CARLOS MORENO ▲ Healer follows family path—with his own twist B Because of limited medical help, Master. Simple tapping procedures on key partsCraig’s Emotional Freedom Technique, also knownas EFT, and immersed himself until he was an EFTorn in Mexico City, Carlos Morenocomes from a family of healers. his grandfather, Ramón, was known as a huesero of the body have eliminated hundreds of clients’ (bones). People came to him for themselves or for emotional and physical ailments. their animals. But when his mother wanted to go to “Negative emotion is like the kink in a water medical school, his traditional grandfather kept her hose that disrupts the body’s energy system,” he a wife and mother. Carlos and his brother turned says. “Once the kink is cleared, the body can to medicine as well. His brother became a medical repair itself.” After wearing glasses for twenty-two doctor, while Carlos sought out an alternative path. years, Moreno decided to study Dr. William Bates’ Carlos believes that what we think, whether it’s technique on improving eyesight naturally. He no positive or negative, gets passed on generationally; longer needs his glasses, and is now teaching his often a biological issue with a child is a result of an clients to see clearer as well. A Napa resident since unresolved emotional issue with one of the parents. 1998, Moreno has a gentle and calming manner He also doesn’t subscribe to the old adage that and has been helping local citizens resolve their time heals all wounds. In 2005 he discovered Gary issues photo by ART & CLARITY PAuL wAgNER PAM STARR The Renaissance American Fell into long winemaking career Ihe is hard pressed to decide which three. The son of a teacher and P puts out there. Her surgeonam Starr says she is a classicresult of following what lifenternational wine expert Paul Wagner jokes that when conversationturns to naming three things people might not know about you, park ranger, Wagner lived in the state parks as a kid and began a lifelong love father wanted her to pursue business, for hiking before he could even walk. His go-to place with wife Margaret medicine or law, but Starr wanted to Clark is the high Sierra Nevada, which is the backdrop to his regular blog break out of southern California and at backpackthesierra.com. The blog was recently named one of the ten best headed to U.C. Davis to study dentistry. backpacking blogs in the world. In addition, as an avid cyclist, he logs in an It wasn’t until after graduation that Starr average of 6,000 miles a year. He is the current president of Napa Bicycle and discovered wine with her chef friend, Trails Commission. He has also coached soccer and helped start the Napa Youth Holly Peterson Mondavi, and learned Soccer League. about the sociability of wine. It was on a soccer scholarship that he studied sociology at U.C. Santa Cruz. All aspects of the wine industry He then moved on to classical guitar at the Royal Conservatory of Music in intrigued her. Starr landed an internship photo by ART & CLARITY Seville, Spain, and gave concerts all over Europe. He credits Margaret, a chef, with Bill Bennelli, and had a ball. for landing them in the Napa Valley, where he has since become a well-known Missing the beach life of her youth, she jumped at the chance to work for wine educator and marketer. He a start-up winery and make wine at the beach. “Our crew were all highly has taught at Napa Valley College’s educated cellar rats who were having fun and didn’t realize the work it took Viticulture and Enology department to make wine,” says Starr. She also took part in the first winery cave built. for seventeen years, as well as wine “I kept falling into position because my curiosity and passions were so education at the Culinary Institute strong,” she said. “There was a glass ceiling in the wine business in the ‘80s of America. He has judged wine and that was going through an inertia of breaking through traditions. I broke a lectured in over fifty countries on lot of etiquette rules.” wine, and co-authored an award- winning wine book, Wine Marketing In 1988, Chalone Wine Group sent Starr to France to travel around with and Sales: Strategies for a Saturated winemakers. “The whole culture of wine picture came together for me—the Market, now in its second edition. sharing and collaboration of hard work in a bottle of wine.” When he is not doing all the above, Starr beams at her twenty-nine years as an award-winning winemaker he runs Balzac Communications & and says she is still in formation, but her foundation is strong. She is a role Marketing, which he founded in model for other female winemakers. “I wanted to be someone who led the 1991, in downtown Napa. way from the cellar to president, and I have done that.” 18 w w w. N A PA V A L L E Y L I F E M A g A z I N E . C O M
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