Entrance to the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair 2007

 

 

 

Phoenix Healing Massage Inc.

 

 

 

ROOTS Festival: Reclaiming Our Origins, Traditions, and Skills

 

 

 

 

 

 

2009 Health Fair Pictures

Memories!

These are photos from the 2008 Gainesville Holistic Health Fair, on

Saturday, February 2, at the United Church of Gainesville

 

Fair Entrance

Entrance to the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair, 2007   Holistic Health Fair hostess Maria Minno greets visitors.

 

 

 

Entrance walkway for the health fair.     "Stinky Lewis Soaps" at the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair

 

Courtyard

   A young fair-goer examines artwork created by tinsmith Xylena.

 

Musician strums guitar in UCG courtyard.

 

 

Interior area, Treatment

Dolores E. Mitchell (Rev. Dee), Reiki Master, treats a fair-visitor with energy healing.   Elizabeth Mixon, Licensed Massage Therapist, treats a fair visitor with Ortho-Bionomy (R), an advanced type of bodywork that originated from the medical field of Osteopathy.

 

The indoor area was very busy with a wide variety of holistic health practitioners interacting with health fair visitors.    The Gainesville Holistic Health Fair features many great sources of free information on holistic health alternatives.

 

 

Food!

Nourishing Traditions foods were provided by several vendors, including Ivan Minno (middle) and his friend Matt Rambo (left) selling bag lunches to raise funds for Ivan's Eagle Scout Project (bathouses in the environmental area at Eastside High School to provide the bats shelter because they were being evicted from the building). Angie Minno (right) carries tiny baby Rose as she serves hot lunches including vegan, vegetarian, and nutrient dense foods. The menu featured hot dishes augmented by exotic and delicious ferments, and delicious desserts.

 

Bag lunches featuring nutrient-dense organic sandwiches, (meat and vegetarian (cheese)), with naturally-fermented pickles, fresh fruit, and more, were offered at the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair.    Ivan Minno works hard to make dozens of organic nutrient-dense bag lunches for the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair. Here he is cutting gourmet cheese used in the sandwiches, with some fresh fruit alongside.

 

Qi Gong, Dance

Sifu Anthony Korahais leads chi kung class at the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair, 2007. Sifu Anthony has a master's degree in acupuncture and Chinese medicine, and is an inner-chamber disciple under Grandmaster Wong, so is part of a long tradition of martial artists who are also Chinese doctors.    Sifu Anthony Korahais is a certified instructor and senior disciple under Grandmaster Wong Kiew Kit of Malaysia, so is part of a long tradition of martial artists who are also Chinese doctors. Here he leads a group of health fair visitors in chi kung.

 

Visitors to the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair experience chi gong led by Anthony Korahais. Sifu Anthony has travelled widely to learn from Grandmaster Wong in Malaysia, Europe, Canada, and the US. He has both observed and assisted Grandmaster Wong in diagnosing and treating hundreds of students and patients using chi kung therapy. Sifu Anthony has taught martial arts for over a decade, and has a black belt in Karate, has studied Black Tiger Kung Fu, and teaches Tai Chi Chuan, Shaolin Kung Fu, and Cosmos Chi Kung. He is also trained as a classical violinist.    The Santa Fe Community College Earth Dancers begin their wonderful dance presentation for the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair. Led by Kristin O'Neal, an assistant dance professor at SFCC, the Earth Dancers delighted fair-go-ers with a joyful performance celebrating our relationship with the Earth.

 

Children’s Program

  

Professional music instructor Gail Miller leads a children's program on how to make and play your own musical instruments. Gail operates a thriving business teaching piano, guitar, and other music classes to children and teens in Gainesville. Her students get extraordinary personal instruction, and have fun, also.

 

Boni Ramey, and environmental science major, paints faces of Holistic Health Fair visitors. Although Boni is dedicated to environmental science, she is the daughter of a professional clown, and has followed in her mother's footsteps, painting faces for fun all of her life.    Holistic Health Fair visitor Mirin has his face painted as a lion, and plays the part for the duration of the fair. Later, one of the fair musicians, Jimmy Carter, performed the folk song "The Cat Came Back" just for Mirin!

 

Butterfly Fairy Raven Moondance presents the Flutterby-Butterfly nature program for children and families at the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair. Rev. Raven Moondance teaches Moon Astrology and leads earth-based spirituality ceremonies in Gainesville. She has worked extensively with children, bringing the benefits of energy healing, ceremony, and Earth reverence to many hundreds of fortunate youngsters throughout her career. She also teaches adult classes in Gainesville and New York.    Health Fair families and children gather for "Flutter By Butterfly," a nature-based program led by Raven Moondance.

 

One of the organizers of the Gainesville Holistic Health Fair, Raven Moondance (Shenna Benarte) leads a children's program, "Flutter By, Butterfly." Raven led the program and assisted fair participants in the guise of the Butterfly Fairy.    Holistic Health Fair children enjoy a book on butterfly metamorphosis read by Butterfly Fairy Raven Moondance, in the family/children's program, "Flutter By, Butterfly."

 

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