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October calendar: Find fun activities, great events in Erie region

Cheers GEARS 1: Saturday, October 1, 25 - or 50-mile bike starts in the cellars of Mazza Chautauqua, Chautauqua 4717 Steadman Road, Mayville, NY, and wrapping around Lake Chautauqua; benefit from grapes and trafficking samples of wine. Cost: $ 30 in advance, $ 40 day of the tour. Info: www.wqln.org.

"MUSIC AND DANCE: Saturday, October 1, 10 pm, Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center, Mercyhurst College, the college dance department and the School of Music perform D'Angelo, part of Homecoming and Family Weekend festivities. Cost: Free. Info: 824-2256.

"The poor of New York": Saturday, October 1 and Thursday to Saturday, October 6 to 8 20 pm, and Sunday, October 9, 14 hours Gannon University Schuster Theatre, 620 Sassafras Street; play Dion Boucicault. Cost: $ 5. Info: 871-7494.

Harvest Celebration: Saturday 1st October from 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.; Harborcreek Community Park, Clark and roads Firman, bingo, a petting zoo, pumpkin launcher, hay wagon, crafts, music. Cost: Free. Info: 899-3171.

Barn Dance and Picnic: Saturday, October 1st, 6-8 pm; Goodell Gardens and Homestead, 221 Waterford St., Edinboro. Also, on October 15.Cost: $ 1.50 3. Info: 734-6699.

Book Signing: Saturday, October 1, 2-5 pm, Books A Million, Millcreek Mall, Ken Springirth signs "Oil Creek and Titusville Railroad" and other books. Cost: Free. Info: 864-6203.

GEOCACHING BASICS: Saturday, October 1, 10 am to noon, Asbury Woods Nature Center, 4105 Asbury Road, for adults and children 10 years and older learn the basics of global positioning system, using a GPS to find hidden caches. Cost: members $ 5 non-members, $ 7. Info: 835-5356.

TECHNICAL NATURE digital photography: the Saturday, October1 and 15 and Nov. 5 and 19, 10:30 to 12:00, Asbury Woods Nature Center, 4105 Asbury Road; for beginners experienced intermediate photographers. Cost: members $ 50 non-members, $ 60. Info: 835-5356.

Rummage and Bake Sale: Saturday, October 1st, 9:00 to 3:00 p.m., St. Peter's Lutheran Church, 3968 Hershey Road. Cost: Free. Info: 734-1789.

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 1st, 1-3 pm, Campbell Pottery Store, 25579 Plank Road, Cambridge Springs, for exposure of the raku pottery by Kerry Gonzalez and Arlene Knaak. Cost: Free. Info: 734-8800 or www.campbellpotterystore.com.

Water at the Heart of Intelligence: aquatic bodywork and heart ...

At a thermoneutral pool temperature of 34-35 degrees C,  heart rate decreases and cardiac stroke volume increases.  Although heart rate decreases, the net effect is still an increase of more than 30% in cardiac output [1,2].  In addition,  Watsu-style bodywork has a balancing effect on the  autonomic nervous system (ANS) [3].  Researchers (like IHM) are finding that ANS imbalance is the basis for numerous disease processes and impairments, such as the increasingly prevalent fibromyalgia and post-traumatic stress disorder.  People who are trapped in their fight/ flight/ freeze response experience a physiological imbalance the effect of which is rather like pushing on the accelerator and the brake simultaneously. studies designed to advance our understanding of water's role as a bridge between the worlds of energy and matter will provide a crucial link between the realms of science and spiritual phenomena, bear profound implications for the betterment of human and environmental health, and may well help lay the foundations for a newly emerging scientific paradigm Indications that our bodies are a mass of fluctuating electrical impulses and energetic patterns , and that water has the capacity to  transmit such vibrations may have much significance in aquatic bodywork.  I speculate that the altered state experienced through passive motion in warm water is a result of responsive resonance between cellular fluids and the surrounding water.  viewing water  as the receptive medium into and through which life forms gather and distribute the energy that puts them in motion.  As such, water provides the dynamic contextual highways and byways  along and in which genetic information can flow and be exchanged and expressed in a myriad of diverse forms.  Within it may lie the deep reason for emotion, our responsiveness to our own and other's needful being I have observed in my work that the wide variety of movements executable in water seem to stimulate and revive the brain and in doing so  frequently trigger emotions or memories that have been suppressed [4].   The concepts of emotional intelligence and heart intelligence, acting independent of our cognitive powers, may help to explain why many people feel more balanced and more coherent after a water session.