All of us at Lotus are excited about receiving this prestigious award at a special luncheon hosted by the City of Santa Monica and the Chamber of Commerce at The 16th Annual Sustainable Quality Awards (SQA) held at the Sheraton Delfina in Santa Monica on April 27, 2011.

In front of a few hundred in attendance, Dr. Armm and general manager Winter accepted a trophy along with a certificates of recognition from California Senator Fran Pavley and Congress woman Julia Brownley. Dr. Armm received applause when he announced Lotus had recently signed their lease again to keep "business local" by staying in Santa Monica. Lotus also continued it's pledge to being eco-friendly. In attendance included major of Santa Monica, Richard Bloom, and others.

It was a great event; an honor all of us will remember for a long time. Thanks, Sustainable Works/Susy Borlido, Chamber of Commerce, and City of Santa Monica. To show our support, Lotus contributed to the City Santa Monica Office of Sustainability and Environment being a luncheon presentation donor.

Santa Monica NEWS - Sustainable Quality Awards Luncheon with Evan Kleinman. Please see SQA press release below - and here are links to recently published articles in local press:

KCRW's Kleiman keynote speaker for Sustainable Quality Awards

Santa Monica Businesses Compete to be Green

For more information on the Sustainable Quality Awards visit www.smsqa.com.

Sustainable Works offers free greening programs to Santa Monica businesses and residents who want to make their home or workplace more sustainable. Visit www.sustainableworks.org

Throughout April 2011, Lotus East-West Medical Center was features on the Emmy nominated show called Be Green, which educates and inspires people in the Santa Monica community to live a more sustainable life. This eco-friendly show works closely with Sustainable Works and always feature certified green businesses like Lotus! The show in it's entirety airs 4 weeks straight, everyday, 3 times a day on channels 16 and 99 in Santa Monica and in all the local hotels.

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Mondays

1 - 2pm at Pharmaca (Pacific Palisades)

3 - 4pm at Pharmaca (Brentwood)

Wednesdays

12 - 2pm at Henry's Farmers Market (Burbank)

3 - 5pm at Henry's Farmers Market (Woodland Hills)

Fridays

4:30 - 5:30pm B12 HAPPY HOUR at Lotus East-West Medical Center

Saturdays

9:30 - 11:30am at the Santa Monica Homeopathic Pharmacy    more... 

Lotus has been awarded recertification by the Santa Monica Green Business recertification for another two years for it's commitment to staff education, waste reduction, energy efficiency, water efficiency & urban run-off, pollution prevention & chemical use, sustainable procurement & eco-purchasing, and transportation management. Here's to making the planet clean and healthy for many generations to come.

Lotus East-West Medical Center is an environmentally friendly, holistic primary care center providing acupuncture, oriental and naturopathic medicine, medical and osteopathic doctors, along with other related services. They were the first holistic medical center to achieve Santa Monica Green Business Certification in 2007.  Highlights of their green building renovation include zero-VOC paint, formaldehyde free plyboo flooring, reclaimed furniture and recycled jip-board.

 

Environmentally-preferred procurement ranges from organic hand soap, lotion and alcohol hand sanitizer (triclosan-free), to 100% post-consumer paper products like paper towels and business cards. Only organic, caffeine-free teas are purchased. They use "Eco-font" for general printing which uses 20% less ink. All off-site printing is contracted by Greener Printer. Non-toxic cleaning chemicals are used facility wide. They refill compostable bagasse cups with water from an onsite filtration unit installed in-house instead of purchasing plastic bottled water.  Unlike most medical facilities, they stock books on Edible Gardens and Ecological Design instead of conventional magazines. Lotus East-West office walls feature pieces from local artists.

For the first half of February, Dr. Armm visited Bali, Indonesia where he toured a local midwifery center, offered his services, and made a healing connection between Lotus and Bumi Sehat.

 

Dr. Armm notes, "Thank you to all those who generously donated clothing and supplies to this wonderful and inspiring healing center in Bali. When we landed, we immediately delivered hundreds of children clothing items to Bumi Sehat. When we visited the midwifery center days later we were told this story: A woman just the other day coming over from Java was in labor, had no money even to buy a single item of clothing for her new baby. The baby was born and they opened our boxes of clothing and made the difference in this woman's new life with her baby by giving her free clothing. It was that immediate; clothing given out to another in need for free a few days after we arrived. Thank you again for this heart-warming opportunity to offer selfless service."

 

Should you want to continue to donate to Bumi Sehat Foundation International, visit: http://www.bumisehatbali.org 

 

57,914 votes determined the winners of the CityVoter Los Angeles HOTLIST, and in the category "2011 Best Acupuncture", this year our medical center won 2nd place. It is a great accomplishment to be awarded by "CityVoter". Thank you Los Angeles!

Lotus Past Awards

2009 Best of the LA HOTLIST - Acupuncture (1st place)

2008 Best of the LA HOTLIST - Acupuncture (4th place)

Free monthly acupuncture newsletter with monthly health tips, recipes and studies, written by acufinder.com for Dr. Armm and separate from this Lotus newsletter.

 

May 2011

Women's Health Concerns and How Acupuncture Can Help 

 

April 2011

Revitalize Your Health with Acupuncture and Nutrition 

 

March 2011

Acupuncture for Fibromyalgia Syndrome 

 

February 2011

Acupuncture for Endocrine Health 

You are welcome to contact us for a free copy of any newsletter in its entirety

 

In addition to Dr. Armm's holistic, primary care medical practice at Lotus East-West Medical Center, he also teaches "Meditation I: Introduction to Meditation"

to the masters level students at Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine in Santa Monica, California. Dr. Armm has been teaching this course every quarter for over five years to the students at Emperor's, and in 2010, the course was recorded and made available for people who are not enrolled in Chinese medical school but who are interested in learning meditation. Please see below a description of this 10 hour meditation course.

 

This meditation course is approved by the California Acupuncture Board.

 

Course Outcomes and Objective

Students will study the fundamental philosophy, form and practice of meditation. Each experiential class will primarily consist of guided or silent meditation practice, but will also include class discussion and lecture. Covering the basic principles of posture, breathing, attention, concentration and awareness, the intention of this course is to empower and inspire students to continue a lifelong, rewarding relationship with "just sitting".  For those who are willing, the promise of this course and this art form is the cultivation of mind and heart.

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1) Pain
2) Fatigue, stress and anxiety / depression
3) Digestive disorders
4) Allergies/asthma
5) Sleep disorders
6) Preventative medicine/wellness check-ups
7) Hormonal disorders
8) Reproductive Health
9) Weight lose and appetite control
10) Skin conditions

For a more comprehensive list, with detailed information on conditions and treatments, visit our Conditions We Treat webpage.