Crystal Arts & Health

Saturday, 22 May 2010

Crystal Arts & Health

Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & 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

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 & 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 and there are 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

Crystal Uses

Energy Boosting: Jet, Smoky Quartz, Tiger’s eye, Garnet, Jasper, Amber, Gold

Uplifting: Petrified wood, Moldavite

Calming: Moonstone, Chrysoprase, Dumortierite

Herbalism

Anti-bilious

Herbs that help the body to remove excess bile. Example: Golden Seal (Hydrastis canadenis)

Anti-catarrhal

Herbs that help the body to remove excess catarrhal build-ups. Example: Elder (Sambucus nigra)

Anti-Depressive

Herbs similar in use to Thymoleptic, such as Nervine tonics.

Anti-emetic

Herbs that reduce nausea and can help to prevent vomiting. Example; Black Horehound (Ballota nigra)

Yoga

Arm and Leg Stretch

Provides an immediate relief of tension in areas of leg and back, helps to eliminate fatigue.

Promotes balance, grace and poise.

1) Stand with your arms at your sides.

2) Slowly raise your right arm stiffly overhead.

3) Shift your full weight to your right leg.

4) Bend your left leg at the knee and hold your left foot with your left hand, balancing yourself on your right leg.

5) Slowly bring your right hand back a few inches and simultaneously raise your left leg a few inches so that you feel a gentle stretch in your back. Drop head slightly backward and look upward. Remain in this position for 10 seconds.

6) Slowly lower your right arm to your side and your left foot to the floor. Rest, then repeat again.

7) Perform the identical movements on the opposite side.

Whenever your spine becomes stiff, cramped and tense, it saps your of vitality. This movement stretches your spine and helps you regain your energy.

Poetry

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/stevenson/robert.html

The Land of Nod

From breakfast on through all the day
At home among my friends I stay,
But every night I go abroad
Afar into the land of Nod.

All by myself I have to go,
With none to tell me what to do --
All alone beside the streams
And up the mountain-sides of dreams.

The strangest things are there for me,
Both things to eat and things to see,
And many frightening sights abroad
Till morning in the land of Nod.

Try as I like to find the way,
I never can get back by day,
Nor can remember plain and clear
The curious music that I hear.

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/

How to play maracas

http://www.whatsontv.co.uk/video/youtube/search/maracas/

Beach Boys - Kokomo lyrics

Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take ya
Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go

Jamaica off the Florida Keys
There's a place called Kokomo
That's where you wanna go to get away from it all

Bodies in the sand
Tropical drink melting in your hand
We'll be falling in love
To the rhythm of a steel drum band
Down in Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go
Down to Kokomo
We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go
Way down to Kokomo

To Martinique, that Monserrat mystique

We'll put out to sea
And we'll perfect our chemistry
By and by we'll defy a little bit of gravity

Afternoon delight
cocktails and moonlit nights
That dreamy look in your eye
Give me a tropical contact high
Way down in Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go
Down to Kokomo
We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go
Way down to Kokomo

Port Au Prince I wanna catch a glimpse

Everybody knows
A little place like Kokomo
Now if you wanna go
And get away from it all
Go down to Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go
Down to Kokomo
We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go
Way down to Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go
Down to Kokomo
We'll get there fast
And then we'll take it slow
That's where we wanna go
Way down to Kokomo

Aruba, Jamaica ooo I wanna take you
To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama
Key Largo, Montego baby why don't we go
Down to Kokomo
We'll get there fast and then we'll take
it slow That's where we wanna go
Way down to Kokomo

Saturday, 15 May 2010

Crystal Arts & Health

Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & 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

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 & 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 and there are 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

Crystal Uses

Nervous System: Citrine, Silver, Gold, Sapphire, Rutilated quartz

Immune System: Turquoise, Aquamarine, Clear Quartz, Tourmaline, Chiastolite

Bones and muscles: Black Tourmaline, Lodestone, Spinel, Rutilated Quartz

Herbalism

Adaptogen

Herbs that enable the body to avoid reaching a point of collapse or overstress, Chinese Traditional Medicine, Ayurvedic concept. Example: Gingseng (Panax ginseng)

Alternative

Herbs that gradually restore the proper function of the body and increase health and vitality. Example: Burdock (Arctium lappa)

Anthelmintic

Herb that destroys or expels intestinal parasitic worms. Example: Garlic, (Allium sativum) Wormwood. (Artemisia absinthum)

Yoga

Toe Twist

Benefits

Helps remove stiffness and promote elasticity in spine through a spiral stretching motion

Aids in streamlining the abdominal area

Strengthens the entire foot and leg

1) Stand with arms at side and feet pointed slightly outward.

2) Raise your arms stiffly from sides and stretch them straight out in front of you at eye level with hands touching.

3) Raise yourself up on your toes.

4) Keeping eyes fixed on back of hands turn the upper body slowly to the left as far as you can go without strain, keeping yourself balanced on your toes while gazing at the back of your hands. Keep abdomen in and chest out as you go around to the sides. Hold this position for 10 seconds building up to 20 seconds over several weeks.

5) Return slowly to the frontward position and slowly lower our arms to your sides. Repeat steps on the right side.

6) Return to frontward position and repeat twice on each side.

Poetry

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/blake/william.html

The Sick Rose

O Rose, thou art sick!
The invisible worm
That flies in the night,
In the howling storm,

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy

by William Blake

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

http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/

Ella Fitzgerald

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

John Lennon

"We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it."

At Last

Eliza Fitzgerald,

http://www.jango.com/music/Eva+Cassidy?l=0

Eva Cassidy

At last my love has come along
My lonely days are over
And life is like a song
Ohh yeah
At last the skies above are blue
And my heart was wrapped in clover
The night I looked at you

I found a dream that I could speak to
A dream that I could call my own
I found a thrill to press my cheek to
A thrill that I have never known
Oh yeah yeah

You smiled ohh and then the spell was cast
And here we are in heaven
For you are mine at last
For you are mine at last

Composer Job Listings

http://shootingpeople.org/

Sunday, 9 May 2010

Crystal Arts And Health

Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health

Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & 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

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 & 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 and there are 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

Crystal Uses

Large intestines, kidneys, bladder: Obsidian, Peridot, Jade

Reproduction organs: Silver, Carnelian, Rhodocrosite, Moonstone, Selenite, Opal, Pearl

Circulation: Haematite, Bloodstone

Herbalism

The Mouth

Echinacea and Myrrh will help keep the mouth healthy.

Mouth ulcers can be treated with Red Sage (Salvia officinalis). Traditional treatment of inflammation of mouth, throat and tonsils, soothes mucous membranes. Used internally and as a mouthwash for inflamed gums, as a gargle in the treatment of Laryngitis, Pharyngitis, Tonsillitis and Quinsy. Caution: Avoid during pregnancy.

Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 tsp of the leaves and let infuse for 10 minutes, drink 3 times a day. Mouthwash, put 2 tsp of the leaves in half a litre of water, bring to the boil and let stand, covered for 15 minutes. Gargle deeply with the hot tea for 5 - 10 minutes several times a day.

Yoga

Backward Bend

Promotes elasticity in the spine through a convex (inward) stretching movement.
Helps relieve tension throughout the spine
Develops chest and bust
Strengthens the feet and toes.

1) Sit on your heels with top of feet resting on the floor and knees together in front of you. 2) Place palms of your hands resting on the floor on either side of your body. 3) Step by step walk back with your hands until you reach a comfortable maximum. 4) Lower head backward and push your abdomen and chest upward to form the maximum arch without strain while remaining seated on your heels. Remain in this position for 10 seconds, working up to 15 seconds over several weeks. Don’t bounce or strain, hold position. 5) Relax by slowly lowering your abdomen and chest and raising your head, stay seated on heels and hands in same position. 6) Repeat step 4 one time. 7) To come out of position, slowly drop your abdomen and chest, raise head and walk forward step by step until you are able to easily raise your trunk from heels. Relax by sitting in a cross-legged posture, massage feet gently with hands.

Poetry

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/byron/lord.html

She Walks in Beauty

Lord Byron

She walks in Beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

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

http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/

MAY 20: Never Mind The Boxset: The Album Post-iTunes

SPEAKERS FROM SONY, WARP, PURE GROOVE, UNION SQUARE MUSIC AND MUSICDNA CONFIRMED...

Union Square Music’s Director of Marketing Steve Bunyan, Head of Marketing and New Projects at Warp Records Steven Hill, MusicDNA President Dagfinn Bach and Pure Groove’s Head Buyer Simon Singleton join Paul Conroy, Universal Music’s Catalogue and Box Set Consultant in debating the future of the recording business’s flagship format.

As the recordings business combats a double-edged sword of illegal downloaders and those with pick ‘n’ mix purchasing attitudes, album unit sales have declined in each of the last five years, down from 163m in 2004 to 129m in 2009 (BPI). This event will consider whether technology, design and marketing can provide a lifeline to this ailing format.

Kicking off proceedings, Sony Music's Head of Consumer Insight Mark Uttley Head of Insight and VP Communications & Artist Relations Emma Pike will present findings of the Future Business Research Group’s first ever industry-wide segmentation of the British music buying public. So get ready to meet the Digital Dabblers, the High Spending Pirates, Physical Fanatics and Generation Free.

Dagfinn Bach, President of Music DNA will be discussing the future of digital music and his plans to bundle tracks with a host of additional content. And we hear from Warp and Pure Groove, who are discovering other ways to rejuvenate it, keeping back catalogues alive with re-mastered and special anniversary edition releases – physical innovations whose very existence has been fostered by the unlimited shelf space of the digital world and the power of a good mailing list.
DIARY - Date & Time: 20 May '10 18.30 - 21.00 hrs Venue: Basement Bar, PRS for Music, Berners Street, London W1

Cost: £25 MusicTank Members £30 Trade Body £35 Full Price - price includes complimentary drink on arrival and free post-event transcript.

Full details & booking: http://www.musictank.co.uk/events/album-format
All tickets MUST be booked and paid-for in advance - no walk-up on the day!

Attend this event for FREE by signing up to Creative Futures and commiting to participate in a complimentary programme of business support for a minimum of 12 hours over the next 3-years.

More... http://www.creative-futures.co.uk/ T 020 8357 7317

Composer Job Listings

http://shootingpeople.org/

Sunday, 2 May 2010

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & 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

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 & 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 and there are 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

Crystal Uses

Chest and lungs: Moss agate, Turquoise, Aventurine

Heart: Ruby, Aventurine, Emerald, Coral, Labradorite, Unakite

Digestion: Citrine, Tiger’s Eye

Herbalism

Bad circulation
Cayenne, Ginger, Prickly Ash and Hawthorn.

Varicose Veins
Hawthorn Berries, Horsechestnut and Buckwheat. For water build-up – Yarrow and Dandelion Leaf.

Horsechestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
Increases the strength and tone of the blood vessels. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 - 2 tsp of the dried fruit and leave to infuse for 10 to 15 minutes drink x 3 a day or used as a lotion.

Yoga

Knee and Thigh Stretch

Helps remove stiffness and tension in the knees and thighs. Enables you to walk and stand without becoming tired quickly.

1) Extend your legs straight out in front of you. 2) Bend legs at knees and bring your feet in as far as possible towards you with the soles of the feet together. 3) Clasp your hands firmly around your feet. 4) Pull up on your feet with your hands and allow the knees and thighs to bend downward as far as able without strain. Sit erect and hold the extreme position for 15 seconds. Relax and allow knees and thighs to return to original start position with your hands remaining clasped around your feet. Repeat three times.

Poetry

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/eliot/ts.html

Rhapsody On A Windy Night

Twelve o'clock.
Along the reaches of the street
Held in a lunar synthesis,
Whispering lunar incantations
Dissolve the floors of memory
And all its clear relations,
Its divisions and precisions,
Every street lamp that I pass
Beats like a fatalistic drum,
And through the spaces of the dark
Midnight shakes the memory
As a madman shakes a dead geranium.
Half-past one,
The street lamp sputtered,
The street lamp muttered,
The street lamp said, "Regard that woman
Who hesitates towards you in the light of the door
Which opens on her like a grin.
You see the border of her dress
Is torn and stained with sand,
And you see the corner of her eye
Twists like a crooked pin."
The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.
Half-past two,
The street lamp said,
"Remark the cat which flattens itself in the gutter,
Slips out its tongue
And devours a morsel of rancid butter."
So the hand of a child, automatic,
Slipped out and pocketed a toy that was running along the quay.
I could see nothing behind that child's eye.
I have seen eyes in the street
Trying to peer through lighted shutters,
And a crab one afternoon in a pool,
An old crab with barnacles on his back,
Gripped the end of a stick which I held him.
Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
"Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,
She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.
A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,
Her hand twists a paper rose,
That smells of dust and old Cologne,
She is alone
With all the old nocturnal smells
That cross and cross across her brain."
The reminiscence comes
Of sunless dry geraniums
And dust in crevices,
Smells of chestnuts in the streets,
And female smells in shuttered rooms,
And cigarettes in corridors
And cocktail smells in bars."
The lamp said,
"Four o'clock,
Here is the number on the door.
Memory!
You have the key,
The little lamp spreads a ring on the stair,
Mount.
The bed is open; the tooth-brush hangs on the wall,
Put your shoes at the door, sleep, prepare for life."
The last twist of the knife

by T. S. Eliot

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
http://www.mostentertaining.com/tutors/cara/

Songwriters – Eric Clampton

http://musiced.about.com/od/songwriters/p/ericclapton.htm?nl=1

http://musiced.about.com/od/faqs/f/hook.htm?p=1

In music the word "hook" refers to that part of a song that catches the ear of the listener. In other words, it's a lyrical line or melodic phrase that makes the song memorable. In this context you can say songwriting is somewhat like fishing; make your hook strong and appealing and you'll be able to catch 'em and reel 'em in.

The hook may be the title of the song, a lyrical line (usually repeated) that summarizes what the song is about, a rhythmic passage or an instrumental part called "riff." It is mostly evident in pop music; songs that have made it to the top of the charts have unforgettable hooks. Here are some examples:

Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds -
"Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't don't don't
Don't you forget about me"

With Or Without You by U2 -
"With or without you
With or without you, oh
I can't live with or without you"

Nothing Compares 2 U by Sinead O'Connor
"Nothing compares
Nothing compares to you"

I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston -
"And I will always love you
I will always love you"

You're Beautiful by James Blunt
"You're beautiful, you're beautiful
You're beautiful it's true"

Sunday, 25 April 2010

Crystal Arts & Health

Welcome everyone to the blog of Crystal Arts & Health Topics that will be covered are Crystal Healing, Herbalism, Yoga, Music, Poetry, The Arts and activities of Crystal Arts & 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

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 & 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 and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags and wedding and event favours.

Crystal Healing

Ametrine: Combination of Amethyst and Citrine Combats Depression, peace, tranquility, considered a powerful money stone.

Aquamarine: Boosts immune system (thymus chakra, throat). Protection stone for sea travel. Encourages optimism, expression, inspiration.

Herbalism

The Eye: Eyebright (Euphrasio officinalis)
Helpful in acute and chronic inflammation, stinging and weeping eyes as well as oversensitivity to light. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 tsp of dried herb and infuse for 5-10 minutes drink x 3 a day. Compress: Place a tsp of dried herb in half a litre of water and boil for 10 minutes, let cool slightly. Moisten a compress in the lukewarm liquid, wring out slightly and place over eyes.

Cleaver (Galium aparine)
Tonic for lymphatic system, used in swollen glands, tonsillitis, adenoids, dry varieties of Psoriasis, Cystitis, ulcers and tumours. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2-3 tsp of dried herb and leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes drink x 3 a day.

Yoga

Preliminary leg pull
Benefits: Removes stiffness, promotes elasticity in spine through concave stretching movement,Relieves tension in back, Stretches and strengthens entire leg, Makes muscles and skin of legs taunt and firm

How to do: 1) Sit on the floor with legs extended straight out in front of you, feet together, back of knees touching floor. 2) Extend your arms straight out in front of you so hands are at eye level. 3) Very slowly stretch as far forward as you can, aim hand for the farthermost part of your legs. Don’t worry if this isn’t very far at first, don’t strain, go out of the position if it becomes uncomfortable. 4) Gently in slow motion, bend your elbows outward and pull yourself forward and downward until you reach the beyond you can’t stretch anymore comfortably. Hold this position motionlessly for a few seconds, don’t bounce or strain. 5) After holding this position very slowly raise your trunk to the upright position. Go into the corpse position to rest for a couple of minutes and repeat three times, resting between the final movement

Poetry

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/famous/angelou/maya.html

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

The free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wings
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings
with fearful trill
of the things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom

The free bird thinks of another breeze
and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams
his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream
his wings are clipped and his feet are tied
so he opens his throat to sing

The caged bird sings
with a fearful trill
of things unknown
but longed for still
and his tune is heard
on the distant hill
for the caged bird
sings of freedom.

by Maya Angelou

Music

Vocal resource

http://www.trainmyvoice.com/

The Parts of a Song

By Espie Estrella, About.com Guide

Song Title:

The title of the song is very important; think of yourself as a salesperson who needs to pitch a product and the title as the name of that product. You would want your title to be memorable and fitting to the theme of the song. You should also highlight your title by placing it within the lyrics of the song.

Title Placement:

In the AAA song form, titles are placed either at the beginning or end of each verse. In the AABA, the title usually appears at the beginning or end of the A section. In the verse/chorus and verse/chorus/bridge song, the title often begins or ends the chorus.

Verse:
The verse is the part of the song that tells a story. Again think of yourself as a salesperson, you would need to use the proper words to convey information about your product in order to sell it. The verse functions the same way; it gives listeners more insight leading to the main message of the song and it moves the story forward. A song may have a number of verses, depending on the form, consisting of several lines each.

Refrain:
A refrain is a line (also can be the title) that is repeated at the end of every verse. Let's take our example for the AAA song form: at the end of each verse of "Bridge Over Troubled Water" the line (which also happens to be the title) "Like a bridge over troubled water" is repeated. The refrain is different from the chorus.

Chorus:
The chorus is the part of the song that often sticks to the mind of a listener because it contrasts with the verse and is repeated several times. The main theme is expressed in the chorus; the title of the song is usually included in the chorus too. Coming back to our salesperson analogy, think of the chorus as the slogan, the words that effectively summarizes why consumers should buy your product.

Differences Between Refrain and Chorus:

There is some confusion as to the function of the refrain and chorus. Although both have lines that are repeated and may contain the title, the refrain and chorus vary in length. The refrain is shorter than the chorus; often the refrain is composed of 2 lines while the chorus can be made up of several lines. The chorus is also melodically, rhythmically and lyrically different from the verse and expresses the main message of the song.

Pre-Chorus:
Also known as the "climb," this part of the song differs melodically and lyrically from the verse and comes before the chorus. The reason why it's called a climb is because it heightens the anticipation of the listeners for the coming climax which is the chorus. An example of a song with a climb is "If Ever You're In My Arms Again" by Peabo Bryson

Climb:
We had a once in a lifetime
But I just couldn't see
Until it was gone
A second once in a lifetime
May be too much to ask
But I swear from now on

Bridge (AABA):

In the AABA song form, the bridge (B) is musically and lyrically different than the A sections. In this form, the bridge gives the song contrast before transitioning to the final A section, therefore it is a necessary part of the song.

Bridge (Verse/Chorus/Bridge):
In the verse/chorus/bridge song form however, the bridge functions differently. It is shorter than the verse and should offer a reason why the final chorus needs to be repeated. It also differs melodically, lyrically and rhythmically from the verse and chorus. In the song "Just Once" recorded by James Ingram, the bridge part begins with the line "Just once I want to understand..."

Coda:
Coda is an Italian word for "tail," it is the additional lines of a song which brings it to a close. The coda is an optional addition to a song.

Sunday, 18 April 2010

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Crystal Healing

Garnet – Base Chakra. Speeds up healing process. Can be used with clear quartz healing wands for this purpose. Energizing, warming, good against cold, sluggishness and for improved circulation.

Herkimer Diamond – Powerful Detoxifier, wear over pancreas for Diabetes. Good for meditation. Found in Herkimer County, New York state. Amplifier used by healers. Dispels darkness, balances energy flows.

Herbalism

Caynenne Pepper (Capsicum minimum)

Used extensively by Mayan and Aztec. Nourishes the heart, removes plaque from the arteries, help rebuild flesh destroyed or harmed by frostbite, heal hemorrhoids, re-build stomach tissue, heals stomach ulcers. Good for circulation, equalizes blood pressure, used for gall bladder. Antifungal. Used as a rubefacient for lumbago, rheumatic pains. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto ½ to 1 tsp of Cayenne, infuse for 10 minutes. A tablespoon of this infusion should be mixed with hot water and drunk when needed.

Elder (Sambucus nigra)
Bark: purgative, emetic, diuretic, Leaves externally emollient and vulnerary, internally, purgative, expectorant, diuretic and diaphoretic, Flowers: Diaphoretic, anti-catarrhal, Berries: Diaphoretic, diuretic, laxative. Leaves used for bruises, sprains, wounds and chilblains, ointment for tumours, flowers treatment of colds and influenza, Hayfever, Sinusitis. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2 teaspoon of blossoms, leave to infuse for 10 minutes, drink x 3 a day.

Marigold (Calendula officinalis) Vulnerary. Reduces inflammation, helps chilblains, chapped or cracked skin, excellent for bruises and burns.

Yoga

Kriyas Set of six purifying exercises:

Neti – Cleansing exercise for the nose and sinuses.

Nauli – Strong churning of the abdomen.

Dhauti – Exercise to cleanse upper digestive track (mouth, oesophagus, and stomach)

Basti – Cleansing of the colon or lower digestive track.

Kapalabhati – Rapid abdominal breathing that cleanses the respiratory track.

Tratak – Stimulates powerful cleansing of the eye, sinus and forehead region.

Poetry

A Psalm of Life

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

Music

http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnerstheory/f/modes.htm?nl=1

Types of Modal Scales

Ionian - Also known as the major scale; follows the pattern W-W-H-W-W-W-H.

Dorian - Constructed from the second note of a major scale; follows the pattern W-H-W-W-W-H-W.

Phrygian - Constructed from the third note of a major scale; follows the pattern H-W-W-W-H-W-W.

Lydian - Constructed from the fourth note of a major scale; follows the pattern W-W-W-H-W-W-H.

Mixolydian - Also known as "mixo," is constructed from the fifth note of a major scale and follows the pattern W-W-H-W-W-H-W.

Aeolian - Also known as the natural minor scale, is constructed from the sixth note of a major scale and follows the pattern W-H-W-W-H-W-W.

Locrian - Constructed from the seventh note of a major scale; follows the pattern H-W-W-H-W-W-W.

Each mode has a very distinct sound; for example, the Phrygian mode sounds melancholy and reflects the music of Spain.

The Lydian mode sounds happy and is often used in jazz and rock music.

The Mixolydian mode evokes a bluesy sound and can often be heard in jazz, blues and rock music.

The Locrian mode, on the other hand, has a very strange sound but is rarely used.

Note: W = whole step, H = half step

Tips for Music Education
http://www.funmusicco.com/musicteachersblog/2010/04/classroom-management-for-the-music-teacher/

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