Our journey through life seldom continues without misfortune. We all experience personal failure, disappointment or even injury to the body, mind or spirit. All these events are etched into our essence. They become an integral part of our Personal Narrative – the story we create about who we are and what we can do.

A healthy narrative drives us toward our true potential. An unwholesome narrative keeps us anchored to the past and held back from our personal vision and life purpose. An unwholesome narrative appears in our emotional habits, how we respond or react life as it unfolds around us. It forms an emotional landscape that limits our action and stifles our imagination. Fortunately habits can be broken and productive and creative ways of thinking, feeling and doing can take their place.

This workshop provides a fresh look at the relationship between our health, thoughts and emotions, presenting the possibility for a happier, more creative and healthier life.

Using visualization, group work and self-reflection it combines ancient wisdom from Asia and modern insight to create an environment where the past can take its’ proper place and the future can get some breathing room. We will create a space where personal narratives can be unravelled by the only person qualified for the job – the person who created them.

Bill Tara has taught macrobiotics and natural health care for the past forty years. He was the founder of the CHF in London and the co-founder of The Kushi Institutes. He has been invited to give seminars in over twenty countries and served on the psychology faculty at Naropa University, USA. He has done over a hundred corporate business trainings in both America and Europe focused on personal motivation. His latest book, Natural Body – Natural Mind will be published in November 2007. He is based in Tavira, Portugal where he lives with his wife, Marlene.

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Bill Tara was an inspiration to me while I created, managed and served as an instructor in one of the world's foremost centers of holistic studies.

Bill manages to touch people's souls, creating a unique opportunity for humanity to show up in its fullest and most beautiful way. His teaching is insightful, authentic and truly guided by common sense and simplicity, even when he explores the most complex issues of holistic studies.

He is for me definitely the most "macrobiotic" teacher I know, in his spirit, in his way of conducting his life, and most of all, in how
 he meets and inspires people."

Mario Binetti (Director)