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avid Crow likes to describe lavender as “an angel of healing from the floral realm.” Not only does it calm and relax, it reduces the pain of David Crow burns and infections. The rose, he says, is “a gift from nature to your heart and soul.” A drop of oil culled from one of the 5,000 varieties of roses in the world serves as a romantic aphrodisiac. Crow, a master herbalist, aromatherapist and acupuncturist, is a world-renowned expert in the field of botanical medicine. He can tell how it requires 1.4 million handpicked blossoms to produce a liter of rose oil or how 67 blossoms comprise just one drop. He can tell how essential oils work and how to use them most effectively. And, he’ll do it right here in Ketchum when he presents a workshop on The Pharmacy of Flowers and Contemplative Aromatherapy April 27 through 29. “To have a teacher of his caliber come to the Valley is a real treat,” said Ketchum aromatherapist Wahnetta Trotter. “People come from all over the world to attend his workshops. And he’s going to be the keynote speaker at the National Ayurvedic Medical Association meeting in Seattle this weekend.” Trotter has worked with Crow, planting and harvesting plants for distillation at his Floracopeia farm in California. She says Crow’s workshop will benefit all medical practitioners, as well as lay people who are interested in participating in an olfactory feast of some of the world’s most exotic, rare and precious essential oils, including agarwood, lotuses and champaca. Friday’s lecture, from 7 to 9 p.m., is an introduction to The Pharmacy of Flowers with special emphasis on how fragrance and essential oils can benefit us in daily life. Saturday’s Pharmacy of Flowers workshop, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., goes more in-depth on the elements of flowers’ effects on the mind and nervous system—how, for instance, the aroma from pine needles can impact the respiratory system. Sunday’s Contemplative Aromatherapy workshop, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., focuses on the use of oils to enhance meditation and the use of meditation to study oils. It uses a combination of Buddhist meditation methods and Ayurvedic medical philosophy. People can participate in one or all of the workshops. Cost is $15 for Friday’s lecture, $100 for either Saturday or Sunday’s workshop. Those wishing to participate in the entire weekend can get a discounted fee of $150 for all three sessions. Those attending the entire workshop are eligible to receive 19 continuing education credits from the National Certification Board of Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork. Register online at www.sunvalleywellnessinstitute.com. Or call Carol Waller at Carol@sunvalleywellness. org or 208-720-3965. tws
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“We practically slept on top of the �ire we were so cold. I knew no one knew where I was. I knew no one was coming for me. But I wouldn’t let myself cry or get angry. I knew it wouldn’t do any good and I needed to save my energy.”
ola stands just 10 inches tall and weighs just 10 pounds. But a 31-year-old diabetic man is calling this miniature pinscher “a hero” for helping him survive three days in deep snow on Trail Creek Summit. Todd Peebler credits the tiny dog with saving his life by sharing her body heat when he stuffed her under his T-shirt at night. “There’s no question I’m alive because of her,” he said. “She weighs just 10 pounds but that was enough.” Peebler, a New York insurance salesman, was looking to establish a new home in the Wood River Valley when he got stuck in a snowbank on Trail Creek Road and had to spend the next three days walking more than 20 miles in snow up to his waist. He was tired of the rat race in New York and of having to pay $2,200 a month for a 320-square foot apartment and $3 for a soda from a vendor on Madison Avenue. When Jeff Rust offered him a job ught . But she ta with Elevate Recruiting Group in many tricks w o kn ’t sn Ketchum, he jumped at the opporlive. la doe ler said Lo t trick of all—how to tunity. Todd Peeb an rt o p im st o him the m “My parents have a place just north of Hailey and so I’ve come here for a week each of the past seven or three 16-hour days of driving, he tested “Lapham’s Quarterly,” which he figured eight summers,” said Peebler. “I love it his blood sugar, which registered 69—or, he could read after he got to the hotel out here so when I got the opportunity for what he calls “borderline hypoglycemic.” that day. a job with a real future, I took it.” He drank a Coke to remedy it. At the last minute, he pulled a yellow On March 30 Peebler stuffed a TV, “But I really don’t remember anything windbreaker over his sweatshirt and clothes and bedding into his 2005 Audi after that until two hours later when I swapped his sneakers for some new hikA6 and programmed the GPS in his car realized that I was sitting in my car and ing boots he’d bought before he left New to take him the shortest route to the Sun the car was still running but it was stuck York. Valley Lodge. in a four-foot snowbank,” he said. “It was It was 1:30 in the afternoon and the At first, his trip was uneventful, save like I’d gotten beamed into the middle of spring sun had softened the snow. The 6for a whiteout blizzard in Yellowstone Nathe road. I had no recollection of getting foot, 230-pound Peebler took one step and tional Park. But he hadn’t gotten far into there.” found himself sinking up to his waist. He Idaho on Monday, April 2, when he was In his disorientated state, Peebler had took another step and met with the same confronted by a military guard pointing no idea that the Trail Creek Road his fate. an AR-15 rifle at him at a security gate GPS had instructed him to turn onto He spent the next seven hours post-holoutside the Idaho National Laboratory. north of Mackay was closed by snow in ing through the snow. And, as the light “I explained that I had been following winter. He was 23 miles from the Sun dimmed, he spied a dry clearing the size my GPS. He told me to take Highway 33 Valley Lodge, but he didn’t realize that, of a kitchen table about 500 yards off the and that’s pretty much the last thing I either. trail. remember,” Peebler said. Figuring he couldn’t be far, he wrapped Peebler spread some pine boughs and A type 1 diabetic, Peebler realized he a leather bomber jacket around Lola needles on the ground as he’d seen actors wasn’t quite as coherent as he needed to and put her in her travel bag. Then he do on “Survivor.” Then he set some twigs be when his girlfriend called him as he stuffed his iPad, a dog food bowl and dog got to Highway 33 and said he sounded food into a day pack, along with a copy of funny. Realizing he was exhausted from continued, page 10
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Beating the Odds
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Aromatherapy Workshop Featuring David Crow
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Presented by Dirty Feet Dance Company Sponsored by Pure Body Pilates Your Home in Hailey for Exceptional Pilates and Yoga Training
7:30PM @ The Liberty Theatre, Hailey
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