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  • Holistic Holiday at Sea, Part 3

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    When Dr. Martha Cottrell turned 50, she was a mess. She suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis and severe allergies. She didn’t think it could get much worse – but one day, it did. She was diagnosed with a pre-cancerous lesion of the cervix. “I was doing everything I had been taught,” she told the audience,…

  • Healing on the High Seas – Part 2

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    Sunday dawned somewhere over the high seas, and we emerged poolside to find the yoga instructor cheerily calling out over a stiff ocean breeze: “Remember, surrender all resistance; we’re in battlefield conditions. This will strengthen your practice!” A hundred pairs of arms reached for the sky as the last shades of pink faded away, and…

  • Healing on the High Seas

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    Freelance writer Tracy Barnett is reporting from the Caribbean from the Holistic Holiday at Sea, She will be documenting the holistic cruise over the next week through a series of blog entries. Stay tuned! Gary Brunk, recently diagnosed with mesothelioma, is fighting for his life with a holistic health regimen, accompanied by his wife Judy…

  • Hacienda Petac: “A little piece of Eden”

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    MERIDA, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico – Finally, I can relax. The sound of running spring water and the night noises of the jungle surround me, the toil and trouble of the city far behind. This long-anticipated journey with my parents – their first to Mexico, and the first stamp on their brand-new passports – had gotten…

  • The Butterfly Effect: Julia Butterfly Hill in Magis

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    By Tracy L. Barnett Magis Magazine October 2011 “Fierce winds ripped huge branches off the thousand-year-old redwood, sending them crashing to the ground two hundred feet below. The upper platform, where I lived, rested in branches about 180 feet in the air … As the tree branches whipped around, they shredded the tarp that served…

  • Panama’s Ngorongoro: El Valle de Anton

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    On Day Two of our Panama adventure, we climbed 1,800 feet to the Valle de Anton to see the world’s second-largest volcanic crater – second only to the Ngorogoro in Tanzania. We were met by Ivan Hoyos of Ancon Expeditions, Panama’s only Virtuoso tour provider and a conservation-oriented company linked with one of Panama’s oldest…

  • A piece of paradise well worth the wait

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    It’s been a long commute from the time my alarm rang at 4 am until my taxi driver deposited me at the glistening lobby of the Bristol Buenaventura at 9 pm. There were times when I asked myself if I was crazy to take this assignment. Now that I’m here, I see that it would…

  • Meet Anna and Dave, the Permacyclists

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    Meet Dave and Anna, the Permacyclists. She was a corporate lawyer from Brussels; he was a sociologist from New York. Neither of them was happy with their chosen profession, and after a great deal of soul searching, they decided to do what many dream of but few actually do: They quit their jobs, studied permaculture,…

  • Women’s Planting Day at the Kalpulli

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    The planning had taken a long time, and the date had been postponed three days in a row – rain, problems with the tractor, but Friday night, the word went out: The next morning would be the Siembra de Mujeres. There had been collective plantings before, but it was the first time at Teopantli Kalpulli…

  • Cali makes Nat Geo Traveler en Español

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    So happy to see this piece finally out on the newsstands – Colombia in general, and Cali in particular, deserve all the publicity they can get as a fantastic travel destination. Colombia’s unspoiled forests, mountains and and beaches, vibrant cultural diversity and warm and welcoming people combined to make it the featured country for the…