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clothes and wander around in bare feet. It sounds corny to some people but it’s about love and that sentiment. It trickles through the whole festival,” he said. “Spend any time out on those fields and you’ll realize. I’ve never had someone look at me wrong. There’s very little bad behaviour.” Nelson police chief Wayne Holland echoed the sentiment. He said that even when he attends in uniform, festival-goers are respectful and the positive vibes that saturate the event make up for the few “turkeys” who cause trouble. He praised the event organizers for their harm reduction strategies, and for deciding to keep the grounds open longer so people don’t attempt to drive home while still under the influence of whatever intoxicants they successfully smuggled in. “The drug thing, people like to talk about it. We often get misreported. It’s upsetting,” said Scott. He noted that the tragic death of 33-year-old Calgary resident Jennifer Lynn Gruber-Ball last year was ruled inconclusive by the BC Coroners Service. The year before a Sidney man, Mitchell Joseph Feischacker, died from
pulmonary failure as a result of illicit and prescription drug toxicity, but organizers say they take these events extremely seriously and they’re working hard to prevent future incidents. “We’ve got world-class, military-style first aid,” said Scott.
APPROVED “When you have that many people together, stuff happens. We don’t encourage drug use, we manage it. We’ve got private security firms and we’re working with the local RCMP to stop trafficking.” Officially, Shambhala is a 100 per cent dry event, but they encounter the same scofflaw attitude towards illicit substances that permeates nearly every musical event on the continent. Though Holland said some years have seen over 20,000 pills confiscated, it’s
not reasonable to expect the flow of drugs to stop. Rather, festival goers will likely be met with education and support rather than enforcement. Participants this year can expect the Health & Well Being Zone to be open 24 hours a day. There’s also a safe haven called The Sanctuary nestled in a grove of old growth trees that provides a quiet place to rest for those incapable of coping with the festival stimulus. Options for Sexual Health, a non-profit, will also have a booth nearby. New this year is the Women’s Safe Space, for any female concert-goers who have disclosed an assault. The female professionals there are trained in crisis intervention and have the resources to help. It will also be open 24 hours a day. But Shambhala’s greatest asset is its location, said Scott, and the fact they’ll never have to move. The continuity has allowed them to build infrastructure that other festivals can only dream of. “We’ve got one of the best festival venues in the world here. Where it is, the privacy it affords, how organically it was built up over time…really, there’s nothing else like it out there.”
Science & Nutritional medicine merge together. Jodi Hawthorne has moved here from Nova Scotia bringing with her a busy Diagnostic Blood clinic. After spending many years as a mental health therapist, pharmaceutical companies and health columnist --Jodi became overwhelmed by the wide spread some times miss use of prescription drugs, causing her to change direction. She completed several years of nutritional medicine, dark-field microscopy & masters in herbs. She has purchased both the highest resolution German based darkfeild engineered clinical equipment and just recently purchased a great property with a home-based clinical environment in place. Jodi carefully researched Nelson BC before moving here. Aside from it being a top notch place to raise your kids, abundance of clean air quality, epic recreation & huge organic movement. Jodi was relieved to see the abundance of health practices already in place that she often finds herself referring her clients to such as chiropractors, acupuncture, therapeutic massage and even family physicians actually taking new clients -- none of these modalities readily available in rural Nova Scotia -- “ I would have to send clients hours away for something as structural as a chiropractic tune up.” It seems here in Nelson these practices all fall with in a 2 km radius of each other thus making preventative medicine most accessible. A look at your blood ( a single drop taken painlessly with a new lancet device ) can quickly pinpoint any current or potential health issues. The testing can detect over 30 different anomalies such as; hidden food allergies, stressed organs, bowel/digestion issues, heavy metals, yeast, uric acid and possibly otherwise undetected disease just to name a few. I do not diagnose if a serious issue is revealed it will be suggested that you see your health practionor, otherwise a personalized individual corrective nutritional program will be designed to assist the body in repairing itself. The advantage of Photocomparitive blood diagnostics is that it is capable of revealing problems while they are still in a preventative state. Jodi is booking into the beginning of July. For any questions or inquiries please email jshblood@gmail.com
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