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In this issue: | Practitioner's Corner: Claudia Leifer | Practitioner's Corner: Deva Michelson | Nutrition Corner: Metabolic Syndrome | Education Corner
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Editor's Corner
From all of us at Yellow Courtyard we wish you a New Year filled with peace, health, and joy. Change is in the air!
As many of you know, the Obama transition team encouraged practitioners nationwide to come together to discuss what a new healthcare paradigm could look like. Meetings took place in our local community and the consensus reached was that that there needs to be a complete shift from a disease-oriented model to a wellness model where integrative care and accompanying healing modalities would become accessible to all.
On a national level, I joined in this conversation with the members of the Obama transition team and approximately 100 practitioners and health policy experts from around the country who participated via conference calls, a survey, and review of a proposal called the Wellness Initiative for the Nation or WIN. This document will soon be available for public comment on the www.change.gov website. Please give your thoughts and suggestions to this work in progress so that a new healthcare paradigm can become a reality for all!
Yellow Courtyard, in support of this Initiative, is planning to hold a community forum with our practitioner network in the near future. Please contact me if you would like to be involved in helping to organize this event.
Warmly,
Susan
Please send all info and inquiries to: sluck@yellowcourtyard.com
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Practitioner Corner:
Claudia Leifer
Happy New and Conscious Year to You!
There is an extraordinary crossroads of change upon us as a nation and as individuals. A celebration of a new year, a new president and an unprecedented time and opportunity for us to redefine our thoughts, words and actions if we so choose. It is what one holds within that consequently gets reflected without and called “my externalized reality” that is being redefined.
To read the full article, click here.
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Practitioner Corner:
Deva Michelson
Coming home. That feeling of deep peace when we are living in harmony with the deepest aspects of our soul / spirit. This is what I believe healing is about and it has certainly marked the stepping-stones in my growth and development as a practitioner, and in my own healing.
To read the full article, click here.
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Nutrition Corner: What is Metabolic Syndrome?
in collaboration with the Earthrose Institute (www.earthrose.org)
Over 50 million Americans today have Metabolic Syndrome.
As Dr. Mark Hyman expressed in his recent talk at the Yellow Courtyard, Metabolic Syndrome has become a ‘hot topic’ with global epidemics of diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease, all aspects of the metabolic syndrome. Preventing and managing this syndrome will be ever more important in coming years and for future generations.
Metabolic Syndrome, also coined, “Syndrome X” is characterized by insulin resistance with accompanying abnormally high blood sugar, serum lipids, elevated blood pressure, excess abdominal weight and obesity, and increased blood-clotting tendencies. Insulin resistance is a generalized metabolic disorder in which the body can’t use insulin efficiently.
To read the full article, click here.
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Education Corner:
Stay on the Cutting Edge of Integrative Healthcare
The Integrative Healthcare Symposium in New York City, February 19 – 21, 2009 is now in its fourth year and continues to represent the cutting edge of the emerging integrative healthcare paradigm.
This unique Symposium brings together practitioners from diverse specialties and provides a comprehensive education program in integrative health strategies. Keynote and breakout sessions bring the knowledge and experience from leaders in their fields of integrative health including the latest research and important clinical pearls relevant for improving patient care. Workshops offer the most current and up-to-date issues that impact our practice and our patients today.
Renowned speakers include: Jeffrey S. Bland, PhD, FACN, CNS; Frank Lipman, MD; Larry Dossey, MD; Mark Hyman, MD; Barbara Dossey, PhD, RN; and Gabrielle Roth.
Attendees include: Physicians, Naturopaths, Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Acupuncturists, Dieticians, Nutritionists, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Physician /CAM Program Directors, Homeopaths, Massage Therapists
For more information: www.ihsymposium.com
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For article submissions, book reviews, workshop proposals, and anything else you think would be of interest to fellow practitioners, please e-mail: sluck@yellowcourtyard.com.
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