This July we completed the third part of the Healing Diets course (The series of 3 Classes starts again this Autumn - follow this link to find out more). For two of the students attending the class, this was their final class before undertaking their clinical training. Soon both Leandra Costa and Michelle Redgrave will graduate as Naturopaths.

Part 3 of the Healing Diets course focuses on the effect that food has on our consciousness and thus how our dietary choices affect the environment we live in, our relationships and ultimately our relationship with the planet as a whole. I had some lovely feedback from all of my students. Here are some comments from Leandra, our student from Brazil. Leandra is currently a highly skilled massage therapist in London and it is her plan to return to Brazil upon graduation and open a Naturopathic clinic there that includes full cleansing and rejuvenation programmes.

“The Healing Diets workshops have been an amazing teaching on all levels for me. It opened my eyes about food both in terms of my own experience and also its effect on the world.

This course made me think and reflect on my relationship with food, giving directions and teaching for cleansing, regeneration and rejuvenation from diet, fasts, cleanses, alkaline diets, raw food diets and more. I also broadened my learnings into diverse cultural diets and studies, learning about Ayurvedic diet and doshas, macrobiotic diets, and vegetarianism, to name just a few.

Part three of the Healing Diets has been a big reminder of how all of us are responsible for a healthy, clean and fair environment where we can grow organic, healthy foods for generations to come.

I can only thank Bonny for sharing all her vast knowledge, caring and love, It makes one inspired to become healthy and to spread all the good positive information to the world” - Leandra

To find out more about the Healing Diets course visit this page...http://www.herenowhealing.com/UK/Cert/certificationcourse/livingfoods.html or CONTACT Bonny directly with your questions.

This is a very beautiful TED interview with a man from Brazil who created music out of the positions on BIRDS sitting on ELECTRICAL WIRES. It really is amazing what we can accomplish if we pay attention to and receive inspiration from the moment. The world around us offers infinite inspiration if we are only present to see it.

This interview is by a man who took a simple observation and made something of true beauty from it.

This is a must see. EnJoy!

Mark, Fiona and Caroline

On our field trip to Branscombe we were blessed with a beautiful sunny day - so different from the wind and rain trip to Branscombe this time last year. The first plant that we communed with was a dramatic solitary thistle at the entrance to a farm gate between one pasture and the next.

Students contemplated the Thistle for several minutes and then drew it from memory. They then contemplated the Thistle again, this time taking notes of their feelings and impressions, followed by drawing a ‘feeling sense’ of the Thistle. We then shared as a group our impressions and what we thought ‘Thistle’ might be used for in a remedy. Of course there was such a great synergy between the thistle and with/within the group. Our activities drew the attention of a group of young cows who inched their way closer and closer and CLOSER, until they were right upon us and we had to face facts and find another spot. Here is a photo of our darling friends... they certainly were curious :)

We went on to walk up the hill to visit a beautiful fern in the woods:

This is Mark contemplating the Fern before beginning his drawing and following are his comments about the course:

“I arrived at the flower essence course, in a rather hot, bothersome and fatigued state. Having arrived at the course, some 90minutes late by virtue of driving a 5 mile radius around the desired location, in a baking hot car, on roads I was becoming increasingly confused and enraged by; such were my homing pigeon skills. As I walked up the path, towards the final destination I was greeted by a warm smile from Bonny. Such a welcome, set the tone for the 5 thoroughly enjoyable days that were to unfold.

   The flower essence course has gracefully helped me to understand, appreciate and led me to explore further, the innner workings of life, energy and vibration. Those goings on, just beyond the other side of the veil we operate behind in normal day to day life. I have come through the 5 days with a sense of companionship. A relationship with God and the gifts he has given us and works through. It has brought a renewed clarity to my own personal state of grace and invited me to work in a much more harmonious way with Creation.

  Upon our field exercise, I knew that the plants were speaking with us because they knew we listened. We approached them with the right attitude. And it is this attitude that has helped to uplift me. It became so glaringly obvious and simple that of course, everything about them was a direct clue as to the virtues they offer and in turn, those in which they help remedy. One cannot help but feel an overwhelming state of gratification towards these beaming lights hereon after.

   Through studying the essences in turn and getting a sense of feeling for each particular state. I knew that my sense of compassion alone was increasing. Goodness, who would want to live with the negative expressions of those vibrations! And in the positive expressions, I saw the diversity of humankind. The gifts we all have to offer one another and which we all need to call upon at some stage of our life.

   It was a fitting, conclusion to our 5 days together, that we should make a combined group essence and as I sipped it in the few days after, I was transported lovingly straight back into that saced place, amongst those sacred souls with which I shared this lovely experience.”

Spending time in such a beautiful green environment was healing for all of us

Then we moved on towards the beach for lunch and then to a meadow filled with buttercups, daisies and other wildflowers. Here we waited and watched until the flower that wished to become our remedy called out and on this day it was the Buttercup. We placed our crystal bowl in the sunshine and carefully allowed each and every individual flower share its intention and desire to be part of our remedy. I think that the students were really pleased to experience how clearly plants communicate when you are paying attention to what they are saying.

Here Fiona describes her experience on the course:

“I too thoroughly enjoyed the course - on many different levels - and realise that on returning home yesterday afternoon that I feel profoundly different in myself. I can only surmise that this is due to a combination of things, including what felt like one of the most indulgent healing processes I've ever had (two people twirling essence-laden feathers on me for half an hour!) along with such a positive, kind and open environment in which to explore and share inner thoughts, experiences and knowledge, as well as our group essence which has already served one of its functions for me (being receptive to grace) and, lastly, spending time in a place of great natural beauty (Branscombe). I therefore want to extend my heart-felt love and gratitude to you all for contributing to this experience which I will not forget. “

and later...

"I was so pleased to be able to join Bonny's Flower Essence course in June - we had some wonderful discussions about the variety of human experience and how each Bach Remedy has its own subtle application to assist management of difficult emotions. Our field trip to draw flowers and convene with nature so that we could learn how to make a flower essence and have a sense of what it could be used for was deeply satisfying - I will never be able to look at a thistle in the same way again! However having essence-laden feathers lightly brushed on my skin for half an hour was probably the most indulgent healing practice I have experienced - unforgettable.
 
Bonny's guidance and insight each day was inspiring and the whole experience of being with this lovely group was a heart-felt joy. Thanks for listening to me talk about astrology!" - Fiona

And from Caroline:

“I had a wonderful week also and felt like a different person leaving on Friday, I felt such a sense of peace and calm (something I had not felt in a long time). Since I have returned to Ireland I've noticed so many thistles.  Thanks for the insight on them Fiona, its amazing how we had a similar feel from our own work.  I enjoyed every second of the course and it was a pleasure to be around such interesting and kind people.  Thanks to all of you. I bought some good brandy at the weekend so I'll out in the garden in the morning.”

So a wonderful time was had by all. Thank you to all of you and thank you also to the beautiful flowers that inspired our time together!

Branscombe beach - brrr!


wind and sea group remedy


bundled up but an exhilarating experience

The Old Man and his Soul is an inspirational saga that reframes death and dying as a spiritual adventure. It offers a universal story of profound value to seekers of truth who explore the mystery of life and death on their personal journey toward union with their soul. The book follows the journey of an elderly man who leaves his ancestral home after the death of his wife and walks through the deserts and forests of Northern India during his seasons of seeking as a sadhu. When he finds his spiritual teacher in a Holy City, he progresses in his internal journey and experiences forgiveness, understanding and release with his spiritual practice during his seasons of service.

Farida Sharan journeyed to India over sixty times to sit at the feet of her spiritual teacher. This story of the old man was gifted as a dream during a visit to her spiritual colony near the foothills of the Himalayas.

She offers "The Old Man and His Soul" to spiritual seekers as inspiration for the journey of their souls. Farida lives in Boulder, Colorado where she shares evolutionary health and healing teachings at the School of Natural Medicine International. 

Send £14.95 cheque made out to Here Now Healing to: School of Natural Medicine, 46 East Grove Road, Exeter EX2 4LX or contact Bonny for Direct Deposit details.
Make sure you write  OLD MAN BOOK ORDER in the Subject line to avoid your order getting lost in the junk mail!

In a world where environmental toxins are inescapable, the knowledge needed to cleanse the body of both the toxins themselves and their effects is more valuable than gold. The key to longevity, mental and emotional stability, hormonal balance, energy and vitality and freedom from disease lies with the understanding and periodic practice of deep tissue and organ cleansing. This course provides Knowledge you can't afford to live without!

The study of hydration, quality of water, fasting, cleansing diets and deep purification including: water fasting, the 'Master Cleanse', vegetable juice fasting, various forms of fruit juice fasting, alkaline cleanse, and several alternate cleanses for those who can not take time down to cleanse and still need to maintain energy for work and family commitments. This three day class provides the knowledge you need to confidently work with cleansing diets as part of a healing programme. Students have the opportunity to share in a group Master Cleanse during this three day course. 

Class II
Rejuvenation Diets

APRIL 27th - 29th
(Tuesday - Thursday) 

 

Vegetarianism 
Vegan 
Raw/Living Food 
Superfoods
Nutrient Dense Regeneration Diets 
Ayurvedic Dosa Balancing 
Macrobiotic

fee - £300

Every cell in our body is replaced over a 3 year period. Most are renewed within a 6 month period. It is what we eat every day, what we think every day, what we aspire to everyday, over periods of time that defines how our body develops. We have the power to recreate ourselves into the body, into the person, and at the level of health that we choose. 

This class explores the latest research into diet and nutrition from T. Colin Campbell andGabriel Cousens, along with studies by pioneers such as Ann Wigmore and Dr. Norman Walker, and then presents vegetarian, vegan, five element nutrition, 3 dosas, living and raw foods, macrobiotic and other healing diets in light of this wealth of knowledge. Practical classes in raw food preparation living cheeses, whole food salad, raw soup and raw sweets are included. This is the knowledge you need to be healthy in the long-term. 

    
Class III
food quality, culture and politics

AUGUST 6th - 8th
(friday - sunday)



 This class explores:

our relationship with nourishment
family and cultural affects on diet
emotional eating & eating disorders
organic vs mainstream food production
changes in food production over the last 100 years
food additives
food and the pharmaceutical industry
food and politics
the connection between food and thought
the connection between food and the environment

fee - £300

True health is a multi-dimensional 'field' of interconnections between our inner and outer world. We are not islands. The choices that we make profoundly affect ourselves and the world around us. True transformation is inherent in the process of cleansing and rejuvenation, as we learn about ourselves and experience the effects of release and health on our psyche, mental clarity, inspiration and awe for life. Transformation then expands to contribute to living with integrity in relation to the world and all life.

A clear mind is a welcome mat for inspiration. This class explores our relationship with nourishment and the 'reality' of true healing; its effects on our thought processes, our relationships, and our interrelationships with the environment and the state of the world as a whole. Exploring a range of subjects from food production, the pharmaceutical industry, organic vs inorganic foods, and environmental poisons, to developing compassion, accessing inspiration, and expanding ones circle of integrity, to methods for balancing day to day life and seeking harmony with ones life purpose. This class opens your eyes to the world of food and its effect on you, all life and the planet as a whole.             

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students who complete all three segments of the healing diets course and complete required assignments to a satisfactory level are awarded the Healing Diets Practitioner certification. Individual segments of this course can also be taken for your own self healing and personal development.

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To find our more about these courses 
contact bonny white at 
01392 202553

Fees payable BY CHEQUE to the Here Now Healing
Please send to: The School of Natural Medicine, 
46 East Grove road, Exeter EX2 4LX
  
FEES can also be paid by Direct Deposit - a 50% non-refundable deposit is required to reserve a space 
on these courses. Class sizes are limited to six per class so please book early if you wish to attend. 
Space is offered on a first come - first serve basis.

Alternatively call us on 01392 202553 to book your place
or Email: bonny@herenowhealing.com

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From left, John, Leandra, Melissa, Sharee, Bootzi and Michelle

Here are some lovely comments from the students!

"Thank you so much for another great class really enjoyed it. Feeling really motivated and inspired to get stuck into my course work now which is fantastic." - Melissa

"Thank you for your patience, knowledge and guidance that you so freely impart. My body, mind and soul thank you as all parts have benefitted from your insight and teachings and are all on separate yet interconnected journeys." - Michelle

"As usual it was great to see you and have you as a teacher you always give me a sense of I can do it, of positivity and knowledge. I've done 5 days on the Master Cleanse which felt great, it's empowering, the clarity of mind by day 4 was something else!" - Leandra:)

Branscombe Beach Wind and Sea Remedy

Francesca, a lovely new UK student noted "I had the most wonderful time on the flower essence course and feel blessed to have been included. I look forward to extending my knowledge with further courses, thank you so much for the opportunity and for the friendship extended to me."

Our field trip was to Babacombe beach where we made a Wind and Sea group remedy as well as drawing flowers and their energetic qualities at the local pub in the village. The wind and sea were in perfect energetic harmony and the remedy gave a wonderful sense of grounded mental clarity.

The School of Natural Medicine in Boulder, Colorado -
Master Touch Reflexology class


School of Natural Medicine, here in Devon
Students working on their Iris Mandalas, a visually
delightful part of the Iridology, Level One training

At the core of any cleansing experience is the emotional component of dis-ease. Unexpressed emotions are held in the body organs and tissues and when experiencing deep cleansing these emotions inevitably rise to the surface to be released. These feelings can range from anger and frustration, loneliness, sadness, resentment, unpleasant memories, fear, anxiety and more. As the emotions arise they quickly dissolve, leaving you feeling lighter and freer than before. However there are times when the emotions are strong enough or persistant enough that they call out for a deeper level of support and healing.

Detox symptoms are a big subject and one that comes up for all who pursue deeper cleansing and rejuvenation. Temporary symptoms range from minor headaches or irritability to rashes, diarrhea, and mild muscle cramps to, in cases of chronic toxicity, vomiting and flu like symptoms, and are part of the process when one decides that toxins are better OUT than IN.

Even so we are in the drivers seat when it comes to minimizing detox symptoms. The first, and most important step, is to ensure that the eliminative system is fully active...

Essential oils were perhaps first recognised for their mood altering and mood enhancing effects. The use of fragrant oils to calm the mind, to promote a sense of relaxation and wellbeing and to enhance meditation stretches far back in the history of India.....