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Your Bountiful Harvest
“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep and Autumn was awakened."
- Raquel Franco
As the sun begins to sink lower in the sky, even before we even notice the changing of colors with our eyes, our senses tell us the energy of summer is coming to a close.
The Autumn Equinox arrives for those in the Northern Hemisphere on September 22, 2022. The word “equinox” comes from Latin and means “equal night,” referring to the near-perfectly balanced 12-hour day and 12-hour night, which the Equinox brings.
This wondrous balance of nature signals a meaningful time of year for many. A time to honor the harvest - whether it is a harvest of things planted in your garden - or the harvest of efforts and intentions for your life, which you may have set earlier in the year.
This harvest season also signals us to begin preparations for the winter season. Collecting and storing enough nutrition to sustain us is the focus of harvest, whether literally or within ourselves. We seek the delicate balance between not too much, but enough to see us through. All the while, cultivating and protecting precious seeds which will allow for growth once again in the springtime.
Focusing on the culmination of growth each harvest brings, you might reflect on what worked well this year and what did not. What could you have done to ensure more growth? Perhaps this year’s harvest was beyond your expectations. What preparations might be done now to ensure an equally successful year ahead? Did you enjoy the process of growth this year? What would make the process more enjoyable in the future?
Nature continually reminds us, the end of one precious cycle begins the next. Here at the Foundation, we celebrate this season of harvest with you. May a bounty of health and happiness be yours and may all your harvest celebrations be blessed.
Be Well,
Your friends at the Healer Within Foundation
HWF Receives Ohio Falls Prevention Grant
Healer Within Foundation has been awarded a 2022 program grant through the Ohio Older Adult Falls Prevention Coalition. To date, HWF has received a total of $10,000 in grants from the Coalition. HWF is again proud to be one of only a select few projects selected through a highly competitive application process. By providing these grant dollars to diverse communities and organizations, the Coalition hopes to disseminate and increase opportunities for older adults to become actively engaged in evidence-based fall prevention strategies across Ohio.
Healer Within Foundation will use the funds to support, in part, the Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Certification training to be held October 22-24, 2021 in Columbus, Ohio. New Practice Leaders receiving grant-funded training scholarships will be expected to lead virtual practice groups which serve those in their community. Additionally, the grant allows important research data to be collected from program participants. Click HERE for more information or to to register for the training.
Thank you to the project leaders and trainers, Annette Franks, Lori Candon and Antoinette Horn, (shown above, L to R) for securing the award. Our best wishes for great success during project implementation at the upcoming training and beyond!
Submit Your Educational Program Proposal
Have you authored or do you lead an educational self-care and/or wellness course? Offer a unique presentation or class related to Tai Chi, Qigong or other body-mind-spirit practices? Maybe you are in development of such a curriculum and are seeking a partner to help get your course in front of potential students? If so, the HWF Programs Team is currently calling for Educational Program Proposals and would like to hear from you!
Proposals will initially be accepted on a continuous basis. Proposals submitted by the 15th of each month, will be reviewed by the end of that month.
The Healer Within Foundation Mission: Healer Within Foundation advances Qigong/Tai Chi and other self-healing, body/ mind/spirit practices, through collaboration with individuals, and organizations to sponsor trainings, community practice groups and research.
As a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, HWF strives to produce accessible, engaging and effective educational content which may assist individuals in achieving improved health and well-being.
HWF Educational Program Goals:
- Dissemination of effective Self-Care and Wellness Programs/Presentations
- Alignment with HWF Mission
- Identified Audience/Need (e.g. children's health, general health & wellness, chronic pain, substance abuse, etc.)
- Competitively-priced offerings of high quality with feasible implementation cost
Access the Program Proposal Form at: www.HealerWithinFoundation.org/programapp
The HWF Programs Team welcomes your application submission and look forward to reviewing your program offering!
Empowered Relief™ Course: September 25th
 Join instructor Josie Weaver (pictured left), on Saturday, September 25th at Noon PT/3:00pm ET, for a powerful 2-hour LIVE interactive presentation focused on relief from chronic pain. Josie will feature Qigong breath and movement exercises rooted in the Empowered Relief™ pain skills course developed by Stanford University pain scientist, Dr. Beth Darnall. Click HERE for an informative article entitled, Empowered Relief: Meeting the Needs of a Nation in Pain, written by Dr. Darnall and featured in Psychology Today.
If you are alive, you will at some point experience pain in your life. How you think and feel about pain will, in many ways, determine your pain experience. This presentation will explain why this is so and provide you tools to handle pain or support others in your life, who may be experiencing prolonged or chronic pain.
Cost for this informative and empowering presentation is only $47. Course space is nearly full, so please click HERE to register today!
Register TODAY for ONLINE Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader Training!
Registration is open and Early Bird rates are available through October 10th for our October/November online Practice Leader Training event! This training will be our final ONLINE Tai Chi Easy™ training of 2021!
This highly anticipated training will take place via live online sessions being held between October 30 and November 21, 2021 and will be conducted by IIQTC Certified Senior Trainers, Lorrie Formella, Cynthia Maltenfort and Kele Baker (pictured above, L to R).
Click HERE for more information or to register. Learn more about what Tai Chi Easy™ can do for you through our informational VIDEO.
21 Nursing Contact Hours Included! This continuing nursing education activity is approved by the American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA), an accredited approver of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Program #1488.
Healer Within Foundation is also a Professional Development Activity (PDA) Provider through the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM®). This Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader training approved for a total of 24 CEU's issued by NCCAOM. We are excited to offer this new benefit for the NCCAOM members of the HWF community!
Research Corner
 Please consider being part of important, active research currently being conducted! If you will be leading or participating in at least 6 weekly class sessions (in-person or virtual), we invite you to be a part of the HWF research initiative. The purpose of this research is to demonstrate the effectiveness of dissemination and benefits of a replicable Tai Chi and Qigong program for the general public.
The research is done through the completion of a short baseline survey along with answering a few simple survey questions, before and after each class. Completing the responses also gives participants a chance to observe their own reactions to the practice and track their personal progress, too.
Interested? To learn more - or to access online survey links or printable survey documents - click HERE or contact HWF Research Team Chair, Ping Yang, for assistance.
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Also of note on the research front is the new podcast from Qigong Institute. Qigong Today is an informative series from the non-profit Qigong Institute. These informative discussions are presented by it's volunteer Board Members who share the amazing health and empowerment information and research available, for free, at QigongInstitute.org.
Join Institute Vice President Josie Weaver, President Tom Rogers, and Chairman Francesco Garri Garripoli (pictured below) as they offer lively dialogue on the latest updates in Qigong, Tai Chi, and Energy Medicine. Click HERE to access the Institute's YouTube channel and catch up on episodes now!
Join Us At Omega Institute!
The beautiful Omega Institute campus in Rhinebeck, New York (see below), will host an in-person Tai Chi Easy™ Practice Leader training event to be held October 10 through October 15! Join Senior Trainers Cynthia Maltenfort and Bob Wolfe for this very special educational retreat.
 Plan to come for the amazing training event and stay for the leaf peeping opprtunities the autumn season offers! Please click HERE for more information or to register through the Omega site.
New Colors Just In Time For Fall!
Whether you lead others in practice or simply practice good self-care, YOU are a HEALER! This popular shirt design along with rich fall colors will be available through October! Click HERE or on the image below to order yours today.  See all HWF designs available at Bonfire. Every order helps to support the HWF mission! Thank you!
HWF Website Login Instructions - Please Read!
We'd like to invite you to explore the Healer Within Foundation website! We continue to add new content, most recently launching the HWF Blog, which we hope you will read and add your comments, too. To login, you will first need to set up your password. Click here to update your Password. Once updated, you can login here, using your Username - - and new Password.
While you are logged in, please complete your profile (it is searchable to help other HWF community members find you)! Logging in allows you to make a donation securely, see our community member-only content such as the files on the Organize an Event page and to sign up for events such as the Gathering in the Cloud meetings.
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