Saturday Evening Postcard from Paradise: Heading h om e

Well, I've got most of the packing down and want to get up to the pool Deck 9 Farewell Disco Party.

The evening air is a bit cool -- and sooo fresh -- I'm feeling very great full --

Here's my favorite meal - Friday evening:

Hijiki caviar

Split pea soup with dulse & smoked tempeh

Grilled asparagus salad with sesame miso vinaigrette

Roasted portobello mushroom with millet "mashed potatoes" & yummy shitake gravy

And 5 star dessert: Key lime pie with blackberry sauce

My vote for best salad of the week (I asked for seconds):

Orange arame watercress salad

It looks like the appetizers for the week were my greatest hits:
Lentil walnut pate and Hijiki tart with sweet potatoe sauce and tonite's porcini mushroom pate are always satisfying and the marinated seiten skewers were also a great treat --

William Spear and Joel Fuhrman were new exceptional contributors this year --
and my dear colleague Hazel Chung -Hood, Maryland Ohashiatsu Director, like me was a first time presenter -- and I so enjoyed it -- as well as Swing Golf with Les
Bowlin.

Passover will mark the transition of this Celebration of the Inner Healer - Wellness Voyage at Sea 2010 to Spring in the 'burgh. Wouldn't a Plant-based Sedar celebrating freedom, miracles, community, and inner strength be just the ticket??? Any 'burghers who'd like to invite me for second nite -- I'm ready!

Ariva Derci,
Yours in Wellness, Spring Vitality, Love and Light,
Suzen Sharda Segall

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Counting Down to ship ahoy and Counting Blessings

I'm on my way, bye bye to the 'burgh and hello, to my first two legs of this Wellness Voyage:

First stop: Get a little help from my friend in Berkeley Springs, Wild and Wonderful West Virginia -- the magnificent Dr. Linn (or Acupuncture - hot oil hot towel session to ground and harmonize me following the whirlwind of preparation for the Holistic Holiday at Sea presentations.

(I even sang In Breath Out Breath to her - while face down in the donut!! catching her up on the evolution of my sessions with table clients and Restorative Yoga classes where I'm now incorporating a couple special Threshold Choir songs.)

While still heading to BS I am opening the window to pay the turnpike toll -- and a very strong whiff of manure greeted me -- and much to my suprise and delight -- instead of feeling repulsed -- my first reaction was -- Pungent...Oh! Manure -- what a great sign of Spring here in our farm country ! Wow! that's a new and positive shift - Dr. Linn and I celebrated my healing progress - and I made a few more rounds visiting special shops - Sage Moon -- and SoupitySalads great vibes great pure food made with love - (for starters - a gingery strawberry lemonade sweetened with agave -- lovely - and a request to share menus from the cruise )



-- and of course getting right to the Rx home-work of grounding myself - by visiting the Springs -- and in the fresh air and bright sun - practiced the Medical QiGong sequence to balance and harmonize all the organ systems, followed by the special grounding & centering standing meditation and 100 orbits. What a way to start the Wellness Voyage......thank you one and all!

I've been enjoying the buds at home while on my brief but refreshing walks these last couple of days -- and now realize I will have the red bud trees in Maryland to look forward to by my return trip!

(Stop two:overnite with traveling companion dear cousin Marilyn -- a great reunion -- and in catching up ---another Celebration of each of our Inner Healing.



The cab will be here 6:45 am so I'll sign off. All this preparation... all this anticipation,...we're really Welcoming Spring and our second annual Voyage to deeper and higher wellness!

May you all enjoy great happiness and health and let us know about your celebrations of Spring - of New Life - new attitudes -- new recipes...

Yours in Wellness, Gratitude and Ahimsa (Jain philosophy of Reverence for All Life),

Suzen Sharda Segall

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Walk this way....Day Six Postcard from Paradise

After breakfast today,On the 26th, we'll be Mindfully Walking and Sharing The Tai Ji Dance of the Five Elements before exploring Grand Turk.

And how exciting for me -- having had a private shiatsu consult with my favorite Lino Stanchich among other things, I was given new ways of prescriptive walking for ME!! I am so blessed

Here's the description from the Holistic Holiday at Sea VII Program:
Celebrating the Inner Healer: Mindful Walking.

Express the joy of movement and anchor your enriched sense of well-being with sustained present moment walking practices on the deck.
Voyagers will be guided in several ways of walking with intention and awareness. Have fun and gain confidence walking in and out of balance in the dance of life.

Sharda will include a demonstration of the Dance of the Five Elements to illustrate the moving meditation practices (with seated adaptation) that complement mindful walking and discuss the application and 'next steps' to integrating these principals and ancient systems into daily life.

Yours in Wellness, Gratitude and Happiness,
Suzen Sharda Segall


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Chi with Me on the Deep Blue Sea

The schedule is set -- I am sharing Qi(pronounced chee) Gong -( Chinese Yoga) - and
guided Hara breathing (diaphramatic breath) on deck of the luxurious Costa Fortuna to start the day in the Virgin Islands Wednesday March 24th.

On Friday the 26th we'll be Mindfully Walking and Sharing The Tai Ji
Dance of the Five Elements after breakfast before exploring Grand
Turk. (Tai Ji or Tai Chi - pronounced 'chee' - is an ancient standing slow-moving meditative practice for health or martial art)


Even if you are unable to join us in person this year, you do not have to
do without some Five Star mindbody nourishment and nurturing self-care
and community. Through this new Celebrating the Inner Healer blog
I'll be suggesting several ways for you to experience "A taste of health"(link to their website) without packing your suitcase.

As I am counting down less than two weeks to Bon Voyage on the Costa Fortuna, I invite you to join me here for some timely tastes of health and healing.

I look forward to your comments and would love to hear about other Wellness Getaways you have discovered, enjoyed and recommend to our community of folks celebrating the Inner Healer.

Starting tomorrow -- Why not embark and book an
appointment with yourself for the Guided Radiant Skin - Radiant Self
treatment that I'll describe here on Thursday. I'll be very interested to hear how it rates -- what you learned -- what suprised you about the experience -- or any questions.