Monday, February 24, 2014

Celebrating Five Years: Anniversary Party March 20!


The Arlington/Alexandria chapter of Holistic Moms Network is thrilled to be celebrating five years of community in 2014! It's time for a party!

Please join us Thursday, March 20, 6-9 p.m. at Fairlington United Methodist Church, 3900 King Street, Alexandria, Virginia for what promises to be a great night of celebration, connection, and community.

We'll have refreshments for everyone and crafts for the kids, plus family yoga and entertainment.

Many of our past speakers will be on hand to chat and share information in a mini holistic living expo.

There will be lots of raffle prizes and items for bid in a silent auction (cash or check only). We will also have goodie bags with additional discounts and fun stuff.

Auction proceeds will go toward chapter expenses and also be donated to the Helping Moms in Need program, which sponsors HMN memberships for low-income families across the country.

This event starts at 6:00, an hour earlier than our usual meetings, to make it easier for children to join in the fun!

Schedule:
6:00: Doors open. Holistic Living Expo opens and silent auction bidding starts.
6:15: Family yoga with Sylvia of Lil Omm
6:45-7:15: Music by singer-songwriter Marsha Goodman-Wood
7:15: Announcements & thanks, followed by socializing, networking, food, & crafts
8:00: Silent auction closes. Raffle winners announced
Purchases of silent auction items (cash or check only), more socializing and networking
9:00 Event concludes

Exhibit area will include the following businesses:


Acupuncture in Del Ray, Alexandria Wellness Center, Apurva Wellness Center
Arlingtonians for a Clean Environment, Big Green Purse, Body Connect Health & Wellness, Center for Natural Cures, Cornerstone Chiropractic, Coach Scott Fox (EFT Practitioner, Everyday Health and Wellness, Freedom Wellness Global, Grow Your Health Festival 2014, Health Builders, Healthy Self, LLC, Holistic Intuition, Lil Omm Yoga, My Whole Self, Neck Back and Beyond, Power of Movement, Pure Living, LLC, SleepWell Sleep Solutions, Steinmetz Center for Integrative Medicine, Sun & Moon Yoga, Teal Center for Therapeutic Body Work, TRUE Health and Wholeness, Whole Dental Health Center


MOM's Organic Market of Alexandria is providing a major portion of the refreshments. Thanks, MOM's!

Thank you to all of our donors! Come see what great offerings they've made for the silent auction and raffle
The Teal Center for Therapeutic Bodywork Harris Whole Health
TRUE Health and Wholeness
lil omm yoga
Sleep Well Solutions
Northern Virginia Midwifery
Marybeth Walsh of My Whole Self
Steinmetz Center for Integrative Medicine
MtoM Consulting
The Gellar Law Group
The Center for Natural Cures
Whole Health Dental Center
Acupuncture Alexandria
Silver Diner
Elevation Burger Arlington
Mind Your Body Oasis
House of Steep
Live Well with Liz
Divine Mama Bars
MTO Kombucha
Nourish Market
revel birth services
Maryland Institute of Integrative Health
Local Motion Studio
St. Elmo's Coffee Pub
Encore Stage & Studio
Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed
Momme Meals
Mindful Healthy Life of Metro DC 
Dr. Cindy Durakis at The Healing Tree
Honest Soul Yoga
Jan Watkins Counseling
Dr. Margaret Gennaro
Neck Back & Beyond
Solar Publishing
Holistic Intuition
Big Green Purse
Whole Foods Market Arlington
Richard Fischer, DDS
HealthBuilders
Sally DiCesare of Your Blissful Journey
Apurva Ayurvedic Healing
Alexis Knox NYR Organic 
Love & Carrots
Cornerstone Chiropractic
Body Connect Health & Wellness
MOM's Organic Market  

Plan Your Garden!

Thanks to Guy Kilpatric, director of horticulture at Love & Carrots for sharing his organic gardening wisdom with us at our February meeting. We talked about soil, sun, and seed and had a great conversation about how to involve children in gardening.
 
 



We're working on scheduling a Moms Night Out on the topic of chores and shared household responsibilities which can also address integrating gardening into home life.



Guy also sounded open to an on-site follow-up mini-meeting, perhaps in summer when he point things out during full bloom.
To learn more about member-only events in addition to the public monthly meetings, join our chapter at http://membership.holisticmoms.org/