Jan 31, 2011 ● By Darren Weissman, DC
Here’s a practical process you can use to cultivate mindfulness and love even more.
Jan 31, 2011 ● By Laurie Pawli
Throughout the winter months, notice the Yin and the Yang in your life and the feeling they create in you.
Jan 31, 2011 ● By Margalit Tocher
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.
Jan 31, 2011 ● By Aaron Unger and Marianne Vuckovich
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.
Jan 31, 2011
The Institute for Integrative Health and Wellness welcomes naturopathic doctor Lisa Marie Leonard, N.D., to its staff.
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.
Jan 31, 2011 ● By Gail Goldberger
Most experts agree that the rooms in your home should have function and flow, and that these qualities contribute to balance.
Jan 31, 2011 ● By Megy Karydes
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.
In January, 17 leading Chicago environmental and conservation groups issued their Green Growth Platform for Chicago’s next mayor.
Jan 31, 2011 ● By Carrie Jackson
Many places now offer yoga for a younger crowd, and children as young as preschoolers are taking advantage.
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.
Jan 31, 2011 ● By Kyle Hass
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.
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.
Dec 31, 2010 ● By Gail Goldberger
Many people have abandoned their traditional dry-cleaning habits in search of greener methods. But how can a consumer know if a “green” cleaner is really green?
Dec 31, 2010
Murals and faux finishes in Chicago-area homes completed by Evanston’s Signature Mural & Finish, Inc. are featured in the new Panache Publications coffee table book, “Perspectives On Design Chicago.”
Northbrook’s Full Circle Architects, specializing in sustainable residential and commercial architectural and interior design, recently received two Gold Key Awards from The Home Builders Association of Greater Chicago.
Dec 31, 2010 ● By Stacey Patillo
Ginger, a perennial rhizome, has been used medicinally for more than 2,000 years to treat a wide variety of ailments.
<i>Natural Awakenings</i> has launched a new website supporting the monthly print publication of <i>Chicago North and North Shore</i>.
Dec 31, 2010 ● By Carrie Jackson
Interest in community acupuncture has been building and Chicago area practitioners find that by offering group treatments they are able to charge less money and see more patients in a day.
Dec 31, 2010 ● By Joanne Telser-Frere and Richard Goodman
Forgetting where the keys are, not remembering names and searching for words during conversations are all a normal part of growing older. The good news is that recent research has shown that the brain possesses the ability to grow new brain cells and nerve pathways.
