Golden Light Project

The Golden Light Project, organised by Rainbow Medicine Circle, is a 13 day global collective effort to bring more light onto this planet. Beginning on 1st February (the ancient light festival of Imbolc) and ending on 14th February (World Sound Healing Day), the project is designed to bring people together all over the world. On 14th February, Rainbow Medicine Circle will also be holding a Golden Light and Sound Healing Day to coincide with World Sound Healing Day. Click here for more details.

Passion is evolving

Evolution is the key to survival and change should be embraced rather than feared. We know how important adaptation is in this fast-changing society and so are ecstatic to announce that our amazing quarterly Passion magazine, free to all our customers around the world, has evolved too. Continuing to be available to everyone everywhere, Passion will now be a weekly ezine, delivered directly to your inbox!

If you are already signed up to receive our free monthly newsletters, you don’t need to do a thing — the new Passion ezine will be with you this week. If you’re not yet signed up, click here and add yourself to the list!

The first issue of the new-style Passion will be going out very soon and we have an extra special treat for you to kick things off. BBC Radio 2’s very own holistic expert and author of Imperfectly Natural Woman, Janey Lee Grace, will be our first contributor! Janey is just one of our new Passion team of writers, all ready and willing to bring you their thoughts on raw food, nutrition, wellbeing, spirituality and lots more.

Meet the all new Team Passion:

Shazzie
Author of five books, Shazzie spreads the secrets that she’s uncovered to millions of people throughout the world. One of the world’s first and longest running bloggers, Shazzie’s infectious humour and love spills over into magazine columns, media interviews and events. Shazzie has created the life of her dreams and wants everyone else to do the same. And she says it all starts with the heart. (www.shazzie.com)

Dale Pinnock BSc (Hons) MNIMH
Dale is the UK’s leading natural health innovator thanks to his unique prescriptive “medicinal cookery”, which tailors a menu to meet an individuals specific health needs. He is also hugely knowledgeable about nutrition, herbal medicine, phytonutrients and protectants. (www.dalepinnock.com)

 Janey Lee Grace
Janey is the co-host and dedicated holistic spokesperson for BBC Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon, which attracts 6 million listeners every day. Her work on the Steve Wright show and her lifelong passion for eco living and alternative health inspired Janey to write her first book, Imperfectly Natural Woman, which topped the Amazon best-sellers chart. She has since written three more books; Imperfectly Natural Baby & Toddler, Imperfectly Natural Home and Imperfectly Natural Woman: The Pocket Book. Janey, who has four children, runs ImperfectlyNatural.com, sharing natural and holistic ideas.

Karla Supple
Karla is Detox Your World’s marketing manager who has a bit of a thing for words. She is the Detox Your World official Twitterer, blogger and Passion writer/co-ordinator. She will be waddling off to have her first baby in the spring.

Anna Rodgers aka Miss Eco Glam
Miss Eco Glam is passionate about all things ethical and natural and regularly blogs about her journey to become healthier, happier and more aware of the earth. Having previously suffered with depression and negative thought patterns, she has now realised we all have the power to make our lives amazing. Anna is into raw food, organic sustainable clothing, fair-trade, animal welfare and environmental issues. She is also a qualified beauty therapist and part-time model. (http://blog.missecoglam.com)

Rebecca Moore
Rebecca is from another era though she hasn’t quite figured out which. She sometimes likes to rock and roll, sometimes wants to wear blue eye-shadow and leg warmers and sometimes she pops a plum in her mouth and says “One must”. And sometimes she laughs as though it’s a free country and other people stare at her, mouths agape. She’s just relieved she missed the witch trials. As a single, free-spirited soul who loves nothing more than whipping up a cauldron of raw cacao, her days would surely have been numbered.

Renata Ash
After a long period of personal struggle, Renata discovered her true spiritual direction. After a tragedy, Renata and her husband Steven created the Rainbow Essences®, a unique set of flower and crystal essences created to help others overcome challenges. Renata has studied various types of therapeutic body work and has spent the last fifteen years focusing on energy medicine. (www.rainbowmedicinecircle.com)

Star Khechara
Star is a beauty naturopath and holistic nutritionist specialising in rejuvenation and organic skincare. Star is the author of The Holistic Beauty Book and also runs Blossom to empower women to become the healthy, beautiful and vibrant beings they deserve to be.

Victoria Leith
Victoria’s favourite job of all time is being a mama to her daughter Maya. She is also a teacher, writer, author, musician, body-percussionist and runs her own website, Fresh & Live Mama, which is all about positive health, wellbeing and loving life. She recently launched a quirky video series where she demonstrates her favourite raw recipes and is in the midst of writing a recipe book for other fresh and live mamas (and dadas!)

So sign up here and get wellbeing, love and bliss delivered to your inbox every week!

Happy new year, happy new you!

If you open any glossy magazine this month, it’s guaranteed to be packed with detox tips and how to cleanse after the inevitable Christmas excesses. Now we think detoxing should be something we focus on all the year round however if you’re just starting out (or know someone who is) or are searching specifically for detox products, we’ve compiled a special page full of our best ever detox goodies. Happy detoxing!

Christmas crackers

We have some great new snack products available, perfect for stocking fillers and Christmas nibbles. All are handmade, raw, vegan and organic.  We have Spicy Buckwheat Bites made with buckwheat, dates, sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds. There are two types of crackers included in the new range; Flax and Herb made with brown and golden flaxseeds, garlic and herbs and Flax Crackers Piquant, made with flaxseeds, tomatoes and chili. There are also two new sweet rolls available, Tangy Apple and Cinnamon and Zingy Lemon and Ginger rolls and two new crispbreads, Intensely Italian made with golden flaxseeds, buckwheat, carrots, sundried tomatoes, onion and garlic and Provencale, made with golden flaxseeds, buckwheat, carrots, sundried tomatoes and provencal herbs.  All of these new products are made with sprouted seeds for natural vitality — guaranteed to get you glowing brighter than Rudolph’s red nose!

Christmas Passion out now!

Now in its third year, our quarterly Passion magazine is free to our UK customers, and free globally online. The Winter/Christmas 2009 issue is now available and is stuffed with competitions, recipes, articles, interviews and product reviews. The current issue features:

 - A raw Christmas feast with The Raw Chef Russell James 
 - Rebecca Moore’s musings
 - How Dickon Walker became well the natural way
 - Janey Lee Grace and how to make Midnight Carob cashew cookies (raw) in Vicky’s videos
 - Locavore living 
 - Laura Bruno’s interview on energy healing
 - Shazzie’s Annus Mirabilis (year of miracles)
 - A whole year of offers!
…and much more

Click here to read the online version right now!

New! Balls and bars

We have two new snacky products on the site – Fruit and Coconut Balls and Truly Juicy Apricot and Almond Bars. The Fruit and Coconut Balls are organic and sprouted to give you natural vitality. They contain raisins, coconut, dates and sunflower seeds.

 

The Truly Juicy bars are delicious raw organic food bars containing dates, apricots, brazil nuts, apples and almonds. Great for lunchboxes and healthy snacking on the go. They are also vegan, gluten-free and handmade. Both are available to order now!

Weight Loss Detox Yoga Retreat

Sandra Hillawi is organising a weight loss yoga retreat in January 2010. This healing retreat is ideal for anyone wanting some help and support with improving their health. The programme will include:

» 100% Raw Foods and Juices
» Get Healthy and Drop Excess Pounds
» Daily Yoga and Meditation
» Exercise Mind Body and Spirit
» Healing Workshops
» Release Stress and Burdens
» Build Your Confidence
» Banish Cravings and Bad Habits
» Create A New Healthy You
» Beautiful Small Hotel with Pool and Private Beach
» Egyptian Adventures
» Stay 1 to 3 weeks
» Average weight loss 6 to 14 lbs

The retreat takes place at the Sinai Peninsula, by the Red Sea on 2 January 2010.

www.retreatsegypt.com

Basics of a Raw Food Diet

Anna from The Raw Life is holding an event on 25^th November showing you easy ways to incorporate more delicious, energising and healing raw food into your daily diet. You may be taking the first steps to introducing more raw foods to improve your health or looking for a few more recipe ideas and a reminder of how easy it is to make raw foods!

Anna will be making the following recipes: 

Nut Milks: Almond and Chocolate variations
Green Smoothie and Super food smoothie
Green Juice without a juicer!
Pesto Mushrooms
Courgetti Marinara
Nori Rolls
Marinated Kale and how to turn this simple dish into a heavenly main meal
Raw Chocolate
Chocolate Caramel Tart 

We’ll also take a look at simple sprouting techniques, have a Q&A on raw fooding, look at improving your health, losing/gaining weight and alkalizing the body via your diet. There will be plenty of opportunity for tasting and buying some raw food goodies!

Workshop £55 per person.  Prices include all food and a recipe folder.
6.45 – 9.45pm in Beckenham.
Pre payment in advance confirms your booking.
Payment via Paypal should be sent to: anna@therawlife.co.uk

For further information & bookings please contact Anna on: anna@therawlife.co.uk or 07939 531092.

 

Health Etcetera’s Raw-iental Christmas

Always read the label

A new report by Which? has warned that so-called healthy snacks designed for children’s lunchboxes are laden with hidden salt and sugar. After analysing the nutritional content of a range of snacks, Which? found that the products promoted as being free from additives are actually packed with sugar. Robinson’s Fruit Shoot orange drink contains 23g of sugar per 200ml bottle, almost five teaspoonfuls. Kellogg’s Frosties Cereal and Milk bars contain seven different sugars, making a 25g bar almost a third sugar. Dairylea Lunchables Ham ‘n’ Cheese crackers contain 1.8g of salt, more than half of the recommended daily allowance for a four to six year old child. Which? is calling for tighter rules on when manufacturers can make health claims – this would prevent sugary, salty foods being promoted as being healthy options due to high fibre or calcium.

Martyn Hocking, editor of Which? magazine, said: “Parents should be able to pick out healthy products for their kids’ lunchboxes, but what you see isn’t always what you get. Some products give the impression of being healthy, but are full of salt and sugar. The best way to beat the lunchbox baddies is by checking the nutrition and ingredient information. We’d also like to see the rules on health and nutrition claims made tougher, so there’s less confusion on the supermarket shelves.”