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Butterflies in your stomach? | TCM 5-Element Natural Inspirations for health
A 100,000 butterflies and more! I recently saw a T.V. Nature Programme showing an amazing butterfly travel-log in which thousands of butterflies simultaneously left their birth-land to embark upon an incredible feat of migration; stopping off, en mass, for respite in beautiful Hawaii. The programme highlight showed wave upon wave of these butterflies flying, fluttering […]
Footprints in the Sand; | TCM 5-Element Natural Inspirations for health
Here comes Summer! In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Philosophy summer is a Yang time associated particularly with joyful, exuberant Heart, Fire, Energy. Romance might also be in the air as Heart, Fire, Energy relates to heat, love and passion too! (A holiday romance perhaps?) It’s a life-style thing! The approach of summer naturally conjures aspirations […]
Stories the Feet Continue to Tell © An homage!
Shared Wisdom: Looking to the past to bring healing to the present. Doyen: This animated word ‘refers to any senior member of a group, particularly one whose knowledge or abilities exceeds that of other members’ (Wikipedia). It conjures images of wise ‘Masters’ and their students across many cultural fields of philosophy and practice. Actions speak […]
Rise above the Fear! | TCM 5-Element Natural Inspirations for health
The arrival of a New Year traditionally prompts personal reflection on the ups and downs of the previous one – often culminating with an attitude of enthusiastically ‘wiping the slate clean’ in order to start afresh or setting new personal goals that might have been on the back burner for a while. All topped up, […]
If The Shoe Fits: Pampering Times September 2013 issue
The following article by Louise appeared in Jane Sheehan’s Pampering Times September 2013 issue If the shoe fits! Recently I was travelling on a fairly crowded train. I was bundled in my seat – without a table so my papers and pens were placed precariously on my lap – my intention was to use this […]
Winter Child of Autumn | TCM 5-Element Natural Inspirations for health
As Autumn (Metal energy) falls into Winter (Water energy) the trees let go of their colourful leaves, making way for elements of the next season to emerge; allowing its colder, deeper, characteristics to meander in, with chilly winds amongst the russets, coppers and purples of the grounded leaves. Metal energy (relating to the lungs & […]
It’s a boy! …19.07.13
Celebrating birth from a reflexology perspective. Pregnancy SOS! I was contacted via Keats Complementary Health Practice in Enfield last Wednesday by a potential client saying they’d heard reflexology can assist with different stages of pregnancy – including birth inducement – could I help? (She was nearly a week overdue). Naturally, I was keen to offer […]