The public should not consume the affected Woody’s brand of vodka beverages described below because the product may contain glass fragments, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

The products being recalled are:

* Woody’s - Pink Grapefruit

* Woody’s - Sasparilla

* Woody’s - Mexican Lime

* Woody’s - Refresher

* Woody’s - Vodka Cola

* Woody’s - Blackcurrent and Apple

* Woody’s - Pineapple and Grapefruit

* Woody’s - Pink Grapefruit

* Woody’s - 99 Raspberry

* Pomtini Pomegranate

* Orangetini

In the interest of customer safety and in consultation with the supplier, the LDB is recalling these products after receiving confirmation of the presence of glass particles in some bottles was identified.

Customers returning this product to any liquor stores in British Columbia will receive a full refund.

Body-Mapping is a combination of art and narrative therapy that originated in South Africa. It is an internationally recognized method of exploring the emotional and physical impact of HIV on the body and discussing treatment information.

Body-Mapping techniques are introduced in this workshop as self-reflective tools that can be used to address a broad range of body concerns, such as body trauma, illness, and self-image.

All bodies have a story. This experiential workshop is a 2 day personal exploration of the body’s journey using art and narrative therapy. Participants will create a body tracing and spend the 2 days in creative response to a series of directives.

When: Sat. Nov. 13^th and Sun. Nov. 14^th, 2010

Times: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

Where: Kutenai Art Therapy Institute: 206 – 601 Front St., Nelson, BC

Cost: $160 (early registration by Nov. 1, 2010) $175 late registration

KATI students (cost is included in tuition – credit hours for KATI-7)

Registration required: Kutenai Art Therapy Institute at 250 352-2264

For information: contact Christine Lummis at clummis@shaw.ca

Facilitator: Christine Lummis BA, DKATI, RCAT was trained in Body-mapping with Jane Seymour from South Africa at a national capacity-building incentive in Toronto. Christine is an international workshop presenter with 14 years experience providing art therapy services to people of all ages and abilities. She specializes in expressive movement, body-focused art therapy, trauma, grief and loss, and addictions. Christine is a guest Instructor at the Kutenai Art Therapy Institute and former Vice President of the Canadian Art Therapy Association. She has written a manual on The Use of Art Therapy in the Treatment of Addictions. Her website is www.arttherapyservices.ca

“Ring the bells that you can ring, forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything–that’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen

• Date: Sat. Oct 16 - - Sun. Oct. 17
• Location: ManiStone Centre, Nelson
• Tuition: $110-$150
• Phone: (250) 352-7908

The Alchemy of Writing is a practice, a way of being. You discover this way of being when you are present, open, and willing to receive what emerges from the unknown depths of your being. This is not like school, where you get good marks for being right. This is a way of diving into the wildness, the unpredictability of life itself, and discovering resources, capacities that want to make themselves known to you.

These resources might express themselves in the form of grief, of longing, of unexpected delight—who knows? To be whole means connecting with essence, with your core, this being that rejects nothing, and embraces every part of who you are.  We might have ideas about the power of acceptance, of the full embrace– in this writing, we feel what that actually is. We let go of our need to know, to control, to achieve specfic outcomes. We meet ourselves, without defenses, and we discover that we are not who we think we are.

“I am vast, I contain multitudes,” sang Walt Whitman. You are no different than Walt. You are also a being of infinite dimensions. Writing is a river; it carries us into places we have never been, places we have never imagined, far beyond the limits of our little conditioned mind.

This workshop will give you every opportunity to rest in the freedom, in the power, in the compassionate warmth of presence, and to express yourself fully in this openness. When you express, when you find the courage to allow your authentic being to emerge, you become more and more fully yourself. And as yourself, you are a gift to this world.

This is the good news. We don’t have to run around searching for good things to do. We just have to learn how to be fully and freely expressed. Then our natural goodness shines. We find the courage to take risks, to be transparent, to love more, even when it’s not safe. To be fully alive, vulnerable, tender, juicy. Not needing to prove anything. Just here as we are.

Sessions will include sitting, inquiry, gentle energy work, and dialogue. Sometimes alone, sometimes with a partner, sometimes in small groups.

Tuition is a sliding scale: $110-$150. Pre-registration required.
Workshop times:

Sat. Oct. 15 1:00-5pm
Sun. Oct. 16 10-5:30pm

For more information, or to register, visit http://www.barefootjourneys.net

Shayla is a coach, teacher, mentor and writer. She supports those who are ready to awaken to the intimacy, power and natural creativity of presence.

Wilderness Self-Reliance
And the Essential Skills of Bushcraft

Friday September 17th to Sunday September 19th

Learn about what to do, and not do, if you are lost or stranded.
Learn the many, many ways to start and build a fire, cook food and stay warm in the wilderness in any season.
Build a shelter with little or no modern technology or material.
Learn about the profound importance of clean water, how to find and purify water in the wild.
Learn about the ideal foods to take into the bush and the foods that are already there.
Learn to make primitive and simple hunting tools and traps.

Join Pathways School co-founder, Michael Smith, for this one-of-a-kind experience in the fine art of Self-Reliance and Bushcraft.  Come out, have some fun, learn and then test your skills in the Survival Olympics.  Call 250-777-1248.
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21st Century Health Challenge

Staying healthy in the 21st Century can be a challenge.  Our stressful lifestyle, our over-consumption of processed foods and the increasing toxicity of our world have made health something we can no longer take for granted.

The 21st Century Health Challenge is a supervised and professionally guided 60 Day Detoxification, Rejuvenation and Weight Loss Program.  The cleansing process challenges you to stabilize your lifestyle and your metabolism; to improve your digestion through simpler eating habits; to remove Candida and Parasites from your intestines; to rebuild your liver so that it can detoxify itself and the rest of your body, including your Lymphatic System, your Gall Bladder, and your Kidneys.

The course includes a 200 page manual and a cook book.   There will be a 2 hour presentation, every Monday night from September 20th to November 8th   7:00 pm to 9:00 pm.  Investment is $260.00.  If you are interested please contact Dr. Michael Smith (TCM) at 352-0459.
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Early Morning Qi Gong

Wake up to the experience of Qi, with relaxed movement, gentle stretching, deep breathing and moments of ecstatic stillness.   Qi Gong classes will be Tuesday and Thursday mornings, from 7:45 – 8:45 am, beginning Sept 21st.   Instruction will be offered by Michael Smith who brings over 20 years of teaching experience.  Register early, as space is limited.  Investment is $80.00 per month.  Please call 352-0459.
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Applied Combat Martial Arts
Tues and Thurs 6:30 – 8:00 PM

Today, in the study of Self-Defence and the Martial Arts, the focus is on finding a good combination of styles; a combination that covers every range of hand to hand combat.  We will learn the most powerful and effective strikes, kicks, timing and sensitivity drills, grappling skills, submissions and escapes.  The most necessary skills that ensure your tactical advantage in Close Quarter Combat.  We will also learn the essentials of knife and stick fighting, the most likely weapons to encounter on the street.

Michael Smith, one of the Kootenays most experienced martial artists, will be sharing over 20 years experience in training civilians, traditional martial artists, law enforcement officers, corrections officers and the military.  This course is appropriate for beginners, experienced martial artists and professionals needing more skills in defensive combatives.  The focus will be on 2-person and multi-person skill specific drills.

Location:       525 Josephine St.   Tues/Thurs  6:30 – 8:00 pm          Investment:      $80 per month
Call: 250-352-0459

Best wishes,

Dr. Michael Smith (TCM)
Chris Morasky
Pathways School
www.pathwaysschool.ca
250-352-0459

When we study the neural pathways of the brain, we see that we are hard-wired for fear. We are designed to be able to react quickly to threat. We are on the look-out for danger, and immediately become more alert and ready to fight or fly when it presents.

Our perception of fear, however, is not hard-wired. It is programmed by our experience. That programming begins before we even exit the womb at birth, and tends to determine how we respond to challenges in life.

Fortunately, we are also designed for love. When we have had a difficult beginning, or extreme challenges in life, we may need to work harder to bypass established patterns of fear and access the love.

Prenatal Learning
As little ones in the womb, we prepare for the world we are to be born into. As with all of our survival needs prenatally, our perception of threat before birth depends on mother. Our growth and development vary according to how mother perceives her environment. If she feels threatened, baby develops a body and nervous system prepared for danger. When mom feels safe and nurtured, baby prepares to live in a safe, nurturing world.

As Bruce Lipton points out in his book, The Biology of Belief, “The responsiveness of individuals to the environmental conditions perceived by their mothers before birth allows them to optimize their genetic and physiologic development as they adapt to the environmental forecast” (p. 157). The rising field of epigenetics explores how genes are turned on and off in this way.

The Gateway of Birth
For many of us, our prenatal programming is reinforced by how we are born. Birth is designed to give the nervous system a jump start as the head squeezes through the birth canal and then expands with our first breaths. Ideally, we experience an ignition to our whole system, with each organ enjoying the massage of our passage out of the womb. We then emerge into the loving arms of mom, supported by her nurturing partner and community. Our bonding with mom is fostered by oxytocin, the “love hormone” naturally released during childbirth.

Modern, western birth is rarely this gentle and welcoming. Many of us were pulled out of the birth canal with rough tools or hands. Birth attendants are usually relative strangers, even if their hands are gentle. Babies are often taken from mom - home and lifeline for the last nine or so months - to be weighed, cleaned and measured. Many are rushed away from mom to another room by strangers in an atmosphere of fear and crisis.

Our first breaths are accompanied by this imprint of how we are received at birth. Our first sight with our new eyes is often the blinding lights of an operating room or neonatal intensive care unit. Our nervous system reacts to this extreme stress. When our cries do not bring us back to the soothing familiarity of mom, and we are too small to fight or fly, we withdraw into shocked silence. Oxytocin is hard to access in this state.

Mom, in the meantime, begins her own physiological withdrawal when separated from her baby. Her body reacts as if her baby were dead, and bonding and breast feeding can be impeded.

While we may appear to recover from this startling beginning, these early experiences leave deep, lasting impressions on our rapidly learning nervous system. We may find ourselves later in life easily overwhelmed by change and challenged by relationships. New beginnings are quickly, unconsciously associated with our birth. We forget that we are now grown, highly capable individuals. We regress into our infantile experience, feeling helpless, alone, unheard, unseen, unloved.

Return to Love
The good news is that love is our essence. We can return to it at anytime.

I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to work with newborns and small children, as well as adults who harbor an inner little one. I have witnessed first hand how the nervous system and the psyche can shift back to an orientation to something deeper and more essential than one’s trauma history.

When we live in the shadow of an early imprint, we are not really here in present time. Some aspect of us is always interpreting our experience according to that first experience. A major key to returning to love is to bring our attention to the present.

Babies Tell their Story
Babies are not able on their own to differentiate between what they are remembering and what is happening now. They experience everything as now. They readily respond, however, if we differentiate for them.

When I work with babies, they often begin to “tell the story” of their birth, as soon as they sense that I understand this territory. They may begin to push or turn as they did in their birth. It can be helpful for babies, as it is for any of us, to be able to express to others an intense experience they have had. If the feelings associated with that event are too extreme, however, little ones can become overwhelmed by their memory. Babies easily get lost in this past pain. It can be remarkably helpful to make a simple statement differentiating then from now. I might say something like, “Yes, that’s what it was like then. I’m sorry you had to go through that. And you got through it. You are here now. Here’s mom now.”

It can be surprising how quickly babies will settle with this information. And, yes, babies do understand what we say to them. They may not know all the words, although evidence of their comprehension is amassing. They certainly understand, however, our intentions and respond to our words.

Little Ones Within
All of us have within us the influence of our own prenatal and birth experience. In that our modern western culture does not endorse this kind of memory, we are not supported as toddlers in talking about these experiences, which would bring them into more conscious, explicit memory. We are nonetheless under their influence.

We are all capable of regressing into an infantile state, where we lose access to our more grown up resourcefulness. If we have had a difficult birth or prenatal experience, we will tend to slip into this early state when encountering major change or transition. Like the babies we once were, we may be unable to differentiate in this state between then and now. We may then find ourselves unable to cope, depressed, withdrawn, or incapacitated by primal rage or terror. It is helpful to have support at these times from someone who understands the trauma states little ones can experience. There are also ways to support yourself in these situations.

Present Time, Love Present
Just as I help my little clients to differentiate between then and now, it can be helpful to remind yourself that these feelings are from the past, when you were too little to protect yourself. Let yourself remember how old you are now. Remind yourself of all the skills you have developed that you didn’t have back then. For example, you can read. You can walk and talk. You can earn and count money and pay for things. Perhaps you can drive, hold down a job, dial the phone. Make a list of these simple skills that you have that you didn’t have when you were little. This can help you to remember who you are now.

Make yourself look around the room you are in. Take note of the colors, shapes, images you see. Name what you see. This brings you into present time. Similarly, attending to and identifying sensations you feel supports you in being present. Take note of simple sensations like heat in your foot, the sensation of the your body resting in the chair. Make tiny movements with one hand or finger or other body part, and let yourself be with the felt sense of that momement.

Challenge yourself to see how you are safe in this moment. Our fear is never actually about the present. It is about what could happen in the future, and is based on the past. Even if you are in a burning building, your fear is not about this moment. You are relatively ok in this moment. Your fear is that you will never escape… that it will get worse…that you will be burned, or more burned, or lose your things and loved ones, or lose more of them than you have already lost. In this moment, you can always find some sense of safety, something that tells you that you are safe.

As you come into present time, you will begin to find love. You can support this process by thinking of what you feel grateful for or appreciate. Gratitude and appreciate actually shift your physiology. There is always something to feel grateful for, even if it is just the breath you just took.

Breath is Life
By the way, are you breathing? When we are in fear, our breath tends to become shallow and fast, as the sympathetic nervous system prepares us for fight or flight. If you are not in actual physical danger, where you need to be able to run away or protect yourself, it can be helpful to sit or lie down and put a hand on your belly. Let yourself become aware of the movement of the breath in your belly. You will feel your hand rising and falling with the breath. This awareness supports your parasympathetic nervous system, which is involved with rest and rejuvenation.

As you settle, love becomes more accessible. You can begin to think about what you actually desire in relation to the situation at hand. You can begin to appreciate what you have and build on that. You may even choose to share your love with your inner little one. Imagine him or her and ask yourself what that little one most needs. Chances are, it is to be held and loved. This is something you can provide, even if you didn’t receive it back then. Go ahead and visualize yourself holding this little one in your arms, in your heart. It is never too late to love and be loved.

Meeting a new beginning or change from a state of love may in itself be a new beginning for you. You may find yourself going through a different kind of birth in this moment. Welcome to your new life!

The Community First Health Co-op (CFHC) operates the Wellness Centre on Lake Street in Nelson.  The CFHC took ownership May 2006 of the ex-forestry building and its associated vacant land.  We are a volunteer organization with a common goal to help the community in the area of health and wellness.

The Health Co-op vision is to combine traditional medical services and alternative medicine practices in a single location, with an additional focus on education and prevention for young and old alike.

Our Mission is to enhance the health and wellness of communities, families and individuals by providing services through a co-operative partnership of consumer and health service providers.

Current tenants provide acupuncture, massage, children’s resources, community services, educational and nursing programs, and chiropractic, traditional and Chinese medicine.  All these services provide well-rounded care for the community.

We are in need of volunteers to fill board positions to carry on the business of the Co-op.  If you have time and talent to contribute, please call Sharon Browning at (250)825-4283.  Also, you are able to join the Co-op with a minimum of $10 a share, or more shares if you wish.  If we can obtain a larger membership, we will be able to garner more support for our goals from various agencies.

Our website is www.healthco-op.ca for additional information and membership forms.  Also, the Nelson & District Credit Union has membership forms and will accept share payments for your convenience.

Come and share the vision with us and together we can build communities through health and wellness. Your membership and/or volunteer services will help us build community through a co-operative approach.

The Alchemy of Writing One Day Workshop

April 5-10am-5pm

Mirror Lake Studio, Kaslo, BC

“Tell me what you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.” (Mary Oliver)

We live in a vast field of creative energy that wants to move through us. Opening to this energy allows us to access our natural creativity, freedom and courage. In this workshop, we will be learning how to relate to this process of writing as powerful medicine. This medicine has nothing to do with special talents or skills. It is available to all of us. This medicine connects us with the natural wholeness of our being, and allows us to access our deepest resources.

Spring is a time of awakening, dynamism and new growth. We will be focusing in this work with ourselves and each other on opening new possibilities for movement and transformation in our lives. What is it that you really care about right now? How can you find the resources, both inner and outer, that will allow you to live with creativity and full integrity?

Human life is full of challenges and obstacles, especially right now on our planet. We can discover our own way of meeting these obstacles, using the power of this writing process to ‘rise to the occasion’ of our own life, exactly as it is.

Shayla studied for 25 years in India, and has been teaching writing, speaking, yoga and inquiry all over the world for many years. She writes professionally, and also just for the love of it. She has a teaching degree in yoga, a Phd in non-dual philosophy, and is a certified coach.

As a combined effort, this unique and inspiring class will be hosted by Kaslo life coach, Brodie Whitney in his mountain-view studio in Mirror Lake. Brodie is an aspiring writer, life coach, traveller, furniture maker, actor, and aspiring speaker. To find out more about his coaching, email brodiew@telus.net

The workshop will be catered by Dawna McLennan of Feed Your Soul Foods.

“Working with you has had a deep, lasting and profound impact on my life. ”

Tim Barber, Nelson

Tuition: $90 No Previous writing experience is necessary

For more info about Shayla and The Alchemy of Writing,

visit www.barefootjourneys.net or call 1.866.795.4968

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To be facilitated by Ric Levendosky, licensed Brain Gym instructor, practitioner and educational consultant for 17 years.

As a movement-based program, Brain Gym is centered around 26 quick, easy, and energizing movements and activities ~ some of which are derived from the profoundly important developmental movements of infants from within their first 3 years after birth.  These activities effectively improve your performance creatively and cognitively, reduce stress, increase your physical coordination and ability to focus, assure competency, self- confidence and more heart in your personal interactions and many other areas, and help to overcome mental, physical and emotional blocks of most any kind.

Above all Brain Gym is experiential.  You will learn the activities and techniques of Brain Gym by observation and practice, and after completion of the 32 hour course be able to apply these new tools for work upon yourself or anyone else.

In this course you will experience and learn:

•    Water’s important function within the brain/body system.
•    How to reduce stress and excessive vulnerability.
•    How to readily set meaningful goals.
•    The significance of “noticing” as a means of sensing your body’s internal messages.
•    The 26 movements and activities that integrate both brain and body for in-creased body, spatial and directional awareness and that improve vision, hearing/ listening, balance, posture and memory.
•    The 3 dimensions of our brain, heart and body experience.
•    How to increase mental, emotional and physical balance and energy for improved reading, listening, writing, creativity, whole body movement, physical coordination and for better ability to communicate, to organize and to grasp hold of and participate in life.
•    Muscle checking as a means of instant feedback about the state of the body, heart and mind.
•    How to increase self esteem, motivation and positive attitude.
•    How to joyfully empower yourself and others.

* Brain Gym is also successfully used in schools throughout the world.

To find out more details or to enroll in this course or for a private session or further information about Brain Gym, please contact Ric Levendosky at (250)825-9962.

The class begins on Saturday, 21 February and runs from 1 ~ 5 pm.     Please register no later than 5 days before the class.

Those who might benefit from this course: educators, caregivers, parents, performers, athletes, students, and all who wish to gain new insights into themselves, to further ex-plore their potentials or to experience more ease and balance in their lives.

At present Brain Gym is practiced in at least 90 different countries.

Five Sunday Afternoons, 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. – January 11th 18th, then February 1st, 8th, 15th,  2008

Week One – January 11, 2009: Re-imagining the Tarot Symbols, Remembering the Language of Your Soul

Tarot symbols have a reputation of being an esoteric knowledge held by a few. They aren’t! Tarot symbols, as symbols in general, are the visual language of your inner world, the realm of Soul. Symbols are a portal to your memory of the mystery & magic of life & the greater dance of which we each are a part. Surprise yourself & enjoy discovering what you already know about this valuable tool for personal growth & awakening consciousness.

Week Two – January 18, 2009: Soul Path Mythology,  Reflecting on Your Personal Path and Purpose

There is a myth in the Tarot that the day you are born has significance beyond your astrological orientation.  Your birth date also reveals your Soul Path, an eternal Self that holds the deep focus of your purpose & meaning.  Explore this mythology experientially in a fun & informative way as you join with a your community of fellow Soul mates.

Week Three –  February 1, 2009: Soul Paths on the Tree of Life, Understanding Your Personal Journey
& Supporting the Paths of Others

This week we look more profoundly into the relevance of your Soul Path to this time in our history, so full of transformative potential that staying asleep is not a sustainable option. The story of the Tree of Life, like the Mayan Calendar, is one that maps the human journey from our centuries of childhood into the maturity of both personal integrity & collective unity so needed in our world today. We each have our part to play.

Week Four –  February 8, 2009:  The Medicine Wheel Practice in The Mystery School

Fire, Earth, Water and Air are elemental threads that weave our lives into existence. This afternoon, we do a medicine walk through the elements & discover the mysterious beauty of creation within each other & ourselves.  Bring balance into your world. This practice is a central feature of a Nelson community-based Mystery School that is scheduled to begin in the Fall of 2009.

Week Five – February 15, 2009: A Tarot Reading for the Community of Nelson

A spiritual teacher from India visiting the Kootenays said once that our region would be a “birthplace of a new civilization”. That’s a powerful vision for our community to consider when we come together. This afternoon, we are going to do an experiment. From those gathered, members of our community will represent us by choosing symbols relevant to awakening this collective potential. Carol will lay these symbols out in a traditional Celtic Cross pattern & interpret these symbols to offer us perspective, inspiration, & vision for our participation in our community in this coming year.

Carol Stewart is gifted in the use of symbols to awaken the richness, wisdom, & meaning of everyday life. For 33 years, her exploration of the Tarot, the Tree of Life & Medicine Wheel has guided her personal life journey. From her early training in education, mental health & personal growth, her life has been filled with creative adventure, discovery & service including workshops, leading journey’s to Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, & doing ceremony in many sacred sites, most recently in India and Mexico as well as Peru. For the last 29 years, her professional work with the Tarot symbols, as a form of spiritual counseling, has taken her into cities across North America. Carol is also the founder of The Mystery School, a 3-year cycle of workshops, for awakening & maturing one’s personal potential in the embrace of community. Her partner, Jim Quigley, began his spiritual life at Findhorn, a community in Scotland.  Jim is a poet, contributes to community ceremonies, does volunteer work & assists Carol as co-leader in The Mystery School as well as taking people on sacred journeys to Peru. Nelson has been their home for over 13 years.

Dates: Five Sunday afternoons 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. January 11, 18, and February 1,8, & 15, 2009

Location: The Moving Centre – 533 Baker Street (upstairs, front room)
We would appreciate starting promptly at 1:30 p.m. each afternoon.

To Participate in the Sacred Play Series:

1.    You may attend any or all of the five events for $25 per afternoon at the door or…
2.    You may sign up early for all the events and save…

-Registered and paid in full by January 2, 2009 -  $95 for the Series  (postmarked on Jan. 2 is O.K.)
OR
-Registered and paid in full after January 2 - $110 for the Series

To Register:
Email Carol - cstewart@mysteryschool.ca
or phone Carol or her partner, Jim Quigley at 250 825-0104

and/or
Simply send your name, phone number and email with a check payable to Carol Stewart to:
Carol Stewart
2358 Bing Road,
Nelson, BC V1L 6K6