We review and refine techniques from previous workshops, allowing you to further develop and integrate these advanced bodywork techniques into real clinical application.
oLeave time between attending LL I and LL II to allow the integration and sense of flow and your own connection to this work.
Support in the form of online video segments on the specific pages, online manuals, and Zoom connections with FB closed access group will give you confidence to review constantly at your own pace.
Prerequisites
Besides completing the online pre course information• Living Ligaments I • Love Your Man Better • Men’s Healing Practical
students must submit the required number of case studies.
Practical
Here, we work on others – not only from the class in addition to gently correcting each other’s bent bodies.
Thus, under guidance, Living Ligaments II is usually in my clinic, picking up people we have been working on as the years go by.
This previouslyexperiential workshop is for those who have completed the prerequisite online and face to face/hands on experiential components.
‘Service’ directed, this is for those who work hands-on with others. and who wish to advance their education theory and bodywork practice to provide heartful hands-on shifts in stored trauma.
Easily release that which holds the structure hostage.
As 2020 draws to a close
We have revision -and for some – entry into the ways we can let the womb free. Having been locked out of our work – and many of us – into solitude – we begin again – open the doors!
Bring in the Light.
Why needed?
You personally may also have had ‘back’ or ‘belly’ issues.
Possibly resolved – maybe ongoing.
I came into this work as I wanted more tools – already having designed Moving Blockages to Healing – and using all I published in ‘What Dads Can Do’– I knew there must be more.
Traveling in and out of different cultures, beliefs and therapies – I keep finding it. This work is ever changing. You may have done the initial courses (2017/18)- please come back as a returnee . .
So much changes as we add in so much more.
How does this differ from other bodies of works out there?
We set the person (and ourselves) up to win.
Using all we can come up with to allow the STUCK Qi/emotions/ life residue in the Reichian armour bands to soften. Gently
Multi modality
Multi lineage
Multi dimensional
You may wonder . . .
What does the Living Ligaments body of work add to what I (you the reader) already do?
By undoing what holds the womb/where she was/even the prostate and again – maybe where he was – and the body – STUCK. I learned in college that structure determines function – taught classical acupuncture by a chiropractor who was following an inspired past osteo/now energy healer’s work.
When you have visceral and structural challenges that nothing seems to help – we look to what is held in? Past blocked neck, back, circulation, digestive and neurological issues may then be resolved.
Seriously!
The actual moves are the end of the line.
We must undo why it was set up . .and there are myriad levels – hence we travel through the wealth of knowledge into wise women’s ways from what I have uncovered in her constant striving for perfection – and answers that actually fit the individuals who have come to me for help.
Living Ligaments I (LL I – All the moves that allow the womb to let go.
Advanced work – Living Ligaments II(LL II) is more coccygeally orientated – prolapses in detail, incontinence, all the male work. And surgical issues and post ‘hard’ life rescues.
Reminder . . .
We live in our bodies. They naturally work when we live as simply, and as naturally as they were designed to. Undergoing changes as we grow, maturing into the adult form then using the habits gained from our elders (those whose ways worked a survival of the fittest is the rule of the jungle) we set out to explore, experiencing what we are drawn to – or that which is set in front of us. The residue – what we found unpalatable – were it food – would be vomited back, ejected somehow – or taken into the gut to be processed and discharged having taken what is needed out and repurposed. Such is a gut – the food factory. (Training starts with self care, moving into Reconnecting Bao and Dai Mai (heart and wombspace).
Onto Living Ligaments.
We live within dynamic envelopes of flesh, carrying Qi and Blood.
Life experiences also . .
Need digesting . .
When we can’t – it lurks – often disguised as ‘trauma’.
Unlike what we do in a house – clearing out the fridge, rubbish removal in the shed and sweeping away what has landed on the floor, we may clean the skin layer of the body – but . . There is so much more.
Assuming that we can ‘digest’ what happens to us, we could use that we then clear what we do not need, using only what we do. Not so.
The hoarding of what is to hard – at the moment – or that which we have no tools to deal with – yet – may, without an occasional deep cleanse – become who we are.
(All the levels of crud on the body).
What to do?
Intentionally set out to declutter. Of all layers.
Us as the ‘therapists’ and us as the one who also carries a lot.
We work in US first – especially in class. We need clarity of our vessel – for the healing to flow.
This may mean – undertake to discover yourrole here – what lights yourfire, sets yourheart singing?
Most likely that holds the key – you– the driver now in the driver’s seat. Headed where?
Undoing yourlife library cluttering up the clarity of what is perceived.
Thus we work initially in Self Care and then Self Discovery – (the Gentling Way Trauma Relief) – leading onto the Reconnecting and then here – the ‘actual’ work. As with a building – the roof has to sit upon Foundational Moves begin this – along with the Reset Your Metabolismand Love Your Body Better online courses
Now we may reset (as in an electrical gadget) back to the ‘factory settings’ and restore ease in living .
Touch therapy – and the laying on of hands has been used forever in all traditional cultures.
In the Gentling Way we allow the release of whatever has been holding the tissues, and the body – hostage. The structural rigidity that screams out ‘help!’ shows up as postural and apparently ‘aging’ changes that you may (or maybe not) be aware of.
Increasing levels of pain (body messages to tell you to pay attention) and overall distress may get accustomed to. Did you know that you can free yourself from what holds the patterns of ‘stuck’, to become supple – not only in form but in self expression – again?
Prerequisites: – usually we have 2/3 day workshops – BUT we can’t . . these were • Gentling Way Self Care and/or • Reconnecting Heart and Wombspace
With the Self Soothing and Peri steamingcourses plus
Foundational Moves, Love Your Body Better, Healing Power of Touch
PLUS • Gentling Trauma Relief/Self Discovery (online or practical) Ethics,
Friday 6th November
We revise Reconnecting Bao and Dai Mai – this has much lead into online classes – practicals (and extras to discover if your interest is peaked). The basic tutorials are covering Light/protection/flesh/fluids/adhesions/scars. Your completion of the online courses are assumed when we do the actual LLI revision (for some first go around).
I will be holding an actual class in Rangiora, NZ as well as holding the space – via Zoom in many other locations as there will be pods of people – or in some cases one ans hopefully a partner.
We have an entire manual and vast footage of me demonstrating in many different locations.
Saturday 7th /Sunday 8th
As before – we now cover the entire hands on moves.
Many are magic!
Where did this come from? All over – my initial body working Qi moving college days – and what I have gained – including the foray into Maya and other cultures – solidified in the Mercier work I added in late 2016.
Woven into the Living Ligaments – beauty of breath and grace.
So much online already for you . .
If you wish to be part of this group –
we set the bodies of others
AFTER our own ones – free – please contact me
I am on +64 27 777 3737 – likely outside on the roof or garden as the sun is finally OUT.
Nothing you have felt before – we could go anywhere – no starting point.
Where you are and where we begin is what is happening for you now.
The fusion of so many tools and modalities garnered from over 40 years of my life experience of being a teacher of acupuncturists seeking out more ways to work with blockages gently, and from all corners of the globe.
Melded together into what I feel you may need now.
We will explore – from the intake sheet how simple events may have triggered a life of woes – ad how best to approach will depend how your body shows me.
Reichian armour bands . .
Please read this and ponder – how is it that no one goes into what is being stored?
The end results are plain to see . .
The essence of Gentling is thus – we invite your being to let go.
What script? the one that you believe is ‘your life’ for starters. Then there are all the cultural assumptions. . . programmes that run your life.
This is a process of peeling back what we have been led to believe and what we hold to be true: unwittingly being part of our own cage – of beliefs that limit us, the STUCK that we wake up to each morning hoping it to be better. different in some way – YET . . . .
The qualifiers (your intentions) for involving yourself in this work are:
A thirst for more. A wish to go beyond what is currently provided A deep desire to undo YOUR own story. . A willingness to change – and to know that the comfort has held you stuck – where now it is too hard to stay there.
We must work on ourselves first, as we were set up for now. Massive clearance/self growth/mastery needed. Experiential – accept that from time to time in these trainings: it is ‘your turn’.
HOW do we do this?
1 – Clearing ourselves, (SELF) 2 – Knitting life ‘story’ differently– allow/acknowledge your own talents/gifts (ALIGNING WITH MISSION HERE) 3 – Banding together with other like-mindeds to be able to serve – as this Light work may by its nature, (It can be a lonely business). .
We uncover why structural problems may be lingering. Dai Mai – and the GB /Liver tension holding the ligaments hostage – get the extraordinary 8 Extras cleared -all is well again. These energy channels/vessels are the reservoirs of perverse Qi. All else clears – when the body/soul is safe enough to release.
We may have a much needed ‘breakthrough’ – eventuating in massive shifts. ‘Inner rain’ (crying) may also fall. Towers (beliefs upon all your troubles) knocked down. Brand new beginnings. . . Setting ourselves FREE!!!
Intentions – mine:
As a woman: who had no idea what I did not know – till I found Arvigo .. (I thought that I was woman centred – but this was still from the men’s version of formal education – we need to go back to our bodies.. . they bleed and birth and feed our babies.. or we choose/life chooses for this not to be our lives – and still we bleed and have ‘issues; as a direct result of not having been taken through the stages of being woman . . See more here in this free online course taster.
As an international acupuncture consultant/teacher and course designer: Over the past 40+ years, I have been creating bridges out of TCM and academic constructs into life centred work that always gets the flows, (thus out of pain all levels).. . flowing. From the Qi (energy) paradigm FIRST This opens up what all need to know – instructions for the physical were till now missing – hence so many biomedicals say ‘we don’t know’ . . . . Those who are body workers Qi/touch therapists into the real work of realigning us to our bodies.
As an Arvigo Self Care teacher and now a wise elder: I gift you what we all could have/should have had growing up . . foundational work – as a woman I know it is extremely needed (and my grads can then teach pelvic opening to anyone). This is after they have experienced what happens when we start to liberate what has been stored away – often for generations . . .
As the Gentling Way founder/designer and practitioner teacher/mentor: To gift what is so simple back to the healing arts and as home help for all.
As a woman I also live in a body that has picked itself up and carried on – and have stood to assist so many thousands of women directly and so many 100,000’s of women indirectly through my teaching over the past 35+ years – we need to Rise Up!
As a mother: I know that it is so easy to think – ‘I will sort out out later’. It all catches up with us and we need to get out of relative comfort into growing into our own selves. . . . Change can be at OUR fingertips . .
NOW IS the ‘LATER’ we all hide behind. . .
Women’s ways . . . . embodied in our own life experiences
You may have thought that ‘one day’ . . . is it now?
How can you start?
RIGHT NOW: Are you in? Always with SELFING. The Online component has a hands on – self accountability programme attached . . . Hands on? – our own. We begin with moving our OWN Qi . . .and lymph and the rest follows. . .
Three packages – What Causes Health, belly self soothing and perineal steaming . . We start with self (CLICK) at your own pace. As we learn best by doing . . . . . our hands are at our own service FIRST
Undoing what holds us hostage – us and ‘them’ – all of us are constrained – not flowing well.
Anyone anywhere can begin with the paradigm shift and wise women’s ways from many cultures – contained within the ONLINE Selfing (part 1) self paced, informative starter kit. Thus short cuts to health . . Having that as an alternative life blueprint sets you up for NOT worrying – but taking charge!!!
Pelvic opening frees Bao Mai to communicate again with Dai Mai
Intention
Letting go
Deep breaths – as we unfold their tangles – they do . . we can encourage with our breath .
Get the Three Heater to flow again
Understanding the role of cold invasion, Spleen Qi depletion and Damp (and iodine) in the water metabolism – all we are doing is reestablishing flows – through ensuring we have enough hydration – whilst we are working in you.
Sitting up can get right into gluts/coccyx – and they are really happy for their pants to go down further as it is all so releasing of the neck/upper body as well as lower.
I am loving this so much as I can drop the recipient and get in so much deeper.’
ME– Anything else?
‘More comfy after also
Can hold them whilst working – more personal/intimate
Also allows them to go way deeper’.
ME – 2x weekly session (at least) to give them boundaries – and to know that they are being worked upon – to change. Is why also the intensives. This will bring what is held up – and is why they are seeing us now.
Tools to be used – all of Kaliana’s plus Aura Soma
Steaming. .
2 – Stuck Liver Qi Release (SLQR)
Usually after above – MSF)
Then do all sacral butt work.
(After chest gouge)
‘Brings up the emotions’ They have been holding on – they can then choose to let go (Held hostage)
ME – also press in SI 9,11 at beginning as a marker of where you have come at the end. What do you expect to happen? ‘Kick start the lymph movement’.
3 – Chest Gouging
To move the lymph/gets anything in breasts moving
ME – must validate the little girl within – she is the gate-keeper – she was tasked with survival when little – and vestiges of her – split – may run as a saboteur.
Remember her – she is in control when dealing with inner programmes.
I give people a little journal so that whilst they are on the steamer they get to write down what comes up – starting a habit for home.
Maja– spoke of Jill’s red tent adventures – and the ‘maja’ – I said queen and explained how we need to be in that phase – is about us setting our boundaries
Maiden – mother-queen- crone
Family constellations
Place all in age order. . Lineage comes through recognition of life experience.
It seems only as we pass the 60 mark that we are capable of looking back – and healing the past
Why do we do this move?
Opens up the breath/breasts
ME – (TH working – Lu 1 – start of the Qi movement)
After SLQR – validation through getting them to
1 – take a deep breath before and after
2 – Also a pull-up
3 – And move neck/shoulders
IS NOT MASSAGE
We are not using this word – just as I am no longer ‘an acupuncturist’.
By then they are loving my hands – drops them down to deeper layers.
Tummy starts to gurgle (and they apologise).
ME – Small Intestine – separates the pure and impure – the Gentle Bio energetics work.
See the entire Reichian armor bands info. (Stethoscope and belly shows the release – as very minute movements with breath – release what has been stored away).
3 (b) – Digging into sternum/intercostals
Around CV 17 area – very painful.
They take deeper breaths – and are open more.
(Reichian armour bands release).
4 – Round and round
Softens them further.
By now belly – which may have been all tangled up – is not.
Top half belly
Can feel it calming everything.
They are then more comfy in their whole body.
4 (a) Shakey shakey
Loosens everything – esp the lymph.
Can then do so much more lightening and releasing.
5 – Upper lymphatic
(Working on diaphragm)
Interface upper and middle heaters – gentle slow and very shallow to start.
With the breath. A lot of disclosing may happen at this point – they trust – their body is open.
Maja does the moxa, then the sacral work – deeper and deeper and then the SLQR and the chest and belly – we can do any order – but all of us will be best following the TH function – upper to lower – once the Qi is moving – and we are all bound up differently thus:
IT DEPENDS
6 – Sacral work
best after the moxa – but now I do not use it – we can still work magic with our fingers – often I alternate between working in the belly and the back – after steaming in there somewhere – makes a huge difference. Sometimes the steaming happens x2.
People often say:
‘I came in with a sore neck – why are you working down there?’
All of the work – and repeating back to SLQR and the chest and then can go even deeper.
Starting very lightly and going deeper eventually
ALWAYS SO SLOW ..
7 – Lower lymph (inguinal groove)
Scars/adhesions open pelvis – everything to be in right place
Clean out their lower body circulation – legs and all pelvic/back regions
Many moves in this busy drawing. It needs unpacking. There are THREE things happening.
The glut/bum kneading (circles on bum) creates heat and thus increasing pinkness.(which you want). The spots are the holes in the sacrum – where when pushed you can greatly improve circulation to the pelvis. The lines with arrows shows where to push in at 45 degree angle at the very end of the session – when you wish the perineum to open (and cervix – for either increased sexual pleasure/sensation and/or opening to birth – one woman said when i did this she felt like a ramp opening up!)
Of course this is one version – of a hands-on session.
There are multiple ways – however I am noticing that the P.A.C.E. and then accident recall do so very much . .
Other session starters . .
Love to hear (if you are a GW worker) how your average session goes.
As I was teaching a group of ladies in a community where babies are the major event – and we were teaching midwives and health workers there – it was easy to magic a ‘cure’ – I got them to do it. Work on her themselves – from what we had been practicing on each other.
From 2 days hands – on training!
How come so quick?
We are following life and letting nature take back the reins. After my 40+ years of being an acupuncturist – and as one who teaches others how to deal with hard pregnancy cases – this was too easy!
Move the lymph and unlock the sacrum.
‘So simple Heather . .’
Yes it is . .
She was 26, 3rd baby – 35 weeks – and in horrendous pain – as she had been since she over-lifted when 11 years old. The pain had never subsided and now in pregnancy – a huge cost to sleep and comfort.
Where was the structural problem? Was there even one?
Lymph – we call it Damp in TCM /acupuncture . . Congests and stops flows ..
Without my ‘best friend’ moxa even – not even taking cold out of her belly (her bum very chilly) we proceeded – as this was what the class was about . ..
Beginning always on the back
Breathing better happens when we undo the heart charkra and the Stuck Liver Qi.
The sacral work
Followed by the chest gouging
Then the ’round and round’ the belly
Diaphrammatic release
The inguinal gouging
When we did that she was amazed – all pain gone.
Plus also relieve any body and pelvic and pubic pain . .
Why not take out what is happening – stagnation – and once flows flow – no pain ..
All also found here
Assuming that we can ‘digest’ what happens to us, we could use that we then clear what we do not need, using only what we do. Not so.
Softens them further.
Many moves in this busy drawing. It needs unpacking. There are THREE things happening.
