practitioner profiles
The Peace House: Education and Advocacy
For more than 30 years, Te Peace House, in Oklahoma City, has served as a public education and advocacy organization on issues such as environmental sustain- ability, universal human rights and social justice. Using mail and social media, the organization supports national policies that protect nature and a healthy environment for all living things. Director Nathaniel Batchel- der studied biology and ecology, and spent five years as the Director of Public Education at the Oklahoma City Zoo, where he learned about the impact of human expansion on all life. Batchelder is passionate about the environment. He says: “It is most crucial that our
generation reduce emissions of gases warming the atmosphere. Calling this a hoax or myth and denying climate science is madness, threatening nature and human civilization. We provide workshops on this issue, urging action and voting for change.” Te Peace House hosts a Peace
Courtney Hurst and Nathaniel Batchelder
Festival each year on the second Saturday of November in the Oklahoma City Civic Center’s Hall of Mirrors. It features several vendors, organizations, live music and a children’s activity room. In addition, the organization sponsors floats in the Martin Luther King Day and Lesbian, Gay, Bisex- ual, Transgender parades. It also advocates for important environmental issues through
demonstrations, rallies, vigils and more, supporting nonviolence and respecting the opin- ions of others.
For more information, visit
PeaceHouseOK.org.
Sara Alavi: Yoga for Healing
and Recovery Iyengar Yoga Teacher Sara Alavi opened her studio, Yoga Home of Terapeutics, in 2009. Dedicated to growing in her knowl- edge of the healing arts for all populations, Alavi teaches yoga classes throughout the Oklahoma City community. She has been teaching a class at the
Veterans Administration Hospital on Wednesdays for four years. Tis class is an all-level chair yoga class for both veterans and their support care animals. In addition, Alavi teaches classes at Oakwood Springs Hospital four days a week, along with two
days of teaching veterans through a Heroes class—one day with the inpatient popula- tion and another working in the psychiatric section of the hospital. In addition to her community outreach offerings, Alavi con- tinues to teach a few classes at Yoga Home of Terapeutics, as well as seeing private clients and facilitating yoga teacher training. Alavi’s compassion for people and her
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concern for their overall health and welfare is visceral when she works with clients. An active listener who infers things about clients that are not expressed verbally, Alavi offers customized programs to help improve overall health and wellness. Her services include therapeutic yoga, medi- tation, hypnotherapy, quantum tapping, quantum healing hypnosis therapy, aro- matherapy massage, as well as many other pain-relief therapy techniques. Alavi helps clients modify any poses that cause pain and empowers all that work with her.
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