Simon Brown
Simon Brown is well known as a macrobiotic teacher and consultant, healer and feng shui expert. He is the author of eighteen books including the best-sellers Modern Day Macrobiotics, Practical Feng Shui and The Feng Shui Bible. Simon has been involved in healing for more than thirty years. He was the director of London’s Community Health Foundation from 1986 to 1993 and previously helped run The Macrobiotic Association in Philadelphia. Simon was the chair of the Macrobiotic Association in the UK from 2006 to 2009 and is currently the chair of the Feng Shui Society. He hosts a popular macrobiotic discussion group and is currently part of a committee that organizes annual international macrobiotic teachers meetings.
Lectures and Private Consultations for the 2012 Cruise
Lecture 1: Macrobiotics for Life - Make the Most of the Rest of Your Life
Macrobiotics literally means “large life” and the big question macrobiotics asks is, “How can I make the most of the rest of my life?” What would I like to do with the rest of my life and what kind of foods, lifestyle and health practices will best support me? Explore what is possible in this inspiring, heart-warming, and revealing class. Discover ways in which you can greatly enhance your life with very little effort using the principles embedded in macrobiotics. Simon, author of Macrobiotics for Life and Modern Day Macrobiotics will help you develop your emotional, mental and physical wellbeing.
Lecture 2: Assess Your Own Life
Learn twenty ways to become more aware of your health. This talk explains a series of simple self-diagnosis practices that can help you be more aware of how different foods, exercises and lifestyles affect your health. Self-awareness is the vital feedback system we all need to know whether our health is improving and to measure what has the greatest benefit. This includes the physical, emotional and mental aspects of health and wellbeing. Simon will also explore various ways to maintain optimum health through natural foods and healing practices. Simon is the author of Macrobiotics for Life and Modern Day Macrobiotics.
Lecture 3: Cellular Healing
Discover what every cell in our body needs to enjoy optimum health. This talk explores the roles food, emotions, thinking, hydration, blood quality, light, the cell membrane energy potential and external factors like EMFs and environment play in keeping every part of our beautiful self glowing and full of vitality. This talk will also include a detailed look at oils, light, pH, sugars, chi and circulation. We will explore how we can feel inspired, intuitive and connected when every cell is in its perfect state. Simon is the author of The Healer.
Lecture 4: Healing Energy
Learn how to switch on your sixth sense. Simon will guide you through the process of feeling energy. This is a hands-on workshop in which you will discover how you can awaken the healing energy inside. It includes exercise, meditation, and palm healing. Simon will show you how to sense energy in another person and create a powerful energetic connection with someone. You will discover ways to create a loving feeling and use this in healing. Please wear loose cotton clothing. Simon is the author of The Healer, The Chi Energy Workbook and The Energy Booster Workout.
Lecture 5: Emotional Health
Our emotions can have a huge influence on our quality of life, health and relationships. Discover how food, the way we use our minds, physical movement and intentions can change our emotional state. Learn easy, practical, quick everyday practices that can alter our emotional state. By getting greater control over our minds we can exercise greater influence over our emotions. Simon will teach strategies to release us from emotions that we have become attached to and demonstrate how to break habits that keep us in old emotional patterns. Simon is the author of Macrobiotics for Life.
Lecture 6: Freedom From Stress
If research and medical claims are to be believed, stress is the biggest cause of ill health. The likely mechanism by which this happens is that under stress we become more acidic and when combined with an acid-forming diet, we become so acidic we biologically and chemically compromise our health. Simon will take you through a practical, easy approach to reducing stress that takes less than fifteen minutes a day and explain how you can ensure you are eating an alkaline forming diet. Simon is the author of Macrobiotics for Life and The Healer.
Macrobiotic Counseling - $400/person.
Simon will listen to everything you would like to change about your health and life in general. He will make an assessment based on reading your face, pulse, tongue, saliva pH, eyes and hands. Simon will explain how food and health practices can change your current situation and make suggestions. Please bring a food diary showing a typical day’s eating and do not eat or drink anything except water for two hours before your appointment. Simon will email you a menu plan, notes and recipes and you may keep in contact by email.
Traditional Eastern Medicine Diagnosis: Group Consultation - $175/person.
Simon offers a group consultation to up to fifteen people. Simon will provide information that will be common to everyone and then go on to add individual advice for each participant. You will benefit from a macrobiotic health reading including face, pulse, eyes, pH, tongue, and hands. Please bring a food diary showing a typical day’s eating and do not eat or drink anything except water for two hours before this workshop. Simon will email you a menu plan, notes and recipes and you may keep in contact by email.
Healing and Acupuncture Treatment – $300/person.
Simon offers a unique healing and acupuncture treatment. Hands-on healing is mixed with acupuncture and meditation to create an incredible healing experience. Simon gently uses the finest needles so that you often will only be aware of a warm glow. The needles are placed intuitively according to your healing needs. You can also have healing without needles. During the session Simon will advise you with practices you can do for yourself.
Shiatsu Massage - $150/person.
Simon provides shiatsu treatments. Simon has thirty years of experience working with back, knee and neck issues and will help you during the treatment and provide advice for on-going care and healing. Wear loose cotton clothing.
Nine Ki/Feng Shui Astrology Reading - $300/person.
Simon will create a nine ki chart based on your date of birth and use the chart to bring new insights into relationships, the timing of events and moving. The session lasts one hour and you can either use the time for yourself or as a couple. Simon will use nine ki to help you gain greater understanding of any issue in life. Simon is the author of Feng Shui Astrology and Astrology by Numbers.
Feng Shui Consultation - $400/person.
Simon offers feng shui consultations. For this you will need floor plans (JPEG), maps (Google maps or earth), and photographs of your home. If you do not have all this information you can email it to him when you get home. Simon will make a study of your home and listen to how you want to change your life. He will then explain how you can change the energy of your home to better support those life changes using feng shui. Simon will make practical suggestions and later email you a floor plan with all his recommendations along with a written explanation. You are welcome to keep in contact with Simon by email.