Self-healing with Millie Smith
This workshop will begin with a short and simple guided meditation, promoting a stillness and calm in preparation for the following session which, will be a guided visualisation to 'find' our very own healing room within. The workshop will end with a session on self-massage techniques.
The workshop should give you the tools to start you on your self-healing journey, creating peace and harmony within.
BodyTalk with Josette Attard
BodyTalk is an effective, non-invasive and safe form of complementary health care that helps the body to heal itself through its own natural healing mechanisms, eliminate stress and prevent disease. An energy therapy, it allows the body's communication systems to be re-synchronized and re-balanced so that they can operate as nature intended, and bring about improved health. BodyTalk draws on a holistic approach to health, and is supported by modern scientific findings. It has been called ‘the health care method of the future’. The system is practiced in clinics in 30 countries, and continues to gain respect and recognition as a safe, natural yet highly effective holistic therapy. During GaiaFest, there will be three presentations, with demonstrations on attendees by certified BodyTalk Practitioner and Instructor Josette Attard.
Il-Mitt Velu tan-Natura ma’ Adrian Grima, Inizjamed
Sessjoni miftuħa ta' poeżija dwar il-bniedmin u l-vjaġġ tagħhom biex jiskopru, u jindiehsu man-natura, bl-isem ta' "Il-Mitt Velu tan-Natura."
Se tkun sessjoni miftuħa li fiha dawk preżenti jistgħu jaqraw xogħol tagħhom jew ta' ħaddiehor. Madankollu qed niġbor kemm jista' jkun ismijiet ta' dawk li se jkunu preżenti dakinhar biex jaqraw u naġġornakom bil-lista iktar 'il quddiem.
L-isem tas-sessjoni huwa ispirat mill-poeżija "Ċentifolja" ta' Achille Mizzi (Vetrati Milwiena, PEG, 1998).
Traditional Chinese Medicine and Massage with Mike Micallef
The energy force running throughout the body is known as Qi (roughly pronounced Chee). The Qi consists of all essential life activities which include the spiritual, emotional, mental and the physical aspects of life. A person's health is influenced by the flow of Qi in the body, in combination with the universal forces of Yin and Yang . If the flow of Qi is insufficient, unbalanced or interrupted, Yin and Yang become unbalanced, and illness may occur. Qi travels throughout the body along "Meridians" or special pathways. The acupuncture points are specific locations where the Meridians come to the surface of the skin, and are easily accessible by "needling," Moxibustion, and Acupressure. In the latter, stimulation of the Acupuncture points is performed with the fingers or an instrument with a hard ball shaped head. The most commonly used type of acupressure is called Tuina massage.
There are many diseases that can be treated successfully by Acupuncture or its related treatments. The most common ailments currently being treated are: lower backache, Cervical Spondylosis, Condylitis, Arthritic Conditions, Headaches of all kinds (including migraine), Allergic Reactions, general and specific use for Analgesia (including surgery) and relief of muscles spasms.
HOMEOPATHY – Holistic therapy which aims to help Mind and Body with Bernardette Degaetano MARH
As a holistic system of medicine, homeopathy recognizes that all symptoms of ill-health are the result of disorder within the whole person, and that this disharmony may arise from a number of contributing factors, both physical and psychological. To put it in another way, your sore throat may seemingly be due to the presence of bacteria but the homeopathic approach seeks to address your underlying susceptibility to these microbes. This it does by giving an energetic stimulus to your body’s own self healing mechanism, thus restoring health. A healthy body and immune system is able to rid itself of the microbes we are all exposed to. Antibiotics on the other hand indiscriminately kill both the good and the bad microbes, leaving the body in an essentially unhealthy state, and just as susceptible to the same, and other microbes, if not more. Homeopathy asks why you have become ill at this time, what environmental stresses were you exposed to, and what physical or emotional traumas you have been through.
Creative meditation with Millie Smith
During this workshop you will be taken through a powerful guided meditation, the creative part of our minds will be reached resulting in an image of colours and shapes. Once you come out of the meditation you will then have the opportunity to put the images down onto paper using pastels. Millie will then give a sample interpretation from an image, giving the 'artist' an insight into what the colours and shapes reveal about themselves! (no experience in art is required).
Green parenting with Rebecca Borg (FOE Malta)
Green Parenting is about enabling carers and parents to teach children to view the environment and life with a wider perspective using skills and materials already in your posession.
STRESS Reduction with Antoinette Martin
