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Transformation through Awareness: Meet chiropractor & yoga teacher Zohra Campbell

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It’s hap­pened to all of us. We’re lis­ten­ing to a lec­ture or read­ing a book, but we’re not real­ly pay­ing atten­tion — our minds have wan­dered off to some­thing else.

At a day full of pre­sen­ta­tions and new ideas, like TEDxSalem, we can eas­i­ly find our­selves strug­gling with focus.

That’s where Dr. Zohra Camp­bell will try to help.

The long-time Salem chi­ro­prac­tor and yoga teacher will lead two ses­sions — one in the morn­ing and one after lunch — of mind­ful­ness and pranaya­ma, yog­ic breath­ing prac­tices that help our mind get focused, present, and aware.

She’ll be ask­ing audi­ence mem­bers to breathe, move, and become more aware of their bod­ies and sur­round­ings.

“My hope is that I can help us focus on what we are here for, notice what we bring to the table that day, and let our old pat­terns go so we can be present and open to the day ahead,” Camp­bell says.

Camp­bell believes that aware­ness is trans­for­ma­tion, and that is the heart of the busi­ness she has run for 15 years, Indi­go Well­ness Cen­ter.

A chi­ro­prac­tor since 1992, Camp­bell has found that her clients’ pain is often relat­ed to stress or ten­sion pat­terns they hold in their bod­ies.

“Pos­tur­al habits, emo­tion­al habits, men­tal habits — they keep us trapped in either pain or emo­tion­al suf­fer­ing,” she says. “My pas­sion is to help peo­ple unwind that.

“I start every yoga class by hav­ing peo­ple sit and breathe and just notice what they’re com­ing with today. Once we’re aware that we hold ten­sion in our neck, every time we have that aware­ness, we have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to respond.”

Indi­go began in 2004 in a loca­tion on south Com­mer­cial Street.  After sev­er­al loca­tion changes and with the sup­port of many stu­dents and clients, Indi­go found a home in Pringle Park Plaza, down­town Salem, five years ago.

Today, the busi­ness includes four chi­ro­prac­tors, sev­en mas­sage ther­a­pists, a coun­selor, and a full yoga stu­dio with 23 class­es each week.

Camp­bell also leads a 200-hour yoga teacher cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram and sev­er­al yoga retreats annu­al­ly. She has led retreats in Cuba, Mex­i­co, Guatemala, Hawaii, Cos­ta Rica and Italy.

Many of the retreats include a ser­vice ele­ment. In April, Camp­bell will be co-lead­ing a trip with Mik­ki Trow­bridge to India, where par­tic­i­pants will raise funds for an orga­ni­za­tion that helps vic­tims of human traf­fick­ing.

No mat­ter where she is teach­ing, Camp­bell tries to bring par­tic­i­pants’ focus back to the per­son­al aware­ness that can lead to heal­ing.

“We all feel great after we go to a yoga class or get a mas­sage, and we all wish we could feel that way all the time,” she says. “That’s real­ly my goal: to give you the tools you need to feel that way more of the time. The more we’re aware of our habits, the more oppor­tu­ni­ty there is to change them.”

TEDxSalem VII

TEDxSalem VII is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and swag. It takes place from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Jan. 4, 2020, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Click here for tick­ets.  Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com

Meet the final round of speakers for TEDxSalem VII

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TEDxSalem is proud to announce the final round of speak­ers for TEDxSalem VII “Vision” on Jan­u­ary 4, 2020.

Nina Bali­ga, Co-Founder and CEO of <div>ersity, will dis­cuss build­ing acces­si­bil­i­ty to tech­nol­o­gy for peo­ple with dis­abil­i­ties and how it can make our world bet­ter not just through inclu­sion, but by improv­ing prod­ucts and ser­vices for every­one.

Justin Fein­stein, Ph.D., a Clin­i­cal Neu­ropsy­chol­o­gist and direc­tor at the Lau­re­ate Insti­tute for Brain Research Float Clinic & Research Cen­ter and Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Tul­sa, Oxley Col­lege of Health Sci­ences, will share how float­ing (in a sen­so­ry depri­va­tion tank) can desen­si­tize the anx­ious ner­vous sys­tem, includ­ing in patients with PTSD, pan­ic dis­or­der, ago­ra­pho­bia, social pho­bia, and gen­er­al­ized anx­i­ety. 

Hai­ley Hard­cas­tle, a grad­u­ate of Sher­wood High School and fresh­man at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon who helped with a new piece of leg­is­la­tion that allows Ore­gon stu­dents to take “men­tal health days” off from school (House Bill 2191), will speak to defeat­ing the stig­ma sur­round­ing men­tal health and learn how we can cre­ate a more empa­thet­ic soci­ety.

Mihir Joshi, a 13-year-old stu­dent at South Salem High School, will explore how to pre­dict the change of Marine Pro­tect­ed Areas in the ocean and what you can do to help save the ocean.

Dr. Marisa Zap­a­ta, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Land-Use Plan­ning at Port­land State Uni­ver­si­ty, will address how we can solve home­less­ness by rethink­ing who has a right to hous­ing.

Keep an eye on our web­site as over the next few months we will delve into the sto­ries behind our speak­ers learn­ing more about their “ideas worth spread­ing.”

TEDxSalem VII

TEDxSalem VII is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag. It takes place 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Jan. 4, 2020, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Tick­ets will go on sale in Octo­ber. (Join our email list to find out about Ear­ly Bird tick­ets.) Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com

Meet the first round of speakers for TEDxSalem VII

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TEDxSalem is proud to announce the first round of speak­ers for TEDxSalem VII.

Mike Stud­er of North­west Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Asso­ciates will speak on the regen­er­a­tive capac­i­ties of the human brain.

There­sa McCormick, Port­land State Uni­ver­si­ty Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Chem­istry, will address the ques­tion, “Is hydro­gen per­ox­ide the fuel of the future?”

Kaeli Swift, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton, will dis­cuss the pow­er of crows to enrich our lives and con­nect us to nature.

Melis­sa Poll­man of Haley’s Heroes Foun­da­tion will delve into how rare dis­ease, research and hope are con­nect­ed.

Nicole Mali­noff will explore dance and acces­si­bil­i­ty and how it can ben­e­fit our com­mu­ni­ties.

Bas­sam Tarazi will share things you learn in a go-cart in the mid­dle of the Turk­men Desert (or…Purposeful Dis­com­fort and the Pow­er Of Planned Grit)

And as men­tioned at our 2019 event Salem artist and com­mu­ni­ty advo­cate Danielle Baca will be this year’s Artist-in-Res­i­dence. 

Keep an eye on our web­site as over the next few months we will delve into the sto­ries behind our speak­ers learn­ing more about their “ideas worth spread­ing.”

TEDxSalem VII

TEDxSalem VII is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag. It takes place 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Jan. 4, 2020, at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Tick­ets will go on sale in Sep­tem­ber. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com.