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[ The home of natural connections in Hong Kong since 2001 ]

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Welcome to heartbeat.

We connect a growing international community exploring the luxury of balance* ... naturally.

Since 2001, heartbeat has been creating a social network to support sustainable, healthy choices for a balanced personal and work life - choices today that affect our planet's future. We promote professionals and organizations for meaningful personal growth and ethical business development.

We maintain a natural business database at the heart of our business. Each week, we help our readers stay in touch with what's new and what's on in heartbeat connections - our email newsletter. The website features a calendar of community events, marketplace offering classified ads and business profiles and our directory features everything natural in Hong Kong. We print regular updates of The Hong Kong Natural Life Directory with free distribution throughout the territory. Our services include membership, a forum to ask the experts and a selection of news and feature articles.

Combining ancient wisdom with modern technology, our information is always served fresh.

At its heart, Hong Kong is a great place to be.

Freedom, accessibility, diversity and an amazing international community come together to create a truly global village. Energy efficient buildings with rooftop gardens, electric vehicles, a clean harbour ... it's just a thought away. Hong Kong is attracting a growing community of people who are committed to seeing life differently and ideas like these are flowing more easily every day.

Change begins with a single idea that, like a seed, sprouts and grows and creates more seeds that sprout and grow and create more seeds ...

Yes, there is the pollution and the noise and the traffic. These can be changed. Maybe not easily and not at all if everyone agrees that we can’t.

Since our first email newsletter was published in 2001, we have changed the way we view ourselves and changed the way we experience our world. We have less desire to change the world and more desire to simply experience. The world around us is changing and the best we can do is to allow ourselves to grow with it - to gain control by being less controlling. We are trying more new things and remembering some of the things we used to enjoy before we got ourselves so busy being busy that we didn’t believe we had time to do anything.

Join us and share yourself with our world. Allow yourself to be attracted to anything or anyone that feels right for you. Try things on. Either they will fit or they won’t. No big deal. Talk to others. Share your experience. Enjoy being you.

Conscious Community

Our members, subscribers and readers make socially conscious personal, family and business choices every day. We consider the impact of our decisions on our personal health, our local community and our global environment, We are multicultural urban professionals who live locally and travel regularly for work, leisure and family and while we all speak English, we connect in many other languages as well. You'll find us in all walks of life and we are conscious that our circle of influence reaches far beyond our local neighborhood. Our networks include key contacts in media, community organizations and business associations ... details

The Publisher

Connections Unlimited is a private Hong Kong company established in 2000 offering specialized advisory and support to streamline business and marketing operations for maximum efficiency and minimum waste with flexible terms and the choice of hourly, project or retained contracts. We created heartbeat in 2001 to connect consumers actively seeking natural lifestyle options with businesses, professionals and organizations offering products and services. We maintain strategic alliances with leading professionals to deliver current and relevant information ... details