Blazing Star Herbal School

The Art and Revolution of Self Care- Winter Edition

 

 

“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence.

It is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”

Audre Lorde

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Care to join me? 

We'll begin on the NEW MOON on Feb 9th 2024

about the program:

🫀It is an invitation to rest and re-set, to gather and grow together

🫀Each day for 30 days you will receive an email with an attached PDF, featuring a prompt,  a practice, a sample ritual, a quote/affirmation, and a seasonal recipe or two*.  Some practices will be cumulative (and others a one time experience). Some days you will find the suggested action easy and some days perhaps a little more challenging, some days the rituals will speak right to you and other days you may want pass and to create your own. 

* I try to keep them simple with items which most people have in their homes or can be found at the local grocery store, if I suggest a more specialized herb or ingredient I will offer more common alternatives also. I want to introduce nourishing herbal practices to you but also make it immediately and transformative

🫀You will be guided to create your own personal self care toolkit and manual. 

🫀We will have a private (optional) Facebook page to document your progress and share challenges with other, I will be popping in daily to cheer you all along and offer inspiration and support.

 

This email/PDF based course gives you tools you can return to time and time again.  Often all we need that one little action to shift our mindset/ the energy and to be able to take those small steps needed to start to feel more like ourselves.  Something I have learnt during my 25 years in the Holistic Health Care field is that by creating reliable self-care habits we can be more present, make clearer decision, and begin to unlock the fullness of life.

Be prepared to start feeling very full :-)

The best road to self care is to establish simple, daily practices which remind you of the gifts, benefits, blessings,  you enjoy and the goodness that prevails in your life. Step by step we can reset our past programming and begin to treat ourselves with love.

 

What you need to participate in the class:

Really just show up and participate

🌱A Journal or notebook (a place to catch your thoughts) would be helpful

🌱30-45 minutes set aside for you each day during your 30-day experience

🌱Willingness to try new things! and find new ways to be in community.

 

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Together we will define Self Care and its importance. 

Create a culture, community and Practice of Self care

Explore Spiritual, Emotional and Physical Wellbeing

Be Intentional, Be Strong together

Create Ceremony and Prayer

Integrate and Inspire

Commit and Reward

 Be in Gratitude

and Love

Join the Self - Care Revolution! 

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And remember that we are in this together! No-one needs to suffer alone. Reach out! and be kind to one another

We will begin this journey on the first New Moon of 2023, Jan 21st

Program Details:

 

Sliding Scale Price:  $33-$66

A word about the sliding scale: Please offer what you feel comfortable paying. If you are able to pay more know that you are supporting someone who is struggling financially but feels like this program would benefit them.  If you are buying the course and gifting it to someone please let me know. Once I receive your payment I will be emailing you more details.

 

Paypal: The Art and Revolution of Self-Care  

Venmo @tonya-lemos

 

about your guide:

I, Tony(a) Lemos have been a community herbalist for close to 30 years and have been the Director of Blazing Star Herbal School for 21 years guiding and mentoring herbal apprentices on their journeys with plant medicine. I am passionate about sharing my love of plants, people and the planet and helping people experience the feeling of connection which happens when communities are formed.

I am also passionate about Self Care, the intersection of herbalism and lifestyle, Sensory Plant Medicine, Spiritual Health with Plants and the Plant/Person relationship.  I also offer holistic herbal lifestyle consultations and individualized healing sessions. 

Beyond the Blazing Star Herbal School I am a published author and have lectured at multiple venues including the Northeast Women’s Herbal Conference,  the Green Nations Gathering, the Flower Essence Conference, The Northeast Aromatherapy Conference, NOFA MASS,  United Plant Savers and the CT Institute of Herbal Studies (1996-2006) and a multitude of local healing centers and yoga studios.

More than anything I love bringing people together who share interest in what it means to be in a  healthy relationship with all sentient beings. 

 

Herbs and Practices for these Changing Times Workshop

 

 

Herbs and Practices for these Changing Times Workshop 

 

New Date! Friday, November 1st  2019 New Date!

10am - 3 PM

 

It is a serious thing just to be alive
on this fresh morning in this broken world.

~ Mary Oliver

 

BEING DEDICATED to a practice of self-care that nourishes AND heals the body, heart, mind, and spirit may be the most empowering, and loving action you can do for yourself (and those around you). Working with both the medicinal and spiritual properties of herbs, we will create a heart-healing toolkit of valuable remedies for living on the Earth in these changing times, of herbs, daily rituals, healing practices which build resiliance and support our healing journeys to wholeness and connection. We will discus herbal allies (including Tulsi, Hawthorn, Self Heal, Goldenrod, Motherwort, Rose, Cacao) for these dark times and different ways of integrating them respectfully into our lives .

 

In this class will will be exploring new and creative ways to call on our plant allies to help us thrive in these changing times. We are facing new levels of challenges that manifest deeper in the spiritual realm than we have seen before so we are called to rise to a new level of self care and deeper relationship with our plant allies and connection to the Earth. Separation is responsible for many of these ails; creating rituals and ceremonies which address our needs on the spiritual realm as well and the emotional and physical is the way forward. 

Just reproducing recipes and tonics of past times no longer serves us in the best way as we have changed, as our needs have evolved, and our herbal practices need to become more dynamic to reflect this. Change is constant health is dynamic and our healing practices need to reflect this fluidity and move away from stagnant beliefs.

 

 

 

 

This workshop is part instructional and part ceremonial. 

 

$60

We also accept VENMO, please email for details. Feel free to email wth any questions

This class is a bringing together of the work i have been focussing on in the past few years and I am looking forward to sharing with you all. I am also excited to teach it at other locations so please feel free to suggest venues that might be a good fit.

Self Care for the Resistance - Month 1 (of 12)

 Are we still engaged? Still paying attention? Are we feeling burnt out? How's everyones holding up? How are the self care practices coming along. Having a strong self-care tool box helps us stay strong in the face of overwhelm, stress, anxiety, continued disappointment. Good self care practices also help us stay resilient and strong as we continue to participate in the resistance. May is Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) season, and we at Blazing Star Herbal School will begin a 4-6 week of daily nettle infusion, this should nourish and strengthen your adrenals and help increase your vital energy

Nettle as food, Nettle as Medicine

 

Challenge 1:

30 days of Nettle Leaf (Urtica Dioica) infusion!

Easy enough...

 

Use 1oz (30g) (2 handfuls) of dried plant matter (nettle in this case) in a quart jar. Fill the jar to the top with boiling water, put the lid on and let it steep for a minimum of four hours  at room temperature. (Overnight is appropriate). When ready strain and squeeze out. Compost the herb. Drink the liquid, 2 cups daily. Drink at either room temperature iced or heated. Keep refrigerated. NB once prepared the infusion lasts only 2 days.

 Prepare infusions in quart canning jar with a tight lid to prevent the volatile essences and vitamins from escaping. Also these jars are convenient to carry around with you.

Long steeping allow for the extraction of chlorophyll, vitamins and minerals. Steeping in a closed jar prevents the water soluble vitamins from escaping in the steam.

 

Why Nettle?? 

in summary:  

”Nettle strengthens and support the whole body”-  David Hoffman. 

 

1. - Nettle is one of the most nutrient rich wild foods
2. - Rebuilds adrenal glands (which excessice coffee drinkers/worry-worts/ people feeling like their basic rights are one at a time being taken away over stress) As a general rule drink at least 1 cup more herbal infusion than coffee!! Builds stamina and gosh knows the fight will be going on for a long time!  
3.  -Strengthens the kidneys In Chinese medicine, the Kidney (organ-meridian system) is considered the foundation for good health and vitality
4.  -Mineral/Vitamin Rich, Including Vit. K an anti Hemorrhage ingredient Therefore Nettle is useful for people with anemia or mal-nutrition and in Strengthening to the body after surgery/illness/ or periods of extreme stress.
5.  - Helps eliminate fatigue and exhaustion. A great herbal ally for people with  CFS and other compromised immunity diseases. An ally in many chronic conditions include allergies and nerve  inflammations (sciatica)  Improves body's resistance to pollens, molds, and environmental pollutants                                                                        
6. - Good for adults or children who have over-used antibiotics and tend to get sick easily.        
7.  - Anti-rheumatic (Topically, fresh nettles have been used for arthritis as the stinging part brings blood to the affected area (somethinG known as a rubefacient), thereby increasing circulation and often relieving pain)                               
8. - Nettle is a prime remedy for treating fatigue and blood sugar balancing. Nettle can also help to regulate body metabolism and has been used for the entire endocrine system, from balancing the thyroid, strengthening adrenal function and restoring the reproductive organs. It works on blood sugar levels both directly and also indirectly as, by energizing us and increasing vitality, and reduces cravings.
9. - Helps Hair and skin nourisher

 

Nettles message to us  for these time : To be aware/conscious/intentional

 

:: A few Fun Recipes::

 

Green Smoothie with Wild Dandelion, Nettle and Pineapple

Calories: 172 | Fat: 1 g | Protein: 5 g | Sodium: 34 mg | Fiber: 2 g

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INGREDIENTS | SERVES 1–2

½ cup dandelion greens

½ cup stinging nettle (blenderizing nettles will take the sting out of them)

1 cup pineapple juice or 1 cup fresh cubed pineapple

2 tablespoons lemon juice

1 cup water

¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper powder

 

 

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Smoothie Powder Mixture

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5 Tbsp dried powdered nettle

5 Tbsp dried powdered deseeded roasehips

1 tsp  cardamon powder

1 tsp cinamon powder

Mix together add to your favorile smoothie recipe and and store in the freezer between uses.

 

 

 

 

Feel free to let us know you are joining the challenge. At the end of the month let us know if you have experienced and health changes. At the end of 12 months of challenges I will put all monthly participants name in a hat and draw a prize! So the more months you participate in the better your chance of winning. Prize yet to be decided! 

 

Green on Green, another way to eat Spring Greens!

Mugwort Soba! Jade Green pasta who can resist it! It is a treat! and today we topped it with another treat a green cashew creamy sauce. 

2 Cups of cashews (soaked over night)

2 Cups of Cashew soaking water

2 limes (juice)

1/2 bunch of cilantro

1 cup of basil leaves

1-2 cups of Dandelion greens

1 cup of Nettle Greens

1 cup of apple cider vinegar

A little seasalt

All together in the blender!

Put a generous helping over a generous helping of mugwort soba. (Parmesan optional) and a side of maple ginger glazed kale to balance out the greens! YUM!

 

 

 

 

Seaweed Love, Introducing "She Sells Seaweed" and a Giveaway!

I am a huge fan of Seaweed!. It provides us with unbeatable nourishment, medicine, beauty and an opportunity feel  so alive spending time at the ocean. My love for seaweed is not subtle for I have it tattooed all the way down my right arm! When I was at Pats Tats, in Kingston NY (BTW- she is the best tattoo artist) getting my seaweed arm she said that it is the medicine of the tattoo fan too as it helps eliminate heavy metals from the body and as much some of us herbalists love  permanent body art we all  know that the inks are not so great for us. 

You may remember last year the article that I posted by Dori Midnight, you can click here to read it again  "A note on self/community care in these uncertain times" her first recommendation was "Eat More Seaweed!" in order to protect your self from excess environmental radiation. 

I would like to introduce you to Kacie Loparto from "She Sells Seaweed"

Enriching our food culture! 

Gathering seaweed is both meditative and adventurous work that immerses one into the water element according to the cycle of the tides followed by long hours of drying and sorting under the baking sun. Drying seaweed rather than delivering fresh is much more economical because it can be done in bulk quantities and it stores well for many years. Seaweed can be easily soaked, re-hydrating the plant into a highly nutritious food- enjoy toasted as well.

When you integrate seaweed into your kitchen you are greatly enriching our food culture. Seaweed is a balancing food, and one that can be added to a daring or simple menu. 

Here are some of the wide variety of locally gathered wild edible seaweeds that Kacie offers. She has both Pacific and Atlantic seaweed in stock. 

Below you can read a short description of each seaweed. 

Bull Whip Kelp- bright green and flaky. Salty flavor with a bit of sweet from the spore patches. Great ground into a furikake mixture with sesame seeds to shake on rice, eggs, popcorn and more. 

Kombu- Sweet, smoky flavor. Best added to a pot of beans to tenderize, flavor and aid digestion. Highest in iodine. Detoxifying as a broth for miso soup. 

Sea Palm- Toast for a crispy snack- toss with roasted almonds or cashews. Soak to reconstitute and use as a noodle. Complimentary to mushroom dishes. Unique texture. 

Wakame- Soak to reconstitute. Taste reminiscent to chicken bouillon. Tasty in soups and with stir fried or steamed veggies especially carrots. High in vitamin C and calcium. 

Nori- Strong ocean flavor. Best toasted or deep fried and eaten like a chip or crumbled into a variety of dishes. High in protein. 

Dulse- Beautiful deep red hue.  Versatile. Needs minimal cooking, just add to sautéed greens and soups just at the end of cooking. Fry and eat like chip. 

See website for descriptions of Atlantic varieties.

Visit  www.shesellsseaweed.com to place an order. Try her Sea to Sea variety Pack or her Atlantic Variety Pack. Or, order bags of individual varieties.

You can check out some of these articles recipes from "she sells seaweed"

http://plantspeople.blogspot.com

She Sells Seaweed Recipes

The Energy Times Seaweed Article

 and now for the Giveaway!

 

Kacie will be sending one reader 2 oz packet of her Soup Seaweed Mix which is a flaked combination including atlantic kelp, kombu and wakame! All you have to do is leave a comment with your favorite seaweed recipe! and don't forget to wander over to She Sells Seaweed and support the amazing work that Kacie is doing harvesting amazing seaweed for us! We will choose a winner on April's New Moon Sat April 21st 2012.

 

 

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And the winner is #4 Nathalie Lewis!! Congratulations you will be sent a bag of soup mix seaweed! from She Sells Seaweed!

Self Reliance and Sustainable Medicine and Gratitude

“Emerging at the other end, we will not be the same as we were; we will have become more humble, more connected to the natural world, fitter, leaner more skilled and, ultimately wiser.”

Rob Hopkins, originator of the Transition Town Movement

 

Hamamelis virginiana in flower March 23rd Ashfield MA

We are not in Japan, Egypt or Libya or even Wisconsin. For this I have Gratitude. Even better we live in a small town full of like-minded people. More reason for gratitude. A huge portion of the food we eat is locally grown by farmers we call friends. The general mindset is one of DIY, fix it, and help your neighbors. Still like so many others these economic times have hit us hard in a little over a month we have to move, leave our home of 11 years and we have still not found a place we can afford.

 

Recently I got to thinking (again) about sustainability and ways of becoming more self reliant (next step chickens and beekeeping). Sticking point is still reliance on my vehicle!      This time I got to thinking about sustainable medicine, how so much as been said about growing/preserving your own food, eating local, seed saving, there has been less emphasis on locally grown/manufactured DIY medicine.  Thinking of your families health care as a skill that can be learnt as opposed to relying on professionals.  While we have talked about the benefit of using plants that are local and part of our home ecosystem, every step in the process of herbal medicine making from growing and gathering, to tincturing, to family care can be taken on as part of the family homestead whether urban or rural. It can is a project that the whole family can participate in, at the same time gaining skills in personal health promotion. Herbal medicines are not only a source for treating disease they are also a source for promoting health for your family and community health by reducing the number of trips to a family practice, travel time, energy consumption, pharmaceutical company support.

 

“Annually, about 7,000 children ages 11 and younger require a hospital emergency room visit because of an adverse reaction to one of these substances.” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

 

 In solidarity with the sustainable farming movement, it is important that we begin to make local choices regarding our family health-care. Despite the cost, the commitment to grow or make our medicines or purchase locally and organically grown herbs is an investment in the health of the planet.  Remember Herbal medicine is the medicine if the People practical thrifty and fun, over 80% of the worlds population still uses herbs as their primary means of healthcare.

Here is where I see my role as a community herbalist to teach  people the art of herbal medicine, and to encourage the practice of community based herbalism. For this reason I am offering my new distance learning program at an affordable rate with the hope that families will jump on board and begin their journey to sustainable family health-care. 

 

 

Books that I am loving (in other words heavy rotation from the library):

Love this Homemade Living Series....I highly recommend it, great detailed starter info.

Homemade Living:Keeping Chickens with Ashley English

Homemade Living: Keeping Bees with Ashley English

 Backyard Sugarin': A Complete How-To Guide by Rick Mann and Daniel Wolf

 

 

March Health Challenge- Liver health!

 

The Liver Means Life.

The “Live-r” is not called that lightly. The Chinese call it the "house of the soul". In fact, the liver is the central processing unit of our bodies.  It performs over 500 known metabolic functions. Our liver processes and stores excess carbohydrates, fat, protein, vitamins and minerals. It manufactures blood clotting chemicals and bile salts necessary for digestion as well as glycogen needed by our brains and muscles. The liver balances hormones and breaks down the toxic substances that we eat, drink and breathe.

Our modern environment is full of such stressful chemicals such as lead, countless food additives, preservatives, pesticides, herbicides, and many more, hundreds of new ones are produced every year. Alcohol  and recreational drug use is another common liver stressor in the USA.  The liver is the largest and most complex gland in the body. 

 When the liver functioning well the whole body is benefits and optimal health can be achieved, the skin, the kidneys, the heart, the glands, and the immune system all function with added vibrancy!

A few times a year a like to give my liver a little added attention. Simple ways that I can nourish my liver without causing additional stress.  Here are a few simple ways that you can support your liver as we turn this seasonal corner and welcome a new season.

 

 MILK THISTLE 

You have probably seen milk thistle by the side of the road. Just another obnoxious weed you may think. The leaves look like someone poured milk over them. The seeds of milk thistle have been used for over 2,000 years. Extensive research on the herb began in the 1960’s and firmly supports the use of milk thistle in the treatment of liver disease.

Eating milk thistle protects the liver against damage from pharmaceutical drugs (from steroids to Tylenol), alcohol, environmental toxins, be it Big Macs or chocolate eclairs. Besides stimulating the liver after a long winter, milk thistle is also used for serious problems such as hepatitis, cirrhosis and mushroom poisoning.

You can eat the leaves in the spring after cutting off the vicious spines. The roots can be roasted or boiled. The seeds can be ground and stirred into water and drunk, or roasted before grinding and sprinkled over oatmeal. You can simply toast the seeds in a hot frying pan, use salt or tamari or soy sauce and eat as a snack. Have at much as you like, no need to worry about contraindications or side effects. 

Actions: liver regenerator, liver tonifying, anti-inflammatory for both liver and spleen, immune system stimulant.

Nettle Gomasio 

1/2  cup nettle seeds

1/2 cup sesame seeds

1/2 cup milk thistle seeds

1/2 cup kelp or dulse

1/4 sea salt

1/3 cup hemp seeds

Toast the milk thistle, sesame seeds let cool and grind. Combine with all other ingredients.

 

 Increase your intake of Tumeric another superstar of liver nourishment.

Actions: of  Alterative, analgesic, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor, anti-allergic, antioxidant, antiseptic, antispasmodic, appetizer, astringent, cardiovascular, carminative, cholagogue, digestive, diuretic, stimulant, and vulnerary.

Try a few of these recipes below, Share a favorite Tumeric recipe if you have one!

A favorite recipe in our house is turmeric milk, (traditionally in India given when someone is coming down with a sore throat) simple as adding a spoonful of your turmeric honey to warm milk but especially tasty a grated teaspoon of fresh ginger and a dash of freshly ground black pepper.  Steep for 10 minutes. Optional but you could add some maple syrup, a cinnamon stick, 4 cardamoms, and 4 cloves. (sometimes I even add chaga)

 

A Few Fun ways of adding Tumeric to your diet:

- Add turmeric to egg salad to give it an even bolder yellow color.

- Mix brown rice with raisins and cashews and season with turmeric, cumin and coriander.

- Add to sautéed apples, and steamed cauliflower and onions. 

-Add turmeric to complement recipes that feature lentils.

- Add to salad dressings an orange-yellow hue by adding some turmeric powder to them.

 

Finally start and end the day with a glass of lemon water!

The challenge for the month of March is to add 1-2 liver nourishing support to your self care protocol! And please let us know how it goes.

It is not too late to join this year long health challenge . I am happy to send you the Health Challenge button if you are interested in joining us. Here is the link to the first month and the second month.  In order to participate comment by saying! "I am on the road to better health!" and begin the challenge. At the end of the month let us know if you have experienced and health changes and start on the next months challenge and so on. At the end of 12 months I will put all monthly participants name in a hat and draw a prize! So the more months you participate in the better your chance of winning. Prize yet to be decided! 

 

 

Monthly Health Challenge 2011

January 2011 - 30 days of Nettle Infusion

February 2011-  Bitters (Digestion)

February Health Challenge- Let's talk about Digestion!

 

Challenge #2:

Question? What do these two herbs have in common?

Angelica archangel, European angelica, garden angelica, (Angelica officinalis)

 

Chamomile (Anthemis nobilis)

 

Question #2

How does this one differ?

Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)

Angelica and Chamomile are both in the category of herbal properties known as Aromatic Bitters. Dandelion is a Nutritive Bitter.

 

You got it,

adding Bitters to your diet is Februarys challenge!

 

Why Bitters?

Bitter herbs are one of herbal medicine’s great contributions to our health. Bitters can serve as amazingly effective digestive aids, replacing harmful OTC antacids that do nothing but mask and deepen symptoms. Bitters help the body produce its own digestive juices which enhance our ability to absorb nutrients from our foods. Bitters begin their work the moment they touch your tongue. Their bitter nature stimulates the stomach, the liver, the gallbladder and the pancreas to begin secreting vital digestive components used to assimilate nutrients in the body, such as bile, gastric juices and insulin. The liver's ability to eliminate toxins is also enhanced.  They also increase absorption of nutrients by supporting the processes that breakdown and absorb nutrients.  Bitters can have a mood stabilizing/"antidepressant" effect by increasing the production of mood related hormones by the enteric nervous system in the gut. The strong flavor is often attributed to a “bitter principle,” which can be a volatile oil, an alkaloid, an iridoid, or a sesquiterpene.

One way to get our bitters is to eat a diet rich in bitter greens, such as kale, mustard greens, collards or endive, and olives. This will help but still may not provide for our "daily minimum requirement" of bitters, because store-bought greens are cultivated for a bland sweet (nutritive) taste. Wild greens such as dandelion greens, plantain, dock, mallow or sow thistle are better. 

While you can find bitters in capsule formula, to receive full benefit you want to be able to taste the bitterness...so food or traditional tincture form work the best. There are many variations of formulas available, and often you can find an herbalist who will make a customized bitters tonic tailored to your specific needs.

One of our best sellers at Blazing Star Herbal School is our Bitters Blend (availiable here)

 

 While adding Bitters to your diet will improve your digestion there are more steps you can take. Here are some suggestions by Christopher Hobbs 

 

Key Steps to Improving Digestion 

- Building Strong Digestion 

- Exercise in the morning before eating 

- Chew food well 

- Never eat while tired or upset 

- Happy, positive thoughts while eating 

- Never eat too late at night-- give the digestion a good rest each night 

- Eat slowly 

- Never overeat--always undereat slightly 

- Take a walk after dinner 

- Never combine sweet fruits and cooked protein 

- Get a variety of flavors at each meal 

- Eat whole food, reduce refined foods 

- Take your bitters! 

- Good Elimination 

- Don't eat too early in the morning or too late at night 

- Take time for a mid-day "movement" 

 - Keep your feet up on a small stool during elimination 

- Drink enough water (at least 4 glasses a day) 

- Eat a raw salad every day with a variety of vegetables 

- Walk every day and breathe deeply 

- Use bowel tonic herbs where needed 

- Take your bitters! 

 I like to take my bitters  in a little water 20-30 minutes before a meal. What is your favorite bitter herb? and how do you like to use it?

 

It is not too late to join this year long health challenge. I am happy to send you the Health Challenge button if you are interested in joining us. Here is the link to the first month. In order to participate comment by saying! "I am on the road to better health!" and begin the challenge. At the end of the month let us know if you have experienced and health changes and start on the next months challenge and so on. At the end of 12 months I will put all monthly participants name in a hat and draw a prize! So the more months you participate in the better your chance of winning. Prize yet to be decided! 

 

 

January 2011- Plans Part 1

Wishing everyone a joyful, HEALTHY and prosperous 2011!

 

I thought I would start the year here outlining some of our plans for this space in 2011.

1) We will be continuing our monthly specials as they seem to be going well. The January special will be in the next post.

 

2) We will be starting two new monthly columns, the first 

Monthly I will be sharing one simple healthful tip that will get you going on the road to optimum health. In order to participate comment by saying! I am on the road to better health! and begin the challenge. At the end of the month let us know if you have experienced and health changes and start on the next months challenge and so on. At the end of 12 months I will put all monthly participants name in a hat and draw a prize! So the more months you participate in the better your chance of winning. Prize yet to be decided! 

3) The second new monthly column is a guest article.

I will post an article which I believe is so important to the field that all must read. I have a few lined up but if you know of one or have written one I am happy to consider it, just email it me at Blazingstarclinic (at) gmail (dot) com. 

 

These are just a few of our plans for 2011. I will also be focussing on making our blog a little more user friendly. I am happy to entertain your ideas. Let me know what you would like to see