Sunday 28 September 2014

Sound bath

I had a bath, a sound bath. It was an amazing experience, I loved it and I am telling you all: you have to try it!

Sarah hanks from practice Yoga in Blackheath did some yoga to start with and then we lied down ready for this gong sound to go through our ears, bodies, senses, internal organs, opening channels, unblocking energy, releasing pain and relaxing, lulling us, taking us to the beginning of the times and through the Universe! That is what I felt...

So, a bit more about this therapy:

extract from http://gongsoundhealing.com/the-gong-instrument/

Photo of an ancient gong remelted from Himalayan singing bowlsThe Gong is one of man’s most powerful and oldest transformational and therapeutic instruments. It has been used for ritual, ceremony, prayer, and meditation since the Bronze Age. While its sound is relaxing and calming, centering and energizing, transforming and healing, gongs have been used in yoga, sound meditation, and vibrational therapy from the distant past to present.
When metal is being “excited”, electrons become highly charged electromagnetically and form a field of Plasmon (according to the late physicist David Bohm). The plasma field is being created off the gong and the listener becomes part of the field. Metal is the only material known where the electrons leave their atoms and join other atoms. When the activity of the gong ends, the electrons go back to their original atoms. Once the gong comes to rest, the Plasmons and the energy field collapses. When the gong is revved up again the Plasmon field expands and intensifies. The participants are being electromagnetically charged in a positive, benevolent and holistic fashion. Many walk away with a natural buzz that is some case has lasted for a week.
Chart depicting the inner workings of the human bodyGongs are useful in resolving emotional and physical dissonance. Magic happens when there is no separation between the gong, the player and the listener. Playing and listening to gongs is about spiritual, physical and emotional resolution – opening of doors and windows to the Universe, moving around energies, Universal energies – to enter a spiritual dimension. The Gong is a psycho-acoustic gateway to heightened states of awareness and consciousness. It is an ideal tool for stress reduction, stimulation of the glandular system, and to break up emotional blockages. When skillfully played, gongs stimulate and resonate all cells in the human body simultaneously and recalibrate the parasympathetic nervous system (heavy arms and legs as well as a regulated heart rate during a gong meditation are a sign of the re-calibration).
The Gong generates powerful multi-dimensional ripples of sound that grow into waves and bathe your entire body in streams of sound. These have been described as otherworldly, rhythmic, generating a sense of being on vacation, unfathomable, purifying, magical, sweet – like rich, rich chocolate cake, profound, out of body, celestial and harmonic…just to name a few.
A wind gong, a.k.a. feng gongFrom a sacred geometry viewpoint, a circle – the gong’s basic shape – represents a beginning that has no end. It is ever-expanding potential and represents our connection with the holographic nature of oneness. Throughout many traditions and cultures, it also stands as symbol for heaven, totality, perfection, unity, eternity, completeness and for inclusive harmony.

Thanksgiving, the harvest; practicing gratitude

Acorns Parents Talk and Craft Workshop

Saturday 4th October
 at Church of Ascension
10.00 to 14.00

Parents, Carers, Acorns leaders and assistants get together at this event where we create a sharing space for adults who care for young children, babies and toddlers, for open discussion and support on hot topics, likefood, sleep, gentle discipline, tantrums.


This is an opportunity for regulars and newcomers to come and open up about parenting issues; 
here you will get to hear and hopefully understand what we do at Acorns and how; 
the why is hopefully obvious to us: 
the Acorns group sessions are calmer and well structured,
 once the group is established things do flow and 
there are truly magical moments and there is a
 special peaceful energy.
 How to achieve this in your home?



A special craft follows, after a light lunch, with needle felting seasonal figures with Susanna Wallis all materials provided, you go home with your little creations!



£15 per person.
Adults only, babies under 6 months allowed only.

Monday 8 September 2014

FULL MOON September 2014

The Full Moon takes place on 
Monday September 8th, 
the Sun in Virgo and the Moon in Pisces. 
As Chiron (the Wounded Healer) and 
Neptune (the Electric Blue Sea of Spirit) 
are both transiting Pisces, 
and Venus (LOVE) is in Virgo 
under the rays of the Sun; 
the energy of pulling in the higher energies of cosmic consciousness 
and healing are available to all of us.
 We only have to open our hearts, 
which in essence expands our consciousness.


Deer and Harvest Moon


http://www.space.com/27051-harvest-moon-supermoon-rises-monday.html