Presentation

Nicole Felicité will give a presentation entitled integrative holistic medicine and anti-ageing, or how to age well.

Nicole graduated in Medicine at The Medicine Faculty from Nice, and has a DIU (Inter University Diploma) in Morphologic and Anti ageing Medicine (“Body image and ageing prevention”) from the medicine Faculty Paris 13. She also holds an International Diploma in Mesotherapy from the Medicine Faculty from Bordeaux, and is an active member of the AFMEaa (French Association of Morph aesthetic Medicine and Anti-ageing) .

Nicole will be giving her presentation in English, but the discussion will be in Portuguese, as she has been living and working in Portugal for many years.

Women International day seems the ideal time to discuss aging, an issue which particularly concerns us. Nowadays, when our performance drops due to the gradual loss of physical and intellectual skills, when our skin suffers significant changes, and our whole body changes, what can we do? The answer is given by holistic anti-aging medicine, which encompasses all the medical specialities. It is a kind of ayurvedic “Westernised” medicine, where longevity and beauty constitute an integral part of the concept of Health. It treats image, both through aesthetic and cosmetic care, as well as form, thanks to nutrition therapy and supplements, biotherapy and sound advice on healthy life styles.

Moreover, it is a natural preventive medicine, individualised, and above all harmless and non-toxic, which will lead, among other effects, to the slowing down of the aging process, thereby minimizing age-related diseases. This constitutes a condition essential for aging well and being able to maintain autonomy and an image adequate to the times we are living.

O dia da mulher parece o momento ideal para falar de um problema que nos preocupa particularmente: o envelhecimento.

Hoje em dia, com a idade, quando a nossa performance, tanto a nível físico como intelectual baixa, quando a nossa pele se altera, quando todo o nosso organismo se modifica, o que podemos fazer? A resposta é dada pela medicina integral anti envelhecimento que engloba todas as especialidades. É uma medicina ayurvedica «ocidentalizada», onde longevidade e beleza sao parte integrante do conceito de saúde. Uma medicina que, trata a imagem, não só graças aos cuidados estéticos e cosméticos, mas também a forma, graças à nutriterapia (complementos alimentares), às bioterapias e aos conselhos de modo de viver.

Para além disso, trata-se de uma medicina preventiva natural, individualizada, e sobretudo inofensiva e não tóxica que vai permitir, entre outros efeitos, atrasar e minimizar as doenças ligadas à idade. Isto constitui a condição imprescindível para envelhecer bem e poder manter uma autonomia e a uma imagem adequadas ao nosso tempo.

Nicole Félicité

• Medical doctor / Médica
• Licenciatura pela Faculdade de Medicina de Nice
• DIU (Diploma Interuniversitário) de Medicina Morfológica e Anti Idade «Imagem corporal e prevenção do envelhecimento» pela Faculdade de Medicina Paris 13.
• Diploma Internacional de Mesoterapia pela Faculdade de Medicina de Bordéus.
• Membro activo da AFMEaa (Associação Francesa de Medicina Morfo Estética e Anti Envelhecimento).

Program

• 18:30 Meet and Greet
• 19:00 Presentation
• 19:30 Drinks
• 20:00 Dinner

Price: 20 Euros

Please confirm

To confirm your presence please send us an e-mail as soon as possible, before March 3 and tell us if you prefer meat, fish or vegetarian. As the dining room can only accommodate 36 people, the sooner you reply the better.

Thank God Brigitte came, otherwise we would have been 13! I have always been told that we can not sit 13 people at a table. Anyway.. .we didn’t actually sat at the table. We had excellent finger food, beautifully presented by Else and Anja, we drank champagne, opened with expertise by Antoinet, we talked, laughed. Ahmy’s photos will show what I am trying to describe.

But we, the organization, also arranged new meetings. Just to arouse your curiosity, our talk on March 8th, whose title cannot yet be revealed, promises to be of special interest to all of us, from the youngest to the oldest, none of whom is immune to the aging process.

What better way to start 2012!

Boas Vindas ao Ano Novo

No dia 13 de Janeiro, sexta feira, 14 mulheres reuniram na Casa Pombal para dar as Boas Vindas ao Ano Novo.

Ainda bem que a Brigitte se inscreveu, caso contrario éramos 13. Sempre ouvi dizer que não se devem sentar 13 pessoas a mesa. De qualquer modo nem nos sentámos ! Comemos umas “tapas” deliciosas, lindamente apresentadas pela Else e Anja, bebemos champagne, aberto com a perícia da Antoinet, conversamos, rimos. As fotos tiradas pela Ahmy mostrarão melhor o que estou a tentar descrever.

Mas nós, as organizadoras, também aproveitamos para preparar as novas reuniões. E só para aguçar a curiosidade, a nossa palestra do dia da Mulher, cujo titulo ainda não podemos revelar promete ser de interesse para todas, novas e menos novas, pois ninguém é imune ao processo de envelhecimento.

Que outra maneira melhor de começar o ano!

View photos (by Ahmy)

Sandra Naranjo, our speaker, gave a workshop entitled “A Healthy balance from our body posture”. After a brief theorectical introduction, she suggested, in her gentle manner, some useful exercises and activities for strengthening and stretching our muscles, raising awareness about the importance of good posture. We did try to do some of the exercises, which was really fun.

Ahmy, our photographer, took a few snapshots, which might be a bit blurred, though, since it’s not easy photographing moving subjects.

The workshop was followed by a delicious meal, prepared with creativity as ever by Eduardo. This was our last meeting this year. We look forward to seeing you all next year at the Casa Pombal on January 13th to welcome in the new year.

Amélia Tellechea

View photos (by Ahmy)

Patricia Couto was be our speaker and talked about the most successful and the most influential art forger ever, the Dutch painter Han van Meegeren. The specialty of van Meegeren was Vermeer. With his fake paintings he sold as being original, he amassed a fortune worth more than half a billion dollars in today’s currency. After the van Meegeren exposure in 1945, a wave of self-criticism surged through the world’s art museums and many an Old Master or a Vermeer disappeared from their walls.

Patricia, member of Centro de Estudos Comparatistas (UL), was born in the Netherlands, studied Germanic Philology in Coimbra (FLUC 1975) and holds an MA in Comparative Literature (FLUL 1996). She has worked at Portuguese schools and taught Dutch Language and Culture at FLUL. She has translated authors such as Jan Slauerhoff, Cees Nooteboom, Gerrit Komrij and Etty Hillesum into Portuguese. Currently, she is writing her PhD thesis on Glazemaker’s seventeenth century translation of Fernão Mendes Pinto’s Peregrinaçam.…..

After this presentation we had a special summer-dinner. This was our last activity before the summer and we will restart in September with our monthly meetings in Galeria Bar.

Unexpectedly our guest speaker, Anja  Masteling, had to fly to the Netherlands due to family matters, but her colleague Regina Azevedo volunteered to give the presentation herself, as they have been working together  for 20 years in Assol.

The title “Walking slowly” refers metaphorically to the long, slow itinerary they have followed working with disabled people. Quoting Regina they have to be approached in a very gentle way, “as light as an angel’s feather.”

And art is indeed the best therapy! The presentation was very moving and Regina conveyed all the energy and dedication required to perform such a noble task.

Eduardo cooked excellent food, as ever, prepared with creativity and a lot of care. All in all, a very warm meeting in an otherwise cold Carnival day!

Amélia Tellechea

View photos (by Ahmy)

View photos (by Ahmy)

Around twenty women from a variety of different countries , including Switzerland, England, the Netherlands, Spain, and The Philippines, to name but a few, got together to learn, exchange ideas, socialize and “eat, drink and be merry.”

Our guest speaker was Cathelijne, a Dutch PHD research student who is currently investigating the impact of fire on the landscape. Her presentation was on fire, by which I mean she gave her talk with the sparkle of the young research student who loves what she is doing.

Although we usually associate fires with destruction and soil degradation, Cathelijne explained how fires actually have their benefits. Fire can be used to fight fire and “queimadas” are still used to clean the soil and fertilize it. We do hope Cathelijne’s “experimental fire” will contribute to implementing better fire-prevention practices.

Eduardo cooked excellent food, as ever, prepared with creativity with ingredients which reflected the season – plenty of chestnuts and delicious “Míscaros”, a kind of mushroom that grows in the wild in Portugal.

All in all, a very warm meeting in an otherwise cold November Sunday.

View photos (by Amélia Tellechea)

Our guest speaker, Sandra Marques, gave a presentation about the schist villages in Serra da Lousã, with special attention to the role of women. She spoke of the project Lousitânea with enthusiasm and dedication and her natural communicative skills made the presentation interesting and appealing.

After the presentation we were ‘presented’ with excellent food and drink and soon the cozy dining room was full of lively conversation. As I wouldn´t be able to express it in such a beautiful way I will cite Carla Gomes: “There is no other group of women I would like to celebrate international women´s day with”.

For those who are interested Sandra will organize a guided visit to the villages in April or May.
For more information about the project you can visit the website http://lousitanea.org/tradicoes-do-xisto (in Portuguese).

Amelia Tellechea

View photos (by Winy Schalke)