the ecophile

Wanted to mention the most extraordinary massage I had last week, which was done in a traditional Keralan manner, using the feet. Chavutti Thirumal, as it is called, was apparently invented as part of the training and conditioning process of the Kalari warrior class in Kerala, india. Anyway, I found a place in Lewes East Sussex which specialises in this particular form of treatment, so decided to check it out. All I can is is WOW! You can find this phenomenal Massage in Lewes, at Massage Lewes, 66 High Street, Lewes, East Sussex, BN7 1XG,  01273 474527 For 90 mins I lay on my back, whilst the practitioner, a young woman who has trained in India for several years, adorned my torso with medicated oil – smelling something like herbal toffee – then proceeded to suspend herself from ropes, and use the foot to rub the body up and down with long strokes. It felt quite spectacular, and I think it gives the practitioner a much greater strength than the hands alone would allow. This was really an experience more meditative than physical. My entire being dissolved into light after some time and I sort of half woke up at the end of the treatment, as if
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Health gurus have been telling us one thing or the other for years now, offering capsules for this, supplements for that, powders for this, and enemas for something else. Many of these have offered  additional support to immune systems weakened by exposure to 21st century living, but few if any of them have offered any real panacea, or made a substantial difference to health and wellness. Now, however, there may well be a genuine breakthrough. Scientists have discovered that the cells of the body function properly at a slightly Alkaline PH. Stress, as well as the poor dietary choices many of us make in this age of fast food, have the opposite effect on the system: they acidify it, thus bringing imbalance into the PH of the body, and ultimately disease. Akalizing greens, made by Australian company Morlife, are a perfect solution to this problem. Sourced from organic barely grass, wheatgrass, spirulina and chlorella, amongst other things, this health giving mixture of highly alkaline powders surges through the body like the first flush of spring. As a result, your body quickly becomes alklaine, and your health will respond like nothing you’ve ever felt before. There’s nothing radical about this in
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