Enjoy these profiles of places and people supporting health, wellness and mindful parenting.
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4th Annual Grow Your Health Fun for the Whole Family
The fourth annual Grow Your Health Festival of Gardening, Local Food & Wellness was a huge success for the event, ...

Real Food for Kids to Host Culinary Challenge and Wellness Expo March 12
The non-profit organization Real Food For Kids is hosting a Culinary Challenge and Wellness Expo on Saturday, March 12 at Robinson ...

Grow Your Health returns for 4th annual gardening, local food & wellness festival
The fourth annual Grow Your Health Festival of Gardening, Local Food & Wellness will be held on Saturday, March 5, ...

Bronson Family Dentistry addresses whole body health
Dr. James Bronson and his son, Dr. Alex Bronson, of Bronson Family Dentistry have made it a priority of their ...

Meet Jesse Straight, owner of Whiffletree Farm and father of five
Jesse Straight of Whiffletree Farm in Warrenton, Virginia is one of several area farmers who drive into DC and its ...

DaoCloud Launches New Social Wellness Network
If the words, "Where can I find a good practitioner?" have ever crossed your lips or flown across your keyboard, ...

Pollination Station Exhibit at U.S. Botanic Garden is a must-see!
The botanically-created and inspired Season's Greenings train exhibit at the U.S. Botanic Garden, on display through January 3, has outdone ...

Meet contributor Alexandra Hughes
Alexandra Hughes of In Essence Coaching has made it her life's work to help moms feel calm and grounded. A ...

School Gardens gain momentum in Arlington Public Schools
Since the April 2015 Growing Green Schools event, parents and school staff in Arlington Public Schools have made progress in ...

Transition comes to Tenley: lil omm closes studio, moves its yoga programs
Yoga-loving families in Metro D.C. learned on Monday that Tenleytown’s lil omm yoga studio is closing its doors at the ...

A peek into the new Arlington MOM’s Organic Market – photoblog
This morning, the new Arlington location of MOM's Organic Market opened to a great crowd. If you haven't made it ...

MOM’s Organic Market Opens in Arlington!
MOM’s Organic Market is opening a new store this weekend in Arlington at the intersection of Lee Highway and N ...

A weekend overflowing with health! November 13-15
Hold onto your hats, because this weekend is full of special events you won’t be seeing again anytime soon in ...

Weston A. Price Foundation’s Sally Fallon Morell on Traditional Eating
Hearing Sally Fallon Morell's talk about traditional diets at the Weston A. Price Foundation's Wise Traditions conference was a turning point ...

TRUE Fitness Studio Launches Give Back Program for Moms in Need
When I spoke with Nina Elliot about her vision for expanding TRUE Health & Wholeness wellness studio, she was excited to tell me ...

Joel Salatin at Take Back Your Health on growing safe food
The seventh Take Back Your Health Conference began this morning in Arlington, Virginia with keynote speaker Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms ...

Sharing the Vision: Robin Shirley on Take Back Your Health Conference
We here at Mindful Healthy Life wanted to hear from Take Back Your Health Conference founder Robin Shirley in her own words about ...

MOM’s Organic Market opens to great success in Woodbridge
Local natural foods grocery store chain MOM's Organic Market is celebrating the grand opening this weekend, September 11-13, of its new ...

Meet new Mindful Healthy Life contributor Joanna Eddy!
It gives me great pleasure to introduce the newest member of our Mindful Healthy Life team, Joanna Eddy, of Holistic ...

Living without dairy, but not without ice cream!
Jennifer Robins of the popular Predominantly Paleo blog is an Arlington mom of three who has been pursuing a grain-free path ...

Summer Fun for the natural-minded family
What are you plans for summer? Here is the first attempt by Mindful Healthy Life to capture some of the ...

Celebrate Belly Love Day on June 21
We were delighted when our friends from lil omm yoga studio, recently voted #1 best place for family fitness by Washingtonian Magazine, ...

Love Your Body day brings yoga to the masses
Love Your Body Day yoga festival in Reston Town Center brought out hundreds of adults and children to practice yoga, ...

Ease Yoga & Cafe opens in Del Ray
Ease Yoga & Cafe, the first of its kind yoga studio and healthy cafe in the area, has opened its ...