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02/05/2025

✨ Restorative Yoga & Crystal Bowl Sound Bath ✨

Deanna & Jordan have come together to bring you a night of peace and tranquility💮

Join us for a special evening of deep relaxation and energetic renewal.

🧘‍♀️ Restorative Yoga led by Deanna, a certified yoga instructor, will gently open the body and calm the mind.
🔮 Crystal Sound Bath guided by Jordan, a Reiki practitioner & crystal guru, will immerse you in healing frequencies to balance your energy.

💖 Bring a friend for this Valentine’s experience!

📅 Date: February 13th
⏰ Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM
📍 Location: Brookfield Avenue Niagara Falls
💰 Cost: $40 per person (cash or e-transfer)

Give yourself (and a loved one) the gift of peace, healing, and connection. 🌙✨

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Bring a yoga mat, a cozy blanket, and an open heart. Come as you are, ready to relax and receive. ✨

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12/06/2024

Curious about Reflexology??
This article was posted on The Ontario Colege of Reflexology page

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fMRI Research Transforms Reflexology

It is confirmed by research: foot reflexology’s effect on the body has basis in fact. Proof of this concept was demonstrated by fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) research showing unexpected areas of the brain are activated as reflexology is applied to the feet.

Expected areas of the brain are those responding to any sensory application to the foot such as touch. As noted by lead investigator Dr. Stefan Posse, “(The research showed) Information (during foot reflexology) is shared with never expected parts of the brain.”

Also unexpected was the consistency of results for the four healthy participants and four stroke patients. All healthy participants demonstrated consistent activation of the same areas of the brain. All stroke patients showed consistent activation.

Results for the healthy subjects of the preliminary study showed potential feasible activation of the sensory motor cortex as expected as well as unexpected activation of insula, parietal lobe (supramarginal gyrus) and the pre and supplementary motor cortex.

Results for stroke patients showed activation of the foot sensory cortex, left pre and supplementary motor cortex, left supra marginal gyrus and the left middle temporal gyrus. Testing before and after the application of foot reflexology showed improvements for patients in relaxation of paralyzed hands

varying among participants and improvements in abilities to feel the difference between two points on the paralyzed limb.

These areas of the brain integrate incoming sensory information to provide responses to ensure survival. Information is provided from our surroundings and the inner us then integrated to make decisions about how to respond to events such as the need for fight or flight; the more mundane nervous tension of a job interview or an emotional situation.

Sensory information comes from the internal us, sights, sounds, proprioception such as pressure to the feet and movement. By providing pressure information to the feet, foot reflexology becomes a part of the survival mechanism. It is hypothesized that the above noted areas of the brain are activated by foot reflexology as a participant in the survival mechanism.

Brain scans during foot reflexology application were conducted in 2023 as part of the research project Neural Pathways of Applied Reflexology at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR). Results were reported May 6, 2024 at the annual meeting of the International Society for Magnetic resonance in Medicine in Singapore.

Researchers included internationally known reflexologists Barbara and Kevin Kunz; Dr. Stefan Posse of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine as well as Dr. Essa Yacoub, Dr. Ann van de Winckel and Dr. Luca of the University of Minnesota.

An fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scans the brain, measuring changes in blood flow and oxygen, nutrients needed to accomplish the task underway. What we’re thinking, doing, sensing or feeling causes blood to flow to specific parts of the brain. The pressure of reflexology to the foot was shown to prompt blood flow to specific expected and unexpected parts of the brain.

Reflexology Research Project
141 San Fidel NW, Albuquerque
United States of America

06/12/2024

💲Please understand what NOT using cash is doing.
As a former banker, it’s very crazy what’s happening- yet we continue to be ok with it.

Cash is important. 💸 matter of fact, they want to do away with it. For a reason! Don’t let them!

Why should we pay cash everywhere we can
with banknotes (cash) instead of a credit or debit card? 💳

Well. I have a $50 banknote ($50 bill) in my pocket.
Let’s say I am going to a restaurant and paying for dinner with it. The restaurant owner then uses the bill to pay someone to clean. The cleaning service then uses the bill to pay the barber. The barber will then use the bill for shopping for groceries.

After an unlimited number of payments, it will still remain a $50 bill, which has fulfilled it’s purpose to everyone who used it for payment and the bank has jumped dry from every cash payment transaction made...

- But if I come to a restaurant and pay digitally - Card, and bank fees for my payment transaction charged to the seller are 3%, so around $1.50 and so will the fee $1.50 for each further payment transaction or owner or payments..... going forward.

Therefore, after 30 transactions, the initial $50 will remain only $5 😫 and the remaining $45 became the property of the bank 🏦 thanks to all digital transactions and fees.

YEP!!!!

Small businesses need your help and this is one way to help ourselves too. Pull small draws of cash out at a time and use that instead of tap, credit, etc.

When this is put into perspective, imagine what each retailer is paying on a monthly basis in fees at 3% per transaction through their POS machine????

If they have, for example, $50,000 in sales & 90% are by CARD, they are paying $1500 in fees in ONE Month. $18,000 in a year! That comes out of their income every month.

That would go a long way to helping that small business provide for it’s family!🏦♥️" Not to forget, it can curb the costs passed on to us also!

Did you know I almost always carry cash? Not tons putting me at risk or stupid amounts, but enough for what I need!! I see the big picture. ❤️
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12/18/2023

Circle of Health will be open this week with limited hours. We will be closed as of 12pm Wednesday Decemeber 20th and not back open until January 8th at 10am. Please call or text in if you need to stock up on products while we will be closed 905-371-3331.

December 18th 10-2pm
Decemeber 19th 10-3pm
Decemeber 20th 9-12pm

We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Joanne and Vicky