Gifts from Mother Nature

My first view when waking up in the morning – a plot all covered with blooming Calendula flowers - always makes me smile . Colour, texture, smell. You can breath deeper by just watching this beauty.

To fill one bag with 10g of dried flowers you need 60 fresh ones.  There is no harm done by cutting fresh ones - It encourages them to blossom more. Quoting Cleve Backster "I feel  I have a truly wonderful ally – Mother Nature" 

Almost Spring

Despite the terrible weather - rain, wind and fog, spring is almost here.

There are plenty of happy butterflies in the Ngataringa Community Garden. They enjoy a variety of flowers; yellow Marigolds, blue Borages, violet Rosemarie’s  NOG is very rich with all these goodies that are butterflies favourites. Soon our bees will join the team and everything will be ready to welcome children from our local schools and kindies to visit us againJ

New Fundraising idea

 When I started my study at the College of Natural Medicine, I never thought it would lead to the development of a new 

fundraising project.

 Being involved with Ngataringa Community Garden,I had accessto a range of magnificent organic herbs. Cherished with heart by volunteers, these herbs grow there tremendously. There is a long tradition at NCG to dry herbs and later use them in

the kitchen for shared lunches, but the surplus herbs can be used for Fudraising as well. 

At the Polish House fair last Sunday it was an excellent opportunity for launching  a new Herbal Fundraising idea. It was a very good beginning to the new initiative .

Letters from Students

Coming back from Poland, I didn’t expect such a marvelous thing. I knew that after their visit to Ngataringa Community Gardens, some student from Bayswater Primary wrote letters, but there were more than hundred of them -  with pictures, some even with handmade envelopes . This deeply touched my heart. I carefully held and read each of the letters, feeling that my work has made an impact to these children’s understanding of nature and their role in it. Such feedback can only motivate you to do more.

Thank you students from Bayswater Primary !

CMC demonstration

A small suburb near Warsaw, situated  in a nice pine forest is a special place for me. Here in Marki lives my family. Today I had a special opportunity to demonstrate the CMC at the local kindergarten.
It was very special because my granddaughter was my assistant.  The kindie in Jutrzenki street is opened even though it is during the summer holidays. Because of hot weather we practiced the back massage technique indoors, and after that, the children went outside to play in the shadow of old pine trees.

 

More meetings

Summer Holiday are in full bloom. Warsaw is nearly empty with almost no traffic on the streets, and those are mainly tourists. Everybody has gone to relax at the seaside or, in the mountains or lakes.  

My Friend, a well known artist  Andrzej Renes and his family spend time at Mazury – Land of a thousands lakes.  Apart from working on his sculptures, Andrzej organises creative  workshops for local communities. During these workshops he and his wife Malgorzata use CMC techniques in the relaxation part.

The picture is of his sculpture called “a Dreamer”  in front of his Gallery in Mazury

Meeting with CMC Teachers in Warsaw

 Right at the beginning of Summer Holiday in Poland we had meeting with CMC teachers. We combined it with training for higher Level - 2 Peer Massages competency, which also gave us a great opportunity to share experiences.  

 The feedback from “field workers”  influences the shape of workshops. Our touch/massage lessons for education system are very much a “leaving being”. They change and adapt depending on what the education is going through. It is uplifting that as the transformation of education takes place, our – touch part - is getting stronger and gains recognition within School Curriculums