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"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
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