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Iridology poetry

Hafdís, one of the wonderful first-year student, wrote this poem to celebrate becoming a Master Iridologist.

Look into my eyes

Tell me what you see

Do you see my achivements

Do you see my goals

Or do you see my mistakes 

And my shames

But it does not matter

Because its all there

You are looking into 

The mirror of my soul.

Look deep into my eyes

Now tell me what you see

Do you see landscape

Or do you see a star

Looking at the ocean

Or into the midnight sun

Do you see my secrets

Reveling themselves

Signs and symptoms

Buried in my soul.

Luv Hafdís

And Bára, her sister student comments: "Well well ladies,there it is, in writing also, that a star was born and it is in our class, I am so proud of our Hafdís, don't let her loose, we must hold her thight in the class, so she can give us seminar in expressing feelings poetically and I am sure we will get a good prize from her, she will never charge us unfairly, I hope that I can pay with some raw rice and jam, lot of love and I am looking forward to meet you all, bára."

Herbalism with guest teacher Brigitte Mars

A long-standing teacher at the School of Natural Medicine in USA, Brigitte Mars taught 4 days of the second years fall Naturopathic Immersion. Besides introducing traditional chinese herbal medicine, she took the students on a herb walk, taught how to make tooth powder, facial scrubs, salves, tinctures, flower essences and much more. Brigitte also did a wonderful job of adjusting her teaching to the Icelandic herbal reality.

A walk down Elliðadalur brought an unexpected bounty of edible and medicinal plants. 
We dug up dandelion root for making tinctures, collected thistle roots, colts foot, rowan berries and much more.

Brigitte demonstrated what she called kitchen herbalism, a wonderful approach to herbal medicine beginners to take the fear out of working with herbs and making it a fun thing to bring into our life.

One student reported that she was out digging roots the day after the class ended, so inspired was she.

Several students have expressed their gratitude to Farida for bringing Brigitte over as teacher. We look forward to having her visit us again. 

Visit Brigitte's website www.brigittemars.com

Oils and Essences

One of the deepest classes of the three years is the Oils and Essences class taught by Farida. Every day Farida introduced one of  various life processes with Farida's knowledge gained from extensive research over many years. Then Farida guided all students into healing processes of various kinds using essential oils and flower remedies. A truly outstanding class leading to profound self-healing and self-awareness. Lilja introduced the neuro-auricular technique she had learned at her trip to the Gary Young clinic in Ecuador last winter. We also experimented with the Time Risk method blending iridology with trauma healing and energy release work. 

A great new student group began their three years journey

21 new students joined Heilsumeistaraskólinn this year. We were off to a fantastic start with Lilja teaching the basic language of Iridology before we all met with Farida, arriving fresh from the School of Natural Medicine in England.  After a Welcome Orientation, we spend two evenings doing the Elemental Dances, deeply exploring the elements of life through music and movement. 

The students then went on to explore the relationship of iridology to life as Farida talked in turn about each students irises and invited the students to share their life stories. A fascinating approach to iridology that remembers to see the person in the iris. 

Living Foods class in summer sunshine

We enjoyed the second part of the Living Food module in beautiful, bright summer sunshine at the Waldorfschool in Lækjarbotnum in early August. We delved deeper into the practical aspects of Living Food, went foraging for wild greens and otherwise had an enriching time together. Part of the class were held outdoors on the schools deck! 

     

Naturopathic Immersion 2 with Farida

Farida spend six days with the students in the their second Naturopathic Immersion. After a day of connecting and exploring the elements of life, we spend a day of learning various deep and profound ways of self-touch and self-massage to heal our own bodies and open up to a free flow of energy. Amidst moans and groans - some places hurt a lot! - we went into deep, silent places listening to our own bodies. The last four days was a mixture of exploring our irises through the creation of an iris mandala and iridology. Creating the iris mandala was a return to the joy we had as children, being creative just for the joy of it. It was beautiful to see how the mandalas evolved as the days passed, and then to hear the stories of what the students put into their mandalas. In the iridology part we revisited some of the teachings from last September, but on another level, and explored advanced iridology. We saw demonstrated, and practiced, consultations, learning how to inspire our future clients to become more self-nurturing based on what we see in their eyes.

Farida, Lilja and Gitte enjoys a summerhouse weekend

The day after Farida arrived in Iceland to teach the open class on Master Touch Reflexology and the Naturopathic Immersion II for Heilsumeistaraskólin, she, Lilja and Gitte went to a summerhouse rest-and-work weekend. We enjoyed the lovely spring weather, took many walks, had lots of green smoothies and Living Food, had lot's of fun creating the retreat - the final graduation 10-day experience of the school - and enjoyed seeing photos from Farida's world adventures and brainstorming ideas for the school's future.
we confirmed the joy we all fell with being able to offer the school's teachings and truths to people here in Iceland and very much look forward to where the journey onwards will take us.

Self-Healing with Living Medicine

GITTE WRITES:
As all of us in the natural and alternative therapies know, curing is a word owned by the medical establishment. Well, they can keep it. Why?

Caroline Myss, Ph.D. explains: “Healing and curing are not the same thing. A “cure” occurs when someone has successfully controlled or abated the physical progression of an illness. Curing a physical illness, however, does not necessarily mean that the emotional and psychological stresses that were a part of the illness were also alleviated. In this case it is highly possible, and often probable, that an illness will recur.”

She continues: “The process of curing is passive; that is, the patient is inclined to give his or her authority over to the physician and prescribed treatment instead of actively challenging the illness and reclaiming health. Healing, on the other hand, is an active and internal process that includes investigating one’s attitudes, memories, and beliefs with the desire to release all negative patterns that prevents one’s full emotional and spiritual recovery.“

Healing, not curing, is what we aim for in natural and alternative therapies. The School of Natural Medicine has taken this one step further and uses the word Self-Healing. The word Self-Healing points to the fact that the responsibility for your healing is with you and that only you can heal yourself. It places the responsibility firmly where it truly belongs, in the hands of the client.

The language of western medicine is a language of war. Gladys T. McGarey, M.D recounts: “I was telling my friend that it seemed to me that medicine had become a killing machine; it’s major purpose seemed to be a war on disease. The focus is on killing bacteria eradicating AIDS, eliminating cancer, controlling diabetes, etc. …. If we are going to do this killing, we need ammunition, and the ammunition in the field of medicine is primarily drugs.”

Doctors are engaged in a war battling the enemy in their patient’s body (or the body itself). The focus is on the disease and what weapon is needed to ‘win the battle’, if not the war, and so the focus is not on the patient as a person but as a combination of physical components that are in a war with each other.

In sharp contrast, natural and alternative therapies view the client (not patient!) first and foremost as a person who is given the respect as an individual with a complex mental-physical-spiritual reality. As we aim to support our clients to their birthright of radiant health we strengthen their bodies and minds with life-supporting and life-enhancing remedies and treatments. It’s living medicine, not killing medicine!

Gladys T. McGarey, M.D: “Our focus needs to change from killing to helping enhance the life process of each individual. If we do this, we’re going to need living materials such as living air, living earth, living water, and living food.”

The School of Natural Medicine uses only living medicine such as herbs, essential oils, flower essences, herbal poultices and more in a 3-year study of Self-Healing with integrated natural medicine. It is in all ways a school of living medicine.

Lilja and students at Expo

Lilja with some of our students participated in a big Expo presenting the Young Living products. Melvyn Pegram and John Clucas from the Young Living warehouse in London flew over and gave a presentation at the Expo.

LIVING FOOD CLASS

We had a lot of fun over a 4-day class learning about wheatgrass juice, sprouts, rejuvelac, Energy Soup, making natural facials and learning about eating with consciousness, the digestion and the importance of enzymes in the live food. We practiced the Living Food by making delicious meals together, yumm!. See photos from the class in the flickr album to the right.