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Conscious and creative laptop posture

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

Do you do the fol­low­ing with your lap­top? The very –/–\– crooked red lines –/–\– tell a sad story and will guar­an­tee you end­less treat­ments and hefty bills from the chi­ro­prac­tor or osteopath in the future.

On the couch.

The ——- lovely straight great green lines ——- carry the mes­sage: PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE! Pre­ven­tion is also bet­ter for your bank account.

It’s all about the right angles!! Remem­ber to try keep every­thing at right angles, or get as close to them as pos­si­ble and your pos­ture will always be good.

Use some books to raise your laptop.

Prop your­self up with some pil­lows for a straighter back.

Remem­ber to drop your eyes down instead of bend­ing your neck.

Or pur­chase a note­book stand or plat­form.

Use a tray on the books so you can use your mouse.

Blokes: It’s espe­cially impor­tant for you to not have you lap­tops directly on your laps.

At the table.

Put a pil­low behind you for a straighter back

A solu­tion from a Time Online arti­cle.

If you’re refer­ring to books, create your­self a book stand. Be cre­ative and think about what your body is doing.

We lead very seden­tary lives so remem­ber to move your body about every 40 min­utes. And of course, go for the occa­sional mas­sage so the ten­sion from repet­i­tive pos­ture pat­terns can be released.

Here are some more tip from the NHS.

Or pur­chase a note­book cooler or riser.

Body, mind, spirit groups in Bath

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

When: Thurs­day 20th May 2010
Where: Mil­som Room, Man­vers Street Bap­tist Church, Bath
Time: 7.30pm – 9.30pm
Cost: Donation

Look­ing for a heal­ing, health or spir­i­tual change?
Would you like to join a group or find a workshop?

The 2nd of the heal­ing groups evening. The first,  in April, was very suc­cess­ful. Many groups in Bath united to inform indi­vid­u­als and other groups of their exis­tence. If you’re look­ing for a group or a work­shop related to body. mind, spirit, then do come do this event.

An oppor­tu­nity for indi­vid­u­als, heal­ing and work­shop groups in Bath to come together for an evening of med­i­ta­tion, sounds, short talks and get­ting to know one another.

For­mat for the evening
– Wel­come
– Short talk/meditation/sound/chant (speak­ers wel­come)
– Group intro­duc­tions
– Tea, bis­cuits and chats

Con­tact Liza:    info@lizaharwood.com     07789 880 415
lizaharwood.com/events-bath-bristol

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Bach flower remedy workshop with Celia Stewart

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

April 27
7-9pm
@ Neal’s Yard Reme­dies, Bath, BA1 5AR
£15 includ­ing refresh­ments and a treat­ment bottle

I’ve met sev­eral lovely peo­ple since I started work­ing at Neal’s Yard in Jan­u­ary. One of them is the very knowl­edge­able Celia Stew­art. She’s also a funky dresser, which I really appreciate.

She is a reg­is­tered Prac­ti­tioner and will present an intro­duc­tory work­shop for those new to Bach Flower Reme­dies or who wish to fur­ther their knowledge.

The work­shop includes:

- back­ground on Dr Edward Bach

- a look at the most pop­u­lar reme­dies for women’s health

- an oppor­tu­nity to make your own treat­ment bottle

For fur­ther info con­tact Celia : massage.bach@gmail.com or 07761 016521

Celia’s web­site: http://www.bathholistic.co.uk/

Overcoming Barriers to Success – free talk

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Tues­day 23rd March,
5.45 to 7pm
Cafe Nero,  21–22 High Street (oppo­site Guild Hall).

Liz Fos­ter, an Inte­gra­tive Coach with whom I’ve done some fan­tas­tic per­sonal devel­op­ment work, will be guid­ing you through the bar­ri­ers to your success.

Bath Coach­ing Café would like to invite you to a free work­shop to enable you to see what really gets in the way of your suc­cess and learn some tools and tech­niques so you can over­come the bar­ri­ers and achieve the suc­cess you want in your life.

There can be many pos­si­ble bar­ri­ers to suc­cess in our lives. They pre­vent us from get­ting the job or pro­mo­tion we want, they limit us in our rela­tion­ships and stop us from liv­ing our lives fully. These obsta­cles may appear in var­i­ous guises; inter­nal blocks in the form of our neg­a­tive thoughts, fears, low self-esteem and exter­nal blocks such as phys­i­cal symp­toms, stress and com­mu­ni­ca­tion problems.

We have prob­a­bly all come across these bar­ri­ers at one time or another and found dif­fi­culty in over­com­ing them. It sounds sim­ple but the first step is to recog­nise these blocks, uncover your ‘story’ and look at your old pat­terns. The sec­ond step is to start mak­ing changes, incor­po­rate them into your daily life and lay down new pat­terns for deci­sion mak­ing so you can achieve suc­cess and lead an ener­gised and moti­vated life.

For the price of a cof­fee you can meet sev­eral coaches, com­plete a use­ful exer­cise and get the oppor­tu­nity to start over­com­ing your bar­ri­ers in a relaxed atmosphere.

For more infor­ma­tion go to www.bathcoachingcafe.co.uk or con­tact us on bathcoachingcafe@hotmail.co.uk

Raw food pot luck at The Love Lounge

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

I made it last night to the Pos­i­tive Liv­ing Bath’s Raw Food Pot Luck at the Love Lounge behind The Bell. This is a monthly event organ­ised by Ali­son, Jonathan and Ian.

I was sur­rounded by heart cen­tered peo­ple and deli­cious raw food treats. What a fab­u­lous way to end the weekend.

I’m not a raw fooder (I’m not even a veg­e­tar­ian) but I have dab­bled with raw food it a lit­tle and it was really great to get together with like­minded peo­ple and share our raw food recipes and experiments.

For any­one who is inter­ested in healthy eat­ing; be you non veg­gie, veg­gie, vegan or raw food, these evening will be just up your street.

Please see the pos­i­tive peo­ples web­site for more details:

http://www.positivelivingbath.co.uk/

I think I’d def­i­nitely going to have to make it to the raw choco­late party, April 30th

Tree planting day – Bath

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Inner peace on earth by plant­ing trees.
Sat­ur­day 20th March 2010
From 10am to 12pm

Con­tact and info: Boris 07909089795
boris.vogrinec@gmail.com

At Weston Park West (Old Archery field)

From Royal Vic­to­ria Park you fol­low Weston Road to Weston Ln, at Snap­drag­ons Nurs­ery turn right to Weston Park (near Royal United Hospital)

We are going to plant 200 young trees.

If you wish bring small board with your name on and plant “name tree”.

Please, wear safety boots and please bring spare spades with you if you have.

Please bring bis­cuits and drink and we are going to share all between us.

Womens Health with Alexandra Pope

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Alexandra Pope

Cre­at­ing Men­strual Health with Hilary Lewin teach­ing Maya Abdom­i­nal mas­sage on Day 2.
April 24/25th 2010.
Min­erva Cen­tre, Bath

Con­tact: Carla Esteves 07946364898 or c.esteves@live.co.uk. Wildgenie.com

I’ve been on Alexandra’s Wis­dom of Men­stru­a­tion  course and I can highly rec­om­mend explor­ing women’s health with her.

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Joint healing group meeting, Bath, March 11th

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Unity and Con­nec­tion.
The Mil­som Room, Man­vers St. Bap­tist Church, Bath
Thurs­day 11 March 2010, 7.30 — 9.30pm

Con­tact Kim Coles - 07749 921118 or kim@healwithin.co.uk

An oppor­tu­nity for all heal­ing groups in Bath to come together for an evening of med­i­ta­tion, sounds, talks and get­ting to know one another.

An oppor­tu­nity to get up and talk about your­self and your group. Speak­ers welcome.

An oppor­tu­nity for those who just want to find out what heal­ing is, and maybe join a group.
Basic for­mat for the evening

  • Greet­ing by Kim Coles
  • Ammaprema will give an open­ing gong performance
  • Shirley Smith will give a brief talk on spir­i­tual healing
  • Eliz­a­beth Grif­fin will lead a group recital
  • Claire Stevens will lead us into a guided visualisation
  • Then some speak­ers briefly talk about their group work: Liz Josey from Pos­i­tive Liv­ing Groups with Pos­i­tive Liv­ing Bath intro­duc­ing them­selves as they are launch­ing their group in April. Leora Sharp will intro­duce about Bath Prac­ti­tion­ers Group. Barry McGui­ness from Enlight­en­ment Intensives.

If there’s enough time, then oth­ers can intro­duce them­selves, but it‘s mostly about find­ing out what groups are avail­able, as there will be those who want to join a group, or those who feel inspired to start a group.

There may be a fin­ish­ing gong per­for­mance.
Bring a mat or blan­ket if you would like.
Drink­ing water provided.

Outdoors exercise class with Bath Bootcamp

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

bootcampOn Satru­day morn­ing I was up and at ‘em with  Zita Alves’ at her Bath Boot­camp. What great fun!!

Exer­cis­ing out­doors was fan­tas­tic for a change, with an added bonus of meet­ing new people. Normally at the gym peo­ple are heads down and con­cen­trat­ing on their exer­cise. Or in my case, I’m on my cross trainer at home its just me :-( but this type of out­door exer­cise seems to allow the oppor­tu­nity to min­gle a bit. Don’t get me wrong…there was a lot of hard and reward­ing exer­cis­ing going on (I can still feel the ben­e­fits today), but I always enjoy­ing smil­ing and say­ing hi to some­one new.

I really loved this way of exer­cis­ing and would highly rec­om­mend it to every­one, from some­one look­ing to get fit to the most avid exer­cis­ing enthu­si­ast. Being out­side was fan­tas­tic. And under Zita’s watch­ful eye mak­ing sure I was doing every­thing cor­rectly, I felt like I was in good hands.

http://www.bathbootcamps.co.uk/

I’ve just discovered these positive people in Bath

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

positivelivingbath A friend / mas­sage col­league of mine men­tioned she went to an amaz­ing Ash­tanga yoga class last week in Bris­tol, led by Nicole Aaron. I have sub­se­quently found out that Nicole will be doing some classes in Bath at The Love Lounge behind The Bell on Wal­cot Street. Events there are organ­ised by Pos­i­tive Liv­ing Bath. I met Ian a few months back at a Kun­dalini Yoga class in Larkhall and I’m really happy to see he and his team have got this good thing going.

They are doing great things…various types of Yoga classes, Raw Food get togeth­ers, a Tran­si­tion group and workshops.

I’m going to check them out as soon as I can!!

http://www.positivelivingbath.co.uk/

Sat Nam, Namaste, Shanti Shanti Shanti.

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