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eZential Wellness: Your Neighborhood Yoga & Healthy Lifestyle Center

eZential Wellness, located in Branchburg, is celebrating their second fall season! Prioritizing community vibes and wellness, they offer yoga, reiki, mindfulness, massage, Cryoskin® and health coaching, plus weekend workshops and events.

Yoga is offered daily for beginners, seniors and youth. Between classes, yogis can relax in the inviting lounge for tea or chat with fellow students. Classes are small, welcoming and unintimidating. New clients can try 30 days of yoga for $30.

Reiki classes are offered monthly by Beth Wishbow, founder of Insight Holistic Health, in the traditions of Usui, Holy Fire® III and Karuna Reiki®. Attend a monthly Reiki Share every first Sunday from 1-4 p.m. The class costs $15. 

To ease muscle tension or to tone areas of your body, massage and Cryoskin® are offered by Holly Lange of Reactivation Massage, LLC. Several certified technicians are on staff to help clients look and feel their best. 

Mindfulness courses rotate between adults, youth (ages 7-9) and tween girls/boys (ages 10-12). Programs are offered by certified Mindfulness Teacher and Occupational Therapist Maria Usewick, of Anchored Minds & Bodies, LLC. Yoga Birthday Parties feature yoga, games, take-home crafts and spa-like guided relaxation.

Health and Wellness coaching is offered for sugar/grain-free eating. Jen James will be a personal guide to help motivate and strategize efforts to feel better.

Location: eZential Wellness, 1 Lamington Rd., Branchburg. For more information, call 908-526-0002, email [email protected] or visit eZentialWellness.com. See Yoga ad, page 50 in our print magazine.

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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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