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Included in your hamper are a range of goodies: ideal for pure wellbeing, a clean-living eco-friendly bamboo trimmed water bottle, a Zen diffuser with two bottles of essential oils, which promotes rest and relaxation, enriches air quality, and provides you…
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By: Steven Daniel So the research for this article started off with looking at Cotton Facts on Cotton SA, and admittedly it really didn’t look that bad. It only takes 3% of the agricultural area of the world and produces…
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When you’re ready to give your life a turbo boost of positive power, remember, it turns out that the fastest and most powerful way to get your brain and body out of stress and anxiety isn’t to work on your MIND,…
Continue readingEdwin Kwong, The University of Melbourne; Joanna Williams, Swinburne University of Technology; Phillip Baker, Deakin University; Rob Moodie, The University of Melbourne, and Thiago M Santos, Federal University of Pelotas Ultra-processed foods might not be a familiar term to many…
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Carving out time every day for mindfulness exercises has been shown to be beneficial. Shutterstock Dr Linda Kantor, University of Cape Town; Kurt April, University of Cape Town, and Warren Nilsson, University of Cape Town It seems farfetched to imagine…
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Do you suffer from the misery of pain, inflammation, anxiety, stress, or insomnia? Take a leaf out of Mother Nature’s book and turn to CBD as an alternative therapy to treat a range of conditions.¹ Throughout history, human beings have…
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June marks the beginning of proper winter in South Africa. It can be a busy and sometimes challenging month for vegetable gardeners, with short days, the potential for temperature swings, as well as heavy rainfall, or no rainfall at all,…
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By Skye Mallac When it comes to community upliftment through the lens of equipping people with the knowledge on how to provide for themselves, Soil For Life sits high on the list of organisations who are making a resounding impact….
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The Scraps Book A Waste-Less Cookbook We have been waiting for this recipe book full of great ideas for what to do with the fruit, veges and grains in your kitchen that may be looking a little worse for wear…
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John White Alexander’s ‘Repose’ (1895). Heritage Images via Getty Images Ingrid Nelson, Amherst College The pandemic has either created too much free time or too little. Kitchen-table commutes and reduced social obligations expand mornings and weekends for some, while caretakers…
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March in South Africa brings further cooling and shortening of days and, in areas of summer rainfall, significantly less rain. However, it is a month where temperatures and precipitation can fluctuate significantly, as the country moves from summer to autumn,…
Continue readingAnd that’s not even the most interesting thing about them Gregory Moore, University of Melbourne With massive fronds creating a luxuriously green canopy in the understory of Australian forests, tree ferns are a familiar sight on many long drives or…
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By: Melissa Baird I met the Japanese author and researcher; a natural “scientist” Dr Maseru Emoto in 2008, the same year I launched Life in Balance , South Africa’s first conscious-consumer, lifestyle publication. His research in to the power of…
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By: Melissa Baird I recently attended the Pioneers 18 conference in Vienna, Austria. This slickly produced, high tech conference won the event of the year last year and they sure put on a show. The co-host was a humanoid robot…
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“The point of a maze is to find its centre. The point of a labyrinth is to find your centre” By Jenny Griesel This year marks the 10th annual World Labyrinth Day on 5 May 2018. People all over the world…
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Charles Standing is a multi-faceted man, a modern day Renaissance guy if you like. He chops wood with an axe, has been mountaineering in the Andes, was a school teacher and even portrayed Father Christmas at a children’s party…….and he…
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Charles Standing’s Dune Spinach Spanakopita puts a lovely local twist on that Greek favourite we all struggle to pronounce. Instead of English spinach, opt for a foraged dune spinach, failing that, store bought will work just as well. INGREDIENTS (4…
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It’s that time of year when we settle into summer and start taking advantage of some time off. Perfect for going on picnics, meandering hikes and exploring our beautiful country’s vegetation. But how often do we admire a tree –…
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While visiting South Africa in 2012, Julian Palmer, psychoactive plant expert and spiritual trip guide, quickly realised there was a substantially large enough ‘plant medicine’ community here to warrant a Psychoactive Plant Conference. Khanyisa’s vision is to bring forth…
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In recent years, since about the early 90’s, alternative medicines have really begun to popularise, slowly releasing western society from the clutches of the Biomedical Model of medicine as the one and only solution for physiological healing. That’s not to…
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