June 8th 1998
"BALANCE YOUR SEXUAL ENERGIES" PART 4
Californian Flower Essences:
The next chapter will be a conclusion of the last 6 workshops. It will finish with a short description of a future cycle of workshops.
"ENERGY IN BALANCE"
In the last thirteen workshops we looked at most parts of our body. Starting with the feet we came to the hands and from the hands to the heart. We looked at our eating habits, belly and intestines and from there we moved towards eyes, mouth and jaw and vocal expression. The workshop about "keeping your sacrum more sacred" brought us to the end of the first series of seven workshops.
The next workshop cycle started with the ear, the two sides of the brain and then brought us to neck and shoulders. We had a very long workshop about breathing and then came over thighs, knees and calves to the chapter about sexuality.
In these workshop we used seven natural tools such as:
I had already taught various body-orientated workshops about vocal expression, the sacrum and the eyes and I then decided to use the title of the lecture as a heading for my future cycle of seven workshops.
I hold these workshop cycles at my home in Vauxhall. Usually I work with a group of 4 to 8 people. Thus there has always been space for people to talk about their individual problems and also listen and relate to others.
It seems as if the most natural ways to heal our body and mind are hardly practised any more. Things that used to happen naturally such as touch, hand -on- healing, breathing and the use of flowers and stones get more and more forgotten. People want fast cures without having to make any efforts to understand their emotions and their bodies.
Time has become a scarce commodity to most of us -apart from those who are on the dole. And those who are on the dole quite often take drugs (smoking, alcohol, too much food, etc) or use the time to look for a job and get into a nervous rush mostly feeling guilty and inadequate. Only a few see the big chance in their life to give some energy and attention to their "inner child" and to their body after years of abusing it.
"Energy in Balance" means that we are striving towards a balance in our life in many different ways. Balance in various activities acted out with different parts of our body can be an important aim. Balance in giving and taking is very essential. Symmetrical balance within the body especially where we have pairs of limbs and organs is a goal that must have been in Leonardo da Vinci's mind. He was a master of many arts and so was Goethe.
Nowadays we usually train to be good in one subject and then we have to perform it for the rest of our lives. We are sometimes able to have a second subject as a hobby. Usually the pressure to earn meney does not leave us with any time for amything else. The ambition to be good plays another vital role in people's inhibition to learn things they have always wanted to do.
. After having been used for most of the time in their lifes people are released at an age and a state of mind and body where they usually have lost most of their drive and interest to learn new things.
I know that the reality is not as dim as I have painted it. At Adult Eduvation Centres we can see a growing interest in the arts and in lots of alternative subjects. For example Morley College in London is offering a wide variety of courses for the summer which seems to grow wider every year. It is a joy to go there and see the enthusiasm of the students who are often more then 70 years old. I can only hope that problems such as underemployment, closing of hospitals and diseases like AIDS will channel us into leading a lifestyle which is healthier and more natural and make us listen more to our body's needs.
The future cycle of workshops will deal with our organs ,glands and chakras. We will be forming a link with the planets that are connected with them and look at various theories and exercises that can help us to get more in touch with our own body, mind and spirit.