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The Art of Wellness: Caring for Cancer – A Wholistic Approach

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Now if you’ve been keeping up with Portland Pedal Power blog a lot, you know we love to have a ton of fun with our topics and writing style. We also love to inform you of great vendors, restaurants, and rad bike stuff around Portland. Today we’re going to tackle something on the more serious side though. We’re here to inform you about wholistic healthcare and how it can ease the recovery process for cancer patience going through treatment.

For our more regular followers, you may remember a couple months ago, we wrote about The Wellspring School in Portland and their classes for all. For a short recap, The Wellspring School is a school for wholistic natural healing arts. Their practice ranges from Amma Therapy to Meditation to Wholistic Nutrition with a goal to bring better, NATURAL, health to Portland.

Well they’re back, this time with a very important class that could be relevant to any one of us. Do you, or someone you know, have somebody that you care about, are close to, even love that are going through treatment for cancer? One of the worst feelings is that of feeling helpless as you watch someone in discomfort or pain. The idea that you can’t do anything to help them other than hold their hand and be there for their comfort. Well now you have an option to get more involved. You can finally do more to ease the pain of recovery. The Wellspring School is hosting a workshop called “Caring for Cancer - A Wholistic Approach” in June to try and inform people of how Eastern style medicinal approaches to illness and recovery can help relieve the side effects and pain that Western style medicine can bring on in the process of curing disease.

We highly encourage you to check out the workshop if you want to become more involved in caring for cancer patience, whether they are those who are close to you, or even not so close. This workshop has our PPP stamp of approval. For more information, see below. (more…)

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Wellspring School for healing arts. Holistic health for the holistic being.

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

So you’re a healthy person! You check up with the Portland Pedal Power blog on a regular basis to see what great new sustainable and organic foods we’re delivering. You exercise and bicycle and do other fitnessy type stuff. You drink water and tea with lots of antioxidants to stay hydrated, sharp, and have healthy cells with reduced free radicals. You have studied various dietary plans to see which one may best fit your personality and lifestyle. Yet despite all your efforts, you still feel there’s something missing. You feel there is so much more you can do and learn and your body, your life, and your soul are all still just a little out of balance.

On the other hand, perhaps you’re looking to get healthy and learn more about nutrition. You’re new to this whole “healthy lifestyle” thing that all your friends have been ranting and raving about. Maybe you’re stressed out in life and want to find out more about how mediation can save you from stress related disease. Perhaps you’ve been to China before and have seen elderly people practicing Tai Chi on the Great Wall, or in a park, and have wanted to try it out, and learn about other forms of moving meditation.

Whatever the reason, you, my health nut and health challenged friends, are ready to take the next step toward true spiritual and physical health, and Portland Pedal Power has just the place for you to accomplish this.

“…take the next step toward true spiritual and physical health…“

The Wellspring School in Portland is a center that teaches you the art of holistic health with focus on nutrition, dietary vitamin and supplement training, various forms of meditation, and amma (massage) therapy. This is one school that, even though they were born in Boise, their home and heart is in Portland.

In late 2011, The Wellspring School launched a series of community classes geared towards providing opportunities for individuals to experience a little bit of self-care. From meditation, to Tai Chi, to shamanism, people can sample different classes at low prices. Heading into Spring 2012, The Wellspring School continues to offer weekly community classes dedicated to wellness for the whole person.

Stay tuned for upcoming workshops (Whole Foods Cooking, Caring for Cancer Holistically & Intro to Wholistic Nutrition) this summer. Don’t forget about our certification programs Amma Therapy (Asian Bodywork) and Wholistic Nutrition too. The next ones should be starting up in Fall 2012 and Winter 2013 respectively. Make sure you check out our website from time to time to see what’s coming up.

The Wellspring School also recently announced the upcoming (June) closure of its Boise, Idaho location. We will focus all of our energy moving forward on building our school presence in Portland. We love Portland!

We are very excited about dedicating ourselves to growing our business in Portland! Special thanks to Portland Pedal Power for helping us get the word out and making this a possibility for us. We always ask our students where they hear about us and consistently the response has been, “I saw this flyer….”