Holistica 2019 Practitioner Directory by Holistica

WELLBEING . FOR EVERYONE .

2019

TIONER PRACTI RY LISTI HEALTH NATURAL ONERS PRACTITI

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EDITORS NOTE

WELLBEING. FOR EVERYONE. I feel so privileged. Compiling this issue involved getting into a dreamlike state in a float tank, walking through the forest with a mushroom hunter, trying out Yoni steaming herbs, eating vegan mushroom biltong, burning Palo Santo wood, sleeping on a Coco Mat bed filled with seaweed and coconut husk, soaking in the Angala eco pool, discovering hemp fabric, having an Ayurvedic hot oil massage… not to mention a homeopathic Liberation Formula with its resultant colourful dreams. And so much more. Phew. Our wellbeing landscape is filled with the most amazing people, products and experiences and our absolute mission at Holistica is to make them accessible to everyone. There’s a world of healing and regenerative practitioners with incredible skills and ability bringing the gift of wholeness and health in a personalised holistic framework. The directory at the end of our magazine is our grand appreciation and salute to them. Forgive us if we have listed any of the details incorrectly, it’s not always that easy to keep track of everyone and if you are a practitioner we urge you to sign up onto our site Holistica.net so we can carry on our mission of promoting and marketing both your disciplines and your practices. We have an incredible team and fuelled with our resident raw cacao, chaga and goji berry superfood elixir (our daily celebratory drink) we’re set to bring you four magazines a year focusing on all aspects of the wellness industry from practitioners, to magical places, products and knowledge resources. We have the biggest and most impressive amounts of precious healing herbs, therapeutic interventions, preventative medicine, high inspiration, longevity practices and movement arts to share with you throughout these pages. There are so many incredible things out there and I hope you also get to experience them. Keep in touch, and join our movement towards WELLBEING. FOR EVERYONE.

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Palesa Moletsane Gauteng Ambassador Being a therapeutic reflexologist and passionate about natural health, I loved contributing to the story on Supporting Your Cycle. I’m part of the Gauteng contingent of Holistica and ready to support any Gautengers wanting to join our community. palesamoletsane073@gmail.com

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Contents

PRACTITIONER DIRECTORY 2019

10 | MEDICINE HUNTER

From forest bathing to barefoot walking and healing with mushrooms we celebrate the magic in the natural world by following a medicine hunter through the forest.

20 | SIPPING THE SUN

Whether growing sprouts, cultivating wheat grass, juicing broccoli or f inding a high quality supplement, we take you through the science and the soul of sipping sunshine.

30 | BELLY LOVE

In our explanation of gut health we get deep into the workings of the intestines and colon. We look at the microbiome diversity of an ancient tribe and offer a protocol on ‘how to reset your gut’.

42 | INDIVIDUATION

Three popular individuation techniques – DNA testing, Ayurveda and Family Constellations can help determine vital information about your strengths, vulnerabilities and predispositions.

52 | AFRICAN HERBAL MEDICINE

We speak to botanical researcher and developer Steve Hurt, about developing and protecting the many medicinal plants and herbs available in Southern Af rica and how to safely share their healing capacity with the world.

56 | NATURAL BEAUTY

There is a transformative power in self-care and this article takes you through beauty rituals and nurturing practices as a testament to knowing that beauty is already achieved.

70 | SUPPORT YOUR CYCLE

Make your menstrual period a sacred and comfortable time with three nurturing and healing practices f rom reflexology to yoni steaming and taking shatavari.

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72 | EARTH BOUND

Start by forming a connection to the earth. Then with absolute dedication, convert to an earth-loving lifestyle. Here are sustainable alternatives, ideas and practices for a happier harmonious relationship with earth.

80 | KEEP SLEEP IN MIND

Sleep is our most underrated nutrient, it’s also the ‘mini death’ that allows a new mood to birth. Learn how to cultivate quality sleeping time.

84 | HEALING CENTRES AROUND THE WORLD

Surprising, inspiring and even miraculous transformation stories hail f rom alternative healing centres worldwide. We look at some of the most celebrated – f rom longevity retreats to spiritual healing, Ayurvedic detox and plant medicine.

96 | MOVE YOUR BODY

Movement is an integral part of owning a body, and feeling fluid and flexible has indisputable happy-making benef its. We look at therapeutic dance, running and yoga.

104 | MANIFESTATION MOJO

Learning to allow the natural flow of giving and receiving can be implemented in anyone’s life. The laws of the universe are stacked in our favour and we can cultivate this position of total ease with mindful practices. Here’s how.

106 | LONGEVITY, IMMORTALITY & TRANSCENDENCE

In this expanded section, Jean-Pierre Le Roux takes us on a tour of longevity practices f rom fasting to regenerative sexuality, sacred herbs, mythical soma, conscious neurology and much more.

124 | DIRECTORY OF NATURAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS

Find a whole A to Z of Natural Health Practitioners and healing resources in an extensive list throughout South Af rica.

154 | SOCIETIES, ASSOCIATIONS & LEGISLATIVE BODIES

Find your way around the industry with this handy guide to societies, associations and legislative bodies.

FLOATING BEYOND BLISS Weightless, timeless, limitless, blissful… are words used to describe the floating experience. At first it seems daunting, climbing into a pod filled with salt water closing the lid and lying there floating.

Most people’s initial reaction is “Oh no, I get claustrophobic”, but once you experience it, there’s nothing claustrophobic about it. It’s a way to expand, to let go and feel safe. Float lovers around the world swear by the life changing and incredible benefits they’ve received from this seemingly strange innovation. Byron de Carvalho, owner of Float Zero in Cape Town is one of them. At the early age of 21 Byron had a stroke. He was an intense overachiever catering in the film industry working crazy hours, playing hard too and in his words leading a ‘rugged’ lifestyle. But lesions on his brain, a body that cold hardly move and crippling anxiety called for drastic change. “Both my mind and body had lost its ability to function normally, I couldn’t hold things in my hands, I struggled to walk 5 metres at a time, I couldn’t feel the pedals of my car and what’s worse, is that top neurologists said nothing much would change. I realised I was screwed, I hadn’t even hit my 30’s yet.”

In defiance Byron went searching for a solution, one that didn’t involve jumping off a cliff. Thousands of google searches later he discovered the concept of ‘sensory deprivation’. In the States floatation had attracted the attention of the anti-ageists and the trendy bio-hackers and Byron missioned across to try it out. “After a week of floating I found small changes in my mood, a glimpse of

a weird sort of contentment started filtering into my emotions. After week 3 of floating almost every day, I started to find my mind much calmer than before, I noticed the world, and all the small things as if I was wearing 3D glasses, and my reality had become the landscape of a much more beautiful and unterrifying world.” After 3 months he had the full use of his body again. Regular floating was what healed Byron his body, his state of mind and his lifestyle. He installed a float pod at his house and

encouraged all sorts of people with challenging conditions to float. Stories of bi-polar being regulated, anxiety being sorted, sports injuries healing, chronic pain alleviated, emotional turbulence soothed, ADD and ADHD controlled and many more were testament to the benefits of floating. Something about being in a profoundly relaxed state seems to prompt the body towards deep healing. After repeated requests from friends and family, it was a natural progression to open a float centre. Byron designed his own pod system, bigger than the standard pods to accommodate people who feel claustrophobic. He also worked with an ISM (Interhemispheric Synchronic Mediation) specialist, and developed a library of binaural beats – cognitive-inducing sound waves that use frequency to heal specific issues of the body and mind. Knowing that complete darkness is fearful for many, he added coloured lighting options that mimic the chakra centres. Clients can choose to have light and music options or not. For pre- and post floating a special blend of local hand-picked teas and fermented teas from Taiwanese tea maker Menghwei were developed for maximum medicinal value. These are available in the tea lounge to enjoy. People who discover floating, make it a habit. It’s therapeutic, enjoyable, uplifting, healing, transcendental and life-changing.

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MEDICINE

Archie takes us on a medicine hunting journey...

Hormones are the ‘molecules of consciousness’— powerful bio-peptides that control mood, perception, sleep-wake cycles, bonding and connection and our awareness of reality. Reishi’s effect on the hormonal system is legendary. It is gentle yet powerful, working to balance the body’s many glands and organs steadily over time, which makes it ideal for daily use. Justin Faerman

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HUNTER From forest bathing to barefoot walking and healing with mushrooms we celebrate the therapeutic magic present in the natural world. Following a medicine hunter through the forest we look at the journey behind creating healing tinctures with mushrooms like Red Reishi and Turkey Tail. Medicinal mushrooms have the efficacy of thousands of years of proven benefit and scientific credibility in preventing and treating issues from immune disorders to viral diseases and cancer. BY ROBYN WI LKINS ON PHOTO J ULIET TERB L A NCHE

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"That's how you find your way and find the medicine."

ushroom hunting is just as romantic as it sounds. Following barefooted and somewhat wild forest dweller Archie Terblanche through his land in the Knysna forest yielded a story about a porcupine, a mushroom (obviously) and a huge envy for a life lived so close to nature. On the third turn we couldn’t resist taking off our shoes, the forest floor was incredibly soft f rom months of rain and our intrepid guide mentioned that walking barefoot has an instant antiinflammatory benefit. I’m not sure Archie wore shoes much, he was beautifully in touch with the forest and had an uncanny intuitive sense of which pathway to follow. “You learn to read the trees, the shapes of them become familiar and you develop a

natural compass,” he said. He also affirmed that, you don’t find Reishi, it finds you. And so he took no credit for his foraging forays, inferring that it was inevitable – he and the Reishi mushroom were meant to be. And yes, he casually walked over a tree trunk, behind a bush, through another thicket and lo and behold, there it was. A spectacular Red Reishi. When Archie first realised he had Red Reishi right at his doorstep he was totally blown away. Unlike the Ancient Reishi which is more commonly found in the wild, the Red counterpart is not. They’re very beautiful mushrooms, and mostly grow on very old or dying trees where they appear hard, brown, woody and wavy with a noticeable aura of wisdom and majesty.

Archie Terblanche lives in the Knysna forest along the Garden Route and creates a limited amount of tinctures and teas under the label African Forest Medicinals. www.africanforestmedicinals.com

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With a legacy in China of being reserved for royal immortality, it’s just and fair they’re given admiration and respect. And Archie has appropriate reverence never removing too much f rom the cluster of mushrooms allowing the ‘God of Fungi’ its due to grow back. Mushrooms are also never harvested until they have dropped their spore – when their life cycle is complete. This ensures survival and proliferation of the species. In China, Reishi or Ling Zhi, is known as the Mushroom of Immortality and has an exhaustive amount of healing qualities too long to list here. Ranging f rom longevity promotion to cancer protection, nervous system calming, liver healing, heart repair and even spiritual wisdom and insight, effectively it’s an all over life-giving tonic and immune booster.

Wild Red Reishi

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Turkey Tail

It’s not the only medicine offered up by the forest in Knysna, besides Red Reishi and Ancient Reishi, Archie discovered Turkey Tail and started making tinctures and teas to properly harness and extract the healing properties.

Being wild harvested, says Archie, it's not so much of a commercial venture as it's all up to the forest to determine availability.”

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Hand picking and sustainable harvesting creates a limited supply and I got the feeling that bringing these gems to market was more a labour of love than a primarily profit making endeavour. Archie believes the high potency of wild plants and the energies they absorb f rom growing in a wild natural environment rather than in a grow-room or controlled area makes them precious and powerful. He explained that the joy of finding ‘medicine’ grown wild rather in a hothouse is that it has absorbed all the energies of the forest, of the weather and of the astrological activity. “That’s what makes it so special”, he says, “we take these wild energies into our bodies when we drink wild Reishi teas or tinctures. This helps remind us of our wilder, more natural, less ‘domesticated’ state of being and helps bring us closer to it.” Archie explains that medicinal mushrooms need to be extracted in hot water or alcohol (or both) for their medicine to be released and the benefits properly bio-available to the body. Often this is overlooked and it’s a very important part of making medicine. Wild plants have to be tough to survive as their predators are not controlled as they would be in a farming situation. As a result they are vulnerable to attack and develop potent

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chemical defenses against such attacks. These chemical substances, if beneficial and biologically assimilable in our own bodies, become ‘medicines’ to us and can have profound health benefits. Wild soils also tend to be far richer and less demineralised than cultivated soils and this, too, adds to the potency of wild plants.

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After zig zagging through the forest we sat on a log and Archie remembered sitting on the same log some time ago when a porcupine happened to walk right down the path and pass him by. He told us stories about forests and forest people and legends of ancient hunting tradition where the porcupine was known as a medicine seeker. “They eat medicinal plants and as a result the contents of their tummies were regarded as highly medicinal and eaten,” he elaborated. We also got a mini lesson in mindfulness, about setting an intention and following that intention with intuition and resolve. “That’s how you find your way and find the medicine.” After a beautiful walk, we headed back to his home where we were treated to a feast of home grown and gathered leaves, superfoods, berries and treats all completely delicious. Porcupine stomach, thankfully, wasn’t on the menu. Part of Archie’s daily ritual is a cauldron of superhero immune boosting tea – his very own concoction designed for maximum health and longevity benefit resplendent with Ancient Reishi, Turkey Tail, Cinnabar Polypore, Chaga, Goji berries, Vanilla pods and Licorice root. It’s a brew that can be sipped all day and in fact makes an excellent base for rice, stew, soup or a cacao chocolate drink. Its woody, aromatic and satisfying taste is joined in goodness with a hundred magical benefits, most of all immune boosting although as an adaptogen it targets whichever part of the body needs it. We sipped on that too. It was difficult to leave. The healing embrace of the forest and the charm of our unusual medicine hunter elicited immense gratitude that healing and preventative remedies could carry such high intention and care and could be harvested in a mindful and sustainable fashion.

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MEDICINE

Reishi

the life giving tonic A variety of woody mushroom species are classified as Reishi, important ones are Ganoderma Lucidum, Ganoderma Sinensis and Ganoderma Tsugae. In the Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing, the Chinese ‘Divine Farmer’s Materia Medica’, Red Reishi is classed as a superior medicine that “boosts vitality of the heart, nourishes the organs, supports a centered state of mind, sharpens wit and improves memory. Prolonged usage may prevent senility, and prolong life so as to make one immortal.” In numerous hospitals in China, a high quality Reishi noted as having extraordinary immunological activity is popularly sought after as part of a cancer healing protocol. Hundreds of biologically active components in Red Reishi are said to be beneficial to every cell of the human body in different ways. It’s revered as a protective and tonic herb that creates radiant health and recommended as a life giving gift that should be taken daily.

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Although not mind altering it is used in China as a benevolent spiritual ally said to have a positive effect on consciousness accelerating enlightenment and opening the pathways to abundance. It’s important to research where your Reishi comes f rom and how it is cultivated as this has a profound influence on its effectiveness. You can buy dried, ground medicinal mushrooms and use them to make tea if you manage to cultivate the taste. Alternatively, they’re available as liquid extracts or capsules. It’s recommended to ingest medical mushrooms for at least two months to properly notice the deep rooted effects.

SOARING FREE SUPERFOODS Awaken your vision, activate your passion & live a life without limits. Not long after Peter and Beryn Daniel were married, they attended a personal development course in the U.K. where they had to distill the essence of themselves in one word. Peter’s word was ‘soaring’ and Beryn’s ‘free’. Little did anyone know this conjunction would turn into South Africa’s most loved and respected superfood brand, ‘Soaring Free Superfoods’.

olding truth and integrity as their highest ideals has overflowed into their brand: the packaging, the way they distribute and the way they source. Peter explains his endless quest and hours of research to find the ideal eco packaging. And the determination to scour the world for an untainted, unsprayed organic goji berry promising consumers clean and safe food. Everything in their range is sourced with total responsibility and regard for fair trade and community allowing for trustworthy, therapeutic and energising produce. Their ethos of ‘LOVE COMES FIRST’ equates to true economics – sometimes sacrificing bottom line for a sustainable world.

“Introducing high integrity, certiﬁed organic & earthfriendly superfoods into your diet is a delicious & self loving practice that comes highly recommended.”

Early on in their quest they realised that unless your physiology shifts you can’t maintain a high state of mind. Being chef trained, and discovering the superior diet that superfoods offered, it was a natural progression to offer it to the world. On meeting this pioneering couple and their two children you realise that food choices can truly create happiness and radiance. We love the fact they continue to hold true to their values and educate their consumers with inspiring recipes, nutritional advice and the products to make it happen. Their on-going journey is ever evolving and along with the new eco packaging,

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new logo and new website, we’re continuously getting more education and innovation from the Soaring Free Superfood brand.

“To change the world, we must ﬁrst change from within.” Greenwash is ever present in marketing campaigns today and people should continue to educate themselves & outsmart trendy marketing tactics. For Soaring Free Superfoods to be a sustainable brand, it means having integrity deeply ingrained. From their ethos, to their culture, their products & ultimately their holistic imprint on the earth. We can expect to see much more progressive sustainable movements & innovative product offers from them in the near future.

MEDICINE

FOREST BATHING The life-changing magic of walking in the woods Shinrin-yoku is a Japanese noun that means ‘forest bathing’, the medicine of simply being in the forest. It’s a well recognised area of preventive health care and healing in Japanese medicine. Dr Qing Li, Chairman of the Japanese Society for Forest Medicine, and visiting Fellow at Stanford University speculated that, besides all the other benefits, forest air has volatile essential oils from surrounding trees with active components like limonene filled with antimicrobial and immune-boosting properties. Blood tests taken from people before and after forest stays show significant boosts in natural killer cells, the cells vital to the immune system’s ability to fight off illness.

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NUTRITION

We know today that man, essentially, is a being of light. And the modern science of photobiology is presently proving this. In terms of healing the implications are immense. We know, for example, that quanta of light can initiate, or arrest, cascadelike reactions in the cells, and that genetic cellular damage can be virtually repaired, within hours, by faint beams of light. We are still on the threshold of fully understanding the complex relationship between light and life, but we can emphatically say, that the function of our entire metabolism is dependent on light. Dr. Fritz Albert Popp, Founder of the International Institute of Biophysics in Neuss (1996), Germany

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SI PPI N G T HE S U N The Power of Raw Green Food & Sunlight Living foods are full of nutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Anyone in pursuit of higher health can turn to raw green living foods to revolutionise their energy levels, their feelings of optimism, achieving pain f ree flexible joints and myriad other benefits.

Whether growing sprouts, cultivating wheat grass, juicing broccoli or finding a high quality supplement, we take you through the science and the soul of sipping sunshine. BY JEAN-PI ERRE LE ROUX I L LU ST R AT I ON DENIS E A NNE

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We all intuitively sense how fundamental sunlight is to health, but to what degree? And how does this affect our food choices? All real food has its original bright-greencoloured genesis in sunlight, f rom simple grasses to leafy f ruit-bearing trees. All our grains and vegetables begin as green shoots and all animals we might eat have either been feeding on grasses or other more complex plants. Even all seafood derives f rom green algae originally. The magical substance that makes all life on this planet possible - and which can sustain life better than anything else - is chlorophyll. Chlorophyll allows plants to absorb sunlight directly and convert this luminous visible energy into chemical energy in the plant, primarily in the form

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LIGHT

of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP), both of which are fundamental to energy production in the human body. And this is what is commonly referred to as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;photosynthesisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. In this basic happy-plant-activity of creating ATP and NADPH, hydrogen is cleaved f rom water molecules in the cells, and in the process this creates the oxygen supply on the planet that we breathe every day! Oh, and removes climate-warming carbon f rom the atmosphere as well.

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To add more mystery to the magic, chlorophyll looks exactly like haemoglobin, the oxygen carrying molecule that makes up about 75% of our blood. These two fundamental and very complex flowershaped molecules are nearly identical in structure, barring the magnesium atom at the center of the chlorophyll molecule, and iron atom at the center of the haemoglobin molecule. It makes sense then that chlorophyll is converted to haemoglobin very readily and directly in the body – the green ‘blood’ of plants being transmuted into the oxygenrich red blood of humans. Additionally, by eating these green plants as close to their living state as possible, i.e. freshly picked and raw (not rendered unalive through cooking) the still active ATP and NADPH are transferred to the human body (along with the more ‘solid’ proteins and sugars that make up the bulk of the plant). ATP is our essential cellular energy transfer molecule and fundamental to the

Citric Acid Cycle (otherwise known as the Krebs Cycle) which, besides being basic to our essential generation of life energy, also creates key amino acid precursors and in this way, serves protein synthesis. And… NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide), also known as Coenzyme 1, derived f rom both ATP in ourselves and f rom the NADPH in plants, is used in the body to transfer electrons between molecules in the processes of cellular metabolism and energy transfer. In short, more NAD equates to more energy and longer life. And this compound is found as an essential component in all cutting-edge longevity protocols (discussed further in a future issue).

Chlorophyll has important health benefits: Anti-Carcinogenic: Chlorophyll protects against a whole host of carcinogens found in fungus-laden foods like nuts and grains, the toxins f rom cooked meats, and air-borne carcinogens (f rom pollution). It blocks harmful chemicals known as procarcinogens that damage DNA from metabolising in the body. Chelation of heavy metals: Chlorophyll is one of the most important chelates in nature. Its ability to bind to and remove toxic heavy metals like mercury makes it an extremely powerful healer.

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Ultimately, sunlight-charged living green plants are IT in terms of power nutrition. Of course, chlorophyll-rich green plants are strongly alkalizing (due to rapid delivery of magnesium) and oxygenating to the body. And in the context of our more commonly consumed diets which tend towards acidity and low oxygen (and thus low energy and pre-disease states), raw greens are the supreme balancers.

LIGHT IS LIFE

As Dr John Ott (Director of the Environmental Health and Light Research Institute) says. “We are just beginning to find out that light entering the eyes, in addition to vision, stimulates the activity in both the pituitary and pineal glands and possibly other areas of the midbrain region that control the endocrine system and the production of hormones.”

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GET SOME SUNSHINE

Russian scientist Dantsig said, “If the human skin is not exposed to solar radiation (direct or scattered) for long periods of time, disturbances will occur in the physiological equilibrium of the human system. The result will be functional disorders of the nervous system and vitamin D deficiency, a weakening of the body’s defense and an aggravation of chronic disease.” Most of us live in artificial light and spend 90 percent of existence in buildings and cars. It’s important to note that sunshine is essential to life.

Giving back to the earth A necessity for Modern Society

We need to stop being part of the problem, and become involved in the solution. Globally, environmental issues are of grave concern. Many governments around the world are taking positive steps to improve air, water and ground pollution, but we can not leave it up to our leaders to effect change. We need to take responsibility, and make decisions with a positive impact on our planet. Using eco-friendly products is one of the very first things we can do to bring about change. It’s a simple shift in the choices we make. Consider that all the water you use for daily household and office cleaning ultimately lands up in local dams or the ocean. It is so important to use products specifically formulated to ensure absolutely no chemicals or toxins leak into our environment. Not to mention our bodies.

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NUTRITION

THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF WHEATGRASS (per 100ml serving) NUTRIENTS

VITAMINS

AMINO ACIDS

MINERALS

Protein 33.36% Carbohydrate 54.26g Calories (Kcal) 357.41 Insoluble dietary fibre 1.31% Soluble dietary fibre 2.1% Total dietary fibre 3.45% Chlorophyll 13.5mg Fat 0.77g

Vitamin A - 468.24 IU Vitamin B12 - 40 mcg Vitamin C - 61.75% Vitamin E - 18.1 mcg Vitamin B17 - 3.5 mcg Folic acid - 1559 mcg

Histidin 17.10 mg Isoleucine 23.75 mg Leucine 40.24 mg Lycine 34.23 mg Threonine 27.56 mg Tryptophan 5.02 mg Valine 31.58 mg Methionine 9.35 mg Tyrosine 28.32 mg Alanine 57.21 mg Proline 31.45 mg Serine 33.01 mg Phenylalanine 34.08 mg

Calcium 95.95 mg Potassium 31.5 mg Iron 80 mg Sodium 2.21 mg Zinc 14.25 mg Magnesium 11.9 mg Selenium 6.12 mg Phosphorus 69 mg Copper 1.43 mg Sulphur 9.3 mg Iodine .85 mg Manganese 55.1 mg

NOTE: Wild grass juices are considered superior to traditional cereal grasses like wheatgrass and barleygrass. The author of this article likes to start his day with a large glass of Kikuyu grass blended with spring water (yes the stuff your lawn is made of) and a second glass of beetroot juice, also blended with spring water â&#x20AC;&#x201C; both for their excellent blood-building properties. Kikuyu has a superior taste (softer and smoother than wheatgrass) and a higher mineral content generally from being grown in more natural and complex soils, and having deeper roots, rather than being grown in trays. And it grows all over your neighbourhood. A 5-6 litre bowl of packed Kikuyu grass passed through an Oscar juicer and blended with half a litre of spring water and a little lemon juice.

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Your grandmother was right, eat your greens! If you are designing a healing, strengthening and regenerative diet for yourself, then a significant portion of your food should be raw organic greens, for all the reasons mentioned above. Whatever else we may be eating, adding grass juices, green leafy vegetables, salad greens and organic green

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Here is a suggested basic recipe template (feel free to play with your own variations) LEAVES

A mix of fresh-as-possible organic greens, including various lettuces, shredded spinach, swiss chard, parsley, rocket, mizuna, mustard greens, beet leaves and Asian greens like tatsoi and pak choi. Try and get some of these in the form of very young plants or microgreens. Broccoli microgreens are next-level amazing! Choose strictly organic and pesticide-f ree if you can. Why would anyone eat leaves sprayed with the equivalent of Doom?

SPROUTS

Sprouts like sunflower, alfalfa and cruciferous vegetables like cauliflower and cabbage. (Raw bean sprouts used in moderation, if at all, due to the enzyme inhibitors and other anti-nutritional components they contain).

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Soft hulled hemp seeds. (This is the secret to making salads creamy, nutty and delicious).

SEEDS

Various other seeds (ideally soaked first) such as sunflower, sesame and pumpkin seed, including butters made f rom them like Tahini.

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In our explanation of gut health we get deep into the workings of the intestines and the colon. We look at the inspiring microbiome diversity of an ancient tribe and where we might have gone wrong in the West. A protocol on ‘how to reset your gut’ offers an easy route to support optimal well-being. Lastly, we’ll explore what the future holds - will fecal transplants become mainstream? We share our top ‘gut health’ food and beverages and explain the difference between pre and probiotics and how to select a quality option.

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ippocrates, the Founder of Modern Medicine, around 370BC emphasised that ‘all disease begins in the gut’. It’s taken centuries for us to really take that to heart and we’re now seeing a strong focus on gut health. But what do we mean when we speak about the gut? Firstly we’ve got the alimentary canal that begins at the mouth and ends at the butt. Imagine it as a bustling and busy highway linking two major cities, passing through the oesophagus, the liver, gall

bladder, pancreas, stomach, small intestine and large intestine (colon) ending at the anus. It’s about nine metres long. The whole system governing this highway is known as the gastrointestinal tract (the GI tract) and includes digestive glands to break down our food intake. The residents living along this highway can be likened to the microbiome, whole populations of bacteria, many different types and strains, some good, some bad. Trillions of cells exist, most of them are resident in the colon but they’re found throughout the GI tract (they’re also all over our bodies, in the mouths and on our skin). Just like we need different types of people doing different things to make up a city, so we need different strains of bacteria. The more differences, the more vibrant and dynamic – there’s also room for baddies, just as long as the goodies outweigh the baddies.

As health personality and multi-author Deepak Chopra says,

“We are a few human cells hanging on to a bacterial colony, we are the awakening of bacterial consciousness.” These bacterial microorganisms outnumber our own cells. We’re more bacteria than we are human cells - the microbiome can weigh up to 2kg’s. Our microbial population is inherited f rom our mothers. Before birth, the GI tract is sterile and during the process of natural birthing we are flooded with microbes and bacteria f rom the birth canal. Natural birthing establishes the foundation of our immune system. Although C-section is lifesaving at times, it should not be considered unless absolutely necessary. Recently, with doctors realising the importance of the passage through the birth canal, C-section babies are ‘swabbed’ when they are born. The gut system of organs along with the microbiome is responsible for processing nutrients – breaking them down, digestion and absorption. It also eliminates unwanted bacteria and fungi and produces key nutrients like the B vitamins and vitamin K.

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Essentially that means the entire digestive process which is vital for life. The health of our microbiome and gut environment offers us the opportunity to thrive. It gets even more interesting. Although we’ve been using expressions like ‘gut feel’ for years we haven’t totally realised that besides physical health, our gut is tied to emotional health too. Ninety percent of our serotonin (happy hormones) is produced in the gut. When looking to improve anxiety and combat depression we should firstly begin with addressing the gut. Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride works extensively with what she calls GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome) which uses dietary corrections to cure many psychiatric and neurological conditions. She records how she cured her child of autism using the GAP dietary protocol. One of the leading causes of a compromised gut is inflammation. Something that’s almost inescapable with modern day habits. Inflammation makes the intestine permeable leading to what’s called ‘leaky gut’. With leaky gut undigested food particles and bacteria are able to move f rom the digestive system into the blood stream. The body sees this matter as foreign and immunity is alerted to attack creating inflammation. Over time inflammation results in chronic disease conditions like diabetes, stroke and heart attack.

To prevent leaky gut pay attention to the following: CLEAN DIET

Food lacking in nutrition should be replaced with organic, high nutrition alternatives. High-refined sugar intake can be swapped for organic natural sweeteners. Allergens like gluten (found in grains) and phytic acid (food in unprepared legumes and un-soaked nuts) as well as casein (protein in dairy) are often an irritant for the gut.

CLEAN FOOD & ENVIRONMENT

Hugely important is to avoid food treated with herbicides and pesticides, genetic modification, packaged foods and chemical household products. We are often totally unaware of the processes our food, skin products and cleaning products go through before we use them.

LIVING NATURALLY

Factors like unnatural birthing, the pill, antibiotics and other over the counter medication will compromise bacterial harmony. Living as naturally as possible is always a good thing.

HEALTHY STRESS

Too much physical and emotional stress changes the balance of the bacteria in our gut - it allows the bad bacteria to dominate and kills off the good.

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TRIBAL TESTIMONIAL There’s a whole lot to be said for foraging wild food and living more closely to the earth. Researchers have analysed a community called the Hazda f rom Tanzania – a population of less than 200 people. The Hazda live a hunter-gatherer lifestyle getting all their food seasonally f rom fertile soils without pesticides and naturally covered with bacteria and micro-organisms. Needless to say, the Hazda have a hugely noticeable amount of bacterial diversity and resultant good health compared to modern populations. This differentiation between the rich bacterial diversity in the Hazda and the depleted microbe lineages in modernised populations is a concerning situation evidenced by an increasing amount of health ailments and decreased vitality. People are realising that many of their health issues are because of an unhealthy gut and as a result we’re seeing an abundance of fermented foods and pro-biotic supplements coming to market. Food items like Kimchi, sauerkraut, Kefir, curds or live organic yoghurt, kvass, miso, tempeh and Kombucha are becoming more and more available.

In Korea there is a type of traditional food called jongka, some of which is fermented with bacterial cultures that have been passed down through generations. The fermented cultures are kept safely for each future generation, and they’re considered an important inheritance. They’re known as naerim or pass down foods. The fermentation is kept going throughout the ages, keeping the good strain of bacteria going. Gifting someone with a bacterial culture is a considerable honour.

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FECAL TRANSPLANTS – the solution? Besides consuming fermented food and taking probiotics, there’s another more extreme protocol that’s being used to repopulate the gut with good bacteria. It’s called a fecal transplant and involves collecting a stool sample f rom a prequalified healthy donor, mixing it with a saline or similar solution, straining and placing it into the colon of another patient via a colonoscopy, endoscopy or enema. Although fecal transplants are not yet mainstream practice, they have considerable clinical research behind them and shown to be up to 98 percent effective. They’re doing a huge job in alleviating symptoms and pain in people with painful, sometimes life threatening,

digestive disorders. The intention with fecal transplants is to repopulate the receiver’s gut with normal, healthy bacteria and microbes f rom the donor’s gut. Probiotic rich foods and high-quality supplements will also achieve this although they can take longer to repopulate the gut. While an average probiotic food or supplement may have between 1-30 strains of probiotics at billions of units, a healthy stool has 1,000+ strains of microbes (bacteria, yeast, bacteriophages, etc.) at hundreds of trillions of units. Up to now, there have been no detrimental side effects f rom fecal transplants and they’re a low cost and highly effective treatment for those prepared to try it out. It’s a real option for people suffering with allergies, infections, IBS or autoimmune disorders.

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G UT H E A LIN G

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This protocol comes from the functional medicine approach and involves the 4 R’s (Remove, Replace, Re-inoculate, Repair) over a 3 week period. REMOVE:

toxic triggers (gluten & dairy), sugar (even most natural sugars – stick to berries as your f ruit source and a little stevia or raw honey as your sweetener source). Drink ample pure water and eat clean food. A high-quality whole food supplement is helpful, especially given the nutrient depleted produce found in most shops. Green Vibrance by Vibrant Health is an excellent choice. It’s an organic superfood supplement boosting nutrition, digestion, circulation and immunity. Each serving comes with 25 billion f riendly probiotics f rom 12 strains of bacteria.

REPLACE: use plant based digestive enzymes before each meal to support digestion. Look into HCL with Betaine, useful for those with low stomach acid (quite a high percentage of us), which results in food not being broken down effectively. Another option is to use raw apple cider vinegar first thing in the morning and with meals to stimulate stomach acid production. RE-INOCULATE:

with probiotics and fermented foods daily. Take different brands of probiotics with different strains – remember diversity is key. Make your own fermented foods to get different probiotics.

REPAIR:

your delicate gut lining with organic bone broth (number one food for healing leaky gut), collagen, L glutamine, Vitamin D3, Omega 3 in the form of sustainably sourced blue/green algae or a trusted source of Krill oil and magnesium.

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D i g e s t i on T ip s [ Conscious Food Pairing & Eating ] Fruit should be eaten alone as it digests quickly. If eaten with other food, fermentation starts to take place. Dairy and meat should never be paired as they don’t digest well together. Meat should also be eaten with leafy green or cruciferous veg rather than starchy veg. Drink liquids before a meal or 30 minutes following. Drinking during a meal dilutes digestive acids and stops food f rom digesting properly.

[ Detoxification Done Regularly ] A great option is Panchakarma, an Ayurvedic cleansing protocol undertaken at the change of each season. This allows the body to detox and get rid of debris and other accumulated and undigested toxins and food. It’s like a deep cleanse for your gut.

[ Intermittent Fasting ] This means choosing to eat food in a smaller time frame e.g. eat for 8 hours and fast for the other 16. It takes 12 hours for our body to digest most foods. The extra 4 hours allows space for your body to spring clean and deal with functions it doesn’t usually get to when continuously digesting. Continuous digestion puts enormous pressure on the body.

[ Mindfulness & Meditation to Control Stress ] When in a state of ‘fight or flight’ (stress mode) the blood flows away f rom our digestive organs, to our extremities (ready for action). This is not the ideal time to be eating food as it creates indigestion and bloating.

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10 TOP GUT HEALING TIPS 1. Add

a tablespoon of raw, organic unfiltered apple cider vinegar to a glass of warm water and drink on waking to stimulate stomach acid production.

2. Drink

herbal teas and loads of room temperature purified water with a pinch of Himalayan salt or sea salt.

3. Eat soft, cooked foods

(these are easier to digest) and take digestive enzymes with each meal, especially heavier meals. This will support digestion and absorption of nutrients.

4. Consume

collagen-rich bone broth f rom an organic grass-fed source.

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5. Increase your intake of

healthy fats - coconut oil is a great antibacterial and helps kill candida.

6. Consume

demulcents like Aloe Vera & Slippery Elm as well as gelatinous foods like chia seeds - these all soothe the gut lining.

7. Eat foods rich in Glutamine – this amino acid repairs the gut lining.

8. Re-inoculate

with a good probiotic for 2-3 months: choose CFU’s of 15 to 100 billion and diversity of strains, at least 10 – 30 different strains.

9. Increase prebiotic intake. Prebiotics are food for our probiotics and vital for keeping good bacteria alive. Eat loads of fibre f rom vegetables and f ruits (favour lower sugar f ruits). Onions and garlic are a particularly good source of prebiotics. Aloe Vera is another excellent option.

10. I ncrease

your intake of fermented foods (2 servings per day) to replenish the good gut bacteria: Organic Kefir (dairy or coconut), full fat live organic yoghurt, kimchi/ kraut, kvass, miso, tempeh, kefir water

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HEALTH

Half of your being consists of your mother and half of your being consists of your father. You are here because of them; if they were not here you would not be here. All that is happening to you is, in a way, because of them… One has to become aware of this… So whatsoever they have done, you have to feel grateful for. And whatsoever is happening to you and will happen to you, they remain the cause, they remain your foundation. So don’t forget the foundation, that’s all. Osho

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INDIVIDUATION Long gone are the days of the one-size-fits-all approach to healing and wellbeing. Knowing your unique physiology, psychology, DNA and inclinations is imperative for effective and personalised care of your body and mind. We look at three popular individuation techniques â&#x20AC;&#x201C; DNA testing, Ayurveda and Family Constellations â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to see how each can help you determine vital information about your strengths, vulnerabilities and predispositions.

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DNA TESTING

Your genes determine everything from your eye colour to your risk for certain diseases. There’s a reason coffee makes you jittery while your co-worker can sip it all day, or you don’t thrive on the raw vegan diet you read about for weight loss and elevated energy but are more suited to cooked food. Personalised medicine is finally giving healthcare practitioners the tools to examine individual genetic makeup, and use this as a basis for unique and precise treatment and advice. Nutrigenomics studies the interaction between nutrition and genes, and offers great insight into personal dietary needs. Should you follow a low carb or low fat diet? How about Mediterranean? Through nutrigenomics you can learn how your unique body responds to different macronutrients. From this you can make an informed choice about your approach. Nutrigenomic analysis tests gene variations that impact metabolism, absorption and storage of fats and carbs - as well as eating behaviour - to understand which diet is most effective for you individually. DNA testing can also identify potential lifestyle diseases and help healthcare practitioners empower their patients with the optimal nutrition needed for disease risk mitigation and wellbeing. A range of gene variants are tested to reveal information about individual risk of heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes and more. Your body’s response to inflammation and

oxidative stress, vitamin requirements, detoxification abilities and food sensitivities are all important factors that can be determined. If you’re serious about your sporting performance or training abilities, things like the structural integrity of your soft tissues, inflammation, blood flow and respiration, energy and fuel during exercise, muscle and bone composition, endurance and aerobic capacity can be determined with genetic testing. From these revelations, highly personalised training and nutrition protocols can be developed to help you reach your full physical potential. If your main interest is mental health, you may want to test for the genetic variations involved in key biological processes that contribute to the risk of developing mental health disorders. These insights can help you prevent, diagnose and even treat any mental diseases or inclinations. There are 30 genes shown to have significant associations with key mental health disorders, and these can shed light on your susceptibility to things like Alzheimer’s, dementia, addiction, depression, bipolar, anxiety and more.

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AYURVEDIC DOSHAS

Thousands of years ago, the sages of India developed Ayurveda – which is still seen today by many as one of the world’s leading mind-body health systems. The word ‘ayurveda’ translates to the ‘science of life’, and offers a wealth of wisdom to help people realise their full health potential. The guiding pricinples of Ayurveda are that the mind and body are inseparable, and the mind has the most power to heal the body through expanded awareness and choices that serve to bring the individual into balance. In Ayurveda, each individual is viewed and treated as unique - there is no one diet or lifestyle routine that works for everyone. It’s based on the principles of three doshas – energies that make up each individual and perform different physiological functions in the body.

Pitta is the energy that controls the metabolic systems, including digestion, absorption, nutrition and body temperature. When in balance, it can bring about contentment and intelligence. When out of balance, anger and ulcers can result. Kapha is the energy that controls growth in the body by supplying water to all body parts, moisturising the skin and maintaining the immune system. Kapha in balance is expressed as love and forgiveness. When out of balance, it can lead to insecurity and envy.

THE THREE DOSHAS:

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Vata is the energy that controls the bodily functions associated with motion, including blood circulation, breathing, blinking and the heartbeat. When vata is in balance, there is creativity and vitality. When out of balance, it can produce fear and anxiety.

While each of us has all three doshas, one or two usually dominate. In Ayurveda, this is seen to determine our physiological and personality traits as well as our preferences. If you are predominant in vata energy, you may be creative, quick to learn and excitable. Those with more vata energy tend to be slender, tall and move fast, experiencing cold hands and feet and discomfort in cold climates. While these individuals are generally lively and fun, their energy comes in short, sharp bursts and they can tire easily, be susceptible to changing moods and experience fear and anxiety when out of balance.

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If you are pitta predominant, you may be orderly, focused and self-confident. Pitta physiques are generally medium, strong and well built, with strong appetite and digestion. While passionate, romantic, motivated and entreprenuerial at best, those with more pitta energy can be aggressive, demanding and subject to anger and impatience when out of balance.

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By contrast, kapha predominant types are easygoing, relaxed, faithful and affectionate. Often with a sturdy, heavier build, they can have the most energy of all the constitutions - a more steady and enduring energy. When in balance, those with strong kapha doshas can be stable and reliable, gentle, self-sufficient and not easily upset. When out of balance, they can be prone to depression, posessiveness and obesity, to name a few.

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FAM ILY C O NST ELLA T I O NS Family Constellations is a therapeutic method that aims to help individuals recognise difficult entanglements in their families of origin as well as in their present families and relationships. First developed by the German therapist Bert Hellinger, the approach considers the individual as part of a greater whole – or family system – that affects his or her behaviour, feelings and attitudes. Solution-oriented interventions aim to bring understanding of these often hidden family dynamics so a natural and healing balance can be achieved - not only for the individual, but for the whole system. T he th er apy t y pically t ak e s place i n a gr oup s et t in g, w h e r e a clien t us es t h e h elp of other p art icipan t s t o cr eat e a constella t ion of h is or h er f a m i l y .

The group members represent different family members, and are positioned in a room according to the client’s current feelings about their relation to him or her, as well

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as each other. This set-up is referred to as a living model of the family. Interestingly, those offering and participating in family constellation work report that the feelings of the group members representing the family members can be uncannily similar to those of the actual family members. Proponents of the therapy say that this is due to an energy field that allows the participants to gain acess to ‘all essential information of the systemic field’. It is said that those standing in for family members follow spontaneous movements to reveal family entanglements. The therapist will support these ‘healing movements’, for example bringing in missing or excluded family members, and suggesting more conscious behaviours and healing sentences for the family members to say to each other. At its core, family constellation is rooted in the understanding that it is only through a sincere love of our family and acceptance of all that’s happened in the past that we are able to move beyond the trauma and conditioning that it has caused.

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LIBE R ATION Speak to almost anyone on a deeper level and there seems to be all round consensus of predominating challenges – a surge in antidepression and anxiety prescriptions, existential crises, exhaustion and more, all begging the question of ‘what’s it all about?’ Rather than spending hours ‘on the couch’ in therapy, we speak to Adam, creator of the Liberation Remedy about a solution that’s taken off like wildfire throughout the world. Have you ever said to yourself, “I can’t do that because of xyz. Or “If I do this, then everyone will think this of me.” Or “If I were to simply be myself I would be rejected.” These thoughts create the need to prove one’s self-worth creating endless stress and invisible barriers that can never be overcome yet are always felt. Where do these ideas and thoughts come f rom? A deep dive into the psyche, into the vast memory within, in search of the origin of these ideas produces memories with patterns attached to these beliefs. Unresolved memories mean the emotional charges have not been fully integrated and so they create invisible influences in our lives that habitually shape our thoughts and behaviour. The design of Liberation is to slowly bring these

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unprocessed emotions which have assembled over time, to the surface with the result of f reeing you f rom the invisible barriers to simply being yourself. True f reedom is authentically living as yourself without falling into the trap of believing you need to be anything but what is. With this type of f reedom, the world becomes an amazing dream without self-imposed limitation. It’s about making peace with the past by tapping into yourself and your cellular memory. On a personal level, when taking Liberation Adam experienced a huge opening in his life, one where manifestation increased exponentially. As he says, “The reason manifestation doesn’t work is that so much is tied up in the past. Once it gets f reed up, everything can flow.” He also experienced greater

capacity and an ability to do so much more. He’s on bottle 9 and recommends using Liberation as an on-going process to weed out the layers of dust covering your wings to f reedom. Everyone knows that when your computer has loads of tabs open, it doesn’t work as fast. Your mind is the same. The difference is we aren’t always aware how many tabs are open and what those tabs are. Liberation is a kind of energetic psychology that does the work of closing the tabs. At this stage my burning question was, what on earth could the remedy contain to effect the results he describes? The answer is an intriguing array of ancient alchemy, gem stone and flower essences, minerals, mantras and mushrooms.

HERE’S A SUMMARY: NAVARATNA is an ancient alchemical formulation made f rom 9 gems each of which has been burned 100 times to unleash its deepest regenerative and karmic cleansing capacity. It goes into the future and the past when doing its work. PANCHAGNI means the bath of fire and contains ash that comes f rom four fires that have been burning for 50 years continuously. During the burning, a purification mantra is chanted alongside the fire, potentising the ash. The ash is also exposed to the sun representing the fifth fire. Effectively, it holds the distilled focus of fifty years of transformation and cleansing, burning up detrimental feelings like jealousy and anger. THE PROTEA PLANT has been included to generate the almost childlike abandon of simple enjoyment of the little things, like the feeling of a child watching a butterfly for the first time. SHUNGITE is a mineral that cleans water and acts as an electromagnetic shield. Since blood is mostly water this has a deep and powerful effect on the blood, which carries our mind.

KUNJIKA MANTRA includes a Durga vibrational sound mantra for transformation and change allowing the passage of events to unfold more smoothly as things clear. REISHI MUSHROOM is an adaptogenic mushroom, which helps tie all the ingredients together bringing them into synthesis and balance. Altogether this combination of compounds is said to conspire relentlessly for your benefit.

Liberation taps into the ancient and sacred spiritual traditions.This unleashes energetic power for mental and emotional purification. Initially, taking it at night is advised, especially if you suspect there is an abundance of memories to clear. Your dreams will be an excellent partner in sorting stuff out. Some people bump up against irritation or other challenging emotions and Adam’s advice is never to evaluate a work in process. There’s a reason for those types of feelings to arise and the best way to deal with them is simply to observe without reacting. Besides the hardworking karmic clearing ingredients there’s a lot of gentle stuff in the formula to hold the process. Altogether it’s a less haphazard way of clearing out the psyche that’s targeted specifically to the individual. It goes into the field where memories are held and unlocks the storage places that guard them. Liberation has also been used on pets with staggering results.

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HERBAL MEDICINE

AFRICAN HERBAL MEDICINES While speaking to the fiercely passionate botanical researcher and developer Steve Hurt, we realise he is a man on a mission. A mission we should all be aware of and one that involves developing and protecting the many medicinal plants and herbs available in Southern Africa to safely share their healing capacity with the world.

More than 3 000 medicinal plants in Southern Africa are regularly used as herbal medicines. Our trees, flowers and plants make up the most phenomenal medicine cabinet. Thousands of years of traditional use has resulted in a broad knowledge of the formulations and dosages required for safe and effective results.

With that in mind, only 38 of the 3 000 have been formally standardised and made commercially available in capsules, tinctures and tablets. Of the 38, only eight of them are approved for sale in the European Union. These include Rooibos, Honeybush, Aloe Ferox, Devilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Claw, Pelargonium Sidoides, Buchu and Baobab.

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Steve is intimately connected to plant magic and has made it his life’s work to bring more of the power of Af rican plants to more of us in a way that’s sustainable and safe. “Widescale habitat destruction threatens the survival of many of these medicinal plant species,” explains Steve who has spearheaded a number of initiatives towards safeguarding the environments they grow in. “Careful conservation driven by sustainable use and integrated with commercialisation

objectives may be one solution to ensuring their survival in the future. If communities derive financial benefit f rom these plants being abundant in nature then they have a reason to conserve them.” Steve’s entire existence is inextricably interwoven with nature and to demonstrate the forest as pharmacy we set up our interview with him along one of the nature trails in Knysna. If anything was to give us an idea about the rich medicine available, it’s Steve who can’t help himself

explaining the amazing qualities and attributes in the plant life that surrounded us. To anyone else it was a forest. To Steve it’s a living chemist. When following Steve I imagined the many medicine women and men collecting bark, leaves, sap, flowers, f ruits, roots and everything else ready to take home and boil, grind, steam, extract or however else they used to get the medicinal value.

One of the first healing staples we came across was the Aloe. Steve explained how the Aloe Arboresens in many parts of South Africa is traditionally planted around kraals as a living fence. Abandoned kraals are easily identified by the aloes that remain.

The Zulu people use the leaves dried and powdered as a protection against storms, decoctions are used in childbirth and to treat sick calves. Some use the plant to treat stomach aches. Aloe is also a first aid treatment for burn wounds and abrasions. Extracts from the leaves have shown significant wound healing, antibacterial, antiulcer, anti-inflammatory, anticarcinogenic, hypoglycaemic and also alopoeic activity. The leaves show purgative properties and the sap is reported to relieve x-ray burns.

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We stumbled on a Bush Guarrie (Euclea Schimperi) which is alleged to have supernatural powers and because of that is not used as fuel. Small branches are seen hanging on doorsteps as good luck charms. It has a high tolerance of soil with heavy metal content and is considered an indicator of gold deposits. Bushmans poison (Acokanthera Oppositifolia) has a milky sap used by the Khoisan as part of a cocktail to poison their arrow tips during hunting. Medicinally it’s used to treat snake and spider bites, intestinal worms and aches and colds. We casually walked past a few of these trees and wouldn’t have suspected a thing, had Steve not elaborated.

Almost every tree or bush we passed, Steve had a story to tell or a healing remedy. From Cape Beech to the Horeswood, White Ironwood, the Forest Elder, Red Currant and more we were overwhelmed with the rich knowledge and capacity of our natural heritage.

“Collecting these plants for commercial use needs to be done with the utmost care and sustainability” emphasises Steve who is a licensed distributor of protected indigenous flora.

Under the company name Af rigetics Botanicals they collect raw materials through well-established network of rural harvesting programmes. One of their initiatives include a benefit sharing agreement with the indigenous San people of Southern Af rica, who receive a portion of the profits derived f rom the harvesting of plants. Who knows how many medicines lie undiscovered in nature, awaiting discovery. We’re grateful to those making these options available and at the same time safeguarding the botanical treasures. Steve Hurt founded Afrigetics Botanicals in 2003 and is currently one of the leading exporters of Southern African medicinal herbs, teas, oils and foods to the international wellness and pharmaceutical industries. One of the key product ranges ‘Afrigetics Botanicals’ includes a range of seven products addressing conditions from immune and libido boosting to stress; colds and flu; detox; weight loss and more.

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NATURAL BEAUTY

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Natural beauty

Herbs, rituals & practices BY ROBYN WILK INS ON PHOTO S A RA H COMEAU I L LU ST R AT I ONS A RTIS

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Many of our beauty rituals mistakenly lean towards fixing or hiding ourselves. Yet true beauty resides in the beautiful process of uncovering the self. Using this premise, we learn to reveal and express the raw, authentic true essence of who we are. Our rituals can be done knowing beauty is already achieved and the acts of self-care, self-nurture and deep consideration and regard for the self is simply a testament of that and outpouring of self-radiance. There is a transformative power in self-care. If we look closely at the beauty rituals and coping mechanisms we use throughout our day, we’ll be able to see if they’re truly oriented at self-care or if they originate f rom insecurity. Make your intention one of celebrating yourself and you’ll expand and grow your self-love.

We look at traditional beauty practices and recipes to inspire a self-care practice.

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1 Use rice water as a skin toner

In China the traditional skin toner used is simple rice water. All you do is soak unpolished rice until the water looks milky and then apply with cotton pads to tighten pores and brighten your complexion. Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how. Put half a cup of organic rice in a glass jar and fill with spring water to cover. Soak for an hour or so until the water is cloudy. It lasts for 4-5 days in the f ridge. TIP: rice water also works really well as a conditioning hair rinse. After shampooing, saturate your hair with rice water, leave for a few minutes then rinse.

2 Treat acne with mung beans

Mung beans have been a staple component in face masks for centuries in China. Mung bean paste is antiinflamatory and used to treat acne. Grind the beans and make them into a paste using a little water or natural yoghurt. Smear generously to cover the face and leave for 30 minutes before removing.

3 Brew Some Green Tea

Antioxidants and antibacterial properties in green tea are known to help prevent premature cellular ageing, and address inflammation, psoriasis, rosacea, acne and pimples. Green tea boosts metabolism and helps with weight loss. It has an amino acid called L-Theanine, which is a psychoactive component able to cross the blood-brain barrier and directly affect the nervous system stimulating alpha waves in the brain. Drinking green tea is beneficial on so many levels and can be used externally as a beauty balm on the skin and hair. Use a strongly brewed green tea or empty a capsule of green tea powder into shampoo or conditioner to strengthen follicles and encourage hair growth. Add green tea powder to face creams to soothe problematic skin.

NATURAL BEAUTY

â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.â&#x20AC;? Rumi.

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4 Find a bath house

In Hungary, hot baths or gyógyfürdő are used as a widespread solution for needs f rom hangovers to heartbreak, and everything inbetween. Thermal waters have healing minerals like sodium, calcium, magnesium, fluoride, hydrocarbonate, metaboric acid and sulphite that provide health benefits for the body, like lowering blood pressure. Hungarians benefit socially, too, as they sit for hours and catch up — often the women chat, and the men play chess. In Japan, gender-separate, communal hot baths are socially and spiritually healing. ‘Onsen’ describes the natural hot springs where women come to socialise and recharge, while ‘sentō’ is usually a city based indoor bathhouse. Historically, the Romans specifically around early 100 AD, are famous for loving their bathing rituals and opulent bath houses decorated with mosaics, paintings and intricate ceilings. Contrast bathing therapy, also known as hot/cold immersion therapy, steam therapy, body scrubs and massages formed part of the ritual. Ayurvedic beauty rituals are also rich with bathing, steaming and oil treatments, promoting both physical and spiritual cleansing.

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5 Take a cue from royalty

In the quest for immortality Indian royalty sought out many precious and rare ingredients. Frankincense, rose, and sandalwood essential oils were some of the treasured choices. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still coveted by beauty aficionados. Frankincense for its ability to help cellular turnover, revitalising skin and minimising wrinkles; rose to hydrate and brighten the skin; and sandalwood with invigorating and anti-inflammatory benefits. Even using these oils as f ragrance sends beneficial messaging to the nervous system. Just make sure the oils you purchase are f rom an organic, natural and pure source.

6 Mix turmeric for even skin tone In both Asian and Eastern countries turmeric powder is a popular beauty ingredient used in face masks and on the body to combat wrinkles and even skin tone. To make your own turmeric face mask, mix a tablespoon of the powder with a teaspoon of honey and a teaspoon of almond milk. Apply to the skin and leave for fifteen minutes for a soft and radiant skin.

7 Have time-out

In Sweden there is a traditional coffee break called Fika, a standard part of Swedish life that encourages slowing down. Regular mini breaks and checkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s are important mindful practices. If you have A type issues or a tendency towards stress, make time to do some slow deep breathing, some meditation, a short walk or the shake, drum and twist exercise on the next page.

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8 Schedule a weekly head massage

Whether engaging a lover, child, sibling or parent, a head massage dissolves stress, induces sound sleep, and stimulates hair growth. Many major vital energy points are on the scalp especially in the region of the pituitary and pineal glands. Head massage helps secrete serotonin and melatonin, calming the body and mind, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s customary in many Eastern households. Do it without oil or with a warmed teaspoon of coconut or sesame oil.

9 Keep your body energised

Good circulation pumps f resh blood around your body and will enhance skin colour and tone. Use this ‘shake, drum and twist’ mini ritual a few times a day to wake up and ref resh your body. Slot it in with something you do regularly to make it a habit, perhaps do it while waiting for the kettle to boil on each tea break.

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Shake. Shake your torso, your arms and legs f rom top to bottom to energise you, invigorate your circulation and allow stagnant blood and energy to flow. Drum. Drum every part of your body to add to this invigorating feeling. In Chinese medicine this practice is thought of as stem cell Qi Gong as it stimulates stem cell production - the cells that repair damaged tissue and strengthen immunity. Start drumming f rom the hips down the outside legs, up the inside then around the tummy, the chest, the back and up and down the arms. Twist. Twisting supports digestion, one of the first systems affected by stress. Twisting at the waist first compresses the digestive organs, then when untwisting a rush of fresh blood is released, bringing oxygen and f resh nutrients to the area. Keep your legs firmly grounded, twisting at the waist and swinging your arms so your hands pat the lower abdomen and back.

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10 Implement a ‘smiling breath’ practice

Activate your ‘rest and digest’ mode with ‘smiling breath.’ Chinese medicine emphasises holding a positive mental state to feed a high level of well-being. The vagus nerve that starts in the brain stem and leads to the gut via the heart and lungs is a key player in the gut-brain connection. It’s the cabling behind the heart’s emotions and our gut instincts. Stimulating the vagus nerve is known to induce a deeply relaxed state – it reduces heart rate, lowers blood pressure and relaxes the muscles feeding the mind. By breathing a smile deep into the abdomen it switches the nervous system into a rest and digest phase and overrides any negative stress. In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Living with an inner smile creates a harmonious connection with the self. Inhale, then while exhaling, direct a smile into the lower abdomen. This delivers a positive mental intention into the energetic centre of the body.

Beauty regimes are there not to cover up, fix or change us but as a tribute to the body, an act of love and discovery; a way of honouring the self, showing appreciation and developing the relationship we have to ourselves.

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11 Make herbal hair conditioner

Coconut oil scented with jasmine, rose, or sandalwood is a traditional hair conditioning formula used in India. This recipe f rom Monisha Bharadwaj, author of Beauty Secrets of India is highly nourishing. Heat 500grams of coconut oil in a pot. Remove f rom the stove and add a handful each of dried hibiscus, holy basil, and marigold petals, and 1 teaspoon of black tea leaves. Steep for a day, strain into a glass jar, and apply once a week. Allow the oil to soak in for at least 15 minutes before washing several times with shampoo.

12 Blend dates & ghee

In Somalia women use pureed dates and ghee as a hydrating beauty aid, a body scrub and hair conditioner. Dates grow in abundance there so they’re a natural ingredient choice for Somalis. Ghee (clarified butter) has excellent healing properties. In Ayurveda it is considered as a ‘saatvik’ or positive food and has Vitamins like A and E as well as antioxidants. Make up a mixture of equal parts dates and ghee and use a loofah to scrub the whole body for glistening skin. Work it into your hair and leave it on for an hour before washing off. It leaves hair exceptionally hydrated. Smother on the face for 15 minutes for soft and clean feeling skin.

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13 Use a jade roller & dry brush

Chinese royalty and high society used jade rollers to reduce puffy eyes, keep wrinkles at bay and improve circulation by helping lymphatic drainage. The massaging action of the rolling also relaxes the face. Jade rollers are styled similarly to paint rollers except they’re made f rom solid jade stone. It’s generally used on the face although can also be used on the body. If you can’t get hold of a jade roller, try dry brushing your body as an alternative.

14 Have an incense bath

The Sudanese Dukhan beauty regime is an intriguing beauty secret found in Af rica. It involves sitting in a smoke bath of sandalwood and acacia. It’s a ritual married women traditionally do on a weekly basis. Incense bathing goes back thousands of years to the ancient northeast Af rican Kingdoms of Meroe and Nubia. The Dukhan, (dukhan means smoke in Arabic) involves stoking charcoal until it glows, putting the hot coals in a container, covering them with acacia and sandalwood and sitting or standing naked over the coals using a blanket as a tent to contain the smoke. Besides the f ragrant benefit it is known to be relaxing and relieves joint problems and arthritis. It’s often a ritual women do to prepare for lovemaking.

Skincare for the Soul You may not view your skincare regime as a way of supporting both your body and mind, but with a new generation of products made with vibrating energies, flower essences and rhythmically extracted botanicals, you can now tap into an exciting field of holistic self-care. Aptly pronounced skin-easy-ology, Skinesiology is a recently launched functional and personalised skincare range that’s been lovingly developed to harness the physical and emotional therapeutic properties of botanicals and flower essences. The skinesiology team is passionate about helping you become consciously aware of the connection between your body and mind, reawaken your innate ability to believe in yourself, be mindful of your true being and reach a state of inner and outer balance. More than mere beauty products, their creations aim to connect you to your body from a heart-centred space. At Skinesiology, they have created a system that identifies your state of body and mind, and uses vibrational remedies in conjunction with the emotional nutrients of flower essences to enhance the flow of life force energy to bring about a more balanced state of being. Their rhythmically extracted botanicals - which are planted and harvested with the rhythms and cycles of the Earth to preserve their properties – serve to further enhance the performance of the flower essences.

The groundbreaking range merges flower essences and natural and organic skincare ingredients with the principles of kinesiology to create the ultimate pamper product. What’s more, products are matched to individuals according to their unique needs. Taking the easy online matching quiz will connect you to the perfect products for your body and mind, helping you to inspire your inner warrior, induce a state of bliss, support peace of mind and blossom into your greatest potential. Starting with their flagship Peace of Mind product and expanding rapidly from there, the range includes body and mind, hand and facial creams, as well as cleansers, masks and auric mists.

Skinesiology is perfectly positioned to become both your skincare therapist and your holistic healing partner

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HOW TO NAVIGATE YOUR COLLAGEN NEEDS That your body produces collagen naturally and that its production begins to decline after the age of 25 is a generally known fact; but how do you know what and how to supplement? Collagen is the most abundant protein in your body and the building block for healthy bones, tendons, ligaments, nails, hair, skin and more. There are various types of collagen, and all are made up of amino acids – principally glycine, hydroxyproline, proline, glutamic acid, alanine and arginine. Within the various types, there are two ways to describe collagen – endogenous is natural, made by the body, and exogenous is either synthetic or is derived from an external source. But what does that mean? One thing is for sure, if you’re looking for collagen to boost your skin, be aware that most collagen molecules are actually too large to be absorbed by the skin. Collagen does assist in increasing elasticity and hydration of the skin (one of the signs of ageing and stress), but it needs to be properly absorbed to make a difference. 1 And collagen isn’t just about beautifying your skin – it has also been shown to have a beneficial effect on gut health. In fact, there is a correlation between reduced collagen and Irritable Bowel Syndrome. 2 There are two specific amino acids within collagen that have the biggest impact on gut health – glycine and glutamine. Similarly, if you’re battling with joint pain or osteoarthritis 3, collagen is often recommended in helping reduce painful symptoms. A word you may find on collagen-related packaging is ‘hydrolysed’. This means the native collagen has been broken down into very short chains of amino acids (called ‘peptides’), allowing them to be more easily absorbed into and processed by the body (i.e. making them more bioavailable). If you see either Hydrolysed collagen or collagen peptides on your packaging, it means the same thing.

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CHOOSING QUALITY COLLAGEN Get simple – if the ingredient list is short, such as ‘collagen protein isolate’ or ‘collagen peptides’, then you are probably on the right track. Avoid flavoured versions

These may contain added sugar or other carbohydrates, which could in turn upset your gut, add calories and interfere with amino absorption.

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1 REFLEXOLOGY

Reflexology is an alternative treatment involving application of pressure to the feet and hands with specific thumb, finger and hand techniques. It’s based on the theory that there are reflex points on the feet, hands and head that are linked to every part of the body.

clockwise circular movements to improve circulation and unblock congestion in the reproductive area. Do this at least twice to four times a week for maximum effect. TO LEARN MORE OR TO VISIT PALESA FOR A REFLEXOLOGY TREATMENT, CONTACT HER ON PALESAMOLETSANE073@GMAIL.COM (JOHANNESBURG).

“Reflexology can help regulate the menstrual cycle as well as ease the symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis, period cramps and irregular periods,” says Johannesburg based therapeutic reflexologist Palesa Moletsane. “This is done through the manipulation of nerves connected to the reproductive organs, like the ovary and uterus.” The ovary reflex point is situated on the internal side of the foot. To find it, trace an imaginary line f rom the top of your ankle bone to the angle of your heel. The point is right in the middle of this line. The uterus point is on the medial side of the foot, halfway between the back of the heel and the ankle bone. Use your thumb to massage these areas in clockwise and anti-

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2 YONI STEAMING

Yoni steaming (also known as vaginal steaming) is an ancient Mayan tradition performed by women as both a preventative and curative healing practice. It involves sitting over a steaming pot of water infused with medicinal herbs like rosemary, oregano, rose petals, basil, marigold, lemon balm and more. The healing power of plants and vital heat is believed to restore balance to the feminine cycle. Women practise yoni steaming as a natural remedy for painful or irregular menstruation, PMS, uterine weakness/prolapse, endometriosis, post-birth healing or simply to maintain reproductive vitality. It’s a beautifully nurturing practice

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3 SHATAVARI

Shatavari (also known as wild asparagus) is a popular Ayurvedic reproductive tonic for women. Aptly translated as ‘she who has 100 husbands’, it’s shown to combat vaginal dryness and menstrual concerns such as heavy bleeding or discharge, as well as to improve the health of female reproductive tissue. The soothing herbal remedy is also said to be helpful for relieving the irritability that can accompany PMS. It can be taken as a powder, in a capsule or as a liquid extract. Ayurveda favours the powder form of the herb, as tasting it starts the digestive process and sends signals to the body to initiate its own supportive mechanisms. TO LEARN MORE OR GET YOUR OWN SHATAVARI POWDER, CONTACT SHATAVARI@TRUESPRINGALCHEMY.COM.

ENVIRONMENT

We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate f rom us. So when we say we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves. Andy Goldsworthy

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E A RT H BO U N D Over 15 thousand scientists from 185 countries issued a ‘Warning to Humanity’ in four languages - English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. This is the second warning. The first was in 1992 when the Union of Concerned Scientists (with 1,700 members including many Nobel Laureates) cautioned that humans are “on a collision course with nature.” They appealed to humanity to burn fewer fossil fuels, preserve forests, limit population growth, and improve food production. The earth is our only home. And time is running out. If each and every one of us become more aware and implement even micro changes to the way we live, we can make a difference. Start by forming a connection to the earth. Then with absolute dedication, convert to an earth-loving lifestyle.

Here are some sustainable alternatives, ideas and practices to engender a happier earth and a more harmonious relationship within that.

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Improve your bond with nature with these suggestions. Be in a nature mindstate. CONNECT WITH THE EARTH The first step in connecting your body with nature is to realise you are nature â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not separate f rom â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but entwinted and integral. Your body is made f rom the same elements, minerals and energy that makes up the planet. The percentage of water on the planet is the same percentage of water in your body. The same vitamins and minerals in nature are the substances from which your bones and body are built. We breathe in oxygen through a symbiotic relationship between humans and trees where we each provide the element for one another to live. The digestive fire that heats our body has the same quality as a flame and as the sun. After life our bodies become the earth. Everything in the universe outside is mirrored inside in our consciousness and body. We are designed to naturally attune to the rhythms of the sun and moon, our sleep cycles and circadian rhythm are governed by nature. Being cognisant of this and in alignment is a practice that heightens wellbeing and creates peacefulness and harmony. Feeling high on nature is proven to reduce inflammatory cytokines (these are the proteins that trigger the immune system to work harder).

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See that nature is not simply something outside in your environment, but part of your being. Experience the energy transfer between you and nature by going outside, lying on the ground and allowing your energy fields to mix. Touch the dirt. Put your bare feet in the grass.

Star-gaze.

Lifting your head to the sky is an expansive practice that transcends space-time, puts us in the energy of receiving guidance and into higher consciousness. Connecting with the stars removes complacency and gives us power, and the ability to see ourselves as pure energy and potentiality.

Cloud watch.

This is an excellent form of meditation. As you watch the clouds pass by, see all your stressors disappear in a light playful vapour. Use clouds to stimulate your imagination by seeing imagery in their forms.

Follow the Moon.

Make it a practice to know whether the moon is waxing or waning. Realise it is responsible for the changing tides, in the oceans and also in our internal waters and emotions. If you are a woman, use the moon to track your menstrual cycles.

Sun gazing.

This entails staring at the sun for protracted periods of time mostly during sunrise and sunset. It is said to have benefits that include increasing melatonin and serotonin and is a spiritual endeavour that dates back to early Egyptian civilisation. With the sun as a hugely powerful energy source, sun gazing is reported to increase energy, vitality and eyesight. Before practicing, find someone to give you guidelines on how to practice safely.

Walk barefoot.

As poet Kahlil Gibran says, "Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair." Negative ions f rom the salts and minerals in the sea, sand and earth have positive healing effects on the body.

Notice your body.

In very practical terms, sleep when you are tired, eat when you are hungry, move when you feel energetic. If you feel pain, attend to it firstly by asking yourself where the pain comes from and why.

Bond with nature.

Go hiking and camping, swim in the waves, climb a tree, a hill or mountain, walk down a river, sleep under the stars. Collect crystals and herbs and read about their healing powers. Take your Tai Chi or yoga class outside.

Listen to the wind.

Allow the sounds of nature, the birds and the wind in the trees, flowing water and crashing waves to be present in your awareness.

Connect to trees.

Feel your own tree energy by extending imaginary roots down into the ground beneath your feet. Make your arms into branches and see how you superimpose into a tree. Ask yourself: are you bearing f ruit or flowers and how well are you grounded?

Inhale the universe.

Breathe deeply where there are lots of trees. Smell flowers. Notice the sweet feel of air and be aware you are in a symbiotic cycle of breath with nature. As you breathe out, notice that she breathes in.

Tune into animal energy.

Imagine you are an eagle in the sky, ask yourself where you would fly and how would it feel. Pick any animal and feel the energy of your animal in your body. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be surprised to find it there. Try out different animals and see how each one feels different. You can tap into any part of nature, because it is already inherently in you.

Thank the earth.

Honour and thank our Mother Earth. After all Gaia is the mother of all. Share your gratitude with others and start a cycle of appreciation. Feel the connection and love between you and the earth and sense how you can be of service.

ENVIRONMENT

ECO-HOME Become a conscious consumer by making mindful choices and running an eco-f riendly household. Opt for natural fabrics, chemical free body and household products, grow an edible garden, forage, recycle and celebrate the benefits of living closer to the earth.

Contribute to cultural change.

Join the movement called called ‘degrowth’ which invites a fundamental transformation of our lives and an extensive cultural change. It’s based on ecological economics and anticonsumerist ideas and is an economic strategy responding to the limits-to-growth dilemma. It is a form of society and economy which aims at the well-being of all and sustains the natural basis of life. As a Degrowth advocate says: “Consumerism is a gross failure of imagination, a debilitating addiction that degrades nature and doesn’t satisfy the universal human craving for meaning.” Degrowth is a way of life based on modest material and energy needs but rich in other dimensions – a life of f rugal abundance. It includes things like promoting local currencies, working less, volunteering more, co-housing, more walking and cycling less car driving, community vegetable gardens, and more care and connection. Degrowthers aim to maximise happiness and well-being through non-consumptive means—sharing work, consuming less, while devoting more time to art, music, family, nature, culture and community. Add some degrowth ideologies into your life.

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Make good vibes thrive.

Advertising often makes us into mindless consumers. What we buy tends to be whatever is most prominent in our awareness which is often what is advertised most. If you examine everything in your house and realise how many harmful chemicals you are interacting with, and the implications of that you will be shocked. Our tendency to be in a collective delusion makes it hard to change. Yet, clearly the way we live is conducive to auto-immune diseases, cancer and climate destruction. Make a revolutionary shift and ban all harmful ingredients by purchasing non-toxic body and household products. If you find they cost a whole lot more, simply make your own versions. There are amazing recipes for everything f rom natural detergents, deoderants, cleaners, body washes and perfumes online. Things like lemon, vinegar and baking soda are perfect household cleaners while rose water, coffee scrubs, bannana face masks and kitchen basics are wonderful beauty substitutes. Wear natural fabrics f rom sustainable ingredients like hemp, and allow your skin to breathe. We have enough local natural brands to supply us with cosmetics, cleaners and wearables that are biodegradable, non-harmful and effective. Do your research, find trustworthy brands and make a switch.

Invite more simplicity.

If you are really truthful with yourself and do an honest audit of your life, you are likely to see a huge amount of clutter. Clutter that exists in the physical form (clothing, furniture, books, tools etc) and in the emotional realm (drama, resentment, hurts, anger etc). The practice of decluttering your life has incredibly liberating effects and can also be addictive. That’s because whatever we own, owns a part of our focus and once we lose the ‘thing’ we f ree up more headspace and energy for ourselves. It also opens the flow of abundance. Things that aren’t being used carry ‘dead’ energy and stop the flow in our lives. When adopting a more minimalistic life, we see it carries peace and relief. Escaping relentless consumerism is relaxing, time saving, space saving, easier on the planet, less expensive and altogether makes life more delightful. That’s also because when getting a fix f rom purchases is out the way, we find deeper joy in experiences, and with appreciating ‘being’. Do a huge clear out, give everything you don’t need to those who do need and feel the delicious clarity of living with less. Surround yourself instead with a few key items you really love and appreciate. If you do purchase something, make sure it is a good quality eco-f riendly, considered purchase.

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The mountains are my bones, the rivers my veins. The forests are my thoughts and the stars are my aspirations. The ocean is my heart, its continuous ebb and flow is my pulse. The sounds of the earth write the poetry of my soul.

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Sleep is our most underrated nutrient, it allows for magical body repair work, it’s also the ‘mini death’ that allows a new mood to birth. It’s the keeper of our intriguing landscape of dreams – it’s the way we can begin afresh with new hope and new feelings. Giving due honour towards cultivating quality sleeping time begins during your day. Chinese Medicine believes the sleeping process is the movement of Wei Qi (defensive energy) f rom the exterior to the interior which is the movement of blood into the organs to do repair work. If we have a high level of toxicity in the blood stream, the blood will stay on the surface so as not to take the toxins deeper into your body. When Wei Qi is held up in any way, it affects our sleep.

Take note that your body uses sleep to regenerate and deep quality sleep will uphold and support the important mechanism of balance and healing in the body. Too many stimulants and toxic substances will impede the flow of blood in its regenerating capacity so drinking water and cleansing herbs is highly recommended throughout the day.

During the day we embody yang energy which is active and energetic and at night we represent yin energy which is recuperative, calm and restful. Having a good balance during the day – being energetic and exercising, creates more balance in your expression of yin during the night. It’s also highly beneficial to take mini breaks in amongst an active day where you breathe and invite calming moments. Practising breathing is an excellent expression of this.

Sleep tight!

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Hemp fabric can be blended with silk and cotton to make incredibly beautiful and elegant clothing, linen and curtains with varying weights, textures and styles. Wearing a hemp T-shirt instead of a conventionally grown cotton one saves the planet approximately:

Fabric from hemp feels soft and natural; it’s lightweight, absorbent, naturally anti-microbial and very importantly allows your skin to breathe. Hemp absorbs dye generously and retains colour. It weathers repeated washing and gets softer the more it’s washed and worn.

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When bringing a more earth-friendly focus into your life, remember to audit your home environment as well. Use these ‘hempful’ ideas to convert your home into a natural haven

Bring natural fibres into your bedroom. Bed linen, curtains, cushions, tray cloths, slippers and pajamas are all available in hemp fabric. Try the silk blend for luxurious curtains & the cotton blend for comfy pj’s.

Put some sunshine in your laundry. Hemp is known as one of the most durable and long-lasting natural fibres. It softens and becomes more comfortable with every wash. Hemp wears in, not out.

What you put on your skin goes into your blood stream too. Be as kind to yourself with the ingredients you use in your body products as those you use in your food. Try Hemporium’s range of gentle, all-natural hemp based body products.

Even for big grocery hauls, your hemp shopper will carry the load. It’s a really strong fabric that’ll stick with you for life. Keep a spare one in your car and support the ‘plastic free’ movement.

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When we do plant medicine, and we see love, we realise right then and there that it was never apart from us, that in fact it was a part of us. Gerard Armond Powell

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H ea l i n g Cen t r e s AROUND THE WORLD

Surprising, inspiring and even miraculous transformation stories hail f rom alternative healing centres around the world. We look at some of the most celebrated â&#x20AC;&#x201C; f rom longevity retreats in Florida and Greece to spiritual healing in Brazil, Ayurvedic detox in India, and the home of a powerful plant medicine culture in the heart of Af rica.

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Nearly 2,500 years ago, Hippocrates - the father of modern medicine famously said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.â&#x20AC;? Over half a century ago, humanitarian Ann Wigmore partnered with renowned holistic health practitioner Viktoras Kulvinskas to create a place where this simple yet significant maxim could be put into practice. Encouraging people to draw f rom their own inner resources to transform their health and lives, the vision of the Hippocrates Health Institute is simple: to help people help themselves. They have since become leaders in the field of weight loss, anti-ageing and longevity, and firmly advocate for the health benefits of a raw, plant-based diet.

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HIPPOCRATES HEALTH INSTITUTE

Set in a lush tropical oasis in West Palm Beach, Florida

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Pe ople with health challenges as div e rse as di abetes to heart disease, m ultiple sclerosis to autoimmune disease and we ight loss to chronic pain have all found holisti c relief at the resort. The non-profit organisation has offered comprehensive wellness programmes to guests from all over the world for over 60 years. Their health and nutritional counselling, non-invasive remedial and youthenhancing therapies, state of the art spa, enlightening talks and organic nutrition are all tailored towards helping people take responsibility for their lives and actualise an existence free from premature ageing, disease and chronic pain.

Their signature offerings include a comprehensive life transformation training, weight loss academy and cancer wellness programme.

The Lotus Retreat provides a safe space to facilitate inner growth and will assist you in gaining wellness in all levels of your being

- physical, mental, emotional, energetic & spiritual.

They also train aspiring health practitioners to become Certified Hippocrates Health Educators, and run an online coaching programme for those wanting to become Hippocrates Lifestyle Medicine Coaches. Actress, model and beauty queen Amanda Kimmel is one of the many Hollywood celebrities who have visited the resort. So impressed was she by her own healing journey, that she went on to become a Hippocrates Health Educator herself. Another well-known enthusiast is British actor George Harris, who shares: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everything about this place is just heavenly. I call it a temple of healing.â&#x20AC;?

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One of the most well known spiritual healers alive today, John of God has been lauded as changing lives in mysterious ways for over 30 years. Millions have visited the remote village of Abadiania in central Brazil to seek healing from the man they have come to call the most powerful spiritual healer since Jesus. While the efficacy of spiritual healing is largely a matter of personal belief, John of God has been hailed as a miracle healer by prominent public figures the likes of Oprah Winf rey and Wayne Dyer – sparking widespread public curiosity about the ability of certain energies to trigger the body’s innate healing response, and the capacity of a few individuals to transfer these in a seemingly gifted way.

The ca sa g r ounds ar e fil l ed w ith flo w er s and fr uit t r e e s , d o tt ed wit h wooden b e n che s w h er e people c an s it i n m e d it a t ion, a nd l ai d o u t w i th long , low buildi ngs p a i n te d sky blue a nd w h i te . Abadiania, a remote village in central Brazil

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JOHN OF GOD

Born João Teixeira de Faria in Cachoeira de Goiás, Brazil in 1942, John of God is said to work by channelling the guidance of God and divine spirits to affect his healings. The energies may not be seen, but many claim that the healings are. While his more controversial ‘psychic surgeries’ have received both sterling and scathing press over the decades, what most who visit John of God do report is a marked spiritual and emotional elevation after the experience. A visit to his healing casa involves time spent in meditation and quiet contemplation – something that can certainly benefit us all in this day and age. While John of God is said to perform distance healings, many seeking both physical and emotional healing take the journey to Brazil as a spiritual pilgrimage. There is a ‘pharmacy’ where people can get their herbal prescriptions filled, a gift shop selling crystals, books and holy water, and a museum of discarded crutches, wheelchairs, canes and eyeglasses, as well as jars of tumours, growths and other obtrusions said to have been removed by the entities. One of the most visible supporters of John of God, Oprah says the following of her time in his presence: “I felt an overwhelming sense of peace. Just a week before, I'd been almost at the point of giving up. Now I smiled inside myself at the twists and turns this journey of building a network had taken. And how it had brought me right to the place I most needed to be to get perspective. And that was just the first hour of a day filled with prayers, blessings, and hugs f rom strangers—all of us seeking the light of something greater than ourselves.”

HOLISTIC HEALTH & CREATIVE CENTER A hidden gem in the heart of vibrant and colourful Woodstock This enchanting 19th century heritage building has recently been restored and begun its new life as a Health, Wellness and Creative Centre. The focus of the center is to support physical, mental and emotional wellbeing and to provide a meeting place for people who want to explore a more natural way of living.

We offer a range of holistic healthcare practitioners who will reinforce your body self-healing mechanisms Counselling

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Homeopathy Reflexology Body Alignment Kinesiology Drama, Art & Music Therapy Pottery Classes

Workshops and space rental for seminars and talks encouraging growth through education and sharing of knowledge. A spacious and luminous studio for Yoga, Qigong, Tai-chi and Meditation with a majestic Table Mountain view.

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An Art gallery which host exhibitions of established and emerging local artists. CafĂŠ tables set in a tranquil and leafy inner courtyard with free Wi-Fi.

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Panchakarma is a fivefold Ayurvedic detoxification treatment involving massage, herbal therapy and other procedures. The treatments are tailored to individual needs, and can involve such restorative therapies as warm oil massage, herbal steams, lymphatic massage, herbal enemas, nasal administrations and other special treatments.

Kerala

PANCHAKARMA CENTRES

T h e w o rd ‘pa nch akar ma’ mean s ‘ f i ve ac ti ons’ o r ‘ fi ve tr eat ment s’ in Sanskri t. The programme is recommended seasonally in Ayurveda, and aims to rid the body of the toxins of disease, poor nutrition and environmental exposure. While the body would normally have an innate ability to process and remove these waste materials, due to repeated dietary indiscretions, poor lifestyle and exercise patterns and genetic predisposition, the digestive enzymes, metabolic co-factors and hormones that regulate balance can become disrupted. Panchakarma aims to address and correct these imbalances and purify the body at a deep level. Panchakarma treatments are individualised based on Ayurvedic constitution and imbalances, age, digestive and immune strength and a host of other factors. Specially trained therapists administer the chosen procedures in an exact sequence for a specified period of time. Research has shown the therapies to create measurable brain wave coherence and lower metabolic activity, allowing the body and mind to drop into a deep level of peace where physical toxins and emotional tensions can be more easily released.

India’s Kerala boasts some of the best panchakarma retreats in the world. The Somatheeram Ayurvedic Health Resort has been commended as the Best Ayurvedic centre in Kerala by the state government for the tenth time this year. Dr Franklin’s Ayurveda Resort offers a strong collaborative of experienced Ayurvedic doctors alongside lifestyle programmes including yoga, meditation and nutrition. New Ideal Panchakarma Centre is beautifully positioned on the edge of a small village within a canopy of coconut palms just five minutes’ walk f rom Chowara Beach. Further afield in Los Angeles, celebs the likes of Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson and Kourtney Kardashian swear by the Panchakarma treatments offered at the renowned Ayurvedic Surya Spa.

Abadiania, a remote village in central Brazil

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Lifeshine Healing & Retreat Visiting LifeShine in Stellenbosch was a deeply touching experience. It offers the most progressive healing protocols from around the globe for people with immune compromised illnesses and chronic disease. It’s in a beautiful setting where patients feel as though they are in a friendly hotel rather than a hospital. We walked through the communal lounge area where, rather than being confined to a ward, patients if they wish, can choose to congregate together on couches and day beds. The area has glass doors that look out over an extensive nature landscape and has a distinctively positive and uplifting atmosphere. Some of the residents had drips attached, some were managing pain conditions and yes, there were people healing from cancer, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, diabetes, and other life threatening chronic conditions but there was a beautiful camaraderie of being on a healing journey. LifeShine came about through a collaboration of doctors, experts, holistic healers and individuals who have experienced illness either personally or by someone close to them and seen and felt the trials and tribulations first hand. With a deeply compassionate sentiment they resolved to help people through more natural, non-toxic and holistic means. After many years of manifesting the right people and energy the Centre opened in mid-April in 2018 and has been growing exponentially since. Holding a vision of how life can shine when at optimum health is the idea behind the name and the goal is to get everyone to the point of radiating light from within.

As key founder Dr Helen Stutz explains:

“Our goal was to create a holistic comprehensive multi-therapy treatment facility and information centre for the personalised treatment of patients with immune compromised illnesses and chronic disease.” Using a holistic framework, they look at 5 main aspects of healing including: 1. specialised nutrition; 2. immunotherapy protocol; 3. detox programmes; 4. healing therapies and 5. counselling and spiritual support. Education is also a key part of their ethos, teaching clients how to implement lifestyle changes that embody health. The Centre considers each person individually, even in terms of their financial situation and lifestyle helping find the best time-frame and ways of delivering treatment. Generally a 3-4 week intensive programme is recommended during which participants are given tools to help support their bodies after their programme is finished. This means they leave feeling empowered and able to potentially maintain their own treatment and diet further. “This combination, and our particular focus on the immune system, allows our body’s systems to operate at their optimum levels and enhances their ability to fight back against the disease,” says Dr Stutz. “We want to provide our patients with the knowledge, hope and correct treatments to overcome their illness.” Sometimes it suits individuals to have a full personalised programme or simply a detox programme. Other times a drop-in treatment or a doctors consultation is required. Important to note is that the centre is not only aimed at people who are chronically ill, but also those who want to get their health to an optimum level. The doctors and therapists are specialists in the fields of therapeutic diets, detoxification, immune support, and lifestyle coaching.

A health food Café called Aura of Eden is adjacent to the expansive lounge filled with radiating food from sprouts and green juices to nourishing elixirs and life enhancing cuisine. Being a patient is about wellness not sickness and just that precept makes such a difference to the process.

Therapies offered include colonic hydrotherapy, various intravenous booster or detox therapies, many different modalities of ozone therapies, lymphatic drainage, Rife, pulsed electromagnetic therapy (PEMF) to Rebounding, Doctor consults, Comprehensive diet plans and Psychology. They are also linked to various funding organisations that rally for support for those who cannot afford treatment. Some of their associated/sister non-profit organization include the HopePhil Foundation and the Rice Foundation.

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The tiny island of Ikaria in Greece is one of the most famous Blue Zones - regions of the world where people live much longer than average. Known as ‘the island where people forget to die’, it plays home to a community that is almost entirely f ree f rom dementia and some of the chronic diseases that plague people in the rest of the world. One in three Ikarians make it to their 90s, and their longevity is attributed to a combination of geography, culture, diet, lifestyle and outlook.

Ikarians eat a variation of the Mediterranean diet, with lots of f ruit and vegetables, whole grains, beans, potatoes and olive oil. Clean air, warm breezes and rugged terrain call them outdoors into an active lifestyle. They choose goat’s milk over cow’s milk, drink herbal tea, take regular naps and prioritise connection with f riends and family. The Ikarian Longevity Retreat 7 day programme includes detox drinks made from local herbs and f ruit, aqua yoga and tai chi, community-building games sessions, nature walks, sea swims, social meals, inspirational talks and plenty of time spent in rest and silent gratitude.

Ikaria is a tiny island in Greece

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IKARIA LONGEVITY RETREAT

There is also a day spent at Ikaria’s famous thermal springs – therapeutic radioenergised springs that have been identified as amongst the best in the world for their healing qualities. The springs have been used as a centre for hydrotherapy since the 1st century BC. The essential therapeutic elements are saline radium and radonium, and the benefits are delivered to the body primarily through inhalation while bathing, with the remaining ten percent being absorbed through the skin. People have come to the hydrotherapy hub for relief f rom everything f rom chronic rheumatism and neurological disorders to respiratory disease, gynaecological complications, allergies and more.

I n vi ti n g peopl e f rom aroun d the w orl d t o l i ve the I kari an w a y , the I kari a L on gevi t y Retreat of f ers a sevenday programme c reated i n l i ne w i th the Greek phi l osophy of happi nes s as a b al an c e of b od y , mi nd an d soul .

Angala Retreat “When the residing spirit of a place has a gentle, healing and protective energy, the trees, the flowers, birds and creatures conspire together with a harmonic percussion that only nature can play.” Angala has a bountiful soul. If she were a princess, I’d imagine her barefoot in silk robes. There’s an earthy connectedness and gracious splendour that immediately puts you into the present moment. Driving into the property showcases incredible views of the Franschoek Valley and mountains. Aside from the majestic mountains, we were greeted by sunflowers, numerous birds and then a fireplace with comfy couches you could easily disappear in for days. Adjacent to the fireplace was a bounty of breakfast treats with fresh produce collected directly from nearby farms. Healthy options like almond milk, Red espresso, gluten and sugar f ree treats are resplendent. “Many of the guests have been coming back here for years”, explained Tish who together with her husband Peter have seven children and a growing number of grandchildren. Meeting Tish, it’s easy to understand where the nurturing energy comes f rom. Having grown up in the Kruger, Tish is a nature spirit and you’ll find many of

the rooms have the option of bathing or showering under the stars. Each unit or room is a sanctuary saturated with a peace-filled ambience that flows through your bones. It’s a deeply soothing and resplendant wellness destination. You can meditate in the ozonated solar heated pool with invigorating jets; swim lengths in the eco pool and settle in the inf rared sauna and steam room. Hosting f requent yoga retreats, detox weekends, self-development workshops, meditation and simple relaxation, you can’t help participate in the relaxing and transformative energy Angala holds. Twelve specially appointed suites and cottages are spacious and thoughfully equipped with everything you might need f rom gowns to a yoga mat, I found an inspiring book on visualisation in mine. Expect giant beds, quality linen and carefully selected sculptures and pieces.

ANGALA You could say Angala was born on the wing of an angel. Its name was inspired by a passage f rom Diana Coopers book, The Codes of Power (Hay House). Angala refers to the time aeons ago when Earth was first being formed. It was the period during which god was gathering the energy to create our planet. In the divine mind there was the thought of Earth and the protection of the angels to hold it safe. That was Angala. At first it was a naked planet full of love, just like a newborn baby – a precious, f ragile creation. It received the full love and attention of Mother/Father god and the angels. Later trees were seeded f rom the mind of Source. They did not come f rom another universe. Trees are ancient, wise sentient beings holding the knowledge of their local areas. Every creature that evolved here or arrived f rom another plane of existence could shape its own destiny...

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If you’re interested in the mysterious world of plant medicine, chances are you’ve heard of Ibogaine (commonly referred to as Iboga). An active ingredient of the root bark of the Af rican shrub Tabernanthe iboga, it’s traditionally used for medicinal and ritual purposes by the Bwiti tribe of the Congo basin. Iboga simultaneously interacts with several neurotransmitter systems. It is metabolised by the body into noribogaine, which acts to increase the availability of serotonin in the brain. It was first promoted in the West as having anti-addictive properties in 1962, and is used primarily for treating opiate addiction by Western enthusiasts today. It’s also fast becoming more common as a tool for personal and spiritual development, with recreational use being nearly non-existent.

Gabon

IBOGA INITIATION

Iboga is not considered a ‘cure’ for addiction, but rather an addiction ‘interrupter’, as it is said to eliminate or greatly reduce withdrawal symptoms. As is the case with many psychedelics, it also attracts those wanting to support their emotional and spiritual development. Generally, a smaller dose is taken when using it for personal development. Users report a temporary shattering of the ego that offers more perspective on the interconnectedness of the world and less power to petty problems. They report gaining new insight into their emotional problems, with deeply repressed pain and trauma surfacing in a way that, while difficult and even turbulent at the time, allows for eventual processing and, in some cases, transcendence of the perceived challenges. There are currently an estimated 75 to 100 iboga treatment facilities worldwide. Those looking for a less clinical and more traditional setting can also journey to Gabon

t h e h o m e o f I bog a to participate in a traditional Bwiti iboga initiation ceremony.

Gabon, a country along the Atlantic coast of Central Africa

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The ceremonies are led by a healer called N’ganga, who is the spiritual leader of the community. There are separate temples (in small wooden huts) for men and women, and lots of percussion, hand clapping and singing accompanies the ritual. The temple has benches on the sides where members of the community, musicians, children, elders and healers sit whilst accompanying the rite of passage or healing process, which takes between three to five days for men, and up to two weeks for women. It is revered by many as a delicate and complex process.

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“In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: “When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?” Gabrielle Roth 96 | holistica.net

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B ODY WHICHEVER WAY YOU DO IT, IT’LL HEIGHTEN YOUR MOOD & ELEVATE YOUR MIND Movement is such an integral part of owning a body, and feeling fluid and flexible has indisputable happy-making benefits. Often though, we tag exercise with feelings of guilt or obligation or connect it with losing weight or other negative f rameworks. Moving is natural, it’s enjoyable, invigorating and something we are naturally inclined towards when we don’t associate it with duty and difficulty. The best way to incorporate exercise in your life is to do something you lose yourself in, something you love.

We look at therapeutic and ecstatic dance; running; and yoga as power ways to elevate your spirit through movement. BY ROBYN WILK INS ON PHOTO KYLE COT TRELL

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DANCE Ecstatic dance invites total abandonment of the self to the rhythm of free movement resulting in an ecstatic trance-like state. It’s a liberating way of freeing the body and mind and leaving all manner of constructs behind. Proponents of ecstatic dance often experience altered consciousness, a feeling of sacred expression, an elevated high and even hysteria, seizure or rapture. Traditions of ecstatic dance occur throughout the world, our closest example is the shamanic dance of the San bushman, and the Yoruba in Nigeria. We see similarities in the Sufi whirling dervishes, the Kut f rom Korea, and many traditions in India and South America, some of which intentionally give their bodies over to dieties as a way of temporarily losing the self. Achieving a trance like state during dance can be assisted by music, sound, drumming or chanting. The late Gabriella Roth, a wellknown ecstatic dancer developed a dynamic movement practice—a practice of being in your body—that ignites creativity known as the Five Rhythms. She amassed a worldwide following of her five rhythms: flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical and stillness that facilitates the build up to deep release sought after by dancers. In dancing Five Rhythms the body becomes our spiritual path. Entry into dance doesn’t require discipline; it’s a natural pathway the body eagerly follows.

Dance, when you're

broken open. Dance, if

you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the

middle of the fighting.

Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free. Rumi

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In f ree dance, it’s the incredible opening power that creates therapy in movement. Using your own body and emotion, an automatic healing space is choreographed for emotional, physical and spiritual maladies. Dancing can also engender connection; with yourself and connection with others, encouraging our bodies, hearts and minds to co-create together. You don’t need any experience when you dance, 'you come home to your body'. Surrendering to movement, you begin to connect with yourself, while you discover the intoxicating medicine of movement.

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Local Cape Town based dancer Leigh Goodman swears by the power of dance to heal emotions, create connection, and explore the mystery of the self in deep healing processes, self-expression, intention and manifestation:

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“If you’re hesitant to try conventional treatments or medicines, dance therapy may just be the life-changing action you need. If you are feeling stuck and af raid of moving forward; feel unbalanced or disconnected; are immersed in negative thought patterns; hurt and need to release pain; experience depression, stress or anxiety; or feel ungrounded, dance movement therapy is certainly a space you’ll find solace, change and healing.”

Expressive dance can assist in

unblocking and balancing your

energy centres; generating deeper mental and emotional clarity; helping release emotional

blockages; allowing a deeper

connection to your body, mind and soul, and increasing your sense of wellbeing.

On a personal level Leigh explains the impact of her dancing: “My journey has shown me that utilising dance and movement can be profoundly healing for so many parts of myself. It has helped me to make f riends with my body. It has helped me to be open to more than I could have dreamt before. It has helped me with my posture, self-expression and confidence and has helped me break f ree of old belief systems, mind patterns and negative emotions”.

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Running is my private time, my therapy, my religion.

R UN NI N G

Gail W. Kislevitz

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It may not be an activity that appeals to everyone but for those who love running, it seems to hold an addictive quality. Running is accessible, can be done anywhere, at any time and releases huge boosts of endorphins. Lately ultra-marathons are experiencing increased popularity where participants run for days and sometimes nights across deserts, mountains and even snow-filled areas. Author and runner Kenneth Posner mentions the Navajo Indians who made a ritual of running at dawn, and in winter they’d start by rolling in the snow as a practice to stave off laziness, make the eyes clear, and the body strong. They believed Talking God would travel on rainbows and sunbeams, sing songs of the mountain lion, antelope, and deer, and encourage people to run and in so doing develop the Navajo ideals of enterprise, courage, and quickness of mind. Running was also part of the Navajo girl’s puberty ceremony known as Kinaalda. When Georges Comte De Buffon said, “Civilised man does not know his powers”, he was referring to some of the documented running feats that, in our modern sedentary life are difficult to imagine. One such story is told by Peter

Nabokov in his book, Indian Running, where apparently anthropologist George Laird documented a case of a runner that ran f rom Cotton Wood island in Nevada to the mouth of the Gila River in Southern Arizona. He arrived at sunrise on the same day, his arrival time being earlier than his departure time hinting at the magical form that sacred running can take. It’s inspiring to look at the extraordinary feats and traditions of running in context of our own lives and fitness considerations.

“I always loved running… it

was something you could do by yourself, and under your

own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow

as you wanted, fighting the

wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the

strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.” – Jesse Owens

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YOGA Yoga, in its physical practice is described as deep therapy for its proponents. Simply following the poses teaches a mindful awareness that we have everything we need inside of us to deal with all of lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s complications, distractions, challenges and upheavals. Slowing down, breathing and paying attention to the moment teaches amazing clarity and graciousness to attend to every situation in a higher form of response. All the answers we seek, exist inside of us already, and yoga teaches us to access that. The practice is an anti-dote to our overly stimulating consumer-ridden culture. It undoes our conditioned response of looking outside ourselves for validation of our decisions, desires and dreams. Each pose, although delivered in a physical form teaches grace, patience, understanding, connection and steadfastness. Our language and our bodies are intimately connected and through yoga we switch off our internal dialogue allowing the space to notice and examine our self-talk. In this way we are able to recognise the tone and pattern and to modify it to a new purpose â&#x20AC;&#x201C; one that is empowering. There are countless different yoga poses, some of them are best done in sequence and some you can do as stand alone poses. Try this upward-facing dog pose if you need some ref reshed energy.

GIFTS RECEIVED FROM UPWARD DOG Opens the heart & stretches the chest and lungs. Improves posture, strengthens spine, wrists and arms. Works the abs and firms the butt. Stimulates abdominal organs. Helps release depression and relieve fatigue. Therapeutic for sciatica and asthma.

I am the prayer, I am the one who

prays and I am the one who answers. Elena Brower

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- UPWARD-FACING DOG POSE Urdhva Mukha Svanasana Urdhva Mukha Svanasana is one of the sequence positions in the Sun Salutation and usually practiced in a flow but it is also very beneficial practiced individually helping to combat many of our forward movements like sitting at a desk and using devices. •

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Lie flat on the floor on your tummy. Stretch your legs back, feel the tops of your feet against the floor. Bend your elbows and place your palms solidly on the floor beside your waist spreading your fingers out and flattening them against the ground. Make sure your forearms are perpendicular to the floor. Breathe in and press your inner hands into the floor and slightly back, with the feeling of pushing yourself forward along the floor. Still on your in-breath, straighten your arms and lift your torso and legs off the floor. Keep the thighs firm and slightly turned inward. Your arms should be strong and turned in a way that the elbow crease faces forward. Be aware of elevating yourself up and extending out of your shoulders rather than hanging on them. Feel as though you are creating distance between your ears and shoulders. Actively draw the shoulders away from the ears by lengthening down along the back armpits, pulling the shoulder blades toward the tailbone, and offering the side ribs forward. To really feel into this position you can experiment what it feels like to put each hand on a block. Press the tailbone down toward the pubic bone and lift the pubic bone toward the navel. Narrow the hip points. Keep your butt firm but not clenched. Feel a lift in your chest without pushing the front ribs forward. Look straight ahead being mindful not to crunch the back of the neck. Keep the throat soft. Relax your mouth. Hold this position for about 20 seconds, noticing your breath. Then slowly release back to the floor on an exhale. Repeat as many or few times as you like although aiming for 5 is a good practice.

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MANIFESTATION

M A N I FES TAT I O N M OJ O Abundance is our natural state of being; it’s our birthright and should be an intrinsic part of life. Learning to allow the natural flow of giving and receiving is something that can be implemented in anyone’s life.

The laws of the universe are stacked in our favour and we can cultivate this position of total ease by implementing a few mindful practices. Here’s how: 1. MAKE A COMMITMENT Decide to dedicate some concerted energy into focusing on bringing abundance into your life. 2. BE PRACTICAL Enlist whatever help you might need to get you on your way. Whether it’s an abundance coach, a financial advisor, an accountant, or simply a daily appointment with yourself. Do it. 3. CREATE A VISION Know what your life looks like when you are completely abundant. See yourself as already in this position and think, live and breathe as though ‘it is already’. 4. BLESS YOUR BILLS This may sound strange but having reluctant energy around paying bills stops the flow of giving and receiving. The ideal position is to express gratitude that by sending you a bill, the universe knows your ability to pay it. Do it with enthusiasm and speed. 5. SET UP A TWO WAY FLOW Realise that giving and receiving is a beautiful flowing circle and if you put resistant energy anywhere in the circle it slows it down. Check every part of your giving and receiving cycle and make sure it has perfect energy.

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6. DECIDE TO TITHE Tithing is a practice recommended by many spiritual disciplines.Think of it as a deposit into a spiritual bank that pays exponential dividends. Those who tithe know how this works. It feels edgy to give away a portion of your income but once you engage in this practice you will notice the unusual and delightful returns. Experiment by starting small. 7. REWRITE YOUR INHERITANCE By this I mean any negative money language and beliefs passed down to you by your parents or significant people in your life. Expressions like ‘money doesn’t grow on trees’, ‘you have to work hard to make money’, ‘it’s too expensive’, simply aren’t required in your abundant mindset. 8. ADJUST YOUR THOUGHTS Being full of aspirations about what we want is a fabulous part of being human but being saturated and hugely grateful about what we already have creates a powerfully magnetised field of attraction. 9. FEEL INTO WHAT’S IMPORTANT Often, simplicity and love are the things that are most nourishing. Make sure you feel into what’s really important before you manifest too much clutter.

C R E A T E YOU R OWN F IN A N C IAL WE LLBE I NG Get to where you want to go….

So often we forget to pay attention to the major things in life. Financial wellbeing is fundamental to a complete and happy existence. We speak to Liron Mazor from Greengrass Wealth Management on 6 essential considerations towards helping clients achieve financial wellbeing. Liron uses a holistic approach focusing on individual lifestyle aspirations and implementing various financial tools, opportunities and investment outcomes.

1. ORGANISATION – the first place to start is with organizing every aspect of your financial life. Knowing what you have and what you need is key. Having a systematic way of keeping proper records is easy to achieve with proper guidance.

Knowing the truth about your situation, even when hard to hear, is important.

2. ACCOUNTABILITY – following through on your commitments brings a feeling of order and wellbeing. Knowing what your commitments are and how to negotiate them is important.

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4. PRO-ACTIVITY – anticipating your life transitions and equipping yourself to be financially prepared for them.

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LONGEVITY

Longevity, Immortality & Transcendence Jean-Pierre Le Roux takes us on a tour of longevity practices from fasting to regenerative sexuality, sacred herbs, mythical soma, conscious neurology and much more. He invites us to examine immortality and transcendence and presents ancient and mystical philosophies. This is the first article of a series to be continued in each of our quarterly Holistica Magazines. In this series, while the content is fully accessible to the layperson, we also cover more advanced topics, including rarefied applications of the philosophies and practices of holistic health in the realms of bodily regeneration, longevity and enlightenment.

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Holism

Dimensions of Health

We begin by looking at the principle of Holism and explore what health — of mind, body and spirit — is. ‘Holistic, derives from the Greek holos, which means ‘whole’, ‘all’, ‘entire’ and ‘complete’. The word refers to the primacy of the whole, as being fundamental, and intrinsically greater than the sum of its parts. That which is already whole is the ‘source’ of its parts, rather than a composite derived from them.

When we use the word health, we commonly refer to bodily health incorporating practices of physical healing, rejuvenation and maintenance of biological and structural coherence. This necessarily includes dietary practices, exercise routines and forms of bodywork and movement that maintain the physical structure in its integrity.

In relation to holistic health, it refers to inherent wellness, to the completeness of being, and to systems of healing and transformation aligned with that inherent completeness and wellness. Holistic health proceeds on the basis of honouring that completeness, and working to align with it, rather than seeking to create it from a divided position. It also refers to systems of healing which take the whole being into account; mind, body, spirit, emotions, relations and environment, and seek to heal the whole person. Holism signifies a unity of being and of life, and is founded in a basic attitude of trust in that in which we find our appearance.

In my professional practice, people often ask advice about the best diet or exercise. My answer is always, best diet for what? And best exercise for what? Those that support the goals and needs of an Olympic athlete and Zen monk will differ, and so the intention and intended outcome will always guide that consideration. In this article we focus on practices that support radiant vitality, expressive energy, creativity and longevity – the likely goals for the average person committed to the fullest, happiest life they are capable of. We also present all of this in the context of the Great Way that relates to this present existence as part of a greater process – one that extends beyond physical death into fulfillment of our whole destiny. Death comes to us all, no matter how healthily we live – and so by merely extending life and nothing else, what will we have accomplished? And so this exploration extends into consideration of ‘spiritual health’ and practices that support that. Of course our levels of motivation, sense of well-being, functionality, productivity, emotional capacity and altogether feeling of happiness—with ourselves and in our relationships—is fundamental to this. We often relate to the body as the foundation or vehicle that carries or supports our emotional and mental life, but in truth the body, the mind and the (emotional) heart are one single system. We are a body-mind-heart as a single organism – all these dimensions of ourselves work together as one unit in our experience of life.

LONGEVITY

So holistic health

will always address

the whole organism at once. Longevity is not just long life, it is

long vital life, it is

youthfulness expressed in present time.

So how do we measure and how do we get feedback? While we can conduct measurements on technical markers like telomeres, human growth hormone (HGH) and sirtuins, the most reliable marker is our level of energy and vitality, the sharpness of our senses, natural happiness in our hearts, and capacity for deeply grounded presence. Health is a presence that can be discerned in our quiet subjective feeling of ourselves.

Intelligent Maintenance of the Food Body The body is a food process and maintained in a basic cycle of ‘good stuff in’ and ‘bad stuff out’ – analogous to the breath cycle. This simple understanding informs everything concerning proper body maintenance.

Feasting Let us begin with that most fundamental and humble of disciplines – nutrition. What diet supports our physical health, intellectual prowess and emotional capacity all at once? The body, including the nervous tissue of the brain, spinal cord and extended nervous system is built from the food we eat. Even the neurotransmitters that mediate and modulate emotions and thoughts are constructed in the body from what we ingest. It should be obvious this sophisticated mechanism, this trillion dollar, biological, self-repairing, interstellar Ferrari should be nurtured with the best raw materials possible.The body is highly resilient, forgiving, and intelligent, and regenerates with a profound and powerful desire to live, and so can take a high level of abuse. But… it does everything better when cared for well with diet. So what is that then? Without all the reasons why (these are researchable) I have summarised the whole thing to its simplest essence: Our natural diet is opulent, abundant, wildly varied and magical! It is based on natural living food in the simplest meaning of those words. That means everything ingested should be as close to how it is found in nature – without pesticide, herbicide, fungicide or hormone residues; without synthetic flavourants, colourants or preservatives. It does not include refined sugars or proteins. If committed to the high road of longevity then be absolute about this, or as absolute as you can be. Related to this is minimising to the extreme all synthetic pharmaceutical drugs of Western medicine. They do not exist in nature (for the most part) and are not aligned with the basic biological integrity the body desires.

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Organic food is always

better, not just from being

uncontaminated, but also because the soils they grow in have more minerals – vital to the body’s highest functioning.

Our optimum diet is predominantly raw (filled with the enzymes of life otherwise destroyed through cooking). It’s not necessarily completely raw, but the more raw the better, and of course intelligently tailored to the requirements of your body. Foods cooked at temperatures above 150 degrees Celsius cause advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) where sugars bind to proteins and lipids under heat. These are age-accelerating and cause vascular damage. Apart from exogenous glycated substances we can create endogenous ones. This is when excessive sugars in the bloodstream bind to proteins and render them resistant to renewal (which renewal is critical to staying young). So reducing circulating sugars also increases lifespan. Simply put, build your diet around organic green salads and keep sugar low (even from fruits). Make greens the main course and everything else an accompaniment. Supplements should, in nearly all cases, be based on wholefood sources and not synthetic isolates (seen in most commercial supplements). Depth of diet (nutritional density) and breadth of diet (variety) is required to fulfill the complexity for complete health. See panel on the next page showing all the necessary nutritional components required for health. In addition to these listed components, there are all kinds of things in food, not yet discovered, isolated, characterised or named. But they are in food and the body needs them – that’s why a simple synthetic multivitamin is not enough. The product ‘Pure Synergy’ is the best example of a properly formulated supplement we have on the planet – anything approaching that is worth taking.

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LONGEVITY

THE COMPLEXITY OF WHAT WE KNOW THE BODY ACTUALLY NEEDS: OXYGEN AND NITROGEN – from air HYDROGEN –

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from water

CARBON – present in all foods, particularly plants

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PROTEIN – essential amino acids: phenylalanine, valine, threonine, tryptophan, isoleucine, methionine, leucine, lysine, histidine, cysteine, tyrosine and arginine (last 3 essential to children)

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CARBOHYDRATES – starches and sugars: monosaccharides (e.g. fructose), disaccharides (e.g. sucrose), oligosaccharides (e.g. FOS / fructooligosaccharides), polysaccharides (e.g. inulin) FATS –

essential fatty acids: alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), linoleic acid, gamma-linolenic acid, lauric acid, palmitoleic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), arachidonic acid – the last 6 being only conditionally essential

GLYCONUTRIENTS – essential sugars:

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MINERALS:

xylose, fucose, galactose, glucose, mannose, N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine, N-acetylneuraminic acid

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PHYTONUTRIENTS –

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many, such as anthocyanins, catechins, flavanones, flavones, flavonols, isoflavones, ginsenosides, coumestans, curcumin, beta-glucans, anthocyanidins, glucosinolates, indoles, sulforaphane, astaxanthin, resveratrol, glucobrassicin, glucoraphanin, ciwujianoside, syringin, friedelin, isofraxidin, uridine, glucotropaeolin, theobromine, beta-carbolines, pavines, beta-sitosterol, anthraquinone, rutinose, epigallocatechin, epicatechin, kaempferol, myricetin, phycocyanin, silymarin

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Vitamin A complex (retinol, retinal, betacarotene, alpha-carotene, gamma-carotene & beta-cryptoxanthin)

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Electrolytic minerals: sodium, potassium, chloride (negatively-charged ionic chlorine) Macro minerals: phosphorous, calcium, magnesium, sulphur Micro minerals: copper, iron, manganese, zinc Trace minerals: chromium, iodine, molybdenum, selenium, boron, cobalt, silicon, vanadium, germanium, strontium, ruthenium, rhodium, tin, fluorine, silver, indium, iridium, platinum, gold – and most of the rest of the periodic table of elements

ENZYMES: •

VITAMINS: •

Vitamin B complex (end-chain forms of thiamin, riboflavin, niacin as both co-enzyme forms NAD & NADP, pantothenic acid, pyridoxine, cobalamin, folate, biotin, inositol, choline & para-aminobenzoic acid) Vitamin C complex (natural L-ascorbic acid, co-factors and bioflavonoids: hesperidin, hesperitin, rutin, quercitrin, diosmin, naringin, naringenin, tangeretin, tangeritin, narirutin, neohesperidin, nobiletin, apigenin, eriocitrin) Vitamin D complex (cholecalciferol/ D3, ergocalciferol/D2, lumisterol, 22-dihydroergocalciferol & sitocalciferol) Vitamin E complex (d-alpha-tocopherol, d-beta-tocopherol, d-gamma-tocopherol, d-delta-tocopherol, alpha-tocotrienol, beta-tocotrienol, gamma-tocotrienol, deltatocotrienol) Vitamin K complex (phylloquinone/ K1, menaquinone/K2 – including menaquinone-4/MK4 and menaquinone-7/ MK7)

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Digestive: alpha-galactosidase, amylase, betaglucanase, bromelain, cellulase, glucoamylase, hemicellulase, invertase, lactase, lipase, maltase, papain, pectinase, phytase, protease I, protease IV, protease V/peptidase Metabolic: superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, catalase

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LONGEVITY

Cleansing Entire books can be written on how to detox from everything that gets into the body that shouldn’t be there, and acts like ‘sand in the gears’. Clearly there isn’t space for a full treatment here. But certainly a true longevity protocol requires that everything that needs to be in the body be in it, and all that shouldn’t be in it, be removed – particularly heavy metals and pesticide residues. The key natural and safe detox agents are chlorella, cilantro extracts and zeolite clays. These, combined with periodic fasting, colonics (using coffee for more efficacy), steaming, wet sauna and infra-red sauna, exfoliating, lymph drainage massage and yoga will deal with most of it – if consistently applied. For long life, a key detoxification protocol is removing soft tissue calcification from the body. Physical ageing is significantly influenced by hard calcium deposits in tissues that are otherwise soft and moist, leading to hardening and loss of elasticity. This protocol is in detail in Longevity Now: A Comprehensive Approach to Healthy Hormones, Detoxification, Super Immunity, Reversing Calcification, and Total Rejuvenation by David Wolfe, (North Atlantic Books). Aside from its philanthropic gift to others, giving blood is another good cleansing practice. Not only is it the best way of removing excess iron, which creates all kinds of problems when it builds up, but also removes toxins in the bloodstream. This blood-letting combined with a strongly nourishing diet including beetroot and green grass juices (see our Sipping the Sun article) and blood-building herbs like Dong Quai, Yellow Dock and Dandelion, produces good quality new blood and safely removes a whole lot of nasties. In this day and age it is important to manage levels of xenoestrogens (synthetic estrogen-mimicking substances) that play havoc with our hormonal systems. The main sources are pesticide residues and plastics. Minimising our exposure is key.

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The following substances will help remove problematic xenoestrogens: • • • •

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Apigenin from chamomile (Matricaria recutita) Chrysin from Passiflora caerulea Silymarin from milk thistle seed (Silybum marianum) I3C (indole-3-carbinol), DIM (diindolylmethane) and sulforaphane from cruciferous vegetables Citrus flavonoids Green tea extract Selenium from brazil nuts Beta-sitosterol from nettle root

LONGEVITY

The Mythical Soma An intelligently crafted pure diet does not just provide all the basic (and many) building blocks of life but, most importantly, guides the bodymind system into a state of fundamental equanimity and balance where the endocrine glands begin to secrete higher regenerative chemistry life, or Soma. Many ancient texts refer to a mysterious life-giving and life-extending substance called Soma. Scholars and researchers have pondered (and loudly argued about!) the nature of this substance, with many theories as to what plant or fungi Soma really was. There is no consensus on this, only many opposing theories. The esoteric understanding is that Soma is not an external substance found in the world at all, but a profound and complex elixir secreted internal to the body. This understanding represents the most sophisticated view and approach to longevity. For certain, there are many sacred rejuvenating substances and humanly created elixirs that profoundly regenerate the human organism. Many herbs from Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda and Western Traditions are profoundly transforming substances and strongly influence the body-mind-energy system, but their ultimate import goes beyond their specific influence. When taken intelligently alongside a life disciplined towards the practice of longevity, they support the essential ‘asana of equanimity’ conducive to producing internal Soma. The Tao of Rejuvenation: Fundamental Principles of Health, Longevity, and Essential Well-Being by Angelo Druda, (North Atlantic Books) is the most comprehensive text espousing this view in my opinion.

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Sacred Rejuvenating Substances Countless substances can be used in a structured longevity programme. Below are some of the most important. In keeping this article to a reasonable size, they have only brief comments and invite readers to do follow-up research online: •

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Astragalus membranaceous including extracts of Astragalus like TA-65 which help maintain telomere length. Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera) – also known as Winter Cherry, the best single male tonic herb on earth. Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus) – known as the Queen of Herbs, it is the best single female tonic herb on earth. Panax ginseng – particularly wild ginseng roots over ten years old. Korean Red Ginseng is very powerful. Red Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) – wild-harvested is always better, and a precious and rare find when you can get it. Cordyceps sinensis – a wonderful body-strengthening herb, very good for competitive athletes. Rhodiola rosea and Tibetan Rhodiola sacra (the latter beyond profound). Nettle leaf and root – this humble weed is one of the most powerful herbs around with a broad variety of actions – particularly good for male endocrine health. Tongkat Ali (Eurycoma longifolia) – must be at least ten year-old roots and from a reputable source as many counter herbs exist.

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Goji berries – a superb Kidney Yin Jing tonic, antioxidant and eye-health herb. Bee Pollen – the sexual excretions of millions of wildflowers! Very high in Chi and Jing. Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is a key agent for regenerating the endocrine glands – fundamental to any longevity programme. Fo-ti (Polygonum multiflorum) or He Shou Wu in Chinese – also a profound Kidney Jing Tonic – must be the prepared root. • Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is an excellent antiinflammatory and nerve tonic. Intrinsic to longterm brain health. • Shilajit (Asphaltum punjabianum) is the fermented biomass of the pre-historic verdant garden that was folded into the Himalayas millions of years ago – it contains the entire periodic table of elements, and is the most primal nutritional substance on the planet. • Navaratna – the pinnacle elixir in Ayurvedic alchemy known as Rasashastra. It is composed of the purified ashes of ruby, blue sapphire, emerald, yellow topaz, chrysoberyl, red garnet, cultured white fresh-water pearl, lapis lazuli, Himalayan white coral, red rose petal, 24 karat gold and .999 silver. It takes a year to produce, and needless to say, it rocks! Amaroli - our own urine used in advanced healing protocols – very effective and perfectly targeted for beneficially adjusting our biochemistry. Seminal and vaginal secretions – these are mentioned in a separate section, but in short are the most rejuvenative substances that exist.

In context of a life that includes conscious exercise, meditation and yogic sexual practices, these exogenous compounds (many of which could easily carry the title of Soma themselves) stimulate secretion of the endogenous Soma – that is their deeper value. And of course quality is everything! All these herbs need to come from highly reputable sources where the genetics, growing and processing are aligned with sacred intent.

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The Yoga of Regenerative Sexuality This is a key component, and often overlooked, in our exploration of effective rejuvenation practices. Largely this has to do with our historically (at least in the West) somewhat puritanical and culturally suppressed relationship to sexuality. Thankfully this is starting to open up in this expansive millennial era, with a renaissance of authentic Tantric practices, and Neo-Tantra with techniques for basic sexual healing. Apart from its obvious function related to procreation, the simple enjoyment of pure sexual pleasure is a legitimate context where some of the deepest rejuvenative mind and body practices may be developed. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just the conscious practice of sexuality that serves health and longevity, but also the conscious practice of love. And so sexuality practiced within the container of deeply loving intimacy is the most auspicious context for truly regenerative yoga. The ancient Taoists were well versed in the arts of regenerative sexuality and these have been profoundly elaborated in recent times by teachers like Mantak Chia, Margo Anand, Adi Da Samraj (more well known as Da Free John) and David Deida â&#x20AC;&#x201C; all highly recommended for those wanting to explore this subject more deeply. An essential principle of sexual longevity yoga is generating regenerative chemistry in the body,

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and the conservation and conscious utilisation of this chemistry. For both men and woman this is achieved by prolonging the sexual act (preferably for many hours) while being present with a high degree of consciousness and feeling. And over time even training ourselves to endure progressively higher levels of pleasure without needing to release that intensity through orgasm when it gets beyond our capacity to hold it. In the heightened pleasure of sexual loving combined with relaxed deep-feeling breathing, all kinds of regenerative of substances, hormones and enzymes are released by the endocrine glands as well as certain organs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; especially the pituitary, the pineal, the hypothalamus, the gonads and directly by the heart and kidneys. These collective secretions are what is referred to as Soma above. The higher the pleasure and the longer that pleasure is maintained, the more of these glandular nectars are generated in the body. Additionally more life-force bio-energy (Chi or Prana) is generated than usual and this enlivens the entire nervous system. When this energy is consciously conducted in the great circuit that runs down the front central line of the body, through the genitals, turning at the bodily base, running up the spine, through the top of the brain and down through the Ajna Chakra (third eye) through the throat and back into the frontal line (referred to as the Microcosmic Orbit in Taoist Qigong), then the entire nervous system is profoundly energised beyond its usual limits, and this awakens our higher evolutionary capacity.

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All theThe sources of dopamine described above alsopeople, increase a norepinephconventional orgasm is, for most way rine due to norepinephrine being a downstream metabolite of dopamine. of throwing offand this energy before had time Practices involving hot cold alternation are it alsohas excellent for norepinephrine release. to properly build and enliven and revivify the

human organism. In the case of male ejaculation, it Acetylcholine discards a lot of regenerative chemistry. For men, Acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter connectthere is a lot to be said forprimary not ejaculating during ed with memory (short and long term) and cognitive each sexual occasion (the older thetongue’ man, feeling the more agility. That ‘on the tip of the when trying to access a memory is usually associated with low synrigorously this should be applied).

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Huperzine A derived from the traditional Chinese herb Huperzia serrata aka Toothed Clubmoss is an excellent reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor which slows acetylcholine degradation in the brain. When semen is artfully retained, the resultant Soma is used • Sage within (Salvia the officinalis) also inhibits the breakdown of acetylcholine and body and able to serve a powerfully rejuvenating has been highly regarded as a brain tonic since ancient times. function. When the art of ‘regenerative orgasm’ is cultivated, • Bacopa monnieri (aka Brahmi in Ayurveda, as it confers knowledge of the energy of the orgasm is allowed expression in the natural Brahman, the Supreme Reality) is a mild acetylcholinesterase inhibitor directionnootropic of the microcosmic orbit flow downof the front, upneuroand profound herb, supporting all(i.e. aspects optimum the back), ejaculation is bypassed and the effects are profoundly logical function. The conventional orgasm, byraw contrast, is a brief • Foodsenlivening. high in choline like sunflower lecithin, egg yolks, wild organ meatsreversal and cruciferous vegetables all support acetylcholine synthesis. of the energy flow in the microcosmic orbit - the sexually polarized energy moves out the brain, down the spine and is Anandamide released in a forward direction from the bodily base via the genitals. This reversal of energy is generally enervating. The name anandamide comes from the Sanskrit word Ananda, meaning bliss. It is an endogenous For the woman, the same principle applies, but it is a slightly cannabinoid and the real reason for the existence more subtle affair as is generally explicitTHC ejaculation of there the CB1 receptor,not to which also binds. (though there are exceptions to this). That said, conserving Anandamide is one of the most rarefied human neurotransmitters and related topurpose our experience both male and female orgasm also has anisadditional of bliss, rapture, happiness, cosmic humour and (especially when converted into the ‘up-the-spine’ regenerative subtle transcendent states of consciousness. orgasm as described above) in that all the love-energy of the event is also retained. Essentially if there is any sense of loss of • Cacao is an inhibitor of the enzyme Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH) intimacy or closeness between partners then beneficial whichlove, degrades anandamide and has thethe effect of increasing available energy has been squandered. anandamide in the brain and nervous system. • Maca root is also a natural FAAH-inhibitor and provides strong endocrine support. Semen (including male pre-orgasmic lubricating fluid) and • CBD, female the non-outwardly psychoactive component Cannabis vaginal secretions (especially following of orgasm) are sativa / Cannabis indica that binds to the CB2 receptor is also an inhibitor of filled with beneficial life-enhancing components, and are FAAH, which then serendipitously affects the binding at CB1 due to intruly precious substances. The woman should always drink her creased anandamide concentrations. man’s semen, Truffle and he,(Tuber her vaginal nectar. Never waste • The Black Périgord melanosporum) is one of semen, the only growit is probably the single most rejuvenating substance on the ing things that contains anandamide. • Both common black pepper (Piper nigrum) its more flamboyant planet – filled with Chi like nothing elseand on earth. If the sacrifice cousin, LongisPepper (Piper longum) contain compound of Indian ejaculation made then the woman, or the a man, or both called guineensine that increases thediet, activity of anandamide. should ingest it. (A clean predominantly plant-based and • Kaempferol is a flavonoid present in fresh fruits and vegetables like apcontaining significant raw greens and aromatics like mint, ples, tomatoes, grapes, potatoes, onions, and broccoli and inhibits the mango, papaya and vanilla etc. makes for sweeter production ofpineapple, FAAH. tasting acid semen). • Arachidonic (AA), an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, is an anandamide precursor (found in high concentrations in various Artemisia species and organ meats). Also thewild man should drink deeply from the woman especially if she is in a very high state of arousal or at the point of orgasm. If In addition to all of the above, microdosing with traditional shamanic agents the couple imbibe each other’s fluids following orgasm, the bond like Psilocybe mushrooms and Iboga root bark has far reaching positive efof intimacy that is so easily disturbed following (‘down-and-out’ fects on neurological health. rather than ‘in-and-up’) orgasm is more readily maintained.

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Conscious Neurology Taking care of the brain, nervous system, overall emotional health and cognitive ability is clearly a very important component of a life devoted to longevity and consciousness. In the way that the universe is a self-correcting mechanism, the same is true of the mind. Therefore when mental or emotional challenges arise, the intelligent approach is simple support with the lightest touch – one that is always listening for feedback and adjusting based on that feedback. This allows the system to self-heal and restore homeostasis without interference. It’s never a good idea to take synthetic psychiatric medication, however beneficially this might be framed and however compassionately it may be offered or presented. These drugs all represent a clumsy, sledgehammer-like approach to modulating brain chemistry and the side-effects and after-effects are in most cases more of an issue to deal with than the original problem. In addition, they hamper effective therapy as a consequence of interfering with authentic emotional responsiveness. If serious need arises then ideally one should consult a caring professional schooled in ethnopsychiatry and naturopathy/natural hygiene, and experience with the shamanic method. For most people, the simple prescription, both for dealing with mental/emotional challenges and for advancing the expressive capacity of a mind and feeling-heart already in a high state of functioning equanimity is: •

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Dealing with stress via practical lifestyle modifications – we all know what they are; better quality sleep, more exercise, good time management, minimising exposure to toxic substances, people, environments and ideas etc. Profoundly improving gut health via consumption of raw ferments, avoiding glyphosate-saturated commercial wheat and pesticide-sprayed fruits and vegetables – and never taking antibiotics. The reason is that our gut and bowel flora generate many key neurotransmitters, including serotonin and GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid), which are profoundly calming, balancing and anti-stress compounds.

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Embracing more meditation, intentional loving, yoga, pranayama and deeper engagement with our own spiritual practice. Traditional Buddhist mindfulness and Zen meditation (for most Westerners ideally done with a light touch) will be found useful. As will traditional Eastern and Western practices of contemplation and devotion. Careful and measured use of herbs that support neurotransmitter synthesis and modulation, and adaptogenic nootropic substances (like turmeric and saffron) that restore neurochemical balance.

While many neurochemicals are the basis of our mental and emotional experiencing, the following are the most important, alongside the herbs and nutritional components that most readily affect them:

Serotonin

Serotonin is intimately associated with conscious perception of the world via the senses and with our capacity to deeply feel love and empathy. It is relaxing, grounding and supports subtlety and sensitivity. •

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Sceletium tortuosum is an excellent Serotonin Releasing Agent (SRA) which also has mild reuptake inhibition (SSRI action). Griffonia simplicifolia is a plant source of 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan) which is an immediate serotonin / 5-HT (5-hydroxytryptamine) precursor. The essential amino acid tryptophan (pumpkin seeds are a very good source) is the immediate dietary precursor to 5-HTP, which in turn becomes 5-HT (and subsequently melatonin). Maximising sunshine on the body and practicing brief sunrise and sunset sun-gazing also increases serotonin production.

Dopamine

Dopamine is our essential pleasure, reward and motivating neurotransmitter. It is associated with happiness, excitement, curiosity, motivation and sexual desire. • • • • •

Mucuna pruriens is a revered Ayurvedic herb and effective plant source of L-dopa, the immediate dopamine precursor. Green tea, supplies a balanced blend of stimulating caffeine and relaxing L-theanine stimulates dopamine release. Cacao and blue-green algae (AFA) both contain phenethylamine (PEA aka the Love Molecule), which stimulates dopamine release in the brain. The amino acids L-phenylalanine and L-tyrosine are dietary precursors to L-dopa. Simple task completion also increases dopamine release (the greater the challenge, the greater the release – but even the smallest accomplishments are effective). While summiting Everest will work well, so will sorting out your sock drawer!

Norepinephrine

Norepinephrine is a very important brain energy neurotransmitter and the precursor of epinephrine (adrenaline). It is concerned with alertness, attention, presence and mental focus. • •

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Seville Bitter Orange contains a number of stimulating compounds that directly increase norepinephrine release. Nicotine stimulates norepinephrine release and use – and modulates the acetylcholine system (see below). Tobacco used as a medicinal herb is a valid health practice, but must be organically grown and additive-free to have any benefit, otherwise it’s just poison. Tobacco can be smoked in very tiny amounts or taken intranasally as Rapé or Singado. Rhodiola rosea is an excellent herb that increases norepinephrine synthesis and improves oxygen use as an added bonus. All the sources of dopamine described above also increase norepinephrine due to norepinephrine being a downstream metabolite of dopamine. Practices involving hot and cold alternation are also excellent for norepinephrine release.

Acetylcholine

Acetylcholine is the primary neurotransmitter connected with memory (short and long term) and cognitive agility. That ‘on the tip of the tongue’ feeling when trying to access a memory is usually associated with low synaptic acetylcholine in the moment. • • •

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Huperzine A derived from the traditional Chinese herb Huperzia serrata aka Toothed Clubmoss is an excellent reversible acetylcholinesterase inhibitor which slows acetylcholine degradation in the brain. Sage (Salvia officinalis) also inhibits the breakdown of acetylcholine and has been highly regarded as a brain tonic since ancient times. Bacopa monnieri (aka Brahmi in Ayurveda, as it confers knowledge of Brahman, the Supreme Reality) is a mild acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and profound nootropic herb, supporting all aspects of optimum neurological function. Foods high in choline like sunflower lecithin, raw egg yolks, wild organ meats and cruciferous vegetables all support acetylcholine synthesis.

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Anandamide

The name anandamide comes from the Sanskrit word Ananda, meaning bliss. It is an endogenous cannabinoid and the real reason for the existence of the CB1 receptor, to which THC also binds. Anandamide is one of the most rarefied human neurotransmitters and is related to our experience of bliss, rapture, happiness, cosmic humour and subtle transcendent states of consciousness. •

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Cacao is an inhibitor of the enzyme Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase (FAAH) which degrades anandamide and has the effect of increasing available anandamide in the brain and nervous system. Maca root is also a natural FAAH-inhibitor and provides strong endocrine support. CBD, the non-outwardly psychoactive component of Cannabis sativa / Cannabis indica that binds to the CB2 receptor is also an inhibitor of FAAH, which then serendipitously affects the binding at CB1 due to increased anandamide concentrations. The Black Périgord Truffle (Tuber melanosporum) is one of the only growing things that contains anandamide. Both common black pepper (Piper nigrum) and its more flamboyant cousin, Indian Long Pepper (Piper longum) contain a compound called guineensine that increases the activity of anandamide. Kaempferol is a flavonoid present in fresh fruits and vegetables like apples, tomatoes, grapes, potatoes, onions, and broccoli and inhibits the production of FAAH. Arachidonic acid (AA), an omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid, is an anandamide precursor (found in high concentrations in various Artemisia species and wild organ meats).

In addition to all of the above, microdosing with traditional shamanic agents like Psilocybe mushrooms and Iboga root bark has far reaching positive effects on neurological health.

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Practical Longevity Tech Apart from the sexual yoga mentioned above, the following practices are also beneficial for extending and enriching life: •

Caloric restriction is probably the only completely reliable biomarker we have for longevity. All research so far indicates this. When animals consume less than they otherwise would if given free rein to eat as much they want, they live longer. A way to accomplish this, especially if you enjoy food and eating, is intermittent fasting – setting aside anywhere from 1 hour (the most extreme) to 8 hours (very easy) per day during which time you eat, and the rest of the time the digestive processes are rested. As well as decreasing caloric intake overall, this is a very good method for raising HGH (Human Growth Hormone) especially coupled with resistance training toward the end of the fasting period. Regular fasts (water only) 1 day a week, 3 days a month and 7-14 days each year are profound longevity practices.

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Conscious exercise forms like Chinese internal arts (T’ai Chi, Qi Gong and Bagua Zhang), Japanese Aikido and physically-based yoga asana and pranayama practice are excellent.

Any exercise (including conscious dance) to which awareness is brought such that mind, body and breath are coordinated as a single movement are also useful.

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Short bursts of heavy resistance training increases anabolic hormones. Any high intensity exercise for short periods (sprints on land or in water, rapid pull-ups / pressups to exhaustion or grappling / wrestling practices against a committed opponent accomplish the same thing.

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NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) therapy by IV infusion is one of the modern scientific and technically-oriented treatment protocols that appears genuinely effective as a longevity hack, and one aligned with the conscious approach in this article. NAD is a naturally occurring coenzyme present in almost all cells in the body, who’s main purpose is to fuel metabolic reactions in the cell. Increasing NAD is effective for upgrading cellular mitochondrial function and levels of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), our body’s primary energy molecule.

Ice water bathing, by

contrast, is one of the oldest and most basic longevity

hacks. It’s been practiced by many cultures for millennia.

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It’s even elaborated in the sophisticated Tummo (Inner Fire) practice of Tibetan Buddhism. Popularised in recent times by Wim Hof, exposure to extreme cold under controlled conditions has many benefits including the build-up of brown adipose tissue and resultant fat loss, reduced inflammation, improved immunity, improved circulation, enhanced hormone function and the production of endorphins.

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Good quality sleep, between 6 and 8 hours maximum per night. Both too little and too much sleep is enervating. Getting to bed early, before 11pm latest but even 9 or 10pm is preferred as more HGH is produced early on, during sleep before midnight. Deeper and more restful non-REM sleep happens early in the night. Rising between 4am and 6am is preferred.

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Meditation, conscious breathing / pranayama, mindfulness, selfless service to others, and creative somatic activities like ecstatic dance – all serve to quiet the autonomic nervous system and create deep peaceful relaxation and a stressfree disposition. Stress, including anxious working, greed, egoic competitiveness and conflict work against the release of the subtle rejuvenative chemistry.

LONGEVITY

A greater Spiritual context In the deeper purpose of all this… why is longevity important? Sure, living longer and having more time with loved ones, while healthy is great. Vitality, good spirits and energy are important – part of a happy life, and worth having. But what is this life really for? There are many purposes to which a human life may be directed, but I would like to propose one for our collective consideration together – and that concerns the notion of holism as it applies to the spiritual dimension of our existence. In my personal view, the greatest benefit from creating deep equanimity in our bodies, hearts and minds is that it frees our energy and attention to the contemplation of the Sacred – the ineffable and mysterious force and presence of Being itself. This presence is the context of our lives on this planet and the bodies with which we are so identified. The principle of holism suggests (and the deepest Dharmas agree) that not only is the body-mind-heart one thing, but that the bodymind-heart-universe is also intrinsically one thing. This has been the view of mystics and yogis throughout time, and now even modern science, in the form of quantum mechanics, proposes this same principle; all things are simply manifestations of one fundamental and indivisible energy. This energy is what is truly immortal – and this living energy is who we really are. The body-mind, in and of itself, cannot ever be immortal – the natural decay of forms sees to that perfectly. But the conscious energy of which we are the expression, is immortal. And in our attunement and ultimately in our identification with That, so are we.

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In the words of the illustrious physicist Steven Hawking “So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely selfcontained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end; it would simply be”. The ancient Taoist Immortals recognised the truth of this statement, and additionally that this ‘Universe’ that simply Is, is our true nature and who we ultimately are. They dedicated their long lives, in alignment with conscious longevity, to the contemplation of this essentially Divine gift. Recognising that we, as fundamental and indestructible conscious energy, are indeed immortal, ultimately grants freedom and perfect trust in our existence. To come into fully embodied expression of this freedom is what has traditionally been referred to as ‘enlightenment’ or Nirvana in the non-theistic traditions of the East, and, in the theistic traditions of the West, as God – the condition of eternal and perfect Love.

life dedicated the AA life dedicated toto the contemplation ofDivine this contemplation of this Divine Mystery is a practice Mystery is a practice that real to meaning givesthat real gives meaning the othto the other practices of er practices of wellness and wellness and longevity. longevity. Entering into the Entering into that the fullness fullness of trust develof trust develops ops from thisthat contemplation fromcoincidently, this contemplation is also, the veryis also, coincidently, thethe very disposition that grants disposition that grants the greatest flowering of the regreatestchemistry flowering of of the the generative regenerative of body-mind – and chemistry thus physical the body-mind longevity!– and thus physical longevity! In future issues the various practices presented here will be explored in more detail.

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Bianca Richardson | Kathu | 073 202 0903 Gert Beeslaar | Kimberley | 083 291 2553

NORTH WEST

WESTERN CAPE

Just as every human has their own energy field and aura, plants too have special energetic patterns or vibrational qualities with healing energy. Edward Bach, who created the Bach Flower Remedies, used water to transfer the healing energy of flowers to human beings. When flowers are immersed in water and left in natural sunlight for a period, the energy pattern imprints in the water. The essences are then used to assist healing emotional, mental and spiritual imbalances. Flower essences are used by a variety of holistic practitioners.

FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE

Functional Medicine addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach engaging

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MPUMALANGA

both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. Functional Medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Practitioners look at interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease.

Remedies use plants, flowers and minerals in dilution using a special method of shaking called ‘succussion’ to create ‘potentised’ medicines. Homeopaths consider each individual’s temperament, habits and inclinations and recommend medicines accordingly.

FUNCTIONAL MEDICINE PRACTITIONERS

HOMEOPATHS

GAUTENG

EASTERN CAPE

KWAZULU-NATAL

Susanne van der Merwe | Durban | 083 703 5579

WESTERN CAPE

NATURAL MEDICINE & NUTRITION

HERBALISM & PHYTOTHERAPY

Herbalism, also known as herbology or herbal medicine, is the use of plants as medicine. Plants have the ability to synthesise chemical compounds to defend themselves against predators and natural threats. Some of these compounds are beneficial in alleviating ailments. A herbal healer will skillfully select a blend of herbs to create a customised tonic to harmonise the body’s imbalances given in the form of tea, capsules, tonics, granules, or powders.

HERBALISTS & PHYTOTHERAPISTS WESTERN CAPE

HOMEOPATHY

Homeopathy is a safe, gentle, and natural healing system based on the principle of ‘like cures like’, that works in harmony with the immune system triggering and intensifying the body’s own healing mechanisms. Homeopathy treats both acute and chronic conditions.

FREE STATE

Dr Adri Vermaas | Langenhoven Park | 051 446 2139 Dr Trix Jonker | Universitas | 051 446 2826

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

LIMPOPO

MPUMALANGA

NORTH WEST

Dr Guido Gilissen | Lichtenburg | 018 632 3130 Dr Johann Oberholzer | Klerksdorp | 018 468 6840

WESTERN CAPE

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INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE

NATUROPATHY

Integrative medicine is an approach that addresses the full range of physical, emotional, mental, social, spiritual and environmental influences that affect a person’s health. Employing a personalised strategy that considers the patient’s unique conditions, needs and circumstances, it uses the most appropriate interventions from an array of scientific disciplines to heal illness and disease and help people regain and maintain optimum health.

KWAZULU-NATAL

Naturopathy is a holistic healing system that acknowledges the body’s innate capacity to heal. A Naturopath sees disease symptoms as a result of healing forces the body uses to eliminate toxins and restore balance. Practitioners treat the cause of illness, rather than the effect. They use safe and effective natural therapies to educate, empower and motivate patients towards personal responsibility by adopting a healthy attitude, lifestyle and diet.

NATUROPATHS GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

Raj Latchminarain | Verulam | 032 5339792

WESTERN CAPE

IRIDOLOGY

NUTRITION

WESTERN CAPE

Iridology is a diagnostic technique based on the scientific study of the iris. An accurate analysis of iris structure and pigmentation provides information about physiological condition, psychological health risks, challenges or strengths of various organs and personality traits. An iridologist may use a close up camera lens and side lighting as a record. He or she will explain the significance of the various markings in the iris and suggest an appropriate treatment route. Iridology is used by a variety of holistic practitioners.

A Nutritionist may be qualified in varying fields from nutrition to food science and public health. Their primary role is to help people achieve optimal health through information and advice on diet, health and food choices. This may mean formulating special meals for objectives like allergy reduction, weight gain or loss, increased energy, better immunity and more.

NATURAL MEDICINE & NUTRITION

GAUTENG

Blood is the ideal medium to analyse your overall health status. Dark field live blood microscopy (DFLBM), Phase contrast live blood microscopy (PCLBM) and coagulated blood microscopy (CBM) reveal components of the blood. Live Blood Analysis is not diagnostic, but is a screening tool which enables the qualified practitioner to ascertain underlying factors that may be contributing to an imbalance and interfering with the body’s natural healing ability. Live Blood analysis is used by a variety of holistic practitioners.

NUTRITIONISTS

BODYWORK

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

WESTERN CAPE

PANCHAKARMA

NATURAL MEDICINE & NUTRITION

Panchakarma is a cleansing and rejuvenating programme for the body, mind and consciousness practiced as part of Ayurveda. It is known to eliminate toxins and toxic conditions, restore constitutional balance, strengthen immunity, slow the ageing process, enhance strength and vitality and bring about deep relaxation and sense of wellbeing. It involves applications like hot oil massage, a therapeutic diet, herbal rejuvenation and various other healing protocols.

ACUPUNCTURE

Originating in China over five thousand years ago, acupuncture works by modifying the flow of ‘chi’ or vital life energy in the human body. The practitioner places sterile stainless steel needles into the body along specific acupuncture points on energy pathways called meridians. Different meridians feed energy to different organs and areas of the body. By locating the meridian that feeds a problem area, the practitioner is able to stimulate or decongest the flow of energy to that area or organ. Acupuncture can restore health and is particularly well known for relieving pain. Many Chinese Medicine practitioners and physiotherapists practice acupuncture.

ACUPUNCTURISTS GAUTENG

Dr Graham Yutar | Sandton | 011 784 3866

KWAZULU-NATAL

Maharishi Panchakarma | Drakensburg | www.panchakarma.com

TRADITIONAL AFRICAN MEDICINE

Traditional African Medicine is used by 80% of South Africans with over 200 000 traditional healers in existence. There are varying categories of traditional healers like ‘inyangas’ or herbalists; sangomas, trained to communicate with the spirit world through ancestors; and traditional midwives and surgeons. Contemporary traditional healers use herbs in combination with diet, exercise, hydrotherapy, counselling, vitamin and mineral supplementation, first aid and ‘piercing’. To find a Traditional Healer log onto www.umsamo.org.za

UNANI TIBB

Dr Mahendran | Durban | 031 262 6708

WESTERN CAPE

Dr Lin | Plumstead | 021 761 7742 Dr Jeff Lan | Cape Town | 021 422 2193

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

The Alexander Technique is an educational process designed to improve posture, ease of movement, balance, support and coordination. Lessons incorporate simple movements like walking, standing up or sitting down in a chair and the ability to perform them with the simplest ease and least harmful tension. The technique minimises wear and tear on your muscles and structures of the spine vulnerable to compression.

ALEXANDER PRACTITIONERS

Unani Tibb is a natural system of medicine with GraecoArab origin. It embraces the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of life in a unified and holistic form. Unani physicians emphasise treatment according to four temperament types: sanguinous, bilious, melancholic and phlegmatic. It encourages practices that strengthen the body’s ability to heal through practices like correct lifestyle, diet, cupping and herbs. Unani Tibb falls under the Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa. To find a Tibb practitioner log onto www.satibb.co.za

EASTERN CAPE

Gwyneth Lloyd | Hogsback | 082 928 5770

GAUTENG

Join the HOLISTICA Movement Register with us as a practitioner on www.holistica.net/join and get a full service listing online & complimentary listing in our annual publication CALL PALESA 072 221 4415 OR EMAIL HELLO@HOLISTICA.CO.ZA (GAUTENG) CALL CHLOE ON 083 688 1819 OR EMAIL CHLOE@HOLISTICA.NET (ALL OTHER REGIONS)

KWAZULU-NATAL

Sheila Bulley | Berea | 031 208 8637

WESTERN CAPE

BREATHWORK

BREATHWORK PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

Dr Ela Manga | Houghton | 082 330 6915

WESTERN CAPE

Lesley Chorn | Plumstead | 083 631 6952 Mike Viljoen | Hout Bay | 082 293 4066

BIOKINETICS

A Biokineticist is an exercise therapist dedicated to improving physical wellbeing and quality of life through individualised scientific assessment. Prescribed exercise in a rehabilitative environment aims at preventing or intervening certain ailments and enhancing performance in both sport and work activities. A Biokineticist will measure and evaluate body posture, body composition, blood pressure, glucose levels, lung function, heart rate, fitness, muscle strength, endurance, power, flexibility and other health indicators.

BIOKINETICISTS EASTERN CAPE

FREE STATE

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

MPUMALANGA

NORTHERN CAPE

NORTH WEST

BODYWORK

Breathwork uses specific breathing patterns to achieve deep relaxation and access to the subconscious and higher conscious mind. Originally it was developed as a process for adults to revisit the birth experience (regarded as key to how we handle stress in our life). Birth experiences involving immense stress introduce the message that life is a struggle. Rebirthing reprogrammes early messages allowing life to flow in easier and more creative ways.

BODY ALIGNMENT

The basic premise of this technique is that pain is your body’s way of communicating that something in the body is out of balance. Body Alignment accesses the body’s biocomputer to locate emotional blockages. Memories of past trauma, environmental stress, toxicity and suppressed emotions are brought back into the body, to its deepest cellular level where they are released from a place of deep feeling. It works vibrationally to clear subconscious memory pathways and lift the body’s vibrational frequency.

BODY & LIFE ALIGNMENT PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL BODYWORK

WESTERN CAPE

BODY STRESS RELEASE

Gail and Ewald Meggersee, both South African chiropractors developed the technique known as Body Stress Release based on the concept that when we are subjected to stress overload, tension becomes locked into our physical structures. The body then adopts a protective automatic reflex in which adjacent muscles ‘splint’ the area producing various levels of discomfort and stiffness that leads to pain, loss of flexibility and even numbness. Body Stress offers a gentle and effective way to release stored tension from the body, activating a process that restores and enhances the body’s natural ability to heal itself.

BODY STRESS RELEASE PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

WESTERN CAPE

BODY TALK

BodyTalk is a whole-healthcare system that supports and promotes whole-person wellbeing. BodyTalk understands the profound influence the psychology of the body has on health. Instead of focusing on the symptom, it finds the underlying causes of illness by addressing the whole person and his or her whole story. The techniques provide insights into the areas of the body that need attention. With the use of a variety of non-invasive techniques, BodyTalkers refocus the body’s natural healing response to establish better communication within the body.

BODY TALK PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

WESTERN CAPE

Bowen is a gentle technique designed to relieve pain and relax muscles. The Bowen healer uses thumbs and fingers on precise points of your body to perform unique sets of rolling movements, which stimulate the muscles and soft body tissue. There are two-minute breaks between each set of movements when the Bowen healer will typically leave the room and allow your body to relax and adjust to the movements. The Bowen technique is used for the fast, effective treatment of a vast range of soft tissue injuries, illnesses and discomforts.

BOWEN PRACTITIONERS EASTERN CAPE

Lisa Porter | Port Elizabeth | 074 119 4729

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

BODYWORK

BOWEN

NORTH WEST

Natascia Sarri | Hartbeespoort | 083 773 5943

WESTERN CAPE

BODYWORK

CHIROPRACTIC

Chiropractors are professionals who use spinal adjustments to correct misalignments and restore proper function to the nervous system. Stress, trauma or chemical imbalances can cause vertebrae in your spine to lose their normal position or range of motion; irritating the nervous system and preventing parts of your body from functioning as they should. While headaches, back and neck pain are the most common reasons for seeking out this therapy, Chiropractic is a holistic practice focusing on maintaining healthy musculoskeletal and nervous systems to ensure overall wellness.

CHIROPRACTORS EASTERN CAPE

FREE STATE

Dr Melissa Terblanche | Bainsvlei | 051 451 2170 Dr Keri Stagg | Westdene | 051 430 7122

GAUTENG

Tony Bleekers | Sandton | 087 701 0923

KWAZULU-NATAL

LIMPOPO

MPUMALANGA

NORTHERN CAPE

Kimberley Chiropractic | Hadison Park | 053 861 5650

NORTH WEST

WESTERN CAPE

CRANIOSACRAL

Craniosacral Therapy is a gentle hands-on therapy that assists the body’s capacity for self-repair. In response to physical injuries or emotional trauma the body’s tissues contract and may become locked in this state, particularly when the injury is severe or accompanied by strong emotions. Any trauma, stresses, strains or tensions that remain in the body restrict the body’s function and may give rise to problems over the years. The effects may be

both physical (such as back pain, migraine or digestive disorders) and emotional (such as anxiety or depression). Craniosacral Therapy is client-led, meaning that the client’s body dictates the priority and pace of work.

CRANIOSACRAL THERAPISTS EASTERN CAPE

WESTERN CAPE

DORN METHOD

Dieter Dorn developed this method in the 1970’s in the South of Germany, which shows high success for back pain. It’s an alternative and holistic therapy focusing on correcting spinal column, and joint misalignments. Treatment involves getting the patient into a dynamic, ‘moving’ action while the bones are guided into correct positioning by encouraging natural self re-alignment. In this sense its practical application is somewhat different to chiropractic and osteopathy, although these modalities are similar in theory.

DORN PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

Claude Laurent | Pinetown | 082 347 4291

MPUMALANGA

Sanna Atherton | White River | 076 695 5261 Edith Hall | White River | 082 338 8520

WESTERN CAPE

BODYWORK

KWAZULU-NATAL

Kinesiology is the biomechanical study of body movement. It uses a gentle, painless biofeedback technique called muscle testing. Muscles are connected to the brain through the central nervous system and kinesiologsts are trained to monitor muscle responses to questions relating to mental, emotional, physical and energetic states. The kinesiologist is able to determine any imbalances in the body. Following a process guided by the body’s muscle responses, the kinesiologist balances discrepancies in the body.

PROFESSIONAL SPECIALISED KINESIOLOGISTS

Jenny-Lyn Mackintosh | Durban Berea | 083 392 2721

KINESIOLOGY

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

BODYWORK

WESTERN CAPE

MASSAGE

Therapeutic massage is defined as the mobilisation of soft tissue to restore normal systemic and biomechanical functional use. It can be used to assist the treatment of most musculo-skeletal and associated problems and contributes towards improved circulatory, lymphatic and neurological functioning. Massage can be stimulating or soothing depending on the technique, depth and speed used and is both safe and effective when administered by a trained registered therapist. Different types of massage include Swedish, Aromatherapy, Sports, Deep Tissue, Lymph Drainage, Indian Head Massage, Hot Stone, Thai and others.

MASSAGE THERAPISTS EASTERN CAPE

Lorrain Greyling | Port Elizabeth | 041 360 3178

GAUTENG

KWAZULU NATAL WESTERN CAPE

OSTEOPATHY

Osteopathy deals with the relationship between the structure of the body’s framework and its function. It looks carefully at the effect mechanical compromise has on the body’s fluid circulatory systems. Osteopathy was developed by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, (1828-1917) a medical practitioner, who reasoned that if the structure of the musculo-skeletal system is regulated, then the body will naturally restore and repair itself. Techniques used vary but can include soft tissue stretching, joint articulation and manipulation, rhythmic joint movements and muscle energy techniques.

OSTEOPATHS KWAZULU-NATAL

Dr Nicola Frickel | Durban | 031 030 3874 Dr Zara Valentine | Kloof | 071 437 7512

WESTERN CAPE

PHYSIOTHERAPY

EASTERN CAPE

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

Shamim Khan | Durban | 082 459 2595 Sumeshen Moodley | Durban | 031 303 6486

LIMPOPO PROVINCE

MPUMALANGA

WESTERN CAPE

Reflexology is a method of activating the bodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s healing mechanisms through stimulating reflex points on the foot. It is based on ancient Chinese and Indian diagnostic and therapeutic techniques. By massaging certain reflex points on the feet, reflexologists treat diseases in parts of the body related to those areas. Different parts of the sole connect via the flow of energy along the meridian lines to various organs of the body. The reflexology massage prompts the body to heal itself, by restoring the flow of healing energy to the affected part of the body.

REFLEXOLOGISTS EASTERN CAPE

FREE STATE

GAUTENG

BODYWORK

Using advanced techniques and evidence-based care, physiotherapists assess, diagnose, treat and prevent a wide range of health conditions and movement disorders. Physiotherapy helps repair damage, reduce stiffness and pain, increase mobility and improve quality of life through many different applications including massage, ultrasound, nerve stimulation, acupuncture and education. Physiotherapy covers health promotion, injury prevention, acute care, rehabilitation, maintaining functional mobility, chronic disease management, patient education and occupational health.

REFLEXOLOGY

BODYWORK

KWAZULU-NATAL

LIMPOPO

MPUMALANGA

Christine Ryan | Sonpark | 073 486 8775 Tokkie Reinecke | Lake Umluzi | 082 976 1485

NORTH WEST

WESTERN CAPE

REIKI

Reiki is a form of healing where healing energy is transmitted through the hands from the practitioner to the client. The term ‘Reiki’ comes from the blending of ‘rei’ meaning Cosmic Energy, and ‘ki’ or ‘chi’, the life energy flowing through all living things. The training of a Reiki practitioner is unique, since Reiki techniques are passed from one person to another. At each stage or ‘degree’ the student is given a series of symbols in a process called an ‘attunement’. The symbols both empower the healer and are used in the healing process. The student who completes the third degree is known as a ‘Reiki Master’, and is then allowed to teach the technique and pass on the symbols.

REIKI PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

WESTERN CAPE

ROLFING PRACTITIONERS

Rolfing, also known as ‘Structural Integration’, is a massage process of deep manipulation of the soft connective tissue, known as fascia, combined with movement education to improve posture and movement patterns. It was developed by Dr. Ida Rolf, who based her therapy on the fact that modern humans tend to have bad posture. Once bad posture becomes habitual, the muscles are thrown into unnatural contractions and connective tissue in the area grows to form thick fascia plates. This reinforces the bad posture and puts stress on the muscular and skeletal system. The therapist uses Rolf’s techniques to break down the fascia to loosen the body so it can be restructured.

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

Deirdre Fordyce | Umhlanga | 082 410 6627

WESTERN CAPE

SHIATSU

Shiatsu originated in Japan and is a technique of applying finger pressure to key points on the body to stimulate a healing response. It is similar to acupuncture in that it uses pressure points-called ‘tsubos’ along the meridians, although with specialised finger pressure rather than needles. Along with finger pressure, the shiatsu therapist may also use his or her hands, thumbs, elbows, knees, forearms and feet during the treatment. Shiatsu acts on the subtle anatomy of the body to facilitate the flow of energy, or ‘chi’ through the meridians to the organs and the whole body.

SHIATSU PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

WESTERN CAPE

TRAUMA RELEASING EXERCISES (TRE)

TRE® (Tension, Stress & Trauma Release Exercise) is a series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. Created by Dr. David Berceli, PhD, TRE® safely activates a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system. When this muscular shaking / vibrating mechanism is activated in a safe and controlled environment, the body is encouraged to return back to a state of balance.

BODYWORK

ROLFING PRACTITIONERS

TRE PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

Kelly Berry | Durban North | 079 889 5564 Wendy Scurr | Durban | 082 449 0464

WESTERN CAPE

PSYCHOTHERAPY & GUIDANCE

PSYCHOTHERAPY & GUIDANCE

ART THERAPY

The process of making art can bring about a release of tension, and is therapeutic in its own right. Creativity can therefore become a means of healing and renewal. Art therapy combines creativity with an element of play and fun. When administered by a qualified practitioner, it can help individuals to work with elements of their subconscious and come to understand the causes of stress and distress. These can then be released, allowing healing energy into the subconscious to effect positive changes.

ART THERAPISTS GAUTENG

KWAZULA-NATAL

WESTERN CAPE

BRAIN GYM

Brain Gym® is committed to the principle that movement with intention leads to optimal learning. Instructors and movement-based programmes serve to provide an optimal environment for learning. The Brain Gym® educational model promotes play and the joy of learning, draws out and honours innate intelligence, builds awareness

regarding the value of movement in daily life, encourages self-responsibility and inspires an appreciation for things like music, physical education and fine arts.

FREE STATE

GAUTENG

NORTHWEST

Corlia Van Der Walt | Mahikeng | 082 331 5283

WESTERN CAPE

EYE MOVEMENT TECHNOLOGY

Eye Movement Technology uses eye movements to access areas of the unconscious and provide the body-mind with a natural and safe programme for regaining emotional and physical balance. This natural process recreates the rapid eye movement (REM) we normally experience during sleep and dream states. REM sleep is important for re-organising and processing data and events we receive through the body-mind. Its purpose is to release stress and relieve pressure assisting with optimal functioning in our daily lives.

GAUTENG

Lorraine Wilkinson | Blairgowrie | 011 787 8816

FAMILY CONSTELLATION

Family Constellation is an alternative therapeutic method that draws on elements of family systems therapy and existential phenomenology to discover underlying family bonds and forces carried unconsciously over several generations. Bert Hellinger, the founder studied and treated families for more than 50 years, observed that many of us unconsciously take on destructive familial patterns of anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, aloneness, alcoholism and even illness as a way of ‘belonging’ in our families.

WESTERN CAPE

The Inner Process | Muizenberg | 083 260 5567

HYPNOTHERAPY

Hypnotherapy is a gentle, non-invasive therapy using guided relaxation, intense concentration, and focused

attention to achieve a heightened state of awareness. The idea is; in this state of higher consciousness your mind is open to effect desired changes in your behaviour. Popular complaints addressed by hypnotherapy include anxiety, grief, stress, phobias, migraine, weight problems, stopping smoking and other addictions, skin disorders, ulcers and more. In psychotherapy, hypnotherapy is also used to explore painful thoughts, feelings, or memories you may have hidden or suppressed from your conscious mind.

WESTERN CAPE

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

MPUMALANGA

Victor Boschoff | Middelburg | 082 697 9954 Pierre Immelman | Middelburg | 079 897 9073

FREE STATE

Carel Breedt | Parys | 082 802 8100

LIMPOPO

Marie Helm | Hoedspruit | 082 683 2835

NORTH WEST

Rod Waddington | Neserhof | 018 462 4656

LIFE COACH

Life Coach sessions involve structured, goal-focused participation to help clients find new direction in life, especially in times of change. COMENSA (Coaches and Mentors of South Africa) defines coaching as “a professional, collaborative and outcomes-driven method of learning that seeks to develop an individual and raise self-awareness to achieve specific goals and perform at a more effective level”. Coaching is distinct from therapy, counselling, mentoring and consulting. Trained specialists assist with life’s challenges like optimising health and nutrition, living on purpose, changing careers, creating financial abundance and stability, self-confidence and selfunderstanding.

EASTERN CAPE

FREE STATE

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

LIMPOPO

MPUMALANGA

NORTH WEST

WESTERN CAPE

PSYCHOTHERAPY & GUIDANCE

LIFE COACHES

MUSIC THERAPY

Music Therapy uses music to advance self-development. The therapist or practitioner chooses music and a form of therapy chosen to suit specific client needs. Techniques used may include musical improvisation, performance, composition, movement, vocalisation and listening. In some cases, musical activities may include extra-musical elements like talking, drama, art and story telling.

MUSIC THERAPISTS EASTERN CAPE

NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is a technique that helps people detect and reprogramme unconscious patterns of thought and behaviour to alter psychological responses and enhance the healing process. ‘Neuro’ refers to the way the brain works and how human thinking demonstrates consistent and detectable patterns. ‘Linguistic’ refers to the verbal and nonverbal expressions of the brain’s thinking patterns. ‘Programming’ refers to how these patterns are recognised and understood by the mind and how they can be altered, allowing better choices in behaviour and health. The goal of the NLP practitioner is to move a person from his or her present state of discomfort to a desired state of health by helping reprogramme beliefs and attitudes.

NLP PRACTITIONERS FREE STATE

Mark Csabai | Bloemfontein | 082 825 5873

GAUTENG

KWAZULU-NATAL

GAUTENG PSYCHOTHERAPY & GUIDANCE

Helen Oosthuizen | Pietermaritzburg | 082 482 5906

MPUMALANGA

Petra Jerling | Nelspruit | 084 548 4202

WESTERN CAPE

WESTERN CAPE

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Psychotherapy is a personal journey of transformation and self-exploration conducted under the guidance of a psychotherapist.. The psychotherapist supports and encourages the transformative process. Trust in the therapist is essential and the therapeutic environment itself should be a safe space in which the journey can unfold. The therapist guides a process of change, where the client learns to understand patterns of psychological experience in thought, feeling, behaviour and health. Dysfunctional patterns are released and replaced with new patterns of confidence and self trust.

PSYCHOTHERAPISTS EASTERN CAPE

FREE STATE

GAUTENG

WESTERN CAPE

REGRESSION

Regression therapy is a technique often used by hypnotherapists, psychotherapists, or rebirthing practitioners, and by specialist Regression therapists. Regression involves placing a client into a relaxed Alpha state and then taking them to another stage in their life. As a therapeutic technique this can be very useful with repressed trauma. The therapy is used not to relive the trauma, but rather to access the negative life decisions made. Once negative decisions have been located they can be removed and replaced with more positive decisions. Past Life Regression uses a similar technique, but works with the belief that we have lived many lives and that a past life may affect present behaviour in a negative way.

REGRESSION PRACTITIONERS WESTERN CAPE

Janet Homan | Constantia | 082 871 1069 Daniel | Vredehoek | 071 410 9157

REHABILITATION

Rehabilitation programmes help release patterns of chemical and non-chemical dependency, whether alcohol, drugs, eating, gambling and more. Organizations like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous offer programmes that can be attended weekly. These are based on the popular twelve-step programme formulated by the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Residential Rehabilitation centres offer intensive programmes where psychological counselling and support accompanies the detoxification process. The client is also assisted to create a plan for a new way of life free from chemical dependencies. They are put in touch with a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;mentorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to support the process.

MPUMALANGA

Time2Change | Cape Town | 062 105 3188

KWAZULU-NATAL

Moses Mkhabela | Nelspruit | 013 741 2412

NORTHERN CAPE

Dr. Albertus J Malgas | Kimberley | 053 832 0142

PSYCHOTHERAPY & GUIDANCE

NORTH WEST

TANTRA

This ancient practice is a powerful combination of asana mantra, mudra, and bandha (energy lock) and chakra (energy center) work used to build strength, clarity, and bliss in everyday life. By harnessing and embodying the five forces of Shakti, the female deity that represents creativity and change, Tantra suggests we can move through the world with more confidence and contentment.

TANTRIC PRACTITIONERS WESTERN CAPE

MOVEMENT

CALLANETICS

Created by Callan Pinckney in the early 1980s, Callanetics is an exercise programme involving frequent repetition of small muscular movements to improve muscle tone. It was originally developed from classical ballet exercises to help ease Pinckney’s back problems.

MOVEMENT

CALLANETICS PRACTITIONERS GAUTENG

Callanetics Teachers Asscn | Randburg | 011 795 3311

DANCE

Dance therapy is the therapeutic use of movement to further the emotional, cognitive, physical and social integration of the individual, based on the premise that the body, mind and spirit are interconnected. Biodanza is a form of dance that uses music, movement and group interactions to connect people to joy, enhance their creativity and have fun. It means ‘dance with life’ and facilitates an enriched environment for people to develop their potential and find full expression with themselves and each other. The 5 Rhythms dance has no steps to follow, no moves to learn, no good or bad dancers, and no poses to perfect. This liberating free dance form asks you to listen to your own body, find your own rhythm and explore free movement. New York dancer Gabrielle Roth developed this form to harness the energising and therapeutic benefits of dance in a soul journey. Nia combines dance, martial arts and mindfulness; it tones the body while transforming the mind. More than just a workout, Nia is a holistic fitness practice with each workout bringing mindfulness to the experience leaving participants energised, mentally clear, and emotionally balanced. Nia was founded by Debbie Rosas. Nirapa School of Dance | Randburg | 083 650 9283 Kim Thacker | Cape Town | 072 567 2935 Journey through Dance | Constantia | 072 183 2218 Mia Steyn | Stellenbosch | 082 874 2176

EURHYTHMY

Eurythmy is used to express both speech and music. It was developed by Rudolf Steiner as a part of his system of Anthroposophical Medicine. Therapeutic Eurhythmy administers targeted exercises for the client. These exercises work on the body, vitalising and energising the healing process. Eurythmy helps both physiological and psychological disorders and encourages individuals to effect their own healing.

PERSONAL TRAINING

A Personal Trainer is a fitness expert who formulates and designs a personal exercise programme for his or her clients. The trainer helps with strength building and body shaping, providing fitness assessments helping ensure consistency and commitment to a fitness programme.

PILATES

Pilates is a structured exercise programme, designed by Joseph Pilates, with the purpose of stretching and strengthening the muscles, correcting muscle imbalances, improving posture and increasing body awareness. It was originally designed to rehabilitate injured ballet dancers and gymnasts. There are six basic principles in Pilates: Concentration, Control, Centering, Precision, Breathing and Flowing Movement.

PILATES INSTRUCTION GAUTENG

WESTERN CAPE

ALL OVER

Pilates Retreats | Everywhere | 076 499 6499

QIGONG

Qigong harnesses energy from special movements and breathing methods and also prescribes dietary measures to reverse specific diseases. Qigong techniques originate back to ancient Chinese mountain people who valued and recognized the power of Qi (life force energy).

TAI CHI

Tai Chi Chuan uses slow moving, circular dance-like movements to unite body and mind. A popular style is called Yang and is typified by big, gentle, graceful flowing movements. Deep natural breathing, twisting, spiralling, stretching and relaxing movements massage internal organs and balance the body’s energies. During Tai Chi, the mind is relaxed and focused on breath and the slow, fluid movement from one pose to the next.

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Michelle Levy | Blouberg | 072 184 3038 Stillness in Motion | Constantia | 072 400 4329

YOGA

Yoga is a system of spiritual, mental and physical training designed to bring about human reunion with the universal spirit or Supreme Being. The word ‘Yoga’ in Hindi means ‘union’ or ‘yoking’. In the West, the physical aspect, exercises and postures known as Hatha Yoga, is a widely practiced form. According to Yogic philosophy, the breath embodies the individual’s prana, or life force, and conscious breathing practices play an important role. Breathing can be consciously modified with a consequent effect on wellbeing.

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CHIROPRACTIC ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (CASA) The official body representing chiropractors and the chiropractic practice in South Africa.

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The Health Products Association is a non-profit organisation representing the interests of South African natural health products, nutritional dietary supplements and complementary and alternative medicines (CAMS). Members include industry-related manufacturers, marketers, wholesalers, distributors, retailers, importers, consultants and practitioners.

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HEALTH PROFESSIONS COUNCIL OF SOUTH AFRICA (HPCSA) The Health Professions Council of South Africa

regulates certain disciplines in aspects of training, education, professional conduct and ethical behaviour, continuing professional development, and compliance with healthcare standards. All healthcare professionals practising within the scope of the HPCSA are required by the Health Professions Act to register with the Council. Health professions regulated by the HPCSA broadly include: Dental; Dietetics and Nutrition; Emergency Care; Environmental Health; Medical and Medical Science; Occupational Therapy; Optometry; Physiotherapy; Podiatry and Biokinetics; Psychology; Radiology and Speech, Language and Hearing.

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HOMEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (HASA) A voluntary association recognised by the HPCSA, the Homeopathic Association of South Africa is the official representative body for homeopaths in South Africa.

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Life Alignment South Africa represents Life Alignment practitioners in South Africa.

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MASSAGE THERAPY ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (MTASA) The Massage Therapy Association of South Africa

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The South African Association of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture is the official voice of practitioners of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture in South Africa who are currently registered with the HPCSA.

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The South African Association of Herbal Practitioners represents all registered phytotherapy practitioners in South Africa, and serves as a window into the world of herbal medicine and herbs.

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This is the official organisation representing BodyTalk practitioners and educating the public on the science and benefits of the practice.

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The South African Healers Association is a community of healers supporting the development of spiritual, traditional, indigenous and natural healing practices in South Africa.

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SOUTH AFRICAN NATURAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS BOARD (SANHPB) This non-profit organisational board accredits

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SOUTH AFRICAN NATUROPATHY ASSOCIATION (SANA)

The South African Naturopathy Association is recognised by the AHPCSA as the official representative of the naturopathy profession in South Africa. It represents and promotes registered naturopathic doctors as well as students in training, and furthers naturopathic education and continued development of the profession in SA.

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SOUTH AFRICAN PSYCHOANALYTICAL ASSOCIATION (SAPA) The South African Psychoanalytical Association

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SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY OF INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE (SASIM) The South African Society of Integrative

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THE ASSOCIATION OF SPECIALISED KINESIOLOGISTS OF SOUTH AFRICA (ASKSA) The Association of Specialised Kinesiologists of South Africa is the official body for accreditation of kinesiologists wishing to practise and study in Southern Africa.

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THE NUTRITION SOCIETY OF SOUTH AFRICA (NSSA)

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIETY OF PHYSIOTHERAPY (SASP) The South African Society of Physiotherapy

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The Traditional and Natural Health Alliance (TNHA) aims to protect the natural health industry and ensure its sustainability through various ways, some of which include lobbying government to adopt appropriate standards of production, quality control, marketing and advertising of natural health products, providing information on natural health that protects consumers, fostering cooperation among local and international associations and practitioner bodies, and consulting with local and international businesses on local regulatory issues.

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