Re: Seeking Recommendations of Holistic Wellness Retreats

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

In my country the Philippines:

Try Vander Gaditano's healing farm

http://www.curemanual.com/blog/2009/04/vanderbilt-gaditanos-healing-farm-is-a-sa\

nctuary-for-the-sick-and-terminally-ill-looking-for-a-cure/

Try The Farm

http://www.thefarm.com.ph/

Call them up both and see which suits your needs.

Best wishes,

Edwin

Shoham wrote:

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> I am looking for a place to heal in, and am considering going to a

> Wellness retreat.

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> The sort of place I am looking for needs to be totally serene, that

> will allow me to connect with myself. I will need some emotional

> support as well as guidance on meditation, guided imagery, etc. I will

> be taking oral chemo so will need to do regular blood tests. And I

> intend to take high dose Vitamin C intravenously, so will need a

> medical team on site in order to administer this.

>

> Any recommendations would be highly recommended. It can be anywhere in

> the world.

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[Guest guest]

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Your last name jumped out at me as Professor Shoham, MD, PhD in

Israel is a friend of mine. His e-mail is:

<shohamj@...> When we last spoke he was setting up a center

such as you describe. Professor Shoham is the international editor

of Integrative Cancer Therapies. Should you contact him you are

welcome to use my name.

Another excellent source of alternative information is Shlomo " Gubi "

Guberman in Raanana. Gubi is on this list and has written a book on

alternative cancer therapies. gubisara@...

I just punched up your blog

http://cid-b1591267072bca0b.profile.live.com/. High dose vitamin C

can be a very good strategy when it is crunch time. In the Southern

California -Tijuana area we will use it with menadione. Still, I

think it is mediocre as a long term strategy. Like chemo one can

often see shrinkage, but it will only kill those cells that are

susceptible. There is no way I could call it a curative

treatment. There are so many more interesting approaches for the

melanomas, e.g., IPT dacarbazine with DNCB, Lonidamine,

betulinic/betulonic acid, dithiodinicotinic acid, melacine,

virulizin, etc., but it will take many years for conventional

medicine and approvals to catch up.

We do have a retreat center in Del Mar, CA but I am not sure that it

would be a good fit for you. Although very serene this is almost

accidental. I don't have a clear understanding of " connect with

myself " and what this has to do with reversing cancer. We don't do

any meditation, hypnosis, nor do we go around and smell pretty

things. Other people may find this the right path for them and there

are many practitioners who provide these sorts of services.

We focus on quite the opposite. Our intention is to awaken the brain

and with it to free you from immune anergy and autonomic atonia. We

help line you up with sensible treatments and then attempt to help

you take responsibility for your own treatment decisions. This is a

major point in our program. No clinic/physician/practitioner is

going to do your dying for you, so can their motivation be stronger

than yours? Our goal is not to make you dependent on us, but to make

you dependent on yourself.

One of the starting places of our program is to help a person

recognize the biases and fantasies that infect our decision

making. We don't try to rid you of these; we just make you aware of

them so you can choose to allow their existence, or not.

Whenever I hear someone go on about serenity, etc., I am suspicious

that part of their brain is preparing them for death. If you like I

could look around for a place with a nice collection of dirges, and

maybe with paintings of precious souls sleeping in the arms of

angels. We have seen our share of serene people come here. They

came to the wrong place. What they really want is that ocean

voyage. Others come here incredibly fearful. Perhaps they are

afraid we'll waterboard their colon. No, fear/panic/siege is no

solution either.

What is the best mental state for beating cancer? It is one of

problem solving, self-discipline, boldness, and taking responsibility.

At 02:54 AM 6/21/2009, you wrote:

>I am looking for a place to heal in, and am considering going to a

>Wellness retreat.

>

>The sort of place I am looking for needs to be totally serene, that

>will allow me to connect with myself. I will need some emotional

>support as well as guidance on meditation, guided imagery, etc. I

>will be taking oral chemo so will need to do regular blood tests.

>And I intend to take high dose Vitamin C intravenously, so will need

>a medical team on site in order to administer this.

>

>Any recommendations would be highly recommended. It can be anywhere

>in the world.

>

>

[Guest guest]

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I have a neighbor who overcame lymphoma by going to the Optimum Health wellness

retreat in San Diego, CA. They have a 2nd retreat in Atlanta. On their site,

click on 'General Information' & 'FAQ' to get more details about the program.

They use wheatgrass juice and a vegetarian diet as well as emotional & spiritual

support. All of it is taught in classes so it can be continued at home.

For my neighbor, it was a recurrence of lymphoma that made her decide to

go. It had come back a few years after she had gone through 18 rounds of

chemo to get rid of it the first time. When the lumps appeared on her

neck again, she was determined to avoid chemo this time.

After spending two weeks at the wellness center, the lumps were half the

size they were before and within a month of continuing the program at

home, the lumps were gone. She stays with the living foods vegetarian diet &

detoxes regularly. Now, 8 years later, she's still cancer-free.

http://www.optimumhealth.org/optimumhealth/

Jan

" Shoham " wrote:

>I am looking for a place to heal in, and am considering going to a Wellness

retreat.

> The sort of place I am looking for needs to be totally serene, that will allow

me to connect with myself. I will need some emotional support as well as

guidance on meditation, guided imagery, etc. I will be taking oral chemo so

will need to do regular blood tests. And I intend to take high dose Vitamin C

intravenously, so will need a medical team on site in order to administer this.

> Any recommendations would be highly recommended. It can be anywhere in the

world.

>