• Home
  • Practitioner
    • SIPS Kinesiology
    • Touch for Health
  • Speaker
  • Instructor
    • GEMS Kinesiology
    • SIPS classes
    • Touch for Health Classes
    • TFH Proficiency/Assessment
    • TFH Instructor/Advanced Training Workshop (ITW)
    • Visit Costa Rica!
    • Free Resources for Muscle Testing Students, Practitioners, and Instructors:
  • Writer
  • Schedule
  • Contact & Media
  • Home
  • Practitioner
    • SIPS Kinesiology
    • Touch for Health
  • Speaker
  • Instructor
    • GEMS Kinesiology
    • SIPS classes
    • Touch for Health Classes
    • TFH Proficiency/Assessment
    • TFH Instructor/Advanced Training Workshop (ITW)
    • Visit Costa Rica!
    • Free Resources for Muscle Testing Students, Practitioners, and Instructors:
  • Writer
  • Schedule
  • Contact & Media

No Widgets found in the Sidebar Alt!

  • Costa Rica Ramblings,  Energy Medicine,  Health Should be Fun

    Practitioner Retreat in Costa Rica

    January 14, 2020 /

    A couple of years ago, at a conference in Malibu, I sat outside late with a group of friends drinking wine and talking. Every once and awhile one of us would declare ‘no more kinesiology-talk’, but it never lasted long; the conversation returning again and again to the work/research/politics of this fascinating modality. Some of these were people I had never met in person before, but we all felt deeply bonded by our shared experience with this work. Later, talking with one of these friends, he expressed some sadness that there had been so few opportunities to actually work on each other at the conference. Sure, there was a ‘Balance…

    read more
    admin Comments Off on Practitioner Retreat in Costa Rica

    You May Also Like

    Goat DIY

    September 29, 2016

    Top 5 Love/Loathe About Living in the Jungle

    April 16, 2016

    Dreaming of permaculture: our journey to Costa Rica

    May 18, 2016
  • Energy Medicine,  Health Should be Fun

    Balancing the World, from the Heart

    September 30, 2018 /

    I was actually a little nervous yesterday in that ‘what if you throw a party and no-one comes?’ kind of way. Yesterday (September 29) was World Heart Day, and so all over social media I could see posts and memes warning about heart disease, about diet, about the statistical likelihood that your heart stopping is the reason for your death. As an international community of holistic health practitioners, the IKC (International Kinesiology College) decided to do something quite different. We hosted a ‘Balancathon’. In the Chinese meridian system, every two hours of the 24-hour daily cycle, the meridian that is in charge or at its’ peak of energy changes. 11am-1:00pm…

    read more
    admin Comments Off on Balancing the World, from the Heart

    You May Also Like

    The Wonderful World of Distance Sessions

    December 16, 2018

    IASK Meeting of Associations and Conference in Bergamo: A few thoughts.

    May 8, 2017

    Practitioner Retreat in Costa Rica

    January 14, 2020
  • Energy Medicine

    Touch for Health Instructor Training – Some thoughts.

    December 9, 2017 /

    John Thie’s original vision for Touch for Health involved having people on every street helping their families, friends and neighbours achieve health and balance in a gentle and holistic way. This is the legacy we find ourselves entrusted with nearly 50 years later. Great strides have been made – you can now attend a TFH class almost anywhere in the world, but TFH on every street? We are a long ways from that still! If we want this dream to be a reality, we need to create more instructors who can go forth and share what they know with more people. This is the reason why I began the process…

    read more
    admin Comments Off on Touch for Health Instructor Training – Some thoughts.

    You May Also Like

    Specialized Kinesiology – What I Wish I Knew Before I Started

    October 8, 2016

    Balancing the World, from the Heart

    September 30, 2018

    Is kinesiology ‘Un-Christian’?

    November 26, 2016
  • Energy Medicine

    Touch for Health Testimonial

    November 20, 2017 /

    What’s it like to take a Touch for Health Intensive in Costa Rica? After teaching my first one here in August I wrote this blog post called The Power of One (which you can read here) about the experience from my perspective and what I learned in the process. Today I received an email from a student with her thoughts about the experience, which I am so touched to receive and honored to share with you: “I was so fortunate to experience a Touch for Health Intensive (levels 1-4) in Costa Rica with Alexis Costello. I had the option to take the courses in my home town, however, I am…

    read more
    admin Comments Off on Touch for Health Testimonial

    You May Also Like

    An unconventional meditation

    February 26, 2018

    What’s in a name? Losing my ‘K’

    February 3, 2019

    Dimension Stress: demystifying the multiverse

    December 11, 2018
  • Costa Rica Ramblings

    Quiet/Noisy Life

    November 9, 2017 /

    This life is full of contradictions. The one that I am thinking of today has to do with noise and what that means to us. Because it is never quiet here: the river rushes steadily below us, the cicadas sing in the rainforest, the rain cascades unrelentingly through the leaves. The birds are calling, and every shift in the sky or weather is greeted enthusiastically by my over-zealous rooster. All this, plus a 4 year old with a personality many sizes too large for him who doesn’t stop talking even in his sleep. And yet, despite the constant noise that surrounds me, I appreciate the quiet of this life. That…

    read more
    admin 2 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Homesteading Goals 2018

    December 28, 2017
    Tamales-recipe-CostaRica

    How to Make Tamales – Tico Traditions

    December 27, 2016

    Touch for Health for Chickens – The Balancing of Prince Agatha

    July 15, 2016
  • Costa Rica Ramblings,  Permaculture

    Brush with a Hurricane

    October 9, 2017 /

    When I was little, I loved the book “I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Solew” by Dr Seuss. If you’re not familiar with it: there is a wonderful land, Solla Sollew, on the banks of the beautiful River Wah-Hoo where they never have troubles, at least, very few. But of course, the journey is weird and Seussian and generally not what it’s cracked up to be. This is how I felt this week. I arrived in San Jose Tuesday evening after a 12 hour flight from Switzerland. My poor brain was jet-lagged and scattered, I had a reservation at a nearby hotel and plans to travel on one of…

    read more
    admin 2 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Tamales-recipe-CostaRica

    How to Make Tamales – Tico Traditions

    December 27, 2016

    Clueless attempts at Permaculture: 3.5 months

    June 10, 2016

    If Everyone is Super, No One Is

    June 3, 2019
  • Costa Rica Ramblings,  Energy Medicine

    The Power of One

    August 30, 2017 /

    Teaching a Touch for Health Retreat for One Student and What I Have Learned I didn’t want to come here to teach this class with one student. Not just because it’s financially ridiculous (which it is); but because I was concerned about the student’s experience. How would it work? Would she really ‘get it’ without having a variety of people (and their associated issues) to work on? Here’s what I learned form teaching a Touch for Health Intensive (all four levels over eight days) with just one student here for a retreat. A reminder of how well this stuff works. While this was an extremely challenging week for me in…

    read more
    admin 4 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Costa Rica Confession

    September 18, 2016

    Wandering Herbalist: Costa Rica Fruits

    September 7, 2016

    The craziness of DIY in the jungle

    August 15, 2016
  • Costa Rica Ramblings,  Fabulous Food,  Permaculture

    Food Obsessed Homesteading

    March 12, 2017 /

    It is impossible to homestead in any way without becoming kind of obsessive about food. Though I have always been a self-proclaimed nutrition-geek and chef, my day now revolves around food as never before. First thing in the morning, before I even put on the coffee (now that’s love!) there are animals to be fed and watered. And in the evening, everyone needs to be fed again. The scraps go into the compost which the chickens are happily picking through and some tasty morsels get saved out for the goats who daintily nibble the best bits before dropping the rest on the ground and peeing on it. The plants need…

    read more
    admin 3 Comments

    You May Also Like

    Expectations vs. Reality

    November 24, 2016

    Moving to Costa Rica – Welcome to the Jungle

    March 9, 2016

    Practitioner Retreat in Costa Rica

    January 14, 2020
  • Costa-Rica-goats-permaculture
    Costa Rica Ramblings,  Permaculture

    Homesteading in Costa Rica, 2017

    January 6, 2017 /

    2017 Homesteading Goals Normally, I subscribe to the ‘don’t tell people your goals’ school of thought. Due to my introverted nature, I prefer to work quietly behind the scenes and then appear magically with finished projects no-one saw coming. But this whole homesteading/self-sufficiency thing is new to me and I am genuinely curious as to what my family will manage to accomplish this year and what other families are planning on doing in the same vein. So please, include your homesteading goals for this year in the comments below and let’s see how we can grow our Permaculture community (no pun intended)! Here are three areas where I see big…

    read more
    admin Comments Off on Homesteading in Costa Rica, 2017

    You May Also Like

    Homesteading Goals 2018

    December 28, 2017

    Wandering Herbalist: Mamon (Rambutan)

    August 1, 2016

    My clueless attempts at permaculture.

    April 2, 2016
  • Tamales-recipe-CostaRica
    Costa Rica Ramblings,  Fabulous Food

    How to Make Tamales – Tico Traditions

    December 27, 2016 /

    Tamales are traditional Costa Rican cuisine. While the ingredients are simple, they are time consuming to make. They remind me of my Ukrainian family making perogies, women working together in an assembly line to make hundreds for a special event or holiday. Last Friday we were invited to join a Tico family to make tamales and, while it was great to learn how to make this local staple, the best part was that feeling of community. A kitchen full of people talking, laughing and working together. I have seen recipes for tamales online and in books, but learning from a matriarch is different. Family recipes are passed down in approximations.…

    read more
    admin Comments Off on How to Make Tamales – Tico Traditions

    You May Also Like

    The craziness of DIY in the jungle

    August 15, 2016

    Touch for Health for Chickens – The Balancing of Prince Agatha

    July 15, 2016

    Clueless attempts at Permaculture: 3.5 months

    June 10, 2016
 Older Posts

Recent Posts

  • 6 Weird things that I do to help my immune system
  • We work in the dark – we do what we can
  • Corona Virus – Some Ideas
  • Practitioner Retreat in Costa Rica
  • Memories of Water and Frozen 2

Categories

  • Costa Rica Ramblings
  • Energy Medicine
  • Fabulous Food
  • Health Should be Fun
  • Permaculture
  • Reading/Writing
  • Uncategorized
  • Vitamins Minerals and Herbs (oh my!)

Tags

bach flowers backyard chickens brain health Costa Rica DIY energy work gardening gluten free goals goal setting goats gut health health healthy habits herbs holistic holistic business howler monkeys IASK immune system jungle kid's health KinesioGeek kinesiology Knowlative mamon massage Matthew Thie muscle testing natural health New Year's resolutions nutrition organic pain relief permaculture recipes self-care SIPS kinesiology specialized kinesiology stress release supplements TFH conference Touch for Health vitamins Vitamix

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Making Life Better

  • Costa Rica Ramblings
  • Energy Medicine
  • Fabulous Food
  • Health Should be Fun
  • Permaculture
  • Reading/Writing
  • Uncategorized
  • Vitamins Minerals and Herbs (oh my!)

Recently

  • 6 Weird things that I do to help my immune system
Ashe Theme by WP Royal.