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Complementary Health London North Stoke Newington

Directory of complementary health practitioners from acupuncture and homeopathy to hypnotherapy and yoga in London.

PLUS complementary health therapists, counsellors, natural health centres, organic and health food outlets, leisure clubs, life coaches, personal trainers, holistic skin care products and beauty treatments.

All you need to stay in good health and top shape in Stoke Newington in Hackney and Islington, north London N16 UK.

You'll also find over 300 pages of free nutrition resources + complementary health information.

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To find a GP or Dentist in Stoke Newington, North London click the Resources & Site Map link in the left hand column. To find a chiropodist go to Find A Chiropodist

For complementary health classes, courses, workshops and events,
please scroll down the page

Nutrition Articles

You'll find a range of nutrition articles including 42 reasons why you need to drink water, how nutrients (or lack of them) can affect your behaviour, why you need sunshine on your skin, how to individualise your diet with metabolic typing, how to reverse heart disease, how to prevent osteoporosis, managing epilepsy with diet, maintaing good eye health, and more

Healthy Eating in Pregnancy

You'll find information on what to eat (and what NOT to eat), and the nutritional supplements you need to take, before, during pregnancy and after birth, for both mother, baby and children up to age 5. healthy eating before and during pregnancy and after birth

Vitamins & Minerals

If you want to know the function of any vitamin or mineral including the best food sources, the recommended daily amounts and the maximum amounts you should take in supplement form go to vitamins & minerals

Articles on Complementary Health

You'll find complementary health articles on miracle mineral supplement, manual lymphatic drainage, irritable bowel syndrome, multiple chemical sensitivity, colon health, metamorphic technique, meditation, live blood analysis, high blood pressure, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing, and water fluoridation.

Latest Alternative Medicine News - July

1st July: Vegetarians 'avoid more cancers'

This wonderful little book at just Ł4.99 would make an excellent summer treat for yourself. Written by local author, artist and meditation trainer Bodel Rikys, it is available from bookshops or direct from amazon.co.uk here: Meditation Is by Bodel Rikys

Complementary Health
Events in Stokey, London N16
July/August/September

Tai Chi Classes
New student inductions take place on the first Tuesday of each month 7:30pm at St Marys Community Centre – Defoe Road, London N16. Try it this complementary health practice for one week at no charge to see if you like it. There's no obligation to continue. Go to Tai Chi Classes in London

Alexander Technique Half Price Introductory Lessons
Half price introductory lessons throughout July and August given by Kathryn Akin at her home in N16 and at Sunstone for Women.

So it's Ł17 to come to either location for a private, hour long introductory lesson in the Alexander Technique.

Sunstone welcomes non-members to the complementary health clinic.

For more details please go to Half Price Alexander Lessons

Weekly Meditation Course
Teaching different aspects and approaches to meditation and encouraging the individual to develop what works best for them. The groups are small and friendly, creating a safe space for sharing feedback as part of the learning process. There are printed information sheets of theory and practise covered in each session. When this complementary health course is completed there will be an an opportunity to continue attending an ongoing group.

The course is run by Linda Hall and will start on Wednesday 8th July. For further details please go to Weekly Meditation Course

Massage Workshop
Genene Edwards brings her extensive teaching experience to this complementary health workshop where she will teach the main 'hands on' massage techniques for addressing all upper body tensions including shoulders, neck, hands and head. Informative and fun you will leave feeling energised and inspired to give friends and family a relaxing and de-stressing upper body massage. Limited to 8 places only.

Takes place on Sunday 26th July, 2009 11 - 1.00 at Shine Holistic, 52 Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16. Tel: 020 7241 5033

Introduction to Alexander Technique
Madelene Webb MSTAT teaches you how to inhabit your body with greater ease and awareness with this gentle yet profound complementary health technique. Cost: Ł45 including a private one-to-one lesson. Takes place on Wednesday 29th July, 2009, 7.45pm - 9.15pm at Shine Holistic, 52 Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16. Tel: 020 7241 5033. For more information contact Madelene Webb on 07939 347099, email info@madelenewebb.com or visit www.madelenewebb.com

Alexander Technique Introductory Course For Beginners
Here is a chance to find out about this complementary health Technique, which you can learn and use to help yourself cope with stress, look after yourself, reduce back pain and similar conditions, plus prevent many such problems from developing. The Technique can be used throughout all your activities and whatever your lifestyle, whether you are a manager, office worker, performer, pregnant mother, teacher.... Nearly everyone can benefit from learning the Technique.

This course held over 3 Sundays takes place with Hilary King in London N16 and begins on 11th October, 2009 Go to London Alexander Technique Course

Selected Health Events
Outside Stoke Newington

Tai Chi ClassesNew student inductions take place on the first Thursday of each month 1.00pm at North London Buddhist Centre, 72 Holloway Road, London N7 8JG (close to Highbury and Islington station). Try this complementary health practice for one week at no charge to see if you like it. There's no obligation to continue. Go to Tai Chi Complementary Health Classes in London

Introduction To The Lost Art Of PalmistrySummer dates: 6pm Wednesdays from 10th June -12th August 2009
Taster palm readings: Ł5.00
45 minute talk: still completely free! at The Old China Hand, 8 Tysoe Street, London EC1R 4RQ.

Online registration via www.ambergarnet.co.uk

This evening is an informal and fun way to learn the basics of modern hand analysis. Sceptics welcome! After a lively 45 minute demonstration with audience participation, ticket holders receive private 5-8 minute 'taster' palm readings (cost Ł5.00) up to 9.30pm.

The aim of the free talk and the short palm readings is to give people a taste of what palmistry can offer. Palm reading time slots last for 5-8 minutes and are allocated on a first come first served basis with a maximum of ten readings per night and priority given to people who have paid in advance.

The evening has a friendly social element; people who arrive alone are welcomed and mixing with other guests is encouraged. Guests arrive from 6pm to sign up for palm reading time-slots and get comfortable before the talk begins at 6.30pm. Between 7.30-9.30pm, guests mingle in the relaxed ambience of the Old China Hand bar, where fresh Dim Sum and Malaysian food is available until 10pm. A great selection of beers, ales and lagers is also available.

To buy your palm reading ticket, simply visit: www.ambergarnet.co.uk

Introductory Workshops on Core Process Psychotherapy
London Foundation Course on Core Process Psychotherapy
(Autumn 2009)Core Process is a psychospiritual psychotherapy which integrates the Buddhist understanding of personality and consciousness with western psychotherapeutic theory and practice. The Foundation course is designed to help participants cultivate qualities of presence and compassionate awareness in an enquiry of how we are in ourselves and in relationship to others. The Foundation is designed to support participants in accessing their own process deeply in a warm and non-judgemental field of awareness, It aims to encourage a deeper knowing of our Core state, our true and fundamental state of being, which is available to us in every moment. With this awareness and openness, the innate ability to see events with clarity and compassion can become a present reality.

Chuey Loh also runs one-day Introductory Workshops on Core Process Psychotherapy in London. There are currently 3 planned for May, July and September 2009. Please go to:www.karuna-institute.co.uk for more details. If you are interested and would like to have a chat about the workshops or the London Foundation programme, please contact Chuey Loh at 07951036381 or email her at cyloh@btinternet.com

Emotional Freedom Technique Group SessionsAre you interested in EFT but don't want to commit to a full training course yet?

This ongoing group runs in Central London, 6 - 8pm, and is open to anyone with an interest in EFT, at any level.

It gives you the opportunity to use EFT on yourself, watch trainer demos and further develop your skills and experience in this exciting technique.

Come and join us for an informal and relaxed evening on tba 2009. For further details please go to Emotional Freedom Technique Group Sessions

Healing the Addicted Heart With EFT WorkshopThis Workshop will offer you a pathway to transformation whether or not you are, or have been, technically ‘addicted’ to a substance or anything else. Addictions are limitations, or blocks in the way of our true self expression – we are all limiting ourselves in some way, often subtly through attachment to certain ways of thinking and feeling. However you will need to have at least a basic understanding of EFT to get the most out of this. Takes place dates to be announced in London W2. For more information go to Healing the Addicted Heart Workshop

Meditation ClassesThe Heruka Centre run weekly meditation classes at 25 London venues, meditation retreats, weekend courses and study programmes. For details go to www.meditateinlondon.org.uk

Metamorphic Technique Weekend WorkshopThis workshop teaches you the principles and practice of the Metamorphic Technique.

Metamorphic Technique offers an expansive and empowered view of the human experience. Your vision of life will be significantly enhanced not only by the amazingly simple tool but by the unique perspective it offers.

This complementary health course is wonderful for anyone who is ready to expand, letting go of their limitations and allowing their potential to come alive!

Takes place on 25th/26th July, 2009 in Muswell Hill, London N10. Visit MT Weekend Workshop

An Open Letter to The Right Honourable Alan Johnson MP, UK Secretary of State For Health Regarding Fluoride And Drinking Water

As Secretary of State for Health, you stated in February that "adding fluoride [to the water supply] is an effective and relatively easy way to help address health inequalities - giving children from poorer backgrounds a dental health boost that can last a lifetime, reducing tooth decay and thereby cutting down on the amount of dental work they need in the future."

I appreciate your good intentions, and the fact that you have taken on board the advice you will have been given by your department, and the members of the medical and dental professions that you meet. However you may be unaware that there is a strong movement opposed to water fluoridation, and that the people involved are not a bunch of ‘flat earthers’ as they are sometimes portrayed, but have serious scientific credentials.

Nobel prize winning pharmacologist Arvid Carlsson said in 2005 that “this is against all principles of modern pharmacology. It's really obsolete. No doubt about that. I think those nations that are using it should feel ashamed of themselves. It's against science. I am quite convinced that water fluoridation, in a not-too-distant future, will be consigned to medical history.” I can give you the names of 15 other Nobel prize winners in chemistry and medicine who, since 1939 have opposed or had serious reservations about the practice.

At the time of writing 1,733 professionals have signed a statement calling for the end of fluoridation. These include 225 PhDs, 226 dentists, and 219 MDs. It includes the current President and six past Presidents of the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology, and The Board of Directors, American Academy of Environmental Medicine.

Why would such distinguished people oppose a public health measure? Because fluoride is highly toxic.

It’s more toxic than lead and only slightly less toxic than arsenic. Fluoride is an enzyme poison, in the same class as cyanide, which means that it is capable of a very wide variety of harmful effects, even at low doses.

That’s why the Nobel Medical Institute, one of the most prestigious in the world, recommended against fluoridation in Sweden, and the Pasteur Institute strongly recommended against fluoridation in France.

A large body of scientific evidence demonstrates that fluoride causes dental and skeletal fluorosis, damages DNA repair systems, causes genetic damage, increases the risk of certain cancers, increases the risk for osteoporosis, causes abnormal brain development, causes hypothyroidism and reduces male fertility.

Even UNICEF, a United Nations organisation, cautions that excess fluoride exposure negatively affects children's health. In their official position statement, they state, "But more and more scientists are now seriously questioning the benefits of fluoride, even in small amounts."

You are rightly concerned for the poorest children, but these are more likely to suffer poor nutrition which is known to make children more vulnerable to fluoride's toxic effects. In any case, major dental researchers concede that fluoride's benefits are topical not systemic. That fluoride is ineffective at preventing pit and fissure tooth decay, which is 85% of the tooth decay experienced by children. That dental decay is coming down just as fast, if not faster, in non-fluoridated industrialised countries as fluoridated ones.

The late John Colquhoun, D.D.S., Ph.D was Principle Dental Officer for Auckland, New Zealand. He was a passionate advocate of fluoridation who at times viciously attacked those that disagreed. But after a world tour to study the effects of the practice and a detailed examination of the research evidence, he reversed his position. This took enormous courage. I can only hope Mr Johnson, that you are made of the same mettle.

Compelling Arguments For Why Newborns
Must Be Vaccinated

"It’s really good of you to grant me an interview professor. I know how very valuable your time is”

"Pleasure. Never met anyone from Zontan. Welcome to the home of civilisation on planet Earth - the USA. I'm originally from a quaint little island called Britain, hence the accent. Now how can I help?"

"Well I thought I’d start my tour of your planet by visiting a maternity ward to witness the beginnings of life in an Earth hospital, and I couldn't help noticing that contented newborn babies were having a needle thrust into their arms, causing them to make a loud screaming noise. Is this some kind of birth ritual?"

"In a way, yes. It's a kind of er, a kind of initiation ceremony that every baby must go through. This isn’t carried out in the old country by the way. You’ll find on your travels that some parts of the world are extremely primitive, extremely primitive.

"We believe here in the USA, that at the earliest opportunity, the earliest opportunity, a child must be made to understand that life isn't a bed of roses. It injects them (little Earth joke there) with a harsh dose of reality. Life is hard. Get used to it. And more to the point (more Earthly humour ha ha), it also acts as a vaccine to protect the precious wee mites from hepatitis B."

"Oh I presume this to be a serious illness. Is this something all humans would succumb to if not vaccinated?"

"No, it's a disease of prostitutes."

"Oh really? So do most humans become prostitutes?"

"Well a few do. You see here in America we are passionate about individual freedom. And if someone selects prostitution as a career, we won't stand in their way. And if they do choose to travel along this path, they can do so secure in the knowledge that they're protected from a frightful disease.

"You see none of us has a crystal ball. We don't know what a child will want to be when it grows up, so we play it safe and vaccinate every child. If they don't want to pursue it as a full time occupation but merely wish to engage at an amateur level, then it will safeguard them from their promiscuous behaviour. It will even protect gays and intravenous drug addicts who are also at risk. So you can see how important it is that every child, every child is given the er vaccine."

"Hmmm. Yes. Hmmm. For how long are they protected?"

"Well the 3 shots they receive during their first year will protect them for about seven years give or take."

"Oh that's interesting. I didn't realise humans matured so quickly. So you reach puberty well before age seven?"

"Ha ha ha. Oh dear. Ha ha. Good heavens no. What funny people you Zontans are. Very good. It's been coming down a lot it's true, but not by that much. No I see what you're getting at. No you see, if the mother was a carrier of the er, of the virus, she could pass it on to her newborn. That's why it's given to er, given to every baby."

"Couldn't you just screen the mother and give the vaccine only if she tested positive?"

"Well... yes... we could, but then how would we get rid of the bloody stuff, (pardon my French). You see the vaccine was developed for junkies, prostitutes and promiscuous adults. But they didn't want it. I mean we went to all that trouble for these people, all that trouble, and they told us what we could do with our vaccine. What were we to do? We had a veritable mountain of the er, of the stuff. So we thought......why not give it to babies?"

"Hmmm I see. Yes. Hmmm. Hmmm. Has it ever been tested on babies? Is it safe for babies?"

"Well it was given to a few thousand children for a few days to check for reactions. That’s good enough. We completely reject, completely reject, suggestions that it causes immune and neurological disease or sudden death.

"You see people imagine because vaccines contain dog kidney, pig blood, rabbit brain, formaldehyde, acetone and heavy metals and so on and so forth, that it might not be safe. But they’re not scientists you see, they don't understand these complex issues."

"Yes, yes of course. I see. Hmmm. Hmmm. Can parents choose not to have their babies vaccinated?"

"Of course, it’s a free society. It’s just that their offspring won’t be allowed to attend daycare, kindergarten, elementary school, high school or college, that’s all. The parents will be looked on as immoral, unpatriotic beings, treated as social outcasts and may even be sent to prison.

"Oh, must you return to Zontan already? Was it something I said?"

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