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Mental Health: New Year Balance

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f you are like me you are probably rethinking the extra cookies, turkey, and mashed that you ingested during the holidays. Even though we enjoy the end of year celebration, the New Year seems to naturally bring forth a desire for balance, and for change. Some people may be drawn to engaging in renewed wellness activities for health, wealth, and life pursuits.

It feels pretty natural to get back on the treadmill, back to yoga class, or take a step back from the table after the excesses of December – in other words to take care of the visible sides of us. How about the inside though – the mental, emotional and spiritual parts of self?

We seem to have an ability to attend to what is visible but disown, dismiss, or deny the invisible inner states. It might be because making physical changes is thought to be easier than mental or emotional ones. Or perhaps a person might experience more external support for gains in appearance and/or body comfort. I recently noticed that focusing just on a weight reduction program triggered my mental and

emotional reactions – probably because my body-mind wasn’t working together toward the goal.

To be truthful, my perspective is that you cannot balance one area of the human schema (body-mindspirit) without affecting another: like trying to touch your ring finger to the palm of your hand without moving any other fingers. I perceive the bodymind as one unit. So if I’m trying to make healthier food choices and a lot of deprivation or anger emerges, it makes sense to me. It tells me that there are mental processes that are tied in to why I think I should be able to eat whatever I want, physiological factors at play, and perhaps even spiritual needs that are not being met.

So if I want to make any headway with my outer self, then I must attend to my inner self as well because they are one.

But the idea of counselling or psychotherapy can be scary and carry many misconceptions – even myths and social prejudices.

Myths such as counsellors are cold and unengaged, that counselling is too costly, that the process takes too long, and in short – is best avoided. People may also believe

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The Rhode Island Psychological Association (http:// www.ripsych.org/importance-of-mental-health) lists these benefits of mental health: improved quality of life; strengthening and supporting abilities to have healthy relationships, making good life choices, maintaining physical health and well-being, recovering from natural ups and downs, discovering your potential, and finally that mental health is good for business.

So in this time of renewal, New Year’s resolutions and New Year balance, consider the body-mind as one unit. Allow yourself to engage wholly and happily with what is, exploring all the parts of self: the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Don’t be put off by myths, misconceptions, and misbeliefs about seeking counselling or psychotherapy that prevent you from being your very best and balanced you.

Anna Green is a Certified Canadian Counsellor and Professional Member of the Centre for Treatment of Sexual Abuse and Childhood Trauma providing holistically integrated individual and couple therapy under clinical supervision. Websites: annagreen.ca and spiritwell.ca 613-295-9987 for more information.

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Bringing Grief out of the Shadows…

Grief – Does it Ever Go Away?

By Vonne Solís, Angel Therapy Practitioner®

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oes grief ever go away? That’s the million dollar question! A huge part of my journey, as I weave in and out of the nuances of grief, is questioning how our society defines grief and whether or not it can ever go away. Dictionary.com describes grief as “keen mental suffering or distress over affliction or loss; sharp sorrow; painful regret”. Synonyms are “anguish, heartache, woe, misery; sadness, melancholy”. So which of these after loss, truly ever disappear with a guarantee the same emotion won’t return?

While we may, after years of experience in grief, discipline ourselves to respond differently to painful situations that play out year after year without our loved ones (holidays, major milestones, special celebrations), the fact is that a certain melancholy and various reminders of the deep heartache we once felt (now to a lesser degree perhaps), and overwhelming sadness of what’s been lost (this usually hits us at the most unsuspecting of times), subtly stick to us like glue – pesky, but with effort can be scraped off to some degree. But you always know the glue was there.

As I write this article it is the day after what would have been my daughter’s 31st birthday. Naturally, I feel melancholy and speculative about what could have been, what perhaps should have been. Not to mention all that I am missing that other mothers with mature daughters get to experience. And this is just my grief related to the loss of my daughter, never mind the loss of my parents and other family that passed away after my daughter.

We all cope with change and move forward in our own way and time, one baby step after another, after loss.

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As we approach the nine year anniversary of the loss of our daughter, and after much consideration, my husband and I have decided to start fresh.

We are welcoming a new chapter into our lives that involves relocation west. A big decision. Baby steps! If you are struggling to move forward but don’t know what you want, take time to contemplate those things that will bring you relief. This may be a restful holiday, job change, new home, new hobby, different circle of people to hang out with. Know that whatever you need will change over the course of your grief, which is why it’s important to nurture yourself through every phase, not only during those moments you need bigger interventions.

If you feel lost, the angels will guide you. So will your departed loved ones. Perhaps a friend or two or family can help you sort through any confusion (just ask). In the end, it’s essential you follow your heart, which will always lead you to find relief from any pain and restore joy to your soul. Any new journey requires thought and some planning. Be confident you can dream, feel inspired and hopeful once again.

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The building blocks of self-esteem

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what I really want?” I generally suggest Stettbacher’s Therapy as described in Alice Miller’s book “Banished Knowledge”.

There are four steps to Stettbacher’s Therapy: a. Precisely describing the present situation and one’s present sensations. b. Fully experiencing and fully expressing one’s present emotions. c. Assertively questioning the present situation. d. Clearly articulating one’s needs.

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ver the past twenty years of dealing with clients in my counselling and hypnotherapy practice, I have found that the most frequently asked question is, “How do I raise my self-esteem?” Since clients are often confused about the difference between self-esteem and self-confidence, it may be helpful to clarify these two concepts.

Self-confidence is temporary and can swing wildly Timing is critical in this process. It is important to from highs to lows and change from one minute to the make decisions about what one wants at the optimum next. It exists only at the surface level moment. If the decision is made too of one’s encounter with life’s events soon, then useful information may s s and relationships. It is dependent s e be missed. If it is made too late, the n ll we on success, and even on repeated number of possible courses of action smokin success. A loss can put a serious dent may be considerably reduced. frui in one’s self-confidence.

It is equally important to make Self-esteem, on the other hand, is decisions about what one does NOT xie ty long term and usually set in early want. For many people, this ability self -esteem childhood at a fixed (but changeable) remains underdeveloped because it t h level. It comes from deep within a was severely thwarted in childhood weig person’s psyche and stays constant, by parents, teachers, the clergy, etc.

COUNSELLING, COACHING unless, as an adult, one experiences In many cases, people have been making difficult choices about & HYPNOTHERAPY CENTRE conditioned to say nothing rather challenging emotional issues. than express what they don’t like Richard M. Haney Ph.D.(Counselling), Hypnotherapist Once a person has “ratcheted up” or don’t want. An example of this is their self-esteem by making such the frequently used expression, “If (613) 234-5678 (613) 726-3636 choices, it cannot go down again. you don’t have something good to Bank St. (in Centretown) Pinecrest Rd. It is permanently set at the new say, don’t say anything at all.” www.ottawahypnosis.com higher level. Self-esteem is also not www.ottawacounselling.com Nathaniel Branden in his book dependent on success. Failure, as a “The Six Pillars of Self-esteem” result of a choice one has made, does delineates six practices that lead to enhanced self-esteem: not diminish one’s self-esteem. Self-esteem increases a. The practice of living consciously. Being present. based on the mere fact that one has made a difficult b. The practice of self-acceptance. emotional choice, regardless of the outcome. c. The practice of self-responsibility. Response-ability For children to develop high self-esteem and d. The practice of self-assertiveness. Claiming space. carry this into adulthood, it is essential for parents e. The practice of living purposefully. and teachers to “get out of the way” and learn to be f. The practice of personal integrity. Honesty. comfortable allowing very young children to make the Branden believes that, if we adhere to these pillars, many hundreds of little choices that they encounter each we will evolve to the point of loving our own life. week of their lives. This enables children to “ratchet up” However, in order to attain such a high level of selftheir self-esteem gradually through gentler, smaller, esteem, he stresses the need for honesty and courage. incremental choices rather than all at once through the Honesty usually leads to conflict and conflict to anger. momentous and sometimes traumatic choices they may It is therefore imperative for a person to attain sufficient face later in life. self-esteem to be able to express “conscious anger”.

This paper does not apply to people who have Conscious anger usually leads to acceptance and very few choices in their lives. For example, someone resolution, whereas unbridled or “unconscious” anger who, as a child, has been sexually abused by a parent will often lead to destructive fighting and rejection. or someone from a poor country where just getting Another characteristic of people with high self-esteem enough to eat is a full-time endeavour. Hopefully their is that they usually experience giving and receiving in opportunities and options will some day increase to the a balanced and equal way. Giving and receiving are point where they are able to make the choices that lead interconnected. It is an illusion to believe that one is to enhanced self-esteem. giving more than one is receiving, and vice versa. As To make good choices people have to know what the Beatle’s expressed it in one of their songs, “In the they want. Many of my clients ask me, “How do I know end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

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What an Animal Communicator Can Teach Us

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recently watched the most incredible video about animal communication.

Anna Breytenbach, a highly skilled telepathic inter-species communicator, helps us to open to our own ability to be naturally aware, receptive and live a more fulfilling life.1 One part of the video is her reaching out to a black panther. She opens the animal’s world to us to depth I had never experienced before. The DVD we watched is filmed in Africa and shows her in the wild, not just communicating with animals, but connecting with information the earth has to offer, information that we usually bypass. She reads the messages around her and doubtlessly proves her authenticity.

It is true that our modern world has a lot to offer, and it all does serve a purpose, yet we seem to have left behind our own contact with the earth, the animals and our ability to communicate authentically with our fellow human beings. Of course, to a certain extent, we also aren’t fully in contact with our own self. But that can be changed, as it is our own true nature to live with grace and awareness.

In a way, Anna’s deep and important message help us evolve and open to a knowledge and sensitivity that is healing for us, and will also be good for the ones we meet and for our Mother Earth.

Richard M. Haney, M.Ed., Ph.D. (Counselling and Mediation).

Richard has been practising Wholistic Counselling, Coaching, Hypnotherapy and Mediation for the past 25 years in Ottawa. Richard by phone: (613) 2345678. By e-mail: richard@magma.ca

There is a deep essence inside us all that is profoundly sacred and divine. We have the ability to connect with a freedom inside that is so complete that it can only manifest compassion, love and empathy.

For it is when we feel threatened that we contract or attack, and needlessly fall prey to survival instincts that take us away from our higher Self.

Our conditioned mind does its best, but also functions out of fear, insecurity and an irrational defensiveness. The way out of this predicament can only be very simple -- the answers are within us.

There is at the heart of our being a vast source of wisdom and love. Our subconscious mind has messages for us that are healing and can help us get what we need, whether it is to release the past or move forward with a depth of kindness and forgiveness that is healing for us and others.

Our subconscious mind is wise and carries the purest love, providing us with a sense of being undeniably inter-connected with everyone and everything. From that perspective, it is easier to love and forgive, or let go, to understand that we all have our lessons to learn, in our own unique way. We can reclaim the lost aspects of our soul and meet in a place where we no longer judge one another -- a space where we align with the natural flow of the universe. I find that hypnosis is the quickest way to access our deepest Self and wisdom and achieve a much more fulfilling life.

Lynne Cardinal is a fully Certified Hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists, holding additional certifications in Hypnosis Innovative Techniques and Weight Loss. She is certified by Dr. Weiss in Past-Life Regression Therapy and she has a PhD in Eastern Philosophy. In person and Skype sessions are available to clients. Lynne has offered Stress Management and Burnout Prevention workshops at the government and private sector for over 30 years. Insurance receipts are available. For more information Lynne can be reached at 613.721.7888 or by e-mail at info@kaivalya.ca. You can also visit her web site: www.kaivalya.ca (Endnotes) 1 http://www.animalspirit.org/

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Why Does Mind Control Matter So Much?

by Amâeil (Melinda Urban RIHR) Healing with Divine heart to awaken the deep truth within.

“Ignorance is bliss” – those on a conscious journey know this is not true. But it’s a commonly heard inversion of the truth. Who stands to gain from this mind-controlling misdirection? It’s not you, nor humanity. It’s those that would rather have you stay disempowered.

Reversal of our energies is one significant means by which the collective human mental body has been corrupted on this planet, and there are many ways.

Being ignorant of them does not lead to nirvana but to manipulation of your life force and your consciousness expansion.

How is it that mind control can happen at all? There is an inorganic filter on the coccyx of the human body (reptilian tail) that serves to have the mind control the body. This is why the ego-mind, for most humans, is still misperceived as identity.

This corruption of the human mental body began about 5,500 years ago when intruder races imposed a hybridization agenda on humans. These service-to-self races intended to stop human spiritual activation as well as the consciousness of our true spiritual-energetic identity. By gaining control of the human body/DNA in this way, they can harness the energy of the muchcoveted human soul as a power source for their own perpetuation.

While the ego mind/ego personality is accepted as “normal” in our earthly 3-dimensional reality, this ego filter is a dead energy mind control structure. If a human unconsciously directs their life by their ego, they are susceptible to entity control, abuse, and enslavement through a myriad of manipulation tactics and artificial technologies, which effect the mind and the central nervous system, causing emotional triggering and obscuring clear discernment of manipulation. Mind manipulation is still pervasive, making ego discipline most important during this ascension timeline. For your awareness, I describe below just two forms to help you rise above this victimization.

Mental Looping occurs when a thought repeatedly loops. It may be your pattern to repeat yourself unnecessarily. Your negative, defensive or limiting inner self-talk can also become obsessive and throw you off your spiritual centre by keeping you in your lower mental body.

See it for what it is: a stuck program. To break obsessive thoughts, practise catching your thoughts with compassionate witness to re-align with your Higher Self. For deeper inner healing, it’s worthwhile to also pay attention to the content of the self-talk expression, and clarify the payoff for being stuck in it.

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You can also immediately shift into a higher frequency: disconnect from stressful stimulus (TV, WiFi, cell phone), go for a walk, listen to soothing music, or try tapping 20 times where your skull meets your spine.

Holographic Inserts are manipulations of your organic, holographic nature. These audio or video inserts of dead energy can be implanted in the lower dimensions of your ego-personality, causing you to form limiting mental beliefs, emotions and behaviors, all based on a false reality. Like a movie in your inner vision, you may erroneously see a loved one dying, or as in the case of an addiction insert, be tricked repeatedly into believing that smoking is cool. As a result, you unconsciously feed the siphoning of your energy.

Discerning the presence of these holographic inserts requires development of your higher sensory perception to read/feel the truth in the energetic signature. While within your 12D Shield, practise asking within whether you are experiencing a manipulation energy, and feel your body’s response.

More powerful than all forms of mind control is your own consciousness. You can reclaim your Divine freedom through commitment to your GodSelf, ego-discipline, tools and clearing support. These and all types of artificial frequency manipulations (obfuscation, mindslides, armageddon programs, etc.) can be identified and released with the Hieros Gamos Healing System.

Let’s engage our Higher Minds to envision a world without manipulation!

Copyright 2014 www.MelindaUrban.com All Rights Reserved. With grateful support from www. energeticsynthesis.com. This article is excerpted from my free newsletter where I provide more information and tools. Sign– up for Being the Peace at www.MelindaUrban.com: articles, resources, free tools and case studies. Specializing in clearing stubborn patterns. Integrating holographic clearing of your multi-dimensional blueprint, energy psychotherapy, thetahealing®, and intuitive vocals. Appointments in person or by phone. 613-253-2888.

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Fairy Tales: Real, but not True

by Laurie Fraser

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hen I was in my 2nd year of lyme disease in 2007, Archangel Metatron came to me and said, “To finish healing, you must put a spiritual layer on the book.” My husband, who crossed in 1997, was at Metatron’s side with his constant refrain: “Finish the book.”

I was incensed! I had spent 12 years writing a novel based on the years I lived in Turkey married to him (a Kurdish freedom fighter) and the book was finished! I said, “Seriously? You want me to put a spiritual layer on a novel about adventure, lust and politics?”

It was quite some time before I understood that “put a spiritual layer on it” meant “tell the truth”.

When I recovered my health enough to sit at my computer, I read each chapter with “second sight” and I commented in italics throughout. The novel had been written in 3rd person, fiction, to protect my husband’s identity. The added italicized comments were written in 1st person. It was the author’s voice- older, sober, wiser, reflecting on the lessons learned, the spiritual benefits of that exhilarating & traumatic time. The 1st person voice gently prodded at the fabrications of fiction, the truths avoided.

I revisited the joy in the beginning of the book and commented: Yes, he was just like that! Looking into his eyes was like looking in a mirror and I knew we’d shared many lifetimes. I read about the cultural confusion and mistakes I’d made, and I laughed. How was I to know that the leftover bread should go to the neighbour’s chickens in the basement and that my door should never be locked? I knew nothing about interdependence. How could I feel safe when my husband gave our last lira to a beggar? I knew nothing about sharing, but I learned about Unity and security in a country that offered no security.

In Turkey I experienced life without rights or social safety nets. I met Kurdish refugees without aid, food, dry beds or shoes. We gave them all we had, and I learned what lack really is. In the most profound way, I became truly grateful for my blessings.

My husband was arrested and tortured. I explored fear at the personal level and at the group level too (the threat of ethnic cleansing). As I read, I healed and wrote: “Love surpassed fear every day. I refused to leave- it was the greatest love I’d ever known. Nothing else seemed real to me.”

After 3 months I had a fairy tale written in the 3rd person with author’s italicized comments throughout and in a long epilogue which admitted some embarrassing truths. What to do with that?

Eventually, healthy and solvent again, I hired a professional editor who helped me to integrate it all into one story. The awkward manuscript became a literary story with depth that addressed more than culture, human rights, risk and the requirements for love. It now admits the uncomfortable truth & conundrums of life: the real vs. the ideal, what we want vs. what we get...and what to do with that.

I sure hope you’ll take a look at The Word Not Spoken. Readers have told me they chose it over sleep, dreamed about it, read it again; they tell me they love the characters and the writing; they tell me it rings true.

Free e-books to book clubs and I’ll visit them too!

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The Word Not Spoken

a novel by Laurie Fraser

A romantic adventure set in Turkey addresses human rights, risk and the requirements for love.

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Cleaning Up Your Act: Cleansing at all levels

Rev. Sherry Harris, Psycho-spiritual Counsellor, Teacher, Energy Transformation

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eing clean is way more than just a daily bath and tooth brushing. Being really clean is a whole way of living that embraces every aspect of your life. Being really clean starts from the inside--- body, mind and spirit. I used to think if I kept an open mind, a compassionate heart and eat well that would be enough. In a way it is, but there is way more one can do to elevate one’s level of consciousness.

Let’s start with the physical. No need to be vegetarian, but that is a fine choice as well. Whatever you eat let it be food of high light frequency. Let is be organic, as green as possible, and as fresh as possible. That is not always easy in Canadian winters, but we can make an effort to grow our own indoor herbs. I used to believe: to eat like a king in the morning, a prince at lunch and a pauper at dinner. I now know that to be in reverse. Start your day with the light, clean, cleansing foods---a green drink is best. For lunch, a salad, beet and carrot juice, and for dinner, heavier with some good protein. Pile it in the body in order of density. This allows the colon to digest most efficiency. When you can, do colonics to clean the old, stagnant gunk from the colon so it may work best for absorption and assimilation. Eat organic as much as you can and as green and light as you can assuring you get enough protein with all your greens.

You’ll be amazed at how energized, light and clean you feel. You’ll notice your skin start to shine. Lots of pure water goes without saying.

Body-wise, dry skin brushing is highly beneficial.

Be cautious what you put on your skin, your largest organ. If you wouldn’t eat it, don’t spread it on your skin. Make sure your makeup products are organic and clean. You’d be horrified if you knew how standard lipstick, for example, is made. Rebounding is super for the cleansing the lymph.

Mentally, be wary of what you focus on. Put your attention to what is wholesome and healthy. If you must watch TV, let it be something light and uplifting.

“Family Man” does not feed your soul. If you wouldn’t let your child watch it, it is not healthy for you either.

Read books of quality, see movies that touch your heart and expand your awareness. Treat yourself with the love and respect you are worth. Watch your words as well as your thoughts. Your unkind thoughts flow to you as well as to others. There is no separation. What you think about and do to others, you do to yourself.

Stop the judgment and criticism. Be kind and loving to all consciousness---starting with you.

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Emotionally, we need cleansing as well. We need to go back and heal the old scars and residues that are still keeping us stuck. Unfortunately, they do not heal on their own. They are there festering, waiting for us to love and help them and erupting at every opportunity until we do. This is why I am such a fan of The Inner Child Work. I know no better way to heal the wounded children within us. Trust me when I tell you they are running the show. If, for several months, you apply the tools and techniques I have developed, you can heal your wounded children inside and facilitate them integrating with your adult self in a whole, healthy, happy, supportive way. Until then, they are virtually little tyrants, screaming out for love, appreciation and safety. No matter how fantastic your parents were no one came out of childhood feeling completely loved, valuable, and safe. Societal conditioning does not make this possible. Fortunately with some focused attention and dedication this is entirely healable.

Spiritual cleansing requires time for quieting the mind, be it meditation, contemplation, prayer or devotion. Whatever works for you to take your focus off the busy, mundane world and move it into the quiet, loving space within---do it and do it on a regular basis. Nothing is healthier for stress reduction and for bringing us into a place of calm, serene connectedness to All That Is. Rev. Sherry Harris, MSW, RSW, Psychospiritual Counsellor, Teacher and Energy Transformation may be reached at 613-236-8852 or by email at 2belight1@gmail.com. I look forward to hearing from you.

March 2014

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE – Yes Please!

BODYWISE

by Jen Boyes-Manseau

A weekend of Sacred Circle Dance to explore the awareness and wisdom of the body with internationally renowned teacher June Watts

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ust how wise is your body? VERY! But how often do you ignore or push your body rather than listen to and honour it? We are blessed in the Ottawa-Outaouais region with a multitude of embodied spiritual practises – yoga, ecstatic dance, capoeira, birth dance, dances of Universal Peace… and the list goes on. When I arrived in the Ottawa area in 2001, I consulted TONE magazine to find my peeps… and three words leapt off the page: SACRED CIRCLE DANCE. SACRED yes! I was hungry for a practise that aligned me with my higher purpose.

CIRCLE of course! I longed to gather with other searchers in this inclusive and ancient form.

DANCE? Well, I wouldn’t have called myself a “Dancer”, but I certainly knew that I loved to move and to connect both within and to something big and mysterious while moving.

So, I began to Sacred Circle Dance. It was fun, the people were kind and welcoming and right from the start it was a chance to tap into my body’s wisdom, connect with the natural world and the turning of the wheel, and co-create with others something very beautiful.

And then Sacred Circle Dance teacher June Watts came to town and I tasted an even greater potential in this embodied spiritual practise….

Fast forward now to 2014. I participate in a communityled evening of Sacred Circle Dance in Ottawa each month and I lead a monthly circle in Aylmer, Quebec.

Both local circles are connected to a growing network of circles in Ontario, Quebec, Canada and beyond.

And June Watts, who has been offering transformative weekend retreats in the Ottawa area for over 20 years, is

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coming to Pine Lodge from April 25 – 27, 2014! Nestled in a pine forest, about an hour from downtown Ottawa resides Pine Lodge, a perfect place to get away from the hustle and bustle, connect with nature and explore your body wisdom through movement.

So if the words SACRED CIRCLE DANCE resonate with you, and if you love to move and be moved by music, you may want to join us at one of our regular circles or join us for the upcoming dance weekend with June Watts, entitled “Bodywise”, a delicious way to prepare for Beltane - the season of passion, beauty and union. What better time to celebrate the body as the temple of joy and pleasure, of senses and sensations, of emotions and instincts.

And… NO DANCE EXPERIENCE IS NECESSARY For more information about this weekend retreat and the regular local circles of Sacred Circle Dance contact Barbara - 613-225-3253 - carterb@bell.net or Jen - 819-682-1434 - jenboyes@videotron.ca Ottawa Circle dates: March 21 April 11, May 23, and June 20, 2014 Aylmer Circle dates: March 8, April 5, May 3, and June 7, 2014

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he universe, your guides, your higher self is always giving you signs and directions of what you are to do and what is best for you always — All Ways. No one person is getting anymore or any less guidance. Only keep your mind in stillness the best you can and let go of anxieties and fear. Make a joyous state your goal, set this intent everyday that you will be in your most blissful state at all times. By doing these steps you will notice better direction coming in many forms. Intuitive information has a quality of being slightly highlighted and will be repeated many times. Such as repeated number combinations in your day or hearing the same conversation but by different people, or seeing something in a dream then seeing it again in your awake life. Books that keep coming to you are also a form of guidance.

Do not overlook sickness, states of anxiety, anger, and other prolonged emotional states as intuitive guidance.

These are extreme forms of guidance that are doing their best to intensely get your attention to make changes in your life. Often people want to pass these off as having no value and not as guidance. However if you are in these states these need to be your number one focus and on the other side they will lead you to what is best for you.

For more information and to learn about your own intuitive abilites, how to develop them and why, please enroll in my intuitive development classes online or contact me about when a live intuitive development classes will be held in your city or request one to be held there. Please go to my site www.psychicmarstevens.com for psychic readings, medical readings or to sign up for my monthly newsletter. If you would like to learn how to incubate a rich dream life full of guidance or just need help in breaking down the meaning of a dream go to the dream section on my website. Please like, share and subscibe to me on facebook at https://www.facebook. com/mstevens, twitter https://twitter.com/PsychicMarlene, http://www.youtube.com/user/Lovnpce, http://www. pinterest.com/marlenestevens7/. Please support my work as a way to support a family who is commited to a totally green lifestyle, a non-gmo organic lifestyle, & deep love and respect of mother earth. Thank You!

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On January 17th the annual Taiji Dolphin hunt off of Japan captured a rare albino Dolphin calf. She is believed to be less than one year old and is now on display at a Japanese whale museum. Her name is Angel.

She is seen swimming here in the infamous ‘Cove’ with her mother who was later slaughtered in front of her.

It’s sad but we mustn’t be afraid to feel. I was deeply moved by Angel’s story and I grieve any brutal treatment of Dolphins but it’s important to understand that it’s done from a place of unawareness. Those who conduct such hunts haven’t realized that Dolphins are in fact highly advanced beings among us – beings who are offering their help to us at this time. I love Dolphins deeply but I know it’s best to simply embrace their gifts and send blessings to those who are not appreciative of them at this time.

In fact, many believe that it is Dolphins, more than any other life form on Earth, who can most help humanity.

I have been greatly blessed to swim with wild Dolphins and have experienced their advanced consciousness and powerful healing presence first hand. They are pure love. Being in their presence is to experience absolute joy.

I believe that Angel is part of an ancient prophesy that is unfolding all around us, or more accurately, within us. I have ‘tuned in’ to her many times to send love and support. She is with me now as I write this article. I wanted Angel to feel how many of us humans are on the path of peace. I even did a ceremony with some of my students as a group. My intention was to offer her comfort and nurturing but the most amazing thing happens when you connect with her. She sends you love and healing! And so this is not a sad story.

It is an uplifting one! I feel strongly that Angel wants us to connect to her – she’s a brilliant beacon of light for our evolution. That’s why she’s here. I’m writing this to encourage you to reach out to her. You will find

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to nurture ourselves - to cradle and hold ourselves with love and acceptance. Doing so attracts such qualities in a partner. Dolphin Stone has a long history of being used to attract a soul mate.

Like the Dolphins, Dolphin Stone radiates love, joy and a child-like sense of play. It helps us to be become again as children, which it is said one must do in order to enter the gates of heaven. Dolphin Stone brings a smile to our face and a lightness to our step. It restores our innocence, creativity and joy for life.

Dolphin Stone can assist you in bringing forth the highest aspirations your soul has for itself in this life.

Thank you Dolphins, Dolphin Stone and Angel… for helping us find our way in these times of intense transformation.

Karen Osborne is a Crystal Healer, Shamanic Practitioner and Educator. She operates a full-time healing practice, a Crystal store, and regularly offers training. Day 1 of the next Crystal class is March 30, and the next start date for the 2-Year Crystal Shamanism Certification Program is September 5-7. For more info visit www.ascensionhealing.ca or contact Karen at karen@ascensionhealing.ca | 613-798-2828 that she has no judgment. She shimmers with love, understanding and compassion. She and her race love all of us and we can learn so much from them. Like many spirit helpers, I feel she’s just waiting for us to ask…

A stone that helps us connect to Dolphin medicine and their teachings is Dolphin Stone, also known as Larimar or Pectolite. Dolphin Stone is a water element stone. It is deeply nurturing and calming to the emotional body.

Its energies soothe and cool anxious, tense, stressed, fearful, irritated, and even angry, emotional states.

Holding or wearing Dolphin Stone instills peace and serenity, especially during times of change.

Dolphin Stone also helps to release guilt and patterns of self-sabotage and self-sacrifice. It is a wonderful stone for healing one’s heart from past hurts, so that one can love again, free of baggage. Dolphin Stone teaches us

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ommunication is one of the most important aspects of life, not only human life but all life. In your life, you communicate with your family members, your friends, your colleagues. In our modern world, we communicate using telephones and the Internet, through radio and television and via satellites. With advanced technology, scientists communicate with our cells and cell units, and with planets, stars and galaxies.

Communication is a vital part of everyone’s life.

Communication is taking place constantly on Mother Earth, all around us as well as within us. We use countless ways to communicate in our lives.

Communication takes place not only among human beings, but also among animals, plants and insects.

Think of the language and intelligence of dolphins, the migration of birds and the organization of a beehive.

Think of how plants respond to the beautiful melodies and harmonies of Mozart. Think of how the DNA and RNA in your cells communicate across generations. All animate things communicate.

Did you know that inanimate objects communicate also? Everything in the room in which you are reading this article communicates. The company you work for communicates. The car you drive communicates.

Mountains and rivers communicate. Mother Earth communicates. They all communicate with each other.

You can communicate with all animate and inanimate things. You can communicate with “things” that do not have physical form, which are in the spiritual realms or Soul World. You can do this using soul communication.

Through soul communication, you can receive wisdom, knowledge and healing from any soul in the universe.

Soul communication is communication between soul and soul. Soul communication is also communication between soul and mind. Why do we need soul communication? We need it because we want to understand our soul’s desires and purpose. You have no doubt thought about the purpose of your life. Does a soul have a life purpose? The answer is clear. Yes! A soul has a clear life purpose. Your soul has its life purpose.

Every human being’s soul has its life purpose. Every soul has a purpose for its own life.

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Anyone can learn how to do soul communication. Anyone can learn how to communicate directly with the Divine and the highest spiritual teachers in Heaven. Open your soul communication channels to directly receive their teaching, wisdom and knowledge.

Open your spiritual channels to allow soul communication to transform every aspect of your life.

Transformation can be applied to businesses, careers, relationships, emotions, physical conditions and your entire spiritual journey. You can use soul communication for all aspects of your life. The only limitation is your own flexibility and creativity.

The possibilities for transformation are limitless.

On March 23, Master Lynda will teach how to communicate with your own soul in a very unique way. You will learn simple techniques and receive powerful blessings to open your spiritual channels and Message Centre (heart chakra), the key centre for soul communication.

You will be amazed at how soul communication will change your life!

Master Lynda Chaplin is a Divine Channel, Disciple and Worldwide Representative of Dr. and Master Zhi Gang Sha. She will offer a Free Soul Healing Miracles Evening and two weekend workshops at Saint Paul University, March 2123. Every participant will receive powerful soul healing blessings as well as a free copy of Master Sha’s new book, Soul Healing Miracles. Contact Master Lynda at 647.654.7711 or Lynda.Chaplin@DrSha.com

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A Simple Process to Transform Your Life

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hanging your life is possible. It only requires a few key ingredients: a plan, patience, and a willingness to step outside your comfort zone. If you’ve struggled with life, it can be helpful to start small. Achieving a few small successes will give you the confidence to move forward with larger changes.

Follow this process to transform your life into the one you truly want to live: 1. Choose the thing that will have the greatest impact.

Examine your life and think about each change that you would like to make. Then put the list in order from the most desirable change to least.

• Now, start at the top and look down the list; stop at the first thing you can change in a relatively short period.

• Set a goal. What could you achieve in 8-12 weeks around the topic you identified in step #1? Be bold; you’re way more capable than you think!

• Write out specifically what you intend to accomplish, such as, “On or before July 15th, I will have increased my income to $6,000 a month by finding a part-time job.”

2. Reflect on what has stopped you. Something has stopped you so far; figure out what that something is. Is it a lack of knowledge of how to do it? Is it fear? Capability is rarely the problem; most likely, you’ll find that fear or doubt is at the root of what has prevented you from aggressively taking action.

3. Address the issues in Step #3. Whatever has been stopping you up to this point isn’t going to go away on its own. Come up with a plan to eliminate the challenge. Including simple tools like meditation can boost your success in overcoming these challenges.

• A good test is to think about what you’ll have to go through to achieve your goal; if you feel anything but positive and excited, you have some work to do. This is feedback from your unconscious, so don’t ignore it - use it. It’s a gift.

Big goals usually require a lot of action steps, but you can achieve them by following your map, one step at a time. Make a plan and work the plan.

6. Track your progress. It’s important to measure how you’re doing. For example, if you have a moneyrelated goal, how much have you made so far?

How much time is left until your deadline? Are you behind or ahead of schedule? Always know where you stand relative to the achievement of your goal.

7. Don’t stop. If you don’t quit, you can’t fail.

Transforming your life is an honorable journey and one of the most meaningful things you can do for yourself. But it’s not for the faint of heart. Be patient you’re not going to change everything overnight. Knock off a few of the easier items first. The confidence you gain will guide you through the tougher challenges.

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4. Review your goal daily (at least). Continuing to reinforce your goal will maintain its priority in your mind. Look at it every day and read it aloud.

Imagine accomplishing your goal. The tougher the goal, the more frequently you should reinforce it.

5. Have a course of action. A basic plan divided into a list of small steps, or daily activities to accomplish, can be your road map to your goal.

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ow many times have you said or heard these words: “No thank you, I’m on a diet” or “I have to go on a diet; I can’t fit in my clothes anymore!” Usually, when we think about dieting we visualize: a short period of time during which we follow a low calorie or low carbs, in other words, some sort of dictated food plan. The reason we agree to put ourselves through this sort of process is simple: to lose weight and feel better, be it for health reasons or other.

On the one hand, the word diet can seem to mean: a short process to achieve a certain goal; while on the other hand, the fundamental meaning of the word diet is “the kinds of food that a person habitually eats”. Have you ever given any thought to this meaning of the word? In this context, it really has nothing to do with specific goals like weight loss, or short term!

The deeper meaning of a diet lies in the way (habits) we chose (not imposed) to live (much better than existing) our lives (because we want a long and healthy one!). The way we chose to live our lives! So in the end it is about making choices and clearly, if we make the wrong ones, we get undesirable results.

As a matter of fact, when we look at it the right way, the word ‘’diet’’ loses all its stereotyped meanings and gains incredible positivity and long lasting effects!

It doesn’t make a difference if we are aware or not of the kind of diet by which we live; either way, it is the foundation of our world (state of minds, values and more). At its origin, a diet was a complex and complete basic structure, made of habits, values, behaviors, perceptions, interactions and so forth, and certainly food was included. Some of our diet is inherited but today we have the choice of changing the things that no longer serve us.

Just think about those who work towards a specific goal; they are acutely aware of their diet in its original meaning. Their friends, clothes, sleeping schedules and vacations all echo what they value the most.

By making the decision to lose weight, we acknowledge that the diet we are presently following is affecting the quality of our health, thus, the quality of our present and future happiness. During our journey towards a better and healthier life, we will likely have to modify the way we view, use and relate to food. We will adopt a NEW diet and it will be successful but only if we make the right choices.

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The Trickster in Mediation

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he resolution of family law disputes has traditionally proceeded in a rational, analytical, linear way.

This process is the result of years of western society’s adoption of the “technical-rational” model of thinking and practice, where there is a single truth that can be determined with predictability and certainty, and where settlements are arrived at by proceeding methodically through clearly defined steps.

But there is another, better way of approaching the resolution of family law disputes, a way that is less linear and certain, a process that recognizes that “conflict is a circle, not a line,” as Michelle LeBaron, a well-known Canadian mediator, has written. This process recognizes and welcomes the role of the Trickster.

The Trickster is a mythological figure who bends or breaks the rules, who shapeshifts, who helps people change, a figure of wisdom capable of effecting important transformations.

How does the Trickster manifest itself in mediation?

1. The Mediator/Trickster Encourages Storytelling.

The traditional approach to settling family law problems reduces the parties’ situation to the legal arguments.

“What are the issues in this case?” lawyers will often ask each other. How much spousal support is she entitled to? How will the family cottage be divided? How much tax should we assume is payable on the RRSPs? But legal issues, briefs and guidelines don’t describe people’s worlds and experiences as they separate.

Their stories do. The Cluetrain Manifesto, that irreverent invective that shook up corporate America in 2000 with the “novel” idea that people want to communicate in real and authentic ways, emphasizes this point. “If you want understanding, you have to re-enter the human world of stories. If you don’t have a story, you don’t have understanding. From the first accidental wiener

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• 34 years’ experience as family lawyer-mediator • Mediation of Separation Agreements, Marriage Contracts and Cohabitation Agreements • Evening and weekend appointments available • Sliding fee scale • Free initial consultation Evita M. Roche 33 Somerset Street West, Ottawa, ON K2P 0H3 email: evitar@sympatico.ca

613.237.7335 roast on a prehistoric savanna, we’ve understood things by telling stories.”

2. The Mediator/Trickster Crosses Boundaries. The Mediator/Trickster helps people in conflict erase boundaries. Previously impenetrable lines between “me” and “you” merge and become “we.” Mediators challenge people to find novel ways to work together, especially where parties with young children must learn that their old relationship as married spouses has dissolved and must evolve into a new partnership as co-parents that will last for many years to come.

Also in mediation, the boundary around what people think is possible in a resolution with their seemingly intransigent spouse gets tested and ultimately pushed farther than either spouse considered possible at the beginning of mediation. One initially skeptical couple recently said to me about their final settlement, “I wouldn’t have believed it until I actually saw it happening.”

3. The Mediator/Trickster Seeks Creative Solutions.

The Mediator/Trickster resists the traditional dualistic structure of disputes. The “If he wins, she loses” and the “You’re wrong, I’m right” zero-sum model of negotiation has long proven to be ineffective. In the best resolutions, a mediator helps both parties reject the concept of fighting over scarce resources and co-operatively and creatively work together to “expand the pie.” This is accomplished through a thorough exploration of each e

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What is Shamanism?

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hamanism might be considered the world’s oldest spiritual practice. For tens of thousands of years our ancestors have used shamanic practices to contact sources of wisdom and power in the world around them to bring healing, knowledge and practical wisdom to their peoples and to themselves.

Anthropologist Michael Harner has worked directly with indigenous peoples and researched extensively into shamanic tribal practices throughout the world for over 40 years.

He became aware of many similar shamanic outlooks and practices embedded in the many very different shamanic cultures. He coined the term “Core Shamanism” to refer to these common shamanic outlooks and practices.

The beauty of Core Shamanism is that it can be easily learned and practiced whenever it is needed.

No special settings or tools are required, no particular rituals or ceremonies are necessary. Training involves

first and foremost learning the “shamanic journey” where one travels to hidden worlds in an altered state of consciousness to make direct contact with helping spirits. Using rhythmic percussion sound, typically drums and rattles, most students access these hidden words in a surprisingly short time.

Visiting the spirit realms and being in relationship with enlightened beings changes us. Our perspective broadens and deepens. Our heart opens and we become more compassionate. The Way of the Shaman is the way of power, love, knowledge, and healing.

The Foundation for Shamanic Studies, www.shamanism.org offers weekend workshops in Core Shamanism throughout Ontario: Ottawa, Sudbury, Peterborough, Toronto and Windsor.

Contact Glenn Campbell at www. shamanspiritpath.com for more information.

THE FOUNDATION FOR SHAMANIC STUDIES a non-profit public charitable and educational organization party’s real interests (their expectations, priorities, fears, beliefs and values), and trading on their differences.

The Mediator/Trickster understands that in the best settlements it’s not A or B, it’s some combination of A and B, and helps the parties create options that help both of them, and their children, win.

In my experience, fair, wise, creative and longlasting resolutions of seemingly impossible family law disputes cannot be accomplished through applying the outdated “technical-rational” model so often espoused by the legal system, but can only be achieved when the Trickster is given free rein to work his magic.

Evita Roche was Canada’s first full-time lawyermediator. Since 1979, she has helped over 5,000 couples mediate the issues arising from their separation. In the 1990’s Evita was a Professor of family law and mediation at the University of Ottawa law school, where she received the first Excellence in Teaching Award. Her private practice is restricted to separation and divorce mediation, and she frequently delivers seminars on subjects related to family law.

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The Intelligent Design of Creation – PART 3

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he current Creation is over nine hundred trillion light years across and still within its infancy.

Throughout Creation the relative size of the circle and the cube locked in by the Starr of David within the Cubit, holds Intelligence and Substance together in absolute equality in absolute rule throughout every frequencies of every dimension. The fact bears true in yet another striking example from the third dimension.

The image below is of a partially melted snowflake, taken by Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov in 2012.

Of particular note is the ratio between the size of the circle and inner cube, which adheres exactly to the ratio in the Cubit. Even more striking are the spaces in the circle where the Cubit radial lines of Energy pass through, clearly visible. The Cubit blueprint in behind is perfectly represented according to rule. As above so below.

If you compare the melted snowflake with the Cubit, you will see that the ratio between the size of the inner circle and the size of the inner cube adheres exactly to that of the Cubit. Of even greater significance are the six spaces in the circle, clearly visible, where the Cubit radial lines of Energy pass through.

Below is yet another melted snowflake photo from Alexey Kljatov which exhibits the presence of the Cubit in behind even better. The Cubit holds the keys to Creation and has been hidden in plain view for thousands of years as the Star of David.

Please do not make the mistake of thinking that the Revelatorium is about finding geometric patterns in everyday events. It is anything but. It is about the entire Intelligent Design of Creation, of which the photographic examples as presented above serve only as simplistic proofs of the Revelatorium’s verity. The two drawings from the Design above are less than the tip of the iceberg. Also not forgetting that the Revelatorium images preceded the photographic ones by many years in some instances’.

The complete Intelligent Design of Creation, including its beginnings and purpose can be found at website www.revelatorium.com.

For details about every thing going on at the present inter-dimensionally, also see: http://www.revelatorium.com.

For scientific details about the Saturn hexagon, do an internet search for “Saturn Hexagon.”

For more of Alexey Kljatov’s snowflakes, see: http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum. cgi?read=296818; https://www.facebook.com/alexey. kljatov Thanks and bless, Delahnnovahh-Starr Livingstone Brantford Ontario January 17, 2014.

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Why do people have the kind of conversations we don’t recommend having?

By Marlene and Bob Neufeld

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n previous issues of TONE magazine, we wrote about conversations we recommend people not put energy into and conversations we recommend people do put energy into. Today we want to explore what is behind the kinds of conversations people have. So why do people continue to have the kind of conversations that don’t actually lead to closeness, intimacy and connection?

To avoid the unknown: People feel more secure when they think they know what is going to happen, when they think they know what others think around them. Even though what they think they know may be hurtful, it is often easier to stay with what they know than to open up to the possibility of finding something new. Often, in our office, we hear people saying “I know what you’re going to say” and that closes them off to hearing anything new and different.

To be right (and not wrong): People get caught in thinking that they need to prove how right they are.

After all, if they’re not right, they’re wrong. Right? NO! Being close to someone is not about being right or wrong, it’s about opening up to seeing them in a new way. People get the mistaken idea that if they don’t prove they are right, or defend themselves from an accusation that they think is wrong, then it will become locked into reality.

This is actually the opposite of what really happens. As in the Shakespearean quote about someone who “doth protest too much,” a person’s overly frequent or vehement attempts to convince others of something have, ironically, convinced others that the opposite is true, by making the person look insincere and defensive.

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To get a hit of adrenaline; To be entertained: Many of us are addicted to adrenaline. We mistake that spike of nervous energy for true connection. Our inner Provokers keep us on the drama triangle and we don’t know how to simply be in Presence with our partners.

For more about this see the article “Uncovering Who We Really Are” on our website.

To avoid authentic feelings: Many of us are emotionally illiterate and don’t know what to do with the waves of anger, fear and sadness that wash over us in our everyday lives. We use the words “I feel” to legitimate our thoughts and perceptions and are uncomfortable feeling the emotions underneath.

In our next article in this series, we will explore how playing a simple game of “Tossing” can be a metaphor for a good conversation that will open up more communication with your partner.

Marlene & Bob Neufeld practice bodycentered Coaching and Psychotherapy.

They are a couple who help couples learn life-changing skills and create closer, more loving relationships with one another.

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Reiki Reflections - Preteens and Reiki

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ccording to Merriam-Webster, a preteen is a girl or a boy who is 11 or 12 years old. According to the online free dictionary it is a child, especially between the ages of 9 and 12. For the purposes of this article, let’s just think of them as our little angels during those last few years before they turn into teenagers.

During this relatively short transition period, our children start experiencing the influence of peer pressure, societal pressure, cultural pressure, etc… with respect to their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual connections with life. Many dilemmas can surface at this time. For example: Do I comb my hair the way I want to, the way my friends do, or the way my parents want me to? Do I keep my feelings to myself, share them with one or more friends, speak to my teacher about them, to my parents or siblings? Do I work hard to succeed in school, do I just coast not to appear to brainy with my friends, how do I balance play, sports, artistic interests, academic interests, etc…?

What do I believe, what makes sense to me regarding my family, my community, the world at large, how it all fits with the spiritual or religious principles and rituals which have been part of my life to date?

Of course we all struggle with these existential questions throughout our lives, but preteens are swamped with the lot of them almost overnight before they have had much of an opportunity to develop coping strategies or techniques to deal with it all. The result for many preteens can be unhealthy levels of stress.

Enter Reiki! The basic objective of Reiki is to empower every person, no matter what their age, with a mechanism for providing care of self and care of others.

It achieves this with a gentle technique which helps us calm our physical energy, our emotional energy, our mental energy and our spiritual energy. The relaxation response which comes from this state of calm, targets stress directly and helps to reduce it in all our energy fields. As a result, life’s challenges can be approached from a more grounded and balanced perspective.

During the preteen years our children start wanting to do things for themselves, by themselves. They start wanting to do things like an adult. Reiki is a wonderful practice which we can use to support them in this phase of their journey of growth into mature, independent

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feeling and thinking human beings. Research and practice has shown that preteens take joyfully to the energy and process of Reiki, which they can experience the same way any adult would.

There are many web sites which deal with Reiki and kids. I found these two particularly interesting: http://advancedenergytherapeutics.com/reiki_for_children.htm http://www.reikikids.ca/teaching-reiki-to-children-part-1.html

Whether it is a Reiki treatment which they choose to receive or Reiki training which they decide to pursue, for their own benefit (self-treatment) or for the benefit of others (treating others), they can manage the whole process by themselves from A to Z. If they decide to undertake some training, they are then equipped with the ability to use Reiki at any time to alleviate any personal difficulty or help someone else (a friend, a sibling, a parent, …) by treating them. It is a life-long gift of caring and wellness that we can offer our preteens and it gives them a powerful coping mechanism to see them through their preteen phase and all those other fun phases that follow.

And remember, “Mother Nature is providential. She gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers.” -- William Galvin Reiki Blessings!

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Acupuncture for Anxiety

By Steve Ryu, R.TCMP, R.Ac.

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ith stress so common in our lives today, more and more people are suffering from anxiety.

Ongoing anxiety can interfere with day-to-day activities and relationships and when this happens, it may be diagnosed as Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Anxiety can develop from a combination of stress, personality, gender, and life events such as an illness or past troubles. Those suffering from generalized anxiety experience symptoms such as constant over-thinking and worrying, restlessness, irritability, muscle tension, and fatigue.

Chronic anxiety can also lead to other health problems, such as headaches, insomnia, digestive problems, or teeth grinding. Of course, all of us worry from time to time about finances, family, health, and future, but it becomes a problem for us when we are thinking and worrying constantly or when it prevents us from relaxing or unwinding from our daily stresses.

Western medical treatment for anxiety usually is with medications and/or counseling or therapy. Lifestyle changes, coping skills and relaxation techniques can also help.

Acupuncture fortunately has a great deal to offer anxiety sufferers. Stress responds very positively to acupuncture, and so do the many stress-related health problems we experience, including chronic anxiety.

Acupuncture has a regulating effect on the body- it works by normalizing the body’s internal systems and processes. One of those systems is our autonomic nervous system, which manages our body’s states of arousal (“fight-or-flight”) and relaxation (“rest-anddigest”).

Normally our body fluctuates somewhere between states of arousal/stress and states of calm/relaxation.

However, ongoing stressors can leave our body in a state of chronic stress or anxiety, leading to health problems.

Acupuncture helps to bring our body back to its calm, relaxed state of healthy functioning.

This is a western perspective of how acupuncture can help with anxiety. However, Chinese medicine (TCM) has its own language for talking about patterns of disease and offers a different perspective. A big difference between Chinese medicine and Western medicine is the way in which disease is viewed- Chinese medicine sees health and disease as a continuum. Anxiety is seen as an imbalance or excess of the emotion “worry”. Worry is a normal emotional state which enables concentration, memorization, and focus, however when worry gets out of balance it leads to constant thinking, brooding, worrying, and anxiety.

Anxiety can be caused by our lifestyle, if we have too many stressors or too often, or we can be prone to it due to a constitutional imbalance or weakness in the

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Excessive worry causes our qi-energy to get stuck and not flow properly. This, in turn, can injure the organs, causing additional symptoms, depending on the organ(s) affected.

By redirecting the body’s energy flow with acupuncture, we can help the body to correct internal imbalances and treat the cause of anxiety symptoms.

Acupuncture also works towards emotional balance, so that we are better able to deal with daily stresses without falling into excessive worry.

Acupuncture is also an excellent complement to therapy or counseling, helping to relieve the physical symptoms of anxiety and calm the emotions while a person works through the behavioural aspects of their anxiety. Making lifestyle changes to reduce stress and to better deal with it can also contribute positively to treatment.

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by Grace Joubarne, Clinical Hypnotherapist s the regulation of the hypnotherapy profession in Ontario is now within the purview of the brand spanking new College of Psychotherapy to ‘regulate’, it might be time to compare just how effective the various ‘therapies’ are to see that this action on the part of the government is short-sighted, patently unfair, violates our democratic right to offer treatments for life’s issues as we see fit and puts the assessment of the benefits of hypnotherapy in the hands of the completely biased and uninformed.

While we look at comparative statistics about the efficacy of conventional vs. nonconventional therapies at helping people deal with the ordinary issues of normal life, keep in mind that psychotherapy is not regulated, not accountable, not known to be efficient or effective and few, if any, psychotherapists have a working knowledge or skill with hypnosis, let alone hypnotherapy. Psychotherapy involves many weeks and months and often years of talk therapy and has been compared only to psychiatric drug treatment in determining efficacy. Anything that does not cause the brain-damaging results of psychiatric drugs and ECT (electroshock therapy) has to be an improvement, but again, the success rate of psychotherapy is strictly subjective and made by the ‘therapist’.

The psychotherapists who have established this new College have not been asked to prove that it is not in fact they who should be regulated by hypnotherapists.

They have not been asked to prove that their ‘therapy’ is actually effective or even as effective as clinical hypnotherapy. Psychotherapists are known to have no success with pain and weight management, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, smoking cessation, suicidal ideation, anxiety and angst and so many other areas of unwellness that hypnotherapy shines in. In fact, they are pretty much a one-trick pony, now ready to suppress their competitors – hypnotherapists - who have many ponies and many ‘tricks’ that leading institutions around the world have recognized and documented.

The very profession which has had many issues with questionable ethical behavior and failed therapeutic interventions are now deemed fit to judge hypnotherapists. Most psychotherapists do not even acknowledge the existence of the subconscious mind or of spirit, thus it is obvious that any methodology they do not ‘believe’ in will be oppressed.

Also keep in mind that there is no scientific support for any mental illness diagnosis, but despite this,

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psychotherapists have convinced the government that they alone can determine what is appropriate ‘therapy’ for depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, PTSD and so on.

There is no psychological or psychiatric theory that has ever proven to be correct or useful, except to enrich the therapists and drug companies.

Further, there is no agreed upon definition for any mental illness and thus, the diagnoses of any of these so-called ‘mental illnesses’ are entirely subjective. The College now has the right to prevent hypnotherapists from referring to the undefined terms ‘depression’, ‘anxiety’, ‘PTSD’ and so many other terms commonly referred to by the general public. They now have the right to decide how a hypnotherapist can ‘treat’ client issues. In other words, they are defining ‘mental illnesses’ and what constitutes appropriate ‘therapy’, despite their dismal failure rate rivaling that of psychiatric drug therapy and no working knowledge of spiritual/mental/ physical therapies such as hypnotherapy, reiki, handon energy work and so on.

Now for the statistics: American Health Magazine (1969) reported the following findings from a study by Alfred A. Barrios, PhD. An updated study “Hypnotherapy: A Reappraisal”

by Alfred A. Barrios, Ph.D. published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice (Spring, 1970) clearly points out – Hypnosis is more effective and works more quickly than traditional talk-therapy or psychoanalysis.

The author looked at 1,018 studies dealing with hypnosis in three years (1966 through 1968), approximately forty per cent of which dealt with its use in therapy, including 3 large scale studies. In the same period we find 899 articles on psychoanalytic therapy and 355 on behavior therapy. http:// www.stresscards.com/esspsychotherapy.htm • Psychoanalysis = 38% recovery after 600 sessions • Behaviour Therapy = 73% recovery after 22 sessions • Hypnosis = 93% recovery after 3-6 sessions.

In summary an ineffective therapeutic group has been put in charge of regulating a more efficient and costeffective group. Using this power to suppress in order to continue the inefficient and minimally effective ‘psychotherapy’ so they can continue reap obscene profits they have ruled that hypnotherapists cannot treat ‘mental illnesses. What better way to eliminate successful and effective competition that interferes with profit taking.

In fact, the College of Psychotherapists deem it unlawful for a hypnotherapist to operate, to treat depression and other issues they deem ‘mental illnesses’, even though competent hypnotherapy is shown repeatedly to be efficient, effective and dignified

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-- something they cannot claim. Obviously the government ignored the unmistakable conflict of interest inherent in having a less then adequate therapy group ‘regulate’ an entirely unique and unrelated but very successful therapy more and more people are turning to first.

Not only has hypnotherapy been shown since that study to be very effective for depression, anxiety and so many other psychological and emotional issues, but also in dentistry, pain management, obsessivecompulsive neurosis, hysterical reactions and sociopathic disorders, epilepsy, alcoholism, frigidity, stammering, various psychosomatic disorders including asthma, spontaneous abortions, dysmenorrhea, allergic rhinitis, ulcers, dermatitis, infertility and essential hypertension.

Ontarians should be outraged at how their access to ethical, dignified, cost-effective therapies for all sorts of mental and physical issues are suppressed by conventional lobby groups that seek to make normal issues of daily living their personal domain to treat with endless ‘talk’ therapy and who have only self-serving statistics to support their ‘treatments’.

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The Inner Game of Golf

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hen people hear the word hypnosis the first image that comes to their mind is probably an overly dressed man with a pocket watch dangling from a long chain and calling someone on the stage so they can sway the pocket watch in front of their eyes and talk in an eerie voice to hypnotize them and make them do unusual acts; barking like a dog or act like an ape in front of a crowd. This is how hypnosis is perceived.

This often popular but very comical representation of hypnotism has little to no resemblance of actual. So many people do not realize that hypnosis is useful and can help them in so many ways.

Modern hypnosis does not rob a person of their free will. People who subject themselves to a hypnotic trance are not slaves to the hypnotist. They are just in a very hypersensitive state.

Tiger Woods learned hypnosis at an early age from Dr Jay Brunza a clinical psychologist and good friend of Earl Woods (Tigers father) for a number of years Dr Brunza shared time with Tiger by not only counseling him but also as his caddy during many amateur events which he won. This included 3 U.S. Junior Amateur titles and the 1994/5/6 U.S. Amateur titles. It was thought

that Tiger had been hypnotized by Brunza, and some evidence suggests this* Hypnosis puts the subject in a position where his mental concentration is characterized by focused attention, heightened suggestibility and vivid fantasies but effects of hypnosis can vary from person to person.

Ernest Hilgard, an American psychologist who became famous for his studies and experiments in hypnosis demonstrated that hypnosis can be used to dramatically alter perceptions.

This has a lot of advantages in the medical field and also in everyday tasks and recreation as well.

If you are a golfer and you are not doing so well with your game chances are you will be spending countless of hours practicing but still not improving dramatically.

This may be because it is hard for you to subconsciously make any improvement since you already told yourself you are not good with gold.

There is an Ottawa hypnotist who can help you with this problem and his name is Dr Luke.

Dr Luke can help you improve your golf game and make you be a better golfer by making you more open to using your talents and skills in ways that were not then available to you.

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“I Can Make You Stop Smoking in One Hour” If you’re having trouble kicking the Evil Habit Dr. Luke Michael Howard can transform even the most ardent smoker into a healthy non-smoker IN JUST ONE HOUR.

been featured in all forms of media such as Tone Magazine, CTV Morning Live, and CBC Radio.

Dr. Luke, owner of the LUKEnosis Complete Mind Therapy organization, is a Smoking Cessation Specialist, has a Masters degree in Hypnotherapy as well as a Doctorate in Psychology.

He has developed an advanced hypnotherapy technique that turns weak willed smokers into empowered Non-Smokers in just one hour. He says “This technique is so powerful we are achieving a 95% success rate.

This is incredible when you think that patches are only about 16% successful. We are so confident in the success of this treatment that we offer a free backup session for the remaining 5%.

In fact, if after the session any one should need an extra session, it’s theirs, FREE OF CHARGE.”

Dr. Luke has been studying Hypnosis for over 16 years now and has trained all over the world. After over a decade, Dr. Luke is still the youngest person certified by the American Board of Hypnotherapy. Dr. Luke has

Dr. Luke explains, “This powerful breakthrough technique combines the latest discoveries in hypnosis and the new science of personal achievement known as Neuro Linguistic Programming. This takes the power of hypnosis to a new level in

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helping people take back control of their lives.”

Many local doctors are so impressed by the power of hypnosis that they are now referring many of their patients to Dr. Luke for his Accelerated Change Stop Smoking Programme. Dr. Luke says, “I am currently building a Doctors Referral Network to keep local GP’s informed of my developments and to keep them informed of their patients’ progress.

Many celebrities, professional business people, nurses and housewives have benefited from stopping smoking with hypnosis, SO CAN YOU! The good news is that this incredible method of stopping smoking is available locally. The bad news there usually is a two or three week waiting list for an appointment – but even the medical profession believes it’s worth waiting for.

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“I walked out a nonsmoker!”

Caroline had been a smoker for the majority of her lifenearly 30 YEARS! She had tried every type of stop-smoking aid possible, tried using ‘will power’ to quit cold turkey but to no avail-that is until she met Dr. Luke. She recently sent him this follow up email: “I promise I will totally do a video testimonial for you in the future though, as the hypnosis TOTALLY worked...not only have I not smoked...I have not even WANTED to!!! It really is amazing” Check out more testimonial videos on: www.lukenosis.com and you can contact Dr. Luke at LUKEnosis to arrange an appointment at 613-878-5874.

Come join local farmers, gardeners, businesses, charities, and people just like you on March 22nd for Ottawa’s very first Festival of Local Food! We will have exhibits, info booths, workshops, discussions, a film screening, questions and answers with local producers, and a community potluck dinner. There will be something for people of every age, gender, education, culture, and ability.

The Festival of Local Food will be held at 400 McArthur, right in the heart of the city in between the colourful Vanier and Overbrook communities. Come for the some or all of the great activities starting at 3:00 p.m. Admission will be by donation - no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

For more information and to stay updated on the event, visit http://www.roots2fruits. ca/festival-of-local-food.html. To inquire about registering for a table at no charge, email festivaloflocalfoodottawa@gmail. com.

The Festival of Local Food has been coorganized by Indigo Holley from Indigo’s Nuts, and Alister Augé and Brittany Boychuk from Roots2Fruits.ca. This event is being hosted and supported by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ottawa (www.uufo.org).

improving skills and golf being a very challenging sport, a golfer will need all the help they can get.

If you are living near the area, an Ottawa hypnotist will be better in handling your case because you can then have multiple sessions of hypnosis at your own convenience. Living in Ottawa golf can be a popular sport and you’d want to be on top of this game if you are one of the players. An Ottawa hypnosis session is just an appointment away. So don’t hesitate to give this a try and see your game improve.

Dr Luke www.Lukenosis.com 613-878-5874 drluke@lukenosis.com *Reference “Think like Tiger” by John Andrisani.

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Calendar ... Conferences ... Workshops Quantum-Touch therapy

Level I Certificate Training weekend Saturday and Sunday, March 1st and 2nd, 2014 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Health Advantage 1107 Pembroke St. E., Pembroke, K8A 7R4 Information from Aileen McKenna Aileen’s Oasis www.aileensoasis.com www.quantumtouch.com 613-228-2272, by cell at 613-795-3751 In a few short hours you will learn how to run energy using meditation and special breathing techniques that will allow you to heal yourself, your friends, family, plants and animals.

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Grounding and the Art of Creating Sacred Space Pt 2

Saturday, March 22nd From 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Increased awareness on how your life may have been influenced and controlled by past thoughts.

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Compassionate Communication NVC Practice Group 9 weeks – beginning March 12th, on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month and ending July 12th Based upon the work of Thom Bond of NYCNVC A wonderful way to learn, share and to study the work of Marshall Rosenberg in a group environment To learn more, and to register call Aileen McKenna at Aileen’s Oasis 613-228-2272 613-795-3751 aileen.mckenna66@gmail.com aileen@aileensoasis.com www.aileensoasis.com www.cnvc.org

THE BIG CHOICE: DISTRACTION OR ATTENTION A silent retreat with Dom Laurence Freeman, OSB, director of the World Community of Christian Meditation.

May 30, Friday evening to June 1, Sunday lunch. Venue: Saint Paul University, 223 Main Street, Ottawa.

Cost $340 including accomodation and meals. See the Events webpage on website www.wccm-canada.ca or email silentretreat2014@bell.net

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Life Lessons from Great Yogis Saturday March 1 4-6pm Join us for a series of meditations through story telling $20+hst Discover Your Psoas Saturday March 1st 1-3pm In this 2 hour workshop you will learn the benefits of keeping the psoas lengthened and healthy. You will broaden your knowledge of your body and deepen your yoga practice. $20+hst Hot Yoga Posture Clinic Saturday March 1st 11:30am-3:30pm Explore the postures in Classic Hot Series and compare the similarities and the differences with Bikram Hot Method. $55+hst $45+hst for students 62 Minute Mantra Recitation Sunday March 2nd 11am-12:30pm The combination of tongue movement and language creates a chemical change in the “juice” of your brain, altering your state of mind, your personality, your projection. $11+hst Manifesting the Life of Your Dreams Saturdays March 8th to May 10th 1-3pm This is a training course for taking the leap of your life! Discover your passion, engage your strengths and ignite a fire in your soul. $399+tax Yoga for Diversity with Dianne Bondy March 14, 2014 to March 15, 2014 Learn to teach a true all levels class that inspires challenges and motivates each participant regardless of their level of experience. $100+hst for full weekend

Introduction to Insight Meditation: A Welcome to Beginners and Returners Joseph Goldstein on The Buddha’s Path to Practice March 14 & 15, 2014 Joseph Goldstein celebrates True North Insight’s 10th anniversary by offering an evening talk and a daylong retreat on The Buddha’s Path to Practice in Montreal. Join us for either or both the evening talk on Friday, March 14 from 7-9 pm and the meditation workshop on Saturday, March 15 from 10 am-4 pm. Please bring your own lunch on Saturday or you can get one in the area. http://www.truenorthinsight.org

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rama lotus yoga centre 340 Gladstone Ave 613.234.7974 ottawayoga.com

Awakening through stillness, movement and chanting Sunday March 16th 11:30am-5pm Through expressive movement, soulful sounds, playfulness, celebration and song, you will awaken a deeper sense of well being. $30+hst or $20+hst with a potluck dish Numerology with Kulmeet Sunday March 23rd 11am-1:30pm Get to know your ten bodies and learn how to integrate and balance them. Come explore the science of numbers to learn more about your Karma, Soul, Destiny, Gift and Path numbers $40+hst Relax into Bliss Friday, March 28th from 7-9pm When we allow ourselves to relax and simply be we invite healing and restoration $20+hst Breathe Class Friday March 28th 7:30-9pm Join Kat in this special and relaxing yoga practice where breath and meditation are the focus. $20+hst Sat Nam Rasayan® Community Clinic Sunday March 30 11am-12:30pm Sat Nam Rasayan® practitioners volunteer their time to offer you a relaxing and healing experience.

Suggested cash donation $20.00 Always Free for HIV+ and their Caregivers INDULGE YOUR INTUITION: Learn how to read and receive your messages of guidance What you’ll get from this workshop: How to read and interpret oracle cards, Clear your Chakras, Meet your Spirit Guide, Fun activities to practice using Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairsentience & more Saturday, March 15th, 10-3 • Brockville, ON Stephanie@newleafwellness.ca or (613) 498-2952 Cost: $139—lunch, snacks and tea included Pay easily via Email Money Transfer or Paypal at (www. newleafwellness.ca) Brought to you by New Leaf Wellness & Mindfulness Coach - Wellness With Moira Belly Dance Classes with Duniya Studio (www.DuniyaStudio.ca) Lunchtime cardio-belly on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Egyptian and Lebanese Bellydance on Thursday evenings, Dance FUNdamentals on Sunday afternoons.

February-April session starting soon; drop-ins always welcome!

Contact us at duniya@orientaldance.ca to reserve a spot or for more information.

Calendar ... Conferences ... Workshops

Love Peace Harmony Ottawa Calendar Listings March 2014 Soul Healing Miracles Evening with Master Lynda Friday, March 21, 7 pm – 9:30 pm, FREE Soul healing is quantum healing harnessing the power of soul to unblock life’s challenges.

Experience powerful soul healing blessings. Saint Paul University, Normandin Room, 2nd floor, 223 Main Street, Ottawa, K1S 1C4. Information: Master Lynda at 647.654.7711, Lynda.Chaplin@DrSha.com Transform Your Life through Forgiveness with Master Lynda Saturday, March 22, 11 am – 5 pm, $45 Understand what karma is and how it rules your life. Through the power of forgiveness learn how to self-clear bad karma to heal and transform your health, relationships, finances, and more. Saint Paul University, Normandin Room, 2nd floor, 223 Main Street, Ottawa, K1S 1C4. Info: Master Lynda at 647.654.7711, Lynda.Chaplin@DrSha.com Open Your Spiritual Channels with Master Lynda Sunday, March 23, 11 am – 5 pm, $45 Open your spiritual channels and connect with your soul in a very powerful way. Learn how to communicate with your spiritual guides to receive their guidance and blessings for physical life and spiritual journey. Saint Paul University, Normandin Room, 2nd floor, 223 Main Street, Ottawa, K1S 1C4. Info: Master Lynda at 647.654.7711, Lynda.Chaplin@DrSha.com Divine Healing Hands Training Program with Master Sha and Master Lynda Friday–Sunday, April 11-13, 10 am – 8 pm, $625 This unique and extraordinary program empowers you to offer Divine Healing Hands blessings to self-heal and help others to transform physical and emotional conditions, relationships, pets, and more. Info: Master Lynda at 647.654.7711, Lynda.Chaplin@DrSha.com Soul Healing Miracles Film Screening and Divine Healing Hands™ Blessings Friday, April 4, 7 pm – 9:30 pm • FREE This documentary introduces Dr. and Master Sha, humanitarian, soul leader, and master healer, as he travels the world teaching, healing, and offering ancient and new sacred wisdom, knowledge, and practical techniques to empower humanity to create their own soul healing miracles. Receive Divine Healing Hands Blessings. Info: Sara at sara.pinkrose@gmail.com Soul Power Group with Certified Divine Healing Hands™ Soul Healers Wednesday, March 12 & 26; April 9 & 23, 7 pm – 8:30 pm • FREE Join certified Soul Healers to learn simple, daily practices to transform health, relationships, finances, and more. Info: Sara at sara.pinkrose@gmail.com

Visit www.pranashanti.com or call 613-761-9642 (YOGA) for more information How to Meditate with Devinder Kaur – March 2, 11am Meditation is one of the most natural and rewarding of all human activities. It brings balance, rest, and a growing inner peace.

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Course with Kim Sogge, Ph. D Thursdays, March 6 - April 24, 7:30 pm Benefit from Dr. Sogge’s capacity to create a safe environment in which to explore the fundamentals of mindfulness meditation with kindness and lightness, as an approach to healing and stress reduction.

PranaShanti Kirtan with Gregory Kaps March 7, 7:30 pm Call and response group chanting. By donation event, proceeds go to a different cause each month.

Therapeutic Yoga 101 with Kathleen Burr March 8, 1:30 pm During this class we will do a short introductory Therapeutic Yoga set which will cover basic Therapeutic Yoga postures. Dress in comfortable clothing. There will be lots of time for Q & A. Yoga Seekers Book Club with Tanya Riley March 9, 1:30 pm Each meeting will have a short asana practice to ground into the body, then an hour with our tea, our book, our circle, and end with a short guided meditation.

Introduction to Homeopathy with Dr. Julek Meissner - March 9, 4:00 pm Learn about the Vital Force and/or Prana-enhancing benefits of homeopathic medicine.

Saturday, March 22nd, 2014 Festival of Local Food 400 McArthur Avenue 3:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Activities include Open Space Information Circles, Exhibitors, Potluck Dinner, Movie, and more! Come for all or some of the activities. Family friendly For more info FestivalOfLocalFoodOttawa@gmail.com On April 5 at Library and Archives Canada, Gluten Free Utopia will bring together local businesses and specialists who know about living gluten-free. A Utopia is a place we all dream of where everything is perfect. For those who avoid gluten due to Celiac Disease, an intolerance, or sensitivity, Gluten Free Utopia strives to create a world without limitations.

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Full Moon Meditation with Devinder Kaur March 16, 2:30 pm We will learn the astrology for the Full Moon and do a short yoga set and meditation that taps into the qualities of the full moon energy. Class concludes with a deep relaxation with the healing sounds of the Gong!

108 Sun Salutations with April Hope – March 22, 2pm Join us on the Spring Equinox - for this, the “5k of Yoga”! What can be more powerful than that?! Enjoy tea and snacks after class.

Yin Yoga 101 with Gitanjali Adlakha-Hutcheon – March 23, 3:00 pm During this class we will do a short introductory Yin Yoga set which will cover basic Yin Yoga postures.

Dress in comfortable clothing. There will be lots of time for questions and discussion.

Vinyasa, Zumba & Yin! With Maria Figueroa – March 28, 7:30 Three incredible forms of movement blended into one great dynamic class.

Master Class Weekend: Fundamentals of Yin & Yang with Joe Barnett – March 28 - 30 For 200 hour certified Yoga Teachers the credits for this Master Class can be applied towards a 500 hour certification and are eligible for CEUs with Yoga Alliance.

Acro Yoga with Joe Barnett – March 29, 7:00 pm Acro Yoga combines acrobatic concepts with a yogic consciousness. The application of bandhas (internal locks), dristi (gaze), ujjayi breath (sounded breath), and vinyasa flow (synchronization of movement with breath) to a partner acrobatic practice gave birth to Acro Yoga.

Mindful Awakening Urban Day Retreat with Kim Sogge, Ph. D. – March 30, 1:00 pm A day of nourishing practice including silent mindful and candlelit meditations along with “Compassionate Awakening of the Heart” and “Deep Action of the Heart”.

Mouvement presents: Impermanence 5Rhythms® Movement Workshop with Evangelos Diavolitsis April 11 to 13, 2014 Friday 7 pm - 9:30 pm Saturday & Sunday 11 am - 6 pm Dunrobin Sonic Gym $225 Earlybird fee by March 1 $250 thereafter $35 Friday night Contact: Tatiana at info@studiomouvement.com or 613.219.9642 Register: studiomouvement.com “When we dance the 5Rhythms®, we naturally unfold and unravel towards our authentic self.”

Everything is changing. Sometimes faster that we wish. We never know what may come next. We try to hold on but nothing really lasts unchanged and we are never certain how things will unfold…

Using music and the 5Rhythms® Movement Wheel of Flowing Staccato Chaos Lyrical and Stillness we explore how life is a wave of changing vibrations all around.

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DIRECTORY • Groups ISUL GROUP INTERNATIONAL. RON CHAPMAN. Meditation classes and seminars. 232-1160.

PATHWORK® Practical spiritual wisdom that lays out a step-by-step journey into personal transformation and wholeness. A challenging yet compassionate voyage of discovery to the Real Self through the layers of our defenses, denial and fear, guided by our own inner authority. Ottawa info: www.ottawapathwork.ca SUFI ORDER OF OTTAWA http://sufiorderofottawa.webs.com/

• People RON CHAPMAN. Classes and seminars, meditation all levels, private consultations 232-1160.

NADINE LA BELLE, M.A. Body, mind, spirit Integrative Healing®. 613-258-7492.

T. M. (THOME-us MARTee) TEGTMEYER, coaching and teaching transformation: balance@thomasMtegtmeyer.com; Phone: 613.769.5575.

CELESTE SUSAN VERMETTE, Naturotherapist, Reiki Master, Life Coach, Tantra Instructor Bodywork ~ chair massage, reflexology, reiki, lymphatic drainage, swedish, Upledger cranio-sacral therapy.

Treatments and Consultations 613-5659303. touch_therapies@rogers.com

• Places MOVEMENT OF SPIRITUAL INNER AWARENESS (MSIA) (an ecumenical church), Ottawa-Morin Community. Weekly, Thursday, 7:30 pm services, followed by fellowship, at 103 Westpark Drive, in Ottawa: call to reserve.

Marriages and spiritual counselling by appointment. Peace Theological Seminary Courses: as scheduled locally, by correspondence and by internet. For information or to reserve: msia@rogers.com or 613-841-1458

• A Course in Miracles COURSE OASIS. Courses, support and study groups, spiritual gatherings, individual mentoring, books. Mary Anne Buchowski and James Gregory, 613-726-0195. Email: courseoasis@ primus.ca; Website: www.courseoasis.org

• Acupuncture CHINESE TRADITIONAL ACUPUNCTURE & NATURAL MEDICINE CENTRE. TCM. DAC. Jia Jun Huang & Annie Huang.

Graduate of Shanghai Medical University (1960). Over 45 years experience. Member of Chinese Acupuncture Association of China & Canada. Acute & chronic pain, Accident.

Sports injuries, Arthritis, Fibromyalgia, Depression, Insomnia, Stop smoking, Menopause, etc. Disposable needles are

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used. Insurance coverage. Free parking.

One of the largest herb stores in Otawa.

613-235-5504. 867 Somerset St. W. Ottawa.

HARMONY ACUPUNCTURE, Rural Kanata location, Alice Kwasniok, Dr. Ac. and TCM, MSc, member of CMAAC, graduate of ACOS, Nelson, BC. Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine for prevention and treatment of a variety of acute and chronic conditions.

Weight loss and detoxification, anti-aging facial rejuvenation. 613-832-0658. www. harmonyrevival.com PAIN RELIEF; correction of chronic conditions; addiction relief; weight loss; pro-active tune-up for health maintenance. Meridians Clinic (613) 728-2579 www.naetottawa.com SUNRISE COMMUNITY ACUPUNCTURE clinic offers affordable treatments on a sliding scale from $15 to 35 ( +HST). You pay what you can, no questions asked. There is an additional $10 for the first treatment only. 20 years of experience. www.ottawaacupuncturestudio.com. 613-853-9099.

BLAISE T. RYAN, R.TCMP, R.Acu. Specializing in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, Qigong and Child Psychology.

Experienced & Registered. Adults & Children. Insurance receipts available.

Located in Westboro at The Village Clinic.

Book online at www.drblaiseryan.com or call 613-702-5377

• Adiewa ACCESSING DEEP INTENTION AND ENERGIZING WISE ACTION Intuitive, embodied inquiry process for deep personal and spiritual growth. Experience your innate knowing, energetic intelligence, Source guidance. Private sessions, healing circles, workshops with Jane Lindsay.

613.761.9249 adiewacentre.ca

• Akashic Records PATRICIA V. LACROIX, Psychic Medium, Empath, Intuitive Energy Therapist, Reiki Master, Certified Hypnotherapist. Akasha is the fundamental energy at the very core of creation. All that is created emanates from and returns to the energy of the Akasha. Held within the Akasha are the individual records of each soul from the time it leaves its point of origin until its return. Every thought, word, deed and intent generated by each soul’s experience is recorded within the Akasha in one’s personal Akashic Records as well as in a collective recording of the experience.

Accessing information from the Akashic Records gives us Divine insight as we create and manifest our desires. patriciavlacroix@sympatico.ca

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• Alexander Technique ELENA CALVO. Certified teacher(England) Personalized mind and body work.

English, Spanish, and French spoken.

Health Insurance covered. (819) 771-0110.

THE OTTAWA-HULL SCHOOL FOR THE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE, Richard Albert, Director. Health insurance covered. I now offer Alexander lessons in my office or at your home 819-456-3484 alextech@magma.ca; or visit www.magma.ca/~alextech BRIGITTE CARON fully bilingual, certified teacher (also speaks Spanish). 317 Chapel (@ Laurier). 789-7972.

• Allergy treatment ALLERGY & CHRONIC CONDITIONS. 10th year serving Ottawa-Outaouais. Judy Spence’s Medical background assures your program is tailored to your individual health needs.

NAET is excellent for treatment of allergy & infection as well as Autism, CFS, FM, MCS, ADD & other chronic and conditions including pain. Doctorate of Natural Medicine (DNM), Acupuncturist., Advanced Level 2 NAET, Advanced 2 BioSet, Laser Acupuncture Detox & Lymphatic Drainage. Western medicine meets Eastern medicine to correct persistent and acute health issues. State-of-the-art computerized testing. The NAET Clinic of Ottawa is a full service, full time practice and also offers Hypnosis, Homeotoxicology, Auricular Medicine, Ion Detox Foot Baths, Sauna Detox, Weight Loss and Stop Smoking Programs.

613-728-2579. Quebec location: 819-6611061. www.naetottawa.com. On parle francais.

• Angel Therapy ANGEL THERAPY PRACTITIONER® Diane Lanthier incorporates various modalities, including family constellation work, into a unique and compelling Emotional Freedom Techniques session. EFT is gentle yet powerful energy work that allows you to release any negative memories and feelings that are blocking you from moving forward in life. 613 297 8293, diane@reiki-light.com, reiki-light.com VONNE SOLIS. www.vonnesolis.com.

613-258-3550 DISCOVER YOUR WISDOM WITH SOUL COLLAGE®. Fun, creative workshops and one on one sessions. www.soulcollage.com, Elise Laviolette 613-864-6377, elise.respace@gmail.com HEALING ANGELS OF THE ENERGY FIELD, Integrated Energy Therapy-Master Instructor and Journey Practitioner. Learn how to connect with your angels and be the best you can be. Contact Susan at 613-220-6551 or email me at angeltherapy_12@hotmail.com

DIRECTORY • Aqualead AQUALEAD ENERGY - Healing water, environmental healing. Level I, II and Master classes. Free of charge, donations accepted.

Sabine Blais, Aqualead & Reiki Master. email aqualead1@gmail.com for schedules, www.aqualeadinstitute.org (819) 230-6638.

• Aromatherapy PLANET BOTANIX fills all your pure essential oil needs! We carry over 100 oils and other supplies. Purchase products from our line of all natural bodycare. 301 Bank (Somerset) 567-4444, www.planetbotanix.com PROMOTE WELLNESS with AROMATHERAPY! One hour sessions - $50.

Available Thurs., Fri. and Sat. at Classy Nails & Spa Inc. (613-834-9922) 260 Centrum Boulevard, Ottawa

• Art / Art Therapy

interpretation, Colour therapy, Clear blockages, Healing. Rina Soucy 613-841-8651

• Ayurveda NOEL SMITH-SPARROW: Ayurvedic lifestyle Consultant, phone: (613) 294-7798 noelsmith-sparrow@hotmail.com

LAURIE FRASER, certified B.O.S. practitioner.

Excellent results: emotional issues (depression, anxiety, grief), pain, disease, allergies, mould, menopause, infection, insomnia, etc. Spiritual development, chakra work. 613-721-3781

• Beauty and Health NATURAL BODYCARE by a certified aromatherapist. Natural makeup, cleaning products: Planet Botanix, 301 Bank (Somerset) 567-4444

• Birth Doula

SCULPTURE FROM THE HEART: a powerful creative process working with the whole person, energizing and grounding. Free introductory session. Hilde Paz - BA Visual Arts, qualified Steiner sculpture therapist, Tobias School of Art, UK (1988). individuals and small groups. Info: 613 829-3408 JOURNEY THROUGH THE RAINBOW: Participants gain a greater understanding of themselves by exploring the seven colours of the rainbow through art, visualization, sound and food. A “sense”-ational experience! Tammy Smith 613-799-1022 Tammy_reiki@hotmail.com

KRISTIN PETERSON: Registered Massage Therapist, Certified BodyTalk Practitioner & Certified Acupuncturist kristin_peterson6@hotmail.com or http://kristinpeterson.weebly.com

NEWLY-ACCESSIBLE LIVING TECHNOLOGY INTELLIGENCE for clearing stubborn, limiting energies from your 12-D Divine blueprint. www.MelindaUrban.com

• Astrology JACQUES GIASSON: Professional Astrologer with a background in psychological counseling and 28 years of experience. Become aware of your path and take advantage of your challenges and opportunities, natal, actual and future.

Call: 819-770-9259.

JUDY JIBB, Astrologer CertFAstrolS 613 304 4255, personalreadings@gmail.com 11th House Astrology Group, open to all levels, to exchange & learn, 2nd Monday of month (Sept.June), 61 Main St. Ottawa. Info:. 613-821-4839.

INSIGHTFUL, INSPIRING, and in-depth Astrology Readings. Over 15 years experience. Eve Mari Crete 819-457-1694 www.astrologereve.ca

• Aura Photography AURA PHOTO & Chakra Balancing Aura pic &

BOWEN TRAINING ACADEMY, Janet Riley, RN. Licensed Bowenwork® Instructor www.bowentrainingacademy.com. Courses in Ottawa and across Canada. 613 848-2083 janet@bowentrainingacademy.com

• Buddhism

• B. O. S.

BIRTH DOULA offering 3 educational prenatal sessions, continuous birth support & 1 postnatal home-visit. Offering a wide range of holistic resources, including Hypnotherapy, Massage & Aromatherapy for pregnancy, birth & beyond.

Visit: www.empowerbirth.ca 613.282.6001 empowerbirth@gmail.com

• Ascension Healing

613-331-3625, andree@abholistichealth.com www.abholistichealth.com

• BodyTalk

LORI HOLLOHAN MA, Advanced BodyTalk Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, Cranial Sacral and Reiki. Contact: (613) 866-7091; lori@ energythrive.com and www.energythrive.com

• Bowen Therapy BOWENTHERAPY OTTAWA Bette Madigan. www.BowenTherapyOttawa.ca Certified Bowen Therapy Practitioner (advanced) 376 Churchill Ave. Suite 203 (Westboro Clinic) insurance receipts available. Call 613-722-4249 or e-mail bettemadigan@hotmail.com MARIANNA MEDVID, Registered Bowen Therapist, Homeoplus Outaouais Clinic, Hull. Pain relief and body balancing. 819-777-1818 (w) or 613-291-6651(c) info@bowentherapyhealing.ca; bowentherapyhealing.ca.

THE BOWEN APPROACH - Gently restoring your health. PAIN, digestive & respiratory issues and more. Certified Bowen Practitioner (Advanced) 613-799-3315. www.TheBowenApproach.ca BOWEN TRAINING ACADEMY, Janet Riley, RN, Licensed Bowenwork® Instructor. www.bowentrainingacademy.com. Courses in Ottawa and across Canada. 613 848-2083 janet@bowentrainingacademy.com BOWENWORKS OF KINGSTON, Andrée Boisvert, Certified Bowenwork® Practitioner, 920 Princess St., Suite 105, Kingston,

March 2014

PINE GATE SANGHA - www.ianprattis.com/ pinegate.htm - Engaged Buddhism in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. 1252 Rideout Cr; 613 726 0881. Thursday meditation and study class 7:00pm; First Saturdays of each month - dharma talk and pot luck supper 5.00pm. Nucleus of Friends for Peace www.friendsforpeace.ca Resident teacher: Dharmacharya Ian Prattis True Body of Wisdom INTRODUCTION TO AUTHENTIC ZEN TRAINING through instruction in zazen (sitting Zen) and kinhin (walking Zen). First Saturday of each month, 2-4 PM. Pre-registration required: info@wwzc.org or 613-562-1568. Zen Centre of Ottawa www.wwzc.org

• Ceremonies CARRIE RATHWELL, CEREMONIALIST. Personalized ceremonies created for and with you: weddings, funerals, baby and family ceremonies, rites of passage, pet funerals, shamanic journeys for ceremonies, and more. 613-2371473. www.carrierathwell.com

• Chakra/Aura Balancing www.wellbeingisyours.com Rica 613-257-8362 THE BOUTIQUE offers a 30 minutes Chakra/ Aura Assessment and modification session.

Also the Boutique offers many more services, please refer to www.arc-ange-ciel.com or call the Boutique at 613 424 9094.

• Channelling DONNA KINNIBURGH, Internationally Renown, Deep Trance Medium (Edgar Cayce Style) Is now accepting Limited Appointments – 613 649-8245 donna@rainbow-lady.com www.rainbow-lady.com

• Child Care Conscious, healthy, heart-centered care and support for your child(ren) and family. Julia Horvath: faeriesfly@yahoo.ca 613-724-8228

• Chiropractic ACTIVATOR CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC. Restore proper spinal balance safely and comfortably with the precise low-force activator analysis and instrument. Dr. Stephani S.Dunk 613-226-9800.

Baseline @ Prince of Wales

• Church CHURCH OF PERFECT LIBERTY, Ottawa,ON. www.perfectliberty.ca (613-225-1850)

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• Cleaning GREEN CLEANING since 1988. Completely insured and bonded. We clean both homes and offices. Personalized friendly service with all healthy products. www.beauclean.ca 613-731-1532 or email beauclean@gmail.com

• Clinics PLANET BOTANIX, 301 Bank (Somerset) 5674444: visit our website for a list of practitioners www.planetbotanix.com KILLENS REID PHYSIOTHERAPY CLINIC now offering TCM with acupuncture practitioner. Other services, Osteopathy, Vodder Lymphatic Drainage, Vestibular Rehab, Urinary Incontinence Rehab, Massage Therapy, Orthopaedic and Sports Physiotherapy. www.killensreid.com (613) 594-8512.

• Clubs OWLS Club: socially-responsible club for ladies 40+, for friendship, support and co-creation. For info or to join: www.owls-club.com

• Clutter FROM CHAOS TO ORDER - bring on the Flow. Edie Lane Feng Shui Consultant, DeClutter Specialist. 613-565-1919 abundantlivingbydesign.com

• Coaching ACADEMY OF PERSONAL AND RELATIONSHIP COACHING www. ottawacounselling.com Coaching concentrates on healing and empowerment and deemphasizes being clinical and helping. Richard Haney is a wholistic coach who brings a wide range of skills, techniques and modalities to each coaching interaction. He provides warm, heart-connected and empathetic coaching. Please contact Richard Haney to enhance your life and make the most of each moment. Listening well is the most eloquent sign of caring. Richard Merrill Haney, Ph.D. (Counselling Therapy), 234-5678 or 726-3636.

T. M. (THOME-us MARTee) TEGTMEYER, Functional, Integrative and Vibrational transformation. By appointment only. Phone: 613.769.5575 ANNA MARANTA: Coaching, Counselling, and Spiritual Direction from an Integral Perspective. Call: 613.867.5505 or email: maranta.anna@gmail.com MARLENE NEUFELD, MSW, RSW, AND BOB NEUFELD, M.ED., help couples create closer loving relationships. We specialize in two-on-two couples coaching/psychotherapy. Experience our life changing approach which will help you learn skills and techniques that facilitate lasting personal change in a faster and easier way than traditional talk-therapy. We each have over 37 years experience in helping couples/people

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create more satisfying relationships/lives. For more information or to arrange a one-hour no-charge-to you initial consultation see www. marleneandbob.com or phone 613-594-9248.

ANNA EARLE GREEN, MA CCC - providing Personal & Spiritual Growth Coaching, Mindfulness & Body-Mind Healing Therapies. 613-295-9987 www.spiritwell.ca www.annagreen.ca LIFE SKILL WORKSHOPS INCLUDESAnger, Communication, Denial, Roles, ACOA, Co-dependency, Relationships and Spirituality. Every second Saturday from November 9 at The House of Hope and Healing. www.lifelinesofrecovery.ca Lynda @ 613-858-7181 BREATH COACH. LIFE, LOVE, HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIP COACHING. Life begins and ends with a breath – as does everything in between. Celeste S. Vermette, Certified with the Hendricks Institute.

613-565-9303 tantracanada@gmail.com

• Colonic Therapy DETOX AND STRENGTHEN THE COLON. Gentle, safe, effective. Experienced Colonic Therapist and Holistic Nutritionist, SatDaya WIlliams at 815 Merivale Rd, Ottawa, 613-761-5982, www.holisticottawa.com, satdaya@sympatico.ca

• Counselling CAROLINE ELSON a Wholistic Lifestyle Counsellor. B.Sc M.Ed,CCC 613 282 7905, caroline.elson@gmail.com Starting where you are, moving to create the life you want. Explore the physical, mental and emotional through traditional and alternative forms of counselling.

Individual and Couple.

ROSEMARY MURRAY-LACHAPELLE, M.L.S., M.A., Dipl. Analyt. Psych. Jungian Analyst and psychotherapist. Individual therapy to address your unique concerns. (819) 568-0282 ACADEMY OF COUNSELLING. Richard Merrill Haney, Ph.D. (Counselling Therapy) Specializing in individual and couple counselling and in comprehensive family mediation.

Also specializing in bereavement, career and stress counselling. Richard is an empowerment counsellor who is heavily influenced by Roberto Assagioli (Psychosythesis), C.G. Jung, Fritz Perls (Gestalt Therapy), Alfred Adler, Milton Erickson, Ken Wilber and Stanislov Grof (Holotropic Breathwork). 234-5678 or 726-3636.

Web: www.ottawacounselling.com NURTURING A LOVING RELATIONSHIP with your embodied wisdom thru Focusing, NVC & Yoga. Phone/Skype, in person. Shulamit Day Berlevtov 613-868-9642 www.shula.ca KATHY GLOVER SCOTT M.S.W., professional, experienced Reiki Master/Teacher (Ascended Levels). www.ReikiOttawa.com. Reiki to the 21st degree, 5th Dimensional Consciousness Program, Reiki and Crystals and Root Cause

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Release Work. Classes and individual appointments (some covered by extended benefits).

613-271-8636 MARY O’KEEFFE, MA., MSc., Clinical member, Ontario Society of Psychotherapists.

Mindfulness & Compassion-Based therapy, for emotional balance, anxiety, stress, burnout, grief, relationship and childhood issues. Experienced therapist, Integrative & Holistic...613-608-7809 www.mindfultherapyottawa.com REV. SHERRY HARRIS, MSW, RSW is a heart-focused psychotherapist, certified spiritual coach, counsellor, teacher, minister and energy therapist. She works 7 days a week and offers receipts reimbursable by most insurance providers. She may reached by phone at 613236-8852 or by email at 2belight1@gmail.com.

Her website is www,sherryharriscounselling. com. If you cannot come to her, appointments may be done by phone or Sykpe or in your home (travel costs added to the session fee) Hourly fee: $120.

LUC DUMOUCHEL, MA, CCC. INDIVIDUALS/ COUPLES. Anxiety, ACoA, communication, depression, emotional dependency, infidelity, loss, separation, sexual problems, GLBT issues, self-care, spirituality. Ottawa/Hull.

Insurance/sliding scale. Bilingual. 613-2359813 counselling@lucdumouchel.com SONJA MULLER, Member of College of Nurses, Healer, Sat Guru Teacher Ashtanga Yoga Therapist, and Health Coach. Practicing the Path of the Rose in the Lotus of Life as a teacher of the Revealed Teachings of Christ. Renewal of faith, and spirit through conversion and the path of the rose of spiritual understanding and awakening. 613 7954583. Retreats, personal therapy, path work, initiation, workshops, trainings by appointment.

GET RESULTS @ www.SpiritualCounselling.ca FREE COUNSELLING AVAILABLE for people dealing with death and dying. Also, guidance to achieve your goals in life. 613-828-2836 INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING SERVICES (ICS) offers Counselling and Psychotherapy for Depression, Anxiety, Trauma Grief & Bereavement. To set an appointment please call 613-720-9003 or email us at soula.k@sympatico.ca www.soulakorovessiscounselling.com

• Couples MARLENE AND BOB NEUFELD help couples who want to create a closer, more loving relationship with one another. Learn how to avoid the common relationship problems of criticism, defensiveness, or just drifting apart. Experience Bob and Marlene’s life changing approach, which includes their ability to bring a couple’s perspective to helping other couples. We each have over 37 years experience in helping couples/people create more satisfying relationships/lives. For more information or to arrange a one-hour no-charge-to you initial consultation see www.marleneandbob.com or phone 613-594-9248.

DIRECTORY ANNA GREEN COUNSELLING & PSYCHOTHERAPY (MA CCC) - Improve emotional attachment , connection, and communication - reduce stress and conflict. Counselling and mediation services: receipts available, clinically supervised therapy. Downtown area.

613-295-9987 www.annagreen.ca

• Courses

ANNA EARLE GREEN, MA CCC Cranio-sacral therapy (Upledger), reiki and body-mind healing from life’s mishaps.

CALM. RELAXED. CENTERED. Assists the body’s natural healing intelligence and optimal restoration of immune and nervous system functions for many conditions.

Downtown area. 613-295-9987 www. spiritwell.ca

• Crystal Healing LINDA ENERGY HEALER - Beautiful handpicked crystals & jewellery. Workshops. Home parties. Crystal Healing sessions. 613-868-8468. www.lindaenergyhealer.com. Join my mailing list, send an email to: lsteele1122@rogers.com.

• Crystals THE CANADIAN SCHOOL OF NATUROTHERAPIES AND SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT offers distance education courses in Reiki, Intuitive Development/ Counseling, Energy Therapies and Spiritual awareness. Take Individual Courses or become a Registered Integrative Naturotherapist R.I.N. 819-328-9128 www.canadiannaturotherapies.co

• Cranio-Sacral Therapy JOAH BATES, D.O.(UK) Biodynamic Osteopathy. Creating a space for self-healing through structural balance. Over 25 years experience. 613-742-0011.

AVIVA COHEN, Happy Body Works on Main Street, happybodyworks@gmail.com, 613-6975644. Receipts available. Light-touch soft tissue and nervous system therapy. Targets dysfunction and honours body’s own intelligence for healing. Also decreases depression, anxiety, stress. Increases range of motion, longevity, quality of life.

DENISE GAULIN, B.A., CST Since the early 1990’s, Denise offers individual CranioSacral Therapy (CST) and SomatoEmotional Release (SER) sessions; she also has a specialization and a vast experience in pediatric CST and Visceral Manipulation (Barral). Denise is a certified CranioSacral therapist and certified teaching assistant for all levels of coursework (Upledger).

Tutorials are offered to students of CST and SER. By appointment. Tel. 613-738-9080 WELLNESS WITH MOIRA: CranioSacral and SomatoEmotional Release Sessions.

Specializing in self empowerment for healing and health. Insurance Receipts. www.WellnessWithMoira.com 613.432.1239 BODY POETS MASSAGE THERAPY - Skilled RMTs - Many Modalities - Convenient Hours - Online Booking - Downtown Location - Free Parking - Gift Certificates. 504 Kent St. (At Arlington) Visit www.bodypoets.com or call 613-222-0465. Step into the Circle of Care!

ASCENSION HEALING – Full-time Crystal Shamanic Healing Practice: Crystal Healing, Soul Retrieval, Entity Extraction, Ancestral Healing, Space Clearing ▪ 2-year Certification Training Program in Crystal Shamanism ▪ Crystal Workshops ▪ Sacred Travel ▪ Crystal Store: Geodes, Crystals, Jewelry, Books, Shamanic Supplies. Karen Osborne: www.ascensionhealing.ca, 613798-2828 karen@ascensionhealing.ca

• Dance DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: Join us in simple, meditative multi-cultural circle dances that use sacred phrases from the many sacred traditions of the earth to touch the spiritual essence within ourselves and others.

For more information call 613-594-9248, checkour schedule at www.marleneandbob. com or email info@marleneandbob.com BELLY DANCING FOR FUN! Awaken your own Goddess of Dance. Tracey @ 613-241-3397 or www.bellydancingforfun.com PEACOCK DYNASTY DANCE STUDIO: Specializing in Bollywood, Indian Classical Dance Style-Bharata Natyam, Indian Folk, & Persian/Bollywood Fusion. Please contact Sem at peacockdynasty@gmail.com or 613-2866484 or visit www.peacockdynasty.com

• Dementia AN ALTERNATIVE, UNCONVENTIONAL, AND HOLISTIC approach to Memory Loss. Mark Andrews 613-257-0003 www.karmaiskarma.com

• Dentist DR. PAUL GREENACRE. tel: (613) 234-5758; info@dolphindentistry.com; 100-152 Gloucester Street, Ottawa

• Detoxification

www.wellbeingisyours.com Rica 613-257-8362 ION CLEANSE” Foot Bath Detox, fast, easy, effective way to detox the body in 30 min. Also offering “CHI MACHINE and FAR INFRARED DOMES’ sessions. Insurance coverage.

Christianne Akyna-Foley 613-842-3337 cakyna@rogers.com OTTAWA WELLNESS & DETOX CLINIC. www.ottawawellness.com IONCLEANSE™ FOOT BATH with full nutritional support for the ongoing process of detoxing. Nancy 613-596-0260 stonetreehaven@yahoo.com ION CLEANSE FOOT BATH - Removes accumulated toxins from your body through the pores in your feet. Linda O’Connor 4406 Old Kingston Rd. Lombardy. (613)272-2739

• Dowsing OTTAWA DOWSERS, 2nd Wednesday of the Month Routhier Community Centre 172 Guiges St.(Cumberland/St. Patrick) 7-9:30pm.

Pendulum, L-rod, Y-rod, bobbers and more. www.ottawadowsers.org 613-596-0260

• Dreams ROSEMARY MURRAY-LACHAPELLE, M.L.S., M.A., Dipl. Analyt. Psych. Jungian Analyst and psychotherapist. Therapy practised with sensitivity to material from the unconscious such as dreams. (819) 568-0282

• Eco-Friendly ADORIT BOUTIQUE. Fair Trade Eco-fabric Boutique. Tarot Readings every Saturday 12:00 - 6:00pm. 153 York St. Ottawa. (613) 241-8354

• EFT & Energy Medicine

SACRED CIRCLE DANCE. Experience joy in movement, well-being, and harmony with others. No dance experience required for this fun, accessible exploration and practice of unity and alignment. Ottawa Circle: Barbara (613) 225- 3253 carterb@bell.net. Aylmer Circle: Jen (819) 682-1434 jenboyes@videotron.ca

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COMBINING THE POWER OF DONNA EDEN ENERGY MEDICINE AND EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE to release blocks and empower you to step into your magnificence.

Catherine McLenaghan, certified Donna Eden Energy Medicine Practitioner and certified Emotional Freedom Technique Practitioner.

Call 613-730-0411. Private sessions and ongoing classes.www.energywellspring.com

• EMF Balancing P.W. EMF BALANCERS, Home, Work, Auto.

Steve Priebe (613) 842-4758, spriebe@sympatico.ca, www.emffreezone.ca

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• Emotional Freedom Technique EMOTIONAL, MENTAL AND SPIRITUAL PAIN AND STRESS can lead to physical pain and illness. Life is too short to live with pain of any kind! EFT is an important tool in getting rid of pain - and also in removing the negativity that blocks you from manifesting and attracting the positive and allowing for fullness of self and your divine plan. Tap into emotional freedom - try it on EVERYTHING! Diane Lanthier (613) 2978293 www.reiki-light.com VIOLETTA BOROWSKI, BEd, CHt, EFT Cert-1, SPHE-RE Through this gentle tapping technique, release emotional, mental, spiritual blockages and imbalances on all levels that were preventing you from experiencing peace, happiness and success in your life. A healthy emotional state, will immediately activate physical healing and well being. 613-808-4822 www.SacredPeaceHealing.com

• Energy ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONAL FACILITATOR The Art of Neutrality - sessions available by phone, distance or in person Yvette Marie-Claire Guy 819 771-8858

• Energy Healing LAURIE FRASER, B.O.S., holographic healing, Reconnective, facade healing, past life.

Excellent results: anxiety, depression, insomnia, hormones, disease, allergies, pain, addiction, spiritual blocks. 613-721-3781.

HEALING FROM WITHIN. Energywork and Bodywork through Inner Knowing. Contact Jim Holland at 613-824-1181 MARTIN DESLAURIERS – Physical and emotional healing. From injuries to chronic diseases, pain, burnout, grief. Grounding and self-healing group sessions. 819 965-0108 ext 101 – www.MartinDeslauriers.com LINDA ENERGY HEALER - Highly effective energy medicine. Stress, childhood issues, depression, pain, grief. In person or distance, people & pets lsteele1122@rogers.com 613-868-8468 www.lindaenergyhealer.com QUANTUM HEALING -Past Life Regression; Any health issue, Any Question -Dolores Cannon Hypnotherapy Method - Contact Nancy McColl 613-237-4904 email: namccoll@hotmail.com VIOLETTA 613-808-4822 www.EFTottawa.ca The goal is for you to reduce or eliminate your pain rapidly & effectively. Let’s work on you using EFT along with other tools for your mental, emotional, and physical well being. EFT Certified DIVINE CURRENTS. ALS, MS, Alz, Neuro, Sensory. Also Herpes, all viruses. Carlos 613-231-6181

• Enneagram JANE LINDSAY,MSOD, Riso-Hudson trained, experienced teacher of the profound

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Enneagram system of personality type and consciousness development. Type identifying, coaching, training. 613.761.9249 adiewacentre.ca janelindsay@sympatico.ca

• Face Massage FACE MASSAGE (REJUVENATING) The Canadian Centre of Indian Head Massage.

Two day Certification course with Debbie Boehlen. 905.714.0298. www.indianheadmassagecanada.com

• Facial Rejuvenation Burnham Systems Facial Rejuvenation is a powerful AntiAging Holistic Therapy.

Realignment and toning of facial muscles; Release of physical and emotional blockages; Deep renewal of body and spirit.

Jurlique Organic Skin Care. Gayle Mickelson 613.422.5701

• Feng Shui BALANCE - HARMONY - ENERGY Enhancing spaces that transform your life.

Registered Interior Designer and Certified Feng Shui Consultant. Specializing in Space and Clutter Clearing, Space Planning, Design and Decoration, Colour and Light, Renovation and Construction. Pamela Burns, ARIDO, IDC, Reiki Master (613) 741-4055 CLEARING THE ENERGY OF YOUR HOME can be magical. Move to the next level of your healing. Contact Edie 613-5651919 abundantlivingbydesign.com

• Feng Shui Workshops PRACTITIONER/FACILITATOR LINDA THERRIEN from Life Health Healing Center provides two workshops. Introduction to Feng Shui with compass and Advanced Feng Shui with crystals both include certificates. Let Feng Shui in your home and in your life help you achieve Harmony, Abundance, Happiness and more. Workshops are held on the third Saturday or Sunday of each month from 1pm to 5pm. Pre-registration required. Linda is the founder and teacher of Dimensional Meditation with crystals. Call: 613-824-4548 or visit www.lifehealthhealing.com

• Family Planning FAMILY PLANNING CONSULTING using the highly successful Lunar Phase Method. One time fee of $100.00 includes personalized profile and follow up. Nancy at 613-324-4458 or fertility-wheel @hotmail.com.

“WOMEN UTILIZING MIND/BODY TECHNIQUES such as hypnosis have a 42 –55% increased rates of conception” Engage the power of your subconscious mind to enhance fertility with hypnotherapy. Visit: www.empowerhypnosis.ca 613.282.6001 johanna@empowerhypnosis.ca

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• Flower Essences FLOWER ESSENCES can support you through all phases of life. Gentle release of blocks and patterns, healing of old wounds, assistance with acute or chronic issues. Californian, Pacific and Bach essences. Will treat animals. Barbara Schuster, FES-certified practitioner; 613-8204303 or barbaraschuster2000@yahoo.ca

• Foot Orthotics DR. JEAN-FRANCOIS GAUTHIER B.Sc., D.C., C Ped (C) is a certified pedorthist, a trained foot health specialist. Providing solutions for conditions such as plantar fasciitis, metatarsalgia, etc. Restore proper foot, knee, hip and lower back balance with confortable custommade foot orthotics. Conveniently located near Rideau Center, free parking: 418 Rideau St. Please call 613-241-3434. For more information contact us at dr.gauthier@sympatico.ca or www.spineandfoot.com

• Gifts PLANET BOTANIX, 301 Bank (Somerset) 567-4444: eco friendly, recycled, unique and inspirational ideas!

• Gum Disease DR. PAUL GREENACRE. tel: (613) 234-5758; info@dolphindentistry.com; 100-152 Gloucester Street, Ottawa

• Hadoscan HADOSCAN Sessions available by phone, distance or in person Contact Yvette Marie-Claire Guy 819 771-8858

• Head & Neck Pain DR. PAUL GREENACRE. tel: (613) 234-5758; info@dolphindentistry.com; 100-152 Gloucester Street, Ottawa

• Healing From The Core AVIVA COHEN, Happy Body Works on Main Street, happybodyworks@gmail.com, 613-6975644. Receipts available. Tools for whole body presencing, pain and trauma releasing.

• Healthy Bra HEALTHY BRA - Orthopaedic and Post-Surgical Bra (Medical Device License). No wires. No elastic. Custom-fit. Where health, comfort and shape matter most – Sizes 28A to 44KK. Comfy Posture Solutions 613-521-9100

• Health Kinesiology www.wellbeingisyours.com Rica 613-257-8362.

Treat causes, not symptoms

• HeartMath® 1:1 Coaching BREATHE THROUGH THE HEART AND STOP REACTING UNCONSCIOUSLY. Self Regulation, Energy Management, Optimal Performance. Contact Robbin Zrudlo at healandevolve@gmail.com. www.healandevolve.ca

• Herbalism ANNE DRISCOLL R.H. is a traditional herbalist wise in the healing ways of plants. In her practice she blends the wisdom of herbcraft with modern scientific knowledge. She works with individuals to restore the innate balance and strength of the body. All remedies are custom created to address each person’s unique health needs. For both chronic and acute conditions - let plants walk with you on the journey to wellness. Call the Avalon Herbal Clinic at 613-6121181 or drop by on Saturday to Mother Earth Natural Health (747 D Richmond Road.)

• Herbs JUDY’S ORGANIC HERBS Canada’s favourite source for medicinal herbs & health items. Huge selection of highest-quality organic bulk herbs including Premium Herbs from our gardens, vibrant tinctures, oils & vinegars, custom formulas, Ayurvedic herbs, Best-Tasting Krispy Kelp, DEET-Free Insect Repellent, Poison Ivy Remedy, fresh Ginseng, Vita-Mix, LiteBook, Chi Machine, Far Infrared Hot House, large selection of books & more. Mailed to your home or office. Free e-newsletter. Consultations available by appointment. www.earthmedicine.ca 613-832-8241 613-832-8241

• Holistic Dentist DR. PAUL GREENACRE. tel: (613) 234-5758; info@dolphindentistry.com; 100-152 Gloucester Street, Ottawa

• Homeopathy J.B. HOMEOPATHIC DISPENSARY. Jo-Anne Bazinet, homeopath. Member of S.P.H.Q., C.S.H., H.M.C.C. 2062 St. Joseph Blvd., Orleans, ON, K1C 1E6. (613) 830-0487.

Consultations & products available.

MARILENA GAVRILA - NUTRIHOM D.I.Hom(Pract.), RNCP, Registered Homeopath for acute and chronic conditions and Registered Nutritional and Lifestyle Consultant; www.nutrihom.com; nutrihom@gmail.com; (613) 842-9328

• Hotstone Healing www.wellbeingisyours.com Rica 613-257-8362 JOIN HOT STONE ENERGY THERAPIST and Reiki Master Pauline Brown A.N.N. member for the utmost in healing, relaxation, and a wonderful state of well-being. $75.00 for 90 minute session. Call: 819-684-7885 or visit: www.healinghandswithpauline.ca. Receipts provided and gift certificates available BODY POETS MASSAGE THERAPY - Skilled RMTs - Many Modalities - Convenient Hours - Online Booking - Downtown Location - Free Parking - Gift Certificates. 504 Kent St. (At Arlington) Visit www.bodypoets.com or call 613-222-0465. Step into the Circle of Care!

• Hypnotherapy WHAT DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE? Holistic hypnosis guides you

to your unique solutions and a better life!

Priscilla Corcoran, www.radiantchanges.com 613-859-3902 AVOID THE MEDICATION ROULETTE! Advanced Clinical Medical/Dental Hypnotherapist successfully treating anxiety, stress, depression, addictions, unwanted habits, fears, pain, smoking cessation, weight mgmt, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, low self-esteem, self-sabotage and more.

Specialist in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Fibromyalgia, Migraine Headaches. Visit www.graceplacewellness.com for info, verifiable credentials & free Tranquility recording- Grace Joubarne, CCHt, LAPHP 613-422-7027 Toll-free 1-888-3903553 info@graceplacewellness.com RID YOURSELF OF OLD HABITS AND ADDICTIONS. Hypnosis and HypnoAcupuncture. SLEEP despite your partner’s snoring thanks to hypnosis. Weight loss, Drug, Smoking, Sex, Food and Gambling addictions.

Age regression to correct decades old influences. Hypnosis by Judy Spence (CH), National Guild of Hypnotists-certified. Ottawa 613-7282579 OR Gatineau: 819-661-1061. 1st session: $100. Subsequent $80. Insurance receipts. www.naetottawa.com MARTINE BRISSON, hypnosis and alternative therapies. REDISCOVER THE JOY OF LIFE with the help of hypnosis, EFT, NLP, Eye movement Integration therapy, Psych-K, Reiki and IET. I get to the source of the problem to eliminate it. Only certified 5 Path (5 phase advance transformational hypnosis) in the region. Teacher of 7 Path self-hypnosis. Stress reduction, remove fears, anxiety, self-esteem, traumas and more.

Insurance receipt available. Gatineau . 819-2056670 www.martinebrisson.com WENDY ARMSTRONG, CHt, MHt, Master Consulting Hypnotist, CCIr. You can create the life you desire NOW! 613-823-3316 wendy@ wellness-centre.com www.wellness-centre.com MOIRA HUTCHISON CTACC DHP Acc. Hyp.: With a blend of Hypnotherapy and Coaching, the focus is placed upon what YOU want and together we make it happen in the right way for you (613) 432-1239 www.WellnessWithMoira.com ACADEMY OF HYPNOTHERAPY www. ottawahypnosis.com When talking therapy is just not enough to dissolve old emotional blocks...Create new pathways by trusting and following fresh images, empowering suggestions and inspiring visions. Become whole again by re-membering and re-connecting forgotten parts of yourself. What inside!

What outside! Consider the Whole... Richard Merrill Haney, Ph.D.(Counselling Therapy) Hypnotherapist, 234-5678 or 726-3636.

JAIME PALLEN CERTIFIED Hypnotist N.G.H member. Past lives interfering with your present explore how and what you can do to change it. Make an appointment @613-454-1429) or www.hypnosis-in-ottawa.com

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HYPNOSIS WORKS! Reach your objectives with Lynne Cardinal, a fully Certified Hypnotist with the National Guild of Hypnotists, holding additional certifications in Hypnosis Innovative Techniques and Weight Loss. She has a PhD in Eastern Philosophy from India. Lynne has been offering Stress Management, Burnout Prevention and Meditation workshops at the government and private sector for over 30 years. Insurance receipts. 613.721.7888 - info@kaivalya.ca www.kaivalya.ca

• Indian Head Massage Experience the rejuvenating power of REIKI & INDIAN HEAD MASSAGE (IHM) with Juane, Reiki Master and IHM Certified Practitioner Available Thurs., Fri. & Sat. at Classy Nails & Spa Inc., 260 Centrum Boulevard.

613-834-9922 $50/60 minutes, $30/30 minutes.

KYMBERLI KER, IHM Practitioner, Relaxing Treatments. www.saltpuddleyoga.com THE CANADIAN CENTRE OF INDIAN HEAD MASSAGE. Two day Certification course with Debbie Boehlen. 905.714.0298. www.indianheadmassagecanada.com AYURVEDIC HEAD MASSAGE certification with Jackie Cave, Fusion School of Natural Health.

613-389-4344 or info@FusionNaturalHealth.com

• Infrared Sauna SAGE WELLNESS 340 Gladstone www.sagewellness.ca. Book online or call 613-235-7243, Detoxify, Treat injuries, Pain relief, Weight loss, Reduce Stress, Improve Skin

• Intuitive Energy Counselling INTUITIVE ENERGY THERAPIST/COUNSELOR and Author Cheryl Jiala Driskell helps you BENEFIT from an ‘Intuitive Approach’ to your health. What is out of balance is immediately made clear and energy therapies bring you back to flow! 15 mins from Island Park 819-3289128. www.intuitivelight.com

• Intuitive Numerology A NEW SCHOOL OF THOUGHT. Psychic Consultation. Laura Young 725-7232 lbaird@istar.ca

• Intuitive Psychic Readings LINDA THERRIEN World Known Medium Clairvoyant. Using Crystals, Chinese Astrology and Channeling Cards, my Readings consist of guidance in your work, health, love and Spiritual Healing. I am accurate, dependable and gifted. I am Founder of Dimensional Meditation with crystals, Past Life Regression Channeling Facilitator and a Reiki Master Teacher Practitioner. (613824-4548) www.lifehealthhealing.com

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• Intuitive Readings MARLENE STEVENS 819 483 9915 Intuitive readings & tarot. Medium & Angel card readings. Marstevens@sympatico.ca MOIRA HUTCHISON CTACC DHP Acc. Hyp.: Connect to your Higher Self and your Inner Wisdom. For insight, guidance, validation, inspiration and support. On-line, by phone and in person (613) 432-1239 www.WellnessWithMoira.com INTUITIVE COUNSELING, Reiki Training and Energy Therapies are accessible through practitioner and authour Cheryl Jiala Driskell. Please view my site for testimonials and details. Hope to see you soon. www.intuitivelight.com MICHELLE VEZEAU spiritual guidance to your life’s questions - insightful, profound clarity.

Michelle.Vezeau@sympatico.ca 819 827-2579 KERRY PALFRAMAN RN specializes in a unique intuitive modality, which offers both healing and profound personal insight into the vast depths of your Being. Session recorded on mp3. www.indigowisdom.ca SUZANNE WHITE Bilingual Psychic/Medium, Card & Photo Readings, Dowsing, Psychometry and House Clearing. 343-8826559 info@suesintuition.ca www.suesintuition.ca LINDA MEDIUM, Palm reader: for appt: Tele: 613-816-1808

• Iridology LANE JENSEN is a certified Iridologist and a certified Nutritional/Herbal counselor.

Trained in (ERT) Emotional Reflex Technique Assessment, an advanced form of Muscle Testing for Emotional and Nutritional support.

For more information and consulting call (613)424-1647 or (613)-406-8798 Email: thevitalist@yahoo.com www.transitionalhealth.ca will be coming soon!

• Journey JEAN BRAZEAU, Ottawa’s first Accredited Journey Practitioner. Give yourself the gift of freedom, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Reclaim the truth of who you are. Works with children, teens and adults. Energy Medicine (Reiki Master, Shamanism, Universalis) NLP, WEL-Systems TM Institute Master Facilitator.

JeanBrazeau@sympatico.ca Phone: 613-295-2756.

EVELYNE LEMIEUX-NAULT, Accredited Journey Practitioner/Visionary Leadership Coach. Address the root cause of emotional and physical issues. Open to the wisdom, freedom and love within yourself. English and French.

613-824-3368. evelyne.lemieux-nault@rogers.com

• Jungian Analysis ROSEMARY MURRAY-LACHAPELLE, M.L.S., M.A., Dipl. Analyt. Psych. Jungian Analyst.

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Depth psychology to address your unique concerns. (819) 568-0282

• Kinesiology CHECK Health Kinesiology / Rica Gerhardt T. M. (THOME-us MARTee) TEGTMEYER. Instructor: Touch For Health,® Brain Gym®, “Beyond Belief Synthesis”, “Ultimate Efficiency”, other. Phone: 613.769.5575

• Labyrinth ST. JOHN’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, Parish of March, 325 Sandhill Road, Kanata offers an outdoor, 11 circuit, paver Chartres design labyrinth open to the public at all times. We also offer an indoor, 7 circuit Petite Chartres permanent,painted labyrinth in the church hall. Contact the Parish Office for availability of our indoor facility. ( 613) 592-4747 or www.stjohnskanata.ca HEALING CIRCLE LABYRINTH Set amid 1,000 evergreen trees surrounded by a garden sanctuary overlooking the St. Lawrence River.

Paths are lined with chakra coloured plants and stones. Now scheduling workshops and candlelit evening walks. Call Liz at 613-925-1278 or healingcirclelabyrinth@hotmail.com

• Life Between Lives THIS IS THE SPACE between your current life and the one before. The times between death and re-entering the womb for another life. But what goes on in that time-space? What happens to the soul? This is journey to the other side to better understand the reason for which we came on earth. The process is profound, the session itself last up to three hours. Martine Brisson, hypnosis and alternative therapies Gatineau, 819-205-6670 www.martinebrisson.com

• Life-Cycle Celebrant CERTIFIED LIFE-CYCLE CELEBRANT and trained labyrinth facilitator available for funerals, life event celebrations,memorials, anniversaries, naming ceremonies, special birthdays, pet funerals, pregnancies and other life events.

Visit www.thresholds. weebly.com or call Patti at 613-253-3099.

• Light Body Acceleration LIPHE DESIGN.COM. pH Nutritional Microscopy. Donna Porteous 613 253 7467

• Low Impact Yoga LOW IMPACT HATHA YOGA www.zenforyou. ca The Zen for You Hatha Yoga classes are easy to do for people who have never tried yoga before. Manali Haridas, Certified Yoga instructor progressively teaches the yoga postures and different relaxation breathing techniques in a period of 10 weeks.

• Lymphatic VODDER METHOD. Effective treatment for acute & chronic conditions. Judy Spence, DNM, RN. 613-728-2579 www.naetottawa.com

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NATURAL HEALTH THERAPEUTIC CENTRE. Lymph drainage (Vodder), Reflexology, Shiatsu, Massage. Twenty years experience.

Receipts for extended health plans. Free parking. By appointment only: 613-798-8385. Lincoln Heights Rd. www.naturaltherapeutic.ca

• Massage MOVEMENT HARMONY MASSAGE. Spinal alignment work, employing osteopathic techniques, attunement, Swedish & acupuncture massage. 33 years experience treating injuries and chronic back challenges in Orleans.

Contact Heather Brown (613) 878-6480.

ANN receipt available for insurance.

LEARN INFANT MASSAGE. Kind gentle woman would like to teach infant massage to a parent and young child, aged birth to crawling (IAIM curriculum.) The classes will be 5 consecutive Wednesdays at a time convenient for you. We can meet in my south end studio or I may be able to travel to your centrally located home.

There is not cost. Friends also welcome. For additional details please call 613.304.3427

• Massage Therapy LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE FOR CHRONIC ILLNESS Effective treatment of many chronic conditions. Judy Spence, DNM RN. 613-7282579 www.naetottawa.com CALM CONNECTIONS Massage Therapy, 42 Holland Ave. Cathy Chatham RMT, Kirsten Greenleaf RMT. Tel: 613 792 3223 www.calmconnections.ca JENNIFER PRESLEY, RMT. Massage Therapy, Craniosacral, Reiki lll, Shamanic energy work.

Vibrant Health Massage, 190 Somerset St W (at Elgin), Suite 208. jenniferpresley@bellnet.ca 613-237-4400 www.vibranthealthmassage.ca NATURAL BALANCE MASSAGE THERAPY CENTRE Located in downtown Ottawa.

Specializing in deep tissue / sports massage, pre / post pregnancy care, relaxation / stress reduction, headaches & chronic conditions. Gift certificates available. B6 - 130 Albert Street (between Metcalfe & O’Connor) Phone: (613) 566-3000 www.naturalbalancemassage.ca RIDEAU MASSAGE THERAPY - Feeling stress, pain,or just need to relax? Therapeutic massage can help. Providing treatment for acute and chronic conditions and injuries.

Also trained in Acupuncture and Thai Yoga Massage. Free Parking. 418 Rideau St. 613-241-3434. More info at www.lorirmt.ca or contact Lori at lorirmt@gmail.com BODY POETS MASSAGE THERAPY - Skilled RMTs - Many Modalities - Convenient Hours - Online Booking - Downtown Location - Free Parking - Gift Certificates. 504 Kent St. (At Arlington) Visit www.bodypoets.com or call 613-222-0465. Step into the Circle of Care!

KAREN MUNRO-CAPLE, RMT. Providing Healing, Relief, Joy! 1105-85 Albert St. between Elgin & Metcalfe. (613) 230-3527. www.kmc-rmt.com

RE - SELF - ING, a Journey to Wholeness, orthotherapie, swedish massage, reiki.

Insurance coverage. Christianne Akyna 613842-3337 cakyna@rogers.com YONG KAI, RMT, Registered Massage Therapist. Stress & Tension, Back & Neck Pain, Stress & Tension, Muscle Strains, Headaches & Migraines, Sciatica, Tendonitis, Sport Injuries (613) 435-6988, cell (613) 852-4852. Insurance Accepted. yongcai.rmt@gmail.com MAITLAND MASSAGE THERAPY: a healing company.Online booking. www.MaitlandMassage. ca Free parking. Melanie Ransom, RMT, BHSc. 878 Maitland Ave. 613-722-6423 RACHELLE BEHRENS RMT now accepting new patients at cozy home based clinic in Kanata. www.behrensrmt.com

• Matrix Energetics MATRIX ENERGETICS - Facilitator in the Art of Transformation Certified Practitioner since 2007 sessions available by phone, distance or in person Yvette Marie-Claire Guy 819 771-8858

• Medical Intuitive MANUELA WERTHWEIN 613-231-4575. www.

VisionofSpirit.com. Medical Intuitive, Medium, Spiritual and Emotional Counsellor. Soul rescue.

Reiki Master & Teacher. Colour healing. Teaches intuitition skills (private or classes). Releasing blockages and stagnated energy grids within the Human Energy Fields takes place regardless of hereditary, environment or inherent factors that may endure. Manuela will access the information in your biology and soul using clairvoyance as well as energy scanning with healing and Past Life Information. www.WindowtotheSoul.com ANGELA KEHLER, Certified Medical Intuitive www.soulbirdconsulting.com/

• Meditation CHRISTIAN MEDITATION COMMUNITY – There are about 40 groups in the Ottawa area that meet weekly to practice a way of silent, contemplative prayer using a prayer word or mantra, as taught by the late Benedictine Fr. John Main. For more information contact the Ottawa Area Coordinator at 613-725-1328 or ottawachristianmeditation@gmail.com or consult www.wccm-canada.ca COSMIC MINDFULNESS, Meditation in the Yogic Tradition. Ongoing classes and guided meditations, Wednesdays at 7:30pm given by Chris Simmonds, including chakra awareness, Pratyahara and Yogic Meditation techniques. Attend an ongoing class or practice group. Advanced personal instruction is also available. Call Chris at 613-298-2447 or email ottawameditation@gmail.com. Visit www.ottawameditation.ca for more info.

DYNAMIC MEDITATION. Learn the lifechanging techniques of deep mantra meditation and mindfulness for peace and wellbeing. Introductory and advanced classes for individuals, groups, workplaces. Courses

on mastering thoughts, healing emotions, self-care and empowerment, consciousness expansion, development of chakras. Call Jennifer Bernius at 613-721-3787; jenbernius@gmail.com.

THE SILVA METHOD. Lise Blouin, Certified Silva Method Instructor. silvamethod@bellnet.ca 1 800 226 4428 GROUNDING AND SELF-HEALING group sessions. Emotion integration and transmutation. 819 965-0108 ext 101 – www.MartinDeslauriers.com A FORMAL INTRODUCTION TO AUTHENTIC ZEN TRAINING through instruction in zazen (sitting Zen) and kinhin (walking Zen). First Saturday of each month, 2-4 PM. Preregistration required: info@wwzc.org or 613562-1568. Zen Centre of Ottawa www.wwzc.org LEARN TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES that will enhance your growth and development to bring the meditative process into daily living.

Individual and group classes-daytime/evening. ISUL method. Contact Nancy 613-5960260 stonetreehaven@yahoo.com WEEKLY MEDITATION Meditation on Twin Hearts: every Wednesday, 7pm: 5 Blackburn (Blackburn & Laurier, Sandy Hill). Join us for this beautiful guided healing meditation.

No experience necessary, held on donation.

Come every week, or come when you can.

RSVP with Faye Healey: faye@pranichealingontario.ca, http://pranaworld.net/twin-hearts-campaign SAHAJA YOGA MEDITATION. Awaken your Kundalini energy to balance you, connect you to cosmic consciousness, and bring about your spiritual rebirth. Visit us at freemeditation. com or sahajayoga.ca. Saturdays 3:00 pm Ottawa Public Library 120 Metcalfe (FREE)

• Meditation on CD JENNIFER BERNIUS guides you through 5 soothing and inspiring meditations to calm your mind, relax your body and uplift your spirit. This CD, Into the Silence, with gorgeous musical accompaniment, will revitalize your daily meditation practice, helping to open your chakras and awakening you to the healing power of light. Cost: $20. 613-721-3787; jenbernius@gmail.com

• Mentoring Program FOR OVER 20 YEARS KERRY PALFRAMAN has been a spiritual teacher and healer. This program offers you her personal support and guidance in any area of your choosing.

Empowering you towards you your next level of mastery. www.indigowisdom.ca

• Migraines DR. PAUL GREENACRE. tel: (613) 234-5758; info@dolphindentistry.com; 100-152 Gloucester Street, Ottawa

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• Music & Healing FOR 29 YEARS I have helped clients 2-82yr. with health concerns including ADHD, dyslexia, depression, cancer etc. Hands on approach using musical instruments. Call Shirley Schober @ 613-729-7758 DEEP SOUL ENERGETICS – Deep core healing using sound, improvisation, creative visualization, DNA activation & energy healing. Connect with Archangels and Ascended Masters. Pamela Holm MTA. 613-820-1556 www.DeepSoulEnergetics.com

• Music Therapy PAMELA HOLM MTA - Exploring creativity unblocks stagnant energy/problems. Supports insight & healing. www.DeepSoulSinging.com 613-829-1556

• N.A.E.T. ALLERGY & CHRONIC CONDITIONS. 10th year serving Ottawa-Outaouais. Judy Spence’s Medical background assures your program is tailored to your individual health needs. NAET is excellent for treatment of allergy & infection as well as Autism, CFS, FM, MCS, ADD & other chronic and conditions including pain. Doctorate of Natural Medicine (DNM), Acupuncturist., Advanced Level 2 NAET, Advanced 2 BioSet, Laser Acupuncture Detox & Lymphatic Drainage. Western medicine meets Eastern medicine to correct persistent and acute health issues. State-of-the-art computerized testing. The NAET Clinic of Ottawa is a full service, full time practice and also offers Hypnosis, Homeotoxicology, Auricular Medicine, Ion Detox Foot Baths, Sauna Detox, Weight Loss and Stop Smoking Programs. 613-728-2579.

Quebec location: 819-661-1061. www.naetottawa.com. On parle francais.

• Naturopathic Medicine DR. KANDIS LOCK, ND. Licensed Naturopathic Doctor. Digestive Disorders, Allergies, Headaches, Womens Health, Chronic Disease, Cancer. Come in for free 15 minute consult to find out how naturopathic medicine can benefit you (no treatment provided). 210-190 Somerset St. 613-627-3880, kandislocknd@gmail.com

• Nutrition MARILENA GAVRILA - NUTRIHOM RNCP, D.I.Hom(Pract.), Registered Nutritional Consultant and Homeopath; Nutritional and lifestyle consulting for your individual and unique health concerns. nutrihom@gmail.com; 613-842-0373. www.nutrihom.com BODY CHEMISTRY TESTING & BALANCING for optimal nutrient absorption & vibrant health.

Physical & Emotional healing begins at the cellular level. Sensible, Sustainable, Effective Nutritional & Lifestyle recommendations.

Iridology, testing for Heavy Metal Toxicity, Adrenal Function, & Free Radicals. 613-7259013; www.magma.ca/~PerfectBalance

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• Oral Health DR. PAUL GREENACRE. tel: (613) 234-5758; info@dolphindentistry.com; 100-152 Gloucester Street, Ottawa

• Orthodontics DR. PAUL GREENACRE. tel: (613) 234-5758; info@dolphindentistry.com; 100-152 Gloucester Street, Ottawa

• Osteopathy JOAH BATES, D.O.(UK) Biodynamic Osteopathy. Creating a space for self-healing through structural balance. Over 25 years experience. 613-742-0011.

• Past Life and Spiritual Journeys ALLAN GREEN, Master Past Life and Spiritual Journey Facilitator since 1982; Allan sees what you see & feels what you feel. Eliminate Fears, Blockages, Pain from Past Life wounds. Find your Mission/Purpose, Meet Spirit Guides. Talk with People crossed over. Clear up people issues, that holds you back. www.allangreen.ca journeys@allangreen.ca 1-877-213-7576.

I AM YOUR CERTIFIED GUIDE TO YOUR PAST LIFE MEMORIES. I am trained by Brian Weiss MD and certified in advanced regression by Mary Elizabeth Raines in Sedona AZ. Eliminate fears,start healing,unexplained pain or just curious? I will walk there and back with you. Three Hr. sessions. For inquiries, Tlunam@live.ca or Call 613 769 1312

• Pranic Healing PRANIC HEALING is a non-touch healing technique and science that works with the energy body to alleviate acute/chronic pain, illnesses, and disorders (physical, as well as psychological). Its techniques and concepts are taught and practiced around the world, not only for healing illnesses but also relationships, businesses, and to raise consciousness and deepen spiritual understanding, independent of religious beliefs. By working with the energetic blueprint of the living system and correcting imbalances in the energy fields that surround and interpenetrate the physical body, the natural healing process can be accelerated 70% or more. Pranic Healing helps with a large variety of health problems such as headaches & sore backs, broken bones, anxiety, depression, chronic illnesses, even cell regeneration and more. Faye Healey is a certified practitioner and instructor of Pranic Healing. For appointments/info: (613) 282-0801 faye@pranichealingontario.ca/pranichealingontario.ca

• Qigong LAMAS QI GONG Association offers Qi Gong and Tai Chi courses at various locations in Ottawa. The classes are taught by Master Philip Lai (a certified naturopath therapist who has 30 years of experience teaching Qi Gong, Kung Fu and traditional Chinese medicine) and associates. Qi Gong helps to reduce your stress, control pain and allergies, strengthen

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your self-healing ability and increase your energy level. Training to become a certified instructor and private consultations with Master Lai are also available. For more information, contact Catherine at 613-737-0553 or visit www.lamasqigongcanada.com CHOW QIGONG. Chow Medical Qigong exercises and meditation classes held at McNabb Community Centre, 180, Percy Street since 1986. Tuesdays 9:15-10:45am, Wednesdays 6:00-7:30pm. Chow Qigong is taught by certified instructors and helps to relieve stress and promote self-healing. Complementary 1st class. For more information contact OttawaChowQigong@ gmail.com

• Quantum TouchTherapy THE POWER TO HEAL Aileen M. McKenna, Certified Quantum-Touch, Instructor/ Practitioner since 2004, first instructor in Canada improve physical strength, release physical and emotional stress, improve sleep, increase creativity, remove pain. Information on personal appointments and classes: Aileen’s Oasis 613-228-2272, 613-795-3751, out-of-town enquiries at 1-866-493-0236, or by e-mail aileen.mckenna66@gmail.com and check out. www.aileensoasis.com. www.wellnessunlimited.ca

• Reconnective Healing PATRICIA V. LACROIX, Reconnective Healing Practitionerª. The Reconnectionª and Reconnective Healing¨. patriciavlacroix@sympatico.ca Visit: www.TheReconnection.com JACKIE LOGSDAIL, RECONNECTIVE HEALING PRACTIONER, and Reconnection™.

Allow the universe to give you an energy healing through the mind, body or spirit. For an appointment or information call 613-440-1204 or email, logsdailja@bell.net ALEXIS NICOL – Reconnective Healing® Practioner and the Reconnection since 2005.

613-263-7925 www.firstlighthealing.com

• Reflexology VALCRON REFLEXOLOGY - the healing touch providing holistic reflexology to clients for over 13 years. Home-based practice in Orleans. Hospital, retirement & nursing home visits provided. RAC certified reflexologist, RN, SCM, MA, CCRP. For more information contact Valerie Cronin at 613 837 9435 valcronin@rogers.com BALANCE RELAXATION THERAPY. Reflexology, Ayurvedic Yoga & YOGA MASSAGE FOR BETTER HEALTH. Lori Chamberland, 613-2557934 balancerelaxationtherapy.com NATURAL HEALTH THERAPEUTIC CENTRE. Reflexology, Shiatsu, Lymph drainage, Massage. Twenty years experience. Receipts for extended health plans. Free parking. By appointment only: 613-798-8385. Lincoln Heights Rd. www.naturaltherapeutic.ca

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DEB DESJARDINS 613-435-2100. Homebased in Kanata. angelwingreflexology.ca REFLEXOLOGY ASSOCIATION OF OTTAWA offers Individual sessions (foot, hand or ear reflexology), private or corporate events, as well as fund raising events are available. We offer training towards certification as well as membership for professional Reflexology practitioners and students of Reflexology. Contact: www.ottawareflexology.ca ALEXIS NICOL - RCRT - Foot reflexology, receipts provided 613-263-7925. www.firstlighthealing.com ENJOY AN HOUR of head, feet & hands reflexology. Great for stress, relaxation and general well-being. Contact Nancy 613-596-0260 stonetreehaven@yahoo.com KYMBERLI KER, RCRT, Foot Reflexology.

Receipts provided, www.saltpuddleyoga.com, 613.897.9642

• Reiki LIFE HEALTH HEALING CENTER Linda Therrien, Usui-Tibetan Reiki Master/ Teacher.

Weekly classes and treatment sessions.

Founder of Dimensional Meditation with crystals, weekly private classes. Call: 613-824-4548 www.lifehealthhealing.com VISION REIKI- CATHERINE BASTEDO Holographic-Usui Reiki Master. Personalized Reiki classes in English or French; individual sessions, daytime/week ends. Online Healing Your Chakras clas­ses; Bird Vibes meditation decks. Nature Retreats in Muskoka. www.visionreiki.com. Call 819-778-2590 cbastedo@visionreiki.com RAINBOW OASIS: Usiu Master / Teacher / Practitioner. Experience the natural healing, relaxing and balancing effect of Reiki Energy.

For personalized sessions, contact Dianne at rainbowoasis@rogers.com or call 613-733-9481 MANUELA WERTHWEIN, Reiki Master/ Teacher. USUI system of Natural Healing.

Private treatment & classes, Level I, II & III. Spiritual and Emotional Counsellor. Medium.

Medical Intuitive. Soul Rescue. Body/Mind/ Soul Intuitive. Past-life Information. Colour healing. 613-231-4575 www.VisionofSpirit.com www.WindowtotheSoul.com WENDY ARMSTRONG, CRA-RT, Usui & Karuna Reiki Master. Sessions & training for all levels. 613-823-3316 wendy@wellness-centre. com www.wellness-centre.com iHEALING CONNECTION: Usui & Karuna Reiki Master, Lightarian Reiki, QuantumTouch, Intergrative Energy Therapy, EFT and Magnified Healing. These holistic therapies will help you to relax, relieve stress and heal on a physical, emotional and spiritual level. Roger, 613 322 7585, email; rlrivera1111@yahoo.ca VERA & PESI SHROFF TRADITIONAL USUI Reiki Master/Teachers, are committed

to self-empower individuals who commit themselves to healing & personal growth.

They offer Reiki Treatments and Reiki Level I & II courses & Reiki Masters. Reiki is used for: Pain, Stress & Chronic Medical Condition Management, Anti-aging & Health maintenance, Improving Immunity, Increasing Vitality to bring Peace, harmony, balance, love, joy in one’s life. Reiki Exchange Healing Group every Thursday 7:00 p.m. Contact: Vera or Pesi at (613) 829-0224 or email: divinelight21@hotmail.com ALEXIS NICOL – RMTT, Reiki Master Teacher Trainer. Private sessions and training, receipts provided. 613-263-7925 www.firstlighthealing.com UNIVERSAL LIFE FORCE-MASTER REIKI CLASSES 3 in 1 based on the Usui Method.

New and all levels welcome...individual and small classes. Contact Nancy 613-596-0260 stonetreehaven@yahoo.com ANNA GREEN, MA - SPIRIT WELL HOLISTICS – www.spiritwell.ca - 613-729-2775. Bodycentered Process Work, Spiritual Care, Reiki & Training, Chakras, Aromatherapy, Bach Remedies, Muscle testing, SET, EFT, Meridians/ Qigong. Assisting your journey toward an energy-filled life. Daytime - Civic Hospital Area.

REIKI IN THE WEST END Stressed out?

Aches and pains? Reiki can help you relax and feel better. Flexible sessions from 10 to 60 minutes. Contact Barb at 613-228-9176 or barbmartin2010@gmail.com DEB DESJARDINS 613-435-2100. Homebased in Kanata. angelwingreflexology.ca FINDING YOUR SELF - Reiki is a gentle technique for restoring and balancing your body’s natural energy to encourage better health. Reiki treatments are available on the Amethyst Bio-Mat. A true mind, body and spirit experience. Reiki Master, Linda O’Connor 4406 Old Kingston Rd. Lombardy.

(613) 272-2739 JIKIDEN REIKI – FRANCINE MINEAULT, Reiki Master and Shihan, teaches Jikiden Reiki in the Ottawa-Gatineau area, in French or English. www.espacereiki.com / info@ espacereiki.com / 613 446-7307.

KIM SWAN, Reiki Master Certified BodyTalk Practitioner & doTerra Product Consultant. www.filosofi.ca, kim@filosofi.ca, 613 225-1127 KYMBERLI KER, RCRT, Foot Reflexology.

Receipts provided, www.saltpuddleyoga.com HEAL. GROW. THRIVE. I am an IET and Usui/ Karuna Reiki Master teacher offering healing sessions, Reiki and IET classes. Frederic Papillon 613 805-3733 www.crystalheartlotus.com ANNA EARLE GREEN, MA CCC SPIRIT WELL HOLISTICS – Body-centered process work: Reiki & Classes, Craniosacral, SET, EFT, and more. Assisting your journey toward an energy-filled life. Daytime. Downtown area. www.spiritwell.ca 613-295-9987

FIND YOUR WAY, HEAL YOUR PAIN, and move forward with intuitive messages from your Angels. Visit www.threelightshealing.com to begin your powerful healing journey.

ASCENSION REIKI HEALING SESSIONS and training for Mastery, accompanied by Spirit.Celeste S. Vermette, Reiki Master 613-565-9303. touch_therapies@rogers.com THE WRITTEN REI! Written Holographic Tibetan Reiki, Read what your heart has to say! Full-length detailed Report. Convenient, done through distance. (613)227-4497 or CeraGagnon@gmail.com

• Restorative Yoga PATHWAY YOGA, Wednesday 1-2:30pm, Ease, Soothe mind and body through a series of supported postures nourished by the breath. This Iyengar yoga class is a haven if your energy is low, your stress is high, or you just want to be quiet and go inward. www.pathwayyoga.ca 613 806-9642 346 Richmond Road, 2nd floor

• Retreats TARA SHANTI RETREAT CENTRE Near Montebello, Qc. Large property, quiet location.

Open year round. Max 5 persons. Yoga, polarity and Esalen massage. Also silent retreats. m_dekking@yahoo.com MAPLE KI FOREST * SPIRIT WATERS Unwind, Unfold, and Emerge Renewed. Secluded lakefront/woodland setting. Restorative, soothing atmosphere. Beautiful accommodations. Superb whole foods / Veg. cuisine. Yoga / Healing Bodywork / Infrared Sauna / Jacuzzi / 700 sq.ft.

Yoga space, Workshop Studio. Welcoming individuals, couples & groups. 2 1/4 hrs. S.W. of Ottawa, near Tamworth. (613) 379-2227 info@ mapleki.com www.mapleki.com BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN by a pond in a wooded area, private, ideal for retreat or peaceful getaway. Located near Killaloe, close to Algonquin Park. For rent all seasons call 613625-2200. www.lindenpondcottage.com ALLAN & CATHERINE GREEN Personal customized Up-levelling Retreats for people using our services, on the Canadian Shield in OMPAH, 45 minutes North West of Perth. www.allangreen.ca www.catherinegreen. net www.crystalearthhealingspa.com 613479-0299 ascensionportal@xplornet.com iamthatiam@xplornet.com

• Rolfing JULIA BERG, Certified Rolfer and Rolf Movement Practitioner. 69 Holland Avenue, Ottawa, ON, K1Y 0X9. (c) 613-894-3663.

MIRANDA GREENACRE (Dayvis) Advanced Rolfing Practitioner 400 Pleasant Park Rd. Ottawa, On. K1H 5N1 (613) 866 2427

• Room for Rent Workshop space and therapy rooms available at Planet Botanix, 301 Bank (Somerset) 567-4444

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• Schools THE 8TH FIRE - School for professional training and development in the Algonquin Healing Arts of Shamanism, Spiritual Healing, and Energy Medicine. Two-year professional training program and certification offered, among the most comprehensive Shamanic Training programs in the world, taught by a Traditional Algonquin Medicine Person. Many teachings are unique and exclusive to this training alone. Phone 613) 274-3708 or www.The8thFire.com for more info.

• Shamanism (Traditional & Authentic) ALGONQUIN MEDICINE MAN - Spiritual Healing & Energy Medicine, offering a comprehensive listing of services and ceremonies to help facilitate healings on the physical, emotional, and spiritual levels.

Traditionally trained Algonquin Healer available at (613) 274-3708 or www.The8thFire.com.

TIM YEARINGTON NATIVE TEACHINGS Algonquin Traditional Knowledge: Medicine Wheel teachings, Thunderbird medicine, Serpent medicine, Seven Grandfather teachings, Manitous & Animal totems, Fire Bird healing ceremonies, Sacred Fire ceremonies, spiritual counseling, personal medicine work & training, guided medicine walks in nature & wildereness vision quests. Also public speaking & storytelling. timyearington@yahoo.ca 613-725-5225 www.timyearington.com

• Shamanism ASCENSION HEALING – Full-time Crystal Shamanic Healing Practice: Crystal Healing, Soul Retrieval, Entity Extraction, Ancestral Healing, Space Clearing ▪ 2-year Certification Training Program in Crystal Shamanism ▪ Crystal Workshops ▪ Sacred Travel ▪ Crystal Store: Geodes, Crystals, Jewelry, Books, Shamanic Supplies. Karen Osborne: www.ascensionhealing.ca, 613798-2828 karen@ascensionhealing.ca LINDA ENERGY HEALER - Highly effective Shamanic sessions for anxiety, childhood issues, depression, abuse, pain, grief. In person or distance, clients worldwide. People & pets. 613-868-8468 lsteele1122@rogers.com www.lindaenergyhealer.com IN A SUPPORTIVE ENVIRONMENT, experience traditional ceremonies and medicine that promote physical, emotional and spiritual healing. Distance Healing also available.

SatDaya Williams at 447 Holland Ave Unit 3, Ottawa, 613-761-5982, www.holisticottawa.com, satdaya@sympatico.ca

• Shiatsu NATURAL HEALTH THERAPEUTIC CENTRE. Shiatsu, Reflexology, Lymph drainage, Massage. Twenty years experience. Receipts for extended health plans. Free parking. By appointment only: 613-798-8385. Lincoln Heights Rd. www.naturaltherapeutic.ca

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• Skin Care NATURAL BODYCARE by a certified aromatherapist. Natural makeup, cleaning products: Planet Botanix, 301 Bank (Somerset) 567-4444 HOLISTIC ESTHETICIAN provide organic skin care product that purifie the skin - incorage skin self regulate. 613-526-1255.

• Sound Healing DEEP SOUL SINGING – Healing Vocals & Singing Bowls. Body/Soul/Mind. Individual/ group. Singer/songwriter/musician: Pamela Holm MTA www.DeepSoulEnergetics.com 613-829-1556.

• Sound Healing Massage COMBINING CRYSTAL BOWLS, tuning forks and other sound healing instruments to enhance your relaxation experience. Julie certified Orthotechnician (massage) since 1994. 613-254-8469.

• Spa Days www.wellbeingisyours.com Rica 613-257-8362

• SPHE-RE NEW TO OTTAWA! In Pain? Experience this new Divine healing energy. www.SacredPeaceHealing.com

• Spiritual Centre OTTAWA SPIRITUAL PATHWAYS CENTRE, Weekly services, Sundays 10:30 a.m. with Rev. Nicole Moronval, President and Founder, Westboro Masonic Hall, 430 Churchill ave. N. ottawaspiritualpathways.com

• Spiritual Counselling FACILITATOR & GUIDE: ConstellationWork, Soul Talk, creative meditation practices, reiki. Workshops/individual sessions Diana ClaireDouglas. dianaclairedouglas@bell.net 613-820-8850.

• Spiritual Direction A ONE YEAR ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAM for spiritual directors. The program is grounded in the Jewish wisdom tradition with an integrated interfaith component.

Visit our website trainingforspirituality.ca or email us at trainingforspirituality@gmail.com

• Spiritual Medium ANGELA AZARIA, PSYCHIC MEDIUM & SPIRITUAL COACH, angela@loveheals.ca, 613 913 8511, www.loveheals.ca

• Systemic Constellation Work CONSTELLATIONS WITH SPIRIT: personal, family, & soul transformation individual & group sessions Diana Claire Douglas. www.inspiritworks. com dianaclairedouglas@bell.net 613-820-8850

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• Tai Chi WEEKLY TAI CHI (Yang style) classes at PranaShanti (PS) Yoga Centre. Every Tuesday night from 7:30-9pm. Suited for both beginner and intermediate practitioners.

For more info call Jürgen Portz at 613-7217888 or PS at 613-761-9642.

• Tantra YOGA OF LOVE AND RELATIONSHIP. The pleasurable way to Enlightenment.

Course and consultations for individuals and couples. Celeste S. Vermette, certified with the Chandra Bindu Tantra Institute.

613-565-9303. tantracanada@gmail.com

• Tarot TAROT AND CARTOUCHE READINGS: I have been reading cards since 1986 and use the Mother Peace Tarot deck as well as the Cartouche deck. Eleanor Ann Rowan 613-746-6778 PERSONAL READINGS Tarot-Astrology Judy Jibb 613 304 4255, personalreadings@gmail.com TAROT READINGS with DAVID CLOUDS. If you’re looking for a Reading, it’s a good indication that you would benefit from having one. I have a home practice and make house calls. Please visit my website, davidclouds. com, or ring 613 619 5977 TAROT INTERPRETATION BY SUZANNE DUC. Private consultation and party readings available. Home page at www.facebook.com/ sdtarot. Contact (613) 841-2597 or suzanne. duc1@gmail.com to arrange an appointment.

• Thai Massage LORI MACKAY RMT- Thai massage stretches the whole body and helps remove deeply held tension in the muscles. 418 Rideau St.613241-3434 Free Parking. For more info contact Lori at lorirmt@gmail.com or www.lorirmt.ca BODY POETS MASSAGE THERAPY - Skilled RMTs - Many Modalities - Convenient Hours - Online Booking - Downtown Location - Free Parking - Gift Certificates. 504 Kent St. (At Arlington) Visit www.bodypoets.com or call 613-222-0465. Step into the Circle of Care!

• Therapeutic Touch THERAPEUTIC TOUCHª - profound relaxation, effective pain relief, supports healing on any level. For acute, chronic or emotional conditions. House calls, hospital visits available. Will also treat animals. Barbara Schuster, TTNORecognized Practitioner, 613-820-4303 or barbaraschuster2000@yahoo.ca

• Theta Healing FILOMENA LAVIGNE is a spiritual - intuitive, advanced certified Theta Healing Practitioner, Reiki-Master and IET Master-Instructor: She

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believes wherever you are is always the perfect place to start uncovering, healing and evolving into the song of your truest heart. The song that declares your divinity and wholeness and brings forth into your life the beauty that is residing in your truest brilliant-self. Appointments in person or by telephone at 613-596-9249 or email at aura.bella@hotmail.com

• Visceral Manipulation DENISE GAULIN, B.A., CST offers visceral manipulation sessions for adults, children and infants. She is a certified CranioSacral therapist and has a specialization in pediatric CST and VM. By appointment. Tel. 613-738-9080 AVIVA COHEN, Happy Body Works on Main Street, happybodyworks@gmail.com, 613697-5644. Receipts available. Gentle hands-on abdominal treatment dialogues with body’s proprioceptive awareness, facilitating physical and emotional trauma release. Improves structure and function. Complements conscious eating, exercise and supplementation for optimal health.

• Visionary Art SPIRITPAINTING® – using the Lightwolf method. Offering workshops, exhibitions, books, reproductions, and originals on paper and larger pieces on canvas. Commissioned spiritpaintings® and readings are also available. For more information contact: Jen 613266-8063 spiritpainting2002@yahoo.com or see www.spiritpainting.com

• Web Design A WELL-DESIGNED WEBSITE will help spread your message and grow your business.

Contact us, and get an effective online presence today! www.dewpoint.ca, info@dewpoint.ca, 613-236-5758.

• Weddings WEDDING CEREMONIES. Rev. Evelyn Richter 613-596-2817; revev@sympatico.ca; www.revev.ca CO-CREATE THE GOWN OF YOUR DREAMS! Wedding, handfasting, commitment ceremony attire for all - bring your ideas to life for your special day. Tracey at 613-241-3397 or email tracey@tav-creations.com. Online portfolio: www.tav-creations.com MARTINO‘S BRIDAL ALTERATIONS AND TAILORING. 30 years experience Tailoring for the whole family .by app. 613-739-5034 Martino2527@hotmail.com

• Weight Management LOVE YOUR BODY WORKSHOP ~ discover the power of proven hypnosis techniques to easily re-pattern your thoughts, beliefs, habits about food, your body & yourself. Imagine what it would feel like to make friends with your body - forever. Visit: www.empowerhypnosis.ca 613.282.6001 johanna@empowerhypnosis.ca

DIRECTORY • Wholistic Dentist DR. PAUL GREENACRE. tel: (613) 234-5758; info@dolphindentistry.com; 100-152 Gloucester Street, Ottawa

• Workshops GROUNDING AND THE ART OF CREATING SACRED SPACE A two-day workshop about creating boundaries, clearing the aura, learning how to clear a space, how to be present and secure in your own energy field. Ideal workshop for energy workers, massage therapists, lawyers, social workers and anyone anywhere who works with or lives closely with others. For information and registration call Aileen’s Oasis at 613-2282272, or by e-mail at aileen@aileensoasis.com QUANTUM-TOUCH: The Power to Heal Certificate workshop in Quantum-Touch therapy, a powerfully simple modality that will transform your ideas about your health and your life. This wonderful modality can be used with other modalities and is very helpful for self-healing, distance healing, working with clients, friends, family, pets, water, and gardens. For information, call Aileen’s Oasis at 613-228-2272, aileen@ aileensoasis.com and www.aileensoasis.com.

CLASSIFIEDS • For Rent

ROOM FOR RENT - Woodroffe/ Meadowlands. $495/mth. 40’s female seeks roommate to share tastefully decorated bsmt. apt. Two cats, so no other pets please. More info contact roomie@gmail. com or text 613-600-4136.

HELP PLAN new model farm/forest/mixed activity co-op, some housing, 100+ members, different levels of participation, easy join, efficient technologies, within 1.5 hrs SW of Ottawa. Carlos 613-231-6181

• For Sale As seen on TV - The Ultramatic vibrating adjustable bed, includes headboard..4 years old, clean condition, original price $3350 - Asking $1300. Phone 613-7333033 Email: pinkmacleod1@gmail.com.

• Looking for...

WANTED: RMT, At an established (1998) Natural Health Centre. Very reasonable rates and great co-workers Please call Denise: 613-913-2803 OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE in Riverside Health Centre. Excellent rate and wonderful co-workers. Located at Bank & Riverside.

Dina 613-526-1255 for more info.

Check out WWW.PLANETBOTANIX.COM for a full listing of upcoming workshops/certifications!

301 Bank (Somerset) 567-4444

• Yoga MOUNTAINGOAT YOGA CENTRES serving Ottawa’ west end in Nepean and Kanata since 2003. Over 30 classes per week per location. Hot Power, Hatha, Yin, Prenatal, Restorative. Workshops and teacher trainings. www.mountaingoatyoga.com RAMA LOTUS YOGA CENTRE is your yoga studio. Are you stressed? Anxious?

Overwhelmed? Exhausted? We’ve got you covered. With 100+ weekly yoga and meditation classes in a variety of styles there is something for everyone (sometimes even soup!). Not in the mood for yoga just yet?

Come shop, socialize, sip on our house tea, read from our community library or drop off a food bank donation. Can’t afford yoga rates?

Let’s talk. Work exchange, student rates, early morning, donation, like we said, we’ve got you covered, because yoga is for everyone. www.ottawayoga.com 613.234.7974 342 Gladstone Ave YOGA & TEA STUDIO. Located on 10 acres of land in the beautiful village of Carp, near the Carp Farmer’s Market. Over 20 classes a week, for all ages, sizes and life-stages!

Beginners, Hatha, Yin, Kundalini, Hot, Gentle, Restorative, Prenatal, Baby&Me, Kid’s yoga and more! Yoga Teacher Training certification course available - see website. Nice selection of yoga mats, bolsters and other props, DVDs, CDs. Complimentary tea after each class! Experience yoga in the country fresh air just minutes from the urban outskirts! Conveniently close to Kanata, Stittsville and Almonte! Beautiful drive, peaceful setting, lots of free parking, why go downtown?

613-304-6320, www.yogaandtea.com GENTLE YOGA AND MEDITATION. Mondays in Crystal Beach (just west of Bayshore). 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Maki House Community Centre. 19 Leeming Drive. Julie 613-254-8469 PRANASHANTI YOGA CENTRE. A full-service wellness centre in the Hintonburg area of Ottawa near the Parkdale Market minutes from downtown and numerous public transportation stops. In our custom designed eco-friendly 8,000-sq.ft centre, our dedicated team of teachers and therapists offer a wide variety of classes in 4 spacious studios and specially designed therapies in our Consultation spaces.

Our soothing atmosphere and inspiring setting will help you cultivate a deep inner state of body centered restful awareness that will benefit every aspect of your life. Our spa-like change rooms with ample showers, Infrared Sauna and full service boutique further support your healthy lifestyle. Open 7 days/week, 80+ classes/week. Workshops, teacher training programs, concerts and events offered throughout the year. 100+ free parking spaces, complimentary tea served all day. Relax, take your time, leave feeling renewed. Drop in for a visit!

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ADI SHAKTI YOGA CENTRE IN ORLÉANS/ OTTAWA EAST serving with gratitude since 2003. Director/Owner: Lise Ram Das Latulippe.

Ottawa’s Home of KUNDALINI Yoga: humanity’s most ancient yoga. Beginners & Advanced classes of uplifting, fun & highly informative Kundalini Yoga taught by professionally certified teachers. Enjoy our healing ambiance, heavenly music, a cup of tea & community spirit. Private classes; Personalized Health-Longevity-Vitality Program; Yogic Numerology; Nutrition consultations; Reiki treatments & training; Vedic cooking classes; Yogic workshops; Annual Women’s Yoga Retreats; Concerts; Gong relaxation evenings; Pre-natal friendly yoga; Sunrise Kundalini Sadhana; Eng. & French classes; Books, CDs, DVDs, soaps, teas, mats, clothing. We are the Yoga gem of Ottawa East - Come Feel Great...

One Breath at a Time! 1445-A Youville Drive, 2nd Fl., Orléans. www.AdiShaktiYogaCentre.com Call 613 824-9189 SATTVA YOGA - A Kanata Yoga Experience Classes taught integrating a variety of yoga styles (Kripalu, Viniyoga, Structural Yoga, Vinyasa) as well as Somatic Movement & Pilates. A practice of balance, integration and compassion is offered: centering, breath work, warm-ups, flowing & static poses, relaxation, meditation and reflection. All levels welcome.

Jo-Anne Stasiuk, MA. Professional Level Yoga Certification. 592-5936 or sattvayoga.ca MAITREYA YOGA STUDIO offers you an amazing atmosphere where you can take a break from everyday life and find your own authentic mind/body experience. Over 25 classes weekly on our Open Class Schedule.

Visit us online for our Registered Classes and Workshops at www.maitreyayoga.com or contact us at 613-692-1515.

PATHWAY YOGA. A beautiful, welcoming studio in the heart of Westboro. Learn how Iyengar yoga can lead body and breath, heart and mind along a brighter, healthier pathway. www.pathwayyoga.ca 613 8069642 346 Richmond Road, 2nd floor WISHINGTREE YOGA CENTRE—Yoga in Kanata. For all ages, beginner to experienced practitioner. Traditional, Hot Power, Hatha, Sound, Kundalini, Yin, Prenatal, Restorative, 50+, Hatha flow, Meditation, Kirtan and Family Yoga. May your wishes come true. www.wishingtreeyoga.ca

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The Science of Effective Muscle Checking

By Irish Sullivan, Energy Kinesiology Instructor and Practitioner

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n these times of continual change and ever-increasing stress in every aspect of life, I am grateful for the number of amazing resources, tools and techniques that are available to assist us from the field of complementary medicine. The challenge for most of us, nowadays, is to know which of these techniques would work best for us.

During my more than 25+ years of learning and applying a variety of techniques, I have come to particularly value those I have learnt from Specialized Kinesiology (also known as Energy Kinesiology) It is, in effect, a marriage between the Eastern understanding of energy and the Western understanding of the mechanics of the physiology. The underlying premise is that health depends on the harmonious flow of energy though the internal electro-magnetic pathways (meridians in Eastern medicine) within the body. Any interruption to the flow along these “circuits” will result in “dis-ease” within the body.

Since its inception in the 1960s with Dr George Goodheart’s development of Applied Kinesiology, millions of people are being helped by the various branches of the Specialized Kinesiology family tree including Touch for Health, Educational Kinesiology, Body Talk, EFT, Neuro-Kinesiology & Applied Physiology to name but a few..

Each of us is unique, with a genetic blueprint unlike that of anyone else. Therefore, when it comes to finding the most appropriate solutions for restoring balance in our health and life, the most reliable source of information is our own system. Our body holds all the answers as to what is best for us in any particular instance. Specialized Kinesiology gives us the key to access this knowledge. With it we can choose the most effective techniques to support and maintain our health.

This access key is called muscle monitoring. (also called muscle checking or muscle testing). Muscle monitoring is a natural, neuro-physiological biofeedback mechanism within the body that measures the efficiency of the internal brain/body electromagnetic communication system (the central nervous system) and its ability to respond easily and efficiently to various stimuli. With a stressful stimulus, the response to the “muscle check” will be weak, due to a temporary disorganization of the neuronal pathways between the brain and the muscle.

This communication tool has been shown through much research to be an effective way to communicate with the physiological system. One of the earlier books that talks about this tool is one by John Diamond MD called “Your Body Doesn’t Lie.

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With effective muscle checking you can access your internal “phone system”. It is a marvelous tool that I use daily. It is, however, a tool and, like a phone, is only effective if it is used well. To become skilled & proficient in the use of this “internal phone system” requires proper training. Sadly there are a good many people who have used muscle monitoring without really understanding the principles that are involved and therefore, have gotten inconsistent results. When this happens, people have a tendency to decide that the tool is “no good“ or “doesn’t work”. This situation is akin to someone saying that a phone is not a good tool. The manner in which a person applies any tool determines its effectiveness. I feel strongly that the use of muscle checking can be invaluable to anyone who wishes to make the most effective choices for their wellbeing but I am equally clear that if someone wishes to become adept using this tool, they need to learn this skill from someone who is trained in its proper application and use.

Irish Sullivan, BA, BEd, is a licensed Brain Gym® & Touch for Health® instructor. She has over 30 yrs experience teaching a variety of holistic modalities in English & Frenc. She also works with individuals. She can be reached at the Eirlynda Wholistic Ed .Centre, at 613-233-0943, e-mail:eirlynda@rogers.com..

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Trauma Reversal

When Clinging Matters

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A Powerful New Method of Disease Prevention

By Ati Petrov DHHP

Call it Soul Retrieval, Sequential Therapy, PTSD therapy - Trauma Reversal is all of those. It is a new method of release of life trauma. Over time, a traumatic experience can give rise to many physical and emotional complications. And since life never stands still – we tend to pile up traumata, each one building on the previous, until things get really loaded and we explode into disease.

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ome events are purely physical (illness, injury, surgery), while others are emotional (loss, heartache, fright). Sometimes a single trauma can shatter our life.

In other cases, as one thing adds to another, we slowly start feeling weak.

Trauma reversal can turn things around before a crisis occurs. Knowing the type of trauma you have suffered and how you reacted to it will point to typical disease symptoms you may see over time. A fright can lead to glaucoma. Suppressed anger can lead to Crohn’s.

Feeling attacked and helpless can cause fibromyalgia or MS. The process. First a timeline of events is created, listing all shocks to the system. This process in itself is very therapeutic. It is best to start with the most recent (and least entrenched) ones and working backwards all the way to birth.

Each event is treated with carefully selected homeopathic remedies specific to that experience. It takes about 3 weeks for one event to clear completely.

During that time some old symptoms of feelings can resurface briefly, on their way out.

Results. Old trauma holds us back from physical healing and keeps us locked in emotional distress.

Cleaning up the past has a profound impact on how we feel about ourselves, on re-awakening our inner passion and finally allowing us to heal from chronic disease. Trauma reversal is also the most methodical and efficient healing tool to deal with post-traumatic stress.

he second Noble Truth in Buddhism says that “Clinging and grasping” are the causes of suffering.

No one would argue with this point. Yet there are times when clinging can be spiritually enlightening.

Clinging and grasping refers more to the uncontrolled urge we all have to want more and struggle constantly to get it. Few people really need a bigger home, they just want the prestige it gets them. In the Buddha’s eyes, grasping for the sake of getting more is what brings suffering. This is not to say that we should subdue all ambition, so we can be happy.

Nothing shows us the infallibility of life than when we face dying and death. When a loved one suffers and ultimately dies, we suffer too. It’s natural to feel grief.

The Buddha did not say we should never grieve just for the avoidance of the second noble truth. In such a case we can cling to the memory of that special someone when he or she passes away. This kind of suffering can’t be avoided. It becomes chronic when we refuse to let go of our lost one after a period of mourning. We refuse to adjust and this in itself translates to more suffering.

Many a spouse has followed his significant other just a few months after their passing.

Taking a few days off to remember a loss can bring on humility. It helps us to see that all things physical are subject to decay and death. If we saw things this way, few mourners would drown their sorrows through alcohol and drugs. Once the mourning period is over, we should return to making life happen to the best of our abilities.

Today’s world has changed dramatically to the point that we hunger for the past when things were far simpler.

This too is a part of clinging. Music or certain sights can trigger in us the memory of a past event. Those youthful years have given way to pain and disease. Again, there’s nothing wrong in experiencing the feelings we once had, but we can’t try to recreate them today. Too many people try to relive what has been lost or try to correct past mistakes. Either way, they suffer. mental anguish.

Unfortunately, today is all we have. We can look with nostalgia at the past and enjoy those flashbacks when they come. What matters is the legacy we leave behind.

Take some time to live the past as a method for meditation. You can pop in a CD on Elvis, the Beatles or Bruce Springsteen to enjoy a moment of nostalgia. Let it help to rejuvenate your energies so you can face today..

Ati Petrov, DHHP has been practicing holistic medicine in Ottawa since 2001. She practices at the Village Clinic in Westboro. Ph.(613)820-3234 Details on Trauma Reversal: Mario Carini loves creating digital art, particularly mandalas http://realmedicineclinic.com/services/traumareversal/ which he has both on sale and for exhibit at: www.mario-carini. artistwebsites.com. He is creating a Word press blog to share more of his artworks. He also writes on self-improvement and is currently writing a book on personal growth and spirituality. You can find his written works on Helium and Constant Content where his works can be purchased. You 361 Churchill Avenue N,, Ottawa ON, K1Z 5C4 can contact him at: 613-258-2607. Mario currently lives in Telephone: 1 (613) 686-6650 • Email: info@villageclinic.ca Kemptville, Ontario and works in Ottawa.

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Ask a Naturopathic Doctor…

Symptoms of Healing Katherine Willow N.D.

CARP RIDGE Natural Health Clinic

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ne of the most difficult aspects of healing is the reality of “you’re going to feel worse before you feel better”. I’m in the middle of these symptoms and even understanding these concepts I have a difficult time embracing the process…

For instance, this morning I was (again!) nauseous, achy, low energy and irritable. Restricting my food intake to soups and teas for the day, taking a slow walk for some fresh air and having a brief nap all helped to shift me into a functional state. Also, telling the folks around me that I might be a little grumpy (a result of liver detox) works a lot better for me than trying to pretend I’m my normal self.

Many healing symptoms are a result of the body going through detoxification when we make healthy changes in our lives. These changes can be on any level: physical, emotional, mental, energetic or spiritual. This is why you will often hear a natural practitioner advise rest, drinking lots of water and Epsom salt baths after a treatment.

Other tools that support healing include cleansing herbs like milk thistle, burdock, dandelion and cleavers; lymphatic drainage massage; saunas followed by cold showers; protein shakes instead of meals; mineral broth between meals (boil vegetable skins for 20 minutes, strain and keep in the fridge, warm up, add a bit of sea salt and sucanat before drinking); and most importantly, lots of extra rest, especially early bedtimes and power naps.

Knowledge can make all the difference: when one has headaches, dizziness and/or joint pains and knows that these are a positive sign of change it is vastly different than thinking one is ill. In fact, when we get a negative diagnosis for something that is actually part of healing, this will lock in the symptoms instead of letting them move through. More so when we add drugs, although sometimes these may be necessary.

German New Medicine (GNM), a profound addition to principles of healing, shows how even some cancers can be part of a repair process in the body in addition to inflammation, skin rashes (long known in homeopathic medicine), infections and seizures. Our misinterpretation of these symptoms as diseases has resulted in our poor track record in treating many cancers and chronic conditions, when most of what is needed is reassurance and gentle methods to help the person finish the healing phase. See www.newmedicine. ca for complete details on this fascinating and essential body of knowledge.

In the meantime, with everything I know, I am stuck in healing symptoms that have been going on for over

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www.ecowellness.com a year now. They are making me reassess my life and create more room for personal time. Naturopathic philosophy tells us to expect to take 1-2 months for every year we have been ill. At 56, with most of my life having been spent in an “active” phase, this would predict me taking at least a few years in cleaning up the debris of past negative habits and reassures me that my unpleasant symptoms are a good sign that my body is renewing itself as I shift gears mentally, emotionally and physically into a healthy middle age and long, productive old age. I need to constantly remind myself that this is the best investment I can make right now and correct an attitude that still easily slips into whining!

Katherine Willow N.D. is a fourth generation naturopathic doctor in practice for over 30 years. She currently directs the Carp Ridge EcoWellness Centre where people can come for assessments of their conditions and support for recovering their health. www.ecowellness.com

Events at Carp Ridge EcoWellness Centre Life coach Sandy Rawson is offering a set of 3 workshops on Sat Mar 15, Apr 12 & May 17: 9:00-10:30 Discovering the Gift Within 11:00-12:30 Tapping through Obstacles 1:30-3:00 Exercising the Power of Choice Each one is $20 and you can register for any or all.

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Royal Chaga & Life Expectancy Research

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n one of his resent interviews Cass Ingram, MD, (the one of North America’s leading experts on the health benefits and disease-fighting properties of wild medicinals), pointed out to an interesting longevity phenomena regarding the traditional consumption of the Wild Chaga brew, that dates back to probably several thousands years.

The Siberians found that, despite their harsh climate, the regular consumption of Chaga prevented the onset of degenerative disease. They used it to boost physical stamina and attain long life.

It has been observed by contemporary Russians that in the districts where Chaga was regularly used for centuries, there was no cancer.

In contrast, the Inuit DID NOT USE Chaga.

Interestingly, the life span of the Inuit, who lived in a climate similar to that of the Siberians, was ONLY 40 to 50 years on average, whereas people in the Siberian tribes routinely lived to be 90 to 110. (my Siberian grandmother and my great-grandfather, both lived up to 92, and 98, respectively).

Cass Ingram, whose research and writing have led to countless cures and discoveries, also makes a very clear

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statement regarding Reishi, the other “Mushrooms of Immortality” “When we compare Chaga to Reishi medicinal mushrooms, we find that the Reishi are beneficial, but they DO NOT have the dramatic history of promoting longevity associated with Chaga.”

A. Alchemista, B.A.(Hons), B.Ed., Certified Herbalist, Spiritual PhytoEssencing Therapist Independent FANTAINA Functional Longevity Research, since 1998.

Visit www. RoyalChaga.ca for more Research articles and to order authentic raw Wild Chaga. To learn more, please call us 613-276-8133

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“Source” and Breath

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ith time and effort we often believe that somehow our lives will get better and easier to be with, however most of us are left unclear and disillusioned when things are just not what we thought they would be. Broken marriages, betrayed hearts, disillusioned children, financial challenges are but a few of our darker hours, how can we manage to have a more fulfilling life, one that is filled with passion for what we do and love in our hearts for others around us no matter the circumstances. Learning to allow and forgive when we are bombarded with darkness and disbelief everyday.

There are so many of us wishing for something more meaningful for ourselves and we turn to behaviours that are not the best for us in hopes to deaden our feelings and to cope. There are ways of transforming our reality!

As a practice one of the first essentials is the act of breathing, yes I know, you already do this! Well what we are suggesting is to breathe with intent. So here is our first little exercise that can be done at the end of the day: “Sit quietly, relax and remain in your heart chakra for the whole of this time. Bring all of your attention to the inflow of your breath and fill your lungs with the lightness of breath.

Hold a moment and release with the intent of relaxation throughout your body as you release the stress and thoughts of the day remember to stay focused on your breath, repeat 10 times. Once you feel the lightness surrounding you inside and out, remain in your breath and repeat with a goodness of heart the following: “I have all that I need, I am grateful for all experiences that have entered and are entering my world. Everything that I see in this realm is my creation and I accept what is. I choose what is best for me and move forward with ease and confidence that I am loved” Remain in this place of love for as long as you feel is needed, from there slowly return to a state of being and hold the relax state as you ready yourself for the night.

Today is a good day and we wish for you insight into the beauty that surrounds you. Breathe deeply, love fully and sleep well.

Needless to say that this “experience” of life is one that can be powerful and life lifting with an approach that is based in love and acceptance of oneself and of what is. We are truly a community of souls that can learn to embrace all of life’s experiences while remaining in the truth of what we see. It is beneficial to remember the following “Life will at all times be what we choose to see, choose wisely and embrace the beauty that surrounds you.”

My work with you is to allow you to delve into those wounded places and fill them with spirit and to bring you to a higher understanding of yourself and the world that surrounds you. With my gift of clairaudience and intuition I can gently help you move through powerful channelling and deep spiritual exercises.

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Spiritual Consultation with Source Channel and intuitive Nathalie Poirier 613-978-8643, nathaliepoirier.3@gmail.com

For a channelling session with Source and some spiritual guidance in the areas such as health, love, finance, work, family and much more. Whether on your own or with a partner you are welcomed to book an hour for 60$, the experience is one founded in love and healing!

Are You In Touch With Your-self?

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he things that happen in our childhood, the message we get out of them and which message we take on as our own, determines the dysfunction and trust issues of our inner child.

Exploring our child hood , the roles we played and messages we took on as our own will help you to get insight into your life today Child hood roles are discussed in the book” The Birth Order Book “ by Kevin Leman.

These roles are Caretaker, Lost Child, Mascot and Scapegoat. The more dysfunctional the family the more exaggerated the role. These roles later become Perfectionists, Martyrs, Tap Dancers, People-Pleasers, Abusers, Caretakers, Babies and Work-a-holics as adults.

Another element is our awareness of what is happening to us. Are we aware of what our inner child is trying to tell us in the moment or are you totally unaware, or do you get the message sometime after the incident?

The messages we take on and own could have been spoken or unspoken during our childhood. These messagesf7 become our reality. They then can become our buttons that when pushed upset our inner child.

As part of the healing process it is helpful to become in touch with the messages we carry, the roles we played and play today, and our level of awareness.

If you would like to further explore these ideas join us for a workshop at The House Of Hope and Healing Saturday March 1 & March 15 (9:30am- 4:00pm). Or an intensive Inner Child retreat Friday- Sunday March 28-30.

By Lynda Brooks at 613-858-7181 or 613-831-2865 info@lifelinesofrecovery.ca

March 2014

Sri Chinmoy Answers Question: How can we overcome or conquer the fear of death?

SRI CHINMOY: Unfortunately, most of us cherish wrong conceptions of death. We think death is something unusual or destructive. But we have to know that right now death is something natural, normal and, to some extent, inevitable.

Each incarnation is leading us towards a higher life, a better life. We are in the process of evolution and each incarnation is a rung in the ladder of evolution. We started our journey from the mineral life, then we entered into the plant life and then we entered into the animal kingdom. From there we have come into the human world. But here is not the end. We have to grow into divine beings. Unless and until we have become divinised and transformed, God will not be satisfied with us. He can manifest in us and through us only when we are totally transformed and fully illumined and divinised.

So when we think of our evolution—inner evolution and outer evolution—we get abundant joy. We lose nothing, nothing in the so-called death.

You can also think of death in another way, which is most significant and, at the same time, much more reassuring. In your house you have quite a few rooms.

One room you use as your living room, another as your office and another as your bedroom. During the course of the day you do many things. For a few hours you work in your office, for a few hours you are in your living room and for a few hours you are in your bedroom sleeping. You cannot do any one thing for twenty-four hours a day. You cannot work for twentyfour hours a day because your body needs rest, and you cannot sleep for twenty-four hours a day. So you divide your time.

Each room has a significant role to play in your life. You are not afraid of any of these rooms. When

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you go to sleep, you do not say, “O my God, I have no idea if I will ever wake up tomorrow!” No, when you are tired you go to your bedroom and the next morning, when your body is refreshed, you wake up. Similarly, in your existence-house you have one room called death and one room called life. When you become tired and want to take rest, you will go to your room called death. You have to feel that both rooms belong to you and are part and parcel of your existence.

Right now you feel that when you enter into your sleeping room, all the happiness that you are presently enjoying will be destroyed. But that is not the case. If you pray and meditate, you will realise that death is only a temporary rest. We believe in reincarnation.

When you enter into your bedroom at night to go to sleep, you come back after six or seven hours. In the same way, when you enter into the other world, you also come back to the world of earth-life after a few years.

Death should not frighten us; it is not our enemy.

We go through death in order to come back to life with renewed energy. Death is an unfamiliar passage, so it frightens us. But we have nothing to fear from death.

It is only a temporary rest.

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Healing; it’s an Inside Job

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ntention is 97% 0f all healing! The other 3% is not our function to know but to have Faith that it is done without self-doubt! It involves the use of mind. It’s an inside job! It requires what Neville Goddard called, “Contention.” This is attention in a relaxed and focused way. If at any time you are attempting to force your will upon any process, you are now interfering with Creation itself. We must learn to come from Power and not force. Power requires peace, stillness, gratitude, grace, willingness and the recognition that your desire is already present. Any agitated state prevents you from seeing what is already present. It’s like a pendulum that swings from side to side, from extreme to extreme. All of “Oneness” resides in the swing but to connect with “Oneness” the swing must slow down to the fulcrum or center of the swing where peace resides. When the pendulum is in full swing there is no recognition of peace at all, it simply blows by undetected. The paradox is that we must become calm and unattached to outcomes to detect the presence of our very own “Oneness.”

Connect: All of Creation operates in a circular or spiral fashion. As above so below or as micro so macro. In other words what we do with intention on a micro level affects the macro level and vis versa! By gently massaging the palm of your hand in a counter clock wise fashion or spinning the pendulum in a left spin; we are removing what we don’t want. When we gently rub the palm in a clockwise fashion or spin the pendulum with a right spin we are now adding what we do want.

The trick is to know what it is that you want because the egoic mind spends 97% of its time focused on what it doesn’t want! It’s the 3 % that needs to maximize potential. Note: In the commands below; RS indicates Right Spin or motion of touch and LS denotes Left Spin or motion of touch.

You might begin by massaging the palm of your hand or spin your pendulum over the palm of your hand or place the tips of the little finger, index finger and thumb (the sign for “I Love You.”) over the heart and apply Ho’oponopono statements from the Huna. The following statements are used by Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len, PhD, with great success. Use them to talk to the cells of your body and/or Higher Self. They are; “I Love you!” (RS) “I am Sorry!” (LS) “Please, Forgive me!”(RS) “Thank you!(RS) If you are not in the habit of talking to your Higher Self, you might massage the palm of your hand or place the “I Love You” sign over the heart and say something like the following: Note: The “I Love You” sign placed over the heart can also be used for the statements at the end of the article.

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“To the 70 trillion or more cells of my Physical Body and to All Etheric Bodies; I Love You, for all the wonderful, loving work that you do to sustain me despite my poor habits and my absence of awareness. I am Sorry that I haven’t spent more time with you. Please, Forgive me!

I need your assistance at this time. I am going to spend time with you daily to better understand who I am and just how Powerful I am. I will be providing commands and directions of what I would like you to accomplish (as we are one,) and I require your full co-operation as I speak to you from a quiet, loving state. Thank you!

Self Mastery 2.0: The following, “All Encompassing Commands,” are a shortened version for daily application. They have been chosen because additional outcomes will flow from these commands. Their effect is cumulative. Apply these commands for 60 days without fail and see what happens. Almost every cell of your physical body is being replaced at about once every year. Rather than re-installing old patterns and programming that may not be providing your desired outcomes, here is an opportunity to install, “Self Mastery 2.0.” Just imagine how evolved you will be if you actually do this daily for one year If you dowse; (Use the hand with the palm up as a “10 Chart, “ the fingers representing even numbers and the spaces between the fingers – odd numbers.) Apply your opening protocol asking; can I, should I, may I ask questions and provide commands that raise my level of conscious? If a yes response is obtained, hold your pendulum above the palm and right spin your dowsing abilities up to 100% accuracy. Check your accuracy. Now, state the commands, (listed below) one at a time and spin your pendulum over the palm in the appropriate direction until it breaks its circular motion and then use your hand chart, to determine what percentage of improvement has taken place? Ask; “With one representing 10% and 10 representing 100% what percentage has been achieved?” If 100% has not been achieved keep doing it until it has. In the beginning this can take some time. If it takes a very long time, you can give the command to the Dowsing System to continue on its own and you will check back in a few minutes, and go on to another command. After all, we are multidimensional beings. With each daily application, the length of time to do each command shortens.

If you know muscle testing, massage the palm of your hand in a circular motion until you intuitively feel that you have achieved 100% in the moment, then use “The finger lock technique” to re-test and ask if 100% has been achieved or not. Continue until 100% rectification is achieved for each command listed below.

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If you know Emotional Freedom Technique, the commands listed below can be applied to formulate your own personal statements. However, determining to what extent commands have been absorbed is challenging with this method. The value of EFT is that the intention of the statement unblocks any blockages of light or love in the meridian system which distributes light to every cell of the body. Just have faith that correction is taking place because it is.

If you do not dowse, muscle test or know EFT; Ask, that your intuitive abilities are maximized and simply massage the palm of your hand in the appropriate fashion and ask that you be provided with an indication of when you have achieved 100% rectification. Or you can simply place the “I Love You” sign over the heart and say the statements while in a relaxed and focused state. Repeat each request a minimum of 9 times each, with feeling. Even if you are not achieving 100% rectification in the moment, the cumulative effect of doing this exercise daily will provide results because you are building awareness and re-programming yourself for something better. This is important because we are in a reciprocal, homeopathic relationship with Spirit/Energy where like attracts like! It is advisable to keep a journal and document even the slightest changes you are noticing. This will also help develop awareness. After 60 days of doing the exercise, review your notes and notice your progress. This can be quite helpful because we tend to forget where we were at the beginning and accept and integrate where we are now as the “new baseline” or standard. It is also advisable to do this protocol at bedtime so that beneficial statements are being received and applied to the subconscious mind, while you sleep. Record your dreams.

Recognizing What Your Soul Truly Wants! Close your eyes, go to a quiet centered state, visualize a tube of violet-white light approximately 6 feet in diameter that completely surrounds you and within that tube of light another tube of golden-white light approximately 3 inches in diameter that streams down from above, enters the crown of your skull and passes down through the center of your body to the center of the planet. The golden-white light is unconditional Love. Now, spin your pendulum or muscle test or use EFT or gently stroke your hand in a circular fashion or place the “I Love You” sign over the heart and say with feeling:

1. Maximize Self Love - I Love You, Smile and say Name ( Use 3 finger technique over Heart) 2. I now direct my requests to my Speakers, Guides and Celestial Team: ( 3 fingers over heart) 3. Activate “Inner Senses.” (RS) 4. Access Higher Self (RS).

5. Balance Polarity (RS) 6. Balance “Anima” or “Animus.” (RS) 7. Remove Resistance to Life and Life Experience. (LS) 8. Maximize Gratitude for all Life and Experience.

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9. Balance all Physical and Etheric Systems (RS) 10. Unblock all Blockages to Love and Light.(LS) 11. Maximize Discernment of inner patterns that resist Life. (RS) 12. Transcend all non-beneficial Thoughts, Emotions, Feelings, Beliefs and Opinions (RS) 13. Release all Vows, Contracts and Agreements. (LS) 14. Maximize Forgiveness (RS) 15. Optimize Corrected Perception. (RS) 16. Optimize Consciousness (RS) 17. Optimize Lightbody. (RS) 18. Optimize Heart Centeredness. (RS) 19. Optimize Self Actualization (RS), 20. Maximize Healing Ability. (RS) 21. Radiate Love, Peace, Bliss and Joy. (RS) 22. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! (3 fingers over heart) Note: The Palm of your hand and heart are doorways or portals to other dimensions or worlds! The electromagnetic field around the heart is 5,000 times greater than that around the skull.

Namaste!

Doug Henderson 1/8/2014, revised 1/10, 12, 14 16, 18, 20, 26, 28/2014 Doug Henderson, Ph.D, Humanities and Theology, is a Stress Management Consultant, Ordained Minister and Internationally Certified Quantum Biofeedback Therapist. Doug uses some cutting edge quantum technologies to assist clients to return to energetic balance and when they do – dis-ease drops away. On July 1st, 2009, Doug started a program called the “Tune Me Up Program” that is having extraordinary results raising clients levels of consciousness/awareness. Go to: www.quantumru.com to read unsolicited experiences.

In May, 2004, Doug was diagnosed with 4 different cancers. He refused conventional therapy and developed protocols that worked for him. Today, his clients benefit from what he learned. Doug can be reached by phone at 613-233-3888, by email atdrdoug88@gmail.com, or via his website at www.quantumru.com.

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The Healing Power of Words Men Are Bravely Opening Readings with Rua Their Hearts!

by Rua Grinbergs

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i Everyone! I truly love doing my readings for others in hopes of always offering what is needed most for healing and growth. To impart more of the flavour of the readings (thru writing) that I do, I have witten a brief additonal description to my original article in Tone’s February Issue. Readings are done in person and long distance .

The spiritual tones of my readings are not particularly evident for those who are inundated with matters that relate to secular issues and sober quests for material gain. What is realized, however, for all, is the realm of wisdom appropriate for the time at hand. Through the readings, it can be certain that harmonized efforts for spoken truths will offer themselves in such a way as to make a most suitable and particular impact. One receives what is needed for the highest good at the time.

At the time of the reading, it is a specific resonance that vibrates and aligns with the harmonies that accompany the Divine aspects of the being in question.

Remembering a protocol of sorts is usually a key element in the readings. Cellular memory in particular is awakened and addressed and called forth to initialize or continue the release of denser nature. Loving aspects are present with every message and this is often felt by both myself and the receiver. There is no mistake that the wisdom behind the words is of a complex and intelligent nature and from a Divine Source.

A Testimonial - “I have had the privilege of receiving channeled readings from Rua since 1999 and am ever so grateful for her presence in my life. Her readings are healings-encoded works of light and love-that help quicken awakening and the shedding of layers and limitations that prevent us from seeing and being our true light. Like yoga poses, each time I read and engage with these readings-no matter how old-they continue to inform and change me.”

Nov. 15, 2013 - Rosemary Overzet, RMT/Reiki Master, Antignonish, Nova Scotia Rua lives and practises in Burnstown and Ottawa area (on-site). 613-433-5738. ruagrinbergs@gmail.com www.

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ome of the words in the image below came directly from a man who recently had a reading from me and who has also had some of my bodywork in the past.

He was facing the fear of a major loss and felt helpless.

He is one of two men recently who have braved the new experience of having a reading. Part of what I witnessed was an opening of heart in both cases and an upliftment of their spirits. I know testimonials aren’t supposed to have credibility without names attached but that’s the nature of this kind of process. When people are taking a new leap of faith to have a reading, it is not to be expected for them to want it publicized. In both cases, it was their loving partners who knew to gift them by encouraging them to come and meet me and have a reading.

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Laura’s Numerology News for March 2014

Add the day of your birth to the month of your birth.

Then you will add the number 1 to your number. NOTE – If your final number adds up to double digits, add the numbers together again, and again, if you have to, until you get a single number. If you still have trouble, email me at lbaird@istar.ca

1. The perfect use of 2014 is to take a sabbatical to continue your education or search for a job that has a learning curve attached to it. This is a “ME” year. Fix what needs fixing, refuel and seek Zen. 2. Your cash flow and all business dealings slow to an irritating halt, this month. Fear not, it is temporary.

Focus on your relationships, both personal and business. Take care of details and work on developing new contacts. Patience is required.

3. Get rid of the all the poop that is on your path, now.

You will have opportunities to start new endeavors in April and you will not have time for this then. This is a super month for sales promotions, public speaking, writing or travelling.

4. Get focused, get organized and make your plans for this year solid, now. It is all about work and duty so get your act in gear, immediately. You are now laying your life foundations for the next 9 years cycle, so make sure they are rock solid.

5. Your emotions are raw this month. Watch your mouth, and be extremely careful what you say, and who you say it to. You might get in to all kinds of crazy trouble. Take an extra yoga class to calm your jumpy nerves.

6. You can start the creative work around the house right now. Painting or redecorating your pad is the perfect use of March. The kids/family will be in your face in March, so take a break from work and have some fun with them, too. Travel if you can.

7. Your mind will be so active that you could actually cause a health disturbance in your body, this month. Do not ignore this. You need to rest and refuel now, as this is a very busy year. Your work or finances could be the cause of these internal stresses.

8. Is there a new job, a promotion or more money in the wind? This is a very busy month in the area of money and career, so do not waste it by taking a vacation. If you do take a trip it should be around business or career advancements. It is all about action in March, so move it.

9. Relationship dramas are coming to a close, now. I know that your emotions are crazy raw, but it is normal for this influence. Find an outlet or cure for them or you might crash and burn. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, and you will see it soon.

Laura Young is an intuitive numerologist and core belief modification coach. She is located in Ottawa, but can conduct phone or skype consultations anywhere. For personal consultations please email: lbaird@istar.ca or call 613-725-7232.

What can Numerology do for you?

Numerology is a study of numbers. There is evidence that numerology was in use thousands of years ago in China, Greece and Egypt even before the time of Pythagoras, who is generally accepted as the "father" of numerology. Why is numerology still in use and of interest to so many? It is because it works, that is why.

• Are you currently at a major cross-road in your life? Should you make a decision or move forward now or wait?

• Numerology can help you uncover hidden talents and turn them into a career.

• An analysis of partners, children, friends or co-workers can help you deal with them more efficiently.

• Numerology can help you heal from past issues and move on.

• Help you understand how you can use the current year, month and day for its best influence.

• Be more aware of your own areas of weakness and learn how to turn them into strengths. Stop repeating history once and for all.

Laura Young is an intuitive numerologist/life coach living in Ottawa. She has written “Laura’s numerology News” in Tone Magazine for over 8 years. To book an appointment or receive Laura’s monthly newsletter please email L.BAIRD@ISTAR.CA or call 613-725-7232

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Cyberbullying in Schools and Teenage Suicide: Part I

Ian Prattis young friend was seriously contemplating suicide after suffering from cyberbullying. His father had phoned me in alarm and I suggested that his son come and stay with my wife and I for a while. This would take the heat out of the situation. I also had a long conversation over the phone with the young man about our kayaking adventures and other things that I knew would bring some joy and happiness to his mind.

These were the first steps to transform the hurricane force of his strong feelings and emotions that led him to consider suicide. Over the phone I also taught him a simple meditation about being a tall tree. The analogy I used for the meditation was that of a storm of strong winds coming up and shaking the tree tops and breaking branches, while the bottom of the tree trunk stays solid.

So that when something arose like a strong wind to hurt him, to think of these things as the tall branches being damaged by strong winds. If he placed his hands on his tummy and breathed deeply in and out to this trunk for ten breaths, then his distress and anger would slowly calm down.

I consulted with savvy school councillors across the country. I learned that cyberbullying was now an everyday reality for teenagers in schools. I was shocked by the ramifications of the dark shadow of cyberbullying and by the fact that a whole generation of school children had grown up with it. Most adults and teachers were as ignorant as I about the intensity of hate and cruelty crashing through the virtual world of cell phones, twitter, chat rooms and email. Cyberbullying had become an everyday mosaic in the life of teens.

This prompted me to think deeply about what Buddhist practices would be useful to ground the troubled minds of teens so they could resist cyberbullying and prevent being pulled into self-hurt. I started to talk to my young friend about foundation practices I used every day and how they might help to calm his mind when he was troubled. He really got the Two Arrows Teaching from the Buddha. In a nutshell this teaching is about a man walking along a path when suddenly he is hit by an arrow fired by a hidden and unknown attacker. The pain was terrible. Then a second arrow was fired into the same spot and the pain and suffering became unbearable. I asked him if he knew who fired the second arrow. He slowly nodded his head and said: “That would be me.

All my fears and insecurities would come up to inflame the hurt of the first arrow.” The point of the teaching was to assist him and me to come to a STOP, to calm the mind and body. Then find a way to NOT fire the second arrow into a trigger that had hurt us. Buddhism was not such a drag after all.

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Pine Gate Mindfulness Community Nucleus of Friends for Peace Canada Teachings every Thursday 7.00pm - 9.00pm Pine Gate Meditation Hall 1252 Rideout Cr, Ottawa, ON K2C 2X7 Contacts: iprattis@bell.net chill.carolyn@gmail.com • 613 726 0881 www.ianprattis.com/pinegate.htm My wife and I had picked him up from the airport in Ottawa and made him completely at home. My wife fed him with mounds of food. It seemed that he emptied the fridge at least twice a day. He could sleep in as long as he needed to and rest. On occasions he would join me in the meditation hall in the basement of our bungalow. He was curious, so I taught him how to make good friends with his breath, concentrating on the whole length of the in-breath and the whole length of the out-breath.

That if he would do that ten times without distraction he would feel calm. He also joined in when I did walking meditation. Here the breath was co-ordinated with each footstep and a simple mantra to follow each breath.

IN - OUT, with left foot and right foot.

NOW – WOW! With left foot and right foot.

I added the final concentration of being aware of how our feet touch the floor-heel/ball of foot/toe-so he could align himself with Earth Energies. I told him that this part of walking meditation was very important, as it was the catalyst for the strong earth energy already inside his mind to come to the surface. And that this energy was stronger than his troubled feelings and emotions.

We played board games, charades and kept on gladdening his mind. This was a vital step in the Buddha’s teaching on mindful breathing. He told me about three boys who bullied him at school. He also felt that they were behind the cyberbullying, though he had no proof. Also, that neither of his parents really listened to him. I listened quietly until he finished talking. Then I picked up the telephone and found the number of his school and talked to his vice-principal for a while.

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~ URGENT CALL TO ACTION! ~

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C farmer Allan Patton has succeeded in getting the Union of British Columbia Municipalities to pass a resolution to declare itself wishing to be GMO free. He heads a group trying to stop the ruination of world-famous Okanagan and Similkameen Valley farms by GMOs. The massive organic farming and fruit industries in BC are severely threatened by GMOs. Pro perty rights everywhere are being violated when GMO seeds blow onto innocent farmers’ fields.

Patton is currently proposing that a similar resolution be tabled by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) who will hold its Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Niagara Falls in May. Last year the FCM refused to table the motion or allow discussion despite many of the FCM’s own membership wanting to hear the motion. Despite it being their job to work for the taxpayers who pay their wages, the FCM Executives claimed it was too ‘controversial’.

The motion asks for a Canada-wide resolution of municipalities to impose a moratorium on further approval and release of GMO plants, fish or animals in Canada until independent and thorough research studies are undertaken and public consensus on GMO is reached. (see the motion and details here: www.Tonu.org) She was very open and supportive and had already taken steps to separate the three bullies, keeping two in detention during every recess. I also telephoned his parents and reminded them about deep listening, which they promised to put into practice with their troubled son. This boy had listened to the phone calls and was amazed at the support for him that was being galvanized right before his eyes.

Ian is the Zen teacher at Pine Gate Sangha in Ottawa since 1997. He has given talks and retreats all over the world. He now stays local with Friends for Peace Canada www. friendsforpeace.ca to help turn the tide just a little in his home city so that good things begin to happen spontaneously.

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GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are being released into our waters, air and soil at alarming rates, without independent research and testing. The approvals for this invasion of franken species is entirely on the sayso of multinationals who have had no role in building Canada. Worse, their self-reporting has been found to be extremely fraudulent and corrupted, with much of this corruption facilitated by corrupt government.

Government scientists have been fired for revealing negative findings and important data are being destroyed by the Harper government if they are not pro-GMO. Public concern and demands for labeling of GMOs and farmer demands for independent environmental assessments of GMOs before they are released (especially alfalfa), are summarily declined.

In a short 20 years since GMO introduction, serious health issues and agricultural damage have emerged, including super bugs, super bacteria and viruses. It appears that all democratic rights of the individual to food security are dismissed in favor of biotech profittaking and take-over of the food supply. Farmer’s property rights are practically extinguished!

Please write to all four Ottawa-Carleton members at the FCM asking them to encourage the FCM Executive to table the motion on the moratorium and copy your request to your city councilor. The four councilors representing Ottawa-Carleton at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities AGM are: Tim Tierney Tim.Tierney@ottawa.ca (613) 580-2481 Fax: (613) 580-2521 Maria McRae Maria.Mcrae@ottawa.ca (613) 580-2486 Fax: (613) 580-2526 Stephen Blais Stephen.Blais@ottawa.ca (613) 580-2489 Fax: (613) 580-2697 Shad Qadri Shad.Qadri@ottawa.ca (613) 580-2476 Fax: (613) 580-2516 Live outside Ottawa-Carleton?

Call your municipality and ask for the name and contact number of the person representing your municipality at the Federation’s annual general meeting in May. It may take some time and effort to extract the information, so persevere. Please, get your family and neighbors involved, post to your Facebook any information you get. Help to save Canadian lives and farms.

If Europeans can be GMO-free, so can we!

Grace Joubarne, Clinical Hypnotherapist www.GracePlaceWellness.ca info@graceplacewellness.ca 613-422-7027

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All of Life Comes To Me ACCESS CONSCIOUSNESS Empowering People To Know That They Know with Ease, Joy & Glory Tired of the stress & craziness of life around you?

Who Does This Belong To? Would you like some new possibilities?

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he trend for mini-meltdowns and unexpected “who the hell am I and what on earth do I think I’m doing here?” moments seems to be exploding. If you are looking for greater possibilities but trauma and drama is showing up these two tools can change everything!

Whether we know it or not, we all have capacity to sense energy. Most of us don’t realize that what we are picking up everywhere we go is everyone else’s thoughts, feelings and emotions. That’s a pretty cool capacity, but when we then decide to buy all that crazy stuff as ours, without even checking if it is something we would choose... well that’s called “cute but not so bright!!” Sometimes we’re so clever we are picking up these thoughts, feelings and emotions from as far as 10,000 miles away!! Oops ;-) So, here’s what you do... anytime you are feeling “not quite right” or overly emotional...

Ask: Who does this belong to? 99.9999999% of the time it’s not yours, so then you can ask for everything all of that is to be returned to sender, with consciousness attached.

If it feels lighter after you have sent it all home it’s not yours! If it still feels heavy, you may need to ask a few more questions! Sometimes the Earth is asking for a contribution of energy from us. You can just ask to gift the Earth whatever energies you are and have available that it would like. If you’re still stuck, give me a call for more information.

Another quick and simple option is to expand your energy right out to be bigger than the universe. (If you don’t know how just ask, it will happen automatically!)

This allows you to be fully aware of, but not to feel, all of the thoughts, feelings and emotions and Earth energies that can be impacting on you during these times of change.

Soundara Rajan

Daughter of Professor Krishnamurthy

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If you are mostly expanded right out, it feels way more blissful and ease-filled because you are putting a lot of space between the molecules so that you can dissipate the intensity of body aches, pains and all those emotions that mostly aren’t even yours!!

These two tools are also some of the simplest ‘cures’ for tiredness, stress, overwhelm and constant anxiety we know of... these energies show up when we are validating other people’s realities instead of choosing our own. So would you be willing to play with these tools everyday and enjoy having more of the real you show up?

Acknowledging just how aware you really are creates greater ease and possibility for you. Just because you are aware doesn’t mean you have to do anything with what you are aware of. Just acknowledge you!

I’m grateful everyday for the tools & techniques & information I’ve received & continue to receive. Access Consciousness is always changing, as each person who participates in classes contributes their unique gifts.

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There’s Plastic in my Toothpaste?

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ou may have heard about microbeads, the most recent pollutants in our water system. These tiny spheres of plastic are found in exfoliating scrubs, and also in other cosmetics like soap, toothpaste and sun lotion. Microbeads are used because they are smoother than natural exfoliants. Apparently Americans use more than 573,000 pounds of them a year (beatthemicrobead.org)! Although they are called microbeads, they have a large impact.

Why are they harmful in the water system? Firstly, they are designed to go down our water waste pipes, and too small to be caught in filters. Once they enter lakes and rivers, they are attractive potential food sources for marine animals because they resemble fish roe.

But make no mistake, microbeads are not food. Some salient points about microbeads are summed up on the website beatthemicrobead. org, quoted here: • Microbeads are found throughout the marine environment (from Lake Geneva to the North Pole); • Microbeads will not biodegrade; • They are ingested by various sea species; • They can end up in the food chain; • They attract persistent organic toxins (POPs); • Natural, biodegradable and effective alternative ingredients such as ground nut shells and salt crystals are readily available.

Let’s talk about natural alternatives, since they are readily available. Nature provides natural microspheres: from poppy seeds, strawberry seeds and jojoba beads (really!). They are a lovely addition to scrubs because they are round and smooth. Other exfoliants include loofah (a plant related to the cucumber), sugar, salt, ground apricot kernels and coffee grounds (talk about stimulating!). As I am fond of saying, sometimes you don’t have to look farther than your kitchen cupboards to create your own natural skin care.

Originally, I thought exfoliating was a bunch of hype from the cosmetic companies, but by creating and using scrubs myself, I realized that they are not only sloughing off dead skin cells, but also stimulating the blood beneath the skin and encouraging the body’s own oil, sebum, to moisturize the skin.

Here are some quick and fun ideas for exfoliating scrubs (they can get a bit messy, so you may choose to make this part of your shower routine): To one tablespoon of your favourite oil (I love olive oil this time of year), add 5 drops of essential oil ( try citrus oils like orange or grapefruit for a morning pick me up), then blend with coffee grounds. You can use this blend on your face, or full body (double or triple the recipe) for a tingly way to start the day.

Sugar scrubs are also wonderful. I like to use organic coconut sugar for this treatment. Grind 1 tablespoon oatmeal and add a tablespoon of sugar. If you want to add essential oils, they should be diluted first. Coconut oil in naturally antibacterial, so a good choice: take a tablespoon and add five drops of essential oil. Rose is a wonderful essential oil for the skin, as is the more affordable lavender, which helps regenerate skin cells.

Some reading resources on microbeads: http://beatthemicrobead.org/en http://m.motherjones.com/environment/ 2013/09/microbeads-cleanser-oceanpollution www.ecowatch.com: this resource has an app so you can see which products contain microbeads

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Earth’s Crammed with Heaven Submitted by Rev. Nicole Moronval

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eople who know me also know that I put a lot of emphasis on personal responsibility. I believe that a major percentage of our spiritual growth comes with the understanding that we create our own happiness or unhappiness through our attitude. We have often heard it said that an attitude of gratitude brings us more blessings to be grateful for.

We know that thoughts are things, and that the world we live in is a perfect reflection of our inner world.

Recently, I have come across a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning that made me realize that an attitude of sacredness is another aspect of personal responsibility that should be examined more closely. The poem is a simple one, yet it speaks volumes about the huge difference we would see in our lives if we could but view our lives more reverently: Earth’s crammed with heaven And every common bush afire with God; Yet only he who sees takes off his shoes – While the rest of us sit around it and pluck blackberries.

In just a few short words, Browning reminds us that there are no ordinary moments, no ordinary encounters, no ordinary objects in our world. Instead, all of life is infused with Spirit, and the majority of us miss this because we have come to take our life for granted. Life has become so mundane, as we go through our lives on automatic pilot, half asleep, with no awareness of what is really happening around us. We are bored because we have allowed everything to become mediocre.

Browning’s poem recalls Moses climbing the mountain that glowed with a strange light, and as he approaches, “the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush.” God calls to Moses and says, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground” (Exodus 3:5).

Browning captures this moment for us and suggests that even in our modern, fastpaced ordinary world, holiness can be found all around us.

Important to note here is that the ability to perceive this holiness is a choice: we must choose to view everything as sacred, and it is only when we do so that the Universe is able to respond in kind.

Take a moment to recapture that feeling of awe you have when you observe a magnificent sunset, or the hush that washes over you when you walk barefoot through a forest early in the morning before the rest of the world wakes up. Or remember how it felt when you observed your newborn child for the first time and you understood that you were seeing the birth of a miracle.

Recall that profound love that awakened within you and filled your heart so completely that it brought tears of joy to your eyes. Why not allow that feeling to rise up within you once more like a fountain of perfect wellbeing, and then transpose that feeling to everything you see around you right now. Why not choose to recapture that feeling, again and again, in every waking moment of your life?

Consider that an attitude of reverence for life is really about opening our eyes to God; it is taking that first step towards Him that allows Him to reach back towards us.

Walking the path of the sacred is communion with Spirit in the truest sense of the word – once you have achieved this, you want to live in that holy space forever. And finally, consider that this is a very real possibility, and reverence can fill every moment of your day.

Experience the sacred with Rev. Nicole Moronval and our guests every Sunday morning at Ottawa Spiritual Pathways Centre, 430 Churchill Avenue North, Ottawa. Sunday worship services include a guided meditation, an inspirational talk and a sharing of spirit communication. Spiritual healing is available at every service, and tea and refreshments are served afterward. Services are free, and donations are lovingly accepted.

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The Four Pillars Of Successful Retirement

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his is the crazy time of year when we get bombarded with commercials about making our RRSP contributions so that you can have enough money to fund your retirement. RRSPs, TFSA, GICs, mutual funds, stocks, bonds, real estate… the list is endless about the choices to make so that your nest egg is well funded for your retirement dreams.

For me, the discussion about proper retirement planning is not complete unless we incorporate these four important pillars together: Finances – Health – Relationships – Finding your Purpose It is undeniable that the financial component is essential and will be the foundation upon which all three other elements will rely on. We live in a society in which money is extremely important so we need money to survive. Nevertheless, these are the four key elements that I have found to be essential in proper retirement planning which, when fully explored and understood, will make for a very rewarding retirement.

Our vision of retirement has clearly changed. The old model stated that people retired because they could not work anymore, forcing them to the rocking chair and then fading away into the sunset. The “retirement planning” commercials have been portraying this phase of our life as one of endless leisure and travel. Although this might be true for some, the new model of retirement is very different.

The retiring cohort of today is challenging this old vision by being actively engaged in all aspects of their lives. They are healthier and they are conscious about the choices they make when it comes to their nutrition, the amount of exercise they do, the medications they take, all designed to keep themselves healthy on the physical and the mental level as well. Today’s cohort is also actively seeking out ways to nourish the spiritual component of their being.

Having healthy relationships is important to a successful retirement. You needs to have a positive

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relationship with your spouse, your children, your extended family and your friends as this will make your life more enjoyable and fulfilling. The secret to this is your ability to effectively communicate your vision of what your retirement is to look like. It requires that you spend some time deciding what it is that you want to accomplish in this next phase of your life and to see how these people will help you accomplish your goals. You will need to set limits and boundaries and communicate these choices so that all of your loved ones understand what your intentions are.

The fourth element is by far the most important one; finding your purpose. Like many of us, you had a dream when you were a teenager about how your life was going to unfold. That lead you down the road to career choices and twenty-five or thirty-years later, you are now contemplating leaving that world behind. You will now have twelve or more hours in your day that you will need to fill with something! What will that be?

Will that be activities that will simply keep you “busy” all day? Or will you be actively engaged in pursuing your new life direction?

The phrase that I use all of the time is that people need to “retire to something – not retire from something”!

You need to take some time to really figure out what this next phase of your life will look like! You need to design your life just like you did when you were designing your career many years ago. Your “new retirement plan” must encompass all four of these elements to be successful. It’s not just about the money anymore, it’s all about figuring out how you can achieve your life goals that have been kept dormant for many years.

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I will be holding a day-long interactive workshop on March 29th exploring the four pillars of a successful retirement. All of the details are available on my website under Course Schedule.

Daniel Roy is the principal instructor of the Ottawa based Praxis Wealth Institute. He is a Certified Financial Planner as well as a Certified Retirement Coach and public speaker. He conducts workshops and courses that are focused on helping people accumulate wealth as well as designing meaningful and rewarding retirements. daniel@praxiswealthinstitute.ca www.praxiswealthinstitute.ca www.yourretirementcoach.ca

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Eve Mari Crete’s Cosmic Eve Mari Crete Counsel for March Astrologer

Aries The first half of this month is dedicated to the dreamer in you. It is time to reflect on both your aspirations for the future, and on the rich symbolic messages that come to you while you sleep. Once March 21st, comes along, you are able to see signs of new life and you are able to implement those dreams. You may notice that this requires that you shed your skin and ideas that you’ve held about yourself. By taking time to do this, you will be better able to experience the personal liberation you desire.

Taurus This month speaks of silence. Amid the fullness of your life and the chatter of the world around you, take time to turn inward and hear the knowing voice within. The more you devote yourself to being in the present moment, the better able you will be to tune in with clarity to what your priorities and goals are. Connections with like-minded people will be a source of inspiration this month.

Gemini There may be a lot of change surrounding you now. Although Geminis are typically comfortable amidst change, it is helpful this month to be reminded to keep hold of things that are dear to you.

People will take notice of you this month, stay true to your truth. Take time to be inspired and to be inspiring.

If you are confused or disillusioned with your career path, remember you are not alone! In fact, it is your connectedness to the universe that can be your best ally this month while you intuit your highest potential.

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Virgo Partnerships are in focus for Virgos this March. Perhaps you are feeling swept away with love or disillusioned by those in your life. Perhaps you feel as though your boundaries are blurred, or that you or your partner have sacrificed greatly within your relationship.

However the cosmos expresses itself, the message here is to remember that you have everything you need within you, and healthy relationships are the delicious icing on the cake. Tap in and explore any unconscious expectations you have of others and yourself. Remember that wounds from the past need not define you. Allow yourself to let go and enjoy the fluidity of life and love.

Libra Libras are being called to do some meaningful work around fear and forgiveness this month. If you have avoided facing something within yourself, now is the time to do some soul searching and recovery. No being is without challenges. Engage in a new healing routine that incorporates your spirituality. You may feel pulled to roll up your sleeves and develop new skills or be of service. Whatever you do, find the balance between being competent and accepting what you are capable of.

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Cancer March asks Cancerians to come out of their shell a wee bit. Because this is a watery month with at least 5 planets in water signs at any given time, you will be at home with the emotional feel to this month. The challenge is for you to move outside your comfort zone, to engage in new experiences and to quest after a broader perspective. Trust yourself and life enough to be open to wonder. The deeper message this month is for you to gain strength through exploring what is meaningful to you and to continue to embrace your faith.

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Scorpio Dear Scorpio, I have some good news for you…daydream, get drunk on life and have fun this month. Striving for this tests and reveals how comfortable you are in your skin. Do you feel like you belong? Can you trust that you are where and who you are meant to be? Can you let go and be playful and unselfconscious? If this challenges you, ask yourself if there is something painful you are holding on too tightly to that restricts your spontaneous, creative forces. If there is, then allow laughter and dreaminess to restore your natural birthright of comfort with self and belongingness.

Sagittarius This month asks for Sagittarians to strategically withdraw and commune with your emotional roots and family.

Take care not to indulge or escape in emotional suffering. Do your best to keep moving as you traverse the inner dimensions; heed Winston Churchill’s advice “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” Ask yourself, do I feel at home with myself and do I feel safe within my consciousness?

How does my family myth shape me? Seeking inner security and emotional well-being this month will set you up with a great launching pad when you are ready for the next leap.

talents. It is important that if you’ve begun a new project or turned a new leaf that you keep up the momentum by recognizing your growth. Don’t give up now! By month’s end, life will accelerate; so be sure to gain confidence and get your footing so that you can make the most of what lies ahead.

Pisces And we begin again. As the sun travels through Pisces, each of you begins a new cycle. As you can imagine, this new beginning takes courage, improvisation and clarity. Essentially, you are planting seeds that will unfold as the year progresses, remember the power of intention!

Visualize a fluffy white dandelion flower in your hands.

Prepare to make wishes that have the power to change your world, and take a deep breath and blow… see all the seeds drift off and take root. Be certain to focus on self this month, and take action once you’ve become clear on what you want to manifest in your life.

Eve is an Ottawa-based professional Astrologer and holistic therapist specializing in insightful and in-depth natal chart readings. To learn more about her services , for an extended monthly forecast, and for her ‘new moon meditations’, visit her website at www.astrologereve.ca . To book your personalized reading contact Eve at 613-809-8172.

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A Sure Sign of Spring

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ome of Ottawa’s most inspirational women yoga teachers from studios around the city are participating in Ottawa’s 4th ‘Yogini Yogathon’ on June 6th from 9-4 pm at the Glebe Community Centre. This fundraising event promises to be an exciting day filled with asana, pranayama, music and meditation open to any woman, any age, with any level of yoga experience. All proceeds this year will be donated to ‘Free The Children’ an international charity and educational partner, working both domestically and internationally to empower and enable youth to be agents of change.

This event was inspired by Ottawa Yoga teacher, Megan Campbell, who in 2008 developed Journey of the Yogini (JOY) which offers events, workshops, and service retreats in recognition of the unique issues and challenges women face in life.

“Ottawa’s Yoga community is one of the strongest in North America and, as a community of like-minded, powerful women we have collectively raised over $178,000.00 to empower impoverished women globally,” Megan further expressed great enthusiasm for the positive impact women will feel through their participation, “everyone who attends, volunteer or teacher, student or Shop 4 A Cause vendor, will definitely experience the phenomenal energy that flows when women connect and put their hearts into a cause that touches us all”.

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Being Worthy of Love

By Alexis Nicol

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he other day I woke up asking myself if I believed that I was worthy of Love? Many thoughts came to mind and this is a very brief synopsis of my discovery.

Of course I believe that we are all worthy of being loved. It seems that from the instant we are born the beliefs of others begin creeping in. After many months and years, we start to take on others perceptions of us. This can cause us to feel that we are in some ways not worthy of love. We begin to feel that we have to change in order to be loved. Starting to do what we are being told, attempting to be like someone else, perhaps someone that you think must be better than you, more deserving, because they seem to have it all. We are inclined to conform, transform and mutate ourselves into something we are not, forgetting who we once were. This becomes our way.

If we are fortunate enough we will recognize the signs in our lives that are trying so hard to remind us of our worthiness, our inner beauty and the truth of who we actually are. We are given many opportunities for our healing.

Try to pay attention to the mirrors in your life. I realize that it is often hard to believe that the annoying neighbour or cruel parent is a reflection of something within us. But, only when we stop to look deep inside and ask, why is this person or that action always repeating itself in our lives? will we, if we listen carefully, hear the answer. Whether we like it or not we are all connected and we are all worthy and deserving of Love, no matter what we have done. The things we do, we do because we believe that is who we are, but it is only because we have chosen to believe the perceptions we have taken on from others. It is up to us to remove the effects of injuries we have incorporated within ourselves. By healing, we make room for Love to enter, be accepted, integrated, extended and shared.

It is a must for us to understand that we are deserving.

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I see it as our duty and role to ensure that we believe in our worthiness. It is an important way to becoming or I should say returning to our true selves. This is a gift not selfishly for our own good, but a gift that is shared at the level of Creation.

Alexis believes in a Wholistic approach to healing mind, body and soul.

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Quantum-Touch Therapy: Working with my Most Favourite Clients Aileen M. McKenna, Certified Quantum-Touch Therapy Practitioner/Instructor, Empathic Life Coach

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These are just a few of my stories, but they are enough to show me who are my favourite clients, and to make clear that Quantum-Touch therapy can create amazing changes to the lives of us all, particularly those who have been in automobile accidents, or have been given a frightening diagnosis.

ecently, I’ve been involved with a group of business coaches where we’ve spent some time pondering Aileen M. McKenna is a Certified QT who are our favourite clients.

Instructor and Practitioner, certified Keeping in mind that I value all my Breakthrough in Energy Healing as the first Canadian instructor in clients, I chose to reflect upon those In Ottawa area serving Ontario & Western Quebec June 2004. She has taught classes to for whom my work seems to be rather 1,000s of students across Canada, exclusive, in that there are few other Holistic Wellness Coach in the Caribbean and Scotland and Aileen McKenna practitioners doing similar work or sees 100s of clients annually in her getting similar results. The clients Certified Quantum-Touch® Practitioner private clinic in Ottawa. Aileen has experience the most profound results Certified Quantum-Touch® Instructor been offering energy healing in the Associate Polarity Practitioner when they come to see me and report Ottawa area for more than 20 years, Certified Aromatherapist that feel totally different following initially with Polarity therapy and Certified Small Group Facilitator the work we do together than they Cranio-Sacral prior to learning Certified Facilitator – Open Space Technology had previously experienced.

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spent time on a number of evenings, just holding her head, and doing my work. Little I realize that by simply doing this simple gesture, I was supporting her body in doing its own healing, and eliminating the risk of serious damage to her brain. She recovered, went back to her individual life, and was fine for some time.

I’ve also been working with clients who come to me with a cancer diagnosis of some sort. I know that I do not cure cancer, nor do I proclaim to change anything in the body, but with those clients who have had practitioners who were keeping track of the tumours they had diagnosed, as I worked with my clients, there was observed by their medical practitioners a considerable reduction in the size of the tumours. They had the traditional care, but kept coming to see me for aftercare following chemo, radiation, or whatever they had chosen. Their medical practitioners were surprised at how quickly they healed, and particularly following

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What’s the Difference between Qigong and Tai Chi?

by Blaise T. Ryan, R.TCMP, R.Acu “I would place Qigong equal in importance to the incredible discoveries in the forties called antibiotics and in the fifties called immunizations.” - Bill Manahan, M.D. Assistant Professor of Family Practice and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School.

If you don’t know what the difference is, then both arts may look the same to you when you see them. Both use slow movements mixed with deep breathe work.

Both are extremely powerful and proven health systems to help with pain, disease, fatigue, stress and the effects of aging. Qigong is the father of Tai Chi. Qigong dates back more than 3,000 years, while Tai Chi was created just over 300 years ago in Chen Village, China.

Qigong means “Mastering Energy.” Your body’s energy is referred to as “Qi” (pronounced “chee”). It’s surprisingly simple and easy to do and requires just minutes to practice it. Qigong follows two fundamental principles of traditional Chinese medicine: 1. When your “Qi” isn’t flowing freely, you can feel sick or stressed. Disease, pain, health problems and negative emotional conditions are symptoms of blocked Qi-energy.

2. Qigong, like acupuncture is a way to gently release energy blocks, decompress joints, strengthen the internal organs and heal some root-causes of pain, illness and imbalances.

I sometimes refer to Qigong as being a kind of selfacupuncture (without the needles). Because once you learn how to do it, you can move your own “Qi” energy back to a place of balance when you’re feeling off-track.

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The single main difference between Qigong and Tai Chi is that Tai Chi is a martial art, whereas Qigong is a health and healing practice that has no martial application. Tai Chi, also known as “TaiJi”, means “Great Pivot”, which refers to the pivoting and changing of yin and yang through the practice. Tai Chi uses water (yin) to overcome fire (yang), or receptivity to overcome aggressiveness.

Tai Chi is considered an “internal” martial art. Karate, Kungfu, Tae Kwon Do, Boxing and similar styles of martial arts are “external” martial arts. The difference between an internal and an external martial art is that external martial arts use the power of contraction and release of the muscles in order to deliver strength and speed in strikes and blocks.

Internal martial arts use the “Qi” inside the body to respond efficiently to attacks. This is accomplished through cultivating internal “Qi” power of Qigong and practicing exercises to feel and redirect energy-force.

Internal martial arts therefore have access to continuous response and power, whereas external styles are limited by individual contractions and releases of muscles.

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Of course, neither internal nor external martial arts are better than the other – because external styles are great at building muscular strength, stamina and speed.

Additionally, today most Tai Chi is practiced solely for the health benefits, as a type of Qigong, with little or no interest in the martial arts application. This is why it’s almost impossible to tell the difference between Tai Chi and Qigong to the untrained eye.

Chen style of Tai Chi is the original style of Tai Chi and still retains a lot of the martial applications amongst many of the lineages. It’s considered the most balanced of the Tai Chi styles with an equal emphasis on yang (martial power) and yin (relaxation and internal Qi cultivation. Other common styles are Yang, Wu, Sun, Taoist and Cheng, most of which focus less on the martial applications (yang) and more on the health benefits (yin) or relaxation, alignment, balance, coordination and breath.

Learning Qigong or Tai Chi can help professional athletes, seniors and anyone who wants to improve their strength, flexibility, balance, posture, clarity of mind and inner peace.

Since Tai Chi principles are based on balancing yin and yang, it teaches us how to deal with the ups and downs of life without losing our balance. They teach us to be fluid when things don’t go our way and to respond more efficiently to unexpected changes. Therefore Tai Chi can be applied to all aspects of our lives: physically, mentally and emotionally.

Blaise T. Ryan is the head Qigong and Tai Chi teacher at www.AylmerQigong.com, where he teaches weekly classes in both arts in Aylmer, Gatineau. He is a Registered Acupuncturist and Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner. He accepts new patients at his Westboro clinic. Insurance receipts are available. You can book an appointment with him online at www.drblaiseryan.com or by calling 613-702-5377.

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feel so inspired facilitating this work. To watch mini-revolutions happen in clients’ bodies and minds that bring them into greater alignment with their own happiness and health on a daily basis. The results of these changes to their overall health are sometimes hard for us to believe! I am so grateful for these happenings and to participate in a process that brings about much happier and healthier people on this planet.

What does BodyTalk do?

It helps to resynchronize communication between parts and systems that have stopped communicating due to stress, e.g. injuries, overwork, poor nutrition, mental overload, emotional stress, etc. It suggests changes to the way that our current information field is organized (around various stressors) and helps to integrate them with gentle tapping over the brain and heart. As the body and mind bring awareness to how they have become blocked, e.g. via past events, traumas, emotional holding patterns, belief systems, etc., they begin to more easily release these blockages and allow for greater health to return.

This is due to some simple quantum physics principles: Where awareness/power of observation goes, energy can flow. Where energy does not flow, matter becomes blocked and if left unchecked, results in disease.

There is no end to how much one can heal and learn about oneself when receiving these types of treatments.

This does not only entail personal development but transcendence at the spiritual level. As we release at these higher frequencies, the physical body and mind have a much easier time doing the same.

Because energy therapies are becoming more strongly enmeshed in the collective consciousness, energetic blockages are shifting more easily and rapidly when using them. This is a phenomenal gift that we are all able to readily receive. This is our bodies and minds meeting the new science and now being able to greatly benefit from the revolutionary medicine of the future!

“I love BodyTalk and have seen such a change in my day to day life, attitude and health in only two sessions. Lori is amazing and I am so thankful she is helping me find my way back to my authentic self through BodyTalk. I only wish I started sessions years ago. It’s so much faster than other avenues I have done in the past and I can’t wait to keep releasing more!”

-Julie Rehaluk, Mother, Ottawa For more information and/or to book a BodyTalk session, please contact Lori Hollohan at: lori@ energythrive.com and/or visit her website and online calendar here: www.energythrive.com

Lori is currently writing a book on harnessing awareness to bring about greater happiness, health and prosperity in life, in addition to other e-courses, e-meditations and e-yoga classes.

These will be released on her website and in hard copy in the months to come.

Lori Hollohan M.A. is a Certified Advanced Parama BodyTalk Practitioner, Cranial Sacral, Lymphatic Drainage and Reiki II Practitioner and a Hatha Yoga Teacher. Her practice is located in a BodyTalk office within a healing arts house at 484 Gladstone Ave. (at Lyon St). Lori is able to provide insurance receipts for her clients.

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Happy Anniversary, from Spirit

reasons for their existence. Shifting your perspective on a thought that was ingrained will change it completely.

We offer you support from the realm of the unseen. We have many ways of coaching and assisting you.

We come to you frequently with ideas, thoughts, notices, signs, coincidences.

Take notice, take heed. Trust your instincts, your gut, instead of the mind-speak that does not serve you.

We are here to love you and we celebrate this anniversary of the time you were noticed by the Universe for your courage and willingness to jump in and explore all that Earth had to offer for you.

channelled by Lisa Virtue

Hello Dear Ones, We are writing to you on this day to wish you a magnificent trip around the Sun. Why do we salute you so?

Because it is a birthday of sorts. An anniversary.

The anniversary of when you became so well known throughout the Universe that everyone wanted to be here with you.

Energy Healer & Medium We say this in jest and not. For it is true that everyone does want to be here... with you and with the others. For you are all co-creating such a wonderful play, so Divinely orchestrated, that even as players you may not realize With blessings for now (and for always), the magnificence of its order until after your role is done Your loving Spirit Guides for the moment.

The pieces of all that is are interwoven so intricately Lisa Virtue offers connection with Spirit through her that a “mere mortal’s” mind could not fathom the workshops and events, as well as private and group sessions. extent.

Whether you wish to hear the inspirational talks from angels Why are we speaking of this on this day? It is to and the Divine ones, speak directly to your guides through allow you to understand that many things happen Lisa, or learn to do so on your own, Lisa has something just for reasons or outcomes far beyond the reach of one right for you. www.LisaVirtue.com has all of the information. individual’s understanding. Does this make every occurrence something to love? Well, we understand Lisa may also assist you in shifting the roots of your fears how, as individuals, you may not come to appreciate through intuitive and shamanic healing. the circumstances as they occur, or even in retrospect, Connect with Lisa at Lisa@LisaVirtue.com during your time “on the stage”. Yes, certainly you 613-296-4271 • www.Facebook.com/LisaVirtue01 may come into an awareness perspective that better She is conveniently located in the Glebe. serves your coping and living with what is, but it is true sometimes things aren’t to your liking.

Now, how does this anniversary awareness serve you?

We wish you to come to an understanding of the value of your time here on Earth. There are others waiting in the wings for their time on this stage, yet what you create with yours effects all those to come. How you can best serve the whole is by best serving yourself in terms of feeling good about who you are and delving in to the items that appeal to you; following your instincts and creating with that beautiful mind and imagination of yours.

We love you how you are, yet we see the underappreciation you have towards yourselves, each other and all of the creations that surround you. The opportunities that exist to take advantage of, for your enjoyment and fulfilment, left untouched from fear.

Now is the time, on this anniversary of yours, to take advantage of what the World offers you. Unlimited choices. Get over your fears through addressing them directly at their origins. You will find they do not hold much substance any longer when you confront the

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SO YOU’RE RETIRED...NOW WHAT? Attend

Your Successful Retirement™

workshop

March 29th, 2014 A one day interactive workshop designed to provide you with the tools needed to have a Successful and rewarding retirement. Learn about the 4 pillars Finances - Health - Relationships - Life Purpose

Information sessions to be held at Prince of Wales Manor on March 5, 19 and 26. RSVP Required Presented to you by

Dare to Dream!

Prince of Wales Manor, Barrhaven 22 Barnstone Dr. 8:30am to 4pm (lunch included) info@praxiswealthinstitute.ca www.yourretirementcoach.ca 613-440-2734 RSVP and pre-pay required

TAO CRYSTALS – WORKSHOPS www.taocrystals.ca 613-288-2274 LIKE US: www.facebook.com/taocrystals

WORKING WITH THE ANGELS OF ATLANTIS; Saturday and Sunday April 19th & 20th Touch the divine within yourself and work with each of the twelve angels of Atlantis. Learn how to connect with them, how to work with them and what their teachings are for you. Practice the mantras and integrate their energies. Grace and reverence for these beautiful beings of light opens your heart and brings healing to the recesses of your body, mind and spirit. This two day workshop will bring profound changes to your life. The Angels of Atlantis oracle cards are included in the price. $299 + HST

REIKI I; Sunday, May 4th. Join Marquis who will teach you how to use the “laying on of hands” technique, along with the history, principles and background information. The emphasis is on healing one’s self and personal development, but the standard treatment is also taught (for use on family and close friends) 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Price is $175.00 + HST

CRYSTAL HEALING CERTIFICATION First module of six Presently taking applications for April 22nd & 23rd or April 26th & 27th 2014; There will be two groups, one over two days during the week and one on weekends so please let me know your preference when you sign up. This is an opportunity to invest in yourself...Learn the ancient art of healing with crystals and intent. God's treasures are here to work with us. Part of the investment includes 25 stones that become part of your healing bundle. Each module is $444 + HST.

UNDERSTANDING AND USING CRYSTAL ALLY CARDS Saturday May11th. Use for personal divination and as an intuitive card reader.

This workshop teaches you to work with the crystal ally cards. The readings learned will help you explore your path more deeply, your totem stones, your direction for the year, and so much more! 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. $250.00 and includes a set of crystal ally cards.

ULTIMATE BEGINNER CRYSTAL WORKSHOP: Saturday, May 3rd from 10 to 4 pm. Join Patty and explore these beautiful treasures, experience their energies and understand how and why they work! Learn to connect with crystal guides and the elements. We will complete two meditations and you will also leave with a picture of your aura and chakra system. Cost is $99 plus HST.

REIKI II: Sunday May 25th 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Join Marquis and continue your knowledge of Reiki. This level expands the use of Reiki energy and introduces Reiki symbols which will help you to expand your skills and increase your connection for healing and growth. Level I must have been completed Price is $230.00 + HST.

PLEASE PHONE, PAY ONLINE OR EMAIL TO RESERVE YOUR SPACE AS THEY FILL UP QUICKLY

613-288-2274 patty@taocrystals.ca

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