There is a new wellness tool available in South Africa – The Wellness Inventory − designed to meet our society’s current wellness needs. Martin Combrinck looks at why it is a must for your Coaching toolbox.
The Wellness Inventory is a ‘whole person’ assessment and lifestyle programme designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The programme offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into lasting changes in your life, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing.
The programme revolves around assessment in the 12 dimensions of wellness according to Dr. Travis’ Wellness Energy System (see the diagram below). The assessment is educational in nature and helps to create awareness of how your lifestyle, attitudes and behaviour influence your state of health and wellbeing. Read more...
18 June 2010
30 May 2010
Laughter Seminar & Show - New Concept
Laughter Seminar & Show - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nk9gq_PxgI - Combining laughter yoga with a theatre show and coaching the audience to become the participants! Everybody can laugh for no reason at all - http://www.laughter4africa.org.za/
14 May 2010
Laughter Seminar & Show
Laughter for Africa, is hosting a public laughter seminar and show on the 25 May 2010 at 6 pm at Old Mill Theatre in Paarl. This is part of the 'Let's get the Nation Laughing Campaign'. The aim of this campaign is to educated people about the benefits of laughter for yourself and the community.
The seminar is to show people that you can laugh without using comedy, jokes and humour - all that is needed is a willingness to laugh. Scientific studies have shown that children up to the age of 8 years - laugh an average of about 300 times a day. This is because they laugh with their bodies and not their minds. Adults on the other hand, laugh on average only about 10 times a day, because they laugh with their minds. During this laughter seminar, we become like children again and we laugh for no reason at all.
This concept originated in 1995 with Dr Madan Kataria from Mumbai, India. Since then, this phenomenon called Laughter Yoga, has spread to more that 65 countries world-wide. This laughter seminar is presented by Martin Combrinck, international certified Laughter Professional. Part of this presentation is a laughter theatre show, by two well-known actors, Bennie Jacobs and Redione Stephens from 'Lollos' fame - http://www.laughter4africa.org.za/events.htm
The seminar is to show people that you can laugh without using comedy, jokes and humour - all that is needed is a willingness to laugh. Scientific studies have shown that children up to the age of 8 years - laugh an average of about 300 times a day. This is because they laugh with their bodies and not their minds. Adults on the other hand, laugh on average only about 10 times a day, because they laugh with their minds. During this laughter seminar, we become like children again and we laugh for no reason at all.
This concept originated in 1995 with Dr Madan Kataria from Mumbai, India. Since then, this phenomenon called Laughter Yoga, has spread to more that 65 countries world-wide. This laughter seminar is presented by Martin Combrinck, international certified Laughter Professional. Part of this presentation is a laughter theatre show, by two well-known actors, Bennie Jacobs and Redione Stephens from 'Lollos' fame - http://www.laughter4africa.org.za/events.htm
06 May 2010
Innovative Corporate Wellness Solutions for South Africa
Sanga Wellness (South Africa) and Strategic Wellness Partners (US) partnered in 2010 to bring you a premier Corporate Wellness Program - InTune
InTune is a sophisticated internet-based program designed to drive maximum employee participation and engagement in powerful health improvement programs.
We provide science-based health and wellness programs, tools, information, and support to help your employees improve their lifestyle. Our program is different, fresh and powerful. InTune - 'It pays to be well'.
Take a Preview Tour - We offer the employers a complete corporate wellness solution!
InTune is a sophisticated internet-based program designed to drive maximum employee participation and engagement in powerful health improvement programs.
We provide science-based health and wellness programs, tools, information, and support to help your employees improve their lifestyle. Our program is different, fresh and powerful. InTune - 'It pays to be well'.
Take a Preview Tour - We offer the employers a complete corporate wellness solution!
01 May 2010
Ten Ways to Help You Manage Your Stress
The human body often reacts to various situations, thoughts and emotions with a physiological or psychological response. This may result in positive ‘stress’ – a feeling of happiness and satisfaction and well-being in the body or negative stress such as overwhelm, anger, sadness, or any other negative emotion, which can result in a brief illness or serious disease.
Today we have more stress in our lives than ever before – both good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is incredibly harmful to our body, mind and soul; whether it is a real crisis or an imagined one. Here are some self-care ways to deal with stress: For more information - sangawellness.com
Today we have more stress in our lives than ever before – both good stress and bad stress. Bad stress is incredibly harmful to our body, mind and soul; whether it is a real crisis or an imagined one. Here are some self-care ways to deal with stress: For more information - sangawellness.com
Don’t let your stress get the better of you! Apply these strategies to manage your stress.
16 April 2010
Wellness Inventory: Complete Wellness Assessment
We are proud to offer our unique Wellness Inventory as a wellness assessment tool. The Wellness Inventory is a multi-dimensional and life-balance program designed to help you gain personal insight into your state of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellness.
To bring about changes in our state of personal health and wellbeing, it is important to look at ourselves as a whole person - body, mind, and spirit. The program achieves this and offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into sustainable lifestyle change, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing. More info...
The Wellness Assessment tool is applicable to Individuals and/or the Corporate Environment. The Wellness Inventory is exclusively licensed through Sanga Wellness in South Africa. Contact Us to complete your online wellness assessment.
To bring about changes in our state of personal health and wellbeing, it is important to look at ourselves as a whole person - body, mind, and spirit. The program achieves this and offers guidance and tools to transform this new awareness into sustainable lifestyle change, and a renewed sense of health and wellbeing. More info...
The Wellness Assessment tool is applicable to Individuals and/or the Corporate Environment. The Wellness Inventory is exclusively licensed through Sanga Wellness in South Africa. Contact Us to complete your online wellness assessment.
13 April 2010
Laughter is No Joke
Laughter yoga is no joke. Recent studies show that laughter is, after all, the best medicine.
Studies have shown that laughter reduces stress, lifts your mood and is a powerful antidote to depression and anxiety. It also has some physical advantages – it’s been known to boost your immune system and to help to control blood pressure, to name a few.
"The act of vigorous laughter energises our physiology in much the same way that aerobic exercise does, increasing heart and respiration rate and activating various muscle groups. After an episode of laughter, however, our bodies enjoy a relaxation effect," reports a US study on Workplace Laughter and Personal Efficacy by Beckman, Regier and Young. The study findings were published in The Journal of Primary Prevention.
It all sounds good and well, you might say, but in between deadlines, traffic jams, mortgage payments and escalating crime rates it’s not that easy to find something to laugh about.
http://tiny.cc/laughmore
Studies have shown that laughter reduces stress, lifts your mood and is a powerful antidote to depression and anxiety. It also has some physical advantages – it’s been known to boost your immune system and to help to control blood pressure, to name a few.
"The act of vigorous laughter energises our physiology in much the same way that aerobic exercise does, increasing heart and respiration rate and activating various muscle groups. After an episode of laughter, however, our bodies enjoy a relaxation effect," reports a US study on Workplace Laughter and Personal Efficacy by Beckman, Regier and Young. The study findings were published in The Journal of Primary Prevention.
It all sounds good and well, you might say, but in between deadlines, traffic jams, mortgage payments and escalating crime rates it’s not that easy to find something to laugh about.
http://tiny.cc/laughmore
08 April 2010
Yoga Retreat in India: 2010
Ananda Sanga has partnered with an authentic and well-known Ayurveda Resort in Kerala, India, to offer you an authentic special Ayurveda & Yoga holiday and retreat. This holiday will happen in September/October 2010
This beautiful resort gives you an opportunity to pamper yourself. Enter the world of holistic healing and let ayurveda, meditation and yoga restore your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional equilibrium.
Included are personal tuition and meditation, yoga and ayurveda classes by experts Anne & Martin Combrinck from Ananda Sanga, South Africa. Read more...
This beautiful resort gives you an opportunity to pamper yourself. Enter the world of holistic healing and let ayurveda, meditation and yoga restore your physical, mental, spiritual and emotional equilibrium.
Included are personal tuition and meditation, yoga and ayurveda classes by experts Anne & Martin Combrinck from Ananda Sanga, South Africa. Read more...
World Laughter Day: 2 May 2010
Message for World Laughter Day - 2 May 2010
2nd of May 2010 is World Laughter Day – a very special day celebrated worldwide on the first Sunday of every May. Our mission is to bring Good Health, Joy and World Peace through laughter. The way Laughter Yoga has grown across 65 countries without marketing and advertising leaves me with no doubt that this new concept is widely accepted among different cultures and countries and is truly universal.
Everyone knows laughter is good for health, but what kind of laughter is beneficial. Science tells us that laughter is beneficial only if it is sustained and when we laugh longer at least for 10 -15 minutes. There is no way we can laugh that long naturally in our real life. Since laughter in Laughter Yoga is done in the form of an exercise, we can laugh as long as we want to get the guaranteed benefits of laughter. Secondly, in this high pressure, high tension modern world, there are not many reasons that makes us laugh. Therefore, we need to disconnect our laughter from reasons of life and laugh unconditionally without any reason.
While many are getting the health benefits and changing their quality of life, the question is how do we actually bring world peace through laughter? The formula is simple - When you laugh; you change and when you change the world changes around you.
By multiplying Laughter clubs, we are building a worldwide community of like-minded people who believe in common shared values of unconditional love and laughter. It will cultivate ideals based on goodness, generosity, forgiveness, truthfulness and honesty. Read more...
2nd of May 2010 is World Laughter Day – a very special day celebrated worldwide on the first Sunday of every May. Our mission is to bring Good Health, Joy and World Peace through laughter. The way Laughter Yoga has grown across 65 countries without marketing and advertising leaves me with no doubt that this new concept is widely accepted among different cultures and countries and is truly universal.
Everyone knows laughter is good for health, but what kind of laughter is beneficial. Science tells us that laughter is beneficial only if it is sustained and when we laugh longer at least for 10 -15 minutes. There is no way we can laugh that long naturally in our real life. Since laughter in Laughter Yoga is done in the form of an exercise, we can laugh as long as we want to get the guaranteed benefits of laughter. Secondly, in this high pressure, high tension modern world, there are not many reasons that makes us laugh. Therefore, we need to disconnect our laughter from reasons of life and laugh unconditionally without any reason.
While many are getting the health benefits and changing their quality of life, the question is how do we actually bring world peace through laughter? The formula is simple - When you laugh; you change and when you change the world changes around you.
By multiplying Laughter clubs, we are building a worldwide community of like-minded people who believe in common shared values of unconditional love and laughter. It will cultivate ideals based on goodness, generosity, forgiveness, truthfulness and honesty. Read more...
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