Napa Fresh Aire Festival | Enriching the body, soul and planet celebrated its 2009 event with three days of empowering programs and activities all in the beautiful setting of Napa, California.
The event featured over 50 leading authorities hosting 70 sessions on health, wellness, and the environment:
Inspiring lectures and activities • Outdoor experiences • Yoga • Nutrition
Fitness • Eco-conscious awareness • Meditation • Music • And more!
2009 Schedule of Sessions & Activities
| August 27, Thursday | ||
| Registration Open | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm | The Westin Lobby |
| August 28, Friday | ||
| Registration Open | 7:00 am - 9:00 pm | The Westin Lobby |
| Sessions & Activities | 7:30 am - 4:45 pm | The Westin, River Terrace Inn |
| and Umpqua Bank Meeting Rooms | ||
| Whole Foods® Presents | 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | The Westin |
| FRESH the movie | ||
| August 29, Saturday | ||
| Registration Open | 7:00 am - 5:00 pm | The Westin Lobby |
| Sessions & Activities | 7:30 am - 4:45 pm | The Westin, River Terrace Inn |
| and Umpqua Bank Meeting Rooms | ||
| Fresh Aire Outdoor Expo | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | River Walk behind The Westin |
| Wellness Area | 10:00 am - 5:00 pm | River Walk behind The Westin |
| Laurence Juber Concert | 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm | Outdoors at The Westin's Solera Courtyard |
| August 30, Sunday | ||
| Registration Open | 7:30 am - 10:00 am | The Westin Lobby |
| Sessions & Activities | 7:30 am - 11:00 am | The Westin, River Terrace Inn |
| and Umpqua Bank Meeting Rooms | ||
| Keynote: Dan Buettner | 11:30 am - 12:45 pm | The Westin |
To view the 2009 schedule, click here.
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Session Descriptions (presented in alphabetical order)
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21st Century SuperHealth
(S. Pratt, M.D., F.A.C.S, A.B.H.M)
In this century, millions of people will become centenarians. To achieve this milestone in the SuperHealth way, a person will want to preserve their senses (eyesight, hearing, cognitive function), their appearance (skin, bones and muscles), and avoid the big six (heart disease, stroke, and cancers of the prostate, breast, lung, and colon). This session will give participants a concise, enjoyable, science-based, easy-to-follow plan designed to let them “flame out at the finish line.”
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An Experiential Look At Relieving Chronic Pain
Movement in the body can be restricted or blocked by the mind and/or energy. In this overview class, participants will develop an understanding of Integrated Somatic Bodywork©, a re-awakening of the body’s memory of health and balance. Participants will be shown the ways in which the body can block movement and how it can compensate for the blockage. Participants also will be taught to recognize the mind-body-energetic connection to pain and lack of movement, whether it is from trauma, injury, or habit. Hands-on and self-release methods will be demonstrated.TALK
Against All Odds: A Fit Person’s Guide To Having A Heart Attack
Participate in this unique story of an extremely fit, very active, 54-year old young woman who went from riding Napa Valley’s Mt. Veeder loop to quintuple bypass surgery in one week. As Programs Manager for Synergy, a Medical Fitness Center, Pamela relied on her seemingly boundless energy to develop and manage programs, while leading classes, and advising members on their personal wellness plans. When the pressure in her chest became more insistent, ignoring the doubts of others, she had to take her own advice and sought medical intervention.
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Bad To The Bone: Osteoporosis – The Silent Killer
(S. Altman, M.D.)
This session will address the risks, defining characteristics, and prevention and treatment strategies for osteoporosis. Participants will learn about the role of calcium and new information on oral supplementation, including Vitamin D. The new "Fracture Risk Assessment" model also will be presented that uses bone density information for individual evaluations of fracture risk.
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Brain Fitness: Middle Age is the Time to Begin
Choices you make now determine what kind of brain you’ll have in old age. Act now to change your diet, your exercise routine, and your mental workouts and you could take a healthy brain into your eighties and beyond. Learn practical and best applications to keep your brain in shape with Cathryn Jakobson Ramin, author of Carved In Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife.TALK
Beating Breast Cancer: Your Best Defense
(Panel discussion; Moderator G. Smith, M.D; D. Abrams, M.D.; B. Burns, M.S., L.Ac; R Dunham, M.D.)
Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in American women, and the second most common cause of death from cancer. In this panel presentation, participants will hear breast health issues and perspectives from an Integrative Oncologist, Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and Breast Surgeon. The presentation will focus on scientifically validated causes and risks for developing breast cancer, as well as addressing common myths and misperceptions. Validation of lifestyle choices, such as exercise, diet, and personal habits in reducing a women's risk will be discussed as well as the latest treatment options. Early detection of breast cancer remains the best defense against this disease, and the clinical aspects of screening mammography, diagnostic mammography and breast ultrasound will be presented.OUTDOOR
ChiRunning®-A Mindful Practice To Effortless, Injury-Free Running
ChiRunning® combines the core principles of Yoga, Pilates and T’ai Chi with the laws of physics to transform your running experience. Learn to run using your core muscles while relaxing the rest of your body, allowing gravity to do the work instead of your legs. Eliminate pain, injuries, pounding, reduce effort level, recovery time, and enjoy a smooth, efficient running form for the rest of your life. Practiced by thousands of runners, the ChiRunning® technique is a mind-body approach that is easy to learn and benefits the beginner as well as the competitive runner. Finish your runs with a smile instead of a limp.
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ChiWalking®-The Five Mindful Steps for Lifelong Health and Energy
ChiWalking® is a revolutionary program that blends the health benefits of walking with the core principles of T'ai Chi, Yoga and Pilates to deliver maximum physical, mental, and spiritual fitness. ChiWalking® is a mind-body approach to walking, transforming it from simply a means of locomotion into an intensely rewarding mindful practice. Learn injury-prevention techniques; core muscle drills and exercises; upper and lower body usage; and how to relax and conserve energy at any walking speed.TALK
Co-Creation Meditation: Using Intention To Become The Best Version Of Yourself
(E. Manning)
In this session, participants will be introduced to a meditation experience with a brief talk about the Law of Attraction and what it means to be “at cause” and to begin embracing the power of the unlimited nature within. Learn relaxation techniques to calm the “mind chatter,” and become empowered to take steps toward bringing things you want toward you. Facilitate your spirit's limitless nature by learning how to master your own energy and co-creative abilities in all areas of your life.
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Dynamic Stretching With Elastic Bands
(J. Larson; Each participant should bring water and a mat.)
This session will show the benefits of utilizing a band for dynamic warm up and cool down stretching. The techniques in this class will dramatically improve flexibility and performance and help reduce pain due to muscle stiffness, repetitive movement, and over training. This is a great session for athletes, commuters, and desk jockeys.TALK
Epigenetics: Enhancing Your Gene Pool For A Healthier Life
If you know your family has a history of heart disease, can you take conscious steps to decrease the risk to yourself and your children? Most diseases are not genetically determined; rather a tendency for that disease is passed from parent to child. The development of the disease is dependent on gene expression. In his talk, Dr. Wilson relates the interesting world of “epigenetics,” and how our lifestyle actions not only affect ourselves, but also determine the health of our children and grandchildren – our choices influence Earth’s ecology, which in turn influences the health of our families.TALK
Essential Oils: The Plant Pharmacy For Today’s Infections
(A. Vermilye, M.N.Sh., M.A.T., C.C.HT., C.M.T)
Hear simple solutions to protect yourself and loved ones from the spread of “Today” infections as researched by The National Institutes of Health for SARS, and by the University California Irvine, for MRSA, pneumonia, E. Coli. and more. Learn about using specific essential plant oils to effectively address infections including drug resistant strains. Find out how essential plant oils can be more powerful than standard antibiotics, and perfect for even the youngest or most frail of people. Participants will learn how to effectively and safely use essential oils for many types of infections: viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic.TALK
Feet First: Reflexology For Greater Health
(K. Alves)
Reflexology is a wonderful way to discover caring touch as we explore the reflex points in the feet. Practitioners of reflexology apply pressure to release blockages that inhibit energy flow. This stimulation of around 7,200 nerve endings found in each foot affects all areas of the body as messages are passed along through the spinal cord and brain. Although reflexology is not medically proven, this ancient technique has evolved over the years and has become a common practice. Learn various techniques that you can use everyday for greater health and well-being.
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Good Digestion: The Ayurvedic Basis of Good Health
“We are what we eat” is a common saying. Ayurvedic science extends this saying to “We are what we digest”. If we do not digest food properly, we create an imbalance. This session demonstrates how everybody has a different digestive strength, and how to eat according to this digestive strength. It also enumerates the various conditions that can naturally change our digestive strength and those that harm our digestive system.TALK
Greening Our Everyday Lives
Many of us want to align our daily lives more with the earth’s wise ways, to nurture both our individual and shared health and well-being. But where do we start? What are the most important actions we can take? This session will inspire and empower you to find joyful and effective methods for making a difference, both by being a smart green consumer and by creatively shifting your life.TALK
Healthy Hearts, Healthy Lungs: Living Longer, Living Better
In this session, participants will learn ways to reduce their risk for a heart attack and lung-related disease, as well as the devastating effects that smoking has on the health of our heart and our lungs. For those faced with open heart or lung-related surgery, new minimally-invasive techniques will be presented that make surgery safer and recovery times shorter.TALK
Healthy, Wealthy, And Wise: The Balance Between Enjoying Life And Managing Wealth
Physical, emotional, and financial health are all interrelated; an imbalance in one will create tension and stress in the others. Unprecedented turmoil in the financial markets over the last 18 months have created a tremendous amount of financial stress and anxiety and forced many individuals to question their financial objectives and reconsider their retirement goals. This session seeks to restore balance in your life and will help you by examining the relationship you have to money by answering a fundamental question, “What is it about money that’s important to you?”TALK
Hormones: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Oprah says estrogen is good; the newspaper says it increases cancer risk. What’s a woman to believe? In the last ten years, hormones had gone from good to bad, and now may be good again. Learn what the studies actually say and what the latest data is. Estrogen and progesterone have different effects on breast and heart. It makes a difference if the hormones are absorbed orally or through the skin. Understand what bioidentical hormones are and where they come from.TALK
Integrative Cancer Care: Exploring Complementary Therapies For Health And Vitality
People living with and beyond cancer today are turning more and more to incorporate complementary therapies into their treatment programs. Integrating these treatments into their conventional treatment plan allows the person to feel empowered and regain the sense of control that a cancer diagnosis threatens. Many oncologists are leary of their patient’s use of complementary therapies, worrying especially that they may somehow interfere with radiation or chemotherapy. The emerging field of integrative cancer care will hopefully allow people to access all of the best tools in their fight against cancer.COOK
In The Kitchen With Chef Peter Pahk: Purchasing And Preparing Locally, Harvested Food
Chef Pahk is committed to purchasing and preparing local, artisanal, and sustainable cuisine. In this cooking demonstration and talk, participants will learn how to purchase, cook, and make menu decisions that will help to produce positive change in our environment, both on land and in the ocean. With a culture used to fast production, shipping, and eating, Chef Pahk’s inspiration for his menus comes from using the best in locally, harvested food.TALK
Joyfully Returning Home To The Earth
With the current call to care for the earth comes an amazing opportunity to bring more aliveness into our daily lives and offer our unique gifts to serve a crucial higher cause. We each truly do make a difference and are all needed. Rather than despair, we can be inspired by the vision of reconnecting with the earth, nurturing our shared survival, and creating more deeply satisfying lives, embraced by the arms of creation.TALK
Keeping The Juices Flowing After Menopause
Many women complain of a decrease in libido during midlife. There are physiologic, psychological, and relationship changes that impact this. Learn about the role played by menopause and vaginal dryness. Discuss the role of testosterone in desire. Understand what’s normal sexual behavior as women age (we’re not mini-men!). Lastly, learn ways to recapture the lust and desire you used to have.TALK
Living To Be 100: How To Be A Centenarian And Enjoy It!
Few people understand that aging is a biological process and not a chronological one. The new revolution in health is to extend the middle healthy years to that we are as productive at 80 as we were at 40. To achieve quality of life for an energetic group of “boomers,” we will devote more of our time, energy, and ingenuity to delaying the aging process and not devoting trillions of dollars to treating end-stage chronic illnesses and performing heroic acts for end of life care. Working toward these goals is unstoppable, and becoming a centenarian is within our reach.TALK
Managing Stressful Times Through Balanced Abundance
Our culture is in recovery from a skewed belief that “abundance” of wealth and material goods is ours simply through the powers of intention and ambition. We are experiencing psychological stress because our social and financial systems are out of balance. In this session, learn how to let go of outdated concepts of abundance and scarcity and embrace “balanced abundance” consciousness, which adjusts our thinking and priorities. Learn how to balance expenditures of natural resources, money, time, and personal energy. As these systems come back into balance, we experience well-being, and focus more on self-worth than material worth.TALK
Menopause With Ease
(J. Deir, N.D. and C. Rose Reid, N.T.P, C.C.H.)
Have you ever wondered how some women can sail through perimenopause and menopause without any hot flashes, night sweats, anxiety, or depression? Are these women just lucky or is there a secret to their fluid transition? Dr. Jennifer Deir, N.D. and China Rose Reid, N.T.P., C.C.H. will demystify what is truly happening in this season of women’s lives and help to clarify their options. By learning to listen to their bodies, making wise food choices, and incorporating movement, stress reduction, homeopathy, and herbs, women can feel healthy, strong, and empowered!ACTIVITY
Mind/Body Barefoot Boogie with Nia Dance
Nia is a transformational body-mind-spirit movement practice that integrates Eastern and Western wisdom, including inspiration from the martial arts, dance arts and healing arts. Combing movements from Tai Chi, Aikido, Tae Kwon Do, Jazz, Modern Dance, as well as Yoga, Nia delivers a balanced cardiovascular, strengthening and toning workout. Practiced barefoot, Nia’s eclectic mixture of music and movement offers a magical and joyful atmosphere to develop self-healing and awareness of mind and body.TALK
Mindfulness Meditation As Medicine
This presentation will focus on how mindfulness meditation works with stress, pain or illness. There are over 250 mindfulness-based stress reduction programs (MBSR) in the USA and has spread throughout the world. Mindfulness is being researched and practiced currently in medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and education. Learn some key principles of MBSR and how it promotes health and well-being. This session also will include an introduction to mindfulness meditation practice.
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Natural Solutions To Prevent And Treat Back Pain
Back pain is the most common chronic pain, with nine out of ten adults suffering from it at some point in their life. This session will teach you how to identify common causes (muscles, discs, arthritis, nerve), solutions to the problem, and ways to prevent back pain for the future with correct lifting, better posture, good sleep habits, and more.
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Naturopathic Medicine And Acupuncture: Strategies For Good Health
Aging is a fact of life. But, aging can be slowed and reversed to some extent. In this session, understand the aging process and discover natural strategies to slow and reverse tissue aging.
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Need Surgery? Choose Well: What You Need To Know When You Need An Operation
Sooner or later most of us will need an operation. When you have time to choose, Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) should be your first choice. There are significant advantages to MIS when compared to open operations, but not everyone is a candidate for this approach. This session will discuss the rationale for minimally invasive care; how to choose a surgeon; the risk/benefit equation in surgical options; and the economic concerns of such choices. Specific types of surgical cases will be presented showing video of actual operations, and participants will have a chance to use laparoscopic equipment themselves in order to get a feel for the technique.
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Outdoor Fitness Boot Camp: The Best Way To Get In Shape Fast
(J. Larson; Each participant should bring water and a mat)
In this vigorous outdoor class, you will enjoy exercise techniques that you won’t find inside the traditional gym. This session will be interval training at its best utilizing bodyweight, bands, medicine balls, sandbags and more. The average boot camp workout burns an amazing 500 calories and this type of interval training is proven to burn 9 times more fat than traditional ‘cardio’ or ‘aerobic’ exercise. And it is all done in the beautiful outdoors.ACTIVITY
Pilates For A Balanced Body And Strong Back
(J. Klutinoty; Mat Class; All Levels; Each participant should bring a mat)
This Pilates mat class provides a total body workout that flows and will leave you feeling refreshed. You’ll connect to your inner-self and simultaneously improve your strength, flexibility, and endurance while balancing your body from head to toe.
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Raw Food For Real People
Wondering where to begin, what raw foods to include in your daily routine or what foods to save for later in your transition to a more healthy lifestyle? Join Raw Food Chef, Brenda Hinton for an upbeat, informative, casual discussion of Raw Food for Real People. She’ll share some tips and shortcuts to help you begin your raw food journey and stay on track as you incorporate more raw and living foods into your everyday.TALK
Safeguarding Our Waer: Making Every Drop Count
Drought, shortages, and pollution dominate recent news coverage about water, while the truth is, we are sitting on a vast reservoir of untapped savings. The water that we waste every day could refill reservoirs, and nourish plants and animals in our rivers, lakes, and estuaries. All of us can be better stewards of our most vital natural resource. Come learn about the latest water-saving technologies and devices, sleuth out hidden sources of water waste in your home, discover efficient landscapes, and find out which small changes can reap big savings.
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Self-Myofascial Release: Self Massage For Better Flexibility
(J. Larson; Each participant should bring water, mat, & a foam roller if they have their own)
This session will demonstrate the variety of uses for the foam roller. The focus will be self-massage on the upper and lower back, hips, gluteals, front and back of the upper and lower leg. You will leave this class feeling like a new person. The techniques taught in this session will allow you to have a massage whenever and wherever just by using your foam roller.
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Skin Deep: How To Reduce Your Exposure To Unhealthy Cosmetics
Personal care and cosmetic products often contain hazardous chemicals because the government does not require health studies for personal care products. This means that your toothpaste, shampoo or moisturizer may contain chemicals suspected as carcinogenic, mutagenic, and hormone disrupting by the Center for Disease Control. Sorting through the maze of ingredients can be confusing. In this session, participants will learn how to discern good ingredients from the bad effectively; separate fact from fiction; and learn to read labels more carefully and become aware of what you‘re actually purchasing for your face and body.TALK
Stability And Wellness Through Zero Balancing
On the cutting edge of therapeutic bodywork, Zero Balancing (ZB) is a hands-on body/mind therapy that bridges Western views of medicine and science and Eastern views of energy and healing. A Zero Balancing session clarifies and coordinates energy fields in the body and balances body energy with body structure. A clear state of balance helps relieve stress, pain and suffering, provides a foundation for health and happiness, and brings a person closer to his or her true nature. In this relaxing and stimulating workshop, you will learn what Zero Balancing is, and how it can help you to feel grounded, stable, and relaxed.TALK
Taking Effective Action For The Earth
How can we help our culture better protect and nurture the earth’s vital living systems? The answer includes both making wise personal choices and shifting our community structures to align with our shared well-being. This session will inspire and empower you to participate in these changes in ways that are fun, rewarding, and tangibly make a difference on the issues you care most about. Together, we can create a healthier future.TALK
The Aging Male And Better Sexual Health
Do you feel as sexually alive at age 50 as you did at age 20? Half of all men over the age of 50 have problems with their sexual health and half have problems urinating because of their prostate. In this session, men (and women) will learn what every man needs to know for better prostate and sexual health. Find out the latest treatment alternatives for both of these concerning topics.TALK
The Ayurvedic Science Of Good Health
This session presents a general overview of the meaning of health according to the ancient science of Ayurveda. Spiritual wellness is the ultimate goal of Ayurvedic Medicine. For that purpose it includes all aspects of life, the most subtle and most important aspect being consciousness and awareness, as well as the emotional, mental, physical and environmental health. In this session, participants will learn the aspects that cause wear and tear on our physiology and ultimately destroy health and cause disease; the different ways of improving our body’s innate healing ability; and the importance of consciousness as the basis of developing good health.TALK
The Culture Of Tea: From Medicinal Herb To Healthy Beverage
(D. Campbell)
What is tea? To understand what tea is today, we need to understand where it came from. In this session, attendees will receive a brief overview of the history of tea, including how tea started as a medicinal herb, then becoming a beverage, and how the emphasis on the health benefits of tea has brought it back full circle. Learn how to buy tea; what to look for in leaf shape, color, and smell. Nobody should have to drink stale tea! Participants will learn about tea culture - why there are tea ceremonies and how tea is connected with various Eastern philosophies.
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The Great Recession: How The Economy Will Force Us To Create A New Sustainable World
Current economic times are forcing re-evaluation of life styles and goals, changes in the places we live, work and learn, and a repositioning of how we view our fellow man. Bob Massaro will share his perspective as a 28-year member of the sustainable building community, and those of other leaders in sustainability that he interviewed on this topic. These changes will affect how we build, how we operate our businesses, the jobs we pursue, the way our kids are educated, how we move about, how we grow and process our food, and ultimately how our world will be sustained.
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The Power Of The Kettlebell: A Total Body Workout
(J. Larson; Each participant should bring water and a mat)
Kettlebell training has grown in popularity in the USA in recent years. Although it is an ancient training tool of strong men and originated in Russia, it has been re-introduced to our culture by Pavel Tsatsouline. The kettlebell is an all in one tool that can be used anywhere, anytime for the most effective workout ever. Kettlebell training develops all-purpose strength, amps resilience, blends strength and flexibility, and melts the fat off.
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The Purification Process: Nutrition & Detoxification For Health & Vitality
In this session, learn practical ways to help make your life and body healthier and more vital. Nutrition is the basis for good, lifelong health and detoxification is the “missing link in the Western Diet.” Learn simple ways from The Detox Doc™ to create better habits that will lead to better health. That includes looking and feeling more youthful, losing weight, having better digestion, and reducing the chronic problems that plague so many people as they age. Learn what nutritional and detoxification programs will work best for you in your life.
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The Role Of Traditional Chinese Medicine In Healthcare
In Chinese medicine, health is believed to result from the free flow of energy, called chi, in the body. Illness is attributed to blockages in this energy flow, which can be relieved by the placement of thin needles at various points in the body. In this session, participants will learn the components of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its benefits, as well as the role of acupuncture and herbs in integrative medicine.
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The Science Of Positive Emotion And Stress For The 21st Century
(J. Moskowitz, Ph.D., M.Ph. and E. Epel, Ph.D.)
Stress is ubiquitous. Not surprisingly, research and practice have focused almost exclusively on the negative emotional and physical sequelae of stress. However, recent work points to the unique importance of positive emotions in coping with stress and reducing the toll stress has on our psychological and physical well being. Drs. Epel and Moskowitz will present research on the beneficial physical and psychological effects of positive emotion in the context of stress and suggest empirically supported ways to increase positive emotion, and, as a result, cope better with the major and minor stressors of life.TALK
The Seven Dimensions Of Sexuality: What’s In It For You
(L. Holstein, M.D. and D. Taylor, M.D.)
Sex is not just “doing it!” When you combine the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of intimacy, you create a dynamic and satisfying connection. Learn the seven dimensions of lovemaking so that you can create sexual synergy with your lover rather than compromise.
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Too Much to Remember: How Our Modern World Affects The Midlife Brain
The uncontrollable onslaught of information (and the resultant multitasking) of this modern world affects the midlife brain – and not in a good way. Changes in the way your brain functions as you age make it more difficult to process multiple streams of information. You can’t ignore this and hope it will go away. In this session, you’ll find ways to take charge of the way you live your life. Learn how to get plenty of sleep, how to create strategies to keep information at your fingertips, and how to incorporate some heart-pumping exercise every day. Your brain will thank you.
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Transforming Your Space: Household Organizing For A More Meditative Environment
We are all familiar with the phrase “less is more” and almost all of us know we have too much stuff. This session will help you think about your material possessions (including paper) in a variety of creative ways so that you can go home and purge, sort and contain your way to a more serene and healthy environment. An organized home and office are a wonderful foundation to overall wellness. This session is designed to get you excited about starting an organizing project and also give you the keys to maintain your fresh and peaceful space.
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Vitamins And Supplements: Vital or Superfluous?
In our “find it, fix it” medical system, we have all become accustomed to being given a pill to solve what ails us. It is little wonder then that the dietary supplement industry continues to thrive despite economic hardship. We continue to want to believe that swallowing a supplement will counteract the deficiencies of our diet, help keep us fit and trim, ward off cancer and possibly extend our lives. Does the scientific evidence support these hopes? Can science really design studies to answer these critical questions? This session will explore these issues.ACTIVITY
Yoga And Reiki: The Convergence Of Two Healing Practices
Ever wonder why YOGA makes you feel so good? Because it works beyond the physical body, opening channels into the “subtle body.” REIKI energetic healing occurs within the subtle body, radiating out into the physical body. In effect, Yoga heals from the outside in and Reiki heals from the inside out! Just as proper alignment is required for optimal yoga practice, “attunement” to Reiki energy by a master is required for optimal flow of Reiki energy. In this session, learn how to align the body in Yoga postures, which will enhance the flow of healing Reiki energy throughout the subtle body.
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Your Fit Gourmet™: Cooking Secrets For Whole Life Living
Approach each day with a "mindful but not militant" attitude toward what you eat. In this cooking demonstration, participants will learn tips and tweaks on what they can do on a daily basis to improve their physical and mental well-being while enjoying the simple pleasures of whole foods. And just because it’s healthy, doesn’t mean it has to taste like tree bark. Flavor is almighty, ease of preparation is essential, and the appreciation of feeding your body well is fundamental to Your Fit Gourmet™ approach.
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Zen And The Art Of Better Sleep
Everyone needs 7-9 hours of deep sleep each night. Get less and not only is your health seriously compromised, your personal power is greatly diminished, like a flashlight with worn batteries - dim, not brilliant. Natural sleep pioneer Robert Michael deStefano believes that ‘stress-induced insomnia is an illusion’ and that deep sleep will easily come once we learn how to release the "seven sleep negative entrapments”. Robert’s nationally acclaimed method teaches us how to effectively combine touch, sound and aromatherapy to unlock each of these zones to retrain our body, mind, and spirit for better sleep - for life.
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