10 Tips for Winter Fasting
1. Use hot water bottles to keep your core warm. If you tend to cold extremities, then rest your toes on hot water bottles as well.
2. When you fast it is so important to rest, and where better than in the cosy warmth of a hot bath. As the water cools, add more hot water. Candle light, a good book, relaxing meditation, and essential oils all add to the experience. When you are ready to get out bundle up in towels warmed on the radiator and get under the covers with a hot water bottle. Lovely ♥
3. Wear cosy socks and comfortable layers. Bundle under the covers. Create an oasis of cosiness where you have all within arms reach and can relax in warmth and peace.
4. Drink warm water with a touch of cayenne and ginger. I like to gently simmer water with grated ginger in it and then add a small amount of cayenne to the mix after taking it off of the heat. There is the view that cayenne and ginger added to water would prevent you from reaching the basal metabolism rate of fasting, and this is a consideration if you are following a strict fast for serious health reasons. Otherwise, enjoy the warm pleasure of ginger and cayenne for winter fasting.
5. Sunbathing, even in winter, is a wonderful and important part of fasting. However in winter, when you sit out in the sun, you will need to bundle up extra warm. Avoid losing core heat. Take your hot water bottle and feather comforter outside with you.
6. As with all fasting it is best not to be busy with work and child care. If you aren’t able to take a complete break while fasting, then juice fasting may be a better choice than a complete fast. Juice will provide energy to keep up with daily life, and if juice fasting you are less likely to feel easily cold during winter fasting.
7. Relaxed stretching will keep your lymph and circulation moving, and is a natural way to heat up your body. However, when water fasting your energy can be low, so only do movement exercise if it feels comfortable and easy for you.
8. Hot Stone Massage. I add this one because it is my secret fantasy to get endless divine bodywork while undergoing a fasting retreat. Sigh.
9. Cosy up with someone you love ♥
10. When you are ready to break your fast, do so with warm alkaline broth. Yum!
Indian Government Files BioPiracy Lawsuit Against Monsanto
India is preparing a landmark
case against Monsanto, a Multi-National
GMO company, for Bio-Piracy. India claims that
when Monsanto took plants from India, developed
over many generations by Indian Farmers and
modified these plants to create a new GM version
for their own profit, they were in fact robbing
the farmers of India of their property. This
landmark case is being pursued by the Indian
Government with methodical attention to detail so
that it will lay the groundwork for further
litigation if Monsanto continues their assault on
Indian Farmers. An interesting situation and one
that I will follow as it unfolds over the coming
years (yes...years).
Note: A high rate of farmer suicides in India have
been linked to the effects on their livelihoods of
having ‘trusted’ the sales pitch of GM companies
such as Monsanto and Cargill, the consequences of
which has led to the ruin of tens of thousands of
Indian Farmers.
Academy of Healing Diets with Bonny Casel
‘The English Riviera’ - Torquay, Torbay, Devon
The Healing Diets Teacher Training is part of the Naturopathy, Master Iridologist and Master Herbalist Diploma programmes, or can be studied separately. Students who wish to undertake a Healing Diets Diploma can speak to Bonny directly to discuss the curriculum and requirements.
Medicine Flower Flavour Extracts
Medicine Flower Extracts are gluten free, calorie free, extracted below 118 degrees F, organic, wild-crafted and water and oil soluble. They are very highly concentrated so you won’t need more than a drop or two to bring life and exotic flavours to your recipes. Many of us are familiar with the multi-faceted pleasures and benefits of pure essential oils. Here, Medicine Flower harnesses the pure, delicious flavours and aromas of organic fruits, nuts, beans and flowers in ‘raw’ extracts. You will have to smell and taste this extracts yourself to appreciate the potency and intensity of their flavours...up to 70 times more flavour than most other extracts on the market.
Medicine Flower Extracts in 45 Delicious Flavours
Medicine Flower Extracts
are available at Medicine Flower in the US or at
Raw Living in the UK and
include the following flavors: Almond, Golden
Apple, Green Apple, Red Apple, Apricot, Banana,
Bergamot, Black Currant, Blackberry, Blueberry,
Black Cherry, Morello Cherry, Chocolate (light),
Chocolate (dark), Chocolate (white), Cinnamon,
Coconut, Coffee, Elderberry, Fig, Guava, Hazelnut,
Honeydew, Jasmine, Kiwi, Lemon, Mango, Mint,
Orange, Passionfruit, Peach, Peanut, Pear,
Pineapple, Plum, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Bulgarian
Rose, Rum, Strawberry, Tropical Fruit, Vanilla,
Violet, Walnut and Watermelon. The difficulty will
be in choosing which flavour to try first.
Here is a recipe to
get you started:
Blueberry
Milkshake
1 cup cashew milk (walnut or almond milk also very
good)
1 cup ice
1/2 tsp Maple Syrup
6 drops Medicine Flower Blueberry Extract
4 pitted dates
10 soaked Goji Berries
Pinch Himalayan Salt
Blend until smoothe
EnJoy!
These extracts can also be used in natural beauty products. Check back for recipes for my favorite ‘edible’ body lotion.
'Iridology - A Complete Guide' will be Republished in February
After many months of work
revising, updating, editing and proofing, the revised
and updated version of Iridology - A Complete Guide
by Farida Sharan is almost done. Carolyn Oakley, of
Lumi Moon Designs in Boulder, Farida’s dear friend
and book designer since 1993 has been working hard on
formatting the book and designed this beautiful new
book cover. Bonny drew all the new images and scanned
them and also edited and proofed the book through
several revisions. The new revised and updated
version of IRIDOLOGY – A COMPLETE GUIDE by Farida
Sharan will be available on amazon.com.
We are in the last stages of putting the book
together. Over the next week we will place the images
and then join the chapters. After that there will be
one more run through for any errors and the book will
be ready to publish.
Farida has added a new Introduction called ‘Meetings
with Remarkable Iridologists’ that includes her
studies, visits and hostings with Dr. Raymond
Christopher, Dr. Bernard Jensen, Harri Wolf, Willy
Hauser, Joseph Deck, Dorothy Hall, Denny Johnson,
Ellen Tart Jensen, and Daniele Lo Rito.
Iridology – A Complete Guide by Farida Sharan will be
available through amazon.com, as are her other books,
Herbs of Grace - Becoming Independently Healthy, The
Old Man & His Soul, Creative Menopause, and all
14 of her training DVD's. Once this book is complete,
she will begin to work on The Iridology Coloring
Book.
All who purchase Iridology – A Complete Guide will
also receive an online file of iris photographs.
Merry Christmas 2011
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012
Wishing you a healthy, happy and INSPIRED YEAR in
2012
<3
CAMBRIDGE SUMMER SCHOOL - 2012
Bonny Casel - Director School of Natural Medicine
This one month intensive includes half of the classes
required for Naturopathy and Herbal Medicine Diploma
training, and the remaining classes will be offered
the following summer. Herbal Medicine students also
attend Herbal classes at the
School of Natural
Medicine
in Boulder, Colorado.
The Healing Diets Teacher Training includes the study
of water fasting, juice fasting, the master cleanse,
bowel cleansing, lymph cleansing, liver and gall
bladder cleansing and then using food for
strengthening and body building including nutrient
dense superfoods, living and raw food diets, vegan
theory and practise, and much more.
The Naturopathy and the Elements five day class
explore each of the five elements, earth, water,
fire, air and ether, in relation to natural healing,
naturopathic therapies, diet, the emotions, herbal
medicine and much more.
The Flower Essence class explores the Bach Flower
Remedies through healing processes that will help
students to create a unique and deeply personal
approach to using the essences, including a synthesis
of Flower Essences and Essential OIl. Look at the
Flower Essence page to learn more about this
wonderful class, and
email Bonny for a detailed
flyer
on each of the classes offered.
Iridology Level 1 and 2 explores the signs, markings,
colours, structure, charts and practical iris
photography and client skills, along with the
constitutions and programme creation bases on
constitutional strengths and weaknesses. It is an
ideal class for health professionals and well as
those who are beginning their studies in many forms
of natural therapeutics.
PlanetBox Lunch Boxes - Eco Alternative
Lunch Boxes by
Plantbox
If you are looking for something for your own
lunches, particularly larger salads, try
To-Go Ware.
Also made of stainless steel, this company imports
my favourite stacked stainless lunch boxes from
India. They are wonderful!
The best way to transport healthy meals and extremely
popular with raw, living food and vegan families.
To-Go Ware also sells a ceramic version of the
quintessential New York Deli To-Go cup. 180,000,000
used and thrown away in New York every year, this
re-usable cup is a classic.
An eco-choice with a sense of humour
EnJoy!
Running In The Pack - Student Michelle Redgrave's Blog Site
Just recently Michelle
has created a blog site that I would like to share
with you. It is called Running in the Pack and in it
Michelle shares her experiences with self healing,
her love of animals and her simply incredible
achievements with running. Michelle does her
training with her many canine friends and you will
find her blog an inspiration and a pleasure to
read. Here are a few tidbits ;)
Michelle does everything beautifully - how about this
for raw food passion?
A few of Michelle’s Canine friends - My own dog
Snowflake ADORES Michelle
Michelle has a unique
connection with animals and is creating her practise
to include her work with her furry friends. If you
are searching for an inspired and talented practioner
to work with your dog to overcome behavioural or
health related issues, I highly recommend contacting
Michelle through her webiste to learn more about what
she does.
Well done Michelle!!
Healing Diets Class - Part 3
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.
Healing Diets with Bonny White ND
HEALING DIETS
with bonny
white nd
three
segments to choose from
Class
I
Cleansing
diets and fasting
APRIL 23rd -
25th
(Friday
- Sunday)
water
fasting
master
cleanse
juice
fasting
alkaline
cleanse
bowel
cleansing
liver
cleanse
gall bladder
cleanse
mono
diet
lymph and
tissue cleansing
energy soup
cleanse
living foods
cleanse
grape juice
cleanse
fee - £300
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.
________________
__________________________________________
________________
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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Fantastic Class
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:)
Healing Diets Certification Course
It is now less than a week before we kick off the autumn classes with the Healing Diets Certification course. Presenting the most current research into diet and nutrition, this course is divided into three parts:
PURIFICATION 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. 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, and combined with reading and assignments offers the first step towards the Healing Diets Certification.
REGENERATION 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 aspired 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, Gabriel 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. This is the knowledge you need to be healthy in the long-term. This is the second step towards the Healing Diets Certification.
TRANSFORMATION 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.
If you can't come to the class then stay tuned for your next opportunity. Also check back for updates on our students journey through Purification, Regeneration and Transformation!!!
Blessings
Bonny
Healing Diets Class Information link
Healing Diets Class Schedule link
Nourishment
Our relationship with nourishment genuinely reflects our relationship with both giving and receiving love and compassion. Nourishment is the essence of life. Our connection to our spiritual life, our relationship with ourselves, our parents, our family and friends, our community, and to our society as a whole, are all based on the giving and receiving, or lack of giving and receiving, of love and nourishment.
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