Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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/

Happy beginning of Advent and preparation for Yule.

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  Also available for iPad/iPhone through Blurb.

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 as a paperback http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2298804/?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240  Also available for iPad/iPhone through Blurb.

I am an Herbalism 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 Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. For Christmas and Yule we have Christmas tree shaped soaps in peppermint and jade and amethyst and lavender snowflake shaped soaps. There are a collection of angels with Victorian cherub angels in chocolate & gold and sandalwood and clear quartz. 3-D cherub angels are available in chocolate and gold, rose & rose quartz and clary sage and garnet. Nature fairy scenes are available in amethyst and lavender.

The latest addition is the new large Crystal shaped soaps like the wedding favour soaps in birthday month crystals. November is Citrine and Neroli and the solar plexus charka, November is Citrine & Neroli and the solar plexus chakra, December is Sodalite & Chamomile and throat chakra, January is Clary Sage and Garnet and the root chakra and February is Amethyst and Lavender and the brow chakra. Lovely vintage Victorian patterned soaps are also now in stock. These include a heart shaped soap, a bed of flowers rectangular soap, a circular happy birthday soap with flowers and a fun oval hippo wearing a flowered hat. These are all available in Crystal Essence TM Rose Quartz and Rose.

The Crystal Essence TM range also include shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products, colognes, perfumes including the new Crystal Essence ™ Everlasting Rose Quartz perfume including gift card size perfume cards and make-ups. There are also lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours. 3-D Swan Soaps using a white soap base are now available in right and left facing poses.

Crystal Essence ™ Chrysanthemum shaped handmade soaps makes a nice house warming or host/hostess gift. In Feng Shui Chrysanthemum brings laughter and happiness into the home. We also have a good luck 3-D kitty in Sandalwood and clear quartz. Dragon soaps include a clary sage and garnet super-sized Welsh Dragon rectangular soap and a circular Chinese dragon embossed soap. The herbal Gardening Soap is a year-round favourite, with white maize, pumice and clay it gets hands super clean and moisturizers at the same time with a lovely orange essential oil scent.

The latest category called aromatherapy oils and incense is available on the online shop with Litha oil, with chamomile, sandalwood, rose and lavender, the combination promotes health, love and prosperity. Hand blended Beltane incense, used in handfasting rituals and house blessing incense are also available. Also new are hand-made beeswax melts available in uplifting Bergamont and Orange, Calming Rose and Lavender and summer time Citronella. An uplifting Yule blend of Cinnamon, Clove, Frankincense, Myrrh and Orange is also available.

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.

Turquoise – Harmonises, cheers, and protects from external influences. Helps recognize causes of happiness and unhappiness and master them. Helps with exhaustion, hyperacidity, rheumatism, gout, stomach pains and cramps.

Healing Crystals, Michael Gienger

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

Horsechestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum) Astringent, circulatory tonic. Strengthens and/tones veins. Used internally to aid body in treatment of phlebitis, inflammation of veins, varicosity, haemorrhoids, externally as a lotion. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of dried fruit, leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes drink x 3 a day or use to make a lotion.

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

Yoga

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/1705

Lion Pose- Simhasana

Anatomical Focus: Knees, Ankles, Abdomen, Chest, Hands/Fingers, Diaphragm

Therapeutic Applications: According to several sources, Simhasana is a useful pose for people with bad breath or for those who stutter. (Also good for diaphragm and singing)

Contraindications and Cautions: If you have a knee injury, always be cautious in flexed-knee sitting positions and, if necessary, sit on a chair to do the pose.

Benefits: Relieves tension in the chest and face. An often-overlooked benefit of Simhasana is that it stimulates the platysma, a flat, thin, rectangular-shaped muscle on the front of the throat. The platysma, when contracted, pulls down on the corners of the mouth and wrinkles the skin of the neck. Simhasana helps keep the platysma firm as we age. According to traditional texts, Simhasana destroys disease and facilitates the three major bandhas (Mula, Jalandhara, Uddiyana).

Kneel on the floor and cross the front of the right ankle over the back of the left. The feet will point out to the sides. Sit back so the perineum snuggles down onto the on the top (right) heel.

1. Press your palms firmly against your knees. Fan the palms and splay your fingers like the sharpened claws of a large feline.
2. Take a deep inhalation through the nose. Then simultaneously open your mouth wide and stretch your tongue out, curling its tip down toward the chin, open your eyes wide, contract the muscles on the front of your throat, and exhale the breath slowly out through your mouth with a distinct "ha" sound. The breath should pass over the back of the throat.
3. Some texts instruct us to set our gaze (drishti) at the spot between the eyebrows. This is called "mid-brow gazing" (bhru-madhya-drishti; bhru = the brow; madhya = middle).Other texts direct the eyes to the tip of the nose (nasa-agra-drishti; nasa = nose; agra = foremost point or part, i.e., tip).
4. You can roar two or three times. Then change the cross of the legs and repeat for the same number of times.

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  Also available now in iPad/iPhone version

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  

To Winter by William Blake

William Blake (from Poetical Sketches, 1783)

O winter! bar thine adamantine doors:

The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark
Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs
Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

He hears me not, but o’er the yawning deep

Rides heavy; his storms are unchain’d, sheathed
In ribbed steel; I dare not lift mine eyes;
For he hath rear’d his sceptre o’er the world.

Lo! now the direful monster, whose skin clings

To his strong bones, strides o’er the groaning rocks:
He withers all in silence, and in his hand
Unclothes the earth, and freezes up frail life.

He takes his seat upon the cliffs, the mariner

Cries in vain. Poor little wretch! that deal’st
With storms, till heaven smiles, and the monster
Is driven yelling to his caves beneath Mount Hecla.

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

Billy Joel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0iOEOtSyB0&feature=related

She’s got a way about her

She's got a way about her

I don't know what it is
But I know that I can't live without her

She's got a way of pleasin'

I don't know why it is
But there doesn't have to be a reason
Anyway

She's got a smile that heals me

I don't know what it is
But I have to laugh when she reveals me

She's got a way of talkin'

I don't know what it is
But it lifts me up when we are walkin'
Anywhere

She comes to me when I'm feelin' down

Inspires me without a sound
She touches me and I get turned around

She's got a way of showin'

How I make her feel
And I find the strength to keep on goin'

She's got a light around her

And everywhere she goes
A million dreams of love surround her
Everywhere

She comes to me when I'm feelin' down

Inspires me without a sound
She touches me and I get turned around

She's got a smile that heals me

I don't know what it is
But I have to laugh when she reveals me

She's got a way about her

I don't know what it is
But I know that I can't live without her
Anyway