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Natural Awakenings Charlotte Offers Reader Input in Healthy Food Guide

Natural Awakenings Charlotte is accepting nominations through the end of August from readers for healthy food establishments in Mecklenburg, Union and Gaston counties for potential inclusion in the publication’s Healthy Food Guide found in the directory at the magazine’s website www.AwakeningCharlotte.com. Nominees may offer non-GMO, organic or pesticide-free, whole-food products and seafood and/or meat from ethical and sustainable sources, and may source from local farms.

“To maintain health, it’s well known that maintaining a balanced and healthy diet is important, yet there are many food establishments serving meals with additional sugar, food additives, artificial colors, pesticides, etc.,” says Shannon McKenzie, publisher of Natural Awakenings Charlotte. “The intention of the Healthy Food Guide is to identify providers that are committed to providing more healthy options than standard dining establishments do today.”

For more information or to submit nominations, email Publisher@ AwakeningCharlotte.com. Also visit www.AwakeningCharlotte.com.

Children’s Mentorship and Tutoring Program is Available

Jarrin Wooten, owner of Living Roots Holistic Health, is offering a Children’s Mentorship and Tutoring Program from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays in mobile and virtual formats along with in person at a location in Concord, North Carolina. The curriculum, provided on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, emphasizes teaching early literacy and math skills, entrepreneurship, gardening, meditation and mindfulness, financial literacy, physical fitness, food and nutrition along with outdoor survival and socioemotional skills.

“This will help children of all ages develop essential real-world concepts that are rarely offered in traditional school settings,” says Wooten, who has a bachelor of arts degree in elementary education and a minor in psychology from Winston-Salem University.

He taught kindergarten and second to fifth-grade students for seven years, has authored the books Skydive and Soul Notes, is a former high school basketball head coach and also played football at the collegiate level.

For more information or to register, call 704-993-6885, email LivingRootsHolisticHealth@gmail.com or visit www.LivingRootsHolisticHealth.com.

New Earth Fare Store Opens in Davidson

Organic and natural grocery chain Earth Fare has officially opened its doors to Davidson residents. The popular market occupies the 18,000-square-foot space formally known as Farm 2 Family Foods, located at 261 Griffith Street.

In early 2020, Earth Fare closed all of its 50 locations following the previous ownership’s bankruptcy declaration. It has since been revitalized through an investment from Hulsing Enterprises. The new ownership group has since opened 22 locations along the East Coast with plans of ongoing expansion. The grocer will continue to stay true to its unparalleled Food Philosophy, offering the highest food-quality standards in the industry with a continued mission of improving lives by making healthy food available to all.

Since its founding in 1975, Earth Fare has maintained this operating practice that informs every product offered. This Food Philosophy is exemplified by a rigorous set of quality standards, which ensures that all products sold are free of high-fructose corn syrup, artificial fats and trans-fats, artificial colors, artificial preservatives and sweeteners, bleached or bromated flour, and are never administered antibiotics or growth hormones. These ingredients and additives are outlined on Earth Fare’s pioneering Boot List.

For more information and to sign up for Earth Fare’s newsletter, visit www.EarthFare.com.

Healers Can Enhance Their Skills at Ahlara

Ahlara International, a spiritual center, spa, boutique and crystal center, in Mooresville, North Carolina, has begun hosting a new and innovative gathering of certified healers for practitioners to enhance their skills from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month. Led by psychic intuitive and akashic records reader Lorraine Meyer, the sessions will feature discussions of methods, showcasing of techniques and demonstrations by practitioners that have been trained in several healing modalities including reiki, energy medicine, healing hands and others.

The sessions will afford time for questions, discoveries and dealing with challenges as attendees evolve in their abilities through group support and expanded knowledge. The final hour of the events will be dedicated to sharing healing sessions with a partner. Each participant will both give and receive for 20 minutes with a short break in between. On occasion, a “Reiki Share” will take place with one person receiving healing from several people at once.

Meyer also conducts classes at Ahlara in vibrational bath and sound healing, developing psychic abilities as well as private sessions in akashic readings and Jidiken Reiki.

Cost: $10. Location: 155 Joe Knox Ave. For more information or to register to attend a session, call 704-662-0946 or visit www.AhlaraInternational.com. See ad, back cover.