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Rebecca Andrist is a qualified nutritional advisor as well as a certified yoga teacher and massage therapist. She has worked in healing centres in Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Thailand and the U.S. For the past four years, she has been working at the Dharma Healing Center, a fasting and cleansing center on Koh Samui, Thailand, where she has been teaching part of the core curriculum for the program. Her philosophy for her healing work is to help people attain better health through a holistic approach, incorporating yoga, meditation, bodywork, courses in health care and nutrition, exercise and colon care. These courses are designed to heal and rejuvenate both body and mind, and support each person's individuality to facilitate health and well being. | |
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Melissa Kendall previously worked as a Socially Responsible Investment analyst in London where her job was to research social and environmental trends impacting the pharmaceuticals, food and chemicals sectors. She has extensive knowledge of sustainable development issues, environmental and human rights laws and public policy matters. She also has a personal passion for alternative health and well being, which stems from an understanding of the harmful effects of 'big business' on the environment and health, and from her regular practice of yoga. She teaches the classes on sustainable living and happiness as well as overseeing the administrative and organisational aspects of Jiva Healing. | |
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Heloise Buckland is a sustainability consultant who has worked for the last six years for NGOs, governments and universities in Latin America, the UK and Spain. She is currently coordinating the Regional Centre for Education for Sustainable Development in Barcelona. Heloise is helping to ensure Jiva Healing makes a positive contribution to the local and global environment, by compensating the emissions from air travel, sourcing supplies from local organic farmers, working with local therapists and minimising waste. Heloise has been practicing yoga for 11 years and is currently training in Barcelona in the Ashtanga Veda Centre with Upendra Ayra. | |
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Louise Ramsden is qualified with the British Wheel of Yoga and Yoga Alliance, having completed trainings with Simon Low in London and Yogarts in Byron Bay, Australia. She has also studied with many international teachers including Donna Farhi, Sarah Powers, Shiva Rea, Danny Paradise and Baron Baptiste. Her teaching style combines dynamic, flowing sequences with restorative and meditative yin poses, always with a strong focus on breath and inner awareness. She encourages her students to listen deeply to their own bodies and the quality of each movement so that ultimately a personalized practice from within can develop. In the classes, Louise will offer alternatives and adjustments in order to tailor the practice to each individual. Louise is also a qualified massage therapist and vegetarian chef having run her own catering business in London for 15 years. In this course, she will share her passion for yoga and healthy eating (and fasting!) as practices that create physical, mental and emotional cleansing and an awareness of our spiritual essence. | |
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Fiona Smith is a fully qualified and registered Thai Massage therapist and teacher (RTT, ITEC, CThA) and a Yoga Alliance certified teacher; having done her training with Louisa Sears of Byron Bay's Yoga Arts in India in 2006. Having worked in education in Spain for 9 years, she made a life change in 2000 and began her current journey in massage, yoga, meditation and a generally healthier and more fulfilling lifestyle. Whilst working with a number of different Thai Massage teachers, including Asokananda and Thai Master Pichet Boonthume, she met Rebecca in Thailand in 2003 when she did her first life-changing fast at Dharmahealing and is now delighted to be bringing her massage skills and experience as a teacher to join with such a wonderful team of inspiring people. She began working with Jiva in Goa, 2007 and then joined us again in the Dordogne. She returns with Jiva to Spain where she'll be giving massage to help relax and detox and running short massage workshops. She currently works as a self-employed therapist and yoga teacher and is relocating to the UK in autumn 2007 where she's studying Natural Nutrition in Bristol. Her website is www.fionalsmith.co.uk |
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Susie Hampshire has been a professional bodywork therapist since 1999. She specialises in holistic, sports, deep tissue and no hands massage techniques alongside acupressure, reflexology, facials and foundation level Kinesiology. She has taught massage therapy at the renowned Claire Maxwell-Hudson School of Massage, and has recently qualified in ITEC Nutrition and The Mehta Facial at the Champissage Indian Head School in London. When treating clients Susie endeavours to balance her knowledge of Eastern and Western healing traditions to bring about inner health and wellbeing. She has a keen interest in meditation, fasting and yoga and also expresses her creativity through her passion for painting and drawing. Susie runs her own holistic therapy business in London and West Essex, for more details you can contact her via her website www.thebodyspace.co.uk |
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View our policies on protecting Mother Earth Web Links http://www.qito.co.uk http://www.riskrisk.com For more information on fasting in Thailand - please visit www.dharmahealingintl.co |
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contact us by email - jivahealing@gmail.com or phone: Melissa Kendall (UK) +44 7786 363 553 |
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