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.
Birds On A Wire
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!
Flower Essence Group June 2010
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!
Flower Essence Training - 21st - 25th June 2010
Photos coming soon, but here are a couple of last year. Such a lovely group of students.
Branscombe beach - brrr!
wind and sea group remedy
bundled up but an exhilarating experience
6 Ways that Mushrooms Can Save the Planet!!
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