Join Native and non-Native presenters from several cultures to learn the latest research and practical applications of an Integrative medicine approach to the prevention and treatment of diabetes. Listen to informative lectures, and engage in discussion and experiential exercises integrating Traditional (Indigenous) and complementary/ alternative medicine techniques and methods.

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Everdale Education Center click here www.everdale.org or

contact our local coordinator                Sandi Loytomaki directly at: 519-826-9944 or email her at wochange@albedo.net 

The Workshop draws on the extensive knowledge and authentic food and medicines of the Anishenabek and the Haudenosaunee of the Great Lakes area along with knowledge and research from alternative/complementary approaches.

We search for a remedy for the diabetes epidemic and strategies for successful management of the disease and learn practical methods and techniques. The third day is devoted to learning touch therapies protocol and is for beginner and advanced practitioners; We will learn massage, Polarity therapy, hydrotherapy and energy medicine techniques to reduce autonomic hyperactivity (stress) reduce edema through improving lymphatic function, reduce pain associated with poor circulation and neuropathies.

Where indigenous peoples continue to practice traditional diets, there is virtually no diabetes. The devastating effect on personal health and culture of diabetes or glucose intolerance syndromes on native peoples is now being experienced among peoples of European origin.

Diabetes is receiving a great deal of attention among native and non-native peoples in the western hemisphere but little attention is paid to the role of traditional foods and medicine for prevention and management. Diabetes constitutes an epidemic among Native peoples from Anishenabek territories to the Cowlitz and Zuni and among the nations of Mexico and Central America where upwards to 80% of tribal members have sugar metabolism dysfunction.

TOPICS INCLUDE:

Indigenous Foods and Nutrition

Metabolic Typing

Appropriate use of nutrient supplements and botanical medicine

Bodywork Therapies to treat edema, circulation neuropathies and stress

Energy Medicine exercises

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You will review the impact of historical/cultural trauma on personal and family stress, on-going social obstacles to obtaining healthy food, formulation of strategies for intra-organizational cooperation, mutual support and networking, along with development of personal, family and community action planning for better health.

You will enjoy sumptuous, healthy meals, on days one and two using the principles shared  

Your workshop learning and practice will rely on a hands on approach focusing on the kitchen, food selection, preparation techniques, nutrition, the appropriate use of supplements, stress reduction and specialized massage techniques to enhance circulation in people with diabetes or individuals susceptible to diabetes.

You will address research on the role of metabolic typing blood type and digestion/assimilation.

You will also understand the use of refined foods (metropolitan foods) and their addictive effects on psycho-physiological processes.

 The role of stress, the metropolitan diet and the lack of physical exercise are increasingly recognized as central causative factors to this thoroughly preventable disease. Research suggests that authentic foods and medicines bring balance to the body, mind and spirit.

Health practitioners and Native and non-native peoples alike living on reserves and in urban communities, however, frequently do not generally turn to traditional foods and medicines; the foods most appropriate for their metabolisms, nor do they necessarily possess the knowledge to make appropriate diet changes.

Join together to learn new knowledge and share with others.