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Vital Development® Biodanza®

The New Vital Biodanza: …is to dance with life!.

Vital Development is a system of human development and emotional awareness and expression pioneered and founded by Patricia Martello & Marcelo Di Matteo.

Patrricia and Marcelo

Vital Development uses positive experiences like; positive emotions, music, movement, expression to awakening a warm sense of human communion to open up and awaken a profound and enjoyable connection with our profound and true human potentials. #It does this through specific vital dances and exercises; unique intense vital experiences of aliveness known as vivencias.

Saturdays in London: Saturday 14th July; Sunday 5th August

With Marcelo Di Matteo MBRCP Vital Development Biodanza Instructor

New Venue: Tara Yoga Centre, 25-31 Ironmonger Row, Old Street, London EC1V 3QW.

A unique experience of transcendental and spiritual connection with our profound identity through the Four Elements of power.

• Which Element is lacking in your Life?
• Which Element is becoming too much in your Life?

We will guide you to have the Vital experience of them in your bodies, to balance them and enjoy them!!!

Sunday in Brighton  15th July (1-5:30pm)

Patricia & Marcelo together in Brighton!  Venue: Knoyle Hall, Knoyle Road, Preston Park, Brighton BN1 6RB.

The Art of the Sexual Sacred: Affectionate Expression of Life

"The Human love mirrors divine love and this relationship is a tool for the evolution of our consciousness. As we wake up from our waking state of consciousness we enter celestial realms where we glimpse the soul; where we create new realities from " .

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.

Taking a sacred approach to the expression of our sexuality and affection allows us to give it the attention it deserves. It invites us to re-connect our hearts with our sexual desires, to respect our desires, and to express them in ways that honor ourselves and those with whom we share them.

Vital Holidays Vivencias in Greece 2012

Molyvos – Isle of Lesvos

Friday 20th (6pm) – Tuesday 24th (2pm) July 2012

with Patricia Martello MBRCP & Marcelo Di Matteo MBRCP

Further Information: www.biodanza.co.uk   www.vital-development.eu  info@biodanza.co.uk

Sally Stubbs Rapha Hypnosis Treatments

Sally Stubbs has developed and recorded 14 different Rapha Therapy Treatments which are available from Amazon and www.sally-stubbs.com .

After 30 years of rigorous and robust checking we can state that Rapha Hypnosis Treatments produce ‘Cures that Endure’ and we guarantee you will have successful results or we will refund the purchase price.

Treatments available:

• Kick Your Annoying Habits
• Cure Insomnia
• Enhance Your Happiness
• Healthy Pregnancy
• Stop Smoking
• Harmonious Relationships
• Weight Loss
• End Anger
• Fix Your Phobia
• Solutions to Stress
• Make Well Your Nervous Stomach
• Gain Self Esteem & Confidence
• Cure Alopecia (14 CD specialist course)
• Mind Relaxation Techniques (2 CDs)

Explaining Rapha Hypnotherapy Treatments

The significant difference between RAPHA HYPNOSIS and other seemingly similar therapies is that Rapha Hypnosis is a permanent cure. It is not a series of management strategies to help you cope with your problem. Your problem may be long standing and although you want to be cured you know it will require serious intervention before you can be rid of it.

Rapha Hypnosis Treatments put you (your conscious self) in touch with your unconscious self, and teach you how to revise your automatic (unconscious) way of reacting. Why? Because it is a fact that more than 90% of our daily life is driven by our unconscious thoughts, beliefs and reactions, which we have learnt throughout the course of our life. (REF: Erickson, Jung, Einstein, Professor Lipton, [see him on You Tube] and many others)

Because they are by definition unconscious, we (the conscious we), need to be taught specific strategies to communicate with and resolve then revise these learnt problematic behaviours and replace them with positive beliefs, feelings and actions appropriate to our life now.

Fundamentally Rapha Hypnosis Treatments heal through education.

They educate you in:

• The language that enables your conscious self to communicate with your unconscious self;
• Specific diplomacy skills, such that your unconscious can elegantly cast off the habits and learnt traits that no longer serve you;
• How to develop and integrate new strategies which will be your revised unconscious, now relevant responses.

Rapha Hypnosis is a very serious tool; the Treatments are 15 tracks on boxed sets of 5 CDs or the equivalent as MP3 downloads. You need to be prepared to Work with the audio treatment and a note book for at least 30 minutes per day for forty days to get to grips with your particular issue and cure yourself of it. Permanently. You owe it to yourself and paradoxically to your problem to treat it and yourself with all due respect. No short cuts.

Further Information

More detailed information on Rapha, the treatments and Sally’s credentials are available on www.rapha-hypnosis.com

Marshcouch – Unique Design Enables Instant Height Adjustment

Marshcouch, was established 1982 , to fulfil a need in the portable couch market, to build couches that fit the needs of the therapist using them. Their ethos was to make light, strong couches, initially customized heights to suit the individual; the range later extending to include adjustable height

Weight and ease of use have always been a leading factor in their designs; they believe that a flat plinth should weigh no more than 12.5kgs and a backrest type max 15kg. Adjustable couches should be quick and easy to adjust, without having to turn the couch over and unscrew nuts and bolts or break your nails on fiddly zimmer frame pips !

The Marshcouch leg design allows instant adjustment, (about 7secs per end) utilizing large spring loaded plungers on each leg. This, combined with a cable suspension system (now much copied)  to eliminate centre legs, gives better stability and fast adjustment. Adjustment range is 24-32”; a later option added a second lower range of adjustment (17-25”); the lower range is proving extremely popular with shorter sports therapists, chiropractors and Feldenkrais practioners

Marshcouch service and support its couches throughout their lifetime, offering full service backup from repairs to re-upholstery. Marshcouch also supplies the Affinity range of couches, Chinese made, the best of the imported couches on the market, well built , good value for money with backup and a worthwhile guarantee. They serve to compliment our own range offering a lower cost option. Marshcouch has moved to specialize its range, offering custom built Alexander, Felenkrais, Osteopathy, Chiropractic, Pre-natal & Reiki couches.

During the last 30yrs, many companies have come and gone, leaving their customers with worthless guarantees and no service back-up. Marshcouch regularly receive calls from therapists who’ve bought couches cheaply on ebay, only to find that couches break and their supplier, often working from a back bedroom laptop, doesn’t want to know, leaving them out of pocket and out of work! Marshcouch, is a real company, not virtual, with an address, a showroom and real people on the end of the phone for help and advice  You get what you pay for. Buy well and your couch should give you for years of trouble free service.

Further Information

To discuss your requirements, please contact Nigel Marshall at Marshcouch on Tel: 01442-263199;  nigel@marshcouch.com    www.marshcouch.com

Innerchange Self-Hypnosis

Self-hypnosis is a very safe and effective personal development tool that can enable you to experience deep relaxation and access and utilize inner-resources to bring about positive changes from within. It can help to reduce stress, boost self-confidence, improve sleep and change unwanted habits. Innerchange Personal Development Programmes offer a range of professional quality self-hypnosis audio CDs and self-hypnosis workshops.  The workshops are run by Kathy Stephenson a Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University and the Course Leader of BA (Hons) in Education Studies with Psychology and Counselling. Kathy is an Advanced Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner and has many years of experience running a private therapy practice. She has developed the Innerchange range of high quality professional CDs and self-hypnosis workshops by drawing on her combined experience as an educationalist and successful therapist

Innerchange self-hypnosis CDs range has been developed using a combination of hypnotherapeutic suggestions, NLP techniques, and creative visualization and soothing music to help to guide you into a state of complete mental and physical relaxation. Each CD is professionally recorded and lasts approximately 40 minutes. They are based upon many hours of clinical experience and are completely safe and natural. Regular listening to the positive suggestions and soothing metaphors helps you to focus your awareness within, bypass conscious resistance, replace negative thought patterns and bring about beneficial changes. An accompanying booklet helps to maximise the effectiveness of the programme. Click here to hear sample www.innerchange.co.uk/download/files/samples/sample_kathy.mp3

There are ten titles in the range including Effective Stress Management, Inner Calm Inner Confidence, Deep Relaxing Sleep, Health and Wellbeing, Slimmer Fitter, Healthier and Smoke Free and Healthy. The full CD range is available on Kathy’s website www.innerchange.co.uk  and readers who sign up to the innerchange newsletter will receive a £50 discount on forthcoming self-hypnosis workshops.

Further Information and Special Discount Offer

Innerchange is offering Positive Health PH Online readers a special discount on all CDs in the range available from the online shop www.innerchange.co.uk  at a special discount of £5 off each CD with promo code SH250.

Stephen Macallan Clinics - Vega and Rife Machines

Stephen Macallan currently works from his clinic at home and occasional Mondays near Harley Street, London. For many years now he has specialized in helping people resolve allergies. He maintains that allergies are resolvable and that if you have one or more allergies to foodstuffs, it is not simply bad luck on your part. It is because of some underlying disorder(s). This is where his use of The Vega-Expert machine is so invaluable in helping to determine his patients’ allergies, and more importantly what are the underlying disturbances causing their ‘allergicness’.

Stephen also have a Rife machine in his clinic, which he uses more and more these days. The Rife machine functions either to improve or enhance cellular functioning, or to target pathogenic organisms such as bacteria, viruses or parasites. In the last few months he has achieved great success combating parasites and post-surgical infections (including some that have proved to be resistant to antibiotics). In the last year or two we have read in the news much about ever-increasing anti-biotic resistance and one expert has gone on to suggest that within 10 years there will be no effective anti-bacterial pharmaceuticals.

Stephen is very happy to report that Rife technology offers effective anti-microbial options, as do treatment strategies that encourage the body’s own immune system to engage in vigorous offensives against infection. The strategies that he is talking about here include herbs, naturopathic protocols, acupuncture, homoeopathy, reflexology, etc. etc. There are many treatment systems out there able to promote improved immune function, so if frequent infections are a problem for you, he encourages you to try some of the alternatives that are available. If you don’t know where to start looking for alternative help, please feel free to contact him. Be lucky, be happy.

Further Information

Please contact Stephen on Tel: 01270 650336; Mob 07985 585718; Stephen@stephenmacallan.co.uk    www.stephenmacallan.co.uk

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Emmi-dent Ultrasonic Toothbrush for Clean, Healthy Teeth and Gums

Brushing your teeth using conventional manual and electric toothbrushes may become a thing of the past as the latest in ultrasound technology hits the UK oral care market. Emmi-dent ultrasonic toothbrushes are set to change the way we clean our teeth. The clinically proven and patented toothbrush technology utilizes 'nano-bubbles' in conjunction with 100% ultrasound to clean teeth and safely destroy bacteria and plaque, deep in the gum pockets, where conventional and electric toothbrushes cannot reach.

The Emmi-dent ultrasonic toothbrush looks like any other electric toothbrush, but is used in a very different way. Brushing becomes unnecessary because ultrasound does all the work through microscopic `nano bubbles` that are created when the special non abrasive toothpaste and ultrasound interact.

You will need to resist the temptation to brush your teeth with the Emmi-dent toothbrush. Just position the brush head on the teeth (usually 3 at a time), allowing the ultrasound to work for about 5 seconds before moving on to the next set of teeth.

We have all developed the habit of brushing over many years, so it may difficult to stop brushing and let the ultrasound and 'nano bubbles' do the work, but if you persevere, the results may astound you! The Emmi-dent can destroy bacteria and plaque and make light work of hard to remove tea, coffee, wine and other stains, taking your teeth back to their natural colour in just 3 or 4 days of use.

Recent studies suggest that oral health and gum disease in particular are related to serious conditions such as heart disease. The Emmi-dent can help improve your oral health and reduce gum disease, potentially reducing other health risks. It is safe and effective for use with fillings, crowns, bridges and implants so your dentist is also likely to be pleased with you too!

The Emmi-dent 100% Ultrasonic Toothbrush was show-cased to dental professionals and other visitors to the 'Innovation Zone' at the British Dental Association Conference and Exhibition in April 2012 and is now available to UK consumers and dental professionals.

Further information

Please contact the UK distributor: SleepRight (Europe) Limited on Tel: 0845 299 7089; info@sleepright.eu   www.emmi-dent.co.uk  

The Meditation Wave - Meditation for Busy,  No-Nonsense People

The Meditation Wave improves productivity, alertness and emotional and physical fitness levels as a result of practising a One Minute Meditation, 5 times a day for 28 days.

These are the findings of  Dr Mariette Jansen, who initiated The Meditation Wave, as a research project to demonstrate the benefits of just 10 minutes meditation practice a day. 

“Meditation is a life skill that everyone should apply. There is nothing weird about it. It is something we all do from time to time, but we are not always aware of it”, says Mariette. “I want meditation to be seen as a normal part of daily routines.”

One definition  of meditation is that it is ‘a holistic discipline by which the practitioner attempts to get beyond the reflexive, ‘thinking’ mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness’. The key is that it is a technique to calm the mind. Meditation can take many forms and it doesn’t need to be complicated. Focus and concentration, for even just one minute, will help to create a restful state of the mind.

The Meditation Wave is the easiest way to incorporate meditation into a hectic lifestyle.

• All materials are delivered via email;
• There is no time commitment. The maximum time involved is 10 minutes a day, broken down into 5 chunks of approximately  2 minutes each;
• Can be done anywhere and everywhere;
• Cost for all materials and 1 month support: £37.

The Wave is aimed at and can be joined by both experienced meditators and non-meditators alike. Mariette says, “The Wave refers to the way brainwave frequencies alter, when someone meditates. But also, I can just see the concept of the One Minute Meditation sweeping across the UK, like a wave, and hopefully even rippling out over to the continent.”

Dr Mariette Jansen runs meditation workshops in Weybridge and Surrey and has integrated relaxation and meditation techniques in her work as a teacher of counselling students and with individual clients, who work with her to learn to manage their stress and de-stress. She publishes regularly on her blog (www.stressfreecoaching.co.uk ) about meditation, stress management  techniques and models of stress free living.

Further information and to join The Meditation Wave, please contact:

Mariette Jansen Coaching and Meditation on Mob:  07967 717 131; mariette.jansen.coaching@gmail.com  www.stressfreecoaching.co.uk www.facebook.com/TheMeditationWave  

Bimuno Travelaid – Protection from Travellers’ Diarrhoea

Don’t let Delhi Belly leave you toilet-bound on holiday! TRAVELAID from Bimuno is your suitcase essential for a happy tummy.UK travellers account for around 23.7 million trips per annum to countries linked with Travellers’ Diarrhoea (TD);[1] and the percentage of UK travellers reporting illness is 30% to 50%, [2] making it the biggest single health problem for those going abroad.[2]

Bimuno TRAVELAID is a 2nd generation (B-GOS) prebiotic, specially formulated with the specific gut health needs of holidaymakers, business and adventure travellers in mind. It is the only food supplement clinically proven to help prevent Travellers’ Diarrhoea;[3] Bimuno is a must-have suitcase essential this holiday season.

When travelling abroad, local food, drink, climate and stress can all have an effect on the balance of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ bacteria in your digestive system. An increase in certain types of ‘bad’ bacteria can lead to TD symptoms such as cramps, nausea, bloating in addition to diarrhoea, which can not only be distressing but impact on the wallet too, eating into precious holiday or business time.

So how does Bimuno work?

TRAVELAID’s unique patented formulation, contains Galacto-oligosaccharides (B-GOS), an ideal food for your guts ‘good’ bacteria (Bifidobacteria), resulting in a highly significant increase in their numbers and their activity within the gut.[4] Uniquely, the soft chewable pastilles also actively help to prevent ‘bad bacteria’ from becoming established in the gut. This dual-action helps to maintain a favourable balance of ‘good’ bacteria, thereby helping to prevent the dreaded ‘Dehli belly’, allowing you to fully enjoy the sights, sounds and tastes of your new destination.

Clinically-proven to help prevent TD, Bimuno is the result of intensive research and development including peer reviewed, clinical trials conducted in collaboration with the University of Reading’s Food Microbial Sciences Unit and other globally recognized research institutes. With proven results, Bimuno’s TRAVELAID is widely recommended by travel clinics across the UK. Bimuno is the only 2nd generation (B-GOS) prebiotic on the market. It offers added functionality beyond its prebiotic (increases and strengthens beneficial bacteria) and bifidogenic (increases and strengthens the immunity boosting bifidobacteria) effect.

Directions: TRAVELAID should be taken daily for seven days before travel and then daily for the duration of the holiday or business trip.

References

1. Office of Nat Stats:MQ6 Overseas Travel & Tourism Q4 2009, Table 26.
2. www.NHS.com Travellers’ Diarrhoea.
3. Drakoularakou A et al. European of Clinical Nutrition 64:146-152. 2010.
4. www.bimuno.com

Further Information

Stockist: Bimuno TRAVELAID is available from Boots the Chemist online at www.bimuno.com  Price: RRP £9.99 (30 pastilles)

Auspicious Good Fortune

by Sumangali Morhall

Published by Mantra Books. 2012. Paperback: ISBN 978-1-78099-036-1 £12.99 $22.95; eBook ISBN 978-1-78099-037-8  £6.99 $9.99

One woman's inspirational journey from Western disillusionment to Eastern spiritual fulfilment.

Has your life ever flashed before you?

Sumangali Morhall chased everything Western society taught her to pursue: material wealth, academic success, and even the perfect relationship, only to discover something deeply significant was still missing. A sudden near-death experience opened her eyes, and her life began anew.

Left with nothing and nobody to rely on, her inner strength blossomed and her spiritual search began in earnest. Her journey led her to study meditation with Indian spiritual Master, Sri Chinmoy: a direction she could never have imagined. Sumangali reveals the arcane practice of learning from a contemporary Guru in lively detail, shedding light on misconceptions while remaining candid about her own initial doubts. Heart-warming, courageous, and beautifully crafted, this spiritual memoir follows a Western woman learning the ways of the East, and putting them into practice in her modern world: an ordinary person leading an extraordinary life.

Further Information

Available on Amazon:

www.amazon.co.uk/Auspicious-Good-Fortune-Inspirational-Disillusionment/dp/1780990367

www.amazon.com/Auspicious-Good-Fortune-inspirational-disillusionment/dp/1780990367

Acupuncture Cost-Effective Solution for the NHS

House of Commons talk pinpoints acupuncture as a cost-effective solution for the NHS

The AACP team meets David Tredinnick MP, Chair of the Parliamentary Group on Integrated Healthcare. Left to right: Paul Battersby (AACP Director), Lesley Pattenden (AACP Director), Vivienne Dascanio (AACP Chair), David Tredinnick MP, Gregory Byrne (AACP Chief Executive), Merian Denning (AACP Director)

Acupuncture as a cost-effective treatment for musculoskeletal disorders was highlighted at a recent meeting held in the House of Commons in a presentation by professional network the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP).

Chair of the AACP Vivienne Dascanio and her team gave a 75-minute presentation to the Parliamentary Group for Integrated Healthcare on the evidence-based practices used by AACP members. The talk demonstrated that the early intervention of acupuncture treatment and physiotherapy can significantly reduce the overall cost to society of managing musculoskeletal conditions.

Speaking after the presentation, Mrs Dascanio said: “Musculoskeletal injury is the biggest cause of work absenteeism, with enormous expense to UK industry. Some 119 million working days are lost each year to back pain and 60 per cent of work-related illnesses are the result of back, neck or limb problems.

“Acupuncture as part of a physiotherapy service is presently widely accepted within the NHS and private practice. However, we need to ensure that GP practices and healthcare commissioners understand the very high professional standard of AACP members’ acupuncture services, and that supporting our physiotherapists to provide acupuncture requires minimal or no additional NHS funding when provided as an integrated part of a physiotherapy service. It also has much wider benefits to the health and economic wellbeing of society.”

The AACP is the UK’s largest professional acupuncture organisation. A principal objective of the AACP is to enhance the integration of acupuncture into mainstream physiotherapy for the management of pain and systemic conditions. The AACP has more than 6,500 member physiotherapists using acupuncture within the NHS, private practice and within the armed services.

Corrective Exercise Solutions to Common Hip and Shoulder Dysfunction

by Evan Osar

Published by Lotus Publishing. 2012. Softback. £25.49. ISBN-10: 1905367260.

Corrective Exercise Solutions to Common Hip and Shoulder Dysfunction was published in 2012. Full of colour photographs illustrating precise assessments, corrective strategies, and functional progressions, Corrective Exercise Solutions to Common Hip and Shoulder Dysfunction demonstrates how the three principles of human movement - respiration, centration, and integration - can be harnessed to improve common movement dysfunctions of the hip and shoulder.

The book discusses in detail how faulty movement patterns develop and the concepts and strategies useful for rehabilitation, and offers a host of corrective exercises that can be utilized to aid the recovery process. The book is broken down into three key sections:

Section one: an introduction to movement and the components of the movement paradigm, including muscles, joints, proprioceptors, and fundamental movement patterns;

Section two: discusses functional anatomy and kinesiology of the shoulder and hip complexes, including some of the common dysfunctions as well as several concepts that are necessary for improving function of these regions;

Section three: demonstrates the corrective exercise and movement progression, based on the principles set up in the first two sections of the book.

Author Evan Osar, a prominent Chiropractic Physician, says, “Dysfunctions of the movement system are at the core of most cases of musculoskeletal injury, including degenerative joint conditions, impingement syndromes, and chronic myofascial and joint pain. These movement impairments result in a host of injuries that can affect individuals in all aspects of their lives from work, to leisure, to sport.”

Corrective Exercise Solutions to Common Hip and Shoulder Dysfunction is one of the only books of its kind currently on the market, and offers a unique view into hip and shoulder rehabilitation.

About the Author

Evan Osar is a chiropractic physician specializing in movement-based solutions to chronic pain and movement disorders. Dr Osar is an author and international lecturer on posture, stability, and the movement-based approach to corrective exercise and improved performance. 

Further Information

Available on Amazon:

www.amazon.co.uk/Corrective-Exercise-Solutions-Shoulder-Dysfunction/dp/product-description/1905367260  

www.amazon.com/Corrective-Exercise-Solutions-Dysfunction-ebook/dp/B0088E3ROG