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8 THE NEXT BIG LEAP

Moving On to Ultimate Success

By Gay Hendricks

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14 CHILDREN’S INTUITION

A Special Key to Success in Life

By Catherine Crawford

16 CREATIVITY IN MOTION

Dancing Through Life with Nia

By Gail Condrick

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oming from a long line of creative genes, which includes a grandmother who painted freehand until she was 87, a dad and brother who can look at a picture and build a beautiful piece of furniture, and a mom who could sew just about anything she envisioned, I’d feel slighted if I didn’t get a slice of that creative piece of pie in my life.

Growing up, I would draw my own comic strips, redesign ads from magazines, and was even commissioned in 8th grade to “redecorate” the graffiti in the girls’ bathroom to murals of Disney characters! It got me out of history and science class for a semester, and it may have brought a little more sunshine and happiness into that sterile place too.

Many times we hear others say “I don’t have a creative bone in my body.” If one stops to think about it, there is that “something” that we all “love to do” or “would love to do” IF we had the time, the money, the stamina. In our Creative Expression issue, you will find “A Conversation with Dr. Wayne Dyer” on page 18 with tips from his new book Excuses Begone, which discusses ways to get those creative juices flowing with no excuses.

Creativity in your career path can be a good place to start as you have to find ways to stand out among many others vying for employment these days. It might also spark an entrepreneurial spirit within - to do something creative with the skills that you have or a passion for what you would like to do. “The Next Big Leap” on page 8 and “Positive Thinking: Boost Your Joyful Thinking” page 22 may give you that extra jolt of inspiration to start you on your journey.

Take time out to nurture yourself, your family, your friends, and the rewards will be an improved and stronger community. As we create healthy minds, bodies and inspirational souls that contribute to our own success, it will bring fulfillment and enthusiasm to create an even better Upstate for tomorrow.

Enjoy this issue, and dance like no one is watching!

Linda

Coming in October

GREEN PLANET

Learn how to lead an eco-friendly life in Natural Awakenings’ October edition.

newsbriefs

2nd Annual Waggin’ the Waterpark Pranic Healing Center Now in Greenville at

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reenville now has a Pranic Healing center. Pranic Healing is a powerful form of subtle energy healing, and uses subtle energy healing utilizing prana (vital life force energy) in balancing, harmonizing and transforming the body’s energy processes. The modern founder of Pranic Healing, Master Choa Kok Sui, based the system on two main principles: The body is a self-repairing living entity, and energy can be projected from one person to another. As a result, the natural healing process can be accelerated by restoring and increasing the energy on the affected part of the body.

Master Choa Kenneth L. Williams, DC and Connie Williams, M.Ed. Kok Sui travel from Pensacola/Gulf Breeze, FL to teach courses at the GPHC. Through the Center for Pranic Healing and Wellness in Gulf Breeze, FL and the Center for Pranic Healing in NJ, The GPHC is linked with the Institute for Inner Studies in the Philippines.

The Greenville Pranic Healing Center (GPHC) is located inside the Kimah Healing Arts Center at 2112 Augusta St, in Greenville. 864-232-3739. See ad, page 9.

Greer Chiropractor Relocates to New Office

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r. Steven G. Mathis, D.C. of Mathis Chiropractic has moved his office inside the Blue Ridge Urology location in Greer.

Dr. Mathis has been a chiropractic physician for over 30 years, treating acute and chronic low back pain and has experiSteven G. ence in electroceutical medicine modalities such as multi-proMathis gram computer (matrix) with success in other conditions such as slow healing wounds, soft tissue healing and muscle strengthening.

Mathis Chiropractic is located at 402 Memorial Dr. Ext., Greer. 864-640-5074.

Senior Action Goes Green with Log Cabin Store

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he Log Cabin Handcrafted Gifts Store is a local version of 10,000 Villages, offering Greenville’s residents the opportunity to purchase beautiful handcrafted gifts at affordable prices for the benefit of the Upstate seniors who craft them. Located at 102 E. Park Street in Greenville’s downtown McPherson Park, the store is “green” both in concept and design. It is operated by volunteers of Senior Action, a local non-profit agency, and open on Thursdays and Fridays from 10 am – 6 pm and Saturdays from 10 am – 2 pm.

The store’s featured handiwork (by persons over age 55) includes beautiful handmade jewelry, wooden toys, bird houses, paintings, knit and crochet baby clothes and accessories, cards, baskets, scarves, hats, pocketbooks, children’s furniture, spa items, home and kitchen décor, seasonal gifts and more.

The unique merchandise offers value for customers and gives creative retirees the opportunity to earn extra income with their talents. Twenty-five percent of the sales support Senior Action’s programming for older adults in Greenville County.

For more information, contact Pat Odom at the store, 864-467-4344.

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he Greenville County Recreation District and the Greenville and Clemson Kennel Clubs will partner on Saturday, September 12 to bring area canine owners and enthusiasts a day for the dogs at Southside Park.

The Recreation District will offer its second annual Waggin’ at the Waterpark, an all dog swim fest at Discovery Island, and the Kennel Club will host its AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Day. Event proceeds will help fund the development of dog parks in Greenville County.

The swim times are: Small dogs up to 25 lbs.

10am -11am Medium dogs 25-40 lbs.

11:30am -12:30pm Large dogs 40 lbs. and over 1 pm -2 pm Senior dogs All sizes over 9 years old 2:30pm – 3:30pm Proof of vaccinations is required in advance or on the day of the event. The advance fee is $15 and that includes one dog and one owner. Registration is $20 on the day of the event. Additional humans may visit for $3 each.

The Kennel Club event is free and runs from 10am - 4 pm on the parks athletic fields. It offers a Canine Good Citizen Demonstration, a microchip clinic, demos by the local canine law enforcement units, AKC children and dog safety presentations and a wealth of vendors.

Dogs and their owners participating in Waggin’ are encouraged to preregister through the website at GreenvilleRec.com or by emailing CindyB@gcrd. org, 864-288-6470 x157.

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newsbriefs New Renewable Energy Firm Offers Wind Turbines

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iento Energy Solutions, a new company in the Upstate, is offering state-of-the-art, pollution-free wind turbines for residential, commercial and industrial use. Viento is a subsidiary of Industrial Innovative Controls, a company that has been working towards clean industrial solutions for over 20 years. Wind as an energy resource is not new, as windmills are old technology. What is truly new is the hi-tech capability to start generating a significant amount of power with 4.4 mph winds and energy efficiency and independence.

Viento offers six wind turbine models, ranging from 2 kW to 50kW, and continually are expanding the product line. The wind turbines are customized to efficiently operate with the Upstate’s mild wind patterns and are a clean source of viable, supplemental energy. Depending on energy usage and the need to reduce the power bill, any of these wind turbine units can be a significant source of supplemental energy for the home. A 10kW unit will fit the average American home, while smaller units can be used to power smaller facilities such as barns.

For more information, call 864-449-4129. VientoEnergySolutions.com

Outdoor Art Festival in Travelers Rest

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rillium Arts Centre is sponsoring an outdoor art festival on Saturday, October 3, featuring an eclectic mix of regional folk and outsider artists, mixed in with local jewelers, woodworkers, painters, potters, photographers and fiber artists. Browse among the tents, meet the artists and enjoy their colorful stories and backgrounds. Local musicians, food, and kids activities will all be available at the festival.

The Festival runs from 10am-6pm, and is located at Gateway Park in downtown Travelers Rest. For a map or more information, go to TrilliumArtsCentre.org/festival or call 864-834-2388.

Essential Kneads Massage Therapy Relocates to Simpsonville

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ammy Forbes, owner of Essential Kneads Massage Therapy has recently relocated her business to a new office in Simpsonville. “I am very excited to be working and living in Simpsonville”, says Forbes.

Forbes is a licensed, nationally certified massage and bodywork therapist who offers Swedish, therapeutic, neuromuscular, and hot stone massage, aromatherapy, raindrop Tammy technique and tender point release technique for Fibromyalgia.

Forbes Tammy is also a Reiki Master and offers Reiki for individuals and ongoing classes in all three levels.

“Massage positively affects every system in your body. It is the first step on your journey to health and wellness”, states Forbes.

Essential Kneads is located at 425 N. Main St, Simpsonville. For more information, call 864-616-1380. TammyForbes.MassageTherapy.com. See ad, page 9.

Dining for Women to Host Community Rummage Sale

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ining for Women, a non-profit giving circle, will host the “Really Rockin’ Rummage Sale” Saturday, September 12, 2009 from 7am to 4pm at McAlister Square on S. Pleasantburg Drive in Greenville.

Admission to the event is $5.00 per person. The Really Rockin’ Rummage Sale will include live music, food and beverages sponsored by Chief’s Wing’s and Firewater.

Dining for Women was founded in Greenville by Marsha Wallace and currently has 130 chapters nationwide. DFW empowers women globally who are living in extreme poverty by funding programs fostering good health, education, and economic self-sufficiency. DFW cultivates educational dinner circles inspiring individuals to make a difference through the power of collective giving.

In 2008, DFW supported programs touching 30,000 lives. Since its inception in 2003, DFW has raised and distributed over $475,000 to women in 24 countries around the world.

For information on booth rentals and sponsorship please contact Jan Howard at 864-630-2236 or janhowardhome@bellsouth.net.

Doula Training & Midwifery Class Offered in Spartanburg

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new midwifery class starting in January 2010 is perfect for someone who wants to be a South Carolina Licensed Midwife but does not want to pursue nursing to work with pregnant women and babies. It is a two and a half year course with a limited class size that prepares the student with the academic knowledge to pass the North American Registry of Midwives exam for the Certified Professional Midwife credentialing and for licensing for South Carolina. The class is generally not offered again until the current class is completed. Prerequisites are to be completed ahead of time. One of the prerequisites is Doula training that is being offered in October - November in Spartanburg.

For more information call 864-909-0042. SmartPregnancy.net. See ad, page 26.

Art Gallery Sponsors Free Introductory Marketing Program

13th Annual Arts Alive Festival & Exhibition

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enior Action presents the 13th Annual Arts Alive Exhibition, Saturday, October 3rd from 10 a.m.

– 4 p.m. at McPherson Park near downtown Greenville. This show recognizes artists 55 years and older. New this year, the juried art exhibition will be held inside Sears Shelter and an outdoor art festival will be held in McPherson Park allowing artists the opportunity to showcase their works to the public in a festival atmosphere. As always, admission is free.

McPherson Park is located on the corner of N. Church St. & N. Academy St. Near downtown Greenville. For more information call 864-467-3660 x 134. SeniorAction.org.

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illage Studios and Gallery is sponsoring a free introductory marketing program featuring Andrea Adler, author of The Science of Spiritual Marketing on Wednesday, September 9 from 6:00 - 7:30 pm.

Andrea During the introductory program, Andrea will introduce concepAdler tual and practical applications of her scientific approach to marketing.

From the Root Chakra of PR, to sourcing the Three Stages of Creativity, to discovering the muscle of Network Science, Andrea removes the mystery of marketing, conveying her methodology and its hands-on applications toward a new level of understanding and cohesiveness. “Intention and energy are behind every word and image we use in our materials and in our outreach and makes a huge impact as to how we are perceived and whom we attract”, states Adler.

Gwen and Richard Heusel created Village Studios four years ago in the Pendleton Arts District to give Greenville artists an affordable place to live and show their art. Andrea Adler is the founder of HolisticPR.com. She is an international speaker, workshop presenter and author, and has been in marketing and public relations consultation for over 30 years.

Village Studios & Gallery is located at 1278 Pendleton Street in Greenville. For more information, call 864-295-9278. HolisticPR.com.

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The Next

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Moving On to Ultimate Success

by Gay Hendricks

Here’s a key to vanquishing that one problem that’s keeping us from ultimate success in love, financial abundance and creativity.

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hether I’m coaching a billionaire CEO like Michael when we feel we have reached an upper allowable limit of positive feeling.

Dell or a 12-year-old piano prodigy, I base my

The good news is that if we can learn to spot and tranapproach on the following bottom-line insights. scend our upper limit, we can make a rapid transition into They’ve been gleaned from my 30 years of work in the field our zone of genius. Asking ourselves four questions can serve of relationship transformation and mind-body therapies.

First, it helps to understand that successful people operate as our personal launching pad. Answering these questions honestly begets telling new perspectives that just may set us in one of several zones: what I call the zone of competence, the zone of excellence or the zone of genius. Most people stall flying skyward into the big leap. The four questions are: out in the zone of excellence. Those who make it big and are • What do I most love to do? the happiest go all the way into the zone of genius. Achieving • What work do I do that doesn’t seem like work? that transition is what I call, “the Big Leap.”

• In my work, what produces the highest ratio of abundance

The reason most people don’t make it into the zone and satisfaction to the amount of time spent? of genius is because of “the Upper Limit Problem.” This • What is my unique ability? problem is the one obstacle that prevents us from attaining success and true happiness in all aspects of our All of us deserve to experience wave after life. It occurs because we all have an inner therWhatever its wave of greater love, creative energy and fimostat that determines the amount of love and nancial abundance, without the compulsion to origin, we can success we allow ourselves. When we exceed sabotage ourselves. We start with the heartfelt our setting, we tend to sabotage the grander ex- transcend our Upper desire to eliminate our Upper Limit Problem— perience, in order to return to the old, familiar Limit Problem in the if we commit to clearing it out of our conzone where we feel secure. sciousness, we’re more than halfway there. wink of an eye.

The trouble is that the thermostat was set Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., is the author of numerbefore we could think for ourselves, in early ous bestsellers, including The Corporate Mystic. He taught at childhood. Later in life, when we hit our upper limit, we ofthe University of Colorado for 21 years before founding The ten unthinkingly engage in self-defeating behaviors; we proHendricks Institute in Ojai, CA. For more information on The voke arguments, get into accidents or become sick, in order Big Leap: Conquer Your Fears and Take Life to the Next Level, to bring ourselves back down. Catalysts appear as feelings of guilt, stress, doubt or worry, which we routinely manufacture visit Hendricks.com.

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Music Harmonizes the Brain and Heals the Heart

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hen two guitarists play together, more than their instruments play in time; their brainwaves match up, too, according to new research from Germany. When the German scientists analyzed electrical activity in the brains of eight pairs of guitarists as they played a short jazz-fusion melody together up to 60 times, they discovered that brain

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wave similarities within and between the musicians’ brains increased as they listened to the beat of a metronome while preparing to play. The brains’ synchronization then continued when they began making music.

Another U.S. study monitored the steady pulse of a recovering heart surgery patient as it charted the progress of his mending heart, while a quiet symphony filled the room. For nine days, the patient soaked up the tranquil, wordless strumming of a Brazilian guitarist.

Music became his medicine, as his heart literally fell into rhythm with the tunes.

Increasingly, doctors are studying and employing music as a healing tool; in measuring the brain’s response to musical notes, they are discovering music’s harmonizing route from head to heart.

Yoga Helps Breast Cancer Patients Feel Better

Sources: msnbc.msn.com, BBC News, 2009

Source: PhysOrg.com

Women undertaking a 10-week program of restorative yoga classes experienced a 50 percent reduction in depression and a 12 percent increase in feelings of peace and meaning after the yoga sessions, according to a recent study published in the journal Psycho-Oncology.

Meditation and Yoga Change Genes’ Response to Stress

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esearch now suggests that mindbody techniques like yoga and meditation, which can put the body into a state of deep rest known as the relaxation response, are capable of changing how human genes behave in response to stress.

Many experts see the relaxation response, which is characterized by reduced oxygen intake, increased exhalation of nitric oxide and lowered psychological distress, as the counterpart to the flight-or-fight stress response.

The authors say their study showed that the relaxation response further acted to change the expression of genes involved with inflammation, programmed cell death and the handling of free radicals. They noted that such deep relaxation practices have been used across cultures for millennia to help prevent and treat disease.

Dr. Jeffery Dusek, co-lead author of the study at the Benson-Henry Institute, and now with Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, remarks that, “The relaxation-response-associated changes were the opposite of stress-

associated changes,” and were “much more pronounced” in long-term practitioners.

The researchers at Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Genomics Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center published their results in PLoS One. Source: MedicalNewsToday.com

These Vitamins Protect Our Eyes By taking a combination of vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid, women over 40 decreased their risk of developing agerelated macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness, by 34 percent. Before this, the only known prevention method was avoiding smoking. The research comes from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Source: JAMA/Archives of Internal Medicine, 2009

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Doodling Aids Memory

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oodling might imply a wandering mind, but according to a study published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, the contrary is true; doodling can actually help people remember details.

Study participants who were directed to doodle while listening to a dull phone message demonstrated a 29 percent improved recall compared with their non-doodling counterparts.

“If someone is doing a boring task, they may start to daydream. Daydreaming distracts them from the task, resulting in poorer performance,” explains study co-author Jackie Andrade, Ph.D., a psychology professor at the University of Plymouth, in England. “A simple task, like doodling, may be sufficient to stop daydreaming without affecting performance on the main task.” It turns

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Less Salt Means Longer Lives

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out that in everyday life, doodling may be something we do because it helps us stay on track.

Source: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

niversity of California, San Francisco computer simulation research projects that a 3-gram-a-day reduction in Americans’ salt intake (about 1,200 milligrams of sodium) would result in 6 percent fewer cases of new heart disease, 8 percent fewer heart attacks and 3 percent fewer deaths.

Most of us now eat 9-12 grams of salt a day.

Both salt intake and blood pressure levels are up about 50 percent since the 1970s; researchers identify commercially processed foods as the culprit.

Source: American Heart Association, 2009

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

Bell Ringer

Unprecedented Support for International Day of Peace United Nations peace bells throughout the world will ring September 21 as the 2009 International Day of Peace circles the globe in a 24-hour celebration toward a sustainable world peace.

For the first time, a global broadcast via the Internet, radio and television will spotlight the UN’s central purpose, “to end the scourge of war for future generations.” Videos from locations all over the world will stream over InternationalDayofPeace.org and CultureofPeace.org. Commemorations of presentday peacebuilders’ accomplishments will be broadcast in dozens of languages on this day of calling for a cease-fire.

“Peace,” advised Albert Einstein, “can only be achieved by understanding.”

Peacebuilders focus on creating a long-term culture of peace.

Downloadable tools intended to catalyze year-round public networking and collaboration help jumpstart local initiatives. Imagine if every country began by donating that single day’s warfare budget to a peace organization. Individuals can celebrate Peace Day in as simple an act as lighting a candle and silently sitting in supportive meditation.

Find or post a community celebration at InternationalDayofPeace.org.

Advantage Cosmopolites

Living Abroad Expands Creative Perspective Living in another country, a classic prescription for artists seeking to stimulate their imagination and hone their craft, may actually expand a person’s mental creativity, according to new research published by the American Psychological Association. Researchers found that university students in the United States, France and Singapore who have spent time abroad adapting to a new culture tested higher for creative insights. Even mentally recreating past experiences of living abroad by writing about them temporarily increased their creative capacity.

Apparently, “There is some sort of psychological transformation that needs to occur when people are living in a foreign country,” in order to enhance creative problem-solving, observes study co-author Adam Galinsky, Ph.D., of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

“Knowing that experiences abroad are critical for creative output makes study abroad programs and job assignments in other countries that much more important,” notes another co-author, William Maddux, Ph.D., an assistant professor with the INSEAD Business School. “This is especially true for people and companies that put a premium on creativity and innovation to stay competitive.”

Legislation Watch

Pending Food Safety Bill Could Harm Organic Farmers A national food safety bill called the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in July and now goes to the Senate. It gives the Food and Drug Administration more power to deal with food safety problems, but it also imposes a costly one-size-fits-all regulatory scheme on small farms and local artisanal producers, the same as if they were multinational corporations. As it now stands, the bill threatens to undermine organic farmers and others producing for local markets, advises the Organic Consumers Association (OrganicConsumers.org), and could easily put many small farms out of business. OCA advocates: “H.R. 2749 needs to draw a clear line between small local growers and industrial/ factory farms and processing plants, where food-borne pathogens incubate, flourish and spread.”

Find more information and take action at both the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund website, ftcldf. org/petitions_new.htm, and http:// capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=13799941. See ad page 19.

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Children’s Intuition A Special Key to Success in Life

by Catherine Crawford

A child’s intuition, or sixth sense, may be more important in the life of a child than many people realize. Intuition helps alert kids to danger, provides guidance in decision making and helps in problem solving, enabling youngsters to jump more quickly to a solution. Nurturing children’s intuition and keeping it alive helps them maintain a clear connection to this inner compass.

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ll children are intuitive, but some are more highly so and experience more intuitive messages, or perceptions, with greater frequency than others. They often are unusually aware of the needs and feelings of friends, parents, siblings and animals. These children may translate the unspoken needs of younger siblings and pets with striking accuracy and even pick up on the predominant feeling of a group of people as they enter a room. Others may tune into an unspoken family conflict or tell someone to be careful before stumbling into an unknown situation.

In my psychotherapy practice over the past 20 years, I’ve noticed that intuitive children who are raised with respect for their insights and taught to manage the stressors that can emerge with this trait generally grow up to be healthy, balanced, intuitive adults. On the other hand, when highly intuitive children learn to suppress their inner truth and stop respecting their own inner compass, they suffer undesirable consequences. Many manifest reduced self-esteem, selfdoubt, confusion in decision making and difficulties with interpersonal boundaries as adults. They are more likely to defer to what other people want, even at the expense of their own health, boundaries and better judgment.

How to Support an Intuitive Child

In parenting and guiding, we can make a big difference in supporting children’s intuition and empathy. Three keys are to give kids positive feedback for these abilities, help them learn how to deal with associated stressors and teach them real-life skills designed with their individual abilities in mind.

Children’s messages to us can be simple and direct. Here are ways we can help and support an especially intuitive child:

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• Stay open to her perceptions without judgment.

• Try not to inflate or deflate her intuitive experience when we respond to it.

• Help her see that her way of feeling and seeing life is an important part of who she is, just like any other gift or talent.

• Realize that she may need our help in learning how to manage the stressors associated with this innate lens through which she sees the world.

• Let him know that he is never alone and we are available to help him.

• If he has empathically taken on someone else’s mood, aches, pains, or worries, help him to practice asking, “Is this feeling mine?” Remind him that he’s not respon sible for anyone else’s feelings.

• If a child is stuck in a pattern of being in tune with others’ pain or the pain of the world, help him learn to switch to being on the “self channel.” We can help him do this through exercise, by encouraging him to express his feel ings in art, or even by taking a couple of slow deep breaths along with us.

Perceptive children call for perceptive parenting. Parents can help keep intuition strong in their children and help solidify this gift for life by adopting these supportive behaviors.

Catherine Crawford is a licensed marriage and family therapist and registered art therapist, specializing in the needs of intuitive empaths. Her new book is The Highly Intuitive Child: A Guide to Understanding and Parenting Unusually Sensitive and Empathic Children. Learn more at LifePassage.com.

Signs of a Highly Intuitive Child

by Catherine Crawford

The music that can deepest reach, and cure all ill, is cordial speech.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Intuition involves the ability to pick up on subtle information that is not perceived directly through any of the five senses, but rather is detected through an invisible sixth sense.

Empathy is the ability to tune in to how another person is feeling by registering those feelings through the body. Intuitive empaths experience these ways of perceiving the world through an extra-magnified lens.

Do you have a highly intuitive child?

Read the following 10 traits and check those that apply. My child: • Has a way of finishing my sen tences and reading my thoughts.

• Has an ability to “see” things before they happen and is surprised that other people respond to her predictions with amazement.

• Frequently translates the needs of younger siblings and pets for me and is surprisingly perceptive.

• Is agitated by noisy, crowded events, and it takes him a long time to bounce back after such disruptions.

• ”Catches” others’ emotions or upset moods, almost like a cold.

• Is prone to headaches and stom achaches related to other people’s stress.

• Feels tension during traumatic world events, maybe even draw ing pictures of them or spontane ously talking about them, without any external information about the events.

• Is hard to keep a secret or surprise from; for example, she routinely guesses her birthday presents.

• Has a tendency to have insights about other people and the world that outpace developmental norms.

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Upstate Nia Contacts and Classes

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Kimah Healing Art Center 2112 Augusta St.·Greenville Kimah.net Mondays 5:30-6:30pm $12 per class/$50 for five classes

The Life Center 875 West Faris Rd.·Greenville Wednesdays 6-7:00pm $65 Members, $85 Non-Members/ six week session

Earth Fare 3620 Pelham Rd.·Greenville Free Demonstration Classes (Come dressed to move) September 16 - 10:30-11:30am September 24 - 6-7:00pm

Creativity in Motion Dancing Through Life with Nia

YWCA of Greenville 700 Augusta Street·Greenville Tuesdays starting September 15 9:30-10:30am and 5:30-6:30pm $10 per class

Justine Allen Instructor justine.allen@NiaNexus.com 864-430-7469

Furman Lifelong Learning Dept.

864-294-2153·Travelers Rest Tues. & Thurs. 6-7:00pm September 22-October 29/12 wk. sessions

Anne Lowry Instructor Nia Black Belt Teacher Active Dreaming Teacher and Coach offering Nia workshops and ongoing classes offering Active Dreaming workshops, ongoing classes, and personal coaching 828-687-8874

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by Gail Condrick

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ooking for a cardio workout that engages both mind and body with a side order of consciousness?

The Nia Technique may be just the ticket. In each hour-long Nia class, enthusiasts experience the creativity of dance, the precision of yoga and the power of martial arts, as they move to music that rocks the body and soothes the soul.

Nia blends the energy forms of Tai chi, aikido, tae kwon do, Duncan dance, jazz, modern dance and yoga into a holistic, self-healing experience.

The underlying principle of it all is finding joy and pleasure in movement.

Renowned physician Christiane Northrup characterizes Nia as “a total mind, body, spirit celebration.” In her book, The Secret Pleasures of Menopause, she notes that regular exercise can add 20 years to a life and encourages individuals to get moving.

A Nia class “celebration” is an active, sweaty cardiovascular workout currently practiced in 39 countries.

For Nia instructor Justine Allen, who has been teaching in Greenville for a year and is building and expanding her classes, Nia brings joy to herself and

her students. Allen says, “When I am teaching or taking a Nia class, every cell in my body smiles. The movement forms of Nia have a kind of magical effect, natural yet stimulating, relaxed but invigorated.”

At the Kimah Healing Arts Center, where Allen teaches, students aged 30 to 60 dance enthusiastically to music that ranges from inspirational to funky and primal, accented by kicks, blocks, punches and jazzy showmanship. Each person moves at their desired level of intensity, adapting the 52 moves of the form to their body potential. Each hourlong session ends in freeform stretching and relaxation and an invitation that students apply the movements to their daily lives.

Black Belt Nia instructor Anne Lowry, who teaches at Furman Lifelong Learning Institute, says that Nia allows people to get in touch with their bodies in a new way. “Nia is a wonderful way to shake off the world for an hour,” shares Lowry. “I love assisting people in finding a way to recapture the energy of their youth and developing body awareness.”

Awareness makes a difference.

In Excuses Begone!,” Wayne Dyer, Ph.D.,concludes that it is this conscious awareness that boosts effectiveness of such physical exercise and creates the potential for self-healing.

Students agree that Nia delivers something more than other dance programs. Lowry student Carole McAfee says, “Nia fulfills all my inner dancer’s needs, physical, emotional, and spiritual. What a wonderful gift!”

The “more” delivered in Nia Class comes courtesy of licensed Nia teachers, Extensively trained in the technique’s Multiple disciplines, and so able to address a student’s needs, both physically and energetically.

At a studio in Hendersonville, North Carolina, thirteen people are dancing to a strong bass and bongo beat. Suddenly, trainer Denise Medved instructs five people to “Freeze!” In the silence that follows, everyone else is invited to look closely at the bodies caught in motion, the details of veins in the hands and the beauty of human living sculpture.

“Nia is a moving awareness practice,”observes Medved. “Through Nia, you become present and conscious in your body and connect to life as art.”

Finding art in the human form and elevating fitness to a conscious, selfhealing practice have been the work of

Nia founders Debbie Rosas Stewart and Carlos Rosas For more than 25 years.

They say that Nia enables students to use movements learned in class to enrich all aspects of their lives, inside and outside the studio.

“The Nia practice, what we call ‘dancing through life,’ is choosing to make every movement a dance of selfhealing,” explains Debbie, who lives in Portland, Oregon. “When I wake up in the morning, I can jump out of bed any which way or I can connect to my body and move organically, the way the body moves naturally. As I move through my day, I can create pleasure by adjusting my movements and practicing a kind of living meditation. All of it adjusts my perspective of life as art.”

Students may not know how Niaworks, but they feel it. As local business owner and Allen student, Jean Wilson, says, “I was looking for something that involved dance and community and I found that in Nia. I had so much fun that I will be back next week.”

Nia’s blend of conscious awareness, dance fitness, martial arts and healing philosophy easily puts one’s own creativity into motion. Carlos warns: “Watch out, this can change your life.”

Gail Condrick, a black belt Nia instructor, can be reached at NiaVisions. com.

Tips for Dancing Through Life Nia practioners stay fit in and out of the gym through a three-stage process called “Dancing through Life.”

You can learn to stay connected to life through bodily sensations, reap the benefits of traditional meditation and find beauty and inspiration in every facet of your life by following these three dance steps.

Dance through Life ~ Turn everyday movements into a continuous dance of fitness. Get in touch with your body’s sensations and make small adjustments to feel more pleasure.

Reaching up becomes your opportunity to stretch, swinging your arms releases tension in your back and trying a new way of moving brings awareness and breaks habits. Build body consciousness and activate greater self-healing as you learn to move with pleasure.

Practice Living Meditation ~ Stop the ceaseless inner dialogue in your mind and find moments to rest mind and body while moving through your day. At a traffic light or waiting for an elevator, let everything stop and move into meditative non-doing. Relax your shoulders and jaw, feel the sensations of a neutral mind and capture a moment of stillness while being in the world, but not of it.

Appreciate Life as Art ~ Slow down and view everything you see and experience with wonder and admiration. As you change your perception, ordinary life can become as inspiring as drinking in a masterpiece. Breathe in the good energy of the world and become the art and artist of your life.

The Nia Technique is celebrating its 25th anniversary with workshops and special events this month. To join in the fun, and to find a happening or class in your area, check NiaNow.com.

Source: Adapted from The Nia Technique: The High-Powered Energizing Workout that Gives You a New Body and a New Life, by Debbie Rosas and Carlos Rosas.

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you want your life to work at a level you’ve never had before, then take responsibility for it.

I’m not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours. While you were four, you didn’t know anything other than being terrified and scared; you’re not four any longer. Now [as an adult] you have to make a choice and recognize that even the abuse that came into your life offers you an opportunity to transcend it, to become a better person and even more significantly, to help someone else not go through what you did.

A Conversation with Wayne Dyer

by Ellen Mahoney

Q. What is your seven-question paradigm to help people change long-established habits of negative thinking?

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nternationally renowned author and speaker Wayne Dyer, Ph.D., has devoted his life to helping others become healthier and happier.

He is the author of more than 30 books and producer of the motion picture, The Shift. His newest book, Excuses Begone! How to Change Lifelong, SelfDefeating Thinking Habits, was inspired by the ancient teachings of the Tao Te Ching.

Q. What common excuses do people use in grappling with their conscience?

Excuses are the explanations we use for hanging on to behaviors we don’t like about ourselves; they are selfdefeating behaviors we don’t know how to change. In Excuses Begone! I review 18 of the most common excuses people use, such as “I’m too busy, too old, too fat, too scared or it’s going to take too long or be too difficult.”

We spend a big hunk of our lifetimes contemplating what we can’t have, what we don’t want and what’s missing in our lives. What we have to learn is to put our attention and focus on contemplating what it is we would like to attract, and not on what is missing.

Q. You talk about mind viruses. What are these?

A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can shut down an entire system.

A mind virus is different in that there is no form to it; these are ideas

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placed in our heads when we are little.

We get programmed by well-meaning people like our parents and their parents, our culture, religions and schools.

We get conditioned to believe in our limitations and what’s not possible.

After a while, we start really believing these things are true. People who have had self-defeating behaviors for a long time, such as people who have been overweight since they were children or people with longtime addictions, actually believe there is no other alternative.

Q. What’s the payoff for living a life filled with excuses?

There’s a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it’s easier not to take responsibility. If you’re blaming something or someone else for the way you are, then that person, those people, those circumstances or those energies, are going to have to change in order for you to get better; that’s most likely never going to happen. It’s also a way to manipulate other people.

Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and

The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they’ve been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.

I believe if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Q. When we look at our own lives and think about the lives of loved ones, what is key to living a healthy, happy, love-based life?

The key is to trust in your own divinity, to know that you are a piece of God, and that you are like what you came from. As a spiritual being, you have Divinity within. When Albert Einstein was asked about the impact of quantum physics, he said, “It’s just all details, I just want to think like God thinks.” And God thinks in terms of creating, kindness, beauty and goodness.

For more information visit: DrWayneDyer.com. Dr. Dyer will be a keynote speaker at Hay House’s Tampa, FL conference, Nov. 19-22; register at ICanDoIt.net.

Ellen Mahoney is a freelance writer who teaches writing at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Contact evm@ infionline.net.

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Eco-Artists Inspire by Giving Back to Nature

by Janina Birtolo

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rt and nature have always been the closest of companions. Since the earliest cave paintings, artists have looked to the world around them for inspiration, subject matter and the tools of their craft—pigments, brushes, shapers and stories. With the growth of the green art movement in the last several decades, the relationship between art and nature has become even more symbiotic. Today’s eco-artists go beyond taking inspiration from their surroundings; they give back substance that helps nature thrive.

“Eco-art is currently getting more attention,” observes Lynne Hull, a Colorado-based artist who has been crafting sculptures that also create wildlife habitat. “A number of people

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are working in different ways, interacting with environmental systems on behalf of conservation.”

She notes that the eco-art movement began in the late 1960s, as awareness of the environment was just starting to break the surface of our collective consciousness and the first Earth Day was being conceived. Hull, who now creates what she calls transspecies art, turned “green” beginning in the 1980s, while living in Wyoming.

“There was not much audience in Wyoming for contemporary art then,” she recalls. “I was making art about our relationship with other species and I found I had to ship it out to find an audience. I thought I might as well make art for the animals—and I created a niche. The art

world became a lot more interested.”

In 1983, Hull carved her first water-collecting hydroglyph in Albany County, Wyoming. These works resemble ancient petroglyphs (stone drawings) laid horizontal, but also serve as artistic catch basins for rain, providing precious water for wildlife. By the 1990s, the artist was constructing raptor roosts, to provide nesting sites for eagles and hawks. She has also created floating islands, owl houses, canoe trails and “Migration Mileposts” to link communities that share migratory birds.

At this point, she has crafted works in 14 states and eight countries (more at Eco-art.org).

“Mostly, I create structures that can replace damaged nature,” she explains.

“The best time to put them in is when restoration is going on, so that nature can take over as the art disintegrates.”

Her work, Hull says, represents eco-atonement, a phrase she conceived to convey the importance of art—and humanity—working in conjunction with nature. “It’s the idea of trying to make up, to make amends for what humans have done. It should be the responsibility of our whole society.”

Hull is far from alone in her belief that art can not only raise environmental awareness, but also lead to resolutions.

On Vinalhaven Island, Maine, ecoartist Aviva Rahmani has painted rocks along the causeway blue as a means of prompting islanders to correct the tidal blockage that was degrading the surrounding waters (using a mixture of ultramarine pigment and buttermilk to encourage lichen growth).

Vincent Smythe, a New York artist, creates sculptures from fallen tree branches (see Freewebs.com/vincentfinedesigns/allaboutecoart.htm). He also offers Go Green Eco-Art workshops to schoolchildren, teaching them about recyclable materials and the importance of conservation.

Similarly, Gulfshore Playhouse, a regional theater in Naples, Florida, conducts an elementary school workshop that teaches youngsters to make theater props from recycled materials and then helps them write skits incorporating those props (GulfshorePlayhouse.org).

Because the eco-art movement has no geographical center, Hull and her like-minded colleagues have created a virtual center on the Internet.

Their online Eco-Art Network connects about 70 member artists who use the site to discuss ideas and opportunities. The movement also has led to the establishment of a cyber-museum at GreenMuseum.org, a website that provides information about eco-artists, the movement’s history and its future.

Hull adds that people intrigued by the concept of eco-art can involve themselves on a small and immediate scale by making natural backyard “sculptures” that invite in wildlife. Her website offers ideas for hibernation shelters for butterflies, birdhouses and even a buglog.

“I’m on the board of the Fort Collins Audubon Society and am an advocate for habitat gardens,” Hull says. “They’re not difficult to put in.

Environmental art is something you can go out and play with. Anything you’re doing outdoors you can make attractive and use it to have a positive impact.”

Janina Birtolo, a freelance writer in Naples, FL, focuses on art, the environment and developing one-woman performances based on historical characters. Learn more at JaninaBirtolo.com.

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Positive Thinking: Boost your Joyful Living

So what can we do about this present survival mindset in order to get to the joy necessary for meaningful living and working? There are two requirements: first, use tools to access and bring about a positive mindset while decreasing the survival mode, and second, use the tools, developed by

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POOCHES

by Grace Fuller

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oday’s pampered pooches are stepping out in style.

From apparel bejeweled in Swarovski crystals to sportycamouflaged fleeced hoodies, members of the canine crowd “dressed to the nines” strutted their stuff on runways last month during Manhattan’s fourth annual Pet Fashion Week.

The movement to turn four-legged barkers into fashionistas is perpetuated in the name of charity before an audience of retail buyers committed to the pet lifestyle industry. It’s the admittedly extreme end of a $3.9 billion nationwide market for canine clothing and accessories, according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association.

Animal lovers bent on caring for the Earth, as well as their furry friends, can wrap them in affordable, comforting togs like the $12 Namaste Buddha Dog Tee at OliveGreenDog.com. Scores of eco-pet fashions are only mouse clicks away, and some online retailers donate a percentage of the profits to an animal rescue organization.

Barbara Savidge and Gina Quiroga, co-owners of Olive, represent their own line as well as other sources of organic pet clothing and related green goods. Involved in the human health and wellness industry prior to 2006, both women noticed that their clients were beginning to apply what they knew about green products and sustainability to the wellbeing of their pets. “While we wanted to cater to the trend, it was initially challenging, because of the limited amount of green products,” says Savidge. “In the last few years, however, that has changed.”

She has also noted another emerging trend in green purchases made online. “Customers are buying less froufrou items and more well-made, classic clothing,” Savidge explains. “Affordable, basic sweaters are popular because people want things for their pets that will last.”

Owners generally need to know their animal’s neck and chest measurements. Available rain gear includes waterproof ponchos and booties. Sweaters and hoodies provide warmth for small dogs that have a hard time maintaining their normal body temperature in cold weather. Doggles, which protect sensitive

eyes from sun and wind exposure, are recommended for dogs that like to nose their head out of car windows.

HauteHound.com, founded by Kimberly Hall, offers a variety of pet items. She annually attends the H.H. Backer Associates, Inc. spring pet trade show in Baltimore, which draws 8,500 retail buyers from around the world to view two floors of pet products. “Every time I go, I see more ecofriendly items,” reports Hall. “Options have now expanded to supplements, Earth-friendly shampoos and organic treats.”

She notes that the organic clothing market still has plenty of room to grow. “I have a hairless cat and a greyhound at home,” says Hall, “and neither has much body fat, so they both appreciate wearing a warm sweater in winter.”

For pet lovers on a tight budget with a knack for sewing, free, resizable pet apparel sewing patterns are available on several websites.

For more information about Olive Green Dog, call 512-3236484 or visit OliveGreenDog.com. Find The Haute Hound at HauteHound.com. For pet sewing patterns, see Sewing.

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his month, yoga studios and instructors around the world are hosting events to introduce people to yoga, the 5,000-year-old practice that is their passion. Individuals can choose from many schools and yoga styles to find those best suited to their body type, personality and stage of life and fitness.

While instructional approaches to the yoga techniques and asanas, or postures, may vary, the ultimate goal for most is the yoking of the mind to body and spirit. From the physically challenging to the meditatively transcending, this ancient discipline from India demands respect and commitment from those who seek to receive its benefits.

Practitioners attest that stepping onto the yoga mat can lead to extraordinary experiences, greater self-knowledge and better health.

10 Reasons to Try Yoga Stress Reduction ~ By encouraging relaxation, yoga practice can lower levels of the stress hormone cortisol in the body. Related reported benefits include lowered blood pressure and heart rate, and a reduction in the symptoms of anxiety, depression, fatigue, asthma and insomnia.

Pain Relief ~ Yoga can ease pain.

Studies have demonstrated that practicing yogic asanas and meditation reduced pain among people with cancer, multiple sclerosis, auto-immune diseases, hypertension, arthritis and other chronic conditions. Some practitioners report that even emotional pain can be eased through the practice of yoga.

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Better Breathing ~ By teaching people to take slower, deeper breaths, yoga can help to improve lung health and function, trigger the body’s relaxation response and increase the amount of oxygen available to the body.

Flexibility ~ Yoga routinely helps to improve flexibility and mobility, increasing range of movement and even reducing joint aches and pains. While many people can’t touch their toes during their first yoga class, with practice they are able to do more poses as they stretch muscles and release tensions.

Yoga also helps to improve body alignment, resulting in better posture and helping to relieve back, neck, joint and muscle problems.

Increased Strength ~ Asanas use both big and small muscle groups in the body, helping to increase strength from head to toe. Yoga also helps build bone density through weight-bearing postures.

Weight Management ~ All styles of yoga can aid weight control efforts by reducing cortisol in the bloodstream, burning calories and creating muscle mass. Yoga also encourages healthy eating habits through greater bodyawareness, and provides a heightened sense of well-being.

Improved Circulation ~ Combining asanas in a series or flow helps to improve circulation in the body and move oxygenated blood to the cells more efficiently. Moving through the postures also helps to flush internal organs and detoxify the body. Improved digestion and immune system function are other reported benefits of yoga.

Cardiovascular Conditioning ~ Even gentle yoga practice can provide cardiovascular benefits by lowering the resting heart rate, increasing endurance and improving oxygen uptake during exercise.

Sharper Mind ~ Like meditation, yoga keeps practitioners focused on the present moment, which opens the way to improved concentration, coordination, reaction time and memory. Research shows that such mindfulness practices can actually create new neural pathways in the brain.

Inner Peace ~ Yoga’s meditative aspects often help practitioners feel more calm and centered within themselves. Many who begin the practice for other reasons say that this sense of peace is what brings them back to the mat time and again.

Sources: YogaAlliance.org; MedicalNewsToday.com; National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at http://nccam.nih.gov;and U.S. National Library of Medicine at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/.

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oga offers tremendous variety, and students at any level may find that they enjoy more than one style and teacher. Attending workshops and seminars allows individuals to sample what’s available and expand their practice.

Options include: • Vigorous practice that builds strength and stamina • Gentle, restorative, relaxing practice • Meditative styles • Yoga with a spiritual focus that may include chanting • Practicing in a heated room, or not • Yoga as part of a cross-training regimen • Therapeutic yoga for injuries, joint problems and other health conditions Feel free to ask teachers the following questions: How often do they personally practice yoga; is it at least four times a week?

How long have they been practicing yoga?

A minimum of three years of regular practice prior to teaching is a reasonable expectation.

With whom did they train and for how long?

Is the teacher still studying yoga? Professional associations like the Yoga Alliance require teachers to participate in continuing education in order to remain registered.

Is the instructor registered with a professional yoga teachers’ organization? These associations often keep teachers abreast of new research and developments in the field.

Does the teacher have specialized skills suited to special needs or health conditions? This may include prenatal, senior or kids’ yoga. Teachers who focus on therapeutic yoga practice may belong to the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT.org).

Could the teacher serve as a personal mentor or regularly be available to address questions during and after practice?

Can prospective students observe a class before participating or enrolling? Many teachers and studios offer drop-in classes or even a trial class, perhaps at a reduced rate. Health clubs also may include yoga classes in their membership fees.

Source: Adapted from Yoga Alliance

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atural Awakenings Publishing Corp. is pleased to add seven new publishers who recently completed a training program at the home office in Naples, Fla. The training staff welcomed entrepreneurs from San Diego, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Scranton and Bucks County, Pa., Monmouth County, N.J., and Toronto Canada, along with new partners for the Portland, Ore., edition.

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For a list of where Natural Awakenings is publishing or to learn more about franchising opportunities, visit NaturalAwakeningsMag.com.

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Wise Woman Ways to Boost Your Energy

by Susun S. Weed

lmost every woman has, at one time or another, felt so fatigued she wanted to cry. But for some women, and for a variety of reasons -- including menopause, caring for a new-born, working odd hours, chronic anxiety, and poverty, to name only a few -fatigue is a constant, not an occasional, problem.

Stimulants don’t really give us more energy, though they are what many women turn to when they feel too tired.

Stimulants create false energy, leaving us more exhausted at deeper levels.

One more cup of coffe, one more soft drink, one more jolt of fear increases energy, to be sure. But these choices also deplete our bones of their minerals, weaken our core energy, and prevent

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truly restful, restorative sleep. Even herbal stimulants, like cayenne and guarana, are, well, stimulants. They push us too hard and erode our longterm health.

Are there ways to boost energy that are effective and healthy? My guide, Grandmother Growth, gave me some ideas of how to help myself when I feel bone-tired. And I gathered together the best remedies I know, plus the wisdom of my Wise Woman friends, so you can help yourself, too, when you are too weary for words.

“Fall into my arms and sleep,” offers Grandmother Growth. “You don’t have to make things happen; they will happen on their own. Let me hold you. Let go. Don’t resist. Rest.

You are working hard. You are delving deep and changing yourself. Of course you are tired. Change is hard work.

Rest in my strong arms. Let go. Give your weariness to me. Let go of all that worries you. Surrender yourself into my strength. Take courage from me. Let me support you. Let me ease you. Let go.”

Extreme fatigue indicates a profound need to do nothing. Ask family and friends to give you a day totally off . . . and take it! Barricade yourself in your room if need be (or, like the cartoon character Sylvia, in the bathroom).

Be gentle with yourself. The internal processes that occur during puberty, motherhood, menopause or any other profound change in your life require tremendous amounts of energy. Even if you provide yourself with very high quality nutrients and use your energy wisely, you may still feel unreasonably tired. Many cultures offer new borns and moms a quiet, alone month or more, allow menopausal women to retire for a year or more while they Change, and give grieving

parents/partners/children/friends time off from responsibility. If yours doesn't, if you can't, at least be gentle with yourself.

Give yourself a break: Every hour, take a 60-second break. Breathe deeply; stand up and stretch; drink a glass of water or some herbal infusion.

Schedule a regular time to meditate or take a nap every day. Small frequent rests help more than an extra hour of sleep; but do both if you can.

Set aside an hour a week to do something indulgent for yourself: a long soak in a hot bath, a manicure, a walk alone in a beautiful place. Nourish yourself and you will have more energy to give to others.

Treat yourself to a massage once a month. (It need not break your budget; find someone willing to barter for a skill or product you have.) A skillful massage releases tension, helping you get more benefit from your sleep and downtime, thus liberating more energy and helping you begin the upward spiral into increased vitality.

"Lower your standards." This advice, though difficult to hear, has been one of the most important guidelines for me in choosing a life that delights and energizes me. It helped me choose to let the floor go upswept, the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, while I gardened, or studied, or even just went for a walk in the woods.

When I do the things I want to do I have LOTS more energy. What are you doing that saps your strength and erodes your delight in life? Find a way to quit, or at least cut down on the time you devote to it.

List ten good things about fatigue, laziness, lethargy, and procrastination.

I’ve found laziness to be my best guide to efficiency; lethargy has stopped me from taking foolish risks; and procrastination helps me find more efficient ways to proceed. Love and honor your fatigue for helping you conserve energy and giving you the time to find creative new ways to do the same old things.

Seaweeds

of all kinds help restore energy by nourishing nervous, immune, and hormonal systems. Make it a habit to eat seaweed as a green vegetable at least once a week. Try kelp in your oatmeal, wakame in your beans, kombu in your soups, hijiki salads, toasted dulse, sea palm fronds, and deep-fried nori!

Counter that tired-every-day feeling: Get down and get grounded energy from roots. Try a tincture of ginseng, siberian ginseng, yellow dock, or dandelion roots. A dose is 10-20 drops of any one root, taken with meals.

Tired blood?

You may need more iron: eat a spoonful of molasses or try a dropperful of yellow dock tincture several times a day.

Stir it up! Don’t just sit there!

Energy is attracted to energy. Get moving this way: Stand up, feet shoulder-width, knees relaxed. Swing your arms toward one side, then the other. Let the shoulders and hips move as you twist your upper body. Let your arms move freely. Continue for a minute or two. Then, start rocking your tail bone, your whole pelvis, forward and back, forward and back, again for at least a minute. Alright!

Green is the color of plant energy.

The plants with the deepest green give you the most energy. A daily cup of nettle infusion increases energy without wiring your nerves. Nettle strengthens the adrenals, allowing you to tolerate more stress with less harm. And it nourishes your immune system, too.

To make it: Put one ounce of dried nettle leaf in a quart jar. Fill to the top with boiling water. Cap tightly and steep at least four hours (overnight

is fine). Strain and drink. Refrigerate the remainder and consume within 36 hours. (Leftovers may be used as a hair rinse or fertilizer for your house plants.) I drink several quarts of nettle infusion every week. It helps me have the energy to teach all day and write for hours each evening.

Oatstraw infusion

builds deep energy for the next day, especially when you have been riding an emotional roller coaster. Oatstraw nourishes the nerves, easing anxiety and improving our ability to live with uncertainty. Make it like the nettle infusion, using a full ounce of oatstraw to a quart of boiling water.

OK to drink it hot or cold, with honey or miso, or any other addition (juice, coffee, whiskey) you desire. Remember to refrigerate the infusion after it has brewed 4-8 hours, even if you don't get a chance to strain the plant material out.

Eat more

When you’re too tired to eat, you get more tired. (If this sounds like an old wive’s tale, remember that old wives were the wise women. But, actually, it's the latest scientific thinking.) In addition to at least one really good meal a day, eat high quality snacks hourly.

Though it seems contrary, St. Joan's wort (Hypericum) tincture relaxes the nerves yet increases energy. A dose is 25-30 drops several times a day, including before bed. You'll sleep better, ache less, and wake up with more energy and a brighter outlook on life.

Warming herbs such as ginger and cinnamon increase energy (but may increase hot flashes, too). Make a tea with 1 cup/250 ml boiling water and 1/2-1 teaspoon (1-2 grams) of the powder of any one of these.

Very tired women need more fuel, that is, more fat, in their diets, and best if the fats are also natural sources of vitamin E: avocados, peanut butter, sunflower seeds, tahini, and olive oil are good food sources. Herbs rich in vitamin E include nettle, seaweeds, dandelion, and watercress.

B vitamins build energy. Find them in whole grains, organ meats, sweet potatoes, avocados, egg yolks, fish, and whey. Both oatstraw and nettle infusions are good sources of B

vitamins, as are red clover blossom infusion, peppermint leaves, and fenugreek seeds.

Low levels of potassium, iron, and iodine contribute to fatigue.

Celery, cabbage, seaweeds, nettle infusion, and red clover infusion are excellent sources of potassium.

Molasses, chocolate, seaweeds, nettle infusion, and dandelion leaves are all superb sources of iron. For iodine, seaweed shines, but sea salt, mushrooms, and greens grown in gardens fertilized with seaweed also supply significant amounts.

Avoid Some women report greater fatigue on days when they’ve eaten frozen or raw food. Traditional Chinese Medicine says eating raw or chilled foods, especially cold drinks and raw juices, contributes to fatigue because you have to use your internal energy to warm up the food before you can digest it. The more tired you are, the greater your need for well-cooked foods, like nourishing herbal infusions and healing soups.

I avoid wheat grass juice, green barley powder, spirulina, and all blue green algae. None are as nourishing as nettle infusion, and all are considerably more expensive, more difficult to make yourself at home, and more likely to be sold through multi-level marketing.

"Energy-producing" foods/drugs/ herbal supplements such as coffee, guarana, caffeinated drinks, and excessive amounts of black tea or chocolate will create greater fatigue in the future.

“Rest your head down on me,” crones Grandmother Growth. “For this moment, rest in me. Let the energy of the earth infuse you. Let my energy carry you. Let yourself be enough. Let go.”

This article is based on material found in New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way, Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90. Wise Woman books are available at www.ashtreepublishing.com “Susun Weed returns as the keynote speaker at the 5th anninversary of the S.E. Women’s Herbal Conference held on Oct 2-4 in Black Mtn, NC. See ad, page 10.

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hinese for “wind” and “water,” the two key ingredients of life, Feng Shui has been practiced for centuries to design environments that can enhance people’s lives and stir up opportunities for creating health, wealth and prosperity. Not a get-richquick method of Oriental interior design that guarantees results from merely rearranging furniture and accessories, certified Feng Shui consultants like Daniela Loga Brueckner, emphasize that Feng Shui principles and practices should be used to enhance the flow of chi, or energy, in the home or anywhere.

“Chi is the energy vibration that emanates from the natural environment that surrounds us,” enthuses the founder and owner of The Door to All Wonders. “It pervades all of heaven, earth and nature, from the macrocosm of our Universe with its planets and stars, to the microcosm of our home, working spaces, physical bodies and even our cells. Chi is everywhere.”

Previously a registered nurse, Brueckner, who has been practicing her art since 1998, finds that because chi is about love, Feng Shui is ultimately about how much we love and care about the energy that surrounds us. With a big smile in her voice and a lot of love in her heart, she says, “It’s also about how much we care about ourselves and the environment in which we live.”

As a graduate of the University of Montreal, Canada, with a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing sciences, Brueckner spent years working in community health care, which gave her the opportunity to visit hundreds of homes. There she experienced directly how existing Feng Shui conditions and environment could help improve the quality of one’s life or contrarily reduce the natural healing capacity. During this time she learned that healing one’s physical body goes hand in hand with healing and balancing the energy of one’s surrounding space.

Finding the positive chi in the environment, and collecting or channeling it is Brueckner’s wellhoned ability developed through years of advanced study with Feng Shui masters like Lillian Too, Ty

Tan and Jo Ching. After analyzing the kind of chi energy an individual has in their area, she taps, collects and distributes the positive chi throughout the home or property to help solve problems and overcome challenges in the areas of health, relationships, career, business, personal growth and academic successes.

By helping her clients to use the positive chi in their daily life when working, studying or sleeping, Brueckner helps individuals increase their chances to be healthy, successful and prosperous.

Ultimately, applying Feng Shui helps all the occupants of a property to live more vibrant, healthier, perform better, and capitalize on opportunities. “When chi flows harmonious, benevolent and balanced through one’s house or any environment,” notes Brueckner. “It expresses itself by healthy life, happy marriages and family life, successes in career and business, abundance and prosperity.” The main concept is that breathing, sitting, eating, sleeping and working surrounded by a healthy vibrant and positive energy will enhance your vibration field making you more susceptible to attracting excellent opportunities into your life.

“Practically speaking,” quips Brueckner, “good chi energy attracts good luck: good chi; good house; good health; good wealth.” Although this is her slogan, she can’t resist adding one more – how chi flows is how life goes.

According to Feng Shui practitioners worldwide, color, lighting, shapes, orientation, the use of space, lighting and the degree of cleanliness and clutter all affect chi, which influences every area of life—including prosperity and abundance.

For more than ten years, Brueckner has also devoted much of her time to improving her knowledge and skills in the field of Taoist Arts and Eastern approach of healing. She has received hundreds of hours of teaching and training from Master Mantak Chia, the creator of the Universal Tao System, Master Robert Peng and Master Zhongxian Wu. In her continuous search for knowledge and personal growth she has traveled to India, China, Tibet, Malaysia and South America.

“Life is all about love for the quality of chi that you inhale at every single breath,” concludes Brueckner, “in fact it’s about love for life because, life is chi and chi is life!”

Daniela will offer a Feng Shui workshop on October 24 at the Hilton Hotel in Greenville from 9 to 6 p.m. Call 864-593-1829 or 864-243-3819. For more information, visit Chifengshui89.com or email DanielaWaterDragon168@ hotmail.com. See ad, page11.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 Microsoft Word Class – 9:30am-12:30pm. Sept.

1-4. Twelve-hour course teaches how to create, save and format documents. Create tabs, bullet items, copy and paste text, and more. Cost is $70 for library card holders and seniors, $90 for general public. Hughes Main Library, Computer Training Lab. Call Lifelong Learning of the Greenville County Schools to register, 355-6059.

Windows XP Class – 2-5pm. Sept. 1-4. Twelvehour course for those with little experience. Includes an introduction to the desktop and Windows Explorer. Class will teach how to manage folders and how to find, save and sort documents. Cost is $70 for library card holders and seniors, $90 for general public. Hughes Main Library, Computer Training Lab. Call Lifelong Learning of the Greenville County Schools to register, 355-6059.

Book Discussion Group – 7-8:30pm. Discuss “French by Heart” by Rebecca S. Ramsey.

Fountain Inn Kerry Ann Younts Culp Branch.

862-2576.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 True Water Sampling − 11am-5pm. First Wednesday each month. Sample alkalizing True Water. Sampling Special: Buy 1, get second gallon 15% off. All Natural Health & Beauty Center, 101 College St, Simpsonville. 963-2882.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8 Survival Spanish Level I – 6-8pm. Every Tuesday through Oct.13. Class teaches Spanish vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Cost is $60 for library card holders and seniors; $70 for general public. Pelham Road Symmes Branch.

Call Lifelong Learning of Greenville County Schools, 355-6059 Fall Gardening Seminar – 6:45pm. Discussion on organic gardening for the fall season, preparing the soil, and using natural pest control.

Complimentary lite supper will be served. Call to reserve your seat. The Wild Radish, 161 Verdin Rd, Greenville. 297-1105.

Mystery Book Discussion Group – 7-8pm.

Discuss “Fatal Tide” by Iris Johansen. Taylors Burdette Library. 268-5955.

Scribblers Writing Group – 7-8pm. Creative writing group for adults and local aspiring authors.

Bring your best original fiction, poems, memoir, screenplay. Scribblers at every skill level and experience welcome. Simpsonville Hendricks Library. 963-9031 to register.

Wednesday, September 9 Shopping on a Budget Store Tour - 5:00pm.

Store tours to make your grocery shopping even more enjoyable, convenient and affordable. Free.

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Advance registration is required. Whole Foods Market, 1140 Woodruff Rd, Greenville. 335-2300.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 Celiac Support Group – 7pm. Discussion on eating gluten-free, and staying healthy. Free. Earth Fare, 3620 Pelham Rd, Greenville. 527-4220.

The Basics of the Internet – 2:30-4pm. “Real Life Internet: The Basics;” learn to surf the web using internet browser. Minimum skills require basic typing and mouse use. Free. Registration required. Hughes Main Library’s Computer Training Lab. 242-5000, ext. 3223.

Apple Gala with the Supper Swap Girls – 6:157:15pm. Recipe bloggers “The Supper Swap Girls” and local storyteller Betty Farr will provide apple tasting and stories. All ages welcome. Augusta Road Ramsey Family Branch. 277-0161.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 Star Gazers Retreat, Sept 11-13 – Weekend retreat for families of children with Downs Syndrome. Pretty Place at YMCA Camp Greenville. Call Susan at 836-3291, ext 106 or email shuter@ymcagreenville.org.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Dining for Women’s Rockin’ Rummage Sale – 7am4pm. Proceeds benefit Dining for Women. Live music & food, $5 admission/kids under 12 free. McAlister Square, 225 S. Pleasantburg Dr, Greenville. 630-2236.

Fitness Program Discussion – 12-3pm. Team from Coops will be discussing their fitness programs. Vitamin Shoppe, 1129 Woodruff Rd, Greenville. 987-9947.

2009 Riverfest – 10am-2pm. Riverfest is a day of festivities for all ages. This event is Greenville’s only community celebration dedicated exclusively to the conservation and preservation of our Reedy River.

Peace Center Amphitheatre. Greenville. Contact Tom Keith at director@friendsofthereedyriver.org.

Waggin’ at the Waterpark – 10am-4pm. Four-legged friends are invited to Discovery Island Water Park to enjoy a day of swim, sponsored by Greenville Recreation Department and the Greenville and Clemson Kennel Clubs. Clubs will host Responsible Dog Ownership Day, and will provide demonstrations in obedience, agility, carting, rally and various breeds. Vendors and nonprofits will be on hand. Event is a fundraiser for dog park development in Greenville County. Four swim times; specific time for senior dogs, age 9 and over. Cost is $15 for one dog and human companion; $3 for single humans who want to watch swimmers.

Responsible Dog Ownership events are free. Southside Park/Discovery Island Water Park, 417 Baldwin Road, Simpsonville. Call Cindy Brothers, 288-6470.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Book Discussion Group – 1-2pm. Discuss “Dreamers of the Day” by Mary Doria Russell. Travelers Rest Sargent Library. 834-3650.

Survival Spanish Level I – 6-8pm. Every Monday through Oct. 19. Class teaches Spanish vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation. Cost is $60 for library card holders and seniors; $70 for general public. Mauldin W. Jack Greer Library. Call Lifelong Learning of Greenville County Schools, 355-6059 to register.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 Fern Morphology & Taxonomy meeting – 7pm. Native Plant Society Meeting and Program. Photos and living ferns will be used to illustrate traits common to each genus and to point out distinguishing features of various species. Founders Hall, Southern Wesleyan University, Central. 242-5400. Book Discussion Group – 6:30-8:30pm. Discuss “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” by Steve Harvey. Augusta Road Ramsey Family Branch. 277-0161.

Introduction to Birding – 7-8:15pm. Greenville County Bird Club will discuss the hobby of bird-watching. Greer Jean M. Smith Branch. 877-8722.

Smart Investing: Your Recipe for Success – 6:308:30pm. Six weekly sessions held to teach how to create a budget, set investment goals and establish emergency funds. Taught by adjunct faculty of Clemson University’s Finance Department. Class also teaches how to choose investments wisely and practice good financial habits.

Hughes Main Library, Meeting Rooms A-C. Free; registration required. Call 527-9293.

Candida Freedom – 6:45pm. Discussion on a new strategy to maintain good flora intestinal balance, and the program to release suffering from other maladies like psoriasis, eczema, acne, rosacea, poison ivy and others. Complimentary lite supper will be served. Call to reserve your seat. The Wild Radish, 161 Verdin Rd, Greenville. 297-1105.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 AARP Driver Safety Program – 12:30-4:30pm Sept.1617. Drivers ages 55 and over will discuss discounts on auto insurance and safe driving. Cost for AARP members is $12; non-members $14. Payment required at registration. Mauldin W. Jack Greer Branch. 277-7397.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 GIAFPW Meeting – 11:45-1:00pm. Professional women committed to furthering their professional and personal growth by uniting together to share resources, and leverage ideas that foster relationships leading to business generation and personal enrichment. Membership is exclusive to one representative per industry/occupation. $13 members/$18 non-members. The Commerce Club, 55 Beattie Pl, Greenville. 244-0944. Stacey@AskAndReceive.net.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Introduction to Jin Shin Jyutsu – 9am-5pm. Learn the philosophy, method and some simple flow patterns for this effective eastern energy bodywork. Six national CE’s for massage therapists (NCBTMB #158498-00).

Pre-registration required. $125. Hyatt Place, Greenville.

877-8594.

Free Spinal Check – 1-3pm. Dr. Scott Timpanelli will offer chiropractic adjustments and a spinal check. Free.

The Vitamin Shoppe, 1129 Woodruff Rd., Suite E at The Shops at Greenridge. 987-9947.

Breath Workshop – 2-4pm. Learn about the power of the breath. First part of class will discuss the impact of breathing practices called pranayama. The rest of the workshop will be experiential in nature. Bring a notepad, water bottle and dress in comfortable clothes. Cost: $10.

North Main Yoga, 10 W. Stone St, Greenville.

Kakalak Attack: A Poetry Event – 3-4:30pm. Regional poets read their work from the 2009 edition of “Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets.” Books available for purchase; refreshments served. Hughes Main Library, Meeting Room A. 527-9293.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Vegetarians Pot Luck – 7pm. Bring a generously sized vegan dish to share as well as your own plate, utensils and drinking vessel. If you don’t have time to make anything, Earth Fare has an excellent in-store deli as well as many other options (vegan pies, vegan ice desserts et cetera).

Please be mindful of Earth Fare’s policy of no “dirty” junk foods. Vegan = no meat, dairy, eggs, honey, whey or animal products of any kind. Free. Earth Fare, 3620 Pelham Rd, Greenville. 527-4220.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Weight Management Class – 6pm. Registered Dietician Dawn Heeke discusses the topic of eating out. Free. Nutrition Solutions, 2104 Woodruff Rd. Greenville. Call 676-1248 to register.

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markyourcalendar SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 – SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 Reclaim Your Breath- Charleston area. Pat & Dave Krajovic of Michigan. Senior Trainers for the Transformational Breath Foundation, lead you in this powerful weekend intensive to help you breathe easier.

Let go of stress, reduce anxiety and restore well-being. Results are amazing, inspiring and unforgettable.

For more info call Sara Firestone 843-971-1731. Visit www.GlobalBreathInstitute.com.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 Book Discussion Group – 10:30am-12pm. Discuss “Candide” by Voltaire. Simpsonville Hendricks Branch. 963-9031.

Child Care Training Class – 6-8:00pm. First of ten training sessions through June 2010 offered to licensed child care providers. Fee is $15/class. Mauldin W. Jack Greer Branch. Register through Lifelong Learning of Greenville County Schools, 355-6053.

Smart Investing – 6:30-8:30pm. Class teaches terms and concepts like “rate of return” and “dollar cost averaging.” Explore how to establish, allocate, diversify and rebalance financial portfolio. Bank accounts and service options will be explained. Registration required. Hughes Main Library, Meeting Rooms A-C. 527-9293.

Story Tellers Guild Meeting – 7pm. Clemson Area Story Tellers (CAST) welcomes storytellers of all ages.

CAST promotes and celebrates the art of storytelling, from novice to professional, dedicated listeners, and all those with an interest in the oral tradition. Free. The Arts Center (formerly known as Morrison Annex), 212 Butler Rd, Clemson. 653-4932.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

Low Impact Development Series – 8-9am (Spartanburg); 12-1pm (Anderson). Low Impact Development Speaker Series, hosted by Upstate Forever. Free.

Morning session at Spartanburg Headquarters Library; afternoon session at Anderson County Main Library.

RSVP: 250-0500 x16.

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Latte Art Hoedown - 6:00 pm. Local area baristas compete for money, prizes and glory by free pouring artistic designs into lattes and the drinks are sold to the crowd, with all the proceeds going to Meals on Wheels.

Free to watch, $5 to enter, $1 for competition drinks (all of which is given to charity). Coffee & Crema, 27 S. Pleasantburg #130, Greenville. (same shopping center as Fresh Market and Garner’s) 235-0051.

Resume Rescue – 6:30-8:30pm. Employment readiness class teaches tips for writing, updating and submitting a resume. Augusta Road Ramsey Family Library. 277-0161 to register.

Disaster Preparedness Project – 7-8:00pm. Types of disasters and steps to be prepared will be discussed.

Participants will receive a free emergency backpack.

Sponsored by Duke Energy and American Red Cross.

Mauldin W. Jack Greer Branch. 527-9293.

Friday, September 25

Shopping on a Budget Store Tour - 10:00am. See September 9 listing for details.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

How to “I Do” – 10am-Noon.. Library resources and area wedding professionals discuss helping brides plan and budget their weddings. Advice and tips in informal show. Augusta Road Ramsey Family Branch.

277-0161.

Blessingways – 2-4:00pm. Gathering of new and expectant families. Mindful information and positive stories to new and expectant couples on topics of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. Babies and children are welcome. Free. Earth Fare, 3620 Pelham Rd, Greenville. 527-4220.

Hispanic Heritage Festival – 1-5pm. Facts, customs and entertainment from around the Spanish-speaking world. All ages welcome. Hughes Main Library, Meeting Rooms A-C. 527-9293.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

Kids Cooking Class – 1:00pm. Learn how to make easy and healthy dishes! Recommended age: 8-13. Free. Earth Fare, 3620 Pelham Rd, Greenville. 527-4220.

Reiki Level One Class- 8:30am-5:30pm. Learn this healing modality to use for yourself or family and friends. $75 per person. Register by September 20th. Essential Kneads Massage Therapy, 425 N. Main St, Simpsonville. 616-1380. TForbes06@ charter.net.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Preparing Winter Gardens – 7-8:30pm. Cory Tanner from Clemson Extension will explain how to prepare your garden for the winter months. Learn which seeds to plant to make your spring and summer gardens bloom. Greer Jean M. Smith Branch. 877-8722.

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Book Discussion Group – 10-11:00am. Discuss “Enthusiasm” by Polly Shulman. Berea Sarah Dobey Jones Branch. 246-1695.

Internet Job Searching – 6:30-8:30pm. Explore various job websites and learn how to complete applications online. Augusta Road Ramsey Family Branch. 277-0161

US Treasury Securities & Investments – 6:308:30pm. Discussion of treasury debt, marketable securities and investment risk, followed by advice on buying, selling and using treasuries. Hughes Main Library, Meeting Rooms A-C. Register at 527-9293.

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Saturday, October 3 13th Annual Arts Alive Exhibition – 10:00am4:00pm.This show recognizes artists 55 years and older. The juried art exhibition will be held inside Sears Shelter. Outdoor art festival will be held at McPherson Park downtown Greenville. Free. Presented by Senior Action. For more information call 467-3660 x 134.

Thursday, October 8

Blue Jean Ball – 6:30-10pm. Fifth Annual Blue Jean Ball and Silent Auction to benefit YMCA Camp Greenville. Music, dinner and silent auction.

Presented by Greenville First. Fluor Field at the West End. Email jwatkins@ymcagreenville.org or call 2421111 ext. 36 for info.

Monday, October 12

Replanting the Global Garden and the Flowering of Consciousness – October 12-14. David Crow will discuss maintaining indigenous healing plants, planting the Botanical Ark and connecting the properties of plants and herbs for evolving personal and global consciousness. $22. Unity of Greenville, 207A Belvue Rd, Taylors. 292 6499.

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Please use contact information to confirm dates and times of events. How to submit: All listings must be received by the 10th of the month prior to publication. Please help by following the format as seen below and email listings to UpstateNA. com. Non-advertiser calendar entries are subject to space availability.

Children’s Garden – Always open. Corner of Broad and River St, Greenville. 246-5508.

Working With Children – Greg Spindler, LMT of Carolina Structural Energetic Therapy, will work with Autistic children (ages 9 & under) free of charge in between his regular clients daily (excluding Sundays and some Saturdays). A program designed to help children who have issues through gentle cranial decompression; health issues can be improved. Please call ahead to check available appointment schedule. Carolina Structural Energetic Therapy, 107 Memorial Dr, Greer. 877-3500.

Paris Mountain State Park – 8am-6pm. Open daily. Fishing, canoe, kayak, and pedal boat rentals, seasonal availability, picnic areas and playground, interpretive hiking, and biking trails. Admission fee. Paris Mountain State Park, 2401 State Park Rd, Greenville. 244-5565.

Jones Gap State Park – 9am-6pm. Open daily.

Hiking, waterfalls, fishing, birding, and camping available. Pets allowed on leash. Admission fee.

Jones Gap State Park, 303 Jones Gap Rd, Marietta.

836-3647.

Upcountry History Museum – 10am-5pm WedSat; 1-5pm Sun; closed Mon; prearranged group tours only Tues. Common threads, uncommon stories. Heritage Green, 540 Buncombe St, Greenville. 467-3100.

Farm Stand – 2-7pm. Tuesday – Saturday. Local all-natural produce from Carolina Buffalo Co. Five Forks area, behind the Regions Bank, Simpsonville.

325-1278.

Meditation in Action: Practices to Help Shift Your Inner State − 3:30-5pm. First Sunday each month.

Especially for those who have trouble with, or can’t find time for seated, close-eyed meditation. $10.

North Main Yoga, 10 W Stone Ave, Greenville.

241-0870.

Yoga Classes − 8.30am, 10:30am, and 6:30pm. – Yoganize, a combination of yoga, Pilates, Qi gong and specialized toning exercises to prescriptively

heal, balance and integrate mind, body and spirit.

Classes held daily. All levels welcome. $80/10 classes. Yoganize, Hudson Corners shopping center, 2105 Old Spartanburg Rd, Greer. 325-6053.

Yoga – 9am. Basic Yoga posture to develop strength, balance and flexibility. Increases focus and releases tension. Eastside Family YMCA, 1250 Taylors Rd, Taylors. 292-2790.

Body Balance Memory Reset – 12-5pm. Assist your body to true homeostasis and help reset your brain to remember the balance while relieving pain & stress. Free. The Wild Radish, 161 Verdin Rd, Greenville. 297-1105.

Nia Dance/Fitness Class – 5:30-6:30pm. Throw off your shoes and let’s dance. Nia is a joyful dance/fitness experience. $12 or 5/$50, first class free. Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville. 430-7469.

Weight Loss Information Session – 6:15pm. Discuss the tools needed to lose weight and keep it off.

Physician supervised weight loss programs will be reviewed in detail, and time provided for touring the facility and meeting the staff. Free. Nutrition Solutions, 2104 Woodruff Rd. Greenville. 676-1248.

Gumbo Yoga with Kimbi Yates – 6:30-7:45pm.

Combination of styles ranging from Tai Chi to various yoga disciplines. Emphasis is on connecting to the breath and movement. $12/class, $50/5 classes. Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville. 232-3739.

Tai Chi with George Gantt – 6:30-7:30pm. Tai Chi is practiced for its health benefits, including tension and stress reduction; characterized by soft, flowing movements that emphasize force, rather than brute strength. $15/class, $65/5 classes, or included in Equilibrium Gym Membership. Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville. 232-3739.

Twin Hearts Meditation: For planetary peace – 6:30pm. Offered by Greenville Pranic Healing Center. Help decrease stress, reduce blood pressure and increase inner calm. First and third Mondays offer a Pranic Healing Clinic afterwards. Full Moon Meditation is also offered every month. Donations are encouraged. Call Brian 633-7146 for more information. Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville. 232-3739. PranicHealingUSA.com.

Real Life Birth Classes – 7pm. Natural Childbirth Preparation. Call for cost. Carolina WaterBirth, 915 South St, Simpsonville. 329-0010. CarynF@ CarolinaWaterBirth.com.

Children’s Story Time – 9am-10am. All ages welcome. Free character cookie. Coffee To A Tea, 54 Lois Ave, West Greenville. 350-6506.

Yoga Classes − 9.30am, 12pm, 5:30pm and 7pm. – See Monday’s listing 8:30am for details. Yoganize.

325-6053.

Farmers’ Market – 3-7pm. Fresh, local, and sustainably grown produce, meat, eggs, milk, flowers, and much more. Whole Foods Market parking lot nearest 1140 Woodruff Rd, Greenville. For more info: 335-2300.

Kids Karate with Sunsei James Huss – 5-6pm Class emphasizes stretching, tumbling, and foundation exercises to introduce young people to the disciplines of Karatedo. Ages 8-12 welcome $40/month.

Suenaka Zenzan Dojo, Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville. 232-3739.

Karatedo/Aikido with Sunsei James Huss – 6-9:00pm. Karatedo style, also known as “White Crane” Karate, incorporates some grappling and traditional karate weapons. It is an effective method of self-defense and a path to personal betterment.

Aikido students develop strength, balance and flexibility of both body and mind, while learning self-discipline, moderation and compassion for others. $50/month, unlimited classes. Suenaka Zenzan Dojo, Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville. 232-3739.

Tai Chi Aerobics with George Gantt – 6:30-7:30pm.

Combines music and an upbeat pace with timehonored Tai Chi movements to create a workout to lift your spirits, tone your body and rev up your weight-loss. $15/class, $65/5 classes, or included in Equilibrium Gym Membership. Equilibrium Zen Gym, Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville. 232-3739.

Sivananda Method Hatha Yoga – 6:30-8:15pm.

Hatha Yoga taught in traditional style by Bruce Cable. $10 or donation. Greenville Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1135 State Park Rd, Greenville.

271-4883.

Nia Dance/Fitness Class – 6:15-7:15pm. Throw off your shoes and let’s dance. Nia is a joyful dance/ fitness experience. Free intro class, Tuesday, August 4. $10 per class. Unity Church of Greenville, 207 E. Belvue Rd, Greenville. 430-7469.

Migraines?

Fibromyalgia?

Irritable Bowel?

Allergies?

General Malaise?

Anti-Aging?

Call for Bioenergetic Testing:

(864)-232-0082

Dr. Roger Jaynes 22 years experience Augusta Street Clinic 1521 Augusta St. Greenville, SC 29605

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Stress Reduction Workshop – 7pm. Dr. Anita Wilton, DC, will host a workshop on reducing stress.

Free. Synapse Chiropractic, 955 W.Wade Hampton Blvd, Greer. 848-0505.

Tai Chi Basics – 9:00am. Improve your mobility, balance, and overall health. $55 for 6 week classes ($10 coupon found at local stores - $45); $40 for 4 week classes ($10 coupon found at local stores - $30) Qi Works Studio, 31 Boland Ct, Greenville.

420-9839.

Tai Chi For Arthritis – 10:15am. Soft flowing movements to improve balance and mobility. $55 for 6 week classes ($10 coupon found at local stores - $45); $40 for 4 week classes ($10 coupon found at local stores - $30) Qi Works Studio, 31 Boland Ct, Greenville. 420-9839.

Senior Day – Seniors 60 and above receive 10% off total purchase. Sale items excluded, not to be combined with coupons. The Wild Radish, 161 Verdin Rd, Greenville. 297-1105.

Yoga Classes − 8.30am, 10:30am, and 6:30pm. – See Monday’s listing 8:30am for details.

Community Acupuncture – 3-7pm. An economical group opportunity to benefit from this natural therapy. Plan for at least 30 minutes with needles and a little time before and after. $15. Be Natural, 300-G E. Blackstock Rd, Spartanburg. 574-5468.

Hub City Farmer’s Market – 3:00pm-6:00pm.

Open thru October 31. Local produce, fruits, herbs, meats, eggs, sauces, flowers, plants, lotions, organics. 7 registered vendors. Accepting senior vouchers, EBT cards, and WIC cash value checks.

Downtown Spartanburg at Morgan Square, Spartanburg. 585-0905.

Ionic Foot Baths − 11am-3pm. Detox the body with an ionic foot bath by Jan King. $30 for first timers; walk-in or call for appointment. The Wild Radish, 161 Verdin Rd, Greenville. 313-2896 or 297-1105.

True Water Sampling − 11am-5pm. First Wednesday each month. Sample alkalizing True Water.

Sampling Special: Buy 1 gallon, get second gallon 15% off. All Natural Health & Beauty Center, 101 College St, Simpsonville. 963-2882.

Greenbrier Farms Day − 12-5:30pm. Local organic veggies, meats, and plants from Greenbrier Farms at Scratch, 1818 Augusta St, #106, Greenville. 370-9992.

5-Step Meat Demos – 3:30-5:30pm. Weekly tastings featuring samples from producers who are part of a new 5-step Humane Animal Treatment program.Whole Foods Market, 1140 Woodruff Rd, Greenville. 335–2300.

Greenville Wednesday Walkers – 6pm. Walk one of 12 trails in the Upstate every Wednesday. $0.50 fee. Go to website for locations each week: Meetup. com/Hiking/Holistics-Weight Loss.

Karatedo/Aikido with Sunsei James Huss − See Tuesday 6-9:00pm listing for details.

Real Life Birth Classes – See Monday 7pm listing for details.

Gumbo Yoga with Kimbi Yates – See Monday 6:30-7:45pm listing for details.

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Nia Dance/Fitness Class – 6-7pm. Throw off your shoes and dance. Nia is a joyful dance/fitness experience. Six Week Session starts August 5, Free introductory class on August 5. $65 members/$85 non-members. Life Center, 875 W. Faris Rd, Greenville. 430-7469.

Medical Qi Gong with George Gantt – 6:307:30pm. A low-impact exercise and studies have shown it boosts participants’ immune response against certain viruses. $15/class, $65/5 classes, or included in Equilibrium Gym Membership. Equilibrium Zen Gym, Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville. 232-3739.

Iyengar Yoga with Susan Spitzer – 10-11:30am.

Iyengar Yoga uses props, such as wooden gadgets, belts and ropes, to help the student achieve perfection in any pose. $12/class, $50/5 classes. Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville.

232-3739.

Tai Chi Basics – See Tuesday 9:00am listing.

Tai Chi Yang Pt 1 – 10:15am. Part 2 - 1:00 pm.

Sequences have been designed for certain conditions. $55 for 6 week classes ($10 coupon found at local stores - $45); $40 for 4 week classes ($10 coupon found at local stores - $30) Qi Works Studio, 31 Boland Ct, Greenville. 420-9839.

Zumba – 10am and 7pm. Dance your way to fitness with this Latin-themed class. Eastside Family YMCA, 1250 Taylors Rd, Taylors. 292-2790.

Thankful Thursdays – Bring in 2 non-perishable canned goods for local charity and receive 10% off total purchase. (excluding sale, and other offers.) The Wild Radish, 161 Verdin Rd. Greenville.

297-1105.

Inman Farmers Markets – 3:00-6:00pm. Open thru October 31. Local produce, fruits, herbs, meats, eggs, sauces, flowers, plants, lotions, organics. 10 registered vendors. Accepting senior vouchers, EBT cards, and WIC cash value checks. Armory, 45 Park Rd, Inman. 585-0905.

Kids Karate with Sunsei James Huss – See Tuesday 5-6pm. Listing for details.

Downtown Alive – 5:30-8:30pm. Music series featuring local, regional, and national entertainers. Free. Piazza Bergamo, Main St, Greenville.

235–5525.

Hatha Yoga with John Wanto – 6-7:30pm. The emphasis is on challenging the body through poses and breathwork practice, while developing physical health and vitality. $12/class, $50/5 classes. Kimah Healing Arts Center, 2112 Augusta St, Greenville.

232-3739.

Karatedo/Aikido with Sunsei James Huss − See Tuesday 6-9:00pm listing for details.

Tai Chi Aerobics with George Gantt – See Tuesday 6:30-7:30pm listing for details.

Indoor Rowing Classes − 7:30am and 9:15am.

Unique way to get a full-body and cardio workout; any age and fitness level welcome. Rates vary; call for options. Greenville Indoor Rowing, 1901-D Laurens Rd, between Monterrey’s Mexican and Zaxby’s in Olde Town Ctr, Greenville. 281-1505 or 498-8608.

Furry Friends Day – Support a local animal organization by bringing in 2 cans of pet food and receive 10% off total purchase. Sale and other offers excluded. The Wild Radish, 161 Verdin Rd, Greenville. 297-1105.

Fresh Local Veggies Available – 10-6pm. Fresh local veggies, eggs, honey, and Bison meat from Carolina Buffalo Company. The Wild Radish, 161 Verdin Rd, Greenville. 297-1105.

Fishy Friday – 3:30-5:30pm. Regular tastings of recipes, and learn how to prepare seafood dishes.

Whole Foods Market, 1140 Woodruff Rd, Greenville. 335–2300.

All Natural Hotdog Plates and Live Music – Hotdogs plates available at 11am and music begins at 5pm. $5 - 1 hotdog/$6 - 2 hotdogs (with the works) coleslaw, baked beans, and tea. Coffee To A Tea, 54 Lois Ave, West Greenville. 350-6506.

Main Street Jazz – 5:30-9:30pm. Music series featuring blues, oldies, jazz, and soul music. Free admission. Hyatt Regency Plaza Deck, 220 N Main St, Greenville. 235–5525.

Starry Nights – 7-10pm. Planetarium Shows 7:309:30pm, Observatory 8-10pm. $4 adults/teens, children (6-12)/seniors (60 & over) $3, RMSCA members free. Roper Mountain Science Center, 402 Roper Mountain Rd, Greenville. 355-8900.

Walk/Run Club – 7am. Led by Fitway fitness coaches. All levels of fitness welcome. Free. Meet at the Fitway parking lot, 103 Regency Commons Dr, Greer. 335-8811.

Carolina First Saturday Market – 8am-Noon.

Downtown local farmer’s market, every Saturday thru October 31. Main St.at McBee, Greenville.

Hub City Farmer’s Market – 8am-Noon. Open thru October 31. Local in season produce, fruits, herbs, meats, eggs, sauces, flowers, plants, lotions, organics. 22 registered vendors. Accepting senior vouchers, EBT cards, and WIC cash value checks.

The Train Depot, 298 Magnolia St, Spartanburg.

585-0905.

Travelers Rest Community Farmers Market – 8am-Noon. Featuring locally produced foods and plants. Behind Sunrift Adventures at the corner of 276 & Center St, Travelers Rest. 414-1966.

Easley Farmers Market – 9am-Noon. Garden fresh produce featuring produce, plants, and other goodies. Easley City Hall parking lot, 205 N. 1st St, Easley. 855-7900.

Tai Chi with George Gantt – 9-10:00am. See Monday 6:30pm listing for details.

Yoga – 9am. $10; 5 classes/$40; first class free.

Unity Church of Greenville, 207 E. Belvue Rd, Greenville. 292–6499.

Gumbo Yoga with Kimbi Yates – 9:30-10:30am.

See Monday 6:30pm for details.

Coffee Cupping/Tasting Workshop – 1pm. Specialty coffee bar, Coffee & Crema is conducting coffee cuppings at Haywood Mall. Cupping is a method of evaluating the quality or defect of a coffee and is a process used by professionals and enthusiasts alike.

No prior experience is needed since we’ll provide instructions and guide the cupping from start to finish. Just have an interest in coffee. Free. Belk 700 Haywood Rd, Greenville. (Inside Haywood Mall, at the lower entrance to the Belk department store) 678-9173 or 235-0051.

ACUPUNCTURE Acupuncture of Greer

Ruth Kyle, L. Ac. 106 Memorial Dr. 864-877-0111•Greer Has great results with acute and chronic pain, migraines, frozen shoulder, sciatica, back pain, stress; specializes in orthopedic issues and more, in an educational tranquil environment. See ad, page 31.

BE NATURAL

Joan Massey, L. Ac. 300 E. Blackstock Rd. 864-574-5468•Spartanburg Specializing in wellness, natural hormone therapy, allergies, autoimmune problems, and pain using acupuncture, herbs, laser therapy, and detoxification techniques.

ALLERGY/NUTRITION

PERFECT BALANCE NATURAL HEALTH

Barbara Morris RN, BS 1934 N. Pleasantburg Dr. 864-236-8072•Greenville PerfectBalanceNaturalHealth.com Barbara looks at all your health needs – working with you to relieve allergies, improve immune function, relieve pain, increase energy, regulate hormones, clean up your diet and improve nutrition. See ad, page 22.

CHILDBIRTH CAROLINA WATERBIRTH

915 South St. 864-329-0010•Simpsonville CarolinaWaterBirth.com “Where Birth Comes Naturally”Offering attentive, personal one-on-one care for you, and your family with Midwives, Doulas, and GYN care. See ad, page 29.

CHIROPRACTOR FRANZ FAMILY SPINAL CARE

GREENVILLE NATURAL HEALTH CENTER

Marina Ponton, L. Ac. 1901 Laurens Rd. 864-370-1140•Greenville GreenvilleNaturalHealth.com Specializing in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and therapeutic massage therapy. We also offer a natural health services and products that will help you meet your health goals including herbs, nutrition, fertility, and pain management. See ad, page 39.

ALKALIZING WATER ALL NATURAL HEALTH & BEAUTY CENTER

Bobby Caston, Preventive Health Consultant 101 College St. 864-963-2882•Simpsonville NaturalFarmacy.net We offer preventive health programs and products that are based on a holistic approach to good health. Currently, we are offering True Water, an alkaline ionized water, that is truly one of a kind, and supports wellness in many specific ways. See ad, page 31.

Want to reach readers who are health and wellness focused?

864-248-4910

205 Bryce Court (off Woodruff Rd in Woodruff Place) 864-987-5995•Simpsonville FranzFamilySpinalCare.com NUCCA (upper cervical chiropractic) is a gentle, noninvasive technique that can help to restore body balance and optimal health, with no cracking and popping. We fix the problem, rather than frequently and/or continually treat the symptoms. Exclusive NUCCA Chiropractors in South Carolina. See ad, page 29.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY Internal Fitness

400 S. Main St., Mauldin 864-757-1269 or 864-386-1942 Internal-Fitness.net Offering Colon Hydrotherapy, Infrared Sauna for fat burning, Massage, Ion Foot Detox, and Body Magic garment. Phyllis Woods, Nat’l Board and advanced level certified through I-ACT since 2003. See ad, page 31.

Upstate Colonics, LLC

607 NE Main St. 864-963-4466•Simpsonville UpstateColonics.com Certified Colon Hydrotherapist with associated detox such as massage, ionic footbath, far infrared Bio-Mat, slimming/detox wraps, and ear-candling. Clean professional office. Disposable supplies.

See ad, page 11.

classifieds EDUCATION

Labor Doula Training Workshop − Classes run every Thursday from October 20- November 17. Labors of Love, Spartanburg. For more information call Susan at 864-909-0042.

SmartPregnancy.net.

Become A Licensed Midwife − Want a career working with pregnant women and babies? This is a two and a half year course with limited class size that prepares the student with the academic knowledge to pass the North American Registry of Midwives exam for the Certified Professional Midwife credentialing and for licensing in South Carolina. Classes start in January 2010 with prerequisites required. Labors of Love, Spartanburg. Call Susan at 864-909-0042.

SmartPregnancy.net.

FOR SALE

3 Building Lots − Access to Lake Russell. 3 to 6.7 acres. $24,950 - $69,950. Minifarm, greenspace, covenants, two state parks, boat ramps, marinas. 20 minutes to Anderson, SC. Owner/ Agent. 706-283-7842.

Currently Publishing Natural Awakenings Magazines − For sale in Atlanta, GA; Mobile, AL; New York City, NY; Denver, CO; Morris County, NJ; Call for details 239-530-1377.

HELP WANTED

Farmers Needed − To participate in City of Easley’s Farmers’ Market. Cost is $5 per booth, per day. Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. until 12 p.m. In front of City Hall, 205 N. 1st. St., Easley.

Beginning May 16 to the end of September. For more information, call Lisa Garrett at 864-8557900, ext. 7200.

College Interns − Journalism majors to write/ edit for Natural Awakenings magazine during fall/ spring semesters. Call 864-248-4910 for more information.

OPPORTUNITIES

Put The Law Of Attraction To Work For You − Work part time.Build a six-figure business.

Join a team dedicated to personal development and financial freedom. 2 minute message.1-888-221-6597.

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JOHN BURTON, EdD LPC

600 East Washington St. # 608 864-467-1077•Greenville DrJohnBurton.com Through interactive and experiential modalities, break free of your illusions and empower your self to reach beyond an ordinary life. See ad, page 37.

FENG SHUI The Door to All Wonders

Daniela Loga Brueckner Feng Shui Consultant 864-593-1829•Greenville Learn how applying Feng Shui principles revitalizes and balances energy; brings good fortune and health. When Chi moves smoothly, life becomes prosperous, vigorous and strong. See ad, page 11.

FITNESS NIA-Dancing Through Life

Justine Allen NiaNexus.com.

864-430-7469•Greenville Nia is a fun fitness class drawn from dance, healing and martial arts. Benefits include cardiovascular conditioning, weight management, increased flexibility, grace, strength and endurance. Check the ongoing calendar for our class locations.

HEALTH FOODS Earth Fare & The Healthy Supermarket

3620 Pelham Rd. 864-527-4220•Greenville EarthFare.com Earth Fare offers a fantastic selection of products including local organic produce, naturally raised meats, seafood, supplements, natural beauty products, and a beautiful eat-in café, deli, and juice bar. Check out our event calendar for upcoming happenings.

Market For Life

Margaret Griffin 2801 Wade Hampton Blvd., #15 864-268-9255•Taylors Natural foods, bulk foods/herbs, nutritional supplements, herbs, homeopathic remedies, books, health and beauty aids, pet supplies. We specialize in customer service! Special orders welcome.

The Wild Radish

Jody Harris & Gigi Perry 161 Verdin Rd. 864-297-1105•Greenville Vitamins and women’s products, goat’s milk and cheeses, raw juice & smoothie bar, Sami’s wheat/ gluten-free products, vegan/spelt and sugar-free baked goods, pet wellness, monthly healthy living classes. See ad, page 31.

WHOLE FOODS MARKET

1140 Woodruff Rd. 864-335-2300•Greenville WholeFoodsMarket.com/stores/greenville Imagine a farmers market: fresh produce, meats, a fish market, a gourmet shop, a European bakery, the corner grocery store, and eat-in café, all rolled into one. Taste new foods, exchange ideas and learn about the issues important to the local food community and the environment. Monthly calendar of events. We want to be your neighborhood supermarket.

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COUNSELING

HOMEOPATHY Augusta Street Clinic

Dr. Roger Jaynes, DC, DNBHE 864-232-0082•Greenville RogerJaynez@yahoo.com AugustaStClinic.com Bio-energetic testing to show any energy imbalance, vitamin or mineral deficiency, and identify environmental allergies. We offer a variety of services at affordable rates. See ad, page 33.

LIFE COACH Life Coaching Institute

Dr. Dianne Greyerbiehl 864-282-8989•Greenville LifeCoaching@att.net LifeCoachingInstitute.net We are a coach-counseling center specializing in inside out deep change. The result … being the person or organization you can be.

See ad, page 39.

MASSAGE/BODYWORK ESSENTIAL KNEADS MASSAGE THERAPY

Tammy Forbes, LMBT #5494 425 North Main Street, Suite C 864-616-1380•Simpsonville TammyForbes.MassageTherapy.com Massage positively affects EVERY system in your body. It is the first step in your journey to health and wellness. Come on in and reduce your stress, relieve your tired achy muscles and just relax! First visit is just $35 for a one hr. session. What are you waiting for? See ad page 9.

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Massage Therapy at Acupuncture of Greer

Rita Cunningham, LMBT #5999 106 Memorial Dr. 864-451-9295•Greer Stressed out? In pain? Relax, and enjoy health benefits with a therapeutic massage designed just for you. Swedish, deep tissue, foot reflexology, prenatal services.

Tai Chi Massage

June Lordi, LMBT #4599 106 Memorial Dr. 864-877-0037•Greer 27 years experience in stress and pain reduction, and rehabilitative massage therapy. Tai Chi/massage instruction. Work with athletes, maternity, infants, elderly, and medical referrals.

See ad, Page 9

THE PAMPERED SOLE

Linda Goulart, LMBT #4812 864-907-4940•GVL and SPTBG PamperedSoleOnline.com Professional foot pampering.

Bringing balance to mind, body and “sole”. We create a memorable experience in the comfort of your own location or ours. Great for any occasion. Individual or group rates available. Check out our web site for package descriptions. See ad, page 9.

NATURAL FARMING CAROLINA BUFFALO CO.

1715 Jonesville Rd. 864-325-1278•Simpsonville CarolinaBuffalo@aol.com.

See the buffalo roam. All natural produce, honey, eggs, poultry, and Bison meat available at farmers market stand. Open WedSat. 8:30am-5:30pm.

PAIN/STRESS REDUCTION Migun of Greenville

215 Pelham Rd., Ste B-104 864-242-1160•Greenville MigunOfGreenville.com Migun means beautiful health! 30-day Free trial of the relaxing Migun thermal massage system to reduce pain and stress in your life. Call today! See ad, page 21.

PERSONAL FITNESS Fitway Personal Fitness Studio

Private 1-on-1 Coaching 864-985-1850•Seneca 864-335-8811•Greenville-East MyFitWay.com Gain astounding results in private, focused setting. TRAIN SMARTER, NOT HARDER using integrative system approach, 24/7 access, initial health assessment, nutrition & wellness program, strength training, yoga, pilates, and boxing. See ad, back cover.

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RAINWATER HARVESTING ASCOT EARTH SYSTEMS – RETAIL

2617 N. Hwy 101 864-895-9745•Greer AscotEarthSystems.com Ascot Earth Systems is a rainwater harvesting firm that serves the southeastern United States. We provide above ground and underground rain collection systems of any size. See ad, page 37.

RAPID RECHARGE Healthy Lounge

Downtown Greenville, Riverplace 864-250-2811 HealthyLounge.com It’s almost impossible to grab needed “me time” these days. Our solution: RAPID RECHARGE (hi-tech massages, oxygen sessions, all-natural recovery shakes, and elixir tonics). See ad, page 9 & 37.

RESTAURANTS Coffee To A Tea

54 Lois St. 864-350-6506•Greenville CakeSquaredGreenville.com All-natural, chemical-free coffee, tea, and pastries. Also available are freshly baked breads, art breads, gluten-free, sugar-free, and other “special diet” items.

Everyday Organic

Next to Cherrydale Cinemas 864-498-9194•Greenville Everyday.Organic@Hotmail.com Our new restaurant serves food made from only organic ingredients with a sustainable approach.

Moving next to Cherrydale Cinemas. Open MonSat, 11am-3:30pm. Something for everyone.

STRUCTURAL INTEGRATION Carolina Structural Energetic Therapy

Greg Spindler, LMT SC#4609 107 Memorial Dr. 864-877-3500•Greer GregSpindler.com Treating acute and chronic pain, using advanced, soft-tissue releases to achieve quick and longlasting results. YouTube.com/ watch?y=if09SgdEfgk. See ad, page 9.

WHOLISTIC CENTER HEALING WITHIN / HEALING WITHOUT, LLC

Joanne Therese Schmidt Asyra Body Scan, Reiki, Nemenhah Medicine Woman 864-380-0628•Greenville Frustrated? Doing all the “right” things yet still don’t feel well? Call for an Asyra body scan and get started on your path to wellness. By appointment.

KIMAH HEALING ARTS CENTER

2112 Augusta St. Greenville Tina Murray – Kimah.net 864-232-3739•Tina@Kimah.net Kimah is a community of practitioners and instructors whose mission is to promote vibrant health and wellbeing on all levels – mental, emotional, spiritual and physical.

See ad, page 9.

Willow Wellness Center

Jan Posey, CBT, CNHP 309 Jones Rd. 864-233-3033•Taylors JanTheMother@aol.com Giving you the tools to take charge of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Offering therapies and classes, including quantum biofeedback, voice remapping, Reiki, and reflexology. See ad, page 7..

“Natural Awakenings is truly Wonderful!

With the very 1st issue, I gained 11 new clients and my business continues to grow each month. Absolutely Amazing!”

Angela Toplovich, Upstate Colonics, LLC, Simpsonville, SC

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