Holistic Health Spa & Resort Thailand
Best To Weight Loss
Aug 17th
Weight Loss Thailand
Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort
Program is recommended for clients who want to lose or gain weight. Our doctors, consultants and therapists will work hand in hand to achieve clients’ goals with natural, pure and hypo-allergenic products used. Deep manual massage techniques used to increase metabolism help to breakdown excess fats, eliminate waste products and toxins (skin detox), diminish cellulites and improve blood circulation.
Fasting - Juice Fasting vs. Water Fasting
Well, we no longer think water fasting is viable for the body. I think juice fasting is excellent. Not on fruit juices, but on green juices. I fast one day a week. I have been doing that for almost three decades now. I highly recommend juiced fasting over water fasting because water fasting puts too much stress on the body. Your body needs the benefits of the vitamins, minerals and enzymes of the juices. In addition, many people who come to Hippocrates Health Instituer are diseased, and their bodies could not survive on a water fast.
Holistic Health Spa
Jul 15th
Holistic Health Spa ChiangMai Thaialnd
Some years ago, a Taoist Master, Master Mantak Chia found a beautiful piece of land at the foot of the Himalayas in Northern Thailand. This piece of land has been developed into the Tao Garden.
Master Chia chose this land as a Taoist haven where he could practice the Taoist way of life and teach others the art of internal alchemy, on which he is a leading authority.
Over 40 years, Master Chia has researched all kinds of holistic medicine and has developed the Universal Tao Healing System. This combines Taoism, Chinese, Thai and Ayurvedic Medicine with Western Medicine and Technologies.
Tao Garden offers an amazing variety of therapies and treatments from relaxing Thai massage to up to date Western technologies, which diagnose illness before it manifests itself. Treatments are offered by a traditional Chinese doctor who may prescribe herbal medicine or acupuncture. An Ayurvedic doctor brings Indian understanding, supported by herbal formulas, prepared on the premises. Ayurvedic oil massages are just one more of the treatments available. Combined with the technologies of the Western world, Tao Garden has an all-encompassing approach. The latest addition of a Hydrotherapy Pool adds another dimension to the overall experience.
The comfortable accommodation at Tao Garden offers a quiet and serene atmosphere, the perfect place to unwind and leave the stress of modern living behind.
Good air, good water, and good food are all important elements of Tao Garden. Much of the food is grown organically on the premises. The fruit and vegetables are cycled naturally, worms are raised to compost the waste and insects are raised to control the pests that eat the plants. Tropical fruit, herbs and sprouts are gathered from the fields and brought to the kitchen where they are lovingly prepared.
Start the day with morning Chi Kung practice or Tao Yin (Chinese Yoga) or use the fitness programs in the well equipped gym. At the end of the day join our instructors for Six Healing Sounds (meditation) and learn how to improve your emotional balance, increase your Chi, strengthen your body and enhance your spiritual growth.
If you have health issues or simply want to get away from it all, Tao Garden is a most welcome retreat. Tao Garden’s vision is to be ‘one of the best holistic health spas’, why not find out for yourself?
Gac Fruit
Jul 2nd
Gac (Momordica Cochinchinensis Spreng) is a tropical fruit found in Vietnam and other regions of Southeast Asia where it is valued for many important health benefits.
It is esteemed as the “fruit from heaven” and is prized for its ability to promote longevity, vitality, and health*. Unknown to indigenous folks, gac is a fountain of antioxidants, as recent research unveiled.
Big gac fruit at Tao Garden
This bright-red fruit grows abundantly on vines and is as large as a cantaloupe. Traditionally, the red oily pulp is cooked with rice and served during special festivities such as weddings. The bright red color generates the desired visual effect that represents good luck and joy.
Health Benefits of Gac
Most of the health benefits of gac are provided by its antioxidant properties.
Thus, if you have a high cholesterol level, gac can help you to avoid atherosclerosis by preventing the oxidation of the LDL cholesterol, which is the precursor to it depositing on your artery walls.
The body needs cholesterol, but levels should be kept to within certain limits or the resultant atherosclerosis can narrow your arteries leading to cardiac problems and strokes, particularly in the very narrow arteries of the brain. Gac also supports the immune system and helps to maintain prostate health, largely through its alpha tocopherol, or vitamin E content. Vitamin E is easily destroyed by free radicals, which is where the beta carotene is of benefit. This is the body’s first line of defense against free radicals, and each molecule can neutralize up to 20 free radical molecules before it is destroyed. This helps to save other antioxidants such as vitamin E.
Gac garden, plant at Tao Garden
Lycopene is particularly beneficial to the prostate and current research indicates that it can help to prevent prostate cancer and cardiovascular disease, plus some other diseases such as macular degeneration that affects your sight. Perhaps this is one reason why the gac fruit membranes are used in Vietnam to promote healthy vision, and they also help to cure dry eyes. Lycopene remains in your body fat longer than normal beta carotene, and recent studies have found that men with high amounts of lycopene in their body fat are up to 50% less likely to suffer heart attacks as those with low amounts.
Gac fruit is jam-packed full of nutrients and antioxidants, and has no known side effects. It is used in Asia for weddings and other special occasions, and is grown on lattices in many gardens, although it has a short season. However, gac fruit is not known as the “Fruit from Heaven” for no reason, and if you were allowed the choice of only one fruit in your life, then this would be the one.
Nutritional Constituents of Gac Fruit
Not so with gac fruit, because in addition to the beta carotene and lycopene content, it is also rich in long-chain fatty acids, particularly linoleic and alpha linoleic acids.
Inside of gac
Not only that, but its beta carotene content is around ten times that of carrots, and it contains 70 times the lycopene of tomatoes! Vitamin C is another very powerful antioxidant,40 times more zeaxanthin than yellowcontains 70 times the lycopene of tomatoes! Vitamin C is another very powerful antioxidant,40 times more zeaxanthin than yellow corn and gac contains40 times the Vitamin C of oranges. It is also rich in other free radical busters, such as xeoxanthins and alpha-tocopherol, a form of vitamin E.
Altogether, gac fruit contains a free radical killing arsenal that should be enough to scare even the most courageous free radical back to where it came from. Other constituents of gac are numerous minerals, particularly zinc and iron.
That is why the sweet gourd is such a prized fruit, and why Southeast Asian women have skins that western women of the same age would die for! Antioxidants help to prevent the disruption and destruction of skin cells that are the major reason for aging looks, and why skin creams are packed with vitamins A and E, both strong antioxidants.
G3 Heaven Juice
Let’s try… G3 Heaven Juice
The nutrient rich drink was developed with 3 additional very healthy fruits:
* Gac Fruit
* Pineapple
* Passion Fruit
A ll of these fruits together synergistically provide exponential health benefits.
Don’t miss…. At Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort
Tao Garden to Offer Raw Cuisine
Jun 26th
Tao Garden to Offer Raw Cuisine
Tao Garden will start providing a wide variety of raw cuisine diets to its guests from July 2010. The raw cuisine will be specially prepared by Tao Garden’s professional chef. Guests will have to place orders that suit their health needs. The diet will compose of non-processed and uncooked plant foods like fresh fruits and vegetables, seeds, grains, beans, sprouts, nuts and seeds, sea weeds, roots, fresh herbs, raw spices, root vegetables and squashes. Some of these raw cuisines are already being offered at Tao Garden. They are mango coconut flan; Tao mixed salad, Kwan Yin soup, chocolate, fruit pie, organic Japanese cucumber pasta and marina paste.
Raw Cuisine’s Health Benefits
Raw cuisine diet has many benefits. Apart from boosting the digestion of other food, it can prolong a person’s life span. The raw cuisine diet to be provided at Tao Garden will also help boost the clients’ body immune system, strengthen their body muscles, and offer them mental clarity. Raw cuisine diets can also help cut weight, provide a clear, smooth skin, provide more energy and boost the body’s overall health.
Raw Cuisine Is Chemical Free
The raw cuisines provided will ensure that many chronic diseases like cancer and heart diseases are kept at bay. All the raw cuisine will be free from any chemicals and will remain 100 per cent natural. Much of the food will be grown in Tao Garden’s chemical free garden soils.
Do Not Overheat When You Have To Cook
For your information, some raw cuisine diets will not entirely remain uncooked. Some diets will be lightly cooked at temperatures not exceeding 46 degrees (115 degree Fahrenheit). Raw food above this temperature loses significant nutritional components and this can be harmful to the body. However, Tao Garden will provide the proportionate raw cuisine diets consistent with their clients’ specifications. Raw cuisines diets are also of better quality and small quantities eaten satiate an individual’s nutritional requirements. They provide 100 per cent nutritional requirements like vitamins, fats and proteins.
Preparing Raw Cuisine
The preparation of raw cuisine diets requires equipment like a food processor, a blender, a food dehydrator, due to their demanding preparation needs. The good news, however, is that preparing some raw cuisines like vegetables takes less time. Similarly, you do not need to add flavours like sugar, salt, spices in some raw cuisine diets in case you wish to avoid an irritating digestive system.
For more information on the new Raw Food cuisine, Visit: http://www.tao-garden.com/cuisine_rawfood.html
Rejuvenate Your Spirit at a Thailand Spa
Jun 24th
Rejuvenate Your Spirit at a Thailand Spa
For many years, Thailand’s spas have been winning awards. The spa industry has evolved to the requirements of client่le, to the focus that isn’t far removed from the traditional Thai herbal healing techniques and massage. Even after adding some Western practices, Thailand’s spas still hold onto their ancient heritage, including the massage techniques, treatments and rituals that have been passed down from one generation to the next. One of the most internationally renowned healing resorts and spas is that of Tao Garden, located in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand
Thainess can refer to the cultural qualities and the therapists that make Thailand the most popular country for spa retreats. Its allure encompasses graciousness, wisdom in its rituals, and ancient healing techniques. You can maintain well-being through improving your balance of body, spirit and mind. Thailand is a major hub for alternative and traditional treatments.
Thailand has been called the land of healthy smiles, and it affords its beauty and health minded tourists holistic and pampering spa treatments to revive the spirit and mind, as well as the body. Wellness and health therapies can be found in Thailand’s medical, resort and day spas. You can get back into touch with your inner self, and reward yourself with a visit to the Tao Garden for the ultimate in relaxation.
The element that keeps the Tao Garden among the best in the world is a delicate blend of diversity and cultural heritage. Focusing on beauty and health, Thai spas promote health to you, spiritually and physically. The experience of the Tao Garden will embrace the joint offerings of local wisdom, unique tradition and indigenous resources passed down through the years. Thai spas offer treatments that are different than those offered anywhere else in the world. The exotic Thai touch and the traditional spa recipe have impressed travellers the world over. Thai spas are a great value for your money, and they offer premium services. Thailand is a tropical haven that boasts of cultural and natural richness. First class spas help develop the country’s familiarity to spa goers of many nationalities.
The spas in Thailand will allow you to capture all the various essences of the traditional way of life in this ancient country. Quality service and gracious hospitality, along with the gentle manner and caring nature of the people, enhance an experience that is unique to this country alone.
Tao Garden is a Green Hotel & Smoke Free Spa Resort, unique and internationally renowned healing resort, is located in the peacefully land in Chiang Mai, the Northern of Thailand. If you’re thinking about the ideal Thailand retreat – Tao Garden should be on your list.
Enjoying Your Thailand Retreat
Jun 24th
Enjoying Your Thailand Retreat
For a relaxing vacation that you won’t soon forget, there are spas in Thailand that will re-energize your tired spirit. None more so than the Tao-Garden – located in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. The serenity and peacefulness of the spa will intoxicate the air you breathe. There aren’t many places that epitomize your ultimate escape, and the Thai Garden is certainly among them. There are no crowds, and the spa is removed from the trail of tourists. It is resplendent, exotic and luxurious, and will leave you feeling blessed by the spirit of cuisine and culture.
The Garden will help to dispel stress, and evaporate the mundane aspects of your life. You’ll find
something majestic in the serenity and peacefulness. The accommodation is strictly Thai in their style – white-washed, clean walls framed by natural beams. You’ll see cascading white fabric from the ceilings to the floor level. The interior will provide you with a balance of furnishings and fixtures, but they avoid anything that could be considered excess. Gentle lighting will help to show off the subtleties of the nature areas beyond the walls.
A top Thailand spa will help you to escape the mad crowds and retreat into an area of solace and
peace. You can explore the areas surrounding the spas, and enhance your tranquility with traditional Thai spa treatments or massages. A sensual, anti-stress or body contour massage will help you to reach a state of deep calm.
Thailand is renowned for its wonderful food, and you’ll enjoy the Southeast Asia cuisine. You can dine from a full menu of International and Thai foods, and relax at the restaurants and terraces. You can also explore the surrounding areas by bicycle or motorcycle, which will give you the ultimate sense of freedom, in taking everything at your own pace. The places to visit include museums, temples, villages and more.
If you are into photography, Thailand is like Eden for landscape and nature enthusiasts. The full day long, you can photograph limitless beauty. Hikers will find all the trails they could want at the national parks, which will take you to forest temples, caves, rock paintings, flower meadows and waterfalls. The trails themselves are well-marked, so you won’t get lost, and the contour of the land is not overly challenging.
If you enjoy fishing, you might spend a memorable day plying your skills on the local waters. Lots of exploring can be done, in areas not besieged by Thailand’s mass tourists. You may also spend a pilgrimage of sorts when you travel to Thailand for meditation, and remove yourself from civilization for days or weeks, to spend meditative time in one of the most lovely and serene areas in the world.
Tao Garden is a Green Hotel & Smoke Free Spa Resort, unique and internationally renowned healing resort, is located in the peacefully land in Chiang Mai, the Northern of Thailand. If you’re thinking about the ideal Thailand retreat – Tao Garden should be on your list.
Ten Advantages To Eating Raw
Jun 9th
Tao Mixed Salad
” The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it would protect them from certain diseases.
Since then this practice of cooking has grown to include all types of foods and is now considered an art.
Very few meals are eaten which include raw elements,except for the leafy green salad. One advantage of eating raw is that it brings Nature’s intentions into focus.”
1.) Raw foods are better quality; therefore, you eat less to satisfy your nutritional needs. The heat of cooking depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and destroys enzymes that benefit digestion. As your percentage of raw foods increases, you feel satisfied and have more energy on smaller meals because raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fiber to meet your body’s needs.
2.) Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods, so there is no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments that can irritate your digestive system or over stimulate other organs.
3.) Raw foods take very little preparation, so you spend less time in the kitchen. Even a child of 5 or 6 can prepare most items for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. This gives children a sense of self-esteem and independence, not to mention the breakit gives Mom or Dad.
Ra ta tui
4.) When you are eating raw, there’s little chance of burns, unless you’re in the middle of a forest fire or out in the sun too long. Just think! No burns to tongues, the roof of your mouth, or fingers, and many fewer house fires.
5.) Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap. No baked-on oils or crusty messes. And any inedible parts go directly to the compost pile.
6.) Eating a diet of raw foods can reverse or stop the advance of many chronic diseases,
including heart disease and cancer. Remember, cooking creates free radicals, which are the major cause of cancer. When you lower the number of free radicals your cells are bombarded with, you lower your risk of cancer.
Cucumber Spring Roll
7.) A raw food diet can protect you from acute diseases such as colds, flu, measles, etc. Raw foods maintain a healthy body, and a healthy body will not become diseased.
8.) As long as you combine raw food properly according to the rules of Natural Hygiene,
you will soon reach a level where you no longer suffer from heartburn, gas, indigestion or constipation.
9.) It is environmentally sound. With humanity on a diet of raw foods, the food industry would close up shop and take up organic gardening. This would save us enormous amounts of natural resources used to produce power for these industries. Nuclear power would be clearly unnecessary. And think of how many trees and oil reserves could be saved without the need for the paper and plastics used in packaging our processed foods.There would also be less carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when all the cooking stopped. More oxygen would be produced from all the new orchards and gardens, thus helping to reverse the Greenhouse Effect.
10.) Eating raw saves you money on food, vitamins, pots and pans, appliances, doctor bills, drugs, and health insurance.
Kwan Yin Soup
So don’t waste your food, yourself, and planet by cooking what you eat. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables which are whole, fresh and raw are brimming with life and have the ability to transmit their life force directly to you.
Thank you for information from www.living-foods.com
” Tai Chi ” - the Universe and You
Jan 8th
Tai Chi By Master Mantak Chia
Tao Garden Health Spa & Resort
Just as the universe is an integrated whole, the body is an integrated whole with each part connected to and dependent on the other parts.
Yet as we become adults leading sedentary lives, we often forget to use all parts of our bodies. We depend on head and arms, using our spine, hips and legs only to get us from car to elevator, to swivel chair, where we can use our head and arms again. By restricting our movement, we forget how to move strongly lithely and efficiently.
When we forget how to live fully in our bodies, we overly restrict the way we move and eventually we forget who we really are. Through Daily Tai Chi practice, we can become as children again, without stiffness or tension. We can relearn to move freely and naturally with the whole body connected, both structurally and energetically. In this way, we mirror our connection to the larger whole, as part of the universe. Through Tai Chi we can become fully ourselves.
Tai Chi has nothing to do with the number of moves you learn or the different styles one knows, it is the quality of each movement that counts. Tai Chi forms taught at Tao Garden Health Resort are short and quite simple to learn. This gives for more time to work on the internal aspects (organs and energy) which drive the Tai Chi and drive life. We can discover, through Tai Chi, the mechanisms for connecting our internal with the external universe. For without this, there is no life.
Five Elements Aromatherapy
Jan 8th
Five Elements Aromatherapy
A gentle therapeutic aromatherapy massage that brings balance and harmony to the body, mind and spirit. The Five Elements Astrology Chart is used to find out the weak and strong element and use the oil of your weak element during the massage therapy. This aromatherapy massage improves blood circulation, relieves mental and physical fatigue, encourage lymphatic drainage and offers a unique experience of relaxation. Other than its powerful healing properties, the oil used also contains rich emollients that leaves the skin soft and rejuvenated.
The five elements and the body organs involved:
- Fire (Red) : Heart and Small Intestine;
- Water (Blue) : Kidney and bladder;
- Wood (Green) : Liver and Gall Bladder;
- Metal (White) : Lung and Large Intestine;
- Earth (Yellow) : Spleen, Pancreas and Stomach.
Holistic Medicine
Jan 7th
What is holistic medicine?
This means that in diagnostic as well as in therapies we are dealing with the whole person, not symptoms only, not illness only, not only the mind, emotions, spirit.
All these are connected and influencing each other.
Our approach to healing is kind of maintenance: cleansing the physical from unhealthy stuff which has been accumulated over years and the nonphysical from unhealthy emotions. Taking care for good nutrition and getting the energy in balance.
This comes closer to the the cause of the problems than just treating symptoms.
This way we do not need any drugs and our methods are different form Western medicine.
On the other hand our holistic doctors are also qualified and certified in Western medicine.
They are well prepared to recognice any state that needs western medicine treatment like operations or emergency handling. In this cases they would refer to a Western medicine hospital for appropriate treatment. If necessary they can start immidiately the proper first aid before transferring to one of the cooperating hospitals.
