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When it comes to finding ways of improving your physical and mental well-being, the tools at your disposal are not always that pleasant. Long and arduous workouts at the gym may help to produce much-needed endorphins, but they’re not everyone’s cup of tea!
At Sunflower-Power, the path to improved health and wellbeing is a much more enjoyable one! Their mission is to promote health and wellness in a serious yet joyful manner, providing clients with wellbeing tools that they can employ long after classes have finished.
Originally from Finland and arriving in Switzerland in 2000, founder Kira Cantatore told knowitall.ch, “Sunflower-Power is all about promoting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and wellbeing by providing feel-good yoga classes, laughter yoga, energy therapies, coaching on assertiveness and shiatsu massage to clients of all ages.”
She added, “My passion has always been to uplift and encourage people to improve their own lives. I always wanted to work with children so, after many years of corporate life during which I also obtained a BSc in Psychology and Social Sciences, it suddenly dawned on me that I could follow a profession that combines both my desire to uplift, encourage and help children, with my life-long habit of yoga practice. I got trained as a yoga teacher for children and families and started offering Family Yoga classes, based on play and fun-filled easy exercises. I also started studying Reiki so I'm now a Reiki Master as well as a practitioner of another efficient energy therapy called Bars™ by Access Consciousness.”
The following photos show the winners and runners-up for the AMATEUR PHOTO COMPETITION FOR KNOW-IT-ALL PASSPORT® 2017/2018.
With around 250 entries, there was a fantastic choice. Each winner has a full-page photo used as a section divider as shown below and we dedicated one page to the runners-up as well! The first section shows the winners, and the second shows the runners-up simulated in a page layout.
Click on each of the photos to see an enlarged view.
Each of the winners and runners-up will be invited to see Know-it-all passport® 2017/2018 on press at l'Imprimerie Nationale Rochat Baumann in Geneva soon - more details to follow! Winners and runners-up will also each receive 2 copies of the 10th edition hot-off-the-press end of August this year.
A new ob/gyn practice has opened in Nyon catering for the needs of the English-speaking community, in particular adolescents.
Based at the Cabinet Forum Medical Nyon on Chemin Falconnier, the new practice is headed up by Dr. Gabrielle Cissé, a British expat who was born and raised in this region, and who completed her medical training in North America and Ireland.
Dr. Cissé told knowitall.ch, “My parents settled in Geneva in the 1970s where I born. I graduated from the International School of Geneva (LGB) in 1996 and received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature with a minor in Developmental Psychology from Duke University in North Carolina in 2000. I then received a pre-medical studies certificate at Columbia University in New York, followed by my medical degree at UCD Medical School in Dublin in 2007. I returned to Switzerland that year to undergo specialist training and obtained my Swiss specialist qualification in Obstetrics and Gynecology (FMH).”
She continued, “In November 2015, I was given the opportunity to open a Gynecology and Obstetrics consultation in a group practice with Dr. Karen Hofmann, Dr. Tatiana Collipal and Dr. Armine Najand, which I gladly accepted. It has been a thoroughly enjoyable and stimulating experience that I look forward to continuing in the years to come.”
Psychologist and Relationship Coach, Darya Haitoglou, is offering knowitall.ch readers a free consultation, worth Fr. 300.-! The 60-minute consultation will provide a useful introduction to the kind of material that will be covered by Darya's upcoming 8-week online program entitled “Enrich Your Relationships’, but there is no obligation at all to sign up for the online program, which starts on 1 June 2016!
With only 5 places available for couples, the program is targeted at:
- Couples who want to improve their relationships
- Families who want to improve communication
- Couples under stress
- Couples who had passion and lost it
- Emotionally-challenged people who struggle to have positive communication
- Newly-formed couples who want to have an amazing relationship for life
- Couples who value their relationship and want to improve it even more
First day of boarding free for knowitall.ch readers' pets!
We’ve just got a new puppy at our house and have entered a whole new doggy world that I never new existed. No longer do I spend hours talking about the children with my friends; instead, I am constantly calling them up for recommendations on veterinarians, dog trainers, toilet training, and kennels, indeed anything to do with dogs!
Needless-to-day, we bought our puppy just before Christmas, after we had already arranged to go away on a family holiday in England, and when we called up the local kennels, they were all full! It was very soon clear to us that there is a shortage of good quality kennels for both cats and dogs, and owners will travel for miles to make sure that their pets get the best possible care whilst they are away.
So we were very interested to receive a recommendation recently at Know-it-all passport for a kennel service in Cranves-Sales, just outside Geneva, which appears to meet all our requirements… and more!
Set up in 1998 by Alain Sarrouy, Animaux Passion Services (APS74) provides kennels for both dogs and cats as well rodents and birds. Ideally situated in a modern and comfortable location in the countryside with lots of green space for your animals, APS74 offers guaranteed outings for your pets every day they are staying at the kennels – something we discovered during our own research is not a standard option in all kennels. Daily petting is a standard service for all pets that have come to expect love and attention in the home, as well as top quality food. It is possible to book for a day, weekend or longer holiday period at the kennel - all the usual rules apply re: vaccinations etc.
Asked how he got into the kennel business, Alain told knowitall.ch, “Having worked in various commercial jobs at the beginning of my career, I soon realised that my passion for animals was too great to resist. So after working at the animal refuge, Arthaz, in 1993, I decided to set up the first home delivery service for dog food in the region. One thing led to another and, before I knew it, I was opening my own kennels and training center for dogs in 1998. With the expansion of his business, Alain now employs a boarding assistant, called Marjorie, who is a dog and horse breeder, and equally passionate about animals!
