The Call of Sedona NY TIMES BESTSELLER

Ilchi Lee’s The Call of Sedona becomes a New York Times Bestseller.

CGI Holistic Fitness & Spa, in Closter offers a free meditation circle

Sundays at 4:00, starting March 4^th, 2012.

The Call of Sedona: Journey of the Heart by meditation teacher, Ilchi Lee has become a New York Times Bestseller. It was number two in the Paperback, Advice & Misc. List this week, climbing from a number 13 ranking the previous week. Recently, the book also ranked on The Washington Post Bestseller, Indie Bestseller and USA Today Best-Selling Books lists. The result makes Lee the first Korean author to rank on the four important bestselling lists in the United States.

In the past two months, crowds of several hundred readers and fans gathered to watch Lee lecture at book signings at major Barnes & Noble locations throughout the United States and popular independent bookstores in and around New York City and Washington, DC, including stores like Books-A-Million, Book Revue, and One More Page. In addition to the crowds at the book signings, The Call of Sedona has inspired the formation of over 300 meditation circles around the country that use the book as a guide.

In The Call of Sedona, Ilchi Lee shares his personal memoirs and the inspirations he received in Sedona. The book also provides a range of advice on meditation and spirituality that will benefit anyone, anywhere. CGI Holistic Fitness & Spa is sponsoring a Meditation Circle, every Sunday at 4:00 pm which is free to anyone in the community looking to experience the breathing and meditation methods mentioned in the book.

Lee believes that his experiences in Sedona have informed his actions and helped him develop ways to reach more people around the world. He not only feels a strong connection to Sedona, but also a deep sense of gratitude. In this spirit of gratitude, Lee is donating 30 percent of his royalties from the sale of his book to three Sedona area charities: Camp Soaring Eagle, Yavapai Big Brother Big Sisters and the Sedona Community Center.

Ilchi Lee is an educator, mentor and trailblazer devoted to developing the awakened brain and teaching energy principles. He began teaching meditation and breathing exercises in 1980 in a park in his native South Korea. With the dream of helping people seeking fulfillment, Lee developed the mind-body-spirit methods of Dahn Yoga and Brain Education based on his unique experiences in meditation. Since he first visited Sedona 16 years ago, Lee has dedicated himself to sharing the message and spirit he has received from Sedona.

Locally, Wisdom Magazine interviewed Ilchi Lee about his NY Times Bestseller, The Call of Sedona-Journey of the Heart in their NYC/Tristate Edition, January/February 2012.   Ilchi Lee describes his journey that called him to Sedona in his interview with Edie Weinstein.  CGI Holistic Fitness & Spa would like to invite people in the community interested in the meditation techniques in the book to come to a Free Meditation Circle starting Sunday March 4^th, at 4:00pm  at CGI Holistic Fitness & Spa, 111 Homans Avenue, Closter, NJ 07624.
For more information, please visit
 www.callofsedona.com

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http://wisdom-magazine.com/Article.aspx/2528/

WE ARE CELEBRATING!

The Call of Sedona, by Ilchi Lee is now on the New York Times Best Seller List! As a way of giving back. We are offering ONE MONTH of FREE YOGA CLASSES when you buy something from the yoga Studio- a class, a book, or any healing item.

For example if you buy one yoga class, you get a whole months worth of classes for free.  If you buy the NY Times Best Seller- The Call of Sedona, you get one month's worth of yoga classes for free. 

That's right, we're celebrating and now you can be a part of it.  This offer ends at the end of February so sign up for classes today.

Guide to meditation and deep breathing

Nourish your body and rejuvenate your mind with deep relaxation and meditation.

Some guidelines to help you meditate:

1)  Lie down and relax

2) Relax the body through conscious awareness

Focus on each little part of your body, scanning from head to toe, consciously releasing your muscular tension.

3)  Watch your breath and release tension

a)    Begin watching your breath, feel it filling up your body from the inside, and then gently exhale out your mouth

b)    Imagine as you breathe in, breath is entering through the crown of your head, and filling your brain.  As you exhale picture the stress leaving your body through your mouth. 

4)  Deep breathing

Inhale through your nose into your abdomen.  Your belly should gently inflate and expand inside when you breathe in.  Let your breath sit in your abdomen for a moment, then exhale slowly from your nose.  You will feel your abdomen getting warmer, and your mind more calm.  Allow your breath to become even, soft, and deep.

5) You should feel refreshed and renewed!

Sedona Getaway "The Call of Sedona" by Ilchi Lee

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Brain Education in El Salvador

Brain Education in El Salvador from EJ LIM on Vimeo.

IBREA - UNITED NATIONS

http://bit.ly/xb6Piu  IBREA, International Brain Education Association In the News
Learn about how IBREA visited the United Nations.

Wisdom Magazine's Interview with Ilchi Lee

Click here to read more...http://bit.ly/wIvHGD This is a link to the text of an interview with Ilchi Lee, published in the current copy of Wisdom Magazine. Please share the link if you like the article. 

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Science of Energy Yoga

“Why Am I Hitting Myself?”
Tapping the Body for Optimal Health

Our brain is essentially a chemical factory.  We experience emotions, from depression to joy and ecstasy, according to the neurotransmitters and hormones released from our brain and active in our body’s systems.

So if feeling positive, happy, and healthy are chemical processes, what would your life be like if you could acutely control them?  What if you could release the exact kind of chemicals from your brain and body into your system when you wanted?

Tapping and vibration are essentially tools to achieve such a state.

Tapping increases blood flow through the veins and arteries.  Just because you move your body a lot doesn’t mean you have a healthy circulatory system.  Ever gone for a run, but your hands and feet are still cold?  That means blood didn’t circulate completely through your body.
Tapping helps circulate lymph through the body, keeping blood circulation healthy and the immune system strong.
Tapping also stimulates the bones and bone marrow.  Blood cells are created in the bone marrow.  If your bones are weak, they cannot produce blood cells well and cannot generate healthy blood.  Thus, tapping can also help prevent osteoporosis.

 Why not come and experience the benefits yourself?  We do tapping exercise in all of Tao Wellness Center’s basic classes, and especially in our Brain Wave Vibration class.
See you there!
Nicholas Fiorito

Tao Wellness Center Manager

Science of Energy Yoga

“How the Gut’s “Second Brain” Influences Mood and Well-Being

The network of neurons lining our guts is so expensive some scientists have nicknamed it our “second brain.”

This little brain partly determines our mental state and plays key roles in certain diseases throughout the body.

About 90% of the fibers in the primary visceral nerve, the vagus, carry information from the gut to the brain and not the other way around.

A big part of our emotions are probably influenced by the nerves in our gut.

Everyday emotional well-being may rely on messages from the “brain below” to the “brain above.”

Irritable bowel syndrome, which afflicts more than 2 million Americans, also arises in part from too much serotonin in our entrails, and could perhaps be regarded as a “mental illness” of the second brain.

A drug that inhibited the release of serotonin from the gut counteracted the bone-detonating disease osteoporosis in postmenopausal rodents.

Serotonin seeping from the “second brain” might even play some part in autism, the developmental disorder often first noticed in early childhood.

Some scientists think that in coming years psychiatry will need to expand to treat the second brain in addition to the one atop the shoulders.
--Scientific American, Feb. 12, 2010

Make your “second brain” healthy through proper diet and intestinal exercises and abdominal tapping.  Come learn how in the Tao Wellness Center’s basic classes!

See you there!

Nicholas Fiorito
Tao Wellness Center Manager

JOIN US FOR A BLOOD DRIVE

Every 2.5 seconds someone needs blood.  A friend, a family member, or maybe even you.

The need is real!

HOLISTIC FITNESS & SPA
Co-sponsored by:
National Heart Health Month Blood Drive
Date: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Time: 11:30 am- 2:30 pm
Location: CGI Parking lot
111 Homans Ave, Closter, NJ 07624
Community Blood Services is in constant need of blood
donations to help accident victims, surgical, cancer patients,
premature babies and others in need of blood transfusions.
Donors participating that day will be part of a ra e:
1st Prize: One Week CGI Membership
2nd Prize: CGI Daily Pass (2 winners)
3rd Prize: “The Call of Sedona”, by Ilchi Lee (3 winners)
Best Seller on Amazon
For more information or to schedule an appointment,
please call: CGI Holistic Fitness & Spa
at 201.784.5575
www.communitybloodservices.org
Donor Guidelines:
• Bring I.D. with signature
• Weigh over 110 lbs and be in general good health

 Co-sponsoring the event is the Closter Chamber of Commerce.

 All blood types are needed, especially Types 0- and 0+.

Any healthy individual, age 17 through 75, and weighing at least 110 pounds can donate blood.   Donors should eat a moderate meal before donating and must bring identification showing signature.  All donors receive complimentary cholesterol and glucose  screening with every blood donation.

About Community Blood Services

One of the largest independent blood centers in the region, Community Blood Services supplies blood and blood products to more than 30 hospitals in Bergen, Passaic, Hudson, Morris, Essex and Union counties in New Jersey and parts of New York City and Orange and Rockland counties in New York.

The organization is also a state leader in collection and storage of umbilical cord blood for stem cell research and transplant, and its HLA Registry is one of the largest bone marrow donor centers in the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP).  The HLA Registry recruits volunteer bone marrow donors for patients in need of life-saving bone marrow transplants.  A member of the AABB and America’s Blood Centers (ABC), Community Blood Services facilitates blood donations by holding mobile drives with community groups, corporations and high schools, and by providing convenient donation sites in Northern New Jersey and Orange County, New York.

Community Blood Services Locations

970 Linwood Avenue West  Paramus, New Jersey  07652

1 Pearl Court  Unit C  Allendale, New Jersey  07401

403 Haddon Avenue  Camden, New Jersey  08103

575 Hudson Valley Avenue  Suite 206  New Windsor,  New York  12553

20 Grand Street  Mount Alverno Center  Warwick, New York  10990

63 Beaverbrook Road  Suite 304  Lincoln Park, New Jersey  07035