Arriving on a Sunday afternoon, you will be met at Ikaria’s Airport, or the main port of Agios Kyrikos where ferries arrive. During your week's stay, you will have two private sessions with Jeanne Blum, plus training in the Women's Empowerment Points, a method based on the Patented Forbidden Pregnancy Points System™ developed by Jeanne. Each night on the beach you will learn ancient chi exercises to enhance and balance energy. There will be free time to visit monasteries, other picturesque towns and villages, the hot beach waters and mud of Lefkada, hiking Ikaria’s ruggedly beautiful wild hills or day trips to nearby islands.
The maximum for each group is five women, of all ages (menstruation to menopause so bring your daughter or mother). Special groups can be arranged for 3 couples.
The 24 acupressure points of Traditional Oriental Medicine known as the Forbidden Pregnancy Points are extremely powerful for creating health and harmony in any woman's body, and in learning the Forbidden Pregnancy Points System™, in individualized hands-on classes, you will begin to befriend a body you may have never understood or known.
The group is small so that in a confidential environment, one can explore personal emotional issues, medical history and gain immediate understanding with regard to various physical ailments, as well as menstrual or menopausal problems. You will become your body's own medical detective. For couples’ groups, the men will learn to aid their partner in the gentle massage of the Forbidden Points for balancing, enhancing fertility, contraception reasons and learn to create intimacy during the menstrual cycle, a time typically confusing and frustrating for male partners. We will also explore Forbidden Points that are also potency points for men.
Therma has been famous for thousands of years as a bath town known for delivering "The Cure" due to its potent hot radion and lithium springs. Hippocrates recommended 21 baths for most ailments, and these are taken at the Apollo Baths in the center of town. The baths are contraindicated for certain health problems. There is also a natural thermal sauna cave which was rennovated in 2004. The cave now also has two bathing pools for men and women.
Blum discovered Therma in 2000 and was cured of a tumor in her left breast and general fibrous breast lumps, eye, ankle and elbow tumors after only 8 baths, as well as nerve damage in the muscles of her eyes, hands and legs resulting from Synthroid poisoning after thyroid cancer. Since then she has returned each May. In the summer of 2003 a fast growing tumor in the arch of her left foot--invading the tendon and nerve, caused radiating pain to her hip--vanished in only 12 baths, and there was no trace of it at all, after 15 baths. Also that summer, while her body rejected yet another replacement thyroid medicine, the minerals in the baths sustained her until pure T3 could be flown in .... after each bath season Blum notices either large or small changes in her health and the minerals seem to store up in her body to help her through the winter months. Although she was overdosed with radiation as a baby, the natural radion in the baths has been a homeopathic cure. Since taking the baths her eyesight has gone from a -4.50 in each eye to a -3.00 ... and in the summer of 2001 when she did 103 baths, tiny glowing sparkles emerged from her skin on three occasions (baths 18, 38 and 88), which Greek doctors believed was the original overdose particles being expelled by the radion in the waters. "I'm really the only one experimenting with the baths and what they have given me is truly remarkable, even though they are contraindicated for anyone with heart problems they have helped the atrial hole in my heart and have stopped the mini strokes I was having 3 or 4 times a week, due to inadequate thyroid levels in my blood stream. Other ailing friends who have taken the waters have also been helped tremendously, or 'fixed' as I like to say."
"There is nothing quite like being overdosed with radiation as a baby to dish up one bitch of a medically challenging life!" she has been known to mutter with her usual dry British wit ...
"Ikaria is the most remarkable place I have ever been. The food is incredible, especially the local fresh fish, the climate is perfect for swimming and snorkeling or hiking, and the local wine of which even Homer wrote, is a definite aphrodisiac...according to tales from the region, the ancient god of wine, Dionysus grew up there so it had to have been the best, even today it is all natural with no sulphites or other addatives! The Ikarian people are wonderful, and are very kind and patient with anyone slowly learning Greek, and my pronunciation is so bad it creates a language all its own, but learn it I will. There is also an excellent Greek Launguage School on Ikaria which helped me a lot www.hcc.gr"
The cost of the week includes accommodations, breakfast and lunch, the Forbidden Pregnancy Points training, two private sessions with Jeanne, and nightly chi exercises. Day trips to nearby Patmos, Samos, Fourni or rental cars are arranged separately. Contact jeanne@womanhealthyself.com for hotel information on the island of Ikaria, and the town of Therma, and details on prices and what to bring.
Ikaria can be reached by ferry from Pireaus just south of Athens on the metro line, or by Olympic Airways from Athens (ATH) fabulous new Eleftherios Venizelos airport. The main municipal port of Agios Kyrikos (pronounced Ay-yous Kee-ree-kos) on the southern side of the island is the closest to Therma. The airport is in Faros to the east, and the airport code is JIK with planes coming and going on Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday all year long. Ferries can be booked through www.ferries.gr and flights through www.olympicairlines.com Only two airlines fly direct to Athens from the USA: Olympic and Delta www.delta.com, both with flights out of New York's JFK airport. Olympic also has direct flights from Canada, Australia, European cities, the UK, South Africa, and the Mid East.
There are "fast" ferries which service Ikaria from Pireaus, but I do not recommend them as smoking is allowed, there are no decks to escape to or windows to open, and the smoke circulates through the entire ship, even to the upper first class area: simply put, it is like traveling in an ash tray for five hours. I prefer the older and slower ferries, especially for leaving Ikaria at night which is lovely, reserve an outside cabin for the eleven hour voyage; there is a nice restaurant on board for dinner as well as snack bars. During the peak summer months flights and ferries can book up quickly so plan well in advance; ferry schedules change the last week in September. Do not attempt air travel with tweezers in your hand luggage...
* “All knowledge is recollection.” Plato.