Join Us At the Better Living Show This Weekend, March 26-28

Just a reminder, the Better Living Show is this weekend, March 26-28!

Come visit with ACHS at Booth #811 at the Portland Expo Center. Show hours are:

• Friday, March 26: 12-9 pm
• Saturday, March 27: 11 am-9 pm
• Sunday, March 28: 11 am-5 pm

What is the Better Living Show? >> Click here to learn more about ACHS and the Show.

What’s happening at the ACHS booth:

• We're collecting gently used t-shirts for Urban Retread this year. Bring your shirt to the ACHS booth, and we'll give you a free gift. (Your shirt may be re-worked into a one-off designer shirt!)
• Sign up to receive a free copy of the more than 100-page ACHS Wellness Guide via email and enter our contest to win a free iPod Touch!
• Enjoy new interactive holistic health and lifestyle displays and the opportunity to speak person-to-person with holistic health experts and other ACHS students and graduates.
• An Apothecary Shoppe marketplace with special savings.
• Several great contests!

Want to read more about ACHS’s commitment to sustainability? >> Click here to read our sustainability pledge.

Thank you for supporting ACHS and the Apothecary Shoppe College Store, and our efforts to provide comprehensive, sustainable holistic health education.

We look forward to seeing you at the show! Bring an eco-friendly reusable bag because all holistic health books and supplies at the show will be 20% off for the weekend. (Can't carry it all? Not to worry. We'll honor the 20% off on all orders placed online through the Apothecary Shoppe March 26-28. Go to http://www.apothecary-shoppe.com/)

Admission to the show is free. Parking costs $5. >> Click here to see green transportation options.

ACHS Partners with Urban Retread at the Better Living Show March 26-28

As part of our sustainability mission, ACHS has partnered with Urban Retread at the 2010 Energy Trust Better Living Show.

Bring your gently used (no stains, rips, or tears) long or shortsleeve shirts to the ACHS booth #811 any time during the show, March 26-28, to receive a free gift from ACHS. Your shirt may be selected to be re-worked into a one-off designer shirt! You can catch Urban Retread's designs at the Eco Fashion show.

The ACHS booth will also feature interactive holistic health presentations and lifestyle displays, holistic health experts and ACHS faculty and staff on hand to speak with attendees about holistic living, fun giveaways, and a show special of 20% off holistic health merchandise for the duration of the show!

To learn more about sustainable living and holistic health, visit ACHS at the Better Living Show, booth #811, March 26-28, 2010, at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 North Marine Drive, Portland OR 97217. Admission is free. For hours, a list of scheduled presentations, and information about parking, visit http://www.betterlivingshow.org/

ACHS President Dorene Petersen Featured on KPTV Better Portland March 25

ACHS President Dorene Petersen will be featured on the KPTV program Better Portland on March 25, 2010, at 1:45 p.m.

Brooke Carlson, a lifestyle correspondent for the Better Portland program, will host an interactive interview with Dorene about aromatherapy. Dorene will demonstrate for KPTV viewers the basics of aromatherapy, including simple ways to integrate aromatherapy use into everyday health and wellness routines, and the many benefits of aromatherapy.

In addition to her work as President of American College of Healthcare Sciences, Dorene also serves as Chair of the Aromatherapy Registration Council (ARC), an independent nonprofit organization that administers the national examination in aromatherapy to ensure minimum standards of training and safety knowledge of registered aromatherapists.

To learn more about aromatherapy and its health benefits, tune in to the show on KPTV on March 25 at 1:45 pm.

KPTV will also post a video of Dorene's aromatherapy segment on their website after the interview airs. Download it here: http://www.kptv.com/moregdo/index.html

Read "Aromatherapy for the Home" by the American College of Healthcare Sciences on the Better Living Show Blog here: http://www.betterlivingshow.org/blog.Aromatherapy-for-the-Home.htm

ACHS is gearing up for the Better Living Show at the Portland Expo Center March 26-28. Visit ACHS at booth 811 for interactive holistic health presentations and lifestyle displays, to speak with ACHS faculty and staff about holistic health education and living, and for daily giveaways! Read the full press release about ACHS at the Better Living Show here: http://www.achs.edu/news/news-detail.aspx?nid=214

Aromatherapy for the Home: ACHS Featured on Better Living Show Blog

ACHS is gearing up for the Better Living Show taking place at the Portland Expo Center March 26-28. ACHS will be exhibiting at this fun and accessible sustainability show for the second year, and will have interactive holistic health presentations and lifestyle displays, as well as holistic health experts and ACHS faculty and staff on hand for attendees to speak with.

Here is a link to more information about ACHS at the Better Living Show @ booth #811, including show times and directions: http://www.achs.edu/news/news-detail.aspx?nid=214

Take a moment to check out the Better Living Show website, where we have a great aromatherapy article, "Aromatherapy at Home," featured on the Show's blog. Here is a sneak peek of the article, which includes information about aromatherapy, including tips for how to use essential oils in your home to create a clean environment and to create sanctuary:

"You may have seen the term “aromatherapy” on product labels, or even as part of spa services or in advertising. But perhaps you’re wondering, “What does aromatherapy really mean?” Translated literally, aromatherapy is the use of aromas for their healing properties. It is “the controlled use of essential oils to promote the health and vitality of the body, mind and spirit,” as Shirley Price, a noted clinical aromatherapist, further explains in her book Aromatherapy for Health Professionals.

So what does essential mean? Essential oils are the distilled or expressed product of volatile components synthesized by various plant tissues of a single plant species (the healing components). Simply, essential means that these distilled or expressed oils contain the essence or the fragrant part of the plant."

To read the full-length aromatherapy article, go to the Better Living Show website here: http://www.betterlivingshow.org/blog.Aromatherapy-for-the-Home.htm

ACHS is gearing up for Better Living Show at the Expo Center March 26-28

American College of Healthcare Sciences (ACHS) is gearing up for the 2010 Energy Trust Better Living Show at the Portland Expo Center March 26-28. The College, exhibiting for their second year, will have new this year interactive holistic health presentations and lifestyle displays, as well as holistic health experts and ACHS faculty and staff on hand to speak with attendees about holistic living.

ACHS is based in the John’s Landing area of Portland and is one of the first accredited, online colleges to offer degrees, diplomas, and career training certificates in complementary alternative medicine. Founded in 1978, the College is committed to providing “leadership in holistic health education through comprehensive professional online and on-campus education and high-quality natural products with a commitment to sustainable practices and principles.”

By connecting with Oregon’s communities, and healthcare professionals and students, ACHS “fosters competence, professionalism, and cooperation in holistic healthcare and works to preserve and share knowledge in natural medicine.”

ACHS is an approved member of Green America’s Green Business Network, “the nation’s leading non-profit educator on socially and environmentally responsible consumption and investing,” and personally sources organic and sustainably wildcrafted herbs and essential oils for the Apothecary Shoppe College Store as part of their sustainability pledge. In addition, ACHS includes developing research about native plants and sustainability in their courses; maintains an on-campus botanical garden, which preserves local plant and animal life; and hosts monthly community wellness events featuring topics like seed starting, organic gardening, plant identification, wildcrafting, and making natural products. ACHS’s full sustainability pledge is available online at www.achs.edu under About ACHS.

To learn more about sustainable living and holistic health, visit ACHS at the Better Living Show, booth 811, March 26-28, 2010, at the Portland Expo Center, 2060 North Marine Drive, Portland, OR 97217. Admission is free. For hours, a list of scheduled presentations, and information about parking, visit www.betterlivingshow.org.

For more information about holistic health courses and community wellness events from American College of Healthcare Sciences, visit: www.achs.edu