YOUR GUIDE TO WELLNESS AND HEALTHY LIVING IN THE UAE
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REVERSING DIABETES NATURALLY
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Can we turn back the tide on this devastating disease without a lifetime on insulin injections?
Yogi Bare
Confessions of an apprentice yoga teacher
Eat fat to lose fat
ORGANIc IcIDES OR pEST vegetables have
Eating fats is essential for weight-loss
Which fruit and the highest toxic load?
Beyond the last goodbye Our real-life ghost story
Interview with a water healer
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Using the energy of water to heal
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Editor’s letter
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What’s happening?
Upcoming events and news
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The Reconnection comes to the UAE
Can you facilitate amazing healings without laying a hand on someone? “Absolutely” says Reconnective healing founder Dr. Eric Pearl as he looks forward to teaching in Dubai.
Interview with a water healer
We speak to a woman who uses the energy of water to heal conditions ranging from cancer to depression and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Confessions of an apprentice yoga teacher
Fresh out of yoga teaching school in India, a newbie teacher reveals her fears and epiphanies about helping spread the love of Downward Dogs.
Beyond the Last Goodbye
The real life story of one woman’s contact with loved ones on the other side.
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Reversing diabetes naturally
Diabetes is ravaging the Middle East. Can we turn back the tide on this devastating disease without a lifetime’s dependence on insulin injections?
To buy or not to buy organic
When is it important to buy organic and when can you safely eat non-organic fruit and vegetables?
38 Recipes for healthy festive food gifts
From Chia Seed Jam to Raw Superseed Chocolate Truffles, Glutenfree Granola and Gluten-Free Ginger Cookies, bake some love this festive season with these delicious vegan and gluten-free recipes.
Shopping ideas for beauty products with natural appeal.
46 Spa Review: Colour Harmonising
Eat fat to lose fat
Low fat is out! The latest science is now telling us that we need to eat fat to lose fat and fish oils are at the top of the ‘must have’ pile.
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Holistic Experience at Atlantis the Palm
Tried and tested: Inner Strength at ShuiQi Spa + Fitness. This aromatherapy massage treatment uses the power of essential oils and chakra cleansing to strengthen you from the inside out.
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48 Visiting Brazil’s John of God
The ultimate in wellness travel must be paying a visit to the healing sanctuary of John of God in Brazil.
52 Retail Therapy
VitaJuwel gemstone water rods to Hot Box work-out gear, high fashion eco-handbags and more.
54 UAE Wellness Listings
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Food as sunscreen
Instead of slathering on chemical-laden sunscreens; use nutrition to increase your skin’s sun tolerance.
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The A to Z of local wellness services, products, healers, centres…
Diary of how life is changing for a 40-something caveman since he met the Tree Hugger. www.awakeningsme.com
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Welcome!
Your guide to wellness and healthy living in the UAE Published by
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s it just me or is the whole wellness sector really starting to pick up in the UAE? There’s a whole heap of talk going on about how we can all live healthier to combat the tsunami of lifestyle diseases that are pounding the shores of the Middle East. Everything from obesity, heart disease, cancers and diabetes to auto-immune diseases, autism, ADHD, and so on. Every day I hear about another juicing service or yoga studio opening for business or another wellness festival. Our cities seem flooded with people trying to get us to exercise, dance, lift heavy things, buy organic… here’s hoping this is the start of a revolution. That we’re going to start caring for ourselves more by making food and leisure choices that honour our bodies and spirits. Then, if we do love ourselves enough to nourish our physical and emotional selves, as sure as night follows day we’ll also start showing the same respect and love outwards – in the way we treat other people, animals, plants and forests and waters, our environment, the land we live on. I know, call me a hippie. It’s not rocket science though. If we mistreat farm animals, those animals get sick, which makes us sick. If we cover our food crops with pesticides to kill insects not only do we damage the delicate ecosystem and end up with tragedies like the decimation of the global bee population but we also end up ingesting those carcinogenic pesticides ourselves and ruining our soils. Anyway, enough ranting from me, if you want to read more about this, check out our Reversing Diabetes story and our Buying Organic story. If you’re after some gripping bedtime reading, see our real life ghost story on page 24. If energy healing is your thing, read our Reconnective Healing story on page 14 – I had the pleasure of interviewing founder Dr. Eric Pearl over Skype. I also made a little video of that as well so check it out on the Awakenings Facebook page. PS We’re now bi-monthly so see you again in March!
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What’s happening in your town Full Moon and New Moon Yoga
Full and new moon yoga and meditation classes are held monthly by the lake in Dubai Internet city. Instructors donate their time so a minimum donation of AED 50 per class is kindly requested, the money is given to a local charity. Dates: Full moon yoga on 2 January and 5 February; New moon yoga on 16 January. Venue: Dubai Internet City from 3-6pm. To register, go to www.yogafest.me
11 January 2015, Free Intro Workshop for Family Therapy Find out more about the Satir Model of Counselling, developed as a result of the lifetime’s work of ‘The Mother’ of Family Therapy, Virginia Satir. Times: 6.30pm – 9.00pm Venue: Al Wasl. Location map provided on receipt of confirmation email. Email: shakti@transforminst.com or call 04 344 0115 or 050 559 2079.
20-24 January, Foundation in the Satir Model of Therapy for Individuals, Couples and Families This is the first module of course that leads to the award of the Certificate in Satir Model Counselling issued by the Satir Institute of Professional Development and accredited by CCPA. This is also open as a standalone certificated module. Prices: AED 6,950 (or AED 6,500 early-bird discount for those who pay by Wednesday 31 December) Times: 9am – 6pm daily Venue: Al Wasl. Location map provided on receipt of confirmation email. Contacts: Email: shakti@transforminst.com or call 04 344 0115 or 050 559 2079
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9-31 January 2014, 200-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher Training
Explore the deeper aspects of Yoga with Dashama’s Prasha Method and become a certified yoga teacher. During this 22 day Yoga Transformational Experience, you will dive deep into the root of your subconscious behaviour and discover any limiting belief systems that are keeping you stuck, blocked from accessing your highest potential as a co-creative being and master of your destiny. For more information, email kaya@privateyogaindubai.com. www.kayapetersretreats.com
22-26 January, Healing with Food – A Wellness & Yoga Retreat in Lebanon
Nutritious alkaline food, twice daily yoga, meditation, eco-adventures and historical sites, country walks and horseback riding in the magic of the Lebanon mountain area of Chouf. You’ll also watch documentaries daily, such as Forks Over Knives which examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting animal-based and processed foods. Venue: Deir al Oumara, a mountain hotel in the heart of Deir al Qamar, Chouf, Beirut, Lebanon. http://deiraloumara.com Price: AED 4,950 full board - excluding flights Email: info@yogaretreats.ae www.yogaretreats.ae
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February 2015, ThetaHealing in Lebanon
Maya Badran and Tony Shoushani will be holding two ThetaHealing workshops in Beirut in February, a Basic DNA2 ThetaHealing workshop for complete beginners as well as the level 2 Advanced DNA2.
1-8 March, Luxury wellness and yoga in Italy
Join Kaya at the famous Ti Sana Wellness Resort in Italy for a week of Yoga and Health in the heart of Italy’s River Adda National Park. Held in the stunning Lake Como region, this retreat week will focus on re-balancing body and mind through stress-reducing, highend wellness therapies and gourmet vegan cuisine. Prices: Start from $2075 Contacts: Call +971 56 212 5878 or email kaya@privateyogaindubai.com. www.kayapetersretreats.com/group-retreats/
7, 8, 9 February 2015, ThetaHealing Basic DNA2 (Level 1)
Basic DNA2: Introduces the ThetaHealing technique that allows you to change life patterns and blocks either self-inflicted or externally imposed.
14, 15, 16 February 2015, ThetaHealing Advanced DNA2 (level 2)
Advanced DNA2: Expands on the Basic Class to help accelerate spiritual growth and recreate your reality according to your highest thoughts. Heal powerfully, rapidly and at the deepest level. Prices: $530 per course. A registration fee of $250. Repeat fee: $250 per course (bring your book and manual) The price includes: Daily lunch and two tea breaks; a ThetaHealing® Practitioner Manual & a Basic ThetaHealing® Book by Vianna Stibal; Official Practitioner Certificate from ThetaHealing® Institute of Knowledge, USA. For more information, call Maya on +971 50 8491237 or email info@awakeningthemasters.com. www.facebook.com/maya.thetahealing
19-21 February, Yogafest 2015
Yogafest is a free sustainable community event that brings teachers and students together to support great causes in a tranquil outdoor setting. For more information, go to www.yogafest.me or email founder Elaine Kelly on hello@yogafest.me. www.yogafest.me.
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27-28 March, Fit Dubai
The region’s only consumer event dedicated to nutrition, wellness, sports, and fitness, Fit Dubai takes place on 27-28 March at the Emirates Golf Club in Dubai. Aiming to educate and create community awareness surrounding a well-rounded, healthy and active lifestyle through nutrition, wellness, sports and fitness. To enquire how your company can become a sponsor or exhibitor, contact Belle Belarmino on tel. +971 4 442 9759 or email belle@fitdxb.com. www.fitdxb.com
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What’s happening in your town January, Beginner’s Yoga Workshop
If you’re a complete beginner to yoga and want an introduction, join one of the Yoga Ashram Beginner’s Workshops in January. It’s twice a week for a month and you’ll learn yoga theory, breathing, poses and meditation. Choose from Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 6.30pm or Monday and Wednesday mornings at 10am. Price: AED 450 Where: Yoga Ashram in JLT, Cluster X, 1504 Jumeirah Bay X3, JLT, Dubai. Tel. 04 360 9028 or email info@yogaashram.com www.yogaashram.com
Awakenings Middle East Meet-ups
Did you know that we organise get-togethers for readers of Awakenings magazine every now and then? Usually in a café over a late breakfast with a guest speaker along to talk about anything from Reiki to making your own fermented foods. Don’t miss the next one, join the group at www.meetup.com/AwakeningsME
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What’s happening in your town 30-31 January, Quantum Touch Level 1 USA Certified Course
Quantum Touch teaches how to focus, amplify, and direct energy, through powerful techniques, for a wide range of benefits and often extraordinary results. Reiki practitioners nicknamed it ‘Turbo-charging Reiki’ while chiropractors, physical therapists, acupuncturists and osteopaths who have taken the course have been astounded to observe rapid structural realignment, reduction of inflammation, emotional wellbeing, and other benefits. Price: AED 1700. Early bird rate of AED 1450 for full payment by 10 January 2015. Facilitated by: Mona Rifai Khalaf Email: info@thirdeyeonline.com for more information
27 February to1 March, Trans Generational Healing Workshop (10am-6pm)
Resolve the karmic baggage you are carrying from generations before you. A trans-generational healing through Family Constellation is a three-dimensional group process that has the power to shift generations of suffering and unhappiness. Through trans-generational healing, you’ll discover the hidden mysteries in your family structure or current dilemma that may be stopping your success. Price: AED1500 Early bird rate of AED 1250 if full payment is made by 10 February. Lunch and refreshments included. Facilitated by: Usha Email: info@thirdeyeonline.com for more information
March 12-14, Transformational Awakening Spiritual Retreat
A Divine Power packed three days of soul transformation, shift and ascension to welcome the higher energies of 2015 and onwards. Retreat check in is Wednesday evening 11 March. Facilitated by: Roshani Shenazz Email: info@thirdeyeonline.com for more information Third Eye Center, Suite 1101, Saeed Tower II (above KFC/Nandos, next to Four Points Sheraton) on Sheikh Zayed Road Tel: +9714 3266539 or mob: +97155 809 8595 www.thirdeyeonline.com www.facebook.com/TheThirdEyeCenter
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2 February, Free EFT Tapping Awareness Talk and Demo
Join UK EFT Master trainer Peter Donn on a rare opportunity to find out about and learn the ground-breaking technique of Emotional Freedom Techniques. Also known as EFT – or ‘Tapping’ – it has been transforming lives across the world for the past 20 years. It profoundly helps to release general stress - often within minutes, clear past traumas, fears about the future, and blocks in the way of us being the best we can be. It can also be used to deepen into states of love and gratitude and peace. EFT evolved out of an extraordinary experience when a clinical psychologist asked a woman with a strong and lifelong phobia of water to tap an acupuncture meridian under her eye. Incredibly, 50 years of phobia disappeared within a few minutes, despite years of therapy previously. Join Peter for this evening talk and demonstration. He will also reveal how to learn the basics for free! Following the talk, starting Fri 6 Feb is a full EFT training for Self-help or to become an accredited EFT practitioner. A certified trainer for the three largest EFT organizations worldwide, Peter is a contributory author to the Clinical EFT Handbook: A Definitive Resource for Practitioners, Scholars, Clinicians & Researchers, available on Amazon. Location: Illuminations Well-Being Center, 409, Fortune Executive Towers, Cluster T, JLT Timings: 5pm to 7pm Price: Free To register for the talk or book on the trainings go to: www. eft-courses.org.uk/dubai, email: info@eft-courses.org.uk or call Illuminations World on 04 448 7043.
29 March to 10 April 2015, John of God Retreat in Brazil
Dubai-based Terri and Buddy Abrahams provide guidance for visitors wishing to visit John of God for spiritual, mental, physical and/or emotional healing. Price: Tour fee including accommodation and meals is $1,500 (about AED 5,600). Flights are not included. Contacts: To book, call 050 6554814 or email: angels@angelsoflightonline.com www.angelsoflightonline.com
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Can you perform miraculous healings without laying a hand on someone? Reconnective healing founder Dr. Eric Pearl says ‘absolutely’. He has facilitated healings for conditions as varied as cerebral palsy, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, immune diseases, birth defects, cancers, sciatica, deafness, and more… often for people who’d been told by the best in the medical profession that nothing could be done for them. It sounds too good to be true but is it? Prior to Dr. Pearl’s arrival in Dubai to hold seminars, Tamara Pitelen spoke to him about what Reconnective Healing is and isn’t.
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Dr. Eric Pearl, Founder of
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hat is Reconnective Healing? I’ll get to that in a minute. First, let’s look at what it’s not. According to its founder, Dr. Eric Pearl, Reconnective Healing is not a treatment, therapy or cure. Nor is it a technique, a modality or a system. He says there is no diagnosis, there’s no determining the problem, there’s no treating, there’s no therapy, there’s no attempting to cure or fix. This might seem surprising for something entitled ‘healing’ and it does beg the question ‘so what is it then?’ but keep reading, it becomes
clearer… and more incredible. In 1993, Los Angeles chiropractor Dr. Eric Pearl started having unusual experiences with his patients that quickly got more bizarre. At first, they could feel his hands before he touched them but more importantly, their aches and pains started vanishing. Over the next couple of years, Pearl’s ability developed to the point where people who had been told ‘nothing can be done’ by the medical profession’s top doctors were being healed from severely debilitating conditions. What was happening? It took Pearl a while to work it out and he had some strange experiences along the way, which he describes in his book, The Reconnection, Heal Others, Heal Yourself, (for example, light beings appearing at the end of his bed) but now his conclusion is that he was suddenly able to access frequencies of light, information and energy that had never before been present on Earth. He says these healing frequencies are able to bring the human body back into a state of balance. As a result, imbalances that manifest as disease and illness simply vibrate out of the body. He calls it, “a new level of healing that many believe may be here on the planet for the very first time.” Pearl says he doesn’t create or direct these new energies, he simply receives and allows them, not unlike a lightning rod or metal conductor. More importantly, he believes everyone of us can learn to do it as well. In the cold light of day, such claims could be dismissed as the rants of a crazy man but the countless anecdotal reports are not so easily dismissed. Pearl’s work is making waves across the world, he travels tirelessly, teaching thousands of people how to access and use these healing frequencies. He’s appeared on US TV show Dr. Oz and been invited to speak at the United Nations. Tamara Pitelen spoke to Dr. Pearl via Skype in November 2014. The following is an edited version of that interview. To watch the video interview, go to the Awakenings TV YouTube channel or Awakenings Facebook page at www.facebook.com/Awakeningsme.
THE FUTURE OF HEALING
TP: “You’ve said that you do not direct the healing frequencies that you receive; that they go wherever in the body they are needed of their own accord. So does this mean these energies have an intelligence?” EP: “They are an intelligence. It’s not that they have an intelligence; they ARE an intelligence. There is a field of intelligence. Something tells trees to grow up and roots to grow down, and for children to be born with two eyes and one nose. We give it names but there is a field of information. “Lets go back a bit. Our bodies don’t heal the way we were taught. We were taught our bodies healed through biochemicals but we know today that the biochemical model is obsolete. Our bodies heal through energy, frequency, vibration; a vibratory entrainment with one another, it’s communicated via light. “We know that our very DNA emits levels of light; that the concept that we are light is not just a metaphysical spiritual concept any longer, we know today from the work of Dr Fritz Albert-Popp (1) in Germany and others that we emit light and when that light is measurably dimming, our health is diminishing and when the light comes back, our health comes back. “So that’s one. Point two, our brains don’t work the way we were taught. If you remember the old professor who pulls out a chart of the brain with circles showing the different areas, ‘here’s speech, here’s memory, here’s this, here’s that…’ but that model is also dead and obsolete. We now know that the information within our brains is not held in little sequestered areas but is diffused throughout the brain and we’re beginning to understand that it’s not within the brain; that it exists within a field of information that science today calls the zero point field. cont. overleaf
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“Back in the 1800s we used to call it the etheric field . So people who are geniuses, people who are psychics, people who are healers, it’s no big secret, they’re just listening a little more to the field and they’re not second-guessing the information, therefore they’re allowing it to flow through. There are two types of listening. One type of listening – I’m not talking about just with the ears now - is a type of awareness. We live in what we perceive as a four dimensional universe and we listen passively, we listen with four dimensions but active listening allows us to become more aware of the field itself, when we listen actively we can shift a little bit, sometimes the head tilts, sometimes the eyes fall to the side and we go somewhere beyond the limitations of the four dimensions, we exist in a timelessness, this is our nature and this is what I believe we are here to discover. “When we interact with the Reconnective Healing spectrum of energy, light and information, we simply feel, we become aware, we don’t do anything, we listen more actively, we feel this and as we do, we vibrate at that level and as we interact with the person we’re working with, something inside of them wakes up to that awareness, and they say, ‘hey this is me vibrating healthy, this is me vibrating naturally, I think I’ll do it again’ and as they return
to that level of vibration and light, the densities in their field including health challenges as well as mental, emotion, spiritual, relationship, career challenges, fall away as is appropriate for that person. We don’t force the healing, you don’t create or say ‘this will be the healing that will happen’ we don’t know what’s right for that person. Healing isn’t about treating symptoms; healing is about allowing a person to vibrate at a higher state of balance, a higher state of light and as they return to their level of their vibration at that light, then their imbalances pretty much fall away.” TP: Are there any conditions you haven’t been able to heal with RH? EP: “I’ve come to the point where I recognise that nothing is beyond the reach of Reconnective Healing. I’ve seen holes in people’s bodies the size of a pencil eraser completely heal overnight like it had never been there even though it’d been there for nine or 10 years. I’ve seen people with surgical pins in their arms that couldn’t raise their arm and within an instant, have full range of motion. There is nothing that this is beyond the reach of this but we have to realise again that it’s not the health challenge that has the healing, it’s the individual. Therefore, three people can come to see you once you learn this work, with the same diagnosis and the same symptoms but they might receive three different
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sets of results depending on what was appropriate for each of those people on their life course at that moment. Some of us may choose our illnesses to get love. We often think about people going through a specific illness or health challenge for their lessons but we don’t always stop and think that they may very well have made that selection as well for the lessons of those close to them, their families, their caretakers, their children. There are so many intricacies. If you learn this work on a professional level, when people make an appointment, you tell them the truth from the beginning. ‘Just like with a medical doctor, I can’t tell you if your healing will happen 100, 50 or 25 per cent. Whether it’ll happen right away, whether it’ll happen later, whether you’ll even notice anything at all. All I can tell you is that, unlike your medical doctor, I can promise you that you won’t get worse from this so if that’s alright with you I’m happy to schedule you in for an appointment 2.15pm on Thursday…” Reference: German physicist Dr. Albert-Popp has conducted research that confirms the existence of biophotons; particles of light, with no mass, transmit information within and between cells. His work shows that DNA in a living cell stores and releases photons creating “biophotonic emissions” that may hold the key to illness and health.
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RECONNECTIVE HEALING SPEED Q&A Answers in brief from Dr. Eric Pearl to some of the burning questions about Reconnective Healing… Why have you stopped personally healing others? EP: “When I was doing healing sessions, no one would go to anyone else because they thought I was the best so it became my responsibility to take myself off the market so people realise they are going to have to go to someone else to learn this work and in that there is the empowerment.” Do you heal yourself daily, weekly…? EP: “No, it’s not about a dependency. You don’t need to have healing after healing after healing… I do like to allow myself to drift off at night sometimes and feel the frequencies that vibrate, I have that vibratory feeling, float off, it’s like bathing in the healing frequencies but it’s a different consciousness from ‘now I’m going to do a self-healing’. On the truest level, healing is not just for regaining use of your arm or leg or liver or vision… healing is, I believe, the next level of human evolution.” You say you’re here to bring through light, energy and information that have not previously been available on the planet. Who has given them to us? EP: “Who is giving them? Who is giving everything? God. Love. The intelligence of the universe… by whatever name we choose to call that but part of that is that as time is expanding, this is part of our growth, our human experience, to allow us to better understand the universal, spiritual beings of love that we are inside.”
Are all RH practitioners equally able? EP: “When people ask, ‘how can I find the best Reconnective Healing practitioners, the ones who are pulling it through the fullest and most powerfully?’ The only thing I can tell you is that, like a straw, every straw will bring the drink through equally well to the degree that the straw isn’t clogged. Therefore look at the websites of the people doing Reconnective Healing. If they’re doing it as well as doing this technique and that technique, then they are reducing it. You need to go to someone who has stepped into the self-secure position, the understanding of saying, ‘I am now more than abundantly enough to release techniques.’ Go to someone who has left their techniques behind because they are really truly bringing through the higher stuff.” Did you need special permissions to offer Reconnective Healing in the UAE? EP: “I know a lot of good and important people there [in the UAE], which is nice. So all of those things have been worked out and handled by my office. I believe that the consciousness is expanding, I know it is from the people that I’ve spoken to in higher positions there, they’re excited to bring this forward. You have an amazing Government with phenomenal people in it who want to bring this change and I am honoured to be invited.”
WHAT TO EXPECT AT A RECONNECTIVE HEALING SEMINAR In November 2015, Dr. Eric Pearl and his team are in Dubai to hold the first ever Reconnective Healing seminars in the Middle East. Here’s what you can expect if you attend the two or four day seminars. “The opening night of the seminar, I’ll give a three hour presentation and talk about the history and the science and we’ll bring up volunteers for healings, we’ll let you feel this energy in the hands and we’ll teach you to work with it. The next two days is when we’ll teach you to do this on a personal level for yourself and loved ones. You’ll stand at the head of a massage table and the teaching assistants and I will take your hands and we’ll show you how to feel and find these frequencies and how to play with them. As you do, you’ll start to witness with your own eyes, the person on that table, their fingers start to go into involuntary movement or their arm will jump, the leg will kick, you’ll see their eyes dart back and forth, their colouring and breathing changes and then you’ll swap places to experience it for yourself and they get to practice it on you.
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The first couple of days doesn’t make you a professional. It’s the final two days when we teach you nuances and how to enhance it. There is an interaction with these frequencies that entrains you to vibrate at that level. It’s an activation in a sense, although I hate to sound Star Trekky about it. You’re like a teabag steeping in a pot. There’s a transformation that takes place within you.” To book on the two or four day Reconnective Healing workshops, go to www.TheReconnection.com. Costs are as follows: Level I and II Combo: $1428 Level I: $639 Level II: $789 Alternatively, get your tickets from Illuminations Wellness Centre and receive a 15 per cent discount, call 04 448 7043.
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Interview with a water healer Jessica Lang says she was born with a “healing gift” that enables her to use the energy of water to heal illnesses ranging from cancer to depression and rheumatoid arthritis. Jessica’s clients say her gift has transformed their lives and they’ve gone public to describe their experiences in the book, Deo Volente. During a visit to Dubai, Jessica spoke to Tamara Pitelen.
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arms and legs were painfully inflamed. Despite seeking out all kinds of traditional treatment, her condition continued to deteriorate. A colleague urged Hetty to visit Jessica so she made an appointment and that first session lasted nine hours. From that day on, her recovery was miraculous. “With Hetty,” Jessica says, “I saw a very big black ball of negativity in her back, the size of a basketball.” A water healing session with Jessica takes place in a bathroom because first the client is washed with
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specially prepared water and they must also drink this water in order to be cleansed inside and out to prepare for the healing work to come. (In case you’re wondering, no, the client is not naked, they are either in clothes that they don’t mind getting wet or in a bathing suit.) The water is just ordinary water from a tap but Jessica prepares it for the client. Water, she says, has its own intelligence and there is something about her, her energy, that facilitates the water to change its molecular
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structure in order to become whatever that particular client needs for healing. Sometimes this process takes a couple of minutes, sometimes a couple of hours but she always knows when the water is “ready”. “When I am in contact with water, the water changes. The water becomes what the person coming to me needs it to be. Water lives; all water lives. Water is energy and I use the energy in the water.”
THE POWER OF WATER
With Hetty, the water cleansing was followed by spiritual surgery to remove the black ball of negativity that was attached to her spine. “When I do an operation, I open the energetic body and pull out whatever needs to be removed. Hetty actually cried out when the ball was pulled out…” “Yes,” said Hetty. “Even though I couldn’t see what she was doing. I felt it in my whole spinal column; something releasing. And it felt like she was pulling something out of my lower back.” Today, Hetty walks normally and is free of the condition that was crippling her. A typical healing session with Jessica lasts a minimum of four hours although it can go for much longer. Once, she treated someone for a total of 34 hours… non-stop. In that time, she did not even stop for food although there were toilet breaks. “Because when I begin, I cannot stop. Time stands still for me, I am not occupied by human time when I am healing. I do not need to eat or drink or sleep and yet I feel energised.”
HEALING HANDS
Now aged 40, Jessica has had this “healing gift” for as long as she can remember. It took her a while to realise that she was able to see and feel things that other people could not.
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“When I was six, I walked into the kitchen to my mother. I knew she had a headache without her telling me. I said to her, ‘I will take it’ and I put my hands on her head and it was gone.” A couple of years later, at age eight, Jessica remembers healing an aunt who couldn’t walk properly, due to a lot of pain in her legs and knees. “She came to our house and I said, ‘I see so much black in your knees, I can’t take it out.” So I did. The adults just humoured me because to them I was a child playing games but I could see black spaghetti in her knees and I could pull it out. I could see it and touch it like it was real. The same as anyone can pick up a pen from the table, I could reach out and touch this black substance. Then I said, ‘I need
Water lives; all water lives. Water is energy and I use the energy in the water to place my hands on your knees,’ so I sat there for a while, I don’t know how long, with my hands on her knees until I said, ‘ok, you can walk now, you will not have any pain,’ and I was annoyed that she just sat there because no one believed me, ‘stop bothering your aunt’, they said. She realised later though.”
The tumour was growing and causing her to black out and fall over several times a day. “When I saw her, I knew the tumour was malignant,” Jessica said. “I removed it with spiritual surgery and an MRI scan a few weeks later showed it had shrunk. That was four years ago, she is now fine and symptom-free with no more black-outs.” Another client, who has also written about her healing with Jessica in Deo Volente, had a 20cm wound on her shin for four years that would not heal. She would have to rebandage it two to three times a day. After a session with Jessican, it healed in three weeks.
WHAT IS NEGATIVITY?
According to Jessica, the source of all illness and dis-ease is negativity. This, of course, is a big word that covers a multitude of very different emotions and experiences; all of which come down to different vibrations of energy. Every situation and experience in life has both positive and negative aspects. How a person chooses to view something reflects their inner world, Jessica says. “Many people choose to focus on the negative, in this way you are asking for morenegativity in your life.” A longer version of this story is available on the Awakenings website at www.awakeningsme.com
A TO Z HEALING
Jessica says she has not yet met someone she cannot help heal. Conditions from chronic physical diseases like cancer, heart disease and arthritis to mental illness such as depression, anxiety, anger, insomnia, and so on. One example, which is told in her recently released book entitled Deo Valente (‘God willing’ in Latin), is written by a woman who had a brain tumour when she came to see Jessica.
JESSICA LANG is based in The Netherlands. Her book, Deo Volente, comprises testimonials from 31 clients, who describe the healing they experienced with Jessica. The book is available in Dutch and the translations in English, Arabic, Indonesian and French will soon be available. Buy Deo Volente online at bol.com and boekenbestellen.nl. For more information, email juniversel7@gmail.com.
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Confessions of an apprentice
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The ultimate aim of yoga is not sticking your knee behind your head. It’s a journey to knowing who you really are and to connecting with universal consciousness. If that’s not hippie, trippy, peace, love and lentils for you, keep reading… Tamara Pitelen writes about being a newly graduated yoga teacher.
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’m now officially qualified to teach yoga to others. I have a bit of paper that says I am. Despite the bit of paper though, I still feel like a beginner. According to the ancient yoga scriptures, there are about 8,400,000 yoga poses (asanas) but today we tend to focus on about 84 of them. Forget the eight million, I can’t even do all of the 84 basic poses. The Scorpion pose for example, I couldn’t do that to save my life just yet (it’s a forearm stand, in case you’re wondering) and maybe I never will do it but one of the epiphanies I had about yoga in my 200 hours of training was that not being able to do Scorpion ‘properly’ really doesn’t matter. In fact, not being able to do any of the postures properly really doesn’t matter. It’s more important to simply regularly practise to the best of your ability. “Regularity is key; intensity is not,” said my teacher Roshan Singh, the founder of Rishikesh Yog Peeth, a yoga school in the foothills of the Himalayas in the Indian town of Rishikesh, a town that claims the title ‘world capital of yoga’. “Yoga is accepting the body’s limitations; working up to the limitations because the limits are dynamic, if you work to your limit, the limit will shift,” Roshan said. “Don’t stress or strain. Injury is the result of working past the body’s limits.
As long as you’re moving your body daily, it will improve. Be gentle and kind to yourself.”
YOGA FOR FAT OLDIES
Before I went to Rishikesh, I’d been worried that I wasn’t ready for yoga teacher training. I was worried that I’d be too old, too fat, too inflexible. I thought yoga teachers had to be 20 or 30-something perfect-bodies who could put their knees behind their ears. Happily, I was wrong. It’s a common misconception in the appearance-obsessed west. On my training course there were people aged 18 to 60 of all sizes and experience. “Yoga is not a performance art or competitive sport. Every body is unique, beautiful and special. Your triangle looks different to mine because our bodies are of different ratios and proportions,” said Roshan. “Understanding and accepting your anatomical possibilities and limitations is the start of yoga.” So, yoga, it turns out, is not about having a perfect body or standing on your head for longer than the person beside you. It’s not a gymnastics feat about who’s bendier than who. It’s also not about taking photos of yourself doing poses in exotic locations and putting them on Facebook (although that looks like fun so if you do do that, all power to you). In fact, doing the poses is only one small part of a traditional yoga practice. cont. overleaf
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YOGA OR ASANA TEACHER
“Are you going to be a yoga teacher or an asana teacher?” This was the question Roshan put to my class towards the end of our training. What he meant was, when you go back to your own country and start teaching others, will you forget about the spiritual aspects of yoga and concentrate only on the physical part? Or will you remember that the poses are just one slice of the yoga pie? The other parts include breathing exercises, inward focus, concentration and meditation as well as personal disciplines such as non-violence and truthfulness towards yourself and others.
A LITTLE THING CALLED ENLIGHTENMENT
Before going to Rishikesh, I didn’t realise that the ultimate purpose of yoga was to achieve enlightenment, aka Samadhi. That’s it. That’s all it’s about. Spending hours cross-legged in meditation, chanting Om, bending backwards and forwards, twisting this way and that, doing strange breathing exercises, etc. It’s all in aid of this one goal, which is to activate the kundalini energy at the base of your spine so that it travels up to the crown chakra on top of your head causing the 1,000 petal lotus chakra to open up. When this happens, your individual consciousness merges with universal consciousness and you have achieved enlightenment. You become one with everything and nothing is ever the same again. Apparently. So, how do you get this kundalini energy moving? The idea is that if your body, mind, emotions, brain chemistry, hormones and so on are all in perfect balance and harmony, the kundalini will awaken. Or so I’m told. For me it’s all theoretical knowledge at the stage. To date, the lotus flower in my crown chakra remains stubbornly closed and the kundalini energy would seem to be comatose at the base of my spine, not in a big hurry to be travelling upwards anytime soon. Do I have lazy kundalini?
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BACK TO REALITY
As I write this, it’s been four months since I graduated from yoga school. I’m now teaching four classes a week at Yoga Ashram, a yoga studio in JLT, Dubai. I’m enjoying the teaching more and more. At first I was too nervous but I’m relaxing a little now and it’s a real buzz when students tell you they really enjoyed the class. I still go to the yoga classes of other teachers because I have such a long way to go with my own practice. I also love seeing how other teachers structure a class, how they explain poses or include breathing and meditation exercises. I still can’t do Scorpion – not even close! And I’ve found that bringing a regular yoga practice back into ‘normal’ life after the teacher training can require some effort - I sometimes slip a bit. When you’re in an ashram up in the mountains, far away from your regular life and concerns and all you have to do every day is practice and study yoga. It’s easy to be all zen-like and ‘namaste’ about everything. You have the freedom to spend hours on breathing exercises, meditation and the chanting of Om and Sanskrit mantras. It’s a lot easier to feel love for humanity when you’re not dealing with traffic on Sheikh Zayed Road and spending eight hours a day at a computer. Ironically though, the time you need yoga and meditation the most is when you think you’re too busy to spare the time for it. Come along! Tamara holds a donation-only Hatha yoga class, to raise money for Dubai’s stray animals, on Saturdays at 12.45pm at Yoga Ashram, JLT, Cluster X, Office 1504. www.yogaashram.com
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SO YOU WANNA BE A YOGA TEACHER? A brief guide to yoga teacher certification… Although yoga as a practice took shape some 5000 or so years ago, a couple of organisations today have managed to position themselves as the regulatory authorities that decide who can and can’t teach yoga. Such bodies include Yoga Alliance and the British Wheel of Yoga. In theory, all you really need to do is study Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, a book written in AD400 or so by the grandfather of yoga, Patanjali. Although yoga had been around for thousands of years before that, Patanjali’s book is, as far as we know, one of the first attempts to give it a structure. Today though, if you want to teach in a yoga studio or gym, you’ll need a certificate from a recognised regulatory body and Yoga Alliance certification has become the default global standard. The first level involves 200 hours of training and the official term is a 200 hour Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher – or RYT 200. Once you’ve got your RYT 200, there are no hard and fast rules for progressing but for some the next step is to get 100 hours of teaching experience and then do the 500 hour training, RYT 500. For teachers who have clocked up 1000 hours of teaching experience, they can registered themselves as E-RYT 200. The E stands for ‘experienced’. So, what does 200 hours of yoga training involve? It varies between schools but at the school I went to, Rishikesh Yog Peeth in India, this was a typical day: w 05:30 am - Wake Up w 06:00 am - Cinnamon tea w 06:15 am - Cleansing rituals like nasal cleansing with a neti pot w 06:30 am - Pranayama (breathing) and chanting w 07:30 am - Yoga therapy/Yoga Asana w 09:00 am - Breakfast w 10:30 am - Yoga Therapy w 11:30 am - Yoga Philosophy w 12:30 pm - Lunch w 03:30 pm - Yoga Anatomy w 04:30 pm - Yoga breathing and yoga nidra w 05:00 pm - Hatha/Ashtanga asanas w 06:45 pm - Pranayama and meditation w 07:15 pm - Dinner w 10.00 pm - Lights Out Techniques and practice make the bulk of the training as 100 hours is allotted to that. Methodology takes up 25 hours while 20 hours go to learning anatomy and physiology. You need to devote 30 hours to philosophy and ethical conduct. For more information on studying yoga at Rishikesh Yog Peeth, go to www.rishikeshyogpeeth.com
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Journalist and author Karina Machado spoke to over 60 Australians who said they could sense around them the spirit of a loved one who had died. From their stories, Machado wrote the book Love Never Dies to show the indestructibility of love. This is one of the stories from the book.
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ike most teenaged siblings, Bianca, age 15, and her brother, Stephen, 18, occasionally argued over trivial things – an ill-judged joke, the distribution of chores, taunts shaped like arrows aimed at the heart. But beneath the bickering, the pair were bound by a closeness that informed their lives – a sense of togetherness they took for granted. On 12 August 1988, Bianca rose early. Her grandmother had been staying at their home in north Sydney to care for Bianca and her sister, Torrie, aged nine, while their single mum juggled two jobs. Since leaving school two years earlier, Stephen, too, helped support his mother and sisters. Now their grandmother wanted to drive back to her apartment on the central coast of New South Wales, to attend to gather more belongings, before returning to Sydney to continue looking after her grandchildren. Bianca and Torrie were going with her for the weekend. The morning was crisp and dazzling, the sky a bowl of brightest blue, but Bianca was in no mood to appreciate it. Today marked four days since she and Stephen had stopped speaking to each other. Charged silences, crossed arms and downturned mouths filled the spaces in their relationship where laughter and camaraderie usually dwelled. ‘I can’t really remember why we weren’t talking,’ says Bianca, whose calm and matter-of-fact voice cracks, to her surprise, as she recalls events from a quarter of a century ago. ‘And because I was younger than him, I was full of pride. I would never talk to him first – he would have to talk to me first and apologise to me first. I was very stubborn. I would never try and repair the arguments.’
LAST GOODBYE
Leaving her bedroom with an overnight bag slung across her shoulder, she stopped short outside Stephen’s room, neighbouring her own. His door was open but he was still in bed. ‘I actually
said, “Goodbye, Stephen,” and that was very unusual,’ Bianca says. Looking up at his sister, Stephen’s wide-set eyes mirrored her confusion. She had no idea why she’d paused here, why she’d broken her usual resolve. ‘Oh! Bye, Bianca,’ he said, with a glimmer of his characteristic cheekiness, before returning his gaze to the ceiling. Their grandmother beamed, grateful the kids were getting on again. ‘She said to me, “I’m so proud of you for saying goodbye to him,”’ remembers Bianca, her words pitching and dipping. ‘That was the last time I spoke to him.’ Later that Friday night, Bianca and her sister were at their grandmother’s trying to connect the video recorder they’d given her for her birthday. Pressing buttons here and there, Bianca managed to set the time display. As her grandmother prepared dinner in the kitchen, Bianca found herself mesmerised by the numbers on the digital display: 6.35. ‘I was just staring at the time and feeling really quite homesick for some reason, I just wanted to be home.’ The next morning, her mother and uncle arrived at her grandmother’s house – unexpectedly. Drawn to the window by the thud of slamming doors, Bianca watched them approach, aware in some way that in seconds – the time it took for them to reach the door – this life would cease for her and another would take its place. Everything was about to change. Her grandmother opened the door. Dread spilt inside Bianca, spreading like a bloodstain in waves of zinging heat that crept up her spine and across her belly. Icy, pulsing fire that told her what she’d experienced last night, tuning the video recorder, was preparing her for this. Still dressed in her work clothes from the day before, her mother was like a broken doppelganger of herself. It seemed she was covered in a network of fissures, where one misstep would see her crumble into shards on the welcome mat. cont. overleaf
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Then Bianca’s uncle stepped forward and ‘sort of grabbed us,’ she recalls. He said, ‘Stephen’s had an accident.’ Up through the tunnel of years, his sister’s hazel eyes grow red from weeping. Twenty-five winters have rushed by, Bianca is now 40 years old, a mother of two, a registered nurse who’s weathered much in her life and work – but the news that her brother was dead felt like an assault. Twenty-five winters doesn’t change that; the pain is frozen in time, perfectly preserved. In the same way Stephen is forever young, I think, studying a photo Bianca sends me. Tall and slim, posing astride his beloved motorbike, bought with proceeds of one of his first pay packets, the dark-haired teen has the swagger of a young George Clooney. For Stephen, the combination of youth, inexperience and his passion for bikes proved lethal. As Bianca’s uncle explained that awful Saturday morning, Stephen had been killed riding his motorbike the previous evening. His passenger, a friend he was picking up to take to a party, also died. The accident happened at 6.35pm, the precise moment Bianca found herself hypnotised by the pulsing digital clock on the VCR.
SPIRIT VISITS
The grieving family made the trip back to Sydney. All was the same yet nothing was. Time itself was twisted out of shape. ‘For about a week after his death, I’d wake up in the mornings and hear his motorbike in the driveway, revving up to go to work,’ says Bianca. ‘It was quite loud in my ears, you know, and then I had to remind myself that he’s dead.’ Ahead of the funeral, family came to stay and their little home was packed. To make space, Bianca and her mum moved into Stephen’s room, sleeping side by side in his double bed. On the eve of the service, Bianca’s mum was out cold after taking a sleeping tablet, but Bianca sat up reading, battling a
Look after Mum”. That’s what I felt he was trying to communicate. Then I closed my eyes and he was gone. gnawing unease. Something was about to happen. The knowing manifested as anxiety, as an inability to pin down the words on the page. She set aside her book and looked towards the end of the bed. There was Stephen, wearing his favourite blackand-grey striped dress shirt, the one his mum had given the funeral directors. The one he’s wearing in the photo with his motorbike, staring down the lens of a truncated future. In the stark glare of the overhead light, as his mother slept, he was revealed. ‘It was as bright as anything in that room,’ marvels Bianca. There were no shadows to dart into or mould into
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shapes, no dreams to beg back, no dim lamplight to blur the truth. There was only Stephen. He knelt. ‘All I could see was from his abdomen up and his hands were together, as if he was praying, and he was really staring at Mum and I. He was looking straight at us.’ Bianca’s fear melted away when she saw him. ‘I felt scared beforehand because I knew something was going to happen, but I didn’t quite know what. And then he just appeared to me, and the feeling that I got – he wasn’t talking – was, “Look after Mum”. That’s what I felt he was trying to communicate. Then I closed my eyes and he was gone.’ Bianca watched her brother for only ‘seconds’ but it was enough ‘to really see him clearly’. His image is branded onto her heart: ‘There was a transparency to him. He was grey, but I could see him as clear as anything,’ she repeats. ‘His eyes were wide open. He had big, dark blue eyes and he was just looking at us and he looked sad.’
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Afterwards, Bianca went to sleep easily, which she concedes was strange, but it’s in keeping with many other such encounters with the spirits of loved ones. In quiet moments, she still tries to decipher the message in his stance and expression. ‘I don’t know why he was kneeling down at the end of the bed, with his hands together in prayer,’ says Bianca, whose family is Catholic but not strictly so. ‘I don’t know whether that was just to let me know he was going to God or whether he was taking that stance not to frighten me. I’m not sure.’ She often wonders why he appeared so troubled. ‘It could have been regret and feeling sorry that he’s left us. He was a bit reckless,’ muses Bianca. ‘I guess he was the man of the house and he was worried about leaving us.’ Stephen wore the same heartbroken look during an encounter at a cinema two weeks later, when Bianca was stunned to see his gaze locked on hers in the mirror behind the ticket counter as she paid for an ice cream. ‘I saw his eyes,’ she recalls. ‘I don’t know whether you’d say he superimposed himself on me, because I was expecting to see me. He was just staring, really staring at me.’ This time, Bianca was very shaken and the two friends who’d suggested an outing to the movies to take her mind off things helped soothe and calm her. Stephen appeared to share her shock. ‘He could see that I was frightened because he looked scared, too. And then he looked down at the ground, like in a sad way.’ Then he vanished.
DREAMS AND ANSWERS
For two years, Stephen regularly visited Bianca in her dreams, usually just as a watchful presence on the sidelines. But some were much more powerful. The first and ‘most significant’ of these took place around
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a month after the accident. One morning, Bianca and a friend rode their pushbikes to the accident scene and talked about what had happened, trying to understand the sequence of events that had led to Stephen’s death. That night, she had the dream. Stephen, and the boy who’d died with him, were standing in front of her, exactly as they’d been in life. ‘Stephen said to me, “Bianca, do you want to see how we died?” Like it was an everyday sort of question. And I said, “Yes, I do want to know.” And so he showed me. ‘It was like I was actually sitting on the motorbike, watching what they would have seen. He showed me how they hit the back of the car in front and then they flew over to the opposite side of the road.’ In what was perhaps a tender gesture on Stephen’s part, any disturbing details were omitted. ‘He just showed me the impact with the car in front, how the motorbike tipped up and then they ...once they came off the bike, it just went white, nothing.’
When she woke up, Bianca felt free of her desperation to know how he’d gone. Her burden lifted: ‘He answered my question.’ Today Bianca, who first showed signs of having increased psychic awareness in childhood, rarely senses Stephen’s spirit anymore. ‘I think he’s just moved on, you know. But I think he hung around us for a long while because it must have been an awful shock for him to have had the accident and to leave us. That was really sad.’ Yet there is less grief now, when Bianca thinks of her big brother. Seeing him again on that distant night was a gift that continues to yield, more so with every year that drifts by. ‘I just feel really privileged to have had that experience, which was so special and amazing,’ she reflects. ‘I feel really happy that there is another life beyond this life that we live. I think we go to a happier place, and a safer place. I feel at peace.’ She knows this is the case for Stephen, too, knows his velvet navy eyes are ablaze with light and infinite love, as he watches over her.
This story is an extract from Love Never Dies by KARINA MACHADO. Published by Pan Macmillan Australia. Machado wrote the book to show how spiritual contact with a deceased lover, friend or family member can bring healing, hope and the solace of knowing that their love lives on. This is one of the stories from the book. To purchase an electronic version, go to www.amazon.com or iBook. For a print copy, go to www.fishpond.com.au. If you’d like a print copy signed by the author, send an email to karinamachado@ optusnet.com.au to organise a PayPal payment and shipping.
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Reversing
diabetes naturally
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Forty years ago, Type 2 diabetes was a rare disease almost unknown outside of the elderly. Today, it’s running rampant through the global adult population and alongside obesity is a new epidemic amongst children and teens. In the Middle East, a staggering 35 million people are diabetic, many millions more are pre-diabetic. How are our changing lifestyles contributing to the soaring rates of this devastating disease and can we turn back the tide without a lifetime of insulin injections. Chloe Elgar reports.
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iabetes is prevalent and chronic. In just one generation, it’s gone from being relatively rare to a condition so common, it’s a household word. Most of us know at least one person suffering from the disease. Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus is a global health problem. How did this disease become so proliferate around the world? According to the International Diabetes Federation, 382 million people are suffering from diabetes worldwide. Here in the Middle East and North Africa, 35 million people have the disease. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Qatar take spots number seven, nine and 10 on the world’s list of Top 10 countries/territories for age adjusted prevalence percentage of diabetes in 2013. The UAE comes in at number 15 out of 219 countries, with a diabetes rate of 18.9 per cent of the population. The Saudi figure is 23.9 per cent. There is no better time to evaluate the region’s health and give more attention to preventative health.
WHAT IS DIABETES?
Diabetes Mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases with an uncontrollably high blood glucose level as a result of either the body’s resistance to insulin (Type I) or
because the body does not effectively produce insulin (Type 2), or both. Insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas, which acts like a key, essentially, opening the cell’s doors to accept glucose from the blood. Without the effective use of insulin, glucose remains in the blood stream, negatively affecting the body’s successive processes and balance. When present in the body over many years, diabetes can create imbalances that cause heart disease, neuropathy, kidney disease and retinopathy. If these conditions are left untreated, issues like neuropathy can lead to amputation of limbs due to severe circulatory problems, vascular disease (damage to the blood vessels) or infection. According to the American Diabetes Association, the highest reports of amputations in the world occur in diabetic patients. So, the question begs: Can diabetes be reversed with food and exercise? There are many-recorded cases of people who are proving to decrease and effectively manage their blood sugar levels, and even eliminate their need for needles and insulin, naturally.
CONVENTIONAL ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT
If you go to your traditional Westerneducated GP, the typical route of
treatment for those people who are pre-diabetic or who have full-blown diabetes includes a rigid schedule of blood glucose testing, administering regular insulin either with insulin injections or an insulin pump, and supplementing with other medications including diabetes pills and aspirin. Diabetes is seen as incurable and once you have it, it’s a downhill run. Allopathic medicine prescribes a plan for diabetes based on treatment and survival, which varies depending on the severity of your diabetes and whether you have Type I or Type 2. The conventional outlook is that these treatments will be a part of the rest of your life from the point of diagnosis. There is another route however. Alternative medicine offers a path promoting prevention of disease and a way back from a lifetime of injections. This path includes nutrition education, plant-based food and more focus on the mind-body connection. Although the conventional route seems easier and more immediate at first, taking a look further down the road may make you think twice before agreeing to an insulin pump-regulated future. Our bodies are incredibly efficient and intelligent machines and are constantly sending us messages to demonstrate what is going on beneath the surface. These messages and signs cont. overleaf
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are what we refer to as symptoms. The key is not to cover-up the symptoms with medicine and pills, rather, to listen to them in order to understand a much deeper root; the cause.
THE TREE OF LIFE FOUNDATION
It is no longer a question of prevalence or relevance. Diabetes numbers are growing rapidly and the big question is: is it reversible and preventable? According to Dr. Gabriel Cousens, the answer to that is, absolutely, yes. Dr. Gabriel Cousens is a pioneer in the Alternative Medicine world and is known for his innovative work with diabetes. Based on 40 years of clinical research working with diabetes, Cousens opened the Tree of Life foundation, and created the ‘Diabetes Reversal Program’ a medically supervised rejuvenation clinic where guests are immersed in a world of dietary, nutritional and lifestyle education related to building awareness and empowerment around holistic health. The fundamental premise of the Tree of Life Foundation is that disease is caused from imbalances in the body. Dr. Cousens created a 21-day programme where guests are immersed in holistic health through nutrition education, natural plantbased food, exercise and meditation. Every meal (including snacks) is 100 per cent organic, vegan and living plant-based food, which includes vegetable and fruit-based juices, smoothies and unlimited wheatgrass. Of the first 110 participants to attend Dr. Cousens program, 60 per cent of the Type II diabetics were off all oral medications with recorded fasting blood sugar (FBS) levels under 100. Out of all Type II guests, 28 per cent reversed their diabetes after three weeks with no insulin and a FBS level under 100. Amazingly, 100 per cent
of the non-insulin pre-diabetic guests were completely healed. This approach is in stark contrast to the one often – but not always prescribed by an allopathic doctor. Madyson Page, who undertook Dr. Cousen’s Tree of Life Diabetes Recovery Program, was told by her GP that she would not have to make lifestyle changes because of diabetes. “My doctor told me I could eat whatever I wanted and just give myself a little insulin. She told me, ‘Your life doesn’t have to change’.” According to Dr. Cousens, the rise of diabetes is a symptom of global disharmony. “That disharmony in terms of eating is coming in the pandemic we call diabetes. White sugar, white flour and the introduction of high fructose corn syrup are the main culprits. Also, a high incidence of animal fat are key players but it’s really the sugar that’s the number one cause.” For more information on Dr. Gabriel Cousens and his Diabetes Reversal Program, watch his documentary Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 days, or read his book, There is a Cure for Diabetes.
HOLISTIC HEALTH KIT
When it comes to holistic nutrition, the key is to look at the body as a whole functioning unit, as opposed to singling out one system, organ or symptom to treat. With diabetes, keeping the blood sugar levels down with extra insulin isn’t going to solve the core imbalance long-term. Addressing one single symptom (high blood sugar) ignores all other contributing factors such as low immune system, high stress, toxin overload, gastrointestinal problems and poor diet. Furthermore, with diabetes, the body is demonstrating an imbalance and inability to regulate and produce insulin. Thus, adding more insulin to the blood stream, which is left
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circulating overtime, can lead to further issues with the pancreas. That being said, there are key steps to follow if you are pre-diabetic or have Type I or Type 2 diabetes, which will begin your journey to reversing your condition naturally. Treat these recommendations as your starter kit on how to take your health back into your own hands.
1. Gain control of your body’s insulin levels
This involves limiting consumption of sugars, processed grains and refined carbohydrates. Substitute these foods with natural whole foods, good quality fats (coconut oil, cold-pressed and extra virgin olive oil, nuts and seeds, fish oil, avocado and ghee), protein and green vegetables.
2. Ban junk, especially sugar
Always have healthy snacks on hand and remove unhealthy foods from your house so that you aren’t tempted: Nuts and seeds, hummus, fruit, nut butters, vegetables (carrot, cucumber, celery)
3. Restore balance in your gut
The gastrointestinal tract is the area of nutrient assimilation and therefore hugely influences your body’s overall health. Correcting an imbalance involves identifying food intolerances, re-balancing your gut bacteria with a probiotic and improving the overall absorption and assimilation of vitamins and minerals.
4. Exercise daily
This could be yoga, walking, stretching, resistance training or cycling. Make sure it’s exercise that you enjoy doing - one that helps to relieve stress. You don’t have to climb mountains or do Ironman triathlons; a 30 minute brisk walk every day will do wonders.
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5. Substitute unhealthy foods with healthier alternatives
a. Take out: fried foods, carbonated beverages (colas, sparkling water), artificial sweeteners, processed foods and sugar, table salt and refined carbohydrates (bread, pasta, biscuits) b. Bring in: whole, natural foods including: fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds, whole grains (quinoa, rice, amaranth), legumes, fish, herbal teas, coconut water
6. Water is a wonder
Drink anywhere from three to five litres of filtered water per day
7. Never skip meals
Keeping blood sugar levels stable means eating smaller amounts every few hours – avoid the famine and feast pattern.
8. Keep a rhythm
Have regularity in your life, take regular meals, regular sleep times and wake up at a regular time.
9. Reduce stress
Stress plays a major role in your body and an overproduction of the stress hormone cortisol can, overtime, cause hormone imbalance, adrenal fatigue and consequently affect your body’s insulin levels and blood sugar regulation.
Sources: http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-and-amputation.html http://healthintelligence.drupalgardens.com/content/prevalence-diabetes-world-2013 http://www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/treatment-and-care/medication/other-treatments/ http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/statistics/ http://www.treeoflifefoundation.org/service/reversing-diabetes-2/
CASE STUDY: DIMPLE JIVOTHAMA Dubai-expat Dimple Jivothama reversed her diabetes naturally and lost 26 kgs in the process. Dimple Jivothama was just 32 when she was diagnosed as pre-diabetic after going to a routine check-up. Considerably overweight, it could have been an inevitable slide into full-blown diabetes but Dimple took action and reversed the signs by changing her diet and getting regular exercise. “I went from 102kg to 76kg, yes, and I did not do it by going to the gym or any slimming centers or by taking any pills…” Through commitment and courage, Dimple found an alternative course of treatment that was supportive of her body’s own recovery. Dimple would get up at 4.10am in order to walk seven kilometres before work. She’d walk another four kilometres in the evening as well as do an hour’s yoga with Friends of Yoga in the park. “The yoga toned my body. I don’t do so much walking anymore, I did it intensively for three months but I still always do my morning walk.” In regards to nutrition, Dimple followed a balanced plan that was not grounded in restriction and the concept of dieting. In contrast, she followed a plan of eating foods high in fibre (lots of fresh fruit), and always had dark chocolate on hand to relieve a sugar craving or feelings of low blood sugar.
CHLOE ELGAR is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner whose own history of eating disorders and subsequent gastrointestinal imbalances took her on a journey through holistic nutrition and natural food. Through her business, Chloe’s Countertop, she shares information on nutrition. Chloe also works as the in-house Holistic Nutritionist for Essentially AE, Dubai’s first cold-pressed, organic juice business. Email info@chloescountertop.com. www.chloescountertop.com
Dimple’s Weight-loss Rules w Buy a pair of good walking shoes and walk six days a week w Weight-loss is 60 per cent what and when you eat and 40 per cent exercise w No starchy carbs – no bread/rice/roti w Never miss breakfast – eat healthy and heavy w Lunch is the biggest meal (your body needs the right food at the right time) w No dinner w Oil-free cooking w Lots of whole fruit (not juice) and protein w Drink five litres of water per day w Green tea an hour after every meal
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Eat fat to lose fat Low fat is sooo 1990s. The latest science is now telling us that we need to eat fat to lose fat.
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ats are back in fashion. After decades of being obsessed with low and no fat foods to try and lose weight, the scientists are now telling us we got it all wrong. Fats are no longer the bad guy. Poor old fats got an undeserved bad rep so we all strived to eliminate them from our diets. What happened? We all got an awful lot fatter.
US physician Mark Hyman, author of books such as The Blood Sugar Solution and founder of the UltraWellness Centre, says, “Fat does not make you fat. That was the old theory. Fat has nine calories per grams and carbs have four calories per gram so the conclusion was that if you eat more carbs, you’ll lose weight, no. Is a calorie a calorie a calorie? No.”
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Speaking on an online wellness summit, Hyman said it was an unfortunate error that we use the same word for ‘fats’ that we do for ‘being fat’. “The language got messed up so we think that if we eat fat we’ll become fat. No, in fact the opposite is often true, there are some fascinating studies, when they control the fat and the carbs. Even on the same calories, the people who eat more fat will actually lose more weight, increase their metabolism and lose belly fat, all of this happens by increasing the fat and decreasing the refined carbs.”
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Tom Oliver, a UK-based Nutritional Therapist who works with clients in the Middle East, agrees. Oliver says the low fat movement of the last 40 years has done a huge amount of damage and we should all be eating a lot more fat, particularly fish oils.
FAT IN FRUCTOSE OUT
“We’ve gone this weird way down the sweet and low fat road and so we have a global epidemic of diseases that were rare 40 years ago, such as obesity and heart disease, liver disease, inflammation and diabetes.” It’s about getting more quality fats and less sugars, Oliver says. “Fats change the way your body absorbs food, it’s called gastric emptying - the speed at which the
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food enters your blood stream. So if you have a chocolate bar for example, it’s going to get in there very, very fast; send you into a massive high blood sugar peak from which you’ll crash. But if you have a piece of meat and some green leafy vegetables, it might look like a lot of food but actually the gastric emptying will be much slower and more sustained, you’ll get the amino acids you need which will keep you slimmer and manage your weight, it’ll keep your muscle mass maintained which means a higher resting metabolic rate. All round we need to move back to a high natural fat and low sugar diet.” Fat also reduces our desire for sweet foods. “In the UK and US, there’s a big swing to the Paleolithic diet and when we apply that to our clients here in the Middle East, my goodness the weightloss is incredible. “When they come to us, our Middle Eastern clients are on high sugar diets with lots of fried and pastry type foods and fruit juices that they actually sweeten with sugar when I visit their houses, which I find crazy. “We met our first Saudi clients eight years ago, it was two princesses; two sisters from Riyadh. They came to London and trained with us for six weeks, their programme comprised weight-training, personal training, cardio, etc, also totally changing their diets by looking at the micro and macro nutrient intakes, taking out most sugars. The results were incredible and they looked amazing. So, stick to meats, fishes, vegetables, fruit… not too many fruit juices because the fructose levels are very high, fructose is as bad as a can of Coke as how your body recognises it.”
SWISH FISH
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the planet and yet also have incredible health statistics; almost no inflammation, no arthritis or diabetes, etc. According to Oliver, we should be eating 10 portions of oily fish a week like sardines, mackerels, herring, and anchovies to keep our brains and bodies in top shape. “But I know people won’t. These types of fish are not in vogue and our palates have been manipulated to favour sweet things.” Why should we be eating so much oily fish? In order to get enough phospholipids; an integral part of our cellular membrane make-up. Sixty per cent of the human brain and eye retina is made up of DHA fat and phospholipids have permeability into the brain, which provides protection against diseases such as ADHD, ADD, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, etc. “Phospholipids are for brain health, eye health, heart health, they have cholesterol-reducing properties and control blood sugar, they’re for fat metabolism, for liver health, and are a neurotransmitter so they work synergistically with DHA for brain health. We don’t eat anywhere near enough phospholipids anymore.” Fish roe, or caviar, is one of the few food sources of phospholipids. Sensing a market opportunity, Oliver recently launched a fish oil supplement called Omega 3 MOPL, a sustainablyharvested Herring Caviar that provides DHA, EPA Omega 3 Phospholipids and Choline. Oliver says he gets consistent feedback on his supplement about improved joint health, bowel function and inflammation as well as skin conditions like excema, psoriasis and dermatitis. “We worked with His Highness Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, he was taking our product. He’d been taking another fish oil product for 20 years and he said that within five days of taking our product, the arthritis
Experts say we should be eating 10 portions of oily fish a week.
Fish oils can alleviate inflammatory joint issues and help control cholesterol.
in his hands was gone – we get a lot of anecdotal feedback about inflammatory joint issues – a month later he told me his cholesterol was down to normal for the first time in 20 years. All he’d done was change his fish oil product.” Omega 3 MOPL fish oil supplement by Tom Oliver Nutrition is available exclusively through Holland & Barrett outlets in the UAE. AED 175 for 30 softgels (one month’s supply).
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Eating organic
eating VS pesticides
When it comes to the pesticide load on non-organic vs organic food, sometimes the difference is huge but sometimes it’s not. Knowing when it’s important to buy organic and when it doesn’t make as much difference can help make your money go a little further. By Zuzana Laukova.
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ou’ve probably heard that you should be eating more organic grains, fruit and vegetables whenever possible but you might not be so sure about why, especially when it can be so much more expensive than non-organic. Let’s start with why organic is better. As well as being higher in antioxidants, one of the main reasons is the tonnes of pesticides being dumped all over non-organic crops around the world. The effects are proving devastating. These pesticides are ending up in our food and waterways and being stored in our bodies as toxins. The human health risks of this toxic pesticide build-up is everything from skin, eye and lung irritation to hormone disruption, brain and nervous system toxicity, cancers, and birth defects.
Pesticides are also destroying the natural world by poisoning the land and waters and killing off crucial parts of the ecosystem. For example, the liberal use of pesticides is behind the decimation of vast numbers of the world’s bee population. As well as the tragedy of losing the bees, we are faced with failed crops from a lack of pollination. It’s crucial that the world’s human population changes its agricultural and farming practices. For the sake of the health of every living being on the planet as well as for the planet itself. Supporting organic producers is one thing we can all do. The trouble is that organic produce is currently more expensive than pesticide-laden produce. Of course, it’s always better to buy organic but as an interim measure, it’s helpful to know when buying organic
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makes a huge difference and when it doesn’t make such a big difference. The following lists show the fruit and vegetables that you should be always buying organic – that’s the Dirty Dozen Plus (formerly the Dirty Dozen until two more vegetables were added). Then there’s the list of fruit and vegetables where it doesn’t matter so much as the pesticide load is not as high or doesn’t penetrate into the part of the fruit/vegetable that gets eaten – that’s the Clean Fifteen. This information comes from the Environmental Working Group, for more detail go to www.ewg.org. ZUZANA LAUKOVA is a certified health coach working with private clients in Dubai. For information, see her website at www.myzest4health.com.
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DIRTY DOZEN PLUS Highest in pesticides - although it varies depending on the source, these types of fruit and vegetables tend to have more pesiticide residue so it’s important to buy organic.
1Apples
2 Strawberries 3 Cherry tomatoes 4 Celery
5 Cucumbers
6 Grapes
7 Lettuce
10 Potatoes
8 Nectarines
9 Peaches
11 Spinach 12 Bell peppers 13 Green beans 14 Kale CLEAN FIFTEEN These types of fruit and vegetables tend to have the lowest pesticide load so if organic is not available, buy non-organic, preferably local if available.
1 Asparagus 2 Avocado
3 Cabbage
6 Eggplant 7 Grapefruit 8 Kiwifruit
4 Cantaloupe melon 5 Sweet corn 9 Mangoes
10 Mushrooms
11 Onions 12 Pineapples 13 Sweet peas 14 Sweet potatoes 15 Watermelon
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Homemade
festive vegan and
gluten-free gifts Bake some love this festive season with these delicious vegan and glutenfree recipes. Put them in a pretty glass jar and decorate with a ribbon and gift card for made-with-love festive gifts. By Neha Jamani. RAW SUPERSEED CHOCOLATE TRUFFLES
2 cups dates (500gms) 1 cup almonds ¼ cup cocoa powder ¼ cup goji berries 2 Tablespoon flax seeds 2 Tablespoon chia seeds 1/8 teaspoon salt Optional to serve: 2 Tbsp cocoa powder to coat
Directions
• Pit dates and set aside. • In a food processor, blitz almonds until you get a finely crumbed mix. • Add the remaining ingredients to the food processor and blend. You should end up with a mixture that appears as cake-like crumbs, but when pressed will easily stick together. If the mixture does not hold together well, add more dates or a few drops of water. • Scoop out teaspoon-sized portions of the dough and gently roll into balls. Dust with a little cocoa, if desired. • Store truffles in a sealed container. Yields: around 50 small truffles
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ORANGE CRANBERRY GRANOLA
3 cups old-fashioned gluten-free oats ½ cup almonds, roughly chopped ½ cup pecans, roughly chopped ½ cup dried cranberries 1/4 cup raw sunflower seeds ¾ teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted 1/4 cup maple syrup zest and juice of 1 orange
Directions
• Preheat oven to 125 degrees celsius. • Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. • In a large bowl add the oats, almonds, sunflower seeds, dried cranberries, and cinnamon. Stir to combine. • Whisk together melted coconut oil, maple syrup, orange zest and juice. Gently fold into the oat mixture with a rubber spatula until evenly coated. • Transfer the mixture to your prepared baking sheet, spreading the mixture evenly onto the pan. Don’t over crowd
the pan, bake the granola in batches if you have a small oven. • Bake for 50 minutes, or until golden brown. Stir the mixture once or twice as it bakes. • Cool the granola completely, and store in an airtight container for up to two weeks. Yields: Five cups
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STRAWBERRY CHIA JAM
1 ½ cup strawberries, washed and sliced 2 Tablespoons water 2 Tablespoons maple syrup 2 Tablespoons chia seeds
Directions
• Set a saucepan over low heat and add the strawberries and water • Heat the fruit, stirring occasionally, until it begins to breakdown, 6-8 minutes. Let it come to a boil until it becomes the consistency of a sauce. If necessary use a fork mash any large pieces. • Remove from heat and stir in the maple
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syrup and chia seeds. Taste and add more maple syrup if you want it sweeter. • Transfer jam to a glass container and cool to room temperature before storing in refrigerator. • The jam will thicken as it cools and will last up to two weeks in the refrigerator. Yields: Two small jars
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GLUTEN-FREE GINGER COOKIES 2 ½ cups almond meal 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 teaspoons fresh ginger, peeled and grated 5 Tablespoons maple syrup 3 Tablespoons coconut oil, melted
Directions
• Preheat the oven to 175 degrees celsius. • Mix the dry ingredients almond meal, baking powder and cinnamon in a large bowl. • Pour in the maple syrup, coconut oil and ginger and mix well. • Use a spoon to scoop the cookie dough. Form the dough into a round cookie shape. • Bake for 8 to 10 minutes until brown around the edges. • Store in an airtight container for up to 10 days Yields: 22-24 (1 inch) cookies
NEHA JAMANI A therapeutic and holistic chef, Neha is founder of Dubai-based The Sacred Kitchen. A graduate of Bauman College of Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts in California, Neha aims to raise awareness about the importance of food choices and reconnect people with their bodies and the food they eat. www.thesacredkitchen.org
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Food as
sunscreen Use nutrition not sunscreen to protect yourself against sunburn, cancer, and premature aging, writes organic cosmetologist Shirley Conlon who is no fan of the chemical laden sunscreen creams.
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n recent years, we’ve increasingly been told to stay out of the sun to avoid skin cancer or to slather ourselves in sunscreen creams. But is the sun alone really the main culprit in causing skin cancer? Much research suggests that it’s not. Many experts believe excessive sunshine, combined with bad lifestyle choices such as highly processed junk foods, caffeine, sugar, nicotine and sweetened fizzy drinks would have a different impact on the skin and could cause sunburn, premature ageing and increasing rates of
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skin cancer. The sun damages the skin through free radicals and anti-oxidants counteract free radicals. However, the sun is also a major healing force responsible for sustaining all life on earth. Apart from being the most vital nutrient ever, the sun makes you feel good – just close your eyes and look in the direction of the sun for a couple of minutes (like a sunflower), and you instantly feel the regeneration and energy flow through your body, well, that is if you’re not inside hiding from it.
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Should we be laying out in the full strength of the sun at midday? No, of course not. Overexposure to ultraviolet radiation can be extremely damaging. In the same way that laying unprotected in snow in Antarctica will get you frostbite, overexposure to sun will burn. As humans, there is a degree to which we need to protect ourselves from the elements but shrinking from the sun like vampires and slathering ourselves in the cocktail of laboratory-created chemicals found in a tube of sunscreen may not be the best solution and in fact may be doing more harm than good. Most sun creams block the production of vitamin D and contain a host of carcinogenic ingredients that give a false sense of security by disabling the warning sign ‘sunburn’ resulting in overexposure to radiation and cell damage. Some scientists now say that sunscreen may not prevent skin cancer at all.
VITAMIN D DEBACLE
The fact that the UAE is located in a desert yet many of its residents are vitamin D deficient is a pointer to how crazy our lifestyle and concerns have become. The best source of vitamin D is sunlight and studies have found that optimising vitamin D levels could actually help you to prevent at least 16 different types of cancer. Theories linking vitamin D deficiency to cancer have been confirmed in more than 200 studies. In fact, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has published scientific research showing that sunlight exposure reduces the risk of skin cancer. The American academy of neurology confirms that vitamin D deficiency is associated with dementia and Alzheimers. And one case study in Italy suggests sun exposure improves the survival rate in melanoma patients. Dr Joseph Mercola, an alternative medicine practitioner and osteopathic
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physician, recommends not washing with soap for 48 hours after sun exposure (apart from necessary parts of the body) as chemical soap can rid the skin of vitamin D.
FOOD AS SUNSCREEN
So how do you build up your body’s natural protection against sun damage? Here’s an interesting clue from history. The term ‘Redneck’ comes from colonial times in the southern states of the USA. At the time, farmers lacked B vitamins (the result of not knowing how to treat their crops) and this B vitamin deficiency combined with long periods of sun exposure caused sunburn on the back of their necks. So, your first line of defence against sunburn, cancer and premature aging, is consuming a diet high in vitamins and minerals – a type of edible sunblock, in other words. Such good sun-protection foods include: carotenoid rich eggs, spirulina,
chlorella, dark-leafy greens and yellow/ orange colours (apricots, cantaloupe, carrots, sweet potatoes, squash). The most potent carotenoid known is astaxanthin found in algae, salmon, trout, shrimp and lobster. Antioxidant rich berries, garlic, tomatoes, green tea, seeds, nuts and off course a good quality Omega 3 fish oil. I believe that moderate sun exposure is essential for good health, along with a balanced, antioxidantrich diet of sun- ripened fruit and vegetables, and gives your body everything Mother Nature intended. Be sensible. If you’re going out in the sun, choose appropriate clothing, hats, and umbrellas and consider your skin type. Only on the rare occasions that I would be exposed for an entire day would I use a sunscreen – ideally a non-toxic brand. Use nutrition along with nature’s plant oils to enjoy early morning or afternoon sunshine. Almost all plant oils offer a degree of UV protection; raspberry leaf oil found in
SCO Frangipani body oil contains NSPF (natural sun protection factor) of between 28-50 along with sesame, shea, macadamia and avocado with NSPFs between 2-10. Beta-carotene rich calendula, carrot and sea buckthorn all benefit sun-exposed skin. I apply SCO rosehip oil or hydrating serum and shea body butter on my skin but at the same time I am always careful of how long I spend in the sun. A $5 billion dollar a year industry has a vested interest in promoting the deadly effects of sun exposure from skin cancer to ageing, I can’t help but wonder, if some large corporation figured out a way to charge us for sunshine, would it be then start to be marketed as the vital nutrient it actually is? SHIRLEY CONLON is the founder of Shirley Conlon Organics, a range of premium skincare products specially developed for hot climates using ethical, eco-friendly ingredients. Email: shirley@shirleyconlonorganics.com. www.shirleyconlonorganics.com
Best beauty buys Eco luxury nail polish: Priti NYC Priti NYC aims to decrease the amount of chemicals and pollution poisoning the earth and give beauty lovers a green option. Available in over 100 different shades including metallics, mattes, bright neons, rich darks and nudes Buy it: Priti NYC is now available in the UAE online at https://eidealonline.com
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Izil Natural Argan Beauty The new Moroccan organic beauty brand, Izil Natural Argan Beauty, includes two facemasks, The ‘Golden Glow’ 2 in 1 Face Scrub and Mask and the Green Tea Antioxidant Face Mask. Buy it: Both masks are AED 140. Izil Natural Argan Beauty is available in Dubai at Dubai Festival City, Souq Madinat Jumeirah, and Ibn Battuta Mall. In Abu Dhabi, at Al Wahda Mall, Dalma Mall. www.izilbeauty.com
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Lush shampoo bars – ditch the bottle for the bar Unpreserved solid shampoo bars from Lush mean you save three bottles of liquid shampoo going to landfill. New additions to the range include Copperhead, a mild shampoo ideal for coloured locks, with coffee and melted henna (caca rouge) for shine. Great for colour treated dark hair, conditioning it and bringing out the tones. Lullaby, a gentle shampoo with ground almonds to exfoliate the scalp, softening oats milk and lots of lavender to help sleep. Ideal for young people washing their head before bed. Braziliant, strengthen and condition hair with andiroba oil, a new ingredient from the Brazilian rainforest. Buy it: AED 65-75 for a 55gm bar. Available at LUSH shops nationwide and online from 11 December 2014. www.lush.ae JANUARY - FEBRUARY 2015
Four Cow Farm Baby Care 100% natural Australian brand made on a Green Energy Family Farm. Includes moisturisers, wash and cleansers, oils and balms and bathing accessories among other things plus the newly introduced baby care range. Buy it: Holland & Barrett outlets throughout the UAE.
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Inner Strength at Atlantis An aromatherapy massage treatment that uses the power of essential oils and chakra cleansing to strengthen you from the inside out.
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tlantis the Palm Hotel is an attack on the senses. Situated on the furthest most reaches of Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, its size, grandeur and colour makes it one of the most unmistakable visual references on the city’s skyline. It’s not all dazzle and drama though. Within the hotel is a spa haven called ShuiQi Spa and Fitness. It is a refined sanctuary of calm within the heady excesses of the main hotel. Don’t misunderstand me though, I love the blast of colour and size that grabs your eyeballs on first entering the main lobby. From the enormous marine-sculpted white columns to the 10 metre high tower of glass barnacles (comprising 3,000 pieces in total) that reflects the undersea world, as well as the liberal use of brilliant gold paint. But this story is about one of the treatments on offer within ShuiQi Spa and Fitness so let’s walk through the lobby and over to the right where, as you enter ShuiQi, the sensory assault melts away and becomes more of a soothing sensory caress. In contrast with the hotel lobby, when you step into ShuiQi, the world seems to slow down. Subtle fragrance permeates the air, calming music strokes your earlobes and, for the sake of your retinas, the colour tones are dialed
down to more muted turquoise and sea blues. Move downstairs to the treatment area (there’s a separate male and female section) and the space is accented with large bowls of orchids, low-lighting and the soothing burble of water.
INNER STRENGTH
I was at ShuiQi to review the Inner Strength Massage (60 minutes). This treatment was specially designed by Geraldine Howard, the woman who cofounded Aromatherapy Associates, at a time when she was at her own lowest ebb amidst treatment for cancer. Howard formulated a special blend of oils and aromas for this particular treatment that aids blood circulation, improves joint pain and defends against breast cancer. Inhalation of these essential oil aromas as well as their application over your body have a healing effect. “I created this oil at a time when I needed to find my own inner strength. I hope this will help others too,” she said. For an hour I was massaged front and back with this oil blend. A wonderfully relaxing and pleasurable experience.
CHAKRA CLEANSE
As part of the treatment, there is also a chakra balancing and an energetic removal of negative energy. However,
most clients are probably not aware of this as it’s happening while your eyes are covered and the therapist does not touch the body. For a few minutes, the therapist places one hand on your crown chakra (top of the head) and, using a Frankincense oil, holds her other hand over each major chakra, then using a sweeping technique, she draws negative energy out of the body. Although, like I say, most clients are at this stage in a semi-dream state and will be unaware of this energy healing taster. After the treatment, you’re taken to a relaxation room with sofas, magazines, tea and fruit. A hot lavender bag is placed around your neck and you’re invited to tarry as long as you like, using the Jacuzzi, steam and sauna rooms, and relaxation areas. Who wouldn’t want to spend as long as possible here before having to leave the oasis of ShuiQi and step back into the frenetic energy of Dubai? TOP TIP! Turn a one-hour massage treatment into a four hour pampering mission at no extra cost by taking your swimming costume and making use of the Jacuzzi, steam room, sauna and relaxation areas after your treatment.
THE INNER STRENGTH EXPERIENCE The Inner Strength Massage packages are as follows: w 120 min - full body massage with express facial and scalp treatment, AED 900 w 90 min - full body massage with express facial, AED 750 w 60 min - full body massage treatment, AED 510
To book contact, ShuiQi Spa and Fitness Atlantis the Palm Hotel, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Tel. 044261020 Email: dxb-spa@atlantisthepalm.com
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Visiting Brazil’s John of God Every year, thousands of people make the trip to a small town in rural Brazil to visit a man who’s said to do miraculous healings. Natasha Tome was recently one of those visitors, here she describes the experience.
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n a small town in central rural Brazil, there lives a man of humble origins who has healed many thousands of people over the last 38 years from the Casa de Dom Inácio de Loyola. Now aged 73, he’s been visited by all and sundry, from the poorest in Brazil who travel over 30 hours by bus to see him, to the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Wayne Dwyer and Shirley MacLaine. While it may sound like a fairy tale, Medium João Teixeira de Faria, commonly known as Medium João, is a full trance medium that incorporates ascended beings of the light into his body for the healing of others. These beings of light were once incarnated as human doctors, surgeons, and healers and have now taken up the task to offer healing on earth during our lifetime. As I sit here in the serene and tranquil Casa garden writing this article, I reflect on my healing path and how it has brought me here to this tiny town in Brazil. I had been exploring energy healing modalities for years while living in Europe, Asia and the Middle East when my path took me to Dubaibased healers Terri Allen and Buddy Abrahams (official Casa guides). They introduced me to a spiritual hospital in the Brazilian town of Abadiânia where I could clear myself energetically of old emotions, hurts, anger, grief, resentment, as well as any physical ailments. Many believe that old stuck emotions can manifest into physical ailments and illnesses if left to fester. Something inside of me clicked when Terri explained the Casa to me and Medium João’s work there. I wanted a clean, clear aura! I didn’t want to carry emotional baggage with me for the rest of my life. Added to that was an annoying physical injury from a fall I had taken the year earlier. A left foot and right elbow that were stubbornly refusing to heal. I was ready, willing and able to experience my own divine healing.
MI CASA SU CASA
While it is not necessary to go to the Casa with guides, it is recommended for first timers. I first went in August 2013 with Terri and Buddy as my guides and then on my own in July 2014. My first visit to the Casa healed me of my physical ailments so on the next visit I requested an emotional healing and clearing. Medium João is in attendance at the Casa from Wednesday to Friday so I arrived Tuesday afternoon at my Pousada (inn), a peaceful oasis painted in lilac and white, with an inner courtyard garden with fountain and koi pond. The rooms are basic but adequate and you get three meals per day. I nipped over to the Casa bookshop to buy a supply of bottled water blessed by the entities, which greatly assists with your healing. A quiet dinner and early to bed with excited anticipation of the next day.
I do not cure anybody. God is the one who cures Rising early to the sounds of crowing roosters and chirping birds, I joined the many other white-clad people walking to the Casa. The entities request that everyone wear white so that auras are easily seen. There were easily hundreds of whiteclad people milling around waiting to see Medium João and the incorporated entity that day. I heard snatches of conversations in English, German, French, Italian and of course Portuguese. After standing in the translation line to get my requests translated into Portuguese by a Casa volunteer (Medium João only speaks Portuguese), we then waited for our respective lines to be called. Lines for first timers, for repeat visitors, for interventions or revisions, every single person would be seen that day with remarkable organisation. There were people there in wheelchairs, on crutches, children, some
sitting fervently in prayer, some laughing in the sunshine with friends, but all with a palpable vibe of hope and faith in the divine healing to come.
SAINTS AND SOUP
The Casa grounds, painted in sky blue and white as dictated years ago by its patron saint, Dom Inácio de Loyola. The grounds include a bookshop where you’ll find several books on healing, healing crystals blessed by the entities, statues, photos, and even t-shirts and bags. A small café sells delicious Brazilian delicacies, fresh coconut water and juices and hot drinks. There are meditation grounds overlooking a beautiful vista of rolling hills and valleys. You feel far removed from the ‘real’ world of worries and stresses while at the Casa. The soup kitchen at the Casa serves free healing soup to hundreds each day of the Casa operation and not far from there are the crystal bed rooms where you can sign up for 20 minute intervals on these healing chromotherapy beds. There are also several places of prayer throughout, with triangles (the symbol of the Casa; representing faith, love and charity) for loved ones to place requests, pictures and prayers for those unable to travel to the Casa. The Entity will receive all requests from these triangles and bless them all.
MEETING THE MAN
As my line shuffled forward to Medium João sitting on his chair, we passed through the current rooms where volunteers sat for their own healing and also to help hold the energy for João and the incorporated Entity. He sat beside several four-foot high crystals emanating light. As I approached him, nervous, my heart in my throat, I remembered the guidance to look in his eyes as my translator spoke to João in rapid Portuguese with my requests. João took my hand in his soft hand and as I gazed into his eyes (blue that day, for they are known to change according to whichever cont. overleaf
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Entity is incorporated), I felt he was looking inside me, to my soul, with such love and compassion. He gazed at me for mere seconds, which passed in a daze for me, and muttered something in Portuguese to my translator as he guided me by hand past him. Spiritual intervention that afternoon he had prescribed! Each person’s case is individual and the Entity might ask you to come back later in the day to visit with a different Entity who specialises in your specific issue, or you may be scheduled for a spiritual intervention, a session on the crystal bed, a visit to the sacred waterfall, passiflora herbs, meditation in the current, or whatever the divine deems you require at that moment in time. I returned back that afternoon as requested at 2pm and the intervention line was the first one called. We were brought inside to a healing room to sit in meditation with eyes closed and our hands on our hearts or on the location of where you wanted the most healing. Casa volunteers explained that the entities can work on up to nine issues at once, all you had to do as you sat there was mentally ask. We sat quietly for about 45 minutes feeling waves of energy flowing through me and around me. Lost in my thoughts of what I wanted healed, I heard the deep tones of Medium João’s voice in the room blessing us all and then we were escorted out for the briefing. This was my third spiritual intervention so I knew the drill of immediate bed rest for the next 24 hours, no sun, no physical exertion, and other requirements for the next eight days. First timers would have those restrictions for 40 days. Medium João often says he can do 60 per cent of the healing work, and the rest is up to the individual so it was very important that we follow the guidelines given.
moving into and throughout my body. Through my abdomen, my head, my ears, my arms and legs. While I had requested healing for three specific issues, I felt the work being done throughout my whole body. Drifting in and out of sleep, at times having a good cry, journaling thoughts and emotions I was releasing, after the 24 hours was up, I felt cleaner, lighter, brighter and renewed. I felt like I was glowing from within. Physically I saw that my eyes were brighter, my skin fresher and smoother, and emotionally I felt like all emotions and thoughts that I’d been holding onto that were not for my highest good had been pulled out of me and transmuted into nothingness. I was full of life plans and actions steps that I was eager to start on. The next day I headed early to the Casa to sit in the current room. While we sit there to help hold the energy and vibration for the divine healing work being done on our earthly plane, it is also a time when a phalange of entities work the room and heal those walking through, as well as those sitting there.
HEALING & EMOTIONS
On my last night in Abadiânia, I spoke with an American woman at my Pousada who had come to Brazil with breast cancer. Diagnosed in September 2013, she did not want surgery nor radiation or chemotherapy. Her medical doctor called her daily advising her to get surgery or she will die. Instead she went to a naturopath who suggested it was an emotional block and perhaps she should go to Brazil to visit Medium João at the Casa. Two spiritual interventions later and another one during the night in her room, she told me she physically felt scalpels cutting into her breast, to her lymph node. She felt the pain, the heat, of work being done. There are many books written about Medium João and the successful healings he has orchestrated over the years but nothing can replace the awe of being at the Casa in person, feeling the energy, watching crutches being thrown aside as a person feebly makes their first unaided step, watching crying children immediately fall asleep after sipping blessed water while waiting in the lines, and just feeling the divine love and compassion pouring out of Medium João himself. A man who has devoted his life to being a vehicle of healing for others. As he often says, “I do not cure anybody. God is the one who cures.” The official website of the Casa www.Joãodedeusabadiania.com Dubai-based Casa guides Terri and Buddy Abrahams http://angelsoflightonline.com
BED REST
As I lay in my room at the Pousada during my ordered 24-hour bed rest, I felt energy and pressure flowing and
After each current session, I felt amazing. My mood was uplifted, I felt love and compassion for everyone, I didn’t judge and I felt benevolence for everyone and everything. I feel like I have had a profound spiritual awakening.
Medium João Teixeira de Faria, also known as Medium João or John of God. (Photo credit: Cande Salles)
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NATASHA TOME is an Atlantean Energy Healing practitioner and freelance writer. Email: natasha@whitelotuslight.com
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Energise your water or other liquids with the power of gemstones. VitaJuwel creates different combinations of gemstones for placing in jugs or drink dispensers to enhance the health and wellness properties of the liquid for drinking. The various mixtures include Wellness comprising rose quartz, amethyst, rock crystal; Fit and Lean with red jasper, magnesite and rock crystal, Inner Purity with aquamarine and rock crystal; Inspiration with lapis lazuli and love arrows, and Fire of Sensuality with garnet and rock crystal. Buy it: AED 365 – 1,470 depending on gemstones used. To buy, email info@ awakeningthemasters.com or visit office 804, Detroit House Bldg, Motor City. For queries, call Maya 050 849 1237. www.awakeningthemasters.com
HOT BOX WORKOUT WEAR
Ditch the black pants and inject some fun into your workout with these graphic leggings from GCC-based online workout wardrobe boutique The Hot Box. Buy it: AED 349. To purchase, go to www.thehotboxkit.com.
DESERT ROSE HANDMADE SOAPS FROM DUBAI
These locally-made soaps comprise all natural ingredients such as premium sweet almond oil, rosehip oil, black seed oil, organic shea butter, cocoa butter and essential oils. The bestsellers are Goat’s Milk Baby soap with calendula, the Rosemary and Thyme solid shampoo bars and the Russian Birch Eczema soap. Buy it: At ARTE Time Square Center. Soaps are priced at AED 30 per 100-110g bar. http://www.facebook.com/pages/ Desert-Rose-Handmade-Soaps
BALLERINA PUMPS AND SANDALS, TICKET TO TIMBUKTU
Footwear that supports reviving indigenous craftsmanship and supporting urban social causes in the Himalayas. Made with quality materials and age-old techniques. For every product sold, TtT gifts a book to the Fountain of Learning Trust library, which educates children in remote regions of the Himalayas. Buy it: Deco yellow $115; Halite rose $120; Crossbuck mint $155. Shop online at www.trovea.com/ticket-to-timbuktu.
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MOPL OMEGA 3 HERRING CAVIAR FISH OIL CAPSULES, TOM OLIVER NUTRITION
Premium marine Omega 3 phospholipids for heart fat metabolism as well as heart, eye and brain function. A young British company, Tom Oliver Nutrition is the brand name for a new generation of premium food supplements. Formulations are highly bio-available and in their pure state. No irradiation. No synthetic enhances or preservatives. No complicated formulations. All naturally derived and backed by science. Buy it: AED 175 at Holland & Barrett outlets across the UAE in Dubai, Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah. www.HollandAndBarrett.ae
ECO-FRIENDLY PURE CANDLES
Luxury eco-friendly candles made by hand from soy wax by UAE-based Melanie Upham. Pure Candles specialise in. Available in 15 signature fragrances, with additional scents available on request, Buy it: AED 125 for the Lemongrass Sage Luxury Candle, AED 95 for the Chanel No. 5 and AED 25 for a bag of fragranced melts. Pure Candles are available online at LittleMajilis.com as well as from Abu Dhabi Golf Club, 100 Wellness Spa, She Moves in City Walk, The Sweat Shop Studios and Kataandasana. www.facebook.com/pages/PureCandles-Dubai.
LUXURY ORGANIC SKINCARE: B’ATUDE REGENERATING NIGHT CREAM
This ultra-rich cream works through the night to regenerate, repair and moisturize your skin. Before bed, apply evenly on thoroughly cleaned face, neck and neckline areas and massage gently till your skin absorbs the cream. Calm your senses, forget about the wrinkles and wake up to a revived you! This is suitable for all skin types. Contains Antarticine – a cryo defender for restructuring and antiwrinkle; organic beeswax for softening and nourishing; organic green tea as an anti-aging anti-oxidant, organic argan oil for elasticity. Buy it: Prices for B’atude products range from AED 100 to 200. Available at Holland & Barrett stores www.facebook.com/Batudebrand
FIFI CARRY ALL CHESTNUT HANDBAG FROM JESS RIZZUTI
Instant handbag lust when we saw this Fifi Carry All from New York independent handbag designer, Jess Rizzuti. Jess uses water-based dyes and glue, heat-transferred patterns, renewable resources, and waste-reducing concepts. JR also supports charities like Bottomless Closet, Care for Kenya, and Glocal Connection, all of whom promote women’s advancement and empowerment. Buy it: $300 for the Fifi Carry All Chestnut. Shop online at www.trovea.com/jess-rizzuti
PEA PROTEIN, MARVELLOUS SUPERFOODS
We’re loving this 100 per cent organic pea protein for adding a protein punch to smoothies and juices. Also in the range is red maca, spirulina, wheatgrass and more. Recipe tip: To make an Electrolyte Booster, blend two glasses of coconut water with a kiwifruit, handful blueberries, juice of one lime, half a banana and one tablespoon Pea Protein. Buy it: AED 15 to AED 110, depending on the superfood variety, at Holland & Barrett outlets across the UAE in Dubai, Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah. www.HollandAndBarrett.ae
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SJB Wellbeing Healing sessions and workshops to become a certified Access Bars Practitioner. Release old beliefs, patterns, behaviours, judgements. T: 050 6847410 E: sharon@sjbewellbeing.com www.sjbwellbeing.com Melany Oliver Release unhelpful judgement, beliefs and perceptions. Private healing sessions as well as classes to become a certified Access Bars practitioner. T: 050 794 7695 E: olivermelany@gmail.com www.melanyoliver.com
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The Chiron Clinic Traditional Chinese Medicine treatments, including acupuncture, Chinese herbals and cupping. Dr. Wang Ping specializes in fertility, hormonal & pregnancy complaints, musculoskeletal injuries, and stress. The Chiron Clinic also offers treatments for weight loss, detoxification, allergy screens & desensitization, anxiety, depression, gastrointestinal complaints, skin problems, using natural & complementary medicine. 160 2D St. Al Bada’a/Jumeirah 1 (Behind Life Pharmacy), Dubai Tel. 04 349 7444 Email: info@thechironclinic.com www.facebook.com/TheChironClinic Dubai Mall Medical Centre Complementary and alternative medicine with Naturopathic Medicine Practioner Dr Heather Eade. 7th Floor, Dubai Mall. T: 04 449 5111 www.tdmmc.ae Beijing Tong Ren Tang Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic offering acupuncture, cupping, therapeutic massage. T: O4 349 8188 www.trtgulf.com Dubai Herbal & Treatment Centre Conventional (allopathic), complementary and alternative medicine plus wellness treatments. Ayurveda, Beauty, Gynaecology, Homeopathy, Nutrition, Psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine. Za’abeel, Oud Metha Rd. T: 04 335 1200 E: admin@dubaihtc.com www.dubaihtc.com Dubai Physiotherapy & Family Medicine Clinic Comprehensive family medicine and physiotherapy. 1st Floor, Town Centre Jumeirah, Jumeirah Beach Road. T: 04 349 6333 www.dxbphysio.com
Alternative, complementary and holistic products and services available in the UAE. Holistic Healing Medical Centre Eastern and western medicines. Ayurveda, acupuncture, colon hydrotherapy and Homeopathy. Al Wasl Road, Umm Suqeim 3. E: doctor@healthholistic.com T: 04 348 7172 www.healthholistic.com Synergy Integrated Medical Centre A clinical acupuncturist, Martine (Dip. AC clin. Ac (China) Certificate in Paediatric Acupuncture) specialises in fertility, pregnancy and post-natal treatments. She uses a combination of traditional Chinese therapies including acupuncture, massage, cupping and moxibustion. E: synergy8@eim.ae T: 04 348 5452 www.synergyctrdubai.com Wellbeing Medical Centre Complementary conventional and alternative health care, cosmetic surgery. T: +971 4 348 4406 E: info@wellbeingmedicalcentre.com www.wellbeingmedicalcentre.com
ALTERNATIVE MEDICAL CENTRES & CLINICS
Aura Alternative Medicine Centre Three kinds of treatment Ayurvedic medicines, diet and lifestyle management and Panchakarma for detox, rejuvenating and relaxing. Office 201, Al Faisal 1, CBI Bank Building, King Faisal Road, Sharjah. E: info@aurahealth.ae T: 06 575 7001 www.aurahealth.ae Breath & Health Alternative Medical Centre Dubai´s leading Alternative Medical Centre is fully licensed by Dubai Health Authority (DHA). B&H help people transform their lives through improving their health and well-being. Your health issues are treated using a whole host of traditional and modern therapies along with professional advice and support. Whether you want to rest, relax, recover or rejuvenate B&H is your premier wellness destination. Villa 1080, Al Wasl Road, Umm Suqeim 2. E: hello@breathandhealth.net T: 04 348 9940 www.breathandhealth.net The Chiron Clinic A complementary and alternative medical clinic, the Chiron Clinic treats the ‘whole’ individual. Services on offer include anthropsophical medicine, homeopathy, clinical nutrition, herbal medicines, acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (see below), spinal alignment, counseling/coaching, hydrotherapy, detoxification, and infrared-sauna therapy, to treat a wide array of family health concerns including; eczema and other skin complaints, autism/ADHD, anxiety/depression, digestive complaints, hormonal issues, migraine/tension head-
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aches, insomnia, allergies, low immunity, ear infections, asthma, and joint & back pain. We also offer allergy screening, and a wide array of functional testing. Dr. Lanalle & Dr. Amel are NorthAmerican Board Certified Naturopathic Doctors. Open Saturday-Thursday 8:30-8:30. 160 2D St. Al Bada’a/Jumeirah 1 (Behind Life Pharmacy) Tel. 04 349 7444 Email: info@thechironclinic.com www.facebook.com/TheChironClinic Dubai Herbal & Treatment Centre Conventional (allopathic), complementary and alternative medicine plus wellness treatments. Ayurveda, Beauty, Gynaecology, Homeopathy, Nutrition, Psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine. Za’abeel, Oud Metha Rd. E: admin@dubaihtc.com T: 04 335 1200 www.dubaihtc.com Dubai Mall Medical Centre Complementary and alternative medicine with Naturopathic Medicine Practioner Dr Heather Eade. 7th Floor, Dubai Mall. T: 04 449 5111 www.tdmmc.ae Holistic Healing Medical Centre Eastern and western medicines. Ayurveda, acupuncture, colon hydrotherapy and Homeopathy. Al Wasl Road, Umm Suqeim 3. E: doctor@healthholistic.com T: 04 348 7172 OUR www.healthholistic.com K! PIC
Intelligent Health Using the latest medical technolody and research, doctors specialise in reversing diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, auto-immune, brain disease and any cardio or metabolic condition. International thyroid and bio-hormone therapy expert Dr. Daryl Turner is a visiting practitioner. T.+971 04 321 5223 E.info@intelligenthealth.ae www.intelligenthealth.ae Lotus Holistic Center A holistic medicine center located in Khalifa City A, Abu Dhabi. Acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, massage therapy, exercise therapy, yoga, Hijama (cupping), nutrition, dental. T.+971 2 557 9801 E.info@lotusholistic.ae www.lotusholistic.ae Dr Parviz Rashvand, Synergy Integrated Medical Centre Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Dr Parviz combines natural modalities and specialises in cancer, MS, autism and other severe auto-immune and degenerative conditions. E: synergy8@eim.ae T: 04 348 5452 www.synergyctrdubai.com
Wellbeing Medical Centre Complementary conventional and alternative health care, cosmetic surgery and laser treatments. Jumeirah 3. T: +971 4 348 4406 E: info@wellbeingmedicalcentre.com www.wellbeingmedicalcentre.com
ANGEL THERAPY
Angel Messages by Stella Angel therapy, intuitive guidance and more. T: +971 50 8703639 E: stella@angelmessagesbystella.com www.angelmessagesbystella.com Angels of Light Founders Terri and Buddy are certified Angel Therapy Practitioners from the Diana Cooper School of Angels, and Angel Crystal Healers. E: angels@angelsoflightonline.com T: 050 655 4814 www.angelsoflightonline.com
ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY
Sense Hope, health and healing using animals and nature for human wellness - children, adults and the elderly. Trained therapy animals work with qualified therapists to help with a range of issues including development and speech delays to autism, anxiety, dementia, cancers, etc. E: info@sense.ae T: 055 748 3178 www.sense.ae
AROMATHERAPY MASSAGE
Spadunya Club Award-winning holistic and wellness spa for women using the 100 per cent organic, French colour therapy spa range called Altearah Bio in holistic vibrational and energetic treatments. Hammam, hydrotherapy, beauty room and steam, sauna and showers. [See also Colour Therapy, Beauty, and Yoga & Fitness] Shams 1, The Walk at JBR, Plaza Level. E: info@spadunyaclub.com T: +971 4 439 3669 www.spadunyaclub.com Organic Glow Beauty Lounge Eco-friendly, organic salon. Organic hair treatments, ammonia-free colour, aromatherapy massage, formaldehydefree mani-pedis, fresh fruit facials, homemade scrubs and more. Stocks Simply Organic products for purchase. E: eco_lounge@yahoo.com T: 04 380 4666 www.organicglowuae.com
ASTROLOGY
Third Eye Centre Miyan is a Jyotish Maharishi (PhD equivalent research degree in Vedic Astrology) and holds a DMA (Diploma in Medieval Astrology). Private readings and group workshops. E: info@thirdeyeonline.com T: 04 326 6539 www.thirdeyeonline.com
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Vedic Astrologer & Numerologist, Lalit Soonderji Private readings and group workshops E: info@illuminationsworld.com T: 04 448 7043 www.illuminationsworld.com
AYURVEDA
Aura Alternative Medicine Centre Three kinds of treatment Ayurvedic medicines, diet and lifestyle management and Panchakarma for detox, rejuvenating and relaxing. Office 201, Al Faisal 1, CBI Bank Building, King Faisal Road, Sharjah E: info@aurahealth.ae T: 06 575 7001 www.aurahealth.ae Balance Wellness Centre, Ayurvedic Dr Chandy George Ayurvedic assessments and wide range of wellness services, organic and ayurvedic therapies, energy healing. Third floor, Oasis Centre E: chandy.george@cplmg.com T: 04 5151 4051 www.balance-wellness-centre OUR PICK!
Breath & Health Alternative Medical Centre Dubai´s leading Alternative Medical Centre is fully licensed by Dubai Health Authority (DHA). B&H help people transform their lives through improving their health and well-being. Your health issues are treated using a whole host of traditional and modern therapies along with professional advice and support. Whether you want to rest, relax, recover or rejuvenate B&H is your premier wellness destination. Villa 1080, Al Wasl Road, Umm Suqeim 2. E: hello@breathandhealth.net T: 04 348 9940 www.breathandhealth.net
Dubai Herbal & Treatment Centre Conventional (allopathic), complementary and alternative medicine plus wellness treatments. Ayurveda, Beauty, Gynaecology, Homeopathy, Nutrition, Psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine. Za’abeel, Oud Metha Rd. E: admin@dubaihtc.com T: 04 335 1200 www.dubaihtc.com
BEAUTY & ORGANIC COSMETICS Katrina Valente Holistics A facial therapist and holistic aesthetician/healer with more than 20 years experience in the beauty industry E: Katrina@katrinavalente.com T: 050 565 7679 ww.katrinavalente.com Organic Glow Beauty Lounge Eco-friendly salon offering organic treatments. E: eco_lounge@yahoo.com T: 04 380 4666 www.organicglowuae.com
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Shirley Conlon Organics Dubai-based organic skincare and cosmetics. Available to purchase from www.littlemajlis.com/ shirleyconlonorganics; Ripe Organic Market every Friday 9am-2pm; Arte - Time’s Square, 2nd Friday of every month 12pm-7pm (upstairs). E: shirley@shirleyconlonorganics.com Tel: 050 289 6499 www.shirleyconlonorganics.com Aromera - Martina Hakim Organic skin care and Happiness Coach, Systemic/Family Constellations (Bert Hellinger) T: 050 141 8790 E: mhaki@aromera.com www.aromera.com
CAR HIRE
Green Car Rental A range of hybrid to 100 per cent electric vehicles to hire. From the Nissan Leaf to the BMW X6 Hybrid and Tesla Roadster. T: 04 321 7478 E: info@greencardubai.com www.greencardubai.com
CAREER TRAINING
Clinical Aromatherapy & Clinical Reflexology, The Holistic Institute IFPA and ITEC accredited for diplomas in Clinical Aromatherapy and Reflexology. E: info@theholisticinsitute.org T: 04 450 3535 www.theholisticinstitute.org Integrated Clinical Hypnotherapy, Illuminations Well-Being Centre Certified by the Universal School of Integrated Clinical Hypnotherapy Middle East. Five stages. For more information, go to www.usich-me.com or call Illuminations on 04 448 7043 www.illuminationsworld.com
COLON HYDROTHERAPY
Dubai Herbal & Treatment Centre. See Alt. Medical Centres for details. E: admin@dubaihtc.com T: 04 335 1200 www.dubaihtc.com Breath & Health Alt. Medical Centre See Alt. Medical Centres for details. 1080, Al Wasl Road, Umm Suqeim 2. E: hello@breathandhealth.net T: 04 348 9940 www.breathandhealth.net
Abeer Ayash, Art Healer Abeer creates Soul Paintings for clients using colour for its therapeutic value. E: info@thirdeyeonline.com T: 04 326 6539 www.thirdeyeonline.com
CHINESE HERBAL MEDICINE (see Acupuncture) COUNSELLING (see also Life Coaching) Helen Williams, Life Works Counselling and development. Helen is a Gestalt Therapist. Personal development, counselling, meditation & mindfulness, workshops, grief, stress, anxiety, etc. 996 Al Wasl Rd, Umm Suqeim 1 E: Helen@lifeworksdubai.com E. info@lifeworksdubai.com T: 04 3942464 www.lifeworksdubai.com www.counsellingdubai.com Pamella Pierrepont, Starlight Pathways - Thinking into the Future Therapies and Learning Solutions for Kids, PIDDS, The Listening Programme, The Learning Breakthrough.T: 0558097445 or email starlightpathways@gmail.com Andrea Tosatto, Clinical Psychologist, Synergy Medical Centre Specialising in teens and children, Dr Tosatto uses Cognitive Psychotherapy with Jungian analysis as well as yoga and music therapy as needed. E: synergy8@eim.ae T: 04 348 5452 www.synergyctrdubai.com Tarnia Chapman, Spiritual Counsellor A graduate of the UK School of Metaphysics for the Expansion of Consciousness, Tarnia offers private sessions available to know yourself, be yourself and express yourself. E: Tarn.chapman@hotmail.com T: 050 2754 571
CRYSTAL THERAPY
Pranic Healing Centre Encorporates pranic with crystal healing. www.pranichealingmea.com
DANCE
Life ‘nOne (See ‘Wellness Centres’ for contacts)
Sweatshop Studios Hot yoga, Pilates, BootyBarre, Pole Dancing, Zumba classes. Concorde Tower, Cluster H, JLT. T. +971 (0)50 435 5474 E. hello@sweatshop-studios.com www.sweatshop-studios.com
DORN METHOD (Spinal therapy) Karima Nanji at SpaDunya Club See ‘Colour Therapy’ for contacts. Manchester Clinic PIDDDS treatments are available at the Manchester Clinic in Dubai. T. 04-3497008. www.piddds.com
DIET & DETOX
Art of Detox, Malcolm Slyper A free online service dedicated to preventing disease through natural cleansing and detox and raw food. Detox retreats hosted. T: +12024079737 E: info@artofdetox.com www.artofdetox.com Generation Nourished Holistic Health Coaching Programs for women and teenagers looking to lose weight, gain energy, have blood sugar imbalance, or want to overhaul their diet & lifestyle. T: 055 106 7511 www.generationnourished.com Detox Delight Dubai Detox juices delivered to your door and bespoke detox programmes. E info@detox-delight.ae T: 055 5568 318 www.detox-delight.ae Essentially Door-to-door delivery of cold-pressed, natural, raw and organic juices and nut milks. Nourishing cleanse programs with different levels of intensity and juice packs to enjoy daily, alongside your regular diet. E: support@essentially.ae T: 04/8895753 www.essentially.ae The Sacred Kitchen Higher consciousness cooking under the premise of food as medicine, services include personal chef, therapeutic cooking classes, private dining events, retreat chef, pantry makeover, menu
COLOUR THERAPY
Spadunya Club Award-winning holistic and wellness spa for women using the 100 per cent organic, French colour therapy spa range called Altearah in holistic vibrational and energetic treatments. Hammam, hydrotherapy, beauty room and steam, sauna and showers. Shams 1, The Walk at JBR, Plaza Level. T: +971 4 439 3669 E: info@spadunyaclub.com www.spadunyaclub.com
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consultation. Specialises in vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, raw and paleo cooking as well as diets for illness or special conditions. E. neha@thesacredkitchen.org T. +97155-7771019 www.thesacredkitchen.org
EAR CONING AND CANDLING Breath and Health Alternative Medical Centre Villa 1080, Al Wasl Road, Umm Suquim 2 E: hello@breathandhealth.net T: 04 348 9940 www.breathandhealth.net
ENERGY HEALING
Awakened Potential Adrian Maul uses NLP, ThetaHealing and hypnotherapy to help awaken your mind and heal any emotional or mental issues that are holding you back from realising your potential in work, home, socialising or achieving a life goal. First session free. T: +971 (0)56 676 9483 E: adrian@awakeningsme.com Atlantean Healing Natasha Tome Atlantean Healing is a high vibrating energy used in the healing temples of Atlantis. Sessions are designed to balance the energy field as Atlanteans believed disease was a manifestation of the imbalance in the energy field. Jumeirah 1. T. (055) 9288477 E. natasha@whitelotuslight.com www.whitelotuslight.com Life ‘nOne Variety of energy healing modalities, see ‘Holistic Centres’ for contacts. Institute of Thought for Human Excellence Develop your personality with NLP; Karma Breakthrough and Wealth Mastery Seminars. Training Institute for 1. Karma Healing for Debt, Love, Procrastination, Health, Anger, Conflicts, Trauma issues. 2. Business Skills on Sales, Confidence, public speaking, Presentation etc 3. Equity Investment and Trading for Wealth Creation 4. Body Mind Soul Healing involving Past life Regression, Hypnotherapy, NLP, THetaHealing, 5. Law of Magnetism, Law of Attraction 6. Scientific Palmistry 7. Mentorship Courses on Business, Relationship, Spirituality etc Location: Suit # 2104, Jumeirah Bay X2 tower, JLT, Dubai. T. 055 268 7878 E: lakshmi@sumantkaultraining.com www.sumantkaultraining.com or www. sumantsumeetkaul.com Golden Energy Healings Zarine Dadachanji incorporates various modalities including Access Bars Consciousness, SRT, Theta Healing, Magnified Healing, Kinesiology, Chakra Clearings, Crystal Healing, and Sound Healing using gongs and bowls.
E: goldenenergyhealings@gmail.com T: 050 650 9954. Hands in Hope Meditation Centre Barbara Jackle is a hands-on energy healer. Office 214, Jumeirah Terrace Building, Jumeirah 1 T: 04 351 7901 E: info@hands-in-hope.com www.hands-in-hope.com Noora Deen Reconnective Healing Noora does one-on-one healing sessions working with universal energy frequencies to restore balance to the body, mind, and spirit. She also facilitates The Reconnection. For information on Reconnective Healing, go to www.thereconnection.com T: +971 (0)50 400 5545 E: noora.deen@live.com
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT)
Third Eye Centre Clinical Hypnotherapist Monisha specialises in EFT and Hypnotherapy. Offers workshops such as Taking Charge, Self Hypnosis, Karma and Forgiveness. Contact Monisha at The Third Eye Centre. E: info@thirdeyeonline.com T: 04 326 6539 www.thirdeyeonline.com Cosmic Healing Centre (see Holistic Centres)
FENG SHUI
Cris Falconi Feng Shui Residential and corporate feng shui, interior design and consultancy. T: 055 362 9027 E: info@cristianofalconi.com www.cristianofalconi.com Brenda Margaret, B&C Wellness Ctr Offer Home Alignment, an energetic method to make your home a sacred space. T: +971 55 9743607 E: brendacharu@gmail.com www.brendacharu.com Cosmic Healing Centre (see Holistic Centres)
FLOATATION THERAPY
Point Zero Floatation Center, Abu Dhabi Floatation Therapy, Ayurveda and Body Works. Khalifa City A, Abu Dhabi opposite Al Forsan Sports resort and next to Berlitz Language Center. Street #12, Villa 3. T: +971 (2) 445 5775, E: bookings@pointzerofloatation.com www.pointzerofloatation.com
GASTRIC MIND BANDING (see hypnotherapy) GONGING AND GONG BATH MEDITATIONS
Aspen Aman, The Gong House Private and group sessions for healing mind and body through sound meditation as well as gonging classes. Special classes also held for children. www.meetup.com/The-Gong-House Lawrence Enderle Gong Bath Meditations and Sound and Vibration sessions and workshops at various locations in Dubai. Go to www.meetup.com/Gong-BathMeditations Zarine Dadachanji Zarine facilitates private, group and corporate meditation sessions incorporating guided visualisations, gonging, singing bowls and chanting. E: goldenenergyhealings@gmail.com T: 050 650 9954.
GYMS (see Yoga, Gyms & Fitness) HOLISTIC CENTRES (See ‘Wellness Centres’) HOMEOPATHY
The Wellness Brothers Sean and Ryan Penny offer personal training, DNA testing for health, diet and fitness; the ABC of fat-loss; 10 or 15 day detox plans, and more to individuals, groups, and companies. E: contactus@thewellnessbrothers.com www.thewellnessbrothers.com
HOUSEHOLD MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR Green Facilities Management (Green FM) Environmentally-friendly home maintenance and repair, from water tank cleaning to pest control, renovations, air con service and repair, 24/7 emergency call outs and more. T: 04 440 8929 or 050 5520 150 E: info@green-fms.com www.green-fms.com
Rachel Foy Clinical and cognitive behavioural hypnotherapist, EFT, NLP, homeopath and nutritional therapist. Offers inner repatterning, hypno-birthing, gastric mind banding. Rachel offers a free 20 min session for new clients. Call Breath and Health Alternative Medical Centre on 04 348 9940. www.rachelfoy.com SJB Wellbeing Clinical Hypnotherapy healer and psychotherapist offering hypnotherapy for self empowerment of ones life and taking charge. Addictions, fears & phobias etc. T: 050 6847410 E: sharon@sjbewellbeing.com www.sjbwellbeing.com Sabine Poncelet Healer and hypnotherapist. Private sessions at KUUR Physiotherapy Center. Hypnotherapy for: anger, stress, anxiety management. Self confidence,self esteem, past life regression and more. T: 050 81 44 529 www.sabinetherapies.com Inner Self Consultancy Alexandra Salkova offers hypnotherapy, NLP coaching, Theta healing, EFT, Reiki, De-stress programme. E: alexandra@innerselfconsultancy.com. T: 050 698 4612. www.innerselfconsultancy.com Graca Ward Hypnotherapy for addictions such as smoking, phobias and sea-sickness. E: gracaward@yahoo.com
KINESIOLOGY
Osteopathic Health Centre Malcolm Gregory and Nargis Raza give
HYPNOTHERAPY
Awakened Potential Adrian Maul uses NLP, ThetaHealing and hypnotherapy to help awaken your mind and realise your potential in work, home, socialising or achieving a life goal. First session free with no-strings attached. T: +971 (0)56 676 9483 E: adrian@awakeningsme.com Awakened Soul, Rachel Beavan Energy healer and psychotherapist E: beavanrachel@mac.com www.rachelbeavan.com Elite Mind Solutions Anna Yates is a psychotherapist, clinical hypnotherapist, licensed NLP practitioner, gastric mind band therapist, pause button therapist, and smoking cessation specialist. T: +971 (0)50 6512145 www.elitemindsolutions.com
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Seminars & individual sessions with Masters & Certificates of Science Maya Badran & Tony Shoushani T. +971 50 8491237 E. info@awakeningthemasters.com
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self-help and support to people suffering from pain. Umm Suqueim and Mirdiff E: clinicsinfo@osteopathydubai.com T: 04 348 73 66 www.osteopathydubai.com
LIFE COACHING
Inner Self Consultancy Alexandra Salkova offers hypnotherapy, NLP coaching, Theta healing, EFT, Reiki, De-stress programme. E: alexandra@innerselfconsultancy.com. T: 050 698 4612. www.innerselfconsultancy.com Mind Body Dynamix MBD founder Amal Loring has counseled many UAE families on a wide range of issues ranging from social, relationship and economic matters. Location: The Citadel, Business Bay E: info@mindbodydynamixs.com T: +971 50 655 0438 www.mindbodydynamixs.com Soul mapping, Stephanie Hamilton Get help understanding your life’s purpose. T: 050 870 1927 E: connect@nektar.ae www.nektar.ae Livia Anzaldo, Liv 2 Lead Individual lifestyle coaching plus corporate coaching, wellness and adventure travel retreats, yoga classes. E: livia@liv2lead.com T: 050 1819 527 www.liv2lead.com LifeWorks Personal development, counselling, meditation & mindfulness, workshops, grief, stress, anxiety, etc. 996 Al Wasl Road, Umm Sequeim 1, Dubai T. 04 3942464 E. info@lifeworksdubai.com www.counsellingdubai.com Sushma, Third Eye Certified Life Coach, Sushma conducts coaching workshops and sessions E: sushma@thirdeyeonline.com T: 04 326 6539 www.thirdeyeonline.com
MASSAGE
Dreamworks Spa Dubai Balinese foot reflexology and massage centres in various locations E: mail@dreamworks.ae T: 800 6277 243 www.dreamworks.ae Feet First Reflexology and massage centre. Services include deep tissue massage, de-stress massage, shiatsu massage, acupressure facial, slimming massage E: info@feet1st.com T: 04 366 9956 www.feet1st.com Heaven on Earth Med Spa Holistic Massage, Organic Essential Oil
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Aromatherapy and Hammam, Naturopathic & Natural Wellness Consultations, Organic Living Foods Weight Loss & Reversing Diabetes programs. Concord Tower, Media City, Dubai T: +97144542806 www.HeavenOnEarthMedSpa.com
MAID & CLEANING SERVICES
Eco Maid ME The region’s first and only toxin and carcinogen-free, eco-friendly cleaning service using primarily citrus and mineralbased cleaners imported from Europe and New Zealand. T: 050 158 2192 or 04 388 1292 www.ecomaidme.com
MEAL DELIVERY SERVICES
Vipassana Meditation Offering courses in Vipassana Meditation as taught by S.N. Goenka. Ten day silent meditation retreats held in RAK. E: vipassana.dubai@gmail.com www.dhamma.org
MUMS & BABIES
Andrea Balazs, Holistic Health Coach & Yoga Teacher Pre and postnatal nutrition, women’s health, and weight management. Hatha and pre/postnatal private and group yoga classes across Dubai. T: 050 584 2934. E: andrea@yoganutrition.com www.andreabalazs.com
Kcal Extra Healthy calorie-controlled monthly meal plans delivered daily to your door. T: 04 3395 316 or sign up at the website www.kcalextra.com
Dubai Doula Carol Unterhorst is a Dubai-based doula with a degree in Psychological Counselling and skills in acupressure. Contact her through http://ca-doula. blogspot.ae
HealthTrendz Healthy food to go. E: healthtrendz@dwtc.com
Placenta Passion For placenta encapsulation, Elizabeth Bain is a midwife, public health nurse, certified birth doula, hypnobirthing practitioner and an independent Placenta Encapsulation Specialist. E: bettybain23@hotmail.com T:. 050 4215180/ 050 456 1333 www.dubaidoulas.com
Lively UAE Tailored meals delivered to your doorstep and continuous follow ups and body assessment. Branches in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. E: info@lively.ae for Dubai or infoad@lively.ae for Abu Dhabi. www.lively.ae Right Bite Healthy calorie-controlled monthly meal plans delivered daily to your door. T: 04 338 8763 E: info@right-bite.com www.right-bite.com U’ve Got Meal Daily meal delivery services for weightloss and well-being, international cuisines available. Call 600 544402 or SMS “FIT” to 052 877 2174 for a call you back within 24 hours. E: info@uvegotmeal.com www.uvegotmeal.com
MEDITATION
Cosmic Healing Centre - See ‘Wellness Centres’ for contacts. Illuminations Well-Being Centre Various regular weekly meditations. See ‘Wellness Centres’ for contacts. The Third Eye Centre - See ‘Wellness Centres’ for contacts. Discover Nirvana - See ‘Wellness Centres’ for contacts. Sahaja Yoga Meditation A method of meditation based on achieving ‘thoughtless awareness’. Free weekly sessions at different UAE locations, T: 050 295 3571 E: uaesahajayoga@gmail.com www.sahajayogauae.com
NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
Awakened Potential Adrian Maul uses NLP, ThetaHealing and hypnotherapy to help awaken your mind and heal any emotional or mental issues that are holding you back from realising your potential in work, home, socialising or achieving a life goal. First session free. T: +971 (0)56 676 9483 E: adrian@awakeningsme.com Institute of Thought for Human Excellence Develop your personality with NLP; Karma Breakthrough and Wealth Mastery Seminars. Training Institute for: 1. Karma Healing for Debt, Love, Procrastination, Health, Anger, Conflicts, Trauma issues.2. Business Skills on Sales, Confidence, public speaking, Presentation etc. 3. Equity Investment and Trading for Wealth Creation 4. Body Mind Soul Healing involving Past life Regression, Hypnotherapy, NLP, THetaHealing, 5. Law of Magnetism, Law of Attraction
6. Scientific Palmistry 7. Mentorship Courses on Business, Relationship, Spirituality etc Location: Suit # 2104, Jumeirah Bay X2 tower, JLT, Dubai. T. 055 268 7878 E: lakshmi@sumantkaultraining.com www.sumantkaultraining.com www.sumantsumeetkaul.com Transformations Institute Using NLP, the Transformations team help clients increase their productivity, work and learn smarter, improve memory and concentration, resolve problems creatively, and enjoy greater confidence and self-esteem. T: +971 4 344 0115 E: info@transforminst.com www.transforminst.com
NATUROPATHY
Dr Parviz Rashvand, Synergy Integrated Medical Centre Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Dr Parviz combines natural modalities and specialises in cancer, MS, autism and other severe auto-immune and degenerative conditions. E: synergy8@eim.ae T: 04 348 5452 www.synergyctrdubai.com
OFFICE WELLNESS Focal Upright Ergonomic office equipment that’s better for the body, the upright office introduces a new working posture that’s halfway between sitting and standing. E:bernadette@bernaciseme.com T: 050 283 2020 www.focalupright.com
ORGANIC & HEALTH FOODS
Holland & Barrett An extensive range of food and supplements, health foods and herbal remedies that is constantly expanding to respond to the challenge of creating new and innovative products to enhance well-being. Dubai stores in Mirdif City Centre, Dubai Festival City, The Dubai Mall, Jumeirah High Street, Madinat Jumeirah, City Walk, and Oasis Centre. Also in Fujairah City Centre and Ras Al Khaimah’s Al Hamra Mall. www.hollandandbarrett.com Agriculture Box Grow your own fruit, vegetables and
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herbs. Agriculture Box provides soil, seeds, irrigation/drainage, composting system, organic fertiliser solution, installation and delivery. T: +971 52 875 1318 E: agriculturebox@gmail.com www.agriculturebox.com Be Super Natural A UAE online shop for raw, vegan, organic, fairtrade, ethical foodstuffs and groceries. www.besupernatural.com Le Petit Marché Specialty health organic food store in Jumeirah, has launched its online offering through an exclusive tie-up with Supermarketplace.ae, a new entrant to the online daily grocery space. Le Petit Marche Dept. Store, Jumeirah Beach Road, Magrudy Mall, Jumeirah 1. Tel: + 971 (04) 344 2044 Email: info@supermarketplace.ae www.supermarketplace.ae Blue Planet Green People Organic and eco-home, body-care and health foods, along with fruit and veggie produce from local producers at this JLT store plus a farmer’s market on Fridays from 11am to 3pm. Where: BS4, Al Seef 2, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai T: +971 4369 5209
E: info@bpgpuae.com www.blueplanetgreenpeople.com Down to Earth Organics Supplies organic food and groceries in Dubai. Store at G11, Sheikh Hamdan Awards Complex, Opposite Union Flag, Jumeirah 1, Dubai. E: info@downtoearthorganic.ae T: 04 386 3391 www.downtoearthorganic.ae The Farm House Local, seasonal, organic and fresh products off UAE farms; beef, lamb,camel, chicken, fresh organic chicken egs, fresh organic quail eggs, organic cow milk, goat milk, sheep milk, camel milk. All seasonal organic local vegetables and fruit. Souk Al Manzil, Down Town Dubai Daily 8am until 10 pm E: bob@thefarmhouse.ae www.thefarmhouse.ae Greenheart Organic Farms Freshly harvested organic produce from UAE farms sold to Dubai residents, via designated collection points or through home delivery (minimum order Dh100). Order online or pop in to the shop in Arjan, Al Barsha 2, close to the Arabian Ranches roundabout. www.greenheartuae.com
Why your animal needs energy healing Sabine Poncelet Alternative Therapies From cats to dogs, horses and fish, animals respond intuitively to Reiki’s power. It helps to support the healing of emotional and physical illness. Reiki also provides comfort and relieves pain, anxiety and, fear for terminally ill animals. Reiki energy is being used on competitive racing animals as well as on animals that have gone through emotional trauma. An excellent complementary treatment, many veterinarians use Reiki energy healing as a support in addition to conventional medicine. What can energy healing do for your animal? • Increase performance and overcome competition stress • Behavioural issues, anxiety, fear, aggression, depression • Physical injuries, post surgical recovery • Trauma, abuse, neglect, trust issues And much more... Sabine Poncelet specialises in energy healing for animals. A session includes ThetaHealing, Reiki and animal communication. Rates: Consultation and home service available for Dubai, Ajman, Sharjah, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, Fujairah, Ras Al Khaimah. See the website for pricing information. To make an appointment, call Sabine on +971 (0)50 8144 529 or email: info@sabinetherapies.com. www.sabinetherapies.com
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Organic Supermarket and Café Fresh organic and biodynamic food, supplements, skincare, cosmetics, baby items and household products. Stores in Greens, Jumeirah and Shk Zayed Road just past Oasis Centre. T: 04 4340577 www.organicfoodsandcafe.com Ripe Middle East Supplies local organic produce in Dubai. Farm fresh fruit and vegetables delivered to your door or for purchase at the farmers markets. Warehouse 11, 6A Street, Al Quoz behind Times Square Ctr. E: info@ripeme.com T: 04 380 7602 www.ripeme.com The Green League, Dubai Garden Centre Fresh organic fruit and vegetables. Fresh Corner in the Dubai Garden Centre, Sheikh Zayed Rd and every day at Lafayette Gourmet, Second floor Dubai Mall. T: 056 176 2992 E: info@thegreenleague.ae.
PILATES
Mojo Reformer Pilates Pilates bootcamp classes. T: 800 MYMOJO (800 69 6656) E: mojopilatesdubai@gmail.com www.mymojopilates.com
Real Pilates Private and Semi-Private Sessions also available, including Rehab Pilates. Two locations: Palm Strip Mall, 1st Floor, Jumeirah. JLT JBC2, Tower, Cluster V www.real-pilates.com The Hundred Pilates Studio Dubai Healthcare City, District 1 Al Razi Building #64, Block B, Suite 3020, Dubai T: 04 429 8433 www.thehundred.ae
PHOTOGRAPHY Soul Photography with Nektar Lifestyle Stephanie Hamilton specialises in photography projects that heal and celebrate your life. T: 050 870 1927 E: connect@nektar.ae www.nektar.ae
PRANIC HEALING
The GMCKS Pranic Energy Healing Center Pranic healing courses of all levels and group meditations. Encorporates pranic with Arhatic Yoga, KriyaShakti, crystal healing and Feng Shui. T: 04 3688067/ 3688104 M: 050-6566547 www.pranichealingmea.com
QIGONG
Meihua Li Tai Chi Group or private lessons available weekly. See website for times. T: Anmarie 050 4698589 E: anmarie@mltaichi.com www.mltaichi.com The Third Eye Qigong Instructor Ania gives personal classes and group workshops in Qigong as well as healing sessions to remove blocks from meridians and energy channels. E: info@thirdeyeonline.com T: 04 326 6539 www.thirdeyeonline.com
REFLEXOLOGY
Dreamworks Spa Dubai Balinese foot reflexology and massage centres in various locations. E: mail@dreamworks.ae T: 800 6277 243 www.dreamworks.ae Feet First Reflexology and massage centre. Services include deep tissue massage, de-stress massage, shiatsu massage, acupressure facial, slimming massage. E: info@feet1st.com T: 04 366 9956 www.feet1st.com
REGRESSION THERAPY
Awakened Soul, Rachel Beavan Healing, guidance and psychotherapy. E: beavanrachel@mac.com www.rachelbeavan.com Institute of Thought for Human Excellence Develop your personality with NLP; Karma Breakthrough and Wealth Mastery Seminars. Training Institute for:
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1. Karma Healing for Debt, Love, Procrastination, Health, Anger, Conflicts, Trauma issues. 2. Business Skills on Sales, Confidence, public speaking, Presentation etc 3. Equity Investment and Trading for Wealth Creation 4. Body Mind Soul Healing involving Past life Regression, Hypnotherapy, NLP, THetaHealing, 5. Law of Magnetism, Law of Attraction 6. Scientific Palmistry 7. Mentorship Courses on Business, Relationship, Spirituality etc Location: Suit # 2104, Jumeirah Bay X2 tower, JLT, Dubai. T. 055 268 7878 E: lakshmi@sumantkaultraining.com www.sumantkaultraining.com or www. sumantsumeetkaul.com Mimi Harding Discover your past life connections to places, people and your inner self. Member of of the Past Life Therapists Association. Adv PLR & LBL Specialist. To enquire or book, email Mimi.Harding@ gmail.com or call 056 991 8852.
REIKI
Awakened Soul, Rachel Beavan Healer and psychotherapist Rachel offers healings as well as classes in Reiki. E: beavanrachel@mac.com www.rachelbeavan.com Seda Goksel Healing Reiki Master and Theta healer. Private healing sessions and Reiki classes. T: 050 600 6968 E: sedagoksel@hotmail.com www.facebook.com/SedaGokselhealing Tibetan Usui Traditional Reiki Sharon is a Master/Teacher Healer offering Healing sessions and Reiki Workshops. T: 050 6847410 E: sharon@sjbewellbeing.com www.sjbwellbeing.com
REIKI FOR ANIMALS
Animal Reiki in Dubai Sabine Poncelet helps heal your animal and yourself with energetic care. T: 050 814 4529 E: info@sabinetherapies.com www.sabinetherapies.com
RESTAURANTS & CAFES
One Cafe, Jumeirah 1 Located at Life’nOne wellness center, relax in the garden with a fresh juice, protein shake, green smoothie, Turkish coffee, etc. One of our favourites is the High Vibe smoothie - banana, cacao, anana, lucuma, Peruvian maca root, almond milk. Location: Jumeirah 1, behind Magrudy’s Book Store. T: 04 343 6676 E: info@lifenone.com www.lifenone.com
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Bestro – Live and Raw Dubai’s first raw food restaurant, Bestro’s menu is all vegan apart from the raw Yemeni honey that’s used in selected items. Galeries Lafayette, Dubai. T: +971 (0)4 441 6407 www.facebook.com/BeStroUAE
Noviplus Noviplus offers members discounts on health and fitness services, tips and advice, news, fitness tools and more. T: 050 585 6948 E: info@noviplus.ae www.noviplus.ae
Baker & Spice Salads, handmade wild bread, cakes, breakfasts and mains, all made from locally sourced ingredients where possible. Location: Souk al Bahar and Dukkan al Manzil, Downtown Dubai. Marina Promenade. Maps on website. T: 04 425 2240, 04 427 9856 and 04 362 4686 www.bakerandspiceme.com
Sparklefairy New age and wellness online boutique. www.sparklefairy.com
Comptoir 102 Organic cafe and boutique store. 102 Beach Rd, Jumeirah T. 04 3854555 E. contact@comptoir102.com www.comptoir102.com Elken Cafe Community Healthy, organic and gluten-free options alongside tasty indulgences like carrot-cake-in-a-jar. Location: Marina Promenade next to Pearl Marina Hotel Apts opp. Choitrams. Home delivery. T. 04 432 5720 www.elkencafe.com The Farm, Al Barari Promises local and organic ingredients, where possible. Location: Al Barari, off Emirates Road - driving directions on website www.thefarmdubai.com T: 04 392 5660 Nathalie’s Cafe, Abu Dhabi Fresh, low-fat meals in Abu Dhabi media zone, Twofour54 in Khalifa Park. T: 02 441 1330 www.facebook.com/NathaliesCafe Zest restaurant, Ibn Batutta Mall Natural, fresh and nutritious food and drink using the highest quality ingredients, organic when possible. Tunisia Food Court, Ibn Battuta Mall. T: Call 800 ZEST (800 9378) for delivery. www.zest.ae
SHOPPING
Elements Fengshui Candles, crystal rocks and jewellery, aura cleansers, pendulums, singing bowls and bells, new age music and more. Outlets in Al Khaleej Centre, Bur Dubai; Deira City Centre; Level 1 Mall of the Emirates; Dubai Mall. E: elementsfengshui@gmail.com T: 04 295 0988 www.elementsfengshui.com Green Bags UAE Eco-friendly bags in UAE & leading provider of jute ,cotton and juco bags. These ethically-produced reusable bags are a replacement for plastic. T: 04 370 5277 E: enquiry@greenbagsuae.com www.greenbagsuae.com
The Little Fair Trade Shop Products and foodstuffs made by artisans and farmers in developing or disadvantaged countries. E: thelittlefairtradeshop@hotmail.com T: Sabeena on 050 105 2813 www.thelittlefairtradeshop.com The Change Initiative, Barsha Sustainable products, from household to fashion and appliances. E: info@tci-mail.com T: 800 824 www.thechangeinitiative.com
SPAS & RETREATS
Mizan at Rocco Forte Hotel Abu Dhabi Traditional massages, Hammam rituals and tailor-made treatments using the worldrenowned brands Maroc and Natura Bisse www.roccofortehotelabudhabi.com Zayna Spa, Abu Dhabi Well-being treatments and traditional massages in this spa hotel based in the Grand Millennium Al Wahda Hotel, Abu Dhabi. Facial treatment against aging. E: zaynaspa@grandmill-alwahda.com T: +971 2 495 3822 www.grandmillenniumalwahda.com Anahata Spa, Abu Dhabi Beauty, health and holistic wellbeing. Khalifa City A, Abu Dhabi. T: 02 557 7722 E:info@anahataspa.ae www.anahataspa.ae. Namm Spa, Dusit Thani Abu Dhabi Massages, scrubs, facials, body treatments, water treatments and more. To book your well-being experience, call +971 (2) 698 8300. Dusit Thani Abu Dhabi, Muroor Road, Abu Dhabi www.dusit.com/dusitthani/abudhabi/ Al Asalla Spa, Dubai Ladies Club Ladies only. Moroccan Hammam and traditional Arabic Rasul, Detoxifying,
Firming and Hydrating Body Wraps, therapeutic Western & Eastern Body Massages, Facials as well as a variety of grooming services. Tel: +971 4 3499922 Ext: 400 or Ext: 410 Dir: +971 4 3449445 Email: alasalla.spa@dubailadiesclub.com www.dubailadiesclub.com Cryo Health Cryotherapy is a curative health treatment involving extremely low temperatures (-120 to -160 degrees Celsius). Health benefits include antiaging skin rejuvenation by stimulating collagen production and weight loss management by using the sub-zero temperature to speed up blood circulation and surge the metabolism. Locations: The Boulevard, Jumeirah Emirates Towers and Dubai Ladies Club, Jumeirah 2. T. +971 4 351 8300 T. +971 4 351 8300 E. contact@cryo-health.com www.cryo-health.com Healing Spa Villa 1183, Al Wasl Road, Dubai. T: +971 4 3483896 www.naturalhealingspas.com Spadunya Club, JBR Various holistic techniques from an international team of therapists and healers. Treatment suites, hammam, hydrotherapy, beauty room and steam, sauna and showers. Shams 1, The Walk at JBR, Plaza Level. T: 04 439 3669 www.spadunyaclub.com eSSensuals Aromatherapy Centre Holistic women’s spa. Treatments include massages, Facials, body treatments, reflexology, Aroma Manicure, Pedicure and more. First floor, Jumeirah Centre, Jumeirah Beach Road (next to Spinneys and Magrudys). E: essensuals1@gmail.com E: 04-3448776 Lotus Wellness Spa, Dubai Marina Holistic treatments for men and women. Lotus Hotel Apartments & Spa, Marina T: 044402805 E: spa@lotus-hospitality.com www.lotus-hospitality.com Powwer Lounge Ladies Fitness Weight-loss and wellness spa offfering personalised weight-loss, yoga, sculpting,
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meditation, hypnotherapy, ThetaHealing, Gong meditation, Tarot and Angel card readings, etc. T: 055 840 7679 E: powwerlounge@gmail.com www.powwereat.com Talise Wellness Spa, Madinat Jumeirah Blends integrative medicine and diagnostics with holistic therapies. www.jumeirah.com Kalm Holistic Beauty, Palm Jumeirah A One Stop holistic shop offering women facials, manicures, pedicures, eyelash extensions, massages, waxing, threading, hair treatments, haircut and blow drying. Palm Island Jumeira, Riva Beach Club, between Shoreline Apartments 7 and 8. T: +9714 451 9988. www.kalmbeauty.com Supreme Chi Energy Spa, JLT Energised water therapy spa for problems like asthma, angina, hypertension, migraines, headaches, back pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, high cholesterol, morning sickness, etc. Swiss Towers, Y3, opposite Carrefour & Damas, Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai T: 04 3605806 / 055 8742129 E: acarroll@supremechi-energyspa.com Sisters Beauty Lounge, Dubai & Abu Dhabi A high-end chain of salons for women that offer organic facials and brands including Cowshed, Eminence and Shiffa. Various locations around Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Go to the website for details. www.sistersbeautylounge.com ShuiQi Spa and Fitness, Atlantis The Palm Luxury spa for treatments, bathing options, traditional and water therapies. His and her separate areas. Palm Jumeirah, Dubai Tel. 04 4261020 Email: dxb-spa@atlantisthepalm.com www.atlantisthepalm.com
SPIRITUAL RESPONSE THERAPY (SRT)
Lukas Putz An SRT practitioner and teacher, Lukas works out of Illuminations Well- Being Centre (see Holistic Centres). For SRT information, www.spiritualresponse.com www.illuminationsworld.com B&C Wellness Brenda Margaret and Charu Mathur are SRT practitioners. T: +971 55 9743607 or +971 55 5662219 E: brendacharu@gmail.com www.brendacharu.com
STRESS MANAGEMENT
Well Woman Clinic, Melanie Schlatter E: wwc@emirates.net.ae T: 04 332 7117 www.wellwomanclinic.ae Dubai Physiotherapy & Family Medicine Comprehensive family medicine and physiotherapy. 1st Floor, Town Centre
Jumeirah, Jumeirah Beach Road. T: 04 349 6333 www.dxbphysio.com
UNANI (CUPPING/HIJAMA) Dr. Amr Farouk, Ajman Clinic at GMC Hospital. Call during business hours on +971 (0)6 746 3333
Al Hijama Alternative Medical Centre Drs. Fatima Shaheen and Syed Asaduddin Ahmed are Unani and Hijama specialists in Sharjah, 306 DeltaTower, Corniche Street, Sharjah. T: 050 804 9107 or 06 556 0500. E: docsaab@hotmail.com
TAI CHI
Meihua Li Tai Chi Group or private lessons available weekly. See website for times. T: Anmarie 050 4698589 E: anmarie@mltaichi.com www.mltaichi.com
TRAVEL (see ‘Wellness Retreats) THETA HEALING
Awakened Potential Adrian Maul uses NLP, ThetaHealing and hypnotherapy to help awaken your mind and heal any emotional or mental issues that are holding you back from realising your potential in work, home, socialising or achieving a life goal. First session free. T: +971 (0)56 676 9483 E: adrian@awakeningsme.com
emotional & spiritual healing. Book a ThetaHealing one-on-one session or attend a seminar with Masters and Certificates of Science Maya Badran and Tony Shoushani. T: +971 50 8491237 E: info@awakeningthemasters.com www.awakeningthemasters.com Sabine Poncelet Alternative Therapy Theta Healing, Reiki, Magnetism & Mediumship, Animal Communication. M: 050 81 44 529 www.sabinetherapies.com Theta Healing Universe Part of Third Eye Centre, offers Theta Healing courses and sessions. T: 04 326 6539 www.thetahealinguniverse.com
VASTU see ‘Feng Shui’ WELLNESS EQUIPMENT
Om Life High-end wellness, fitness and physiotherapy equipment for spas, clinics, gyms and private clients. T: +971 4 368 0994. E: infoweb@omlifeme.com www.omlifeme.com
WELLNESS CENTRES Life ‘nOne Life’nOne is a life center; a place to
revitalize mind and body. Services include meditation, flow yoga, Pilates, Reiki, energy healing, cord cutting, Barre, Pole dancing, dance, nutrition coaching, life coaching, ThetaHealing, Angelic healing, Qijong, hypnotherapy and past life regression. Also has a healthy cafe and beautiful garden for relaxing with a protein shake, green smoothie, Turkish coffee, etc. Location: Jumeirah 3, behind Magrudy’s Book Store. T: 04 343 6676 E: info@lifenone.com www.lifenone.com The Alignment Institute Aura alignment, Feng Shui, guided meditation, Tarot, NLP. P.O. Box 114350, Abu Dhabi T: 050 6811728 E: align@shivaniadalja.com www.shivaniadalja.com Discover Nirvana Self-discovery workshops, yoga for kids, space clearing and feng shui for the home, Ayurvedic cooking, wellness for pets, crystal healing, Reiki, Theta healing and online shopping. E: info@discovernirvana.org www.discovernirvana.org The Miracles Center Icon Tower, office 306, next to Byblos
Institute of Thought for Human Excellence Develop your personality with NLP; Karma Breakthrough and Wealth Mastery Seminars. Training Institute for 1. Karma Healing for Debt, Love, Procrastination, Health, Anger, Conflicts, Trauma issues. 2. Business Skills on Sales, Confidence, public speaking, Presentation etc 3. Equity Investment and Trading for Wealth Creation 4. Body Mind Soul Healing involving Past life Regression, Hypnotherapy, NLP, THetaHealing, 5. Law of Magnetism, Law of Attraction 6. Scientific Palmistry 7. Mentorship Courses on Business, Relationship, Spirituality etc Location: Suit # 2104, Jumeirah Bay X2 tower, JLT, Dubai. T. 055 268 7878 E: lakshmi@sumantkaultraining.com www.sumantkaultraining.com or www. sumantsumeetkaul.com ThetaHealing Sessions Evelin Novikova, Certified ThetaHealer offers one-on-one ThetaHealing sessions. Sessions are also available over Skype. T: + 971 55 947 3697 E: Evelin@thetahealingsessions.com www.thetahealingsessions.com Awakening Conferences & Seminars Organizing ThetaHealing helps you remove your subconscious blocks allowing you to create instantaneous physical, mental,
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Hotel Tecom T: +971 (0)4 363 9307 E: info@miraclesworldwide.com Cosmic Healing Centre Services, treatments, events and training in various healing modalities, self-empowerment workshops and meditations, plus alternative and complementary therapies. Pranic, Theta, Reiki, Vastu and Feng Shui, Crystal, KriyaShakti, EFT, Hypnotherapy.Office No: 402; Montana Building, Home Options Building, GPO, Karama, Dubai. E: info@cosmichealingcentre.org T: 04 357 6676 www.cosmichealingcentre.org Institute of Thought for Human Excellence Develop your personality with NLP; Karma Breakthrough and Wealth Mastery Seminars. Training Institute for 1. Karma Healing for Debt, Love, Procrastination, Health, Anger, Conflicts, Trauma issues. 2. Business Skills on Sales, Confidence, public speaking, Presentation etc 3. Equity Investment and Trading for Wealth Creation 4. Body Mind Soul Healing involving Past life Regression, Hypnotherapy, NLP, THetaHealing, 5. Law of Magnetism, Law of Attraction 6. Scientific Palmistry 7. Mentorship Courses on Business, Relationship, Spirituality etc Location: Suit # 2104, Jumeirah Bay X2 tower, JLT, Dubai. T. 055 268 7878 E: lakshmi@sumantkaultraining.com www.sumantkaultraining.com or www. sumantsumeetkaul.com Illuminations Well-Being Centre 409, Fortune Executive Towers, Cluster T, Plot T1, JLT (next to Dubai Marina Metro). E: info@illuminationsworld.com T: 04 448 7043 www.illuminationsworld.com The Third Eye Centre 1101 Saeed Tower II, On top of Nandos/ KFC, next to Four Points Sheraton, Sheikh Zayed Road. Financial Centre Metro. E: info@thirdeyeonline.com T: 04 326 6539 www.thirdeyeonline.com Balance Wellness Centre Ayurvedic treatments, diet, counselling, meditation, therapeutic massage, herbal therapies, yoga and Pilates. Third floor, Oasis Centre, Sheikh Zayed Road E: info.balance@cplmg.com T: 04 384 7010 www.balance-wellness-centre.com
WELLNESS RETREATS
B-Wellness Retreats Three-day retreats designed to help women jumpstart into healthy living. E: Bernadette@bernaciseme.com www.bernaciseme.com
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Yoga Retreats Groups taken on yoga and personal growth retreats in the UAE and abroad. T: 050 1819527 E: livia@yogaretreats.ae www.yogaretreats.ae
YOGA, GYMS & FITNESS
(see also ‘Pilates’, ‘Tai chi’, ‘Qigong’) Bodytree Studio, Abu Dhabi Yoga, Pilates and dance classes. T: +971 2 443 4448 E: info@bodytreestudio.com www.bodytreestudio.com Aura Alternative Medicine Centre, Sharjah Ayurvedic medicines, diet and lifestyle management and Panchakarma for detox, rejuvenating and relaxing. Office 201, Al Faisal 1, CBI Bank Building, King Faisal Road, Sharjah. E: info@aurahealth.ae T: 06 575 7001 www.aurahealth.ae Engine Health & Fitness, Dubai Yoga to Zumba, Body Pump, Combat and Attack, personal training and more. Beach Road, Jumeirah 1. Toll Free: 800 ENGINE T: +971-4-3819999 E: customercare@ehf.ae www.ehf.ae Balance Wellness Centre Yoga and Pilates classes including Hatha, Yoga Therapy, Vinyasa Flow, Dynamic, Pre and Post Natal, Pranayama and Meditation. Third floor, Oasis Centre, Sheikh Zayed Road. E: info.balance@cplmg.com. T: 04 384 7010. www.balance-wellness-centre.com Bikram Yoga Middle East Icon Tower, 4th Floor, TECOM. T: 04 368 6287 www.bikramyoga-me.com Bharat Thakur Artistic Yoga Group classes in various locations through Dubai, Ajman, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah. Book your free trial class on T: 800 9642 www.artisticyoga.com Club Stretch Bikram Yoga and Pilates studio. Al Mina Road, Satwa and Dubai Marina. E: info@clubstretch.ae T: 04 345 2131 www.clubstretch.ae Dubai Ladies Club Octagym is the new functional training playground of eight rides at Dubai Ladies Club in Jumeirah. Ladies only. T. 04 349 9922 www.dubailadiesclub.com Eco Yoga Sanctuary Eco-friendly ladies-only studio providing different styles of yoga for adults and children, meditation and pranayama. Location: The Village Mall, 1st Floor, Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai.
Tel: +971 4 385 6633 Email: enquiry@eys.ae. www.eys.ae Exhale Fitness, JBR, Dubai Ladies-only studios providing Yoga, Pilates, Body Toning and Dance Fitness. Murjan 1, Plaza level, The Walk at JBR. Tel; +971 4 4243777 E: info@exhaledubai.com www.exhaledubai.com Fidelity Fitness Club, Dubai Gym, swimming pool and a variety of group exercise classes including yoga, Pilates, RPM, Zumba, Body Pump, Body Combat, Belly Dancing, and more. Locations at Almas Tower in JLT and Al Fattan House in Dubai Marina. Tel. 04 451 1133 (Almas) or 04 392 8121 (Al Fattan). www.fidelityfitnessclub.com Fitness 360 Locations at Mazaya Centre (04 330 7711), Arabian Centre (04 236 2111) and International City E: info@fitness360.me www.fitness360.me Gems of Yoga, Dubai A team of yoga instructors from different parts of India impart yoga education in different styles. Suite 1701, White Crown Building, Shk Zayed Rd T: 04 3315161, 055 6532750 E: gemsofyoga@live.com www.facebook. com/gemsofyoga www.gemsofyogadubai.com Ignite Fitness and Wellness Fitness and wellness solutions, including military bootcamps, personal training, group exercise, corporate wellness, life coaching, g and nutritional advice. Tel. (+9714) 4562482 or email info@ignitewellness.com www.ignite-wellness.com MMA Fitness Centre, Hot Yoga Hot yoga is held at this multi-discipline fitness centre. Location, Pacific Bldg. 2nd Level, TECOM, Dubai, UAE T: 04 367 5077 E: info@mmafitcenter.com www.mmafitcenter.com Total EllipticTraining and Weight Management Centre Indoor walking machines make this
training and weight management centre unique to the GCC. Location: Floor 8, Yassat Gloria Hotel, Tecom. Sunday – Thursday 0800-1300 and 1700-2100. Tel. 04 381 8931 Info@totalelliptic.com www.totalelliptic.com Sweatshop Studios Hot yoga, Pilates, BootyBarre, Pole Dancing, Zumba classes. Concorde Tower, Cluster H, JLT. T. +971 (0)50 435 5474 E. hello@sweatshop-studios.com www.sweatshop-studios.com Talise Spa Yoga, Madinat Jumeirah Hatha, Astanga, Advanced Yoga, Fitness Yoga, Vinyasa Fit Yoga, Meditative Yoga. Also monthly full moon yoga sessions. E: MJtalise@jumeirah.com T: +971 4 366 6818 www.jumeirah.com Rawr Bikram Yoga, Media City, Dubai Al Sufouh Rd, 713 Concord Tower, Dubai Media City (same building as Lime Tree cafe and Mini Cooper showroom) E: info@rawryoga.com T: 04 4232 808 www.rawryoga.com Yoga Room, JLT, Dubai Ashtanga yoga studio. Swiss Tower, Cluster Y, JLT. T: 050 518 9966 E: info@yogaroom.ae www.yogaroom.ae Zen Yoga, Dubai Various forms of yoga at several locations in Dubai including Dubai Media City, Springs Town Centre and Jumeirah. www.yoga.ae TribeFit, A gym, a club, a café and lounge all rolled into one. Sports facilities, inspirational Personal Training, Beach Bootcamps, and in-club DJs, Call 800 TRIBE (87423). Email info@tribefit.com www.tribefit.com Yoga Square All levels of Hatha Yoga, Vinyasa Yoga and Pilates. Location: SIT tower -1408, Silicon Oasis, Dubai. T: 04 379 3314 or email info@yogasquare-me.com http://yogasquare-me.com
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Feel my
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Neanderthal Man is a 40-something, ex-British soldier who collects exotic knives and can strip down a semi-automatic rifle blind-folded. Until recently, he thought ‘chakras’ was a Latina pop star whose hips don’t lie. But things changed for the cardcarrying caveman when he met the Tree Hugger… this issue, he gets to grips with chakras…
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’m pretty well versed at all this hippie stuff now. I even know about things like chakras. There are seven main ones dotted up your spine to the top of your head. I’m not sure what they do though. Recently the Tree Hugger took me along to one of her whacky workshops. This one was about learning to feel someone else’s chakras. ‘Awesome,’ I thought, when she told me, I knew I’d probably be the only bloke; I had an idea of where some of those chakras
were and I had full consent from the Tree Hugger to feel other people’s, the day was looking up. So we get there and it started with all the usual full body embracing, air kissing, complimenting one another on how great their aura was looking, all while a CD of Om chanting to Tibetan singing bowls played in the background. When the mutual aura appreciation was done, the workshop kicked off and as luck would have it, Tree Hugger was pulled up to be part of the first demo.
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The lady who was teaching us about feeling chakras started patting the air around Tree Hugger, stopping about six inches from her body. “There you are, can you see I am touching the edge of her chakra?” she asked the group. “Can you see how well developed her heart chakra is?” Everyone nodded seriously and murmured things like ‘oh yes’ and ‘mmm definitely’. I looked as hard as I could but for the life of me I couldn’t see Tree Hugger’s heart chakra. But I joined in all the head nodding anyway and mumbled, ‘yes, very big, just lovely…’ and hoped they didn’t guess I wasn’t talking about her chakra. Then it was our turn to practise on each other. If I do say so myself, I put on an Oscar-winning performance. Like I’d seen that French mime artist Marcel Marceau do when he was pretending to be stuck behind a wall, I moved my hands slowly around my partner’s torso like I was feeling for something. After a bit of this, complete with furrowed brow to suggest deep, trance-like concentration, I pretended that I couldn’t bring my hands any closer because I’d hit an invisible barrier. The teacher congratulated me but Tree Hugger shot me one of those warning looks that suggested she wasn’t fooled. In the car on the way home, I said to Tree Hugger, “So, um, did you, ah, could you… actually feel anything?” She sat suspiciously still for a moment and then said, “Well, I think so… I’m not sure…” We stared at the road ahead in contemplation. Had everyone in the group been pretending? Was it like The Emperor’s New Chakras? That’s when I saw the opportunity. So I’m holding my first life-transforming workshop next month. Come along, I’ll teach you how to see auras and feel chakras for an energy exchange of just AED 5,000. Be quick! Limited spaces! Sign up at www.ChakraScam.ae.
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