Many of our friends and family members as well as our patients have set health care resolutions for the New Year. Many want to lose weight, stop smoking, take care of that nagging back or shoulder pain, or go on a cleanse.

Sustain Community Acupuncture is here to help: offering affordable health care and educational classes to support and encourage you with all your New Year’s resolutions and health care needs.

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Feeling like you may be coming down with a cold? This simple home remedy can help you kick that cold out before it gets started.

Take equal parts by weight of garlic, horseradish, scallions (white parts only), fresh ginger root, and fresh hot peppers (the hotter the better: habaneros if you can tolerate them, or red cayenne peppers for a milder formula). Chop and/or grate all ingredients and combine in a large glass jar. Make sure you wash your hands well after handling hot peppers! Add enough raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar to cover by 2-3 inches. Let all ingredients sit, covered, for about a week in a cool, dark place. When you feel a cold or flu coming on, take a teaspoon or two and dilute with filtered water, sweeten with honey or agave syrup to taste. All of these common kitchen ingredients have natural anti-microbial and anti-parisitic properties, and can be used to knock out a wide variety of infections.

Friday, January 8 – Meditation with Patience Ulstad
Intentional Creating: This guided meditation will help you create a positive and prosperous intention for the New Year and beyond so that you may achieve your personal goals in all areas of your life.
6:30 – 7:30 pm Tuition: $14.00

Wednesday, January 20 – Stop Smoking with Dia Wong
In this 90 minute class, we will talk about essential strategies to help you stop smoking naturally. A former smoker of 15 years, Dia will dispel common quitting myths, give you effective tools to beat addiction and introduce our Smoking Cessation program including the NADA acupuncture protocol and herbal formulas that can help curve cravings.
6:30 – 8:00 pm Tuition: $30.00


Thursdays, January 21 – February 11 – Balance Workshop with Life Coach Joan Jackson
Most of us play numerous roles: Wife, Husband, employee, Partner, Parent, caretaker, etc. With so much to do, it is easy to become imbalanced. This workshop will help you determine your self-expectations, redefine goals and responsibilities and learn to reduce stress by incorporating balance into your lives.

This is a 4 week program meeting on Thursdays from 6:30 – 8:00 pm Tuition: $125.00

Tuesday, January 23 – THE BODY, THE ENERGY BODY AND THE BLISS BODY with Bernard Gunther, Ph.D.
Our journey will begin with deep relaxation, re-sensitization and sensory celebration
of the physical form. We will next move into facilitating greater awareness of the chakras, the healing invisible energy and the radiant subtle body. In our last session we will experience how to access and maintain that formless silent center of expansive bliss, the beingness, that is your perennial spiritual connectedness. In this workshop you will learn methods for quieting the mind, invigorating energy, heighten awareness, effortless focus and profound inner/outer harmony.
3:00 – 5:00 pm Tuition: $25.00

Saturday, January 27 – Detoxification with Dave McKinnon
Each year, more than 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released into the environment, which can accumulate in the body and impact overall health. We will provide simple eating and exercise strategies to help the body stay healthy and lower inflammation as well as educate attendees on the benefits of Cleansing and detoxification.
6:30 – 8:00 pm Tuition: (This is a free class)

Monday, January 29 – Warrior Meditation with Dave McKinnon
The Yi Ji Jing is a classic Shaolin Yoga set that gently stretches and twists the muscles and tendons while opening joints and lengthening the spine. It is deeply relaxing for the mind while invigorating the body and spirit. Suited for all levels.
6:30 – 7:30 pm Tuition: $14.00

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