Summer Breeze in the Tao

Taoists call summer the season of love and joy when I like to retreat into my garden seeing how they grow. Some like more attention, watering here, fertilising there, growing together, apart, or budding alone when waltz becomes reel. Old blooms wilt in heat out the kitchen but spring’s tender shoots bury roots and flourish. Pruning helps some while others sigh or ramble wild on the same earth, and all lie beneath the sky. Rocking broken boughs, can you tell those that fall and whither when autumn leaves? and others that graft and heal? Nature pedals her cycles and I peddle mine as June opens like a flower on the very first shiatsu evening followed by five days immersion from 4th to 8th. Take a peek.

Inner alchemy begins when water meets fire and steams the sweatlodge, a great tradition shared by Taoists and Native Americans. Taking the first step in the Tao on June 16th and 17th could lead to a retreat somewhere special, easy to understand, hard to describe, for many has proved the experience of a lifetime. Step 1 is a tantalizing taster to start and the meadow is beautiful.

Summer connects feelings of the heart, the sense of touch…and everybody likes a nice backrub. Partner shiatsu is fun and fulfilling, shiatsu training fulfilling and fun. click for a taster at the Mind Body Spirit Festival on Saturday 26th May in London Victoria or the full treatment at the Zen School of Shiatsu on 23rd and 24th June, including tips about the special points that ‘do it’, from hangover remedy to appetite control, to subtle stimulation for those special moments, to that most wonderful feeling of relaxed wellbeing.

Take a minute or 8 to check out the free Tai Chi video trailer online at youtube and get in the mood for the July Tai Chi camp. Make sure to come back when you’ve watched it as there’s another whole bunch of events in July including the Zen Day Out on July 1st and the London Shiatsu Marathon – Shiatsuthon – on July 4th.

I’ve started on the new Prospectus which comes out later in the summer. This is the first year we’re offering a few small advertising spaces now that we reach over 9000 people throughout the year, 5000 in the first month at the start of the ‘training season’. If you offer a service or product of interest to interesting people interested in healing, being healed, meditation, martial arts, NLP training or anything else that helps others then click for a look at the web page.

Enjoy the breeze

Kris