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- What is your website?
- www.craniosacral-art.com www.jakeandtuffy.co.za
- Which modalities do you practice?
- Deep Tissue Massage, Craniosacral Therapy
The focus of my work is the visual studies of elements and treatment protocols in the “art” of CranioSacral Therapy. One of the elements that I have wished to explore is the question: “Is Therapy Art?” There has been much written and said about art as therapy but little as yet about therapy as art.
I have recently finished writting and illustrating a children's story book titled Jake & Tuffy about an Aids orphan. The e-book is available in Engish, Afrikaans, French and German from the www.jakeandtuffy.co.za website. The first 12 pages are viewable for free.
Marissa Wolheim, director and trainer of Hospice in the West Krugersdorp said this about the book:
The book encompasses many vital points such as care, compassion, reaching out, hope, the power of love, grief and bereavement, feelings associated with loss, reality issues, survival issues, encouragement to use NGOs in the community, the power and importance of support groups, honesty and the miracles in life ... Awesome.
I hope that you will take time to look at the site.
Best wishes
Ray Lacey RCST N Dip GA N Dip GD
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I thought of studying sculpture at Emerson College, UK, where John Wilkes (protege of Schwenk) bases his curriculum on flow forms!
Liquid in Motion: water as healer
Very often both receiver and giver eventually reach a state of synchronicity that is quite blissful. Is it possible that one can move between cellular and cosmic levels of awareness, mediated by the magic of water? This is certainly something German researcher Theodor Schwenk hinted at in his work on water.
Water:nature's sense organ
Theodor Schwenk, protege of the German philosopher Rudolf Steiner, considered water to be nature's ultimate sense organ because of the sensitive way in which it responds to its surroundings. In Sensitive Chaos, he suggests that the movement behaviors of water preempt the development of all living things.
Between two waves of the sea
Theodor Schwenk proposed that the essence of water's movement is found in the tension between the linear tug of gravity and water's inherent tendency to draw itself into a sphere. Perhaps, by analogy, this has something to teach us about the need for a balance between linear and cyclical ways of thinking about things.
Have an art-filled week! S
Yes, Schwenk was a watershed for me. The phrase 'water as nature's sense organ' is profound. At one time I thought of studying sculpture at Emerson College, UK, as the course there (under John Wilkes, protege of Schwenk) was focused around flow forms.
From my blog Liquid in Motion: water as healer (the artwork that heads this post was done by a friend now deceased who really captured the underwater realm for me too)
While things are happening on a visible physical level, a new set of options is being mapped out for the emotional and cognitive parts of our brains which leads many to describe their experience as transformational. It's not something that occurs on a conscious level, making it difficult to articulate or evaluate.
Very often both receiver and giver eventually reach a state of synchronicity that is quite blissful. Is it possible that one can move between cellular and cosmic levels of awareness, mediated by the magic of water? This is certainly something German researcher Theodor Schwenk hinted at in his work on water.
Meanwhile, here are two posts on my blogs where I explore the same themes through my own practice aquatic bodywork. So good to meet you!
Aquatic bodywork as healing art
Aquatic healing arts in the blogosphere
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