Improving Your Energy Flow Balinese massage may be the most popular on this island however many people are unaware of the multiple benefits of pressure point massages such as Japanese Shiatsu and Traditional Thai massage Both are based upon meridians or energy lines that run throughout the body The benefits include increased blood circulation flexibility improved posture pain relief restores your health and prevents illness and most important is antiaging Both Shiatsu and Thai massage are based on balancing the life force energy of the body known as Qi pronounced chi in Chinese or Ki in Japanese Yin and Yang are the female and male components of Qi There are twelve meridians six feminine and six masculine each associated with an organ Along these meridians are acupressure points known as Tsubos in Shiatsu
Day: January 21, 2015
Ubud Food Festivala taste of whats to come
Ubud Food Festivala taste of whatrsquos to come With the success of The Kitchen program at the 2014 Ubud Writers Readers Festival Director Founder Janet DeNeefe has decided to go full steam ahead and launch a food festival commencing June 5 7 2015 in Ubud Bali Says Janet ldquoI have been living and breathing Indonesian food for more than 30 years and now itrsquos time to share this glorious cuisine with the world There will be culinary surprises around every corner with a lineup of local and international chefs from across the archipelago as well as filmmakers food writers growers and more in what is set to become Indonesiarsquos most exciting gastronomic celebrationrdquo The Ubud Food Festival will be an exciting threeday culinary extravaganza of cooking demonstra
January 21 2015
January 21 2015CLEARING KIDSrsquo HEADS The world is much more challenging and confusing for children than it was a generation ago Research suggests that the increase in allergens and pollutants may cause ADT and other psychoses and therersquos evidence that wifi and hand phones send signals that may scramble all of us especially those younger not fully developed brains Yet kids often grow up into functioning inspirational adults Amazing really Itrsquos when they donrsquot or when they stumble along the way that parents and teachers need help One of Taksu Sparsquos most respected healers Lela Thomas has recently put aside decades of training in other modalities in favour of the tools of Access Consciousness which she has seen ldquobring dynamic change to peoplersquos lives including my ownrdquo Lela is just back from in China where she saw these tools help children with learning disabilities emotional prob
Yayasan SukacitaA Unique Approach to Mentally hallenged ChildrenBy Ines Wynn
Yayasan SukacitaA Unique Approach to Mentally hallenged ChildrenBy Ines Wynn A trio of dapper Dutch ladies is carving out a unique niche in Bali in an area that is lacking adequate expertise and funding the world of the mentally disadvantaged children In 2010 Marieke Nijland Mila van der Meer and Yolanda Onderwater created an organization named Yayasan Sukacita literally meaning happiness and joy Sukacita is a Dutch philanthropic foundation headquartered in the Netherlands with a field office in Ubud and the specific goal of contributing expert knowledge tools and education to Balinese parents teachers educational groups and institutes caring for children with intellectual disabilities The three founders are steeped in ways on how to handle and contribute to the development of children whose intelligence is considered below normal Yolanda is a child therapist Marieke is a s
January 21 2015
January 21 2015 BASKETBALL NEWS The 7th Annual Bali International School BIS Invitational Basketball Tournament will be held February 5th through 8th at BIS A tournament for secondary schools in Bali and Java this year for the first time the tournament will have its first international participant Dili International School and Surabaya powerhouse SPY will also attend The basketball tournaments continue with BIS hosting the IISSAC basketball tournament from February 27th through March 1st Meanwhile the second season of the Bali Wheelchair Basketball League got underway last Wednesday with six teams up from the four teams of the inaugural season last year Season continues through to the finals at the Coaltrans Friendly Games on June 7 The teams are lead by last years winners Mitrais together with Jimbaran Cahaya Mutiara Ubud Puspadi BIS and CiBO more
Bali A Paradise Created by Adrian Vickers
Bali A Paradise Created by Adrian VickersBali A Paradise Created is a penetrating and unafraid examination of the manufacturing of the islandrsquos image to serve political economic and cultural purposes This important book explores the underlying social and cultural forces that have shaped the ultimately enduring image of Bali that we have today It gives expression to multiple voices in the experience of Bali including insights gleaned from oral history interviews with the Balinese themselves Over the past four centuries of Balirsquos modern history this tiny island is unique in that it has been subject to a number of widely divergent images From the 16th to the 18th C Bali was perceived to be chaotic and violent ndash an island of theft murder anarchy and despotic decadence by Dutch colonists and early European writers These im
Beryl DovPoet Laureate of the Internet
Beryl DovPoet Laureate of the Internet Bery Dov was born and raised in the multiethnic melting pot of Brooklyn New York An ordained rabbi he holds degrees in biology philosophy literature and business management Beryl has traveled extensively to more than 100 countries and has lived and worked in New York Israel Montreal Texas and New Mexico He first visited Bali in 1973 as a 20yearold backpacker discovering Indonesia Beryl now lives in semiretirement in Ubud where he spends most of his time writing An Internet sensation he received 15 million page views in 2014 Beryl is currently working on a Twitter project to launch his 10word aphorisms to one million people daily Who were your ancestors I am descended from countless generations of rabbis My great grandfather Rabbi Beryl Gulden who I am named after
January 21 2015
Its quiet out there on the streets the crowds have left its only us with a fantastic range of shops to rediscover so for those visitors still around along with us we have a lot of shopping pleasures to ourselves ndash
Expired Drugs… Stow or Throw
Expired DrugshellipStow or ThrowItrsquos a habit of mine to clear out my cupboards for the New Year and as usual I find that a good deal of medications in my personal household pharmacy are over their usebydate Living in a place like Bali where a lot of people including myself stock up on medications from overseas some of them very expensive many will store their medicines past the expiry date printed on the box A bad habit perhaps Wrong It is probably a sensible one according to a study done by the American FDA which found that most drugs are labeled very conservatively as far as their shelf life is concerned and that many are still potent up to 10 years after the given expiry date According to the FDA drugs ldquoexpirerdquo on the date theyrsquore projected to have lost 10 percent of their potency which means they are still 90 effective although the outdated drug is not as effective as t
January 21 2015
Rounding off the Aquarius phase of the Suns journey this fortnight as we move into Pisces on the 19th Mercury moves into Aquarius on the 10th and Venus into Pisces on the 11th Neptune conjoins Chiron and the New Moon on the 14th along with the Sun marking a very profound and healing month After the latest of our Pluto square Saturn meetings this is welcome relief as we can now set in place some of the necessary changes the square provoked The long Mars retrograde finally turns direct in March at which time it will be apparent that we have been in a holding pattern with little action since December As I have mentioned previously Uranus moves into Aries in June and by July will be in opposition to Saturn and square to Pluto July and August promising to be potent months of intense change and emotional exchange Aries is always looking for a fight and by that time Uranus will be joined by Jupiter adding a larger than life agenda to all proceedings For now however Jupiter is working with Pluto to bring a compassionate overlay to the current transformative process and promoting Saturn to soften his hard edges a little As the Sun slides out of Aquarius and into Pisces to team up with Jupiter by months end the human heart strings will be plucked and asked to play a tender tune of unconditional love particularly if the world stage is set with natural catastrophes like HaitiNEW MOON 25 Aquarius 18 February 14 2010 1052 am
January 21 2015
January 21 2015Here it is Musical Cosmonauts Welcome to the first January 2015 edition of Music Matters here in your local Bali Advertiser January rolls around again a fresh start a New Yearrsquos resolution to forget by February Whatever you did for New Year chances are is now a blurry memory and I know mine is This New Year I made two key resolutions Firstly to stop drinking for a month check so far so good its January 13th and so far not a drop has touched my lips secondly to get a Bali CD with the cream of Bali talent launched I have had some great responses from readers with ideas and have to say thanks to everyone for writing in I will be using some of these great suggestions to get the CD completed One particular suggestion which caught my attention was a suggestion by Kyotic to visit a website which allows you to record demos and songs I am still following up with crowd funding through Kickstarter and will
Test Questions Answered
Test Questions AnsweredIn my last article I reiterated the importance of having a basic understanding of the financial world and I posed 22 multiplechoice questions so you could test yourself on your general financial knowledge In case you missed the article I will repeat the questions here but do cover the second part which contains the answers and where appropriate some explanations You can also see how you rate in terms of correct responses Q1 What is the SP 500 a An annual motor car race held in indiannapolis in the US b An index of the top 500 companies on the New York stock exchanges c A list of the top 500 savings and pension companies in the US Q2 If your money in the bank is earning 2 interest and inflation is running at 3 per annum will you be able to buy more goods with your money after 10 years or less than today a More b Less c The same Q3 Is it usually cheaper to borrow money through your credit card or via a
January 21 2015
January 21 2015 We are in the window between New and Full Moon this fortnight with the Aquarian New Moon theme leading up to a Leo Full Moon on the 4th Just to remind you then of the highlights of this fortnight as the Moon is waxing towards full The South Node of the Moon was exact conjunct Uranus and trine to Jupiter as the fortnight began and the moon will join this Jupiter at its peak There is a strong relationship theme with Mercury conjunct Venus and opposite Jupiter with the Mercury turning retrograde directly after the New Moon So what we have then are old partnerships returning to our lives for some much needed discussion and review With Jupiter also in retrograde motion and in the sign of Leo a fixed sign as is Aquarius Sun Mercury and Venus it could be a little slow going with neither party wanting to budge their viewpoint Mars is in Pisces conjunct Neptune the ruler of Pisces an
January 21 2015
January 21 2015Guys Get Serious A photo taken on Dec 21 and displayed on Facebook this month of a 500metre wide by unknown kilometres long stretch of garbage floating offshore from around Tanah Lot itrsquos an important temple might that resonate with any of the stumblebums officially responsible for the islandrsquos environment lays bare the filthy joke that is Balirsquos official nonposition on waste management We all know here that garbage immediately becomes something that is not your problem if you throw it over the wall or dump it in the bush or a dry watercourse The wellmeaning assert that this is because the population needs to be educated and companies that produce masses of plastic prewaste packaged food producers largely ndash need to be forced to comply with the law The realists among us wellmeaning or otherwise would suggest that since ever increasing amounts of nondegradable rubbish have been a feature of Bali
The Art of Happiness Balistyle
The Art of Happiness BalistyleHappiness is both an art and a science My grandmother used to say that people were just about as happy as they decided to be The Dalai Lama states that the purpose of our lives is to seek happiness Back in the laboratory psychologists and neuroscientists are trying to figure out what it is and how it works Therersquos something about Bali that makes a lot of people feel happy Irsquom fascinated by that Bali is full of people who came here for two weeks 20 years ago and never left Grumpy tired stressedout people wake up on their first morning in Bali feeling better A week later they are trying to figure out how to move here According to psychiatrist Howard Cutler many surveys show that unhappy people tend to be more selffocused and are often withdrawn brooding and even antagonistic Happy people are generally more sociable flexible and creative able to tolerate lifersquos daily f
Guava Growers
Guava Growers lsquoDear Dr Kris I have pests attacking my guava tree that has been growing for several years I have noticed that last year it produced less fruit than in previous years and some sort of pest seems to be getting in there The leaves and stems have a white sticky substance all over them and I have noticed leaves in the bushier parts are being eaten The plant has heaps of foliage but it seems to be very dry almost shrivelled Is this from the pests because the tree gets plenty of water How can I negate the damage Thanks in advance Roger Instead of trying to treat the fungus and pests heavy pruning is the way to go A guava tree or nearly any plant for that matter will always benefit from a trim as long as it is done at the right time For a fruiting tree such as yours the best time to