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OILS TRAINING - INFORMATION, SKILLS, HEALING PROCESSES

School of Natural Medicine Essential Oils Therapist training with Farida Sharan last week in Vancouver, BC was a joy of fragrance, skills and healing processes - an experience beyond most workshops or seminars.

When students process their fears, traumas and symptoms and explore their historical, physical, emotional, social, mental and spiritual landscapes, the oils take on another life.

Did you know that oils speak directly to our brain becoming part of our instinctive and emotional brains, but not our logical brain? With the oils we go deeper, entering safely and respectfully into the field of being and allowing change, healing, transformation and evolution.

Skills in this five day training in Vancouver focused on an evolved Raindrop Training with emphasis on deep slow connected touch that transforms the YLO idea of a Raindrop session into a profoundly more satisfying experience. Students return for another oils training the 24th of July for another five days, with new students joining the group, Washington DC, Minnesota, Denver and Saudi Arabia.

The next training focuses on skills for Auricular and Neuro Auricular work with increased emphasis on oils, reflexology and master touch connection awareness abilities. In every class emphasis is placed on self healing and students continue to learn how to focus inwardly, sense, feel, know, and become alive in their inner world. Healing process work deepens into releasing individual trauma and co-dependence as students face the realitis of family relationships, unresolved emotions, fears of change and other potential raw material for transformation into evolved being.

INNER DREAMS ON THE SELF HEALING PATH

Our dear new School of Natural Medicine Natural Physician student, Kristina, in the San Francisco area writes of a 'dream vision' she had to confirm her knowing she has found her true path and made the right decision to begin self healing and healing studies. Kristina is coming to self healing immersion and classes in Vancouver in September.

"About a week or so ago, I was in the stage between awake (or at least being able to sense my environment or hear it) and right before the deep sleep stage... In my mind, because it was hard to distinctively see anything, I heard really loud, "I searched for you (teacher), I found you!!!"  I put teacher in parenthesis because I didn't say teacher, and I couldn't distinctively see anything, but it was as if I maybe felt my spirit self connect with whomever (you) I was saying this to and those words came out but other unspoken messages were being translated...it was like I was going through a forest and mountains (but in the dream it was like a whirlwind of flashing images, my life events) and the spirit of my teacher appeared at the end of a path, I took, and I felt like I was explaining what I've been through and finally I got here...then I heard "I searched for you, I found you!!" 

Hope I'm making sense, it was an amazing dream, gave me so much comfort, but hard to explain.  I believe this dream was referring to you because I've never had a vision like that, similar, as far as premonitions of other things but never this experience.  I really feel that I was off my path, searching and longing to get back on it, along the way had many life changing events, adding depth to my soul, and being here, Now, being led to you is helping me feel the connection to my life's purpose and allowing my light to shine brighter."  Love Kristina

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SELF HEALING RADIATES FROM STUDENT/GRADS FACES

School of Natural Medicine Reflexology graduate, Nannette, from the Boulder, Colorado area, currently attending Essential Oils Therapist training in Vancouver, BC with Farida Sharan, radiates her progress in one year of Self Healing. Wish I had before and after photographs!!

Eyes brighten, faces open, and the clear direct look of being present creates a loveliness of the person lit by their inner world. Nannette has the blessing of a strong clear mind and as she deepens into three brain integration, developing living connections with instinct and feeling through her training and opportunities with the self healing processes in class, a harmonic balance of all intelligences increasingly blesses her being, life and work.

Nannette can't express enough how the Reflexology class last autumn slowed her down, made her experience being present with touch and available to feel and receive truth, information and wisdom when working on clients and transforming her health.

"Studying Reflexology opened a door that led into a room filled with compassion, energy, love and understanding. I have grown spiritually, feel whole, have more confidence and am able to releaseold patterns of thought and behavior. Previous to reflexology my life was one of control and organization and structure to the extreme. Through Master Touch Reflexology and the way we learn it with Farida, I have slowed down, let go and now live completely in each moment. Relationships are better experiences are deeper and spirituality is more intense. My family and friends tell me how different I am. They see me as more patient, kinder, less stressed and definitely less controlling. I feel these changes in my soul and know they are a direct result of the grounding that has occured within me since the training and the work I now do with my family, friends and clients.

We have our next Reflexology class coming up this time in Vancouver in September - still a space - still time to enroll. Still time to experience Self Healing and transform your life and work - and this is not just any Reflexology class. This is the opportunity to access and create living connections with a sensing, feeling, knowing touch of wisdom that nourishes the giver as well as the receiver. Each session is creative and unique to that person and the ability of a practitioner to be present in that way is the result of profound self healing.

To check out Reflexology classes on this blog, click on Reflexology on the right margin and enjoy other classes, see pics, and read student testimonials.

SOLITUDE, COMMUNITY, LONELINESS & INTIMACY

I have been contemplating basic beliefs and clarifying longings for relationship and community as I explore the roots of being here in Vancouver BC. Having chosen to live for a time in the land of my birth, a place I have not lived in for over 40 years, where I hardly know anyone, and where I purposely left behind all my support systems, power objects that identified me such as a car, art and things of history, as well as all the trappings of my previous career except for the Apple computer!!! As I deepen into solitude as a person that loves community and has made a career of creating healing process and movement love-ins (always the sixties child that believes groups can merge into love and be nourished by the invisible forces of the universe) I find myself sharing myself with people of the world not just selected students and privileged friends.

I ride buses (havent done that in 40 years I believe) and I notice and feel love for those struggling with poverty, handicaps, the elderly (I am getting to be one of them at 67 however my health makes me feel and live like 35 or younger), the young, the indigenous, the workers and the bus drivers also, and feel connected in a wider stream as I release a life lived for so long in the company of those with resources and passion and excitement for life and learning. There are many who do not feel this passion to grow and experience. I ask Why?

I find myself asking questions. What is loneliness? What is intimacy? What is community? What is solitude? Inquiry is becoming a way of life where I have time for reverie. I found intimacy in long term depth relationships with students as they sought to know and heal themselves. Yes I have long term and deep family and friend relationships however there is something rich and noble in the mentoring role and as a person who chooses to walk the path of life without a partner I enjoy a signature relationship with each student of life who seeks guidance and support.

Community thrives in my heart when it emerges beyond vested interests and power/dominance struggles so I choose community carefully and in small doses, retreating when I feel those energies rising. I belong to several communities and I lightly come and go as group agreements are often limiting and projections affect one's sense of freedom to be who you are.

As to solitude there is no such thing in my world as I am always in the company of soul, the one great and true relationship. I cherish the growth of the soul and nourish it well in hours of solitude and find its presence within me is the fertile source of all offerings.

As a human being I love to explore the opposites and then reside in neutral ground whenever I can. When I get swept off neutral I become uncomfortable and I can accept that for a while until I need to speak the truth, release, do the work, and return to neutral balance and my essential way of being, for that is what supports the solitude and all relationships.

As I shared processes born of inner explorations I felt the deepening in the students and know that my offerings are a gift to their journey. The best kind of intimacy. The best kind of community. Knowing and being known is intimacy. Sharing that knowing and being known is commuity. With knowing and being known there is no loneliness only the choice of solitude to nourish both intimacy and community.

Sharing a moment with the standing stones at the Star House Community in the mountains above Boulder, where one feels the weight of depth at the same time as swirling in the heavens. For several years we enjoyed our School of Natural Medicine herbal classes here and I participated in dances and activities from the time of its creation when I lived in Gold Hill.

SHARING LOVE LETTERS AS A WAY OF LIFE

“Your energy and love are angels wings to my healing” SNM ND Graduate

“I'm just so happy...its like waiting to unveil a hidden treasure behind a locked door. I just see so much positive changes awaiting!” New student.”

“You have done so many things and building up the new schools was a big gift to the world. I will love to attend your classes in the future and want to finish the studies. My love to you dearest teacher. Sólveig – Icelandic student.

SHARING A VISUAL LOVE LETTER WITH A SELF-HEALING STUDENT IN PUERTO RICO 2004

Inquirer Comments of New Student
“I just got off the phone with you...thank you so much. I'm so glad your approach is so easy going, no pressure, and just joyful. It shows that you have a gift of knowledge to share with others and its up to the individual to receive or take the next step. I hope that you feel I will be a "right" kind of student for your school, because I prayed for a place that has the qualities you mentioned. The heavy feeling in my heart and mind has lifted, and I am more confident my husband will be supportive in my efforts.  Kristina –

“Can't wait until I meet with you and experience the journey in your presence. I appreciate what you had to go through to collect and embrace the knowledge that I am so appreciative you are sharing with others. Thank you, Kristina – new student”

"Smiles...Smiles...Smiles...I just wanted to stop by and let you know I got my first portion of the courses, and it was like opening a gift on Christmas morning... I love this feeling of "awakening"!!!  Many blessings and love love love.. Kristina"

”The Self Healing Immersion was wonderful for me. I'm thankful for you and it was a pleasure to learn these self-healing keys of great importance with the guidance of such a beautiful teacher. Looking forward to this journey of greater understanding of natural medicine.  ...B

Hello Dearest Farida, You are such an amazing mentor and I think of you every day.  The health and life lessons I learned from you through those years I spent with you and the school have changed my life and lifestyle.  I am wiser, healthier and much more capable of handling just about anything life tosses in my path. Thanks so much for your love and guidance. Much love and blessings, Michelle - SNM Grad CO

"Hi beautiful lady! Happy you continue teaching and supporting people in their self-healing journey! xxxx Christine. SNM Grad NY

“Thanks for always encouraging. I need that. I am n the road to recovery and wellness. So blessed to have you as my teacher and friend. Your books are wonderful. Wow. Life is unfolding in beautiful ways I've been wanting for so long. With love B”

“Thank you Farida, your wisdom is comforting and reassuring to me. I am grateful and blessed from your words of wisdom. Transformation is so wonderful. I am thankful, peace, love R”

“My deepest thanks and respect for the work you have done with my daughter to energize her spirit to heal her body. I am beyond grateful. Just reading your words gave my spirit a lift. I am honored to be part of your world. S”

“Many, many days I am so grateful to you for the journey you guided me with in my health and well being. I have blossomed into the person I really am and I find great comfort there. Life's journey continues to be one of shedding, fertilizing and rebirthing. I have released expectation of the details of what is to come and find both freedom and relief in that! I look at where your life has led you and know you are reflecting the potential in letting go.” Icelandic student

“Your sweetness Farida is a poignant, tears to the eyes and opening of the heart, reminder of the Source of Love. I remembered you yesterday and a mutual friend commented that you stand head and shoulders above most people in your vision. I agree.” C SNM student/client UK 1977

"I am working with Kolbrun (SNM Grad who own Rekjavik’s herbal pharmacy called Jurtaapotek) and really loving my work. I am accepting the flow of life, embracing life as it is now. I hope life treats you well dearest Farida, your picture is  lovely!" Linda

Sample Letter of inspiration from Farida to a student:
“Thinking of you sweetly Frankincensing your inner essence, becoming the next and rare level of a true healer and teacher that heals herself. My dear, you are far beyond a raw and living food teacher. You have the strength, skill, wisdom and instinct to take your students and clients deeper.  Much love from one of your teachers that adores you. 

My dear teacher Farida, I am so lucky. The truths you share on your newsletter/blog are so beautiful.”

”I miss you and think of you often. Thank you for being in my life. The summer school my daughter spent with you truly changed her life and I am so grateful, with love Jill

“I completely enjoyed Flower Child.  It was a profound learning adventure and the insight into your experience/perception was so enriching. I could relate to your experiences and process and learn from these connections reflecting on my own journey. I am thankful you wrote your story and will always appreciate this and hold it dear to my heart. Reading Herbs of Grace now... LOVE your books...LOVE you beautiful Farida! Peace, B

"Such an amazing transformational time with you! Shifted in many ways I wasn't aware of till I returned home.  S"

“Beautiful! It is a great honor to be a part of the school. So thankful for you. I feel the energy from your words and it brings me something I have needed all my life. R

"Dear One, Beautiful pictures, beautiful setting, beautiful unfolding of this next part of your Journey. May grace, love and beauty enfold you as you continue to guide and bless others (and yourself) in this Incarnation. With love and gratitude for all you are, Portia" AZ SNM Grad

GRADUATE MYSPACE SITE A LIVING LOVE DELIGHT

Check out School of Natural Medicine's Naturopath Graduate Summer's MySpace for a treat. Summer branched out into Living Foods and Raw Foods since attending the Puerto Rico Naturopathy & Living Food Teacher Training in Puerto Rico with me a few years ago where she created a magnificent giant sand mermaid and gifted everyone at the graduation with reflexology tools gathered from nature and anointed with oils - offerings of a divine goddess.

Raising her children in Asheville, North Carolina, creating a garden and sharing the teachings offers a full life. Summer just came and spent five days with me in Vancouver recently for a One on One Healing Immersion. Summer is a soul sister, a daughter, and a dear friend. Love and blessings to one who walks her talk.

Her last creation before visiting me was sponsoring a huge raw event for David Wolfe for over 200 attendees. Her menu sounds like gourmet heaven. However she did learn that although there is a lot of hype and buzz around living and raw food it doesn't take into account the depths of self healing and personal evolution. Everything has its place and contributes to the whole. Love you Summer

SELF HEALING IS KEY TO ABUNDANCE & SUCCESS

Sharing transformational pics of Barbara Pina, School of Natural Medicine graduate. You can see the difference in physical well being and radiant confidence in the two years between two visits to our winter Puerto Rico Living Food and Naturopathy retreats. Living the teachings is the path to abundance and success!! The yellow pic is the first visit and the second is after self healing and living foods reaped their rewards.

Barbara aka Dr. Aqasikesat loves colors, dresses like a goddess, is immensely creative and continues to develop her fine synthesis of healing, teaching and retreat offerings in Massacheusetts.

Dr. Aqasikesat aka Dr. Barbara Pina NP/ND. Natural Physician NP - Naturopathic Doctor ND Master Herbalist MH; Master Iridologist Mir; Colon Hydro Therapist CT; Meridian Reading with Aura & Chakra Photo & Report; Chakra Balancing; Color Light Therapy; Living Food Work-Shops; Acid/Alkaline Readings.

"I am very grateful to bring you The Ra Natural Health & Enlightment Center. ‘Ra’ meaning the life force - source of life, energy which we need to sustain life to live. Without this Ra energy we would be lifeless/dead. The ancient kemetians/Africans called this energy - Ra - others called it Chi, Kundalini or Prana. As an Naturopathic Physician, it is my duty to research and explore the many wonders of God’s natural, non-toxic, herbal medicine which will help to rebuild and restore the Ra life force energy. Through my studies I have discovered that all prescription drugs, street drugs, processed, flesh and hybrid foods and herbs are highly toxic and acidic to the body, which cause cell degeneration, disease, and eventually death. In order to combat these cell degenerations, we must learn to reprogram our eating habits and alkaline the body with alkaline ionized water, organic fruits, vegetables and non-hybrid herbs. Cleansing the body quarterly will help purify the body and regenerate the cells in order to live a healthy pain free lifestyle."

I was just talking to Tarah, School of Natural Medicine Natural Physician graduate,( in Boulder a couple of days ago, and by the way her life, work, practice, aroma business and teachings are growing like wildfire) and she said, "YES - self healing - WOW - such a deep and important on-going path...thanks to you I now refuse to work with anyone who will not take
these steps...I am blessed to have enough abundance to make that choice...but I also think by making that choice I am creating the life of my dreams...my self healing continues...I am currently doing Watsu 2 x month with a fabulous rolfer and cranio-sacral therapist." Self Healing does become a way of life.

SNM STUDENT MANAGES LUXURY SPA IN BANGKOK

 School of Natural Medicine advanced Naturopathic student, Nikki, is now manager of a world class rooftop Grand Hyatt Erawan i.sawan pure spa on Sukhumvit in Bangkok.

She heard me speaking to someone in a healing center in Bangkok a few years back and asked who I was and immediately signed up for a Self Healing program and attended my Thailand trainings. She came along to Summer School, and that year Yui, Katherine and Patrick also attended from Bangkok. Yui owns and manages the beautiful Rasayana Spas in Thailand, and the one near Sukhumvit just off Soi 39 has a beautiful organic raw food restaurant.

Anyway Nikki met Yui and got a job immediately as a Spa Manager at Rasayana, then got hired by the Naturopath who used to run the Chiva Som spa to help create a cutting edge medi spa, then got spun away by a world class roof top luxury spa on Sukhumvit. This picture was taken at the Spa Asia conference in Manila. I had just returned from a 5 day stay at the beautiful retreat center at The Farm and there was beautiful Nikki, all groomed for the ultimate corporate first class hotel position. Some students click in so fast to their destiny once they being in the school their careers just take off. Her self healing by the way was magnificent!

TO SEE ALL THE JUNE BLOGS CLICK ARROWS AT PAGE END

Hi everyone, so much news, pics, and at last the time to write it up. I have been wanting to blog many of our beautiful successful creative students and grads for some time and at last it is happening. However to view the entire month you have to click the arrows to see more at the end of the page. You can also select topics to view most of them in the right margin. Still some more grads to go. It is heartwarming to hear all they are accomplishing in the life and work. Farida

SOLSTICE - BLACKBERRY & BLACKBERRIES

Having exchanged my Blackberry cell phone for real blackberries in British Columbia I am celebrating the release of overcommunication this solstice. While I love the creativity of blogging and Facebook and even Twitter at times the choice to participate is mine and phone calls are welcome instead of disturbing. I have even taken to day trips without carrying a cell phone at all!!! And I find I am happy to phone friends again and enjoying talking something I haven't done for a few years.

I consider myself a brave woman to shed these supports in this day of addictive texters and walking your talk with earphones your voice to your living connection miles away. Having always enjoyed counterculture and considered myself a homeopatic potency to balance this wierd and wonderful world we live in I must say I have taken to exploring this potential lifestyle in a way that suprises my five planets in Geminii persona.

I am returning to my karmic roots of being, exploring what I am and how I became how I am in my seeking towards the divine I AM!! Exposing my basic beliefs I discover grief memories of my grandmother's passing when I was five years old and how I wept for hours because they wouldn't let me attend the funeral and then I see the film Departures and shed endless flowing tears as they prepare the bodies of their beloveds in front of all the family knowing that this is the way it should be. I wonder at my fear of asking for what I want in case I might be refused and still have not found my way to release that one. I deepen in nature and know that is one longing that always stays - why when I want to be in nature do I always end up in a town sacrificing what I truly want for myself in the service of the school, patients and students and family. I work consciously toward creating a life lived close to nature in my eldering spriritual life, and as I write the books I have always wanted to write I know it is my time.

I find I am a fascinating being as we all are and in this new cycle of Self Healing I gather so much richness and wisdom to share in coming classes, along with new healing processes. 
 
I photograph empty lots filled with morning glories, dandelions and blackberries and remember the youth of freedom, safety and joy in Crescent Beach where I find this stone that perfectly describes my childhood - such grace to have been raised in the British Columbia of my youth and received the gifts it gave me.

Happy Solstice. We have reached the height of light and length of days and now we shorten slowly towards the depths of winter when I will be in the southern hemisphere giving and receiving the light.

NEW STUDENT OFFERS SELF HEALING TO HER FAMILY

Kristina, our new School of Natural Medicine student from the San Francisco area, has a great longing to experience Self Healing and share it with her family as she studies toward professional goals. I enjoyed wonderful conversations with Kristina during her inquiry process. Kristina is enrolled in the E Courses, Self Healing Module and will be attending the Self Healing Immersion in Vancouver in September. Welcome Kristina.

I am so enjoying this new wave of students. I have noticed over the years that groups come together at times and share the classes and there is always a resonance, an energy of the time that reflects my personal work and the creative growth of the school.

So many students have graduated. Others are teaching and practicing. The Iceland, Boulder and UK schools are run by graduates and students. Freed from administration and the management of schools, I am enrolling this new group of students that reflects my own deep personal work at this time of visiting the land of my birth and a mutual commitment of respect, honoring and kindness.

School of Natural Medicine believes that the greatest gift of the studies is the positive effect it has on the life of the student, their family and their livelihood. The trainings add wisdom, consciousness and understanding, creating a depth to life that assists in day to day living.

Each student enrolls from a deep desire from within to understand more about life, to gain independence and wisdom for healthy living and a longing to help others.

AMAZING BIRDS APPEARING ON VANCOUVER BC STREETS

An Emily Carr bird soars to earth at the SW corner of Granville Street and Broadway in Vancouver, BC. As a part of the creation of the Vancouver, BC Olympic Games in 2010 strange, wild, wonderful, colorful and oracular birds have been appearing on Vancouver streets, each one a work of art, each one a unique combination of poetry and art.

Emily Carr - now famous, now celebrated as British Columbia's unique and potent artist of our forests, lands and native history is quoted on the bird from her writings and books I read many times as a young woman during my growing up, as her life and art spoke to my heart:

"Go out into the glory of the woods ... enter the life of the trees ... light and dark chase each other ... understand unspoken soul words ... you must be still in order to see and hear .. Emily Carr

Emily Carr portrays the living spirit of the British Columbia forest and her life of struggle, poverty and lack of support during her creative process as a turn of the century artist in Canada is acknowledged now with permanent exhibitions and paintings that sell for two million dollars each.

Her books I have loved and cherished and re-read all my life, and her permanent showing at the Vancouver Art Gallery that I have viewed time and again flowed from the lifespring of a beautiful woman with a powerful vision that could not be stopped by ridicule, lack of support, little money, fears of traveling and living alone in nature, stuffy Victorian criticism, or the choice of a solitary life and the sacrifices that she made to create her paintings.

Books by Emily Carr: The Book of Small, The Heart of a Peacock, Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr (I love how she writes about growing pains as so many today are not willing or complain of the growing pains so necessary for personal evolution and becoming all that you are)

Even though millionaires, billionaires and trusts may purchase her work hers is the life of vision, truth, beauty and love illuminated by courage and passion. Hers is the life of loving the forest long before it was threatened, of tuning in to the potent and powerful healing energies of trees, and of recording crumbling totem poles in the deserted native villages. Here on this busy, noisy, dusty city corner, her bird flies to earth to remind us once more of the truth and need of nature to the survival of this planet and the evolution of our spiritual inner worlds.

SELF HEALING ARTICLE ON WEB DAILY PLANET MEDIA

The Weekend Daily Planet Web Newspaper and editor, School of Natural Medicine student Patrick Cusick, features a full page article 'How Personal Self Healing Heals the Planet' by Farida Sharan this week.

Check it out on page 25, and also tune in to an amazing weekly newspaper that includes advertising from some of the mega supporters of green ecology.

http://intranet.pressdisplay.com       login: wdplanet@demo.com

password: welcomewdp

Press on Weekend Daily Planet to open pages

SCHOOL OF NATURAL MEDICINE UK 2009 CLASSES

 

Contact School of Natural Medicine UK and Bonny White for information and enrollment for classes in Exeter, Devon, UK over the summer, autumn and winter in 2009. Farida Sharan will be teaching the Advanced Iridology Level 2 and Reflexology in November.

SNM's SELF HEALING STUDENT FROM MINNESOTA

 
Meet Eva, originally from Scandinavia now settled near Minneapolis, our beautiful new student in the Self Healing Module. Presently working as a chiropractic clinic, Eva had a most organized way of getting started on her diet changes even though it is tough to give up gourmet love of cooking habits. Eva is working through the E Courses in Naturopathy, Iridology & Herbal Medicine with out UK branch of the school and is coming for a Self Healing program with the School of Natural Medicine Canada in Vancouver in July. Welcome to the school, Eva

ANOTHER SNM GRADUATE CREATES AN INSPIRING LIFE

Indie Wolf, a beloved School of Natural Medicine graduate, has created her own inspirational Life Coach and Healing world of Inspiration and Love. When I first met Indie she was spending a lot of time nurturing wolves rescued from the wild, and in turn I nurtured her through her self-healing and studies in the School of Natural Medicine programs over several years, including her coming to the Naturopathy Purification and Regeneration Programs in Puerto Rico twice and participating deeply in Self Healing & Mystic Yoga, it is a joy to see what Indie has created from her many talents and loving presence.

Indie is featured on the seven minute film I made with Bill Fanning, another SNM Grad, as a gift to the Ann Wigmore Institute in Puerto Rico, as her radiant smile is inspiration itself.

Check out Indie's website.  for inspiration and participation in her many creative and supportive offerings. I have been following Indie's posts on Twitter for a few weeks. Indie makes beautiful jewelry and loves music. She plays a major role in the Kan 'Nal music tribe and I have joined concerts more than once for the music, sound, lights and positive vibes.

Congratulations Indie for transforming your life into inspiration, guidance, support, leadership, wisdom, and most of all love. You are love!!!!

IRIDOLOGY POEM - FIRST IN THE WORLD?

Look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
Do you see my achievements
Do you see my goals
Or do you see my mistakes
And my shames
But it does not matter
Because its all there
You are looking into
The mirror of my soul.

Look deep into my eyes
Now tell me what you see
Do you see landscape
Or do you see a star
Looking at the ocean
Or into the midnight sun
Do you see my secrets
Revealing themselves
Signs and symptoms
Buried in my soul.

Hafdis, a most dedicated and passionate student of School of Natural Medicine Iridology training, graduated in September 2008 during my last visit to the Iceland school as a Master Iridologist. Here is a picture of Hafdis and her Iridology Mandala - the process of creating a wisdom sensing knowing of your iris in relation to your life. Hafdis works at Landbanken Bank in Reykjavik and devotes herself to the study of natural medicine with a passion for self-healing and also writes children's books.The idea of this process came from a vision I had when staying in a monastery in Venice, Italy. Creating mandalas is an ancient Tibetan and Buddhist technique of making a map that brings together into the present all levels of reality of human and spiritual life experience.

Hafdís Ósk Sigurðardóttir at 3:23pm June 17 - Facebook
"Thank you my dear, that poem was made to you and your amazing work Farida!"

SELF HEALING IS A COMING HOME TO ONESELF!

Many times School of Natural Medicine students have said "we are so happy we don't want to go home." The energy field that is created during trainings and self healing processes opens a space of unconditional love that is so nourishing, full, radiant and divine, contentment flourishes and there is a sense of never wanting it to end! This is the home within yourself and once a student experiences this they have received the essence of my teaching.

This beautiful painting by my granddaughter illustrates the Path of Illumination created by Self Healing as we make our commitment to walk the path of truth, light, goodness, beauty and personal evolution.

While Self Healing Immersions offer the matrix for deepening into "home" These teachings and healing processes are also part of trainings in essential oils, flower essences, self healing, reflexology, herbology, naturopathy and iridology where all students are nurtured in an ark of loving divine support during healing processes.

Once a student of life and healing attends a class they understand how important it is to learn how to learn, to feel, to listen with respect, and to devote oneself to self-healing and one's own work. Trainings combined with healing processes offer the opportunity for personal evolution at the same time as embodying the teachings deeply within a student's personal reality so that information and skills emerge as wisdom nurtured in experience.

Learning information and skill is not enough. All seekers of truth, love, healing and wisdom need to be safely nurtured in an environment that envisions a field of human kindness and potential. Trainings are rich in the showering of grace and are the impetus and inspiration to fully develop the most supportive environment possible for becoming wisdom rich and abundance blessed.

It is to this evolution of humanness I wish to devote myself to sharing because it is this restoration of essential self that is the field of loving truth that creates a profound professional integrity and ability of the true healer/teacher/practitioner.

Small classes with personal attention for students passionate to explore self healing and personal evolution add profound depth to trainings in professional skills. Through loving and kind connection students are selected based on their their willingness to do their personal work.

This unique opportunity to receive professional training combined with healing processes is rare in the field of education. Classes, trainings and mentoring are offered individually and students progress at their own speed and from their own choices based on inner feeling, sensing, and knowing to reawaken joy of learning , discovery, exploration and mastery.

Trainings are offered in in an atmosphere of loving support and human kindness with respect for each person¹s strengths, gifts and also their areas of growth and healing. Through experience each student awakens their conscious understanding of health, healing and wellness and becomes a living example of the teachings and radiant guide for others.

SNM GRAD CREATING WORLD HEALTH FRANCHISE

School of Natural Medicine graduate, Gary Jackson from Perth Australia, is in Vancouver for two weeks to host his BloodScan training.

I dropped into Gary's last day of training to experience the blood scan and meet his students  - a group of acupuncturists. Everything the scan turned up I already knew and was in process with but one surprise - the anemia I always had when I was raised in Vancouver had surfaced again. Not surprising - as all conditions are in resonance with hereditary, climate, cultural and personal influences - and I have found myself diving deep here with family memories, karmic root release (dont you love that phrase!) all in the depth of being. Yes, it is true, i am still fascinated by my own personal evolution, continuous physical re-creation and self-healing.

Looking forward to hearing more as his concept of testing and creating naturopathy programs from one drop of blood and monitoring clients for a year is catching on in the medical community.

GATE OF NOSTALGIA OPENS ONTO VANCOUVER ISLAND

Such a beautiful week! Visiting dear friends near Qualicum Beach on 15 acres of pristine nature with organic gardens, snowcapped mountain view, a stream running by, charming natural wood houses. We enjoy blended green drinks morning and night, and salads and vegetables as well as fresh strawberries and wonderful quiet quiet night sleeps. Deer leap, bunnies hop, Canadian geese fly by in triangular pattern and eagles soar high in the sky. A train whistles in the distance and I sigh a nostalgia sigh.

I have returned to the land of my birth and raising and it feels very very good.

One day we drive in a Prius Toyota (world's quietest eco car) over to the wild west coast of Vancouver Island, through the Alberni's where I went to Jr and Sr High school and it looks like it hasn't changed at all, to Tofino. Past Sproat Lake where I swam every summer and dove off the Petroglyph Indian carvings cliffs, though millions of acres of forest, past lakes to the white sand beaches. Nothing can describe the pure prana, the light, the sand, the water, the views - breathtaking, awesome, thrilling. I felt so well at the end of the day - thoroughly fine within and without and full of gratitude for the protectednature of British Columbia .

I became fascinated by sand patterns as the Wikaninnish Inn had posts and beams carved by the First Nation artists that mimicked the sand patterns shown in these pictures.

Back home now in Vancouver and about to join Gary Jackson for the last day of his Bloodscan training - want to find out in person and have the test and see the results.

SNM UK STUDENTS CREATE WIND SEA FLOWER ESSENCE

School of Natural Medicine United Kingdom Naturopathy students attended their Flower Essence Training module near Exeter in Devon, England this past week. Students explored their depth mental, emotional, social, physical, spiritual psyches as they studied the remedies and experienced healing processes using the Bach Flower, FES, Icelandic and other flower remedies.

One highlight of their five days was their trip to the sea at Branscombe, (a charming 12 century lacemaking village with a pre Norman church) was the creation of a group remedy -  Wind Sea Flower Essence.

As well as students from the Southwest of England and London, dear Hedwig arrived once more from South Africa via Austria and France. She has attended classes in America and Iceland as she works toward her diplomas with the certificate trainings. It is always wonderful to see her and hear her share how much her life and health have changed since attending the school.

SELF-HEALING HEALS THE PLANET ONE PERSON AT A TIME

Self-Healing with the School of Natural Medicine transforms the planet one person at a time, in keeping with SNM student Patrick Cusick and his www.planetmedia.com 'plant one tree for every person on the planet' vision. Self-Healing transformed my contribution on this planet from one of weakness, exhaustion and ill health from hereditary pernicious anemia and cancer to non-stop joyful creative service for the past 35 years. This profound experience launched my career in natural medicine.

My Self-Healing transformed a so-called negative illness to a positive victory that gave me the wisdom and understanding to guide others through the complex unwinding of causes of illness in habits, heredity, constitution, emotions and karmic destiny with a confidence that continues to astound me. The greatest joy of participating in that students choose Self-Healing when they wish to realize their highest potential, when they are tired of a indulgent life that wastes their energy and health, when they are ill, in pain or dying, when they long for enlightenment instead of settling for temporary ignorant bliss, and when they wish to live in harmony with the laws of the universe as a true human being.These times of choice are times of transformation.

If each person stands tall like a tree with their roots deep in the ground of reality and truth and offers shade, fruit and seeds to the world around them, it makes this world a better place. Just as the vision of a tree for every person on the planet sends positive ideas through the planetary energy field, the vision of each person reaching their highest potential for health and positive contribution influences the field of creation. When a person is strong in their health and energy they give shade, shelter and value to those around them.

As students go through their programs they seem to wake up, seek wider horizons, choose creative work that helps others, become independent, creative and self motivated and this increased light of being is their offering to a healthier planet and a better world.

This increased light and awareness gives a positive attitude, energy, the wish to do good, to make a contribution and to enjoy work that gives satisfaction and helps others. Regardless of what kind of work they may do, a healthy person imbues their relationships in livelihood with kindness, honesty and positive energy.

The choices those who have chosen Self Healing as a way of life make become conscious choices that lower the carbon footprint from living more simply with consciousness of the effect of what you do on others and the planet, to choosing to eat vegetarian foods and supporting a green economy and environment.

Together each one of us creates the future we leave our children, choice by choice. Parents who choose Self Healing before conception overcome hereditary weaknesses and other toxic conditions and birth healthier babies. Human beings who have overcome tendencies to strong emotional states during their Self Healing create harmony in their community instead of dissonance. If we have energy and joy that is what we offer daily as we move about the world living small tasks as well as large ones.

If our voices offer kindness, our hearts radiate consciousness, and our mind positive vision we can create a force of love so strong it will overcome the negative manipulation of profit seeking multi-nationals and those that diminish education, healthy, safety, environmental beauty, nature in the name of profit, greed and desire. It will stand strong in the face of potential destruction of species, rain forests, pure water, coral reefs, clean air and healthy food.

Healthy people care about their bodies and their homes and their life and the future of their children. Healthy people are human people who realize the world they live in needs to be respected and preserved. It is not about taking all you can it is about leaving this world a better place for our being in it.

Choose personal Self Healing as a way of life and receive the gifts it offers so that your offering in this world can come from a reservoir of energy, respect, love and service.

SNM'S YOUNGEST STUDENT EVER REPORTS

School of Natural Medicine UK welcomed their youngest student of 16 years in 1986, Leigh Mollet, who proved a dynamic student who loved to get up and share his ideas and visions and a passionate Self Healing enthusiast. After attending classes of Iridology & Natural Medicine in England he came to Summer School in Boulder, Colorado. He also became very interested in water and breath therapies and studied Watsu in Harbin Hot Springs.

Recently I received a note from Leigh on Facebook and responded. Many years had passed and he shares his news. Even though he never became a practitioner and took another path in life the experience of depth healing and truth at his young age made a valuable contribution to his life.

"Dear Farida, It brought tears to my eyes to hear from you. I cannot believe you are 67 - you are looking more beautiful than ever. I've thrown up the possibility of a session together - most of all I'd love my kids to hug you.

What seems like lifetimes ago, you gave me a scholarship and tackled the unenviable task of helping me unlearn the self-conscious BS of a good British Education. I was 16 at the first classes in Saffron Walden at your school, and then I came over to Gold Hill to study Iridology and Nautural Medicine with you, Farida, and Rayid with Denny Johnson and those times are among the most treasured of my life.

I've been married for 13 years now we have a strapping 11 year old son and an 8 year old daughter whose robust health and deep love of India is in no small way a tribute to you.

I am completing my PhD in Linguistics this year and worked for Cardiff University for most of the last two years researching language acquisition in Australian Twins. I pursued a life, far more left brain than I'd anticipated, but now, that the Shadow reveals himself, I dream, once more, of becoming wise, integrated, wild and free....like you,

Eternal gratitude, dear One, Bless you, Farida. Love, love, love,  Leigh"

SNM GRAD - HEALTH WORLD DOMINATION GOALS

School of Natural Medicine Graduate, Gary Jackson from Perth, Australia, is teaching his patented BloodScan work in Vancouver, B.C., and we got together yesterday for breakfast and a long talk. Gary attended Summer School in Boulder with me about six years ago and graduated some time later as a Natural Physician.

From the beginning Gary entered into the studies with enthusiasm, healed a chronic illness on the Self Healing program, transformed his professional life and developed his visions. It is fun and wonderful to learn what he has created in person, though he always kept in touch via email and phone to share his continuing creative journey to bring a system of naturopathic health to a larger audience. Between his travels and mine it took a while to be in the same city at the same time let along the same country.

Gary is the creator of the BloodScan patented blood analysis systems, and the founder, present and creator of the PikLife weight loss and life style program.  During his training this past week in Vancouver he did a New York radio show and when the interviewer asked him about his work goals Gary said, with usual humor, "world domination." What a great goal, world domination of healthy people.

Next Friday, the last day of his Vancouver training with a group of acupuncturists, I will visit his seminar and experience the work. I had blood tests in November in the Nova Vita clinic in Ecuador that Gary Young interpreted and the Tao Garden Retreat Center the year before so I am looking forward to experiencing Blood Scan and the computer analysis and individual program that the system provides. Well done Gary!!! His trainings continue in India, Asia, China, North America and Australia, so world expansion is in the destiny. When I think of all my travels over the years to teach in the United States, Africa, India, Europe, UK, Canada, Thailand, Australia, Malaysia, Iceland and England, I now think of world domination. Person by person, lets spread the good news of becoming independently healthy.

Another SNM student, Patrick Cusick, has his world goal of one tree for every person on the planet as he travels the planet, visiting countries and creating forests from wasteland. It must have something to do with How Self Healing Heals the Planet!! Recently Patrick asked me to write an article for his ecology newspaper Daily Planet Media. We inspire each other.