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Health, Healing & Hope in the Dark Days of Delta

My ongoing inquiry into it has been a defining force of my life since, such that when my own day of reckoning came in the form of sudden onset epilepsy in my early thirties and an expanding cyst on my pineal gland, I was able to navigate my return to full, seizure-free health.
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Breathwork – A key to surviving this lockdown

Mike Wilson, star of TVNZ 1 show The Apprentice Aotearoa, chats about how he’s coping with lockdown and how he’s using breathwork to get through.

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New terms are regularly introduced into our beauty vocabulary as ingredients and aesthetic treatments evolve—and epigenetic assets should be at the forefront right now. The name may be unfamiliar, but when it comes to a tailored approach to preventing or comprehensively combating the signs of ageing, we shouldn’t lose sight of epigenetic active treatments.
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As a C.H.E.K. trained Exercise Coach and former high-performance athlete, Shane Lyons has been successful with rehabilitating many low backs...
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