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All locations CLOSED Friday, April 7, Sunday, April 9 and Monday, April 10 for Easter holiday.

Open Saturday, April 8.

Health & Wellness

How to live in a flow - May 4th, Wolf Performance Hall

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Join us for the event Consciousness Becomes You on Thursday, May 4th at 6:30 pm in the Wolf Performance Hall of Central Library.

Noon Meditation is coming back to Central Library – MAY 2

Join us every Tuesday at 12:00 pm in the 2nd floor meeting room for a Noon Meditation starting Tuesday, May 2, 2017..

Health and Longevity - What Each of Us Wants

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The new book by Elizabeth Blackburn – a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine in 2009- and Elissa Epel a health psychologist The Telomere Effect offers new research on longevity to the general public

Can We All Get Along?

Join us for the 2017 series Psychology – the Science of Being Human. This year we are presenting three talks under the overall title Can We All Get Along. For the first three Thursdays of April faculty of Western’s Psychology Department will help to answer this question.

The Birth of Sake - Japanese Food documentary film series

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Join us on Saturday, March 18 at 2 pm in the Stevenson & Hunt room for the third and last screening in a series titled Japanese Food.

Dashi and Shoyu - Essence of Japan - Japanese Food: A Documentary Film Series

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Dashi and shoyu, soup broth and soy sauce, the base of Japanese cuisine, the essence of food but also the essence of Japanese nature, distilled from the oceans, forests and mountains.

Oh, my aching back

book cover image: Cure back pain : 80 personalized easy exercise for spianl training to improve posture, eliminate tension & reduce stress

Back ache - got it
Poor posture - got it (sometimes)
Physical tension - got it
Body stress - got it

Is Gluten really a villain?

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Dr. Peter H. R. Green, Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University,  and acclaimed medical writer Rory Jones reveal in Gluten Exposed the real scientific story behind the current gluten-free craze.