Happy Thanksgiving and Apple Pie Perfume Time! See my bonus article below...

Welcome to the good folks I met at The Green Culture Festival and the Grassroots DIY Natural Cleaning Workshop!
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Be well!
Tracey TieF
416 535 9620

1. Upcoming Workshops and Events: Detox Lab, Eastern and Reflexlogy Massage, films and more!
2. Specials for October, 2008: Voter's and Caravan Pay-What-You-Want Days PLUS lots and lots of products: bath salts, candles, oils, supplements, books...
3. Testimonial of The Month: - Stepping Out of the Rat Race and Finally Coming Home
4. News: Away on the Caravan Oct 17-22, Fall Catalogue, and new incense
5. Bonus Article: Trust These Essential Oils for your First Aid Kit, Part 2: Chamomile!
6. Be the Change You Want To See in the World Action Alerts: Apples, Lawnsigns, Elections, Nukes and Caravan

1. Upcoming Workshops and Events

What: All About Detoxification Lab
When: Monday, September 29, 7 pm - 9 pm, drop in but please RSVP
Where: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, College and Ossington
Cost: by donation, but please RSVP

Why do we need to detoxify and how do we do it? The air we breathe, the water we drink, the foods we eat, and the products we use ~ these things can nourish or poison us. Find out common sense ways to detoxify. Snack on wholesome foods, enjoy crystal water or local herbal teas. Check out a cell phone shield that reduces EMF radiation by 89% in FCC protocol tests. Find out about lymphatic drainage massage and sniff test detoxifying essential oils.Take a turn in the FAR Infrared Sauna. Bring your bath, body and cleaning products for a non toxic evaluation and get free tools to judge for yourself which products harm or heal you. Be the lucky volunteer who gets to try out the Ion Cleanse detoxifying foot bath. I will be available to answer your questions and refer you to resources to judge for yourself.

What: Who's Got The Power? films and discussion
When: Wednesday, October 8, 7 pm - 9 pm, drop in but please RSVP
Where: The Store Front on Bloor, 957 Bloor St W, www.TheStoreFrontCommunity.com
Cost: $10 suggested donation goes to support costs and The StoreFront, but please RSVP

Who's Got the Power?
Kilowatt Ours Delving deeply into the issues we are facing today with the present system of coal, oil and natural gas powering the world's energy needs, this powerful documentary examines the alternatives. Solar, wind and hydrothermal power are not only viable in today's world, they are quickly becoming absolutely necessary in our overheated environment. See how small homeowners and large builders alike are turning to solar to cut costs and get green.
45 minutes in English. Produced by Casey Coates Danson.

Suncookers
This emotion-stirring, hopeful documentary demonstrates how a simple technology and a few committed, organized people can bring about profound social transformation. The daily need for cooking wood in Africa is decimating forests. The film introduces suncookers: a solar device that uses the sun's free energy to cook and pasteurize drinking water. Margaret Owina is bringing these suncookers to villages and refugee camps in Kenya, offering an instant solution to a land ready and willing to adapt to a changing world.
18 minutes in English. Directed by Catharine Scott.

The film presentation will be followed by a discussion with local renewable energy activists and political candidates in the Federal election. All local candidates will be invited to participate.

What: Learn a Relaxing Eastern Medicine Massage
When: Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 pm - 9 pm, registration required
Where: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, College and Ossington
Cost: $40 pre-paid solo, $30 each if you bring someone or register for both workshops and pre-pay, $60 on impulse!

Nothing says relax like a massage! This hands on workshop is the perfect Thanksgiving gift for yourself or your loved one. You'll learn a relaxing, yet energizing massage based on the work of Dr. Sivago, physician to the Buddha, as passed on in the monasteries of Thailand. We'll select the carrier oil to nourish your skin, and the perfect essential oils to nourish your mind body and spirit and help you get into whatever mood you wish. This class will be limited to four participants. Bring a friend (or lover!) and pay only $30 each. If you come as a gift to yourself, you'll be matched with someone of your gender. This class is also suited to teens, or a child with a parent.

What: Learn a Reflexology Foot Massage
When: Wednesday, October 29, 6:30 pm - 9 pm, registration required
Where: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, College and Ossington
Cost: $40 pre-paid solo, $30 each if you bring someone or register for both workshops and pre-pay, $60 on impulse!

How can something that feels SO good, be so GOOD for you? Reflexology stimulates the the whole body through the feet! You'll learn a Thai style warm up massage, and an Eastern reflexology foot massage routine. You'll learn why it works, and experience giving and receiving the massage. You'll learn how to protect yourself from infections by sanitizing the feet with essential oils, and create a custom oil blend that will benefit you from head to toe. You'll come away with a skill that can serve you for a lifetime and a foot powder or oil blended just for you!

DIY HOLIDAY GIFTS COMING SOON! Anarres workshops in November and December will have you creating one-of-a-kind healthy gifts for your loved ones. Cast your vote for making soaps, tub truffles, bath salts, salt and sugar scrubs, sensual and healing oils or healing face masks... you tell me! Buy a 5 workshop Holiday Card for only $100!

Anarres in-Clinic Workshops are also offered by request:
BOOK A PARTY (5 friends!), CLASS OR WORKSHOP Call for more info: 416 535 9620

Anarres' workshops are relaxing and fun and take place at Anarres Natural Health Clinic, College & Ossington. Classes are limited to six participants so that everyone gets a semi private lesson experience. There's fruit, veggies and dip to snack on, and, as always, a choice of cool crystal water or refreshing tea. There are always goodies to take home, as well as new found knowledge and skills.

CERAMICS CLASS
IN TRINITY-BELLWOODS NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH DIANE HAMILTON
Come engage your creative side, working in clay to make functional pottery or sculptural work. This is a small, relaxed class in a home studio. I demonstrate a wide variety of techniques, give project possibilities and support you to realize the projects you have in mind. You can choose to focus on the pottery wheel or on handbuilding techniques. You will take your work through the forming and glazing stages to finished pieces that you can keep or give as gifts.

Timing: 10 weeks, 7-9:30pm on a weeknight (we choose a night that works for everyone), as well as open studio time on Saturday afternoons
Fee: $250.00, includes all materials, tools and firings
Start date: the week of September 29
Contact me at dianehamilton@sympatico.ca or (416) 516-8961 for more information!

The following is a course my colleague Tarek Bibi is teaching. I am always looking for new ways to help Anarres clients, so I'll be there! If you are interested, please let Tarek know you saw it announced in my newsletter.

What: Professional Hypnotherapy Diploma Course
When: a week-long session in November (this is the session I'm taking!)
Where: downtown, with easy TTC access
Cost: $2,000 including professional certification and group hypnosis healing
Who: Tarek Bibi, NGH Certified Hypnotist, NGH Certified Hypnosis Instructor
Rise and Shine Hypnosis "Changing the Universe One Mind at a Time"
647-340-5774 riseandshinehypnotherapy@gmail.com www.riseandshinehypnosis.com

If you enjoy helping people and would like to learn techniques to permanently create lasting changes in your own and other peoples lives using holistic methods while earning a new stream of income, then hypnotherapy might be for you. Learn hypnosis by an instructor who has developed easy and efficient techniques to get to the root of the problem and to completely heal it. Become a certified NGH Hypnotherapist. As a bonus, we will do a group hypnosis session to clear any blockages to your success as a hypnotherapist. You will be accredited by the largest, most respected international organization, The National Guild of Hypnotists. Learn to use the powerful tool of hypnosis to enable your clients in smoking cessation, weight control, stress management, self esteem, pain management and goal setting techniques, letting go of fears and phobias and other motivational modalities. For full details go to: http://www.riseandshinehypnosis.com/hclasses.aspx

Special Offer only to Anarres Clients: a free experience hypnosis mp3 (value $50)
Would you like to experience some more peace and quiet in your life? ... take time out for you and get rejuvenated and revitalized? ... find out what your three major blockages are in your life? If so, then you will love this Experience Hypnosis mp3. Just ask: Tarek Bibi *Rise and Shine Hypnotherapy*

2. Specials for October, 2008:

VOTER'S SPECIAL: October 14 is Pay What You Want Day for anyone who has cast their vote in the Federal Election. If you voted at an advanced poll, just call to book your PWYW service on or before October 14. Call to book (9 am to 5 pm): 416 535 9620!!!

Caravan of Hope Pay What You Want Day: All monies collected for services provided on October 16 9 am to 5 pm will go towards my children and I's participation in the Caravan. Please consider supporting an end to Canada's involvement in torture by donating to the caravan by paying what you want for a relaxing body or energy treatment.

Mustard Greens: Come and Get some! Clients are invited to ask me for some of my organically grown Osaka Purple Mustard Greens from the garden while supplies last!

Poya Ayurvedic Dosha Massage Oils:
Therapeutic grade essential oils blended with almond oil.
Boxes include explanation of doshas, common uses and directions. Originating from the India 5000 years ago, Ayurveda consists of three main elements Vata, Pitta, and Kapha, making up the human body. Known as doshas, each dosha governs an essential structure of the human body. Choose Vata, Pitta or Kapha Oil. ON SALE: 2 for $28, Set of 3 for $40

Bath Salts
Bottles of concentrated bath salty bliss made with dead sea salts, epsom salts, natural sodas and moisturizing oils, detoxifying clays and intoxicating essential oils. Sprinkle a few tablespoons in the bath with you and enjoy! ON SALE $5 each while supplies last!
Choose from: 200 g Bracing Basil in green or Coconut Curry in clear glass bottle.

Loofah Bath/Shower Sets
Each set contains a big natural loofah scrubber on a wooden handle, three tub truffles and a truffle soap. Proudly packaged in 100% vegetable cellulose clear cellophane-look and repurposed cello bags. ON SALE! WAS $8 for 5 items, NOW $5!!!

Anarres Organic Glycerine Soaps are made from all organically grown oils, with NO SLS, MDM Hydantoin or propylene glycol. Proudly packaged in 100% vegetable cellulose clear cellophane-look bags. Choose from Almond Butter, Avocado Lime, Calendula Orange, Cypress Shea, Lavender Marshmallow or Rich Rose. ON SALE: 4 bars for $10

Poya Essential Oils 10 varieties with instructions and descriptions
15 ml in opaque white conical glass bottle with gold cap ON SALE: 5 for $40, 10 for $70

Reed Diffusers: diffuse gently and safely without a flame! Just add oil and essential oil...
ON SALE: $2 package of 10 $3 with an amber glass Nirvana bottle.

Chakra Votives: Long lasting essential oil scented palm wax votives ON SALE: 4 for $10

Zeolite: This supplement is a compound volcanic mineral, and safely yet powerfully detoxifies the body by attaching to, and shedding, harmful heavy metals and unhealthy, abnormal cells. ON SALE: $40 for two

The Little Green Book of Big Savings $4,000 worth of coupons in one purse-sized book
WAS $20 NOW only $15!!!

The Creamy Craft of Cosmetic Making with Essential Oils and their Friends and
The Baby Boomers Beauty Bible by Jan Benham, shows you everything you need to know to make your own healthful aromatherapy bath and body products from scratch. Get your Holiday gift making underway. Buy both ON SALE for $36

MENTION THAT YOU READ IT IN THE ANARRES NEWSLETTER AND RECEIVE:

A Chico Reusable shopping bag that fits in a pocket: Buy $50 worth of Gifts, Products, Gift Certificates or Services and get one FREE: It's useful! It's colourful! It's pretty! It's strong!

FREE 30 minute consultation for your first appointment when you tell me you saw it here or enjoy a treatment with the first half hour free.

That's a $30 value either way!

Referrals: Refer a friend for body or energy work and you will both get 10% off any Anarres service. PLEASE REMIND ME!!! I forget!!!

3. Testimonial of The Month:

I loved that workshop. I felt as if I had finally come home in your clinic.

I do hope to use your services now that the kids have moved out.

I honestly need a time stepping out of the rat race and trying to heal. Thanks a bunch.

~ (sadly, this survey comment is anonymous. If it's yours, own up to it so I can thank you for your testimonial!)

Did you know that all my custom products are Satisfaction Guaranteed? If it doesn't work for you, I'll keep working for you! Just bring back your original product and I'll reformulate it with you until it does what I said it would!

If you have a testimonial you'd be willing to share, please send it to: anarreshealth@gmail.com If I use it in my promotions, I'll thank you with a free half hour treatment for your time and effort.

4. News

The Clinic will be closed while I join the Caravan to End Canadian Involvement in Torture October 17 - 22.

To my relief, the Anarres Catalogue for Fall 2008 is now ready. Email me for a PDF, pass it on to a store you'd like to see Anarres products in, or look it up on my website www.anarreshealth.ca. Here are some new products:

Fluid Focus Incense: Pack of 10 sticks or cones $4.50
This incense is grounding and clarifying. Grapefruit uplifts and un-clutters the mind, palmarosa soothes and nourishes the nervous system, while frankincense unites mind and body for meditation.

Bulgarian Lavender Incense: Pack of 10 sticks or cones $5.50
This entrancing and rich floral incense eases stress and anxiety.

TRUE Incense: Pack of 10 sticks or cones $8.50
This incense is very grounding and somewhat Holy, with fir balsam to instil positivity and personal boundaries, basil to encourage compassion for self and others, frankincense to unite body and mind and free you from unhealthy attachments, and patchouli to uplift your busy mind and awaken your creativity.

Please consider completing my anonymous client survey:

Tell me you completed it and I'll give you a free gift for your efforts! Please let me know the next time you come to the clinic so that I can give it to you.
http://FreeOnlineSurveys.com/rendersurvey.asp?sid=lmciapzee4kh616303254

Thanks to Baby Mind and Spirit for inviting me to write be a regular columnist for the Straight Talk section of this online Green parenting resource. http://www.babymindandspirit.com

5. Bonus Article: Trust These Essential Oils for your First Aid Kit, Part 2

Last month I wrote about Lavender, the smartie pants of essential oils, seemingly good for everything, but especially burns and as a general anti septic. This month I recommend you to chamomile, whose tea was given to Peter Rabbit when he "was not very well during the evening", and to ailing little sister Carrie in Little House on the Prairie. As a child, I wondered what chamomile tea was, and I was told that it was a weak kind of tea. I wondered if it was simply watered down "regular" tea, or some special tea. Now I know chamomile to be a powerful medicine safe for even babies - cooling fevers, soothing colds and flus, and as an essential oil, reducing inflammations and treating bug bites and stings seemingly miraculously!

Anthemis nobilis or Chamaemelum nobile is referred to as Roman Chamomile. German chamomile is its powerful and precious cousin, dark blue with azulene and reserved for the most chronic and critical of inflammations, such as in treating acne rosacea. You may also see chamomile of the mixta variety, which is not considered very useful in aromatherapy.

Chamomile should be steam distilled from its daisy-like flowers, producing a yellow-ish, apple scented oil. Since there is no such thing as essential oil of apple, this is the oil to use when making a fall apple pie perfume, with ginger, clove, nutmeg and cinnamon essential oils in tiny doses. I personally did not like the smell until I acquired the Moroccan yellow chamomile that I now carry and smelled the apple over its strong herbaceous scents.

Chamomile has a long tradition in herbal medicine. During WWII, chamomile was used as a disinfectant. Chamomile treats all symptoms made worse by stress and tension, especially aches and pains. It is therefore very effective against insomnia, PMS, mentrual discomfort and fibromyalgia. In your first aid kit, apply one drop directly to cuts and scrapes, rashes, stings and bug bites. Use chamomile dilluted in vegetable oil to soothe anything from an anxious mind to irritated skin and injuries.

Chamomile is non toxic, and one of the few essential oils that can be applied directly on the skin, though this is usually overkill except in cases of injury. Because it is related to some plants that trigger allergies, high doses may trigger skin reactions in sensitive individuals. However, many aromatherapists say that it can be a cure for these allergies rather than a trigger. On a side note, all allergies to essential oil scents are said to be psychosomatic, as when an essential oil's scent reminds us so strongly of something that we are allergic to that we experience a reaction. But allergies to the essential oil applied to the body that corresponds to a food or spice, such as to cardamon, coriander or citrus, are quite real and powerful... but I digress...

So keep chamomile essential oil in your first aid kit to put a drop on a sting, bite or scrape, and dilute it with a vegetable oil or plain lotion to soothe the skin, sinews and soul. This little wonder flower will grow on you!

Tracey TieF is a Registered Aromatherapy Health Practitioner, among other things! Roman chamomile is available to Anarres clients wholesale for $1.83 a millilitre. With 20 drops in a single ml, this costlier essential oil is still much cheaper, and more useful, than a bandaid, a sleeping pill or PMS remedy. Say you saw it here and pay only $1.50 per ml!

6. Be the Change You Want To See in the World Action Alerts:

Send a Local Apple to City Hall in Support of Local and Sustainable Food for Toronto!

We want to send a clear message of support for local and sustainable food. What better way than with bushels of fresh and delicious Ontario apples? Right now the City of Toronto spends $11 million per year on food for its daycares, shelters, and seniors' homes. We want to make sure that they buy local and sustainable food first!

To make this happen we need to get a local and sustainable food purchasing policy passed first at the City's Government Management Committee and then at a full City Council meeting.

Help us convince Councillors to adopt a local and sustainable food procurement policy!
Sign the petition and send an apple to City Council. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/localfood
For every signature collected we will send an Ontario apple to City Council.

David Suzuki Foundation launches "Vote Environment" website

The David Suzuki Foundation has launched "VoteEnvironment2008.ca". The website demands that the next government -- regardless of which party leads it -- address the urgent need for action on the environment. The campaign's interactive website aims to keep Canadians abreast of where the parties stand on all the issues, wade through the political posturing, and arm voters with the tough questions they need to ask of candidates who aren't being clear about their position.
Visit the website:
http://www.voteenvironment2008.ca

Send a sign that you're voting for Real Action on climate change
Let your federal candidates know that climate change is a key issue for you this election with a lawn sign from Voters Taking Action on Climate Change. Order your free sign at http://www.vtacc.org/vtacc_template.php?content=lawn_sign
OR pick one up at Anarres Natural Health Clinic!

More Nukes for Ontario? or Renewables?

We believe it is time to end nuclear energy's free ride. No other power provider – whether it is a community-owned wind turbine or a large gas generator – can pass on its capital cost overruns to Ontario's electricity consumers or taxpayers. This is a special deal strictly for nuclear – and it has to end. We are calling on the government to pass a Nuclear Cost Responsibility Act to close the nuclear cost loophole before we get burned again.

If you agree, or want to find out more about how Ontario could become a green leader instead of a nuclear throwback, visit our new website http://www.OntariosGreenFuture.ca and sign our petition.

It's your money.

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

From Toronto Action for Social Change (TASC) (please forward far and wide)

Join the Fall 2008 Caravan to End Canadian Involvement in Torture, Southwestern Ontario, October 17-22, 2008

"On the moral and legal level torture is democracy's ultimate antithesis. We simply cannot torture and preserve our democratic values at the same time."

-- Manfred Nowak, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Join my children and I in a nonviolent community on wheels for part or all of our journey as we travel through dozens of communities in a large triangular area (Toronto to Kitchener-Waterloo to London, then through Tillsonburg, Simcoe and Welland, up through Niagara Falls, St. Catharines, Hamilton and Mississauga) October 17-22.

The Caravan intends to expose and challenge the many ways in which the Canadian government is increasingly involved, both directly and indirectly, in policies and practices that result in the torture of human beings. We see this as a good opportunity to challenge all parties to commit to ending ALL forms of Canadian complicity in torture.

Please consider supporting an end to Canada's involvement in torture by donating to, or joining the caravan.

For a 3-minute YouTube promo of the fall caravan (with highlights from our first caravan), see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi4Jyjcmfg0

BONUS: Find us in the video and I'll give you a little gift next time you are in the Clinic!