The Energy of Bones

THE BABY SKULL
Lots of fascinating effects pop up when you do a physical treatment with a patient that overlaps into energy work. For example, when you're holding the cranial vault in a Craniosacral Therapy treatment, it often feels as if what is just one complete bone in the physical body has several sections in the energetic body. I think, in the case of the cranium, this at least partly because the baby skull has many more sections than the adult skull so it can fold in on itself during labour. You sometimes find that the adult skull has the memory of an over-ride between the parietals and the frontal bone, it can seem to have a beneficial overall effect for the patient if this resolves in a treatment.
SACRUM AND COCCYX

The Sacrum and Coccyx also seem to have quite different physical and energetic presences, something I've already been exploring in our regular remote group sessions, which I'd like to explore further in our session today, Thursday16th July 2020.

My Introduction to Energy Work

SIX IMPOSSIBLE THINGS BEFORE BREAKFAST...
Twenty-five years ago I was a complete sceptic myself concerning energy work in general. I remember having a treatment from a therapist for back pain and the lady saying to me, "I'm just going to zap some energy into your hip".

The White Queen - "Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

"What?!" I thought - I was on the verge of jumping off the couch and running down the street, so I understand that sceptical point of view. Now, though, energy work is just an everyday reality for me.

COVID'S LITTLE BROTHER?

My partner Ruth and I have been ill for a few weeks with some kind of virus, we tested negative for covid 19 but our symptoms were fever, cough, loss of taste etc, so it was maybe covid 19's little brother or something. Anyway, I'm happy to say we're both pretty much back to normal, thank goodness it wasn't any worse for us.

Our first day out for ages, coffee in the orchard at excellent local organic project Pillars of Hercules.

The few weeks holed up not doing much at all have given me time to think about life and work going forward, I'm planning to do a lot less heavy physical work for a start.
PERTH COMMUNITY FARM
As well as my therapy work, I've been helping to keep Perth Community Farm going with a few friends and think I overdid lifting and digging etc. one day, then got a bit rushed and half-hearted about hand washing and masks, had a few drinks that evening, and so laid myself open to the bug. I've been in denial about getting older but suppose I'll have to start making some concessions to being 67 next month...

The Perth Community Farm site - a small group of us volunteers has kept it going during lock down, I just think local food and resilience projects like these are so important, it's vital to keep them going. For how much longer are we in the UK going to have our food, everyday stuff as well as luxuries, shipped, flown, trucked in from the four corners of the Earth? It's a disaster however you look at it. More on my Natural Solutions blog here.

While we've been poorly, family and friends have been wonderful helping with shopping and sending us remote Reiki and Craniosacral treatments, which have been a huge help.
REMOTE THERAPIES
Remote work generally seems to have gone up a level, some of the swaps I've been doing with friends recently have been really amazing, so that's something I'll definitely be putting more energy into. I'll update all the remote stuff on this blog and add a bit about tutoring other therapists.
TUTORING FOR REMOTE WORK
I know a lot of my therapist friends have been struggling through lock down and clinic life won't ever be just the same. Working remotely can be really effective, particularly when you can back it up with phone calls, emails etc. so I'd like to offer an opportunity to practise the skills, it could well be an option for therapists who do energy work or light touch work. I'll post more about all that soon.

Remote Treatment

I was reading a post on one of the Craniosacral Therapy practitioners' pages I follow discussing remote therapy/healing work, whether Craniosacral Therapy, or CranioSacral Therapy, can be given in this way, what you should call it, whether without physical touch it's really not Craniosacral Therapy at all, whether remote therapy/healing work is all just bogus anyway, and also concerns such as, "If my patients can receive help remotely will they still come to see me?"

SESSION 30 JAN 2020 - CLEARING AND STRENGTHENING

Clearing and Strengthening with Tai Chi and Chi Kung

This is a video of Cheng Man-Ch'ing performing his own short form of Tai Chi. It's the form I learned myself and I wanted to let people see it partly because it's lovely to watch his gently controlled mastery (check out his "Snake Creeps Down" movement at about 3.45) but also because there's a couple of movements in it which I find really helpful for clearing and for revitalising.
REVITALISING, STRENGTHENING
Right at the start of the video, 0.06 to 014, there's a movement called "Lifting Water", simply lifting the hands gently up and down in front of you. It looks nothing at all at first glance but if you practise it slowly a few times while focusing on your energy centres in turn as I suggest for tuning in, using your hands to help you to focus on each one in turn, it can be come a very gentle but powerful movement.
CLEARING
There's a lot of movements in this form which are basically pushing, or pushing and deflecting. If you practise these with the intention of clearing unhelpful energy from your personal field or returning, dissipating or deflecting unhelpful energy that has been directed towards you, these can be very helpful in everyday life. If you practise you'll find that just imagining yourself doing these movements with that intention in a difficult situation can be surprisingly helpful...
TAI CHI AND CHI KUNG
Tai Chi, or Infinite Ultimate fighting system, is a martial art, Chi Kung, or energy development, gives its movements their power. Martial arts are not ultimately about fighting, if you see a situation as a fight you've already lost. The ultimate goal is peace, for the two parties to find a deeper understanding and a cooperative way together.
SESSION TODAY
If you can join in the session today why not try following some of these movements first - have a great session!

Remote Group Session 23rd January 2020

FOCUS for today's session: harmonising the flow of energy within the Conception Vessel and the Governing Vessel meridians, the Microcosmic Orbit, and the Craniosacal System

We had one final stop to make in our journey around the meridian system, the Conception Vessel and Governing Vessel meridians, so let's visit this pair today.

The Microscopic Orbit - visualise energy flow up the centre of your back and down the centre of your front in a continuous circuit.

The Microcosmic Orbit was once a secret practice but is now widely known as a way to nurture and gather our personal energy by focusing on it's path around these two meridians.