SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News)–It’s like Bat Day at the stadium
The first 500 participant in the Snowmass Wellness Experience August 17-19, 2007, will take home a bagfull of goodies and good things.
Welcome bags include samples valued at $75 from companies like Fruitabu, Arrowhead Mills, Back To Nature, Nordic Naturals, Terra Chips, and Yogi Tea.
Continue Reading Add comment August 16th, 2007
I continue to feel strong and the lower half of my body is firing up with life. Every exercise I execute with Chavi each morning feels stronger. I have more control with my leg movements and I am learning to isolate different muscles. I can raise my knees up in a bent position from lying straight on the bed and amazingly, my ability to crawl backwards is consistent and powered by new muscles that have been asleep for fifteen years. With the slight use of my hip flexors, since my injury I have always been able to balance on my hands and knees and crawl forwards, but never backwards. I am astounded by my strength and new abilities. Although I am not kic king yet in the literal sense, I get a kick out of examining my limbs as they reclaim life. My hamstring on the left leg works when I least expect it, and occasionally in front of an audience. Call it performance anxiety, but I figure that muscle has been hibernating for such a long time, it will take a little while…and some more ‘waiting’ to bring it back to life in the normal sense.
Continue Reading Add comment August 12th, 2007
SNOWMASS, COLORADO (Post Time News) The Snowmass Wellness Experience kicks off its fourth year with a slate of wellness speakers on the subjects of nutrition, fitness, and spirituality & science experts–including six best-selling authors–from August 17-19, 2007.
The Swing into Wellness presented by Vitamin Cottage gourmet dinner celebration kicks off the weekend Friday, and keynote speakers Marianne Williamson and Dan Millman address audiences Saturday. Williamson examines the life-affirming principles first discussed in “A Course In Miracles” and in her forthcoming book, while Millman explores how to align one’s life to fundamental principles at the heart of every health and healing tradition in the world.
Continue Reading Add comment August 7th, 2007
I am ecstatic to report that I am the proud owner of a very strong hamstring in the left leg. Yes, my lower left leg can now move backwards from the knee down to the foot on its own! This is a first!!!!! In fact, I feel my gluteus maximus beginning to kick in, along with other abdominal and leg muscles that haven’t felt alive for fifteen years. I have a weird sensation that I can deeply tense my calf muscles. The awareness in my lower limbs is strangely phenomenal—as if a little electrical current has been turned on filtering pins-and-needle tingles all the way to my toes. This is all apparent after my most recent two embryonic stem cell procedures. My body is waking up and I am both the audience watching synonymous with the actors playing out the motions. I applaud with glee at the slightest flicker of movement, and I sweat with exertion to fire-up a body part that has been paralyzed for what seems like an eternity.
Continue Reading Add comment August 7th, 2007
Today I had another stem cell procedure, which was less invasive than the previous. Dressed with my hair in a pony tail, my jeans unzipped, and a bottle green hospital gown open down the back I lay on my side in the fetal position in Dr. Ashish’s operating theater. A male assistant dressed in surgical blue stood over me like a guardian angel, holding my body in position on the two foot wide narrow table. Dr. Ashish injected two doses of stem cells into the muscles on either side of my injury site on my back…and that was it. Yes, it was over before I could count to a hundred. I was taken to my little room to rest for an hour or so with a fan humming loudly overhead, a good book, and the curry.
Continue Reading Add comment July 20th, 2007
Anthropogenic CO2 production accounts for 3.20% of all CO2 emissions. Carbon dioxide makes up 3.62% of all greenhouse gases, making anthropogenic CO2 account for approximately 0.116% of all greenhouse gases. Elimination of 90% of our emissions would reduce all greenhouse emissions by 0.10%, making anthropogenic Co2, THE cause of global warming a statistical impossibility! (http://mysite.verizon.net/mhieb/WVFossils/greenhouse_data.html).
Continue Reading Add comment July 10th, 2007
ASPEN, COLORADO (Post Time News)–Research compiled by the Children’s Health Foundation here show that the state of Colorado, consideredone of the most healthy states in the nation, turn outs out to be no better than all the rest.
When the results from 40 different school districts around the state were gathered, it was found that 14.8 percent of Colorado children ages two-14 years were overweight. Moreover, the results of the study indicate a strong geographical relation to the number of obese children the state. In fact, the survey showed that children living in rural areas such as Aspen and Snowmass are twice as likely to be overweight than those living in metropolitan areas such as Boulder, Adams, Arapahoe, Jefferson , and Denver. Obese children in these areas had only reached 11.3 percent of the child popuation as compared to 15.3 percent in rural areas of Colorado.
Continue Reading Add comment July 10th, 2007
We need your help. Does anyone have a connection to Oprah? Please spread this email. The world needs to be alerted of Dr. Geets Shroff’s ground-breaking treatment and her amazing accomplishments. I will attach the letter in addition to copying it within this email below.
With so much gratitude, Amanda Boxtel
Continue Reading Add comment July 8th, 2007
I’m hesitant to share because my mind has a hard time wrapping around the fact that on Monday, July 2nd I had a very slight side-to-side wiggle of my third toe on the left foot. This is new and something I haven’t observed in the past 15 ½ years since becoming paralyzed. My mind wants to BELIEVE yet part of me wonders if it is muscle spasm related. My toes on the left foot have always spasmed at certain times (along with my whole leg) but in an up-and-down movement, and not sideways. Dr. Geeta Shroff, Dr. Ashish, Chavi (my PT), and Mum all witnessed this movement repeatedly and on command. Although the response was a little delayed, when I thought about it, the toe moved.
Continue Reading Add comment July 5th, 2007
Amanda Boxtel is famous for her courage, for helping to found Challenge Aspen after a fluke accident left her paralyzed and unable to walk.
But Boxtel is not about to give up: Naomi Havlen reports she is now en route to India for embryonic stem cell research banned in the United States.
Continue Reading Add comment June 18th, 2007