First a special blast Called Operation Verano… a 4 week fat blasting, muscle shaping boot camp group exercise session.

Also Baby Boot Camp for mums and babies to come together to have fun whilst getting fit and dropping fat.

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Yesterday I was duped and made a mistake on a web page which was a malicious page set up to directly attack timeshare accomodation and it’s staff, I thought it was a joke to poke back at people being negative about the services.. I was wrong!!

But it got me to thinking, people are always happy to shout about negatives but never the positives. So I decided to write about my experience of Pearly Grey..

I had purposely avoided working with holiday makers as I like to build relationships with my clients and really help them to recover from their, injuries, health issues rather than just giving a massage and never seeing them again.

When I started at Pearly Grey I had heard all the horror stories of timeshare, scratch cards, con artists etc etc. When I realised Pearly Grey was timeshare I thought oooh … ok.

However, after just a few weeks it started to be very, very obvious that Pearly Grey was nothing like all the stories you hear!! The staff and guests have  great relationships,  many of the owners come out several times a year and have been owners for 14, 18 and 20 + years!!!

Now to me that said something WAY different to the timeshare horror stories!! These people were happy with their investment!! They LOVE coming to Pearly Grey and many of them have family members that join, children and grandchildren that join…

I met a lovely lady last week who was 78 and has been an RCI Pearly Grey Member for over 22 years and has travelled the world exchanging her weeks and points for trips to various locations. She was an amazing intelligent lady and very happy with her investment!!

So I guess what I’m saying is that don’t judge all timeshare by the same cover!!

Pearly Grey is a happy, quality resort in a lovely location on the coast of Tenerife.

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Have a quick look at the video- Mobility in Pregnancy it’s suitable for all special populations or just to use as a nice mobility session a few times a week to keep the body moving or even just to get the body moving in the morning.

You could do one round of ten repetitions or use it as a circuit and repeat the whole sequence two or three times.

So even if you’re not in the pregnancy club, check it out and leave your feedback.

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Mooncup....Safer, healthier, better periods!

Women all over the world suffer  from menstrual related issues. Some just the time of their period, others the week before, others the week after and some, very unfortunate, for more or less the entire month!!

I say menstrual related issues bacuse this includes a whole host of things from cramps, headaches, vomiting, diarrhea, to thrush.

I have to say that for me it has varied over the years from severe mood swings to recurring thrush due to reactions to the products that we all use from the local chemists and supermarkets.

I discovered a wonderful product called the moooncup and I will admit that I procrastinated on buying my Mooncup for quite some months I had however switched to organic non bleached sanitary products which did help, but in the end I could take no more as the thrush was so bad and pretty much constant. So, I bought myMoonCup, invested in some specific supplements and made the switch…. WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!!

I no longer got cramps before or during my period, I no longer got irritations, or thrush! It was easy, comfortable and so much cheaper and more ecologically freindly.

My mood swings had been improved before I purchased the Moon Cup through my other forms of self help in nutrition and supplementation but there was further improvement after I started using the Mooncup, to the extent I can honestly say that I felt like the same woman all month.

The Mooncup web site has loads of information on benefits and info on the nasty stuff that we use in the form of tampons and towels every month. Go over and have a read to inform yourself more.. but honestly… Buy a Mooncup!!!! It will be one of the best things you can do for your health as a woman!!!

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An elderly Chinese woman had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which she carried across her neck.

One of the pots had a crack in it while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walks from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the woman bringing home only one and a half pots of water.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments.

But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it could only do half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be bitter failure, it spoke to the woman one day by the stream.

‘I am ashamed of myself, because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house.’

The old woman smiled, ‘Did you notice that there are flowers on your side of the path, but not on the other pot’s side?’

‘That’s because I have always known about your flaw, so I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you water them.’

‘For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table.

Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.’

Each of us has our own unique flaw. But it’s the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding.

You’ve just got to take each person for what they are and look for the good in them.

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So whether you just want some new online friends or are looking for the love of your life – Sparkle gives you the space and the tools to really get to know people in a mature and natural way.

It’s a busy social club, it’s a lively chat forum, it’s a friendly coffee morning, it’s speed dating, it’s romance, it’s finding mates, it’s arranging events – it’s Sparkle.”
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Come on over and meet the Sparkle Team on Facebook.

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The Mayonnaise Jar

When things in your life seem, Almost too much to handle,
When 24 Hours in a day is not enough,
Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class
And had some items in front of him.
When the class began, wordlessly,
He picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar
And proceeded to fill it with golf balls.

He then asked the students, If the jar was full.
They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured
them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly.
The pebbles rolled into the open Areas between the golf balls.

He then asked The students again
If the jar was full.. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand
And poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.
He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded
With an unanimous ‘yes.’

The professor then produced Two cups of coffee from under the table
And poured the entire contents Into the jar, effectively
Filling the Empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.

‘Now,’ said the professor, As the laughter subsided,
‘I want you to recognize that This jar represents your life.
The golf balls are the important things – God, family,
children, health, Friends, and Favourite passions
Things that if everything else was lost
And only they remained, Your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter Like your job, house, and car.

The sand is everything else –
The small stuff.

‘If you put the sand into the jar first,’ He continued,
‘there is no room for The pebbles or the golf balls.
The same goes for life.

If you spend all your time And energy on the small stuff,
You will never have room for The things that are
Important to you.

So…

Pay attention to the things That are critical to your happiness.
Play With your children.
Take time to get medical checkups.
Take your partner out to dinner.

There will always be time
To clean the house and fix the disposal.

‘Take care of the golf balls first –
The things that really matter.
Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.’

One of the students raised her hand
And inquired what the coffee represented.

The professor smiled.
‘I’m glad you asked’.

It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem,
there’s always room for A couple of cups of coffee with a friend.’

Who will you have a coffee with today?

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Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?”
Actually, who are you not to be?
Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to manifest the glory and wonder that is within us.
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give those around us permission to do the same.

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Do you feel guilty because you’re not doing enough? I’ll be the first one to admit that I don’t always remain calm, zen and un-phased when I don’t get everything done.

Sometimes I get distracted; sometimes unforeseen events happen which get in the way of my ambitions. Sometimes I have a hard time not caring about unimportant things. I want the dishes to be clean and the house spotless, all my errands to be finished and everything neat and tidy.

The problem is, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, things don’t usually work like this. In fact, they almost never work like this. There’s always something to be done, always that “thing” in the back of your head that you forgot about that needs to be taken care of. There’s always something else that needs to be finished, and then you can feel happy. (Or so you think.)

But then you remember another task, and the cycle repeats. Of course, there’s only one problem… Nothing is ever complete. Not for long, at least. So if that time and place is impossible to reach, we have to stop caring about unimportant things. The constant desire to want to be done, then be happy, creates the background feeling of anxiety.

If you’ve ever found yourself doing the dishes as fast as possible, when you have no reason to be in a hurry (like I have), you know what I mean. If we’re ever to get at that feeling of peace — being OK with taking things slowly — we need to start enjoying our lives. We need to start being instead of just doing.

Here are a few of my (humble) suggestions on how to create more space in your life:

* Realize that not having everything done is a good thing. “Blasphemy!” you say. I know, I know. This sounds awfully backwards, but it’s true. Having things in your inbox means that your time is in demand. And that’s a good thing.

* You don’t need a two week vacation to create space. When you pull up in your driveway after work, take a minute or two to just relax and breathe. Turn off the radio, and just sit in silence for a moment. Enjoy the space. Two minutes is all you need. Now don’t tell me you don’t have time.

* Look for the gaps. Between your thoughts, there lives little gaps. They may not be huge, but they’re there. Start paying attention to those gaps. Allow them to grow by just letting go of thinking all the time. You might think that you need to think about things in order to work or to live. But the opposite is usually true. Most of the time, thinking is completely unnecessary. Most of the time, you’re just thinking about the same things over and over. That’s called a pattern. Or brooding, whatever label you prefer.

* Listen, feel, engage… be there. The reason we’re usually in such a hurry is due to a mind-created obsession with finishing things. So the way out of that is to be where you are. Listen to the ambient sounds you hear, feel your feet on the ground when you walk, feel your hands running through the water while you wash the dishes.

* Let go of the need to become. Sure, there will always be things you want to change about your life. There will always be goals, dreams, desires and all manner of wonderful experiences to seek out. Great, seek them. Desire them. But don’t sacrifice the present. Don’t sacrifice the place you’re in right now. There’s too much beauty.

With that, I’d like to leave you with an excerpt from one of my favorite lectures by Alan Watts:

“Lightning flashes, sparks shower.In one blink of your eyes, you’ve missed seeing.

Why? Because here is the light. The light, the light, the light, every mystic in the world has ’seen the light.’ That brilliant, blazing energy, brighter than a thousand suns, it is locked up in everything. Now imagine this. Imagine you’re seeing it. Like you see aureoles around Buddhas. Like you see the beatific vision at the end of Dante’s ‘Paradiso.’

Vivid, vivid light, so bright that it is like the clear light of the void in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. It’s beyond light, it’s so bright. And you watch it receding from you. And on the edges, like a great star, there becomes a rim of red. And beyond that, a rim of orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. You see this great Mandela appearing this great sun, and beyond the violet, there’s black. Black, like obsidian, not flat black, but transparent black, like lacquer.

And again, blazing out of the black, as the Yang comes from the Yin, more light. Going, going, going. And along with this light, there comes sound. There is a sound so tremendous with the white light that you can’t hear it, so piercing that it seems to annihilate the ears. But then along with the colors, the sound goes down the scale in harmonic intervals, down, down, down, down, until it gets to a deep thundering base which is so vibrant that it turns into something solid, and you begin to get the similar spectrum of textures.

Now all this time, you’ve been watching a kind of thing radiating out. ‘But,’ it says, ‘you know, this isn’t all I can do,’ and the rays start dancing like this, and the sound starts waving, too, as it comes out, and the textures start varying themselves, and they say, well, you’ve been looking at this as I’ve been describing it so far in a flat dimension.

Let’s add a third dimension; it’s going to come right at you now. And meanwhile, it says, we’re not going to just do like this, we’re going to do little curlicues. And it says, ‘well, that’s just the beginning!’ Making squares and turns, and then suddenly you see in all the little details that become so intense, that all kinds of little sub figures are contained in what you originally thought were the main figures, and the sound starts going all different, amazing complexities if sound all over the place, and this thing’s going, going, going, and you think you’re going to go out of your mind, when suddenly it turns into… Why, us, sitting around here.”

See, when we’re always in a hurry, always looking to achieve a goal, we miss out on the miracle that’s around us. Right here. Right now.

This article was written by Zen Habits contributor Jonathan Mead of Illuminated Mind. To learn more about how to reclaim your life, grab a subscription to Illuminated MInd.

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Shannon Kennedy - Freefall

When we arranged for her to have guitar lessons earlier this year with one of my  clients, Phil who is a Musician with Crush, she turned her stories into songs….

They recorded her first song, written with her friend Frankii arranging chords, played and sung by her…. a few weeks ago..they are now on to song number 2… I thought I’d share it with you.

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