Is your orange juice safe to drink? Watch this informative segment of the Dr. Oz show that originally aired on January 18, 2012.

I hope you had a blessed holiday season and wish you joy, peace, and the best in all things.

Have a happy, healthy, prosperous New Year!

Warmly,
Jan Mundo, CMSC, CMT

Somatic and Headache Coach, Bodywork Practitioner

Author, Artist, Writer, Copy Editor, Proofreader

Jan Mundo interviewed on "Beyond the Shadows"

I was a guest on “Beyond the Shadows,” with host, producer, and author, Susan Finelli. The show, which aired on MNN during February in New York City, New Jersey, and Connecticut, was also streamed live online and is now available at blip.tv. During my interview entitled, The Headache Healing Road, I discuss my somatic approach to working with longtime, chronic headache and migraine patients, and how they can improve and move beyond their pain by embodying practices that promote centered balance in all aspects of their lives.

You can click the photo or this link to watch: http://www.blip.tv/file/4662048/

I hope you’ll watch and enjoy! Please remember to “like” The Headache Coach on Facebook. Thank you!

So how’s your winter going so far? (I made a little joke!) It’s been a brutal one, except for California and Florida, or so my friends tell me. I hope you are doing well.

I’m delighted to announce this winter’s “Conquer Your Headaches–with a Body-Mind, Self-Care Program.” Details are below.

Please pass the word to those you care about who suffer from headaches or migraines. For out-of-towners, I offer headache healing and Somatic Coaching sessions by phone.

To keep up on the latest, “like” The Headache Coach on Facebook. (linked in sidebar top right)

Warm wishes,
Jan Mundo, CMSC, CMT

Are you sick of suffering from chronic headaches or migraines? Do you miss work, cancel plans, and curb your activities because of them? The Mundo Program is a step-by-step plan to help you relieve and prevent your cycles of pain.

How it works: Everything you do–eat, drink, sleep, move, sit, stand, think, feel, interact–adds up to how you feel and function. In a body-mind, self-care program, as with one for diet or exercise, by changing your daily practices, you get a different result.

Headache whisperer Jan Mundo will guide you to wellness and help you overcome your pain. Lessons, accompanied by handouts, individualized coaching, and assessments, include: tracking your triggers, headache-healthy diet, stress relief, and harnessing the power of your body and mind for healing.

Are you ready to roll up your sleeves and make meaningful, lasting change in a supportive environment? More than just absence of pain, learn how to move on and enjoy your life! Why suffer for one more day?

TO REGISTER

Contact Jan Mundo at jmundo at mundolifework.com or 212-991-8611.

Price: $325 · Early bird: $310, if paid by Feb 22
Payment accepted by check or PayPal, made payable to Jan Mundo

Instructor Jan Mundo, CMT, CMSC, has been helping people with chronic headaches and migraines for forty years. In 1970, she developed the Mundo Method, a focused touch therapy that relieves headaches and migraines on-the-spot. In 1992, she created the Mundo Program for relief and prevention.

Ms. Mundo is a Certified Master Somatic Coach, Body-Centered Therapist, Massage Therapist, and published author. Research about the efficacy of the Mundo Program was published in Cephalalgia international headache journal in May 2001. Her headache book will be published by Book Publishing Company in 2012.

Mundo has held her programs at University of California Berkeley and San Francisco, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Stanford University, Kaiser Permanente, and Hill Physicians Medical Group. She currently practices in New York City and offers private sessions, telecourses, lectures, workshops, classes, seminars, and professional trainings.

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The New York Headache Center–led by Alexander Mauskop, MD, FAAN, board certified neurologist and headache specialist, and author–is a leader in traditional, alternative, and complementary headache therapies. The NYHC has generously offered its space for this program.

Shopping Cart Tree by Artist Anthony Schmitt, Santa Monica, CA, 2010

Chanukah came right after Thanksgiving this year, and I felt compelled to visit my grown kids in Venice, CA, to celebrate both holidays—especially magnetized by my grandbaby of fifteen months, already a jokester in her own right.

On one of my walks near the beach, I became captivated by the Shopping Cart Tree at Edgemar, itself a site with a storied past. Named for its proximity to the ocean (mar in Spanish), it was once the home of an ice plant, then an egg hatchery. The current arts center, built by Frank Gehry using the original structure, housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA) at its inception.

My first fascination with the tree was the message it seemed to impart about how commerce defines Christmas. Yet the tree appeared so pretty and delicate taken as a whole. It was a brilliant dichotomy, indeed—expressed in an almost three-story-high tree made of 86 full-sized, coated steel shopping carts. (Ever try to wrangle one that’s got a recalcitrant wheel? Acgh! Urgh! They’re unwieldy, heavy, and bulky.)

When I looked up the artist, the narrative he gave of his work’s meaning was a 180 degree twist from what I’d imagined. Schmitt says,

The tree symbolizes generosity and abundance as well as acknowledges those less fortunate, where their whole world may be housed in a shopping cart.

My Y2010 contained hard work and fighting for financial increasing against a background of family joy. During the course of some of my work I interacted with hundreds of troubled homeless and sheltered people. In the course of my somatic and headache practice, freelance editing, and personal life, I helped others who gave me their trust and support, and felt sustained by the deep compassion of those who helped me. Everything seemed to grow in momentum and depth as the year progressed. I am in appreciation and awe of everyone’s generosity.

But in the end what really sold me on the tree was its construction. You see, the sculpture’s only means of structural support was a circular iron frame at the very bottom of the piece which secured the bottom layer of carts. The entire rest of the work was held together merely by balance and plastic grip ties. I was mesmerized.

In the case of living beings, having the most basic connections in place as framework can sustain us, fulfill our needs and wants, and supply the basis for the rest of our connections. I see this at play in my granddaughter, as she grows with confidence into toddlerhood, based on the love in her family.

This year, I was gifted with meeting my first grandbaby over four separate periods of time, participated in the wedding of my first born, landed a book contract, new clients, venues, and channels of referral for my Somatic, Headache Coaching, and Bodywork practice. The unexpected conversations and “accidental” meetings with strangers provided welcomed sustenance in a city suddenly no longer inhabited by my immediate family.

I appreciate all of it—even feeling somewhat alone here in winter. My reward of imaginary distance is in sitting in my NYC writer’s den-styled apartment and writing my book—in the midst of a quiet corner on the busiest island in the world, three blocks from a river where barges, ships, tug, tour, and police boats, water taxis, yachts, and jet skis travel with and sometimes against the currents. I turn inward in order to extend my voice deeply into the world.

In the end, isn’t all the gift-giving really about wanting and trying to give people what we think they want or need, or what they tell us will make them happy? That’s such a darned good thing to attempt, and hopefully it fills us with joy in the process! These days, for me, the thought and care that go into my decisions are necessarily more important than the dollars spent.

It’s my wish for you that your deepest and most precious dreams, needs, and wants are fulfilled and enjoyed. May we all continue to open our hearts to love and appreciate the time we have here together–whether in-person or across the miles. May we extend our inner depth and our outer reach to reach our ultimate purpose. And may we grow as we increase in compassion for ourselves as well as others.

Happy Holidays, Happy Belated Chanukah, Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, everybody!

Do your headaches and migraines always get you down for the holidays? Nix them for good in this six-week teleclass with Jan Mundo, the Headache Coach.  Give yourself and your family the best gift of all: headache-free holidays!

Nix Holiday Headaches Teleclass

Six Mondays, Nov 1-Dec 13, 2010

6-7:30 pm or 9:30-11 pm (both ET) (Two classes are scheduled to accommodate east/west times.)

Anywhere USA via teleconference (Learn to heal from the comfort of your couch!)

Special holiday rate: $180 (payable by check or PayPal)

Register today by contacting Jan Mundo with your name, phone, address, and email address. (I do not share your info with anyone.)

Please pass the word and be sure to “like” the Headache Coach on Facebook.

Dial in: 1-218-936-4700, Pin 76076

On Wednesday’s free intro conference call, we’ll talk about The Headache Coach approach to body-mind, self-care for headaches and migraines and the upcoming “Help for Headaches” class series in NYC, beginning on 9/22. You’re invited to join the call, even if you’re not a NYC local.

To sign up for the “Help for Headaches” class, call Jan at 212-991-8611 or email jmundo@mundolifework.com.

The renowned New York Headache Center, led by Alexander Mauskop, MD, FAAN, subscribes to both traditional and alternative headache therapies. If you live in the New York area and suffer from headaches or know someone who does, listen to this show and come to class!

In each moment, we have the possibility to heal our headaches and ourselves. Take the opportunity to begin.

We will also give the information on a free call-in session on this topic.

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My class, Help for Headaches is a Self-Care Program in Six Sessions. If you suffer from chronic headaches or migraines and want natural solutions, you are invited to attend! In six weeks and a supportive environment, you will learn how to use your body and mind to relieve and prevent your cycles of pain:

• Find your best headache diet
• Use centering practices to de-stress
• Learn self-massage to ease pain
• Practice hands-on headache relief
• Enlist thoughts, moods, and emotions as allies

Wednesdays, Sept 22 – Oct 27, 2010, 6-8 pm at the NY Headache Center

Fee: $260. Early bird: $245, if registered by Sept 7
Payment accepted by check or PayPal, made payable to Jan Mundo

I’m hosting a FREE intro conference call: Wed, Sept 15, 6-7 pm EDT.

Register with me soon to reserve your place. Class size is limited, so click here to sign up today! Include your name, phone number and specify if you’re registering for the class, the call, or both.

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Jan Mundo has been helping people with chronic headaches and migraines for forty years. In 1970, she developed a touch therapy that works with the sensations of pain to relieve headaches and in 1992 a program for self-care, body-mind headache relief and prevention.

She has conducted programs at UC Berkeley, UCSF, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Stanford University, Kaiser Permanente, and Hill Physicians Medical Group in CA. She currently practices in NYC and offers private and group sessions, lectures, workshops, classes, seminars, and professional training.

Ms. Mundo is a Master Somatic Coach, Body-Centered Therapist, Certified Massage Therapist, and author of the chapter “Conquering Chronic Headaches: Somatic Self-Care for Transforming Pain” in Being Human at Work. A research study abstract about the efficacy of the Mundo Program was published in Cephalalgia international headache journal (2001). Web: www.mundolifework.com, Facebook: The Headache Coach.