The Whole Health Center 2016

Summer Newsletter and Schedule

Fresh from our 35th Anniversary Open House, we have new energy flowing this summer, be-ginning with our concert with Timbered Lake on Sunday, June 26 (and another in Brooksvilleon July 17), a gentle and accessible kung-fu series for fun and fitness, and our Earth Solovision quest program near Labor Day.

And, as part of our continued dedication to providing holistic healthcare resources, we are also delighted to announce the generously donated services of Meryl Nass, M.D. (see below), who isnow available on Friday afternoons at the Center to provide free health consultations on diffi-cult to treat medical issues, such as fibromyalgia, environmental sensitivities and Lyme disease.

We are also doing more to address the growing pandemic of Lyme disease by offering several workshops (see below) for both health professionals and the general public that feature EmilyBracale, author and one of our leading experts on Lyme. (We are also planning a one-day conference on October 15 to address the spiritual/psychological dimensions of Lyme, with monthly follow-up support.) Schedule

Sunday, June 26, 3:00PM: The Green Lady Laughs – a concert of music and poetry with Paul Weiss and the inspiring duo Timbered Lake (Diana Newman and Crow Suncloud), paying homage to the magic of the seasons, the ecstatic energies of creation and renewal, and the tenderness of our human journey on the earth. Suggested donation $10-15.

Tuesdays, 10-11AM, July 5 – August 9: Harmonious Movement, Subtle Strength – ThePractice of Wu Xing Zhang (Five Element Palm). A simple kung-fu form from Shaolin Monastery, taught in a gentle way for your health and enjoyment, and promising to challenge you at just the level you bring to it. Engaging the coordination and the balance of the whole body, this form conveys an inner strength with a poetic grace that has an almost irresistible appeal to all levels of age, skill and interest. We will teach the whole form in six weekday classes – with subsequent review to be scheduled. Instructional CD included. Six classes: $125.00. With Paul Weiss.

Friday, July 8, 9AM to 1PM: The Energetics of Lyme with Emily Bracale – This intensive learning program was designed by Emily to foster Lyme literacy among healers, bodyworkers, therapists and medical professionals, and will also be of value to patients, their families, and the general public. The rate of confirmed Lyme cases in Maine is over four times what is officially an epidemic. This will be a detailed presentation and discussion of all the essential clinical and epidemiological facts about Lyme along with the newest understandings and approaches toward treatment, healing, and support for Lyme and co-infections.A complete description of what this course covers, as well as information about Emily Bracale, may be seen below as Addendum 1 to this program schedule. Cost, with materials: $125 This course will be repeated on Saturday, August 20, from 9AM to 1PM.

Sunday, July 17, 4:00PM: A Concert for the Earth – at the Reversing Falls Sanctuary. A second teaming up of Timbered Lake and Paul Weiss in a concert of prophetic celebration, grief and praise. Suggested donation: $10-15

Listening to the earth awakens our primary belonging. Just as our capacity forattunement to people gets wired into us with the earliest connection to the eyes of the mother, our capacity for attunement to the land gets wired in the first time we truly open to her and feel her eyes on us.”

Wednesday to Sunday, August 31 to September 4: The Earth Solo Experience – a Guided Experience of Solitude and Fasting in the Lap of the Earth – with Joseph Rubano.

We are always happy to offer this rare opportunity to sit alone on the earth in our own raw confrontation with self and with the natural elements. There is a long tradition of individuals going off to be alone in the wilderness to pray and fast, and to open humbly to messages and insight from the creative source. The guiding wisdom of our life is available to each of us if we are willing to pause and take an honest look inside. And when we get still and quiet enough – and exchange the energy field of the cultural buzz for the energy field of our naked relation- ship to the earth – it is possible to see and hear something new – to get a hint of a possible direction, to access hidden strength and courage, to awaken and reclaim forgotten pieces of ourselves. Then whatever is revealed, whatever impulse for action is received, may be offered back in service to the People, in service to Life. The Earth Solo Experience, as facilitated byJoseph Rubano, is connected to that tradition.

Many of us have imagined such an experience, but few of us will undertake it alone. That is why a group ceremonial occasion can be a gift. The ceremonial setting within community helps us to remember that we are not just undertaking it for ourselves, but also as an offering to something beyond ourselves. And, as the central firekeepers keep the fires going day and night in remembrance of each of our solitary journeys – we may also understand that we are not in it alone, but that that same something is supporting us and opening our way.

We will be sending out more information about the Earth Solo Experience. But if this sparks any interest in you, or if you have any questions, please get in touch right away. So as to not keep people hanging, we will only hold this program this year if we get enough confirmed registrations by the third week of July!

And now appointments are available with Dr. Meryl Nass on most Friday afternoons at The Whole Health Center. A press release describing Meryl's work may be seen below as Addendum 2 to this program schedule.

For further program information, or to register for programs, please call The Whole Health Center at (207)288-4128, or email info@thewholehealthcenter.org Dr.Nass may be reached directly for scheduling at (207)412-0040. See addenda below.

The Whole Health Center Summer ScheduleAddendum 1

The Energetics of Lyme Disease: a Positive Responsewith Emily Bracale

Friday, July 8, 9AM – 1PM

What this course will cover:

1. Basic microbiology of Lyme bacteria, its forms, the latest research on Lyme “biofilms” and Alzheimer's

2. The prevalence of Lyme on MDI, in Maine, the USA and globally.3. Introduction to the legal, political, and scientific controversies about Lyme

4. Learn about strategies for prevention, and which free educational resources are useful 5. Introduction to protocols of treatment and support that are currently available and successful 6. Lyme as an energetic/vibrational influence: implications on the physical, mental, emotional and energetic levels 7. Lyme as a catalyst for transformation: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual tasks involved in healing from Lyme, with individual and global implications 8. For professionals, how your particular mode of healing and support could help someone with Lyme; networking with other professionals 9. Suggestions for independent reading and research (a large packet of materials will be provided) 10. A certificate of completion for one day worth of CEU credit is available for those who ask

The schedule will include break time and refreshment. And feel free to bring a lunch to eat anytime.

About Emily Bracale: Emily is a professional healer, teacher, artist and author. After half a lifetime with Lyme, and a long, arduous, and amazingly transformative recovery, she now helps others to navigate this terrain. Since 2010, with her educational exhibits of artwork and the writing of her book, In the Lyme-light: Portraits of Illness and Healing, she has traveled around the state helping to catalyze the groundswell of Lyme awareness in Maine today. She had done much on MDI to educate the public about Lyme, including her Adult Ed course, Lyme 101, her “tick talk for kids” curriculum for schools, camps and day cares, and her daily “Lyme consults” with people. She has spent thousands of hours in independent study and networking, attending and speaking at Lyme conferences, learning from internationally renowned experts in the field. She has been interviewed on radio and television, contributed to graduate research on healing from Lyme, and has contributed to the Autommune Ill- ness and Lyme Disease Recovery Guide: Mending the Body, Mind, and Spirit, by Katrina Makris, CCH,CIH, published in 2015. In 2015 she was also trained and mentored through Delta Gardens in the use of unique flower essences for supporting Lyme and co-infections, and she now incorporates this work into her private Reiki practice with Lyme patients. Over....

The Whole Health Center Summer Schedule

Addendum 2

Meryl Nass, M.D. To Offer Consults at Whole Health Center

Dr. Meryl Nass, an internal medicine physician who retired from her practice at Mount Desert Island Hospital several years ago, will now be available to offer free medical consultations at The Whole Health Center in Bar Harbor, according to Whole Health Center Director Paul Weiss. Dr. Nass, who has practiced in Maine since 1997, and at MDI Hospital from 2003-2012, has had a distinguished career in which her special areas of expertise have led to invitations to consult with such bodies as The World Bank and the Director of National Intelligence, and to testify before the U.S. Congress regarding anthrax vaccine, bioterrorism and Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Nass has made it a point in her long practice to address some of medicine's more controversial and difficult to manage conditions, such as Lyme disease, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and chemical sensitivities. She has a holistic perspective that includes nutritional supplementation, dietary adjustment, and non-narcotic approaches to treating pain.

Dr. Nass currently volunteers as a physician at the Ellsworth Free Medical Clinic one day a week. But whereas the free clinic only sees people based on financial need, Dr. Nass wishes to make her long experience and expertise available as a free service to anyone having difficulty understanding or managing a challenging medical condition. Patients may choose to make donations to the non-profit Whole Health Center.

Dr. Nass' services at The Whole Health Center are purely consultative, Weiss explains. She will not prescribe medication nor maintain “on-call” backup outside her counseling time. She will not replace a patient's need for a primary care physician, but will offer information and support. Her services are in keeping with the statement of purpose of The Whole Health Center which was founded in 1981 to offer physical and mental health counseling, as well as education in holistic and alternative approaches to personal health and well-being. The Center may be reached at 288-4128. Those wishing to make appointments with Dr. Nass may schedule with her directly at 412-0040.