Greetings!

A whole year has passed. And what a year it has been!
I hope you have been well and healthy and starting this autumn season’s beavering strong and forward looking.

Last autumn I was eagerly encouraging you to improve your immune system by following the suggestions in my Wellness-book that was launched in the spring of 2010. Though the book is now sold out, bar a few copies on our shelves, these same recommendations are timely again and I hope that you will look after yourself and stay protected from the autumn bug-attack.

The first UMG Wellness-Spa magazine saw daylight in the spring 2010 and the issue number four was published last week. Have a look on our website. There we introduce the newly qualified UMG-Wellness therapists and look at the fast advancing wellness-boom.

February this year saw the coming out of our Lady Grace range at the SPA & Beauty exhibition in London. Much of my time has been taken here in Turku and travelling between Turku and London quite frequently to advance the launch of Lady Grace and UMG-Wellness to the British market.

The fourth UMG-Wellness therapy student group started in the spring and group three is qualifying by the end of the year. The eager joy and commitment to the work has been really positive especially as they all study whilst carrying on a full time job. The feedback from the students tell us that the UMG-Wellness therapists feel, when they have qualified, that they have real tools to start a professional practice or that the have gained much to offer to their clients’ in the existing profession.

The first faze of the data collection pilot at Kaskenlinna hospital long term elderly patients ward was a success. The results are promising. We continue and expand the giving of the treatments and collecting more data during this autumn and next spring. I should have the report ready by next autumn.

Here’s wishing for some more sunny autumn days and a glorious flush of autumn colours to gather strength, light and joy for the coming winter.

Ulla-Maija