Laughter Yoga is a revolutionary idea – simple and profound. An exercise routine, it is sweeping the world and is a complete wellbeing workout.
The brainchild of Dr. Madan Kataria, a Physician from Mumbai, India, launched the first Laughter Club at a Park on March 13, 1995, with merely a handful of persons. Today, it has become a worldwide phenomenon.
Laughter Yoga combines Unconditional Laughter with Yogic Breathing (Pranayama). Anyone can Laugh for No Reason, without relying on humor, jokes or comedy. Laughter is simulated as a body exercise in a group; with eye contact and childlike playfulness, it soon turns into real and contagious laughter. The concept of Laughter Yoga is based on a scientific fact that the body cannot differentiate between fake and real laughter. One gets the same physiological and psychological benefits.
The class is happening before the Wild Earth Dance at 7pm. Please message or email mariaearthbeauty@gmail.com to book your free place for the Laughter Yoga Class.
After a beautiful event in March we are back. Dive with us into the deep waters of conscious ecstatic dance to open our hearts and access the wisdom of the body in a moving meditation.
** BOOK EARLY AND SAVE £5 **
With the intention to encourage unity and connection in ourselves and the outside world, we flow together with compassion and acceptance of the beautiful and tragic human condition to create a huge offering of soul food through our body prayer.
Our movements open and heal our hearts and give us the courage and possibility to fully be ourselves without apology, on an open floor space that allows our bodies to move freely without judgment or concern for the “grace” or beauty of the dance.
Our hall is dimly lit and laced in connection and authenticity, without specific observers or verbal conversation. Suggestions and invitations are given through a microphone by the facilitator in a space that is held enough to feel safe and yet open enough to encourage creative freedom of expression.
There is much evidence to suggest that creative, spontaneous movement and dance supports a happy, healthy and fulfilled life. Join us to return back home fully to the body again.
** Bring: water, blanket
** Wear: comfy layers
** Cost: book your place before 6th April and pay earlybird price of just £10 … otherwise £15 after and on the door.
** Location: The Bridge Family Centre in Le Geyt Road
** Time: 7 to 9.15pm. Please arrive 10 minutes early to begin on time together.
The evening is facilitated by Maria Barnicoat who started holding regular conscious dance classes back in 2008 (‘bare foot ecstatic dance’ and later ‘soul movement’) after immersing in shamanic dance practices that supported and deepened her personal growth and spiritual journey. Influenced strongly by 5Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Soul Motion, Buddhism, Nature and Mysticism with a passion for loving our planet, staying grateful and overthrowing the patriarchy.
“We dance to shed skins, tear off masks, crack molds, and experience the breakdown – the shattering of borders between body, heart and mind. “ – Gabrielle Roth (founder of the 5Rhythms)
Call Maria Barnicoat: 07797 832400 or email mariaearthbeauty@gmail.com with any questions
The iTOVI Scanner is a wonderful addition to your family’s wellbeing and an invaluable piece of technology for enhancing your wellbeing business.
If you choose to purchase an iTOVI Health and Wellness Scanner (through me on the link below) this January 2020, you will be rewarded with a 1/2 hour Back Massage or 1/2 hour Reflexology session with me!
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Whether your goal is to improve the wellness of yourself or others, or if you’re interested in building your business, the iTOVi handheld, portable Scanner is here to help by providing a personalized report of oils and supplements for you and your clients.
Why I love it:
I use it regularly for my own wellbeing, for my massage clients, for my essential oil wholesale customers, my essential oil workshop participants and potential customers.
It is also invaluable with my 4 year old daughter when she is unwell and for younger children who cannot tell you which oils are resonating with them.
It also lets you know which supplements are best for you right now and I find it to be very accurate and in accordance with their medical history (if I know the history that is).
The ITOVI scanner is taking the essential oil world by storm.
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Just to say a BIG thank you for having me at the full moon dance. It was a truly uplifting and incredibly FREE-ING experience. It was great to be surrounded by such open and positive people.
Alex Dessain
Thank you for a lovely relaxing evening last Friday, it was wonderful to be able to dance freely with the calming atmosphere you had created.
Terina Le Couillard
I have been on such a journey and I have come so, so far and I wouldn’t have been able to have done this without your support and the many beautiful dances and workshops you have lovingly arranged. I am also very blessed to know so many beautiful souls that have helped and supported me along the way too.A big thank you from the bottom of my heart to you for all that you do.With much love and gratitude to you.
Karina Bisson
Thank you SO much for the space created……for us to simply BE ourselves in movement…….thoroughly enjoyed my first dance and would love to join you for the next opportunity. Namaste.
Ralette Le Roux Chevalier
What a wonderful dance this evening, excellent music and beautiful people. Thank you Maria, you’re a star.
Sally Poole
Thank you so much for holding such a sacred space and allowing us to connect with ourselves and each other….it was fascinating, magical and powerful. It was very special. Johann Liffey
Such a good dance….loved the energy and lovely souls all dancing alongside eachother, special thing :o) x thank you maria for creating this space,
Nikki Grierson
Amazing, amazing dance tonight.. I loved every minute of it! Thank you! :))
Kinga Gutkowska
Loved this! Thank you so much
Corrine Davey
Wonderful evening on Friday, thank you.
Sarah Howard
Thank you for having me taking part of such a magical group. Love peace and tranquillity,
A dance floor for you to journey into a deep connection with yourself and experience the liberation and ecstatic relief of full body integration and presence through conscious movement.
Our space is dimly lit with a supportive creative community of bodies being facilitated into moving meditation through gentle encouragement of moment by moment awareness, with compassion and acceptance of the beautiful and tragic human condition, personal and collective. Dance melts and heals our hearts and gives us the courage and possibility to fully be ourselves without apology.
Our gathering is at the gateway to the Spring Equinox when the Sun moves into the constellation of Aries for new beginnings (coinciding with a full moon just to add to the heightened energy!). During our evening together we’ll take time to create a body prayer meditation for this celebrated time, to tune into our deepest calling so that our seedling energy and efforts for the year grow from a place of reflected congruence and heartsong.
Beginners and seasoned movers all welcome.
Join us and remember why dance has been an intrinsic part of our cultural community expression since time began.
Bring: water, blanket
Wear: comfy layers
Cost: £12 (book your place before 12th March and pay earlybird price of just £10)
Location: The Bridge Family Centre in Le Geyt Road
Time: 7 to 9pm. Please arrive 10 minutes early to begin on time together.
The evening is facilitated by Maria Barnicoat who started holding regular conscious dance classes back in 2008 (‘bare foot ecstatic dance’ and later ‘soul movement’) after immersing in shamanic dance practices that supported and deepened her personal growth and spiritual journey. Influenced strongly by 5Rhythms, Movement Medicine, Soul Motion, Buddhism, Nature and Mysticism with a passion for conserving our planet, staying grateful and overthrowing the patriarchy,
“We dance to shed skins, tear off masks, crack molds, and experience the breakdown – the shattering of borders between body, heart and mind. “ – Gabrielle Roth (founder of the 5Rhythms)
After many many years of suffering the dreaded M word, I have managed to not only massively reduce the frequency and duration of these migraines I get, but also remedy them when they are in action (the hardest part – once they start they have a life force of their own which is adamant to play its full term out!).
My story:
I think I was around 9 or 10 when I started getting frequent migraines. I had suffered the odd terrible headache and possibly migraine before that, but this was the age I remember they really put their hooks into my life. I relied heavily on painkillers and off course darkened rooms with no noise.
Back then I actually had a diet massively lacking in fresh fruit and vegetables and instead heavily processed foods. I literally never drank water. My main drink supply during childhood was squash, or later on it was sweet soda drinks like coke and irn bru.
My digestion wasn’t so good but I don’t remember much about that and didn’t have chronic symptoms that I remember until my teens when I started to become bloated and have bad acne and hormonal issues.
It has taken this long to find my triggers and do something long term about them (I’m now 42). Medication stopped working for me many years ago, it was hit and miss and I officially binned the painkillers about 3-4 years ago.
What works for me to prevent them:
Lots of water
A diet FULL of fresh fruit and vegetables.
Back neck and should massages
Good sleep
Foods I have reduced massively and are my triggers:
Strawberries
Smoked Salmon (this was the only processed food I was eating)
Fatty Foods/Rich foods/Too many different combination foods
Cooked tomatoes
Red Wine
(These are all foods which are high histamine – research high histamine foods to see which others you might need to avoid or reduce).
What I do when I have a migraine starting:
I use doTERRA CPTG Essential Oils – the purest on the planet: Peppermint and Lavender almost neat around my entire hairline, forehead and back of the neck every hour. Some people also swear by Copaiba and also Frankincense. Also a blend that doTERRA do called Past Tense is also very effective and worth a try. One size does not fit all so its good to experiment and see. Click here to enter my shop, or send me an email to mariaearthbeauty@gmail.com to arrange a 1-2-1 consultation in person or on skype.
Very Cold Coconut Water (2 litres to be drunk within a couple of hours of each other) – you can watch the video below and see why this works. I came across this accidentally as I found I was CRAVING coconut water and it seems there’s scientific evidence as to why this helps!
Water with 2 drops of CPTG Peppermint Oil
A strong black coffee
ALSO:
There is a link with people that get migraines and not having enough GABA in the diet. Research this and see if this could be you.
Structural issues and more serious issues can also cause migraines (especially new ones out of the blue), so its good to check this out too. I know regular migraines are also a nice preventative for me.
Wow. Just taken back by an old blog on Facebook that I just had to share when Suki turned 3 months!!
With such light we arrive!
The first 3 months of a baby’s life …. are in some traditions referred to as the 4th trimester in pregnancy. In a few days Suki and I will be leaving this delicate and watery realm as she turns 3 months old. I’m still so blissed out at having this sweet human life transcend me into motherhood. And so eternally grateful. Every day I’m in wonderment at her and more in love with her. How blessed we have been. Many people have made a huge difference to me during this 3 month journey. I know I can knock modern healthcare professionals, but the staff at the hospital were mainly amazing. One doctor, Kate, showed such care towards me as I was given a blood transfusion, and countless midwives who took care of me were just awesome. I can’t remember hardly any of their names now because of the other realm I was in at the time! Amy, taking me to hospital, being with me through the journey of Suki arriving and being SUCH a support in countless ways… And since then, so many sweet friends dropping by food, doing washing up for me, giving me massages, generous gifts, being with me and my tears in my washed out tender moments – reminding me of my ok-ness. I have tried to hold strong to keeping this 3 month transit as quiet a time as I can .. and try not to castrate myself when I make mistakes or feel inadequate. In this modern world, I know many women do not give themselves the opportunity to rest and receive after birth and I wish more than anything that new mothers get to experience what I did and have support for their tenderness at hand. Rest woman, rest. Be. Listen. Feel. Open. And know you will never experience anything more touching and precious. I would have plummetted into the cold and dark postnatal depression if it hadn’t been for allowing my vulnerable voice to be heard by close friends and my fairy godmother so that the clenched anxieties, exhausted embodied emotions could be seen and released. And they are still being heard, as I continue this intense, sweet voluptuous road .. and then they are passed into the wind with each sigh. What a delicate and sacred time for a mother and her own inner child …. all the facets of woman show up to dance their stories here … as I tend to the earth beneath Suki and her beginning in this life … <3
During solstice we are in transition, moving from the darkest time into the time of more light.
Entering the sweat lodge at this time will help us to make this transition with more ease, as in the lodge we are shedding what is no longer needed in our lives and gaining insight into the best that we can do in the future. We are leaving behind the old and creating a space for the new to come flooding in. Join us in celebration of this time and welcome all the best in with love!
During this ceremony, we separate for a time from the physical world and go within ourselves to be able to see with clarity what needs to be healed or resolved and pray for guidance from the ancient grandmothers and grandfathers who have walked the Earth before us. We allow ourselves to connect directly with their wisdom and the original memory that resides within us all.
Everyone is welcome.
Date: Sunday 23rd December 2018
Time: 13.15 til 16.30
Bring: women – a loose fitting dress, men – shorts for inside the lodge, water or hot tea for drinking before and after, warm clothes for after the lodge and willingness to let go and receive our mothers blessings
Where: Behind the Steam Museum in Trinity. Full directions will be sent after booking.
Excited to announce this Festive Season pop up Raw Chocolate And Peruvian Artefact Shop again on 22nd December
Sample the current Kali-Ma Raw Chocolate delicacies, handmade by Maria here in Jersey, peruse the beautiful indigenous Peruvian Artefacts and join us for a mulled wine or spiced hot chocolate.
Bags and Boxes of chocolates will be available to buy:-
(Prices start from £2.50)
Dark 75% Peruvian
Intense 55% Peruvian
Christmas Spice
Dark Salted Chilli
Raspberry Ganache
Peanut Ganache
Rich Cocoa Truffle
