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November 2005

1) Demystifying Disease: The Divine Simplicity of Optimal Health – Oakbrook Borders
Join Dr. Felicita Tobias, M.D. who after 46 years in medical practice came out of retirement and has dedicated herself to helping people recover their lost wellness by addressing the root cause of ailments, not merely the symptoms. Dr. Tobias will talk about the miracle and mystery of our bodies and the power of it’s inborn reserves. She will teach you strategies for healing & achieving optimum health and improved quality of life.
2) Love that Works: From Fantasy to Reality – Wilmette Borders
Did you grow up with relationship fairy tales; such as if you meet the right person you’ll live happily ever after? Most of us did, but we didn’t grow up with perfect models to make this happen. Join Jill Feinbaker, MSW, LCSW, Psychotherapist, as she debunks relationship fairy tales. Jill will lead an interactive and informative session explaining Imago therapy; a working model for transforming relationships filled with conflict, frustration and disconnection into healing, intimate and connected ones.
3) Getting Started with Feng Shui: One Gua at a Time – Oak Park Borders
Are you intrigued by Feng Shui but don’t know where to start? Practitioner Juliette Looye, M.Ed., will introduce you to this ancient Chinese art as she takes you on a “guided tour” of your home, one gua (life area) at a time. Juliette will demonstrate how to use a bagua map to locate and enhance your nine key areas of life. She will explain their corresponding shapes, colors, and elements, and how the energy of each can help you achieve your goals and create a more balanced, supportive home environment.

October 2005

1) Naprapathy for Balance, Alignment & Pain Relief – Oak Brook Borders
Want to speed up your body’s natural ability to heal itself? Join Naprapathic Physician, Dr. Gina Mottier to learn how. Gina will explain how trigger point therapy helps restore overworked, injured or abused muscles and ligaments back to an elastic, resilient and healthy condition. Learn how to improve your body’s natural healing process with tips from proper alignment, to diet, to supplements.
2) To Have and Hold: Marriage in the 21st Century – Wilmette Borders
What makes a good marriage? What will marriages in the 21st century look like? Join Matthew Stanton, JD Mediator and Counselor and Jennifer Isham, LCPC, CS, NCC, Licensed Therapist and Mediator for a lively discussion on the future of marriage, and how modern developments, such as birth control and no-fault divorce, have altered notions of marriage in ways that touch on everything from traditional gender roles to the promise of individual happiness and personal fulfillment. Remember, the idea of romantic love, as the primary basis of marriage is a fairly recent concept. Examining this topic through the context of both inner awareness and external realities we have an opportunity to shape the institution of marriage and consider the social values we wish to promote and encourage in the 21st century.
3) What’s Next? Using Tarot & Numerology to Find Out – Oak Park Borders
Interested in a glimpse of your future? Laurie Michael, Psychic Tarot Reader will demonstrate how you can obtain a portrait of your life: past, present and future using the Tarot and numerology. Tarot cards have been used and enjoyed all over the world for hundreds of years. Laurie will explain the significance and symbolism of the tarot and numerology and she will demonstrate how using divination can help you gain insight about yourself and your life with 3 mini readings.

September 2005

1) Improve your Luck with Feng Shui – Oak Brook Borders
Can you use more luck or prosperity in your life? Come join Feng Shui expert, Mary Catherine Bax, to learn how this ancient art of placement can improve your wealth, health and happiness. Mary will explain how to transform your home or office using practical Feng Shui solutions for attracting good luck and fortune.
2) A New Path to Loving through TantraNova – Wilmette Borders
TantraNova Institute Directors,Dr. Elsbeth Meuth, Ed.D, CTE, & Freddy Weaver, CBW, CTE, will lead a conversation on sexual-spiritual healing, creating intimacy and love, tapping your creative energy and how to bring passion and presence into your everyday life. These Certified Tantra Educators will demonstrate breathing and energy awareness practices that lay the foundation for integrating one’s sexual and spiritual being.
3) Hypnotize Yourself into Healthy Habits – Oak Park Borders
Want to quit smoking, lose weight, start exercising or stop procrastinating? Whatever your goals are, hypnosis can help. Come learn self-hypnosis techniques and experience trance for yourself when Certified Hypnotherapist Rebecca Lauer leads you thru a 40-minute hypnosis session that will help you bust stress, break bad habits, develop more confidence and achieve your goals.

August 2005

1) The Affect of Energy Healing in Daily Life – Oak Brook Borders
Join Susan Matz, founder and director of A’claire School for Energy Healing, and author of The Art of Energy Healing, as she discusses how personal awareness can be opened through energy work. She will explain how this opened awareness can bring healing and empower you to lead a healthier and more peaceful life. Susan will create an experiential exercise so you can experience for yourself the difference between the life you live and what you’re capable of living.

2) Uplifting Relaxation Techniques; Using Music to Reduce Stress – Oak Park Borders
Louise Dimiceli-Mitren, MT-BC, FAMI, music therapist, will lead an uplifting experiential session designed to release your stress and tension. She will teach you how to identify and define the signs of stress in your body/mind and to create your own music-based relaxation exercise to relieve it. Louise will demonstrate how to find the kinds of music that will work best for your individual needs and techniques for using the music you choose to feel more relaxed and peaceful. Come join Louise for this fun and informative session.

3) Accenture Triathlon – Grant Park – Sunday, August 28, 2005 7:30am-3pm
Chicago Healers will host a booth at the post race finish area of the Accenture Triathlon. This is the largest Triathlon event in the country with over 7800 athletes participating and over 3500 visitors expected. Chicago Healers staff will be on hand to introduce the athletes and guests to our resource.
Three of our practitioners groups will be joining us and providing complimentary services for the athletes and guests of the event.
Planet Chiropractic, Lincoln Park, will be giving Spine screenings,Myo Pain Relief Center, Glenview, will be providing deep tissue massages and Dr. Onchak, Oakbrook Sports Injury Clinic, will be assisting athletes with deep stretching.

July 2005

1) Ayurvedic Practices For Summer – Oak Brook Borders
Join Pamela K. Myers, LMT, RYT, as she introduces you to the Ayurvedic approach to health care. Myers will discuss how our bodies respond to the climate as we move from season to season. Through this new awareness, our practice needs to shift and modify in order to support ourselves fully. Learn how to bring balance and harmony into your life with the use of elements, diet, lifestyle, and yoga for the summer season.

2) Seven Generations of Chinese Medicine Family Secrets – Oak Park Borders
Join 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. Dr. Lee relocated to the United States from China in 1989, choosing the Chicago area as his home base for his thriving international practice. 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

3) Rx: Alternative Healing Prescription – Wilmette Borders
Join Laura Stasiunas, RPh, M.B.A., Registered Pharmacist, and Akashic Record Consultant, as she discusses alternative modalities for healing physical conditions. She will provide insights into health and well being based one’s spiritual beliefs. Physical disease will be viewed through the emotional, spiritual, as well as physical windows of healing. Participate in a meditation where you can dialogue with any illness and uncover information for your personal healing. Learn to balance medications with alternative medicine practices.

4) Animal Communicator – Sunday July 17th
Animal Communicator Carol Shultz will be volunteering her expertise on Sunday July 17th from 10am – Noon for the Anti-Cruelty Society’s annual Bark Brunch at the House of Blues. Shultz will be conducting 10 minute sessions for owners and their beloved pets throughout the event helping animals share their thoughts, feelings, and insights which can aid in resolving behavior, health, or other challenging concerns or situations.

June 2005

1) Custer’s Last Stand – Festival of the Arts
Over 60,000 attendees expected at Evanston’s most popular summer arts festival. 4 Chicago Healers practitioners will be on hand providing services. CH staff members will meet and greet attendees, sharing information about our site. There will be a resource table for information from our practitioners. Attendees will be able to take information and contact practitioners on their own. We will also be holding a raffle.
Saturday
Mary Catherine Bax- Astrology / I Ching Readings – 10-2:30pm
Beth Braun- Massages – 2:30 -7pm
Sunday
Carol Schultz – Animal Communicator – 10-2:30pm
Maureen Balluff – Chair Massages – 2:30-7pm

2) How to Win at the Health Insurance Game – Oak Brook Borders
Join partners Frank Braje and Christina Cusumano as they demystify health insurance marketing practices to help you choose and use your health care financing dollars wisely. They will make sense of jargon and acronyms and compare health insurance plans, both traditional and consumer-directed health plans, to determine what you’re really getting for your premium dollars. Learn how to leverage Uncle Sam’s 2004 invitation to save 25-35% on out-of-pocket health care expenses-including complementary and alternative services and products, even those insurance companies rarely cover.

3) The Heart Of Love – Oak Park 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.

May 2005

1) Unique Health Needs of the Perimenopause & Menopause Woman – Oak Park Borders
Join Dr. Linda Knowski as she discusses the unique health needs of the perimenopause and menopause woman. Learn how to overcome depression, irritability, hot flashes, night sweats, sleep problems, and fatigue. Dr. Knowski will give you alternative options for managing symptoms and long-term risks associated with menopause. Be prepared to face this phase of your life and learn how to prevent disease during the menopause years.

2) Proven Techniques for Stress Reduction – Oak Brook Borders
Join Diana Plenys, Registered Nurse (RN) with credentialed certification in Holistic Nursing (HNC), as she discusses holism and spirituality as a means of achieving health and wellness. Plenys is a pioneer in utilizing holistic, complimentary methods in providing care to her clients and patients and a teacher of eastern healing systems. Learn how various mind-body skills such as yoga, breath work, meditation, energetic self healing, visualization, autogenics, movement, exercise, noetics, the arts, and humor can help you enjoy life, reduce stress, and improve your health. Come learn about various techniques, including a short experiential exercise for immediate results.

3) Quell Food Cravings: Methods that Work – Wilmette Borders
Join Dawna Gutzmann, M.D., as she discusses how to develop individualized strategies for preventing food cravings and effectively coping with cravings once they occur. Discover how to use interventions such as acupressure, creative visualization, cognitive restructuring, and nutritional supplements to conquer your desire for food. Learn to lose the cravings and maintain a healthy diet and an ideal body weight.

April 2005

1) Four Doorways to Power – Oak Park Borders
Join Bernadette Doran, Founder of Industrial Strength Soul and global catalyst for change, growth, and personal and organizational success for over 25 years, as she discusses how to stop stress in its tracks the moment it happens and replace it with balance, joy, love, and creativity in your life. Doran teaches you easy-to-learn, simple stress-reducing techniques and the mind-body principles behind them. Tap into your four greatest sources of personal power-your mind, heart, body, and energy field.

2) Clutter-Free! – Oak Brook 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 way 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!

March 2005

1) CELLS: Your Body’s Blueprint – Oak Park 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 for your unique system
• Do-it-yourself stress reducing techniques

2) Hormones: Feeling Sexy & Energetic – Oak Brook Borders
Valerie Early R.D., L.D., C.E.S., R.Ph.T., and Reiki Master will discuss how hormone imbalances cause pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), irritability, hot flashes, itchy skin, sleep disturbances, depression, weight gain, decreased libido, foggy thought processes and fatigue. Bio-identical Hormone Therapy (BHT) and integrative therapies are natural options to increase and re-balance the body’s hormone level. Men experience hormone deficiencies in testosterone, DHEA, and cortisol levels. These deficiencies cause loss of energy, sex drives to change or diminish, an increase in cholesterol levels, and loss of muscle. Natural hormone therapies and BHT can bring back vitality and libido. Come join us and learn how to feel energetic and balanced today!

February 2005

1) Evanston Women’s Resource Fair – February 12, 2005
The Real Valentine
Doctors, Ministers and Healers speak on Nourishing Your Heart
Discover the beauty and healing potential of your own heart. Our diverse expert panel will discuss the health, feelings and soul of your most vital organ. Join Naprapathic Physician, Dr. Rev. Wanona Wellspring; Music Therapist,Louise Dimiceli-Mitran; Akashic Records practitioner and Pharmacist, Laura Staisiunas; Psychotherapist Mihaela Campion and moderator Energy Therapist, Rev. Linda McCabe for an informative and experiential event to explore issues of the heart and how you can heal or improve them.

2) Breathe Easy – Oak Brook Borders
Ed Bouchard, MPH is an AmSAT, STAT Certified Alexander Technique teacher and a ChicagoHealers.com practitioner. Join Bouchard as he explains a simple and gentle approach for bringing movement and breathing habits into awareness. Alexander Technique lessons encourage grace and ease in the way we walk, stand, sit and speak. The technique is taught in music and theater conservatories and can be applied to such everyday tasks such as sitting at a computer, driving, public speaking, and lifting and carrying. Participants will leave this lecture-demonstration knowing about an easy and effective way to enhance breath control and self-presentation.

3) Overcome Emotional Overeating: A Mind, Body, and Emotions Approach – Oak Park Borders
Join Gina Orlando, MA, CH, and Certified Hypnotherapist, as she demonstrates easy-to-learn techniques to access the power of your subconscious mind. Orlando will discuss lower carb diet techniques featured in books including The South Beach Diet. She will discuss Emotional Freedom Techniques-a mind-body technique that anyone can learn and use to zap food cravings, negative emotions, and patterns that lead to overeating. Orlando will teach you a ground-breaking new way to shed excess pounds and keep them off. Participants will be treated to a relaxation session that gives you a taste of what hypnosis is all about.

January 2005

1) The Power of Hypnotherapy – Oak Brook Borders
Join Holly Harris, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified Hypnotherapist, as she discusses how hypnosis is a method of relaxation and concentration that provides access to a unique state of consciousness where deeper levels of change and healing take place. Harris will address common misconceptions and fears regarding hypnosis, as well as discuss the value of hypnosis, how it works, and how it promotes emotional and physical healing. She will offer a brief demonstration and explain how you can use self-hypnosis in your daily life.

2) Women’s Health: Natural Therapies To Prevent Common Disease – Oak Park Borders
Join Dr. Nicholas LeRoy, DC, Dipl. Ac., as he discusses how the occurrence of hormonally related disorders in women is on the rise. Environmental exposure to estrogen-like chemicals, as well as diets lacking in critical nutrients, create reproductive hormonal imbalances that increase the risk of breast cancer, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, PMS, and menopausal symptoms. Dr. LeRoy will talk about the latest diagnostic testing for hormonal imbalance, its significance, and what you can do about it. This treatment advice integrates simple dietary modifications with herbs and nutritional supplements proven to favorably alter hormones. He will also discuss his published, comprehensive treatment for uterine fibroids and why infrared breast thermography is a safer, more effective tool for breast cancer screening.