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Louise Allen: My job starts with tasting 200+ cups of tea per day

February 19th, 2012 No Comments

Heard of wine tasters? Our guest is a different kind of taster and can offer you a great alcohol free alternative to help you raise your spirits. Meet Louise Allen, a co-founder of Teapigs and a trained tea taster.
Why Teapigs? What makes it unique?
Teapigs is all about real tea, whole leaf quality teas and infusions. [...]

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Imelda Burke: Wellbeing to me is a state of contentment

December 18th, 2011 No Comments

CONTENT is a peaceful state of happiness and things held or included in something. These are not just dictionary definitions. This is the ethos behind a beautiful 3-in-1 place in London: a boutique organic skincare store, naturopathic clinic and beauty salon. Imelda Burke, the founder, is sharing with The Baoli her passion to organic skincare and [...]

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Kate Hamilton-Hunter: People love the fact that something creative can come out of ‘rubbish’

November 23rd, 2011 No Comments

Kate Hamilton-Hunter’s daily job is all about reincarnation. She gives rebirth to things that would have otherwise been thrown away. But that’s not all: the new life is always more beautiful than the previous one, a “frog-turned-princess”; delicate and exquisite. An old biscuit tin becomes…a piece of jewellery!
How did you get into jewellery design? Is [...]

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Our top discoveries at Mind, Body and Spirit Winter Festival 2011

November 23rd, 2011 No Comments

The days get shorter and colder in London, but never mind – there are plenty of wellbeing events happening in the city this autumn. Such as Mind, Body and Spirit Winter Festival, one of the key events in the spiritual scene in the UK. The Baoli team couldn’t miss the chance to go and discover [...]

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Jo Manuel: I would like to see yoga being part of the curriculum at schools

October 22nd, 2011 No Comments

From a yoga practitioner, to a yoga teacher, to teaching children’ yoga, to specializing in teaching children with special needs to setting up a truly special yoga centre in North-West London and aiming that every UK child had the chance to receive the gift of yoga. Meet Jo Manuel, Founder and Executive Director of Special [...]

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Big Prize Draw

October 14th, 2011 No Comments

If you are planning to visit The Good Health Show this weekend (15-16 October) in Telford, make sure you come and say hi at our Baoli stand - P72. We would like to have a chat and to welcome all our new members who subscribe to Baoli newsletter during the show, we will enter their [...]

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Enjoy every precious moment

October 7th, 2011 No Comments

After receiving this beautiful poem in my inbox, that was written by a dad of a 10 months old baby Rachel who suffers a brain cancer, I turned off my computer and spent a whole day with my gorgeous daughter Maya. We both had lots of playground fun, smiling, reading, playing hide and seek and [...]

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Ground Your Feet

September 16th, 2011 No Comments

Indian Summer is here and the sun is still shining. Why don’t you make the most of it and get the body feeling more calm and relaxed before the gloomy and cold days of the upcoming season sneak in. It’s great to practice at home or in the garden while the BBQ’s and picnics are [...]

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Rapanui’s Rob Drake-Knight: We want to make it fashionable for people to go green

August 22nd, 2011 No Comments

Surfing in the Isle of Wight can make you stronger and fitter. It can also inspire you to make a positive impact on the world through fashion. This is exactly how the idea of Rapanui was born.

With £200 in the pocket, two university graduates, brothers Mart and Rob Drake-Knight spotted a business opportunity in the [...]

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The great outdoors

August 22nd, 2011 No Comments

There isn’t a weekend now I would miss out on the warm invitation of the late summer sunshine and get out to enjoy the nature whether it’s a stroll along the river or a picnic in the ever changing Kew Gardens. Lately, however, I have become to enjoy getting more physical and involve my family [...]

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