Love It or Hate It, What's the All-Purpose Essential Oil? *see article below*

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Be well!

Tracey TieF

416 535 9620

1. Upcoming Workshops and Events: Detoxification Lab, Green Culture Festival, DIY Natural Cleaning at Grassroots, Toxic Trespass Training, Make Your Own Incense Workshop

2. Specials for September, 2008: New Anarres Wholesale to Workshoppers Policy, Un-Spa offer, Friendship Offers and more!

3. Testimonials of The Month: Breathtaking feedback from my client survey. Thanks!!!

4. News: Ion Cleanse Foot Spa, EMF Radiation Shields, Wholesale Prices to Clients and Workshoppers

5. Bonus Article: Love It or Hate It, It's the All-Purpose Essential Oil. (Can you guess it?)

6. Be the Change You Want To See in the World Action Alert: Car Free Day September 22, Caravan to End Canadian Involvement in Torture October 17-22

1. Upcoming Workshops and Events

What: All About Detoxification Lab
When: Thursday, September 4, 7 pm - 9 pm, drop in
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: Anarres' Booth at The Green Culture Festival
When: Sunday, September 14, 11 am to 7 pm
Where: Kensington Market, Bellevue Square Park
Cost: FREE with a surprise Anarres Workshop by Donation

Come be a part of the first Kensington Market Green Culture Festival. In celebration of our community's commitment to creating a healthier environment, festival highlights include:
~ Anarres products at 13 to 63% off, plus surprise Anarres Workshops by donation throughout the day
~ Recycled Art Making for Children Hosted By Sketch
~ Recycled Mosaic Making with the Red Pepper Spectacle Art
~ A Hempress Fashion Show plus an Art Exhibit Hosted By Global Aware
~ The Kensington Kitchen will be serving Locally Grown Eats, all donated by Kensington Grocers, with 100% of the Profits being used to GET THE KENSINGTON GARDENS STARTED IN SPRING 09'
For further information, contact christine@hempress.ca

What: DIY Natural Cleaning Workshop
When: Wednesday, September 17, from 7:30 to 8:30 pm
Where: Grassroots 372 Danforth Ave (near Chester Subway station).
Cost: $15/person and includes materials to make your own products

A Do-It-Yourself green cleaning lab! Did you know that many household cleaners contaminate your indoor air quality and wreak havoc on our natural environment? You will create your very own set of easy-to-make cleaning products and take home recipes that have been tested for effectiveness and are good for your health and the environment! Bring pre-used empty spritzer and squeeze bottles, and wide mouthed glass jars for yourself and to share. Pre-registration and payment is necessary to reserve a space. Register at either Grassroots locations or call (416) 466-2841. Space is limited to 20 people.

What: WHEN Toxic Trespass Training Workshop
When: Sunday, September 21, from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Where: The Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina Ave
Cost: Suggested donation of $25 to cover costs - WHEN is a charity!

Toxic Trespass is a new film about children's health and the environment. The workshop is intended for those who wish to "become multipliers" in the community by using the film to educate others about the connections between environmental factors and children's health. Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg, Executive Producer and educator, will lead the session. Please bring your lunch, and we will provide coffee, tea, and other beverages. You will find a wealth of background material and resources on the film's website http://www.toxictrespass.com . Interested in the environmental links to human health? Call 416 928-0880 Women's Healthy Environments Network: www.womenshealthyenvironments.ca

What: Make Your Own Incense Workshop
When: Two hours, two evenings the week of September 22
Where: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, College and Ossington
Cost: $30 pre-paid, $50 on impulse!

You guessed it - conventional incense is a totally toxic blend of bizarre perfumes and fixatives leading to headaches, petroleum by-products in the air and toxic load in your body. This totally new workshop will have you learning a bit of perfumery, selecting a top, a middle and a base note from real essential oils, then infusing sandalwood paste sticks, drying, and packaging your creation in clear compostable eucalyptus cellulose. You'll come away with your one-of-a-kind burns-for-an-hour incense and the urge to create more! Registration is limited to 6 participants. The first registrants get to pick the dates and times!

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.

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: September 13 & 14, 20 & 21, 27& 28, October 4& 5
OR 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 September, 2008:

Un-Spa Special Packages, 1 evening package and 3 day packages left:
Book 10 hours of sessions in September for $100 + off the price of ten hours.

Anarres Natural Health is an Un-Spa - you pay for one-to-one attention that's completely and knowledgeably customized. You don't pay for sumptuous lobbies, administrators, marble fountains, white fluffy bathrobes, or pet sitting. That's why body and energy work at Anarres is half the price of the same services at a spa. And because I want to work with a few people this summer who want to experience a radical and permanent improvement in health, I am offering the most affordable package rates ever!

Full sessions begin in the FAR Infrared Sauna, sipping tea or crystal water made just for you, while we check in. You'll receive 5 or 10 hours of customized health coaching, body and energy work geared to the kind of detoxification, rejuvenation, balancing or relaxation program that suits your body and needs, plus useful reports and email guidance. Packages normally cost $550, and individual ten sessions cost $600-$750. The cost for ten hours of treatment if you buy the package upfront in September is $500 non taxable ($250 for the 5 hour package). What a deal! Experiment with any of eleven different modalities, and emerge like the butterfly you are, with supple skin, a radiant face and a spring in your footstep...

Two-for-the-Price-of-One Friendship Offer:

Book yourself and a friend back-to-back appointments on any weekday between 10 and 4 pm and receive both treatments for the price of one. Choose from Chakra Balancing, massage, reflexology, FAR Infrared sauna, an aroma facial, Reiki or Polarity Therapy treatment, or ask for a mix of what you need. Your friend can make different choices. Long lunch? Sneak your favourite work mate out for foot spa and reflexology together - both of you only $45 for half an hour, or $60 for an hour! Want to learn how to help each other relax and release? Come with that someone special, watch and learn - two hours for only $60! Want to give an extra special happy birthday gift that you can enjoy, too? That's what the Two-For-One Friendship Offer is for!

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.

Come in just for the FREE consultation (I am a Natural Health Consultant, after all!)

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. Testimonials of The Month: Breathtaking feedback from my client survey.
Here are some comments from my anonymous client survey. Thanks, all and if I've included your comment here, please let me know so that I can thank you better!

About Anarres Natural Health and me!:

~ You're beautiful, genuine, intelligent, you have integrity, and you're a local small business that I want to support...
~ Tracey genuinely cares for her clients and freely shares information about which products/ingredients might be harmful, and which ones are healthy/helpful.
~ As radical crackpots go, this one is surprisingly down-to-earth and very helpful.

About body work and energy work:

~ I enjoyed your gentle and caring touch in the bodywork I received.
~ Tracey TieF is a wise woman's healer, well versed in the intuitive and passionate nature of healing touch.
~ What you're doing is fantastic... I like referring you, and have confidence in your skill.

About my workshops:

~ You were exceedingly knowledgeable and I think everyone attending the workshop learned something.
~ I felt confident to make products on my own after the workshop.
~ As a teacher, you were tremendous!
~ I learned a lot and preach it to others frequently.
~ I found you to be very knowledgeable, fair, helpful. I can tell that you work from the heart and it shows. I learned a lot from your workshop and found it inspiring.

About my products:

~ I like that you offer custom products.
~ I love the soap and will continue to purchase it from you.
~ LOVE your products.

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

Please consider completing my anonymous client survey:

Tell me you completed it and I'll give you a free gift for your efforts!
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NEW POLICY: Wholesale prices on ingredients and oils for Workshop Clients

I've made up my mind to charge wholesale prices - that's 50% off retail - to my Clinic customers and workshoppers who want to "get their craft on" ~ thanks be to The Church of Craft for that delightful phrase. I am now offering anything I have in stock for the same wholesale price I charge stores and practitioner retailers. This includes all oils, butters, clays, soap, lotion and cream bases - everything!

10 or 30 ml quantities decanted into amber glass bottles, yours or mine:

Cinnamon Leaf: spicy, fresh and fruity, from an eco farmer in Madagascar

Clove Bud: a zesty water distilled oil that ages like fine wine, and grows addictive!

Lavender Bulgarian: sweet with a balsamic woody undertone, Bulgarian oil is the best!

Cypress: this ancient African cosmetic oil helps our skin and psyches cope with change

Orange: this expressed oil replaces stagnant energy and frustration with joy and positivity.

Roman chamomile: fresh, extra sweet apple scented chamomile soothes... everything.

Patchouli: artfully fermented, and distilled, this aphrodisiac essential oil attracts prosperity
Peppermint (North American): All-In-One wake me up, headache and food poisoning cure
Tea Tree: this warm, fresh and spicy tea tree oil stimulates the immune system
Lemon: expressed from the peels, this lemon is light, fresh, sweet and uplifting

Ecologically grown and fairly traded:

Cedarwood Himalayan: used like frankincense in Tibet, it steadies and clarifies the mind

Rose Maroc: 10% in jojoba, this deep rich rose is anti depressant and centering
Niaouli: this meleleuca is sweeter and gentler than eucalyptus, perfect for young ones

(Still) Introducing my new professional Ion Cleanse Detox Foot Spa

I now offer ion cleanse foot spas, as well as whirlpool foot spa and reflexology sessions. Clients who have enjoyed reflexology, detox treatments or the whirlpool foot spa asked me about the ion cleanse, and I did some research and decided to buy the one developed by detoxification pioneer Dr. Mary Staggs.

Cleansing the body of toxins is a critical step on one's path to wellness. Many people with pain, edema, gout and swollen or deteriorating joints find immediate relief after a session. Even if you are completely healthy, you can expect to feel lighter and "better" after a session. The ion foot detox technology is used for increasing vital energy, relieving arthritis, joint pain, and HIV/AIDS, diabetes, skin disorders, removing numerous toxins from the body, and improving sleep, mental focus, and the immune system.

How does it work? I use sea salt dissolved in warm water. You soak your feet in a tub of warm water for 30 min. During the session negative and positive ions are generated and absorbed and discharged through the feet. You can read a book, listen to a CD of your choice, or chat with me. The toxins drawn out of your body through your feet will gradually discolour the water, and I will be able to read the ions removed through the monitor.

Try a session of ion foot detoxification for $45! If you'd like a half hour of detoxification followed by a half hour of foot reflexology, you can have a whole hour of bliss for $60 and receive a bonus set of fizzing tub truffles - a $78 value! And best of all, buy the Ion Cleanse package of 10 sessions for only $300.

To find out more about how it works, go to http://www.marystaggsdetoxcanada.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=20

Curious? Join me for my "All About Detoxification Lab" on Thursday, September 4, 7 pm - 9 pm, drop in at Anarres Natural Health Clinic, College and Ossington. It's by donation, but please RSVP.

EMF Radiation Shields for your cell phone and other things that emit EMF Radiation

Protect yourself from the cell phone radiation emitted from the antenna of your mobile phone with the SAR Shield radiation shield. Electromagnetic radiation EMF has been proven to be harmful. SAR Shield is the only cellular radiation shield to be tested using FCC SAR testing protocols. Safety is accomplished by dissipating deadly cancer causing electromagnetic radiation by up to 89%. Eliminate the dangers today! Available for phones with and without antennas. I've priced each at $18 - normally retailing for $20 - and I will make you a deal for multiple purchases.

Incense Incense is (Still) in the Air!

I've finally gotten around to making incense using bamboo sticks and cones. These are made ethically with sandalwood powder, wood powders and natural glue. Incense is NEVER manufactured with 100% essential oils - until I came along that is! Most incenses use perfumes and dangerous fixatives. The best on the market are made with a blend of resins, gums and powders, or dipped in a solution of 67% alcohol and 33% essential oils. My incense is made with 100% essential oil blends, with all ingredients declared upfront, and burn for more than an hour per stick or cone! While I'm on a roll, this is your opportunity to request a blend of your favourite scents. I'll make a batch, sell you some, and sell the rest from the clinic! And don't forget that I sell pure frankincense resin for those who like to incense using charcoal brickettes.

Frankincense resin 100g for $5

TRUE clarifying and grounding incense 10 sticks or cones for $8.50

Lavender Bulgarian 10 sticks or cones for $5.50

Don't want to burn incense?

NEW!!! Diffuser reeds are only $2 for a set of 10. No flames, no hassle - a way to gently scent your rooms...

If you want to make your own incense, check out my workshop the week of September 22.

Exfoliating Scrub: 15 ml $4, 60 ml $10, 120 ml $13. Refills for $1-3 discount!
Made with dead sea salts, evaporated cane juice, Anarres' own lotion, and essential oils of grapefruit,lemon and cypress, this gentle scrub smooths skin, stimulates repair of capillaries and skin cells. Just scrub in circles at night and gently rinse! I ADORE making custom scrubs! Just ask...

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. Irene Lau, founder of BMS, selected Anarres to present a Featured Product - Mamalicious Baby Balm. I mailed samples to mothers who applied to be reviewers. See the reviews to date: http://www.babymindandspirit.com/likedcomments.php?id=15

5. Bonus Article: Trust These Essential Oils for your First Aid Kit, Part 1

"Stop!" It never ceases to amaze me how people will grab essential oil samples at trade shows and sprinkle drops all over their skin before I can stop them. Perhaps they are used to perfume and fragrance oils. Perhaps they are expecting carrier oils WITH essential oils. Quite a few announce to me that they are "aromatherapists". Aromatherapists know that real essential oils are non diluted or adulterated essences of plants and are strong medicine. Only a very few are safe to use neat (undiluted) on the skin.

In this article, I will tell you how to use the safest and most useful essential oil for the whole family: did you guess it ? - lavender! At the risk of sounding like an MLM zombie, I carry lavender around with me wherever I go - in the back of the stroller to soothe bites and owies, in my purse to improve my personal fragrance and relieve my footsie troubles, in my first aid kits for burns and disinfection, and I spray it wherever mould or mildew might lurk.

Lavender: Love It or Hate It, It's the All-Purpose Essential Oil

Lavandula officinalis aka angustifolia was banned from use at the School of Holistic Studies during practical exams! Why? Because it does everything, and we were being tested on our ability to select oils for their specific function. Simply put, lavender is too easy a choice!

~ Lavender is safe to use for all people, including babies, and in the childbearing year.

~ Lavender can be put neat on the skin, but don't drink it! Essential oils should always be stored in a cool dark place out of reach of babies and children.

~ Its ability to heal burns is legendary - a few drops, and a second degree burn become a minor irritation. It soothes pain, and speeds healing of the skin tissues. It prevents infection and scarring in all wounds.

~ Lavender is not only anti bacterial - as all essential oils are - but it is also anti viral, and even more special - it is anti-fungal.

~ Lavender Bulgarian relieves pain, cramping, congestion, depression, reduces stress and anxiety and improves digestion, sleep, mood, water balance and rheumatism.

Choose 100% Bulgarian Lavender (Lavandula officinalis or angustifolia) for your home medicine chest or first aid kit, as it is the richest scent, and grown in highlands for its therapeutic properties. Lavandin and other lavenders tend to be fast growing lowland hybrids cultivated for the perfume and cosmetics industry. At Anarres, I sell real Bulgarian lavender for as little at $.25 a ml if you are a workshopper or Anarres Client! I also make a delectable Bulgarian Lavender incense ~ I can smell it drying now! ~ but that's another topic!

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

Car Free Days in Toronto - Sept. 22

To coincide with International Car Free Day on September 22, 2008, four Toronto Communities will be hosting their own Car Free Day in their neighbourhood. With the support of Sierra Club Ontario, Cedarvale Ave., Cody Ave., Delaware St. and Concord Ave. will be Car Free for a day. Kudos to these community groups for taking alternative transportation and emission reduction literally "to the streets"!

If your neighbourhood is interested in having its own Car Free Day (makes for a fabulous block party!), Sierra Club Ontario can help you to organize your event, fill out the necessary permits and arrange for barricades to close off traffic to your street. Please contact the Chapter Coordinator,
Emma Cane for more information via email: ontariochapter@sierraclub.ca or by phone 416-960-9606.

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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. While it is possible that a federal election may be underway during our caravan, 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!