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New Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop
My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals. Is available as an ebook from http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=239922 or as a paperback.
My book, Herbal Primer, newly released, covers herbal action classification, herbal identification, herbal preparation and recipes, including herbal teas, incense and potpourri. Is available as an ebook from http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=796359 or soon as a paperback.
I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric and Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.
Crystal Healing
New squidoo lens about crystal healing and the chakra system http://www.squidoo.com/crystalartsandhealth
Using Crystals and Yoga Meditation to Detox Stress http://chakrayoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/using-crystals-and-yoga-meditation-to-heal-and-detox-stress Yule: Celtic Festival of Rebirth and Light http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/79323.aspx
Wiccan Symbols, Spells And Rituals: http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/90540.aspx
Pagan Symbols & Meanings: http://www.brighthub.com/society/religion-spirituality/articles/95295.aspx
Lunar Crystals
The moon represents emotion and powerful instincts, patterns, ancestral and karmic inheritances. For all moon signs it is recommended to meditate with a bloodstone at the full moon to uncover hidden unfulfilled desires that are controlling your life.
It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.
The Zodiac Ascendant is the mask of our personality.
Virgo Ascendant
Sense of responsibility, love of truth, analytical, harmony, detached, flexible, organizational skills.
Blue Tourmaline – inspires compassion, tolerance, disperses negative thought patterns, facilitates creative solutions and speaking out when necessary.
Herbalism
Borage (Borago officinalis)
Reduces fever, coughs, sore throats, colds, decongestant for the lungs, expel poisons due to insect stings, itch, ringworms, scabs, sores, ulcers, a gargle for sores in the mouth and throat, loosens phlegm, used to restore vitality after illness. Externally, a poultice of leaves applied to inflamed swellings. Used in bath bombs to nurture skin.
"These are the things I know: You always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder, plant rosemary at your gate, keep lavender for luck and fall in love whenever possible." ~Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic
Yoga
The two forces of mind and prana maintain the rhythm of life and consciousness. Everything in the universe is evolving. Matter in its ultimate form is energy. The goal of yoga is to turn the body into solid energy. – Hatha Yoga Pradipika
Uttankoormasana (stretching tortoise pose)
This asana should be performed on a blanket to protect the protruding back vertebrae.
Benefits:
- Tones the nervous system, induces relaxation
- Beneficial to people who suffer nervous disorders, are easily angered.
- Regulates the adrenal glands, stimulates digestion, appetite.
- Lie in shavasana. Bring knees up to the chest and do padmasana.
- Push the right arm between the right calf muscle and thigh, up past the elbow, and the left arm between the left calf muscle and thigh, up past the elbow. This is also called garbhasana, the embryo pose.
- In the final position breath will be shallow because the stomach and lungs are pressed tightly.
- To come out of the position, first unclasp the hands, then unfold the legs and lie flat in shavasana for a few minutes.
John Donne
Sonnet X “Death, be not proud”
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Might and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
Die, not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me,
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure – then, form thee much more must flow;
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones and soul’s delivery.
Thou’rt slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war and sickness dwell;
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke, Why swell’st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally.
And death shall be no more. Death, thou shalt die.
Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook
Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html
Amazon link
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horizons-Place-Time-Meet-Collection/dp/0955539404/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1272790461&sr=8-1-catcorr For Ebook download Direct Link: http://store.payloadz.com/go/?id=25453
Music
Vocal training
Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true
Al Stewart
Year of the Cat
Al Stewart & Peter Wood
On a morning from a Bogart movie
In a country where they turn back timeYou go strolling through the crowd like Peter Lorre
Contemplating a crime
She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running
Like a watercolour in the rainDon't bother asking for explanations
She'll just tell you that she came
In the year of the cat
She doesn't give you time for questions
As she locks up your arm in hersAnd you follow 'till your sense of which direction
Completely disappears
By the blue tiled walls near the market stalls
There's a hidden door she leads you to
These days, she says, I feel my life
Just like a river running through
The year of the cat
Well, she looks at you so cooly
And her eyes shine like the moon in the seaShe comes in incense and patchouli
So you take her, to find what's waiting inside
The year of the cat
Well, morning comes and you're still with her
And the bus and the tourists are goneAnd you've thrown away the choice and lost your ticket
So you have to stay on
But the drum-beat strains of the night remain
In the rhythm of the new-born dayYou know sometime you're bound to leave her
But for now you're going to stay
In the year of the cat
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