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Today we speak with Gary Strauss, master educator and practitioner of Polarity Therapy and Craniosacral Unwinding Therapy,  and how he got started in this work.  He trains hundreds of practitioners across the country every year, who set up their own practices.  He will tell us how a practitioner is trained to connect to universal energy using intention, body, mind, and energy in order to become an effective healer, and how these therapies can be used for those with diseases like Parkinson’s to tone down the automatic tremors and others such  ailments that debilitate and breakdown the body over time.  https://www.lifeenergyinstitute.net

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Gary B. Strauss, MS (Master of Science), RPP(registered polarity principles), PWE, is the founder of the Holding Space Method™, which is the result of his more than 35 years, experience in energy medicine, nutrition, and natural healing. He is also the founder and director of Life Energy Institute, where he has helped thousands of people find greater health and well-being through his work and mentoring.
Gary Strauss is a master practitioner and instructor of polarity therapy and Craniosacral Unwinding™. Created by Gary Strauss, Craniosacral Unwinding is a synthesis of craniosacral therapy, the healing approach originated by the osteopathic physician John Upledger, and polarity therapy, the energetic healing modality created by the energy healing pioneer Randolph Stone. Gary B. Strauss is also the founder of Polarity Healing Arts. and is teaches in California, Arizona, and NYC.

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Today we speak with Hope Martin to discuss how the Alexander Technique, used by renowned acting and music schools to performers like Sting, can benefit anyone by understanding how to interact with our posture (spine, head, and neck positions) to reducestress in the body, heal bodily pains, and strengthen our center and balance to prevent injuries and falls.https://hopemartinstudio.com 

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Hope Martin  is a certified Alexander Technique instructor, teaching in NYC, nationally and internationally, since 1987. She has taught the Alexander Technique for 33 years, trained Alexander teachers for two decades at the American Center for the Alexander Technique, and operates Hope Martin Studio in New York City.  She is a Meditation Instructor, Focusing trainer, and a close student of Pema Chodron and has been her cook and attendant for 25 years. Her particular passion is in helping her students discover how easeful, upright posture is an expression of their human dignity, confidence, and innate wakefulness. 

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 Today we speak with Sister Kate, founder of the Sisters of the Valley, who speaksto us about organic farming and creating handmade CBD products for handling pain, and other health issues. Practices involve: organic farming, consulting with indigenous people, understanding the plant, working with moon cycles, and using blessing methods. Sister Kate also likes to inspire women entrepreneurship and teach others how they too can grow these plants from their window sill, rooftop to a garden and start to build their own business, and create CBD products, using very strict guidelines. A practice and expertise the Sisters of the Valley will offer to others free of charge. They are looking to expand the skills of beginning entrepreneurs, and look to offer their support. www.sistersofthevalley.org

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 Sister Kate was a consultant, who helped clients open businesses in newly deregulating industries around the world. But after a divorce, and as a newly single mother with three children, she was forced to give up this career and uproot her family from Wisconsin toCentral Valley, California. In 2009, she founded a non-profit cannabis collective and opened it for business in 2010. This farmland is nestled in the impoverished but agriculturally rich Central Valley in California. Here is where Sister Kate serve cannabidiol medicine to local terminal patients, so they could experience its healing effects without needing to smoke it. In 2014, Sister Kate developed the first line of products that were safe, non-addictive and non-psychoactive formulation and then founded the Sisters of the Valley (non-Catholic nuns), an activist organization who’s mission/servitude is dedicated to healing using organic farming and producing plant-based medicine. They model themselves after the Beguine Nuns and ancestors of the Middle Ages, who were scholars who work together, prayed together, and are dressed to identify their enclave.Their small farm is now a worldwide organization,locatedin Merced, California, and is today quietly cultivating, extracting, and distributing CBD products with sales of over a $1 million a year. www.sistersofthevalley.org 

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Meet Divya Alter who has traveled and lived in Indira, studied Sanskrit, and learned traditional Ayurvedic nutrition to heal herself. She has been an instructor on Ayurvedic cooking for over a decade and now has established her own cooking school called Divya's Kitchen and restaurant called Divya's in the East Village in NYC. This is the first Ayurvedic school of this kind in the US. It very much sticks to traditional rules of how Ayurvedic nutrtion works for different types of bodies and its metabolism.  They designed meals so the food is healing and can at times repair health problems the person cannot often correct on their own.  She speaks about how she makes her ghee butter during the full moon called Divya's Full Moon Ghee, and so on.

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 Divya Alter’s story changed her life and set her on a path to teach others how to heal themselves by using food. Divya is comes from Bulgaria, and for the past 20 years she has learned and cooked at yoga ashrams and temples in India, Europe and the US. Later on, Divya attended the Barbara Brennan School of Healing , where she deepened her knowledge of nutrition, the energetic vibration of foods and learned how food can be used for balancing one's energy field.

Divya Alter is now a certified nutritional consultant, educator, and chef in the Shaka Vansiya Ayurveda tradition. In 2016, Alter co-founded Divya’s Kitchen, an award-winning plant-based restaurant in New York City, in the East Village that re-imagines classic dishes through an Ayurvedic lens. Divya’s brand includes plant-based retail food products. She is also the co-founder of Bhagavat Life, a nonprofit culinary school offering cooking classes and an Ayurvedic chef certification program. Her restaurant has received raves reviews from the New York Times, USA Today, New York Magazine, Bon Appetite and Well & Good. She  is also the author of two books, What to Eat for How You Feel: The New Ayurvedic Kitchen and her 2nd book The Joy of Balance - An Ayurvedic Guide to Cooking with Healing Ingredients: 80 Plant-Based Recipes.
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the school and the restaurant are Diyva’s kitchen at www.diyvas.com
25 1st Ave. New York, NY Right off of Houston Street. 2nd Ave stop on the F train. Call to make reservation directly is best,- 212-477-4834. You can contact the school[email protected] the school and the restaurant are Diyva’s kitchen at www.diyvas.com

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Today we speak with Dr. Rachel Barrack, DVM, a trained veterinarian in veterinary acupuncture and a veterinary Chinese herbalist, combining the best of Western and Eastern knowledge for complete care for our pets. She is one of a handful of veterinarians noted by New York Magazine as one of the best acupuncturists in the city.

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Dr. Rachel Barrack, DVM earned her Bachelor in Animal Science at the University of Vermont and her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine. She trained at Chi University in Redding, Florida and was Certified as a Veterinary Acupunturist and a Veterinary Chinese Herbalist, two different areas of learning . Dr. Barrack combines the best of Western and Eastern knowledge to provide comprehensive and complete care for pets. She is a Long Island native and resides currently in New York City. Her website is 

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