208-2716 AyurvedicYogaTherapy.org

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Our school is certified by Yoga Alliance, National Ayurvedic Medical Association & Association Ayurvedic Practitioners North America.

KARMA YOGA & FITNESS

13031 SE 84th Ave Clackamas, 97015 503-482-8620 Info@KarmaYogaAndFitness.com KarmaYogaAndFitness.com

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THE MOVEMENT CENTER YOGA STUDIO 1021 NE 33rd Ave, Portland 503-231-0383 TheMovementCenter.com

Hatha yoga for all levels, workshops & specialty classes, private sessions, teacher training & yoga studies program, at a beautiful meditation and retreat center in the heart of the city.

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