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Create Your 2022 Wellness Dream Team
Be ready for whatever 2022 throws at you by building a wellness dream team of trusted local practitioners and providers. We’ve put together an at-a-glance list of specialists in all areas of natural health and wellness, from Ayurveda and addiction cessation to massage therapy and medical marijuana.
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Synergy by Shira Adler
292 Katonah Ave. #412, Katonah, NY 914.861.5186 • The1ShiraAdler@gmail.com ShiraSynergy.com
What drew you to this profession?
As a single mom, I took the phrase “Necessity is the motherhood of invention” literally and created a natural wellness solution for my kids, which organically evolved into a recognized holistic wellness brand. It’s a natural extension of my life helping others overcome myriad life challenges through my work as clergy/ healer, author and media wellness personality.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I’m honored to be called an integrative wellness pioneer in the hemp and cannabis space. I started my holistic wellness company in 2011 and launched cannabinoid formulations in 2016. I’m also an internationally vetted expert in cannabioscience—the only hemp industries leader to launch a company in the area—and author of The ABCs of CBD: The Essential Guide.
What should someone expect from working with you?
People know they can trust my experience, knowledge and deeply vetted products. My company provides unique formulations including a firstin-class series, Synergy Sprays—the world’s only CBD-infused aromatherapy. I’m also the founder, president and CEO of a newly launching agritech and cannabiosciences research company (EcoSynergy) whose team of world-class industry subject-matter experts share my vision for “modern alchemy” merging ancient plant-based wisdom with breakthrough science.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
Launching EcoSynergy, LLC, is the biggest change for 2022. We’re supporting the cannabis and hemp industries through new-product R&D and establishing a one-of-a-kind CRO (contract research organization): CROCUS. Our first clinical study will be on long-Covid. Our upcoming nutraceuticals are the result of breakthrough science and set new industry standards for products—testing—and biodiversity and sustainability for humanity to Bring Balance Back.
Anything else our readers should know?
There’s never been a time like this on the planet. The repercussions to what changes our bodies and our society are facing are unparalleled—barely understood or yet experienced. When the energy shifts this dramatically, the natural wellness solutions on which we rely must also ramp up exponentially. That’s why we’re going so much deeper into research, clinical studies and education. Ultimately, our company is in service—to remind people that we are stewards of each other and our planet. See ad, page 4.
Allison Adamiak, Owner/Esthetician
280 Mamaroneck Ave., Ste. 310, White Plains, NY 914.358.9898 • Balance-DaySpa.com
Open since 2010, Balance Day Spa is Westchester County’s only certified green spa. Founded by Allison Adamiak, a master esthetician with 19 years’ experience, the spa specializes in all aspects of esthetics. Balance Day Spa uses only the finest organic products from Europe.
What makes your business special?
Balance Day Spa is Westchester County’s only certified green spa. Our facials range between 75 and 90 minutes in length and are fully customized to each client’s individual skincare needs. We also offer extensive covid safety measures (see below).
What services do you offer?
Our spa offers facials, peels, waxing, tinting, bronzing, aromatherapy and energy healing. We work exclusively with Eminence Organic Skincare and Eve Taylor Essential Oils.
What’s it like coming to your business?
At Balance Day Spa, our clients can expect that their safety is our top priority. We only schedule one client at a time, so everyone can anticipate having the spa to themselves. For those clients having a facial or other unmasked service, we require proof of covid vaccination upon arrival, which will be noted on their file. All clients should anticipate having their temperature taken upon arrival. Beyond this, our guests should expect phenomenal organic services and safety features galore. Everyone leaves happy!
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
With the new year comes the return of our ever-popular annual peel series, which consists of six fully customized peel treatments performed over six weeks. Our peels are an amazing choice for anyone looking to improve their overall skin tone, as well as to combat fine lines and wrinkles, sun damage or acne scarring. Later in 2022, we plan to introduce health coaching, with a special emphasis on skin care and healthy aging.
Anything else our readers should know?
Our staff is fully vaccinated and boosted. In addition to required proof of full vaccination for all facials/unmasked services, our safety features and protocols include: advanced hospital-grade air filtration throughout the building and spa; temperature checks; eco-friendly hospital-grade disinfection between each client; the use of P-100 respirators, masks and face shields; custom Plexiglass barriers on treatment beds; and Plexiglass at the point of checkout.
Flowing Rivers Acupuncture
603 Warburton Ave. Hastings on Hudson, NY 914.572.1559 • FlowingRivers@optonline.net FlowingRivers.net
Flowing Rivers Acupuncture offers “relief, comfort, balance and overall well-being” with Oriental medicine, according to board-certified licensed acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist Pamela Battle. Acupuncture’s effects have been compared to rebooting a computer. This ancient modality is thought to rebalance the action of neurotransmitters, endorphins and other biochemical agents to promote better blood flow, reduce pain and stress, and improve immunity, metabolism, resilience and hormonal balance.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I have extensive familiarity working with many Western medical modalities and specialties from my previous career in sales and marketing for a variety of medical products and services, providing additional insight into my patients’ concerns. I am trained in a variety natural therapies and services, such as Oriental medicine (acupuncture and Chinese herbal formulas), functional medicine assessment, alchemical healing, stress reduction, AcuPatching phototherapy, cupping, auricular therapy and dietary support. Patients visit my Acupuncture practice for treatment of headaches and body pain; reactions to stress, such as anxiety, depression and insomnia; women’s health concerns; and other chronic health issues, including digestive, sinus, respiratory and skin complaints.
What should someone expect from working with you?
My approach is a fusion of my intuition and my different trainings, knowledge and skills, which involve a variety of techniques, tools and modalities. The result is a combination of medical and spa-like treatments. I customize treatment sessions in collaboration with my patients, targeting their specific conditions and objectives and empowering them to take charge of their health and well-being.
Anything else our readers should know?
Acupuncture can provide a relaxing, restorative and refreshing time-out from daily routine and stress. Especially now, as we are learning to better cope and thrive in our uncertain times, acupuncture combined with other modalities has helped patients find improvement, relief and more resilience as they deal with physical and emotional effects of the past few very stressful years, including long-haul covid symptoms, grief, fear and uncertainty.
I offer free 20-minute consultations by appointment, and I accept insurance when acupuncture is a covered benefit for your particular complaint. I also follow up-to-date safety and disinfecting protocols.
Certified Jikiden Reiki Shihankaku Teacher and Practitioner
Balancing 4 Life, LLC
25 Broadway, Ste. 101, Pleasantville, NY 914.588.4079 • balancing4lifeusa@gmail.com Balancing4Life.com
As a Jikiden Reiki practitioner, teacher and owner of Balancing 4 Life, Anne Bentzen works with the body’s subtle energies, stimulating natural healing while relieving underlying symptoms caused by stress. Her treatments include energetic counseling and education to help clients achieve greater personal happiness and well-being.
What drew you to this profession?
I discovered the relationship between energetic flow and our conscious ability to direct energy 25 years ago, while providing occupational therapy services for autistic children who are highly sensory sensitive. This led to an immediate shift of seeing the world energetically and supporting health and well-being through Reiki, crystals and Bach flower essences.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
The original healing method of Reiki is intuitive, allowing me to discern different levels of imbalance and monitor client changes from session to session. Ongoing energy counseling teaches clients to improve personal energy management for improved health and well-being. Customized Bach flower essence formulas offer an additional aid to release unconscious behavioral patterns.
What should someone expect from working with you?
All clients will experience the compassionate touch of Jikiden Reiki and deep relaxation during treatment sessions. Clients experience relief from stress-related physical and emotional symptoms and the release of excessive mental energy. Everyone receives information on their personal imbalances and recommendations to achieve a greater sense of personal well-being.
What changes do have you planned for 2022?
Our new location in Pleasantville provides the opportunity to offer more Jikiden Reiki classes, student practice and ongoing events. I will be providing workshops on personal energy development and hosting other wellness practitioners’ programs, including monthly programs on restorative yoga and meditation, sound baths, psychic readings, nutrition and more.
Anything else our readers should know?
Your health is only as good as the balance and flow of energy through your body to support your physical structure. All physical issues are rooted in emotional imbalance. Reiki is the best drug-free natural healing method to support harmony between heart and mind. Everyone can learn Reiki for themselves and their family. Reiki principles guide you to live with greater peace and happiness. See ad, page 46. 11 E. Main St., 2nd Floor, Mount Kisco, NY 914.649.9565 • karlabooth@gmail.com KarlaBooth.com
As a specialist in the Alexander Technique, Karla Booth provides an antidote to the effects of stress and tension. According to Booth, we go through life “doing” as much as we can, often as quickly as we can, and the world is moving faster all the time. This brings about elevated tension throughout the body, mental stress, a busy mind, and a disconnection between the mind and body. The Alexander Technique teaches us that we can pause and reconnect our body and mind to reduce stress so that we can function more effectively.
What drew you to this profession?
I came to the Alexander Technique after years of back pain in my teens and 20s. What I learned in my first lesson helped me become aware of my patterns of tension that were compressing my back. And I was so fascinated I decided to do the three-year teacher-training course. I have now been teaching for 32 years.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
My background is dance, theater and yoga, and before I became an Alexander teacher I was a bodyworker (shiatsu/ reflexology). I’ve studied and taught movement of all kinds, I’ve worked with healers and other bodyworkers, and I also study and teach functional anatomy. All of this informs my teaching.
What should someone expect from working with you?
If you come to have lessons, it’s important to realize that you’ll be learning a skill that can be applied to life. It’s not about sitting and standing correctly or having good posture. It’s a method for improving awareness, thinking and moving in a more coordinated way, learning positions of mechanical benefit, and studying the skills that can change longtime habits of tension.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
Although I do teach a few people and classes online, my practice will continue to be hands-on and in person. I teach in a beautiful space that lends itself to calmness and gives a much-needed break.
Cathy Carter
Creating Sacred Places
646.584.3540 • ccarter@creatingsacredplaces.com CreatingSacredPlaces.com
Cathy Carter designs gardens that are “magic, peaceful, meditative and beautiful.” She also teaches Kinship with Nature workshops, in which participants learn the magic of communicating with the intelligence in nature. “It’s time for humanity to reconnect with the spiritual side of nature and intuitive landscape design,” she says.
What drew you to this profession?
I have always been drawn to the more subtle aspects in nature, the elemental world, and helping others on this journey of reconnecting with nature spirits is a passion and is so much fun! I grew up in the landscaping business in California and always loved to create beautiful gardens, just as my landscape architect father did before me. It is in my DNA.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I use my intuition and connect with the elemental world to design gardens that are both beautiful and healing. My workshops are in person, and each one stands alone so you can take all of them or pick and choose. Most participants tend to take all of them, since they are so much fun.
What should someone expect from working with you?
From the workshops, they will gain an understanding of the elemental world and come away with a notebook full of exercises on ways to communicate and connect. My landscaping clients will get gorgeous designs, instructions on caring for their new garden, twice-yearly checkups on plant health, and bulb planting in the spring and fall.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
The workshops will be expanded with more topics, more available days and weekend retreats. I am also offering gardening workshops, such as building your own fairy garden box to take home, and floral designing using materials found locally.
Anything else our readers should know?
I am very excited for the coming year. Teaching and designing are my great passions and my life’s purpose. I look forward to connecting with many new folks, creating spectacular gardens and continuing the journey of connecting with Nature. See ad, page 55. 1 Abbey Place, Yonkers, NY 860.3950284 • cynthimchase@gmail.com CynthiaMChase.com
Cynthia Chase is the founder of an integrative practice called Reiki Fusion. In addition to offering Reiki sessions, she offers Reiki certification for levels I and II and master level. Her background as a psychotherapist for 30 years enriches her offerings.
What drew you to this profession?
My near-death experience many years ago catapulted me to an understanding that we are spiritual energy beings in a physical body. I understood that the energy that underlies our essence can be brought to a higher vibration for healing.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I combine more than 30 years of psychotherapy experience with my training as an energy healer Reiki Master. I founded an integrative practice, Reiki Fusion, honoring the wisdom and healing power within us all.
What should someone expect from working with you?
The feeling of empowerment! Through my guidance, the seeker will find their way to an amazing wisdom and healing capacity that has been within us all along. Energy blocks, when liberated, unleash unlimited potential for manifestation.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
We have all been traumatized by our recent experience with the viral and fear pandemic. Using safety protocols, I look forward to once again offering spring and fall weekend retreats on the Connecticut shoreline. The group retreats are transformative, heartwarming and enlightening.
Anything else our readers should know?
You have so much more power than you may think. This work, in a pragmatic way, helps you to be the creator of your own life, and to harness the potential so your life actually works for you.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. ~John Muir
Sports Chiropractor and Massage Therapist
8 Bacon Pl. Yonkers, NY 914.523.7947 • leigh.damkohler@gmail.com Chiropractor-WestchesterNY.com
Leigh Damkohler offers personalized treatment to address patients’ concerns and help dysfunction that is contributing to musculoskeletal imbalance. Treatment modalities include Graston Technique, therapeutic exercises, gentle adjustments, myofascial release, massage therapy and CranioSacral Therapy.
What drew you to this profession?
After receiving chiropractic care in my 20s, I realized that this was the next step for me to continue helping people feel better. I wanted to offer patients a nontraditional model of treatment for physical pain and overall wellness.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
As the only practicing dually licensed sports chiropractor and massage therapist in the county, my hands-on expertise is second to none. Coupled with empathy and a willingness to think outside the box, I help people get back to the lives they love.
What should someone expect from working with you?
Patients should expect that sometimes releasing fascia and muscles can be uncomfortable during the process, but the end result goes beyond managing pain into removing the dysfunction that has caused it. They can also expect to take an active role in ergonomic and postural corrections that have contributed to their acute or chronic pain.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
In an increasingly digital world, I will be integrating more postural awareness and corrections for patients that want to live active lives in their 40s through their 90s. Without this, we are literally headed backwards in evolution!
Anything else our readers should know?
My goal for patients is to improve function and reduce pain. Every body responds differently to treatment, and my protocol can be fluid depending on someone’s response. Finally, chiropractic is also about supporting the body’s natural ability to maintain wellness, so you don’t need to be in pain to be adjusted.
Licensed Massage Therapist
• 108 Windermere Ave. Greenwood Lake, NY • PO Box 236 Greenwood Lake, NY 914.620.2256/CALM • Michelle@MDillonLMT.com MDillonLMT.com
Michelle Dillon offers massage therapy, manual lymphatic drainage (MLD), and scar-tissue release to decrease pain and increase relaxation. Both 60- and 90-minute treatment sessions are available.
What drew you to this profession?
I was drawn to being a massage therapist by my own exploration of pain management. Through the years I’ve been diagnosed and misdiagnosed with TMJ, thoracic outlet syndrome, costochondritis, anxiety, depression, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, restless leg syndrome, cancer, IBS, herniated disks, sciatica and plain old wonky knees.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
My philosophy is to not create pain to relieve pain. My treatment sessions use techniques from traditional massage based on current pain science.
What should someone expect from working with you?
A pain-free session to reduce pain, calm the nervous system, increase relaxation and increase range of motion. A consultation before every session. No pre-planned routines. Customized treatment sessions for every appointment. An LGBTQ+ ally.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
I plan to become certified as a complete decongestive therapist in order to help lymphedema and cosmetic surgery patients. I also plan to become a preferred provider for the Veterans Administration.
Anything else our readers should know?
I don’t accept insurance but can provide receipts for reimbursement. I can process HSA cards. I am vaccinated and wear a mask during sessions. Online scheduling and gift certificates are available on my website. Appointments are also available via email or phone/text. See ad, page 37.
Dr. Alex Barrientos and Robert Codacovi
Earth Angels Veterinary Hospital
Dr. Alexandra Barrientos/Owner
44 Saint Nicholas Rd. Wappingers Falls, NY 845.227-PAWS (7297) • staff@earthangelsvet.com EarthAngelsVet.com
Earth Angels is an integrative, full-service small-animal hospital offering alternative and conventional modalities.
What makes your practice special?
Earth Angels was the first veterinary hospital in the mid-Hudson Valley to bring integrative medicine in its present form to the region, with a blend of cutting-edge conventional medicine and a vast array of alternative modalities that are integrated to offer the most individualized treatment protocols for each patient. Truly the best of East and West.
What services do you offer?
Among the many products and services that we offer are wellness plans, dental care, acupuncture, photobiomodulation therapy, alternative cancer therapies, supplement protocols, surgery, in-house lab testing and dog/cat boarding.
What’s it like coming to your practice?
From the moment a client and their pet(s) walk through our doors, putting them both at ease is a priority for us, and that begins with getting them into an exam room as quickly as possible. We utilize, and emphasize, a fear-free approach in order to ensure a successful exam from beginning to end. Our staff will even adjust the speed with which we approach your pet’s care, to make the exam as stress free as possible.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
We’re pleased to announce that we are bringing veterinary digital infrared thermographic imaging, better known as thermography, to the region in 2022. Thermography is a noninvasive test that utilizes an infrared system to measure and pinpoint abnormal thermal changes within the body. The system gauges body-tissue heat energy that is then reflected on computer imaging. With an inexpensive and quick read, our staff will be able to pinpoint areas of inflammation in your pet. The days of “I think that my pet has pain, but I don’t know exactly where” are over! See ad, page 45.
Full Circle Veterinary Hospital
Dr. Michelle Rocque
1609 Route 9 Wappingers Falls, NY 845.234.4417 • info@fullcirclevethospital.com FullCircleVetHospital.com
Full Circle is a small animal hospital for cats and dogs, but it welcomes other companion animals for routine care too, including birds, rabbits, ferrets and pocket pets.
What drew you to this profession?
I think I was born wanting to become a veterinarian. I told my parents when I was 3 years old that this is what I wanted to be, and I never changed my mind. I love animals, and communicating with their people to achieve better health for our fur babies is my passion.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I differ from other vets in that I am an integrative holistic veterinarian, meaning I utilize both conventional treatment options as well as numerous holistic modalities to work toward optimal health for my canine and feline patients.
What should someone expect from working with you?
My clients should expect ample communication about options and recommendations for diagnostics and treatment, as well as the respect that they know their pets better than I ever will. I am a guide in navigating the best options for how to move forward medically.
What changes do have you planned for 2022?
We’re hoping to make therapeutic laser, a new treatment, available at Full Circle in 2022. This will give our patients another noninvasive option for treating pain and inflammation without side effects.
Anything else our readers should know?
All of us here at Full Circle work hard to provide options for the best care for our patients. We believe that better communication with owners means better outcomes and more success in treating our fur babies.
Samyama LLC
Armonk, NY 845.356.1999 • gatesoflight@gmail.com SamyamaLLC.com
Samyama Gates is a spiritual astrologer and healer. She offers intuitive mentoring and coaching based on the astrological chart. She also teaches and offers sessions in Lightworker and Karttikeyan Yoga Nidra.
What drew you to this profession?
What drew me down this path are the examples, presences and silences of the eight different Eastern masters who taught me from 1958 to the present day.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
My skill in assisting people to become Planetary and Milky Way Lightworkers comes from having touched and served people from all walks of life for at least 12 to 19 hours a day for 39 years.
What should someone expect from working with you?
In a higher vibrational space, people can experience an opening of intuition and healing abilities, deepening spiritual connections and a greater overall sense of well-being. In this space they may hear the call to become a lightworker and choose to answer it from the passion in their hearts.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
I’ll be initiating my five-year plan, due for completion around 2027, to build a 10,000-square-foot spiritual center open for spiritual instructions, shamanism, dojo for martial arts, acupuncture and chiropractic and yoga instructors.
Anything else our readers should know?
During these times of great change, it is important to know there is an eternally loving and abiding presence. I call this presence God. This presence is an eternal friend, steadfast and true. See ad, page 53.
Greenpoint Acupuncture
18 Cross Timbers Rd. Garrison, NY 917.453.9845 • mgorens@verizon.net
Greenpoint Acupuncture offers Chinese and Japanese Medicine, cupping and cosmetic acupuncture. Owner Maria Gorens is a New York Statelicensed acupuncturist with 25 years’ experience specializing in pain management and relieving side effects of chemo-radiation therapy.
What drew you to this profession?
According to Chinese medicine, our health depends on seasons, stars, the five elements, yin and yang, and so forth. Each organ has not only its own function but also its own personality. Face and body reading is major diagnostic tool.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I traveled through Asia to study traditional medicines. My method combines many techniques from Chinese, Japanese and Indian traditional medicine.
What should someone expect from working with you?
I don’t just treat conditions; I also educate my patients in self-help methods.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
I plan to establish a community acupuncture service that’s affordable to everyone.
Anything else our readers should know?
Oriental medicine and acupuncture are very effective noninvasive techniques for enhancing your health. Lorraine Hughes, RH (AHG)
Empowered By Nature
263 New Hackensack Rd., 2nd Floor Wappingers Falls, NY 845.416.4598 • lorrainehughes54@gmail.com EmpoweredByNature.net
Lorraine Hughes specializes in herbal medicine and nutrition. She offers comprehensive wellness consultations, using assessment techniques based in Chinese Medicine to provide each person with their own unique treatment plan. She also offers stress-reduction services, including Reiki, reflexology, acupoint aromatherapy and qigong (private and group classes).
What drew you to this profession?
About 25 years ago I embarked upon my own health journey. During this process I was fortunate to meet with naturopaths and practitioners of Chinese Medicine, to which I owe a debt of gratitude. Nature heals, and this is my way of paying it forward.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I feel that my approach is unique in that I utilize assessment techniques based in Chinese Medicine, correlating the client’s “patterns” in an East-West approach, including lifestyle, diet, detoxification, movement and breath work. I am also a Chinese and Western custom herbal formulator.
What should someone expect from working with you?
They should expect an open and honest discussion concerning their health and wellness goals. Each person will determine their own progression to vibrant health based upon taking ownership of their journey by making the changes they need to make. I will be there to guide them along the way.
What changes do have you planned for 2022?
More than likely I will offer more in-person classes, Covid permitting. These classes will cover various subjects, such as reflexology basics for self-healing, qigong and herbal medicine, and theory classes that are topic specific.
Anything else our readers should know?
It is so critical and essential that the general public embrace the healing power of nature—specifically the plant medicines and healing philosophies that have been practiced over 2,000 to 5,000 years. My mission is to be your guide back to nature.
Ayurvedic and Naturopathic Physician
Yellow Monkey Village, 792 Rte. 35, Cross River, NY 914.875.9088 (clinic M-F) 646.670.6725 (telemedicine) drkaushik@drkaushik.com • DrKaushik.com
Dr. Kaushik’s Ayurvedic and Naturopathic Clinic is a practice that combines the ancient art of Ayurvedic healing with the modern science-based principles of naturopathy to create a holistic path to wellness. Services include Panchakarma therapy, hydrotherapy, vitamins, herbal supplements, homeopathy, diet and nutritional counseling, lifestyle management, support for emotional well-being, detoxification, support for food sensitivity, parasite elimination, heavy-metal detox, therapeutic yoga, anti-aging programs, pediatrics, pain management, and women’s and men’s health.
What drew you to this profession?
Ayurveda understands that the body consists of the five major natural elements: air, fire, water, earth and space/ether. This understanding underlies the philosophy that we are part of nature—not separate— and that keeping these elements in balance is the key to health.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
The centuries-old healing art of Ayurveda, coupled with scientifically proven modern naturopathic research, blends the wisdom of the past with the knowledge of the present to recreate balance and harmony in the body. That’s the basis of health.
What should someone expect from working with you?
Ayurveda recognizes that each individual is unique. After an indepth analysis of your situation, based on your body constitution, treatment options are discussed. Options may consist of supplement, diet and lifestyle recommendations, along with possible detox protocols, such as Panchakarma and ozone therapy.
What changes do have you planned for 2022?
We will continue the NAMA-certification courses in Ayurveda Health Counseling and Ayurveda Practitioner Training. Our free monthly lectures will involve a yearlong series covering the 12 body systems and how Ayurveda can alleviate their dysfunctions.
Anything else our readers should know?
We follow Ayurveda’s principles, recognizing that although we are all composed of the five major elements found in nature, these elements are uniquely combined in each of us. When they are out of balance, illness or disease results. Ayurveda can restore that balance, boost the immune system and bring the body back into its natural state of health, by treating the whole person—body, mind and spirit—not just the symptoms. See ad, page 25.
Kitchen Gardens of Westchester
Bruce Davison, Owner
Amawalk, NY 914.4003742 • Bruce@kitchengardensofwestchester.com KitchenGardensOfWestchester.com
Kitchen Gardens of Westchester combines the delight of having your own just-picked greens and the beauty of an artfully landscaped kitchen garden. They offer a full line of services, including design, installation, maintenance and guidance.
What makes your business special?
Your garden will be designed with your tastes in mind, and your residential environment as the canvas. Our experienced designers will work with you to plan out garden placement, raised bed and trellis options, and sequential seasonal gardening.
What services do you offer?
We offer raised-bed design and construction; soil analysis and soil supplements; organic vegetables, herbs and salads; garden leveling; deer/squirrel fencing; irrigation consulting; maintenance plans; full-garden installation or DIY options to achieve a beautiful, productive and long-lasting garden.
What’s it like working with your business?
Our garden design is a collaborative process. We ask questions about your tastes, cooking and gardening experience to come up with a plan with options that make sense. Staking out the design helps you visualize the proposed garden. We also discuss maintenance plans.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
We have an additional gardener with particular expertise and experience in sequential gardening. As a result we can better assist you to extend the growing season past spring and summer into fall and winter months. We are now offering greenhouse consulting and construction too.
Anything else our readers should know?
Our motto: “Lettuce grow together!”
100 Executive Blvd., Ste. 203, Ossining, NY Garrison location and house calls available 914.519.8138 • jmatalon@optonline.net JoyMatalon.com • DropIntoYourBestSelf.com
Joy Matalon offers a range of healing therapies and services, including CranioSacral Therapy, Somato-Emotional Release, Process Acupressure, Swedish and medical massage, meditation and virtual healing sessions. She treats anxiety, depression, traumatic brain injuries, migraines, back and neck pain, tinnitus, TMJ, vertigo, autoimmune disorders and ADHD, among other conditions.
What drew you to this profession?
My journey began over 35 years ago, when I became certified in a form of body-centered meditation that allowed me to move through my own anxiety with grace. I discovered how softly shifting our approach toward ourselves creates insight and healing. CranioSacral Therapy is a hands-on way to assist this process of developing intimacy with parts of ourselves that through stress or trauma have become unconscious.
What should someone expect from working with you?
Expect to be held in a nonjudgmental and unconditionally loving sacred space. My intention is to create safety so you can unwind and connect deeply with yourself. My sessions are 75 to 90 minutes; I like to spend a generous amount of time with each person.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
I have cofounded with Dr. Erica Warren a new business called Drop Into Your Best Self. These small groups provide structured multisensory activities to help participants find support and inspiration, as well as experiences of peace, connection and community. The workshop space has cradling swings and rocking platforms that invite play to help us access patterns we are ready to reprogram.
Anything else our readers should know?
I am fully vaccinated and following all CDC protocols.
Aston Farquharson, President and CEO
34 Brady Farm Rd. Pawling, NY 914.482.0399 • jillian@nuspecies.com NuSpecies.com
NuSpecies provides high-potency liquid vitamins, liquid minerals and plant-based, liquid nutritional supplements.
What drew you to this profession?
My father died of prostate cancer. I saw the medical system failing him and could only look on helplessly. I could not ignore that the medical system has its limitations. I also know that you need to properly support your body to cleanse and rebuild on a daily basis, notwithstanding being diagnosed with a health problem. You have to empower yourself. I created NuSpecies to empower my clients.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
High-potency, highly concentrated, cold-processed, plantbased liquid formulas that are FDA approved. What matters more is that our formulas and our detoxing and rebuilding programs have already helped tens of thousands of people to live better and longer.
What should someone expect from working with you?
Honesty and integrity!
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
We plan to bring on more medical doctors and registered nurses. We will also expand to television network advertising nationwide to offer help to those in need. In addition, we’re updating our brand look. Our logo and product packaging will get an updated design.
Anything else our readers should know?
They will find a family with us. We will never give up until we help them. See ad, page 3.
What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.
– Caroline Myss
White Lotus Grace
South Road, Millbrook, NY 845.677.3517 • whitelotusgrace@gmail.com WhiteLotusGrace.com
White Lotus Grace nurtures the transformation of traumas and trials into heartfelt strength and growth, grounded in spiritual wisdom and gentle, joyful relationship with God. Services offered include intuitive healing, dance, meditation, readings, private sessions, classes and courses.
What drew you to this profession?
My whole life mystically evolved into this work through every experience, gift and talent I received. They grew together to help me heal and overflowed as an expression of gratitude and inspiration to share their peace, joy and power with others. 25 Black Brook Rd. Pound Ridge, NY 914.525.6536 • DrParodneck@gmail.com DrLynnParodneck.com
Dr. Lynn Parodneck is an M.D. who provides medical marijuana consultations, certification and management. She spends time with patients on education, leading to a comprehensive start plan. Her practice, located in a landmarked carriage house, gives patients complete privacy. Her areas of expertise include insomnia, pain, PTSD, depression and anxiety.
What drew you to this profession?
This profession has multiple components. I was drawn to it after my own experience with breast cancer. Medical marijuana was not available to me, and I understood very quickly what this medicine can do.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
Each service, class or course is channeled for you through a conduit of grace from God interwoven with clairvoyance, clairaudience and empathic intuition. Infusing dance and devotion/bhakti also uniquely moves healing energy to you and through you.
What should someone expect from working with you?
You will receive complete compassionate attention, free from judgment, in personalized service that intuitively meets you where you are. Gentle, joyful, mystical experiences of transformation are frequent features that clients enjoy unfolding at White Lotus Grace.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
Assorted services are being bundled into bouquets to support internal transformation, healing, relationships and integrated spiritual development, from the mud of life to the lotus of love. A Course of Embodying Inner Trust, membership packages and retreats are sprouting too.
Anything else our readers should know?
I invite readers to receive a free consultation and sample the soothing experience of White Lotus Grace, as its special healing ways are felt beyond words. Private sessions, classes, courses and readings are available by phone, virtually or in person.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I spend a lot of time educating patients. I do public speaking, podcasts, radio shows and media interviews. I pride myself on knowing my patients and try to give them a positive realistic evaluation.
What should someone expect from working with you?
I do a thorough evaluation and consult with every patient. I try to prepare patients for their first shopping trip, advising them on products and dosing.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
I plan to do more conference speaking and educational events. With recreational legalization, people need to understand how this all works. Also, I am now a licensed physician in Connecticut. See ad, page 41.
All-Natural Addiction Cessation
Stephen Quinn, Owner/Practitioner
Garrison, NY, and Midtown Manhattan 914.473.2015 • steve.healingny@gmail.com QuitWithQuinn.com
At Quit with Quinn, owner/practitioner Stephen Quinn helps people quit addictions quickly, naturally and painlessly. His focus is helping people overcome alcohol, smoking and sugar addictions; achieve weight loss; and overcome other unwanted habits. His treatment programs are simple and painless, with a 90 percent success rate.
What drew you to this profession?
Over 25 years ago, I saw the incredible efficacy of healing energies in helping transform people’s lives. I was “called” to this work and began practicing 21 years ago, becoming more and more effective at helping people overcome addictions and heal physically and on many levels, and assisting people’s spiritual development.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
My work is quite different from traditional addiction-cessation assistance. I deal on the level of energies and am very skilled at the application of healing energies to restore a person to proper balance and remove the energies of an addiction. This results in a tangible, sustained feeling that the addiction is simply gone—because it is, on the energetic level. The results come fast and don’t involve any chemicals or a stay in a treatment facility.
What should a person expect from working with you?
With two elements present—readiness to quit and the healing treatment you’ll receive—you can expect to overcome your addiction without the usual struggle. Cravings disappear or are greatly reduced either immediately or over the first couple of weeks. Our success rate is 90 percent.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
Continuance and reaching more people. People often say, “Why have I never heard of this before?” That can’t be remedied overnight, but over time more and more people should know that this real, immediate help is available.
Anything else our readers should know?
They should know that change can happen quickly and they can have the life they want. It can be done alone, but people usually negate their own best intentions. At Quit with Quinn, my expertise is transferring healing forces that can dispatch a person’s problem, resulting in real, sustained change. See ad, page 53.
Micah Saccomanno, Owner and Founder
111 E. Main St. Mount Kisco, NY 914.241.1900 • micah@riseabovefloatation.com RiseAboveFloatation.com
Rise Above Floatation is Westchester’s first and only floatation center dedicated to deep relaxation and exceptional awareness through the power of sensory deprivation.
What makes your business special?
Discovered in the 1950s at the National Institute of Mental Health and popularized as a therapy in the 1970s, floatation therapy (also known as sensory deprivation) removes all stimulation to the senses in order to trigger a deep relaxation response. Through various float environments, such as float pods, tanks and open float rooms, sessions are designed to keep out all light and sound as the client floats like a cork in a hyper-salinated solution of magnesium sulfate (Epsom salts). The only thing you may hear is your heart beating. After 30 to 40 minutes in this perfect dark, you will find yourself thinking one thought at a time accompanied by a mental and physical calm much like the calm you experience when you first wake up from a restful sleep. It’s a highly effective, truly unique experience.
What services do you offer?
We offer private floatation sessions starting at one hour long. We provide everything needed for floating and after floating: shampoos, conditioners, earplugs, towels, lotions, tea, water and more. We also offer massage therapy. Gift cards are available.
What’s it like coming to your business?
With three different float environments to choose from, Rise Above Floatation allows clients to have more control over their experience. The more control the floater has, the more relaxed they become. Soundproof, lightproof and extremely welcoming, the float session allows the floater to experience their body in a different way than in their usual waking life.
250 E. Hartsdale Ave., Ste. 22, Hartsdale, NY Telemedicine Available 914.472.0666 •HartsdaleHomeopathy.com
Susanne Saltzman, M.D., has more than 29 years of clinical family practice experience treating acute and chronic illness in children and adults. She has successfully treated thousands of patients for a wide variety of diseases and conditions. Her emphasis is on homeopathic and functional medicine to decrease dependency on pharmaceutical drugs.
What drew you to this profession?
I was dissatisfied with the limitations of conventional allopathic medicine, which focuses on disease, not on health or prevention. Allopathic is not holistic. It does not focus on the whole person—the mental, emotional and physical aspects of disease.
How is your work different from that of others in your profession?
I practice both homeopathic medicine and functional medicine. The combination of the two fields is extremely effective and truly holistic. And I’ve been practicing for 30 years now.
What should someone expect from working with you?
My time, my undivided attention, my respect for the fact that every individual expresses disease in his or her own unique way and therefore may require a completely different homeopathic medicine from the next person with the same disease.
What changes do you have planned for 2022? I have one day for telemedicine services now.
Anything else our readers should know?
The human body is innately brilliant. We all have the capacity to heal. Homeopathic medicine provides that catalyst by treating the whole person and recognizing that someone’s mental and emotional states are just as important as the physical symptoms in facilitating the healing process. Functional medicine restores gut function (“leaky gut”), addresses environmental toxins, rebalances hormones and emphasizes that food is your medicine.
I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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Laurie R. Mallis, M.D., LAc
2424 Route 52, Ste. 1A, Hopewell Junction, NY 845.592.4310 • searchlightmed@optimum.net SearchLightMedical.com
SearchLight Medical offers medical acupuncture, cupping, gua sha, Reiki, Ondamed biofeedback therapy, AcuGraph qi analysis, Jade Vitality mat heat therapy, Mei Zen Cosmetic Acupuncture System for face and neck, and Mei Zen Abdominal Acupuncture for fertility or weight loss.
What drew you to this profession?
After more than 25 years in traditional Western medicine, I wanted to treat my patients in a more natural way, without the use of pharmaceutical or nutraceutical remedies. I’ve always believed that all people have the ability to heal when their qi energy is balanced and flowing freely within their body.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I combine my Western and Eastern knowledge to plan a course of treatment that is specific and unique for each patient. I see only one patient at a time, so my attention is solely focused on that one person. I become a partner with my patient to achieve long-lasting deep healing. My passion has always been to find ways to heal illnesses without the need for any kind of medication—prescription or natural supplements.
What should someone expect from working with you?
An extremely high level of dedication to helping my patients achieve better health and wellness, whether the illness is acute or chronic. My goal is to help all my patients achieve a level of healing where they will only require a minimum number of treatments to maintain their good health and well-being, with the fewest medications or nutritional supplements.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
I’m always looking to improve my treatments that will support and help heal my patients. I will be introducing new acupuncture treatments that will amplify the body’s ability to fight off infections, as well as deeper and longer-lasting pain-management treatments.
Anything else our readers should know?
Energy work is not a quick fix. It is very important to understand that a problem that has been going on for a long time is not going to be resolved with only a few treatments. The best results are achieved when you’re willing to devote time to allow your body to heal on its own timetable. See ad, page 4.
Behavioral Optometrist 495 Central Park Ave., Ste. 301, Scarsdale, NY 914.874.1177 • support@drslotnick.com DrSlotnick.com
As a Behavioral Optometrist, Dr. Samantha Slotnick takes a holistic approach to vision care, for all ages. She helps patients maximize their natural ability to see with clarity, comfort and open awareness of space. Her practice specializes in vision therapy and rehabilitation for a broad range of vision problems that interfere with reading, learning, attention, performance and efficiency.
What drew you to this profession?
I was “born” to do this work, with personal challenges interfering with my binocular vision. Through vision therapy, I retrained my brain to coordinate my eyes, and enhanced my ability to process visual and spatial information.
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I bring a unique blend of knowledge and experience to the art and science of behavioral optometry. I am a sought-after lecturer, renowned for my communication skills and my ability to relate personal habits and patterns to people’s use of their visual systems.
What should someone expect from working with you?
I have a great facility in connecting with children and “children of all ages.” Patients are often surprised by the natural positive boost in their reading comprehension and efficiency at work or school that comes along with the functional benefits of therapeutically designed glasses. Alleviation of stress in the head, neck and eyes naturally redistributes energy for cognitive processing.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
I emphasize multidisciplinary care for patients in need of rehabilitative support. I’ve been expanding my network, along with my neuro-optometry training, to best serve patients managing the impact of concussion and other forms of acquired brain injury.
Anything else our readers should know?
Vision is our means of touching what lies beyond our grasp. Who we are shapes our view of the world, our use of our vision and our outlook for the future. Behavioral optometry provides each individual with a personalized opportunity for self-evaluation, growth and change, with impacts extending far beyond the visual process. You can indeed “envision your world!” See ad, page 43.
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Dr. Michael Wald
29 King St., 2nd Floor, Chappaqua, NY 914.552.1442 • info@blooddetective.com DrMichaelWald.com
Dr. Michael Wald started out as a doctor of chiropractic, then gained his master’s as well as two board certifications in nutrition. The services he offers range from laboratory blood tests, to hyperbaric and low-temperature sauna, to adrenal and body-fat measurements, among others.
What drew you to this profession?
My father was a nutritionist and chiropractor, and I witnessed over many years how he helped so many people. I was hooked!
How does your work differ from that of others in your profession?
I might be considered different mainly because of my development of the BloodDetective technology (software) and approach to determining healing plans for my patients. My software helps me interpret large amounts of lab data quickly and accurately by comparing my patients’ test results not merely to those of average people, but also to those of healthy people—often uncovering many hidden health problems.
What should someone expect from working with you?
Those that work with me will soon see that I can effectively provide my patients with my full attention and BloodDetective approach. This means that I do not provide a one-size-fits-all approach, but instead strive to develop doable health plans defined by when and how each patient should gain health and wellness.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
My goals include incorporating the most advanced natural, nutritional and laboratory sciences into my practice. Ongoing seminars for health professionals and the public, both live and via Zoom, as well as my podcasts (Ask The BloodDetective), help ensure that I am at the very top of my game. This is what people deserve.
Anything else our readers should know?
My drive comes from my personal healing from multiple sclerosis and my intention to help others help themselves. I don’t stop with my own personal and professional growth, because I take the health of those that seek me out very seriously. My BloodDetective approach is crucial for better health, simply because it’s a philosophical and technological approach that effectively teaches people how to reach their health goals and stay well for the long term. See ad, page 17.
Cathy Parlitsis, Owner
222 E. Main St. Mt. Kisco, NY 914.276.5409 CBD@YourCBDStoreMtKisco.com YourCBDStoreMtKisco.com
Your CBD Store – Wappingers Falls
Yvette and Jose Sanchez, Owners
1582 Route 9, Wappingers Falls, NY 845.297.0302 CBD@CBDWappingers.com YourCBDStoreWappingers.com
Your CBD Store is a plantscience company providing high-quality organic hemp supplements. All products are lab tested by a third party for safety and effectiveness. The store staff educates customers on the products so they can have confidence in their choices.
What makes your business special?
Your CBD Store is the largest brick-and-mortar CBD retailer in the world, with more than 600 independently owned stores. We only sell CBD and related hemp supplements. That’s our only business! Our products are USDA-certified organic and independently lab tested. We are also an active part of the communities we serve.
What products do you offer?
Our stores carry a wide variety of hemp products, from tinctures, topicals, water-solubles and edibles to appetite suppressants. We also have a full pet line, and we’re adding new products all the time.
What’s it like coming to your business?
Our stores are designed to be a space where customers can relax and spend as much time as they need speaking to a trained professional. You know coming in that you are in a safe space where the products are both safe and effective and all staff members are committed to providing you with red-carpet customer service.
What changes do you have planned for 2022?
Our TRIM line of appetite suppressants—backed by research—will be expanding beyond capsules and tinctures into other delivery systems. Look for new and exciting products highlighting other minor cannabinoids as well.
Anything else our readers should know?
Our employees do not work on commission! Their only purpose is to help you decide what is best for you. We’re here seven days a week to answer any and all questions you have. See ad, page 7.
Connecting the Dots: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Science
By Lia Russ
Lia Russ, author of Connecting the Dots, is a spiritual catalyst, healer and mentor. She’s currently organizing discussion groups, Connecting the Dots Talks, to help people think about and integrate aspects of the book. Lia is available for private healing or mentoring sessions as well as group mentoring. 845.418.2416 or Lia@ connectingthedots.guru
What’s your book about?
At 9, by following inner promptings, I healed a horse. That miraculous experience set me on a lifelong quest to understand what we are taught is possible and what actually is possible. I also wanted to understand why we not told about abilities such as these or how to use them. My quest led me across continents, through time, into physics, biology, psychology, and ancient teachings, to bring you life transforming answers.
Why did you write it?
Forty years ago, science didn’t hold a lot of answers to my questions, so I pored through ancient texts and traveled the globe speaking to elders who held wisdom. I learned a lot, but being a bit of a science geek, I craved more solid explanations. Recently science has developed sensitive enough equipment that it can capture the minute energies our bodies produce and read. Science is now confirming many things our ancestors believed were true. Looking at scientific findings with new eyes, we find answers to questions like “Is there life after death?” and “What’s a gut reaction?”
What was your goal or mission?
If you’ve ever had a piece of yourself shaved off by the world, this book is for you. I want to provide some of the teachings and support that we should all be receiving in becoming awakened, whole, self-accepting, self-actualizing beings on this planet. The information I provide is transformational. It brings us back to ourselves and to nature. It reinforces that we are all important, that our differences are a valuable part of the whole. I want to give people the gift of restoring themselves, whole and unbroken, strong and powerful.
Where can people buy your book?
It’s currently available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble and through my website, Connectingthedots.guru, and it will soon be available via Shopify.
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Armando Aviles and Sandra Marinelli
Brooklyn Organic Kitchen
Mahopac eatery keeps finding fresh ways to tempt with ‘good’ food
As owner and head chef of Brooklyn Organic Kitchen, a new American café and eatery in Mahopac, Sandra Marinelli keeps finding fresh ways to tempt us to eat right. Even as BOK has quickly built a loyal customer base with its health-supportive traditional meals, drinks and desserts, Marinelli has teamed up with chef Armando Aviles to offer a full complement of vegetarian and vegan alternatives. She recently talked to us about her life in the restaurant business and her goals with BOK’s ever-evolving menu.
What attracted you to this work?
Having grown up in a family that owned a pizzeria, I’ve always felt the most comfortable in the kitchen and behind-the-scenes cooking. Food was the center of our family functions, and as a daughter of Italian immigrants, you can only imagine the amount of pasta we ate! As I got older I found it hard to balance my love of food and my desire to be healthy and feel good. My first nutrition course in college opened up a whole new world of food to me and started me on this journey of cooking delicious food with health-supportive ingredients.
What’s one of the main catalysts that propelled you and the restaurant to where you are now?
Despite the resounding success early on, I always believed that Brooklyn Organic Kitchen could reach greater heights. I knew that cooking with fresh organic ingredients was important, but I also knew that so many people struggled with allergies and different dietary needs that it had become difficult for a family or group of friends to go out to eat together. This is when I decided that I wanted my menu to reach everyone.
Initially I was seeking a baker who specialized in vegan desserts, so I could offer vegan alternatives for everything on the menu. That’s when I met Armando Aviles, formerly head chef at Bear Mountain. He became vegan for health reasons, and during the pandemic he began experimenting more and more with vegan cooking. Armando holds a vision similar to mine and has become our savant of vegan cooking.
How has this partnership blossomed?
Since teaming up with Armando, I’ve noticed serious results. The menu is full of delicious vegan options, including desserts like our vegan carrot cake and death by chocolate, and vegan entrées such as the hot agave mushroom ‘chicken,’ seitan ‘pastrami’ Reuben, and tofu ‘salmon.’ Our ultimate goal is for every item on the menu to have an equally delicious—if not better—vegan counterpart. Armando’s gift of flavoring foods has truly elevated the menu. This partnership has allowed me to complete that all-encompassing menu that I always knew would become an actuality.
What should someone expect coming into your restaurant?
Customers should expect to feel at home at Brooklyn Organic Kitchen, as the atmosphere is warm and inviting and we have a beautiful view of Lake Mahopac. They should also know that first and foremost we’re here to serve them, and we’re willing to modify any of our menu items to accommodate their dietary needs. I want to empower my customers to make conscious food choices that fit their lifestyle and diet. I always say that as long we have the ingredients and you’re willing to wait for it, we’ll make it for you. All our dishes are made fresh to order with the highest-quality ingredients available.
What are your plans for 2022?
I plan to expand the business through several enterprises. I’ve added a fixed-price dinner menu Thursday and Friday nights, in which each menu item can be either traditional or vegan. I’d like to host special dinners such as My Vegan Valentine, which was our first successful collaboration last year. Outside of the restaurant, we will continue catering for a number of private events, including vegan parties and weddings. In addition, we’ll attend New York City’s Vegandale Festival in September 2022. Lastly, I plan to host a number of off-site pop-ups in and around the Hudson Valley to share vegan experiences in areas where there is a lack of vegan options.
Brooklyn Organic Kitchen is located at 890 S. Lake Blvd, Mahopac, NY. For more information, call 845.621.2655, email brooklynorganickitchen@gmail.com or visit BOKMahopac.com.
Foodie Guide
CAFES
CHAKRA BOWLS CAFÉ
33 Arlington Ave., Poughkeepsie, NY 845.849.0399 chakraBowlsCafe.com
O2 LIVING SANCTUARY
792 Rt. 35, Cross River, NY 914.763.6320 O2livingsanctuary.com
NEW
GOOD CHOICE KITCHEN
147 Main St., Ossining, NY 914.266.3003 goodchoicekitchen.com
THE FREIGHT HOUSE CAFÉ
609 Route 6, Mahopac NY 845.628.1872 thefreighthousecafe.com
COFFEE
COFFEE LABS ROASTERS
Order beans online/ship home 7 Main St., Tarrytown, NY 914.332.1479; coffeelabs.com
FARMERS’ MARKETS
GOSSETT’S FARM MARKET
& Gossett Brothers Nursery 1202 Rt.35, South Salem, NY 914.763.3001; Gossettnursery.com
HUDSON VALLEY FARMERS MARKET
Greig Farm, 223 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook, NY 914.474.2404 Facebook.com/ HudsonValleyFarmersMarket.
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HUDSON VALLEY REGIONAL FARMERS MARKET
Sundays, 10am-2pm 15 Mount Ebo Road South Brewster, NY Falafel Burger with homemade pickled red onions, rice and hempseed tzatziki from Mindfull Meals
FARM STORE
BONI-BEL FARM & COUNTRY STORE
Natural market & vocational program 301 Doansburg Rd, Brewster, NY 845.278.2060 greenchimneys.org/countrystore
Z FARMS ORGANIC
Open Every Day 355 Poplar Hill Rd. Dover Plains, NY 917.319.6414 ZFarmsOrganic.com
FARMS
FABLE: FROM FARM TO TABLE
1311 Kitchawan Rd, Ossining, NY Sat & Sun 9am-4pm FableFoods.com
HARVEST MOON FARM & ORCHARD
130 Hardscrabble Rd North Salem, NY 914.485.1210 HarvestMoonFarmAndOrchard.com
HILLTOP HANOVER FARM & ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER
1271 Hanover St, Yorktown Heights, NY 914.962.2368 HilltopHanoverFarm.org
THREE FEATHERS FARM
Grass-fed beef & eggs 371 Smith Ridge Rd, S. Salem 914.533.6529; threefeathers.farm MARKETS
BIG ROCK MARKET
Open 6 days a week 6031 RT 82,Stanfordville NY 845.868.3320 BigRockMarketNY.com
GREENS NATURAL FOODS
Briarcliff Manor 97 North State Road Briarcliff Manor, NY 10510 914.800.9146 Eastchester 780 White Plains Rd. Scarsdale, NY 10583 914.874.5481 Mt. Kisco 666 Lexington Ave. Mt. Kisco, NY 10549 914.864.1274 Somers 57 Rte. 6. (in Baldwin Place) Somers, NY 10505 914.485.8093 GreensNaturalFoods.com
GREEN ORGANIC MARKET
275 S. Central Park Ave. Hartsdale, NY 914.437.5802 FB: GreenOrganicMarket
WHOLE FOODS MARKET
575 Boston Post Rd, Port Chester, NY 914.708.1985 1 Ridge Hill Rd, Yonkers, NY 914.378.8090 110 Bloomingdale Rd, White Plains, NY 914.288.1300 WholeFoodsMarket.com MEAL DELIVERY
MINDFULL MEALS
Plant-Based, Gluten-Free Calorie and Macro Counted MindfullMealsDelivery.com
MICROGREENS
TINY GREENS FARM
Microgreens, organically grown, local delivery. CSA. markets wholesale; tinygreensfarm.com
RESTAURANT
BROOKLYN ORGANIC KITCHEN
Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 890 South Lake Blvd. Mahopac, NY 845.621.2655 BOKmahopac.com
VEGAN
SKINNY BUDDHA ORGANIC KITCHEN
159 Lexington Ave., Mt. Kisco 914.358.1666 MySkinnyBuddha.com
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