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

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I will not list all there was that needed healing, but I can say that I have healed. I think anybody over age 40 probably needs healing for a whole list of ailments. Some of us are looking for healing from pretty much the entire sum totality of the first half of our lives.

I did not take very good care of myself during the first half.

But it’s never too late to get started. I started trying to heal myself in earnest around 2009. I went for a week-long intensive course of “Brainwave Optimization” at Brain State Technologies main headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona. It consisted of several sessions of listening to music-like patterns of synthesizer-produced sound tones that represented the active, living beta, alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves in my brain. The goal was to get my brain to hear its own wave patterns so it could recognize what was out of balance and fix itself by resetting. It was quite pleasant, and it did work. I left Arizona feeling a lot more relaxed, balanced, calm and clear than I had felt in a while. It is an excellent example of the idea that, in all illness and imbalance, it is the body that really heals itself.

In the last four years I have gotten ever more serious about healing myself. I have tried many different things. Taking over the publication of Natural Awakenings has been a huge factor in my healing journey. I have been introduced to healers, healing modalities, practices and philosophies that I had never been exposed to before. The magazine has been a great blessing in my life. I have tried many different therapies that our local healers offer, and there are many more things I would like to try.

One thing I recommend is colon hydrotherapy. I did a 12-session cycle of colonics with Tom Jarvis in Madison, and it was enormously beneficial. Anybody over 40 needs to do this in my opinion. Younger people can benefit, too. Believe me, you will feel better than you have in years after a few colonics.

I try to get a massage once a week. I visit a chiropractor on occasion. I have tried Reiki and reflexology and recommend both of them highly. I have seen the dramatic benefits of acupuncture on my cat and have no doubt that it would work just as well on humans. Acupuncture is next up on my list of things to try.

Right now I am into juicing. I drink two quarts of carrot, apple, beet, ginger, and fresh-squeezed lemon juice almost every day. I stole the ingredient list, though not the recipe, from the Juice Bar in Huntsville, who calls it “We Got the Beet.”

Their version still tastes better than mine, though mine’s pretty tasty, and it feels like I’ve drunk a glass of pure health. (Gulp). Ahhhh!

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newsbriefs Feng Shui Expert Visiting Huntsville for the Summer

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lear Englebert is an Alabama native currently living in Hawaii, but back in Huntsville for the summer. He founded three Huntsville bookstores: A Good Book Store, Books as Seeds, and Opening Books. He has practiced and taught feng shui since 1995. Clear is a recognized feng shui expert, appearing on television, radio, and in the print media. He’s offering affordable consultations for homes and businesses as well as $10 Tuesday night classes during June & July at the Clear Englebert HoM Yoga Studio downtown.

On June 24 at 6:30pm, Clear will offer a free two-hour workshop on “Chi Energy Flow Inside the Home” at the Huntsville Main Library. On July 17 at 6pm, he’ll give a free one-hour lecture at the Bailey Cove Library on “The Feng Shui Bagua” emphasizing the Wealth and Relationship Corners.

Clear emphasizes common sense in his approach to feng shui, avoiding consumerism and superstition. He says this about his practice:

“Throughout my life, I’ve tried to help people achieve their highest potential. I’ve found feng shui to be a very profound aid in accomplishing that. It can show us how to eliminate unintentional obstacles in our personal environment. I couldn’t practice feng shui if I didn’t believe in it, and I wouldn’t believe in it if I hadn’t seen it work.”

He has written five highly acclaimed books, including Feng Shui Demystified, Bedroom Feng Shui, and Feng Shui for Retail Stores. His books are available in four languages.

For more information, call 256-881-7490 or visit Fungshway.com. See listing, page 30.

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This is a free event for the community and an opportunity to meet local alternative health practitioners and find out what happening in our area in natural health. In addition to a vending area where you can meet practitioners, there will be several scheduled talks on various topics.

Alternative healthcare modalities include acupuncture, nutrition, herbalism, energy modalities, massage and bodywork techniques, homeopathy, chiropractic, yoga and cranial sacral therapy to name just a few.

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newsbriefs Saturday Morning Satsang: Spiritual Living Circle with M. Gatlianne

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hat is Satsang? Seeking the Truth, Feeling the Truth, Speaking the Truth, Being the Truth, Embracing the Truth Within.

The company we keep matters. Satsang offers a space to affirm your spiritual path and to experience and practice yoga off the mat. Satsang means sitting (or gathering) in truth. Come sit in the company of like-minded individuals to share, discuss, and experience Truth through talk, meditaM. Gatlianne tion, uplifting readings and quotes, mantra, song, journal work, Q&A, and more.

Discover the True Nature within you in a safe and welcoming environment that is open to all belief systems so that all can come together in truth and compassion to create peace and harmony within to take out into the world.

Led by spiritual teacher M. Gatlianne, Saturday Satsang Circle will help you connect to your higher self and see how all of life is interconnected and full of love. If you’re interested in creating deeper spirituality in your life, please join us.

This is a free community event held Saturday Mornings at Yoga Fire, 1874 Slaughter Rd, Madison, AL 35758.

Please contact Gatlianne@yahoo.com or view our schedule at YogaFireHsv.com.

Upcoming Satsang Dates: June 14, June 28, Saturdays in July & August.

The Paranormal Study Center Welcomes: Rev. Marcie Mayhall: “Understanding the Aura & Photo Interpretations”

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ev. Marcie Mayhall, B.Msc., R.R., C.N., R.G.M says: “I have been intuitively aware of auras as far back as I can remember. The iridescent colors that shimmer and seem to breath, expanding and contracting around all forms of living things. Color, frequency and sound all coexist in a cohesive web of energy and all of us are connected to this web of thoughts, forms and emotions.”

Marcie has been an aura photographer for over 25 years and has been part of many New Age Fairs, Mufon Conferences and Holistic Fairs. She is a metaphysical minister and received her training through Rev. Reinaldo Torres Rev. Marcie Mayhall of the Regenisis Institute as well as Rev. Paul Leon Masters of the University of Metaphysics International located in Arizona. Rev. Marcie excels in aura interpretation and teaches aura workshops, energy healing and health as well as biofeedback therapy. She’s a Reiki Master and holds Master Levels in four different types of Reiki energy and was given the title Reiki Grand Master.

Come and listen to a unique presentation by Marcie as she shares her knowledge and wisdom about Aura photography and how to use it for a healthier life.

Location: The Hilton Garden Inn, 4801 Governors House Dr, (next to Landry’s Seafood), Friday, June 27 at 6:30-9pm. Public Admission is $10.

For more information visit ParapsychologyStudyGroup.com or Meetup.com/ Huntsville-Paranormal-Study-Center.

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ypnoBirthing® – The Mongan Method is as much a philosophy as it is a technique. The concept of HypnoBirthing is not new, but rather a “rebirth” of the philosophy of birthing as it existed thousands of years ago. It was recaptured in the work of Dr. Grantly Dick-Read, an English obstetrician, who first forwarded the concept of natural birthing in the 1920s. This method teaches that in the absence of fear and tension, severe pain does not have to be an accompaniment of labor.

You will gain an understanding of how the birthing body and muscles work in perfect harmony— as they were designed to—when your body is sufficiently relaxed.

You will learn how to achieve this kind of relaxation, free of the resistance that fear creates, and you will learn how to use your natural birthing instincts for a calm, serene and comfortable birth.

HypnoBirthing is a unique method of relaxed, natural childbirth that is enhanced by self-hypnosis, special breathing techniques, visualizations, affirmations, and education. It returns a woman to the art of birthing in a way that allows her to summon her natural birthing instincts and to birth her baby in peace with calm and ease.

The class begins on Sunday, June15th from 1:30-4:30pm and consists of 4 consecutive weeks ending on July 6. The cost is $295, which includes the HypnoBirthing book, the Relaxation Rainbow CD and extra handout materials.

To register for a class, contact your local certified HypnoBirthing Practitioner, Marsha Mathes, at 256-698-2151 or Mathes79@ knology.net. See listing, page 31.

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Yummy Berries Cut Heart Attack Risk by a Third

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ating three or more servings of blueberries and strawberries a week may help women reduce their risk of a heart attack, according to research from the University of East Anglia, in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health. The berries contain high levels of powerful flavonoids called anthocyanins, which may help dilate arteries, counter buildup of plaque and provide other cardiovascular benefits.

Published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, the study involved 93,600 women ages 25 to 42 that completed questionnaires about their diet every four years for over 16 years. Those that ate the most berries had a 32 percent reduction in heart attack risk compared with those that ate them once a month or less, even if they ate a diet rich in other fruits and vegetables.

“This is the first study to look at the impact of diet in younger and middleaged women,” remarks the study’s lead author, Aedín Cassidy, Ph.D., head of the university’s nutrition department. “Even at an early age, eating more of these fruits may reduce risk of a heart attack later in life.”

Saw Palmetto Combos Combat Enlarged Prostate

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hree studies published in 2013 support the effectiveness of saw palmetto (Serenoa repens) extract for the treatment of prostate inflammation and other symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), commonly called enlarged prostate. In addition, both lycopene, a dietary carotenoid with strong antioxidant value, and selenium, an essential trace element that promotes an optimal antioxidant/oxidant balance, have been shown to exert beneficial effects in BPH.

Researchers from Italy’s University of Catania studied 168 patients with prostate enlargement among nine urological medical clinics. Those taking a combination of saw palmetto, selenium and lycopene experienced greater reductions of inflammation markers and reduced risk of prostate cancer after three and six months of treatment.

In an Australian study from the University of Queensland’s School of Medicine of patients with BPH, 32 men took an encapsulated formula containing saw palmetto, lycopene and other plant extracts, while 25 men were given a placebo.

After three months of treatment, men receiving the herbal formulation experienced a 36 percent reduction in related symptoms, while the placebo group showed an 8 percent reduction. The herbal supplement group also showed a 15 percent reduction in daytime urination frequency and an almost 40 percent reduction in nighttime urination frequency.

The long-term effectiveness of saw palmetto supplementation was reinforced in a Russian study of 38 patients with early prostate enlargement. After 10 years of receiving 320 milligrams of saw palmetto extract per day, researchers found no progression of the condition among the patients.

Tapping Acupressure Points Heals Trauma in Vets

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motional Freedom Techniques (EFT) may be an effective treatment for veterans that have been diagnosed with clinical posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a study published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. EFT involves tapping on acupressure points while focusing on traumatic memories or painful emotions in order to release them.

As part of the Veterans’ Stress Project, an anonymous clinical study comprising more than 2,000 participants, 59 veterans with PTSD were randomly assigned to either receive strictly standard care or also experience six, hour-long, EFT sessions.

The psychological distress and PTSD symptoms showed significant reductions among veterans receiving the EFT sessions, with 90 percent matriculating out of the criteria for clinical PTSD. At a six-month follow-up, 80 percent of those participants still had symptoms below the clinical level for PTSD.

According to Deb Tribbey, national coordinator for the Veterans’ Stress Project, PTSD symptoms that can be resolved with the combined therapy include insomnia, anger, grief, hyper-vigilance and pain.

For more information, visit StressProject.org or EFTForVets.com.

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Scientists led by Yi-Yuan Tang, Ph.D., studied 61 volunteers, including 27 smokers, randomly divided into groups that either received mindfulness meditation training or relaxation training. Two weeks later, after five hours of training, smoking among those in the meditative group decreased by 60 percent, while no significant reduction occurred in the relaxation group.

Brain imaging scans determined that the mindfulness meditation training produced increased activity in the anterior cingulate and the prefrontal cortex; regions associated with self-control. Past research led by Tang showed that smokers and those with other addictions exhibited less activity in these areas than those free of addictions. The current study previously determined that myelin and brain cell matter in these two brain regions increases through mindfulness meditation.

Unconditional Love Hastens Healing

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esearchers from the University of Miami found that compassionate love and faith in a compassionate Higher Power increases healing and reduces disease progression among HIV patients.

They studied 177 HIV patients over a 10-year period, tracking biological measures and health behaviors and collecting in-depth data interviews. The scientists coded five criteria of compassionate love derived from the Working Model of Compassionate Love, developed by Lynn Underwood, Ph.D.

The progression of HIV disease was reduced among patients that gave and received the most compassionate love. These patients exhibited both a greater level of the immune-boosting white blood cells known as CD4+ T helper cells and a reduced HIV viral load, the measure of HIV in the blood.

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eng shui is the Chinese art of placement and it’s being used extensively throughout the world because of its effectiveness. My guess as to why it works is that you are using the things you have control of on planet Earth to signal the Universe how you would like your life to be. Whether we realize it or not, our things are constantly sending signals to the Universe. Using feng shui puts you in charge of what those signals are, and to do that you need to think about the symbolism of your possessions and their placement in your home.

The most basic use of feng shui is to put a person in a powerful position rather than a weak position. In a powerful position you can easily see toward the doorway that leads into the room. A weak position is where you have your back to the door. The door represents the future because that’s where a new person would enter the room. Being able to see toward the door symbolizes being prepared for the future.

Having your back to the door says things will surprise you.

There are four places in your home where it is most important to be able to see toward the doorway—your bed, desk, stove, and favorite lounge chair. The importance of those places comes from the amount of time you spend there as well as the importance of the work done there.

Many people these days don’t use their stove as much as it was used in the past, but it’s still considered to be the most powerful object in the home because it could conceivably destroy the home. It’s never feasible to move the location of the stove unless a remodel is being planned. Placing a very shiny, rounded water kettle on or near the stove will allow you to see what’s behind you in the room. Be sure the kettle is smooth polished metal, not brushed metal.

The bed is the most important object in the home because one third of a person’s life is spent there. If you can’t position the bed so that it’s easy to see the doorway from the bed, then put a mirror to show you the doorway as soon as you open your eyes in the morning. A freestanding dressing mirror is often the best solution. There are many feng shui rules pertaining to the position of the bed, but being able to see toward the doorway is the most important. The second most important rule is to place the bed against a solid wall— a window should not be directly at the head of the bed. The window can be close to the head of the bed, but not right where the headboard is. The solid wall behind you symbolizes solid backing—support in your life.

It’s common for people to place desks against a wall with their back to the door, but that is horrible feng shui.

Deskwork is often important and if you can’t relocate the desk, use a small convex mirror (found in auto supply stores)

very near your computer monitor. The idea is that if you are intently reading an email and someone is standing in your doorway, you can see them easily.

Don’t get me started on how people are watching too much television. I haven’t turned a TV on in over 20 years, and I haven’t missed anything important. But if you’re a TV watcher, or if you sit and read a lot, your seat needs to be placed so that you can also see the main doorway into the room. If that rearrangement is not possible, use a mirror or a silver reflective ball (like a large Christmas ornament) placed so that the doorway is visible while you’re watching TV or when you look up from your reading.

When people make these kinds of feng shui changes, it’s not uncommon to hear them say that they immediately felt the difference. They felt more powerful.

Clear Englebert is an Alabama native, opening his first Huntsville bookstore, A Good Book Store, in 1971. He also founded Books as Seeds and Opening Books. He has practiced and taught feng shui since 1995. He has written five feng shui books including: Feng Shui Demystified, Bedroom Feng Shui, and Feng Shui for Retail Stores. For more information, visit Fungshway. com. See listing, page 30. natural awakenings

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lot of patients depend on overthe-counter or prescription medications to tide them through allergy season. Antihistamines such as Claritin or Allegra work fairly well for some patients. Others need allergy treatment (known as immunotherapy) to achieve increased relief.

It’s important to consider both the severity and duration of your symptoms when considering allergy immunotherapy.

Severity. If you rank your symptoms as a 5 out of 5 on a “misery scale,” you are probably severe enough to merit allergy testing and treatment through a physician, particularly if your discomfort persists for much of the year.

Duration. If your symptoms last for multiple months, that’s a red flag, too. For example, if you are close to a 5 on the misery scale in spring and fall and in moderate discomfort during other parts of the year, consider seeing a doctor. Medications are appropriate for short symptom bursts, but not necessarily for allergies that extend through more than four months of the year.

Allergy treatment starts with a skin test which usually involves a brief series of scratches or pin pricks on the back or arm. No allergy test is 100 percent accurate—I have some patients who have scored very low on the allergy test but their symptoms clearly indicate allergy. For that reason, most doctors consider both the test results and the patient’s health history when deciding to move forward with treatment.

Immunotherapy is the only treatment that has been proven to change the underlying allergy—not just its symptoms. It starts with an allergy serum that contains traces of common

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pollens mixed into a saline solution. As your body is exposed to these pollens, it learns to “make peace” with them and stop overreacting every time it encounters them in nature.

For many years, immunotherapy was administered only through injections. Patients had to drive to the doctor’s office a couple times a week for shots. More options are now available.

Most of my patients prefer sublingual (under-the-tongue) allergy drops because they are safer than shots and can be taken at home. The drops absorb into the bloodstream through cells in the mouth.

Allergy drops are an especially good choice for kids! Because of their safety profile, they can be given to younger children than shots can. And unlike shots, allergy drops have been shown to be safe and useful in desensitizing people to food allergies such as milk, eggs, wheat, rice, soy, etc.

Talk to your primary care physician if you think you may be a candidate for immunotherapy. Medications provide temporary relief, but immunotherapy can provide a lasting solution. Rather than just treating symptoms, it can actually “teach” your body to stop developing those symptoms.

Chad Gilliam M.M.S. PA-C is located at Madison Family Care. He has helped many patients overcome allergies and asthma. His office can be reached at 256-426-8507. MadisonFamilyCare.com.

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f you know anything about juicing, you will know from the first sip that somebody put a lot of time and effort into developing these recipes at Juice Bar. I juice at home, and I can’t quite replicate them in their perfection. I’m sure it has to do with ratios of parts-per-part of the various ingredients, and I also suspect some other artistry.

The person responsible is Vui Hunt, who, with her husband, John, founded Juice Bar in Brentwood, Tennessee in 2013. According to Christy Graves, managing partner of Juice Bar’s new Huntsville location, Vui worked long and hard experimenting to perfect her fresh vegetable and fruit juice recipes. “Vui put a lot of work into developing them,” says Christy. “You can really taste the difference.”

You truly can. Juice Bar’s juices go down smooth. For people who might worry what spinach juice tastes like, I can assure you that it tastes wonderful in combination with apple, kale, cucumber, parsley, and lemon mixed in the perfect proportions, as in the delightfully delicious Sweet Greens. One of Juice Bar’s more popular concoctions, Sweet Greens is a wonderfully cooling and refreshing drink that’s got as much vegan nutritious power as a large salad. The same goes for Juice Bar’s other Greens Menu options, such as Fresh Greens (which swaps celery for the apple), Ginger Greens (Sweet Greens plus the zing of ginger), Mean Greens (which adds jalapeno to the Fresh Greens mix), and Super Greens, which throws in a shot of wheat grass.

Other popular recipes are Orange You Glad (carrot, apple, pineapple, lemon, ginger, mint), and We Got the Beet (beets, carrot, apple, ginger, lemon). Fresh beet juice has a wonderfully deep crimson coloring that signals it’s rich nutritious value. The red coloring is from betalain, which is an extremely powerful antioxidant that can help reverse the

effects of aging. Beet juice has been shown to lower blood pressure, increase exercise tolerance, and has antiinflammatory properties. I can personally attest to feeling fantastic since I’ve begun drinking We Got the Beet from Juice Bar as well as juicing my own fresh beet juice at home.

“I’m really happy doing something that teaches people about nutrition,” says Christy. “Health care is a big concern that’s on everyone’s minds. The nutrition you get in freshly made juice is tremendous. It can really do wonders for your health.”

She’s seen that with members of her own family, as well as with John Hunt. After Vui and John started juicing, John noticed he began losing weight. “I began losing about a pound a day, started feeling better than ever, and my energy levels went sky high,” he said. He lost a total of 50 pounds from juicing, and was able to discontinue some medications he had been taking for years.

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THE HEALING POWER OF STORY

How Telling Our Truths Can Set Us Free

by Judith Fertig

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fter his deployment in Iraq, U.S. Marine Captain Tyler Boudreau returned home in 2004 with post-traumatic stress syndrome and an emotional war wound that experts now call a “moral injury”. He could only sleep for an hour or two at night. He refused to take showers or leave the house for long periods of time. He and his wife divorced. “My body was home, but my head was still there [in Iraq],” he recounts.

At first, Boudreau tried to make sense of his conflicted feelings by writing fiction. Then he wrote a detailed, nonfiction analysis of his deployment, but that didn’t help, either. In 2009 he wrote a memoir, Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine, that came closer to conveying his personal truth.

“I needed to get back into the story,” he says, so he could pull his life back together in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Like Boudreau, we all have stories—ongoing and ever-changing—that we tell ourselves to make sense of our lives. They can help us heal and powerfully guide us through life, or just as powerfully, hold us back.

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In 1949, Sarah Lawrence College Professor Joseph Campbell published The Hero with a Thousand Faces, in which he outlined a master monomyth.

It involves leaving everyday life and answering a call to adventure, getting help from others along the way, facing adversity and returning with a gift, or boon, for ourselves and others. It’s a basic pattern of human existence, with endless variations.

Power to Heal the Body

How does telling our truth help heal our body? Professor James Pennebaker, Ph.D., chair of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, is a pioneer in the mindbody benefits of story, which he explores in Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions. In the late 1980s, while consulting for the Texas prison system, Pennebaker discovered that when suspects lied while taking polygraph tests, their heart rate rose, but when they confessed the truth, they relaxed.

“Our cells know the truth,” writes microbiologist Sondra Barrett, Ph.D., who also blogs at SondraBarrett.com, in Secrets of Your Cells, “Our physiol-

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ogy responds to what we’re thinking, including what we don’t want people to know.” When we are afraid to tell a story and keep it in, “Our cells broadcast a signal of danger,” she explains.

“Molecules of adrenalin, along with stress hormones, connect with receptors on heart, muscle and lung cells— and in the case of long-term sustained stress, immune cells.”

We experience increased heart rate, tense muscles, shortness of breath and lower immunity when we’re stressed. She notes, “When we release the stories and feelings that torment us, our cells respond with great relief and once again become havens of safety.”

We need to tell our stories even in facing life-threatening illness, and maybe because of it. Dr. Shayna Watson, an oncologist at the Cancer Centre of Southeastern Ontario, in Canada, encourages physicians to listen to patients. “In the name of efficiency,” she reports in an article in Canadian Family Physician, “it’s easy to block out patients’ stories and deal only with the ‘facts’, to see the chat, the time and the stories as luxuries for when there is a cancellation. The study of narrative tells us, however, that in these easily neglected moments we might find more than we expect; there can be understanding, relationship building and healing—the elements of our common humanity.”

A current problem is but a dot on the entire timeline of a person’s existence. By keeping their larger story in mind, patients can find a wider perspective, with the strength and resolve to heal, while the physician can see the patient as a person, rather than a diagnosis.

Power to Heal Emotions

“Telling your story may be the most powerful medicine on Earth,” says Dr. Lissa Rankin, the author of Mind Over Medicine, who practices integrative medicine in Mill Valley, California. She’s tested the concept firsthand. “So many of us are tormented by the insane idea that we’re separate, disconnected beings, suffering all by our little lonesome selves,” she observes. “That’s exactly how I felt when I started blogging, as if I was the only one in the whole wide

world who had lost her mojo and longed to get it back. Then I started telling my story—and voilà! Millions of people responded to tell me how they had once lost theirs and since gotten it back.”

They did it by telling their stories, witnessed with loving attention by others that care. “Each of us is a constantly unfolding narrative, a hero in a novel no one else can write. Yet, so many of us leave our stories untold, our songs unsung,” remarks Rankin. “When this happens, we wind up feeling lonely, listless and out of touch with our life purpose. We are plagued with a chronic sense that something is out of alignment.

We may even wind up feeling unworthy, unloved or sick,” says Rankin, who blogs on related topics at LissaRankin.com.

Power to Heal a Family

Sometimes, writing a new story can help keep families connected. Kansas City, Missouri, author and columnist Deborah Shouse took an unplanned and unwanted, yet ultimately rewarding journey with her mother through Alzheimer’s disease. Shouse discovered that as her mother was losing her memory and identity through dementia, crafting a new narrative helped her family hold it together, a process she details in Love in the Land of Dementia.

“You have to celebrate the person who is still with you,” Shouse says, noting we may discover a different, but still interesting, person that communicates in ways other than talking. She recommends employing a technique she calls The Hero Project, which she developed with her partner, Ron Zoglin. It uses words, photos and craft supplies in what Shouse

“By sharing our stories together and finding common ground, we lay the groundwork for world peace and much more.” ~Rev. Patrick McCollum terms “word-scrapping” to generate and tell a new story that helps keep the personal connection we have with our loved one and make visits more positive.

She shares more supportive insights at DeborahShouseWrites.wordpress.com.

Sharing an old story may also provide a rare link to the past for a person with dementia. “Savor and write down the stories you’re told, even if you hear certain ones many times,” Shouse counsels. “By writing down the most often-repeated stories, you create a legacy to share with family, friends and other caregivers.”

Power of the Wrong Story

Our thoughts are a shorthand version of a longer life story, says author Byron Katie, a self-help specialist from Ojai, California, who addresses reader stories via blog posts at ByronKatie.com. Sometimes we tell ourselves the wrong story, one that keeps us from realizing our full potential, while making us miserable at the same time. Examples might include “I will always be overweight,” “My partner doesn’t love me” or “I’m stuck here.”

Katie’s book, Who Would You Be Without Your Story? explores how we often take what happens in our lives, create a story with negative overtones,

believe that version of the story and make ourselves unhappy. “The cause of suffering is the thought that we’re believing it,” she says. By questioning our stories, turning them around and crafting new and more truthful ones, we can change our lives.

Power to Heal the Community

Humorist, speaker, and professional storyteller Kim Weitkamp, of Christiansburg, Virginia, knows that the power of story creates wider ripples. She sees it happen every time she performs at festivals and events around the country.

“It is naturally in our DNA to communicate in story form,” she advises. “The power of story causes great revelation and change in those that listen.”

She cites supporting studies conducted by psychologists Marshall Duke, Ph.D., and Robyn Fivush, Ph.D., at the Emory Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life, in Atlanta, Georgia. “They found that children—at ages 4, 14, 44 or 104, because we’re all children at heart—are more resilient and happy and rebound faster from stress when they know their family stories. They know they’re part of something that’s bigger than themselves that people in their family have kept going,” says Weitkamp.

“When people leave a storytelling event, they leave telling stories,” she says with a smile, “and that results in happier and healthier families and communities.”

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James Pennebaker and fellow researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that a simple writing exercise can help free people from emotional burdens, as first reported in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.

Here’s how to apply it: Every morning for four consecutive days, write down feelings about what is bothersome: Something you are thinking or worrying about too much.

Something you feel is affecting your life in an unhealthy way.

Something you have been avoiding for days, weeks or years.

The idea is to write about the emotions that surround this thing you’re reluctant to admit or speak about. Pennebaker says it’s not necessary to reread what’s written or tell anyone about it.

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casts. They can then record a two-minute story pitch in order to be accepted as a live storyteller during a future slam.

Ask and Answer

Moving through the process Byron Katie calls “the work” uncovers the truth about the stories we are telling ourselves in order to create newer, healthier ones.

First, think of a negative thought that’s worrying you, such as “I’m stuck.” Next, ask four questions about it.

Is it true?

Can I absolutely know it’s true?

How do I react—what happens—when I believe that thought?

Who would I be without the thought?

Now write down honest answers, which might be something like: “I’m not really stuck, I just think I am. Deep down, I know I have the power to move forward, but am unsure about the direction or way to go about it, so I feel anxious. Without the thought of ‘I’m stuck,’ I would feel freer to find a solution.”

Then, turn those thoughts around, for example, to, “Really, when I think about it, I feel much freer than when I deny or gloss over my erroneous thought.” When we turn around a specific limiting thought, we can experience the power of letting go of not only a misguided, but ultimately untrue internal story.

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orn into an East Indian family in London, England, Panache Desai grew up steeped in spiritual practices like meditation. Though recognized by spiritual teachers as possessing a special gift, Desai rejected his spiritual foundation as a teenager, trading it for the excitement of London’s rave music scene of the 1990s before moving to America.

It wasn’t until he was 22 and living in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice Beach that the pain of the way he had rejected his true inner nature reached a crescendo. In opening himself up to the possibility of the divine, Desai underwent a spiritual awakening that has led him to dedicate his life to helping others make their own journey from self-rejection to contentment.

Unaffiliated with any one religious or spiritual tradition, Desai works with simple, yet powerful principles of energy to help free people from selfimposed limitations and unlock their potential. His first book, Discovering Your Soul Signature: A 33-Day Path to Purpose, Passion & Joy, just released, is a departure from his earlier focus on creating meditation CDs and other audio recordings.

What was the key turning point in embracing your life’s calling?

Every time I would visit a spiritual teacher as a kid, they would say, “We’ve been waiting for you.” But I just wanted to be normal and was also skeptical; not every well-intentioned person is necessarily leading you home. I reached a turning point when I knew something had to change. I told myself that if this thing called God really exists and if I’m here to be a messenger, I have to experience it personally.

In that moment, I began to undergo a transformation that culminated in a direct experience of the divine; an infinite ocean of energy vibrating with unconditional love. I felt part of what every spiritual teacher has been telling the world for thousands of years: that the true nature of reality is love, a love that expresses itself through all life forms. That experience allowed me to accept my role of helping others see and achieve their potential.

How does the universal energy you speak of affect us and how can we shift our dance with it?

We are vibrational beings inhabiting a vibrational universe. Yogis and mystics from traditions throughout time have known this. The subtlest form of vibration is the soul, which is overlaid by the emotional, with the physical as the outermost layer of energy. Because the emotional layer can accumulate a density that enshrouds our soul’s light and potential, it’s important to address it.

Energy is like water—it wants to flow and can shift states at any moment.

Judging or rejecting any aspect of our genuine identity disrupts that flow of energy. For example, if instead of being available to feel your anger when it arises you repress or deny it, that accumulating emotion acquires density and over time, becomes rage. But if you can learn to slow down and lean into the emotion, the anger can wash through and out of you and energy again flows freely.

By allowing ourselves to acknowledge, experience and release these emotions without judgment, we are clearing the obstacles to our authentic self, what I term one’s “soul signature”.

How is discovering our soul signature related to finding our calling?

The soul signature is our purest potential expressed. You can have a calling to be a writer, but unless you are connected to who you are at the deepest level, your writing won’t have the same impact.

Accessing our soul signature is a process. We didn’t end up where we are overnight, and it can take time to get back to that place where we can express our truest selves by working with the techniques of energy transformation described in my book.

What are good first steps for someone newly initiating a spiritual practice?

The most powerful tool is our breath.

Witnessing and honoring our breath in every moment allows us to transform every day into living meditation.

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by Avery Mack

Whether it’s membership in a food co-op, tending a backyard garden or balcony tomato plant or foraging in the woods for edibles, living off the land means cleaner, fresher and more nutritious food on the table.

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o switch from running to the market to stepping into a home garden for fresh produce, it’s best to start small. Smart gardeners know it’s easy to be overwhelmed by a big plot so they plan ahead with like-minded friends to swap beans for tomatoes or zucchini for okra to add variety. If one household is more suited to freezing excess harvests while another cans or dehydrates, more trades are in the offing. Start kids by having them plant radishes, a crop that will give even the most impatient child quick results.

“You can’t do everything yourself,” counsels Kathie Lapcevic, a farmer, freelance writer and teacher in Columbia Falls, Montana. “I have a huge garden, expanded now into about 7,000 square feet, that provides 65 percent of what our family eats,” she says. “On the other hand, I can’t imagine life without nut butter and found I can’t grow Brussels sprouts. A few trips to the store are inevitable.”

Lapcevic plants non-GMO, heirloom varieties of seeds in her chemicalfree garden. She adds a new variety or two each year and reminds peers that it takes a while to build good soil. Three years ago, she also added pollinator beehives on the property. Their honey

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reduces the amount of processed sugar the family uses.

From Libby, Montana, Chaya Foedus blogs on her store website PantryParatus.com about kitchen selfsufficiency. “Foraging is a good way to give children a full sensory experience,” she remarks. “We turn a hike into a mission to find and learn about specific foods, where they come from and what to do with them.” To start, select one easily identifiable item for the kids to pick. “In Libby, that’s huckleberries,” says Foedus. “Similar to blueberries, they grow on a bush, so they’re easy to see and pick. Huckleberries don’t grow in captivity—it’s a completely foraged economy.”

Michelle Boatright, a graphic designer and hunter of wild plants in Bristol, Tennessee, learned eco-friendly ways to forage from a game warden friend. Five years later, her bookcase holds 30 books on edible plants—she brings two with her on excursions.

“When in doubt, leave a plant alone.

It’s too easy to make a mistake,” she advises. “Know how to harvest, too—take only about 10 percent of what’s there and leave the roots, so it can grow back.

“For example, ramps, a wild leek, take seven years to cultivate,” says

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Boatright. “Overharvesting can wipe out years’ worth of growth. In Tennessee, it’s illegal to harvest ramps in state parks. Mushrooms are more apt to regrow, but leave the small ones.”

As for meat, “I was raised to never shoot a gun, but to make my own bows and arrows,” recalls Bennett Rea, a writer and survivalist in Los Angeles, California. “Dad used Native American skills, tools and viewpoints when he hunted. Bow hunting kept our family from going hungry for a few lean years and was always done with reverence.

It’s wise to take only what you need, use what you take and remember an animal gave its life to sustain yours.”

Rea uses several methods for obtaining local foods. “Living here makes it easier due to the year-round growing season. For produce, I volunteer for a local CSA [community supported agriculture] collective. One hour of volunteering earns 11 pounds of free, sustainably farmed, organic produce—everything from kale to tangerines to cilantro.

“Bartering is also an increasingly popular trend,” he notes. “I make my own hot sauce and trade it for highend foods and coffee from friends and neighbors. Several of us have now rented a plot in a community garden to grow more of our own vegetables. I only buy from stores the items I can’t trade for or make myself—usually oats, milk, cheese and olive oil.”

Truly good food is thoughtfully, sustainably grown or harvested.

It travels fewer miles; hasn’t been sprayed with toxins or been chemically fertilized; is fresh; ripens on the plant, not in a truck or the store; and doesn’t come from a factory farm. The old saying applies here: “If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.”

Avery Mack is a freelance writer in St. Louis, MO. Connect via AveryMack@mindspring.com.

Foraging 101 Cooking with Wild Foods

by Chaya Foedus 4 Start small.

4 Get permission before picking on private property.

4 Make sure no chemical fertilizers or pesticides were used.

4 It’s easy to mistake a poisonous lookalike for an edible plant. Learn to identify both before picking.

4 Skip the mushrooms at first—learn from an experienced mushroomer before going solo.

4 Always taste-test at home; the woods are not the place to cope with a surprise allergic reaction.

4 Make a day of it. Enjoy the outdoors, learn more about native plants and invite kindred spirits along on the hunt.

Source: Adapted from PantryParatus.com.

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hristopher Nyerges, of Pasadena, California, author of Guide to Wild Food and Useful Plants and Foraging California, has spent 40 years teaching others to find free food safely as part of an ongoing curriculum (SchoolOfSelf-Reliance.com). He knows, “Wherever you live, common weeds and native plants can supplement food on the table.”

He particularly likes to use acorns as a food extender, grinding them into a powder and mixing it 50/50 with flour to make bread and pancakes. For greens, he likes lamb’s quarters (Chenopodium album), a weed that crowds out native plants, but is easily found, nutritious and versatile. He uses the leaves like spinach and adds the seeds to soup or bread batter. He likens it to quinoa.

Nyerges characterizes himself as a lazy gardener. “Forget having a tra-

ditional lawn. Grow food, not grass,” he says. “I like plants that take care of themselves and then of me.”

Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) and New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides) are good edible ground covers. Purslane leaves add a lemonpepper crunch. “If the neighbors complain, plant some nasturtiums—they’re pretty and good to eat, too,” he notes.

Varieties of cactus, like the prickly pear, are also edible; remove the thorns and cook the pads with tofu or eggs.

“I’m all for using technology, but know how to get by without it, too,” Nyerges advises. “There’s no such thing as total self-sufficiency. What we can be is self-reliant and knowledgeable users. Begin by learning and applying one thing.” He’s found, “There aren’t directions to follow; the path to selfreliance is different for each person.”

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all tour trucks, buses and generators. Comprehensive conservation efforts including refillable water bottle stations, plus organic cotton T-shirts and reusable or biodegradable food service ware are standard at his shows. “We try to be environmentally conscious every step of the way,” says Johnson.

“Our record cases and posters use recycled paper and ecofriendly inks. We record albums in my solar-powered studio.

It’s an ongoing learning process and conversation as we find even better ways to do things.”

Johnson’s team often requests increased recycling efforts and use of energy-efficient light bulbs at venues, advancing long-term eco-changes everywhere they perform. He explains, “Our thinking is that once they change the light bulbs for us, they’re not going to go back to the old light bulbs after we leave. Many venue managers tell us they have stuck with the improvements because they realize that they’re easy to do.”

Marine pollution and single-use plastics are issues high on the musician’s environmental list, but the topic he’s most passionate about is food. In his home state of Hawaii, 90 percent of food is imported. “The idea of supporting your local food system is a big deal in our family and we take that point of view on the road because it’s a vital issue anywhere you go,” he says.

At each tour stop, all of the band’s food is sourced within a specific radius. Johnson also works with radio stations to promote regional farming, helping to build community and fan awareness of the benefits of supporting local farms.

At home, Johnson has solar panels on the roof and drives an electric car. The entire family, including three children, participates in recycling, worm composting and gardening.

“It’s fun to take what we learn at home on the road and bring good things we learn on the road home,” he says.

The Swiss Family Robinson is one of the family’s favorite books. “We love figuring out ways to apply ideas,” he remarks. “For our first water catchment system, we got 50-gallon drums previously used for oil and vinegar from a bread bakery and attached spigots. The kids were so excited to watch them fill the first time it rained.”

Johnson finds that all of the facets of his life work together. For example, “Music is a social thing for me. I get to share it with people. Surfing is where I find a lot of balance; it’s a more private time. But I also come up with lyrics and musical ideas while I’m surfing.”

Johnson’s approach to inspiring all generations to be conscious of the environment is to focus on the fun, because it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the big picture. Understanding that his own kids are among the future stewards of planet Earth, he works diligently to instill values of creativity and free thinking.

Johnson reflects, “When I look at things that are in the world now that we would have never dreamed possible when we were growing up, I recognize how much can change in one generation. Looking for answers that aren’t there yet—things nobody’s thought of—that’s what’s going to solve problems.”

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Liisa Kyle, Ph.D., founder of CoachingForCreativePeople.com, in Seattle, Washington, also trains candidates for Guide Dogs for the Blind. “The pup comes to me at 8 weeks old and moves on a year or more later,” says Kyle. “It’s traditional, and a big deal, to give the dog’s new person a gift when the transfer is made. For the first pup, I made a memory book starting from his first days with us. Bright white paper behind each photo highlighted the contrast so the man, who had minimal vision, could see the pictures. People are curious about service animals, so he carries the book to show it around.

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Anne Moss, owner of TheCatSite.com, based in Pardes Hana, Israel, says scrapbooking is a recurrent theme in the site’s forums. “Our members tend to be computer savvy and create online pages for their cats. Yet many don’t want to give up the handson experience of scrapbooking; it gives them a special way to preserve memories of or create a long-lasting tribute for their beloved cats.” One member posted about a shadow box she’d made to display favorite toys and photos; another used camping-themed stickers around a photo of the cat napping in a kitty tent.

“I started taking pictures of my Bernese mountain dog, Chance, when he first came to me,” says Yvette Schmitter, an entrepreneurial software programmer in New York City. “We dress in matching costumes like Fiona and Shrek, Princess Leia and Yoda, Mr. and Mrs. Claus. It’s a creative outlet after writing computer code all day and a good excuse to play together.”

Schmitter places the photos in pre-made greeting cards and has a current mailing list that exceeds 250, including the doorman, neighbors, the vet and groomer, friends and family.

“The deli guy told me he looks forward to each holiday just to see what we’ve come up with. That’s what motivates me; our fun photos can make somebody’s day better.”

Heather Post, owner of The Etiquette Seed, in Daytona Beach, Florida, specializes in coaching and speaking engagements. When her in-laws traveled to their summer home, she made a scrapbooklet for them. “It showed Sophie, our rescue terrier, at the door, window or in the car, with rhyming captions that said she missed them.” Post sends similar photo “stories” to her daughter, Meghan,

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by Sandy Murphy Yvette Schmitter keeps her dog’s photo sessions short because, “Chance pouts after 20 minutes.” If a large dog looks intimidating, soften its appearance by adding a bright bandana, hat or goofy sunglasses. Liisa Kyle took weekly photos of a pup to show its growth. Joanna Campbell Slan, author of the Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft mystery book series, offers several additional tips. now in college; a cousin’s daughter even took Sophie’s Halloween photo to preschool for show and tell.

Whichever forum we choose, stages and phases of a pet’s life can be celebrated with a lock of hair, paw print, obedience school certificate and lots of photos.

After all, a pet is part of the family.

Sandra Murphy is a freelance writer in St. Louis, MO. Connect at StLouis FreelanceWriter@mindspring.com.

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Breathe. Belly breathing calms the parasympathetic nervous system, expands lung capacity and improves circulation. Inhale through the nose, fill the belly and expel through the mouth, advises Asheville, North Carolina, resident Katherine Dreyer, co-founder and CEO of ChiWalking.

Try new techniques and terrain. “The body is smart and efficient. It must be constantly challenged in safe ways and tricked into burning more calories,” says Malin Svensson, founder and President of Nordic Walking USA. She suggests taking the stairs or strolling on sand to strengthen the legs and heart.

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Dreyer recommends ascending hills sideways (crossing one foot over the other) to engage new muscles and protect the calves and Achilles tendons. She also suggests walking backwards for 30 steps every five minutes during a 30-minute walk to reestablish proper posture.

Push with poles. Compelling the body forward with Nordic walking poles can burn 20 to 46 percent more calories than regular walking, reports Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. Svensson explains, “Applying pressure to the poles activates abdominal, chest, back and triceps muscles, which necessitates more oxygen and thereby raises the heart rate.” The basic technique is: plant, push and walk away.

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Feel the Earth move under your (bare) feet. Improve mood, reduce pain and deepen sleep by going outside barefoot, says Dr. Laura Koniver, of Charleston, South Carolina, a featured expert in the documentary, The Grounded. “The Earth’s surface contains an infinite reservoir of free electrons, which, upon contact with the body, can neutralize damage from free radicals,” she says.

Notice nature. Alexandra Horowitz, author of On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes, finds walking outdoors infinitely more engaging than exercising in the gym. Seek out woodsy hikes, scenic waterways or historic downtowns, and “open up to experiencing the world,” she says.

Practice moving meditation. To lighten a heavy mood, “Imagine your chest as a window through which energy, fresh air, sunshine, even rain, can pour into and through you as you walk,” says Dreyer. To ground a scattered mind, she suggests focusing on connecting one’s feet with the Earth.

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Make fresh air a social affair. A group walk can boost performance levels of participants, says Dennis Michele, president of the American Volkssport Association, which promotes fun, fitness and friendship through noncompetitive, year-round walking events.

Horowitz suggests strolling with friends and sharing sensory discoveries.

“A fresh perspective can help tune you into the great richness of ordinary environments often overlooked,” she says.

Let your feet speak for an important cause and sign up for an awareness walk.

Ditch the distraction of electronic devices. Horowitz views walking texters as “hazards and obstacles, non-participants in the environment.”

Australian researcher Siobhan Schabrun, Ph.D., reveals the science behind the sentiment in her recent University of Queensland study. The brain, she found, prioritizes texting over walking, resulting in “slowing down, deviating from a straight line and walking like robots, with the arms, trunk and head in one rigid line, which makes falling more likely.”

Walking a dog brings mutual benefits.

Dr. John Marshall, chief oncologist at Georgetown University Hospital, in Washington, D.C., prescribes dog walking to his cancer patients, asserting it yields better outcomes than chemotherapy. For maximum enjoyment, strive to hit a stride, advises Carla Ferris, owner of Washington, D.C. dog-walking company Wagamuffin.

Be a fanny pack fan. Fanny packs, unlike backpacks, which can disturb natural torso rotation, comfortably store identification, phone, keys and water, says Svensson. Ferris agrees: “Walks are so much more enjoyable hands-free.”

Walk while you work. Much of the independent and collaborative work at Minneapolis finance company SALO emerges as employees walk slowly on ergonomic treadmill desks. “Being up, active and forward-moving on the treadmill benefits productivity,” says cofounder Amy Langer. Alternatively, consider investing in a cordless headset or standing desk. “Most anything you can do sitting, you can do standing, and supporting your own body weight is almost as beneficial as walking,” she says.

A study reported in the journal Diabetologia suggests that sedentary time combined with periods of moderate-to-vigorous exercise poses a greater health risk than being gently active throughout the day. Dreyer’s mantra?

“The body is wise. Listen when it says, ‘Get up and walk a bit.’”

Lane Vail is a freelance writer in South Carolina. Connect at WriterLane.com.

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hen President John F. Kennedy said in 1961 that the U.S. should commit to sending a man to the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade, few suspected the bounty of technological spinoffs that such National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space missions would yield. Today, many of NASA’s research advancements, as well as technologies developed outside the space program, are put to good use in everyday life. Of particular interest are products used in fitness workouts.

ABI Research, a technology market intelligence company, revealed the growing popularity of consumer health and wellness technologies in its latest market projections for wearable, healthrelated devices. Estimates are that 80 million wearable monitoring devices, including heart monitors and biosensors that read body temperature and motion, will be sold by 2016.

When Clint, a global market research firm, conducted its most recent Fitness and Technology Survey, its findings showed technology at work.

Based on 745 online interviews with people in seven countries, 72 percent of exercisers embraced some type of technology, including smartphone apps, to support their fitness routines two or more times a week.

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benefited from technological advances that help them chart, improve upon and customize their fitness routines.

Tracking fitness progress and weight loss is now just clicks away with personal devices such as a Wi-Fi scale, which accurately measures weight, body fat percentage and body mass index. Online graphs chart the individual’s progress.

While the typical setting for measuring blood pressure and heart rate used to be in a physician’s office, hospital or pharmacy, new digital wrist blood pressure and heart monitors now allow exercise enthusiasts to do it themselves, wherever they are, helping ensure they are not exceeding the safety parameters of their fitness programs. User-friendly digital pocket pedometers and wireless activityduring-sleep wristbands both work in conjunction with a downloaded app to allow self-monitoring. Exercisers can track steps; distances walked cycled or swum; calories burned; total active minutes; and how long and how well they sleep.

In some U.S. fitness centers, members have an option of working with an automated, virtual, personal trainer.

This almost-do-it-yourself approach to professionally guided fitness begins with a survey of an individual’s lifestyle and goals to create a personalized fitness regimen. Each time exercisers go to the

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center, they insert a key into a “smart trainer”, generating the day’s 30-minute customized workout. The technology focuses primarily on helping clients manage weight and maintain muscle.

Other technologies, such as medical-grade, pneumatic [air] compression boot systems, are facilitating athome recovery for hip and knee surgery patients and quicker muscle recovery for serious athletes. Air-filled chambers remain inflated as pressure cycles sequentially move from the foot up the leg.

The cycles flush out waste and replenish blood supplies to the muscles.

More complex bio-analyzing systems retrieve feedback from the body’s electromagnetic fields, the multiple energy meridians and the frequencies of the body’s cells and organs. “Such systems are largely used by chiropractors, naturopaths, physical therapists and acupuncturists,” says Loran Swensen, CEO of Innergy Development, which owns AO Scan, maker of the Magnetic Resonance Bio-Analyzer.

For people that struggle with traditional workouts or physical limitations, whole-body vibration technology may be a solution. “When you stand on the oscillating platform, the body reacts to the vertical vibratory stimulus with an involuntary muscle contraction; depending on the speed, muscles can react up to 23 times per second,” advises Linda Craig, co-owner of Circulation Nation, in Greer, South Carolina.

Similar platforms are becoming commonplace in chiropractic practices.

Consumer applications of medical devices have led to the home use of additional sophisticated technologies like laser therapy. Successfully used for more than 30 years in Europe to treat trauma, inflammation, overuse injuries and cosmetic issues, as well as to provide pain relief and healing, some forms have recently been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

With 129,397,925 gym members worldwide according to a recent International Health, Racquet & Sportsclub Association report, it’s safe to predict that consumer demand ensures even more significant technological advances are in our near future.

Linda Sechrist is a senior staff writer for Natural Awakenings.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 1 History & Mystery Tour – 2-4:30pm. Enjoy front porch visits and hear tales and secrets with historic characters at Old Huntsville homes during your walking tour. $5. Tickets available at tables on Franklin, Williams & Adams Streets downtown.

Huntsville’s Old Twickenham Historic District, Huntsville, AL 35801.

The Foolish of God – 7:30-8pm. Inspiring stories and insights from Harold Klemp, spiritual leader and acclaimed author of more than sixty books on Eckankar. Tune in to explore some behaviors and attitudes you might recognize to help you unfold spiritually. Free. Knology Cable Channel 11 (Huntsville). 256-534-1751. Eck-Alabama.org.

MONDAY, JUNE 2 Rocket City Yoga Week – June 2-8. Enjoy 7 days of free yoga. A talented team of North Alabama yoga teachers are generously donating time, energy and wisdom to bring yoga to the Rocket City. View the full schedule of 55 free yoga events in Huntsville and Madison at RocketCityYogaWeek.com.

Decatur Concerts by the River: Dorothy Cole & Friends – 6-8pm. Bring a picnic, a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy the free entertainment. Rhodes Ferry Park, 100 Market St NW, Decatur, AL 35601.

TUESDAY, JUNE 3 Fish Are Jumping at Harvest Square Preserve – 5:30pm. Ages 6-12 with accompanying adult. Use our cane poles and try your hand at a simple way to catch fish. East of the Publix at the corner of 5851 Hwy 53 (Jordan Lane) and Jeff Rd. Free. Reservations required: 256-534-5263. LandTrustNAL.org.

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Pool. The public is invited, and it’s free. Featuring a poolside music DJ, Aqua Zumba, door prizes, food vendors, and fun activities. Hogan Family YMCA, 130 Park Square Lane, Madison, AL 35758.

Beer Quest – 3-7pm. Join fellow beer enthusiasts for an evening with local craft beer, carnival games, food trucks and scientific demos, exploring the wonderful world of brewing science. Admission charged. Sci-Quest Science Center, 1435 Paramount Dr, Huntsville, AL 35806. 256-837-0606.

SUNDAY, JUNE 8 Guest Speaker, Vicki Goldston – 11am. Adult Discussion begins at 9:30am. Unity Church on the Mountain, 1328 Governors Dr SE, Huntsville, AL. 256-536-2271. UnityChurchOnTheMountain.org.

Wade Mountain Night Hike – 8:30pm. (2.5 miles / Moderate). If the moonlight cooperates, you’ll enjoy Wade Mountain in a whole “new light.” If it’s very overcast, this hike will be cancelled. Hike leader: Doug Horacek. Free. Directions and info: LandTrustNAL.org.

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Spring Garden Tour – Join us for a tour of five private gardens in the heart of the Twickenham and Old Town historic districts. $10. Twickenham and Old Town historic districts, Randolph Ave and Calhoun St, Downtown Huntsville 35801.

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Free Health Screening – 9:30am-12pm. Huntsville Hospital’s Mobile Medical Unit will be offering free health screenings to the public. Southeast YMCA, 1000 Weatherly Rd, Huntsville, AL 35803.

First Saturday Fitness Classes: Yoga with Mitzi – 8:30-9:30am. Relieve stress and improve your flexibility, strength, and balance with these time-tested movements. Free. Big Spring Park (by the rock fountain), 200 Church St, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Registration for Madison Youth Football and Cheer League – On-site registration for Madison City Parks and Recreation youth recreational instructional weight restricted tackle football and cheer league is 10am-1pm on 6/7 and 7/12 at Dublin Park Recreation Center, 8324 Old Madison Pike, Madison, AL 35758. On-line registration through 7/20: MadisonYFC.org. 256-289-1398.

First Saturday Fitness Classes: Boxing – 10-11am.

Train like a champion with this non-stop, full body workout. Instructor: Kieston Reece of 24/7. Free.

Big Spring Park (by the rock fountain), 200 Church St, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Y Pool Party – 10am-4pm. Join us for a celebration grand opening of the new Hogan Y Outdoor

Decatur Concerts by the River: Bimini Road – 6-8pm. Bring a picnic, a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy the free entertainment. Rhodes Ferry Park, 100 Market St NW, Decatur, AL 35601.

Join Our Fossil Hunt! – 5:30pm. Ages 8-10 with accompanying adult. Fanning Trail on Huntsville Mountain boasts some lovely (and very, very old) evidence of creatures that lived in oceans long ago.

Let’s find them and identify them! Free. Reservations required: 256-534-5263. LandTrustNAL.org.

Tuesday Evening Concerts at The Library – 6-7:30pm. Dancing with the Library Stars, Round One, Moondust Big Band. Free. Huntsville Public Library, 915 Monroe St, Huntsville, AL 35801.

256-532-5940.

FRIDAY, JUNE 13 Downtown Open: Putt-Putt on the Square – June 13-22. Experience 18 holes of miniature golf around downtown Huntsville. Free to play. Info: Amy@ DowntownHuntsville.org.

Family Cook Out – 6-9pm. Picnic and entertainment, including star gazing through telescopes with folks from the Von Braun Astrological Society and an Alabama versus Auburn bean bag tournament complete with prizes. Adults $12, Children $8.

City Lights and Stars Concert Series featuring Karen Donaldson Gruber – 7:30-9:30pm. Bring a blanket or lawn chair, a picnic supper and enjoy the spectacular nighttime view of the city. Admission charged. Burritt on the Mountain, 3101 Burritt Dr, Huntsville, AL 35801. 256-536-2882.

SATURDAY, JUNE 14 Southeastern Outings River Float, Picnic, Swim on the Locust Fork – 9am. Easy river float to the widest waterfall on the Locust Fork River from Taylor’s Ford through Cornelius Falls in Blount County near Royal, AL. Info: Dan Frederick, Seoutings@ bellsouth.net or 205-631-4680. Seoutings.org.

Saturday Fitness Classes in June: Boot Camp – 9-10am. Taught by Heather Murphy, certified personal trainer and boot camp instructor. The class will be 45 minutes long and will incorporate cardio and strength exercises. Free. Big Spring Park East by the rock fountain, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Saturday Fitness Classes in June: Zumba – 1011am. With Jen Hopkins from University Fitness Center. Zumba is a fusion of Latin and international music and dance themes creating a dynamic, exciting, and energizing workout. Free. Big Spring Park East by the rock fountain, Huntsville, AL 35801.

MONDAY, JUNE 16 Decatur Concerts by the River: Ben Parker Project – 6-8pm. Bring a picnic, a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy the free entertainment. Rhodes Ferry Park, 100 Market St NW, Decatur, AL 35601.

TUESDAY, JUNE 17 It’s All About the Wonderful Woods – 9:30am11:30am. Ages 8-10 with accompanying adult. The Land Trust preserves some pretty cool forests. Just how cool are they? Forester Dr. Callie Schweitzer will share some forest secrets on Wade Mountain Preserve. Reservations required: 256-534-5263.

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Latin Dance Night – 6:30-8:30pm. Join Elegant Dance Company and Athletic Club Alabama for a fun-filled, free Latin Dance Party. The first portion will consist of beginner instruction, and the second portion is your chance to show off your new moves.

Free. Athletic Club Alabama, 2100 Members Dr, Huntsville, AL 35801.

THURSDAY, JUNE 19 Sidewalk Arts Stroll; A Downtown Marketplace – 4:30-8:30pm. Stroll, sip and shop in the shade. The Sidewalk Art Stroll is held at Constitution Village and is part downtown Huntsville’s Entertainment District. Free. Constitution Village, 109 Gates Ave, Huntsville, AL 35801. SideWalkArtsStroll.com.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 20 Classical Blues Cabaret – 7:30-9:30pm.The 10th anniversary Classical Blues Cabaret features blues-man, Microwave Dave, classical guitarist, Phil Weaver, pianist, Ingrid Von Spakovsky and flutist, Rosa Vidro Richardson in the Flying Monkey Theatre in Lowe Mill. $12. Flying Monkey Arts, 2211 Seminole Dr SW, Huntsville, AL 35805.

256-489-7000.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21 Visioning Workshop by Lamont Hamilton – (See website for updated time). Unity Church on the Mountain, 1328 Governors Dr. SE, Huntsville, 256-536-2271. UnityChurchOnTheMountain.org.

3rd Annual Tennessee Valley Community Garden Tour – 8am-1pm. Community gardens around Huntsville will open their gates to the public and will be leading tours throughout the day. The route is self-guided, and there is an outdoor afterparty at Lowe Mill. Info: Facebook.com/Tennessee ValleyCGA or 256-743-0742.

Saturday Fitness Classes in June: Interval Workout – 8:30-9:30am. Interval class, a combination of cardio and body strength exercises, plus stretching.

Free. Big Spring Park East by the rock fountain, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Southeastern Outings Canoe and Kayak Trip with Dinner After – 9am. Join us for a relaxing canoe trip on Terrapin Creek in Calhoun County near Piedmont, AL. The scenic section we will paddle is relatively easy with no classified rapids. Reservations required. Info: Dan Frederick, 205-631-4680 or dfred4@bellsouth.net. Seoutings.org.

Family Fun Fest & Expo – 10am-8pm. A free community event that offers face-to-face interactions with exhibitors that support families, fun and learning. Von Braun Center South Hall, 700 Monroe Street Huntsville, AL 35801. FamilyFunFestHsv.com.

Saturday Fitness Classes in June: Yoga – 1011am. Yoga class for all levels with Annette. Please bring your mat and enjoy a free outside yoga class

in Big Spring Park East by the rock fountain, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Jazz at Three Caves: Julian Vaughn – 7-9pm. A fresh and innovative young talent in contemporary jazz. Admission charged. Historic Three Caves, 905 Kennamer Dr SE, Huntsville, AL 35801.

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SUNDAY, JUNE 22 Technique Class: Classic Summertime Grilling – 3-4pm. Get ready for summer entertaining by learning to make the best burger, grilled chicken and potato salad. Free. Williams-Sonoma, Parkway Place, 2801 Memorial Pkwy SW, Huntsville, AL 35801.

MONDAY, JUNE 23 Decatur Concerts by the River: Jeff Whitlow & The Old Barn Band – 6-8pm. Bring a picnic, a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy the free entertainment. Rhodes Ferry Park, 100 Market St NW, Decatur, AL 35601.

TUESDAY, JUNE 24 Birds! Birds On Monte Sano – 9:30-10:30am.

Ages 6-12 with accompanying adult. Come out for a fun morning as we concentrate on our feathered friends who live on our Nature Preserves. Why are birds are so important? Enjoy interactive activities, games, and make an easy birdfeeder. Reservations required: 256-534-5263. LandTrustNAL.org.

Health Forum: Osteoporosis – 11am-12pm. Imogene Tilson, MA, OTR/L, of Huntsville Hospital’s Behavioral Health Services, explains Osteoporosis.

What is it? What causes it? Can it be cured? Prevented? Free. Huntsville Public Library, 915 Monroe St, Huntsville, AL 35801. 256-532-5940.

Tuesday Evening Concerts at The Library – 6-7:30pm. Dancing with the Library Stars: Round Two, Rocket City Jazz Orchestra. Free. Huntsville Public Library, 915 Monroe St, Huntsville, AL 35801. 256-532-5940.

Free two-hour Feng Shui Workshop on Interior Chi Energy Flow – June 24, 6:30-8:30pm, Author

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Clear Englebert explains chi energy and what it does within a home, why some energy is harsh and how to counter it, and how to locate powerful places within a room. Huntsville Public Library, 915 Monroe St, Huntsville, AL 35801. 256-532-2362.

SATURDAY, JUNE 28 Southeastern Outings Moderately Strenuous Dayhike and Creekwade in Collier Creek, Bankhead National Forest – 8:30am. 4 ½ miles, rugged terrain, including wading in two creeks. This is one of the prettiest creeks in the Bankhead Forest. We hope to see at least six waterfalls running on this outing. Info: Dan Frederick, Seoutings@bellsouth. net or 205-631-4680.

Saturday Fitness Classes in June: Body Boot Camp – 8:30-9:30am. A complete total body workout in a fun, adrenaline filled atmosphere using functional movements and your own body weight.

Free. Big Spring Park East by the rock fountain, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Saturday Fitness Classes in June: Gentle Yoga – 10-11am. Uses gentler movements to give the benefits of yoga—relaxation, improved range of motion, and decreased joint and back pain—without stress on those joints. With Christie Seltmann.

Free. Big Spring Park East by the rock fountain, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Celebrate Self-Worth Workshop – 2:30-4:30pm.

Led by M. Gatlianne, this workshop includes yoga, dance, meditation, and a talk on what gets in the way of embracing self-worth. $15 per person.

Yoga Fire, 1874 Slaughter Rd, Madison AL 35758.

Contact Gatlianne@yahoo.com or register online at YogaFireHsv.com.

MONDAY, JUNE 30 Decatur Concerts by the River: Dixie Bluegrass / Robert Montgomery – 6-8pm. Bring a picnic, a blanket or lawn chair and enjoy the free entertainment. Rhodes Ferry Park, 100 Market St NW, Decatur, AL 35601.

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Greene Street Market. Free. Corner of Green Street & Eustis Huntsville, AL 35801. 256-682-4429.

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Madison Gazebo Concerts – 6:30-8:30pm. Join your friends and neighbors each Thursday and make the Gazebo Concerts a family tradition. Bring a blanket or lawn chair. Free. Downtown Madison Gazebo, Front St & Church St, Madison, AL 35758.

A Course in Miracles Study Group – 9:15am.

Shared reading and group discussions. Extra books available. Light of Christ Center, 4208 Holmes Ave, Huntsville, AL. 256-895-0255. LightOfChrist Center.org.

Thursday Night Swing – 6:30-10pm. Swing dance lesson, 6:30pm; Dance 7:30pm. $5 covers lesson and dance. Lowe Mill/Flying Monkey, 2nd Floor Theatre, 2211 Seminole Dr, Huntsville, AL.

Revealing Service – 9:45am. Center for Spiritual Living, 308 Lily Flagg Rd, Huntsville, AL. 256-8838596. CSL-Huntsville.org.

Celebration Service – 10:30am. Center for Spiritual Living, 308 Lily Flagg Rd, Huntsville, AL. 256-8838596. CSL-Huntsville.org.

Unity Church on the Mountain Worship Service – 11am, with Adult Discussion at 9:30am. Unity is a positive path for spiritual living. Rev. Carol Landry. 1328 Governors Dr SE, Huntsville, AL. UnityChurchOnTheMountain.org.

1-Hour Mystery School – 11am. A different service each week including ritual, music, and a message in an open, loving environment. Light of Christ Center, 4208 Holmes Ave, Huntsville, AL. 256-895-0255.

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monday Habitat on Pratt Farmers’ Market – 1-6pm. Featuring fresh fruit, vegetables, and preserves locally grown and produced by North Alabama area growers. Weekly events include food sampling, cooking classes, and more. EBT/SNAP accepted. Habitat for Humanity of Madison County, 400 Pratt Ave NW, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Concerts In the Park – 6:30-8pm. Free, familyfriendly concert series featuring 20 local bands, celebrating the best in Huntsville music. Held on the rear patio of the Huntsville Museum of Art, facing the lagoon in Big Spring Park. Bring your own seating, picnic dinners, and leashed pets.

tuesday Latham UMC Farmers’ Market – 3-7pm. Farmers selling the fruit, vegetables, meat, and poultry grown on their own farms. Latham United Methodist Church, 109 Weatherly Rd SE, Huntsville 35803.

Tuesday Farmers Market at Meridianville – 4-7pm. Fresh locally grown fruits, vegetables, soap, fiber arts, flowers, Artisan Bread, honey, flowers, jelly, jams and more. First Baptist Church of Meridianville, 175 Monroe Rd, Meridianville, AL 35759 Meditation – 6pm. Center for Spiritual Living, 308 Lily Flagg Rd, Huntsville, AL. 256-883-8596.

CSL-Huntsville.org. $10 Feng Shui Classes – 7-9pm, Tuesdays, 6/10 to

7/15. Author and internationally acclaimed feng shui expert, Clear Englebert, offers five comprehensive classes, which may be attended individually. Yoga HōM, 2304 Starmount Circle, Suite B (2nd floor), Huntsville, Alabama 35801. 256- 881-7490.

wednesday Dancing for Birth™ Classes – 11:30am-1pm (starting June 4). Dance classes for pregnant women and new moms. Learn moves inspired by world dance forms such as bellydance, African and Latin dance.

Suitable throughout pregnancy and postnatally with baby. The Yoga Center of Huntsville, 500 East Pratt Ave, Huntsville, AL 35801. 256-962-0975.

A Group for Sensitive People in Huntsville – 6:308:30pm. Free Support Group, Social Activities, Understanding what being sensitive means and how it affects our lives, Guest Speakers, Workshops, Creative Expression, Writing and Art Therapy. 915 Merchants Walk 2nd fl. Call George Kost M.A.P.D. 256-682-5479.

“The Importance of Self-Love” – 6:30pm. Class will be at Unity Church on the Mountain. Love offering accepted. 1328 Governors Dr SE, Huntsville, AL. 256-536-2271. UnityChurchOnTheMountain.org.

Satsang – 6:30pm. Through group discussion and inquiry, we reveal the innate wisdom of the one presence living life as each one of us. Meditation 6pm.

Led by Rev. David Leonard. Center for Spiritual Living, 308 Lily Flagg Rd, Huntsville, AL. 256883-8596. CSL-Huntsville.org.

thursday Huntsville Hospital HealthWorks Farmer’s Market – 7:30am-12pm. Fresh local produce, delicious artisan breads, herbs, gourmet slaw, cheese, jams, jellies and more. Plaza Resource Center Tram Station at Huntsville Hospital, 101 Governors Dr, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Thursday Night Bike Night – 4-8pm. Borrow a bike and take a spin around downtown, Twickenham, Old Town or Five Points. Registration is required to borrow a bike from the station at the

friday Public Clearance Session – 7pm. Third Friday each month. Learn effective healing through reception and application of Divine energies. Light of Christ Center, 4208 Holmes Ave, Huntsville, AL. 256-895-0255.

saturday Madison City Farmers Market – 8am-12pm.

Fresh, quality produce, food products, and handcrafted items, all grown or made in the Tennessee Valley. Trinity Baptist Church, 1088 Hughes Rd, Madison, Alabama 35758. 256-656-7841.

Bailey Cove Farmers Market – 8am-12pm. Locally grown fresh fruits, vegetables, meats, flowers and other locally produced products. St. Thomas Episcopal Church, 12200 Bailey Cove Rd, Huntsville, AL 35803.

Athens Saturday Market – 8am-12pm. Fresh, locally grown fruits, vegetables, flowers, breads, honey, jelly, jams and more. 409 Green Street, Athens, AL 35611.

Artist Market – 12-4pm. Local artists and others are invited to set up a booth and sell their wares to the public. There will be art, jewelry, vintage clothing, records and more for sale. Admission free. Flying Monkey Arts Center at Lowe Mill, 2211 Seminole Dr, Huntsville, AL. Community HU Song – 1:30-2pm. Join others in singing HU, an ancient love song to God that can help and uplift you in countless ways. Held each Saturday.

Huntsville ECK Center, 900 Wellman Ave NE #3 (near Five Points). 256-534-1751. Eck-Alabama.org.

Reiki Free Clinic (No Charge) – 2-4pm, every third Saturday of each month. For appointments, contact Shari Feinman-Prior at Shari1717@gmail. com or 256-289-3331. Peaceful Journey Center, 915 Merchant Walk Way, Suite A, Huntsville, AL 35801.

Saturday Morning Satsang – 8-8:45am (June 14 and 28). Spiritual Talk and Meditation Circle at Yoga Fire. Discover the True Nature within you in a safe and welcoming environment that is open to all belief systems. Free. Yoga Fire, 1874 Slaughter Rd, Madison AL 35758. YogaFireHsv.com. Gatlianne@yahoo.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 Editor@Natvalley.com to request our media kit.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY CENTER FOR OPTIMAL WELLBEING U’Jeana Wilson Owner/Certified Colon Hydrotherapist Degree in Psychology 256-658-8600

Center for Optimal Wellbeing is the longest operating colonic therapy provider in Huntsville.

First time clients have expressed immediate feelings of increased energy levels and improved efficiency in waste elimination. You will enjoy the experience of your own “personal cleansing spa” as you receive colon hydrotherapy (colonic), far infrared sauna, an optional massaging shower, and ionic footbath services—in a clean, comfortable, and relaxing private environment. Call for directions and a 10% discount on your first service when you mention Natural Awakenings or use code COWB.

HOPE FOR LIFE COLONICS

Tina Pencola Owner/Certified Colon Hydrotherapist 10300 Bailey Cove Rd, Suite-7A Huntsville, AL 35803 256-270-8731 • 256-684-0020 Hope4LifeAL.com Tina.HopeForLife@outlook.com Our goal is to live long and live strong. Young or old, male or female, healthy or sick, will benefit from an internal cleansing. Mention this ad and get $10 off your first colonic session. See ad, page 20.

JARVIS NATURAL HEALTH CLINIC 1489 Slaughter Road, Madison 256-837-3448

I-ACT Certified Colon Hydro Therapists. Do you know that 80% of your immune system is in your colon? Bathe your body from the inside to improve health. Colon irrigation aids in soothing and toning the colon, which makes elimination more effective.

ENERGY HEALING CENTER FOR DIRECTIONAL HEALING™ Susan Spalding 2225 Drake Ave. SW, Suite 18 Huntsville, 35805 256-882-0360 DirectionalHealing.com

For over 20 years, Susan Spalding and the staff at the Center for Directional Healing have been helping people achieve harmonic health through Directional Healing, Reflexology, and now the Amethyst Biomat. Clients may choose a single service, or combine all three for the most complete healing experience. Healing techniques, articles, and more information are available online at DirectionalHealing.com.

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ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY PEACEFUL JOURNEY CENTER Shari Feinman-Prior 915 Merchant Walk Way, Suite A Huntsville, AL 35801 256-289-3331 • ShariPrior.com Shari1717@gmail.com

Offering an individualized integrative approach for healing: Rapid Eye Technology, Inner Counselor Process, Healing Touch, Life Skills Coaching, and Reiki Attunements to create change for a healthy and joyful life.

FAMILY MEDICINE MADISON FAMILY CARE

Chad Gilliam, M.M.S. PA-C 1230 Slaughter Road, Suite C, Madison, AL 256-722-0555 MadisonFamilyCare.com Progressive Family Medicine provides medical care for patients of all ages and uniquely blends Natural and Prescription medicines together to help speed the patient’s recovery. Progressive Family Medicine is the patient’s clinic of choice when they would like to understand how natural medicines work along with prescription drugs. See ads, page 11 and back page.

FARMERS MARKET MADISON CITY FARMERS MARKET

Saturdays 8am-12pm 1088 Hughes Rd, at Trinity Baptist of Madison MadisonCityFarmersMarket.com 256-656-7841 Local producers provide a diverse selection of vegetables, fruit, herbs, meats, cheese, milk, eggs, honey, jams, pickles, relishes, flowers, plants, baked goods, cards, soaps, woodwork and more. Everything sold at the market is grown or crafted within 100 miles of the market!

MORGAN CO/DECATUR FARMERS MARKET

211 1st Ave SE, Decatur, AL 35601 Burl Slaten, 256-476-5595 Open Monday-Saturday from 6am-5pm starting April 19. A variety of vendors selling their homegrown foods. Peas and beans shelled for a fee.

Please support you local farmers.

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FENG SHUI AFFORDABLE FENG SHUI Clear Englebert 256-881-7490 ClearEngle@aol.com Fungshway.com

Consultations $1 per minute.

Internationally acclaimed author and feng shui expert. In Huntsville through July. Free library lectures: at Main Library June 24, 6:30pm; at Bailey Cove Library July 17, 6pm. $10 feng shui classes at HōM Yoga Studio, 2304 Starmount Circle, on Tuesday evenings 7-9.

FENG SHUI BY TRUDI GARDNER Trudi Gardner, M.S. 256-772-6999 Tygard2000@aol.com

An interior design philosophy that invites serenity and reduces stress. Feng Shui design concepts brings positive energy into your home and office to encourage Prosperity, Well Being, Harmony, and Balance.

HAIR SALON CJ HAIR AND ART STUDIO CJ Denison 105E Church St Madison, AL 35758 256-603-9018

Specializing in NATURAL Hairstyles. Cuts with Texture and Movement. Specializing in Fine Hair, Razor cuts, Men's Hair Pieces with A NATURAL Look. Specializing in Hair Color OFF the Scalp.

Hair Painting. A Safer way to Color or HiLight Your Hair to Help in Decreasing the Exposure to the Scalp. HEALTHY HAIR is HAPPY HAIR. Also Original Art Work and Private Art lessons available.

Call Today for YOUR Appointment.

HOLISTIC MEDICINE BE WELLNESS CLINIC OF HUNTSVILLE 8 Parade St, Huntsville, AL 35806 256-382-3710 Info@HolisticAlabama.com

We offer an innovative model for health care that encompasses an individualized approach in order to balance and harmonize the mind, body and spirit thru a comprehensive assessment of your nutritional, hormonal, intestinal and immunological systems for the prevention and reversal of diseases.

HYPNOTHERAPY

MASSAGE

NATUROPATHIC DOCTOR

CENTER FOR INNER WELLNESS

A HEALING TOUCH

Creating positive change through hypnotherapy and Breathwork. Empowering you to live to your highest potential. Relieve stress and anxiety, release negativity, pain management, pre/post medical procedure, fears/phobias, weight loss, smoking cessation, and more. See ad, page 16.

Massage therapy with a healing touch. Offering signature swedish and deep tissue massage, foot massage, reflexology, and detox foot baths. Medical Massage Practitioners.

Most insurance accepted. By appointment only.

Becky Waters Certified Hypnotherapist and Professional Breathworker 3322 S. Memorial Parkway, Suite 643 Huntsville, AL • 256-348-5236

MARSHA MATHES

Certified Hypnotist 3313 Memorial Parkway, Ste 116 Huntsville, AL 35801 256-698-2151 MarshaMathes.SkinCareTherapy.net Hypnosis is a tool to assist you in countless ways to heal your past, empower your present and create your future. Hypnobirthing classes, quit smoking, weight loss, nail and lip biting, teeth grinding, insomnia, anxiety and stress relief, phobias and fears, pain relief, sports enhancement, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), current and past life regressions.

JIN SHIN JYUTSU® JIN SHIN JYUTSU OF HUNTSVILLE Sandra Cope Huntsville 256-534-1794 256-509-3540

Certified Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner. An easy, effective way of restoring health and well-being by balancing the body’s energy pathways to enhance the body’s natural healing abilities. See ad, page 23.

MARTIAL ARTS ROCKET CITY MARTIAL ARTS Matt Gilliard, Head Instructor 256-710-2454 RocketCityMartialArts.com RocketCityMartialArts@gmail.com

Rocket City Martial Arts teaches a skill set that is tailored to the student based on his or her height, weight, and most physical limitations. We offer instruction in aikido and karate.

Visit our website. Inquire about our free introductory program!

502 11th St SE Decatur, AL 35601 Robert Jackson LMT#852, 256-351-9566 Cynthia Watkins LMT#3790, 256-606-1735

CLOUD NINE IN HOME MASSAGES Evening and Weekend Appointments 256-337-6989

Finally, someone who makes housecalls! Swedish, Ortho and Deep Tissue massage in the privacy of your own home. Gift Certificates also available for any occasion.

DIXIE PHILLIPS (LMT #2151)

Dixie’s Sunrise Massage Therapy 3313 Memorial Parkway, Ste #116 Huntsville, AL 35801 256-585-0504 • Hoss2ride@otelco.net Dixie’s Sunrise Massage Therapy: Come in and experience Dixie’s Combo. This is not the typical massage. MediCupping Therapy is used to relax muscles and increase the blood flow, which accelerates healing. It is also effective on bloating, scars, Fibromyalgia, Sciatica, migraine or tension headaches. See details on services, rates, and possible help with your Tissue Issues at DixiesSunrise.MassageTherapy.com.

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ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE ASSOCIATES Dr. Deb Gilliam, N.M.D. 1230 Slaughter Road, Madison, AL 256-325-0955

Dr. Gilliam treats a variety of health problems with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, heart disease, hormone replacement and thyroid issues being at the forefront. Dr. Gilliam sees patients from around the world due to the reputation she has earned by treating hard to treat medical conditions. Dr. Gilliam works to find the cause of medical conditions and does not simply treat the patients’ symptoms. See ad, page 21.

SHAMANIC HEALING SHAMANIC HEALING & Therapeutic Massage Jeffrey Rich, LMT 256-­337-­1699 WaterWillowMoon.com Jeffrey.Rich@gmail.com

Imagine finding your wholeness!

Shamanic Healing is “Medicine f o r Yo u r S p i r i t , ” s a c r e d technology which helps you heal because it addresses the spiritual causes of what is affecting you.

Searching for joy? Something “just not right” with you? Have you “not been the same since” that significant event? Does something block you again and again? Lets unravel it and find the answers for you! Offering you Soul Retrieval, Unraveling of Energetic Blocks, Shamanic Training, experienced Therapeutic Massage.

STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION JACI HOGUE

256-656-4108 JaciHogue@gmail.com

LIGHT OF CHRIST CENTER

4208 Holmes Ave, Huntsville 256-895-0255 • LightOfChristCenter.org Rent our beautiful vintage Centenarian House facility as the ideal venue for weddings, receptions, memorial services, classes/workshops and other gatherings. Call and leave a message if you’re interested in a tour or to speak with someone about your event. See ad, page 24.

A complete system of body education that balances the physical body, improves posture, and helps resolve chronic pain. Created by Dr. Ida P. Rolf in the 1950s, Structural Integration has been scientifically validated and has withstood the test of time, as millions of people have enjoyed the remarkable benefits.

SUSAN K. JEFFREYS

Advanced Practitioner Lic.#249 Dr. Ida P. ROLF method 2336A Whitesburg Drive 256-508-3351 • RolfGuild.org Serving Huntsville since 1995 “When the body gets working appropriately, then the force of gravity can flow through. Then spontaneously, the body heals itself.” —Ida P. Rolf. See ad, page 15.

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Progressive M ADISON Family F AMILY CARE M edic i n e

Alternative Medicine Associates • • • • • •

Complete Family Practice Sick Visits Diabetes Hypertension Asthma Thyroid

Chad Gilliam, M.M.S., PA-C

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Environmental Allergy Testing Food Allergy Testing Bio-Identical Hormones Laboratory Testing Gynecological Care X-Rays

Dr. Gary Adams, M.D.

256-722-0555 1230 SLAUGHTER RD, SUITE C MADISON, AL 35758

MadisonFamilyCare.com Progress Toward Wellness & Prevention