For too many of us, our day begins by checking emails before we’ve even hopped out of bed, and end struggling to drift off because we feel overwhelmed by our workloads and never-ending to-do lists. Life feels like a constant hustle.
The reality, after completing a 10-day course at the Dhamma Medini Vipassana Meditation Centre, is that it was not what I imagined, it was more. Deeply profound and shapeshifting in mysterious ways. The technique is taught by Mr Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, a respected 20th-century authority on the practice.
We’ve previously written about how a healthy vagina is not bacteria-free but hosts trillions of bacteria, dominated by Lactobacillus species. Below is the first of a two-part feature discussing probiotics’ roles in relation to the first 1,000 days of life: fertility, pregnancy, and infancy.
Tracey Loughran on a compassionate approach to sustainable, healthy eating.
Olivia Ross is a beauty therapist, massage therapist, reflexologist, and Karuna Reiki healer at Manaaki Wellbeing.
