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1 A JOURNAL. F O R T H E. MIND, BODY. AND SPIRIT. Living the Wisdom of the Tao by Dr. Wayne Dyer Kauai's Professional Downhill Racer Joanna Petterson with Chase Bohn Move Your Body: Healthy Aging, Props in Yoga, Yamuna Ball Rolling More from Dr. Barbara Brennan &. Dr. Elizabeth Christenson J u l y / A u g u s t 2 0 0 8 free 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Hawaii Healing Garden Festival Statewide This Summer! Good things are growing in Find out which plants, trees and the garden! All across the teas can be useful for diabetes state this summer, the Hawaii prevention, high blood pressure, Healing Garden Festival offers a enhancing fertility, keeping moveable feast that is not to be cool in the summer (or during missed. The festival celebrates menopause), alleviating pain, the diverse multi-cultural or have anti-biotic properties. healing arts, health & wellness, Purchase native plants, or and green sustainable living. fruits from the plant sale, or Cultural practitioners share experience raw, macrobiotic, Ayurvedic, Japanese, Chinese, vegan cuisine.

2 Try delicious Filipino, Western, Polynesian Chinese dietary therapy cooked and Hawaiian native traditions with herbs for longevity. Taste of working with plants for medicinal teas and organically health and healing. grown foods. Study la'u lapa'au with Enjoy the Healthy Expo renowned teachers such as Kaipo and enjoy locally made Kaikane, Levon Ohai, Kumu products or book a massage Kehaulani Kekua. Learn about sample health practitioners Filipino healing arts traditions or take a qi Kung class in the with Virgil Apostol of Rumsua labyrinth, or meet new friends Traditions and Patria Agulana on the botanical walking RN. Explore Chinese medicine tour. There is something for with Leon Letoto , or find everyone to experience and medicine growing at your feet learn, and great entertainment with David Leonard with hula, and musicians such Learn about adaptogenic plants as Paula Fuga, Makana and from Dr. Michael Ancharski, or friends and more.

3 Amazonian plants and herbs from world expert Jerome River Join us on Kauai at Malama Black of Herbs America. Kauai June 21, Oahu at Waimea Valley on Aug 23, Maui at Maui Find out about herbal oils and Community College on Sept. self-massage that can improve 27 or Amy Greenwell Garden your tennis game! Come and in Captain Cook, Kona on Dec play with the Garden Fairy 1. Additional workshops and Godmother, or taste and feel tours are scheduled the days the medicinal properties of following the Festivals at unique tea at the Mad Hatter's Tea locations on each island. Party. There is also a children's Little Green Thumb program, Find the healthy things that and art in the garden too. bring us all together and celebrate Hawaii' cultural Need more? How about soil diversity. You will feel good testing, worms & vermi-culture, after a day in the Healing organic gardening, farm to table Garden. See you there! To find cooking classes, workshops and out more information, speaker farm tours.

4 Learn about herbs, bios, children's programs, spices and easy to grow kitchen map or directions, recipes, garden food from many cultures or register for workshops that have been grown and used throughout the week of the in Hawaii for generations. Learn festival on each island, please useful diet tips that keep your visit us on line at http://www. family healthy with easy to , or grow plants such as lemon call (808) 638-0888. grass, marungi, ginger, tumeric (olena), mint or Hawaiian noni. 6. 7. 8 i n s p i r a t i o n j o u r n a l KHWA Members at PMRF Fair on Kauai's Westside Great! An opportunity to be in an Expo on the west side of the island! But, wait a minute, at Barking Sands? On a military base? What had I. gotten us into? Well, it was absolutely wonderful! A bit strange but, it really was a wonderful day! Lorna and her crew for the Expo started out by giving each of us vendors a shell lei and their personal gratitude for our participation.

5 Next, they fed us all day beverages, pizza, sandwiches, cookies, blueberry muffins you get the picture. Oh, and did I mention live music and give-aways? But, the best part of all was the people. Here we are at an Expo with our Customized Spiritual Journeys booth, with our crystals, Tibetan Bowls, Meditation CDs and information on Intuitive Reiki, channeling and personal growth classes. All around us are military personnel and family. Many of them in fatiques and armed. So, here we are standing in the middle of a military base talking about channeling and the healing possibilities of Intuitive Reiki, crystals and Tibetan Bowls what a hoot! But, also, how absolutely wonderful! We went to the Expo to reach out. We left the Expo being touched by the grace and humanity of those we met there it was indeed a grand, successful event! Well done Lorna and crew. The Kauai Health and Wellness Association is a non-profit membership-based organization of businesses and professionals.

6 KWHA provides a unified voice to inspire proactive change and positive community involvement. For information on the new Member Directory call Fran Becker at 246-8986. 9. Contents July/August 2008 V ol u m e 6, I ss u e 2. The effects of stress/burnout on 18. Hawaii Healing Garden Festival .. 6 Elizabeth Chen Christenson, MD, LAc. Publisher's 8 A time for action .. 19. Walt Barnes Ancestral 11. Howard Wills herbs: mint & Parsely .. 20. Patti Valentine Meditation on your third 11. Andrea Nandoskar question Mark - ASK THE NATURAL 21. Dr. Devin Ryerson 12. Joanna Petterson Diabetes is a Very Serious 22. By Dr. Inam Rahman Kauai celebrates healthy aging!.. 13. Naomi S. Sugihara HAWAII A STATE OF 22. Ho'okahi Ho'oulu Kawai'i Yamuna body 14. Lori Potter Dr. Tanmay 23. Margo Uma Gal To Prop or not to 15. Paul Reynolds Jerry 23. Change your 16 23. Dr. Wayne Dyer Facing up to the challenges of 17 Resource directory & 24. Barbara Brennan, PhD.

7 Wellness products & 27. Our Philosophy: Inspiration is a reflection of the collective communities of Hawaii, the mainland and the world. It is a vehicle for holistic heal- ers, for health, natural living, social and environmental professionals throughout Hawaii, to share their knowledge. We believe in cultivating an understanding of the body, mind and spirit in an effort to encourage the exploration of inner peace, harmony and balance. Publisher Char Ravelo Distribution Oahu - Nalani Ravelo, Maui- Kecia Joy, Kona - Mark Ravelo, Kauai - Dave Armstrong Editor Sally Wilson Advertising Richard Diamond 808-821-1253. Associate Editor Tammi Andersland Paul Reynolds 650-773-3422. Paul Reynolds (Yoga) Ganshet Nandoskar (Oahu) 808-923-2170. Pam Salibi Jennifer Tanaka (Oahu) Contributing Writers Barbara Brennan, Elizabeth Chen Christenson, MD, LAc., Design Todd Johansen Dr. Wayne Dyer, Margo Uma Gal, Andrea Nandoskar, Joanna Petterson, Lori Potter, Dr.

8 Inam Rahman, Web Design Dexter Sear Paul Reynolds, Dr. Devin Ryerson, Naomi S. Sugihara, Howard Wills INSPIRATION is published bimonthly and free for distribution. Subscriptions are $30 for 6 intention is to distribute information in an unbiased format and not lead anyone in a specificdirection or endorse any product, thought or practice. INSPIRATION reserves the right to refuse any materials that do not conform to our editorial guidelines. Advance permission is required to reprint any part of INSPIRATION. All right reserved. Send queries to: INSPIRATION, Box 3211, Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii 96766, (808) 652-4328 Tel On the Web: Copyright 2008 by Inspiration, a Journal Inc. On the Cover: Professional Downhill Racer Joanna Petterson and Amateur Racer Chase Bohn, Photo by Danny Hashimoto Printed in Hong Kong 10 inspiration jo u rnal Ancestral Prayer By Andrea Nandoskar Picture yourself alone & barefoot wandering in a familiar wood just before dusk.

9 Slowly the sun fades after a glowing moment of radiance bathing everything in a luminous golden light. The wind gently whispers through the wood and the sound of insects & small night creatures gently Lord, For Myself, My Spouse, All and rhythmically creates nature's music. You sit and rest by a Our Family Members, All Our weeping willow next to a grove of your favorite trees Apple, Relationships, All Our Ancestors And All Their Relationships Back Through Bamboo, or whatever pleases you. The Earth's vibration draws All Time, Through All Of Our Live you down and grounds you. Instinctively you feel yourself Lord, Please Help Us All Forgive, Be rooted like a plant veins & shoots sprouting and reaching Forgiven, And All Forgive Ourselves Completely And Totally, Now And deep below the crust of the soil. You are straight and mighty Forever, Please Lord, Thank You Lord like a warrior yet humble & receptive to the energies & love (Repeat 3 Times) Lord, Fill Us All With that surround you.

10 Focus your concentration on yourself as a Your Love And Give Us All Complete Peace Now And Forever, Please Lord, living root & plant--the top of your physical body reaching out Thank You Lord (Repeat 3 Times) to worlds unknown & new dimensions. Breathe deeply & slowly drawing nourishment from the Lord, We Thank You For Your Love, We Thank You For Your Blessings, Earth into your plant body allowing it to rise &. We Thank You For The Gift Of Life And fill you with light. Rest briefly with awareness at All The Many Gifts You Give Us Daily, Thank You Lord, Thank You Lord, each chakra your root, the second chakra, solar Thank You Lord plexus, heart, throat and then fixing your attention (Repeat 3 Times) on the third eye. Visualize a doorway into other worlds. Continue Amen . breathing & basking in the love & pure vibration around you. A daily prayer specially written for the When you feel ready slowly enter the doorway with your people of Kauai by Howard Wills.