Crystal Healing Therapy Taster Sessions   Explore the benefits of moving into stillness, allowing the mind to clear and supporting the integration of life experiences. During these 30min taster sessions I offer an opportunity to experience an advanced level healing for harmonisation and transformation within the energy field. Crystal Healing promotes the natural healing response to help restore your individual alignment. Each session holds a high degree of attunement uncovering the root cause of imbalance. Crystal energies have a gentle but direct affect on the subtle energy bodies to balance the emotional, mental and spiritual layers. These powerful healing tools enhance and enliven your personal note, to lighten and uplift your energy field. They can also promote a sense vitality, grounding your higher purpose and soul essence. The healing meets you at your point of greatest need, advancing the evolution of personal patterns and strengthening the energy field. The experience can be deeply relaxing, releasing tension and creating more flow.   Saturday 3rd May Places are available from 11.00am until 3.00pm   Please contact Dawn Wood to book your place. Tel: 07754 469402 Email: lightandbodyspace@gmail.com   More information: www.lightandbodyspace.com Crystals Healing Therapy, Stress Healing Subtle Energy Medicine Practitioner Meditation and Spiritual Development Teacher

Spring and the Wood Element The Wood Element in the Five Elements is associated with the season of Spring and the time of growth. Wood energy is yang in nature and moves upward and outward. Imagine an acorn germinating and erupting into a seedling, increasing in size and creating canopy and becoming a magnificent oak. After resting through the Winter months and the time of the Water element; Spring is the time for growth and expansion. It is a perfect time to use your Wood energy for planning and pushing your dreams into fruition. Those with a strong Wood element are often very creative and innovative with a capacity to organise and have structures and boundaries. Imbalance in your Wood element can manifest in emotions of anger where boundaries can be lost, and if repressed result in irritability. The sound of Wood is shouting, and the colour is green; those with a Wood imbalance may have a blue/green or yellow/green hue to their complexion. Wood is associated with the ligaments and tendons, when balanced and healthy they will be flexible and strong. Regular Shiatsu sessions can work with the Wood meridians to move and smooth stagnant qi and help soften rigid tight ligaments. For example - a person may need the Water meridians tonified to support and nourish the Wood. Exercise Qigong for the Wood Element If your Wood is out of balance you can be tense from feeling angry or frustrated, this can cause tightness around the ribcage where the Liver and Gallbladder meridians flow. This exercise will soften the area and increase energy flow. Stand with your feet shoulder width apart and your knees slightly bent. Line up the inside edges of your feet and legs like train tracks. From your hips gently bounce up and down. Feel how your weight travels from your hips down to your feet heavy on the floor. Tuck in your tailbone to straighten your lower back and draw in your chin to lengthen your spine upwards. Relax your shoulders and chest and let your tummy drop. Raise your arms above your head and interlock your fingers to form an arch above your head. Take a deep breath in and breathe out slowly. On the out breath gently rock to one side to feel the stretch all the way down the opposite side of your body. Breathe in this position for a few seconds, softening as you stretch. You can disconnect your hands and use the opposite hand to pat around your ribs and down your flank before reconnecting your hands above. Return to centre, breathe in, and on the out breath repeat the exercise on the opposite side. Repeat, 6 times on both sides.

How will we emerge ? The current situation for many may be overwhelming, changing the way we live, work and interact. How can we find an anchor and hold more presence in our daily lives in an environment of growing uncertainty. Being grounded and feeling centred is vital, as is developing awareness of a bigger picture which includes the ways we may be called to heal and grow in order for us to reach a breakthrough right now. We find ourselves in a potent time for internal self reflection and preparation, as the Earth begins to heal, can we hold a vision for this greater potential for humanity to follow. A time for us all to connect, find our inner strength, hope, resilience and freedom and to encode these higher frequencies into the morphogenic field. This is a vast field of energy, like a universal feedback loop in life where our intention literally begins to shape our reality. We could choose to view this global pause as a portal of change, where when we honour our connection to nature and humanity, we can bring greater harmony and unify a greater sense of collective purpose. During this time we have had to re-evaluate what is a necessity in our lives. These deeper more meaningful choices come when we become more aware of what conditioned patterns have been running our lives. It is a time to practice slowing down and discovering inner stillness, to listen and connect.To deeply listen we are required to withdraw in order to hold awareness of how we process life, listening is not a result of hearing, it is done with our whole of our being. For me it has become a time to deepen into spiritual practice and develop a stronger connection to the sense of oneness, for insight and to uncover what is truly essential and nourishing. What if we are all being asked to listen, connect and expand……calling forward our highest light and to raise our vibration. A shared collective intention holds a vast intensity of light and also coherence in the morphogenic field. Could this unifying global connection possibly be the breakthrough for healing and raising the vibration of humanity. I have been working more deeply with my crystals and looking at emotional and mental patterns that can be shifted, what can I let go of at this time. I want to share with you the energies of Sodalite as it is such a beautiful crystal for meditation and healing. Sodalite is a rich deep blue crystal with some veining or mottled patches of white Calcite. It holds a gentle but also profound energy that connects to insight and intuition. Intuition is the body’s way of aligning to harmony, flow and a higher potential, it’s a natural guidance system that creates a deepening of inner sensitivity. It is the subtle internal voice of the feminine psyche and the more you trust your intuition the more you connect to your inner knowing, and can help to release deep unease and anxiety. It deepens your connection to your essence, the gentleness of your being and your ability to find acceptance. You are able to take a view from a higher perspective and helps you to go deeply into the inner self, for greater clarity and integration. This higher awareness aids in detaching from obsessive thinking and thought patterns, you gain an openness and trusting that arises when you release constricting life patterns. It helps to soften thoughts that lie rooted in the perception of fear, and to balance intellect with intuition. It is a wonderful crystal to clear the mind, it brings through a deeply supportive energy, calming and balanced.It’s inner system is cubic and can help bring in and to hold higher awareness. In meditation it can deepen your presence and connects to wisdom and to greater sense of or connection to all things. It also has a protective quality, which I find most beneficial at this time where there is a lot of fear. This week I have also been drawn to the growing fullness of the Scorpio Full Moon (the last of three Super Moons) or Flower Moon…at time of transformation and celebration of beauty….a potent symbol of birthing something new….may beauty surround us all. Wishing you all light.

With a couple of months to go before we are called to spring forth with action and clarity, we are in a very important place to align to our inner strength and nourish ourselves from what brings us joy. By really making this our focus we will be ready, energised and strong to fully welcome the energy of rebirth and possibilities that come with the fresh green shoots of Spring. Finding our inner core and centre is vital to maintaining our life force, we are in a perfect place for deeper work in meditation and looking at old energy patterns and blocks. With this powerful jump into a new decade we are all really being called to look at our shadows and hold them in light, this will help strengthen the feminine aspect and use it as a force for healing and creation. At Light and Body Space we have been working to bring through a new workshop that is all about igniting this path of the divine feminine. The workshop will run on 22nd February. 22 is a powerful frequency to align to our life purpose and bring through greater trust and connection to inner wisdom. The feminine principle emerges out of the energy of number 2, to unite, to bring peace and harmony through balance. We do hope you will join us. 🙏🏼 Check out our events page for workshop details

Wellness Within ~ Nourishing Our Roots, 29th November 2019. A powerful women’s circle exploring grounding through the use of acupressure points, connecting to the nettle plant, creating with clay and using a range of crystals that support the lower chakras and connecting to the base, root chakra. These workshops are a great way to support the path of self development and gain a deeper understanding of how to connect to ourselves as energetic beings. All sessions include meditation, reflection and an opportunity for refreshments. We’ve had some fantastic feedback.........and we can’t wait to move into 2020 offering more women’s circle events. Watch this space, don’t miss out and subscribe to our email list on www.lightandbodyspace.com

Help end the flow of plastic pollution. We are all called to take greater care of this beautiful planet that we are so fortunate to call home. Please join us at our Winter Healing & Gift Fair, Grayswood Village Hall on Monday 9th December from 6.30-9.30pm. We have a fantastic selection of local therapists offering taster sessions throughout the evening and unique gifts from talented local arts and crafts people. Many gift vouchers on sale will be at 20% off....not to be missed. Therapists include: Shiatsu, Crystal Healing, Reflexology, Bowen Therapy, Hypnotherapy, Facial Massage.....and more to be confirmed! Crystals, Jewellery, Art, Macramé, Cards and other wonderful gifts will be on sale.

Thank you to the wonderful group of women that joined us for a incredibly special first workshop Wellness Within ~ Introduction to Creating Balance. The evening flowed around the energies of the heart, connecting into rose quartz, acupressure points to harmonise, lemon balm tea to soothe and an art based reflective and sensitive mark making partner work. An inspirational evening for all, we formed a beautiful circle under the pounding rain on the roof of the #nightpastures yurt. We all enjoyed it so much we are planning another one for the end of November....watch this space! #lightandbodyspace #wellbeing #wellnesswithin #crystalhealing #shiatsu #connectingtoherbs #arttherapy [Art: Leah Dorian]

Purchase a special offer with Dawn and Chloe through the months of September and October to celebrate the launch of our new website www.lightandbodyspace.com Receive £10 off any treatment during September and October! Please like and follow us on facebook.com/lightandbodyspace/, Twitter and Instagram. Meet us at Apothecary 27 on 26 September from 11.30am - 3pm for a chat to find out more about our therapies and how they can help you. We look forward to meeting you x