It's been three weeks since I returned from taking a group of 15 through a Yoga, Walking and Detoxification week in Spain. What a truly inspirational group it was too.

The plan I put together was to support and nurture the body but at the same time to deeply cleanse in order to shift build up of toxins and any sluggishness within the system. Everyone in the group completely immersed themselves in the activities to help rejuvenate their body, mind and spirit.

I know some of you are keen to know how it went. The best way to let you know is how others experienced it. We received some wonderful feedback from the group in Spain and here are some of their comments.

"Simon, Rumana, Fi and Paul, all wonderful hosts! Congratulations a fab week. The group was great too - feel I've met some new friends." Samantha Gilmour

"All food was outstanding, if you're into eating healthily this is like Mecca! Great to have optimum nutrition on tap!" Ella McNaney

"Fantastic, great fun and lovely learning. Rumana was excellent, very knowledgeable. Simon provided super yoga, very calming." Priti Parajia

"Kick started a nearly jaded, almost burnt out masseur - hugely beneficial." Alan Newman

"This has been an amazing week that I have thoroughly enjoyed it and would whole heartedly recommend that everyone should do! Thank you Rumana, Simon, Fi, Paul and Alan for allowing my soul the space and place to centre and grow. I'll be back next year." Nicola Cook

"Since my return to reality I have had a few lapses but am more conscious than usual and I have the memory of how great I felt when I returned and the comments from people around me of how good I looked. It was a wonderful week in so many ways and it was so great to be able to laugh and enjoy ourselves, to not feel hungry or deprived in any way, to have such lovely people to share the experience with and I really look forward to the next one. Love to you Rumana and a big thank you" Teresa X

Taking a group through a cleansing regime allows individuals to share their stories and support each other through the process emotionally and mentally. I really feel this is important, so much so that I'm soon going to add a 'community' dimension to my website so that you can all share your experiences and discuss to your hearts content.

On a practical and day to day note, it's important to remember not to mentally beat yourself up or get too stressed that you're not eating healthily 100% of the time. It is difficult to get 100% good quality food 100% of the time. The principle I often recommend is if you eat healthily 80% of the time (2 meals out of 3 or 5 days out of 7) then that's pretty good. You can veer off course slightly particularly where it is difficult to get good food or you're out at a party or other unavoidable circumstances. Do come back on track though, even if you feel you've gone way off. Even small simple changes will help - i.e. reducing the coffee or tea down to one cup a day or maybe limiting your alcohol intake by keeping it down to weekends only.

I've been asked if I'm going to organise another Cleansing week next year and the answer is most likely. I'll keep you posted on this. What I am planning to organise for January 2006 is a weekend workshop on detoxification, after Christmas is always a good time! Dates out soon.

I have also just come back from a Kinesiology Conference and there was some facinating research on cancer and prevention of it. I'll write more about this in the next newsletter.

Keep well!

Warm regards

October 2005

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About Rumana Zahn
BSc (Hons), DipM, CEd, MBRCP, KFRP, MH, MRNI, MGNI and MAMH

Rumana Zahn is a multi-disciplined practitioner in the field of Natural Medicine, principally a Naturopath and Medical Herbalist. She runs clinics in Newcastle - within a GPs practice, Darlington and Seaham Hall's exclusive Serenity Spa. Recently she set up a Walk-In Clinic at the Nutri Centre in the Kingston Park Tesco in Newcastle.

Rumana writes a health column for the North East Exclusive and is one of the key Advisors to the Institute of Complementary Medicine. She runs health improvement programmes and retreats internationally. She is passionate about natural medicine speaks and lectures regularly on the subject of creating health and wellbeing.

Rumana is a member of the British Register of Complementary Practitioners.

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