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SASTUN CENTER

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10875 Grandview Building 22, Suite 2200 Overland Park, KS 66210 P (913) 345-0060 F (913) 345-0090 www.sastuncenter.com

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Spring is in the Air

9 Tips to Spring Clean your Health

Feel the NEW ENERGY of Spring

Commit to CLEANSING YOUR LIFE and your home - think Purification

Update or begin an EXERCISE program

Enjoy NATURE'S BOUNTY - fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables at their organic best

SPROUTS are likely the highest quality and most vital foods we can eat in that they contain high amounts of many vitamins, minerals, and amino acids

NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS can support you with a greater amount of physical energy, enhancing your Spring and Summer activities

Many HERBS are useful during the spring season because they aid detoxification

Use the spring months to CLARIFY YOUR PLANS and deepen the potential spiritual awakening or progress

Above all, give yourself the time to truly experience NATURE

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Sastun Center Practitioners Jane Murray, MD, ABFM, ABIHM Family Physician Functional & Integrative Medicine Cindy Chamberlain, DiplAC, DiplCH Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine Mehdi Khosh, ND Naturopathic Medicine Tammy Coder Mikinski, PhD Counseling Psychology William Hale, MD Psychiatry & Mind-Body Medicine Virginia Owens, PhD Psychology Barbara Bridges, ARNP, EdD Nurse Practitioner Toni Forsyth, MS, ARNP Nurse Practitioner Art Kent Massage & Craniosacral Therapy Claudia Cardin-Kleffner, OTR, RYT Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapist Deena Beneda, ND Naturopathic Medicine Karen Ialapi, RD, LD, CDE Nutrition Coach

Tired of feeling crummy?

Achy joints or muscles, brain fog, fatigue, headaches,

allergies or gas, autoimmune diseases, migraines,

asthma, acne, irritable bowel, reflux, arthritis?

Consider a scientifically designed medical detox from

sugar based on Dr. Mark Hyman's book "The Blood Sugar

Solution: 10 Day Detox Diet Activate Your Body's Natural

Ability to Burn Fat and Lose Weight Fast.

For $195.00 you’ll get Dr. Mark Hyman’s book, recommended

supplements, kick-off meeting, and support through your sugar

detox.

But more importantly you’ll most likely:

Feel better

Lose weight

Decrease cravings

Eliminate food sensitivities

Recharge

Become more motivated!!

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 6:00 pm

Building 22, Suite 2200, 18075 Grandview Drive,

Overland Park, KS 66210

Contact us at 913-345-0060 or sugardetoxtoday@gmail.com

10-Day Sugar Detox

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Comprehensive Women’s & Men’s Evaluations

For New Patients Only

This package is designed for men and women of any age, but especially those from 40-70 experiencing hormonal imbalance. This set of visits and evaluations will address hormone balance: Ovarian (women), testicular (men), adrenal and thyroid, as well as evaluating diet, activity level, body fat mass, bone density, cellular health, mood and stressors.

This program involves a complete physical and metabolic assessment and 4 visits with Sastun practitioners over 6-8 weeks.

Visit 1 with Barbara Bridges, EdD, ARNP – Nurse Practitioner:

This visit will include an examination, assessment and a pap smear (unless you have had one within the last 12 months in which case you will need to provide a copy of the pap smear report for our records at this meeting, pathology charge is separate.)

The following labs will be done in preparation for your next visit: • Thyroid Stimulating Hormone • Complete Blood Count • Free T3 • Diurnal Cortisol levels, saliva (test for adrenal function) • Free T4 • Hormone Levels, (either by saliva or blood, TBD at visit) • Reverse T3 • Bone Density (DEXA) – unless current within 1 year • Vitamin D • Body Composition Scan – assesses fat mass and BMI • Lipid Profile, fasting • Bioimpedence Analysis (BIA) – assesses cellular health • Complete Metabolic Profile • Occult Blood • PSA

Visit 2 (2 weeks after Visit 1) with Deena Beneda, ND – Naturopathic Doctor:

This visit will last for one hour to review lifestyle and nutrition issues, any lab results that are available and discuss goals for care, start medicinal plants, supplements and lifestyle changes as indicated.

Visit 3 (2 weeks after Visit 2) with Jane Murray, MD – Medical Director:

This visit will last for one half hour. At this visit all labs and studies will be reviewed. Forms and assessments will be discussed and hormone options will be started, if indicated.

Visit 4 (3 weeks after visit 3) with Deena Beneda, ND – Naturopathic Doctor:

This visit will last for one half hour to review progress toward goals, answer questions and provide additional recommendations.

Total cost for this package, not including recommended supplements, additional testing and/or

follow-up visits is $1,500.00

We will provide the appropriate forms for you to submit to your health insurance plan, if applicable.

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Spring Special Discounted Body Contouring Program

GET READY FOR SUMMER NOW!!

Combine our proven lifestyle management program with visible fat reduction using Zerona Non-Invasive Body Contouring.

Using the only FDA approved low-level laser technology, Zerona punctures and shrinks fat cells in the abdomen, buttocks, thighs and back. Average loss is 1 inch around the waist, 1.5 inches around the hips and 1 inch around each thigh in 6 sessions (2 weeks) of non-invasive, no pain, no surgery, no bruising laser treatment.

BUT to sustain this fat reduction, you must exercise and eat in ways that lower fat and body mass, or the inches will come right back! That is where our First Line Therapy © (FLT) therapeutic lifestyle program can help. This is a proven program to permanently change body fat mass and metabolic changes that accompany elevated cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure and abdominal fat.

SPRING SPECIAL Package costs (30% OFF USUAL FEES):

Lifestyle consultation (initial and one follow up session) plus 6 forty-minute laser body contouring sessions - $800.00

Complete 12-week FLT lifestyle program (initial consultation plus 4 to 5 follow up sessions,

baseline and follow up body fat documentation, baseline and follow up metabolic lab tests) plus 6 forty minute laser body contouring sessions - $1,200.00

6 laser body contouring sessions if you already taken our Healthy For Life or FLT therapeutic lifestyle program - $500.00

Your health and your body are worth it!!

Call 913-345-0600 today to schedule a consultation and begin your Zerona Body Contouring program.

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Sunlighten® mPulse Infrared Sauna

Is available at Sastun Center Infrared sauna generates a sweat that is 7 times more detoxifying than a traditional sauna. Thirty minutes of infrared sauna can burn up to 600 calories, so it can promote weight loss, besides just sweat/water loss. It can also mildly reduce blood pressure and improves skin appearance through the opening of pores via deeper sweating than a conventional sauna. Sweating is one important pathway for helping the body rid itself of toxins.

Infrared sauna can be an important part of treatment for the following conditions, and many more:

Excess mycotoxins in the body

Lyme and other rickettsial infections

Cellular toxins from pesticides and other chemical exposures

Detoxification programs from heavy metal exposures, food sensitivities, etc

Fibromyalgia and muscle pain

Infrared heat is used to warm premature babies, so it is extremely safe. It can be useful for people with fibromyalgia and other types of muscle pain to warm and relax the muscle tissue. It also helps relieve pain from arthritis and neck and back problems. It promotes detoxification of body wastes through sweating by gently heating the body from within rather than outside of the body.

New Fee Schedule

Single 30-minute session - $25.00

Package of five (5) 30-minute sessions - $100.00

Please call the Sastun Center at (913) 345-0060 today for more information or to schedule your appointment.

(You do not have to be a patient to utilize our infrared sauna!)

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Bhutanese Refugees Struggling with Depression Find Relief in Yoga

It’s always a struggle to resettle in a new country, but for Bhutanese refugees, the challenge has been especially difficult. Bhutan, a largely Buddhist country, is known for having creating a ‘national happiness index,’ but it has also forced out many of its ethnically Nepali, mostly Hindu, population. Since arriving in the United States, many of these refugees have suffered serious mental health issues.

Making the rounds at a public housing complex in Kansas City, Kansas, community health worker Rinzin Wangmo is greeted by cheery voices and faces. As she enters a home, the heavy aroma of chopped onions burns her nose, and she hurries up a short flight of stairs to escape the sting. After gently knocking on a door, she walks in to meet with a woman who’s bedridden with pain. The woman’s condition is not unusual among Bhutanese refugees, says Dr. Joe LeMaster, a University of Kansas professor who worked for a decade in the Himalayas. “They went through quite a lot,” he says, “and that has had its mark on them.”

For hundreds of years, Nepali people lived and worked in southern Bhutan. But in the early 1990s, a government campaign of harassment and what Human Rights Watch described as ‘ethnic cleansing’ led tens of thousands of Nepalis to flee to refugee camps in Nepal. In 2006, the United States offered to resettle some of the refugees, and since then over 75,000 have arrived in cities like Philadelphia, Denver and Kansas City.

Jenga Chhetri was twenty-three when he convinced his family to resettle in the U.S. nearly three years ago. But not long after they arrived, his parents told him moving here was a mistake.

“At the time, my parents, they blamed me,” says Chhetri.

Many Bhutanese refugees have had trouble adapting to life in the U.S. As the organizer of a Bhutanese health outreach program, Dr. LeMaster says he’s seen lots of suffering among his patients. “Within a month of getting here, somebody committed suicide, and we began to be become aware that the risk of suicide in the Bhutanese refugees is about three times the risk in other refugee groups,” he says.

A report released earlier this year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the acute problems of suicide, anxiety and depression among Bhutanese refugees throughout the U.S, though the causes are still unclear. The CDC says the problems may be related to social isolation, substance abuse, or trauma from torture they endured in Bhutan.

LeMaster and his team tried to address the refugees’ mental health problems, but they found that the cultural stigma associated with the very idea of mental illness made the work nearly impossible. “They were then telling us what we feel is not stress so much; we feel pain,” he says.

Testing showed no underlying medical reasons for their chronic pain, and standard treatments, including physical therapy, pain killers and psychiatric drugs didn’t help. Despite what the refugees told him, LeMaster believed the pain was related to stress, and he decided to explore what alternative treatment methods interested the refugees.

The team tried art therapy, dance therapy, and tai chi. Some of the refugees, originally from rural areas, said they missed being around cows, so LeMaster’s team tried taking them on trips to a petting zoo, with some success. They finally landed on a treatment that showed the greatest promise: yoga.

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Yoga therapist Claudia Cardin-Kleffner specializes in working with people who have chronic health conditions, but she’d never seen a class like the one Dr. LeMaster brought to her -- one made up of middle-aged to older Bhutanese women refugees. “I could not even begin to understand what was going on with these people because they couldn’t breathe,” Cardin-Kleffner recalls. The women were stiff and withdrawn. Many wouldn’t make eye contact.

Yoga has a long history in the Himalayas, and in Nepal in particular. Though most of the refugees were Hindus who had some understanding of yoga, they had little actual experience with it.

“Just getting them to move their arms was really difficult,” Cardin-Kleffner recalls. The women at first didn’t understand why they should do the movements, and learning how to do them was also difficult.

Among the class members was Jenga Chhetri’s mother, Ratna. Jenga translates for her: “I had back pain and leg pain. But right now, that’s not happening in my body.”

Dr. LeMaster says that earlier in his career, he would have been hesitant to prescribe yoga, and he was surprised by the program’s success. The women’s levels of pain on a standard pain index dropped dramatically. Beyond that, the participants showed major improvements on standard measures of anxiety, depression and acculturation.

Recent studies have shown how yoga helps the brain, heart and nervous system. But why did it work when physical therapy and medications did not?

That’s something LeMaster’s still trying to understand, but the answer may have to do with cultural familiarity. “What we did notice is that the concepts resonated with what their basic resonated Hindu worldview was. So there was nothing in it that jarred them,” he says.

There hasn’t been a suicide among the Kansas City refugees since LeMaster instituted the program. And while LeMaste can’t say for certain that yoga has saved lives, he thinks it could be used to help struggling Bhutanese in other cities.

Now he’s studying how yoga and other culturally-based practices could be used to help additional immigrant groups.

Alex Smith is a reporter for Heartland Health Monitor, a reporting collaboration on health issues based at KCUR in Kansas City, Mo. Heartland Health Monitor website: http://kcur.org/ Bhutanese Refugee Radio Story: http://soundmedicine.org/

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Special Sastun Lunch & Learn

There’s No Trying in Meditation

Dean Sluyter, author of

Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice

Special Sastun Lunch & Learn

Friday, May 15, 2015, from 12:00pm until 1:15pm

ONLY $20.00 including a copy of Dean’s book and a light lunch

“But I’ve tried to meditate, and it was hard!” Actually, if you’ve tried to meditate, that’s why it was hard.

Just as water flows naturally downhill, just as leaves float naturally to the ground, our attention settles naturally into the silence at the center of our being – if we just let it. It’s not a matter of trying or doing, but being. With just a little guidance, it’s easy to get into the groove of natural, effortless meditation and establish a regular daily practice that can b ring greater peace and clarity to every aspect of your life.

Dean Sluyter has taught natural meditation throughout the United States for over 40 years in venues ranging from Ivy League colleges to maximum security prisons. The author of four books and a blogger for The Huffington Post, he has studied and practiced deeply in several traditions, including Vajrayana Buddhism, Bhakti Yoga and Advairta Vedanta, and has completed numerous long retreats and pilgrimages in the U.S., Europe, India, Nepal and Tibet. Known for the clarity, warmth and humor of his presentations, Dean is dedicated to sharing authentic, traditional meditative techniques in practical, accessible form. More information at www.naturalmeditation.us.

“You’re not in for one hand clapping with Dean Sluyter…Rather, it’s both hands clapping for joy.”

Call Sastun at (913) 345-0060 to reserve your spot today!

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HeartMath Resilience Training Workshops

Become more effective personally and professionally by building your resilience to the daily challenges and stressors that so many of us face in a world of accelerated pace and change.

Resilience Advantage training provides practical and evidence-based information on the tremendous energy generated by the heart as well as easy methods to tune into it, and tools to monitor it. This results in increased synchronization between heart and brain, also called entrainment, so mental processing is improved while stress is decreased.

When this type of entrainment occurs between the body’s two primary power centers, the heart and the brain, people have experienced improvements in:

Vitality

Overall well-being

Relationships

Response time

Clear thinking under pressure

The Resilience Advantage program was created by the Institute of HeartMath, which has both conducted and synthesized decades of medical and scientific research. The program has been used in medical, military, law enforcement and corporate settings, as well as by individuals across the United States.

FACILITATOR: Ace Wagner, certified HeartMath trainer and certified life coach

PRICE: $125 for both workshops (includes take-away booklet for daily use)

CONTACT: Kathy Pemberton at go2pem@hotmail.com for reservations and additional information or call 816-506-4466.

Space is limited to approximately 20 participants to allow for questions and feedback.

Light snacks and bottled water provided

Tuesday, May 5th and May 12th 6pm to 8pm Sastun Center

10875 Grandview, Suite 2200 Overland Park, KS 66210

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Healthy Spring Recipes

No Sugar No Gluten Brownies

Ingredients: 1/3 Cup Cocoa powder 1 tsp lecithin 3/4 C Oat Flour 2 T Coconut oil 3/4 White Sweet Sorghum flour 1/2 Cup Raw Honey 1/4 Coconut flour 1/3 Cup applesauce 2 Tbl Flax meal 2 Eggs (or Egg substitute) 1 Tsp Baking Powder 1/4 Cup warm water 2 tsp Vanilla Optional - 1/4 Cup Choc Chips, Nuts Directions: Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix dry Non Gluten ingredients. Add and mix wet ingredients. The batter should be stiffer than cake batter (if too stiff add applesauce). Bake until brownies begin to pull apart from sides of pan (27 minutes, turning pan at 15 minutes). Double for 9 x11, triple for 11 x 17 pans

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookies

These cookies are gluten, dairy, corn, soy and egg free. The original recipe is from Oprah.com

Ingredients:

2 cups Bob’s Red Mill gluten-free baking flour 1 cup of coconut oil 6 Tbsp. applesauce 1 tsp. salt 2 Tbsp. pure vanilla extract 1 ¼ cups brown sugar 1 tsp. baking soda 1 ½ tsp. xanthan gum 1 cup chocolate chips Directions: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. In medium bowl, mix together the oil, applesauce, salt, vanilla and brown sugar. In another medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and xanthan gum. Using a rubber spatula, carefully add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and stir until grainy dough is formed. Gently fold in the chocolate chips just until they are evenly distributed throughout the dough. Using a melon baller, scoop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, spacing the portions 1-inch apart. Bake the cookies on the center rack for 12 to 15 minute, rotating the sheets 180 degrees after 9 minutes. Let the cookies stand for 10 minutes.

Makes 36 cookies.

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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction

Now in 9th Year at Sastun Center!

No Fee Introductory Session on May 16, 2015, 11am-12:30pm

There is an awful lot of media buzz about mindfulness these days, much more so than 9 years ago when

MBSR was first offered at Sastun! The buzz was there, but it was more of a hum back then and hadn’t yet

reached the sonorous roar of today. In recent months, mindfulness has been featured on the cover of

Time Magazine, Scientific American and on 60 Minutes. Mindfulness continues to be evermore well

received into of the self-care and complementary health care worlds. Plus, the mindfulness movement is

growing in every sector of society from western medicine to education to politics, the workplace, sports and the military.

This “mindful revolution”, as coined by Time Magazine, has actually been growing slowly since 1979 when

Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD, molecular biologist from MIT started the Stress Reduction Clinic at UMass Medical

School and created the MBSR program. As scientific research began to measure and validate beneficial program outcomes, mindfulness established its rightful place on the map.

The number of published research articles documenting the clinical efficacy of MBSR has grown

exponentially over the last years and the research is itself has become more rigorous and compelling

through the years. Advances in neuroscience, neuroplasticity and medical imaging have also contributed greatly to substantiating the myriad benefits of practicing mindfulness.

Mindfulness is present moment non-judgmental awareness, an intentional, deliberate way of paying

attention to your life. Sounds s pretty simple, right? It is simple and any one can do it but it is not always

easy and it takes practice. Motivation, some degree of commitment and discipline are necessary. Along

with an experienced, well-trained teacher, these factors work interdependently toward establishing a strong foundation of mindfulness in one’s life.

Fortunately, mindfulness is not something that you have to “get” or acquire. It is already within you — a

deep internal resource available and patiently waiting to be released and cultivated in service of your own learning, growing, healing and truly waking up to your life.

What you can expect in this course:

Experiential learning of a variety of mindful awareness practices Support in establishing a regular practice. Training the constantly thinking mind to experience more stillness Weekly learning and practice of different aspects of mindfulness as part of integrating it into

one’s life. Weekly schedule of practice Observing your thoughts, feeling, sensations Facilitated (guided) meditations Learn to “re-perceive what you encounter in daily experience

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Learn Mind-Body Awareness - There is no separation between mind and body. Each

moment there is instantaneous communication between every part of the body. What happens in the body influences the mind (thoughts and emotions). In turn thoughts and

emotions affect the body.

Come Home to Your Body – learn how to become more grounded and centered in your body and how this can help to stabilize your mind. Learn more

appreciation and acceptance of the body as it is.

Breath Awareness - Being aware of the immediate effect that the breath has on the

functioning of the mind and the body is a powerful tool to incorporate into our lives. Using the breath well can bring balance to the nervous system and hence to the rest of

the body.

Stress Release - Stress is inherent in living and the body's systems are finely tuned to deal with stress. Too much stress can overload body systems and when this occurs the

potential for illness increases and aging accelerates. Understanding the nature of stress and how to relate to it effectively is an important tool for living well.

Power of The Group - Humans are community beings. When we feel connected to a group of individuals or to a community that shares and reinforces positive attributes our

health is enhanced.

Connectedness - Being of service to others acknowledges that we all share this world and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of all. When you share in

and experience the interconnectedness of all beings your health is enhanced. Our

service serves us as well as others.

Being Intentional - Our thinking processes influence our physiology and hence our health. This knowledge reminds us to be aware of what we are thinking and to chart our

direction consciously. Action then follows with greater ease and clarity.

Whether dealing with anxiety, depression, headaches or fibromyalgia, chronic pain,

heart disease or cancer, mindfulness can be of tremendous benefit.

Participants are sent by their doctors, therapists or they are self-referred. Some are drawn to participate because things just don’t’ feel “quite right” or they simply wish to take a more proactive role in their own health and well-being.

The next free introductory session will be held on Sat., May 16th, 11am – 12:30pm, advance registration is required.

Formal 8 week courses begin in late May. Please visit mindfulness-matters.com to reserve your space or for further course details and contact information.

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FREE Resource for Chronic Pain

Learn to manage Your Pain Before It Manages You Wednesdays, Noon – 1:00 p.m. Starting January 28 Location: Spine Center Conference Room at The University of Kansas Hospital 3901 Rainbow Blvd., Kansas City, KS 66160 For all people living with chronic pain. Weekly Topics:

Why Me – Why Do I Hurt

Managing the Emotions of Living with Pain

The Role of Hope

Overview of Pain Management Strategies

Functional Restoration

Chair Yoga

Inflammation and Pain – Foods That Can Actually Make You Hurt

Guided Imagery

T’ai Chi (Topics repeated in cycle, so you can begin at any time)