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.

Free Remote CranioSacral Energy Treatment - 15th November 2018

FOCUS - HEALING FOR GAIA

Photo from the Gaia Trust

For this session I'm going to focus on the Earth as one huge organism on a journey through an immeasurably more huge and unfathomable Universe. With so many Earth systems threatened, what's the best way for each of us to use our time? How do we go about making the radical changes in our way of life that are urgently needed?
A group of us here in Perth, Scotland, are actively developing ways to do just that and have just launched our own back-to-the land project, check out our blog here: One World Future Farm.
YOU'RE SUPPORT MOST WELCOME!
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THE MUSIC OF THE HEART

I've been exploring the various different rhythms of our heart and circulation and I'm getting the idea that you can best understand them in terms of music. I got an idea that the four valves of the heart work together a bit like a barber's shop quartet whereas the chambers have a deep resonance more like those enormous Tibetan horns.

Then focusing into the blood flow itself, just as there's a slower rhythm within the cerebrospinal fluid than the craniosacral rhythm itself, there seems to be a series of longer and longer tides within our blood's circulation, the long tides of the heart, with a music that takes in all frequencies, like the sea on a pebbley shore.
If you'd like to set your intention to explore all this yourself during the Free Remote Session coming up on Thursday 1st of November I'd be fascinated to hear what you find. And if you'd like to ask for help with a health issue as well or instead that's cool too! At the end of the day, aren't all our health issues at least partly heart issues?

Getting Ready - The Song of the Earth Energy Centre

When you're getting ready for the sessions, I suggest that you get comfortable, use deep slow breathing to help you to relax, then focus your attention on each of the on-body chakras, in no particular order, and imagine them all flowing into one. Then connect with an Earth energy centre about three feet below your feet and a cosmic centre about three feet above your head, allowing life force energy to flow both up and down through you. (There's more complete notes about the process on the Remote Treatment page).

A beach fire from long ago... *

I've been finding recently when I focus on the Earth energy centre that I get a really strong image of a fire on a beach, flickering flames and gathering darkness - it feels like a scene from long ago. I get a feeling of being part of a wandering group, maybe of hunter-gatherers on some sort of seasonal, cyclical journey, resting by the shores of a great lake during a long journey. 

I'm reminded that our crazy industrial way of life is only a few hundred years old and our agricultural lives just a few thousand, we've spent many more thousands of years, most of our human existence, wandering, exploring, foraging and following herds.

So I suppose that's maybe why I often feel so disconnected from industrial life and from the Earth.

Bruce Chatwin writes beautifully on these lines in his wonderful book, "The Songlines." 

*PS the photo "from long ago" is from Bored in Vancouver.

Remote Sessions - Tuning In

I host Free Remote CranioSacral Energy treatment sessions every Thursday, 21:15 to 22:00 UK time, here's some tips to help you join in from wherever you are in the world, I hope they'll people to join in with any or all of the other groups doing amazing work too:

SET YOUR INTENTION
I think this is the most important step. You can ask for help with a particular concern or for a general boost, try saying something along these lines quietly to yourself:
"I would like to connect with the Free Remote CranioSacral Energy group session, please may I receive help with my ...(condition)... or ... please may I receive a general health boost."
BREATHING
Slow deep breathing helps. If you know any yogic breathing techniques that will help too.
KEEPING STILL
I find it's helpful to get as relaxed physically as possible, whether lying down or sitting, maybe doing some tensing and relaxing of muscle groups, then it's helpful to keep physically still and imagine the body becoming more and more a body of energy.
DIFFERENT GROUPS, DIFFERENT ENERGIES
There's lots of different groups working remotely now, which is brilliant. I sometimes ask to join in with whoever is sending at the time without knowing who it is, which seems to work fine. The different hosts all have different skills and experience but at the end of the day I think they're all connected to the same source - like different flavours of ice cream. 

Vortices in CSF

An idea came to me during the last remote group treatment session, on the 13th Sept, that there's maybe something going on within the flow of our cerebrospinal fluid, CSF, that's a bit like the vortices discovered by Leonardo da Vinci in his work on the flow of blood within the heart.

Leonardo's findings...

.. and 500 years later

Our CSF flows through a space between two layers of the dural membrane system, the pia mater and the arachnoid membrane. My idea is that the trebeculae within the subarachnoid space stir up the CSF in a similar way, creating mini vortices and currents within currents. So my plan is to take that as a starting point for our next session, this Thursday the 20th.

Free Remote CranioSacral Energy Treatment Sessions - LATEST NEWS

FREE SESSIONS - ALL WELCOME TO JOIN IN
I've set up the Free Remote Group CranioSacral Energy Treatment sessions for the next year, you can join in via Facebook. No problem if you don't have internet access or aren't on Facebook though, as I don't need to know if you're joining in, (think of it as a kind of radio broadcast... without the radio...) More about the sessions here: Remote Page.

If anyone knows who created this brilliant picture? I use it for the Remote Group sessions as it has just the right sort of energy about it. I'd love to know who the artist is.

PASSING IT ON
Lots of people would like to pass on treatment to family members, friends or pets, again that's no problem. Here's a bit more about that:
FAMILY AND FRIENDS If you would like to pass the session on to someone who can't use their own intention to join in, perhaps because they are very ill, or very young, why not try using a surrogate, or stand-in. You might be sitting at the recipient's bedside or they might be far away
USING A SURROGATE This is how I do it, no doubt there's other ways... Set your intention to pass the treatment on.

Introducing my surrogate patient (or patients), Cosmic Ted. "I come in Paws."

Hold a teddy bear or similar soft toy, or maybe a photo of the recipient, tune in with this evening's session (not necessarily at exactly the same time) then imagine that you become a channel for the energies, and the surrogate and the recipient have merged together. It's most helpful to stay neutral, ie there's no need to try to "send healing", just listen with your hands and observe.
DON'T FORGET ABOUT YOURSELF
Remember to have treatment yourself at some point. The stronger you are yourself the better able you'll be to help others.
...AND A BIG THANK YOU...
A big thank you goes out to everyone who joins in with the sessions and thank you for all your fascinating feedback. It's been amazing and wonderful hosting them and it feels important too. I think sessions like ours will have a bigger and bigger part to play in healthcare around the world as Industrial Healthcare inevitably collapses along with Industrial Everything Else.