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Teton Wellness Festival: Your Best Year Starts Here

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

By PJH Staff

In Jackson Hole, The 5th Annual Teton Wellness Festival brings inspirational messages of healthy, sustainable living.

By Ben Cannon, Teresa Griswold and Richard Anderson

Breathe deep.
The hustle and bustle of another peak season - its bluster of activity and throngs of visitors - has finally ebbed, making way for the more relaxed transition to fall and early winter.

For those who look to the falling leaves, cool temperatures, and pensive skies for moments of some introspection and self re-evaluation, this week offers the opportunity to begin some new personal quests or reacquaint with forgotten ones.

The Fifth Annual Teton Wellness Festival kicks off Friday, bringing four days of presentations, keynote addresses and exhibitors for both the health-conscious veteran and the neophytes to enjoy.

This year will focus on incorporating an integrated approach to health into the everyday.  This means looking to a variety of complimentary practices – from mainstream medicine to Eastern-regarded treatments – as a means to either prevent illness or treat existing ailments.

Unique to this Wellness Festival is the theme of living green and how the pursuit of ecological balance can figure into daily life alongside the pursuit of a healthy physical and emotional balance.

“This year we really want to emphasize the idea of sustaining wellness,” said Teton Wellness Institute Executive Director Marcia Craighead.  She added: “It’s all going to address how to make this a part of your daily life.  A lot of times you get excited and go home and lose momentum” – but this year is poised to be different, hopefully – “and that’s really inspiring for me.”

Festival attendees should notice environmental regards in place at every step of the event – from limited promotional mailings to reusable materials to locally and organically grown food – and organizers have taken steps to offset the festival’s carbon dioxide footprint through a partnership with the Green World Campaign.

To learn more about events and educational opportunities during the 5th annual Teton Wellness Festival, visit the Wellness webstie at www.tetonwellness.org, call 733-WELL, or read further.

— Ben Cannon

Dan Millman: shares peaceful heart, warrior spirit

Dan Millman is in the business of inspiration. His books have transformed the spiritual lives of millions of readers. It all began in 1980 with “Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” his first story, which delivered reminders about life’s higher purpose and “the big picture.” It was recently made into a major motion picture starring Nick Nolte.

In “The Life You Were Born to Live,” Millman calls upon the reader to have greater compassion – for him or herself and for others. He guides readers in taking a quantum leap in insight and self-knowledge.

In all of his thirteen books, Millman shares principles and practices that can be integrated into everyday life. He is helping people create a talent for living. He is a guide that helps people turn thought into action.

As a former world-champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor, Millman makes for a brilliant mentor. See what he has to offer when he speaks at 7 p.m. on Saturday in the Grand Room at Snow King, as part of the Teton Wellness Festival, or tune into this reflective conversation to learn more. You may also visit his website at www.peacefulwarrior.com. Millman was gracious enough to answer some questions for Planet Jackson Hole.

Planet Jackson Hole: How were you most inspired on your own path as a “peaceful warrior?”
Dan Millman: It wasn’t so much a matter of inspiration, which passes like any emotion, but rather, a search for meaning, purpose and connection – which I think most of us are searching for.
 PJH: How did you transform from a student into a mentor for others?
DM: Early on, even as a young athlete, I realized that no matter how much I improved myself, only one person benefited. But if I could influence other people in a positive way, that added value and meaning to my life. At first I taught what I knew – athletic training – but over time, my interests expanded from developing a talent for sports to creating talent for living.
PJH: On your website you said you traveled the world and studied many systems of human development. How did you take what you discovered and develop the tools that you teach and write about today?
DM: After an extraordinary exposure to a global array of systems, methods and practices, I’ve developed a certain discernment, an ability to sort out from the many possibilities and offer those principles and practices that can be integrated into the already busy daily lives of modern men and women.
PJH: How do you sort out the possibilities? Do you pick the methods that work best for you?
DM: I’ve taught in numerous writing conferences and many elements of craft and skill can be taught to help someone become a better writer, but unless a writer has empathy for readers, the writing rarely comes alive. In other words, successful writers are able to tap into a larger picture. If they simply write for self-expression, it can only go so far. … So, if I simply shared things that I liked and worked for me this would lack empathy and a universal sense. … I’ve been able to tap into what is useful for most people, not just for me. Most important, I try to engender a sense of discernment in those that I teach to save them some wild goose chases which many are prone to in the new age marketplace.
PJH: How do your novels like “The Journeys of Socrates” and “Way of the Peaceful Warrior” differ from your series of non-fiction books and how are they similar?
DM: Each of my books serves a different purpose. My first book, “Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” was written to deliver essential reminders about life’s higher purpose and bigger picture, delivered within an autobiographical story – it doesn’t fit neatly into fiction or non-fiction, but is a blend. Whereas my more recent book, “The Journeys of Socrates”, is a more traditional novel, intended to move the reader, and to provide inspiration – but only secondarily to inform through the subtext of the story. Whereas my other non-fiction guidebooks offer direct, clear and straightforward information and guidance – maps to help readers navigate through the challenges of everyday life.
PJH: In every case, do you have an intention to deliver an essential message through your books whether fiction or non-fiction?
DM: I’ve always viewed myself more as a teacher – that was my first calling – to share with and influence people in a positive way. So all of my books are intended to teach – that is to offer useful reminders to fellow human beings on the path. The only exception to this would by my book “The Journeys of Socrates” which is the life story of my old mentor. In that book, even though I include, as any author might, certain larger themes and philosophy within the subtext of the story, my primary goal in this particular book was to tell a moving story with any didactic elements secondary. But most of my books … teach or provide guidance or reminders.
PJH: How do you bring metaphysical abstractions down to earth so your readers can grasp the concepts?
DM: I do my best to connect with the real-world needs and interests of readers. After all, we have enough to think about already, and highly intellectualized material or abstract concepts don’t necessarily translate well. My work helps people turn what they know into what they actually do. So I keep it simple and direct.
PJH: Your visit here to Jackson includes a keynote address on Saturday at the Teton Wellness Festival entitled “A Peaceful Warrior’s Way to Wellness.” How will you connect wellness to the peaceful warrior’s path?
DM: How can one disconnect wellness from the peaceful warrior’s path? Wellness, or balance of mind, body and spirit, form the foundation for any path. Many people who feel that they have emotional or spiritual problems or challenges may find that by improving their basic level of wellness, those apparent problems disappear with improved wellness. And for those external challenges we face, improved wellness - which goes beyond fitness to a state of emotional and mental balance - helps us to function more fully.
PJH: As a leading authority on turning what we know into what we do, what one or two things do you recommend a person do to integrate health and wellness into everyday life?
DM: Set aside grand resolutions or temporary heroics. Dream big, but start small then connect the dots. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing. Even the smallest action trumps the grandest good intention.
PJH: What is most powerful about taking action?
DM: There are so many popular ideas floating around about visualization and beliefs and positive thinking and such. But our lives are shaped in large part by what we actually do – what actions and behaviors we take. I’ll bring home this point in my talk at the Teton Wellness Festival.
PJH: You are now a grandfather. You’re also a parent, husband, teacher, writer, and more. How has becoming a grandfather expanded your knowledge and enhanced who you are?
DM: Well, “becoming” a grandfather was easy for me, but involved a bit more labor -literally - for my daughter. However, age and time have given me an expanded sense of perspective and, if you will, wisdom. It’s as if I’ve been climbing a mountain path for more years than younger folks, and the higher you climb, the more expansive the view. So all my life experiences have provided insight and perspective, which I’m moved to share as well as I’m able.
PJH: What projects/books are you most excited about going forward?
DM: I have two books in the works, and I alternate between them. One is a novel, a story, about a miracle. The other is more of a memoir, the story behind peaceful warrior, and the different mentors who have influenced my work and life. So when I’m not on the road teaching, or home catching up on emails and interviews, I manage a few hours on these books.


Accept your dark side with Debbie Ford

Reborn by fulfilling her highest potential and learning to embrace her flaws amidst the backdrop of considerable loss, Debbie Ford emerged as a leader in the field of personal transformation. Reluctantly surrendering to her calling to write about darkness, she penned her first book, “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers.” Four more books and nearly fifteen years later, she has become a beacon of light for others on the pathway to true self-acceptance and self-love.

Clearly Ford knows first hand what it is to live “the best year of your life.” And it isn’t about getting all the things you think you need to be happy. It’s not about finishing a creative project or finding the love of your life or losing twenty pounds.

A teacher first, and writer second, Ford’s work supports people in understanding their wounded ego, excavating the gifts from their pain and making peace with their past in order to reach the highest expression of themselves.

From 9 a.m.-noon Sunday, Ford will teach a workshop called “Manifest the Best Year of Your Life” in the Grand Room at Snow King Resort. Consider this conversation with Ford an invitation to learn more about her and to be moved to live the best year of your life.

Planet Jackson Hole: You have written five groundbreaking books, including “The Best Year of Your Life.” How did you become a writer and expert in the field of personal transformation?
Debbie Ford: Well, I became an expert, I believe, out of the pain and the trauma of my past. And even though I studied world religion and different modalities, and went back to school and studied consciousness studies, I believe that I am an expert because I have transformed my own life and reinvented myself over and over and over again. And it was my own pain and my own frustration with traditional therapies that had me search and find new ways to integrate wisdom and to integrate emotional pain.
And so I started doing what I later coined as “shadow work.” And when I started, I didn’t really have a name for it, but it was the process of finding all of our disowned aspects – the dark and the light – making sense out of our selfishness, and our insecurities, and our self-doubt, and the things that have happened to us in the past that make no sense. …I love to show people what’s possible when they let go of the self that they knew yesterday for a new self that is waiting and wanting to emerge.
PJH: Whom do you draw upon for your inspiration?
DF: If there was one person I wanted to meet who has passed, it would be Emmett Fox, who wrote many books, but “The Power of Constructive Thinking” is my favorite prayer book. And I hope to be that person, the Emmett Fox of today who really teaches people the power of prayer and how to pray and what words mean. …
PJH: How important is prayer in your life?
DF: Prayer is my biggest spiritual practice. I love to pray. I love to get down on my hands and knees, even though I am a Jew and we don’t do that to pray. I like it because it’s my sign of complete surrender and humility and it brings me to a place where I’m not normally. … I’m doing it to cocoon myself, to put myself in the arms of God, the divine, goddess, whatever and to just give up … to ask from this place of great humility and surrender, show me, tell me, God’s will, thy will be done. Those are my favorite words, “thy will be done,” because I know there are two paths for all of us. There is the path of the human self, we could say the ego or the wounded self, that gives us one reality and will give us one future; and then there’s another path, that’s the path of the divine, of the collective heart.
PJH: Do you have any examples that you want to share?
DF: Well, the first story I always share is that when I first realized I was going to teach and write, I wanted to write Marianne Williamson’s book “A Return to Love.” It was such a good title and it was so loving, but what I was called to write was about the dark side - how to integrate the parts of humanity that most people deny, hide and suppress. So my ego was not interested in writing that book. … But I finally surrendered and realized that wasn’t my path … And so I wrote “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers” and of course, today I’m so grateful.
PJH: Your visit here to Jackson includes an experiential workshop on Sunday at the Teton Wellness Festival entitled “Manifest the Best Year of Your Life.” What will you cover in the three-hour workshop?
DF: I’m really going to look and see who people want to be at the end of the year, because most everybody is working to get things done every year, but at the end of the year it doesn’t much matter what we’ve gotten done, if we don’t feel good about ourselves.

To have the best year of your life you must be growing and evolving … you must be opening up to unimaginable realities. And so we look at the resignation that would keep us from having the best year of our lives, the excuses, the habits, the patterns and then we work on who we’re going to be at the end of the year, so when we stand there we are awed by ourselves.
PJH: How does one go about connecting a goal to achieve personal dreams with a desire to make a difference in the world?
DF: I think that when people are clear that they want to make a difference in the world then we can look from the soul’s desire, because our soul’s desire is making a difference in the world. There is no desire of the soul that doesn’t impact the collective. It’s only our ego’s desires that don’t impact the collective necessarily, and sometimes do the opposite.

So once we’re clear on what is our soul’s desire … then we can see what goals live inside of that. Then we’re living the same life. See, most people are living this dual life. They have their spiritual life and they have their regular life. But really my work is about how do we integrate the emotional world with the spiritual world.
Right now my 13-year-old son has taken on a Bar Mitzvah project … to raise money to build schools in Uganda. In four weeks, we have together raised over $50,000. Now, it may be that everything that I’ve done in my life was to create a boy that at 13 years old would be willing to give up all the money and all the gifts that he would have gotten for the greater whole. …

Maybe ultimately [my son] is going to take on education around the world. We don’t know. We have to be humble enough to know that we don’t know. … And so we really don’t know how we will impact or how we will ultimately influence the greater whole. So maybe a mother somewhere is going to take this workshop, and she’s going to go home and be inspired to do a project with her son or daughter.
PJH: What new projects or books do you have in the works?
DF: I have a book coming out in March [called] “Why Good People Do Bad Things.” … It’s really about shame, fear and denial and how those three things have us create a false self. …  And then after that I am doing a prayer book called “Your Holiness.” 

— Teresa Griswold

An ounce of prevention with Dean Ornish

Dean Ornish MD imparts information in the quick, clipped manner of a lecturer who is very familiar with his material and has delivered it many times for many years. But rereading the transcription of is interview with Planet Jackson Hole, the words he utters are eloquent, thoughtful and well-chosen.

One of the pioneers of preventative medicine – and by extension the wellness movement – he has for nearly 30 years been amassing the scientific evidence that demonstrates the link between lifestyle (specifically diet, exercise, stress management and smoking habits) and health. His groundbreaking research has shown quite clearly and irrefutably that certain dramatic changes in lifestyle can not only fight off heart disease but even reverse damage done by years of bad habits. Ongoing research at his

Preventative Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif., continues to yield remarkable findings, including suggestions that lifestyle changes can prevent and reverse damage to the pancreas, the skin, the prostate and even the brain.

Best of all, Ornish insists we can benefit not just from radical, broad-spectrum lifestyle changes, but smaller, incremental adjustments that can help us feel better, look better and live better. He speaks at the Wellness Festival 7 p.m. on Friday in the Grand Room at Snow King Resort.

Planet Jackson Hole: Thirty years ago or so, when you first started publishing and drawing the conclusions you’ve drawn, what was the state of preventative medicine? Was it completely unheard of, was it beginning to get accepted?
Dr. Dean Ornish: I got interested in this 30 years ago when I was a second year medical student. I was learning how to do bypass surgery with Dr. Michael Debaeke, the heart surgeon, and we would cut people open, we would bypass their blocked arteries, they were told they were cured, and they would go home and continue to eat unhealthy food, smoke, not manage stress, not exercise, and more often than not the bypasses would clog up again and we would cut then open again sometimes to bypass the bypass.
For me, that became a metaphor of an incomplete approach. It was a little like mopping up the floor on a sink that was overflowing without turning off the faucet. And so I wondered what would happen if we turned off the faucet, not just to prevent the disease, but actually to see if we could reverse it.

By then it was already known that all of these factors in lifestyle that I just mentioned played a role in the development of disease, but it was thought that at best you could help reduce the risk of getting those diseases, like heart disease, or slow down the progression of them, but that you couldn’t actually get better from them once you had them. But in a series of randomized trials with increasing scientific rigor, we were able to show that, in fact, most people could reverse the progression of their disease. Instead of getting worse and worse they could often get better and better … .

Since then we’ve shown that a number of chronic diseases – including not only heart disease but diabetes, hypertension, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, prostate cancer – can be stopped or even reversed by making similar changes to nutrition and lifestyle. I think the importance of that is becoming even more clear during that 30 year period because the limitations of high-tech approaches like bypass surgery and more recently angioplasty were becoming more well documented.

Studies have come out in the last couple of years in prestigious journals like the New England Journal of Medicine and others showing that angioplasties, for example, don’t prolong life and don’t even prevent heart attacks in people who are otherwise stable, which is most people who receive them, and the same is true with bypass surgery. And yet, $30 billion were spent on angioplasty … in the U.S. and the newer technologies – like … coated stents – may actually increase the risk of a heart attack.

And the economic implications are also becoming clearer, because health care costs have reached a tipping point that is really not sustainable. Our studies and more recent demonstration projects have showed that these approaches are not only medically effective but also cost effective. We showed that in a demonstration project from Omaha that almost 80 percent of the people who were told they needed a bypass or angioplasty … were able to save $30,000 in the first year. Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Pennsylvania did a demonstration project that found that, compared to a similar group of patients who were matched for disease severity, … they reduced their costs by half in the first year, and by an additional 20 to 30 percent in subsequent years. For that reason, Medicare has recently agreed to cover our program fro reversing heart disease.

So, I think that the power of these changes are becoming more well documented. In our studies we use high-tech, expensive, state-of-the-art technology to prove the power of these very simple and low-tech and low-cost and often ancient interventions.
PJH: Was there an ‘ah-ha!’ moment for you, a sort of revelation, or was it more a gradual, slower dawning?
DO: I got interested in these areas in my own life because I was very depressed during my college years and found they were enormously helpful to me. Later, when I was in medical school, I realized that suffering can be a powerful doorway or catalyst for someone to transform their lifestyle for the better. Then, when I started to read the scientific literature, it was shown that you could actually reverse heart disease in dogs and cats and pigs and monkeys and rabbits, but no one had shown that in people, and I didn’t think that people should necessarily be any different. The epidemiological literature [showed that] in other parts of the world where they eat healthier, their risk of heart disease was very low, when in this country it was very high. And there were animal studies and anecdotal case reports, but no one had really done anything in a systematic way, so it really captured my imagination.
PJH: Is there a new wave of research? What’s the latest, absolute up-to-date, cutting-edge information or ripple effect of your research?
DO: We’re looking at a lot of different things. We’re looking to see whether changes, intensive changes in diet and lifestyle, can affect gene expression – turning on good genes, turning off the bad genes. There’s a number of studies coming out … which [show] that these same lifestyle changes can actually cause neurons to grow. It had been though that …. you don’t really get any new neurons once you’re born, that that’s what you have, and now we know that you actually can grow so many new neurons that your brain actually literally get bigger in ways that are measurable. … We’re now finding that the body is much more dynamic than people had once realized. Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people once thought, in ways that are very powerful and often measurable. I think these findings are really empowering for people and giving new hope and new choices that they didn’t have before.
PJH: What about the research that suggests that cutting your caloric intake by 30 percent has a wide range of health benefits?
DO: That’s the one intervention that’s consistently been shown to prolong life in animals, but it’s very difficult to maintain that in humans if you just simply cut the amount of food you eat, because people get tired of feeling deprived. But if you change the type of food – in other words if you eat less fat and fewer refined carbohydrates, which is where most people get their extra calories, fat because is has nine calories per gram, and protein and carbs have only four, so when you eat less fat, you eat fewer calories without having to reduce the amount of food … and, similarly, you can only eat so many fruits and vegetables and whole grains, you’re going to get full before you get too many calories because of all the fiber, but you can consume lots of refined carbohydrates like sugar without getting full and you get all these calories that don’t fill you up and you cause your blood-sugar to spike which in turn causes your pancreas to produce more insulin, which in turn causes you to accelerate the conversion of those calories to fat – I think that one of the side benefit of eating more healthfully is you naturally get fewer calories without feeling hungry or deprived.

But it not just what you exclude from your diet that is harmful, but what you include that is beneficial. There are at least 100,000 substances that have been identified as having protective anti-cancer, anti-heart disease, anti-aging properties, and, with few exceptions, you find these protective substances in fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and soy products. …

We also did a randomized trial two years ago where we found that the progression of prostate cancer may be stopped and even reversed as well. So the most common chronic diseases are the ones that are most responsive to the choices that we make each day in what we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke, how much exercise, and the quality of our love and intimate relationships. Many people think it has to be a new drug or a new laser or something really high-tech and expensive, and what we’re trying to show is these simple choices can make such a powerful change.
PJH: The title of the presentation you’re going to be making at our Teton Wellness Festival [on Friday] is “The Power of Lifestyle Change.”
DO: It’s an extent of this kind of information. My new book, which comes out the first week of January, is called “The Spectrum,” and it’s about how you can personalize the way of eating and living that’s just right for you based on your preferences. I think the medicine of the future is personalized medicine. …

The most common misperception about what I recommend is that I recommend a strict diet for everyone, and I don’t – I never have. If you’re trying to reverse heart disease or other illness, that’s the pound of cure, but if you’re just trying to stay healthy you have a range of choices. I like the concept of a spectrum because it gets away from the idea that it’s a diet you get on, it’s a diet you get off, it’s an exercise program you get on and sooner or later you get off. It’s a way of incorporating a way of eating and living into your life that’s just right for you based on your own preferences.

As genetic counseling becomes more wide-spread, it’ll be possible to target people and more precisely estimate their level of risk, and we could say, ‘Here’s what you could do about it.’ If you’re at higher risk you can make bigger changes, if you’re at lower risk you, you may never need to. But if you indulge yourself, it doesn’t mean that you cheated on your diet or you failed your diet; what really matters is how is you overall way of eating. If you indulge yourself one day, eat healthier the next, and then it becomes sustainable.

oy of life is sustainable, fear of dying is not. Eating something that is good for me is not sustainable, eating something because it makes me feel good is. These really changes that make you look good, feel good, look better, feel better, live longer, lose weight and remain healthy. It’s all about creating a sustainable way of eating and living based on joy of living, not fear of dying, and, just, really, pleasure and enjoying life more fully. There’s no point in giving up something that you enjoy unless you get something that’s better, and not just 30 years later but immediately.

Which ties back into what we were talking earlier in this conversation about how dynamic these changes are and how quickly you can experience these benefits: Your brain gets more blood, you think more clearly, you have more energy, your heart gets more blood, you can actually reverse heart disease. Your sexual organs get more blood in a way that some of these drugs like Viagra work. Your skin gets more blood, you age less quickly and you look better. For many people those are choices worth making – not just to live longer but more importantly to enjoy live fully.
PJH: Your visit out here, is this part of tour?
DO: I used to tour, but I don’t any more. I turn down most requests I’m asked to do. I’m trying to practice what I preach a little better and I love being home with my wife Anne and my 6-year-old son, Lucas, but because John and Christy Walton help support the work that we’re doing, I wanted to do this as a gesture of appreciation to them for that and in memory of the late John Walton, who was such an amazing guy.

The Teton Wellness Festival is just that – a festival. It’s not a symposium or conference. That designation aims to make the many events feel more accessible to people with all levels of interest and experience.

“It’s not all serious; it should also be fun and play and humor,” said Marcia Craighead, executive director of the Teton Wellness Institute. “It should be inspired. People should be happy to be alive.”

Tickets start at $35 for a Festival Pass, good for Saturday and Sunday admissions to 90-minute presentations and Movement Studio classes. Children under 14 get in free. The $135 Silver Pass – “the best deal,” said Craighead – is a full festival pass that includes entry to the three keynote speeches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. An additional $90 buys a Gold Pass, which grants the pass-holder additional access to Saturday evening’s speaker reception.

Individual keynote tickets start at $35 for general seating. $100 buys a reserved seat.
The weekend is expected to begin with a heady (and heart-healthy) bang at 7 p.m. Friday, as Dean Ornish, M.D., the founder of Sausalito, California-based Preventative Medicine Research Institute, delivers an interactive dialogue about the “Power of Lifestyle Change” and preventative medicine.

Early risers should take note of “Gyrokinesis: Flow into Strength,” taught by Boulder practitioner Alice Diamond at 8 a.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. Sunday.

The presentations on Saturday range from the peptic with “Gluten & Digestive Disorder” (9 a.m.) to restorative natural sleep (2 p.m.) to “Field notes on a Compassionate Life” (11 a.m.).  There are also more movement opportunities with “Qi Gong for Weight Loss” (9 a.m.), “Holistic Hula Hooping,” (2 p.m.) and yoga (4 p.m.).
Sunday will feature presentations on how to “Use Your Stem Cells for Optimal Health” (9 a.m.), “Using Chinese Medicine to Treat Injuries” (11 a.m.) and the “Power of Touch” (2 p.m.).
The festival will wind down Monday with workshops ($45 each, beginning Saturday) from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and an assortment of exhibitors will be on-hand to show and sell their wares and ideas: from non-surgical “facelifts” to sustainable clothing and rugs, natural pet food and more. Access to the exhibitor area is free to the public. All events take place at Snow King Resort.

With over 20 presenters over the course of the three-day event, we cannot give them all the mention they deserve. Please consult www.tetonwellness.org for a complete listing of events and times.

— Richard Anderson


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