Hello lovelies

Just wanted to put it out there that life and love have taken me
to Vancouver. I am looking for a place to live...if anyone knows
of any great places, preferably east van, could you let me know?
Cheers
julia

A new law being pushed in Canada by Big Pharma seeks to outlaw up to 60 percent of natural health products currently sold in Canada, even while criminalizing parents who give herbs or supplements to their children. The law, known as C-51, was introduced by the Canadian Minister of Health on April 8th, 2008, and it proposes sweeping changes to Canada's Food and Drugs Act that could have devastating consequences on the health products industry.

Among the changes proposed by the bill are radical alterations to key terminology, including replacing the word "drug" with "therapeutic product" throughout the Act, thereby giving the Canadian government broad-reaching powers to regulate the sale of all herbs, vitamins, supplements and other items. With this single language change, anything that is "therapeutic" automatically falls under the Food and Drug Act. This would include bottled water, blueberries, dandelion greens and essentially all plant-derived substances.

The Act also changes the definition of the word "sell" to include anyone who gives such therapeutic products to someone else. So a mother giving an herb to her child, under the proposed new language, could be arrested for engaging in the sale of unregulated, unapproved "therapeutic substances." Learn about more of these freedom-squashing changes to the law at the Stop51.com website:www.stopc51.com

New enforcement powers allow Canadian government to seize your home or business
At the same time that C-51 is outlawing herbs, supplements and vitamins, it would grant alarming new "enforcement" powers to the thugsenforcement agents who claim to be "protecting" the public from dangerous unapproved "therapeutic agents" like, say, dandelion greens. As explained on the www.Educate-Yourself.org website ((educate-yourself.org/cn/canadian...), the C-51 law would allow the Canadian government's thugs enforcement agents to:

• Raid your home or business without a warrant
• Seize your bank accounts
• Levy fines up to $5 million and a jail terms up to 2 years for merely selling an herb
• Confiscate your property, then charge you storage fees for the expense involved in storing all the products they stole from you

C-51 would even criminalize the simple drying of herbs in your kitchen to be used in an herbal product, by the way. That would now be categorized as a "controlled activity," and anyone caught engaging in such "controlled activities" would be arrested, fined and potentially jailed. Other "controlled activities" include labeling bottles, harvesting plants on a farm, collecting herbs from your back yard, or even testing herbal products on yourself! (Yes, virtually every activity involving herbs or supplements would be criminalized...)

There's more, too. C-51 is the Canadian government's "final solution" for the health products industry. It's a desperate effort to destroy this industry that's threatening the profits and viability of conventional medicine. Natural medicine works so well -- and is becoming so widely used -- that both the Canadian and American governments have decided to "nuke" the industries by passing new laws that effectively criminalize anyone selling such products. They simply cannot tolerate allowing consumers to have continued access to natural products. To do so will ultimately spell the destruction of Big Pharma and the outdated, corrupt and criminally-operated pharmaceutical industry that these criminally-operated governments are trying to protect.

Learn more: www.stopC51.com

I was talking with a friend the other day who was mentioning her desire to learn
Shiatsu or some healing modality and the enormous cost and time commitment that involves.
I had an idea to teach a basic Shiatsu course over the spring and summer. In it I would
cover some basic Chinese Medical theory, diagnosis, meridian theory, Qi Gong, Nutrition
(based on Paul Pitchford's Healing with Whole Foods), and of course there would be a lot
of hands on practice as well. I would love to make this a fun and focused learning environment.
I was thinking I could offer classes once a week for a few months at one of the rec centers or maybe
even at the Orange hall. The cost is yet to be determined, but I'd love to make this as accessible as possible.

I am also wanting to teach a dance class..a fusion of martial arts, contact improv and free flowing authentic movement.
Living life to the fullest means filling my life with incredible learning opportunities. For me, right now that means
healing people at clinic, hopefully working at Lifestyles partime (i'll find out in a couple of days if I got the job),
spinning fire with the Primal Fire troupe, and teaching seems to complete this cycle quite nicely.
Any thoughts?

Wow! I'm still swirling with butterflies of joy for last night's chorus of fairies, fools,
and soul adventurers. Big ups to Stephen, Laughlin, Rosa, Mariko, Missie,
Rowan, Manuel for all sharing your groovy soul soothing rhythms and
beats. It felt so good to give'er all night...what a soul shakedown.

I was wondering if anyone saw a pair of red valour nomad pants? I took them off
and by morning they were gone.

Hello lovelies

After six months on the road I'm heading back to B.C. for a quick visit
before heading down to Northern Cali for a while. I'd love to see as
many of you as I can while I'm in town...I'll be staying at Nejmah's place
and would love to have a little gathering there...
can't wait to reconnect!
yeeaaah