Centre for Health and Wellbeing | Workshop Schedule: 2007 

Workshop Schedule: 2007

Fun Fitness

NIA technique: the joy of movement (Lisel & June)
Nia stands for neuromuscular integrative action. It’s fusion fitness and blends movements from the martial arts (tai ‘chi, tai kwan do, aikido), the healing arts (yoga, Felderkrais, Alexander technique) and the dance arts (Duncan dance, jazz, ethnic and modern dance) into a joyful expression of the body’s own way. Tai ‘chi helps for stillness, fluidity and concentration; aikido for strength and affirmation of inner power; yoga for meditative aweness and relaxation of the body; the dances for grace, playfulness, fitness, spontaneity and fun.

Yoga (Christiaan & Zelda)
The union of body and mind. Learn to become mindfully aware of your body, breath and inner control. Integrate this understanding into daily life. Yoga increases suppleness and mobility of the body, while calming the emotions and mind. The exercises are based on hatha yoga, which is purely physical exercise. The classes contain no religious content.

Aquarobics: water fitness & relaxation (June)
An enjoyable low-impact workout making creative use of the natural resistance and buoyancy of water, that is both fun and effective. It is suitable for all ages and fitness levels. Work at your own level without straining joints or back.

Classes, Talks, Workshops:

Meditation: Learn to become quiet and still.

Meditation is the art, practice or technique of stilling the mind, allowing the endless monkey chatter to subside into the background. In the quiet of the silent mind, you become aware of yourself as the observer. Left and right brain integrate for whole brain functioning. As you become accomplished, you gradually become aware of a sense of detachment from the happenings in your life. You do not stop caring! You learn to observe the turmoil and often find answers deep inside yourself. Our day to day lives can be compared to the surface waves of the ocean, sometimes calm, sometimes rough, dark, stormy or smooth. Learning to dive deeper, you are able to observe your life from the depths of the deep ocean where it’s quiet and peaceful, a gentle current moving you forward and backward. Who is the observer? Your inner Self, a deeper, more peaceful aspect of your own self.

Many studies have been completed on the physiological, psychological, and sociological Effects of meditation, making it perhaps the most intensively studied skill in the field of human development. These studies have been conducted at 210 different universities and research institutions in 27 countries. Articles have been collected in six volumes of research papers. Meditation reduces blood pressure, lower pulse and breathing rate, decreases metabolic rate, improves cell function, oxygen consumption, retards the ageing process, enhances your body’s own healing mechanisms, and many more!

12 Weeks to Wellness Course

Why 12 weeks? This is the average time it will take for you to establish a new habit. Once you’ve managed a healthier happier lifestyle for 12 weeks, the new behaviour should be ingrained, part of the new you, there to stay. Hopefully you’ll be feeling and knowing yourself so well, that you’ll never want to stop the program! The program will involve weekly sections on movement and your body with a demonstration of  yoga relaxercises; present moment awareness with a contemplation focus; natural healing tools with advise on colour, emotional issues or blocks to energy flow, your environment, food and herbs; quiet time and creativity. From week 7 onwards, you will be guided through the seven energy centres with contemplation, suitable exercises, relaxation and stress management techniques, emotional issues or blocks, colours, herbs and food supplements to balance the specific emotional blocks and issues.

Natural Medicine Talks

‘Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity’.
The four cornerstones

1. A positive mental attitude
2. A healthy lifestyle that includes moderate exercise, adequate sleep and rest, stress management and relaxation, work-life balance, contact with nature and the environment, and social/community interaction and responsibility
3. A health-promoting diet
4. Supplementary measures which include mainstream medicine for emergencies, herbal remedies, specific nutrients.

Natural medicine is based on 7 principles

1. ‘First, do no harm’ (Hippocrates)
2. Nature has healing powers
3. Identify and treat the cause of disease
4. Treat the whole person, integrate body, mind, emotions, soul and environment
5. The physician is a teacher, and so is the illness
6. Prevention is better than cure
7. Establish balanced health and wellness.

Topics: Nutrition, food supplements, herbal remedies, colour and aromatherapy, menopause, allergies, immune system health, heart health, endocrine/hormonal health, natural therapies for wellknown health challenges: diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol & homocystein, insulin resistance, depression, osteoarthritis, autoimmune disease, and many more.

Stress course

What is stress?
Positive and negative stress.
Practical tools and techniques to manage stress