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Missing my aerial yoga sessions in Thailand! Big shoutout to @phuketcleanse and all beautiful souls there. It was such an inspiring time working and living in Phuket - it changed me and expanded my skill level and excitement for movement, yoga, fitness and awareness. ❤️😘✌🏻 and if you need a super exciting and life changing holiday: check out #phuketcleanse you will love it. Promise. . Maike
Positive doesn't mean faking it! It simply means to stay humbled, to step out of your head when it gets too crowded in there in to enjoy the simple things in life, the little treats, the sunny spots. And our mind creates so much more than just thoughts - in the bigger picture, it creates our vibes and life! :) I am sure you get the hint. Let this be a friendly reminder. Thank you, #phuketcleanse for posting this :) it was a reminder for me a while back. My best tip for a cloudy, anxious mind: 1. a good workout to get your heart rate up and your blood pumping followed by a nice cold shower, washing off all the crab that bothered you. 2. Do your yoga, meditation and breathing practice. Even in a stressful situation, actually taking a step back can be the most helpful thing to do! 3. Dance it off ;)
Enjoying the early morning hours - just after mindfulness meditation at Phuket cleanse - on the beach at Naiharn! Te early sun is the best for your body and starts you out well - swim, walk and a bike ride to the next workout session before lunch. Check out the view at Naiharn Beach this morning: stay fit and healthy everyone. #yoga #yogawithmaike #yogini #yogaeverydamnday next yoga class with me: 3pm today at Phuket Cleanse #phuketcleanse (at A Spoonful of Sugar)
Let's get that headstand training on. Even though there are many things going on in life - keeping a personal practice up can really add much value and calm to your life. Consistency. Breath. Balance. Do it for yourself as you are the most important person in your life. Take as much time for yourself as you would for your best friend. Make time. This is not a test run - this is it. Everyday, every moment. Life. #yogini #yogawithmaike #yoga #yogaeverydamnday #yogagirl #phuketcleanse (at Phuket Raw Fitness)
Goodbye Phuket Cleanse and Survival tips
My internship period is officially over! it has been a journey filled with learning, new faces, a new country and two different internship places.
I thank Phuket Cleanse for receiving me with only a couple of days notice and welcoming me with open arms <3
My last task at PC was to gather the recipes for all their juices and raw soups and find the nutrient content in all of them. Supertracker, the website we used a couple of modules ago was super useful in this case.
I will miss PC and will surely come back in the future!
(Here I am holding a delicious raw pizza with the sweetest woman I’ve met: Nich)
Based on my experience, here are some survival tips for when you go on your internship:
Many will probably tell you this and it’s probably the most important one: Start looking for your internship place early! I personally started looking during the summer, so about 6 months before my internship started and I was happy that I did, because later on I could concentrate on the demanding modules that came.
Be a little picky when choosing your internship place, especially regarding your tasks and objectives! I found an amazing place in an amazing country, so at the moment I didn't care that most of my tasks were quite theoretical. I thought I would have a great time anyway, but I ended up having to find another internship place, because the first one did not meet my needs or expectations.
Ps: you can give yourself the luxury of being picky if you start looking with time ;)
Go with someone! especially if you are going to a foreign country. I had the opportunity of trying both; one month by my self and one month with my classmate Bryndis, and honestly I had so much more fun when I was with her. It’s really valuable to have someone to share your experience and your tasks with, both during and after the internship.
Be proactive: your internship host will for sure love you even more if you do :) and you can start up activities that you find relevant and interesting. I did this in my two internship places, and it really made my stay a lot more interesting, so if you feel like you are not challenged enough or you want to try something different, suggest it! the worse that can happen is that they say no, or give you an alternative.
Have fun! yes you are there to learn, but remember to enjoy; socialise, travel if you can, try new things and foods... get the most out of this wonderful experience!
I leave you with a taste of one of the classes I loved the most at Phuket Cleanse: Functional Training.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypQAQgLsWnU
Challenge accepted!
Over the course of my internship, what has challenged me the most has been to engage in tasks that I find exciting and challenging.
Back in Chiva-som I had planned to write some articles and assist one of the naturopaths with her reports on clients. This quickly turned into a lot of research and I felt like I needed something more challenging, so I talked to my supervisor about having more activities and I suggested that I could help out the kitchen by finding nutritional facts about some of the most used ingredients. He immediately said that they actually needed information about almost 20 dishes that they would present in a promotional event in Australia. I happily took on the task and wrote a few lines about different spa-cuisine dishes and how the ingredients work in synergy to improve our health. They actually used what I wrote and were very grateful about it :D
Here in Phuket Cleanse I have been faced with a similar situation. My first two weeks were really interesting and fun but my tasks were mostly guest service related, so again I felt like I needed to challenge myself a little more. Coincidentally they want to gather all their recipes for juices, soups and shakes, so all the staff can have access to it, and to ensure that they are always made in the same way, so I suggested that I could find the nutritional information for all these foods and also write a few lines about the health benefits. This is very relevant for them, because now they will be able to tell their guests about the nutrient content in their dishes, and guide them better if they have special needs. I am immersed with that right now and will probably be until the end of the week, as it is quite a few recipes and the kitchen doesn't always have time to provide the ingredients, but I think it’s a great task and I’m enjoying it a lot.
So overall, my lesson has been: if you are not happy, do something about it, find a way to make it work!
Completely unrelated, here we are today at lunch learning how to make a healthy and delicious papaya salad!
Interview with internship host!
Here it is guys, the promised interview with the sweet owner of Phuket Cleanse, Melanie Procter.
m7-bryndisskarp and I asked her a few questions about PC, rawfood and much more.
We hope you like it!
Objectives and achievements
My learning objectives have change during my internship, as I changed my internship place, so I will talk about all the things that I wanted to learn and that I achieved in both places.
I had several learning objectives in Chiva-som. One of them was to practice my coaching skills on people from different cultural backgrounds and goals. I achieved this by doing coaching sessions with five different people from the staff, and gained a lot of knowledge about how culture and language can be barriers when coaching someone, but also how important it is to have background knowledge about conditions and medications, since these can affect the way a person feels and also how realistic it is for them to reach their goals. An example is if a person wants to lose weight, but is also taking antidepressants, which are known to increase people’s weight.
Another objective was to expand my experience of different modalities to promote health and wellness, which I did by trying different therapies like Rolfing, Acupunture, Chi Nei Tsang belly massage and by assisting a Naturopath with her reports, learning how they address conditions and diseases in a very holistic way.
My last objective was to write two articles for Chiva-som’s internal news letter. Unfortunately I only got to write one of them, as I left one month earlier.
Here you can see part of the article I wrote about social interactions and health.
Apart from the objectives that I planned, I suggested that I could help out the kitchen by writing some health information about some of the dishes that they make, which they used for a promotional event in Australia, and were very thankful for.
Here is an example of what I wrote!
As mentioned in a past post, I also did a presentation about human trafficking, for the local rotary club. This was super exciting!
Now in Phuket Cleanse!
One of my objectives here is to learn about raw-food cooking, which I definitely have, as you can see from my previous posts. Apart from the time I spend helping in the kitchen, I get to participate in the “uncooking” classes they offer for the guests. Today we are learning how to make raw protein bars and vegan protein shakes! (pictures of this will follow)
Another objective here has been to continue to practice my coaching, but in a more unofficial way, with the guests. I have been doing this during my costumer service hours, where I ask them about their goals, how they are feeling with the program, the food etc. It is super interesting to hear how people react to a low carb diet combined with a lot of physical activity!
A bonus activity that I have been so lucky to participate on a few times already, are the master-classes with the Nutritionist and trainer Dave Catudal. He has taught us a lot about low carb diets and fat loss, among many other things.
Here is a link to his web page, he’s super cool and has a lot of knowledge!
http://traintotransform.com/
To make this long and awesome story not too long, I will continue posting about my achievements in Phuket Cleanse over the next couple of days.
For now I will keep learning and enjoying the last week and a half that I have here!
