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A Healthy Start for a New Year
Complementary & Integrative Health Therapies
Saturday, January 25
10:15am - 3:00pm
Main Library
Atrium, Auditorium, Meeting Room 1, Meeting Room 2AB, Meeting Room 3Explore evidence based alternative therapies for healing, relaxation, and self-care.
Start the New Year with some complementary and integrative healthcare options. Join us at Main Library for a series of classes and demonstrations exploring complementary and integrative therapies or alternative healthcare therapies. Learn a few relaxation, healing and self-care techniques you can do yourself.
You are invited to attend all the events on Saturday, January 25, 2025:
10:15 - 11:00 am - The Effectiveness of Journaling with Luciana Adams
Establishing a journaling habit can help you develop personal skills and enhance your health by fostering forgiveness, honesty, goal-setting, self-care, self-affirmations, recognizing your accomplishments, creating a gratitude list, and creating good habits to replace the bad ones.
11:15 - 12:00 pm - Train Your Brain: Neurofeedback and its Benefits with Mary Beth Stevens, M.Ed., LPCC, BCN
Mary Beth Stevens discusses neurofeedback, a cutting-edge approach to healing the brain. Neurofeedback uses EEG (electroencephalogram) technology to train the brain to produce healthier brainwave patterns. With applications to many mental health conditions like anxiety, ADHD, depression or trauma--or for those who want to achieve peak mental performance--neurofeedback is an exciting approach with over 70 years of research that supports its benefits.
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Whole Foods - Healthy soups and beverages to sample
Watch a chef from Whole Foods prepare soup and a beverage and enjoy a small pick-me-up sample.
Attendees planning to stay for the whole day may want to bring a brown bag lunch to eat at this time.
1:15 pm - 2:00 pm - Home Herbal Preparations: Nurse Bridgette Zmorowski, RN, BSN
Learn about the benefits of using coconut oil topically and how to make your own healing balm with coconut oil infused with herbs that are easy to grow and wildcraft in Ohio.
2:15 pm - 3:00 pm - JustUs Line Dance Crew - Finish the day dancing - for fun and low impact exercise!
JustUs Line Dance Crew was founded in 2012 by Terrence and Carmen Payne, who have traveled all over the country dancing, networking and teaching their art. JustUs LDC currently has 52 active members in Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. JustUs LDC hosts a weekly class on Tuesdays at 8 Point Bistro starting at 6:oo pm. Classes are always free and open to the public.
For more information about Complementary & Integrative Health please visit these resources:
- The Health Information Center at the Main Library in the Business, Government & Science Division
- National Institutes of Health, National Center for Complementary & Integrative Health
- National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Food & Cooking | Exercise & Wellness |
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Main Library, located in the heart of downtown Akron, combines compelling public space with meaningful and relevant public library services for all members of our community. Since opening in 2004, the downtown library welcomes more than one million visitors each year.
Subject divisions include: Business, Government & Science, Culture & AV, Magazines & Newspapers, Special Collections (local history & genealogy), TechZone@Main, Teen, and a 12,000 square feet Children's Library.
Special services available at Main Library include: a Patent & Trademark Resource Center; U.S. Passport and Notary services; a Microbusiness Center; a Maker Space; a resource lab for early childhood educators; and regularly scheduled computer training classes. Also available at Main Library are more than 125 public access computers, color photocopiers/printers, laminating, scanning, faxing, and free Wi-Fi.
Specialized spaces include a 425-seat auditorium, public meeting rooms, and a used bookstore. An interior glass block walkway leads to a 600-space parking garage owned by the City of Akron. An outdoor amphitheater and landscaped park complete the complex.