Going One Year Strong: BodyTalk Outreach for Rural Children
One year ago, we shared the beautiful work being done by BodyTalk Outreach worker Gemma Bunag and her husband Dolps. During the pandemic, they started inviting out-of-school children to their farm in the rural
Children Exchange Food for BodyTalk Training
BodyTalk Outreacher Gemma Bunag realized that word-of-mouth could be a very effective vehicle for promoting BodyTalk. What follows is part of her joyous adventure with children in Nueva Ecija where her husband originates. Here
BodyTalk for Farm Community During Pandemic
As other BodyTalk practitioners and Instructors around the world settled in to start teaching BodyTalk courses online and offering BodyTalk sessions through their computers, two of our BodyTalk Outreachers in the Phillipines decided to
BodyTalk for Volcano Victims
2020 for the BodyTalk Outreachers in the Philippines began with a roar! On January 12, 2020, Taal Volcano which sits on a cool blue lake in Batangas, suddenly erupted, spewing fire and ashfall to
BodyTalk Helps Super Typhoon Victims
Typhoon Vamco, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ulysses, hit Manila on November 11, 2020. It was a powerful and deadly Category 4-equivalent typhoon that caused the worst flooding in Metro Manila in 10
Distance Healing in the Time of Coronavirus
When CNN was calling New York State the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic, an email came to BodyTalk Access Trainer and Practitioner, Remar Soliza, in the Philippines. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic,
Supporting BodyTalk on the Philippine Frontlines
During government-imposed lockdowns in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte famously warned that he would shoot troublemakers, referring to any person who violates military rule. As a result, Metro Manila’s streets
Fast Response to Poor Breathing
On April 7, 2020, as the global cases of COVID-19 surged, the wards at a hospital in Quezon City, Philippines, were full, and Mara, 27, a local resident, was turned away. She was having
BodyTalk Access in Zambia
I had just arrived home after a month long trip to Zambia, a peaceful but very poor country in Southern Africa. I was given the amazing opportunity to travel to Africa, and I wanted