Community arts – the importance of creating together

Posted on Jul 5, 2010 in Spiritual living

I was at the fantastic Mid Wales Shakespeare Centre over the weekend for the Family Shakespeare Festival, in my other guise as theatre administrator and actress (as well as leading an ancestral healing workshop). It was a fantastic and much-needed celebration of creativity and communication through performing arts as it came hot on the heels of a devastating announcement that mid Wales has lost three of its arts centres – Wyeside in Builth Wells, CARAD in Rhayader and Theatr Powys in Llandrindod Wells – due to Arts Council funding cuts.

Maintaining a healthy throat chakra

Posted on Jul 1, 2010 in Healing

This chakra is situated in the area of the neck and shoulders, and controls the thyroid and parathyroid glands. Not surprisingly for the location of the voice box, the throat chakra relates to communciation through sound, vibration, self-expression and creativity. As with the heart, we’re moving further away from the physical now. because communication allows us to transcend the ordinary limitations of the body and to make connections with others.

The Mayan calendar

Posted on Jun 21, 2010 in Spiritual living

Yesterday I attended an excellent workshop by my friend and mine of information Nick Marchmont (see his details at the end of this post) on the Mayan culture and their calendar.

It was actually the second time I’d attended as I’d been a guinea pig for the first workshop, but it was more than worth a second hearing. The calendar is an amazingly complex and detailed journey through the year, giving anyone who chooses to use it a useful structure for any kind of project and indeed life management.

Listening to your body talk

Posted on Jun 18, 2010 in Healing

As a healer I’m well aware that physical pains and problems are often just the symptom of a client’s underlying mental, emotion or spiritual dis-ease. We’ve become very used to ignoring and disrespecting our body, when really it’s the most incredible mine of information when it comes to our wellbeing – if we’d just take the time to listen. Hands up who’s ignored that slight tension in the neck only to have to visit a chiropractor a few months down the line with a frozen shoulder (yes, my hand is in the air)?