Embracing Life! Retreat
Tuesday, September 23
I’m very excited to say that I’ll be attending the Embracing Life! Retreat in a few weeks! This is a brilliant 6 day raw food retreat that focuses on detox, relaxation, and delicious nutritious food! There are lecturer, yoga, massages, infra-red saunas all in the beachfront luxury of Club Capricorn in Yanchep. The retreats are a new endeavour by highly qualified Naturopath Leisa Wheeler, who is well known for her work at the Hippocrates Center in Qld.
If you’re also interested in attending, there are only 4 places left! So I recommend you contact Leisa today. Her website contains much much more information, but to summarise the philosophy behind the retreat, I’ll quote:
I think we can do better than to give away our power and follow teachers or healers who market themselves as the guru with all the answers, proclaiming that if the devout followers heed what they have to say, then eternal health will be theirs.
My philosophy and mind-set are along a different path, and my aim is to empower people with enough knowledge for them to be able to make their own informed decisions about their health. To be able to ask the right questions and not get blinded by any one guru, book or concept with slick marketing techniques.
During the retreat, my extensive knowledge and research on health and healing will be presented – not as a strict doctrine to follow - but as a summation of what I have discovered over the years to be the most honest and useful information. You will be encouraged to question, explore and challenge the ideas presented, and to discover your own truth’s within my findings.
You are your own best healer!
There will either be two lectures each day, or one lecture and one food preparation class, and we will cover subjects ranging from:
- food as medicine
- stress and fatigue
- thyroid, adrenal and hormonal issues
- weight loss
- the role of detoxification
- orthodox versus alternative medicine
- superfoods and antifoods
- exercise
- the emotional aspects of healing
- owning our own goddess power (ladies only!)
- healing philosophy
- abundant vitality!
- the gut and the liver
- non-toxic personal care and cleaning products
- and much, much more!
Comprehensive notes and workbooks will accompany each lecture, with references, website links and further reading to encourage your own exploration of these areas.
I love to teach, so I am sure you will find my lectures entertaining, thought provoking and inspiring!
I am so looking forward to this week away from work, even though I’ll be helping out in the kitchen with some of the food preparation. I have had the feeling recently that I need a retreat, to get away from it all, so I can place some focus on my self and health again, so it’s amazing that I discovered this opportunity. What’s the old saying, “the teacher will come when the student is ready”? I feel like that - because even though I have been going well with my health and foods lately, being 80% raw (that it, nearly all my meals except one or two a week being raw), I’ve just been needing the extra nudge, the mentor to get me over what I feel to be a tough patch. So it is something needed, and fantastic to look forward to!
With the blog, sorry I’ve been absent! I’ve actually got a backlog of things I want to write and tell you about but I have been tied up with work and uni (don’t know if I’ve told you about this, but I’m doing a Masters degree researching vegan/raw vegan culture!) that I haven’t had the chance to write. I’m getting myself into gear though, so expect more frequent posts in the near future!
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