The reality, after completing a 10-day course at the Dhamma Medini Vipassana Meditation Centre, is that it was not what I imagined, it was more. Deeply profound and shapeshifting in mysterious ways. The technique is taught by Mr Goenka in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin, a respected 20th-century authority on the practice.
Donna Kerridge (Ngāti Tahinga, Ngāti Mahuta) is a registered medical herbalist and practitioner of rongoā Māori (traditional Māori healing), with a small clinic in Ōakura, Northland.
Led by Dr Sarah Mitchell Weston, belle époque nutrition introduces a fresh, scientifically considered approach to optimal nutrition.
We’ve previously written about how a healthy vagina is not bacteria-free but hosts trillions of bacteria, dominated by Lactobacillus species. Below is the first of a two-part feature discussing probiotics’ roles in relation to the first 1,000 days of life: fertility, pregnancy, and infancy.
In many regions around the world, mental health appears to be worsening, yet we’ve never been more open about discussing it. Have we become too self-preoccupied? Or just kidding ourselves about our progress?
