Jala Holistic Modalities - Wellness for U

27/04/2025

What do you call investing in your health? Paying for health care, or buying and eating the best ingredients that you can find?

Join our live Q&A with Dr. Allen Williams and Peter Byck April 11th! We’ll be celebrating the global release of Roots So Deep and making some BIG ANNOUNCEMEN...

19/01/2025

Warning: Nerding out, again.😄 Back when I was studying anatomy and physiology at university, they taught us that without muscles to hold us up, we'd just be a pile of bones in a skin-bag. More recent research has shown that fascia is the glue that holds and determines the structure of our bodies.

This photograph (and story) clearly illustrates this. It seems that the illness that came over this man, when he was a child, atrophied (shrank, destroyed) his muscles to a point where they no longer held and weight. Literally and physically.

The Living Human Skeleton Narrowly Escaped A Museum Fire
Isaac Sprague was born in Massachusetts in 1841. He enjoyed a normal childhood, but after falling ill after swimming in a lake when he was 12, he began irreversibly losing weight despite having a healthy appetite. In 1865, he joined P.T. Barnum's American Museum and was billed as the Living Human Skeleton until the museum burned down in 1868, with Sprague narrowly managing to escape with his life!
By the age of 44, he weighed just 43 pounds (19.5 kg). Time and again, he tried to leave the sideshow life but had to care for his wife and three healthy sons while battling a gambling addiction. He died penniless in 1887.

06/11/2024

Quote for the day: "Wearing headphones does not make your farts silent".

No, I haven't tried it, I just thought it was too good not to share.

15/10/2024

There is now an appointment available, this Thursday afternoon (17th), at 3:30, due to an unavoidable mishap. (No, not the kind in the photo. That was just for a laugh.😘)

24/09/2024

If anyone ever thought that running a massage business was just about turning up and massaging ... here's another part of the job. 😄

18/09/2024

Talk about up close and personal. Meet Kahu, the 22 kg lapdog wannabe, grand furchild. And he's only a pup. 😳

12/09/2024

When the (fur) kids go quiet, one should immediately suspect that trouble is afoot (or should that be "apaw"?).

06/09/2024

Smilie seems to have done a bunk. May have been let out unknowingly, by house guests. He is part Jack Russell, so he'll be hard to catch. He has his full Winter coat (Bichon friese half), atm.

13/06/2024

With the recent, heart-wrenching closure of Burton's dairy, those of us who are used to having access to raw milk had been left hanging ... until Udder Luxury came along, at least.

As a farm girl, I rarely had to consume pasteurised milk, up until my teens. Let alone homogenised or fat-reduced. 🙄

Despite being a premi baby, who had to be bottle-fed, I never developed excema, asthma nor any allergy of significance. For these reasons, I will always be grateful that I was nourished with raw milk, from an early age. Seems fair, since I was born early because the house cow got out and mum climbed the fence to fetch her back in. 😁

Whole milk provides so many nutritive benefits, as there is a synergy to the natural product that our body recognises - via our digestive system - so it knows how to process it. Where to put it, how to utilise it to make best use of the entire food.

For instance, despite what you've been told, cream isn't "bad" fat. It carries with it essential fat-soluble vitamins and minerals that you would otherwise not have access to.

The key term being "fat-soluble. This means no matter how much you fortify (i.e. artificially introduce micro-nutrients) a product, if the correct carrier is not present, your body is unable to access these nutrients. The body may not even recognise them, in which case it will either store them in the liver (so it becomes even more congested) or you will excrete them, never having used them.

That said, the benefits of raw, whole milk are even greater. Looking beyond the excellent bioavailability of the minerals and vitamins, the enzymes that are stll active in raw milk are what our bodies require for our gut to breakdown the whole product to the constituents that we need.

One can't help but ponder on the fact that the country that invented pasteurisation produce some of the best cheeses in the world, all from unpasteurised milk. (For those in the dark, Louis Pasteur was a French scientist)

There are more benefits than listed here, of course, so if you'd like some help to find high quality information, let me know and I'll share some links. Meantime, if you would appreciate access to local product, join Udder Luxury to help them provide a continuous supply.

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27/05/2024

The most profound thing I've already learned today: Your fascia holds the Akashic records that you want/need to heal, in this lifetime.

This is next level for me, as a facilitator of healing. For many years, I have been moving in the direction of healing the body by improving fascial integrity.

The path has been - continues to be - winding, yet always fascinating. Studies in anatomy and physiology (all of the times), though at a high level, really just scratched the surface of what I have come to know since.

Learning about the lymphatic system and how to improve its function was simply another piece of the grand puzzle that is holistic healing. Continuing on to connect fascia to that (or is that the other way around?) and bringing in its relationship to the nervous system is an ongoing process of connecting dots, for me.

I love this stuff, so much. And, yes, I may be a geek. 😁💜💛

19/05/2024

In case you were concerned that it's all quiet on the crafting front. Nah, just working on this fun little project.

She's called Hygge (hoogah, for the uninitiated). With a lining and a border, she'll become a cozy wrap. Since the "Danish mermaid" colour way was already unavailable, I picked out my own, which I dubbed "Aussie mermaid". (If you get the Danish connection, you'll understand.)

These images show the project to date, which is over halfway to completion.

27/04/2024

It's all about attitude. Age is just a number, simple chronology. Do the best with what you've got by looking after it. Eat as clean as you can. Read labels and minimise the crap that you put onto and into your body. Nature, and the Divine, provides most of the "medicine" that we need, especially if used preventatively.
I'll step down off my soapbox, now, but know that this message comes with love and compassion. 💜💛 DL