Esalen massage
I've become an Esalen Massage practitioner quite by chance. 'The way of the Body' became a path of life for me because of suffering from frozen shoulders. It was my response to helping myself. I received the training with my excellent teachers Perry and Johanna Holloman (deepbodywork.com) at Findhorn Foundation. Since 2017 I've been practising giving Esalen Massage and deepening in the beautiful path of mind/body/spirit integration and wholeness. Now that I cast my mind back over the path of my life, I can see that my training had begun long before I enrolled on the Esalen Massage course. In my practice I integrate my understanding of the archetypes, as I know them from the Law of One and my twenty five years of apprenticeship with Love/Light Research. I draw insight from my training with Marion Woodman at Schumacher College and the significance of dream symbology. My training with my beloved teachers Nancy Melon and Ashley Ramsden on the Body Eloquence had been a preparation to know the language of the body from the vast resource of the story world. I was gifted a set of cards on Sacred Body Sites by my dear guide and teacher Stephanie Mines and have been learning about and integrating the TARA approach in my practice. I am most blessed to be learning and practising with my dear yoga teacher, Louise Simmons. Her classes are not just about Scaraveli inspired yoga, but about a way of life to live in a deeply connected way in my body. Often, after a yoga class with Louise, I feel like a bird, free, and light. You could say I have been coming home to my body to know the joy of my spine, and every joint, awakened, breathing like a tree. So the path of being a massage practitioner has come to me as gifts from many directions.
Often in my practice, when I touch the body of my clients, and see the beauty and sacredness of our bodies, I wonder, if we truly learned to touch ourselves and one another with the intention to be whole and radiant, we could mend our broken world, in such gentle and magnificent ways. I send out a prayer from my heart that we learn and share the art of touching ourselves, and the world in a sacred way to heal what is broken, to love what is rejected, to embrace and unify all parts.
Often in my practice, when I touch the body of my clients, and see the beauty and sacredness of our bodies, I wonder, if we truly learned to touch ourselves and one another with the intention to be whole and radiant, we could mend our broken world, in such gentle and magnificent ways. I send out a prayer from my heart that we learn and share the art of touching ourselves, and the world in a sacred way to heal what is broken, to love what is rejected, to embrace and unify all parts.
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GEoff Dalglish :Beautiful and calm massage space. It was a deeply relaxing and nourishing massage where I felt safe, supported, encouraged. Strong feeling that it was much more than a physical practice, but given with love and tenderness to invigorate and heal on the emotional and spiritual levels. Felt firm but not too hard - just right. Feeling much gratitude.
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SOMATIC ENLIGHTENMENT ~ A COMMITMENT TO TRAIN
MASSAGE PRACTITIONERS
I'I've been practising Esalen Massage and learning Scaravelli inspired yoga for more than four years now. During my practice I have observed that a significant healing takes place when the body of my clients are touched in ways that connects them with their spine and allows for fluidity and spaciousness of the joints (and a lot more besides). I am immensely grateful to my yoga teacher, Louise in Findhorn, who helps me see and experience the relationship of my body to my spine. In turn I observe and assist my clients to have a closer relationship to their bodies and to their spine.
I've been reflecting on the question : "how could we have a wellbeing system at a village level that supports the health and happiness of its inhabitants? My response is to have increased awareness and practice of living more intimately with our bodies. We need increased connections and commitments to ourselves and each other to maintain a 'path of health and happiness.' Since I live in Findhorn Ecovillage for most of the year, I decided to offer training in massage and Scaravelli inspired yoga to a limited number of committed trainees. Regular practice is what keeps the field of wellbeing pulsing and alive. I think if a critical number of us committed to the path of health and happiness, while we increase our education and practice, we will have a reliable network to support the wellbeing of most people living in a community.
I am offering a training in massage and yoga, starting on the 22nd of January till 23rd of April, 2022 to help strengthen the field of our health and happiness.
I've been reflecting on the question : "how could we have a wellbeing system at a village level that supports the health and happiness of its inhabitants? My response is to have increased awareness and practice of living more intimately with our bodies. We need increased connections and commitments to ourselves and each other to maintain a 'path of health and happiness.' Since I live in Findhorn Ecovillage for most of the year, I decided to offer training in massage and Scaravelli inspired yoga to a limited number of committed trainees. Regular practice is what keeps the field of wellbeing pulsing and alive. I think if a critical number of us committed to the path of health and happiness, while we increase our education and practice, we will have a reliable network to support the wellbeing of most people living in a community.
I am offering a training in massage and yoga, starting on the 22nd of January till 23rd of April, 2022 to help strengthen the field of our health and happiness.
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Know then first, the mind and then the body. Then as the spirit is integrated and synthesised into a mind/body/spirit complex which can move among the dimensions and which can open the gateway to intelligent infinity, thus healing self by light and sharing that light with others.
True healing is simply the radiance of the self causing an environment in which a catalyst may occur which initiates the recognition of self, by self, of the self-healing properties of the self. Ra, a humble messenger of the Law of One |
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