Yoga   Yoga: For Health and Much More

With major hospitals such as Beth Israel Medical Center, Stanford Hospital and Children’s Memorial Hospital of Chicago developing Integrative Medicine centers, it is hardly surprising that individuals have also begun taking healing into their own hands. In some cases, people are even applying easy-to-use healing modalities, such as energy healing, to treat themselves and their loved ones directly. The reasons for this trend vary from frustration with conventional treatments to economics to self-empowerment.

Energy healing modalities, such as Reiki, which typically involve the direction of energy through the hands to the body of the recipient, can be particularly cost-effective methods of achieving wellness, especially when a person learns to practice for him- or herself. A Canadian blogger and energy healing convert enthuses, “(Energy healing) empowered me — because it taught me to empower myself!”

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“‘Mindset’ plays a key (although often unconscious) role in gaining, losing and keep excess weight off,” believes Ilchi Lee, president of the University of Brain Education (South Korea).

To effectively turn a mindset that supports gaining and retaining weight into one that supports shedding pounds and keeping them off, Lee points to Dahn Yoga’s powerful workshop called “Finding Your True Self” (also known by its Korean name, “Shim Sung”).

Lee founded Dahn Yoga to provide people with the tools to regain and maintain their body-mind fitness, combining ancient Korean health practices and modern brain education. While most participants in the Finding Your True Self workshop also attend classes at the Dahn Yoga Centers, it is also appropriate for those who have no prior experience with Dahn Yoga.

During Finding Your True Self, people begin to discover who they really are inside, which can empower them to stay on the weight-loss path. Beyond the ego’s weight games is a person’s “true self.”

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Mother’s day is just around the corner, and with so many women attempting to maintain balance between career, family, spirituality and their own individual identity, one of the greatest gifts a woman can give to herself is to ‘retreat’ taking the time to fill her self up from within so she can continue to give all that she gives to her family.

“Awakening To Your Life’s Purpose” is the intention and inspiration for the next retreat being presented by Jana Fleming. Jana is a Master Certified Integrative Life Coach and the creator of the acclaimed International ‘A Woman’s Journey to Wholeness Retreats™. Jana’s mission is to inspire and enlighten hundred’s of thousands of people worldwide, through seminars, private and group coaching, conferences and retreats. Bringing together enlightened individuals who have made “known the unknown” in the world.

The next in her retreat series is to be held May 23-25, 2008 in Joshua Tree, California. Jana explains the beauty and uniqueness of this location.

Highlights of the retreats include the following events:

• Group Meditation
• Guided Visualization
• Creative Writing Prompts/Journaling
• Yoga
• Labyrinth Walk
• Beautiful Sound Healing Drums & Flute
• Native American Fire Ceremony

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