What does Feng Shui and IPM have in common? That everything is energy and we are all connected. Feng Shui expert and UC Marin Master Gardener, Terumi Leinow, will show you how these universal life principles, the wisdom of Feng Shui and IPM work together to create a dynamic, healthy and beautiful garden. You will also gain tips on integrated approaches to sustaining a healthy environment, identifying your pest problems and resolving them with less toxic methods.
Join Marin Master Gardener Terumi Leinow who draws on multiple traditions to restore harmony and balance on both inner and outer levels.
Create a dynamic, healthy and beautiful garden
Learn integrated approaches for a healthy environment
Identify and resolve pest problems with less toxic methods
Terumi Leinow is a certified Feng Shui and International Energy Clearing Consultant and long-time UC Marin Master Gardener. She draws on multiple traditions to restore harmony and balance on both inner and outer levels. As a powerful teacher, masterful consultant and inspiring speaker she has helped thousands with her wisdom and clarity.
Come help us celebrate the 9th Anniversary of Friends Books in their C Street shop in downtown San Rafael!
All books, CDs, DVDs and audio books will be marked down. We’ll have a bounty of items for Mother’s Day: fabulous new cook books, intriguing gardening books, yoga, fly fishing and lots of fiction for Spring getaways or beach days.
Sale days are May 2 through May 6, Tuesday through Saturday from 10am to 4pm.
The Friends of the San Rafael Libraries have provided great contributions to the community through their support of the library’s Summer Reading Program, art lectures, and many other programs. They have purchased books, equipment, and much more for the library over their devoted years of support.
Zoya Pinto will present her video on her native country, Slovenia, a country rich in beautiful art, architecture, and a long history influenced by the Roman Empire, the Republic of Venice, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Slovenia was one of the first states to secede from the former Yugoslavia, establish a free market economy, and adopt a more pro-western political system. Questions will follow.
Enjoy a yoga class all can do! Learn how to keep the body and mind healthy as you age.
Gentle stretching, no experience necessary, safe and modified for all ages, conditions and injuries. Helps to slow memory loss. Stacie Dooreck, Sivananda Certified Yoga Instructor, and instructor of Gentle Integral Yoga and Kundalini Yoga.
Retirement: What’s Next? meets every 4th Friday of the month and presents various program topics for those contemplating or living in retirement.
NEW Series!
Join Dr. Sara for an ongoing series of health topic lectures.
We’ll be meeting every 4th Thursday evening of the month.
Each month Dr. Sara will address a different health issue.
June 22: Digestive Wellness and the Microbiome
An ancient Chinese medical text says “100,000 diseases begin in the belly”. Hippocrates wrote “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.”
Recent scientific studies confirm the key role of the gut and digestive tract in creating innumerable illnesses, and in maintaining optimal health. It all depends on what we put in to it.
Join Dr. Sara Kendall Gordon on a guided tour of your digestive tract. Dr. Sara will explain:
Why a healthy digestive tract is the foundation of a healthy body and brain.
How your gut affects your brain, your hormonal and immune systems, and every other major organ and system in your body.
How poor dietary habits compromise your digestive tract and your body’s self-healing capacities.
How a compromised digestive tract creates a host of familiar illnesses and mysterious afflictions.
Dr. Sara will also share simple, healthy dietary practices to reduce pain and inflammationand initiate healing for many illnesses.
Speaker: Dr. Sara Kendall Gordon, LAc DAOM specializes in Integrative and Functional Medicine and Body-Mind therapies. For more information visit her website.
In commemoration of his birth 200 years ago, join us on the library lawn for readings of excerpts from Thoreau’s writings. His written work has inspired nature lovers, free thinkers, and people of conscience since the early 19th century and embraces awareness and appreciation of wild nature and the importance of individual thought.
Presenters from The Thoreau Society and The Walden Project will facilitate the readings. There will be a sign up sheet for members of the public to read their own favorite Thoreau excerpt, or choose one of the selections offered.
“The Library is a wilderness of books.” ~Henry David Thoreau from his Journal, 16 March 1852
Join us for Music Together® , a developmentally appropriate early childhood music extravaganza! Each child can participate at his or her own level in singing, moving, chanting, listening, watching, or exploring musical instruments. Any caregivers—parents, grandparents, nanny—can bring the children. The whole family is welcome for this important family music experience.
This class is for children aged birth through 5 and their caregivers.
We will host two 30 minute classes on June 16: the first class will be at 10:30 am, and the second class will be at 11:00 am. No registration required!
Sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library.
Join us for Music Together® , a developmentally appropriate early childhood music extravaganza! Each child can participate at his or her own level in singing, moving, chanting, listening, watching, or exploring musical instruments. Any caregivers—parents, grandparents, nanny—can bring the children. The whole family is welcome for this important family music experience.