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Esther regularly attends and/or teaches at Natural Vision Conferences, Healthy Living Festivals, and other vision or breathing improvement classes at major events or institutes.
Natural Vision Conferences provide great learning opportunities for teachers and students alike.
I have personally attended four such conferences, and all of them were very inspiring, I recommend them highly to anyone.  Conferences and other events are listed below (in date order)

Free your Breath, Free your Life

I will be assisting Dennis Lewis, well known breathing coach and author of
'The Tao of Natural Breathing' and 'Free Your Breath, Free Your Life'
with his 5 day workshop: Free Your Breath, Free Your Life
held at Esalen Institute in California, 11-16 May 2008.
To register contact Esalen.

Free Your Breath, Free Your Life
The ever-increasing speed, stress, and disharmony of the modern world not only conditions us to a way of living in which the future is often felt to be more important than the present, but also cuts us off from the immediate experience of ourselves as living, breathing beings. As a result, many of us live as unconscious, breathless automatons, rushing faster than time itself into an imaginary future, seldom present to the mystery and miracle of our lives right now and here. Our breathing is so constricted and incomplete that it undermines our health, our vitality, and our consciousness. Such breathing also deprives us of one of the great joys of living on this earth: the expansive sensation of a free, easy, boundless breath that engages the whole of ourselves and opens us to the miracle of "the breath of life."

Using ideas, insights, and practices from his book Free Your Breath, Free Your Life, Dennis Lewis will take you on a journey of presence into the physiology, psychology, and spirituality of natural, boundless breathing. You will learn and practice the seven basic self-directed ways of working with the breath: conscious; controlled; focused; movement-supported; position-supported; touch-supported; and sound-supported breathing. Through safe, powerful exercises—as well as through special movements, postures, sounds, meditations, qigong practices, dialogue, and work with presence—you will learn how to integrate conscious, whole-body breathing into your life to support your health and your quest for self-realization.

 

Teleconference on Natural Vision Improvement

with Esther Joy van der Werf 
Two Wednesday evenings, 21 and 28 May 2008, 7:30-8:30 pm PST
 Organized by Energetic Solutions and TheTreeOfLifeCenter.com

Join us and explore natural ways of overcoming blurry vision!

You will learn :

*The differences in use of eyes between people with good vision vs. those with blurry vision
*How to rest the eyes
*Sunlight and eye health
*How to use an eyechart to improve vision
*What our eyes need most
*Tricks to improve vision effortlessly

$ 79.00.  RSVP required. 
For details and to pre-register, call (714) 374-1988
    


British Natural Eyesight Conference

in London, England, 24 - 26 October 2008
 Organised by The Bates Association for Vision Education

People with an interest in natural vision education and people working in the field are invited to come to 
the beautiful setting of Felden Lodge near London in October 2008 to share technique and experience. 
The theme of this year's conference is how the work pioneered by William Bates in the early 20th century 
is being developed and used today. 
Before and after the conference inspiring, practical workshops will be held. 

For details visit the conference website at
    www.bnec.org.uk

 

Listen to Esther on Tropic Wave Radio!

On 18 March 2008 Roe Gallo (author of Perfect Body and Overcoming the Myths of Aging) 
interviewed Esther for the weekly Raw Health Talk.

You can still listen to this show!  
You'll learn what Natural Vision Improvement is about and what it can mean to you.

Listen in online at the archive of tropicwaveradio.net.  Click on the show of March 18.
This link will be available for about one month.
If you're having trouble getting it to play, here is the direct link to the radio show

Living Nutrition

Living Nutrition eDigest
No. 36 * March 18, 2008
PO Box 256
Sebastopol, CA 95473
Contact

Live on Tuesday night's "Raw Health Talk" Web Radio Show

Please join guest host Dr. Roe Gallo on Tuesday, March 18
at 9:00 pm EST / 6:00 PM PST as she interviews her special guest:

Esther Joy van der Werf
of Visions of Joy
Natural Eyesight Improvement

Their topic:

"Regaining and Keeping Perfect Eyesight
The Natural Way"

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Join Esther and Roe as they teach you how to regain and keep perfect eyesight - The Natural Way! Esther used to have blurry eyesight; at age 18 she was told she needed glasses for distance vision. She couldn't get used to those glasses, so she simply threw them away. For the next 16 years she walked around in a blurry world, until she found a method that helped her get back the clear vision she once had.

After successfully regaining better than 20/20 vision in just 2 weeks, she now loves to help other people get back clear eyesight in a relaxed effortless way. Her students often discard reading glasses, distance vision glasses and contact lenses, and stay away from the risks of laser surgery. Their better vision is accomplished by overcoming eyestrain through applying good vision habits that are used all day long -- not by doing eye exercises.

Among Esther's successful students is Dave Klein. After years of computer eye strain which led to the development of severe astigmatism with blurry vision and inability to read fine print, he contacted his friend Esther, took her VOJ course and was amazed by the 90% improvement result in just 2 months....and he has avoided getting reading glasses. Dave recommends Esther's remarkable course to everyone who wants to improve his or her vision, saying it's amazingly easy and natural to practice the healthy vision habits and get the eye muscles working more freely. Some of Dave's friends have taken the VOJ course and have similarly derived great vision improvement. Roe is also a big proponent of the Bates Method; it has helped her and her clients tremendously as well.

Esther teaches the original Bates Method to help people overcome blurry vision naturally. She became a certified teacher of the Bates Method in 2000 and she is a board member of the North American Association of Vision Educators. Besides her training as a Bates Method teacher, Esther also trained with Dr. Marc Grossman O.D. in New York and Dr. Neal Apple M.D. in New Mexico.

Originally from The Netherlands, Esther has taught classes throughout the USA and in Europe. Esther wrote an article on Natural Eyesight Improvement in Living Nutrition Magazine vol. 17. A long-time rawfooder, Esther now lives in Woodland Hills, California and can be contacted and answer questions abut her course through her Visions of Joy - Natural Eyesight Improvement & Optimal Breathing Development website.

All the best in vibrant health!

Roe & Dave

      

 


The photos below were taken at the 3rd North American Conference
for Natural Vision Improvement, in Oakland, California, May 2004


^ Kate Keilman, Esther, Gladys Bennet and Theo Copley.

.....Jacob Liberman demonstrating his new EYE machine >

< Roberto Kaplan from Austria talks about strabismus


v Deborah Banker, Martin Sussman, Dror Schneider and Carol Gallup responding to audience questions during a panel Q&A
 

Are you still looking for a good reason to learn about natural vision improvement??...

Yesterday I was walking down the street wearing my eyeglasses,
and all of a sudden my prescription ran out.
 Steven Wright
 
9may08