July Toowoomba Meditation Course, Classes & Chocolate Workshop

July Toowoomba Meditation Course, Classes & Chocolate Workshop

Time to LET GO of your STRESS, FRUSTRATION, OVER-REACTIVE tendencies, and sleep better, feel calmer, think clearly and love more freely! My next 6 Week Basic Meditation for Stress Management Course begins on Tuesday 23rd July until Tuesday 27th August. 6pm to 7.30pm. Each course includes a personalised folder with weekly handouts and the use of essential oils to enhance your meditation practice and relaxation benefits. Muscle relaxation, breathing and stretching techniques are also taught in a safe, comfortable and supportive environment. For more information and to book your place CLICK HERE! or contact me directly via viki@mindbodyfood.net or 0410 60

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Clean Eating Raw Vegan Paleo Citrus Cheesecake Recipe

Clean Eating Raw Vegan Paleo Citrus Cheesecake Recipe

Citrus Cheesecake Recipe Vegan, Raw, Paleo, Clean-eating, Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Naturally Sweetened, Unprocessed, Unrefined (**Next Raw Cacao Easy Chocolate Delights Workshop Saturday 20th July, 12pm-3pm. Details Below!) I’ve been creating in the MindBodyFood test kitchen again! This time I came up with a delicious healthy version of a classic cheesecake and tart flavour: Citrus! It’s completely unrefined and unprocessed, and contains nutrient dense substitutes for high fat, sugar and salt additives and ingredients that you’ll readily find in most store bought cheesecakes. This cheesecake is dairy free, gluten free and wheat free! It’s vegan and paleo approved but most of all,

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Awaken to Your Inner Silence

Monday Inspiration! Meditation expands self-awareness and is a tool for the re-discovery of our body’s own inner intelligence. Practiced for thousands of years, it’s not about forcing the mind to be quiet, it’s finding the silence that’s already there and making it a part of your life. Silence is the birthplace of happiness, creativity, and infinite possibilities. From this field of pure potentiality we get our bursts of inspiration, our most intuitive thoughts, and our deepest sense of connection to the universe. Practicing meditation on a daily basis allows you to weave silence and stillness into your mind and body to

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How To Make Brown Rice Chocolate Puffs – Video Recipe!

How To Make Brown Rice Chocolate Puffs - Video Recipe!

Dark Chocolate Brown Rice Puff Bites! Oh Yeah! These little beauties are SO easy to make! Thick, creamy and delicious and packed full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Bonus – the kids will love them to satisfy sweet cravings without the loaded refined sugar. Watch me make this recipe on YouTube and tell you about the benefits as I go!   Brown Rice Puff Bites 3/4 cup of organic virgin coconut oil (Can add up to 1 cup for creaminess) 1 1/2 cups raw cacao powder 1Tb mesquite powder 1 tsp cinnamon powder 1 pinch of pink 4-5 Tbsp

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Hormones & Hypothyroidism – NEW Video Interview!

Hormones & Hypothyroidism - NEW Video Interview!

Hormones & Hypothyroidism… A Woman’s Story Hi! I’m SO excited to share this video with you! There are so many messages and insights in this interview! It’s a moving and inspirational story of how one woman on the brink of suicide, with very little support around her, dared to question her medical diagnoses, search for answers in alternative therapy, and heal her hormones to save her life! Meet Barb Free as we discuss her story and wellness journey, and how she now helps others to seek answers for themselves on their journey to wellbeing and healing. WATCH NOW HERE! * And please make sure to take

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Love and Acceptance: reconnecting to self

Reconnect With The Simple Things Last week I was on a working holiday at the Sunshine Coast recording my “Healing Your Digestive Issues” video interview for MindBodyFood TV. Although it rained for the majority of the time, we still found a small window of sunshine to walk in whilst wetting our feet down at the beach. It was fortunate that the last night we were there, we could take the opportunity to walk along the beach, breathe in the salt air, cleans our nostrils and lungs with the freshness of nature and scrunch our toes in the sand as we

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Heal Your Digestive Issues – Viki Thondley Interviews Scott Mathias

Heal Your Digestive Issues - Viki Thondley Interviews Scott Mathias

  Do YOU suffer from reflux, hypothyroidism, eating disorders, heartburn, bloating, low energy, emotional and/or depressive issues?     Watch my interview with Scott Mathias, Digestive Health Specialist, Raw Food Chef, and author of “Understanding the Devine Gut”. We delve into the CAUSE of a wide variety of upset, illness and disease within the body when digestion is poor and not working properly. FASCINATING and HIGHLY INFORMATIVE interview! credit repair company WATCH IT NOW!  

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HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN!

HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN!

HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN! Many of you have heard me talk about food designers before. They have the task of creating the perfect ratio of fat, sugar and salt in a food product that will create opiates in the brain to have you craving more! People already restricting themselves find these cravings overwhelming and will often berate themselves and feel like failures, believing they have no willpower or motivation. This often leads to comfort or emotional eating, which of course is only feeding the cravings. People try so hard to eat healthy,

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Is Your Food Really Food?

Is Your Food Really Food?

  Don’t Eat Anything Your Great-Grandmother Wouldn’t Recognise As Food! I saw this pic recently and thought, That’s so right! My own great-grandmother lived to a beautiful and delicate age of 100 years old! The bulk of what she ate came from nature: out of the garden, off a tree, grown on the farm and made at home. She ate good food, took good care of herself and lived a long, often hard, but satisfying life. I can’t help but notice the difference in food quality between our grandparents time and now. They ate fresh fruit and vegetables as standard. Much of our

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Breast Cancer and the BRCA tests – My Personal Story

My Personal Story Breast Cancer and the BRCA Tests I felt compelled to write this newsletter after watching and listening to all the media talk on Angelina Jolie’s choice for a double mastectomy after the results of her BRCA tests. I’m sure there are many other women (and men) out there in a similar position who have spent a split second wondering if they made the right choice because of a celebrity making hers, or who are now beginning to wonder about their own health in this area after seeing the news. As this media announcement is personal to my own circumstances, I am sharing my story here

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Easy Chocolate Delights Workshop in Toowoomba was AWESOME!

Well, the very first Raw Cacao “Easy Chocolate Delights” workshop was held at Sauce, The Sauce Kitchen in Toowoomba yesterday – Saturday 11th May 2013 – and it was an absolute success! Take a look at all the photos on the FB page here!                           16 people (plus one very generous friend as my kitchen helper, and my amazing media manager and partner) all gathered at Sauce, The Sauce Kitchen to learn about, create and EAT real and easy chocolate delights, all made from the raw cacao bean!                

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Watch my MindBodyFood TV interview on Managing Stress

Watch my MindBodyFood TV interview on Managing Stress

Stress-related Conditions CAN Happen To Anyone No matter who you are or what you do for a living, we all experience a degree of stress. Are you feeling down, anxious, tired, overwhelmed.. everyday, ordinary people can easily be overcome by prolonged stress when we ignore the signs and symptoms from our own body and mood. What can you do about it to help yourself and manage your stress before it leads to stress-related conditions, illness and disease? Take a 15 minute break to watch this interesting and humble interview with Steve Lynes, Owner of Fitness Works Gym in Toowoomba, to learn ways to identify your own levels of stress, and

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Raw Chocolate Making Workshop with Super Foods in Toowoomba

Raw Chocolate Making Workshop with Super Foods in Toowoomba

Easy Chocolate Delights Workshop! Come join me in learning how to make 5 easy and yummy chocolate treat recipes, made with REAL and RAW Cacao – the number ONE antioxidant food in the world!  I will demonstrate with your help and everyone will sample! The recipes will be compiled into a small booklet for you to take home and create for yourself, complete with nutritional information on all ingredients used, AND along with your own personal goodies bag of Easy Chocolate Delights! YUM! Learn how easily you can make and incorporate delicious, healthy and nutritious chocolate delights into your eating plan with the help of one of the

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Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today

Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today

  “Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today.” ~ Dr Bruce Lipton (Developmental Biologist) This quote and medical fact is the reason I spend so much time educating my students and clients about the Stress Response and how it affects their mind, body and spirit on a daily basis. Meditation promotes the Relaxation Response and is one of the best antidotes to stress there is. Meditation is an achievable and beautiful pathway to self-awareness, inner peace and stressing less for healing and health. The Term 2 Monday Evening Weekly class began last week and has grown 3 times the size since

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Visualisation for a happy mind, body and soul

Visualise Your Best Self Did you know that your mind is a powerful tool in helping you create positive changes in your life? Using creative visualisation can help the subconscious mind to create real and meaningful associations with the feelings and desires of what you truly want to instil in your daily life. This paves the way for a happy mind, body and soul. wealthy Begin by imagining what you would like more of: how you will feel to have it, feel it, be it… and then spend a few minutes playing it out in your mind as if you

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