Bay Area Homeopathy Association

Advertise in the NASH Annual Journal - deadline 8/31

Reach your homeopathic community in     

The American Homeopath, Volume 17     

Coming November 2011!

  NASH is pleased to invite you to advertise in The American Homeopath, the highly esteemed journal of The North American Society of Homeopaths.   

The American Homeopath is distributed throughout North America and all across the world to practitioners, students and supporters of homeopathy.     Advertising in The American Homeopath ensures that your message is reaching an expanding homeopathic community. In addition to our subscription base, the journals are sold at schools, conferences and seminars throughout the year. Demand for Volumes 1-16 continues to be strong so your ad is working for you long after its initial publication. Take advantage of this great opportunity and contact us right away.      

Advertising Rates   

1/8 page  $225   

 1/4 page  $325   

1/3 page  $375   

1/2 page  $500   

Full page  $850   

Inside Back Cover - color $1,200   

Inside Front Cover - color $1,300   

Back Cover - color $1,500     

Ad Deadline  Advertising copy is due Aug 31, 2011.    Payment  Payment is due upon confirmation of advertisement.   For more information, please contact:  Liz Bonfig, Executive Director  954-749-9943, nashinfo@aol.com  

  AD SPECS    Dimensions:  Full page w: 7.5" x h: 9.75"  1/2 page horizontal w: 7.5" x h: 4.75"  1/2 page vertical w: 3.625" x h: 9.75"  1/3 page horizontal w: 7.5" x h: 3"  1/3 page vertical w: 2.25" x h: 9.75"  1/4 page horizontal w: 7.5" x h: 2.25"  1/4 page vertical w: 3.625" x h: 4.75" 1/8 page horizontal w: 3.625" x h: 2.25"     

Submissions:  All submissions should be in digital form. Pdfs, Quark, Illustrator and Freehand files are accepted. Pdf files should have fonts embedded. Quark, Illustrator and Freehand files must have supporting files such as fonts and images. For best quality, images should be in 300 dpi resolution. MAC format please.    In a separate word or .txt document, please provide file name, file format, fonts used and any other additional information. For color ads, a color proof is required. We cannot guarantee a color match but will make our best efforts to match your proof.    Please submit your camera ready files to bob_roosth@compuserve.com with a copy tonashinfo@aol.com, or if the file exceeds 10 mb, send a CD to:   Bob Roosth  2428 Glencoe  Venice, CA 90291  Tel: 310-827-0887 Email: bob_roosth@compuserve.com      

Any questions about file preparation can be directed to bob_roosth@compuserve.com or 310-827-0887. Ads that require additional work will be charged a production fee. A fee of $25 will be charged for minor adjustments.  

 

Last Call for Papers for NASH's "The American Homeopath"

Last Call for Papers for AH17 Dear Member,   The Editor of The American Homeopath would like to remind you that the deadline for article submissions is fast approaching. If you have a case, proving, research piece, materia medica or philosophical article that you would like to submit, please be sure to send it by midnight on May 1st to editor@americanhomeopath.com.     Submission details can be found at http://www.homeopathy.org/submissions.html.

Happy writing, North American Society of Homeopaths

 

Supporting the Important Film About Homeopathy: From Within, Without

 

WE NEED YOUR HELP GETTING TO EUROPE! The Homeopathy Research Institute is hosting a reception in London at the House of Commons on May 17th to promote scientific research in the field of homeopathy.  This is extremely important footage for the film, From Within, WIthout, and we can only get there with your help!    While in London we will interview the historian, Francis Treuherz. Then, we will travel on to Greece to meet with George Viltoulkas. Finally in Germany -- Hahnemanns birthplace -- we will retrace the origins of where homeopathy began.     FOR THIS TRIP, WE NEED TO RAISE AT LEAST $10,000 TO COVER OUR EXPENSES.  Please help us get there! Click to donate... Our goal is to complete all principle photography by the end of the summer!     DIRECT LINK TO REGISTRY More about the House of Commons reception:   There is currently a growing body of scientific evidence suggesting that homeopathy offers an inexpensive, effective treatment option for many chronic conditions, however the only way to know definitively is by conducting further high quality research. The institute is inviting experts in health-care provision, regulation and research, the fundamental sciences and patrons of homeopathy including celebrities. At this unprecedented event, there will be brief thought-provoking presentations and the chance to exchange views with this diverse group of attendees.  MORE NEWS We are pleased to announce that the very talented Marc Wishengrad, WishPic Pictures (featured in the MRSA story), has joined our team as the Director of Photography. Together we shot interviews with Dr. Iris Bell, Dr. Todd Rowe, and also skeptic Dr. Stephen Novella.

Blind Dog Films | ph: 505 216 1834 | cell: 505 795 3800  112 W. San Francisco St., Suite #312B | Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 URL: www.blinddogfilms.com | email: info@blinddogfilms.com

 

 

Documentary on Homeopathy and Autism fundraising: From Within, Without

Exciting New Documentary on Homeopathy and Autism by Lauren Chiten:
From Within, Without

Fundraising Needed - Matching Funds Available Now!

Note from the Filmmaker to BAHA member Deborah Landowne, who extends this info to BAHA at large:

Hello Deborah,

As you might know,  I am embarking on a new film.  It is one of the most fascinating stories I have stumbled across in my filmmaking career.

I am following a family with an autistic son, Lucas, who is slowly improving with the use of homeopathy.
A compelling dramatic journey unfolding daily. But this film will go beyond autism-- it explains what homeopathy is, the history,  the controversy, and how it is used to treat a variety of chronic --seemingly incurable --diseases. Ultimately, the film illuminates the connection between emotions and illness, mind and body. 

I am deeply passionate about this film.  In our present health care crisis, homeopathy provides an inexpensive alternative that people need to know about.  While my former films Twitch and Shout, The Jew in the Lotus, Twisted, and Touched helped raise awareness and changed attitudes, this film will not only educate. but could potentially save lives.

A benefactor has just generously offered to match, dollar for dollar, any monies raised from now until the end of the year, for up to $15,000! This would give us a total of $30,000! Please help us meet that goal! I am asking for donations of any amount. Every little bit helps!  For everyone who donates $250 or more, you will be included in the credits.   To donate click here. All donations are tax deductible.

And for all of you who might be skeptical about homeopathy, I ask you to believe in me as a filmmaker, and believe in the importance of telling a true story, even if it challenges conventional medicine notions of what is and isn't possible.

Please visit my website for a description of From Within,Without, and a short fundraising trailer.  If you have already given to the film -- thank you so much -- please forward this letter to anyone else who might be interested.

Sincerely,

Laurel Chiten
www.blinddogfilms.com

Featured newsletter: Melissa Assilem

Check out Melissa Assilem's newsletter!  We are lucky to have Melissa here in the Bay Area, as she is a great authority on provings, and has written several books on interesting remedies such as “The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” featuring Thea, Coffea, Saccharum Offininarum and Lac Humanum, "Women Ripening Through the Menopause", and "Matridonal Remedies of the Humanum Family."

For more  info. on Melissa, including updated newsletters and a link to subscribe to the newsletter, visit Melissa's website.

	Melissa celebrating May Day in Greece Photos by Alessandra Panini, Eressos, Lesbos Greece
From Melissa Assliem	September 2009

 

Homeopathic Soul and Spirit

 

There is something I would like to say about what I think happens when a remedy is being made.  As we raise the potency of the remedy, we are tapping into information that is held by the substance. This is information that we can gather if we pay attention and move our focus beyond the ordinary.  I have seen this over many years of making remedies

I have been very fortunate to have experienced the making of many remedies. In the early 80’s I was part of the team that handmade remedies in preparation for the opening of Helios Pharmacy, UK. Because I had learned how to do this, I made by hand all the remedies on which I did proofings. Eventually I encouraged the proofers themselves to do the dilutions and succussions before the proofing took place.  This of course can only be done if you are doing group or an enhanced proofings. (for more about enhanced proofings see Chapter 6 of Gifts of The Mother).  The creation of a remedy and being in touch with the increasing potency as the soul and spirit are released, gave me a much deeper understanding of the potential of homeopathic remedies.

This experience has led me to see how both soul and spirit are raised in the remedy. As the one drop falls from the previous potency into the next it carries information from its past experience.  This information for me is Soul.  As we succuss the remedy we are enlivening it with energy which I think of as Spirit.  It has taken me years of making remedies to understand this difference between Soul, and Spirit. Now I have come to understand them as Information and Energy. The Soul holds the memory, or the past history, and the Spirit animates it as it becomes dynamic.
 

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Two Harmony Blends

As promised in the last newsletter I am going to tell you about two Harmony Blends made from Greek trees and flowers. 

Dream Catcher

Essences of Red Poppy, Almond Amber, Dragon Lily, Blue Pimpernel Oak’s Mushroom and Valonia Oak.

This is a remedy that has helped some of my clients get in touch with what was behind their entrenched patterns. This of course helped me find more appropriate remedies. In dreams our guardian spirits reveal things to us that they would like us to know.  In our complex and busy lives we cannot retain the messages, we become puzzled by them and do not recognize their meaning.  We wake to our daily chaos and quickly forget what we might have learned from them.

The Valonia Oak and her Mushroom are joined here by the Blue Pimpernel, Red Poppy and the amber sap of the Almond Tree. Together they help your right brain communicate your dreams to your left brain so you can remember and learn from them.  The Dragon Lily frees the magic within your dreams, firing awareness of their messages. The mushroom is very powerful in giving us clear insight so the interpretation does not get all “logiced up”.
 
Take 6-8 drops as you go to sleep.  Continue for at least two weeks to get the best results.  Keep a tape recorder next to your bed to record your dreams as you wake or write them in a dream diary.

Fuss Not

Essences of Yellow Horned Poppy, Hollyhock, Pulsatilla, Squirting Cucumber, Sun Rose, Olive, Broom.

This essence is wonderful when you have a project or a scheme or maybe even a dream but you cannot accomplish it because you have become bogged down in the details, or you are making mountains out of molehills.  Perhaps you are not always a perfectionist or a ‘nit picker’ but lately you cannot stand anything out of order.  Somehow you have come to the stage where you cannot move ahead unless all things are in order.  Perhaps Virgo is making herself known in your chart? This is the same essence I use in my Astrology/StarShine set for Virgo.

In this one I thought it might be fun to give you a background on each flower to let you see why it was choosen.

Yellow Horned Poppy (Glaucium flavium)

These plants are defiantly untidy.  They spread their stems higgledy-piggledy in all directions and they grow in messy patterns mainly in poor sandy soil. 

“Our message is that you can learn to relax and become creative in chaos. We help you see beyond the details into the bigger more divers picture.  We shake loose your rigid parts. In this way you can let go of a perfection you may never achieve.”

Wild Mountain Hollyhock

This is a knowledge nourisher. Recognising the physical self as a place of wisdom. It is the belly button remedy.. Navel connection, maternal wisdom and knowledge passed through the umbilical to the bellybutton, from each generation of mothers.  Nourishment, nourishing knowledge, not from souls but from bodies, physical, bone wisdom, body wisdom in skin, organs, eyes, heart, fingers, the wisdom and knowledge of generations passed from an ancestor crone who lived before the before time.  The one who knew all the things we need to know.

 

Pulsatilla (Pulsatilla nigricans)

Made on the winter solstice 2002, night after full moon, with minus 6 degrees centigrade (21 F), during the night before.  Collected at sunrise as they stood up tall in the early morning light in the meadow in front of my house.  It was astonishing as they opened through that frosty crystal morning. As they floated in the water of the glass bowl their colour was almost neon like, or translucent in the winter sunlight, which made 18 degrees (64 F) of warmth at midday. They were left in the sun until the last rays set behind the sea.

“I am for those moments when you think you will fall over, those moments when you become small. I will help you to stand up tall, where so you can see beyond the obstacles in front of you.”

Squirting Cucumber (Ecballium elaterium)

The seed pods and the flowers tend to be on the plant at the same time. This nervous little plants seed pods  shoot off with surprising explosiveness when you get near to them. I have always thought of them as having a temper tantrum whenever I got too near.  But learning about the essence taught me to look deeper. It told me that it is OK to share your potential and not always keep it hidden in case someone might think you unworthy or stupid. Of course this is a much more positive way of looking at their doctrine of signatures.  They explode as a way of spreading their seed.

 

This essence therefore helps in letting others share in your potential.

 

Sun Rose  - Helianthemum (Also called rock rose)

It is astonishing to see these delicate ruffled flowers blooming on harsh barren rocky outcrops. Sun Rose is for people who are anxious about time running out.
  
“We grow in rocks because we don’t need the earth to feed us, we get our energy from the sun.  The sun is a clock, a rhythm so strong in us.  We are about the beginning of the day, dawns early light, dawns yawning awakening and sun’s vibrant setting.  Our rose colours can be seen in the sky as the sun rises and sets. We bring a trust in the daily rhythms and the knowledge that there will be a tomorrow. We bring  trust in the cycles of things.  Sun rose is sun rise.  Sun in my heart.  Allows your body and soul to flow with its natural rhythms.  We can help you into a state of self-synchronicity flowing with the passing of time."

Olive

As you read in the June newsletter about this tree you can see how helpful it would be in this harmony blend. Setting new patterns or pathways in the brain, can lead to a new kind of flexibility.
                                  

Broom (Spartium junceum)

This flower is a stress reducer of great magnitude.  Her essence is a soother for pressured blood, and dissolves adrenal angst.  This bright yellow shrub is like a beacon across the landscape, saying “sega, sega”, or slowly, slowly in Greek.

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Interview with Melissa

This past July I was interviewed by Alan Schmukler for the online magazine, HPathy Ezine.  You'll learn a bit about how I discovered homeopathy, and even read my poem to Sepia.  Click Here to read the online interview.

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Coming Events

Greek Tree Essence Seminar and Bazaar

When: December 5, 2009

Where: Berkeley, CA (venue TBA)

 

TREATING WOMEN WELL A Series of Webinars on  Women’s Health & Homeopathy ~

For Practitioners and Experienced Students

These webinars will be broken down into modules

When: Coming soon.... please stay tuned!

The  Vision: Looking at the cycling of women’s lives from conception to old age, embracing both physical and spiritual wellbeing. This series of classes will be addressing the unique needs of women. I am offering this multi-dimensional course as a way of giving food for your own soul, as well as a deeper understanding of remedies and practical advice to aid you in your day-to-day practice. From first aid to soul aid, you will learn more about how to help your clients understand what’s behind their physical and emotional pathology.

 

 

The Trituration Handbook - Into the Heart of Homeopathy

      The Trituration Handbook - Into the Heart of Homeopathy
       by Anneke Hogeland and Judy Schriebman

       Anneke Hogeland and I have just finished our book on triturations and
we're very excited about it! We're offering it in advance at a special price
before Dec. 10, 2008. Please feel free to forward this offer to your colleagues,
students and anyone who might be interested.

This book guides you through the group trituration process in precise detail
and offers a taste of what that exploration offers the homeopath and their
clients. It also includes five remedy triturations and a sampling of cases from
practitioners around the world to show you how this process has become
indispensible to their practices and their professional and personal
development.

-Judy Schriebman and Anneke Hogeland

Click Here for Order Details!