A friend of mine in Sydney has started producing some fantastic organic raw treats – Love Bites and Energy Bars. At the retreat I gave everyone some of the Love Bites on arrival and on the day they were leaving everyone had a Love Bite and an Energy Bar to take with them for the
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A great big hello and thank you to Jennie from Raw Pleasure www.rawpleasure.com.au for her support for the Embracing Life! Retreats. Raw Pleasure is a fantastic resource for anything to do with Raw Food, health, detoxing etc and they have the best range of raw books you will find anywhere! Along with selling some great
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Another aspect of health that we address at the Embracing Life! Retreat, is that of lowering the body burden of chemicals that we use every day in our personal care and cleaning products. Most brands of these products are made with synthetic chemicals that can be absorbed into our body and added to the toxins
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Raw Power – www.rawpower.com.au were a great help with supplying me with information hand-outs on all different types of superfoods and sending me samples of over a dozen superfoods for us to try at the retreat. One of the lectures that I do at the Embracing Life! Retreat, is on the benefits of using whole
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Grander Water were another generous supplier supporting the Embracing Life! Retreat with a portable water treatment unit that provided us with top quality water to drink during the week. Grander Water is not a “water filter” and can’t be compared to anything else on the market. It is a stand alone technology that alters the
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One of the highlights of the retreat (and there were many!) was the generous supply by Sunlight Saunas, of a three person Sunlight Sauna Cabin and a Solo Sauna for our use during the retreat. Roseanne from Sunlight drove up on the Sunday and organised the set up of these units at the resort. They
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I can’t believe that it’s been two weeks since I last wrote on my Blog! I think that is the longest gap I’ve had since I started writing over a year ago. The reason for my absence is due to the launch of my very first Embracing LIfe! Retreat! On the 14th September myself and my
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The Green Smoothie Challenge is on again! Being run by Anand and Runi from Raw Power – they have set up the GSC as a two week challenge to drink a litre of green smoothies every day. Great as an introduction to raw food for new people, but also a great challenge for those of
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I really like this quote from one of my favourite books by Charles Eisenstein, The Yoga of Eating: “A discrepancy between what we eat and who we are in the world generates a kind of tension, which is resolved either when the diet moves back in line with the person’s incarnate role, or when the
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I get asked a lot about supplements, which ones are the best, what do I take every day, and how to know which ones you need. I was once a total supplement junkie – I had 40 bottles of different tablets and capsules on my bench top, and every morning I would take handfuls of
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