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Editor’s letter What’s happening?
Upcoming UAE events and news
AWAKENED MIND
14 Beliefs and brainwaves: The power of ThetaHealing
Switch your brainwave; change your beliefs and transform your life.
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18 Exclusive! Interview with Vianna Stibal
ThetaHealing founder Vianna Stibal speaks to Awakenings before her 2015 visit.
20 Heal with homeopathy
What you can and can’t get from homeopathy
24 The business of yoga
How yoga entrepreneurs can make money out of their passion.
AWAKENED HEART
28 Negaholics Anonymous
Are you always beating yourself up? How to break the cycle of negativity addiction.
32 Teach yourself to Astral Travel
Do we leave our bodies and explore other worlds while we dream? If so, can we learn to do it intentionally?
AWAKENED BODY
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The rise of the vegans
Once at the extreme edge of the hippie wedge, veganism is now mainstream with some heavy-hitting celebrity fans.
40 Tackling osteoarthritis
From sugar to sitting, the inflammatory effects of the western diet and lifestyle may be causing this debilitating condition.
42 Inversion Therapy
Turning upside down cures everything from heart murmurs, to back pain, migraine and depression.
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Live Forever juice recipe
Drink this daily for your best chance of being in top physical and mental health when you hit 100
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The magic of Manuka
Antibacterial and anti-inflammatory, the power of active honey.
AWAKENED LIFE & STYLE
48 Ecstatic dance in Hawaii
Like a moving meditation, Ecstatic Dance nights are about connecting mind, body and spirit through music and free movement.
50 Retail Therapy 51 UAE Wellness Listings
The A to Z of local wellness services, products, healers, centres…
58 Neanderthal man goes new age
Diary of how life is changing for a 40-something caveman since he met the Tree Hugger.
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Welcome!
Your guide to wellness and healthy living in the UAE Published by
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love healers. It’s kind of my hobby to experience different alternative healing techniques. I’m never one to shy away from the really ‘woo woo’ ones either. Quite the opposite. If someone tells me they channel light beings from the Pleiades star system, or that they telepathically communicate with animals, or perform healings with spirit surgeons from Atlantis, I’m like, ‘goodness how marvellous! Do introduce me then, how shall I greet your illustrious Pleiadian friend? …’ For the mainstream community, people who claim to talk to aliens and angels are generally viewed with some skepticism. Which is absolutely fine. We need healthy skepticism but we also need open minds and hearts. It’s uplifting to see how far things have come. The ‘less wacky’ forms of alternative healing like Traditional Chinese Medicine, hypnotherapy and acupuncture are now being offered in regular medical clinics as the mind-body connection is more understood. A few years ago, doctors trained in western medicine would have smugly dismissed the idea that stress and nutrition played a part in diseases such as diabetes or cancer. Now it seems ludicrous not to acknowledge this link. We’re coming round to the idea that stuffing the body with pills is not healing it. We are not meat suits. We are beings with bodies, emotions, beliefs and a spirit and it is this new* holistic approach to healing that is at the heart of the latest crop of energy healing modalities, one of which is ThetaHealing. Chances are you’ll be hearing a lot about this technique in the weeks to come as in November the UAE is getting its first visit from spiritual healing superstar Vianna Stibal, founder of ThetaHealing. See our story about ThetaHealing on page 14 and our interview with Vianna on page 18. These are exciting times.
Managing Director TAMARA PITELEN tamara@awakeningsme.com Mob: +971 (0)50 843 3262 Art Director JUN RODRIGUEZ jun@awakeningsme.com Tel: +971 (0)56 754 0837 Subscriptions Manager & Motoring Editor ADRIAN MAUL adrian@awakeningsme.com Mob: +971 (0)56 676 9483 Advertising TAMARA PITELEN tamara@awakeningsme.com Mob: +971 (0) 50 8433 262 Contributors ALEXANDRA SALKOVA CLAIRE HIGGINS CARLY RAINBIRD DAWN ROWLAND KAYA PETERS MOHAMMED FEROZE JANAIA DONALDSON Registered at Fujairah Media Freezone Head Office, P.O. Box 4422 Fujairah, U.A.E. Tel: +971 (0)50 8433 262
*I say ‘new’ but actually, the fact that we comprise soul, mind and body is ancient wisdom that we just forgot for a while and are now rediscovering.
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Allergies? ADHD? For whatever ails your child, there’s an alternative therapy A UAE woman’s inspiring story ...and why food intolerances are deadlye
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All the organic farms in the UAE
Wellness Wonder Women UAE
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Healing power of bone broth
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2015
The rise of the
Lock up your lettuce! vegans How veganism has The vegans are coming. gone from hippie to hip
How to Astral
UPSIDE DOWN YOU’RE TURNING ME From back pain and migraine to depression, the surprising healing benefits of inversion therapy
Travel Explore other dimension s, worlds and realms. No plane tickets required Beating osteoar
The insidious role
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Fertility with hypnotherapy of infertility?
How genes for disease can be switched
Yoga for children in Dubai
Ancient energy healing in the UAE
epigenetics Stepping into the future of healing
For weight-control, diabetes reversal,
Child’s pose
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What’s happening in your town WIN! UFOs and the Nature of Reality, Preparing for Contact
28-30 September, Natural Birth Retreat
Spend three days with the world’s leading natural birth expert, May Gaskin, on this luxury retreat in the five star Telal resort in the Remah Desert of Al Ain, for two nights and three days. Limited to 15 women only. Includes free conference tickets and a free ticket to Dr Jack Newman’s full day seminar. Price: Start from AED 3900. For more details go to www.nbbcgcc.com/retreat/
1, 4-5 October, Amani Doula and Childbirth Educator Training
Train to be a Childbirth Educator and Doula with Amani Birth, an Islamically based childbirth education and doula certification program designed to prepare professionals in natural birth. Training suitable for all faiths and cultures. Price: AED 3000 Location: University Hospital Sharjah Tel. 055 332 6642 Email: info@natureswaydubai.com www.nbbcgcc.com
2-3 October, The 1st GCC Natural Birth & Breastfeeding Conference
A first of its kind event in the GCC, NBBC is a platform for improvement and change in the way women approach birth and breastfeeding. A pre-conference day seminar on breastfeeding will be given by the expert Dr. Jack Newman, a full day post-conference seminar by Ina May Gaskin, world’s most famous midwife, and a two-day workshop on water birth and undisturbed birth by waterbirth activist Barbara Harper. Prices: Start from AED 350 Location: University Hospital Sharjah Tel. 055 332 6642 Email: info@natureswaydubai.com Register at www.nbbcgcc.com
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UFOs are already here. That’s the conclusion of a new book called UFOs and the Nature of Reality, Preparing for Contact, which are the collected teachings of Ramtha, a being channeled by JZ Knight founder of Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment. Download book excerpts at www.ramtha.com/content/pdf/Excerpt_UFO. We’ve got one copy of Ramtha’s new book to give away to Awakenings readers in the UAE. To win this copy, just send an email to win@awakeningsme.com, put ‘UFO Book’ in the subject head and tell us in 25 words or less why you want it.
22-26 September, Kundalini Yoga teacher training
Train to certify as a Kundalini Yoga Teacher. KRI (Kundalini Research Institute) and Yoga World Alliance certified 220 hour training course in Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yogi Bhajan. With trainers from Argentina, Scotland and France flying down to conduct the training in 4 modules spread across the year. This training brings about amazing self-transformation. Date: Module 1 - 22-26 September (Modules 2, 3, 4 in December, February and April) Price: Early bird price till 10 August – USD$4100 For further details, queries and registration, please contact: namaste@yogaspaceme.com or call Jaya on +971 55 805 7415 www.facebook.com/yogaspaceme www.yogaspaceme.com
Inversion Therapy workshops and private sessions
Inversion Therapist and Yoga Teacher Paul Terrell regularly visits Dubai for private sessions and workshops. His next visits are 9-16 September, 5-12 October and 18-25 November. The founder and Principal of The School of Inversion Therapy, Paul works out of the Life’n One Wellness Centre in Jumeirah 1. To book a session with him, email info@lifenone.com or call 04 443 6676. For more information on Paul and inversion therapy, go to www.inversiontherapy.net. www.lifenone.com
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What’s happening in your town November 2015 to December 2016, 300+ hour Yoga Therapy & Entrepreneurship Teacher Training in Dubai
Have you always dreamed of becoming a successful yoga teacher? If you are looking to learn more deeply about the therapeutic applications of asana, teaching skills, and the ability to really help others to heal their lives join Holistic Yoga Teacher Kaya Peters in this yearlong process of developing your skills as a teacher, healer and entrepreneur in one of the fastest growing industries in the world. Dates: November 2015 - December 2016 Price: $4500 (AED 16,500) for the full year of tuition Tel or Whatsapp: +971 56 212 5878 Email: info@kayayogatherapy.com www.kayayogatherapy.com
16 November, Free EFT Tapping Awareness Talk and Demo
Join UK EFT Master trainer Peter Donn on a rare opportunity to learn the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Also known as ‘Tapping’ it has been transforming lives across the world for the past 20 years. It profoundly helps to release stress - often within minutes, clear past traumas, fears about the future, and blocks in the way of 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. The phobia disappeared. Join Peter for this evening talk and learn the basics for free. Following the talk, starting 20 November is a full EFT training for Self-help or to become an accredited EFT practitioner. Location: Illuminations WellBeing Center, 409, Fortune Executive Towers, Cluster T, JLT Timings: 6pm to 8pm Price: Free for awareness talk. 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 on 04 448 7043. www.illuminations.ae
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13-14 November, Spirituality 101 – The Science of Spirituality workshop
Amara Tia Ann works as an intuitive reader, energy healer and spiritual teacher who channels a spectrum of energies from across the Universe. The co-founder of the Aleph Centre of Accelerated Spiritual Transformation (ACAST) of Singapore, Amara’s focus since 2012 has been on transmitting galactic energies to support human ascension, through a combination of workshops and channeled information posted on ACAST blog (www.acast.me). After her debut workshop in Dubai in February, Amara Tia Ann is returning in November 2015 to facilitate a new workshop, Spirituality 101 – the Science of Spirituality, in which she will explain and transmit the energy activations from the galactic core for quickening one’s spiritual awakening. Private healing and intuitive reading consultations are available from 15–17 November. Venue: Life‘n One Wellness Center, Jumeirah To book, email info@lifenone.com or call 04 443 6676. Visit www.acastdotme.wordpress.com for more information. www.lifenone.com
October, Chinese Energetics level 1 & 2 & 3 with Bart Smyth
The Chinese Energetics Level 1 and 2 Beginner and Intermediate is taught over three days by Bart Smyth. A powerful healing modality, you learn the basic Chinese Energetics beginner and intermediate method from Dr Yuen Chinese Energetic Medicine. 16-17 October, level 1, AED 1900 per person 6-8 October, Level 2 and 3, AED 2750 per person Venue: Life‘n One Wellness Center, Jumeirah 1 To book, email info@lifenone.com or call 04 443 6676. www.lifenone.com
28-31 October, Kriyaji in Dubai
Yogi Kriyaji seeks to guide us all towards love, truth, higher awareness and self-realization via yogic teachings as outlined in books like Patanjali's The Yoga Sutras. Kriyaji demonstrates how the practices of Hatha yoga, pranayama and meditation, can bring the disciple to their own direct perception of the Divine. Kriyaji's approach is based on Divine alignment, which unfolds like the opening of a lotus. The students will be introduced to sequences that incorporate all the elements of Yoga, like a moving meditation through the performance of asanas, mudras and breath work. Dates: From 28 to 31 October, Kriyaji will hold various workshops and sessions. For more information, contact Life‘n One Wellness Center, Jumeirah 1, email info@lifenone.com or call 04 443 6676. www.lifenone.com
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What’s happening in your town VIANNA IN DUBAI! November, Become a ThetaHealing teacher
For the first time, ThetaHealing Founder Vianna Stibal is in Dubai to teach ThetaHealing and certify a new group of ThetaHealing teachers. Don’t miss out, book now! 17-20 November, Basic Instructor. Pre-requisites: Basic and Advanced Practitioner. Price: $1650 (AED 6060) 21-22 November, Advanced Instructor. Prerequisites: Basic and Advanced Practitioner. Price: $1320 (AED 4,850) 25-26 November, Dig Deeper Practitioner. Prerequisites: Basic and Advanced Practitioner. Price: $700 (AED 2,600) 27 November: Dig Deeper Instructor. Pre-requisite: Basic Instructors, Advanced Instructors, Dig Deeper. Price: $680 (AED 2500) Venue: Anantara The Palm Dubai To book, go to www.viannaindubai.com
12 November, The Essence of Reconnective Healing
Taught by Dr Eric Pearl, this 3.5-hour demonstration and discussion is an introduction to the philosophy, art, and science of Reconnective Healing. Hear the story of Eric Pearl’s initial encounter with the Reconnective Healing frequencies; experience an in-depth exploration about what ‘healing’ means; and learn about the simplicity of the Reconnective Healing approach. Times: 6.30pm to 10pm (registration at 5pm) For more information, email: info@illuminationsworld.com www.illuminations.ae and www.TheReconnection.com
13-14 November, Reconnective Healing Level 1
Taught by Dr Eric Pearl, this two-day, highly engaging training program will introduce you to the fullness of Reconnective Healing, a new and evolved level of health, balance and human potential that requires no technique or rituals. Price: AED 2350 Times: Friday, 13 November 2015 – 8:30am-6pm (registration at 8am) Saturday, 14 November 2015 – 9:30am-7pm (registration begins at 8:45) Location: Al Murooj Rotana, Dubai Al Murooj Rotana Dubai, Al Safa Street, Dubai To register go to: https://store.thereconnection.com/product/ november12-14-2015-dubai-uae-level1/ For more information, email: info@illuminationsworld.com www.illuminations.ae and www.TheReconnection.com
20, 27 September and 4 October, Arvigo Therapy and Mayan Spiritual Healing
Arvigo Therapy and Mayan Spiritual Healing private are available throughout the day and in the evenings on the above dates. Venue: Illuminations Wellbeing Center, Office 409, Fortune Executive Towers, Cluster T, JLT. Price: AED 500 per hour. New client sessions are two hours long and include a consultation, self-care instruction and an hour of bodywork. Existing client sessions are one hour long. Cash payment required. For more information on Arvigo Therapy and Mayan Spiritual Healing, visit www.arvigotherapy.com and www.rositaarvigo.com
19 September, Qoya workshop ‘The Wilderness Within’
Through movement, we remember our essence is wise, wild and free. A three-hour workshop based on inspired movement, Qoya is designed to feel how the body and movement are a portal to remembering, to feel our perspective shifts from going through the motions to savoring life as sacred. Qoya, which means ‘Queen’, helps us remember those things that can’t be put into words. Like when you see a sunset and your whole body exhales. Venue: Illuminations Wellbeing Center, Office 409, Fortune Executive Towers, Cluster T, JLT. www.illuminations.ae Times: 9am to 12pm, Saturday 19 September (more workshops on 26 September and 3 October) Spaces are limited. Please email samar@moon-yoga.com to register. For more information on Qoya please visit www.loveqoya.com
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ThetaHealing Changes Lives
By changing your brainwave with a simple meditation, you have the power to heal yourself and others. It might sound far-fetched but the energy healing modality called ThetaHealing has hundreds of thousands of people around the world singing its praises. For the first time, the founder of this healing modality, Vianna Stibal, is teaching in Dubai in November 2015. Awakenings spoke to Dubai-based ThetaHealing practitioners Maya Badran and Tony Shoushani to find out more about this intriguing healing technique. Words by Tamara Pitelen. www.awakeningsme.com
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n 1995, Vianna Stibal, an American mother of three young children, was diagnosed with a cancer that was destroying her right femur. Everything she tried from conventional medicine and alternative medicine had failed, until she employed a simple technique that she used in her work as an intuitive reader. Amazed at her own cure, Stibal began using this technique with clients and saw person after person miraculously healed. Since then, this technique has become a fully-fledged energy healing system called ThetaHealing, spawning many books, workshops, audio and videos not to mention the 300,000 ThetaHealing practitioners in 152 countries - and counting. The simple premise of ThetaHealing is that by learning how to move your brain into a meditative theta state (four to seven cycles per second) and connecting with the creative energy that moves through all things, you can make permanent changes on all levels: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
DUBAI AWAKENING
Here in the UAE, husband and wife team Maya Badran and Tony Shoushani are the founders of a company called Awakening through which they are spreading the message of ThetaHealing through classes, workshops and private sessions. The couple discovered the technique when Maya had a private session on the recommendation of a friend. Amazed at the results, she booked herself and Tony on a three-day Basic ThetaHealing course in 2010 and since then the couple’s lives have changed dramatically in every way – health, career, relationships and more. Today, they are passionate and full-time advocates for ThetaHealing and are driven by a mission to help as many people as possible take back the reins of their life and take control of their own healing and wellbeing.
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You attract what you are putting out. The universe works like a restaurant, you order a pizza, you get a pizza; you order a burger, you get a burger... When she first learnt about ThetaHealing, Maya was a TV producer. “I’d worked in the advertising industry for about 15 years until some dramatic events happened in our life, we crashed financially, I lost my job. At that moment everything in my life needed help, financially we were not doing well and our marriage was affected by the money troubles. “I don’t come from a background of spirituality. In my family, talking about angels and so on doesn’t exist but one day some friends mentioned it and because I was not in so good a place, it attracted my interest. I visited them when a lady was explaining ThetaHealing, she chose me for the demo and worked on me for about 30 minutes. I didn’t know what it was or what she was doing – I just felt that something touched my heart and my soul, these are the only words I can express. “Of course there is feeling better and happier but the thing that really caught my attention was that it touched a deep side in me.”
ESOTERIC STRUGGLE
Like many people when they first start learning ThetaHealing, Maya struggled at first. Tony however was a natural from day one.
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“I didn’t get it. It was too much for me,” Maya says. “It was too metaphysical, there was too much talk about how I’m creating my reality and everything is energy… but for Tony, he was in his element. “For me, I knew it worked but I didn’t know to make it work. Tony got it. He got it from the first day of Basic. He said, ‘this is it, it works, I get it, it gels with my belief system’. It did not gel with mine, but it did gel with my soul.” At the end of every day of class though, Maya says she was a happier person. “There was something that was better in me and that’s why I kept going, then we did the Advanced workshop and then I repeated Basic and Advanced because I didn’t feel I mastered it or understood the technique. So every time the classes were given in Dubai, I would repeat them. I was determined to understand it so I did the Basic and Advanced courses seven times. Repeating is not failing, every time you repeat you understand new things.”
THETA FOR BEGINNERS
According to Tony, ThetaHealing gives you the tools to change your life but there is one crucial aspect. “This is very important. At the end of the day, you have to have a central belief in an energy that has created this universe, this is a prerequisite to Theta. If you don’t believe in an energy that has created this universe, Theta will not work. “So whether you call this energy the Universe, God, Creator, Love, Source, the Big Bang… whatever you feel comfortable calling the energy that created this universe. You are part of this universe and that energy is the energy of unconditional love and that energy has the ability to recreate instantly.” Tony says there are no victims in this world and that everything you have in your life – the good and the bad – you have created because at some level you want it, yes, even poverty and illness. If that’s in your life then at some level, deep in your subconscious, you want it.
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“You are creating your own reality every moment based on your decisions - but your decisions are influenced by your subconscious beliefs. “You tell me, ‘Tony it’s not true, there are a lot of things in my life I don’t have that I want and a lot of things I have that I don’t want’. I tell you it doesn’t matter what you consciously think; your subconscious makes all of these decisions based on your belief system. “You attract what you are putting out. The universe works like a restaurant, you order a pizza, you get a pizza; you order a burger, you get a burger.” The problem is that we don’t usually know what we are ordering as this is being done by the subconscious mind. Your conscious mind plays just a small part in your final decision-making, Tony says. What’s the answer? The key is to search for and uproot the beliefs in your subconscious causing you to create, say, money, health or relationship problems and replace them with new beliefs. ThetaHealing is a technique to make these changes.
SUBCONSCIOUS BELIEFS
“Some people ask us, ‘is it that easy?’ And we say, ‘yes’. It’s just a frequency that’s active in someone’s subconscious that’s of a low vibration. We change it to a positive one, Maya says. “It’s just changing the frequency that you’re sending out. It’s like a song.” ThetaHealing practitioners work with your subconscious, which is 88 per cent of your mind. “That’s the power,” says Maya. “We want that part to feel abundant and worthy of love; we want that part to believe that life doesn’t need to be a struggle because if the belief, ‘life is a struggle’ is in your subconscious, and even if consciously you don’t want struggle, the subconscious is going to win.” If your subconscious believes that, for example, rich people are greedy, you may unwittingly sabotage a job offer that comes with good money.
The key is to search for and uproot the beliefs in your subconscious causing you to create, say, money, health or relationship problems and replace them with new beliefs. “Someone won’t be aware that they’re doing this, consciously they want they job but subconsciously, the 88 per cent is thinking, ‘no, no job for you, you’ll be too rich and you’ll get all greedy…’ but the moment we change that frequency in the subconscious mind about money and you teach your subconscious that they can be abundant without being greedy then they will allow the job opportunity,” says Maya.
BONES OF A THETA SESSION
“Let’s make it very simple,” says Maya. “Let’s says a client comes to me who cannot find a partner; she cannot find true love. The first thing I do is shift my brain to a Theta brainwave through a quick meditation. That’s why people meditate, to get into that stillness where you can receive guidance from the Universe. Guidance can be received in thought forms, pictures, whatever, it’s the language between you and the Universe. “The moment I connect, I will be guided on what her issues are on a subconscious level, for example, she might feel unworthy of love, or she might feel that people who love her, leave her because her father abandoned her as a child. I’ll start working with that belief, so we start a process called digging to find the root cause. So I’ll ask her, for example, what is the worst thing about not having a partner, she might answer, ‘I feel lonely’. So I’ll ask, ‘What’s the worst thing about that?’ She might say, ‘life has no meaning, I’m depressed…’ she’ll go deeper and deeper and we have to go as deep as needed to reach something called the bottom belief, which is the root.
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“The bottom belief might have nothing to do with wanting love, it could be about feeling invisible. So we ask, ‘when was the first time you felt invisible?’ She might remember that when she was a little girl her parents used to fight a lot, screaming abuse at each other right in front of her, as though she wasn’t there. “Then I would take it one step further with her and that’s the turning point in the session, I will ask her what positive lessons did she learn from this experience.
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Some people ask us, ‘is it that easy?’ And we say, ‘yes’. It’s just a frequency active in someone’s subconscious that’s of a low vibration. We change it to a positive one. “A lot of people’s first reaction is to say, ‘there is no positive Maya. I was a child, I felt abused, I felt alone and insecure…’ I say, ‘Of course you felt all this but if you did learn something positive what would it be?’ “For example, maybe she learnt not to fight with others that way, so if she has a conflict with people, she speaks to them with respect, not screaming abuse. There are many different learnings but if we don’t reach the positive learnings, her mind will not let go of the trauma and we will not be able to change that frequency or vibration of feeling invisible.” Once understanding is reached though, says Maya, this belief will completely shift. “She will not feel invisible anymore so she will allow men to see her because if she feels invisible that’s why she doesn’t have a partner because she’s sending out the frequency of ‘I’m invisible, I’m nobody’.”
HAPPINESS IS YOUR BIRTHRIGHT
“There is nothing you can’t change based on your free will and laws of the Universe,” Tony says. It is everyone’s birth right is to be happy, to be abundant, and to live life without sacrifice or struggle.” The reason that so many people live unhappy lives of lack, sickness, suffering and struggle, he says, is down to conditioning and the subconscious beliefs that we pick up during our childhood from parents, teachers, peer group, the media, the environment, and even from our ancestors whose genetic information we carry in our DNA.
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Most of our conditioning is set in the first eight years of life. This is when our subconscious mind acts as a simple sponge, soaking everything up with no discernment. So if a parent says to their child, ‘you must always work hard to earn money, nothing is handed to you on a plate…’ this belief is set in the subconscious like a computer program and will influence the child’s reality. Or if a father abandons the family when his daughter is just six, perhaps her learning is that men who love her always leave or she can’t trust men. Again, this belief plays out in her reality as she grows into a woman. In the first instance, says Tony, some people panic at the thought of being 100 per cent responsible – at a subconscious level – for everything in their life. They think, ‘Oh no, I brought this situation on myself, but why? And how do I stop doing it? I don’t know how to stop!’ But when you understand how this game works, you feel completely
empowered, Tony says, because there is absolutely nothing in your life you can’t change. ThetaHealing is one technique but there are thousands of other healing modalities, your only obligation is to explore them. “It’s a journey of self-discovery,” Tony says. “It’s a very fulfilling journey, you can use it for every aspect. For me, I just wanted to grow my business and fix my marriage. Both of those things are now doing great. Now I’m very passionate about Theta so I started doing this full time in 2014 and I feel this is my true calling. I feel that everything I’ve done in my entire life has prepared me for what I’m doing now.” “I taught my first ThetaHealing class last year and it was the most fulfilling experience of my life. Having the honour to play a small role in changing someone’s life is far more fulfilling than anything else. It gives you that tingly feeling. Very rewarding, beyond words.”
If you’d like to experience ThetaHealing or learn the technique, contact Awakening ThetaHealing, tel. +971 50 8491237 or email info@ awakeningthemasters.com. For information on all Maya and Tony’s classes and events please visit: www.awakeningthemasters.com www.facebook.com/groups/ Tony Shoushani and Maya Badran awakeningthemasters are the husband and wife team that are making www.viannaindubai.com ThetaHealing mainstream in the UAE.
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Q&A with ThetaHealing’s Vianna Stibal For many people around the world, ThetaHealing founder Vianna Stibal is a spiritual superstar. Now, for the first time, she is coming to teach her unique energy healing modality in Dubai in November 2015. Vianna spoke to Awakenings magazine as she prepared for her trip to the Emirates.
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t’s an exciting time for fans of alternative healing in the UAE. This year, the founder of energy healing modality ThetaHealing, Vianna Stibal, is coming to teach in Dubai in November. For many, she is a spiritual superstar whose work, which seamlessly combines cuttingedge science with spirituality is profound and life transformational. To date, there are 152 countries with ThetaHealing practitioners and an estimated of 300,000 practitioners around the world. Awakenings spoke to Vianna before her UAE visit:
In which regions is ThetaHealing spreading the fastest?
VS: “It is interesting that the countries that are in a lot of turmoil are spreading very quickly. For the most part, people who have deep religious beliefs, strong beliefs and values in God are spreading the fastest. These people are believers; they already believe in the Creator, in God, and that’s the one key you have to have to do ThetaHealing and really understand that the Creator does the work and we are the witnesses; and these people already have their faith.”
What is the biggest misconception that people have about ThetaHealing?
VS: “A misconception that I’ve run into a lot lately is people think they can take the work to the big business sector but they don’t want to take the whole healing modality; they only want to take the belief work. They think that big business isn’t interested in angels and the other things that ThetaHealing teaches, but I believe that’s wrong. A lot of business people have a strong belief in the Creator and in the fact that they are part of the one energy of All That Is.”
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people believe you should have no issues yourself? How do you explain why this is not so?
VS: “People come to ThetaHealing for different reasons, most of them come to heal themselves or their family or the planet, and I think there is a great misconception that a healer has to be well. People don’t expect doctors to always be well, but they expect healers to be well, which is ridiculous because everybody has a human body. I think healers should accept their selves as being part of the world and being human and always be working on themselves to get themselves physically stronger. We are doing our best to grow spiritually and keep our bodies with us, growing and changing and getting better.
There seem to be hundreds of different healing modalities these days, what sets ThetaHealing apart from the others?
VS: “First of all ThetaHealing is not anti-other healing modalities, we believe there is a reason we learn everything and there a reason for everything that we do. The one major concept in ThetaHealing is that we are connected to the Creator and that we are allowed to witness the creative force doing the work. So we ourselves are witnesses in this program of ThetaHealing. I have seen ThetaHealing clear beliefs, I’ve seen ThetaHealing heal dogs, cats, plants… we pretty well encompass a lot in our healing but we also embrace other people’s ideas.”
Why has the world been gifted this technique? What is the purpose of getting it now – in this time in the world’s history?
VS: “Spiritually I believe that it has come back to the world from eons ago in order to help push the earth to a change, a change that would actually lift up the spiritually energy of the earth so that we can actually move forward in our spiritual progress rather than destroy
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ourselves, so it is super important that we begin to make changes so that we move forward in peace and love.”
How do you see it evolving?
VS: “I see ThetaHealing evolving at a greater level than I ever saw before. People grab onto it because on some level our souls already know that we are connected to the Creator and we already on some level know how to do this and how to change things. “I think in a really important way we are making a difference coming from joy, love and true connection, knowing that we are sparks of God.”
How do you feel about the potential of ThetaHealing in the UAE and Middle East?
VS: “I think that working with people that already respect and love the Creator is going to be an ideal environment for ThetaHealing to grow. I am eager to see what happens but more importantly I think that this is where we can make a lot of difference in this world since so many countries come and work with these countries. “I would like to add that it is easier to work with people who have a natural faith in their DNA and their surroundings; so I am sure that our trip here will be life changing for many thousands of people.”
TheetaHealing founder Vianna Stibal is teaching in Dubai from 17-27 November 2015. She will be teaching the following courses: 17-20 November, Basic Instructor (Prerequisites: Basic, Advanced) 21-22 November, Advanced Instructor (Pre-requisites: Basic, Advanced, Basic Instructor) 25-26 November, Dig Deeper Practitioner (Pre-requisites: Basic, Advanced) 27 November, Dig Deeper Instructor, (Prerequisite: Basic Instructors, Advanced Instructors, Dig Deeper). To register, go to www.viannaindubai.com.
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for auto-immune diseases How homeopathy can heal auto-immune conditions like IBS, Hashimotos, Crohn’s Disease and more.
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omeopathy is a system of natural health care based on ideas developed in the 1790s by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann. The basic principle is that ‘like cures like’. So, in the same way that the cure for a snake-bite is snake venom, the theory of homeopathy is that a substance that causes certain symptoms can also help to remove those symptoms. A second central principle is based around a special process of dilution and shaking. Practitioners believe that the more a substance is diluted in this way, the greater its power to treat symptoms. Many homeopathic remedies consist of substances that have been so diluted that there is almost none of the original substance left, which is why some allopathic Western medical practitioners dismiss homeopathy as offering nothing more than a placebo effect at best.
“Being sick means the life force is imbalanced for reasons that we aim to find out. “One person’s unique reaction towards the root of the illness with all the individual symptoms and modalities are most important in order to work out the homeopathic prescription. “Homeopathy does not treat a disease but it treats a person. So two people with the same diagnosis are prescribed different homeopathic medicine according to their unique, individual constitution. “All different aspects of body, mind, soul and environment affect each other and are therefore part of the initial consultation, which can take around 60-120 minutes.
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After 11 years as a practicing homeopathy practitioner, Krombach says that what continues to fascinate her about her work is that not only is the inner healing ability mobilised but also the patient starts living up to her or his whole potential. “It is lovely to see an aggressive child starting to express feelings verbally and communicating anger instead of hitting others and screaming; or hearing about a creative outburst from a burnt-out manager; or realising that decisionmaking does not need to involve sleepless nights of wracking the brain in doubt that either way would be the right decision. Simple things can be simple again.” cont. overleaf
HOLISITIC HEALING
For alternative and complementary healing practitioners though, the confidence in homeopathy is built on a completely different approach to healing to that of conventional Western medicine. Tina Krombach is a Germantrained Natural Medicine and Homeopathy Practitioner. She recently started consulting at the DNA Center for Integrative Medicine and Wellness on Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island. According to Krombach, homeopathy forms a complete medical system by itself, working according to its own rules. “Starting with falling ill. There is only one disease all conditions boil down to, which is the diseased vital energy. Vital energy or life force is what keeps us together, the link between body, mind, soul and environment,” Krombach says.
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THE ENEMY WITHIN: AUTO-IMMUNITY
An increasingly common and wide range of conditions that come under the umbrella term ‘auto-immune disorders’ describes when the body basically starts attacking itself. These conditions can take place at one organ only, for example, auto-immune Thyroiditis but in fact they are all systemic because of the involvement of the immune system and dysfunctional cellular communication, Krombach says. The most common auto-immune diseases are Diabetes type 1, Celiac Disease, Crohn’s Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Hashimoto Thyroiditis, Graves Disease, Fibromyalgia, Myasthenia Gravis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Multiple Sclerosis, Restless Leg Syndrome, Lyme Disease, Reactive Arthritis, Lupus Erythematosus etc. Here in the UAE, Krombach says she mostly sees patients with Crohn’s, Fibromyalgia, Thyroid Disease and Multiple Sclerosis. “Auto-immune conditions affect the whole system, that means the person not only suffers from physical symptoms, but can also struggle with depressive moods and by the affect the condition has on social interaction. “Homeopathy addresses all these different aspects. I cannot focus on function or dysfunction of one organ and not consider how the patient actually feels and how she/he is coping. “Homeopathic medicine supports the immune system and can re-establish a healthy cellular communication and reduce inflammation or pain. It is not enough to treat with anti-inflammatories or painkillers, which can have side effects with long-term use.”
ONE DISEASE, MANY SYMPTOMS
According to Krombach, there are no auto-immune conditions that do not generally respond to homeopathy.
WHAT DOES HOMEOPATHY TREAT? There is hardly any condition unsuitable for healing with homeopathy; the limitations may come from the expertise of the homeopath. As a holistic therapy, homoeopathy treats the whole person rather than a single symptom or a disease. Therefore it works on the physical, emotional, psychological and mental level at once and stimulates the inner healing ability. Of course it makes a difference if a health issue is addressed in an early or in an advanced stage. It can treat: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
“By improving the immune system and strengthening the overall constitution, the auto-immune disease will naturally respond to the homeopathic treatment. To what extend it responds, whether there is a remission or just a stabilization of the current state, this depends on the case. In many cases an uplift in mood and improvement of sleep are huge steps towards wellbeing, from there the healing of other symptoms can follow.” One of Krombach’s patients was a German man in his mid-30s who suffered with chronic fatigue, concentration problems, wandering pain in the joints, night sweats, difficulties breathing, tinnitus and acute hearing loss in the past as post stress symptom. “He had to cope with a high level of stress in his managing position, which became more and more exhausting for him. He recalled a tick bite and local
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Acute ailments e.g. acute infection, common cold Sports injury, acute pain etc. Healthcare during pregnancy, for babies and children Childhood Diseases, Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity, Autism Spectrum Vaccination injuries Allergies Autoimmune diseases Chronic fatigue, Lack of energy Complementary cancer treatment Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome Depression, Anxiety and Panic Gastro-Intestinal Tract, Indigestion and Mal-assimilation of nutrients Post- surgery/post- traumatic care, post- infection/post- injury fatigue Recurring illness Respiratory conditions Rheumatic diseases Skin diseases
skin rash in the past, which was treated with antibiotics at the time. Despite the course of antibiotics, sometime later his symptoms indicated an infection of Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria; Lyme disease was the diagnosis. “Lyme disease is not very well known in many countries and although it is uncommon in the UAE, I had seen someone else here who got infected in the US. Unfortunately there is no allopathic treatment other than several months of different antibiotics. For this patient the symptoms remained and still bothered him years after the bite. My first prescription targeted the Lyme disease, rather than working on his constitution. After taking five doses of the homeopathic medicine Ledum pallustre 200C, he reduced his coffee intake drastically because his sleep was much more restorative and his fatigue was gone. After another two
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weeks he reported that he had not had the wandering aches and pains for days and also was not sweating in the night anymore. I followed up with a constitutional prescription to stabilize his immune system and support his general health and healing. His body responded to the dose by sudden expectoration of mucus for a day, ever since then his breathing difficulties eased off. Now, when he is very busy, the tinnitus/sound in his ears comes back, but it is not as permanent as before and he says that he feels generally more ‘alive’.”
COMBATING CROHN’S
Krombach describes another interesting case involving a 25-year-old New Zealand man who presented with Crohn’s Disease. He suffered diarrhea, abdominal cramps, shooting pains in the legs, sleeplessness, cold sweats in the night, weight loss, low hemoglobin and low energy. He was taking daily high doses of Prednison and four doses daily of the immune suppressant Azathioprin. The use of Prednison (a synthetic glucocorticoid) for more than seven days suppresses the body´s production of glucocorticoids in the adrenal glands, leaving the patient dependent of the medication. The long list of possible side effects of Azathioprin includes infections, allergic reactions, nausea, stomach pain, hepatitis and pancreatitis.
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Krombach’s homeopathic treatment aimed at reducing the allopathic medication and eventually weaning off under supervision of the prescribing physician; restoring energy levels, managing his weight and healing the inflammation to ease the symptoms. “My prescription was Mercurius 200C which also met his constitutional requirements. Two weeks after the three homeopathic doses he rang me and said that he felt really good. He felt so energetic that he started exercising after work, which was impossible before. In the early morning hours, he used to rush to the toilet, now he could sleep soundly and his stomach cramps were much better. He reduced the dose of his allopathic medicine but he reported that there were a few remaining side-effects so eventually he planned to get off the glucocorticoid and immunosuppressant completely. It took another homeopathic dose six
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THYROID AND FERTILITY
Hashimoto Thyroiditis is on the rise in certain countries and can produce symptoms of both an underactive thyroid and overactive thyroid. A 36-year-old mother of one came to Krombach’s office with complaints of hot flushes, migraines, sore throat, hoarseness, fatigue, nausea, weight gain, hair loss, and cold hands and feet; however her major concern was that she could not become pregnant with her low level of thyroid hormones and female hormone imbalance resulting in not menstruating. “Almost one month after the taking the homeopathic medicine she menstruated. One year later, her first daughter is happily playing with her healthy newborn sister!”
Natural Health and Homeopathy Practitioner Tina Krombach also offers Herbal Medicine, Relaxation Therapy and Stress Management, Reiki, Reflexology Massage, Ear Acupuncture, Nutrition and Body Detox. To make an appointment for a consultation, contact the DNA Center for Integrative Medicine & Wellness: Location: The Collection complex of The St. Regis Saadiyat Island Resort Abu Dhabi Tel: +971 2 610 9000 For general inquiries, email info@dnahealthcorp.com To make an appointment, email appointments@dnahealthcorp.com www.dnahealthcorp.com
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Making a business out of yoga The wellness industry is booming but how do you turn a passion for something like yoga into a sustainable business? Yoga entrepreneur Kaya Peters looks at the biggest mistakes yoga teachers make when turning a passion into profit as well as offering the ‘must do’s.
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any new or aspiring yoga teachers are likely standing where I was a decade ago. They ping-pong from one yoga studio to the next, drown in class playlists, sequences and finances, never get enough sleep and tread a humble path. They may feel modest about what they have to offer or uneasy about charging for services out of some selfsabotaging belief that making a lot of money is somehow out of alignment with a spiritual-based practice like yoga. Tell that to wellness multi-millionaires such as Bikram Choudhury, Louise Hay, Rhonda Byrnes, Deepak Chopra or Osho – a man who at one time owned 93 Rolls Royce cars; more than anyone else on Earth. I’m here to tell you that it’s possible to be both a successful entrepreneur as well as a yoga teacher extraordinaire. The stereotype of the modest yoga teacher is vastly outdated. The world
wants more and is willing to give more; if you’re dedicated you’ll be that giver. The world is changing at an unprecedented rate and the demand for health and wellness services is surging. The yoga and wellness industry is booming. There’s never been a better time to turn a passion for yoga and wellness into a sustainable business. It’s no longer about how eek out a meager living as a yoga teacher. In this new spiritual renaissance and market, the real question to ask is how to become a world-class profitable yoga brand that offers life transforming results that no price tag can match. First, let’s address some of the most common mistakes new yoga teachers make when building a business:
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methodologies, discipline, management and strategic skills to run it like a business to be able to fully utilize your talents and deliver that service or product.
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The yoga industry is booming across the globe, which means more compeition and more opportunities than ever for making a business out of yoga and wellness.
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Tip : Excellent Customer Service As a teacher you are a beacon of wellness to your students and your empathetic attentiveness, care and encouragement is a major part of that service. Beyond physical support, it’s also the mental strengthening that will make your effectiveness and reputation stand out and spread to new potential clients.
practices as well as our teaching skills, our knowledge of healing, counseling and beyond as well as the offerings of our classes and services.
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Mistake . Burn Out from Never Saying No New teachers tend to accept every teaching opportunity, even if it means loss of sleep, or going beyond one’s tolerance. This mental and physical toll can cause burn out and prevent you being selective, which leads you down a path that you may not be actually happy with. My top tips to yoga teachers today are the following: Tip : Have A Business Plan Create a business plan describing your vision, your target market, your brand is and your products/services. Then set growth objectives and strategies to meet them and base all your actions on it. Take and adjust your prescribed actions to get there, and once there, raise your objectives higher and set new strategies.
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Tip : Niche and Branding Beyond the beginner stages, people want different styles and results from their yoga. Offer specific classes, services and events focused towards specific styles, health issues, philosophies and student types. At the same time, figure out how to make your brand unique.
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Tip : Be A Living Example Of Your Product The perceived value of your yoga brand, products and services is tied to what it has done for your life. If you have love, patience, mindfulness and vast health in your life, that is your proof to the world that your yoga is really worth it! Be mindful of how your own physical and virtuous development is perceived by your clients.
BECOME A YOGA ENTREPRENEUR November 2015, Dubai Yoga Therapy Teacher Training
Yoga Instructor and Holistic Practitioner Kaya Peters has spent a decade of building an international yoga brand that comprises holistic living, nutrition and other healing modalities. Her year-long 2015 Dubai Yoga Therapy Teacher Training starting November 2015 is the first 300+ hour training of its kind in the Emirates, the focus is on building aspiring yoga teachers and entrepreneurs aiming to build a successful yoga business. Participants will study yoga therapy applications for fundamental physical and mental ailments as well as teaching and delivery methodologies like classroom trainings, private yoga, corporate sessions, consulting and adjusting, as well as business operations involving marketing, business models, online assets and more. Find out more, check out Kaya’s website at: http://kayayogatherapy.com/dubai-yoga-therapy-teacher-training-2015/
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Are You a Negaholic?
(Shhhh, don’t worry, so was I!) Are you never happy with your achievements? Always criticizing yourself? Recovering Negaholic Claire Higgins explains how to tell if you’re addicted to negativity and how to break the cycle.
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remember the moment as if it was yesterday. I’m 23 years old with the world at my feet. I’ve just received a job offer from one of the world’s largest humanitarian organisations, alongside the news that I’ve been placed second for my university’s best undergraduate prize. Against all odds, I beat over a thousand other students to get this spot. Me, who once scored a lowly C in her Arabic GCSE, had just received a first class degree in Arabic and a surprise nomination by her professors for her outstanding efforts. It should be a moment to celebrate, to let my hair down and run a happy rampage all across London town. Instead, I neatly fold the second letter back into its envelope and carry on with my day. It’s as if the good news never happened. Looking back, I think that subconsciously, being placed second wasn’t good enough in my books. Perhaps at a more profound level, it reminded me of that fateful C and it didn’t seem worthy of mentioning to anyone. More than a decade later, during my coach training, I learned I had once
been a ‘Negaholic’ and that this attitude had persisted throughout my twenties. It lingered and had a habit of flaring up when stress hit until I recognized what was going and took concrete steps to change it for good. According to Dr Cherie Carter-Scott, a Master Coach, bestselling author, and my own coach trainer and mentor, there are four kinds of Negaholics out there in
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THE FOUR KINDS OF NEGAHOLICS
1. Attitudinal Negaholics
These are the visibly successful people who, unknown to all except those nearest and dearest, drive themselves relentlessly. They tend towards
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perfectionism, not-good-enoughism, and hurtle furiously towards results with a slave driver mindset. Take myself, for example: That best undergraduate finalist prize led to ‘excellent’ after ‘excellent’ in nearly all my work appraisals yet still, I didn’t feel good enough. I couldn’t break out of this over-achieving cycle. Thankfully, stress and exhaustion later gave me no choice.
2. Behavioural Negaholics
These people have self-sabotage written all over their foreheads. Caught in the gap between their ideas and actions, they struggle to break free of self-destructive behavioural patterns, they procrastinate heavily, and feel like they never measure up. Like my friend, Sara: She’s been trying to lose weight for the past decade, trying out one gym membership and diet after another. None of them have worked, despite her best intentions, and she feels miserable inside.
3. Mental Negaholics
These are the ones who just can’t and won’t let something go! They approach the past, present, and future with criticism, judgments, invalidation, and even mental abuse. They struggle with comparison-itis and retroactive fault-finding. Like Zayd, an old colleague. No matter what he achieved, it was simply never good enough for him. He was unable to recognize the unique value and gifts that he brought to the team because he was so focused on the absence of his past work achievements.
4. Verbal Negaholics
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about – them, you, others, the world – they just can’t find anything good to say. For them, disaster is always looming on the horizon. Like Benita, an old coaching client: Whenever we met, a crisis had always either just happened or was about to happen. Her negative thought process was permanently looping on repeat, making it nigh on impossible for her to consider positive alternatives until we managed to shift her original mindset in that direction. According to Dr Cherie CarterScott, if there’s one characteristic that unites all Negaholics, it’s that we suffer from the ‘beat-up syndrome’. In other words, our negative approach to life feels like an endless battle within ourselves. When there’s a constant war going on inside our minds, it isn’t long before our emotions start getting in the way. For many Negaholics who haven’t mastered their emotions, this is when we either shut down or blow up. So, how do you deal with emotions from a coaching perspective?
THE FIVE STEPS TO EMOTIONAL MASTERY
Step 1 – Sort Out Your Feelings
In coaching terms, we liken this to taking all the spaghetti out of your head and laying it on the table, so to speak. There, the strands are separated and you can see more clearly what is going on. This gives you more power in deciding which strands you want to keep and which ones to let go of. To do: Take out your journal and write by hand anything that comes to mind in that moment. Keep writing for 10 minutes, and don’t take your hand off the page. At the end, go back and check for any recurring themes that may need your attention. You may want to try doing this as a regular download for instant clarification of what you are feeling.
Step 2
– Acknowledge Your Feelings Admitting that your feelings exist often releases an invisible weight off your shoulders. When you can own your feelings without having to explain, justify, defend, or translate them into something more profound you de-clutter the space within you.
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Acknowledge how you feel and completely accept yourself anyway. To do: Verbally express your feelings with a trusted friend for 10 minutes. Explain that their role is simply to be present and to not offer advice. At the end, offer to do the same for them. Resist the urge to analyze or “fix” each other when the exercise is over. You can also try this in private in a solitary space or speak into a voice recorder if it helps to hear yourself played back.
Step 3 – Experience, Express and
Release Your Feelings Most of us think that the game ends when we acknowledge our emotions. This isn’t true. Until we embody, express and release those pent-up emotions, they’re going to hang around, eating away at our insides when we’re not looking. We may feel a false sense of security only to be retriggered later on and lapse back into an old pattern of negativity. Regular movement practices can keep our insides flowing in the right direction and keep us feeling positive. To do: Dynamic meditations that involve shaking, movement, sitting, and lying down can be a great way to release emotions that feel stuck! Why not try an OSHO meditation class or, if meditation is not your thing, another form of dynamic exercise or movement? You could consider Yoga, Martial Arts, Dance, Running, or a Cross Fit class.
Step 4 – Communicate Whatever
is Necessary After we’ve fully experienced our feelings, it’s time to share whatever insights arise from this process. This is because it sometimes takes repetition to clarify and crystallize our learning process. In certain situations, it can be helpful to share with others what we have learned as being witnessed can help to transform our insights
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into new behaviours, particularly if an accountability structure is in place. To do: Decide if it is necessary to communicate directly how you feel or once felt to another person. This person may or may not be related to the original source of your negativity. When direct communications is not an option, a Family Constellations session with a qualified professional can also help. Blogging can also be a great way to engage others in our learning process.
Step 5 – Complete the Cycle
When you’ve taken all four steps in succession, no doubt you’ll have a list of lessons learned. Before moving on, take note of those lessons and reflect on what you would do differently next time to avoid further negativity ruling your life. To do: Spend 30 undisturbed minutes writing down all the lessons you’ve learnt and how the negative patterns served you. Understand that you can have the benefits without the negativity in future. Identify any triggers for your negativity and how you can avoid being affected by them in the future. What do you really need to adopt and keep a positive mindset?
INVISIBLE GIRL
When I went through each of these steps for negative areas of my life that were holding me back, I discovered years of feeling unseen. Because I was academically gifted, teachers had a habit of leaving me to my own devices. While this allowed me the freedom to explore and discover new strengths, it also left me feeling unsure of whether I was on the right track. I was
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often navigating new territory and failed to develop a solid inner compass to signal my way back home. Without this inner compass, I felt unable to track how far I had come. Every venture felt like starting from scratch and I was unable to accumulate the fruits of all my labour. When news of my prize reached me, I had no idea how to react. While training to be a coach, I realised that unless I sorted out this blind spot, I’d never be able to help my clients recognise and celebrate their successes and achievements, no matter how small or big. That’s a pretty big problem for a soon-to-be coach! And so I got to work. In my private journal, I started listing every single thing I had ever achieved and then immediately swept under the rug. From jobs and courses to inter-personal moments that made me proud, they all made their way onto the list. Later, I fully expressed each and every one of these small victories. I learned that the positive energy I had been seeking for so long had been under lock-down. When I finally paused to acknowledge myself, life got a whole lot brighter on all fronts.
Still Curious?
“Negaholics: Stop Being Negative… Reclaim Your Happiness!” by Dr Cherie Carter-Scott is available on Amazon in print and Kindle formats. To find out if you are a Negaholic, click here to take the quiz: http://www. negaholics.com/negaholics_quiz.html
Claire Higgins is a Women’s Coach and Communications Specialist based in Dubai. She is the author of, Wild Zen: An Inner Road Map to Humanity – 12 Ways to Journey Beyond War, Violence, Conflict, Stress, Trauma & Adversity, and its accompanying workbook, Wild Zen: A Self-Coaching & Advocacy Toolkit, which is available as a free download until September 21st, 2015 at www.wildzenjourneys.me. Email claire@wildzen.me.
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Astral Travel Do we leave our bodies while we dream and explore other worlds? If so, can we learn to do it intentionally? Alexandra Salkova McKenzie reports.
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ave you ever felt there is more to life than we can see? That you are more than just the body?
The ancient Egyptians believed that a person died when their Ka, or vital essence which was part of their soul, left the body permanently but they also believed that this Ka could travel out of the body and return. They’re not the only ones. In the ancient writings of China, Tibet, India and Greece, there are records that our physical body has a counter part – a subtle body, which can leave our realm and communicate with spirits.
OUT OF BODY
Astral travel, also called astral projection or out of body experience, is the separation of our consciousness from our physical self, done either unaware (dreaming) or deliberate. Throughout history, people have reported spontaneously or consciously leaving their body and travelling through time and space. Many claim to use this phenomenon to access inspiration, wisdom or higher states of consciousness. Author and metaphysical lecturer Richard Webster said: “When you are out of the physical body, you are free to go anywhere and do almost anything you wish.”
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I became familiar with astral projection through practicing meditation and self-hypnosis over the years. Many of my hypnotherapy clients report similar experiences. Every night when we go to sleep, we leave our physical body and go to the astral plane or to the next levels of existence. There are many worlds and dimensions existing beyond our physicality. During sleep we are unaware of the separation between our physical body and our consciousness. Whereas, intentional astral travel allows us to be fully conscious and able to explore higher planes of unimaginable and wondrous things.
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HOW TO ASTRAL TRAVEL
The best time to practice is just before you go to sleep, or upon awakening. Deep reaxation is the key.
1) Relaxation of body and mind.
Start by progressively relaxing your body. Watch for the feeling of heaviness, tingling or internal movement (spinning). Focus on the sensation. Calm your emotional state and accept that feeling. Relax your mind. Observe yourself breathing. Watch your thoughts as if clouds in the sky. Gradually, there will be fewer of them. Connect to the state of stillness.
2) Intention
Set your intention, something you emotionally believe in and is aligned with your ethics. For example: ‘I am consciously aware of my astral travel experience’. Repeat this like a mantra.
3) Separation from the physical body.
Your thoughts, consciousness, or awareness is your vehicle to different dimensions. All dimensions are thought responsive because consciousness creates their reality. Begin by visualizing your body lying in bed and your astral-self looking down at it. As if you step out of your physical body and look back at yourself. Think of somewhere familiar. Visualize yourself moving to that location or object.
There are many techniques. The point is to keep your mind away from the body. If you think of your body, you will be sucked in. You may feel yourself floating, or some kind of movement. Through practice, you will learn to control it.
4) Exploration
Decide what you wish to experience and you will instantly move there. There are no limits. All energy in this universe is directed by thoughts. Thought is a powerful vibration. Different thoughts correspond to different dimensions. Aim to investigate the astral world and beyond. If you feel you may panic, create a form of protection. Prior to your experience, visualize a ball of white light or a white pyramid enclosing your body. Visualize a sword and armor to feel invincible. Find a way that works best for you. Astral travel is a completely safe activity, however, if you are unsure, consider learning with a therapist.
5) Returning
When you feel ready, visualize yourself back in your room. Set the intention or simply think ‘back to the body’. You will instantly pop back into your physical body. It may be gentle, or you may feel a jolt, due to frequency differences. There is no evidence of people losing themselves in other worlds. It is like a meditation, hypnosis or other
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BENEFITS OF ASTRAL TRAVEL
Nearly everyone who has experienced this phenomenon wants to do it again. Through astral travel we begin to see we exist beyond the physical world. We experience that our thoughts create everything around us, and we become masters in manifestations. We consciously begin to live our spiritual experiences, understanding higher forces of universe and applying the knowledge into our lives. We see our very existence in a different way. We can transcend space-time, visit historical events or see our own past lives. We can see premonitions of future events. We empower ourselves with direct knowledge of the spiritual, instead of being satisfied with a belief or scientific theory. Importantly, we can look into our thoughts, emotions, belief systems and deeply understand what is behind them, to gain precious knowledge of ourselves.
For upcoming Astral Travel workshops Level 1 and Level 2, contact Alexandra Salkova McKenzie, Inner Self Consultancy, email alexandra@innerselfconsultancy.com www.innerselfconsultancy.com To watch an interview with Alex about astral travel on The Awakenings Show, go to www.awakeningsme.com
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The rise of the vegans
From hippie to hip...
Lock away your lettuce! The vegans are coming! Not so long ago, veganism sat at the extreme hippie dippie edge of the alternative scene but now it’s entering mainstream and is a global obsession with some heavy-hitting celebrity fans. Words by Tamara Pitelen.
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orget politics and religion, the one subject that unites and divides the world into all kinds of ’no, I’m right!’ camps is diet. Should we be carnivores, omnivores, vegetarians, pescetarians, fruitarians, macrobiotic, plant-based, paleo, fasters, FODMAPs... or of course vegan and raw vegan, which essentially means a diet free of any food produced using animals. For some vegans, it’s mainly a diet choice for others it’s a complete lifestyle and a philosophy that directs every part of their life. Vegans from the latter camp won’t use anything that’s been tested on animals or has exploited animals in any way – from shampoo to shoes. Although every vegan has different motivations, a general theme is treading lightly on the planet. It’s believed that a plant-based diet is more sustainable than farming animals. Large scale meat production through factory farms is seen as not only cruel but also extremely damaging to the planet, thought to contribute as much as 22 per cent of annual green house gases and be a major contributor to growing global water shortages.
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One passionate Dubai-based raw vegan is Carolina Ziemann who in 2014 launched Raw Bites, an online business selling vegan equipment at www.raw-bites.ae. What is vegan equipment? Kitchen tools like vegetable spiralisers, nut milk bags, dehydrators, juicers, blenders and more. Ziemann isn’t just vegan, she is a raw vegan who came to veganism through an interest in raw food. “By switching to a 100 per cent plantbased and 80 per cent raw diet two years ago I experienced that there is a massive connection between my health and energy levels and what I eat,” says Ziemann. “Fruit, vegetables, whole grains, seeds, nuts and beans are my choice of food.
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The truth is that I am always surprised about the ‘oldtimer’ vegans who do not yet know how to make homemade nut milk or a homemade nut cheese. “I had a 9-to-6 office job. It wasn’t any more exhausting that most jobs yet I always felt tired and without energy. I suspected that it had to do with nutrition and I had heard that in raw foods the enzymes are active and aiding digestion instead of being destroyed in the cooking process when heated above 48 degrees celsius (115 degrees Fahrenheit). “The tiredness that comes 10 minutes after a cooked meal doesn’t happen with raw meals because the body does not need to invest that much energy into digestion. I tried it and I felt the difference after the first meal. With a few exceptions, most Raw Foodists are on a purely plant-based diet although some Raw Foodists eat raw fish or raw meat such as sashimi or carpaccio.” As to why she wanted to be mostly raw vegan as opposed to just vegan, Ziemann says she found the uncooked food was the tastiest. “Raw fruits and veggies are filled with the purest water. Raw fruit is the most vitamin-rich off all foods and raw vegetables are the most mineral-rich of all foods. The truth is that I am always surprised about the ‘oldtimer’ vegans who do not yet know how to make homemade nut milk or a homemade nut cheese. These things are quickly prepared and they taste a million times better than the ready-made stuff from the markets. Buy some vegan cook books (check that the ingredient lists in the recipes are short as well as the prep time before you buy), organize and stock up your pantry and invest a bit of time in practicing these new recipes. A vegan
FAMOUS VEGANS It’s official. Veganism is, like, so totally hot right now. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi had a vegan wedding and Oprah Winfrey did a vegan detox. Here are some more of the world’s most rich and famous vegans…
James Cameron, Oscar-winning Director of Titantic, Avatar and Terminator
James and his wife Suzy Amis Cameron have opened the first vegan private school in California.
Stella McCartney, Fashion designer
Paul’s famous daughter does high-end fashion that is 100 per cent vegan. Her handbag falabella is a best seller and made with faux leather.
Russell Brand, Author and actor
This charismatic cheeky charmer is an advocate for veganism, yoga and meditation although he does sway between vegetarianism and veganism – giving up eggs has proven challenging for Russ. Check out his latest book Revolution for a brilliant guide on how to change the world.
Alicia Silverstone, Actress
An active vegan advocate, this star got her break in the hit movie Clueless. She’s written a vegan cookbook called The Kind Diet that was number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Check out her website at www.thekindlife.com.
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lifestyle can improve your wellbeing, it should never feel like food prison.” Although Ziemann believes she is healthier on a plant-based diet, she does not want to espouse the health benefits because this is not her area of expertise. “I am not a nutritionist or expert. I was healthy before I went vegan and I am still healthy. I can say that for me the issue of worrying about weight has completely been lifted. I eat as much vegan food as I want and my weight remains in a good frame. One of the positive things of rawvegan food is that the craving for more and more doesn’t kick in.”
W? DID YOU KNhO Germany asan the first all-vecghain, supermarket Veganz. received from advocating veganism concern protein and mineral deficiencies. In response, she gets an annual blood test and supplements with Vitamin B12, Omega 3, DHA, calcium, vitamin D and iron (for more on Ziemann’s
ANIMAL WELLBEING
Like many vegans, Ziemann is motivated by animal welfare. “How come animal products are cheaper than organic vegetables? How can a vast majority of people in developed countries afford to eat animal products three times a day? I do not want to go into the practices of factory farming here but for anyone who’s interested I’d recommend an amazing film narrated by Academy Award nominee Joaquin Phoenix. Called Earthlings, it’s a very persuasive documentary and you can watch it legally for free at the Earthlings official website, www.earthlings.com.” Ziemann says the main criticisms she’s
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supplemental approach, go to http:// raw-bites.ae/vegan-food-in-dubai/). “Here are my thoughts on deficiencies: Many non-vegans have deficiencies, especially when they eat lots of fast food (empty food). They are in most cases just not aware of it because they are either not interested to look into the subject or they are in denial because if they had a check-up they probably would see the need to leave their food comfort zone and make changes. As a vegan I started to be very conscious about my nutrition and my blood test showed great results without any deficiencies.”
TOP TIPS FOR GOING VEGAN
Raw vegan Carolina Ziemann, founder of www.raw-bites.ae, gives this advice to anyone wanting to experiment with a vegan diet. 1. Find support: There are many vegan and raw vegan groups in the UAE, check Meetup.com, Instagram and Facebook and join some. 2. Research and read: Some really great bloggers are out there, like Emily from www.thisrawsomeveganlife.com and Susan from www.rawmazing.com who shares lots of free recipes. Also stay open to opposing views, see pg 32. 3. Eat out: Visit the UAE’s vegan or part-vegan eateries, including Bestro in Galeries Lafayette, Dubai Mall [www.facebook.com/BeStroUAE], Tidjoori Bio Organic & Vegan Café in Dubai Marina [www.tidjoorirestaurant.com], One Café at Life’n One wellness centre [www.lifenone.com], and Comptoir 102 [www.comptoir102.com] 4. No pressure: You don’t have to go 100 per cent from day one – or ever! Start with one vegan meal a day – or even a week. 5. Don’t be a label: Some vegans eat honey, others don’t. Some raw vegans implement a certain percentage of cooked food in their daily diet... every sub- culture has its extremists but in reality there are no hard and fast rules – only you can decide what is right for you.
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How to become vegan
Moayyed Feroze is a Dubai-based Holistic Health Coach who here shares the learnings from his experience of going vegan – the pitfalls and the epiphanies .
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thought about stopping meat for around two years before I did it. You will face two challenges; internal and external. The internal challenges will be your mind and body. The external challenges will be from society, friends and family. Do not engage the external challenge for the first few months until you get a hang of your new life and have the informed confidence to defend your position. It will wear you out otherwise. Just tell everyone that it’s something you are trying out. By deciding to go vegan, you are taking control of your health. This is not a fad or a time-bound event. You are seeking a more fulfilling living experience and this is one of the steps towards that. First, listen to your body and wean yourself off animal products. Our bodies are adaptive and we get used to certain diets. The critical element is to consciously monitor your nutrient intake for the first three to four months. Be aware of signs like fatigue, changes in skin, urine color, irritability, frequent colds or anything that seems abnormal. This will help you address any deficiencies before they build up.
INTERNAL CHALLENGE
Start by going vegetarian and not all out vegan. I would suggest that you
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don’t go off eggs and dairy for the first month at least. Your body and mind need a gradual detachment from animal products. Finding vegetarian options is easy. You need to look for vegetarian food rather than ‘food without meat.’ It’s a subtle yet critical shift in mindset. Explore the plethora of salads, brown breads, quinoa, pulses, hummus, and other super foods. Olive oil should become a staple as it will give you the fats you need and keep you full. You will be hungrier so stock up on fruit, seeds, nuts, salads, protein bars. Try new types of fruit, view it is an investment in your health. Eat at least five meals a day. Keep snacking on fresh unprocessed foods and don’t count the calories. Try to eat at least three different types of fruit a day. If you are confronted with meat and have to go hungry till you find a vegetarian meal… Eat the meat. You
need to prioritise your nutrition else you’ll fall off the wagon and not be able get back.
Protein powder
Whether you have a workout regimen or not, include a protein shake before bedtime. I use hemp or rice or a combination of vegan proteins. My standard recipe is: • One scoop vegan protein powder (Lean 95 by the Wellness Brothers is available in Holland and Barrett) • One tsp flaxseed • One tsp wheatgrass powder • One tsp chia seeds • One tsp maca root • Banana • Rice milk (or coconut, almond milk, etc) Don’t get obsessed with the protein count. There is protein in fruit, vegetables, nuts, wheat and rice. Just keep eating fresh and raw and take a multi-vitamin every morning.
Moayyed Feroze is a Dubai-based Holistic Health Coach who has studied weight-lifting, yoga, nutrition, herbal medicine, and hypnotherapy. Email: moayyed.feroze@gmail.com for training or coaching. Read his blog thehealthyconscience. wordpress.com.
The Organic Stylista, Caroline Kassem is a Dubai-based vegan hairdresser. This means all her products and hair colour are vegan, cruelty-free, organic and environmental friendly. “Veganism is not only a diet, it is a way of living which seeks to exclude, as far as is possible, all forms of exploitation of animals for food, clothing or any other purpose.” Caroline offers home service with haircutting, colouring and extensions. www.facebook.com/organicstylista cont. overleaf
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The argument against veganism
Not everyone sees being vegan or vegetarian as the way forward. Author of The Vegetarian Myth Lierre Keith calls herself a “recovering twenty-year vegan”. She believes her commitment to a vegan diet for two decades caused her degenerative spine condition and that she was mislead to think she was helping the planet through veganism. Keith spoke to Janaia Donaldson of Peak Moment Television.
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he vegetarian/vegan way of being doesn’t nurture human beings and is destroying the planet, so says Lierre Keith. Sadly ironic, she says, because if there is any group of people who are empassioned enough to lead a revolution, it is the vegan community. Unfortunately, says Keith, the real problem has been obscured and all the well-intentioned efforts of vegans and vegetarians are not changing the root of the problem. Which is that six corporations control the world’s food supply and for them it pays to keep producing mountains of cheap corn. Keith says she became vegan at age 16. “At that age you are very idealistic. It all comes together when you learn about veganism. You can stop oppressing animals, you can stop hurting the earth and you can feed hungry people - a complete picture. At age 16, I had no counter-information and thought it made sense.” The problem, Keith says, is that none of it is true but because being a vegan isn’t just what you eat; it becomes who you are, it’s hard to examine new information – because it’s a threat. While she passionately opposes factory farming of animals
Taking a closer look: It may not be comfortable to hear but the assumption that going meat-free is good for people and animals is not so straight-forward in our complex world.
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Anyone with a beating heart should know that [factory farming] is wrong on every level: morally, ethically, spiritually. and says that this practice must stop, she maintains that humans require nutrient-dense animal foods for good health, in particular the saturated animal fats with vitamins and minerals that you cannot get from plants – vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin K2, and vitamin E. A grain-based diet is the basis for degenerative diseases we now see as ‘normal’, for example, diabetes, cancer, obesity, heart disease, etc - diseases of civilization. “There’s a human template that needs certain nutritional elements and they are not provided by a vegetarian diet. You can go back four million years to the very beginning of the human race and there is no question that we were hunters. It’s what we ate for four million years and it’s the reason we have big brains. “The other thing you find in the archeological records is that humans are long, tall, strong, they keep all their teeth and their bones are disease-free until you hit the agriculture era then suddenly everybody shrinks six inches, they lose their teeth and are riddled with disease. “Hunter-gatherers did not get cancer, diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune disease or any of chronic degenerative diseases that we think of as normal. They are not normal.”
animal farm cruelty
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of this article and it’s true but it’s not the whole picture, says Keith. The environmental devastation is from the factory farm model, which absolutely must stop, Keith says. “Anyone with a beating heart should know that [factory farming] is wrong on every level: morally, ethically, spiritually. I think everyone can agree that factory farming has just got to go. Factory farming didn’t exist till 1950 and the only reason it could was because corn got so cheap. “From that point forward, it made economic sense to take animals off their habitat, off their farms, and essentially put them in cities. So now they live in concrete and they’re fed corn, which is not their native diet, it kills them. If you’re eating grain-fed or corn-fed beef, you’re eating a sick animal. It kills them literally, it burns holes in their stomach it destroys their livers, which is why we give them antibiotics.”
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at the cliff. The people who care the most are environmentalists. Even of them, I would say that the most impassioned people are the vegans. The values are not the problems – justice, sustainability, compassion. We have the right values and we’ve got the passion to institute them. But with the vegetarian/vegan diet we have been pointing in the wrong direction for 30 years. I want people to understand the real damage that is being done to this planet and what it is going to take to repair it. We are going to have to give up agriculture if this planet is to have any hope.”
commiting biocide
So what is the answer? Reverting to perennial polycultures says Keith, who calls modern agricultural practices “biocide” because annual grain production is destroying topsoil and creating deserts on a planetary scale. Lierre advocates the end of practices that are destroying our soil, air and water supplies. We need to shift our agriculture from huge crops of cheap grain and go back to grasslands, forests and prairies that support billions of life-forms not just mono-crops. “We have hit the end. We have no more continents. We have been out of soil since 1950. The human race is
Lierre Keith is author of The Vegetarian Myth. The information in this article is from an interview she gave to Peak Moment TV in 2011. To see the full interview or read the transcript, go to the Peak Moment website at www.peakmoment.tv. For more information about Lierre Keith, go to www.lierrekeith.com
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Are we eating and sitting our way to osteoarthritis? Research now suggests that the inflammatory effects of the western diet and our sedentary lifestyles are contributors to this debilitating condition. By Dawn Rowland.
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here are more than 100 different types of arthritis, the most common of which is osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint disease affecting about 630 million people worldwide. Although osteoarthritis can damage any joint in your body, it most commonly affects joints in the hands, knees, hips and spine. It occurs when the protective cartilage on the ends of your bones wears down and is the reason for 95 per cent of the hip replacement operations. The question is; why does the cartilage wear down? For a long time, it was assumed that osteoporosis was a regrettable but inevitable symptom of old age, the
idea being that joints simply wear out. However, not all older people develop osteoarthritis while many young people get the disease, which suggests that other factors are involved. Another theory was that increased mechanical loads on weight-bearing joints was the culprit. However, in obese people, osteoarthritis is also common in non-load bearing joints, suggesting that additional load is not the only cause. The breakthrough came when scientists discovered that body fat secretes its own joint-destroying inflammatory chemicals (adipokines) and microinflammation was discovered in ageing cartilage. Systemic inflammation, scientists realised, could be the link.
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“Low-grade inflammation and oxidative stress underlie chronic osteoarthritis,” say Elizabeth Dean and Rasmus Hansen in their research article for the US National Library of Medicine 1. Dean and Hansen argue that the inflammatory western diet and a sedentary lifestyle are major contributing factors in the prevalence of osteoarthritis. “… the Western diet and inactivity are pro-inflammatory, whereas a plant-based diet and activity are anti-inflammatory, and low-grade inflammation and oxidative stress (e.g. continual exposure to chemicals and toxins) underlying osteoarthritis often coexist with lifestyle-related risk factors and conditions,” state Dean and Hansen.
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Medical scientists are now trying to unravel the relationships between systemic inflammation, obesity and local joint osteoarthritis but by identifying inflammation as a cause, it throws open the potential triggers to everything from food intolerances like gluten and dairy to smoking and stress as well as leaky gut, which can ironically be caused by osteoarthritis medication.
OSTEOARTHRITIS RELIEF
Presently, the first line interventions for osteoarthritis include prescription medications, weight loss, exercise and physiotherapy, all of which can be helpful. Other therapies to consider are mind-body healing, acupuncture, osteopathy and chiropractic. However, some believe this is not enough and that underlying low-grade inflammation and oxidative stress need addressing to make real progress in alleviating osteoarthritis. One option is a Mediterraneantype diet. The whole, fibrous, colourful fruit and vegetables full of natural plant compounds (phytochemicals) and antioxidants protect against cellular damage, inflammation and support our gut bacteria. The diet is characteristically high in anti-inflammatory fish and olive oils and low in pro-inflammatory refined grains, refined sugars and processed meats. Among many other proven health benefits, the Mediterranean diet has helped people lose weight, perhaps by maintaining steady blood sugars. Losing weight lowers systemic inflammation and off-loads the weight bearing joints. Coupled with resistance and aerobic training, it can help shed fat and retain lean muscle, which will improve support and strength to the joints. Alternatively, a recent study concluded that adopting a vegetarian diet is more beneficial than an omnivorous diet. In a six-week trial of 40 people, significant improvements in pain, function and weight loss were reported after only two weeks.
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Researchers propose that this diet is lower in calories and higher in nutrients but also low in inflammatory acid and high in levels of antiinflammatory alpha-linoleic acid (an essential omega 3 fat). Overall, this rebalances pro and anti-inflammatory fats. Avoiding vegetables from the nightshade family, like potatoes, tomatoes, aubergine and peppers may be a beneficial caveat to this diet, but research is inconclusive. Key nutrients to focus on are in the box below.
STEP FORWARD
For sufferers of osteoarthritis, nutrient testing provides baseline measures from which recommendations can be made. Blood tests can determine the levels of inflammation, antioxidants, Vitamin D and essential fats. Suggested tests are as follows: • Fatty acid profile – indicates imbalances between pro and antiinflammatory fats.
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• C-reactive protein – determines level of systemic inflammation. • Vitamin D – for bone remodelling. • Antioxidant vitamins A, C and E. • Amino acids - anti-inflammatory proteins cysteine, glutathione, and taurine. • Intestinal permeability test – high use of painkillers and medication can damage the intestinal cells. Damaged cells can lead to leaky-gut syndrome whereby increasing toxic irritants in the bloodstream can exacerbate the inflammation and osteoarthritis. A personalised nutritional therapy plan should focus on exercise and diet to optimise gut function and reduce inflammation and oxidative stress.
Dawn Rowland is an osteopath and nutritional therapist based in Wiltshire, UK. Email dawn.rowland@homecall.co.uk.
Key nutrients for cartilage health Fats – Omega 3 fats, eg, flaxseeds, walnuts, fish oil. Monosaturated fats – olive oil, olives, nuts, avocados Vitamin A – eggs, dairy, fish, carrots, squash, cantaloupe, broccoli Vitamin C – Citrus fruit, kiwifruit, strawberries, Brussels sprouts Vitamin D – Fortified milk, eggs, fish Vitamin E – Wheatgerm, sunflower seeds, almonds, peanuts, hazelnuts Vitamin K – Broccoli, cabbage, asparagus, celery Selenium – Brazil nuts, fish, poultry, meat, whole grains Zinc – lean beef, pork, lamb, crab, seeds, whole grains Copper – organ meat, oysters, legumes, nuts Manganese – orange juice, nuts, beans, broccoli, whole grains Boron – chickpeas, almonds, beans, cabbage, walnuts, avocado, broccoli Phytochemicals – carotenoids from orange and dark green leafy vegetables Flavonoids – onions, kale, broccoli, red wine, berries Spices – ginger and turmeric
Sources 1. Prescribing Optimal Nutrition and Physical Activity as “First-Line” Interventions for Best Practice Management of Chronic Low-Grade Inflammation Associated with Osteoarthritis: Evidence Synthesis by Elizabeth Dean and Rasmus Hansen http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3546455/
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The healing power of
inversion therapy
Giving new meaning to the phrase ‘hanging about’, Inversion Therapy is a form of yoga therapy said to cure everything from heart murmurs, to back pain, migraine and depression? Words by Tamara Pitelen.
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an the simple act of inverting our bodies and hanging upside down cure everything from heart murmurs to depression? It sounds too good to be true but according to Inversion Therapist and Yoga Teacher Paul Terrell it really is that simple and that effective, which is why he specialises in inverting clients in his one-on-one yoga therapy sessions. “One of the great things about Hatha yoga is that we can use it as a first aid kit to cure ourselves,” Terrell says.
“Really cure ourselves, not just take away symptoms. For example, going upside down is the only known cure for heart flutter, and that’s medically proven.” Another measurable benefit of hanging upside down is that it rebalances the hormone system. Conditions like cystic ovaries, difficulties getting pregnant, and menstrual disorders, are all improved and in most cases cured by regular inversion, Terrell says. Yoga practitioners have been talking about the health benefits of inverted poses such as headstand and shoulder-stand for centuries but now we also have the science to back this up. Researchers have studied the psychological effects of inverted poses, which have been found to dramatically affect hormone levels, brain arousal, blood pressure, fluid balance and more. Among other changes, when the body turns upside down the heart rate slows and the blood vessels dilate. The extra blood in the upper body stimulates the baroreceptor nerves in the aorta and neck, which in turn signal the central nervous system to lower blood pressure and slow down brainwaves.
Inversion Therapist and Yoga Teacher Paul Terrell begins work on a client.
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ANIMAL HYPNOSIS
The magical effect of inversion is also well known in the animal world. It’s called Tonic Immobility and is a natural state of paralysis that animals enter, often called animal hypnosis. It may be related to mating in animals like sharks. It may also be a way of deterring predators aka ‘playing dead’. “If you turn a shark upside down, it’ll go into a trance,” Terrell says. “If you want to do magic acts with rabbits and doves, you hide them in your jacket hanging upside down so they go very still and won’t move around. Mammals and very primitive animals go into trance when you hang them upside down. We’re also able to use it with headstands and hand-stands.” In yoga, the shoulder and headstand are described as the queen and king of poses. “What this indicates is that these poses will give you more benefits than the others, so they’re royalty because you get so many benefits. Heart disease can be cured by going upside down. Headaches and migraines can be cured and I’ve been treating women who have difficulty getting pregnant and so far I have a 100 per cent success rate. “The trouble with doing headstand or shoulder-stand yourself is that you’re controlling it and you think, ‘I don’t want to be here longer than two minutes’ or ‘my arm hurts’. For most westerners, headstand and shoulder-stand are not comfortable
so the advantage of Inversion Therapy is that I basically do it for them, I can take someone very comfortably into inversion for a longer time. “Now, in a headstand and shoulder stand you do yourself, you’re compressing the spine but the way that I hang people, the spine is decompressed, so disc problems, stuck vertebra, etc are very often improved just by hanging. There’s a unique spinal twist in the first position which is rather like chiropractic but you’re letting yourself go as much as you want to so it’s very safe.”
UPSIDE DOWN YOU’RE TURNING ME
How does just turning upside down cure conditions like heart murmurs and depression? Terrell explains: “What is the cause of heart flutter? It’s to do with stress; emotional and mental stress, and how do we relieve that? We hang upside down and we slow the brain down. By slowing the brain down, our physiology changes. The heart does not have to work so hard because the brain is getting its oxygen without any effort. Emotionally, mentally and physiologically, the heart is now allowed to rest. What do hearts do? They beat evenly. So with the pressure off, the heart gets back into shape. Inversion is a cure for heart flutter and it’s the only known cure. There are some pills for heart flutter but they don’t cure it, they only keep it at
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bay. You’ve got upside down, headstand, handstand and shoulder stand. I do it in a relaxed way where people don’t have to do anything so they can do it for longer and be more comfortable.”
UPS FOR THE DOWNS
As far as the link between depression and inversion, when you go upside down, it slows the brain, dropping the brainwave into an alpha or theta state. Terrell says a person can only run the programmes for depression in beta brain waves. Alpha and theta waves won’t support depressive programmes. “So although you want to feel really sorry for yourself and you repress the feelings and you don’t look after your needs and you try to control everything by planning and planning… you can’t do that in alpha waves so the depression disappears and a new open space of consciousness opens up. That’s the whole point of the upside down, to change the brainwaves.” Inversion Therapist and Yoga Teacher Paul Terrell regularly visits Dubai for private sessions and workshops. His next visits are 9-16 September, 5-12 October and 18-25 November. The founder and Principal of The School of Inversion Therapy, he works out of Life’n One Wellness Centre in Jumeirah 1. To book a session with him on his next visit, email info@lifenone.com or call 04 443 6676. Go to www.inversiontherapy.net for more information on Paul and inversion therapy. www.lifenone.com
Hanging upside down is a powerful healing technique because, among other things, it slows the brain down, which changes our brainwave state and physiology. This heals everything from depression and migraines to back pain, infertility and heart murmurs.
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Live Forever Juice Prevent mental physical and mental illness with this powerful juice.
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he ingredients in this Live Forever Juice will keep you in top mental and physical health but remember, it’s always better to use organic ingredients when possible. Here are some of the health benefits of the different ingredients:
Beetroot is clinically proven to not just reduce your risk of cancer but also to shrink and remove colon cancer tumours. Beetroot juice has enzymes that build muscle if the juice is consumed 30 minutes before a workout. Sweet potato has a large amount of iodine, this supports thyroid function which is for metabolic and digestive processes. Celery lowers blood pressure and cucumber flushes out liver. Ginger soothes the digestive system, builds the immune system and lowers cholesterol. Turmeric is a powerful anti-inflammatory that also detangles nerves in the brain to prevent dementia and has more than 30 proven cancer and health benefits; it truly is the wonder spice. Ingredients • 400 gms carrots, cut off tops and peel if dirty • 1 beetroot, peeled • 1 apple, only use organic apples. If you can’t get organic don’t use apples because the chemical load of the pesticides outweigh the benefits. • 1 sweet potato, small to medium sized, peeled. • Half a cucumber, if it’s organic, do not peel as the skin has a lot of nutritional value. If not organic then do peel • Small piece of ginger root, peel the ginger. Can be hot so start off with a small amount. • Small piece fresh turmeric, can be strong so start off small. If fresh root is not available, use dry turmeric but very little, half a teaspoon goes a long way. Pour this juice into a blender and add: • 1 banana • 3 or 4 strawberries, use frozen fruit to give a cold smoothie consistency • 1/3 Cup wild blueberries • 2 Tablespoons hemp seed Blend, drink and joyfully extend your life!
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healing power of active honey All honey is not created equal. There’s ordinary honey and then there’s active Manuka honey that’s said to have a host of powerful healing properties that other honey does not. Tamara Pitelen investigates.
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oney has been used for centuries as a healing agent for many ills. A natural antibiotic and an anti-inflammatory, it’s thought to have germicidal and antiseptic properties so can do everything from be applied to burns and wounds to alleviate arthritis and hayfever. A potent anti-bacterial agent, it’s also been widely used to heal stomach lining and to help address Helicobacter pylori overgrowth - the ‘bad’ bacteria that can cause so many digestive issues. While all honey is said to be beneficial (with the arguable exception of the very cheap offerings crowding the supermarket shelves), advocates claim that Manuka honey has something that other types of honey don’t. Manuka honey is made from the New Zealand native Leptospermum Scoparium or Manuka Bush (Manuka is the Maori name for the shrub). The
beekeepers set up their hives in wild uncultivated areas in which Manuka bushes grow. The bees then gather nectar primarily from the flowers of the Manuka bush. The honey-making process is enriched by the pollutionfree environment of New Zealand. Manuka is a dark cream to dark brown honey with a strong woody, earthy flavour.
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WONDER FOOD
In 1981, researchers at the Honey Research Unit at New Zealand’s University of Waikato discovered that some strains of Manuka honey have an extraordinary, naturally present, very stable property not found in any other variety of honey. This special property comes from the nectar of the Manuka flower and
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is distinct from the enzyme activity that is common to most honeys. It sets Manuka honey apart as one of nature’s true wonder foods. So what is this magic ingredient that makes some Manuka honey different and special? It’s a chemical called methylglyoxol, which appears to be responsible for most of its antimicrobial activity. In fact, in a lab environment, Methylglyoxal killed every bacteria or virus it was tested on - even many of the super-bugs that have become antibiotic resistant. Some of the bacteria and viruses that Methylglyoxal killed in a lab environment include Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium known to cause many stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers; Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA, also known as the super-bug for its high level of resistance to most available antibiotics; Escherichia coli (E. Coli), known to cause serious food poisoning, and a sore throat virus, Streptococcus pyogenes.
UNIQUE MANUKA FACTOR
Here’s the ‘but’ though. Not all Manuka honey contains high levels of the magical Methylglyoxal. So in order to help you identify the good stuff, they developed a rating system known as the Unique Manuka Factor (or UMF). The higher the UMF, the higher the concentration of methylglyoxal. In order to be considered “active Manuka honey,” the product must have a UMF of 10 or greater. In order to test the UMF activity, firstly all the other antibacterial effects of the honey being tested are removed. Then the antibacterial activity of this honey is tested in a laboratory and compared to that of a phenol solution (phenol is a strong antiseptic). The UMF number equates to the percentage phenol solution with the same bacterial killing power e.g.
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scars. It may also help to accelerate the healing process by keeping wounds infection-free.
HOW TO USE MANUKA HONEY
Coughs and colds Honey, together with lemon, has been used for many years as a soothing drink for coughs and colds. It’s also used by some to prevent acid reflux and heartburn.
Manuka can be used as any other honey, for example, spread on toast, or as a sweetener in drinks. There is some evidence though that the activity may be damaged by boiling water, so don’t add it until the drink is cool enough to sip. As an alternative, take a teaspoon two to three times a day. Burns and wounds Many people use Manuka honey as a topical application for minor ailments such as cuts, burns, wounds, acne, abscesses, eczema, cracked skin and skin ulcers. It helps keep the air away from the skin and helps to lessen pain and prevent formation of blisters and
Active Manuka honey is available through out the UAE at Holland & Barrett stores.
Arthritis and rheumatism Arthritic and rheumatic conditions are both said to have been helped by honey mixed with cider vinegar aka ‘honegar’. The fact that bee-stings may help relieve rheumatism has been ignored as an old-wives tale for centuries. However, in 1936, a German doctor recorded that honey contained some of the neutralising acids found in the poison of bee stings. Hayfever Hayfever has been found to improve particularly when a local honey is eaten and honey is also reputed to help symptoms of catarrh (build-up of mucus in the nose or throat) and digestive troubles. When should you not eat honey? Honey should be eaten with caution by people with diabetes as it has such high sugar content. Honey is not suitable for children under the age of 12 months because of the very slight risk of botulism. This is a precautionary measure - the risk is extremely small and non-existent to those over 12 months old.
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c i t a t s c E nce Da in Hawaii The rules are simple: No talking, no photos, no alcohol and no shoes. Also called movement medicine, moving meditation or trance dance, Ecstatic Dance events are spreading across the globe, including Hawaii, writes Carly Rainbird.
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reely moving our bodies in time with music and rhythm is a primal human instinct, it develops a direct body-spirit connection and helps release stuck patterns in our bodies, mind, emotions and spirit. In simple terms, it’s about losing yourself in the music and letting go. It’s about giving your body the freedom to express your mind and spirit with no judgments about whether you look graceful or beautiful or cool or however else you think you should be looking. Also called movement therapy, moving meditation or trance dance, Ecstatic Dance is an inner and outer journey of moving meditation. It is a natural high and the true meaning of that well-known spiritual phrase, ‘dance like no one is looking’ and one opportunity to do this in a group of like-minded people is at an Ecstatic Dance event like the one I went to in Hawaii recently when I went over to visit an old friend who had moved there from California. When she suggested I pay her a visit, I jumped at the chance. She met me at the airport and informed me we were heading straight to the Garden Temple Ecstatic Dance. I spent my first few hours on the magical island with a community very passionate about dancing. The rules are simple. No talking, no photography and no shoes. You move
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however you wish. You let go and simply dance like no one is watching. Absolutely no alcohol is consumed. You just dance. Ecstatic dance communities are passionate about movement and celebrate the spiritual ritual of letting go of inhibitions. Respecting the space and others you move every inch of your body in a trace like state. Allowing the music and vibe to take over in a way no other form of exercise allows.
YOU SHOULD BE DANCIN’
No judgement is passed, no intoxication needed. The DJ feels the mood of audience and takes you on a voyage of self-discovery. Starting with down tempo progressive trance you cannot help but begin to sway. As the beat increases you find yourself lost to the sound. Losing control of your arms, your feet cannot stay still and you find yourself deep in an aerobic movement, stimulating muscles and deepening your breath. There is no doubt you feel like you have had an incredible work out. As the music spirals back to a slower pace you feel the energy run through your veins. The music brings you into a meditative trance, heart pumping and sweat dripping; your body is grateful for the movement. Your circulation is flowing and without the poisons of alcohol running through your organs. All ages and fitness levels can enjoy and benefit from an hour of non-stop dancing. The workout is fun. Perhaps it takes you back to earlier years when every weekend was spent on a dance floor of club. If you’ve been known to have a little boogie in your home and long for somewhere to shake your body, Ecstatic Dance is for you. I love to dance but determined to look after my body I do not want to intoxicate it with alcohol, yet I struggle to avoid the temptation when in a club. I have never taken well to dance classes that insist on following a routine or instructor. I believe dance is a movement of freedom. Ecstatic Dance gives you the space to move in a way that feels right for you.
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So, are you dancing? Experience the Ecstatic Dance community on the Big Island, Hawaii yourself. The Kalani Retreat Centre holds weekly dances and often runs weeklong ecstatic dance programmes. www.kalani.com.
Let’s dance Dubai! Are you ready for a journey of selfdevelopment? Carly Rainbird is bringing Ecstatic Dance to Dubai. If you are interested in joining in, check out the website and ‘like’ the Facebook page to stay tuned… www.facebook.com/ecstaticdancedubai www.ecstaticdancedubai.com
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With the goodness of green tea, white clay and argan oil, Izil Green Tea Anti-Oxidant Face Mask helps you remedy dryness, excess oil, enlarged pores while leaving your skin feeling firm and soft with even skin tone. Its powerful antioxidant combination reduces inflammation, removes dead cells and improves skin health, while neutralising free radicals in the skin. Buy it! AED165 at Dubai Festival City and Ibn Battuta Mall (Dubai), Al Wahda Mall (Abu Dhabi) and Manar Mall (RAK).
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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 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 Organic Glow Beauty Lounge Eco-friendly salon offering organic treatments. E: eco_lounge@yahoo.com T: 04 380 4666 www.organicglowuae.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
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 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
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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)
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
Love Food ME A Dubai-based meal delivery service. Love Food offers healthy, unprocessed, sustainable, nourishing meals. 100 percent processed free, GMO free and refined sugar free. Gluten free, dairy free options also available. E: info@lovefoodme.com T: 04 321 2663 OUR wwlovefoodme.com ! PICK
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 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
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 LuminEssence Living, Silfath Pinto Silfath restores and elevates women in their feminine energy through soulful feminine movement, life coaching and feminine energy healing through weekly 2-hour classes. Also available: private sessions, workshops, eg: Body Love for Magical Women. T. 056 214 3336 E. silfath@silfathpinto.com www.silfathpinto.com Life ‘n One Variety of energy healing modalities, see ‘Wellnes 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,
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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
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 Wellness Centres)
FLOATATION THERAPY
Point Zero Floatation Center, Abu Dhabi Floatation Therapy, Ayurveda and Body Works. Khalifa City A, Abu Dhabi opposite
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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 VoYoga, Tecom, Dubai Monday nights at VoYoga yoga studio in I-Rise Tower Tecom, floor 31. T: 04 553 8630 E: join@voyoga.net www.voyoga.net 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) HAIRDRESSING
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
HYPNOTHERAPY
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 Graca Ward Hypnotherapy for addictions such as smoking, phobias and sea-sickness. E: gracaward@yahoo.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
OUR PICK! Sabine Poncelet
The Organic Stylista Caroline Kassem is the UAE’s vegan home service hairdresser. All her products and hair colour are vegan, cruelty-free, organic and environmental friendly. Caroline offers home service with haircutting, coloring and extensions. www.facebook.com/organicstylista Organic Glow Beauty Lounge Eco-friendly salon offering organic treatments. E: eco_lounge@yahoo.com T: 04 380 4666 www.organicglowuae.com
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
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Osteopathic Health Centre Malcolm Gregory and Nargis Raza give 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
Unlocked Potential Ebru Goksu Yildirim is a certified, empowering and intuitive life and relattionship coach who helps you overcome internal barriers and take action. Book a FREE sample session now. E: ebru@unlockedpotential.com T: 052 8766390 www.unlockedpotential.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 Crystal’s Energy Carola Becker is an Angel Life Coach certified by Isabelle von Falloise. She offers Angel Readings, Emotional Balance with Angels, and more. Tel. +971 50 613 0911 Email: becker_carola@hotmail.de Facbook: Crystal’s Energy Mind Body Dynamix MBD founder Amal Loring has counseled many UAE families on issues ranging from social, relationship and economic matters. 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
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
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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
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 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
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 HealthTrendz Healthy food to go. E: healthtrendz@dwtc.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
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 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 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 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
NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING
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
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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 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 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
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PILATES
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
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: 1. Karma Healing for Debt, Love, Procrastination, Health, Anger, Conflicts, Trauma issues. 2. Business Skills on Sales, Confidence, public speaking, Presentation etc
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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
T: 04 425 2240, 04 427 9856 and 04 362 4686 www.bakerandspiceme.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
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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 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 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
Green Bags UAE Eco-friendly bags in UAE & leading provider of jute ,cotton and juco bags. R U O These ethically-produced reusable bags PICK! are a replacement for plastic. REIKI FOR ANIMALS Animal Reiki in Dubai T: 04 370 5277 Sabine Poncelet helps heal your animal E: enquiry@greenbagsuae.com and yourself with energetic care. www.greenbagsuae.com T: 050 814 4529 E: info@sabinetherapies.com Noviplus www.sabinetherapies.com Cryo Health Noviplus offers members discounts on Cryotherapy is a curative health health and fitness services, tips and RESTAURANTS & CAFES advice, news, fitness tools and more. treatment involving extremely low One Cafe, Jumeirah 1 T: 050 585 6948 temperatures (-120 to -160 degrees Located at Life’nOne wellness center, E: info@noviplus.ae Celsius). Health benefits include antirelax in the garden with a fresh juice, www.noviplus.ae aging skin rejuvenation by stimulating protein shake, green smoothie, Turkish collagen production and weight loss coffee, etc. One of our favourites is the Raw Bites management by using the sub-zero High Vibe smoothie - banana, cacao, Online shop for all your vegan cooking and temperature to speed up blood circulation anana, lucuma, Peruvian maca root, lifestyle needs - spiralisers to nut mylk and surge the metabolism. Locations: The almond milk. Location: Jumeirah 1, bags, juicers, blenders, superfoods and Boulevard, Jumeirah Emirates Towers behind Magrudy’s Book Store. more. Cash on delivery available. and Dubai Ladies Club, Jumeirah 2. T: 04 343 6676 www.raw-bites.ae E: info@lifenone.com T. +971 4 351 8300 www.lifenone.com T. +971 4 351 8300 Sparklefairy E. contact@cryo-health.com New age and wellness online Bestro – Live and Raw www.cryo-health.com boutique. www.sparklefairy.com 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. To get your business listed here as well as online T: +971 (0)4 441 6407 at the UAE Wellness Directory at www.facebook.com/BeStroUAE 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.
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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 Powwer Lounge Ladies Fitness Weight-loss and wellness spa offfering personalised weight-loss, yoga, sculpting, 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, 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
The Lakes Energy Healing Using a mix of ThetaHealing, Tapping (EFT) and SRT, Anne Brison helps release the blocks holding you back in life that manifest as everything from physical to financial issues. T. 050 8433 262 Awakening Conferences & Seminars Organizing ThetaHealing helps you remove your subconscious blocks allowing you to create instantaneous physical, mental, 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 Elias Kanakri, Create Your Own Reality Want to change the reality you’re creating? Be it depression or anxiety, a bad breakup, money problems, physical issues... any reality you want to change, can be worked on. Fear, resentment, anxiety, depression, financial concerns, etc. Anything you feel that doesn’t belong in your life. T. 050 857 4676 www.eliaskanakri.com
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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 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 ‘N’ One Life’N’ One is a life center; a place to revitalize mind and body. Services include meditation, flow yoga, Pilates, Reiki, energy healing, cord cutting, Barre, 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 1, 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 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 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
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WELLNESS RETREATS
Kaya Yoga Therapy Holistic yoga teacher and yoga therapist Kaya Peters hosts detox, wellness and yoga retreats in some of the world’s most beautiful spots - from Sri Lanka to Cyprus, Turkey and more. See website for details of upcoming retreats. E: thisiskaya@gmail.com www.kayayogatherapy.com B-Wellness Retreats Three-day retreats designed to help women jumpstart into healthy living. E: Bernadette@bernaciseme.com www.bernaciseme.com 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. 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 Bay Yoga Center Bikram, hot yoga and general yoga classes. Grosvenor Business Tower, Al Abraj St, Unit 905, Business Bay, Dubai Tel. 971 50 554 5520 or 971 04 425 5960 E .info@bayyoga.ae 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
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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 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 OmYoga Hub With a hot room and a dry room, offers Bikram, Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Sivananda, Groovy Kids, etc. T. 04 551 6789 E. info@yogahubuae.com www.yogahubuae.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 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 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 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
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VoYoga, Tecom, Dubai The coolest hottest yoga studio in town - real yoga for real people. Everything from Bikram to Swing, Kundalini, Hatha yoga as well as meditation and gong meditation. T: 04 553 8630 E: join@voyoga.net www.voyoga.net Yoga Room, JLT, Dubai Ashtanga yoga studio. Swiss Tower, Cluster Y, JLT. T: 050 518 9966 E: info@yogaroom.ae www.yogaroom.ae 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 Zen Yoga, Dubai Various forms of yoga at several locations in Dubai including Dubai Media City, Springs Town Centre and Jumeirah. www.yoga.ae
ThetaHealing®
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Neanderthal Man
goes metrosexual
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 card-carrying caveman when he met the Tree Hugger… this issue, he gets groomed...
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ast week my boss said he was sending me to the UK for a meeting at our head office. Great, I thought, business class lounge here I come. But then he said it might be a good idea if I tidied myself up a little, you know, a haircut from a proper barber. The cheek of the man! If my 24 years in the British army taught me anything it was that a man just needs to shave his own head once a month and that no money need ever go to someone with a pair of scissors using words like ‘layers’ and ‘highlights’. Mortified and outraged, I stormed home to complain to the Tree Hugger. I knew I’d be able to count on my little hippie to stand up for crimes against
hair liberation. So imagine my surprise when she started Googling phrases like ‘male grooming’ and five minutes later I was booked in with one of them poncy upmarket men’s salons that do things that are frankly unmanly and unnecessary. Tree Hugger then announced she’d be coming with me to talk to the stylist first. The room started spinning. Was I really, for the first time in 35 years, going to give someone actual real money to cut my hair? Someone with a diploma that read ‘stylist’ and it wasn’t being ironic? It was monstrous. The hairdresser’s name was Reuben. His facial hair was so precisely manicured it looked like it had been tattooed on. Him and the Tree Hugger then started talking about me over my head. “So what we’re after Reuben,” Tree Hugger said, “is quite short at the sides and longer on top for height. I’ve got some photos here of the kind of thing…” at which point she whipped open her laptop in the middle of the salon and showed Reuben a load of photos of George Clooney from different angles on the red carpet. George. Flipping. Clooney. “Ooh yes,” said Reuben, nodding appreciatively and making mmmm sounds as Tree Hugger explained. At last she left and Reuben got to work. I closed my eyes and pretended I was somewhere better. Like in the trenches during the Falklands war.
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Was it over when my hair was cut? No apparently not. Reuben told me that I also needed an all organic facial and waxing; in a tone that suggested terrible, awful things would happen if I did not have an organic facial and waxing. Facials, it turns out, involve having gravel rubbed into your face but what came next, I could never have been prepared for – do other men really get this done all the time? Reuben disappeared behind a screen then reappeared with cotton wool balls covered in hot wax, which he then shoved up my nostrils and in my ears. There was no escaping the inevitable next step. A minute later, he forcefully yanked out the cotton wool taking my nose and ear hairs with it. Why waste time with waterboarding and fingernail pulling when all you need to do to get a prisoner of war to talk is hot wax and cotton wool balls? Tears streamed down my face as I staggered blindly out of the salon, pausing just long enough to pay for the experience. Plus tip. A tip! I was ready to complain long and hard at Tree Hugger who was waiting in a nearby café but her little face lit up when she saw me. And then I remembered the body parts she gets slathered in hot wax. So I shut up and ordered a coffee. It’s what George would have done. The poncy git.
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