Natural Awakenings Chicago - February 2011

Meditation Made Easy: Simple Tips for Health, Happiness and Peace

Meditation can counteract the negative effects of acute and chronic stress, lower high blood pressure and help to bring the body back into balance. Here is how to start a regular practice. Read More »

Grayslake Designer Is Guest Blogger for Natural Home Magazine

Stephanie Nickolson, of Stephanie Nickolson Design, is a new guest blogger for Natural Home magazine. Some topics she’s written about includ... Read More »

Massage Specialists on Staff to Treat Cancer Patients

Therapeutic Kneads of Highland Park is proud to announce that several Licensed Massage Therapists on its staff are now certified in massage for cancer patients. Read More »

Love Even More

Here’s a practical process you can use to cultivate mindfulness and love even more. Read More »

The Yin and Yang of Winter

Throughout the winter months, notice the Yin and the Yang in your life and the feeling they create in you. Read More »

What We Can Learn About Life from the Oldest People on Earth

But there is a place where more people live longer and healthier lives than anywhere else on earth: Okinawa, Japan. By learning about the Okinawan lifestyle, we may be able to positively influence our own lives. Read More »

Exercise: The Ideal Post-Rehabilitation Prescription

A few progressive physical-therapy centers are taking a proactive approach and developing exercise-based post-rehab programs within their facilities to enhance and extend the healing process. Read More »

Take a Natural Approach to Health

The Institute for Integrative Health and Wellness welcomes naturopathic doctor Lisa Marie Leonard, N.D., to its staff. Read More »

Move Fully into Life This Year

Discover what keeps you from stepping fully into your life and move beyond negative beliefs, bad habits or unhealthy relationships. Shamanic practitioner Kathleen Rude will help you discover how in her Cord-Cutting Workshop. Read More »

A Home in Balance

Most experts agree that the rooms in your home should have function and flow, and that these qualities contribute to balance. Read More »

The Other Side of Chocolate

Before you choose chocolate for that someone special, consider the fact that 200,000 children in West Africa work under forced labor conditions on cocoa farms to help produce much of that chocolate. Read More »

Enviro Groups Release Green Growth Platform for Chicago’s Next Mayor

In January, 17 leading Chicago environmental and conservation groups issued their Green Growth Platform for Chicago’s next mayor. Read More »

Children Grow, Connect and Heal Through Yoga

Many places now offer yoga for a younger crowd, and children as young as preschoolers are taking advantage. Read More »

A More Purr-fect Diet

The proper diet is especially important to a cat’s health. What most of us may not know, however, is that what we always have considered good food for cats may be doing more harm than good. Read More »

Five-Minute Breaks Restore and Rejuvenate

Winter’s shorter days and colder temperatures can be physically, mentally and emotionally depleting. Take five minutes for yourself to recharge with these tips from several local experts. Read More »

Amitabul Restaurant Offers Vegan Fare for Health

The Choi brothers' Amitabul is an all-vegan restaurant known for serving healthful foods based on their family’s recipes combined with Buddhist philosophies of cooking. Read More »