Crystal Arts &amp; Health

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/yule-rituals-are-aided-by-garnet-jade-and-moonstones-a375260

http://cara-moore.suite101.com/how-to-have-a-country-christmas-a297440

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.

Emerald

Promotes harmony and justice, recuperation and regeneration. Supports seeking and realizing objectives. Helps with sinusitis, headaches, epilepsy and diseases of the eyes, heart and intestine.

Healing Crystals, Michael Gienger

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

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

"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:

Hyssop (Hyssopus officinalis)

Anti-spasmodic, expectorant, diaphoretic, sedative, carminative. Coughs, bronchitis, chronic catarrh, common cold, nervine, anxiety, petit mal (epilepsy). Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto-1 - 2 tsp of dried herb, leave to infuse for 10-15 minutes, drink x 3 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

Yoga

http://www.yogajournal.com/poses/489

Full Boat Pose (Paripurna Navasana)

Anatomical Focus: Thyroid

Benefits: Strengthens the abdomen, hip flexors, and spine, Stimulates the kidneys, thyroid and prostate glands, and intestines , helps relieve stress, improves digestion

Contraindications and Cautions: Asthma, Diarrhea, Headache, Heart Problems, Insomnia, Low blood pressure, Menstruation, Pregnancy, Neck injury: Sit with your back near a wall to perform this pose. As you tilt your torso back rest the back of your head on the wall.

Sit on the floor with your legs straight in front of you. Press your hands on the floor a little behind your hips, fingers pointing toward the feet, and strengthen the arms. Lift through the top of the sternum and lean back slightly. As you do this make sure your back doesn't round; continue to lengthen the front of your torso between the pubis and top sternum. Sit on the "tripod" of your two sitting bones and tailbone.
Exhale and bend your knees, then lift your feet off the floor, so that the thighs are angled about 45-50 degrees relative to the floor. Lengthen your tailbone into the floor and lift your pubis toward your navel. If possible, slowly straighten your knees, raising the tips of your toes slightly above the level of your eyes. If this isn't possible remain with your knees bent, perhaps lifting the shins parallel to the floor.
Stretch your arms alongside the legs, parallel to each other and the floor. Spread the shoulder blades across your back and reach strongly out through the fingers. If this isn't possible, keep the hands on the floor beside your hips or hold on to the backs of your thighs.
While the lower belly should be firm, it shouldn't get hard and thick. Try to keep the lower belly relatively flat. Press the heads of the thigh bones toward the floor to help anchor the pose and lift the top sternum. Breathe easily. Tip the chin slightly toward the sternum so the base of the skull lifts lightly away from the back of the neck.
At first stay in the pose for 10-20 seconds. Gradually increase the time of your stay to 1 minute. Release the legs with an exhalation and sit upright on an inhalation.

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

When I am dead

a poem by Christina Rossetti

When I am dead, my dearest,

Sing no sad songs for me:
Plant thou no roses at my head,
Nor shady cypress tree:
Be the green grass above me
With showers and dewdrops wet;
And if thou wilt, remember,
And if thou wilt, forget.

I shall not see the shadows,

I shall not feel the rain;
I shall not hear the nightingale
Sing on, as if in pain;
And dreaming through the twilight
That doth not rise nor set,
Haply I may remember,
And haply may forget.

Music

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

Vocal Training

http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance

Mariah Carey

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY

All I Want For Christmas lyrics

I don't want a lot for Christmas

There's just one thing I need
I don't care about the presents
Underneath the Christmas tree
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true...
All I want for christmas
Is you...

I don't want a lot for christmas

There is just one thing I need

I don't care about the presents

Underneath the Christmas tree

I don't need to hang my stockings

There upon the fireplace

Santa Clause won't keep me happy

With a toy on christmas day

I just want you for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

All I want for Christmas is you...

You baby

I won't ask for much this Christmas

I won't even wish for snow

I'm just gonna keep on waiting

Underneath the mistletoe

I won't make a list and send it

To the north pole for Saint nick

I won't even stay awake to

Hear those magic reindeer click

'Cause I just want you here tonight

Holding on to me so tight

What more can I do

Baby all I want for christmas is you

You...

All the lights are shining

So brightly everywhere

And the sound of childrens

Laughter fills the air

And everyone is singing

I hear those sleigh bells ringing
Santa won't you bring me the one I really need

Won't you please bring my baby to me...

Oh I don't want a lot for christmas

This is all I'm asking for

I just want to see my baby

Standing right outside my door

Oh I just want him for my own

More than you could ever know

Make my wish come true

Baby all I want for Christmas is

You

Saturday, 3 December 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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)

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, 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.

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.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Lunar Crystals

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Ivory Jasper

Cleansing. Brings constant, harmonious flow power, helps avoid extremes. Alleviates allergies and skin problems.

Healing Crystals, Michael Gienger

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

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

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Horsetail (Equisetum arvense)

Astringent, diuretic, vulnerary. Astringent for genito-urinary system, reducing haemorrhage, healing wounds, mild diuretic, inflamed/ benign enlargement of prostrate, ease pain of rheumatism, chilblains. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2 tsp of dried herb, infuse for 15-20 minutes x 3 a day.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

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/2500

Side-Reclining Leg Lift (Anantasana)

Anatomical Focus: Hips

Benefits: Stretches the backs of the legs, Stretches the sides of the torso, Tones the belly

Follow-Up Poses: Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward-Facing Dog)

Lie on the floor on your right. Press actively through your right heel, flex the ankle, and use the outside of the foot to stabilize the position (if you still feel unstable, brace your soles against the wall.)
Stretch your right arm straight out along the floor parallel to your torso, so that you create one long line from the heels to your finger tips. Bend your right elbow and support your head in your palm. Slide the elbow away from your torso to stretch the armpit.
Externally rotate your left leg so the toes point toward the ceiling, then bend and draw the knee toward your torso. Reach across the inside of the leg and take hold of the left big toe with your index and middle fingers. Secure the grip by wrapping the thumb around the two fingers. (If you're not able to comfortably hold the toe, loop a strap around the sole and hold the strap.) On an inhale, extend the leg up toward the ceiling.
The raised leg will likely angle slightly forward, while the top buttock will drop back. Firm the sacrum against the pelvis; this creates a kind of fulcrum that will help you move the leg slightly back toward a perpendicular position.
Press actively through both heels. Stay in the pose for 30 seconds to 1 minute, then release the leg, take a few breaths, and roll over onto your left side. Repeat for the same length of time.

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

Grief

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;

That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God's throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens. Deep-hearted man, express
Grief for thy Dead in silence like to death--
Most like a monumental statue set
In everlasting watch and moveless woe
Till itself crumble to the dust beneath.
Touch it; the marble eyelids are not wet:
If it could weep, it could arise and go.

Music

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance

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

Anne Murray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_hFOBo7-I&feature=related

I Just Fall In Love Again

Dreaming

I must be dreaming
or am I really lying here with you

Baby

You take me in your arms
and though I'm wide awake
I know my dream is coming true

Chorus:

And though I

Just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
There I go I
Just fall in love again
and when I do
I can't help myself I fall in love with you

Magic

It must be magic
The way I hold you and the night just seems to fly

Easy

For you to take me to a star
Heaven is that moment when I look into your eyes

Chorus:

And though I
Just fall in love again
Just one touch and then it happens every time
There I go I
Just fall in love again
and when I do
I can't help myself I fall in love with you
I can't help myself I fall in love with you

Saturday, 26 November 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

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)

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.

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.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Lunar Crystals

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

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

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

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

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

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.

Press your palms firmly against your knees. Fan the palms and splay your fingers like the sharpened claws of a large feline.
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.
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).
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

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

Vocal Training

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

Saturday, 19 November 2011

Crystal Arts And Health

New Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

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. 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.

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.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Lunar Crystals

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

The Earth Chakra is located beneath the feet, imbalances or blockages lead to discomfort in physical body, helplessness, inability to function practically in the world, adverse environmental factors such as geopathic stress, “black” ley lines and toxic pollutants. Using earth chakra crystals offset the negative quality of powerlessness with the positive quality of empowerment.

Earth healing stones, brown stones, brown aragonite, smoky quartz, blue sapphire and prehnite.

Smoky quartz, labradorite, and black tourmaline draw off negative energies.

Crystal Prescriptions, Judy Hall

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

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

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Hops (Humulus lupulus)

Sedative, hypnotic, antiseptic, astringent. Relaxes central nervous system, treatment of insomnia, tension anxiety, indigestion, mucous colitis. Caution: Do not use in cases of severe Depression. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 1 teaspoonful of dried flowers and infuse for 10-15 minutes, a cup should be drunk at night to induce sleep.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

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/2476

Extended Puppy Pose

Uttana Shishosana

Anatomical Focus: Spine

Therapeutic Applications: Stress

Benefits: Stretches the spine and shoulder

Contraindications and Cautions: Knee injury

Come onto all fours. See that your shoulders are above your wrists and your hips are above your knees. Walk your hands forward a few inches and curl your toes under.
As you exhale, move your buttocks halfway back toward your heels. Keep your arms active; don't let your elbows touch the ground.
Drop your forehead to the floor or to a blanket and let your neck relax. Keep a slight curve in your lower back. To feel a nice long stretch in your spine, press the hands down and stretch through the arms while pulling your hips back toward your heels.
Breathe into your back, feeling the spine lengthen in both directions. Hold for 30 seconds to a minute, then release your buttocks down onto your heels.

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

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

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

Vocal Training

http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance

Macy Gray

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFRIskD12qU

Winter Wonderland

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

In the lane, snow is glistening.
A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight
Walking in a winter wonderland.

Gone away, is the bluebird

Here to stay, is a new bird.
He sings a love song, as we go along,
Walking in a winter wonderland.

In the meadow we can build a snowman,

And pretend that he is Parson Brown.
He'll say are you married? We'll say "No man,
But you can do the job when you're in town."

Later on, we'll conspire,

As we dream, by the fire
To face unafraid, the plans that we've made
Walking in a winter wonderland.

(Instrumental)

Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?

In the lane, snow is glistening.
A beautiful sight, we're happy tonight
Walking in a winter wonderland.

Gone away, is the bluebird

Here to stay, is a new bird.
He sings a love song, as we go along,
Walking in a winter wonderland.

In the meadow we can build a snowman,

And pretend that he's a circus clown.
We'll have lots of fun with Mr. Snowman.
Until the other kids come knock him down.

When it's cold, ain't it thrilling

When your nose, gets to chilling.
We'll frolic and play, the eskimo way,
Walking in a winter wonderland.
Walking in a winter wonderland!
Walking in a winter wonderland.
Walking in a winter wonderland!

Saturday, 12 November 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

New Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

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"

The latest addition is the new large Crystal shaped soaps like the wedding favour soaps in birthday month crystals. 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. 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. A Yule blend of Cinnamon, Clove, Frankincense, Myrrh and Orange is also available.

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.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Lunar Crystals

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Tiger Iron – Life energies, helps overcome difficulties, helps carry out pragmatic solutions rapidly with determination. Helps with exhaustion, circulation problems, promotes blood formulation and oxygen transportation.

Michael Gienger, Healing Crystals

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

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

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Hawthorne Berries (Crataegus oxyacanthoides) Cardiac tonic, hypotensive. Remedy of heart and circulatory system. Normalizes heart function in a gentle way, arteriosclerosis, angina pectoris, varicose veins and ulcers. Dosage: Pour a cup of boiling water onto 2 teaspoonfuls of berries and leaves, infuse 20 minutes, drink x 3 a day, can be used over a long period.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

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/2472

Garland Pose

Malasana

Anatomical Focus: Thighs

Contraindications and Cautions: Low back or knee injuries

Benefits: Stretches the ankles, groins and back torso, Tones the belly

Squat with your feet as close together as possible. (Keep your heels on the floor if you can; otherwise, support them on a folded mat.)
Separate your thighs slightly wider than your torso. Exhaling, lean your torso forward and fit it snugly between your thighs.
Press your elbows against your inner knees, bringing your palms to together in Anjali Mudra (Salutation Seal), and resist the knees into the elbows. This will help lengthen your front torso.
To go further, press your inner thighs against the sides of your torso. Reach your arms forward, then swing them out to the sides and notch your shins into your armpits. Press your finger tips to the floor, or reach around the outside of your ankles and clasp your back heels.
Hold the position for 30 seconds to 1 minute, then inhale, straighten the knees, and stand into Uttanasana.

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

I know why the caged bird sings by Maya Angelou

A free bird leaps on the back

Of the wind and floats downstream
Till the current ends and dips his wing
In the orange suns 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 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.

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.

Music

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

Vocal Training

http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance

Billy Joel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UQeakzdUu4

Baby Grand

Late at night

When it's dark and cold
I reach out
For someone to hold
When I'm blue
When I'm lonely
She comes through
She's the only one who can
My baby grand
Is all I need

In my time

I've wandered everywhere
Around this world
She would always be there
Any day
Any hour
All it takes
Is the power in my hands
This baby grand's
Been good to me

I've had friends

But they have slipped away
I've had fame
But it doesn't stay
I've made fortunes
Spent them fast enough
As for women
They don't last with just one man
But my baby grand
Will stand by me

They say that no one's gonna play this on the radio

They said the melancholy blues were dead and gone
But only songs like these
Played in minor keys
Keep those memories holding on

I've come far

From the life I've strayed in
I've got scars
From those dives I've played in
Now I'm home
And I'm weary

In my bones

Every dreary one night stand
But my baby grand
Is coming home with me

Ever since this gig began

My baby grand's

Been good to me

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

New Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

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. 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. A Yule blend of Cinnamon, Clove, Frankincense, Myrrh and Orange is also available.

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.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Lunar Crystals

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Howlite – Independence, aids taking control of one’s life. Fortifies sense of balance, helps with nausea. Eases vomiting, ameliorates skin irritation caused by contact poison.

Michael Gienger, Healing Crystals

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

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

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Goldenrod (Solidago virgaurea)

Anti-inflammatory, anti-microbial. Used in treatment of the inflammation of the bladder or urinary tract, kidney stones, influenza, upper respiratory congestion, arthritis, periodontal disease and gastrointestinal disorders. Dosage: Pour 1 cup of boiling water over 1 tsp of dried herb, infuse 10-15 minutes, drink x 3 a day.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

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/2446

Intuition Meditation

When you want to understand something or make a decision, ask for guidance, and then experiment with following the guidance you receive. Here is a process to use that can really make a difference in your ability to hear what your deeper Self wants to tell you.
Spend some time formulating your question, getting as clear as possible about it. Write it down. (This is important-the act of writing concretizes your question or issue.) You could start by asking for help in resolving a creative problem, problematic relationship, or living situation. You could ask for insight about your practice or about an inner tendency that disturbs you.
Sit comfortably with your back erect but not rigid and your eyes closed. Hold the question in your mind. Say it to yourself a few times and notice the feelings that arise when you do. Notice any thoughts that come up, including resistance to the process. Jot them down if they seem important or relevant.
Use the rhythm of the breath as an anchor. Keep your attention on the breath until the mind relaxes and becomes quieter.
Sink your attention deeper. You can do this by focusing on the heart center (in the middle of the chest) or on the belly center (three inches below the navel, deep inside the body). Or you can use a visualization: Imagine yourself descending a staircase into a quiet cave, moving step-by-step until you find yourself enclosed in quiet.
In this quiet space, ask the sage within you, the person of wisdom who resides in your deepest core, to be present. Or, if there is a particular deity form or teacher or sage you respect, you might ask that being to be present. Alternatively, you might simply have the feeling that you are asking guidance from the universe, the Tao, the source of all. Understand that it is enough to ask that inner wisdom be present.
Ask your question. Then wait silently, without expectation or discouragement, to see what emerges. Remember that insight does not always come in words. It might come as a feeling, an image, or something said by another person. Also, it might not come the moment you ask for it. Intuition emerges in its own time. Once you have seeded the question, be attentive during the next 24 to 48 hours, because answers to your question will arise.
As insights come, write them down. Hold each one in your mind and let it percolate. See what comes up and note the feelings. You may be drawn to interpreting the insight, but it is also enough just to hold it in your consciousness. As you do, it will create shifts in consciousness all by itself. Note that if your insight feels judgmental, punishing, or blaming, it is probably not coming from your deepest source.
Finally, think of a step you can take to put your insight into action. Here is where the real experiment begins. The only way to learn to follow your intuitive guidance is to try it and be very aware of the results.

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

Cinderella

The prince leans to the girl in scarlet heels,

Her green eyes slant, hair flaring in a fan
Of silver as the rondo slows; now reels
Begin on tilted violins to span

The whole revolving tall glass palace hall
Where guests slide gliding into light like wine;
Rose candles flicker on the lilac wall
Reflecting in a million flagons' shine,

And glided couples all in whirling trance
Follow holiday revel begun long since,
Until near twelve the strange girl all at once
Guilt-stricken halts, pales, clings to the prince

As amid the hectic music and cocktail talk
She hears the caustic ticking of the clock.

Music

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

Vocal Training

http://musicaltheatre.suite101.com/article.cfm/vocal-training-posture-and-warm-ups-key-to-best-performance

Leona Lewis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vzo-EL_62fQ

Bleeding Love

Closed off from love

I didn't need the pain
Once or twice was enough
And it was all in vain
Time starts to pass
Before you know it you're frozen

Ooooh...

But something happened

For the very first time with you
My heart melted to the ground
Found something true
And everyone's looking 'round
Thinking I'm going crazy

Oooh, yahhh

But I don't care what they say

I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

Oooh, oooh...

Trying hard not to hear

But they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears
Try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that their goal
Is to keep me from falling

Hey, yeah!

But nothing's greater
Than the rush that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness
I see your face
Yet everyone around me
Thinks that I'm going crazy
Maybe, maybe

But I don't care what they say

I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein
That I keep on closing
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open

And it's draining all of me

Oh they find it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars
For everyone to see

I don't care what they say

I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away
But they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the pain
That I keep all closed in
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding
I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding
Keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I

Keep bleeding

Keep, keep bleeding love

Monday, 31 October 2011

Crystal Arts And Health Blog

Happy Samhain and Halloween.

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

Online training courses in Crystal Healing and Herbalism are available at http://crystalartsandhealth.coggno.com/shop (Accredited by World Metaphysical Association)

My book, Herbal Primer, 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

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 as well as a selection of angels, Victorian cherub angel shapes, simple angels and nature fairy scenes in a yellow sandalwood and clear quartz handmade soap. 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 and make-ups.

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

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.susunweed.com/Article_Surviving_Radiation.htm

Lunar Crystals

It is possible to reprogram patterns of behavior and facilitate healthy sources of nurturing.

Watermelon Tourmaline

Promotes love, friendship and security, dispels fear and depression. Helps express one’s intentions clearly, strengthens the heart, promotes regeneration of nerves, helps with paralysis and multiple sclerosis.

Michael Gienger, Healing Crystals

Herbalism

Article on Radiation

Herbal Articles by Cara E Moore

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

Useful herb resource for vitamin and herb interactions:

Gingko Biloba

Anti-inflammatory, Antioxidant, Improves blood flow, Strengthens blood vessels. Relaxes the lungs, circulatory system tonic, vasodilator. Used in treatments for sexual function in men and women, circulation, mental function, eyesight, impotence, vertigo, tinnitus, male enhancement, Acrocyanosis, Alzheimer's, Asthma, cerebral atherosclerosis, cochlear deafness, dementia, depression, diabetes related nerve damage and poor circulation, diabetic retinopathy, improving circulation to the brain in the elderly, leg ulcers, macular degeneration, menopause, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, PMS, Raynaud's disease, Sinusitis, strokes, thrombosis, tinnitus, varicose veins and vertigo. Dosage: Pour 1 cup of boiling water over 1 tsp of dried herb, infuse 10-15 minutes, drink x 3 a day.

Herbal Primer, Cara E. Moore

Yoga

http://hatha-yoga.suite101.com/article.cfm/yoga-practice-routine-for-office-workers

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/784

Anatomical Focus: Ankles, Calves, Thighs, Knees, Groins, Shoulders, Chest, Spine, Abdomen

Therapeutic Applications: Anxiety, Backache, Osteoporosis, Sciatica, Fatigue, Constipation

Gastritis, Indigestion, Menstrual pain

Contraindications and Cautions: If you have any neck problems, don't turn your head to look upward; continue looking straight ahead and keep both sides of the neck evenly long. Headache or migraine, Low blood pressure, Diarrhea, Insomnia

Half Moon Pose

Ardha Chandrasana

The moon has a rich symbolic significance in yoga mythology. In hatha yoga, for example, the sun and the moon represent the two polar energies of the human body. In fact, the word hatha itself is often divided into its two constituent syllables, "ha" and "tha", which are then esoterically interpreted as signifying the solar and lunar energies respectively.

(are-dah chan-DRAHS-anna)

ardha = half
candra = glittering, shining, having the brilliancy or hue of light (said of the gods); usually translated as "moon"

Perform Utthita Trikonasana to the right side, with your left hand resting on the left hip. Inhale, bend your right knee, and slide your left foot about 6 to 12 inches forward along the floor. At the same time, reach your right hand forward, beyond the little-toe side of the right foot, at least 12 inches.

Exhale, press your right hand and right heel firmly into the floor, and straighten your right leg, simultaneously lifting the left leg parallel (or a little above parallel) to the floor. Extend actively through the left heel to keep the raised leg strong. Be careful not to lock (and so hyperextend) the standing knee: make sure the kneecap is aligned straight forward and isn't turned inward.
Rotate your upper torso to the left, but keep the left hip moving slightly forward. Most beginners should keep the left hand on the left hip and the head in a neutral position, gazing forward.
Bear the body's weight mostly on the standing leg. Press the lower hand lightly to the floor, using it to intelligently regulate your balance. Lift the inner ankle of the standing foot strongly upward, as if drawing energy from the floor into the standing groin. Press the sacrum and scapulas firmly against the back torso, and lengthen the coccyx toward the raised heel.
Stay in this position for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Then lower the raised leg to the floor with an exhalation, and return to Trikonasana. Then perform the pose to the left for the same length of time.

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

Emily Dickenson

122

A something in a summer’s Day

As slow her flambeaux burn away
Which solemnizes me.

A something in a summer’s noon —

A depth — an Azure — a perfume —
Transcending ecstasy.

And still within a summer’s night

A something so transporting bright
I clap my hands to see —

Then veil my too inspecting face

Lets such a subtle — shimmering grace
Flutter too far for me —

The wizard fingers never rest —

The purple brook within the breast
Still chafes it narrow bed —

Still rears the East her amber Flag —

Guides still the sun along the Crag
His Caravan of Red —

So looking on — the night — the morn

Conclude the wonder gay —
And I meet, coming thro’ the dews
Another summer’s Day!

Music

Cara E. Moore http://www.reverbnation.com/controller/audio_player/detachable_player/artist_487603?autoPlay=true

Vocal Training