Welcome Sunshine!

Welcome Folks Who Dropped By My Booth at The Green Living Show!

On April 8, I was struck down by a truck door while doing deliveries on my bicycle. I was forced to cancel my activities in April, but will be starting to conduct workshops again in mid-May. You'll see that May's workshops offerings are very similar to April's for this reason. I DO hope you can make it...

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Tracey TieF

416 535 9620

1. Workshops for May, 2008: DIY Natural Cleaning, Non Toxic Women, Open House Spring Detox Lab, and by request...

2. Specials for May, 2008: Spring Detox Packages, Invite-A-Friend Special Offer and Pay-What-You-Want Wednesdays

3. Testimonial of The Month: If you haven't visited Tracey's Clinic... you owe it to yourself

(and to our endangered planet) to do it soon.

4. Anarres Natural Health Clinic Shop News: New Organically Grown Essential Oils, Body Butters, Sun Lip Balm & Creams

5. Bonus article: Effective homemade cleansers are safer for the planet and for you by Vivian Song

6. Be the Change You Want To See in the World Action Alert: LABEL GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS?

1. Workshops for May, 2008

What: Mamalicious! Non Toxic Mother and Baby Care

When: Wednesday, May 14, 7:30 - 9 pm

Where: Grassroots on Danforth at Chester Station

Contact: 416 466-2841 for details and to reserve your seat.

What: a DIY Natural Cleaning Party!

When: Friday, May 16, 7 - 9 pm

Where: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, 12 Ossington Crescent

DIY Natural Cleaning Party!

Anarres Natural Health is hosting this a Do-It-Yourself green cleaning party on Wednesday, May 16, from 7 to 9 pm, in partnership with Women's Voices for the Earth, an inspiring women's environmental health organization working to educate consumers about chemicals in cleaning products. You'll go home with your very own set of easy-to-make cleaning products (plus recipes) that have been tested for effectiveness and are good for your health and the environment!

The workshop is Pay-What-You-Can, with all proceeds going to InterPares. Inter Pares works with social change organizations around the world who share our analysis that poverty and injustice are caused by structural inequalities within and between nations, and who are working to promote social and economic justice in their communities. www.interpares.ca I have committed $260 and hope we can raise this and more!

To learn more, click on the link below! RSVP directly to anarreshealth@gmail.com

P.S. - If you can't make it, and you'd like to host your own party, go here.
P.P.S. - If you'd like to support the work of Women's Voices for the Earth, go here.

Love & RRRevolution,
Tracey TieF, Certified Natural Health Practitioner
416 535 9620 anarreshealth@gmail.com

Forward this to a friend!

For more details about this invitation and to RSVP online, go to: http://www.party2win.com/womensvoices/parties?e=diynaturalcleaningparty&...

NEW!!!

What: Earth Circle Cinema: Films about food, and a discussion of how we can grow our own food in the city

When: Wednesday, May 21, 7 to 9 pm

Where: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, 12 Ossington Crescent

By Donation, all proceeds go to Saint Clare Multifaith Housing Society's communal dining programs.

The True Cost of Food

In this humorous animated short, The Sierra Club wakes us up with the reality of what our food is really costing us. Learn how we can make decisions in the grocery store that help lower not just the price of the food we are buying, but the cost to our environment, our animals and our farmers as well.
15 minutes in English. Written by Jonah Sachs and Tate Hausman, directed by Tate Hausman.

How To Save the World

One Man, One Cow, One Planet. Can one man and one cow save the earth? Is it possible that instead of developing higher tech solutions to our farming problems, that we might see better results through an arcane method called biodynamic farming that uses cow dung buried in a horn for 6 months and our hands to spray our fields in a spiral motion? Not only is it possible, it is happening, and Peter Proctor is leading the way to a world-wide revolution in how we grow our food.
56 minutes in English. Produced and directed by Tom and Barbara Burstyn.

What: Non-Toxic Women Workshop

GRASSROOTS' WORKSHOP SOLD OUT IN RECORD TIME!!!

When: Friday, May 23, 7 to 9 pm

Where: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, 12 Ossington Crescent

There's so much that's said to be bad for you, and bad for the environment, but who do you believe, and where do you start? Don't worry; be healthy! From phthalates and plastics, to parabens and probiotics, Tracey will talk with us about the toxins that commonly plague us in our environment and about simple, immediate solutions that will benefit our health and our planet. Together we will look at The Diva Cup and Keeper and other healthy alternatives to conventional pads and tampons. We will discuss common household cleaning, bath, baby and beauty products that can easily be replaced with healthful products you can make yourself, or buy locally. You'll come away with your own list of easy, life enhancing changes you can start making today, and the information you need to make healthy decisions for you and your family.

Please feel free bring along some of your favorite personal care products and find out what really lies within!

What: OPEN HOUSE The Spring Detox Lab ~ a drop in, Pay What You Want, DIY event

When: Friday, May 30, 7 - 9 pm, Drop In, but please RSVP

Where: Anarres Natural Health Clinic, 12 Ossington Crescent

Move over spa – I'm learning a few tricks of my own! The Anarres Clinic kitchen will be all set up for making stimulating sea salt and sugar scrubs, magnificent massage oils, bodaceous bath salts, fantastic face masks and intriguing infused oils. Over snacks and tea, I'll guide you through the process of making your ideas take shape. You'll come away with absolutely original, and useful, detoxifying goodies you've made for yourself, or to give as a gift, and skills that can serve you for a lifetime for a fraction of the cost of a spa habit. Bring your own packaging, or buy glass bottles and vegetable cellulose bags here. You can use your Workshopper Card to attend, or Pay What You Want for what you take home (suggested prices available for the timid).

Anarres in-Clinic Workshops are also offered by request:

BOOK A PARTY (5 friends!), CLASS OR WORKSHOP Call for more info: 416 535 9620

Anarres' workshops are relaxing and fun and take place at Anarres Natural Health Clinic, College & Ossington. Classes are limited to six participants so that everyone gets a semi private lesson experience. There's fruit, veggies and dip to snack on, and, as always, a choice of cool crystal water or refreshing tea. There are always goodies to take home, as well as new found knowledge and skills.

Pre-registration and payment is necessary to reserve a workshop space. Space is limited to 6 people. Workshops are now: $40 for 2 hours. Pre Register with a friend, or for two workshops, for $30 each! REPEAT a workshop for $30. To RSVP, for address and other info 416.535.9620 or anarreshealth@gmail.com

2. Specials for May, 2008: Spring Detox Packages

Invite-A-Friend Special Offer and Pay-What-You-Want Wednesdays

Spring Detox Packages:

Ten treatment package for $100 + off the price of ten hours!!!

Spring is a great time to begin a detoxification program, and I feel like encouraging everyone. With the "Detox Me" package, you'll receive 10 hours of customized health coaching, body and energy work geared to the kind of detoxification that suits your body and needs, plus useful reports and email guidance. Full sessions begin in the FAR Infrared Sauna, sipping tea made just for you, while we check in. The "Detox Me" package normally costs $550, and individual ten sessions cost $600-$750. The cost for ten hours of treatment if you buy the package upfront in April is $500 non taxable. What a deal! Experiment with any of eleven different modalities, and emerge like the butterfly you are, with supple skin, a radiant face and a spring in your footstep... okay, like the human being you are!

Pay-What-You-Want Wednesdays: the experiment continues...

Every Wednesday in May, from 10 am through 4pm, you can receive any Anarres service at your price, not mine.

Try it once, or be a regular. Spend your allowance on something healthy and pleasurable!

Call to reserve your spot: 416 535 9620.

Invite-A-Friend Special Offer:

Help me reach more people who are interested in the body work, energy work, workshops and products that I offer. For every ten email addresses you send me of friends of yours who are looking for what Anarres has to offer, I'll give you a Gift Certificate for 30 minutes of treatment for you or a friend to use. I'll send everyone you refer to me a trial newsletter, and if they want to receive my newsletters, I'll thank you with a Chakra Balancing, massage, reflexology, FAR Infrared sauna or Polarity Therapy treatment, or you can use the 30 minutes towards a longer session.

MENTION THAT YOU READ IT IN THE ANARRES NEWSLETTER AND RECEIVE:

A Chico Reusable shopping bag that fits in a pocket: Buy $50 worth of Gifts, Products, Gift Certificates or Services and get one FREE: It's useful! It's colourful! It's pretty! It's strong!

FREE 30 minute consultation for every first appointment. Come in just for the FREE consultation (I am a Natural Health Consultant, after all!) or enjoy a treatment with the first half hour free. That's a $30 value either way!

Referrals: Refer a friend for body or energy work and you will both get 10% off any Anarres service.

PLEASE REMIND ME!!!

3. Testimonial of The Month:

"You might find it hard to believe but as a 65 1/2 yr. old well educated and very open-minded female I had never had a massage. I'm fortunate to have made an appointment for my FIRST EVER Massage with Tracey TieF!

I have had multiple cancer treatments and have suffered several muscle & bone injuries over the past 20+ years. I had recently spend several days sitting in planes as I travelled from Australia to Canada and was fatigued, achy & tense. Added to my anxiety was the fear that I might not be able to comfortably lie on my stomach or my back for a massage as my spine is badly deformed from injury.

Tracey however knew exactly what I and my body needed to not only receive the massage but to make it a Fabuluous experience! Firstly I had a soothing Sauna (yes, right there in the Clinic), then with all sorts of pillows & wrappings she positioned me & gave me several very energizing treatment-modalities which resulted in my muscles being so relaxed I actually dozed off on the Treatment Table for more than an hour. I wish I lived in Toronto because I'd be back in her
Clinic every week for massages.

Tracey does a thorough interview & examination before treatment and selects oils and fragrances that are compatable and pleasing to her clients. She also manufactures and imports a wide variety of organic, healthy & environmentally safe products for self and home. If you haven't visited Tracey's Clinic... you owe it to yourself (and to our endangered planet) to do it soon."

~ Gai Thomas RN, Bsc, MEd, retired occupational health nurse, Halifax, Nova Scotia

Did you know that all my custom products are Satisfaction Guaranteed? If it doesn't work for you, I'll keep working for you! Just bring back your original product and I'll reformulate it with you until it does what I said it would!

If you have a testimonial you'd be willing to share, please send it to: anarreshealth@gmail.com If I use it in my promotions, I'll thank you with a free half hour treatment for your time and effort.

4. Anarres Natural Health Clinic Shop News

NEW Certified Organically grown (and fairly traded, of course) essential oils:

Up to 30 ml quantities decanted into amber glass bottles, yours or mine:

Cinnamon Leaf

Clove Bud

Lavender Bulgarian

Up to 10 ml quantities decanted into cobalt blue glass bottles, your or mine:

Cypress

Orange

Roman chamomile

Patchouli (organically farmed)
Peppermint (North American)
Tea Tree
Lemon

Ecologically grown and fairly traded, but not certified:

Cedarwood Himalayan

Rose Bulgarian 10% in jojoba

Niaouli

NEW for summer skin!!!

Tree of Life Body Butter, 15 g in a beautiful refillable cobalt blue apothecary jar. $4, any three sample sizes for $10.

The karite and coconut palm tree were both called "Tree of Life" for their healing properties. Together with nutrient-rich cocoa,
I created this body butter to call attention to the need to end slavery with fair trading. Ingredients are naturally SPF 15.

Sun Healing Lip Balms, 5 g in a beautiful refillable cobalt blue apothecary jar. $3, any four 5 g jars for $10.

Made with cocoa (optional), almond and avocado butters, vegetable glycerine, cocopalm wax, coconut oil, vitamin E, myrrh and benzoin essential oils, this naturally flavoured/scented clear lip balm protects summer lips. Ingredients are naturally SPF 15.

Natural Shea Butter, 100 g in a beautiful refillable cobalt blue apothecary jar. $10. Refills for $6!

The karite tree is called "Tree of Life" for its healing properties. Naturally nourishing, moisturizing and sunscreening (SPF 15), this fairly traded shea butter heals dry, damaged skin and hair.

Natural Coconut Oil, 150 g in a beautiful refillable cobalt blue apothecary jar. $10. Refills for $6!

Ethically sourced, cold pressed virgin coconut oil is an excellent skin healer. Coconut oil prevents and treats wrinkles and other signs of ageing, rebuilding the skin's structure from the deepest layer and is naturally SPF 15.

Avocado Butter, 100 g in a beautiful refillable cobalt blue apothecary jar. $10. Refills for $7!

Ethically sourced, North American avocado butter has Vitamins A, B, G and E, making it a wonderful moisturizing treatment for dry and damaged skin. Naturally SPF 15.

Sweet Almond Butter, 100 g in a beautiful refillable cobalt blue apothecary jar. $10. Refills for $7!

Ethically sourced, North American almond butter is rich in proteins and Vitamin D, softening and reconditioning dry skin.

Cocoa Butter Lotion, 120 g in a beautiful refillable cobalt blue apothecary jar. $10. Refills for $7!

Fair Trade Compliant natural cocoa butter has been used to heal and moisturize skin that has been exposed to the elements and to reduce the formation of stretch marks during pregnancy by keeping the skin supple. Naturally SPF 15. This Anarres made lotion has a light face and a moisturizing body formula, and contains no MDM hydantoin, parabens or harmful additives.

Thanks to Baby Mind and Spirit for inviting me to write be a regular columnist for the Straight Talk section of this online Green parenting resource. Read my article Mamalicious: Massage for Mother and Baby here: http://www.babymindandspirit.com/articles.php?pid=211

Thanks to my clients, colleagues, children and friends who volunteered for me at The Green Living Show!

5. Bonus article: Effective homemade cleansers are safer for the planet and for you

GREEN PLANET: Spring-friendly cleaning

by Vivian Song
Sun Media National Bureau

April 13, 2008
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Tracey TieF is inviting chaos into her kitchen.

VIVIAN SONG

The Toronto natural health practitioner will turn her kitchen into an experimental laboratory this week where 20 women will perform feats of old-fashioned granny alchemy -- the kind that fizzes and bubbles.

It's a new movement akin to iconic estrogen-fests like the Tupperware party, where domestic merrymakers oooed and ahhed at the newest petroleum-based tuna casserole vessel -- with matching lid.

TieF is hosting a Green Cleaning party in time for the spring cleaning season, showing others how to make safe cleaning products out of pantry ingredients like vinegar and baking soda.

"My interest is to show people they can clean with less expensive, simple ingredients and demystify that for them," TieF said.

It's a concept launched by Women's Voices for the Earth, an environmental group based out of Montana that's been railing against the environmental and health hazards of everyday cleaning products and cosmetics.

"Until companies come clean, we feel the alternative is to make our own products," said executive director Dori Gilels.

The law doesn't compel companies to disclose chemical ingredients on products, Gilels points out, leaving consumers in the dark about toxins.

Earlier this month, the Canadian Consumer Speciality Products Association announced plans to start listing ingredients on cleaning products, air fresheners and detergents on a voluntary basis -- a move criticized by the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Lung Association as insufficient.

Typical chemicals found in commercial cleaning products have been linked to cancer, neurological damage, respiratory and developmental disorders, as well as reproductive harm.

While an ingredient may not be toxic in isolation, combined with another chemical it can become dangerous, added Anne Steinemann, a professor of environmental engineering at the University of Washington.

"We just don't know the cumulative effect of long-term, low-level exposure," Steinemann said. "No work has been done about the toxicity of a combination of chemicals ... breathe bleach or ammonia (it's okay) but put them together and you'll pass out."

Similarly, despite the proliferation of cleaning products hitting the shelves purporting to be green, Gilels points out there are no standards in place for deciding what constitutes an eco-friendly product.

While there are certification programs like Green Seal and EcoLogo, "there's a long way to go," she said.

Marketing strategies have also successfully tapped into the cultural obsession with sanitation and hygiene, filling shopping baskets with antibacterial products capable of annihilating germs on a microscopically nuclear level.

But studies have repeatedly shown that antibacterial products only create resistant strains and weaken the immune system, Steinemann said.

"There's a false perception that you need strong cleaning solvents to be hygienic," she said. "What kills bacteria is friction. You don't need strong antibacterials ... it's not necessary and is leading to public health crisis."

Public health and environmental health are intimately linked, TieF points out.

"What's bad for our bodies is inevitably going to be bad for the environment."

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NON-TOXIC CLEANING RECIPES

ALL-PURPOSE CLEANER

2 cups white distilled vinegar

2 cups water

20-30 or more drops of essential oil (optional)

Tip: Warming in microwave until barely hot will boost cleaning power for tough jobs. Only microwave in a glass container.

TOILET BOWL CLEANER

Sprinkle toilet bowl with baking soda, drizzle with vinegar, let soak for at least 30 minutes and scrub with toilet brush.

Tip: Let ingredients soak for a while to make for easy scrubbing, especially on persistent stains like toilet bowl rings

AIR FRESHENER

Place cloves, cinnamon sticks, allspice or other favourite scented spice in a pot of water, simmer for one to two hours.

Place baking soda in fridge or small enclosed spaces. Three slices of white bread absorb fridge odours. Place lemon slices in an open bowl in the kitchen.

DRAIN OPENER

1/2 cup baking soda

1/2 cup vinegar

Pour baking soda down the drain and follow with vinegar. Cover and let sit for at least 30 minutes. Flush with boiling water.

Tip: Prevent your shower from clogging by using a drain trap to catch hairs.

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COMMON CLEANING CHEMICALS LINKED TO REPRODUCTIVE HARM AND ASTHMA

· Monoethanolamine (MEA) is a surfactant found in laundry detergents, all-purpose cleaners and floor cleaners.

· Ammonium quaternary compounds are disinfectants found in disinfectant sprays and toilet cleaners.

· Glycol ethers are solvents commonly found in glass cleaners and all-purpose spray cleaners.

· Alkyl phenol ethoxylates (APEs) are surfactants found in laundry detergents, stain removers, and all-purpose cleaners. APEs are commonly detected as contaminants in rivers and streams, and have been found in household dust.

· Phthalates are carriers for fragrance in glass cleaners, deodorizers, laundry detergents and fabric softeners, linked to adverse effects on males and increased allergic symptoms and asthma in children.

E-MAIL: Vivian Song

For more on environmental issues, go to: canoe.ca/greenplanet

6. LABEL GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS? Please take a moment to consider this message from an Anarres client.

By luck of the Parliamentary draw, a private member's bill supporting mandatory labelling of Genetically Engineered (GE or GMO) food in Canada was randomly selected for debate in the House of Commons in April.

It is important that federal MP's vote in favour of Bill C-517 on the second reading. The stakes are high but this time the bill has a very good chance of becoming law. You have the power to persuade our federal government to support this bill and to put the health and well-being of humanity and the planet in priority. Please let you federal MP know your opinion.

Please share this with others who care about the health and well-being of people and the planet. For more information see:

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/ge/take-action/take-action...

Thanks,

Dorothy

Here is a web address to a copy of the bill itself

http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3314855&...