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Presently enrolling, National Personal Training Institute (NPTI) Florida (Orlando/Tampa) is the world’s leading veteranowned, operated and staffed ACCSC accredited/licensed educational facility creating today’s top personal fitness professionals. NPTI Florida’s diploma program is designed to offer 218 hours of hands-on client personal training experience which affords their graduates the needed skills for high income careers nationwide.

NPTI Florida’s objective is to provide students with the knowledge and confidence that every fitness professional needs and deserves via their innovative, comprehensive college curriculum. Graduates command top salaries working at health clubs, vacation resorts, spas, and in their own personal training studios.

Veteran-owned and staffed for more than 21 years, NPTI Florida is the only accredited institution offering Next Generation Personal Training Education. Additionally, they offer financial aid and veteran tuition benefits (FAFSA).

For more information and enrollment, call 813-374-2017 and/ or visit nptiFlorida.edu. ACCSC Accredited Post-secondary School (accsc.com). See ad page 39. Peaks of Health Medical Center is collecting donations for school supplies from July 1to July 18 at their location in Largo. Items needed include paper, notebooks, pencils, pens, backpacks, crayons, colored pencils, calculators and other essential school supplies. Donations can be dropped off in the lobby, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday. All supplies will be given out on a first come-first serve basis, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., on July 23, in the Peaks of Health parking lot. Physicians will also be on hand to perform school physicals for kids under 18 years of age, gratis.

Peaks’ Dr. Tracie Leonhardt, who grew up in the Tampa Bay community, became active in the early 90s as a board certified ER physician. Experiencing her own health challenges led her to begin practicing Integrative Medicine, a more holistic approach to achieve optimal healing. She is an expert in the area of hormones, including thyroid, and in the treatment of diabetes as well as stubborn fungus, mold, Lyme and autoimmune diseases. She presented on Lyme disease and alternative treatments to a congress in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and European physicians were excited to learn of her successes.

Location: 1120 Belcher Rd. S, Largo. For more information, call 727-826-0838. See ad page 11.

Age Advantage Brands is pleased to announce that their CBD Made Easy Energy & Focus THCV Hemp Oil has been shown effective in helping people who feel sluggish and/or are operating on less than all cylinders, with diminished focus, to once again feel their “normal”. THCV is a cannabinoid and known as the “sports car” of cannabinoids. Like CBD and THC, this means that it works with the human endocannabinoid system (ECS). The ECS helps regulate physical and mental well-being, influencing how we experience stress and anxiety, sleep, eating, and even our hormone levels.

“Although THCV may sound like THC, its effects are quite the opposite. It is not psychoactive,” explains Andrew Strickman, founder and CIO of Age Advantage Brands. “According to several studies, it demonstrated the ability to suppress appetite which may aid weight loss. It has also been shown to upregulate energy metabolism resulting in a motivated, alert and energized feeling of euphoria, along with providing focus. For this reason, it is often recommended for daytime or anytime when functionality is essential.”

For more information, call 877-208-8200 or visit CBDMadeEasy.com/thcv-products. See ad page 6. St. Pete Wellness & Med Spa is a leading aesthetic medical clinic headed by Medical Director Eugene R. DeLucia III, DO. Conveniently located in downtown St. Petersburg, the practice offers exceptional, high-quality care to patients throughout Central Florida and beyond.

Dr. DeLucia and his team are proud to offer the highest standard of care to help patients look and feel their best. St. Pete Wellness Med Spa offers cutting-edge services like skin resurfacing, IPL facials, laser hair removal, micro-needling, PRP therapy, anti-aging treatments, Botox and fillers, Morpheus8, Evolve body contouring, women’s health protocols and more. The providers also understand that each patient is unique, thus every treatment plan caters to the individual’s specific healthcare goals.

St. Pete Wellness & Med Spa is family-owned and operated and boasts an exceptional team of estheticians, including ARNPC Crystal Jimpie, all well-equipped to handle a broad range of aesthetic and medical concerns. Appointments with Dr. DeLucia and his skilled team can be made via calling the friendly staff or using the convenient online booking tool to schedule a visit.

Location: 111 2nd Ave. NE, Ste. 505 (Tower Plaza and Courtyard, behind BellaBrava on Beach Dr.), St. Petersburg. Info and appointments, 727-873-0500, StPeteWellnessMedSpa.com. See ad page 5.

Rooted in the wisdom of the natural world and the many traditions that have honed the craft of botanical medicine, this one-year herbal medicine program, beginning October 2022, is most popular for beginner, intermediate and advanced herbalists as well as any healthcare practitioner or professional who wants to include plant medicine in their practice.

Facilitated by Clinical Herbalist-Rose Kalajian, who has been serving the community for 24 years, the program is a holistic approach to healing that seeks balance in all aspects of the individual, including food, lifestyle and spirit.

Instruction takes place indoors and outdoors. The outdoor classroom will include wild plant identification, harvesting herbs, drying herbs and growing plants. This is a rare opportunity for herbal students as most herbal schools in the community don’t offer an outside classroom. As the plants grow, students will be guided to develop relationships with them. When ready, the plant will be harvested and made into an herbal remedy.

Additionally, this course will guide students into the many areas and aspects of herbal careers, including Essential Oils, Flower Remedies, Hands-on Medicine Making, Herbal Cosmetic Products, Salves, Pill Making, Extracts and more.

For more information, call 813-991-5177 or visit imHerbalist.com. See ad pages 27 and 33. Integrated Energy Therapy (IET) is spiritual energy channeled through a master level practitioner from the healing angels to support the self-healing process. IET works directly with each person’s 12-strand spiritual DNA by safely and gently releasing limiting energy patterns of the past, empowering and balancing life in the present, and helping one reach for the stars, evolving into the future.

Complementary to other healing arts, IET can be used alone or in conjunction with other holistic or traditional approaches to accelerate the self-healing journey. Every person is a unique individual with their own life stories and journey which translates to each person processing self-healing differently and in their own time. As much as we want healing to happen instantly, all at once, it just doesn’t work like that in most cases. The body and soul always know how much and exactly what is ready to be released and healed.

Results from IET include the clearing of energy blockages that limit; self-healing on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels; identification and release from deeply suppressed/stored negative emotions; empowerment to experience fulfilling, loving relationships; living one’s soul mission; and connection with angels and spiritual guides who are always there to help during this life journey.

Location: Palm Harbor. Tracy Spurling, Master Level IET Practitioner. By appointment only. 315-830-7847. FourEverEvolving.com. See ad page 44.