Greetings!

Tonight marks the darkest night of 2011. We are told by assorted mystics, astronomers and Mayan Ancients that  winter Solstice 2012 marks an extraordinary line up of planets and sun in our solar system and beyond. The significance of what that means for us earthlings wrestling with breakdown challenges in our economic, political and ecological systems, remains an open question. Does the cosmic line up reflect shifts and changes going on in our collective and personal pysches? What else is possible when we enter our own dark night? What else is    possible when we awaken as evolultionary beings?  

One of the shifts and changes that I have been experiencing with the approach of Solstice is the darkness in my visual field when my eyes are closed, is getting lighter. The space between my eyes feels more open, there is a quickening feeling within that darkness. It feels like all my grey matter is tingling with hydration, oxygenation and life force. When I get really relaxed during a cranial sacral or massage session, a yoga workout or meditation, the darkness between my eyes inside gets flooded with a deep purple wash that fills my visual field and my whole body.  It is quite remarkable and needless to say feels wonderful and completely calms my mind and body.

Are these internal shifts arising from changes in the greater cosmos or changes in my personal practices -daily oxygenation with Ashtanga Yoga, daily hydration with low alkaline,ionized,  mineral rich water, daily sitting in meditation and receiving lots of bodywork from students and staff- Cranial Sacral, Access Energy and Massage? Its  hard to say- I imagine all of the above. Are they replicable? Absolutley. 

Any form of bodywork that enhances the circulation of fluids in the cranium and frees the movement of the cranial bones, can open up ones visual field, or " third eye" to greater light. This is the light Christ invites us to experience when he proclaims "Let thine eyes be single and they whole body be filled with light."

Tonight we are offering a very special clinic- Craniosacral.  It enhances the circulation of fluids in the cranium and frees the movement of the cranial bones. Our students are completing 60hrs of training in cranialsacral therapy with this clinic. It is a very special offering.

May you join us in entering the repose of winter solstice in state of open relaxation and a field of deep purple.

Solstice Blessings be with you,

Katie Mickey

Director of Santa Barbara Body Therapy Insitute