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Arts Strategists To Hold PowWow In Sun Valley STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK
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mericans for the Arts, the leading nonprofit organization advancing arts in America, will hold its 2014 Leadership Roundtable in Sun Valley. The event, which has always been held in Aspen, will take place June 26 through 28 in Sun Valley and Ketchum. The Leadership Roundtable will bring together a select group of about 30 distinguished artists, philanthropists, corporate and thought leaders in a dialogue exploring how the arts can be utilized as a positive force for change. This year’s topic will focus on the relationships that exist between the arts and technology and how to best harness them to further ideas, innovation and a creative future for the nation and the world. Americans for the Arts does more than talk. It helped establish the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) during its 50-plus years of service. “This is exciting news,” said Suzanne Hazlett, who co-chairs the Wood River Studio Tour. “Not only is Americans for the Arts a major advocate for the arts, but they have championed some interesting projects, including encouraging Congress to employ art therapy for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder.” Marty Albertson, chair of the Sun Valley Marketing Alliance, instigated the discussion to move the conference from Aspen to Sun Valley. “Americans for the Arts’ decision to bring this important national program to our area underscores the growing reputation of Sun Valley as an arts and culture destination,” said Albertson, who has attended Americans for the Arts roundtable programs at the Aspen Institute and Redford Center in Sundance, Colo., for many years. “All of us who live or spend time here know of the incredibly rich arts community and recognize the critical role the arts play in making the Valley such a special and vibrant place. Now, in part through the SVMA’s efforts, the word is getting out to others, including national arts organizations like Americans for the Arts.” In the past 10 years this community has come to recognize the value of arts as an economic driver—not just an added benefit, said Kristin Poole, artistic director for the Sun Valley Center for the Arts. The arts contribute more than $10 million to the local economy each year.
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Marcia Hart discovered the crystal healing bed while visiting Joao de Faria, a.k.a. John of God, who demonstrated clairvoyant abilities as a child and became a healer as an adult. The Casa he established on a massive dome of quartz crystal 35 years ago attracts people from all over the world who are searching for healing for cancer, AIDS, hepatitis, nerve damage, and physical, emotional and spiritual trauma. Want to know more? Call Marcia Hart at 208.726.3586 or 726.2761. Treatments are normally $1 per minute plus $5. Five Springs Wellness is offering a special through April with a package of four treatments going for $105 versus the normal fee of $140.
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heryl Cocannon first encountered healing on a crystal bed five years ago when she went to Brazil to seek help for a variety of personal issues from John of God, a medium who has been featured on “Oprah.” While there, she experienced crippling pain from a back injury she’d sustained several years earlier when she’d had a hard fall on concrete. Normally, she would have had a chiropractor adjust her. But, with no chiropractor around, she decided to give the crystal bed a whirl. “I prayed beforehand and asked that my spine be adjusted. But I couldn’t imagine in my wildest dreams how lying under crystal lights would help. Suddenly, out of the blue—pop, pop, pop—my whole sacrum was put into alignment,” said Cocannon. “It kept my back in tune for a month.” Cocannon was elated when Marcia Hart set up a crystal bed not far from her office at Windermere Real Estate. Hart, too, had been impressed with the beneficial energy the crystals seemed to emit when she visited Casa de Dom
Inácio, John of God’s healing and meditation center in Abadiania, Brazil, a village characterized by tile and corrugated tin roofs a two-hour drive from Brasilia, the capital of Brazil. And so this winter she found herself hand-carrying seven highly polished quartz crystals back to Idaho with her. She set up the healing crystal bed at Five Springs Wellness Center above Bigwood Bread Bakery at 270 Northwood Way in Ketchum’s light industrial district. And with that, Hart, who has done body work and applied kinesiology, became one of a hundred people to offer the combination color and crystal healing therapy in the United States. “I encourage people to make an intention, to focus on what they want to get out of a session, whether it is to become better at something or relax more or have a pain in the back go away,” Hart said. “You don’t need to tell me what it is. And nothing’s off-limits. You can always ask.” Treatments range between 20 and 40 minutes. Clients—fully clothed—slide onto a single bed. A foot above them hang the seven crystals. The crystals, harvested
from mines in central Brazil not far from Casa de Dom Inácio, magnify rays of light, which are considered metaphors for divine energy. As the client settles in, Hart puts a small eye pillow over his or her eyes and turns on soothing music and colored lights behind the crystals. The crystals are pointed at each of the seven human energy centers, or chakras. According to information provided by Casa de Dom Inácio, light flows through each crystal, producing a stream of energy that raises the body’s vibrational frequency by interacting with the water in the cells. Since we’re comprised of 90 percent water, that carries strong implications for how our body and health can be affected, the information says. As the energy enters the body, it retunes the energetic system that, like the circulatory system, flows through the body. Energy can get stuck, just as blood can be blocked by a plaque or a blood clot. Or energy can move in the wrong direction. Proponents say the healing crystal bed can harmonize the chakras, or energy centers, trigger healing and rejuvenation,
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