I am presenting Own Your Life with my husband Alex Iglecia in Boston. The dates for the workshop are June 14 and 15, and it will be at The Sports Club/LA in Boston. It should be a fascinating experience exploring our own lives through mind, body, relationships and food. Come and enjoy!

Find your mind!

Explore your body!

Know yourself!

Eat for life!

Own Your Life helps you discover the depth of your own inner wisdom. Alex and Beth have designed and written Own Your Life for it to be about you. That means it is your experience, your learning, your wisdom.

What will Own Your Life do for me?

Do you ever feel stuck in your life?
Do you have fitness, body and health goals?
Do you want to deepen relationships, or just make them work?

It’s experience that will make this possible - experience through raised awareness. You will wake up, take a look, and Own Your Life. It’s really simple, but often we just don’t allow ourselves the time, the moments, and the awareness to find out for ourselves.

Alex and Beth guide the Own Your Life experiences. Get involved or help bring Own Your Life to your community. In the meantime, here are four great tastes of what you can do right now to wake up to your experience of mind, body, relationships and food.

We recently signed up with Boston Community Change so a portion of what I spend on food, consumables, and other necessaries, can be directed more purposefully towards local needs.

Here’s the scoop from their web page:

Boston Community Change is a tool to align our daily economic activities with our deepest human values.  When you shop, the program generates money for local businesses and nonprofits and creates a way for citizen consumers to make conscientious decisions about their spending that will affect how money circulates within their community.

The program is transforming our communities for the better by changing the way we shop, the way we do business, and the way we support the causes we care about.

Sign up today! (if you are in Boston)

The Eat Well Guide is, as its name implies, a guide to eat well wherever you are. Simply type in the zipcode and it will bring up both restaurants, farms and farmers, local co-ops, caterers, and health food stores (though I think this is an oxymoron - food should be healthy in the first place, but that is another story.)

This interview with Beth lasts just about 20 minutes and talks about how to detox, the importance and health benefits of eating locally, and how to liven up your body and energy by getting springy.

Alternately, right-click and save the MP3 interview to your desktop and listen to it later on your IPod.
Beth_Iglecia_Coach_DQ.mp3

This interview is from:
Career Life Balance Radio This Week with Coach DQ
Friday March 14, 2008

Feel Better and Liven Up For Spring
This week’s Guest Speaker: Beth Iglecia, www.holift.net

Beth Iglecia talks about the importance of food quality and how it makes a difference in your health and well being.

Beth is a Holistic Health Counselor and founder of Holift. She has been involved with health and fitness for most of her life and has radically transformed her own health. Her focus is on helping individuals create their best possible lives by looking at nutrition, life balance, emotional well being and the conscious choices we make every moment.

She received her training as a Holistic Health Counselor through Columbia University as well as the Institute of Integrated Nutrition in New York.

Tune in Friday March 14, 2008 at 9am to listen to Beth’s interview with Coach DQ:
http://careerlifebalance.net

Career Life Balance Radio This Week
Friday at 9:20 listen live on WNRI.com

Feel Better and Liven Up For Spring
This week’s Guest Speaker: Beth Iglecia, www.holift.net

Beth Iglecia will talk about the importance of food quality and how it makes a difference in your health and well being.

Beth is a Holistic Health Counselor and founder of Holift. She has been involved with health and fitness for most of her life and has radically transformed her own health. Her focus is on helping individuals create their best possible lives by looking at nutrition, life balance, emotional well being and the conscious choices we make every moment.

She received her training as a Holistic Health Counselor through Columbia University as well as the Institute of Integrated Nutrition in New York.

For more information visit: www.holift.net

Feel, Eat, and Move better when you get Holifit!

Who am I? My name is Beth Turgeon and I provide Holistic Health Counseling services and Yoga training. I also work at Lionette’s because I have a firm belief that our future as a community depends on what and how we eat (plus, they have great food). The holidays can be the cause of many stresses and food-related dilemmas in our lives. In times like these, eating well, organically, healthfully and sustainably is on our minds, but somehow we loose ourselves and only think about the stress, the money, gaining weight, being tired, and worrying about Aunt Martha giving us another pair of socks. How can we enjoy our holidays and still have energy, health and no stress? Eating isn’t the only answer, but it’s foundational! Here’s how you can be so fresh for the holidays people will want to slap you…

1. Eat food that will help your energy level by choosing the freshest, most local food possible.

1. Stress less about cooking with basic planning, simple recipes, and wholesome prepared food.

1. Move more throughout the day, and of course, the cold weather is simply no excuse. Take a class, watch a tape, or just chase your friends or kids!

Holifit works with people for their health, with food, personal training and yoga, and life balance. We also have a wonderful arrangement with Lionette’s: Holifit clients receive 10% discount on anything they offer. Also, all Lionette’s customers receive 20% discount on all Holifit services. Wow! To schedule a free introductory Health Assessment or so simply inquire into how Holifit could help you cultivate energy, vitality and simplicity, contact Beth.

Holifit will be participating in “Girls Night Out” by Wild Women Entrepreneurs on Friday, November 16th in Boston.

Girls Night Out in Boston!

Pamper Yourself While Shopping for the Holidays!

Boston’s most EXCITING holiday shopping event! Come to this FABULOUS evening-filled with endless glamour, beauty, shopping, cocktails, freebies, and FUN….brought to you by TheWildWE.com, 100% guaranteed to be your BEST girl’s night out to get you ready for the Holiday Season.

Date: Friday, November 16th
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Wild WE Boston- 15 Channel Center St. (off of A St.)
General Admission Tickets: $10
Deluxe Goodie Bag* Tickets: $30
(Includes General Admission)
T Stops: South Station or Broadway
Parking: Free in back and $5 parking

Help donate free rice with freerice.com. It’s an amazing website that, through playing an addicting vocabulary game, you get the advertisers to donate 10 grains of rice for each word you define correctly. Check it out today. Below is detailed information from the freerice.com faq page:

Who pays for the donated rice?
The rice is paid for by the advertisers whose names you see on the bottom of your vocabulary screen. This is regular advertising for these companies, but it is also something more. Through their advertising at FreeRice, these companies support both learning (free vocabulary for everyone) and reducing hunger (free rice for the hungry). We commend these companies for their participation at FreeRice.

If FreeRice has the rice to give, why not give it all away right now?
FreeRice is not sitting on a pile of rice?you are earning it 10 grains at a time. Here is how it works. When you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.

Who distributes the donated rice?
The rice is distributed by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). The World Food Program is the world’s largest food aid agency, working with over 1,000 other organizations in over 75 countries. In addition to providing food, the World Food Program helps hungry people to become self-reliant so that they escape hunger for good. Wherever possible, the World Food Program buys food locally to support local farmers and the local economy. We encourage you to visit the United Nations World Food Program to learn more about their successful approach to ending hunger.

Will the rice I donate make a difference?
The rice you donate makes a huge difference to the person who receives it. To a mother or father watching a loved child die in their arms from hunger, the rice you donate is more precious than anything in the world.

What is being done to end world hunger?
There is great progress being made to end world hunger. Many organizations across the globe are involved in this struggle. Each day, hundreds of thousands of ordinary men and women work for these organizations. Through their efforts, millions of impoverished people have food to eat, learn skills and find hope for the future.

What else can I do to help end hunger?
Here are two key things you can do to help end hunger. Both are free and easy to do.

1. Join the One Campaign, where several million people have already joined together “as One” to end hunger and severe poverty. If enough people join, dreams for a better world can be made into reality very quickly.
2. The United Nations estimates that the cost to end hunger permanently is about $195 billion a year. Twenty-two countries have joined together to raise this money by each contributing 0.7% (less than 1%) of national income. You can read about it here and print a letter to support your country’s participation here.

Where can I learn more about hunger?
One last important thing you can do to help end hunger is to become knowledgeable about it. A good way to do this is to visit our sister site Poverty.com (designed so that busy people can learn quickly about hunger and poverty) or one of the many excellent sites listed here. We believe that when enough people around the world become knowledgeable about hunger, it will no longer be tolerated.

Special Event in Boston:
Tuesday, October 30, 7pm
at the Lucy Parsons Center

Please join a panel of local folks involved in local and sustainable food for a discussion on the true costs of food and if/how everyone in Boston will be able to afford to eat locally and sustainably.

Jamey Lionette of Lionette’s Market, South End Boston.
A for-profit market focusing on local clean and sustainable food. Jamey is a contributor to Mani­festos on the Future of Food & Seed .

Adrieanna Bozeman & Kettia Louis , Real Food Interns, Food Project: Creating Personal and Social Change through Sustainable Agriculture.
The Food Project serves as a national model for engaging young people in local farming. With the help of hundreds of youth and thousands of volunteers, The Food Project grows nearly a quarter-million pounds of food each year on over 35 acres in rural and urban fields in Eastern Massachusetts, donating half to area shelters. Since 1991, The Food Project has offered more than 750 teenagers from diverse backgrounds the opportunity to work side-by-side on local farms with the goal of building a community of future leaders who care about healthy food, respect diversity and become true stewards of the land.

Matthew Kochka , Urban Farm Manager of ReVision Urban Farm in Dorchester , MA
ReVision Urban Farm is an organic micro-farm whose guiding vision is environmentally, eco­nomically, and socially sustainable urban agriculture. The farm grows a wide variety of food crops on three reclaimed urban lots totaling one-acre of growing space. The farm enhances the delivery of nutrition services throughout our community and increases local awareness of the social, environmental, and economic benefits of sustainable urban agriculture.

Jean Claude Bourrut of the Share Our Strength farm on Boston ’s Long Island
The Farm at Long Island Shelter is a 4-acre organic vegetable, flower and herb farm located in Boston Harbor produces nearly 30,000 pounds of high quality, first harvest produce for the over 850 homeless individuals we serve each day. The Northeast Organic Farming Association certifies the Farm organic and recognizes it as using environmentally sound and sustainable agricultural practices.

Hello!

Have you seen yourself lately? So many things occupy our lives everyday, career, significant others, children, family, bills, friends, holidays, errands, working out, eating well, energy, or lack of, environment, community, vacations AND sleep. Where do you fit in? How can we continue to manage everything on a daily basis and still have time to feel good ourselves, to know ourselves, to live life with love and energy?

Beth Turgeon is launching http://www.holifit.net to help people integrate health, balance, nutrition and yoga.

If you are interested in a free introductory session, confidential, with no obligation, or if you know someone else who would benefit, read through my website and contact me today.

Holifit is available in person or over the phone. We offer referral discounts.
Holift will also be a resource for companies and community workshops and trainings.

Thank you very much!
Beth Turgeon
Holifit.net