From: Denise Koch
Subject: Firewalking
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:48:16 -0800 (PST)

Greetings my friends,
 
Being a lifelong barefooter to extreme I have to say I have enjoyed this
list very much. I Live half my time in Philadelphia PA area and other half
way up in the Pocono mountains. Its interesting to watch how people in the
city versus those where i come from act about Barefooting. Although only
hour and half to 2 hours apart they are worlds apart in some areas of
dealing with barefooters. I am now enjoying the snow....nothing like
running out into the snow barefooot!!!! The severe cold was really a hard
thing to deal with as you cant really be barefoot in it. I still wear
sandals though!
 
In fact this winter I went to California, in the San Francisco area to
Become a CERTIFIED FIREWALKING INSTRUCTOR. Studied under the world known
Firewalking Scholar Peggy Dylan. In a class of about 15 people and another
15 staff members there was only 3 barefooters, me and 2 other men that
really enjoyed being barefoot for most of the 2 weeks we were there. Would
have thought people that loved walking on fire and coals like me would be
more barefooters. Guess i was wrong. 
 
I know that most of the Barefooters I have come across delight in the idea
of having many sensations to walk on and to challange themselves even at
times to walk Barefoot Especially when told its not safe or not healthy or
not something they should do. THat is how I started doing such daring
things Barefoot because being a full insulin dependant Diabetic I found
that it really upset me that so many people felt the right to tell me what
i can and cant do with my Bare Feet. 
 
Thus this is how i ventured into the world of Firewalking. I am now a
Certified Firewalking Instructor and hope to share my love and healing of
the fire with others that are wanting to partake. Its an amazing thing to
walk over those coals in your barefeet, to feel the power it brings into
you!!! And if you would like some more information on this subject I would
love to link you to another Yahoo email site enabling you to look for
calander of events of Firewalks in your area. I am networked with other
Firewalking instructors and we hope to put this together so that we can
bring this amazing and powerful gift into the hands of those that want to
explore!
 
Please check out this email list and see if you'd like to join. 
 
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/firewalking2004/
 
Thanks For Your Support
 
Denise Tomushunis