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YOUR NAKED VOICE – E R SOUNDING FROM THE SOURCE F By Chloe Goodchild was suddenly able to hear refuge initially and then my myself and everyone around teacher for life and it has con- me as one unified voice. All tinued to be the teacher of this Simple Divinity: my self consciousness , all my work. I’d been searching for a neurotic obsession with my much freer way of sounding Discourses with the personal identity along with that could satisfy the hunger Dreamer Volume 1. What do you love about all its dramas, disappeared for of all my longing to express your voice? By Author Nigel Taylor several months and I found myself. The Naked Voice, Page X I love to ask this question be- myself in an ever deepening sound and song can be a ***************** cause it invites such a wide field of listening. The identi- means of exploring one’s own spectrum of responses. What fication with my ordinary self awareness and music as a A Holiday with a Difference voice? Which of the many mind was severed in such a metaphor for life rather than Aphrodite Soul voices inside me are you talk- way as to ‘dislocate’ and free as a vehicle for entertainment ing about anyway? My speak- my attention from a ME cen- or performance. Journeys in Spain ing voice, my singing voice, tred reality to a BEING cen- Both ancient wisdom and the with Lainey Ennis my inner voice, my outer tred Reality. latest advances in science Page X voice? How can I answer This experience was a great agree that every particle of ***************** these questions when I don’t blessing, as it brought about a matter, every phenomenon we Sheela na gigs even think I’ve got a voice. profound healing of a child- experience, is a form of reso- By Dr. Maureen Concannon, Whose voice am I anyway? hood wound. Following an nance or vibration. The voice M.A., Dip. Psych., Ph.D. unsuccessful surgical opera- is a direct expression of this The voice I’m asking about is Page X your Naked Voice. This is tion on my tonsils when I was vibratory nature, an immedi- the real voice inside you. For 4 years old, the trauma of this ate way to connect with the ***************** myself, the Naked Voice is experience closed down my resonance that is all life. Breast Cancer my true sound. It’s the sound hearing for several years. So There is nothing more per- Prevention & Healing that is free of self conscious- at that time as a little child I sonal, more tied to your iden- Talk with Heather Wolfe at ness and fear. It’s the authen- had to learn how to listen and tity, than your voice. It is a the RDS Mar. 15, 16, 17. tic sound, free of effort and to communicate. with great primal means of expression ***************** the desire to impress or con- difficulty and yet at the same and something true about you trol anyone. This Naked time this shocking childhood that precedes rational thought Practical Tips for Life Voice is a sound that is the experience was inevitably the and conceptuality. Yet many See pages 9 to 12 sound of your true nature, it is very training that I needed for people it seems, don’t love your Self Aware sound. the work that we are now do- their voice, poor voice, we When you are speaking ing with the Naked Voice. speak so harshly of it, yet it ‘naked’ you are entirely at When I was in that deafness rarely answers back. And home with yourself. experience my main solace many of us spend our lives trying to avoid or ignore its The name Naked Voice hap- came from an inner sound, a calling. There’s usually pened upon me in 1990 after sound inside myself and this something wrong with it, like years of struggling with the was my reference, so when how it sounds on the tape re- “who am I” questions of my hearing came back around the corder, or even more so when existence. In that moment I age of seven, music and sound Brandon Bays it tries to sing! and song became my great Page X

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Hello Everyone, By now we are all well on our way into a New Year. A sense of a fresh start, cupboards de- cluttered, new ideas and positive visions for another year. But not everyone is on an upbeat note. Some are coming to terms with another year dealing with The Journey is a testament to the power of healing that lies illness, bills to be paid without any sign of finances improving and others another year or first year within you. without a loved one. And so many other circum- stances that would pull on the heartstrings were the Journey Intensive Weekend Workshop stories told. We are however in an age where there is more self READERS OFFER €250 help available than ever before as well as qualified Cork, Sat 19 & Sun 20 April 2008 therapists of every kind to assist anyone who chooses, in their personal process and self healing. Dublin, Sat 27 & Sun 28 September 2008 The Journey can: As the saying goes, ‘horses for courses’. Whatever you are drawn to is what your intuition is leading you to at this time and there is something in the therapy, train-  Help clear old cell memories & emotional baggage ing or workshop for you. We all need different things at different times. Be kind to which have held you back from experiencing your yourself a little more this year and enjoy the fruits……. highest potential. This edition has many great ads, write-ups of various kinds and the centre pages  Give you step-by-step tools to awaken your aware- are now and will be over the next year, dedicated to anything that can be useful to ness to the potential within. keep and use eg. recipes, self healing exercises, tips for life and better health. If you have something that works for you and you would like to contribute email me  Facilitate healing on all levels. the details and we will do our best to fit in all those contributions that seem suit-  Open you into your own Joy & Freedom, & will allow able for Natural Connections. you to experience true fulfilment in your life. This quarter sees the launch of our initial website. Log onto: www.natural-connections.com Introductory Talks Wishing each of you a happy, healthy and fulfilling 2008. Dublin, Cork & Various Locations Love & Light, Dublin 23 February & 29 March Tailor-made Journey Process Available For all Details contact Accredited Practitioners Adrienne Small, Clonmel, 087 979 4258 Anne Daly, Wicklow, 086 363 9361 Kathleen Fay, Louth, 087 214 3656 RECYCLE, REUSE, Rosa McCormack, Dublin, 087 632 3297 PLEASE PASS ON YOUR COPY OF NATURAL CON- Terrie Young, Cork, 086 1967481 NECTIONS TO A FRIEND WHEN YOU ARE FINISHED www.thejourney.com

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also reserve the right to edit (cut short ) articles if they do not fit and we will do our best to seek your approval beforehand depending on time of edit. Natural Connections Issue No. 11 Page 2 The Journey to Healing Described as the future of Since then I have worked integrated into our lives. medicine. Journeywork is with people who come to a profound healing tool Journeywork with a vari- Journey work allows us to access Cellular that is being recognized the ety of conditions, behav- Memories, where we have stored this old world over as a simple yet iour patterns, illnesses, pain. By accessing the emotions and using profound and empowering and emotional responses. Journeywork to work through the situation, process of self-healing by In truth, I have seen illness we can come to a place of forgiveness with integrating mind, body and shift, and heal, and I have those involved in the memory or issue. And spirit. seen where although the then we can let it go completely. And this is Journeywork is the life illness stays, the person’s the core of Journeywork, not trying to accept work of mind body healing ability to accept it is en- an unhealthy situation, but really coming to a expert Brandon Bays. hanced, and they come to place of forgiving and truly letting go. Journeywork is the result a sense of peace inside, at of a process developed by peace with themselves and Our bodies never lie, they send us messages in Brandon, who experienced with the world. a variety of ways, they give us wake up calls, healing from a tumour in and if we are prepared to listen, they give us only 6 ½ weeks, with- Truly any situation so much more. Journeywork allows us to “Bandon Bays, Best Selling Author of ‘The out drugs or surgery. Journey – An Extraordinary Guide for Healing can be turned around listen, to hear and to respond healthily to our Brandon’s teachings, Your Life and Setting Yourself Free’.” and brought to a place body’s truths. tell us that transforma- of forgiveness and tion and healing can happen in every completion by Journeywork, either cell of our body. This is encapsu- physically, emotionally or spiritu- It is possible to experience and learn lated in her international best-selling ally, as long as the individual is these skills here in Ireland. book ‘The Journey’ and expressed in willing to be honest with them- her life-transforming workshops. selves, and what is going on inside Senior Presenter of The Journey, She has said of her work, “Emotional for them. We are conditioned to Debs Burgess, will be in Cork on or physical issues are the gateway to ‘Be Brave’ or not to let the side the 19 & 20 of April at realise our boundless potential and down, and to keep up appearances. The Journey Intensive W/end inner freedom. These challenges can We start to believe that emotions Workshop to teach the basic skills that be an invitation to undergo our own are bad. This involves us keeping can facilitate healing and wellbeing. healing journey and are an opportu- our emotions inside. These emo- Special READERS OFFER price of €250 nity to learn what our soul is trying to teach us tions are still there, whether we choose to through dis-ease and years of pain and hurt.” face them or not, they don’t go anywhere. So (save €95), quote Natural Connections we find a way to stuff them down by using Readers Offer when booking. “Cellular biologists have found that when food, alcohol, cigarettes, exercise, socialis- Rosa McCormack is an Accredited emotions are suppressed, a specific biochem- ing , work or whatever is our chosen avoid- Journey Practitioner, and trained as a istry is released into the blood stream and ance strategy. Life Coach and Community & Youth blocks certain cell receptors, which are then worker. She works with individuals & isolated and cannot communicate with any Facing emotions, and allowing ourselves to groups, facilitating freedom from emo- other cells in the body. If these cells remain feel them and so let emotions go, is a hugely tional, physical & spiritual blocks. Rosa blocked over time and if disease happens, it’s freeing and life enhancing thing to do for likely to happen in the part of the body where yourself. It allows us to let go of situations can be contacted on 087 632 3297, the cells are blocked.” or memories that we feel have caused us pain [email protected], and has a in the past. This allows us to go forward in The Journey is a testament to the power of our lives, free to live as our true selves, and to healing that lies within, with people world- fulfil our potential. wide benefiting from its profound effects. Chronic pain, anxiety, depression, sexual Often our bodies are telling the story of what blocks, self-esteem, grief, anger, addictions is going on emotionally, when we use a throw and illnesses are some of the many conditions away comment that involves a bodypart, e.g. being healed by Journeywork, with people It would bring you to your knees, She is a from all walks of life participating in their pain in the neck, I have to put my shoulder to Congratulations own self healing. the grindstone, I will have to face it. ‘ I had to get this off my chest’ one of my clients said in to Edmond Carroll To assist in this process The Journey has ac- a process, she had Breast cancer. Journey- on becoming one of IET’s Top 27 credited practitioners in Ireland who offer 1- work is our opportunity to listen to the call, Instructors of to-1 sessions. before the body begins knocking on our doors 2007 in Ireland. As one of these practitioners, I can honestly any louder. say that Journeywork has profoundly changed In 2005, IET initiated a new program designed my own life, my own health and my own Holding onto unhealthy situations and the to honor the IET Mas- wellbeing on so many levels. Coming to the corresponding emotions can keep us trapped ter-Instructors who have Journey out of desperation following an ill- in negative patterns. So no matter how many contributed the most to ness, as well as physically feeling better, I affirmations we say, or how positive we the growth of IET each soon found other benefits as well, including choose to think, something can keep pulling increasing self confidence, having more en- us back, keep repeating the pattern in our ergy and becoming naturally more health lives. By clearing the old patterns, it leaves Contact Edmond conscious. space for the new healthy thoughts, behaviour 087—6799152 patterns and for healing on all levels to be www.edmondcarroll.com Natural Connections Issue No. 11 Page 4 continued from front cover……. strange bizarre self denying reason. Some- our souls landscape and longing for union, the YOUR NAKED VOICE – times I let myself imagine and feel the sheer expression of our true presence. These sounds SOUNDING FROM THE SOURCE numbers of lonely people walking the planet, constellate musical intervals, modes and By Chloe Goodchild carrying their trapped voices inside the burden melodies that have the power to awaken our of memories bending low their backs. When I inner depths, embody and free up the human There’s something intrinsically terrifying imagine this I begin to understand why the spirit. I and my core team, have created a about the human voice for many people. This world is in the crisis it is in and all because we simple method using these sounds with voice terror gives us some clue as to why we live in forgot to remember what we most love about and meditative movement to overcome fear, such a world as we do and as why we can no our voice. “What do you love” is even closer awaken compassion and instil peace of mind. longer afford to remain disconnected from the to home and who is singing anyway, which true voice, daydreaming or sleep walking our brings us back to “Who Am I?”. Your naked voice and sound is probably the way through life. Maybe so many people are most essential and intimate relationship you terrified of singing because of the sheer dis- Our personality, it seems, has assumed domin- will ever have and this can be the most chal- arming aliveness that it can generate in every ion over the real voice inside us, that ancient lenging intimacy to engage with, especially if cell of your body, heart and mind. As sound secret memory lying dormant deep down in you have never tried before. However, once starts pouring from your mouth it surpasses the marrow of your bones. So how may we you have had some practice with responding the boundaries of your analytical rational once again redeem and honour the presence of to it there is no end to the wisdom you can mind, it awakens your singing heart, it this true sound inside us? The one that has encounter there. Your real voice is the sound touches the true resonance of your naked self. been loving us all our lives. of your true nature. Its spoken and poetic This experience can be so emotionally disori- The Seven Sounds of Love aims to do just potential, its emotional range its energy, reso- entating for your mind, yet its gifts are im- that. nance, frequency and volume impact your measurable for the regeneration of your hu- relationship with your voice, weather its spo- man spirit and for the revelation of a forgotten I was first introduced to the Seven sounds of ken, poetic or sung and all the spaces in be- intelligence that we’ve come to describe as love, or Saptac, which means 7 steps, in In- tween can tell you everything you need to sound intelligence. dian, in 1985 by a wonderful north Indian know about your naked self. French singer, Gilles Petit. My work with Now come on tell me – what do you really Gilles was always accompanied by a practice No more books need to be read, no more love about your voice? of the Indian scale, substituting our Doh, Re, songs need to be sung, just your voice and This question is essential, it activates in most Mi with the Indian Sa Re Ga, Ma, Pa, Dha, you. Your voice brings you to the edge of people, no matter how lost or found, a sudden Ni. So it was I first experienced the power of your naked self, it takes you over. The star- quickening in their listening attention, their the 7 steps, the Septac, which I now call the tling truth is that YOU, the resonance of your eyes go on alert, or their eyebrows rise up in Seven Sounds of Love. This early experience Being, is so easy and so simple to access. Yet apprehension, their heart misses a beat or they was formative in discovering what I later once you’re in there with it, it is deeper and try to change the subject, or get up and leave called the Naked Voice. more beautiful than your personality and your the room very fast. rational mind could ever fathom. The ten- With his inspiring guidance, I began to under- dency is therefore towards ignoring this inner For over 20 years I’ve asked this question of stand the far reaching possibilities for the 10,000s of people across the world, from In- journey, to bolting the door on spirit to ignor- singing voice as a vessel for an embodied ing the beauty, the one that made you in the dia and Africa, to Canada and the USA, in resonant expression of the human spirit. Over supermarkets, schools, prisons, conferences, first place. It is a rare one that goes after this the last 20 years I have learnt to explore and treasure, the wisdom inside you. That wis- workshops and trainings, in war zones, coun- express myself through the subtle microtones cil chambers, hospices, health therapeutic and dom, the wisdom of your sound is much and spaces between each of the seven sounds deeper and older than the polarity of all the spiritual centres. Time and time again the with a greater depth of awareness and listen- first response to my question is negative, conflicts that we are so besotted with on the ing as the musical notes begin to open up a surface of life. probably 8 out of 10 people say “I really don’t vast unchartered spectrum of feeling inside like my voice” me, energising my body, dissolving negative Falling in love with your own voice and learn- Sometimes I love to sing a simple melody to emotion, and freeing my spirit in ways I’ve ing to sound out love’s longing for itself is a the words “How I Love You” at my local never known. power beyond all belief. Singing with our naked voice ignites a power of longing, a supermarket shopping mall . This simple Each sound carries vibrational power that recurring chorus slowly descends the musical longing for somewhere we have never been, a awakens a specific realm of self awareness something we cannot name. Singing naked scale step by step from the top of the octave to and wisdom within us. This sound is avail- the bottom, from the crown of your head to generates an energy that can turn all this para- able to everyone, you don’t have to be a noia of the soul, the madness of our fear, our the root of the body, and then returns to the singer to be able embark upon this sounding top again “How I Love You How I Love terror of death, into a madness of an entirely work. In fact sometimes being a “singer” can other kind. We call it the madness of love. You”. I sit at the end of the escalator serenad- actually be an obstruction. ing the shoppers as they descend. I particu- Beyond all ideas of right and wrong doing, a larly like choosing that spot because I know This sound work is sometimes described as madness that moves you irresistibly from the that I have a captive audience for the next 2 vibrational medicine or musical homeopathy. inside out and sings of a fearless music called minutes or so, as they are descending the Singing the Seven sounds is like walking into NOW. This article is taken from extracts of Chloe’s recently moving stairs and they cannot run away! a garden of flowers, each one has a unique fragrance, expression and intensity, reflecting published Sounds True album (Jan 2007), Your Naked Voice. To my amazement the shoppers descending back to us the colours, moods and voices of the escalator love being sang to. They love hearing the words “How I Love You” focused Chloe Goodchild is a regular visitor to Ireland where she facilitates training and other events. on their unsuspecting faces as they gracefully Chloe will be in Ireland for a special interactive concert Sing Dublin! with Deirdre float down to earth. But then when I stop Ni Chinneade, musicians and friends, at St. Ann’s Church, Dawson St, singing and I ask them “What do you love th on Sat 29 March 2008, 7:30 – 9:30. We aim to have over 600 people joining their 8 about your voice?” everything suddenly 0 voice in chant and song, to change the resonance of the city! 0 changes again, everything closes down, and 2

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Email : [email protected]. www.thenakedvoice.com Natural Connections Issue No. 11 Page 9 7 Tips for Spring Cleaning your Life

At this time of the year Spring is 3. Declutter your sorround- potions. And for the gentlemen energy increases. Use this op- in the air and there is hope for ings. There is four categories to out there, keep an eye on all portunity to wrap yourself up new beginnings. We are all fa- clutter: Things you don’t use or those toiletries, after shaves and and go out for a walk. Even if it miliar with the ‘D’ word: Detox love, things which are untidy or shower gels half empties lying is cold outside please go out, I and everyone of us is getting disorganised, too many things in around the bathroom. promise you won’t melt J The ready to Spring clean our house. too small a space and anything trick is to engage your five unfinished. Start with a corner 6. Bring something new to senses while you are doing this Spring cleaning is a very thera- of your home. I usually find it your life: Go for it! After get- so it becomes a mindful experi- peutic exercise. I believe there is easy to start with my bedroom. ting rid of old, stagnant energy ence in which you are fully pre- a strong correlation between our And remember to also include there is room for new things in sent .The walk then will trans- physical environment and our your car in this exercise spe- your life and it doesn’t have to form itself in a form of medita- mental state. By de-cluttering cially if you tend to apologise be new purchases. New experi- tion in movement and will help different areas of our lives we for the state of it whenever you ences will do the trick: visit a calm the mind. bring to us more energy for give someone a lift! There is no new art gallery, listen to differ- doing the things that we really other way to do this, just roll up ent music, read a new book, try Thanks for reading. want to do in life and make us your sleeves and get on with it. I a new cooking receipe, try a happier. Why? Because any find that the help of your best new driving route, do your gro- You are welcome kind of clutter creates an obsta- friend or your siblings could ceries in a different supermarket to visit my website cle to the flow of energy around make it easier to start. They … you get the picture. This will www.motivatedjoyfulliving.ie a space. This in turn creates won’t be as attached as you are estimulate your brain and will or www.mjl.ie for some use- confusion and stuckness in our with your belongings so they encourage to embrace change ful links in reference to the lives. will help the process in a rude- step by step. This is specially 7 tips. less but necessary manner. Just beneficial if you feel you are To make the most of this Spring keep your focus on the end re- stuck in a rut. Contact Maria Lynch cleaning season here are 7 tips sult as the rewards will be in- directly at 087-2794346. that I have tried myself success- mense. 7. Get some fresh air: While fully. They cover different areas you are in the process of de- Alternatively, contact and they are easy to put into 4. Do some Wardrobe weed- cluttering you will find that your 01-8329648 for an appoint- action. ment in her Practice at ing: How many of us look at our wardrobe full of clothes in the morning and say ‘I have 1. Detox your life: The only nothing to wear’. You might way we can look after our loved have too many items and find ones is looking after ourselves it confusing to decide what to first. A key aspect of this is do with them. Apply the ‘one conserving our energy. Spend in, one out ‘ rule. Everytime time with people that support, you buy something new get rid encourage and, most importantly of something old. The trick is: replenish and don’t deplete your never go shopping when you energy. Be aware of how your feel emotionally out-of sorts. body and soul react to certain Comfort shopping is one sure people and don’t be afraid to way to end up with a wardrobe spend less time around the ones of clothes you will never wear. that leave you drained. It is im- It is also useful to get into the portant to build a network habit of buying items that around you that gives you sup- make you feel wonderful and port. that are for the shape you are now and not the shape you 2. Use natural treatments to want to be. Charity shops and help your body: After the recycle banks will be happy to winter excess your body might get your unwanted items. If need an extra help. Visit your you are too attached or find it local GP or a registered naturo- difficult to get rid of clothes path that is qualified to recom- that have sentimental value mend alternative treatments that seek the help of an expert. could be beneficial for you: Ki massage, acupuncture, colonic 5. Give your make up bag a irrigation, chiropractor sessions detox: Yes, this key part of are some forms of alternative our daily routine also needs 8

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call Margot Ussher on 087 2362955 or G N Ann Higgins on 086 0819343 I R P S Natural Connections Issue No. 11 Page 4 Simple Divinity: Discourses with the Dreamer Volume 1. By Nigel Taylor me, so that I may integrate it into is simply a form and a receptacle Dreamer: Too much mind play my being. Through this sharing for holding the core of simplic- within humanity. Much too came first a much needed purg- ity. It is better to refer to this much! All the while the mind is ing of my Lower Mind and the physical organ as the copy of the engaged in searching for valida- attachments to beliefs, attitudes, Pure Heart. A recipient of the tion of its own constraints, it desires, and aspirations that intent of the mind for the body cannot enter into the state where could no longer support a healthy and for all the realisation of Truth will occur. vibrant spiritual pursuit. As these resultant life force that flows began to dissolve, then did the through this organ to vitalize the And this is the source of the Pure richness of the Higher Mind incarnate soul’s temple. Heart - Truth! And Truth, by its come into play. Divine Masters, nature, is blissful. Bliss is Truth. beings of Pure Love, would read- So what is the Pure Heart, if They are inseparable, like heat ily advance themselves, teaching, what we have in our chest is a from fire and sweetness from correcting, and directing the copy? sugar. Truth is the Throne for the onward expansion of my jour- Source of all being. Bliss is the ney. The evolution from Lower Dreamer: There is only one unassailable, unchangeable fibre BIO Mind to Higher Mind is an im- Pure Heart, one Divine Heart. that runs through the very fabric Nigel Taylor is an “ambassador of portant key, but it must never be One only! It is an illusion to of the Throne upon which the the heart” who has travelled the seen as the end of the journey. dance around this topic, for the Pure Heart is seated. Truth is the world for thirty years studying its The Masters play their role in- sake of reason and to keep the central pulse, Light, throb of the vast array of cultures and side mind, elevating us all into mind happy. The mind cannot body and being of God that creeds. Guidance received from the heart. Yet all aspirants must - know that which is beyond the births all universes and all that Spirit since childhood together sooner or later - surrender the mind. It is to this Pure Heart that flows through each universe. with Nigel’s life experiences and mind, and as a result surrender each man, woman, and child twenty-five years of teaching have their attachments to each and owes its pulse; its pulsating wave The entire Cosmos is present inspired his health retreats, sha- every Master who represents a of life that rises up with the within the human being, but the manistic journeys, corporate spiri- tual trainings, and his many writ- form of the Dreamer. Meeting Force of this central Heart and human being focuses on external ings and recordings. A visionary the Christ, Lord Buddha, and slips back down into the state of awareness and ignores the inter- teacher, healer, and author, Nigel Archangel Michael are beautiful cosmic silence. Each individual nal. This is a waste of precious weaves esoteric and exoteric, an- experiences. They are not, how- must make the effort to discover life. cient and contemporary, to deliver ever, the final reality. In this this central Source, this Ocean of profound truth with a joy and journey, one must learn to sur- Love that is the Pure Heart! The Truth, Bliss, and Creation, but simplicity that makes it fascinat- render the Higher Mind - the Pure Heart’s ambassador in each what of Love? ing, entertaining, and understand- Pure Mind - to the Pure Heart. soul, the spiritual heart, is a able to all. Nigel’s highly ac- This requires dissolution and wishing well of cosmic Love. Dreamer: Love is the insepara- claimed new book, Simple Divinity: evolution of our beingness. The nature of the spiritual heart ble occupant of this Throne. Discourses with the Dreamer Volume 1 Through this dissolution, one is Pure Love, but it is polluted by Inseparable! Nothing in Creation will be released in Ireland during comes to realise that the Dreamer waters stagnant with the pres- can approach this Throne but by this visit. For more information is the eternal Source of Pure ence of desire, ego, and selfish- becoming one with its very fab- visit: www.nigeltaylor.com and Love, Light and Joy, resident in ness. Eliminate these qualities ric. Where Truth resides, Love www.simpledivinity.nigeltaylor.net all beingness. As we already and the Pure Heart is once again lives in communion with it. Love know, when we are ready the revealed. and Truth are One, and together During a recent radio interview, I teacher will appear. It is to that they are the messenger for Bliss. was asked, “Who is the end that the Dreamer’s presence Tell us about this Source? Many Love is constantly broadcasting Dreamer?” My answer - “the has intensified in my life of late, today are engaged in argument its message to all universes: Dreamer is Pure Love.” So what bringing forth this volume of about the Source of being. Is this “Come Experience Truth – Love then is Pure Love? As a young insights. not the real issue that confronts resides with Truth. Let go of the child, I travelled in Spirit to meet us all? pain and suffering you have cho- with a divine being of pure light Dreamer: sen.” and love. He/She was my I shall speak to your I share with you now an excerpt Dreamer. Such meetings were heart, and I shall speak There is no Love where there is always times of great joy, learn- of your heart. This is from the newly released deception. There is no Truth ing, and excitement. As the years the basis of Simple Simple Divinity: Discourses with the where Love is missing. There is passed and I followed the inner Divinity. There are Dreamer Volume 1. a consequence of artificially promptings of my heart, I those who do not un- dividing that which is bonded trekked across this world numer- derstand what the heart like heat to fire. Human truth is ous times in search of the greater is. They believe it is not Divine Truth. Human love is purpose, meaning or role of this something that sits not Divine Love. There is much divine creation. Through these within the chest that can resistance from the little truths travels I had, and continue to be attacked, will die, or that the mind creates. These little

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Continued from page X beginning and no end. It is limit- less, timeless, and can only be Little truths? known by its fruits.

Dreamer: Yes, yes! Little truths, God is, therefore, known by you know of these. They are God’s fruits? everywhere. For example, “Oh, there is only One God and He is Dreamer: God is both the mine.” Very sad! Even the “great Throne and beyond the Throne; minds” of this world still argue and God has the essential nature this point, and as long as they do of Truth, Bliss, and Love, birth- Spiral there will be no peace for them ing the fruits of immortality and and all those whom they engage awareness without beginning or of tranquility with their thinking. It is time to end. Heartspace, within each grow up. It is time for maturity human temple, is a chalice in the human experience. An primed to receive these blessings awakening is possible, but many directly. Blessings do not pour confront the fear that they will out across time and space. They need to surrender their most are encoded in the very core of deeply held beliefs in order to the human temple – the human enter into unknown experiences. Heartspace itself. But one cannot Though the prospects are excit- look inside the copy itself for ing for them, they choose instead answers to life’s questions. Peo- to accept fear and allow the mind ple do not visit the doctor ex- to rule. Little truths are very hard claiming, “Oh, I had a Bliss on the human heart! And if one attack!” or “My immortality is is hard on the copy then it, in blocked?” or “My Love has atro- turn, strangles the aorta of the phied!” Very poor reasons for Divine Heart that pulses life visiting the doctor! Truth, Bliss, force into the human temple. and Love never cease to exist. It Little truths crush simplicity. is therefore very silly to search Many believe that complex di- for something that has never left. vinity is much better! Lots of Yet this is what people do. They money to be made here! spend lifetime after lifetime searching for the source of the This Throne is Truth, Bliss, and heat that is burning them up. Love. Am I correct? They fail to look beyond the constraints imposed by the little Dreamer: Yes! But let Me sim- truths. Little truths tell that the plify it further for you. It is a heat comes from the fire. Truth Throne without a form, so no reveals that the fire is God. No one can look at it and claim one God – no fire! No fire – no leg or another as the Truth. It is Spirit. No Spirit – no zest for known through Heartspace, but it Truth. is invisible to the mind. It has no

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To make a booking please call 085—8159243 Natural Connections Issue No. 11 Page 2 Aphrodite Soul Journeys in Spain with Lainey Ennis A Holiday with a Difference In June 07 I signed up for an for the week (unlike back to say the least - and then break- Because some of you reading this Aphrodite Soul Journey with home!). fast which was so varied, yet article may decide to take a Soul Lainey Ennis and was joined by Lainey Ennis, our leader and totally healthy. All our meals Journey with Lainey some time nine other amazing Irish women were gastronomic feasts for the in the future (and I would heart- from various parts of Ireland. I facilitator woke us (early) each eyes and taste buds not to men- ily recommend that you do) I had the pleasure and privilege of morning in her own most unusual spending a week at high in the and inimitable style! We tion the tummies. Our food, local will not spoil the surprises by mountains of southern Spain trailed…. to the yoga deck only and mainly organic, was pre- telling you any more of the de- with Lainey Ennis…. truly a to become alive and alert to each pared by local vegetarian chef, lights or activities she created for piece of heaven on this earth. glorious day with her gentle Jenny, who created food to de- us. Suffice to say, that bodies, This soul journey was to take the yoga, meditations and inspira- light the senses. hearts and souls were revived form of a yoga retreat / holiday, tional readings. Our views were Our days were filled with pam- and re-connected, firm friend- but with a difference and what a ships were made and support was difference it was. just magnificent, being sur- pering treatments e.g. aromather- rounded by the Sierra Nevada apy body massages, Indian head available for all - wherever we Aphrodite is the Goddess of mountains, the bright blue sky massages and reflexology ses- were on our journey. Love, Beauty and Abundance and the small white-washed vil- sions all enjoyed in an enormous My heartfelt thanks to Lainey and that is what we enjoyed lage of Cañar above us and the yurt (tent) with the shadows of Ennis for one of the best holi- along with plenty of yoga, medi- town of Orgiva nestling quietly the olive tree branches swaying days I have ever enjoyed. tation / quiet time, pampering, down in the valley below us. I and dancing on the roof – did I Mary Mullally. wonderful home-cooked vegetar- shall never forget the sight of the mention that the Centre was ian food; de-toxing, mountain shafts of sunlight as the sun rose located amid olive groves? …. NB. 2 groups for September 2008 are planned. An exciting walks, blissful sleep, both in bed above the mountain ridge each where we were all blissfully new destination is planned for and in the hammocks; great fun, morning at 7.45 a.m. right on cue happy to soak up the pure 2009. Lainey’s ‘ Spirit of Af- laughter, friendship, sharing and for the start of our morning yoga. ‘energy/spirit’ of this special rica’ in Spring 09 will focus on caring. Not to mention the day This session was followed by a place. These olive groves proved spiritual landscape in the long blue skies and sunshine with swim in the, by now sun- to be wonderful locations for mighty Drakensberg moun- tains, wild life in the Umfolozi a lovely balmy breeze to keep us warmed, swimming pool filled evening walks or when you Bush camps, and the beautiful cool in the mid-twenties heat – with spring water – invigorating wanted some quite time alone. and of course, not a sign of rain sub’tropical warm Indian

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G N I R P S Natural Connections Issue No. 11 Page 4 Sheela na gigs By Dr. Maureen Concannon, M.A., Dip. Psych., Ph.D.

In the September issue of this has endeavoured to suppress me of old age, loss, neglect newsletter I wrote about the we also fear and try to avoid. and death. She reflected my origin and history of Sheela own state as I was going each with a suggested inter- na gigs. In this article I would Sheelas are powerful—they through the terrible loss of my pretation. The accompanying like to tell you about my own evoke strong emotions in the children and marriage, home booklet gives a further inter- experience with this symbol beholder. They excite the and career. I saw myself as pretation of each card with a of the Great Goddess and varied responses from differ- Yeat’s ‘old woman of the description of the place where share some of the ways in ent people—whatever is road’ walking homeless and that particular Sheela is which it can be helpful in needed for each individual’s loveless through the by-ways found, so that anyone who personal development as well growth. The personal uncon- of Ireland. Sheela brought me wishes to go to see Sheela na as with one’s clients. scious brings up whatever has through those hard times— it gigs can do so! The interpre- been repressed or ignored was death— into transforma- tations have a strongly posi- I have often asked myself when one looks at a Sheela. tion and regeneration of my tive flavour, because when why these extraordinary carv- Sometimes she evokes a sense whole life. one pays attention to the ings are appearing after so of freedom or humour, or Great Goddess— there is many centuries, coming forth revulsion. Whatever the reac- During those years, Jakki nothing to fear but fear itself. from their hiding places under tion— it is exactly what the Moore, an artist as well as an And the rewards are the inte- the ivy on ancient churches viewer needs to work on and anthropologist, travelled with rior peace and better relation- and castles and dug up in to integrate into his/her per- me to most of the sites where ships with all creation. grave yards and rivers all over sonality. Sheelas are great Sheelas are found, photo- the country. Why are so ompowerers—you lose your graphing and drawing the I think it is greatly significant many artists and crafts people fears when you meditate on carvings at the castles and that so many symbols of the making them the subject of them. churches, on town walls and Great Mother Goddess are their art?. What message do holy wells. We had lots of being discovered here in Ire- these apparently grotesque I discovered Sheela na gigs adventures locating them and land. I believe that it is a sign female figures have for us about twenty-five years ago meeting their ‘guardians’. We that the healing of the planet moderns? when an artist friend told me have selected forty examples has begun on this island and about the carvings of naked and produced a boxed sat of that once we have healed our- Carl Jung gave us the answer females lying on the basement beautifully coloured cards, selves, the ripples will reach over half a century ago when floor of the National Museum. others. he pointed out that when the She said they would not be on consciousness of the collec- display because the Curator of tive is ready - and only the Museum was of the opin- then—does awareness sur- ion they were ‘an insult to face. An aspect of the energy women’. and creativity of the Source of all life that has been devalued That aroused my curiousity and diminished is returning to and I made an appointment to Collective Consciousness. see them. The staff at the mu- Sheela ia a religious sym- seum were very helpful and I bol— a symbol of the Creator went away with a determina- in female form, a symbol of tion to discover more about NOTE: the dark Moon, the waning Sheelas. They began to appear Sheela Cards by Jakki Moore and Maureen Con- phase of life. She deals with in my dreams. The hag on the cannon can be purchased by sending a cheque or sexuality, death, transforma- town hall at Fethard with her money order for € 35.00 to Clan Publications, 96 tion and regeneration. Every- wrinkles and cadaverous face thing patriarchal civilization and scrawny arms reminded St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.

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One man's experience of SHEN Therapy on a SHEN Therapy Workshop "My name is Brian, I attended a 5-day SHEN therapy workshop as I was intrigued by the apparent mix of old fashioned hands-on healing and modern scientific investigation that addresses health through emotional well-being.

The initial sessions were very relaxing as gradually I could feel deeply held emotions bubbling up towards the surface. I felt lighter once these had been cleared and since then my emotional life has become much more fluid and open. Having suf- fered from some degree of anxiety or depression for most of my adult life it is great to be finally rid of these debilitating feel- ings and to experience a renewed sense of self-worth and confidence.

I have found SHEN therapy workshops to be a safe and powerful way of working with emotional issues (conscious or other- wise) that affect my life, freeing up my energies and broadening my experience." “I recommend SHEN to everyone you will not regret it”

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G N I R P S Natural Connections Issue No. 11 Page 2 WHOLE BODY COACHING with HEATHER WOLFE RN, RPP. Heather is a native of Ireland where she trained as a nurse. She has been living in America since 1975, with frequent return visits in the past to teach Polarity Therapy Training. She is here now for a more extended time to share more of what she has learned in recent years to help people move more gracefully through these challenging times.

Heather comes from the perspective that each of us is a spark of Love connected to our Divine Source, and that healing is a process of purification - physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, and that disease is an imbal- ance in our energy system. One of her greatest tools at present is the QXCI Bio Feedback Device which is computer based and can work with anyone anywhere in the world through space, (and in fact did originate through NASA to keep the Astronauts safe while travelling!)

This program is capable of testing your energy field and providing a 'read out' on the screen, based on alignment or non-alignment with your true blueprint for health on all levels. There are then various programs that will help to bring about less stress and more well-being, as well as showing the practitioner where suggestions may be made for lifestyle changes, including nutrition. Heather's emphasis is on prevention as well as correcting current difficulties. The QXCI is extremely helpful in bringing the light to the subconscious, thus treating the cause and not just the symptoms of any situation. One of her strengths is in assess- ing an individual's needs and making appropriate referrals, both medical and alternative/complementary. A minimum of three sessions is recommended.

Heather uses prayer, dowsing, flower remedies and her own healing ability in conjunction with the QXCI to help you bring about change on all levels of your Being. To make an appointment please email Heather at [email protected] with QXCI ( Quantum XXroid Consciousness Interface ) in the subject line. www.backtosource.com

Heather will be offering retreats for women in the near future. If this interests you please email [email protected] with ‘women’ in the subject line. Mc/visa accepted Come to hear Heather speak on Breast Cancer Prevention and Healing at the RDS Mar. 15, 16, 17 and / or to participate in a Prayer Circle with Sound Healing.

Rod voice singing study, and introducing it into my and deep wisdom. They say that in class it is wonderful for balanc- Crescent Moon practice. anything worthwhile doesn't come ing the feminine and masculine Healing Room easy, and this applies to the Tarot. energies. Each student develops at ( Background ) Along with Reiki I like to use There are many books out there their own pace but most are My name is Vivien and I live just crystals when healing and intro- offering a quickie way to read the amazed at their rapid advance- outside Clane in County Kildare. duce all my clients and students to Tarot but the Tarot is so much ment, along with the reawakening It is from here that I run Crescent the benefits of using crystals in more than a few keywords. The of any latent psychic abilities. Moon, Healing Room and Centre their everyday life. I also run day Tarot is a wonderful tool of self- They discover a lot about them- of Esoteric Studies. Initially set crystal workshops for this pur- development and self-awareness. selves and become more tolerant up as a Reiki Healing Practice it pose. Used properly it can guide us on of those around them. They learn soon grew into something much our path and highlight where we the effects of karma, the law of more. All healers bring to their I came as a student to the Tarot may be going wrong. It exposes cause and affect, and how they healing plinth their own unique some twelve years ago and found areas of repetitive negative pat- are responsible for their own form of energy and for me, it is on within them an unbelievable terns of behaviour. Knowledge is spiritual advancement and where the psychological and emotional source of not only personal under- power, and for those who seek to they are in their lives. aspects of my clients issues where standing, but also responsiblity understand the deep mysteries I do my best work. As a result, I for my life. The Tarot acts like a contained within the Tarot, the The Tarot is taught firstly as a spend a lot of time discussing mirror to your soul and subcon- journey is more than worthwhile. tool of self-development and stu- with my clients what they experi- scious, where your true self re- dents must first apply to their own ence during their healing session. sides, both postive and negative. There are many aspects to the lives, the lessons contained Often, the key to unlocking their My readings are often deeply Tarot that are covered in the within, before applying those personal issues or problems is spiritual. Lessons to be learned course such as numerology, as- lessons to others. hidden amongst the symbolic and hard truths can be exposed trology, colour meaning and the imagery, colours and childhood along with the general everyday elements. The importance of psy- In 2008 I will be introducing or past-life flashbacks experi- issues enquired about. Clients chic protection and cleansing of courses in Psychic Development enced during a healing. This em- often go home with a lot to think one's energy field and the cards. and Dowsing. I will also be powers my clients to become about. Psychic development and medita- launching my website where all more proactive and involved in tion are incorporated to develop information on courses and work- their own healing process. I find I decided a couple of years ago to student's awareness and to assist shops can be sourced. Online that Past life flash backs are very teach the Tarot and pass on the them in tuning in while reading. I distant card readings will be avail- common during a healing session knowledge and experience I had also introduce students to the use able along with a Tarot problem and clients are often fascinated gained over the last twelve years. of the Pendulum for dowsing as a page and Tarot Horoscopes. with this aspect and want to know Learning the Tarot is a discipline. complementary divination tool. more. I am at present studying There are 78 cards involved, with When I first started teaching I was Brightest Blessings to one an all Past Life Hypnotherapy. I look numerous meanings both upright both surprised and delighted to for 2008. Vivienne forward to gaining my qualifica- and reversed. The Tarot also con- find so many men interested in tions in this fascinating field of tains important spiritual lessons learning this ancient tradition, and 045 890984 or 085 7245578 Crescent Moon Healing Room & Centre of Esoteric Training (Cooleragh, Co. 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For information on upcoming course and workshop dates, bookings, or if you wish to arrange a workshop in your area, please contact Vivien at 045 890984 or 085 7245578 or [email protected] THE USE OF MINDFUL TOUCH FOR HEALING DEEP OLD PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL WOUNDS By Judith Ashton

’This body is my very presence in the world, if it is the body alone that en- ables me to enter into relations with other presence’s, if without these eyes, this voice or these hands I would be unable to see, to taste and to touch things…or to be touched by them…if without this body…. there would be no possibility of experience… then the body itself is THE true subject of experi- ence.’’ Abram

These days, many people talk about ‘ of touch. It either feels good or it lated boundaries can be repaired and through the touch of hands truly being on a spiritual journey’…. we ARE feels bad. Simple! restructured. Therapist and client rooted in an insightful and compas- spirits, we have become form and work as a team. It takes sionate heart. Nearly a century ago, William Reich, patience, insight and compassion to dense matter, have taken birth in this taught that we all hold all mental and get someone back in their body. Re- I have worked in this way with touch realm by assuming physical bodies as emotional stress physically, to inhibit building trust can be a slow painstak- for a long time now. I see bodies long part of the soul’s experience in this the sensation of pain, real or imag- ing process .. wracked with pains, fears and anxie- human reality . We are all on ‘a hu- ined, we manipulate our bodies ties drop burdens of tension and start man journey, a body journey!’ For your through tightening our posture and The most important aspect here is to breathe again. Bodies start to time on earth, it is the body that is the holding our breathing. ‘permission to touch’, that may be move, sing, dance, express, create, house of your soul, the body that is implicit but it needs to be articulated laugh, cry, hug…embrace life, experi- the crucible of your emotions and the Touch does not just evoke sexual somehow either by the client con- ence and express love. feelings! Although many are caught sciously taking my hand and placing it body that is the vehicle for all you within that limitation. It is far more safely on their body or by actually The power of touch on the body is wish to be and express. It is the body subtle than just that! It evokes a saying such words as ‘ I allow, or yes truly awesome. Negative touch de- that is the mysterious expression of vaster range of emotions. Touch is an you can touch me’ whatever the stroys lives. Positive touch helps us the unknown and the unknowable, for emotion as well as a sensation. There appropriate words are for them, we live lovingly. Touch connects when as the Bible says ‘God made man in is much to be learned from non-sexual use. This can be a very pivotal mo- words don’t. Touch heals the past his own image’. It is the body that is physical contact. ment in the work. If the ground work pains of the body. Touch is our nour- the instrument of the Divine presence As a language it’s poorly taught in the has been well established by this time ishment , food for the soul. When the here on Earth. West. …. there will be much trust The client body relaxes the life-energy flows themselves takes control and figures through all the levels of our being and I never consciously sought to work in The skill, awareness and self- out what is safe and what is not, what we feel connected to The Divine within the helping professions, I was happily knowledge of the therapist are of is acceptable and what is not .A new and without : working as a university graduate in utmost importance. language of trust, being heard and ’This very body… the Buddha !‘ London in the 70’s when I stumbled What do I do? How do I actually put being listened to, needs to be learnt. (I across Reichian body work groups. I this into practice? deliberately don’t say ‘relearnt’ be- To conclude, over the years, touching had been in therapy but found some- cause in many cases it wasn’t there in others has been and still is a central thing was lacking , I didn’t know Before any touch occurs the prelimi- the first place, especially if the client part of my Path of the Heart. It is part what. I soon discovered what it was… nary phase of re-establishing bounda- was very young during the abuse.) of my spiritual discipline. I learn so it was the body. I was hooked… some- ries needs to take place. much. I learn the noble art of giving thing real was happening to me and We need to experiment and assertain I deliberately and gently intone new and the noble art of receiving; I learn my life changed forever .I studied the what it means to feel safe. This varies mantras.: ‘ Where shall I touch you? how to serve The Divine in each body I approach , qualified, and have been enormously person to person. The How will I touch you? Does this feel meet. I learn how to accept and to be working with bodies as a neo-Reichian room needs to feel safe. The client ok? Does that feel ok? Which is bet- non- judgmental, how to be patient body-psychotherapist and massage may need to check that the door is ter? This or that? What feels right ? and to listen, how to stay open, how to practitioner for over 20 years. locked or even put something in front Do you want to stop? Is this getting be present, how to be compassionate. From the moment I first entered this of the door. ..Initially I work with ‘safe too much? Say ‘Stop ‘ or push my . I am grateful to the teachings of field of experience until today I have distances between’. We work to estab- hand away if that’s what you need to touch. For these things I thank all the never ceased to be amazed and awe- lish ‘ safe body posture’. We work in do? You are the boss! Do you need a bodies I have had the privilege of struck by the innate intelligence of the many ways before I actually approach break? How is this feeling? The man- touching. May all bodies be happy. body. Awe struck! I am humbled and touch the client physically. It tras go on and on. Repetition after May all bodies be healed. May all when I work with people , I have deep reminds me of the film The Horse repetition. The hands listen. The eyes bodies live in peace and love. respect for the body, and that respect Whisperer only I do it with people! read the body signals. The body and increases with time. Manifest exis- What doesn’t feel safe and what does the breathing lead the dance. To- …. Some may ask “How can I learn tence is nothing short of miraculous! feel safe? The body knows these gether we move skilfully through the how to consciously touch a body and The body always knows what it needs things innately even if they can’t be past hurts in time and space … be touched by the experience: if it is listened to in the sacred way intellectually articulated. I read and re leading,…following…wherever the now that it deserves. You only need to read the body , picking up clues and flowing energy dictates. consciously ask the body to relinquish piecing the bits together . What is It takes patience like meditation its secrets and an awesome process safe? What is not? This is my intoned always does! Patiently, together we will begin. Your body will tell you ALL mantra… Safe or not ? Safe or not? heal what needs to be healed. Initially that you need to know if you learn to Sitting? Walking? Eyes shut? Eyes the work is done fully clothed . Mas- interpret its signs and signals, its open? Facing the wall? Facing me? sage comes later. The client’s body is aches and pains, its dreams and its Always working with communication… honoured and eventually celebrated. longings. You tell me… you lead the dance ..I There is no touching the genital area will follow.. I will not leave.. I am right other than by the client themselves Everything that you have ever thought, there listening to your body. I am and then it is always through clothes. touched, seen, heard, smelt or tasted watching and listening. I am with you. I may give homework exercises that has been carefully and exactly filed You are safe. Everything needs to be can be done alone or if the client is in away in the conscious and uncon- made very safe. A sense of safety is a a relationship, done together. scious recesses of the body-mind. (The key component of this work. Once We build up a body-map of safe ar- body-mind being the intelligence of accomplished, progress is inevitable. eas, often first drawn on paper, then the body itself.) Everything has made As this work consciously progresses, experienced through the ever present an imprint or an impact somewhere, and the client feels affirmed, is taking body. I encourage dialogue with differ- and is readily accessible and available control, is re-patterning and reclaim- ent body areas to learn what they in this the present moment. ing their space, the idea of actually need, and I trust the innate wisdom of touching the client becomes more the words that emerge to guide us on The languages that the body uses to possible. our travels. The body IS the map AND communicate with us are the lan- the body is the guide. Both! guages of touch, feeling and move- Then comes the actual touch phase. ment, and for the purposes of this With mindful, consciously directed, In the past, trust was betrayed. In the article I will focus mainly on the area intentional touch, smashed and vio- present, trust can be lovingly rebuilt of touch, and the innate emotionality 16th Irish Mind *Body* Spirit International Festi- val Dublin 2008 March 15th, 16th & 17th

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7 Day Summer Residential Retreat 28th June to 4th July With Judith Ashton A MASSAGE JOURNEY WITH A DIFFERENCE During my massage courses great attention is paid not only to the physical aspects of massage but also to the psychological and emo- tional implications of massage and touch. You will learn and experi- ence how tensions and stresses manifest unconsciously within the physical body and you will learn effective ways of working with them. This week is suitable for EVERYONE. 4 day Massage and Meditation/Bodywork and Creativity workshop 6th July to 9th July. Massage and Meditation May 10th and 11th also May 31st and June 1st

Massage: Judith’s subtle and effective hands on healing approach to sexual abuse.

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