Your skin is the body’s largest organ for eliminating wastes and toxins. When it is not working well you may feel lethargic and heavy, with pasty, clogged or pimply skin.

Healthy skin should be clear and fresh. Give your skin the chance to glow this summer!

Make a healthy skin your priority this Summer, and look your very best! more…

Every disease has a beginning. It doesn’t suddenly pop out of nowhere; it doesn’t strike you down like lightning out of the blue.

Yet people treat illness as “bad luck”, as something that has visited them from the outside – usually by means of a germ, a virus, or an allergen. Even medical doctors fall for this erroneous, illogical way of perceiving illness. They look at the symptoms of the full-blown disease, try to treat them, and move on to the next patient without seeking the root of the disease, or how it could be prevented. This is a tragic shame, because it is such a superficial approach – and it is often done too late to easily restore the body to its previous health. more…

Prana is the Sanskrt term for subtle energy that organises and powers the physical body. Most, if not all, traditional cultures have had a concept of subtle energy – the Chinese called it Qi (or Chi), and the Japanese called it Ki.

Ueshiba founder of Aikido

When I was practising Aikido in the 80s and 90s, I often had direct experience of the power of ki. We learned how to cultivate our own ki; and how to sense and direct an attacker’s ki in order to throw the attacker in a variety of spectacular ways. I met elderly people who had practised extending their ki for several years – they were immensely powerful, yet infinitely gentle. Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido, practised and taught well into his nineties; in fact until the day he died. more…