Alive! Expo Returns This Spring

Alive! Expo, Atlanta’s largest consumer trade show for natural health and green products and services, returns to the Cobb Galleria May 14 and 15. This is the show’s 17th appearance; due to the pandemic, there was no show in 2020. Read More »

Atlanta’s Own HEAL CENTER: 30 Years of Educating, Healing and Inspiring

In 1992, Zollinger opened Heal Center in Sandy Springs, where she, along with 14 other holistic practitioners, offered reflexology, aromatherapy and other holistic services. Read More »

Creating a Wild Space at Home

In their book The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, University of Delaware ecology professor Douglas Tallamy and landscape designer Rick Darke show how to create wild spaces in yards, including what and where to plant and how to manage the land. Read More »

Decatur Healing Arts Moves Next Door and Introduces Salt Room

The new location is in Suite A in the East Decatur Station at 619 East College Avenue. In celebration of its new space, DHA is hosting a week of special events and promotions from March 28 to April 3. Read More »

Eating for the Planet: Diet for a Climate Crisis

While much of the climate conversation focuses on the burning of fossil fuels, commercial food production—particularly livestock—uses large amounts of land, water and energy. Wasted food contributes to approximately 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. Read More »

Fifth Annual Water Ritual in Beaufort, South Carolina

Momma Seven, founder of the Atlanta-based A Wonderful Approach, a spiritual healing and education organization, is holding her fifth annual Water Ritual in Beaufort, South Carolina, from May 13 to 15. Read More »

Five Years

To say the last five years have been historic is beyond understatement. I took ownership of Natural Awakenings Atlanta three days before a new administration took over in Washington. Read More »

Holistic Food and Supplement Store Opens in Mableton

YourInsideOutsideHealth.com, a new holistic food, vitamin and supplement store that recently opened in Mableton, will celebrate its grand opening on April 24, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Read More »

Johns Creek Yoga Changes Hands

The new Lift Yoga & Body studio will be located at 11705 Jones Bridge Road, Suite A104, in Johns Creek. Read More »

Mung Bean Curry

Rinse the mung beans, then soak overnight in water. The next day, discard the water, rinse the beans again and add 3 cups of water and bay leaves. Bring the beans to near boil and reduce heat to simmer. Read More »

Nature Apps to Learn By

Audubon Guide: Search a field guide to 800 species of birds found in North America with tips on places to find them. Read More »

Nature Speaks: Storytelling Connects Kids to the Natural World

Organizations, like the Wilderness Awareness School, a Duvall, Washington-based nonprofit, work to help children and adults cultivate healthy relationships with nature, community and self. Read More »

Pranic Healing Master Glenn Mendoza in Atlanta

On April 29, Mendoza joins Atlanta pranic healer Dawn Myers for a lecture about their new book, Rules That Guide Us. The $59 fee includes a signed copy of the book, which the two healers wrote in response to the pandemic. Read More »

Scrap Vegetable Stock

Cook for about two hours or until the liquid is reduced by about half and the color begins to fade from the vegetables. Read More »

Slaying Worry

To relieve the stress, I engaged once more in a regular routine of meditation and retraining my mind to think positively. Yet the infection persisted. I realized I would have to do more to heal myself than just change my thought patterns. Read More »

Soulful Soundz Studio Announces New Sound Healing Course

The course is offered for $888 with an option to buy three sound bowls for $1,444. Instruction will take place at Soulful Soundz Studio at 409 Mead Road, Unit 4, in Decatur. Read More »

Technology Meets Nature: Apps Bring Us Closer to Flora and Fauna

At least 6,300 nature apps were available in 2015, according to Paul Jepson and Richard Ladle, Oxford environmental scholars and co-authors of “Nature Apps: Waiting for the Revolution,” a research paper published in the Swedish environmental journal Ambio Read More »

Why We Need Wild Places: How to Invite Nature Back into Our Lives and Landscapes

A wild place can be as spectacular as Yellowstone, a 3,500-square-mile national park in Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana, filled with hot springs, canyons, wolves, and elk. Read More »

Yoga Poses to Balance the Chakra System

The chakra system is an ancient map of energy flow in the body. In Sanskrit, the word “chakra” means “disk” or “wheel.” Read More »