NE Ohio Chapter Board
Francoise Adan, MD
Liz Cavin, ND
Jane Lehr Eckert, PhD
Lili Lustig, DO
Tamara Macdonald, ND, LAc
Bradley Martin, MD
Jerome Masek, CHT
Douglas Moore, PhD
Rosanne Radziewicz, RN, MSN
Lynn Szanyi
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Welcome to New and
Renewing Members
From January through March 2012, we welcome the following new members to AHMA Northeast Ohio:
Belinda Gore, PhD
Natalie Talis
Make sure to introduce yourself to them at an upcoming meeting. Thank you to the following individuals for continuing to nurture our mission and vision for the future of healthcare by renewing their membership: Carol Baglia Susan Barack Deborah Bookin Zedrick Clark Dorise Cohen Alice Marie Duber Donna Ferris Lenore Fritz Michelle Martin James Prinzo Rosanne Radziewicz Jeff Reichardt Harry Simmons Sandra Sorbin Ann Winters Sarah Weiss | |
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Schedule of Events
April 17- Music is Medicine Free event from 1-4 pm at Cleveland State University Student Ballroom sponsored by CSU, Shadybrook, and Collective Awakening. Call 216-687-2414 or click here _______________________ April 21-22- International Holistic Lifestyle Expo The Lodge at Geneva State Park ________________________ May 3 - AHMA/IONS NEO Chapter Event
"Reclaiming the Human Capacity for Ecstasy"
Crowne Centre II, Rockside & I77 Meeting Rooms A&B 6:00 - 8:30pm
$10 program only
$25 program/food
Co-sponsored by Cleveland Center for Conscious Living & Studio E
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June 2-3 AHMA NEO/IONS Retreat "The Practice of Ritual Ecstatic Postures: Reclaiming Your Capacity for Ecstasy"
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Calendar events can be submitted by AHMA members as space allows. To submit an event,
send it to:
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Our Newsletter is electronically distributed seasonally (quarterly). Deadlines for items to the Newsletter Chair are as follows:
Summer edition: Jul. 9, 2012
Fall edition: Oct. 2, 2012
Winter edition: Jan. 2, 2012
We would like to enhance our articles, member highlights and calendar of events from our members. To submit:
Articles
Submissions are welcomed for consideration. They must pertain to holistic care and not exceed 150 words.
Member Spotlight
If you or someone you know should be featured in an issue of the newsletter, please let us know. We'd like a jpg head shot and an introduction not to exceed 100 words.
Calendar Item
To post an event on the calendar, please send the title, date, time, and location for the event with no more than a 50-word description by the deadline of the appropriate edition. We can run the event in our calendar, space permitting.
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| From the desk of Rosanne Radziewicz, Newsletter Editor | |
 Holistic care is becoming more and more integrated in traditional therapies in northeast Ohio. As stated by Doug Moore, Chapter President in the article "Integrated Medical Treatments Supplement Traditional Ones" in the Winter Issue of Balanced Living Magazine, AHMA is "...viewed as a positive model for our community coming together to provide integrative healthcare...With our excellent local hospitals and our private holistic practitioners, Greater Cleveland is very fortunate to have such a broad range of services to complement and integrate with traditional medicine." In keeping with the goal of AHMA to inform, to connect, to transform, this issue will be divided in sections to reflect those goals. Please continue to keep us informed of events, programs, publications, groups, and newsworthy items so that we can keep our readers informed of all the good work that's happening in Northeast Ohio! Thank you so much for helping to make AHMA the organization you can call your Holistic Home!! |
| Connecting with our Members | |
Results of Northeast Ohio Chapter Membership Survey:
AHMA NEO conducted an online survey to assess learning needs of our membership in the first quarter of 2012, the second one done in the last 3 years. There was a moderate response to the survey. Respondents indicated that Thursday or a weekend day was the best day of the week to attend an evening presentation and Saturday is best for local workshops or retreats.
Many agreed that AHMA should be involved in a variety of electronic media and pass along information from the state medical board and legislative issues that affect holistic providers.
Ideas for educational topics included acupuncture, expressive arts, business topics, homeopathic medicine and stress reduction. Respondents suggested continuing networking events. Thoughts about transformation suggested offering more membership perks and retreats that provide stress release, meditation, massage and yoga!
Thank you to all of you that took the time to respond to the survey. If you have further feedback on what you would like to see the NEO Chapter provide, please contact Doug Moore at: doug@dougjmoore.com
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Integrative Medicine Booming in Cleveland
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Integrative Medicine Treatments Supplement
Traditional Ones by Lynne Meyer
Reprinted from Balanced Living 02/2012
Calling the Cleveland Clinic to make an appointment for acupuncture? Contacting University Hospitals to schedule a therapeutic massage?
These treatments may seem unusual in a traditional healthcare setting, but they're part of a growing trend that's gaining traction among hospitals, universities and medical schools in Northeast Ohio and across the country.
Welcome to the brave new world of integrative medicine.
According to the National Institutes of Health, integrative medicine "combines the modalities from complementary and alternative medicine that have evidence of efficacy and safety with Western medicine."
Read the full article here
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"Reclaiming the Human Capacity for Ecstasy" Program Rescheduled for May 3, 2012
Program Sponsored by NEO Chapters of AHMA/IONS
Belinda Gore, Ph.D. is a psychologist and, for over twenty years, was a close friend and colleague of the late anthropologist Dr. Felicitas D. Goodman whose research re-discovered the ancient tradition of ritual body postures. Belinda's books Ecstatic Body Postures: An Alternate Reality Workbook and The Ecstatic Experience: Healing Postures for Spirit Journeys introduce fifty-seven different postures.
The books are essential resources for practitioners of ecstatic trance. Belinda is the former president of The Cuyamungue Institute, founded by Dr. Goodman, and is now Director of Training and advisor to the Board of Directors. She is also a leadership consultant and coach, and is the co-director of The Enneagram Institute of Central Ohio and a senior faculty member of The Deep Coaching Institute.
May 3: "Reclaiming the Human Capacity for Ecstasy"
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June 2 and 3: "The Practice of Ritual Ecstatic Postures: Reclaiming Your Capacity for Ecstasy" Read More Register
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"Compassionate Depossession: A Video Demonstration"
Dr. Robert Alcorn
Psychiatrist and Shamanic Practitioner
Throughout the world in indigenous cultures it is commonly believed that illness is caused by a spiritual interference with the soul of the suffering individual. This can be the result of soul loss and/or spirit attachment or possession. The medicine person of the tribe, the shaman or healer is often called upon to remove the offending spirit as a critical part of the healing ceremony.
When these same tribal healers come to the Western world, they sometimes comment on the profusion of "ghosts" we have in our lives, the spirits of those who have died and not moved on from this plane of existence. These earthbound spirits must necessarily attach themselves to living from time to time if not more or less permanently in order to gain energy for their survival.
At the very least, without meaning any harm, such spirit attachments can wreak havoc upon the host, draining our energies and mixing their unresolved issues into our lives.
One such shaman, teaching a workshop in Cleveland, said to the group of students: "Now I understand why there is so much depression and insanity in America. Every one of you walked in here with at least three ghosts attached to you."
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| Transformative Information |
 Exercise Your Brain to Enhance Memory, Prevent Mind Lapses by Ellen Kleinerman reprinted from The Plain Dealer 03/2012
It's on the tip of your tongue, but you just can't quite recall the reason you ran upstairs, or the name of the person walking toward you, or the answer to the history test question that you reviewed endlessly last night. And no matter how hard you try, nothing comes to mind. Chalk it up to a brain glitch, senior moment or just blanking out. But doctors say that mind calisthenics can help people of all ages sharpen their memories. "We all experience forgetfulness at one time or another. It happens to people all the time," said Dr. Alan Lerner, director of the Memory and Cognition Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. The reasons are many, he said.
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