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Vancouver Wellness Show offers solace to a stressed out planet

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Feature published in the Vancouver Sun February 16, 2011.

BY AMANDA ASH, VANCOUVER SUN

If you can’t live without checking Facebook, Twitter or your email every few minutes, then the 2011 Wellness Show might be for you.

This year marks the 19th anniversary of the annual health- and holistic-oriented trade show, but instead of celebrating with a congratulatory social media status update, producer Jeanette Savard hopes patrons will disconnect the BlackBerry for a few hours and connect with themselves instead.

“I think that we lead much more stressful lives today, and we have to look at ways of incorporating various lifestyle components to de-stress ourselves and maintain a more balanced lifestyle. I think we shouldn’t lose track of that,” Savard says.

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Vancouver Wellness Show: Health is just a tweet away

The kitchen can be a scary place for some families, but Theresa Albert hopes she can banish the Boogeyman from home cooking and personal nutrition.

According to the Registered Nutritional Consulting Practitioner, who is also the author of multiple cookbooks and host of Food Network Canada’s show Just One Bite, there is a lot of food information and misinformation out there that can become overwhelming.

The Toronto-based chef says good eating may sound daunting, but in reality, it’s not that hard to be healthy. At the Wellness Show, Albert plans to demonstrate on the Celebrity Cooking Stage that turning on the stove can be fun, fast, nutritious, affordable and, yes, still taste good.

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Vancouver Wellness Show: Finding tranquility on a karmic journey

Zhi Gang Sha believes we can heal ourselves, and each other, with the help of a few simple words.

Sha is a medical doctor in China, a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine in China and Canada, a Grandmaster of Tai Chi, Qi Gong, I Ching and Feng Shui. He’s also a certified acupuncturist in Vancouver, and a New York Times best-selling author.

According to the world-renowned spiritual teacher, the Divine Soul Song called Love, Peace, and Harmony, which he will teach during his workshop at The Wellness Show, can transform every aspect of our lives.

“This Divine Soul Song carries a divine frequency and vibration to transform the frequency and vibration of humanity and Mother Earth,” he explains. “It carries forgiveness which brings inner joy and inner peace; carries divine compassion which boosts energy, stamina, vitality and immunity; and it carries divine light, which heals, prevents sickness and transforms relationships and finances.”

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