Sunshine Coast, QLD
30th August – 5th September, 2009
The next Embracing Life! Retreat for 2009 is being held on the Sunshine Coast of QLD at the beautiful Nirvana Luxor Resort, the venue where we have now held a few wonderful retreats.
With Nirvana being only a small boutique resort, I am deliberately keeping this event to only 13 guests, for a more personalised retreat experience. The resort has superior facilities with a dazzling heated pool for swimming and lazing by, plunge pools, stunning gardens, and is only a short walk to the beach with boardwalks through the natural bushland – giving us everything we need for a fantastic week together.
Nirvana’s accommodation will be in either a three bedroom – two bathroom apartment; or two bedroom – two bathroom spacious apartments, where everyone will enjoy their own private room with shared living areas.
This resort is very easy to get to – you can fly into either Brisbane or Maroochydore (Sunshine Coast) Airport, and a shuttle bus can be arranged to pick you up and drop you at Nirvana’s door.
To book your place for the September luxury Embracing Life! Retreat at this lovely Coolum Beach resort, just click below and it will take you to a page where there are two different payment options. The first one is payment in full and the second is a payment option of three part payments thirty days apart each.
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I encourage you to view the
Testimonials page to read what other people have had to say about their Embracing Life! Retreat experience. Here is just one of those beautiful messages:
“I thought my lifestyle was healthy and balanced until spending a week with Leisa at the Embracing Life! Retreat at Uki. I have been inspired, motivated and educated to eat more raw foods. Her attention to detail was impeccable and I have come away feeling nurtured and energised. My experience here has been life changing!! Anyone wishing to improve mind, body and spirit can not afford to miss her next retreat. I will be back next year!” Sue P, Sydney, NSW
And there are also some wonderful photo’s from the past retreats at www.embracinghealth.com.au/retreat-pics Be sure to check them out!
I know the value that you will receive from your Embracing Life! Retreat, will be life-changing and a week that you will treasure.
I love what I do, and I hope that you take the opportunity to share some time with us.
Leisa
One of the points that Dr. Fred Bisci emphasised during his lectures in Australia, was the importance of rest when it comes to healing. He talked about how during water fasting, one should lay down with closed eyes as much as possible, to conserve energy and retain that energy within for healing purposes.
In my recent post “Healing Without Medication“, I talked about how my partner William dealt with an acute condition, and how rest was an essential part of recovery.
In my own way, I have been learning this lesson very well over the past month, with amazing results.
As many of my regular readers are aware, I have suffered from some very serious adrenal and thyroid issues in the past that I have been working on healing for quite some time. Although I had healed myself to the point of being really well, I was still taking some natural thyroid replacement hormone, which I have been taking for several years now.
My goal has been to wean myself off this hormone and have my thyroid function normally again – something that many doctors and health practitioners say is impossible after taking supplemental hormone for many years. However, I do believe that the body can heal itself given the right tools and environment.
In addition to doing a lot of detoxing, my raw food diet, superfoods and green smoothies – I recently started with iodine therapy in amounts that are much higher than I had previously taken. Combined with some intensive herbal medicine, I slowly weaned myself off my thyroid hormone and completely stopped it over a month ago.
The timing of doing this was important too. I had finished running retreats for a couple of months and had planned to mainly just work at home during this time so that if I did get any negative symptoms, I had no pressing demands and could rest if needed. And I feel that this has been a crucial part of being able wean off successfully.
I did have a couple of weeks of “adjusting” to not taking the thyroid hormone, but being able to just rest through it and know that I didn’t have to leave the house with big swollen eyes, and 7kg of extra fluid, made it possible! Having the time to just rest was such a gift and something that we rarely get the opportunity to do in this crazy, busy life we have created.
Rest is such an incredibly important healing tool, and I now have a greater understanding of exactly how much impact it can have. Without being able to really, truly, rest – I don’t think I would have been able to do what I have now done – which is to successfully wean off thyroid hormone and be completely well.
It is still early days, but I am currently symptom free and feeling absolutely fantastic!
I know that not everyone is in the position to stop work and just rest to get well, but please don’t overlook this vital tool in the healing process.
Leisa
by Leisa on June 29, 2009
There is a great little cafe that has opened at Coolangatta, QLD where William and I enjoyed a fantastic meal at this week.
It is called One World Love Cafe and serves healthy organic 100% vegan food. They do have cooked food as well as a comprehensive raw menu, and offer lots of gluten free meals all made with high quality ingredients.
We enjoyed a large juice to start, the most AMAZING raw avocado & broccoli soup, then because it was freezing cold – I had a lentil chutney stew that was out of this world! I can highly recommend this great cafe as a somewhere to enjoy a health meal out.
Leisa
by Leisa on June 26, 2009
I was so sad this week to learn of the death of Michael Jackson at just 50 years of age. Even though I haven’t followed his career or music for many years – at the height of his success in the eighties, I was a teenager and a HUGE Michael Jackson fan.
I had posters of him all over my bedroom, I had his records (isn’t that showing my age, lol) and knew every word to every song. Michael Jackson’s music was the soundtrack to my teenage years and brings back some wonderful memories.
What happened to Michael, from all reports, was a long-term abuse of prescription drugs leading to chronic ill-health and degeneration, culminating in heart failure.
I think this is one of the saddest cases of abuse by the medical profession and highlights the absolute criminality of the whole medical and pharmaceutical industry. When one of the most successful, talented and wealthiest men in the world cannot get genuine help and is only fed a cocktail of drugs to “alleviate” his symptoms – something is very, very wrong with the world.
This is why the monopoly of medicine over health care causes such incredible harm to people. Alternatives to medications are vilified in the media, natural medicine is labelled “unscientific”, and the ability of the body to heal with simple foods is not taught and goes unknown by the general population.
Michael Jackson obviously had psychological issues that it is claimed stemmed from abuse as a child. But rather than address those issues with healing techniques such as counselling, EFT, NLP, bio-feedback, spiritual healing etc and going on his own journey of healing and becoming whole; he chose to change his face as a way of coping. Likely he was given psychiatric medication as well and this would not have helped to resolve his issues.
Had he chosen natural remedies, a diet of whole fresh foods, superfoods, herbs and regular detoxification and cleansing, I believe that Michael Jackson could have avoided the horrors of prescription medicine addiction and the subsequent deterioration and early death that he suffered. The people advising him on his health should be charged with murder, because that is what this is, and it happens every day in the medical profession.
Heath Ledger was also killed by “safe” medications; Farrah Fawcett is another that suffered at the hands of Western medical treatment for cancer; Patrick Swayze is also putting his life in the hands of the oncologists and experimental chemotherapy; I believe Britney Spears’ melt-down was very likely preventable with the right nutrition and guidance; and Oprah Winfrey is obviously suffering from a thyroid disorder that has never been treated properly.
If all the money in the world and the very best “medical treatment” cannot make you well, then I think this shows that the medical model is fatally flawed and that it needs to be abandoned.
There are answers – but they come in the form of personal responsibility for your own health – and seeking knowledge from the realm of the natural world. Not a magic pill, potion or powder – but an understanding that whole food, good quality water, sunlight, rest, exercise, stress management and a positive outlook on life have more healing power in them than ANY medication the pharmaceutical world could offer.
Leisa
by Leisa on June 24, 2009
Has anyone else had those funny little round balls of light show up in their photographs?
I have been noticing these little anomalies showing up at different times, and of course put it down to dust, a trick of the light, the flash, or some other camera issue – however I have had a few photo’s with orbs in them, that really don’t seem to be any type of error.
The above photographs were taken in the Temple at the Universal Peace Centre at retreats earlier this year, and there were a whole host of photo’s with these little lights showing up. Seeing as it is such a spiritual place, I would prefer to think that they are little spirit guides showing up on camera, but other people may have alternative explanations for them 
When these next photo’s were taken, Dr Fred, Dr. Rory and I were hiking in Springbrook National Park and I took some photo’s right next to a huge waterfall. These photo’s were taken only seconds apart, yet in the one of Dr. Fred by himself there are orbs everywhere! I did take several photographs at this spot and only the ones of Dr. Fred alone show any orbs…. Trick of the light? Droplets of water? Change in the direction of the wind to blow the droplets across the camera??? Hhhhmmm….
There are many books being released now on this phenomenon, and I can’t say I have read any as yet – but if anyone else has, or has their own orb stories or opinion on what orbs are, be sure to post a comment!
Leisa
