Natural Awakenings Naples and Fort Myers | Healthy Living Healthy Planet

Artistic silhouette with multiple colors bursting

Art’s Embrace: Healing Through Creativity

Art can be a powerful force for healing. Throughout America, art’s redemption takes center stage at hospitals, nursing homes, jails, public spaces and homeless shelters.

Mushroom growing in the wild in forest

Foraged Fungi Fare: Cooking with Wild Mushrooms

Wild mushrooms, particularly foraged fungi that offer a host of nutritional benefits, can infuse exciting new flavors and textures into familiar dishes.

Illustration of yogi sitting in room with plants and candles on yoga mat in seated pose with hands above head

Yoga to Heal Trauma: Soothing Poses Calm the Nervous System

Trauma-informed yoga (also called trauma-sensitive yoga) is a promising therapeutic branch of the yogic system designed to quell the body’s programmed “fight-or-flight” responses.

Artistic silhouette with multiple colors bursting

Art’s Embrace: Healing Through Creativity

Mushroom growing in the wild in forest

Foraged Fungi Fare: Cooking with Wild Mushrooms

Illustration of yogi sitting in room with plants and candles on yoga mat in seated pose with hands above head

Yoga to Heal Trauma: Soothing Poses Calm the Nervous System

Must Reads

In This Issue: September 2021

Healing Arts, Cooking With Wild Mushrooms, Yoga For Trauma and Much More! Read More »

Bounce Back from Stress and Negativity Naturally

It’s difficult not to be impacted by the negative effect of COVID-19. “The mind holds onto stress and negative thoughts because it doesn't know how to process and release extremes and unfamiliar emotions,” advises Michele Durham, founder and owner of the Access Holistic Healing & Hypnosis, in Bonita Springs. Read More »

Smoothies and Super Bowls are a Big, Nutritious Hit

Thanks to the invention of the blender in the 1920s, Julius Freed was able to concoct the first smoothie. Read More »

Fort Myers Laser Dentistry Offers a Holistic Approach

Not every dentist can boast of being a guest on the Today television show. Dr. Gerald Lorino, DMD, of Fort Myers Laser Dentistry, can and along with his wife, Dr. Suzanne Lorino, also a DMD, bring their experience and dentistry skills to Southwest Florida as the new owners of Fort Myers Laser Dentistry. Read More »

Explore the Human Biofield with Healing Touch

Distance healing is the focus of registered nurse Mary Pat FitzGibbons’ upcoming Healing Touch Level I online training beginning on September 30. Students will learn how to use their hands and intention to promote health and healing via the subtle energy fields that exists around and within the body. Read More »

Spa De Larissa

Larissa Smolen, a licensed esthetician with 15 years of experience and owner of Spa De Larissa, in Naples, offers various facials for treating stress, aging skin, and skin problems such as rosacea (pronounced roh-zay-sha). Read More »

Four Pillars of Wellness

Building a wellness plan requires a solid foundation built upon four pillars that are fundamental requirements for health. When practiced, they can bring balance to daily habits. Read More »

Meet Fort Myers Resident Gary Robbins

Retired social groupworker; local and national staff of Planned Parenthood; kitchen and bath designer and entrepreneur; designed and implemented off-site solar panel assembly and transportation system. Read More »

Action Alert!! Proposed State Constitutional Amendments

Current statewide efforts of FL5.org are underway to amend the Florida State Constitution to grant legally recognized rights to Florida’s waterways and the right to clean water to Floridians. Read More »

Stack of copper pots and pans sitting on counter next to spices

Healthy Cookware: How to Choose Non-Toxic Pots and Pans

From classic pots and pans to the latest modern synthetic materials, here are some basic factors to watch for in choosing environmentally sound and chemical-free cookware. Read More »

Brown horse in field with person holding reigns and pressing forehead against horse's snout in a field as part of equine therapy

Horses as Healers: Equine Therapy has Physical and Emotional Benefits

Numerous studies have shown that equine-assisted therapy helps with anger, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and dissociative or other emotional problems. Read More »

Martha Beck on Living with Integrity

Bestselling author and sociologist Martha Beck discusses her new book, The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self. Read More »

Load More Articles

Event Spotlight

World Day of Prayer Events at Unity of Naples

Community

40th Anniversary of Refuge Society Begins Next Month

Publisher Letter

Turn Up the Creativity

News Brief

Free Tips to Lose Stubborn Baby Fat

Health Brief

Couple in kitchen with wife holding plate of healthy food and feeding some to husband

Healthy Choices Mitigate Cognitive Health Reduction

Global Brief

Two people walking side-by-side, one with arm around the other down sidewalk in urban area covered with trees overhead

Wealth Distribution Linked to Urban Canopies

#Support Local

Lotus Blossom Clinic, LLC

Holistic Wellness and Events

Organic Skincare & Bodyworx

Our mission is to create a safe space for clients and staff to breathe, relax and rejuvenate for healthy skin, body, mind & spirit.

House of Gaia

Everwater Charters

Explore the waters of SWFL with a Florida Master Naturalist Captain

Ada's Natural Market

Local*Organic*Fresh

RB Institute, Inc.

View All Businesses