"Beyond Disability" with Matthew Sanford

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“Beyond Disability” with Matthew Sanford
Friday, August 17^th
7:00 PM  -  9:00 PM
Cartersville Public Library
 
“It took a devastating car accident, paralysis from the chest down, and dependence on a wheelchair before I truly realized the importance of waking both my mind and my body.”  - Matthew Sanford
 
Matthew Sanford is an Iyengar yoga teacher, renowned public speaker, the award-winning author of Waking: A Memoir of Trauma and Transcendence, and paralyzed from the chest down. He is the founder of the non-profit Mind Body Solutions and a leading voice in the integrative health movement. He recently won the California Pacific Medical Center’s Institute of Health and Healing 2010 Pioneer of Integrative Medicine Award. (Previous winners include Deepok Chopra, Mehmet Oz, and Andrew Weil.) Matthew is also a pioneer in adapting yoga for people living with a wide variety of trauma, loss, and disability, including our wounded warrior population and veterans.
For more information: www.matthewsanford.com and www.mindbodysolutions.org.  http://www.matthewsanford.com