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FOR THOSE in the holis-tic community, the passing of Ron King is felt with shock and great sadness. Ron King practiced den-tistry for 34 years and was

well-known in the wellness community for his 15 years of holistic dentistry. Tara Kaur, DDS, an associate in his St. Louis Park dental office said, “Ron King was a pioneer in holistic dentistry. He was an integral part of laying the foundation for a new paradigm in health and wellness and I am grateful for all his of contributions; he will be missed.” King was my dentist from 1993 to 1999 when I lived in the Twin Cities. He was my daughter’s dentist until his passing so we both felt that up close and personal connection. When I moved to northwest Wisconsin and could not find a holistic dentist, I’d call him from time to time about an issue or two and he was always helpful and responsive. I found Ron to be cutting edge with holistic practices in den-tistry and meticulous in the way he man-aged his practice. King supported my original publi-cation, The Edge, co-published with Gary Beckman, through a series of articles and advertising and when Dee and I founded Twin Cities Wellness in 1995, eventually

changing name to Essential Wellness, he continued advertising until his death. Dee LaFroth, publisher and sales manager of Essential Wellness said, “Ron King was a valued client—one of the lon-gest running advertisers with Wellness since its inception. We feel deep gratitude for his long-term and loyal support through con-tinuing advertising and articles.” Ron wrote a dentistry column in the mid-‘90s for The Edge and several articles throughout Twin Cities Wellness/Essential Wellness’ 16-year history, as well as for many other publications about holistic dentistry and dentistry in general. He served on the Min-nesota Board of Dentistry from 1999 to 2007.

In his own words written in 2009 on his website (www.kingtooth.com), “Since I, Ron King, unexpectedly joined the ‘Cancer Club’ in April 2009, my interest in cancer prevention and treatment is now height-ened and personal. While treating patients on April 17, 2009, I got light-headed and sweaty, so I excused myself from my patient. I fainted and did not feel better lying down. I canceled patients and saw my physician who referred me immediately to the E.R. at Fairview Southdale Hospital. I was admitted for further testing. A bleeding and ulcerated tumor was found in my upper stomach and a biopsy indicated it was malignant!” Sur-gery removed the tumor a few days later and from that point on, Ron researched his form of cancer for both conventional and alterna-tive approaches, staying with conventional treatment until his passing on Oct. 21. King, age 62, is survived by wife Lynn; daughters, Rachel and Lisa; sisters, Beverly Puerckhauer and Margaret Bain; and brother, Roger (Candy) King.

King, Said & Kaur, practicing holistic and conventional dentistry, is located at 6100 Excelsior Blvd, Suite East, St. Louis Park, MN. 952.929.4545. or contact@king-tooth.com. Lynn LaFroth is managing edi-tor/co-publisher of Essential Wellness and can be reached at info@esswellness.com

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connecting to the divine within4 Tibetans embody living divinity by SUZANNE FRY

6 Let go; this is the key to the kingdom within by GENE MONTANEZ

7 What Christian mystics know that you don’t by FATHER PETER BOWES

8-9 GIFTS OF WELLNESS

10 Warrior(ess) archetype heals the inner judge by REV. PAULINE KAPLAN

11 Dear Grace by JANET HOVDE

12 When giving is receiving by JOYCE AND BARRY VISSELL

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WAS blessed to spend most of May on a spiritual pil-grimage in Tibet. The air is thin; colors are beyond brilliant and every sense is undeniably heightened. But

nothing is more striking than the profound spiritual centeredness of everyday Tibet-ans. Our little group traveled in a van with

Tibetan guides from one end of the country to another, stopping in small towns along the way to monasteries and sacred sites. These ancient holy places, smoky with but-ter lamps and vibrating with drums, bells, and the chanting of a dwindling number

of monks were all I’d imagined, but the Tibetans I walked alongside were the most moving of all. They embody devotion— equally devout in their practice whether in a temple or a crowded market.

PRayER PaRT OF DaIly lIFE The men, offering butchered yak on the street, and the women with vegetables

laid out, spun prayer wheels and fingered malas in every free moment. Friends walk-ing down the street in conversation kept their beads in motion. Pilgrims prostrating in prayer, foreheads briefly touching the ground, were gracefully stepped around

on the busiest thoroughfares. As our guide led us through the Potala Palace, his lips moved in constant, silent prayer. Tibetans always met and held my eyes and smiled from deeply serene places, living inside a reverence I’d grown up experiencing only in church. I struggled to understand the powerful sense of coming “home” that I felt until it dawned on me that they had simply internalized Buddha’s words: “Look within, thou art the Buddha.” They were praying inward. Re-entry wasn’t pretty. Too few hours after landing back in St. Paul I was stand-ing in a grocery check-out line speechless with the contrast of the humanity around me. The desperation felt anything but quiet. I wanted to shout, “We’re a country without a center!”

REclaIM yOuR SacRED cEnTER We are eternal, multidimensional beings, souls, who have simply forgotten our-selves. Bless the Tibetans for holding fast to the thread of their divinity for all of us. With models like them, I absolutely believe we can reclaim our sacred centers, our divine cores. Buddhist practices can help us quiet our busy minds—the first obstacle to clear inward sight—but meditation isn’t for everyone and this is only one step on the journey. Each of us was born with a life task of reconnecting to the core of our being. At the same time, we’re souls evolv-ing within the process of our own, some-times loud, life script. Those scripts deserve picking apart and mining for the gifts they deliver, but why stop there? Why spend a lifetime healing the inner child and not glimpse the Divine Child just one breath, one leap of faith, beneath it?

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S I watched the first snowflakes of the season falling on my front lawn, I remembered raking leaves not that long ago on a warm autumn after-

noon. I remembered the leaves of all colors, reminding me that the change of seasons happens quickly here in Minnesota. As I raked, I thought of my life and how spirituality has played a key role in it. This season I have experienced many moments of spiritual healing when I least expected it. I also recall many times when things did not just drop into place when I wanted them too. Have you ever asked yourself, why do some things happen and others do not?

STEP aSIDE What I have learned from Rev. Pat Wil-liamson at Unity Christ Church of Golden Valley was that when my soul was ready and I let go and stepped aside, things did happen. As I look back, what kept me from stepping aside was my belief that not having enough was a valid excuse. I learned that by increasing my spiritual strength, I truly did have enough, and stepping aside was easy.

aSk FOR OTHERS I also learned that asking for things, I thought I wanted, was also not a valid excuse for not stepping aside. I found that when I asked for blessings to be given to others instead of myself, then my spiritual-ity really ramped up. As I blessed others my spirituality was blessed. My soul became alive and it started to show through and others began to see it in me. By stepping aside, it was as if I had just found a small key to a big lock. Some may say that there is no higher power—that we must all fend for our-selves, get our fair share and die with the most toys. Others may say that they know God but really don’t know why God keeps on putting up with us. Like the leaves on a tree each one of us is special and unique in God’s eyes. Spirituality is our connection to God, our higher power; by expressing spirit one is always connected to spirit. And yes, God does care. Spirituality, to some, is like grasping at the fog. To others it is a way of life. So what is this mystery that compels many to accept a spiritual way of life and many to

doubt? The answer is simple, if you have a few basic beliefs. There is a higher power, and that power is within us all; humanity was made to serve each other for the good of all. In many ways our spirituality is like a tree rooted to the earth—drinking in all the nutrients from the soil, taking what is good and growing tall in the woods. Like a tree we gather in the sun, breathe in the air, and use what has been given to us for good. The most noticeable outcome is our leaves, which sprout each year, brilliant in color and are the fruits of our spirituality. We are the tree; our roots are our connection to the universe and our spiri-tual power. Spiritual nourishment feeds our soul. Our leaves are the fruits of our life, the fruits of our spirituality, to be renewed again and again. And all we have to do is step aside and let our natural good shine through. Gene Montanez and wife Karen are both Reiki healers and members of the Healing Ministry at Unity Christ Church, Golden Valley, MN. 763-242-2508 genemontanez@minnagent.com; www.unitychristchurch.org

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We’re being called forward as the mystics we essentially are, to be in direct communication with the divine within. This doesn’t mean taking off to ashrams or even Tibet, but it does take courage. It takes the courage to try praying inward, “as if” divinity might actually be hid-

ing out there. Invite your soul to come forward into your life, to speak to you. What simple rituals resonate with you and might bring you home, take you deeper into dialogue with your soul? Try listening to mantras, playing ones that you like in the background of your everyday life and see what shifts for you. Have the courage to ask outright for what a Course in Miracles defines as a miracle:

…a change in your perception. Ask to meet and know the unique and brilliant piece of God that lives inside you. Take courage; pray inward. Suzanne Fry is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and a practitioner of Spiritual Response Therapy who offers individual and small group healing as well as retreats. Reach her at sfry@skypoint.com or 651-493-4255.

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HERE IS nothing mysteri-ous about the word “mysti-cal.” Mystical means simply having an experience beyond the five senses. When you experience love, it is an

example of a mystical experience. When you feel a presence within you when you pray or meditate, that is a mystical experi-ence. The feeling you get when you open to a consciousness that is much deeper or higher than you are used to is a mystical experience.

FEElIng a PRESEncE A mystical experience changes you at the very core of your being. What you used to know and think has been replaced with something higher and more profound than you could think up with your mind. When an emotional problem is healed in you or lifted from you, it is difficult to conceive of how that happens. Yet, many people have had the experience of not being troubled about a particular fear or condition any longer. The problem or illness just went away. Others have felt a Cosmic presence of the Divine and have been moved to tears or released from a burden that is often unexplainable to the conscious mind. Experiences like this are what mys-tics experience every day. To the average observer, these experiences are extraordi-nary and rare. But more and more people are reporting experiences similar to what the mystics of past times have written about. The Christian mystics are dedicated to precisely these kinds of experiences that cannot be scientifically proven but

are mystically known and understood. Their experi-ences of God within and other manifestations of the Divine Being, like light in and around the body, healings of various physical ailments and pro-found peace filling the heart and mind, are common and normal. The experience of the Christ Consciousness has other names in different reli-gious traditions. But they have the same transformative effect on the recipient in all cultures—joy, liberation from the constraints of the physical world, and profound love and peace filling the person and emanating out to others. Real spiritual experience brings true wisdom.

EMbRacED by THE gOD wITHIn A Christian mystic is filled with the presence of Christ or, more universally, the love of God fills their soul and shines through their being. Most saints and sages regardless of their backgrounds are mys-tics. They have peered into the inner world in meditation, devotion, and prayer and have had the experience of being embraced by the Being of God that resides within each person. Whether a person believes in such things or not, the mystics see God within and know that everyone has this divine center within them. It is not an opinion or a belief, as mystics are not that interested in such things. Real experience brings real transformation and complete change to a human being. This is why those who really know carry such a presence of peace that flows through them. The mystics and

saints are the ones who have moved the consciousness

of the world and opened the hearts of those seeking to the truth that God is within.

Father Peter Bowes has devoted his life in service to

God; for over 20 years, he has served as a Priest and Master

Teacher. Currently, he serves as Co-Director of the Order of Christ/Sophia, teaching and min-istering to his spiritual students, and guiding 15 Centers of Light and their ministers around the country. He travels between these centers year-round, teaching and lecturing, as well as performing his music as a singer-songwriter of Mystical Christian folk rock. Many of the elements of the Mystical Christian teachings can be heard and experienced in Father Peter’s music, encouraging the listener to seek and discover the Truth within. Listen to his music on Sophia Radio. When not traveling, Father Peter lives at the Center of Light in Chicago.

Contact the Minneapolis Center of Light at 612.205.5545. The contact person is Rev. Lucille Michaels, revlucille@centersoflight.org.

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HETHER IT is ugly thoughts about the self or discern-ing actions in a stressful state, the inner judge is alive

and active in our mind. In its pristine state, the inner judge manifests discernment, decision making, and heart instinct in order to make sense of the me, the you, and the us in its ever-evolving environment. In its light side, the judge stands in the posi-tion of an open, wise, accepting centurion to the psyche’s instinct, speedily and altru-istically choosing for soul/spirit evolution in every moment. As we all evolve deeper into awakened states, our critical judgments need to be unwound, clarified, and consciously re-con-nected to the essential essence of acceptance. When we are in the essential essence of acceptance, the centurion is no longer a reac-tive defense mechanism. It no longer builds and maintains dams of protection—dams based on the soul/spirit being unacceptable, unlovable, and rejectable. Instead, the cen-turion expands into the polarity experience and engages in the transformational field of paradox with the goal of transcendence. Working with paradox is an essential transformational tool to embody wisdom

and understanding. It is a bridge between the duality level of consciousness (right/wrong, good/bad) and the higher mind (wisdom, love, peace, etc). This higher mind is capable of merging with divine Oneness. Paradox holds the tension of seemingly opposite extremes with open awareness. On one pole sits the constrict-ing fear of the unknown while the other pole illuminates courage, willingness, and a deep inner yearning towards peace, har-mony, happiness, and freedom. To heal the inner critic, the mind must hold the tension of a psychic death to the old protective and separating dams of how we imagine reality should be with how reality actually is. This psychic death has a bunch of thoughts, sensations, and emotions attached to it. For example, the good ol’ wheel of grief and letting go. This “conscious psychic death” is the core work of transformation, shamanism, and spiri-tual healing. Walking through this psychic valley of death is an initiation onto the Shamanic Medicine Wheel and into the Warrior(ess) archetype. The Warrior(ess) connects her coura-geous heart instincts beyond the egoic mes-sage to fear the unknown, sticking with the survival and scarcity principle inherent in her conditioning. She is willing to accept

her power of presence (I am whole), her position (this is how it is right now) and to engage in authentic communication with her inner judge and the collective critic. She consciously allows the symbolic death as she walks across the bridge of paradox and into the unknown land of acceptance—her Warrior(ess) making space for her essential authentic Self to be birthed through accept-ing her original medicine of presence—“personal power duplicated nowhere else on the planet.” (Angeles Arrien, Ph.D.) The centurion of her psyche has now been transformed from the fearful, fragile, indecisive inner critic to an open, authentic Warrior(ess) of courage and authenticity. Using the inner critic as her ally, paradox as her bridge, she arrives in a new world. Acceptance and trust in the pure privilege of being alive and awake embodied in her original medicine! Aho! Rev. Pauline Kaplan, M.S., L.P. is a trans-formational healer, metaphysical teacher, and shamanic journeywoman who has been serving the wellness community through her private counseling practice, healing groups, workshops, rituals and Immersion Train-ings. Pauline can be contacted through her website www.paulinekaplan.com or Ka-plan Health and Wellness, 763-746-9000.

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Dear Grace,I seem to be at a crossroads in my life. I have been working in a position for seven years that pays my rent and allows me to have healthcare. In addi-tion, I have been developing my own massage business. Recently, I have been receiving a consistent pull to quit my full-time job and develop my business into my full-time position. However, the fear of being on my own without my salary from my full-time job holds me back from making the final leap. Further, I feel that my practice needs to evolve and include art therapy. I would like to create a practice that offers massage and a place for people to do their artwork to improve their healing. What are some things I can do to release my fear? Are there other concerns that I am not identifying that are keep-ing me from spreading my wings in this way?—catherine

Catherine, When I look at your energy system related to the advice you are seeking, your current ability to ground your energy aver-ages at 90 percent of what is needed for you to be successful in your current situation. If you choose full self-employment, your

ability to ground your energy needs to be doubled in order for you to be success-ful. So, if you want improved grounding, choose to receive the balancing I am now facilitating: clearing cords at your midsec-tion (where you engage in indirect, drain-ing, energy interactions with others), bal-ancing your throat chakra, bringing your hara line (a line of energy related to life purpose) into alignment with optimum grounding for both of your work scenarios. I invite you to notice the sweetness at the center of the earth, and to choose to anchor your hara line in that sweetness. Invite two of your current colleagues to experience the use of art as a part of their healing. This will help you to be clearer about the incorporation of art into your practice. As you choose to repeatedly ground your hara line into the sweetness of the center of the earth, there is nothing you need to do to release fear.—Grace

Dear Grace,I am fearful about making a change in my career path. How can I work past the fear in order to move forward?—cheryl

Cheryl, You are burdened by your sensitivity to the voicelessness of others. By asking

that all with this issue receive exactly what they need in this moment, you may actually feel an ease in your breathing. This healing for the collective just facilitated by prayer allows the straightening and strengthening of your hara line in your torso. Continue to visualize your new career in detail. In meditation or prayer, ask that your potential clients would assist you by seeking your services at crucial points in the creation of your new practice. Praying for those people and animals you wish to help in the future, even before you make physical changes in your career, enables you to align with your future career. It also alerts your future clients to your serious intention to work with them. And, for you, it dissolves your fear so you no longer need to work past the fear.—Grace

Janet Hovde, MA, OTL, CHTP, is cel-ebrating the 12th year of her healing practice, with appointments available in Roseville, MN & Hudson, WI. She enjoys watching her clients learn to care for their energy system and access their own inner wisdom. See website for her classes and fiber art:www.janethovdecom Email your Dear Grace question to dear-grace@janethovde.com. 651-487-2744.

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SHORT time ago, Joyce and I fulfilled a 35-year-old dream of leading a retreat in Assisi, Italy. The experience went way beyond what we could

have ever imagined. Early one morning we brought our group of retreat participants to the Basilica de San Francesco, the tomb of Saint Francis. It’s difficult to adequately describe the enormity of the spiritual power here where millions of pilgrims have prayed and meditated in the place where Saint Francis is buried. Likewise, we felt a deeply loving presence at the Basilica de Santa Chiara, the tomb of Francis’ soul-mate, Saint Clare. Especially early in the morning, before the throngs of tourists arrive, the very atmosphere is charged with a heavenly energy most people can feel. I sat with the group, letting this great power wash through my being. Previous mornings in these sacred places, I had been able to sink into deeper states of med-itation than I normally do at home. I felt determined to go even deeper and bask in this holy glow. Yet try as I may, I felt more and more agitated and restless. I felt like I was fighting against a river, trying to swim upstream. I felt frustrated, then defeated, and finally a little embarrassed. I couldn’t sit there any longer. I had to get up and move around. So I did, and as soon as I was moving I felt better. Then I looked at the members of our group, each one earnestly striving to receive the blessing of this holy place. My heart welled up with love for each of them, and I knew in that moment what I needed to do. I was being called to bless each of them, to touch each one with love, perhaps

even to speak something to each person. As I approached the first person, I had to push through that inevitable bit of resistance, a reluctance to invade another’s personal space, even the thought that I would be disturbing their spiritual reverie. But the inner prompting won out over my mind’s protests, and I reached out my hands and gently placed them upon the head before me. As I did so, a deep peace swept through me, a confirmation that I was doing the right thing. With each suc-cessive person, my heart swelled with love, my hands felt charged with energy, and sometimes comforting words would come out of my mouth.

REcEIVE by gIVIng Was I just giving love? Absolutely not. I was receiving more abundantly than I ever do, even in my deepest meditations. If I was just giving, I would have eventu-ally felt depleted. Yet with each person I felt increasingly more energized. Saint Francis once went up on a mountain to meditate and pray for guid-ance. His deep desire was to live in seclu-sion, absorbed in the ecstasy of commu-nion with God. And he well understood the service in this path of the solitary her-mit—the blessings that would radiate out to all beings on the planet. But in a way he didn’t completely trust himself, because his desire for divine union was still desire. So he found one of his closest compan-ions and gave him instructions to have a group of brothers (the Friars Minor) pray for guidance for him. Should he remain in seclusion for the benefit of humanity, or should he take action, traveling the world preaching and healing? Just to make sure, he sent another brother to Clare at San

Damiano, because he trusted her wisdom perhaps above all others. The answer came back as one—his path was with people, not alone on a mountain top. From that moment on, Francis traveled extensively, changing lives wherever he went. Even in his lifetime, the brothers who joined him and the sisters who joined Clare num-bered in the many thousands. Did he take time to meditate and pray in solitude? Of course. His inward time was vital to him. He took many retreats, but most of his spiritual communion took place at night, while everyone else slept. On our website (SharedHeart.org), there is an article I wrote called “Miracle on the Mountain” in which I described a life-transforming experience I had on Mount Shasta in northern California in 1977. I went up on the mountain, similar to Saint Francis, to meditate in solitude, to

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have a spiritual experience by myself. Just like in Assisi, I came to a peaceful state, and then couldn’t sit still any longer. But unlike my experience in Assisi, I got up from my spot, packed up and left, feeling like I had failed. On the way down the mountain, I was able to save a man’s life. Talk about being of service in the world! In 1973, Joyce and I started travel-ing, seeking after spiritual teachers. It was an abrupt switch from studying medicine and then psychiatry, to studying the spiri-tual disciplines of the east and west. But it was still studying. One of Joyce’s relatives made a comment that struck a deep chord in us, even though it hurt at the time: “The two of you are like the Dead Sea. Rivers run into it, but nothing runs out of it, and therefore nothing can live in it. How long are you going to keep learning before you give back?” Well, we didn’t get the message. We traveled to the French Alps to spend the summer studying with the Sufi teacher,

Pir Vilayat Khan. The first day he met us, he took us aside and gave us instructions that changed our lives forever: “You two will teach a class each day on relation-ships. There are classes here on so many dimensions of spirituality, but nothing on relationships. Without understanding our human relationships, we can’t bring spiri-tuality down to earth.” “But Pir Vilayat,” we protested, “we came here to learn, not teach.” “Nonsense,” he replied. “You’ll learn best by teaching. You’ll receive most by giving.” And so we did. With the help of translators, we taught the class to a large group of English, German, and French-speaking people. And our lives did change. Today, my favorite prayer is the prayer of Saint Fran-cis: “Lord make me an instrument of Thy peace.” We ask God every day to simply be of service in this world, to help people wher-ever we can, to bring divine love into every

situation. And this is what fills us with joy. Please don’t miss out on an opportu-nity to give love and bless someone’s life: Placing your hand on your child’s head and giving your praise, speaking apprecia-tion to your beloved, touching a coworker’s shoulder while you thank him or her for a job well done, hugging a parent and thank-ing them for their love, or being extra kind to a total stranger. Then notice how much joy this gives you.

Joyce & Barry Vissell, a nurse/therapist and psychiatrist couple since 1964, are counsel-ors near Santa Cruz, CA, who are widely regarded as among the world’s top experts on conscious relationship and personal growth. They are the authors of The Shared Heart, Models of Love, Risk To Be Healed, The Heart’s Wisdom and Meant To Be. Even one session with either or both of them (over the phone or in person) can shift your life or relation-ship. Call 831-684-2130. Call Toll-Free 1-800-766-0629 (locally 831-684-2299)

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ONGOINGSaTuRDayS 10:30-11:30 am.belly Dance for wellnessPromote your physical health & well-being with Belly Dance! This upbeat class moves the spirit & provides a fun work out that is low impact & easy on the joints. On-going, $120/8 class package. Walk-ins welcome $16. Register at 651-698-1404 or www.healthpointclinic.org (click Classes)

DECEMBERDeC. 4your legacy & Other cosmic PossibilitiesMike Foley will discuss how we can each move in the direction of our greatest desires & dreams. $30 or $25 pre-registered. 10–12:30 pm. Call IHT: 651-645-1291, www.ihtyoga.org

DeC. 4 & 11Massage & Shiatsu career Info SessionsMondays & Tuesdays at 6 pm or Saturdays, Dec. 4 & 11 at 9 am. Discover how you can have a rewarding career. CenterPoint Massage & Shiatsu Therapy School offers exciting programs for you to become a professional bodywork therapist. Call today! 612-617-9090. Visit www.CenterPointMN.com

DeC. 11Massage basics workshop 10 am–5 pm. Learn a variety of basic massage techniques for the head, neck, back, & legs. Great for stress reduction & relaxation. Take this workshop if you are considering a career in massage or enjoy working on family & friends. 6 hrs, $75. Register at 612-617-9090. Visit www.CenterPointMN.com

DeC. 11Superconscious Meditation IExpand your awareness & calm your mind! Learn the basics of the science of meditation, the finest tool for physical, mental, & spiritual growth. Taught by Ma Devi. $40 or $35 pre-registered. 10–12:30 pm. Call IHT: 651-645-1291, www.ihtyoga.org

DeC. 18yoga nidra: The art of Sleepless SleepSwami Jaidev. With this yoga exercise, one can learn to master sleep, touch one’s fonts of creativity, & abide in the serene threshold of pure self-realization. Cost: $25; with pre- registration $20. 10 am–noon. Call IHT: 651-645-1291, www.ihtyoga.org

JANUARYJan. 3Hatha yogaNew classes in pure, classical hatha yoga for physical, psychological, & spiritual health begin this week. Gentle, Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced. Eight weeks, $80 or $75 pre-registered. Call IHT: 651-645-1291, www.ihtyoga.org

Jan. 6–apR. 14Thai Massage: 45-hour continuing Education, ncbTMbThursdays: 6–9 pm. For professional massage therapists, learn the relaxing & healing techniques of Thai Massage. Discover how applying yoga style stretching & massage stimulates energy for healing. Register: 612-617-9090. Visit www.CenterPointMN.com

Jan. 8adult cPR This American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR course teaches basic life support techniques to use on adults. This 4 hour class includes participation. Call: 612-617-9090. Visit www.CenterPointMN.com

Jan. 8First aid This American Heart Association First Aid course covers the basics of emergency response. This 4-hour class includes participation. Call: 612-617-9090. Visit www.CenterPointMN.com

Jan. 22 & 23Healthy life ExpoMinneapolis Convention Center. Hundreds of exhibitors, three stages of speakers, demonstrations & entertainment. This is the largest show of its kind, don’t miss the opportunity to exhibit or attend. See it all at: www.ExpoGuys.com or for exhibitor information call 952-238-1700.

Jan. 22-23, Feb. 19-20, maR. 19-20Spa & Resort Massage: 45-hour continuing Education, ncbTMb3 weekends, 9 am–5:30 pm. Massage Therapists: Discover the healing effects of aromatherapy, essential oils, heated stone massage, & more! Call: 612-617-9090. Visit www.CenterPointMN.com

FEBRUARYFeb. 26 Twin cities Psychic SymposiumAt the Earle Brown Heritage Center, Brooklyn Center. 9:30–6. Over 80 vendors: intuitive readers, holistic healers, aura photos, unique gifts & more! Keynote speakers. Free Parking. Exhibitor information: Dee, dee@edgelife.net, 715-259-3047. Tickets & FFI:www.edgelife.net

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