ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No5 'ALCHEMY' | Page 40

"You can trace every sickness, every disease, and every ailment to mineral deficiency." - Linus Pauling, twotime Nobel Prize winner Himalayan Salt, Source © www.foodmatters.tv So here I was, at 59, again facing THE DOOR OF TRUST and the dance with uncertainty. I’d spent 8 unfruitful months in Auckland, trying to establish myself, searching for work, putting the roots down. The last 25 years I have journeyed as a healer, facilitator and natural health practitioner. To now look to establish oneself in a new area and basically a "new and now unfamiliar" New Zealand has not been exactly easy. I felt lost in my own country. So I decided to travel to Napier on the east coast of New Zealand. I'd never lived there before. I just had the impulse to go. I just knew one friend there, and I was able to stay with her and her husband for a while. In January 2013, a contact suggested I accompany her to the Napier Buddhist Centre to join the local Tara dancing circle. I had never heard of Tara dancing. I was not a dancer, although as a Hawaiian Massage Teacher I had taught a dance which goes with this practice. I decided to go to satisfy an inner curiosity. Little did I know my decision to attend that day was going to turn my life around. The Tara dance is a beautiful meditative dance practice. There are many dances within the practice; each has its own fine quality and beauty. Goddess of Napier 40