Healthy Living Magazine - Spring 2009

The Gawler Foundation magazineAn integrated approach to health

healing and wellbeing

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Residential Programs for Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis and other Illness

► Life and LivingA ten day transformative program to meet and

help overcome the challenges of cancer.

● Monday 21 Sep - Thursday 1 Oct● Monday 26 Oct - Thursday 5 Nov ● Monday 30 Nov - Thursday 10 Dec

► Health, Healing and BeyondA fi ve day follow up program for people who have completed Life and Living or Living Well, the 12 week cancer, healing and wellbeing program.

● Monday 14 Sept - Friday 18 Sept

► Healing Meditation RetreatThree day retreat for people dealing with illness, facilitated by Paul and Maia Bedson.● Monday 7 Sep - Wednesday 9 Sept ● Monday 9 Nov - Wednesday 11 Nov

Residential Programs Promoting Health and Wellbeing

► Weekend Meditation RetreatWeekend retreat facilitated by Paul and Maia Bedson. (for past participants only)

● Friday 16 Oct - Sunday 18 Oct

► Living in Balance Five day retreat facilitated by Paul and Maia Bedson● Monday 5 Oct - Friday 9 Oct

► Rest and RejuvenationFive day retreat facilitated by The Gawler Foundation’s Therapeutic Team

● Monday 19 Oct - Friday 23 Oct

Personal and Professional Development

► Meditation Teachers Training Facilitated by Dr Ian Gawler and Dr Ruth Gawler.

● Part 3: Friday 6 Nov - Sunday 8 Nov

► Reclaim Your Life Six day retreat with a variety of experienced

facilitators. An integrative wellbeing program

designed to empower you to improve your

quality of life and make your heart sing!

● Sunday 22 Nov - Friday 27 Nov

Non-Residential Programs

► Living Well - Cancer, Healing and Wellbeing Twelve weekly sessions to meet and help

overcome the challenges of cancer.

(All programs run from 10am - 12.30pm weekly)

● Burwood Tuesdays - 17 Nov - 15 Dec (weeks 1 - 5)

Weeks 6-12 of program held Jan-Feb 2010)

● Springvale Mondays - 28 Sept - 14 Dec

● Footscray Thursday - 1 Oct - 17 Dec

► Integration ProgramAn eight week program designed for those who

have previously completed Life and Living or

Living Well and who would like to continue

to develop, deepen and share their healing

methods and experiences through an interactive

support group program. Held on Tuesdays in

Canterbury.

● 6 Oct - 1 Dec 10am - 12.30pm

Ongoing Meditation and Cancer Support Groups

► Meditation Group Burwood ● Tuesdays 1pm - 2pm

►Cancer Self-Help Support Group Follow up ● Burwood - Tuesdays 2.30 - 4.30pm

● Footscray 2pm - 4pm

(second and fourth Thursday of the month).

Mindfulness-Based Stillness Meditation and Imagery

► Eight week non-residential program ● Armadale Monday 5 Oct - 23 Nov

12.30pm - 2pm

2009 Gawler Foundation Programs

ello everyone and welcome to spring. I read recently that too often spring is looked upon as a relief from

winter, or as a sign post to summer. But it is so much more. Spring is the renewal and reawakening of the earth and its people, where new possibilities can be explored. I remember when I was a child the women of my neighbourhood would turn their homes inside out during spring, my playmates and I put to work beating rugs, washing windows, emptying wardrobes all involved in ‘a good spring clean’. Spring brought with it a surge of energy, inspired by the active process of rebirth that is spring itself. Spring is hope. Spring is life.

So, on the theme of a ‘good spring clean’ our magazine presents an array of articles on the topic of detox. What better time to start on your own personal spring clean or detox. Spring foods have exceptional natural detoxifying power and aid your digestive system so I hope that you will fi nd the articles interesting and motivating.

In November we will be holding two very special events. First our Annual Conference which will take place on 14 and 15 November; we have an amazing selection of speakers, topics and workshops for everyone to engage in and learn from. It is a real blockbuster. As part of the conference we will be hosting a special Conference Dinner - a ‘Roast’ dinner to celebrate Ian Gawler’s 28 years of service to the Foundation. Many of you will know that Ian stepped down as Therapeutic Director earlier this year and in 2010 will take a well earned break. Join us for the conference and the dinner and be a part of this special celebration.

Our second big event for November is the Open Day. We had a wonderful time at our last Open Day in 2007, and this year promises to be even bigger and better - and the sun WILL shine.

Thank you to everyone who supported our June Appeal, it is so reassuring to have your generous support.

Thank you too to all of you who gave us feedback on the ‘new look’ magazine. We are so glad that you think it is as good as we hoped it would be.

Enjoy your spring cleaning….

The Gawler Foundation Inc. is a not for profi t organisation committed to an integrated

approach to health, healing and wellbeing that includes the body, emotions, mind and spirit. Our mission is to work within an integrative medical framework to provide access to the best possible instruction and support for the implementation of self-help techniques for people experiencing cancer, MS or other

serious illness.

Directors of the Board

Irene Goonan, President

Ray Cummings, Treasurer

Alistair Bennallack

Professor Avni Sali

Karin Knoester, CEO

The Gawler Foundation

55 Rayner Court

PO Box 77

Yarra Junction VIC 3797

Phone (03) 5967 1730

Fax (03) 5967 1715

Email [email protected]

Web www.gawler.org

ABN 79 160 595 251

Editorial

Editor and Designer, Dave Walker

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Editorial Committee

Paul Bedson, Senior Therapist

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Sherelle Dye, Research Offi cer

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Christine Johnson, Community Relations

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Membership and SubscriptionsSue Skinner

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The contents of this magazine do not necessarily refl ect the opinions of The Gawler Foundation and should not be construed as medical advice.The Gawler Foundation accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions, advice, representations or information contained in this publication. The Gawler Foundation encourages readers to be discerning with information presented and when making treatment, dietary and lifestyle choices.

From the CEO

Karin Knoester is The Gawler Foundation’s Chief Executive. She can be contacted by email: [email protected]

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Reclaim Your Life is a new six day retreat program at The Gawler Foundation specifi cally designed to help you engage more with life.

Perhaps your exercise program has fallen off track, perhaps your eating habits have left you feeling less than well nourished, or perhaps you simply need to spend some time prioritising your real needs.

Whatever your reason the Reclaim Your Life retreat will allow you to address your own particular needs in a way that is best for you.

The Reclaim Your Life program offers you space to breathe deeply, relax, meditate and nourish your body and mind.

It also offers you the opportunity to learn about and try some new life skills. Lifestyle workshops which focus on a range of topics including stress management and nutrition will help you to develop a sound regime for your new life. You will also have time to enjoy a variety of optional one-on-one sessions including massage, meditation, personal training, qi gong and counselling.

The Foundation is committed to an integrative approach to health and wellness and you will have the opportunity to focus on your physical, spiritual and emotional needs to ensure your life and lifestyle is in balance. This retreat will be led by a range of Foundation therapists and specialist leaders including Therapeutic Director Helen Nikolas, and therapists Paul and Maia Bedson.

Our therapists have many years of experience in natural therapies including qigong, tai chi, meditation, dietetics and counselling. The Reclaim Your Life retreat will inspire you to be the very best that you can be.

Reclaim your life

If you have attended The Gawler Foundation’s residential Life and Living Program and/or a 12 week Living Well - Cancer, Healing and Wellbeing non-residential program, this exciting new Eight Week Integration Program is just for you.

The Integration Program was created for those who have and who would like to continue to develop, deepen, and share their healing methods and experiences through a structured and interactive support group program.

The program of eight weekly sessions is held at St Paul’s Anglican Church in Canterbury, with the next one commencing on Tuesday 6 October to Tuesday 1 December. Sessions are held weekly from 10am - 12.30pm and comprise meditation, interactive presentation of the session topic and an open forum to facilitate discussion in a supportive environment. This Integration Program will be facilitated by Seikan Cech.

Integration program - the next step

For bookings and more information about these programs, contact The Gawler Foundation on 03 5967 1730. Paintings on this page by Anna Kay | www.annakayart.com

Meditation teachers inserviceEndorsed meditation teachers will return to The Gawler Foundation from 16 – 18 November to take part in their biennial inservice.

The Gawler Foundation gives accreditation to a select number of teachers each year to enable them to teach meditation in groups or individually.

The teachers learn mindfulness-based stillness meditation based on Ian Gawler’s books Peace of Mind and Meditation Pure and Simple and the techniques used for 25 years by the Foundation to teach meditation.

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I had synovial sarcoma six years ago and a recurrence in March 2008. The recurrence consisted of four tumours in my abdomen (liver, bowel and two in the region around my belly button). My oncologist told me nothing could be done and that I had two to three years to live.

Back at home I pulled out Ian’s meditation CDs and his book You Can Conquer Cancer. I started off well and with good intentions but as time went on I became complacent. Having not learnt my lesson the fi rst time I was faced with another wakeup call, this one being more serious.

In May I had surgery to remove all the tumours and once I recovered my husband and I fl ew over from West Australia to take part in the Life and Living program.

Being at the Foundation made me feel like I had come home. I felt so safe and so aware of what was important in my life and the journey I was about to embark on.

I felt alive and in control of my feelings. I put this down to all the meditation I had been doing fi ve months prior to my visit to the Foundation. My visit was also made easier due to making the transition to the vegan diet.

My husband and I returned home in full swing of all we had taken from the program and very comfortable knowing what we were doing in regards to diet and meditation was the right path to take for my healing.

In November just three months after returning from the foundation I had my follow up CT scan and PET scan only to reveal the cancer was back. This time six tumours had invaded my abdomen.

I once again made the decision to go through

chemotherapy and endured four months of total debilitation. The last three cycles in particular were extremely tough.

But I kept hearing this little voice inside my head saying ‘keep going, keep going, stay with it’. My heart was strong and I could feel deep within me that I was going to be ok. I had my quarterly follow up CT scan in July which showed absolutely no evidence of the tumours anywhere. I could not believe what I was seeing and hearing and my oncologist said there will be no more treatment needed although close monitoring every three months is a must.

I’ve been asked by a few people over here in the west about whether they should go to the Foundation for the 10 day Life and Living program. My response is always ‘don’t even think twice about it’.

I explained about our stay and how valuable it was then and still is to my healing. I talk to a lot of people that are dealing with cancer who for some reason cross my path and I am happy to chat to them as I know and understand the importance of having support.

When I meditate now and I scan my body all I can see is a crystal clear body like a shiny new car with its new motor. I can feel the body responding to my diet, the meditation and the stress free life I’m enjoying now I have drastically cut down my work hours.

I am really enjoying life, understanding and seeing it for the fi rst time and if it hadn’t been for the Foundation I am certain my outcome would be much different from where it stands at present.

I will continue my new found healing journey with enlightenment, love and zest.

Wendy’s healing journey

Wendy Howl (above) participated in The Gawler Foundation’s

residential Life and Living Program in August 2008. This is her story.


By Dr Carole Hungerford

Epigenetic is a term that refers to characteristics that appear to be inherited, but do not appear to be encoded in the genome.

Some researchers even suspect that this might be where nature and nurture converge; the route by

which our environment, stress, toxic chemicals and the food we eat can modify and manipulate the message written in our genes.¹

A disturbing aspect of epigenetic inheritance is that genes may be permanently switched on or off by environmental presences or absences, so much so that future generations will show the effects.

For example, vitamin and mineral defi ciency during pregnancy gives rise to a greater risk of diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease in the offspring, independent of subsequent nutrition. Has the histone* code of the infant been damaged by nutritional depletion? Will this be passed on to his or her children?

We know that there is a greater incidence of congenital abnormalities in babies conceived in test tubes. Cloned animals which appear normal at birth have greater vulnerability to infection; they are prone to dying suddenly from conditions such as organ failure or cardiovascular disease.

It is perhaps too early to speculate on the causes of such problems, but it is reasonable to observe that, during the critical phases of fertilisation and embryogenesis, the complex nutrients from a mixed healthy diet might be diffi cult to duplicate in the culture medium. The embryos have the same set of genes as the mother, but we have to wonder about what is happening to the on-off switches of those genes.

Other evidence has come from work at the University of Sydney, which shows that epigenetic inheritance may be one of the factors involved in the rising incidence of asthma and autism.2 Another example is a study that has shown that the diet of a mother animal can permanently infl uence fur colour in the offspring.2

The mechanism by which this may occur is through the acetyl and methyl groups attached to the histone core, which can affect whether the gene is expressed or not.

Enzymes inside the nucleus (such as methyl transferase and deacetylase) add methyl groups, remove acetyl groups and so on. Researchers have identifi ed at least 20 or 30 such enzymes with the potential to affect gene transcription in this way. The implication of this is that these dietary nutrients can determine the transcription of individual genes through gene silencing or activation.

Viral infection has been shown to trigger a series of acetylation reactions which turn on the gene responsible for the transcription of beta feron, a powerful anti-viral.

Hormones have been shown to trigger gene expression via acetylation reactions. Many illnesses occur when cells act autonomously, or when genes ignore the modifying instructions of other genes. The histones provide a mechanism whereby ‘bad’ genes can be controlled. The methyl and other groups come from things as simple as the folic acid in leafy green vegetables.

It has been proposed that the gut bacteria may have a role in determining how genes are read. Here too, the infl uence may come via modifi cation of the histone code. Gut bacteria, as previously discussed, produce short-chain fatty acids, or SCFAs, including butyric acid. Butyric acid has been demonstrated to be a potent inhibitor of histone de-acetylases.4

A defi ciency of butyrate as a result of a reduction in gut fl ora may, in theory at least, allow an enzyme to switch on an ‘oncogene’, which is then inappropriately expressed.

Plant and animal cells seem to be able to block a specifi c gene by destroying the RNA copies made by that gene. This is called RNA interference, or RNAi. There has been some excitement in the research world about the potential for

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many illnesses to be treated by blocking the relevant genes in this way.The approach has been to add small matching pieces of interfering RNA (RNAsi) to the cell. So far the results have indicated that there is collateral damage to adjacent genes, which is of course undesirable. Perhaps the most reliable technique for the moment is to ensure that the cell has all the nutrients it needs to support its own targeting process.

Avoiding mutations

When a gene is damaged, several things can happen. The cell itself may recognise that the damage is beyond repair and commit suicide. Within the genetic material are genes which contribute to this process.

Often the damage is recognised by the very enzymes the DNA itself has produced, and these enzymes will set about repairing that damage.

The enzymes, called DNA repairase, are in constant use. Mutations occur when these enzymes fail to do their job. As the enzymes are dependent on co-factors such as selenium and zinc, it is clear that a defi ciency of such co-factors compromises the ability of DNA to repair itself.

If repair has not taken place, and the cell has not destroyed itself, then the result is that a permanent change has taken place in the code, and this is called a mutation.

A mutation that occurs in a germ cell (eggs or sperm) is passed on to the next generation. If it occurs in a somatic cell (that is, any cell in the body which is not a germ cell), the damage is confi ned to that cell and its daughter cells. It may be of no consequence at all. On the other hand, it may be the fi rst step in the process of that cell turning into a cancer cell.

Although we have many defences against mutations, prevention is always better than cure. Avoiding cigarettes, radiation, pollution and chemicals is one half of this equation.

But we should be quite clear about one thing: most genetic mutations are caused by free radicals scavenging electrons from DNA. This is nothing

more nor less than oxidative damage.4 Therefore, eating a good diet rich in anti-oxidants and leading a healthy lifestyle is the other half.

And while we cannot blame our genome, millions of years in the making, for the diseases of Western civilisation, we have signifi cant control over most of our bad genes.

Although at this stage much is still in the research phase, a closer look at epigenetic inheritance may well see us arrive at the conclusions our grandparents never questioned: that sunshine and exercise are good for us; that we need fresh air and adequate rest; that we are what we eat.

* Note: Histone is a protein around which DNA coils to

form chromatin. Without this protein material, DNA could

not organize into chromosomes, and life as we know it

would not exist.

References1. Phillips H. Master code. New Scientist. March 15, 2003: 44.

2. Cohen C. You are what your mother ate. New Scientist. August 9, 2003: 14.

3. Marks PA et al. Inhibitors of Histone Deacetylase Are Potentially Effective Anticancer Agents. Clin Cancer Res. April 2001;7:759–60.

4. Ananthaswamy A. Enzymes scan DNA using electric pulses.

New Scientist. October 18, 2003: 10.

pigenetics: The study of

the processes involved in the

genetic development of an

organism, especially the activation and

deactivation of genes.

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Epigenetic Inheritance

Dr Carole Hungerford is a keynote speaker at The Gawler Foundation’s 2009 annual Profound Healing, Sustainable Wellbeing conference.

Keynote address: Epigenetics: Where

nature and nurture converge - genes

switched on or off by environment and

lifestyle.

Workshop: Things you can do to get the

best out of the genetic hand you have been

dealt.

e and nurture converge


Excerpt from the British Medical Journal, online fi rst, July 2009.

By Karsten Juhl Jorgensen and Peter C Gøtzche

Screening for cancer may lead to earlier detection of lethal cancers but also detects harmless ones that will not cause death or symptoms. The detection of such cancers, which would not have been identifi ed clinically in someone’s remaining lifetime, is called over diagnosis and can only be harmful to those who experience it.1 As it is not possible to distinguish between lethal and harmless cancers, all detected cancers are treated. Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are therefore inevitable.2

It is well known that many cases of carcinoma in situ in the breast do not develop into potentially lethal invasive disease.1 In contrast, many fi nd it diffi cult to accept that screening for breast cancer also leads to overdiagnosis of invasive cancer. Harmless invasive cancer is common, however, even for lung cancer, with 30% overdiagnosis after long term follow-up of patients screened by radiography.2 Autopsy studies have shown that invasive prostate cancer occurs in about 60% of men in their 60s, whereas the lifetime risk of dying from such cancer is only about 3%. Autopsy studies have also found inconsequential breast cancer lesions. Thirty seven per cent of women aged 40 - 54 who died from causes other than breast cancer had lesions of invasive or non-invasive cancer at autopsy, and half were visible on radiography. 3, 4

The extent of overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a result of mammography screening was fi rst quantifi ed in reviews of randomised trials.5, 6 The total number of mastectomies and lumpectomies increased by 31% and mastectomies by 20%. As these trials did not have lifelong follow-up the extent of overdiagnosis could have been overestimated.

Underestimation is also possible, however, as the randomised design was maintained for only four to

Overdiagnosis in mammography screening programs: a systematic review of incidence trends


The Gawler Foundation is holding an art auction as part of their open day on Saturday 28 November and is seeking support from artists who would be willing to donate a piece to the auction.

All proceeds from the auction day will go into the Foundation’s bursary fund to help people with cancer who are experiencing fi nancial diffi culties to take part in one of the programs.

To fi nd out more about the art auction and to offer your support, please contact Rudi at The Gawler Foundation on 03 5967 1730.

Calling all artists

nine years6 and as opportunistic screening occurred in the control groups.7

Screening programs differ from randomised trials. Radiologists outside a rigourous trial setting may be less well trained than those in the trial, and technical developments resulting in higher resolution images may also affect outcomes. The basic premise of an unchanged lifetime risk of breast cancer in the absence of overdiagnosis is, however, the same.

To estimate the extent of overdiagnosis in organised screening programs we compared trends in breast cancer incidence before and after screening, taking account of changes in the background incidence and any compensatory drop in incidence of breast cancer among older, previously screened women. We combined our results in a meta-analysis. The increase in incidence of breast cancer was closely related to the introduction of screening and little of this increase was compensated for by a drop in incidence of breast cancer in previously screened women. One in three breast cancers detected in a population offered organised

screening is overdiagnosed.

References

1 Vainio H, Bianchini F. IARC handbooks of cancer prevention vol 7: breast cancer screening. Lyon: IARC Press, 2002.

2 Welch GH. Should I be tested for cancer? California: University of California Press, 2004.

3 Nielsen M, Thomsen JL, Primdahl S, Dyreborg U, Andersen JA. Breast cancer atypia among young and middle-aged women: a study of 110 medicolegal autopsies. Br J Cancer.1987;56:814-9.

4 Welch HG, Black WC. Using autopsy series to estimate the disease “reservoir” for ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast. Ann Intern Med. 1997;127:1023-8.

5 Gøtzsche PC, Olsen O. Is screening for breast cancer with mammography justifi able? Lancet. 2000;355:129-34.

6 Gøtzsche PC, Nielsen M. Screening for breast cancer with mammography. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006;(4):CD001877.

7 Andersson I, Aspegren K, Janzon L, Landberg T, Lindholm K, Linell F, et al. Mammographic screening and mortality from breast cancer: the Malmö mammographic screening trial. BMJ. 1988;297:943-8.

Due to problems with our mail house provider, some members may not have received the winter edition of Healthy Living magazine.

If you did not receive it, please contact Sue by email:[email protected] and we'll send you out another one.

Winter edition of

Healthy Living

Don't forget to put Saturday 3 October in your diary for the next Mind Body Spirit seminar.

It will again be held at the beautiful Abbotsford Convent where we’ll spend more time exploring the theme of music, as a follow on from our last seminar series.

Be sure to check our website www.gawler.org regularly for more details.

Seminar series


ver the years I’ve seen fi rst hand the benefi cial ways that plants work in harmony with each other and I’ve found that taking the time to look

and think about each plant and understand what it needs to grow will give you a much more rewarding gardening experience.

A great one to use in the garden is the marigold (tagetes), not only for its companion planting qualities, but also for its beautiful splash of coloured fl owers in the warmer months. Marigolds keep away white fl y and are great companions to both tomatoes and capsicum. When planting a row of tomatoes you will only need one or two marigold plants to cover the area and I fi nd the best marigold variety to use is Boy O’Boy, not only for its variety of colours, but also because it emits the strongest scent.

When planting marigold near tomato or capsicum it is a good idea to plant it near the path. That way when you brush past it while walking it will release the scent of the plant, much like rubbing a herb between your fi ngers.

Another great match in the garden are onions and carrots. The onion scent works to stop the carrot fl y from laying its eggs, while the smell of the carrot is a natural deterrent to the onion fl y.

But while the onion and carrot are good to plant with each other in terms of keeping pests away, there are problems around the fact that both vegetables need different types of growing conditions in order

to thrive. The foliage of each vegetable provides a

solid clue to its ideal growing conditions. The leaves

of the carrot are feathery and promote shade for the

carrot growing beneath, giving the vegetable both

shade and moist soil.

The onion on the other hand has narrow leaves

which offer no protection at all. That’s because the

onion in order to grow needs fairly dry, warm soil.

The way to work around this problem is to plant out

a bed of carrots and a bed of onions, separated by

a path. This will keep the scents close but the soil

far enough apart so each vegetable can do its own

thing.

The Gawler Foundation garden will come to life this

spring as we plant carrots, beetroot, lettuce, celery,

onions, spring onions, parsley and chives, peas and

broad beans.

Many of you will

also be planting

cabbage,

broccoli and

caulifl ower this

spring.

I prefer to sow

these at the end

of summer to avoid problems with the cabbage moth

and the extensive organic pesticide spraying that

goes with it!

A match made in the garden

Tobias Mager is The Gawler

Foundation’s gardener.

He can be contacted by email:

[email protected]

Taking a little time to consider the

way you plant your vegetable garden

this spring can help provide you with a

bumper crop.

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Later, George was able to learn ‘kitty calisthenics while washing’ without my tutoring, since I would have had great diffi culty modelling the ‘leg-above-the-head’ yoga move that all cats can achieve effortlessly. At three months of age when she needed to be de-sexed she did, in fact, turn out to be a girl.

We have a new vet now.

A month after we moved into our house, George and I adopted Kyla, a totally black labrador/kelpie cross who loves to cuddle.

Kyla came to us via an email I received at work … the day I woke up and decided that I wanted a dog.

ne day I woke up and decided that I wanted a cat.

It took me many years before I realised that I like cats. I had always described myself as a dog person. I like dogs.

The turning point came when I house sat two cats. Fortunately for ‘Scruffy’ who had diabetes, I’m a dietitian. After I adjusted Scruffy’s daily shot of insulin and reduced his food, he gained weight, stopped piddling on the fl oor and looked relatively healthy for his 15 years … but I digress.

I was about to move into my house in Mount Eliza on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula and I woke up one day and decided that I wanted a cat.

Walking into work that day I tripped over a cardboard box containing two tiny balls of black and white fl uff. My colleague, Hugh had rescued two of the four kittens born to the feral cats that lived under our offi ce. One looked into my eyes and caught

Helen Nikolas is The Gawler Foundation’s Therapeutic Director. She can be contacted by email: [email protected]

George the cat.

my heart. Hugh thought it was a girl, so she became ‘Lizzie’ and I would guess she was the runt of the litter. I rolled her up in the bottom of my jumper to feel warm and cosy as I worked. We cuddled lots.

We went to the vet on the way home that night. He was adamant that I had confused him by saying she was a girl. So she became ‘George’ and I became momma cat. I taught her to use the litter tray (she’s a very fast learner) and to wash. So after dripping kitty milk into her little mouth, I rubbed her with a damp wash cloth saying ‘Lick, lick, lick, wash, wash, wash’. Fortunately no one witnessed my efforts to raise a kitten.

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Call to arms ... and hands and minds!The Gawler Foundation has always relied on a dedicated band of volunteers to help deliver the wide variety of cancer, healing and wellbeing programs we offer.

One such volunteer, Heather Clapman, has recently hung up the gardening gloves after three years of helping the Foundation’s gardener Tobias Mager.

Her work and dedication to the Foundation’s garden and grounds was highly valued and very much appreciated and she will be greatly missed.

With Heather’s departure comes an opportunity for someone to join the team and assist Tobias. You’ll learn a lot about organic/biodynamic vegie growing and have the opportunity to work in a truly beautiful and serene environment.

The Foundation is also seeking volunteers for a couple

of other positions. The fi rst is to assist the Group Leader with our Burwood or Footscray Living Well - Cancer, Healing & Wellbeing program, on a rostered basis. This position involves helping to set up the room, welcoming participants and preparing morning tea.

The other position is one day a week at The Gawler Foundation’s resource centre to assist with processing mail orders and administration.

We are looking for people who are reliable and have some time on their hands to assist on a regular basis. The work is very rewarding and your assistance is much appreciated by staff

and program participants.

If you’re interested, please contact Rudi Uriot on 5967 1730 or email [email protected] for a volunteer application form.

Heather Clapman.


Many diseases can be overcome by eating healing foods that contain powerful medicinal properties.

The culinary habits of different cultures have been recognised for decades as being infl uential in the incidence of diseases.

For instance Mediterranean countries have a lower prevalence of cardiovascular diseases because of the protective effect of traditional Mediterranean foods, such as olive oil, tomatoes and legumes. Broccoli and other vegetables in the cruciferous family are known to reduce the risk of bowel cancer, but it is only recently that scientists have isolated the phyto-chemicals which confer this protection.

Phyto-chemicals are compounds such as beta-carotene that occur naturally in plants and is a term used to describe healing substances found in certain foods or therapeutically active chemicals.

Broccoli has been found to contain a phyto-chemical called sulphoraphane, which enhances the phase two-detoxifi cation pathway in the liver. Sulphoraphane has also been found to block mammary tumor formation in rats.

Tomatoes contain a powerful antioxidant called lycopene, which according to a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1997:66:116-22), is the most powerful of all the dietary carotenoids. The researchers found that the dietary intake of lycopene was linked to a lower risk of prostate problems.

They also found that higher levels of lycopene in the blood lowered the risk of cell proliferation, which would theoretically exert a powerful anti-cancer effect. Cooking or chopping tomatoes increases the absorption of lycopene into the body. Eating tomatoes with oil increases the availability of the lycopene to the body, which is another reason that Mediterranean cuisine confers health benefi ts.

Beetroot is a beautiful deep purple colour because it contains the antioxidant anthocyanidin. Constituents of beetroot have been shown to exert anti-viral and anti-tumour effects in animal studies. Other foods, which also exert these properties, although to a lesser degree, are red and green peppers, red onion, paprika and cranberry. These foods contain healing phytonutrients such as carotenoids, capsanthin and anthocyanins.

Let food be your

Certain foods have high concentrations of plant hormones, which are known as phyto-estrogens. Examples of these are the isofl avones genistein and daidzein (found in soya beans and red clover), and lignans (found in fl axseed). Asian communities consume a high intake of soy, and have a signifi cantly lower incidence of hormone dependent cancers of the prostate, uterus and breast. All legumes such as beans, peas and lentils contain benefi cial phyto-estrogens.

Asian and Mediterranean cuisines are now integrating themselves into the old fashioned Western diet consisting of meat, bread and four vegetables. This culinary multiculturalism has enormous and proven benefi ts for our health and also for our enjoyment. We all know that variety is the spice of life, and Asian and Mediterranean foods can add spice to our often bland ways of eating. A wide range of Asian foods is now available from supermarkets and greengrocers as well as Chinese grocery stores. Typical Asian foods and vegetables such as ginger, chilli, garlic, Chinese water spinach, bok choy, lemongrass, coconut, tumeric, curry, Chinese mushrooms and many others can be experimented with, and gradually introduced into the diet if you want to expand the horizons of your taste buds.

Source: Vital Principles of the Liver Diet by Dr Sandra Cabot | www.liverdoctor.com

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I was fi rst touched by cancer when my mother was diagnosed with advanced Ovarian Cancer 19 years ago. The doctors said it would be best if she was left alone to die peacefully. Well she didn’t die; she’s still here and she’s nearly 80! Her positive attitude and determination would be the driving force for me when I faced the same cancer nearly four and half years ago. Little did I know that I had inherited from my mother the rare, abnormal BRCA1 gene which increases the risk of breast and ovarian cancer. I was only 44 years old!

I however, was encouraged to have chemotherapy, although it was different to the chemo treatment my mother had. The doctors said I had a good chance of getting rid of it but according to them my chances weren’t as good keeping it at bay for too long. “There’s a chance you’ll get breast cancer as well” they said. I was already aware that a lot of women

with advanced ovarian cancer didn’t make it past the third year mark; that alone was tough enough to deal with! I couldn’t deal with the prospect of getting breast cancer. I decided

not to allow the statistics to weigh me down. I was going to beat this.

When things became too diffi cult, my beautiful four year old daughter was my constant inspiration. I went on to research everything I could relating to cancer, diet, lifestyle, spirituality and meditation. A friend told me about The Gawler Foundation, which I visited and was pleasantly surprised to fi nd that the Foundation covered all of the things I was researching. That was comforting! I set myself a goal to attend the retreat after I fi nished chemo but in the meantime was content to purchase Dorothy Edgelow’s cookbook and start juicing and eating healthily.

Approximately six months later after six gruelling rounds of chemo, nausea and feeling like a pin cushion, I fi nally realised my goal and attended the retreat. It was all that I hoped for and more.

Melbourne mum Soula Panagiotou has had more experience than most with advanced ovarian cancer. Both she and her mother have been affected by the disease and both have recovered. Soula’s own healing journey, which was in part inspired by The Gawler Foundation’s 10 day Life and Living Program, has prompted her to write a book, The Detox

Answer. She talks here about her own cancer challenge and the importance that diet and nutrition plays in recovering from serious illness.

The wonderful food and meditation were exactly what my body needed. I met the most remarkable, dedicated people and made some lifelong friendships. The knowledge I gained has been invaluable and I have been able to put it to good use by including what I learnt and what I researched into my book called The Detox Answer.

The Detox Answer is about getting healthy again after serious illness, addiction or just sloppy eating habits. It’s also about nurturing yourself, treating yourself as a special person and then reaping the beauty, health and weight loss benefi ts of eating well and looking after yourself.

It was important for me to document how I went about eliminating all the toxins from my body that had accumulated from the chemo, the sleeping tablets, the painkillers and the anti-nausea drugs. My cells had taken a battering and I was determined to get them healthy again. It wasn’t easy, as my body ached for a while and started to rebel. My diet was constantly changing; I stopped eating animal and dairy products, sugar and coffee. I took more of an interest in cooking fresh healthy food and created some of my own recipes, which are included in the book. All the hard work started paying off and I felt better than ever. People kept commenting on how well I looked. My feelings of anger, resentment and fear had dissipated. I felt powerful and in control of my life and health and still do so to this day.

I fi rmly believe that everyone has the ability to tap into their own healing energy. I feel it’s important not to hand over all your power to someone else; you’re the one responsible for your own healing journey. Use your intuition and fi nd what works best for you. I am certain it was my inner strength, courage and positive thinking that got me to where I am today. We can all draw from this inner place, our spirit, to show us the way.

I would like to thank The Gawler Foundation for standing by my book and stocking it in their resource centre. For more information go to www.thedetoxanswer.com.

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Spring is a great time to attend to your spiritual wellbeing, refreshing your soul and getting back in touch with your own needs. Here, Deborah King gives you some pointers on how to conduct your own...

spring clean◊ Start a journal A journal is a great way to express internal feelings to help cleanse the spiritual debris that clutters us. Write for yourself, not some imaginary reader. Let the journal take you to where it wants you to go. You may fi nd a childhood-rooted fear at the heart of your problem, but even if you don’t have a profound, ‘aha moment’, you’ll get better acquainted with the ‘real you’.

◊ Meditate A minimum of 20 minutes of meditation daily will open your inner world. Meditation is a wonderful tool that will enable you to connect with your spirit, refresh your soul, and simply recharge your batteries. What’s more, it’s necessary for spiritual health. Silence, stillness, and solitude are basic human needs and we don’t get them unless we make room for them. Carving out time to meditate, time free of human and electronic interruptions, is basic spiritual hygiene.

◊ Start setting boundaries Speak your voice. Take back your power. Spiritual debris piles up and clogs your energy when you consistently fail to be true to yourself. Have you given away some of your power? Are you allowing some other person or entity, a parent, a spouse, a job, an addiction, to shape your life? Do you take on tasks you would prefer not to do, or regularly squelch your opinions to keep from offending others? Now is the time to

start breaking these patterns.

◊ Take in nature As often as possible, immerse yourself in nature. It’s not always easy to do in today’s world, but fi nd time to connect with the Earth and its healing rhythms. Get up early and sit on your front porch to soak up the sunrise. Spend a weekend hiking or camping or walking on the beach. Plant and nurture a small garden, even if it’s just pots in a window or on a balcony. Getting in touch with nature really does help you get in touch with the needs of your own soul. It reminds you that renewal and rebirth are not only possible, but natural. Effortless. And spring, with

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Eight steps to detoxingEat plentiful amounts of raw fruits and vegetables, especially dark green leafy vegetables and orange, yellow, purple and red coloured fruits and vegetables. Thirty to forty percent of the diet should consist of raw fruits and vegetables. Try to eat some raw fruits or vegetables with every meal, as they contain living enzymes, vitamin C, natural antibiotic substances and anti-cancer phyto-nutrients.

#1Think Raw

#2Think naturalAvoid artifi cial chemicals and toxins such as insecticides, pesticides, and artifi cial sweeteners and colourings, (especially aspartame), fl avourings and preservatives. Excess alcohol, particularly spirits, should be avoided.

#4 Be diverseConsume a diverse range of proteins from grains, raw nuts, seeds and legumes.

to obtain fi rst class protein vegetarians need to combine 3 of the following 4 food classes at one meal - grains, nuts, seeds and legumes; otherwise valuable essential amino acids may be defi cient.

Spring is not only a time of renewal for mother nature, it’s also a great time to treat yourself to a detox.Following these eight simple steps from Dr Sandra Cabot will get you well on the way to giving your body a spring clean! source: www.liverdoctor.com


#3 Go organicNot many people want to eat fruits and vegetables that have been sprayed repeatedly with insecticides and fungicides, ripened with ethylene gas and perhaps waxed with an insect secretion.

Organic food is sometimes called biodynamic food and is produced without synthetic herbicides, insecticides, fertilisers, post-harvest fungicides, antibiotic growth-promoters, or size enhancing hormones. It relies upon Mother Nature’s forces, recycling of nutrients and sustainable methods of production. Foods certifi ed as organic must be grown on farms that are inspected and fully certifi ed according to a stringent set of standards. Packaged and/or processed organic foods are free from artifi cial preservatives, colourings, fl avourings or additives, and should not contain irradiated or genetically modifi ed ingredients.

Avoid constipation by having plenty of fi bre, found in unprocessed food and raw fruits and vegetables.

Other good sources of fi bre are brans made from wheat, oats, soy or rice. Sweet corn either raw or freshly and lightly cooked, is an excellent source of bowel cleansing fi bre.

Fibre acts like a broom in your bowels and sweeps their walls clean of accumulated layers of waste products, which can then be eliminated in the bowel actions.

#5 Keep your bowels moving

Eight steps to detoxingAvoid the fats that present a high workload for the liver and gall bladder. These are full-cream dairy products, margarines, processed vegetable oils (hydrogenated fats), deep fried foods, foods that are not fresh and contain rancid fats, preserved meats, animal skins and fatty meats.

Eat the good fats which contain essential fatty acids in their natural unprocessed form found in cold pressed vegetable and seed oils, avocados, raw fresh nuts, raw fresh seeds such as fl axseeds (linseeds), sunfl ower seeds, sesame seeds, hemp seeds, alfalfa seeds, pumpkin seeds and legumes (beans, peas and lentils).

Do not use butter and/or margarine on your breads and crackers. Replace them with tahini, hummus, pesto, tomato paste or relish, freshly minced garlic and cold pressed oil (chilli or other natural spices can be added if enjoyed), nut-spreads, fresh avocado or cold pressed olive oil.

#6 Oil but don’t grease your body

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#7 Rehydrate your bodyDrink large amounts of fl uids such as water, raw juices and teas (green tea, herbal and regular weak tea is fi ne). Aim for 2 litres of fl uid daily and this will prevent constipation problems and help your kidneys to eliminate the toxins that the liver has broken down. Use a household water fi lter. Water fi lters with sub-micron, solid carbon block fi lters are able to remove parasites and many toxic chemicals. Shop around and take a look at different types of fi lters before you buy and get professional advice as technology is improving rapidly.

The liver is the major organ involved in detoxifi cation; however it is still important to support the other body organs of elimination. The skin and the kidneys eliminate toxins through sweating and urine and this is why saunas and a high intake of fi ltered water can reduce symptoms of toxic overload.

Avoid constipation by having plenty of fi bre, found in unprocessed food and raw fruits and

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Fibre acts like a broom in your bowels and sweeps their walls clean of accumulated layers of waste products, which can then be

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#8 Be a gourmet not a gourmandBe selective and aim for food taste and quality, instead of quantity. Chew slowly so that you can tune into the subtle tastes of natural foods, oils, spices and herbs. Do not overeat, and listen to the messages from your body. When you feel full and satisfi ed stop eating. Consistently overeating greatly increases the workload of the liver, and this may reduce its capacity to detoxify harmful substances effi ciently. Overworking the liver also reduces its ability to burn fat so that you will be more likely to develop a fatty liver. Many people unwittingly dig their grave with their teeth.

am having a great deal of trouble buying organic brown rice for the Gawler

Foundation kitchen - actually I cannot get it at all.

So I was looking around for a replacement in a health food store recently when I overheard someone say, ‘Oh yes darling, quinoa is the new rice don’t you know?’

I called up one of the suppliers half expecting to be met with the same problems I’d been having trying to get hold of brown rice only to be asked if I’d like my quinoa in white, red or black. After ordering 15 kilograms of each colour I was keen to see what we could do with it.

What a marvellous food it is - originating from South America, it’s just like a grain although it is called a seed. It is more

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people new to vegetarianism in as much it can help satisfy cravings for nutrient concentrated foods.

A small amount of quinoa makes a good thickener for vegetable soups and curries. If you want a change from oat porridge try warm quinoa for breakfast. Just cook it in a saucepan with water or soy milk and some dried fruit (I love fresh dates in it) sweeten with honey and eat with a dollop of yoghurt.

The ongoing drought and severe weather conditions in the rice growing areas of New South Wales and Queensland have made it virtually impossible to source brown rice in Victoria. While suppliers are expecting this to change over the next 6 to 12 months, we’re happy that the shortage has enabled us to ‘discover’ and incorporate quinoa into our menu!

(pronounced keen-wah), is a grain-like crop grown primarily for its edible seeds. It is a pseudo cereal rather than a true cereal, or grain, as it is not a grass. As a chenopod, quinoa

is closely related to species such as beets, spinach and tumbleweeds. Its leaves are also eaten as a leaf vegetable, much like amaranth, but the commercial availability of quinoa greens is currently limited.

expensive than rice but because of the way it cooks you defi nitely get your money’s worth.

Quinoa is very high in protein and a little of it goes a long way. We steam it in the Gawler kitchen and one cup of dried quinoa seed will swell to around three times its size, so one cup will feed about four people. In Paul Pritchford’s book Healing with Whole Foods, he says that quinoa has more calcium than milk, is a great source of iron, phosphorous, vitamins B and E. He describes it as an appropriate grain/seed for

rown at 10,000 to 20,000 feet above sea level, quinoa brought sustenance to the Altiplano Indians and allowed them to

thrive in the harsh living conditions that prevail at such altitudes. To these Indian natives of the Andes Mountains in Peru and Bolivia, quinoa seeds were more valuable than gold. The ancient Incas called quinoa la chisiya

mama, which means ‘the mother grain’.

First cultivated more than 5,000 years ago, quinoa, along with corn and potatoes was one of the three foods considered the centrepiece of the Andean diet. In that diet quinoa was a primary food source while animal foods were secondary.

Because the Altiplano Indians believed their grain was a gift from the gods containing spiritual enhancing qualities, the ritual fi rst planting of the season was a god-like act performed by the emperor, who was considered a god himself. Since he was responsible for a successful quinoa harvest, he sowed the fi rst seeds of the season with his golden taquiza, a planting stick.

In 1532, Francisco Pizarro, a Spanish explorer, reached the Andes with a small army of 158 men, and in one year’s time destroyed the quinoa fi elds, killed the god-king, and forced the Inca culture into submission.

The daily lives of the Incas had revolved around the growing, harvesting, eating, and honouring of quinoa. Under Pizarro’s rule they were forbidden to practice their ceremonial rituals that centered on quinoa. Now Catholicism and potatoes dominated a world that began to exhibit many cases of malnutrition and high infant mortality.

The Spaniards introduced wheat and barley, but the Incas did not favour these. Fortunately, quinoa still grew wild in the higher altitudes where it could be hidden from the Spaniards. Small amounts were consumed in secret. Still, the culture of the Incas had been changed forever. For centuries quinoa fell into obscurity until the revival of interest in the 1970’s.

Source: Alternative Field Crops Manual. University of Wisconsin Cooperative Extension.


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Combine quinoa and water in a pot and cover.

Bring to boil and simmer for 20 minutes. In a ceramic bowl combine the rest of the ingredients and mix together.

Strain the quinoa and allow it to cool before adding to the other ingredients and toss gently together.

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By Sue Dengate

When I checked ten random cancer medications recently, I found that two out of ten

contained artifi cial colours. Curiously, all the prostate cancer medications were white while all the breast cancer

medications contained either artifi cial or natural colours.

You may not be aware of artifi cial colours in medications because they don’t have to be listed on the label.

In June this year, both ALDI and Woolworths supermarkets announced they would remove artifi cial colours and some preservatives from own brand products by the end of 2009.

The move follows the European trend where the warning label ‘may have an adverse effect

on activity and attention in

children’ will soon be required on certain coloured foods, while UK regulators have requested a voluntary ban on artifi cial colours.

Offi cially, these actions are a response to the 2007 multimillion dollar British government funded study by University of Southampton researchers which confi rmed that artifi cial colours are associated with increased hyperactivity in some children.

However, large food manufacturers and supermarket chains in the UK began removing artifi cial colours long before being asked by regulators.

I can’t help wondering whether the manufacturers’ motivation is due in part to recent studies about additive safety. Using a newly developed test for genotoxicity in 2002, Japanese researchers

drinks, iced granitas and slushies, chocolates, sweets, slimming foods, relishes, wasabi products, toothpastes, mouthwashes, medications, cough drops and many more.

You can see a list of over 1200 Australian products containing artifi cial colours on our website.

Colours in pharmaceuticals may be unlisted or hidden under CI (Colour Index) numbers. Look at the CMI (Consumer Medicine Information Sheet) below or the Medications factsheet on our website for names and numbers to avoid.

When eating out, remember that anything from takeaways and icecreams to cold drinks and artful looking treats in cafés may contain hidden additives. Artifi cial colours and other harmful additives, except for limited sulphites in wine, are not permitted in certifi ed organic products.

On the lookout for hidden colours

Artifi cial colours in foods and pharmaceuticals Code CI Number Names

102 CI19140 Tartrazine, FD&C Yellow #5

104 CI47005 Quinoline Yellow, Food Yellow 13

110 CI15985 Sunset Yellow, Orange Yellow S, FD&C Yellow #6

122 CI14720 Azorubine, Carmoisine

123 CI16185 Amaranth, Acid Red 27, Food Red 9

124 CI16255 Ponceau 4R, Brilliant Scarlet

127 CI45430 Erythrosine, Food Red 14, Acid Red 51, FD&C Red #3

129 CI16035 Allura Red Food Red 17, FD&C Red #40

132 CI73015 Indigotine, Indigo Carmine, FD&C Blue #2

133 CI42090 Brilliant Blue, FD&C Blue #1

142 CI44090 Green S, Acid Brilliant Green, Food Green, Lissamine

143 CI42053 Fast Green FCF, Solid Green, FD&C Green #3

151 CI28440 Brilliant Black, Brilliant Black PN

155 CI52028 Brown HT, Chocolate Brown

found that artifi cial colours were the most genotoxic of 39 food additives tested.

All seven colours in the study induced DNA damage in the gastrointestinal organs at a low dose. DNA damage is considered a risk factor for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases.

In other studies, researchers at Athens University showed that artifi cial colours were associated with immunosuppression; a University of Liverpool study found that mixtures of additives (such as artifi cial colour combined with MSG) could have a much more potent effect on nerve cells than each additive on its own, and a 2007 Brazilian study reported increased infl ammation in the colon associated with long term use of artifi cial colour.

While scientists continue to investigate, you may want to play it safe by avoiding artifi cial colours.

Although supermarkets are reducing their use of these additives, artifi cial colours are currently used in a wide range of mainstream products including biscuits, custards,

Sue Dengate is a bestselling author who runs the Food Intolerance Network through www.fedup.com.au

By Swami Shankarananda

In 1970 I travelled to India to fi nd a spiritual master. While there are many things about the Indian culture that I fi nd appealing and charming and deeply interesting, it wasn’t for any cultural thing that I made my trip.

I was looking for self-knowledge. Circumstances, fate or perhaps divine will turned me in the direction of India and I have never regretted it. I felt in those days that there must be universal laws of human nature. If a person could understand those laws he could become happy and fulfi lled. As in a scientifi c experiment we can only say that something is a law if it is repeatable, so these psychological laws should be applicable cross-culturally. They belong to all humanity and not this country or that country, east or west.

If you look at the wisdom teachings of the various traditions with a superfi cial eye, they seem different, and indeed, at odds with each other. As our inner experience grows, however, we see the common note that is struck in each one. In each age the illumined teachers spoke directly and specifi cally to that age. They used the language, the conventions, the idiom and the habits of mind of the age in which they lived. Hence, though they differ in their outer dress, they agree in essence. Jesus, the Buddha, Ramana Maharshi, Rumi and the Bal Shem Tov would know each other’s hearts. Every one of them proclaimed that there is a great power within a human being that is now sleeping, but can be awakened. Awakened, the person is transformed from a suffering and separate creature into a radiant knower of the self.

The east has developed techniques of the inner life, or what I call second education. First education is the education that we received at school and university. We learned about the great advances of science and industry - the industrial revolution, the scientifi c revolution, the atomic revolution, the cyber revolution. We felt proud of ourselves and felt happy to be human beings delving into the unknown and conquering it. Later we discovered that even through we had attained much in terms of science and technology, there was something missing spiritually. But let’s be very alert for a moment. If we have a spiritual lack, it is only by a false logic that we condemn our intellectual and material gains. Real spirituality includes and expands, it absorbs what has gone before and then lifts us to a new level while still containing the previous stage. So the proper attitude towards modern culture is not one of opposition and a nostalgia for a wood burning stove, but an acceptance and transformation of things as they are. That transformation involves establishing the things and events of our life in a divine context, or a context of understanding.

Our post modern world is characterised by the most extraordinary interchange of information and know how. We are witnessing a marriage of the east and west. The science of meditation shows us that focus is everything. Wherever we put our attention is where we get results

Taking the inward journeyand insight. In the west we have put our attention on the outer life, the conquering of the material world. We have gotten results. In the East attention has been put on the inner life. There too, results were gained. In our emerging global culture, the world of the internet, everything that has been gained anywhere becomes part of our common property.

Yoga: A comprehensive spiritual method

When we say yoga we usually mean the body postures we see on TV. This is hatha yoga, one aspect of yoga. Yoga is a comprehensive science of self improvement which treats every part of our being from the physical body to the emotions and the mind and fi nally to the spirit or self. Yoga can be seen as a comprehensive therapy which treats our impurities or illnesses at all these levels.

While it’s true that by practicing various yogic techniques we can become slim, more vigorous, glamorous and so on, we should understand the true goal of yoga. The goal of yoga is very ambitious. It does not stop halfway. It doesn’t want to give us a little bit of health, a little bit of knowledge, a reasonable adjustment to life, although it includes all these things. Its goal is the total transformation of the individual. Yoga fi xes its eye on the highest potential of human life. It seeks to extract from the individual the fulfi llment of his potential. It has methods for tapping, discovering and expanding energies and abilities, capacities and talents that are latent, hidden and completely invisible in an ordinary individual.

The fi nal achievement of yoga is the attainment of a certain state of consciousness. That state can be called enlightenment, self realisation, siddhahood or perfection. A person who attains this state is extremely fortunate. He or she becomes sublimely happy. He radiates love and people love to be with him. He burns with the steady fi re of creativity and insight. He vibrates with intelligence and energy. He is charismatic, a mover of men and a doer of deeds. He is not afraid of anything, and to him nothing is foreign, strange or unwelcome. He is the pattern of the human being that God had intended. This is a yogi or a Siddha, and the glorious promise of yoga is that this state is within the reach of every one of us. To attain it, we have to meditate on our inner self and allow the seed of greatness that is within us to grow and develop.

This is part one of Swami's story. The second part will appear in

the summer edition of Healthy Living magazine.

Swami Shankaranandais a keynote speaker at The Gawler Foundation’s 2009 Profound Healing - Sustainable Wellbeing conference. Keynote address: Self-inquiry: the direct means to inner healing.Workshop: The Shiva Process Method of Self-inquiry - Swami Shankarananda and Swami Devi Ma.


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Financial Members receive a ten percent discount on books and audio and fi ve percent discount on the Champion Juicer. Please quote your membership number when ordering. How to order: Go to the shopping cart at www.gawler.org or contact the Resource Centre on: 03 5967 1730; Fax 03 5967 1715 or email [email protected]. Shipping rates within Australia: One book $6, each additional book $2 (Vic) $4 (other states). One CD $2, each additional CD $1. One DVD or video $5, each additional one $1.

MINDFUL MOVEMENTS – Book & DVD Thich Nhat Hanh $22.95The 10 Mindful Movements were initially developed by Thich Nhat Hahn as stretching breaks between long periods of sitting meditation, but they have become a popular tool to reduce stress and tension. Based on Tai Chi and Yoga, they are gentle enough for people who cannot do vigorous exercise. However, the young and the healthy will also fi nd them wonderful to do, because of the effect that slow, mindful movement has in calming and grounding us. Each movement is clearly described and illustrated with a cute and colourful line drawing. Nhat Hanh is skilful at creating a still space with words, which helps you to stop and notice the deeper meaning of his message in your own experience.

‘Mindfulness is our ability to be aware of what is going on both inside us and around us. It is the continuous awareness of our bodies, emotions and thoughts. Through mindfulness, we avoid harming ourselves and others, and we can work wonders. If we live mindfully in everyday life, walk mindfully, are full of love and caring, then we create a miracle and transform the world into a wonderful place.’

‘In practicing mindfulness, we become a peaceful refuge for ourselves and others.’

‘Placing our footsteps one after the other slowly and in silence, we can create joy with each step. If we take steps without anxiety, in peace and joy, then we will cause a fl ower to bloom on the earth with every step.’

This is a hardcover book with a spiral inner binding so it will lay open. Thich Nhat Hanh and members of his Plum Village community demonstrate the movements on the 35-minute DVD.

Robin Jones is the manager of The Gawler Foundation’s Resource Centre. She can be contacted by email: [email protected]

POSITIVE Sally Collings $28.00Reeling from the death of her mother from cancer, Sally Collings saw nothing positive whatsoever about the disease. But then she read that two out of three cancer surviviors and their families consider that something good has come of their experience and she decided to fi nd out more.

‘Positive’ brings together a collection of voices: cancer survivors, carers, partners, parents, siblings. Together, their stories map out the terrain of the upside of cancer: the opportunity to draw together as friends, as a couple, as a family; the torrent of support, love and prayers that are unleashed; the impetus to go deeper and embrace the strength, fears and purpose that lie within each of us.

THE DETOX ANSWER Soula Panagiotou $28.95

Soula has recovered from advanced ovarian cancer (read her story on page 12)

As a part of her recovery, Soula investigated all aspects of detoxifi cation in the effort to help her body to get well from both the disease and its treatments. Her conviction that the right detox program can bring huge benefi ts has led Soula to write this comprehensive book with the desire to help others who need this information. It covers the many sources of toxins and how to avoid them, the importance of exercise and stress reduction, foods to eat and to avoid, 36 pages of recipes (most of which are Gawler Diet-friendly), 4 diet detox plans from gentle to intense, recipes for cosmetics and cleaners, what to expect as you detoxify, much good advice on how to manage cravings and ways in which you can indulge and nurture yourself to keep your enthusiasm for the process high. Anyone wishing to detox safely and live less toxically in the future, will learn much to their advantage here.

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THE BRAIN THAT CHANGES ITSELF Norman Doidge M.D. $35.00

An astonishing new scientifi c discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fi xed and unchanging. It is, instead, able to change its own structure and function, even into old age.

Psychiatrist and researcher, Norman Doidge, travelled to meet the scientists working with neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they have transformed - people whose mental limitations or brain damage were previously seen as unalterable, and whose conditions had long been dismissed as hopeless.

A woman born with half a brain that rewired itself to work as a whole; a woman labelled retarded who

cured her defi cits with brain exercises and now cures those of others; blind people who learn to see; learning disorders cured; IQs raised; ageing brains rejuvenated; entrenched depression and anxiety disappearing and lifelong character traits changed.

Doidge takes us onto terrain that might seem fantastic. We learn that our thoughts can switch our genes on and off, altering our brain anatomy. People of average intelligence can, with brain exercises, improve their cognition and perception, develop muscle strength or learn to play a

musical instrument - simply by imagining doing so.

Using personal stories and a highly readable style, Dr Doidge has written an immensely moving and inspiring book that will permanently alter the way we look at our brains and human potential.

he origin of (Paul) Bach-y-Rita’s * understanding of brain rehabilitation lies in the

dramatic recovery of his own father, the Catalan poet and scholar Pedro Bach-y-Rita, after a disabling stroke. In 1959 Pedro, then a sixty-fi ve-year-old widower, had a stroke that paralysed his face and half of his body and left him unable to speak. … George, Paul’s brother, then a medical student … brought his paralysed father to live with him.

George knew nothing about rehabilitation, and his ignorance turned out to be a godsend, because he succeeded by breaking all its current rules, unencumbered by pessimistic theories.

“I decided that instead of teaching my father to walk, I was going to teach him fi rst to crawl again for a while ... At fi rst we held him on all fours, but his arms and legs didn’t hold him very well, so it was a struggle.” As soon as Pedro could support himself somewhat, George then got him to crawl with his weak shoulder and arm supported by a wall. “That crawling beside the wall went on for months. After that I even had him practising in the garden, which led to problems with the neighbours,

Excerpt from The Brain That Changes Itself:who were saying it wasn’t nice, it was unseemly, to be making the professor crawl like a dog. The only model I had was how babies learn. So we played games on the fl oor, with me rolling marbles, and him having to catch them ... Everything we tried involved turning normal life experiences into exercises. We turned washing pots into an exercise. He’d hold the pot with his good hand and make his weak hand - it had little control and made spastic jerking movements - go round and round, fi fteen minutes clockwise, fi fteen minutes counter-clockwise ... Little by little, he got better."

At the end of a year his recovery was complete enough for Pedro, now sixty-eight, to start full-time teaching again at City College in New York. He loved it and worked until he retired at seventy. Then he got another teaching job at San Francisco State, remarried, and kept working, hiking and travelling. He was active for seven more years after his stroke. On a visit to friends in … Colombia, he went climbing high in the mountains. At nine thousand feet he had a heart attack and died…. It was 1965, and in those days, before brain scans, autopsies were routine because they were one way doctors

could learn about brain diseases, and about why a patient died. Paul asked Mary Jane Aguilar to perform the autopsy….

“When I got to the old Stanford Hospital, there, spread out on the table were slices of my father’s brain on slides ... I was feeling revulsion, but I could also see Mary Jane’s excitement, because what the slides showed was that my father had had a huge lesion from his stroke and that it had never healed, even though he recovered all those functions ...” When he looked closely he saw that his father’s seven year old lesion was mainly in the brain stem ... and that other major brain centres in the cortex that control movement had been destroyed by the stroke as well. Ninety-seven percent of the nerves that run from the cerebral cortex to the spine were destroyed - catastrophic damage that had caused his paralysis.

“I knew that meant that somehow his brain had totally reorganised itself with the work he did with George. We didn’t know how remarkable his recovery was until that moment, because we had no idea of the extent of his lesion.” * Paul Bach-y-Rita is one of the great pioneers in understanding brain plasticity.

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he greatest antidote to cancer is to be fully engaged in living the life you came here to live. When we actively engage in a fulfi lling

life and take care of ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually then we create the ideal physiology in which our health can be maintained or regained.

Over the past twenty-fi ve years I have worked with tens of thousands of people living with the impact that cancer has on their lives and who are looking to actively contribute to their own healing. Healing is different from curing. Curing focuses on the physical body. Healing focuses on the whole of the human being - physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. I know people who have been cured but are still in need of healing and people who have died healed of everything that ever stopped them from truly living. These are the paradoxes of healing.

My passion for working with people with cancer stemmed from my own experience of acute myeloid leukaemia. When I was diagnosed in September of 1983 I was told that I ‘wouldn’t see Christmas’. I became ill not long after my brother Brenden had taken his own life after many years of struggling with depression. Leukaemia precipitated me into a search for profound peace and healing.

When I fi rst started working with people with cancer as a naturopath and meditation teacher, I shared with my clients my knowledge of nutrition, supplements, meditation and other healing therapies. Over the years as I saw many people regain their health I realised that there is no one pathway to health and healing. There is no one diet, no best meditation practice and no perfect supplement program for all people.

It became obvious to me that the people who were far outliving their prognosis or who attained unexpected remissions were not all doing the same things. They each found their own particular path to healing and in each case it was a pathway that was right for them. What these people all have in common is a way of being rather than doing. In this lies the key to profound healing.

Focusing only on the physical aspects of healing addresses only part of the problem of ill health. It is easy to focus on the aspects of healing that

Living the life you came here to live

Petrea King is a keynote speaker at The Gawler Foundation’s 2009 Profound Healing - Sustainable Wellbeing conference:Keynote address: The point of stillness

in a changing world.

Workshop: The point of stillness.

Visit www.questforlife.com.au for more information about Petrea.

are involved in ‘doing’. Indeed we feel reassured when we are busy ‘doing’. But our doing can be at the expense of our being. The state of ‘being’ is described in the Four Cs - control, committed, challenging and connected.

Real health is our capacity to embrace every moment, regardless of its challenges, with an open heart and a quiet mind.

This defi nition of peace is embodied in the Four C’s: We regain a sense of control, choosing not to react from our history but making an appropriate response to the situation in which we fi nd ourselves. This requires awareness and a desire to participate rather than feeling a helpless victim of our circumstance. We care enough to be committed to getting emotionally up to date with our life so that we can be here now - in the present moment. We have healthy priorities: we nourish, rest, exercise and ‘fl uff up’ our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual self; we are in clear communion with ourselves and have the capacity to communicate with our loved ones. We fi nd our life positively challenging recognising that we’re here to grow in wisdom and our capacity to love and we make meaning of our suffering. We feel lovingly connected to those we share our life with and to our own spiritual essence or we have a profound sense of connectedness to nature, our community, our friends or family. These four qualities of ‘being’ are nearly always found in people who attain unexpected remissions, who far outlive their doctor’s expectations or who are now entirely free of their disease when that was never expected. People don’t always do the same things but they generally all have these same qualities of being.

The state of being described in the Four C’s is a profoundly benefi cial physiological state in which our bodies will do whatever healing is possible. A physiology of heightened fear, anxiety, agitation, disappointment, upset, depression and/or panic is less conducive to healing than one in which we feel calm, responsive, confi dent, capable, supported, loved, cared for and in which we feel

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This is part one of an article by Petrea King, Founding Director and CEO of the Quest for Life Foundation. The second part will appear in the summer edition of Healthy Living.


Living the life you came here to live able to make meaning of our experience and have healthy priorities that support our physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health.

People who have these qualities described in the Four C’s do all kinds of things. They may seek second, third or fourth opinions. They may research their options. They may get their relationships up to date and fi nd improved ways of communicating. They may forgive people or past wounds. They may improve their diet and research what vitamins or other supplements may be benefi cial. They may meditate, practice tai chi, qui gong, yoga, exercise, drink juice, have intravenous vitamins, take antioxidants or seek counselling, psychotherapy or attend a psychosocial support group. They may pray, sing, paint or fulfi ll a long-held dream. They may deepen their relationship with themselves, with others or with animals or nature. They choose to make meaning of their experiences through the choices or decisions they make.

It is invaluable for us to learn how to live in the present moment. When we are present to each moment, we are not projecting our fears or anxieties into the future or rehashing resentment, bitterness or regret about the past. In this way we create a more benefi cial and powerful healing chemistry within our bodies than when we are emotionally agitated. We love being in the present. It’s the juiciest place in life to be. It’s where life is unfolding moment-by-moment. It’s where our intuition is heard or felt, where creativity is experienced, where humour and spontaneity reside. The present is where life is, love is, creation is unfolding. We cannot experience the presence of life, love or creation in fi ve minutes time or fi ve minutes ago. We have to be here, now in order to feel the glory, wonder and possibilities of the present.

However, our minds can create chaos, misery and suffering for us as they jump into the future or into the past; projecting endless possibilities that may never happen or regurgitating things from our history and giving life to them in the present.

The abundant harvest that we reap in being present to our lives at every moment brings the realisation that life depends as much upon our response to its events as upon the events themselves; that each moment is a suffi cient end in itself rather than another step towards some future goal; that it is now, this moment that we sacrifi ce the glory and wonder that is in and around us unless we be present to its unfolding potential.

Ian and Ruth Gawler are heading up to Queensland in September to present a series of lectures and workshops. This is a wonderful opportunity for people in the Sunshine state to hear from a pioneer in the fi eld of Mind-Body Medicine.

► Gold Coast - Sunday 6 September

Hosted by the Australian Traditional Medicine Society, Ian is presenting a day workshop on cancer and healing designed to teach health professionals how to further support people through major illness.● Time: 9am - 4:30pm● Venue: Visions Room, Twin Towns Services Club, 2 Wharf St, Tweed Heads● Enquiries and bookings: Marg Martin 07 5471 6842

► Gold Coast - Tuesday 8 September

Ian is presenting a full day workshop titled ‘Inner Peace, Outer Health’ in which he instructs how to let go of stress and relax easily, develop and deepen your meditation skills and learn how to eat for health and healing.● Time: 9:30am - 4pm● Venue: Visions Room, Twin Towns Services Club.● Enquiries: Cathy O’Niell at [email protected]● Bookings: www.eventoffi ce.com.au/gawlergoldcoast

► Brisbane - Thursday 10 September

For everyone interested in Mind-Body Medicine, this talk will be about using the power of your mind for health, healing and wellbeing. ● Time: 7:15pm until 10pm with a refreshment break. ● Venue: The Relaxation Centre of Queensland, 15 South Pine Rd, Alderley, Brisbane● Enquiries and Bookings Contact The Relaxation Centre of Queensland on (07) 3856 3733

► Brisbane - Saturday 12 September

Ian is presenting a full day workshop titled ‘Meditation - A Complete Path’, in which he gives an overview of how to meditate as well as presenting techniques for physical relaxation, calming the mind, healing imagery and the deeper stillness that leads to spiritual realisation.● Time: 9:45am - 4pm.● Venue: The Relaxation Centre of Queensland.

► Brisbane- Sunday 13 September

Ian is presenting a full day workshop in which he explores new ways of approaching health, healing and wellbeing. Ideal for people interested in health, wellbeing, disease prevention and management. Also for health professionals and those seeking profound healing.

● Time: 9:45am - 4pm

● Venue: The Relaxation Centre of Queensland

Ian Gawler heads

to Queensland


At The Gawler Foundation we are so lucky to have such loyal and generous supporters. This money will enable us to continue to run and expand Living Well - Cancer, Healing and Wellbeing, our 12 week non-residential program. It will also allow those on lower incomes to access our residential programs. Particular thanks to Thomson Family Enterprises Pty Ltd who contributed a most generous amount to the tax appeal.

On Saturday 4 July we held our third Mind Body Spirit seminar for members, titled The Healing Power of Music. Sixty members and friends attended this experiential, meditative and relaxing afternoon lead by Helen Nikolas, Gawler Foundation Therapeutic Director and Denise Grocke, Head of the Music Therapy Department at the University of Melbourne.

Members were also able to make the most of discounts on books and CDs from the resource centre and our kitchen did us proud with some yummy healthy sweet treats for afternoon tea. But the best part for us, as always, was meeting and talking with you - we hope you enjoyed it too.

Keep Saturday 3 October in your diary for the next Mind Body Spirit seminar, where we’ll spend more time exploring the theme of music. The atmospheric Abbotsford Convent is popular as both venue and location, and with new chairs imminent it will be even better. We’ll send out invitations with all the details soon.

Our annual raffl e is underway and you will be receiving tickets very soon. With Air New Zealand on board, this year’s fi rst prize destination is Disneyland! This is a fun way to support the Foundation, with a chance to win any number of prizes generously donated by our sponsors. If you would like more tickets, please contact Sue or Leanne on 03 5967 1730.

ow wonderful to reach springtime! It has been a cold winter, but we have had some

sunny days in fundraising land.

At the end of June I received a call from Michael Eger whose family trust, The Sunrise Foundation, had been doing some research into prospective recipients. With members of Michael’s family affected by both cancer and multiple sclerosis, they felt there was a synergy between the two organisation work and they have subsequently made a very generous donation of $10,000. The generosity of The Sunrise Foundation will help us continue to provide and grow our programs next year. Talk about brightening our day in the midst of winter! Thank you again to you and your family Michael.

The end of June also saw the culmination of the tax appeal, which this year featured yours truly. It initially felt like an act of bravery to make myself the focus of this year’s appeal, but it turned out to be a lovely experience all round. Thank you to those who passed on personal comments with your donations, and for the phone calls too; it was lovely to chat.

It made me realise that the vulnerability and intimacy of sharing one’s story really is inspiring to others, and that makes it all worthwhile. The great news is we have raised over $82,000, surpassing last year’s total by more than 30 percent!

Supporters helping to

keep foundation strong

Catching up: Nancy Lazry (left) and Judith Lawrence share a laugh at the recent Mind Body Spirit Seminar in Abbotsford.

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Steff Kemp is The Gawler Foundation’s Fundraising Manager. She can be contacted by email: [email protected]


By Sabina Rabold

he room falls silent. We all just sit, thoughts turned

inward, refl ecting on the experience of the last hour or so. I feel tired, spent - it’s been almost three days now that we have sat in this space, listening to each others stories; stories of love and joy and happiness, of loss and pain and sorrow. Some of the stories are like hummingbirds, fl itting and fl uttering this way and that; some are like the calm of a still mountain lake; some are as dark and lonely as a bottomless well and some are like the dawn breaking-full of hope and promise.

With me are around 80 other people, mainly doctors and psychotherapists. We’ve travelled from near and far to this place near San Francisco, California, coming together to be with and learn from Dr Rachel Naomi Remen. Dr Remen is a doctor with more than 50 years of experience and describes herself as a storyteller and mystic. To me she is a teacher and an elder, someone who speaks and writes eloquently and wisely about illness and health and the human experiences between these two places.

Sitting with Kate, the woman I shared this last round of ‘storytelling’ with, I feel a sense of kinship, of connection, of love even, not for one another as we have only just met, but for the humanity we share, the pain we both feel over the loss of loved ones and the healing we can offer each other through our presence, kindness and understanding.

This being the third and last day of the workshop we are all growing into the rhythm of the experience. Each day we spend listening to Rachel share some of her life story, we grow closer to the many lessons she has learnt from a lifetime of working with and being with health and illness. Through sharing her

own story she is warming us up to entering deeply onto our own.

“We do not often take the time to remember and tell our own stories or have the opportunity to listen to the stories of others,” Dr Remen said. “Yet our stories can heal us. Taking time to discover our own stories and explore them in the context of our calling and commitment can ease our loneliness and restore our sense of energy, meaning, purpose and direction in our life. We use imagery, symbolism, poetry and journal writing to enable us to fi nd our own story and discover what sustains us. We have the opportunity to remember times of loss, healing, mystery, love and grace; to share these stories with others and to listen to the stories they tell in return.”

Dr Remen is also the director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal and clinical professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine. A few days prior to this workshop I had visited Commonweal to fi nd out more about the cancer help program they offer there.

Some months earlier Ian Gawler had kindly put me in touch with Michael Lerner, co-founder and president of Commonweal. For over 25 years now they have invited people with cancer to this magnifi cent retreat centre on the edge of the Pacifi c Ocean to come together and help participants live better and, where possible, longer lives.

As I walk the Commonweal land and talk to and meditate with people who have made it their life’s work to ease suffering and help healing I feel grateful to be part of a wider, international community who generously shares knowledge, experience and above all warmth and support.

The healing power of story

Healing, it is clear, is a physical journey and it is a journey of the heart. Opening our heart to life, this life, our life, brings us closer into relationship with ourselves, the people around us and the place we belong to. It allows us to leave behind what is no longer needed and gives us an opportunity to choose that which is life affi rming, creating a life of balance and harmony.

As I say goodbye to my fellow story tellers I am clear that being able to tell my story and listening to the stories of others allows me to enter deeply into rarely visited places within. I recognise that this is where I fi nd the signposts to a good life, a healthy life and a healed life.

Storytellers: Sabina Rabold (left) with Dr Rachel Naomi Remen.

Sabina Rabold is an accredited facilitator of The Gawler Foundation’s Living Well - Cancer, Healing and Wellbeing program in Sydney. Visit www.wellforlife.net.au for more information about Sabina and the Sydney programs.

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Ian Gawler stepped down as Therapeutic Director of the Foundation this year and is planning a well earned break. Please join us for this special event to celebrate Ian’s contribution to the Foundation and his support for so many people. Ian is a pioneer and his story offers hope and inspiration to all!

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