Please join

Antara Center &

Dr. Arthur R. Cushman

for the first annual

fundraiser!

A Bridge of Healing & Transformation

Antara Center Web Site

Saturday, November 14, 2009
5:30 to 10 p.m.
Jamison Hall, The Factory, Franklin, TN
Click here for map to The Factory
Click here for the location of Jamison Hall

Buy Your Tickets Online $35

or by phone 615.227.3008

Share and enjoy with us!
Energy Healing, Positive Music, Healthy Food and Drink, Oxygen Bar,
Silent Auction, Wellness Education!

Learn about donating to the Silent Auction

About Dr. Arthur R. Cushman

Dr. Arthur Cushman is a Board Certified Neurological surgeon with a highly honored practice for more that 35 years. Due to an illness, Dr. Cushman  was faced with his own personal journey through the healthcare Industry. He found his true healing through openness to a holistic approach that incorporated various complimentary modalities.

Now retired from active surgery, Dr. Cushman is serving patients at his Tennessee Integrative Neuroscience Center in Goodletsville, Tennessee.

Dr. Cushman’s visionary leadership and dedication are a new force in bridging two healthcare models to create a truly integrative healthcare experience for all.

Enjoy the Healing sounds of Richard Hite’s Tibetan Gongs

Richard Hite is a visionary educator and health care integrationist who has pioneered bringing alternative health care into mainstream medicine since 1987, when he began providing yoga therapy to hospitalized patients in Houston, Texas. Since that time, his primary mission has been to introduce and advance the practice and philosophies of holistic care and education to health care professionals and to lay persons. For more than a decade, working with geriatric, trauma and chronic pain patients in different clinical settings, Richard repeatedly demonstrated how attention to the delicate interaction between mind-body-spirit successfully promotes patient healing and how centuries old concepts can be used for easier maintenance of good health and an active lifestyle well into our older Richard’s web site

Pacha Mamas performances include movement and improvisation (Interplay style, see www.interplay.org), but it is the music that drives them, singing and playing primarily their original songs. Music that can’t be neatly categorized due to the fact that the styles they use are as diverse as their backgrounds ranging from those that are a cappella and accompanied by African drums to tunes that might have come from a Broadway show. What they all have in common is chiming harmonies and upbeat themes, many spiritual in nature. It is their intention to create a celebration of what is good in the world by emphasizing the things that connect and empower us all.

Click here for the Pacha Mamas’ web site

Practitioners: (listed in alphabetical order)

Betar Sound Healing
with Dr. Arthur R. Cushman and Elaine Parris and Sue Ruzicka
By incorporating the full body of knowledge relative to sound and music therapy, with the latest technology in acoustic design and innovating an ‘envelope’ geodesic speaker configuration with direct contact transducers, Betar Sound is a tool for releasing deep levels of stress previously inaccessible by any other means.  Very pure low- level subliminal frequencies coupled with high- level, near- perfect music and a series of subtly vibrating transducers combine to resonate the body, almost like a massage
from the inside out.

Bowen Therapy
with Nancy Telford
Bowen is a simple and powerful technique that helps relieve all kinds of pain, it is so gentle that it can be used on anyone, from newborn infants to the elderly. The Bowen Technique is not massage, acupressure or chiropractic.  There is no manipulation, adjustment or force used.  The practitioner uses thumbs and fingers to gently move muscles and tissues.   In between each set of moves, the practitioner leaves the room. These pauses and the gentleness of the treatment are what make Bowen unique.   It offers rapid, long-lasting relief from pain and discomfort.   Most conditions respond within 2-3 treatments.

Chair Massage
with Gaby La Vone, LMT, MQP
Chair Massage: Used for overall stress relief, improvement of circulation (areas worked: head (optional), neck, shoulders, arms, hands and back - depending on the time allotted).

Chiropractic
with Brandon Jenkins

Conscious Breathing
with Binji Elder
The miracle of our own breath is a powerful avenue for healing and awakening. Conscious Breathing is a transformational process which assists us in living the life we truly desire. It helps to clear out toxicity on all levels: physically, emotionally and mentally and helps us to experience a deeper knowing of our authentic self. It promotes deep relaxation/ stress management, more restful sleep and mental clarity leading to an overall sense of well-being and increased spiritual awareness.

Cranio-Sacral Therapy
with Rosanna Taylor
Craino-Sacral Therapy (CST) is a gentle, hands-on method of evaluating and enhancing the functioning of a physiological body system called the craniosacral system - comprised of the membranes and cerebrospinal fluid that surround and protect the brain and spinal cord. Using a soft touch generally no greater than 5 grams, or about the weight of a nickel, practitioners release restrictions in the craniosacral system to improve the functioning of the central nervous system.

Electrodermal Testing
with Richard Hall, CHF;  White Hawk Health
In my natural health practice, I am committed in assisting my clients with their efforts to achieve and maintain wellness. My work involves the use of electro dermal screening in combination with nutritional, herbal, homeopathic, and other natural means. I respect the concept of a blended system in health care and focus my attention toward wellness and prevention. I use a holistic approach to healing. What we often see as the problem can be a symptom that relates to other underlying conditions. The goal is to assist the body in eliminating the problem, not to just manage the symptoms.

Rebirthing
with Juliana Ericson, LRT Certified Rebirther Breathworker, Tim Casey and Kamala Fleck
Our birth and womb experiences create templates for how we experience love and commitment as adults. Rebirthing breathwork can help find basic sabotaging thoughts which caused the negative patterns and rewrite them.

Reconnective Healing and The Reconnection
with Mac Lacey
Reconnective Healing is a form of healing that is here on the planet for the very first time. It reconnects us to the fullness of the universe as it reconnects us to the fullness of our beings and of who we are. It is considered to be able to reconnect us to the universe and to our very essence not just through a new set of healing frequencies, but through possibly an entirely new bandwidth. The reality of its existence has demonstrated itself clearly in practice as well as in science laboratories.

Reflexology
with Gaia Tossing
Reflexology is a natural healing art based on the principle that there are reflexes in the feet, hands and ears and their referral areas within zone related areas, which correspond to every part, gland and organ of the body. Through application of pressure on these reflexes without the use of tools, crèmes or lotions, the feet being the primary area of application, reflexology relieves tension, improves circulation and helps promote the natural function of the related areas of the body.

Reiki
with Carol Friday, Reiki Master  and Cathy Burton Crocker, LMT
Sisters of Grace - Cathy and Carol are soul sisters sharing the heart energy of Mother Mary. Through opportunities afforded them at Antara they discovered the healing power and miracle of this energy as they worked together. Cathy is a Licensed Massage Therapist in Tennessee and a Reiki Practitioner specializing in clearing physical, emotional and energetic blockages. In 2008 Cathy received her attunement to Mother Mary from Carol. Carol is a Reiki Master Teacher and a Licensed Healing Minister. In 1996 Carol was transformed through the Presence of Mary during an apparition at Conyers, Georgia.   Since this profound experience Carol has found herself to be a conduit  of Mary’s Healing Energy. Contact: HerDaughtersOfGrace@ymail.com.

Macrobiotics
with Suzi Ambar-Worrell
The word Macrobiotics simply means literally “large life” (macro = large; biotics = life) Eating macrobiotically is consuming balanced, whole foods, within a seasonal, local and organic diet.

Medical Qigong
with JMichael Wood, MMQ, PBMC, OBDS, Sarah Cherry, MQT and Gary Hoffman, MQP
Qigong (pronounced chee-gung) is a word that means energy skill. It is a Chinese system of postures, exercises, breathing techniques, and meditations used to improve one’s qi (energy field, Life Force Energy). Medical Qigong can be a personal practice or you may experience the benefits from a trained Qigong therapist.

Psychological Kinesiology or Psych K
with Gene Skaggs

Antara Center is a non-profit organization that has been providing education and holistic health services in the Middle Tennessee area for 5 years. Founded by Janice Mickle in 2004, it has empowered over 3000 people in the Nashville with education about and access to complementary health services and  ancient wisdom teachings.

ANTARA CENTER MISSION:
To empower all people to be healthy and well by creating a healing community through the use of integrative and holistic health care, education, networking and service.

ANTARA CENTER VISION:
Antara Center is a progressive healing center that provides a safe and sacred place for all to go within to Seek the Source and Refresh the Spirit. Antara Center strives to become the leading center in the Southeast for integrative healing, retreat, and spiritually-based education. (The name Antara is from the Sanskrit meaning from within, from the heart.)

Proceeds from this event will support Antara Center’s existing programs, further the development of our vision and underwrite a permanent location for Antara Center.

CONTACT:
Janice Mickle, CEO                                                           Valerie Dennison, President
615.227.3008                                                                  615.414.8899
Janice.mickle@antaracenter.org Valerie.dennison@antaracenter.or