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MUSINGS

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t’s the path of least resistance or the simplest solution to a problem that’s most often the best one. Healthcare is no exception. “First, do no harm,” the bedrock of ethical medicine, hails from the earliest thinkers of healing science who saw the wisdom of good medicine in letting things be; intervene only when absolutely necessary. Life is filled with horrifying, amazing and inspiring accounts of physical endurance; bodies broken beyond repair, then healed; prisoners of war, torture and disaster victims surviving and recovering without medical intervention; patients healing from stage four cancer solely through diet and lifestyle changes or experiencing spontaneous remission through prayer; Harvard Medical School researchers publishing confirmation that, yes, your belief can cure you — the placebo effect is real. We must ask ourselves: If some bodies are capable of healing from within and disease remission without sophisticated medical treatment, what are the chances that every body is similarly endowed? Why would they not be? For thousands of years before the advent of modern surgery and drugs, people relied on ancient healing systems that were so effective many have endured to this day — Ayurveda, yoga, meditation, acupuncture, qigong, martial arts, herbal medicine and shamanism, to name just a few. All include a strong spiritual or energetic healing component, unlike our own modern medicine where those non-empirical elements have no standing because they cannot be measured, recorded and analyzed. By merging spirit and matter in their medical understanding, did these ancient healers have access to secrets of self-healing that we are only just beginning to explore today? According to Buckminster Fuller, the American author, futurist and inventor, “Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid.” With all of our impressive research and scientific understanding about how the human body functions, it may be that the ancients knew something even more important about how we heal. Perhaps there was a time even earlier than our recorded history where we lived in perfect health — the original health condition — and this blueprint for living balanced in body, mind and spirit is encoded in our DNA. In a state of perfect health, not only the body, but the mind and spirit, too, are sustainably self-renewing. Healthy nutritious food and clean water feeds mitochondrial DNA. Plenty of exercise, fresh air and sunshine strengthens the body’s moving parts and eliminates wastes. A positive outlook cultivates a healthy personality, where one voluntarily contributes to making the world a better place. Perfect health not only creates healthy bodies but a healthy world as well; isn’t this exactly the kind of world we all are looking to live in? In “Dark Light Consciousness” this issue, psychologist Edward Bynum reveals how our brains are ingeniously engineered to evolve toward the light of this intelligence, as various traditions throughout history have already discovered. Just because we have not experienced it, does not mean it doesn’t exist. Cultivating perfect health is as much a possibility in our world as suffering with poor health or enjoying wellness. It’s up to us to revive this original healing tradition. Carol Bedrosian is the publisher of Spirit of Change holistic magazine. Visit www.spiritofchange.org.

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tvery generation feels blessed with possibilities and beset with challenges unique to their times. No matter what age you live in the motion of the heavenly bodies remains constant. In an era when economic injustice, broken politics, religious fanaticism and endless wars dominate the news, it is easy to lose sight of and forget the simple marvels that grace our world. This June, if you look into the western sky after sunset you’ll see Venus, Jupiter and Saturn shining like diamonds. Each has a message, a message that constantly changes. Look, breathe in and meditate on these omens, and the planets may speak to you. Keep looking up and later at night, you’ll see a myriad of twinkling stars. Get lucky and you might see one shooting across the sky. If so, make a wish. It is my hope that during the warm summer months you’ll find inspiration in the wonders of the heavens. The vastness of the dazzling Milky Way puts life in perspective.

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The Moon is waxing full as the month begins. A lunar conjunction with retrograding Saturn underscores the importance of knowledge and the need to revisit historical facts and rethink opinions from time to time. The full Strawberry Moon is exact at 12:19pm EDT on Tuesday the 2nd. Arbitrary decisions and unfair rules are particularly galling at this time but debates and discussions may give way to more enlightened and progressive thinking in the coming weeks. Friday the 5th has enormous romantic potential as Venus slips into playful Leo. Long time friendships and lost loves make the weekend of the 6th and 7th memorable. The travel bug is also strong and, with Mercury still retrograde, nostalgia may factor into vacation planning. Uplifting aspects hasten progress in many fields during early June. Numerous scientific and technological advances are likely to be announced. This is a good time to buy a smart phone or new computer. Creative thinking is also encouraged. The pace can be breathtaking. Then a series of energetic shifts occurs. Mercury turns direct on the very busy 11th. Neptune reverts to retrograde motion on Thursday the 12th. Some confusion and controversies are to be expected. Before things can be entirely sorted out the Sun teams up with impulsive Mars on Sunday the 14th. That same evening Saturn retrogrades back into Scorpio, where he’ll linger until September. The lunar cycle is ebbing, too. These are mixed signals and patience is recommended. Think long and hard before taking a stand or making a move. The Gemini new Moon on Tuesday the 16th is the cosmos’ signal to start afresh. Summer Solstice, the day the Sun enters Cancer, is on Sunday the 21st. It’s also Father’s Day in the U.S., time to honor dads for the many contributions they make. Gifts of tools and gadgets will most certainly be appreciated because on Monday Jupiter’s brilliant trine to Uranus supports the intelligent use of technology. The trine also favors spontaneity and innate genius. Follow your heart into uncharted territory this week. Some folks will scratch their heads in wonder when mental Mercury squares Neptune on the 23rd. Keep track of important personal possessions and documents, and pay close attention to schedules and weather reports. Do your best to clarify confusing messages. The

possibility of a love at first sight encounter increases as Venus trines Uranus during the early morning hours of the 29th.

July

On the 1st a full Buck Moon in Capricorn launches the month in dramatic fashion. Venus is also making a fabulous conjunction with Jupiter in Leo. Moods are expansive and generous. The Sun and Moon are both in harmony with Neptune, adding mystery and wonder to the day’s happenings. Be thoughtful about your wishes. Many dreams are on the verge of coming true. The U.S. national holiday weekend begins with perfect travel indicators. Winged Mercury harmonizes with both Uranus and Jupiter. Independence Day auspices suggest a sharp rise in populist movements during the coming year. A party-like atmosphere dominates much of the weekend. On Monday the 6th the Sun is at odds with Pluto. Their opposition marks the start of a destabilizing period. Use subtle suggestions rather than issuing ultimatums. Partnerships have much growth potential if responsibilities as well as rewards are equally shared. Be alert to rivalries on the 8th. Tact can help bring a long sought goal closer to fruition. Uncertainties seem to multiply as the weekend of the 11th and 12th approaches. The Sun is at odds with Uranus on Sunday. Personal, political and geological changes continue through the Cancer new Moon day of Wednesday the 15th. Drive more slowly than usual during this middle of the month period. Guard against impatience and thoughtless actions. Be kind and considerate. Turn the other cheek if you are confronted by someone else’s offensive behavior. Tensions finally ease on Monday the 20th. The Sun enters Leo on the 22nd and winged Mercury joins the Sun in the regal sign of the lion the next morning. Optimism and peaceful relations brighten the 23rd. Venus has been slowing for the past two weeks and turns retrograde at 0 degrees of Virgo on Saturday the 25th. With Jupiter and Venus in close proximity there’s lots of love to spread around. However, Mars is in an ominous square to Uranus, and Uranus is also poised to turn retrograde. Watch your temper. Use caution around machines and while driving. Venus will retrograde until September 6th. Uranus retrogrades from July 26th through the end of December. We can expect to do some catching up with family, friends and lovers during these retrogrades. The month’s second full Moon is during the morning of the 31st. This Blue Moon is in Aquarius, the visionary sign of friendship, community, science and technology. Venus slides back into Leo the same day. A good many reunions are under way, including karmic meetings with soul mates and spiritual teachers.

August

Saturn, retrograde since mid-March and having backed up from early Sagittarius into Scorpio, resumes forward motion on Sunday the 2nd. This summer is a great time to resolve nagging financial issues, clear up old resentments, forgive hurts, forget and move on. It may prove helpful to give up being right, as Saturn is in a square with Jupiter. In many instances, forgiveness is its own reward during this first week of August. On the 11th Jupiter moves on into Virgo where the giant planet will spend the next year. The placement bodes well for those born under the harvest sign as well as Capricorns and Taurus natives. A Leo new Moon initiates a new round of endeavors on Friday the 14th. Teamwork is fostered this weekend as the Sun joins forces with Venus and Mercury aligns with Pluto. Join together with partners and associates and devise winning game plans. Serendipitous meetings and warm relations bring smiles on Wednesday the 19th but the Sun’s sobering square with Saturn on the 21st can test alliances and signal an end for some grand schemes. The Sun enters Virgo on Sunday the 23rd. The shift is a reminder that summer is drawing to a close. The precious days pass by with increasing speed as the Moon is waxing this week. Life is filled to the brim when the Sun overtakes Jupiter on the 26th. This is an excellent day for business, with its Capricorn Moon and a nice angle between Mercury and pragmatic Saturn. The Moon is full in Pisces at 2:35pm on Saturday the 29th. The Moon is conjunct Neptune and the Sun is teamed with Jupiter. Magic is afoot and Mother Nature can be a wise teacher at this time but keep an eye on the heavens for hints of a possible weather event. Heed your spiritual promptings and soulful longings during these last days of the month. Eric Linter offers a complete range of astrological services including readings, classes and his “On Top of the Sttars Monthly Guide” for making inspired career and personal decisions. Contact Eric at www.ericlinter.com. Read Eric’s daily forecast on the Spirit of Change homepage at www.spiritofchange.org. www.spiritofchange.org

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HEALTHY EATING

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enu planning is easier when you learn about international foods and the ingredients and seasonings used in different regions. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel when composing a meal or a dish, because indigenous cultures already know how to expertly combine their native foods. Crossovers abound, of course, which allows for plenty of flexibility in combining regional foods and the creation of fusion cuisines. When experimenting with nontraditional combinations, keep it simple and engage just a few variables at a time. Maintain some underlying tone that keeps everything connected. I am lucky to live in an area that grows a wide array of foods. I usually let the seasonal produce at my local farmers’ market inspire me, thus allowing Earth’s natural guidance to nourish me. In this way, I eat a variety of wholesome foods over the course of the year, which is an important aspect of good health and creative menu planning. A healthy plant-based meal typically features one or two protein-rich foods (presoaked legumes, grains, nuts, or seeds), with several vegetables, leafy greens, healthy fats, and a fermented food or other digestive aid. Take care not to overdo starchy foods. Strive for a variety of colors, which ensures an assortment of nutrients, and give attention to the textures on the plate, noting qualities such as crisp, crunchy, smooth, chunky, or tender. Seek a balance of the five basic tastes in your menus, and sometimes even in an individual dish or sauce. These are salty, sour, sweet, savory, and bitter; Asian cultures add spiciness to this list. Finally, try to match the cooking method with the weather. Cool days call for longer, hotter cooking to

warm us, such as oven roasting. In hot weather we need fresher, quicker methods such as steaming or even raw foods to cool us down. Whatever you do to plan your menus, always prepare and present your food joyfully and confidently. Your food will reflect your intentions and your guests will appreciate your offering. Try these special techniques to make your summer meal prep even easier. To separate cauliflower florets, cut the head into quarters

through the stem. Lay each on its side on a cutting board and cut the stem off diagonally. The florets will come right apart. To zest a citrus fruit, use a vegetable peeler if you don’t

have a Microplane or other type of zester. Zest is the superflavorful, out colored layer of skin on a citrus fruit. Shave off the zest and then use a sharp paring knife to trim away and discard any bitter white pith underneath To juice a citrus fruit, press and roll the whole fruit with

firm pressure, then cut it in half and use a reamer or a fork to release the juices. To supreme a citrus fruit, cut the sections away from the

membrane for a delicate salad or dessert. Begin by slicing off the top and bottom of the fruit. Stand the fruit upright and use a paring knife to cut away the peel and pith, following the curve of the fruit. Next, hold the fruit over a bowl and slice each wedge of citrus section away from the membranes. When using raw garlic or onion in a recipe, I always

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and vinegar or lemon juice. It needs as much surface contact as possible, so a good garlic press or Microplane is indispensable. Alternatively, you can finely grate or crush, then finely mince the cloves with a knife. To dice an onion, peel and slice off the top, leaving the

root intact. Make four or five parallel lengthwise slices into it, but not all the way through the root, so that it holds together. Turn ninety degrees and cut the onion in half through the root, across the slices. Lay each half on a cutting board and cut crosswise across the slices; the small cubes will magically fall away. To peel a tomato for a very smooth sauce, slice an X

in the end of the tomato opposite the stem and drop it in boiling water for 30 seconds. Shock in a bath of ice water and then slide the peel off easily. This also works for peaches. To handle a hot chile pepper without burning your

fingertips, use a fork to hold it while cutting or removing the seeds with a small, sharp paring knife. Taste each chile pepper for your recipe, because even if one is extremely spicy, the next may have no heat at all. Always wash your hands and utensils after working with hot chiles. To finely chop leafy herbs and greens like parsley or

kale, keep the bunch attached with the rubber band or tie. Wash under running water or swish in a water bath and shake off excess water. Holding the bunch together at the tips with one hand, begin to cut, moving your holding hand down the bunch as needed. If the herbs have a lot of stems, pluck off the leaves, roll them into a tight cigar, and slice into thin ribbons, called chiffonade. To fix or balance flavors in a dish or menu, use these

guidelines to add something to the dish itself or to inspire a harmonizing condiment. • Sweetness: sugar, honey, agave, fresh/dry fruits, stevia. Balance with something sour, spicy, salty, creamy or bitter. • Sourness: vinegar, citrus, tamarind, pickles, berries. Sour can reduce the salt needed in a dish. Balance with something sweet, salty, bitter or creamy. • Saltiness: tamari, miso, sea veggies, celery. Balance with something sour, sweet or creamy. If you’ve oversalted a soup, dilute with a little water or boil a raw potato in it, peeled and quartered to absorb the salt. Discard the potato after about ten minutes. • Bitterness: dark leafy greens, lettuce, basil, cumin, coffee. Bitter often denotes healthful, alkaline foods/herbs. Balance with something sweet, sour, creamy or salty. • Spiciness or pungency: chilies, garlic, ginger, mustard, onion. Balance with something sweet, sour or creamy. •Creaminess: coconut milk, oils, nuts, avocado, dairy. Balance with something sour or dilute with liquid. Mielle Chénier-Cowan Rose has been a natural foods chef and advocate for natural living for over 15 years. Her latest book, Veganish: The Omnivore’s Guide to Plant-Based Cooking, can retrain any person to enjoy healthier cooking and eating. Visit pieceofmyheartkitchen.com. 12 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

GLORIOUS SUMMER RECIPES ENJOY INTERNATIONAL TASTE FROM YOUR OWN GARDEN PRODUCE

SUMMER’S GLORY GAZPACHO Yields 3 cups

Use tomatoes at the height of their season for this delightful soup. If you are using less-thanperfect tomatoes, roast them first to bring out their sweetness. This recipe is worth splurging on a highquality, fruity olive oil. Combine in a blender: 1/4 cup red onion, chopped 3 Tbsp lime juice

1 jalapeño chile, seeded and chopped 1/2 tsp cumin powder 1/4 cup packed fresh cilantro 2 lb fresh in-season tomatoes (about 5 medium) few grinds black pepper 1 sprig fresh oregano leaves 1 1/2 -2 tsp salt, to taste 1 small red bell pepper (optional) Begin to purée, while slowly drizzling: 1/3 cup quality olive oil Adjust lime and salt to taste. Serve chilled.

ANGRY SAUCE

MISSION PICKLES

I borrowed this name from the spicy Italian sauce called Arrabbiata, meaning angry. More a ragout than a sauce, this recipe can be served with pasta or polenta, or as a bruschetta topping.

Named for the jalapeños en escabeche served at every taqueria in San Francisco’s beloved Mission district. This spicy pickle is the perfect accompaniment to any Latin-inspired meal.

Preheat oven to 400°. Combine in a casserole dish: 2 lb Roma tomatoes, quartered or smaller 2 red bell peppers, sliced (optional) 1 red onion, thinly sliced 5 large cloves garlic, chopped 3 Tbsp capers, rinsed, or kalamata olives 1/4 cup olive oil 1 tsp salt freshly ground pepper 1–2 sprigs fresh rosemary, chopped 1/2–1 tsp crushed red pepper, to taste

Combine in a small saucepan: 1 1/2 cups water 1 1/2 cups apple cider vinegar 3 jalapeños, sliced lengthwise 5 cloves garlic, peeled and lightly smashed 1 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp sugar 4 bay leaves 1 tsp cumin seeds 1/2 tsp dried Mexican oregano 1/4 tsp whole peppercorns

Yields 4 cups

Roast about 40 minutes, until saucy, stirring occasionally. Before serving, toss with: 1/4 cup chopped fresh herbs (parsley, oregano, thyme, marjoram, rosemary, basil, etc.) extra drizzle of a quality olive oil splash of balsamic or lemon (optional)

Yields about 25 ounces

Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Add: 1 lb carrots (4–6), peeled and sliced 1/4 inch on the bias 1/2 yellow onion, sliced

Serve as is or purée for a smooth consistency.

Simmer until cooked (5–10 minutes), then allow to cool in the brine overnight. Place in a jar with a tight lid and keep refrigerated up to 3 weeks.

Variations

• For a very smooth sauce, peel the tomatoes before cooking • Add tempeh sausage

Omnivorous Variation

• If you want animal protein with this vegan sauce, add a little bit of cooked and crumbled organic, pasture-raised sausage.

• Use this method to pickle any variety of vegetables in seasoned vinegar: cucumbers, beets, green beans, radishes, cauliflower, onion, etc. • Different seasonings can vary the flavors of your pickles, such as coriander, cardamom, allspice, fennel, mustard seeds, dill seeds, and black peppercorns. Experiment and enjoy!

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My husband and I are beginning the difficult but necessary process of moving our elderly parents into an assisted living facility. We are no longer able to safely and adequately maintain them in their home, even with 24/7 assistance. Aside from the obvious criteria of the facility being clean, safe, cheerful, and well-staffed with caring and certified professionals, what should we be looking for from a feng shui perspective?

y heart goes out to both you and your husband, as I’ve recently had to deal with this situation myself. I’m very attuned to the myriad of issues — financial, emotional, logistical, etc. — that may easily create a feeling of overwhelm for the caregivers. Begin with the most important feng shui concept: safety and comfort come first. When an environment is safe and comfortable, beauty, harmony, and a pleasing décor will naturally follow, encouraging the beneficial flow of chi. Complicated, isolating and inaccessible living spaces are not conducive to safety and comfort. Good feng shui and good design are really one and the same. The ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) and the mandated use of UD (Universal Design) principles support the building of senior living centers that are safe and comfortable and reflect and embrace our elders’ age appropriate needs. Some of these basic concepts are: flexibility in use, low physical effort, simple and intuitive use, perceptible information, and tolerance for human error (fail safe features). A supportive feng shui layout encourages the optimal and even flow of chi throughout the space. As in the natural world, everything is connected. The plan of an assisted living facility with good feng shui encourages mingling, connection and easy access, as well as a proper balance of resident and staff areas. First, is the facility free of long, dark, and isolating corridors? Energy will either move too quickly (“shooting chi”) or get stuck in the overly yin and stagnant hallways. Some very innovative and successful new design techniques to encourage residents’ well being utilize a circular layout with private rooms off a well-lit pathway with skylights and full spectrum lighting. Others even include an indoor courtyard or atrium filled with trees and tasteful landscaping including benches, rock gardens, and gently curving stone pathways, giving residents a view of healing nature from their rooms or the larger public spaces. The changing seasons, soothing views of water and/or trees and thriving flowers and plants, as well as the uplifting sounds of birdsong brings nature indoors and provides residents the peaceful background necessary for optimal well being. Other noteworthy good feng shui design trends include the elimination of the traditional nursing station and medicine carts. The former encouraged separation and a barrier between residents and staff. Floor plans in newer facilities have eliminated the workstation icon and replaced it with decentralized, small desks and work alcoves

placed strategically throughout the area. This diminishes the institutional feeling for seniors who need a warm and homey environment. Likewise, medicine carts and storage areas are designed to look like furniture to help personalize the space. In a resident’s room or private living area, locate the health sector of the space corresponding to the traditional feng shui bagua diagram. This area is found in middle left side of the room when entering from the door. Reinforce this area as a healing environment with touches of wood decor, plants and the colors blue and green. Easy to care for broad leaf plants are wonderful here as they cleanse and purify the air and bring in vital, natural living energy. Open the window when possible to keep chi circulating, while also removing pathogens and other airborne bacteria and toxins. Check to be sure the space is free of dust, mold, mildew, and dampness. This is hugely important, as seniors’ immune systems are often impaired.

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Our bodies form the foundation of earthly existence. Energizing our body enriches our lives by enhancing every human capacity. If we don’t take good care of our bodies, where will we live? by Dan Millman

f you haven’t yet achieved optimal energy, vitality, and health, it is not because you haven’t read or heard good advice on the topic. The world is filled with guidelines, principles, and methods, both modern and ancient. Good advice isn’t enough. You can benefit only from what you do each and every day. That is why it’s so important to keep it simple and practical. Here’s an example: Take one slow, deep breath — as slowly and deeply as you can, without strain — first expanding your lower ribs and back, and then your chest, and feel yourself relax as you slowly exhale. In the same manner, take two more deep breaths before proceeding. And from now on, for the rest of your life, take at least one deep, deliberate breath every hour. Take a nice deep breath right now and you’ve begun — you’ve now learned a simple, energizing practice for life — if you do it. Many of us have a love-hate relationship with our bodies; we indulge them, deprive them, stuff them or starve them, overwork and underwork them, spoil them, punish them, enjoy them, suffer them, and, at times, feel betrayed by them. How many of us wish to travel out of our bodies before we’ve even gotten into them — to reincarnate before we’ve fully incarnated. To energize your body, first make peace with it. In fact, your body is the only thing you’re guaranteed to keep for an entire lifetime. Treat it well. When you do so, many other things fall into place. The human journey begins and ends with the body. Energy is the most abundant substance in the universe; in fact it is the universe. You are made of energy. You take it in at the gross levels from the food you eat, and on more refined levels from the air you breathe and from the people and living things around you. Amplifying your energy enhances your strength, mental alertness and brightness, charisma and

personal presence, sensitivity and intuition, and even the ability to heal yourself and assist in the healing of others. The key to managing your physical energy is actually three-fold: 1. How efficiently you assimilate energy through the food you eat and the air you breathe; 2. How efficiently you channel energy through your body through exercise, stretching, and relaxation; 3. How efficiently you spend energy in the world. You may recall the story of the man who stood on a mountaintop and cried up to the heavens, “Fill me full of light!” A voice thundered down from the heavens, “I’m always filling you, but you keep leaking!” Even now, abundant energy flows through the world, swirling around you, flowing through you. Your primary task in managing energy is to clear internal energy leaks so you can maintain a higher energy level. The primary energy leaks include illness, injuries, postural imbalances, overloaded digestive systems — but the two primary leaks are unnecessary muscular tension and inhibited breathing. We unconsciously hold our breath many times during the day: posing for a photo (or selfie); pouring a liquid; typing or texting (keyboard apnea) or doing any other concentrated task. We are meant to breathe rhythmically throughout the day, the depth and pace of breathing appropriate to the level of exertion. Life is an all-day yoga class; we never roll up the mats. Vibrant health is essential to removing the obstructions that create our tension and devitalize our bodies. The cornerstones of energy include (1) moderate, regular exercise; (2) a simple, healthful diet including fresh air and water; and (3) sufficient rest. What constitutes moderate exercise, a balanced diet, and enough rest differs for each person. Life is an experiment; find out what works best for you.

These three areas comprise the holy trinity of health. All three, taken together, balance your body and generate vitality that enables you to meet the challenges of everyday life. Don’t get lost in the details of food. As Mark Twain quipped, “Be careful about reading too many health books; you may die of a misprint.” Don’t impose a philosophy on the body, no matter how elegant it may be. Avoid becoming a macrobiotic or paleo or raw or vegetarian or vegan, low fat, high fat, Ayurvedic or blood type fundamentalist. Just pay attention to what you eat and its effects on your particular body. Refine then trust your instincts. An occasional reduction of food intake, whether taking a day or more to eat only vegetables and fruit, or fasting from food, can help re-tune your instincts. But even something as beneficial as the occasional fast is not for everyone. I do a 24-hour fast once a week, not eating from dinner to dinner. I also happen to eat a moderate vegetarian diet (no meat or poultry or fish, although I tried fish again for a period of time, but found it unnecessary for me). But I am not suggesting that you do the same as I do. There is no best approach to eating, only the best approach for you. And don’t worry about getting enough protein. Most protein-related problems people encounter aren’t from insufficient protein, but rather from too much of it. Anyone who eats a variety of foods will get a combination of amino acids to make complete protein. You may study nutrition and say, “But what about my omega-3? What about vitamin B12 and D3? What about sufficient this and too much of that?” The information is endless. The question remains, “How do you eat day to day?” Some of us do well with three regular meals and no between-meal snacks; others eat two meals, or graze throughout the day. Don’t rely on formulas or systems. Find out what works best for you in your current circumstances, at this point in your life. Moderate, balanced exercise may be the most important key of all, whether that means daily walks or more rigorous training, depending on your goals, needs, age, and innate energy level. Fitness and physical talent are founded upon four primary areas that begin with the letter “S”: strength, suppleness, stamina, and sensitivity (including qualities like coordination, balance, rhythm, timing, and reflex speed). You exercise every time you move in the field of gravity — walking, sitting down and standing up, lifting and carrying groceries, climbing stairs, cleaning the house, gardening. As long as you are using your limbs, working your muscles (including your heart), and breathing deeply, you are exercising. By taking A lot of what passes the stairs instead of the escalator, by parking your car a little for depression these farther from the shopping mall, you develop an energizing lifestyle. What counts is not only what you do for an hour at days is nothing more the gym, but also how much you have moved by the end of than a body saying each day, the end of each week. that it needs work. Sports also provide some exercise, but competitive —Geoffrey Norman games are designed to release tension — to provide enjoyment, recreation, and skill development — not necessarily to provide balanced fitness training. In fact, most sports provide only limited and random fitness benefits. Conscious exercise, in contrast, is designed to improve the overall balance and development of the body. Conscious exercise develops a balance of all four S’s of physical talent; combines movement, mind, and breath; makes ease and relaxation a priority; energizes rather than fatigues; involves an awareness of breathing patterns; creates symmetry (balances both sides of the body); includes specific elements of deliberate tension followed by relaxation (in order to release chronic tension). Different forms of conscious exercise forms include hatha yoga, certain martial arts, gymnastics, trampoline, dance, and the Peaceful Warrior Workout. Done regularly, and in moderation, conscious exercise can balance, rejuvenate, and energize your life. Mindful attention to your body — its needs and vitality, and to breath and tension-free movement — helps you design your daily life and habits to enjoy flowing energy and a baseline wellness that forms the basis of a productive life. Drawn from Dan Millman’s book, Everyday Enlightenment (Grand Central Publishing). Dan Millman — a former world champion gymnast, Stanford University coach, martial arts instructor, and Oberlin College professor — is the author of 17 books published in 29 languages. His best-known work, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, was adapted to film and released by Universal Pictures in 2007. For more info visit www.peacefulwarrior.com. Meet Dan on Sunday, November 15 at the Natural Living Expo in Marlboro, MA. See back cover. www.spiritofchange.org

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istory was never my favorite subject. I preferred English, theatre, religion — subjects where the imagination seemed unrestricted by the weight of historical facts. Of course, I had heard the truism about not being able to understand the present without knowing the past. I appreciated the idea intellectually. But it wasn’t until my wife Godeliève Richard, a Swiss dancer/choreographer and visual artist, became sick in the spring of 2010 and we came to understand, after three torturous years, that the root of her suffering was her sensitivity to RF (radio frequency) wireless radiation of the sort emitted by cell towers, cell phones, computers trying to pick up Wifi, Wifi enabled routers, cordless phones, tablets, our electric meter, etc., etc., etc., that I became an avid student of history. We began reading books, articles, websites. We watched documentaries. We spoke with activists. It took me several months to completely accept that EHS (Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity) was what had derailed our lives and stolen time and energy from our now three-year-old son. Members of our family and friends quietly confided their belief to me that this must be a mental problem. In a way, I wished they were right. How would we live? How would she survive? Sometimes at four in the morning after another sleepless night when we were deciding whether or not to go to the emergency room, it seemed like death was a possible final outcome. Luckily, we found a solution for our home that has allowed her to sleep well again and begin to heal, however she still can’t leave the house for more than a few hours at a time. Among 20 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

other adjustments we have made, a doctor recommended a company making biotuners, a small rectangular casing placed on the fuse box in order to deactivate the harmful information from electrosmog. One of my many layers of resistance to accepting that electromagnetic pollution or electrosmog was what had destroyed her health was a simple, naive faith in the regulatory powers of the U.S. government. This radiation is literally everywhere. If it could be so dangerous, how could it be allowed on such a massive scale? But after I found the startling analogy between RF and asbestos and cigarettes laid out on more than one advocacy group site, things began to click. The tobacco industry’s manipulation of the science and the U.S. court system began in the 1950s. In 1981, Japanese researcher Takeshi Hirayama definitively established the link between cancer and second hand smoke. Every year that passed added to the death toll in America. Why the lag time? One reason was that the tobacco industry had hired product defense firms that specialized in one product: doubt. If you can define the parameters of a scientific study that you pay for, it turns out there is quite a good chance the scientists you have hired will reach a conclusion that supports your position that there is no problem. Cell phone companies have hired, literally, some of the same supporting cast used by the tobacco industry. In May, 2014, tobacco scientist Peter Valberg of product defense firm Gradient, testified in Worcester, MA, to the Worcester Zoning Board of Appeals about the safety of National

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Grid’s smart meter pilot program. Smart meters are twoway RF transmission devices that the Massachusetts of Department of Public Utilities issued an order for utility companies to install on June 12, 2014. The Mass DPU relied on Valberg’s testimony in their assessment that the radiation emitted from smart meters was safe because it is below FCC limits. A fraud complaint was filed with the MA Attorney General’s office against the DPU in March. It turns out our electric meter was installed in the late 90’s already equipped to pulse RF radiation every couple of seconds from the meter to the street. I called our utility company and told them that radiation made my wife sick and asked that they pull in to our driveway as they drive by and read the meter in person. I was told this was not possible. I suggested that we could simply shield the meter and they could lift the shielding off to take the readings. But this, they warned, would lead to potentially more expensive “estimated readings” when their truck got back to headquarters without a reading from our meter.

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continued from page 21 Cell companies have become adept at hiding their antennas and AT&T wanted to stash the one designated for our road in an oversized barn silo. In Switzerland, where we tour our plays in French, there is a tower hidden in a church steeple not far from our apartment. Consequently, although Switzerland has the lowest RF limits in the world, Godeliève has a harder time leaving the house there than the rural road where we live in the U.S. Unfortunately, hiding cell towers or decorating them as trees does nothing to change health impacts. A German study published in 2004 (Eger, et al), found that living within 400 meters of a cell tower increased the likelihood of developing cancer by 300%. These results are typical of the growing number of studies being done outside the U.S. where the distinctive lack (read $0) of federal funds being spent on RF safety research seems unsurprising given the “over 400 million dollars in political contributions and lobbying [by the wireless industry],” according to lawyer Andrew Campanelli who now specializes in preventing unwanted cell tower installation after starting his career as a telecom lawyer.

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National legislation of this sort, besides being progressive and forward-thinking also happens to be in the financial self-interest of governments around the world. Insurance companies have quietly stopped offering coverage for wireless-related health problems. Who is going to pay for skyrocketing rates of cancer, Alzheimer’s, ADHD, autism, and burn-out leading to missed work days? Since there can be no definitive 1-to-1 correlation for the multiple environmental factors weighing on our systems, how are you going to make anyone pay the bill for what Swedish researcher Lennart Hardell descibes as “the world’s greatest biological experiment ever”? The 2011 World Health Organization classifies RF as a Class 2B “possible carcinogen,” along with lead and car exhaust. In the 2014 French documentary “Ondes, Science, Manigances” (Microwaves, Science and Lies), director Jean Heches demonstrates that despite this classification, the WHO is extremely influenced (to put it politely) by the telecom industry. Sweden, the first country where EHS is officially recognized as a functional impairment, offers a cell phone network and a provider of health care coverage to around 300,000 people with the sensitivity. Lennart Hardell’s 2014 research on long term cell phone use in that country suggests that RF should be re-classified as a Class 1 “known carcinogen.” However, this reclassification is a financial impossibility (from a certain privileged point of view) as there are trillions of dollars and hefty sections of the ecomony depending on the perpetuation of doubt. Unsurprisingly, Hardell has become the victim of a smear campaign. The makers of wireless technology are in a terrible spot. Like the tobacco companies, they have to keep denying the existence of a problem or face major legal and financial repercussions. Utility companies and the state bureaucracies charged with regulating them (or abetting them in California’s case), after having installed RF-emitting transmitters on our homes, are in the same bind. So you can bet no corporate movement will be made towards protecting the public until we create a financial incentive for them — or they have no choice. That is, if history has anything to teach us.

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t might seem, at first glance, that people like Godeliève should be shipped off to an island so that the rest of the un-sensitive population can enjoy their wireless lives. Although countries are establishing radiation free zones for people like her, everyone is electro-sensitive. Everyone’s melatonin production (the substance which cleans up cancer-causing free radicals, among other things, while we sleep) is inhibited when exposed to levels of RF currently deemed safe. Humans are electrical beings composed of cells that have been proven damaged by much, much lower levels of RF than you would experience in your typical coffee shop or an elementary school. One key historical moment concerns the Federal Communication Commission standards themselves. Back in 1953, researcher Herman Schwan, a former Nazi scientist imported in 1949 to work for the U.S. Navy, suggested a thermal (heat) exposure limit for RFs based on heating effects he had noted when radar operators cooked hot dogs in their microwave beams. In other words, if your cell phone doesn’t measurably heat your skin, it must be okay, even if you are a fetus, newborn or otherwise more vulnerable being than the top 10% of U.S. military recruits in 1989, the skull of whom the FCC bases its SAR (specific absorption rate of RF by the brain) calculations upon. The patently absurd idea, if you are a biologist, of no cellular damage happening below the thermal limit has been challenged by the American Pediatric Association, the U.S. Department of the Interior (who are concerned about effects on migratory birds), the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, the California Medical Association, Swisscom (in a patent application), and many others. The FCC standard is so high that telecom companies have had no incentive to engineer anything that might be even a little bit safer. Isn’t it every person’s right to stream an HD movie on his/her phone while waiting in line at the post office? How about two at time? How about 16? Nothing like the changes in federal policy that are needed have ever come as an initiative from the corporations or government. It has only happened, as Ralph Nader likes to remind us, because people came together in the common wish for a place where people can drink clean water, breathe clean air, share the same rights as other citizens and, in this case, be able to live their lives without having their health damaged in the relative safety of their own homes.

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The Roots of Southern Folk Medicine by Phyllis D. Light

y the time the Pilgrims formed the English settlement known as Plymouth Colony in 1620, the South had already been explored and settled by the Spanish for almost 100 years in present day Florida. Because the Spanish, then later the French and Irish, settled there, it is no coincidence that this southern land is where our only traditional American folk medicine â&#x20AC;&#x201D; other than Native American traditional medicine â&#x20AC;&#x201D; developed. The roots of Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine are strong, deep and varied. The traditions that merged to create Southern Folk Medicine include humoral medicine, Native American plant use, healing knowledge brought from Africa by the slaves, and the folk medicine of the British Isles, especially from Scotland and Ireland. In additional to soldiers, Spanish expeditions to the New World included healers and physicians who practiced the conventional medicine of Europe, which was based on the works of Hippocrates, Galen and Avicennia. This was known as humoral theory or Greek medicine, and held sway in medicine until the 19th century. Spanish expeditions also included botanists and naturalists to draw and describe the exotic plant and animal life of the New World, historians to chronicle the exploits and adventures of the expedition, and Moorish slaves to do the physical labor required to build a colony. Particularly influential on the development of Southern Folk Medicine was learning from the Creek and Cherokee Indians the uses of plants for both food and medicine. First Nations people 24 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

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have occupied the South for more than 10,000 years. Their relationship to the land determined their survival. The importance of these healing plants cannot be overemphasized. From 1490-1603, England was making a firm effort to rid the land of the Irish. In the early days, whole clans left Ireland to avoid either death or slavery and took their healers with them. By 1652, over 300,000 Irish men, women and children had been shipped to the Americas for labor. From the Caribbean plantations, the Irish came to the United States via the Gulf and settled in the Deep South. Later waves of free Scots-Irish arrived in ports in the Northeast and made their way down into the Appalachian Mountains during the late 1700s and early 1800s. From northern and western Africa, people were brought to the American South and Caribbean to work the plantations. Africans who were taken or sold as slaves could not bring their medicine, their plants or their healers with them, but they could and did bring their spiritual framework, rituals and customs, and their innate intelligence. The last strong influence on the development of Southern Folk Medicine was the Christian religion. The Spanish initially brought priests with their expeditions who believed that Native populations should be converted and brought into the fold. Later evangelical Christians from Europe followed suit with the slaves. Since the Bible was the only book many people owned, it became a reference book for daily living, a guide to good health and spiritual law. Other influences allowed the fledgling Southern Folk Medicine tradition to develop, evolve and grow unimpeded. These included the plantation system, the Civil War and the Great Depression. The plantation system was developed in Ireland by the British and brought to America. Each plantation was like a small fiefdom with little or no interaction with the outside world other than neighboring plantations. Here Southern Folk Medicine was used to fight illness, birth babies, take care of wounds and injuries, treat chronic illnesses and nurse children through childhood Continued on page 26

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Growing up in a certain time period in the South meant, amongst other things, living in poverty. This was the time of President Johnson’s war on poverty and Appalachia was viewed as a third world country and ground zero in the struggle. My family could have been on a poster for the program in every sense of the word from the raggedly clothes to the animals hides stretched and tacked on the wall of the house under the front porch. But, when all is said and done, there can be no sorrow or regrets for this was my beginnings and made me who I am. It was this poverty that also helped preserve the only folk medicine, other than Native American Medicine, to develop on this soil. My grandmother, my father’s mother Rosie, was an herbalist and midwife in a community that didn’t have a doctor nor could afford one. In general, most folks in the area knew enough about herbs to tend to the normal injuries of daily life such as aches and pains, bruises and wounds, and the general malaise that might follow childbirth or the flu. But my Granny knew about herbs as she had been taught by her mother and grandmother and on back to the Civil War. Her family was Creek Indian. My unique upbringing and the type of education I received from the long-dead relatives of my childhood is far superior to the formal education I’ve since attained. My Granny and other Southern folk herbalists, such as Tommie Bass, viewed the earth quite differently than most people today. To them, the earth, the land, was the source of all that was good and everything we needed to stay alive. Because of the interconnectedness of people and land, we were not separate. The earth gives us food, water, shelter and medicine. If we damage the earth, then we damage ourselves. I am in awe of this simple philosophy that is at once earthcentered and practical, spiritual and mysterious. From these old-timers, these amazing herbalists and healers of the backwoods, I learned about Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine. It is a practical system, developed by people who lived in close harmony with the land but were ever mindful of the dangers the land could also present. Its language is land-based, filled with metaphors and similes taken from the Native American, European, and African cultures that originally settled the area.

Southern Folk Medicine Blood Types

Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine is a constitutional system based upon assessment of blood types and elements. The blood types and elements are in pairs of opposites; once you understand one aspect of the pair, you automatically understand its opposite. There is also a range within each blood type based on excess and deficiency. When the type/element is healthy and in balance, the person has good blood. When the type/element is out of balance then there may be excess or deficiency. The four elements — fire, water, air and earth — influence the four Southern blood types of bitter, salty, sour and sweet. Each of us is born with all four elements and types within us. It can’t be otherwise because we are the children of this earth and each of these elements is present there. Generally, one element is more outstanding than the other three and is considered the dominant constitution, although sometimes a person might have two elements that are of equal strength. Although this may sound a bit complicated, it’s really quite sensible and easy to understand. There are no large vocabulary words to learn, because Southern Folk Medicine was conceived in the common vocabulary of its time. It developed, grew, and evolved in the common language of the settlers in America, specifically the Southern states. That means you already know the language, the vocabulary. It is inherent within you and I’m just bringing this to your attention. Southern and Appalachian Folk Medicine is mind/body/spirit centered, dualistic in nature, and functions within a holistic framework. In addition to assessment of blood types and elements, it also explores the personality. Disease can be self-induced or originate from cold, damp, heat, dirt, pathological invaders, spiritual transgressions or magic.

In Southern Folk Medicine, the body is likened to a tree with a direct correlation between the flow of blood in the body and the flow of sap in trees. In the fall, blood begins to thicken as the weather grows cooler. It sinks downward and pulls inward to nourish, warm, and protect the vital organs during the cold winter. This is why circulation is diminished in the extremities and the hands and feet feel colder. In the spring, the blood thins and begins to rise, moving upward and outward in order to keep the internal organs cooler.

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Blood is the most important indicator of disorder and imbalance in the body. It is the river of life, carrying nutrients and oxygen to nourish and fuel our cells. In our blood resides our genetic inheritance. Just as importantly, blood can also carry the elements and invaders producing sickness and disease. To be healthy, you must have clean or good blood, and a combination of good inheritance, environment and actions. Blood can also be affected by environmental factors, age, diet, gender and nerves, and influenced by such natural phenomena as the weather, seasons, and the moon and stars. Blood flows in tune with nature, ebbing and flowing with the seasons. The moon also has an effect on blood much as it does the tides, causing shifts and changes in the flow with each phase of the moon. The moon is an important influence on the folk astrology used by herbalists, farmers, and midwives. In the spring, impurities and pathogens that the body has been harboring over the winter can rise, causing illness in the spring. Summer or fall illnesses may also be contained over the winter when the blood is thick and then manifest in the spring when the blood begins to move again. Spring cleansing of the body is an important aspect of this healing system for moving

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A group of plant enthusiasts is safeguarding the future of North American wild medicinal plants. by Susan Leopold

hese are exciting times for herbalists. We are witnessing the art of herbalism rapidly regaining its rightful place in the American tradition of health and healing. However, as herbalism flourishes and winds its way into the mainstream of America, it is eliciting a unique set of problems and concerns. Where once herbal enterprises were few and far between, it is now a competitive marketplace that has increased the demand on wild medicinal plant resources. Furthermore, other countries with an uninterrupted tradition of herbalism are experiencing a severe shortage of medicinal plants and look to the North American continent for supplying these herbs. This increased usage along with habitat destruction is causing an ever-increasing shortage of wild plant resources, including some of our most treasured medicinal species. United Plant Savers’ (UpS) mission is to protect native medicinal plants of the United States and Canada and their native habitat, while ensuring an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come. For the benefit of the plant communities, wild animals, harvesters, farmers, consumers, manufacturers, retailers and practitioners, we offer a list of wild medicinal plants which we feel are currently most sensitive to the impact of human activities. Our intent is to ensure the increasing abundance of the medicinal plants that are currently in decline due to expanding popularity and shrinking habitat and range. UpS is not asking for a moratorium on the use of these herbs. Rather, we are initiating programs designed to preserve these important wild medicinal plants.

Botanical Sanctuary Network United Plant Savers’ vision is to see botanical sanctuaries established in people’s backyards, farms and woodlands, creating a living greenway of native medicinal plants across

America. A sanctuary isn’t defined by size or magnitude, but as sacred space, a place where one can find protection and the peace and renewal of nature. Backyard sanctuaries can be created in small backyards as well as on large plots of wilderness, in towns as well as in the country. 28 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

If we want to preserve wilderness and the wild populations that thrive there, we can’t look to others to do it for us. We need to be willing to actively participate in the preservation and restoration effort, and as good a place to start as any is in our backyards. Currently over 90 sanctuaries are included in the UpS Botanical Sanctuary Network, including 19 in New England. Here are some of their stories.

Sweetwater Sanctuary at Partner Earth Education Center Danby, Vermont Sanctuary Stewards: Pam Montgomery and Mark Carlin

weetwater Sanctuary sits at the base of Marble Mountain and the Dorset Peaks, some of the highest mountains in southern Vermont. This is home to black bear, coyote, bobcat, moose, raven, wild turkey, porcupine, ermine, beaver, red-tail hawk and the extremely rare catamount. We are surrounded by thousands of acres of protected woodlands and meadows with a rushing brook that cascades down the mountain and flows centrally through the property. There are many natural springs on the mountain and right at our doorstep is Heart Spring, generously providing our drinking and washing needs. This constantly flowing water filters through the mountain’s abundantly natural marble (calcium carbonate) base creating a very high PH, literally making it sweet. Sweetwater is a natural sanctuary with many of UpS’s identified at-risk and to-watch plants growing wild such as blue cohosh, trillium, bloodroot, eyebright, goldthread, maidenhair fern, lobelia, partridge berry and mayapple. Others we grow in our organic gardens or woodland setting such as goldenseal, echinacea, black cohosh, butterfly weed and arnica. The treasure trove of plants here at Sweetwater includes many others as we continually expand our gardens. Sweetwater Sanctuary is the home for Partner Earth Education Center where herbal, earth-centered and plant spirit healing classes are held. It is the plants and their intelligent spirits that have guided me to create a sanctuary Continued on page 30

Ramps

TO WATCH Arnica

Panax quinquefolius

Arnica spp.

Bloodroot

Butterfly Weed

Sanguinaria canadensis

Black Cohosh Actaea racemosa L.

Blue Cohosh

Asclepias tuberosa

Cascara Sagrada Frangula purshiana (Rhamnus)

Chaparro

Caulophyllum thalictroides

Casatela emoryi

Echinacea

Elephant Tree

Echinacea spp.

Bursera microphylla

Eyebright

Gentiana spp.

Euphrasia spp.

False Unicorn Root Chamaelirium luteum

Goldenseal

Hydrastis canadensis

Lady’s Slipper Orchid Cypripedium spp.

Lomatium

Lomatium dissectum

Osha

Ligusticum porteri, L. spp.

Peyote

Lophophora williamsii

Sandalwood Santalum spp. (Hawaii only)

Slippery Elm

Ulmus rubra Sundew - Drosera spp.

Trillium

Beth Root -Trillium spp.

True Unicorn Aletris farinosa

Venus Fly Trap

Gentian

Goldthread Coptis spp.

Kava Kava

Piper methysticum Hawaii only)

Lobelia

Lobelia spp.

Maidenhair Fern Adiantum pendatum

Mayapple

Podophyllum peltatum

Oregon Grape Mahonia spp.

Partridge Berry Mitchella repens

Pink Root

Spigelia marilandica

Pipsissewa

Chimaphila umbellata

Ramps

Allium tricoccum

Spikenard

Aralia racemosa, A. californica

Stone Root

Dionaea muscipula

Collinsonia canadensis

Virginina Snakeroot

Stream Orchid

Aristolochia serpentaria

Epipactis gigantea

Wild Yam

Dicentra canadensis

Dioscorea villosa, D. spp.

Turkey Corn White Sage Salvia apiana

Wild Indigo Baptisia tinctoria

Yerba Mansa

Anemopsis californica

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UNITED PLANT SAVERS’ BOTANICAL SANCTUARY Continued from page 28

where plants and people can be in sacred space together. When plants are in sanctuary they know they are being kept safe with life-giving intent. It is our intent here at Sweetwater Sanctuary to create a container of sacred space for the ongoing communication between plants and people to guide us in the raising of our consciousness — an evolutionary imperative.

Avena Botanicals Medicinal Herb Garden, Rockport, ME Garden Stewards: Deb Soule, Denise DeSpirito, Kate Miller, Anna Goff

vena Botanicals’ three-acre medicinal herb garden is situated on 32 acres of field and forest that borders 6000 acres of undeveloped woods and wetlands. We are on a south-facing slope, 400 feet above sea level, only 4 miles from the ocean. Being in a rural area, we are blessed with a diverse bird population, and on occasion we see deer, moose and signs of coyote and fox. Adjacent to the garden is an old 1800’s farmhouse in which Avena Botanicals herbal apothecary creates various medicinal remedies. Nearly 70% of the herbs used in our products are grown in our organic and biodynamic gardens or wild-harvested in nearby fields or islands. All of our work, from the planting of seeds, to the tending and harvesting of our herbs, to the making of our remedies is done by hand. We strive to live and do business in a way that honors and respects the natural world, traditional plant knowledge and our community at large. We offer a variety of herbal classes, plant walks and workshops year round through our Herbal Classroom. Over 150 types of medicinal herbs and flowers grow in our certified organic and biodynamic gardens. Every plant, shrub and tree in the garden is grown for medicine, food or to feed the pollinators. Clearly marked labels and a colorful garden map assist visitors and students to recognize the plants. Along with our garden map is a 25-page Plant Guide to Avena Botanicals Medicinal Herb Garden available at the entrance to the garden. The plant guide alphabetically lists 135 of the garden plants by Latin and family name, place of origin, parts used and something about their medicinal uses. Stone and wooden benches, 2 arbors, meandering stone paths, 3 tiny hand-made ponds and our new woodland garden offer visitors and the pollinators a peaceful place to find refuge and healing. Julia Yelton, a permaculturist, helped us build four terraced beds on a northwestern, partially shaded slope, where we have created a beautiful woodland garden that contains black cohosh, blue cohosh, bloodroot, goldenseal, spikenard, trillium and violets. A lovely old New England stone wall, still in good condition, is the backdrop for this garden. We are also planning an experimental garden bed of false unicorn plants and are eager to hear and learn from other gardeners who are cultivating false unicorn or from people who have plant pollinator information to share.

Singing Brook Farm, Worthington, MA Sanctuary Steward: Mariam Massaro

inging Brook Farm is land richly endowed with native species including black cohosh, bloodroot, partridge berry, ladies slipper, goldthread, maidenhair fern, spikenard, as well as others on the UpS At Risk and To Watch lists. Open to the public one day per week in the summer months for tours, the farm also offers workshops, classes and ceremonial events, water garden tours, apprenticeships for Wise Ways Herbals, organic planting and harvesting throughout the year. Certified Organic by NOFA/Mass in 1996, the farm is nestled in a tiny valley in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts. Singing Brook Farm is already a sanctuary for plants, people and animals with a primary purpose to provide a public place for people to see medicinal herbs growing in their wild, natural settings, to help foster awareness of their value and show the ease in which they can be grown. Trails for herb and forest walks, as well as working organic herb gardens, add to the educational value of this farm.

Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center and Botanical Sanctuary, East Barre, VT Sanctuary Steward: Rosemary Gladstar

e currently own six hundred acres — 550 plus in wilderness forest and 50 in fields with two homes and a retreat center. This land has a long history of logging; 100 acres is old growth. 450 is recovering from logging activity of previous owners and heavy damage from ice storms. Plants already growing here include blue cohosh, bloodroot, ginger, angelica, sarsparilla, goldenseal, ginseng, lady’s slipper and several other rare plants. This land is part of a 30 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

large greenbelt of wilderness. You have to go fourteen miles before hitting a fence, road or other house. The woodlands, in spite of ice damage and previous logging history, is relatively healthy, supporting a nice variety of wildlife and habitat, home to bear, moose, deer, bobcat, fish, otter and more. We are in the process of putting the land in conservation easements that will protect it as wildlands forever. The bog is magnificent and holds a large population of ladies slipper and other rare plants. Amen, it is holy land! We have created a quarter-mile medicine trail open to the public and offer courses throughout the spring, summer, and fall that emphasize native plant conservation. We are in the process of building a viewers ramp into the bog that will be open to the public. We have done many woodland planting projects with native at-risk medicinals. We are working with the Wildlife Habitat Incentive Program and with Stewardship Incentive Program.

Native Earth Teaching Farm, Chilmark, MA Sanctuary Steward: Rebecca Gilbert

ative Earth Teaching Farm is located in Chilmark on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. My grandmother bought this farm in the 1920’s from the estate of a whaling captain’s wife. 150 years ago it was mostly naked of cover, sheep were everywhere and the walls were being built by African slaves and Indians. The only trees were by the brook and in the woodlots. Now it is mostly woods and swamp with about five acres of the thirty under cultivation and inhabited. Our habitat is very diverse for its size, with lots of edges. It includes pine-oak succession uplands, swamp pockets, swamp along brook, blueberry thickets, cotton grass, and the largest patch of inkberry bushes the state biologists and Audubon people had ever seen! Plants we have established are bloodroot, echinacea, ginseng, lady’s slipper, calamus, and pipsissewa. Plants we want to grow include: black and blue cohosh, goldenseal, osha, arnica and slippery elm. There is a publicly deeded walking path, a conservation restriction is being negotiated, and the fledgling teaching farm is set to open to the public this spring. Recently, we have given farm tours or provided half-day activities for the following: Island Head Start, neighbors, day care groups, a pre-school co-op and all the parents, eighth graders and two church groups. We display our rare breed poultry at fairs and festivals and talk about sustainability. I have also given occasional herbal walks and workshops. These will only increase with time, as our vision is to be a cooperative teaching farm, encouraging people to practice fulfilling and sustainable relationships with the land.

The Manitou Project, Williamsville, Vermont Sanctuary Stewards: The Manitou Project staff

he Manitou Project is a nonprofit organization that was formed in 1993 by Pamela Mayer to steward and celebrate 235 of mostly forested acres of land she owned in Williamsville, Vermont. We are very happy to be new members of the Botanical Sanctuary Network. We have an extensive trail system, maintained by volunteer members. Along the trails are many sites such as “Grandmother White Pine,” “Grandmother Black Birch,” a large labyrinth, a winding stream, a fen, and several high-energy areas dowsed out by Pamela. At the entry area, several small gardens have been started. One has examples of local woodland wildflowers and medicinals. Another is an observation garden that is fenced off but will not be touched so that the changes over time can be observed without interference. Another is a seedbed so that visitors can bring seeds down from the trails for germination and protection and later replanting. In 2007 we added ten species of native plants to the entranceway gardens. We also received a community grant from United Plant Savers to plant ginseng, goldenseal, bloodroot, and black cohosh on the upland wooded slopes. Growing naturally on the property are blueberry, sundew, yellow lady’s slipper, goldthread, partridgeberry, wintergreen and other herbs yet to be discovered. Our problems with invasives are minimal at this point. Also in keeping with its mission, Manitou creates events for the community. Examples run the gamut from seasonal celebrations, children’s Wilderness and Art camps, to plant identification and bird walks. We have had t’ai chi on the land, dowsing, sweat lodges, and blessing ceremonies. All events are open to the public. Susan Leopold is the Executive Director of United Plant Savers. The work of UpS involves research, education and conservation of native medicinal plants and their habitats. UpS is a 501 (C)3 member-supported non-profit organization. Call (740) 742-3455 or visit unitedplantsavers.org. www.spiritofchange.org

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By SpaFinder

he term “forest bathing” has nothing to do with water, and is more than just a poetic way of describing a walk in the woods, something humans, of course, have been doing for over five million years. The Japanese government coined the term in 1982, a translation of shinrinyoku, which literally means “taking in the forest atmosphere.” This Japanese concept revolves around a deceptively simple practice: quietly walking and exploring, with a mind deliberately intent on — and all senses keenly open to — every sound, scent, color and feel of the forest in all its buzzing biodiversity. With forest bathing (and the increasingly expert-led forest therapy or shinrin-ryoho), mindfulness meets nature, and the goal is to bathe every physical cell and your entire psyche in the forest’s essence. No power hiking needed here; you just wander slowly, breathe deeply and mindfully, and stop and experience whatever catches your soul — whether drinking in the fragrance of that little wildflower or really feeling the texture of that birch bark. Poetic? Pleasurable? Yes. But it’s the science behind the practice that’s now taking forest bathing global, as a growing mountain of evidence indicates there’s strong medicine for

human bodies and brains that a forest uniquely dispenses. Forest therapy studies have been led by Japan, whose government funded $4 million in research from 20042013. Today, the research database PubMed returns 100+ studies on the health impact of forest bathing, including studies indicating that it significantly lowers blood pressure (-1.4 percent), heart rate (-5.8 percent), cortisol levels (-12.4 percent) and sympathetic nerve activity (-7 percent) compared with city walks, while also alleviating stress and depression.1 The most provocative of these studies conclude that exposure to phytoncides, the airborne, aromatic chemicals/oils emitted by many trees, have a long-lasting impact on people’s immune system markers, boosting natural killer (NK) cells and anti-cancer proteins by 40 percent. It’s research like this that has made forest bathing a pillar of preventive medicine in Japan and increasingly common in places like Korea (where it’s called salim yok), Taiwan and Finland. It may be hard to grasp what a serious, widespread practice this is in Japan, where a quarter of the population partakes in forest bathing and millions visit the 55+ official Forest Therapy Trails annually, prompting a plan to designate an additional 50 such sites within 10 years. Visitors to Japanese Forest Therapy Trails report that they’re asked to

have their blood pressure and other biometrics taken pre- and post-bathing in the quest for ever more data. It’s no surprise that densely urban places like Japan and Korea were the first to rush to forest bathing, but as the world undergoes the most intense urbanization in history, we’re all in a sense “turning Japanese.” Fifty-four percent of us now live in urban areas, and that number will rise to 66 percent by 2050.2 In 1990 there were only 10 mega-cities (10 million+ people); now there are 28, and by 2040 there will be 41. City living puts nature and simplicity at a higher premium, which is why so many more Chinese people are taking “Blue Sky Holidays” to escape the mega-city pollution and get into nature. Major media worldwide have been ramping up coverage of this fascinating evidence. In an era of unprecedented urbanization and digitization (with the average person now bathing his face seven hours a day in the glow of a screen), we humans are in the throes of a forest-deprivation crisis. The convergence of these two trends — growing awareness of the medical benefits of time spent in forests, and alienation from this essential, yet increasingly exotic, human experience — will drive demand for forest bathing experiences in the year (and years) ahead. Japan took the lead with the launch of its Association of Therapeutic Effects of Forests in 2004, but today more and more nations are stepping up development and promotion. A government-supported taskforce on forests and human health launched in Finland in 2007. Things went global when the International Society of Nature and Forest Medicine (INFOM) debuted in 2011 and went on to establish a North American chapter established in 2013. Korea is investing $140 million in a new National Forest Therapy Center slated to open soon. In short, more government bodies and wildlife organizations are now yoking their forest offerings to the practice of, and science behind, forest bathing, whether it’s the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or the Canadian Wildlife Federation.

Professionals Prescribing Nature

Increasingly, forest bathing is evolving into professionalized forest therapy, including certified specialists and specially designed trails. In Japan, forest therapy bases are selected by researchers, with forest therapy led by licensed professionals. A Health From The Forest Project (through a partnership with the Finnish Forest Research Institute) has created special engagement-based trails in Finland, France, Luxembourg and Sweden. In the U.S., the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides & Programs provides training and certification around the country, and they even offer forest therapy wellness retreats that combine a spa or hot springs resort stay. What was once a walk in the woods will continue to become more evidence-based and expert-led. An insightful Slate article3 explores how more doctors are now prescribing time in parks/forests, just as they did in the 19th century when unwell people were packed off to health resorts in the woodsy Swiss Alps or Adirondacks, before the rise of the pharmaceutical era. The U.S. pioneer in the prescribing nature movement is Dr. Robert Zarr, whose Park RX program, started in 2013 by multiple government agencies, has written hundreds of prescriptions for young people with conditions like asthma and obesity to get out and move in nature. www.spiritofchange.org

Park RX is just one of a growing number of global nature prescription initiatives. New Zealand’s Green Prescriptions, used by over 80 percent of the nation’s general practitioners, involves writing a nature prescription (GRx) and then supporting patients with follow-up phone calls and/or meetings. In Wales, a Forestry Commission program, Actif Woods, has doctors prescribing woodland walks to combat conditions like heart problems and depression. And in an interesting global development, INFOM approved certifying physicians in Forest Medicine in 2014.

A Dose of Forest

In Japan, forest bathing is becoming a staple of mainstream medicine. Companies are starting to include forest therapy in healthcare benefits. Forest therapy locations link to both hospitals and hot springs/medical spa establishments, with many offering free wellness check-ups right in the forest. Last year saw the launch of a Walking Forest Therapy Roads® With A Doctor program, giving people an opportunity to see how even one dose of forest therapy impacts their stress levels and NK cells. Forest bathing — it may be a poetic concept, but there’s powerful evidence that it’s also medicine for our bodies and minds, offering stress-reducing, immune-boosting benefits that you simply can’t get anywhere else. It’s uniquely accessible (download one of the many forest finder apps) and the perfect practice for our stress-crushed lives. Shinrin-yoku gives people a framework for experiencing the forest in a new way — with intent, mindfully, meditatively, with every sense open. Nature prescriber, Dr. Zarr, stated in Slate that, “the effects of nature are still not on enough people’s radar,” even though “we’ve touched on something exciting.” Our prediction is that will change, and change will take on many forms. That includes the advent of forest schools — where today’s overscheduled, screen-addicted young children’s classrooms are moved entirely into nature — first established in Swiss Waldkindergartens, and now catching on in places like the U.S., U.K. and Canada.4 In short, forest therapy will be supported by more governments, promoted and developed in more forests, and incorporated into more wellness/spa retreats. Meanwhile, mounting medical evidence regarding forests’ and green spaces’ impact on human health will continue to lead to innovations in architecture, urban planning, and workplace, hospital, school and home design. And while more people travel to forests in search of health and rejuvenation, experts will find creative ways to bring more green corridors to where more and more of us live: the city.

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n 1991, two hikers in the South Tyrol Alps of Italy, veered off a path onto a boggy area and stumbled onto one of the most outstanding discoveries of the century: a mummy. The well-preserved body of a man lay in a blanket of ice three thousand two hundred and ten meters above sea level. He was a “wet” mummy, meaning humidity was retained in individual cells, a kind of freeze dried condition. It’s thought that he and his possessions were covered by a protective layer of snow that allowed air to penetrate for years. Only many years later was he covered with glacial ice. This kind of burial kept his body tissues elastic, suitable for performing detailed scientific investigation. He was fondly named “Otzi” after the area of the find, and he changed history. About 45-years-old, slim in build, weighing about 50 kilograms (approximately 110 pounds), Otzi stood about 1.6 meters tall (about 4.5 feet). He had dark, wavy, shoulder length hair worn loose and he may have had a beard. He was fully clothed. He wore a grass matting, probably over his head, fastened with string. The pieces of leather, hide, and string made into clothing came from goat and bear, and were woven into a coat-like garment, leg coverings and shoes. Preserved with him in the ice was an extensive kit of tools, which allowed him to remain away from his home for long periods and to be self-reliant. He also possessed a medical kit. The tool that proved to be a most surprising part of his kit was a copper axe. Otzi having a copper axe pushes the history of early man and his environment back almost 2000 years. The axe also gives clues as to Otzi’s social status: a copper axe denotes membership of a warrior or leadership class. His DNA identifies him as a member of the first independent Alpine cultural group called Tamins-Carasso-Isera 5 (the name denotes location). We know how old he was, where he lived and his status in his community, but who was he? Otzi lived between 3350-3100 BC. He had resided in the general area where he was found for at least ten years. One theory put forth is that he could have been a shaman, but this is very unlikely since he possessed no ritual objects. He may have been a hunter or a trader. The ability to work in copper opened new industries and vigorous trade across Europe and the Middle East. Otzi’s lungs were blackened with soot particles, a result of spending a great deal of time in front of open fires. Was he one of the elite who knew how to extract and refine copper? Did he travel, bartering with raw materials and finished products, and making far reaching cultural contacts? But there were no items in his kit to substantiate this theory. Was he a shepherd? The area where he was found was not considered a seasonal pastoral economy. Physically, he had brown eyes, of the O blood group and also of a rare chromosomal group. His physique appears to be hardy, although his joints showed wear and tear. He was diagnosed 34 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

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Ancient Tattoos: Markings on Otzi’s back, wrist, and other areas correspond to therapeutic acupuncture points and lines called energy meridians. with hardening of the arteries and predisposition to cardiovascular disease. He was lactose intolerant and the first recorded human case infected with the Lyme’s disease pathogen. It’s generally agreed that Otzi, perhaps the most closely examined patient of all time, was born and lived much of his life in South Tyrol between what is modern Italy and Austria. And he was murdered!

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LEGACY OF THE TYROLEAN ICEMAN Continued from page 34 been banished from his community? Was he fleeing across the inhospitable Alps to escape some crime, some prejudice against him, some delayed punishment, only to be found and killed? He was certainly pursued and involved in hand-to-hand combat before he died. One of his hands shows a cut made in a recent fight prior to his death. He sustained head trauma from a skull fracture with bleeding in the back of the brain. He could have survived these assaults. He may have hid from his enemies for a while but eventually was hunted down. He bled to death from an arrow wound. The arrow pierced a major blood vessel and damaged nerves in his left arm. He may have crawled to safety but his arm was probably paralyzed. Otzi had reached safety too late. Discovering this mummy has had an astounding effect on the history of early man. He appears to be quite sophisticated for his time. Having copper tools changes modern ideas about his civilization, making it was much more advanced than originally perceived. The community was mature and its members lived in the area where he was discovered for a long period of time as evidenced by a diversity of talents and duties. They had discovered rich mineral deposits and perfected smelting. Tools and weapons were objects for trading and wealth, with trader/ merchants who crisscrossed through parts of Europe and probably the Middle East extending their community and bringing back new ideas. These wanderers would have experienced a multifaceted world. Early merchant/wanderers could return home with new ideas, customs and practices. Otzi’s belongings imply that he may have been one of these wanderers. His clothes, his weapon and his medicine bag show that he was outfitted to travel. Why did he fall out of favor? What extraordinary grievance did he commit against his group? Some disturbing incident must have happened several weeks before his death, tipped the scales against him and he was ostracized. Perhaps he fled secretly but he didn’t get far. He was pursued, attacked, sustained mortal wounds and left to die.

pain. Apparently he found an answer. Some form of acupuncture had kept him going. The vertical lines are located to the left and right of the spinal column. Other tattoos are on the left calf, right instep, inner and outer ankle joint, left wrist, the back of his right knee and beside the left Achilles tendon. The tattooed areas correspond to acupuncture points and lines called energy meridians. Arthritis in the spine, knee joint degeneration, and leg problems were part of his medical history and the tattooed areas show exactly how to treat these conditions through acupuncture today. Where did he get those tattoos? We can assume he traveled, but how far from home? If he traded copper implements or hunted down supplies needed for smelting, did he get to the Middle East? Did he wander even further, somewhere perhaps in an Arab country or along early versions of what was later called the Silk Road, where he was introduced to acupuncture? Did he bring back information of this medicine in the form of tattoos? Was he able to instruct someone in his community on how to treat him? Having the information of point locations and effects at this time in history means that in Otzi’s life span, this medicine was already an established healing system, set up and ready to use. How wide was the practice of needling? Was it a local phenomena? It doesn’t seem logical that if the system worked, it would be kept secret. It could have spread through parts of Europe although there is no other evidence of it. Does this mean acupuncture could have originated in Europe and spread East? Or was Otzi the bearer of a new medicine he somehow found in his travels? Did he create enemies in his community when he introduced his new find? Was this why he was hunted down and murdered? It has been assumed that acupuncture is an Asian product. At the time Otzi lived, all parts of northern and central China supported advanced societies. From West to East, societies in Europe to civilizations of China and everything in between provided plenty of adventure, danger, and exchanges of knowledge. It was not just goods but also ideas and cultural customs that were exchanged on West-East trade routes, and then with North-South areas of cities and trade. The Neolithic world was an incredibly diverse place. And what of those tattoos? It is astounding to think that he had been treated with acupuncture long before its currently accepted earliest dates of practice, somewhere between 2000500BC. Otzi turns the history clock back, making acupuncture even older than previously believed. Perhaps acupuncture treatment flourished as the medicine of his time or was Otzi the only human in Neolithic Europe to know about this strange medicine? Many questions and many theories about an ancient medicine and early man.

Was Otzi the bearer of a new medicine he somehow found in his travels? Was this why he was murdered?

Ancient Medicine

The relics preserved with our ancient mummy give a few answers and insights into his culture. Along with a merchant/trader class, Otzi’s community had an herbalist/ doctor and there is evidence of an acupuncturist. He possessed a first-aid kit with various herbs. Threaded on two hide strips around his body were round lumps of fungus, the fruiting body of the birch polypore fungus. The fungus was known then and even used today for its antibiotic and styptic properties (to halt bleeding). It appears Otzi may have been taking the fungus for parasites; he had signs of whipworm eggs in his gut. Otzi’s body was covered with 50 tattoos. They are in groups of lines and crosses located at points where his body was subjected to considerable strain. Considering his age and the climate he lived in, he needed an answer for arthritis

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By Edward Bruce Bynum, Ph.D. he dark mosaic of the human brain reveals itself more and more each year to medicine, neuroscience and the increasingly complex scientific instruments we have devised to explore it. And yet sometimes we forget that long ago our ancestors in the temples and per ankhs or “houses of life” in Kemetic Egypt, as well as India and the ancient temples of Israel discovered through their various contemplative disciplines, the paradoxically dark and luminous forces within the brain that modern science has only now begun to unravel and understand. These classical scientists realized through their own empirical exploration and internal reflection that within each of us sleeps the potential to activate a personal connection, not merely to that unconscious level of the mind explored by Freud, Jung and others of early 20th century European psychology, but also to what appears to be a supramental or superconscious realm of the mind well known by the mystics, gifted artistic and scientific individuals, and others in personal episodes of profound illumination. It is manifest in the writings of the Egyptian’s Book of the Dead, in the Hindu Vedas and the Kabbalistic texts, as well as the writings of Christian mystics. It appears like a force that is paradoxically both dark and yet luminous, or at times full of a certain kind of internally perceived light. The whole trajectory of the early Egyptian and Hindu yogic systems and other mystery schools was to develop empirically derived methods of meditation to align ourselves with this reality. 38 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

Saint Teresa of Avila (March 28, 1515-October 4, 1582) described this internal light as it progressed through the body and brain, illuminating with its inner luminosity the soul in increasingly ecstatic experiences. Her written accounts begin with what she termed “mental prayer,” a form of concentration and contemplation. This lead to the loss or transcendence of the human will in what she described as “prayer of quiet.” Eventually this opened into a kind of “devotion of union,” the coming of the ecstatic state, and culminated in the “devotion of ecstasy or rapture” (Medwick, 1999). This clearly parallels the yogic path in its higher stages, particularly the higher stages of Hatha and Raja yoga. The great Christian scholar, scientist, mystic and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, building on the spiritual exercises explicated 400 years earlier by Saint Ignatius Loyola for opening the inner eye to see this internal light, described in modern terms the high formless union of science and religion in a form of rapture in The Divine Milieu (1960). Both Teresa of Avila and Teilhard de Chardin described in different ways the same ancient intelligent force as it courses through human evolution, illuminating the soul. This is an experience known to our ancestors for millennia.

Historic Images of the Serpentine Inner Light It was called the Uraeus by the indigenous African or Kemetic Egyptians and kundalini in the Hindu yoga traditions, with other traditions from the world’s diverse cultures having their own name for it. It appears to be a genetically rooted or innate

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bioluminous evolutionary impulse in us, serving not only as our wellspring of intellectual and creative genius but also of spiritual transcendence in its myriad forms. It is often simply called the serpent power. Psychological science in our own day is coming to recognize that it is the intelligent, conscious and still unfolding force of evolution itself in our species. It is called serpentine in many traditions because of its observed clinical motion through the body at times and shape and contour of the human spine up from its base and into the brainstem, brain core, the brain’s dark surface and beyond. The goal of every discipline of meditation, regardless of methodology, is the dissolution of thought — the mesh of human experience. This allows the self to disengage from dense mental constructions of all kinds in order to enter into the progressively extended range of consciousness that unfolds beyond it. The advantage of the Uraeus or kundalini is that, like the clear light experience of meditative practices, its emergence outshines conventional conceptualization and thought, at least briefly, until stabilized. The Kemetic Egyptians in their academies and per ankhs, the houses of life where medicine and psychospiritual experimentation and experience was conducted, represented the Uraeus as twin serpents in alternating curves and balance, coiling themselves seven times around the spinal line until meeting in the apex of the brain where it spawned wings and took flight, i.e., spiritual flight. It was seen as a sign of awakened consciousness in the double serpents or urai of the pharaoh’s royal crown, a crown that flowed out of the light sensitive pineal gland situated in the mid center of the brain. It was the focus of psychological training and progression in the mystery schools of Kemet for years, moving from neophyte all the way up to the sons of light. Certainly the early desert fathers of Christianity knew of its existence. The Kabbalistic seers referred to the internally luminous tree of life. The Hindu yogis have a similar tradition, as do many of the peoples of West Africa. This knowledge would later find representation in the image of the Greco-Roman staff of Hermes with its serpents coiled again seven times around the spinal column until similarly reaching the apex of the brain and then taking spiritual flight. This caduceus is still the predominant symbol used in medicine today, so when you visit a physician’s office you are implicitly paying homage to this tradition.

Once activated, this biogenetic process begins to unfold a series of experiences or planes of awareness only dimly intuited at our normative level of consciousness. Awakened consciousness moves up through what the Kemetic Egyptians termed the Amenta or Primeval Waters of Nun. Today we call this the unconscious mind, with its drives, primordial fears, awes and dynamisms rooted in what appears to be midbrain limbic structures developed during the era of our Australopithecine progenitors millions of years ago. This was the level of consciousness that Freud and his contemporaries explored. It then moves up to and through the most sublime of emotions and conceptions of the dark-covered cerebral cortex and prefrontal lobes, before eventually transcending even ideation itself in a current of energy and bliss. The seamless subjective apprehension of a boundless and radiant intelligence, appearing to pervade all of existence, is to experience bliss. This biological phenomenon is innate in all of us but it arches far beyond our biological substrate. Drawing from research in quantum and relativistic physics, neuroscience, and biochemistry, as well as the ancient traditions from Africa and India, along with the latest findings from the emerging field of neurotheology, where brain science meets spiritual reality, new research in this dark and paradoxically light-infused phenomena is called dark light consciousness. It explores the ancient science of the Uraeus, revealing in modern clinical terms and detail how it is intimately connected to the living dark matter of brains called neuromelanin.

Our Gray Matter Is Light Sensitive Neuromelanin is a light sensitive, energy conductive biopolymer and pigment found in progressive amounts within the spinal column, brain stem, in critical brain core areas, and indeed in the nervous system of all higher life forms on our planet. Located within the deep cerebral hemispheres of humans are masses of nuclei called basal ganglia. These centers of dark living matter containing neuromelanin are the clusters of nerve cells surrounding the thalamus. They are responsible for initiating, detecting and integrating gross and subtle movements. Parkinson’s disease, which leads to tremors, rigidity and a stiff, shuffling gait, is a disease of these nerve cells. These sophisticated sensors may also be partially responsible for detecting more subtle movements within the wider environment, such as the geodynamic forces within the earth itself, phenomena alluded to in the ancient Memphite Theology of Kemet mentioned by G. G. M. James in his classical Stolen Legacy. The whole purpose of the disciplines of meditation and contemplation as stated earlier, be they Christian, Kabbalistic, Kemetic or Hindu, or the deep rhythmic movements of ecstatic dance, or many other methods developed by our species, is to initiate resonance and entraining stimulation of these dark living centers in the brain so the spiritual current can be free to arise and move up through the body, the brain core and beyond. Because it is light sensitive and orients itself toward light, neuromelanin is capable of orienting us in the wider reality of not only the local earth, but perhaps also the wider constellations and stars that are unfolded when an awakened inner eye is opened. It helps orient us in the wider milieu. Similarly, the recent 2015 Nobel Prize winners in medicine, John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Evard Moser, have identified specialized neural cells that orient us in place and then pool these cells into a grid-like system to map directions in that space. Neuromelanin neural systems woven through the brain stem and core are believed to orient the intelligence of the inner opened eye by forming a kind of gestalt or grid-like system of these light alignments that parallel neuromelanin sites in the brain (Bynum et all, 2005; Bynum, 2012). This suggests in very real ways that we are a cosmic species only now beginning to awaken to our relationship to the universe on a mass scale.

Science in our day is coming to recognize that the serpentine inner light is the intelligent, conscious and still unfolding force of evolution itself in our species.

Personal Bliss And Cosmic Consciousness Scholars and masters of the contemplative traditions set amidst the pyramids and deserts of Africa and Israel, as well as many classical meditative disciplines scattered across the earth, have studied this phenomenon for millennia. The testimony of practitioners asserts that when awakened by various means this biogenetic force is perceived as unfurling along the spinal column up into the brain, opening and connecting one’s individual consciousness, suffusing it with awe and bliss. The Christian tradition refers to the Passion of Christ; other traditions delineate their terms and references. The process fuses our highly energized and awakened consciousness with a wider consciousness of the universe, enfolded within the dark matter and energy of the cosmos. This has been the observation and testimony of the greatest heroes of our species across the ages. At the root of creativity and spiritual genius in innumerable cultures and civilizations, this intelligent force appears to create portals that literally enfold time, space and the luminous matrix of reality itself. 40 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

All of this is not to confuse simple surface skin melanin, which is variable from racial group to group, and even from person to person within the same family, with the neurologically rooted neuromelanin, which is found in all humans. Significantly, the amount of neuromelanin in the brain directly increases as we progress up the evolutionary line from simple mammals to more complex ones to the great apes and finally reaching its zenith of concentration in man. This neuromelanin, the so-called gray matter of the brain, is light sensitive despite being under the surface of the skull away from direct sunlight. The dark light of neuromelanin appears to serve as the morphic template of what our spiritual traditions refer to as the subtle or light body. Neuromelanin is crucial to the interface between the dense local body we see and feel, and the more subtle energetic body we sense and radiate. It is the backdrop of our existence, felt but unseen, much like the cold, dark matter that, together with gravity, forms the infrastructure of the cosmos holding together the galaxies and constellations. Many classical disciplines teach us how to safely awaken and stabilize this biospiritual energy of the Uraeus through meditation practices, breathing exercises and yoga in order to prepare the subtle body for more expansive and illuminative experiences. This is the main trajectory of the mystery schools. The last two decades of neurotheological research have shed considerable light on the interrelationship between consciousness, neuroscience, biology, medicine and the biological roots of spiritual experience. In books like Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain and The Biology of Belief and The Transmitter To God: The Limbic System, The Soul and Spirituality, as well as innumerable popularized books by quantum physicists suggesting that consciousness itself pervades the universe, e.g., The Conscious Universe and The Self-Aware Universe, to name only a few, all conclusions point to a primordial connection between these realms of human exploration. Modern science owes a debt to the classical scholars of Kemetic Egypt, India and Israel and is finally doing its part in the rediscovery of what our ancient ancestors knew and explored on the banks of the Nile and Ganges untold millennia ago.

Edward Bruce Bynum Ph.D., ABP, is a licensed psychologist and the founder and former director of the Behavioral Medicine & Anxieties Disorders Clinic at UMass Amherst. He is the author of three books of poetry and six psychology books including Dark Light Consciousness: Melanin, Serpent Power and the Luminous Matrix of Reality (www. InnerTraditions.com). Dr. Bynum is a 30-year practitioner of Kundalini Yoga.

References Ashby, M. (2000), The Serpent Power: The Ancient Egyptian Mystical Wisdom of the Inner Life Force. Sema Institute of Yoga, Miami, Fl. Aurobindo, S. (1960), The Life Divine. Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press, Pondicherry, India. Bynum, E. B. (2012), Dark Light Consciousness: Melanin, Serpent Power and the Luminous Matrix of Reality. Inner Traditions & Bear Company, Rochester, VT. Bynum, E.B. (2012), The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology. Cosimo Books, NYC, NY. Bynum, E. B., Brown, A.C., King, R.D. and Moore, T.O. (2005), Why Darkness Matters: The Power of Melanin in the Brain. Chapter 3, “The clinical use of bliss: a standardized technique for conscious intervention into the functioning of the autonomic nervous system.” CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2nd edition (2013.) De Chardin, P. T. (1960), The Divine Milieu. Harper Torchbook/Harper and Row, NYC, NY Goswami, A. (1995), The Self-Aware Universe. J. P. Tarcher, NYC, NY. James, G.G.M. (1954), Stolen Legacy. Philosophical Library, NYC, NY. Joseph, R. (2001), The Transmitter to God: The Limbic System, the Soul and Spirituality. University of California Press, San Jose, CA. Kafatos, Menas and Nadeau, R. (1990), The Conscious Universe: Part and Whole in Modern Physical Theory. Springer-Verlag, NY. King, R.D. (2001), African Origin of Biological Psychiatry. Lushena Books, Chicago, IL. Krishna, G. (1988), Kundalini for the New Age: Selected Writings of Gopi Krishna, edited by Gene Kieffer, Bantam Books, NY. Medwick, C. (1999), Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul. Knopf, NYC, NY. Moore, T.O. (2004), The Science of Melanin. Zamani Books, Redan, GA. Newberg, A., D’Aquilli, E., and Rause, V. (2001). Why God Won’t Go Away: Brain Science and the Biology of Belief. Ballantine Books, NY. www.spiritofchange.org

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ffectionately called “The Western Lama” by the Dalai Lama, Lama Surya Das has spent forty-five years studying Zen, vipassana, yoga and Tibetan Buddhism with the great masters of Asia. He is an authorized lama and lineage holder in the Nyingmapa School of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, MA. A founder of the Western Buddhist Teachers Network with the Dalai Lama in 1993, he regularly helps organize its international Buddhist Teachers Conferences. As a Western teacher of an Eastern tradition, Lama Surya has spent half a lifetime melding these deep cultural traditions with the modern demands of American life to create more accessible forms of Buddhist teaching and meditation. He readily acknowledges that many Westerners today have little interest in the “isms” — Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism — inherent in traditional spiritual paths and are looking for more practical tools for body/mind/ spirit development. These tools are available in all levels, from beginner to advanced trainings, in forms such as yoga, mindfulness meditation and all varieties of martial arts, just to name a few. In his latest book, Make Me One With Everything (Sounds True, 2015), Surya Das introduces inter-meditation, the art of Lama Surya Das experiencing spiritual growth and expansion in everyday life. “If you’ve ever felt ‘at one’ with something — your beloved or your child, a wooded trail, a favorite song — then you’ve experienced inter-meditation,” he says. “Because if we can’t find enlightenment, freedom, autonomy, and bliss amid every nitty-gritty detail of life, then all the rituals, sacraments, prayers, chants, yoga asanas, gurus and pilgrimages in the world are useless.” Carol Bedrosian: You’re called the American Lama or the Western Buddhist by Eastern lamas and spiritual teachers. Does race, nationalism, or prejudice come into play in the global Buddhist tradition? Lama Surya Das: Of course it does. It’s everywhere. It’s part of human nature to have such different distinctions, but Buddhism has a pretty good record among religions, though I don’t want to be overly idealistic. In abstract, men and women are equal in Buddhism, but in practice monks are higher than nuns in status and monastic order and so on. But in the Western dharma and American Buddhism, half the teachers are women, and women are much more equal — equally educated and equal in leadership positions, so that’s the good news. I’m a lama in the Tibetan Buddhist order so the Dali Lama calls me the Western Lama, or the American Lama, but there are others. We’re in the minority certainly. It’s still an Asian religion and change comes slow in the old world even though Eastern traditions are encountering modernity, change comes slow. There’s a very vocal and interesting dialogue going on in these decades between preservation, on one hand, and adaptation and innovation on the other hand. We see this similarly with the struggles that Pope Francis and the Catholic Church have, or the Orthodox and Reformed rabbis have in Israel and in other countries, and all the religions, the Protestants, and so on. And certainly in Islam, too, with its religious strife and large groups that are trying to adapt to the modern world and educate women, among other things, there are still some strong local groups that want to go back to ancient Sharia law and things like that. Buddhism is not without its own internal creative tensions about these issues. I would not

say it is racist. Buddha broke the caste system; he was a great social reformer. But that was 2600 years ago. It was a long time ago. These days, we’re still trying to do our best to be egalitarian and color blind, class-free, and also open to diversity such as the LGBQ dialogue and other topics that we have at Buddhist teachers’ conferences and in our communities. So I don’t feel discriminated against, but I am sort of like the white blues man, where everyone expects a blues person to be black from the Mississippi delta. I’m like a white blues man among the Tibetan lamas for sure…me and some of my colleagues. But it’s not a problem. And time moves forward. Now we are seeing Western dharma, which is less about the “ism” and more about the tools and techniques that can help us. So yoga, and meditation, mindfulness, etc., are happening in the mainstream because there are great benefits and there is scientific research demonstrating and supporting those benefits. Carol Bedrosian: Are there two branches of Buddhism — the Western dharma and Eastern dharma? Lama Surya Das: I don’t know about that. There are different branches of Buddhism to begin with, like Christianity. Carol Bedrosian: But is there a Western branch? Lama Surya Das: There’s more traditional and modern Buddhism, you might say. Of course Western Buddhism is a little different from Eastern Buddhism, but there’s really no nationality in a religion. But there also is. People talk about Tibetan Buddhism; it’s not really Tibetan. It’s better known as Vajrayana Buddhism or Northern Buddhism, but people call it Tibetan Buddhism or Indian Buddhism, or Japanese, or Korean, or Thai Buddhism. So there’s European and American Buddhism, certainly. I wouldn’t make a hard and fast distinction between Eastern and Western Buddhism, though. I’d say the more interesting distinction would be to recognize that there’s the traditional routes and then there’s the more adaptive and innovative modern forms. Try to preserve the essence, but adapt the forms. Carol Bedrosian: Are these the ones that would be considered Western Buddhism for Americans? What are the more adaptive forms? Lama Surya Das: For instance, you don’t have to sit on the floor cross-legged, you can sit in a chair. There’s less influence on monasticism and more on spiritual practices. It’s more psychologically astute, not cosmological or superstitious. It’s more socially active, like the engaged Buddhism movement. Although it exists in the East, it’s more Western democratic and activist influenced. So there are different, more Western-style movements, like the mindfulness movement that’s sweeping North America, and to some extent Europe, but it is not sweeping Asia. It’s extracted from Buddhism so a lot of people are practicing mindfulness at work, in corporate settings. Carol Bedrosian: More as a tool than a lifestyle or religion. Lama Surya Das: As a tool — without the ism. Without the Buddhism. It’s more the practice, like yoga without Hinduism. Yoga for exercise, yoga for health and so on, without Hinduism or the religion. But yoga comes from Hinduism just like mindfulness comes from Buddhism. Carol Bedrosian: Which is perhaps why certain people object to yoga being taught in public schools, because they believe it is a form of religion. Lama Surya Das: Right. Yoga and meditation are making definite inroads in schools and overcoming those resistances now because they are becoming more secularized and without the ism — without the religious context — and that’s good because they are good tools for a healthy mind, good mental and physical health. But that means it’s losing some of the depth, like the benefits of developing wisdom and enlightenment, in favor of the more temporal benefits like mental health and physical health. Carol Bedrosian: So mental health versus spiritual health or wisdom. Lama Surya Das: Yoga for health or good looks or exercise is not the same as the eightlimbed yoga coming from India that brings oneness with God and enlightenment, purity, immortality and so on. So there’s a reductionism, like a diluting. Though mental health, physical health, relaxation, and exercise are all good, they may not be as good ultimately as the ideal of being one with God or being reborn in heaven that the great world religions throughout history have been espousing. Yoga is one of the paths to those things. Carol Bedrosian: Is the inter-meditation that you discuss in your new book a Western-type tool or does it belong in the other category of the ism? Lama Surya Das: No, it’s definitely a Western-type tool. But it’s not really Western. It’s rooted in both. It’s an enlightenment tool, but it begins with a very secular way of making every part of your life a part of your spiritual path without having to subscribe to any particular religion. So I’d say it’s a wisdom thing rather than a faith thing. For more information on Lama Surya Das visit dzogchen.org. www.spiritofchange.org

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BOOK REVIEWS By Gail Lord

Susan Stiffelman

Parenting with Presence: Practices for Raising Conscious Confident Caring Kids New World Library, Novato, CA 2015

Susan Stiffelman, parent educator and therapist, is on a mission to change the world, one child at a time. Like many, she found raising her child to be the greatest transformational experience of her life. Parenting with Presence is a guidebook inspired by her experiences and those of her clients to connect us with the spiritual side and through the ups and downs of raising a child. As our child grows we grow, and even though our child is often our greatest teacher, it is not our child’s job to raise us. By acting not as a parental autocrat, but instead assuming the role of captain of the ship, we create safe, reasonable, and even flexible, boundaries for our child based on our knowledge and intuition of what is best for our family. Parenting with Presence acknowledges that we each come to the role of parenting as amateurs, and encourages us to be joy-filled and gentle with ourselves as we find our way. Included are four steps for a good apology, tips for building a tribe, and suggestions for avoiding the pitfalls of parental guilt. A question and answer format offers practical options for how to handle common parent-child situations. To a sassy tween’s disrespectful eye rolling, Stiffelman suggests trying not to take it personally, and to not give it any more meaning then an ineffective way for the child to announce she wants to ignore your request. Remain calm and offer a do-over. For the parent having difficulty remaining calm when a child misbehaves, 44 Spirit of Change | SUMMER 2015

she suggests imagining you’re in a little boat, relaxed and just drifting along, when another boat crashes into yours. Your blood pressure rises as you immediately look to see who is steering the other boat when you discover the boat is empty; there is no captain. You calm down as you realize no one intended to hit your boat and disturb your tranquility. Similarly, a misbehaving child is often just adrift in a sea of his own challenges, and his actions are just a misguided way to get his needs met. A child that is seen, acknowledged and understood is on the path to becoming a competent and caring adult.

Annie Karpf How To Age

Picador, New York, New York 2014

When movie icon Audrey Hepburn was told her photograph would be retouched, she protested, “Oh no, I’ve earned those lines!” Compare that with a Glee cast member who had Botox at age 18. Walmart now offers a cosmetic line that includes anti-aging creams for girls 8 to 12 years old! As a culture we are so enamored with staying young that getting older is treated as something to be resisted and denied. How To Age explores this modern taboo of aging and argues that this inevitable part of our human condition can be a robust and enriching time of immense growth. The idea that one’s appetite for life automatically fades as years pass is simply not true, as creativity and vitality are not age-dependent. The challenge of aging is no more than the challenge of living. As Cicero said in his treatise on old age, those “who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome.”

Alberto Villoldo

One Spirit Medicine: Ancient Ways to Ultimate Wellness Hay House, Carlsbad, CA 2015

As shaman and teacher, medical anthropologist Alberto Villoldo faced a life altering decision after learning from medical experts during an extreme health crisis that his body was full of toxic bacteria, viruses and worms contracted during his years of research work in Indonesia, Africa and South America, and that his brain was riddled with parasites. Gravely ill, he was told to immediately seek the best medical care available and get his name on a liver transplant list. Instead, he trusted in the ways of the shaman and returned to the Amazon to begin his healing. One Spirit Medicine is a prescriptive journey to wellness, the model that saved Villoldo’s life. It combines the powerful spiritual medicine of the shaman complemented with Western medical knowledge. A key component of this healing system is the vision quest, which includes fasting along with meditation to rejuvenate the body’s self-repair system and reconnect the seeker to spirit, nature and the invisible world. A nutrient dense plant-based diet using superfoods, such as broccoli, avocados and berries, helps detox and reboot our systems. According to the latest research, most of our present-day diseases begin in our gut. Yet our current medical system rarely addresses symptoms of anxiety, brain fog or depression by looking at the quality of food we ingest, relying instead on prescriptions to cure our ailments. America’s healthcare system is actually a disease care system, and Villoldo drives this point home relaying his experience taking his mother to the doctor on the same day

he took his dog to the veterinarian. The first thing the doctor asked was what medications his mother was taking, while the first thing the veterinarian asked was what was he feeding his dog! While Villoldo needed over a year to completely detoxify his brain and body and return to good health, he stresses that even small changes are very beneficial. A tablespoon of coconut oil in the morning and one again in the afternoon is “jet-fuel for the brain.” Removing sugar from your diet for just 18 hours (6pm till noon the next day) wakes up the body’s rejuvenation system and detoxifies cells. With this healing system, including super nutrients and energy medicine “we can get our health span to equal our life span.”

Preston Bentley Meditation Made Easy Adams Media, Avon, MA 2015

The benefits of meditation are numerous and well documented; the deep rest strengths the immune system, replaces tension with a feeling of well being, and reduces the heart rate, blood pressure, and even cholesterol, as the body and mind is calmed. To derive all this simply from breathing sounds great, so why doesn’t everyone do it? Meditation Made Easy suggests knowing why you want to meditate can help you establish a practice. Are you a health seeker who wants better sleep and increased energy? Maybe you’re a creative thinker who wants to work with greater flow and release past bad habits and memories? Or are you a performance enhancer who wants to develop calm under stress and improve memory? Following any of the fifty included meditation exercises for just a few minutes daily will help you reach your goals. Reach out to a friend with

Phone Call Meditation, calm your mind with Dismissing Thoughts Meditation, regroup to a hidden place as you cup your hands over your eyes, or stimulate your abdominal organs and digestive tract by trying Gas-Relieving Pose. Engaging in strenuous physical work is meditation, as is nursing a baby, or washing dishes. These everyday tasks find you disengaging from other feelings and participating completely in the moment, focusing only on the task at hand, so you may already be meditating without even knowing it!

Orianna Fielding

Unplugged: How to Live Mindfully in a Digital World

"compare and despair" syndrome. If tech addiction is part of your life, it's time for a digital detox. Unplugged offers steps for a one hour, four hour, and up to seven-day detox. You can start with a tech-free taster by simply putting your phone on silent mode or leaving it in a drawer for sixty minutes. Talk to your co-workers instead of sending emails. Meal times are for food and conversation; get the devices off the table. And proudly be part of the percentage of Americans who do not take their phones to bed with them!

Kelle Sutliff

Listen Up! The Other Side is Talking TriCircle Publishing, 2014

Carlton Books, New York 2015

Digital technology connects us to a world outside our own, a global community of creativity, thoughts and ideas. Yet increasingly, our interaction with people inside our small screens leaves us feeling less connected. Unplugged explores this love/hate relationship with digital technology and is a roadmap for balancing face-to-face relationships and an online life. FOMA, or Fear Of Missing Out, is the reason many people constantly check social media and text messages. This overabundance of screen time results in "phubbing" (phone snubbing — the practice of ignoring others to use a smart phone in a social setting) and also what the American Academy of Pediatrics terms "Facebook depression." A study at the University of Michigan found time spent on Facebook correlates negatively to well being, and viewing enhanced selfies and happy postings of others can create

Medium Kelle Sutliff knows it doesn’t matter if a person trying to communicate with you is living or dead; to hear what’s being said you need to pay attention and listen! In Listen Up! The Other Side is Talking Sutliff teaches simple practices anyone can use to open up to spirit communication. She shares her process of doing private readings, as well as her work with detectives and groups such as Boston University’s Cold Case Collaborative to find missing persons. Sutliff says paying attention is the key to connect with the gift of inner knowing. The important first step is to get quiet enough to listen. Sutliff relies on her “daily cup of calm,” a very simple three-minute grounding, breathing and clearing exercise. Also important is a willingness to acknowledge hunches; don’t let them go to spiritual voicemail, act on them! Regularly notice how often your intuition is correct. Working in

person with a teacher is a great help in developing psychic ability, and online development classes are readily available. Joining a psychic circle is not only a great place to practice but also a space that’s full of encouragement. Also, practice on friends and family. The more you do this, the more accurate you become. Psychic communication needs a clear receptive mind. A clear dwelling is equally helpful. Create a warm and inviting living space; eliminate “dirty energy” using a lavender candle, a white sage stick and your prayers to God, the Universe, or whomever you consider holy. Light the candle in the center of your home, then state your intention that all negative energy leave, and your home stay balanced and healthy. With the candle still lit, burn the sage, walking from room to room. When finished, let the sage go out and leave the candle burning. Blessing your home in this easy way not only clears stale energy, but it is an active reminder that your living space is a sacred place where friends from this side or the other feel comfortable and welcomed to visit you.

Joan Borysenko

The PlantPlus Diet Solution: Personalized Nutrition for Life Hay House, Carlsbad, CA 2014

The PlantPlus Diet Solution asks your inner scientist to come to life. Developed by cell biologist and health psychologist Joan Borysenko for herself and her husband, this personalized lifestyle program begins with a 28-day reboot, and uses a Medical Symp-

toms Checklist to gauge progress. The optimal food for you is personal, based on your metabolism and chemistry. Who better to discover that than you! The up-to-date nutritional information helps you determine the best foods for your body. But regardless of metabolism and food sensitivities, the most important dietary change any of us can make is to eliminate fake foods from our lives. Creating a healthy relationship with wholesome, mostly organic, food is an important way to start cleaning up our acts. By treating leftovers like gold, you eliminate food waste. Forty percent of the food in the United States goes uneaten every year; that’s $2,275 for the average family of four! Organic produce becomes less costly when you don’t waste it by throwing it away. Use leftover vegetables in an omelette; take five minutes to bake the apples you bought on sale weeks ago. Dr. Borysenko includes pointers and recipes for those needing inspiration in the kitchen. Recipes include The Best Roasted Cauliflower with garlic and cayenne pepper, and very low-carb high-nutrient Golden Almond Bread. While The PlantPlus Diet Solution is a lifestyle change for self-care, Borysenko realizes not everyone can commit to the total makeover. Her version of PlantPlus Lite consists of only two changes: eliminate anything containing “white foods” (such as sugar and flour) and eat a pound of veggies plus a couple of whole fruits every day. These changes alone will likely help you improve your health and lose weight. Gail Lord is freelance writer living in Massachusetts. Please send book review copies to 51 North Street, Grafton, MA 01519 or email socbookreviewer@gmail.com.

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Bellingham Yoga Healing Trauma: Empowering You On and Off the Mat. Seminars for YTT, private therapeutic sessions, traditional hatha, Vinyasa flow classes. Tobi Gold. www.yogahealingtrauma.org. 508-631-4841. Bridgewater Maha Yoga Center, 992 Bedford St. (Rt. 18), Bridgewater, MA 02324, 508-697-3273 www.mahayogacenter.com. Yoga all levels, Hatha, Ashtanga, meditation, massage. Yoga teacher training (YA). Framingham Open Spirit – A Place of Hope, Health & Harmony! Yoga, meditation and more in Framingham, MA. Classes, trainings, special events for enriching mind, body and spirit! www.openspiritcenter.org or 508-877-8162. Gardner Unity Yoga, 205 School Street, Gardner, MA. First class free. Kundalini, Hatha, Yoga For 12 Step Recovery, gong and crystal singing bowl meditations. Healing parlor. Innovative workshops. 978-410-5702 • www.unityyoga.us Holbrook Real Life Yoga Studio, 239 North Franklin St.(Rt 37). Traditional hatha, power flow, Kundalini with meditation, monthly restorative yoga, tai chi, gong meditation. 781-767-1827 • www.reallifeyoga.com. Holden Opening Lotus Yoga. An eco-green studio. Main Street, Holden, MA, 01520. Beginner-advanced. Gentle-vigorous. Hatha, Vinyasa, Yin. Vibrant health courses. Detoxing chronic stress. www.openinglotusyoga.com • 508-829-7435 456

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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.

Westborough Sohum Yoga and Mediation Studio. 30 Lyman Street, Westboro. All styles of yoga, yoga therapy, yoga for beginners, small class size. Corporate wellness workshops. www.sohum.org.

The Yoga Studio. A tranquil, welcoming healing center. Daily classes for all levels, private yoga therapy, and 200/500 hour YTT. First class free. 508-376-8508 • www.theyogastudiomillis.com.

Westborough Yoga for transformation, healing and spinal health. Offering Svaroopa yoga, meditation, private Yoga Therapy and Embodyment. www.westboroughyoga.com or contact Michelle (Kamala) Gross 508-341-6424.

Multiple Massachusetts Locations Open Doors Yoga Studios. 15 Locations in MA. Hot power yoga and gentle yoga, all levels. 200 & 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training. www.OpenDoors.com. 781-843-8224.

Worcester Amethyst Point. 232 Chandler St., Worcester. Hatha/Iyengar yoga, meditation and tai chi/qigong. All levels. Monday-Saturday. 508-753-3975. www.amethystpoint.com.

Metrowest Yoga. Westboro and Worcester locations. Metrowest Yoga is the premiere yoga studio in the Central Mass area. Over 10 years of helping students find peace and feel better. 508-366-5025. www.metrowestyoga.net.

Worcester Yoga Center. Ann Bissanti. Over 30 years teaching experience. Trained in India by B.K.S. Iyengar. Ambq2@yahoo.com. 508-829-6300.

Needham Pipal Leaf Yoga Studio, 945 Great Plain Avenue, Needham. pipalleafyoga.com. Yoga for everybody and every body. Kripalu, Viniyoga and hatha skillfully taught in a serene, sacred space. Reiki and wonderful, insightful events! Princeton FrogPond Yoga Centre. Classes in the tradition of Raja Yoga for all levels of practitioners. 200 and 500-hr classes are ongoing. 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.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Exeter YogaLife Institute, 6 Chestnut Street, Suite A, Exeter, NH 03833. Teacher training workshops, classes in many styles and all levels, and mentoring sessions. 603-969-8968 • www.yogalifenh.com

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SUMMER CALENDAR JUNE 6/1 — BAYLIGHT HOMEOPATHY registration is open for 2015-2016 courses! Join our growing community of students, alumni and practitioners, and discover a truly hopeful, individualized approach to health for yourself and your loved ones. www.baylighthomeopathy.com. (207) 774-4244. info@baylighthomeopathy.com. 6/1 — INTENSIVE TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE 2-MONTH COURSE. At Bhavna’s Wellness Group in Shrewsbury, MA. June 21: Free World Peace Meditation, 5pm. In-person or call in. July 17: Golden Light Retreat. 6-8pm. $100. www.bhwellnessgroup.com. (774) 242-2112. 6/6 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Newton, MA, Libby Barnett, MSW. 34 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 6/7. 6/6 — EXPANDING AWARENESS PROGRAM. Boston College Radio WZBC 90.3FM. 10am. Victor Venckus interviews Share International workers. WZBC call-in line: (617) 552-4686. share-international.us. 6/6, 6/8 & 6/25 — HOW DO WE FIX OUR BROKEN WORLD? Free public event with the compassionate spiritual teachers of Share International, offering help through Maitreya, the World Teacher, in response to many global crises. 6/6, 4-6pm and 6/8, 6-8pm at the Theosophical Society, Arlington, MA (617) 794-7692. 6/25, 7-9pm at Watertown Library, Watertown, MA (617) 972-6431. share-international.us.

6/13-14 — PRANIC HEALING. Private sessions, Level 1 workshops, review classes. Twin Heart Meditations. North Andover, MA. Miriam Smith, certified healer and teacher. mgsenergy@comcast.net. (978) 807-1634 www.PranicHealingNE.com. 6/15 — WIRELESS SMART METERS, RF, AND HEALTH. IBEW Hall, 242 Mill Street, Worcester, MA, 7:00-8:30pm. Free. With Dr. William Maykel of LeadingMedicine.com. (508) 832-0768. A functional medicine health expert treating patients with microwave illnesses explains how radio frequencies from wireless devices, including smart meters, impact human health. Sponsored by WorcesterOptsOut.org. 6/19 — INTRODUCTION TO MIND BODY HEALING. With Judith Swack, PhD, at The Boston Center for Adult Education. 7-9pm. Learn powerful, yet easy to use techniques for communicating directly with the unconscious mind, body and soul to release unwanted emotions and sabotaging behaviors. (617) 267-4430 or bcae.org. 6/19 — ELLIOTT JACKSON GROUP CHANNELING WITH SOURCE. Hear the miraculous occurrences that led to Elliott channeling Source and receive messages of love and universal truths. Participants may ask questions during the event and private sessions will also be available Saturday and Sunday. Andover, MA. (978) 474-8010 www.circlesofwisdom.com. 6/21 — MEDICINAL PLANT WALK. 1-3 p.m. Learn about the healing actions of plants. We will look at which parts of the plants are used medicinally and how they support health. Boston School of Herbal Studies, Arlington. (781) 646-6319. bostonherbalstudies.com.

6/22 — THE MA SMART METER FRAUD COMPLAINT, IBEW Hall, 242 Mill Street, Worcester, MA, 7:00-8:30 pm. Free. Learn about the fraud complaint filed with the Attorney General regarding safety claims for the $7B wireless utility meter mandate, Bill H2868 Ratepayers’ Rights sponsored by Rep. DiNatale, and Bill H2007. Advocacy for investigation of Worcester smart meter pilot. HaltMAsmartmeters.org, WorcesterOptsOut.org, stopsmartmetersMASS@gmail.com. 6/27-28 — FIRST WEEKEND OF DELTA GARDENS FLOWER ESSENCE PRACTITIONER CERTIFICATION TRAINING. Hampton Falls, NH. Now accepting applications for the 4-weekend long training. Dates: June 27-28, July 25-26, August 29-30, September 26-27. Call (603) 601-6929 or go to www.deltagardens.com for details.

6/27-6/28 — EMPOWER YOURSELF WITH CLAY, DREAMS, BREATH AND JOURNEYING with Donna Robinson and Wendy Walter. Immerse yourself in you. Embrace healing, clarity and authenticity. Leave centered, empowered and joyful! Brookline, NH. Details at www.voiceofclay.com.

6/10 — WIFI RADIATION AND PUBLIC HEALTH: LEGISLATIVE BRIEFING sponsored by Rep. DiNatale. MA State House, Boston, Room 437, 2 pm, Open to the public, EMF experts Dr. Devra Davis, Catherine Steiner-Adair, Ed.D and Dr. R. S. Sharma. EnvironmentalHealthTrust.org. Come learn and lobby legislators to attend.

6/30 — THE HEALING POWER OF FOOD. Are you struggling with sugar cravings, a leaky gut or gluten intolerance? Are you always tired? Join Linda Cox, holistic certified health coach at Groton Wellness, to learn how to reboot your health with food. 6:30-7:30pm. $24. 493 Main Street, Groton, MA. (978) 925-3221. www.GrotonWellness.com.

6/11 & 8/12 — OPEN HOUSE FOR SCHOOLS OF WISDOM. Meet instructors, learn about these unique intensive programs. June 2015: Animal Communication Two. September 2015: Mediumship, Holistic Professional, Angel Alignment. January 2016: Earth Medicine; Holistic Practitioner, Advanced Holistic Professional. (508) 230-3680. www.womenofwisdominc.com.

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6/21 — MIDSUMMER OPEN RITUAL. Noon. Donations accepted. 8/8: Lughnassadh ritual. 2pm. Tintagels Gate, 505 Main Street, Athol, MA. www.TintagelsGate.com or (978) 830-4611.

6/27 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 34 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 6/28

6/6-6/14 — YOGI AMANDEEP SINGH. Yoga at the Ashram, Millis, MA. Delve deeply into rarely experienced yogic traditions and teachings of Yogi Bhajan. Multiple offerings. Powerful meditation occurs with ease. YogaAtTheAshram.org

6/13 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Concord, MA. Libby Barnett, MSW. 34 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 6/14

6/20-21 — CLARITY, DECISION & ACTION. Taught by Vidyadevi Stillman, CSYT, RYT 500, E-RYT 500. Svaroopa® yoga’s premier teacher trainer, Vidyadevi has been studying and teaching directly with Svaroopa® yoga originator Swami Nirmalananda for 19 years. Give yourself a whole weekend of yoga, focused on gaining clarity in your life and providing the foundation for decisive and effective action. The deep spinal openers and abdominal poses will help you cultivate all three of these qualities, while the contemplations and discussions help you consolidate your new understandings and take them home with you. Discover clarity instead of confusion, decision instead of hesitancy, and the ability to follow through with action where it is needed. This workshop can truly change your life. 9am-5pm. Call (617) 320-3394 to register today! www.seaglassyoga.com

JULY 6/15 — Functional medicine health expert Dr. William Maykel explains how radio frequencies from wireless devices, including smart meters, impact human health. See June listing or LeadingMedicine.com.

7/8-8/19 — MAGIC 101. Wednesdays, 6:30pm. $100, $40 due the first night. 505 Main Street, Athol, MA. www.TintagelsGate.com or (978) 830-4611.

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CALENDAR Continued from page 47 7/9-7/10 — COME MEET AMMA, internationally acclaimed humanitarian and spiritual leader. Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel, Marlboro, MA. Morning and evening free public programs at 10am and 7pm. July 10, 7pm, Devi Bhava, free program including spiritual talk, music, meditation and individual blessings. Call (716) 226-6223. www.ammanewengland.org. See page 2. 7/10-7/12 — WOMEN’S SUMMER YOGA RETREAT. In beautiful Rockport, MA. For more info email freeyourspirit@comcast.net. Repeated August 7-9. 7/17 — THE CENTER FOR BODYMIND INTEGRATION OPEN HOUSE. 5-8pm. Integrative therapist Alison Shaw, NP, LMT and holistic physical therapist Barbara Gosselin, PT, announce the grand opening of The Center for BodyMind Integration, Lexington. Innovative therapies for healing physical and emotional health challenges. Visit bodymindresourcing.org and holistichealingpt.com. 7/19 — START RESPONDING: LIVE THE DREAM. What doesn’t make sense physically can make perfect sense spiritually. Stop reacting to life, start responding, and move into the dream with holistic counselor Trish Whynot, author of Why Me? Why Now? WHY NOT? www.trishwhynot.com. 7/25 — GF & AF EXPO. Visit the largest gluten free and allergen friendly event in the United States. DCU Center, Worcester, MA. Tickets available at the door; $20 adult one-day pass, $5 kids one-day pass. For tickets and more locations visit gfafexpo.com. 7/24-7/27 — HEART OF COMPASSION: WISDOM IN ACTION. Annual Wisdom Elders Gathering with H.H. the Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang, Native American elders, energy and astrophysicists. Hosted by Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo and Khenmo Konchog Nyima Drolma. Sunray Peace Village, Vermont. www.HeartofCompassion.net. 7/30 — STEP INTO BEING WHAT YOU WANT. 7-9:30pm. Tried visualizing, acting as if? Still don’t have it? How does your being impact your manifestation? Try on Stepping Into Being What You Want! $5. Stow, MA. (978) 579-0897. www.SacredSpiralLifeWork.com 7/30-8/2 — HBLU TRAINING: HEALING TRAUMA AND INSTALLING BOUNDARIES with Judith Swack, Ph.D. Healing From The Body Level Up 1 Training shows you how to rapidly transform and heal your clients and yourself. 28 CE credits for social workers, LMCHs and RNs. 9am-6pm. Needham, MA. www.hblu.org. (781) 444-6940. info@hblu.org. Register by June 30 for the early bird discount.

AUGUST 8/4 — SMART STEPS TO REDUCE EMF’S IN YOUR HOME with health advocate Ray Pealer. Millis Public Library, 961 Main Street, Millis, MA. 6:30-7:45pm. Free. www.emrsafety.net. 8/7-9 — ANCIENT WISDOM RISING. Join us for an extraordinary weekend of sacred wisdom. Experience the joy of gathering by the fire with traditional elders from around the world at the Blue Deer Center in the Catskill Mountains of New York. www.sacredfirefoundation.org.

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8/7-9 — A TAO BASICS AND HEALING LOVE WEEKEND with Sharon Smith and Richard Anton Diaz. Learn qigong, meditation and sexual energy work in the tradition of Mantak Chia’s Universal Healing Tao. Sirius, Shutesbury, MA. $595 regular fee, $435 commuter fee. (413) 256-0999. pathofthehealer.com/812-2/. 8/10 — DEVELOP YOUR ESP WITH HYPNOSIS. 9-5. With Rev. Ramona Garcia and Marlene Monnar. A one-day workshop presented at the National Guild of Hypnotists Annual Convention in Marlboro, MA. Register at intuitivespirituality.net or NGH.net. 8/18 — MA SMART METER FRAUD COMPLAINT. Millis, MA. Public Library, 961 Main Street, 6:30-7:45 pm. Free. Learn about the fraud complaint filed with the Attorney General regarding health safety claims for the $7B wireless utility meter mandate; Bill H2868 Ratepayers’ Rights sponsored by Rep. DiNatale; Bill H2007 sponsored by Rep. Linsky. HaltMAsmartmeters.org and StopSmartMetersMASS@gmail.com. 8/28-30 — 28TH ANNUAL WOMEN’S HERBAL CONFERENCE. Held at beautiful Camp Wicosuta on Newfound Lake in NH. Over 35 well-known women herbalists and natural health care practitioners with over 70 workshops for all levels of interest and expertise. $295 includes meals, camping, workshops and activities. www.womensherbalconference.com or www.sagemountain.com. (802) 479-9825.

UPCOMING 9/9 — FREE LECTURE: READ & PLAY MUSIC. World famous seminars (www.understandingofmusic.com) turns beginners into musicians, revitalizes and inspires even pro musicians. 7:30pm, 169 Mass Ave., Boston. (781) 599-1476 or sallee@dlorien.com. http://signup.understandingofmusic.com. 9/11-9/13 — THE URBAN SHAMAN PSYCHEDELIC EXPO. Explore the history of healing and teaching plants and their role in healing “the hood.” 3-day event. Lectures, workshop, music, food. Contact Duli Wilkins (617) 386-9502 or theurbanshamanpsychedelicexpo@gmail.com. 9/12 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Wilton, NH. Libby Barnett, MSW. 34 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. Reiki II: 9/13 9/14-9/25 — HATUN KARPAY LLOQ’E, left-side magical path of the Andean mystical tradition. Emphasizes development of inner perceptions, enhancing greater self-realization connecting to our feminine/nature side. Journey to sites including Cuzco, Ollantaytambo, Machu Picchu, Moray, etc. Sandy Corcoran: www.starwalkervisions.com. 9/15 — SEEING WITH THE HEART. 3-year class begins October 3, 2015. Application deadline September 15. For those serious about deepening their spiritual life, understanding the universe and the natural world more fully, and accessing power and guidance for healing self and others, this apprenticeship is tailored to you. Visit spirithollow.org for details. (802) 447-3895.

9/18/15– 5/5/16 — PATH OF THE HEALER APPRENTICESHIP CERTIFICATION TRAINING with Deborah P. Wilson. Whether you are a practicing healer or wanting to develop your healing skills, this certification training in Wholeness EnergeticsTM is for you. Largely experiential, the course teaches the science of the human energy field, techniques to read and direct energy, and tools to address root blockages to health on all levels. The program is devoted in equal parts to learning techniques of energy medicine and delving into your own journey of transformation. Nine weekends, Shutesbury, MA. (413) 256-0999. pathofthehealer.com. 9/19 — REIKI CERTIFICATION. Newton, MA. Libby Barnett, MSW. 34 years experience. Reiki Energy Medicine author. Notebook, pin, certificate awarded. Credit cards accepted. CEU’s/contact hours. Call (603) 654-2787. www.reikienergy. com. Reiki II: 9/20 9/26 — 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. Arlington, MA. (781) 646-6319. bostonherbalstudies.com. 9/26 — PSYCHIC/HOLISTIC FAIRE. Women of Wisdom, North Easton, MA. Psychics, angel readings, crystal healings, Gaiadon Heart, chair massage, mediums, Reiki and more! Sign yourself up for a few appointments and bring your friends! www.womenofwisdominc.com or (508) 230-3680. 9/26 — YOUR IDEAL LIFE BEGINS. Internationally-renowned medical intuitive and master healers/teachers Sue and Aaron Singleton present The Energy of Life® I.D.E.A.L. Process For Creating a Life You Love. This life-changing 7-module intuitive development workshop series initiates a healing transformation that enhances all aspects of your life. Learn the 8 universal laws that make the law of attraction work; improve your intuition and learn EOL® techniques to release intuitive blocks; awaken to your life’s purpose — establish spiritual ideals; apply techniques to ID/release residues of electrical stim, MRI, x-rays, etc. Practice EOL® Discernment Process to recognize truth vs. what you read or hear. Workshops held in Portland, CT. See www. TheWayToBalance.com for details, other module dates. 9/28-10/9 — AUTUMN IN HIDDREN IRELAND 2015. Join Ann Quinlan for another wonderful small group (12 max) private land journey in her native Ireland. Unpack only twice! www.ashleyparkhouse.com. www.coolclogher.com. Email: ann@spiraljourneys.com. www.spiraljourneys.com. 10/3 — 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.

10/10-12 — GENTLE YOGA AND MEDITATION WEEKEND. Wellfleet, MA. Benefit for Ammachi’s New England Ashram. Includes gentle yoga, yoga nidra, lodging, ocean walks, sunset meditations, vegetarian meals. $400. Includes $300 tax deductible charitable contribution. Visit www.yogainpsychotherapy.com, joannlutz@yahoo.com. 10/16-10/18 — READ & PLAY MUSIC in a weekend! World famous seminars (www.understandingofmusic.com) turns beginners into musicians, revitalizes and inspires even pro musicians. 169 Mass Ave. Boston. (781) 599-1476 or sallee@dlorien.com. http://signup.understandingofmusic.com 10/15-10/18 — COME TO PEACE WITH YOUR FAMILY LINEAGE. The Constellation Approach™ Immersion Program is a unique, innovative and transformational healing journey interconnecting three powerful modalities: Family Constellations, Energy Medicine, and Evolutionary Consciousness. Connect with the sacredness of your Ancestral Lineage, delve into the 10 Universal Themes common to all families, learn what is revealed through your Family Energy Field, evolve your consciousness by living in Soul nature. Jamy and Peter Faust: www.ConstellationApproach.com or (617) 484-4325. 10/29-11/12 — JOURNEY THROUGH EGYPT’S ANTIQUITIES. Private luxurious Afandina cruises the Nile to sacred magical sites. Private ceremonies Sphinx, Great Pyramid and Temple of Isis on Philae. Includes Luxor, Dendeera, Abydos, Karnak, Sakkara, etc. Sandy Corcoran: www.starwalkervisions.com. 11/6-11/8 — OCEAN VIEW ZENTANGLE RETREAT. Spend a relaxing and rejuvenating weekend at the Cape or come just for the Zentangle Day on Saturday. Plus enjoy the resort’s pool, jaccuzzi, and ocean views. Zentangle is mindful drawing that anyone can do. See all programs and more info at www.rejuventangle.com. 11/13-15 — ONE SPIRIT MEDICINE: THE MIND OF GOD, THE BRAIN OF MAN, THE HEART OF THE SHAMAN. Led by best-selling author Alberto Villoldo. Learn how to upgrade your brain so it works in service to your heart. Held at Kripalu in Lenox, MA. www.thefourwinds.com. 11/14-15 — 9TH ANNUAL SPIRIT OF CHANGE MAGAZINE NATURAL LIVING EXPO. Royal Plaza Trade Center, 181 Boston Post Road West, Marlboro, MA. Saturday 9-6; Sunday 10-5. Featuring 225 exhibits, 90 workshops, free natural product sample bar, cooking demos, personal wellness shopping, holiday shopping, mini healing sessions, readings, healthy food and fun. Tickets on sale July 1 at www.NaturalExpo.org. See back cover. 11/28 — PSYCHIC/HOLISTIC FAIRE. Women of Wisdom, North Easton, MA. Psychics, angel readings, crystal healings, Gaiadon Heart, chair massage, mediums, Reiki and more! Sign yourself up for a few appointments and bring your friends! www.womenofwisdominc.com or (508) 230-3680.

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10/29 — Journey through Egypt’s antiquities with Sandy Corcoran. See October listing for details or starwalkervisions.com.

Meditation and Metaphysics series. $15 per class. On Thursday nights join us for experiential and refreshing guided meditations. Cost by donation. Contact Celia at celia@centersoflight.org or (203) 257-7977. GREATER BOSTON CHURCH OF SPIRITUALISM SUMMER MEDIUMS NIGHTS. Tuesdays, July 28th and August 25th 7-9 pm.  Labor Day Weekend Mediumship Retreat. 3 days of exploration with Dominic Boag from Scotland.  Plus Mediumship Demonstration Friday, Sept. 4th, 7pm. See website for details. greaterbostonchurchofspiritualism.com. SEA GLASS YOGA AND WELLNESS CLASSES. In Svaroopa® yoga held Monday, Tuesday, and Friday evenings; Thursday-Saturday mornings. Guided meditation and intuitive readings 4-6pm Wednesdays; private Embodyment® Yoga and pain therapy sessions and herbal consults by appointment. 8 Main Street, Unit 4 Mini Mall, Henniker, NH. (617) 320-3394. www.seaglassyoga.com to register or book an appointment. BOSTON SCHOOL OF HERBAL STUDIES. Arlington and Lincoln, MA. Affordable, evening and weekend classes, aromatherapy certification courses, herbal apprenticeship programs and advanced training. Call (781) 646-6319 or see www.bostonherbalstudies.com. “WERE THESE POPULATION-WIDE EXPOSURES TO SMART METERS to be part of a project carried out in a medical setting, to test the risks and benefits of a new technology on human health and well being, it would be rejected by a Medical Institutional Review Board on ethical grounds as an unethical exercise in human experimentation.” The UK IoD calls for Smart Meters scheme to be “halted, altered or scrapped” to avoid “an unjustified, over-engineered and expensive mistake.” Learn about the Worcester smart meter pilot decision-based evidence making, the MA DPU fraud complaint, the $7B ratepayer mandate, and informed environmental activism in your area. Help lobby the legislature. For a copy of the fraud complaint, contact stopsmartmetersMASS@gmail.cohm.

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, and enjoy evenings with Vywamus June 4, July 9, September 10. (617) 332-1541. www.andreaseiver.com THE ECLECTIC INSTITUTE OF AROMATHERAPY AND HERBAL STUDIES offers a work shop in Aphrodisiacs at Herbstalk, Somerville, MA 6/7. Palmistry workshop at the International Herb Symposium, Norton, MA 6/14. Flower Essence making workshop Cape Cod 8/9. www.aromatherapyandherbalstudies.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. 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. HERBAL CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS, children/adult nature programs, gardens, trails and labyrinth. Retail shop, psychic readings, herbs, apothecary, aromatherapy, gifts. Open Wed-Sun. Misty Meadows Herbal Center, Lee, NH. See class schedule at www.mistymeadows.org. (603) 659-7211. 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 wellbeing of all. Contact marilyn@confident-directions.com.

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of 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.

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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.”

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

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

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Unique Jewelry G Healing Tools G Statues Crystal Bowls G Ritual Items G Angels Mediums or Psychic Readings Hours: M-F 10 am-8 pm, S/S 10 am-6 pm 118 Washington Street, N. Easton, MA

Effective tips to cope with a lovable, challenging child Help to connect in meaningful and fun ways with your child

Information on tweaking your child’s diet to improve behavior

Insight to increase awareness of yourself and your child on a deep, spiritual level

Assistance to become open to change and shifts from within, in order to enrich your own life as well as that of your child/family. Knowledge about vitamins homeopathic remedies

and/or

relate effectively with others and foster their natural enthusiasm for learning. S Child-centered preschool program S Nurturing, small group setting

S Developmentally appropriate, standards-

limited openings available 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 self-esteem, guide them in learning to

based curriculum

S Ages 2.9 to 5 S Two or three days, 9 am - 1 p m (5-day

option available)

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

www.womenofwisdominc.com 508-230-3680

Touchstone offers: Offering a wide selection of Crystals, Gems and Minerals G Jewelry Candles G Oils and Mists G Sage G Incense Fairy, Goddess and Angel Gifts, and More! Psychic and Mediumship Readings Classes, Workshop and Events METAPHYSICAL HEALING CENTER

www.spiritofchange.org

122 West Emerson St., Melrose, MA www.zuzushealingarts.com G 781-665-8844

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.

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

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Classes, Certifications & Schools Peggy Huddleston’s

Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster Training™ A Guide of Mind-Body Techniques June 13-14, Saturday & Sunday July 18-19, Saturday & Sunday In Lexington, MA and at a distance 15 CEUs approved for nurses “I recommend this program to all who require surgery and want to recover faster.” – Andrew T .Weil, MD Peggy will show you how to give a one-hour workshop using mind-body techniques for people facing surgery. Workshop is based on her book, Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster and companion relaxation CD or MP3. Research shows that Peggy’s method helps people reduce anxiety, use 23-60% less pain medication and heal faster.

You also learn to give these one-hour workshops using mind-body techniques: Reduce Anxiety, Headaches and Insomnia Lessen Chronic Pain and Speed Healing Lessen Side-Effects of Chemotherapy You learn how to use these workshops in hospitals, surgeons’ offices, and your own private practice. Prepare for Surgery, Heal Faster Workshops are recommended at hospitals including Brigham and Women’s Hospital, NYU Langone Medical Center and Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center in CA. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, Peggy Huddleston’s writing and clinical work focuses on the ways emotions and the human spirit enhance healing. Training is Sat. 10-5 pm and Sun. 10-6 pm. $445 per person. 781-538-5466 F www.HealFaster.com

Training Programs to complement all medical and holistic modalities AARON & SUE SINGLETON, FOUNDERS

Internationally renowned Medical Intuitives, Authors, Visionaries, Inventors and Founders of The Energy of Life® (EOL) Integrative and Intuitive Healing Process, Sue and Aaron Singleton offer a diverse variety of Training Programs to complement all medical and holistic modalities, and to empower practitioners and laypersons. EOL I.D.E.A.L. Process for Creating a Life You Love! Workshop Series A totally unique intuitive development and healing process that transforms lives for healers, doctors, executives, and fulltime parents. Apply the EOL Process alone, or to enhance Reiki, Pranic Healing, etc. The EOL Process for Discernment is prerequisite for medical intuitive training with Sue Singleton. EOL Visionary Acupressure System

Workshop Series This fusion of ancient and modern techniques makes a quantum leap to address

trauma and illness, without relying solely on linear meridian techniques. Learn powerful protocols for deeper, more rapid release of the Root Cause. Our easy to learn 60-point number system includes detailed diagrams; no prior acupressure experience or knowledge required. EOL Rings of Oden™ Net-Neutral Ionic

Technology for Quantum Healing: Revolutionary technology imbedded in The Rings of Oden accelerates light resonance and provides modulating energy frequencies for healing. Users resport rapid resolution of chronic pain, injuries, glaucoma, chronic emotional patterns and illnesses. The Rings combine Crop Circles, and DNA Holographic Re-Patterning to create specific vortices and frequencies for various conditions and spiritual transformation. Powerful for self-healing, as well as helping others. Other Workshops and Programs Radical Hands-On Healing™ F Introduction to Medical Intuition F BioMorphic Geometry™ F Stone Play™ Crystal Matrix Technology F EOL

Classes as online webinars, DVDs/CDs, home-study manuals, and in-person in MA/CT. 21 Water Street, Amesbury, MA 01913 www.TheWayToBalance.com 978-834-0341

more information about our training and our trained psychosynthesis coaches, visit www.psychosynthesiscoach.org.

The Synthesis Center Professional Training in Psychosynthesis The Synthesis Center: Professional Training in Psychosynthesis is a holistic, trans-personal 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 Will to Grow: Transformational Life Coaching is a nationally certified, coach training program, with start dates in the summer and fall of 2015. This program trains 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). The program is offered via teleconference and independent study formats 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 co-coaching practice. For

The Psychosynthesis Professional Training Program teaches psychosynthesis theory, the principles of holistic psychology and the process of psychological and spiritual development. It provides 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 threeyear program that leads to certification as a Certified Psychosynthesis Practitioner (CPP) as well as Psychosynthesis Life Coach (PLC) and BCC certification. CEU’s for social work and mental health counseling are available. The next Level I training starts in the fall of 2015. Full program information is available on our web site. Synthesis center teaching staff are available to talk in person or by phone as well. Free Introductory live and teleconference sessions will be offered in the spring and summer of 2015. Dates are available on our websites. Free Self-Coaching Exercises. For a copy of “Got Self? 4 Great Self-Coaching Exercises,” send us your email! The Synthesis Center e Amherst, MA www.psychosynthesiscoach.org admin@synthesiscenter.org www.synthesiscenter.org e 413-256-0772

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.

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

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

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 ~ Hyannis, MA Cortiva Massage School in Watertown, MA www.walkinbalance.com v 508-317-3044 v Classes, Certifications and Schools continued

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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.

Coming to Peace with Your Family Lineage NEW! Immersion Program Starting this Fall

Based on our forthcoming book, Coming to Peace with Your Family Lineage, The Constellation Approach™ Immersion Program is a unique, innovative and transformational healing journey offered through the lens of three powerful modalities: Family Constellations, Energy Medicine, and Evolutionary Consciousness.

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

Connect with the sacredness of your Ancestral Lineage Delve into the 10 Universal Themes common to all families Learn what is revealed through your Family Energy Field Evolve your consciousness by living in ‘Soul nature’

Private Constellations Sessions available in person, by phone or Skype. Jamy and Peter Faust F 617-484-4325 www.ConstellationApproach.com

Coaching

Accredited. Licensed. Financial Aid available for qualified students. 800-262-8530 v www.spatech.edu

AFFORDABLE HERBAL EDUCATION THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

❖ Intensive 7 Month Herbal Apprenticeships ❖

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Advanced Training with Facial, Tongue, and Pulse Diagnosis

Law of Attraction LIFE COACH

David Scott Bartky

Monthly Medicinal Plant Walks

❖ Aromatherapy ❖

CERTIFIED

Learn how to improve all aspects of your life by learning how to use the Law of Attraction! I am an experienced, certified Law of Attraction life coach and I can help you do just that. Coaching is done over the phone. First session is FREE! www.lifecoachdavid.com F 973-444-7301

Certification

Weekend Intensives and Evening Classes UPCOMING HERBAL CLASSES

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

Medicinal Plant Walks: June 21, July 5, August 9

Aromatherapy Certification Course begins September 26

find “us” again with Come Back to Love Coach™

Offering Transformative, Paradigm-Busting Degrees, Certificate and Coach Training Programs in Emerging Fields of Inquiry MASTER OF ARTS DEGREES: Consciousness Studies F Integrative Health and Healing F Learning and Thinking Writing and Oral Tradition Organizational Leadership Conflict Transformation (Peace Studies)

“This school has brought me to a new level. Simply put, it is the place where I realized my dreams and where I was encouraged, taught, and supported to pursue a creative life. I have made life-long relationships at this institution. I have never worked so hard nor learned so much.” ~ Pierre Sorey, High School English Teacher Master of Arts in Oral Traditions, Class of 2012

Accredited on-site programs w/weekend sessions 171 Amity Road, Bethany, CT 06524 203-874-4252 | info@learn.edu

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CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS IN: Ecotherapy and Cultural Sustainability Health Coaching and Patient Navigation Integrative Health and Healing F Story Telling COACH TRAINING IN: Transformative Coach Training Health Coaching and Patient Navigation TGI is dedicated to creating an environment for learners to pursue their passions and affect changes in their lives and work. TGI has designed unique, integrated, experiential, holistic programs to meet the needs of contemporary thinkers on their paths of personal and professional growth.

Private Coaching, Intimate Puja Circles, Workshops

John Howe The Transformation Rocket Scientist Transformational Coaching and Counseling Are you ready to shift from a good life to a great life? Awesome relationships, a career that fits you perfectly, a life that reignites your passion!

Rediscover the true connection that ignited your passion for each other when you met. Tantric intimacy coaching and psychotherapy tools will help you find the “us” again in your relationship. www.RobynVogel.com phone/text: 508-380-9254

Using specialized tools for belief change, inner harmony, connecting with Higher Guidance and finding your Life Purpose, John helps you make the shifts that count! “I can now create the soul-guided life I long to live, and embody the blessing I long to be. This is just the beginning…” – Nina Davis (Germany)

Call John at 978-443-3460 for a free exploratory session. PossibilityCoach@HoweToTransform.com http://tinyurl.com/JohnHowe-linkedin-2

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Colon Hydrotherapy Constance Jones

Colon Hydrotherapy Center for Progressive Therapies 192 Hartford Road Manchester, CT 06040

Counseling and Therapy

Lead Senior Colon Hydrotherapist in New England, 35 years, over 55,000 sessions. I-ACT Colon Hydrotherapist of the Year 2014 I-ACT Instructor and NBCHT Certified connie@cleanmycolon.com www.cleanmycolon.com G 860-287-4558

Experience colon hydrotherapy in a safe, relaxed environment using state-of-the-art FDA registered equipment. Stephanie Dumas

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,

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. Newton, MA www.healingheartpower.com LSMHEART@aol.com 617-965-7846

I-ACT Certified Colon Hydrotherapist, Owner

Lexington Medical Building 16 Clarke Street, Lexington, MA

Cleansing for the body, the mind, the spirit

healthyspirit@verizon.net 781-860-5116

Consciousness Transformation Hypnosis for Change Change your Mind – Change your Life: Fast, Simple, Powerful Love the Way you Look V Stop Smoking Sleep Well V Relieve Stress and Tension Build Confidence

Andrea Seiver, Ph.D. Channeled Readings Classes 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

HOLISTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

Free Consultation plus 50% off 6-Session Package (mention Spirit of Change for Discount) SHARON LIVINGSTON, PHD

NGH Certified Hypnosis Consultant NGH Certified Hypnosis Trainer 603-505-5000 DrSharonLivingston@gmail.com

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

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 overwhel-

Holistic Counseling Concepts Trish Whynot, D.C.Ed. 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. G View relationship discord and illness as opportunities for growth and change. G Open to an array of extraordinary futures. G

ming become 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. 100 Lafayette St, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Jonathan@HolisticPsychotherapy.com www.HolisticPsychotherapy.com 401-952-0142

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. Dr. Trish Whynot is a holistic counselor, speaker and author of “Why Me? Why Now? WHY NOT? Finding Opportunity in Your Obstacles.” Paperback and electronic versions available. “What impressed me about Dr. Trish Whynot was her ability to see through the chaos of life’s web and identify the root cause of any problem.” — Bob Olson, Editor, OfSpirit.com Workshops and Sessions Available In Office, Phone or Skype Pittsfield, NH G trish@trishwhynot.com www.TrishWhynot.com G 978-314-4545

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Center of the Heart Whole Health Integration

Joan Holzman, Psy. D. Lic. Psychologist, Lic. Marriage and Family Therapist Dance/Movement Therapist

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.”

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.

s Therapeutic Movement – “It was great to feel the freedom in my body after working with you.”

Spiritual Counseling for Healing, Transformation, and Higher Consciousness

I use the soul as the starting point, rather than the mind. My role in this process is to actively guide and support you. We will integrate your spiritual belief system into our work together and/or can explore your beliefs if you are looking for direction. I am a compassionate and nonjudgmental listener, always seeing the possibilities.

KELLY BUCKOWSKI D.D., Ordained Minister, Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner I offer spiritual counseling with the goal of working with individuals who desire to heal and transform their lives through the inspiration of their beliefs of the Divine.

Barbara Madden Johnson M.A., C.A.G.S., L.R.C., L.P.C. 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-

Holistic Psychotherapy Lori Miller-Freitas, LICSW Get to the core — Transform your life! You are on this earth to be happy and realize your true potential. 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.

www.spiritofchange.org

HELPING PEOPLE

live better lives

GLENN BIGONET, M.A. Mental Health Counselor Clinical Hypnotherapist COMPASSIONATE ACCEPTANCE

Counseling Individuals, Couples & Families Weekly Group G Workshops Offered Conveniently located in Wellesley Just a short drive from Rte. 128/I-95

42 Thoreau Street, Concord, MA 01742

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.

Brainspotting A neurobiological tool for releasing traumatic/emotionally-charged issues within the brain. Holistic Psychotherapy Clinical Consultation Using extensive professional experience to resolve issues related to: Trauma, Grief, PTSD, Anxiety and Phobias. Certifications: LICSW, EMDRIA Approved Consultant, National Board of Certified Clinical Hypnotherapists. Visa/MC acccepted. 294 Pleasant St. R Ste. 103B R Stoughton, MA www.eaglespirittherapies.com 781-297-2003

Initial consultations are free. www.CompassionateAcceptance.com 617-462-6642

Crystals

978-369-6138

kelly@kellybuckowski.com kellybuckowski.com 857-277-8181 W Cambridge, MA

Glenn utilizes a wide variety of therapeutic techniques and powerfully combines hypnosis and psychotherapy. This method is safe, effective and faster than using only talk therapy. You’ll feel better in your life as he works with you to make your goals a reality. Issues with which Glenn commonly works are: relationships, anger management, anxiety, adult ADD/AHDH, addictions, trauma and abuse, weight loss, hoarding/cluttering, sleep problems, and mental health.

Andara Crystals Raise your Vibration and Expand Consciousness www.Andarawakening.com www.Andaraoraclecards.com G Automatically expands your state of awareness

Crystal Concentrics

G Increases access to universal knowledge G Activates channeling abilities

G Accelerates the spiritual development process G Creates a bridge between ethereal and physical dimensions

G Manifests and creates by inserting your intention into the Andara Energy Field G Clears and balances chakras

G Raises your frequency of energy, raising your overall vibration

Free consultations Huge variety of crystals available Monthly meditations and workshops Individual sessions, including long distance

KYLE RUSSELL Working with crystals for 25 years

Kyle@CrystalConcentrics.com Arlington, MA b 617-771-5119 www.PowerStoneCrystals.com

Healing and Bodywork Divine Intervention is “Where the Impossible Becomes Possible.”

Divine Intervention

Spontaneous Remission

Advanced Energetic Hands on Healing from the Mayan Lineage. Miraculous Healing for all issues that require attention.

Rev. Claire Luft is a Master Healer and Master Teacher of Divine Intervention Healing. This healing technique is sacred, powerful, and produces Physical Plane Results. Heart’s Singing Healing Center Woburn, MA 781-281-2888 u www.heartssinging.com Healing and Bodywork, continued

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Patricia Warren Reiki Jin Kei Do

All Levels of Reiki Jin Kei Do Training Buddho Healing (advanced Reiki classes) “His Garments Hem” Christian Healing Touch Gung Fu Chinese Tea Ceremonies Past Life Regression Justice of the Peace Spiritual Director

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InternationallyExperienced

New Englands most InternationallyExperienced Reiki Master since 1989 Patricia has taught healing techniques of Buddhist, Sikhs and Christians for over 25 years. She is the appointed East Coast representative of Reiki Jin Kei Do ~ Buddho Healing, authentic and advanced teachings of Usui Reiki in the lineage of Buddhist Monk Seiji Takamori. Patricia was the first woman to teach Reiki in the former Soviet

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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.

38C Park Street, Medfield, MA 02052 www.holisticwellnesscenter.org 508-359-7400

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 and Holistic Life Counseling. And if all that wasn’t enough... crystals and gifts too!

S Reiki Jin Kei Do Level 1 CD S

Reiki Jin Kei Do CD $16

Patricia Warren, Reiki Master Teacher 508-528-5888 ✦ warrenhealing@gmail.com www.patriciawarren.com

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. ©

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.

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.

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.” "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: June 6 or Sept. 19 Concord, MA: June 13 or Oct. 17

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.

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

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

To register or for more information: www.reikienergy.com reiki@reikienergy.com • 603-654-2787

Reiki I, Wilton, NH Classes: June 27 or Sept. 12

THE JOHN HARVEY GRAY CENTER FOR

Reiki Healing

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.

22-Strand DNA Activation

Reiki II Class: on day following Reiki I Class Additional Reiki training dates can be found at: www.reikienergy.com Bring your Divine Blueprint into Physical Plane Manifestation and experience greater empowerment, improved health (mental, emotional physical and spiritual), increased utilization of your brains potential, greater creativity, and increased energy and clarity.

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

Also, bring forth your greatest talents and abilities, clear many karmic and genetic patterns, hold greater amounts of light in your physical body, and much more. Great for those who feel ready to shift out of those “stuck” areas into tremendous empowerment, improved health on all levels, and living your higher destiny agreements and highest potentials. Rev. Claire Luft Master Teacher/Master Healer Ancient Mystery School Guide & Ritual Master Heart's Singing Healing Center, Woburn, MA 781-281-2888 v www.heartssinging.com

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Healing and Bodywork, continued The John Barnes’ Myofascial Release approach is considered to be the ultimate mind/body therapy that is safe, gentle and consistently effective in producing results that last. We treat a variety of conditions:

Authentic Healing with John F. Barnes Myofascial Release

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Are You Highly Sensitive? SARAH HAGEDORN, PLC, LMT

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. Private Sessions Long-distance Healing r Phone Readings Workshops and Classes Andover, MA r info@eyeofeagle.org www.eyeofeagle.org r 978-475-1268

Holistic bodywork and coaching for the sensitive body, mind, & spirit R Craniosacral Therapy (CST) R Somato-Emotional Trauma Release

Dialogue with CST

R Touch-Sensitive Massage R Integrated Eastern/Western Bodywork R Master Level Usui Reiki R Combined Bodywork and Coaching

Give yourself, a loved one, or beloved animal a Reconnective Healing,® uniquely customized by the intelligence of the universe, whereby you or they will receive what is needed — emotional, spiritual or physical healing, not merely just what you think you should have. The objective of The Reconnection® is to return the body to balance, while tapping into the universal healing intelligence. www.lightandlovehealing.com RUSSELL RICCIO r 603-935-9106

Sarah Hagedorn specializes in empowering individuals with a high level of physical, emotional, and/or energetic sensitivity. She works with the nervous system to promote deep relaxation and release pain and stress, while helping her clients address the underlying emotional and mental patterns that have been keeping them stuck. Sarah’s individually tailored sessions draw from more than 1,400 hours of holistic training in massage, holistic bodywork, and coaching. Greater Boston, MA area Sliding scale available for some services

for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

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R Soul-Centered Life Coaching

R Clear stressful energy from home/office R Balance geopathic stressors

intuitive HEALING

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M.Ed, C.A.S., FAPA R Medical intuitive sessions, energy heal-

ing and integrative therapy R 30 years of experience in traditional and complementary healthcare

Vibrational Transformation

R Clear the energy of past relationships

spiritual health R Works with individuals to develop their own intuitive skills “As a healer, I work with individuals in a way that consciously promotes a peaceful and healthy planet. Our healing work takes place despite the conflicts that wash over us in our daily lives. By healing ourselves we create changes that have a ripple effect on the world around us.” www.wendymarks.com R 781-449-5368 wlm922@wendymarks.com

By increasing your Vibrational Frequency, you’ll transform the denser, heavier energies within your system allowing you to: G

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R Clear out the energy of those

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Offices in Watertown, MA and Cumberland, RI Available in-person or by phone Cheryl@WrightHereNow.com 617-448-8749 G www.WrightHereNow.com

Support your intention for change with a Golden Ray Clearing You are intimately connected to your home. As we clear your home, we work with your energetic field to clear areas that are draining your vitality.

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Inspiring Life Events Harmonizing Your Inner Voices 7/2, 7/31, 8/29 Full Moon Paddle & Campfire 7/10, 8/9 SpiritSong Circles June 13

Monthly HeartBeat Salons, only $5 June 11 Harvesting the Field of Your Heart June 25 Breathwork July 30 Step into BEING What You Want Aug. 27 Self-Exploration thru CoreEnergetics meetup.com/Personal-Growth-Network/events MARIE PATRICE MASSE, M.ED.

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Healing Transformation Higher Consciousness KELLY BUCKOWSKI D.D., Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner I combine Reiki with spiritual counseling to further facilitate the healing process

and incorporate all dimensions of the individual. Reiki brings you into the present making healing and thereby transformation and higher consciousness more accessible. My role in this process is to actively guide and support you. I am a compassionate and nonjudgmental listener, always seeing the possibilities. kelly@kellybuckowski.com kellybuckowski.com 857-277-8181 W Cambridge, MA

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WELLNESS Melissa St. Andrews Reiki Practitioner

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Massachusetts Medical Cannabis Doctors We’re here to help you feel better, and return to a more productive, enjoyable life. Massachusetts now allows medical cannabis (marijuana) for the treatment of severe, debilitating illness. Examples include Crohn’s Disease, ALS, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease, chronic pain, and anxiety. Inhale MD Medical Cannabis Doctors will work with you and your doctors to see if Medical Cannabis is right for you.

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Holistic Medical

Dr. Jody E. Noé, MS, ND is a Licensed, Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor, adjunct 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 20 years and is a specialist in Integrative Medicine, and Naturopathic Oncology. Dr. Noé is the author of the Textbook of Naturopathic Integrative Oncology, CCNM

Food Allergy Evaluation Fat Reduction Assessment Cell Metabolism Evaluation Illness Prevention Evaluation Bacterial and Parasite Testing Fungus and Virus Checking

Dr. Tishler has a strong interest in alternative medicine, but is also very focused on research data and best practices. He is convinced that cannabis holds significant relief potential for many patients, based on the amassing of good data. Dr. Tishler is well regarded by his staff and peers as a caring and compassionate man, and looks forward to helping those in need. 1035 Cambridge St., Suite 17B Cambridge, MA 02141 www.inhalemd.com R 617-477-8886

Servicing Needham and Jamaica Plain, MA Safe, effective, non-toxic, no side effects Does not interact with other medicines

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Dr. Jody E. Noé MS, ND

Anti Aging Assessment

Homeopathy

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Natural Family Health & Integrative Medicine

Hormonal Testing T Nutritional Evaluation

Dr. Tishler graduated from both Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and trained at the esteemed Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

I invite you to refresh yourself with all the benefits Sea Glass Yoga & Wellness has to offer, including: Svaroopa® Yoga Embodyment® Yoga and Pain Therapy Juice Plus+™ Wellness Consultation Guided Meditation Intuitive Readings Live Music Yoga workshops Young Living™ Essential Oil Gatherings HMI Healing (Shamanistic Psychology) Herbs, Dowsing, Crystals and more

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Press, a first-of-its-kind text, available at her office or on Amazon/textbooks. 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. A naturopathic doctor uses natural complementary and alternative therapies, in conjunction with, or in place of, conventional medicine, based on the individual. 101 West Broad Street, Pawcatuck, CT www.drjodyenoe.com v 860-495-5688

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Readings Nancy Johansen RN, CCH, RMT

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

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Private sessions in person or distance by phone and e-mail. Classes and workshops ~ North Attleboro, MA Nancy@Angeltouche.com www.Angeltouche.com S 508-577-4552

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KELLE SUTLIFF

PSYCHIC MEDIUM | RADIO SHOW HOST NEW AGE AUTHOR Call for Readings: 978-420-8213 Z psychicmediumkelle.com

Jocelyn

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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.

Kelle’s new book Listen Up! The Other Side Is Talking is available! Get your signed copy through her website (also available on every book source in the Universe!): psychicmediumkelle.com

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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. All sessions are recorded on audio cassette. ~ $25 off your first session. ~ For more information, call or email Jocelyn, Intuitive Consultant jocelynintuitive@hotmail.com 978-694-8946

Mediumship and Spirit Art Demonstrations Akashic Records F Meditations Mediumship and Psychic Training Drawing in Spirit and more Connecting to Spirit is your inspiration, sustenance and support for your life’s journey. Nancy gently guides you into a connection with spirit and your soul for guidance, healing and direction. Whether you want to connect with a loved one who has passed, or you have questions and challenges you want to work with, allow spirit to inspire you in a reading session with Nancy. Free inspirational “Wing Tips” on our website. North Andover F nancy@angelscapes.net www.angelscape.net F 978-835-0005

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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.

“Kelle is a wonderful evidential medium and radio personality. Her new book is enlightening and entertaining and will open you up to the reality of spirit contact.” – Mark Anthony, the Psychic Lawyer

GROUP SESSIONS AND CLASSES

Spiritual Practices

Enjoy a Thai Yoga Massage or enjoy a softer touch with a Swedish Massage. We also have Deep Tissue Massages and many more. Facials to fit every season. Skin care and hair care products for all skin types and hair care needs. Our whole team continues to keep up with the latest trends and state of the art techniques. 3 Boston Road, Sutton, MA www.creativestrandsllc.com i 508-865-1141

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.

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.

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. Meet us at the Natural Living Expo, Nov. 14-15. Visit Booth #16

As an evolving spiritual community, The Greater Boston Church of Spiritualism offers weekday evening classes in mediumship, healing and meditation; Medium’s Day the last Saturday of every month, except in July and August when it’s the last Tuesday; plus seminars and workshops throughout the year. For a brochure including upcoming events, or to speak with the Pastor, call 617-923-4334, or visit our website at www. GreaterBostonChurchofSpiritualism.com.

An affiliate of the Spiritualists United Network (SUN) and the International Spiritualist Federation.

Yoga, Tai Chi and Fitness

Ann Bissanti

Worcester Yoga Center HathaYoga begins with refining the physical body but does not stop there. The exercises involve slow precise stretching, strengthening, and breathing techniques,

which not only tone the muscles but affect internal organs, nerves, skin, and virtually all body systems, making yoga a superior wholistic method for physical fitness and preventive and corrective health care. Certified teacher Ann Bissanti, trained in India by B.KS. Iyengar, has studied yoga and meditation for the past 25 years. She has taught yoga at Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick, at various fitness centers and adult education programs, and privately. For more information call: Worcester Yoga Center, 508-829-6300.

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ACUPUNCTURE JoyCommunityAcupuncture.com. ACUPUNCTURE Newton, MA. 617-510-0559. Sliding fee $20JoyCommunityAcupuncture.com. Newton, MA. 40, $10 initial.Sliding fee $20-40, $10 initial. 617-510-0559. ANGELS ANGELS

Ross J. Miller, psychic. Meet your angels and Ross J. Miller, Meet your angels and spirit guides. spirit guides.psychic. 617-527-3583. 617-527-3583. Visit www.The MysticWay.com Visit www.The MysticWay.com ANIMAL ANIMAL SERVICES SERVICES Sharon DVM, Inc.Inc. Holistic. Smithfield, RI. SharonR.R.Doolittle, Doolittle, DVM, Holistic. 401-349-2668. Smithfield, RI.www.holisticanimalvet.com 401-349-2668. www.holisticanimalvet.com MASH Integrative Veterinary Care, est 1982. Margo Roman, DVM. 508-435-4077. MASH Integrative Veterinary Care, est 1982. www.mashvet.com

Margo Roman, DVM. 508-435-4077.

ASTROLOGY www.mashvet.com Eric Linter, over 25 years experience. Readings, classes, ASTROLOGY daily forecast. 508-541-4115. Eric Linter, overstars@ericlinter.com. 25 years experience. Readings,

classes, daily forecast. stars@ericlinter.com. CERTIFICATIONS 508-541-4115. Hypnotherapy, NLP, Reiki, IET and Crystal Healing. 508-539-2885. Clinics and fairs. BODYWORK www.capecodcenterforwholehealth.com Anna Smith, energy healing and bodywork for

health and well being. 508-735-3838. CHILDREN’S HEALTH Touchstone Community School. Education for ages CERTIFICATIONS 4-14. Grafton, MA. Hypnotherapy, NLP,508-839-0038. Reiki, IET and Crystal www.touchstoneschool.com. Healing. 508-539-2885. Clinics and fairs. www.capecodcenterforwholehealth.com COLON HYDROTHERAPY CHILDREN’S HEALTH Genesis Alternative Health. 31 years of experience. Community I-ACT certified instructor. Touchstone School. Education for NBCHT 603-347-1861. ages 4-14.certified. Grafton, MA. 508-839-0038. www.touchstoneschool.com. Bio-Detox Center. I-ACT and NBCHT certified. Westminster, MA. 978-874-6200. COLON HYDROTHERAPY drdeb@bio-detoxcenter.com Genesis Alternative Health. 30 years of

experience. I-ACT certified Body Balancing Center. I-ACT instructor. and National NBCHT certified. 603-347-1861. Board certified. 508-868-3624. www.bodybalancingcenter.com Bio-Detox Center. I-ACT and NBCHT

certified. Westminster, MA. 978-874-6200. COUNSELING AND THERAPY drdeb@bio-detoxcenter.com Joel Perlmutter, Ph.D. Licensed 35 yrs. Stress, anxiety, relationships. StowI-ACT & Shrewsbury, MA. Body Balancing Center. and National Putnam, CT. 978-897-9797. Board certified. 508-868-3624.

www.bodybalancingcenter.com CRYSTAL ENERGY WORK Healthy Spirit. Stephanie Dumas.Meditations, oneCrystalConcentrics.com. Workshops, on-one,certified. distance work. Wide selection of Crystals. I-ACT 781-860-5116. 617-771-5119. healthyspirit@verizon.net DEPRESSION AND Annette ANXIETYCormier. TREATMENT The Natural Path. Healed in 2 MA. Hours.Text: Ross(978) J. Miller, psychic healer. Hudson, 855-3056. 617-527-3583. www.TheMysticWay.com ancormier01@aol.com EMF PROTECTION COUNSELING AND THERAPY Joel Perlmutter, Ph.D. Licensed 35 yrs. The Rejuvenizer®, protection from EMFs andStress, other anxiety, Stow & Shrewsbury, MA. damagingrelationships. frequencies. www.lighthealing.com. Putnam, CT. 978-897-9797. 512-301-2999. FENG SHUI CRYSTAL ENERGY WORK CrystalConcentrics.com. Workshops, Urban Eden. Transform and empower your meditations, one-on-one, distance work. home/work spaces. 401-351-5632. 617-771-5119. karenfeldmanurbaneden.com

DEPRESSION AND ANXIETY TREATMENT GHOSTS REMOVED Healed in 2 Hours. Ross From Your Home/Aura. RossJ.J.Miller, Miller,psychic psychic healer. 617-527-3583. www.TheMysticWay.com medium, healer. Call 617-527-3583. www. The MysticWay.com FENG SHUI

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GHOSTS REMOVED From Your Home/Aura. Ross J. Miller, psychic HEALING CENTERS medium, healer. Call 617-527-3583. Forest Circles, retreats, programs in a magical Maine www. The MysticWay.com forest. www.forestcircles.com HEALING CENTERS HOMEOPATHY Forest Circles, retreats, programs in a magical Loretta Butehorn, PhD, CCH. Substance abuse, mental Maine forest. www.forestcircles.com health. Boston, MA. www.lorettabutehornphd.com. INTUITIVE ENERGY HEALING INTUITIVE ENERGY HEALING www.IntuitiveHealingResonance.com. www.IntuitiveHealingResonance.com. Move beyond pain/trauma/anger/regret. Move beyond pain/trauma/anger/regret. 401-466-4901 401-466-4901 MEDICAL INTUITIVE MEDICAL INTUITIVE Gillian Drake. Diet-related health scans. Candida, toxicity and more. GillianDrake.com Gillian Drake. Diet-related health scans. Candida, toxicity and more. GillianDrake.com Sue Singleton. 20+ years accurately finding Root Cause. 978-834-0341. Sue Singleton. 20+ years accurately finding Root Cause. 978-834-0341. TheWayToBalance.com TheWayToBalance.com Elizabeth Thorson Thorson RN, C.C. Myss Elizabeth RN,Certified Certifiedbyby Myss andNorman NormanShealy, Shealy,MD. MD. 207-712-9495. 207-712-9495. and elizabeththorson.com elizabeththorson.com Intuitive Healing Healing with Marks. Intuitive withWendy Wendy Marks. Over2525years yearsofofexperience. experience. 781-449-5368. Over 781-449-5368. www.wendymarks.com www.wendymarks.com NATUROPATHIC PHYSICIANS MEDICAL TOURISM Dental and surgery beautiful Costa Rica. Dr. Jody Noe, MS, ND.inNaturopathic integrative www.PearlMedcr.com medicine. 860-495-5688. www.drjodyenoe.com

NATUROPATHIC NUMEROLOGYPHYSICIANS Dr. JodyBernstein. Noe, MS,35ND. Naturopathic Kathy years of experience.integrative medicine. 860-495-5688. www.drjodyenoe.com 401-338-1317. www.numerologypro.com NUMEROLOGY PAST LIFE THERAPY Kathy Bernstein. 35 years of experience. Ross J. Miller. Relive past lives and release blocked 401-338-1317. www.numerologypro.com energy. 617-527-3583. www.The MysticWay.com

PAST LIFE THERAPY REFLEXOLOGY Ross J. Miller. Relive past lives and release Marian Kelly. Comfortable and relaxing. 617-733-7409. blockedC.energy. 617-527-3583. Natick, MA. marianreflexology.abmp.com. www.The MysticWay.com REIKI READINGS Libby Barnett, MSW, Reiki Master Teacher. Beth Ann Fisher. Spirit energy consultant. www.reikienergy.com. CEU’s. 25603-654-2787. years experience. www.bethannfisher.com The John Harvey Gray Center for Reiki Healing. REIKI 603-899-3288. www.learnreiki.org Amanda de Rezendes, RM/T. MA and RI 508-612-7083. www.onevoicespiritualcenter.com RETREAT CENTERS Wild Dolphin Atlantean Libby Barnett,Swims. MSW,Yoga, Reikihealthy Masterfood, Teacher. legends. www.wildquest.com. 800-326-1816 603-654-2787. www.reikienergy.com. CEU’s. Brahma KumarisGray Peace Village Center. The John Harvey Center forRetreat Reiki Healing. Haines Falls, NY. 518-589-5000. 603-899-3288. www.learnreiki.org

www.peacevillageretreat.org VISION IMPROVEMENT ROLFING Coleman Natural Vision. Boston/Plymouth, MA. Eric Jacobson, PhD. In www.eyesonyoga.com practice since 1974. Shavasana your eyes. Arlington, MA. ericjacobsonbodywork.com. Rosemary Gaddum. Gordon, MA. 781-643-6874 Cambridge, MA and Portsmouth, NH. VISION IMPROVEMENT www.visioneducators.com Rosemary Gaddum Gordon, MA. Cambridge, MA and YOGA Portsmouth, NH.Center. www.visioneducators.com Worcester Yoga Ann Bissanti, CYT.

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

Add your listing. Next deadline: Feb. 1, 2015. Urban Eden. Transform and empower your Email Bryan@spiritofchange.org home/work spaces. 401-351-5632. karenfeldmanurbaneden.com Add your listing. Next deadline: July 31, 2015. Email: advertise@spiritofchange.org.

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Wireless Awareness in Massachusetts Are you....Opposed to towers and antennas in sensitive areas, including neighborhoods? Concerned about industrialscale Wi-Fi in schools? Experiencing adverse symptoms from wireless frequencies or EHS? Opposed to blanketing communities with a possible human carcinogen? Opposed to $7B financed by utility customers for unproven investment? Ethical environmentalist? Oppose greenwashing? Health care provider treating RF conditions? StopSmartMetersMASS@gmail.com Gulf War Syndrome Researcher Beatrice A. Golomb, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine, seeks participants in a study of electrohypersensitivity — risk factors, triggers, manifestations. For more information, please visit http://boilthefrogradio.com/ucsd-eh-survey/ or call Beatrice A. Golomb, MD, PhD. (858) 558-4950 x201

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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, drivers ed, computers, wellness/healing, organic gardening, art, music, guitar, piano, guided imagery and professional reflexology. 600+ online and more. Visit www.uppercapetech.cc or call (508) 759-7711, ext. 211 for details.

COUNSELING & THERAPY Heal, Change, Grow. Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in relationships, personal growth and spiritual wellness. Also certified angel card reader and soul therapy practitioner. Kathleen Litchfield, MFT. klitchfield14@gmail.com (508) 723-4295, Shrewsbury, MA.

DATING/SINGLES Spiritual Singles. Meet your soul mate, twin flame, poly-partners, friends on the largest, exclusively spiritual dating site on the Internet. Multi-thousands of conscious singles in New England. Join free. www.SpiritualSingles.com

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.

Boston Feng Shui with Lynn Taylor After decades of studying many different feng shui traditions, as well as teaching and consulting both nationally and internationally, I have blended what I believe to be the best of many approaches. For more information or to arrange a consultation please contact me by e-mail: lynntaylor@bostonfengshui.com or phone: 617-924-4205. Residential, business and staging services. www.BostonFengShui.com.

HEALING Certified Emotion Code Practitioner. Enable the full expression of your body’s healing intelligence through the non-invasive release of trapped emotional energies that are likely at the root of your health challenges. $35 / session. Contact Roma Kessaram at: www.easeintohealing.com. (617) 259 6450.

INTUITIVE ARTS Akashic Record Readings and Mentoring with Debbie Ritter, who will empower you to live your best life and step into your spiritual awakening. www.debbieritter.net.

INTUITIVE TRAINING 2.5 year Medical Intuitive Training with Robin Sage, medical intuitive. Learn to give professional energy readings and healings. Class location is by conference call. 12-person maximum. 2-hour class once a week. (808) 268-8501. www.MedicalIntuitiveTraining.com

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT Beautiful new office suite. West Hartford center. Looking for holistic practitioners who have their own practice, who wish to share space with other like-minded professionals. Naturopath, holistic physician, Ayurvedic practitioner, energy healer, nutritionist, cranio sacral, life coach, or other healing modality welcome. The massage therapy office has space for an additional therapist. Suite includes waiting room, internet access, copier/fax, small break room. Ample parking, building is accessible, on major bus line, short walk to many restaurants and shops. Contact Elliott Strick (860) 231-8459, www.elliottstrick.com. Newton Center Office Space For Rent Full-time/part-time availability. Inviting, furnished psychotherapy suite includes private office, waiting room, clerical space and bathroom. Contact Chris Gruener at chris.gruener@comcast.net. crossroads-counseling-services.com (617) 965-6552. Beautiful space for rent in Shrewsbury, MA for practitioners providing services, workshops, classes and networking. Bhavna’s Wellness Group: (774) 242-2112, customerservice@bhwellnessgroup.com.

PSYCHIC READINGS HEALING Psychodynamic Counseling and Shamanic Therapy in upstate New York. For adults, adolescents, and couples, offering psychotherapy and shamanic healing to treat anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and trauma symptoms holistically. Ellen Winkler MA, LMFT. Offices in Old Chatham and Hudson, NY. ewinkler@netzero.com, (310) 430-6902.

$1 Per Minute (first time caller special). Highly accurate live psychic readings! What does your future hold? Credit cards accepted. Call: (877) 657-0488.

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.

QIGONG Medical Qi Gong. Energy balancing and harmonizing. Qi Gong is used to improve pain, discomfort, allergies, digestive issue, osteoarthritis, and more. Long distance sessions. Alison Schwartz Remoteqigong.angelfire.com (973) 908-4209.

REMOVE NEGATIVITY Spell Breaker Pendulum spins away negative energy, contracts, curses. Works on people, buildings and landscapes. Flower of Life Focus Wheel removes your negative feelings, thought forms and installed beliefs. You will feel free and clear of old junk using these products. www.gaylehannan.com/energy-healing-tools

SPIRITUAL DIRECTION Ethel Fraga, Spiritual Companioning. Interfaith, agnostic, curious. Instruction in Mindful and Contemplative practices. Spiritual Director, Centering Prayer facilitator, Mindfulness Instructor. ethel.fraga@verizon.net. (508) 822-2410.

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Index of Summer 2015 Advertisers “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.” — Steve Jobs A

Abra Therapeutics........................................... 39 Acupuncture of Worcester............................. 50 Acupuncture Plus Yoga................................... 50 Advaita Meditation Center............................. 51 Advanced Allergy Ctr. of New England........ 33 Alternatives for Health.................................... 26 Amethyst Point................................................ 46 Amma..................................................................2 Andara Crystals............................................... 55 Angelic Mom.................................................... 51 Angelscapes...................................................... 59 Angeltouche..................................................... 58 Anti Aging Wellness Center........................... 58 Arvigo Massage................................................ 23 Ascend Hospice............................................... 61

The Fourwinds Society................................... 30 FrogPond Yoga Centre.................................... 46

B Libby Barnett.................................................... 56 David Bartky.................................................... 53 Baylight Homeopathy..................................... 33 Beadniks........................................................... 14 Bhavna’s Wellness Group................................ 18 Glenn Bigonet.................................................. 55 BlackBox Cosmetics........................................ 36 Body Balancing Center................................... 45 Body Mind and Spine..................................... 51 BodyMind Resourcing.......................................6 Boston School of Herbal Studies, The........... 53 Kelly Buckowski.......................................... 55,58

G Arthur Gertler.................................................. 32 Gluten Free Media Group.............................. 31 Golden Ray Clearing....................................... 57 Jesse Goldman.................................................. 14 Graduate Institute, The................................... 53 Greater Boston Church of Spirtualism......... 59 Groton Wellness Center.....................................7 H Sarah Hagedorn............................................... 57 Loentine Hartzell............................................. 57 Healing from the Body Level Up................... 37 Healthy Spirit................................................... 54 Holistic Wellness Center............................ 26,56 Joan Holzman.................................................. 55 Hope Ethereal.................................................. 41 John Howe........................................................ 53 Peggy Huddleston............................................ 52 I Inhale MD........................................................ 58 Inner Bridges Physical Therapy..................... 33 Inner Traditions............................................... 41 Inspired Action...................................................8 International Coach Certification Academy....9

C Nancy Canning................................................ 13 Celtic Art Therapy........................................... 32 Center of Light................................................. 39 Jonathan Chisholm..................................... 11,54 Circles of Wisdom........................................... 35 CommonWealth Ctr for Herbal Medicine.... 10 Constellation Approach............................... 7,53 Creative Strands Hair & Bodywork............... 59 D Delta Gardens.................................................. 27 Developmental Alphabiotics.............................3 E East Coast Institute of Medical Qigong........ 31 Eclectic Institute of Aromatherapy and Herbal Studies, The.................................................... 52 EMR Safety Consulting................................... 23 Enchanted Fox................................................. 16 Evoking Alchemy................................................8

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J Jocelyn............................................................... 59 John Harvey Gray Center............................... 56 Barbara Johnson.............................................. 55 Constance Jones............................................... 54 L Light and Love Healing................................... 57 Light Unlimited............................................... 25 Eric Linter......................................................... 50 Little Frog Healing........................................... 39 Living Earth, The............................................. 11 Sharon Livingston............................................ 54 Lotus Flower Living......................................... 36 Claire Luft.................................................... 55,56 M M.A.S.H............................................................ 16 Judith Mabel..................................................... 26 Maha Yoga Center........................................... 46

Tina Marian...................................................... 19 Linda Marks..................................................... 54 Wendy Marks................................................... 57 Medical Aesthetics of New England............. 23 Metrowest Yoga................................................ 46 Ross Miller................................................ 8,17,43 Lori Miller-Freitas........................................... 55 Misty Meadows Herbal Center...................... 30 Marlene Monnar.................................................7 N Native Earth........................................................8 Natural Living Expo........................................ 64 Nature’s Rite...................................................... 29 NE Institute of Reflexology............................ 52 Dr. Jody Noe................................................ 32,58 North Shore Myofascial Release.................... 57 Nutritional Therapy Association................... 11 O Oneness............................................................. 59 Open Doors Yoga Studios......................... 46,51 Open Spirit....................................................... 46 Opening Lotus Yoga........................................ 46 P Pacifica Graduate Institute............................. 15 Rachel Perry..................................................... 21 Peter Stone Jewelry.............................................5 Pipal Leaf Yoga Studio.................................... 46 Monique Pommier.......................................... 50 Pyramid Books................................................ 35 Q Ann Quinlan.................................................... 15 R Raising Grace Coaching................................. 36 Rédgine’s Botanical Spirits Personal Care..... 13 Real Life Yoga Studio...................................... 46 Diane Reeves.................................................... 18 Kyle Russell....................................................... 55 S Sacred Fire Foundation................................... 35 Sacred Song Reiki............................................ 19 Sacred Spiral Life Work.................................. 57 Sacred Temple Arts......................................... 14 Salve Regina University.................................. 17 Scalar Energy Healing..................................... 63 Science of Spirituality...................................... 19

SeaGlass Yoga & Wellness Center................. 58 Andrea Seiver................................................... 54 Kathleen Segura............................................... 61 Reva Seybolt..................................................... 15 Share International.......................................... 13 Small Miracles Preschool................................ 51 Miriam Smith................................................... 42 Sohum Yoga and Mediation Studio............... 46 Southwest Day Spa.............................................9 Spa Tech............................................................ 53 Spirit Hollow.................................................... 27 State of Grace Yoga and Wellness Center...... 46 Sunray Meditation Society............................. 13 Kelle Sutliff....................................................... 59 Synthesis Center, The...................................... 52 T Tea of Life......................................................... 11 Tintagels Gate.................................................. 43 Touchstone School.......................................... 51 U-V-W Unity Yoga........................................................ 46 Robyn Vogel..................................................... 53 Vera Volfson..................................................... 58 Pat Warren........................................................ 56 Way to Balance, The................................... 21,52 Weaving Serpent Wellness.............................. 58 Wellness Roundtable, The.............................. 42 Jane Wentzell.................................................... 61 Nancy West....................................................... 61 Westborough Yoga........................................... 46 Trish Whynot................................................... 54 WildTree........................................................... 10 Wisdom of the Ages........................................ 16 Women of Wisdom...................................... 6,51 Women’s Herbal Conference.......................... 29 Worcester Yoga Center.............................. 46,59 Cheryl Wright.................................................. 57 X-Y-Z Yoga at the Ashram.................................... 39,46 Yoga Healing Trauma...................................... 46 YogaLife Institute........................................ 43,46 The Yoga Studio............................................... 46 Zuzu’s Healing Arts......................................... 51 Fall Issue Advertising Deadline: Friday, July 31, 2015 For info: (508) 278-9640 advertise@spiritofchange.org

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