Frances - Dear Frank,Anne-Karine,Chandra and Shambhavi
Just a  note from wet, gray, sheep killing little olde England ....  I am fighting the good fight to keep inside me all the wonderful experiences gained from my stay at Moinhos Velhos.  It was the most amazing experience I have ever had in the whole of my life (and my life has not been without colour!!)  Thank you all for your care, your experience and your time.  In every respect I (and even most so, if that is possible, Chrissie)have benefitted.  My knee operation went off like a dream - I am also skipping about already.  Most interestingly my blood pressure was very low - even when I went in (like 105/50) normally 110/60.  We put that down to all the yoga and meditation.  It did dip quite a lot more when I came back from theatre and hung about at sort of death level i.e. 65/35 for a few hours, but the fact that I was sitting up munching into my hospital vegetarian meal with gusto, sort of assured the nurses I wasn't dying.  Probably I was on my way to some sort of 'samsara'.  The anaesthetist was most interested in the fast and is thinking of sending his wife, who is an opera singer, off to do one!!
Chrissie, bless her little pink lips, having never done yoga in her life, has now found a yoga teacher and is setting up classes in her home every week.  She, of all of us, sort of turned into a living miracle.  She has not had to go back to any of her medication and has astonished her friends and family by her transformation.  She is going to come to me once a month and do a day of yoga, juicing and a bit of massage!!

Well, I suppose you get many many letters of thanks and praise, so do please add this to your list.   Just so everything can't be too perfect, I will add a little plea for others following me, for variation on the afternoon juices.  I used to love carrot juice - now I am not sure I could ever have another carrot (or even apple) in my life.
Finally, how is Anne-Karine?  Hopefully on the up and up.
Lots of love to you all
Frances Loudon Carve

From: Harriet Colston [mailto:hlcolston@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: segunda-feira, 11 de Abril de 2005 16:46
To: EMILY NEIGHBOUR; Associação Moinhos Velhos; triciared@mrs.co.uk; trpottery@dcwis.com; boomaitland@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Portugal pics

Dear All
Hope everyone is still feeling fab. I have managed to stay off the fags and have kept the weight off (exactly a stone) although it's time to really go for it and lose the next one now! My e-mail account had been frozen so this is the first time I've been able to get on-line. It has been less than a month since we left Moinhos Velhos but already it feels quite a distant memory to me.

I realise that now we are back in civilised world there are certain taboos, but quite frankly I've mised our talks! When I went to Glasgow for my colonic, the practitioner said she'd never seen a colon as clean as mine! There was absolutely nothing in there, hardly even changed the colour of the water as it came out - I was glowing with pride! (I really must stop boasting, it,s just that I have had no one to share this with!) I hope Hazel's appointment went well