Nia is a sensory-based movement practice that leads to health, wellness and fitness. It empowers people of all shapes and sizes by connecting the body, mind, emotions and spirit.

The Nia Technique blends dance, martial arts, and healing arts (such as yoga), to create a dynamic fitness and lifestyle practice that changes how you experience your body and your approach to exercise. It involves dance movements, kicks, shakes, shimmying, stretches – and most likely some laughter as well!

And the great thing about Nia is that anyone can do it – from beginner to athlete.

Classes are taken barefoot to soul-stirring music from around the world. The training is designed for those seeking both personal enrichment and/or professional development.

Every experience can be adapted to individual needs and abilities.

In Cim’s Nia classes and Sparkle Workshops,  you will learn to focus on physical sensation and will become aware of what you feel and sense internally as you begin to get to know your body more intimately.

Through learning the various Nia moves incorporated into fun routines and accompanied by music; you will learn to listen to the signals your body gives you and you will understand how to respond to these in a way that brings additional Sparkle into your life.

Step into your own joyful journey with Nia, and positively shape the way you feel, look, think and live!

Cim Bartlett  – Nia Teacher

Cim runs a weekly Nia class on Monday evenings in Woking, Surrey. Each class is one hour long.

When you register, you will receive detailed information – via e-mail – about the class, the venue address, what to wear etc.

For futher details – or to register for a Nia dance class

E-mail  cim@rediscoversparkle.com or visit the website here

Talk
Wed 13th March 2013
7.30pm-10pm

How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body

   During this evening’s talk Dr David Hamilton will discuss:-

• The Mind-Body Connection

• The Placebo Effect

• How Meditation Shapes the Brain

• How Attitude Affects the Heart and Immune System

• How Visualisation Physically Impacts the Brain and Body

David will also share some simple visualization strategies successfully used by people around the world to help facilitate their recovery from illness and disease and will teach the basic principles involved.

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Ticket Prices

£20.00 – online
There may be a limited number of tickets available on the door priced at £25.00
Book online to secure your place and to save £5.00!

Venue

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The Crown Hotel (Windsor Suite)
7 London Street,
Chertsey, Surrey
KT16 8AP
United Kingdom

An evening menu is available at the venue

Parking is available at Sainsburys (almost opposite the venue.)
Chertsey train station is about 10 minutes walk from the venue.

Talk
Wed 10th April 2013
7.30pm-10pm

Living the Simple Life

Inspired by his experiences in ‘Around the World in 80 Faiths’, part-time vicar Peter Owen Jones returned to the TV screens with a BBC2 programme called ‘How to Live a Simple Life.’

During his programme he questioned how modern life in credit-crunch Britain has become merely a frenzy of spending and working.

He explored issues such as living without money, simplicity, meaning and a deeper connection to both nature and people as he  decided to follow the example of medieval saint, Francis of Assisi, and give up money in a last-ditch attempt to find fulfilment.

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In this evening’s talk, Peter Owen Jones explains why he tried to follow the example of St Francis of Assisi by living simply and without money. He will share his experiences and some of the highs and lows as well as sharing his wisdom and advice for anyone else seeking the answers to the same questions.

Peter says; “The current manifestation of Western Society underpinned by capitalism is beginning to look increasing hollow and heartless. Perhaps we are all starting to wake up to the fact that if you have a human system predicated on money, then at some point everything will be measured against it.

Really we have chosen to carry so much, chosen to live with the weight of ownership, chosen to live a life amassing more. What has become subsumed in this process is any real sense of an alternative, a different way of being human within this system we call our society. What we have really lost is a deep sense of well being.

Living simply is perhaps a response to the fear based model of amassing more. Now is a good time to reflect on where you are in this remarkable journey called life and is a time for us to re asses priorities and purposes.”

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Ticket Prices

£20.00 – online
There may be a limited number of tickets available on the door priced at £25.00
Book online to secure your place and to save £5.00!

Venue

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The Crown Hotel (Windsor Suite)
7 London Street,
Chertsey, Surrey
KT16 8AP
United Kingdom

An evening menu is available at the venue

Parking is available at Sainsburys (almost opposite the venue.)
Chertsey train station is about 10 minutes walk from the venue.

Inspirational Talk
Wed 28th Nov 2012
7.30pm – 10pm

Are you Ready to Make YOUR Dreams a Reality?

No one has ever said living the life of your dreams is easy. It takes drive and determination, persistence and patience, faith and trust in the wonderful power within but most importantly, it takes ACTION!

This is an evening for those who are ready to make some big changes in their life and find a future that really fits!

Time to make big changes but you’re not sure where to start?

Are you fed up doing work you don’t really care about?

Are you looking to do something more meaningful in your life?

Whatever your goal, whatever your dream, you CAN be your own coach and Louise will show you how!

Tonight, you’ll take charge of your own destiny, uncover the real you and learn the secrets behind living a charmed life.

Whether you want to set up your own business, increase your confidence, reveal your life purpose, find love or create inner peace; this interactive evening will give you all the tools you need to turn your life around!

Here’s what Louise will cover during the evening:-

WHAT DO YOU REALLY WANT?
- How to decide what you really, really want and how to set goals that will rock your world.

MAKE IT HAPPEN!
- How to create your plan of action and start making changes NOW

WHO ARE YOU REALLY?
- Understand your blueprint, your passions, interests, core values and how to build a life around them.

GET CONNECTED!
– How to tap into your inner power, surrender to the flow and learn the secrets of living a charmed life.

 All materials will be supplied.

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“Inspiring, motivational, creative and full of useful practical tools to help you on your journey.”
Editor, Natural Health Magazine

LATE BIRD TICKETS!

£15.00

Book your ticket by midnight on Monday 26th November and bring a friend for FREE!!!

(Online ticket price – there may also be some tickets available on the door priced at £20.00)

Venue

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The Crown Hotel (Windsor Suite)
7 London Street,
Chertsey, Surrey
KT16 8AP
United Kingdom

An evening menu is available at the venue

Parking is available at Sainsburys (almost opposite the venue.)
Chertsey train station is about 10 minutes walk from the venue.

Three Scottish Mediums
Three Great Events
One Fantastic Price!

Sun 29th April, Thurs 31st May & Wed 25th July

A tartan army of Scottish intuitives will be descending upon Chertsey over the coming months as we welcome three of today’s top psychics to the Naked Dragon stage!

David Wells
Who Do You Think You Were?

One Day Workshop – Saturday 29th April 10am-4pm

In this amazing interactive workshop, David Wells shares some of his own past lives and takes you on a guided meditation to the Akashic Records to show how you can access your own memories.
Along the way you may even recognise someone in this life who you have travelled with in times gone by!

You will find out more about Karma – what it is and how you can use it to your advantage.

David will show you how to release Karma you may not need anymore; recognise your strengths from previous incarnations and how to ask your spiritual guides to help you out when the going gets tough!

For further information on this event, please click HERE

Kyle Gray
An Evening with The Angel Whisperer

Talk & Demonstration – Thurs 31st May
7.30pm-10pm

During this evening talk and demonstration, Kyle Gray, The Angel Whisperer will share with you his secrets and experiences of connecting with the other side as he explains how The Angels are all around us and are waiting to help and direct us on our pathway.

The aim of this talk is to help you meet or strengthen your connection to heaven and know that even your wildest dreams are possible.

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For further information on this event, please click HERE

Gordon Smith
Intuitive Studies

Evening Talk – Wed 25th July
7.30pm-10pm

In these fast changing and challenging times, world renowned medium, Gordon Smith believes it is crucial that we all find a way to connect as powerfully as possible with Spirit.

Over the past two years he has been receiving guidance from his own guides on effective ways to help empower people to make direct connection with their own teachers in the Spirit world.

Gordon is keen to help people find their own personal connection – rather than rely on mediums as an intermediary.

For further information on this event, please click HERE

Tickets

To celebrate this glorious feast of psychic connections we are offering a wonderful opportunity to attend all three events for the amazing price of just £99.00!

A saving of £16.00 off the full ticket prices!

Please book your combined ticket using the booking form below

Venue

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The Crown Hotel (Windsor Suite)
7 London Street,
Chertsey, Surrey
KT16 8AP
United Kingdom

A lunch menu is available at the venue

Parking is available at Sainsburys (almost opposite the venue.)
Chertsey train station is about 10 minutes walk from the venue.

Three Vibrant and Healthy Recipes by the UK’s Leading Raw Food Coach Karen Knowler

The Green Smoothie

The Green Smoothie takes just three minutes to make, uses just two ingredients, can easily be considered a meal in and of itself, and will give you energy and taste to fuel you up for the next exciting activity!

Serves: 1–2

Equipment: Blender

Ingredients

1 large sweet and ripe mango (or 2 small ones)
5–6 large handfuls of spinach

Directions

1. Chop your peeled mango into pieces and put into a blender first (it’s important that you put the mango in first, as it creates the juice which the spinach can be blended into).
2. Wash your spinach thoroughly and add to the blender.
3. Blend the two together thoroughly until a thick but bit-free consistency is achieved.
4. Taste-test: If it’s not sweet enough for you, add 1–2dates or more mango. If it’s too sweet, add a bit more spinach.
5. Finally, if you prefer your smoothie less thick, simply add water to reach desired consistency.
6. When you’re happy with taste and texture, pour into a tall glass and swoon. Feel the green goodness flooding into you!

Karen’s Tip

I recommend that you make 2 pints worth (the above recipe will make roughly this amount) and drink one immediately and put the other into a pint glass and keep in the fridge until later in the day. The latter makes for a great afternoon ‘snack’ or satiating pre-dinner filler. Two in a day? It’s super-efficient, doesn’t take any extra time to make and you’ll be feeling so much better in no time at all!

Fresh Strawberries Dipped in Raw Chocolate Sauce

This treat is beautiful to look at, tastes divine, feels naughty – and is the perfect dish to share with a lover!

Serves: 1–2

Equipment: Food processor

Ingredients

Fresh strawberries (as many as you desire)
1 cup raw cacao powder (cocoa powder also works but may be stronger)
1 cup agave nectar

Directions

1. Wash your fresh strawberries well, taking care to leave the stalks on. (Sensual Eaters like the contrast!)
2. Put your cacao powder and agave syrup into the food processor and blend until you have a thick, smooth, chocolaty mixture that is the same consistency all the way through.
3. Place your strawberries in a medium-sized bowl and pour the chocolate dipping sauce into a smaller bowl in the middle.
4. Enjoy by simply dipping the strawberries into the sauce and eating/sharing/feeding as many or few as desired.

Karen’s Tip

This sauce keeps brilliantly in the fridge for a few weeks, so make as much as you want and enjoy!

Raspberry Passion Pudding

This recipe is a dessert or summer brunch recipe that’s universally adored, can be decorated any way you like for the wow factor and, better still, takes only a couple of minutes to make. Well, we wouldn’t want to keep you from your guests now, would we?

Serves: 1–2

Equipment: Blender

Ingredients

3 cups frozen raspberries
1 passion fruit (cut in half and seeds squeezed out, shell discarded)
1 mango, peeled and pitted

Directions

1. Place the prepared fresh fruit into the blender first, then add the frozen raspberries on top.
2. Blend all ingredients until the mixture is smooth and creamy with no lumps.
3. Taste-test before serving. If too tart for your palate, add some honey or dates to your blend.

Karen’s Tip

Feel free to add any other fresh fruits of your choice and decorate as desired.

Meet Karen at Naked Dragon

If you are interested in learning more about the part that a raw food diet can play in creating a state of optimum health and well-being, you are warmly invited to come and hear Karen speak at Naked Dragon on Wednesday 28^th March at 7.30pm.

For further details and to book your ticket, please click HERE

The Angels of Atlantis want to drench our lives with their inter-stellar intelligence, suffused with the purity of their unconditional love.

They hover, waiting to show us that we are simply much more than that we first thought, felt or imagined. For they wish to bring us into direct communion with The Source.

They wish to diminish within us the notion that we are separate from the ALL THAT IS.

So can you allow yourself to be bathed in their presence?

The Angels use this extraordinary time to encourage us to reinvent the wheel – that is to shift our perspective from the fixation we have with being alone. They wish to recalibrate our vision, so that we feel the connectivity of the Galaxy, and they pledge assistance to our restless creativity for one measure only, to aid us in our relationship with the divine.

A separation took place from the ALL THAT IS in the sixteenth century during the era known as the ENLIGHTENMENT, when the materialists flatly refused to honour that the Universe had a Soul.

Ironically, this occurred just after the second most significant wave of Angels the planet had ever seen, that being the Italian Renaissance, when great Artists captured Angelic nature in their beautiful paintings.

For example observe the Annunciation of Mary by Raphael, or the depiction of Heaven in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo.

Now the Angels are with us once again in another time of Renaissance, as many of us are feeling that we stand on the brink of a massive change, a shifting point of Divine proportion.

You see the space between God and Man is decreasing, the light-years between the Galaxy and Planet Earth are diminishing, the chasm between the Light and the Dark is morphing, and the void between Love and Hate is lessening.

Within this transition lies a path towards super-coherence – an opportunity to dispel the urge for separation, and instead we can become fifth-dimensional beings.

Living thus, we will glimpse our soul’s inheritance as a portal to inclusivity – a transition that does not need to be accomplished alone.

Although many of us have sought healing over the years, and have taken responsibility for our sorrows and pains, waking to the notion that healing means a movement back to wholeness; Jungian Analysis has brought us the compelling nature of individuation, and simultaneously produced a level of personal independence that can overly-control our lives. If so, we then wake to the notion that we’ve created another point of resistance and in this sense a false sense of exclusivity.

The point is we don’t need to relinquish this resistance alone, for the Angels are stirring us through their eternal love to recognize that We and the Universe are evolving together.

They urge that we imagine shades of experience, rather than the force of opposites, encouraging us to at last see ourselves free of limiting thought patterns. For in the fifth dimension we will feel ourselves forever experiencing the oneness of all as a heightened state of interdependence.

Inevitably, this will alter our expression and understanding of the free-will arena, because the either/or perspective will become diffused into the ever-evolving Oneness of the eternal present.

Not that duality will cease to exist, for if we are to truly know ‘freedom of choice’ – the motivational driver of our existence – this evolutionary trigger will need to be with us to diminish any passivity or inertia. Can you imagine what it will be like to see the world through the Eyes of Source?

This is why the Angels refer to us as being the Dream Weavers of the Universe!

Stewart Pearce (copyright)

***Stewart will be hosting an evening workshop at Naked Dragon on Wednesday 7^th March***

For further details and to book your ticket, please click HERE

A Guest Post by Russell Leak

A note, a chord or a song can change your being. It can move you, lift you, make you cry…and even make you laugh out loud!

Since ancient times music has been used to alter states and rouse nations. There’s something in music that goes way back in us, back to the shamans and the drums – back to the first person who worked out how to string a hollowed out log.

Music has been a powerful and transformative part in my life and I used to believe it was the same for everyone. However, as I was vexing passionately to a friend about a new album from my favourite band he said “I’m not really into music…occasionally I just buy a tape for the car!” What???  I could hardly believe his total lack of interest in music. Then I remembered that he was also a football fan and that he used to sing his heart out every Saturday on the terraces!

So I guess music really does touch us all – in one way or another…even if we are blissfully unaware of its powerful effects.

Maybe because it’s wired in us in some way – woven into our DNA. Getting briefly technical; the Pentatonic scale consisting of 5 notes that can be heard in pretty much every culture of music including Chinese, Arabic, African, Blues…everywhere in fact. In those ancient caves, the ones with the animal paintings made by men from 20,000 years ago they found flutes made from a vulture’s wing bone, and low and behold; the scale is Pentatonic. Natures’ natural rhythms…the beat of the wing, the rhythm of the waves and the delicate chimes in the wind.

Life itself has a natural rhythm too. It goes up and down. Sometimes we are happy, sometimes sad, and sometimes it throws us around so much we start to feel a kind of motion sickness. “I want to get off” or “I just want some stability,” we find ourselves saying. So we choose something quiet or gentle, we settle for less until the rhythm becomes a steady hum. At this point we might choose to get back on the ride and find a little excitement again. As one of my favorite song writers said “if their lives were exotic and strange, they would likely have gladly exchanged them for something a little more plain, maybe something a little more sane.”

So through this chaos of life’s ups and downs, we start to look for a sign, a reason and a strategy for coping. We follow the wise words written by the ancients. We meditate knowing that we are searching to find ourselves. We remember those wise cracking gods who thought they’d have a laugh and store the secrets deep within us. How can we go looking inside for ourselves when the whole world is distracting us? It throws us daily emails, glowing lights and 3 minute videos! People start to say “With all this science and technology I don’t believe in God, I believe in matter, I want what’s solid, but I’m sure I have a soul somewhere…I have to have something more within me. Don’t I?”

If you spoke to someone, just as they were turning off their bedside light at the end of a busy stressful day, and asked “What was your absolute best moment of the day?” I’m sure most would enthuse; “Well I had a real laugh working with my colleagues” or “I hugged my man as he realised he’d made a mistake” or “I kissed my sleepy child as she gave in and let the dreams take her” …or, some other wild and crazy act of love. Love is a mysterious and wonderful expression of our existence that makes us question, write, sing, express and confuse ourselves on a daily basis.

With all these conflicting thoughts it’s sometimes hard to find calm in the chaos of our minds. Perhaps a song can transform us, maybe a book, a poem, or a smile.

Or maybe a talk from a couple of crazy guys who have been around the block, learnt a bit about life – and want to share it with you!

Russell Leak will be sharing the stage with Andy Dovey at Naked Dragon on Wed 15^th Feb.

For further details and to book your ticket, please click HERE