Listen to live lectures from leading health experts in natural medicine and learn how you can develop a health and wellness plan for life.
Sample the best, healthy & nutritious recipes prepared live on stage from the top chefs at LeCordon Bleu Culinary Arts School. Experience yoga & pilates demos from the top fitness instructors in Atlanta. Sample & purchase your favorite natural products! Win hourly prizes and much, much more!
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KAT JAMES
Kat James transformed her body and skin beyond recognition after a 12-year eating disorder and autoimmune disease nearly took her life. Without drugs or deprivation, the principles, strategies and resources that took her years to stumble on ultimately cured not only Kat's heroin-like addiction to food (resulting in a loss of ten dress sizes), but the skin-disfiguring liver disease and other issues that destroyed her health, beauty, and self-image for more than a decade. Today, at forty-two, and with none of the effort typically made to maintain such dramatic weight loss and transformation, Kat continues to defy the no-pain, no-gain, "bootcamp" myths of beauty and slimness in her well-researched teachings, and in her vibrant living example.Called "a master of self-transformation" by Self magazine's Mary Christ Anderson, Kat's advice and programs have been featured on Today, Hallmark Channel's New Morning, TBS' Movie and a Makeover, and in nearly every fashion and natural health magazine, including Vogue, Glamour, Oprah's magazine, O, Alternative Medicine, and Natural Health. Through her newly updated and re-released bestseller, The Truth About Beauty, national health columns, PBS special, and acclaimed, cruise- and villa-based Total Transformation® programs since 2000, Kat has helped thousands to mastermind their own healing transformations using science and strategy, rather than suffering or short-sighted quick-fixes. Known for her powerful "lifestyle upgrades" that produce visible change in a matter of days, and for her collection of one-of-a-kind resources that spell the difference between failure and success, Kat's teachings have consistently enabled others to replicate her own remarkable results, and garnered the endorsement of many leaders in nutrition and health.
Adding a compelling dimension to Kat's rare perspective are her years in the world of fashion as one of the most sought-after beauty experts and celebrity makeup artists of the 90's. A former consultant and on-camera spokesperson for Maybelline, Max Factor and Revlon, Kat's aesthetic background, along with years of creating illusions of perfection on models as she struggled to conquer her own beauty demons has deepened her grasp of the emotional, physical, and superficial constraints that must be shed in order to unlock the true radiant potential in each of us.
This year Kat celebrates the Fully-updated, Featured Re-release of The Truth About Beauty. After ascending to #1 out of 200 titles at Beyond Words Publishing in 2006, primarily by word of mouth, publishing giant Simon and Schuster's Atria Books division honored The Truth About Beauty with a Featured Re-release in January of 2008. Kat's part-memoir, part how-to encyclopedia—relied on by consumers and professionals alike—has now been comprehensively updated. With forty percent new material, book-wide research updates, dramatic success stories, Kat's highly anticipated collection of Recipes for Transformation, and her new home-based Total Transformation® Teleseminars to reinforce it's application, the Featured Re-release of The Truth takes readers' transformations to unprecedented levels. For more information, visit Kat's website, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year: www.informedbeauty.com.
DR. GEZ AGOLLI, ND, PHD
Dr. Agolli is the founder of Progressive Medical Centers in Atlanta. Dr. Agolli is a Board Certified Naturopath, certified by the American Naturopathic Medical Certification and Accreditation Board Inc. He is commissioned by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging, the American Academy of Pain Management and the Christian Medical & Dental Association. Dr. Agolli earned a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree (NMD) from the United States School of Naturopathy and Allied Sciences, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nutrition from First National University, USSN, and Allied Sciences. He has also obtained Healthcare Management Certification from the University of Miami, a Masters degree in Herbology and a Bachelors degree in Healthcare administration. Dr. Agolli has achieved extensive experience and training in the areas of digestive disorders, natural hormone replacement, naturopathic detoxification, herbal therapies, tissue mineral analysis, functional medicine, homeopathy, sports nutrition, metabolic medicine, physical fitness, acupressure and electro medical technology. As a staff naturopath, Dr. Agolli's responsibilities include assisting Progressive Medical patients in naturopathic detoxification, individualized vitamin and mineral assessment, naturopathic protocols and lifestyle management. Dr. Agolli is also proud to have honorably served four years in United States Air Force on the elite Combat Control Team. He is married and the father of two sons, Jace and Jordan and a daughter Morgan. For more information visit www.progressivemedicalcenter.com or www.detoxamerica.comDR. KARRIEM H. ALI, M.D.
Dr. Karriem Ali was born in Detroit, Michigan, and attended a highly-selective school for the gifted for all 12 years of his primary and secondary school education. Upon graduation at the top of his class, he continued his academic studies at Harvard University, where he received an A.B. degree in Chemistry (Organic) prior to earning an M.D. degree with Distinguished Honors in Research from Stanford University. His thesis focus being the quantum chemical basis of molecular recognition, Karriem was invited to be a Visiting Scholar at the Washington University School of Medicine following the second year of his research at Stanford. Recruited in the 1990's to do bioprospecting work with Shaman Pharmaceuticals, Karriem left Stanford to lead medical ethnobotany research & discovery expeditions in the Amazon, Chocó, and Mayombe rainforests of South America and Africa, and in the subtropical grasslands of Tanzania. He has since taught, toured, and worked in more than 32 countries in rainforest, savannah, village, city, and island environments—including lecture tours of Europe and India at the invitation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to work along with the teachers of Deepak Chopra. Karriem's life-path since an early age has been one of training and initiation in preparation to do great work in an awakening world, bringing forth a higher understanding of true health in mind, body, and life, much in the way Shamans of the Amazon work with the people of their worlds. The focus of a Shaman of such an awakening global tribe is the reanimation of 'Harmony, Unity and Balance — Harmony between the spiritual and the physical world; Unity between the intuitive and the intellectual; and Balance between the desires of the personality and the Will of the Self; a Re-membering—a New Yet Ancient Mind embarking on the next quantum step in human evolution.'DR. PAT BACCILI
Dr. Pat Baccili is an internationally recognized expert in the human potential field who makes a positive difference helping others realize their dreams. To Pat, there is no such thing as failure. There are simply people, places and things that are placed in our paths to help us understand our true nature and what we are meant to do in this lifetime. She is the award-winning host of The Dr. Pat Show – Talk Radio to Thrive By!
DR. CHERYL K. BURDETTE, ND
Dr. Cheryl K. Burdette, ND is a Naturopathic Doctor. After graduating from Bastyr in 2001, she completed her residency at Cancer Treatment Centers of America and the Family Health and Wellness Center, one of three hospital based residencies available for N.D.s in the country. She then moved back to the South, where she is from, to continue practicing cutting-edge integrative medicine. While practicing in Atlanta, she worked at Metametrix, a laboratory that specializes in nutritional and metabolic testing. There, she guided doctors through test results to aid their understanding, and worked to develop treatment for their patients that would address their unique biochemistry. She has lectured internationally, and believes that education is a critical component of empowering others on their journey to wellness. Naturopathic medicine combines evidenced-based natural treatments that recognize each person's unique presentation, works to find the root cause of disease, and treats the person as a whole. Dr. Burdette's practice is focused on the treatment of chronic conditions, and the use of hormones as a part of wellness. At Progressive Medical Centers she works as part of a team based approach, combining her perspective with that of M.D.s, D.O.s, and dieticians to provide a synergistic treatment plan that addresses the individual in a complete and holistic manner. For more information, www.Spherios.comDR. SHARI LIEBERMAN
Dr. Shari Lieberman earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Nutrition and Exercise Physiology from The Union Institute and her M.S. degree in Nutrition, Food Science, and Dietetics from New York University. She is a Certified Nutrition Specialist (C.N.S.); a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN); a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M); chair of the exam committee and board member for the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists. Dr. Lieberman is a frequent guest on television and radio and has been in private practice as a clinical nutritionist for more than 20 years.CINDY MILLER
Cindy Miller will be presenting on Brain Wave Vibration-a simple healing method, developed by Ilchi Lee, which helps to activate the brain stem. The brain stem is critical to your health because it is the part of your brain which controls breathing, heart rate and stress response. In modern times, as we remain in a continual state of stress, it is often difficult for our brains to reestablish equilibrium in the body. Brain Wave Vibration helps to calm your mind and activate healthy brain waves. Cindy is a Dahn Yoga and Tai Chi Instructor, Massage Therapist and Healer at the Harbor Steps Dahn Yoga Center in downtown Seattle. Dahn Yoga and Tai Chi offers an integrative approach at mind-body wellness, bridging ancient meditative and energetic practice with modern-day research on the brain.MARY PURDY MS RD
Mary Purdy MS RD is a certified nutritionist and registered dietitian with a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition from Bastyr University in Seattle, WA. She also earned a degree as a certified Holistic Health Counselor from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City where she studied ancient and current dietary and nutritional theories. In addition to her private practice, Nourishing Balance, located in Fremont at Anytime Fitness, she has worked as a student clinician at the Bastyr Center for Natural Health and worked the phone help lines at Seattle’s National Eating Disorder Association. She serves on the board of the Greater Seattle Dietetic Association as public relations chair and has written a nutrition column for both Seattle PI and the Newspaper Northwest Prime time. Her website is: www.nourishingbalance.comARDEN WILKEN
Arden Wilken is co-founder of INNER SOUND (1978),* *an original system of sound therapy and therapeutic music for the expression and integration of the emotions. She has a discography of 25 CDs and gives frequent keynote presentations and concerts throughout the US and Europe. Schools for INNER SOUND exist in the USA, Spain, the UK and the Netherlands offering professional training in various aspects of sound therapy, including tuning forks, therapeutic music and the voice. Continuing education hours are available for all courses for massage therapists through the National Certification Board of Massage Therapy and Body Workers (NCBMTB). Nursing contact hours are available for the tuning fork and voice courses through the Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA). INNER SOUND is now based in Seattle, WA. For more information visit Stand 100. www.innersoundonline.com.