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Ancient Wisdom & Modern Nutrition
The Whitefriar Community Centre, an inner city Dublin based community group, is funding a series of my cooking classes. I have already run 12 sessions and the community group has very kindly said that the following five classes are open to all who...
Shiatsu and Children
I am inspired to write this not to instruct as to specific acupressure points for children but because the more I work on people the more I realise the wonder of touch. To be touched in a connected and loving way supports the stomach and spleen...
Building a Home for your Heart
Shiatsu and the Art of Conscious Cooking & YogatouchDublin present Building a Home for your Heart 8th-10th June 2012 We all know how important it is to maintain a healthy heart by eating the right food and taking regular exercise but in...
Positive Life Spring Recipes
Spring is here with the energy of upwards and outwards. New shoots pushing up through soi, moving around any object, irrepressible and unstoppable. That’s the energy we have here. Time to wake up and move, find the flexibility and feel the surge of...
Angels, Orbs and Other Things
Exhibition runs from April 14th-21st in Baldoyle Library Opening with a wine reception on Saturday 14th April 2-4pm These new works represent the further exploration of subtle and unending change within all matter. The gossamer fine layers build...
“Where energy goes, blood flows”
With points on the body, Kidney 1 a good place to start. It’s literally our connection to source – it touches the earth with every step we take. Kidney source is our very essence, the energy we are born with all our inherited patterns and impulses....
Magnesium, Meridians and Relaxation
In my last post I talked of calcium and its function in controlling the nervous system and contracting the muscles. In this post, magnesium and its role in relaxing the body is the focus. Together these two minerals are insperable they enable the...
Liver/Gall Bladder One Day Cooking Course
Saturday 24th March 2012 Spring is the time of new beginnings and growth. Nothing stops the new green shoots, they are powerful and flexible. This is the life force in our bodies governed by the Liver and Gall Bladder. It is powerful energy for...
Food and its energy blog
We all know that calcium plays a big part in healthy teeth and bones; we see it on all the milk and cheese string adverts. Doctors advise plenty of dairy intake to young children to ensure proper skeletal development however there are much better...
Recipe Blog
(Article written for the current publication of Positive Life Magazine – for past articles on food and many other amazing subjects please visit) I’ve been looking forward to this season because I adapted a delicious recipe by Daverick Leggett –...
Courses
Cooking and Eating for the Bladder and Kidney Saturday 21st January 2012 At this time of year, in the dead of winter, many living organisms have retreated to their core to hibernate and conserve energy; the Kidney/Bladder meridians represent this...