Host an ‘Exchange for Change’ party – have fun, share with friends and re-vamp your wardrobe for next to nothing. You’ll be helping Oxfam Australia to find solutions to global poverty and injustice at the same time. Runs 1-30 September 2009.
Kris McIntyre is a Ryoho yoga therapist and writer best-known as the host of Australia’s YOGA TV. She currently works as the Editor-in-Chief/ Writer for strategic communication and design consultancy, gen.a and is a freelance writer for dumbo feather, Australian Yoga Journal and female-friendly travel website, holidaygoddess.com
As a freelance writer, author and editor Kris specialises in yoga, health/wellness, and travel with a focus on body and soul escapes. She co-authored Yoga for Switched on Living (Pan McMillan 2002) and has written for marie claire magazine (South Africa) and was a regular columnist and feature writer for body+soul (Sunday Telegraph, News Limited Australia) and Spa Life Magazine in Australia.
Kris is also the founder of Exchange for Change – a fundraising campaign in support of Oxfam.
COMO Shambhala Estate is the flagship property of COMO Shambhala, a holistic health retreat concept developed by Singaporean entrepreneur and goddess of good taste, Christina Ong. Voted as one of the best spas in the world by the likes of Conde Nast Traveller and SpaFinder The Estate describes itself as not just a spa and indulgence but ‘a retreat for change’. The offering is a stylish but personalised and holistic escape with individualised programs for wellness, fitness and rejuvenation.
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.
I’ve discovered the truth in the words of the great master of myth, Joseph Campbell, who said in the search for spiritual meaning ‘the goal is to bring the jewel back to the world, to join the two things together’
