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Educational Program on Guardianship in Jamaica Plain

Ethos 555 Amory Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Guardian Community Trust, a nonprofit created to improve the lives of seniors and individuals with disabilities in Massachusetts, is partnering with Ethos in Jamaica Plain, to convene an educational program for local caregivers about resources and tools for enabling care in the community, including guardianship and alternatives to guardianship.  The program is designed so that local caregivers to the elderly and individuals with mental illness and disabilities will understand the options available when a person…

Free

INEQUALITY AND OUR WELL-BEING: Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett

First Church in Jamaica Plain, Unitarian Universalist 6 Eliot St., Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

Invite your Facebook friends: https://www.facebook.com/events/199542620990000/ Join the Jamaica Plain Forum to welcome globally recognized UK health leaders Richard Wilkinson and Kate Picket will be speaking at the JP Forum about their new book, THE INNER LEVEL: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Well-Being. In 2009, Wilkinson and Picket revolutionized our understanding of economic inequality with their globally-recognized book, THE SPIRIT LEVEL: Why Equality is Better for Everyone. They are coming…

Guided Tour – Medicinal Plants at the Arnold Arboretum: An Exploration of the Wild and Cultivated Remedies Growing Beneath our Feet

Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building 125 The Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

John de la Parra, Associate, Harvard University Herbaria, & Ernest Anemone, JD Lecturer, Tufts University The Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden contains a multitude of cultivated plants with culturally significant medicinal properties. However, on a casual stroll along Linden Path to the Leventritt, you will pass dozens of other plants that are often looked upon as simple weeds. Many of these plants have rich ethnobotanical histories of their own that tie us closer to our…

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Yoga for Dizziness Relief

Instrumental Yoga 3611 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain, MA, United States

You should be able to continue exercising and doing what you love without dizziness getting in the way! This 6 week program is designed to help manage dizziness and related symptoms(i.e. vertigo, lightheadedness, loss of balance, unsteadiness, nausea, diplopia,etc.), decrease risk and severity of recurring episodes of dizziness, and improve quality and sustainability of outcomes of medically prescribed treatment strategies. This will be done through vestibular and neurological rehabilitation exercises focused on habituation, adaptation, substitution,…

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