Our Activities: 8th April Meeting - Dr Amanda Frache

Chair

Lauren

Visitors

Jeff Taylor, Amanda

Apologies

Graham, Gerry, Neil, Ian, Helen, Noel, Norm, Ron

Makeups

RYDA

Presidents Report

According to Facebook, its Graham’s 54th birthday, unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) Graham is an apology today so we didn’t end up singing Happy Birthday.

RYDA was extremely successful - thanks to Iain for providing a vehicle and to Ann for catering and wounding her leg so the Ambos had something to do

Alan, Deborah, Ross and another from CalPac meeting Catherine from Council Events Section to talk over the possibility of Rotary running the Carols on Kings event. Council would provide $30,000 start up funding. Any comments from members?

The announcement that next week’s meeting would be in the bar caused a ripple of excitement among some of the members.

Thanks to Laura from Oaks for providing water on the tables - wonder how she’ll top that next week.

Work on the Lighthouse Centre bus garage starts today.

that's better - nothing like a bit of encouragement from the Blog

Gold toenails even!

Speaker

Ann introduced Dr Amanda from Wellsure. Amanda is originally from Canada where she studied to be a chiropractor. (still a trace of an accent there)

Amanda gave us a rundown of her to-ing and fro-ing around the planet at such speed that I nearly suffered from writer’s cramp, so I hope I got it right - continued study in Australia, married, had two children, moved back to Canada, then Australia again and a third child, been on the Coast eleven years, then started with Wellsure in December last year.

Wellsure provides an holistic approach to health which involves chiropractic, naturopathy, spiritual, movement, massage and acupuncture.

There are four elements to health - nerve supply, movement, nutrition, and spirit.

Nerve supply can be under stress from physical, chemical or emotional sources. Chemicals include food, liquids & drugs and can be ingested or absorbed through the skin.

Kind of like “kinks in the hose”

hope my hose doesn't look like that

Movement, or lack of, can be problematic. The body requires movement to stay healthy. Short bursts of movement are good for brain function. Wellsure does yoga and pilates. Amanda finds her half hour walk in the mornings keeps her less stressed.

Wellsure has a naturopath and dietician fittingly called Jade Sultana. Amanda covered proteins, fats (coconut oil is good) vitamins & minerals.

The food pyramid is a little off balance, with Amanda recommending a more paleolithic diet with less gluten. As an architect, I don’t recommend glutenous foundations for my pyramids either.

For spiritual wellbeing, Rosie Barker from Wellsure, includes clairvoyance in her repertoire. The brain/body connection is essential for health. Listen to your spirit.