A healthy well-balanced microbiome has the ability to turn create vitamin K, essential fatty acids, and some B vitamins as well. But there's much more to the microbiome than that! There is a growing body of evidence that finds a correlation between the health of the microbiome and its effect on mood, behavior, and memory. Dysregulation in the microbiome is often seen concurrent with states of anxiety, depression, memory and concentration impairment. Fortunately we are able to take an unhealthy microbiome and improve it. Microbes change in response to changes in the diet. Kombucha contains organic acids that have detoxifying, antimicrobial, and antifungal properties. They also have protective abilities especially the structures associated with cartilage, collagen and the fluids which lubricate the joints, and the lining of the digestive tract. Come out to The Room on September 23, 2017 at 1 pm. You'll learn more about the microbiome. You'll get to sample kombucha, and double fermented fruit kombucha. You'll also learn how to make your own kombucha, and you'll leave with everything you need to start brewing! Tammy Westney, the Food Scientist, has a Master of Science degree in Nutrition and Integrative Health. She is the founder and owner of Coffee Owl Nutrition, located in Bucks County Pennsylvania. She works to provide a blend of science and culinary art. Her philosophy is “Healthy food should be delicious! If it doesn’t taste good what’s the point of eating?!”
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 We welcome Marie Higgins, Advocate of Holistic Practices and Author, Sprouting Spiritual Growth, to our fall line-up. Marie teaches on a variety of holistic topics including meditation and spiritual journaling. The class on September 16 (2to 3:30pm) will help you develop your inner spirit wisdom through the process of journaling. Here Marie shares some of her own recent experiences with this holistic practice.
I’m so excited to be coming back to The Room to teach a class! I really enjoy sharing my daily practice and the reasons I journal. I also can’t wait to see what comes up when you do a few journaling exercises in class. One of the top reasons I journal is that there is so much value in the looking back. That’s where the magic happens! I’ve been journaling since 2009 and it has made such a huge impact on my personal growth and creating the amazing path I’m on. Let me give some key examples. Looking back over my journal entries allows me to see what progress I’ve made with different challenges I’ve had or what I still need to work on to become my best self. I also often write down ideas that come from books I am reading because it’s on my mind at the time of putting pen to paper. Other times I am reminded of a practice and I restart it. Examples include setting intentions for the day of how I want to feel when I go to sleep at night or restarting the practice of writing gratitude lists. Sometimes when I look back I am inspired to write poems. For a while, I wrote poems every time I looked back and came across one of my gratitude lists. When I wrote my memoir, the poems led me to a space of awe and wonder because the poems reflected what was going on at various points of my life. As a result, each chapter could be iced with one of these poems at the end. Lately, inspiration has led me to going back in my journals to find overnight dreams I have written about. The magic that happened this time is that I went an extra step and put the poems to water color. I leave you now with an example. Hope to see you in class! PUSHED (from the dream series) I know the truth. My baby fell in the deep end, but, my arms paralyzed, I did not reach for him. I coddled and nourished them, as was necessary, but did I tie their shoes for too long, or, not long enough? Their eyes grew big, and bigger still, as they came to rest on the bottom. It is the lifeguard who rescued them. Turns out, my child is fine. They had learned to breathe under water. |
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