March 23rd, 2016 | Our Food, bees, forest, global, harvesting, healing, honey, hunting, international, Mbuti, Nepal, ritual, tradition, video, wild
Honey hunting is a tradition that is older than humanity and has been developed by people (and animals) all around the world. We all like honey. It is interesting to see the different clever and daring rituals people have developed in the quest to harvest honey. As we all know, honey is worth it. The following is a selection from a variety of traditional techniques from around the world, which I will keep adding to. Please feel free to add others. Craving sweetness is hardwired into our physiology.
February 8th, 2016
Mark Mattson is the current Chief of the Laboratory of Neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging. He is also a professor of Neuroscience at The Johns Hopkins University. Mattson is one of the foremost researchers in the area of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerativ ...
January 7th, 2013
Ged Sumner who has been practicing and teaching Chi Kung for many years around the world is starting a series of Chi Kung workshops in Vancouver in March 2013. He is doing a free introductory workshop on Jan 27th at the YWCA on Beatty St. More info and register here. The workshops in Chi Kung ...
June 26th, 2012
Image: Rare mosaic etching by IREL Cleaopatra's Secret to Success: Fermented Milk Baths I was recently listening to an Ayurvedic practitioner speaking about how this ancient healing system understands skin as having two components. There is the interior skin, which consists of your gut tube ...
May 30th, 2012
Too cool! Easy to make and great for your feet. Foot sensation trails--the first time I came across anything like this was when I was living in Malaysia and they had a very cool path with varying sizes of stones along it. The point of the path was to be a reflexology stimulation to the soles of ...
May 22nd, 2012
This fascinating documentary, directed by Saida Medvedeva and released in 2008, spans the globe to reveal recent discoveries about water, the most amazing yet least studied substance in the world. Researchers, scientists, philosophers and theologians speak of their understanding of this unique l ...
January 23rd, 2012
The best way to get your coconut water is fresh from a tree in the tropics. If you can't I have found that coconut water makes a great probiotic and making pasteurized coconut water into coconut kefir is a great way to be sure you get the best from your coconut water. Bruce Fife, N.D. is ...
November 12th, 2011
The trees on Ox Mountain were once beautiful. However because the mountain is on the borders of a great state, they were cut down with axes and saws, so how could they retain their beauty? Yet they continued through the cycle of life and the feeding of the rain and dew to put forth buds and new ...
October 15th, 2011
One of my favorite bloggers has just done it again! The KombuchaMama has just written an article about her experience with her dog and how she got her off some serious antibiotics by feeding her kombucha! Full article here. Have you ever considered what Kombucha might do for your pets?
Well, I ...
September 21st, 2011
The main pillars for healing my body the past couple years, have been the GAPS diet (with raw milk) and Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy (with Qi gong). I discovered craniosacral therapy when I fled to New Zealand in 2001 hoping to get away from the terrible food (etc) in the USA. I have been for ...
