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By Henry, May 27, 2009 10:40 pm

Important produce you should buy organic

Eating high quality food is important for your health. But if you are on a budget and want to save money, shop smart. Not all conventionally grown produce are harmful. The following is the list of foods you really should buy organic because they are highly contaminated with pesticides. Pesticides are not only harmful to us when we eat it, they are also harmful to farm workers and our environment.

Fruits

• Apples
• Apricots
• Bananas
• Cantaloupe from Mexico
• Cherries
• Grapes
• Kiwis
• Lemons
• Limes
• Nectarines
• Peaches
• Pears
• Pineapples
• Raspberries
• Strawberries
• Tomatoes

Vegetables

• Carrots
• Celery
• Corn
• Cucumbers
• Green Beans
• Green & Red Bell Peppers
• Hot Peppers
• Lettuce
• Potatoes
• Spinach
• Winter or Hard Squash

Others

• Baby Foods
• Milk
• Oats
• Nuts
• Rice
• Farm raised Salmon

This list gathered from the Delicious Organics Website. Visit them for more information about why each of these foods were chosen for the list.

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By Henry, May 22, 2009 4:39 pm

David Deida

The Sexual Body and the Yoga of Light:
A Weekend Workshop with David Deida, San Diego, November 6, 7, 8, 2009

Join David right on the beach at the luxurious Rancho Bernardo Inn Resort and Spa for this breakthrough weekend.

During the weekend, you will…

• Discover how to use the body as a vehicle for ecstatic dissolution;
• Understand why our deepest sexual gifts are often capped by our most intense resistance, and how to relax through blocks in our sexual artistry;
• Follow the course from scary neediness, through safe independence, into the oneness of perfect trust in devotional love;
• Find out how to turn hang-ups into playful gifts of loving humor in the midst of erotic embrace;
• Comprehend why honest and respectful communication can be very different from passionate and heart-awakening sex talk; and
• Learn breathing techniques to increase, decrease, and circulate sexual love-energy.

What many people don’t know is that every Weekend Workshop is unique and unpredictable. There is no “rote” program. Quite the opposite! In fact, the work in the room grows specifically from your interaction with David. To get a flavor of what happens inside the Workshop, here are a few voices from last year’s participants…

“David is hilarious — and a genius on stage. Awesome!”

“This was amazing — a chance to experience the vitality of David’s presence. I knew it would be great but the opportunity for direct learning from David Deida via people asking questions and David directly coaching them was extraordinary!”

“Being with David in person was amazing. His physicality brings tremendous depth to the lessons and practice and meaning of his words!”

“I loved the partner exercise where we stared into each others eyes and spoke about our desire for one another. I SAW the light, quite literally, in the man opposite me!”

“As a woman, I learned how to embody the divine feminine and move in and out of 3rd stage with grace and beauty. This intensive is the way to enlightenment for anyone…”

“How much more powerful David’s work is in person vs. on the page! It was simply PROFOUND!

Please come to the Workshop with your most pressing questions and challenges. Among the many avenues David will explore with you

• Why is feminine energy extremely attractive yet mistrusted by both men and women?
• Why do many men resist marriage even when they are totally in love?
• Why are the five biggest turn-ons for women different than those for men?
• Why is the word “surrender” so offensive to some people and so erotic to others?
• What are the spiritual prerequisites for experiencing the ultimate sexual embrace?
• What must you risk in order to experience deep sexual union and emotional communion?
• Why is it impossible to grow spiritually without embracing our darkest impulses?

“What a weekend! These were life-altering views to transform heart, sex, love and being em-body-ment. Beyond words!”

“I would tell anybody that this weekend would teach you how to live your life with purpose, be true to your mission on earth and to love completely.”

SCHEDULE:

The Workshop begins 7 PM sharp on Friday, November 6. We will finish Friday night’s session at 10 PM. Saturday and Sunday’s session will go from 10 AM till 10 PM with breaks. David will sometimes go beyond 10 PM but no one is required to stay past 10.

LOCATION:

Rancho Bernardo Inn Resort and Spa, with its rural setting, gardens, legendary spa will provide a unique, powerful and relaxing environment for the Weekend. We have arranged a large block of discount rooms for participants, but they are not unlimited. Please reserve your room early. As a service to you, we also create a message board if you would like to share a room with another participant.

NOTE: This Weekend Workshop is open to singles and couples of any sexual orientation. Participants should be prepared for explicit use of language and intensive experiential practice. Actual sex and nudity are not involved.

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By Henry, May 19, 2009 11:46 am

David Deida

Aligning with Love: The Yoga of Sex, Wealth, and Worship
A Weekend Workshop With David Deida, Miami, October 2, 3, 4, 2009

The Sexual Body and the Yoga of Light:
A Weekend Workshop with David Deida, San Diego, November 6, 7, 8, 2009

The Sexual Body and the Yoga of Light:
A 7-Day Training Intensive with David Deida in San Diego, November 6-13, 2009

This 7-Day Intensive is David Deida’s advanced training for men and women ready to illuminate the unseen depths and shadows of their being. Practitioners from all over the world gather with Deida for an unparalleled opportunity to explore every nook and cranny of their psyche and desire. Journeying solo, partnered, and in groups, virtually no stone is left unturned in seven days and nights of investigation, insight, and celebration.

In this 7-Day training we go far beyond the weekend and dive deeply into advanced practices that enhance our heart’s depth and presence, turning lovemaking into whole-body prayer and true spiritual communion as we learn how to create and sustain the authentic yoga of intimacy throughout the days and nights of our years.

What are you really here to do–professionally, intimately, artistically–and how committed are you to doing and living it? To get there, Deida teaches, we need to surrender to the boundless self that we truly are and learn to live in the unbearable pleasure and vulnerability of that exquisite state of openness. And most of us require a dedicated practice, a living yoga, in order to sustain this.

During this training, we engage in practices that focus on where we are most contracted, and “for a lot of people that means sexuality, life-purpose, and intimacy,” says Deida. We spend our time deepening and fine-tuning personal practices, both in and out of the classroom, using traditional means such as breathwork, meditation, yoga, and dance, as well as the custom-designed personal practices for which David Deida is so widely hailed. Working in groups, with partners, and individually, we learn to:

* identify our unique gifts and give them more fully;
* learn when to respect boundaries and when to press through them;
* ease beyond fear into ecstatic surrender;
* open out in connection when all we want to do is close down;
* employ ecstasy to heal past wounds and melt open beyond the self;
* offer our deepest presence and love;
* skillfully navigate the differences between men’s and women’s internal sexual circuitry;
* discover how to access the freedom of consciousness and humor amidst anger, lust, and jealousy;
* design a deeply personal spiritual life; and
* create a daily sexual yoga practice, solo and in partnership, that will continue to grow along with the depth of our heart’s desire to turn our entire life into an artful, whole-body offering of love.

Whereas “healing old wounds” is most fruitful amidst patience and firm boundaries, the yoga of transformation that Deida teaches involves carefully stretching to play at your vulnerable edge and just beyond, including your limits and gifts of body, mind, and emotion. Just as you are, sourced in loving awareness, no subject is taboo. All fixations and unique twists of character are welcomed with compassion and humor. Every struggle and life situation is workable in this teaching. Together with an international gathering of men and women dedicated to authentic spiritual practice, you will have the opportunity to go as deep as you choose:

* explore all of your real desires, dark and light, in a compassionate and skillful setting;
* learn how to create a spiritual portal through the sexual act;
* determine when to heal restfully and when to leap beyond being frozen in terror;
* learn the artful use of natural substances, sex, music, and nature to enliven the creative matrix of your life’s offering;
* investigate your taboos and learn how to offer love’s gift in moments of resistance and closure;
* understand the powerful sexual dynamics of money;
* discover the difference between emotional neediness and devotional yearning;
* illuminate the “cult” blueprint often hidden in teacher/student and lover/beloved intimacies;
* develop your capacity for sustaining radical relationship through heartbreak and comfort;
* uncover your deepest purpose and learn why you haven’t yet fully offered yourself;
* familiarize yourself with the basics of straight and gay sexual yoga (and everything in between); and
* cultivate the true yoga of light, bringing authentic presence and bright love to the places in your life and relationships that many are hesitant to illuminate

Participants should be prepared for explicit use of language and intensive experiential practice. Actual sex and nudity are not involved in this training. Precise rules of relating between all participants creates a safe space for magnifying love’s free flow throughout the training. This 7-Day Intensive and the Weekend Workshop are open to singles and couples of any sexual orientation, with a strong emphasis on personal instruction and one-to-one feedback and refinement. Enrollment in this training is by application only.

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By Henry, May 4, 2009 10:32 am

Acupuncture beats aspirin for chronic headaches

Acupuncture is found to work better than drugs like aspirin to reduce the severity and frequency of chronic headaches. A team at Duke University recently reviewed studies involving nearly 4,000 patients with migraine, tension headache and other forms of chronic headache and found that 62 percent of the acupuncture patients reported headache relief compared to 45 percent of people taking medications.

Acupuncture works by triggering the release of the body’s natural painkillers without the side effects of drugs. Common side effects of Aspirin include heartburn, nausea and upset stomach. Chinese Medicine is also much more nuanced in its diagnosis of headaches. We don’t treat it with a one-size-fits-all pill. We treat headaches differently depending on what area of the head, whether the pain is sharp or dull, and other accompanying signs and symptoms. This is why Acupuncture, combined with Chinese herbal medicine is so effective.

Other studies have shown that acupuncture helped alleviate pain in patients who had surgery for head and neck cancer, can relieve hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms and can reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea.

Link to full article at Reuters: Acupuncture Beats Aspirin for Chronic Headache

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By Henry, May 3, 2009 11:16 pm

Kissing Miss Piggy Might Not Be Such A Good Idea

There’s currently a lot of sensational news in the media surrounding this new swine flu. The media is reporting triple digit deaths and increasing spread of infection throughout the world. The World Health Organization is calling it a pandemic, meaning that it is a new influenza virus that we humans have no immunity to and it has the potential to spread rapidly and cause a lot of deaths.

In Egypt, the government plans to slaughter the country’s 250,000 pigs. Wild boars are being killed in Iraq. Concerts and public events are being cancelled in Mexico. Hundreds of tourists are being quarantined in Hong Kong. Here in the U.S. Lawmakers are talking about closing our border with Mexico.

Let’s cut through the mass hysteria and get some perspective on this new strain of influenza.

1. It is a strain of influenza. You’ll experience the same symptoms as normal flu. Fever, cough, body aches, sore throat, chills, fatigue. Some people have also reported diarrhea and vomiting.
2. There is no evidence that this new strain was spread from pigs to humans. You will not get it from eating pork. The World Health Organization has stopped using the term “swine flu” late last week to avoid this confusion. It is now called H1N1.
3. As of April 29th, the World Health Organization has only confirmed 7 deaths due to swine flu. The 152 deaths reported by media outlets at the time are false.
4. Each year around the world, 500,000 people die from the flu. 36,000 of those deaths are in the U.S. 7 deaths out of hundreds of infections are hardly cause for widespread fear about this virus.
5. There are no vaccines for this new influenza strain. Even for strains that we already have vaccines for, effectiveness is questionable. Look at how many people still die from the flu. You also need to have the right vaccine for the right strain. In addition, beware of their side effects, which include diarrhea, nausea, sinusitis, nasal signs and symptoms, bronchitis, cough, headache, dizziness, and ear, nose, and throat infections. That’s right you may get flu like symptoms taking a vaccine! With viruses constantly evolving, vaccines cannot be a permanent solution. There will always be a threat of new strains.
6. Health officials are recommending Tamiflu. Its most common side effect is nausea and vomiting. Japan and Korea banned this drug, linking it to an increase in suicidal behavior of influenza patients aged between 10 and 17.
7. During the swine flu outbreak in 1976, 25 people died from flu inoculation while 1 person died from the flu itself.

The best thing you can do is to wash your hands regularly. The proper way to wash your hands is scrubbing them under warm soapy water for at least 15 seconds. That, along with getting plenty of rest and Chinese medicine, can take care of the flu.

Yes, Chinese medicine and acupuncture are effective against the flu. There are herbs with broad antiviral and antibacterial properties that, unlike vaccines, can treat a broad spectrum of diseases, not just 1 specific strain of 1 disease. The exact combination of herbs prescribed is not one size fits all but tailored to an individual’s unique needs. In addition, acupuncture can address sign and symptoms and boost the immune system.