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The International Diabetes Federation estimates that 285 million people around the world now suffer from diabetes and more and more of them are children. Donna Duseigne, a Naturopath and an NHC Nutrition teacher, has personal experience with diabetes and will be sharing her professional expertise on how certain foods, herbs and supplements can have a positive effect on health and help to control blood sugar levels, potentially reducing dependency on medication. This is a must attend workshop for anyone touched by diabetes who wants to better their current health situation by exploring natural health therapies.

Teacher: Donna Duseigne
Date: Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Time: 6:30 to 9:30 pm
Hours: 3
Cost: $60.00

This EFT advanced workshop gives students a deeper understanding of the Emotional Freedom Technique. This level is a must for everybody who wants to use EFT as a professional.

Teacher: Claudia Schecter
Date: Saturday & Sunday, May 15 & 16/10
Time: 10 am to 5 pm
Hours: 12
Cost: $195

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) was developed to help clients find relief from emotional intensity. Negative emotions disrupt your body's energy systems. If you can free yourself from these negative emotions, then you create a space in which healing can more easily take place. Participants will be equipped to immediately begin using this powerful, protocol to help themselves relieve emotional distress.

Teacher: Claudia Schecter
Date: Monday, Nov 9/09 OR Saturday, Mar 13/10
Time: 10 am to 5 pm
Hours: 6
Cost: $98

In this interactive, exciting workshop, you will discover the meaning of Chi and how it applies to your home. You will be introduced to the function and application of the Ba Gua Feng Shui map, and you will also learn to locate the “Belly of the Dragon” in your home. What is your home saying about you? Ever wondered why you have a favourite corner in your home? Learn how to turn your home into your piece of paradise.

Teacher: Ghada Begdache
Date: Wednesdays, Apr 7 & 14/10
Time: 6:30 to 9:30 pm
Hours: 6
Cost: $100

Take your acupressure treatments to the next level with the Japanese Abdominal Palpation workshop, based on the work of Kiiko Matsumoto. In this class, students will learn to diagnose the Hara by zones, known as "reflexes." Powerful point combinations to relieve a myriad of conditions will be taught. Especially helpful for the treatment of digestive and gynecological disharmonies, as well as treatments for all the organs, blood stagnation and migraine headaches. NOTE: This workshop is only open to students with a background in Acupressure or Shiatsu.

Teacher: Marjorie Silcoff
Date: Sunday May 16, 2010
Time: 10 AM to 5 PM
Hours: 6
Cost: $120.00

Students will learn how to customize basic cream and lotion recipes for hands, skin and face using herbs and natural chemical free ingredients. Students will leave the workshop with one or more sample handmade preparations. Additional materials fee of $4.

Teacher: Karen Runnels
Date: Thursday, Oct 29/09
Time: 10 am to 2:30 pm
Hours: 4
Cost: $80

In this fun course, learn how to make all kinds of liquid soaps, by using only natural ingredients. This course will teach you how to make shampoos, gels, pet soaps, laundry and dish soap in your own kitchen. A part of the course will be reserved for the study of specific hair problems such as dandruff, dry or oily hair.

Teacher: Stéphanie Plamondon
Date: Sunday, May 2/10
Time: 10 am to 5 pm
Hours: 6
Cost: $120

Most soaps found on the market today are in fact detergents and irritate the skin. In this bubbly workshop, learn how to make your own soaps, using all-natural ingredients, such as vegetable and essential oils, goat milk powder, clays and medicinal plants. A part of the course will be reserved for the study of specific skin ailments such as acne, dry or oily skin and eczema.

Teacher: Stéphanie Plamondon
Date: Sunday, March 28/10
Time: 10 am to 5 pm
Hours: 6
Cost: $120

Traditional Chinese medicine offers many avenues to balanced health. It has varied ways to detect imbalance before it erupts into illness. The ancient practitioners of Chinese medicine likened this to digging a well before one becomes thirsty, since disharmony is much easier to treat than disease. In this 3 hour workshop, we'll explore the available avenues that anyone can take towards health, harmony, and a strengthened immune system--touching particularly on diet, lifestyle, acupuncture/acupressure treatments, moxibustion and more.

Teacher: Marjorie Silcoff
Date: Tuesday, February 2/10
Time: 6:30-9:30pm
Hours: 3
Cost: $60

Are you experiencing fatigue, digestive disorders such as constipation, flatulence, bloating, headaches or muscle pain? These may be symptoms of a toxic body. Explore many different ways to safely aid in cleansing the body of toxins. These toxins may be from the environment, pesticides, herbicides, dental fillings, food additives, chemicals in cleaning products, etc. By the end of the workshop you will have enough information to choose an ideal cleanse for you and begin to feel more energetic, vibrant and alive.

Teacher: Sharon Cohen
Date: Monday, Mar 22/10
Time: 6:30 to 9:30 pm
Hours: 3
Cost: $60

What is the one physiological body system that we need to keep as intact as possible over the years to ensure quality ageing and an overall satisfactory life with the minimum amount of pains and afflictions? It is the immune system. In this workshop, Dr. Sandro Marra PhD, NDA, CCN, will tackle the important issues related to maintaining a healthy immune system and delay or even better, avoid chronic conditions and their onset.

Teacher: Sandro Marra
Date: Monday, January 25, 2010
Time: 6:30 to 9:30 pm
Hours: 3
Cost: $60.00

Do you ever stop to admire the beauty, tenacity and potency of the wild plants growing in your yard or neighbourhood green spaces? In this walking-workshop we’ll learn how to identify, harvest and prepare a variety of wild and cultivated plants in order to nourish ourselves and enhance our health. We’ll appreciate how “weeds” promote earth-friendly gardening practices in these environmentally challenging times. Then we'll experience how easy it is to make healthful herbal vinegars which you can take home and enjoy in your favourite vinaigrette or as a refreshing beverage, mixed with your herbal honeys! Come and discover the wonder of weeds!

Teacher: Monica Giacomin
Date: Saturday May 8, 2010
Time: 1 pm to 4 pm
Hours: 3
Cost: $60.00