Celebrity Detox Star teaches Zen Meditation at the Rosewell Centre

If Channel 4’s sensationalist reality show “Extreme Celebrity Detox” left you wondering what meditation had to do with detoxification, Master of the Zen School Kris Deva North, the man who taught Rebecca Loos where to put her Jade Egg and last seen on TV swinging a very heavy weight ‘down there’, shows the real reality: how traditional meditational practices can achieve extraordinary results.

“Altered states of consciousness can uninstall programmes of habit and addiction,” says Kris. “So many people have found increased confidence, motivation, energy, habit-control, how to manage stress and, although I may not know each individual’s problem or situation, I do know we all have the resources to cope. Through these practices I can help you connect with the deeper levels of consciousness to access those resources. No, you don’t need to swing weights to reach an altered state. That is rather more advanced practice.”

Kris, who trained in the Taoist Arts with the Master Mantak Chia and in NLP with Paul McKenna, has practised Healing meditation for over 30 years. In 1993 he co-founded the Zen School of Shiatsu and Healing Tao Centre in London.

Zen: from the Chinese word ch’an, from the Sanskrit dhyan: insightful meditation

Zazen: a seated meditation posture

Zazendo: the Way of Insight Meditation

Zen Insight Meditation combines the Zen tradition, Vipassana experience and Taoist teachings with NLP: powerful techniques for attaining the elusive inner peace and harmony which, in the real world, could mean habit management and addiction control.

Retreat participants will learn the art of mindful meditation Sitting, Walking: “strolling through life supremely at leisure,” Eating, Reclining and Action: “as intense as if running with your hair on fire,” and the secrets of the Zen Policeman.

Saturday and Sunday 16th and 17th July at the Rosewell Centre, Holywell Road, Castel Bytham, NG33 4SL, just off the A1 between Stamford and Grantham. The weekend costs just £57 which includes overnight accommodation and a light zen-style meal.

More information: http://www.learn-shiatsu.co.uk/zazendo.htm

Also at the Rosewell Centre from July 19th to 24th a 5-day TAI CHI CAMP with self-defence, weapons forms and daily chi kung based on the Mantak Chia form and the Hidden Masters structures. Training and demonstrations (standard form, fast form, weapons forms, push-hands, self-defence, blindfold fighting) with Kris Deva North, Sue Hix and adepts of Healing Tao UK. £97 for the week, or £30 day-visit.

More information: http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/Tai_Chi_training.htm

For more information please contact Sue Hix of the Rosewell Centre on 01780410072 or 07949835426

Taoists reveal secrets of a blissful summer with spiritual retreats and tai chi camps across England.

Workshops in Zen Meditation, Taoist practices, Tai Chi and Chi Kung are running throughout the summer at different locations, from the heart of the city to the depths of rural England.

Kris Deva North trained in the Taoist Arts with the Master Mantak Chia and in NLP with Paul McKenna. He has practised Healing meditation for over 30 years. In 1993 he co-founded the Zen School of Shiatsu and Healing Tao Centre in London.

“So many people have found increased confidence, motivation, energy, habit-control, how to manage stress,” says Kris “and although I may not know each individual’s problem or situation I do know we all have the resources to cope. Through these practices I can help you connect with deep levels of consciousness to access those resources.”

London July 9th/10th, a Tai Chi Intensive Weekend with Matt Lewis at the London Tao Centre 19/21 Phipp Street EC2, £117, based on the Mantak Chia form and the Hidden Masters structures. Tai Chi can be practised at any age, for health, to enhance your protective energy-field, to strengthen the physical and energetic immune system, to connect with higher and lower forces on the spiritual path, for self-defence, or simply to harmonise with the environment and alleviate the effects of stress.

More information: http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/ht_taichi.htm

Lincolnshire, July 16th/17th, a weekend of Zazendo with Kris Deva North: Zen Insight Meditation combining the Zen tradition, Vipassana experience and Taoist teachings with NLP: powerful techniques for attaining the elusive inner peace and harmony which, in the real world, could mean habit management and addiction control.

At the Rosewell Centre, Holywell Road, Castel Bytham, NG33 4SL, just off the A1 between Stamford and Grantham. £57 including board and lodging.

More information: http://www.learn-shiatsu.co.uk/zazendo.htm

Also at the Rosewell Centre from July 19th to 24th a 5-day TAI CHI CAMP with self-defence, weapons forms and daily chi kung based on the Mantak Chia form and the Hidden Masters structures. Training and demonstrations (standard form, fast form, weapons forms, push-hands, self-defence, blindfold fighting) with Kris Deva North and Initiates of Tao of the Shaman. £97 for the week, or £30 day-visit.

More information: http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/Tai_Chi_training.htm

London July 30th & 31st Journey of a Thousand Miles with Kris Deva North introducing Step 1 of that journey which leads so many people to become even more effective human beings.

Step 1 Foundations Weekend is an ideal introduction for both women and men, singles and couples, young and old.

At the London Tao Centre 19 Phipp Street, London EC2, £197. 10am to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday. £197.

More information: http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/ht_foundation.htm

Devon on the edge of beautiful Dartmoor, the Healing Tao Summer Retreat from 13th to 21st August. Steps 2 and 3 on the Journey.

Step 2: Managing your love-life – this is not a couples workshop although couples are welcome, working as individuals. Learning how to circulate the generative forces from the genital organs to the higher energy centres invigorates and rejuvenates all the vital functions, improves health, and slows depletion of the genetic energy-bank, or “Ancestral Qi.” Men and women report more satisfying relationships as a result of doing the practices and feeling more energy.

13th & 14th August, £197 at Yelverton, Devon. Booking through Healing Tao UK. Step 1 is pre-requisite

More information: http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/ht_healinglove.htm

Step 3: Thinking of a retreat as a real treat, this must be the closest to heaven on earth with silent meditation and sauna, tai chi and jacuzzi, chi kung (qigong) and swimming pool, fantastic food and walks on the moor.

Internal space-clearing, like feng-shui for humans, gives internal clarity and external protection. Such pre-Taoist shamanic practices include intense self-healing experiences and an immediate increase in awareness and focus.

Many people on this summer retreat have found self-discovery through silence, and how to let go embedded conditioning, harmonising with Nature in a beautiful countryside setting, feeling the healing power of Earth, and the resources to cope with the residual effects of past baggage.

The Retreat is guided with love and care, allowing space for discussion, regeneration, relaxation and multicultural celebration reflecting the diversity of the Tao, with QiGong and Tai Chi; Sweat-lodge, dancing and singing bhajans; swimming-pool, sauna, jacuzzi; walks on the moor, sunrises and sunsets; ritual and ceremony.

14th-21st August, £789, at Yelverton, Devon. Booking through Healing Tao UK. Step 2 is pre-requisite

More information: http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/ht_kan_li.htm

UK Shiatsu Society warns on student visa immigration abuse

The battle against international terror seeps into the Art of Gentle Healing with the government’s latest clamp-down on student visas. More than three hundred schools have closed because of their inability to satisfy new and stringent registration requirements.

Overseas Students from outside the European Union have always needed a student-visa to study in the UK. They had to prove payment of the school fee and ability to support themselves for their intended stay.

Now the schools come under scrutiny. Any school purporting to offer education or training to overseas students must satisfy the authorities that it is a genuine learning provider. It is not enough to have been established for a number of years, existing students, or reciprocal links with overseas schools or organisations. It must also be recognised as a school of shiatsu on the Department of Education & Skills Register of learning providers.

Our recent survey of shiatsu schools shows that only a few of even the most established would be able to comply with the new registration requirements. Kris Deva North Master of the Zen School of Shiatsu in London says “We were lucky. We have permanent premises but still had to prove ownership, teachers’ educational as well as shiatsu qualifications, and a history of training visa-students. The Inspectors also wanted to see bank statements and audited accounts, a printed prospectus, policy documents, records of attendance and other relevant documentation. We were already a registered learning provider for Career Development Loans but this is a different set-up entirely.”

This new government policy is a wake-up call for UK shiatsu schools to check out their administration, support and control systems.

Overseas schools and societies advising members or students thinking of visiting UK for shiatus training courses should direct them to the Department of Education & Skills Register. Schools are not permitted to use their registration for marketing.

More information can be found at the Zen Shiatsu Society web site http://www.zen-shiatsu-society.co.uk/

For the Department of Education & Skills Register of learning providers visit http://www.dfes.gov.uk/providersregister/

Celebrity Detox Star teaches at Mind Body Spirit Festival next week.

The man who taught Rebecca Loos where to put her Jade Egg is to appear at the Festival of Mind Body Spirit in London from Wednesday 25th to Monday 30th May. Taoist Master-Trainer Kris Deva North of Healing Tao UK, last seen on TV swinging a very heavy weight ‘down there’, is giving talks and demonstrations of healing and meditation to show how extraordinary results can be achieved by going into an altered state of consciousness.

The event is at the Royal Horticultural Hall in Victoria, where Kris is offering three free 15-minute sessions every day, free 30-minute stage demonstrations on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, and an hour’s talk Friday evening based on his forthcoming book Shiatsu for Lovers (working title) co-written with the Taoist Master Mantak Chia.

What benefits can people get from these practices? “So many people have found increased confidence, motivation, energy, habit-control, how to manage stress,” says Kris “and although I may not know each individual’s problem or situation I do know we all have the resources to cope. Through these practices I can help you connect with the deeper levels of consciousness to access those resources. No, you don’t need to swing weights to reach an altered state. That is rather more advanced practice.”

Kris, who trained in the Taoist Arts with the Master Mantak Chia and in NLP with Paul McKenna, has practised Healing meditation for over 30 years. He will be present for personal chats at Stand 51 and facilitating

Every day in the Meditation Room: follow the little Walking Zen signs.

• 1.30 pm Inner Smile Meditation
• 3 pm Meditation on the Heavenly Cycle (Microcosmic Orbit)
• 4.30 pm The Healing Sounds

Each meditation lasts 15 minutes and is free.

Stage Demonstrations: 30 minutes, free, on the main Stage in the Hall

• Shiatsu for Vitality at 12.30 on Wednesday 25th
• Shiatsu for Lovers at 5 pm on Friday 27th.
• Taoist Meditation at 11.30 on Sunday 29th

One-hour Talk - Room T3 £6

• Shiatsu for Lovers 6 to 7 pm on Friday
  Based on the book "Shiatsu for Lovers" (working title) by Mantak Chia and Kris Deva North, due out later in this year.

A big booming beautiful event in the new-age calendar, Mind Body Spirit is crammed with eager zen shiatsu and massage practitioners bursting to lay their hands on heads, necks and shoulders to ease aches, pains and tensions, More than100 stalls offer thousands of books, crystals, clothing, and other products.

The Festival of Mind Body Spirit is at the Royal Horticultural Hall off Greycoat Street in Victoria, London SW1 - not far from Victoria Station or Pimlico Tube.

The Festival is on every day, 11 to 7 weekdays and 10

to 6 weekend and Bank Holiday Monday, from Wednesday

25th to Monday 30th May. Admission£6 weekdays, £8 weekend.

For the inside story on Extreme Celebrity Detox see http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/Extreme_Celebrity_Detox.htm

For Kris Deva North info and photos http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/ht_kris.htm

For Mind Body Spirit Festival http://www.mindbodyspirit.co.uk

Celebrity Detox Star to teach in Dublin

The man who taught Rebecca Loos where to put her Jade Egg is coming to Dublin to teach a three-day workshop on Trance Healing. Taoist Master-Trainer Kris Deva North, last seen on TV swinging a very heavy weight ‘down there’, is coming to show how extraordinary results can be achieved by going into an altered state of consciousness.

Taoist Trance, also known as Cosmic Healing, is non-contact power-healing derived from pre-Taoist shamanic practices which underly Traditional Chinese Medicine

By connecting with the etheric energy-centres and the brains of the organs, which receive impressions and store energy just like the brain in your head, you learn to project the colour-rays to heal their organic aura. Practitioners harmonise and restore a patient's energy-field without their own being depleted or contaminated.

“It is like a combination of hypnosis, reiki, spiritual healing and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming),” says Kris, who trained in the Taoist Arts with the Master Mantak Chia, in NLP with Paul McKenna, and has practised Healing for over 30 years. “Trance Healing can help relieve the symptoms of many conditions resistant to more orthodox treatment. We are healing the person more than the part.”

Kris Deva North is teaching a 3-day workshop in Cosmic Healing at the Spa Hotel, Lucan, from Friday 20th through Sunday 22nd May.

For Workshop Information call 087 205 7296

For Taoist Healing see http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/ht_taoisthealing.htm

For the inside story on Extreme Celebrity Detox see http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/Extreme_Celebrity_Detox.htm

For Kris Deva North info http://www.healing-tao.co.uk/ht_kris.htm