Sandhi Ayurveda Clinic Presents the 3rd International Ayurveda, Yoga & Wellness Convention & Expo

Sandhi Ayurveda Clinic Presents the 3rd International Ayurveda, Yoga & Wellness Convention & Expo

Oct 27-28, 9:00am-5:00pm

Alberione Auditorium, Daughters of St. Paul, 2650 FB Harrison St., Pasay City

A Catholic priest from Kerala, India helped introduce the ancient healing system of Ayurveda to the Philippines more than 20 years ago. Today, Father Jacob Gnalian actively runs his clinic, the Sandhi Ayurveda Clinic and Research Center in Mandaluyong, and helps patients find the path to healing through the natural way of Ayurveda.

Literally translated as the "science of life," Ayurveda is an ancient medical science aimed at preventing and curing illnesses through the restoration and maintenance of the fundamental balance of the living body as a whole.

Now on its third year, Sandhi Ayurveda Clinic once again invites the public to learn more about Ayurveda, as well as other healing modalities like ThetaHealing® and H202 Therapy, in the 3rd International Ayurveda, Yoga and Wellness Convention and Expo on October 27-28, 2012 at the Alberione Auditorium, Daughters of St. Paul, 2650 F.B. Harrison St., Pasay City.

Lectures, workshops, and hands-on exercises will be presented by Father Jacob and other invited experts from India and the Philippines. There will be lectures and workshops on Philippine herbs, yoga, preparation of home remedies, cooking healthy dishes, and many more. Health and wellness products will also be available for sale in the exhibitors section.

Tickets are sold at half price until October 15, 2012: P500 for a one-day pass, P1,000 for 2 days. This amount covers a delegate's snacks and lunch, certificate of participation, handouts and kits.

For inquiries and reservation, please get in touch with Ime Morales through 09062457910 or morales.ime@gmail.com

Healing Dream

Only a day has passed since I attended the ThetaHealing® Basic DNA2 Course and I have been experiencing some really cool changes both internally and externally. 

This morning I woke up from a very vivid dream where I went to visit a foreign place. I don't know exactly the whereabouts except there's a deep sense or inner knowing that I was not in the Philippines. All I remember are sand dunes as I was traveling. It felt like countryside due to the peacefulness of the surroundings.

Then I found myself in a small house where a woman named 'Vianna' lives. She looked like in her mid 30s to early 40s (but she's looked very youthful!) and I noticed she has long, perfectly straight hair as if she just came out of a salon for a hair treatment. She diagnosed me for having two (2) health disturbances in my body and asked if she could do a healing on me to which I gladly said 'yes'. 

The next scene I remembered was I was sitting in front of her and she started to press her fingers against the skin near the center of my chest. I then literally felt her fingers went past my skin and scrambling my insides. For a second, I thought I had an opened wound and going to die. Moments later, she pulled a long plastic-like sheet from the incision but I didn't see blood. 

'The first healing is complete', she said. For some strange reasons, she had to go out to do some errands and promised to continue with the second one when she gets back. Unfortunately, the dream was interrupted when I woke up.

Independence Day

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After two weeks of staying indoors due to chicken pox, I finally decided it's time to step out of the house and embrace daylight. Without hesitations I changed clothes, dabbed some gel into my hair and sprayed generous amount of cologne to my body. Immediately after my left foot (or was it right?) crossed the threshold that separated us from the rest of the world, I declared 24th  August 2012 as the day I am free from the dark confines of our home. I am a free man.

My eyes adjusted as if it's the first time I've seen light in my entire life and thought that maybe I needed a daylight ring to walk on sunshine. Thank god the scars don't sparkle in sunlight!

I felt like this teeny-tiny butterfly emerging from the cocoon and ready to spread his wings to fly. After all, wings are made for flying, right? As teeny-tiny butterfly crawl to the teeny-tiny opening, he is suddenly confronted with the realities awaiting him outside. Is it safe out there? Will I thrive? Where am I supposed to go?

As I close a chapter of my life I open a new one. And with the new comes a lot of uncertainties and possibilities. As I tune in to the future, it feels much like blank pages of a sketch pad - nothing on it just pure potentiality. Reminds me of the Great Void that birthed the existence of the Universe.

While it is exhilarating to embark on a new adventure, it can sometimes be equally terrifying to start all over again from scratch.  I wish I got a magic carpet and sing my lungs out 'A Whole New World!'. Oh and by the way, I don't mind if the magic carpet goes with a freebie Alladin. LOL.

If there's one awesome thing that the varicella zoster virus did to me is that it re-wired my brain such that I am able to write again! It is neither self-hypnosis nor the patented DNA healing module that reprogrammed my  brain but the varicella zoster virus.

Never underestimate the life-changing powers of the mostly unwanted chicken pox virus!

The One Essential Activity of My Life

The work of of our life should not simply be a doing; It should be a BE-ing. ~ Eric Butterworth "Life is for Loving"

Osho Zen Card 'Existence"

Imagine for a moment you are lying in a bed spending the last few quite moments of your life. As you make a review of your life, what things/scenes would come to mind? Is it the number of trophies or titles you've acquired? Or could it be that one essential activity you were supposed to do in this life that defines your sense of inner contentment and happiness?

As spiritual beings who chose to take on physical form, we came to this world with a purpose. And more often than not, as we grow older, we are sidetracked from our Soul's true agenda and instead get distracted by many different things. And there is nothing more tragic than to forget what we came to do on earth.

The 3-day Lifework workshop-retreat of Ginhawa which ended last Sunday was a very validating and affirming experience for me. Especially that I am reevaluating my current work status and commitments, the lifework session was a powerful reminder why I am doing what I am doing and why I have a tendency to be picky with people I work with and on projects that I accept. As Caroline Myss would say, "You have sacred contracts with certain individuals but not with everyone".

The Lifework session was a great confirmation of my Soul mission as told to me by my ancestors some 3 years ago through trans-egoic means.

By answering a matrix of questions, I was able to get in touch with the deepest aspirations of my inner being and remember my gifts and natural inclinations that have been present since my childhood. In fact, some of my natural talents and interests did not leave me. They were just sitting on the back burner waiting to be revisited and rediscovered.

The Lifework session was also a great synthesizer of the many things that I want to do. For some people gifted with diverse interests and talents like myself, the dilemma of choosing either/or is common. In a society which values specialization, choosing one particular interest or passion would mean that you will have to give up the remainder. Otherwise, you will be branded by society as a jack of all trades but master of none. Through the Lifework session, I was given the opportunity to see the thread that binds all my different interests and passions together and come up with a symbolic collage that consolidated everything into a single statement of my Life Purpose.

Having gone through the Lifework experience I realized that it is not the number of accomplishments that one has made but The One Essential Activity that one's Soul yearns to do in this life that can make one say 'I have truly lived a life of  purpose and meaning'. That it is possible for one person to have done so many great  things and still feel so incomplete inside. For our full measure as a person can only be validated not (solely) by the exteriorities of life but by how faithful we stayed on the path of discovering and actualizing our Soul's true purpose.

And most importantly, I am in deep awe and gratitude to have named the One Essential Activity of My Life which is to become a creative catalyst in the transformation of society...creating heaven on earth.


Lifework: Pathway Towards Meaning & Purpose Workshop-Retreat will be held on Oct 26-28 and is open to those who have attended Coming Home To My True Self Process-Retreat.

2010 in Retrospect: My Ambassador Journey

This video summarizes my year-long journey as one of the 2010 URI Youth Ambassadors. My gratitude goes to all my symbolic teachers whom I met along the way, to everyone who became part of this colorful journey and to all of my friends who have taken these beautiful photos! May this video inspire URI's future young leaders...