During a trip to Thailand a few years ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Norman Jones, his wife, Premchit and their son Matthew, now 8, who made my stay in Bangkok far more enjoyable than it might have otherwise been. Norman, an incentive/loyalty marketing expert met Premchit in 1998 and they have been together for 14 years. I went on to visit Chaing Mai and then spent several weeks visiting Phuket’s beautiful beaches by motor bike, had fun, and enjoyed many delicious meals.

Norman, Premchit and Matthew moved to Phuket, Premchit’s ancestral home from Bangkok this month and now live in a new home within 15 minutes of four of Phuket’s best beaches. Together, they have established a base for her extraordinarily high quality Natural Wellness Retreats through EXPERIENCE | PREMCHIT.

As an Aromatic Alchemist, Aromatherapist, and gifted healer, Premchit’s once in a lifetime, 3-9 day healing retreats include juices, ambrosias, and body and facial elixers, as well as breath, movement, music, and scent therapies in luxury accommodations like Phuket’s Paresa.

Her therapies and exquisite products are grounded in a royal family history that dates back to the late 1500′s and is steeped in the intimate knowledge and wisdom of the rainforest and its treasures of herbs and foods.

In addition to offering her EXPERIENCE | PREMCHIT Natural Wellness Retreats, Premchit also offers Ancestral Siamese Cuisine through her “secret” restaurant NA THALANG where guests enjoy delicious Siamese gourmet meals in secret locations around Phuket. Each lunch and dinner is designed, prepared and presented by Premchit Prateap Na Thalang, using secret recipes inherited from her ancestors and fresh seasonal ingredients from her farm and the tropical rainforests, village markets, sandy beaches and blue seas of Phang-Nga and Phuket Provinces in southern Thailand.

In addition to offering her healing retreats and gourmet cuisine, Norman and Premchit provide free daily postcards on life in Phuket. You can receive these by sending Norman an e-mail (norman@experiencepremchit.com) with YES in the subject matter.

I have been purposely brief in this post because anything I could attempt to write about Premchit and her delicious offerings for the mind, body and soul would take away from the beauty and depth of a visit to her two websites. If you don’t get the opportunity to visit Thailand to experience Premchit’s wonderful offerings,  I know you will enjoy your journey through her amazing world.

I am on Waiheke Island in New Zealand basking in the beauty of nature and the vibration of love. In this moment, I am compelled to share the rich multilayered beauty of Colette’s extraordinary wisdom in the form of a video I shot and she edited with the added music of cellist Jami Seiber. The seamless texture of this piece is deep and I suggest you wait till the sun has gone down, turn off the lights and watch this soulful transmission in full screen mode. And, if you want to continue the journey, consider ordering a copy of Colette’s extraordinary publishing masterpiece, Gateways of the Divine that features the writings of RUMI, KABIR, TAGORE, RILKE, as well as the modern poets DAVID WHYTE, PABLO NERUDA, and OCTAVIO PAZ.

GATEWAYS OF THE DIVINE offers timeless wisdom on the path to wholeness. Two of my closest and most respected friends describe GATEWAYS below:

“I am filled with reverence and gratitude for GATEWAYS OF THE DIVINE. It is the most inspiring, elegant, beautiful and audacious gift of genius I have ever received! From the top of my heart I send my thanks, love and blessings on this great work.”

-BARBARA MARX HUBBARD
Social Innovator, Speaker, Author, Co-Founder Foundation for Conscious Evolution

“GATEWAYS OF THE DIVINE asks for our willingness to be elegant, which reveals a deeper truth that our greatest knowing and our creative quests are also beautiful and soul nourishing, as well as devastating and redemptive. GATEWAYS OF THE DIVINE reminds me of the John Keats expression that “a thing of beauty is a joy forever.” Colette has created a joy forever…”

-LEIGH J. MCCLOSKEY
Artist, Author, Visual Philosopher, Actor
Founder of Olandar Press and Olandar Foundation for Emerging Renaissance

If you can’t watch the video here, go to this link: http://www.vimeo.com/8024432

The Vision and Healing Artistry of Colette from Colette de Gagnier on Vimeo.

Gateways of the Divine originally sold for $260 per copy and thanks to the generosity and healing needs of Colette at this time, you can obtain 2 copies for the amazingly low cost of $108 or $54 each plus shipping. I am ordering another 2 copies of this treasure because it is simultaneously the most beautiful book I have ever seen as well as the most soulful. For anyone challenged with an illness of any kind, this book contains healing messages that can support them in their hour of need.

Click here to access your two copies of gateways of the Divine, one for you and one for the most important person in your life.

More and more bio-energetic healing and other mind body modalities are being explored with good results and from time to time I will highlight some of these emerging protocols and their practitioners.

I met Thessa Egan, the founder of vitalintuitive.com and her husband Rob in Vilcabamba, Ecuador a few years ago. Thessa recently wrote to let me know about her new website and work with intuition to help clients focus in on physical and emotional issues. She looks at physical, dietary and herbal additions that may optimize her client’s health. Thessa differs from medical intuitives in that they often focus on a medical problem while she works by tuning into how much vitality, chi, prana, or life force is flowing between the physical, emotional and mental domains.

Thessa goes through a diagnostic process of the energetic anatomy and advises clients on how to address their challenge on nutritional, physical and emotional levels. Her goal is to get to the causal layers, gauge what suggestions the client is open to at the time and suggest a healing plan based on those factors. She works with anyone who feels they would like some insight into the energetic cause of a particular problem they are dealing with. That problem could be physical, mental or emotional; a phobia, or relationship issue – practically anything.

I have been experiencing a heart arrhythmia for about a year now and worked with Thessa to see what she could tell me about it. During our illuminating one hour session she suggested that I experienced a shock sitting with my Dad in the hospital after he passed and that part of the shock was stored in the nerve that feeds my heart. It caused the energy to be interrupted, therefore blocking the message to my heart which caused an arrhythmia. By working with this blocked energy and resolving the trauma stored in the nerve, she suggested that my chi or energy flow might be partially or fully restored.

Thessa suggested that I was dealing with an existential issue and that there was nothing problematic with my heart which was recently confirmed by my cardiologist.

As part of my healing path, she suggested nourishing and calming the myelin sheath surrounding the nerve nutritionally with cottage cheese and UDOS Oil, Dr. Christopher’s nerve tonic, a pinch of Himalayan salt, goat cheese every other day, sardines once a day+veges and wild salmon. I began adding these and will resume after a 10 day juice fast I am currently doing.

She also saw a stuckness in my life and lack of a center which was actually a doorway into an empty void – infinite potential and creative potential awaiting activation. Thessa said that I was already well into the healing process and I just need to continue it. She suggested experiencing and meditating on the stuckness anytime I have the thought I should be doing anything I’m not. By becoming aware of this, it could help release it and accelerate the shift to creative flow. This is a specific application of what Gurdjieff called self-remembering.

For me, this is definitely a time of movement forward on several levels: With my music, to study and take to the next level and my first public performance on my 70th birthday next June. With my body, to take daily beach walks, yoga, using Miracle Balls to loosen my back, adding a mini trampoline with weights and restarting tennis. And with New Paradigm Digest, to edit an e-book based on the top 100 postings to date.

When I mentioned that I was having a tooth extracted soon, she correctly identified the tooth and suggested it could be a contributing factor to my arrhythmia as well as an arm pain I have been experiencing. The tooth is now extracted and the episodes of missed beats have definitely subsided. I will report back in a few months on my progress. I suspect Thessa’s suggestions will continue to be helpful, but only time will tell.

In the meantime, if you have a health issue you would like to explore with Thessa, you can connect with her through her site, www.vitalintuitive.com.

Thessa and Rob are also the founders of Alchemy Techniques, a consultancy that provides a set of effective tools to move from experiencing the clouds of past traumatic experiences to the ‘sunshine’ of core expression. Some of their students have described this process as being like ‘falling in love with life’. I blogged about AT and you can explore this work by clicking here.

Thanks to NPD readers and others, my dear friend and soul sister Colette whose book, Gateways of the Divine, I featured a few days ago has raised half the funds she needs for hyperbaric oxygen treatments in just five days. If you have not yet taken advantage of her generous offer of her luminous sacred manuscript, please consider purchasing one for yourself. The second one that comes as her gift, you might consider giving to a treasured friend.

Thank you so much for helping Colette receive the treatment that may finally free her from her chronic illness through your generosity. I think you may agree when you have finished watching her beautiful video I had the honor of filming, that she deserves to have her embodied wisdom and healing feminine energy back in the world. You may find a deeper connection with the video and Colette and her message if you watch it full screen.

I sent my friend Leigh McClosky, an extraordinary visionary artist himself, a copy of Colette’s masterpiece.

Here is what Leigh shared with me:

What a beautiful and thoughtful gift. I wanted to spend some time with her vision and story before writing. I received the book yesterday much to my surprise and delight. I put the large and exquisite volume on my book stand and found myself captivated as if reading with sumptuous slowness a great haiku. Every well considered voice bringing profound insight in simple lines or short poems.

The book asks for our willingness to be elegant which reveals a deeper truth that our greatest knowing and our creative quests are also beautiful and soul nourishing as well as devastating and redemptive. Gateways reminds me of the John Keats expression that “a thing of beauty is joy forever.”  Colette has created a joy forever and for me and my renaissance ideals this is also a gift of renaissance knowing that reminds with beauty and elegance that the written word and image are still the most powerful source to open and explore the creative imagination.

Her book makes me feel that in the future all who care to attend to these dreams will create their own works of lasting beauty, building the Akashic outward as it once was within. Gateways is a bridge that tethers so many wonders and stories, struggles and dreams together. I congratulate her immensely and do wish her a steady improvement and healing

Leigh

The Vision and Healing Artistry of Colette from Colette de Gagnier on Vimeo.

To order your copy of Gateways of the Divine and receive a second volume free, click here.

This is an 8 week on-line course available from DailyOM and Catherine Ann Jones. We will email you when your new lesson is available and you will be able to login and read each lesson on-line or print as they become available and click to listen to the guided audio meditations. Your first lesson will be available immediately after you enroll. If you have any other questions, please contact us.

Our lives may be determined less by past events than by the way we remember them. You are invited to come aboard this inner adventure that offers a step by step journey of discovery and re-visioning through focused journaling. Throughout the eight sessions, you will be engaged in exercises designed to facilitate healing and transformation. Telling stories about our past through focused journaling can help change our perspectives to enable healing and empowerment. In this way, we are able to make meaning out of memory and put the past where it belongs – behind us. Healing and transformation are only possible through changing one’s perspective from within. In this way, global healing takes place one individual, one tribe, at a time. What story are you living? How do you choose to remember your story?

There is a Native American parable about a grandfather who says, I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one.” When asked which wolf will win the fight in his heart, the old man replies, “The one I feed.”

ABOUT CATHERINE ANN JONE
Catherine Ann Jones holds a graduate degree in Depth Psychology and Myth from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she has also taught. Earlier she has played major roles in over fifty productions on and off-Broadway, as well as film and television. Disappointed by the lack of good roles for women, she wrote a play about Virginia Woolf (On the Edge) which won a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Ten of her plays, including Calamity Jane (both play and musical) and The Women of Cedar Creek, have won several awards and are produced both in and out of New York. Her films include The Christmas Wife (Jason Robards & Julie Harris), Unlikely Angel (Dolly Parton), Angel Passing (Hume Cronyn & Teresa Wright) which played at Sundance and went on to garner fifteen awards here and abroad, and the popular TV series, Touched by an Angel. A Fulbright Scholar to India studying shamanism, she has also taught at The New School University, University of Southern California, and the Esalen and the Omega Institute. Ms. Jones lives in Ojai, California, leads The Way of Story and Healing Yourself with Writing workshops throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Her recent book, The Way of Story: the craft & soul of writing, is used by many schools, including NYU writing programs.www.wayofstory.com