OUR 2022 WELLNESS FESTIVAL WAS A WONDERFUL SUCCESS! WE WILL POST NEXT YEAR’S EVENT IN APRIL 2024.

Spring Into Wellness with Lava! This is going to be a great gathering of wellness helpers and healers.  Learn from our speakers on the healing properties of our water, how sound baths help our nervous systems, or experience a class in Trauma Recovery Yoga or Gyrokinesis.

Diverse exhibitors, both eastern and western philosophy from Nutrition to therapy dogs, heart health and blood pressure checks to singing bowl sound baths and drum circles.  Learn about herbology, take a wellness walk through town and fill your bag with free goodies from our local businesses, join the guided hike up L Mountain, enjoy a talk about and a spin around Lava’s own labyrinth. Finish the day with a soak and stretch in the hot pools!

 

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Location:
Lava Hot Springs Community & Senior Center
150 Center St (Map)
Lava Hot Springs, ID 83246

 

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LAST YEAR’S SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Saturday, June 3, 2023
9:30 AM – 2:00 PM: CHECK IN

 

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM: SOUND BATH
Presenter: Michelle Linder of Linder Wellness
Vibrational Sound Therapy. Sound healing helps manage and relieve stress, improve quality of sleep, feel better physically, realign personal energy, release trauma and/or expand spiritually or energetically.

 

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10:30 AM – 11:15 AM: Gyrokenesis (Group Activity)
Presenter: Lori Head – Owner of Mind Your Body
Lori is a retired Idaho State University professor.  She currently owns and manages “Mind Your Body” health studio in Pocatello, Idaho.  Lori holds certifications and teaches Yoga, Pilates, Gyrokenesis and is a Feldenkrais practitioner.  She also teaches water therapy and figure skating.  Lori will focus her presentation on Gyrokenesis and teach a very playful technique of movement centered around all directions of arching/contracting/twisting and lateral bending of the spine.  Her class addresses flexibility and rhythm plus right and left brain work.
Gyrokenesis methods can be adapted to all ages and levels of ability. It is designed to open energy pathways and stimulate the nervous system by coordinating movement, breath and mental focus.  Learn more about Gyrokinesis.

 

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11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: HEALING WATERS OF LAVA HOT SPRINGS
Presenter: George Katsilometes
Owner for 33 Years of the Lava Hot Springs Inn & Spa. Higher education degrees: A.B.-Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA;  D.V.M., Washington State University, Pullman, WA; Ph.D.-Endocrinology, University of California, Davis, CA.  
Mr. Katsilometes has had the waters arising on the properties of the Lava Hot Springs Inn & Spa analyzed and has documented the beneficial effects of each of the major minerals contained in these waters.  He has stated the mineral water of Lava is some of the finest in the world and is so pure it can be consumed without treatment as it flows from the earth.

 

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12:15 PM – 1:00 PM: THE HEALING GIFT OF TOUCH
Presenter: Brenda Hatfield LMT BCTMB
Brenda loves her life work as a massage therapist. She is highly intuitive, gifted, and experienced. She has a toolbox full of modalities and healing techniques. Her grounding and centered soul assists to restore balance within her clients and spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical well-being. Brenda graduated in 2007 from Healing Mountain Massage School in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 2017 she was drawn to the magical healing waters and the vortex of healing energy of Lava Hot Springs. The Native American Indians know of these magical places. This is a place of peace and healing.

 

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1:15 PM – 2:00 PM: HEALING WATERS
Presenter: Velda and Fred Racehorse
They are representing the local Shoshone-Bannock tribes and will be speaking on what the healing waters and valley we know as Lava Hot Springs means to their people. Learn about Poha-Ba, Land of Healing Waters at the South Bannock County Historical Center Museum in Lava Hot Springs.

 

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2:15 PM – 3:00 PM: TRAUMA RECOVERY YOGA
Presenter: Joyce Bosen
Humanitarian, and co-founder of Trauma Recovery, found peace and healing after the traumatic death of her son in 2012. As she found her way to healing, she created the TRY yoga method. And in 2016 Joyce, and her husband Darwin, founded the internationally known Trauma Recovery Yoga Method where they help train others in the method that helped her escape the relentless symptoms of PTSD. Joyce is a motivational and inspirational TEDx speaker “Turning Loss Into Blessings,” and author. Enjoy her inspiring story, learn about the science behind her method and enjoy an interactive all levels chair TRY class. Walk away with tools for a lifetime to help calm the anxiety and find presence. No trauma or Yoga experience required!

 

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3:15 PM – 4:30 PM: ENERGY HEALING
Presenter: Midge Woods
A discussion of products being promoted to help elevate levels of health, wellness and vitality. Midge is a Spiritual Entrepreneur and Marketing Director for LIFEWAVE Stem Cell Activation Technology. 
She has traveled extensively as a speaker, presenter and vendor at Energy Healing Conferences in Idaho, Utah and Arizona for over 30 years.  Midge has traveled internationally to attend educational and spiritual conferences.  In addition to being a presenter for LIFEWAVE, she will lead the group through the ancient practice of walking the labyrinth for spiritual centering and quieting the mind.

 

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1:00 PM – 6:00 PM: L MOUNTAIN HIKE
Offered for free to anyone interested

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM: WELLNESS WALK 

5:00 PM: YOGA WITH LORI AND HOT SPRINGS SOAK 

ONLINE REGISTRATION IS CLOSED. You may register at the door if there is less than 100 people registered.

 

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VENDORS:

1. Midge Woods LifeWave Stem Cell Activation Technology
2. Time Laboratories Essential Oils 
3. Brenda Hatfield LMT BCTMB Chair Massage
4. Linder Wellness Singing Bowls & Chimes
5. Sheri Hansen Dancing Feather Farm Apothecary: herbal salves & tinctures, gemstone mala beads & bracelets
6. Tonia Burgess Kinghorn Herbal teas and bath soaks
7. Terri Bergen Sacred Sounds: Bio-photonic chakra scans with intuitive reading and guidance.
8. OZOTL Handcrafted Soap & Body Products: Soaps, Scrubs, Beaded Jewelry, Salts
9. Kelly Alopecia Remedy
10. Jill & Chandra Heating Pillows and Soaps
11. Lexi body scan and tarot card readings
12. Brittney Kinghorn metal and stone jewelry and crystals
13. CJSROCKSNTREASURES Tumbled rocks, handmade hats & airlock paintings

Vendor sign up is closed.

 

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Call Lava Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce at 208-776-5500 for Additional Information.
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