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Tucked away on a private road just a few minutes away from the center of Putney, Vermont, HeartSong Health in Community, Inc. offers a full range of primary integral naturopathic medical services and health education in intimate and peaceful surroundings.
 

OUR VISION

We are a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to helping create self-sustaining, inclusive communities where all members enjoy perfect integral health – a dynamic state of physiological, psychological and spiritual resilience that empowers people to adapt and grow, to heal themselves and others, to protect the environment, and to achieve their highest potential.
 

OUR MISSION

Our mission is to promote integral community health in multiple ways by providing physical, mental, emotional, ecological, social, cultural, and spiritual education and medical care, and by creating systems to ensure equal health care access to people of all ages,  professions and abilities, all lifestyles, faiths, and cultural traditions.
 

RELAXED LIVING PROGRAM

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The Relaxed Living program teaches you how to use your body and mind to become more receptive to life, increasing your ability to live without feeling “stressed” or tense. Ayurveda, the ancient traditional medicine of India, and Yoga, its sister science of integral psychology, provide the philosophical foundation.

The programs themselves are free. Anyone wishing to work with Dr. Ani on a personalized stress reduction daily plan using techniques taught in the courses may schedule an individual appointment either before or after each class. The cost of these can be billed to your health insurance, if you so desire.

Practices include, but are not limited to: breath work, focus on the body in movement and in stillness, meditaton, guided imagery, vocalization, deep relaxation, deep listening.
 

HEALTH FOR LIFE PROGRAM

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2010-2011 FALL & WINTER SCHEDULE

• The HeartSong Putney program will be Wednesdays, 7 - 8:15 p.m., August 11 – September 15. For more info, call HeartSong Health In Community at 802-387-2345.
• The Springfield Hospital program will be Mondays 6 – 7:30, September 20 through October 18, with an intro session on August 30.
• The winter Grace Cottage Hospital program will be Mondays 3:30-4:45 November 1- December 6.
• The winter Bellows Falls Health Center program will be Tuesdays 5-6:30 p.m. January 10- February 21.
• Dates for more programs will be released as they are scheduled.
• To register for these courses, you need to contact the hospital or health center where they are being held. You may also email HeartSong at info@heartsonghealth.org.

We look forward to seeing you at any or all of these courses.
 

NEW IN FALL 2010

In addition to these programs, HeartSong is very pleased to announce that we will have programs running throughout the year at the Putney facility, in our new wing Jane’s Place beginning (we hope) in October, 2010.

Each will last six weeks, as our community hospital programs. Days of the week and times when the courses are offered will vary from program to program, to improve accessibility. The schedule for these will be based on the Vedic calendar as follows.

• Hrsikesa:   August/September
• Damodara:   October/November
• Narayana:   December/January
• Govinda:   February/March
• Madhusudana:   April/May
• Vamana:   June/July
   

HEARTSONG'S MEDICAL SERVICES

Office Hours: Monday - Fridays 10-6. Evening and weekend appointments on available upon request. Private insurance (CIGNA, MVP, BS/BC, and others) is accepted, including Medicaid, VHAP, Catamount, and Dr. Dynosaur. A sliding fee scale is available upon request, and bartering is also possible.
 

INTEGRAL NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE

Naturopathy is a holistic system of medicine that integrates Western diagnostics with natural therapeutics (herbology, homeopathy, nutrition, counseling, manual therapies, hydrotherapy) to provide a comprehensive approach to health care. Integral naturopathy recognizes the role of consciousness in healing and offers self-inquiry and mentoring as tools to enhance mental, emotional, and spiritual health. Naturopathic physicians assess a person as a whole, taking into consideration physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of the individual. Integral naturopathic medicine expands the definition of holism to include social, professional, cultural, environmental, economic, ecological, and political dimensions of personal and community life as factors affecting overall health. Natural therapeutics stimulate the innate ability of body, mind, and spirit to self-integrate, self-heal, and self-regulate, leading to optimal health. Lifestyle guidance and access to services and information allow people to create communities where all members enjoy optimal integral health. At HeartSong, wisdom and therapies from a variety of naturopathic traditions, ancient and modern, are integrated to create a comprehensive, effective, and innovative approach to natural medicine.
 

THE WISDOM

Ancient and Modern American Naturopathy

Originating in the traditions of 'nature cure', vitalism, and homeopathy, American naturopathy unites a variety of natural therapeutics -- clinical nutrition (food as medicine), orthmolecular nutrition (vitamins, minerals, pharmaceutical doses of nutrients), hydrotherapy (water therapies), homeopathy, physical medicine (manaul therapies) -- with Western diagnostics, an allopathic pharmacological formulary, and collaboration with medical specialists, to provide a complete approach to primary medical care.

Ayurveda

Originating in India, Ayurveda offers a “science of life that relies upon a unique system of psychobioenergetic diagnosis to individualize natural therapeutics (herbology, nutrition, manual therapies, detoxification, yoga postures, breathwork, energy balancing, sound healing) to heal physical, mental, and spiritual imbalances and enhance longevity.

Yoga 

Sister to Ayurveda, yoga invites the "union" of body with mind and the individual spirit with the divine. Grounded in a sophisticated philosophy and a psychology about how to live life in a balanced way in order to fulfill one’s highest potential, yogic practices are designed to expand consciousness and awaken a connection to the sacred through an active exploration of physical sensation and mental awareness using breath, guided and spontaneous movement, body posturing, meditation, ritual, and chant. 

Classical Homeopathy 

Acting deeply on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels, classical homeopathy rebalances and restores optimal function using energetically potentized remedies to gently stimulate the innate healing ability of body. Selection of remedies made from natural substances is based upon a highly individualized and well documented system of case analysis and interpretation. 

Biological Medicine

Biological medicine combines ancient wisdom from European homeopathy and homotoxicology, anthroposophical medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda, with modern natural therapeutics to improve an individual’s capacity to adapt, self-regulate and regenerate in a constantly changing environment.

Functional Medicine 

Functional medicine intervenes at multiple genetic and epigenetic levels to restore metabolic integrity and vitality using orthomolecular (food, vitamin, mineral supplementation) nutrition and lifestyle guidelines.

Polymorphic Clinical Medicine 

Bloodtype and Genetic Polymorphic Clinical Medicine relies upon blood type and other genetic polymorphisms to develop protocol which address biochemical individuality.

The Enneagram

The Enneagram is an individualized psychospiritual approach to personality that allows people to develop and deepen self-awareness and self-analysis skills as tools to enhance their ability to fully integrate human experience on multiple levels -- physical, mental, emotional, ecological, and spiritual.
 

DIAGNOSTICS

A wide range of clinical, laboratory, and physical diagnostics are used to identify imbalances which predispose an individual to particular health problems, and treatment plans include protocol to promote overall health and longevity, in addition to helping resolve current health issues.
 

THERAPIES:  Ancient and Modern

Craniosacral Therapy  

Craniosacral therapy releases restrictions in membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord to allow improved flow of the fluid protecting and lubricating these organs.  Interacting with allphysiological systems, the free and rhythmic movement of cerebrospinal fluid promotes healing on multiple levels – physical, mental, emotional, spiritual.

Yoga Therapy 

Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy integrates nondirective dialogue and self-reflection with yogic practices to help people “digest” life experiences fully and heal from trauma.

Marma Therapy                            

Originating in India, marma therapy involves the manual stimulation of marma -  junction points in the body between consciousness and matter -- to restore balance between physical matter (the body) and subtle energy (consciousness).

Massage  

Different systems of soft tissue manipulation promote health and wellness by relaxing muscles, relieving pain, stimulating blood and lymphatic circulation, improving toxin elimination, increasing range of motion, releasing constrictions in the body, and realigning  tissue (muscles, fascia, ligaments, tendons).

Shiatsu            

Originating in Japan, shiatsu ("finger pressure") is a form of therapeutic massage that uses gentle pressure to stimulate the flow of energy (chi) through channels (meridians) in the body.