FirstStop Martha's Vineyard

Category: Health and Wellness

End of Life Care

NIH / End of Life: Helping with Comfort and Care

End of Life: Helping With Comfort and Care is a publication is based on research, such as that supported by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, that hopes to make the unfamiliar territory of death slightly more comfortable for everyone involved. This research base is augmented with suggestions from…

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Alternative / Holistic Health

Kim Hilliard L.M.T.

Since 1998, Kim has been providing top quality massage to Islanders and visitors alike. A 1997 graduate of Heartwood Institute’s Advanced Massage Therapist training with over 800 hours, Kim continues to study with the Paul St. John Method of Neuromuscular Therapy (NMT); the Howard Rontal method of Myofascial Release Massage (MFR); CORE Structural Integration, and…

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End of Life Care

Death Cafe

At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’. A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is…

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Family Planning

Elissa Lash

Prenatal yoga instructor, doula, and childbirth educator for over ten years in New York, Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard.  My goal is for couples to have a happy, healthy and empowered birth – there is no right way to do it, pregnancy and birth are a personal journey, and I’d love to be part of…

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Addiction and Recovery

One hot yoga

At ONEhotyoga we are proud to offer many different styles of yoga including but not limited to: Bikram Hot Yoga Barkan Hot Vinyasa Baptiste Power Vinyasa Sanchez/Ghosh LineageAll of our classes are hot (95~98 degrees) and modified to accommodate all levels of practice. So please feel free to explore and try them all! Directions: If…

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