Heal One World: Inner-City Preventative Healthcare

We are super excited for our upcoming projects! The Fall so far has been projects at Bresee Foundation, fun yoga and tai chi with the youth.  A community cleanup around the studio on Pico while introducing the community to Tai Chi and Yoga. We collected over 300 cigarette butts in only 3 blocks, and several bags of waste.  Keeping it from the drains and reaching the ocean. Coming up soon we cordially invite you, if you are in the Los Angeles area, to come to our annual fundraiser, a fun Kids and Kirtters event at Paradise Cove in Malibu on November 23rd 2013, 11am-9pm.  Includes delicious food, films, kids and kritters!  Please contact us at event@healoneworld.com to reserve your ticket and ask more questions!

We are fundraising for our new Tai Chi Easy Leadership training, starting in 2014 we will be holding a Youth Building Tai Chi Leadership training to train youth to teach Tai Chi in their communities. Tai Chi Easy founder and Tai Chi master teacher, Dr. Roger Jahnke will be demoing Tai Chi in the afternoon!  We are also fundraising for our new music therapy program, starting in March of 2013. We are treating patients at Valley Community Rehab hospital, continuing with the Venice Family Clinic and Tai Chi with seniors at Front Porch. Special programs include collaborations with Let's Move! with free demonstrations around Los Angeles.

If you are you attending the Sundance Film Festival or want a product or film highlighted, we are there again this year offering free yoga, tai chi and wellness treatments to filmmakers and decision makers, making them aware of HOW and Awareness Film Festival at the Zen Den.  We are also holding a low cost clinic while in Utah, and hosting students at Zen Den.

Looking forward to 2014, we are honored to again make Great Non Profits Top Non-Profit 2013 Awards list!  Please read our reviews to get even more insight on the impact your donation has in the community.  We thank you for your support and if possible, please give to HOW as a part of your year end giving.  We will remind you, as there is also an upcoming promotion for reoccuring donations through global giving, when started at the end of December.  

Namaste!

Links:

• Great Non-Profits Reviews/2013 Award

Here it is again! School Time!  We are partnering with the Bresee Foundation again, to offer yoga PLUS meditation, nutritional support and dance every Thursday afternoon to two sets of middle schoolers and sometimes high school youth!

We are recoverig from the biggest event of the year here at HOW.  The Awareness Festival!

The festival weekend vibrated with energy along the 3^rd Street Promenade. Attendees were able to stroll along Santa Monica Boulevard from the Laemmle Theatre on 2^nd Street to the Promenade Playhouse on 3^rd Street to Magicopolis on 4^th Street. Extra activities were both holistic and fun. The Zen Den, which originated at Sundance Film Festival, treated 70 filmmakers and celebrities to acupuncture, cranial sacral, and massage. A yoga class with renowned instructor Hala Khouri was followed by an energetic Vegan Boss rap performance at the Dance Doctor studio.

The festival was created as a Zero Waste event, in collaboration with Zero Waste Co zerowasteco.com. By rethinking, recycling, composting, and donating waste materials, all waste were diverted from landfills. Bins were provided at each venue. The weekend Eco Market at the Magicopolis included presentations by Solfusion (solar initiatives), LegalShield, Benedetta Holistic Skin Care, Farm Fresh to You, Cerraeh Laykin, Zero Waste Co, with art by Jodi Smith.

Engaging and well attended filmmaker panels covered subjects such as how to adapt films and movie theaters for the blind and deaf, as well as how to market your socially conscious film. The opening and closing nights were held at the Aero Theatre on Montana Ave. Lori Rischer of KIIS FM hosted the closing night. 

Children and pets were included in the festival. Young Cameron Nino performed as part of the Kids Aware afternoon which also featured activities like recycled art projects and eco face painting plus numerous films. There was even a Flash Mob for pet adoption with Megan Blake and Smiley the Dog, during which he 4^th Street sidewalk swelled with people performing the Smiley the Dog dance from the movie.

Here at the Healthy Living Center we welcome Julia who is doing guided Meditation every Monday at 11am followed by Yoga.  Zumba will be back again this Fall as well, and welcoming new energy workers on board for weekend clinics.

Have a wonderful Fall and work towards your health goals knowing we are here to support all people who need resources, including you!

Links:

• Huffington Post Article