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Dreaming of a spa vacation, but stuck in the Mohawk Valley this summer?
No worries. There are plenty of ways to have fun and get healthier right here this summer.
Here are 10 of our favorites:
1. Watch herons taking flight and enjoy the color of native flowers (as well as lots of purple loosestrife) while biking on the Erie Canal towpath. Bring a healthy picnic lunch and make a day of it. Pick up the towpath by heading north on Genesee Street and turning left on Harbor Point Road in North Utica.
2. Make Schultz and Dooley proud by switching to Utica Club Light for the summer. The Matt Brewing Co. brews up this light beer for the summer season only. It’s available on draft and in cans.
3. Catch running fever by taking part in the Utica Roadrunners’ Development Runs. These Wednesday night events offer 10K, 5K, 2-mile, ½-mile and 0.02-mile runs for everyone in the family, as well as a 2.5 mile walk. The walk starts at 6:30 p.m.; the shorter fun runs at 6:45 and the three longer runs at 7. Cost is $1 a person or $2.50 per family. Register at the Parkway Recreation Center on Memorial Parkway.
4. Pick up fresh, local berries, melons and zucchinis, as well as other local products, for your family at the Utica Farmers Market, which opens for the season on June 13. The market is located in Historical Chancellor Park on Bleecker Street and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check uticaod.com/calendar throughout the summer for other regional farmers markets.
5. Adopt a furry friend from the Stevens-Swan Humane Society in Utica. A study last year found that dog owners who walk their dogs are 34 percent more likely to meet federal benchmarks for physical activity. Call 738-4357 or visit www.stevens-swan.org for information. Don’t like dogs? Get a cat. Owning a pet can decrease blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and loneliness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
6. Get your heart pumping on the new, 1.33- mile walking path on the Utica College campus, put in as part of Leadership Mohawk Valley’s heart-health initiative. The path, which runs in front of the Strebel Student Center, was dedicated by the American Heart Association and college in April to keep the spirit and fitness of America’s Greatest Heart Run Walk going year round. Other AHA-designed walking paths run through Proctor Park in Utica, the Sculpture Garden at Griffiss Business and Technology Park in Rome and in the village of Cooperstown.
7. Reap the rewards of community garden membership. Not only do members get fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs all summer long, but working in the garden is great exercise. Plus it’s a chance to make new friends. For the Good runs three community gardens in Utica – at Linwood Place, on Noyes Street and on Jay Street. Call 797-2417 for information.
8. Have a ball playing rugby for the local teams. The women’s Utica/Syracuse team plays over the summer. The men’s Utica team season is in the fall, but it practices in July for participation in the Great American Irish Festival. And don’t worry about injuries; reports of the sport’s dangers are highly exaggerated, said men’s team president Frank Redmond. Rules protect the head, neck and shoulders, he said. To sign up, visit the website for the Utica Rugby Football Club at http://uticarugby.com.
9. Check out some of Utica’s healthier ethnic restaurants. Dietitian Pat Salzer, of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, recommends Mediterranean foods with healthy monounsaturated fats, and lots of fruits and vegetables. Try Karam’s Middle East Bakery and Restaurant in Yorkville and The Phoenician Restaurant and the Grapevine Restaurant in New Hartford, she said. Megan Dischiavo, nutrition and dietetics professor at Mohawk Valley Community College, likes the “fresh veggies, nice proteins and minimal refined carbs” at The Lotus Garden in Utica and the vegetables, healthy fats and fish at Symeon’s in Yorkville.
10. Exercise your brain by checking out cultural festivals. Try concerts at the Stanley Center for the Arts, the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute’s Arts Festival from June 29 through July 4; the Utica Maennerchor’s Bavarian Festival from July 20 through 22; or the Annual Hispanic Heritage Latino American Festival on Aug. 26. In honor of World Refugee Day on June 20, the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees also will host a week of events. Cognitive activity helps protect the brain as people age. Watch uticaod.com/calendar for more details on local events.
Final tip: Do all of the above with a friend. Friendship is good for mental health, and social connections help people age well.
“I was a Scientologist for 12 years, which is a lot more embarrassing than saying Hi, I’m a transsexual SM dyke living with borderline personality disorder,” Kate Bornstein tells PopMatters on the release of her memoir, “A Queer and Pleasant Danger.” Embodying not just gender — but the range of gender — is just a fraction of Bornstein’s complex, complete, utterly compelling persona; she is also the embodiment of a mind steeped in pop culture, past and present.
1. The latest book or movie that made you cry?
OK — does RuPaul’s “Drag Race” count as a book or a movie? Of course it does. Well, I cried when Latrice Royale had to sashay away — she is a queen of color, size, and age. She has amazing grace, and she lip-synchs like an earth angel. That was the latest show that made me cry.
I cried when Dream died in Neil Gaiman’s “The Sandman” series. Actually, it wasn’t because Dream died — it was more because it made his sister, Death, cry.
2. The fictional character most like you?
Most of the time, I feel like Candide. (Candide, ou l’Optimisme, Voltaire, 1759.) I can’t count the number of times I’ve set out in my life with a smile on my face and a song in my heart, knowing that I live in the best of all possible worlds — only to get hit with a pie in the face, or a piano falls on my head while I’m walking down the sidewalk, or maybe it’s an anvil, or maybe it’s a bullet in my gut. Candide walks through his life and discovers that every institution he was taught to believe in ends up screw him — not literarily.
3. The greatest album, ever?
“Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
“Sergeant Pepper” was the first time I’d experienced art that flipped-off what would later be called the straight, white, male patriarchy and its evils in Vietnam. It was hopeful music. It was comforting. It was cornball.
4. “Star Trek” or “Star Wars”?
“Star Trek.” But you need to ask which “Star Trek, and mine was “The Next Generation.” I always identified with Ensign Ro Laren — a complete traitor. Or Ishara Yar, Tasha’s sister. She’s only on for one episode, and she betrays Data, coming as close as anyone did to breaking the part of his neural net that was his heart. And both “Star Trek” and “Star Wars” are in the past.
5. Your ideal brain food?
Check out the field of neurogenesis, where scientists have discovered that when we learn something new, we actually grow new brain cells and we can heal the scars of the brain cells we’ve screwed up with drugs and depression and heartbreak and even real physical trauma.
Well, I have messed up my brain so badly over the course of my life that I need to learn something new every day. That’s what I live on, that’s sort of what I live for. Every new thing I learn is another piece in the puzzle that is the Meta of life itself. My life’s path has been a road called gender, and each time I’ve learned something new about gender, my heart feels lighter and that’s told me I’m getting closer to the truth of the phenomenon.
6. You’re proud of this accomplishment, but why?
I wrote a book called “Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and other Outlaws,” from Seven Stories Press. I get letters every day, or tweets or comments, or text messages, or any other of the ways people get messages to me these days — thank you for saving my life. That’s a hard thing to own when you hear it, but I feel proud when I do own it, so that has to be it.
7. You want to be remembered for …?
I’d like my daughter and grandchildren to one day get out of Scientology long enough to read my memoir, “A Queer and Pleasant Danger,” and remember me with a smile. I know it’d be a sad smile, and I’m sorry for that.
Right, so I’d like to be remembered by my daughter, my grandchildren, and all the freaky geeky kids and grownups who read my books and it helps them live another day. I’d like them all to remember me as having been a good auntie, or a good teacher — a Hogwarts professor type, perhaps Sybill Trelawney. She taught divination but could never divine very much herself, except every now and then when it was important.
That’s what I hope all my books do for all my kids — shine a light on a future bright enough that they don’t want to kill themselves.
8. Of those who’ve come before, the most inspirational are?
Right then, in no particular order: Lao-Tse, Abbot Costello, Doris Fish, Mark Twain, Candy Darling, International Chrysis, Fredric Brown, The Beatles (together and separately), P.T. Barnum, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Holly Hughes, Laurel Hardy, Norman Rockwell, Suzanne J. Kessler, Wendy McKenna, Laurie Anderson, Robert Altman, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hermann Hesse, Dorothy Parker, Diane Arbus, Andy Warhol, Joss Whedon, Steve Jobs, Sojourner Truth, William S. Burroughs, Frank Zappa, Lucille Ball, Martin Scorsese, Carol Burnett, Ferron, Valerie Solanas, Heather Lewis, Steve Allen, Audrey Hepburn, Christopher Isherwood, Aphra Behn, Bob Fosse, Rachel Pollack, Truman Capote, Salvador Dali, the Dalai Lama, Caroline Cossey, Shirley MacLaine, Hugh Hefner and James Joyce. I’d like them all to be proud of me.
9. The creative masterpiece you wish bore your signature?
“All That Jazz,” the film by Bob Fosse. Oh god, I want to make a musical out of my crazy life. I wrote a play called “Strangers in Paradox” about a pair of lesbians who are serial killers. It’s 100 percent autobiographical and true. My dream is to turn it into a musical and a film.
10. Your hidden talents …?
I’m a scary good Tarot card reader. It’s my Professor Trelawney side. I see things that can happen, but not always. I’ve been working on designing my own deck for years. I also know how to stop myself when I get the hiccups — every time.
11. The best piece of advice you actually followed?
“I was a Scientologist for 12 years, which is a lot more embarrassing than saying Hi, I’m a transsexual SM dyke living with borderline personality disorder,” Kate Bornstein tells PopMatters on the release of her memoir, “A Queer and Pleasant Danger.” Embodying not just gender — but the range of gender — is just a fraction of Bornstein’s complex, complete, utterly compelling persona; she is also the embodiment of a mind steeped in pop culture, past and present.
“The way you do anything is the way you do everything.” Zen master, Cheri Huber, came up with that koan. I’ve been working on it for over 20 years, now. Essentially, it means that everything I do is practice for everything else I’m going to do. So, if I do something mindfully — anything at all — I’ll be better at doing something else mindfully in the future.
Knowing and using this koan helped me use all across my life the principles I learned in navigating gender — breaking binaries, disobeying hierarchies, staying alive, telling fun stories. If fractals were a life path, this koan would be the roadmap.
12. The best thing you ever bought, stole, or borrowed?
The very best thing is the idea that we are immortal spiritual beings, and as such we have no gender. I got that from L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. I was a Scientologist for 12 years, which is a lot more embarrassing than saying Hi, I’m a transsexual SM dyke living with borderline personality disorder. But for all the nuttiness of Scientology’s beliefs, this one stuck with me. They told me I’m not my body, I’m not my mind. They said I don’t have a soul, I am a soul.
Their word for soul is thetan — an immortal spiritual being of unlimited powers. Well, I’m not so sure about the unlimited powers part but I’m going to hang in there with immortality. It fits nicely with a lot of Eastern and pagan spiritual paths.
When I first got into Scientology, I asked them if there were male thetans and female thetans. They laughed merrily and told me that no, thetans have no gender. Gender is for bodies.
Now, you’d think that with a philosophy based on that strong of an idea, that homophobia and transphobia would be non-existent. Sadly, both are rampant in Scientology and it makes no sense.
So yeah, I borrowed the idea that none of us have a gender, and I’m very happy to give it back to Scientology any day they’d like to accept it from me.
13. You feel best in Armani or Levis or …?
A mix of Free People anything, and Diesel sweats. I love being girly girl hippie chick, but there’s always this bad girl side of me that has to come out at the same time. And Fluevogs — they make any outfit work.
14. Your dinner guest at the Ritz would be?
Of everybody, it’d have to be Chuang Tzu. He was the world’s first slapstick Taoist master, one of the first great fools in the world whose work got written down. I’d like to trade jokes.
15. Time travel: where, when and why?
I’d like to be a fly on the wall in the room where Henry Miller and Anais Nin were. I’d like to follow them both to wherever they went to write. Or before they were going to meet, and while they were longing for each other.
16. Stress management: hit man, spa vacation or Prozac?
Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT). I live with Borderline Personality Disorder, and it’s the only damned thing that helps me regulate my emotions. Like this piece I’m writing right now — it’s two days past deadline. Before DBT, I’d be panicking and I wouldn’t be able to write it. But hey, voila!
17. Essential to life: coffee, vodka, cigarettes, chocolate, or …?
Nicotine, caffeine and THC. I drink Diet Pepsi, not alcohol, and I do enjoy my e-cigarettes and other smokes.
18. Environ of choice: city or country, and where on the map?
Portlandia. It’s got such a high percentage of freaky, geeky people. I’ve always felt at home there whenever I teach or perform there. I’ve always felt most at home most anywhere in the Pacific Northwest, and I like to think I’d move there in a flash but my girlfriend would never go for it — she’s too much of a sun bunny.
19. What do you want to say to the leader of your country?
I’ve got nothing to say to President Obama. I have a lot of questions I’d like to ask him, and I’d like him to seriously consider.
I’d like to talk with him about church and state and how very collapsed they’ve become in my country to the point where so many of our laws are little more than the enforcing of some fundamentalist Judeo-Christian system of morality.
I like that he calls himself a mutt. I’m a mutt of gender. I’d like him to see the connection. And once that’s been made, I’d ask him to do whatever it takes to make this country safe for mutts of all kinds.
20. Last but certainly not least, what are you working on, now?
Becoming a star. Thanks for the leg up.
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Kim Onnen, far right, motivates guests during a spin class at The Heartland Spa and Fitness Resort.
When starting a fitness program, remember that tiny steps are better than no steps at all.
Gilman, Illinois (PRWEB) May 16, 2012
Get up and get moving because May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month! Since 1983 (the very same year that The Heartland Spa and Fitness Resort first opened its doors in Gilman, Illinois) individuals and organizations across the country have done their part to promote the tremendous benefits of a healthy, active lifestyle. And, The Heartland Spa is no exception!
“For the past 29 years, we’ve started each and every morning with a 2-mile walk,” says Kim Onnen, The Heartland Spa’s Assistant Director and Fitness Manager. “Rain or shine, we’re up and walking at 7:15 am, and our guests absolutely love it,” she says.
In addition to the walks, The Heartland Spa also offers a variety of exercise and fitness classes throughout the day including Yoga, Pilates, Zumba®, Body Sculpting, and much, much more. “We feature classes for all levels of fitness,” says Onnen. “While many of our guests have made exercise part of their lifestyle for years, there are just as many visitors who come to us in an effort to get started,” she says. “It’s wonderful to be part of their transformation as they quickly realize how much fun exercise can be!”
“We also have a state-of-the-art fitness center and an indoor heated swimming pool, which guests can use at their leisure,” she adds. “And, for those who prefer the great outdoors, we’ve got several bicycles and paddle boats, as well as designated walking paths with meditation stops around our lake.”
“Although everyone should be exercising at least 3-5 times per week to maintain a healthy lifestyle, National Physical Fitness and Sports Month is a great reminder of how important it is to keep our bodies moving!”
In celebration of National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, Onnen offers some simple tips for those just getting started with a fitness routine.
Take Tiny Steps
Tiny steps are better than no steps at all. There is absolutely no need to over exert yourself or burn out on the first day! Begin with a short walk around the neighborhood, take a beginner’s stretch class, or participate in an introduction to free weights. Step it up from there as you get more comfortable and start building endurance.
Less is More
An exercise program doesn’t need to be extensive or elaborate, and there’s no need to join an expensive gym. Take a look at your lifestyle and you may discover easy ways to incorporate physical activity into your everyday routine. Consider walking to work or taking the stairs instead of an elevator. When grocery shopping or doing errands, park as far away from the entrance as possible. If you walk a dog, pick up the pace or walk an extra 10 minutes. Little changes can make a big difference!
Back to Basics
Technology is great, but it’s created a lazy society. If getting fit is the goal, think low-tech. Walk or ride a bike instead of hopping in the car, take the stairs instead of the escalator, mow the lawn with a push mower, get up from the sofa to change the television channel rather than reaching for the clicker. Calories are sure to be burned!
Find Good Role Models
If all of your friends are sedentary, then chances are you will be, too. But, if you surround yourself with those who make exercise part of their lives, then it will be easier for you to do the same. In this case, a bit of peer pressure can be a very good thing! Join a walking club or take class and you’ll see that physical fitness can be contagious when you’re in a group.
Set Weekly, Attainable Goals
Setting attainable and realistic goals is so important. Develop a game plan to go faster, farther or longer with your physical fitness routine. The goal can be as simple as taking a daily 15 minute walk or as serious as training for a marathon. Just decide what is attainable and realistic, and stick to it.
The Bottom Line
If exercise is at the bottom of the priority list, then you will never, ever reach your goals. You need to believe that exercise and physical fitness is important enough to make it happen. Be honest with yourself about what you really want and how committed you are to following through. If you want it, you can achieve it!
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Located in Gilman, Illinois (just 90 miles south of Chicago), and nestled on 32-acres of picturesque pastures and woods, the Heartland Spa and Fitness Resort is the Midwest’s premier health and fitness spa vacation. Once a dairy farm, this fully-equipped destination spa provides an unpretentious, welcoming and nurturing environment that motivates guests by demonstrating healthy living through a variety of fitness, nutrition and stress management programs. Praised by Oprah, and enjoyed by thousands of people throughout its 29 year history, The Heartland Spa offers a peaceful setting for guests to relax, unplug, and focus on their individual lifestyle goals. 2, 3 and 5 night packages are available for this award-winning, all-inclusive, health and fitness getaway. For more information, please visit http://www.heartlandspa.com or call 800-545-4853.
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New Life Hiking Spa
We have always been about health, hiking, whole foods and stress reduction since we opened our doors in 1978.
Killington, Vermont (PRWEB) May 17, 2012
For 35 seasons, New Life Hiking Spa has welcomed people from around the globe to the Green Mountains of Vermont for hiking spa vacations. Each year, New Life opens for the season in mid-May and remains open until the last weekend in September. Founded by Jimmy LeSage, M.S., in 1978, New Life has become one of North America’s most recognized spa vacations.
“I came up with the idea of New Life after attending a six week yoga retreat in Val Morin, Canada in 1977”, states Mr. LeSage. He went on to say, “I had been living and working in Vermont for a few years after graduating with a degree in education from Florida State University and took the opportunity to use a ski hotel in the summers for my idea in 1978.”
The first twelve years of New Life Hiking Spa were spent in Stratton Mountain, Vermont and the program consisted of hiking, yoga, aerobics and healthy food. In 1990, he moved New Life to the newly opened Inn of the Six Mountains in Killington, Vermont where it remains today. In the early 90’s Mr. LeSage also received his Master’s Degree in Counseling and studied nutrition at Harvard University, which he uses for lectures and individual counseling sessions for guests wanting to learn how to deal with stress and obtaining or maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
SpaFinders, which is the world’s largest resource for the spa industry, has selected New Life Hiking Spa as one of the 25 Pioneer Spas which have shaped the spa industry as we know it today. New Life is consistently picked as one of the top ten spas in the world by SpaFinder’s Reader’s Choice Awards for hiking, solo travel, weight loss, affordability and fitness classes. In addition, in 2011, Jimmy LeSage, M.S. was chosen as one of the world’s top ten best spa managers.
In recent years, New Life Hiking Spa has been recognized as a top destination for weight loss and a healthy vacation. Since 2005, New Life has been selected as a top ten fitness vacation by MSNBC, and a top weight loss spa by Shape Magazine and Health Magazine. “In the past decade, there has been a major focus on healthy vacations and weight loss spas due to America’s expanding waistlines and reality TV programs that focus on losing weight. We have always been about health, hiking, whole foods and stress reduction since we opened our doors in 1978, but now there is a major focus in the media on the subject”, said Mr. LeSage.
For the 19 weeks a year New Life Hiking Spa is open, approximately 600 guests from all over the world come to visit New Life in the Green Mountains of Vermont. New Life Hiking Spa averages approximately 40 guests per week and employs an average of 35 people each season. Massage therapists, chefs, office staff, hike leaders and fitness instructors make New Life a caring and comfortable vacation where guests at any fitness level feel at ease coming alone or with a friend or partner.
Currently, New Life is in the summer edition of Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England and NewsMax Magazine, both on newsstands now. New Life Hiking Spa was chosen in Yankee Magazine as the 2012 Editor’s Choice for “Best Place to Rejuvenate” and in NewsMax Magazine for “Best Singles Vacations”.
Reservations are now being accepted for the 2012 season.
About New Life Hiking Spa:
Guests at New Life Hiking Spa experience rejuvenation with an all-inclusive spa vacation. New Life offers mini-getaways of three to four days, healthy “Jump Start” packages of 5-10 days and an 11 night or longer Weight Loss Retreat. Prices range from $249-$219 per night and include a private room with a private bath, three nutritious meals per day, healthy snacks, guided hikes along the Appalachian Trail and Long Trail (three levels offered per day), yoga classes, fitness classes, water aerobics in a heated indoor pool, cooking demos, healthy eating lectures, and one massage is included for every three night stay. The 2012 season will run from May 17th through September 30th.
More information can be found online at New Life Hiking Spa’s Website: http://www.newlifehikingspa.com or http://www.WeightLossSpa.com.
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ONLINE SHOPPING—If you want to get the colorfully dyed goods by Gregory Parkinson—similar to those featured in Anthropologie’s first Made in Kind collaboration—go to MyHabit until 9am (EST) on Saturday. The good news is that his perennially appropriate garments start at $53 and the better news is that you can also win $250 this week or $1000 next week at MyHabit by heading to their Facebook page and entering your name and number in the sweepstakes. Happy lunch break shopping! [Racked Inbox]
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Today is Mother’s Day, which means that not only are we all celebrating how much we love our moms, but we’re very likely celebrating by taking her to a spa, giving her a gift certificate to a spa, or planning a spa vacation. Let us make it easier for you, with some recommendations of the best spas in the world.
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LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2012 — VH1 and Dr. Drew has started production today on a sixth installment of “Rehab with Dr. Drew” to directly address alcohol and drug addiction among young adults, the largest group afflicted by addiction issues in the U.S.
According to the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that an estimated 23.1 million American who were 12 or older needed treatment for drug and alcohol abuse that year, while only 2.6 million received treatment in a specialty facility. Another source, the 2009 Treatment Episode Data Set, which gathers information on persons admitted to publicly funded treatment programs, shows that the age group with the highest proportion of admissions was 25 to 29 years at 15.2 percent followed closely by the 20 to 24 years age group at 14.9 percent.
And in the sixth installment of the Celebrity Rehab franchise Dr. Drew once again takes viewers behind the closed doors of the rehabilitation process. From heartbreak to hope we follow Dr. Drew and his patients on their difficult and deeply emotional journey to sobriety. An often raw and unflinching look at the many faces of addiction, Dr. Drew shows us that rehab is not a glamorous spa vacation for celebrities as often portrayed in the media but a profound life changing process that offers hope for a better life. “Rehab with Dr. Drew,” will premiere in September 2012 with eight one-hour episodes.
“Addiction is a disease that doesn’t limit itself to celebrities but reaches across all economic, social and racial boundaries with lasting and profound effects of not only of the patients but also their families, friends and co-workers. Rehabilitation and sobriety on the other hand are an arduous lifelong journey,” said Dr. Drew.
“Many of our young adult viewers have shared with us that Dr. Drew and our multiple seasons of ‘Celebrity Rehab‘ has made them more aware about substance abuse. And a large number of them have asked for his assistance with their own challenges,” said Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President, Original Programming Production, VH1. “This season, the moment felt right to turn our focus from celebrities, to young adults who could benefit under Dr. Drew and his team’s expert professional treatment. In some ways, we felt that stripping away the celebrity layer could reach even more viewers and touch them in a different way.”
Dr. Drew is the host of the nationally syndicated late night radio show Loveline as well as a respected practicing MD, board certified in internal and addiction medicine, who is staff at Huntington Hospital and assistant clinical professor of KECK USC School of Medicine. He is the author of the New York Times best seller The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (Harper Collins) and Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again (Harper-Collins.) Dr. Drew co-authored the first academic study on celebrities and narcissism that was published in the Journal of Research in Personality (Elsevier) in September 2006, and is the first systematic, empirical scholarly study of celebrity personality. Dr. Drew hosted VH1′s “Sober House” and “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” and can be seen on MTV’s “Teen Mom” and “16 Pregnant.” Additionally, Dr. Drew is hosting a new prime time show on HLN called “Dr. Drew.”
Returning for their sixth seasons to assist Dr. Drew are counselor Bob Forrest and resident technician Shelly Sprague. Also returning this season is Dr. John R. Sharp, M.D. Dr. Sharp is a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, and the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. His expertise is in the integrated treatment of depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorder, and addiction. Dr. Sharp has been recognized as Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of The Academy of Psychosomatic. He maintains an active Private Practice in Boston and Los Angeles. Jennifer Gimenez will also be back as a resident technician. Jennifer was previously seen on season 5 of “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” and “Sober House” as the house manager.
For additional information about “Rehab with Dr. Drew” visit the official VH1 Rehab with Dr. Drew site at CelebRehab.VH1.com and on VH1 Mobile each week following the show’s on-air premiere. Viewers can also find ‘Rehab’ updates on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/vh1 and on Twitter @VH1 with the hashtag #Rehab.
“Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” is produced by Irwin Entertainment. Executive producing for Irwin Entertainment are John Irwin, Damian Sullivan, Joel Rodgers and Rob Buchta. Dr. Drew Pinsky and Howard Lapides also serve as executive producers. Jill Holmes, Tom Huffman and Jeff Olde are executive producers for VH1.
VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 99 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, and extensive video on VH1.com. Connect with VH1 at VH1.com.
Award Winning St. Lucia Resort Offers the Perfect Gift for an Exotic Mother’s Day Package at Incredible Prices!
(TRAVPR.COM) USA – May 3rd, 2012 – In celebration of Mother’s Day, Coconut Bay Beach Resort Spa, the premier Caribbean all-inclusive resort for romance and family travel, located on St. Lucia’s exotic southern coast, is offering an exclusive Mother’s Day All-Inclusive Spa getaway package. Give that special lady in your life a present she will cherish forever with savings of up to 50 percent.
This special spa package is perfect for guests looking to rejuvenate skin, restore a sense of well-being and soothe away worries, especially for a multitasking mom in need of pampering. Guests must book their spa getaway by May 30, 2012 to enjoy water view accommodations, with rates starting at just $159 per person, per night, based on double occupancy. Make this a memorable Mother’s Day with a gift your loved ones will always remember.
This exclusive package is valid for travel between April 30 and June 30, 2012 and includes the following:
• One treatment per person, per day* at the resort’s newly revamped Kai Mer Spa featuring eight indoor treatment rooms, three new oceanfront cabanas, sauna and steam rooms, a new product line and a range of new tropical organic treatments
• Champagne toast upon check-in
• All meals, drinks and snacks daily in a choice of four restaurants
• Premium brand cocktails in a choice of six bars
• Daily activities, nightly entertainment, plus themed dinners
• Daily exercise options including yoga, pilates, aqua aerobics, power walks and more!
• All transfers to and from Hewanorra International Airport
• All taxes and gratuities
“Whether you want to take your family or just find a couples getaway, Coconut Bay is the ultimate Mother’s Day gift for those looking to get the most value out of their vacation,” said Mark Adams, president of Coconut Bay Beach Resort Spa. “The resort is an 85 acre tropical oasis with on-site amenities and close proximity to the island’s top attractions, which allows guests to customize their vacation experience to combine elements of relaxation, fun, adventure and culture. The newly updated elegant oceanfront Kai Mer Spa and this amazing spa package provide moms with the ultimate serene retreat.”
For reservations or for more information visit www.CBayResort.com or call 877-352-8898 to secure the Mother’s Day All-Inclusive Spa Package.
*One treatment per day except arrival and departure day
About Coconut Bay Beach Resort and Spa
Nowhere else in St. Lucia can you step foot off the plane and into paradise faster! St. Lucia’s exotic southern coast is home to Coconut Bay Beach Resort Spa, an all-inclusive AAA Three Diamond resort catering to families, singles, couples and honeymooners alike and located less than five minutes from the Hewanorra International Airport. The resort features two worlds in one with the Harmony and Splash wings. “Harmony” is a tranquil adult-only oasis offering an intimate setting for a romantic escape with a coconut palm-fringed pool, braided hammocks, private cabana beds and the oceanfront Kai-Mer Spa. The young at heart are drawn to “Splash,” the resort’s tropical playground featuring CocoLand Kidz Klub, a paintball facility, a watersports complex offering kitesurfing and the island’s largest water park. This casually beautiful Caribbean resort has 250-rooms on 85 acres. Coconut Bay is highly rated on TripAdvisor and has received impressive accolades ranging from the Travelocity Excellence Award, AAA Three Diamond, and the “Green Level Award” from Transat.
For more information or reservations, please visit http://www.cbayresort.com, “Like” us on
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LOS ANGELES, May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
VH1 and Dr. Drew has started production today on a sixth installment of “Rehab with Dr. Drew” to directly address alcohol and drug addiction among young adults, the largest group afflicted by addiction issues in the U.S.
According to the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration reports that an estimated 23.1 million American who were 12 or older needed treatment for drug and alcohol abuse that year, while only 2.6 million received treatment in a specialty facility. Another source, the 2009 Treatment Episode Data Set, which gathers information on persons admitted to publicly funded treatment programs, shows that the age group with the highest proportion of admissions was 25 to 29 years at 15.2 percent followed closely by the 20 to 24 years age group at 14.9 percent.
And in the sixth installment of the Celebrity Rehab franchise Dr. Drew once again takes viewers behind the closed doors of the rehabilitation process. From heartbreak to hope we follow Dr. Drew and his patients on their difficult and deeply emotional journey to sobriety. An often raw and unflinching look at the many faces of addiction, Dr. Drew shows us that rehab is not a glamorous spa vacation for celebrities as often portrayed in the media but a profound life changing process that offers hope for a better life. “Rehab with Dr. Drew,” will premiere in September 2012 with eight one-hour episodes.
“Addiction is a disease that doesn’t limit itself to celebrities but reaches across all economic, social and racial boundaries with lasting and profound effects of not only of the patients but also their families, friends and co-workers. Rehabilitation and sobriety on the other hand are an arduous lifelong journey,” said Dr. Drew.
“Many of our young adult viewers have shared with us that Dr. Drew and our multiple seasons of ‘Celebrity Rehab’ has made them more aware about substance abuse. And a large number of them have asked for his assistance with their own challenges,” said Jeff Olde, Executive Vice President, Original Programming Production, VH1. “This season, the moment felt right to turn our focus from celebrities, to young adults who could benefit under Dr. Drew and his team’s expert professional treatment. In some ways, we felt that stripping away the celebrity layer could reach even more viewers and touch them in a different way.”
Dr. Drew is the host of the nationally syndicated late night radio show Loveline as well as a respected practicing MD, board certified in internal and addiction medicine, who is staff at Huntington Hospital and assistant clinical professor of KECK USC School of Medicine. He is the author of the New York Times best seller The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism is Seducing America (Harper Collins) and Cracked: Putting Broken Lives Together Again (Harper-Collins.) Dr. Drew co-authored the first academic study on celebrities and narcissism that was published in the Journal of Research in Personality (Elsevier) in September 2006, and is the first systematic, empirical scholarly study of celebrity personality. Dr. Drew hosted VH1′s “Sober House” and “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” and can be seen on MTV’s “Teen Mom” and “16 Pregnant.” Additionally, Dr. Drew is hosting a new prime time show on HLN called “Dr. Drew.”
Returning for their sixth seasons to assist Dr. Drew are counselor Bob Forrest and resident technician Shelly Sprague. Also returning this season is Dr. John R. Sharp, M.D. Dr. Sharp is a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, and the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. His expertise is in the integrated treatment of depression and bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorder, and addiction. Dr. Sharp has been recognized as Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and of The Academy of Psychosomatic. He maintains an active private practice in Boston and Los Angeles. Jennifer Gimenez will also be back as a resident technician. Jennifer was previously seen on season 5 of “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew” and “Sober House” as the house manager.
For additional information about “Rehab with Dr. Drew” visit the official VH1 Rehab with Dr. Drew site at CelebRehab.VH1.com and on VH1 Mobile each week following the show’s on-air premiere. Viewers can also find ‘Rehab’ updates on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/vh1 and on Twitter @VH1 with the hashtag #Rehab.
“Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew” is produced by Irwin Entertainment. Executive producing for Irwin Entertainment are John Irwin, Damian Sullivan, Joel Rodgers and Rob Buchta. Dr. Drew Pinsky and Howard Lapides also serve as executive producers. Jill Holmes, Tom Huffman and Jeff Olde are executive producers for VH1.
VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 99 million households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, and extensive video on VH1.com. Connect with VH1 at VH1.com.
SOURCE VH1
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New Life Hiking Spa at the Inn of the Six Mountains has been recognized as a 2012 “Editors’ Choice” winner in Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England, on newsstands now. New Life Hiking Spa was chosen as the 2012 Editor’s Choice for “Best Place to Rejuvenate.” The spa is open each year from mid-May through the end of September and is known as one of the country’s top destination spas.
Killington, VT (PRWEB) May 01, 2012
New Life Hiking Spa at the Inn of the Six Mountains has been recognized as a 2012 “Editors’ Choice” winner in Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England, on newsstands now. This designation is awarded by Yankee’s editors and contributors, who name select restaurants, lodgings and attractions in New England to the exclusive list. For 36 years, Yankee Magazine’s Travel Guide to New England has been the most widely distributed and best-selling guide to the six-state region, providing readers with a comprehensive vacation-planning tool and daily reference.
New Life Hiking Spa was chosen as the 2012 Editor’s Choice for “Best Place to Rejuvenate.” New Life Hiking Spa is open each year from mid-May through the end of September and is known as one of the country’s top destination spas. “This is the 35th summer I have been running New Life Hiking Spa in Vermont and I can’t think of a better word to describe what we do than ‘rejuvenating.’ We are honored to have been selected by Yankee Magazine,” said Jimmy LeSage, M.S., the founder and director.
Guests at New Life Hiking Spa experience rejuvenation with an all-inclusive spa vacation. New Life offers mini-getaways of three to four days, healthy “Jump Start” packages of 5-10 days, and an 11 night or longer Weight Loss Retreat. Prices range from $249-$219 per night and include private room with a private bath at the Inn of the Six Mountains, three nutritious meals per day, healthy snacks, guided hikes along the Appalachian Trail and Long Trail (three levels offered per day), yoga classes, fitness classes, water aerobics in a heated indoor pool, cooking demos, healthy eating lectures, and one massage is included for every three night stay.
Yankee Magazine’s May/June 2012 Travel Guide, on newsstands April 24, features 275 “Best of New England – Editors’ Choice” selections, which include the region’s best dining and lodging venues, attractions, adventures, local secrets, and bargains. This special issue also names 120 top events around New England and shares 15 walks – from strolls on Martha’s Vineyard, an inn-to-inn trek in Vermont, and a cliff walk in Maine. Treat yourself and celebrate the season with a rejuvenating hiking spa vacation, fresh summer recipes and feast at the best 12 lobster shacks in our six state region.
New Life Hiking Spa at the Inn of the Six Mountains will also be recommended on YankeeMagazine.com.
About New Life Hiking Spa:
New Life Hiking Spa is a nationally recognized affordable destination spa for men and women located in the beautiful Green Mountains of Vermont since 1978. New Life offers a variety of all-inclusive vacation packages and is known for its exhilarating hiking program, a world renowned weight loss retreat, delicious healthy meals and a comfortable atmosphere. New Life Hiking Spa offers the chance to experience the peace of the outdoors in a down-to-earth, country inn environment and is open each year from mid-May through September in Killington, Vermont.
Approximately 600 guests come each year from around the globe.
In January of 2010 2011, New Life Hiking Spa was selected as one of the top 10 fitness vacations in the world by MSNBC. New Life Hiking Spa was selected by Shape Magazine as “one of the eight best weight loss spas”, and by Health Magazine as “one of four great weight loss spas.” For Six years in a row (2006-2011) New Life has won Best for Going Solo, Best for Hiking, Best for Weight Loss and Best for Affordability by SpaFinder Readers’ Choice Awards. In addition, Jimmy LeSage, M.S. was also voted as one of the top ten Spa Managers in the world in 2011 by SpaFinder Reader’s Choice Awards.
New Life Hiking Spa is open for its 35th summer anniversary from May 17 through September 30, 2012 and is currently taking reservations.
More information can be found online at New Life Hiking Spa’s Website: http://www.newlifehikingspa.com or http://www.WeightLossSpa.com.
About Yankee Magazine:
Yankee Magazine was founded in 1935 and is based in Dublin, New Hampshire. It is the only magazine devoted to New England through its coverage of travel, home, food and features. With a paid circulation of more than 350,000 and a total audience of nearly 2 million, it is published by Yankee Publishing Incorporated (YPI), a family-owned and independent magazine publisher. More information about Yankee: New England’s Magazine is available at: http://www.YankeeMagazine.com
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