Harmony Blog

Jugo de Cana

Sugar Cane juice. A favorite
drink amongst some of the staff
at the healing centre.

Interesting to taste, it is sweet
and thick.
A juice know to those raw
foodists out there enjoying how
it is full of cholorphyll.

Here in the picture you see the
machine the cane is run through,
pressing the juice out of the
stalk. The stalk is left behind

A favorite drink amongst the
staff at the healing centre, the
juice from a coconut.
Comes in its own container,
leaves you with a snack inside
after eating.
It filters water, re-hydrates
your body, replenishes
electrolytes to name a few.
Raw foodists sing praises of this
drink.
Rastafarians often use it instead
of water when making rice..YUMMY!
There are many different flavours
to this ‘pipa’ depending on what
stage of growth the coconut was

Sandra who works with Vajra Sol
Yoga is offering yoga/surf
retreats at the Healing Centre in
November, February, March and
April.
Check out their website,
www.vajrasoltravel.com for more
information.
Drop in for a class with Sandra
at this time or sign up for your
own yoga retreat.
Sandra is one of those kind, down
to earth yoga instructors who is
an example of someone who puts
what she teaches into her own
daily life.

This summer Mary Jo and I spent a
life altering 2 weeks in the
Sacred Valley of Peru. We
traveled to scared sites with the
Q’ero, direct descendants of
the Inka and master shamans of
the high Andes and received
karpays (shamanic initiatory
rites of passage). In the Inka
tradition, a shaman-in-training
is given rites of passage, which
are energetic transmissions that
link them to the lineage of
medicine men and women that came
before them. At each sacred site
a descpacho was preformed. This

Here’s a photo from earlier this
year of the healing center, just
as I was about to get bodywork
done (by Lisa–I think that was her
name). The staff usually uses the
small rooms, but I’d volunteered
as a “guinea pig” in a teaching
session.

You can see one of the
sustainable yoga mats in the
bottom corner!

Here is the next stop at the
Mercado Central to buy loofahs
from Jeffry.
This is an incredible maze of
stalls from vegetables, herbs,
plastic wares, leather goods,
tee-shirts, kitchenwares, flowers
and yes, even loofahs.

The Healing Centre is proud to be
using local essential oils in its
services and is happy to share
them with you as well. You can
find them at the bookstore within
the Harmony Hotel.

These local essential oils are
bought from an organic
permaculture farm with it’s own
distillation equipment on site.

Use these oils in your own
diffuser and enjoy the scent or
add it to your coconut and/or
olive oil and use it as a

I am so pleased to present
coconut oil, for sale, in the
bookstore, here at the Harmony
Hotel packaged in local bottles
by the Healing Centre of Radiant
Awakening.

This coconut oil is handmade by a
Costa Rican family on the east
coast side of Costa Rica in a
little beach town called Playa
Cocles.

There are many benefits to this
beautiful oil, to name a few:

This little guest is climbing our
Healing Centre reception desk.
Is he coming to make an
appointment or applying for work?

Some rumours floating around are
some people ‘lick’ frogs while
others kiss them for various
kinds of results??!!

Personally it isn’t quite my thing
so I just let this little guy
know that there was room for work
here if he was into being part of
our permaculture solution for
mosquitos.

All tucked up and enjoyed by a
dragonfly.

The wisdom of nature to know the
importance of not being stuck in
one extreme or another, when to
be open and when to be closed and
to have the flexibility and the
strength to oscillate between the
two.