Health & Wellness Section :: Page 26

• Yellow Springs healers embrace holistic approach

  By Megan BachmanSeptember 19, 2013

  Just as 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary famously told fellow hippies to “tune in, turn on, drop out,” a couple of self-described “New Age flower children” local holistic health practitioners have some advice today for health and healing.

• Yellow Springs foodies try a new vegan product that has yet to hit the commercial shelves

  By Lauren HeatonSeptember 10, 2013

  

  Chef Tetsuko Okada came to town over the weekend to demonstrate the unlimited capacity of her new vegan food product to morph into a facsimile of almost any meat on the planet.

• Fighting West Nile in the village

  By Megan BachmanJuly 28, 2013

  

  To keep the mosquito-borne West Nile Virus at bay, local groups are urging residents to remove mosquito breeding sites on their property.

• New Reiki Gong business — A life path that veered to healing

  By Megan BachmanJuly 11, 2013

  Philip Love found in meditation and Eastern spirituality the enlightenment he once sought in a Messiah and a materialistic lifestyle and created his own unique practice that blends Tibetan Reiki healing with the Chinese practice of Qigong.

• Starflower says ‘no’ to GMO

  By Megan BachmanJune 27, 2013

  Starflower Natural Foods owner Marnie Neumann recently vowed to stop purchasing new items that contain GMOs for her store, saying that GMOs are both unhealthy to eat and bad for the environment. Soon Starflower may be completely GMO-free.

• Local psychologist joins west, east in healing

  By Megan BachmanJune 20, 2013

  Few conventional medicine providers give much credence to traditional medicine, whose practitioners don’t often seek mainstream credentials. Dr. Rose Mary Shaw bridges both worlds.

• Giving blood, giving life in YS

  By Anisa KlineJune 6, 2013

  

  On June 13, from 3–6:30 p.m., Yellow Springs’ first Blood Drive and Mini Wellness Fair will be held at the Bryan Center.

• Wellness about the daily mind

  By Lauren HeatonApril 11, 2013

  Local resident Carmen Milano believes that the village has many of the elements associated with good health and long life spans. And beginning this month, Wellness Month in Yellow Springs, she wants to make the village a place where people truly live better and longer.

• Bailey to talk GMO food

  By Lauren ShowsApril 5, 2013

  

  MacKenzie Bailey of Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association will speak at Starflower Natural Foods on Thursday, April 11 at 7:30 p.m

• April is Wellness Month in YS

  By Lauren HeatonApril 2, 2013

  

  This month learn about new ways of healing the body and staying well for a long, well-lived life.