Fountainhead April/May 2008 Newsletter -

24 April 2008

Are you looking for the perfect gift for Mum this Mothers Day? Look no further. We are pleased to introduce Fountainhead's latest venture "Spa Rituals".

Nurturing your mind, body and soul Fountainhead Organic Retreat provides the perfect sanctuary for the ultimate in pampering. We not only work on the physical body, we also create a safe sacred place to allow your mind to let go, a space to completely stop. A time to go within, feel a renewal of spirit, giving the spirit strength. Our professionally trained staff offer a premier range of spa products to lead you on this journey. Add any of the following spa treatments to a pamper weekend package.

"Tranquil Dreams" - Float away to another dimension with this beautiful blend of treatments. A foot soak and exfoliation sends you floating into a coconut cream bath. Following is a combination of a relaxing facial, foot, hand and scalp treatment. A complete indulgence, releasing tension, re-energising the whole body and opening yourself to the beauty of your heart. 165 minutes.

"Sacred Bliss Ritual" - Experience an exquisite journey of deeper physical body work. Combining many different modalities from acupressure, trigger points, ancient massage techniques, reflexology and aromotherapy. Finally surrendering to a full body exfoliation and mud wrap. While you are cocooned in this blissful mixture you receive a nurturing hair and scalp treatment. Open in Bliss, allowing transformation and return relaxed yet rejuvenated. 165 minutes.

"Prema Shanti (Place of Peace)" - Surrender to the gentle yet deep touch of the Earths finger tips. Hot stones are placed and used as rhythmic massage tools achieving both deep emotional and physical balance. This indulgent treatment is further enhanced with a facial and foot treatment. 165 minutes."

"Elemental Journey" - Surrendering to the power of the present moment, this 3 hour journey takes you to a place like no other. Evoking the potent forces of the Earth, the Elements and a nurturing touch creates a vibration designed to reconnect the mind, body and soul. the journey includes a grounding foot ceremony, full body exfoliation and mud wrap. Followed by a massage using rhythmic techniques which tone and realign the energy flow and gently completed with a facial, hand and foot treatment. This is your Dreaming, Celebrate living your dream. 195 minutes.

"Fountainhead Signature Treatment" - Gently reconnecting your mind, body and soul to the heart beat of Mother Earth. All the products in this treatment are prepared from the abundant fresh herbs and flowers grown on the property and nearby surrounds, rocks from our creek, and fruit from our trees. It's a journey that stimulates all of the senses, delicious aromas, and vibrant colours and gentle touch. Working from head to toe every area of your body is completely pampered. The key elements to this treatment are hot rock massage, full body exfoliation and mud wrap and completed with a delightful facial. 195 minutes.

Gift vouchers are available. As a special Mothers Day promotion we are giving away one $500 spa voucher on Mothers Day and 3 daily prizes of $100 spa money per day until Mothers Day. To be in this competition to win these fabulous prizes please enter your details at the end of the newsletter.

Boot Camp - FREE massage or personal training session

Have you been feeling time poor but are now ready to put your health as your TOP priority? Our next boot camp is coming up and it would be great if you could join us. It starts on the 18th of May and we have a few spots left. Our Boot camp is like no other as you will do at least 4hrs of a variety of fun and safe exercises to really give your body and mind a boost of life. You will walk away (or waltz) with a new set of skills and motivation to keep off the weight and keep up your fitness. Let your kids try and keep up with you after you have done our boot camp! We make use of the beautiful Glasshouse Mountains, the gorgeous Sunshine Coast beaches and our little piece of paradise at Fountainhead.

We can work in extra therapies for you too, so after all that hard work you can relax and spoil your body and soul with the Turkish steam room, mud wraps, full body massages, yoga and detox box sessions.

Book now for our May 2008 Bootcamp and we will give you a bonus 1 hour massage or a 1 hour personal training session in your package. Click here to book or to ask any questions about boot camp.

Beat the Blues Intensive Weekend

Our depression specialist Greg Neville will present two intensive weekend workshops in May, as well as a series of lectures and one on ones with you to look at the beliefs, patterns and triggers that have caused your depression, and then help you to change these patterns so that you can move on to enjoy life again. Sound simple? Sometimes it may be easier than we think……The last group we had enjoyed enormous success all round. The weekend course with Greg is an Accredited Certificate course in Holistic Counseling (Level 1). The dates for May are 2-4 and the 30 May - 1 June 2008.

Many of our previous guests suffering depression have been so profoundly and positively affected by the weekend and ensuing week, that they have gone on to become counselors in the methods we work with. It’s quite remarkable considering that a month or so before that, society and the medical profession had them believing they would be on medication forever and that there was no way out, now they’ve left empowered with the possibility of a new career.

The Fountainhead Method is a holistic drug free education program that is designed to assist people with alcoholic, smoking, and drug addictions, and to eliminate the way of thinking that CAUSES their addictions, based on the extensive research by Naturopath and Holistic Coach, Greg Neville N.D. and the experiences of over 1000 clients at the Famous Fountainhead Organic Health Retreat in Maleny Queensland. Over the last five years, all participants completing this program report significant change in their lives on completion. The cure rate for our 28 day retreats has just reached 85%.

Throughout the program you will discover:-

So if you are truly ready to "Beat your Addiction" and get to the true CAUSE of your addiction, then you have come to the right place. Our guests who undertake these programs leave our retreats with a new lease on life. No longer do they feel that life is not living up to expectation. They also have the tools to understand and deal with situations out side of their control.

The benefits of this program are simple:• Practical tools and strategies are put in place to assist you to cope with every day events.

All of this is achieved in a beautiful and supportive environment, surrounded by people who have been there and come out on the other side. Details on the philosophy behind the program, the content of the program and associated retreats, as well as details on what we look like are available from us, The next weekend (2-3 May) is booking up fast, so please click here to book now or to find out more information.

Nutrition For You - article by Greg Doney

QUESTION:
What has water got to do with weight loss?

ANSWER:
It has everything to do with weight loss, we are composed mostly (60-70%) of water. If we are dehydrated we cannot exercise properly and our body cannot function properly, a decrease of just 3% hydration can affect our ability to work out by as much as 30%. So if you are in the gym and just cannot find it in you to work out to your best then you are probably dehydrated ... go drink some water!

If we do not have enough water in our system our kidneys slow down to conserve it, this leads to a build up of toxins in our system forcing the liver to deal with them. This slows down fat metabolism which all happens in the liver, so go drink some water. Have you ever woken up in the morning feeling tired and achy, you are probably dehydrated. Do you know that your body cant really tell the difference between being hungry and thirsty, so if you feel hungry have a glass or two of water before you eat, you might be surprised at your bodies reaction.

Feeling constipated even though you are eating heaps of fibre, lack of water is the culprit, when we are dehydrated the body reduces water output from the bladder but also reclaims more from the bowel, go drink some water!!
Basically fat loss comes down to a chemical reaction, you want your body to burn fat and turn it into energy for our muscles to use, every chemical reaction needs a medium to work in, in our body its water, if we are dehydrated it slows down our ability to metabolise properly, so …go drink some water!!

Water is also an avenue for nutrition, essential minerals are dissolved in water, especially good quality mineral water, magnesium, calcium, boron, the list goes on so get a good source of quality mineral rich water and drink away!!

The Relationship between ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION article by Greg Neville

Although Anxiety and Depression are at opposite the ends of the psychological spectrum, when delivering a depression program provisions must be made to cater for a large percentage of people who attend in search of help for their Anxiety.

It is very important that a Depression program covers information on both psychological states, not simply in case people with Anxiety attend the program, but more importantly because even though the symptoms of Anxiety contradict a diagnosis of depression, both can easily eventually slide into one another.

People who have suffered Depression at some point in the past, can sometimes go onto suffering the Anxiety of fearing any reoccurrence of depression in the future, while at the same time incorrectly believing their new psychological unease is simply a symptom of depression. Some people who have suffered Anxiety for a period of time, can easily slide into a depressive state due to believing there is no hope of recovery from Anxiety. We have also witnessed people who have in the past been incorrectly diagnosed with Depression, begin a journey of Anxiety due to a desperate desire to prevent any possible suicidal tendency they have been informed can eventuate from Depression.
And of course, an incorrect diagnosis of symptoms could lead to a patient receiving incorrect medication that could aggravate Anxiety or Depression symptoms.

There are definitely various levels of anxiety or depression that people can experience, and the more severe the symptoms, the easier it is to correctly diagnose. But if a diagnosis is to be made, then the clear-cut symptoms are as follows. ANXIETY is characterized by a person’s intense feeling of a need to attend to affairs, in an effort to prevent feared situations from occurring, whilst DEPRESSION is symptomatically a mood arising from believing there is no point in even possessing goals now that life’s situations appear to be too great an obstacle to allowing life to follow personal preferences. Eventually the depressed person believes the Depression is the obstacle interfering with life following personal preferences, and so become depressed about being depressed, whilst the Anxiety sufferer becomes anxious about preventing Anxiety attacks, and this adds fuel to this condition.

This may all sound confusing, but regardless of the various twists or turns these conditions can take, the cure remains the same. Both health condition are an indicator that the person in need of some serious education on the subject of understanding life. The true approach for correction of such psychological symptoms is through providing people with further growth in understanding what life is doing for them, a far cry from the usual devastating and common emphasis being placed on them having to prove they control life. It’s a real eye opener to find what Depression and Anxiety can do for a person’s life!

Delicious Organic Recipes to tempt even the fussiest eater ...

Zucchini and Pumpkin Savoury Muffins

The cool change in the weather inspired this tasty treat for lunch today. It’s a hearty little snack to warm the heart and satisfy the appetite. Light in texture with a kaleidoscope of colour and flavours.

Makes 24

Wet Ingredients:

10 eggs
1 cup biodynamic yoghurt
400g zucchini grated
400g pumpkin grated
5 tbsp pepitas
½ cup Spanish onion finely diced
150g ghee melted

Dry Ingredients:

250g buckwheat flour
150g corn meal fine
50g chickpea flour (besan) sifted
50g millet or polenta
2 tbsp baking powder
2 tbsp linseed meal
2 tsp salt
1 tbsp garam masala
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp black pepper ground

Method:

Preheat oven to 180c
Grease and/or line muffin tins with grease proof paper
Separate eggs, put whites aside
Mix yoghurt into yolks then add pumpkin, zucchini, pepitas, onion, ghee
In separate bowl mix all dry ingredients together then fold into wet mix
Whisk whites until stiff peaks and fold in to mix
Fill prepared muffin tins then bake for approx 30mins or until cooked through
Serve

Fruit Muffins

Buckwheat is a fruit, and not a grain, it is gluten free and has an earthy, sweet flavour and soft texture. It is good to use flour with buckwheat to help with binding a mix together. Rapadura sugar is a dehydrated cane juice that comes in a granular form. This, sugar is the same as Jaggery.

Makes 24

Ingredients:

2 cups buckwheat flour
1 cup sorghum flour
1 cup ghee
1 to 1 ½ cups rapadura or palm sugar
10 eggs
700gms fruit of your choice

Method:

Preheat oven to 180c
Grease muffin tins with ghee
Separate eggs, mix sugar with yolks until smooth and all sugar is dissolved
Add chopped fruit
Sieve all dry ingredients and fold into egg mix
Beat whites until stiff and fold into mix
Fill muffin tins and bake for 20 to 30 min or until cooked thru
Turn out onto cake rack and serve

Organic Food School

Every Thursday Fountainhead hosts our famous Organic Food School. The school titalates the tastebuds using only the freshest organic ingredients. Start time is 10.30am and concludes with lunch.

Some of the meals prepared last week included pumpkin noodle curry, raw cheeses and crackers, and some amazing dishes using avocados.

Email here if you would like to book into Food School. Places are strictly limited. We guarantee you will go away with some fresh ideas on how to prepare healthy delicious meals.

Last minute specials

Occasionally we have last minute deals with substantial savings. If you live within 2 hours of Maleny and would be interested in receiving details of these last minute specials, please check the box in the Mothers Day competition or email below.

For the coming weekends we have one or two cabins available for a pamper weekend deal. Check in Friday, check out Sunday. Book now and your partner/friend will stay for FREE. You only pay for the actual pampering, saving upto a whopping $950. Prices start at $1020, including deluxe accomodation, fresh fruit breakfast, full use of baths and a 2 hour massage of your choice for each person. Places are very limited at these prices. Email now to secure your booking.

Mothers Day Pamper Competition

Good luck, all winners will be notified by email and/or phone. The main winner will also be listed in next months newsletter.

Questions, Comments or Feedback

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