CHEO Newsletter July 2010

SUNDAY, JULY 18 ~ Chattanooga Meeting Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UVBI) – 2pm – 3pm: Discover the amazing benefits & results of this 70-yr old non-pharmaceutical, non-surgical FDA approved treatment for auto-immune disorders including lymphoma cancers, inflammatory conditions, bacterial & viral infections presented by Dr. Charles Adams MD. 3pm – 4pm: Stay for a networking session with providers of holistic health products & services facilitated by Dr. Phillip Gawthrop, DC & sponsored by the Complementary Health Education Organization (CHEO) at Miller-Mott Technical College, 6020 Shallowford Rd, Ste 100, Chattanooga, TN 37421 at Hwy 153. CHEO Chattanooga directory 2011 & 2012 Directory Memberships & listings will close on July 30th  ~ Last chance to join or renew your CHEO membership to be included in the new 2-year Member-Practitioner Directories. CHEO Practitioner benefits of your 2-year $60 membership include: Your listing in the print and web Member and Practitioner Directories; Your Classes, Workshops & meetings listed in the on-line Calendar of Events on CHEO’s website; A Monthly e-newsletter and member spotlight with 1,200+ Chattanooga-Knoxville subscribers; Monthly public Education and Networking meetings with member speaking opportunities; The Annual HealthWise Fair & Conference with exhibit and speaking opportunities for members. CHEO Supporting memberships are only $40 for 2-years. Your support makes it possible to provide free admission to our educational meetings and events, opportunities to meet local practitioners and learn about the latest in holistic health practices for you, your family & guests, and keep you up-to-date on classes & workshops in the Chattanooga and Knoxville areas via the CHEO website & free subscription Newsletter. We always want to know the topics you are interested in learning about. Display Ads: Once again we are offering excellent discount rates for members Display ads in the Print & Web directories. We encourage you to take advantage of this opportunity to present your message to your target market in the Chattanooga community. Send an email to request your member form & directory ad rate schedule   Email for information to join or renew your CHEO membership and to place your listings and display ads in the 2011 & 2012 Chatttanooga CHEO Direcotry. Holistic Calendar: Visit our CHEO Calendar to see events, meetings & seminars in the Greater Chattanooga and Knoxville areas. Email with Calendar items you wish to have included. Please send more than two weeks before event and send in word document or email text. CHEO retains the right to edit or include or not include any item. HealthWise Fair & Conference Build A Better YOU: Integrative Approaches to Health Saturday, August 28, 2010! 10am to 6pm Heritage House, 1428 Jenkins Road, Chattanooga, TN 37421 Featuring speakers in a variety of health-related practices, exhibitors, vendors, silent auction for products & services, free showing of Food Inc, free admission & free parking. This is an exciting, educational day to meet and learn from area health care providers in a variety of disciplines including medical, naturopathic, chiropractic, acupuncture, massage therapies, fitness, energy and movement, and more. There will be demonstrations, exhibitors and vendors of healthy products, samples, books, CD’s, etc. The Silent Auction is your opportunity to bid to win gift certificates for services and products from the speakers and exhibitors. Food Inc, the nationally acclaimed documentary, special showings at HealthWise - a “must see” for everyone that eats and cares about the health of their families. “Health related effects of the industrialized American diet are becoming increasingly serious . . . fully 1/3 of Americans born after 2000 will have early onset diabetes.” Other diet-related health effects include allergies, cardiovascular problems, autoimmune disorders and cancers. “This is not just about what we are eating, this is also about what we are allowed to say and what we are allowed to know,” explains Eric Schlosser, documentary co-producer and author of Fast Food Nation. For speaking or exhibiting information contact: Mary Alice Crāpo or call (423) 413-9343 Summer Social Potluck & Specialty Share Sunday, August 29, 2:30 to 9 p.m.  Mark your calendars now for this fun event for all CHEO members and their guests from both Knoxville & Chattanooga Chapters. This event is hosted by the Loudon/Monroe Community Group and held at the Minch home at Rarity Bay. The Social and Potluck will begin at 2:30 p.m. Please bring a dish to share (appetizer, salad, vegetable, entrée or dessert). Healthy recipes are appreciated, but certainly not required. The Specialty Share (experiential mini Health Fair) will follow the Potluck. Several practitioners who are Current CHEO members will acquaint us with their health related modality or products. Each of them will very briefly, explain to the group as a whole what it is that they do. The rest of the afternoon and evening will be a “Meet the Practitioner Mini Health Fair” where those in attendance can visit the presenters at a variety of locations throughout the Minch home and experience the services and product/s that the presenters are offering. CHEO members who wish to be presenters need to contact Diane Minch to be put on the list. We will be asking all who plan to attend to RSVP a bit closer to the time of the event. Phone: (423) 884-6031.

July 2010 CHEO Spotlight Rev. Angie Collins Awakened Reiki Yoga (865) 748-6885 www.awakenedreikiyoga.com  www.wavvnow.org Awakened Reiki Yoga provides a holistic approach to everyday living with spiritual intelligence through workshops, classes, and one-on-one complementary alternative medical care supported by spiritual centering modalities. Founded in 2009 by Rev. Angie Collins, RMT, Intuitive Medium. Q & A with Angie: Where are you from?  How long in the Greater Knoxville area? I am from a small town in Pennsylvania called Oxford . It is in the south east region and it is part of “Amish Country”. I always had BIG dreams of living abroad and travelling. I travelled to various regions of North America and the Caribbean and all of those experiences ultimately moved me here. While living in San Diego I received a dream about duck pond in fountain city that brought me to Knoxville . This is the one place where I have felt completely at home. I have been here for three years and it seems new, yet it feels like I have been here for many years. I love it! What brought you to Alternative Health and the field/product you’re involved with? I feel that my call to complementary/Alternative health was based on personal experiences as a child with my intuitive development, and being raised by an open-minded, faith healing mother. She told me about Reiki, and years later my desire to heal came out of dormancy with a call by Spirit. As an Interfaith Minister and Spiritual counselor, I have integrated the cultivation of seeds of true faith in ones heart as the catalyst for spiritual mind- body healing. This method treats the whole person. This is my dream for the world, to live fully present and aware. What do you like to do in your spare time? What do you do for fun? In my spare time, I enjoy spending time celebrating life! I am a musician and I enjoy playing guitar, djembe drumming, singing, dancing, and painting. I love creating. Being creative inspires my family and me to broaden our horizons. Art and music are transcendent to culture, ideologies and can deliver messages that can change a person’s life more than words that fall upon ears that are not ready to hear. What are you most proud of in your life? I am most proud of my family and our happiness and love. I have a wonderful husband named Bob and two beautiful children Jonah and Micah. We also have a menagerie of very spoiled animals: Peatie (Peanut) the cat, Snips our dog and our newest edition, Bodhi our other sweet dog. We have so much love to give, and even though that is not something that we can own, we can only give and receive freely, I am so proud that in our human experience, we are not marred by the adversity, and lower thinking that tries to dampen the Light of our world. So tell me about how you got started in your work? Truth be told I started my work when I was 12 not really being conscious at such a tender age as to what I was doing. My mother was very ill with cancer and fought a 13 year battle. We would share a room in the house that I grew up in. During the night, she would cry from the pain that the cancer had given her. I would push my bed up to hers at night and lay hands on her Sacral Chakra, and stroke her head until she fell asleep. In the morning she would wake up with a bright, brave smile and say “Thank you for helping me last night”. It was such a sacred experience to connect intimately with my mother in her time of need. As I was learning the practice and principles of Reiki, I was taken back to that sacred and beautiful time I was able to spend with my mom and I knew that this is the work that I am created for. How would you describe your studio to someone? My studio is my home and I like to provide a safe haven for those that enter. This is the place where anyone that walks through my threshold is welcomed with love. We have a waiting room/classroom space where relaxing music or exotic locals are displayed on our media center. I like to keep the lighting low, and the energy high. The sweet scent of incense clears your energy field and your mind. Our healing room is filled with inspirational images, quotes, and crystals. I like to think of it as an embryonic space. You are taken back to a state of mind in which you are surrounded by the energy of love and healing so that when you leave, you are birthing yourself back into the world with a greater sense of intention. What services do you offer? I happily offer a wide variety of services! Some of my offerings include: Reiki therapy, spiritual counsel, holistic business consulting, Reiki certification courses, and intuitive readings. In functionality of home and lifestyle, I bless and clear the energy in homes, teach nutritional cooking, and provide familial coaching to help families develop a harmonious dynamic. I have also expanded my services to URBhana Creative Life Center with private yoga coaching and MoolMani Goddess Yoga classes that were founded and developed at URBhana. In the world of community activism I am the founder of WAVV: Women Against Verbal Violence and have become an advocate and a voice to those that are subjected to abusive situations while giving them holistic and spiritual tools for personal empowerment. I also have a Naturopathic substance abuse rehabilitation program that interfaces with allopathic professionals for comprehensive care. Healing for everyone! What do you think the publics perception about holistic health is? The public perception of holistic health and awareness is burgeoning into a great love and acceptance for it. What was once viewed as a bohemian lifestyle or seen as something that could be thought of as irresponsible (i.e. choosing naturopathic medicine versus allopathic) is now being viewed as a viable option for comprehensive care. The media and entertainment industry is beginning to integrate such holistic influential ideas like detoxing cleanses, natural births, and vision boards in mainstream movies. The best example I have of witnessing the shift of transformation and integration is when I was sitting in Earth Fare Grocery store having lunch with some friends. Across from us at a different booth were men dressed in business suits having a power lunch over juice. We complemented them on their healthy choice and it gave us inspiration that this information is not falling on deaf ears any longer! What advice do you have for people looking to get into your field of practice? The advice that I would give anyone that wants to provide holistic health care, spiritual care, or energy healing would be to bring impregnable integrity and authenticity into the collective. There is no room for competitive attitudes, or lackadaisical approach to your own personal care. When people see you in your authenticity work on yourself, they will be more inclined to trust in your offerings. The power of intention is the catalyst to all types of healing and is the key to longevity in this calling that so happens to be a business. What is your most proud accomplishment thus far with your business? I am most grateful for and very honored by the relationships that I have forged with my clients, and the public. I am so excited to serve this community and am very proud of the fact that Awakened Reiki Yoga has garnered so much abundance in such a short period of time. I know that this has a lot to do with those that paved the way for me to develop and I am proud to share my success with the pioneers of the holistic healing community that have worked so diligently and with so much integrity to bring the validity of the practice into the heart of Knoxville.

And for those wanting the REAL Scoop on the Oil Spill… This Robt Kennedy article gives the political background of the Oil Spill: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/sex-lies-and-oil-spills_b_564163.html And go to www.stopthedrill.org and sign the petition to prevent another disaster like this one in the Gulf   Thanks, Dewey

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