Embodiment & Queenie
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bloodsong1Working at the shop has brought me two forms of good fortune. One is my hairdresser, who after a 10% off coupon this past holiday season, bought herself a firm repeat customer. I do so love what she does for my hair.
Last night was the second form. A customer, whom I suspect has a bit of Fey in her, offered me a free Embodiment in exchange for rescuing her dead car a few weeks ago. (Dead battery, 10 min. on our jump box and 1 hr of running fixed it, when AAA couldn't do a thing. *buffs nails*)
Embodiment for this customer is a form of yoga combined with a guided meditation and reflexology and takes 1-2 hours. As she had already given me tips on a fun and useful breathing technique, and given how stressed I've been with work, I thought it certainly couldn't hurt.
She has a house not 5 minutes from mine up in the hills. She's still moving in, but her workroom is already well established and warm and inviting. I got lost, but I did spend five minutes communing with a very friendly Golden Retriever that was a few houses down, so I didn't consider it a waste. As it was, I pulled into her driveway just after she got home. The house is HUGE and I only saw sections of the first floor. Kitchen that nearly brought me to tears. You could fit most of my first floor in that kitchen. *SIGH*
After several minutes of bustling about, we went into her workroom. She gave me a pair of sweatpants to change into, as I was wearing jeans, and explained what was going to happen. Embodiment starts with lying in a specific yoga pose and settling into oneself. She had a CD of her guru's guided meditation that she turned on and left me alone. It was easy for me to fall into that state of heightened awareness. After I was humming in my body, she came back in and adjusted my arms and legs. She spritzed my shins with scented water and spent a few minutes working on my head and neck with a different scented oil. Both scents were very familiar, but I couldn't place the ingredients. The water was almost...cottony, like sun-dried sheets and the oil reminded me of a good incense blend. She then moved on to my lower back, in an area she calls the sacrum. It's right at the base of the spine, before the tailbone, and spreads across the back and down into the bottom. Apparently it's a large nerve bundle. I was fully aware of everything she was doing while at the same time totally focused on my breathing. She worked the left side first, then the right.
As she was working the right side, the CD restarted the guided meditation. I shifted my awareness accordingly and soon discovered a strong pressure on my third eye. Ignoring the CD, I focused on that, trying to open the chakra to relieve the pressure. I tried letting the light flood out, and letting it drip down my face like a shower, but it wasn't until she was finished with my back and was re-adjusting my limbs that the pressure eased up. I'm not sure what she was doing to cause this reaction, I will have to think about it further.
She started stretching my arms and I opened my eyes. The CD was nearing the end, so I let myself hover in semi-awareness until she was done with my arms and left the room. Then I started stretching my arms and legs to the music, bringing myself back to normal awareness.
To finish the work, she had me roll my legs to the side while keeping my upper body straight and pressed her fingertips slowly up my spine. We had a nice chat while she did this on each side. She also rolled my hips in a stretch (said she could move me a couple of inches and that was a good response) and after I had rolled to my hands and knees and slid down into a pose that's good for stretching (curled over my knees with my arms fully extended parallel to the floor), she pulled my arms further and complimented my flexibility.
I slowly stood up and went through a few basic yoga moves to finish waking up and stretching. We chatted some more while she gave me a dose of herbal tonic she gets from a doctor in Vietnam. (She claimed it makes her "loose", my term, it only relaxed me further to enjoy the magic of driving home at dusk.) I told her about our honeymoon and the Dragon Scroll, she told me about her plans for the house (a retreat for people to come for weekends or a whole week, with customized meal plans and daily activities all centered around finding and maintaining inner balance & peace).
I had arrived sometime around 6 pm and didn't leave until 8:15. I don't know what she charges normally for this kind of session. She's not a Witch, but she Gets It. Plus, while I was waiting for everything to start, I got a brilliant idea for another guided meditation, so I consider it well worth the time.
And to top it off, Wolf found the Dark Reese's Peanut Butter Cups I've been looking for for WEEKS. He showed me last night after I had gone to bed. Whoot.
I would go back, but I would feel better compensating her. She was making "I'll do this for free because it's you and your company takes care of my car" noises, but we will charge her for most service work, so it's only fair. Maybe I can make her something. Or just ask her what her normal rate is and see if I can afford it.
Last night was the second form. A customer, whom I suspect has a bit of Fey in her, offered me a free Embodiment in exchange for rescuing her dead car a few weeks ago. (Dead battery, 10 min. on our jump box and 1 hr of running fixed it, when AAA couldn't do a thing. *buffs nails*)
Embodiment for this customer is a form of yoga combined with a guided meditation and reflexology and takes 1-2 hours. As she had already given me tips on a fun and useful breathing technique, and given how stressed I've been with work, I thought it certainly couldn't hurt.
She has a house not 5 minutes from mine up in the hills. She's still moving in, but her workroom is already well established and warm and inviting. I got lost, but I did spend five minutes communing with a very friendly Golden Retriever that was a few houses down, so I didn't consider it a waste. As it was, I pulled into her driveway just after she got home. The house is HUGE and I only saw sections of the first floor. Kitchen that nearly brought me to tears. You could fit most of my first floor in that kitchen. *SIGH*
After several minutes of bustling about, we went into her workroom. She gave me a pair of sweatpants to change into, as I was wearing jeans, and explained what was going to happen. Embodiment starts with lying in a specific yoga pose and settling into oneself. She had a CD of her guru's guided meditation that she turned on and left me alone. It was easy for me to fall into that state of heightened awareness. After I was humming in my body, she came back in and adjusted my arms and legs. She spritzed my shins with scented water and spent a few minutes working on my head and neck with a different scented oil. Both scents were very familiar, but I couldn't place the ingredients. The water was almost...cottony, like sun-dried sheets and the oil reminded me of a good incense blend. She then moved on to my lower back, in an area she calls the sacrum. It's right at the base of the spine, before the tailbone, and spreads across the back and down into the bottom. Apparently it's a large nerve bundle. I was fully aware of everything she was doing while at the same time totally focused on my breathing. She worked the left side first, then the right.
As she was working the right side, the CD restarted the guided meditation. I shifted my awareness accordingly and soon discovered a strong pressure on my third eye. Ignoring the CD, I focused on that, trying to open the chakra to relieve the pressure. I tried letting the light flood out, and letting it drip down my face like a shower, but it wasn't until she was finished with my back and was re-adjusting my limbs that the pressure eased up. I'm not sure what she was doing to cause this reaction, I will have to think about it further.
She started stretching my arms and I opened my eyes. The CD was nearing the end, so I let myself hover in semi-awareness until she was done with my arms and left the room. Then I started stretching my arms and legs to the music, bringing myself back to normal awareness.
To finish the work, she had me roll my legs to the side while keeping my upper body straight and pressed her fingertips slowly up my spine. We had a nice chat while she did this on each side. She also rolled my hips in a stretch (said she could move me a couple of inches and that was a good response) and after I had rolled to my hands and knees and slid down into a pose that's good for stretching (curled over my knees with my arms fully extended parallel to the floor), she pulled my arms further and complimented my flexibility.
I slowly stood up and went through a few basic yoga moves to finish waking up and stretching. We chatted some more while she gave me a dose of herbal tonic she gets from a doctor in Vietnam. (She claimed it makes her "loose", my term, it only relaxed me further to enjoy the magic of driving home at dusk.) I told her about our honeymoon and the Dragon Scroll, she told me about her plans for the house (a retreat for people to come for weekends or a whole week, with customized meal plans and daily activities all centered around finding and maintaining inner balance & peace).
I had arrived sometime around 6 pm and didn't leave until 8:15. I don't know what she charges normally for this kind of session. She's not a Witch, but she Gets It. Plus, while I was waiting for everything to start, I got a brilliant idea for another guided meditation, so I consider it well worth the time.
And to top it off, Wolf found the Dark Reese's Peanut Butter Cups I've been looking for for WEEKS. He showed me last night after I had gone to bed. Whoot.
I would go back, but I would feel better compensating her. She was making "I'll do this for free because it's you and your company takes care of my car" noises, but we will charge her for most service work, so it's only fair. Maybe I can make her something. Or just ask her what her normal rate is and see if I can afford it.
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Date: 2010-07-17 09:17 pm (UTC)The Sacrum
"In vertebrate anatomy the sacrum is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine and at the upper and back part of the pelvic cavity, where it is inserted like a wedge between the two hip bones. Its upper part connects with the last lumbar vertebra, and bottom part with the coccyx (tailbone)."
"The name is derived from the Latin sacer, "sacred", a translation of the Greek hieron (osteon), meaning sacred or strong bone. Since the sacrum is the seat of the organs of procreation, animal sacrums were offered in sacrifices. In Slavic languages and in German this bone is called the "cross bone"."