Getting Together at the Floyd Health and Wellness Fair
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on April 12, 2018
The Partnership for Floyd’s second annual Health and Wellness Fair went off without a hitch Saturday, after being rescheduled due to inclement weather. The parking lot at Floyd County High School was full and the new gym, where the event was held, was a-buzz with activity.
“One of our major goals is to get the health practitioners together, to work together as community,” said fair organizer Jane Cundiff (pictured seated far left), adding that another goal was to introduce the community to local wellness resources. “We have everyone here from master naturalists, clubs and organization, yoga practitioners to a neuro-surgeon.”
Cundiff, a biology teacher at Radford University, said her students were in attendance and taking notes. Note takers also attended panel discussions, which were led by practitioners from a variety of health traditions. They included talks on Lyme Disease and Stress Management.
Information booths included resources on midwifery, martial arts, mindfulness, counseling, voter registration, massage, ear acupuncture, aging and more. 
Attendees participated in free demonstrations and consultations with physicians, herbalists and health instructors. Healthy snacks were also available. – Colleen Redman
Practitioners perform NADA ear acupuncture on interested fair attendees. NADA (National Acupuncture Detoxification Association) is a “not-for-profit training and advocacy organization that encourages community wellness through the use of a standardized auricular acupuncture protocol for behavioral health, including addictions, mental health, and disaster and emotional trauma,” their webpage reads. A local group runs clinics out of the June Bug Center.
Attendees receiving NADA Acupuncture enjoy the therapy’s relaxing results.
Healthy Floyd, non-profit organization promoting a culture of health in wellness in Floyd County, played an exercise/dance video that they made and that attendees worked out to.
An attendee reacts as a representative of Virginia’s Cooperative Extension reveals the high content of sugar in soft drinks.
A representative from Virginia Kares Home Health Services does a blood sugar test on an attendee.
Citizens Telephone Cooperative’s Videographer Hari Berzins conducted interviews with booth vendors for CCTV Channel 20. Here, she talks with Mary Freday of Preserve Floyd, an environmental citizens group. Preserve Floyd hosted a youth art contest for the fair.
A couple enjoy a guided sound meditation by Kathryn Ashera Rose from Anahata Center for Wellbeing.
An attendee tries out a Bio-Electro-Magnetic-Energy- Regulation (Bermer) chair, which contributes to health by delivering a pulsed therapy that increases circulation.
