Benefit Concert for One World Healing Arts Institute, Asheville, NC

Asheville, NC, March 24, 2008 --(PR.com)-- After the doors closed at NC School of Natural Healing on Riverside Drive, herb students of the school (Mountain Spirit School of Herbalism) were 1/3 of the way finished with their 1 ½ year program when their herbalism instructors promised to honor their educational contracts with limited funding. Students are grateful that their displaced community has found new vision and a new location in west Asheville at 2 Sulphur Springs as One World Healing Arts Institute (OWHAI). The students of OWHAI have organized a benefit concert made possible by Asheville’s supportive community of independent businesses and musicians on March 30th at the Garage at Biltmore. Featured performers include Laura Reed & Deep Pocket, Woody Wood & Hollywood Red, Snake Oil Medicine Show, the Archrivals, Robert Greer from Town Mountain with Friends and Cactus, a kid favorite. The benefit concert is an all-ages show, doors open at 5pm and tickets are $15 adults, $5 kids. Catering by Ophelia’s and French Broad Brewery beers will be available for purchase. Raffles from local sponsors and herbal products will be for sale. All proceeds will benefit One World Healing Arts Institute.

The One World Healing Arts Institute offers alternative educational programs and a healing clinic unique to the Appalachian Mountains and Asheville.

OWHAI is unique in that it strives to become community owned and function as a business cooperative. Its mission, to bring awareness to transformational, ethnobotanical, and cultural healing traditions will manifest through educational training programs featuring world healing modalities, a student run herbal apothecary and product line, a diverse healing clinic, and ecotourism opportunities.

OWHAI has come together under the direction of its executive director, Mimi Hernandez (Middleton), MS, RH (AHG).

Mimi is a clinical herbalist, researcher, and educator whose courses balance traditional reverence with scientific understanding and intuitive awareness. She is the President of the North Carolina Herb Association and a founding member of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Herbalists Guild. Mimi has a Master of Science degree in Herbal Medicine from the Tai Sophia Institute where her research focused on herbal strategies for arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular inflammation. She loves to teach, and believes that the handing down of herbal knowledge is crucial. Mimi lovingly draws upon her rich Latino background & the Granny healers in her life.

For more information:
Director, Mimi Hernandez (Middleton) MS, RH (AHG ) (828)243-6445, herbalnymph@msn.com
Student organizer, Aliya Boozari (828)423-8599, Booz4567@yahoo.com
www.owhai.com

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