The Spring 2009 Event was a powerful and informative day. Over 80 attendees explored the gifts that they have to offer and desire to cultivate in their lives and in their practice. Specific information on developing your message, getting the word out about your practice and maximizing your web presence was provided by a team of experts including Marcia Goldberg, Doris Jeanette, Bob Butera, Andrea Brockman, Marilyn Bullock, Ted Butera, and Steve Arbitman. Whole Foods supported the event with lunch, and the Thomas Jefferson University - Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine provided the wonderful meeting space. We appreciate our other sponsors for their generous support:
Paragon Marketing
Yoga Living Magazine
Boiron
Integrative Case Management
Emergent Health Corporation

Planning is underway to create our next community event for Friday evening, November 6th, 2009. Please Save the Date!!

Philadelphia Philly Wellness Guide is the largest network of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practitioners in the Philadelphia Region. Philly Wellness Guide is a virtual guidebook of practitioners that is free to all members and currently includes 350 members from the following categories:

Acupuncture | Massage | Other Bodywork types | Chiropractic | Holistic Dentistry
Energy Modalities| Holistic Vision/Eye Care | Functional Medicine | Herbal Therapies Homeopathy | Nutrition | Podiatry | Psychology | Veterinary Medicine | Women’s Health

This guide is open to all members of the network and provides details of each member’s practice type, educational background, experience, preferred types of clients and other practice information. In the near future, the guide will become accessible to the public and become a valuable tool to connect patients to the right practitioners.

Philly Wellness Council is a not for profit corporation that supports the Philly Wellness Guide and hosts events for practitioners in the Guide and throughout the Philadelphia Region. Recent events at Thomas Jefferson University were attended by hundreds of CAM practitioners.

All interested practitioners are encouraged to join the network. It is simple, free, and will put you into direct contact with hundreds of colleagues in the Philadelphia region.

Welcome to the Philly Wellness Guide. This Guide is designed to give quick access to Holistic practitioners throughout the Greater Philadelphia Area. Our intention for the site is to create the opportunity for easy inter-practitioner referral, quick information about practitioners, and as a forum to share ideas and interests to generate new possibilities for Health in our region. While the website will be viewable by the general public, the listings are limited to practitioners. If you are a Holistic practitioner within approximately 20 miles of center city Philadelphia, you can JOIN THE NETWORK by Clicking on the "Join In" button to the upper right of the site. You will need the following information to complete the profile:

• Practice location and contact information
• Brief Training History
• Current Field of Practice
• Licensure type and status
• Years in practice
• Insurance Companies you accept
• Brief description of your practice, the events that led you to that practice, and
which patients benefit the most from your services
• Picture file of yourself is optional (jpeg, tiff)

This community is being created by Integrative Medicine Practitioners for each other. So please invite other practitioners you know. Every member has unique knowledge and experience that collectively will form an incredibly valuable resource for all.

Be a part of Greater Philadelphia becoming a model for what is possible in Health and Wellness! Together we can do great things!!