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Mantra
19.08.2024

The Gayatri Mantra

The Gayatri Mantra is one of the most sacred and[…]

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Tomorrow's Monday Mantra is one to Shiva again! Th Tomorrow's Monday Mantra is one to Shiva again! This time though, we're looking at Shiva in his ascetic guise.

Shiva is the God of Destruction, which sounds scary, but needn't be. Shiva’s destruction isn't random chaos. It's the dissolving of what has reached its end, so something truer can remain.

We'll be focusing on stillness, release, transformation, and trusting change.

If you'd like to be included in that energy, please leave a comment or a ❀️

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his week’s card is Kali Ma, the fierce and loving his week’s card is Kali Ma, the fierce and loving Mother.

Kali is often called the Goddess of Destruction, but this doesn’t mean chaos for the sake of chaos. Her energy is about clearing what is false, harmful, outdated or keeping us trapped.

She is the power that cuts through fear, illusion and old patterns.

This week’s simple mantra is:

Om ŚrΔ« KālΔ«kāyai NamaαΈ₯

Meaning:
Salutations to Kali Ma.
This week’s card is Kali Ma, the fierce and loving This week’s card is Kali Ma, the fierce and loving Mother.

Kali is often called the Goddess of Destruction, but this doesn’t mean chaos for the sake of it. Her energy is about clearing what is false, harmful, outdated or keeping us trapped.

She is the power that cuts through fear, illusion and old patterns.

If you'd like to be included in the energy of this mantra, leave a comment or a ❀️
This week's blog post about Monday Mantra. Kama D This week's blog post about Monday Mantra.

Kama Deva: Desire, Joy and the Wisdom of Wanting

Now, this could easily go off in a … umm… feral … direction. Love! Romance! Passion! The card even mentions success in love and romance, freedom from desire, sexual pleasure, and the ability to amuse and make people laugh.

But for this week’s practice, I want to keep it much more down to earth.

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The gong is not just loud, I promise! A well-play The gong is not just loud, I promise!

A well-played gong is not about crashing, showing off, or seeing how much sound the room can take.

What is important is control, listening, sensitivity and knowing how to build sound gradually.

Sometimes the gong can feel powerful and clearing. Sometimes it can feel soft, spacious and almost ocean-like. Sometimes the most important part is not the big sound at all, but the quiet that follows it.

This photo is from the early days of Earthtones, and even then, the lesson was the same: the gong is not an instrument you dominate. It is one you listen to.

That's why I teach gong work as a therapeutic skill, not a performance.

Being loud is easy. Sensitivity takes practice.
Our Monday Mantra this week is to KamaDeva for rec Our Monday Mantra this week is to KamaDeva for reconnecting with joy, playfulness, affection and desire for feeling alive.

Om Kamadevaya Namaha

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Tomorrow's Monday Mantra is to Kama Deva. Kama De Tomorrow's Monday Mantra is to Kama Deva.

Kama Deva is the god of love, beauty, desire and delight.

Whilst his help can be sought for success in love and romance, and enhanced sexual performance, I'm not in the business of love spells!

So tomorrow's manta will be to help us reconnect with joy, affection, humour, creativity and the simple pleasure of being alive.

If you would like to be included in this energy, please leave a ❀️ or a comment

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Sound healing is not just making nice sounds in a Sound healing is not just making nice sounds in a calm room.

That may be how people first experience it, especially in a sound bath, and that's totally valid, but one-to-one sound healing goes much deeper.

In the way I teach it, sound healing is therapeutic energy work.

It can support relaxation, but it can also be used to clear stuck energy, strengthen boundaries, shift old patterns, support confidence, or help someone find their voice.

It can also support physical pain, grief, overwhelm, burnout, fear, visibility, decision-making, or that feeling of β€œI know something needs to change, but I can’t quite get there.”

The instruments all have different qualities. A trained practitioner learns how to choose and use them with intention. This is why training matters.

A practitioner needs to know how to listen, what to notice, when to build sound, when to soften, when to clear, when to ground, and when to do less. Sound healing is working with sound, vibration, energy and intention in a way that is safe, responsive and meaningful.

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A new blog post for your delectation and delight! A new blog post for your delectation and delight!

(actually, there are six new blog posts - five of them about cacao, as I build a knowledge base of all things cacao - and you can find them immediately before this one one on the blog page of the website)

But back to this one - what is Sound Healing *actually*? And how does it work? (My standard answer of "magic" isn't very accurate, so I've been a bit more (a lot more) truthful in this post!

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How are you coping with this heat? I got up at 6.30 this morning and made dairy free cacao ice cream, and then had a huge bowl of it for breakfast! (it's actually horribly healthy, though it doesn't taste like it!)
Sound healing is often misunderstood. It is not j Sound healing is often misunderstood.

It is not just loud gongs, background music, or playing nice instruments whilst people relax.

At its heart, sound healing is about sensitivity, listening, vibration, presence and knowing how to create a safe, supportive space. All of this contributes to the shift - making changes to the client's energy so they can move beyond where they are, old patterns and stuck energy.

That is why training matters. It helps you understand not just what to play, but how, when, why, and for whom.

Save this if you are curious about learning sound healing properly.
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