Make Yours a Mindful Holiday Season

This holiday season practice mindfulness, engage with life as an interested and curious observer, without any preformed views or attitudes. Read More »

Functional Medicine: An Important Piece of the Healing Puzzle. Dr. Robert Gilliland’s Patient Care Approach

“Any health practitioner who stays long enough in conventional medicine eventually realizes that in the majority of instances, they aren’t really healing people; they’re only helping them mask symptoms, which return again and again, unless the source of the problem is identified and treated,” explains Gilliland. Read More »

Massage Beats Meds for Back Pain

A new study conducted by the Group Health Research Institute of Seattle suggests that massage therapy may be better than conventional medicine alone for easing lower back pain. Read More »

December Kudos

The Really Really Free Market has entered its third year of connecting our community in Naples to help reduce waste and enhance lives. Read More »

Natural Path to Beauty at Andrea’s in Naples

Natural ways to improve appearance from head-to-toe and escape everyday stress abound at Andrea’s Organic Hair Salon & Spa, in Naples. Read More »

New Stylist Joins Epiphany Salon

Epiphany Salon & Spa, in Naples, recently welcomed Maria Pitonzo to its staff; she worked at an ultramodern organic salon, and offers a unique approach to creating highlights, using boards and recycled newspaper. Read More »

Mystique Lifestyle Patch at The Skinny Pantry

The Skinny Pantry, in Fort Myers, now offers an aid that can meet various health and nutritional needs. Read More »

Great Calusa Blueway Paddling Trail offers iPhone App

The nation’s premier paddling trail now has a free, state-of-the-art smartphone application that users can download to more easily and safely navigate Southwest Florida’s beautiful waterways. Read More »

Local Institute Focuses on Improving Health

With 20 years experience in the field of holistic medicine, the experts at Bonita Springs-based St. Paul’s Holistic Institute (SPHI) of Southwest Florida can help provide answers and solutions for improved health and well-being. Read More »

Trinity Fusion Therapy Offered at Two Locations

Colleen Miller, a licensed massage therapist new to the area, is providing Trinity Fusion therapy that encompasses mind, body and spirit at Anahata Holistic Healing & Spiritual Center and at Trinity Holistic Healing Center (THHC), both in Naples. Read More »

New Bodywrap Treatment at Trim and Tone Spa

Trim and Tone Spa, in North Naples, is now providing the Formostar Infrared Bodywrap. Read More »

Heartland Gardens

In June 2010, Lee County residents Bernard Pino, a registered nurse, and Andrea Guerrero, a landscape architect, began working on a plan to create an educational, not-for-profit corporation, with the mission to teach individuals and families how to reconnect with their food source via gardening. Read More »

December 2011 Letter From The Publisher

Over the years I’ve discovered that the feeling I yearn to capture during the holidays is something I can carry in my heart all through the year. Read More »

Acupuncture Eases Unexplained Symptoms: Local Acupuncture Resources

Whether you seek the services of a licensed acupuncturist or a doctor of oriental medicine to ease the pain and frequency of headaches, muscle pain, extreme fatigue or joint and back pain, you’ll find experienced practitioners here in Southwest Florida. Read More »

Fit & Fuel: Coffee, Bicycles and Conversation

Intended as a gathering place where cycling enthusiasts and coffee connoisseurs could congregate, Fit & Fuel provides indoor and outdoor seating in the front, and professional Body Geometry (BG) bicycle fitting in the back. Read More »

Be Better Prepared for the Slopes: Exercise Tips from Local Pros

Many individuals are surprised to discover how the sport of downhill skiing taxes the body. “Even bodybuilders with ‘tree trunk’ legs can... Read More »

Florida Yards & Neighborhoods Celebrates 10 Years

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Florida Yards and Neighborhoods program in Lee County by learning the nine principles of having a Florida-friendly yard. Read More »

Sports Star Launches Private Massage Practice

Vast personal and professional experience informs the passion and skills of Bernard Sunil Handapangoda in providing the highest quality deep tissue, sports and therapeutic massage therapy. Read More »

New Home Gardening Concept for Patios and Lanais

Today, as we pursue self-sustainability by reducing energy and carbon footprints and making maximum use of living space, we can use lanais, patios or other areas to grow fruits, vegetables, spices, herbs and flowers, using the innovative, Naples-based Victory Patio Gardening concept. Read More »

Access Consciousness Sessions on Marco Island

Angel Lights by Shirley is offering Access Consciousness Bars, a set of dynamic tools and techniques that can provide energetic facelifts and body work, along with other treatments and services, at 317 North Collier Boulevard, Suite 204-C. Read More »

The Marvelous Mulberry

The mulberry tree bears copious amounts of tasty, berrylike fruit, is cold hardy, drought-tolerant and fast growing and requires very little maintenance—making it an ideal investment for both new and seasoned gardeners. Read More »

Alex Day Spa & Salon: Relax and Be Revitalized

No longer just salons or beauty shops that offer hair and nail services or makeup applications, day spas such as Alex Day Spa & Salon, in Naples, now provide complete physical pampering. Read More »

How to Start a New Holiday Gift Giving Tradition

Why not give a gift that demonstrates your heartfelt concern for the receiver as well as for the community in which you live? Read More »