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A Healthy Start for a New Year

Complementary & Integrative Health Therapies

2025-01-25 10:15:00 2025-01-25 15:00:00 America/New_York A Healthy Start for a New Year Explore evidence based alternative therapies for healing, relaxation, and self-care. Main Library - Atrium, Auditorium, Meeting Room 1, Meeting Room 2AB, Meeting Room 3

Saturday, January 25
10:15am - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-01-25 10:15:00 2025-01-25 15:00:00 America/New_York A Healthy Start for a New Year Explore evidence based alternative therapies for healing, relaxation, and self-care. Main Library - Atrium, Auditorium, Meeting Room 1, Meeting Room 2AB, Meeting Room 3

Main Library

Atrium, Auditorium, Meeting Room 1, Meeting Room 2AB, Meeting Room 3

Explore evidence based alternative therapies for healing, relaxation, and self-care.

Start the New Year with some complementary and integrative healthcare options. Join us at Main Library for a series of classes and demonstrations exploring complementary and integrative therapies or alternative healthcare therapies. Learn a few relaxation, healing and self-care techniques you can do yourself.

You are invited to attend all the events on Saturday, January 25, 2025:

10:15 - 11:00 am - The Effectiveness of Journaling with Luciana Adams

Establishing a journaling habit can help you develop personal skills and enhance your health by fostering forgiveness, honesty, goal-setting, self-care, self-affirmations, recognizing your accomplishments, creating a gratitude list, and creating good habits to replace the bad ones.  

11:15 - 12:00 pm - Train Your Brain: Neurofeedback and its Benefits with Mary Beth Stevens, M.Ed., LPCC, BCN

Mary Beth Stevens discusses neurofeedback, a cutting-edge approach to healing the brain. Neurofeedback uses EEG (electroencephalogram) technology to train the brain to produce healthier brainwave patterns. With applications to many mental health conditions like anxiety, ADHD, depression or trauma--or for those who want to achieve peak mental performance--neurofeedback is an exciting approach with over 70 years of research that supports its benefits.

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm - Whole Foods  - Healthy soups and beverages to sample

Watch a chef from Whole Foods prepare soup and a beverage and enjoy a small pick-me-up sample.

Attendees planning to stay for the whole day may want to bring a brown bag lunch to eat at this time.

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm - Home Herbal Preparations: Nurse Bridgette Zmorowski, RN, BSN

Learn about the benefits of using coconut oil topically and how to make your own healing balm with coconut oil infused with herbs that are easy to grow and wildcraft in Ohio.

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm - JustUs Line Dance Crew - Finish the day dancing - for fun and low impact exercise!

JustUs Line Dance Crew was founded in 2012 by Terrence and Carmen Payne, who have traveled all over the country dancing, networking and teaching their art. JustUs LDC currently has 52 active members in Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. JustUs LDC hosts a weekly class on Tuesdays at 8 Point Bistro starting at 6:oo pm. Classes are always free and open to the public.

 

For more information about Complementary & Integrative Health please visit these resources:

Main Library

Phone: 330.643.9000
Branch manager
Michael Bianchi

Hours
Mon, Jan 06 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Tue, Jan 07 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Jan 08 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Thu, Jan 09 10:00AM to 8:00PM
Fri, Jan 10 10:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Jan 11 10:00AM to 5:00PM
Sun, Jan 12 1:00PM to 5:00PM

About the branch

Main Library, located in the heart of downtown Akron, combines compelling public space with meaningful and relevant public library services for all members of our community. Since opening in 2004, the downtown library welcomes more than one million visitors each year.

Subject divisions include: Business, Government & Science, Culture & AV, Magazines & Newspapers, Special Collections (local history & genealogy), TechZone@Main, Teen, and a 12,000 square feet Children's Library.

Special services available at Main Library include: a Patent & Trademark Resource Center; U.S. Passport and Notary services; a Microbusiness Center; a Maker Space; a resource lab for early childhood educators; and regularly scheduled computer training classes. Also available at Main Library are more than 125 public access computers, color photocopiers/printers, laminating, scanning, faxing, and free Wi-Fi.

Specialized spaces include a 425-seat auditorium, public meeting rooms, and a used bookstore. An interior glass block walkway leads to a 600-space parking garage owned by the City of Akron. An outdoor amphitheater and landscaped park complete the complex.

Upcoming Events

Wed, Jan 08, 10:30am - 11:30am
Children's Library Programming Room
Registration is now closed

Wed, Jan 08, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Children's Library Programming Room
Registration is now closed

Wed, Jan 08, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Children's Library Programming Room

Wed, Jan 08, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
TechZone

Thu, Jan 09, 10:30am - 11:30am
Children's Library Programming Room

Thu, Jan 09, 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Thu, Jan 09, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
TechZone

Thu, Jan 09, 6:15pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium

Sat, Jan 11, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Mon, Jan 13, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Teen Meeting Room

Tue, Jan 14, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Auditorium

Rescheduled
Tue, Jan 14, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
New date Tuesday, January 14, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Tue, Jan 14, 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Business, Government & Science Patent Alcove

Wed, Jan 15, 10:30am - 11:30am
This event is full

Wed, Jan 15, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
This event is full

Thu, Jan 16, 10:30am - 11:30am

Thu, Jan 16, 6:15pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium

Sat, Jan 18, 10:15am - 12:00pm
Business, Government & Science Patent Alcove

Tue, Jan 21, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Small Business & Nonprofit Resource Center

Tue, Jan 21, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Computer Lab 1

Wed, Jan 22, 10:30am - 11:30am
This event is full

Wed, Jan 22, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
This event is full

Thu, Jan 23, 10:30am - 11:30am

Thu, Jan 23, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Computer Lab 1

Thu, Jan 23, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Teen Meeting Room

Thu, Jan 23, 6:15pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium

Sat, Jan 25, 10:15am - 3:00pm
Atrium,Auditorium,Meeting Room 1,Meeting Room 2AB,Meeting Room 3

Sat, Jan 25, 11:00am - 12:00pm
Children's Library Educator Lab,Children's Library Programming Room

Mon, Jan 27, 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Tue, Jan 28, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Computer Lab 1

Tue, Jan 28, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
TechZone

Wed, Jan 29, 10:30am - 11:30am
This event is full

Wed, Jan 29, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
This event is full

Thu, Jan 30, 10:30am - 11:30am

Thu, Jan 30, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Quiet Study Room 1

Thu, Jan 30, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Computer Lab 1

Thu, Jan 30, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
This event is full

Thu, Jan 30, 6:15pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium

Sat, Feb 01, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Children's Library Programming Room

Tue, Feb 04, 12:15pm - 1:00pm
Business, Government & Science

Tue, Feb 04, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Computer Lab 1

Wed, Feb 05, 10:30am - 11:30am
This event is full

Wed, Feb 05, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
This event is full

Wed, Feb 05, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
TechZone
Registration opens Wednesday, January 22 2025 at 9:00am

Thu, Feb 06, 10:30am - 11:30am

Thu, Feb 06, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Computer Lab 1

Thu, Feb 06, 3:00pm - 4:30pm

Thu, Feb 06, 6:15pm - 8:00pm
Auditorium