Empowered Health Series with Craig Lane
& Health Alkemy Team
141 Sunnyside Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA
Do you have deep questions about health, nutrition or medicine that no one seems to have a clear answer (including your MD)?
Would you like to know the real reasons why the rate of diseases like Cancer, Heart Disease, and Diabetes are running rampant in the richest country in the world?
Everyone’s questions will be answered in in this interactive and humorous group.
Never diet again! Find out why ‘dieting’ is one of the least healthy things a person can do.
Feed your body with deep nutrition.
Bring flavor and Joy back into your diet.
Come and be heard in this safe and interactive environment.
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Health Alkemy’s Health Empowerent groups are upgraded, offering hands-on food preparation, education, and herbal medicine making. Physical and psychic self-care methods are also taught.
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Six classes that rotate every 3 months, by the season
2012 Winter Schedule
(Food prep groups and demonstrations 1st and 3rd Sundays of most months 6-8PM)
Veggies and salads – January 15th
Learn how to prepare tasty therapeutic veggies and salads.
Sauces and Dressings – January 29th
Learn how to make yummy sauces and dressings to make vegetables and other foods taste better and balance health conditions.
Proteins and carbs – February 5th
Learn about proteins and carbs and their properties, the health challenges they pose and how to use them skillfully in the winter.
Herbal Medicine making (using garden weeds and easy to process plants) – February 19th – By Request
We will learn how to make herbal medicines, dried and in liquid forms. Earlier in the day is an optional walk to gather the herbs we will be using in class.
Optional – Herb Walk at 11AM gather herbs until 1pm
On this herb walk we will discuss and collect the herbs we will be working with in the evening class. Special discount for attending the herb walk and herbal medicine class.
February 12th – Health Alkemy School 6-9PM begins – after 1/1/12 go to this link to see class schedule
February 26th – Health Alkemy School Class TBD
Beginning of Spring weather cooking (veggie bakes, stews, soups, casseroles) – March 4th
Learn how to change your cooking for the new growth and warmth of spring, an ideal time for periodic cleansing.
Beet Kvass/probiotic sodas/Cold Weather liquid meals/Blended meals – March 18th
In this class we will be making beet kvass, probiotic sodas for healthy gut flora, energy and gut renewal as well as blended liquid meals that are warming for cooler weather.
March 11th – Health Alkemy School Class TBD
March 25th – Health Alkemy School Class TBD
Coming in 2012 is the School of Health Alchemy, Self-Care, and Nutrition. There will be various modules offered, and the classes need not be taken consecutively for certification. The program is 20 classes total in Level I, over a year period featuring: Self-Assessment, Food Energetics, Alchemical uses of foods, herbs, and supplements, and Understanding Digestion – how it relates to many body systems. Level II is for those wishing to reach a higher level of certification as a Health Alchemist.
School Sneak Preview examples
Eating and Cooking With the Seasons (2 classes Fall/Winter & Spring/Summer)- students will learn how to prepare different types of meals for different seasons and climates including using different types of foods, focus on flavors and colors, different cooking techniques, focusing on certain foods for different seasons, and the use of local, seasonal, and organic foods. Seasonal energies and how they affect the body will also be addressed. Raw versus cooked foods will be covered in depth in each of the classes.
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Starting and Refining Your Therapeutic Cooking: How To Shop For Health Foods, Equipment Needs, and Basic Cooking Instruction – this class will focus on how to pick out the highest quality produce, what proper cooking equipment is needed, how to find high quality prepared foods, and how to plan meals and leftovers for a busy lifestyle.
Special additions How to Shop focus + Cooking tips – Top 5 to 6 Things Most People Do Not Know About Foods – Salts, Yeasts, How to Read Labels, Sugars names
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Food Energetics and Root Level Health – Students will learn the following in this class: a basic knowledge of self-diagnosis, a basic idea of what health is according to Macrobiotics, Western allopathic medicine, and other traditional health systems, a basic outline of intake versus discharge of bodily systems, why standard American refined foods cause illness, how to experience and discern between the “energies” of polarity operating in the natural world and in ourselves, and students will have a greater knowledge of how to discern between all the different dietary plans and philosophies. Phases of our lives will be addressed.
Click here to buy tickets: after 1/1/12 - $50 prepaid and $60 at the door
The classes do not have to be taken consecutively, and certification as a Nutritional Alchemist at the end upon passing an oral and written exam. Class syllabus to be posted soon. Those wishing to learn comprehensive health can also buy the classes as Ebooks, with an associated audio file also.
Click this link for more information – Flyer 2012SchoolofHealth
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Neighborhood Health Networks – contact us for more information
Learn about a new system of community building, food preparation,
Engaged health care, and education.
*Get access and monthly visits for massage, acupuncture, acupuncture
*Cooking groups and classes, Dinner groups, Community Supported Kitchens, health support groups and classes.
*Gardening tips, herbal medicine making, and learning your herbal allies.
*Meditation and yoga self-care techniques, how to restore ourselves, designed to be easy and attainable.
141 Sunnyside Avenue, Santa Cruz CA 95062, off Branciforte, near Water Street.
