HEALTH & FITNESS AVM sports alternatives Rolling On The Art Of Feng Shui Women bring home trophies. Steve Stein Special to the Jewish News D etroit bowlers struck it rich at the 62nd annual Jewish Women International Mid-America Bowling Association tournament held in Itasca, Ill. They won three of the four team awards and 11 of the 24 individual awards. Local team award winners: Afternoon Delight (Margie Winston, Nancy Goldfaden, Shari Morgan, Andi Feuereisen and Sue Hersh) rolled 1132 for first place in team high game. Frame of Mind (Annette Rubenstein, Carolyn Fine, Andrea Reid and Carol Shapiro) rolled 1128 for second place in team high game. Bowling Queens (Fran Klinger, Cidnie Herold, Aida Cutler, Soralee Broida and Dena Wein) rolled 6349 for second place in team high series. Individual award winners were Amy Chimovitz, Bonnie Weintrobe, Fine, Herold, Hersh, Klinger, Morgan, Rubinstein, Shapiro, Wein and Winston. Leslie Ben-Ezra of Detroit and Fine were acknowledged for rolling a 600 series. Ben-Ezra had 202-185-223/610 and Fine had 177-232-197/606. Dana Glinski, the Detroit repre- sentative on the association execu- tive board, was installed as vice president for 2010-11. Get The Point Detroit-based Wayne State University senior fencer Slava Zingerman from Israel placed fourth in epee in the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships. It was his third top-five perfor- mance at region- als and it should land him an at- large berth in the national cham- pionships. He's Slava Zingerman won three NCAA national titles in epee and he'll try to become the first fencer to win four of them. Earlier this season, Zingerman won the epee title at the Midwest Fencing Conference meet for the third time in four years. 52 March 25 . 2010 Catholic Honors Three West Bloomfield-based Frankel Jewish Academy senior bas- ketball players have been honored by the Catholic League. Basil Williams, son of Kenneth and Nadya Williams, was named to the All-Catholic League Team. Ben Luger, son of Richard and Lea Luger, was named to the All-League Team. C.J. Apel, son of Donald and Lynn Apel, was named to the All-Academic Team. Flag Day A new Farmington/Farmington Hills league formed by Michigan Youth Flag Football will be launched this spring. Like leagues based in Walled Lake and West Bloomfield, it has an affili- ation with the Jewish Community Center in West Bloomfield. Teams can be formed through the JCC. Registration deadline for the spring season is March 31, with games starting April 25 and ending June 20. Teams hold one practice and play one game each week. Boys and girls ages 4-14 are eli- gible. Teams are co-ed and split into divisions based on age. There are no tryouts. Everyone is placed on a team. Fee is $128.50, which includes a jersey and flag belt that players keep, plus a trophy and pizza party at the end of the season. The program is affiliated with the NFL. For more information, call Laura Kelley, (248) 454-9700 or www. MichiganFlagFootball.com . Fast Equals Forfeit The girls basketball team at Northwest Yeshiva, an Orthodox Jewish high school of about 60 students on Mercer Island, Wash., became the first team from a Jewish school to qualify for a state prep basketball tournament. It also became the first team to forfeit a state tournament game. The 613s — Northwest's nickname refers to the 613 commandments — were scheduled to play a conso- lation bracket game at 12:30 p.m. on the Fast of Esther. Because the girls couldn't eat or drink until nightfall and the game couldn't be rescheduled, school offi- cials decided to forfeit. El Please send sports news to sports@thejewishnews.com . F eng shui is an ancient art devel- oped in China over 3,000 years ago. Its goal is to balance the energies of any given space to assure health, wellness and good fortune to those who inhabit it. Like acupuncture, feng shui is based on the prin- ciple of qi, an energy that fills our spaces and makes it feel alive. You may have heard the expres- sion that the space has good feng shui or even walked into a space yourself and had a good or bad feeling when you did. One of the objects of feng shui is to create a free path for the qi to flow through- out your home. Picture qi as a gentle stream flowing through your home. By doing a simple walk through your home, you can see where the stream flows smoothly and where clutter and objects get in its way. An important prin- ciple of feng shui is the theory of yin and yang, or balance. This theory believes that everything in the universe consists of two opposing ener- gies — yin and yang. Yin and yang cannot exist without one another. Simple examples of yin and yang are night and day, hot or cold, relaxed or uptight, happy or sad. Creating a home that has a bal- ance of yin and yang is very impor- tant in feng shui. For example, yin energy should be prominent in your bedroom. Yin is relaxing and sooth- ing and will support your body's ability to sleep. Yin colors and sounds will be very helpful in the bedroom. On the other hand, yang-domi- nant items like the television and computer in the yin space of the bedroom can lead to insomnia and difficulty relaxing. Keeping the yang items in their appropriate places (the living room and kitchen) will help to bring sanctity and balance to your home. Feng Shui also views the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water) as very important to be included in a home design. According to Terah Kathryn Collins, founder of the Western School of Feng Shui in San Diego, "When all five are included in your home design, health and happiness are best held in place." Each element can be expressed in a variety of ways. This can include items that are made out of an element (wood or metal), objects that are associated with an element (plants are associated with earth) or colors that take on an element (red is associated with fire, white is associated with metal). Feng Shui views all things and creatures as part of a natural order that is constantly mov- ing and changing. Feng Shui divides our never- ending universe into more manageable units — like human beings and their homes, prop- erty, offices, living- rooms and bedrooms. Feng Shui allows you to design your personal space according to the same uni- versal principles of energy flow that governs the wind, fire, earth, metal and water. Next time you feel out of bal- ance, look objectively to your home and surroundings; find a way to create inner peace through your outer environment. Li An important principle of feng shui is the theory of yin and yang, or balance. Julie Silver, MSW, Dipl. Ac., is a National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine board-certified acupuncturist and owner of Acupuncture Healthcare Associates of Michigan, Inc., a West Bloomfield holistic health clinic featuring acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine and naturopathic medicine. Her e-mail address is acuhealer@sbcglobal.net .