By Kristi on January 14, 2010
Here’s another incredible and FREE event that is not to be missed: The Women’s (and Men’s) Health and Fitness Day sponsored by the University of Michigan Medical School. I will be speaking on “Introduction to Holistic Health: A Mind-Body-Spirit Approach to Health and Healing” and will be giving some practical tools you can use immediately to improve your well-being for a healthy 2010 and beyond.
There will also be over 30 additional workshops from which to choose, covering topics including guided imagery, depression, financial health, memory, dieting, hypertension, diabetes, art for expression and stress management, optimism, sleep, menopause, and much more. You can try out Zumba, RussaYog Yoga, and Fitball, if you feel like getting your body moving. For the grand finale, keynote speaker, Florine Mark, President and Chairwoman of the Board of WW group, Inc. (Weight Watchers) will present a talk on “Tools to Be the Best You Can Be.” As if that isn’t enough, there will be FREE breakfast and lunch as well. Wow! Love yourself by learning how to get and stay healthy. You are worth it!
When: Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Where: Ypsilanti High School, 2095 Packard Rd, Ypsilanti, MI 48197
For more info and to register go to www.umich.edu/~medfit/whfd2010.
(First 300 people get a free tote bag filled with more health and wellness goodies!)
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By Kristi on January 13, 2010
You may already be in a state of “dis-ease”–you can’t change the fact that it happened. But since illness has already happened, why not choose to let it be a catalyst for positive transformation in your life? What if you could find meaning and purpose in your pain and use it as a way to actually improve the quality of your life? The body is a wondrous, miraculous intelligence. What would happen if you decided that the sole purpose of your illness is to guide you closer to your soul purpose? If you are ready to get a new perspective on disease and healing then you are ready for Imagine Health: Using Disease as a Catalyst for Positive Transformation.
Imagine Health is a creative, holistic, therapeutic group process designed for people with chronic illness and disabilities. This we believe: in order to heal our physical body, we must also pay attention to our mind and spirit. By adopting a holistic view of health, we can reach levels of well-being we never dreamed possible.
Participants will:
- Learn to become aware of the body’s signals that some aspects of their life need attention.
- Begin to understand how core emotional issues and behavioral patterns relate to their physical condition and may manifest as symptoms.
- Work with the grief and loss that accompanies life-changing illness.
- Utilize creative therapeutic approaches such as writing, art, drama techniques, movement, and guided imagery exercises to delve into unconscious emotions, beliefs, and thoughts that may be greatly affecting health.
- Imagine and “become” the holistically healthy self they aspire to be.
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Develop hope that they can heal.
It’s time for you to imagine health!
Imagine Health is being offered at the Body Mind Spirit Wellness Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is a seven-week class meeting on Thursdays from 1:15 p.m.-3:45 p.m., February 18, 2010 through April 1, 2010. Cost is $245.00 plus $25.00 for the workbook. Pre-registration is required. Email kristi@creativespirithealing.com or call Kristi Davis at (734) 253-2650 to register or inquire. Click on Imagine Health for more detailed information about the program. (A long-distance course can be offered through email and phone for those of you too far away to attend in person.)
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By Kristi on December 27, 2009
The Journey, a wonderful organization dedicated to helping people heal and transform their lives, is offering their second annual FREE New Beginnings Cleanse via eight nightly telebridge workshops, starting January 3rd, 2010. Each night a different speaker will speak on various topics including physical health, emotions, healthy relationships, conscious leadership, the power of beliefs, abundance, and more. Following the talk, the speaker will lead a “Journey process”–a guided imagery meditation of sorts to help you in various areas of your life. This work is phenomenal. I’ve personally benefitted so much from it and use it with clients as well. The sessions will also be recorded so you can access them at any time.
This is an opportunity not to be missed. I know, because I did the “cleanse” last year and was so impressed. It is a fantastic way to bring in the New Year and set a course for vibrant health in body, mind, and spirit. What do you have to lose? Nothing except for whatever is holding you back from experiencing total well-being in every area of your life. Won’t you join me, and The Journey, in clearing out what doesn’t serve us and in creating a new beginning? Know that it truly can be a Happy New Year. (Visit www.thejourney.com)
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By Kristi on December 2, 2009
I just attended the Arts Alliance Convergence 2009 Conference at Eastern Michigan University, where a dazzling variety of artists, dancers, performers, musicians, and art advocates from Washtenaw County, Michigan gathered together to promote and discuss the importance of the arts and creativity in the revival of our local and global economy. Did you know that the “creative economy” is responsible for bringing in a staggering amount of revenue as well as many new jobs? Not only that, but people generally want to live where there is music, dance, theater, art, and delicious culinary creations. I know I do.
Where would we be without the arts? The arts give us a chance to express ourselves, to make sense of our world, to create beauty and release pain. They bring us plenty of pure pleasure, too. The Arts Alliance recognizes that this is the perfect time to start thinking and acting creatively in order to transform our lives and our world. So create art, enjoy art, and make art a central part of your life. It’s important, and so are you.
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By Kristi on November 23, 2009
I recently attended the National Association for Drama Therapy (NADT) annual conference, which was held in White Plains, New York–just a hop, skip, and a jump (or a 30-minute ride on the Metro North railroad) from New York City. This year’s theme was “Finding Home: Pathways to Belonging.”
It is always amazing to witness the incredible ways in which drama therapy and creative arts are used in the service of healing for individuals, couples, families, groups, and communities. Dr. Dan Wiener taught about “Rehearsals for Growth“–a method he developed which integrates improvisational theater activities with more traditional psychotherapy approaches for the purpose of helping people improve their interpersonal relationship skills. Therapist Wendyne Limber–founder of the Imagination Process–showed her documentary film about a client who, after much drama therapy work, was able to return to her hometown to the scenes of her horrific sexual abuse to reclaim the lost pieces of her soul. There were workshops on how brain research demonstrates the method by which drama therapy is such a powerful healer. Keynote speaker Dr. Jan Cohen-Cruz talked about “Eco-theatrics” and how drama is used not only therapeutically but for activist purposes as well, such as helping prison inmates and victims of hurricane Katrina. Judy Swallow introduced Playback Theater, a wonderful method in which people’s personal stories are played back to them by actors. Social worker Erica Craig presented a course on creating personal mandalas (circle art) and embodying them (i.e., acting them out) to gain spiritual insight and wisdom. And the list goes on and on…
Of course, I couldn’t pass up the chance to see a Broadway show while I was there. I ended up at “Hair” –that 1960’s hippie, sex and drug-fest, anti-Vietnam-War, tribal-love rock musical. Oh, yes…theater has the power to move people. And drama therapy has the power to heal–to help you find your home, your pathway to belonging. Come join us for the 2010 conference next fall in Chicago!
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Here’s another incredible and FREE event that is not to be missed: The Women’s (and Men’s) Health and Fitness Day sponsored by the University of Michigan Medical School. I will be speaking on “Introduction to Holistic Health: A Mind-Body-Spirit Approach to Health and Healing” and will be giving some practical tools you can use immediately to improve your well-being for a healthy 2010 and beyond.
