Natural Awakenings Twin Cities July 2019

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HEALTHY

LIVING

Chill Out With Healthy Summer Herbs

HEALTHY

PLANET

Garden Cities Urban Farmers Grow Their Niche

FOREST BATHING Mother Nature’s Rx for Body and Mind

Toning the

VAGUS NERVE

Relief for Pain, Anxiety and Inflammation

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Contents 16 CROPS IN THE CITY

Urban Agriculture Breaks New Ground

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19 UNDERSTANDING DIGESTION

20 KNOW OUR FISHERMAN

22 FOREST BATHING

Mother Nature’s Rx for Body and Mind

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24 TRAVELING WITH

SENSITIVE CHILDREN

Creating a Drama-Free Travel Plan

26 TONING THE VAGUS NERVE

Relief for Pain, Anxiety and Inflammation

28 HELP FOR

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OF ABUNDANCE

Five Practices to Create a More Abundant Life

30 SUMMER EATING The Herbal Connection

DEPARTMENTS 6 news briefs 9 business

spotlight 10 health briefs 12 global briefs 14 eco tip 15 therapy

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22 fit body 26 healing ways 28 green living 29 inspiration 30 conscious

eating 32 calendar 35 resource guide

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pen Arms of Minnesota grows vegetables for their clients’ meals and the Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) initiative through the Open Farms program.

With the help of several thousand volunteers, Open Farms Farm Coordinator Kelly Wilson has turned vacant city lots into vibrant vegetable gardens. Last year they produced more than 15,000 pounds of produce by transforming five underutilized urban spaces into space for growing healthy food.

Wilson uses organic methods and a variety of different growing techniques to maximize efficiency and space as well as increase productivity. The gardens produce kale, tomatoes, beans, carrots, onions, potatoes, herbs and many other nutritious crops. Produce is brought to Open Arms’ commercial kitchen and either used in medically tailored meals for critically ill clients or packed in CSA boxes.

Open Farms CSAs offer farm-to-table enthusiasts the opportunity to join the local food movement and enjoy fresh veggies while doing good—supporting free, nutritious meals for people living with life-threatening illnesses.

The CSA season runs for 16 weeks, mid-June through the end of September, with two options: full share (a box of produce every week) or half share (a box of produce every other week). CSA shares include approximately 10 items of seasonal produce plus a selection of fresh herbs as well as a newsletter with recipes, farm updates and the next week’s veggie forecast. A handful of half or full CSA shares can still be purchased.

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Creating More Independence Through Psinergy Wellness Open House

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oin Psinergy, from 5 to 8 p.m., July 3, in creating more independence and freedom for you and your overall health.

Activities presented include free Zyto Scans and Kirlian EEA Analysis at Psinergy Natural Health; a talk with André of Psinergy Tech about things you can do for your computer wellness; the benefits of Esogetics Colorpuncture, Ayurveda and other tools for your personalized wellness; and the introduction of a new line of green lifestyle products.

During the event, attendees will also have the opportunity to experience Chinese Mystery School (Hanmi Buddhist) teachings that show how to take healing yourself and others to the next level, presented by Vajracharya ZhiChan/Charlotte Steen with the Upper Midwest Hanmi Buddhist Association, located upstairs, in Suite 804.

Psinergy recently moved to its new location at 80 County Road C West, just off Highway 36/35E and 694, a quick, 16-minute drive from downtown Minneapolis and only seven minutes from downtown St. Paul. Shortly after, the Upper Midwest Hanmi Buddhist Association relocated their empowered shrine to the same building. Psinergy is elated to once again be neighbors with such an amazing teacher and organization.

For more information, call 612-217-4325 or visit PsinergyHealth.com. See ad, page 4.

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Activating High Performance Consciousness

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as Sajady announces a free event for young individuals called Youth MediMorphosis, to be held from 1 to 5 p.m., on July 28, at the Lake Harriett Spiritual Center, in Minneapolis.

Sajady is gifted with unprecedented abilities that help activate high performance consciousness. These highly developed abilities coupled with the capacity to access a timeless body of knowledge which he calls Exponential Intelligence (EI) allow him to lead individuals in achieving significant life changes by transcending their limitations.

A father of six children, Sajady realizes that the purity and openness of our youth can play an integral and momentous role in refining the trajectory of human consciousness. He has seen firsthand how quickly children are able to shift. They unlock talents, realign physical health and bloom into beautiful individuals as they connect to Truth.

Sajady believes that all individuals possess these innate abilities, but children often have the greatest propensity to reveal them. Children up to 18 years of age are invited to experience this work of EI reprogramming, unleashing the profound potential residing within them to achieve personal transformation. Accompanied by a parent, the young participants will work in small groups with Sajady to co-create a framework for high-performance mastery to amplify their intuitive abilities and talents.

For a broader understanding of EI and to learn more about how Sajady works, listen to his free EI podcast at Mas-Sajady.com/Podcast.

Cost: Free. Location: 4401 Upton Ave., Minneapolis. For more information, other workshops (including adult) and registration, visit Mas-Sajady.com/Events. For media inquiries and bookings, email mrrra@MasSajady.com. See ad, page 21.

Community Events Creating Connection and Well-Being

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y Healthy Beginning offers two community events open to the public. Taco Tuesday, a free event to be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., on July 16, in Long Lake, will provide tacos, music, small food vendors, community, connection and well-being.

The monthly Batch Cooking workshop will focus on summer salads and be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., on July 22. My Healthy Beginning founder and Clinical Master in Advanced Nutrition Response Testing, Nichole Kuechle, will share tips, tricks and ideas for batch cooking.

“Taking on dietary restrictions and lifestyle change was daunting at first, but coming to these workshops where I can try new foods and get recipes I know will work has saved me both time and money,” shares Teresa Erickson, a previous participant. Attendees will leave with a full belly as food will be served and sampled at each event.

New Website Affiliation with Natural Awakenings

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atural Awakenings Twin Cities magazine, the local edition of the country’s premier green and healthy living magazine, is launching a new “digital-centric” website initiative in August and offering 10 Community Sponsor slots at pre-launch prices.

“The new website will offer our advertisers better traction with their digital efforts while providing the same high-quality editorial focus that attracts the healthy living niche market of readers, advertisers, supporters and sponsors,” says Publisher Candi Broeffle. “The Community Sponsors help to ensure that our content continues to be available to our audience while providing them the ability to reach their target market.”

The 10 Community Sponsors receive the following benefits: recognition on every page of the website for being local leaders in the Twin Cities community, banner ad on the website, premium directory listing that links directly to their website, sponsored content, along with recognition in both the monthly newsletter and print magazine.

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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. ~Alfred Austin

Cost for Batch Cooking: $10. Location: 520 Tamarack Ave., Long Lake. For more information and to register, call 612-418-3801 or go to MyHealthyBeginning.com/classes. See ad, page 32.

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My Healthy Beginning Adds Talented Birth Doula to Its Team

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I’ve always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend. ~C. Z. Guest

irth doulas have long been known for the nurturing physical, emotional and informational support they offer a birthing woman and her partner. My Healthy Beginning, in Long Lake, now has a new Doulas of North America-certified birth doula.

A birth doula will meet with the mother-to-be during her pregnancy to educate, build relatedness and show her partner how they can together participate in the upcoming event of labor and delivery.

While in active labor, the birth doula is with the birthing mother, offering positional recommendations, food and drink, emotional support and other comfort measures. When it’s time for the final stage of labor known as “pushing,” the birth doula will offer quiet, directional support to keep the mother focused and in tune. Birth doulas stay a couple of hours postpartum to be certain the mother has been cleaned up, eaten, used the bathroom and to note that the baby has a good latch for breastfeeding.

Women often find that having a doula is helpful in getting answers to all the non-medical questions they have or the ones they feel silly asking. Women who work with a birth doula have a lesser need for pain medication, are less likely to need a Cesarean section, have a decreased need for overall intervention, and enjoy a much more positive reflection of their birth experience than those who do not.

For more information, call 612-418-3801 or email Shaina@MyHealthyBeginning.com.

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business spotlight

Kind Lips: A Soft Reminder to Be Kind

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e know to watch what we say as there is power behind our words. Local lip balm company, Kind Lips, provides a way for us to be reminded several times a day.

In 2017, after years of obsessively searching for a lip balm that would truly work, founder Josh Neumann set out to create the perfect one.

He researched the ingredients in his favorite brands, compiled a complete list, then started to remove anything that was not natural. He then began cooking small batches on the stove in his kitchen using only organic ingredients and revised the recipe until he created what he deemed was the perfect lip balm.

But Neumann wanted to take it one step further. Years prior, he had heard about a study using rice, performed by Japanese scientist Dr. Masaru Emoto. Emoto put cooked rice and water in three beakers; every day over the course of a month he would tell one beaker thank you and that he loved it; the next he called an idiot and that he hated it; and the third he ignored all together. After a month, the first beaker of rice started to ferment and had a pleasant odor; the rice in the second beaker turned black; and the rice in the third beaker began to rot. Neumann determined that he would pray over his lip balm as it was made in order to bless it.

He shared this idea with his mother who responded, “You will be great at whatever you do.” The next morning he received a call from her at 6:30 a.m. saying that she had the most vivid dream of her life. In the dream, Neumann had gotten in a terrible fight with his sister and as punishment his mother made him write repeatedly “The law of kindness is on my lips.” With each sentence the words “kind” and “lips” leapt off the page, leaving her to believe that he was to name the product Kind Lips, and that the product was for everyone.

As a child, Neumann was taught that for every dollar he earned, he was to tithe 10 cents to a church or charity. As an adult, he continued to follow this practice, but always wanted to increase his giving to 20 percent. He now commits 20 percent of the profit from Kind Lips to charities that focus on anti-bullying campaigns, including PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center which provides educational resources to schools to help prevent bullying through kindness, acceptance and inclusion, and Youth Frontiers, an organization that brings kindness retreats into schools throughout Minnesota.

It wasn’t long before a teacher reached out to Neumann to report how her classroom changed after purchasing Kind Lips for each of her students. She was seeing an increase in bullying behavior, like name calling and gossiping, in her grade school classroom and wanted to find a way to remind her students to be kind. In a very short time her students began reminding each other to put their Kind Lips on when they were saying unkind things to each other.

Neumann was so impressed with the strategy that he set out to create curriculum for elementary, middle and high school students. He provides wholesale pricing of the lip balm and free curriculum for schools to use to implement in their classrooms. When needed, he has contributed the lip balms at no cost. To date, Kind Lips has donated over $25,000 to charities and over 30,000 lip balms to schools.

“My hope is that every time someone applies Kind Lips, they remember to say something kind,” shares Neumann. “Just this one small step can change everything for someone.”

Cost: $5 each or five for $20. To learn more, visit KindLips.com.

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health briefs

In further confirmation of the importance of the gut-brain axis, 18 Italian students at the University of Verona from ages 18 to 33 that took a freezedried mixture of four probiotics for six weeks experienced less depression, anger and fatigue compared to a control group of 15 that consumed a placebo. The positive effects continued, as discovered in follow-up testing three weeks later. The probiotics group also slept better.

The probiotic bacteria blend of 4 billion colonyforming units included Lactobacillus fermentum, Lactobacillus rhamnosus, Lactobacillus plantarum and Bifidobacterium longum.

Munch Nuts for a Healthy Brain

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Seniors that ate more than 10 grams—about two teaspoons—of nuts a day were able to ward off normal cognitive decline and even improve their cognitive functions by up to 60 percent, according to University of South Australia researchers. The study was based on 22 years of records of 4,822 Chinese adults ages 55 and older; 17 percent of them ate nuts every day, most often peanuts. These seniors had as much as 60 percent improved cognitive function compared to those that didn’t eat nuts, and they showed better thinking, reasoning and memory. “Nuts are known to be high in healthy fats, protein and fiber with nutritional properties that can lower cholesterol and improve cognitive health,” says study author Ming Li.

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With the aid of a new infrared camera technology called optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA), early Alzheimer’s disease can be detected by checking the back of the eyes for weakened and decreased blood vessels, reports a new study. Northwestern Medicine researchers reached the conclusion by comparing the vessels in the eyes of 32 people that exhibited the forgetfulness typical of early-stage Alzheimer’s with those of another 32 people with normal cognitive

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abilities. The vascular changes were detected non-invasively, without the need for dyes or expensive MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scans.

The technology quantifies capillary changes in great detail and with unparalleled resolution, making the eye an ideal mirror for what is going on in the brain. Early detection of Alzheimer’s is critical because existing therapies are more effective if they are started before extensive brain damage and cognitive decline have occurred.

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Get Eyes Checked to Detect Early Alzheimer’s

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Take B12 to Help With Parkinson’s

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Eat Mostly Plants to Ease Gum Inflammation The inflamed gum condition known as gingivitis is fairly common and often mild, but can be a precursor of more serious periodontal disease linked to Alzheimer’s and rheumatoid arthritis. German researchers at the University of Freiburg tested 30 people: half in a control group that did not change their diet, and half that switched to a diet low in meat and processed carbohydrates and rich in omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin C, vitamin D, antioxidants, plant nitrates and fiber. After four weeks, those on the plant-based diet had significantly less gum inflammation and bleeding. They also lost weight and had higher vitamin D levels.

New research has found the basic micronutrient vitamin B12 may be the first good tool for averting the hereditary form of Parkinson’s disease, which accounts for about 15 percent of such cases worldwide. In lab tests, an international team of scientists found that AdoCbl, one of the active forms of vitamin B12, inhibits the activity of a mutated enzyme linked to Parkinson’s. Inhibiting this enzyme appears to help stabilize dopamine release in the brain.

Dopamine deficiencies manifest in the muscle rigidity and tremors that are hallmark symptoms of Parkinson’s.

Another recent study from the University of California San Francisco that included nonhereditary Parkinson’s patients found that symptoms worsened more quickly in early-stage patients that had low B12 levels than in those with higher levels of the vitamin.

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Too Blue

global briefs

Cannabis is enjoying a renaissance of sorts, and one new application for hemp, the no-buzz industrial variety used in fabrics, oils and foods, is cleaning nuclear radiation from toxic soil and removing metals like cadmium, lead, mercury and other pollutants via phytoremediation.

Allison Beckett, a cultivation expert at Marijuana.com, says, “Industrial hemp has been used in areas of high radiation, such as Fukushima, [in Japan,] with promising results. Not only does hemp pull toxic, heavy metals from the soil, it actually improves soil structure, making it usable as productive farmland again.

Plus, hemp is a vigorous plant that absorbs CO2 rapidly, making it an encouraging solution to climate change.” Hemp phytoremediation has been used in Italy to clean up the small town of Taranto, where a steel plant has been leaking dioxin into the air and soil. The Pennsylvania Industrial Hemp Council and Lehigh University, in Bethlehem, are running a project to test the process in an arsenic-contaminated area in Upper Saucon Township that once harbored a zinc mine.

Alarm Sounded

Ireland Declares Climate Emergency

The Republic of Ireland is the third country worldwide to declare a climate emergency, with both the government and opposition parties agreeing to an amendment to a climate action report. “We’re reaching a tipping point in respect of climate deterioration,” says Climate Action Minister Richard Bruton. “Things will deteriorate very rapidly unless we move very swiftly, and the window of opportunity to do that is fast closing.” The UK governments of Wales and Scotland have also declared climate emergencies. Suggested responses include limiting oil and gas exploration, and issuing an additional biodiversity emergency measure.

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Dangerous Dozen Produce to Avoid

The 2019 Environmental Working Group’s (EWG) Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce (Tinyurl.com/ DirtyDozen-Clean15List) highlights increased pesticide use on up to 70 percent of conventionally grown U.S. produce. Several different types of pesticide, insecticide and fungicide residues are present on many fruits and vegetables. The Dirty Dozen list includes strawberries, spinach, kale, nectarines, apples, grapes, peaches, cherries, pears, tomatoes, celery and potatoes. The clean 15 list includes avocados, sweet corn, pineapples, frozen sweet peas, onions, papayas, eggplant, asparagus, kiwi, cabbage, cauliflower, cantaloupes, broccoli, mushrooms and honeydew melon. The EWG advises that eating organic produce, especially for pregnant and nursing mothers and young children, should be a national priority.

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The world’s oceans may be getting bluer, thanks to climate change. The effect is more likely to be detected by satellites than Earthbound people, and is caused by the depletion of marine phytoplankton as seawater warms. A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology published in the journal Nature Communications predicts that more than 50 percent of the oceans’ collective 140 million square miles of surface area will likely be affected by 2100. Marine ecologist and leader of the study Stephanie Dutkiewicz says, “These microscopic organisms live in the water and are the base of the marine food chain. If there are less of them in it, the water will be slightly bluer.” Phytoplankton serves as a food source for small sea creatures that are eaten by fish, squid and shellfish. If phytoplankton populations dip too low, vital fisheries in certain areas could be decimated.

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Wonder Weed

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Algae Loss Colors Ocean

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Wastewater Turned into Hydrogen Fuel

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Action Alert

Greenhouse Gases Hit Landmark

Certainty that we are facing a climate crisis today and not just in the future was reached in May through an alarming milestone in carbon dioxide levels. Data from the Mauna Loa Observatory, in Hawaii, shows that the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached 415 parts per million, the highest ever recorded.

However, environmental organizations charge that ominous news like this is not being communicated to the public to the degree warranted. While the CBS, NBC and ABC nightly TV news reports combined devoted nearly 18 minutes of coverage to the birth of the royal baby between May 6 and 12, airtime regarding climate change and extinction during the same period only amounted to one minute and 21 seconds, and only on CBS.

For more information and to get involved, including signing a petition to demand that the media cover the climate crisis and extinction more frequently and in greater depth, visit Tinyurl.com/ClimateCrisisCampaign.

Producing pure hydrogen is expensive and energy intensive, but a research team at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, at Princeton University, used sunlight to pull hydrogen from industrial wastewater by using a specially designed chamber with a “Swiss cheese”-like black silicon interface. As reported in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the process is aided by bacteria that generate electrical current when consuming organic matter in the wastewater; the current, in turn, aids in the water splitting. It “allows us to treat wastewater and simultaneously generate fuels,” says Jing Gu, a co-researcher and assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at San Diego State University. The scientists say the technology could appeal to refineries and chemical plants, which typically produce their own hydrogen from fossil fuels and face high costs for cleaning wastewater.

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Drugs Found in Rural Rivers

Researchers at King’s College London and the University of Suffolk have found a diverse array of cocaine, pharmaceuticals and pesticides in UK river wildlife, as described in a study published in Environment International. The team collected samples of freshwater shrimp from five catchment areas and 15 different sites across the agricultural county of Suffolk.

Cocaine was found in all samples tested, and other illicit drugs, pesticides and pharmaceuticals were also widely recorded in the survey. Dr. Leon Barron, from King’s College London, notes, “Such regular occurrence of illicit drugs in wildlife was surprising. We might expect to see these in urban areas such as London, but not in smaller and more rural catchments. The presence of pesticides that have long been banned in the UK also poses a particular challenge, as the sources of these remain unclear.”

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Eco-Friendly Outdoor Eating

Save Resources, Reduce Food Waste and More

Midsummer is prime time for outdoor family meals, barbecues and picnics.

Selecting the healthiest food, along with eco-friendly materials in preparing for the fun feasts, can fulfill a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle and conserve resources at the same time. n GreenAmerica.org recommends using organic cloth, reusable mesh or string produce bags when grocery shopping; use bamboo utensil sets and plastic straw alternatives made of stainless steel, food-grade silicone, bamboo or glass.

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n To keep uninvited flying pests like mosquitoes, flies and the like away

from humans and food, apply natural repellents—many made of natural, essential oil; plant-based and foodgrade ingredients can be found at ChasingGreen.org. n According to WebMD.com, charcoal grilling of meat can expose us to two potentially cancer-causing compounds—polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that form when fat from meat drips onto hot coals and are “deposited on food courtesy of flame-ups and rising smoke,” and heterocyclic amines that “are produced when red meat, poultry and fish meet highheat cooking.” Instead, consider using a closed-flame gas grill to reduce exposure to toxins and cook fresh

and organic fruits and vegetables like zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, onions and mushrooms. n Both the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warn against eating shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish due to high levels of mercury, and to consume no more than six ounces of albacore tuna per week for the same reason. Some studies point to avoiding farmed salmon due to potentially high amounts of PCBs. Bypass larger fish of the food chain; look for those that have earned the Marine Stewardship Council or Aquaculture Stewardship Council labels. n The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently estimated that between 30 to 40 percent of all food in the country is wasted. To improve this situation, use glass containers instead of plastic bags to store leftovers. Also consider sustainable food wraps like Bees Wrap (BeesWrap.com). Made from beeswax, organic cotton, jojoba oil and tree resin, they seal and conform to the shape of whatever food is being stored.

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Taj Kinesiotherapy

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heodore Rick, owner of Healing Taj–Holistic Stretching and Massage, has added a new therapy. He developed Taj Kinesiotherapy (Taj K), a therapeutic and relaxing technique that integrates the body’s most powerful energy centers, reflex points and fascia with the central nervous system.

Instead of working only on a person’s body, Taj K works with the body and mind to create a more powerful and lasting session.

Rick began his massage therapy practice more than 15 years ago and has studied and practiced around the world. He trained in Deep Tissue, Swedish Massage and Reflexology at Sister Rosalind, and Active Isolated Stretching with its founder, Aaron Mattes. He has studied Shiatsu, myofascial therapy, acupressure, gua sha, cupping and many other natural healing methods, most recently Thai Massage at CenterPoint Massage & Shiatsu Therapy School. As a Certified Massage Therapist (CMT), Rick is continually looking to broaden his skills and connect deeper with his clients.

In addition to years of experience working with clients, Rick brings to the table the use of pulse testing which creates a highly customized session for each client and may include a variety of modalities and massage techniques. Pulse testing is a form of kinesiology where the practitioner checks in with the client’s body asking for confirmation of a therapy or movement or something else that wants to be known.

Rick’s services also combine a unique sound therapy that includes a Tibetan singing bowl, chimes, Indian santoor music and meditative harmonization. This unique combination can help patients enter a state of peace and calm, further relaxing the muscles and tissue.

Benefits of the unique healing method Taj K include enhanced athletic performance, quick injury recovery, improved lymphatic and meridian flow, alleviation of muscle soreness, pain reduction, injury prevention, reduced muscle spasms,

increased chi flow, improved breathing, ease of movement, improved posture and improved range of motion.

Rick offers a comfortable 6’ x 8’ cushioned floor mat with optional far infrared heat where clients can lie down or they can choose to lie on the traditional massage table.

With the Taj K method, as with Thai or Shiatsu massage, clients remain fully clothed. Thai and Shiatsu massage are different from traditional massage, such as Swedish, as the client lies on the floor. In Taj K, the client may sometimes participate more actively in the session.

New clients begin by completing an intake form and discussing with Rick what their issues are as well as the goals they have when they begin this custom-designed therapy. He charges $20 for the initial 30-minute intake session which is donated to a local charity.

Location: International Village Professional Bldg., 220 W. 98th St., Ste. 7, Bloomington. For more information, call 952-922-1478 or visit HealingTaj.com. See resource guide, page 38.

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~Wendy Coleman

Wendy Coleman, founder of LA Urban Farms, works with chefs, resorts, hotels, universities and corporate clients to set up aeroponic tower gardens, such as these kale and lettuce crops.

from elementary school gardens where kids learn to grow, cook and eat nutritious food to corporate gardens inside a new office building for lender Fannie Mae’s employee café.

One of its crown jewels is a 6,500-square-foot rooftop garden on the Nationals Park baseball stadium, where edible flowers end up in cocktails and organic produce feeds fine diners and VIP ticket holders.

Ray grew his business organically, fueled by passion and curiosity, rather than any horticultural background. “I grew up in NYC, where I had nothing to grow on. When I moved to Florida for grad school, I had a huge backyard to play around with,” says Ray.

CROPS IN THE CITY Urban Agriculture Breaks New Ground

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he average American meal travels 1,500 miles to reach its plate, according to the nonprofit Center for Urban Education About Sustainable Agriculture. Yet, enterprising green thumbs across the country are bringing the farm back to plate’s reach, growing hyperlocal food in backyards, on rooftops, through indoor farms and more. City farming reconnects urbanites to their food sources while bettering the environment, communities, diets and health.

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forging a path to organic urban agriculture on a commercial scale—tapping into new technologies and markets, and turning challenges like dealing with space constraints into fresh opportunities.

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Take Niraj Ray, whose company Cultivate the City is working to transform urban food deserts in the nation’s capital into thriving local food systems. “We want to get more people interested in growing their own food and show them how they can grow more with less square footage through vertical gardens and sustainable techniques like [soil-less] hydroponic systems,” says Ray.

Cultivate the City manages numerous gardens for clients around Washington, D.C.,

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Like many other urban farms, Cultivate the City offers a seasonal farm subscription known as a community supported agriculture (CSA) program that allows city dwellers to buy directly from local producers. Ray’s rooftop greenhouse, located on top of a local hardware store that sells his edible plants at retail, offers all the fixings for a healthy, diverse diet: hydroponic towers of leafy greens, trays of microgreens for corporate clients, specialty varieties of hot peppers for the company’s hot sauce and stacking cubes of an albino strawberry variety that Ray crossbred himself. “There are so many ways to contribute to urban farming, from aquaponics to vermicomposting; it’s about finding your niche,” he says.

Growing Up With Vertical Farming

By 2050, it’s estimated that 9 billion people will be living on the planet—7 billion in

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City planners need innovative solutions like vertical farming to feed the growing population.

We can grow at scale, with minimum space and environmental impact.

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cities. “City planners education for youth There are so many need innovative soluways to contribute to urban and adults throughtions like vertical farmout South Florida. ing to feed the growing farming, from aquaponics Through their entity to vermicomposting; it’s The Urban Beekeeppopulation. We can grow at scale, with about finding your niche. ers, the Coldwells minimum space and offer beekeeping ~Niraj Ray environmental impact,” classes, consult with says Wendy Coleman, local governments, who began her California-based business sell equipment and rescue “feral hives” LA Urban Farms in 2013. Today, Coleman’s to integrate into managed hives. They’ve team works with chefs, resorts, hotels, uniworked successfully with parks, airports, versities, greenhouses and corporate clients golf clubs and country clubs to put honlike Google and Ikea to set up aeroponic eybee habitats on site. tower gardens across the U.S. and Europe.

Urban beekeeping works in synergy

With aeroponics, nutrient-enriched with city farms, as honeybees forage up to water is pumped through a garden tower five miles for food, and in so doing polto shower the roots of plants suspended in linate a lot of crops. Seventy of the top 100 air. “It actually uses 90 percent less water human food crops are pollinated by bees, than conventional growing, which is a according to the Food and Agriculture huge benefit in a place like California, and Organization of the United Nations. “We avoids any kind of agricultural runoff,” often hear people say their garden is doing says Coleman. In conjunction with urban better than it has in years, thanks to the farming partners, the business churns out apiaries nearby,” says John Coldwell.

30,000 seedlings a month using aeroponic

The challenges of growing at scale are technology to grow for their diverse client a recurrent theme among urban farmbase and working with chefs to plan seaers. Ian Marvy, the U.S. Department of sonal menus around their produce.

Agriculture (USDA) outreach specialist

Aeroponics and other innovafor the greater New York City area, ran his tive farm technologies are transforming own urban farm, grossing six figures for 14 spaces in cities across the U.S., reclaiming years. However, Marvy says most farmers peripheral and idle spaces like alleys and growing in the city aren’t operating at a warehouses to grow herbs and vegetables profitable scale or producing enough for in abundance, using 90 percent less land everyone to eat local. by growing vertically, notes Coleman.

Even so, locally grown produce is “With our gardens, diners can see their a booming market in New York City. food growing at their table; they get such a Greenmarket, founded in 1976, operates personal connection with their food. It’s an more than 50 farmers’ markets, limited interactive way for hotels and restaurants to vendors that grow within a 200-mile to demonstrate their commitment to local, radius, some of whom take home five sustainable food,” she says. figures on a good day, says Marvy. Interest in growing at the community level has also Breaking into Hives: mushroomed, adds Marvy, who estimates City Beekeepers that 90 percent of the city’s more than 500 school gardens weren’t there 15 years ago “I had a backyard garden that wasn’t doing so well, and I thought it was the lack of pol- when he started this work. “The USDA has a huge opportunity here and nationally linators, so I got bees; but then I realized I to make cities more sustainable and feed was just a bad gardener,” quips master beemore people. I’m really excited and comkeeper John Coldwell, of Fort Lauderdale. mitted to that,” he says.

Since this humble beginning in

While urban agriculture efforts are 2012 with a few backyard hives, Coldwell and his wife Teresa have been leading sometimes criticized for catering to upper a movement to repurpose public land income residents that can afford to pay top for “microapiaries” and provide apiary dollar for specialty items like microgreens,

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hose that have never nurtured more than a houseplant shouldn’t be intimidated, says Wendy Coleman, founder of LA Urban Farms. “Growing food is easy and doesn’t require any special background,” says Coleman, who was green to growing when she started her business six years ago.

When growing commercially, find a niche, says Niraj Ray, of Cultivate the City. The company grows plants of ethnic or cultural significance to appeal to Asian, African and Latino populations, from the nutrition-packed moringa to okra, a staple of both Indian and African cooking, given it is a growing market for immigrant populations not served by most traditional garden centers.

Seek natural allies like sustainability-minded chefs to bolster an urban ag business. The farm-to-fork chef ’s movement has been a boon for beekeepers and farmers, with chefs acting as patrons of the farms, according to beekeeping expert Teresa Coldwell. Sette Bello Ristorante, an Italian restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, funds vertical gardens at a community garden where the Coldwells have hives so its chef can have pure organic food like squash blossoms pollinated by local bees.

Urban farming has its pleasures and rewards, but can also bring hardships.

Ray struggles with employee turnover when newbie farmers face the realities of working in the heat and rain, even from a sleek, trendy, rooftop garden.

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many businesses and orThe USDA has a huge to housing projects, ganizations are working opportunity here and senior communities and schools six days a week. on multiple fronts, with Their latest project, lucrative specialty crops nationally to make cities more sustainable and the Public Market, is helping to subsidize proa retail location on grams serving families feed more people.

Wheeling’s Main Street lacking access to healthy ~Ian Marvy that will serve as a affordable food. year-round farmers’ market. The organi Grow Ohio Valley takes an intezation is also building alliances between grated approach to food sovereignty local farmers and healthcare providers in Wheeling, West Virginia, and the through a project called The Farmacy.

Upper Ohio Valley. “This part of the A partnership with a local free clinic, it Appalachian Rustbelt has lost much of targets people suffering from diabetes its population, jobs and economic base and other diseases linked to poor diets over the last generation. We want to with a doctor’s prescription for organic promote health and wellness through produce offered free through the organifresh food, while helping to transform zation’s CSA. the urban landscape from falling-down

These urban agriculture pioneers buildings and vacant lots into producare helping to not only grow food, but tive community assets,” says founder community, and are nurturing renewed Danny Swan. connections to the Earth. City grow The operation’s food hub aggreing has so many benefits: decreasing gates produce from small local farmers, packaging, costs and food miles traveled, providing a guaranteed market for their making it easier to eat organic seasonal produce and the opportunity to reach food and a more diverse diet. “The cona larger market, usually only served by nection people feel when they plant seed food grown thousands of miles away. and get to harvest the mature plant is The produce is supplemented by four transformative. Growing food is someurban farm sites run by the organization, thing we can all do to make a difference, including an apple orchard on the site of for our health and the environment,” a demolished housing project. says Coleman.

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an advertisement—it gets to work making you hungry. Ever notice the giant soda fizzing on the screen during the movie preview? Next time, take note of how many people take a drink right after or get up to get a drink. We can thank our hypothalamus for that.

Stage Two. Slowly chew food to avoid choking hazards and to be sure it’s broken down into small enough pieces for our bodies to digest. Our teeth, jaw and tongue do the initial breakdown by mashing and breaking the food into smaller particles.

Since our brain activated the salivary glands in stage one, the extra saliva starts the breakdown process for carbohydrates,

UNDERSTANDING DIGESTION

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ccording to Roberta Benson, nutritional specialist at Mastel’s Health Foods, in St. Paul, “When people understand their body, they love their body and they take better care of it.” Benson helps her customers understand how their bodies function beyond the basic biology lesson. Having a bit of understanding can go a long way with how we take care of our body.

Most people have the basic understanding of digestion. We eat food and the body processes it to give us energy.

However, digestion is more complex than that. There are five stages to the digestion process, each one dependent on the other before being optimal to run smoothly.

Stage One. Digestion starts in the brain. When we smell, taste or see food, our hypothalamus is activated. This gland turns the electrical signals from our nervous system (our brain) into chemical signals.

These signals tell the body to start producing enzymes, salivary amylase in the mouth and hydrochloric acid in the stomach.

When the brain sees food—real or

sugars and starches.

Another benefit of chewing food slowly, sometimes overlooked in this fast-paced world, is it helps us be “present” with our food for optimal digestion.

When we are stressed, our body goes into the fight-flightfreeze response. In this mode, our brain is busy preparing to react to the stressor; it cannot distinguish between different stressors—upcoming deadlines, public speaking and the myriad states of daily stress are all the same. To “protect” us, the brain will divert blood supplies away from the gut to the lungs, legs and heart—readying for the escape.

Therefore, our body is not going to be able to produce the compounds needed to break down and digest food properly.

Slowing down and being present helps our body get out of this flight response mode and back on track for digesting.

Stage Three. This stage is all about the stomach’s job. The stomach has two processes. First, it continues the mechanical breakdown by churning the food, but there’s also the chemical breakdown. This is an acid bath that breaks

up proteins and kills bad bacteria and parasites from foods.

You can give your stomach support in this stage with supplements and enzymerich foods, including raw fruits and vegetables along with fermented foods like kefir, kimchi, sauerkraut or fermented vegetables, all great for supporting optimal digestion.

Stage Four. Most of the nutrient absorption occurs in the small intestine. This is where probiotics support the digestion process. The broken down food will slowly start to trickle into the small intestine through a valve from the stomach. The pancreas then shoots more enzymes to further break the food down. The gallbladder also supports this process by introducing bile to emulsify and help break down fats. Anything that isn’t absorbed by the three sections of the small intestine continues on to the final stage of digestion— the large intestine.

Stage Five. The ileocecal valve leads to the large intestine. Anything that wasn’t absorbed up to this point is formed into stool. Most of the water and salt are reabsorbed back in the body. The digestion stage ends with the release of the body waste. Many products in the grocery store offer items that include ingredients our bodies just can’t absorb. Speaking with a health professional about your bathroom breaks might be embarrassing, but can tell them a lot about how effectively our body is using the foods we are consuming.

Albert Einstein was famously quoted for saying, “Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” He wasn’t addressing food or body matters, but the message rings true regardless. When we consider these five stages of digestion, we understand a bit deeper than before. It may help us achieve something else—a sense of peace and love with our body.

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Know Our Fisherman

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by Richie Mann

man” and share in their here Fish is one of the most once widely eaten protein sources line-caught bounty.

Traceability is the there on the planet, yet within this new sustainability and was a murmur, now there is a supply chain exists the largest the result is transparroar. The local rift between humans and the ency. For some CSFs, transparency means food movement in food source. the actual name of the urban and suburfishing vessel and the ban communities fisherman who caught the fish is labeled on around the nation is gaining ground like the box and delivered right to their customnever before. From community supported agriculture programs (CSAs) to homeers’ doors. This means there are no fish delivered meal kits to farmers’ markets, brokers, middlemen, grocery store shelves pop-up kitchens and community cooking or species mislabeling. So then, what does one do when struck with the opportunity to classes, the local food movement is indeed know a fisherman? Well, one might ask them moving and shaking things up for the some questions. megalith that is the spoiled and expired This changes the way we consider the industrial food system.

Somewhere in between this good food seafood we eat, moving from asking what a fisherman can catch to what did they catch movement, you will find another growing industry—the small-boat fishing bands and how did they catch it. Within this is a myriad of information to consider, from qualof a community supported fishery (CSF). ity control to fish handling, health benefits From the East to West Coasts and even in and the harvesting practices of true sustainthe land-locked Midwest, companies like able species like albacore tuna, coho salmon Dock to Dish, Sea to Table and Sitka Salmon Shares are connecting people directly with and rockfish. Without these higher level their fishermen and the harvest of truly questions, a disconnect is created between sustainable seafood, showing the country the oceans and its people. In fact, according that small-boat fishing with a triple bottom to Paul Greenberg, the leading journalist line (an accounting framework with three and researcher of American seafood, more parts: social, environmental and financial) is than 85 percent of the seafood Americans indeed scalable. By connecting multigeneraeat comes from abroad, but one-third of the tional fishermen directly with the consumer, seafood Americans catch gets sold to other CSFs have taken ethical fishing beyond suscountries. Even more bizarrely, we send some tainable and into a new echelon of traceable/ fish, like pollock and salmon, halfway around sustainable, meaning the consumers have the the world only to have it processed in Asia opportunity to actually “know their fisherand then shipped right back to us.

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Furthermore, we export millions of tons of wild, mostly Alaskan, salmon overseas and import mostly farmed salmon from abroad. In fact, two-thirds of the salmon we eat is farm raised. This is a staggering number considering salmon is a wild, open ocean predator species that should have never been penned and farmed in the first place. It’s like trying to domesticate a group of wolverines for harvesting purposes. It goes against nature. So salmon for salmon, we’re largely trading our American stocks of wild fish for farmed foreign fish. More than just a quirk of taste, this habit of snubbing domestic salmon in favor of foreign farmed fish exemplifies a more disquieting trend for U.S. industry and, according to Greenberg, “What we have seen up until now, with both the exploitation of wild fish and the selection and propagation of domestic fish, is a wave of psychological denial of staggering scope.”

People have always viewed the ocean as an endless bounty of food. Due to this mindset we have systematically crashed a majority of the world’s fisheries, from bluefin tuna to Atlantic cod, Atlantic salmon and even the seemingly infinite sardine of which the U.S. Pacific sardine fisheries are currently closed because their numbers are just too low. We have the power to change and the growing number of CSFs around the nation are steering into the winds of change so we, the consumer, can reconnect with the fishermen and the currents that bring their bounty.

In almost every situation possible, wild is better. But, much like the cage-free egg movement a decade ago, labeling and green/blue washing have created false advertising through clever marketing. “Wild” just like “cage-free” does not mean much anymore. Wild simply means it’s coming out of the open ocean. The labeling doesn’t consider how it is coming from the ocean and most of the wild caught fish in our grocery stores is trawled. Trawling is the ecological equivalent of a wildfire without any of the regenerative benefits that come with the flame. Giant nets from factory boats scrape the ocean bottom, destroying ecosystems and gathering tons of fish in one suffocating, eye-bulging catch. The targeted fish kept are shockingly low, sometimes only 30 percent, and the rest become “by-catch” fish, which are then suffocated, bruised and vacuumed up with large tubes to only sit on a tender or gathering boat for days-on-end before ever coming to shore to finally be processed and frozen—some-

this mindset is inherently against nature as we evolved cooking our food around a fire.

If you have ever spent any time around a fire, you know its allure creates one of the most beautiful and primitive gathering spaces for humans to connect with one another. We can’t help but stare at the dancing flame and come close to know it and therefore each other. The modern day equivalent is the stove and the kitchen. The result of cooking over that flame is time spent together. Time sharing stories. Time knowing our fisherman and farmer. Time learning their story and the story of our food. Time spent eating and sharing and feeling understood. Time spent being human.

Time is our most valuable resource. We cannot create it. We cannot get it back. We can conserve it. We can protect it. In just the same way, we can conserve and protect our wild fisheries. It’s time to know our fish. It’s time to know our fisherman. It’s time to know ourselves.

times frozen, thawed and then frozen again.

CSFs believe there is a better way which is not new, advanced or complicated; in fact, it is as ancient as the hook-andline which is exactly how many smallboat fishermen harvest the variety of seafood offered to their members. Selectively harvesting and individually handling fish as it comes aboard their small fishing vessels sets a standard for quality.

For the very best of CSFs, the process consists of coming off the line and hook and onto the deck, gutted and carefully cleaned, pressure bled to remove all the blood and flesh deteriorates and then put in slush ice to drop body temp and preserve firmness and flavor. Fish is then packed with ice to further preserve and held in insulated compartments until it can be brought to shore no more than three days after catch, unlike the industry standard of up to nine days. It is then portioned out and blast frozen to -50⁰F in less than 30 minutes. In this way, some CSFs are creating an artisan product with the same focus and passion a brewmaster or master cheesemaker might have for their ingredients and recipes. The result is premium tasting, true, wild-caught fish available from coast-to-coast.

Fish is one of the most widely eaten protein sources on the planet, yet within this supply chain exists the largest rift between humans and the food source. The CSF system has and continues to shore up this rift and connect humans back to the ocean from whence we came.

Over the years, studies have found the biggest factor keeping people from joining CSFs is the challenge of breaking out of their routine around purchasing and eating food. People are busy and the convenience around food purchasing and consumption becomes necessary in order to get back to work or their family. Stopping to prepare raw, real food may not be the priority. But

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stress hormone cortisol. The study also noted a lower risk of Type 2 diabetes and death from heart disease.

fit body The main purpose is not exercise or getting from point A to point B, but rather having a mindful, sensory experience in nature. ~Hannah Fries

FOREST BATHING Mother Nature’s Rx for Body and Mind

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n 1982, the Japanese government coined the term Shinrin-yoku (“taking in the forest atmosphere” or “forest bathing”) to inspire people to visit and appreciate national parks. Today, that walk in the woods has become a medically recommended activity worldwide for improving immunity, reducing symptoms of anxiety and depression, managing chronic pain and promoting better sleep. The research supporting the physical and mental benefits of forest bathing is so compelling that it’s advocated by the

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National Institute of Public Health of Japan and prescribed to patients there.

Researchers from the University of East Anglia, in England, examined years of studies and found significant evidence that experiencing nature has a positive impact on health. Published in the journal Environmental Research in 2018, the metaanalysis involving 290 million participants from 20 countries concluded that spending time in green spaces lowers blood pressure and cholesterol, and reduces the

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Another recent review of studies, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, concluded that Shinrin-yoku can ease the symptoms of adult depression. “Forest bathing plugs us into something we all seek—a source of peace and well-being. The thing that first hooked me into being a forest bathing guide was reading the robust body of research that proves the benefits of forest bathing,” says Judy Beaudette, board secretary of Friends of North Creek Forest, in Bothell, Washington.

Melanie Choukas-Bradley, a certified forest therapy guide and author of The Joy of Forest Bathing: Reconnect With Wild Places & Rejuvenate Your Life, in Chevy Chase, Maryland, attests to the therapeutic value of forest bathing. “Even occasional nature immersion can have beneficial health effects that can last for days. Many doctors are now prescribing nature to patients.

There’s an organization devoted to this called Park Rx America.” She recommends just 20 minutes during a lunch break to sit on a bench or on the ground beneath trees.

There are many theories of why spending time in the woods or any other natural place makes us feel good; for example, findings published in the journal Toxicological Research in 2017 attribute the immuneboosting, mood-lifting benefits of forest bathing to natural terpenes released into the air by trees, especially conifers. Terpenes contain anti-inflammatory properties that strengthen the body’s natural defenses.

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“The main purpose is not exercise or getting from point A to point B, but rather having a mindful, sensory experience in nature. It isn’t some prescribed task you need to do, like pushups,” explains Hannah Fries, a poet and author of Forest Bathing Retreat: Find Wholeness in the Company of Trees. She communes with the wild for both health and inspiration. “Even if it’s only 20 minutes a week, go outside without a phone or other electronic device. Walk slowly. Look more closely. Listen. Smell. Touch. Interact with the living, breathing world around you. It’s that simple.”

Choukas-Bradley says that observance is key. Recalling her first forest bathing experience, she says, “We paid attention to our breath and tuned in to the sights, sounds and sensations all around us. I noticed a perfect spider’s web, just barely trembling in the slightest breeze, its creator clinging to the center.”

She recommends finding a “wild home”—a neighborhood park, garden or backyard tree. “Make it a practice to find a ‘sit spot’ where you can quietly observe beauty and are apt to feel a sense of awe. Psychology researchers have shown that experiencing awe has many positive effects on emotional health.”

It doesn’t matter if we commune with nature in a rural or urban setting, only that we remain dialed in to our surroundings.

“Forest bathing is a tool for slowing down our buzzing minds and practicing a secret superpower—the skill of consciously choosing what we put our attention on,” says Beaudette.

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Traveling with Sensitive Children

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raveling with kids can be a great adventure. Taking a little extra care with your sensitive child(ren) can help your travels be a true vacation.

Sensitive kids have one common trait: they are highly introverted. This means they gain energy from being alone. While they may be social, their outer limit on time with others is likely shorter or requires more “recovery” time spent alone.

Here’s an example of how the parents of a sensitive child may start to connect the pattern their child is sensitive. A family was traveling with their 4 and 6-year-olds in Washington State. This was the first major trip they’d taken with their kids, flying on an airplane, driving via a convertible, hiking part of Mount Rainier—all of these experiences were firsts for them. Quickly into the vacation, the children became agitated and were fighting in a way they never had before. The parents grew weary of the fights and needed a break, choosing to stop at a library where quiet was guaranteed. They sat with their four-yearold on a bench and read books. The older child found a cozy spot to read on their own. An hour later when they left the library, they were a different family—everybody was calm and refreshed. Even in the days which followed, the calm was maintained.

In hindsight, the parents realized their sensitive kids needed quiet downtime that allowed them to process and restore. It’s essential, not optional, for sensitive kids to have time to themselves.

Convincing an introvert to keep going won’t work; their only way to rally is to get some time away by themselves. With this in mind, “restoring” can be easy when traveling; it just takes a little planning.

Discussing your plan with a sensitive child over 12 years old is important so they know what to expect, which can also help anxious children as well.

Consider planning your time away with activities that are conducive to the sensitive child while respecting what you’d like from the vacation too. Visiting a museum early while it’s less crowded then heading to the park on your way to sightsee allows free time in-between.

Another family with a sensitive child was headed to a threeweek summer camp where the balance of the family would meet them at the end for a vacation. The family lived in Minnesota and the camp was in Massachusetts, meaning the sensitive child had to fly by themselves, meet a group of people they didn’t know and take a shuttle to their destination. Clearly, there were a lot of new situations for this sensitive child to navigate and process. In planning the trip and considering the pick-up day, the parents asked the child if they’d like a day alone to recuperate at the house they’d rented prior to heading to their next destination. The child agreed this would be a good plan, then asked to look at the rest of the itinerary to make similar adjustments with their need of restoration in mind. Their trip was a success; it achieved the balance they desired and resulted in a happy sensitive child and greater family too.

Discussing your plan with a sensitive child over 12 years old is important so they know what to expect, which can also help anxious children as well. Let them know they might sometimes need to be flexible if plans change, and while the parents will honor their need for alone or downtime, it may not look exactly like they planned. This teaches sensitive children how to rise to the occasion when it’s needed.

Selecting lodging where each child has their own bed and the space has several rooms can also help. With the magic of Airbnb, this is not only possible but can be reasonably priced compared to a hotel.

Highly introverted kids also may differ on how they restore.

Making a list in collaboration with your sensitive child of ways they feel support restoring can be helpful for some families. Others may know, like the example of going to the library, a natural way to soothe these kids and the parents too. Taking kids into nature where they can sit and just be is another great way. Sitting in a quiet coffee shop in the afternoon where there are couches and the ability to spread out is a great opportunity for many sensitive children and adults, too.

Getting a healthy snack can also help your sensitive child. Their minds process so much information, it’s an opportunity to feed their brain as well as give it a break. Boost them with nutritious brain food for a break in place of highly sugary or caffeinated beverages which can sabotage your effort. Just like bringing sunscreen to the beach, this is the way to protect your child’s mental and emotional health.

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The vagus nerve stems from the brain to the abdomen like a communication superhighway between your gut and brain.

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“Studies show that the vagus nerve regulates inflammation throughout the body.”

Toning the Vagus Nerve

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Relief for Pain, Anxiety and Inflammation

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esearch is helping doctors connect the dots between seemingly unrelated conditions like irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, revealing a common denominator: the multitasking vagus nerve, the longest in the autonomic nervous system.

The superpower of this doublebranched cranial nerve lies in transporting major neurotransmitters along what is known as the brain-gut axis. “The vagus nerve stems from the brain to the abdomen like a communication superhighway between your gut and brain,” says Hannah Aylward, an Orlando-based certified holistic health coach and gut health expert.

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Recent studies have shown that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) can improve quality of life for individuals suffering from numerous conditions. One type is a device that can be implanted by a neurosurgeon, which sends electrical impulses to the vagus nerve in children that suffer from seizures and adults with depression as a supplemental treatment when surgery or medications are not possible or effective.

There is also a handheld, non-invasive VNS option called gammaCore, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved device that offers hope for sufferers of cluster and migraine headaches. Its effectiveness for chronic pain management, as well as in cases of epilepsy and depression, was published in the Neuromodulation Journal in 2015.

PTSD researcher Imanuel Lerman, M.D., and his colleagues with the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, found that VNS affects areas of the brain responsible for processing emotional pain. The findings, published in the journal PLOS ONE earlier this year, also show that VNS delays the brain’s response to pain signals in individuals with PTSD.

Mental Health, Trauma and the Gut

When it comes to the vagus nerve, anxiety is physical. Post-traumatic stress is rooted in neurobiology and experienced in the body, not just the mind, says Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D., a Boulder, Colorado-based clinical psychologist and author of The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole. “This is why you can’t simply think or talk your way out of your trauma reactions.”

According to Schwartz, “Disruptions in

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the gut flora, which often occur with overuse of antibiotics, can have a significant impact on mental health. An imbalance in the gut can lead to an inflammatory response in the immune system and a wide range of disruptive symptoms.”

Aylward notes that 95 percent of the body’s mood-boosting chemical serotonin resides in the enteric nervous system, which governs the function of the gastrointestinal tract. “The brain-gut axis is becoming increasingly important as a therapeutic target for psychiatric and GI disorders,” she says.

Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and founding co-director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, explains the trauma loop. “Developmental trauma impairs the integrative circuits of the brain and nervous system—the prefrontal cortex. When this happens, the brain will be hyperalert, interpreting some non-threatening situations as threatening.

“Learning to be aware of our internal state and learning calming techniques helps to regulate the autonomic nervous system and

can go a long way,” says Siegel. “High ventral vagal tone means having a state of calm.”

Vagus Power Everyone can benefit from increased vagal tone, which goes hand-in-hand with engaging the parasympathetic nervous system for optimum equilibrium at the cellular level.

Acupuncture, chiropractic—with a focus on the cranial nerves—massage, meditation, singing, laughing loudly, chanting mantras, gentle yoga and exercise, positive social interactions, belly breathing and chanting all make the vagus nerve a happy camper.

These activities promote relaxation and help to decrease inflammation. “As a certified yoga instructor, I can attest to a wide range of natural vagus nerve stimulation techniques, especially using the breath,” says Schwartz.

“Diaphragmatic breathing creates a gentle massage across your digestive organs, releases the diaphragm and stimulates nerve fibers within the lungs. Heart rate is reduced.”

Brief exposure to cold water or cold air improves vagal tone and is a good option when anxiety is high. Eating cold-

water fish like wild salmon or other foods high in omega-3 fatty acids such as walnuts, seaweed, hemp, flax or chia seeds provides vagal nourishment.

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any home gardeners readily list flies, wasps and beetles among the “pests” in their gardens.

However, many of these are actually pollinators that help boost production of fruits and vegetables; others are beneficial insects that keep the real plant-killers at bay. A quick call to the local cooperative extension service can help sort out friend from foe—and that’s just the beginning of what this valuable, underutilized resource can offer.

Each year, millions in federal taxpayer dollars help fund county agricultural extension programs administered through the 108 colleges and universities that comprise the nation’s land grant university system. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which supplies the money, also helps fund science-based research meant to reach not only farmers, but home gardeners seeking advice on best practices.

The USDA is trying to do a better job of raising public awareness of assistance that’s readily available, free of charge, especially now that it’s getting more funding.

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“The good news is that the 2018 Farm Bill provided increases for many of our programs, including the organic agriculture research and extension initiative program for which we received significant funding,” says Mathieu Ngouajio, program leader for the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

The USDA is eager to see the connections their constituents are making with the research. “We want to identify the needs of organic gardeners, and the best way to meet those needs to get our research into their hands,” Ngouajio says.

County extension agents are on the front lines of this effort, offering low- or no-cost soil testing, handbooks on a variety of local gardening topics and workshops on everything from making rain barrels and creating rain gardens to implementing eco-friendly pest control, cultivating native plants and employing best practices for organic gardening. Master gardeners that volunteer their expertise are central to supporting extension outreach activities.

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“We would love more business from the public,” says Weston Miller, an associate professor with Oregon State University’s extension service. “The public service of the master gardener program is to answer questions,” including what and when to plant and how much irrigation is required.

In Oregon, there are 3,500 master gardeners, with 650 volunteers in Portland alone. “We train master gardeners in how to use our resources and interpret the research to the public,” Miller says.

“There are trained volunteers in pretty much every county in the country ready and willing to answer any gardening question,” Miller says. For example, a new organic gardener might not know the correct soil amendments to use or how to start a composting pile to supplement the soil in an organic garden.

There is also a nationwide network called Ask the Expert (USDA.gov/askexpert) and questions will automatically go to an extension staff person or master gardener in the area where the inquiring gardener lives.

Reducing Confusion

Many of those getting into organic gardening might feel confused as to what connotes organic, Miller says. “Organic gardening is using a naturally formed material for fertilizer and pesticide, from plant, animal or mineral sources.”

The biggest area of confusion is that many people think organic means pesticide-free. But that is not always true. There is organic pest control, Miller says. “In terms of gardening, there are certified organic products you can use and still be organic.” One thing to

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look for on a label is the seal of the Organic Materials Review Institute, which indicates the product is suitable for organic gardening.

However, there aren’t many good options for weed management, he adds. “You have to do weeding by hand or use an herbicide that isn’t organic.”

Another issue that extension programs can help with is making sure organic gardeners receive only scientifically researched information, says Nicole Pinson, an urban horticulture agent with the Hillsborough County Extension Service, in Tampa, Florida.

“Gardening information is available on websites and on social media. Some information that pops up is not research-based, or they are selling a product and are not unbiased,” Pinson says.

“We generally stick to recommendations we have been able to vet through research. When we make a recommendation, we give folks all of the options of what they can do.”

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negative state, practice gratitude even for as brief a period as 60 seconds. It will positively shift our emotion, thereby allowing us to be open to abundance.

R = Receiving To graciously receive can be as simple as accepting a compliment.

Another way to receive is by requesting our heart’s desire.

There is nothing wrong with wanting more. The truth is that we can have more—as much as we are willing to receive.

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bundance means plenty—a flowing of love, vitality, wealth, joy, prosperity, success and more. GRACE is an acronym representing five practices that can magnify abundance in all areas of life, including finances.

G = Gratitude There is tremendous power in being grateful, because what we focus on expands. Gratitude opens our heart to receive and give blessings. This puts us in a space to have more things to be grateful for.

Practicing gratitude can be as simple as saying, “I am grateful for…” or “I am thankful for…” If we find ourselves in a

The key way to get into alignment for more abundance is to know our purpose, follow our passion and work on releasing internal fears and doubts.

When we are in alignment, everything flows. There is ease and doors open for us. People, money and resources will show up on our path to help us achieve our goals. Therefore, we must always be awake to our goodness and take inspired actions to manifest our desires into reality.

C = Commitment Commit to gifting ourselves with an abundant mindset because our mindset is critical to our success. One way to quickly shift our mindset to the positive is to concentrate on our desire and ask ourselves, “What do I have to believe for this to be true?”

Our mind will creatively generate many possibilities that can get us excited, which then shifts how we think and feel to what is positive. As we do this, we will also create greater confidence in the knowledge that the universe is always working in our favor.

E = Expression Express our passion by first doing what we love. Then find a way to use our passion, purpose and life to serve others.When we do this, our world, our financial abundance and our joy will expand exponentially.

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ummer is an ideal time to add a healthy dose of fresh, organic herbs to make cool salads, luscious smoothies and other hot-weather eats and treats. Herbs are not only a flavorful addition to any meal, they are also chock-full of health benefits, from lowering blood pressure and improving mineral balance to increasing immune support, hydration, energy and healthy skin.

Most people consider using herbs in small amounts as seasonings for recipes such as spaghetti sauce, soups or desserts. However, they are edible plants, just like kale and spinach. Although they tend to have strong flavors when dried, fresh herbs are usu-

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“Summertime herbs are important for dealing with the heat and humidity that the season brings,” says Nathaniel Whitmore, a Chinese medicine herbalist and shiatsu massage practitioner in Milford, Pennsylvania. An herb that he recommends for this time of year is American ginseng, which, unlike its Chinese namesake, is considered a “cooling” herb and helps keep the body moist.

When combined with fresh chrysanthemum flowers, the result is a powerful elixir that both hydrates and energizes. “A piece of American ginseng root and a few chrysanthemums placed in a jar of water and set on a windowsill for a few days makes a great cold infusion,” says Whitmore. “You can store it in the fridge for a few days and drink it in small amounts at a time to benefit from its energizing and hydrating properties.”

Soft-stemmed herbs such as parsley and dill can be used in large amounts in salads and summer sandwiches. Other heat-tolerant herbs that are easy to grow include lemon balm, rosemary, lavender, mint and basil.

“Lemon balm is great for headaches and insomnia that are common during summer heat waves,” says Michelle Schoffro Cook, Ph.D., an herbalist and doctor of natural medicine, in Ontario, Canada.

“Basil can help reduce summer achiness, while lavender serves as a relaxant and an excellent bug repellant.”

In addition to relieving headaches and restlessness, lemon balm is also beneficial for those that suffer from high blood pressure. A study in the Journal of Herbal Medicine reports that it is helpful in reducing blood pressure in patients with chronic stable angina. Rosemary, another herb used for sleep disorders, was found to also help improve memory and decrease anxiety in a study conducted in Iran at the Kerman University of Medical Sciences.

One study in 2009 by researchers in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Allahbad, in India, revealed that polyphenols found in herbs

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Summertime herbs are important for dealing with the heat and humidity that the season brings. ~Nathaniel Whitmore and plants harbor antioxidant properties that can help reduce the risk of developing cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and neurodegenerative disorders.

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Fresh Is Best While herbs can be used in their extracted and dried forms, the most significant health benefits are often found in the raw, organic plant. “Fresh is better,” says Whitmore. “This is especially true when it comes to the more aromatic plants such as basil and lavender. A lot of the more volatile constituents are lost during the drying process.”

Most herbs grow best in dry garden areas that receive at least eight hours of sun each day. Although some herbs can grow in partially shaded locations, they won’t be as flavorful. Many herbs can also be grown in containers or pots.

Maria Noël Groves, a clinical herbalist in Allenstown, New Hampshire, and author of Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies: How to Create a Customized Herb Garden to Support Your Health & Well-Being, lists lemon balm, Korean mint, anise hyssop and purple basil as among her favorite summer culinary and beverage herbs that are easy to grow in pots. These make easy pickings for wraps, salads, sandwiches and more. “Lemon balm can also be used to make infused water,” says Groves. “With lemon verbena, lemon grass or holy basil, the result is refreshing and calming.”

Just take a few sprigs and place them in either plain or seltzer water. The result is a delicately flavored beverage that’s also healthy and hydrating.

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Herbal Chill-Outs Lemon Balm Vinegar This infusion can be used in place of plain vinegar in summer salad dressings. According to the Journal of Medicine, lemon balm is helpful in lowering blood pressure and cholesterol. Combining it with apple cider vinegar adds extra health benefits to the mix, including digestion enhancement, detoxing and inflammation reduction.

2-3 cups fresh lemon balm, washed 1 qt apple cider vinegar Add coarsely chopped lemon balm leaves and stems to a 32-ounce mason jar. Add vinegar until lemon balm is completely covered.

Allow to sit in a cool, dark place for two to four weeks before straining.

From the book Be Your Own Herbalist by Michelle Schoffro Cook. Used with permission from New World Library.

Dandelion and Violet Greens Pesto 1 bunch dandelion leaves 1-2 handfuls violet leaves 1-3 garlic cloves 1-3 oz Parmesan cheese 1 cup toasted, salted/tamari pepitas (pumpkin seeds) Juice of ½ lemon ¼ cup olive oil Coarsely chop the herbs and the garlic. Combine with a mortar and pestle, food processor or blender and blend until minced.

Add the liquids and blend to a puree. Serve with organic tortilla chips, crackers or veggie sticks.

Will keep for a few days in a tightly sealed container or frozen.

From the book Grow Your Own Herbal Remedies by Maria Noël Groves. Used with permission from Storey Publishing.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 Creating More Independence through Wellness Open House – 5-8pm. Free Zyto Scans and Kirlian EEA Analysis; a talk about things you can do for your computer wellness; the benefits of Esogetics Colorpuncture, Ayurveda and other tools; and the introduction of a new line of green lifestyle products. Psinergy Natural Health, 80 County Rd C. W., Little Canada. 612-217-4325.

SATURDAY, JULY 6 An Evening with the Archangels & Ascended Masters – 6:45-9pm. Nea is called to create sacred space for these guides to share their messages of divine love and peace with you. $30 pre-register/$35 at the door. The Metamorphosis Center, 8646 Eagle Creek Pkwy #101, Savage. NeaClare.com.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 10 Total Health Workshop – 6:30-8pm. This monthly workshop is designed as an opportunity to expand your understanding of the most current natural health solutions available. Complimentary. Hope Clinic, 9220 Bass Lake Rd #245, New Hope. Drethanskog.com.

FRIDAY, JULY 12 Shamanic Drumming - Group Healing & Expansion – 7-8:30pm. Energy healing and expansion around the sacred Buffalo Drum. Bring a drum or use those on site. All welcome, no experience required. $15. Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave S, Minneapolis. YourLifeCore.com.

AUGUST 1-4 THURSDAY-SUNDAY, JULY 25-28 Women’s Wilderness Experience - Apostle Islands Sea Kayaking + Yoga – An ideal introduction to the world of sea kayaking. This 4-day format provides enough time to immerse in the outdoors and recapture the spirit of your adventuresome self. $600, Early Bird. Apostle Islands of Lake Superior, Alaureate Trail, Bayfield, WI. WholeLifeElevation.com.

FRIDAY, JULY 26 Mas Sajady: Confirming Deletions – 7-10pm. Your opportunity to firmly delete old programming and enter a new state of self. Mas will describe tactical methods to confirm deletions of your old self and reclaim your internal balance and power. $15/$20 after July 19. Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave S., Minneapolis. MasSajady.com.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JULY 26-27 Mas Sajady: Industrial-Strength Group Healings – 10am-3pm. Individual frequency scans with Mas to remove blocks and activate abundance. IGHs are group healings that harness the power of the group energy and intent, while providing an opportunity to speak to Mas one-on-one during the session. $150.

Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave S., Minneapolis. MasSajady.com.

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TUESDAY, JULY 23 Abundant Living Series (1st of 3 classes) – 6:30-9pm.

Nea Clare will share simple and effective tools and resources to help you co-create your life, your way.

Three monthly workshops: 1. Divine Alignment; 2.

Divine Accountability; 3. Divine Action. $150/Series; $66/Class. The Metamorphosis Center, 8646 Eagle Creek Pkwy, Ste 101, Savage. NeaClare.com.

Free Youth Event with Mas Sajady | Youth MediMorphosis – 1-5pm. Mas will help young participants connect to their highest level of consciousness so they can come into their fullest potential and maintain the purity and brightness they naturally possess. Free. Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave S., Minneapolis. MasSajady.com..

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Three workshops: 1. Divine Alignment; 2. Divine Accountability; 3. Divine Action.$150/Series; $66/ Class. The Metamorphosis Center, 8646 Eagle Creek Pkwy, Ste 101, Savage. NeaClare.com.

SEPTEMBER 19-23 Boundary Waters Canoe + Water – This 4-night/5-day trip offers an ideal introduction to paddling, backcountry camping, teambuilding, and unwinding from our responsibilities. The journey is designed to balance activity and challenge with connection and rejuvenation. Nature itself reduces stress, balances emotions and makes us more creative.

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SEPTEMBER 27-29 Mycelium Mysteries: A Women’s Mushroom Retreat – Retreat will focus on understanding fungi as the grandmothers of our ecosystems, with workshops at beginner through advanced levels.

Keynote speakers: Katherine MacLean, PhD, and Gina Rivers Contla. Almond, WI. For more info & registration: MidwestWomensHerbal.com/ mushrooms.

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Group Channeling Event – 7-9pm. Laurie Wondra shares information about the current events of the universe and delivers messages from angels, guides, and loved ones who have crossed over. $20. Lake Harriet Spiritual Community, 4401 Upton Ave S., Minneapolis. YourLifeCore.com.

Therapy Essence Therapy Training Course – 9am-6pm. This event occurs monthly, on the first and fourth Sunday. For professionals and/or selfdevelopment. This is an in-depth foundations course in advanced, clinical Flower Essence Therapy. $1,950. Mind Is Body Therapies + Adagio Holistic.

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Diamond Dowsing Basic – 9am-6pm. Registration includes a manual, professional pair of dowsing rods and starter package of dowsing cures. In this two-day seminar, you will learn how to consistently connect with the quantum field in order to detect the various negative energy lines in your home and office and how to cure them. $398.

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Sunday Salsa Dancing – 10:30-11:30am. Join Rene Dennis Thompson for Sunday Salsa Dancing.

Free. Midtown Global Market, 920 East Lake St., Minneapolis. MidtownGlobalMarket.org/events.

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GROOVE Movement Class – Various days, times, and locations. A fun, simple and exciting way to experience dance that nurtures body, mind, heart, and soul. No dance experience required. All fitness levels welcome. Classes use all genres of music and include a warmup, dance, stretching, and a brief meditation.

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Loving Kindness Meditation Practice – 6-7pm.

Through ancient, gentle and gradual practices, we learn to let go of fear and ill will and to open our hearts to ourselves and to others, known and unknown. Our time together will include instruction, guided meditation and discussion. Donation based. River Garden, 455 7th St W, St Paul. RiverGardenYoga.com.

Midtown Global Market – Mon-Sat 10am-8pm. & Sun 10am-6pm. If you’re looking for a more unique shopping experience, head to the Midtown Global Market, where more than 50 vendors sell food and trinkets ranging from local produce to Somalian Pastries, Middle Eastern olives and Asian spices. There are also cultural events - from musical performances to Irish step-dancing lessons. Free. 920 East Lake St, Minneapolis. MidtownGlobalMarket.org/visit.

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sunday Chinese Mystery School’s Sunday Services – 9:15am-12pm. Introductory Dharma talk and meditation teaching. Spiritual healing services for your body, mind and spirit. Buddhist prayer services.

Donation. Upper Midwest Hanmi Buddhist A, 80 County Rd C West #804, Little Canada. MN-HanmiBuddhism.org.

Restorative Flow Yoga – 9:30-10:30am. In restorative yoga, props are used to support the body so students can hold poses for a longer period of time, allowing the body to open through passive stretching. The focus is slowing down and calming the mind and body. $18. Healing Elements, 2290 Como Ave, St. Paul. 651-348-6216.

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Weekly Guided & Silent Meditation – 1111:30am. Led by a Prayer Chaplain in the Meditation Room, this meditation is the same one going on concurrently at Unity Village. It alternates affirmative prayer and silence. Donation based.

Unity of the Valley Spiritual Center, 4011 W Hwy 13, Savage. UnityOfTheValleyMN.org.

Stress Busters Meditation – Noon-1pm. Join us when you can for a free meditation at the University of MN. Mayo Building, Third Fl. Meditation Space, Minneapolis. CSH.umn.edu.

Pain: Moving Beyond Suffering – 6:30-8pm. We will discuss the root of pain, options at each stage, tools to deal with symptoms, and elements of healing. Topics include nutrition, sleep, mindfulness, guided imagery, and much more. $50/Session.

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Experience a guided meditation, combining ancient meditation techniques with modern NeuroLinguistic Programming to help both beginning and experienced meditators quiet the mind and connect for a relaxing and meaningful meditation. $15. Healing Elements, 2290 Como Ave, St. Paul.

651-348-6216. HealingElementsWellness.com.

Chinese Mystery School’s Healing Meditation Series – 6:30-8pm. A different Hanmi Buddhist meditation teaching each week: June 5: Wisdom Dew Beauty Yoga; June 12: Balance Weight; June 19: Diabetes Self-Healing; June 26: Self-Healing for Various Illnesses. Upper Midwest Hanmi Buddhist Association, 80 Co Rd C West, #804, Little Canada.

MN-Hanmi-Buddhism.org.

Total Health Workshop January 9, 1919 - December 2020 – 6:30-8pm. This monthly workshop is designed as an opportunity to expand your understanding of the most current natural health solutions available. Complimentary. Hope Clinic, 9220 Bass Lake Rd #245, New Hope. Drethanskog.com.

thursday Hatha for Everyone – 6-7pm. Everyone is welcome to this weekly drop-in class. All levels.

Relieve stress, achy joints, improve balance at all levels and increase your sense of well-being. $10. Meditation Center, 631 University Ave NE, Minneapolis. TheMeditationCenter.org.

Free Meditation – 7-8:30pm. Join us for a free weekly meditation. Sahaja Yoga Meditation, Eden Prairie City Hall, 8080 Mitchell Rd, Eden Prairie. Contact: JPatpatia@gmail or 651-730-2078.

FreeMeditation.com.

friday Gentle Yoga for Every Body – 10:30-noon. A welcoming environment for students of all shapes and sizes. $15 drop-in. River Garden Yoga, 455 W 7th St, St. Paul. RiverGardenYoga.com.

Drop-in Meditation – 5:15-6pm. A guided meditation presented through the lens of a Wisdom Practice (gratitude, compassion, and inquiry). $20 (or donation). Aslan Institute, 4141 Old Sibley Memorial Hwy, Eagan. AslanInst.com.

Friday Chat & Play Social – 7-9pm. Let’s get to know each other and talk about energy, holistic health, psychic abilities, spirituality and much more.

Free. J & S Bean Factory, 1518 Randolph Ave, St Paul. Hosted by SchaOn at Psinergy. Meetup.com/ TC-Energy.

saturday Cardio Fitness Drumming – 8-8:30am. Burn calories in a fun way with this full-body workout that doesn’t feel like a workout. Free. Nutrition Hub, 7880 University Ave NE, Fridley. Text or call to reserve your spot. 612-787-2582. Facebook.com/ TheNutritionHub.Fridley.

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CHANNEL FOR SPIRIT

Connecting you to the leaders in natural health care and green living in our community. To find out how you can be included in the Community Resource Guide, email Publisher@NAtwincities.com. to request our media kit.

ACUPUNCTURE AWAKENED LIVING

Michelle Kitsmiller 3601 Minnesota Dr. Suite 825, Bloomington Michelle@AwakenedLivingInfusion.com 952-452-8583 • AwakenedLivingInfusion.com Michelle assists you in healing on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level via acupuncture and herbal medicine in conjunction with other therapies at Awakened Living. The clinic offers over 36 therapies and services to give clients the most beneficial healing protocol possible. See ad, page 13.

AUTHOR REBECKA LASSEN RebeckaLassen.com

In the book, Socially Accepted Intuition, Lassen shares her personal journey to teach you how using your intuition can help find your true self. She approaches it all with fun, logic and reason—No tie-dyed or incense needed. See ad, page 14.

CHANNEL OF DIVINE WISDOM Nea Clare NeaClare.com Nea@NeaClare.com • 612-227-3854

You can have a personal audience with your guides and the Archangels and Ascended Masters.

Get clarity. Take action. Feel connected. Book your session today and save 25%, using code: IAMWISE17. Or call Nea for a free consult. See ad, page 34.

BODY WORK MYOFASCIAL RELEASE & CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY

Barb Ryan, LMT • 612-922-2389 Bhakti Wellness Center 7550 France Avenue S, #220, Edina Specializing in persistent, chronic pain relief and mysteries of the body. Serving clients covered by auto insurance and worker’s compensation with a doctor’s referral. Also serving clients seeking the experience of deep relaxation and more selfconnection. Skilled and compassionate care. See ad, page 33.

BREAST HEALTH AROMATHERAPY NATURE’S WAY Healthy Girls’ Breast Oil Joyce Sobotta • 715-878-4474 AromaTherapyNaturesWay.com

CHIROPRACTIC GOLDEN SUN CHIROPRACTIC

Una Forde, DC • 952-922-1478 International Village Arcade Building 220 West 98th St, Suite 7, Bloomington Quality chiropractic care. Experience holistic healing and gentle chiropractic adjustments that allow the nervous system to relieve such symptoms as headache, back, neck pain and numbness which allow your body to return to a state of balance and well-being. 25 years’ experience.

COACHING

Healthy Girls’ Breast Oil when applied with a self-breast massage helps to balance, detoxify, soften breast tissue, improve lymphatic circulation and stimulate the immune system. Improved circulation helps your entire body! See ad, page 23.

APPLE A DAY WELLNESS

Patty Kelley • 651-492-1752 PKelley@AppleADayWellness.com AppleADayWellness.com Together we’ll create a plan to reach your nutritional goals, whether they are identifying food sensitivities, tackling weight control, or feeding a finicky family. I have been there. I provide personal coaching sessions, recipes & meal plans. First session free.

Register today at nwhealth.edu/discover

Now Offering a Doctor of Chinese Medicine Degree Learn more at DISCOVERY DAY Saturday, July 20 8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

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COMPUTER REPAIR

COMPOSURE COACHING

Candi Broeffle, MBA, CPC Candi@ComposureCoaching.com 218-590-2539 ComposureCoaching.com Master your business so you can practice your passion. Business coaching for purpose-driven entrepreneurs to clarify your vision, build your confidence and create a soul-centered strategy. Call today for a free Discovery Session and get on your path to business success. See ad, page 18.

MIND, BODY, SOUL LLC

Dori Tossen 763-639-9133 • BalancedDori.com As Health Coach and holistic practitioner, Dori works with clients to reach their health goals.

With the use of bioresonance and other complementary therapies, she guides clients in supporting their bodies through individualized plans that help on their healing journey. See ad, page 25.

COLORPUNCTURE PSINERGY NATURAL HEALTH & HOLISTIC WELLNESS SchaOn Blodgett, CCP, BTAT 80 County Rd. C West - Ste. 802 Little Canada/Roseville 612-217-4325 • PsinergyHealth.com

Offering empirical & sciencebased natural health therapies including Esogetics/Colorpuncture, basic Ayurvedic Medicine, as well as spiritual/energy-based therapies like Access Consciousness Bars, I-Ching, reiki and more. See ad, page 4.

PSINERGY TECH

André Thomas - A+ Certified 80 County Rd. C West - Ste. 802 Little Canada/Roseville 612-234-7237 • PsinergyTech.com “Do you have a sick Computer?”

We Keep Computer Repair Simple. Onsite/In-Home or Office, Bring-to-Us Computer Repair Services. 2011-17 Angie’s List Super Service Award Winner.

Local • Greener • Highly Rated.

COUNSELING & COACHING VALERIE MARSH, M.S., L.M.F.T. Positive Power Psychology.com Wayzata • 612-772-2808 PositivePowerPsychology.com

Valerie integrates a compassionate, holistic and empathic counseling and coaching, specializing in helping people heal from the negative consequences of difficult life transitions, troubled relationships, anxiety, depression, trauma and/or loss.

Utilizing complimentary modalities, such as energy psychology, CBT and solution focused approaches, she shares her knowledge and skills that create more rapid results for a more joyful and happy life! Appointments held online or in the office. For a complimentary phone consultation or more information, call 612-772-2808 or visit PositivePowerPsychology.com. See ad, page 23.

CONSCIOUS PARENTING Amy Vasterling Parenting Conscious Children IntuitivePathfinder.com • 612-791-3001 Insight@IntuitivePathfinder.com If your child is a sensitive, intuitive introvert, I can help you learn to support them in a life where they can truly flourish.

Parenting these “Conscious” children can feel confusing, and at times lonely. I assure you that with this knowledge, your conscious child(ren) will become the easiest ones to parent.

SitkaSalmonShares.com SalmonSupport@SitkaSalmonShares.com

Twin Cities Edition

N7915-902 St River Falls, WI • 715-426-7777 HealthCenteredDentistry.com

Whole Person Dentistry observes and deals with the mind, body and spirit, not just your teeth. This approach to dentistry encompasses both modern science and knowledge drawn from the world’s great traditions in natural healing.

4700 Lexington Ave N, Suite D Shoreview 651-483-9800 NaturalSmilesDental.com

We ’ r e a n i n t e g r a t i v e practice committed to promoting dental wellness and overall assistance to the whole person. We desire to participate in the creation of healthier lives, while being sensitive to physical, philosophical, emotional and financial concerns. See ad, page 18.

PURE DENTAL

Dr. Amy Ha Truong 6230 10th St. N., Ste 520, Oakdale 651-731-3064 • PureDentalMN.com Pure Dental offers integrative, holistic, alternative and biological dentistry for your dental health.

We take pride in providing quality, holistic dental care and service for our patients. See ad, page 22.

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NATURAL SMILES DENTAL CARE

COMMUNITY SUSTAINABLE FISHERY

We catch your fish, one at a time, with lots of love and care. The fish is then landed individually portioned, vacuum-sealed and blast-frozen to lock in that just-caught taste. Every month during fishing season, you get a box of wild Alaskan seafood hand-delivered to your door by one of our Sitka Salmon Stewards. See ad, page 3.

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CYRSTALS & ROCKS CRYSTAL ROCK HEALING

4399 Lake Ave, White Bear Lake 651-426-4218 • CrystalRockProducts.com Crystal Rock, LLC is a full-line metaphysical store that manufactures its own products. Product lines include rocks/crystals, organic essential oil products, natural stone jewelry, sages/incense, teas, tapestries, and much more. Featuring readers, healers, and classes as well as spaces for rent by the hour.

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SEDATION AND IMPLANT DENTISTRY 1815 Suburban Ave, St. Paul ToothBuilder.com 651-735-4661

We are a holistic dental practice devoted to restoring and enhancing the natural beauty of your smile using conservative, state-of-the-art dental procedures that result in beautiful, long lasting smiles! We specialize in safe removal of infected teeth as well as placing ceramic implants and restorations. See ad, page 15.

TOOTH BY THE LAKE

1401 Main St, Hopkins 952-475-1101 • ToothByTheLake.net We build a foundation of trust by treating our patients as individuals. Understanding how uneasy some patients may feel about their dental visits, we make a difference by providing a relaxing and positive experience. See ad, page 26.

EDUCATION NORTHWESTERN HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY

Office of Admissions 2501 W. 84th St., Bloomington, MN 55431 Admit@NWHealth.edu • 952-885-5409 Discover a challenging curriculum that blends evidenceinformed study with a foundation in philosophy. Study chiropractic, acupuncture and Chinese medicine, massage therapy, nutrition, post-bac pre-health/ pre-med or complete your B.S. in human biology.

See ad, page 35.

ENERGY HEALING EMOTION CODE HEALING

Master Hong Certified Emotion Code Practitioner 9672 63rd Ave N, Maple Grove 763-208-4246 or 914-708-9463 Chronic pain? Suffering from emotions? Relationship problems?

Life not going as planned? The Emotion Code is a tool I use to help you break through any emotional and spiritual blocks so you can live your best life. Trial session only $35.

INNERKI ENERGY THERAPY

Christina Gregory, Master Reiki Practitioner Bhakti Wellness Center, 7550 France Ave S., #220, Edina • 612-839-5255 BhaktiClinic.com When the body or emotions are out of balance and pain is ever present, manifested as physical or mental health issues, energy therapy boosts the healing process.

Alone or coupled with other therapies it becomes a powerful healing tool. See ad, page 33.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALING SOUL WHISPERER: RELEASING LOST SOULS Annette Rugolo ReleasingLostSouls.com

Children and some adults have the ability to see the spirits that are living among us. Others will hear or see unexplained noises or movement. Read the first two chapters in my book for free at ReleasingLostSouls.com. I share many experiences that explain what’s happening and what can be done. See ad, page 15.

ESSENTIAL OILS AROMATHERAPY NATURE’S WAY Essential Oils Joyce Sobotta • 715-878-4474 AromaTherapyNaturesWay.com

100% pure, quality, essential oils, and ultrasonic diffusers available on my website. I offer essential oil classes online and in person.

Sign up for an essential oil consultation and let me help you create a blend of essential oils that works synergistically for a wide range of health concerns. See ad, page 23.

ESTHETICS MICROCURRENT FACIALS

Jessie Odishaw, Microcurrent Esthetics Technician • 612-859-7709 Bhakti Wellness Center, 7550 France Ave S., #220, Edina • BhaktiClinic.com Voted Best Esthetics Clinic in Edina, 2016 & 2017. Look great and feel great with Microcurrent Facial, your skin will feel so soft you won’t believe it’s yours. Often called a “non-surgical facelift” it reduces wrinkles, puffy eyes, lifts, tones, restores your youthful glow. See ad, page 33.

FITNESS AERO DANCE FITNESS

Robin Gast, GROOVE Facilitator 612-276-5625 • AeroDanceFitness.com GROOVE – a fun group dance experience that changes your body, mind, attitude and mood.

Everyone’s welcome on the Dancefloor – all shapes, sizes, ages, and abilities. If you can move, you can GROOVE! No experience required. All fitness levels welcome. See ad, page 23.

GRAPHIC DESIGN CAMPFIRE STUDIO

Sara Shrode, Graphic Designer Minneapolis, MN 612-554-6304 • CampfireStudio.net Sara@CampfireStudio.net Ignite the possibilities of your next project by having Campfire Studio design it! Innovative, fullservice graphic design studio that takes the essence of a campfire—warmth, stories, community—and infuses it into every design project we do.

HEALTH FOOD STORES MASTEL’S HEALTH FOODS 1526 St Clair Ave, St Paul Mastels.com • 651-690-1692

Mastel’s Health Foods is Minnesota’s oldest health and wellness store. We carry a full line of vitamins, minerals, supplements, herbs and more. We emphasize organic, biodynamic, biodegradable, holistic and hypoallergenic products and pride ourselves on stocking hard-to-find items.

See ad, page 24.

HOLISTIC THERAPY AWAKENED LIVING

Connie Bjerk 3601 Minnesota Dr. Suite 825, Bloomington Connie@AwakenedLivingInfusion.com 952-452-8583 • AwakenedLivingInfusion.com Connie assists you in healing on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level via Guided Imagery Therapy and spiritual and life coaching in conjunction with other therapies at Awakened Living. The clinic offers over 36 therapies and services to give clients the most beneficial healing protocol possible. See ad, page 13.

HOMEOPATHY NORTHWESTERN ACADEMY OF HOMEOPATHY 7104 W. Lake Street, St. Louis Park 763-746-9242 • HomeoVista.org

Homeopathy is a safe, effective path to healing. We offer low-cost homeopathic care for everyone. Clinic is staffed by advanced students and supervised by faculty.

INTEGRATED HEALTH BHAKTI WELLNESS CENTER 7550 France Ave. S., #220, Edina 612-859-7709 • BhaktiClinic.com

Bhakti provides a holistic environment where independent practitioners come together to offer an integrative path to wellness; mind, body, and spirit. Our providers offer chiropractic, energy therapy, massage, microcurrent therapy, acupuncture, psychotherapy and much more so that you can feel your best, remain healthy & thrive. See ad, page 33.

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MARKETING

INTEGRATED HEALTH OPTIMAL WELLNESS SOLUTIONS

2565 N Hamline Ave., Suite A, Roseville 651-340-1233 • RosevilleOptimalWellness.com Optimal Wellness Solutions offers a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to wellness designed to relieve stress & pain, transform trauma, detoxify the body & promote life-long health & vitality. Services include Massage & CranioSacral Therapy, Network Spinal Analysis, Ionic Detox Footbaths, Nutritional Therapy, InfraRed Therapies, yoga, and a variety of topical wellness classes. See ad, page 4.

INTEGRATED MASSAGE MYSTICAL MASSAGE WITH IAN SOMERVILLE

BUZZ FRENZY Dan Stocke, CEO BuzzFrenzy.com

Experience super-simple automated social media marketing.

Buzz Frenzy is the most efficient, automated, Facebook advertising tool for small business. See ad, page 2.

MASSAGE/STRETCHING HEALING TAJ

Theodore Rick Active Isolated Stretching (AIS) International Village Arcade Building 220 West 98th St, Ste. 7, Bloomington HealingTaj.com • 763-913-6722 “I love massage, but too often it feels good temporarily and then the pain and tightness comes back again. I have found with AIS that by stretching and lengthening the fibers, almost like a yoga/massage that the pain doesn’t come back again,” Warren King.

IntraAwareness Energy Healing, Massage & Bodywork Minneapolis, MN • Ian@IntraAwareness.com Have your own Mystical Bodywork + Energy Work + Spiritual Coaching experience with Ian while lulling into a peaceful trance where clients have been known to communicate with ancestors, angels & guides, while honoring their body and detoxifying unwanted baggage.

See ad, page 2.

MEDITATION UPPER MIDWEST HANMI BUDDHIST ASSOCIATION Shifu Charlotte M. Steen 80 County Road C West, #804, Little Canada, MN 55117 • 651-278-0697

MARKETING AM950 THE PROGRESSIVE VOICE OF MINNESOTA

Offering spiritual healing for body, mind and spirit; Teaching Chinese Mystery school (Hanmi Buddhist) meditations; and conducting dharma rites to support you and your loved ones.

Be the peace, the joy, the radiant health that you seek-be your change. See ad, page 25.

AM950Radio.com

The only Progressive Talk Radio station in Minnesota. We strive to provide the best progressive programming available and feature national talkers Bill Press, Thom Hartmann, Stephanie Miller, Norman Goldman, and more. We are also dedicated to local programming that creates a community forum for important Minnesota Progressive issues. See ad, page 40.

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PETS CAT CARE CLINIC

Susan Swanson, D.V.M. 651-429-4153 • HolisticCatClinic.com 1524 Mahtomedi Ave, Mahtomedi Offering a blend of Western and Eastern medicines including; nutritional counseling, behavior counseling, Chinese herbs, acupuncture, Western herbs, essential oils, homeopathy, flower essences, nutritional supplements, chiropractic, reiki and more.

See ad, page 23.

PSYCHOTHERAPY FRAN BIEGANEK, MS, LP

Bhakti Wellness Center • 7550 France Ave. S. Suite 220, Edina 612-564-9947 • FranBieganekTherapy.com As a Licensed Psychologist and holistic practitioner, Fran works with clients to identify areas of potential growth, obstacles to growth, and processes that facilitate healing and transcendence of those obstacles. She provides traumainformed therapy that supports your goals of resiliency, healing and feeling better. See ad, page 33.

SOLAR ALL ENERGY SOLAR

1264 Energy Lane, St Paul 800-620-3370 • AllEnergySolar.org All Energy Solar is a trusted leader in the solar energy industry. We provide clean, green, solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, agricultural, and government clients.

Our team of industry professionals have been focused on providing long-term, trusted relationships since 2009. Our industry experience allows us to confidently handle every aspect of the solar process.

SPIRITUAL TEACHINGS

Nichole Hirsch Kuechle 520 Tamarack Ave., Long Lake 612-418-3801 • MyHealthyBeginning.com

ECKANKAR TEMPLE OF ECK

Nutrition Response Testing is a non-invasive protocol of analyzing the body to determine the underlying causes of less than optimal health by looking at how well each organ, gland or set of tissues is functioning. Within two visits, we’ll discover what areas of your body are lacking support and determine what it needs to heal itself at a cellular level. See ad, page 32.

Are you looking for the personal experience of God? Eckankar can help you fulfill your dream. We offer ways to explore your own unique and natural relationship with the Divine through personalized study to apply in your everyday life. See ad, page 24.

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