February 2010 Newsbriefs

Spa Treatments at Home

OhSoSlender Body Spa would like to inform spa enthusiasts they now have the opportunity for a variety of natural therapy treatments in their home. OhSoSlender specializes in 50+ clients in assisted living and offers anti-aging facials, homeopathic mineral body scrubs/wraps, hydrating hand-treatments for aged skin and arthritis, and glamour makeovers. Body wraps are a healthful and relaxing method to help visually slenderize and contour body shape and visibly tighten skin. It involves wrapping the body in porous elastic bandages soaked in a special mineral solution. The Body Wrap is applied firmly to areas needing inch loss and contouring and lightly where only skin tightening is desired. Face taping is the application of a special tape over a freshly cleansed face, especially in the areas needing lift and definition. Warm, mineral bandages are applied over the tape to tighten loose skin. It is a non-invasive procedure that helps smooth out fine lines and wrinkles, as well as to lift the eyebrows, jaw line, and accent the cheekbones without the use botox or surgery.

For more information, call Audrey Wright at 321-652-1680, email oh.soslender@live.com, or visit www.ohsoslender.com.

Road Rally and Poker Run for Pets

The Central Brevard Humane Society (CBHS) is hosting its Seventh Annual Molly Mutt Road Rally and Poker Run. All vehicles are welcome with the first bike out leaving at 10am; the last one departing at 11:30am. Event activities include a 50/50 drawing, vendor displays, food, and live entertainment. Prizes will be awarded for best, worst, and mystery poker hands. Proceeds from the event will help raise awareness and provide financial support for the thousands of unwanted and abandoned pets that visit the shelter each year.

CBHS is Brevard County's oldest established animal welfare organization. A "no kill for space" shelter, CBHS is dedicated to speaking for those who cannot speak for themselves. They educate the community on responsible pet ownership and the humane treatment of animals, advocate spaying/neutering to reduce the homeless pet population, and provide quality care to Brevard's abandoned animals by placing them with responsible, caring owners in safe and forever homes.

Event begins Sunday, February 21 at 10am at the Humane Society, 1020 Cox Road, Cocoa. Cost is $7 per hand or two hands for $10. Donations of pet supplies are greatly appreciated. For more information, call 321-636-3343 or visit www.crittersavers.com.

Hyperbaric Therapy Available in Melbourne

Health For Life is pleased to offer an innovative approach to restore health called Hyperbaric Therapy (HBT). Mild hyperbaric therapy has been around since the 1600’s and is a safe, FDA approved method of delivering oxygen to the body at the cellular level. HBT provides an optimal environment for the body to carry out vital cell processes, thereby increasing the capacity for the body to heal itself. A total body chamber utilizes filtered pressurized ambient air to dissolve oxygen directly into the plasma, cerebral, and spinal fluids, flooding tissues and vital organs with oxygen. "HBT allows for healing at the cellular level, a critical step to restoring health," shares Dr. Sylvie. "It has been shown to be effective for inflammatory disorders such as autism, arthritis, asthma, lupus, multiple sclerosis, scleroderma, stroke, systemic inflammation, immune-response disorders, poor healing wounds from injuries or surgeries, and more."

Health For Life is located at 402 N. Babcock St., Suite 101, Melbourne. For more information or a free consultation, call 321-259-0555.

Healthy Living Expo Coming Soon

Central Florida’s largest natural and green living expo will be held Saturday, May 1st at the Florida Tech Clemente Center in Melbourne. Excitement is building for this year’s 8th annual Healthy Living Expo and producers expect it to be the best yet.

Each year the Healthy Living Expo brings together a wide array of natural, organic, and green living products, services, providers, information, and experts for the home, pets, and the whole family. The Healthy Living Expo features many exciting speakers presenting natural living topics to help you live a natural life and the exhibit hall is filled with exciting products, samples, and interactive displays to get your organic juices flowing.

If you are interested in promoting your business at the expo be sure and register by February 15th to take advantage of early bird pricing. Ask about expo coupons that will be featured in the March and April editions of Natural Awakenings magazine.

For more information visit www.HealthyLivingExpos.com or call 321-777-6433.

Healthy For Life Seminars

Atlas Chiropractic of Brevard is pleased to announce the kick-off of their nutritional seminar series with Justina Rudez. Ms. Rudez is a Certified Healthy For Life Coach under Ray Strand, MD, a well-known international lecturer on nutritional medicine and author of What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know about Nutrition and Healthy for Life. Ms. Rudez will share knowledge from Dr. Strand’s work in seminars in order to help each person attain optimal health. The series will cover topics such as cellular nutrition, low-glycemic eating, combating the root cause of diabetes (insulin resistance), the power of antioxidants, and the need for nutritional supplementation. Also included in the Healthy For Life series is a twelve-week challenge to achieve lasting fat loss and reverse insulin resistance.

The seminar will be held on Monday, February 15 at 7pm at Atlas Chiropractic of Brevard, 1751 Sarno Rd., Suite 1, Melbourne. To RSVP for this event, call 321-987-0668.

Third Annual Kirtan College

Kashi Ashram invites those interested in learning Kirtan to join David Newman and Mira for the third annual Kirtan College. Kirtan is a sacred music tradition of call-and-response chanting that promotes a healing, meditative state. The in-depth course is designed to educate and guide participants in the many facets of the ancient art of Kirtan. Students will gain understanding, confidence, and tools to cultivate the musical skills to accompany, compose, and lead Kirtan in a group.

Kirtan College runs Sunday-Sunday, February 21-28. Kashi is located at 11155 Roseland Rd, Sebastian. For more information and to register online, visit www.davidnewmanmusic.com, email om@davidnewmanmusic.com, or call 772-589-1403, ext.109.

Natural Awakenings Expands into New Territories

Natural Awakenings Publishing Corp. is pleased to add six new publishers who recently completed a training program in Naples, Fla..

The training staff welcomed entrepreneurs from Memphis, Dallas, Ventura County Calif., Indianapolis, Lafayette, La., and Northeast Georgia, along with a new owner of the Asheville, N.C., edition and a new partner for the Bergen/Passaic counties, N.J., edition.

Company CEO Sharon Bruckman launched the first edition of Natural Awakenings in 1994 and began franchising it in 1999. Currently, there are 71 Natural Awakenings magazines being published in the United States and Puerto Rico. With the addition of six new magazines, total readership will exceed the 3 million mark.

For a list of where Natural Awakenings is publishing or to learn more about franchising opportunities, visit NaturalAwakeningsMag.com.

Qigong as Poetry in Cocoa

Richard Todd is excited to offer a new class, Qigong Form: Poetry of Personal Harmony. The series of classes will be a study of the fundament of Nature, known as Qi (chee) for the purpose of developing skill (gong) in order to promote dynamic harmony of the whole person within nature. The class incorporates a poem of movement in 20 postures with each movement being studied and practiced on its own before being added to the sequence. All movements are gentle and involve no impact. Physical impairments, such as pain associated with movement, are easily accommodated. No prior experience in either physical activity or energy work is required and beginner, intermediate, or advanced practitioners progress at their own pace. "All who attend can expect the group sessions to enhance their personal experience with Qi," says Shifu Todd who has been studying the Chinese arts of Qigong and Tai Ji for more than 20 years; actively teaching for the past five.

Sessions are offered on a donation basis and held on Fridays at 8am at Nature's Spirit in Cocoa Village, 405 Florida Ave, Cocoa. Private or group sessions are also available at Richard’s studio. For more information, call 321-631-6791.

Concert and Medicine Wheel Workshop

Wynne Paris will perform enlightening yoga-inspired music on Sarod, guitar, and percussion, while telling stories, devotional chanting, and singing mantras from eastern spiritual traditions. His unique Yoga-Fusion sound is a beautiful, heart-opening experience. Wynne has recorded with and performed with many well-known yoga, rock, jazz, and world beat musicians. As a Bhakti, or devotional singer, Wynne draws upon influences from Indian and Tibetan folk music as well as gospel, blues, jazz, and chiefly from Kirtan, a mystical yogic form of singing.

Bruce Orion will be offering an enlightening journey around the medicine wheel. "Aligning our spiritual path with the life we are living is often a transformative experience," explains Bruce, a well-known, respected spiritual teacher from Sedona. Bruce will explain the rich symbolism of the cross in the circle, helping participants reflect on their life and unique challenges faced as individuals. The workshop will be a time to re-examine core beliefs and how they have shaped perceptions and choices.

Concert is $10 in advance or $15 day of event and will be held Wednesday, February 3 at 7:30pm. Medicine Wheel Workshop is $20 and will be held Saturday, February 27 at 2pm. Both events will be held at Aquarian Dreams. For more information, call 321-729-9495.

Free Health Presentations

Beth Lambdin and Rhonda Ford are teaming up for two lively presentations. Beth will talk about how resolving issues in the tissues can lead to enhanced health and well-being with Top Ten Benefits of Therapeutic Massage. She will discuss the benefits of integrating energy with massage providing hands-on demonstrations. Rhonda will speak about Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Colon Hydrotherapy but Were Afraid to Ask. Rhonda will suggest ways to improve the digestive process and how colon hydrotherapy can address digestive/elimination problems to promote and maintain good digestive health.

Rhonda is an LMT, Colon Hydrotherapist, Certified Colonic Instructor, and founder of the Cocoa Beach Wellness Center. Beth is an LMT, Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, and holds Master’s degrees in Business Administration and Special Education. Both presenters are seasoned professionals offering a wide range of integrative health treatments at the Cocoa Beach Wellness Center.

Free presentations will be held Monday, February 1 from 2-4pm in the Jane von Thron room at the Cocoa Beach Public Library, 550 N. Brevard Avenue, Cocoa Beach. Registration is recommended at 321-868-1104 or at the sign-up table in the library.

Grand Opening for Chiropractor

Canuel Chiropractic & Wellness Center is excited to announce a Grand Opening and Health Fair to celebrate their new location. The Center has added new technology including Non-surgical Spinal Decompression (used primarily to treat disc injuries in the neck and low back, sciatica, and stenosis), cold laser therapy, and the newest version of Surface EMG. The Health Fair will include food, fun, and an opportunity to meet other local vendors to help everyone get healthy in 2010. Complimentary preliminary testing with MyoVision Surface EMG will be available. With an eight year history in Melbourne, Dr. Canuel is now in the process of obtaining his Diplomat in Clinical Nutrition and already has over 150 hours in post-graduate clinical nutrition education.

The Grand Opening and Health Fair is Saturday, February 13 from 11am-2pm at 7331 Office Park Place, Suite 400, Melbourne. For more information or online specials, visit www.melbournechiropractor.com or call 321-751-2333.

Say No

Oppose Oil Spills on Florida’s Beaches

At 1 p.m., Saturday, February 13, citizens will gather on key beaches around our state to demonstrate their opposition to offshore oil drilling. The movement to protect our shoreline, beaches, waterways, properties and tourism from the devastating effects of oil operations three to 10 miles off our coasts calls attention to the folly of pending Florida legislation that would allow drilling. By linking hands at 1:30 p.m., thousands of residents and visitors will literally and metaphorically draw their line in the sand.

Key local beaches include Lori Wilson Park in Cocoa Beach, Melbourne Beach, and Indialantic. For more information and contact information for each gathering, visit HandsAcrossTheSand.com; email Hands@hasaya.pair.com.

Reclaiming Our Roots Herb Class

For those interested in herbal health care options, The Herb Corner is offering discount classes to learn about medicinal uses of herbs and foods. Reclaiming Our Roots is a seven month class that will provide participants an in-depth study of the healing properties of herbs for women, men, children, and pets. Discussions will include the body systems, conditions associated with each system, and beneficial herbs for these systems/conditions. Students will learn how to treat non-emergency health problems and gain an excellent grounding in the basics of herbal medicine. Additional topics include how to make teas, tinctures, salves, syrups, and compresses and two herb walks will be planned. Master Herbalist Cecelia Avitabile says, "Education will give you the opportunity to participate in and take charge of your healing process."

The 15-class package runs February through August at The Herb Corner, 277 N. Babcock St., Melbourne. Tuition, normally $450, is now offered at $300 or may be paid at $20/week. For more information and to register call 321-757-7522.

Qigong Workshops and Certification

The Vero Beach Qigong Society would like to announce several upcoming workshops for Qigong enthusiasts. A Medical Qigong Workshop will be presented by Dr. Wolfgang Luckmann which includes Chinese Hand and Foot Vitaflex, Reflexology, Essential Oil Aromatherapy, and Medical Qigong Meditation. CEU’s are available for health practitioners.

Radiant Lotus Qigong for Women and Qigong for Cleansing will be taught by internationally renowned Qigong Master Daisy Lee. These workshops are for all levels and include varied techniques such as how the mind and emotions affect the body’s physical energy and immunity, shaking and cupping, emotional release, longevity, and Qigong for organ cleansing and stress relief. Master Daisy will also be teaching a 50-hour Instructor Certification Course in Radiant Lotus Qigong for Women. Previous experience in Qigong is required for the certification course.

Medical Qigong will be held at The Institute of Colorectal Health and Wellness in Vero Beach, Saturday-Sunday, February 6-7, from 9:30am-5:30pm. Radiant Lotus Qigong begins Thursday, March 4 from 7-9pm and continues Friday and Saturday, March 5-6 from 9am-4pm. The Instructor Certification will be held Monday-Friday, March 8-12 from 9am-4pm. Both events will be held at the Unity Center of Vero Beach. Call 772-569-4090 or visit www.thecloudwalker.com for more information.

InterPlay® in Cocoa

Kasey Knight, certified InterPlay® leader and local performer, will be offering a new InterPlay workshop at the Aquarium Building called "Let the Fresh Air In."

If you are someone who would like to unleash the energy that lies within or open the doors and windows of yourself to let the fresh air in and ignite creativity, then this workshop is for you. "Dip your toes into InterPlay¹s gentle, incremental forms for the first or umpteenth time," invites Kasey. InterPlay is great for connecting with your authentic self, movement, personal stories and stillness. It’s about finding passion, purpose and playfulness, and how they can change your life.

InterPlay is accessible to people of all ages and abilities.

The workshop will be held on Saturday, February 27 from 12:30-4:30pm at 238 Peachtree, Cocoa. Suggested offering is $20-$40. For more information, call Kasey at 321-254-2541.

Renowned Doctor to Speak on Stem Cells

Dr. Ron Logan is giving two lectures to help de-mystify confusion about stem cells. Dr. Logan will share pertinent details about adult stem cells interspersed with his own brand of enjoyable humor. He explains, "Adult stem cells have the ability to become virtually any type of cell in the body, thus constituting the natural healing process of the body." Residing in Kansas City, Missouri, Dr. Logan is a world renowned Iridologist, Chiropractor, Naturopathic Doctor, Reflexologist, Master Herbalist, Water Expert, and a leading authority on stem cells. He has studied in Switzerland for several years with Iridologist Dr. Bernard Jensen, works with doctors at Johns Hopkins with stem cell nutrition, and attended the World Health Organization meeting in Okinawa as a spokesman on statistics for the US. He is currently working with Russia to help recover the land damaged by the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. Dr. Logan’s seminars are in great demand throughout the world.

Dr. Logan of Your Health 321, LLC will present his lecture at Appleseed Health Food Store, 1007 Pathfinder Way, Rockledge on February 23 at 6pm and The Herb Corner, 277 North Babcock Street, Melbourne on February 24 at 6pm. For more information, call 321-591-7295 or 321-432-0174.

Aromatherapy Course in Cocoa Village

For those wondering how aromatherapy works, Doreen DeSerres, Aromatherapist and owner of Nature's Spirit Distinctive Aromatherapy is offering in a 12-week course on holistic aromatherapy. Participants will learn about botanical classifications and uses of at least 70 pure essential oils. Doreen will share techniques and botanical data from her 21 years of aromatherapy experience. "Aromatherapy can be integrated into all aspects of your daily life from aphrodisiacs to pet care," explains Doreen. "Synthetic chemicals can be replaced with the top quality pure botanicals that Nature's Spirit offers." Doreen has been importing, private labeling, blending, and creating custom blends since 1988. Course participants receive 20% off all essential oils and supplies during the course and in the future.

The 12-week course meets Thursday evenings 6-8pm, beginning February 4 through April 22. The course fee is $222 or $22 per session (prepay saves $42). Pre-registration is required. Nature's Spirit is located at 405 Florida Avenue, Cocoa Village. For more information, call 321-632-1221 or visit www.naturespirit.com.