LIVE PROGRAMS
The first educational workshop of the Early Birds Club Balkans was held as the opening of our new members! By launching the new membership, we simply meant to upgrade the old one by adding more activities to support and empower our members. Check out the sheet below!
All members of our club get one exclusive educational workshop every three months. The first such workshop was held on April 1, 2023, in Belgrade, on the topic of AROMATHERAPY. It was held by Helena Bjelaković, a long-time aromatherapist and lecturer.
She explained how aromatherapy works, and why it should be applied, sharing her experiences and how she helps others.
We learned more about plants from which essential oils can be extracted. Helena also revealed her recipes – how we can combine oils to wake up easier in the morning, protect against viruses and bacteria, protect against mosquito bites, and much more.
She also touched upon the important subject of the harmful ingredients in factory-pro cosmetics, bringing awareness that we have a natural alternative that can be easily made at home.
Evening gathering of early risers who shared valuable experiences:
“Helena’s aromatherapy workshop as an introduction was ideal. I think it’s great that there’s not just a morning routine, but something else, like that. As for getting up, it definitely has an impact on how the day goes later. I started waking up at 5:00 in 2019. I didn’t comply every day, but 90% of the days I did. There were days when I had to get up earlier. When I get out of bed without thinking about whether I should sleep for another 10 minutes, then everything flows for me. One should not think at that moment when those thoughts arise, whether we would sleep longer or not.” – Mirjana
Another cycle of a guided morning routine includes:
– planning the day in advance and correcting the list in relation to the changes that occurred that day
– getting up at 4:30
– personal hygiene and drinking water
– yoga
– breathing exercises
– group reading
Friday’s English classes for ESL beginners
Reading club
– the positive books of our selection are intended to improve the quality of the day
– apart from reading in a group, we have the opportunity to discuss the topics read
– the private atmosphere of a closed group that is only available to members, provides freedom of expression
– and most importantly, with the membership, members get access not only to the reading club but also to all other activities of our club.
ONLINE PROGRAMS
We interviewed Marija and Nikola, who are professionally engaged in training and homeopathy for dogs.
Sinse pets are like family members, we learned how to train them, react if they get sick, and how to establish a good relationship with them.
How to change your mood through nutrition?
As a certified nutrition and supplementation consultant, Alexandra shared knowledge of how food affects our bodies and mind. Nutri-Energetics, her blend of nutrition and energy, helped many people find the right nutrition and feel more energetic.
In the last conversation, we learned more about home births today, given that Ivana has both personal and professional experience on the subject, and now we will talk about what it used to look like.
Since 2017, Ivana has interviewed grandmothers all over Serbia in order to investigate how childbirth was done in the period from the 50s to the 80s of the last century. The book is a unique medical and ethnological research on traditional midwifery and childbirth, which gave us a glimpse into the life of women and newborns in past times.
EBC KIDS is continuously building kids’ self-esteem and guiding them on the path of righteousness every Sunday through Weekly Evening Corner.
Through interesting stories, they learned whether we should like only those people, and subjects in school that we like.
What is friendship? What makes a situation without friendship? Isn’t the difference among people a challenge to true love?
When we give something, does it matter the amount or the way we give it?
How important are power, wealth, position, and fame, and how important is purity of heart and sincere effort, renunciation, and love when we give something to someone?
Is the desire to give or what is given more important?
Ending each one with Freedom meditation.
They were reminded on Earth Day to think about 7 billion of us living, eating, loving, and playing thanks to the planet on which we live, and it is only one. Therefore, we should do our best to protect her, keep her healthy so she can serve us for a long time.
Kids were encouraged to do something good for our planet.
Lead by example
Members of the Early Birds Club Kids – Balkans in the humanitarian action of the ACT Foundation.
Our Luna and her mother helped a single father and his four children (3 boys and a girl) with clothing and food.
