For more information about booking a “Restoring Balance” workshop,

contact Laura DuBois at

laura@cfth.us.org or 732-687-3571

Our CFTH family at the Santiam Correctional Institution

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “Thank you so much.  The impact you are making is beyond words.  Through self discovery you’re opening up roads to recovery and true healing. Thank you…”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “This is my 4th time in prison, but my 1st time opening my heart to change, to love, to all the good things I need.  I took this workshop for the first time today, July 10th, and I can see how just by doing what was brought here today could make a change in my life for the better.  And it helps even more knowing that the people who are telling us about it actually care. Caring and love can change anyone.  So as long as we are all caring and loving then we are making the world a better place for me, for you, for us all, and all of those who come after.”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “I loved the whole conception - multi-media, interweaving music, the natural world, and movement.  RAIN is a beautiful thing and I plan to try to use it in my personal self-care and spiritual life. It was clear you all put your hearts and souls into this.  ”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “I appreciated the three different speakers and the diversity of the workshop - the music, the meditation, tapping, dancing - all of which I found to be beneficial to my own mental and physical health.  Thank you so much for putting this on.  It was wonderful!”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “I feel relaxed, open and happy. 

    Thank you for this.  It is a gift!”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “Breathing and meditation with the warm and soothing music help alleviate the ugly back pain, clearing the mind to open up and receive! Great work getting the group involved.  Thank you for everything.”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “The entire workshop was fun, informational and inspirational. I loved sharing time with people, learning new and enlightening tools to use on a regular basis.”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “I liked that you brought in food and nature items and mixed it up with interactive activities.”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “I understand time constraint at the facility, but this workshop left me wanting more.”

  • What people are saying about "Restoring Balance"...

    “Thank you for sharing the love and the music!”

Messages from SCI Participants

At a recent Restoring Balance workshop at Santiam Correctional Institution, we offered the participants an opportunity to write a message to the CFTH community.  This would be a chance to be heard, to be known and understood.  We let them know we’d share their messages at a talk at Unity of the Valley, and that their family members would be able to see their messages online.    

Six people chose to write messages.  These are people that we’ve gotten to know over the course of time, and these messages come from their hearts.