MERIDIAN OF THE MONTH - LARGE INTESTINE

The meridian for this month's exploration of the "web that has no weaver", is the Large Intestine, so I'll be focusing into this channel during our remote group session on 7th November.

The Large Intestine Meridian runs from the tip of the index finger up the arm to the shoulder where it splits into two branches. The first runs down inside the body through the lung and diaphragm to the large intestine itself. The second branch runs up the neck, through the cheek to the lower teeth and gum, and around the upper lip to the side of the nose.

ENFOLDED EVOLUTION OF ENERGY CHANNELS

Our remote group session on Thursday 23rd May was very interesting, so I wanted to post up something about that and to set our intention for our next session on Thursday 30th May.

HUMAN CHANNELS AND EARTH CHANNELS
My intention last time was to connect with the Earth's network of energy channels, its meridian system especially, as part of our year long journey through our human meridian system.

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

APRIL FOCUS - BLADDER MERIDIAN

This month's focus is the Bladder Meridian, in our year-long journey through the energy channels of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The channel itself starts at the end of the Small Intestine meridian at the inner corner of the eye, and runs up over the head. A branch splits off here and enters the brain, the main branch splits into two at the neck, running down the back, legs and the outer side of the foot to the tip of the small toe.

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.

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."

REMOTE SESSION 7th FEBRUARY - HEART TWO

CRANIAL CONNECTIONS
One way that CranioSacral Therapy can help our physical hearts is through assisting the function of one if its controllers, the pair of vagus nerves. If you’re holding tension in your neck at the cranial base, and many people are, this can restrict those nerves. So we’ll start with a releasing technique for this area. Is there some life stress making you tense here? Maybe there's some way you can cope with that better in everyday life.

"Earth Heart," by DLynneS - more here

SPLEEN 2

I stayed with the spleen focus for a second session on Thursday the 10th January 2019 - it's just getting more and more interesting and it's made me think of keeping our focus here for all the January sessions. It's giving me time to look into this amazing organ from a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) as well as a Western Medicine viewpoint. The brilliant book by Ted Kaptchuk, "The Web that has no Weaver," has been really helpful in studying TCM - on ebay here. 

The 10th January session was very powerful and did indeed seem to be about transformation. Change is never really comfortable but we can't really avoid it. I feel we have an opportunity to learn how to operate at higher energetic frequencies, become clearer and stronger, understand energy phenomena and perform all kinds of energy work more easily, not just healing-facilitation but also global communication and awareness, and peacemaking.

The Spleen Meridian

A YEAR LONG TOUR OF THE MERIDIAN SYSTEM

I'm finding it much easier to get my head round the meridian system by taking the time to study just a channel a month. For example, I didn't even understand that the spleen channel runs up both legs, and that the meridians are in fact all paired. One meridian flows into another so there's a natural flow which we can follow over a year: Spleen - Heart - Small Intestine - Bladder - Kidney - Pericardium - Triple Burner - Gall Bladder - Liver - Lung - Large Intestine - Stomach... (then back to Spleen). Somewhere along the line we'll take in the Governing Vessel and Conception Vessel.

RED BLOOD CELLS

In Western medicinal understanding, the spleen is an important part of the immune system and also the circulatory system. For all my twenty years in healthcare I was still amazed to read about its work with red blood cells. 70% of our 37.2 trillion cells are red blood cells and they only live for about 120 days. Their iron-rich haemoglobin picks up oxygen in the lungs then delivers it to tissues everywhere in our bodies. Their membranes get damaged by being pumped through our capillaries and they are very cleverly removed from circulation by cells in the spleen. They are broken up and the useful components stored away for use in making fresh red blood cells. That's enough to take in for now I think, let's look into the spleen's immune system function next week...

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

Your Hand Bone's Connected To Your Chest Bone...

One great thing about getting more of your food locally is that you can find yourself climbing trees a lot more. It's wonderful spending time in woodland, looking after fruit trees, and brilliant getting higher up into trees and seeing the world from that tree top point of view.

Direct-from-the-orchard fruit tastes so much better than that supermarket stuff  and climbing is such great exercise. We're designed for it, with that super mobile shoulder joint.
STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINT
The next time you're hanging by one arm up in a tree you might find it fun to ponder for a moment on the fact that the joint that's connecting your arm to your body is actually the tiny sternoclavicular joint.

There's no joint connecting your shoulder blade to your body, just lots of different muscles.

Then, still hanging there, think about your hand for a moment, and the billions of years of development that have enabled us to interact with our environment with such strength of grip and delicacy of touch.  

REMOTE SESSION THURSDAY 20th DECEMBER 2018
After tuning in, I'm going to focus on the connection of our hands to our hearts, taking it a step at a time: heart centre, sternoclavicular joints, shoulders, elbows, wrists, palm energy centres and fingers.
Have a great session wherever you are.

Rippling Light

It's just coming up for a year since we moved in to our flat here in Perth, and what a brilliant year it's been. It's been so good to be near to my kids and grandkids and some of my oldest friends again, and back in familiar places, some of which haven't changed a lot since I was a kid here myself.
It's also been brilliant to get back into the way of treating people in the hands-on way again and swapping treatments with old and new friends who like to explore and extend what they're doing. This has opened up a whole new appreciation of CranioSacral Therapy and treatment in general for me. (How crazy to be starting out afresh at the ripe old age of 65...) This in turn has led to whole new realms opening up in our remote treatment group sessions, particularly to do with effects going on within the cerebrospinal fluid itself. I'd always thought of its flow as being quite simple, but not at all.

The more I focus into the fluid itself, the more I find new patterns appearing. At the physical level, I've been feeling an expansion and contraction of the sacrum which seems to be part of the system for pumping the fluid around our central nervous system, and many more rhythms beyond the basic ebb and flow we learn about in the basic Upledger courses. There's the longer tides observed in Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy and also a mini-rippling effect I've noticed myself, which I think may be interruptions in the flow caused by the trebeculae within the arachnoid membrane, acting like tiny bridge supports and stirring up and activating the flow just as a full size bridge support in a river does. It's all such a mind-bogglingly amazing bit of design at the physical level, and then there's the energetic level.
It's been very interesting to bring some of the effects I've noticed through treating people remotely into hands-on treatments, especially in the way of switching from a physical to an energetic focus, or having both at once. Holding an energetic awareness of the fluid has been amazing, like holding a tube of light with reflections rippling all around it. It feels like being in touch with the core of the energy flow through our being. So that's probably going to be the starting point for our next remote group session on Thursday 13th December, join in if you can 21.15 to 22:00 pm UK time, or tune in with the session at whatever time suits you.

Hands-on and Remote Treatment - Latest News

Since we've moved back to Perth there's been some fascinating new developments in my therapy work - how great to be setting out afresh at the grand old age of 64... still 24 on the inside of course...

A Red Plum Branch against the Summer Moon

It's great to be seeing more patients in the hands-on way again. What I'm finding is that all the remote craniosacral energy work I've been doing over the last eight years has given me some fascinating insight into treating people in the hands-on way as well.

ENDLESS BEGINNINGS

It's brilliant to be working hands-on with patients again here at Tay Medispa in Perth, Scotland. Recent experiences have made me think about how to help people at an ever deeper level, with hands-on and remote patients, individually and in groups.

The tides of life.

ENDLESS BEGINNINGS
The subtle rhythms we work with in CranioSacral Therapy, certainly in the Upledger way I'm familiar with, are generally quite short cycles of seconds or minutes. I'm also aware of longer rhythms, the "tides"...

FLOW

FLOW

A lot of a treatment session, hands-on or remote, is about assisting FLOW - whether it's of energy, ideas, blood, lymph, cerebrospinal fluid, air, nerve impulses, blocked emotions and patterns...

Something I've got interested in through treating patients in the hands-on way recently is the flow of development, from the embryo to the adult; and in the adult, the flow of renewal of tissue.

ONE-TO-ONE REMOTE THERAPY SESSIONS

I'm available for One-to-One remote treatment sessions of CranioSacral Energy Work for patients anywhere in the world. Sessions are 45 minutes long, with email or phone discussion before and after as required. More about my remote work here, and do please get in touch to find out more: ianecowatt@gmail.com.
COST, including discussion: £55

I also host a regular Free Remote Group CranioSacral Energy Treatments, most Thursdays via Facebook, all welcome to join in: Remote Treatment Page.