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Hi everyone,

Just some thoughts and sharing with those who read this very occasional blog (my last post was August — eek!).

First of all there are many changes going on in the landscape of holistic healing and in helping to publicize, market and otherwise promote all aspects of alternative healing and whole healing in the state of Arkansas. When I started this site 2 1/2 years ago, there was almost nothing in the state that provided any venue for healers in Central Arkansas (NW is another story). Now, there is a national franchise magazine, as well as a man who is promoting an alternative healers luncheon on 1st and 3rd Wednesdays.

I see all of this as very positive change. I would also like to see people help me to continue Holistic Arkansas as a viable enterprise, since there are more than 1,000 listings in over 90 different categories on the site. This may not sound like much, but believe me, it is the only place that I am aware of on the Net that contains this much information on alternative healing and whole living in one website.

In addition, I am selling advertising part-time connected with a long-standing publication that wants to start a Mind-Body-Spirit page. This should prove interesting, and will also provide yet another print medium for those massage therapists, acupuncturists, naturopaths, and others who want to get their message to more than 120,000 readers in print every week.

For those of you who want to preclude print, Holistic Arkansas is still the best way to go – our site gets an average of 8,000 unique visitors per month, and continues to grow, with people contacting me from various parts of Arkansas and other parts of the U.S., as well, wanting to know how to find certain kinds of resources.

Holistic Arkansas will continue to live up to its motto ” helping you find sources for your wellness” with your help.

all for now – have a blessed winter solstice and happy holidays!

Lisa

Hi all,

It continues to amaze me how long between blogs I go. This is not really intentional, but mostly a function of my natural tendency to gravitate to paper and pen. Some of you know that much of a typical day for me is spent at my computer, on the phone, or both.

However, recently things have started branching out a bit, for which I am exceedingly grateful, especially with such GLORIOUS weather of late (May 14-18, 2007).  For one thing, I was invited to speak not only at the Terry Library back in March, but was also invited to talk to the Arkansas chapter of the National Guild of Hypnosis May 8. This was a real treat, and got to meet a lot of great folks, including Penny Rea, Sharlette Pumphrey, Dianne Beers, Virgil Knuckles, and others.

Holistic Arkansas was also represented at the Senior Health Fair hosted by the Maumelle Chapter of AARP on Tuesday, May 15, and I am also going to be at yet another health fair at the McGee Center in Conway on Tuesday, May 22 (9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.).

PLUS there are so many neat, neat things going on – there will be several wonderful happenings tomorrow (Saturday, May 19), including a festival of the arts at the Arkansas Sustainability Network’s headquarters on Victory in Little Rock, and a Chinese Medicine/Yoga workshop at KJS Yoga Studio in Hot Springs from 1:00 – 4:30 p.m.  Then on Sunday, May 20, Ann Avant of Cedar Rock Yoga in Conway will offer a yoga workshop on the shoulder.

 So, hope things are percolating along well with all of you, and you are feeling well and happy.

Balance is the key – balance in everything. And although yoga is the physical manifestation of this in my life, I am also working on balancing work and play, rest and activity, and more.

I work out with the Namaste Yoga program broadcast on the Discovery Health Channel almost every day, and they take the Zen Buddhist “gesture of no fear” at the end of several sessions. This gesture indicates giving and receiving equally, balancing the body, but also harmonizing the spirit and the mind.

Health, Well-being and

Namaste,

Lisa Armstrong

HolisticArkansas.com

Helping you find the source for your wellness