January 2024

LOVE AND WATER IN 2024

Hello!

I have a faint suspicion: “You’ve made a New Year’s resolution.” That’s great! ….. But are you aware of the grim statistics that say only 23% of us keep it until the end of January and only 8-9% are still committed at the end of the year?

That’s why I’ve decided not to give you any advice on how to keep your resolutions, such as visualizing yourself living in abundance, finding the partner of your life, losing weight, etc., every morning and afterwards take a step towards your goal every day. In the same way, never say the opposite: “I’ll never find that flat or that new job”… You know the drill!

No, I’d like to give you a resolution that you can actually keep. A resolution that is very important for our brain and our body.

Stay hydrated!

Why should you?
The human brain consists of 95% water.
A 2% drop in the body’s water content has an impact on things like concentration, memory, clarity, coordination, endurance and our general energy levels.

In the United States, it has been found that 75% of the population suffers from mild but chronic dehydration.

Hydration is also an anti-ageing secret! With a well-hydrated body, your skin looks more like a juicy grape than a sultana! 😀

Did you know that even when you’re sitting down, your body is constantly dehydrating?

We all know that you need to drink water. We also know that coffee, tea and sodas don’t count for true hydration. On the contrary caffeine and theine dehydrate us. Vitaminised water is full of artificial sweeteners (saccharin, aspartame etc) which, has long been proven, create numerous health problems. The word ‘vitaminised’ was a real marketing coup!

A quick reminder of the benefits of good hydration:
– less fatigue
– keeps the blood moving in the veins and arteries and prevents high blood pressure and other vascular diseases
– reduces allergies and asthma
– has a positive effect on skin disorders and premature ageing, When lacking water, the body is unable to rid itself of toxins and becomes irritated and congested (acne, etc)
– helps to stop weight gain. The body cannot create the energy it needs to function properly when cells lack water.
– slows down the ageing process. All organs need water to function. A body without water has to work harder. Water eliminates toxins, improves digestion and makes you look younger.

How much water should I drink?

It is said that you need 8 glasses of water a day. This may be too much or too little. It all depends on where you live and how active you are.

Our bodies have a mechanism that tells us how much water to drink. Unfortunately, when we feel thirsty, we are probably already dehydrated. This is particularly true for people over 60, as the thirst mechanism becomes slower after this age.

The body’s more subtle signals that we need water :
– fatigue
⁃ hunger
⁃ dry, dull skin
⁃ pronounced wrinkles
⁃ dark, yellow, concentrated urine
– constipation
⁃ infrequent urination. (normal 7-8 times a day)
⁃ back and joint pain

How do you calculate the amount of water you need?
Half your body weight in ounces of water each day.
Example: 120 pounds 60 ounces of water should be enough.

This makes more sense than 8 glasses of water a day.

Tips
A glass of water with lemon juice in the morning is good for the liver as it helps detoxification. Lemon does not interfere with the hydration process like coffee or tea.

Keep a bottle of water on your desk. Choose the type of bottle that suits you best: plastic or metal.

Ayurveda recommends drinking water in small sips throughout the day, as it warms up the water slightly. You drink it like coffee.

Cold water with ice cubes is not recommended for many reasons. One of them is that it cools the fat in the body (somehow like when you pour cold water over fat in a pan). Cold water constricts blood vessels and slows down the digestive process, leading to bloating and constipation.

Don’t drink a lot of water with food, as this dilutes the digestive juices and therefore slows down the digestion process.

Drink a large glass of water 15 minutes before eating, as the feeling of fullness will encourage you to eat less.

A FINAL WORD

I’d like to thank you for still being here with me reading my newsletter, because I realise that it is quite long. So here’s the last word:

Thousands of people have lived without love – but no one without water!

In 2024, let’s have LOVE AND WATER! I wish you all a very happy new year!

FREE AS A BIRD

SELF-CARE

In this complex and demanding world, wise self-management is THE key skill you need to succeed and to maintain for your well-being at work and in your private life.

I am pleased to welcome Beat Edelmann, certified coach and trainer with federal patent, ZRM® coach and ZRM®* trainer, who works with this amazing method,
on Saturday 27 May 2023 in my cabinet Espace Mieux Vivre.

*ZRM is a self-management training developed at the University of Zurich that increases the options for action in difficult and stressful situations.

INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS THIS SPRING

Take the opportunity to work on something that is important to you with individual sessions this spring.
It could be: a relationship that is causing you problems, a situation that is taking up a lot of energy, a loss of a loved one or an important change that requires flexibility and letting go, a difficulty in reaching an important goal in your life, a frustration or fear, a pain or tension or an inability to relax etc. We will focus on the issue that is bothering you in order to reach your goal through targeted bodywork and discussion to empower you to bring about the desired change.

Sessions every day of the week except Monday
Fee: Frs. 150 for the analysis of the subject and Frs. 100 per session with bodywork inspired by my 30 years of experience as a teacher in movement and body. Special rate for students, AVS and AI.
I am ASCA certified

THE FEAR OF FEAR – upcoming workshop 

A workshop about our fears and how to deal with them to truly get out of the victim state.
Fear, courage and self-confidence go together! How does it work? I let you discover in my next workshop.

More information to follow.

Click here for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQvmCFYZ6qQ&list=PLBjNEnXMSiWQICZ03dzDc4ULNKgSv6-dD&index=3

Who hasn’t experienced sleeping problems? These problems exist for many various reasons… During MLC© practice there is a movement that invites us to enter a state of altered consciousness that helps us to sleep deeply. I invite you to practice this movement daily.

Click here for the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXP9y480vCU&t=141s

Newsletter January 2022

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022

(Promotion – I take charge of myself)

(a desire does not change anything, a decision changes all)

Are you having a stressful issue with:

• a business partner that seems to arouse irritation at each encounter
• with the actual sanitary situation and it’s restrictions
• your partner that exasperates you with a specific annoying behavior
• a situation with your child that makes you react in a way you regret afterwards
• a fear of an encounter with a specific person that makes you give up or angry
• your daily way to work
• a situation where you need to talk to a group
• answer e-mails
• etc etc

I am pleased to let you know that 2022 shall bring new possibilities to work with a stressful situation.
I offer a program focused on your personal situation that regularly creates stress and takes your energy. (at work, with your partner, with your children etc)
The program consists of a personal follow-up with 1 to 1 sessions and 5 odd group sessions to enhance personal training next to the bodywork you get in your individual sessions. This program allows a more powerful focused approach in stopping stress in your life. You profit from the energy of the group all while getting guidance and clarity in your personal stress-situation.

Anti-Stress-program 2022
Topic : A personal situation with stress
1st individual session : analysis “what, who, where, when” it happens
an assessment of your stress situation you want to change and focus on
1st group training: breathing technics, relaxation, movement
2nd individual session: learn the areas and sensations in your body that react in a stressful situation
2nd group session: learning about your posture when stressed, how to undo and let go of your physical reaction to stress, relaxation, movement
3rd individual session: looking at your beliefs about what happens to you in the stressful situation
3rd group session: learning to be silent, relaxation, breathing, movement
4th individual session: work with fear and emotions that emerge when stressed
4th group session: EFT – emotional freedom technic – acceptance and flow of emotions connected to your stress situation
5th individual session: experiencing ease and harmony in the body
5th group session: MLC (Méthode de libération de cuirasses) allowing flow of energy in the body – experiencing peace.

Price for the full program: Frs. 500 (partial payment possible)
100 frs. per individual session, group work: 5 x 2 hours free of charge
Start of the program: January 2022
Groups sessions take place on Saturdays
Minimum 3, maximum 5 people

For more info contact me via e-mail or phone

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Prendre soin de soi dans ce climat anxiogène

Newsletter Juillet 2020

La vie après le confinement

L’été est de retour, avec ses splendides couleurs et sa nature en pleine force de vie!

Nous émergeons du confinement et peut-être vous vous posez la question; ce qui a vraiment de la valeur pour vous. Peut-être, ce temps de confinement a amené des questions comme; quel but vous poursuivez dans votre vie et qu’est-ce qui compte vraiment pour vous? L’histoire vécu laisse des traces dans notre mémoire mais aussi dans notre corps. Lors de cette époque agité et incertain, il devient évident, que le fait de prendre régulièrement soin de notre corps, nos émotions et notre paix mentale est devenu une nécessité pour garantir un équilibre et garder le cap de ce que nous voulez faire de votre vie.

Mon programme d’été est conçu pour se retrouver dans le but, de partager des moments dans la joie et de prendre soin de notre corps qui a subi du stress et réagit à la peur.

Donc, voici le programme pour les prochaines semaines! Bel été!!!

Classe MLC – le jeudi 23 juillet – à la rue Hesse 1 – 18h45 – 20h15 –  CHF 25

en français

Cette classe propose des exercices qui permettent de digérer les effets des mois passés sous le stress. Elle focalise sur ce qui reste comme tension et peur suite au confinement. Les mouvements permettent un flux d’énergie qui libère les tensions retenues suite à nos peurs. Les articulations dans lesquelles nous retenons souvent nos émotions et tensions peuvent à nouveau se relaxer et s’ouvrir dans un espace de confiance. Nous sommes donc à nouveau apte à nous détendre plus profondément et sommes capable de retrouver de l’énergie important pour notre santé, notre  vitalité et joie.                   

BodyLab rencontre de 3 heures le 8 août de 10h à 13h à la rue Hesse 1, 1205 Genève, Salle Hesse. (sur inscription) Frs. 60
Sujet: comment maintenir une discipline en gardant la motivation
La joie de bouger, de se détendre, d’être à l’écoute de son corps.
Exercices de silence, de mouvement avec de la musique, de détente et exercice pour libérer notre force et vitalité        

Nouveautés pour les francophones!!

Nouvelle formation de praticien de la Méthode de Libération des cuirasses MLC en 2021.

Pour plus d’information rejoignez ce lien:

The Art of Decision Making 
Workshop of 29.2. and 1.3.20
Plaine de Plainpalais, Geneva

We are constantly confronted with choices… and can be hesitant. Know how to decide is an essential quality for everyone that wants to go forward. So how do we take a good decision?

The workshop “The art of decision making” gives us new tools that serve to find a solution to a situation. We use our body and all its qualities to shine a light on what hinders us to take decisions. Qualities like the intellect, acts we undertake, emotions we feel and needs to be fulfilled, find a place. Through various exercises you will learn to listen to the aspects that play a role in the act of deciding. You will then be able to better weigh up the pros and cons, see clearly your fears and beliefs and learn to trust further your intuition. The answer is often already in your body. Let’s take the time to listen and weigh up again in a new light what hinders you to go ahead. You are then able to decide in a state of self-knowledge.

Deciding is hard work – you’re not born a good decision-maker, you become one.

Place: Plaine de Plainpalais, Geneva
Dates: 29th February (group work) and 1st of March 20 (individual session)
Price: CHF 290 or CHF 230 for AHV, AI, unemployed and couples
Language: French translated into English
Teachers: Svetlana Lisan and Rita Rütsche

Newsletter January 2020

In the moment of this passage into a new decade, I am sending you my best wishes for happiness and health

May this new year allow you to keep your balance and confidence, during, what already looks like upcoming big changes on both, a planetary level, as well as on many personal levels. I wish you the strength ro reach out beyond your limits, to get to the dreams you have for yourself.

I thank particularly all those, who took an interest in my work during this last year. Your confidence gives me the strength to pass on a message very dear to me, the message of trusting and honoring  the unmeasurable wisdom of our body and to use its qualities that lie dormant.

THE ART OF DECISION MAKING

Are you hesitating ?
Are you at a crossroad in your life ?
Do you need to take a decision ?
Do you have all the intellectual details but you do not manage to make your choice ?
Your intuition tells you « yes » but you do not trust it …

When : Saturday 25.1.20 group work 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday 26.1.20 your individual session of 1h30
Place : Plainpalais – Geneva
Who : Svetlana Lisan and Rita Rütsche
Price: CHF 290
Language: French and English
We propose a weekend with immersion into the body and learning about body consciousness through the topic of « dilemma »

We have routines with many things in life. When we face choices, we also have habits. Many habits of all kinds, (postponing, doubting, choosing for the sake of getting on with it etc.) that give us a wrong impression of security but often hinder us from advancing.

Your habits are imbedded in your body and create blockages. To free yourself from them we use our body. Body attention allows us to « concientise » what blocks us from advancing. We then get access to the energy that brings us clarity, confidence and the strength to decide and act.

Our weekend has the aim to rise body awareness to find the “élan” to get out of indecision or simply assume our choices. We use a whole range of fun exercises involving music, our senses, breathing and movement. Our body then shows us the blockages much clearer and allows us to reach renewed energy, bringing clarity freedom and courage.

Our program also includes a demonstration of an individual session with a practitioner that uses touch to guide her client. An individual session for yourself shall close this weekend rich of experiences.

Clarity, joy, freedom, determination is part of our body. Our habits and reactions to fear often mask these forces. You can take your destiny in your hands!

FINAL WORD TO THIS NEWSLETTER:

Remember when you forgive you heal and when you let go you grow

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Newsletter October 2019

« SILENCE – LEARNING TO FIND QUIETNESS OF MIND» (taught in English)

On: Saturday 5th October 2019 

At: 1, rue Hesse, 1205 Geneva (next to Plaine de Plainpalais)

from: 13h to 17h

Price: CHF 60 

In: English

Silence is a unique and personal experience that exists when we are in harmony with what happens inside and around us. We experience silence when we are concentrated, present, physical and when we managed to stop the never-ending flow of internal dialogs (worries, stress, comments etc).

The Miniworkshop is an introduction in which I shall present a series of exercises, especially invented to find silence and to stop the noises that hinder us to be quiet, awake and capable to see clear. By using our body and its perceptions we learn the physical quality of the state of silence and recognize this quality as an important source for better health and balance. We shall practice several different tools that stem from my practice in bodywork since 29 years now. These methods are based on the human capacity to learn, to grow and to evolve by using the body and its perceptions.

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UPCOMING EVENTS 2018

MLC “Méthode de Libération des Cuirasses”

What about starting a real cool discipline without efforts

Miniworkshops

“I’d like to thank you again for the session of yesterday and for teaching us how to take care of us in general. I had such a great feeling of well-being yesterday after the session. I found the particular exercises we did yesterday allowed my body to relax and re-energize at the same time. ”

After a group session during a business seminar Megève:

“I greatly enjoyed our session with you.  I think your biggest asset (next to your extended experience) is your voice. You hit the right tone and speed during the relaxation part so that we gained enough trust to do the somewhat awkward moves thereafter and found joy with each other. I truly believe that any extended meeting shall have designed breaks for breathing, relaxation, movement, stretching … . I also see capabilities in these areas as being an important leadership skill as it helps breaking patterns, quieting our mind and prepare for the difficult discussions and engagements every true leader shall focus his/her attention on.”

Two encounters in the form of Miniworkshops. The dates and subjects are the following:

Saturday, 3.3. Movements to improve the back,
Saturday, 14.4. Movements for the belly and diaphragm

Meetings take place at rue Hesse 1, 1204 Geneva from 15h to 18h at Frs. 60 the encounter. 3 hours in English and French

MLC is an approach that puts you back in touch with a healthy souple body with sessions that fit easily into a busy schedule? Are you looking for wellbeing, physical health, a dialog with the intuitif aspects of yourself, guiding you towards clear goals, a quiet mind and your healing potential ?

MLC liberates from muscular, circulatory, energetic and postural blockages

To get to know this work, created by physios and therapists, I propose two upcoming encounters. They aim to sharpen your body conciousness and teach how to drop blockages through simple movements without effort. MLC (Méthode de Libération des Cuirasses (www.marielilelabonte.com) is easy to learn and apply also at home.

Come and check out these astonishing simple movements which take you to deep relaxation, triggering the body’s healing process and bringing ease and happiness!

Registrations for either one or both at : rits@infomaniak.ch or 078 719 27 11.

See you soon !

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Workshop on Silence

“Worry is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.”

quote by Emma Bombeck

Our third encounter of our series of mini-workshops focuses on the head and neck with the topic of quietness of mind.

Silence is a workshop that looks at the unique and personal experience that exists when we are in harmony with what happens inside and around us.
 By gaining awareness of the body we reduce the never-ending noise in our head and become fully present. We then are able to enjoy a state of well-being in which we are satisfied and in which we find nothing to add or regret. It is the moment when our senses are awake, present and attentive and we are capable of clarity and awareness about what surrounds us.

When doubt, fear and worries take all our attention and harass us, it is difficult to find the necessary distance in order to reflect upon our problems in peace. The never-ending noises such as worries, beliefs etc. disturb our sleep; allow neither relaxation nor patience, steal our energy and our drive for new challenges.

The mini-workshop teaches exercises to recognize and take care of the noises that hinder us to find peace and encourage finding silence by using the body’s capacity of perception. We learn to sense the physical quality of the state of silence and to experience this quality as an important source for better health and balance.

The simple physical exercises stem from our personal long experience in bodywork with various approaches to the body. Our work has the general aim to refine and stimulate  body consciousness to find more freedom of movement, of expression, strength and authenticity.

Place : Place des Augustins, -1, espace Mercedes Andany

14h to 17h

Price : CHF 60

Pascale Sengupta Nurse and Rita Rütsche Practitioner of the Grinberg Method and both Licensed Therapists of Méthode de Libération des Cuirasses MLC, 

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Christmas Gift tokens for a 1 hour Soy-candle session

Enjoy an hour with a deep relaxing massage for better health and more energy. Apart from the pleasant warmth of the 100 % natural soy candle, the massage nourishes the skin, strengthens the muscles, improves blood flow and makes articulations softer. 

For yourself or as a gift to someone you appreciate!

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Congres de Management de Projet

We shall again participate in the Congrès from 8th to 9th April this year. You are most welcome to visit us at our stand where we give 20 minutes taster sessions on neck and shoulders.

www.congres-pm.ch

Intensif Retreat at Bogève from 30.10. to 1.11.15

Our next intensif retreat at Bogève is planned. Registration is open as of today (6.3.15). See testimonies from participants.

A four hours work-out focused on shoulders and chest and expressing from the heart rather then the head (see details in flyer below)

Workshop chest and heart 7.12.13

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