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Natural Health Conference 2007
Building a Natural Health Community

Breakout Sessions

Breaking Through Concrete

Edwin Marty

Experience a tour of urban farms from around the world and how they are impacting the food system. Urban farms provide an oasis of green in cities and support urban agriculture providing improved nutrition and a sense of independence as empty lots are transformed.

Cardiovascular Health

Wendy Arthur, M.D.

The road to maintaining cardiovascular health begins in childhood with diet and exercise. This session will include a review of pertinent physiology, biochemistry, and nutrition for all ages, with client friendly educational materials to take home. The role of supplements in cardiovascular health will be reviewed with time for discussion.

Community Food Security

Edwin Marty

A look at why hunger and food insecurity still exists in America and what we can do about it. Food security is a strong, sustainable, local, and regional food system providing access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate food for citizens of the area. True food security must not only be sustainable and healthy, but must also involve the community and the environment.

Elements of Traditional Naturopathy

Stewart MItchell, B.Phil, N.D.

The elements of traditional naturopathy help support the innate healing abilities of the body. Discuss the elements of traditional naturopathy as an approach to living and a system of health. Using the traditional elements of naturopathy can help you focus on good health and education with yourfamily and your clients.

Face and Skin: Signs for Assessment

Matthew Wood, AHG

What can a person’s face tell you about their state of health? Physiognomy, the art of face reading, is used in folk healing traditions around the world as a method of improving and maintaining health.

Herb/Drug Interactions and Contraindications

Phyllis D. Light, RH, Herbalist

Interactions and contraindications of some of the most popular herbs and supplements or drugs are reviewed in this session. Participants will also review cautions in herb and supplement use prior to surgery, herb/supplements that have an additive effect to certain prescription medications, and those that might interfere with the workings of medications.

Herbs for Relaxation and Stress Reduction

Daniel Gagnon, AHG, Medical Herbalist

Herbs can help nourish and calm the nervous system and provide support to the adrenal glands during times of stress. Learn about traditional herbs commonly used for relaxation and stress reduction and covers a brief overview of the physiology of the nervous system and the organs and glands involved in relaxation and stress reduction. This session examines the effect of stress on seemingly unrelated health issues such as menstrual cramps, digestive issues, and skin problems. The total effect of stress and how to combat it will be discussed. Herbs reviewed include: Ashwagandha, caffeine containing plants (ie: Cola, Guarana, Mate, Tea, Coffee, Cacao) California Poppy, Chamomile, Damiana, Hops, Kava, Lemon Balm, Licorice, Oat, Passionflower, Siberian Eleuthero, Silk Tassel, Skullcap, and Valerian.

High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose, and Health

Wendy Arthur, M.D.

One of the cornerstones of health and weight management in this country is to reduce corn syrup intake. According to the World Health Organization added sweeteners should be limited to less than 10% of our calories. Learn the economics and physiology of high fructose corn syrup, and review helpful resources to educate your clients to reduce their risks from the complications of obesity.

Holistic Becomes Mainstream: Strategic Planning for a Successful Career

Ann Louise Gittleman

Discuss what it’s “really like out there” and “what it takes to get to the next level” including relationships, alliances, mainstream media, planning. In addition, Gittleman will discuss participant questions about career and success.

How to Detoxify From Artificial Sweeteners

Janet Starr Hull, CN

Review Janet Hull’s 10-Step Detoxification Program that she developed after recovering from a diagnosis of “incurable” Grave’s disease. Hull learned of the components for the detox program from her environmental work on the former Soviet army bases in Eastern Europe and effectively used them to restore her health. “What surely works in nature, works in man,” says Janet. She will explain the 10 steps to mind/body wellness along with the five primary nutritional components that remove toxins, replace nutrients depleted by toxicity, and restore a natural state of health.

Integrating Mind/Body/Spirit Through Movement

David Leonard

This is a session of joyous movement. Dress comfortably and be prepared for personal expansion and awareness as the mind/body/soul becomes one in movement.

Integrating Natural Medicine Into Home Care for Animals

Susan Wynn, D.V.M.

Discuss a number of common health conditions in animals as well as herbal, nutritional, and natural health approaches to supporting sick animals.

Iridology: Roots, History and Current Applications

Ellen Tart Jensen, Ph.D.

An analysis of the eye can provide information about a person’s health status and be used for preventive health care. This ancient and highly regarded health technique is now used by natural health practitioners around the world. An understanding of the history and development of iridology can help us understand its current applications. Discuss the history, influences, early pioneers, development, and current applications of iridology.

Lifestyle Changes for Weight Loss: How to Make Them Stick

J.J. Virgin, CNS, CHFI

The biggest challenge in weight loss is getting the client to make the long term commitment so that they can reach their goals. Learn how to turn a client's mindset from one of failure to success by building on small steps, and discover how to get them inspired and motivated.

Living Longer, Living Better

Linda Page

Anti-aging therapies and natural solutions including whole herb and food remedies for looking and feeling your best. Linda will cover head to toe beauty remedies and share some of her personal secrets to looking and feeling your best.

The Natural Spa: Skin Care for the Whole Family

Rosemary Gladstar, Herbalist

Create a special home “spa day” for your friends and family. Learn how to make all natural cosmetic products from simple household ingredients, herbs and essential oils. Some of the products she’ll be demonstrating include: Rosemary’s Famous Face Cream, Miracle Grains, Queen of Hungary’s Water, Seaweed Salt Glow, Brown Sugar Scrub, high quality herbal oils for face and skin, herbal mixes for hair and bath, plus many more fun, fabulous recipes This is a participatory hands on workshop. Come prepared to play. Demonstrations, samples and recipes shared.

Medicinal Plant Walks

Darryl Patton, N.D., Herbalist

Discover the bounty of native healing plants available right outside your door.

Meditation Basics: Using the Mind to Heal the Body

Jeff Goin

Meditation can be a valuable tool for reducing stress and inducing relaxation, developing intuition, improving creativity or concentration, cultivating mindfulness and enhancing personal or spiritual growth. Put your expectations aside and enjoy an inward journey. No experience necessary.

Minimalism in an Overindulgent Society

Stewart Mitchell, B. Phil.

Minimalism: The art of less; a cultural sense of restraint. Is minimalism just the newest trend or a way to achieve a healthy lifestyle with a global consciousness? To be successful, minimalism requires a clear sense of appropriate goals. Mitchell shares methods, examples and his personal philosophy of the minimalist pathway.

The Model of Empowerment for the Natural Health Practitioner

Susie Hale, N.D., Ph.D.

Based on the required text by this title that is used in the Clayton College curriculum, this session provides a description of the foundation and language skills necessary to understand the philosophy of working from the empowerment model when serving clients. For every practitioner of natural health, understanding this material is important philosophically and practically.

Multiple Allergic Response Syndromes (MARS)

Gloria Gilbère

Review the types of disorders included as environmental illnesses. MARS may also be known as Environmental Illnesses and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS).

Naturopathic Posture and Movement

Stewart Mitchell, B. Phil.

When we slouch or hunch over, our internal organs become cramped and squeezed. This impedes their efficiency and reduces circulation of blood and lymph. Poor posture can also cause shallow breathing, reducing the amount of life-giving oxygen circulating through our bodies. Enjoy a session of movement, postural exercises, and deep breathing that will help you look and feel younger, stronger, and more energized!

Nutrition for Dogs and Cats: Using Diet and Nutraceuticals for Health

Susan Wynn, D.V.M.

Explore the nutritional requirements of dogs and cats from an evolutionary perspective, and learn about practical approaches for daily feeding that allow the student to determine what works best for the pets in their household. In addition, common uses of nutraceuticals for health and disease will be provided.

Nutritional Concerns for Vegetarians and Vegans

Vicki Chelf

Discuss building and maintaining good health by eating a vegetarian or vegan diet. Beginning with a brief discussion on the health, environmental and spiritual reasons for becoming vegetarian or vegan, Chelf will then cover information to insure adequate intake of vital nutrients such as protein, iron, calcium, zinc, essential fatty acids and B12. Vegetarian interests around different types of vegetarian diets, why some vegetarians may fail to thrive, weight control, optimal digestion, and degenerative diseases will also be discussed.

Overcoming Respiratory Health Challenges Naturally

Daniel Gagnon, AHG, Medical Herbalist

Healthy lungs are vital for good health. But our lungs are often barraged with environmental toxins and allergens, viruses and bacteria which can result in inflammation and infection. These respiratory challenges often respond to natural herbal remedies that help protect against infection, reduce spasms and inflammation in bronchioles and lung tissue and soothe coughs and congestion. Discuss herbal remedies for chronic complaints of the lungs and ways to overcome respiratory health challenges that reduce quality of life. Herbs reviewed include: Osha, Pleurisy Root, Mullein, Stinging Nettle, Eyebright, Lobelia, Grindelia, Yerba Santa, Yerba Mansa, Licorice, Stoneroot, Horehound, Chlorophyll and Cordyceps.

Paleolithic Diet

Annmarie Colbin, Ph.D.

Many of the foods we eat today were not eaten by our Paleolithic ancestors. After the Agricultural Revolution, our diets changed from fresh fruits and vegetables, lean meats and seafoods to a high-calorie diet of dairy, grains and beans. Learn about the attributes and health benefits of the Paleolithic diet.

Pilates

Jane Patton, AFAA

Wake-up to a workout that focuses on the spine, proper breathing, core strength, and flexibility.

Plant Signatures Walk

Matthew Wood, AHG

Learn how a plant’s shape, the color of its flower, or where it grows can offer clues to its use.

Practical Family Cooking: Making It Work for You

Vicki Chelf

Discuss the purchase and storage of staple pantry supplies, as well as cooking tips for making nutritious, delicious, and visually appealing vegetarian and vegan recipes. Handy time saving food preparation and cooking tips, menu planning, portion sizes, and nutritionally balancing meals will also be covered.

Recognizing Our Global Community

Groesbeck Parham, M.D.

Each natural, social and economic system within a community interacts with neighboring communities to form a larger regional community. All these regional communities interact until all come together in a global community. Local communities must be healthy in order to have a healthy global community just as the individual cells in our body must be healthy in order for the body to be healthy. Learn how we can become dynamically cooperative for the health of our global community.

Return to Freedom

Charles Eisenstein

Explore how our natural desires have been diverted toward substitutes that can never meet our true needs, and how desire can show us the way back.

Rhizomatist to Radicle

David Hoffman

This session offers a look at the social/political/spiritual role of herbalists and other healers in our culture today.

Six Herbs: Science, Personality, Stories

Matthew Wood, AHG

Study six plants and bring science and tradition together by explaining when and how to use them, the plant’s personality, and the corresponding human personalities they might benefit.

The Sweetener Wars

Janet Starr Hull, CN

Develop a better understanding of the history of artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols, and natural sweeteners, including the FDA approval processes.

Survival 101

Darryl Patton, N.D., Herbalist

This lively, interactive class will give you the opportunity to learn many of the self-sufficient skills of our ancestors. Watch a demonstration of primitive firemaking and then give it a try yourself! Learn how to gather, prepare and cook wild foods and even make your own bark basket. This is going to be a fun, hands-on class, so be prepared to be entertained while you learn some skills which may one day save your life.

Tissue Salts

Caroline Walrad, Ph.D., CN

This session offers an introduction to the 12 mineral salts and their role in good health.

Tongue, Nail, Hair: Signs for Assessment

Phyllis D. Light, RH, Herbalist

The appearance of the tongue, nail, and hair can tell you a lot about your health and provide valuable clues to underlying illnesses and disorders.

Traditional Herbal Protocols: Where Science and Experience Meet

David Hoffman

Using the question “Is fennel seed tea contraindicated in breastfeeding?” as an example, deconstruct the science supporting this theory and then assess its relevance in the light of traditional experience.

Traveler’s First Aid

Rosemary Gladstar, Herbalist

Enjoy a slide show to far away places while discussing tips and remedies for those unique situations that might come up on the road. Discuss common and uncommon problems one might experience while traveling and how to put together a first aide kit “for the road” that will keep you prepared for any situation.

Wise Use of Nutritional Supplements

Elson Haas, M.D.

How do we know which of the thousands of nutritional supplements to use for ourselves and our clients? Dr. Elson Haas, with over 30 years of experience in addressing these important questions, will provide session attendees with a new way to assess the person and design a nutritional supplement plan based on that information. The session will focus on the key elements of the plan and discuss ways to use this program in a practice.

Yoga

Jane Patton, AFAA

Practice yoga poses, breathing exercises, and relaxation techniques designed to relief stress and increase energy.

Your Living Environment: Is it Healthy?

Gloria Gilbère

This session presents common sense about scents, products that sabotage our health, and ways to create a health-enhancing environment. In addition, ways to minimize the health risks of new construction, household remodeling, interior decorating and household mold are discussed.

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