Over a decade ago on my mom’s seventieth birthday I asked her to share some of her wisdom about how she created community in her life. She thought a moment and said simply, “With a cup of tea.”  

I smiled, “Of course,” thinking back to the cups of tea she had quietly poured for her neighbors over the fifty four years she has lived in her neighborhood in a ritual that invited sharing, learning, and personal revelation that writer Alice Munro could turn into “gossip informed by genius.” The neighbors unburdened themselves, laughed at absurdities and my mother listened and poured another cup. She is the last of her generation on the street and she is still pouring tea for younger visitors, grand nieces and nephews and my own childhood friends who wind their way to my mother’s house, seeking her out more so than they do me.

I tell people my mother’s intelligence is in her kindness. She is truly a kind person. Not saccharine sweet, but smart enough to know how to be kind in the smallest and largest of life’s difficult moments. With her longstanding simple kind offering of a cup of tea in mind, I welcome you and yours to come sit at our table, drink a cup and learn how to be kind to your bones. And of course, meet my mom.

~ June LaPointe, Bones for Life® Trainer

With exquisite self care and comfort, we will explore breathing and postural alignment lessons from Bones for Life® and the Feldenkrais Method to enhance the pleasure of your daily vocal practice and tap the potential of your peak performance.

• Discover a shortcut to standing in easy uprightness.
• Breathe with ease and efficiency to support your authentic sound.
• Increase body awareness and release tension and strain to prevent injury.

Feldenkrais Practitioner and Bones for Life Trainer, June LaPointe, is a voice coach, musician and actor who brings 30 years of experience as a performer and somatic education coach to her practice of helping people move and express themselves with greater fluency, power, authenticity and ease.

These Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons will show you how your hands depend on the rest of your body for their efficiency, helping you tap into a freedom of breath and movement that will improve the experience of music making for both you and your audience.

• Develop a richer, more expressive sound.
• Improve speed and agility with comfort and ease.
• Increase body awareness and release tension and strain to prevent injury.

Josh Schreiber Shalem has been a student of the Feldenkrais Method since 1997 when chronic tendonitis forced him to stop playing the cello. Once again an active musician with an MM from the Longy School Music in viola da gamba, Josh takes great joy in sharing what he has learned with musicians and anyone else who would like to overcome obstacles and realize their potential.

Nutrition for Healthy Bones

Are you looking to improve your bone and joint health? Osteoporosis, bone and joint problems impact a large segment of the population and their quality of life.

• Learn the importance of balancing ph levels for strong bones
• The best foods to support bone and joint health
• The importance of an anti-inflammatory diet
• Calcium rich foods that are easy to absorb
• The most important nutrients for bone health including calcium, magnesium, vitamin D and more
• Example of an excellent bone support supplement
• The best forms of calcium for proper absorption
• The problem with many store bought calcium supplements and how to know which products are worth the money

Monday Sep. 13
Time: 6:30-7:15
Cost: $10
Instructor: Eric Reardon MS, CNC

Space is limited.  To register for any of these classes, please call p:617/875.6040.

Nutritional Solutions for ADD/ADHD
Learn how nutritional therapies can help those with ADD/ADHD

Topics Include:

• The importance of regulating blood sugar levels for improved attention and focus
• The connection between food allergies and ADD/ADHD
• Foods to omit from the diet and the problem with artificial colorings and flavorings
• How neurotransmitter imbalances affect attention and focus
• Testing options
• The most important supplements to help attention and focus
• The importance of omega-3 fatty acids and their role in improving behavior

Monday Sep. 20
Time: 6:30-7:15
Cost: $10
Instructor: Eric Reardon MS, CNC

Space is limited.  To register for any of these classes, please call p:617/875.6040.

Nutrition for Sound Sleep

Are you looking to fall asleep easier?   Stay asleep through the night?   Do you wake up in the middle of the night?

Learn how nutrition can improve sleep:                                                                      

• How imbalanced stress hormones affect sleep
• Importance of healthy adrenal gland function for sound sleep
• Importance of balanced serotonin levels for sleep
• Natural solutions to increase serotonin levels
• How to asses stress hormone and serotonin levels
• Best herbal and vitamin/mineral supplements to support a healthy  nervous system

Monday Sep. 27
Time: 6:30-7:15
Cost: $10 Instructor:
Eric Reardon MS, CNC

NANNYPALOOZA

Unwinding Wound Up Kids and Wakeful Babies Using Neurologically-based Practical Methods.
Instructor: Lauri Weinstein
Learn how to recognize what sensory experiences wind children up, and learn how to plan easy games that calm them back down.  In this session, participants will learn how to modify the environment for relaxation and sleep, and explore sensory diet games used to improve focus and attention. 

Sunday, September 19, 2010
Time: TBD
Location: MIT

For more info, click here.