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December 2004

1) Boost Exploring & Managing Energy Techniques – Oak Brook Borders
Join Judaline Nelson, M.A., C.H, Psycho-Spiritual Mentor and Energy Worker, as she discusses how you are affected by various energies in and all around you. Nelson will talk about the power of energy from our thoughts and words. She will discuss the difference between keeping, leaking, stealing, giving, and receiving energy and how each takes place in our daily interactions with family, friends, strangers, and our self. Nelson will demonstrate techniques to assist you in feeling and experiencing the presence of subtle energies. You will learn energy management techniques that will help you maintain, balance, and protect you own energy in your daily life.
2) Heal Body De-Stressors for the Holidays Approach – Oak Park Borders
Join Emily Klik as she discusses how the spinal fluid affects how well we sleep, our ability to concentrate, our level of vitality and ability to relax. This lifeblood to the brain supplies the brain nutrients, is a chemical messenger and removes toxins. Craniosacral which is a light touch form of hands-on therapy that targets the head, neck, shoulders, jaw, back, and hip area is effective in alleviating pain, stress, migraines, insomnia, fibromyalgia, arthritis and scoliosis. Klik will explain how the craniosacral system works as well as offer demonstrations on her massage table at Borders. Klik will also talk about Regional Tissue Release-a gentle technique that is used to correct misalignments and dislocations of the entire body.

November 2004

1) Women on Top:
Hormones, Libido and the Pursuit of Satisfying Midlife Sex.
Women’s Resource Fair – Oak Park – Friday, November 5th & Saturday, Nov. 6th at 5:15 p.m.
Come hear renowned Women’s Health and Well-Being Doctors/Specialists from ChicagoHealers.com discuss and answer questions on what women face with their bodies physically, chemically, and emotionally. Discover the most up to date information on Hormone Therapy, Reviving your Libido, Satisfying Sex, and Women’s Health. Midlife isn’t a crisis. You don’t have to settle for anything less than wonderful when you have the right information to empower you.
ChicagoHealers.com Panelists:
Jory Adams, HHC, Holistic Health Counselor and Lifestyle Coach – integrates traditional healing practices with cutting edge nutritional theory to create transformation.
Valerie Early, RD, LD, CES and Reiki Master – individualized and integrative care for women and men aged 35-65. Works with Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy, Nutrition, Exercise and Reiki.
Dawna Gutzmann, MD, Holistic Psychiatry & Psychotherapy – integrates allopathic treatments and contemporary psychotherapeutic techniques for attaining optimal emotional health.
Martha H. Howard, MD, Dipl. Ac. NCCAOM, Preventive/Integrative Medicine – expert diagnostician integrates the best aspects of mainstream medicine with methods including Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hypnosis and Energy Medicine.
2) Feng Shui For Health, Wealth & Good Luck – Oak Brook Borders
Join Mary Bax, Certified Feng Shui Practitioner, as she discusses the Chinese art of placement for health, wealth, and good luck. She will discuss how she calculates energy maps with an ancient formula that uses the building or home’s year of construction, floor plan, and compass direction. Bax will talk about the elements of the nine yin and yang energies and how they interact with each other. She will concentrate on annual energies that change every year and how activating one of them can bring you unexpected wealth. She will teach you what to look for in purchasing a home, cures that can be applied to every home, how to weaken destructive energies, and how to enhance wealth and harmonious energies with activity and moving water.
3) Your Intuition: Find It, Feel It, Use It – Oak Park Borders
Join Jim Demos, MBA, Northwoods Mystic, Psychic and Intuitive Guide, as he teaches you how to tap into your intuitive self. He will tell you the difference between a psychic and an intuitive, how psychics get the information they receive, and scientific explanations to back up psychic abilities and intuitions. Learn how to increase your intuition and use it to improve your relationships and career. Demos will also demonstrate how he uses his intuition to contact spirits that have transcended or crossed over after death. Skeptics welcome.

October 2004

1) Chicago Healers Presents Sonia Choquette, Keynote Speaker, Women’s Resource Fair on Friday, October 8 at 5:15 p.m. Sonia Choquette talk “Trust Your Vibes: Healing Your Life and Living Your Passion with The Guidance of Your Sixth Sense” based on her new book Trust Your Vibes: Secret Tools for Six-Sensory Living. Highly trained in the psychic arts and metaphysical law, Choquette is a world-renowned psychic, intuitive and spiritual teacher with 32 years experience helping people realize and develop their natural sixth sense. Choquette brings a wealth of knowledge, storytelling and fun to each of her lectures. “We’re all spiritual beings endowed with six, not five senses and, even more important, we need the sixth sense, our intuition or “vibes” to fulfill life’s purpose and be peaceful and happy.”
2) Heal Naturally; A Naprapath’s Approach – Oak Brook Borders
Did you know that voluntary nerve function controls muscle and movement and that involuntary nerve supply provides biochemical functioning for the health of your organs like the heart, liver, and kidneys? Join Dr.Wanona Wellspring, DN, Licensed Naprapathic Physician and Yoga Instructor, as she discusses the philosophical foundations of Yoga and Naprapathy which is a manual medicine therapy that releases restrictions in the connective tissues allowing the body to heal naturally along with demonstrating yoga stretches, postures, locks and cleansing exercises, as well as breathing techniques. She will explain how poor posture can create interference with your nerve supply and can contribute to problems such as headaches, indigestion, and missed periods, but can often be cured with a few short Naprapathic sessions or home-care exercises.
3) Boost Your Relationships With Energy Techniques – Oak Park Borders
Join Linda McCabe, Energy Therapist, as she teaches you core principals of energy work in a way that will allow you to immediately impact the relationships in your life. McCabe will give you direct experience feeling energy and identifying the most elemental energetic modes that we use in relationships. By gaining awareness of your energy patterns, you can learn how to alter them when they aren’t serving you and begin to enhance or shift your relationships. She will also discuss practical self-healing techniques and the importance of self-care by teaching specific, practical ways to make a strong, positive contribution in your life.

September 2004

1) Powerful Ways To Expand And Balance Your Energy – Oak Brook Borders
Yolanda Lozano, Healer and Teacher of Spiritual Ideas, as she discusses healing methods and how to heal emotional patterns from your past. She will talk about how to make a connection through energy vibration using the ripple effect and ways to use words for healing and transformation. Lozano will demonstrate healing through sound and vibration by using crystal bowls for centering and energy expansion, as well as Ujaya breathing-a healing agent combining breath with sound. You will learn about your energy centers, or chakras, and how they affect you mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Come join Lozano and learn how to nurture and heal yourself.

August 2004

1) Numerology: Your Life Purpose Guide – Oak Brook Borders
Philip Clark, Numerologist, Licensed Spiritual Counselor and Reiki Master Teacher as he talks about Numerology the ancient study of vibrations generated from a name and date of birth. Your date of birth is encoded with a vibration for your soul’s purpose in this lifetime, along with obstacles you are to overcome and how you are to overcome them. Your name is encoded with a vibration for your talents, abilities and motivations, along with your weak areas that need development and healing. What’s in a name? More than you could ever imagine! Learn.
* Your soul’s purpose for this lifetime
* How to overcome the obstacles you face
* What your natural talents and abilities are and how to access them
* Why certain patterns continue to appear in your life
2) Unity 818 Event

July 2004

1) The Christopher Zorich 5K Run/Walk
ChicagoHealers.com supported Christopher Zorich Foundation led by Chris Zorich ex Chicago Bear by donating the healing services booth at their 5K Run/Walk. Chicago Healers Practitioners, Emily Klik and Bill Farber donated their services to the runners and their families. The run/walk raised money for the Christopher Zorich Foundation to help children in need.
2) How to Slim Down to a Leaner, Smaller Body – Lincoln Park Borders
Howard E. Wolin, M.D., a psychiatrist and medical doctor for more than 30 years, as he discusses what it takes to shift to and occupy a leaner, smaller body. We try, but what keeps us from dieting successfully?
I used to believe in and order certain prescriptions and treatments for a variety of maladies. However, in three decades my patients increasingly astonished me with their own aggressive attempts at healing themselves with non-traditional methods. I realized the power of holistic treatment and the power of partnering with my patients to enable them to take charge of their health and emotional well-being. Surprising answers to questions surfaced based on medical findings and, even more so, on the holistic solutions I saw work for my patients.
Two of the most common issues that surfaced regarding the emotional and physical well-being of my patients were:
1. Low energy levels and
2. Pervasive feelings of being weighed down by depression and excessive body weight.
The bottom line – I came to realize that much of my patients’ discontents had to do with body image. More importantly, I began to understand that bad eating habits and nutritional deficits led to excessive weight, depression and feelings of lethargy. Results in my clinical practice continued to back this up. Dr. Wolin combines personalized counseling with breakthrough nutritional programs and other leading edge treatments to bridge the gap between scientific and alternative approaches.
3) Seven Generations of Chinese Medicine Family Secrets – Oak Brook Borders
Dr. Joseph Lee, Lac, a seventh-generation practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine with over 55 years of healing experience. Dr. Lee started on his path when his father chose him, at the age of seven, from among eleven siblings, to continue the family tradition of practicing medicine. Traditional Chinese Medicine has been practiced for more than 5,000 years. It combines four modalities-herbal medicine, acupressure, acupuncture and Qi Gong. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, disease is created by an imbalance in the flow of energy, or chi, in the body. Dr. Lee uses a combination of these four methods to restore and maintain balance to the body’s internal environment, thus achieving health, well-being, and vitality. Come join us and learn about real ancient Chinese secrets.*The philosophy and principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine *How disease is created *How a diagnosis is determined and what it means *How balance is restored *The power and effectiveness of Chinese Medicine for any condition, from obesity to cancer.

June 2004

1) Birth Options For A Safer, More Satisfying Childbirth – Lincoln Park Borders
JoAnne Lindberg, President and Founder of BirthLink-The Chicagoland Birthing Network-as she educates parents on how to make informed decisions during pregnancy, labor, and birth. Childbirth has become a medical event filled with fear and unnecessary medical interventions. Most parents are not educated on their choices when having a baby, or what the implications of their decisions are. Learn to make educated, informed decisions so you can have a much more satisfying birthing experience. Choosing to bring a child into the world is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. Are you ready?
2) Detoxify Your Body; Rejuvenate Your Health – Oak Brook Borders
Donna Faye Evensen, RN, MT, CHT, Master Herbalist, as she teaches about internal cleansing through colon hydrotherapy, nutrition, and supplementation. The colon, or large intestine, is the sewage system of the body. If the wastes in the colon build up, they may decay and be absorbed through the walls of the colon and into the blood stream thus affecting your other internal organs. Failure to cleanse the colon may cause fatigue, headaches, nausea, abdominal discomfort, weight gain or loss, body odor, menstrual problems, high or low blood pressure, and more. Come learn about gentle methods to cleanse.

May 2004

1) Glenbrook North High School Health Fair
ChicagoHealers.com created an alternative health and healing booth at the Glenbrook North High School Health Fair to teach kids about health options. Practitioners, Bob Kaufman and Barbara Robins donated and demonstrated their services for high school students to educate them on the latest in health and healing.
2) Lakeshore Marathon & Healthy Living Expo
ChicagoHealers.com participated at the event by offering healing services in their booth at the Healthy Living Expo. ChicagoHealers.com Practitioners Maureen Balluff and Gail Galivan offered energy healing, massage, Qi Gong and Shiatsu to race participants and their families.
3) Journey To Wellness: From Womb Throughout Life – Lincoln Park Borders
Dr. Sherry M. Massey, D.C., B.S., B.Sc., certified chiropractor and acupuncturist who has a specialty in pregnancy and pediatrics, as she discusses the importance of the nervous system and the spine and how they affect every function in the body. Massey will teach you about the stages of pregnancy and the changes the body and spine endure. She will present the importance of spinal health in relation to the pregnant mother and that of the baby, as well as the importance of maintaining spinal health after birth for the mother and child. In addition to this free lecture and demonstration, you will receive a free certificate for a spinal consultation for yourself and your children. Learn about… *Webster technique (specific for pregnant women) *Nervous system and its relation to the spine *Immunizations and vaccines *Birth trauma and how it affects the baby *Why children need chiropractic

4) CELLS: Your Body’s Blueprint – Oak Brook Borders
Jim Jordan, Certified Nutrition Consultant and Live Cell Microscopist, will lead an interactive lecture and demonstration on how to build vibrant health through the use of individually customized diet and supplementation, detoxification, rejuvenating exercise, and emotional healing and release techniques. Learn about the four underlying causes of illness: chemicals, radiations, diet, and stress. Jordan will display how he uses live blood analysis, along with state-of-the-art, clinically tested systems, to help you understand
how diet, environment, and emotions effect your health and which diet plan is best suited to balance your individual biochemistry. Learn about…
*Approaches that will shield your body from environmental toxins and radiation
*Detoxifying accumulations of toxins and radiation *Why one-diet-fits-all does not work
*Foods and ratios of protein, fat, and carbohydrates that are optimum

April 2004

1) Earth Day with Aveda

ChicagoHealers.com joined Aveda in raising money for Earth Day causes. ChicagoHealers.com Practioners donated their services for the event.
Michigan Avenue Aveda Store
Bernadette Doran, Hawaiian Huna Shaman and Reiki Master Teacher brings simple but powerful healing techniques that replenish and rebalance physical health and inner harmony. Because Reiki relieves stress at deep levels, it gives you continuous access to greater energy, calmness and clarity. Life is all about balance for the health of the individual, the community, and the planet.
Dr. Frank Yurasek, licensed Acupuncturist, Herbal Medicine practitioner and teacher. Join Yurasek to learn about generating, directing and storing energy for health and beauty. He will demonstrate energy exercises including the Qi Gong Smiling Swimming Dragon which circulates energy through your chakras.
Philip Clark is a Numerologist, Reiki Master Teacher, Licensed Spiritual Counselor and Teacher of Meditative practices with 25 years of experience. Join Clark as he reveals multiple procedures on stress relief using meditative tools and techniques. Learn how to change brain states using your breath, two-minute stress busters, a mantra for total relaxation, and a five-minute meditation that feeds the brain and restores the body.
In grand celebration of Earth Day.
Woodfield Aveda Store
Barbara Robins, Natural Bio-energetic Specialist, will demonstrate her specialty in enhancing your relationship to your own patch of earth – a gift you really can walk away with! Learn about the latest in Chakras, and how you can quickly and easily strengthen yours. Barbara also shows you a nifty way to tap your natural body intelligence, in selecting the right Aveda product for you.
Bob Kaufman, certified Psychotherapist with over 35 years of experience, will teach the proper use and care for your brain. People tend to procrastinate in life where they have inefficient thinking skills. We can improve our productivity and happiness by nourishing and training our brain. Kauffman will teach you how your brain works and develops and tips to enhance the efficiency of your thinking.
Michigan Avenue Aveda Store
Jory Adams, certified Holistic Health Counselor, will teach you how to begin eating and nurturing your body by building on your intuitive knowledge. You’ll receive fun, easy, and manageable tips to start down a path that will truly teach you to nourish your body, mind, and spirit. Create dramatic changes in your health that translate into profound changes in all areas of your life.
Ann Michels, CHTP, Certified Energy Work and Healing Touch Practitioner, with over 8 years of experience will help you learn how to read y our body and balance your chakra system. Michels will teach you to identify physical and emotional patterns in your body. She uses the chakra system and light touch as an energetic guide to your physical imbalances to assist your body in restoring balance and health.
2) Changing The Channel On Stress – Lincoln Park Borders
Beth Braun, Ph.D., C.M.T. explores the stress challenge. “Stress” in its many incarnations is one of the most damaging threats to your health and well-being. Not typically a physical strain on the body, stress is usually a message resulting from emotional or cognitive experiences. Gone unchecked, stress can be fatal.
Long-term relief from the damage of stress comes from changing the stress message regardless of the circumstances you are experiencing. Join us and discover ways to dissolve tension and strategies to release stress and relieve pain -strategies you can use anytime, anywhere. Learn how to change the channel on stress, with long-lasting results.
3) The Energy Cocktail – Oak Brook Borders
Gail Galivan, Certified Senior Qi Gong Instructor, helps you access and direct your vital life force or qi (pronounced “chee”) to improve your health, boost your athletic performance or increase your academic or work productivity or creativity. Everyone from golf pro Tiger Woods to Olympic teams incorporate this self-empowering tool of simple breathing and visualization techniques to give them “the edge.” Activate your qi! Activate your internal power! Everyone can do it! Learn the basics in this fun workshop:
- Origins and definition of Qi Gong
- Experience the “qi” through breathing techniques
- Discover the simplicity of this stress reliever
- Explore the relationship of the body, mind and spirit
- Build the foundation for your ultimate self to emerge
4) Unity 818 Event

March 2004

1) “When Your Body Talks.Listen!” (Women’s Resource Fair)
ChicagoHealers.com presented a panel discussion “When Your Body Talks.Listen!” Reconnect to your inherent feminine wisdom about your body and health and discover a balanced approach to healthy living. Learn how to facilitate your own healing by working with your doctor and trusting your instincts so when your body talks, you listen! ChicagoHealers.com presents Dr. Nicholas LeRoy, DC, Dipl Ac, Women’s Health Specialist and Dr. Midge Dempster, DC, Natural Internist in a discussion on women’s health. Moderated by founder JoAnn-Luise Hefferle, the panel focuses on learning to develop a health plan that addresses your body/mind and balancing body chemistry for optimal health.
2) When “Just Do It!!”.Doesn’t – Lincoln Park Borders
Gretchen Neve, Professional Consultant and Coach, brings her 18 years of management experience to your life! Neve’s passionate coaching work helps you cultivate well-being from the inside out. Learn the power of commitment and vision to: *Clarify your approach to reaching goals-what does and doesn’t work for you *Build and maintain your energy and enthusiasm *Work constructively with unproductive habits such as creative procrastination *Discover on-the-spot techniques to get unstuck and start moving *Move into action as a path for cultivating wisdom
3) Healing Touch For Wellness: The Prescription Of The Future – Oak Brook Borders
Ann O’Malley, RN, CHTP/I, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and learn the heart-centered practice that restores harmony and balance in the energy system and facilitates self healing. Healing Touch, a biofield therapy, is a non-invasive, energy based technique that utilizes the hands to clear, energize and balance energy. Healing Touch complements conventional health care and is used in collaboration with other approaches. Learn: *A brief history of healing using touch *Basic Physics as well as Spiritual Art *Exploration of the Human Energy System *Experiential Exercises *One technique for self-care at home

Feburary 2004

1) The Heart Of Love – Oak Brook Borders
Psychotherapist, Phil Kennedy, MA, MRE presents “The Heart Of Love”, an informative workshop that explores a landmark notion. The heart of a relationship is essentially our relationship with our self. Rather than forging ahead on the well traversed path of seeking fulfillment in others, whether happiness, peace, or true love, looking to others to meet our needs and most cherished desires will almost always lead to suffering and disharmony. Kennedy will explore an alternative perspective. See yourself. Know yourself. Find love.
2) Create the Relationship of Your Dreams – Lincoln Park Borders
Certified Relationship and Life Coach Deborah Bindler, LCSW, in this insightful workshop “Create the Relationship of Your Dreams: Change Your Beliefs About Dating and Mating.” Learn the 10 secrets of relationship fulfillment and discover how self-limiting beliefs can keep you from having love in your life.

January 2004

1) “Harness Your Energy Manifest Your Destiny.” (Women’s Resource Fair)
ChicagoHealers.com presents a panel discussion “Harness Your Energy Manifest Your Destiny.” Learn to harness your energy and direct it’s powerful creative force to manifest your dream life. Healthy relationships, fulfilling work, love, abundance, balance and fun! Join us and take that next step. Moderated by founder JoAnn-Luise Hefferle, the panel features Psycho-Spiritual Mentor and Energy Worker Judaline Nelson, MA, CH; Yuen Method Master Practitioner Barbara Robins, BFA and Energy Therapist, Teacher Linda McCabe, BHS. This comprehensive energy expert panel features modalities including Reiki, Brennan Healing Science, Intuitive Counseling, Reconnective Healing® and Yuen Method of Chinese Energetics.
2) Move The Block.Master Your Life (Bod, Mind, and Spirit Expo)
ChicagoHealers.com presents “Move The Block.Master Your Life.” This “Master Your Life Workshop” series sampler gives participants a taste of the exciting new series that has launched at Borders Books Music and Cafés throughout Chicagoland. Moderated by founder JoAnn-Luise Hefferle, Craniosacral Nancy Lankston; Psychotherapist Alan Irgang, MSW, LCSW and Intuitive Guide James C. Demos, MBA will discuss different perspectives on removing and dealing with challenges/blocks that keep you from “mastering your life.”
3) Clutter Clear For The New Year – Deerfield Borders
Professional Personal Organizer and Clutter Coach, Julie Francis, demystifies clutter and its effect on your life. By examining what clutter represents for each one of us and the ways it insidiously enters our life and takes over our space, Francis delivers an enlightening lecture debunking false notions about clutter and the truth about what to keep, when to keep it, and what it will mean for you. Participants will have a chance to determine their own individual styles of clutter-free living, troubleshoot blocks to getting rid of clutter, and learn how to shift their thinking and actions to make clutter-free living a reality. Workshop includes an informal coaching session with audience members as well as a simple game plan for making clutter clearing easy and fun!
4) The Power of Your Breath – Oak Brook Borders
Discover the power of your breath and movement through the ancient practice of Yoga. Pamela K. Myers, CMT, RYT leads this fun and informative workshop “The Power of Your Breath.” Learn how to use your breath to enhance your body and mind connection and focus, relax and rejuvenate. Explore your relationship to your breath, body and mind and how much movement and stillness your body really needs on a daily basis. Participants will learn to develop their own Yoga practice. All levels welcome! In conjunction with the launch of our first Master Your Life Workshop of 2004, ChicagoHealers.com and Borders welcome author Nikki Winston as she signs her groundbreaking book “Every Move You Make: Bodymind Exercises to Transform Your Life.”
5) Discover the Core – Lincoln Park Borders
Holistic Certified Personal Fitness Trainer Loren Phillips presents “Discover the Core,” and reveals a revolutionary personal training technique. Working from the inside out, Phillips helps her clients strengthen their “core” musculature to help them enhance their everyday activities and relieve chronic pain. Participants will receive literature on “The Core” and basic injury prevention activities information. In conjunction with the launch of our first Master Your Life Workshop of 2004, ChicagoHealers.com and Borders welcome author Nikki Winston as she signs her groundbreaking book “Every Move You Make: Bodymind Exercises to Transform Your Life.”