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.

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?"

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.

DECEMBER MERIDIAN - STOMACH

The Meridian for this Month is the Stomach. It runs on from the Large Intestine Meridian in a complicated pattern around the face and mouth, a branch descending internally through the diaphragm to the stomach and spleen. Another branch descends over the surface of the neck, chest and abdomen to the groin where the meridian reconnects with the continuation of internal branch from the stomach. It runs from here down the leg to the top of the foot, terminating at the tip of the second toe.

I love the dramatic descriptions of Stomach Meridian disturbance: eg the patient may like to "climb hills, sing a lot, or strip and run about naked". I'll know what's up with that type now...

REMOTE GROUP SESSION 14th NOV 2019 - LARGE INTESTINE TWO

The session we just had on the Thursday 7th November felt so powerful to host that I'm going to stay with the same focus for the next one:

SESSION 14th NOVEMBER: LARGE INTESTINE MERIDIAN - VAGUS NERVES - CRANIOSACRAL SYSTEM - LARGE INTESTINE MOBILITY AND MOTILITY

Which might seem like a lot of different levels, but that seemed to be part of the message, that it's good to focus into several levels, they're all just different ways of observing the same thing, our amazing, multi-connected, physical and non-physical human life form. Work going on with one aspect is mirrored in all others.

REMOTE GROUP SESSION 24TH OCTOBER - SCIATICA TWO

We focused on Sciatica in last Thursday's remote group session and it's such a common problem that I'm going to stay with it for this next one on the 24th October - more about the remote group and how to join in here.
Sciatica, and lower back pain, has always been one of the chief reasons people seek out help from complementary therapists like me. I've always encouraged patients to research as much as they can themselves and to look at all aspects of their own health care, from diet and exercise, such as stretching and Pilates, along with getting regular holistic treatment. I often find that when patients' sciatica or back pain has eased they continue to come for CranioSacral Therapy as it can have such a positive effect on their health generally. So here's a bit more detail:

It's the largest nerve in our bodies, as thick as your thumb

The roots of the sciatic nerve fanning out from the lower spinal levels.

Some of the various disc and vertebral problems which can cause nerve compression.

The joints between the vertebrae themselves are often overlooked and can cause problems too.

One of the chief sciatic rascals, the piriformis muscle - easy to see how tension/spasm here can be pressing on that nerve. The good news is that tension here can often be easily treated and giving relief to pain.

Then there's often an emotional component to this, or any other, concern. Money worries and support issues often hide away down here. The CranioSacral approach can help people to explore this and learn wonderfully helpful life lessons by listening to our bodies' inner wisdom.
Have a great session if you're tuning in!
Stretch for the piriformis muscle here.
Pelvic tilt for lower back here.

MERIDIAN OF THE MONTH - LUNG

"THE DELICATE INTEGRITY OF THE TEMPORAL WORLD"
My main reference book for our meridian journey is the excellent, "The Web that has no Weaver," by Ted J. Kaptchuk. There's some great notes on the lung meridian and the lungs as organs, and all their associations, eg "the Lungs concern the momentary and the ephemeral. Healthy Lungs allow for a single moment or any singular episode of time to become complete".

The Lung Meridian runs from deep within the body cavity to the Large Intestine, rising to the Lungs and emerging to the surface via the throat. It continues down the arm to the thumb, a branch running down the index finger to connect with the Large Intestine Meridian.

6TH JUNE REMOTE SESSION - PERICARDIUM MERIDIAN - HEART PROTECTOR

This month's meridian in our journey around the system is the Pericardium, sometimes called the Heart Protector, protecting us from overwhelming emotions such as anger, grief or fear as well as physically protecting the heart. The downside of this energetic assistance is that when we are over-protected from our emotions we can drift more and more apart from other people.
HAVING YOUR HEART HAULED OUT OF YOUR ASS
There's a film in which a guy describes relationship break-ups as "having your heart hauled out of your ass" which is just about right from my own experience. Who wants to feel that again? So Heart Protector kicks in...

DOING NOT DOING

That was another great remote group session last night, thanks for your ethereal company everyone who joined in.

Doing not doing

I was all set to host a re-charging of the kidney energy batteries as I'd intended but the session turned into something a bit different. It settled into a deeply peaceful state, I felt I was watching the Earth from a point out in space and could see the pattern of our remote group energy network spread out below. Instead of being about re-charging the session seemed to be more about being careful with our personal energy, which I guess is a more sensible starting point when you think about it.

The Kidneys - Your Inner Terrible Twins

Yesterday's Free Remote Craniosacral Energy session, continuing in our year-long journey around the meridian system, was focused again in the kidneys, and very interesting it was too.

Real-lifeTerrible Twins: https://www.facebook.com/TerribleTwinsSA/

Bladder Meridian - 4th Session

The Free Remote Group Craniosacral Energy session coming up this Thursday 25th April will be the last one focused on the bladder meridian.

I saw this amazing photo by Christy Lee Rogers, "Harmony", in the paper - thought it was appropriate for our bladder/kidney focus

Bladder Focus 3 - Kidneys

I'm going to jump ahead a bit in our meridian journey and take a first look at the Kidney Meridian. Although I didn't plan to focus here at all until May it seems to work hand in hand with the Bladder Meridian, and the right kidney jumped straight into focus during last week's remote group session.

Today's Remote Group Session - Bladder Meridian 2

You're welcome to join in with today's Remote Group Craniosacral Energy Treatment Session from wherever you are. The session will run from 21:15 to 22:00 pm UK time. More about the sessions and how to join in here. There's a useful time converter for other parts of the world here.
BLADDER MERIDIAN
This is the second session focused on the bladder meridian in our year-long journey through the full meridian cycle. In the first session I just focused on the whole meridian and the flow within it, in this session I'd like to focus a little deeper and help us all to get a feel for what emotions and issues are ready to come up to the surface at the moment.
LIFE MIRRORED IN TISSUE

It's very interesting how our personal health concerns can be mirrored in the stuff around us in the industrial world, eg car problems or water and drainage problems at home

TAKING IT ALL IN...

FREE REMOTE GROUP SESSION COMING UP 28th MARCH
We've covered a lot of ground already this year in our journey through the meridian cycle, I've learned loads already and it's opened up whole new avenues to explore in both remote and hands-on work. So for this next session I'd just like to pause for a moment, and take some time to reflect, process, digest and integrate everything.

It's very beautiful up in our local woods now that Spring is well under way - woods that are all the better for being not very much managed.

And not just integrate everything within our own personal being but within our place in the world and the web of all Earth life.

THE SOUL SWIMS IN THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID

I've been having the most amazing time since moving back to Perth, meeting old and new therapy friends and exploring new ways of working with people, exploring new realms of CranioSacral Therapy and Energy Work in both the remote and hands-on way. The core of it all has been listening to patterns within flow, that is the flow of any fluid: air, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), blood, lymph, nerve impulses and energy flow. The most amazing thing is that listening is all you mostly have to do to help, sometimes that is actually as much as some patients can absorb by way of treatment.

Energy systems communicate with each other through the CSF?

HAND REFLEX POINTS FOR REMOTE TREATMENT FOCUS

My main surrogate for giving and hosting remote one-to-one and group treatment sessions has been my trusty assistant Cosmic Ted. He deserves some sort of award for over ten years of stout service.

Cosmic Ted, "I come in Paws."

MARCH 2019 - FOCUS SMALL INTESTINE

Continuing with our year-long journey around the meridian system, we move from some wonderful sessions exploring the Heart into the Small Intestine. I've been looking into the area from the Western as well as the Eastern viewpoint and I've found, yet again, that the more you study the human body the less you find you know. Just when you thought you were getting your head round something a whole new level of complexity pops up... The surprising things to me are not that it sometimes functions poorly here and there, but that such a complicated phenomenon ever works at all, let alone reproduces itself from a couple of cells (and has the code to do that in all of its 35 trillion cells, except for red blood cells).

REMOTE GROUP CRANIOSACRAL ENERGY SESSION - 21ST FEB 2019 - HEART FOUR

FOCUS BLOOD CIRCULATION
I'd like to start this next session by focus on our blood circulation itself, the structures involved, heart, lungs and blood vessels, and on what actually moves our blood around. I've been re-reading Dr Thomas Cowan's brilliant book, "Human Heart, Cosmic Heart" again and I can't recommend it highly enough whether you're just interested in how our bodies work or whether you have a heart condition yourself - he's brilliant on treating heart disease.

SPLEEN - FIRE - TRANSFORMATION

My focus for the last remote group session, Thursday 3rd January 2019, was the spleen - surprising really that after all these years of hosting these sessions I've never thought of exploring this little organ's roles before. It's been really interesting to find that it's very much an organ for our crazy times...

Fire of Transformation

2019 - GLOBAL AND LOCAL - EARTHCARE AND PEOPLECARE

Have a wonderful year in 2019 everyone!
I hope you can join in our regular Free Thursday Remote CranioSacral Energy sessions from wherever you are - they're 21.15 to 22.00 pm, UK time - they've been part of a fascinating year of exploration for me in 2018. There's lots of areas I want to explore more this next year...
HIGHER DIMENSIONALITY?

Maybe space and time themselves can be enfolded like these cerebellar cortex cells - so that by choosing to function at a higher vibration we can make connections that transcend our normal concept of space-time