What is Vital Ways?
Christopher Smaka2020-01-16T20:26:14+00:00We are so often asked, what we are, that we felt that its best to answer in a blog post: It is a School, 1-4 years long, in which students meet 1 [...]
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10, 2019
Mushroom Video-Youtube Link of 2019’s Fungal Season
Christopher Smaka2019-10-03T01:36:43+00:00Yay For Mushrooms! Tis the Season when so many thoughts hover and swirl around fungi. Here is a link to a short youtube video about mushrooms and walks with mostly 2019 footage. [...]
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10, 2019
Essential Mushroom Hunting Tips and Top 5 Edibles to Make your Mushroom Foray Safe and Productive PART 1
Christopher Smaka2019-10-02T16:07:58+00:00Essential Mushroom Hunting Tips and Top 5 Edibles to Make your Mushroom Foray Safe and Productive PART 1 Tip # 1: Surprising Fungal Safety IdeasIt may surprise you to know that most [...]
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09, 2019
2019 is An Amazing Mushroom Year, Unlike Any in Recent Memory!
Christopher Smaka2019-09-30T16:21:50+00:00This year in forests throughout the region, it is one of the most spectacular fungal displays that I’ve seen in over 2 decades of mushroom foraging. This time of year, deep in [...]
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09, 2019
You are not Flawed, Defective or Broken, You live in a Deeply Flawed Society
Christopher Smaka2019-10-02T13:52:59+00:00In the last century, a brilliant sage in India named Krishnamurti said "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" We live in a profoundly [...]
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09, 2019
Forage for Fall Mushrooms Now with Vital Ways
Christopher Smaka2019-09-26T18:22:05+00:00This is the season for mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest! Lobster mushroom It's lobster mushroom, Hypomyces lactifluorum. So yum, in fact, some say it makes a better lobster broth than [...]
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09, 2019
Introduction To Vital Ways and Resources For Your Wellbeing
Christopher Smaka2019-09-26T15:39:20+00:00Your health is your top priority. Want to make it ours? If you have a question about natural holistic approaches to health, then send it to us and our clinical herbal [...]
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03, 2019
Vital Ways School Director Featured in Willamette Week
Christopher Smaka2019-09-26T15:37:39+00:00Chris gets interviewed about adaptogens. The reporter did an admirable job of capturing the spirit of the interview. Kudos to the her, and the Willamette Week for covering such an important topic! [...]
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03, 2019
All Health Starts in the Gut
Christopher Smaka2019-09-26T16:02:15+00:00Your health is your top priority. Want to make it ours? If you have a question about natural holistic approaches to health, then send it to us and our clinical herbal [...]
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03, 2019
Stress Relief and Vital Lifestyle Upgrades
Christopher Smaka2019-09-26T15:28:23+00:00Did it ever cross your mind that our modern lifestyle with its often excessive amount of stress is one of the main contributing factors to our declining health? Yeah, us too [...]