The Way Of The Tao

"Open up to Love,
Open up to Grace,
Take a Bow,
This is the way of the Tao"
- Khema Yen, 3 Oct 2016.

This wonderful little poem came to me instantanously while I was working on a client's brain this afternoon.

I love you. Thank you.

(The image of the yellow lotus above is taken by me at Taman Rimba Kiara, Kuala Lumpur)

When A Mum Heals Herself

Two weeks ago, I treated Mei (not her real name), a client with great mental, emotional disturbances, so much so, that she had to temporarily stop her work. After the session, she got up, feeling fully refreshed, and started answering phone calls by her team mates, helping them solve their work problems.

Mei turned to me and said, "I can start work now. Before this, I froze whenever clients and colleagues called me up. I just did not know how to respond to them. Now I can. I am functioning in the world now."

A few days later Mei told me that her children are now much happier too. And that when her daughter was crying due to relationship problems with her friends, Mei was able to have the clarity and wisdom of mind for her to guide her emotional daughter. She said, "I gave her some seeds to plant in the garden. This not only calmed my daughter, but made her so happy that she requested for more seeds to plant. This ability to respond to my daughter is new to be. If I was the old me, I would have dismissed my daughter, and even gave her a scolding. But now, I know how to respond to her."

Mei gave me permission to share her story because she felt that all mothers need to know this: when a mother heals herself, the world around them heals too. Especially her children.

Thank you Mei, for sharing your story.

(The two mandalas above were drawn by Mei as she worked through her life challenges. The first mandala was drawn before the session, and the second, after the session.)

Tao In Parent's Living Room

If there is a theme to describe the Dec 2016 holidays, it would be family time and bonding. Yes, throughout that holiday season, I restricted my time to pure family time.

So here I was, at my parent's living room with Baby Nephew. Brother just plonked his baby onto my lap, and so, I decided to give him a quick, impromptu craniosacral therapy session. Not an actual professional session of course, but good enough to get him nicely relaxed, comfortable and sleepy. Hahaha!

It was a special time for this therapist aunt, as baby and I bonded through pure presence and breathing belly to belly together. 

I shared these photos on my Facebook page and a few of my friends asked me how did I do that? What kind of work did I do to Baby Nephew such that he got so relaxed and comfortable? Did you massaged him? 

No, I did not massaged him. There's no massage in cranial work. Just very light, gentle touches, and hands that acts like ears; hands that listen to the bones, nerves, heart beat, breath beat and the flowing rivers within the human body. And just like a counselor that listens to a client's pain thus empowering her to change, so is a craniosacral therapist. We listen through our hands, bearing witness to our clients' sufferings, fully knowing that this will create tremendous change in our clients' health. And this is exactly what happens during a craniosacral session.

Anyway, here are photos of Aunt Therapist, Baby Nephew Client and Grandpa after the mini session.

Tao in my parent's living room.

Getting Into Embryonic Space

This morning, I supported a client as he went deep into his Womb Waters - a deep embryonic space within. It's a place where one becomes embryo-like ; with the formative, self-regulating forces of the embryo showing itself; thus healing, restoring, rejuvenating, repairing my client as he lay for 1 hour in that place of deep silence and stillness.

When one drops so deep like this, shifts happen: our brain and nervous system loves it; our cells soak deep into it; our mental and emotional chatter stops - we become silent and still; we reconnect with our womb memories and remember how life used to be; we become fluids; we become embryo.

When the session ended, I asked my client how he felt. He said, "Like I've just stepped out of deep waters".

(The image above is a mandala titled, " Womb Waters" I drew it on 28 April 2013, a day where I went into my own womb waters, hence its name)