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Summer Time and the Living is Easy! What a gift this summer in Ireland is proving to be-there is no country quite like it when the sun shines. I feel especially blessed to arrive home to this glorious weather after a spectacular holiday in Australia with the British and Irish Lions tour, and what a success that tour was-magic, truly a trip of a lifetime. Beautiful as Australia is though, Ireland (especially in the sunshine) has so much to offer, which we often take for granted. It was interesting to observe how a country can change just by the energy or ethos of those in charge of it-for instance, having lived in Australia for a few months in 1997, the “no worries” attitude was very evident and created a laid back attitude, however it was very obvious that rules & regulations are now the order of the day in Australia, and these very specific rules

Exam Time That time of year again, and the sun will surely shine as our students are stuck in exam halls. It’s that final cramming and pulling together of all the knowledge that they have amassed over the year. Congrats to our students who completed their practical exams last week, each of you did yourselves and HCE proud. Wishing each of you the very best of luck for 6 theory papers next week-you are so well prepared it’ll be a breeze to you. The key now is to reduce the stress levels at this point-that stress was important as a motivator to pay attention and learn, but examinations really only test your recall ability, so relaxation is the name of the game at this point. Actually a lot of my private clients are leaving certificate students, whose parents are anxious about them not sleeping etc, the energy therapies are excellent at achieving that, and there

Summer time! But the living ain’t easy –yet! But we are having lots of fun-all in the name of work! Speaking of fun-sincere thank you to all of you who attended our Holistic Centre of Excellence Open night last Wed, as always, we had a very sociable evening, and thank you to the artistic creativity of chef Tom Sparling-he never fails to impress us. We did forget one important detail though, we were to tell those of you who attended that there is an special early bird offer available to you if you book the course before the end of May, so please do get in touch via email or call 061-381947, in these financially challenging times, it’s especially important to make the most of discounts. For any of you who couldn’t make the open night, but would like to have the information that we shared, please get in touch with us. This coming

You are invited! Our successful and very sociable Holistic Centre of Excellence Open Night will take place on Wed eve 1st May at 7.30 in the function room at Crokers Restaurant, in the main street of Murroe Village. If you would like to meet with the Tutors, Graduates and current students that I am constantly rambling on about, this is a great opportunity to do so. So please let me know if you and your guest would like to join us-we need to make sure that we have enough room! The evening is suitable for anyone who would like to more about HCE and the field of energy & alternative medicine. The pace of change in acceptance and recognition of the value of Holistic Therapies, is staggering at the moment. It is definitely a growth market, and as I have felt for years, my concern is that we won’t have enough professionally qualified therapists soon.

Blog 2nd April 2013 Easter Bunny! Boy has he got a lot to answer for!! Its impossible to resist all that chocolate-time has come to pay now-on with the runners! I hope that you enjoyed the Easter holidays, as we embrace the new beginnings of spring. Not only is it a time of growth for nature, but for us personally also, we always get lots of calls at this time of year, as people actively contribute to their personal development by learning new skills via our training courses. A particular favourite is our two day introduction to Aromatherapy, which teaches you how to use 20 oils for home use, and there some places still available, so if you would like to join us on Sat & Sun 20th & 21st of this month, just let us know. Soon we will announce details of our next open night for the Holistic Centre of Excellence, it is

Whew! Hardly time to draw a breath this month-the variety is great. Congrats to all the professionals who did such a great job at the Healthcare Exhibition in Murroe yesterday, thank you for working so hard on your Sunday. There are a lot of de-stressed bodies as a result of your efforts. Heartfelt thanks to those of you who also donated a day’s work last Friday at the International Women’s Day Conference at the University of Limerick. This was our third year supporting the event. It is imperative that us females learn to support each other, and it was a pleasure to met with so many of you at the conference and thank you for all your wonderful feedback. I am often asked why do we do all of our Outreach work when we don’t get paid-the answer is twofold 1. because we can! 2. It is the best way to educate people about the

OOPS!! Apologies for the email that went with the last blog-not sure what I did-hope I don’t repeat it this time. I hope you all felt the LOVE yesterday for St. Valentines day. Isn’t it great to see the sun, and the stretch in the evenings-mind you it is showing up the work that needs to be done outside, after the stormy nights. We have some fantastic trainers coming to us over the next few weeks- If you would like to learn a little about Aura soma, please join us next Thur 21st at 9.30 at our premises on Glenstal Abbey, just email to make sure we have a place for you. Any of you massage therapists who need to upgrade your skills; we are running the one day HOT STONE Massage course next Sat 23rd, 9.30 to 5pm. All of our courses qualify for your CDP requirements. March is looking hectic already-I hope

With Christmas well and truly forgotten about, it time to look forward to brighter evenings, fresh beginnings, and exciting new experiences for 2013. It certainly has taken off at a gallop-with ideas and concepts materialising faster than ever-we have barely had the thought and the process of creation is already evident! So now more than ever it is vitally important that you chose your thoughts carefully-look at what you would like to show up in your life-not the pictures of what you don’t want! Remember that your thoughts are energy and they are a vital ingredient in creativity-they are your thoughts-you should be in control of them. Create a vision board in the your mind’s eye of what you would like to create and visit that picture when you find your mind wandering to other scenarios. On the Holistic Centre of Excellence front things are moving as fast as ever, thank you to all of

Christmas-Yippee! It has been a crazy few weeks since I last wrote, and now its nearly time to take a well deserved rest over the Christmas Hols. We’ve had some very exciting and transformative classes at HCE, with many of you joining us, to broaden our minds, with Dr Beatrice Neufeldt, teaching us about the value of herbal remedies combined with western medicine for menopause, Michael Connolly, president of the Irish NLP Association, who gave us an entertaining class, we had Susan Russell with Sand Therapy, Urs Wenk with our drumming class, Fr Simon Sleeman, who gave us an uplifting class on spirituality, Claire Sheehan who inspired us with Homeopathy, Diane Hannagen with Indian Head Massage and Hopi Candle, and they were just the invitation classes! There is absolutely no chance that we will ever get bored at HCE! Meanwhile a sincere thank you to all of you who attended my recent seminar on solving

I hope you enjoyed the bank holiday break; it’s definitely time to settle by the evening fires now. How lucky are we to be able to sit in our comfortable homes? It truly is a blessing when you look at the devastation Sandy has caused to the Eastern coast of the USA, all those unfortunate families, who don’t even have a home now. I was speaking with friends of ours who live over there last night, and they were sitting by their fireplace, trying to keep warm, eating pot noodle, with no sign of electricity for many weeks to come, no running water, no showers, toilets, their cars were swept away, and the public transport isn’t running fully yet. Their town is destroyed with many of the buildings condemned. What struck me was that despite all this hardship, they said “it could be worse, thank God all of the family are safe”. Yet how often