Quality of Life – 7 step action plan for a healthier Life: Breathing

This issue our health detectives take a deep breath, relax and pause for a minute. Breathing normally happens automaticaly, but it does pay off to pay attention to how we are actually breathing.

Back in 1931 Otto Warburg won the Nobel Price for the discovery of how important oxygen is for our health: ”The prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar.” In other words let your cells breathe like the babbling brook … Continue reading

Posted on: April 8, 2013

By: Phil Speirs

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The health plan | No Comments

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Natura Málaga | No Comments

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Technology for a more sustainable world

The solar de hydrator

Why a solar dehydrator?
Where we live there are many small farms with fruit trees, that while they are productive are not viable to sell the produce fresh and the trees are left without harvesting. Dehydrating the fruit allows these small farms to create a viable way of exploiting their crops. The dehydration process conserves the food while protecting them from the direct rays of the sun and keeping most of the nutrients. This was traditionally done with figs, grapes and apricots, … Continue reading

Posted on: May 9, 2013

By: Phil Speirs

Tags: eco living, eco-building, environment, renewable energy, transition towns

Transition in the Costa del Sol | No Comments

Cesar Alejandro Orioli, founder of the Arboretum Marbella, one of the coast’s great success stories of the...

Cooking with the sun | No Comments

Although the Government has no intention of promoting clean alternative energy, we do have the individual...

The health plan | No Comments

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School of Images – Dr. Catherine Shainberg in Marbella

The School of Images aims to teach the use of imagination for transformational purposes. Their belief is that this primary global language has the capacity to unify communities while empowering the individual. Established in New York by world imagery expert Dr. Catherine Shainberg, the school derives its methods from early Jewish, Sephardic and Mediterranean teachings, tracing a lineage back to Isaac the Blind of Provence, France, and Jacob Ben Sheshet of Gerona, Spain, who practiced the Kabbalah of Light in the early 13th century. Dr. … Continue reading

Posted on: April 8, 2013

By: Phil Speirs

Natura Málaga | No Comments

Natura Málaga returns in May for another professional fair celebrating healthy living and sustainable...

Dance Camp Spain | No Comments

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Riding the Creative Impulse | No Comments

Each encounter, whether in the world or with something bubbling up from within, is a moment of potential...

Lingualoca – Language learning with a difference | No Comments

Looking for something different this summer? How about a language camp with a difference? Bridie Jackson,...

Dance Camp Spain

More Alpujarran activity, this time for all ages, as the third Dance Camp Spain is launched with a massive weekend programme for everyone who likes to move and groove. Held in a dedicated dance space in the countryside near Orgiva offers a chance for a weekend of eco-friendly camping and loads of dancing of all kinds. Running from May 22 to 26 there will be live music performance and of course, every kind of dance class and workshop. African rhythms, belly dance, Bollywood, salsa, … Continue reading

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By: Phil Speirs