Central Florida Green Guide

Dr. Kalidas at the Center of Natural and Integrative Medicine is hosting a seminar on holistic weight loss and encourages many to come and join. He has many areas of expertise, including anti-aging, depression, hypertension. His center has grown considerably, and much of that is due to the seminars that he conducts on a regular basis. [...]

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Summer is here and you are eagerly planning your first pool party of the season.  The decorations are up, the pool is perfect, the potato salad has been prepared and you have found the perfect bathing suit.  The kids can’t wait for their friends to join them for games of Marco Polo and splashing big [...]

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 I’m doing a homeschooling seminar for Orlando area parents on April 29th at the UUU Society near UCF.  We’ll start at 7pm.  The program will last an hour. Here are the details:

Topics to be Discussed
Benefits of Homeschooling
Florida Law
Approaches/Methods
Getting Started
Local Support 
Resources
The Portfolio Evaluation
The seminar will be geared towards parents who are new to homeschooling and those [...]

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Orange County residents can adopt a tree for free compliments of Orange County Mayor Richard T. Crotty’s ReNEW program, along with Cooperative Extension.  The program is being used to encourage residents to add trees to their landscape to help the environment.  Trees provide oxygen, filter pollution, and create habitats for wildlife.  Adding trees also replenishes lost canopy [...]

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I really look forward to this time a year when I know that the ArtsFest is coming! My family and I have been attending ArtsFest for 5 or 6 years now! What is ArtsFest, you ask? Well, let me tell you!
ArtsFest is a festival that kicks-off the fundraising campaign for the United Arts. It is [...]

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Every Saturday in December

Top 10 Wines and Holiday Food Pairings 12:00–4:00 p.m.

Each Saturday in December, Whole Foods Market gives you great ideas for your holiday parties with samples of our Top 10 Wines and savvy food pairing ideas. Join us for a sample and pick up our Essential Guide to Giving and Entertaining.

Friday, [...]

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Scheduled to open later this month, Misty Forest Academy will offer education and enrichment using a different approach.  With a philosophy based on holistic education, it will prove to be the center many parents were waiting for.  Although, I think, its founders originally intended for it to be a children’s enrichment center primarily for homeschooler, Misty [...]

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If you haven’t yet experienced the power of Reiki I highly recommend that you do.  Reiki refers to the practice of managing energy in order to improve well-being.  This form of “medicine” is widely gaining acceptance as an integral part of health care.  Reiki is even being brought into some hospitals.
There are several Reiki practitioners [...]

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Gretchen Goel, Certified Health Educator with The Great American Health Improvement Project, is offering a Nutrition & Wellness Study Group to help families understand the forces that shape thier current attitudes about food, nutrition, and health care, and to help shift their thinking to gain more control over their health status, and make more informed decisions.  A plant based whole foods [...]

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Finally!  Holistic Childbirth Preparation will be offered right here in Central Florida!  Soon our community (and surrounding areas) will have several trained Birthing from Within mentors ready to offer childbirth preparation in a way that meets the needs of our holistic birthing community. 
Pam England, artist and midwife, developed Birthing from Within.  She is the author [...]

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