DAO Earl

I came from a background of standard English schooling, which left me somewhat unprepared for the world, so I went to Asia for most of a decade. Thailand for six years, India for 2, Spain for 3. But my travels soon became a search for a home and a people. It was not until I got to Taiwan and started reading, that Irneven began to think about how our choices affect us. I was too busy blaming the world for my choices to see that there was actually any choice at all...

My explorations into self administered colonics, fasts, raw foods, etc., all sprang from this time, and slowly as I began to play with my diet and lifestyle choices, the results attracted the attention of others. My regular skin irritations and infections, ceased, and I realized that my body was changing in ways I never heard mentioned in any of the medical systems I had studied (ayurveda / Chinese mediciine / herbology, etc !)

Years of taking friends and colleagues through fasts and colonics, My then wife & I started up Home Colonics in February 2002 inr Spain, which evolved into Karunar Retreats (meaning "compassion" in Sanskrit) and has culminated in Sura Detox.

It was during these years with retreat groups that I refined and evolved myrnreasons for running these retreats. I now know that it is not in the colonics, or in the fast itself, but in the talks, that I come alive. And it is through these talks that I make a difference to people lives in the long term.

The format of the fasts were basically in place, and having gone as far asr I could go with Karuna, I searched for a work environment that that better suited my ‘we are all in it together’ approach, so I started Sura Detox with my new team of experts in the fields of meditation, massage, life-coaching and homeopathy.

I had also studied Permaculture in my time in Oz, and my next goal was to marry up this practical and simple paradigm of choice, action, cause, effect, with my nutritional knowledge and the detox retreats

Now, after 15 years of detox - both my own, and running retreats, my greatest interest lies in the process, rather than the product.

It is getting more and more obvious that true healing can only come from within the body itself, and the only things to be healed are the consequences of our excessive, congesting lifestyle issues, or those ofrnour parents.

Given enough true rest, the body body falls into its own innate processes of healing through detox, to clear the debris, and then tornthe work of healing cells, back to greater function.

We like to see our choices as irelevant, and the body as flawed, but everything that me and my team teach, show that there is always choice. It was choices that lead us to our current position, and itrnwill be choices that lead us out of it. The only questions are whether we each have the wherewithall to take responsibility for you decisions instead of blaming our genes or our family, and which choices to make next.

There are often emotional aspects in this process that must also be accounted for, and expressed. If they remain unintegrated, they can hinder the healing, and actually lead to further damage of the whole. But again, this attachment is a flaw with the mind, not the body (ifrnsuch a division can be entertained for a moment).

How, everything I teach in the talks is about choice and consequence. No illusion of judgement, no 'shoulds', no 'good for me' or 'bad for you'. Just, "if you eat this, this happens, is that what you want ?"

And the more simple it becomes, the more effective the message seems to be.