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benefit New Wellness Center opens South African AIDS orphans benefit KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Neale Donald Walsch, well-known author of the Conversations With God books, will speak at a benefit event at Unity Temple on the Plaza on March 20. Greg Tamblyn, local musician, will be the host for the evening, sharing his delightful humor and original songs. The Children's Dance Theater of City in Motion will dance a South African number. A silent auction and reception opens at 5 p.m. Funds raised by this event will go to the Novalis Orphan Care Project to help build children's villages for some of the hundreds of thousands of children who have been orphaned or abandoned as a result of the AIDS pandemic. The Light Center in Baldwin, Kan., has been selected to train volunteers to go to South Africa to assist in the orphan care project. Two leaders from The Light Center who have traveled to South Africa this year will share photos to share at the benefit event. The Unity center in Johannesburg will create a children's home in Soweto, and Unity centers throughout the greater Kansas City area are joining together to support this exciting project. To become involved as a volunteer to help with the benefit, or for ticket information, call The Light Center at (785) 255-4583. New Wellness Center opens GLADSTONE, Mo. --The Midwest Institute of Bodywork and Somatic Therapy has announced the opening of the Wellness Center -- a clinic where anyone may receive the healing benefits of structural bodywork, provided by advanced students who are studying to become Certified Body Somatic Practitioners. The Center is located at 7711 N. Oak in Gladstone. Structural bodywork is the manipulation of the body's deep connective tissue that surrounds every muscle. This type of bodywork eliminates pain, increases energy, flexibility and mobility, and heals the body. According to Carmelita Davis-Beets, founder and president of the Midwest Institute of Bodywork and Somatic Therapy, the Wellness Center is something the school has been working toward for some time. "Many schools of higher education that teach alternative healing techniques create this type of clinic, where the services are offered at a reduced rate," Davis-Beets said. "The students providing the structural body work have gone through hundreds of hours of training and are approaching graduation, and they will be supervised by instructors as they work on patients at the Wellness Center." The fee for bodywork at the Wellness Center is $25 per hour for those under age 55, and $10 per hour for those ages 55 and older. The Center will see patients by appointment only, and morning, afternoon, and evening appointments are available. For more information or to schedule an appointment, call the Wellness Center at (816) 436-9696. The Midwest Institute of Bodywork and Somatic Therapy is located at 5518 N. Antioch Road in Kansas City. The school is certified by the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education. For more information about the school, visit www.body-somatics.com or call (816) 453-3577. |
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