Come and discover what Polarity Therapy is and learn the many ways it can help you feel better.

A noninvasive gentle process based on a combination of Oriental, Ayurvedic (Indian), and Western models of health care. Polarity works on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual self. The practitioner works with the client to achieve positive changes to health. Benefits may include stress and pain relief, improved sleep, increased energy, positive life changes, and ways to keep a continued sense of wellbeing.
The work focuses on balancing the energy in the body with hands on work together with other methods, which build on a positive process leading to improvements in overall health.

Presenter: Jenny Bonnor-Moris RPP. Registered Polarity Practitioner, Bsc.PT. Registered Physiotherapist
Location: The Herbal Clinic, 409 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto

Drawing from her background in Qigong, magick, Reiki and internal martial arts, Alex Cafarelli will demonstrate and guide participants in spring cleansing techniques to improve the psychic health of our own spirits and the spirits of our homes.

$25 pre-registration required

To register, contact Alex by email

About the Instructor:

Chris Pickrell is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor, a Registered Herbalist, and a certified yoga instructor. He is also the co-founder of the Roncesvalles Community Acupuncture Clinic, an affordable community acupuncture clinic at the Herbal Clinic and Dispensary. Chris maintains a Naturopathic Family Medicine practice at the Herbal Clinic and Dispensary in Roncesvalles Village.

Please feel welcome to contact Chris at cpickrell@ccnm.edu with any questions.

Thanks and be well!

LOW BACK pain will affect 60 to 90% of us in our lifetime. 90% of low back
pain cases haven’t a specific cause. Studies show that staying active
mitigates back pain within 4 to 6 weeks of injury. For this reason, Yoga
Therapy focuses on simple & pure, awareness-based movement & breath
exercises, in ones own pain-free range of motion, to help you lay low back
pain faster and forever. If you suffer from low back pain and wish to learn
how to eradicate it, or to create a home based practice to help you prevent
back injury, then this workshop is for you. What participants will learn:

SUNDAY, SEPT 11, 2011 10AM-1PM

REGISTRATION FEE $50

WORKSHOP LOCATION: THE HERBAL CLINIC & DISPENSARY
409 RONCESVALLES AVENUE

TO REGISTER CALL: 416 564 0980 OR
VISIT THE HERBAL CLINIC TO SIGN UP IN PERSON.

NB: Participants are asked to bring a yoga mat & a towel to clinic.
Class size is limited to 7 participants.back pain

The Dispensary staff would like to extend an invitation for you to visit the Dispensary to take advantage of our January in house specials and lovely new ‘hand-made’ Dispensary products. We would like to remind everyone that all of our herbal medicine and skin and body care products can be packaged and posted directly to you. Please visit our web-site for more details.

We are presently focusing on making beautiful, one-of-a-kind, Valentine’s gifts and notions. Darby Gibb’s exquisite botanical creations, including dried rose wreathes and bouquets, will be available beginning Feb 1st. Don’t forget that all Dispensary products, including custom blends, can be ordered if you call our dispensary at 416-537-5303.

Speaking of beautiful, we are pleased that the Roncesvalles street beautification project is very close to completion and that the village is completely open to street traffic, and TTC access. Parking is available in designated parking areas. See you soon!

Celina

A custom blending (compounding) and dispensing service is available to complementary medicine practitioners in the Toronto area. Walk in service as well as mail order service is available. Please contact us about shipping directly to you or your patients.

Typical packaging:

• 250 ml amber glass bottles with lined screw cap.
  


• 100 ml amber glass bottles with lined screw cap.
  


• 50 ml amber dropper bottle.
  

Prices:

• 100 mls = $18.95
  


• 250 mls = $36.95
  


• 500 mls = $53.95
  

Herbs and your practice

Please feel welcome to contact the dispensary at 416-537-5303 or by email if you have any questions about herbal medicine and how it relates to your practice.

A list of available herbal tinctures is available on the web site

Winter is here and The Dispensary is having a winter sale. Please come in to see our new products and dispensary specials including:

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Stephanie is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner, earning her designation at the Institute of Holistic Nutrition. Stephanie is dedicated to helping her clients reach their health and lifestyle goals with education and motivation. Clients are always dealt with on an individual basis as Stephanie strongly believes in biochemical individuality. The areas that Stephanie specializes in are vegan and vegetarian nutrition as well as digestion and the rebalancing of the digestive process within her clients. For more information and to arrange a private consultation, please contact Stephanie at 905-717-5221.

On Friday 17 December, the Roncesvalles Community Acupuncture Clinic will donate 50% of treatment fees to Second Harvest, a fantastic local charity that redistributes unused fresh food to those in need.

From 11-6 we’ll be providing relaxing treatments in our warm and peaceful clinic—bring a friend if you like! Treatments are offered in a group setting, on a sliding scale of $20-$40. Any questions, call Naomi on 416 889 8263, or see our website (online booking available).

Welcome to the “Dragonflies & Lilies” Spring 2010 newsletter.

At last, spring is just around the corner with the promise of warmer months and spring herbs and flowers. The Herbal Clinic & Dispensary is going to celebrate spring with a month long workshop series beginning Saturday March 6th. Each Saturday the clinic practitioners will host a special workshop. A practitioners ‘coupon book’ will also be available. This special booklet will offer discounts for dispensary products and practitioners services.

News Flash! The Herbal Clinic & Dispensary is thrilled to be included in the new CRAVE Toronto book which will be launched May 2010. CRAVE is an artful, inspiring, and fun city guide which highlights small, unique businesses run by women. The CRAVE Toronto book will be available for sale in the dispensary.

To all of our wonderful customers, thanks so much for all of your support. See you soon!

Celina

Our new hours are:

Monday to Saturday: 11-7 pm
Sundays: 12-5 pm

1) Roncesvalles Community Acupuncture Clinic

2) Silverowl’s Healing Tree

Both web sites were developed and built by Interzone Design, the designer of The Herbal Clinic & Dispensary web site and this newsletter.

Coltsfoot has a soothing expectorant and antispasmodic action. This common herb has a long history of use for the treatment of acute or chronic bronchitis, irritating coughs, and asthma. The plant’s botanical name means ‘cough dispeller’. Coltsfoot is the first flower to appear in early spring and is often mistaken for dandelion. Interestingly, the hoof-shaped leaves only appear when the flowers have died down, giving rise to the plant’s old name, filius ante patrem (son before father). In Paris, the flowers used to be painted on the doorposts of apothecaries shops.

The palm and may make country houses gay,
Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay:

The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
In every street these tunes our ears do greet:

from, Summer’s Last Will and Testament, (1600)

My motion sickness remedy enjoys great success for those unable to travel due to nausea/anxiety. The combination of valerian root, chamomile, rose hips, ginger and catnip produce a calm, relaxed state.

Properties:

Valerian Root: anti-anxiety
Chamomile: nervine (calming), carminative (soothes the stomach)
Rose Hips: anti-stress
Ginger: anti-nausea
Catnip: nervine (calming)
Lemon balm: anti-anxiety, nervine (calming)

Silver Owl, thank you for the motion sickness tea for my mother. Since she has started drinking it prior to our car rides she has not experienced her motion sickness anymore. It works great and has given us our freedom to travel back. I can’t thank-you enough–what a wonderful remedy.
—Katie P.

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