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January Special Sales Days

Seniors save 10% every Tuesday ~ Receive a five cent credit for each bottle, jar or bag that you bring in to reuse ~ Join our Bulk Herb Club and save 10% on all bulk purchases, all the time!

January is National Hot Tea Month!  We have a special coupon for our newsletter readers at the bottom of this email to help you celebrate. . .


Saturday, January 2nd - Arts Alive! Party
Join us from 6 to 9pm for our first Arts Alive of 2016, featuring Deborah Ketelsen's brilliant photographs of the Birds of Costa Rica.  We'll have live acoustic guitar and vocals by local favorite Jan Bramlett, plus a Spiced Hibiscus Champagne Cocktail, fresh organic apples, chocolate dipped almond cookies, and herb cheese spread with our delicious organic Smoked Paprika.


Friday, January 8th - National Bubble Bath Day
Celebrate the new year with a long soak in a rejuvenating, relaxing therapeutic bath. Save 10% on all our bathtub treats today:  bath salts, bubble baths, soaps, hemp scrubbers, bath brushes & body oils!



Sunday,
  January 10th - New Moon 
 
It's the first New Moon of the 2016!  Save 15% today on Flying Wish Paper to help you manifest your hearts desires in the New Year.

 
    
 

Sunday, January 18th ~ Martin Luther King Day & Winnie the Pooh Day

Today we celebrate two men who changed our world for the better: 
beloved author A. A. Milne and humanitarian visionary and activist Martin Luther King, Jr.  Save 15% off all our candles to honor the light these men brought to the people.  (We've heard that Pooh's favorite candles are beeswax!)


Tuesday, January 19th - National Popcorn Day
Popcorn is a great way to explore new salts, spice blends and culinary herbs. Save 15% on all our culinary herbs today, and we'll share our favorite popcorn seasonings, including the divine Black Truffle and White Truffle Salts from Hepp's Salt Barrel!


Sunday, January 24th - Full Moon & Compliment Day
Try to compliment at least 5 different people today!  We'll be complimenting all of our customers, and giving away delicious complimentary cups of herbal tea.  You're awesome!


Wednesday, January 27th ~ National Soup Month
January is National Soup Month!  Save 15% today on our Immune Boosting Broth ~ a delicious blend of herbs and spices to build and strengthen your immune system.  Steep the herbs in water (approximately one tablespoon per 8 ounces), strain, and then enjoy as a broth base for your favorite soup ingredients.  
classesJanuary Classes at Humboldt Herbals

Enjoy fun, interactive learning opportunities at Humboldt Herbals. Seating is limited and pre-registration is recommended. Please pre-register by calling us at 442-3541.

"Introduction to Evolutionary Tarot" with Carolyn Ayres   
 
Wednesday, January 6th from 6:30 to 8:00pm  (FREE!)
219 D Street, in the Humboldt Herbals Community Classroom (next door to Humboldt Herbals) 
 
Please bring a tarot deck and writing utensils. A practitioner of the tarot for over 20 years, Carolyn Ayres teaches tarot as an evolutionary path through her classes and private readings at The Tarot Studio in Eureka. A regular contributor to Isis Scrolls with her column, TarotWise, Carolyn uses the tarot as a guide for her own and your evolutionary leap.  Check her out at  www.tarotofbecoming.com



"Food Heals" with Marcia Stroud, M.A., Biochemist, Herbalist & Nutritionist   
Wednesday, January 14th from 6:30 to 8:00pm 
($25)

Thinking about changing the way you eat? Good health depends on good nutrition - learn how you can eat your way to better health!

In this class, we'll discuss the five key principles of healthy nutrition:


- How to determine your nutritional type
- Which saturated fats are healthy
- How the glycemic index relates to overall well-being
- How enzymes, pH, and raw foods relate to overall health
- When raw veggies may not be the best choice and which organic foods are not the healthiest

And, because what you don't put into your system is just as important as what you do, we'll examine ways to reduce your intake of toxins. This course also includes a look at some natural allies to support specific areas such as energy and sleep. And, finally, we'll discuss the external body and skin health and their relationship to overall well being.



A Special Free New Year Gift from
Plant Healer!
  
Click the image below for this special free edition of Plant Healer Magazine, filled with art, articles, reflections and deep wisdom.  You can subscribe for the quarterly Plant Healer Magazine (a "must read" for plant lovers) and for the FREE Plant Healer's Herbaria monthly supplement, brought to you by the fine folks who coordinate the annual Traditions in Western Herbalism Conference, which Humboldt Herbals is proud to sponsor.  We hope you can join us at the conference this year!


 

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10 Tips for Staying Healthy & Happy in 2016 
 

Each new year is a beginning ~ an unwritten book.  We hope you laugh and love deeply in the New Year ahead, and that you fill your pages with kindness and compassion.

Every January we reprint this little list of 10 Tips as a reminder of easy ways to help you stay healthy in mind, body and spirit.

1.  Smile every day and make a special effort to see and notice the beauty in the world around you.
 
2.  Seek out things that make you laugh, and limit the things that don't. 
 
3.  Gaze into your own eyes in the mirror everyday and say, "(your name), I love you."  Set your intentions to see your own divine essence reflected back to you.
 
4.  Our bodies are mostly water contained by the thinnest of tissues and membranes.  Imagine that all the waters and cells of your body are radiating love, peace, health and happiness. Do this every day.
 
5.  Eat consciously.  Really taste your food and appreciate all the forces of nature that worked together to bring this food to your plate.
 
6.  Move your body some every day.  Take a walk.  Dance to a favorite song. Stretch and bend.
 
7.  Take 2 to 5 minutes each day to breathe deeply and sit still, focusing only on your breath moving in and out of your body, delivering oxygen and energy.
 
8.  Work with herbal tonics, aromatherapy and flower essences to help you increase your experience of a healthy, happy vibrant you.  Plants offer many gifts that keep you aligned with your natural vitality.
 
9.  Emphasize and focus on the positive aspects of your life, and express gratitude for your abundant gifts.  An interesting exercise is to make a list of your "health symptoms" - what are things that exist in your life that are symptoms of being healthy?  Can you swallow food? Breathe air? Give water to a flower? Love other people?
 
10.  Give a little gift to someone every day.  It needn't cost money - it can be a smile, advice, a special prayer or a kind deed.  The more you give, the more you will receive in all areas of your life!      
 
Happy New Year!
 
 
and one more thought regarding New Year resolutions. . . 
 
 
We have this interesting experience in our lifetime of sharing so many of our traits with other humans, and also of being uniquely, distinctly, an individual unlike any who has gone before or will come after.  Sharing who you are, perceived faults and all, enriches the life experience for everyone. You are a gift in this world ~ beautiful and perfect like a wildflower in a meadow.  For this New Year, don't try to change you.  
 
In this New Year, celebrate you!    
 
Celebrate who you are.
Celebrate your story.
Honor what you like and dislike.
Honor your body, and how it looks and feels right this very moment. Honor what your body does for you. Honor the experiences you've shared with your body.
Remember, your mind will always believe what you tell it. 
Celebrate the sensory pleasures of life.
Honor each breath you receive from the plants, and each breath you offer back in return.  
Honor the gift of your smile and your laughter.
Honor the gift of your sorrow and your tears.
Honor your friends, and your family.
Honor the people you don't like, and know that you have more in common than not. They are your teachers. 
Celebrate the people you don't know.  
Definitely Celebrate the impulse to sing, dance a jig, draw a doodle or kiss a tree.  
Honor your cycles and rhythms.  
 
And maybe most of all, celebrate that part of you that is still wild!
  
 



 
And with that, we wish you much happiness for 2016, and we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your continued support of  
Humboldt Herbals.
 

 
Free
TEA!
To celebrate National Hot Tea Month, we're giving our newsletter readers a FREE OUNCE OF HERBAL TEA with any purchase!  Just bring this coupon with you to receive your free tea, and forward our newsletter to your friends so they can get free tea, too.
If you're ordering online from our website, simply email us with your name, address and the date you placed your order, and we'll refund you for your FREE OUNCE OF HERBAL TEA.
 
Offer Expires: January 31, 2015 ~ Please use only once.