LAKE COUNTY ? Massages were given. Classes were attended. Cholesterol was checked. All were courtesy of Sutter Lakeside Hospital”s first Health and Wellness Exposition, held on the hospital”s North Lakeport campus on Saturday.
Health screenings were offered throughout the event and included body mass index, cholesterol, nutrition intake and balance assessments, among others. Hundreds of listeners attended speeches by two keynote speakers. Attendees milled among the booths offering everything from healthy food to massage demonstrations to information about alternative medicine.
“We have been busy the entire day with people wanting to be screened ? cholesterol especially has been one of the busy ones. People want to find out their fitness levels and body mass index ? we have had a steady stream all day,” Vera Crabtree, a nutritional consultant and personal trainer at the Sutter Lakeside Hospital Wellness Center, said.
Lucerne resident Margaret Rowson said she came to see Dr. Fred Allen Wolf, theoretical physicist, who was interviewed in the film “What the Bleep Do We Know.” Wolf was one of the two keynote speakers.
“He”s a quantum physicist and he explains it on a lay level, and we got to ask questions,” Rowson said.
At the beginning of his 11 a.m. speech, titled “Be the change: Mastering the Quantum Physics of Life,” Wolf said the probability of humans coming into existence by accident was statistically nil. He went on to speak about the paradox of individuals exerting power on the world.
“You have more power than you think, but you have less power than you might want,” Wolf said.
Dr. Joan Borysenko, a mind-body connection expert, delivered her keynote speech at 5 p.m.
Rowson was among approximately 40 people who received massage demonstrations offered by Lotus and Zen Tomlinson of Lotus Zen Therapeutic Massage, a Lakeport vendor at the expo.
“I had a rotator cuff problem, and Zen just healed it,” Rowson said.
Classes were offered throughout the event on subjects that included cooking, tai chi, yoga and others. One selection was an hour-long class on The Journey, a self-healing process developed by author Brandon Bays. Another class featured a look at the history and health of Lake County”s centerpiece lake.
A couple separately offering homeopathy and acupuncture had a booth as well, and spoke of their plans to make their services available at the Wellness Center in June.
Children attended an off-site day camp designed to get participants involved in sports and other activities. Choices included jump rope, skateboarding, swimming, rock climbing, gymnastics and martial arts, among others.
Contact Tiffany Revelle at trevelle@record-bee.com, or call her directly at 263-5636, ext. 37.
