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Holistic Retreats
Wholistic Healing Re-Treats
I constantly strive to be at the leading edge in the fields that I practise (counselling, coaching and hypnotherapy) and one of the ways that I do this is to take seminars and experiential workshops at wholistic learning, healing and re-treat centres in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Over the years, I have stayed at Continue Reading
December 17, 2013 No answers View Post
Holotropic Breathwork
This fall I had the good fortune to participate in a one-week Breathwork Intensive at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in the Hudson River Valley at Rhinebeck, New York.  Their website is:  www.eomega.com  At this experiential event there was about a dozen top world leaders in the various practices of breathwork and in the psycho-neuro-biology Continue Reading
October 11, 2013 No answers View Post
The Look Of Love: Seeing Through The Spiritual Veil
“If the Beloved is everywhere, the lover is a veil, But when living itself becomes the friend, lovers disappear.” by Jalaluddin Rumi, 13th Century Sufi Mystic and Poet. In this eloquent comment Rumi seems to capture the essence of how to live one’s life in a field of loving-kindness. We are generally very attracted to Continue Reading
August 26, 2013 No answers View Post
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ………….
“To sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub.” The above quote from the “To be or not to be…” soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet seemed to be a perfect way to start this article on sleeping well. In my counselling and hypnotherapy practice, I get 3 to 4 calls a week from very sad Continue Reading
June 24, 2013 No answers View Post
Giving and Receiving
Gift giving is an art form. For it to be meaningful it needs to be done with compassion, sensitivity and wisdom. Some cultures actually delay the opening of the gift and make a ritual ceremony out of the transferring of the unopened gift to the receiver. The surprise gleaned from receiving the contents of the Continue Reading
May 21, 2013 No answers View Post