Tag Archives: health and wellness

Summer falling, Autumn rising

Posted on September 1, 2018 by owenokie

Hello Friends, The summer has passed too fast! We are now gorging on this years profusion of black berries and I’m planning on harvesting and exploring the culinary uses of nettle seeds for the first time. Though the roots and … Continue reading →

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A case for HeartMath: A Healthy Heart Helps Protect Cognitive Function Long-Term – Modern Readers

Posted on March 19, 2016 by owenokie

Here is one more article demonstrating the physical and cognitive benefits of understanding the human mindbody as formed by multiple integrated systems instead of separate and independent parts. The body and the brain work together, and the heart and the … Continue reading →

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Integral Health and Wellness – 1 – Integral Theory – Quadrants

Posted on January 17, 2016 by owenokie

Integral Health and Wellness – 1 – Integral Theory – Quadrants Let us continue the exploration of Integral Theory with the first element of AQAL ; Quadrants, and how they might apply to your health and well-being. Wilber proposes that … Continue reading →

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Integral Health and Wellness – 1 – What is Integral Theory?

Posted on January 15, 2016 by owenokie

Integral Health and Wellness – 1 – What is Integral Theory and AQAL? I’m starting off a series of explorations of some of the elements Susan and I shall be exploring in our up-coming retreat in Greece. I was introduced to … Continue reading →

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What draws you forward? Integral Theory, a map for your creative journey, and the role of Perception and Communications in healing and growth.

Posted on January 5, 2016 by owenokie

Wandering through a forest, searching, seeking, obsessively for a destination that we can barely recollect. These woods, once trackless, are now criss-crossed by a web of trails, made by your own repeated passage as we search..for what? The exit? The … Continue reading →

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Creativity, Communications and Perception — an integral health retreat at Kalikalos Greece.

Posted on November 20, 2015 by owenokie

Early June 2016 Health and Wellness Retreat in Greece http://www.kalikalos.org/health-and-wellness Enhance your Physical, Emotional and Mental Well-Being by learning about Herbs, Nutrition and HeartMath! My colleague Susan and I will be running a Health and Wellness Retreat at Kalikalos a … Continue reading →

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Medicinal Plants from Arizona to Iceland

Posted on January 19, 2015 by owenokie

We’ve recently returned from visiting family and friends in the US. During our travels I’ve had the great pleasure of visiting two very contrasting environments: Arizona, in the Southwest of the US, and Iceland. Also I’m scheduled to teach for … Continue reading →

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Integral Health and Wellness Retreat in Greece

Posted on December 21, 2014 by owenokie

Come to a Heath and Wellness Retreat in beautiful, sunny Greece!   Leave with some tools that will make your life better. Enhance your Physical, Emotional and Mental Well-Being by learning about Herbs, Nutrition and HeartMath®! Ever feel stressed, time-pressured, … Continue reading →

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The milk controversy continues: “Heavy milk drinking may double women’s mortality rates | Science News”

Posted on November 12, 2014 by owenokie

The great dairy controversy! Some new research finding’s casting a shadow on the “Dairy is good for you” slogan are well worth looking into and placing within the context of a practitioner’s perspective. Heavy milk drinking may double women’s mortality … Continue reading →

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