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Natural Awakenings Charlotte Offers Healthy Living Gift Guide

Readers can support local businesses and give the gift of health, well-being and sustainability this holiday season to themselves and to family and friends by utilizing Natural Awakenings Charlotte’s Healthy Living Gift Guide. The many special deals contained in the guide are effective in December and even early January for a few.

The guide includes a special offer on Akashic Records “Mini” Soul Profile Reading & Clearing by Amy Gray-Cunningham; 15 percent off all products from

Ekologicall, our local Zero Waste Shop; customized gift baskets or ongoing orders from Farm Fresh Carolinas, delivering organic produce and farm fresh favorites right to our doors; a 3.5-hour, new client special package of colon hydrotherapy and energizing foot spa and sauna from HC Wellness Center and Spa; 10 percent off all products from Soul Love including intentional candles, body butter, bath bombs, bath soaks and intention packages; and 30 percent off gift cards from The Patio Farmer, helping the Charlotte region grow edible, nutritious plants in whatever space available.

For more information or to order, visit www.Tinyurl.com/HealthyGiftGuide2021. See ad, back cover.

Shamanic Journey to Peru is a Spiritual Experience of a Lifetime

Lynne Wiggins, owner of Ahlara International, in Mooresville, North Carolina, and an avid traveler to exotic places around the world, has created a once-in-a-lifetime spiritual experience for March of 2022. This is when attendees can immerse themselves in the cosmic and spiritual energies of Peru’s sacred sites.

Cusco, Machu Picchu, the Sacred Valley, Ollantaytambo, Pisac, Lake Titicaca and many other sites have all been quiet the past several years and have had the opportunity to renew and clean their energies. As the people of our planet have remained in or near their homes, our Mother Gia has had the chance to cleanse and renew her healing energies also.

On this journey, attendees will experience Peruvian culture, traditions and ceremonies, along with pilgrimages to locations of great spiritual energies including temples and artifacts, and also enjoy some free time to explore local markets and dine in exotic cafes.

Along with Wiggins, who has led many spiritual tours, participants will be accompanied by Peruvians Jorge Luis Delgado and Romulo Lizarraga.

Location: 155 Joe Knox Ave., Mooresville. For more information or to register, call 704-662-0946 or visit www.AhlaraInternational.com. See ad, page 13.

The SOUL Expo in April in Charlotte; Accepting Vendors and Sponsors

The SOUL Expo & Zen Within Academy will host a community expo to expand our minds and feed our souls from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. on April 30, 2022, at the CPCC Harris Conference Center, in Charlotte. The goal of The SOUL Expo is to share information and provide real-world tools that will inspire positive change and help attendees come together and create the New Earth we are all dreaming of into being.

The mission of the event is to create a safe and welcoming community forum for attendees to experience a wide variety of consciousness expanding products, presentations and modalities with the ultimate aim of anchoring unity consciousness globally, focusing on the unique and divergent paths each SOUL is traveling. Understanding that those unique SOUL journeys create a diverse tapestry of human experience connecting us all in Spirit, Oneness, Unity and Love.

A main ballroom stage for 150 to 200 people plus a smaller speaker room for 30 to 40 people will facilitate presentations throughout the day on thought-provoking topics like conscious parenting, alternative education paths, alternative healing and wellness modalities, conscious business and more.

Admission: $35 prior to event; higher at the door. Sponsors, 45 vendors and 35 healer/reader opportunities are available, and fees are forthcoming. Location: 3216 CPCC Harris Campus Dr., Charlotte. For more information or to register as either an attendee or a participant, call Holly Whitman at 508-958-6200, email info@TheSOULExpo.com or visit www.TheSOULExpo.com.