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Beginners Raw Chocolate Workshop

An exciting and interesting raw chocolate making workshop.
 
All the chocolate we will be creating is vegan and contains no refined sugar. This is a very hands on workshop and you will learn how to make some lovely silky raw chocolate and some tasty chocolatey truffles with a possibility of many different flavours including:
Plain
Salted Caramel
Mint
Wild Orange and Geranium
Dark Raspberry
Banana
Lime and Chili
Grapefruit and Cardamon
 
We’ll also use very high quality ingredients and also doTERRA oils to flavour the chocolates (which are unbeatable in quality). You will walk away with a smile on your face plus beautifully packaged and bespoke chocolates you can keep or gift away with a retail value of £22.
 
We will also have some very pure but inexpensive cacao butter and products to purchase on the workshop should you wish to try out your new skills at home.
 
You only need to bring yourself and an apron!
 
The cost is £40. To be paid HERE
 
“I had the best fun tonight learing how to make raw chocolate & raw super seedy truffles with Maria – I seriously urge to you to get involed Kali-Ma Raw& Organic Chocolate its fun & tasty” Jojo Willacy
 
“Definitely a must! The chocolate is amazing and you can get really creative with the flavours” Tracy Noble
 
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Please contact 07797832400 or email mariaearthbeauty@gmail.com for more information.

Passionate Raw Chocolate Lovers Unite

Yay we’re BACK!

The heat was ON tonight and I could see the crew of all girls were open and ready for their rich chocolatey experience.

With some wonderful fairy sidekicks, Nikki G, Ashley J and Terry C …. I was feeling blessed and excited about our evening.

We kicked off with a chat and then a demo into how to make a simple non tempered chocolate. I dived into the doTERRA oils and picked out some lime and then added some himalayan salt and chilli powder. The result was SO right and the air got thick with anticipation! Then the girls were OFF … each creating magnificent concoctions with their chocolates and combinations I’d never tried such as Grapefruit and Cardamon …. ooohhhh!!!!

And then their confidence grew and our next round, making truffles was such fun!

My biggest surprise and euphoria of the night was just how purely magnificent and completely unrivalled are the doTERRA oils for use as flavourings in chocolate. BLOWN away by the clarity and depth of flavour they lend in food. Having Nikki G around as our doTERRA expert made the night even more exciting and I’m really looking forward to more of our collaborations.

Seeing fulfilled smiles on their faces as they clutched their bags and boxes full of bunnies and eggs told me my work was done.

 

Kali-Ma Chocolate Rebirthing

Its been a fun and intense journey (as it can only be with Kali-Ma the dark goddess) resurrecting my chocolate baby for the world to come and delight at again.

This time around I’ve gone for a bit of a revamp! Vamp being the word as the boxes are a sexy burgundy and lots of gold trimmings on the boxes and bags too.  The boxes will contain some VERY decadent raw chocolate vegan truffles. Its about time our little island had some real bespoke raw chocolates to be eaten and savoured.  Finally. I’m a little exhausted though.  I now have a beautiful girl and a lot less time than before so its all been a bit of a whirlwind.  Interspersed with lots of Yoga Nidras and a few good friends coming to hang out with my girl, I’ve actually managed to get something done other than playing playdough and dancing around the living room with Suki chanting GOBINDAY MUKANDAY.

Not only am I a bit excited about selling my chocolates this weekend at Simply Spring, I’m also releasing an Organic Lip Butter which is just too mmmm for words.  Seriously.  Come and try my chocs and lips butter, I’ll have samples out for you all.

Chocolate Love and Kali Ma Light to you all xxx

 

The early days of Mummadom

This little being had me deep in love and overwhelm from the word go.

With her large brown all seeing eyes, I was sure she could read all my thoughts and emotions. I felt very in love and very blessed to become the unplanned and unexpected mother I’d become. Transitioning into the mumma realm wasn’t without its harsh initiations though. I immediately developed an acute sense of both our vulnerabilities, to the point that it could almost debilitate me with fears of freakish accidents and a new excrutiating empathy for all mothers and their vulnerable young.  We had a few friends stay and help out a little in the early weeks and months as I longed for more support and to feel like there was a greater nucleus that we could turn to but our modern day disease of disconnection to each other reigned in on us and many times I felt bereft and exhausted in body and mind. We were blessed with material needs and gifts of more than we needed, but I learnt early that a mummas job should never belong to just the mumma.  And my heart went out to all the single mothers out there doing their best in the most unnatural situation of being on their own in a world of so many.

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Life as a Mumma – The first day

 

I think we’d met about 2 hours before this picture was taken.  It was a clear and beautiful November day. The most exhilarating day of my life.  The high was mind blowing.  The midwives were amazing.  Especially sweet Rachel who was with us for our first day.  She really helped encourage me to get the right position for breastfeeding.  I definitely didn’t feel like I remotely had the knack but she was super positive for me.

Nothing can prepare you for that intense love and bonding that happens that first day.

I stayed in a few days.  Unfortunately I’d lost a lot of blood and I needed a transfusion to get me strong again.  Best decision I made doing that and such a supportive team of doctors and midwives. I had an incredible birthing partner who, without her, I can’t imagine the ease, comfort and flow happening as beautifully and supported as it did with the whole birthing journey.

I moved home and began my new life with my new beautiful daughter in my home in Gorey.

Nothing else prepared me for the intense vulnerability I was now faced with in my new role.  Feeling quite inadequately equipped in the mother and care taking role, I just had to jump right in and follow my instincts. It took me a very long time to actually accept what had just happened to me.  The Mother transformation was the biggest and most opening process I have ever been through.

My Beautiful Studio is up for Rent! Farewell Earth Beauty xxx

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The time has come to close the doors to Earth Beauty after over 10 years of being open for wellness and natural beauty so that I can devote all my energy to being a new mama.

I’m so thankful to Janice, my mother, for having such a gorgeous and centrally located space to practice in for all these years and so thankful to all of you wonderful people who came to see me at one time or another.  Everyone loved the tranquil feeling in this space despite being in such a busy part of town.  Some of you I journeyed with deep and for long times, others, it was short but equally as deep, and others flew in and out like butterflies in the breeze. Everyone has shown me and taught me something valuable to integrate and take away to this next part of my life.

The beautiful studio that I use is awaiting fresh energy to take over and the rent is very reasonable!  Days available are: Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. If you are interested and would like to see the space, please call Janice on 07797826957 or 601925.

 

 

 

Blissful Treatments now in Gorey with Maria!

Treat yourself to BLISS with Maria in the Mystical East of Jersey!

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For the next few weeks I’m seeing clients at my home! Its super cosy, relaxed, and working from home means I can be very flexible in the times you want to see me. Parking on Gorey Pier is easy and whats more ….  I’m offering the following reductions before my little babe arrives (see pricelist link here for other treatments and prices):

THE STAR TREATMENT – a 90min blissful immersion.  Usually £69 – now only £59

LIFE COACHING – 45min session.  Usually £60 – now only £39

REFLEXOLOGY – 1hour session.  Usually £51 – now only £44

LUXURY HEAD MASSAGE – 30min session.  Usually £35 – now only £25

TOP TO TOE TREATMENT – 1hour Luxury Head Massage and Reflexology.  Usually £66 – now only £49

1 HOUR BODY/BACK MASSAGE – Usually £55 – now only £49


A New Dawn is Arising – Appointments Winding Down

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In just a few weeks time I will have had my beautiful baby!

As a new dawn arises for me, I want to let you all know that I will be massively winding down bodywork sessions from today.  I will be able to see a few people from home in Gorey if it suits you to visit me out east..

Please get in touch on 07797832400 or maria@earth-beauty.com to book your appointments before I stop working for at least a few months.

Hope to see all your lovely faces before my baby emerges!

Food Intolerance Testing on the Rise!

It seems that we are getting wiser.  Although its unlikely if you go into a doctors surgery complaining of chronic digestive issues, energy lapses, headaches and skin issues, that they will advise you seek out a specialist who tests food intolerances, current statistics say that over 45% of our population have become intolerant to one or more foods in their diets! To this day doctors still do not offer tests for ‘intolerances’ which is a different reaction to the classic acute, sometimes life threatening ‘allergy’ reaction.

 

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Poor gut health, low immunity, stress, environmental toxins and certain allopathic medicines have been taking their toll on our ability to properly digest and assimilate food for years now.

I use the Food Detective Test – the test I believe to be the most accurate on the market in diagnosing food intolerances.  Just a 10minute appointment for a pin prick of blood is needed and in 45 mins I can call you with results that include 46 foods tested.

Its the first step I recommend in bringing the pendulum back to balance for our health and wellbeing!  With me at Earth Beauty you have the choice to upgrade this service to include a 3 month plan plus a set of life coaching sessions to really transform your life and achieve your goals.

 

The cost of the Food Detective Food Intolerance Test is £70.

If you are suffering from one or more of the below, choose to take a food intolerance test today and I’d be happy to help you with your pathway back to feeling good again.

Chronic fatigue

Strong food cravings

Irritable bowel (including bloating, diarrhoea or constipation)

Depression

Hyperactivity and bedwetting in children

Rhinitis Eczema/psoriasis,

Itches and rashes

Asthma

Ongoing Sinus problems or ear infections

Chronic mouth ulcers

Headaches or migraines

Joint aches and pains

 

See more for Food Intolerance Testing: HERE

See more for the 3 month Transformation Programme: HERE

Moving into a New Rite of Passage for the Feminine

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This feels by far like my greatest rite of passage yet.  The journey to motherhood! Pregnancy! An exhilarating, intensely vulnerable roller-coaster gestation period where I have found strength and incredible support from my soul sisters around me.  The world will never be the same and sometimes I am just overwhelmed by this blessing of life.  I must be ready! But some days I am kicking and screaming as I wrestle with my inner pixie who just doesn’t want to grow up and claim her full power and responsibility as a woman.  38 years of only taking care of myself, and a few furry friends along the way have created and affirmed a selfishness of my life and all my own childhood nuances and fears leaping out of the cupboard to taunt me and tell me of the shadows of childhood/motherhood.  Supportive, warm beings whispering in my ears of what a wonderful mother I will be only slightly lessens the fear of the harm that could come from projecting my crap onto this divine little being.  I feeling the heightened sensitivity to all noises, smells, our patriarchal focused world … and again I dive into the deep dark reflective well that I know so dear, craving for a matriarchal, flourishing community of life around me.  How can I bring this little being authentically into a world that I know is madness? There is nothing like this before that has shown me that now is the time to carve out the dreams that have been lingering in my heart, now is the time to plant the seeds to really create a future living integrally and in tune with nature and the ancient wise ways! Such a blessing to receive this gift!! I already feel the mama energy in me and wow … its quite incredible!