RICE DIET EDUCATIONAL SERIES

September 2007

Sat	1^st	9:45	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT
Mon	3^rd	9:45 11:15 1:30 6:15	T’ai Chi with Dr. Jay Dunbar, PhD Exploring Your Motivation Dr. Ronnie Kolotkin, PhD Transforming a Day’s Intake with Ryan Sobus, MPH, RD, LDN Fireside Chat with Dr. Rosati
Tues	^4th	9:45 11:15 12:30 1:30	Mindfulness Meditation with Jeff Georgi, M. Div Spirituality of Dysregulated Eating with Jeff Georgi, M. Div Mindful Lunch with Jennifer Harris Mind/Body Connection/ Group Carolyn Craft, BA, Div/Ord
Wed	^5th	9:45 11:15 1:30 3:00 4:30	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT Antioxidant Vitamins: helpful, ineffective, or dangerous? Dr. Siegfried Heyden, MD, PhD Grief with Jeff Georgi, M. Div Mindfulness with Jeff Georgi, M. Div Transitions Group (see Jeff for registration)
Thurs	^6th	9:00 9:45 9:45 11:15 1:30	Walk with Bobbie Yoga with Susan Levy Weekly Orientation [for new pts] with Bobbie Stanford, RD, LDN Stories and Songs that Heal with Kitty Rosati, MS, RD, LDN Lecture/ Discussion with Dr. Neelon
Friday	^7th	9:45 11:15 1:30	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT Group with Dr. Rosati Cooking Class with Derek
Sat	^8th	9:45	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT
Mon	^10th	9:50 11:15 1:30 6:15	T’ai Chi with Dr. Jay Dunbar, PhD Perfectionism and Weight Patricia Esperon, MSW, LCSW Going Home Talk with Ryan Sobus, MPH, RD, LDN Movie Premier: Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth
Tues	11^th	9:45 11:15 12:30 1:30	Yoga with Susan Levy The HDL Story- What is Good Cholesterol? Dr. Siegfried Heyden, MD, PhD Mindful Lunch with Jennifer Harris 7 Layers of Healing/ Group Carolyn Craft, BA, Div/Ord.
Wed	12^th	9:45 11:15 1:30 3:00 4:30	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT Positive Self Affirmation with Dr. Ronnie Kolotkin, PhD Biology of Dysregulated Eating with Jeff Georgi, M. Div The Cortisol Story with Jeff Georgi, M. Div Transitions Group with Jeff (see Jeff for registration)
Thurs	13^th	9:00 9:45 9:45 11:15 1:30	Walk with Bobbie Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT Weekly Orientation [for new pts] with Bobbie Stanford, RD, LDN After Care with Bobbie Stanford, RD, LDN Lecture/ Discussion with Dr. Neelon
Friday	14^th	9:45 11:15 1:30	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT Group with Dr. Rosati Cooking Class with Derek
Sat	15^th	9:45	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT
Mon	17^th	9:45 11:15 1:30 6:15	Mindfulness Meditation with Carolyn Craft, BA, Div/Ord Binge Eating I: What is BE? Patricia Esperon, MSW, LCSW Menu Planning with Ryan Sobus, MPH, RD, LDN Monday Night Movie Premier: The Secret
Tues	18^th	9:45 11:15 12:30 1:30 6:15	Mindfulness Meditation with Carolyn Craft, BA, Div/Ord Self Healing/Group with Carolyn Craft, BA, Div/Ord Mindful Lunch with Jennifer Harris Food Labels: You think you know, but you have NO Idea Ryan Sobus, MPH, RD, LDN Life Under the Nazis with Dr. Siegfried Heyden, MD, PhD
Wed	19^th	9:45 11:15 1:30 3:00 4:30	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT Psychology of Dysregulated Eating with Jeff Georgi, M. Div What Gets in the Way with Jeff Georgi, M. Div How to Sustain Change with Jeff Georgi, M. Div Transitions Group (see Jeff for registration)
Thurs	20^th	9:00 9:45 9:45 11:15 1:30	Walk with Bobbie Yoga with Susan Levy Weekly Orientation [for new pts] with Bobbie Stanford, RD, LDN Quantum Physics and Co-creating your Health and Life Kitty Rosati, MS, RD, LDN Lecture/Discussion with Dr. Neelon
Friday	21^st	9:45 11:15 1:30	Yoga with Susan Levy Group with Dr. Rosati Delectable Discussions with Derek and Ryan
Sat	22^nd	9:45	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT
Mon	24^th	9:45 11:15 1:30 6:15	T’ai Chi with Dr. Jay Dunbar, PhD Binge Eating II: How to deal w/BE Patricia Esperon, MSW, LCSW Going Home Talk with Ryan Sobus, MPH, RD, LDN Fireside Chat with Dr. Rosati
Tues	25^th	9:45 11:15 12:30 1:30	Yoga with Susan Levy Hypertension: Sodium/Potassium Dr. Siegfried Heyden, MD, PhD Mindful Lunch with Jennifer Harris Surviving Your Social Life with Ryan Sobus, MPH, RD, LDN
Wed	26^th	9:45 11:15 1:30 3:00 4:30	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT Recovery from Relapse with Dr. Ronnie Kolotkin, PhD Hunter Gatherer/ Farmer ADHD with Jeff Georgi, M. Div Craving Management with Jeff Georgi, M. Div Transitions Group (see Jeff for registration)
Thurs	27^th	9:45 9:45 11:15 1:30	Yoga with Susan Levy Weekly Orientation [for new pts] with Bobbie Stanford, RD, LDN After Care with Bobbie Stanford, RD, LDN Lecture/Discussion with Dr. Neelon
Fri	28^th	9:45 11:15 1:30	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT Group with Dr. Rosati Cooking Class with Derek
Sat	29^th	9:45	Yoga with Joy Anandi, CYT

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF GUEST SPEAKERS

Carolyn Craft BA/ Div. Ord

As Life Coach and Spiritual Therapist, Television/Radio Host, and Corporate Executive, Carolyn Craft has been sharing her insights in the field of healthier living, personal growth, and social consciousness for over 35 years. She challenges her audiences and clients to make positive changes in their lives. As a native of Chapel Hill, NC, her career began with a degree in Communications from UNC. In addition to her private counseling practice in the Triangle area, she is showcased nationally through her radio show ‘Waking Up with Carolyn Craft’ on Sirius Satellite ch114 & www.lime.com. She has blended her broadcast and business experience with her 17-year career as an ordained Unity Minister to bring about transformational shifts for persons worldwide.

Jay Dunbar, PhD

Dr. Jay Dunbar is Director of the Magic Tortoise School located in the Research Triangle area. The school offers classes, workshops, private tutoring and teacher training in taijiquan, qigong, and related studies. Jay’s dissertation (Ph.D., Education, UNC-1991) was on taijiquan instruction in America. He has served as chief judge of forms and push-hands in numerous tournaments. He is a senior student of the late Grandmaster Jou, Tsung Hwa.

Joy Anandi, CYT

Joy, a certified yoga teacher (CYT), has practiced and taught all levels of yoga for over 30 years. As a survivor of two bouts of cancer, using both traditional and alternative treatments, she has dedicated her life to sharing her experiences and knowledge to awaken the healing powers inside to heal body, mind and spirit. In 1989, Joy took a four year sabbatical study with Kali Ray, living the lifestyle of a yogini, using a vegan diet as medicine for prevention of cancer and other life threatening illnesses. Kali Ray is a world renowned yogini and founder of Kali TriYoga International. Joy has created FLOWING GENTLE PATH YOGA, a healing system for chair bound people, using pranayama (breath regulation) and hatha yoga (physical exercise). She is also a spokesperson for the Triangle Vegetarian Society

Patricia Esperon, MSW, LCSW

Patricia Esperon is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Duke University. She received a Masters in Social Work from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991, where she received the Katherine Banham scholarship for her work in the area of mental health. Ms. Esperon was a therapist and lecturer at Duke from 1995 – 2002 and continues to address numerous topics associated with weight management. Since opening her private practice, Ms. Esperon has continued working with clients who are struggling with weight disorders, as well as depression, anxiety, and trauma. In addition, Ms. Esperon has provided psychological evaluations for patients considering gastric bypass surgery at the Duke University’s Bariatric Clinic. Ms. Esperon has been quoted in such national magazines as Good Housekeeping, Shape, My Generation, and Real Simple and appeared on the television program 60 Minutes.

Ronnie Kolotkin, PhD

Dr. Ronette "Ronnie" Kolotkin is a clinical psychologist in private practice who for over 20 years has specialized in the treatment of obesity, binge eating, and issues related to improving the quality of life of persons with obesity. She is the former director of the Behavioral Program at the Duke University Diet and Fitness Center, co-author of a book on obesity treatment, developer of an audio CD for weight loss, and developer of a questionnaire that assesses the impact of weight on quality of life.

Siegfried Heyden, PhD, MD

Much of Dr. Heyden’s early life was surrounded by political events leading to WWII and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis. Dr. Heyden studied medicine and theology at the Universities of Berlin and Zurich following WWII. He completed all his medical training in Jewish hospitals in Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Berlin, before earning his PhD degree in Zurich. In 1966, he was promoted to Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, pursuing a lifetime interest in preventive medicine.

Highlights: Movie Premiers

Join us as we preview two of the nations most controversial and eye opening films. Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth eloquently weaves the science of global warming with his personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change. Following, The Secret, recently highlighted on Oprah, walks you through actualizing your goals and dreams. These will air Monday May 10^th and 17^th at 6:15pm at the Rice House.