Natural Awakenings Northwest Florida - May 2017 Read the May 2017 edition of Natural Awakenings Northwest Florida. Belly to Cradle Offers Comprehensive Birth Care Amber Roman, a doula who has provided birth care in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties since 2011, has expanded her one-woman company, Belly to Cradle, to include the services of three more doulas. Read More » Bridgeway Institute Offers Fresh Hope for Addiction A number of clinics in the United States are using Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, or NAD, a naturally occurring co-enzyme found in all living cells, to treat disorders ranging from chronic fatigue and neurodegenerative disease to anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Read More » Manifest Offers Natural Prescription Plus Inspiration for Better Health People who come to Manifest Mind Body Medicine seeking a natural, integrative approach to better health won't just find expert guidance in Lori Poelstra, M.D.—they'll also find a source of personal inspiration. Read More » Nutrition Delivered - Placenta Being Used to Ward Off Postpartum Depression The emotional crash some women experience after childbirth used to be dismissed as the “baby blues.” Now postpartum depression is recognized as a sometime debilitating mental health disorder likely connected to a sudden drop in hormone levels. Read More » Ric Kindle Brings LIVE! to Pensacola LIVE! Juice Bar and More!—a multidimensional venue with an all-raw menu and juice bar; stages for musicians, poets and other performers; and a space for local artists to display their work—is set to open August 25. Read More » Mothers and Daughters Invited to June Yoga Retreat Kim Mosby of Sunshine Yoga and Kristy Souto of Yoga Junkie Studios and their daughters are inviting other mother-daughter teams to join them on a special yoga retreat June 9 to 11 at Adventures Unlimited in Milton. Read More » Women’s Mini-Retreat Set for Mother’s Day Weekend Nourish, a women’s mini-retreat featuring yoga classes, satsang, special meals and self-care activities, will be held at Navarre Living Yoga on Mother’s Day Weekend, May 12 through 14. Read More » Little Black Dress Party Helps Women in Need The eighth annual Little Black Dress Party, an evening dedicated to celebrating good health and raising funds for local women in need, will be held May 20 at the Sandestin Linkside Center. Read More » Festival-Tournament Targets Invasive Lionfish The annual Lionfish Removal & Awareness Day—a family-friendly combination of festival and tournament, with activities for divers and landlubbers alike—will be held May 20 and 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Plaza De Luna in Pensacola. Read More » Project Birth Center Pensacola Promotes Maternal Choices The Global Big Latch On, a worldwide, coordinated event in which women gather to normalize breastfeeding by nursing their babies en masse in the supportive company of family, friends and community, will be taking place August 5. Read More » Iron Man Triathalon Set for May 13 in PCB Ironman 70.3 Gulf Coast—a grueling 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bicycle ride and marathon-length (26.2-mile) run—will take place May 13, at Panama City Beach. Read More » Hands Across the Sand Protests Oil Drilling Hands Across the Sand—an international movement protesting invasive and damaging energy industry practices such as offshore and deep-water drilling—will come to Pensacola Beach and Santa Rosa Beach, among other coastal communities worldwide, on May 20. Read More » Longtime Bodyworker Brings Rolfing Back to Pensacola Sharalee Hoelscher, the Pensacola area’s only certified Rolfer, has returned to work after a year on sabbatical. Rolfing is a specialized physical rehabilitation technique designed to eliminate the source of pain and movement restrictions. Read More » Honoring the Women Who Continue to Better our World The current popularity of female characters like Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games and Princess Merida in Brave—strong women who refuse ... Read More » In-Print