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AGAINST AUTISM

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How Environmental Toxins May Contribute to Autism Spectrum Disorder

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THE FUTURE OF HEALTHCARE With Dr. Andrew Weil

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18 BREAKTHROUGHS IN ANTI-AGING Research Helps Us Live

Longer and Healthier

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21 Your Best Exercise for the New Year

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WITH SHAKTI GAWAIN

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Resolutions: Will They Stick This Year?

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“I wonder how many people would be saved if we all only rode bikes?” said my son about a fatal traffic accident that closed the road between our house and his school. He was thinking about the impact of reduced motor-vehicle accidents; I, nodding in agreement, was thinking about the impact to our health in general—how chronic diseases, costing this country billions of dollars, could be prevented if we all got more exercise.

Just in time to help us keep our New Year’s resolution for exercise, Joelle Dunaetz shares, on page 21, some ways to craft our perfect program. The secret?

Finding movement that we enjoy—and just doing it. Pretty simple, huh? If only the solution to our national health-care dilemma was as elegant.

Despite the fact that Americans spend hundreds of billions of dollars on health care, we don’t really have a health-care system, says Dr. Andrew Weil, in “Envisioning the Future of Healthcare,” on page 16. We have a “disease management system,” which can’t be fixed as long as we cling to this definition of care and fail to address prevention, including promoting lower-cost integrative therapies that can drastically prevent or treat the underlying causes of disease.

We don’t have to accept chronic disease as an inevitable outcome of getting older. On page 18, Lisa Marshall shares some natural anti-aging breakthroughs.

From keeping mentally sharp, to choosing the proper supplements, to caring for our skin, we can delay and prevent disease while still aging gracefully.

As we enter a whole new year, let’s all find ways to feel good, live simply, laugh more—and bike more often to work, to play, to our health.

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newsbriefs Atomic Circus Coming to Town on Third Thursdays

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o you like questions more than answers? Have an agile mind? Want to bust up your brain’s MO? Then Atomic Circus is for you—an inquiry-based salon series whereby guest presenters and audience members holistically explore topics bridging the arts, humanities, sciences, social entrepreneurship, and mind/body/spirit.

The debut event—By Word, Limb, Note, or Frame: Living in the Creative Moment—on Thursday, January 21, from 7:00– 9:00 PM, will feature six artists representing distinct creative expressions: poet John Brehm, novelist BK Loren, dancer Robert McWilliams, musician Stewart Erlich, filmmaker D. Robin Hammer, and painter Joan Anderson. Grab a ringside seat for these conversations, too: By Chart, Card, Coin, or Zzzzzz: Living in the Symbolic Moment (2/18), The Tao of Oddball Arts (3/18), Water, Water Everywhere (4/15), and BodySpeak: Listening to Your First Teacher (5/20).

Atomic Circus will activate at Boulder Center for Conscious Living, in Buffalo Village Shopping Center, 1637 28th St., Boulder. Atomic love donations welcome. For upcoming fun, visit AtomicCircus.net.

SunTrac Solar Wins CleanTech Open

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unTrac Solar, of Golden, CO, has won the annual Rocky Mountain CleanTech Open (CTO) business-plan competition among clean-tech startups that want to bring new technology to market. CTO’s nonprofit programs provide emerging clean-tech innovators with the tools, mentorship, and connections they need to succeed in the new energy economy.

The SunTrac Solar Collector is solar thermal technology that allows commercial, industrial, and residential customers to significantly reduce energy usage and their carbon footprint. Each panel heats water to 150–250 degrees Fahrenheit, generating 11 million BTUs of energy while offsetting 1.7 tons of CO2e (carbon-dioxide equivalent) per year. It’s the only commercial-grade, high-temperature, solar hot-water panel manufactured in the United States. Its unique combination of parabolic concentrating collectors and a tracker that follows the sun provides the lowest cost per BTU in the high-temperature commercial thermal market, with a payback of three to five years.

Divining Gravity at Naropa

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aropa University’s Somatic Counseling Psychology Department presents its 14th Annual Somatic Arts Scholarship Concert, “Divining Gravity,” on Friday and Saturday, January 29–30, at 8:00 PM. Directed by students Lisa Bradley and Himmat Kaur Victoria and showcasing twelve performances choreographed by department students, faculty, staff, and alumni, this concert allows students to translate the skills they’re learning into creative work, as well as raise scholarship monies for the program.

All the pieces in this dynamic dance-based concert are examples of embodied performance, unique in the empathy it creates between performer and audience. To embody means to give physical presence, form, and tangibility to a feeling, idea, or quality. Viewing honest expression through the frame of art inspires the audience to relate to universal human experience, fostering a sense of understanding and belonging. Art making and performance meet body psychotherapy and dance/movement therapy to create an experience that’s both entertaining and therapeutic.

“Dance/movement therapy has roots in the modern dance movement and has always held, as one of its tenets, that the creative process is fundamentally healing and transformative,” says Leah D’Abate, academic advisor and admissions coordinator for the program. “In order to support that tenet, we devised this opportunity to give those involved a chance to come into intimate relationship with the creative process.”

Both evenings will open with a ceremonial dance presentation by Grupo Tlaloc Danza Azteca, featuring third-year Somatic Counseling Psychology student Veronica RamirezWheeler. Grupo Tlaloc is a nonprofit traditional Mexica/Azteca group composed of Chicano/Mexicano families and students of all ages dedicated to preserving and nourishing the ancient

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“Divining Gravity” will be held at Naropa University’s Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. A $10 donation has been requested. For more information, call 303-245-4854 or email leahd@naropa.edu.

Healthy Habits Show Features Holistic Living, Organic and Green Products

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n Saturday and Sunday, January 30–31, come have “a fun, learning experience about what it takes to make healthy choices for people, pets, and our planet.” Healthy Habits, a holistic fair produced by WestWind Productions, presents a well-balanced mix of alternative and holistic health providers and products. Equally represented will be green, organic, and ecologically minded products and services; the metaphysical will include healers, readers, and an aura photographer.

Says Denise Stramel, WestWind founder and owner, “Holistics offer all-natural solutions for a healthy lifestyle,” for people who seek ways to ease aches and pains and improve their overall health without medication or over-the-counter drugs.

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Attendees will be eligible to win a five-night getaway at a five-bedroom log home in Breckenridge, and vendors will award door prizes throughout the weekend. On-site lunch will be available from the Spice of Life catering staff.

The show will be held from 11:00 AM–5:00 PM on Saturday and 12:00–4:00 PM on Sunday, at the Spice of Life Event Center, 5706 Arapahoe Ave. (Flatirons Golf Course), Boulder. Admission is $5 for the two-day show. Two-for-one passes are available in this issue of Natural Awakenings, or email westwindpro@ earthlink.net to receive an electronic version of the pass.

Astrology for Beginners: Awaken to Your Life’s Hidden Purpose

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hy am I here? What are my gifts? What path is right for me? Astrology for Beginners, an intriguing and practical weekend workshop facilitated by internationally recognized astrologist and psychotherapist Debra Silverman, highlights the nuts and bolts of astrology—the elements, signs, planets, houses, and aspects—while shedding light on how to use astrology to awaken to your spiritual identity and life purpose.

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localinsight Whether you’re a beginning or intermediate student, join Debra on Saturday and Sunday, February 13–14, for a fun weekend of personal reflection and discovery. “Debra fully embodies her inner archetypes. She is, at turns, witty, brilliant, compassionate, visionary, and a true joy to learn astrology from. She makes the esoteric practical; and the unfathomable, comprehensible. I only wish I’d found her earlier!� says former student Kristina Holmes, of Ebeling & Associates Literary Agency.

Debra has had a private psychotherapy practice for 32 years. She has a regular radio spot on HayHouse radio and has taught at Esalen Institute. She offers astrology readings, weekly intermediatelevel astrology classes, and transformational three-day intensives.

Cost is $150–300 (sliding scale). Students will receive an astrology booklet and a DVD on the 12 signs of the zodiac. To register, contact Debra at 303-665-0320 or dsilver56@aol.com, or visit http:// Debra-Silverman.com.

Valentine’s Ball Benefit to Provide Holistic Treatments

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he Ange de La Mer Alternative Health and Wellness Foundation will be holding a Valentine’s Ball on Sunday, February 14, to raise money toward providing holistic and alternative health treatments to local residents living on a fixed income or disability, or recovering from cancer or other chronic diseases. Beneficiaries can receive care for free or on a sliding scale, depending on need and their ability to pay. Holistic treatments may include colonic hydrotherapy, massage, acupuncture, cupping, detox , nutritional support, lifestyle counseling, or bossage.

The Valentine’s Ball will include dinner, a cash bar, an auction, dancing, and music.

Tickets are $35 per person. To learn more about the ball or about receiving services, or to donate to the auction, call Phyllis at 303-279-6237.

Agendas and Miracles

by Ken Barkin and Team

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hen we see humans get locked into their agendas, we sigh. Agendas make people feel like they’re accomplishing something, but, in the ways of the Universe, agendas are miracle killers. We define an agenda as the ego thought of how something needs to happen. The person holding the agenda assumes that they have the best plan of action, which presumes that the Universe isn’t conspiring with each person to create their dreams. However, the Universe has a better plan of action and creation, and we prefer that humans go with the better plan. Free will allows for humans to utilize another plan, but that plan often slows down the creation process or convolutes the outcome. When people learn to get out of the way, the flow of creation is easier and fits the person’s desire better.

Humans are entitled to the flow of creation—and the miracles that exist in each moment. The best way to create and enhance a miracle is to state a desire from the perspective of already having what’s desired, for example: “I have $10 million in my savings account right now. Thank you, Universe, for my $10 million.� If you want a relationship, list the attributes that you desire in a partner and thank the Universe for your partner. The Universe will then connect you with your perfect partner at the perfect moment. Don’t assign who you believe is your perfect partner. The Universe has that handled. Just show up in your life, let yourself be led on your journey as co-creator, and learn to trust that your dreams are coming to fruition.

Developing intuitive guidance allows each being to be a co-creator by aligning with their creative process. Going into the logical mind and deciding how and when things will manifest tends to be the ego trying to control the process, which only hampers the creation. The idea is to create a wonderful flow with the Universe so that the creation process happens beautifully and effortlessly. Know that each being is meant to succeed and be their powerful divine self.

A body-mind experience The form of the creation may be different that helps you from what the ego has in mind, but it will be understand your life even better. Humans only have to be clear purpose and deepen into about what they want. Know you can have your true nature. it, and let the Universe be your partner in success. Once that’s in place, each being will then know what to do.

Creation is a joyful process. You all have it within you to remember who and what you are so that your desires may manifest.

There is a course of action: it comes within Debra Trista Silverman Hollerbach the creative flow and will open before you.

Ken Barkin is a psychic/channel, manifestation consultant, and metaphysical teacher who resides in Broomfield, CO. He can be reached at kennethbarkin@comcast.net or 303-284-8396. Visit Ken at KenBarkin.com.

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Accommodating All

Call to Expand the Meaning of Universal Health Care

Bedroom Vroom

Practitioners of alternative therapies intent on influencing the health care reform process continue to petition Congress to think of health care as more than just medical care—and to allow insurance companies to provide coverage for their holistic treatments.

In 2007, a survey of 18 major HMOs and insurance providers revealed signs of progress: 14 of them covered at least 11 of 34 alternative physical therapies, the most common being chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapy, biofeedback and naturopathy. Coverage varies by state, but experts expect insurance policies will follow demand. Estimates put current annual spending on complementary and alternative therapies at $33 billion.

President Obama has expressed willingness to at least consider a role for some alternative therapies in universal health care, but has set a tough standard.

He told a town meeting in Missouri, “My attitude is that we should do what works… I will let the science guide me.”

Lobby to retain the people’s right to choose their own health care at HealthRevolutionPetition.org. News sources: Time.com; SixWise.com

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Outlook for 2010 Fitness Trends An American College of Sports Medicine survey published in ACSM’s Health & Fitness Journal identifies counseling with an experienced and educated fitness professional as the top fitness trend this year. The trend’s rise from the third spot, posted in 2007 at the survey’s inception, is likely due to “increased regulation and an influx of specialty certifications and educational programs available” for these professionals.

Strength training surged to second, with programs addressing child obesity in third place. Other 2010 trends include: personal training, core training, fitness programs for older adults, functional fitness, sport-specific training, Pilates and group personal training. The researchers expressed surprise at the move toward group training, suggesting that it may reflect financial considerations for both the trainers and their clients.

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New Study Says Dreams Tune Up the Brain To Freud, dreaming provides a playground for the unconscious mind; to Jung, it is a stage where the psyche’s archetypes act out primal themes.

Recent theories hold that dreams help the brain to consolidate emotional memories and to work through current life problems.

Now, in a new paper published in the journal Natural Reviews Neuroscience, Dr. J. Allan Hobson, a psychiatrist and longtime sleep researcher at Harvard, argues that the main function of rapid-eye-movement sleep, or REM, when most dreaming occurs, is physiological.

The brain is warming its circuits, anticipating the sights and sounds and emotions of waking, tuning the mind for conscious awareness. “It’s like jogging; the body doesn’t remember every step, but it knows it has exercised. It has been tuned up,” says Hobson. “It’s the same idea here.”

The theory might help explain why people forget so many dreams.

Hobson co-authored another paper with Ursula Voss, of J.W. GoetheUniversity in Frankfurt, in the journal Sleep, where scientists found that lucid dreaming, one of many examples of a mixed mental state, has elements of both REM and waking awareness.

In a lucid dream, Hobson explains, “You are seeing the split brain in action. This tells me that there are these two systems, and that in fact, they can be running at the same time.”

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Earth Victories

Props for North America’s Green Youth Leaders Six of 125 North American youth applicants who are spearheading programs successfully tackling environmental problems have been recognized by Earth Island Institute as winners of its 10th anniversary Brower Youth awards.

The nonprofit organization supports those under age 23 who are creating solutions to protect the health of our shared planet. The latest winners are Alec Loorz, Adarsha Shivakumar and Hai Vo of California; Robin Bryan of Manitoba; Diana Lopez of Texas; and Sierra Crane-Murdoch of Vermont.

The 2009 young leaders are responsible for, among other achievements, saving 1 million acres of boreal forest, helping to prevent permitting for 20 new coal-fired plants and five coal mining applications for mountaintop removal, and transforming food purchasing across the University of California system to nutritious and sustainable products. To date, a total of 61 award recipients have raised $1.4 million for environmental causes; trained 3,000 youths in advocacy; organized 32,000 youths in environmental projects and involved thousands more adults in 3,300 events and actions; held 500 lobby meetings with elected officials; helped to pass eight bills; implemented 20 university-wide environmental policies; and produced 20 documentary films.

Hospital Food

New Culinary Institute Supports a Nutrition Revolution Chef Frank Turner and the first Culinary Institute for Health Care, at Michigan’s Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital, are proving that hospital food can be healthy, nutritious and tasty.

There, they train chefs from around the world in recipes such as veggie hummus, roasted pears, carrot raisin slaw, mapleglazed spaghetti squash and parsley vinaigrette. Appropriate spices help regulate inflammation and blood sugar. Specialty dishes address dietary needs, from gluten-free and diabetic to cardiovascular issues and food allergies.

Despite three decades of research showing that fresh, well-prepared food is packed with natural disease-fighting nutrients that help speed healing and prevent illness, there’s long been a disconnect when it comes to hospital food. A 2003 article in the journal Nutrition reported rates of undernourishment in some U.S. hospitals as high as 41 percent, but the tide seems to be turning.

In 2008, Dr. Ronald M. Davis, immediate past president of the American Medical Association, called on hospitals to “buy meat and poultry raised without nontherapeutic antibiotics, use milk produced without recombinant bovine growth hormones and replace unhealthy snacks found in many vending machines with healthy choices.” The nonprofit coalition Health Care Without Harm has secured pledges from hospitals in 21 states to serve locally produced organic and chemical-free food. William Notte, past president of the American Society of Healthcare Food Service Administrators, reports that most hospitals now buy fresher and less processed food, because patients are demanding it.

For people seeking to know and embrace their life purpose, and themselves

for Beginners “Debra Silverman is a powerful and highly attuned guide. Her teaching style is brilliant, inspiring, engaging and really enjoyable.” ~ Laurie Adato, Executive Director, Hakomi Institute.

This class will teach you how to read your chart and further understand your personality and life purpose. It will also make you laugh hard.

February 13-14, 2010 303-665-0320 Debra-Silverman.com

The Lost Symbol meets Rock 'n' Roll!

"This is one wild spiritual journey with an audacious guide."

Tama J. Kieves, bestselling author, This Time I Dance!

Can rock music trigger a spiritual awakening?

Absolutely! Embark on a humorous, consciousness-altering joyride with local author Laura Faeth as she follows a trail of esoteric clues in the music of a famous rock band in this outrageous memoir.

Ideal holiday gift...

...for music lovers!

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healthbriefs January is Thyroid Awareness Month and January 5-11 is National Folic Awareness Week

Natural Pressure Relief

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lutamic acid, the most common amino acid in vegetables, and which accounts for almost a quarter of the protein in vegetables, also helps reduce blood pressure. Eating a vegetable-based diet, suggests a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, could help counter the current massive public health problem of high blood pressure, for which diagnosis and drug treatment is often inadequate.

Angelus Harvest

by Teresa Dunwell What would abundance look like as it’s being poured out to humanity? This painting is a joy-filled response to the depth of love and nourishment that every moment holds for us. It’s an opening of the heart to embody the harvest of celebration and oneness.

“Art has always been such a transformative way of self-expression for me,” Teresa says. “After the untimely death of my young son, I recognized that my painting found a voice for many deep, healing energies to be expressed, and what became my process also helped others.”

The bridging of spirituality and the fusion of color and movement characterize Teresa’s work. Her luminous way of painting is based on a 15-year apprenticeship with Marika Popovits Wadman, a Hungarian visionary artist, in old-world renaissance techniques.

This glaze technique requires making her own paints from color pigment and egg white and using a series of varnishes to create transparent applications of color, which Teresa calls “veiled oil.”

Teresa’s art is held in private collections worldwide. Prints, originals and memorial icons are available at Uniquely Natural Healing Arts Co-op in Lafayette and Salon Tao in Broomfield. See more of Teresa’s work at www.livingworksstudio. blogspot.com. For commissions or classes in the “old masters” painting technique, contact Teresa at 303-6666460.

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Folic Acid Update

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olic acid, or folate, a B vitamin found in many vegetables and whole grains, is known to reduce neural tube defects in infants when taken during pregnancy. But now, a study at the University of Southern California has discovered that men taking a daily folic acid supplement of 1 milligram ran twice the risk of prostate cancer than those who took a placebo. Many foods are already fortified with folic acid, say experts in a BMC Public Health article, and taking the vitamin in supplements may result in “overdosing.”

Source: BioMed Central, 2009

Surfing the Web Boosts Brain Power

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rossword puzzles, move over, because a new study from the University of California attests that “Googling” or otherwise browsing the Internet lights up the brain like a Roman candle. When study participants performed Web searches while undergoing MRI scans, they showed an improved efficiency in cognitive processing and in the way their brain encodes information. This held true even for middle-aged and older individuals who had minimal computer experience and who performed Internet searches for only a short period of time.

Internet searching, it appears, engages a complicated brain activity that exercises and improves the brain when it comes to language, reading, memory, visual abilities, and reasoning and decision-making processes. The good news is that we now have a new way to keep our brains fired up and that our brains continue to learn and remain sensitive to fresh stimulation at any age.

Source: National Library of Medicine (nlm.nih.gov) www.NaturalAwakeningsBoulder.com

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Functional Medicine: A Health-Care Future Worth Fighting For

By Dr. Ian Hollaman, DC

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hough America’s health care has become a political battlefield, we the people can be grateful for, among other advantages, our topnotch acute hospital care and our unparalleled ability to guide an injured citizen through a medical crisis. Chronic disease, however, is where we fail miserably—so much so, that we’re currently ranked 37th of industrialized nations, yet we spend two times more than the second highest-spending nation.

The solution: functional medicine. A unique and dynamic approach to preventing, assessing, and treating complex chronic disease, functional medicine helps identify the key factors causing physiological and biochemical dysfunctions. It acknowledges the fact that all disease is preceded by long-declining function in one or (usually) more body systems, resulting from lifelong interaction with one’s lifestyle and biochemical individuality—a unique biochemical profile based on one’s genetics, nutrition, and environment. Functional medicine, then, is necessarily patient-centered, not diseasecentered, and applies science-guided information to address an individual’s dynamic balance, internal and external, that affects not only the body but also the mind and spirit. The functionalmedicine practitioner tailors a concise, clear, pragmatic plan so that the patient can take charge of their health and restore it to positive vitality.

While not a cookie-cutter modality, functional medicine does have certain elements you can expect. First, a practitioner should use cutting-edge diagnostics that gauge your results against the norms of a healthy population, not according to a bell curve that determines varying diagnoses based on geographic region.

Second, a practitioner should explain your results such that you respond, “Oh, that’s why I feel like this!� Third, you should leave the practitioner’s office feeling confident you’re in good hands because you have a treatment plan designed for your body.

Functional medicine is one promising aspect of America’s health-care future, in that it resolves medical issues at their source, before they become chronic challenges in your future.

Dr. Ian Hollaman

Schedule a complimentary 15-minute consultation with Dr. Ian. Please call 303-882-8447 or visit redtailwellnesscenters.com

What if a Doctor could give you a health plan based off how your body functions, instead of your symptoms?

A Doctor who based treatment off of healthy populations, instead of sick?

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Vinegar Slims and Trims

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ood old-fashioned vinegar, an indispensible ingredient in zesty salad dressings and tangy pickles, is living up to its age-old reputation in folk medicine as a health promoter. According to researchers with the Central Research Institute of the Mizkan Group Corporation, in Japan, this kitchen staple is a natural fat fighter that might help us control our weight.

The researchers showed that mice fed a high-fat diet and given acetic acid developed up to 10 percent less body fat than the control group; acetic acid is the main component found in all vinegars. The study results also suggested that vinegar slenderizes by turning on genes which produce specific proteins that break down fatty acids in the body, thereby preventing fat accumulation and weight gain.

Source: Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2009

Keeping Our Thyroid Healthy

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he thyroid, one of the most important glands, influences many body functions, including maintaining energy levels, sleep and metabolism. To function properly, it needs the right nutrients, foremost among which is iodine, a basic building block of thyroid hormones.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, iodine deficiency is on the rise in the United States, and choosing foods wisely is crucial. Sea vegetables, such as kelp, wakame and nori, the seaweed used for making sushi, are good sources of iodine and many other key minerals that support thyroid health.

Zinc, iron and copper are essential to producing thyroid hormones, and antioxidants like vitamins A, C and E are necessary for neutralizing physical oxidative stress, a condition that often occurs along with poor thyroid function. Selenium, a trace mineral needed only in tiny amounts, is readily supplied in foods like Brazil nuts, peanuts, fish, eggs, parsley, oats and mushrooms, as well as the noted sea vegetables.

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Yoga’s Mindfulness Helps Control Weight

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ew, long-term research by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center shows that middle-aged people who practice yoga gained less weight over a 10-year period than those who did not, independent of other physical activity and changes in dietary habits. The difference is that yoga teaches mindful eating.

The researchers found that people who were aware of why they ate and stopped eating when satisfied weighed less than those who ate without that awareness. Yoga cultivates mindfulness in a number of ways, starting with being able to hold a challenging pose. A practitioner’s ability to be calm and observant during physical discomfort teaches how to maintain calm in other challenging situations as well, such as declining to eat when we’re not hungry or eating extra food when it tastes especially good. Satisfaction also comes in awareness of how food looks, tastes and smells.

The researchers concluded that mindfulness appears to be a state that can augment the usual approaches to weight loss, such as counting calories, limiting portion size and not eating when emotionally upset or depressed. Adding yoga practice to a standard weight-loss program may both make it more effective and promote eating behavior that is healthy and empowering.

Nature’s New Antibiotic Manuka honey, from New Zealand, kills common Staphylococcus bacteria, reports a study published by the Society for General Microbiology.

Staphylococcus is responsible for many infections, and scientists now hope to use this honey as a first-line treatment for bacterial infections resistant to antibiotics. www.NaturalAwakeningsBoulder.com

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GUARDING AGAINST

How Environmental Toxins May Contribute to Autism Spectrum Disorder

by Brita Belli

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hen the results of an autism study were published in the journal Pediatrics in October 2009, the figures were shocking—one in every 91 U.S. children was reported to have autism. That was up from one in 500 a decade ago, with boys four times as likely to acquire the disorder.

Behaviors of autism include: failure to respond to stimuli or make eye contact; speech delays; compulsive behavior like head-shaking; stacking objects or intense repetition of daily activities; and extreme noise sensitivity.

For years, research into the causes of autism has revolved around genetics. Even as the rate of autism among the nation’s children continues to rise at an astonishing 10 to 17 percent a year, research has been slow to shift its focus to other factors—namely, environmental toxins.

The Chemical Connection New autism research is making the case that environmental toxins such as mercury, lead, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), flame retardants and pharmaceutical drugs—including antidepressants in utero or antibiotics in infancy—may be aggravating a pre-existing genetic condition.

Yet James Adams, head of the Autism/Asperger’s Research Program at Arizona State University, remarks that, “There is still extremely little money out there for looking into environmental issues.”

Adams’ own research has discovered a correlation between heavy metal exposure and autism severity. In one study, Dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), a medication used to treat lead poisoning, was administered to children with autism. The researchers found that children with autism “dumped three times as much mercury as typical children,” reports Adams, suggesting that their bodies could not properly excrete the toxin. In another study, the baby teeth of children with autism were found to contain twice the mercury as those of typical children.

Adams’ findings have also uncovered one common thread in the medical history of children with autism: heavy use of oral antibiotics in infancy.

He explains that antibiotics disrupt the gut’s good flora, further diminishing the child’s ability to excrete toxins. Such treatments are primarily used for recurring ear infections, but as Dr. Jerry Kartzinel reports in his book, Healing and Preventing Autism (co-written with celebrity autism treatment advocate Jenny McCarthy), those frequent ear infections are, “the most common marker for immune system dysfunction... in babies and very young children.”

A New Approach A growing number of doctors like Kartzinel and researchers like Adams are subscribing to the protocols set out by Defeat Autism Now! (DAN), a project of the nonprofit Autism Research Institute, which supports a biomedical basis for autism and its treatment. DAN practitioners, according to the group’s description, “do not regard psychotropic drugs as the best or only means of treating autistic patients.” Instead, they look for triggers that may aggravate a pre-existing genetic condition. These include everything from vaccines to environmental

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toxins, like mercury, in fish, arsenic in drinking water and lead in air pollution; overuse of antibiotics and over-the-counter medicines in early infancy; and a diet heavy in wheat and dairy that contributes to gut inflammation.

This holistic view of autism’s causes also extends to the potential range of treatments. These may include chelation therapy (removing heavy metals), gluten- and casein-free diets (removing wheat and dairy), administering supplements with omega-3 fatty acids and/or hyperbaric oxygen therapy (in which oxygen is administered in a pressurized chamber).

“The presumption,” advises Richard Lathe, a molecular biologist and author of Autism, Brain, and Environment, “is that environmental toxicity has increased enough that, combined with childhood vaccines, [industrial] production and fish consumption, it has led to an increase in total exposure to heavy metals.”

Consequently, these concerned researchers are pointing out clear steps that parents can take to minimize their own and their children’s toxic exposures, starting by taking precautions during pregnancy, minimizing exposure to mercury by avoiding fish like shark and swordfish and limiting consumption of albacore tuna. Pregnant women, counsels Lathe, should also be sure to take the proper prenatal vitamins, such as calcium, so that the fetus is not drawing minerals from the mother’s bones, where heavy metals are stored.

“The body locks heavy metals away in bone and fat,” explains Lathe. “During pregnancy, that stuff is recycled [in supplying nourishment] to the child.”

It’s also important to avoid exposures to toxic chemicals via cleaning products, both during pregnancy and after birth.

Homemade substitutes, using ingredients like distilled white vinegar and baking soda, are safe (and cheap) alternatives.

Other chemical culprits? Plastic containers and bath toys can leech chemicals when heated, cleaned or used for teething. Car seats and crib mattresses made with flame retardants, as well as toys with lead paint, carry toxins.

A 2005 study from the nonprofit watchdog Environmental Working Group found an average of 200 industrial chemicals and pollutants in umbilical cord blood samples from 10 babies born in U.S. hospitals around the country. Of these, the report said, “180 cause cancer in humans and animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system and 208 cause birth defects... in animal tests.”

For children who may have an underlying genetic predisposition to autism, the chemical overload starts early.

Increasing it through allergy-triggering diets, an overload of antibiotics and/or mercury-containing vaccines could have dangerous, long-lasting consequences. Informed parents know to take precautions early and often.

Resources: Autism Research Institute at DefeatAutismNow. com; Environmental Working Group at ewg.org; Pediatrics published study at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/ content/abstract/peds.2009-1522v1.

Brita Belli is the editor of E – The Environmental Magazine.

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Dueling New Year’s Lists

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was fortunate to spend time with an enigmatic man

“The first list contains named Robert during a very special period of my all the things I should do if I life. Robert taught me many things during our completely changed my life days together, and this time of year to be the person I always reminds me of one particular interwanted to be. The second action we had. list contains all the things

“Now that you are becomI could do, by accepting ing more aware,” Robert said, my current life and taking “you need to begin to set realistic steps towards the goals for yourself, so you life I want to lead.” don’t lose the momentum “Let me see the second you have built.” list,” he said.

“Like New Year’s resoluI handed him the second list, and withtions?” I asked. out even looking at it, he ripped the paper

“That’s an interesting idea,” he into tiny pieces and threw it in the nearby garsmirked. “Let’s do that.” bage can. His disregard for the effort I had put

By then, I was used to his cryptic reinto the list annoyed me at first, but after I calmed sponses, so I knew something was up because down, I began to think about the first list in a of the way his eyes sparkled as he let out an “What you should different light. In my heart, I knew the second impish laugh. list was a cop out, and the first list was the only or could do with one that really mattered.

“Tonight’s assignment is to make two lists,” Robert continued. “The first is a list of all “Now, the first list,” Robert said, bowing your life no longer the New Year’s resolutions you want to keep, his head and holding out both of his hands. matters. The only and the second is a list of all the New Year’s I purposefully handed him the first list and resolutions you will keep. Write the want list held his gaze for several seconds, waiting for thing that matters, first, and when you have exhausted all of your him to begin reading the page. After an unfrom this day ideas, then write the second list on another usually long silence, he began to crumple the sheet of paper.” paper into a ball and once again tossed it into forward, is what

That night I went home and spent some the can without looking at it. you must do.” time working on the two lists. The want list felt “What did you do that for?!” I couldn’t overwhelming at first, but after a while I got hide my anger any longer. into writing all the things I had always wanted Robert began to speak in a quiet and asto do if the burdens of life hadn’t gotten in the way. After sured voice. “What you should or could do with your life nearly an hour, the list swelled to fill the entire page and no longer matters. The only thing that matters, from this day contained nearly all of my ideas of an ideal life. forward, is what you must do.”

The second list was much easier. I was able to quickly

He then drew a folded piece of paper from his back commit 10 practical resolutions to paper that I felt would be pocket and handed it to me. I opened it carefully, and found a both realistic and helpful. single word floating in the middle of the white page: “Love.”

The next day, I met Robert in front of the local food Scott Blum is an author and co-founder of DailyOM.com, a co-op, where we seemed to have most of our enlightening source of nondenominational inspirational content and courses conversations. “Tell me about your two lists,” Robert said, as by luminaries in their fields. For more information, also visit the familiar smirk crept onto his face.

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envisioning the future of

HEALTHCARE

by Lisa Marshall

As a tie-dye-clad, free-spirited medical student of the ’60s with a fascination for botanical remedies, Chinese medicine and mind-body healing, young Andrew Weil quickly developed a distaste for traditional medicine as practiced in the West.

“I was dismayed at the lack of connection with the natural world, the complete ignorance about botanicals and the utter absence of interest in any mind-body connection,” recalls Dr. Weil, who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1968 as a medical doctor, with no intention to ever practice medicine. “I left there completely unprepared to help people stay well. I got very discouraged.”

Now, 40 years later, this bestselling author, internationally renowned physician and founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine has channeled his discontent into action. Weil is among those pioneering a burgeoning new kind of medicine that many insist holds the answer to our nation’s healthcare woes.

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ntegrative medicine, a thoughtful blend of conventional medicine, common sense prevention and modalities once dubbed alternative, such as acupuncture, meditation, breath work and dietary supplements, has caught on widely from coast to coast in the past decade, both among consumers and once-skeptical healthcare practitioners. The Association of American Medical Colleges reports that 113 of the nation’s 126 medical schools now include discussion of complementary and alternative therapies in conventional medical courses. Seventy-seven offer standalone electives in such approaches as traditional Chinese medicine and mindfulness-based stress reduction. As of this year, eight major medical schools require that students take part in a 250-hour integrative medicine curriculum as part of their residency.

According to the American Hospital Association, 16 percent of hospitals, including medical facilities at Harvard and Duke universities, now feature integrative medicine centers. Of those that don’t, 24 percent plan to offer them in the future.

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new form of medicine is taking us. Days later, a congressional health committee was calling on Weil—once a dark horse among his medical colleagues—for testimony about how to fix the nation’s crumbling healthcare system.

His answer: Stop focusing so much on making our current system more accessible via insurance reform, and instead, create a new system.

“What we have is not a healthcare system at all; it is a disease management system,” advises Weil. “Making the current system cheaper and more accessible will just spread the dysfunction more widely. What we need is a new kind of medicine.”

Integrative, Not Alternative Mary Guerrera, a medical doctor and director of integrative medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, stresses that integrative is not just another word for alternative.

“Alternative medicine indicates something to be used in place of. Integrative is a term that has emerged in the

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domestic product on health care, more past decade to reflect a bringing together than any other country in the world, yet of the best that conventional and alterna“No amount of tive medicine have to offer,” says Guerits health outcomes are ranked 37th in rera, who went on to study acupuncture the world by the World Health Organiideological argument and holistic medicine after completing zation. In 2006, insurance companies ever changed anything. her conventional medical training in the covered 1.3 million coronary angio‘80s. plasty procedures, at roughly $48,000 It was when pocket She explains that because one each, and 448,000 coronary bypass books started getting person can’t be an expert in everything, operations at a cost of $99,000. Yet, squeezed that people integrative medicine hinges on the idea things like nutrition counseling, exercise of team care. For instance, a cancer paprograms and stress-reduction classes, started paying attention. tient might see her specialists for chemowhich studies show could prevent as Things are going to therapy and surgery, and then be referred much as 90 percent of all heart disease, to an acupuncturist for treatments to help are typically not covered by insurance. get a lot worse, and with nausea or pain management, as

That, remarks Weil, needs to when they do, the well as a nutritionist to help her restore change, and he’s optimistic that it will. wisdom of what we lost weight. A patient going into surgery

“We need to transform medicine so might practice mindfulness-based meditawe are not so dependent on these highare doing will become tion beforehand, which has been shown tech expensive solutions for everything,” even more apparent.” to hasten healing times, decrease hospital concludes Weil, who outlines his plan in stays and thus, save money. his new book, Why our Health Matters:

“Integrative medicine is team-based, A Vision of Medicine That Can Transform ~ Dr. Andrew Weil collaborative care,” Guerrera explains. the Future. “We need doctors who know

Cardiologist Mimi Guarneri is mediwhen and when not to use them and cal director and founder of the Scripps Center for Integrative who are trained to use other kinds of interventions. That’s the Medicine, a multi-disciplinary center that offers care for great promise of integrative medicine: It can bring effective, people with heart disease, pain, weight management needs, lower-cost treatments into the mainstream.” cancer, diabetes, stress and women’s health issues. She notes that the center receives 3,500 patients a month, many of Lisa Marshall is a freelance writer in Colorado; connect at whom arrive seeking relief from costly drugs or surgeries.

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“One patient came to me who had just had a bypass.

He was 330 pounds, suffered from sleep apnea and was diabetic. He had all the risk factors for heart disease,” says Guarneri. She enrolled him in a $2,800, three-month weight loss and exercise program (covered only in part by insurance). “He lost 168 pounds and he went from taking 16 drugs to three. Just with that single individual, the system saved enormous amounts of money.”

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Weil believes that money, or lack thereof, made it happen.

“No amount of ideological argument ever changed anything,” he reflects. In this case, “It was when pocketbooks started getting squeezed that people started paying attention.

Things are going to get a lot worse, and when they do, the wisdom of what we are doing will become even more apparent.”

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Breakthroughs in

ANTI-AGING

Research Helps Us Live Longer and Healthier

by Lisa Marshall

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ive hundred years after explorer Ponce de “What we have ment. One in eight seniors will suffer dementia.

Leon roamed the West Indies and Florida For decades, scientists assumed the brain was learned in the in search of a vigor-restoring “fountain of “hardwired” by around fifth grade, with a finite past few years youth,” we have yet to come up with a way to number of neural connections that inevitably atis that you can turn back time. But according to physicians and rophy over time, stealing our cognitive sharpness. literally exercise researchers at the cutting edge of anti-aging It turns out they were wrong. your brain and research, we’re learning a lot about how to keep “What we have learned in the past few years the signs of aging at bay. add in new circuitry. is that you can literally exercise your brain and

“We’re seeing a ton of compelling research You can rewire it.” add in new circuitry. You can rewire it,” says Prolately on how to slow down the clock and live fessor Andrew Carle, director of the Program in better and longer,” says Dr. Andrew Weil, an ~ Andrew Carle Assisted Living/Senior Housing Administration at integrative physician and author of Healthy Aging: George Mason University, in Fairfax, Virginia.

A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being. “Happily, most of us will The concept, called neuroplasticity, has spawned a $265 not have to age the way our parents and grandparents did.” million brain-game industry, according to consulting firm

In the past decade, breakthrough research has radically SharpBrains. More than 700 senior housing facilities now changed our understanding of why our brain, organs and skin feature computer brain games, and “brain gyms” are popage and what we can do, eat or apply to slow the process. ping up in cities nationwide. Such games are typically either Here’s a look at some of the latest science and the technolodownloadable programs for a home computer or a standgies to grow out of it. alone game console. They challenge hand-eye coordination, auditory processing, memory and the ability to multitask.

Typically, the program adapts as the user plays, throwing in Workouts for new challenges. the Aging Brain Why not just read a book or do a crossword puzzle?

Perhaps the greatest fear of an aging Baby “These are already well-trodden neuronal pathways,” says Boomer is not flabby abs or wrinkling California neuroscientist Henry Mahncke, Ph.D., vice presiskin, but rather, the specter of a withering dent of research for brain game pioneer Posit Science. “We brain. By age 40, reports the Alzheimer’s know from brain imaging studies that if you have something Association, two-thirds of us experience that you are already good at and you do it, not much new occasional lapses of memory. By age 65, lights up in the brain.”

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By contrast, one 2006 study of 2,800 seniors, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found that those who engaged in a 10-session cognitive training program, with a four-session booster training at 11 and 35 months, had less difficulty with daily living than the control group. More, they still showed heightened cognitive abilities five years later.

A 2009 study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, showed that 487 seniors who spent an hour a day, for eight weeks, using Posit’s brain fitness program performed better on mental acuity tests than the control group.

Just which game is best remains a matter of debate.

Current options are on the table at Dakim.com, GamesForTheBrain.com, PositScience.com and VigorousMind.com.

“We still haven’t had a study comparing this $500 brain game to this $100 brain game to having someone who never did crossword puzzles start doing crossword puzzles,” relates Carle. His advice: Find a new intellectual challenge that we enjoy enough to do regularly.

“Probably the best single factor in all of this is the extent to which the games get used,” he adds.

National Academy of Science in 2007, found that a combination of sulforophane and curcumin reduced skin cancer in mice.

Meanwhile, researchers are exploring another compound, resveretrol, contained in the skins of red grapes, berries and dark beans, for its ability to slow aging by activating genes called sirtuins.

One 2008 study by the National Institute on Aging found that mice fed resveretrol had better balance and motor coordination, plus bone, heart and eye health. Human trials have been scarce, but several are ongoing. In the meantime, hundreds of resveratrol supplements have hit the market, and some doctors say they are confident in its safety and already taking it themselves.

“Based on the science, I don’t think there is a down side,” says Pittsburgh neuroscientist and physician Joseph Maroon, author of The Longevity Factor, published this year.

Healthy Skin

Dr. Valorie Treloar, a Massachusetts dermatologist, says the antioxidant theory has spurred a host of new topical products, made with Anti-aging Supplements everything from marine pine bark and green tea to acai or When it comes to the aging of organs, much research in recent years has gogi berry, all potent antioxidants. “One of the advantages to using it topically is that you can get a higher quantity of focused around the free radical theory. the active molecule in the skin, assuming it is in a form that In essence, as our body is exposed to penetrates through the epidermis,” she explains. food, air and sun, it throws off toxic byproducts, called free

Also, keep an eye out for new topical omega-3 fatty acid radicals, that eat away at cell walls, causing disease. In our and topical probiotics aimed at maintaining a proper microyouth, we have a built-in system of antioxidants that mop up bial balance on the skin. free radicals.

One of the most radical topical skin care

In other words, “Like a new car, we have “To age gracefully breakthroughs, from NuSkin, is a line of AgeLoc this remarkable array of catalytic converters to means to let nature products that not only triple collagen production clean up the byproducts of burning fuel,” extake its course while while dramatically decreasing an age-causing plains Joe McCord, Ph.D., a pioneer in antioxienzyme, but now also act on targeted groups of doing everything in dant research from the University of Coloradogenes that regulate how we age. In effect, it resets Denver. “But as we age, our catalytic converters our power to delay the genes to youthful activity. wear out.” and prevent disease.”

Numerous companies are also exploring the

Initially, test tube studies showed that “beauty from the inside-out” concept, crafting simple, nutritional antioxidants like vitamins C ~ Dr. Andrew Weil everything from antioxidant-rich skin health and E could neutralize free radicals. This led to shakes to candy chews made with cocoa antioxidants. One a 21st century boom in single-antioxidant supplements. But it turns out that their effect is minimal, “like a firefighter with one recent study in the Journal of European Nutrition found that when women ingested 329 milligrams of cocoa daily, the flow bucket, trying to put out a house fire,” McCord says. of blood and oxygen to the skin nearly doubled.

Instead, he and others contend, we need to prompt the

“In the past few years, we have seen some really good, body to produce more of its own antioxidants. Several nutriwell-designed trials showing that internal nutrients can make ents, including sulforaphane from broccoli, curcumin from a difference, too,” remarks Alan Logan, a doctor of naturopaturmeric, anthocyanins from berries, licorice and shallots, and thy and author of Your Skin, Younger. the herbs milk thistle and ashwaghanda, have been shown to

Weil says he sees the wealth of new anti-aging innovado that. Now, supplement companies are rolling out an array of new products, including Protandim by Life Vantage, a prod- tions as intriguing, but notes that one other critical factor for healthy aging often eludes people: To accept growing older uct that came out of McCord’s work, and GliSodin, by Isocell, and all the wisdom and experience it brings, with optimism, aimed at boosting internal antioxidant production. rather than dread.

One 2006 trial conducted at the University of Colorado

“The denial of aging is counterproductive,” he says. “To showed that when 29 people took Protandim, biochemical age gracefully means to let nature take its course while doing markers of oxidative stress declined by 40 percent after one everything in our power to delay and prevent disease.” month. Another study, published in the Proceedings of the natural awakenings

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naturalpet Keep Close Tabs Outdoor, free-roaming pets generally have shorter lives than indoor animals.

Keep dogs on leashes or in fenced yards.

Monitor the Environment Keep trash and poisons out of a pet’s reach. Ingesting even a small amount of toxic substances, such as antifreeze, rat poison or slug bait, can cause serious illness or death.

Provide Good Nutrition

How to Keep a Dog Forever Young

by Debra A. Primovic

Feed your dog a high-quality, low-fat, high-fiber diet and minimize treats. Discuss the merits of senior-formula food with your vet.

Encourage Daily Exercise Exercise strengthens joints and muscles, provides mental stimulation and helps maintain a healthy body weight.

Spay or Neuter Your Dog

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o pet lovers, the disparity between human and canine life spans seems unfair. Efforts to help dogs stay healthy not only keeps them around longer, but pays dividends in also keeping them in as youthful shape as possible.

Know When Your Pet is “Old” According to Dr. Johnny Hoskins, in Geriatrics and Gerontology of the Dog and Cat, the canine age that qualifies as senior depends largely on the breed and size. This veterinarian notes that dogs weighing less than 20 pounds are seniors at nine to 13 years, while giant dogs of 90 pounds or more are oldsters between six and nine years. Smaller breeds usually live longer.

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the teeth, heart and lungs, abdominal palpation and inspection of the ears and eyes. Monitoring weight, checking for parasites, blood work and urine tests are often recommended. Any symptoms of concern may require additional tests.

Watch for Illness Because dogs are good at hiding illness until it is too late, regular home exams are vital. Be alert to such things as changes in water consumption, urination patterns and activity levels; poor appetite; weight gain or loss; coughing or difficulty breathing; vomiting or diarrhea; and skin lumps or masses. If you suspect a problem, don’t delay—get your vet’s evaluation.

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Spaying and neutering reduce the risk of potential health problems related to the reproductive organs and diminish the desire to wander, which lessens the chance of being hit by cars.

Offer Mental Stimulation Provide your dog with toys, games and quality time. Most pets are never too old to play, and it’s never too late to teach old dogs new tricks.

Following these 10 tips will go far in keeping a well-favored canine companion forever young.

Debra A. Primovic, a doctor of veterinary medicine, also holds a bachelor’s of science degree in nursing. She works as a staff veterinarian at the St. Louis Animal Emergency Clinic, in Missouri, and serves as managing editor of PetPlace.com, an online resource for pet health and wellness.

fitbody

Your Best Exercise for the New Year

by Joelle Dunaetz

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ou want to be in good condition, right?—the right shape, size, look, feel. But who says what’s “right” for you?

Or how you get there?

You do! We all know that exercise is good for our health. The challenge is finding something you’re willing to do. Studies show that if you enjoy what you do, you’re much more likely to stick with it.

So consider these general questions: Do you prefer being outside? Do you like competition? Do you move better with instruction? Recall the activities you enjoyed in the past: Did you play a particular sport in high school or college? Did you like to dance? Review your current activities: Do you enjoy evening walks with a loved one or pet?

Does a morning yoga class invigorate you for the day? Perhaps you like the spice that comes with variety.

Think broadly when you assess your current level of activity. If you enjoy gardening, weeding becomes a rowing exercise. Raking vigorously is aerobic! Any movement done regularly, for a sustained duration of time, with enough vigor, can qualify as exercise and improve your well-being.

Options for movement: • Walking, marching, running: your neighborhood streets or park, track, bleachers, forest trails • Dancing: classes, solo in your living room!

• House cleaning: vacuuming, scrubbing • Yard work: gardening, weeding, raking, moving soil and equipment • Sports: basketball, snowshoeing, biking • Fitness equipment: stability ball, bands, weights

• Exercise classes and programs: so many options!

• Playing with kids at a playground • Parking far away from errands and shopping • Taking the stairs rather than the elevator So how will you continue throughout the year? Set a goal, make a plan, commit to it, and get the support you need—a friend or coach, someone who believes in you when you want to give up or indulge your excuses.

Circumstances will come up, so commit to moving your body in some way, even on those days when life shows up less than easy.

Just begin, and be consistent; even small steps will keep you moving toward your goal. A new behavior takes about 21 days to become a habit, and maybe longer for many of us, so have faith in yourself and don’t give up!

The bottom line: Move your body, and move it often! Move to strengthen your muscles and increase your flexibility; move to boost your cardiovascular endurance (heart and lungs). This is exercise, and however you do it is the best way for you!

Joelle Dunaetz is a certified wellness coach and fitness instructor with Wellness in Balance.

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that an important part of most people’s satisfaction comes from activities associated with being in nature or singing and dancing, creating space to relax and taking in the beauty of life.

A Conversation with Shakti Gawain

Author and Counselor in Prosperity Consciousness

by Ellen Mahoney

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hakti Gawain is co-founder of New World Library and an internationally renowned pioneer in the fields of personal growth, visualization and prosperity consciousness.

Her many best-selling books have sold 6 million copies in 30 languages. For 20 years, she has helped thousands of individuals develop greater awareness, balance and wholeness in their lives.

Today, she continues to give talks and lead workshops throughout the world.

What is “prosperity consciousness?”

Most people think prosperity means having money, and that the more money you have, the more prosperity you

have. Money is part of the process, but truly experiencing prosperity, I believe, has to do with discovering and satisfying our heart and soul’s deep needs and desires. Prosperity is an experience, a feeling of fulfillment or richness in your life, not something you can count.

So, how is money related to individual and community prosperity?

If you look at people in the world who have millions or billions of dollars, some are doing creative, interesting and purposely helpful things with their money. But too often, people become solely hung up on the money factor and don’t end up doing much that really satisfies them. They’re not feeling as safe and secure, as successful and free, as they hoped they would.

In contrast, those living an elegantly simple life may not be making a lot of money, but if they’re right where they want to be in life, they often experience a deep sense of satisfaction and peace of mind.

Can anyone arrive at a place of ongoing, conscious prosperity?

Each of us moves through many stages on our road of self-discovery; it’s a lifelong process of growth and development and we arrive there at different times.

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What’s the secret to boosting our joy and love for life?

One of the most important things that I’ve found, for myself and others, is to understand that we all really do have a wise part inside of us that’s our inner guidance.

You can call it many different things. The wisdom within surfaces in an intuitive way and doesn’t necessarily depend on knowing things intellectually. It’s a sense that somewhere deep inside, there is an understanding and conviction of what’s just right for us. This can serve as a guiding force on a highly practical level.

How can we stay “up” if we are unemployed, underemployed, or otherwise overwhelmed by economic hardship?

Well, if we try to stay “up,” we’re often not allowing ourselves to see what’s truly going on underneath, and this can be a form of denial. What’s going on underneath can be scary to look at if we’re really feeling frightened, sad or upset, but it’s important to look at these things. It has to do with becoming more conscious and more aware of our feelings and thoughts on a day-to-day, moment-to-moment basis. It’s not easy, but it’s what every psychological and spiritual process is trying to help us to do, become more conscious of what’s going on inside of us.

Once we do, we can see what is holding us back and take steps to help ourselves feel better. Instead of denying what’s happened, we can embrace it and figure out what can be done to make it better. Getting out in nature, meditation and talking to someone you feel comfortable with are ways to nurture yourself and heal. I always would urge you to do what feels right for you.

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New Year’s Resolutions: Will They Stick This Year?

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Screaming and shouting at midnight, drinking a bit more than usual, we dream up our promises and resolutions—too often forgotten by morning, as if we unconsciously promised to not take ourselves seriously.

If you want things to be different in your life, go ahead and make your resolutions for 2010—but don’t be mad at yourself if they don’t stick. We only change when life says yes with us, when we get support from the cosmos—and our friends and family.

The nature of the human is to be forgetful and fickle. We want to make a resolution and stick with it, but it's not that simple. There are other factors at play, namely the planets—which are as sure and consistent as can be. The earth, the moon, and all the other bodies revolving

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Virgos will finally feel a bit of relief from the pressure of the last two years, and Pisces will find, just around the corner, the magic they’ve been waiting for.

Change is imminent for early-born Capricorns (Dec. 22–26), Libras (Sept. 22–Oct. 8), Aries (Mar. 22–Apr. 1), and Cancers (June 24–July1). This is a time when you can write down your resolutions and make them tough, because you can trust your ability to follow through. Saturn, the old man of the zodiac, is on your tail. He will hold you accountable for what you say, and support you towards real change.

Saturn is the most important planet in astrology. We all get a visit from him around the time we turn 29. If you’re older than that, remember what happened then to your career, family, kids, partner, schooling? That was Saturn making his grand appearance.

Change was calling your name, and you really couldn’t do anything else but.

It’s so interesting to me, as a therapist and an astrologer, that there are inescapable times in our life when we’re forced to surrender. It’s not a choice; it’s your fate.

Destiny is the only choice card: it’s how you play what fate hands you, how you deal with life’s challenges and gifts. There are times when it’s easier to fulfill your goals, and times when you finally let go of an untenable situation. And then there are times when you’re not ready to take Conquer your pain with Breakthrough action, when you need Body Healing. Expertise in pain to talk more and dream and injury rehabilitation, trauma more—when the stars therapy, nutritional counseling and just aren’t in your favor alternatives to physical therapy. for big change.

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for 2010—but don’t be mad at yourself if they don’t stick. We only change when life says yes, when we get support from the cosmos—and our friends and family.

You will lose the weight when you are good and ready; you will meet your partner when kismet calls your name.

My many years of studying human nature bear out that we simply cannot make a big change without two factors: divine timing and human support.

The unconscious and collective rhythms of fear too often rule us. Feeling isolated, scared to reach out, we think we have to do it all on our own or we’re failures. My many years of studying human nature bear out that we simply cannot make a big change without two factors: divine timing and human support.

If it’s the season to lose weight, to find a partner, to quit your job and write that novel, time will tell. Like clockwork, the planets march through your chart and either insist on change or invite you to flirt with the idea.

If you want to make God laugh, tell Her your plans. What season are you in this year? And, most important, do you trust that life is on your side? This is a good reason to check in with an astrologer and consult your fate.

Debra Silverman has been in private psychotherapy practice for 32 years. She has a regular radio spot on HayHouse radio, has taught at Esalen Institute, and is an internationally recognized astrologer.

Debra offers individual, couples and family readings and teaches beginner and intermediate astrology classes. Debra-Silverman.com

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Monday, January 11 Naturally Boulder Networking Event – 5:30pm.

Network with the Boulder natural products business community, and enjoy a presentation from Susan Graf, president of the Boulder Chamber of Commerce. Members free, $10 non-members. Q’s Restaurant, Boulderado. NaturallyBoulderProducts.com

Tuesday, January 12

Sunday, January 3

Thursday, January 7

How to Accept More of God’s Love – 10:30-11:30am. Deepen our understanding of how Divine Spirit (the ECK) works. Free. ECKANKAR Center of Boulder Valley, Crossroads Gardens, 1800 30th St. Suite 208. 303-443-1610, eck-colorado.org

Healing Meditation: Calling in the Light – 7-8:30pm. A guided meditation, opening to the ever present inner light, and how we want to call it in for the coming year. $10 suggested donation. 1800 30th St. Ste 307, Boulder. 303-545-5562. wholebeingexplorations.com/spirit/groups.html

Tuesday, January 5

“Let us embody the power we sense in ourselves and fully embrace what we came here to do.” – Darce Brighthorse will conduct group healings designed to enhance physical restoration, emotional freedom, mental clarity and spiritual empowerment. Love offering, $22 suggested. Info AssociationForTheNaturalHealingArts.com, or call Carol at 303-588-7125.

Food is Your Best Medicine with Dr. Charley Cropley ND – 7-9 pm. 21 Day Intensive in Weight Loss, Energy, Stress, and Maximizing Health; feel educated and supported to employ empowering techniques for radiant health. Now by donation with $25 registration fee (previously $295)! 2805 Broadway St., Boulder 303-818-7982 charleycropley.com

Friday, January 8

THE BODY NEVER LIES:

Hidden Prescriptions for Healing the Body-Mind with Douglas Brady, M.Ed Shambhala Mountain Center February 21-26, 2010

www.shambhalamountain.org Douglas Brady, M.Ed is a somatic psychotherapist and visionary healer who specializes in the “Psychology of Symptoms”, a profound adjunct to western medical treatment, synthesized over 30 years of study and experience. He teaches nationally at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and Shambhala Mountain Center. Douglas offers private sessions for individuals, couples and families.

“Douglas is a brilliant healer who has been gifted to see and hear beyond ordinary external reality. He combines multiple modalities of healing and psychotherapy that reach into the seemingly untouchable places within the human body-mind. He has guided me through things that I have gone round and round with other therapists for 10 years. I am supremely grateful for him and his divinely inspired gifts.” ~Lani Grant

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Adults on Ice-Beginning Ice Skating – 1212:30pm. Jan 8-Feb 5.

The Ice Rink at One Boulder Plaza; $75 Register and details at bvsd.org/LLL or call 720-561-3768.

Saturday, January 9 Bluegrass at the Audi – 7pm. Broomfield Auditorium. $14 General, $12 Seniors and CBMS Members.

Tickets at door or www. coloradobluegrass.org

Sunday, January 10 Are You Ready for Transformation? – 1-4pm. Explore Crystal Bowls attunement and Egyptian Rods alignment. Learn the wisdom of crystals and essential oils protection. Nourish your individual expression of energy. $20. Solstice Center, 302 Pearl Street, Boulder.

www.NaturalAwakeningsBoulder.com

Boulder Green Building Residential Brown Bag Event – 11:30am-1:30pm. Governors Energy Office Rebate Update and City of Boulder SmartRegs Update Educational and Networking opportunity for green building enthusiasts. RSVP: members free, $20 non-members. Boulder REI Community Room. bgbg.org.

Wednesday, January 13 FREE Tantra Preview Evening – 7-9pm. Learn basic Tantra principles and practices and what to expect from the upcoming March, Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving weekend seminar with Charles Muir. Free. sourcetantra.com Register 888 682-6872 x104 colorado@sourcetantra.com Introduction to Pathwork – 7-9pm. Pathwork is a body of practical spiritual wisdom that lays out the journey of personal transformation based on the lectures of Eva Pierrakos. Info 720-524-3664.

Conference Room at 5001 Pennsylvania (Unitarian Church), Boulder.

Friday, January 15 PujaGroove – 7-9:30pm. Tantra meets Dance. Come integrate conscious open hearted intimacy with free form rhythmic movement. $15. Solstice Institute at 302 Pearl St. Contact Miwa Linehan at 303-530-0920.

Sunday, January 17 Conscious Oneness: Are You Ready For Transformation – 2-5pm. Expand, hold, ground your energy field. Crystal singing bowl session, Egyptian Healing Rods circle. Claim your sacredness. $20 cash.

Bring cushion. RSVP: 888oneness.com or 303-4989800. Details @ www.consciousoneness.com.

Monday, January 18 Psychic Tools for Beginners – 7-9pm. Check out the first night of this 10 week psychic development course.

First night is free. Contact Boulder Psychic Institute at 303-530-0920. BoulderPsychicInstitute.org

Tuesday, January 19 Weight Management Group: Lose Weight using Hypnotherapy! – 10-11:30am. Tues. 8 weeks beginning January 19th. Match your subconscious beliefs with your conscious desires! Achieve your goals for 2010! $280 (materials included). Class size limited. Kristine@kristinekaye.com

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Tuesday, January 26

Winter Bike to Work Day – 7-9am. Free breakfast to bike riders at select locations. View map at www.

GOBoulder.net and Communitycycles.org

Climate Leaders – 7:30-9am. Panel of business owners discuss their successful sustainability and energy efficiency efforts. RSVP required to Dan Powers. Free for members; $25 for future members.

Boulder Chamber, 2440 Pearl Street, 303-442-1044, www.boulderchamber.com.

Brain Balance Center Parent Event – 6:30pm. Dr. Eslich will talk about how we help children who have ADHD, Autism, Asperger’s, dyslexia and processing disorders by using hemispheric based learning. Free.

1211 Avery St, Golden. Reservations 303-278-1780 or golden@brainbalancecenters.com In Time of Need – 7pm.View a spiritually uplifting video featuring Harold Klemp, the Spiritual Leader of Eckankar. ECKANKAR Center of Boulder Valley, Crossroads Gardens, 1800 30th St. Suite 208.

303-443-1610,eck-colorado.org

Thursday, January 21 High Road Connections Business Forum – 7:459:30am. Monthly forum for businesses engaged in the new Inspiration Economy. $20/$15 if paid by January 18. Registration required. 1637 28th Street, Boulder. HighRoadConnections.com How to Have an Inspiration Economy Business –10am-1pm. Experiential workshop to discover and enhance the inspirational aspects of your business economy. $59/$49 if paid by January 18. Registration required. 1637 28th Street, Boulder.

Demonstrating Absolute Healing – 6pm. Demonstrations of body scanning and electrophysiology alignment for complete healing. Free to first 8 attendees or $35. Reserve your spot Alicia@ embracingthegift.net or 303-248-6801.

Tobacco Cessation Group: Quit smoking using hypnotherapy! – 6-7:30pm. Thurs. 6 weeks beginning Jan 21st. Use the power of your subconscious mind to break your smoking habit. Achieve your healthy lifestyle goals for 2010! $270 (materials included). Class size limited. Kristine@kristinekaye.com Healing Meditation: Releasing Self Judgments – 7-8:30pm. A guided meditation, exploring and releasing self-judgments. A powerful healing. $10 suggested donation. 1800 30th St. Ste 307, Boulder.

303-545-5562. wholebeingexplorations.com/spirit/ groups.html

Friday, January 22 SpiritTalk: Energy and Evolution – 7-9:00pm. A discussion of the big picture and how it applies to the local frame. A blending of physics and Spirit. $15 tickets, admit 2. Advance discount. The Bead Lounge 320 Main St., Longmont. 303-545-5562. wholebeingexplorations.com/spirit/classes.html

Saturday, January 23 Manifest Your Destiny: The Nine Spiritual Principles For Getting Everything You Want – 10-11:30am. Sat. 12 weeks beginning Jan. 23rd.

Explore the 9 spiritual principles authored by Wayne Dyer using readings, journaling, weekly action plans, and hypnosis. $360 (book and materials included) kristine@kristinekaye.com Three B’s-Bach, Beethoven & Brahms – 7:30pm.

Boulder Philharmonic Concert. Macky Auditorium, CU. $13-$70. 303-444-7328.

Green Drinks Boulder – 5-8pm. Green thinking professionals mix, mingle and indulge in sustainable libations. Free. Buy your own drinks. For details join our Facebook group.

Wednesday, January 27 My Wedding? – 7-9pm. Meet with experienced wedding professionals a Celebrant, Photographer, and a Videographer) to discuss how a couple can gain and maintain control of their wedding and create the day they can treasure. Info 720-524-3664 or weddingforyou.net. Conference room at 5001 Pennsylvania (Unitarian Church)

Thursday, January 28 “The Main Course” Cooking Class – 6-9 pm.

Seven 3 hour classes on Thursdays from Jan 28 - Mar 11, 2010. Learn the “language of cooking without recipes” in a plant based study of the food groups. $935. School of Natural Cookery, Boulder.

303-444-8068 or naturalcookery.com.

Healthy Habits Show – 11am-5pm. Vendors representing holistic living, alternative medicine, natural and organic products. Win a trip for 2! Spice of Life Event Center, 5706 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder. $5 for 2 days. Two-for-one passes are available in this issue of Natural Awakenings.

Herbal Mead-Making Workshop – 12-5 pm.

Learn the ancient craft of making medicinal meads (honey-wines) with local herbs. $50. Louisville.

303-746-3512 Herbalconstituents.com.

Conscious Oneness: Are You Ready for Transformation? – 1-4pm. Expand, hold, ground your energy. Crystal singing bowl session, Egyptian Healing Rods circle. Claim your sacredness. Guest channeler UK’s Solara An-Ra. $20 cash. Bring cushion.

RSVP:888oneness.com or 303-498-9800. Details @ www.consciousoneness.com.

Divining Gravity: Somatic Arts Scholarship Concert – 8pm. The concert will showcase twelve performances choreographed and performed by students, faculty, staff and alumni of the Naropa University Somatic Counseling Psychology Department. Naropa University’s Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder. $10 donation. Info 303-245-4854.

Sunday, January 31

Friday, January 29 The Best of MOMIX – 7:30pm. Athletic dance, riveting music, outrageous costumes. Macky Auditorium, CU. $15-$60. 303-492-8423.

Divining Gravity: Somatic Arts Scholarship Concert – 8pm. The concert will showcase twelve performances choreographed and performed by students, faculty, staff and alumni of the Naropa University Somatic Counseling Psychology Department. Naropa University’s Performing Arts Center, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder. $10 donation. Info 303-245-4854.

Saturday, January 30 Weight Loss System Open House – all day. OmniCalm Weight Loss Spa will host an Open House featuring Hydrojet Therapy which uses heat, pressure, water, fast-paced jets and potent botanicals.

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Goddess Isis Channeling & Healing Retreat – 10am-1pm. Receive personal healing and communication through this channel, Isis. $50. Contact Boulder Psychic Institute at 303-530-0920.

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Healthy Habits Show – 11am-4pm. Vendors representing holistic living, alternative medicine, natural and organic products. Win a trip for 2! Spice of Life Event Center, 5706 Arapahoe Ave. Boulder. $5 for 2 days. Two-for-one passes are available in this issue of Natural Awakenings.

Ascension Now! – 2-5pm. Solara An-Ra, Warrior of Light, brings Pleiadian-Sirian guidance to awaken the human tribe of Earth! Her gift, through meditations & channelling, is to awaken you to your gifts!

Boulder venue details/cost - www.Solara.org.uk/ Courses.htm

Tuesday, February 2 Opening to Channel – 10am-5pm. brings Pleiadian-Sirian guidance to awaken the human Earth tribe!

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Friday, February 5 A Taste of Bauman College – 6-9pm. Enjoy an evening of Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts with hors d’euvres, cooking demo, and nutrition discussion. Free. Located at Bauman College, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. RSVP events@baumancollege.org or (800) 987-7530. Info www.baumancollege.com

Saturday, February 6 Know and Flow A Yoga-Astrology Fusion – 10am5pm. A physical and psychological exploration to get you into your body and gain powerful insight into your purpose and life lesson. $125-200 (Sliding Scale). Boulder Integral, 2805 Broadway. Visit knowandflow.com to register or 303-665-0320.

Monday, February 8 Boulder Chamber’s Annual Dinner – 6-9pm. Silent Auction and networking begins at 6pm, awards dinner at 7pm. Cost is $90 individual - $650 table.

Sponsorships are available. Info boulderchamber.

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March 12 - 14: BECOME A MASTER LOVER

BY CONNECTING BODY, HEART AND SPIRIT!

Join Charles Muir, the ‘Pioneer of the Modern Tantra Movement in America’ for Tantra: The Art of Conscious Loving Beginners Seminar. $450.

FREE Preview Evenings (Jan 13/Feb 16), FREE Puja (March 10), FREE $15 CD. Colorado@ sourcetantra.com 888 682-6872 x104 www. sourcetantra.com

ongoing events 2-week “Conscious Cravings” Metabolic Reset – Lose pounds and cravings, stabilize moods, increase energy and balance your hormones. $47 (+products).

303-993-4359, ExquisiteWellness.com Fundamentals of Self Protection – Learn to protect yourself and others. 8 class times throughout the week. Adults and children. Boulder Quest Center, 1200 Yarmouth Ave. 303-440-3647 or BoulderQuest.com.

Transform your Relationship with Food – 10 wk tele-course for anyone who eats. Institute for the Psychology of Eating, $375. All sessions recorded, psychologyofeating.com.

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Sunday Meditation – 9am. Service to follow at 10:30am. Unity Center, 505 Main St, Longmont.

720-251-1419 or UnityLongmont.org.

Awakening Women – 6:30pm. Warm, supportive environment to release inner struggle by focusing on your most important relationship-Self. $20 sliding scale. 4500 19th St. Boulder. RSVP Andrea 303545-5485; www.radiantawareness.com Satsang at Sacred Mountain Ashram – 7pm.

Kirtan, satsang and meditation, all are welcome.

10668 Gold Hill Road, Boulder. 303-447-1637.

TruthConsciousness.org.

Jazz or Blues Jam – 7:30-10pm. Players welcome. Boulder Outlook Hotel. 800 28th Street.

BoulderOutlook.com/musiccalendar.html

Live Interactive Audio Event – 7:30pm. A modern mystic’s profound journey into Infinity. You will be stunned with insights and experience a transmission of cosmic energy. cosmicfieldacademy.com

Level 1 & 2 Yoga Class – 12-1:00pm. Flow sequence .$10. Vida Yoga Studio, Boulder. 303-4479642 or NancyCandea.com.

Noon Yoga – 1-1:30 pm. 30 minute yoga flow.

Boulder Quest Center, 1200 Yarmouth Ave. 303440-3647 Level 2 & 3 Yoga Class –2:30-3:30pm. Yoga based dance. $10. Vida Yoga Studio, Boulder. 303-4479642 or NancyCandea.com.

Yo’Salsa – 6:15-7:30. Yoga and salsa. $10.

Vida Yoga Studio, Boulder. 303-447-9642 or NancyCandea.com.

Level 1 & 2 Yoga Class – 9:15-10:45am. Flow sequence. $15/drop in. One Boulder Fitness, Boulder.

303-447-9642 or NancyCandea.com.

Cardio Kickboxing – 6:15-7pm. Get in shape and reduce stress. 1st class free. Boulder Quest Center, 1200 Yarmouth Ave, Boulder. 303-440-3647 BoulderQuest.com.

Lunch-time Laughter Club – 12-12:45pm. Laughter Yoga. All levels. Dispels stress and worry. Rejuvenates. Free. Unitarian University Fellowship,1241 Ceres Dr, Lafayette. LiveLifeLaughing.org.

Level 1 & 2 Yoga Class – 12-1:00pm. Flow sequence. $10. Vida Yoga Studio, Boulder. 303-4479642 or NancyCandea.com.

Community Yoga Class – 1:30-2:30pm. Free for anyone who is unemployed. Vida Yoga Studio. 2749 Iris, Boulder. VidaStudioBoulder.com Tribal Belly Dance – 6pm. American Tribal Style with Jennifer Goran. Boulder Quest Center, 1200 Yarmouth Ave. 303-440-3647 or BoulderQuest.com.

Cardio Bootcamp – 6-6:45pm. A 45 minute highintensity aerobic class. Boulder Quest Center, 1200 Yarmouth Ave. 303-440-3647 BoulderQuest.com.

Free Psychic Readings – 7-8:30pm. Discover your past lives and the colors of your aura. Free.

4887 Kings Ridge Blvd, Boulder. Schedule 303530-0920.

School of the Blues – 7:30-10pm. Live music.

Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th Street, Boulder.

BoulderOutlook.com/musiccalendar.html.

Open Mic Night – 8pm. Poetry, spoken word, musicians (acoustic set) all are welcome. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St, Boulder. 303-440-8808

Level 1 Yoga Class – 9:15-10:20am. Flow sequence. $15. One Boulder Fitness. 303-447-9642 or NancyCandea.com.

Level 1 & 2 Yoga Class – 4-5:15pm. Flow sequence. $15. One Boulder Fitness. 303-447-9642 or NancyCandea.com.

Ninja Fit – 5:30-6:15pm. 45 minutes of ab busting, glute toning strength and flexibility training. 1st class free. Boulder Quest Center, 1200 Yarmouth Ave, Boulder. 303-440-3647.

Live Music at Folsom Street – 8pm. Folsom Street Coffee, 1795 Folsom St, Boulder. 303-440-8808.

ROOTs – 8am. 2nd and 4th Wednesday. A conscious alliance of business professionals creating growth both professionally and personally. Free.

Location and Info ericpeltier@DoveTailLending. com.

Healing Space – 12-2pm. 15 minute energy clearings or healings. Free/donation. 1800 30th St. Ste 307 Boulder. 303-545-5562. wholebeingexplorations.com/spirit/ energy.html Weekly Healing Meditation Service – 7pm.

A free healing and meditation service. Open to

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Live Music at Boulder Outlook Hotel – 8-10:30pm.

800 28th Street, Boulder. BoulderOutlook.com

Cardio Sword–11:45am. Like cardio kickboxing only you use a sword on the bags. 1st class free.

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I offer a free initial health consultation.

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appy New Year and happy gardening? You might think it’s strange to talk about gardening in January but now is actually the perfect time to consider starting a hydroponic garden. Using this innovative process, you can grow anything you want any time of year, even during the Christine Hubbard coldest winter months.

General Manager Most produce from the market isn’t very appealing right now so think about growing your own veggies, herbs and fruits and have them fresh for your favorite dishes. Not too interested in spending time in the kitchen? Hydroponic gardening also lets you grow and surround yourself with colorful flora – what a beautiful way to stay cheerful.

Hydroponics simply means growing plants without soil. It allows you to grow more in less space more quickly. It’s also better for the environment – you’ll use way less water than you do with conventional gardening. The best part? No weeds, faster plant growth and a year-round growing season.

Stop by one of our locations and one of our friendly, knowledgeable staff will show you how to get started. We offer full kits that you can just plug-in and grow, or we have all the parts required to build a system yourself. If you’re interested in organic options we can meet your needs there too.

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