CUDDLING: Barry du Plooy discusses the art of a well-meant cuddle
Can you imagine getting together with a bunch of total strangers with the intention of allowing them to touch and cuddle you? Eeeeeeuw! is the reaction some have to this question...
Wholistic Health
Prickly feelings in spirituality and wholistic medicine
Many of us experience that prickly feeling with the body hair standing on end and theBhagavad Gita : Krishna and Arjuna skin looking like “goose bumps” time and again. It is usually associated...
QI GONG: An effective antidote to modern stress
There is stress in the world all around us—financial worries over the economy, fears over global political instability, as well as concerns about the environment and the safety of our food and water...
INTUITIVE LIFE MOVEMENT: Who are you, right now?
Gayle found herself reaching out toward a group member during an exercise about moving intuitively with awareness of others. She later reflected, “I kept reminding myself that I don’t do this...
SOUND HEALING: Restore harmony in the body by resonating at your correct frequency
Sound Healing uses sound to create balance and alignment in the physical body, the energy centres ouncalled "chakras,” and/or the etheric fields. The sound may be applied by an instrument or...
LIVING FOODS: Raw foodism is a lifestyle choice that honours the body
The raw food diet, also known as raw foodism or the live food diet, promises to remedy unhealthy lifestyles by integrating fruits, vegetables, sprouts and nuts into meals...
HEALING POWERS OF NATURE: Experiential Outdoor Programs as Therapy
The day begins with four families tentatively driving minivans down a dirt road outside of St. Petersburg, Florida to meet their counselors for their first overnight...
Use Reiki to Harness your Life Energy for Healing and Relaxation
“Reiki” is the Japanese phrase for “universal life energy.” It was developed in Japan by minister Mikao Usui in the early 1920s. After studying Buddhist teachings...
FELDENKRAIS METHOD: Simple movements that integrate mind and body
Sometimes I’m awestruck by the grace and agility of certain animals; the way a giraffe moves its neck when walking, the spring of a horse over a jump, or the pounce of a housecat. Animals have a...