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Nature is always beautiful but every so often, it has a special surprise - or perhaps I'm just in the right frame of mind at that time ...

This is a collection of images taken this morning on the way to record "Crown of Lights" on May 4th 2012 featuring grass, weeds, and water droplets - daily diamonds, as the story goes ...

Meteorites - messengers from the very beginning of the Universe - are wonderful things.

Here is a WonderWorlds gallery of magical meteorites to tune in and enjoy.

For Solo travellers and small groups we offer you a raw foods and fasting retreat in Egypt by the Red Sea at dates to suit you, for  as long as you wish to stay. Great for those who just wants to relax, do nothing but lie in the sun or sit with a book in the shade sipping juice.

Soak up the beautiful Red Sea and Sinai scenery, lose weight and restore your vitality. Then treat yourself to some fascinating local excursions. A magical Egyptian detox adventure awaits you in Nuweiba Sinai Egypt.

Here are our healing retreats and Detox Dates for 2012. We are offering a choice of dates for our Complete Mind Body Spirit Detox retreats in Egypt by the Red Sea. Ideal as a weight loss retreat, revitalising retreat, a yoga retreat or an emotional healing and stress release retreat.

Egypt is still quiet and peaceful in the resorts as tourism is slowly rebuilding after the revolution and a very happy Egyptian people are waiting to welcome tourists back warmly. Thank you for considering a retreat with us in Egypt and helping us do our bit to help the local people.

Please read on for dates and rates ...

Stay one or two weeks with us in our new Red Sea Healing Retreat venue in Nuweiba, Egypt and discover what sets us apart from other retreats. Yes, we do juice fasting and raw foods detox for weight loss, energy and vitality. Yes we do yoga and meditation for physical strength flexibility and inner peace and glow. But we have a third dimension.

We introduce you to the world of energy and healing. We take you on a journey of self discovery to experience real lasting stress release, through our workshops and one to one sessions. We offer you real healing and evolutionary steps forward in all aspects of your life that you might be struggling with. We help you restore balance and flow, and you take home essential skills and techniques for a healthy and happy life. You can even qualify as a practitioner in the techniques we teach while you are with us.

Read on for the full programme details.

After several successful and most enjoyable one day healing retreats in 2011 and given huge need in the current climate simply for stress release I am planning to continue these self help workshops to offer, emotional healing and stress release in 2012.

Each Stress Release Day will teach and then use one powerful simple technique, either EFT or EmoTrance, which guests will learn and use for self healing and also through partner work.

In addition to experiencing real healing and inner changes during the workshop, guests will take home simple powerful techniques as skills for life, to help manage and release stress and handle the  challenges of life with grace and ease and learn how to help friends and family too.

One of the most wonderful aspects of aromatherapy as a self help technique is to create the exact right blend for the exact right purpose - and when you get your aromatherapy essential oil recipe right, wow, what a difference that makes!

A gallery of 21 beautiful quartz textures for wonderworld dreaming or to use as base patterns for textures, backgrounds, or hang them on the wall.

The great creative order is the artist.

There are those who say that crystals have a path and sometimes they meet the right people at the right time. Now I don't know if that is true, but I certainly met my mysterious crystal under strange circumstance.

Q: Do you know what kind of crystal or mineral this is? If you do, please let me know.

A real good time was had by all creating this collection of fantasy crystal photographs - fantasy crystals in many different colors and shapes.

My personal favourites are the two crystal altar images and the crystal sacrifice :-)

Spring has sprung. I've got the door open in my conservatory and I'm writing a new book. Within the spate of fifteen minutes, three really big buzzies came in through the open doors and each time I had to get up and steer them back outside. Time to bring forth the crystal bead curtain! And here starts an adventure into aromatherapy and energy that is so simple, practical and such good fun, you might as well call it magic :-)

A cool selection of metal textures, metal patterns and metal existences - things are simply endlessly beautiful if you look at them the wonderworlds way ... :-)

Well this was a real mixed event, ending on a wonderful high thankfully!

Once again guests arrived at Sayadeen Village Nuweiba for the second detox retreat at this resort. We were 9-11 guests, 2 left after week 1 and 4 more arrived for week 2. The staff team was myself, Sandra Hillawi, the sparkling and amazing Jo Hogarty for Yoga and beautiful Lynda Jakiro for massage.

It was good to be back at Sayadeen, to be welcomed with warm smiles by the resort staff again and to soak up the stunning views across the Gulf of Aqaba, mountains behind and to the right, the sea and Saudi mountains in front and to the left.

What a wonderful place it was, at Al Sayadeen Village, Nuweiba and at last here are the photos and report back from this healing retreat October-November 2010. Yoga, raw foods, juices, meditation, energy healing, dancing and great natural beauty. Enjoy!

And so, after over 30 years of child rearing, my youngest son has gone off to university - and we have an empty nest! I was really surprised how hard this hit me. Until it happened, I must admit that I thought the empty nest syndrome was a bit of joke, surely parents celebrate for all they're worth when the kids leave home for good ...?

But what I found was that it was a hard core actual bereavement situation I found myself in. At the very least, an enormous change that impacts everything in life. Thank God for the blessing of aromatherapy essential oils that have such a profound impact on the emotions. Here are my best tips for essential oils for the empty nest syndrome.

Based on the White Clouds series of photographs, here is a wonderfully relaxing and de-stressing video to get you daydreaming without having to lie upside down - Cloudz by SFX

Featuring the original composition "White Clouds" by SFX.

Here is a collection of 40 images of sky and white clouds, entitled "Cloudz" and taken by SFX between January and July 2010 from the sky over South East England.

A lovely gallery of cloud images, this collection was used to make the Cloudz video.

A teacher wrote in and asked about using aromatherapy in school with children in class, to aid learning, lessen stress, and in tests and exam situations, which essential oils work best and which blends.

Here are my recommendations for using aromatherapy in learning and remembering for children; and also an additional article on which essential oils to use for mature students to improve studying, learning, memory and recall of the studied materials for tests and exams, and even, later on in life should they ever need to remember beyond the exam.

Brain balancing is held to be extremely important for full cognitive functioning, and also for physical and mental health, and most importantly, to balance the energy system.

Here is a simple and really interesting way to "blow your mind" with aromatherapy essential oils and achieve real brain re-balancing.

Sandra Hillawi has run many detox, healing yoga retreats since 2002 in France, Egypt and the UK. Enjoy some of the client photos with their feedback and comments about their detox experience. As you can see, they were all delighted, happy, healthy and free