Healthy living entrepreneur, Sharon Bruckman, established Natural Awakenings magazine in 1994 in Naples, Florida, in response to her local holistic health community's need for an effective way to share information and connect with people searching for alternative therapies. Success of the original Naples/Ft. Myers edition was immediate.

Two years later, an avid reader convinced her to launch a second edition in Sarasota, Florida. Its destiny was to become the prototype for an unprecedented franchise network of like-minded people who value what this magazine brings to their communities.

In 1999 Bruckman formed Natural Awakenings Publishing Corporation to support the growing network of publishers. Currently, magazines are being published in cities and regions of the country as diverse as Richmond & Southwestern Virginia, Atlanta, Georgia, New York City, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Denver & Boulder, Colorado, Phoenix, Arizona, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Portland, Oregon. There are fourteen Natural Awakenings franchises in Florida alone. In each market, thousands of free copies are circulated at hundreds of public distribution points.

Natural Awakenings Is Everywhere!

As a free monthly publication, we’re distributed in hundreds of locations throughout the Southwestern Virginia area including Amherst, Bedford, Botetourt, Carroll, Campbell, Craig, Floyd, Franlklin, Grayson, Patrick, Pulaski, Roanoke, and Rockbridge counties including:

Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Pulaski, Radford, Dublin
Smith Mountain Lake, Roanoke, Lynchburg,
Bedford, Forest, Floyd, Hillsville, Galax,
Lexington, and Stuart

Call us at (540) 789-5550 to have Natural Awakenings delivered to your place of business each month!

Our readers can pick us up all month in:

• Krogers
• Food Lion Supermarkets
• Health food stores and markets
• Holistic clinics and centers
• Practitioner offices
• Public libraries
• Vitamin and herb shops
• Fitness centers
• YMCA’s
• Bookstores
• Spas and retreat centers
• Spiritual centers
• Restaurants and cafés
• Non-profit organizations
• Recreational centers
• Expos and conferences

Southwestern Virginia Natural Awakenings magazine is part of a this growing family of locally owned magazines, now collectively reaching over 2.5 million readers in more than 70 national markets each month.  By being part of a larger network of magazines, we can provide the latest green living and wellness information through feature articles written by nationally-recognized authors, as well as articles by local experts.