29.4.2008

Body speaks!

I am so grateful for being in NZ with John and Lucy and having all this time to practise and learn from them. I started my regular meditations with Nelly as well. Met the lovely chef Laurance from England last night, a complete nutcase, who is having nightmares about Mrs Fields his maths teacher from 14years age. Apparently she was very mean and made him feel very stupid in maths. We did a little plan of tracking her down and getting Laurence to tell her exactly what she made him go through. And if she cant be tracked down he will practise it on us...with compassion!

Anyway, my body started to speak to me. It had been a long time since I did regular daily practise. It was one big long holiday for the past 6 weeks in India, travelling and enjoying and just being! But now, especially when john and lucy gets to realise how much work you need to put into your practise I feel like I'm breaking it all. Not necessarily my body, I dont mean breaking bones, injurying at all. I do ache eash day, I discover muscles each day and I wake a new part of my body each day...But I seem to be breaking through many habits, and understanding why I do what I do..Very complex to explain, but I hope one understand what I mean.

And as well as the tough, firm approach they have, it is amazing how much of their own energy they conserve and how they guide my body without moving their own. I found limits I didnt think were possible for some time, like getting both legs behind my head. I have so much trust in john and lucy that I simply yield and surrender. Lucy was amazed how easy it was for her to tie me in a knot in supta kurmasana, but that was simply because my body wasnt resisting them at all.

Lucy's knowledge of the body is just as incredible as she is a cranial osteopath. She touches the spine and feels the blockage, and what that can lead to. She gives us all little adjustments at the end of the practise as we lye in savasana. And there were certainly tears released from those adjustments. She speaks to the body, often feels what the body feels when we cant. Its a beautiful gift. i booked to have a treatment with her too.

So all in all, I'm absolutely loving this place, loving John and Lucy, loving the nauture, the sunshine and the prana that flows freely around.