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| The picture is from a personal archive of El Kalinado |
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El Kalinado is a man who wasn’t afraid to
begin his new happy life in his 57th year. He left his home and his art studio
in Victoria, Canada, sold and gave everything away, and went to travel alone.
I was lucky to meet El Kalinado in a yoga
retreat & raw food place in Palawan Island, Philippines. I love the time
talking with him, joining his sound healing & laughter meditation, and raw
food cooking class.
A
magic way from France to Canada
El told me: “I am an artist and a healer;
I was born in 1954 in France. The story began when I was 12 years old. I was
invited to join the “Bendor Drawing academy”, owned by Paul Ricard, a philanthropist
who was also a friend of Salvador Dali. At this young age I was already drawing
nude models.
Two years after the death of my farther,
when I was 19, I met my future wife in London. As we were sitting at the
terrace of a restaurant, my uncle invited this young woman passing by to join
us for coffee. She was from Canada. We quickly felt that we were to live
together and went to study in France, before moving to Canada to live
there for 30 years together.
My wife died nine years ago, when our
daughter was 17, and our son was 22. So I stayed in Canada for a while until
the children became independent. I then decided to make a big change in my life:
I sold and gave away everything, and went to Southern East Asia.
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| Sound-Healing at Bahay Kalipay, Philippines |
Yoga,
massage and sound therapy
I started to practice yoga when I was in
the university. After I had car accident, I needed a lot of massage therapy to
recover. I noticed that while receiving massage therapy, the experience could
be very different, depending on the therapist. With some, as soon as they put
their hands on you, just from their energy you feel better. I then understood that
this was not only massage therapy, but also pranic healing energy. So I started
to learn massage therapy and Sound Therapy. It made a lot of changes in my
life: it changed my habits and my diet. I then studied other alternative
therapies.
No
sickness for 15 years already
Before, I always had wine with dinner.
But learning and practicing different therapies changed my habits. Progressively,
without making a conscious choice, I stopped drinking wine, eating meat and
avoiding anything that was not resonating with my body and my energy.
I used to be sick every winter but since,
I’ve not been sick for over 15 years.
Raw
food
I try to eat mostly raw vegetables,
fruits, grains and nuts, a plant based diet. I mostly eat raw food, but when I live
in India, I eat cooked vegetables, rice or lentils one time a day.
I like sweets only if they are made
without white sugar or artificial sweetener. I used to teach raw chocolate
classes in Canada: mixing unsweetened chocolate (coco powder or chocolate mass)
with either coconut nectar, maple syrup, agave syrup (or honey if you are
un-vegan) dates, and coco butter or coconut oil. This makes a healthy chocolate
that must be kept in the fridge.
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| Picture from a raw food cooking class at Bahay Kalipay, Philippines |
Main
rules to be eating raw food
Drink 2 glasses of water when you get up,
to flush your digestive system.
Chew slowly: I recommend to take a spoonful
in your mouth, and then put the spoon on the plate, don’t touch it until you
chewed the food completely and your mouth is empty. This is very important to have
the enzyme needed for proper digestion.
It is good to eat fruits separately.
Don’t mix them with vegetables and grains.
Don’t drink with your meals: drink at
least 30 minutes before and 1 hour after your meal.
Try to get fresh organic fruits and vegetables.
If you live in a cold country, I
recommend eating some kind of warm food: hot soup, vegetables or tea, and use
some “heat food” like cayenne pepper and ginger.
Why
is a green smoothie good?
When you put green vegetables in a
blender, you extract all the nutrients from them. If you try to chew spinach or
other greens, you have to chew them for at least 10 minutes to get the same amount
of nutrients. But always drink your smoothies very slowly so you can digest
them properly.
The
main rule in my life
I will never retire… I never stop learning…
I live in the present as much as possible and I love to help people heal with
all the modalities I practice (Energy Medicine, Sound Healing, Emotions
re-programing, Reiki, massage and Sat Nam Resayan).”
