holistic massage & bodywork in bath
Relief from your stresses and strains, aches, pains and emotionally challenging times
Creating Menstrual Health with Hilary Lewin teaching Maya Abdominal massage on Day 2.
April 24/25th 2010.
Minerva Centre, Bath
Contact: Carla Esteves 07946364898 or c.esteves@live.co.uk. Wildgenie.com
I’ve been on Alexandra’s Wisdom of Menstruation course and I can highly recommend exploring women’s health with her.
Unity and Connection.
The Milsom Room, Manvers St. Baptist Church, Bath
Thursday 11 March 2010, 7.30 — 9.30pm
Contact Kim Coles - 07749 921118 or kim@healwithin.co.uk
An opportunity for all healing groups in Bath to come together for an evening of meditation, sounds, talks and getting to know one another.
An opportunity to get up and talk about yourself and your group. Speakers welcome.
An opportunity for those who just want to find out what healing is, and maybe join a group.
Basic format for the evening
If there’s enough time, then others can introduce themselves, but it‘s mostly about finding out what groups are available, as there will be those who want to join a group, or those who feel inspired to start a group.
There may be a finishing gong performance.
Bring a mat or blanket if you would like.
Drinking water provided.
I’ve just completed a 4 week course with John Dawson from Speaking Infront and I’ve really been WOWed!
I was raised by 2 very public figures. My Mom was a Speech and Drama teacher and was the Director for many a brilliant school play. My Dad was on a city councillor for many years which landed my parents as Mayor and Mayoress 5 times. So I really should have no problems speaking in public. But for some reason my flight/fight response really kicks in, my brain freezes up and I can’t recall what I want to deliver. I’m a pretty confident person so it’s been quite puzzeling to me why and what my hang ups are around public speaking.
Thanks to John and his course I know now what the issues are. I won’t give all his secrets away here but if you’re in the same boat, I highly recommend going on his course. Amongst other things we learned what’s actually going on in our heads when we get up there and that understanding certainly set me free.
I’m really excited now for a talk I’m doing in January when previously I would be dreading it! Thank John!
More info about his courses at http://www.speaking-infront.co.uk/introduction/
I’ve watched Debbie Ford’s, The Shadow Effect DVD a few times now and she mentions the poem below, which likens being human to a guest house with new emotions arriving every day. I think this poem is a great one to have in our diaries so when we’re having a hard day, we can read it and remind ourselves to accept what is and that all from all hard times, good things arise.
I think this runs parallel with what Eckhart Tolle suggests in The Power of Now (Page 218); “Become and alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.”
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
~ Rumi
(The Essential Rumi, versions by Coleman Barks)
I’ve also been reading Debbie Ford’s The Dark Side of the Light Chasers and participating in a virtual book club with Liz Foster, who has been working closely with Debbie for some years now. I’m finding the book and the book club offers me a wonderful opportunity to understand those ‘shadows’ that bring me down. Debbie’s words help us realise that each shadow is indeed a guide and a gift which, if we embrace enthusiastically, we can use to forgive ourselves. So, we use it, instead of it using us.
I went to see Deepak Chopra the other day, which I will blog another time, but I wanted to get this important message out first. He started a site last year which I would like to promote. 
Of course I’m all up for world peace and the more of us that take a vow of non-violent thoughts, speech and actions, the closer we will get to a peaceful planet and a powerfully positive collective consciousness. Go on…take the vow.
If you have your Reiki I or higher and would like to attended a small Meditation and Reiki group in Bath please contact Liza Harwood on 07889 880 415 or at reiki@lizaharwood.com
We meet once every 2 months on or close to New Moon.
Dates for your diary: -
Monday October 19
Wednesday December 16
Holistic Insights is once again inspiring you to change your life.
ONE DAY, 5 TALKS, ONE LIFE TO CHANGE…
It’s at Bailbrook House Hotel, Bath, this Saturday the 12th of September 2009, 9:30am until 5pm.
More information: http://www.holisticinsights.co.uk/events_love_life_roadshow_sept_09.htm
See you there!
“There are cycles of success, when things come to you and thrive, and cycles of failure, when they wither or disintegrate and you have to let them go in order to make room for new things to arise, or transformations to happen. If you cling and resist at that point, it means you are refusing to go with the flow of life, and you will suffer.”
Eckhart Tolle — The Power of Now (Page 183)
Eckhart Tolle on Relationships:
“True communication is communion — the realisation of oneness, which is love. Usually, this is quickly lost again, unless you are able to stay present enough to keep out the mind and its old patterns. As soon as the mind and mind identification return, you are no longer yourself but a mental images of yourself, and you start playing games and roles again to get your ego needs met. You are a human mind again, pretending to be a human being, interacting with another mind, playing a drama called ‘love’.”
Eckhart Tolle — The Power of Now (Page 156)
Does this make sense out of context?
“No matter how much I move myself around, my strongest tendency is to move in the same ways that I have always moved, guided by the same deeply seated postural habits, sensory cues, and mental images of my body; but if I can succeed in surrendering to the movements that another person imposes on my body, without my own system of cues and responses interfering, it is possible to treat my mind to a flood of sensations that are novel in important ways, sensation that may well be able to indicate things I have been doing that have produced aches and pains at the same times as they have reinforced my normal sense of self.
And even more important, this movement of surrender and new sensation can demonstrate to me that I am not permanently obliged to continue acting out a habitual compulsion. I can see that habit is habit, that I am something else, and for that moment at any rate, I can choose to repeat it or not. And if I can drop a compulsive behaviour or attitude for a moment without causing a crisis, then perhaps I can dispense with it all together. As any physician knows, this kind of insight can often be worth more than any number of drugs or procedures for the reversal of a chronic condition.
In other words, just as the mind organises the rest of the body’s tissues into a life process, sensations to a large degree organise the mind. They do not simply give the mind the material to organise; they are themselves a major organising principle.”
