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Osel Ling & Heartwood invite you to a dance party celebration!  A benefit to support our not for profit activities Saturday, October 8th, 2016, 7:00pm to 10:00pm Come experience the soulful music of Shirley King, daughter of international blues legend, BB King. Enjoy tasty appetizers from local eateries. Peruse our fab…

Dr. Chua is an aesthetic specialist at Cadella Medical Spa and is now offering these services at Heartwood. Please join us for an event on August 31st as an introduction to these services. With her expertise in integrative medicine, she can help you look and feel your best, both inside and out. Wednesday, August 31, 5:…

The “Art of Aging” Workshop with Caryl Pripusich, LCSW Wednesday, August 17, 2016 4:15-5:30 You are invited to hear a presentation about growing older. Cultivate compassion, meditation, and discernment as we explore ideas about finding our tribe, making a 20 year plan, and living more deeply and with more joy. Thich Nh…

Cultivate Urban Rainforest & Gallery (Cultivate for short) is coming up on its first anniversary. We are located at 704 Main, Evanston. Where did I get the Idea? Several years ago discovered that plants are toxic for cats. As a cat mom I began the search for what plants are safe for cats. That search was much harder th…

Saturday, July 9th,  10:00am to 12:00pm Be introduced to or refreshed in mindfulness and focusing practices that allow you to tap into the core sense of your calm and competent self. With mindfulness and focusing you access your own inner resources to move forward naturally and find new possibilities and fresh energy. …

Summer Reflections

It is summer, a time of the spirit of graduations, weddings and journeys of all sorts.  A season to build in more leisure time to our schedules, to spend more time in nature and to reflect on the direction of our lives when we return to the industrious season of autumn.  For those of us on a healing path, it is a time…

The classroom was quiet. College students sat in a circle, eyes closed. Several legs jittered up and down. A few sat still as stones. This was week three of our English class and I’d decided that as a group, these students were so anxious as to be nearly unteachable. I’d find myself repeating the same basic things over…

Meet Archangel Michael

The Archangels are the overseers of humankind and the guardian angels. They are limitless beings who can be with each of us simultaneously. Each Archangel has a specialty representing an aspect of God. Calling on the Archangels is one way of saying “thank you” to our loving Creator. The Archangels are here to remove fe…

Are your days really noisy? The answer is ‘yes’ for most of us. We don’t necessarily initiate the noise. It finds us wherever we are. The images and chatter on social media, television, radio and words in blogs and editorials come across like continual static. The TV screen doesn’t have just one image to focus on. Ther…

I’mPower Yourself

A hands-on workshop with Becky Paulin-Liston & Jan Ellenstein developed to expose young women to healthy, healing and empowering strategies for self-care. Participants will be guided through a variety of yoga and art-based exercises/activities that can help reduce feelings of anxiety, increase self-awareness and streng…