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Rainbow of Desire Workshop

 

Beginning this Wednesday, Feb. 3 and continuing each Wednesday thereafter, trained workshop facilitator Naomi Tessler (MA Education Theatre) and Branch Out Theatre Workshops will host the Rainbow of Desire Workshop Series.

 

This empowering and interactive workshop series is an introduction to Augusto Boal’s Rainbow of Desire Theatre Techniques. Enjoy this creative workshop in self-discovery and personal growth as you journey collectively towards your deeper truths. No theatre experience necessary. Pre-registered cost: $35 for adults, $25 for students. Drop-in: $40 for adults, $35 for students. Discounts for multi-workshop purchases.

 

Workshop held from 6:30 to 9pm at Theatre Direct Christie St. Studio, Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie St.). To register, email naomi.tessler@gmail.com or call Naomi at (416) 910-4972.

 

Public Forum on Mining

 

On Tuesday, Feb. 16, the Oakville Community Centre for Peace Ecology & Human Rights (OCCPEHR) will host a public forum on mining and Bill C-300, “An Act Respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas Corporations in Developing Countries.”

 

The speaker will be Hon. John McKay M.P. Sponsors include Sierra Club Peel and  Mining Watch Canada, among other notable organizations.

 

The talk will begin at 7:30pm at the Oakville Town Hall (1225 Trafalgar Rd.). Admission is free. For more info, email oakmisskairos@yahoo.ca, call Mervyn Russell (905) 845-3250 or Dorothy Wilson (905) 820-8981.

 

Your Food, Your Choice

 

Canadian Organic Growers is excited to host a one-day conference entitled Your Food, Your Choice: Grounds for Change, on Saturday, Feb. 20 at U of T Conference Centre (89 Chestnut St., Toronto). This conference, presented in association with The Big Carrot, is about your health and your food choices. It celebrates a forward thinking company taking GMOs off its shelves and a man who has fought against the odds. 

 

Be inspired by how the organic sector perseveres in producing the healthiest, safest food possible. Keynote speaker is Baerbel Hoehm, the first Green Party agricultural minister in Germany. Also featured are Percy Schmeiser, the Saskatchewan farmer who challenged Monsanto, and Megan Westgate, executive director of the Non-GMO Project. 

 

Choose from topics such as The Myth of Agri-Business, Slow Money, Gold in the Garbage and more.

 

Registration fees: $85, and $55 for COG members, includes organic lunch. Rates are available for students, retirees and the unwaged. More info and registration can be found at www.cogtoronto.org or (416) 466-4420.

 

Active Cancer Support’s Monthly Meeting

 

On Friday, Feb. 19 at 1pm, join a discussion on natural / alternative therapies for cancer,  sponsored by the Active Cancer Support Group. The meeting is held in the Whole Foods Market community room, located at 87 Avenue Rd. All cancer patients and their caregivers are welcome. 

 

For more info visit www.torontocancersurvivors.info or call (416) 249-4580.

 

Celebrating a New Studio

 

Rosemont Healing Arts is celebrating a new studio and expansion with a day of health and vitality on Saturday, February 20.

 

We welcome you to join us for a class in hara breathing, somatic pilates, yoga or Qi Gong for arthritis. You can also book a Zen Shiatsu, reflexology/reiki, craniosacral treatment, or massage by an RMT. Seminar and 20 minute introductory private sessions by Zoe Pepler Master NLP practitioner and hypnotist in positive body image, healthy weight management and self-esteem for women.

 

Learn how your thoughts affect your actions. Experience one-hour classes / treatments. Open house proceeds go to charity. Rosemont Healing Arts is located at 446 Spadina Rd., Suite 209, three blocks north of St. Clair. For more info call (416) 489-9399 or visit www.rosemonthealingarts.com

 

Day of Renewal

 

On Saturday, Feb. 27, The Inner Eye hosts a Day of Renewal, setting aside time to deepen spiritual insights and to let love inform your decisions and life purpose. Included will be meditation, gentle movement, centering, breathing and refocusing to strengthen your daily expression.

 

Located in central Toronto, near the subway, with guest parking. For more info, call Virginia Hart Nelson, C.CHt., at (416) 960-1690; email to virginia@theinnereye.ca; visit www.theinnereye.ca.

 

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days – DVD

 

There’s a remarkable DVD that is now available to the public. This fascinating, independent film follows the remarkable journeys of six diabetics (Type 1 and 2) for 30 days as they take the “Raw Challenge” to reverse their disease naturally without prescription drugs by eating only organic, vegan, uncooked, ‘raw foods’ despite the American Medical Association’s claim that “Diabetes is a chronic disease that has no cure.”

 

Their physiological and emotional transformations are featured in Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days released in March 2009.

 

Set at The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona founded by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., the film follows the participants as they are challenged to give up their traditional diets consisting of meat, dairy, sugar, processed foods, and cooked foods, as well alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine, as they continue to reduce their dosages of insulin and prescription medications. The results are astounding.

 

“One of the most potent, pandemic diseases is Type 2 diabetes affecting 246 million people worldwide. We need to wake up to the possibility that simply changing our diet can significantly reverse and even cure this disease. The results of the participants in this documentary offer evidence of that,” states Dr. Cousens.  The author of There is a Cure for Diabetes and founder of The Tree of Life, Gabriel Cousens, MD is a well-known holistic medical doctor for 35 years and published authority on alternative healing and raw living food nutritional therapies. He has helped thousands heal myriad diseases through the power of raw foods.

 

The film also features leading wellness experts, physicians, authors and advocates including Anthony Robbins, Woody Harrelson, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Morgan Spurlock, David Wolfe, Joel Furhman, M.D. and Fred Bisci, Ph.D. who all discuss the curative power and benefits of raw foods.

 

The Simply Raw film has inspired a movement www.rdnmovement.com to bring together people from around the world to reverse diabetes naturally through the spreading of educational resources on nutrition such as the Simply Raw film and “The Ultimate Encyclopedia of the Raw Food Lifestyle”.

 

The Simply Raw DVD is available for purchase at www.simplyrawmovie.com or at amazon.com. Suggested retail price is: $29.95.

 

Heart of the Universe Workshop

 

On Saturday, March 6, Sandra Moon Dancer, B.Sc., M.H.Sc., is facilitating a full-day experiential workshop and alignment with the Heart of the Universe.

 

Heart Wisdom Activation builds on the energy of February 11th’s Heart Chakra Activation. Participants will align their heart chakras, be re-energized and be supported in moving through these times of great shifts in consciousness. Meditation through the 9 Dimensions will lead all participants into a new connection with their heart and soul’s journey.

 

This workshop will be held at the Old Mill Inn and Spa and runs from 10am to 4pm.  Visit www.oldmilltoronto.com. Cost: $130 plus gst (total $136.50). To register, email info@circlewisdom.ca or call (416) 538-7709.

 

33RD Annual Total Health Show

 

At this year’s 33rd annual Total Health Show, which runs  from March 12 to 14, hear 60 international speakers, and visit more than 200 exhibits and two exhibit stages.

 

The focus for 2010 is on “our health and our planet.” Vibrant health is intimately dependant upon pure air and water, and wholesome agriculture. We as consumers can effect change. Educate yourselves about the long-term effects of high-tech agriculture, high-yield “factory” animal farming, industrial logging practices, nanotechnology, sludge farming and corporate globalization. Find out why slower alternatives are more effective and economical in the long-term, and learn how to make a better world now for your children.

 

Special panel presentations include: Healing Ourselves and Our Planet with Wholesome Food and Traditional Medicine, on Saturday from 12 to 2pm in Room 206. Panelists are Shiv Chopra, PhD, Patrick Holford, and Ralph Moss, PhD.

 

Preserving Our Freedom to Choose Healthy Foods and Natural Medicines? What Can We Do? on Sunday from 12 to 2pm. Panelists are Shawn Buckley, LLB, Shiv Chopra, PhD, Ralph Moss, PhD. Moderator: Helke Ferrie.

 

Also on Sunday is Does the Government Adequately Protect Public Health? When is Public Health Policy Wrong for the Public? Panelists are Magda Havas, PhD and Carmen Krogh.

 

The show is located at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Cost: $10 for a weekend exhibit pass, which includes exhibits and two stages. Lecture passes include exhibits, at a cost of $15 on Friday; $25 on both Saturday and Sunday; or $50 for entire weekend. To see program, go to www.totalhealthshow.com.

 

Maya Skull Conference and Journey

 

In 2010 during the Spring Equinox, an important gathering of Crystal Skulls is happening in the land of the Maya. Join the Maya Crystal Skull Conference and Journey in Yucatan, Mexico from March 18 through April 2.

 

People from all over the world are bringing their crystals and crystal skulls for the special activation ceremonies in the ancient Maya sites. Included in the Journey is an opportunity to witness the descent of the Serpent of Light at Chichen Itzá during the Spring Equinox.

 

Visit www.casakin.org. Contact Trudy Woodcock at trudy@iluminado-tours.com or info@casakin.org.

 

Intention Heals Workshop

 

Adam Dreamhealer presents his one-day Intention Heals Workshop at the Marriott Toronto Airport on April 11. Experience personal transformation and self-empowerment with the healing energy of two unique group healings as Adam brings coherence to the energy of all participants. Adam combines his First Nations healing background with channelled insights and academic background in molecular biology.

 

Learn techniques to focus your intentions toward healing and personal growth through manifesting your desired reality, and how many issues in your daily life can be improved through visualization.

 

During the workshop, Adam holds two group treatments. All participants experience energy healing and are given instructions on visualizations to direct this energy flow, maximizing the effectiveness. This provides an energetic jump-start to the healing process that must be continued through customized visualizations. These participatory conferences are focused on teaching people how to heal themselves.

 

Register for the workshop at www.dreamhealer.com. Cost: $125 Early Bird registration before March 11. After that $149. (See page 5 in the February print issue for more details.)

 

Vegan Restaurant Opens New Location

 

Kale – which offers vegan, organic, and macrobiotic hot dishes plus a salad bar – has opened a second location at Yonge St. and Eglinton Ave. (address is 2366 Yonge St.).

 

The flagship location at 322 Bloor Street W. (inside Noah’s Natural Foods) is known for its sandwiches and tofu burgers, freshly squeezed juices and smoothies, vegan and gluten-free desserts, and certified fair trade coffee and teas. Items are sold by weight.

 

For more information on Kale, please visit www.kaleeatery.com or call the flagship location at (416) 963-8624 or the new Yonge St. location at (416) 792-5253.

 

Vitamin C As An Antiviral: It’s All About Dose

 

Each person’s need for vitamin C differs because of differences in genetics and individual biochemistry. Further, our bodies undergo different stresses, and we certainly eat different foods. Therefore, the daily need for ascorbate to maintain health for an adult varies between 2,000 - 20,000 mg/day. Linus Pauling personally took 18,000 mg of vitamin C daily. Although he was often ridiculed for this, it is interesting to note that Dr. Pauling had two more Nobel prizes than any of his critics. He died at age 93. Abram Hoffer, MD, a colleague of Pauling’s, took megadoses of vitamin C and successfully gave it to thousands of patients over 55 years of medical practice. Dr. Hoffer died at age 91.

 

Antiviral Function  – When we are challenged with a viral infection, our need for vitamin C can rise dramatically, depending on the body’s immune function, level of injury, infection, or environmental toxicity such as cigarette smoke. Ascorbate at sufficiently high doses can prevent viral disease and greatly speed recovery from an acute viral infection. Surprising to some, this was originally observed by physicians in the 1940s and has been verified and re-verified over the last 60 years by doctors who achieved quick and complete recovery in their patients with ascorbate mega-doses. The effective therapeutic dose is based on clinical observation and bowel tolerance. Clinical observation is essentially “taking enough C to be symptom free, whatever that amount may be.” Bowel tolerance means exactly what you think it means: the amount that can be absorbed from the gut without causing loose stools. Very high doses, 30,000 - 200,000 mg, divided up throughout the day, are remarkably non-toxic and have been documented by physicians as curing viral diseases as various as the common cold, flu, hepatitis, viral pneumonia, and even polio. On first reading this may sound incredible. We invite interested persons to read further, starting with the references listed below, and especially Dr. Frederick R. Klenner's Clinical Guide to the Use of Vitamin C. This short book is posted in its entirety at www.seanet.com/~alexs/ascorbate/198x/smith-lh-clinical_guide_1988.htm.

 

Vitamin C at high doses is effective in preventing viral infection and enhancing recovery. Several mechanisms are known, including specific viral anti-replication processes and enhancement of many components of the body's cellular immune system. When taken at an appropriate dose in a timely manner, ascorbate is our best tool for curing acute viral illness.

 

Nutritional Medicine is Orthomolecular Medicine. Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy to fight illness. More info: www.orthomolecular.org.

 

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