The Real Food Channel Turning cancer on and off by diet Health has next to nothing to do with genes. It's diet that makes the biggest difference. We know that because when healthy people move to countries that have poor diets, they take on the diseases of the country they move to. This video comes from the 2009 VegSource Healthy Lifestyle Expo. In it, Cornell University professor T. Colin Campbell Phd presents the overwhelming evidence showing that animal protein is one of the most potent carcinogens people are exposed to. You paid for the research. The government and the food industry with an assist from the Cancer Society has kept this information under wraps. ]]> tag:www.ojaihealing.com,2010://2.310 2010-01-28T02:06:36Z 2010-01-28T02:10:05Z Shareen Torres "52 Weeks of Peace" has beautiful spacious rooms that are available hourly or by the day. Our Yoga studio is 1200 square feet, with a wood floor and airy high ceilings. Available on weekends, and evenings after 7:30 pm. For more information call Shareen Prashanthi Torres at 805-746-2341 or 805-646-7000. ]]> tag:www.ojaihealing.com,2010://2.309 2010-01-28T01:59:11Z 2010-01-28T02:03:27Z Shareen Torres Office for rent in Ojai Healing Center "52 Weeks of Peace". Located in the Bryant Street Industrial Park. Office is quiet, private, perfect for healing professional. Other professionals in the center are psychotherapist, yoga teachers, massage therapists. $500 per month includes utilities and wireless access. For information call Shareen Prashanthi at 746-2341. ]]> tag:www.ojaihealing.com,2010://2.307 2010-01-19T00:58:48Z 2010-06-01T19:40:36Z Shareen Torres *comments closed due to spam* What is it like to be in a committed relationship with a partner or spouse who is struggling with sexual acting out behaviors? How do you know if they have an addiction and what can you do for them and yourself? "52 Weeks of Peace" yoga club and healing center is offering a series of lectures covering all aspects of this topic. As more and more celebraties appear in the news regarding extremes of sexual conduct, awareness begins to increase regarding this sensitive and often "embarrassing" issue. Being married or in a relationship with someone who has this problem is physically, emotionally and spiritually damaging. There are few resources for trained and experienced help. Free lectures are offered every Monday evening from 7:30 to 9:00 pm at "52 Weeks of Peace" located at 408 "G" Bryant Circle (behind Ojai Valley News). This coming Monday, February1st, the topic will be "What is it Like to Love Someone Who is Acting out Sexually and What are the Efffects"? Shareen Prashanthi Torres, CSAT III (certified sex addiction and trauma therapist) will be providing information, answering questions. Everyone is welcome. For more info call 805-746-2341 or go online; www.52weeksofpeace.com ]]> tag:www.ojaihealing.com,2009://2.304 2009-12-23T19:18:02Z 2009-12-23T19:24:56Z Heather McKenzie http://www.ojaihealers.com/heather_mckenzie/ Enter the New Year with Clarity and Focus! An end-of-year workshop with Brook Montagna designed to clear and honor your experiences of the past year, and then mindfully create your life vision for 2010. You will be guided through mindful processes for mental, emotional, and spiritual release and renewal. Wring Out 2009 - Take the best and leave the rest! • Appreciate the value of last year’s experiences no matter what they were • Capture important life lessons from 2009 and apply them going forward • Shift your focus from the past to free up energy for new creation • Celebrate and build on your successes and strengths Ring In 2010 - Design a year you can celebrate! • Create new possibilities and a compelling life vision • Have confidence in where you are going • Create your custom action plans • Set yourself up for success Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010 Time: 9 am to 4 pm Location: Ventura, CA Workshop Fee $85 Bring a Friend and Save! Only $75 each when registered by January 2 Register at MindfulLifeCoach.com ]]> tag:www.ojaihealing.com,2009://2.302 2009-11-09T23:09:52Z 2009-11-09T23:45:54Z Dr. Tudor Marinescu http://www.ojaihealers.com/tudor_c_marinescu_md_phd/ Vibrant Health is an ongoing journey, requiring deep awareness of one’s mental, emotional, physical and spiritual walk through life. The body has the innate capacity to create, regenerate and heal itself. It proved it over millions and millions of years as it developed from the simplest, one-cell-organism form of life to the complexity of the human body of today. And it goes through this process again and again as it develops from 2 cells the size of this dot ”.” into a community of 50-75 trillion cells that we call the human body, over a period of 9 months, during the pregnancy. Biological systems are in continuous movement and designed to self-regulate, self-correct and live interdependently with all other forms of life, pending they are provided with the optimal tools to do so. Recent industrial progress has considerably altered our basic needs for healthy living: air, water, food, ways of life, community. Degenerative dis-eases including autoimmune disorders and cancers are rampant and more and more “new illnesses” are surfacing almost daily. ]]> We do not simply one day wake up with a dis-ease. Life affects us. For every effect (symptom/disease) there is a cause. Unhealthy (dis-ease promoting) habits during our lifetime corroborated with genetically transmitted weakened terrains create the premises for a decreased function, which eventually lead to a chemical imbalance and subsequently anatomical changes that will express themselves as signs and symptoms. The common tendency today is to ignore the little signals our body is sending us and annihilate them with some quick, over-the-counter symptom-relief medication and keep going as if nothing is wrong. Let me ask you this simple question: If the oil level in your engine drops below the “low level” and the “low oil light” flashes in your dashboard, what do you do? Do you cut the connecting wire and keep driving like nothing happened or are you going to address and correct the original cause, which is adding more oil? Isn't it funny that we take the appropriate action with our cars, but we choose to ignore ourselves? Nature (immune system, homeostasis) will always attempt to shift the balance towards Health/Ease and away from dis-ease, but it will be successful only if we respect a few basic natural laws, that are sine qua non (mandatory) for optimal health: Eliminate those habits that made you sick in the first place and replace them with health promoting ones. * Give your body the nutrition it needs to maintain and sustain itself. * Detoxify (cleanse) the 4 major elimination systems of the body: liver, kidney, bowel and skin on a regular basis. * Remove all mental, emotional, physical and spiritual traumatic patterns that are accumulated and imprinted in the body throughout your lifetime. It takes a lifestyle change to do that. And it takes a fully committed person that is willing to be an active participant in the healing process and take full responsibility (ownership) of their life and journey towards well being. Our body is a community, a village or tribe of 50-75 trillion cells living together interdependently, in continuous loving, respectful interaction and interrelation. There is no function in the human body that is not also represented in the cell. Therefore, in order to understand ease and dis-ease at the macroscopic level (human body); we need to study the microscopic level (cell), the unit of structure and function of the human body. Complex patho-physiologic mechanisms of dis-ease and injury can actually be reduced at cellular level to 3 basic pathways: * Starvation * Accumulation of Toxicity * Accumulation of Stress Or simply put, there is something that is supposed to be in the cells but is missing and/or there is something in the cells that is not supposed to be there. "The cell is immortal. It is merely the fluid in which it floats that degenerates. Renew this fluid at regular intervals, give the cells what they require for nutrition, and as far as we know, the pulsation of life can go on forever. Dr. Alexis Carrell - Nobel Prize Winner A proper function ensures a proper structure and vice versa. Healthy cells make healthy organs, healthy organs make healthy systems and healthy systems make a healthy body. Chronic conditions (diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer etc.) develop as toxic accumulations, layers upon layers, over a long period of time. Natural ways of healing usually go the reverse way by eliminating the last (most recent) layers first and making their way to the "bottom of the pile", a process that is time consuming also. Hering’s Law states that the healing process occurs first from inside to the exterior, second from the most vital to the least vital organ system and third in reverse order from how the symptoms appeared. There is no wonder pill in nature that will make you get totally well overnight. The opportunity one is faced with is to travel the sometimes sinuous path to unveil the real cause of dis (un) ease, instead of reaching for the “quick, drive thru” fix that brings with itself a greater toll down the road. “The person who takes medicine must recover twice; once from the disease and once from the drug” Sir William Osler, MD, co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine, father of Internal Medicine. Every seed contains within the picture of the whole tree with roots, trunk, branches, leaves, flowers and fruits. It takes proper soil, sun, wind, water, fire, time and divine grace to manifest it into reality. And so is the healing journey, it takes time, patience, understanding, daily practice, commitment, consistency, integrity, trust and joy. We are totally committed to assist anyone who is ready to achieve their highest possible potential and fully, whole-heartedly be a co-creator in the journey. Tomorrow brings what you believe in and do today. As a physician I am merely a helper, a facilitator, someone who studies and understands Nature in order to assist It in It’s divine work. For more information please visit www.doctortudor.com or contact me at 805-633-4624 or drtudor@doctortudor.com. ]]> tag:www.ojaihealing.com,2009://2.299 2009-10-09T17:58:36Z 2010-04-10T00:28:39Z Heather McKenzie http://www.ojaihealers.com/heather_mckenzie/ THIS SPACE IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. Updated room available Wednesdays and Thursdays at Mira Monte professional office. $250/month for both days. Contact Elaina Fletcher 805.794.3314. ]]> tag:www.ojaihealing.com,2009://2.296 2009-08-21T17:03:54Z 2009-09-15T19:05:19Z Elizabeth Memel http://www.ojaihealers.com/elizabeth_memel_ma_rie_associa/ Our community has a debt of gratitude to pay the dedicated officials, teachers and mentors who came to speak on August 12th at the town hall meeting in support of the healing needs of our valley’s young people. It is hoped that connections between adults will result in growing awareness in the youth. Choices will be made, and growth or change will happen. How do we choose what we choose? ]]> The findings of famous child development theorist Piaget decades ago pointed to the fact that we humans typically develop awareness when something, or someone, gives us pause and when, consequently, instead of just acting, we stop to consider the possibilities of acting that are before us. We could heighten our awareness of what is actual by considering what is possible. We are conscious of what we do to the extent that we are conscious of what we do not do – of what we might have done. The notion of choice is thus central to self-control. So what causes us to stop and think about our thinking—and thus makes us able to choose to direct our thinking in one way rather than the other? It is the “executive” portion of the brain, the prefrontal cortex, the site of such awareness, developing cognitive, behavioral and social functions from early childhood through adolescence. But it is not a guarantee. One thing we know for sure is that youth-at-risk, including those just down the street, inhabit our valley community whose adult members are striving to find humane answers, witness the town hall meetings and organizational networking going on. We have to go for remediation because the costs in both human and fiscal terms are so vast. Truth be told, informed choice, also known as prevention, is a better, less expensive path. It is within the field of infant brain development that caring adults wanting to make a difference can look for the truth about the origins of self-awareness and impulse control. Genetics supplies the parts but social interaction largely determines how the parts are put together. Dr. Daniel Siegel, an award winning UCLA Medical School teacher who brings an important message about the neuroscience of infant attachment, states “Repeated experience creates and strengthens neural pathways, while lack of experience causes the corresponding unused tracks to wither.” Research since the 80’s have shown the pre-frontal cortex is sufficiently mature to support information processing in very early infancy. Infant brain development depends on sensory experiences and early movements. Parents of newborns have the opportunity to begin to foster autonomous self-awareness because early brain growth is rapid and depends on experience. That opportunity continues throughout the first two years of life, a sensitive period for many aspects of brain development, a time when the brain needs certain experiences to develop optimally. Some keys to infant caregiving during that sensitive developmental period have been shown by Magda Gerber’s RIE Approach to building relationships between babies and their parents. The over thirty-year legacy of this widely practiced work, presented through many available worldwide educational programs of her organization (www.rie.org), continues to result in the growth of countless highly gifted prefrontally connected humans, aptly described as authentic, resourceful and respectful. Their earliest years, from birth to two, are instilled with respect for their point of view because they are cared for as competent human beings participating in the experiences of their lives. These babies are not passive objects being treated or talked through lessons by controlling adults unable to truly see by looking within the child for answers to their building relationship. Instead a baby can develop a strong sense of who he/she is via responsive well-attuned communication that allows a baby to be in touch with her/himself, in body and mind, as well as with the significant others in their world. That is the foundation for growth and choice determined by aware people possessing self-control, something we all need more of in our society. Liz Memel, M.A., RIE Associate, resides in Ojai and provides weekly parenting groups for families with children from birth to age two. Trained with Magda Gerber, she has over twenty-five years experience consulting with and guiding adults, including professionals, who care for infants and toddlers. The Nan Tolbert Nurturing Center was designed and created by Liz and the board of Ojai Valley Birth and Family Support with funding from Ventura County First Five. In the fall, Liz will teach a 3-week evening course for expectant parents at the center. Call Liz at 646-0441 for information and enroll at www.birthresource.org ]]>