Second Annual Holistic Expo: Balances Mind, Body, and Spirit

Looking to feed your soul this weekend? The Second Annual Holistic Expo will be at the Fargo Civic Center, along with national speakers, exhibitors, intuitive readers, healers, ancient wisdom teachers, psychics, mystics, and success coaches. The goal of the expo is to create awareness about alternative and spiritual healing and what’s available in the community.

“It helps people recognize this is more normal than they think, provides a safe place to explore a different perspective,” says Troy Parkinson. He and wife Chanda of Parkinson Productions are assisting Minneapolis-based producer Edgelife with the event. “Last year’s expo drew a crowd of 4,000.”

An older guy,-retired, late 70s-said, “I never thought this kind of event would happen in my hometown. Thank you. The community it creates is key.”

Troy works locally as a medium who allows the living to communicate with the afterlife; wife Chanda is an intuitive coach and Chan-Ri specialist and provides aura and Chakra analysis. Troy says the expo “provides the opportunity to connect to our inner happiness. To remember it and gain community support in finding it. We are spiritual beings in a physical body.”

The expo will provide speakers, workshops, and booths from a variety of holistic disciplines and healing arts designed to balance the mind, body, and soul.
Among these holistic arts is the emotional freedom technique (EFT), which helps those who practice it release “blocking emotions.” Intuitive readings provide guidance and healing and can be medical or psychic in nature, where biofeedback allows you to raise awareness and control of your unconscious physical activities by monitoring your own vital signs, such as blood pressure and heart rate.

Reiki is a form of spiritual healing that uses a bit of everything-spiritual healing, chakra balancing, meditation, aromatherapy-culminating in the transfer of energy from practitioner to patient.

Alternative healing of the body offers its patients relief and wellness outside the traditional medical model. One healing art that will be highlighted at the expo is craniosacral therapy, which heals the body and relieves tension by essentially balancing the bones in your head, gently, of course. Also on hand will be local chiropractors, acupuncturists, nutritionists, and massage therapists.

Kicking off the expo on April 18 is veteran Hollywood producer Stephen Simon, offering free workshops to local film students and filmmakers. The producer of films such as Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come, Simon most recently directed the movie “Conversations With God” and is founder of Spiritual Cinema Circle, a DVD club that distributes inspirational, spiritual, and motivational films.

Workshops are The Hollywood Film Industry: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (10:00a.m.-12:00 p.m.), and From Page to Screen: Adapting Novels for Film from (2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.) in Grant Center, Concordia College. At the Fargo Theatre the same evening is Stephen Simon’s “Light in the Darkness: Uplifting Films in a Violent Film World,” starting at 7:30 p.m. ($19/person).

Bestselling authors, media personalities, and Master Avesa Quantum Healers Sri Ram Kaa and Kira Raa will give the keynote address, “2012 Atlantean Revelations: The Wisdom-Prophecy Convergence” along with a post-expo event, “2012: The Atlantean Revelations: Re-claiming Your Mystical Life 24/7.”
Speaker Echo Bodine will give talks titled “Do You Know How Gifted You Are?” and “Recognize your Psychic Abilities,” and Susan Just will speak on “Find[ing] Your Soul Purpose Through Soul Communications,” a guide to healing your past to enrich your life today. Carol Lowell will speak on “Ghosts, Death, and Life After Death,” and give a one-day, hands-on healing workshop.

“This expo helps you remember who you truly are and creates excitement for that,” Troy Parkinson says. “If people have a hunch or inclination that this is something to check out, do it. There are no coincidences. The potential is there to transform and change your life.”

With harmony of the mind, body, and spirit, we can attempt to tap into the “sixth sense” that seems so elusive to many of us who most days may be thankful just to function on five. “We all have intuition,” Troy explains, “like a muscle. We have to strengthen it to increase it. Through exercise and practice, we can hone our intuitive ability.”

If You Go

WHAT: Holistic Expo
WHERE: Fargo Civic Center
WHEN: Sat Apr 19, 11am to 7pm;
Sun, Apr 20; 10am to 5pm
HOW MUCH: $6 at the door, $4 each for groups of 2 or more.
INFO: http://edgelife.net