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Pet Mania Sitting Services
Custom Pet care for your precious loved ones. We care for dogs, cats, birds, all kinds of livestock, including horses. We offer custom care for your dog, hiking, swimming special playtime. We come to your home or are able to board. No kennels. We care for your pets as if they were our own. Please call for further details @ (970)946-6717.
WRC members receive an additional 10% discount. Your pets deserve it! Licensed and Insured

Deeper Waters Life Coaching
Are you in transition and struggling with the stressors associated with change? Feeling overwhelmed by fear of the unknown or the scarcity thinking that is surrounding us in this challenging economic climate? Now is the time to reclaim your power and take steps to create a solid foundation for success and fulfillment. As a Certified Professional Life Coach, Carrie Garber works with women in transition who are looking to redesign their lives in a way that honors their truth and values. Call today for your complimentary consultation to explore how coaching can provide support, structure and accountability for designing your best life. Carrie can be reached at (970) 426-9318. She also has an office located at 755 East 2nd Avenue, Suite B, in Durango.

Sizzling Summer Special from Deeper Waters Life Coaching. Receive a 25% discount if you sign up for 3 months of coaching and pay in full. Design your best life NOW with the support, structure & accountability of a coaching relationship. Please note that limited spaces are available and offer expires on 7/20/09. Contact Carrie Garber, CPCC, for details and complimentary consultation. 970.426.9318

Hikercise! Come delight in the Great Outdoors while exploring Whole Body movement on the trail! WRC members take an additional 15% off Ten Class punch card. Please visit www.Hikercise.com or call Mimi at 970.799.7777, anytime! First Class is FREE!

Helping Build Wealth is currently offering a FREE consultation to assess your current debt situation.

How do I reduce my debt? How many of us dread paying the monthly bills-each month trying to figure out which one to pay off first.

What if I could find a system to tell you exactly which bill to pay and pay it off in 1/3 of the time AND your in control of the information entered? All you have to do is pay the bills as indicated on software each month. These Debt Consolidation tools will help us all GET BACK ON TRACK.

Contact me today to schedule an appointment and see how much you can save in INTEREST and how soon you can start investing for your future.

Monica & Brad Stapleton (970) 764-7629 or visit our website at http://www.livingthedream.hbwinfo.com

Art and Soul Day Retreat
The Place to Bring Your Self Into Balance
 Mission Statement: We are a community retreat center providing daily opportunities for self fulfillment through art, music, dance, laughter, quiet reflection and other forms of self expression that nourish each individual, thus enriching the community as a whole.

Our intention is to provide a “drop in” retreat center where an individual could take time out from their daily routine to engage in whatever activity feels most nurturing to them on that particular day. From the moment one enters through the main foyer, and is greeted by the soothing sound of a water fountain, attractive plants and a friendly greeter it becomes readily apparent that this is a place to nourish one’s soul. To that end we would offer the following options:

  • The Dance Depot–a room with a great sound system that could be used for dance, yoga, tai chi , drumming or any activity where freedom of movement is required.
  • The Creation Station- This is a space to engage in those art projects that you just don’t have time or space for at home.
  • The Quiet Place-This space is made available for quiet activities such as reading, meditation, quiet contemplation or listening to music or book tapes on headphones.
  • The Laugh Lair-Laughter is good for body and soul. Here there is a TV with a variety of comedies to tickle your funny bone. Laughter yoga will also be offered.
  • Tea and Talk Kitchen-This is just as the name implies-a place to share a cup of tea and quiet conversation.
  • Growing Garden-This would be a large community garden where those whose souls are fed by digging in the dirt can till the soil, plant, weed, water and harvest our crops.
  • On the Grounds of the Center there will be a meditation garden and a labyrinth, along with benches placed throughout so that time can be spent in nature. There will be flowers to be planted and maintained by those who are nourished in this way.
  • Kid’s Korner-Daycare will be provided on site for some of the hours of operation.
The non-profit board that assembled this information feels that there is a need for such a center here in LaPlata County. At this time we are would like to gage the level of interest on the part of members of our community. Please take a few minutes to help us out by following this link to our questionnaire and then email it to: nancy@architectsoflife.com. Thank you very much!!

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Durango Class
to Begin on April 8, 2009
The world is changing radically before our own eyes, leaving many of us anxious, overwhelmed and wondering how to cope. Come learn about how the human capacity called mindfulness can help up cultivate the clarity and wisdom required to meet the extraordinary demands and challenges of our times. A free orientation session for the upcoming Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Durango Class will be held on Wednesday, March 11 from 6:30-8 PM at Serving Life Chiropractic Studio, 1040 Main Avenue, 2nd Floor. The MBSR class, modeled on the internationally acclaimed program created at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in 1979 by Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, offers powerful methods for learning to cope more effectively with stress, pain, illness and “dis-ease.” The next class cycle begins on Wednesday, April 8, and will be held on eight consecutive Wednesday evenings, 6-8:30 PM. For more information or to register, call Janet Curry, M.A., #970-779-0611, or email: janet@stillpointmindfulnesstraining.com.

Discover Nia, a form of fitness fusion that incorporates elements of dance, martial arts and healing arts into a holistic workout. Beyond the fun and solid aerobic workout classes focus on self-expression, healing and developing mindfulness. Nia is practiced barefoot and to a variety of world music.

WRC member Evonne Tocca is a certified brown belt Nia instructor and brings 10 years of teaching experience to her Nia classes conveying a sense of passion, commitment and integrity to the work. Evonne dives deep into the Nia Technique and hopes it will bring meaning and joy to your life, as it has for her.

Evonne teaches Nia at Core Value Fitness Center, at the intersection of 32nd and CR 250. Current class schedule: M, W, F: 9-10 am, Sun 4-5:30 pm. $9 drop in. Call 970.946.2591 for more info.

Looking to develop your Authentic Leadership? Want tools to stay grounded in Abundance in spite of the economy? Hearing a call to honor your deepest self as a way of living your True Life? True Life Coaching & Women's Retreats can support you with all of these and more. Professional Certified Coach and Retreat Leader Victoria FittsMilgrim, WRC volunteer since 2000, has over 20 years experience with transformational growth. In addition to powerful 1:1 coaching, she offers nourishing and transformative retreats designed to bring you home to yourself. 2009 offerings include:

  • Being in the Flow June 18-22 (Summer Solstice) Rafting retreat on the Colorado River near Grand Junction
  • Quest for Your Authentic Leader Aug 9-14 in the high mountain meadows of New Mexico near Taos. Now only $750 with our Recession Buster Discount!
  • Journey with Your Wild Soul Nov 13-15 in the sacred Canyon of the Ancients west of Cortez

Contact Victoria at (970)259-9040 or visit www.truelifecoach.net for more information and registration. Mention the WRC for 5% discount! Gift yourself with the power, connection and learning of a True Life Retreat.

Experience the joy of dance with your little ones with Mommy and Me Dance of Durango! For boys and girls 3 months to 3 years! Introduce your little ones to the world of dance with energetic and educational classes that include props, musical instruments, and a variety of fun music! To register, view upcoming classes and events, get session process or for further information visit Mommyandmedanceofdurango.com or call 970-769-2938. WRC members receive a 10% discount!

Sylvain \ Dubois, LLC, Durango’s Strategic Growth Coach, works with established women business owners to increase their company’s overall performance and their amount of free/ family time. We assess efficiency gaps, help you create a strategic business plan and then provide strategic tools to quickly improve productivity and profit. We coach owners on exactly how to best use these tools to transition, providing increased accountability. At the end of the day we help free up your time and re-connect you to your dreams. For more information on specials for WRC members and more information on the 2009 business Executive Roundtable Series visit our website at www.sylvainduboisllc.com or call 764-4556.

Holly Hagan, RN is pleased to announce her position as the health insurance specialist at Chris Latshaw State Farm Insurance. With over five years of acute care experience at Mercy Regional Medical Center, Holly has the background to help you negotiate today’s challenging medical environment. Whether you are in need of individual health insurance, Medicare supplement, long term care, or any other health service product, she can provide a needs analysis to help find a plan that’s right for you.

Please visit Holly at Chris Latshaw State Farm, located at 400 S. Camino Del Rio, Suite C (in the Big 5 complex), or call at (970) 259-4500.

* In addition to health, Chris Latshaw State Farm Insurance provides a wide range of insurance and financial services, including auto, fire, life, health, bank, investments and estate planning. Please allow our dedicated team of professionals to assist you with all of your insurance and financial needs.

WRC partner agency Habitat for Humanity of La Plata County (HFHLPC) invites you volunteer to become a partner family mentor! HFHLPC is not just about building homes, but helping to build lives too. HFHLPC is the ONLY agency in La Plata County whose mission is to provide affordable homeownership opportunities to La Plata family residents earning between 30% and 60% of the area median income. These families do not qualify for conventional mortgages and are typically directed towards affordable rental situations. We believe that homeownership is superior to renting, is a vital step in breaking the cycle of poverty, and contributes to pride in families and communities.

The only way HFHLPC can carry on its mission is through community partnerships and generosity of hundreds of individuals that recognize the importance of homeownership for families earning a bit less. Families are assigned a mentor to help them through the process of building and buying their home through Habitat’s self-help program. Oftentimes, families are single-parent households with little knowledge of what building, buying and owning a home involve. A mentor is a valuable component of a families’ success that help to guide them through the process every step of the way.

Mentors will receive training and guidance on how to help their family succeed as well as be a part of the ultimate outcome of their mentoring; homeownership for a deserving family. We encourage you to be a part of our Habitat family and call us for more information at 382-2215.

Sandra Smith, Holistic Counseling Services is offering a complimentary subscription to monthly SPIRI-TIPS ...One professional tip at no cost every month on how to maintain optimum wellness and strength of spirit for all ages. To accept this limited time offer...
Just click here: http://www.childandfamilyspirit.net/purchase.htm#spirittips or contact Sandra 375-1720.

Volunteers needed to play with children with special needs! One Saturday/month from 3:00-8:00 pm at the Mason Center in Durango.
The Tambo Program, sponsored by Community Connections, is a respite care program for children with special needs, providing care while parents get groceries, go see a movie, or just relax! If you would like to volunteer, call Molly Orendorff at 385-3451. Click here for 2008-2009 Tambo dates and more information.

Isagenix is a full body nutritional cleansing program. 90% of the benefits are changes inside the body - 10% is benefit of weight loss and/or inch loss showing on outside of the body. Isagenix is not just for weight loss. We have children's nutritionals and products that help athlete endurance and stamina.

WRC member Annamarie Longfellow, a WRC member is offering a FREE Shaker Cup to 1st time purchasers. FREE Informational Taste Testing featuring Isagenix full body cleansing products are available most Saturdays at 2:00 p.m. Call or e-mail for location and dates. To contact Annamarie Longfellow call 970.259.5271, or email toadally-healthy@msn.com. Cleansing info is available at http://tinyurl.com/684xx4.

Visit Nancy, Utter Naturopathic Doctor, at Durango Natural Medicine
If you had more colds, lung infections, sore throats or flu’s than you wanted last year you can act now to prevent them this winter! Dr. Utter can give you a complete assessment of your health history and current health issues. You will walk out the door with a health plan that will be easy, safe and that will keep the bad germs away! Please call Cindy at Durango Natural Medicine at 247-0737 to set your appointment today.

Dr. Utter also does hormone balancing with women of all ages. Conditions such as PMS, endometriosis, irregular cycles, pelvic pain, infertility, hormonal depression and menopausal issues can be cured with natural medicines that first do no harm. Dr. Utter offers free 15 minute consults so that you can meet her, hear her approach to treating these issues, ask questions and find out if naturopathic medicine is for you! Please call for an appointment at 247-0737.

Dancing Heron Taijiquan offers Chen style taiji classes every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:00pm to 7:30pm. Classes are $10/ea or 10 classes for $85.00. Please call 385-9597 for more information.

Taijiquan (T’ai Chi Chuan) is an ancient Chinese mind/body discipline, considered for centuries to be a cultural treasure of China. It provides a structure through which we can express our innermost feelings, beliefs, and ideas, and cultivate Chi: the vital force. It is also a means to critique that structure and, when necessary, to refine it.

Taijiquan begins with a study of the body, for through the body we can understand the mind. It is often called “moving meditation”, but it is a martial art based upon a profound body of principles, theories and techniques. It promotes healthy circulation, bone building, and balance, often helping to reverse dis-eases like osteoporosis, high blood pressure and diabetes.

Dancing Heron Taijiquan is pleased to offer free taiji to new WRC members. New members will be entered into a drawing and a name will be drawn each quarter!

Susan Ristow is pleased to announce the opening of her new practice at 1800 E 3rd Avenue, Suite 103 (next to the new library). Susan is an Allergist/Immunologist in practice for 30 years with a multi- specialty hospital based group practice dedicated to serving all socioeconomic groups in Rochester, NY before moving to Durango last fall. Susan has medical boards in Internal Medicine and in Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Her practice serves both adults and children with allergic disease including asthma. She was the cofounder and Medical Director of an Asthma Center in Rochester and 40% of her experience and training has been in the diagnosis and treatment of Rheumatologic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus and related illnesses. She is particularly interested in these diseases which occur predominantly in women.

Please visit Susan’s solo practice at 1800 E 3rd Avenue, Suite 103 or contact her 259-9000. She takes most commercial insurances, Medicaid, CHP+, and Medicare and will give a discount and payment plan for the uninsured. She will be working as a consultant and not doing primary care.

Julie Gentry, MA, CBP, LMT is pleased to announce the opening of her new BodyTalk practice at the Asante Center for Empowered Healing, 801 Florida Rd., Ste. 11, Durango.

BodyTalk stimulates the body's innate ability to balance and heal itself on all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. BodyTalk's major assets are its simplicity, safety and the speed of its results. It is gentle, relaxing, non-invasive, objective in application...and fun

BodyTalk is an astonishingly simple and effective form of therapy that allows the body's energy systems to be re-synchronized so they can operate as nature intended. Each system, cell and atom is in constant communication with each other at all times. Through exposure to the stresses of day-to-day life, however, these lines of communication can become compromised, which then leads to a decline in physical, emotional and/or mental well-being. Reconnecting these lines of communication enables the body's mechanisms to function at optimal levels, thus preventing disease and rapidly accelerating the healing process.

For more information go to www.bodytalksystem.com or www.asantecenter.com. To make an appointment, contact Julie Gentry at julierob915@hotmail.com, 970.385.5485 or 512.296.9293 cell.

30 minutes of free Feng Shui consulting to WRC members!
Candee Pearson at Five Star Feng Shui can help you create a harmonious space to achieve your goals and dreams! Whether you are building or remodeling, overwhelmed with decisions, starting a new business, or unhappy with how you feel in your space. Five Star Feng Shui can help! Contact Candee at 970-764-5615 or candeepearson@fivestarfengshui.com.

10% off with Insights by Lyn
WRC members receive 10% off an Astrology Reading (regularly $100) or a pack of 3 sessions of Personal Coaching with Astrology (regularly $275). Learn more at www.Insightsbylyn.com; call 970-769-1979 or email lyng22@msn.com. Lyn Goldberg, Evolutionary Astrologer

 

Learn more about Garden Coaching.
Call Eve Gilmore, Gardens by Eve 769-3319

A Garden Coach can help you by:

  • Helping you to get to know your plants and their needs more intimately to maintain a healthy, vibrant, and gratifying greenspace.
  • Giving you feedback on your ideas for your landscape and tell you which will be successful and achieve your goals.
  • Helping you identify whether a tree, shrub or section of your garden is worth resurrecting and how to go about it (or what to add or remove to create the effect you desire with minimal changes).
  • Being familiar with the local nurseries and their offerings, I can shop for you or with you, ensuring that you find the best quality plant material available at the best prices.
  • Eve will prepare a formal design, informal sketch, or simply give you design ideas to breathe new life into an old garden or for starting from a blank slate. (My specialties are water-wise, native, and edible gardens.)
  • Mentoring you, meeting with you in your garden, working along side you or giving you tutorials on how to be a more knowledgeable gardener.
  • Eve will meet with you weekly, monthly, or only once, as your interest, needs, and budget dictate.

Psychic Circle Classes and Workshops with The Purple Phoenix, LLC: Take what you know about traditional psychic telling, put it in a box, then drop a stick of dynamite in that box and blow it up . . . this is where we begin. Then we add the beleif that EVERYONE is psychic or intuitive and dive in. These workshops and classes are all about identifying YOUR gifts and teaching YOU how to use them in the current global energy climate and awakening. Psychic work is not for the gifted few--its tools, traditions, and techniques are alot more mainstream than you might know. For current classes and workshops call Dana at 970-375-1708 or view at www.thepurplephoenix.com/events.html.

Women's Wellness Connection
WRC is a supporter of The Women's Wellness Connection and encourages women to stay healthy. No woman should go without annual breast and cervical screenings. To insure that every woman has access, the Women's Wellness Connection program, offers Pap tests, mammograms and clinical breast exams to women ages 40-64. These services are free of charge to women who live in Colorado, are legal residents, have no health insurance or are underinsured, and meet income qualifications. The screenings are offered by Planned Parenthood and San Juan Basin Health Department. To find out if they are eligible, women may call a state hotline at 1-800-951-WELL or locally call B.J. Boucher with the American Cancer Society at 259-3527.

Brain for Success
Do you want more satisfaction from your life and deeper inner joy?
Do you dream of freeing yourself from the things that block you?

Brain For Success™ is a completely revolutionary technique for literally transforming your life. . . from the inside out!

The Brain for Success Method™ works directly with your entire nervous system - brain, spine, and energy field - to elevate your body's circuitry to a level you may never have imagined possible. Brain for Success has been developed for more than 30 years and is an amazing, leading-edge technique that alters the brain pathways so you have the capacity to create the life YOU desire. Surrender fear, release pain and let go of distress...not just in your mind but throughout your entire body!

Take the steps to follow your intuitive heart to live your dreams; visit www.BrainForSuccess.com today.

Created with Your success in mind.

LifeDance Art Studio
Niara Isley is a local artist offering original paintings, multimedia works, giclee prints, unique artistic frame drums and lightsculptures. Lightsculptures combine the beauty of art with the functionality of lighting and are beautiful compliments to homes and offices, particularly healing spaces, such as bodyworkers or counseling spaces. Visit her website, www.lifedanceartstudio.com and her blog/gallery of her most recent art at http://innervistas.spaces.live.com/?lc=1033. Email Niara to get on her email list to see her newest creations! visionaryexpression@gmail.com.

LifeDance Coaching with Niara Isley offers life coaching in affordable and dynamic groups and classes. Certifications include individual and relationship coaching and Radiance Birthwork with Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D.s and working with highly sensitive people (HSPs) from Elaine Aron, Ph.D, as well as a wealth of life experience and other tools and modalities. Check out www.lifedancecoaching.com online or contact her at movebreathe@gmail.com.

WRC member Marsha Cohen is seeking shoulder pads to use in breast forms that she knits for mastectomy patients. The knitted breast forms are given to patients who want to wear them home. You can bring your shoulder pad donations to WRC, 679 E. 2nd Ave., Unit #6, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. For more information about the program, e-mail Marsha at mjchnds@aol.com.

Sexual Assault Services Organization (SASO) needs volunteers and is offering free training programs to learn about helping survivors heal, prevent child abuse, and inspire youth to intervene in potentially unsafe situations. Call 259-3074 to sign up.

The NEW Power Lunch for Women - Real People. Real Connection. Real Solutions. Get your monthly infusion of ease and community! These are not networking events, but opportunities to have real conversations about real issues that you don't get to discuss anywhere else. Come and learn concrete skills that leverage your natural strengths as a woman. And (unlike so many meetings) you’ll be energized by meaningful connections with women you can both enjoy and admire. Professional Life Coach, Mindy Stern, is your host. Cost is $50 and includes a gourmet lunch and materials. Upcoming events in Durango:

For more information and to register, go to: http://www.workingwithpower.com/newpowerlunch.html.

Gift Baskets 4u features a huge selection of unique gourmet gift baskets to suit every occasion, taste and budget. From gourmet food and coffee to collectable stuffed animals, Gift Baskets 4u can design a gift basket for anyone. Gift Baskets 4u also offers Tracy's Gourmet Cookies, baked fresh daily. WRC members receive a 10% discount on all orders! Order online at www.gift-baskets-4u.com, email Sales@gift-baskets-4u.com, or call 1-888-218-6609.