**SPECIAL INVITATION**

TO: ACIH Board, National Council & Founders

You are invited to a private informal and interactive talk

describing the theory, process and recommended uses of

Acupuncture and Feldenkrais healing therapies

Led by

Dr. Miles Reid & Ms. Aerin Alexander

of Tilo Medical Center, Beverly Hills

Wednesday, August 11, 2004

4:00 – 5:30pm

Bonnie McCloskey’s home

2300 Red Mountain Road

RSVP & Directions, 920-2957 x2

The Aspen Center for Integrative Health is pleased to present this special gathering as a benefit to our VIPs in our continuing efforts to provide you the latest educational information about integrative medicine. Our presenters come highly recommended and are currently consulting with the Aspen Institute on their new building project. Their bios appear on the back of this letter.

Also of Interest

Dr. Reid and Ms. Alexander will also offer private sessions at the Aspen Club & Spa on Wednesday and Thursday, August 11 and 12. If you are interested, contact Josephine at 310-278-9050.

And Don’t Forget Power Health!

If you have not yet registered to attend Power Health: Vitality at All Ages on August 23 at Harris Hall, please call to secure your seats. This promises to be one of our best Symposia to date! For more information, call 920-2957 x1.

Meet our Speakers

Dr. Miles Reid is a Licensed Acupuncturist and a National Diplomat in Acupuncture and Chinese herbology. A medical doctor from Argentina, he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine and practiced Family Medicine in Argentina before moving to the United States. He completed his Masters Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine with highest honors from Yo San University in Marina del Rey, California, where he is currently a faculty member.

In addition to his formal medical training, Dr. Reid has a keen interest in the shamanistic traditions of ancient Mexico, with more than ten years of training under the tutelage of Dr. Carlos Castaneda. Currently, Dr. Reid practices integrative medicine at his private clinic, Tilo Medical Center in Beverly Hills, California.

Ms. Aerin Alexander, Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner (CFP), has been teaching physical movements and dance in Argentina and the United States for the last 20 years. The main focus of her work has been in helping people to restore their ability to move with ease, elegance and joy, free of pain. She teaches group classes and individual lessons based on the Feldenkrais Method® of somatic education: slow and gentle movement intended to develop greater awareness and to restore balance, flexibility and coordination.

Ms. Alexander is a Kinesiologist, completing her Master’s Degree in Exercise Science at the University of California, Northridge. She has additional experience working with sleep disorders and is a certified Sounder Sleep Therapist®. She is also a certified Bones for Life® teacher, a system of movements that promotes bone health.