Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts And Health http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
New Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)
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 http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2273371/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240
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 Spring/Summer 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. New Crystal Essence TM Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soap makes a lovely spring or summer gift.
Check out the 10% off paycodes coupon for paypal purchases. Code is t2e6g When using online shop basket when the total amount is known, go to paycode link, put in code, click general unless ebay purchase, the amount due and shipping and then you will be redirected to paypal checkout where the 10% will be taken off purchase price
Crystal Healing
http://www.suite101.com/content/recycled-glass-art-a297478
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
http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore
http://www.brighthub.com/members/caramoore.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.
Obsidian
Rescue remedy for shock, traumas and blockages. Activates untapped abilities, eases pain tension, enhances blood flow and wound healing.
Michael Gienger, Healing Crystals
Herbalism
Article on Radiation
http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm
http://www.squidoo.com/Herbalprimer
Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore
http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore
"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 http://www.alicehoffman.com/hoffman-bio.htm
Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:
http://www.baldwins.co.uk/perl/go.pl/healthnotes.html?%2fuk%2fassets%2fa-z-index%2fa-to-z-index-of-vitamin-and-herb-interactions%2f%7edefault
Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)
Anti-inflammatory, vasodilatory, relaxant, digestive bitter, uterine stimulant. Used in treatment of migraine headaches, arthritis. Painful periods, sluggish menstral flow. Caution: Should not be used in pregnancy. Fresh leaves can cause mouth ulcers. Dosage equivalent of one leaf taken 1-3 times a day.
Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore
Yoga
http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers
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
Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/biological-significance-piezoelectricity-relation-acupuncture-hatha-yoga-osteopathic-medicin
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/790
Reclining Hero Pose
Supta Virasana
Caution: Supta Virasana, the reclining variation of Virasana, is an intermediate pose. DO NOT perform this pose unless you can sit your buttocks relatively easily on the floor between your feet.
(soup-tah veer-AHS-anna)
supta = lying down, reclining
vira = man, hero, chief (compare Latin vir, “man,” the root of English words virile and virtue)
Contraindications and Cautions
If you have any serious back, knee, or ankle problems, avoid this pose unless you have the assistance of an experienced instructor.
Therapeutic Applications:
Arthritis
Asthma
Diarrhea
Digestive problems
Flat feet
Head cold
Headache
High blood pressure
Infertility
Insomnia
Intestinal gas and acidity
Menstrual discomfort
Respiratory ailments
Sciatica
Varicose veins
Benefits
Stretches the abdomen, thighs and deep hip flexors (psoas), knees, and ankles
Strengthens the arches
Relieves tired legs
Improves digestion
Helps relieves the symptoms of menstrual pain
Step by Step
Perform Virasana. Exhale and lower your back torso toward the floor. First lean onto your hands, then your forearms and elbows. Once you are on your elbows, place your hands on the back of the pelvis and release your lower back and upper buttocks by spreading the flesh down toward the tailbone. Then finish reclining, either onto the floor or a support.
If your front ribs jut up sharply toward the ceiling, it’s a sign of tight groins, which pulls your front pelvis toward your knees and causes your belly and lower back to tense. Use your hands to press your front ribs down slightly and lift your pubis toward your navel. This should lengthen your lower back and lower it toward the floor. If it doesn’t, raise yourself onto a higher support. Then lay your arms and hands on the floor, angled about 45 degrees from the sides of your torso, palms up.
Sink the heads of the thighbones deep into the back of the hip sockets. It’s alright to lift your knees a little away from the floor to help soften your groins; in fact, you can raise your knees a few inches on a thickly folded blanket. You can also allow a little bit of space between your knees as long as your thighs remain parallel to each other. Do not, however, allow the knees to splay apart wider than your hips – this will cause strain on the hips and lower back.
To begin, stay in this pose for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Gradually extend your stay to 5 minutes. To come out, press your forearms against the floor and come onto your hands. Then use your hands to lift your torso into Virasana. As you come up, lead with your sternum, not your head or chin. Come out of Virasana in the recommended manner.
Poetry
Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook
Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html
Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2011093/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240
Amazon link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horizons-Place-Time-Meet-%20Collection/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
Influence of Natural Objects
William Wordsworth
By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide
Poem lyrics of Influence of Natural Objects by William Wordsworth.
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!
Thou Soul, that art the Eternity of thought!
And giv'st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! not in vain,
By day or star-light, thus from my first dawn
Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human soul;
Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man;
But with high objects, with enduring things,
With life and nature; purifying thus
The elements of feeling and of thought,
And sanctifying by such discipline
Both pain and fear,--until we recognise
A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Nor was this fellowship vouchsafed to me
With stinted kindness. In November days,
When vapours rolling down the valleys made
A lonely scene more lonesome; among woods
At noon; and 'mid the calm of summer nights,
When, by the margin of the trembling lake,
Beneath the gloomy hills, homeward I went
In solitude, such intercourse was mine:
Mine was it in the fields both day and night,
And by the waters, all the summer long.
And in the frosty season, when the sun
Was set, and, visible for many a mile,
The cottage-windows through the twilight blazed,
I heeded not the summons: happy time
It was indeed for all of us; for me
It was a time of rapture! Clear and loud
The village-clock tolled six--I wheeled about,
Proud and exulting like an untired horse
That cares not for his home.--All shod with steel
We hissed along the polished ice, in games
Confederate, imitative of the chase
And woodland pleasures,--the resounding horn,
The pack loud-chiming, and the hunted hare.
So through the darkness and the cold we flew,
And not a voice was idle: with the din
Smitten, the precipices rang aloud;
The leafless trees and every icy crag
Tinkled like iron; while far-distant hills
Into the tumult sent an alien sound
Of melancholy, not unnoticed while the stars,
Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west
The orange sky of evening died away.
Not seldom from the uproar I retired
Into a silent bay, or sportively
Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng,
To cut across the reflex of a star;
Image, that, flying still before me, gleamed
Upon the glassy plain: and oftentimes,
When we had given our bodies to the wind,
And all the shadowy banks on either side
Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still
The rapid line of motion, then at once
Have I, reclining back upon my heels,
Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs
Wheeled by me--even as if the earth had rolled
With visible motion her diurnal round!
Behind me did they stretch in solemn train,
Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched
Till all was tranquil as a summer sea.
Music
Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true
http://shootingpeople.org/cards/caraemoore
Vocal Training
http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/
http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance
Roy Orbison
http://www.muzu.tv/gb/royorbison/blue-bayou-music-video/26933 /
Lyrics for Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison
I feel so bad I've got a worried mind
I'm so lonesome all the time
Since I left my baby behind on Blue Bayou
Saving nickels, saving dimes, working until the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times on Blue Bayou
I'm going back some day come what may to Blue Bayou
Where you sleep all day and the catfish play on Blue Bayou
All those fishing boats with their sails afloat
If I could only see that familiar sunrise through sleepy eyes
How happy I'd be
Oh to see my baby again
And to be with some of my friends
Maybe I'd be happy then on Blue Bayou
I'm going back some day, gonna stay on Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine and the world is mine on Blue Bayou
Oh, that girl of mine by my side the silver moon and the evening tide
Oh, some sweet day gonna take away this hurting inside
I'll never be blue, my dreams come true on Blue Bayou
For those with a Kindle this blog can be located at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002FQJHC4
New Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)
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 http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2273371/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240
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 Spring/Summer 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. New Crystal Essence TM Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soap makes a lovely spring or summer gift.
Check out the 10% off paycodes coupon for paypal purchases. Code is t2e6g When using online shop basket when the total amount is known, go to paycode link, put in code, click general unless ebay purchase, the amount due and shipping and then you will be redirected to paypal checkout where the 10% will be taken off purchase price
Crystal Healing
http://www.suite101.com/content/recycled-glass-art-a297478
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
http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore
http://www.brighthub.com/members/caramoore.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.
Obsidian
Rescue remedy for shock, traumas and blockages. Activates untapped abilities, eases pain tension, enhances blood flow and wound healing.
Michael Gienger, Healing Crystals
Herbalism
Article on Radiation
http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm
http://www.squidoo.com/Herbalprimer
Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore
http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/caraemoore
"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 http://www.alicehoffman.com/hoffman-bio.htm
Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:
http://www.baldwins.co.uk/perl/go.pl/healthnotes.html?%2fuk%2fassets%2fa-z-index%2fa-to-z-index-of-vitamin-and-herb-interactions%2f%7edefault
Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium)
Anti-inflammatory, vasodilatory, relaxant, digestive bitter, uterine stimulant. Used in treatment of migraine headaches, arthritis. Painful periods, sluggish menstral flow. Caution: Should not be used in pregnancy. Fresh leaves can cause mouth ulcers. Dosage equivalent of one leaf taken 1-3 times a day.
Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore
Yoga
http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers
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
Namaste means "the divinity within me salutes the divinity within you."
http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/biological-significance-piezoelectricity-relation-acupuncture-hatha-yoga-osteopathic-medicin
http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/790
Reclining Hero Pose
Supta Virasana
Caution: Supta Virasana, the reclining variation of Virasana, is an intermediate pose. DO NOT perform this pose unless you can sit your buttocks relatively easily on the floor between your feet.
(soup-tah veer-AHS-anna)
supta = lying down, reclining
vira = man, hero, chief (compare Latin vir, “man,” the root of English words virile and virtue)
Contraindications and Cautions
If you have any serious back, knee, or ankle problems, avoid this pose unless you have the assistance of an experienced instructor.
Therapeutic Applications:
Arthritis
Asthma
Diarrhea
Digestive problems
Flat feet
Head cold
Headache
High blood pressure
Infertility
Insomnia
Intestinal gas and acidity
Menstrual discomfort
Respiratory ailments
Sciatica
Varicose veins
Benefits
Stretches the abdomen, thighs and deep hip flexors (psoas), knees, and ankles
Strengthens the arches
Relieves tired legs
Improves digestion
Helps relieves the symptoms of menstrual pain
Step by Step
Perform Virasana. Exhale and lower your back torso toward the floor. First lean onto your hands, then your forearms and elbows. Once you are on your elbows, place your hands on the back of the pelvis and release your lower back and upper buttocks by spreading the flesh down toward the tailbone. Then finish reclining, either onto the floor or a support.
If your front ribs jut up sharply toward the ceiling, it’s a sign of tight groins, which pulls your front pelvis toward your knees and causes your belly and lower back to tense. Use your hands to press your front ribs down slightly and lift your pubis toward your navel. This should lengthen your lower back and lower it toward the floor. If it doesn’t, raise yourself onto a higher support. Then lay your arms and hands on the floor, angled about 45 degrees from the sides of your torso, palms up.
Sink the heads of the thighbones deep into the back of the hip sockets. It’s alright to lift your knees a little away from the floor to help soften your groins; in fact, you can raise your knees a few inches on a thickly folded blanket. You can also allow a little bit of space between your knees as long as your thighs remain parallel to each other. Do not, however, allow the knees to splay apart wider than your hips – this will cause strain on the hips and lower back.
To begin, stay in this pose for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Gradually extend your stay to 5 minutes. To come out, press your forearms against the floor and come onto your hands. Then use your hands to lift your torso into Virasana. As you come up, lead with your sternum, not your head or chin. Come out of Virasana in the recommended manner.
Poetry
Horizon’s Place And Time Meet by Cara E. Moore Chapbook
Poem from this collection http://www.gaias-garden.co.uk/library/ACheerfulCanvas.html
Paperback version of Horizon’s Place And Time Meet: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2011093/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240
Amazon link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Horizons-Place-Time-Meet-%20Collection/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
Influence of Natural Objects
William Wordsworth
By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide
Poem lyrics of Influence of Natural Objects by William Wordsworth.
Wisdom and Spirit of the universe!
Thou Soul, that art the Eternity of thought!
And giv'st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! not in vain,
By day or star-light, thus from my first dawn
Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human soul;
Not with the mean and vulgar works of Man;
But with high objects, with enduring things,
With life and nature; purifying thus
The elements of feeling and of thought,
And sanctifying by such discipline
Both pain and fear,--until we recognise
A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
Nor was this fellowship vouchsafed to me
With stinted kindness. In November days,
When vapours rolling down the valleys made
A lonely scene more lonesome; among woods
At noon; and 'mid the calm of summer nights,
When, by the margin of the trembling lake,
Beneath the gloomy hills, homeward I went
In solitude, such intercourse was mine:
Mine was it in the fields both day and night,
And by the waters, all the summer long.
And in the frosty season, when the sun
Was set, and, visible for many a mile,
The cottage-windows through the twilight blazed,
I heeded not the summons: happy time
It was indeed for all of us; for me
It was a time of rapture! Clear and loud
The village-clock tolled six--I wheeled about,
Proud and exulting like an untired horse
That cares not for his home.--All shod with steel
We hissed along the polished ice, in games
Confederate, imitative of the chase
And woodland pleasures,--the resounding horn,
The pack loud-chiming, and the hunted hare.
So through the darkness and the cold we flew,
And not a voice was idle: with the din
Smitten, the precipices rang aloud;
The leafless trees and every icy crag
Tinkled like iron; while far-distant hills
Into the tumult sent an alien sound
Of melancholy, not unnoticed while the stars,
Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west
The orange sky of evening died away.
Not seldom from the uproar I retired
Into a silent bay, or sportively
Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng,
To cut across the reflex of a star;
Image, that, flying still before me, gleamed
Upon the glassy plain: and oftentimes,
When we had given our bodies to the wind,
And all the shadowy banks on either side
Came sweeping through the darkness, spinning still
The rapid line of motion, then at once
Have I, reclining back upon my heels,
Stopped short; yet still the solitary cliffs
Wheeled by me--even as if the earth had rolled
With visible motion her diurnal round!
Behind me did they stretch in solemn train,
Feebler and feebler, and I stood and watched
Till all was tranquil as a summer sea.
Music
Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true
http://shootingpeople.org/cards/caraemoore
Vocal Training
http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/
http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance
Roy Orbison
http://www.muzu.tv/gb/royorbison/blue-bayou-music-video/26933 /
Lyrics for Blue Bayou by Roy Orbison
I feel so bad I've got a worried mind
I'm so lonesome all the time
Since I left my baby behind on Blue Bayou
Saving nickels, saving dimes, working until the sun don't shine
Looking forward to happier times on Blue Bayou
I'm going back some day come what may to Blue Bayou
Where you sleep all day and the catfish play on Blue Bayou
All those fishing boats with their sails afloat
If I could only see that familiar sunrise through sleepy eyes
How happy I'd be
Oh to see my baby again
And to be with some of my friends
Maybe I'd be happy then on Blue Bayou
I'm going back some day, gonna stay on Blue Bayou
Where the folks are fine and the world is mine on Blue Bayou
Oh, that girl of mine by my side the silver moon and the evening tide
Oh, some sweet day gonna take away this hurting inside
I'll never be blue, my dreams come true on Blue Bayou
