Detox Nutritionalist, Raw Food Consultant, Retreat FacilitatorDao Earl Dao's central understanding is that we are creatures of the Earth, with billions of years of experience as animals, and a brief 10,000 years pretending we’re not. He lost interest in the ancient medical systems he studied, because none of them asked the question of why we needed them. The most obvious departure we have made from nature is cooking, and while it may have been necessary for our survival then, it is now up for question.
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15 years ago, Dao started to play with diet, having found Chinese and Indian medical as unnecessarily complex. Raw foods, fasting, colonics, etc., started to have their effects, and his personal retreats slowly escalated to running more encompassing and public detox retreats, eventually, for a living.
8 years ago Dao settled back in the UK, and started the first detox retreat company (holding detox as a central tenet, rather than bolting it onto body work), where he still holds the nutritional, physiological and colonic knowledge base, and runs the daily nutritional talks. He now holds dietary consultations here at The Arcturus Clinic, in which he will guide you through a transition towards eating lighter foods, managing the issues that arise, and celebrating the simplicity and effectiveness of allowing the body to function as it wants to.Dao's fruitful journey started whilst living in Taiwan, studying Chinese Medicine, Tai Chi, etc. Although it remains his first choice for helpful and ancient symptom relief, Chinese medicine proved too complex and elitist for him, and it did not appear to hold the answer to the deeper questions : IE; why do we need medical systems to prop up our ailing nations ? Ayurveda, Herbalism, and conventional medicine all fall at the same hurdle. They are all great damage management, but they’re recent inventions that do not attempt to cure the root issue. In fact, they don’t even ask the question, let alone answer it !
Dao does not pretend that what he is offering can cure all, but the process that ensues once we stop eating foods that squash our emotional being, can lead us back to see the separation we chose as children. Thus, the journey begins with detox, colonics, lighter foods, and bacteria management, but holds the potential to open oneself to an integration on many levels.
Once we understand more about the emotional reasons for our food choices, we can open to other possibilities, for it is rarely the food we want, rather the effect. It is often a nutritional urge within the body, that is not being resolved, and once satisfied, the craving and its cascade of emotional stuff evaporates.
Understanding sugars, salts, fats, oils, etc., as nutritional requirements, not naughty indulgences allows a very different attitude towards them.
In order to explain, coach and guide, Dao will draw upon the wonderfully practical language of Permaculture, and endlessly empathetic Non-Violent Communication (NVC), and bring you to a lighter place within yourself: one that makes food choices with empathy, compassion and understanding, not guilt and shame. If you would like to see the bigger picture of what Dao does, and the benefits, please see http://www.suradetox.com |
