Can a Japanese facial massage really rub out wrinkles while harmonising your body and soul? The brochure about facial harmony promises me a blissful journey from head to toe. My guide on this journey is Japanese-born yoga teacher and shiatsu practitioner, Fumi Yamamoto. Read more …

Roxanna Minonna (Roxy) is a Tantric Goddess, temple dancer and facilitator of a powerful way of initiation for women through dance called Dancing the Divine. On a retreat I attended with Roxy, she opened the floor to questions about sex and relationships and here’s what she had to say.

Roxanna Minonna (Roxy) has a wisdom way beyond her 30 years. She has an uncanny ability to channel her teachings but there is also a sense that her profound and honest understanding of ‘woman’ is on account of her personal journey. It hasn’t been an easy one. A drug-user at the age of 12, a heroin addict at the age of 17, a disenchanted soul at the age of 21. But somewhere along the way, Roxy found the courage to grasp on to something that gave her life meaning. It became a way of initiation for women through dance. But this is no ordinary dance. This is Dancing the Divine …

The secret script emerged centuries ago in the remote rural villages of Southern China, but its origins are as mysterious as the frail, gentle characters themselves.

It takes a lot of stamina to live the life of a juicy, sensuous female in our culture. That’s certainly the line that Annetta Luce preaches in her energetic, if not somewhat confronting, workshops in the art of sensual dance.