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QUIET TIME - What is The Quality of Your Therapeutic Presence?

QUIET TIME - What is The Quality of Your Therapeutic Presence?

Either with or without the cardinal vestments of prayer, conscious breathing, a sanctified inner voice, reciting inner mantras, positive affirmations or simple vipassana sitting, a practitioner who is empowered with the refreshing blessing of Quiet Time’s bath of spiritual renewal, can then personally contribute to the session Quiet Time's organic and  important expression of an animated and transcendent unified heart.
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Changing Cellular Memory

Changing Cellular Memory

 I would want to conclude by suggesting that healthy and vibrant residual memory of the cells previous original condition of vibrancy, integrity, balance, function and pure representation remains in tact during trauma and during challenging health conditions can and should be accessed.
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THERAPEUTIC ATTUNEMENT

THERAPEUTIC ATTUNEMENT

A definition of attunement ‘is a kinesthetic and emotional sensing of others knowing their rhythm, affect and experience by metaphorically being in their skin, and going beyond empathy to create a two-person experience of unbroken feeling connectedness by providing a reciprocal affect and/or resonating response’. (Erksine 1998).
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FROM WHENCE COMES THE ORIGIN OF LIVING POWER?

FROM WHENCE COMES THE ORIGIN OF LIVING POWER?

If, while exchanging therapeutic intention with my client, casually applying my therapy, I am thinking some mundane thought like ‘did I forgot to clean the bathroom this morning’, then this very undesirable and unacceptable transmission becomes the quality of energy that floods the channel and careens into the targeted destination such as a marma, a chakra, an organ and its function or the brain to name but a few.

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The Simulated Turnover

The Simulated Turnover

Allow gravity to apply its therapeutic magic

With this delicious procedure, we are going to use the influence of gravity to align our recipient's posture and easily remove deep tension from their pelvic, hip and lower back regions.

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The 'Zone' in Bodywork Therapy

The 'Zone' in Bodywork Therapy

So the day arrived and I had to walk by a few black limos with a few, shall we say, attendants  menacingly hanging around.

My massage table in hand along with my bag of linens, creams and oils and cosmic music, I was praying that my swagger demonstrated at least a few molecules of masculinity?

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Fully Expressing the Hamstrings

Fully Expressing the Hamstrings

This wonderful and life giving therapeutic offering, known as a hamstring stretch-release, is best effected when the receiver's leg is initially slightly flexed. In order to refresh and to effect a fully extended posterior leg and also to bring a...

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