Holistic Feathers

The Wimbledon Tennis championships are not the only thing to bring a bit of excitement and beauty to Wimbledon these next two weeks … we recently appeared in Raw Gaia’s newsletter, where we are offering a very special – never to be repeated – offer of 20% off our divine Raw Gaia Living Facial treatment!

Living facials are one of life’s true luxuries, in our humble opinion! We use only Raw Gaia’s raw, living, natural vegan organic skincare products in our signature Living Facial treatment which includes the beauty-enhancing Raw Chocolate Face Mask. You will awaken to glowing skin which feels beautifully quenched and leave with a deep feeling of blissfulness surrounding you, coming from within. Read here to find out more …

Holistic Feathers are also local London stockists for Raw Gaia vegan, organic, natural skincare products for all the family ~ including an adorable range of babycare products.  Please visit our online store for details:  Holistic Feathers e-store

We look forward to introducing you to the delights of Raw Gaia’s amazing products in our divine Living Facial treatment ~ do hurry ‘tho, as the offer runs out on 8th July 2010!

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We are delighted to announce that we have a new online booking system for natural beauty treatments with us …

By using our online booking system, you can check our availability with just one click of the mouse!

You may choose to add your appointment to your Outlook or Google calendar (also at the touch of a button) and save your details for future bookings … as always, if you do not see a time that is perfect for you, do please get in touch with Callie with your requirements and we will wave our magic wand for you!

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… the tech-gremlins are still out in force and driving us to distraction!

Please kindly use http://holisticfeathers.vstore.ca you wish to browse and/or purchase anything from our Holistic Feathers online shop.

(For some strange reason, www.holisticfeathers.com is not going anywhere … we are investigating and will keep you informed)

Thank you so much for your patience and understanding while the tech-gremlins keep us busy!

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Recently I’ve been telling you about a new book called Awakened Wisdom: A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance by my friend and colleague Patrick Ryan. Well the book had its official Amazon launch yesterday, and I simply had to write to you to tell you that within the first few hours, Awakened Wisdom became a bestseller in spirituality in both the US and Canada.

Most impressively, the book took the Number-1 slot in Canadian spirituality sales (click to see a screen shot), and the #3 slot in self-help, sharing the very same page on Amazon with top-selling spirituality titles such as Don Miguel Ruiz’s Four Agreements, Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat Pray Love. At one point, Patrick and Eckhart were dancing back and forth in the top 5 spots on the Canadian list, which is interesting because so many people have compared these two writers even before the book was released. In the US, it soared to the top of the Kindle spiritual self-help titles, reaching as high as Number 2. We’re waiting to see the paperback join it in these ranks.

Not too shabby for a first day, don’t you think?

The Awakened Wisdom launch continues today and tomorrow and, in celebration of its official release, Patrick Ryan and a group of his colleagues, including authors, coaches, entrepreneurs and spiritual teachers are giving away over 40 exceptional personal development and spiritual growth gifts when you purchase a copy the book during the launch.

One of these gifts is an unprecedented 2-session “Awakened Wisdom Virtual Experience”, in which author Patrick Ryan will take participants on a journey through the “8 States of an Awakened Life” via webcast in May. This is a rare opportunity to learn directly from a world-renowned spiritual teacher—and now top-selling spirituality author.

To pick up your copy of the Awakened Wisdom, get all those free gifts, and sign up for this very special event, which is open ONLY to those who purchase the book this week, go to:

http://www.awakenedwisdom.com/Public/Amazon/BookLaunch/index.cfm

Make sure you do this as soon as possible, as the launch ends this Thursday, April 22.

Thanks for your support in helping this rising new star in the spiritual author universe shine so brightly! I wish ALL of you reading this a future where YOU are shining even more brightly.

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Anyone who reads our blog cannot fail to have noticed that I have a real thing about chocolate – but the “real stuff”, not the bars of Galaxy, Galler and Green and Black’s (as nice as they are, I need to steer clear of refined sugar because of an allergy).

So imagine my delight when Willie Harcourt-Cooze’s “Chocolate Factory Cookbook” waved at me during a flying visit to our local library a couple of weeks ago!  Oh yum .. a quick flick through promised easy recipes and gorgeous photographs to look at it, so I trotted home feeling very pleased with my find.

Willie’s book has two distinct sections:  The Story and The Recipes.  The cacao-olic in me obviously went straight to The Recipes, and gorgeous they are indeed.  Willie delights in using cacao just like you would use salt, pepper and herbs in your food – a grating goes in sweet and savoury dishes to give it an extra bit of glamour, so get ready for some adventures in your own kitchen.  I particularly liked the Pheasant & Cacao Casserole, Gooey Chocolate Cake and Cloud Forest Chocolate Cake (stevia is a good addition to the cake mixture, replacing the muscovado and caster sugar in the recipe, although I am thinking that agave syrup may be a better replacement in the icing as stevia gives a slight green hue!).

The Story is a very personal account of Willie and Tania’s journey of setting up their Venezualan cacoa farm, sharing all the joys, triumphs, hard lessons and pain as they firstly grew the farm and then raised their young children while striving to make a living in beautiful surroundings.  You also get a gentle introduction to the wonders of cacao and its history; Willie’s passion for cacao shines through the pages and their story makes for a wonderful read, although at times your heart hurts for them as you live their struggles with them.

If you love chocolate, then we highly recommend this book – not only for the recipes, but for the wonderful story behind their success.  We found the hardbook and softback books cheaper on Amazon.co.uk than elsewhere.

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Talk about good fortune – the day after I finished reading this delightful book, I popped in to one of our local charity shops to check their latest book additions.  Willie’s hardback book was tucked away on a high shelf, looking rather forlorn – £8.00 and had been on the shelf since 30th January (they annotate each book in pencil as their way of stock-taking).  Willie’s Chocolate Factory Cookbook had obviously been waiting just for me to come by … *whooohoooo*

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Today, I am happy to interview Patrick Ryan, author of Awakened Wisdom: A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance. This is the eleventh stop on Patrick’s 14-day Virtual Blog Tour to promote the launch of his new book. After reading today’s article be sure to sign up for the book launch reminder here: http://ow.ly/1kB3m and then, follow Patrick to his next stop with Iyabo Asani’s blog at: http://CoachIyabo.com

We Are All Healers

In my book, Awakened Wisdom: A Guide to Reclaiming Your Brilliance I describe a process through which every one of us may connect to the highest aspect of who we are. That is our Divine Essence. When in connection to greater and greater levels of our Divine Essence we become a catalyst for healing. In that way we are all healers and the only differences between us would be the amplitude or degree to which we own the gift of healing and the methodologies.

When I say that we are all healers I am referring first of all to the idea that we begin by being the healer for our own Self. We are made up of a number of interrelated systems of intelligence. The primary three are that of our mind intelligence, our body intelligence and our heart intelligence. Together these three intelligences combine and create a larger system that results in among other things our auric field. When we are in a vibrant state of being and all three of these intelligence systems are well and balanced then we also have a strong auric field. If any of these three intelligence systems is depleted or out of balance or in a state of disharmony then our auric field will reflect and reveal that.

As people learn to be able to see and experience auric fields then they may interact with their healing through the light body as well as through the doorway of each of the three intelligences. As most people do not develop the ability to interact with auric fields then the good news is that you may create powerful healing experiences for your Self directly through the three intelligences.

One central point to all of this is that you are the primary healer for your Self. One of the dangers that I have observed is that many people give the power and responsibility over to another person. When we abandon our self-responsibility and our own inherent gift of healing then we set ourselves up for getting caught in other people’s agendas of what we should be doing or not for our own healing.

It is very important to access the wisdom of other people in self-healing. Please do go and find others that have their own gift of healing developed to higher levels that allows them to be able to work with you and at the same time you must hold your own responsibility and authority in the process. By staying engaged in the decisions and participating fully in the solutions you can access the best of what other healers offer you. It is a lot like assembling a group of musicians to create a particular style of music. Bring talented and gifted people in to join your healing team and remember that you are the one that is the conductor of your own orchestra. Always trust and follow your own wisdom.

In the book Awakened Wisdom along with describing the process of connecting to your Divine Essence I also present the Eight States of an Awakened Life. The Eight States reveal where we are walking an awakened walk and where are the opportunities to improve. Look at each of the eight states and while you do try holding any question that is relevant for you.

Lets try this with the question: What is needed for my healing now?
Now read the eight states with this question in your mind and your heart. Notice any intuitions that occur to you and stay open to the possibility of a healing solution to present itself to you.

Lets look at one of the eight states now. One of the eight states is called A Good State of Being. When we look into our life through the wisdom of a Good State of Being we are asked to look into the nature of our relationship to all things. That is not just our relationships to others such as family members but also to our relationship to our three intelligences. Quite often we cut off one of these three intelligences and the cost of that is an eventual erosion of our well-being.
If you notice that you have done that then you could ask yourself the next question which might be: What is needed for you me to open up to that intelligence more and to bring it into balance? Again notice any intuitions that show up.

I have coached many people over the years who are working through their own healing opportunities.

I have found it important to have people look at their relationship with wellness itself. Quite often illness is a way that we are creating a solution to something else. Of course it is not a good way to solve something and still many people unconsciously learned that through the creation of illness they might in fact create something that they really want or they may get to avoid something that they are afraid of.

It can be helpful to have a conversation with the illness as though it could speak to you. Invite it to take a seat beside you under the shade of a tree and allow it to speak. Ask it what is wants for you? What is it getting you? How is it supporting you? What does the illness need so that it will rest and allow you well-being? Try it out and again notice any insight that comes through.

The process of healing and living a life of wellbeing is often a mysterious one. Everyday people experience spontaneous recoveries and breakthroughs. Anything is possible.

Journey well,
Patrick Ryan

Author of Awakened Wisdom: A Guide to Reclaiming Our Brilliance. www.AwakenedWisdom.com

How can you create a life well-lived? Get Patrick’s new book on April 20th and find out. To receive updates in regards to the official Amazon book launch on April 20th, please visit http://ow.ly/1kB3m

Follow Patrick tomorrow to his next stop at Iyabo Asani’s
blog at: http://CoachIyabo.com

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The word ‘holistic’ means “whole”; whereas conventional, orthodox medicine will focus on the symptom or the part of the body which is crying out in pain, holistic therapists are trained to take into account the whole person.

We believe that your body has a vital life force and that when this falls out of balance, dis-ease takes hold. Holistic treatments help to rebalance this vital life force, restore your vital essence and help the body to heal itself as nature intended …  gently and without chemical intervention.

Complementary therapies are not meant to diagnose or cure illnesses … instead they are there to help you tap into your own potential to heal yourself.

If you suffer from any one of the modern-day ills – such as IBS, tiredness and insomnia, headaches, muscular aches, back pain, hormonal imbalances, disrupted sleep patterns, sensitivities, candida, anxiety and depression, weight imbalances – all of these and more may be alleviated or helped by a number of complementary interventions.

Holistic treatments do not just give you physical benefits – they also help you with your mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. Relaxation is just the enticing starter.

(c) Callie Carling

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