Last month’s blog was about using Summer’s healing gifts when our heart is in relatively good shape. This blog looks at Summer’s gifts for healing serious heart hurts. As lovely as Summer can be, it has a tough side, too. There are obvious risks like dehydration, sunburn and other forms of burnout from too much of all that comes with this season. Other challenges of Summer are less obvious - and far riskier. This Season of the Heart …
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Developing Greater Body Awareness—Why Bother?
Body-oriented holistic practices are based on the idea that the body is more than a container or machine that carries around our real self, our mind. Instead, the idea is that the body is alive. Experience is holistic, with thoughts, feelings, and body states intertwined. For example, when you think a fearful thought, your shoulders may tense and your breath may become shallow. When in a meditative state, your body is relaxed. What are some …
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Essential Oils Seminar in Baltimore This Fall
Mark your calendars for September 22-23. This Autumn, Ruscombe will host Tiffany Carole’s only East Coast workshop this year. Tiffany’s groundbreaking work with Essential Oils has brought them into the healing paths thousands of patients. Her high level teaching engages both newcomers and old hands. …
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Tending our Tender Hearts
Healing with the Seasons: Summer (Part 1) Such a buzz of busy-ness this time of year! More hours of daylight and yet not enough hours in a day. Sometimes, I feel like a pup leaning out a car window, with the world speeding past so fast, all I can do is hang on and grin as it flies by. I want to ‘Make hay while the sun shines.’ But I still have pots of little plants on the porch, waiting to root in my garden. Summer flies. So …
Working with the Hara
Working with the Hara is a central idea in Shiatsu. Hara is a Japanese word that physically refers to the abdomen. However, it means more than the physical. In Western thought the lower abdomen is important, called the “core” and the center of gravity of the physical body. Here, Hara is an important core and center of a person’s entire being. …