Category: Headlines
The Homestead Market is finally opening in January 2020! Read how YOU can support this small, community powered resource!
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When you join the Homestead, you become part of an amazing community. Our commitment to our membership is to follow through with our commitment to prioritize health and wellness by making heath care affordable and accessible. And when our membership…
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Category: Fundraiser, Headlines
Tags: co op market, colorado non profits, fundraiser, gilpin county colorado, golden gate canyon, Headlines, holistic healing, natural health, nonprofit, patreon, patron, social responsibility
Always label your herbs! But just in case you forget, here’s how to identify St. John’s Wort tincture and infused oil. When in doubt, throw it out!
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Category: Apothecary, Headlines
Tags: alpine botanicals, boulder colorado, energetics of western herbs, home apothecary, home remedies for bug bites, home remedies for depression, how to harvest hypericum, how to identify hypericum perforatum, hypericum perforatum, natural remedies for anxiety, natural remedies for burns, st. Joan's wort, St. John's wort
Meet our featured sponsor Helene Arendt of CSB Metalsmith – she handcrafts beautiful custom jewelry and supports the Holistic Homestead
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Cannabis is well known for it’s ability to treat the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiation, but scientists are exploring it’s potential to treat cancer itself.
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Category: Headlines, Here's to your Health!
Tags: alternative cancer treatments, American cancer society, can cannabis treat cancer, cannabis sativa, Colorado, cure for cancer, endocannabinoid system, health benefits of marijuana, how to use cannabis to treat cancer, legal cannabis, medical marijuana, pharmaceutical cannabis, science of cannabis, womb love apothecary
Sing-a-long with Arwen & Skully the Skeleton to learn about what to do when you get a boo-boo.
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Category: Dr. Mom, Headlines, Here's to your Health!
Tags: First aid, first aid for kids, gilpin county colorado, hands on health, health literacy, health workshops for kids, healthy kids, kids songs, lesson plan, nonprofit, RICE
Our article for the final day of our retreat today is from a dear, and long-time friend of mine, and frequent contributor to The Holistic Homestead: Aditi Devi, PhD. Aditi had been traveling and studying Goddess traditions in Asia for…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: aditi devi, adya kali, coming home, how to meditate, Julia jean PhD, smiling meditation, spiritual lineages, tantralink interview, tantric buddhism, tantric hinduism, true nature
When I asked Hoag Holmgren, Zen Buddhist teacher and author of the new Zen primer No Better Place, what it means to truly “come home”, he sent me a copy of his new book. I found in it’s pages pithy…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: Hoag holmgren, how to do a zen retreat, how to meditate, letico divina, middle creek publishing, no better place, reading meditation, Richard Tarnas quote, self discovery, sesshin, what is a zen retreat, zen buddhism, zen for beginners, zen primer, zen style
Today we enjoyed four hours at 7 Healing Stars together, getting massage, dancing, meditating, doing yoga, drinking tea and sharing a healing and sacred space. It was a truly beautiful experience to share with others, and I wanted to extend…
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: 7 healing stars, ayurveda, black hawk, Colorado, guided meditation, health benefits of massage, how to do self-abhyanga, how to do yoga nidra, inner peace, meditation, self abhyanga, self care, self massage, spirituality and health, winter retreat, yoga nidra
To begin, I realize “prayer” can be a loaded word: it has obvious religious overtones or connotations of belief in a higher power, may imply expectation of reward, or may perpetuate wishful thinking without action based on hope and fear….
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Category: Headlines, Winter Retreat
Tags: benefits of prayer, guided meditation, health benefits of prayer, how to pray, natural remedies for addiction, natural remedies for anxiety, natural remedies for depression, neuroplasticity, non-denominational prayer, prayer requests, psychology today, science behind prayer, scientific american, winter retreat