“Bridging the Gap”

... providing guidance and tools for supporting a loved one through life and death transitions.

When: Friday, November 5 from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. & Saturday November 6 from 8:45 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Where: Wayne’s House in Flagstaff, Arizona

Cost: $100 includes lunch; $40 for overnight stay (Please inquire about the sliding scale)

Preregistration required: call 928-525-2910 or email info@furthershore.org

The dictionary definition for ‘gap’ is a break or opening; an empty space or interval. For persons with serious illness, chronic pain, or terminal diagnosis, the gaps are numerous and pervasive. An obvious gap in our western world is a tendency to hold the inevitably of physical death at arm’s length. As the baby boomer population is aging, it is imperative that we give up our fears and taboos around death. Now is the time to embrace the courage, presence and compassion it takes to support our loved ones at end of life. If we want this for ourselves, a good beginning point is to practice offering this to others.

Bridging the Gap is a prehospice training that is required for volunteers serving Further Shore Tender Loving Care (TLC) clients and is useful for those planning to be present or supportive for their parents, siblings, partner, or other loved ones during health and life transitions. During this program participants will learn about a wholistic approach to end of life concerns. Talking circles, guided meditations, and experiential activities will be incorporated to provide a comprehensive picture of ourselves as supportive prehospice helpers. The program will include:

~ Orientation to hospice and palliative care philosophy
~ Understanding the team approach to wellness at any stage of living or dying
~ Learning simple methods for meeting and coping with personal grief
~ Discovering how we do and do not listen
~ Learning to compassionately express feelings and needs
~ Exercises to clear a path to peace with personal mortality
~ Learning about the rights of the dying
~ Understanding the importance of the life review

Your Presenter is ~ Aleia O'Reilly, LMT-AM is the founder and director of Further Shore. She is a licensed massage therapist, author, and associate minister, certified in numerous energy healing techniques including Reiki, Matrix Energetics, and Reconnective Healing. A skilled facilitator for individuals and groups, she has been assisting others in their wellness journeys for over thirty years.

“Tuning In to Healing Vibrations”

... understanding how vibration heals and how caregivers can utilize vibrational healing for themselves and those they care for.

Vibrational frequency affects the neuro-hormonal connection and endocrine system! Different forms and frequencies of energy help to heal and re-balance body/mind/spirit. Tuning In to Healing Vibrations will help you learn how the vibrations of sound, scent, light, love and breath can help you to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, deepen the breath, increase relaxation, strengthen immune functioning, speed healing time, move blocked energy, and release muscle tension.

When: Thursday, October 14, 2010 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Where: All sessions will be held at Abrio Family Services

Location: 5200 East Cortland Blvd. in Flagstaff (928-779-9449)

Questions: call 928-525-2910 or email info@furthershore.org

During this workshop you will:

• Experience a Sound Healing meditation with introduction to the Chakra system and toning
• Learn how to brush the energy field with essential oils
• Learn how to perform a sound scan
• Increase awareness of breath, light and intention as healing tools

Your Presenter is Jennifer Williams, a Vibrational Sound Healer and Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified in Sound Healing, Reiki, and Cranial Sacral Therapy (CST). In conjunction with Reiki, CST, and Essential Oils Science, Jennifer uses the spiritual consciousness of her voice, frequencies of light and organic instruments, to rebalance body, mind and spirit, chakras and energy fields. Vibrational healing influences health and illness via energetic and neurohormonal connections. It helps to reduce stress, deepen the breath; lower blood pressure, increase relaxation; strengthen immune functioning, speed healing time; move blocked energy and release muscle tension.

Increasing Alcohol Taxes Saves Lives, Reduces Crime

Doubling taxes on alcohol products could lead to substantial reductions in alcohol-related deaths, STD rates, and crime, Health.com reported Sept. 24.

Health policy researchers at the University of Florida in Gainesville analyzed data from 50 studies examining the relationship between alcohol taxes, mortality, and risky behaviors. (The studies took place between 1955 and 2004, and most were conducted in the U.S.)

Statistical estimates based on the findings showed a 50 percent alcohol tax increase could effectively reduce alcohol-related mortality by 35 percent, automobile fatalities by 11 percent, STD rates by 6 percent, violence by 2 percent, and crime by 1.4 percent. The only measure in which higher taxes did not significantly reduce alcohol-related harms was for suicide.

"What is surprising is the consistency of the effect across a broad range of health outcomes that kind of don't have anything to do with each other," said Alexander C. Wagenaar, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology and health outcomes at the university and lead author of the research.

One of the included studies took place in Alaska, which instituted tax increases on alcohol in 1983 and 2002. Both rate hikes corresponded with a drop in alcohol-related deaths in the state, including a 29 percent drop after the 1983 increase.

Although the increases would be small in terms of dollars, Wagenaar continued, they might be enough to reduce intake among heavy drinkers on tight budgets, college students, and social drinkers. "Studies show that all these groups respond to price," he said.

The study was published online in the American Journal of Public Health on Sept. 23, 2010.

Voices in Action Youth Open House

The Coconino Coalition for Children and Youth is hosting a Youth Open House on October 14, from 4:30 to 6:30 at Club 412 in Flagstaff. All youth and youth groups are welcome to come and/or participate in this event. Various youth will represent themselves through performances, poetry, art, writing, and film clips. Find out what our youth are up to and support youth activities!

This is a free event. Interested in participating? Call 928-679-7318 for a registration form or go to www.coconinokids.org.

Running buddies needed for Girls on the Run

Girls participating in the fall season of Girls on the Run will complete the un-timed, non-competitive New Balance Girls on the Run 5K on Saturday, Nov. 20, at Buffalo Park.

Women 18 and older are invited to volunteer as a Running Buddy, serving as a healthy, positive adult role model while accompanying a girl from start to finish at her own pace during an afterschool practice 5K and the official 5K on Nov. 20.

Prospective Running Buddies must submit a volunteer application by Oct. 13 and consent to a background check, register for the 5K, and attend a required volunteer orientation on Oct. 19 from 7 to 8 p.m. Running Buddy applications can be downloaded from the Girls on the Run Web site at http://www.gotrna.org/getinvolved.html.

For more information, contact Stephanie Ludwig at stephanie@gotrna.org.

World CarFree Day

Free Mountain Line buses operating at increased level of service the entire day.

• Be included in a drawing for a new commuter trailer generously donated by Absolute Bikes

• Heritage Square from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Local organizations, businesses, and programs promoting healthy lifestyles, environmental sustainability, and community values

• Organizers: Friends of Flagstaff’s Future in collaboration with NAIPTA, the City of Flagstaff, NAU, and Coconino County

Pledge at CarFreeFlag.com to leave your car at home and receive 20% off at these participating businesses:

(check carfreeflag.com/partners for a complete list)

Animas Beads & Animas Trading Company, Fizz Bath Shop, The Yoga Experience, Community Supported Agriculture/Store, Custom Sound Instruments, u.t.o.p.i.a., Revolution Bicycles, Kickstand Kafe, Mountain Sports, The Green Room

2nd Annual First Frost Food Drive

1 of 4 Arizona children are now living in poverty. With your help we can insure that no child goes to bed hungry.

How can you help?

Sept. 27th - Oct. 1st, WE need you and 20 volunteers each day to prep bags. 8am—4pm

Oct. 2nd, WE need you and 300 volunteers to distribute bags in neighborhoods throughout Flagstaff. 9am—noon (Free BBQ at noon at the food bank!!)

Oct. 9th, WE need you and 60 volunteers to pick up all the donations in neighborhoods throughout Flagstaff. 11am—2pm

Contact—
Maria Maltese at;
magonzales@firstfoodbank.org
Or 928-600-5982