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Fall 2013 • Vol. 27, No. 125

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Musings by Carol Bedrosian Starspeak: The Cosmic Forecast by Eric Linter Storing Locally Grown Food for the Winter by Linda Wooliever EarthTalk: Environmental Justice Protects Local Neighborhoods by the Editors of E/Environmental Magazine 20 Feng Shui for Everyday: Grounding the Bedroom by Karen Feldman 50 Book Reviews by Gail Lord

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22 Brain Cross-Training by John Pierre 24 Kirtan Music Boom Bliss by AnnMarie Martins 26 Working the Law of Abundance by Sue H. Singleton 30 Energize Your Local Economy by Karen Masterson 36 6 Ways To Fuel the Corporate Takeover by Sven Eberlein 38 Local Business Success Organically: Living Earth and EVO Dining 42 Meet Amma: From Hugs to A New Humanity, An interview with Mata Amritanandamayi by Carol Bedrosian 48 The Discrimination That White Americans Will Never Know by Dr. Earl Bracy

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37 Yoga Practitioners of New England 52 Calendar 56 Holistic Logo Directory 67 Holistic Specialties Directory 68 The Classifieds 69 Holistic Marketplace 70 Advertiser Index

On the Cover: “Local Economy” photographs by Kimberly Peck.

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Some of the local economy photos on the cover are from Kimberly’s forthcoming first book, Farm, Food, Life: Photographs & Recipes Inspired by Local Farms.

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MUSINGS

The Glorious Color of Local Economy

By Carol Bedrosian

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ou may be familiar with the poem Desiderata, which begins; “Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence...” The poem’s wise counsel continues and about halfway in is this equally sage advice: “Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.”

I see these high ideals in the local business movement — the people who are running small businesses and networking with each other to keep dollars within the local economy, and the customers who support them. Small business owners value your business. They go the extra mile in providing personalized customer service because local sales are their life-blood. They give back to the community by sponsoring your town’s soccer and Little League teams and town charity events. Local businesses preserve a special kind of commerce, selling goods and services to a community of people they are connected to beyond the sale. And they do it with integrity. No one is picketing your locally owned restaurants for rights to a living wage.

Local business generates more local business. The “multiplier effect” calculates that for every $100 spent in a local independent store, $45 of that will be reinvested in other local purchasing, contributing to the overall health of the local economy.

By contrast, that same $100 spent in a big box store results in only $14 being recirculated in the local economy. Why? Because the lion’s share of that revenue ends up being sent “away” to the corporate headquarters where the money is dispersed, not spent locally in the community.

If you’re a baby boomer, you’re probably lucky enough to remember the old bustle of your community’s downtown and the large variety of stores where your family — along with all the rest of the families in town — bought everything from shoes to furniture to groceries to haircuts. Customer loyalty meant a lifetime of repeat sales for family businesses going back generations, as well as stores stocked with just what the customer ordered. A prosperous town filled with successful businesses patronized by happy customers was the gold standard of American success.

Now decades after practically abandoning our Main Street USA economy, we are discovering that the discounts of the big box corporate model we’ve bought into are not what we bargained for. While we might have more dollars at our disposal to purchase more goods, owning all this stuff has not increased our happiness nor opened up businesses in the empty storefronts downtown. Yet the lure of the lowest price and biggest selection in one convenient location — whether in a store or online — is a cultural comfort food that’s hard for Americans to resist. But like all delicious-tasting junk food, the immediate gratification of taste or price savings belies the many unhealthy consequences down the road.

If it matters to you that local businesses remain a vital part of the economy where you live, providing the choice of products and customer service you prefer, then it’s up to you to support them in your area. Instead of driving out of town or to the mall to make your home supply purchase, take your business to the local, independently owned hardware store if your town is still lucky enough to have one.

Local economy is a reflection of local color that cannot be replicated nationally, yet as we drive across the country today the scenery is getting very bland. We see all the same chain stores and restaurants, with little local character left at all. Character imparts identity. Are we willing to entirely give our American landscape over to

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corporate branding in exchange for discount pricing and convenience?

Spirit of Change, in all its glorious local color, exists because of local advertisers who contribute to growing the holistic community where we live. As the community grows, so does their business, maybe directly in response to the ad they placed or just as likely in some other way where the connections are less apparent. The success of Spirit of Change, along with many other local holistic businesses, confirms that the power to create the economy, the healthcare and society we want is in the hands of many individuals acting with a cooperative purpose.

The lush green farm you drive past every day could, regrettably, morph into another out-of-state owned housing development. But hopefully it never will because it is cared for by someone whose values go beyond property-as–commodity, a local farmer stewarding the land, co-operating with nature and growing healthy food.

The fruits and veggies produced in those fields will be extra delicious and nutritional powerhouses not because they’ve been genetically modified to be mono-cropped by corporations, but because they grow in sunshine and good soil and are tended to by someone who wants to preserve the land to feed you. Stop and buy them at the next local farm stand you drive by. While you’re there you might make a friend or see someone you know, or see a posting of an upcoming event in the community you might want to get involved in. This is how local works.

Carol Bedrosian is the publisher of Spirit of Change holistic magazine.

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as in the far off fringes of our solar system Pluto turns retrograde. The reversal could be a drag on financial markets but is ameliorated by Pluto’s sextile with Saturn, which is exact Saturday morning.

Sunday brings the autumnal equinox, the Sun’s entry into Libra. It is time to pay more attention to our partnerships. With the hours of daylight and darkness in balance, we are asked to create balance in our relationships.

A building trine between Venus and Jupiter is a major plus. The aspect is pure fun, and is exact on Thursday the 26th. Do what you can this week to make nice with people who matter. The opportunity won’t last long as Venus finds herself at odds with fiery Mars Saturday morning.

Passions rise but require careful handling. Tensions and uncertainties are also multiplying as the month closes.

STARSPEAK

BY ERIC LINTER

October

Astrology Forecast for Fall 2013

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any years back I attended a workshop on geomancy and dowsing with English author and mystic Reshad Field. One afternoon Reshad commented on the growing polarization between awakening souls and those who preferred to remain asleep, stuck in the ways of the past. In my opinion, over the decades that divide has deepened, the point driven home by political discourse, profit-driven corporate “news” broadcasts and countless social network postings.

Online I frequently find astute political commentary, inspiring wisdom quotes, enchanting photos and stories, but also disturbing accounts of human cruelty, greed, shortsighted environmental destruction and violence.

Make no mistake about it — autumn’s stars impel us to move forward spiritually, technologically and politically.

We must focus on doing good and loving one another.

September The forecast period begins with a powerful September 1st trine between the Virgo Sun and Pluto in Capricorn. This fabulously practical alignment helps put lives in better working order. Vacationers will find the same aspect conducive to replenishing their weary bodies and souls. In any case, it is an encouraging note on which to start the new month.

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The Moon is waning for the first days of the week, reaching the new phase on Thursday the 5th. Buoyed by Jupiter’s boundless enthusiasm, the Virgo new Moon day is perfect for laying groundwork and beginning ambitious projects.

Plans may need revising on Monday the 9th as Mars tests Saturn. Slow down. Forcing the pace now can be entirely counter-productive. Progress is notable during the second half of the week but be sure to keep partners in the loop. Friday night’s romantic vibes vie with a temptation to go it alone. Bold moves may well be initiated over the weekend, but again, let your significant others know what you are up to. Mental Mercury, now in Libra, is testing the disquieting Uranus/Pluto square.

There will surely be news of more popular uprisings, protests as well as other progressive forces.

Life’s pace accelerates as the Moon waxes full overhead. On Wednesday the 18th Venus joins Saturn and forms a sextile to Pluto. Deepest needs may be expressed and met. The pathways of the heart are impossible to quantify but this alignment may prove that love can indeed conquer all.

The “Harvest” Moon sails serenely, reaching the full stage at 7:13AM on Thursday the 19th. The early morning hours are a high point. Evening sees a burst of social activity. Rambunctious trends dominate Friday the 20th

We live during challenging times. This sentiment is neatly encapsulated during the first days of October by the Libra Sun’s taut square with Pluto on Tuesday the 1st and Earth-shaking opposition to Uranus on the 3rd. This is an “anything goes” scenario, the only certainty being the intensity of experience, whether good or ill. Mercury, now in Scorpio, opens eyes to silver linings and other blessings. Regardless of what appears to be threatened or lost, have faith that something better will soon replace it.

Friday the 5th is a potentially difficult day. Life may feel chaotic this evening as the Libra new Moon once again sets off the Uranus/Pluto square. Mercury, gaining strength from an approaching sextile to Pluto and conjunction with Saturn, suggests that logic and common sense offer solid guidance during trying moments. Take long-term interests as well as emerging realities into account while Mercury and the Ringed Planet stand united on the 8th.

Venus is in an awkward square with Neptune the morning of Thursday the 10th. Don’t be snookered by an “unbelievably good” deal, or a fervent plea for help.

Because the Sun is also in a testing angle with Jupiter, a generous heart may be more easily exploited, and extravagant urges more difficult to control. Thoughtful advice can be a better and more useful gift than a questionable financial outlay.

The Sun’s square to Jupiter, exact on Saturday the 12th, does inspire many folks to be on the move. Leaf peepers, apple pickers and other nature lovers enjoy the upbeat energy. So will those who choose to stay close to the nest.

Mars enters Virgo the morning of Tuesday the 15th.

This week there’s ample energy for tackling practical matters and doing inspired work. The Moon is rapidly waxing full. Gracious Venus trines Uranus Thursday evening. A casual get together after work is great fun.

The eclipsed “Hunter” Moon in late Aries is exactly full at 7:38PM on Friday the 18th. With the Moon in shadow, expectations may prove to be greater than actual experiences. On the other hand, some lucky souls will find their mates more than meet expectations. Mars is also now opposing Neptune, so it is best to keep one’s feet on firm ground. Try to deal only with people you know are trustworthy. The risk of a deception or misunderstanding remains high through Saturday night.

Just in time for the morning commute, mental Mercury turns retrograde early Monday. Allow extra time to get to work or school, and expect a friend or two to change his or her mind.

The Sun enters Scorpio on Wednesday the 23rd. Here the great light trines mystical Neptune. The magical alignment is exact Friday evening, making it a perfect night to go to the theater. Mercury’s retrograde carries the winged messenger back into a second conjunction with serious Saturn during the afternoon of Tuesday the 29th. If conversations seem to bog down, opt for a timeout. Knotty issues are likely karmic in nature. A good long walk can be a welcome mood changer.

October ends with an empowering trine between Mars and Pluto. Resilience and tenacity help us face and overcome daunting challenges. In the dark of the waning Moon, a ghostly Halloween night is sure to have its scary moments. Be careful while trick or treating and on the way to parties.

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November November opens with an impressive, all-star performance. For starters Uranus is in an exact square to Pluto.

This is the year’s second as well as the fourth of seven total reality-shaking squares spanning 2012 until 2015.

The Scorpio Sun and Mercury are conjunct and in sextile to Pluto. Changes now under way are irreversible, necessary and constructive. Welcome the new.

The solar eclipse at the Scorpio new Moon on Sunday the 3rd is closely conjunct Saturn. An urgent sense of responsibility may dawn this week. Clarity, driven by necessity, can be another offshoot of the new Moon. As you weigh options bear in mind that Mercury remains retrograde until the 10th. Plans may yet require a finetuning and maybe major revisions.

It’s impossible to ignore reality as the Sun passes by Saturn on Wednesday the 6th. Jupiter retrogrades that night, helping to occasion “aha!” moments. Upbeat and healing vibrations carry through the Veteran’s Day weekend. This is a good time to proclaim love, admiration and show respect. Relationships grow testy from the 13th through the 15th. It seems everyone has their price, and love comes with strings attached. The Moon is waxing, adding more drama to already over-heated emotions.

The Full “Beaver” Moon is exact at 10:16AM on Sunday the 17th. Cultivate healthy and strategically helpful alliances around this date. Listen carefully to the counsel of wiser, more experienced advisors.

On the 21st the Sun’s arrival in Sagittarius initiates the holiday season. With the exception of Sunday the 24th and Monday the 25th, when bad weather can make the going treacherous, we’ve got solidly supportive travel auspices through the end of the month.

Spirits soar and hearts grow full as Thanksgiving gatherings bring families and friends together. Take this time to embrace an attitude of gratitude. A month-ending solar trine to irreverent Uranus facilitates glad hearts, warm camaraderie, clairvoyance and cheeky exchanges.

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t the time of this writing, so many gorgeous plants are blooming in the garden. We are getting beautiful greens, radishes, peas, beans, cukes, zukes, and tomatoes will be coming soon. This is the time when I am just enjoying midsummer and yet I know that fall will be here soon.

I like to prepare things so that I can enjoy fresh, local produce throughout the fall and winter as much as I possibly can. I tend to think that I’m doing well for my family and myself when I do this, a bit like Laura Ingalls or something. It feels close to my roots to want to save, conserve and provide for my family by putting things up for future use.

Let me be honest here, though. Despite Vermont’s illustrious canning history, I’m not a canning person. I think the chemistry of it scares me. (What if I messed up and inflicted botulism on my family!) So I stick to freezing and dehydrating as ways of putting things up for the weeks and months ahead. Believe me when I say that I value the pioneering spirit, but I’m not the sort to can food, smoke meat and I don’t even have a root cellar. I do have a sunroom that becomes a walk-in fridge in the fall and then a walk-in freezer during the winter months. To each his own. I do my best to eat the best food on the planet affordably and it does feel good to do the kind of food prep that I do. It’s fast and easy, too.

Here in Vermont, the localvore movement is pretty big. We don’t have a long growing season but we love being able to eat wild foods and locally grown foods. Being locally minded means we put our time, energy and dollars into the local economy, into our own soil, into our communities. We also have a smaller carbon footprint on Earth because food won’t need to be traveling far to reach us out here in the middle of nowhere if we grow our own.

There is awareness, as well, that eating seasonally and fresh is best for the body. There is a reason why the juiciest fruits come out in midsummer when the sun is hot and the need to hydrate the body is so much greater. There is a reason why root vegetables grow more in the colder seasons when the heartier foods are more nourishing to the body.

Fresh is best for sure, as well as accessible and affordable.

In order to make food affordable, accessible and as local as possible, it makes sense to take what is grown in the gardens or purchased at local farmers markets or CSAs and prepare easy, simple recipes and freeze them for future use. What I’ve found is

that if I make recipes that have some fat in them, they hold up very well in the freezer.

For example, tomatoes don’t do well on their own in the freezer but if I make a raw marinara sauce with them, they do extremely well in the freezer and I have the benefit of beautiful, healthy sauces that I can use all year long.

Freezer-Ready Raw Marinara Sauce 3/4 cup sun dried tomatoes, soaked for a half hour or more* 2 soft dates (medjool dates are the softest, remove the pit)** 2-4 cloves local garlic, peeled (less if you’re feeding children) 3 large local tomatoes, chopped 1 1/2 Tbsp Italian seasoning, or a good pinch of fresh oregano 1 tsp Celtic sea salt 1/3 cup olive oil half a bunch of fresh, local basil, about ½ cup packed Put all ingredients into a large food processor and process until smooth. Freeze in zip lock bags in the freezer. *If using sundried tomatoes packed in oil, omit the oil from the recipe. Shorten soaking time by using a high-speed blender like a Vitamix or by soaking in warm to hot water.

Make your own sundried tomatoes in a dehydrator. Simply slice tomatoes about ¼ - ½ inch thick and lay out on dehydrator trays to dry until there is no more moisture in them. ** Substitute with a teaspoon of local honey or maple syrup if you prefer.

This sauce keeps for about 6-8 months in the freezer. When it’s been a bumper crop year of tomatoes, I’ve been known to make batch after batch on a Sunday afternoon that lasts for months and months. You can use cherry tomatoes, too; use a couple pints for each recipe and use less sweetener because the cherry tomatoes are like candy themselves. Depending on your family size, you can freeze these batches in 2-4 zip lock bags so that you can defrost only the portion that you want.

The fresh marinara sauce is excellent just as it is. If you cook regular pasta, it makes a delicious sauce. Defrost and leave it at room temperature or heat it up very gently. I’ve made fresh “pasta” by spiral slicing zucchini, carrots, and daikon. In the wintertime, I like to make a fermented “cheeze” out of nuts and with very thinly sliced turnips or beets, make a raw-violi that is amazing.

I’ve also used the raw marinara sauce for cooked lasagna and baked pasta dishes.

Keeping it raw keeps all phytonutrients intact, but if you were to use this for cooking, you’d have some of the freshest tasting sauce that has been minimally processed and came from your own garden and kitchen.

Here’s a pesto recipe that makes good use of abundant garden herbs.

Herb Pesto 1 cup walnuts 1/2 cup pine nuts, sunflower seeds, or cashews 1 big bunch fresh local basil (about 1-2 cups packed) 2-4 Tbsp olive oil 3-4 cloves fresh garlic, peeled 1/2 teaspoon Celtic sea salt Put all ingredients in a food process or blender and blend until smooth. Pesto is great on sandwiches, pasta, wraps, on salads, on pizzas, and as dips. Put into plastic pint containers (or two half-pint containers) and freeze for future use. Some folks freeze in ice cube trays for future use.

Substitute the basil with parsley and add two tablespoons of lemon juice — it tastes absolutely amazing! You can also substitute wild leeks (ramps), cilantro, radish greens, beet greens, or garlic scapes for the basil. When making pestos with other greens feel free to add lemon juice if desired. Lemon juice really makes the taste of the greens and garlic come to life and the citrus actually helps our bodies assimilate all the vitamins from the greens more easily. Adjust the flavors to your liking. To thin and make more of a dressing, start by slowly adding ½ cup of water, and adjust the thinness to your liking.

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HEALTHY EATING continued from page 15

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What to do with all the kale that comes in the garden?

If you have an oven or dehydrator, you can make kale chips and eat your local kale for months and months to come.

There are sweet kale chip recipes as well as savory. I’m sharing my very favorite savory recipe. These are so easy.

Wash 2-3 bunches of fresh, local kale and de-stem so that you just have the leaves in a large bowl. If you don’t want to cut each individual kale leaf, hold the leaf with the largest part of the stem in one hand and grip the leaves with the other hand and pull down. This is a very fast and easy way to de-stem kale, collards and chard leaves. Tear them up into smaller sizes, but not too small because you are making snack chips. Next, make the cheeze: 2 cups raw unsalted cashews 1 large, local orange or red bell pepper 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup lemon juice 1/4 cup nutritional yeast 2 Tbsp raw tahini 2 tsp sea salt 2 cloves fresh, local garlic, peeled 1 small local onion, roughly chopped Blend all ingredients in a blender until creamy. Add more water if it is too thick. You can use a food processor to process this if you don’t have a blender, but it won’t be as smooth and creamy. This makes about 4 cups of cheddary cheeze — great on salads, sandwiches, wraps, and as a dip. Massage the cheeze sauce into the kale, which, by the way, tastes heavenly as is, with no drying or crisping.

If you are using a dehydrator: After the cheeze is evenly distributed on the kale, lay out the kale onto the dehydrator sheets. You can stack the kale up to about 1-inch thick on each sheet. I’ve done thicker, but a shallower stack ensures a faster drying time.

To retain phytonutrients, set the temperature of the dehydrator to 105°F. 112-118°F is the temperature at which phytonutrients and enzymes are destroyed. It is okay to initially heat up the dehydrator to 135°F for the first hour if desired because the food is not raised to that temperature, and also because you’ll be backing down the temperature to 105°F after that.

Dehydrate overnight and check in the morning to see how crisp and thoroughly dried the kale chips are. Taste testing will be necessary and be forewarned that kale chips taste amazing right out of the dehydrator!

If you are using an oven: Evenly spread your kale chips onto cookie sheets or jelly roll pans about an inch or so thick. You have the choice to put your oven on a very high temperature like 400°F and put the kale in for about 5 minutes or 250-275°F for about 20 minutes. Either way, you will want to keep a close eye on the oven so you don’t burn your kale.

The drawback of using an oven is that your kale chips may burn. When you use dehydrators with temperature

controls you can leave them in for a day and a half and you’ll get really crispy kale chips. In addition, all phytonutrients get destroyed in the heating/cooking process so if you want to retain them you’ll have to dehydrate.

Dried kale chips can last up to six months in airtight containers. You can save the little silicon packets that come in numerous other products and keep them in the containers to keep moisture out. At any point, you can re-dehydrate kale chips if they have lost some of their crispness. The little schnitzels that remain from these chips in the bottom of your tin taste great as salad toppers, too, so nothing is wasted.

Zuke Hummus Here in Vermont there comes a time each summer when people have so much zucchini that they can’t even give them away. Here is an excellent recipe that I modified from Alissa Cohen for a delicious zucchini hummus that freezes beautifully.

4-5 medium sized, local zucchini, unpeeled, loosely chopped 1/3 – ½ cup raw tahini 4 cloves, fresh, local garlic, peeled ½ cup lemon juice ¼ cup olive oil ½ tsp sweet paprika a good pinch Celtic sea salt a good pinch of cayenne pepper Process all ingredients in a large food processor or blender. I enjoy this in the food processor because it remains a little chunky and tastes better that way.

The tahini and the olive oil give it enough fat that makes it freeze really well. This makes such a big batch that you’d want to put into half-pint or pint size containers. I tend to use pint-sized containers because once I defrost it I want to use it with everything. This makes a delicious dip, spread for sandwiches and wraps or salad dressing.

Dehydrating zucchini into chips is another lovely option to use your zucchini bounty. Use a mandolin or spiral slicer in order to slice them thinly enough.

Zucchini is very watery so the dehydrating time is longer, but remember you also have the option to use the oven for faster drying time. Easy salt/vinegar chips can be made by spiral slicing zucchini into small slices into a bowl. Drizzle some olive oil, vinegar, salt and perhaps some Italian seasoning, and let stand for about 10-20 minutes (overnight is fine, too). Spread thinly onto dehydrator sheets or cookie sheets and dehydrate or bake as for kale chips. Make gourmet zucchini chips by using the cheddary cheeze or marinara sauce recipes and dehydrating them for the tastiest chips around.

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Dear EarthTalk: I understand that the “environmental justice� movement seeks to protect the poor and non-white communities from being unfairly targeted to host activities like sewage treatment plants, landfills and polluting factories. Have there been notable victories? — P. Silver, Peekskill, NY The environmental justice movement was born in September 1982 when a group of poor residents of rural Warren County, North Carolina laid down in front of trucks transporting waste containing toxic PCBs to a nearby landfill. Those primarily African American activists eventually lost their battle to keep toxic waste out of the area, but their actions eventually led to an executive order by President Clinton in 1996 that institutionalized the U.S. government’s duty to identify and address “disproportionately high adverse health or environmental effects of its policies or programs on low-income people and people of color.� It also mandated that the federal government look for ways to prevent discrimination by race, color or national origin in any federally funded programs dealing with health or the environment.

In the time since, many other low income or minority groups — Latinos, Asians, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans and others — have learned to raise their voices and stand up against the discriminatory locating of hazardous waste landfills and transfer stations, polluting factories and utilities, and other triggers for bad air quality and compromised waterways and soils across the U.S. and beyond.

Some of the better known environmental justice groups came to be out of specific struggles in their own local neighborhoods. Concerned Citizens of South Central LA (Los Angeles) was created to fight the now infamous LANCER incinerator in the late 1980s, and today provides leadership on environmental and other social justice issues throughout southern California. Likewise, Mothers of East LA, originally formed to stop the siting of a prison in an East Los Angeles community, has become a strong voice against incinerators and other waste process-

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Several national organizations now devote significant resources to these issues. The Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ), which emerged out of the 1970s Love Canal controversy when the U.S. government relocated 800 families from their polluted Niagara Falls, New York neighborhood, today functions as an activist clearinghouse for related issues. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has devoted significant resources to environmental justice efforts, including helping to identify cancer clusters in poor communities near heavy industry. Many Sierra Club local chapters battle environmental discrimination in their neighborhoods. And the federal government today provides millions of dollars to environmental justice projects through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies.

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FENG SHUI FOR EVERYDAY

BY KAREN FELDMAN

Grounding The Bedroom

Next, create an energetic barrier between both areas. Use wood energy to halt the influence of draining water into your sleeping area. On your bedroom wall closest to the bathroom, place wooden furniture and use wallpaper to call in more wood. Fabric is also the wood element, so drapes, curtains, and bedspreads are a wonderful elemental balancer as well as a beautiful, decorative enhancement. Do not use a mirror here, as it faces the bed and it will not be conducive to restful sleep. You can also hang pleasing artwork with a botanical, natural, or floral theme to further reinforce wood.

Consider the décor of your bedroom as well. Are there too many blues, flowing, asymmetrical lines, glass, crystal and mirrors being used? These are symbolic of the water element and will contribute to the imbalance. Remove a table water fountain if you have one. Water in your actual sleeping area contributes mightily to an ungrounded feeling. Perhaps a quick change of non-toxic paint color into a soothing tone of pale sage green or earth tones is in order.

Notice the yin and yang balance of your bedroom as well, which is important if the intention of the space — a private sleeping space — is to be successful. A quiet, non-public space such as a bedroom functions best when yin energy is present in the form of soft furnishings, dimmed lighting, plain surfaces, patterns and textures. You may discover there is too much yang energy — hard, shiny surfaces, intense patterns, primary colors and intense lighting being used. Strive towards moving your attention and feel of the room towards a sanctuary of pleasing softness and stability.

Hi Karen: My husband and I recently purchased a new home, and we’re excited about moving in. However, a challenging issue between us is the presence of two very old, large trees on either side of the front entrance. Their size dwarfs the front door and gives the appearance of concealing it from plain sight. My husband wants to remove them, but I am conflicted. Can you help us? — Susan

Hello Karen: In our bedroom, the bed directly faces the bathroom, which also has the washer and dryer in it. My limited understanding of feng shui suggests this is a challenging layout. Can you advise us how to deal with this? It really doesn’t feel right to me, and unfortunately, there is no other place to reposition the bed.

— Layout Challenged

Dear Layout Challenged, Your assessment is correct, and I’m not surprised this layout feels off to you somehow.

Having your bed directly facing a bathroom with its energy of draining water is not the most harmonious position for deep, restorative sleep. Our bedrooms are most supportive when they look and feel grounded. For this to happen, it’s helpful to be surrounded by the earth element with the enhancements of fire, metal, and wood.

Let’s take a look at your bedroom being mindful of the important use of the five elements used in feng shui in their natural or productive cycle. Water will nourish wood, wood feeds fire, fire burns to create earth, earth’s minerals bring forth metal, and metal holds water. In this sequence and progression the elements strengthen and feed each other in a continually regenerating cycle.

The elements before and after earth in this cycle — fire and metal — are also helpful to encourage optimal sleep. Earth is represented by earth tones, terra cotta, and anything rectangular in shape. Fire is found in lighting (natural and artificial), the color red, anything made from animals, animal prints, and discreetly pointed or triangular shapes. Metal is found in all of the pastel tones, metal material and round or oval shapes, as well as stone.

First, make some obvious corrections. Be sure the bathroom door is closed at all times, toilet seat is down, all drains covered. Removing an unhelpful, visual cue goes a long way in shifting the energy!

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Hi Susan, You are both correct in understanding the need for an easily accessible front door.

The door is considered the “mouth of chi” or vital energy that flows into a home and nourishes it for the benefit of all concerned. Anything that blocks or restricts this lifesupporting energy is not desirable.

However, I would be very cautious about simply removing these trees as the only solution to your dilemma. These beautiful living beings may be 100 years old and they are a big part of the neighborhood tree “family.” This is a tightly woven, interconnected and supportive ecosystem that purifies the air, stabilizes the land, and allows the flora and fauna of the area to thrive.

Another approach is to view their presence as a help, not a hindrance. Feng shui wisdom notes, “where intention goes, energy flows.” So let’s consider this alternate response by aligning with the power and protection of those trees for your good. Intend they are Helpful People placed perfectly in your path. They now function as symbolic Fu dogs, which in ancient China signified guardians of an entrance and were often used in front of sacred structures such as temples. Your front entrance now becomes an attractor of vital chi, not a repeller of it. Embracing nature is one of the tenets of feng shui as well. Whenever possible, align with nature and call it into your dwelling.

Obviously, some judicious trimming may also be in order so that the front door can be seen. Check to make sure the approaching pathway is similarly clear, and ideally in a curving pattern so the energy isn’t shooting abruptly towards the door. Use other low plants, shrubs and flowers to disperse the visual effect so the trees don’t feel so overwhelming.

One of the most famous and memorable uses of this concept of embracing the landscape and incorporating it into a dwelling can be found in Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural masterpiece, Fallingwater in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The challenging and dynamic aspects of the natural setting such as boulders, cliffs and the waterfall were deftly integrated into the building’s design. You are in good company — enjoy your new home!

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BRAIN

Cross-Training

by John Pierre

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ur brain, similar to our muscles, requires oxygen, nutrients, and stimulation for optimal functioning. Just as our physical performance increases with different and challenging fitness routines, the brain also benefits from mental “cross training” to expand its problem-solving skills, memory, and creativity. The mind can become complacent after a while, doing the same activities day in and day out. Not presenting unique stimuli can cause it to wither, much like a flower going without water for long durations. The more we exercise the brain in unique and unusual ways, the more we flourish by enjoying its increased capabilities.

Challenging your brain by solving problems, thinking outside the box and tacking brain puzzles helps it flex and stay cognitively fit. Try the following suggestions to improve mental abilities and challenge the brain:

dd Use your non-dominant hand, leg, or appendage every day in a safe way. Write your name, push a button, and eat with the opposite hand (but don’t try to drive a car or pick up hot liquids with the non-dominant hand). dd Look for a new route to get to work or home. dd Read materials that may be more difficult and mentally demanding than your usual selections. If you read the sports section frequently, change it up and try the cooking feature first. If business news gets ignored, stimulate your brain by reading it anyway. dd Expanding your vocabulary is one of the best ways to challenge the brain. Try to learn a few new words every day, as well as their meanings, and use them daily in conversations. dd Use scents to engage the brain. Memories from decades prior can be evoked simply by recognizing certain smells. dd Challenge the brain with puzzles and games. Invest time in board games, online or printed puzzles, or television trivia shows. When watching a trivia show, try to figure out the answers before the contestants. dd Attempt to learn a foreign language. Even looking up a few new words and using them throughout the day is beneficial. dd Challenge the brain by seeking to incorporate one new fruit or vegetable into your diet. If you haven’t eaten a grapefruit in years, buy one today. Explore new and unusual produce such as star fruit or lychee; look at the produce section of the store with new eyes. dd Make up fun exercises such as reciting the months of the year in alphabetical order; counting by twos (2, 4, 6, 8) and then counting backward (8, 6, 4, 2); later changing the factor number to five (5, 10, 15), and then counting down backwards with the same factor number (15, 10, 5). dd An hour before going to bed, write down a list of all the significant happenings of the day: 9am: Read a great article on brain health; 10am: Worked on project; 11am: Conference call; 12pm: Ate a nutritious vegetable salad, and so on. dd Embrace daydreaming, which is a right-brain, mind-expanding, creativity-liberating activity.

Reprinted with permission from The Pillars of Health: Your Foundations for Lifelong Wellness by John Pierre (Hay House; September 2013).

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t feels quite freeing within seconds; an immediate and tangible change, says Dr. Neal Smookler. What Smookler is describing is a fascinating method that resets and refreshes the brain back to it’s youth. It seems as if you are growing younger; that was dumbfounding to me in those early days, still is.”

At 51, Smookler has been ‘rebooting’ brains for almost two decades now. Smookler is serious about his work and others take him seriously, despite his smiling hazel eyes and youthful looks.

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After graduating from The Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, he moved back to Boston, but within just a few years was introduced to Alphabiotics.

“After my first alphabiotic brain reboot, I was, uh ... humming. I was literally resonating in what I can only describe as an insulated cocoon of warmth, openess and peace. It felt like a valium taking effect while in a flotation tank. I felt like my mind, my body, even my cells went through a decompression. It was like nothing I had ever experienced. Life began to take on a bit of a magical view that I hadn’t felt before. I remember waking up one night because I was so happy.”

“As much as I loved chiropractic - I couldn’t turn away from my experience. So with a warm, fuzzy feeling I said goodbye to my past incarnation as a D.C. and discontinued all chiropractic activity in order to function full time as an Alphabioticist.”

So just what was this discovery?

In a sense, “water-wings” for dissolv-

ing limitation.

“Inside your head is a physical mechanism that enables the brain to reboot itself. A re-set button, if you will. I want to be very clear; it’s not there by accident. We’re hard wired by Mother Nature this way. I was trained twenty-one years ago to know where the mechanism is located, and exactly how to activate it.”

“Alphabiotics is a simple way to address any challenge or limitation, health or otherwise. The method results in a release of unconscious, accumulated stress - resolving vastly complex issues with stunning simplicity.”

“With the participant lying face up on a specially designed table, the alphabioticist performs a very unique movement of the head.”

One present theory suggests that the pineal gland in the brain has the ability to create a piezo-electric charge when it is deformed.

A piezo-electric potential is a ‘spark’ created as the result of an

applied compression (alphabiotic method) on a crystalline structure (the pineal gland.)

In theory, the compression causes the pineal gland to deform and then reshape - resulting in the conceptual spark. In mere nanoseconds, neurons begin to fire spreading the potential throughout both brain hemispheres, triggering the reset.

“It’s a communication that encourages the brain to override the daily ‘emergency stand-by’ mode, like an ‘all clear’ signal. The internalized fight-or-flight response which is really a very low level state of alarm or shock is released.

As long as this goes unchecked the end result is diminished potential - read that, limitation.”

“What I believe the alphabiotic method is accomplishing - is bringing a person out of shock; prompting the brain to begin a series of systems

checks, assessing the various levels of function, while re-setting the blueprint (DNA) back to an earlier, uncorrupted (by stress) version. Because we are designed for whole brain function, this is the mode it defaults to.

Now, without a perceived danger - the brain finds no need to remain stuck in the daily survival mode. As the brain unlocks from this outerreactive state; energy wasted on the stress response is reclaimed to address any challenge or limitation.”

Smookler’s work has been featured on WBZ, WZBC & WATD. When asked what he enjoys most about that work — Smookler hesitates for a moment, then as if the answer was there all along he replies, “people often come with a sadness, an emptiness. After a session — the light returns, you can see it in their eyes, that spark.”

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n recent years, Yoga has become a huge phenomenon in the United States and indeed, in many parts of the world. Yoga Journal in a 2012 study indicates that 8.7 percent of U.S. adults, or 20.4 million people, practice yoga, an increase of 29 percent in 4 years. Of current non-practitioners, 44.4 percent of Americans call themselves “aspirational yogis”—people who are interested in trying yoga.

Yoga music and kirtan (chanting mantras in a call and response setting) have closely followed the development of yoga practice. Originating in India, yoga music and singing Sanskrit mantras have taken a new contemporary twist with western musicians and are becoming more mainstream presentations. Instrumentation usually includes the traditional harmonium and tablas. Modern kirtans include these and more — the addition of keyboards and guitars and even synthesized music as well as DJ and reggae elements have been incorporated into the music.

Kirtan practice is experienced in many yoga studios, meditation and retreat centers, small scale house concerts, as well as in large concert halls with bigger name artists performing full length shows. A myriad of festivals presenting kirtan and yoga music are also gaining in popularity and number. The audience is as diverse as those who practice yoga — teenagers to the elderly, from all walks of life. The power of listening and singing Sanskrit mantras is a deeply healing and beautiful experience that feeds one’s search for change and well-being.

Deva Premal and Miten’s albums of Sanskrit mantras top New Age charts on Amazon and iTunes, with global sales in the millions. Their fans include not only Hollywood luminaries, but also health professionals, hospice workers, midwives, and trauma counselors helping war vets and firefighters, all of whom have found solace in their music. Even the Dalai Lama has sung their praises after inviting them to play at a private audience.

“Mantras support us through every challenge,” says Miten. “Our mission is to share this powerful healing tool with the world. And we know that this is a mission we share with other musicians in this genre.”

Deva refers to her fans as fellow travelers sharing a spiritual journey to the same destination. “Many of us

have really worked a lot on ourselves. We’ve done therapy and groups and now it feels like it’s time to bypass all that and go straight to the point of joy and silence.”

Miten adds, “We’re exposed to so much sadness and pain and violence in the world and I know that whenever I’m scared, if I sing, then I’m not scared. To be in a theater with a thousand people, all chanting together, you cannot avoid an uplift of spirit. People leave in a joyful space.”

For the past six years, Deva and Miten have had the pleasure of collaborating with Manose, the internationally renowned bansuri (bamboo flute) maestro and one Nepal’s top recording artists. The founder of the rock group AD1974, Manose is part of the world music movement, merging genres, traditions and sounds, while at the same time, introducing traditional Nepalese music to new audiences.

Today, chant and popular culture are joining together more and more, as seen in the growing attendance at music and yoga festivals across the country. In June of 2008, the music industry was star-struck to watch the recording by a group of German monks singing Gregorian chants skyrocket to top the iTunes and Billboard charts.

Deva and Miten love that the music they have been quietly creating for 21 years is reaching wider and wider audiences. They anticipate their new album, A Deeper Light, will continue to unlock the secret of mantras for an entirely new generation, eager to engage with their inner technologies. The new album expands on the chant tradition that couples Miten’s lush arrangements by a group of young jazz artists, with Deva’s rich vocal tones.

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To celebrate the release of A Deeper Light, Deva Premal and Miten will be touring North America with another icon of the mantra-music phenomenon: The GuruGanesha Band. Their MantraFest 2013 Tour kicks off September 10 including stops in Medford, MA, at the Chevalier Theatre on September 18, and Bridgeport, CT, at the Klein on September 19.

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Working the Law of Abundance

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“Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.”

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“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” — Kahlil Gibran “The abundant life does not come to those who have had a lot of obstacles removed from their path by others. It develops from within and is rooted in strong mental and moral fiber.” — William Mather Lewis “Whatever we are waiting for — peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of abundance — it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach

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he law of abundance is based on Webster’s true definition of the word itself: a greater plentiful amount, a profusion, fullness to overflowing, an overflowing quantity, affluence, wealth. Abundance comes from the Latin verb abundare, which means “to abound, to overflow.” It is an energy, a feeling to tap in to or tune in to; overflowing abundance is an aspect of unconditional love. When Jesus and the apostles multiplied the fish and loaves of bread to feed the crowds, they applied the law of unconditional love and the law of abundance. The principles of the law of abundance are energy exchange and energy movement.

As Albert Einstein said, “Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It simply changes form.” There is always an abundance of energy. Motion creates energy. Inside the molecules that make up every form of matter, electrons spin in orbits around the nucleus, which creates an energy exchange.

Visualize being part of a big grid of light lines in and around Earth, a net similar to lines of latitude and longitude. Now, imagine this is the power grid for the networks of all the power plants providing electricity to towns and customers. Imagine each customer (you, me, every relative, every friend, etc.) as a speck of light on the grid connected by all the power lines. Each of us has a control panel to communicate when we have extra to share and tell each other what we are looking for.

This process is a bit like a power and energy barter system. This is such an efficient barter system that we just post the data, and without personally knowing the individuals, the energy resources move around. Our deeper selves, our subconscious and conscious thoughts, and our beliefs are already participating in this network, fueled by the one source, God. You can imagine this exchange like the World Wide Web, the Internet.

Craigslist, eBay, and a myriad of other sites provide networks of data — who has what to sell, barter, or trade and who is looking to purchase.

God provides a boundless flow of love and resources. It is not metered out. It is not “robbing Peter to pay Paul.” We all have an abundance of whatever we focus the most time and energy on. Money is energy. Love is energy. Providing a service or product is energy. Moreover, life is all about exchange and the movement of energy.

As a member of a barter system you must understand that you offer something and you receive something. The law of abundance requires both giving and receiving. Abundance is not given freely. It is acquired. You must exercise in order to win a triathlon. You must speak for others to hear you. You must practice to earn your driver’s license. You must play the game in order to score. You must learn the material in order to receive an A+.

This law requires truly knowing what is important to us in terms of our belief systems, our self-talk subconscious, and our verbalized consciousness. Years ago, a married couple I knew was extremely budget-oriented and tended to nickel-and-dime everything, even with each other. Alex and Nicole both got their wallets out to separately pay for fruit smoothies or museum entrance fees. For example, if the husband decided to treat his spouse, he would publicly announce the treat and the fact that he expected to receive the next round (which he calculated within a dollar or so between them). What a perfect example of what the law of universal abundance is not! They clearly held a belief system of scarcity as well as a very calculated exchange of karma. This naturally permeated their marriage as well as their friendships with others.

If you asked Alex and Nicole what was important to them, they would not have described it in the same way I have. They probably would have described it as fair and equitable calculations or something to that effect. Yet their actions demonstrated what is truly important to them: scarcity, precisely calculated karmic exchange, conditional love, and living with an agenda. When I knew them, I could see that it was already a source of stress in their young marriage, even though their beliefs were similar.

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A Manifestation and Abundance Story

I applied the laws of unconditional love, abundance, ideals, and attraction when I was about thirteen or fourteen years old and living on a farm. We raised grapes and Christmas trees and made maple syrup to sell. My parents also both worked full-time outside the farm to make ends meet. (Note the belief system statement here.)

My French teacher in the local school announced he was leading a trip to France in two years and suggested we students start preparing to go. I was so excited and exhilarated. I was going to practice my French with real French people and visit a foreign land!

I wondered what their clothes would be like, what the soil, plants, and trees would look like, what kind of food they eat. I loved speaking French. I was daydreaming and visualizing these upcoming adventures from the first moment the teacher announced the trip. continues on page 28 www.spiritofchange.org

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I excitedly announced to my parents, “I am going to France in two years on the French teacher’s trip!”

My mother was totally surprised and said, “What on Earth are you talking about? That trip must be very expensive and you know we don’t have enough money to send you on that trip. No, you are not going to France.”

So far, my father was silent. I very quickly replied to my mother, “I didn’t ask you for any money. I am going to pay for it myself.”

My father then asked me how I was going to raise the money. “Babysitting, odd jobs for neighbors and family, etc.”

At that point, my father said, “Good. I have another idea that you might try, too. Those old blueberry bushes behind the barn look like they could use some attention. If you fertilize them and take care of them, you can pick and then sell the blueberries and keep all the money you make.”

He took me down to look more carefully at the blueberry bushes and gave me instructions on their care. He also warned me I would not be able to sleep in during the summer when I was busy harvesting the berries. I had to pick them early and sell when fresh. I fertilized, pruned, cleaned up the rows, and proudly watched the appearance of blossoms that would lead to berries. Once the berries formed, I bought and applied special netting to protect them from the birds.

Once I got started, both my mother and father encouraged me. The first year, I picked them all myself.

I sold some directly to the public, but sold most of them to well-visited farm stands and local grocers. The second year, I had such a bountiful harvest that I had to hire several neighbors to help me pick the berries. I counted my earnings, net of my expenses, and added in the money from my babysitting and the odd jobs I did. I had earned the money I needed to go to France. My parents ended up providing me with some extra spending money. My first trip to France was everything I dreamed of and more.

Abundance requires action. You cannot sit at home unemployed and expect abundance without taking steps to earn money. You must apply for a job or explore other avenues to create cash flow. Your thoughts, beliefs, attitudes, and actions will work together to stimulate the support of the universe.

Are your actions consistent with your beliefs about abundance? How many times in the last month have you said, “I cannot afford that,” or, “I don’t have any money for that”?

Take a few minutes to write down some things you frequently say related to money, scarcity, and abundance.

Some examples that attract scarcity include the following: “I cannot afford that.”

“I wish I had enough money to go on a vacation (buy a new car, etc.).”

“There is never enough money to do what I want.”

“I will never get out of debt.”

If your phrases are concerned with anything less than pure abundance and positivity, then rewrite them so they are purely about abundance. Some statements to support abundance include the following: “I attract money continuously.”

“I live an abundant life.”

“I have an abundance of blessings and friends.”

“The universe provides me with abundant support.”

Create your own written statements from these or use the one at the end of this article. Post your affirmation in places you will read it repeatedly or devise an action or exercise that symbolizes it.

A woman I know recently realized that she was defining her life in terms of scarcity. “I don’t have any money” was a very common phrase for Caroline since her divorce. Someone suggested she tape money around her apartment — in the kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. Caroline taped fiftydollar bills in those places. Now she looks around every day and says, “Look at this! I have money everywhere!” She started talking about traveling to other countries again.

Then Jennifer, a friend, commented to Caroline about her delay in completing a project for her. Caroline said, “I’ll get to it, but right now I am looking for ways to increase my abundant cash flow.”

Perhaps surprised that it was not clear before, Jennifer replied, “That project will result in income for both you and me. You will be paid a commission for the sales it creates.” Was it a coincidence that this happened within a few short weeks of her taping money around her apartment and saying, “I have money everywhere,” with a chuckle and a smile? Opportunity just knocked.

Now Caroline needs to take the action steps to manifest the money.

“My heart is abundantly flowing with capacity to give as well as receive. I live and act in prosperous ways.”

Adapted with permission from Nine Simple Laws to Create Joy and Grace by Sue H. Singleton (iUniverse, 2013)

Sue H. Singleton, B.A., M.B.A. is an internationally renowned medical intuitive, author, speaker, teacher and healer with more than twenty years of hands-on experience. She and her husband Aaron are the founders of The Way to Balance®, LLC Center for Advanced Healing and Training in Amesbury, MA. Visit www.TheWayToBalance.com or call (978) 834-0341. Sue will be speaking at the Natural Living Expo in Marlboro, MA on Saturday, November 16 at 12pm.

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Energize Your Local Economy

By Karen Masterson

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ocal food, local business, local economy. The age-old merchant model of doing BALLE is a national organization that provides tools and strategies at the local level, business with your neighbors and banking with an institution that actually keeps inspiring and enabling business owners and other interested community members to your money in the community is making a comeback. From local food and prodorganize around the principles of a local, living economy. They envision a global system ucts at locally owned retail shops to innovative new community co-ops and investment of interconnected local economies that function in harmony with local ecosystems to initiatives, countless local businesses are staking a claim for the consumer dollar amidst meet the basic needs of all people, support just and democratic societies and foster joyful the ever growing crush of corporate-owned everything. community life. BALLE is the engine behind many of the “buy local” programs such as Cambridge and Somerville’s Local First campaigns. These types of programs generally The local revolution has developed from a fringe effort in the 90s to a nationwide start out with a handful of concerned business people that see the advantage of working campaign today. Following a devastating 2008/09 recession sparked by de-regulation, together to educate their community about the benefits of shopping locally. speculation and greed, a growing awareness about the dangers of genetically modiIn 1997, the American Independent Business Alliance was launched in Boulder, fied and processed foods, and factory workers literally dying making our clothes, it has Colorado, when two residents decided to support local businesses and provide an option become painfully clear that something is not right with business as usual. to the larger absentee-owned companies and online big box stores that were taking over One third of what we buy comes from one online retailer — Amazon. Wal-Mart now the retail landscape. The initial sell was tough, but within two years the Boulder IBA had captures one of every four dollars spent on groceries in this country. With minimum wage a coalition of 150 community-based businesses and had succeeded in jobs and cheap prices for poorly made goods, it’s a race to the bottom for enough collaborative efforts to change their local retail landscape. us all if we don’t energize a new business model now. The local economy “We should not be discourThe AMIBA has grown steadily since then, offering presentations movement is that model. and workshops to business owners and other community members aged to find that local food interested in establishing an Independent Business Alliance in their economies can grow only community. They work to implement pro-local business initiatives gradually; it is better that through public education, by facilitating cooperative promotion and Local can mean as close as your backyard garden or as distant as a they should grow gradually. purchasing, and by creating a strong voice for local merchants and couch that was made in North Carolina and purchased from a locally But as they grow they will consumers in local government and media. owned shop. During their nightly newscasts, ABC news recently aired bring about a significant the “Made in America” series that took their cameras into people’s return of power, wealth homes to show us what percentage of things were actually made in this and health to the people.” country. The short segments challenged viewers to seek out consumer goods that put people to work in America at decent paying jobs.

The discussion can be rather heated at times about local economy Wendell Berry, Another Turn in the Crank American companies mentioned in these broadcasts saw substantial and how it may be defined, such as the various challenges faced by sales increases as a result of the series. individual market sectors — kale versus couches, for instance. It is much easier and less complicated to assess the benefits of purchasing organi Before local became a buzzword on a major news network, organically grown produce from a local farm stand than it is to sort through the complex issues zations like the California-based Business Alliance of Local Living Economies and the created around the mountain of consumer goods that we collectively purchase. Is “local” Rocky Mountain-based American Independent Business Alliance were hard at work simply supporting a locally owned and operated retail location or is place of origin for inraising awareness about the negative impacts of our corporate-run economy and the dividual items equally important? Or are there simply varying degrees of “local” depending importance of purchasing locally. The local economy movement popularized by BALLE upon the market sector? began in 2001, under the leadership of Massachusetts businessman Laury Hammel, owner of Longfellow Health Clubs with locations in Sudbury, Natick and Wayland, and Phila Ironically what makes local food so appealing is often its lack of scale; the farm up the delphia restaurant owner Judy Wicks. They held their first national conference in 2003 in street where we buy our eggs and vegetables may be only 10-20 acres. The small size allows Portland, Oregon. continues on page 32

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ENERGIZE YOUR LOCAL ECONOMY continued from page 30 us to know the people who grow our food and manage the land, giving us a greater understanding of our local food system and an increased respect for the people who feed us. On the other hand, it’s almost impossible to think of the many consumer goods that we have come to rely on, especially electronics, being produced on anything but a large scale basis.

Then there’s the middle ground of clothing and furniture where we have more options to selectively choose regionally or “Made In America� products, and purchase them down the street, at a locally owned and operated retail location, hopefully in a thriving town center!

Trying to define local is where things can get tricky. Sometimes it’s pretty obvious; purchasing a pint of locally grown berries from a nearby farm stand or buying a reclaimed wood cutting board by a local artisan from a locally owned store — these are the easy ones. It feels great and the berries are very tasty. The farm stand might also stock a number of other products, some local, regional, or maybe even globally sourced items to enhance their customer’s shopping experience. This can result in an increase in per customer spending, which may be very important for the farm, while creating a more convenient experience for their customer. If you’re planning a mostly local meal but really don’t want to give up the lime in your cocktail, it is nice to be able to make fewer stops, which is also better on gas‌unless you’re doing the ultimate local thing and walking!

In the extreme, some in the local movement bristle at the thought of imported anything, but popular staples such as coffee, tea and chocolate can be sourced responsibly from local companies like Equal Exchange. The purchase of these fair trade, organic products can be life changing to people in local communities around the globe. Where it gets questionable is at a farmer’s market where the impression is that all the produce comes from that farm and people could leave thinking we’re now growing citrus in New England!

The question of local in the retail sector is far more challenging. If a store is privately owned and operated by a local businessperson, then that is generally thought of as a local business, with less emphasis on what is actually in the store in terms of its origin.

There are a number of gift/art stores where the goods for sale are predominantly items made by local crafts people, whereas you’re unlikely to find a single local product in any major department store.

The great thing about the small, privately owned retail store is that you can have a conversation with the decision-maker. You can mention to them that you know a wonderful local woodworker who uses reclaimed wood to make beautiful cutting boards, and within a couple of weeks those very same cutting boards could be in that shop.

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Local also means developing relationships with your customers and vendors — likely many of them local — that you do business with. Local businesses know many of their customers by name, their favorite menu item, the type of book they like to read or sweater that would be perfect for them. For the customer, having a place where

they feel they belong with strong roots in the community is deeply meaningful.

At Nourish restaurant in Lexington, Massachusetts, which I own, we have important relationships with several area farms and other food providers. We discuss prices openly, respecting that every local farm has a unique structure that results in cost differences reflected in the price of produce. The large quantity of vegetables that are produced by both Allandale Farm in Brookline and Tangerini Farm in Millis enable us to buy a significant amount of vegetables from them at prices we can afford.

Blue Heron Farm in Lincoln is a small, certified-organic farm partner whose economic model means higher wholesale prices. Instead of not buying from them, farm owner Ellery and I came up with an idea that would benefit us both. At the end of her market days she contacts me with any produce that might not have sold and drops off what we can use at a reduced rate. It feels great to have come up with a solution that allows us to continue doing business together; we get vegetables picked that morning at the price point we need and Ellery is able to sell vegetables that, without on-farm cold storage, she would not have been able to keep.

This is just a small sampling of what the local economy can look like. When it works well it feels terrific and anyone who has tasted a local strawberry compared to those shipped and stored in a supermarket knows the taste is definitely superior!

Dollars and Sense and Nor-easters However, this is much more than just a feel good movement about food that tastes good. The financial benefit of the “multiplier effect” to communities is substantial when goods and services are exchanged at the local level. A study done by the Institute for Local Self Reliance found that every $100 spent at local independent stores resulted in $45 dollars of secondary spending in the local economy compared to $14 for a big-box chain store $100 purchase.

When I look at my own retail experience it’s clear how this happens. Checks written directly to local farmers and food producers stay in our region and are then re-circulated to other local businesses. Money is not being sent “away” to a national headquarters somewhere else, so more of the money stays put energizing our own economies.

One of the “dollars and sense” challenges facing many retail locations is called showrooming. Maybe you’ve done it yourself. When someone walks into a retail store, chats with the staff about a book, CD or health care item, checks out the product but opts to purchase it for a slightly cheaper price on...you guessed it — Amazon — that’s showrooming. How long can a store stay open if everyone treats it as a showroom but makes no purchases? What businesses will be left when you need a gift certificate for your next fundraiser? Not surprisingly, local businesses give much more to local charities and events than do their corporate counterparts, which favor corporate charities.

An increasingly challenging impact on the local economy is the phenomenon of the local storm watch, likely a ratings winner for networks but a major stress inducer for many local business owners (unless you sell shovels and bread, which always seem to be in high demand whenever a winter storm is approaching!) We now hear about the threat of storms for days and days, sometimes without so much as a single snowflake to show for all the drama.

The impact of snow or powerful summer storms on local restaurants is tremendous and felt significantly more by restaurants and local farms than other market sectors. If you are going to purchase a bed or computer you will simply make the purchase before or after the storm. Not so for money spent going out to eat, at local farm stands, u-pick operations and ice cream stands. The decrease in customer traffic can be felt before, during and after the storm. I am not suggesting that people bundle up and brave dangerous road conditions to have lunch at their local diner. But it is important to recognize that local businesses feel much more of a significant financial impact from storms than do national chains, which have hundreds and sometimes thousands of other units to buffer the loss from a few days without power in New England.

A conversation about the dollars and sense of local business would be incomplete without that dreaded four-letter word — rent. As many of our main streets fill up with banks, nail salons and chains, the issue about who gets access to what space at what price is critically important and often overlooked in the discussion about local economies. continues on page 34

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Acre for acre, small, organic farms actually do outperform the massive conventional agricultural model that we have been told is the only way we can feed the world. Add to that the long list of other negative consequences from industrial scale farming, like loss of top soil, contamination of local water supplies, the growing of genetically modified crops, the spraying of millions of pounds of toxic chemicals and the life and death work of migrant farm workers, and it doesn’t add up to a very pretty picture.

Contrast this with the burgeoning local food movement supported by a beautiful patchwork of various sized farms all around New England, whose farming methods are preserving top soil, creating wildlife habitat and offering their communities fresh, nutritious food. The choice is clear.

But of course a thriving local economy includes more than food. New England boasts a number of communities with thriving local retail centers — Concord and Somerville, Massachusetts and Burlington, Vermont, to name a few — but we have a ways to go before a majority of

people actively seek out local stores and products for the bulk of their consumer needs. We need creative, talented business people, landlords who understand the value that local business creates, local, regional and national policy makers leveling the playing field so that tax breaks and incentives are evenly distributed and corporate loopholes are closed, and of course, we need you, the customer!

We also need to confront some cultural biases. We have been brainwashed to believe that bigger is better and that cheap and convenient are the most meaningful attributes of any purchase. However, not all the costs of a big box purchase are reflected in its price. It really does matter that people make reasonable living wages under safe working conditions manufacturing goods for us.

Our concept of planned obsolescence dangerously feeds our insatiable desire for cheap new goods. Instead, look around your home for things passed down from family members and identify items of value that were well made with quality materials and will still be useable for decades. Probably they were made in America. When we begin to disengage from this shallow relationship we have with our consumer goods, we are more likely to pay the higher cost for a well-made, locally produced item.

Ultimately it comes down to the question of what type of community we all want to live in. Our communities are the extension of our homes. Wouldn’t you like to live and shop where people actually know your name and care about the goods and services they are selling to you?

Talk to friends and neighbors about the kind of town center you want and then work together to make it happen.

Who knows; maybe you are the next new small businessperson your own local economy has been waiting for!

RESOURCES • Business Alliance of Local Living Economics, www.bealocalist.org • American Independent Business Alliance, www.amiba.net.

• Institute for Local Self-Reliance, www.ilsr.org • Equal Exchange, www.equalexchange.coop • Allandale Farm, http://www.allandalefarm.com • Blue Heron Organic Farm, www.blueheronfarmlincoln.com • Tangerini’s Spring Street Farm, http://www.tangerinisfarm.com • Nourish Restaurant, www.nourishlexington.com • Cambridge Local First, cambridgelocalfirst.org • Somerville Local First, somervillelocalfirst.org

Karen Masterson, along with her husband Kevin, is owner of Nourish Restaurant in Lexington, MA. She formerly owned and operated Big Fresh Café in Framingham, MA. She works with local farmers and fishermen and other small regional businesses to provide responsibly sourced food at respectful prices. Karen is also the founder of This Is My Face, an organization working to raise awareness about cultural issues surrounding women and aging. www.nourishlexington.com. (781) 674-2400

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Franklin Community Cooperative in Greenfield, Mass., acquired McCusker’s Market, in nearby Shelburne Falls, when the owner of the longstanding natural foods store was ready to retire.

6 Ways to Fuel the Cooperative Takeover

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n the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, businesses, products, and services that benefit people, communities, and the planet — instead of a few megabanks and billionaires — have been in higher demand. The International Cooperative Alliance’s recently published “Blueprint for a Cooperative Decade” lays out a long-term vision to make cooperatives not only the fastest-growing form of business but the acknowledged leader in environmental, social, and economic sustainability. From now on, the global mantra for filling market gaps and new demands, according to Eric DeLuca of the National Cooperative Business Association, is going to be, “There’s a co-op for that.”

But co-ops — like any kind of business — need customers, money, training, political support, and help from their communities. How do we shift from business as usual to the work of cooperation? Here are a few strategies.

1. Find Money Where do you get the money to finance a new co-op?

Traditional banks are loath to lend to co-ops, often because they are unfamiliar with them or do not trust that a cooperative business model can yield profits. But there are institutions that can help.

The National Cooperative Bank (NCB) has become a leading funder for new housing, business, and consumer cooperatives. Chartered by Congress in 1978 and privatized as a member-owned financial institution in 1982, it has provided more than $4 billion in loans and invest36 Spirit of Change | FALL 2013

ments to co-ops all over the country — from a New York City housing co-op to an organic grocery in San Francisco to a solar project at Denver International Airport.

Most recently, NCB has been working with PNC Bank in Pittsburgh to allocate $13 million in loans to local co-ops.

The nonprofit Heartland Capital Strategies Network — allied with NCB and other credit unions — is another rapidly growing source of funding for cooperatives, especially for the union co-op movement. The organization has committed billions of investment dollars to profitable projects in green construction, manufacturing, affordable housing, and transportation.

2. Convert to a Co-op Some cooperatives get their start from traditional sole proprietorships or corporations. This can happen, for example, when a business owner wants to retire or move on and the employees buy the business.

Franklin Community Cooperative (FCC) in Greenfield, Mass., acquired McCusker’s Market, in nearby Shelburne Falls, when the owner of the longstanding natural foods store was ready to retire. A third of FCC’s members lived near McCusker’s. The purchase allowed FCC to keep its commitment to serve downtown Greenfield while solving its space problem at its popular flagship store. All of McCusker’s Market’s staff were rehired and retrained, and sales went up 15 percent during the store’s first year as a cooperative. Since the purchase, the cooperative has attracted many more members all over the region.

3. Hook Up With Big Partners Bring co-op business to the mainstays of your community — hospitals, schools, government services — which are already committed to community-scale investment and the public good. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship: The co-op keeps money circulating in the community; the institution provides stable demand for the co-ops services or products.

“If you can get even a small bit of a university’s goods and services devoted to your co-op,” says Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz, “you can go to any bank, and they’ll be happy to finance you, because you’ve got a market.”

The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative, a group of local, sustainable, and worker-owned co-ops in Cleveland, is built on a strong partnership between the co-ops and local institutions — such as Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and Case Western Reserve University — which have a combined annual buying power of more than $3 billion.

Ohio Cooperative Solar, another Evergreen business, is in the process of installing photovoltaics at these three institutions and has also placed nearly 700 solar panels on the city hall and library rooftops in nearby Euclid.

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (a green cleaning operation) washes bed linens for Judson Retirement and McGregor Homes, two large nursing homes in the area.

4. Be Co-op Curious You can learn more about the business of sharing — how co-ops work, why they’re important, how to support them, and how to start and manage one — from organizations across the country working to promote cooperative enterprise.

The Bay Area group Women’s Action to Gain Economic Security (WAGES) was founded in the 1990s to help immigrant women form cooperative housecleaning services. Now they are creating toolkits for anyone looking to start a green cleaning co-op. “With all the emphasis on co-ops coming on the heels of the Occupy movement, we’re seeing an increased interest right now,” says Elena Fairley, who is working with WAGES as an AmeriCorps VISTA member.

College and university programs are also training the next generation of cooperative entrepreneurs. The Cooperative Teach-In is a nationwide initiative that has connected colleges, universities, and programs like AmeriCorps VISTA with cooperatives across rural and urban America.

The Teach-In uses creative tools to help participants learn the importance of cooperative economics. For example, the “Democracy Rating Warm-up Exercise,” an interactive survey, allows participants to “rate the level of democracy in the institutions they interact with on a daily basis,” and group discussions explore how the cooperative model differs from typical business models.

And a fun way to gear up for a cooperative future is to play a round of Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives.

As interest in cooperative business has grown, some young entrepreneurs have taken it upon themselves to learn more. For example, Co-cycle is a group of 15 undergraduates who crossed the country last year on their bicycles, visiting more than 70 co-op organizations and building a network of like-minded communities. “A year ago I didn’t know what a cooperative was,” writes

Co-cycle participant Riko Fluchel on the riders’ blog.

“Now, after the nine weeks of touring cooperatives across the continental United States, I know first-hand that cooperatives empower people’s lives.”

The Co-cycle journey is chronicled by a team of filmmakers from New York University in the forthcoming feature-length film To The Moon, which will introduce viewers to the ideas that guide cooperatives and Co-cycle — like teamwork and dedication to a new shared economy.

5. Shop Co-op By buying from co-ops or using cooperative services, you can create local jobs, keep wealth in your community, and shop according to your values.

• The most comprehensive directory of U.S. cooperatives is CooperateUSA at www.cooperateusa.coop • You can also find your local food co-op through the Cooperative Grocer Network at www.cooperativegrocer.coop/coops.

• Looking for a co-op starting near you? The Food Co-op Initiative maintains a map of co-ops still in the organizational stage at foodcoopinitiative.coop/content/co-op-directories.

• The new Data Commons Cooperative is building a “Stone Soup” directory, www.find.coop, created by members.

6. Make Co-op Friendly Laws Cooperatives are often at a financial and technical disadvantage in an economy dominated by quarterly profits and shareholder returns. The United Nations recently resolved “to encourage governments and regulatory bodies to establish policies, laws, and regulations conducive to cooperative formation and growth.” In 2012, the United Nations celebrated the “International Year of Cooperatives,” noting that co-ops “build a better world” and “empower people.”

At the federal level, supporters of cooperatives are pushing for the National Cooperative Development Act (H.R. 3677) (NCDA), which would create a national development center designed to bring federal resources to cooperative development. From loans and seed capital for start-ups to funding for technical assistance providers, passage of the NCDA would not only help level the playing field for co-ops but increase economic development and create much-needed jobs in underserved areas of the country.

A different bill would raise the cap on small business loans from another type of co-op: credit unions. Fifteen years ago, the banking industry lobbied for and obtained this cap to throttle its competition. The Credit Union Small Business Jobs Bill (S. 2231) would more than double the limit to nearly 30 percent of assets. According to the Credit Union National Association, this would enable credit unions to loan an extra $13 billion of their $300 billion lending capacity to small businesses in the first year alone, helping to create as many as 140,000 jobs.

Sven Eberlein wrote this article for “How Cooperatives Are Driving the New Economy,” Yes! Magazine, Spring 2013. Sven is a San Francisco-based freelance writer. www.yesmagazine.org www.spiritofchange.org

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Millis Yoga at the Ashram. 368 Village St. Kundalini, Vinyasa, Hatha, Qigong, Kids Yoga, Tai Chi. Gong meditations, workshops, retreats and teacher trainings. First class free. 508-376-4525. www.YogaAtTheAshram.org.

The Yoga Studio. Experience a tranquil and welcoming environment to practice yoga amid calming music, soft lighting and a peaceful, restorative atmosphere. Beginners welcome! 508-376-8508 www.theyogastudiomillis.com.

Princeton FrogPond Yoga Centre. Classes in the tradition of Raja Yoga for all levels of practitioners. 200 and 500-hr classes begin January 2013. www.frogpondyoga.org.

Uxbridge State of Grace Yoga and Wellness Center. Yoga, 200-hour teacher training, massage, Reiki, reflexology, energy healing, channeling, readings and workshops. www.StateofGraceWellness.com 508-278-2818.

West Boylston Central Mass Yoga And Wellness, Inc., 45 Sterling Street. 200 and 500 hour teacher training, 45 classes a week. All levels welcome! info@centralmassyoga.com. www.yogawarriors.com www.centralmassyoga.com • 508-835-1176.

Westborough Westborough Yoga for healing, transformation and health. www.westboroughyoga.com. Offering Svaroopa Yoga, meditation, private yoga therapy and embodyment, prenatal and gentle yoga.

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Local Business Success Organically: Living Earth and EVO Dining

Forty years of local, family-owned and organic in the heart of Worcester, MA An interview with the Maykel family by Carol Bedrosian

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n June 2103, Worcester Business Journal recognized Living Earth/EVO Dining’s achievements in running a successful family business for over four decades with the 2013 Family Business Award. Store founders Maggy and Albert Maykel, Jr. opened Living Earth in 1971 after they moved to Worcester and discovered the city lacked a place to buy local and organic food. Through four decades of expansion and change, including the addition of Sano natural foods café and a second story of health practitioner offices upstairs, Living Earth has dedicated itself to providing healthy shopping choices and expert, knowledgeable staff. The store’s produce is 100% organic year-round, some grown locally from their own farm in Rutland, MA. Friendly “Don’t Panic, It’s Organic!” signs decorate the produce shelves. The store is now 98% free of products containing any GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredient, largely due to the efforts of 30year store manager Frank Phelan. It’s shopping at its best with food you can trust.

Son Albert III and daughter Celeste Maykel-Zack worked in the store and café growing up; Al pursued a higher education degree as a chef and Celeste pursued a management and marketing career. In 2008, the younger Maykels decided it was time to provide the city with the same commitment to quality in a natural foods restaurant that was the hallmark of the Living Earth store, and opened EVO, a casual, fine dining restaurant. The award winning eatery caters to all palates, from vegan and vegetarian diners, to organic meat and fish eaters, as well as those with allergies or dietary restrictions. It’s a place where there’s something for everyone who enjoys healthy, organic cuisine, and was voted Worcester’s Best Overall Restaurant 2012 and 2013 by Worcester Living Magazine.

The Living Earth building has become a landmark on its corner of Chandler Street and Park Avenue in a neighborhood that’s seen its own share of evolution. The Maykel’s long term commitment and continued investment in the success of their family-owned healthy food businesses benefits the entire neighborhood and local economy. While not every family business is a local business, those that are both have a double incentive to give 110% to their customers because they know that only a satisfied and loyal customer base can sustain the local success needed to pass on the family enterprise.

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Carol Bedrosian: The Living Earth and EVO are unique in this region. You’re 40 years old, you’re local, you’re family-owned, health conscious and organic. What is the key to your success as a local business competing in the same markets with huge chain franchises, supermarkets and online retailers?

Al Maykel, Jr.: The key is probably believing in what we’re doing right from the beginning. And having the desire to provide both ourselves and our community with proper foods that nourish.

Carol Bedrosian: In this economy of big box stores, supermarket superstores and online retailers, how is it that a relatively small local business can prosper and survive for so long with all of these competing markets forces?

Maggy Maykel: I think that’s a Frank answer (laughter).

Frank Phelan: There’s certainly community loyalty to a big degree. We’ve had customers shopping here for the whole 42 years we’ve been in business. Loyal customers like Mrs. McKeon who just celebrated her 90th birthday and she’s still in here despite her physical challenges, pushing her cart around. Some people like the fact that we may be able to give them more customer service and friendly familiar faces. And the community in general, Central Massachusetts, has been very supportive of us throughout the years.

Maggy Maykel: We also offer a lot of information for customers, as well as consistent staff. I think being ahead of the curve is to our advantage; Frank is always ahead of the curve on products, on all of the things that we believe in and want to support, such as how things are raised and grown. He’s always stayed out in front of the trends, so we always have the latest offerings and healthiest products in the store. People already know that if they read about something and they come here, as a rule they’ll find it.

Albert Maykel, Jr.: I think we also pioneered access to health food with a lot of people way back in the 70’s, being probably one of the first stores to carry organic produce. We encouraged a lot of farmers to grow produce for us, like Jack and Julie Rawson of Many Hands. These people were involved in the infancy stage of the natural foods movement, still scattered throughout the industry on different levels. Some have started their own companies. We’ve got people like Ric Scalzo, who used to work in our produce department, who is now the owner of Gaia Herbs. So there’s still a lot of that “family connection” from the original pioneers still working together for the same cause.

Maggy Maykel: I also think once somebody buys organic produce here, they’ll always come back for it because it is beautiful, it’s delicious. It’s so healthy, so alive! I think that’s why our produce department is so popular, because of the product that we have.

It’s throughout the whole store.

Albert Maykel, Jr.: It’s really our specialty. We’re a specialized store. We specialize in natural foods. Whereas the larger box places don’t really focus as much as we focus on it. We’ve got the only 100 percent organic produce department anywhere.

Carol Bedrosian: You are one hundred percent organic produce? And your other products in the store are 98 percent GMO free?

Albert Maykel, Jr.: Yes, about that.

Carol Bedrosian: That’s an amazing percentage!

Albert Maykel, Jr.: And that’s our next level — to be 100 percent GMO-free, if we can get there.

Maggy Maykel: That’s why I say Frank is ahead of the curve all the time. He’s bringing our store to that level now.

Albert Maykel, Jr: And the big box stores can’t do that. People like Whole Foods admit that they can’t be a GMO-free store.

Carol Bedrosian: Why is that?

Frank Phelan: Whole Foods has agreed to at least label GMO foods, but there’s a fiveyear window as to when they’re going to begin to do that. Part of the reason is they want to give product companies enough lead time to replace their products, but some people think that five years is a little bit too much, and say maybe two or three years.

My understanding is one of the reasons Whole Foods opted for five years is because of the meat situation; to trail GMO feed through the whole meat process is quite a bit more difficult than just doing it for a grain, for corn or soybean or so forth. When it gets into the food chain to the animals, then the animals give birth to other animals, and they are all by-products of GMO feed. So that is one of the reasons that they opted for the five years. continues on page 40 www.spiritofchange.org

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LOCAL BUSINESS SUCCESS ORGANICALLY: LIVING EARTH AND EVO DINING continued from page 39 But they don’t make a promise to be GMO-free. They just promise that in five years they will have GMO products that they carry labeled as such. Our goal is to get to that point where there is no GMO ingredients in any of our products whatsoever.

Carol Bedrosian: That is a very noble goal.

Frank Phelan: It’s noble and it’s difEVO Dining was voted Worcester's ficult. There are constantly little things sliding in that I have become more Best Overall Restaurant 2012 and aware of. I meet with brokers all the time 2013 by Worcester Living Magazine. and I’m constantly asking for ingredient listings and whether it’s gone through the non-GMO project certification. A lot of products haven’t been certified yet, but they’re at least in a chain to get through that.

Carol Bedrosian: It’s a common belief that price is the bottom line for everything. But since you have to pay a little more for 100 percent organic, GMO-free products in the store, and the level of customer service and knowledge that the staff has here, apparently people are interested in other qualities.

Frank Phelan: I think people want to pay for quality, when it comes down to it.

Albert Maykel, Jr.: And pay to support an industry that is supporting them in environmental ways, in health ways and more. I think customer relationships are much more of personal and one-on-one basis than you would find in a big box store.

Carol Bedrosian: So you have the trust.

Frank Phelan: We can be flexible too. We can deal with a small local grower who can show up with twelve bunches of radishes. Whereas a large store like Whole Foods is not going to deal with somebody with twelve bunches of radishes. So we have the flexibility to do that. Rob White, our produce manager, can deal with many, many local growers, and kind of pick and choose what he needs for the department. They might come in with one tote of something or maybe five totes of something and we have that flexibility to deal with it. We have a gentleman bringing us eggs from Petersham and he comes with four dozen one week and twelve dozen another week and if he’s driving through the area he’ll just stop by and drop them off.

Carol Bedrosian: So you’re dealing with a lot of local growers and supporting the local food movement as well.

Frank Phelan: Yes, particularly this time of year.

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Carol Bedrosian: And what about the restaurant? How has the restaurant been able to service customer and community needs?

Albert Maykel, III: I think the menu diversity allows us to fulfill many dietary needs and restrictions. Unlike a lot of restaurants, we’re willing to modify our dishes and train our staff about allergies and what ingredients are in our foods and products.

Albert Maykel, Jr.: We’re also involved a lot in community aspects in the city, especially our neighborhood Chandler Business Association, which we do a lot of work with. We’ve basically changed the streetscape of Chandler Street over the past four or five years with new lighting, benches and flower pots, and sidewalks and crosswalks.

The next step is streetlight banners going up. So we keep involved with the community in trying to do our share of building the neighborhood, building a better place, make it more pedestrian friendly, etc.

Over the years, we’ve tried to keep some sort of a health-related tenancy on our second floor. We just welcomed the Green Hair Company salon and spa, we’ve got a chiropractor, Amethyst Point, mental health counselors, bodywork people, yoga. All of that is related in some way to what we’re doing between EVO and Living Earth, too.

So it’s a place that’s people friendly. Customers can come in, patronize different healthy businesses in the same building, get their massage, come have lunch, get an adjustment, have their hair done, etc., all in one spot.

Carol Bedrosian: You also offer a large community literature section and bulletin board, which is a way for community members to connect that many chain stores no longer allow. That’s important for community support.

Albert Maykel, Jr.: I think we’re all in it together and the more we support each other the more we get that message out there. People have choices in their life and can make good choices because the products are available to them.

Carol Bedrosian: There are very few independent natural food stores that have been so successful for so many decades in supporting the community while keeping the business afloat.

Maggy Maykel: We’re also willing to do this work. That is very important. We’re all committed, as a family. Frank is considered as a member of our family, too. We work and we do what needs to be done because it takes a lot of hours and commitment to cover and to run a family business.

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Carol Bedrosian: Customers might also notice the long term staff that you’ve had for decades here. It says a lot to have that long term relationship and loyalty.

Maggy Maykel: To have that as a business owner, that’s a blessing.

Albert Maykel, Jr.: And employees that will take charge, and feel good about what they’re doing, make their own decisions, and work as a team together. We’re blessed to have that.

Maggy Maykel: They’ve taken ownership of their departments. Rob has taken total ownership of the produce department, and all the people in the store have taken ownership of their different departments. And we let them run with it. It’s their department for them to do and track, and that works really well. I think that they have an excellent feeling about what they’re doing and the products they bring in.

Carol Bedrosian: They are committed to their health as well as the well-being of the customers. I think that’s what everybody wants when they’re shopping in a health store — knowledgeable staff they can trust. What is your vision for the future?

Albert Maykel, Jr.: To continue on! (laughter) We are putting on an expansion for the backroom storage of Rob’s produce.

Albert Maykel, III: We’re also expanding on the kitchen’s production area, putting in a pantry and some more storage space and a prep area in order to offer more items for our customers. We’re offering a lot more salads, more deserts, more protein options including sandwiches, wraps and unique healthy offerings. We’re using this as a time to build our brand and freshen the look of the restaurant, new menu, and with everything we’re putting into it, I think it’s going to bring EVO to the next level.

Maggy Maykel: I would like to add I just think it’s a blessing to work with your family, to come to work with your family every single day and brainstorm. I think the beauty of it is we can say anything and we might take it to a heated point, but you’re safe with being able to discuss it and come to a solution that everybody’s comfortable with. Coming to work and being with my kids is a wonderful thing. To be here and see them every day, I love it.

Carol Bedrosian: And they’re contributing to your success and you’re contributing to their success and you’re all contributing to the success of the community.

Maggy Maykel: Right. And I keep mentioning Frank because this year it’s thirty years he’s been with us. Christine has been here 23 years. She’s the queen of vegetarian cooking. All our salads and sandwiches are made fresh every day. That kitchen is cracking from 6:30 in the morning till 3 in the afternoon. Lisa, our supplements manager has been here for over 20 years. Meghann, our marketing director, is also a member of our family — she is Celeste’s sister-in-law — and she’s just brought our whole business to a new level with all the marketing she is doing.

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Carol Bedrosian: What advice would you give to other local businesses to help them succeed?

Maggy Maykel: My advice to others would be: 1) Believe in what you are doing. 2) Develop a strong team. 3) Work hard to achieve your vision.

The Living Earth and EVO are located at 232-234 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA. 508753-1896, www.lefoods.com (store); and 508-459-4240, www.evodining.com (restaurant).

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Meet Amma

From Hugs To A New Humanity

An extraordinary humanitarian creates enduring local impact bringing hugs, houses and hope to people around the world An Interview with Mata Amritanandamayi Devi

by Spirit of Change publisher Carol Bedrosian

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ffectionately called “Mother” by her devotees and nicknamed “the hugging saint” by mainstream media, Mata Amritanandamayi Devi — Amma — will patiently acknowledge thousands worldwide celebrating her 60th birthday in September.

But for this global humanitarian and spiritual leader, the true celebration of the day will be that food is available for others to eat and houses built for their shelter.

Known for her unique expression of embracing all those who come to her for spiritual comfort, called darshan, Amma sits for ten, twenty or more uninterrupted hours at a time, individually receiving each person from crowds that can number many thousands. While these largest groups gather for the free programs Amma holds annually in over two dozen cities around the world, including Marlborough, Massachusetts, for the past forty years she has spent hours in darshan every single day.

Thousands come to her daily at Amritapuri Ashram in Kerala, India, an international pilgrimage center and headquarters of Mata Amritanadamayi Math, where Amma manages her many global humanitarian projects and makes herself available around the clock, hugging each and every person who comes to her.

Amma says, “As long as there is enough strength to reach out to those who come to me, to place my hand on a crying person’s shoulder, I will continue to give darshan.

To lovingly caress people, to console and wipe their tears until the end of this mortal frame — this is my wish.”

Amma spontaneously began hugging people and providing food and clothing to them from her family’s meager belongings as a child growing up in India, where she encountered much suffering. From this deep wellspring of compassion arose the inspiration for her daily darshan, however from where does the will and energy arise to physically carry it out?

A friend first took me to see Amma in the early 1990s.

At least 400 people were gathered in a big, renovated barn in Temple, New Hampshire, to feast together, chant, meditate, and receive a hug from the young Indian woman leading the devotional singing up on the stage. As people started lining up in order of the numbered tokens we’d received and the hugging began, I realized with dismay that it would take many, many hours for everyone to receive an individual hug and we would be there well past 3AM. Settling into a comfortable seat in the upbeat, chantfilled atmosphere, I awaited the signal for my token and that of my friend, watching hour after hour as Amma hugged the unending line of people before her. While I was able to get up, walk around, have some refreshments and explore a few vending tables set up in the barn, I noted with amazement that Amma never moved from her seat in all those hours nor lagged when embracing each new person. To be honest, I found it rather miraculous she could sit for so long with open arms to all, since I was so challenged just sitting there waiting for my turn, trying to stay awake.

Why would anyone wait hours for a hug? Quite simply, because that’s what Amma does. I’ve had friends howl in derision about “people who are sheep” and “those who bow down to gurus,” however since my first encounter in the 90s, I’ve been unable to ignore the growing list of Amma’s remarkable humanitarian achievements and the miracle of endurance in her darshans. I want to know the secret of her success. From what I can glean, it all starts with the hug.

Not that a hug from Amma promises to bring me serenity, enlightenment or healing, but it always renews my focus there. Each time I’ve received a hug from Amma, I’ve waited many hours with hundreds or thousands of others patiently heading in the same direction. Despite cranky egos popping up from time to time, Amma’s intention sets the agenda of cooperation and care for each other, and the crowd makes it happen, guided by over 250 local and traveling volunteers at every event. Each time I wait, my heart opens just a little more. And when your heart is open, so are your eyes to the suffering of starving children, polluted oceans, terrorized people or disaster victims. Once you are aware, compassion takes action, and you realize how much more you have to give.

Amma teaches that everyone — rich or poor — has the power to make a difference in the life of another, and that no selfless gesture is insignificant. Rather it is only through these selfless actions that the world will ever change — beginning with myself.

Teaching by example, Amma’s list of humanitarian accomplishments is staggering.

Embracing the World medical camp in Idukki, India.

Disaster Relief • 2012 LPG Tanker and Fireworks Factory Explosions, Kerala, India: aid packages to families of dead and injured • 2011 Japan Earthquake/Tsunami: $1 million focusing on children orphaned in the disaster • 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Medical supplies, blankets, scholarships to 30 students • 2009 Floods in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh: $10.7 million relief package including medical care, food, supplies and 1,000 homes for displaced refugees • 2009 Cyclone Aila, West Bengal: Medical care, food and supplies • 2008 Floods in Bihar, Gujarat (2006), Mumbai (2005): Over $1.5 million in medical, food, supplies and shelter • 2005 Earthquake, Kashmir: Food and supplies • 2005 Hurricane Katrina, USA: $1 million to BushClinton Katrina Fund • 2004 Tsunami, India and Sri Lanka: $46 million in relief building 6,200 tsunami-resistant homes, 700 new fishing boats and an evacuation bridge, vocational training for 2,500 victims.

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• Annual feeding over 10 million poor inside India and 100,000 outside, including 75,000 people in 47 cities throughout North America • Lifetime pensions for 59,000 destitute women and the physically and mentally challenged, with goal of 100,000 • Four care homes for the elderly in India • Hostel providing secure housing for women • Institute of Peoples’ Education providing awardwinning literacy and vocational training for India’s indigenous tribal population • 47 schools throughout India with a values-based, holistic approach to learning • A school for hearing-impaired children in Kerala • Training for hundreds of tribal villagers as healthcare workers • Providing 100,000 women with training to become in-home nurses in more than 6,000 self-help groups • Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) runs a not-for-profit 1,300-bed hospital (210-bed ICU) providing free care to the poor. More than 2.6 million patients have received completely free treatment since 1998.

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• AIDS care home in Trivandrum, cancer hospice in Mumbai, free in-home palliative care • Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Amrita University), a not-for-profit institution, has five campuses. One of India’s leading research institutions, it is focused on humanitarian goals such as protecting vulnerable communities from landslides, empowering women and curing disease • Prisoner pen pal/mentoring project in U.S. providing inspiration for prison inmates • IAM® Technique (Integrated Amrita Meditation Technique®) taught free throughout the world • AYUDH helps youth “Be the change you wish to see in the world” via community-outreach projects • GreenFriends cultivates reverence for nature and has arranged planting of 1 million trees since 2001 • Using permaculture, eco-friendly buildings, and recycling projects to create exemplary sustainable living communities at Amma’s centres worldwide • Organic farming initiative supporting 10,000 impoverished people to grow organic vegetables on their own land, distributing free seeds to all the participants, arranging free training and demonstration classes. The Chief Minister of Kerala, Sri. Oomen Chandy remarked, “The social-service activities executed by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math are always conceived with foresight. Assisting these 10,000 people to cultivate organic vegetables on 1,000 acres is becoming a role model for society.” continues on page 44 FALL 2013 | Spirit of Change 43

MEET AMMA: FROM HUGS TO A NEW HUMANITY | continued from page 43 In response to managing the needs of so many projects that she has provided for with the help of countless volunteers, Amma initiated Embracing The World® as a global network of local charitable organizations. Currently active in more than 40 countries, ETW exists to help alleviate the burden of the world’s poor through helping to meet each of their five basic needs — food, shelter, education, healthcare and livelihood — wherever and whenever possible.

“If, in any part of the world, thousands of people are dying of hunger or suffering in poverty, it is a matter of shame for all nations,” says Amma.

While many open their hearts to Amma, they obviously are also opening their wallets, providing many, many millions of dollars each year that funds the massive humanitarian outreach and sustains Amritapuri Ashram’s international community of over 3000 residents who have dedicated their lives to self-realization and selfless service.

According to Dan Marshall, a communications director at Embracing the World, “There are no paid members of the board of directors or in other administrative positions; none of the organization’s executive administrators take any salary at all. Essentially the only paid workers are doctors, nurses and support staff at Amma’s hospital and some skilled construction workers.” Amma succeeds in inspiring over 50,000 volunteers annually to lend a hand, and millions more to contribute the funding, purposefully generating positive global change one person at a time — the only way it can happen.

In addition to her unconditional embrace and humanitarian leadership, Amma offers some of the wisest, most practical advice in any language. Speaking her native Malayalam, then translated into English, Amma seamlessly answers interview questions during darshan between hugs, effortlessly moving her undivided focus back and forth between a cradled head and a thoughtful reply. Unlike many spiritual leaders, Amma appears to revel in the sea of humanity around her wherever she is, inspiring hope and generating peace, joy and love.

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In Amma’s Own Words

1. The Dalai Lama made a comment at the Vancouver Peace Conference that “Western women will save the world.” What are your thoughts on the role of women in the world today?

It is not just Western women, but women all over the world who should awaken. Men also should awaken though because if only women awaken and men do not, then that will also create a problem because men can block women’s path. Men should prepare the path for women to come forward in all areas of life. Both men and women have infinite potential within them, but since women have the power to conceive and give birth, she has a higher power of receptivity. She is the creator. She can understand the feelings of others more easily than men. There is a man in every woman and a woman in every man. It is like matter and consciousness. Women should try to cultivate more masculine qualities and men should try to cultivate more feminine qualities. However, in today’s world, feminine qualities — such as love, compassion, patience and understanding — are more important. So, both men and women should strive to cultivate these qualities.

In some countries, this awakening is taking place more quickly. In other countries, it is not happening fast enough. But there is a general awakening all over the world. People are becoming more and more aware of the importance of spirituality and the need to create that awakening within them. Because we have tried everything else: political power, financial power, military power. We have tried everything within the material world to bring 44 Spirit of Change | FALL 2013

Amritpuri Ashram, Kerala, India. Headquarters of Mata Amritananadamayi Math and Embracing The World.

peace and happiness. But if you travel across the world and talk to people, you will see there is sorrow everywhere. Sorrow is gnawing deep within. The happiness we see is just a whitewash. It is just skin-deep. So, only a shift in consciousness can really help humanity.

There are people who ask if the world is going to end. There was a rumor that the world would end on May 21, 2012. People were gripped with fear. And people ask me regularly, “Is the world going to end soon?” The world is not going to just end one fine morning. But if humanity does not change, things can go from bad to worse — a catastrophe can happen at any time. We need to become more careful, more alert, with our words and deeds.

There was a time when women did not have the power to vote. But when you say, “Western women will save the world,” others can raise the question: “The U.S. has never had a female president, whereas developing countries such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have had women chief ministers and prime ministers.” In the Western world, women have reached a point where they have realized that an awakening is absolutely necessary.

Maybe that awareness is less in other countries, but it is happening everywhere. But it is not enough if only Western women awaken. They should awaken all over the world. The power to vote was given to women by other countries before the United States or other Western countries. In other areas of work, Western women have been able to prove their capabilities.

Amma is not disagreeing with what the Dalai Lama said. Amma would need to know the context in which he said that. Unless Amma understands that context, she cannot really answer this question.

2. Does my striving make any difference or does fate take its course anyway?

What we call “fate” is the result of the actions we have performed in the past — either in this lifetime or previous lifetimes. So, if our current fate is the result of our past actions, our current actions are creating our future. The actions of the present moment are in your control. If you perform your actions intelligently using proper judgment, you control your future and can definitely create a change.

Sometimes we get earthquake warnings or tornado warnings that tell us to evacuate our homes. You can call the tornado “fate,” but evacuating and going somewhere safe is your action. That is what saves you. Don’t look at the closed doors. Look around, find the open door and leave via that door.

3. There is a story about Sabarimala, a mountaintop temple in southern India, which attracts more religious pilgrims each year than Mecca. Unfortunately these visitors also leave behind their thousands of tons of trash. According to Mr. K. Jayakumar, who manages Kerala’s nearly one million government employees, the trash removal problem at Sabarimala was so overwhelming in 2011 that even the government could not find enough cooperative workers to clean up the mountain, so he turned to Amma.

Within days, a crew of Amma’s 4000 workers accomplished the task. We have laws in all

countries designed to keep order and protect the people, yet the laws are not obeyed, governments are overwhelmed with corruption and inefficiency, and millions of children starve annually. Why do people do what you ask them to do?

My way is to lead by example. Back in the old days, we had just one small septic tank in the ashram. As such, it had to be emptied for the collectors and cleaned quite regularly. No one was interested in doing this work. So, I would go down into the tank myself and begin scooping out the waste. Soon, the others in the ashram would come to help.

I have many good children [devotees] throughout the world, and it is their wish to be of some service to society. They are my strength. Some of them will even dedicate the few weeks of vacation they have every year exclusively for doing service. I always remind my children: One day or another, everyone is going to die; therefore, isn’t it better to wear out rather than to rust?

In the ashram, we are all working with one common mind, one common heart. As a result, when a project is taken up, everyone flows in one direction, striving to do their best. In essence, the secret is love.

4. The economic disparity between the haves and have-nots is growing not only in national percentages, but in our local communities as well, shrinking the middle class out of existence. With the enormous wealth of the 1% compounding greater interest and power by the second, how can this momentum be rebalanced?

Since the beginning, there have always been rich people and poor people. To think it will one day be otherwise is not productive. That said, people should understand that lop-sided growth is not beneficial. Cancer cells have limitless growth and it is for this very reason that they result in the death of the individual. Similarly, growth that excludes sections of society can never be called real growth. Such growth eventually becomes the cause for destruction for the entire community as well as for the individuals who seemed to initially benefit.

Compassion must awaken in society. This is the most important need of the hour.

Compassion is the primary force sustaining this world. If compassionate people become extinct, this world will perish. If compassion awakens, this world will flourish because if people have compassion in their hearts, they won’t be able to look at someone without food, clothing, shelter, education, medical care, etc., and not try to help them attain those things. Hence it is said that the heart is like a parachute; it should open to function.

5. Is it possible to live a spiritual life, a life of selfless service, outside the ashram setting? How can a person transcend ego when living with a demanding job, economic pressure and family responsibilities?

Of course it is possible. Spirituality and so-called “regular life” are not separate. Spirituality is the very manner in which one leads their so-called “regular life.” It is performing all of our actions, with the resolve that all of our actions — both the so-called sacred and the so-called secular — are offerings to God and then, accordingly, accepting everything that comes to us in life — both the good and the bad — as God’s will. At the heart of this way of life is the understanding that we only have control over our own actions; we have no control over their results. Leading life grounded in this understanding is spirituality.

Furthermore, if people really analyze, they will find that they have time to perform at least a little bit of selfless service. People with one child spend so much time trying to raise their child in the proper way. But when they have their second child, they don’t reject it, saying, “Oh, I don’t have time to look after this second child.” Even if they have three or four children, they somehow find the time to look after them. Similarly, selfless service should become like one of our children. If we really want to, we can find time to help others and do some other spiritual practices as well. If we look at the world with eyes of wisdom and give solace to the suffering through compassionate hands, we will definitely reach the shore of peace and bliss. continues on page 46

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MEET AMMA: FROM HUGS TO A NEW HUMANITY continued from page 45 In terms of “transcending the ego,” living in the world is indeed difficult, but the secret is to not identify with the ego — to use it as one uses a mask. Just as when teacher is strict with a student, the ego expressed is just for the benefit of the student, not for the benefit of the teacher, so too we can use the ego to achieve certain goals without identifying with it as our true nature.

6. Can anyone tap into the divine love source that you do? How? Of course. Love is not something outside of us; it is our true nature —the true Amma and Carol Bedrosian nature of us all. At the present, the probin Marlboro, MA on Amma's lem is most people’s minds are clouded 2013 North American tour. with the dirt of selfishness and attachment to their likes and dislikes. Effort needs to be made to remove those impurities.

When these impurities are removed, the bliss of our true self — divine love — will shine forth and illumine our lives.

7. After so many millennia of global hatred, war, terror and genocide, we still finds ourselves unable to communicate or cooperate and fearful of each other. Is the animosity between races learned behavior, genetically programmed or something else? How can we all live harmoniously together?

A mere few harsh words can wound a heart for a lifetime — what then to say of the physical and mental wounds inflicted through war, terrorist attacks and genocide. They do not heal so easily. Time is the greatest healer. If we really want a solution, what is required is forgiveness. One person has to decide that he is going to change. If we wait for others to change first, nothing is going to happen. It becomes like two cars going opposite directions on a single-lane road. If both refuse to pull over, neither will be able to move forward. But if one of them pulls aside, they both can soon proceed on their journeys. Hatred is a viscous cycle — each side perpetually fueling the other. But when one side decides not to respond, the cycle is broken. We need to remember our true nature is love. We need to strive to become rooted in that love. It is essential for everyone to try to make at least a little space in our hearts for others.

8. I would love to be so enlightened that I choose only love. But sometimes I react in anger before I’ve had time to even consider how I’d like to respond. How can I think carefully when I cannot think? How can I respond lovingly without needing to think?

Anger, violence and other negative reactions have become strong habits. Initially we must put in conscious effort to respond differently. Therefore we must cultivate awareness and watch what is happening inside. We must become aware of every action, our every word, even our every thought. Initially we may fail, but as we keep putting in effort, we will find that we are gradually able to catch ourselves before we react. Just as there are security systems that alert us to intruders breaking into our homes, so too we need to cultivate a security system that alerts us to the presence of negative thinking arising in our minds. This security system is awareness. Only when we become aware of our negative thoughts, can we hope to catch them before they grow into negative words and actions. In this manner, we can gradually transform ourselves so that our negative impulses are replaced with positive ones. As the strength of the positive impulses grows, we find ourselves transforming.

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s a black clinical psychologist, I often reflect on my own life when I was growing up in the 1950s in the segregated state of Alabama. Because of the injustices I’ve experienced, my psyche has been negatively affected. Millions of other black people who have gone through similar experiences of racial hatred and racial bigotry have never fully recovered. Discrimination and racial injustice not only cause the victim to feel like an outcast, but the victim can also feel disdain for someone who looks just like him or her.

Discrimination or second class citizenship can leave an indelible scar. Many black people may feel invisible, unworthy and unwanted by society at large. Self-hatred also comes into play. When a person is told that he or she is not accepted, many find ways to unleash their anger, rage and frustration. Often these negative feelings are directed towards someone who looks like they do, and this accounts for black on black violence, abuse, homicides and alcoholism.

Growing up as a small boy in Alabama, I remember roughly 50% of the black men in the community being alcoholics. I am convinced that their alcoholism was a direct result of being castrated emotionally and psychologically by a racist society.

During this same period, I remember the fear I felt because of how 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy, was brutally murdered in Mississippi by two white men for supposedly whistling at a white woman. As a child I tried to recover from this trauma, but there was a consistent and almost chronic feeling of anger, fear and sadness.

In my home state of Alabama on June 11, 1963, Governor George Wallace stood in the doorway of the University of Alabama, flanked by two Alabama state troopers to prevent two black students from registering. Wallace only stepped aside when confronted by National Guard troops. In my hometown of Fairhope, Alabama, black students had to pass by Fairhope High School, which was an all-white high school where blacks were not allowed to attend. Instead, we were bussed to the next town over in Daphne to an all-black school that was separate and unequal. Sadly, the white students never got to know the black students and vice versa. Because of this disconnect, lifetime relationships were lost and blacks continued to be relegated to second-class citizenship.

If one were to ask, What does it feel like to live in a city but not be a part of it?, the answer would be that one feels estranged, disconnected, angry, confused, rejected, unworthy and inferior. When a person is relegated to second-class citizenship, it affects his or her whole being. Many people become crippled emotionally, psychologically, socially and sometimes spiritually.

It has been said that even if their chains are released elephants in captivity will remain in place because they believe the chains are still on. When civil rights laws were enacted, many black people still felt the chains of oppression even though there was now, in most instances, freedom to move about freely. In spite of civil rights legislation, many black Americans still faced massive hurdles when trying to purchase a home, buy a car, get a job, enroll in certain schools and universities, purchase life insurance, rent a car, and do many other things.

Medical Apartheid Throughout my medical training and subsequent years as a psychologist in private practice, I discovered that racism, discrimination and poverty play a role in the shortened life expectancy of black Americans. As a practicing psychologist, I have noticed that in the black community there is a high rate of heart disease, cancer, strokes, kidney disease, stress and other maladies, such as giving birth to pre-term or low birth weight babies. When people are struggling day to day to make ends meet and just to survive, medical care and self-care are not always a priority. This often times lead to end stage disease for many poor people.

Discrimination also affects the mental health of black Americans. Poor mental health is rampant in the black community and can present as depression, anxiety and psychological distress. Unfortunately, many psychologists and psychiatrists still tend to over diagnose or over pathologize when it comes to treating black patients, creating in turn a fundamental mistrust of doctors.

Sometimes at-risk black youth will be given a diagnosis of schizophrenia, anti-social personality disorder or a conduct disorder. However, if one looks closely into the family history, family dynamics may be the precipitant of the youth’s aberrant behavior, which could warrant a lesser diagnosis. Being culturally aware of a patient’s background is important in delivering good services.

Physicians are supposed to be bound by the Hippocratic oath that states, “First, let us do no harm.” However, an examination of medical history documents one horrific case after another of racism and an ethical blind spot where black people are concerned. One would have to think that the oath did not apply to black people at all.

Scientific racism with its ethical blind spot occurred early on. Black people were degraded and dehumanized repeatedly. The bodies of poor black people were exhumed for medical research and experimentation. In the 1960s and 1970s, illegal sterilizations were performed on black women without their informed consent so that surgical residents could learn.

The Tuskegee study, which spanned a period of 40 years from 1932-1972, gathered 600 impoverished, black and uneducated farmers to participate in a study so that the government could learn more about syphilis. The men were told they had “bad blood” and were injected with syphilis. Some were treated with penicillin, which could cure them, while others were given a placebo. Many were allowed to die thinking that they were being treated. The proper name for this would be medical apartheid. Today, many black people are suspicious and untrusting of the medical establishment because of these past medical abuses.

Educating Americans about the historical inequities and atrocities inflicted on African Americans entrusts everyone, especially those in the medical profession, with the responsibility to afford dignity and respect to every individual, regardless of race. Each person has a responsibility to first lead by example. Children learn early and learned behavior is extremely important. When parents and teachers teach children to respect all of human kind and to see everyone as equal, society will change. Equality should be protected by law and the wheels of justice should be forever in motion.

Dr. Earl Bracy is a practicing clinical psychologist in Milwaukee, and author of Too Young to Die: Inner-City Adolescent Homicides and The Making of a Psychologist. Prior to entering private practice, Dr. Bracy trained and served as a U.S. Army combat medic and surgical technician stationed in Germany during the Vietnam War and worked as a cardiovascular perfusionist for 17 years. Visit http://bracypsychologicalservices.com www.spiritofchange.org

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waste your home, travel and office. You can even make your kids and pets less trashy! Practicing the habit of precyling, by asking, “Do I really need this or do I just want it?” before making purchases will stop a lot of trash before it ever even gets in the door. Even if your goals aren’t as lofty as being an absolutely no waste creator, small subtractions add up.

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Imagine never taking your trash out to the curb. Amy Korst and her husband haven’t done it for years. They don’t need to; they don’t have any. No trash. No trash cans. Zip, nada, none. (Oh there was that one time, when they purchased a sponge, but they were backpacking and needed it to wipe out their dishes so bears in their camping area wouldn’t be attracted by the leftover food smell.) Of course, it wasn’t always like that for them; they didn’t always live trash-free. Committed recyclers and re-purposers, Korst’s ultimate goal was to stop generating garbage completely. For her and her husband that meant sending nothing whatsoever to the landfill, while still enjoying a happy, sane life.

To begin, Korst calculated — by saving and weighing — exactly just how much garbage they actually created. For the average person in the U.S. it’s a whopping 3 pounds of landfill-bound trash each day! If you dare, do the math; times that by three hundred million Americans.

Almost a billion pounds of trash daily!

But it eventually breaks down, right? We think it does, but for the most part, it doesn’t. No air, no sunlight. Which means even the innocuous orange peel gets trapped under cover in that big stinky heap until, well, who knows when?

Korst’s next mission was to find out if it was even possible to live a life that was fully trashless and satisfying. Animals and plants do it, nature never wastes anything.

But people? Yes! Sure, it takes planning, some conscious decision-making and purchasing, but it doesn’t have to take over your life and is much easier than you probably suspect! The Zero Waste Lifestyle shares creative solutions to de-

Cain Carroll and Revital Carroll Mudras of India: A Comprehensive Guide to the Hand Gestures of Yoga and Indian Dance Singing Dragon, Philadelphia, PA 2013 Our hands are awesomely powerful.

We create the world we live in with our hands — we cook, deliver a baby, and build a home. A single touch can convey a wealth of loving intention, while a clenched fist signals rage.

With hands being so central to our human experience, it’s no wonder hands are considered sacred in many spiritual traditions around the world.

Hand mudras (mudras means “seal”), or hand gestures, are a silent language of connecting hand to heart. Mudras of India is a detailed photographic compendium of 250 hand mudras and how-to techniques illustrating India’s rich tradition with these gestures. Mudras invite subtle forces to interact with our physical, emotional and spiritual selves in yoga to channel higher energies in the body and mind, in ritual to communicate with the deity, and in dance and drama for artistic expression. The most common of these practices in the west are the yoga mudras, considered valuable tools on the path to awakening. From a physical standpoint, working with the gestures is magnificent for the health of the hands.

When practicing, use your mind to send

energy to each finger, your wrist and your entire body. This will activate your hands and the corresponding energy in your body, making your whole being feel more alive. In this age of keyboards and cell phone text messaging, Mudras of India introduces a wonderful self-healing way to communicate with our hands.

the world around us, and even the future.

Telepathy, precognition and the sense of being stared at are not paranormal, but instead a normal inherent part of our biological nature.

Rupert Sheldrake

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The Sense of Being Stared At and Other Unexplained Powers of Human Minds Park Street Press, Rochester, VT 2013 Dog owners know the crazy feeling of being woken up by Fido’s stare. Many people correctly anticipate phone calls.

Psychic researchers study these events, and despite an impressive accumulation of evidence, their conclusions are often dismissed by the scientific community.

In The Sense of Being Stared At, biologist Rupert Sheldrake offers experimental proof of the so-called paranormal activities of telepathy, remote viewing, animal premonitions, the power of staring and precognition based on more than 25 years of research and 5,000 case histories.

Rupert points out how scientific paradigms can be limiting. In the 1800s, meteorites fell to earth and people witnessed them. Unfortunately, the science of that era didn’t allow for this possibility and authorities of the day insisted the villagers who said rocks were falling out of the sky were delusional.

“There are no stones in the sky. Therefore stones cannot fall from the sky.” Likewise we learned in school that our minds functioned using the brain’s hardwiring to transmit signals to the nerves and organs in our bodies. In this telephone model, the brain is a central switchboard that sends and receives messages. Those old-style telephone exchanges don’t even exist anymore; phones now transmit signals wirelessly. Similarly, our minds are not confined inside our skulls. Our thoughts and intentions reach beyond our brains, connecting us with others,

Cliff Aguirre

When I read The Death Transition for the first time I had just unexpectedly lost someone young and dear. My deep grief was multiplied by colossal confusion.

“How could someone so vibrant and healthy be here one day and gone the next?” “What kind of god or universe would allow this to happen?” Worse still were my thoughts around what had happened to the deceased. “Was he okay?

Was he suffering? Was he with people who loved him? Did he know how sad we were and how much everyone loved and missed him?”

Cliff Aguirre is passionate about unburdening people from their fear of death. From several gentle but intense communications he had beginning in childhood with those who have crossed over to the other side, Cliff has compiled this short, reassuring guide and checklist about what happens to you and your body when you die. Be assured that “the death procedure itself is easy...you simply glide out of your body smooth as a gentle breeze.” There is no need to worry about what we will do as we die for it is already coded in our memories, however reading The Death Transition helps your subconscious remember and will put any anxieties you may have to rest. A section of practical tips explains how to communicate with someone who has just died including the signs to watch for in detecting their presence around you. “You will be as alive after transitioning as you always have been and you always will be for an eternity. Death is a transition, not an ending.”

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Calendar of Events

SEPTEMBER SEPT-MAY — LEVEL 1 KUNDALINI TEACHER TRAINING. Lead trainer Hari Kaur of NYC. True ashram experience.

Training runs Sept-May, weekends only. Overnight guest space available. Yoga At The Ashram, 368 Village Street, Millis, MA. www.YogaAtTheAshram.org. (508) 376-4525.

9/1 — ATTENTION COLLEGE STUDENTS. Get a discount on group and individual holistic health coaching programs in the month of September. Let’s work together to tap into your natural ability to be healthy, happy and in charge of your life. peter@youthtransformations.com. www.youthtransformations.com 9/6 — CHRISTINE TULIS AT WATERTOWN CENTER FOR HEALING ARTS. September 6-October 1. Offering Anointing With Holy Oils sessions, Celestial Gate Bodywork and Stillness Touch. More info at www.christinetulis.com. Online booking link on “Buy Sessions & CD’s” page.

9/6 — FREE YOGA THERAPY DEMONSTRATION. Ideal for individuals challenged with chronic pain/illness. This class is a prelude to the 8-week group Yoga Therapy class.

10-11:30am. Visions HealthCare, 910 Washington Street, Dedham, MA. RSVP: marketing@visionshealthcare.com, (781) 232-5431.

9/7-8 — THE WAY OF THE SHAMAN®. Port Clyde, ME. Nan Moss and David Corbin. The Foundation for Shamanic Studies basic workshop, prerequisite for all Foundation programs. Contact info@shamanscircle.com or (207) 593-6016.

Visit www.shamanscircle.com.

9/11-9/25 — BEGINNING PALMISTRY. Wednesdays, 6:30pm, $90. At Tintagels Gate medieval metaphysical store. 505 Main Street, Athol, MA. www.tintagelsgates.com.

(978) 830-4611. Store hours: Sun 12-6; Thur-Sat 10-6.

9/12 — CLASS IN CHANNELING AND SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION with Vywamus, a teacher of higher consciousness, channeled by Andrea Seiver. 617-332-1541, www.andreaseiver.com.

9/13 — WHEATGRASS AND SPROUTS/MICRO GREENS: FOODS FOR HEALING YOUR BODY, MIND AND ATTITUDE. Learn simple techniques for growing, juicing and

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preparing these items as part of a healthy living diet. 122pm. Cost: $40 in advance/$45 at the door. Limited to 24 participants. Raffa Yoga, Cranston, RI. raffayoga.com.

9/14 — WORCESTER GODDESS FAIR. A health and wellness event. 11am-5pm, Worcester State University, 486 Chandler Street, Worcester, MA. Featuring music, readings, holistic healers, vendors, presentations and demonstrations. Admission is $30 in advance and $35 at the door.

Admission includes a 20-minute body healing, a 20-minute psychic reading, a buffet lunch and admission to workshops and vendors. This is a $75 value! Come to be pampered, gain insight and learn something new, all while helping a group in need. All profits from The Worcester Goddess Fair will go towards the refurbishing of The UMass Hospital 7th floor oncology patient lounge. For tickets and more information: worcestergoddessfair.eventbrite.com.

9/21-22 — LIGHTWORKERS HEALING METHOD™ Lightworkers Healing Method™. Angelically guided energy healing. Level Two: Letting Go of the Past. BE who your soul wants you to be. www.LightworkersMethod.com.

As taught at Kripalu, IONS. CE provider: NASW, NCBTMB, NCCAOM. 9/21-22 — SPIRITUAL ALCHEMY AND MARCONIC RECONNECTION HEALING SEMINAR. An evolution in energy healing. At the Theosophical Society Center, Arlington, MA. See us on Youtube or visit: www.MarconicReconnection.com.

For registration: (508) 560-5709.

9/24 — MAKE WAY FOR MIRACLES. Learn 3 lifestyle components that keep your avenues clear so that miracles can find their way to you. 3-month teleclass with Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed. Visit www.trishwhynot.com for details or call (978) 314-4545.

9/24-25 — TURNING WISHES INTO WANTS. Kate Rivera, CPCC introduces the Well-Formed Outcome model and helps participants learn to use this simple process to transform their wishes into actionable, achievable motivationdriven goals. 9/24 in Cambridge, 9/25 in Quincy. 6:30-8pm.

Free. (617) 479-5443. kate@katerivera.com. Visit www.katerivera.com to sign up.

9/14 — CRYSTALS 103: OPENING TO LOVE. The Mineral Kingdom provides a safe haven for opening to love again.

Learn about crystals, your heart and remove barriers to love with Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed. at ZuZu’s, Melrose, MA. Visit www.trishwhynot.com for details.

9/18 — MANTRAFEST TOUR 2013. 7pm. An evening with Deva Premal and Miten with Manose. Special guests The Guruganesha Band. The Chevalier Theater, 30 Forest St, Medford, MA. Tickets www.BrightStarEvents.net. 9 9/20-22 — ABILITIES EXPO. Boston Convention and Exhibit Hall, Boston. Fun adaptive sports, dance to try at the expo.

Attend workshops and hear experts offer solutions for travel, accessible homes and so much more. www.abilitiesexpo.com.

9/21 — THE NEW DAYS CONFERENCE at the Holiday Inn, Dedham MA, includes keynote speaker Dr. Mona Lisa Schulz, who will teach you how to Live the Dream! For more information go to www.newdayevents.com 9/21 — AN AROMATHERAPY CERTIFICATION COURSE. Learn how essential oils work to heal body, mind and spirit.

This comprehensive course addresses the body systems, their common ailments and the essential oils most helpful for each condition. Boston School of Herbal Studies. (781) 646-6319 or bostonherbalstudies.com.

9/21 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Newton, MA. Libby Barnett, MSW. 32 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine

11/17 — Gabrielle Bernstein, “May Cause Miracles: How to Create Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness,” keynote speaker at the Natural Living Expo. See November listing or www.NaturalExpo.Org

9/27-29, SERGIO MAGAñA’S ONLY 2013 EAST COAST HEALING WORKSHOP: Sacred Wisdom of the Toltec Healing Traditions. Roots & Wings Healing Arts Center, Natick, MA. Limit 45 participants. Registration required. Sandy Corcoran e-mail sandycorcoran@hotmail.com or (508) 435-2681 to register and receive workshop explanation.

9/28 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 32 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine coauthor. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 9/29.

OCTOBER 10/1 — SACRED SPACE YOGA TEACHER TRAINING at Emerald Yoga Studio! 200-hour Yoga Alliance-approved training starts in October at our Pembroke, MA, studio.

Graduate in May! www.emeraldyoga.com or call (781) 826-9624 for information and application.

10/1-10/22 — BEGINNING TAROT. Tuesdays, 6:30pm, $90. At Tintagels Gate medieval metaphysical store.

505 Main Street, Athol, MA. www.tintagelsgates.com.

(978) 830-4611. Store hours: Sun 12-6; Thur-Sat 10-6.

10/2-11/13 — MAGIC 101. Wednesdays, 6:30pm, $90. At Tintagels Gate medieval metaphysical store. 505 Main Street, Athol, MA. www.tintagelsgates.com. (978) 830-4611. Store hours: Sun 12-6; Thur-Sat 10-6.

10/5 — KUNDALINI FALL FESTIVAL at Yoga at the Ashram in Millis, MA. Featuring Krishna Kaur and Nirinjan Kaur.

Kundalini Yoga, live music, shopping, food and more. For more info: YogaAtTheAshram.org or call (508) 376-4525 10/5 — THE MYSTICAL ART AND TALENT SHOW. Enjoy this unique inspiring annual event, featuring paintings, poetry, story and song by many local spiritual artists.

7-9:30pm. Admission $5-$10 sliding scale. Cambridge Swedenborg Chapel, 50 Quincy Street, across from Sanders Theatre, Harvard Square. Series information and art online at www.soulstirring.org.

10/5: PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT, PAST LIVES AND ANGEL COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP with Ross J. Miller, psychic healer, medium, regression therapist. In this unique, experiential workshop you’ll learn how to identify your guardian angels and spirit guides by name and receive their guidance, healing and inspiration; discover your soul’s life purpose; experience two of your past lives and heal the residual karma from them; give psychic readings to others in class and more.

Saturday, 10:00AM - 5:00PM, Newton, MA. To register for the workshop or to schedule a psychic or past-life reading or healing session in person or over the phone, visit our website: www.TheMysticWay.com or call Ross J. Miller (617) 527-3583.

10/5 — FALL DETOX YOUR BODY. 4 weeks, Saturdays: 10/5-10/26. 6:30-8pm. 64 Dewey St, Worcester MA. You will learn fall foods, herbs and tips for detoxifying your body including recipes, meal plans, accountability, support, food samples and more. Also offered at Bhavna’s Wellness Center, Thursdays 10/3, 10/10, 10/24 and Friday 10/18.

6-7:30pm. www.healthylivingnow.biz or (508) 330-9665.

10/5-6 — LUCID DREAMING AND SHAMANIC AWAKENING presented by authors Robert Waggoner (Lucid Dreaming: Gateways of the Inner Self) and Sandra

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11/3 — Kim Sheridan will keynote The Conference on Animals in the Afterlife in Boxborough. See November listing or ConferenceonAnimalsintheAfterlife.com.

Corcoran (Between the Dark and the Daylight: Awakening to Shamanism). Explore heightened dream awareness and personal healing realizations while utilizing successful lucid dream guidelines and practical shamanic techniques.

Roots & Wings, Natick, MA. Limited to 30. Pre-registration required: sandy@starwalkervisions.com or (508) 435-2681 10/6 — HEALTH AND WELLNESS FALL SHOW. The Lantana, 43 Scanlon Drive, Randolph, MA. 10am-3pm. Meet and talk with over 50 vendors! 2 free admissions with the ad in this issue. HealthandWellnessShow.net.

10/6 — HEALING WITH SPIRITUAL LIGHT, TRANSFIGURATION WITH LOVE. 10-5, $135, taught by shamanic visionary and healer Leontine Hartzell at Eye of the Eagle Center, Andover, MA. Learn to awaken your true divine state to bring healing to yourself and others. No previous experience needed. Details at www.eyeofeagle.org.

10/6 — CRYSTAL SHOW WITH JERRY MARCHAND. 11-4:30pm. Jerry’s crystals and minerals are well known throughout New England! Shop his unique selection ranging from $3-$900, something for everyone. Show at ZuZu’s Healing Arts, 122 West Emerson St, Melrose, MA. (781) 665-8844, www.zuzushealingarts.com 10/6 — 4th ANNUAL BOSTON LOCAL FOOD FESTIVAL. 11-5 On the Greeway, near Aquarium T-stop. Shop, learn, taste and play at New England’s largest one-day farmer’s market and celebration of local food. Visit the Spirit of Change booth! www.bostonlocalfoodfestival.org.

10/7 — CONNECTING WOMEN: THROUGH ALL LIFE’S TRANSITIONS. Beginning 10/7, six monthly meetings.

7-8:30pm. Change is a constant. Negotiate life’s journey with peace of mind. Resonate with your core beliefs, values and strengths. Lisa S. Borchetta, Firebird Life Coaching: (508) 366-2003. www.firebirdlifecoaching.com.

10/11 — GUT HEALTHY: CULTURED FOODS AND PROBIOTICS. Come learn about healthy gut flora and how cultured food and probiotics nourish and soothe your digestion. Cost: $40 in advance/$45 at the door. Limited to 24 participants. Raffa Yoga, Cranston, RI. www.raffayoga.com.

10/12 — RELATIONSHIP DYNAMICS WORKSHOP USING MINDFULNESS TO IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS QUALITY. Creating conscious intimacy for couples, families and friends. $95. 9:30 am–2:30 pm. 910 Washington Street, Dedham, MA. RSVP: marketing@visionshealthcare.com, (781) 232-5431.

10/12 — REIKI MASTER. Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 32 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Graduates of other teachers welcome. Call (603) 654-2787 or www.reikienergy.com. Reiki Master Teacher: 10/13 10/ 12 — FOREST FORENSICS: READING THE FORESTED LANDSCAPE. Join celebrated author Tom Wessels in uncovering the hidden stories that are etched into our landscapes. Through such common features as the shapes of trees, the decay pattern of stumps, the construction of stone walls, and the general lay of the land, we can discern the intricate history of a forest. Boston School of Herbal Studies. (781) 646-6319 or bostonherbalstudies.com.

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Calendar continued from page 53 10/17-10/20 — EXPLORATION OF DOWSING TOOLS. Alicja Aratyn visits Circles of Wisdom offering the following: 10/17 class on the vibration of gold, 10/18 shopping time for her unique dowsing tools, 10/19 class on dowsing and sacred geometry with option to get more advanced on 10/20. Andover, MA. www.circlesofwisdom.com. (978) 474-8010.

10/19 — TURNING WISHES INTO WANTS. Kate Rivera, CPCC introduces the Well-Formed Outcome model and helps participants learn to use this simple process to transform their wishes into actionable, achievable motivationdriven goals. In Quincy, 11:00am-12:30pm. Free. (617) 479-5443. kate@katerivera.com. www.katerivera.com to sign up.

10/19 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Concord, MA MSW. Libby Barnett, MSW, 32 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787 or www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 10/20 10/19-20 — 20th ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE AT THE WAY TO BALANCE CENTER. 10 am-4 pm each day. 21 Water Street, Amesbury, MA. Free admission; a portion of the suggested $10 freewill donation plus all raffle proceeds will benefit Our Neighbor’s Table, a local charity. Bring a friend and enjoy: talks and demonstrations; door prizes; meet our therapists; guest speakers on a variety of topics; drumming circle; Tibetan bowl experiential; food, refreshments, raffles; book-signing by Sue Singleton and more!

Details at www.TheWayToBalance.com or (978) 834-0341.

11/1-2 — BUTEYKO BREATHING TRAINING FOR EDUCATORS. At Boston Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology. Nurses, voice teachers, yoga and massage therapists, learn revolutionary breathing practice. Improves asthma, nasal symptoms, snoring, sleep apnea, and stress and anxiety! Information and registration, visit www.bu-ent.com/continuing-medical-education.html or call (617) 414-1768.

11/3 — THE CONFERENCE ON ANIMALS IN THE AFTERLIFE. Boxborough, MA. Speakers include Kim Sheridan, Jeff Belanger, Alexis Brooks, Maureen Harmonay. Live spirit readings by psychic medium Joanne Gerber. $149. For more info visit AnimalsintheAfterlifeConference.com.

11/3 — VIBRATIONAL LIGHT HEALING, taught by shamanic visionary and healer Leontine Hartzell. 4 Sundays starting 11/3, 10am-5pm, $575, meets Eye of the Eagle Center, Andover, MA. Learn to use sound, light, color and vibration to heal and create harmony. For more information: www.eyeofeagle.org.

11/7-10 — HEALING FROM THE BODY LEVEL UP TRAINING: Healing Trauma and Installing Boundries. Learn how to rapidly transform and heal your clients and yourself.

9am-6pm each day in Needham, MA. www.hblu.org. (781) 444-6940.

11/8 — INTRODUCTION TO ANTI-GRAVITY YOGA. Learn the basic technique and get comfortable with the Yoga hammock prop. Bring a camera and capture your

moment! You’ll learn to fly, hold and balance in challenging yoga poses longer, gain better kinesthetic awareness and build cardiovascular and muscular strength in a safe and supportive environment. Also December 13. 7:15- 9pm.

Cost: $30. Raffa Yoga, Cranston, RI. raffayoga.com.

11/8-10 — NEW ENGLAND METAPHYSICAL CONFERENCE. Communication: between and within groups, with the “other side,” with plants and animals. At the Crown Plaza Hotel, Cromwell, CT. www.changingtimeschangingworlds.org.

11/16 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Newton, MA. Libby Barnett, MSW. 32 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787 or www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 11/17 11/16 — WAH! THE HEALING CONCERT at the Natural Living Expo. 7-9PM. Come breathe, meditate, relax and feel blessed. Tickets $35. 100% of ticket sales donated to Amma’s Embracing the World humanitarian organization.

Concert ticket purchase includes free admission to the expo.

Visit www.NaturalExpo.org for tickets.

11/16-17— 7th ANNUAL NATURAL LIVING EXPO. New England’s largest holistic expo. 225 exhibits, 90 workshops and featured events. $12 weekend admission. New location: Royal Plaza Trade Center, Marlboro, MA. See page 5.

Sponsored by Spirit of Change Magazine. Call (508) 2789640 ext 2 or Michella@naturalexpo.org or visit www.naturalexpo.org.

10/25-27 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Kripalu, Stockbridge, MA, Libby Barnett, MSW. 32 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. CEU’s/ contact hours. Call www.reikienergy.com or (603) 654-2787.

Reiki II: 10/27-29.

10/25-27 — THE 9TH ANNUAL CONNECTING FOR CHANGE CONFERENCE is a 3-day solutions-based gathering held in New Bedford, MA. Featuring keynote speakers James Hansen, Maggie Fox, Dr. Eben Alexander, plus over 50 workshops, family and youth programming, exhibitor hall, farmer’s market, films and live music, local food, art installations and more. To register, volunteer or apply for a scholarship: connectingforchange.org or (508) 748-0816.

10/31 — SAMHAIN OPEN CIRCLE. Free. 8pm at Tintagels Gate medieval metaphysical store. 505 Main Street, Athol, MA (978) 830-4611. www.tintagelsgates.com. Store hours: Sun 12-6; Thur-Sat 10-6.

NOVEMBER 11/1 — MEDITATION: JOURNEY TO SPIRITUAL FREEDOM. Free lecture on the Kriya Yoga teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. 7PM. Old South Church. 645 Boylston Street, Boston, MA. Presented by Brother Devananda, a monk of the Self-Realization Fellowship Order. For information visit www.BostonMeditationGroup.net or email srf. boston.tour.2013@gmail.com. (508) 843-5094.

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10/25-10/27 — Join Dr. Eben Alexander at the Connecting for Change Conference in New Bedford, MA as he recounts his transcendental near-death experience as told in his best-selling book, Proof of Heaven, A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife. See October listing or ConnectingforChange.org.

11/17 — KEYNOTE SPEAKER GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN. “May Cause Miracles: How to Create Subtle Shifts for Radical Change and Unlimited Happiness,” 11AM-1PM at the Natural Living Expo. Tickets: $45. Available at the door or www.NaturalExpo.org.

11/19-20 — TURNING WISHES INTO WANTS. Kate Rivera, CPCC introduces the Well-Formed Outcome model and helps participants learn to use this simple process to transform their wishes into actionable, achievable motivation-driven goals. 11/19 in Cambridge, 11/20 in Quincy.

6:30-8pm Free. (617) 479-5443. kate@katerivera.com. www.katerivera.com to sign up.

11/24 — ZUZU’S 8TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY NEW AGE EXPO. Sunday 10-5pm, vendors, readers, raffles, seminars, aura photos, healing sessions, jewelry, crystals, books and more. $5 admission. Peabody, MA. Details at www.zuzushealingarts.com.

11/26 — SCHOOLS OF WISDOM OPEN HOUSE. Learn more about the professional development and spiritual enrichment programs offered by Women of Wisdom. www.WomenofWisdominc.com. (508) 230-3680.

UPCOMING 12/5 — CLASS IN CHANNELING AND SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION with Vywamus, a teacher of higher consciousness, channeled by Andrea Seiver. www.andreaseiver.com.

617-332-1541.

12/7 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 32 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author.

Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted.

CEU’s/contact hours. www.reikienergy.com or call Call (603) 654-2787. Reiki II: 12/8 12/13 — INTRODUCTION TO ANTI-GRAVITY YOGA. Learn the basic technique and get comfortable with the Yoga hammock prop. Bring a camera and capture your moment! You’ll learn to fly, hold and balance in challenging yoga poses longer, gain better kinesthetic awareness and build cardiovascular and muscular strength In a safe and supportive environment. 7:15-9pm. Cost: $30. Raffa Yoga, Cranston, RI. raffayoga.com.

1/11/14 — SCHOOL OF EARTH MEDICINE SHAMAN at Women of Wisdom, North Easton, MA. Twelve-month program strengthens unique relationship with Mother Earth.

Learn Woptura teachings from Lakota tradition. Identify your spiritual direction and shamanic path. (508) 230-3680. www.womenofwisdominc.com 1/26/14 — HOLISTIC PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION at Women of Wisdom. North Easton, MA. Six month intensive program blends and utilizes energy work, elemental healing, vibrational healing and a variety of holistic modalities designed to your your life. www.womenofwisdominc.com (508) 230-3680 4/25-27/14 — BECOME A PROFESSIONAL HYPNOTHERAPIST at Women of Wisdom. North Easton, MA. Prepares individuals to help themselves and others in rewarding career as professional certified hypnotist. Live demonstration, supervised practice, and hands on experience. www.womenofwisdominc.com (508) 230-3680

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6/6-9/14 — MARTHA’S VINEYARD HEALING RETREAT. 4 days, 3 nights. $1195. Early bird by 4/14/14 for $995. Reconnect with nature using aromatherapy, crystals, Qi Gong, and meditation. Contact Erik at chiforhealing.com or John at tru-elements.com. (860) 593-8397.

ONGOING REMEDIES FOR LYME DISEASE. 1st Thursday of each month from 6-7pm with Dr. Joshua Lloyd at Groton Wellness Medical, Dental, Spa & Café. 493 Main Street, Groton, MA 01450. (978) 449-9929. www.groton wellness.com.

DANGERS OF MERCURY FILLINGS. 1st Thursday of each month from 7-8pm with Dr. Jean-Nordin Evans at Groton Wellness Medical, Dental, Spa & Café. 493 Main Street, Groton, MA 01450. www.groton wellness.com. (978) 449-9929.

INTRODUCTION TO ANTI-GRAVITY YOGA. Learn the basic technique and get comfortable with the Yoga hammock prop. Bring a camera and capture your moment!

You’ll learn to fly, hold and balance in challenging yoga poses longer, gain better kinesthetic awareness and build cardiovascular and muscular strength in a safe and supportive environment. September 13, October 4, November 8, December 13. 7:15- 9pm. Cost: $30. Raffa Yoga, Cranston, RI. raffayoga.com.

SCHOOLS OF WISDOM OPEN HOUSE. Learn more about the professional development and spiritual enrichment programs offered by Women of Wisdom. September 19, October 16, November 26. www.WomenofWisdominc.com.

YOGALIFE INSTITUTE OF NH. 200- and 500-hour Yoga teacher training programs starting the first weekend of each month. Join our yoga community as we study, practice, and share the transformative benefits of Yoga. Exeter, NH. (603) 969-8968. www.yogalifenh.com.

SOUL ENLIGHTENMENT — EXPLORING THE POWER OF YOUR SOUL with Beth Ann Fisher. Seven-week class, $105. Seven week support group, $63. Starts Sunday, September 22 at White Light Books, Cranston, RI. Call (781) 740-1027 for more information or visit bethannfisher.com.

CHANGING YOUR SPACE TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. By Tranquil Waters Designs. Learning how modifying your space can greatly enhance your life. Wednesdays in October from 6-7:30pm at Andover Natural Health Care. $20/class or $90 for all 5 classes. Visit www.tranquilwatersdesigns.com for additional information.

CLASSES IN CHANNELING AND SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION with Vywamus, a teacher of higher consciousness, channeled by Andrea Seiver. Have a personal reading, join Learn to Channel, other classes, enjoy Evenings with Vywamus: September 12, October 3, November 7, December 5. (617) 332-1541, www.andreaseiver.com.

MEDITATION EVENINGS. Wednesdays, 7 to 8:30 PM. All welcome! Introduction and guided meditation, refreshments. No fee. Suggested donation $10. Advaita Meditation Center, 28 Worcester Lane, Waltham, MA. www.advaitameditation.org. (781) 647-0020.

FREE WOMEN’S GATHERING: MONTHLY POTLUCK DINNER. 2nd Wednesday of each month. The Gathering Inn Women’s Spiritual Center and Retreat House, Hubbardston, MA. 6:30-9pm. New events happening all the

time. See full schedule online at www.gatheringinn.org.

(978) 820-1139.

UNITY OF CENTRAL MA/LA LUZ QUE BILLA PARA TODOS. Come celebrate with us! Service at 10am in English and 12pm in Spanish. 21 Cedar Street, Worcester, MA. English (508) 799-4170. Spanish (774) 386-7543 VEGETARIAN HEATHY COOKING AND NON-COOKING CLASSES. 64 Dewey St, Worcester, MA. Tuesday 10/29: 6:30-8pm; Winter Soups and Salads. Saturday 11/9: 6:308pm; Vegetarian Sushi. Tuesday 11/12: 6:30-8pm; Healthy Appetizers and Deserts. Saturday, 11/16: 6-8pm; Healthy Thanksgiving. Saturday, 12/7 and Tuesday, 12/10: 6-8pm; Holiday Cooking. www.budgetcuisinecoaching.com.

(508) 330-9665.

BOSTON SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES. Arlington and Lincoln, MA. Affordable, evening and weekend classes, Aromatherapy certification course, herbal apprenticeship programs and advanced training. (781) 646-6319 or bostonherbalstudies.com.

THE ECLECTIC INSTITUTE OF AROMATHERAPY AND HERBAL STUDIES offers: Goat’s Milk Soap Making Workshop, Arlington 9/20; Aromatherapy Workshop, Sturbridge 9/22; Introduction to European-Based Aromatherapy, certification beginning in Arlington 9/21, Sturbridge 11/2 Providence 11/17, Marblehead 11/30. Advanced Aromatherapy certification beginning 10/27 Boylston. www.aromatherapyandherbalstudies.com SHAMANIC DRUMMING CIRCLE founded 1993. Usually second and fourth Fridays of every month. 7pm. Quaker Meetinghouse, Cambridge, MA. Open to all, instruction available on website: http://www.friendsjourneycircle.org/.

Terrence (978) 952-2704 or Emily (781) 641-3980.

OPEN MEDITATION. Wednesday evenings, 7 to 8:30 pm.

All welcome! Introduction and guided meditation, refreshments. No fee. Suggested donation $10. Advaita Meditation Center, 28 Worcester Lane, Waltham, MA. www.advaitameditation.org. (781) 647-0020.

WELLNESS ROUNDTABLE HOLISTIC PRACTITIONERS NETWORKING GROUP. Please join us at our monthly meetings, second Wednesday each month in Northboro, MA. Stay inspired and create collaborative professional relationships. A welcoming community working for the greater health and well-being of all. Contact marilyn@confident-directions.com.

TAI CHI CHUAN. Classes in Yang style Tai Chi Chuan, both group and private, held at Gin Soon Tai Chi Club, the oldest school teaching Tai Chi Chuan in the greater Boston area.

Classes held Monday-Thursday 11-1. Evenings from 4-8.

Saturdays 1-4. 33 Harrison Ave, 2nd floor, Boston, MA. (617) 542-4442. www.gstaichi.org.

PRANIC HEALING WORKSHOPS AND WEEKLY TWIN HEARTS MEDITATIONS. Cleanses, energizes, and relaxes body, mind, spirit. Thursdays, 7-8:15 pm. Miriam G. Smith, certified MCKS pranic healer and teacher. (978) 683-6129. mgsenergy@comcast.net.\ www.PranicHealingNE.com.

PRACTICAL MEDITATION COURSE. Spiritual understanding about the self, the source and the world around us.

Simple techniques to enhance your meditation. Free of charge. Evening and weekend options. Call (617) 547-1110 or visit www.innerspaceharvardsq.org or

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Categories • Acupuncture and Asian Medicine . . . 56

• Classes, Certifications & Schools . 58-60

• Healing: Combined Modalities ..63-64

• Readings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65-66

• Astrological Consulting . . . . . 56-57

• Coaching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

• Herbs and Gardens . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

• Retreats and Retreat Centers . . . 66

• Bookstores and Gift Shops . . . . . 57

• Consciousness Transformation . . . 60

• Holistic Medical . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

• Spiritual Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

• Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57-58

• Counseling and Therapy . . . . . 61-62

• Homeopathy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

• Salons and Spas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

• Children's Health Services . . . . . . 58

• Healing and Bodywork . . . . . . 62-63

• Nutrition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

• Yoga, Tai Chi and Fitness . . . . . . . 66

Acupuncture & Asian Medicine Acupuncture Plus Yoga

Bryn Walsh

Licensed Acupuncturist

Blue Lotus Healing Arts is dedicated to mind/body healing, education and wellness.

First, to heal pain and illness; second, to maintain wellness and live strong and clear; lastly, to clear blocks in your life so you can manifest your gifts and joy.

This is our vision of health for you.

Treatments and classes for healing all stress-related ailments, sports injuries, women’s health issues and more We treat stress-related ailments such as anxiety, mild to moderate depression, and insomnia, sport’s injuries such as back pain, knee pain, neck and shoulder pain, and women’s health issues such as PMS, irregular menses, infertility, and menopausal symptoms. We also specialize in facial rejuvenation (micro-current facial), acupuncture facelifts, and offer non-needle options.

Bryn Walsh has over 22 years experience.

481 Great Road #6, Acton, MA 01720 info@acupunctureplusyoga.com www.acupunctureplusyoga.com S 978-266-9889 S

5-element Acupuncture & more Nature’s Path to Healing & Personal Transformation

Patricia Smith Burkhart, MAC, LIC. AC.

Gentle relief from: • stress and pain • medication side effects • chronic health problems

To make an appointment, call 617-965-6440.

70 Athelstane Rd, Flr #2, Newton Ctr, MA www.bluelotushealingarts.com

I look forward to alleviating your suffering.

Whether your issue is chronic pain, allergies, asthma, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, plantar fascitis, golfer’s elbow, infertility, uterine fibroids, menopausal symptoms, insomnia, a compromised immune system, or a host of other problems, I can help you.

Call for a free “meet and greet” appointment.

259 Mass Ave., Arlington, MA Free parking in rear. www.anappleadayacupuncture.com 781.648.0911

Acupuncture of Worcester Holistic Health since 1974

Dr. Yvonne Chen, Lic. Acupuncturist One of the first practicing acupuncturists in the United States, Dr. Yvonne Chen began her acupuncture practice in Washington, D.C. in 1973, moving to Worcester one year later. Trained in China as a medical doctor, Dr. Chen’s years of study and research included in-depth work with both traditional Chinese and Western medicine.

Her approach to health incorporates keen knowledge on the nature of disease, use of

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energy balancing, nut­ritional counseling and the promotion of spiritual well-being.

Acupuncture is especially effective in the treatment of: • Pain: migraine headaches, stress relief, tendonitis, arthritis, lower back pain, neuralgia, whiplash, accident and trauma injuries and TMJ syndrome • Improving bodily functions: respiratory ailments, insomnia and impotency • Nervous system disorders: Bell’s Palsy, paralysis, multiple sclerosis and stroke recovery • Behavioral changes: weight control and smoking cessation.

Located at 110 June Street, Worcester, MA 01602. For an appointment or for more information, please contact Dr. Yvonne Chen at 508-755-5557.

Astrological Consulting Astrology

&

Esoteric Psychology Monique Pommier, M.A., Ph.DE

Astrology illuminates one’s psychological landscape and journey. It times life developments and reveals their designs for the soul.

I offer astrological services and ongoing psychospiritual counseling with astrology, Jungian and esoteric psychology as a comprehensive ground of exploration and guidance

on current issues and lifelong questionings.

By accessing the deeper order of your life, you gain transformative insights into the evolutionary meaning of particular challenges and new perspectives to direct your choices.

My background includes an MS and PhD in Esoteric Psychology and Philosophy. Jungian psychology, Eastern and Western Traditions are key foundations in my approach.

I have been in practice for 25 years.

U Astrological Consultations U U Psychospiritual Counseling U www.astrologicalpsychology.com 617-524-7072

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Questions?

Astrologer Eric Linter has answers.

Changes in relationships, career, health, finances or spiritual practice are inevitable.

Eric’s clarity will help you stay on the right path. His insights help you better understand and appreciate life’s challenges. His clients say Eric Linter is “profound and enlightening” and “one of the best astrologers on the East Coast.”

SCHOOLS OF WISDOM

Eric, a professional astrologer for 25 years, works with individuals, couples and businesses. Specialties include career moves, personal creativity and karmic relationships. Consultations are available in person, by telephone, or on cassette.

Eric also offers classes, lectures and appearances at parties and special events.

For more information and to schedule a private session, contact Eric by email or call:

Certification Programs Include: Holistic Training, Earth Medicine, Reiki, Psychic Studies, Hypnotherapy, Gaiadon Heart, IET, workshops & much more HOLISTIC HEALing Center

Usui & Karuna Reiki G Hypnotherapy BARS G Massage G Crystal Healing Integrated Energy Therapy G Ear Coning Inner Child Healing

stars@ericlinter.com X 508-541-4115 X

“I learned more from one session than I did from 5 years of analysis.”

- J.G., Cambridge, MA

gift shop

Unique Jewelry G Healing Tools G Statues Crystal Bowls G Ritual Items G Angels Psychic and Medium

Bookstores and Gift Shops

The Silver Willow

Large selection of bulk herbs The Silver Willow’s own herbal tea blends Handmade herbal products for you and your whole family, including your pets Crystal Balls n Tarot Cards n Pendulums Incense n Ritual Tools n Statues Challis’s n Reiki Treaments The largest selection of New Age books in the entire area!

An Herbal, Metaphysical & New Age Gift Shop for all your herbal and ritual needs

Classes in Aromatherapy, Astrology, Tarot, Wicca, Herbs and more

Home of the Celtic Cricket Psychic Reader...

What’s in your Future?

Tue-Sat 11:30-7, Sun 12-5 pm., Mon-Closed, 54 Fall River Ave. (Rt. 6), Rehoboth, MA www.thesilverwillow.com n 508-336-8813

Readings available in person or over the phone

Hours: M-F 10 am-8 pm, S/S 10 am-6 pm 118 Washington Street, N. Easton, MA www.womenofwisdominc.com 508-230-3680

Bodywork and Readings

Massage Z Cranial-Sacral Z Reiki Z Polarity Full Spectrum Healing Z Angel Readings Spiritual Counseling Z Psychic Readings Classes and Workshops

Yoga Z Tai-Chi, NIA Z Journey Dance Qi Gong Z Crystal Bowl Workshops Psychic Development Classes Z Meditations Healer Training Programs Host your event here!

163 Main St., Suite 6, Medway, MA 02053 solsticehealing@yahoo.com 508 533-0669 Z www.solsticehealing.com

Our two gorgeous workshop rooms are available for rent by the hour and the day.

Charming, light filled practitioner rooms are also available for rent. Reasonable rates!

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Witch Owned and Operated Ritual Supplies G Crystals G Gemstones Jewelry G Incense G Candles G Gifts

Center for Complementary Medicine and Holistic Therapies

Mediums and Spiritual Counselors on staff Various classes and workshops!

78 N. Washington St, N. Attleborough, MA

Full-time, part-time and hourly space available for rent.

Acupuncture Chiropractic Colon Hydrotherapy Massage Couples Counseling Hypnotherapy Reiki EMDR Psychotherapy Reflexology 214 Market Street, Brighton, MA 02135 www.marketstreethealth.com 617-787-3511

508-643-3400 G 877-33-WITCH andromedasalley@aol.com www.andromedasalley.com Therapeutic Services and Classes

Centers

Acupuncture T Massage T Reiki Reflexology T Stress Management Tai Chi and Qigong T Yoga T Nutrition Tong Ren T Feng Shui T Laughter Yoga Strength Training T Breathwork Reiki Classes T Reiki Shares

OPEN DOORS

Largest New Age Store in New England

Hot Power Yoga and Gentle Yoga Classes YOGA TEACHER TRAINING

Private Readings Tarot, Psychic or Mediumship Telephone Readings or Walk-Ins

200 & 500 Hours u 14 Yoga Studio Locations

Huge selection of health-related products, jewelry and metaphysical needs

Dorchester, Roslindale, Easton, Westwood, Canton, Braintree, No. Attleboro, No.Scituate, Plymouth, Duxbury, Hingham, Weymouth, Hanover, E. Bridgewater

395 Washington Street, Braintree, MA Store open daily, 9 am - 9 pm, 7 days a week

Additional Specialized Services

T Oncology Massage Central Massachusetts’ only hospital-based complementary care center Professional Holistic Care for Everybody Fitchburg, MA www.healthalliance.com T 978-665-5800

T Complete Decongestive Therapy for treatment of lymphedema Thanks to our volunteers and Angie’s Spa Cancer Foundation, some of the above therapies are available free to patients in our cancer center.

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Centers continued We are a nonprofit Center devoted to teaching meditation and exploring Advaita, the spiritual tradition of self-realization.

To learn more about us, go to our website or visit us at our lovely, historic house in Waltham.

Classes, Certifications & Schools exclusively or incorporated into your healing practice. Two-year certification program.

Ample parking and wheelchair accessibility.

Wednesday Evening Open Meditation Introductory Classes Reading Groups and other Activities

Children's Health Services self-esteem, guide them in learning to relate effectively with others and foster their natural enthusiasm for learning.

S Child-centered preschool program S Nurturing, small group setting

limited openings available 2013-2014 school year At Small Miracles Preschool the unique spirit of each child is acknowledged and cherished. Our mission is to provide a loving, supportive environment where children thrive in an atmosphere of security and mutual respect. We strive to nurture children’s

To learn more, or for free home study course and more information including course descriptions, certification requirements, and links to online videos and teleseminars, please visit:

28 Worcester Lane, Waltham, MA 02451 info@advaitameditation.org www.advaitameditation.org G 781-647-0020

S Developmentally appropriate, standards-

based curriculum S Ages 2.9 to 5 S Two or three days, 9 am - 1 pm (5-day

option available)

Energy workers : Learn advanced protocols for applying therapeutic gems

Eclectic Institute of Aromatherapy and Herbal Studies Instructor Linda Patterson offers over 20 years of experience in the science, art and principles of herbalism and aromatherapy.

Empowering Youth to Take Charge of Their Health

S Is school a struggle?

S Do you feel lost and disconnected from your life?

S Do you feel like you don’t have a say in your

health?

S Do you know you can feel better than you do

but are not sure how?

S Need more energy and focus?

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Ongoing certification courses offered throughout the northeast including: ✴ 7-Month Herbal Certification ✴ 4-Month European-Based Aromatherapy Introduction ✴ 4-Month Advanced Aromatherapy Course ✴ 3-Month Conscious Nutrition Course ✴ Palmistry a tool of diagnoses www.aromatherapyandherbalstudies.com 978-297-4502

Ellen Kerstein, M.S. in Ed S Holliston, MA ellenkerstein@gmail.com ellenkerstein.com S 508-429-5764

Touchstone offers:

Touchstone Community School offers a progressive, child-centered approach to education. For more than 30 years, we have nurtured and inspired children to be creative, independent partners in their learning.

R www.LearnGEM.com R

Small, mixed-age classes Thematic studies that integrate subjects Dedicated, expert teachers A diverse community and highly positive culture Parent-teacher-child partnership in educational development To learn more about our holistic approach to education for children ages 4 to 14: www.touchstoneschool.com 508-839-0038

Peter Berg, Ed.D, HMHC, CHHC, coaches and helps to empower youth ages 10-19 and young adults to take charge of their health and become masters of their lives without diets, medication or suppressing their inner voice.

Health is about maintaining a balance of mind, body and spirit. Our minds, bodies and spirits want to be whole and are constantly moving towards balance. Let’s work together to tap into your natural ability to be healthy, happy and in charge of your life.

Virtual and in-person programs: Group coaching S One-on-one coaching School and Educator Programs Workshops S Presentations peter@youthtransformations.com www.youthtransformations.com 603-573-6433

The (W)hole Point Institute The heart of The Wisdom WAY™ is the point at which our psychology intersects with our spirituality. This point is the space in which we awaken — for real.

Alaya Chadwick has drawn on her 28+ years of experience to develop The Wisdom WAY™, a personal, practical, self-sustainable map and method for personal and spiritual growth. Found in The Wisdom WAY™ are the tools you can use to Walk Awake saying Yes to life.

Oftentimes we feel like we are simply sleepwalking through life. We find ourselves responding to people and experiences as if we are on “auto pilot.” We can feel like we have little energy or joy in our lives. We may wonder, “How do we wake up?”

The Wisdom WAY™ is the skeleton found inside most healing modalities, including conventional therapy and alternative practices. What makes this WAY different is that you are the expert. By following the map using your own life experiences, you unravel the mysteries of yourself and reveal the wonder you truly are on all levels — emotional, physical, and spiritual.

The (W)hole Point Institute offers a wide range of self-development experiences, healing opportunities, and empowerment trainings for individuals and couples or partners. These workshops are both experiential and educational and are offered in group and/or one-on-one settings. Additionally, there are intensive apprenticeship programs which offer personal in-depth study.

2-Day Intensive (W)hole Workshops Learn practical tools to reveal your own unique pathway to (W)holeness.

2-Day PAIRing™ Workshops (People Activating Intimate Relating™) Open to couples and singles, this workshop is for those who wish to bring their relationships to a deeper level of self-appreciation and intimate union.

One-on-One (W)hole Life Coaching Relationship Intensives for Couples Awakening Divinity Apprenticeship Reiki Level I and II classes Learn this ancient healing art to support yourself and those around you. …and much, much more!

NASW-approved CEU’s available “Alaya Chadwick is able to put ‘hands and feet’on extremely complex concepts in a way which connects them to the living reality of everyday life.” — Martha Harrell, MSN, Ph.D. Elizabeth “Alaya” Chadwick M.Div., MSW., L.I.C.S.W., Reiki Master,

Author of: Wake up to your (W)hole Life Raymond, NH www.wholepoint.us r 603-895-4530

The next Level I program begins in the Fall of 2013 and runs one weekend per month for nine months. We have offered this training for 30 years in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts. Full program information is available on our web site.

The Synthesis Center Professional Training in Psychosynthesis Psychosynthesis is a holistic, transpersonal model of human development integrating psychology and spirit in the healing arts. The Center offers two Professional Training programs in psychosynthesis for all helping professionals and students.

The Psychosynthesis Professional Training Program teaches psychosynthesis theory, the principles of holistic psychology and the process of psychological and spiritual development. It provides an in-depth theoretical and practical training as well as intensive personal, professional and spiritual growth in a face-to-face setting.

This training is open to those actively engaged in or studying the helping professions. This is a comprehensive three-year program that leads to certification as a Certified Psychosynthesis Practitioner (CPP).

CEU’s for social work and mental health counseling are available.

• 200 and 500 Hour Classical Yoga Teacher Training • Meditation Training • Yoga classes offered daily

The Will to Grow: Transformational Life Coaching is a nationally certified, coach training program, offered for the first time in the fall of 2012. This program will train people in psychosynthesis coaching and leads to a Psychosynthesis Life Coach (PLC) certification through the Center and to the prestigious and nationally certified Board Certified Coach (BCC).

Free Introductory sessions for our programs will be offered in the spring and summer of 2013, both as teleconferences and in-person sessions in both Amherst, MA and Brattleboro, VT. The Synthesis Center e Amherst, MA training@synthesiscenter.org www.synthesiscenter.org e 413-256-0772

Julie Rost, Director

8 Clifford Street, Exeter, NH www.yogalifenh.com v 603-479-3865

• Yoga Therapy Training

The Rhys Thomas Institute of Energy Medicine is for anyone who is ready to take a quantum leap into their personal power to create conscious relationships and passionbased careers and businesses by living fearlessly and finding their deepest purpose in life. We work with people who are successful and heart-centered, and feel deeply that there is something big missing in their life, but they can’t quite put their finger on it.

“Ed was very good at explaining the key points and keeping it simple. It was very positive and uplifting.” — D.A.

We show them how to access their deepest calling and the extraordinary power that is often hidden deep within them, so they can be inspirational lights in the world today.

This is an amazing transformational personal growth program which will also provide you with the best, cutting edge tools and healing technology. Our program offers you the opportunity to: Master the Rhys Method Life Purpose Profiles, Chakras, and 12 Gateways of Consciousness F Create conscious relationships & inspired careers F Be a leader in the field of energy medicine F Become part of a larger spiritual community F

Classes begin in June with six amazing full weekend retreats starting in October and running through May. For more information: support@RhysThomasInstitute.com RhysThomasInstitute.com F 508-740-3038

Ready to Change?

Learn how to use the Law of Attraction to create whatever you desire:

For times, dates and descriptions of the workshops South of Boston visit:

Attract money Improve relationships F Achieve better self-esteem F

www.BeYourBean.com

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Ed is also available for coaching.

Affordable Herbal Education Throughout the Year

Intensive 7 Month Herbal Apprenticeships Training with Facial, Tongue, and Pulse Diagnosis ❖ Aromatherapy Certification ❖ Weekend Intensives and Evening Classes ❖

❖ Advanced

upcoming Herbal Classes

For more information on all of our classes, see www.bostonherbalstudies.com Arlington, MA ❖ 781.646.6319

9/20: 9/21: 10/3: 10/10: 10/17: 10/19:

Making Goat Milk Soap Aromatherapy Certification Course Healthy Gums and Teeth Mushroom Medicine Herbal First Aid Natural Baby and Toddler Care

Ayurveda and yoga reunite. Our seaside Newport campus in Rhode Island provides a beautiful space for students to enliven and amplify the natural intelligence of the healing process within others and within themselves.

Join our yoga community as we study, practice and share the transformative benefits of Yoga. All levels of ability and experience are welcome to an environment that is safe and open to diversity in body, mind and spirit. Therapeutic, scientific and heartcentered in our approach, we unite in our desire to understand and live Yoga’s five branches.

• Weekend Intensives

Energy Medicine Practitioner Certificate Program

Workshops with Ed Langan

The program is offered via teleconference or live sessions and prepares people to work in the expanding field of life and business coaching and its many variations. The training process is deep and rich, supporting the coach trainee in stepping fully into the field, through personal and shared processes, didactic training and on-going cocoaching practice. This program will begin again in the late summer/fall.

• Monthly Workshops

New England’s Premier Personal Growth and

ChangeYour Life

These leading-edge workshops are taught

by Ed Langan, author of Creating with the Law of Attraction: 10 Principles that will Change Your Life.

B American Massage Therapy Association Member

Sacred Stone School for Allied Massage& Ayurveda: S.A.M.A. SAMA is a consciousness-based massage school inspired by the matrix between science and art; where ancient wisdom meets modern medicine; where massage,

New England Institute of Reflexology & Universal Studies v Professional Reflexology Certification and Approved Continuing Education in Reflexology, Massage, and Reiki v Integrative techniques give students a strong foundation and create a balanced treatment style v Students qualify as professional therapists upon completion

B National Ayurvedic Medical Association (NAMA) pending approval B Approved by the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage 79 Thames St., Newport, RI Karyn@sacredstonehealing.com www.samanewport.com B 877-832-1372

v Courses meet state and national standards; CE’s approved from ARCB and NCBTMB. School is licensed by Commonwealth of MA, Dept. of Education Our goal is to act as a bridge between complimentary and conventional medicine through the training of qualified holistic practitioners. Join us! ~ Now teaching Reflexology at ~ All That Matters in Wakefield, RI Cortiva Massage School in Watertown, MA www.walkinbalance.com v 508-317-3044 v

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Massage | Aesthetics Polarity | RYSE Ipswich • Plymouth • Westboro You deserve an education that honors who you are and who you are becoming.

A great education is spiritually transforming: You overcome your limitations and realize your highest potential, at the same time you learn the foundation and skills to succeed.

Excellent education is not by chance; it comes from years of listening to employers, graduates and students to find the best way to teach the most valuable information to make you successful.

As a leader in energy medicine and

energy based education since 1980, Nancy Risley recognizes that your education is a transformational healing process. As a successful therapist, author and teacher, her vision is to help you realize your dream of work that is creative and supports all aspects of who you are. Whether you work in a spa, clinic, or have your own business, you gain the required skills to create satisfaction as well as increased flexibility, control and income.

The next step to fulfilling your future is to call for a no obligation, information interview with our Career Advisor. We look forward to meeting you and learning about your future.

Programs take from 4 to 12 months, depending on your schedule: Full-time, mother’s hours or part-time evenings.

Accredited. Licensed. Financial Aid available for qualified students.

800-262-8530 v www.spatech.edu

Coaching A strengths-based, forward-looking approach that will help you develop strategies to move aspirations into actionable plans.

“I believe each of us has at our core a fundamental sense of self and we are at our happiest and most productive when our day-to-day lives align with this inner core.”

lisa borchetta, macp, cmc, aCC Are you...

In transition: divorce, career change, etc.?

Seeking clarity and re-connection with your core?

Pursuing personal and professional goals?

Actualize the change you seek.

A Love Coach

Edie Blue, M.S., CLAC ◆

Are you recovering from a breakup?

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Tired of the dating drain?

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Haven’t had a date in ages?

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Would love to meet your soulmate?

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Lisa Borchetta is a Certified Mentor Coach and an IFC Certified Life and Executive Coach, public speaker, teacher and published writer, with a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology.

Schedule a complimentary half-hour telephone session!

Individual and Group Sessions In person / Telephone / Skype Firebird Life Coaching r 508-366-2003 www.FirebirdLifeCoaching.com

I would be delighted to assist you in manifesting more love in your life. My coaching will help you to see and feel visible, tangible results. Together, we will co-create a joyful journey to a new love especially tailored for you!

Co-Active

Life Coaching W i t h K at e R i v e r a , C P C C

The life you want is waiting for you.

You have everything inside you to fulfill your dreams and desires—to live a life of authentic happiness and fulfillment. We all do. But sometimes we need a little support to make it happen. This is where having a coach can be useful. A life coach can help you bring your strengths, talents, and fullest self-expression to the surface. I’m a skilled and experienced life coach and I’d like to help you.

The integration of body, mind and spirit is essential for creating grounded and sustainable change. This integrative dimension is the focus of my coaching. My 25 years of holistic bodywork, mindfulness practice, and coaching training/practice support us as we work together to

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Call or email today to schedule a free consultation. We’ll talk about how life coaching can best help you realize your dreams and desires.

Testimonials Kate was the perfect supporter. She helped me to see myself and believe in my value. She created a safe space for me to dream big, take risks and get to where I needed to go. — LB, Dir. of International Enrollment, major university

Working with Kate enabled me to leave a secure and ‘good enough’ job to create the work I really love. — MG, Designer of kids yoga programs The models Kate and I developed for self awareness, decision making, and time and energy management fueled and sustained the confidence I needed to succeed in my new role. — AW, Asst. Dir. of Charitable Giving, major corporation

Kate Rivera, CPCC Certified Professional Life Coach

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Spiritual Teacher Kristin Kirk After experiencing a dramatic shift in consciousness, Kristin began healing within the multidimensional soul and universe.

She works in unison with a team of spirit guides to transform the soul by releasing layers of density, old trauma, and conditioning, that have hindered a brighter and clearer expression of the Radiant Self.

Andrea Seiver, Ph.D. Channeled Readings Classes

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effectively design a program that’s right for you—a program that will help you use your strengths and talents to best express yourself, achieve your goals and have the life you want.

Have you spoken with an ascended master recently? Vywamus, channeled by Andrea Seiver, is a master and teacher who is working to help all humans make the shift into the higher levels of consciousness.

Readings with Vywamus cover your life work, relationships, past lives, and other

This may occur as soul clearing, past life and current life healing, emotional and mental release, balancing of subtle energetic anatomy, integration of multidimensional consciousness, embodiment support, and channeled guidance.

With 20 years in practice, Kristin offers healing sessions, both long distance, and locally, for individuals, couples, groups, pets, loved ones, and those who have passed on.

She also offers ‘Journey Into Awakening’, a transformational and educational series to support and facilitate the awakening process. www.kristinkirk.com

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issues with his characteristic warmth, humor, and practical advice.

Channeled Classes and Spiritual Tutoring help you personally evolve and begin to live in a state of higher consciousness.

Evenings with Vywamus: Vywamus shares his energy and discusses your questions on topics of general interest. Donation $10.

Other Classes: Learn to Channel • Advanced Channeling For information, contact Andrea at 617-332-1541 • www.andreaseiver.com Available Now! The Next Big Bang: The Explosion of Human Consciousness A Vywamus Book Read more at www.andreaseiver.com

Counseling and Therapy Center of the Heart Whole Health Integration

Joan Holzman, Psy. D. Lic. Psychologist, Lic. Marriage and Family Therapist Dance/Movement Therapist From the time we are very young we take life’s experiences to heart. Over time we may forget our core, hurts and feelings, but they remain with us. Our heartfelt experiences help shape our sense of self and our interactions with others.

I offer a variety of modalities such as: EMDR, Sandtray Therapy, Relaxation Techniques, Therapeutic Movement & Psychotherapy to help heal our core issues and attain a more integrated sense of health and well being. I look forward to meeting you.

Client Comments: s Sandtray – “Sand tray therapy helped me see my life more clearly.” s EMDR – “I had insights I never had before.” s Therapeutic Movement – “It was great to feel the freedom in my body after working with you.”

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Holistic Psychotherapy Dedicated to the freedom to explore and express the authentic self.

Jonathan Chisholm, MA Present moment awareness is the technique and goal of this psychotherapeutic process. Healing begins as you learn to be fully aware of and respectful to your own inner state while being present with another person. In this way, you can learn to let go of old relational habits and the self-limiting beliefs that lead to them. You can genuinely address various addictions and learn to release the traumas and hurts that underlie them.

Emotions that were once overwhelming become

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Holistic Counseling Concepts

Learn perspectives for living and loving that expect opportunities even during challenging times. You can’t thrive on problems but you can thrive on the wisdom, understanding and compassion gained from them.

Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed.

Dr. Trish Whynot is a holistic counselor, speaker and author of “Why Me? Why Now? WHY NOT? Finding Opportunity in Your Obstacles.” Visit www.TrishWhynot.com for ordering information.

Doctor of C.O.R.E. Education Dr. Trish Whynot’s way incorporates ASAT™ C.O.R.E. Counseling, meditative

techniques and wise guidance that comes through the Mineral Kingdom.

Eliminate the root of physical, social, and financial problems: Discover, address, and release issues blocking health and wealth.

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Body-Centered Psychotherapy Listen to your body…follow your heart.

The heart is the first organ to form in the body, and is the organizing factor for physical formation, including brain formation. Trauma, deprivation or neglect creates heart wounds, which keep us from accessing our deepest selves.

Emotional-Kinesthetic Psychotherapy (EKP) facilitates an emotional, energetic rewiring, helping us activate and express the power of the heart. Emotional safety,

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words, touch, meditation, movement, presence and silence facilitate verbal and non-verbal expression. Meaningful work, fulfilling relationships, self-esteem, purpose and passion, love, intimacy and sexuality follow. Straight, GLBT and poly-friendly.

Coaching for soul-centered living. Body psychotherapy groups Sunday nights in Newton. Apprenticeship training.

Books: Living with Vision, and Healing the War Between the Genders Blog: www.heartspacecafe.com/blog Mediation for couples and families.

Coaching for soul-centered living. Body psychotherapy groups. Apprenticeship training.

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Do you have a belief that, inside of you, you have the potential that yearns to be released?

For most, a fleeting glimpse is all they’ll ever have. For others, there is a way. Just imagine…releasing your true potential.

Work­ing together, one-on-one, you can over-

a guide to who you are and what you need from life. As you begin to respect your feelings and perceptions as valid, you realize you are free to live your life in a way that naturally flows from who you are. You become yourself.

This work must be done gently. You will need the guidance of someone who will keep you on task but at the same time allow you to go at a pace that feels safe. You need someone you can learn to trust. We enter into a collaboration that is itself a form of meditation. By learning to be present to each other in the therapeutic setting, a new possibility for being in the world emerges.

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come problems that have kept you from achieving your goals and desires.

Unlock your potential! Restore inner bal­ance!

Come alive!

Barbara Madden Johnson, M.A., C.A.G.S., L.R.C., L.P.C., a certified master practitioner and licensed trainer in Neuro Linguistic Programming, has over 25 years experience helping individuals with: u Career and identity is­sues u Immune and autoimmune illnesses u Chronic fatigue syndrome u Depression u Learning disabilities and ADD u Relationships u NLP Certification Training Program u Bel­mont, MA. Some insurance accepted.

For an appointment, call 617-484-1716.

Weekly Group and Various Workshops Offered

Glenn utilizes heart-centered therapeutic techniques, and at times powerfully combines hypnosis and psychotherapy. This method is safe, effective and faster than using only talk therapy. The results will amaze you! You’ll notice a huge change in your life as he works with you to make your goals a reality.

Don’t wait! Call now to set up your FREE initial consultation. It’s time to create the change you desire.

Conveniently located near the commuter rail in Needham. Just a short drive from Rte. 128/I-95

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Helping People Live Better Lives Glenn Bigonet, M.A. Mental Health Counselor Clinical Hypnotherapist

Life Coaching

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Holistic Psychotherapy & Life Coaching Lori Miller-Freitas, LICSW

Holistic Psychotherapy/Clinical Consultation

Using extensive professional experience to resolve issues related to: Trauma, Grief, PTSD, Anxiety and Phobias, ADD.

Get to the core — Transform your life!

You are on this earth to be happy and realize your true potential.

Certifications: LICSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists. Visa/MC acccepted.

EMDR R TAT R Hypnosis R Reiki I use a combination of traditional, body centered and energy therapies to increase the speed and deepen the level of holistic healing.

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Helen Thorgalsen, D.C. Edu ASAT C.O.R.E. Counselor

Do you find yourself saying “I want to feel better”?

Dr. Helen Thorgalsen is an ASAT™ Doctor of C.O.R.E. Education. C.O.R.E. is the roadmap to finding the root cause of patterns we repeat over and over. It is an opportunity to shift your perceptions and bring more joy and happiness into your life.

Helen has created “I Want to Feel Better” because she believes we all have issues of some sort that we want to resolve to

allow ourselves to feel better. Whether it is nutrition and wellness, repeating negative patterns, your spiritual journey or addressing addictions, there are changes big and small we can make to ‘Feel Better.’

Helen finds that through listening and opening to divine guidance she is able to help clients gain new clarity, heal the past and move to a new level of love and joy.

Let Helen be your guide to Feeling Better, finding more joy in your life and having more fun! Expect the Unexpected!

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Libby Barnett, MSW, RMT Awaken Your Healing Touch Libby is a gifted, knowledgeable Reiki Master with 33 years experience. Libby learned Reiki from John Harvey Gray in 1979, and is the longest practicing Reiki Master Teacher on the East Coast. Her book, Reiki Energy Medicine, Bringing Healing Touch into Home, Hospital, and Hospice has sold over 70,000 copies in five languages.

Use Reiki to create more joy, ease, and happiness. Let Libby’s warm, heart-centered approach help you take your next step toward self-love and inner peace. Reiki brings balance and harmony, supporting you doing the work you were born to do.

Reiki facilitates transitions, promotes creativity and wisdom, and accelerates spiritual growth, helping you manifest your magnificence.

Libby has been teaching Reiki at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health for 14 years.

She has taught medical and nursing students at Harvard, Brown, Tufts, and Yale, as well as staff at Mass General, Brigham and Women’s, Beth Israel, Mt. Auburn, Emerson, Dartmouth-Hitchcock, Southern New Hampshire, New York Columbia Presbyterian hospitals, and social workers at the University of Maryland. Libby was featured in a Reiki segment for the PBS nationally televised series, Body and Soul.

“Libby has a beautiful way of teaching and creates a perfect atmosphere for healing and learning.”

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"My commitment to teach the Usui System of Reiki Healing in the authentic, traditional manner inspired me to visit Japan to retrace the roots of Reiki. I am dedicated to teaching this sacred healing art to promote health and conscious living on the planet. I invite you to give yourself the gift of Reiki. It is an easy, effective self-care tool to love, heal, and empower yourself. I look forward to meeting you and sharing Reiki.”

Reiki I, Boston Area Classes: Newton, MA: Sept. 21 or Nov. 16 Concord, MA: Oct. 19 Reiki I, Wilton, NH Classes: Sept. 28 or Dec. 7 Reiki II Class on day folowing Reiki I Class Reiki Master, Wilton, NH Classes: Oct. 12; Graduates of other Reiki teachers welcome.

All credit cards accepted.

Social Work, Nursing and Massage contact hours/CEU’s available. Reiki Master Teacher Training info available on request.

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Healing and Bodywork One of Libby’s passions is teaching hospice staff and volunteers. Fueled by Reiki energy, their healing touch is enhanced, creating greater effectiveness in calming agitation, soothing pain and providing comfort.

In class, a powerful slide presentation captures the essence of Reiki and highlights the latest research. Reiki stories from Libby’s extensive experience will uplift and inspire you, showing how anyone can learn Reiki. You receive attunements and practice giving and receiving Reiki. You leave class with an illustrated notebook, certificate, and Reiki pin, fully trained and certified to do Reiki on yourself, family, friends, and animals. “Hands on, Reiki’s on.”

Union, returning 13 times, as well as to thousands of people in medical, religious and educational settings throughout the Caribbean, Europe and Middle East since 1989.

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Lourdes Gray, Ph.D. Awaken your healing skills immediately and be a powerful channel for Reiki energy!

The John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing was established by John Harvey Gray and Dr. Lourdes Gray in 1996 to empower and develop a student’s capacity for healing. The Center offers the most thorough Reiki healing training available, ‘with no cut corners’, as it was taught by Mrs. Hawayo Takata. John Harvey Gray received his entire Reiki training from Hawayo Takata. He was one of the original 22 Reiki Master Teachers trained by her.

He was also the longest-practicing Reiki Master Teacher in the Western Hemisphere until his passing into spirit on January 12, 2011.

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Massage Therapists need to take care of THEMSELVES , as well as their clients and businesses; that’s why I’m offering a 30% discount to licensed and student MTs! I took my first AMTA workshop in 1983, bought the recommended text, and began to practice informally with actors, dancers, and later, with co-workers.

“The Noble Method,” (a phrase coined by a college friend) is the synthesis of everything I’ve ever learned about the human body, structure and function, sports, first aid and movement theory. (My BA is in Dramatic Arts.) I graduated from Cortiva in 2010 and I’ve been located on the Boston waterfront since 2011.

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Lourdes was initiated by John Harvey Gray as a Reiki Master Teacher in 1996 after intensive one-on-one training by John Harvey Gray. As a Reiki Master Teacher, Lourdes has taught over 700 Reiki workshops and trained more than 8,000 Reiki students to date and serves as the director of the John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing.

Each workshop consists of two full days of learning and hands-on practice. You will immediately be able to effectively channel Reiki healing energy for yourself, others and pets. In Reiki First Degree you will: ✴ Quickly and easily develop your natural,

intuitive powers. Within minutes, be able to scan and feel a person’s aura and chakras for analysis. ✴ Effectively treat any condition with Reiki energy— physical, emotional or spiritual, chronic or acute. ✴ Immediately be an effective Reiki healer, confidently bringing comfort and calm to family, friends, clients and pets ✴ Receive a training manual & certificate.

The John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing P.O. Box 696, Rindge, NH 03461 Visa/MC Accepted See Full Class Schedule: www.learnreiki.org ✴ 603-899-3288

Bringing complimentary and alternative care to our community... We are a dedicated and professional group of practitioners providing compassionate care to assist our clients on their journey to wellness.

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Time creates a mask of tension and habitual expression. Facial Rejuvenation is a restorative and relaxing process which uses massage, reflexology and carefully designed patterns of touch to remove this mask and release stress and tension throughout the body. The effect of this work is to free your true smile, aliveness, and radiance.

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able to create very powerful healing processes for hundreds of satisfied clients both within the physical confines of his office, and remotely throughout the entire world. There are many clinically documented cases of spontaneous healing performed by him.

Located at 121 B Tremont Street, Suite 19, Brighton, MA 02135. For those who are unable to come to my office, home or hospital visits are available. Major credit cards accepted.

By combining traditional healing methods such as Reiki, hypnosis, and polarity therapy with his original white light healing therapy, Mark Levin was

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Devoted to helping you feel better.

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Our offerings include Acupuncture and Cupping, Ear Candling, Facial Rejuvination, Holistic Health Coaching, Mayan Abdominal Massage, Massage Therapy, Reflexology Reiki, Polarity, Eden Energy Healing, Wardrobe Consulting/Coaching, Holistic Life Counseling and more!

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Energy Healer Reiki Master Certified Hypnotherapist Mark Levin specializes in:

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True wellness occurs when all parts of ourselves have released and healed. Healings address everyday problems, whether they are physical, emotional, mental, behavioral or spiritual. By resolving negative issues and patterns, clients will experience renewed opportunities to live the life of their dreams.

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Awaken your dreams for yourself and for the life you want.

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Eye of the Eagle Center for Spiritual light

Leontine Hartzell is a trained shamanic practitioner and counselor, Usui and Karuna Reiki Master, certified therapeutic ener­gy healer, crystal and sound therapist, plant spirit medicine practitioner, psychic channeler, and legally ordained minister.

With the help of her spirit guides,

Leontine uses soul retrieval, removal and healing of energy blocks, chakra balancing, intuitive counseling, guided imagery, and energy healing methods to heal posttraumatic stress and related disorders, depression, chronic pain and illness, anxiety, grief, and addictive behaviors.

Past life issues and current life traumas that affect the client’s physical, emotional, and spiritual health are healed to allow the client to move into a life of joy and fulfillment.

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Holistic Medical Natural Family Health & Integrative Medicine Dr. Jody E. Noé MS, ND Dr. Jody E. Noé, MS, ND is a Licensed, Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor, fulltime, academic and clinical faculty at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine, and is a published natural medicine researcher. Dr. Noé has been in practice for over 15 years and is a specialist in Integrative Medicine, and Naturopathic Oncology.

Naturopathic Doctors (NDs) are trained at accredited naturopathic medical schools, which are 4-year post graduate medical schools accredited by the US Dept. of Education. These medically-trained Naturopathic Doctors are trained as primary care doctors where they can order labs, diagnostics and diagnostic imaging, perform physical examinations, and refer to specialists when indicated.

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Gifted Psychic, Medium and Channel A renown intuitive advisor for the past 24 years, Emma is a gifted psychic, medium, and channel and has worked for the corporate sector with a highlight including helping an oil tycoon land a multi-million oil

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Receive a reading for relationships, fertility, finding a job, investment strategy, and just about anything!

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better future for yourself and your loved ones. I connect with the Spirit realms and pass on loving messages, bring comfort, healing and a sense of peace to those grieving for loved ones. I have received the most remarkable gift of being able to communicate with the other side. My compassion, wisdom and calming nature allows my clients to feel comfortable and at ease, as I pass along incredibly accurate and personal information. I reinforce the hope that our departed loved ones are always around us, and that the spirit lives on.

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“I would be honored to read for you.” www.psychicmediumkelle.com 978-420-8213

To schedule an appointment, or for directions, call or visit Emma online.

Friend Emma Tracey Phaneuf on FaceBook!

EmmaPhaneuf.com v 401-305-7702

Connecting you with your Angelic Dream Team, creating your Happily Ever After Angel Readings S Past Life Regression Angel Therapy® S Reiki S Hypnotherapy

at Angeltouche

Internationally known for her work with people via phone, in person, and radio, Jocelyn has been helping and guiding others for over 24 yrs.

Known for her ability to “cut to the quick” Jocelyn gives you information you can use for all aspects of your life.

veravolfson@gmail.com T 508.397.6098

At Whole Health and Nutrition, we offer a Customized Health Plan tailored to your own health goals and concerns. Your plan will include a personal food journal, customized dietary and lifestyle recommendations, as well as informational handouts. Consultations can be done via office, phone or Skype.

Leanne J. Sotir, PhD, RNCP

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Intuitive Guidance for Your Life

If you are ready to take a journey into yourself and hear your story with fresh ears, you will come out with options, tools, and choices you may not have seen on your own.

Holistic approach to healing and wellness

Nutrition Whole Health and Nutrition

Jocelyn

Private sessions in person or distance by phone and e-mail.

Classes and workshops ~ North Attleboro, MA

Psychic Readings

Need insight and clarity?

A soul reading can help! By speaking directly to your guides, we will examine your life from a spiritual perspective to discover your life’s purpose and resolve issues about relationships, health, finances and career.

Lisa Campion also teaches Psychic Development and Reiki Classes.

Offices located at Solstice Healing Arts Center, Medway MA.

Are you in the middle of a change, crisis or transformation?

lisa@lisacampion.com www.lisacampion.com c 508-473-0609

Energy Healings Reiki Classes Lisa Campion

Nancy@Angeltouche.com www.Angeltouche.com S 508-577-4552 Readings continued

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Readings continued See Julie Ann and Laura Wooster at the Natural Living Expo Nov. 16-17 ~ Marlborough, MA Visit Booth #202 -------------------------------------SAVE $5 off your reading!

Bring this ad to the expo.

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Julie Ann Evidential Medium, Psychic and Healer Mediumistic, Spiritual, Psychic & Channeled Readings Trained at the Arthur Findlay College in England Individual or Group Sessions Fundraising Events

For appointments contact Julie Ann directly: JulieAnn@HooksettMetaphysical.com 978.387.5306 Or book a session with Julie Ann directly at: Circles of Wisdom: www.goo.gl/47jnR Major credit cards accepted. www.HooksettMetaphysical.com

Spiritual Practices The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism embraces a religious and spiritual belief blending ancient wisdom with contemporary thought.

Conveniently located off Watertown Square at the Masonic Center, 32 Church St, services are held at 10:30 am every Sunday, with mediumship, live music, inspirational talks, and healing by the laying on of hands.

As an evolving spiritual community, The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism offers weekday evening classes in mediumship, healing and meditation; Medium’s Day the 4th Saturday of every month; plus seminars and workshops throughout the year.

For a detailed brochure, a listing of upcoming events, or to speak with the Pastor call 617-923-4334, or visit our website at: www.GreaterBostonChurchofSpiritualism. com.

An affiliate of the American Federation of Spiritualist Churches and the International Spiritualist Federation.

Retreats and Retreat Centers

Women Helping Women Reconnect to their Spiritual Center Cozy! Affordable! Welcoming!

“All roads lead to the same Truth” 82 Healdville Road, Hubbardston, MA www.gatheringinn.org g 978-820-1139

Salons and Spas Dedicated to natural products and services that enhance inner and outer beauty while preserving the Earth’s resources.

We’ve united talent with beauty and style, concern for environmental sustainability, and passion for natural living to create an eco-friendly salon experience in the heart of Central, MA.

The Oneness Blessing frees the senses from the constant chatter of the mind, bringing clarity and spontaneous feelings of love, joy, peace and inner silence. It dissolves negative patterns, releases traumas stored at the cellular and energetic levels, and facilitates deep emotional physical healing. Eventually the process brings a permanent end to personal suffering and full Awakening to the very highest states of consciousness.

Offering rest and renewal for individual women and small groups through day-long or overnight retreats, nurture, stillness and meditation, as well as gathering spaces for Yoga classes, holistic workshops and transformative programs.

See full schedule online. Nourishing meals available on site. Enjoy our Labyrinth, Meditation Garden, and Medicine Wheel.

Beauty is more than skin deep and what you use on your body stays with you. We seek out organic products and our professional color and styling systems will always be non-toxic and ammonia-free.

Start your Neurobiological Shift www.onenessma.org/awaken The Oneness Blessing is a direct transfer of intelligent sacred energy, which causes the heart to flower and the mind to quiet. It initiates a neurobiological change in the brain.

~ COMING SOON TO WORCESTER, MA! ~ To stay updated on grand opening specials: facebook.com/ecocentricsalon twitter.com/ecocentricsalon www.EcoCentricSalon.com

Voted Best Salon in Greater Sturbridge 2011-12 Free Wi-Fi

A Cruelty-Free Salon

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Vegan-Owned L Organic Hair, Nails Airbrush Makeup L Organic Body Products Weddings are our specialty!

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Meet us at the Natural Living Expo, Nov. 16-17. Visit Booth #16

Yoga, Tai Chi and Fitness founder, received a deep and well-rounded training from Master Lai Hok Soon in Hong Kong and then as a disciple of Yang Sau Chung, first-born and heir of the legendary Yang Cheng Fu.

Do your part — get Green Hair!

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We have regular large group events and smaller blessing circles within the Oneness Massachusetts group – check our website: OnenessMA.org for details and locations.

Sign up for our newsletter and get email invitations to our large events.

New Location!

232 Chandler St, Worcester, MA (upstairs from The Living Earth and Evo) 538 Main St, Fiskdale (Sturbridge), MA www.greenhaircompany.com Find us on Facebook! L 508-347-7273

Gin Soon Tai Chi Chuan Federation The oldest Tai Chi school in New England, the Gin Soon Tai Chi Club was founded in 1969, authorized by Grandmaster Yang Sau Chung to propagate Classical Yang Family Style Tai Chi Chuan in North America. Grandmaster Gin Soon Chu,

The school has attracted many students from around the world with its traditional approach to training: individual attention, emphasis on correct forms, personal development, repetition, mutual respect, hard work, and integration of body, mind, and qi.

All instruction is by Grandmaster Chu and his sons Master Vincent Chu and Gordon Chu. Gin Soon Tai Chi Chuan Federation 33 Harrison Ave., 2nd fl, Boston, MA 02111 617-542-4442 • www.gstaichi.org

ANGELS

MEDICAL INTUITIVE (cont.)

Ross J. Miller, psychic. Meet your angels and spirit guides.

Visit www.The MysticWay.com. 617-527-3583

Elizabeth Thorson RN, Certified by C. Myss and Norman Shealy, MD. elizabeththorson.com. 207-712-9495.

ANIMAL SERVICES

NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS

Sharon R. Doolittle, DVM, Inc. Holistic. Smithfield, RI. 401-349-2668. www.holisticanimalvet.com

Dr. Jody Noe, MS, ND. Naturopathic integrative medicine.

860-495-5688. www.drjodyenoe.com

Main Street Animal Services of Hopkinton (MASH).

Dr. Margo Roman. 508-435-4077. www.mashvet.com.

NUMEROLOGY

CERTIFICATIONS

Kathy Bernstein. 35 years of experience. 401-338-1317. www.numerologypro.com.

Florence Whipple and Kristin Webb, Reiki Masters.

Reiki classes. 978-777-5732. www.reikiprofessors.net

PAST LIFE THERAPY

Hypnotherapy, NLP, Reiki, IET and crystal healing.

508-539-2885. www.capecodcenterforwholehealth.com.

CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND SERVICES Touchstone Community School. Education for ages 4-14 Grafton, MA. www.touchstoneschool.com. 508-839-0038.

COLON HYDROTHERAPY Genesis Alternative Health. 30 years of experience. I-ACT certified instructor. NBCHT certified. 978-463-8800.

Body Balancing Center. I-ACT and National Board certified.

508-868-3624. www.bodybalancingcenter.com.

Healthy Spirit. Stephanie Dumas. I-ACT certified.

781-860-5116. healthyspirit@verizon.net.

The Natural Path. Annette Cormier. Hudson, MA. ancormier01@aol.com. Text: (978) 855-3056.

Sage Guided Colon Therapy. I-ACT and NBCHT certified.

LifetimeHealth@ColonLove.com. 617-710-1337. Cambridge.

COUNSELING AND THERAPY Joel Perlmutter, Ph.D. Licensed 35 yrs. Stress, anxiety, relationships. Stow & Shrewsbury, MA. Putnam, CT. 978-897-9797.

Raise your consciousness with Celestial Psychology®.

Celeste Mattingly, LCSW. www.celestialpsychology.com.

Holistic Specialities DIRECTORY

Ross J. Miller. Relive past lives and release blocked energy.

617-527-3583. www.The MysticWay.com

READINGS Beth Ann Fisher. Spiritual Energy Consultant. 25 years experience. www.bethannfisher.com.

REIKI Libby Barnett, MSW, Reiki Master Teacher. 603-654-2787 www.reikienergy.com. CEU’s.

Florence Whipple and Kristin Webb, Reiki Masters.

Reiki classes. 978-777-5732. www.reikiprofessors.net.

Gentle Spirit Reiki. Using your “inner wisdom” to heal.

Beverly Healing Center. 978-473-1863.

Deana Paqua, shamanic Reiki, sessions and classes, www.embodythesacred.net. 203-994-5045 The John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing.

603-899-3288. www.learnreiki.org. Reiki training. CEU’s.

RETREATS Brahma Kumaris Peace Village Retreat Center. Haines Falls, NY. 518-589-5000. www.peacevillage.com Still Waters Pond, Connecticut’s most private retreat center.

Voluntown, CT. www.retreatcenterct.com

CRYSTAL ENERGY WORK

Wild Dolphin Swims. Yoga, healthy food, Atlantean legends. www.wildquest.com. 800-326-1618

CrystalConcentrics.com. Workshops, meditations, one-onone, distance work. (617) 771-5119.

SALONS AND SPAS

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY TREATMENT

Raffa Yoga Urban Sweat, Cranston, RI. Yoga, saunas, steam rooms, therapeutic services. www.raffayoga.com

Healed in 2 Hours. Ross J. Miller, psychic healer. 617-527-3583. www.TheMysticWay.com.

SPIRITUAL EDUCATION

FENG SHUI

Mystical conversations between body and spirit. Correspondence courses. www.heartofthemystic.com.

Urban Eden. Transform and empower your home/work spaces. karenfeldmanurbaneden.com. 401-351-5632.

VISION IMPROVEMENT

GHOSTS REMOVED

Coleman Natural Vision. Boston/Plymouth, MA. Shavasana your eyes. www.eyesonyoga.com

From Your Home/Aura. Ross J. Miller, psychic medium, healer. Call 617-527-3583. www. The MysticWay.com

Rosemary Gaddum Gordon, MA. Cambridge, MA and Portsmouth, NH. www.visioneducators.com.

HEALING CENTERS

YOGA

Forest Circles, retreats, programs in a magical Maine forest. www.forestcircles.com

Innerlight Center for Yoga and Meditation. Middletown, RI. Over 50 yoga classes weekly. www.innerlightyoga.com.

MEDICAL INTUITIVE

Wellness Works Yoga, Fern Lee, Worcester. 508-298-7836. www.WWYoga.com. Est. 1992.

Intuitive healing with Wendy Marks. Over 25 years of experience. wendymarks.com. 781-449-5368.

Sue Singleton. 20+ years accurately finding Root Cause.

978-834-0341. TheWayToBalance.com

Worcester Yoga Center. Ann Bissanti, CYT. 30 years experience Iyengar yoga. 508-829-6300.

Add your business to this directory by emailing advertise@spiritofchange.org or call (508) 278-9640. Next deadline: October 15, 2013. www.spiritofchange.org

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ASTROLOGY The Daily Astrology Reading. Visit www.spiritofchange.org to read the daily astrology reading.

AUDIO CDs Custom audio CDs made from your old records and tapes. LPs, 45s and 78s cleaned and remastered without the clicks and surface noise. Cassettes and reel-to-reel tapes professionally converted. www.CustomAudioCDs.com.

(858) 346-1520. Mention SOC and get free shipping on your first order!

BOOKS The Death and Resurrection of the West: Secrets in Biblical Symbols (2013).

Why God will use His un-churched children to create a higher culture, now — with women leading the change. 4 chapters free at deathreswest.ca.

CALENDARS The Lunar Calendar: Dedicated to the Goddess in Her Many Guises. 32 pages, complete moon data, 26 artists and poets.

Promoting lunar literacy since 1976.

Postpaid $30; discounts begin at 2 copies. Luna Press, PO Box 15511 Kenmore Station, Boston, MA 02215-0009; (617) 3278000. www.thelunapress.com. Look up!

Classifieds CRYSTALS

Finest Energy Stones, classes, one-on-one, including distance work, and meditations.

Email CrystalConcentrics@gmail.com.

Visit www.CrystalConcentrics.com. Call 617-771-5119.

Down to Earth Crystals and Minerals.

Visit booth #616 at the Natural Living Expo, November 16-17. Quality crystals at reasonable prices!

DOWSING All About Dowsing. Through dowsing discover more about yourself and your health. Self-instructional DVD’s, books, instruments. www.dowsing.com. (805) 649-5721. Catalog: PO Box 30305, Santa Barbara, CA 93130.

PYRAMIDS All About Pyramids. Wellness, meditation/experimental tabletop models.

Worldwide research. (805) 649-5721. www.dowsing.com. Catalog: P.O. Box 30305, Santa Barbara, CA 93130.

READINGS Medical Intuitive Scans. For insight and peace of mind. Higher Light Imaging. www.HigherLightImaging.com

SPIRITUAL GROWTH

Multi-Tasker: Marry couples, psychic, hypnotherapist, business consultant, plus accounting/bookkeeping service. Many years experience in all. Contact Linda at (781) 599-8275.

The “Way of Mastery” with David Schock: workshops, private sessions, Jeshua channelings, Reiki, yoga, soul readings. david@davidschock.com. (401) 783-5861.

St. Martin Hypnotherapy & Reiki Center Plymouth, mA

CLASSES Upper Cape Tech in Bourne, MA near Cape Cod Canal is a leading provider of career training offering culinary arts, technical, trade, nurse’s aide, health careers, computers, nail tech, business careers, paralegal, 600+ online, healing, real estate, and more.

Visit www.uppercapetech.cc or call (508) 759-7711, ext. 211 for details.

For over 50 years, I have helped others and myself live a better life including dealing with cancer.

Complete Healing

Miracles Do Happen!

CLEANING SERVICE

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Hypnosis Certification Training Course. Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists. (978) 854-5014. www.InspirationsHypnosis.com

HEALING

Distant Healing • Reiki Treatments

Cleaning Maid Easy. 20 years experience.

Excellent references. Non-toxic cleaning products only. Serving Framingham, Natick, Ashland, Sherborn, Franklin, Medway, Hopkinton, Southboro and Holliston. Call Tina 508-309-3328

HYPNOSIS

Frank St. Martin

HYPNOTHERAPY FOCUSING ON BETTER HEALTH

I believe I can help you:

(774) 773-9153 • (508) 822-9000

VOLUNTEER

Volunteers Needed: Reiki, Massage, Reflexology, Music, Pet Therapy & More

Care Alternative is recruiting volunteers to work with terminally ill patients and their families throughout Massachusetts.

Volunteers receive training and continuing education related to hospice and the support of the Hospice staff.

For information about classes and volunteer opportunities, please call 508-229-8390.

UMass research study needs volunteers for Child and Adolescent Neuro-development Initiative (CANDI). Does your child experience mood swings or have a diagnosis of bipolar disorder? Research study at UMass looking for children aged 8-17. Participants will undergo two noninvasive MRI scans, cognitive testing, and take a daily vitamin D supplement.

Contact ChildResearch@umassmed.edu or call (508) 856-5896.

Our Patients Need Your Help Complementary Therapists Overlook Hospice & Palliative Care is recruiting volunteers to work with our patients and families as they live with life limiting illnesses.

All volunteers receive training and ongoing support and are an integral part of the hospice team of caregivers.

For information or to volunteer, please call our Volunteer Coordinator, Susan Fuller at 508-434-2200.

Volunteer at the 2013 Natural Living Expo in Marlborough, MA. Choose a 3-hour shift on Saturday, Nov. 16 or Sunday, Nov. 17. To join the expo team, email michella@naturalexpo.org.

WILD DOLPHIN SWIMS Swimming with Wild Dolphins. The ultimate human-dolphin connection. Meditative, healing Caribbean Island retreats.

Yoga, healthy food, Atlantean legends. www.wildquest.com. (800) 326-1618.

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Send payment and listings to Spirit of Change, PO Box 405, Uxbridge, MA 01569. Fax: 508-278-9641.

Email advertise@spiritofchange.org Questions? Call (508) 278-9640.

Winter issue deadline is October 15, 2013.

HOLISTIC

MARKETPLACE The Silent Healer Frank St. Martin’s memoir is an adventure into the unknown, where faith, belief and willingness to be a channel for divine healing power result in what many would call “miracles.”

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did you know? Beads are pandemic and pulsing with stories; they represent political, social, religious and cultural beliefs.

According to Webster’s dictionary, a Beadsman/ woman is “one who prays for another’s soul”.

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E DUCATION E XCELLENCE ~Hypnosis Certification~ Weekend/Evening Classes Register Today!

Tina Brigitini: 508-612-7488 www.tinabrigitini.com Classes will be held in West Boylston, MA

Training is approved by the National Guild of Hypnotists

Mary Budrose Full Spectrum Healings Melrose, MA | 781.526.7546 mary@blossomhealings.com www.BlossomHealings.com

Advanced Allergy Center

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INDEX OF ADVERTISERS IN THIS ISSUE A

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A Higher Balance Healing Center.............. 64 Abilities Expo................................................ 49 Abra Therapeutics........................................ 29 Acupuncture of Worcester........................... 56 Acupuncture Plus......................................... 56 Advaita Meditation Center.......................... 58 Advanced Cell Training............................... 34 Advanced Allergy Ctr. of New England....... 69 Cliff Aguirre.................................................. 25 Alternatives for Health................................. 51 An Apple A Day Acupuncture.................... 56 Andromeda’s Alley........................................ 57 Angeltouche.................................................. 65 Nancy Slonim Aronie................................... 16 Arvigo Massage............................................. 47

Eclectic Institute of Aromatherapy and Herbal Studies, The.................................... 58 EcoCentric Salon & Spa............................... 66 Eden Manor................................................... 16 Emerald Yoga................................................ 24 Enchanted Fox.............................................. 26

Judith Mabel.................................................. 14 Margil Family Chiropractic......................... 27 Tina Marian................................................... 11 Market Street Health.................................... 57 Linda Marks.................................................. 61 Wendy Marks................................................ 64 MASH............................................................ 32 Katalin Matyus.............................................. 64 Metrowest Thermal Imaging....................... 18 Ross Miller......................................... 13, 41, 48 Lori Miller-Freitas........................................ 61 Muhammad, David...................................... 28

Scentsibilities................................................. 64 Science of Spirituality.................................. 45 Andrea Seiver................................................ 60 Silver Willow................................................. 57 Simonds-Hurd Complementary Care Ctr.... 57 Small Miracles Preschool............................. 58 Miriam Smith................................................ 50 Solstice Healing Arts.................................... 57 Some Enchanted Evening............................ 50 Sound Therapeutics...................................... 25 Spa Tech............................................... 4, 32, 60 Frank St. Martin...................................... 68, 69 Stillwaters Retreat Center............................ 69 Kelle Sutliff.................................................... 65 Synthesis Center........................................... 59

B Susan Barbera............................................... 28 Libby Barnett................................................. 62 Baylight Homeopathy.................................. 32 Beadniks........................................................ 69 Glenn Bigonet............................................... 61 Black Box Cosmetics.................................... 69 Blue Lotus Healing Arts............................... 56 Edie Blue........................................................ 60 Blossom Healings......................................... 69 Body Balancing Center................................ 50 Boston Alphabiotic Center.......................... 40 Boston Brain Works..................................... 48 Boston Local Food Festival......................... 35 Boston Meditation Group...................... 17,45 Boston School of Herbal Studies, The........ 59 BrightStar Live Events.................................. 25 Tina Brigitini................................................. 69 C Nancy Canning............................................. 45 Care Alternatives Hospice........................... 68 Changing Times Changing Worlds............ 19 Chi For Healing............................................ 34 Jonathan Chisholm................................. 50, 61 Circles of Wisdom........................................ 29 Commonwealth Ctr for Herbal Medicine.... 23 Connecting For Change.............................. 21 Sandy Corcoran............................................ 49 Crystal Cave, The.......................................... 40

F Firebird Life Coaching................................. 60 FourWinds Society, The............................... 39 G Gathering Inn, The....................................... 66 Gemstone Therapy Institute........................ 58 Arthur Gertler............................................... 21 Gin Soon Tai Chi Chuan Federation......... 66 Grateful Heart, The....................................... 24 Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism..... 66 Green Hair Company................................... 66 Groton Wellness Center................................. 6 Arthur Gutkin............................................... 33 H Leontine Hartzell.................................... 46, 64 Healing from the Body Level Up, Inc........... 7 Healthy Spirit................................................ 63 HipSaver.......................................................... 9 Holistic Wellness Center.............................. 63 Joan Holzman............................................... 61 I Inner Traditions............................................ 26 Integrative Animal Health Care Center..... 31 Internal Wellness Center............................. 40 ISKCON Boston............................................. 6 It’s My Health................................................ 69 J Jocelyn............................................................ 65 John Harvey Gray Ctr for Reiki Healing...... 62 Barbara Madden Johnson............................ 61 K Kristin Kirk................................................... 60

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Developmental Alphabiotics....................... 23 Sharon Doolittle............................................ 34 Down to Earth.............................................. 38

Langan Creative Arts, LLC.......................... 59 Mark Levin.................................................... 63 Lifetime Health & Consulting..................... 63 Light Unlimited............................................ 71 Lightworkers Healing Method.................... 27 Eric Linter...................................................... 57 Living Earth, The.......................................... 41

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N Nakri Healing Center................................... 63 Natural Living Expo....................................... 5 Nature’s Rite................................................... 15 New Day Hypnosis & Healing................ 3, 63 New England Clinical Thermography....... 49 New England Inst. of Reflexology.............. 59 Newton Dental Wellness.............................. 51 Nexus Healing............................................... 65 Dr. Jody Noe............................................ 34, 64 Noble Method, The....................................... 62 North Shore Medium................................... 65 O Oasis Healing................................................ 63 Oneness Massachusette............................... 66 Open Doors Yoga.......................................... 57 Overlook........................................................ 68 P Pacifica Graduate Institute.......................... 19 Walter Perlman............................................. 14 Rachel Perry.................................................. 11 Emma Phaneuf............................................. 65 Monique Pommier....................................... 56 Pyramid Books............................................. 47 R Raffa Yoga and Urban Sweat......................... 2 Julie Randazzo............................................... 24 Regina Russell’s Tea Room.......................... 21 Kate Rivera.............................................. 60, 63 Rhys Thomas Inst. of Energy Medicine.... 72, 59 Richer Life Journey....................................... 38 Ruah Cara...................................................... 66 S Sacred Song Reiki......................................... 17 Sacred Stone Massage School...................... 59 Salem Sight Psychic Readings..................... 48 Salve Regina.................................................. 23

T Helen Thorgalsen.......................................... 62 Elizabeth Thorson......................................... 51 Tintagels Gate............................................... 31 Touchstone Community School................. 58 Tranquil Waters Design............................... 24 Christine Tulis............................................... 19 U-V-W Vegan Pact, The............................................. 40 Vera Volfson.................................................. 65 Pat Warren..................................................... 62 Way to Balance, The............................... 29, 64 Kristin Webb/Florence Whipple................. 41 Wellness Roundtable, The............................ 31 We’Moon....................................................... 13 (W)hole Point Institute, The.................. 39, 58 Whole Health and Nutrition....................... 65 Trish Whynot.......................................... 11, 61 Wisdom of the Ages..................................... 46 Woman of Wisdom................................ 11, 57 Cheryl Wright............................................... 64 X-Y-Z Yoga At The Ashram..................................... 18 YogaLife Institute.................................... 38, 59 Youth Transformations................................ 58 Zuzu’s Healing Arts...................................... 17

Winter Issue Advertising Deadline: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 For info: (508) 278-9640 advertise@spiritofchange.org

THE REJUVENIZER Phyllis Light, Ph.D & Telepathic Healer

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