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Preventing Animal Cruelty: Animals in Entertainment
Using animals for human entertainment often results in profound suffering. Circuses, zoos and marine parks take animals away from their natural environment and force them to live in poor conditions, often enduring ongoing abuse. Animal ‘entertainments’ such as horse...
A Guide for the First-Time Vegan
Adjusting to a vegan diet can be a challenge, especially for those who have the habit of planning meals around meat, fish, dairy or other animal products. Small adjustments can be made over time to gradually eliminate meat and animal products and replace them with...
Craniosacral Therapy: The Development of Craniosacral Work
Craniosacral Therapy is a light-touch holistic therapy that works with subtle rhythmic movements in the body. As long as these rhythms are being expressed in fullness, balance and without restriction a state of health prevails. However, unresolved stresses or traumas...
Embracing Vegetarianism: Following a Nutritionally Balanced Plant-Based Diet
Following a plant-based diet was not always so easy as resources were limited, and a certain amount of dedication was needed to source a nutritionally balanced diet. However, with the rise of vegetarianism and veganism over the last few years, food manufacturers have...
Introducing ‘Live to Love’
Live to Love is an international non-profit organisation that is particularly active in the Himalayan mountain range. Encompassing several countries and multiple cultures and ethnicities, this is a region that can provide numerous challenges to its populations. Live...
Animal Rights and Other Reasons to Go Vegan
The reason why most people choose a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle is concern about the plight of animals, although other compelling reasons are also significant. The health benefits are widely documented, and there are wider environmental concerns generated by the...
A Brief Guide to Training as a Craniosacral Therapist
Craniosacral Therapy is light-touch therapy that works with the expression of subtle rhythms in the body. These rhythms are known as ‘primary respiration’, because they underlie and are more fundamental to all other functions in the body. Craniosacral Therapists learn...
Factory Farming: Animal Cruelty in Food Production
Farm animals are officially recognised in the European Union as sentient beings. This means that they are recognised as able to feel emotions, pain, discomfort, fear and frustration. Despite this, billions of animals bred for food are factory farmed, and so spend...
The Ice Stupas of Ladakh
Located in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent, Ladakh is a remote mountain desert in the Himalayas where winter temperatures commonly reach as low as -30° Celsius. On average, annual rain and snowfall is only 100 millimetres (mm), making the area one of...
Changing to a Vegetarian Diet
Why change to a vegetarian diet? Reasons may include the well-researched health benefits, compassion for animals and environmental concerns. The rampant use of medications in livestock rearing is also increasingly concerning, with unknown health consequences. Whatever...